Peanut

As long as I am breathing; in my eyes, I am just beginning.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Iran was in a war alone against 7 countries and won.

[Peanut @_goodfellah]

@ayoebenjay Thanks brother🖤 You solid!

[David Bui @ghosttyped]

This is the most mentally dangerous part of being unemployed tbh

[Peanut @_goodfellah]

I muted Elon long time ago. Can’t stand seeing his racist tweets.

[ImageGod @TheImageGod]

ELON MUSK ACTUALLY INCITES AND PROMOTES RACISM ON HERE

[Peanut @_goodfellah]

@vidsthatgohard Straight bookmarking! Been looking for this video 😂😂

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

back in 2016, i spent a few days in monte carlo with my boss. walking around casino square and the harbor made me see there are inside jobs and levels to this wealth i hadn’t even imagined, that trip changed my mindset overnight.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

There is this Japanese saying “The Universe protect you in a way that looks like bad luck at first. Trust the detour”

[Peanut @_goodfellah]

@MrIdoesIt @tahoe7teen “Wealthy showing off to other wealthy people” is the same as “flaunt” lil bro.

[Peanut @_goodfellah]

It’s only people with no money that loves having the “new money old money” discourse.

[Peanut @_goodfellah]

Boy if you don’t get the fuck off with the “old money whispers” shit.

Those yachts look like they’re whispering to you? LRT

[Sheriff Lobo @tahoe7teen]

“People with REAL money never flaunt their wealth, only ghetto people do that” - Random broke people on Twitter

Meanwhile…

[Peanut @_goodfellah]

@MrIdoesIt @tahoe7teen Lil bro wrote all this epistle only to contradict himself.

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Peanut @_goodfellah]

@Tempest_Zeroo @Morpheus156 Uhmm, so, you do know him then? 🤣

[Nora @Heal_within96]

Africa is underdeveloped because:

1) Every nationalistic leader was murdered, and the current leaders are obedient puppets to the Western hegemonies.

2) Western companies continue to steal resources.

3) They continue to fund coups/instabilities, preventing any chance of peace, which would have instigated development.

[Kashyap Sriram @kashyap286]

Firstly, Ethiopia is under US sanctions while Vietnam is not. And speaking of former French colonies, Haiti was the first to get independence (1804) and is still one of the poorest countries in the world because of the debt they had to take on to gain independence (it took them until 1947 to fully repay it!). Whereas, New Caledonia is still a French colony and is neither rich nor poor.

"If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor..."

This line completely ignores the European powers' (and US) post-colonial control over Africa. Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the DRC, was tortured and killed by Belgium and the US for being a nationalist. His body was dissolved in acid so he wouldn't become a martyr. His legacy is largely unknown even within the continent. Several other such "lessons" were meted out. Google Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) and Sylvanus Olympio (Togo).

Once you set the example, you gain obedience. The VietCong, on the other hand, didn't surrender even though 3 million Vietnamese died during the war, and several thousand more continue to die to this day (!) from Agent Orange exposure.

As for former French colonies in Africa, France still controls their currency and holds their central bank reserves in France. As Rothschild purportedly said, "permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

Third, the borders in Africa were drawn in such a way that conflict was inevitable. At the Berlin Conference in 1884-85, the European powers simply carved up the continent by drawing straight line borders. African leaders were conspicuous only by their absence at this historic event which shaped the next century. This is why Cameroon, a French-speaking country, has a minority English-speaking territory, ensuring it remains destabilized. Likewise for West Asia/the Middle East, where the Sykes-Picot legacy lives on.

@magattew conflates formal colonial rule with colonial control. Vietnam managed to fully kick out both France and the US, reunified the North and the South, and kept its sovereignty. All African leaders who attempted the same have been systematically eliminated (see Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's divisive leader, for a recent example), ensuring Africa forever bears the open wounds of its colonial legacy.

But Ms. Wade is right on one thing: Vietnam owes its prosperity to overcoming colonial rule. Maybe Africa can become prosperous if Africans do the same.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

1. life is easier when people do it together. we’ve built a society that treats needing people as failure.

but needing people is literally how humans survive.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

keke palmer talking about living with her sisters reminded me that almost every culture in history understood something we’ve somehow forgotten:

[Peanut @_goodfellah]

LRT killed me😂😂😂😂😂. Very apt