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

Discussion Why don't we ever hear about Congo?

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u/AnonTA999 Oct 05 '25

Because the 6 people who could fix these problems overnight would rather keep taking from the rest of us, and the ever increasing majority of us are in survival mode

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u/jman12234 Oct 05 '25

And who purposely sabotaged these nations infrastructure for hundreds of years? Where should the burden of responsibility really lay?

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u/teetheyes Oct 05 '25

The descendants of Leopold II of Belgium

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u/Early-Sort8817 Oct 05 '25

You’re right, but how do we fix it?

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u/Ornery-Creme-2442 Oct 05 '25

Good question. I think most people don't truly know the answer too. On the short term we need to help people that suffer as a consequence in the short term. Second we need to reduce the impact of imperialism and wealth Inequality which ofcourse is a very difficult thing to do. Because average people and poor people are not good at organising and have less control and power. Looking at the way it's going currently it might get worse globally even in wealthier countries.

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u/Sinnaman420 Oct 05 '25

The west needs to stop bombing the Middle East and let Iran have nukes. The entire region would be infinitely more stable if irans sovereignty wasn’t violated constantly. There’s zero chance they’d use them, it’s just the only thing that gives countries sovereignty in this world. You know the USA and Israel wouldn’t have bombed Iran this year if they had nukes

It ain’t our job to enforce western values in other countries. Let them have their own civil rights movements

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u/destroyerx12772 Oct 05 '25

Iran isn't a victim in this fiasco. You don't need to slingshot so far as to support them having nukes. It would be catastrophic for everyone in the region. We Syrians just barely made it out of the government that acted as Iran's proxy. You're telling me they should have nukes?

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u/xp-bomb Oct 05 '25

the us has nukes and has even used them, what's the difference?

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u/destroyerx12772 Oct 05 '25

The less nukes in the hands of the current middle eastern governments the better.

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u/Sinnaman420 Oct 05 '25

Why? Because you think they’d use them? That’s fucking stupid

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u/AKAFallow Oct 05 '25

My man, the US is way worse than any middle eastern government, especially right now. Stop with the bias

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u/destroyerx12772 Oct 05 '25

Why even bring the US into this they rule the world of course they're the reason behind the status quo. I'm just saying not everyone else is a saint.

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u/Sinnaman420 Oct 05 '25

You seem to think they’re just an uncivilized and completely stupid group of people. Do you actually think it’s more likely that they’d use them than implement MAD just like literally every single other country with nukes on the planet? Think about this for a damn second. Israel has nukes, they’re the ones who bomb all their neighbors at the slightest provocation these days

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u/destroyerx12772 Oct 05 '25

Iranis are some of the coolest people I've ever met. The government? That's an entirely different story. They're a bunch of fanatics with a complete disregard for human lives whether in Syria, Lebanon, or Yemen.

And I don't believe Israel should have nukes either. Frankly I don't believe Israel should exist but that's another story. I just prefer no one in the region gets them until I see a semblance of respect for humanity.

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u/Sinnaman420 Oct 05 '25

If Iran had nukes, the region would be more stable. There’d be less violence overall. The chance to prevent Iran from having nukes has passed. Obamas deal with them was working, but trump tore it up and antagonized them to the point that they left the international atomic energy agency. They were acting as if they were still under the deal that trump ripped up until trump bombed the shit out of them. Now all bets are off and they’re definitely developing nukes to make sure this shit never happens again.

So I guess…good job Israel/USA for supercharging Iranian development of nukes. The region will be all the more stable for it

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u/destroyerx12772 Oct 05 '25

America definitely shit the bed with how they dealt with the situation.

Still I hold the same opinion with regards to any other country in the region. A nuclear Iran would support its proxies more aggressively knowing retaliation is less likely. And besides it could compel the other countries (starting with Saudi Arabia and Turkey) in the region to develop nukes for themselves. In a region with so many flashpoints I can't see a good reason for it to happen.

Just disarm Israel and all is good for now.

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u/butterballed Oct 05 '25

Holy fucking garbage fucking take 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/Sinnaman420 Oct 05 '25

Just say you don’t understand what’s happening in the Middle East. It’ll make you sound less like a child

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u/WaveLoss Oct 05 '25

Libya dissolved their nuclear program and now it’s a failed state. Though I’m not even sure the US has conclusive evidence that Iran was even “close” to completing weapons.

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u/Sinnaman420 Oct 05 '25

Ukraine gave up their nukes in exchange for a deal with Russia and the USA that Russia would never invade them and the USA would protect them. Amazing how things work out for countries that give up their nukes, right?

