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Probably the best explanation of neocolonialism you can fit into a paragraph.

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It’s like a half-assed version of poetry. A lot of it’s a slog and a bad medium for good communication, but the restrictions of the form do occasionally produce really cool stuff.

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twitter is the best major social media platform out there tbh

for all its bad takes and problems, I haven’t seen even a fraction of those gems on reddit or elsewhere

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It’s baby-level economics to understand, if the global north is profiting off resource extraction then that’s less $$$ going back to the country with the resources. The only argument the neolibs even have is “but government-run enterprises aren’t as EFFICIENT!!!” Which isn’t even true… but even if it was true for say railroads and telecoms, would love to see them explain how it’s true for just pulling rocks and minerals out of the ground.

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The only argument the neolibs even have is

It’s all an op to deny that “I like my side to be rich”, and if you get too close to the breaking point of truth you just get downvoted and no response’d.

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Even if the state owned mining enterprise was so inefficient that it dumped half of the gold in the ocean it would still be a better deal for Ghana than what they have now.

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Canada is 3 Telecoms and 99 Mining companies in a suit pretending to be a country

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And pretending to not be doing genocide

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Fuck China for colonizing Africa

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