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> massively empowering its non-ethnic [Anglo-American edit] and peripheral regions Like in the US and UK and Australia and New Zealand and Canada? EDIT: RESPO

> massively empowering its non-ethnic [Anglo-American edit] and peripheral regions Like in the US and UK and Australia and New Zealand and Canada? EDIT: RESPONSE TO BELLOW Over 14% of Texans live in poverty, and moreover, "twenty-three percent of all persons in the Texas-Mexico border counties are living under the Federal Poverty Line, and 25 percent of persons in the border counties lack health insurance." [0] [0] https://www.dshs.texas.gov/hiv-std-program/hiv-dashboard/texas-dshs-hiv-std/border-report-section-3 https://www.dshs.texas.gov/hiv-std-program/hiv-dashboard/tex...

babelthuap 3y ago
US "poverty" doesn't look anything like global poverty. How many of that 14% in TX have access to a flushing toilet, clean water, food, shelter and a smartphone. Take all those people out of that 14% and willing to bet it's 1% and that's on the high side. They would be considered very well off in many regions on the planet.
- medo-bear 3y ago
  lol ok
- ianburrell 3y ago
  Most important, the US federal poverty level of $14.5k is 2.5x the Russian median income. Also, the Russian poverty rate is 12%. The poverty level is $2200.
  - babelthuap 3y ago
    Good point. I have traveled all the way around this planet. I know what real poverty looks like and it doesn't look like anything going on in TX or the US period. I would gladly accept being in poverty in the US compared to those places. I would be jumping for joy to be honest. Just living here you hit the jackpot.
    - medo-bear 3y ago
      Im pretty sure it is much better to be poor in a country with a functioning social safety net > I would be jumping for joy to be honest. Just living here you hit the jackpot. Lol. Keep this comming please
JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> Like in the US and UK and Australia and New Zealand and Canada? On the peripheral front, absolutely. Texans and Alaskans are rich and powerful off their oil, and have the power to tell Washington to go screw itself in major respects. (Similar for Albertans.) Ethnic tensions are more complex, and on this unexpectedly Putin represents the liberal front, but both American tribes and Canadian First Nations have more legal autonomy than e.g. Siberia. (Chechnya being an unfortunate model exception.) In the end, China may succeed where America failed. Where America saw a potential democracy, Beijing sees a spigot of resources with a contained military with which Moscow cannot create trouble outside its own borders. That may be the least-worst solution for the time being. EDIT: Yes, Texas isn’t a utopia. No, this isn’t evidence of Washington having an imperial relationship with Austin. There are disagreements, of course, but both sides can and do force the other to back down.
- medo-bear 3y ago
  You might learn something if you read a bit about slavery, racism, civil rights, dispossesion and genocide of native people, stolen generations, zoos containing native African people, colonialism, even equal rights for women. It might surprise you that Russia and especially the USSR did none of those things. If you want to equate Russia to USSR then it is also worth pointing out that no country did more to promote national liberation movements of people oppressed by Western imperialism than the former USSR. Funny that without USSR and Leninist ideology about rights of nations to self determination there wouldn't even be countries like Ukraine
  - throw-ru-938 3y ago
    > It might surprise you that Russia and especially the USSR did none of those things. I can remember no less than five different genocides in Russia just off the top of my head. As for civil rights, these are being rolled back at an amazing speed.
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babelthuap 3y ago

US "poverty" doesn't look anything like global poverty. How many of that 14% in TX have access to a flushing toilet, clean water, food, shelter and a smartphone. Take all those people out of that 14% and willing to bet it's 1% and that's on the high side. They would be considered very well off in many regions on the planet.

medo-bear 3y ago
lol ok
ianburrell 3y ago
Most important, the US federal poverty level of $14.5k is 2.5x the Russian median income. Also, the Russian poverty rate is 12%. The poverty level is $2200.
- babelthuap 3y ago
  Good point. I have traveled all the way around this planet. I know what real poverty looks like and it doesn't look like anything going on in TX or the US period. I would gladly accept being in poverty in the US compared to those places. I would be jumping for joy to be honest. Just living here you hit the jackpot.
  - medo-bear 3y ago
    Im pretty sure it is much better to be poor in a country with a functioning social safety net > I would be jumping for joy to be honest. Just living here you hit the jackpot. Lol. Keep this comming please

JumpCrisscross 3y ago

> Like in the US and UK and Australia and New Zealand and Canada? On the peripheral front, absolutely. Texans and Alaskans are rich and powerful off their oil, and have the power to tell Washington to go screw itself in major respects. (Similar for Albertans.) Ethnic tensions are more complex, and on this unexpectedly Putin represents the liberal front, but both American tribes and Canadian First Nations have more legal autonomy than e.g. Siberia. (Chechnya being an unfortunate model exception.) In the end, China may succeed where America failed. Where America saw a potential democracy, Beijing sees a spigot of resources with a contained military with which Moscow cannot create trouble outside its own borders. That may be the least-worst solution for the time being. EDIT: Yes, Texas isn’t a utopia. No, this isn’t evidence of Washington having an imperial relationship with Austin. There are disagreements, of course, but both sides can and do force the other to back down.

medo-bear 3y ago
You might learn something if you read a bit about slavery, racism, civil rights, dispossesion and genocide of native people, stolen generations, zoos containing native African people, colonialism, even equal rights for women. It might surprise you that Russia and especially the USSR did none of those things. If you want to equate Russia to USSR then it is also worth pointing out that no country did more to promote national liberation movements of people oppressed by Western imperialism than the former USSR. Funny that without USSR and Leninist ideology about rights of nations to self determination there wouldn't even be countries like Ukraine
- throw-ru-938 3y ago
  > It might surprise you that Russia and especially the USSR did none of those things. I can remember no less than five different genocides in Russia just off the top of my head. As for civil rights, these are being rolled back at an amazing speed.
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