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@UnathiAfrika The people arguing with you in the comments don't care about historical analysis or geopolitical realities. Instead they do this faux-intellectual dance parroting contrived western talking points.

What you fail to realise is that having no resources is exactly why Singapore was left alone, even as a dictatorship, whereas African leaders were assassinated and "democracy" bombed into Africa as a means to control our resources, the main attraction.

@eihtbeezy At the end of every value chain is some poor person in a fucked up part of the world

Can you imagine having to work for meta and suffer through days of watching Americans use the toilet, engage in private activity, and undressing to label innocuous fucking objects? ndtv.com/feature/using-…

Question: What about the people who do the grinding and repetitive work of data labeling and content moderation in Africa for the major tech companies think about labor rights and Marxism?

@iamNeare These people don't care abou5 hostory or the facts, they simply carry about perpetuate propaganda

You people like to run with half baked information n think you've said something Here's the full gist, yes Britain colonized Singapore n like Africa, they never left Singapore cos Singapore is a strategic position in global trade just as the Hormuz strait that USA has been struggling to take over from Iran 25% of global trade pass through Singapore strait, it was a strategic position for the British Empire until they were kicked out by Japanese forces during WW2. It was after Japan surrendered that Britain sought to regain control of the Strait n yeah they did it through the British trained n controlled puppet Lee Kwan Yew. Singapore was adopted into the global economy and use for it's strategic position just as Taiwan. Lee is not some Genius but an errand boy carrying out an assignment. It's by design, and Nigeria/Kenya/Africa wasn't design to use their resources for their own development according the global decision makers (Breton Woods agreement) How do you know this, Lee was allowed to become a dictator with brutal reforms that crushed every opposition n opposing ideology to the globalist design. It would look like I'm making excuses for African leaders but I would be wrong if other African leaders haven't tried similar reforms n was declared dictators n this overthrown or killed eg. Gaddafi of Libya, Abacha of Nig, Nkrumah of Ghana, etc What we call corruption is an Euphemism to water down the activities of puppets serving the interest of imperialism so that we fight just the puppets until they're replaced with another puppet n ignore the system that put the puppets in power.

@rirokpik Adding to my reading list

“The Kingdom of Waalo: Senegal Before the Conquest” by Boubacar Barry A powerful look into one of the great pre-colonial Wolof kingdoms along the Senegal Rive. It covers politics, society, and resilience before French conquest.

@CrunchyDischarg @nxt888 Bro go do some research and stop showing your ass on the internet

@stikmn34 @nxt888 By whom? Prove it

@nxt888 Whites did not invent slavery. Whites were the FIRST to end slavery. Not blacks. Not Arabs. Not Chinese. Whites. America ended slavery. The Chinese... still have slavery. The Arabs... still have slavery.

@CrunchyDischarg @nxt888 No by europeans

@stikmn34 @nxt888 Slavery by whom? By the muslim invaders?

@archibaldxiv Im in there

@stikmn34 upgrade x chat bro u missing out on half of x

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empire survives partly by convincing ordinary citizens that they are powerless spectators instead of beneficiaries with political responsibility

@fawnn404 I am constantly reminding myself

@StyxNyxX @gold_teardrop @yvessaiintty1 Population density for one

@gold_teardrop @yvessaiintty1 Pourquoi dans l'Afrique précoloniale il n'y a jamais Eu de volonté de dominer la jungle En la defrichant et faciliter l'organisation du territoire ?

The Kingdom of Kongo had their own education systems with specialized initiation schools, oral traditions, and apprenticeships to teach agriculture, metallurology, hunting/fishing, governance, and spiritual trades. This is pre-portuguese contact as well.

