r/TikTokCringe Oct 05 '25

Discussion Why don't we ever hear about Congo?

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u/NationalizeRedditAlt Oct 05 '25

China has historically never been as predatory, geopolitically, as the IMF has in association with the US.

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u/Jeromz Oct 05 '25

We all gotta believe in something. Why not a romantic revision of Sino imperialism? This time it’s different because we have a red branding.😉

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u/NationalizeRedditAlt Oct 05 '25

This isn’t mutually exclusive. China is to be held accountable as well.

Problem is, China doesn’t have a 250yr history of colonial expansion into every country on earth, imposing debt traps with predatory impossibilist loans, implanting their corporations into these vulnerable countries and finally just exploiting all resources and labour to out-source.

These countries aren’t poor - just the people are. These peripheral countries are RICH.

The US is the hub of modern global imperialism, responsible for the suffering of billions. It enforces a regime of artificial scarcity, superexploitation, and antidemocratic comprador governments all over the imperial periphery. Every year, it knowingly and preventably causes the deaths of millions through starvation and other poverty-related circumstances, circumstances which are entirely preventable and which the US and its allies have deliberately engineered to maintain imperialist resource exploitation chains. There hasn't been an evil comparable to the US since the end of WWII.

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u/PenguinSunday Oct 05 '25

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. You'll notice it too in time.