OK but my favorite atheist posts have got to be “well why do ancient Jewish guys have modern names, take that, sky-friend-worshippers!” like take two minutes on Wikipedia to find out how translations work, guys.
Right up there with comparing oral traditions to a game of Telephone.
China is legally, financially colonizing the entire continent by taking over Africa’s infrastructure.
They’ve have done so by making loans to African countries that they KNOW won’t be able to pay them back. Once the country defaults China exacts repayment by taking over an aspect of their infrastructure. They took an airport and an electric grid in Tanzania and a port in Kenya
I have watched this happen first hand, it is disgusting and sad. Places I use to see wildlife out there have been destroyed, everything that moves gets eaten and now there after the elephants near where our house is. I think about this daily, spreads this shit if you can.
Imperialism by Bureaucracy, sad.
On the other hand, China is so overpopulated, expanding their borders could be good for their people.
look me in the eyes and tell me you honestly believe that is what they are doing.
I don’t know. I really don’t know. It could be, it could not be. I was offering that as a possibility, not a guarantee.
I can understand your optimism and wanting that to be possible, but its also possible for the flying spaghetti monster to exist somewhere in creation.
China is snatching up africa for resources and possibly land because that’s the only way it can perpetuate itself.
Also I don’t care how good it is for the people in china, it could be bad for the people of africa and China is so fucked the only thing that would be, in the long term, “good” for the people of china would be a governmental collapse.
Actually governmental collapse would be terrible for the people of China.
And it’s not really optimism. If they ARE taking resources from Africa to feed their own people, they’re STILL taking resources. At that point it’s a pick your poison.
Do you want Africans to benefit at the expense of the Chinese
Or the Chinese to benefit at the expense of the Africans?
And I’ll have you know I am a devout Pastaforian! :p
One, you assume the africans were benefiting from china before they started pulling this shit.
Two, you assume the chinese people are going to see any of those resources, outside of maybe a factory line.
And i said “long term” for a reason.
I mean the Africans benefit in the sense that they DON’T lose their land and resources.
And it IS possible the Government might give the resources to the Chinese people. Afterall, a country cannot run if all it’s people starve.
“ A city is made of brick, Pharaoh. The strong make many, the starving make few. And the dead make none.”
-Moses, Ten Commandments film
“A ruler’s first priority is his people, and even if he were utterly devoidbof nobility or compassion, cold pragmatism would make this so.”
-Paraphrased, unknown.
Luna, this is china, its run by the communist party, which is currently telling its poverty stricken religious to start worshiping the leader of the communist party, and its goverment is putting muslims in fucking internment camps more or less and censoring Winnie the pooh over a joke comparing its president to pooh. assume the worst or be disappointed time and time again.
Also “Do you want Africans to benefit at the expense of the Chinese” two seconds ago, “I mean the Africans benefit in the sense that they DON’T lose their land and resources.” Now. I’m not a fucking goldfish.
Instead of calling the person a jerk/coming up with a shitty excuse, they should delete the post that’s upsetting people. It’s honestly so fucking simple yet they can’t do it.
(Also, i say they but at this point I’m fairly certain that none of the other mods give a fuck about their blog.)
Hey everyone, remember the Cartoon Wars saga from South Park? That twelve year old special?
Let me read you a small piece of the first part of that special:
Kyle:
We
got six days to make it to Los Angeles. If we keep our stops to a
minimum, we should be able to get the episode pulled just in time.
Cartman:
Yes, and in just a few weeks from now, Family Guy will be off the air forever.
Kyle:
[puzzled] Off the air? But… we’re just going to try to get the Mohammad episode pulled.
Cartman:
It’s
simple television economics, Kyle. All it takes to kill a show forever
is get one episode pulled. If we convince the network to pull this
episode for the sake of Muslims, then the Catholics can demand a show they don’t like get pulled. And then people with disabilities can demand another show get pulled. And so on and so on, until Family Guy is no more! It’s exactly what happened to Laverne & Shirley.
Kyle:
[races ahead] Whoa whoa wait a minute! [pulls a hand brake so as to block Cartman, then gets off his Big Wheels] This isn’t what I signed up for! I likeFamily Guy. Why do we have to get it off the air forever?
Cartman:
Because they made f-fun of Muslims, and and that’s wrong.
Kyle:
But that doesn’t mean it has to go off the air. You should like that show. Your sense of humor is just like Family Guy.
Cartman:
[gets off his Big Wheels, his anger sudden and strong, and walks up to Kyle] Don’t you EVER, EVER, compare me to Family Guy! You hear me Kyle??!! Compare me to Family Guy again, and so help me I will kill you where you stand! [turns and goes back to his Big Wheels]
Kyle:
[realizes Cartman’s true intent] You unbelievable son of a bitch. You never cared about the Muslim religion. Or the safety of people in America. You just want Family Guy off the air.
Nice try OP but maybe you should make sure you’re not a villain from South Park next time.