I can’t wait until the point where it’s a full week of continuous peace and wellbeing we are sending one another. It will take a lot of healing and forgiveness to get there but I believe humanity is strong and brave enough to manage one day.
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More than half of the 15 Latin Americans deported in April to Congo under the Trump administration’s widely criticized crackdown on migrants have returned to their countries of origin. (From the article, first sentence)
The Trump administration announced that over 605,000 undocumented immigrants were deported or removed from the United States during the first several months of his term. Link
During Trump’s first term, ICE carried out a total of 935,000 to 1.5 million removals. more than 90% of those impacted by recent interior arrests and detentions are from Latin America, led by Mexico (approx. 54%), Guatemala (15%), and Honduras (11%).
The title is ever so slightly misleading omitting the 15 which wouldn’t have taken much space in the title. As it’s written it sounds like much more than eight or nine people. This is 0.0016% of the deported people this term.
I mean we’ve all seen what good it did for Ukrain when Russia super pinky promised never to invade if they gave up their nukes. I don’t think anyone is going to make that mistake again.
The US has influence, don’t doubt that but at the same time it’s not really direct. The US isn’t trading the construction of roads or ports for access to natural resources. Link1
For reference, multiple western electronics manufacturers have turned away from using cobalt due to the horrific conditions in mining even though the Chinese mining companies continually assure partners they aren’t in breach of human rights.
China prefers control through soft power, the US is much more direct guns in your face type power. It’s very indicative of their cultures.
One thing missing in the trump administrations is any level of discretion or tact, and most definitely guile which is simultaneously refreshing and infuriating. While most will tell you they’re friends and fuck you when you’re not looking the trump administration will straight fuck you to your face in a public room, it’s horrific and honest.
I’m speaking of east Africa specifically, which is concerning Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and the eastern region of Congo. You are very specifically speaking of north western Africa.
China has its belt and road initiative, controls about 60% of the mines in Congo, is trying to take Mombasa or dar es salaam port, is building a port in kiliwa Tanzania, has a substantial amount of political and financial influence in eastern Africa. In short they have multiple companies leveraged in extracting natural resources in exchange for some small roads or bridges they have built. Also don’t mind the Chinese influencers capitalizing on racism of Africans. It gets so so so much more violent and dark than this. Human organs, infants being raped, any degree of human torment and degradation you can imagine but we would need to go deeper into the web to even see the shadows of those demons.
Most people in the rural areas around here don’t have access to the internet therefore no one cares what is happening or what will happen to them.
The US interfering with another government? Never. Sidebar I thought it was essentially a given that everyone has their fingers in someone else’s pie. Like Museveni (Uganda) influences Ruto (Kenya) and Kagame (Rwanda) every election and vice versa. Saudis influence Tanzania via Zanzibar and China is heavily influencing all of east Africa’s politics right now. The US is influencing everyone and you have China and Russia messing with the US and the US messing with them. If you look around nearly everyone is at least messing with their neighbors government and the bigger players have global influences going on. It’s one big competition for power and control between mainly sociopaths all the while the masses across the world mostly want the same thing, a good quality of life for themselves and their loved ones.
This perfectly fits some people’s doomsday death cult philosophies. “The nations of men” are supposed to unite against God’s chosen people or some shit like that. Religion really is the gift that keeps on giving, particularly the abrahamic faiths.
Yeah Putin wants those massive natural gas deposits and so does Ukraine. There’s not much of a deal to be made.
The US would never, has never done such a thing.
I’m not sure it’s clean and easy like that. A rose by any other name smells just as sweet. I see it more like a classic battle between two very similar yet different individuals over ultimate legitimacy, like the fight between Romulus and Remus, although this will likely have a different ending.
The political and cultural history of mainland China and Taiwan is really interesting. It’s easy to say they just want their fabs but I feel like the struggle is more so about legacy. The CCP gaining control over Taiwan would indicate they are the one and only true China spiritually and philosophically at least to themselves. It’s a fundamental split and both consider themselves the real or true China.
I’m a bit shocked this wasn’t happening sooner. We’ve more so seen people salting the fields so to speak to get back at AI / data collection companies. Makes sense corporate types would do the same to push their products or services. That said doing it to advertise their brand of hormone replacement therapy is a tad disturbing, seems like something important enough that one wouldn’t want their information manipulated when researching. Same to anything medical really.
A much more honorable choice than what the article is talking about. It’s essentially SEO for AI or AEO as they’re calling it. I’m kinda surprised this wasn’t happening or reported sooner.
It seems most air travel is avoiding the Persian gulf right now. I often fly through the UAE and most routes are now going through Ethiopia or direct to Europe and then onward.
What the flock. It is interesting how we are doing both 1984 and fahrenheit 451 simultaneously. Honestly though AI development at any serious scale requires nation state level efforts and nearly any government would be tempted. It’s unfortunate the US has had more of a shift towards palpatine and the empire as of late.
Yeah fear, anger, greed, and resentment are much lower emotional local entropy states for us. Getting over that hill into a true global minimum is a doozy. It’s so scary we often prefer the familiar needless and avoidable suffering.