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> as I recall it Myanmar resulted from Facebook wilfully ignoring (indeed fuelling) a sectarian schism No. You may know something about Facebook, but clearly y

by yorwba 5y ago

> as I recall it Myanmar resulted from Facebook wilfully ignoring (indeed fuelling) a sectarian schism No. You may know something about Facebook, but clearly you don't know anything about Myanmar. Here are some Wikipedia links to fill gaps in your knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_conflict_in_Myanmar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_conflict_in_Myanmar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Myanmar_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Myanmar_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

nonrandomstring 5y ago
Thank you. I know more about Myanmar than I do about Facebook now. And what a long upsetting read that was. There are hardly words to describe such total failure of humanity. I wonder if I may have offended you by understatement. I am sorry if that is so. In place of "sectarian conflict" I should have said: A colossal hell-hole boasting almost a century [1] of uninterrupted brutality, millions of dead, hundreds of thousands of refugees, an intractable death-spiral of poverty, disease, natural disaster, religious division, foreign arms dealers, corporate profiteers, military maniacs, mercenaries, poisoned land, torture camps, rape as a systematic weapon of war, child soldiers, land mines, opium farmers, and.... Facebook. Admittedly the last of those is the least of their worries. Still, for the sake of brevity what phrase like "ongoing civil war" or "ethnic divisions" might succeed, because there are no few words that can describe such a situation or would be acceptable language on this polite board. [1] All those articles seem to suppose things went bad _after_ the British left. Being British, I am supposing they may have started sooner.

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> as I recall it Myanmar resulted from Facebook wilfully ignoring (indeed fuelling) a sectarian schism No. You may know something about Facebook, but clearly y

by yorwba 5y ago

nonrandomstring 5y ago
Thank you. I know more about Myanmar than I do about Facebook now. And what a long upsetting read that was. There are hardly words to describe such total failure of humanity. I wonder if I may have offended you by understatement. I am sorry if that is so. In place of "sectarian conflict" I should have said: A colossal hell-hole boasting almost a century [1] of uninterrupted brutality, millions of dead, hundreds of thousands of refugees, an intractable death-spiral of poverty, disease, natural disaster, religious division, foreign arms dealers, corporate profiteers, military maniacs, mercenaries, poisoned land, torture camps, rape as a systematic weapon of war, child soldiers, land mines, opium farmers, and.... Facebook. Admittedly the last of those is the least of their worries. Still, for the sake of brevity what phrase like "ongoing civil war" or "ethnic divisions" might succeed, because there are no few words that can describe such a situation or would be acceptable language on this polite board. [1] All those articles seem to suppose things went bad _after_ the British left. Being British, I am supposing they may have started sooner.