Bangladesh is to be ravaged by the west it seems
it should be a crime to mention/talk about bangladesh without mentioning the only bangladeshi in this place lmao
anyway, i saw this on facebook from "nutshell today" the other day, so uhhh, yeah. 😐
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1 billion really isn't much to develop a country though, so idk why yunus is doing this shit while minorities are under attack.
also, no idea on what "economic reforms" they need to make as this country was already capitalist as it is. the "peoples republic" part is a lie.
also also, the previous PMs already did great job at ravaging this country anyway, so idk what new is there to ravage. under the hasina government the ministers (as well as herself) pretty much took money from the treasury and sent them out of this country. ironic, as they wouldn't let us do the same thing. all options to send money into this country but good luck sending any out of this country. it's suspicious that we're $63B in debt right now after she left when hasina took $64B in loans. where did that loaned money go?
just saying, bangladesh was doomed from the start the moment mujibor rahman became a megalomaniac and didn't let the rightful prime minister (tajuddin ahmed) get into power.
I had to google some stuff, and damn, but you've seen with Ukraine, if there's innovation in capitalism it's finding what to scrape off
true, but also i don't think i'm going to see a marketplace website like ukraine did where they pricetagged and showcased the country's assets for the world to see lol
Additional “””near””” slave labour to work industrial plants for western companies.
...yeah that's kinda already a thing over here lmao (ok maybe not the "work industrial plants for western companies", but still)
the average garments worker gets overworked for peanuts in sweatshops with shoddy conditions (rana plaza, anyone? that shit happened under hasina government and yet nothing came out of it in the end. typical.)
...actually, not even garments workers, but many jobs here are like that
asks a lot of experience/qualifications from you, only to make you work long hours (>8h at times) with not much in return (most of the time it's a monthly wage too). and god forgive you if you're working intern. i heard stories about companies firing you after they got free work from you done.
It's so frustrating to read anything about IMF loans because most summaries are all euphemistic economic jargon. Then you read past the summary and while the material is still opaque, they'll have snippets where they explain in plain language what they want.
It’s so frustrating to read anything about IMF loans because most summaries are all euphemistic economic jargon
they do this to make it seem like "nothing is unusual", or to make you feel too bored to keep reading. first impressions and all that.
Thank you for your insights, comrade. It's clear Hasina is not approved by the West, but the revolt didn't come from nowhere. Her government brought that to herself.
no problem comrade. i'm glad that you can understand why hasina really "fell" as opposed to the common narrative that's been going on around here, that "america got her off".
i think for once the west might have a good reason to not approve her, seeing as how she took part in the tradition of vote stealing (read: telling people INSIDE THE PRIVATE VOTE BOOTHS to vote for her, beating up anyone who didn't vote for her - especially anyone who voted for BNP. people have also been saying the vote boxes were already filled when they got there, which is insane) to illegitmately slingshot herself to power in the elections after 2008/2014, just like everyone before her (like sheikh mujib and even fucking khaleda zia). unless there were other reasons the west didn't like her - in which case, idk about it.
but yes, she only has herself to blame for this revolution to take place. there were many, many things that she could've done right with the people to prevent this from happening - but at the bare minimum, she could've stopped trying to deify her father, herself and stopped trying to turn the freedom fighters + their descendants into a new privileged class and stopped pushing the bullshit anti-meritocratic quota law in our faces.
but no! instead, she tried to intimidate us when we protested against this bullshit quota law by gunning down unarmed protestors or even innocent people/children! she even tried to control this shit by turning off/slowing the internet down to a crawl (like she always did when people protested against her and her guard dogs were let loose) and claiming "data centers got burnt durr" or "we're repairing the submarine cables durr", like we're that fucking dumb and the internet is her daddy's property to turn on and off at will.
she did all this crap and then has the guts to say "if i gave uncle sam what he wanted, i would still be in power". lmfao. dumb out-of-touch boomer. then again, she also cried crocodile tears right after gunning down unarmed protestors and kids, so.
- tajuddin ahmed was supposed to serve as the PM after BD became liberated. well, he didn't let that happen lmao
- formed the "rokkhi bahini", which was like his own personal army and used it to crush any form of dissent. an example is the murder of shiraj shikdar, who was a prominent leftist revolutionary over here; essentially defangling the east bengals' proletariat party.
- tried dissolving every single political parties at the time to form BAKSAL and have it be the only allowed political party.
- banned several newspapers to only allow his selected few newspapers
...all this while saying that he wanted to form a democratic country during the liberation war lmao
there's a reason why under his daughter's rule, you couldn't read newspapers from his rule. but truth always has a way to get out into the world.
Let the vampire in! Let the vampire be a guest! The vampire is nice! Trust the vampire!
They love 1992 so much they try to recreate it everywhere.
global south neo liberals explaining how we should become more unemployed and more starved because it'll work out this time fr fr
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is this about how post-soviet states become after the "fall" of the ussr?
Yes, 1992 was first year of yet another imperialist cycle of opening new markets (read: unlimited plunder) with added benefit of becoming real nearly unopposed hegemon of entire planet.
