Comments on: I WAS DREAMIN’ WHEN I WROTE THIS, SO FORGIVE ME IF IT GOES ASTRAY

By: L C L

L C L — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:13:20 +0000

It’s not insightful satire if you still probably don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.

Haiti was and is impoverished by foreign power. Most of the problems that appear of domestic origin are the accumulated interest of the centuries of warfare against the poorest nation in the hemisphere.

It only hints at the 20th century and the role of the US as continual destructor of Haiti’s potential, leading up even to the last few years and the US-backed coups to secure the liquidation to 1st world corporations of what remained of Haiti’s public wealth.

About that history of Haiti…

In 1804 a third of the Haitians were killed in their uprising against exceptionally brutal slavery, where the average imported slave survived only 10 years, and those who displeased their masters were tortured to death.

They became the first abolitionist country in the world, and were punished by an international embargo (led by the US) and the French demand that Haitians themselves should “compensate” French aristocrats for their lost “property.” The money demanded was to 150 million gold francs, about 250% of the total cost the US had just paid France to acquire nearly half the modern US.

By the time of the slave results most of Haiti’s famous forests were gone, leading to the devastating erosion and extreme poverty that bedevils the country today.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100216/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake

This story from AP only hints at the 20th century and the role of the US as continual destructor of Haiti’s potential, leading up even to the last few years and the US-backed coups to secure the liquidation to 1st world corporations of what remained of Haiti’s public wealth.

By: DX

DX — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:25:01 +0000

Cheers, Pinky.

Cripes, I’d be mortified if I had to share web space with Goad the Useless Fuckbag.

By: poo poo

poo poo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:57:26 +0000

tasteless as last article hope to meet you.

By: HorseMouthBoy

HorseMouthBoy — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:28:30 +0000

great post. it was offensive and it was insensitive. good balance.

By: Crowbar

Crowbar — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:05:51 +0000

Take five fucking bucks and give it to some bum on the street with one foot in the grave. Same fucking thing. You could even invite the motherfucker into your crib, feed him soup, give him a shower. Maybe a shave and suit. Then you’re walking down market st a week later and there is your boy with that suit soiled and a rattling Mickey-D’s cup. and you’re all like “For real, bro?”

By: Munnersby

Munnersby — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:02:52 +0000

Goad likes to think he’s so smart that it sets him aside from the human race..

Maybe at the end of a twisted road of myopic logic, his voracious intelligence has convinced itself that it is ‘right’… but what does it cost him?

Its fucked up to seek the outpouring of disgust that he does. It doesnt matter how well-read you are if you let it turn you into a tasteless person.

Who needs to be right all the time, every minute of every conversation?

By: Dipset

Dipset — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:08:58 +0000

Haiti is gone, and w/ it, lots of thin, tall black men in perfect clothes

That’s the real tragedy

By: Taeil

Taeil — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:25:00 +0000

You know what? Ever since since the Goad post, I realized there is something really gross and self defeating about the internet.

By: easily offended Canadian hipster living in Brooklyn

easily offended Canadian hipster living in Brooklyn — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:21:55 +0000

@Come ON

also, I, err and by the way… err, goadfan said ONE OF the stupidest things.

By: easily offended Canadian hipster living in Brooklyn

easily offended Canadian hipster living in Brooklyn — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:20:48 +0000

I don’t use public toilets.