They’re certainly colluding to screw workers and consumers as much as possible. It benefits them to work together against the working class.

Today I learned that IBM is still a major thing

It’s corporate-speak that means nothing. The same company “focused on it’s core business” today will buy something unrelated sometime later and say it’s “poised for growth in a growing market”.

I think the poll question was about support of the new government’s policies. I can’t answer the second question as I have no idea how this poll was done.

The world is way more exploitative than you seem to recognize. I suggest researching unequal exchange.

“Beyond this, outright corruption has also played a part in maintaining the postcolonial order. Françafrique has comprised countries notorious for human rights violations, including Niger. Subservient puppet leaders ignored democratic progress in return for massive aid programmes. Bribes have been paid via arms deals and other help with security, and – of course – in hard cash that has been laundered.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/05/niger-crisis-france-empire-africa-coup-colony

It seems to me that neither side deserves support but the west deserves less. The people of the country seem to support to coup by a wide margin.

The difference is that the west outsourced the war to the Africans. It’s probably costs more than direct intervention but they get a compliant country that they can use for profits and whatever else, and none of the risk to human life. I wouldn’t call that progress, just neocolonialism

This is my exact scenario and thinking

Only if a search sends me there and other links aren’t giving me what I need

At least Bojack got paid

Not at all. I believe that humans do best when eating meat and that animals can be raised and slaughtered humanely without harming the environment. The problem is that it isn’t profitable

I need someone smarter than me to come up with all the ways this could go wrong. It sounds cool to me but I don’t know anything

TMW you realize there’s no downside to joining multiple communities for the same topic, even if they have the same name.