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I don’t know and I don’t care

I usually try to think of a way forward. Like, what would happen if Haiti gets their demand, and France and the Citibank together agree to pay back $21 billion dollars and then some for interest.

Would that help Haiti out of poverty? In a state where corruption is widespread, we can safely assume that, no, it would not. It would be pocketed away by a few rich people and their families, who would then be a good deal richer, and the country would still not have a good educational as a basis for future prosperity. It would maybe have one or two more hospitals, but overall still not have a medical system that helps bring down child mortality for the foreseeable future. Or a judicial system that brings justice to those who were robbed of money.

And, after understanding all the historical injustices and anger, if we find that the proposed solution would not be a solution at all, we will bring our attention to the next thing.

This dude also talks about 10gbs and speeds required for video editing. That’s something you don’t get with your average internet connection, and even if, it’s unsure your average cloud service provider can match.

Ok I’ll bite. What’s Netflix’s agenda with the Witcher? Hmm?

I loved the books, and I loved season one on Apple TV. But then it lost me. I didn’t recognize any storyline anymore

Is something Shannara not on prime? I was excited to see it there, but the acting and world building was so poor I didn’t get through season 1.

The Cosmere, or at least the Mistborn part thereof. While reading I often pictured movie scenes.

I wasn’t aware of any history that happened in Haiti, and only took this post as an initiative to look it up a bit. This is quite interesting.

The debt imposed by France for its recognition as independent state was paid off in the 1940s. That debt drained off any resources that Haiti had for almost 120 years.

But now Haiti is free from that debt for close to 80 years and it’s still one of the poorest countries in the world. How can that be, given that it was one of the richest slave colonies of France only 250 years ago?

It seems Haiti suffers from its geopolitical location in more than one way, and then some from its geological location. Between Europe and the USA, all in their own way dealing with their slave and colonial past, it found no friends on either side. It never reached political stability for long enough to build up institutions like a solid educational or medical system, in part by internal squabbling but also by repeated interventions mostly from the US.

And if that’s not enough to deal with, the exposure to natural desasters makes it doubly hard to build up anything lasting.

I think those circumstances are enough to explain why Haiti suffers the way it does, there’s no need to suspect an additional long running conspiracy for a thing that happened around the time of the French Revolution. Honestly, we Europeans are so wrapped up in our own more recent history that largely starts with WW1, most are hardly aware of the general location of Haiti, let alone our intertwined colonial history.

But I totally get that such a situation feels like the world has conspired against the Haitians. In a way it has, just not in the way of countries or populations forging secret bands of vengeance.

I think Haiti is totally right to want back that money from France. But I also think that it won’t do much if Haiti has no stable political system and institutions. Because then it’ll just be siphoned away by some corrupt politicians and their cronies.

Oh god, that site makes it close to impossible to read the actual content between all those advertises. Where is that bot that links to readable sites?

Amazon Glacier

If you checked out for mental reasons, do yourself a favor and keep checked out.

If you want to know news events look at a couple diverse news sites. They’ll do a much better job of informing you than social media.

But somehow this post has the vibes of purposefully starting this social media fight again. Too many things you know for someone checked out. Too naively suggesting “something to do with…” that’ll rile up people. I call bullshit. Go back to Reddit!