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India Builds Wall to Hide Slum During Trump Visit (Original Post)
Bayard
Feb 2020
OP
No need for disguise. Trump already thinks India is "a shithole country".
Midnight Writer
Feb 2020
#3
How 'bout they give the money to the folks in that slum to better care for themselves and their homes.
For tRump? Wow.
malaise
(268,698 posts)2. Well this is even worse than inviting them to visit the country
Midnight Writer
(21,712 posts)3. No need for disguise. Trump already thinks India is "a shithole country".
Trump likes to see poor people. Poor desperate people are easier to exploit.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)4. Exactly.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,254 posts)5. No, no, no! You wait 'til he arrives and build the wall around him!
marked50
(1,364 posts)6. The historical context is a bit twisted but
there were villages in Russia constructed specifically for when Catherine the Great-Empress of Russia- in the 1700's toured the area that were special constructions to show how great the conditions the peasants were living in. Complete falsehoods . i think they were called "Potemkin Villages".
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)7. Why, trump is a slum lord!
Bayard
(22,005 posts)8. I'm thinking the wall should be built,
So the Indian people don't have to look at the Orange Menace.
ck4829
(35,038 posts)9. Why not make it not a slum?