“Give me money. Money me! Money now! Me a money needing a lot now.”Like a dog who returns to his vomit
To be fair it is on it’s way to being a developing country so. We do need investment. Especially for education and modern medical care in the religious fundamentalist tribal areas in the south east.
in the religious fundamentalist tribal areas in the south east.
lmao
the worst parts of america are just anything rural, but the worst is the midwest
indiana especiallythe rural areas of the bluest state will be more racist than Texas and Florida cities
excepting Hawaii of course
We don’t talk about Gary, Indiana.it’s true
seems like you’re probably intending some kind of ironic “bringing modernity to the imperial core” thing, but it’s coming across as ironic white man’s burden, and ironic racism is just racism. please refrain.
Not sure I said anything about race. But my intention was to highlight both the irony of the US asking for investment (ridiculous), and the fact that if investment was made it would be best deployed in the areas Trump considers his core base areas (which he has actually threatened to remove, in terms of defunding health care and education). The fact is that the US has systemically failed to invest in low income areas and particularly in public goods that benefit people of color and disenfranchised Appalachian communities in the Southeast. A call for investment at Davos is basically a call for bribes, and wildly disingenuous against the backdrop of pulling funding from WHO. If that’s not the kind of commentary you’re interested in I’ll be happy to take my attention elsewhere, and if I whooshed you with my quick wit earlier and somehow implied something racist, sorry, and I still don’t understand, feel free to clarify.
thank you for clarifying, i’ve restored your comment. i apologize for misinterpreting.
Absolutely, and to be extra clear I wasn’t talking about the actual indigenous tribal areas that do exist there but the predominantly white mostly rural evangelical communities that are to my view analogous to the tribal areas in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the way that Neal Stephenson describes in the excellent book Fall: or, Dodge in Hell when he talks about Ameristan. No harm no foul, I’m glad there’s someone paying attention to the feed and vigilant against bad faith or racist commentary.
thank you for clarifying again, because this means i didn’t misinterpret. but maybe it’s better to leave it up and try to explain more.
you seem to be a well meaning liberal. but you keep using the word “tribal” to be synonymous with “backwards and undeveloped.” afghanistan and pakistan are not underdeveloped because they’re tribal societies. rather, they’re underdeveloped because of exploitation by imperialist countries throughout the past century or so. countries that notably justified their imperialist exploitation by claiming to bring modernity to the backwards tribal peoples they were exploiting. that’s why your initial comment comes off as racist, you’re basically insinuating that people exploited by imperialism are responsible for their own condition because their backwards ideas cause them to reject modernity.
“developing countries” are not underdeveloped, they are overexploited. the people are kept poor by exploitative trade relations that are enforced through imperialist violence. saying it’s because they’re “tribal” is just wrong, and is a notion rooted in subconscious white supremacy.
does that make sense? it’s a ridiculous and racist comparison that you and neal stephenson are making. i don’t think it’s intentional on your part or his, but do please knock off the way you’re using the word tribal.
ah yellow parenti
Man of the people, folks.
Feels like we’re a couple steps away from mask off Shock Therapy time. Which is funny because we’re already pretty far gone.
Yeah there’s really nothing left to shock. Very little social welfare, a pretty stripped down federal government. Only thing left is the military and they won’t touch that. And this includes things used by the military such as the weather service.
That’s why they’ve been trying so hard to axe social security and public school, the last bastions of real social welfare in the US.
Yeah, basically what’s left is rights. Which were seeing as they crank up the citizenship stuff, ice, the houselessness, etc.
I mean they just undid a lot of the Civil Rights Act
Oh, yeah, that too! They’ve stolen the property. They’ve stripped the copper out the walls. Now they want the people inside.
Cool! I’ve personally been calling for global divestment from the Septick settler regime
