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The Sri Lankan government, which went all-in on ESG, has just been overthrown (redstate.com)
posted 3 years ago by willy-willis 3 years ago by willy-willis +73 / -0
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– cccpneveragain 50 points 3 years ago +50 / -0

Democratic Socialist Republic

severe mismanagement of the country and its resources

Shocking I tell you, absolutely shocking

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– Tourgen 22 points 3 years ago +22 / -0

"not real communism" - when communism fails. But it always fails, so we have no examples of "real" communism.

Almost as if the philosophical principles and the understanding of basic human nature (biology) on which communism is based is fatally flawed. And of course, it is.

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– Cazarosta 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Does the government control the means of production? Then it's not communism.

Social democracy is nothing like socialism or communism, they're on two different spectrums. Social democracy is based off a capitalist economic policy.

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– Kalamander85 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Hand in hand you might say

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– dagthegnome 28 points 3 years ago +28 / -0

The Prime Minister resigned, but he's really just a figurehead anyway. Power in Sri Lanka is held by a small group of super-rich oligarchs, chief among them the Rajapaksa family. As long as Rajapaksa remains President, nothing has been "overthrown."

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– deleted 24 points 3 years ago +24 / -0
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– dagthegnome 27 points 3 years ago +27 / -0

38 minutes ago.

Lol.

What else should I wish for?

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– MegoThor 35 points 3 years ago +35 / -0

The same thing to happen in the US.

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– TheModernDaVinci 19 points 3 years ago +19 / -0

Well if it means anything to you, he was apparently also sighted running to a ship with suitcases. So he may well be unironically fleeing.

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– Yashimata 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Maybe for the people to burn down his house too anyway?

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– GimmeFuelGimmeFire 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Uh quick, wish for a meteor to destroy Anita Sarkeesian's house

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– spambot 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

meteor? i woulda either went for a sewage line bursting in such a way it floods the house wtth pure sewer juice or a nasty bee infestation, the africanized ones

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– Footsoldier 23 points 3 years ago +23 / -0

Oh, an actual "insurrection".

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– Steampunk_Moustache 17 points 3 years ago +17 / -0

Socialist states sure do collapse a lot, don't they?

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– Filo76 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

It wasn’t real socialism. We just need to enact the very same policies in the United States and it’ll be paradise.

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– AntonioOfVenice 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

Are we sure what actually caused this? The BBC and other MSM claim that it's because it cut taxes and led to a collapse in government revenue.

The government also banned fertilizers, which led to a precipitous decline in agricultural output, but that was a way to save on foreign currency reserves.

I have also seen claims that this is because it got Chinese loans with heavy strings attached.

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– willy-willis [S] 30 points 3 years ago +30 / -0

My understanding is that while inflation was the original cause of this unrest (because it made gas and other essentials increasingly unaffordable), the situation only started to really spiral out of control when the government tried to force Sri Lanka's agricultural sector to go green.

The result was said agricultural sector collapsing, Sri Lanka going from a previously self-sufficient (food-wise) country to a net rice importer (and importing rice cost them more than the fertilizers), and its primary export crop - tea - being devastated, while all the outside globalist voices clamoring for Sri Lanka's government to do this promptly shut up, shrugged & walked away once their nationwide ESG scheme crashed & burned.

I'm sure all those other factors, like inflation and Chinese investments with strings the size of the Himalayas attached, didn't help. But the government almost certainly could've weathered that storm for at least a good bit longer if it hadn't gone full retard over organic farming while in the middle of an international food & supply crisis.

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– Xzal 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

Gas and Food price hikes. Check.
Forcing green initiatives on farmers. Check. ESG scheme check.

The west is next.

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– OldBullLee 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

I'm encouraged that the Dutch farmers' response to "green" policy is also massive protest, including spraying cowshit onto government buildings. They're as close to an "insurrection" as they're liable to get.

Maybe the Dementia Joe administration will force American farmers to "go green." I wonder what their collective response would be.

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– spambot 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

perhaps we will see fertalizer bombs go off either acidently made or ones made on purpose.

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– subbookkeeper 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

Poor economic management. The entire country went organic via legislation, slashing the food output.

Read news articles about it and read between the lines. The tax cuts are being blamed for it because it was the bandaid on the bullet wound. But the chain of events is pretty clear. Oligarch family imposing pie in the sky concepts on an economy leading to food running out and mobs on the streets.

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– GimmeFuelGimmeFire 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

"Let them eat cake! ...OH NO!!!"

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– AntonioOfVenice 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Now, that whole organic farmer thing. Was that because of green woke ideology, or was it because the government wanted to save on foreign reserves which they otherwise would have had to spend on fertilizer?

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– subbookkeeper 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

given Sri Lanka's supposedly high ESG score, I'd guess the former.

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– Yakuza 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

I thought it had to do with China.

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– dnile1000bc 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

Sri Lanka went full retard with climate change legislation. No gas, no petroleum based fertilisers etc etc.

The MSM will not report it as such though. They'll pin in some other ridiculous excuses just like they do with Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.

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– Gizortnik 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

Yeah, it's Old Left vs. New Left, and I use those terms specifically.

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– deleted 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0
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– Shill4Hire 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

But the important question is, did they have trucks honk horns for a couple hours then feed some homeless people over there? That's how we know REAL insurgency is happening.

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– deleted 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

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