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Once you start looking at reparations for slavery and colonialism, you quickly realize it's a debt that the former colonizers will never be able to repay.
And to be honest, for wrongs that were committed over a 350+ year period, it doesn't make sense to repay a debt within a single lifetime.
So I agree with you, something would be better than nothing.
But it is important to make an inventory on what would be justly owed and what has been paid back to date and in what form. Perhaps this process should also last 350 years.
Why, because it would be as financially ruinous as the ones imposed on Haiti were?
Yeah, and since repayment is probably a leftist policy, that would likely usher in far-right imperialist governments. Doesn't mean we shouldn't do some sort of sustainable payment-each-year over a long time.
Far-right imperialist governments are ushering in right now across Europe despite the scarcity of, as you say, leftist policies... Maybe it's because it's not about horseshoe theory, opposites attract and all that, so much as: capitalists strip away the democratic facade whenever their infinite growth model hits limits and so they try to cut corners, decrease regulation - Trump's latest deregulations are a striking example of that.
no i agree that is nonsense. but that's not what i'm saying, and i'm not calling anything far-left to begin with. horseshoe is not just people challenging incumbency by going with the rivals.
that's not true, but let's assume it is and change that to liberal. you're right that such social stuff is more liberal than leftist. and studies have shown that in the global north it's a trend in challenging the incumbents—which have been liberal for a while—under the global covid economy problems, an incidental occasion driving the trend. now who do you think they'll vote for when the ruling government knowingly bankrupts its economy, which it has propped up as the system of life for millennia to support itself?
it's actually the opposite: whenever we're content with boons they take everything away, and then when all get poorer during recessions the consumer is comparatively powerless. take the roaring 20s, the gilded age. (and it's not like democracy is all just more regulation either. i trust that you have met rednecks and oppose the PATRIOT mass surveillance act.)
Why did you side blur? We dont need that extra width.
I didn't do it; I just grabbed the pic from knowyourmeme.com
The numbers may sound big to us peons but I'm sure once calculated they'd be a fraction of the countries annually gdp. For the US it would probably only take pausing some military contracts. $40 million per jet adds up quickly and there would be knock on savings from maintenance that would not be required.
It's literally a lack of will and uses the same excuses that keep the 99% poor.
Think of the jobs that would be created trying to calculate each individual's owed amount.