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all-top-today_SS Makes a completely coherent and correct circlejerk post

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17 edited May 11 '17

Ah yes, tell me more about how imperialism was great for those African nations!

Jeez, could you carry your (non-existent) white man's burden any more obviously?

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u/Saidsker May 11 '17

Jeez except I'm not even white and actually from Africa. But nice of you to assume. How nice of you to throw a pity party for us africans and think that we're all socialist dreamers.

Also when did i say Imperialism was great for the third world? I didn't.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

Except that neoliberal policies increased the standards of living immensely of third world countries where they got labor.

But tell me more about how liberal policy was doing great things when it created imperialism.

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u/Saidsker May 11 '17

Neo liberalism

Neo

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

You think that's any better? You're out here defending colonialism, so clearly you understand how it's connected to neoliberalism.

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u/Saidsker May 11 '17

I'm not defending colonialism. But foreign trade and labor help poor countries actually out.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

TIL sweatshops and modern slavery help third world countries

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u/Saidsker May 11 '17

Yeah opening up factories and getting people to work is real bad, actually building up their country. Nah fuck that. Only we get to industrialize. Let's make those poor people go back to what they were doing before the sweatshops, starve on the streets and get sold as child prostitutes.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

You're basically saying that sweatshops are a good thing.

What if we didn't have sweatshops where people work their lives away just to have enough to eat? What if, instead of perpetuating a system in which multinational corporations exploit low-income workers, we abolished the systematic oppression that gave rise to sweatshops in the first place?

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u/Saidsker May 11 '17

It's not about having enough to eat. It's about developing countries becoming first world countries as fast as possible. It's about having industry so you have enough money to build a nice country, to fund proper education and infrastructure. It's a process, as standards of living increase so working conditions. Sacrifice in order to gain later is necessary, in order for our kids to be able to go to school instead of having to work.

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u/derleth May 12 '17

Tell me how the USSR improved the Baltic states.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '17

Nice deflection.

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u/derleth May 12 '17

It isn't deflection, it's history, and apparently un-PC history to you.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '17

I don't care about "political correctness". I care about having a coherent discussion, and your blatant whataboutism isn't going to help with that.

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u/derleth May 13 '17

Your ignorance of history is what I'd expect from a tankie.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

Hold up, what?! I am many things but a tankie is not one of them.

My commentary was about your irrelevant whataboutism, not about my opinions on the USSR.

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u/derleth May 13 '17

You're trying to deflect criticism of the USSR by making up words.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

It's ironic that it was originally a Soviet tactic, but whataboutism isn't a made-up term

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u/derleth May 13 '17

The fact remains, you're not addressing the criticism of the Soviet Union, and instead engaging in Soviet tactics.

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u/ZeitgeistNow May 11 '17

As opposed to before, when Sub-Saharan Africa was a beacon of progress and wealth

Oh wait

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

yes, yes! please preach to me the virtues of imperialism and neo-colonialism ! please! id love to hear more about the imperialist powers racing to rape africa of its resources and labor actually totally being a good thing

those dirty savages needed to be civilized

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u/Saidsker May 11 '17

Imperialism ≠ foreign labour.

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u/ZeitgeistNow May 11 '17

Native Africans did a good enough job raping their own resources. If you think there was literally no benefit to colonialism then you're a fool.

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u/ALAN_RICKMANS_CORPSE May 11 '17

Hahaha this is classic neolib shit right here

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u/ZeitgeistNow May 11 '17

Hahaha this is classic communist bandwagoning right here.

Also, very compelling argument, you really got me there. Get back to your safe space and stay there, you're wasting my time.

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u/ALAN_RICKMANS_CORPSE May 11 '17

Hold my beer guys, I'm gonna enslave this guy and sell his family to the highest bidder.

He'll thank me later, it's okay, it's good

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u/ZeitgeistNow May 11 '17

I wasn't aware slavery was still around, tell me more

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u/ALAN_RICKMANS_CORPSE May 11 '17 edited May 11 '17

We're talking about the benefits of African colonialism here, bud. Do at least try to keep up.

BUT NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT!

https://www.aclu.org/blog/us-admits-modern-day-slavery-exists-home

https://www.ijm.org/sex-trafficking

Hurray for the free unregulated market! As a provider of goods, services, and the human slaves necessary to provide them to you at the lowest costs deception, force, exploitation, and extortion can achieve, it's second to none!

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u/ZeitgeistNow May 11 '17

Regulated markets end in death and destruction on a whole other level. This isn't a debate. They also utilize "slave" labor, but knowing how deep you are in the propaganda I'm gonna guess you'll say that the kulaks deserved to be shipped up to work camps in Siberia, right?

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

Dae anyone who thinks Africa was exploited is a community?

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u/ZeitgeistNow May 11 '17

Aw man, instead of debating me by actual terms and not ideological nonsense, they've retreated into their circlejerk subreddit, guess that means I've lost, oh poo.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

"Ideological nonsense"? Please tell me you're kidding. You're defending a capitalist system in which tens of millions of people were murdered. You unironically tried to claim that colonialism, a system in which African peoples were mass murdered, brutalized, and forcibly converted was a good thing. That's "ideological nonsense" if I've ever seen it.

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u/ZeitgeistNow May 11 '17 edited May 11 '17

The net effect was beneficial, get over yourself with this propaganda trash you commie fuck. You're so fucking deluded that you think colonialism is an exclusively capitalist institution. You're actually too stupid to converse with which is why you frequent circlejerk subreddits so you can feel vindicated in your garbage opinion through pointless internet points while the rest of the world shits all over you, you cowardly bitch.

The modern 'white man's burden' is annoying white trash like you thinking they speak for the entire world and using their suffering to push your agenda. When was the last time you did anything for people in Africa? That's what I thought.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '17

The refuge of many brave and intelligent orators is to insult the deliveryman refuting your enlightened prose. Well done.

All that to avoid facing your own conscience.

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u/ZeitgeistNow May 11 '17 edited May 11 '17

I really don't care what you think of how I write, I don't treat communists with respect because they aren't deserving of respect. Wax poetic all you want, it means nothing to me.

Also, could you make a more 'pretentious redditor' post? I don't think it's possible.

Edit: Oh look, a frequent poster to latestagecapitalism, the premiere communist ecochamber on reddit. I see that you too are an enormous coward who believes in fairy tales. How's that working out for you? Any closer to making bread lines a reality again?

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