@anishmoonka You just going to gloss over the fact that morocco was a barbary state taking americans as slaves at the time and extorting around 20% of US GDP?
@IvoVegter Only if you view it as the 3rd world is savage and they have been imported wholesale.
Or in the spirit of its meaning, the savage portion of the 3rd world has been imported.
Grammar can make all the difference.
@azania1023 1 The borders of SA are arbitrary. Different groups arrived in different areas at different times.
2 Arriving 1st means nothing. You need the strength to hold what you claim. This is true of every human settlement from the dawn of time till the modern era.
In July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid.
Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia.
Almost nobody remembers who actually caused the famine. π§΅
@ZackieAchmat@FT What kak.
Musk is not anti-immigrant, hes pro-nationalist.
The subtleties of such a stance are easily lost on those with a death grip on 20th century left-right politics.
@nnipay3cobra The test is easy to perform.
People can live in a deeply rural village, living a life not so far removed from a pre colonial lifestlye.
Or they can live in an urban area, enjoying the fruits of a society benefitting from a colonial legacy.
The truth is there to see.