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- so what’s your take ?

- Instagram should get down of the professional sphere, taking film pictures is cute when it has people in it or places, not as a usage of advertisement of services or stores. That’s lowkey pretentious and it screams soooo bad capitalism 🤢

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My happy place when I dream

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devon ojas sound systems

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movie: high fidelity

year: 2000

dir: stephen frears

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Une femme est une femme (1961) Blue Velvet (1986) Buffalo ‘66 (1998) The Love Witch (2016) X (2022)

BLUE EYESHADOW IN FILMS

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Blue Velvet, 1986 (dir. David Lynch)

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I didn't see it being shared over here but right after the aggression started, a popular Egyptian youtuber, Ahmed El Ghandour, known as El Da7ee7, made a 1 hour documentary summarizing the history of the occupation, starting with its roots in Europe. He cites all sources in the video description, and most of them are Israeli sources. It's in Arabic but fully captioned in English and several other languages. I really recommend it.

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The House: Trust me, bro. This timing is totally a coincidence.

Also, the real craziness is the IDF have been using TikTok to broadcast their antics (war crimes) to the world.

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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/41pu2j0alrvmmqq/AADcNEo2K-fsdlacFfuXnKtva?dl=0

Above is the link to an audio file with Palestinian music, read-aloud poetry, storytelling, and excerpts from speeches on history and liberation. It was gathered by Radio Al Hara, an internet radio station broadcast from Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Amman in Jordan, founded during the pandemic as a way to connect during isolation. “Al Hara” means ​“the neighbourhood” in Arabic. From the river to the sea! 🇵🇸

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Like halfway through "how Europe underdeveloped Africa" cause I decided I'd read/listen to it after I had a strong base on knowledge on African history and just holy fuck is he right about nearly everything so far.

Having learned about how extensive African trade was prior to the 18th century and how heavily most African kingdoms shifted in the 16th it's very clear that what he points out in the way the slave trade and the need to aquire firearms grew the European economies while near completely emptying out African economies and how the hard shift to European import goods after Europe had grow through the use of African slave labor and monopoly of trade routes is still a largely still at play in the era of neocolonialism.

The way that Walter Rodney not just points out that this is true, but the depth to which he covers a variety of African kingdoms, their economies, and cultural practices puts even some college level courses to shame while also showcasing the exact ways in which some of these stronger or more expansive kingdoms like the Ashanti, oyo, borno, Kongo, and Benin kingdoms had explicitly tried everything to get guns through any other trade and how the Ashanti, merina, Ethiopian, Burundi Benin kingdoms sought our education and scholars to begin industrialization and the systematic way in which Europeans and Americans prevented that is just, well it's damming.

It's a continuing reminder how from the first stage of European expansion and control they had precisely zero good intentions for the peoples of Africa. That Europe saw Africa as nothing more than a way to grow itself, it's institutions and improve its economies by depriving Africa of labor, materials and freedom which is true to this day, most starkly in the Congo but true across the whole region.

But while the book shows the crimes of Europeans without sugar coating, it also doesn't glorify the African leaders and more importantly those that became collaborative with European despitism. It also does not abide by the word games the European powers like to play and goes in depth to the way Europeans had no actual interest in ending slavery, and that while invading the various kingdoms and communities to "end slavery" the created some of the most brutal slave conditions on this side of the globe, not just in Leopolds Congo but in French forced labor camps and British controlled regions, with the Portuguese being particularly up front about it.

Truly a shame that like most other black radicals Rodney was murdered so young. The rarity to which black radicals even get to 40 shows how desperately capitalist and white supremist try to prevent even the slightest push back from black voices. It also makes clear how much we all need to know this stuff, from debois's black reconstruction to nkrumah's neoimperialism these books give a great understanding of the past and the precise way in which we arrived to the current situation.

I pray that with the new scramble for Africa that is unfolding in front of our very faces, the genocides in the Congo, and Sudan, and the way in which these interlock with the genocide of Palestinians, that we all take the time to properly read and reflect so that we may properly organize and fight back for a fully free and sovereign Africa and Palestine and a world free from white supremacy.

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I think a fundamental thing presented by Walter Rodney is that Africa did not have money invested into, even for the build up of security forces that very literally enslaved them, that money that was used to pay those forces were literally paid by the taxes generated by very people that were being oppressed. Every mile of rail and road was funded by the oppression itself.

Europes singlural investment was just the arms and a portion of the forces that was used to initially colonize Africa. European capitalist were very happy to bring that up until they started getting push back.

Why do I bring this up today, how does this relate? Well look at the cop city build up, what's the purpose of that and why are companies and banks across the US investing in that? It's for extreme oppression that will pay super profits for them. It's to engage in literal urban warfare across the US, most likely to boost the slave raiding process that is our policing system which grants billions of dollars to the accounts of these businesses through prison slave labor.

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Guyana's finest

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30.3.24

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jojos bday cake was a success despite the ripoff

29/3/24

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30.3.24