Ceasefire deal reached between Israel and Hamas

[zazen]

My issue with the West isn’t the past - let the past be the past. It’s that even today we are behaving imperially, literally backing Israel in its ethnic cleansing / plausible genocide,  and not taking the institutions that we supposedly architected to help provide stability, accountability and leadership in the world is the ICJ and ICC. 
 

@PurpleTree Just an example is how France exerts neo-colonial control some call, over Africa via the CFA Franc system.

”The CFA Franc is a colonial-era currency still used by 14 African countries, created by France in 1945 to maintain economic control over its former colonies. It is pegged to the euro, and member countries are required to deposit 50% of their foreign exchange reserves in the French Treasury. While France claims the CFA ensures stability, it significantly limits these countries’ monetary sovereignty.

Why It’s Bad:

    1.    Economic Dependency: The peg to the euro makes exports expensive and imports cheaper, stifling local industries and making these economies reliant on foreign goods.

    2.    Restricted Sovereignty: Countries can’t freely set monetary policies tailored to their needs, keeping them tied to French economic interests.

    3.    Wealth Extraction: France benefits from controlling the reserves, effectively maintaining a neocolonial grip on these economies.

The CFA is widely criticized for perpetuating economic underdevelopment and dependency, serving France’s interests at the expense of African nations’ growth and autonomy.“

Edited 2 hours ago by zazen

[Twentyfirst]

24 minutes ago, PurpleTree said:

Friend don’t be jealous. We all committed crimes. Everybody is a potential nazi or genocider.

Everything you use right now is invented from the west. Your language, your screen, your internet. 

I say the west is better and you say your place is better. Let’s agree to disagree broski 💜

Im not jealous. I would never want to be a Westerner. It is not a gift like you think it is. You will forever be corrupted and your mind is skewed 

[PurpleTree]

3 minutes ago, zazen said:

My issue with the West isn’t the past - let the past be the past. It’s that even today they we are behaving imperially, literally backing Israel in its ethnic cleansing / plausible genocide,  and not taking the institutions that we supposedly architected to help provide stability, accountability and leadership in the world is the ICJ and ICC. 
 

@PurpleTree Just an example is how France exerts neo-colonial control some call, over Africa via the CFA Franc system.

”The CFA Franc is a colonial-era currency still used by 14 African countries, created by France in 1945 to maintain economic control over its former colonies. It is pegged to the euro, and member countries are required to deposit 50% of their foreign exchange reserves in the French Treasury. While France claims the CFA ensures stability, it significantly limits these countries’ monetary sovereignty.

Why It’s Bad:

    1.    Economic Dependency: The peg to the euro makes exports expensive and imports cheaper, stifling local industries and making these economies reliant on foreign goods.

    2.    Restricted Sovereignty: Countries can’t freely set monetary policies tailored to their needs, keeping them tied to French economic interests.

    3.    Wealth Extraction: France benefits from controlling the reserves, effectively maintaining a neocolonial grip on these economies.

The CFA is widely criticized for perpetuating economic underdevelopment and dependency, serving France’s interests at the expense of African nations’ growth and autonomy.“

That’s all true. But France has also done great things. The number of things that were invented in France in the last few hundred years is crazy and humanity is a lot better with these inventions. That’s what haters fail to acknowledge.

Things like

photography, cinema, blood transfusion, modern dentistry, aspirin, rabies vaccine, antibiotics, tuberculosis vaccine, submarine, helicopter etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_inventions_and_discoveries

 

[Twentyfirst]

1 hour ago, PurpleTree said:

That’s all true. But France has also done great things. The number of things that were invented in France in the last few hundred years is crazy and humanity is a lot better with these inventions. That’s what haters fail to acknowledge.

Things like

photography, cinema, blood transfusion, modern dentistry, aspirin, rabies vaccine, antibiotics, tuberculosis vaccine, submarine, helicopter etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_inventions_and_discoveries

 

So why not invent all these great things for the world WITHOUT the massacres and colonizing of entire peoples who suffer for half to full centuries?

[Twentyfirst]

5 hours ago, PurpleTree said:

 

 

5 hours ago, PurpleTree said:

Friend don’t be jealous. We all committed crimes. Everybody is a potential nazi or genocider.

Everything you use right now is invented from the west. Your language, your screen, your internet. 

I say the west is better and you say your place is better. Let’s agree to disagree broski 💜

Your welcome for that laptop