PugJesus@lemmy.world to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 months agoIt astounds me that anyone thinks otherwise on Hamas.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1422arrow-down140
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minus-squareAtomic@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down8·11 months agoLook. I get that you heard that word somewhere. But everything isn’t colonizing. Annexing would be a better description to what they’re doing.
minus-squareflipht@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down6·11 months agoIts literally colonizing though. It’s sending their citizens to build settlements in areas that do not belong to them.
minus-squaresnooggums@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down8·11 months agoAnnexing does not imply the use of force, colonizing does.
minus-squareBobert@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·11 months agoCrimea circa 2014 disagrees
minus-squaresnooggums@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·11 months agoRussia circa 2024 disagrees because they wanted it to sound voluntary. News went with it because annex is technically correct in the close by/far away context, but not the whole colonialism is always by force context.
minus-squareBobert@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months ago News went with it Lexicon > dictionary. See: Literally.
Look. I get that you heard that word somewhere. But everything isn’t colonizing.
Annexing would be a better description to what they’re doing.
Its literally colonizing though. It’s sending their citizens to build settlements in areas that do not belong to them.
Annexing does not imply the use of force, colonizing does.
Crimea circa 2014 disagrees
Russia circa 2024 disagrees because they wanted it to sound voluntary. News went with it because annex is technically correct in the close by/far away context, but not the whole colonialism is always by force context.
Lexicon > dictionary. See: Literally.