• @africanprince99
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    110 months ago

    It’s not just economic crimes this is wanton rape, murder, and wholesale take overs of state infrastructure by organised crime outfits. This isn’t normal crime like you may encounter in other countries, we are frequently topping the list in the most violent categories of crime.

    Right now theres an epidemic of gender based violence, that is men raping and murdering women or male partners/spouses just outright murdering their partners. Doubt this is linked to a war against poor people.

    • @CaptainSpaceman
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      810 months ago

      Are you trying to tell me rich people are comminuting these crimes at parallel rates to poor people?

      Im gonna press X to doubt

      • @africanprince99
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        110 months ago

        Also if you’re telling me that the only thing stopping people from raping people, and committing senseless murders is money then that’s a pretty sad indictment on humankind.

        • @CaptainSpaceman
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          310 months ago

          Never said it was the only thing, just the #1 thing

      • @africanprince99
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        -110 months ago

        Frankly could not care for your opinion unless you live here, or a country with similar rates of crime.

      • @[email protected]
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        -210 months ago

        How would that be possible when like 75% are poor? Should the rich be doing it at 3x the rate to keep up?

        • @CaptainSpaceman
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          410 months ago

          Lemme rephrase with your 75% example.

          Your logic: If 75% are poor, then 75% of the crimes should be committed by poor people.

          Reality: poor people commit most crimes.

          End poverty if you want to end the bulk of crime.

          • @[email protected]
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            110 months ago

            End poverty if you want to end the bulk of crime.

            Yeah, no one is saying that isn’t the solution to a lot of crime (not sure about GBV though, it should come down with better education). Unfortunately when Mandela took over, the ANC did nothing to improve the education system for the poor, so now you can basically get through school by just showing up and sleeping in class.

            • @CaptainSpaceman
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              310 months ago

              Sounds like “no child left behind”

              Horrible policy designed to make education EFFICIENT isntead of EFFECTIVE

              • @[email protected]
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                010 months ago

                Pretty much yeah.

                When the kids weren’t passing, instead of trying to improve their circumstances and enable them to learn more successfully as well as up skilling the teachers, their solution was to lower the pass mark. This went on for years until the pass mark got to the 30% it is today.

                Then again, my Zimbabwean friend always reminds me of the time that the students were given a text book that was a year or two behind, and in protest they burned them all. There also needs to be a certain desire to learn and better yourself. There are also those who walk 1h+ to school and back every day in the sweltering heat, pouring rain and sometimes through rivers.

                The priorities of the government are really only to enrich themselves and keep the populous uneducated so that their propaganda works on them.

                I love my country but holy fuck, shits fucked back home.