Every time I look at Iranian architecture, I ask myself this question. Where did ours go? Iran has been building in brick since before recorded history. Bombed, sanctioned, cut off from the global economy, none of it broke the continuity. The knowledge moved from hand to hand, generation to generation, and arrived here: a studio in Tehran inventing a new type of brick with glass inserts that regulates heat and light in one of the most polluted cities on earth. That won them the RIBA International Emerging Architect prize in 2021. The people who built the pyramids were African. The engineering, the material knowledge, the precision… African. And then somewhere between then and now, that lineage was broken. Colonialism introduced the bias; it reframed local materials as primitive and cement as progress. But here is the part we avoid saying out loud: colonialism ended. The cement block didn’t. African architects, clients, and developers kept choosing it voluntarily. We took the colonial preference and made it our own culture. We are still building that way today. Every plastered concrete block wall going up right now in Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, and Douala is a choice, not a colonial decree. Nobody is forcing that decision anymore. We are. Iran kept its thread through war and sanctions. We inherited peace and abandoned ours anyway. The question is not what was taken. It is why we are still giving it away. Hooba Design Group, Tehran & Karaj, Iran 🇮🇷 | Hooman Balazadeh | RIBA International Emerging Architect 2021 | 📷 Parham Taghioff, Deed Studio, Khatereh Eshghi

@rhaplord Another great article

African and European Explorers in the 19th century: Competing Narratives of “Discovery.” africanhistoryextra.com/p/african-and-…

@Chetuyachinago @LomaxFalconer This

You do realise that it's not just about mining rare earths? If it was just about mining alone then any small nation could pull it off. The difficulty with rare earth minerals is the processing and refining which is an environmental nightmare that would be difficult to pull off in Europe without getting sued into bankruptcy by environmental activists and regulators. This is why Europe and America never focused on this dirty parts of the job. China was able to hear the pain and cost, and now they have built a huge ecosystem and hundreds of parents over the years. Currently, any nation can mine but they still need China for the processing and refining. This is the problem and challenges that the American government have to deal with.

We now firmly understand why the Trump administration hoarded a hundred CEOs like sardines on a plane and flew them straight to Beijing. China used its absolute dominance over rare earth mineral mining and processing to force Washington to the negotiating table. In doing so, Beijing has effectively won the tariff war. Indeed, the first priority in this series of US-China trade deals is telling: China will "address" US concerns regarding supply chain shortages related to rare earths and other critical minerals. This is a diplomatic way of saying the United States surrendered. Recall that in early 2025, the Trump administration launched the "Liberation Day" tariffs. These measures specifically targeted China and spiked the cost of Chinese goods in America, threatening the Chinese economy. China ended that war instantly by choking off US access to critical minerals. By restricting exports of neodymium, dysprosium, yttrium, and scandium, Beijing paralyzed the American high-tech sector. These minerals are essential for the production of heavy duty magnets and high-performance motors. Without them, the US is unable to develop advanced military jets like the F-35, precision-guided munitions, or even the semiconductors that power modern infrastructure. Now that China has agreed to "address" these self-imposed restrictions, the conclusion is obvious: the US has agreed to a total tariff reset. The other points of the deal are equally revealing. China has restored "access" to US beef markets and agreed to purchase up to $19 billion of US agricultural products before the end of 2026. The irony here is staggering. All of these market advantages were already in place before the reckless trade wars initiated by the Trump administration. China purchased over $24 billion in US agricultural products in 2024 alone. In previous peak years, those purchases reached $29 billion. After the disastrous tariffs of 2025, that figure cratered to a mere $8 billion. This collapse was devastating to US agricultural markets. It pushed thousands of American farmers to the brink of bankruptcy and forced many to threaten the closure of their family businesses. China has managed to emerge victorious from this trade war by masterfully targeting the American agricultural heartland and weaponizing the minerals that power the Pentagon. Beijing allowed the US to inflict pain on itself, waited for the American industrial base to scream, and then dictated the terms of the peace. Washington is now celebrating a "return" to trade levels that are actually lower than they were two years ago. China did not just survive the "Liberation Day" assault: it used its leverage to prove that the United States cannot maintain its military or economic edge without Chinese permission. This is not a trade victory for the White House. This is a controlled surrender to the reality of Chinese supply chain supremacy.

@elonmusk Go for it make them

A glaringly obvious double-standard

@archibaldxiv Legit me

literally 100% of the time without fail

@RogueKite All the articles i found about this are a few months old, couldnt find anything recent

Smart. The farther away from US tech the better.

Talk about mass surveillance state

@oneooneseven setnakh.com/blogs/news/abo…

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