Evilsandwichman [none/use name]

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Cake day: January 12th, 2021

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  • I’m currently working in the Middle East and speaking for myself, I’m less worried about dying brutally to a bombing campaign by China than I am by my own government, so that certainly plays a role.

    I think if the government put some effort towards PR by making some superficial gestures such as not invading other countries or overthrowing their governments it would certainly help improve our image abroad and I could stop pretending I’m British.

    What we really need is to convince the global South that NOT being bombed by China is actually an evil orientalist plot to subvert our kindly brutality.

    It’s getting very exhausting telling the locals “Oy yoo lot ain’t neva seen ‘ow ‘orrible dem Choinese ca’ be! Would yoo be preferrin’ youse country, yeah? Would youse be preferrin’ yoo be in one a dem ‘orrifying debt traps, or would youse be preferrin’, yeah? A noice Gaaza remodelin’, yeah? Oi think tha choice is an easy one, yeah? Dem Choinese don’ seem so noice now, do they?”

    Speaking like a Brit makes my mouth hurt; no wonder they’re so miserable.







  • The archeology book Im talking about was mentioning they were on a time limit because the farmer who owned the land wanted to tear down the over a thousand year old ruin (maybe even over two thousand) because he wanted the land’s use as farmland. They weren’t able to finish their study of the ruins and its artifacts despite working overtime because they hit their time limit and the farmer had the ancient ruins demolished. That’s just depressing.






  • Traore is definitely a socialist, but he’s also a nationalist, which you know…good 👍

    Among the things Traore has spoken about when it comes to his people’s culture is that the French imposed their own culture on Burkina Faso (the fact of which should be evident in them speaking French); he mentioned that women in BF dress in black when mourning because that’s what the French wear, but traditionally they used to wear blue. Traore’s nationalism is about bringing his people’s culture back from the foreign thing it’s become.

    There are many cases of colonized peoples losing their cultural identity and becoming a copy of their colonizers, a copy the colonizer doesn’t even consider as an equal or a desirable people. Traore wants to bring pride back to his people, he wants them to be proud of who they are and where they’re from rather than be unwelcomed French cardboard cutouts.