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It'sMwangi retweeted
The chaos in El Salvador before Bukele was never an accident, and the chaos in Haiti today is not an accident either.
The media told you that the gangs were just poor boys who went bad on their own, but that story falls apart the moment you ask one simple question.
Where does a poor sixteen year old boy living in a slum with no job and no money get an AK-47 and an AR-15 and a Glock and thousands of rounds of ammunition, and where does he get a brand new Toyota Hilux and motorcycles and speedboats and drones and encrypted phones and bulletproof vests and night vision goggles, and who pays his monthly salary and pays for his safe house and pays his lawyer when he is arrested and pays the police and the judge and the prison guard to look the other way, and who pays his family when he dies?
A poor boy cannot afford even one bullet, so someone else is paying for all of it.
That someone is the multimillionaires and the billionaires and the wealthy entities who profit from chaos, because chaos is a business and a broken country is the most profitable business in the world.
When a country is in chaos its land becomes cheap so they can buy it, its gold and its drugs and its resources can be stolen without anyone asking questions, its government becomes weak so they can control it, and its people become so scared that they obey anyone who promises them a little safety.
In El Salvador the gangs were not fighting the system, the gangs were the system, paid to keep the poor terrorized so the poor would never rise up and demand a better country.
In Haiti it is the same story, the gangs are not independent, they are funded and armed and protected by rich families and foreign businessmen and foreign NGOs who want Haiti to stay weak so they can keep stealing its ports and its gold and its labour.
And when a man like Bukele comes and says I will lock up all the gangs and end this in two years, who attacks him? It is the same people.
The same billionaires who fund the gangs fund the media that calls Bukele a dictator, the same wealthy entities who arm the gangs fund the NGOs that cry human rights for murderers, the same people who profit from chaos fund the political voices that hate real help in Haiti and sabotage anyone who is actually capable of doing it.
Look at the pattern and it becomes clear, when a gang kills a hundred innocent people there is silence, but when a leader kills a hundred gang members there is outrage.
When a gang rapes children there is no campaign, but when Bukele locks up rapists there is a global campaign against him.
That is because the media is not independent, it is owned by billionaires, the NGOs are not independent, they are funded by billionaires, and the politicians are not independent, they are bought by billionaires.
They do not want Haiti saved and they did not want El Salvador saved, they want them broken, because a broken country is cheap to buy and easy to control.
Bukele exposed them, he proved that gangs can be destroyed in months if you have the will, and that terrified them, because if El Salvador can be fixed then Haiti can be fixed, and if Haiti can be fixed then Africa can be fixed, and if Africa can be fixed then the billionaires lose their business.
That is why they demonize Bukele, that is why they sabotage Haiti, that is why they hate any man who actually helps the poor.
It'sMwangi retweeted
These are not lies. They're buzzwords and spectacle. Kenyans love buzzwords. Kasongo's problem isn't that he uses them; it's that he gives the most ridiculous sounding ones. But politicians do the same thing every day, and Kenyans love it. Look at the best "performing" politicians whom we praise. It's those who do spectacle of hospitals and schools. Meanwhile we're exporting medical workers and not paying teachers.
This is why I said on Orinna's show that I don't assess political leadership by material projects. I assess it by direction, inspiration and clarity. No political leader in Kenya has that.
It'sMwangi retweeted
Kenyans understand how literature and fasihi helps us understands games that politicians play, but we are okay with the the government make it optional for our children in CBC. The government is very intentional when separating grammar from literature.
Bayern vs Ajax: Hype vs Reality?
The much-hyped Bayern vs Ajax friendly raises some serious questions. How convenient is it to play a friendly on 5 January, travel back home, and feature in competitive home fixtures on 9 January?
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Who exactly is expected to fill the stands? Neither club commands a sizeable local fanbase here, and given the limited competitive significance of a friendly, a massive international audience seems unlikely.
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It'sMwangi retweeted
"I think Pan-Africanists also have to undo the naivete that put us where we are. If they had not praised Kenyatta so much and romanticized the British narrative of the Mau Mau, the Kenyan elite would have no leg to stand on." @penandmachete
anti-imperialists.com/magazi…
Ol Kalou nao kuchoma wamechoma. There will be no more mattresses and gas cylinders in mrima. – at Kiambu, Kenya
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Whether by design or default, the Ol Kalou (my birthland) campaigns had exposed DCP and it's leaders. A bunch of novices. To remove this government, DCP can't be leading the opposition
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It'sMwangi retweeted
This is like a massive, stinging slap in the face of every self-righteous proponent of the free-market economy who works tirelessly to brainwash the entire planet into believing that limited government intervention is inherently good, that state regulation is evil, and that prices will always magically find their true, natural value.
If the state does not decisively intervene to stop corrupt oligarchs, private equity firms, and global investment giants from buying up every single affordable residential home, real estate prices will never find a value that respects basic human dignity, local communities, or the working class. Instead, they will only ever find a highly inflated, artificial value that strictly protects the greedy corporate interests, profit margins, and portfolios of multi-billion-dollar venture capitalists.
Socialism works and will always work. Even the most ruthless capitalists on Wall Street still desperately lobby for massive government tax cuts, multi-billion-dollar state bailouts, favorable regulatory loopholes, protectionist trade tariffs, and direct central bank interventions, which is basically nothing but a highly customized, tax-funded communist manifesto designed exclusively for the rich, the powerful, and the politically connected.
It'sMwangi retweeted
Take any population on earth.
For several generations, remove their most physically capable members by force and sell them abroad.
Destroy their existing political institutions and replace them with administrative structures designed to extract rather than develop.
Draw their borders to maximize ethnic conflict and minimize political coherence.
Extract their mineral and agricultural wealth for a century at prices you set unilaterally.
When you leave, install governments that serve your economic interests rather than their populations.
Fund civil wars when those governments are threatened by leaders who want to redirect resource revenues toward domestic development.
Then, three generations later, administer a cognitive test.
Compare the scores to those of the populations who spent the same period accumulating capital, building universities, developing public health infrastructure, and compounding the advantages of political stability.
Put the results on a map.
Call the map a "nature documentary."
Tell yourself the scores show something biological.
Tell yourself the history had nothing to do with it.
Tell yourself you arrived at this conclusion by following the evidence.
You did not follow the evidence.
You followed the map to the place you had already decided to go.
And the evidence, the entire, documented, sourced, cross-disciplinary evidence, is the invoice you refused to open.
It'sMwangi retweeted
Today marks one week since my niece was kidnapped by Evans Saisi who wanted ramson and later disappeared. We hope and pray that she is fine and we find her soon💔
It'sMwangi retweeted
It's the ideology of "youth" that's the problem. Even the way global capital talks about Africa, they keep saying what's unique about us is our youth population size. It's very creepy. Imperialism loves youth because it knows young people are not old enough to have a sense of history and impact. And they infantilize the youth. When Macron came, did he engage the youth as thinking, political actors? No. He was taking selfies with them, cooking, having dinner, lecturing them about keeping quiet.
I don't remember ever thinking of myself as "youth." But my students keep saying "as the youth..." and I ask them if they've ever considered that they will grow up.