matthew40

Usually, authoritarian regimes indeed love real names policies and hate that anonymous people are able to have a voice. Should probably consult with China or Iran, they have some expertise around this.

"Half a billion dollars of aircraft that flew for about a year. A huge $85 million hotel that never opened, and sits in disrepair. Camouflage uniforms for the Afghan army whose fancy pattern would cost an extra $28 million. A healthcare facility listed as located in the Mediterranean Sea.

These are part of a catalog of "waste, fraud and abuse" complaints made against the United States' reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan -- an effort totaling $145 billion over 20 years -- made by the United States' own inspector general into the war. But the in-depth audits detailing these findings have, for the most part, been taken offline at the request of the State Department, citing security concerns."

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/07/asia/us-afghanistan-spend...

Handing out cash does not solve any problems. Cf. Afghanistan.

You don't just build a modern country or civilization by dropping some helicopter-dollars, that's not how it works. Unless you tell me you want to send doctors, engineers, school teachers, etc, there, to "civilize" them, but i thought you were against colonization ?

Then you should be happy because Rwanda will do exactly what you said the French should have done.

What made the blood of that area has been gradually removed and killed by having musical venues closed (Denmark street for instance) to make room for Starbucks and Primarks, so it is no surprise that sooner or later, there would be a bill to pay, which is exactly this: a soul-less street.

I see this positively. Musk cannot save what the Internet is becoming, but he may be able to prevent Twitter from being completely captured by leftists fascists.