Yet people here seem to think we need to just bend over backwards over what happened with the crusades

Even in that its divided opinion

Yeah it's dumb.

We are under no obligation to sacrifice ourselves in the name of altruism.

i got that from people coming from the congo

i mean this is just what they say so idk if its valid

but they said that the older generations are divided and it were the younger ones that were really angry

And no were not

Crusades were a failure, they in fact helped the Muslims in the long run, by weakening the Byzantines to the point where Turks could basically just walk in, i won't debate whether they were justified or not but they were a disaster for sure

```The cure of a sickness can only be achieved if its cause is known, and the same is true of curing political evils. To be sure, the outward form of a sickness, its symptom which strikes the eye, is easier to see and discover than the inner cause. And this is the reason why so many people never go beyond the recognition of external effects and even confuse them with the cause, attempting, indeed, to deny the existence of the latter.```

-Mein Kampf

nice that someone recognize

Forgive me for not taking seriously the words of a guy who literally thought he was second coming.

looooool

jesus was also killed by jews.

Jesus WAS a Jew.

Wasn't he killed by the Pharisees?

There is fair bit of evidence pointing to the fact Jesus never even existed in the first place

In Jewish religion Jeshua was sort of god's high priest, mirroring the high priest of temple in Jerusalem, at the time Christianity arose there were so called salvation cults that basically took the Greek idea of afterlife and mixed it with local deity, those salvation cults follow a certain pattern and Christianity fits within it almost perfectly

almost all, if not all religions of the world follow such pattern

Almost all of those religions arose from Christianity

So I saw the interview Benjamin did with Bannon, and Bannon (roughly) said the average citizen is not responsible for the economic crisis in north Africa and the middle east.
But is that right? Aren't the people to blame for partaking in a predatory economic tactics that they benefit from?
Of course people don't always have all the information on where the stuff they buy comes from or what economy they might be destroying, but when the shoes you buy are dirt cheap I doubt you don't guess in the back of your head that someone is being exploited...

Well iphones arent dirt cheap and if u wanna go down that resource line

same can be said about computers

i mean i can decide to not buy the obvious things

I would like a definition of what exactly the exploitation is. Does it apply to all product exported from economically weaker countries ?

The fact is most people can't in fact afford to buy things that are not cheap, principles are costly, not everyone can afford them

^that is definately another part of it

+from our standards child labour is totally unethical

but not even that long ago, over here child labour was not only expected but required if u wanted to survive

doesnt mean i agree with multinationals going across the world and then paying people a nickel & dime for 14 hour shifts.

but at the same time those child labour bans makes childs more vournable to illegal economy.
beacause legal ones cant hire them. and if parents cant/wont rise them. what they are supposed to do.

But thats not really an issue in modern western countries jasse

yeah. but in those third world countries. that we are "exploiting"

we cant expect same standards from third world coutnries.

There is a reason why we got rid of it tho, let's not pretend past was all rosy, exploitation of the workers was rife, 18 hour work days 7 days a week, meager salary, non existent safety regulations, at one point 200 people died in a fire because the company manager locked the exit to prevent people from taking a break. Everything in oderation.

no its not at all it was a horrible time

or countless kids dying during the weaving boom

or losing fingers, hands etc

But what was it before? no salary at all

capitalism as its finest.