Prokhorov Jokes: "Perhaps I Should Get Acquainted With Mugabe"

I didn’t say anything to anyone about discussing the Nets…I would be a real hypocrite if I said something like that, seeing how much time I spend on this site, if mostly reading.

I was just thinking that spending so much energy on the injustice of moving an NBA team from NJ to NY is bit odd when one considers how many grosser injustices are occuring around the world around the clock…

…but anyways, I’m just making stuff up and have no idea what I’m talking about…

…you’re right, I over reacted before…but it doesn’t change the fact that many people are in fact living below the poverty line, and this is increasing. In the states more people are living below the poverty line then in countries like Chine, Libya, Croatia, which is absurt because the states is vastly richer proportionately. The people in New Orleans, who were basically left to fend for themselves in the wake of Catrina (in huge contrast to the efforts when wildfires threaten mansions and villas out in southern Cali) didn’t seem to be doing too well from what I saw here on TV.

…But it seems like you don’t care about people living in poverty. You don’t agree that it’s terrible or at all a problem that people live in poverty, you argue that they’re better off than they would be in Russia. Which is probably true. But it doesn’t matter if ten thousand are below the poverty line in the states or in the world or ten million because even ten period should not be ignored, downplayed or tolerated, especially in the age of industry and mass production and our capability as a society to produce much much more than we need.

And what does this comparison with Russia suggest? If you compare Russia to Ethiopea people in Russia would look much better off. In comparison to what’s happening in Gaza for example, or parts of Asia and Africa there is no poverty in the states, or violence for that matter. Does that mean that it’s acceptable or okay that people are living off welfare or whatever or living on the streets?

No one should be living in poverty. That’s the point. And when we have the potential to produce overwhelming quantities of things that no one needs like nuclear weapons and M16s it becomes even harder to fathom, and ignore, the fact that, that the majority of the world is being neglected, and screwed.

…but I don’t know what I’m talking about anyways…Maybe I’ll go watch cnn or fox news to get a clue…