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Spin Zone / Re: Haiti....
« on: March 16, 2024, 04:00:36 AM »
What do you expect when you overrun an island and then import African slaves to the point they outnumber you 10 to 1, eventually revolt, secure independence but at an impossible cost (crippling debt to France), proceed to genocide all whites on that half of the island, and set up a mafia style government and a system of slavery in their turn that continues to this day.
No amount of money thrown at that shit show will fix it. They have no system in place to organize infrastructure building projects which requires a stable hierarchy of leadership, technical talent and worker skills, and a armed authority with legitimate legal power to enforce a safe and secure environment to carry out these projects. Not to mention an absence of corruption which Haiti has never seen in all its incarnations.
Fuck Haiti. And fuck the Europeans that thought it was a good idea to transplant Africans into the new world to the point where they act like an invasive species destroying everything on their little chunk of land, after you “freed” them but made it impossible for them to function by demanding repayment in amounts exceeding any possible GDP that they could produce even if they could create a stable society with a European/New World style economy, which was too much to expect from a people ground down by slavery for three centuries in an environment that couldn’t be more foreign to that in which they evolved, and subject to regular natural disasters to boot.
Europeans took over the new world because they were technologically, politically and militarily advanced. That’s just fact. Too bad they weren’t also morally advanced (still having slavery just like all humans ever.) They had city-states and empires, and cooperative global trade, and now that’s the context in which you must live. Adapt to it and live in comfort, or try to maintain your old tribal strong man rule and see how far that gets you.
Yes, half a millennia ago your ancestors were ripped from their homeland and that wasn’t fair. But here you are. It’s the 21st century. If I were a Haitian man, I would find a way to get into the U.S., assimilate into the productive culture - that means get a job - and fully embrace becoming American in every sense of the word, including legal citizenship. That’s a pathway to, if not happiness, at least having a full belly of something that isn’t long pig.
No amount of money thrown at that shit show will fix it. They have no system in place to organize infrastructure building projects which requires a stable hierarchy of leadership, technical talent and worker skills, and a armed authority with legitimate legal power to enforce a safe and secure environment to carry out these projects. Not to mention an absence of corruption which Haiti has never seen in all its incarnations.
Fuck Haiti. And fuck the Europeans that thought it was a good idea to transplant Africans into the new world to the point where they act like an invasive species destroying everything on their little chunk of land, after you “freed” them but made it impossible for them to function by demanding repayment in amounts exceeding any possible GDP that they could produce even if they could create a stable society with a European/New World style economy, which was too much to expect from a people ground down by slavery for three centuries in an environment that couldn’t be more foreign to that in which they evolved, and subject to regular natural disasters to boot.
Europeans took over the new world because they were technologically, politically and militarily advanced. That’s just fact. Too bad they weren’t also morally advanced (still having slavery just like all humans ever.) They had city-states and empires, and cooperative global trade, and now that’s the context in which you must live. Adapt to it and live in comfort, or try to maintain your old tribal strong man rule and see how far that gets you.
Yes, half a millennia ago your ancestors were ripped from their homeland and that wasn’t fair. But here you are. It’s the 21st century. If I were a Haitian man, I would find a way to get into the U.S., assimilate into the productive culture - that means get a job - and fully embrace becoming American in every sense of the word, including legal citizenship. That’s a pathway to, if not happiness, at least having a full belly of something that isn’t long pig.