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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 Aeolun »

Dalewyn wrote: post #42
firejake308 wrote: post #31

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It sound alike you already know the answer to your question. If you ask me, though, I don't see why it's not possible for grave suffering to exist in multiple places simultaneously.

I can tell you why: My capacity to give damns is finite . If you happen to be some saint who has infinite capacity for empathy, good for you. I think most people share my sentiment, though.

It’s not that I don’t care.

It’s just that my ability and will to do anything more than care is lacking.

Presumably if I cared enough I’d donate to some charity, but I feel fixing this kind of stuff is why we have governments with humanitarian aid programmes (which I happily pay for through taxes), which should theoretically be a thousand times more effective.

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

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Post by throwaway3521 »

throwaway3521 wrote: post #46
tetris11 wrote: post #18

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what are you suggesting

Bring back colonization for limited amount of time ie 50years. During that time establish government, educational, civil structures and start the economy. Re-educate the society, instill the values of high-trust society. Pull out of the country gradually replacing foreigners with local population. The name 'colonization' might evoke some sentiments, but we can call this some other name.

Just for a context here: I actually live in almost-third-world country. Thankfully no famine and loss of live but extremely dysfunctional state and society and with educational system collapsing - probably no future. My countrymen, we, could not govern ourselves. I wish this country was occupied and someone built better society!

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

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Post by squidbeak »

Dalewyn wrote: post #42
firejake308 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sound alike you already know the answer to your question. If you ask me, though, I don't see why it's not possible for grave suffering to exist in multiple places simultaneously.

I can tell you why: My capacity to give damns is finite . If you happen to be some saint who has infinite capacity for empathy, good for you. I think most people share my sentiment, though.

If you have a finite capacity for empathy, it probably isn't empathy you're measuring.

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

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Post by jrochkind1 »

dotancohen wrote: post #23

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One part of the answer is it's taken decades of organizing to get this much attention for Palestine and Gaza, throughout which a bad situation has gotten steadily worse.

When people bring this up, why does it always seem to be to suggest we should not care about anything, instead of to wonder how we can build more action (just attention alone does not do anything) on more disasters?

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Post by bogle »

mglz wrote: post #88
bogle wrote: post #57

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> Where is the colonialism within Europe? If you see colonialism as a foreign group establishing control over a people and region over a long time, then: * The Roman Empire colonized Europe for hundreds of years * Napoleon colonized most of continental Europe (this one might be debatable) * The British colonized Ireland and Scotland * The Ottomans colonized the Balkans * Muslim Caliphates colonized Spain/Al-Andalus *…

> The British colonized Ireland and Scotland

It's the British Isles. Scotland joined England in the United Kingdom.

This is just one where you're clearly incorrect.

Colonialism developed as a concept describing European colonial empires of the modern era, which spread globally from the 15th century to the mid-20th century.

That kills off almost all of your examples.

That people in the comments aren't even taking the time to check the definition of terms is sad. The statements pro colonialism reek of racism and white supremacy.

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Post by Aeolun »

yhavr wrote: post #62
A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #28

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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.

I feel like that’s a bit like saying it’s fine for an adult to kick a kid. The kid was asking for it after all, even if the adult was never in any danger.

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

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Post by acdha »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #100
mrbombastic wrote: post #67

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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…

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This is flame bait: the sentence before the one you replied to clearly explains why they wouldn’t - both are tragedies, but the U.S. doesn’t give military support to Hamas or intervene to shield them from repercussions.

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

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Post by anovikov »

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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