Every accusation. Every single accusation.

It’s @Dirt_Owl fleeing from the cops after shooting the new united healthcare CEO, I help them.

Multiple ways:

• Unchallenged monopoly over the highest valued African industries. The majority of African export industry, from mineral exports like rare earth and gold to high value agricultural exports like cocoa and coffee, are overwhelmingly dominated by western corporations.

• Direct theft of resources. European companies take advantage of their monopoly on extraction and transport of African minerals to unilaterally export mineral wealth out of Africa and put them into banks and reserves in Europe. For example, France import so much gold from their “former” colonies that it has one of the largest gold reserves in the entire world despite the fact that France doesn’t have a single active gold mine anywhere in it’s sovereign territory.

• Capture of added value from noncompetitive raw exports. Through the IMF and World Bank, the west has put in place a multi-decade scheme of making sure Africa can’t industrialize while pretending to help them. Due to this, African nations don’t have any industry capable of processing their raw crops and minerals, forcing them to sell as-is and let western businesses cash in on the added value of processing them. For example, Ivory coast produce over 40% of the world’s cocoa beans supply, but since until China helped them build one Ivory coast didn’t have any processing plant, Ivory coast for a long time had to sell raw cocoa beans for low prices and let western chocolate, pharmaceutical and makeup corporation earn the added value of roasting and fermenting the beans, separating the oil and making consumer products out of them.

• Exploitation of desperate workers. It is hardly a secret nowadays that Africans working in the mining or high value crops industries are horrifically exploited and work in high mortality rate, near slavery conditions for almost no pay whatsoever. Plenty of documentaries have been made on the subject, especially on Nestle’s treatment of their cocoa producers.

• Unequal exchange. Due to the IMF scheme mentioned in point #3, Africa is stuck producing and exporting noncompetitive, low or no added value products, which translate to low revenues for the countries. The complementary of this fact is that, on the other hand, African nations have to buy every finished high added value products (cars, consumer electronics, machinery, etc…) from the west, generally for very high prices. This unequal exchange, Europe buy only cheap low value goods from Africa, Africa buys only expensive high value goods from Europe, results in a net flow of wealth away from Africa and directly into the pockets of European capitalists. As long as Africa continues to produce only low value goods and buy high value goods from Europe, which the scheme ensure it does, Africa will continue to have their wealth sucked away via this mechanism.

To be fair it does look better than lemmy, but:

1. The lemmy devs could change the app’s look if they wanted, you can even ask them on their github.

2. If I learned anything from the KSP2 debacle, it’s that pretty looking software can hide terrible code under the hood. Don’t take the look too seriously and try to gauge how good the code is instead. Until someone who know codding tells me how good it is, I’m not buying that it’s “a better alternative”.

The European US-loyalists have screwed themselves to help the US in their proxy war against Russia only for the US to give up and leave Europe to deal with the fallout. They are desperately trying to keep the war alive while they scramble for a way to at least get something out of it.

Or perhaps this is sunk cost fallacy.

Twitter/X to Bluesky

Why do you flee a billionaire owned centralized platform only to go to an other billionaire owned centralized platform? (Yes, I know that in theory Bluesky is federated, but as long as there aren’t alternatives to the official server(s) Bluesky is effectively a centralized platform). Use Mastodon/Akkoma/Pleroma/whatever, you’re already on the fediverse through lemmy, might as well go with a full fediverse suite.

Also, a facebook alternative would be Friendica from what I’ve seen, but I’m not on it so don’t take my words for it and go see for yourself.

"Hey friends! I need your help. Can you tell me why the US would want to sell more weapons to the Saudis?

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“That’s right! Very good! They probably want Saudi Arabia to attack Yemen in hope that this would prevent Yemen from supporting the Palestinian resistance!”

Israel is having a Ukraine moment.

Probably for the same reasons: they see that Israel is on a path toward irreversible and unavoidable defeat and want to cut their losses by scraping everything they can while on their way to bail out of the sinking Zionist boat.

It’s me, I’m a white bi son.

I noticed a huge uptick of racism against Indians

This time for SURE sanctions will work

Private property isn’t unique to capitalism, feudalism and antique slave society each had a form of private property even tough feudalism and antique slave society have little else in common with capitalism.

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“Go out and touch grass”

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That’s 630 000 000 dollars total just for the MQ-9s

The wallet pass

I was already thinking something like that, that China had tricked the west into thinking that China had gone down the path of the late Soviet Union under Gorbachev and convinced them that the CPC realy did become revisionist and they just had to wait and slightly nudge things along and the CPC would come crashing down sooner rather than later, and forced western capitalists to hand over productive forces and tech be exploiting the fact that because of the way capitalism work, capitalists can’t afford to pass up on a new market opening.

But it’s very validating to see someone else come to the same conclusion.

Almost all pieces ever written about the “Uyghur genocide” go back to this one “bad dude” Adrian Zenz if you follow the chain of sources back to their origins. And both of the articles you liked have him as source, not just one.

The reason it’s so bad is because Adrian Zenz isn’t merely biased, he’s a known liar. He’s a fraud who pretends to be an expert on China despite not speaking a single word of any of the languages just because he’s been to China a single time over 10 years ago. He is being referenced despite all that by CIA financed medias (such as the BBC via USAID) because his lies are exactly the kind of things western bourgeois want us to think about China.

Your comparing Dessalines pointing out that your sources cite Zenz to you pointing out that some of his links go to X is misguided at best, Musk isn’t the author of what is written on these X posts, Zenz is the author of the lies your sources tells.

No one is pretending it isn’t. But the fact that it is pointed doesn’t automatically make it false. You are rejecting sources on little more than vibes here.