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Please spare us the "splaining" directly from official brochures (or is it ChatGPT? Sounds like it). A country often resorts to IMF loans when they're pressure

Please spare us the "splaining" directly from official brochures (or is it ChatGPT? Sounds like it). A country often resorts to IMF loans when they're pressured to do so, even when it's not absolutely necessary, and then they're blackmailed into reforms to help advance the neoliberal streamroller. And we have a long history of how those loans and those changes turned out.

motorest 2y ago
> A country often resorts to IMF loans when they're pressured to do so (...) Pressured by what, pray tell? There's no patience for this blend of wilful ignorance or worse, disingenuity.
- coldtea 2y ago
  >Pressured by what, pray tell? Nothing, it's not like international politics involve diplomatic pressure, economic blackmail, use of various trade/sanctions/tarrifs/monetary policy/etc as weapons, or downright demands by hegemonic powers over client states and lesser countries... And it's not like the IMF is used as a tool to enforce neoliberal policy. At least not in the Disney version. https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/13/the-international-monetary-fund-an-abc-2-0/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/13/the-international-mo... https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/05/the-imf-and-world-bank-partners-in-backwardness/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/05/the-imf-and-world-ba... all the way back to (and earlier): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2011.561124?src=recsys#d1e461 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2011.5... >There's no patience for this blend of wilful ignorance or worse, disingenuity Yes, thanks for the deep insights. If I wanted the Boy Scouts version, I'd have signed to be one...
  - motorest 2y ago
    > Nothing Again, you're just manifesting your ignorance on the topic. If you know nothing about a subject, you should refrain from commenting on it, let alone wasting everyone's time with your half-baked conspiracy theories.

motorest 2y ago

> A country often resorts to IMF loans when they're pressured to do so (...) Pressured by what, pray tell? There's no patience for this blend of wilful ignorance or worse, disingenuity.

coldtea 2y ago
>Pressured by what, pray tell? Nothing, it's not like international politics involve diplomatic pressure, economic blackmail, use of various trade/sanctions/tarrifs/monetary policy/etc as weapons, or downright demands by hegemonic powers over client states and lesser countries... And it's not like the IMF is used as a tool to enforce neoliberal policy. At least not in the Disney version. https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/13/the-international-monetary-fund-an-abc-2-0/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/13/the-international-mo... https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/05/the-imf-and-world-bank-partners-in-backwardness/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/05/the-imf-and-world-ba... all the way back to (and earlier): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2011.561124?src=recsys#d1e461 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2011.5... >There's no patience for this blend of wilful ignorance or worse, disingenuity Yes, thanks for the deep insights. If I wanted the Boy Scouts version, I'd have signed to be one...
- motorest 2y ago
  > Nothing Again, you're just manifesting your ignorance on the topic. If you know nothing about a subject, you should refrain from commenting on it, let alone wasting everyone's time with your half-baked conspiracy theories.