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Nice, going to be handy as a post-imperialistic imperialism-tool: Hey China, your actions are going to have consequences. Wether it's the plastic you're dumpin
by idownvoted 5y ago
Nice, going to be handy as a post-imperialistic imperialism-tool:
Hey China, your actions are going to have consequences. Wether it's the plastic you're dumping in the onceans by the dozens of fleets, or adding more coal energy plants last year than all existing coal plants of Europe combined.
Of course it all depends who is the accuser (e.g. US accusing Europe of burning too much (Russian) gas or garbage exports from the first to the third world).
And if this rant isn't getting me downvoted enough: It's also not good for Cryptocurrencies.
- krageon 5y agoFor my personal enjoyment of your post it would help if you explained why you think this is an imperialism-tool, as currently this just reads as you claiming this will be abused. There's not a lot of substance and that makes me sad.
- Nasrudith 5y agoI think step one of anybody using the "i" or "e" words (imperialism/exploitation) should be to define what the they actually mean before expecting to be taken seriously. There are far too many very /very creative/ sinisterizing definitions out there for both deliberately conflated with other definitions. Are we talking "residental schools to deliberately and actively wipe out their language" imperialism or "selling blue jeans outside your borders is imperialism because you are destroying indigenous cultures even though the actual people in them want it" imperialism?
- krageon 5y agoIf you replace blue jeans with opium suddenly everyone understands why it is imperialism. For me, the example you have with jeans is also unquestionably imperialist. For word definitions we have a dictionary and I think in this case that is sufficient.