• Aux@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Republican Spain was a military faction in a Spanish Civil War, not a country.

    Rojava is Kurdish separatist group, not a country.

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      10 months ago

      Bullshit. They have flags, bureaucracies and a monopoly on the use of force within their territory. I will not argue semantics with you.

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        10 months ago

        ISIS also has a flag, bureaucracy and a monopoly on the use of force. Doesn’t make them a country. If you don’t have arguments, you should not start arguing in the first place.

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          10 months ago

          Actually, I’d say it made them a country, back before they lost all their territory.

          I’m not sure what the exact term we use has to do with the fate of socialist systems anyway, so I won’t reduce myself to arguing about it. If you don’t have anything else, I think we’re done here.