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Minneapolis, MN Katılım Kasım 2021
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Maintainnin@maintainnin·
Chronology of Local Coinage Production in the Horn of Africa. • Aksumite Empire: Coinage was minted from around 270 to 620 AD—a span of roughly 350 years. • Sultanate of Mogadishu: Coinage was minted from approximately 1300 to 1700 AD—a span of 400 years. • Awdal Sultanate (Bar Sa'ad Din): Coinage production likely coincided with the relocation of its capital to Harar in 1520—if not shortly after—and lasted until 1647, after which Harar broke off and formed the Emirate of Harar. • Emirate of Harar: Coinage continued to be minted from 1647 to 1887, a period of 240 years.
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Rent control is just thinly veiled communism. Idk how it's not been ruled unconstitutional already. It's a blatant violation of property rights and is tantamount to theft. Most of its support is propelled by economic illiteracy and pent up malice toward property owners. It's a general attack on free markets and the pursuit of profit, all to accommodate the unjustified entitlement renters have toward other people's assets.
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban

There's a case slowly working its way through federal courts in NYC that has the potential to become a national case. The plaintiffs are challenging the constitutionality of NY's rent control and stabilization laws. And they managed to land a judge appointed by Trump...

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All sorts of weird discourse around how little girls dress at a school where the student body is overwhelmingly Somali. The base assumption is always that the hijab must be forced/compulsory when the simpler explanation is that it's just a case of social conformity. Humans are social creatures who instinctively want to conform to the dress codes and norms of their surrounding community and environment. When a girl sees her mother, aunts, and classmates wearing the hijab she will naturally feel an inclination or desire towards wearing it as well which is normal. Being surrounded in an environment where the hijab is ubiquitous is actually the most organic way to socialize religious observance rather than starting to wear it abruptly at 15 years old. This normalization is probably why Somalis are disproportionately observant when it comes to the hijab compared to other Muslim communities in the West.
winnie (save 🇸🇩, free 🇵🇸)@winnie4prez

i hate to offend my favourite people (somalis) but you guys have GOT to stop putting your 3-year olds in a headscaf/hijab, for God's sake

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The Somali region of Kenya will benefit in that new pipelines and storage depots would be built along the Northeastern corridor so that refined fuel can be transported to Ethiopia and South Sudan. Lamu is also the closest port to Garissa which is the largest Somali city in Kenya. It's also not a zero sum game for Somalia either. The Increased local refining capacity in Kenya would lower fuel and energy prices across the region purely due to reduced transportation costs, particularly for Somalia which currently relies on refined diesel as the primary source of energy for its electricity grid. We need to get rid of this poverty scarcity mindset where one country benefitting means another has to lose. Some things are a win-win.
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history@history6445031·
@maintainnin @maintainnin could you explain how? I understand for kenya but for somalia? isnt somalia building its own refinery in mogadishu.
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Maintainnin@maintainnin·
Lowkey one of the dumbest decisions I've seen a country make. Imagine defiantly buying a Russian missile defense system while you had F-35s undergoing pre-delivery testing. Now you have a single missile battery you can't use, undelivered fighter jets, billions in lost revenue for your local defense contractors, and nearly 10 years later you're still begging to be re-entered into the program. At the very least, they should have waited until they received a few F-35s before buying the missile system.
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The Associated Press@AP

President Trump said the U.S. will lift sanctions on Turkey that were issued after Ankara purchased a Russian missile defense system that led to the country being kicked out of the F-35 fighter jet program. apnews.com/article/nato-d…

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Ciyál Xáfád@SooyaalKaabe·
The Horn was an independent centre of agriculture and invented two forms of food production: cereal agriculture based on teff and finger millet and the domestication of ensete (false banana). Arriving Semitic speakers borrowed much of their farming vocabulary from Cushitic.
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Khopesh_Wielder𐤀@Khopesh_Wielder

According to many scholarly sources, the ancient stone structures in Zimbabwe were built by Semitic seafarers, very likely to be the Sabaeans. It also says the Lemba people are paternally descend from South Arabians of Saba/"Sheba" proven by their Semitic male lineages and culture, which remarks it to be highly advanced in metallurgy and stonemasonry, compared to the native Africans in the region. The text confirms what I have been saying for a long time, Semitic ruling elite builds civilization then gets assimilated and produces a hybrid race, in this case being the Lembas.

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"highly advanced metallurgy compared to native Africans in the region." Objectively the opposite is true. Niger-Congo people independently entered the Iron Age, with widespread archeologically confirmed iron smelting sites in West/Central Africa by 900 BC. By the time basic iron smelting became common in Yemen, there were already sites in East Africa where Bantu people were locally producing high-carbon steel. By any technological measure the metallurgy of local Bantus would have been more advanced than anything that could be introduced by South Arabians.
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Khopesh_Wielder𐤀@Khopesh_Wielder

According to many scholarly sources, the ancient stone structures in Zimbabwe were built by Semitic seafarers, very likely to be the Sabaeans. It also says the Lemba people are paternally descend from South Arabians of Saba/"Sheba" proven by their Semitic male lineages and culture, which remarks it to be highly advanced in metallurgy and stonemasonry, compared to the native Africans in the region. The text confirms what I have been saying for a long time, Semitic ruling elite builds civilization then gets assimilated and produces a hybrid race, in this case being the Lembas.

