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@mello980996991 @begottensun During Smith's time black people who were convicted of crimes n sentenced would gain weight in prison..Thats not how an evil person treats inmates..

@AmandaSkinSA_ @begottensun Thank you

So me the incentive, I’ll show you the OUTCOME RIP Charlie Monger

@LaDolceRiviera @aestheticspost_ For real.

@aestheticspost_ Italy is where you should want to live

Italy.

@TheLifeZoomer Surreal... Just ONE picture. Surreal.

This is the only photo I have of my childhood. Not the best one. Not one of many. The only one. No albums. No “remember when” moments captured from different angles. Just this, two boys standing there, completely unaware of what life was about to take, teach, and demand. That’s the part that gets me. Some people can scroll through hundreds of childhood photos. I have to search through memory. And memory isn’t always kind. It fades. It edits. It forgets. So this picture became more than a photo. It became evidence. Evidence that I was once that free. That light. That untouched. Because life doesn’t ask for permission before it changes you. Somewhere between that boy and the man I am today things got real. Responsibilities came. Loss came. Growth came. And suddenly, you’re no longer living life, you are navigating it. But here is what I’ve learned: Even if the pictures disappear, the person in them doesn’t. He is still here. Just wiser. Just tested. And maybe that’s enough. Be real with me, are your childhood memories stored in photos or are you, like me, carrying them in your mind because there was nothing to capture them?

@begottensun Bro You has 4 batches of broilers (3.5k each) towards year end last year..You didnt post about themagain or i missed the update..

@mello980996991 @begottensun He wasn't. Ian Smith was NOT evil..He may have had his flaws,like we all do, but evil he wasn't.

@begottensun Was Ian smith evil for not wanting clowns like this to have the right to vote ? Let’s be logical and not emotional please

@Escrow_Group Say more about commodity exchange..What does Escrow group enable som1 in commodity trade to do?

From trading to payments, we’re powering Africa’s financial future.

@BeansRobson But they don't say ,"don't jail or beat opposition members" or "have elections that are satisfactory to us.."

@AmandaSkinSA_ They already do though. They negotiate conditionalities, structural adjustment, austerity requirements etc. They’re deeply embedded in domestic policy.

Should African countries be able to declare odious debt (debt incurred by corrupt governments), and refuse to repay it?

@BeansRobson In the time of King David, Israel experienced famine bcz Saul had violated an ancient covenant with the Gibeonites originally made in the era of Joshua. The violator was dead, but the obligation remained. Thats a biblical eg of institutional continuity ..To me at least.

@BeansRobson The responsibility to produce accountable leadership is a domestic political function..Lenders dont, and shouldnt, involve themselves in that..

@AmandaSkinSA_ You argued governments are the legal expression of citizens, implying legitimacy matters. Now creditors lend to whoever controls taxation and territory. Which is it? Because if legitimacy doesn’t matter to creditors, you’ve just made the case for odious debt doctrine.

@BeansRobson Lenders are not responsible for filtering out corrupt gvnts. through moral conditions on repayment, then its now political enforcement ..not finance..

Correct! And that’s exactly the problem. Im not arguing the mechanics. A system that prices debt on repayment capacity alone, with no moral weight on how funds are used, incentivises lending to kleptocrats. The creditor gets paid either way. Citizens bear the austerity. it’s precisely what odious debt doctrine seeks to correct.

@BeansRobson Political accountability for leadership is a domestic function .. it cannot be outsourced to sovereign credit markets. Sovereign lending prices state repayment risk, not the moral quality of how funds are ultimately used.

@BeansRobson Creditors do not lend to “democratic legitimacy.” They lend to the entity that has effective control of the state’s taxation, territory, and repayment capacity...

This works in functioning democracies. And assumes leaders assume power legitimately. But odious debt doctrine applies precisely where representation has broken down. In practice, we have dictatorships, captured states, rigged elections. In such cases, citizens aren’t the legal expression of a government they had no real say in.

@BeansRobson Soveregn debt is not priced on whether citizens will benefit from spending or not.. It is priced on whether the state can and will repay.

@AmandaSkinSA_ And that’s my point. If individuals never consent to sovereign debt anywhere, then legitimacy can’t come from consent. It has to come from benefit. When citizens don’t benefit, the creditor who chose to lend bears that. Isn’t it?

@BeansRobson People ,mistakenly,separate “citizens” from “government” as if they are unrelated actors. But in representative systems, gvnts r the legal expression of the state over time... not external paties to it.

@AmandaSkinSA_ Obligations surviving elections is a feature of the system, not a moral justification for it. It was designed to protect creditors, not citizens. That’s precisely the problem odious debt doctrine tries to correct.

@BeansRobson Sovereign debt isnt a contract involving individuals..Its an obligation of a continuos state..Everywhere on earth individuals never consent to the loans their govnts take..

@AmandaSkinSA_ But, symmetry requires equal parties. A citizen who never borrowed, never consented, and never benefited isn’t symmetric with an IMF loan desk. Creditor due diligence exists for a reason.

@BeansRobson Creditors dont lend to presidents .... they lend to nations. Sovereign debt is priced on the character and history of the state, not the personality in office at the time. thats why obligations survive elections..

@AmandaSkinSA_ You definitely are not. The doctrine, though, is morally sound in cases where funds are used for personal purposes and don’t benefit citizens.

@BeansRobson I always say there's no situation/challenge that a person or nation can ever face that's without a biblical precedent..

@BeansRobson Countries r continuous institutions, not temporary governments. If every generation could cancel the past, no institution would ever build trust.A nation inherits both the mistkes and the obligations of its past.