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Screenshot of a Tumblr post by imsobadatnicknames2:
"A couple years later it’s still amazing what a perfect distillation the original ‘anonymized people of the global south’ tweet is of the absolute callousness of yankee liberals;
(Screenshot of a Twitter post by @loudpenitent: “An anonymized ‘people of the global south’ is not worth more than domestic queer citizens or any other member of any other marginalized community - or, bluntly, any fellow citizen at all. Real-ass human beings matter more than rhetorical constructs.”) (end of Twitter screenshot, back to imsobadatnicknames2’s commentary);
If I wrote a character saying this into a piece of media about how much americans suck it’d be too on the nose."
congressmen should care about their country, not other countries that have almost no unique benefit to their nation.
murderers should care about their family, not other families whose members they murdered!!!
also, “no unique benefit”, my guy the global north was built on the stolen wealth from everywhere else
resource acquisition can be accomplished almost anywhere, each individual nation that gets resources extracted from it is unimportant
Go back to Reddit please