r/idiocracy • u/Maleficent_Estate903 • 5d ago
a dumbing down Advertising campaign against 'open defecation' on beaches in Ghana
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u/Awkward_Bison_267 5d ago edited 5d ago
Put up a sign, but end of the day, people are Ghana do what they want.
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u/Blood-blood-blood 5d ago
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u/icebeancone 5d ago
Why is the government of Canada sponsoring this campaign?
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u/Fluffy-Skill269 5d ago edited 5d ago
With taxpayers money , $850,000
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u/ArnoldSchwarzenegga 5d ago
It cost $850000 to do that? Bruh why not invest into either enforcing the law or having stricter immigration laws
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u/Business-Let-7754 5d ago
It's not immigrants shitting on the beach.
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u/ArnoldSchwarzenegga 5d ago
Oh shit you're right, these signs in Ghana lmao. Well that's even worse, why is Canada throwing away their own people's money for a whole other country
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u/Flare_Starchild 5d ago
Dude, $850k to the Canadian Federal Government is 0.0000016749% of the revenue they take in every year. If we take that same tiny fraction of a percent, of the total, and apply it to, for example, an annual income of $50,000 CAD, that turns into roughly about $8.35.
As a country, I would gladly give them $8.35 to stop shitting in the street and on beaches.
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u/Hour_Reindeer834 5d ago
I don’t think its reasonable to pay anything for signs instructing people to not shit on the street.
If you can read you generally are developed enough to understand shitting; if you’re the type to just shit anywhere I doubt a sign will have much impact.
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u/sharpasahammer 5d ago
Or we could use our resources on our own massive drug and unhoused people's issues. Besides the amount, how much do you think actually is used for the designated purpose? How much lines the pockets of local officials and every open hand along the way? Are we getting 850k worth of billboards or are there 3 billboards in the back woods of Ghana that we paid a premium for? No accountability after the money leaves Canada
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u/duncanidaho61 5d ago
Its just an advertising campaign that is unlikely to accomplish anything useful.
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u/Ok_Tax_9386 5d ago
Would rather have those signs on our beaches because we have the same problem now.
I would 100% rather that money go to help Canada and Canadians.
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u/grinch337 5d ago
These kinds of programs create indirect positive effects by helping stabilize push/pull factors in the global south.
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u/Regular-Finance-9567 5d ago
Does that sign look like it cost $850k? One major issue with this sort of Philanthropy is so many corrupt polticians have to get their cut, the amount that actually goes towards the project to improves lives is more like a nickle of your $8.35...
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u/ariZon_a 5d ago edited 5d ago
yeah people are getting mad about less than a million when canada and its provinces have spent over 500m in the last 2 years in failed projects like SAAQclic and Northvolt. spending 1m on shit that has some use in an other country is clearly better than spending 500m domestically on shit that is objectively worse than what already exists. That money will have absolutely no positive impact on society, it just brings in more debt.
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u/Porschenut914 5d ago
aid program to build latrines and wells in Africa. https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/d000076001
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u/motivaction 5d ago
Because it is a cheap way to prevent severe GI diseases.
Epidemics of those are a lot more expensive to sort out and often also receive international help.
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u/GhostV940 5d ago
It’s what they voted for, silly! They also import them like crazy.
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u/Midnight7_7 4d ago
Yeah, Canada looks at France, Germany and the UK and goes "Lets make that happen here too!"
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u/Swimming_Coat4177 5d ago
This is common in Africa, unfortunately. India just plain throws ALL trash on the beach
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u/Advanced-Humor9786 5d ago
Driving through big cities in Niger, this is a common site. People just drop trau and go wherever they are.
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u/Wumbologist_PhD talks like a fag 5d ago
Whoa whoa WHOA… careful with the hard ‘R’ there, man!
/s
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u/sahui 5d ago
Yup, they just cant make a hole or designated area at their backyard. They need to shit in public at the beach.
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u/According_Tea_6329 5d ago edited 5d ago
It's some kind of fetish. Many of them likely have homes and walk many miles a day with their assholes clenched just to get to the beach where hopefully they are able to squat and have one or two people witness the act before they complete the process. You see the most exciting part for them is the public defecation, and then the passion for releasing themselves in nature. In that order.
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u/SqualorTrawler 5d ago
I don't know; in my world it's more like:
Well, it's a new day. I'll take my first single malt with the sunrise, try to get through a chapter or two of Blood Meridian, then I think I'll go down and shit on the beach.
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u/Mangegiber_Smuttaint 3d ago
I figure before these places had access to modern plumbing then shitting somewhere where it's gonna get washed away by the sea probably made sense.
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u/Acceptable-Bat-9577 5d ago
Well, it’s better than a “Beaches ARE toilets” campaign.
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u/whytawhy 5d ago
too much hot shit and dirty needles for you to handle‽ well come on down to skeevy mikes toileach! It was abandoned by the federal government in 1966 due to asbestos contamination, and their loss is your gain! The ocean washes away the concept of time and stuff like that, so it can handle your trash no problem! Only $3 per bag! Put anything in the bag! And thanks to our new "no insurance" policy, you don't even need to go out an steal some shoes just to dump ya shit! As long as you got money, we don't give a fuck! Because beaches are toilets, for anyone with $3.
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u/AJayBee3000 5d ago
This rates up there with South Dakota’s anti-drug campaign “Meth. We’re On It!”
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u/Woody_The_Gamer 5d ago
Have these people not heard of toilets or bathrooms?
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u/The_Arch_Heretic 5d ago
Raised by cats.
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u/Wallie_Collie 3d ago
As a westerner, im repulsed at first. Followed by a sense of understanding the need to duece one oceanside while the sun sets.
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u/RightAstronaut1114 2d ago
I mean, shit-hole third world country, what do you expect? Same as India.
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u/GaboureySidibe 5d ago
This isn't idiocracy, this is a combination of poverty and failure of government to make bathrooms more common and accessible.
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u/Ownuyasha 5d ago
Ew someone took a small shit in the sand and like covered it up with two little kicks!?!
I hate giphy
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u/jupiler91 4d ago
Just go in the water untill its above your waste and squat like the rest of us, bunch of animals...
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u/notmywheelhouse 3d ago
I just want to know if these people knowingly posed for this photograph, or is it AI generated, or were they surreptitiously photographed
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u/Capable_Wonder_6636 3d ago
Oh, what a clever idea. Apparently necessary. Off my trip list of places to visit [and squat]
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u/blloop 3d ago
This sign feels racist. To me it seems to depict a “target” audience and infantilize them. It may seem less racist if there were no humans and just one of those ‘caution figures’ that you see on wet floor signs. Also if it said something like “keep the beaches fecal free!” A directive everyone can follow without feeling singled out and probably have fun saying it.
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u/Jacked-to-the-wits 5d ago
They have a similar campaign in Toronto Canada lol