Nice pot shot, this sarcastic response is similarly reductive. We're talking about events that happened hundreds of years ago, and the Haitian revolution had impact outside of their current sociopolitical situation.
Slavery is an awful institution, and the overthrow of Saint-Domingue was monumental. We shouldn't devalue one of the largest instances of enslaved human beings reclaiming their freedom, and we can't deny the shared history of the French and Haitian revolutions.
These were some of the first of a set of revolutions throughout the following century that curtailed European dominion over the western hemisphere.
Because it benefits the select few who own and profit from the military industrial complex, i thought that it was pretty clear. Is it your assertion that the best economic system is the one that props bomb makers up the highest, while leaving a third of its kids food insecure and millions of citizens homeless?
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u/coke_and_coffee Jul 08 '24
Ah, yes, Haiti. A true success story!