re: #282 Blue Spot Vlamingii Tang

Here we go again. I suppose you are going to say they would be civilized if not for all those nasty foreigners that keep invading over the past thousand years or so./

Nope.

Name a country that hasn’t faced that in their history.

Er, Japan, for example. And a lot of places got invaded by people who then improved the conditions there. As you probably know. But even taking your point: you’re talking about fucking history. it’s not the people who are alive there now’s fault that the history of the country turned out the way it did.

Their problem is that they don’t have a national identity and the closest they have come to a leadership that would impose that recently is the Taliban, a primitive and degenerate theocracy with no interest in joining the 21st century.

True. So why do you get jollies out of saying that they’re primitive and that they could be wealthy? They can’t be wealthy. It’s not an option. Pretending it is is stupid as shit.