Imperious_melange
@Imperious_melange@lemmy.world
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 2 weeks ago:
If we want to be then we can be all of what you said and more. If we want to be the opposite we can be all of it and more. I personally wish for peace and wellbeing for all minds, not just human minds. I appreciate your view although I do not share it. I hope you are well.
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Thank you for the link.
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The west isn’t doing much here now. We can concern ourselves with the past and not pay attention to what’s happening right now but I wouldn’t suggest it. China, India, Saudi Arabia are having a pretty active role in the day to day currently. It’s not all bad, and it’s not all good. I will say that our politicians are extremely cheap and will sell billions of dollars of value here for only a few million deposited directly into their accounts to whoever is willing to pay.
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I’m noticing the structure now, although it doesn’t change who can view posts and comment. As for SA, I’m not sure, I’ve never been, right now would be a bad time to visit though from what I’ve heard. They are having a pretty serious xenophobia push right now, more so pointed at other Africans. Karibu east Africa rafiki yangu. I highly doubt there is an east African instance, people barely know reddit exists, much less something like here. Can confirm, I found this place through reddit as it’s popular amongst people in IT here. Finally thanks for the info.
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I was looking for a local video that was posted on Reddit but I deleted my account recently and I believe it was taken down.
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Decrease needless and avoidable suffering for all minds anywhere in existence wherever possible!!!
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Is China actually communist though? Like is their government or economics actually communist? Also I don’t think communism and China are one and the same. Finally all things should be open to fair criticism and discussion. There’s no need to turn politics into religion2.0
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It’s nice to see content that isn’t just about poor or war torn areas. There are nice cities and people do indeed have water, electricity, wi-fi, and so on. First and foremost a lot of people are not political except during elections and most people are more concerned with local or regional politics than what’s happening globally.
Most around here are pro China if asked but they don’t understand the deals that are being done are predatory. The US doesn’t have much presence in east Africa although their recent push to treat Americans who had contact with Ebola in Kenya definitely caused issues. Typically they would be flown home or if not possible treated where they are.
I would say people generally have a negative view of the US and the west but they liked Trump a lot up until the issue with Iran and fuel prices. It’s mostly because of his stance on LGBTQ which is often seen as a western disease and is very unwelcomed in most of Africa (I personally don’t mind what adults do). Also that many believed him to be honest, direct, and a Christian.
The cut of USAID was difficult but simultaneously it’s understood it was free money and around here there’s no such thing as free money. Unfortunately most of it (like most things) didn’t reach people in need and found its way to peoples pockets or had harmful outcomes like disrupting local agriculture. Some of it did help and now people are suffering without it.
As for information I’m not a good example of most people given my IT background. Although Twitter and Instagram are popular here and even Reddit in some places. I would say most older people or people without smart phones only have the radio, tv, and of course their local community through which to get news.
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Do you think things would be better if they didn’t intervene in WWII? Initially they were staunchly isolationist.
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Nations aren’t worth devotion.
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Yeah that seems to be what I will do. Now as for what you’re saying, i think someone could be quite old and still a kid.
- Comment on It's not that bad quit whining 2 weeks ago:
And when you’ve been duped by a handful of junkies looking for a fix, who should probably get an Oscar for their performance? In poorer places they are very minimal with resources because of the cost. In places like the US you have tight regulations after the opioid epidemic. I imagine in places with primary socialized medicine it’s controlled for both reasons.
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Yeah it’s a good microcosm for what initiated my post. No matter where I am here I face a lot of this. Me criticizing China doesn’t mean I love the US. Me criticizing the US doesn’t mean I love China. Every nation has skeletons in their closet and we don’t need to act like that isn’t the case.
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Yeah what’s happening to the Uyghur people should probably stop and the suspicious surplus of human organs over the years has been more than interesting.
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Or the suspicious surplus of human organs in China over the past few decades is totally normal. Yes I know.
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Many are very pro-ccp and they did aid greatly in independence but the deals that are happening are predatory. When they come to build they don’t train anyone. They come, they isolate their workers from the “dirty Africans”, they bring their own food, they build the road and leave. In return they are given favorable deals for land and resources that will pay out many fold more than what was given. In the meantime the road they built will be collapsing and useless while they are still extracting raw materials.
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As the self proclaimed leader of the free world there was a time where there was an attempt but behind it was always those with anterior motives. As for today I wonder what their goal is. Their leader only seems to care for himself alone and anyone following him will likely be left eating dust. That’s not to say the leaders here aren’t exactly the same. In fact I see a lot of similarities between the US and here these days.
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It’s bad and also good. A lot of funding wasn’t reaching the people in need and finding its way into peoples pockets. Some funding was enabling poverty aka it was treating symptoms and not causes. Some funding was actually helping people and now they are suffering without it, namely helping to provide medicine and treatment. You see this in lots of places with charities where only a small fraction of the money collected actually goes to whatever the charity is for.
If anyone wants to help Africa they should invest in business and production. There is more than enough potential here and the fastest way to improve the lives of people isn’t just handing them money, it’s employing them and paying them well. If USaid ever cared there would still be businesses operating without any financial input after they left. All that money and there’s nothing to show for it and that is by design.
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Yeah it’s not good and if anything around here makes it from the village to the news it’s worse than whatever the news is showing and if that news makes it global I can promise you it is much worse than they are showing.
- Comment on When a free program isnt open-source 2 weeks ago:
Sidebar, that is absolutely not a horse look of suspicion or distrust. That is a horse look of “hmmm what delicious delectable do we have here”.
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That would be understandable, the US is a shame, particularly these days. There are few places with that much wasted potential to make the world a better place.
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In essence yeah. Although the Uyghur people are not brown but similarly people do not care.
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I’m very in favor of personal freedom and decreasing wealth inequality. I wouldn’t say either of those stances have anything to do with China or the CCP, particularly in the current context.
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Welcome here where things change, borders change. Most people operate in survival mode, nothing is promised ever, nothing is guaranteed until it’s in your hands. It is interesting to watch the US start operating more like here with their behavior. I would suggest no one trusts anything will be done until it is done regardless of where they are.
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I never questioned that, what the US is and what it could have been is quite different at least in regard to making the world a better place. Even more now than ever that gap is apparent.
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Lol there is actually a pretty strong pro CCP contingent at least in east Africa. I personally think they are idiots to assume people in China care about them more than their own government which honestly doesn’t care about them in the slightest.
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You are correct. Although the only outlier now is the US of which I imagine they will settle down with the next presidency into a more so familiar behavior. That said they could double down on their solo adventure.
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I agree with your analysis. I do still find it disturbing how silent people are about genocides in other locations such as Sudan, Nigeria, or even Myanmar. Not to speak of the Uyghur people of China. I find most this location to be of people mostly repeating what they were told by someone else and not aware of the world as it is. I wouldn’t say the CCP today had much to do with communism and is at its core selective towards that which benefits it and against anything that is not, that is they could not care less about political philosophy, religion, economic systems or any other stories crafted by man. If it is against them it is bad, if it is in worship of them it is good.
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I’m speaking of Lemmy.world
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Africa as a whole, much like India is waiting for the main players win/lose to pick sides officially or otherwise take each other out and clear the field. Aka its nothing but silence here on most things. As for china’s investments. Its a mixed bag. Its good to get more honest investments than USAid but simultaneously China is making much more than they are giving. It’s a parasitic loan, not a loan of good faith. Not to include the extreme racism of Chinese influencers coming here and making videos of children saying in Mandarin how they are dumb monkeys and need Chinese enslavement.