Not the politics I expected tbh

As one of the parties involved, Here is my attempt at a writeup:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/48968557

I wrote it as a reply for here but ended up posting it standalone.

If the room temperature IQ'ers had simply put a different European flag over it we wouldn't have cared but they didn't

Another reason the weird nationlism these things always devolve into is such a nuisance.

there was an agreed upon compromise lol, one guy had to come and argue it