Jon Slade

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$Ronteca

[FrontPageAfrica @FPAfrica]

Liberia and Sierra Leone share strategic border points, key for trade, travel, and essential cross-border cooperation that provides significant economic, environmental, and security benefits driven by regional integration and infrastructure development.

[𝐏𝐒𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐓 @PSGINT_]

QATAR PAID HOW MUCH??????

[Jon Slade @jon_slade]

Jerrod is a great writer. The conclusion here is common unfortunately. We don't stand for anything anymore.

[Tevin B @T_Bron]

Underrated show

[Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC]

#OnThisDay in 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, TX to read Order No. 3, which affirmed the end of slavery in the states of the former Confederacy. This momentous occasion became known as #Juneteenth, a combination of “June” & “19th." More: https://t.co/bitoMm27sm

[Vonn @itsthewealth4me]

One thing I never understood about our generation rooting for the country to burn to the ground is that many people are out of shape, can’t fight, have no money, and have little to no survival instincts outside of scrolling on a phone and complaining

You’re in trouble if that happens

[Jon Slade @jon_slade]

A @friendsof1847 sanctioned event lol

[FIGHTFLIX @Fightflix_]

Only in Russia would a sanctioned fight between a male and female fighter take place 😳

[Jon Slade @jon_slade]

@mabu_apop えええ、これはアフリカ系アメリカ人の武術ですね。どこで習ったんですか

上手だよ

[Jon Slade @jon_slade]

#52Blocks wins again. Nice slip and counter cross by Nunn

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

KENDRICK NUNN VS. TYRIQUE JONES FIGHT

OH MY GOODNESS. 🤯🤯🤯

(via @GTragaris)

[Jon Slade @jon_slade]

Almost there: the takeaway should be "get strong and don't EVER let this happen again...BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY"

#MakeLiberiaGreatAgain

[Alfred ‘The Great’ II @d_black_messiah]

Saw a comment under a post on Facebook mocking Africans for “using arrows while they built the atomic bomb.” Someone replied in agreement, saying giving the white man his flowers “isn’t inferiority, it’s just truth.”

Let’s sit with that for a moment.

For roughly 400 years, the white race extracted labor, gold, rubber, land, and human beings from the other side without paying anything close to a fair market price. Enslaved hands picked the cotton that fed the mills. Stolen resources fueled industries. Guns, conquest, and broken treaties redirected entire economies toward the needs of the colonizer, not the needs of the colonized.

Then, after centuries of that arrangement, factories were built. Universities were established. Industries expanded. And yes, atomic bombs were eventually created.

Now we’re supposed to look at the finished product and call it pure genius, as though it emerged in a vacuum.

No.

It emerged from a global system where one side enjoyed centuries of accumulated advantage while the other paid the cost. There is a difference between genius and a subsidy.

Here’s the question nobody wants to answer honestly:

If Europe had been required to purchase African gold, Congolese rubber, and African labor at the same fair prices it would have paid its own people, does the Industrial Revolution happen on the same timeline? Does it happen at the same scale? Does it happen when it did?

Maybe it still happens. Human ingenuity is not exclusive to any race or continent.

But “eventually, on a level playing field” is a very different argument from “they were simply superior.”

And let’s stop pretending Africa began at zero.

The Mali Empire had universities. Timbuktu had libraries containing hundreds of thousands of manuscripts covering astronomy, law, medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and theology while parts of Europe were still in what European historians themselves later called the Dark Ages.

Great Zimbabwe built monumental stone architecture that still stands today.

Ethiopia developed and preserved one of the world’s oldest writing traditions.

We were not a continent waiting for civilization to arrive.

Then came conquest. Libraries were burned. Manuscripts were looted. Knowledge was scattered. Institutions were disrupted. Entire societies were reorganized around extraction.

Some of what was taken disappeared. Some of it was absorbed into systems that later presented themselves as the sole source of human progress.

We did not start at zero.

We were reset to zero.

Those are not the same thing.

And confusing the two is exactly how this myth survives.

So no, I’m not handing out flowers to a system that pruned the garden it benefited from and then claimed sole credit for the harvest.

The atomic bomb is not proof of racial superiority.

It is proof of what can be achieved when one side spends centuries accumulating resources, labor, and wealth from vast portions of the world while the other side bears the cost.

Know the difference.

Then decide who truly earned your flowers.

[Friends of Roberts @friendsof1847]

5,000 jobs is the entire town of Robertsport, #Liberia. Thts the impact our investment in #Liberia can have.

[Friends of Roberts @friendsof1847]

Another amazing feature of Robertsport as a commercial center is the fact tht it's sandwiched btwn both the Lofa & the Mano River. Nt only wud producers b able 2 move their goods around Lake Piso bt they cud access more of #Liberia's interior via these 2 waterways.

[Jon Slade @jon_slade]

Robertsport, Liberia circa 2032...the beginning of the build out.
#Liberia #Robertsport

[XTREEEMA101 @xtreeema101]

@ShadowofEzra REMEMBER THIS ? 😲👀💀

[Jon Slade @jon_slade]

@sunbeltblues Make it a Porsche and it's perfect.

[BaroqueMan @VivaldiVril]

Imperial Japan, with few exceptions, performed extraordinarily poorly in WW2.

Their decision to essentially allow US submarines to sink as many Japanese ships as they wanted to is impossible to understand, unless you understand the tactical and strategic narrowmindedness of the Imperial Japanese.
They wanted one big battle, like Tsushima, they were desperate for it. The concept of attrition warfare was alien to them.

One US submarine sank their newest, biggest carrier almost immediately after it was launched. Just mind-boggling incompetence.

[Woofers @NotWoofers]

Something I’ve always found interesting about the Pacific War is that Japanese fleet operations were basically just stalling for time. The United States built 150 aircraft carriers of various size during WW2. The Japanese built 19.

The Japanese could not afford catastrophic losses. They had to have disproportionate victories every, single, time. That didn’t happen and they got crushed repeatedly in fleet engagements against a foe which could keep cranking out replacements.

A relevant lesson for the Americans of the 21st century.

[Jon Slade @jon_slade]

Word on the street is that #Iran has a nuke now; and that this information was verified by the NSA and told to Trump over the weekend.

Furthermore, Pakistan officially told this information to Rubio as well.

Iran has offered to do "a demonstration"
#IranWar‌

[Jon Slade @jon_slade]

Word on the street is that #Iran has a nuke now; and that this information was verified by the NSA and told to Trump over the weekend.

Furthermore, Pakistan officially told this information to Rubio as well.

Iran has offered to do "a demonstration"
#IranWar‌

[Polymarket Money @PolymarketMoney]

Google is now sitting on an estimated $275,000,000,000+ in unrealized gains from its investments in Anthropic and SpaceX.

[Jon Slade @jon_slade]

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