okay then we charge money for each pronoun so the rich have their own, lend pronouns with high interest to the poor (+ make pronouns mandatory) and bail out the pronoun banks when the market collapses

lmao

since when did r/BlackPeopleTwitter have more ppl than r/WhitePeopleTwitter lmao

this election truly is so much more different. honestly doubt voting will have much impact (especially with the possible coalition/pacts) but i hope that the lives of South Africans will get better

also thanks for the info!

i wonder what coalition/pact they’ll have to form after:

• ANC/EFF seems kinda plausible
• ANC/DA sounds awful but an broad parliamentarian coalition has been done before (90’s) so maybe? though they have major differences so I don’t see it working long-term (plus DA are )
• ANC/MK would probably never happen (+ wouldn’t be a very safe majority). also small parties tend to overpoll (though idk if thats the case for South Africa) so they may not even get enough votes anyways
• ANC/independents and other parties also seems possible w/ an electoral pact, but idk how many of them actually align themselves with the ANC or have similar ideas

:meow-hug: wish you the best

sounds like an interesting read

my knowledge of the Congo is limited to the '60s so i might take a look at this book

so that’s where it comes from

huh that’s cool

yay more toki pona

the full transcript for the interview is linked in the post (and is worth a read) but i also summarised the details relevant to the headlines:

on the failed coup attempt:

MAURICE: Well, I think that, as you said, it was quixotic. Christian Malanga had no political base in Congo, so it’s hard to imagine how he thought he could succeed in seizing power.

It was almost like reality TV. He even streamed himself and his band of soldiers on Facebook, making pronouncements and waving his bizarre “New Zaire” flag in the presidential palace.

ANN: Some people are making a lot of the fact that Christian was a Congolese American and that several Americans, including his 21-year-old son Marcel Malanga, were arrested with the rest of his crew.

MAURICE: No, whatever you want to say about the Pentagon, the CIA, the DIA, or any of the other myriad US intelligence agencies, they’re not amateurs, and nothing could have been more amateurish than Christian’s three-hour coup attempt.

ANN: Another detail generating a lot of social media posts is Christian’s visit to an Israeli military base in 2015.

MAURICE: Likewise. Mossad is not amateurish and neither is the Israeli military.

ANN: Is there anything else you’d like to say about the coup attempt?

MAURICE: Only that there was a big concert scheduled in Kinshasa later that day and it went forward as planned. That should tell you what a blip on the screen this coup attempt was.

and on the holding up of a Congolese flag in the graduating class:

MAURICE: Yes, Dr. Livingston serves on our board, and Dr. Hewitt is a very active supporter of our work.

ANN: The only press I can find about the Morehouse protest so far, beyond social media, is in USA Today , Yahoo News , and Democracy Now !. USA Today claimed to “explain” but didn’t say anything about why the professors would be protesting behind Biden, and neither did Yahoo News.

On Democracy Now!, Dr. Livingston said he was protesting US complicity in the genocide in DRC by supporting Rwanda, which supports the M23 militia most responsible for the genocide. He also said he did so because the people of the Congo do not get enough media attention, and that the US owes reparations to the Congolese for assassinating their first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba.

ANN: Dr. Livingston also mentioned a connection between Congo, Israel, Palestine, and Dan Gertler, the conflict mineral mining magnate we discussed earlier. He said, as you did, that Biden is trying to strike a deal with Gertler, who is also Israeli. Gertler, he said, has used the vast wealth he’s managed to extract from DRC not only to enrich himself, but also to vicariously enrich the Israeli state, and therefore contribute to the oppression of the Palestinian people.

ni li nasin “Trinity” pi nasin sewi Kolisu a!

lol yeah true

for sure

woah toki pona and touhou and vocaloid

+ teto!

lmao i just realised what you meant

lol that content warning was pretty good

oh i can see that too. well I added it in the post just in case too

thanks!

oh my bad, i completely forgot about that part

i’ll fix that now

miku singing the internationale