The Dredge Tank

just pluck fruits off trees and spearfish gorgeous fish and lobsters

Literal children's cartoon level understanding of the realities of living on a poor tropical island.

Actually, you know what? I don't think they actually believe that. This is just another example of sartre-antisemites.txt

I once read a guy (CEO btw) say that in capitalism the business owner is the one who produces everything by his will and design, workers merely "polish and assemble widgets".

This is the kind of (literal) magical thinking prevalent in American society.

Colonizer mentality. "Given them millions". Of course this cracker really believes that all of those "millions" are actually going to the people of Haiti and not into the pockets of NGO executives and compradors.

Having grown up around tons of evangelicals who often said shit like this after their missionary summer trips, hearing this conversation as an adult makes me want to fall facedown and turn into undifferentiated slime, the anger just hits the shutdown threshold instantly

Beyond the ability of most people, they visit the poorest places in the world, the places where human dignity is barely holding together, and instead of having even a taste of an understanding of the misery and injustice of it sink in, they bounce off and double down on their learned ability to dismiss the suffering of their fellow man. It took a lot of time to untangle the bitterness I developed toward these petty fucking emotional weaklings from religious people in general

remember when the wikileaks cables showed Hillary Clinton intensely lobbied Haiti to keep the minimum wage from being raised past 15 cents an hour

Honestly I love this little fact, it's a hard filter demonstrating that the naive liberal worldview has no explanatory power whatsoever

Let’s drop these people in Haiti with no cash or credit card and see them survive.

Fuck that shit, the last time Haiti had a really good leader, the US and France overthrew him. By the way, in the first real democratic election in Haiti's history, the population voted for a Socdem Catholic priest. But the Haitian elite, who had supported the extreme right-wing dictatorship of the Duvalier family, removed him from power with the help of the US and France. When the people, the left-wing paramilitaries (Haiti had disbanded its army after the coup and counter-coup of the 1990s, so there were these paramilitary groups that were loyal to the goverment and hunted far-right paramiltiaries and gangs) and the loyal police forces tried to resist the coup, US troops began to massacre them.

Kkkolonizers kkkoping!

These people feel like they've reached enlightenment by blaming every problem with capitalism on supposed racial inferiority of non-white people. Incredible

Always been that way with these fucks. Heres a nice thought.... Climate change will ravage the global south. Be certain that more fascist shit like this will be used to justify the untold suffering that is to come.

The stupidity of white missionaries is a disease. They have absolutely zero understanding of history and the damage that the grip of imperialism does to these countries.

am i wrong or doesn't france TAKE millions of dollars from them because haiti 'owes' them for not being their slaves anymore?

We needs to go around the country and start doing this

They talk about anywhere black people live like it's Innsmouth

Holy shit the amount of racism is off the charts, fuck these people entirely and completely.

By the calculation of the Aristide administration in 2004, the French indemnity extracted between $22 and $40 billion from the national treasury.

By the late nineteenth century, 80 percent of Haiti’s wealth was devoted to serving external debts, first to France and then to financial institutions in Germany — and, most notably, the United States. By the turn of the century, the relatively independent and sovereign Haiti had become entangled in a web of debt held by American financial firms.

https://jacobin.com/2017/01/haiti-reparations-france-slavery-colonialism-debt/

Fucking Christian Evangelical filth. Have met many like this in Guatemala and they always come across as insultingly condescending.

I usually switch to my Upstate New York accent when they pull that shit and it ends up scaring them most of the time for some reason lol

Usians and Gusanos have always treated Haitians badly. Especially the Cubans, the US still gives special treatment to Cuban Gusanos, but in the 1980s and 1990s they used to give much more special treatment. When Haiti suffered a coup, after the first democratic government was established, many people fled to the US. The US treated them badly and treated Cubans much better than any other Latino group. The US only stopped doing this after democracy was restored in Haiti and Fidel started abusing this by basically sending anyone the Cuban government didn't like (criminals etc.) to the US.

If these people all spontaneously caught fire in front of me I would feel complete apathy

This dude's dad is a piece of shit, but he sure can perform a pretty wicked villain dialogue.

More dramatic than the shit we usually see.

The fascist news cycle is really going on overdrive. They're really pushing HARD on this anti-Haitian thing. I guess a nation created by KKKracker slavers never really changes.

What's funnier than liberals knowingly/unknowgly sneaking in idealistic errors into their arguments are conservatives who go all out with idealism. Like the last tweet there is what I might have written as a parody of idealism.

Fucking dominicans

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