samsara

i don’t argue with people on the internet!

[samsara @dreary26]

if you think about on a fundamental level, economics is just astrology for men!!

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Iran is currently sending a historic message to the entire Global South on how to effectively, permanently checkmate Western imperialism.

It is not through submissive concessions. No matter what humiliating economic compromises and draconian IMF austerity measures you eagerly adopt just to please the empire, they will still continue to take, demand, and extract more. Even if you waste hundreds of millions of dollars hiring elite lobbying firms in Washington, Texas, and California to plead your case on Capitol Hill, their geopolitical aggression will never end.

No matter what team of Western-educated economic experts, diplomats, and trade ministers you send to their embassies to politely negotiate bilateral trade terms, investment treaties, and temporary sanctions relief, the empire’s predatory greed remains completely insatiable.

The Global South desperately needs to understand that this imperial greed only accelerates and multiplies the more you try to feed it. Giving Western powers commercial access to your deepwater ports does not stop their aggression because to "defend" that port, they will immediately demand military access to the vast agricultural and strategic lands surrounding the interior.
At first, this perimeter will house just a small handful of logistical personnel, private contractors, and civil engineers who are supposedly working merely to ensure the "safe" maritime passage of Western cargo vessels. The next thing you know, they start installing advanced radar arrays, air defense batteries, biometric surveillance towers, drone launchpads, and private military airfields. Within a decade or two, the empire has literally constructed a heavily fortified, extraterritorial mini-state right inside your sovereign nation, and from this forward operating base, they start systematically devouring your domestic economy from within until there is absolutely nothing left to extract.

Great Britain did not sail across the seven seas in search of equal, respectful trading partners during the bloody days of its imperial expansion. Every single commercial agreement with the British Empire was executed through brutal gunboat diplomacy, unequal treaties, and naval blockades that mathematically guaranteed your domestic GDP shrank into oblivion while their own industrial wealth ballooned to the sky. Such exploitative trade agreements naturally ensured that the colonized citizens tilted into extreme, multidimensional poverty, while British factories, commercial banks, and royal estates expanded uncontrollably.

Today, America operates with that exact same playbook: even though Washington already possesses vast energy reserves, and Venezuela is actively struggling to survive under suffocating sanctions, the imperial machine continues to strong-arm, extort, and force the transfer of every single drop of sovereign Venezuelan crude straight into the deep, insatiable pockets of American oil majors like Chevron and ExxonMobil.

The final solution to all of this geopolitical madness is building powerful, deeply institutionalized state structures to defend the revolutionary government, paired with an indigenous, sophisticated ballistic missile and drone program capable of defending the state from the wrath of the empire. There is no such thing as playing comfortable neutrality in this day and age. As long as you are geographically located in the Global South, blessed with abundant crude oil, lithium, coltan, uranium, and natural gas, Western imperial think tanks already have classified geological dossiers mapping every single square inch of your territory. They already have fully drafted, computer-simulated geopolitical blueprints detailing exactly how to orchestrate a proxy war, trigger a currency collapse, topple your sovereign government, and replace it with an obedient comprador leader who will hand over your raw minerals in pristine condition to Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

So, the historical choice before the Global South is simple: you either endure the economic sanctions today, build internal self-reliance, and develop enough advanced ballistic missiles, subterranean launch sites, and drone swarms to deter foreign aggression, or you foolishly drop your guard and watch your sovereign state get drained, balkanized, and stripped to the absolute bone strictly for the enrichment of global capital.

[samsara @dreary26]

@tmukogo Implementing gamification strategies should be considered.

A look at the VFEX Q1 2025 newsletter states that 30% of total vfex direct clients were active.

I doubt they have even bothered to survey the clients to find out why there aren’t more active (2/2)

[samsara @dreary26]

@tmukogo Lack of public awareness about the ZSE & VFEX. ZSE Holdings need to be more visible honestly.

