Tayo.

Software developer, musician, weeaboo trash, socialist, TTU alum, big black dude & lover of all things nerdy and African

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Worth noting that Robert Kraft also donated to Shontel Brown's campaign to defeat pro-Palestine progressive candidate Nina Turner in the 2021 OH-11th race.

He loves buying Black people to push Israel's interests.

[Tayo. @nerdyafricankid]

@_youngcapalot Usopp is going to stall Imu enough to get the clout of a Brave Warrior of the sea, and Imu will retreat due to his Can't-leave-the-castle illness

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Jesse Jackson endorsed Bernie Sanders. That was the off-ramp.

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

Israel supported aparthied South Africa, even supplied weapons to the apartheid regime that killed millions of African people. Only foolish Africans will defend a colonial state.

[Jason (U mad) @EmperorTChalla]

As Africans Americans & Black people globally we should wear imagery honoring revolutionary Africans globally that participated in rebellionagainst these european christofascist settler ghouls. Toussaint Louverture should be honored everywhere. Sending love to Black Haitians

[gen z kid miracleman (official) @shin_kale_rider]

Every chud who let themselves get radicalized by shit like GamerGate was playing right into the hands of a cabal of Mossad-controlled pedophiles and child murderers, wokeness has never been more vindicated

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, under the guise of "countering Communism," the CIA infiltrated Christian movements all over Africa and the Global South with the mission of steering Christian doctrines away from so-called "Liberation Theology" (teachings that encouraged people to stand up to corrupt governments and take collective action to better their lives), because this doctrine apparently was "Communist."

It funded and assisted the explosive growth of a whole new form of Christianity, which you recognise today as Prosperity Gospel, and it pumped millions of dollars into pushing it all over the Global South as part of its Cold War effort. This new doctrine ignored any kind of collectivism and encouraged people to see their Christian faith and salvation as individualistic issues that can be measured with specific individual outcomes, such as economic "blessing."

It was the perfect capitalist trojan horse because it convinced people to stop thinking of progress as a shared national issue and rather as an individual responsibility, which meant they did not need to organise into pressure groups, political movements, trade unions, student unions, or any other collectivist entities that the US government considered "Leftist" or "Communist." It succeeded wildly, and turned the world's poorest people in Sub Saharan Africa into rabid, money-obsessed capitalists without capital.

And in case you're wondering whether this means that all your mega pastors in Lagos and Abuja are US government-funded industry plants, the answer is simple: do a 1-minute Google search and find out where they all gained their theology degree or pastor training. There's your answer.

Anyway this is all on open record on the FOIA section of the CIA's own website, but the oyibos have convinced you that "Africans don't read," and you have internalised your own false stereotype, so you definitely won't read regardless. Your job is to enter my comment sections and drop laughing emojis because your forced laughter is your coping mechanism for dealing with how completely powerless and lost you are in a world you haven't begun to understand.

Anyway for the benefit of the 2 people who understand the value of reading and exervising their brains:

CIA and Missionaries: Half a Loaf by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
https://t.co/CtDot4WW1v

CIA Covert Action Information Bulletin Number 18: The CIA and Religion
https://t.co/BZq01WaHqm

Blowback of the gods: the U.S. government's covert use of religion as a tool of foreign policy in the Cold War by Wallace, James C.
https://t.co/GHAoz9ZP3J

Liberation Theology: Religion, Reform, and Revolution
(CIA Directorate of Intelligence Research Paper)
https://t.co/UAHlslAHRR

[YourFavoriteGuy☭ @guychristensen_]

Where's Jill Stein? I'll Tell Ya

Her work has shifted into grassroots organizing, international solidarity, and social movements they always try to erase. This is the kind of resistance our system tries to sideline.

If you’re looking for bold, uncompromised advocacy, she’s one of the few still doing it when no one’s watching.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

Advocates of laissez-faire economics — including libertarians, neoliberals, and free-market capitalists — have long claimed that one of the biggest dangers of too much state intervention is that it will stifle innovation.

China is taking a sledgehammer to that idea, completely annihilating it.

Sure, there is a thriving private sector in China that plays a key role in the country’s national system of innovation.

But the state — not the capitalists — ultimately controls the direction of investment in China.

The state — not the capitalists — has formulated strategic industrial policies to make China a global powerhouse in clean energy tech, electronics, and rare earths processing.

The state — not the capitalists — is in control of the means of production and the commanding heights of the economy.

China is a socialist market economy where corporate power and wealth don’t translate into immense political power. This makes China fundamentally different from many Western capitalist economies. And this also explains why China will most likely win the global innovation race even more decisively in the years ahead.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Not that this will accomplish anything, since you people hit the "off" switch inside your brains once your religion is mentioned, but for the benefit of the roughly 9 teachable people left in Nigerja, here is what is REALLY happening around you:

1. China is winning the economic war with the US, and the US is aware that it can no longer compete industrially with China, which is already a larger economy than the US in PPP terms. The only reason the US economy is still nominally larger is that the US dollar remains wildly overvalued due to its use as the global reserve currency.

2. The rise of BRICS means that the end of the US dollar as global reserve currency is coming. Once that happens, the US economy will implode, because it is built on exporting USD and importing the world's productivity. Without the overvalued USD as an imperial tool for controlling and extracting from the rest of the planet, the US will basically become Brazil with nuclear warheads.

