u/head_socj — fantoozie

Now the question is: will they demilitarize if/when the threat dissipates? Methinks the EU is repeating the fatal appeasement strategy of the 1930s.

Right. They also sent bullets and untrained security personnel to shoot unarmed civilians seeking to access said aid.

Two US contractors describe chaos and gunfire as Palestinians seek food in Gaza | AP News https://share.google/I3cXJybvFlqB4KsHE

Yeah this is some overly generalized blowhard sentiment. Real cute how Westerners are normalizing this soft us v. Them mentality to prep for more hard-line deportation campaigns. MMW, once Trump has "Amazon Prime but for people" up and running, Europe will suddenly forget it ever wanted multiculturalism and cash in.

Oh no all caps! I'll never recover from this

Lol the West is doing that all on its own. But keep crying or whatever l.

Right but Western aid has only ever done good right? I mean, that's why South America and Central Africa are booming with industry and lack any serious endemic diseases right? Because the West made sure they would have the same living standards and be seen as truly equal competitors , right?...right?

Yeah as a brown immigrant also in the US...get over it. This was inevitable; were just speedrunning it. I know you're hurting and want to expel that pain, but you really need to figure out how to channel it into something constructive instead of whining on the Internet.

You're conflating political ideologies of radical groups with a false narrative that the entirety of Germany is inherently racist, and therefore irredeemable. I don't disagree with your points regarding genocide in Gaza, but you're also racist AF.

Yeah no shit but in other countries you don't have insurance companies and a laundry list of middlemen skimming half the revenue from your payments before a doctor even sees you.

Lol yeah the choice here is be broke or die

I might also add none of the rights you enjoy are set in stone, so maybe when they throw you in a camp you can bring that up to them.

Beyond the thinly veiled xenophobia and eurocentrism, I find it actually ironic how many of you people spout this line of thinking since it shows your complete lack of mental capacity to engage with the reality that many of the people who flee do so as a result of Western involvement in other countries' governments, and the rest are fighting a system that chooses racism and violence toward the poor over, and over, and over, and over....

tl;Dr: keep shitting on the Global South but don't be surprised when you're alone while Putin and Trump come for your children and your children's children.

Depending on who wins the next presidential election in Colombia: either hunting down drug cartels or invading Venezuela.

Your last post did ask if you should feel personally ashamed for the history of French colonialism so I was responding to that in particular. Maybe you meant it rhetorically but I didn't perceive it that way so I figured I'd share my thoughts.

I do disagree with your final point, but I can clearly see I have a much different perspective on the West than you, so I won't dive into that. Ill simply mention that whatever vibe you think you're getting from these comments may be a good catalyst for you to critically think about how these narratives make you feel and why that is so, since it seems that you're frustrated over some perceived threat to your belief system. If anyone is arguing in absolutes than I wouldn't invest much energy into their arguments, but from where I'm looking I don't see much of that; just people engaging in good-faith discourse about very complex subjects.