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

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 12:18 AM UTC

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Pretty much every nation on earth contains multiple ethnicities. That's the reality but generally foreigners are ignorant of these sorts of details for faraway places - eg: Sami in Sweden, Druze in Israel, Catalonians in Spain, and on and on. So, as far as I am aware, any nation that is currently at peace can serve as an example. Maybe it's the other way around: the more any two groups get along, the less we consider…

War or genocide is just an end, not some perpetual state of affairs. The negative effects of diversity can be seen everywhere, and in places where it’s not seen there is no real diversity— as in the seemingly distinguishing traits of the parties are significantly overridden by commonalities.

Post by BehindBlueEyes » Sat, Sep 07, 2024, 2:59 PM UTC

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"Security" as provided by the Pentagon/MIL complex is an evolution of what the Brits used to do to maintain order across the Empire. After the Empire fell, the Americans basically cut and paste that policy, where the goal is mainly about protecting the flows of capital and trade. Colonial legacy and thinking needs a total reboot. Will die out naturally as boomers trained in that kind of thinking pre-globalization die…

> Will die out naturally as boomers trained in that kind of thinking pre-globalization die out. I don't think it will. There will always be powerful people who want to maintain that power, and wannabe powerful people who want to get that power. So long as that way of thinking leads to power, there will be people who will follow it. The problem is not that people are tainted by colonial thinking - its that humans are…

Post by yhavr » Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 2:53 PM UTC

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So you say that palestinians as a society are politically incapacitated like kids, and should be governed by some external authority until their society matures enough to self-govern?

I didn’t say anything like that. That’s what you heard. In the analogy you make I think it’s more likely we need to call CPS.