3. The Trump administration knows this, which is why it has gone into full imperial mode, renaming the DoD to "Department of War," and preparing to deploy the US military across Latin America as part of its 'Monroe Doctrine.' The idea is to secure land, resources, and spheres of influence to compete with China and Russia, since it is no longer the unilateral superpower.

4. In this new multipolar world whose birth you are witnessing, there will be 3 or 4 great powers instead of just one, and all of them will compete and jostle for influence and access to resources. That is what you are witnessing playing out in Nepal, Bangladesh, the Sahel, the Middle East, Venezuela, and many other places. Yes, there are local factors, but everything exists in this wider context of a world being reshaped in front of our eyes.

5. During this reshaping of the world, Africa - the only continent with a majority of its states professing 'nonalignment' with any great power - is the biggest prize that is up for grabs. All of tomorrow's technology, which guarantees economic and military supremacy is built on resources found in DR Congo, Northern Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Sudan and Somalia. (What unique security situation do all these places have in common?)

6.During this reshaping, "international institutions" are debased and made irrelevant. Bibi Netanyahu has an ICC arrest warrant that nobody will honour, and the US government sanctioned the ICC for issuing the warrant, even locking the ICC Chief Prosecutor out of his email and bank accounts. The UN has officially declared Gaza to be a genocide - and nothing happened. And nothing will happen because these "institutions" no longer have of the teeth they once pretended to have.

7. This means that the days of one state cooking up a reason to invade or annex another state - something expressly forbidden since 1945 - are now back. And since Africa has what everybody wants, any great power is now free to deploy a geopolitical meme ("Christian Genocide in Nigeria") and use it to justify invasion to take what it wants. In other words, colonialism is coming back - not IMF/World Bank, suit-wearing, conference-attending, Business-English-speaking, polite neo-colonialism, but open, obvious colonial theft and thuggery. This is not decades away - it is a few years away at the most.

8. Russia considers Europe to be its rightful sphere of influence and trade dominance. Hence it views European access to cheap African resources as a threat. Thus Russia is stepping in to provide military and infrastructure support for African states so that they can start to use their own resources for themselves and leave Europe dependent on Russia. Europe and the US see this as an existential threat, hence their proxy war in Ukraine and their new geopolitical meme ("Christian Genocide in Nigeria") to justify direct military occupation of West Africa.

9. No great power gives a single fuck about "Nigerian Christian genocide." All you are is a means to an end!

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

Senescent Joe Biden couldn't figure out student debt relief in four years but Tr*mp has brought the US's top universities to their knees in eight months. Part of the liberal inability to beat Tr*mp is their passion for weak and ineffectual leaders.

[حيدر | Haydar @chronicalihere]

Timely to recall how whilst Cuba gave asylum to Black revolutionaries like Assata, the US gave asylum to Nazis and their collaborators. So when they call Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism or paint those struggling to uplift their people as evil, read in between the lines.

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

"I wasn’t against communism, but i can’t say i was for it either. At first, i viewed it suspiciously, as some kind of white man’s concoction, until i read works by African revolutionaries and studied the African liberation movements. Revolutionaries in Africa understood that the question of African liberation was not just a question of race, that even if they managed to get rid of the white colonialists, if they didn’t rid themselves of the capitalistic economic structure, the white colonialists would simply be replaced by Black neocolonialists. There was not a single liberation movement in Africa that was not fighting for socialism.

The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn’t working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn’t working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.

I got into heated arguments with sisters or brothers who claimed that the oppression of Black people was only a question of race. I argued that there were Black oppressors as well as white ones. That’s why you’ve got Blacks who support Nixon or Reagan or other conservatives. Black folks with money have always tended to support candidates who they believed would protect their financial interests. As far as i was concerned, it didn’t take too much brains to figure out that Black people are oppressed because of class as well as race, because we are poor and because we are Black. …

[Earlier in my life] When someone asked me what communism was, i opened my mouth to answer, then realized i didn’t have the faintest idea. My image of a communist came from a cartoon. It was a spy with a black trench coat and a black hat pulled down over his face, slinking around corners …
I never forgot that day. We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is… It’s got to be one of the most basic principles of living: always decide who your enemies are for yourself, and never let your enemies choose your enemies for you."

[YourFavoriteGuy☭ @guychristensen_]

Biden was such a nasty Zionist he signed the bill to ban/sell TikTok and has now given the extreme right billionaires control over the last free remaining platform. Fuck Biden for the rest of my life.

[Reggie Saxx @ReggiSaxx]

“early stages of facism” so what the fuck was the slavery and jim crow and current prison slave labor then?

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

First they came for the Palestinians and the universities. I cheered so loudly my neighbours filed a complaint with the police; clapped like a seal so convincingly I was almost devoured by orcas; proclaimed it was proof positive Joe Biden remained in full control of his faculties; and demanded Donald Trump do even more.
Then they came for a comedian and I condemned Donald Trump for destroying our freedoms.

[박주현 @hermit_hwarang]

You guys know McCarthyism and press censorship both got to absolutely dizzying levels during the Korean War because the U.S. had to justify/hide the fact it was killing millions of people in North Korea right

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

Required reading. My god.