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Yeah, to turn it into Belgium, first you have to enslave and genocide people in Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_S...
Only mainstream whitewashed political opinions are welcome on HN, anything too gritty and your text slowly vanishes from the page. Please refer to CNN and the US State Dept for acceptable political takes.
HN is exceptionally left-leaning. The only reason posts like that get downvoted is because it signals some kind of moral posturing that is completely irrelevant/unearned and exceptionally negative. It also comes across as lazy when people try to discuss some nuanced topic and a poster just blankets the conversation with the same old cliched anti-imperialist anti-“West” rhetoric while adding nothing of substance other than a wiki link. It’s senseless. Go drill some wells in Africa if you want to help, your lazy “advocacy” is just annoying when spouted at people who don’t hold any responsibility for those events and frankly don’t care.
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You are confusing cause and effect. They left because Communism ruined the economy and collapsed. Capitalism is what is starting to drive some people back into eastern Europe now.
I'm pretty sure these people had it better under communism as the article points out the place was much more liveable.
Ah yeah, famous "it was better under communism" until the unsustainable system collapsed.
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#45Yet we're repeatedly told that every single migrant entering the UK illegally is a desparate refugee fleeing war or persecution?
Political talking heads spew hyperbole. Don't characterize any side of any issue with it.
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The fall of communism was one of the largest drops in quality of life and lifespan ever recorded, IIRC.
To add a bit of context for those not too well versed in Eastern European history (from someone with a Croatian background): Back in the real-sozialist/communist era, the people didn't have much rights (especially not those that were against the dictators), but in exchange at least the government took somewhat of a care of providing everyone with a life worth living (notable exception: the remote areas of Russia that…
You really skipped over that “didn’t have rights” part. How many people were in Gulag? And you think there was no corruption in the ruling communist class? Corruption is a feature of any political organization and should be stopped, but money was just as much a motivator for the communists as it is for the capitalists. The only difference is that it wasn’t available to the working class so they weren’t incentivized to produce or invent.
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#49Mere mortals have no chance against the AI algorithms optimized for engagement.
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#50I was just reading an article about an agency that rents out fancy penthouse suites, supercars and private jets by the hour to social media "influencers" who want to promote their baller lifestyles and amass a following. I see posts of this kind in my feed every day even though I have no interest in such content or the people behind it. It is a wild industry. 100% smoke and mirrors, yet teenagers and young men and women around the world are hooked by it.
People going to college and getting jobs nowadays are "NPCs", and the only true way to live is to go on luxury vacations and drive fancy cars full time. How do you afford it? By becoming an influencer yourself, of course.
The "hustle culture" pyramid scheme is going to collapse soon, and lots of young people are going to have a rough life because of it.