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[–] superkret@feddit.org 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And now she's famous for a pointless war.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

And a variety of things on top of that

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Imagine downvoting that by being so used to thinking "Britain and Thatcher bad" that you "forget" that Argentina picked that fight because they were ruled by a fascist junta.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Or they could be ignorant of history and assume that the UK stole The Falklands from native people simply. I don't really blame people for that becaise Great Britain did that a lot, they're just innocent this time around

For those unaware, The Falklands were actually uninhabited by the time Great Britain colonized it. The only recorded settlers of the islands before that was a group of pirates that used them as a base. They ended up disrupting so much shipping that the US navy came in and wiped them out 50-100 years before Great Britain claimed the islands.