Still Free

Yeah, Mr. Smiley. Made it through the entire Trump presidency without being enslaved. Imagine that.

Saturday, July 18, 2020

The Alternative

So there is this chart going around where "white supremacy culture" is defined with various examples. I was going to dissect it line for line, and might still do so if I feel so moved, but I think that the following rather lengthy videos demonstrate the alternatives to much of what is being called "white supremacy culture". These videos are about an hour long each, so you'll either want to put aside a good amount of time or bookmark this post to return to it.

One comment on the above video: This taxi is ferrying vaccines. Under the front passenger seat of the taxi" with no refrigeration which arrives 5 hours after the ice melted. How would you like to live in a country (assuming you, dear reader are living in "The West" or some other "advanced" country) where things that require refrigeration is transported in this manner?

This guy says the trip will take 4 days. The trip takes a month. Imagine, you live in NY and want to go to Atlantic City NJ. Imagine that this trip is supposed to take 4 hours. The driver tells you 4 hours. But you show up 5 days later. Imagine this is a regular occurrence.

Also you know how Libertarians talk about how roads don't need to be built or maintained by government because the people can (and supposedly will) make their own "hoe ass roads". You'll notice in all these videos that the "roads" are essentially wide mud paths. How come these people after years of dealing with these "roads", haven't come together and built their own "hoe ass roads" so that trips between the villages aren't so...ummm....bad?

Also you know how trucks are limited to carrying certain weights. Yeah. After watching these videos you'll understand why.

Ahh Liberia. Firestone got a lot of money out of that country (rubber).

Shall I discuss the child labour? Who knows, perhaps the cotton you're wearing right now was picked in Benin by the children. Hope your comfortable.

And wouldn't you love to have to walk 5 miles to get dirty water rather than that whole white supremacist thing called plumbing based on mathematics and physics?

Makes you wonder how many of the people in the videos above would trade their current situations with the "systematic racism" that so many are talking about in America and elsewhere. Break rocks or go to school. Sand wood or go to school. Dig for precious metals for cell phones or go to school. Go to a "hospital" where the medicine is likely expired or transported in such a way that it is no good, or have access to an ER within 10 minutes of a call to 911?

Also you notice how all the vehicles are exports from Europe and Japan. You'd think the locals would be making their own trucks by now. Why not?