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That wasn't always the status quo though. The Aksumite kingdom was by far the most militarily powerful and economically sophisticated state in the Horn. It's evident when you consider all the elite structures, monumental inscriptions, coins, and military conquests. Probably the closest thing to Rome the region saw. It was only after its dissolution and the shift of the governance base southwards with the ascendance of the Solomonics that such destitution and general backwardness was seen. Can't even consider them the same civilization really.
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GarMadow@GarMadobe·
@maintainnin Lol reminds me of this book. Military and historical significance aside, the highlands honestly feels like a backwater. No major settlements, dung suugo and serfdom. Contrast that with Harar, Mogadishu & Zeila. Ik where I'd wanna live 🧐
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Maintainnin@maintainnin·
Abyssinian consumption of raw meat was a pre-existing culinary tradition, particularly among South Ethiosemites, and had nothing to do with medieval warfare. Otherwise the practice would have been strictly limited to soldiers during their campaigns. There's even a 15th century report by Al-Maqrizi claiming that Dawit I consumed raw meat, although the account is likely embellished: "The Abyssinians eat their meat raw. Indeed, someone who witnessed the Ḥaṭī Dāwūd b. Sayf Arʿad told me that he saw him eating the raw stomach/paunch of a cow, with the remnants of its dung/undigested contents running down his chin. He also saw a man eating a hen while it clucked." The same practice is also mentioned by the Portuguese traveler Francisco Álvares, who visited Abyssinia in the early 16th century: "Besides this their food is raw meat, and they make a sauce for it with cow-dung" "After all the dainties there came a raw breast of beef, and we did not taste it : the Ras of Angote ate some of it, like a person eating cake or other dainties for dessert."
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Blue Paradise 🇸🇴@Blueparadise252

The Abyssinians did not eat camel meat, nor had they developed a preservation method for cooked meat, which forced them to eat their meat raw, as they did not want to alert their enemies with camp fires.

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@GarMadobe The entire coast was Muslim and they were effectively under a maritime trade embargo. Guess they had to get creative lmfao.
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Buna@motalamematska·
The engraving is modern. Additionally, the final period (III) of Bardaale industry at Gogoshiis Qabe, characterized by the introduction of domesticates, dates from c. 1350 BCE and associated with the arrival of Savanna Pastoral Neolithic types into southwestern interriverine Somalia from Kenya.
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HA📚@hornaristocrat

A rock engraving at Buur Heybe appears to depict a dagger with the same distinctive hilt shape still commonly seen on contemporary Somali daggers and short swords. If the dating of this rock art is correct, this handle design may be nearly 5000 years old.

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Maintainnin@maintainnin·
@Awiabdi @Alemnatay Can't remember which Gulf state specifically, maybe Kuwait, went on a denaturalization spree making a bunch of people effectively stateless just because they were a 3rd cousin of someone who criticized the monarchy or something similarly silly.
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Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي@Awiabdi·
I don’t really know them or their situations but I’d take it a little easier on people living in the Khaleej, sis. When they don’t have western passports they basically live in a different reality from you. You really can’t say anything but positive things about these states and governments when you live there or things likely won’t go well for you and, worse yet, your loved ones, to put it mildly. If they’re influencers then that’s their livelihood and while what’s happening is horrible, I don’t think people can fault them for not endangering themselves and their families, as well as their livelihood to… what? Throw some shade at a government for five mins? What will it change? Especially of they don’t have the luxury of just running off to the US or the UK or wherever and are properly entrenched in a place like the UAE with a Sudani passport.
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The way I used to love them so much but they live in Dubai and post all the time about how much they love it there (despite being Sudanis) 👎🏽👎🏽
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@hassandszf @arawelo_chaos It’s not about being liked, but rather not moving like socially maladjusted basement dwellers online. You're not helping your cause or your people's reputation by posting such low brow savage content, this should be obvious to anyone who doesn't have low social iq.
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hassan 🇸🇴@hassandszf·
@maintainnin @arawelo_chaos People have never liked Somalis anyway. This was the case even prior to the “incels”. You need to reconcile with that fact. Fyi attempts to be liked is counterproductive and precisely what started the E-Patriots. Stand down and show dignity or the boys will be back.
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Looked thru this account & literally all the content is unprovoked racial insults & crude featurist comparisons. Flag is obnoxiously posted up in the name, mostly non-Somalis reposting the content, almost certainly an impersonator account meant to get us dragged thru the mud.
🇸🇴@adalitesultan

Insecure west African jareers using a Fulani that looks East African as if we don’t know what the average Nigerian looks like 😭😭😭 quit speaking on looks (if you’re WEST AFRICAN) most hideous creatures in Africa lmfao

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@whyjulyin Its an account that only engages in unprovoked race baiting and absolutely nothing else. Not a single unrelated tweet other than for that single purpose. Flag is also posted their profile so there's no guesswork or ambiguity on who to attack either. You dont find that suspicious?
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