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   Orwell Was Right (bislick@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 02:51:33 JST Orwell Was Right

   I find it disastrous that the "greatest representative of democracy" in the world is negotiating with Russia and disadvantaging Ukraine, a sovereign nation that is only fighting for its independence.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 02:51:32 JST Rich Felker

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     @Bislick In particular, expansionist. Expansionism is a particularly vile form of imperialism because, while imperialism always wants to exert power-over and exploit for both economic and geopolitical purposes, expansionism wants, on top of that, to do genocide/assimilation.

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     Orwell Was Right (bislick@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 02:51:33 JST Orwell Was Right

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     Imperialism is wrong, no matter where it comes from, and Russia is undoubtedly an imperialist and inferential power.