Comment on Hypersensitive tankie mod

• maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am really tired to hear “Global South” over and over again.

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  • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rofl. I was wondering why I couldn’t see the other reply to you, and realized it might because I already blocked that user. Went to incognito, and yep, blocked that rabid user a while ago.

    I recommend doing the same. I forgot “Global South” was even a term used here.

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  • masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am really tired to hear “Global South” over and over again.

    We are perfectly aware that beneficiaries of colonisation (like you) would like us here in the Global South to just shut up and give you our resources and labour for absolutely nothing - so there’s no need to say the quiet part out loud, okay?

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    • maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol, I grew up on a Russian colony. Was not fun.

      That said, my thing with “Global South” is that it pretends the country with the highest GDP in the world is an “underdog”, and it tries to sell that through its supposed tight alliance with its less fortunate members. By what measure is China or Russia “the South”? Maybe it’s just them trying to sell that they are so oppressed.

      And their alliance is so tight that Putin wasn’t allowed on the latest BRICS summit because ZA thought their ties with the ICC are more important than Putin.

      It’s just an “actually, we are the victims” circlejerk, based on some fragile semi-alliances and pretending that China is not absolutely dominating the whole thing.

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      • masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        By what measure is China or Russia “the South”?

        Russia certainly was after the fall of the USSR - whether it still is is open to debate. China is an active exploiter of the “Global South” - which kind of means the concept is overdue for an update.

        ZA thought their ties with the ICC are more important

        Nahh, they didn’t want another repeat of the al-Bashir debacle. South Africa’s ANC regime will bend over backwards for the west and especially western corporations - but the US forgot that they will only do so behind closed doors.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We are perfectly aware that beneficiaries of colonisation (like you)

      Pretty sure that the guy you’re talking to is from a small country somewhere in Eastern Europe.

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