>Wrong, the group that carried out the original genocide is long since dead as are the original people who lived here, the ones who currently live here are a mix of several immigration waves that came mainly AFTER slavery was abolished, the ex-slaves, some natives and the decendents of the colonizers, these groups were already mixed before and after so much time there is no longer a simple part of the population that you can point as the ones who did all these things, the remaining natives today are mainly tribes that were not discovered untill much latter, most of the ones that were discovered either died or joined the mix

I'm sorry, were you under the impression that the US is a nation of immortals and the same people who colonized Virginia in 1608 are still alive and kicking?...

This is literally. exactly. the same situation as in the US, and guess what? Americans are still responsible for the genocide of the natives just like you. You're living on stolen land, in a society founded upon the genocide of the natives and built on the backs of African slaves.

Are the Japanese that came to live on stolen land in the 1900s complicit? Well let's see, they're living on stolen land as part of a colonial society founded upon the genocide of the native peoples, so yes. Just like an Italian family who immigrated to the US in the 1900s is complicit.

Also I feel an entire new reply is needed to address the whitewashing of Brazilian colonialism in your earlier comment.

Unless you're one of the 0.43% of the Brazilian population that is indigenous or are the descendant of exclusively slaves than you're a member of the group that carried out the genocide of the native populations and you're living on stolen land.

Can you imagine if people from the US tried to pull the shit you're doing?

"Oh you see, it was the English, French, Spanish, and Russians that originally took our land from the Native Americans so we aren't really responsible"

Sounds pretty ridiculous doesn't it?

Ditto for slavery.

Can you imagine if people from the US tried to pretend they weren't responsible for slavery since it was instituted by the English?

OP said, and I'm quoting them here, "every single year several times the death toll of the Ukraine war occurs in South America due to exploitation from the USA and Western Europe".

The combined deaths from the Russian and Ukrainian militaries along with the civilian casualties adds up to nearly a quarter of a million people who have died in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Which means that in order for it to be true that "several times" the amount of people killed in the Ukrainian war to die from American and European exploitation a minimum of half a million people would have to die from that each and every year.

Minimum of half a million. Every. Single. Year.

That's completely ridiculous and obviously untrue.

pushes glasses what part of "in 2022" wasn't clear to you?...

This would seem to conflict with your earlier assertion that a rising tide lifts all boats?

How many South Americans died in 2022 due to exploitation from the US and Western Europe?

Embracing free market trickle down economics actually lowered the quality of life for the poor in my county.

Can you give me an example of a post-colonial nation that was able to become economically prosperous immediately after obtaining freedom using only free market capitalist economics?

>India experienced a socialist system for its first five decades which made people poor.

Yep, that's what made India poor. Definitely didn't have anything to do with centuries of British colonialism.

>A rising tide lifts all boats

It also drowns the people who can't afford boats...

Ok champ...

Americans with a strong southern accents or people who like to walk around in cowboy hats? Sure.

But an American who grew up in a city, and doesn't have a strong regional accent in a city 2.5 hours away where the people also don't have a strong regional accent? Fuck no.

I know you can't because I've seen you not do it over and over.

The party of small government strikes again.

It's not just people who live in other countries. FFS we can't tell each other apart a lot of the time.

Be honest. If someone who grew up in Seattle moved to Vancouver and didn't tell people they were American how long do you think it would take for people to figure it out?

If it weren't for Google I'd have no idea Keanu Reeves or Ryan Reynolds were Canadian.

A doctor throwing pills at you is a hell of a lot better than nothing, which is what we get without paying.

>And that doesn't even get into the fact that both countries have significant internal regional social differences.

People from other countries literally cannot tell us apart.

The regional differences between Americans and Canadians aren't any greater than that between Americans from different states. In fact someone from Minnesota or Wisconsin is probably way closer culturally to someone from Ontario than they are to someone from Texas.

As someone who also lives with mental illness, care in the US is also dogshit but it will make you go bankrupt.

Don't believe anyone who tells you privatization will improve quality. It won't.

No public healthcare means a lack of treatment for mentally ill people. It's one of, but not the only, contributors to the mass shooting crisis in the US.

You're doing the Lord's work.

>They will probably either be in a civil war (because Xi jealousy eliminated all viable successors) or, if Xi is still in power, they will probably be executing a government plan that eliminates half a billion Chinese citizens, so that the economy isn’t under so much stress.

I think predictions of a civil war are a little extreme. A depression and maybe something similar to what happened to Japan with the lost decade might happen, but there's nothing I've seen that would indicate a civil war is near.

>What benefit do people get? If they want a 3d printed part, they can just order shapeways or another company to print it for them.

"What benefit do people get from having a computer in the home? If they want to run a program they can just mail the punch cards to IBM and receive their answer back in a few weeks."

• Some expert in the 1970s

>I seen a recent post where the person was thinking 3D printers are going to be in every home. This isn't realistic, and one thing people who don't own one seem to not know this isn't as simple as a paper printer.

This reminds me of the "there is no reason for anyone to have a computer in their home" quote from the mid-20th century.

You have no idea how 3D printing technology is going to advance and develop in the future.

There was a time when computers used Vacuum tubes for logic circuitry and computers were the size of a small building. Now look at where we are.

It's pretty common for new rockets to have failures on the first few launches. Keep at it, you'll work out the kinks.

I don't think their demographic issues are going to reach the point where they could end the country in only 5 years.

If it actually happened as reported my money is on mercenaries.