What a wild time to be alive

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    Would be ironic if we had to go to Africa because life there is better.

    … after decades of relentlessly repeating how much better we have it that “poor children in africa” especially.

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      There’s a great show about families going there for a better life from here. It’s called coming from America. Worth a watch. Not everything is perfect there but people from here can own land and feel free.

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          Feels like a bit of a null question. Africa isn’t a monolith, there’s north/south/central/etc etc. A fully communist africa wouldn’t make sense at all, it would be like saying a communist europe. Which, europe’s a continent full of different countries, with ideological differences.

          [Most] americans (westerners in general maybe? I don’t know how negative anti-capitalism was viewed as a result of the cold war beyond the US) would probably avoid it completely if it was socialist (which as of now, i don’t recall any leftist government in africa.)

          Anyway, africa has been socialist before (at least, north africa). Afaik, under Gamal Abdel-nasser in Egypt with Nasserism (i have a mixed view of nasser, personally.) And Gaddafi with the Third international theory (yeah fuck this guy lmao) [north] africa was socialist. Both were dictators, unfortunately.

          My views on nasser are mixed, since he was an anti-imperialist willing to stand up against western imperialism and wanted to unite arabs. But… he also turned egypt into a military dictatorship, putting their tentacles in everything. Make of that what you will, though.

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      2 days ago

      Africa is beautiful, the only issue is safety.

      Countries like namibia/botswana probably have less of these issues as well.

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          There wouldn’t be any migration if Europe, which has practically nothing of what they need has been leeching on Africa, the most resourceful continent.
          You can’t compare the 2.

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      That’s exactly my plan C if the lunatics start WW3 suddenly.
      Reachable from Europe and less likely to explode.
      But I hope to find a perfect spot before that in an organised way.

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          2 days ago

          Imagine if Africa gets their own Frontex, start pushing our boats back, shooting and drowning us far away from prying eyes.
          “Here, have some of those European values you keep talking about!”

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              2 days ago

              If we use that analogy, they would be what Libya WAS.
              Up to then the most advanced African nation.
              Which that foaming at the mouth psychopath Hitlery made an awfully distateful joke about when they completely destroyed it and turned into a state where they literally sell slaves