I was watching a lecture today about the fact that a number of Polynesian islands will be gone in about a century due to rising sea levels, and the people are currently looking for places to relocate to. And I was thinking to myself about how we’re as worried about money as we are while not being worried about land in the same way. Alongside the nations that need to evacuate, there are nations with one person per couple of square kilometers and nations with one person per couple of square meters. There are people in need of a home and homes in need of more people. And there are people on foreign land and land nobody owns that’s not claimed. You’d think it would be easy.
Nations have a lot of stuff going on, like overpopulation, war, natural disasters, etc. and half of the world has the potential to help. For example, Russia could receive half of the Chinese population to ease overpopulation, or the US (or even a billionaire) could set aside parts of Alaska for the countries being conquered by nature. But they won’t. They see it as a nationalistic issue. But that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t or couldn’t help. You, of course, see everything that’s going on. In a world where your hometown could literally save another town somewhere, what would you do for refugees, even if law was on the line?
China sends battleships around taiwan, owns most of the cobalt in Congo.
Shut up poor fuck, you don’t know anything about the world you live in
Asia has 10 million refugees. But china doesn’t have to, they are special 🙈 even tho they are buying all of Africa
OH NO, they’re sailing their ships around in their own waters! How nefarious. I can tell you’re a very big boy who knows lots of things.
We bombed countries until all the refugees came out, then kept bombing them. If you don’t like it, try asking your government to stop bombing people.
You think Europe rearming is because we were capable of being a military might already? Oh boy, if you’re crying already about pacifist Europe, you gonna love it when we have weapons again, just like your beloved china.
"Belgium has not bombed any country in the 21st century. However, Belgium has been involved in military operations and has provided support to international coalitions. For instance, Belgium has participated in the coalition against the Islamic State, which has led to terrorist attacks targeting Belgium, such as the 2016 Brussels bombings.
Additionally, Belgium has been involved in evacuation efforts and has provided military support in conflict zones. For example, Belgium evacuated European citizens from Lebanon due to the intensifying conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Belgium has also committed to delivering F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to support its defense against Russia."
“Belgium refugee statistics for 2023 was 167,831.00”
Edit: you use miles instead of km, you’re not European. Just a deranged tankie
Oh, of course, I must be mistaken - obviously none of our soldiers got sent to Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Syria, Myanmar, Tunisia, Yemen, Ukraine, Central Africa, Mali, Ivory Coast, Krygyztan, and all the pre-2010 wars, because we literally didn’t have any weapons and were in fact total pacifists. You are very smrat.
So, yes. You do. Or is this one of those “well technically I didn’t personally detonate the bomb so it doesn’t count” things where you cry and blame other people?
Look I know Belgium isn’t exactly a centre of intellectualism, but you do know which european country uses miles.
So you go around on Lemmy and tell people to “kill themselves in a woodchipper” and post insincere comment to manipulate people.
Yha, i see you gong all around the Internet mocking intelligence and understanding, and actively supporting Cambridge Analytica methods, wanting criticism of Cambridge Analytica active measures removed from Lemmy.
I’m on to you and your active measures to dumb-down people here on Lemmy with your games.
“The trouble isn’t so much that we don’t know enough, but it’s as if we aren’t good enough. The trouble isn’t so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live. So we find ourselves caught in a messed-up world. The problem is with man himself and man’s soul. We haven’t learned how to be just and honest and kind and true and loving. And that is the basis of our problem. The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood. And the great danger facing us today is not so much the atomic bomb that was created by physical science. Not so much that atomic bomb that you can put in an aeroplane and drop on the heads of hundreds and thousands of people — as dangerous as that is. But the real danger confronting civilization today is that atomic bomb which lies in the hearts and souls of men, capable of exploding into the vilest of hate and into the most damaging selfishness — that’s the atomic bomb that we’ve got to fear today. Problem is with the men. Within the heart and the souls of men. That is the real basis of our problem.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I honestly had no clue that the UK would still use miles, no wonder you folks voted for Brexit.
Age 25 to 34 in Belgium has 50% with higher education so we’re pretty fine on intellectual basis.
If you really think Belgium has sent massive amount of military towards other places to have a meaningful impact, then you’re high as a kite. We did not have the funding. We have been underinvesting in NATO structurally. We barely invested in our own military. It all just decayed.
We’re one of the worst students in the classroom when it comes to military.
I know your country’s people are intellectually absent enough to vote Nigel Farage into power, but god damn you know nothing about Belgium.