Garibaldee

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Why Biden is going to Angola (responsiblestatecraft.org)
[–] Garibaldee@lemm.ee 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Well here you go, you could have clicked the link in the first paragraph of the article if you were so curious, but nonetheless

https://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/honganamanyawa

As with uncontacted peoples the world over, forced contact has been disastrous for the Hongana Manyawa. Between the 1970s and 1990s, many Hongana Manyawa were forcibly contacted, evicted from the rainforest and taken to new villages by the government and missionaries. This immediately exposed them to terrible outbreaks of diseases to which the Hongana Manyawa had no immunity and which they still refer to as “the plague”. In a two-month period, in one village alone, it is estimated that between 50 and 60 people died, almost one person every day.

The uncontacted Hongana Manyawa have made it clear – time and time again – that they do not want to be contacted, to settle or have outsiders come into their rainforest. They are very much aware of the dangers which forced contact brings. As with the uncontacted Sentinelese people of India, it is little wonder that they have been known to defend their lands by shooting arrows at those who force their way in.

[–] Garibaldee@lemm.ee -5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

You're so smart! I surrender, don't think I'm cut out for the marketplace of ideas!

Maybe just maybe it is bad to be mining resources from uncontacted tribes who could not possibly consent to any of this, no matter how much you want to abstract it and say it's no one's fault for doing it.

[–] Garibaldee@lemm.ee -4 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I categorically disagree, and callous people like you are the reason why something like this is allowed to happen in the first place

 

Obviously "bizarre population pitch" is an innapropriate way to phrase it, but it's this article's title

[–] Garibaldee@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm guessing this is from consumer pressure, until the Switch people definitely bought more physical copies of games and the minority of people got digital versions of DS/Wii-U games, but now so many people are using nintendo online and buying virtual copies people probably would not buy the next console if they had to buy the games they liked again.

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