You'd think Germany would see putting money in Africa as an opportunity, but instead they're being stingy over this much. It's incredibly shortsighted.
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You’d think Germany would see putting money in Africa as an opportunity
An opportunity for what? Because usually what that means is more neocolonialism.
Exactly that lol, you'd think they would smell money, but they only smell burger...
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Being anti-reparations for genocide is craaazy
And how the fuck is writing off the development of a whole continent so that you can avoid some cash payments not shortsighted? Certain people see no issue with forgiving enormous interest-free loans to Africa when they haven't even stolen their skulls
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I wanted to highlight what a blind spot this miserly attitude is giving the leadership so that we can better discuss their incentives. This line of thinking is making us into casualties of political entertainment, why should we humor their priorities at all? They're certainly not going to listen to us either way. I understand what you're saying better now, but I refuse to base my analysis of Germany's future off the premises of its current establishment. They're not even going to be around for it.
Germany and the rest of Europe is right next to fucking Africa it's not the moon what are you talking about arrogance for? Arrogance is ignoring it and treating it like a backwater unless you can extract resources & cheap labor from it. German engineers should be training people in Africa. Nobody denies their industry has a lot of skilled labor capacity lmao I mean Vietnam gives them some preference over Chinese high speed rail companies for a reason. It's to do Germany better than Germany themselves, like their neighbor has.
Let me make this as simple as peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or burger, or what have you, schnitzel? Schnitzel simple. Germany has big potential in green energy, electric vehicles, infamous auto sector. Namibia has a burgeoning green energy sector, looking to get into smaller-end electric vehicles (scooters & such are going to explode in many places much faster than electric cars, very exciting and a great prospect for sodium-ion as well), huge lithium mining projects, so it could have a phenomenal battery industry.
Why ignore the country, or settle for just stealing its lithium? Skulls... Smalltime crookery my dude. There is huge potential for mutual development in industries once the financial system that requires Africa to be poor is no longer Germany's priority. This would be dreaming, but the past decade has shown things can change pretty rapidly.
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Ya Namibia I think doesn't even have a main language, at least on Wikipedia it was split. I mostly read abt it as part of green energy hyperfixation not culturally literate
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But okay, go on, tell me then: how do you calculate fair reparations?
Fair to whom? The belligerent state will never see it as 'fair,' as evident by this very article. There's no fair for the former colony either, the cost of those lives and the cumulative impact of their deaths are incalculable. The point of reparations is to bridge that gap. That can include payments to families of the victims directly impacted, payments directly to the former colony for development and sovereignty, and even the abolition of neo-colonialist systems that continue to hyper exploit them to this day.
No it's not "short sighted" because this is about precedence - Germany would be utterly (and rightfully imo) shafted should reparations become standard for "it's been a long time ago" stuff, especially from what is technically a predecessor country.
Yeah, reparations is absolutely the correct precedent to set. And no, the benefactors of centuries of colonialism and neo-colonialism can absolutely afford to do so.
There is no easy way forward - the people who would have to pay were not even born when those atrocities happened - but benefit from them, even if indirectly.
This is the exact same argument white supremacists use against reparations for slavery, and completly ignores both the cumulative impact of the initial atrocities as well as the institutionalized evolution of the hyper exploitation (Jim Crow and Neo-colonialism respectively).
Please take his into consideration whenever you decide to develop beyond spewing Trump level parols.
Funny, considering your stance that reparations set's a bad short-sighted precedent is infinitely closer to Trump's view than mine.
Building up these nations could be the foundation of a German trade strategy not based on dependency, one which would actually survive the next century, and these payments will flow into developments that would be a part of that. Who gives a fuck if you pay back the people whose stolen labor became the foundation of your nation's present circumstances? So selfish it's insane.
I know why Germany's elite would rather work with Americans than pursue their national interest, but after seeing China do Germany better than Germany, they ought to at least try a little Chinese stuff, even if they half-ass it...
If I'm not mistaken, Germany refused to repatriate the skulls of Namibians that were stolen for phrenology purposes last year. Let's not pretend this is ancient history. Neocolonialism is the present.