soufatlantasanta [any]

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Cake day: July 30th, 2020

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  • instead of considering what they say about “Sovereignty” a tiny little bit … ?

    you're assuming I haven't considered their viewpoints. I have. It's because of personal experience living in the global south that I think the arguments in favor of governments that want to ban online platforms are wack





  • The Tweet itself is at most rhetorically equivalent to Trump threatening of BLM protestors, but I don’t think it even reaches that level since he’s talking about separatist groups carrying out attacks on infrastructure. So my initial reaction is that it’s a good step to maintain sovereignty in the country from some CIA ghouls censoring tweets against (their?) separatists.

    tfw you're 13 years old, discovered Chomsky two days ago, and know some acronyms and the names of intelligence agencies and are now a professional Imperialism Understander :spongebob-party:





  • fair enough. I guess in that case it makes sense but a big difference between China and Nigeria is that despite being wary of American tech and enacting restrictive internet policies, China's government is still nominally ML and still generally does its duty and service for its people. It's not comprised of military bureaucrats who got their posts from a junta, and it's not led by a military leader who has been in power for 30 years after taking it in a brutal coup.

    Despite all the nonsense people on reddit say about him, Xi is a pretty normal dude. Buhari is not.


  • that's right, I forgot military coups are ok if they happened in the 80s. cool, I just forgave Compaore for killing Thomas Sankara! I thought he was guilty but he's not because it happened years ago. based! also every country that is in Belt and Road can automatically do no wrong because they're part of Belt and Road. excellent logic my good sir


  • come back and talk to me once your understanding of international relations has progressed beyond that of an edgy 11-year-old who discovered Marxism two weeks ago and now thinks everything Twitter does is personally directed by Langley through voodoo dolls. I'm not denying it can be used as a tool of US imperialism, I'm saying banning it in response to that is idiotic and leaders in the global south who do so have demonstrated that they're doing it out of spite and because it conflicts with their own self-interest, like Modi and now Buhari


  • why are you caping so hard for a fucking authoritarian who literally came to power as the result of a military coup. why is everyone on this thread taking crazypills. are there seriously people who think Buhari is a leftist? he isn't even like a half socdem half Marxist like Xi or some of the CPC people who at least seem to have their nation's interests at heart. he's an authoritarian fuckstick who violently suppresses any dissent.

    talk to an actual Nigerian for once in your fucking life I swear to god