Imagine somebody replied to him with this link to a Wikipedia section and they gave him a ~200 word baby brain summary so he doesn't have to strain his baby noggin with big words and context and too much information.
He couldn't understand. There's no way to get him to understand.
How can a fruit company be powerful? They just sell fruit!
He can't fathom that countries like the US historically and still routinely bully weaker countries and powerful entities allied with US interests benefit greatly. Sometimes it's fruit and other times it might even literally be "digging up minerals".
Libs today don't think neocolonialism exists, that's kinda OOP's whole deal (although it'd be easy to miss as the only defense of this idea he gives us "it's dumb if you think it's real"). They think colonialism was bad but the Good Guys in the West ended it a hundred or so years ago and now the third world is poor because they have bad ideas/governments.
You have to remember that liberals are idealists. As in, they believe that material conditions are caused by ideology. The West has better ideas and better systems of governance, so it's more prosperous. They can't believe that wealth in the imperial core comes from extraction in the global south because that means that the liberal ideology stems from the material conditions of global dominance and hegemony and not the other way around.
"Neo-Colonialism is based" is what they'll be saying after they've been scratched
Ugh lemme guess, he thinks wealth comes from “Innovation” or some similar fairy tale.
I'm certain he thinks that.
Imagine somebody replied to him with this link to a Wikipedia section and they gave him a ~200 word baby brain summary so he doesn't have to strain his baby noggin with big words and context and too much information.
He couldn't understand. There's no way to get him to understand.
How can a fruit company be powerful? They just sell fruit!
He can't fathom that countries like the US historically and still routinely bully weaker countries and powerful entities allied with US interests benefit greatly. Sometimes it's fruit and other times it might even literally be "digging up minerals".
actually sweaty bananas aren't a mineral so i'm right
Back to the banana mines with you
Drat. It's too late now but I all I need to do was mention two words "conflict minerals".
aktshually bananas contain minerals such as potassium. I have pwned you with facts and logic
Good for preventing muscle cramps.
Libs, 15 years ago - "Yeah, neo-colonialism is bad. But hey, what can you do? Vote with your wallet."
Libs today - "Neo-Colonialism is based actually."
Libs today don't think neocolonialism exists, that's kinda OOP's whole deal (although it'd be easy to miss as the only defense of this idea he gives us "it's dumb if you think it's real"). They think colonialism was bad but the Good Guys in the West ended it a hundred or so years ago and now the third world is poor because they have bad ideas/governments.
You have to remember that liberals are idealists. As in, they believe that material conditions are caused by ideology. The West has better ideas and better systems of governance, so it's more prosperous. They can't believe that wealth in the imperial core comes from extraction in the global south because that means that the liberal ideology stems from the material conditions of global dominance and hegemony and not the other way around.
"Neo-Colonialism is based" is what they'll be saying after they've been scratched
Innovation that uses minerals and rare earth metals, i.e. computers and other electronics.
These people legitimately think that we are pulling innovation out of thin air without resources to support it.