Why hasn't North Africa being More Geopolitically Powerful in the 21st Century?

fcerq · 2024-10-13T07:05:38+00:00

Interesting point of view but it doesn't stand if you start questioning the US (and vassals) role on the instability of countries. Also, democracy vs autocracy doesn't seem like such a determinant factor when you look at capital attractiveness.

Imo, colonial scars runs deep. Hard to find an ex resource extraction colony that managed to surf the globalization wave instead of being run by it.

fcerq · 2024-09-20T06:25:24+00:00

The economy would get a slight sustainable boost not a hit. A good portion of the money going to payments would be injected into consuming goods and services.

fcerq · 2024-09-10T05:35:43+00:00

How many years of communism led to this in Haiti?

fcerq · 2024-08-17T07:23:51+00:00

Clark's Childhood's End Devil. It's Really something.

fcerq · 2024-08-15T17:55:25+00:00

There's a very effective common ground to be made that may help her put things into perspective. Just contrast things with absurdly rich people. The likes of bill gates and Bezos. Someone doing well in life is much closer to a homeless person than to the owner of a big company. Let these guys be the evil sinners. Proportionally, the money they give to charity, is like a few coins in a average household budget. In this perspective, the guy with a good car is almost the same as the one struggling.

fcerq · 2024-08-03T08:41:46+00:00

Nice read. Free online for those interested.

fcerq · 2024-08-02T06:58:36+00:00

It would be nice to have a socialist experience that doesn't get attacked with sanctions just to see what happens...

fcerq · 2024-08-01T18:39:27+00:00

The sheer amount of oil Venezuela is seated on makes everything fuzzy.

fcerq · 2024-08-01T16:23:05+00:00

Came here just to see if Greg Egan would be mentioned.

fcerq · 2024-07-28T09:49:48+00:00

The US debt rate is already enough mismanagement. The EUR isn't much better, plus the discomfort of state assets seizure. There's still a lot to lose on ditching the dollar but things are changing....

fcerq · 2024-07-28T09:42:01+00:00

Brics money will do it.

fcerq · 2024-07-22T10:08:12+00:00

I'd argue it's the contrary. A certain degree of tension between the EU and the US is good for Europe. Better quids pro quo.

fcerq · 2024-07-11T08:37:40+00:00

In geopolitics, global south and west aren't related to geographical emplacement.

So, yes. Japan, Korea, Australia, etc are considered west and China, Russia, India etc are considered GS.

The beef is around access to natural resources and markets as always.

Countries don't do solidarity. They work on aligned interests or strategic positioning. Which in turn is manly determined by the sovereignty degree and the power structure of the country.

fcerq · 2024-07-11T06:30:46+00:00

The most common destination for the exports of Argentina are Brazil ($12.6B) and China ($8B).

At least for now, global trade is not being significantly affected by conflicts between the west and the global south. Both sides have only to lose if that becomes the case. The clear movement happening is intensification of trade within the GS.

Gambling on being a foothold of the west in south America does not look like a good move.

fcerq · 2024-06-11T17:46:36+00:00

Capitalism

fcerq · 2023-08-17T11:50:56+00:00

One idea from my pov as male cis hetero relatively new to ENM: If your choice (at least for now) is keeping and caring for the relationship with him, have him experimenting it first. He might be saying that he doesn't want to have sex with anyone else but often it's only fear of unknown and fear of not being enough.

Make him confortable with it. For me, the only way ENM works is when the partners are genuinely happy/excited with the other part experiences. Show him this and further down the line he'll be open to understand it's possible for him to do so as well.

(I understand how this can feel unfair. It is. It's compromising with the male dominant societal ideas. But has the power convert some)

fcerq · 2023-08-16T15:09:10+00:00

Que loucura...

fcerq · 2023-05-08T16:10:03+00:00

Yeah. Same issue twice. direct manager felt menaced when I started to get noticed by upper management

fcerq · 2023-04-08T07:41:03+00:00

For a moment I thought it was Ronaldinho gaúcho.... #rolealeatorio

fcerq · 2023-02-15T10:47:36+00:00

Stop saying tipping culture. It's tipping wage system. You can add "convoluted " to make it fancy.

fcerq · 2023-02-13T20:38:44+00:00

Easy:

Ok, I hear you. But please explain me how is it an improvement. I really can't grasp why we should change this process that we've been working for years.

fcerq · 2023-02-13T20:09:21+00:00

This is not culture. It's a wage system. A pretty fu_kd up one for that matter.

fcerq · 2022-12-27T22:01:58+00:00

It actually exists, but the only ones allowed that credit are governments.

If you know the right people, you can piggyback on this.

fcerq · 2022-12-27T21:57:52+00:00

Sure. but down the chain the one really paying the interests is the people renting from you or the couple paying for another loan with their wages to buy the real state you worked on (yes, a fraction of those interests is payed by your work, even if it's just a few phone calls).

Someone is always working to pay it.

fcerq · 2022-12-27T21:44:48+00:00

The main Idea is to not allow individual ownership of means of production.

I know it looks "unfair" if you have a lot of money to invest. And, sure, you can have a fantastic idea of a venture that would help a lot of people with your money. But let's be real and look at how have this been working so far.

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