Poverty is humanity’s natural state.
For 99% of history, EVERYONE was poor.
What changed? We figured out the formula:
Prosperity = Economic freedom + reliable, affordable, abundant energy.
Any government ignoring this today is choosing poverty for its people.
Pan-Africanists on social media: “The West destroyed Africa! Neocolonialism everywhere!”
Also Pan-Africanists: *posting from London, Paris, or New York*
You left. You saw how things work there. Roads are maintained, hospitals have medicine, courts actually function, police don't shake you down for bribes.
Did you care enough to ask why?
Did you ask yourself: “Wow, this country is prosperous, how come they have this and we don’t? What can I learn from this country?”
You wrote another thread about 1960 while back home people are sitting in darkness because there’s no electricity, university graduates can’t find jobs, hospitals don't have basic medicine, and the roads are so bad they destroy your car.
But sure, let’s keep blaming the West for problems happening right now.
You know why you’re not going back?
Because you know nothing works there.
The power cuts every single day, educated people are unemployed, hospitals can’t treat basic illnesses, and the infrastructure is falling apart.
And deep down you know whose fault that is.
It's the people running things right now, TODAY, not 60 years ago.
But that conversation is uncomfortable, so you blame the West instead.
And you know who absolutely loves this?
Your leaders back home.
Every hour you spend blaming the West is an hour you’re not demanding answers or holding anyone accountable.
You’re literally the shield protecting them from criticism.
They steal and you blame the West. They fail and you blame the West. They build mansions while people sit in darkness and you blame the West.
You’re not fighting for Africa, Mr. Marxist Pan Africanist.
You’re just part of why Africans stay poor.
Btw, Christianity is extremely based (on evidence).
• Its core claim is a public, historical event, not a private revelation
• The central miracle was proclaimed immediately and locally, where it could be checked and rejected
• The movement grows in the same place the falsifying evidence would have existed
• The earliest sources are close to the events they describe (by ancient standards)
• The founders gain nothing (power, sex, wealth) and suffer for the claim
• The resurrection is treated as falsifiable (cf. “if Christ is not raised…”)
• Women are named as first witnesses despite this being culturally disadvantageous
• The theology precedes later institutional power, not the other way around
• The religion survives intense persecution before it gains political backing
• Christianity expects ongoing miracles, not just a one-off founding event
• Many modern miracle claims are documented, investigated, and survive scrutiny
• There are standing institutions devoted to saying “no” to bad miracle claims
• Some Christian miracles (e.g., Zeitoun) involve mass public witnesses, not just individuals
• Christianity is comfortable appealing to forensics, medicine, archaeology, and history
• Its truth claim is so historical that disproving one event would collapse the system
Embrace Christianity.
Modern history teaches that the Crusades were unprovoked colonial aggression. This is false; it's historical revisionism by lunatics.
By 1095, Islamic armies had conquered two-thirds of the Christian world (including Egypt, Syria, and Iberia) and were slaughtering pilgrims in Jerusalem.
The Byzantine Emperor begged the Pope for help.
Pope Urban II did not call for a war of conquest; he called for a defensive war, a Holy War, a Just War.
It was a war of reconquest of invaded Christian lands by an army that viewed Christians as inferiors.
When the knights shouted "Deus Vult" (God Wills It), they marched into the desert to save their oppressed brothers and sisters in Christ and restore their liberty.
🚨 BREAKING: This Venezuelan man is going viral for explaining to everyone why Maduro NEEDED to be toppled
The Democrats are clueless.
“Venezuela has already been invaded.” 🔥🇺🇸
He knows his country.
The people are ecstatic.
🚨 HIKER ACCIDENTALLY SCARES WILD OPOSSUM SO BAD IT “DIES” IN HIS HANDS
He didn’t tranquilize it.
Didn’t trap it.
Didn’t hurt it.
The opossum literally shut down on the trail - an involuntary fear response where they pass out and play dead.
“They don’t choose to play possum. They just pass out from fear.”
What happens next surprises everyone:
• Over 50 teeth - but almost never bites
• Eats up to 5,000 ticks a year
• Rarely carries rabies due to low body temp
• Cleaner than most people’s pets
• Has opposable thumbs and a prehensile tail
• More closely related to a kangaroo than a rat
Ugly? Maybe.
But these things quietly protect humans more than we realize.
So what are opossums really - disgusting pests… or nature’s most misunderstood MVPs?