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How One Powerful Family Destroyed A Country

submitted by bobknight33

2 years 4 months 1 week ago

History
, Sri Lanka

3 Comments

Wow.
Sounds incredibly similar the Trump family.
Nepotism to the extreme, massive borrowing, huge financial ties to Russia and China, huge corruption and theft problems at the top, completely ignoring the plight of the quickly growing poor populace, relying on questionable at best future earnings to repay massive overspending wasted on useless wasteful projects, living lavish lifestyles as the country dwindles, printing money to pay for internal projects, causing massive inflation, refusing to leave office, ….

This could be America if Trump gets a second term. Good find, Bob.

jokingly says...

am experimenting w/leaving 'doom scrolling', for the reason that this cartoon explains...

https://medium.com/inside-the-news-media/my-desire-to-be-well-informed-is-currently-at-odds-with-my-desire-to-remain-sane-535531821092

...(check out the date) so do take days off. Try to stretch it out as long as possible, but lifelong habits are hard to break.

also, notice am only talking about the 'ad' at the end of video (dumbphone revolution). there was a lot packed into the 'whys' of Sir Lanka's downfall - some just dumb luck - some at the surface and much hidden (how much corruption was due to the 'family business'? yeah. bet that too). now add this to the possibilities...

https://nexttravelsrilanka.com/natural-disasters-in-sri-lanka/

thanks bob. a break from our worries but still, am worried about Nazis taking over the US.

Moving this video to bobknight33's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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