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Reply #15 - Feb 17^th, 2026 at 11:38am

Laugh till you cry wrote on Oct 14^th, 2024 at 1:36pm:

Caribbean nations are calling for the UK to pay $240 billion and much more in slavery reparations.

"Estimates for the likely reparations bill for British involvement in slavery in 14 countries range from £ 206 billion to £ 19 trillion."

Is this just the start of lawfare against past colonial empires?

India has already lodged claims against the UK for reparations for its crimes in India.

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Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations
Reply #17 - Feb 17^th, 2026 at 12:30pm

Laugh till you cry wrote on Oct 14^th, 2024 at 1:36pm:

Caribbean nations are calling for the UK to pay $240 billion and much more in slavery reparations.

"Estimates for the likely reparations bill for British involvement in slavery in 14 countries range from £ 206 billion to £ 19 trillion."

Is this just the start of lawfare against past colonial empires?

No, it's a claim for financial support from rich nations, in a dysfunctional IMF-led system.

We need to fix that dysfunctional system.

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Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations
Reply #18 - Feb 17^th, 2026 at 12:35pm

Cuba is poor because it is communist. The best thing we can do for them is get rid of communism, rather than trying to prop it up. Like the CCP embracing capitalism. They could even call it "communism with cuban characteristics" or some similar gobbledegook.

Probably better if they don't follow the CCP's lead of supressing wages to keep the peasants hungry.

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Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations
Reply #19 - Feb 17^th, 2026 at 1:01pm

freediver wrote on Feb 17^th, 2026 at 12:35pm:

Cuba is poor because it is communist.

Excellent so far: a statement, not a question.

But "communist" in your vocabulary apparently means Stalinism or Maoism - which informed Cuba's Castro revolution; whereas in my vocabulary it CAN mean "common prosperity"....

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The best thing we can do for them is get rid of communism, rather than trying to prop it up.

....provided the replacement is a governement which can implement the general welfare...but even Trump can't achieve this in the US.

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Like the CCP embracing capitalism. They could even call it "communism with cuban characteristics" or some similar gobbledegook.

Well - provided the CCP achieves common prosperity under "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", lately reaffirmed by Xi as achieving a "rejuvinated, beautiful, green and prosperous China" by 2049, the centenary of the "Marxist" revolution - all is well.

In contrast, Trump is abandoning Green in favour of filthy fossils. in the land of the "brave and the free"....

Congrats for not asking a silly question, but ....as you can see... you will have to think for yourself to reply to my various assertions, without relying on blind ideology and reverting to asking silly questions....

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Reply #20 - Feb 17^th, 2026 at 1:22pm

thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 17^th, 2026 at 1:01pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 17^th, 2026 at 12:35pm:

Cuba is poor because it is communist.

Excellent so far: a statement, not a question.

But "communist" in your vocabulary apparently means Stalinism or Maoism - which informed Cuba's Castro revolution; whereas in my vocabulary it CAN mean "common prosperity"....

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The best thing we can do for them is get rid of communism, rather than trying to prop it up.

....provided the replacement is a governement which can implement the general welfare...but even Trump can't achieve this in the US.

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Like the CCP embracing capitalism. They could even call it "communism with cuban characteristics" or some similar gobbledegook.

Well - provided the CCP achieves common prosperity under "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", lately reaffirmed by Xi as achieving a "rejuvinated, beautiful, green and prosperous China" by 2049, the centenary of the "Marxist" revolution - all is well.

In contrast, Trump is abandoning Green in favour of filthy fossils. in the land of the "brave and the free"....

Congrats for not asking a silly question, but ....as you can see... you will have to think for yourself to reply to my various assertions, without relying on blind ideology and reverting to asking silly questions....

If not freely then how would Australians choose a government to deliver common prosperity?

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Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations
Reply #21 - Feb 17^th, 2026 at 1:31pm

thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 17^th, 2026 at 1:01pm:

Well - provided the CCP achieves common prosperity under "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", lately reaffirmed by Xi as achieving a "rejuvinated, beautiful, green and prosperous China" by 2049, the centenary of the "Marxist" revolution - all is well.

The qualifiers begin. Wink

And still more coal plants greening China.

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Re: Calls for UK to pay billions slavery reparations
Reply #22 - Feb 17^th, 2026 at 1:56pm

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But "communist" in your vocabulary apparently means Stalinism or Maoism - which informed Cuba's Castro revolution; whereas in my vocabulary it CAN mean "common prosperity"....

Which in turn can mean anything at all - whatever the current whim of the CCP is. Even if it means deliberately supressing wages to keep the peasants hungry.

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Reply #23 - Feb 17^th, 2026 at 4:51pm

freediver wrote on Feb 17^th, 2026 at 12:11pm:

Shouldn't it be Africa suing the Caribbean nations? Seeing as they were the nations largely built on African slavery?

And shouldn't black Americans condemn West Africans for selling them off in the first place?
Seems the Media narrative is very Anti American.

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