No. Take care of yourselves. The more you guys give, the more our fucks waste. I'm tired of people fleecing you guys while blaming you for everything.
Fix your shit first, let us fix our shit first. When everyone's in a good place, we can kick a few drinks back and work on trade.
Personally, I see this getting worse. But it had to happen. The food problem is nothing more than a manufactured crisis; the sooner people get together and work, the sooner we can become self-sufficient in the food sector.
About the petrol crisis: there's no getting around this, it'll be hell. But this is where the self-sufficiency in food comes in:
We spend millions on importing food we have been growing for generations in our own country.
Why?
Because for every ship that docks at our harbors: the politburo gets a commission. This gives them incentive to import essential goods (food) from abroad and to stifle local production. Which is exactly what happened with the organic fertilizer bullshit.
We paid China 4 mil USD for a shipment of organic fertilizer from Qungdao. Our scientists refused to pass it because it contained microbes, industrial waste (metal, asbestos), and human waste.
What did our government do? Send it back. China in response blacklisted one of our state-banks. Our government proceeded to grovel and bring the tanker back, paying 4 mil. This happened back and forth until it went out of the news cycle.
So back to the thing about self-sufficiency and oil. We don't make our own petrol, so we damn well need to import it.
If we become self-sufficient, we won't need to send money for imports of food. And as a result we can spend that on oil instead.
Short term, I'm not optimistic. Long term, I'm optimistic.
Whatever it is. It's Elohim's will.
If they don't scoot off to their hidey-holes they will be ripped apart. Along with the army.
I gotchu fam.
We are. The oil situation is dire. But the food situation will fix itself when people decide to. We weren't called "The Granary of the east" for nothing.
No we don't. We rely on the middle-east instead. Yes, they tried to do the Ukraine spin, but we shut them up pretty quiclky.
Anyone want a compilation of the action?
The reptilian argument kind of annoys me. FWIW, I believe it to be symbolic and not to be literal. I.E. "reptilian hind-brain".
I hate to crush the lies around you but inherited propaganda is propaganda,
That's fine. Discussions are needed.
Lions are not native to your land.
They are. But let's say they aren't for the purpose of argument. The Bengali royal family that took over the country from the Veddah's also used lion heraldry.
Only 2 lion teeth ever found from est.. 37,000 years ago. in Sri lanka.
Yes. Leo Sinhaleyeus. Yes, only two teeth. But with the ingrained history of "We are Lions" in every generation this falls apart.
I'm telling you some secret society setup shop at your megalithic crocodile temple and they said "yo we can't let folks know about the reptiles that used to and probably still run this place".
I LOL'd.
Yeah, a lot of crocodiles run this place, they're usually concentrated in the Parliament building in the middle of the Beria Lake, which happens to be surrounded by a moat.
Megalithic reptile feet don't build themselves. You inherit megalithic from previous generations.
Well... I mean, duh. It can't build itself. I don't understand what that means. But okay.
Cute bricks surrounding the megalithic laws is similar to the two types of building techniques you see used at Machu pichu were a following generation inherited the megalithic structures and built onto them via rudimentary methods.
Those bricks also happen to have been used to build gigantic religious Buddhist stupas way before and after the Sigiriya (which is Sinhagiri -> Sinha: "Lion", Giri: "Rock").
This is a theory I've come up with myself. Yet I've seen others theorize it too. Please watch this video. We've been lied too for far too long by people who invented our "histpry"
We inherited lies.
Yes. Ravana was a half-breed. But he's a human-Rakshasa. Rakshasa are just an analogue for very animalistic humans (not literal demons). The thing about his skin being green is metaphorical: green represents evil. Ironically though this is a Hindu thing. In Sinhala mythology none of these characteristics exist. FWIW it's just Indian Hindus painting us in a bad light after they got whooped out an invasion of our country (presumably why they're still angry with us).
I don't discount anything you or this guy say. But at the same time, there's only speculation and a lot of overriding of things that Sinhalese know.
One thing though: the Lion paws being reptilian is plausible. The reptile temple thing is far-fetched, maybe reptilian-motif.
For one, the Naga symbolism is rife because of Buddhism, the religion of the land which the Tamils and Sinhalese both practiced before invasion by the Chola Empire.
The Cobra worship is due to the myth of a huge cobra protecting Buddha from the rain during one of his meditation sessions. It's a homage of thanks, not a worship of reptile rulers.
There's also a tendency for people looking at South Indian ancient stuff through a western lens and pushing in their own interpretation, which frankly annoys us because we have to deal with that from the Indians too.
All in all the information you provided is interesting. Would be happy to get you some more info after this crisis with "Muh Covid" and this financial crisis goes away.
Minority Report incoming...
No wonder PKD was off his rocker...
All good fren. You should be double checking stuff so its fine. Its not doubt its all you know.
If there is one thing I left out.
This govt ran on one promise. And that was to investigate the Easter Attacks that happened. There has been zero progress so far. The current president is ex-MILINT.
Zero progress on an attack on Christians on the most holy days by a person who worked in MILINT that promised to look into the matter if he was elected.
If that doesnt scream Hegelian dialect I dont know what does.
