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Offline Weird Tolkienish Figure

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I was not prepared for this..
« on: Saturday, Jul 11, 2026 12:50 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mickPeJxup8

Not sure if you guys have ever watched these on youtube, i watch the walks through india where it's just as bad.
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« Reply #1 on: Saturday, Jul 11, 2026 12:53 pm »
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« Reply #2 on: Saturday, Jul 11, 2026 03:14 pm »
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How much foreign aid does the US provide to Democratic Republic of the Congo?

About $1.41 billion in aid was obligated for fiscal year (FY) 2024, the most recent fully-reported year. Another $157.9 million has been reported for FY 2025. ...

Democratic Republic of the Congo is considered a low income country, according to the World Bank classification system. There are 29 low income countries that received aid, getting 21.3% of US foreign aid provided to individual countries in FY 2024. Democratic Republic of the Congo ranked #1 among the low income countries in terms of aid received, above #2 Ethiopia ($1.33 billion) and #3 Mozambique ($821 million).
https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-foreign-aid-does-the-us-provide/countries/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/

All that aid is not enough to encourage them to pick up their own trash.
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Re: I was not prepared for this..
« Reply #3 on: Today at 04:34 am »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on Saturday, Jul 11, 2026 12:50 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mickPeJxup8

Not sure if you guys have ever watched these on youtube, i watch the walks through India where it's just as bad.

The guy is a typical American in culture shock ... the Chinese own the Congo. 0.00044 US Dollar is the value of 1 Congolese Franc. The people om the left likely work in the Chinese owned mines.

India is far worse with whole areas set aside in villages where people crap in the middle of the street, dead animal & human bodies float down the Ganges, past people bathing in the river & open-air restaurants, where people are eating ...
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The guy is a typical American in culture shock ... the Chinese own the Congo.

India is far worse with whole areas set aside in villages where people crap in the middle of the street, dead animal & human bodies float down the Ganges, past people bathing in the river & open-air restaurants, where people are eating ...

The Indian videos are unbelievable and apparently it's not just in a few areas that it's like that.
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Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on Today at 04:42 am
The Indian videos are unbelievable and apparently it's not just in a few areas that it's like that.

There was a post on TOS where someone had posted images from their recent trip to India a few years back - what's seen is impossible to unsee.
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« Reply #6 on: Today at 08:45 am »
To be fair, the video reminds me more than a little of footage shot by people driving along the streets of Portland, Oregon.
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« Reply #7 on: Today at 08:52 am »
Quote from: BobfromWB on Today at 05:07 am
There was a post on TOS where someone had posted images from their recent trip to India a few years back - what's seen is impossible to unsee.

Have business relationships/associates with Indians for almost 20 years now...NOT clicking on it!  tipping hat!!
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« Reply #8 on: Today at 11:24 am »
Quote from: mountaineer on Today at 08:45 am
To be fair, the video reminds me more than a little of footage shot by people driving along the streets of Portland, Oregon.
I was thinking of the rail lines through LA where the usual suspects had been breaking into containers and looting them.



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« Reply #9 on: Today at 12:56 pm »
Years ago when I ran Conrail freight trains from Oak Point yard in the South Bronx to Selkirk (sw of Albany), going through the Port Morris connection (connected with Hudson line north) in the Bronx looked a lot like that.

There are videos of the Port Morris connection on Youtube...
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