@GnastyGnuts
@hexbear.netSomebody here described reddit as being "like a convention for people with office jobs in the 3rd Reich." Good description.
I think there's something to say about people getting lost a bit in the day-to-day stories and details. Whatever the most recent story is, is not always the most important thing in the course of the overall conflict.
It's happened several times with Ukraine as well. People's brains are too wired for immediacy when it comes to things that take a (miserably) long time to shake out.
Looking back, 2016 basically went the way it should have, in a pop-karma / moral sense.
Maybe this is shitty of me, but some chuds just seem really fucking stupid. The amount of people asserting we "have no frame of reference for what it is like to be Haitian," and therefore the hypothetical is invalid, is making me want to shit blood.
For my sanity: the point of reference for being Haitian is the lives and existence of Haitian people, which can be observed and engaged with even by non-Haitians.
Also just as trolling material for "race-realist" IQ-dorks: "Bright minds and dark attitudes: lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice through right-wing ideology and low intergroup contact" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22222219/
EDIT: https://www.livescience.com/18132-intelligence-social-conservatism-racism.html
That link also has stuff about other previous studies.
The west is desperate to paint it that way, but what justification is there for calling this colonialism? "Debt-trap diplomacy" was the line before, but that didn't hold up to scrutiny, especially when China outright forgave several African countries' debts.
So what's the line now?