Also concerning India and Sri Lanka. Dont think of us as China and Taiwan or Russia and Ukraine. Think of it like England and US.
India is England, Sri Lanka is US. Yes, they are our big brother. Yes, we get a lot of our culture from them.
But we are completely distinct countries. And TBH, they both annoy and enbarass us a lot.
God Bless.
No offense taken. The post was made because there were other posts about the topic that were basically one line and people speculating without knowing anything. This was to clear things up.
How do you know you're not cheering for the wrong thing?
TBH. Yeah, your idea about looking at different sources is right. And I applaud that.
I support the current government in Sri Lanka unless someone can tell me why I shouldn't.
So did we. Until:
- they started being morons, deflecting any and all blame for anything they did.
- White vanning anyone who even said anything against them.
- Acting like nothing was wrong. Indiscriminately firing at people. Intimidating people with special forces.
- Giving their best buds contracts for PCR and RT tests to be sold at exhorbitant prices.
- Forcing vaccines from which they take a massive cut.
- Suddenly changing the feetilizer type allowed from chemical to organic, then delaying the shippment so that they could make money off the comission from both having to pay for rice (staple food we can grow locally) from other countries and the comission from each dock to harbor. Local farmers cant grow rice, the imports make it impossible for low incmes to feed themselves.
- Taking loans out for creation of the Nelum Kuluna, a useless tower that cost millions and failed to bring in any tourists.
- Paying for the creation of a new airport in an area where landing was sub-optimal, also costing millions
- Paying for infrastructure projects done by foreign companies that Sri Lankan companies could have done for a fraction of the cost.
I could go on...
Rajapaksa ended a 30-year civil war in Sri Lanka.
He did. He was loved for that. But he turned around and imprisoned the Field Marshall that led the war. Then continues to use this as clout to bring in his whole family that proceeds to use their nepotism for personal gain. Nirupama Rajapaksha has billions to her name stolen from taxpayers.
The man could have gone down as one of the best presidents in the country but decided to be a moron.
Sometimes people protesting about economic problems are not actually protesting because of economic problems.
I don't understand what youre trying to say here.
The president shut down the drug trade in Sri Lanka, that's another reason why people don't like him.
The drug trade has gotten worse under him. The raids are only for show. Rajapakshas have taken over the trade. During Covid we gave away multiple bags of food to people we thought were destitute, onlyo find out that these were drug addicts selling the very bags we gave them for heroin. They sometimes use their kids for more sympathy. In the end we started going to houses instead of giving food bags to people so we could be sure that they werent addicts.
My guess is this is the Tamil Tigers stirring this up.
Vinayagamoorthi Muralidharan was a top person in the LTTE. Guess whose party he joine when the war ended? Yes, none other than our MR-led SLFP. Recently Rajapakshas have been working closely with the TNA. And Rajapaksha assets in Malaysia are taken care of by KP.
The LTTE has no chance of ever starting in this country again.
There has always been talk of India annexing Sri Lanka, and it wouldn't surprise me if India was supporting the rebels to promote a cooperative Tamil faction in Sri Lanka.
I wouldn't be so sure about the Tamil faction thing, nor abo India actively working to annex us. Do I think they will take advantage of it? Absolutely. Do I think they will annex us? Nope.
Ultimately Sri Lanka has always depended on India for aid anyway
Our state of development following infependence far surpassed India, its something that India has not been happy about. Singapore looked at us as a role model. The aid was needed after Indian state intelligence took advantage of a racial situation our idiots started and which the upper class Tamils increased. The LTTE was formed trained and created by the Indian RAW specifically as a means of subverting Sri Lankan soverginity. The LTTE was just upper class Tamils making lower class Tamils poke Sinhalese and start a chain of racial events that they could use to start a civil war in which they woukduse lower-class Tamils.
Most Tamils will tell you about the Sinhala-only act. None will ever talk about the absolute hissy fit the ruling class Tamils made when the government tried to make Tamil a state language (Why? The upper-class Tamils knew Sinhala, Tamil, and English. Make Tamil a state language and it evens the playing between low class Tamils and upper class Tamils. Upper class obviouslt dont like to even think of losing their prestige.)
Did the Sinhalese fall for it? Hook line and sinker. We did horrible shit, they did horrible shit. Its a horrible war.
Not that it matters because the rabid dog that the Indians created bit them in the ass when the LTTE assasinated Rajiv Gandhi.
and being part of India would solve problems on both sides.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dV-A9BDd1HY
^ that was what a Sri Lankan soldier was willing to do to the Indian prime-minister. Reconsider your statement.
I'm sorry, but [removed considering you only researched a little] yourself. Sri Lankans would rather die than see themselves be part of the India that has been gleefully destroying it for decades. We're a thorn in their Akhand-Bharat dreams, and they hate us for that.
The part in [this] was just to illustrate how all Sri Lankans would respond to to your statement.
NEVER SUGGEST THIS TO A SRI LANKAN (unless you want to troll them).
This is mostly based on like an hour of reading so tell me if I've got any facts wrong.
A lot. But I did give some answers. Congrats though on doing your own research, it's needed.