I wouldn’t be surprised if < 5% of people employed in the “informal sector” are even aware about ZSE/VFEX direct.

People do not know what they do not know. (1/2)

[samsara @dreary26]

@dez_j_24 @tmukogo This is not a factual point.

You can fund your direct accounts using ecocash. It’s withdrawals that you can’t do to your ecocash.

[𝐄𝐃𝐎𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐂__ @Edocentric_]

BENIN ART...

[Pax Africana @CantStopLans]

The actual worst thing about the war on the African mind is that the Africans aren’t even aware that the war is going on

[The Financial Preacher @RangoClaude]

10/15
We teach retail investors how to buy shares. We rarely teach them what happens after: mergers, share swaps, takeovers, rights issues, delistings, buybacks, migrations, schemes of arrangement. That gap is where confidence quietly erodes.

[samsara @dreary26]

@BgoniJustin @ZSE_ZW @VFEX_ZW spending US$30k on capex seems particularly low, given the ambitions and vision that you have for the exchanges

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The Yurugu speaks:

"Someone else is producing goods better, faster and cheaper than we can, so we will soon have no choice but to start a war because destroying the planet is better than learning to share."

That's the diseased European mindset summed up right here.

[Incubator, Baby 🏴☭ @kilkapital]

The US is the most evil country in the world.

Once you realize that, you're on the way to understanding what the fuck is going on.

[pinkishlefty @pinkishlefty]

Nobody learns communism from a book. We're born communist and then get indoctrinated into capitalism. Don't believe me? Go ask a 7 year old if we should give homeless people houses, hungry people food, and sick people medicine. Theory later just helps us unlearn the BS

[Akan Archives @AkanArchives]

Gilded afena (sword) & kyinyɛ (umbrella) ornaments (19th–20th century).

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You want to know what actual free speech looks like in the American context?

Edward Snowden told the truth about what the government was doing to its own citizens.

He is in exile.

Chelsea Manning told the truth about what the military was doing in Iraq, including footage of a helicopter crew killing journalists and laughing.

She was imprisoned.

Julian Assange published documents showing the gap between what Western governments said and what they did.

He spent years in an embassy and then a prison, and the country that lectures the world about press freedom led the effort to destroy him.

Meanwhile the people who lied about weapons of mass destruction and launched a war that killed hundreds of thousands:

They are on the speaking circuit.

They are on television as analysts.

They have libraries named after them.

This is not a paradox. This is the system working correctly.

Free speech, in the empire's operating definition, means you can say anything that doesn't threaten the machine.

The moment the speech has real consequences for real power:

You discover exactly how free it is.

[WSKM @WISKIMMUSIC]

Ogoni Mask, Nigeria 🇳🇬

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

An Israeli soldier films the extent of the destruction and rubble. Gaza was razed to the ground, leaving no homes standing, and entire families were killed, leaving no one alive.

A video that the world must never forget.

[pinkishlefty @pinkishlefty]

The absolute funniest part of capitalist ideology is that they somehow managed to convince everyone that "freedom" meant like...the freedom to choose between 63 kinds of shampoo, and not like...the freedom to quit a job you hate without losing your health insurance.

[China Science @ChinaScience]

China has, for the first time, established a two-way laser link over a distance of more than 400,000 kilometers between Earth and the moon, achieving an uplink rate of 1.25 Mbps and a downlink rate of 100 Mbps during the experiment, which means it would take only about 12 seconds to send an 8K high-definition lunar surface image back to Earth, compared to 4 to 5 minutes via a traditional 5 Mbps microwave link.
The breakthrough is expected to facilitate China's crewed lunar landings, the construction of lunar research stations, and deep-space exploration.

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

If you think the US cares about human rights and democracy, congratulations, you are an idiot.

[Akan Archives @AkanArchives]

A gilded sankofa afena handle (19th century).

[Don bugi @AChukwuche15183]

Luluwa Mask, Kasai Congo 🇨🇩