Great point from OOP there, now do Africa before and after European colonialism.
“This continent/culture/country is so undeveloped and primitive,” says the person whose ancestors made said continent/culture/country like that by fucking them over, stealing pretty much everything they had, and destroying the systems they had had in place for decades or centuries.
They literally posted the same picture twice as well.
What people think Africa looks like:
What modern Africa really looks like:
As an African citizen I completely agree with this. We don’t even need internet here. In fact, I’m posting this reply via carrier pigeons.
IDK why microblogging platforms show which client apps were used to make posts, but it’s quite easy to spoof. It would be fun to take the IPoAC joke there.
The real irony is that most of the aid money is spent paying charities that in turn pay for yuropeean or 'murican companies or organizations to do stuff the way they consider ideal. Coldfusion TV has a very good video on the topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aExnZ-1eHY
I guess the Pebble still holds. Nice
Mine’s screen popped out due to the battery swelling :(
This (the original tweet) shit is 100% Russian agitprop fwiw. They know precisely how to sow cynicism in western progressives and leftists which just so happens to interact with their interests and Donald Trump’s policies. It’s actually very obvious to anyone who doesn’t get high on their own farts
Russia invented racist Americans as a psyop
Racist Americans aren’t tweeting about Africa. They aren’t thinking about Africa at all.
More like: They aren’t thinking
about Africaat all.Fair.
I unfortunately have to spend a considerable amount of time around racist Americans and you are very wrong.
I live in a small town where I have neighbors who fly confederate flags in their front yard despite never having been within 1,500 miles of a confederate state. I don’t need you to tell me what racists are like, thank you very much. Maybe it’s a regional thing or something, but I guarantee that there are a lot of racists in America who do not want to save anyone from anything. They just want to pretend that everyone is just like them, and get very, very mad when they’re reminded that other people exist.
Racist Americans are obsessed with being White Saviors, they think about Africa all the time
You’d certainly think so if you only saw racism in the form of tweets. I live in a racist shithole. I know real racists. None of them care about any of that. None of them think about any of that. They might at most retweet something like that, and even then it’d only be to complain about taxes. None of them are actually thinking about Africa in their free time.
I also live in a racist shithole and all the ones I know give a fuck about feeding their white savior complex
I don’t know what to tell you. I know a lot of people who will happily spout off some of the nastiest things you’ve ever heard about “those people”, but none of them want to save anything. They just want to be left alone in their own little world where they can pretend that if everyone was just like them there wouldn’t be any problems in the world. They just get mad if you make them try to think about what they believe.
Maybe it’s a regional difference, or maybe we just hang out in different racist circles. I dunno. I’ve never actually met a racist that cared about anyone outside of the US enough to have a white savior complex though. Around here they’d much rather sort people out by skin color and ship them to the continent that best matches their stereotypes and be done with ever even thinking about it.
Ah yes, progressives and leftists, notoriously concerned with government waste and undeserving foreigners, this original tweet definitely wouldn’t have any effect on the “I’m not racist but” moderates that the Biden and Harris campaigns chased after by getting tough on asylum seekers and talking about having the most lethal military in the world /s
Incidentally, what do you suppose that watermelon in the reply name means?
The watermelon was, at least at one point, a show of support for Palestinians’ struggles. Something about sharing colors with their flag.
But as with all symbols, this may not be accurate to their meaning of it. I was basing it off the trans flag next to it (a not uncommon pairing).
africans are simply so powerful that they telepathically communicate with each other and with satellites, this is of course also how the egyptians built the pyramids, they simply levitated the rocks with their minds.
Sadly this ability was lost as people spent time outside the continent, until the modern day where even a single non-native african ancestor completely suppresses the supreme mental power.
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