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No. The real idea is not to benefit any country and their development. At most, like queermunist said, the compradores can take some of that money to keep the explotation-repression going for the interest of the countries we all know and hate (pensá en el Toto Caputo).
Citing the resignation letter of a former IMF senior economist, Davison L. Budhoo:
Wow, powerful stuff, truly has a way with words. A moment of silence is needed after that one.
Okay now face the wall.
Very online.
Mao man
I get what you’re saying, and if we’re actually going to discuss this that’s fine, but this dude worked for the IMF for 12 years and admits in his own words that he has blood on his hands. Reeducation is the most likely punishment.
I'm very torn. On one hand, this model of forgiveness is truly saint-like. I remember having an intense conversation about Puyi (China's last emperor, and subsequently a Japanese puppet ruler) and how the people ultimately forgave him. I might try to dig it up later.
On the other hand, the precious garden that is Earth is being deconstructed down to its component chemicals in order to make a handful of people extremely rich along the way. There is no word that can properly encapsulate the crime being perpetrated against all present and future life. Ecocide? Omnicide? It will make the horrors of the previous century into a mere prologue for what is to come. Everyone who is aiding and abetting this cosmic crime deserves the most savage punishments that the human mind can dream up, and it still wouldn't atone for a fraction of the misery they're working so diligently to create. And as much as I'd like to appeal to my own better nature, I simply can't convince myself otherwise.
The priority isn't getting justice for this; the priority is stopping it. Often (and I think this is why Mao's sentiment is echoed in a bunch of other revolutionary writings) the quickest way to stop the harm is to give the perpetrators a way out. If you tell people you'll kill them whether they fight or surrender, what are they going to pick?
I don't think there's a way of stopping this nonviolently
Indeed.
Instead of resigning why didnt he [fedposting]