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asim ◴[] No.45788244[source]
Tens of billions spent on AI data centers. But people still starve across the planet. Amazing.
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anon291 ◴[] No.45788376[source]
People in other countries starve because the people in charge of them are evil not because the people with resources lack benevolence. If you've ever tried to do charity in a foreign country with a foreign culture and language you would be aware of the issues. No amount of outside money in the world could fix these problems. In fact they will make it worse. People need to grow up.

In the United States, starvation doesn't exist so we've expanded the definition to include more people because we really care to feed people. If you've been to countries where actual starvation is a possibility, you'd understand. So tired of this self hating unaware self flagellation.

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bombcar ◴[] No.45788392[source]
This is seen in that starvation is effectively solved in the USa (and now runs the other direction; the poor in the US often tend toward obesity instead of starvation).

The “solution” to countries with starvation today is likely massive full-scale invasion and domination; something the modern world doesn’t have an appetite for.

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1. anon291 ◴[] No.45788418[source]
Yeah America has no ability to colonize other countries. We are not unified enough as a culture to do that. Look at the debacle of Afghanistan.

Like right now there is starvation in Nigeria because Islamofascists from the north are hunting Christians in the south. Exactly how will any amount of American money convince religious zealots to stop being zealots? If anything, a large influx of money from infidels will just make the clerics claim that their victims are foreign operatives. There is nothing we can do other than pray or stage a full scale military invasion. At that point we can either choose to fully administer the place (unsustainable) or we would have to destroy the apparatus that made the situation possible, which is going to look a helluva lot like a genocide. An impossible situation and only one of many across the globe.

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2. mmooss ◴[] No.45796248[source]
> there is starvation in Nigeria because Islamofascists from the north are hunting Christians in the south

Can you provide some evidence that that's a cause of hunger problems in Nigeria? It's such a politicized claim onw, it's

> There is nothing we can do other than pray or stage a full scale military invasion.

Warfare doesn't solve any problems, as anyone who knows its history or experiences it will express. It's the worst problem for humanity.

Are you really claiming that problems aren't otherwise solved? It's absurd. Your plan is almost never done and the correlation, between peace (and the outlawing of war) the growth of freedom and prosperity - including in West Africa - is the opposite.