South Africa and the Weaponisation of the “Foreign Criminals” Narrative
How many foreign nationals do you think are incarcerated in South Africa's prison system? Of this number, how many do you think are Nigerians? If you have been following popular public conversations in South Africa, you would think the numbers should be in the tens or hundreds of thousands - and you would be hilariously wrong.
Using the actual data to make the point, @Big_Mck explores the anatomy of how psy-ops work in Africa by constructing what sound like believable narratives out of complete fabrication and fiction. At a time when the US Africa Command has openly announced the launch of its "Operation Drongo" psy-op targeting Africa with a sophisticated Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) attack, it is more important than ever before for Africans to learn to scrutinise whatever information they allow to get into their ears and eyeballs.
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Andre 3000 has been telling you guys the same thing in a different manner for 20 years now. That said, I do think what guys are like Jay-Z and NaS are doing is important. They've created adult contemporary hip hop which is age appropriate and allows for them to grow old gracefully with an audience who is also maturing.
The problem with an artist like 50 cent is that there's really no room for his music to grow because ultimately it was always based on (in his words) "aggressive content".
I can tell you now for free that SA has an oversupply of tech professionals. There's a bottle neck that is artificially created to drive down the cost of hiring black tech professionals.
It's systematic labour discrimination. Then white people get better international offers then suddenly there's a "brain drain".
The playbook never changes, just the plot.
People will act like this material doesn’t work, but there is nothing high tech or unproven about this.
We have had the capacity to scale bioplastics for decades. We just use petroplastics because oil corporations control governments.