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Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years

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Re: Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years

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Post by Qem »

dotancohen wrote: post #23

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The famine in Gaza generates a lot of outrage because there was a line of trucks loaded with food rotting outside, as there is an apartheid system in place actively withholding food to generate said famine. We have even instances were soldiers were caught in camera gunning down starving people trying to get food, like the infamous flour massacre: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_massacre

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Post by yhavr »

A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #28
dotancohen wrote: post #23

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> This kind of sensational event is what social media was designed for

I agree with you! It's much harder to do viral tictoks with harmed israelis, because they built a marvelous defense system, so palestinian rockets (or terrorists) just don't get through.

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Post by cqqxo4zV46cp »

Dalewyn wrote: post #56
A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #43

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> They just want to permanently make life of people in Gaza - at least for a generation - a living hell to teach them a lesson to never try Oct. 7 again. Nothing fair about that. Most of the people suffering had nothing to do with the events they're being punished for.

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Re: Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years

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Post by sdenton4 »

unnamed76ri wrote: post #12
banach wrote: post #4

Ah yes, blame the lack of rulers and not colonialism or war.

Sudan has been a sovereign nation for 70 years. How many years must pass before you can no longer blame colonialism for their choices?

It's a bit like asking why we still blame lead for lead poisoning 70 years after it was painted on the wall...

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Post by mrbombastic »

dotancohen wrote: post #23

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> Did the famine in Sudan suddenly get worse, or do social media networks not properly represent world issues?

This thread is going nowhere pretty. But if you want an honest answer to this, the answer is obviously no social networks don’t properly represent world issues.

There are a myriad of reasons for this in the case of the Gaza famine some legitimate and some illegitimate, but one I would call fairly legitimate is that the US provides vast support to one side of the conflict as an ally so it is very natural for it to be a hotter talking point than the famine in Sudan. People feel they are complicit in what happens in Gaza.

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Post by boomboomsubban »

>It is official: for only the third time in the past 20 years, the un has declared a full-blown famine.

Looking into this, it's because the UN will only declare a famine if there's no functioning government. If there is one, they have the government declare a famine.

Presumably that's why the UN declared a famine at the refugee camp, not the country or region.

This story from last month discusses this aspect. https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/08/21/g-s1-...

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Post by Ekaros »

bogle wrote: post #57
rmbyrro wrote: post #25

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Every single piece of land on Earth has been attacked and colonized at least once. Why have some peoples managed to do well and others so bad? I think there's something more to learn.

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Nationalism did lot in this regard. But really when you consider it Ukraine is just continuation of European nations conquering lands from each other. Which has been going on for well probably before Romans...
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