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[โ€“] Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because honestly, the US owes so many reparations that it wouldn't possibly be able to afford to pay them and still exist. The point needs to be driven home to people that reparations will require the dismantling of the empire, not the continuation of it.

[โ€“] HiddenLayer5@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Correct. Decolonization requires the destruction of Western governments as we see them now. Note that this is entirely different from destruction of the people, it absolutely does not entail eye for an eye, kill all whites shit like anticommunists/antidecolonizers keep strawmanning about, that would not be decolonization but reverse colonization/revenge, but the current socioeconomic structures and status quo need to go and societal priorities and paradigms need to be massively shifted, AKA a cultural revolution.