Same thing with seceding

It depends on the situation though…

There’s voting to secede (East Timor), seceding through civil war (South Sudan, Somaliland, Ireland), sededing through coup (collapse of the Soviet Union), wanting to secede but being oppressed by a regime (Catalonia to an extent, Cabinda, Xinjiang) and a foreign regime deciding part of your territory wants to secede because they want control over it (Abkhazia & South Ossetia being invaded by Russia, same with much of Ukraine, Armenia invading and genociding Artsakh in the 1990s and then Azerbaijan invading and genociding it back recently)

How do you define “standing in their way” with all these and when you’ve even had places like Malta and Singapore being forced to secede against their will, it’s never as clean as “this is what the people want”

That said, recognising Palestine while also very much not simple is clearly the desire of the majority of the people there, but still there are places with equal popular support and implementation of independence that aren’t recognised but you’re always going to piss someone off I guess

That’s a human action anyway though… Not a “it’s been a while since you opened our app time to drag you back” notification

If there’s a gold rush, you want to run the railroads, build the houses, sell the shovels and open the general store I guess

the appeal was declined instantaneously

I hate this so much and it was the reason I left Facebook after receiving a “warning” for the first time and getting the appeal denied despite the comment being completely benign (something like “why does Brazil fucking hate Czechs so much?” under a map of Brazil’s approval of each country in Europe, where their approval of Czechia was remarkably low - I appreciate it probably saw “fucking hate Czechs” and flagged it, but any remotely human reviewer should have seen the context and immediately understood, especially when running a more in depth review as part of the appeal)

All the major tech companies seem to do this and I don’t know why they even bother… If you want to give the illusion you’re considering the appeal, leave it at least an hour or so, but if you’re auto-declining them then just don’t give people the option to appeal in the first place as you’ll just make them mad

Except Hasbro didn’t get a game of the year, “someone who licenced an insignificant property of theirs” did, and so who cares (other than everyone who made/enjoyed the game, but nobody “important” like Hasbro’s execs or stockholders)