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CE&P social thread: why do the people I disagree with hate freedom so much?

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Ive been taking a foreign aid course this semester. Its interesting to learn about how much money the US spends on foreign aid and how a lot of the time it does more harm than good. Most foreign aid comes with strings attached and might be required to have some American company come in and do a project (only after said company makes generous political donations of course). Or it might be in the form of some sort of military assistance.

Very rarely does the US just hand over money to a country for a project of their choosing.

Probably the most controversial foreign aid agent is the IMF.

The IMF is pretty much a way for the powerful countries (mainly the US) to prey on countries with unstable/weak economies. A great example is Jamaica, whose agricultural industry has been completely run out of business after they took IMF loans to avoid defaulting. When a country takes IMF loans there are forced to change their economic policies so that they have free trade with no tariffs. This means that foreign companies can move in and basically drive all the local businesses out because the prices are so much cheaper. Also, the the IMFs requirements cause currency devaluation, decreasing the populations buying power.

The US is the largest IMF shareholder at about 18%, about another 65% comes from western Europe..... pretty much the equivalent of modern day economic imperialism.
 
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voxi has a little race whose skin was white as fuck
everywhere that voxi went, voxi went, voxi went
everywhere that voxi went, other folks were sure to suck

Mod edit: No giant text please, this isn't the Lounge. ;)
 
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Israeli anit-terror unit has some interesting headgear:
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MrGrunge said:
Does BL have its own Bill of Rights that I don't know about? I haven't seen anything on here that says the mods can't close dumb topics.
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Escher's Waterfall said:
Freedom of speech restricts the actions of government.

It does not apply to private organizations or businesses, silly.
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Captain.Heroin said:
Your constitutional rights don't exist on a server that's located in the Netherlands.
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Your first amendment doesn't apply to the actions of the staff, droppers.
 
Bardeaux said:
Your first amendment doesn't apply to the actions of the staff, droppers.
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Lol, what was the big deal with this the thread? It was a true story news article that was very relevant to bluelight imo. Its proof that communism/ socialism doesnt work even via bluelight. You cannot have freedom of speech to effectively implement Communism or socialism in any application.
 
Jesus Buttchuggin' Christ, Droppers. Believe it or not, some things have nothing to do with the supposed impracticalities of a Socialist system.

*My impression of Droppers*: "Are you saying I can't post a picture of me fisting a farm animal? Pfft - Socialism strikes again!"
 
Droppersneck said:
Lol, what was the big deal with this the thread? It was a true story news article that was very relevant to bluelight imo. Its proof that communism/ socialism doesnt work even via bluelight. You cannot have freedom of speech to effectively implement Communism or socialism in any application.
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In this case we better start charging a fee to join and a charge for each post made.

The resulting cash flow will cause a trickle down in freedom, or something.
 
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