However the shitstorm that is our country cant be condensed into an hour of research.
Keep in mind that this thread was made for explaining a former thread made by someone else full of inaccuracies.
Libtards love to call you guys clueless about other countries, pack up on world geopolitics ammo and shut their priveleged asses up.
Thanks. But I'm basically an electronics technician, and never worked a day in news. Nor will I because it tends to be infested either extreeme of liberals or uber-racists (depending on the outlet).
God Bless You Too.
There is one problem though. There are some pro-LGBTQ brainwashed people in the university students, and others that work with westernized entities.
The good thing is that 99% of the country is anti-LGBTQ.
I'd stay away for now. Esp. since we went all altruistic and allowed Ukrainians in by the boatload.
They tried the Russia spin here. The public wasn't having it and roasted them every step of the way till they stopped with the Russia thing.
Sinhalese expats have this thing; they're more the country they went to, less the one they came from.
It's a strange form of "I made it" elitism. Something I've never been able to grasp despite being an expat.
One-upping others in every facet of life (even to your own detriment) is the game here. To them we're just sorry idiots that stay in our home country.
We're plebs for all they care.
(Obviously not all expats, but most).
They're Sri Lankans too, so yes. They're protesting with us.
So are the Christians. So are the Muslims. So are the Bhurgers (Dutch descendents).
I'm Sino (half-Chinese), I'm there too.
The people opposing us are the same. Multi-religious, multi-ethnic. Just working for themselves and using our differences to distract us from the shit they do.
I'm sorry but the lion motif is ingrained into Singhalese people. There is no reptile thing here. The pools are just pools, the crocs came later.
As for the ancient tech. Yes. There are Sinhalese myths that include oxalic acid being used by a lone farmer to create an entire resevoir, myths about ancient flying craft called "Ddandu Monara" (which is probably a overglorified glider), and almost all structures use geopolymers.
As for what's under the water. If you mean the Palk Strait it's just a land bridge with a myth that it was created by the monkey-god Hanuman. True or not, no one can know.
We do have advanced irrigation tech and Damascus steel, so we have that going for us.
This is more or less speculation. But I believe that Mahinda Rajapaksha is a adrenochrome junkie. He was in a pretty bad state, but after a visit to Italy, it's like those problems never existed.
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Aside from this I've been told (not confirmed) that there are several Blue-Beam-esque US installations in the island.
Most low-level soldiers know what's happening but keep shut. I'm told there's also advanced ancient tech in areas of our country that only the military knows about, and there's also tacit agreement between South-Asian nations to keep shut about their own and other's ancient tech until there's a suitable time to expose it.
But it's just rumor, that's all.
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Thanks. Confused about the coffee part; we're known for tea, and unfortunately that's in the shitter as well because of government policies. The government gets a commission on every import that comes to the country, and every ship carrying the import that docks at our harbors.
God Bless.
Thanks. I wouldn't blame any other reporters though. We aren't really that high profile to give that much effort to.
UPDATE 1 (May 10, 2022. 01:48 SLST):
(I can't edit the post for some reason)
Mahinda Rajapaksha, his sons Yoshitha Rajapaksha, Namal Rajapaksha, Rohita Rajapaksha as well as their families have been transferred via Sri Lankan Navy Aviation to the Naval Base at Triconomalee. There is speculation that they will attempt to leave the country via sea from China Bay. Residents ot Trconomale have assembled in protest around the base, the Navy has responded by placing machine guns on the front gate (possibly awaiting orders to fire).
Meanwhile several ministers are preparing to leave the country from Bandaranayake International Airport via a Srilankan Airlines flight from Nigeria.
Here in Sri Lanka, they just repealed the gazette that prevented the non-vaccinated from being in "public-places" (despite not defining what said place was).
Yeah. Fun fact: we were the model country that Singapore decided they wanted to become like. We were well on the way if it weren't for the Civil War. Motorola actually were going to start a factory in the country before the Civil War, which would have accelerated our development. When it began, they packed their bags and left.
Interestingly enough, the Tamil separatists that ended up being the top dogs were funded and trained by the Indian intelligence service - RAW. When the war began, India basically defied Sri Lankan sovereign airspace began assisting the separatists by dropping supplies over the Palk Strait, then brought in their "Peace-Keeping Force". I suppose that their plan was to separate the northern part of the island, annex it into India, and then use that as a forward base toward the rest of the country.
India had to finally pull out when the rabid dog they themselves trained came and bit them in the ass: the Tamil separatists assassinated the Indian Prime Minister.
We ended up having to clean up the mess. Drained our economy, killed all the best people that remained, the rest fled, decades of inter-ethnic strife, and permanent changes in society that led to the shitty state we currently are in.
Note: Sinhalese (the majority) don't get a clean slate, they did messed up shit to the Tamils. India just exacerbated it for their own goals.
Sorry for the off-topic.
Our populace is unarmed. But we are very close to clobbering soldiers. Note that the oil shortage is a manufactured crisis. I've enough instances of nearby stations simply claiming they have no fuel left, only for people to look into the tanks and see that there's enough. They usually give this to their friends and people who pay top dollar.