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I’d argue that the first to be anti-capitalist in any real sense was enslaved Africans. “Niggas hating capitalism” originates with black slaves (who were considered as capital, chattel, and commodity themselves) resisting against the triangular trade and the plantation economies.

Claude gets so pissed off with me at entirely appropriate times

I often think about Ivy Wangechi. If I’m being honest that was a turning point for me in my feminism journey. A woman weeks away from finishing med school, hacked in broad daylight. That alone should have been enough to produce a kind of collective action against GBV.

If there are any academics who study body dysmorphia on this site, I'd like to chat with you about this phenomena. Most of these women were pretty before they did this. Why are these women doing this to their faces and bodies???

Exactly. A lot of Western “development economics” was never serious science in Africa; it was pretty much policy propaganda dressed up as expertise. For decades, Bretton Woods institutions financed and rewarded a class of economists whose real function was to rationalise deindustrialisation, fiscal retreat, trade dependency, and the preservation of Africa’s colonial place in the world economy: exporter of raw materials, importer of finished goods, permanently indebted, permanently lectured. That is why they pushed Structural Adjustment Programmes, and when that wreckage became impossible to defend, they rebranded the same anti-transformation logic through the SDGs: poverty management instead of structural change, indicators instead of industry, compassion theatre instead of power, production, and sovereignty. They are angry not because the critique is wrong, but because their intellectual bankruptcy is finally obvious.

6/6 Global governance needs to be redesigned to give Global South countries a voice that truly represents them. Allocation of voting rights through monetary variables is by no means the definition of democracy, and it should be dropped immediately.

genuinely fascinating that we’ve hit a point where the full monetization of the internet and ai bot takeover has led to a majority of people wanting tech minimalism

Again, Western Development Economists inveighing against poor historical context in 1970s Africa, poor data, and sloppy causation over that article will never stop being funny to me. That’s your MO, fellas. You’re just angry cause you’ve been so wrong for 50 years.

At this rate, Donald Trump is going to wind up accidentally solving climate change by forcing the world to scramble to roll out renewables in order to deal with the fact it will take years to get back to previous oil production levels

I literally am terrified for every single woman or girl within his purview. Can you imagine how militant he would be about this?? This is scary.