• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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        Yeah its a good thing that never in history have governments, sometimes of the largest economies and some the most capable of projecting force, its a good thing that never in history have governments collapsed, having been replaced whole cloth.

        Its a good thing thats never happened, otherwise your sarcasm could be mistaken for a deep, toxic, counter productive cynicism.

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            Oh I don’t know. Maybe just pick any of them. Perhaps most recently, that one weird event which resulted in the formation of the nationstates Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

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                Bro it’s every government that ever existed before the current ones. He’s not referring to specific historical events. He’s referring to the entire history of humanity. It’s like asking “which people” when someone says “people have died.”

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                I think there is just an expectation of a certain level of political and historical literacy when you are having a conversation in a news or politics forum.

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                    You don’t hop into a league football match and then ask the other players on the bench what the rules are. Maybe read the wikipedia first, or just sit in the stand till you work the basics out.