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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Hexbear also has a large number of Putin and CCP apologists. Authoritarian bootlicking isn't liberalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

if supporting a project that lifts 800M out of extreme poverty is wrong, I don't wanna be right xigma-male

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pushing Native Americans onto reservations lifted a lot of European immigrants out of poverty.

Burning fossil fuels lifted entire nations out of poverty.

Campaigns against the barbarians lifted many Romans out of poverty.

If you think this "lift" is some example of public good in action that hasn't come at the cost of exploitation, you're delusional.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

China lifted 800 million people out of poverty by building healthcare, transport, housing, jobs, education and food security? Heh, but what about that time European settlers got richer by genociding Native Americans? Technically that was "poverty reduction" too, commie smuglord

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