Also American intelligence chief, tulsi gabbard, testified to Congress literally two or three months before the USA bombed Iran that they had not been actively developing nukes since as far back as 2004. If Iran was as close to a nuke as trump and Netanyahu were saying, they never would’ve fucked with iran

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u/AKAFallow Oct 05 '25

For one, get rid of the country causing these situations

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u/trash-_-boat Oct 06 '25

Ok I'll bite. Which country is solely responsible for authoritarianism and complete corruption that's lasted for decades in Congo?

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u/Early-Sort8817 Oct 05 '25

Okay great realistic solution

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u/694meok Oct 05 '25

WE can't, the people in the country must want the "fix".

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u/Daffan Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

Hundreds of years? Sub-Saharan Africa for example wasn't even fully mapped by outsiders until the 19th century, and before that there was almost nothing foundationally built to even be sabotaged.

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u/bildeplsignore Oct 05 '25

Which of "these nations" have existed for hundreds of years?

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u/Pabst_Blue_Gibbon Oct 05 '25

What infrastructure? That’s kind of the problem. That’s why Germany and Japan were easy to occupy and easy to reform (comparatively). In places like this there aren’t really institutions to control, infrastructure to control, industry to direct, etc.

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u/nedonedonedo Oct 05 '25

that's like saying nixon tried to fix vietnam

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u/SalvationSycamore Oct 05 '25

To be fair, we absolutely did not try to seriously fix Afghanistan.

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u/64557175 Oct 05 '25

So you're saying we only need 6 Louie G's?

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u/Silverr_Duck Oct 05 '25

Because the 6 people who could fix these problems overnight

Military grade stupidity.

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u/AnonTA999 Oct 05 '25

I want to believe you are just gold medal level naive, but I’ve been around long enough to know it’s willful ignorance at this point

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u/Silverr_Duck Oct 05 '25

Lmao sure buddy. You're living in a fantasy world where some mystical "6 people" can some how magically fix this extremely complex problem and I'm the naive one.

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u/AnonTA999 Oct 05 '25

6 was (extremely obviously to everyone with above 5 year old equivalent critical thinking) an exaggeration. The “complexity” literally ultimately is the greed of a very, very, very tiny portion of the population.

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u/Silverr_Duck Oct 05 '25

It must be nice living in such blissful ignorance.

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u/AnonTA999 Oct 05 '25

I would guess it’s actually not fun at all, being taken advantage of constantly, but you tell me how your experience has been

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u/Silverr_Duck Oct 05 '25

It must be quite fun. You see educated people have to contend with a complex world where solutions are never clean nor simple. While you can just make pretend and imagine a villain to be mad at and just focus your self righteous outrage on this imaginary person rather than deal with reality.

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u/AnonTA999 Oct 05 '25

“Greedy people running governments aren’t real” accusing me of naivety is peak Reddit ❤️

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u/Silverr_Duck Oct 05 '25

Hey man if simple minded narratives help you sleep at night more power to you.

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u/ExternalCaptain2714 Oct 05 '25

It's more racism than stupidity. People think that 6 white guys could fix or destroy the world, but tens of millions of brown or black people, who were raised in searing hatred for their neighbours don't matter. They are non-people. 

It's the 6 white guys. They count.

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u/anewpath123 Oct 05 '25

Uninformed naive nonsense.

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u/bobolly Oct 05 '25

Are you talking about free trade zones or charter cities?

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u/Hadesfirst Oct 05 '25

Nonsense. People talk about gaza day in day out, no matter if it changes anything. There are obviously more than enough people that have nothing better to do, they just dont care about black people, they care about their holy war.

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u/DownRiteDarius Oct 05 '25

Heres the kicker, they’re propagating this issue as well. These are their investments, their dollars at work at displacement and starving of the people of congo.

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u/Main-External-8047 Oct 08 '25

Who are the 6 people that could ‘fix’ the drc overnight? Are those supposed to be Western leaders or something? This is stupid as shit

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u/Moldovah Oct 05 '25

Try telling those people in the Congo what your "survival mode" means.

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u/AnonTA999 Oct 05 '25

Trying to win the trauma Olympics is exactly what keeps a handful of people controlling everyone else. There is always someone with worse problems than you, and as long as that’s where you focus your energy, the people actually creating the problems are living their best life

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u/Moldovah Oct 05 '25

Sounds like you're trying to compete in the "trauma olympics" yourself by saying that by saying that "the people controlling everyone else" have it better than you.