Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jul 23 2021 12:18pm)

I mean... often times, the assertion is that the feds started the crack epidemic with an explicit intention of hurting and keeping down the black community, andI dont believe that.
But yeah, thinking "people won't start asking questions when crime rates in the ghetto surge because savage behavior is what they expect from the negroes", that's racist as fuck (... and probably a correct assessment of white america's mentality during the 80s-90s).

Quote (thesnipa @ Jul 23 2021 01:19pm)

https://i.redd.it/achfd0xbuxc71.jpg

the stupid bobble head doll "collectable" really makes it for me

Quote (ofthevoid @ Jul 23 2021 12:21pm)

Yeah i'm not buying that either tbh. I think population density/accessibility and socioeconomics are infinitely bigger drivers.

It makes sense to sit and sell drugs at a inner city corner versus 30 miles away from city center where the density is way less and you're much less likely to encounter buyers. It also makes sense that drug dealing and other forms of crime flourish in poorer areas. This isn't even American phenomena, you literally see it in almost every country in the world even in very racially homogenous places.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Jul 23 2021 12:21pm)

Yeah i'm not buying that either tbh. I think population density/accessibility and socioeconomics are infinitely bigger drivers.

It makes sense to sit and sell drugs at a inner city corner versus 30 miles away from city center where the density is way less and you're much less likely to encounter buyers. It also makes sense that drug dealing and other forms of crime flourish in poorer areas. This isn't even American phenomena, you literally see it in almost every country in the world even in very racially homogenous places.

Quote (bogie160 @ Jul 23 2021 12:05pm)

Lol.

Talk about being inside someone's head. You might want to start a fan club.

The United States has played a pivotal in Iranian history post-WWII, but this...

...is profoundly incorrect. Shia fundamentalism has its roots as far back as the 19th century as a major political force. Mosaddegh came to power with the support of the Islamic hardliners, whom he promptly disappointed by supporting a secular Iran. His support among the clerics eroded , and was a major contributing factor in the collapse of his government. He perhaps could have withstood the anger of Great Britain and the subsequent CIA-funded coup, but he simultaneously angered both the Shah, whom he wished to consign to irrelevance, and the fundamentalist clerics, whom commanded immense support among rural Iran.

Nor is the United States even the main villain of this story. The United States was loathe to support Britain's financial interests, openly pressured the British to compromise, and only initiated a coup after they became concerned about the prospect of a communist takeover in Iran. Given how the Saur revolution in Afghanistan later played out, it wasn't an unreasonable concern.

Quote (ofthevoid @ 23 Jul 2021 13:21)

Yeah i'm not buying that either tbh. I think population density/accessibility and socioeconomics are infinitely bigger drivers.

It makes sense to sit and sell drugs at a inner city corner versus 30 miles away from city center where the density is way less and you're much less likely to encounter buyers. It also makes sense that drug dealing and other forms of crime flourish in poorer areas. This isn't even American phenomena, you literally see it in almost every country in the world even in very racially homogenous places.



surely this is some sort of right wing false flag. People can't really be this stupid can they?

Quote (excellence @ Jul 23 2021 02:33pm)

no

A Uruguayan player in the English Premier League got a 3 match ban and 100k british pound fine for replying “gracias negrito” to his friend that congratulated him on instagram. ‘negrito’ has no literal translation to English, but the powers in England decided they were going to “fix” racism by accusing a South American of using a spanish word that ‘looks or sounds like a slur in England’

http://www.insideworldfootball.com/2021/01/05/uruguayans-say-english-fa-just-doesnt-get-cavanis-gracias-negrito-post-really

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/31/manchester-united-edinson-cavani-gets-three-game-ban-over-instagram-post-fa

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ 23 Jul 2021 19:53)

I can acknowledge that I don't know the full story, but we actively funded both the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and supported Saudi Arabia's proxy funding of radical groups. We were and remain an active player in radicalizing and maintaining the radicalization of the Middle East. "We were loathe to do it" doesn't mean we still didn't do it.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jul 23 2021 01:50pm)

Even when the US are doing something with genuinely good intentions, it can backfire. Obama's Iran nuclear deal was intended to boost Iran's economy, ease the suffering of its civilian people and thus invoke positive change toward more democracy and liberalism. In reality, Iran used the extra money that got freed up by the nuclear deal to fund its proxy wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, contributing to the suffering of these countries' civilians while strengthening the grip of the hardliners in Iran.