Hephaestus

Greek mythology enthusiast

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@officialABAT Gas is 2500 you failure. Never has gas or fuel been this expensive

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@JaxFromTheFutur @OMApproach Wow

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@JaxFromTheFutur @OMApproach Thank you, will find it and watch

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@jdpatty07 @OMApproach 😂 who listened when he gave dem warning during Noah's time?

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@MUAUHASSA @Chetuyachinago America is the big dog of the world

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@25JJJS06 @OMApproach Nah the Mayan calendar ended in 2012. They were wrong with their calculations

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@JaxFromTheFutur @OMApproach Please where can I watch it.? Is it on Netflix?

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@OMApproach @jdpatty07 The question is when was the last known excursion? Let's know when the next one will occur since he said it happens every 10,000 years. Jeff bezos clock is set at 10,000 years too

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@NwangaToc @guzu_p Your soul fit no get value 😂

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@TomolaGroup If you want to hide anything from a human being, put it in a book. People generally are lazy readers

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@AlfaAdam001 Who made these stupid rules

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@Owoyibo @TomolaGroup You have absolutely no idea what he explained up there. Just sit this one out

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@TomolaGroup @psalas001 He meant imagine you are craving for asun, then U slaughter it and eat it. 😂

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@Doro_larko @SimplyUtd Biggest in the world

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@freefootballtv @SimplyUtd Says a foolish guy who still lives with his parents. Grow up bozo

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@lightofowerri @EleojoFranklin @Nshukwi_A @Wizarab10 You are just a bad belle

[Toby @TomolaGroup]

Dangote took 10 years to build a refinery.

Alakija waited about 15 years for oil to flow.

Otedola needed 6 years to climb back from $1.2bn debt.

Meanwhile, we want to “blow” in 6 months.

Real wealth in Nigeria has always been slow. The fast ones you hear about usually end with EFCC.

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@MUAUHASSA @Chetuyachinago Shows u the whole thing is a show, it's a play that is being acted by both Iran and the US

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@BowTiedAstrnaut @OMApproach How come no one has found any trace of it? It simply didn't exist. It was an allegory used by Plato to depict an ideal society

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

First, this is a fundamentally flawed analogy. You cannot logically compare Ethiopia, a landlocked country that bleeds billions of dollars annually on exorbitant port fees just to engage in basic international trade, to Vietnam, a country that possesses a massive coastline directly on the South China Sea and sits right in the strategic manufacturing backyard of China.

Yes, it is a historical fact that Ethiopia was not formally colonized, but this does not mean they were living in peace and harmony.
Mussolini and his fascist Italian army brutally occupied Ethiopia, deploying chemical weapons and mustard gas against civilians. Even though the brave people of Ethiopia were able to regain their sovereignty, they suffered devastating human and infrastructural losses in the process. But the economic strangulation did not end there. All of Ethiopia's neighboring countries were under brutal European colonial occupation. These colonial powers intentionally blockaded Ethiopia, forcing the country into absolute geopolitical isolation and completely cutting it off from global trade routes. And even when direct colonialism supposedly ended in the region, Ethiopia did not see peace. Foreign powers, including Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations, heavily funded and armed Eritrea to wage a brutal, draining civil war against Ethiopia that lasted for thirty years, systematically bleeding their economy dry.

And yes, Vietnam suffered horrifically from a brutal American war, but they had the massive, undeniable support of the Eastern bloc to bounce back. After the Vietnam War, China and the Soviet Union aggressively transferred heavy technology to Vietnam. They helped modernize their seaports, integrated their manufacturing grids into Asian supply chains, built vital rail networks, and shared critical industrial blueprints. This does not take away the credit due to the highly disciplined leadership structure of the Vietnamese state and their incredibly industrious population, but they absolutely received massive geopolitical help.

Even China did not build its empire from scratch. In the 1950s, the Soviets transferred entire industrial bases, heavy metallurgical technology, aerospace engineering, and foundational manufacturing plants directly to Beijing. And even after Mao Zedong passed away,Deng Xiaoping basically opened the Chinese market to the West, US tech giants poured their equipment, patents, and capital into the country. They set up massive semiconductor supply chains, built state of the art mega factories, transferred highly guarded intellectual property, and injected hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign direct investment to exploit cheap labor. But when it comes to Africa, Western commentators heap the blame entirely upon us, acting as if they brought this high level technology and capital to our shores and we simply refused to integrate it into our development.

Let us be very clear. Nobody is blaming 19th century colonialism alone for the current poverty level in Africa. I have never seen any serious Pan African scholar who claims Africa is poor today solely due to historical colonialism. I am also not here on this platform to fight against the ghost of the past, as that would be a silly and unproductive distraction.

What we are fiercely fighting against today is active, ruthless neo colonialism.

The predatory terms and conditions buried in the World Trade Organisation manuals for global trade make it legally and economically impossible for any African nation to build wealth from processing its own raw materials. We are forced, through a rigged system of tariff escalation, to export our resources raw and untouched to sustain European industries. If an African country exports raw cocoa or crude oil, the tariffs are zero, but the exact moment they try to export processed chocolate or refined petroleum, they are hit with crushing import taxes. Furthermore, imperial financial institutions like the IMF and the World Bank constantly stampede African growth by forcing deadly Structural Adjustment Programs, mandating the suicidal privatization of state owned power grids, forcing the endless devaluation of national currencies, and strictly banning African governments from subsidizing their own local farmers while Western farmers receive billions in state welfare.

There is absolutely no genuine technology transfer to African nations. There is no room for us to trade as equals in the global market. There is no bilateral loan or foreign aid available to Africans that does not demand total economic capitulation, the absolute surrender of our national sovereignty, and the complete deregulation of our banking sectors. And in spite of all these crushing economic blockades, we still have to spend our limited national budgets and sacrifice the blood of our military personnel fighting off foreign backed rebels. These proxy militias stage relentless guerrilla warfare on our soil for one singular purpose, which is to violently clear our resource rich fields so that foreign conglomerates can feast on our gold, lithium, cobalt, and uranium undisturbed.

Now Magatte, I know that you are deeply invested in a self hating narrative, trying incredibly hard to please your white corporate masters overseas by blaming the victims of imperialism. But the next time you decide to compare two nations operating on completely different continents and under vastly different geopolitical realities, do not use just one stupid variable as your entire metric.