JorgeWBush [he/him]

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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: December 2nd, 2020
  • JorgeWBush [he/him]tonews•China to overtake US as world's biggest economy by 2028, report predicts
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    4 years ago

    Speaking as a nigerian person,the situation with Afrika is more nuanced than that.

    Countries are seeing more real development in a few decades than they had in an epoch of european occupation.

    Speaking to people on the ground about china, the primary complaint people had was that when building rail they use their own engineers, while the locals are largely relegated to the menial labor.

    It doesn't exactly fill me with joy to see the petrostate taking on more foreign debt for development, but at the very least this way we are a lot more likely to avoid additional "structural readjustment".

    Nigeria in particular seems like an odd hill to die on for "chinese imperialism" given that the country's northern region are currently occupied by US special forces.

  • JorgeWBush [he/him]tomentalhealth•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    I dunno, here’s a question for you, if people can clearly see that I’m miserable every day of my life and they, for whatever reason, either don’t give enough of a shit or are too concerned for themselves to do anything about it why shouldn’t I be bitter? Getting past the question of whether or not I personally even can choose not to be?

    Being bitter can make you mentally file people's attempts at reaching out as "annoying NPC chatter". I personally feel I am responsible to myself to be reasonably receptive to opportunities in my life as they come.

    In your own words, what would someone "doing something" about the way you feel in a positive way look like?

    “So if I do the thing you’re telling me to do here, and try to be nice & open to people that means that I will make durable friends, and find somebody that actually wants me?”, and of course the answer to that we already both know is that no, of course that’s not how that works. There are not guarantees about any of these things, and no-one is ever gonna agree on making guarantees about them.

    Being fun to spend time with (Not trying to imply that you aren't!) is kind of up there with personal hygiene and covering your genitals in public in that it's not a guarantee of finding validating personal relationships, but their absence will make it much harder in most places.

    Why should I care about being “a good person” if it doesn’t do anything for me, and I also have almost no connection to anyone in my own life?

    There are as many answers to this question as there are grains of sand. I didn't expect to get into a metaethics discussion, but mine goes something like this:

    I want to have had an impact on the communities I am a part of beyond the pollution created by my participation in society. There are billions of souls on this planet, and all that's directly in your control is how you are. Maybe if you're lucky the trends your actions reflect will lead to the world becoming a little bit better. There are tons of ways you could go out and needlessly antagonize people at any given point. If you've decided to dedicate your life to something other than doing that as much as possible all the time, then you've dedicated some of your psyche to being whatever you think is good. I think there's a pragmatic argument to not being an asshole for the reason that I don't want to be surrounded by assholes (any more than I already am) who think I'm setting a great example on how to behave.

    What is the point of trying to be pro-social if there is no guaranteed, or meaningful positive social existence that is there for me to experience whether or not I do act that way?

    u get a cookie if you aren't going to be pro-social, then why not behave maximally antisocially? PARODY a children's hospital in minecraft? People can get shit on for what feels like an eternity for little reason.

    This place is not a community; everyone here is very little more than digitized characters on a screen to me. I can interact with you, so I can suppose that there’s some kinda consciousness behind that, but I couldn’t possibly say that I feel like I’m interacting with a bunch of individual people on here, rather than just a particularly judgmental aggregated intelligence.

    this is fed erasure