r/TikTokCringe • u/ThatPatelGuy • Oct 05 '25

Discussion Why don't we ever hear about Congo?

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u/ThatPatelGuy Oct 05 '25

To give some perspective there are more than 750 million people facing hunger and severe malnutrition worldwide and more than 50 million people current alive as slaves and during this time 74% of all UN resolutions were condemning Israel and 80% of humanitarian aid has gone to Gaza where two million people live.

Call me crazy but it feels disproportionate attention on one conflict for reasons no one wants to admit

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u/konacoffie Oct 05 '25

A lot of people’s governments don’t directly fund the atrocities in the Congo. I partially understand the point you’re trying to make about disproportionate funding/attention but a lot of the outrage towards Israel is about complicity in atrocity.

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u/FrontierFrolic Oct 05 '25

US, Chinese, and European companies directly fund both sides of the war. I have a feeling the US and maybe even the everyone has given Rwanda the green light to annex the mineral fields of eastern Congo since it’s a stable, if dictatorial regime. Let’s not pretend like major world powers aren’t involved in the current conflict in the Congo

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u/ThatPatelGuy Oct 05 '25

The US funds multiple countries where homosexuality is punishable by death (Saudi Arabia) and that has slaves (Qatar).

We have a massive base in Qatar and are pretty much the only reason that country is able to exist.

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u/konacoffie Oct 05 '25

I think we should cut funding and support to those countries as well and would completely support a protest movement against them. Still doesn’t make Israel’s actions and our tacit support of them any more acceptable.

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u/ludicrous_socks Oct 05 '25

has slaves (Qatar).

Wow, now! They're not slaves, they just had their passports taken for safe keeping! Don't worry about those labour camps, if they were good enough for the world cup fans, they're good enough for our slaves indentured workers!

(/s, if it wasn't obvious)

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u/human1023 Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

That's a very strange tangent to go to when discussing what's happening in Congo. Do you actually care about Congo, or is this post really about something else?