• @Fuckfuckmyfuckingass
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    258 months ago

    The Italian food had a death toll of 17 and this one is over 11,000. So, ya know, there’s a bit of a difference.

    • suoko
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      88 months ago

      Different houses, different living standards. You could end up saying their poorer conditions lead to this catastrophe, but dams woukd have probably failed anyway, in one way or another one. If any nation could become easily rich thanks to a government change, it would have happens yesterday. Those nations are destroyed in a century and partially rebuilt the following century. You know who usually decides

      • Blake [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        West: steals all resources, then burns a bunch of shit, and then causes a massive flood

        Libya: thousands of people die

        West: lol why are your houses so shit lmao build better gg skill issue

      • appel
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        -28 months ago

        Different living standards could have caused 3 factors of 10 increase in deaths? That sounds a bit extreme. If they had a functioning government (read: it hadn’t been destroyed by the west), surely that government could have kept up with the upkeep of the dams and fortified them, knowing that extreme weather events are coming?

        • suoko
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          The west is unable to deal with such extreme events, and you’re saying they could actually have been better than us? I’ve no idea how lybia actually is, but I can judge those events. It happened to me this summer, nothing so dangerous or extreme but I’ve never seen anything like that before. And I’ve seen a lot of sunsets in my life.

          • appel
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            58 months ago

            Libya was doing very well before it was invaded. The leader was repressive, but they had tremendous oil wealth. They clearly cared about giving this wealth back to their people, evidenced by the free education, healthcare, and lump sums of money to married couples etc. I find it more likely that the government of Libya would have been willing to invest in the protection of it’s people by repairing the dam regularly, versus any western country that only wants to extract maximum profit from it’s inhabitants by charging for all services and privatisation of previously national services, all while the leaders pocket hundreds of millions (the UK, for example).

    • @Burn_The_Right
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      28 months ago

      The Italian food had a death toll of 17

      I hear you, but you’re forgetting that Italy invented Death By Chocolate.