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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 odux »

bogle wrote: post #75
dartharva wrote: post #48

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That was before the country got its own constitution and had formed its national identity.

Not relevant as the partition was outlined in the Indian Independence Act 1947 which created the constitutions. The Act was agreed upon by the legislature representatives of the Indian National Congress, the Muslim League, and the Sikh community with Lord Mountbatten. The point stands that decolonisation was a mess and the colonisers played a large part in it.

I think the point is in spite of decolonization being orders of magnitude more messy countries like India have established fully functioning peaceful societies.

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

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Post by LordShredda »

dagaci wrote: post #130
dotancohen wrote: post #23

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Yes the situation in Sudan got worse so that it exceeded the situation in Gaza. It has been deteriorating for many months since April 2023. The collapse of the Sudan is not directly being enflamed directly by any western power compared to the Gaza collapse. So the Sudan conflict is less interesting to us. The Sudan collapse is being enflamed by regional powers where the UAE is funding the Janjaweed (who are officiall…

you can say genocidal, this isn't Facebook. I'd still imagine the UAE has independent goals

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Post by meindnoch »

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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Cordoba Caliphate? Ottoman Empire? Warsaw Pact?

Any of these ring a bell?

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

Dalewyn wrote: post #87
lnxg33k1 wrote: post #71

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Very sincerely: You are no better. Consider reading what you just wrote, perhaps looking in the mirror, and reevaluating your thought process. Even for Hacker News I expect better than this.

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Post by psychlops »

gryzzly wrote: post #126
Qem wrote: post #61

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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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Al Jazeera can't be used so you cite....Instagram?

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Post by acdha »

exe34 wrote: post #44
dotancohen wrote: post #23

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This is far too strong a claim to make without support. You have no evidence of that and a huge unquestioned assumption that it’s impossible to have criticism of Israel decoupled from anti-Jewish sentiment, which would need at the very least to account for the many Jews whose opposition to what’s happened in Gaza is rooted in their faith. Given that Netanyahu has consistently had roughly ⅔ of Israelis disapproving of his decisions, I would especially need you to show your work explaining how your claim is compatible with the observable data.

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Post by tetromino_ »

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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> Where is the colonialism within Europe?

The Celts were colonized by Romans and then colonized again by Franks, Anglo-Saxons, and Normans. Western Slavs, Balts, and Estonians were colonized by Germans. Parts of Balkans (esp. Greece) were colonized by the Ottomans.

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Post by gryzzly »

gizmo wrote: post #118
kettleballroll wrote: post #64

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Resolutions to the conflicts Israel has with its neighbors are complicated for many reasons. Lasting peace requires a willingness to compromise and to stick to agreements made, which is extremely difficult politically. The moral questions are not that difficult. Do Jewish and Palestinian people have a right to live in their holy land? Yes. Do they have the right to unlawfully occupy land, murder or terrorize or tortu…

both sides will say they "murder" or "terrorise" as a defence. that’s where the moral question comes from and proving "who shot first" etc.
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