• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    Pushing Native Americans onto reservations lifted a lot of European immigrants out of poverty.

    Burning fossil fuels lifted entire nations out of poverty.

    Campaigns against the barbarians lifted many Romans out of poverty.

    If you think this “lift” is some example of public good in action that hasn’t come at the cost of exploitation, you’re delusional.

    • RedDawn [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Chinese poverty elimination didn’t come on the backs of any of those things you goober. “Well have you considered that sometimes OTHER countries did bad things to reduce domestic poverty, and therefore China doing so is inherently bad actually !?” Grow the fuck up, this isn’t a real argument.

    • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Pushing Native Americans onto reservations lifted a lot of European immigrants out of poverty.

      Yes that was a bad thing the us did. What does that have to do with china?

    • tripartitegraph [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Please watch this documentary co-produced by literally PBS on the poverty alleviation campaign. I’m sure you’ll just dismiss it as all a charade and propaganda, but I hope you approach it with an open mind. What the Chinese have been able to accomplish (through sheer hard work and determination) is nothing short of incredible and it honestly pisses me off you would compare that to the literal genocide of Native Americans.