Comments by "Geoff Lepper" (@geofflepper3207) on "Has Macron Triggered a Civil War in New Caledonia?" video.

@signefurax933 So you're saying that the French empire really messed up the economies of almost all the places it occupied. And obviously the main reason why Haiti ended up in such horrendous shape was that the French imperialists cruelly and barbarically demanded that newly independent Haiti take on a massive debt to pay French slave owners for their "property" - slaves who finally free of their French masters. Horrific enough that the people of Haiti suffered under horrendous conditions of slavery so long but then to be expected to pay a vast amount of money to buy their freedom. Disgusting.
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@sebastiangruenfeld141 Canada doesn't use imperial measurements and hasn't for almost half a century. The only significant exception is for the height and weight of people in everyday talk, understandable given the proximity of the United States and its cultural power.
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 @uqs57bju But then there is American exceptionalism - "We are Americans and we are a special people so we have the right to do stupid things even if no other country does them".
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@TheEmpecinadoMrBurns "Ireland can't afford more immigrant jobs"? That's not even a cohesive thought. You're just putting together a collection of words with no meaning. And the Irish choose who they allow into Ireland or at least have since Ireland became independent. European Imperialists just invaded places and took them over by force with the use of powerful weapons. Completely different. It's not hard to understand. Again get any child to explain to you the difference between someone entering your home with your permission and on the other hand someone entering your house without your permission by the use of force and violence. The children can explain it to you.
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 @thedutchfoxxx Britain wasn't invaded by Imperialists coming in without the permission of the local people and then declaring Britain the territory of the home country of the Imperialists.
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The fact that Macron talked about a "great victory" regsrding a referendum in which the pro-independence population didn't even vote indicates that he has no credibility to resolve the situation fairly.
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@robertarisz8464 Independence and dividing countries can get tricky. At times when the mainly French Canadian province of Quebec has considered separating from Canada some people have suggested that Indigenous nations in Quebec would want to stay in Canada and some have suggested that Quebec should be allowed to take only the territory it had when it entered Canada at a time when both Quebec and Canada were much smaller. People talk about having a two state solution for Israel and Palestine but I can't think of another situation in which white European settlers set up a colonialist system and when it was dissolved the white settlers got their own country separate from that of the natives. There is only one Kenya, one India, one Vietnam, etc. And countries where the white settlers were the majority such as Canada and the United States do to some extent recognize Indigenous nations and their territories but these are still not really two state solutions. The only real exception that I can think of is Ireland and Northern Ireland where possibly a lot of the people in Northern Ireland are of British ancestry and feel greater ties to Britain but Ireland is in Europe and Ireland actually now has closer ties to Europe than does Britain. It does seem that the greatest conflict takes place when both white settlers and the native people make up significant proportions of the population such as in Algeria and in South Africa and in this case. If white settlers are the vast majority over 90-95% or the natives are the vast majority over 90-95% it is obvious which group will ultimately end up controlling the country and that likely means that the group in the tiny minority will eventually accept that reality.
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 @CLofMAL Britain still uses miles? Seriously? Tell me you're joking.
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@TheEmpecinadoMrBurns You're joking aren't you? You really don't understand the difference? Colonialism such as what the Europeans did in much of the world is a gang of armed thugs knocking down your door and invading your house and occupying the best places in your house and stealing anything of value for themselves and very likely forcing you to work as a servant for them in what had been your house. Immigration to Europe is like you advertising a room for rent and someone showing up to take you up on your offer and moving into the spare room and paying their share of expenses. Understand now? Are you really incapable of understanding something so simple and straightforward? If so maybe a child could explain the difference to you.
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@MagicNash89 Do you have a point? You're comparing the situation in this case involving colonists with completely different situations involving immigrants. Are you really so dense that you don't understand the difference?
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@TheEmpecinadoMrBurns You're just ranting now. Immigrants to Europe aren't "seizing land". Nobody is being forced out of anywhere. Every time you post you make your racism and xenophobia more evident and destroy your reputation even more. And spouting obvious misinformation to try to justify your views destroys your reputation even more.
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@TheEmpecinadoMrBurns Please seek help for your own sake and for the sake of your family and people in your community. You're really, really messed up. And for your own sake stay offline and don't stand on your porch shouting out bizarre angry rants at everyone who walks by. At a certain point police will say enough is enough and arrest you to maintain public safety.
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 @franckcolomb5579 Did you even watch the video? Apparently not.
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@franckcolomb5579 Maybe you should watch the video now. Ir might stop you from continuing embarrass yourself making ignorant comments. Frankly, I don't think you care a whit about democracy. You just want the white colonists to stay in power 60 years after what was supposed to be the end of European imperialism,
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 @pioupoi Clearly you don't get it and never will because you don't want to understand.
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@Vahki100 You're absolutely tight. Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Slovenia, Montenegro, Slovakia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Vietnam, Indonesia, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, etc., etc will never be independent. I don't understand why their citizens wasted so long fighting for independence.
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@robinviden9148 Clearly you haven't watched the video. Watch again and then maybe you'll understand why pro-independence voters boycotted the last referendum. Hint: Why did Newfoundland delay its 2021 provincial election and change it to a mail-in election?
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Obviously that is a vastly different situation.
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