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mrklixx--it'd be interesting maybe to see how that could happen in a 2-dimensional space.
what i meant by that followed from reading through the thread as a whole and noting the number of folk who were advocating just going in guns blazing so those evil pirates don't disrupt the flows of commodities. what i saw as ugly in it was that this position is an exact repetition of a colonial view of africans---who cares about what colonialism has done--that's your problem--just keep the raw materials coming or we'll fuck you up. you had the same basic attitude animating those delightful chaps from belgium who thought it meet to introduce so many people in the congo to the delights of rubber harvesting. it kinda boggles the mind.
on not knowing--generally it's not understood as being a good thing to not know. i dont have a particular problem with it when the situation as i understand it admits of no obvious response. but thanks for noticing.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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