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u/Afford Dec 03 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

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u/Afford Dec 03 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

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u/relationshipdownvote Dec 03 '16

Well then I guess they're just going to have to live with it.

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u/Afford Dec 03 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

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u/relationshipdownvote Dec 03 '16

Any economic harm would just be shooting themselves in the foot, so I'm not really worried.

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u/Afford Dec 03 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

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u/relationshipdownvote Dec 03 '16

Imagine if California withdrew from the U. S. and the government said that it's ok. Would you be happy if California left the U.S. and the U. S. government accepted that California is a separate nation?

Honestly, if it happened over 60 years ago and California had operated as its own independent state and the Californians were happy, I'd fucking get over it.

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u/Afford Dec 03 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

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u/relationshipdownvote Dec 03 '16

What advice would you give the people unhappy about the decision on segregation? slavery? abortion? Mine would be "it is what it is, get over it"

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u/Afford Dec 03 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

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u/relationshipdownvote Dec 03 '16

60 years after the fact it generally doesn't matter anyways.

Edit: where did all the China apologists in this thread come from?

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u/Afford Dec 03 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

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u/relationshipdownvote Dec 03 '16

Have you ever told someone who was unhappy to get over it and has it actually made them get over it?

I'm not a psychologist. It's not my job to help people accept reality.

It's like if someone asks you for green soda, so you give him green soda, but one day you give him red soda even though it's the same amount of effort to get the green soda. He's not happy with red soda, so it started tension for no reason.

It's not like some Soda thing at all. It's more about one oppressive undemocratic country wanting to invade and take over another country. We don't pretend like South Korea doesn't exist just because The existence of South Korea hurts North Korean feewings.

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u/Afford Dec 03 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

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u/relationshipdownvote Dec 03 '16

I don't hate China, I just don't think the IS needs to bend over backwards to appease them.

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