Fordry

joined 1 year ago
[–] Fordry@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lived in southern Africa for 6 months. Primarily Mozambique but I was in SA a little as well as Malawi. They're very racist, the Africans. My brother who was there as well was driving somewhere one day with a Mozambican, a good dude, and it came up that he wanted all the white people out of Mozambique. My brother is a red-headed white American. He questioned this Mozambican asking what about himself? "Oh, not you, we like you." Its just how they think about things, probably going back to all the colonization that happened and all the ills or perceived ills that came from that. And so it's easy to just keep going back to that idea as a society.

And for the record, they didn't just want all the white people out. They wanted the Chinese out as well. And there's tensions between the various tribes. Combine all that with low levels of education and extensive poverty and it's easy for charismatic leaders to come along and pump up these ideas and get movements going as people see hope in the promises even when the results are obviously going to be bad.

[–] Fordry@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its never ceasing to amaze me that Ukraine, with essentially leftover western equipment, is handling a full blown invasion by Russia. Its pretty incredible to think what would happen to Russia if the west actually went all in and took down Russia with its full might.

I know they aren't as dependent as they've been in the past on Soviet/Russian armor but it does provide some hints to China's position as well. A western army at full strength with the full support of the western nations is, and will continue to be for a long time, an unmatched military force on the planet.

[–] Fordry@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Tragic, probably would have been far far far fewer deaths if the dams weren't there. Wouldn't have been the sudden torrent out of nowhere.

[–] Fordry@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hopefully a good start from Miller today. Keep the series even.

[–] Fordry@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You'd have to be able to run Android apps.

[–] Fordry@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty sweet

[–] Fordry@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Red Reader is pretty good. I moved to it from Bacon Reader years ago.

[–] Fordry@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

.5 game back of Houston and the Rangers are losing. Good day. Think the Mariners can absolutely take the division at this point.

[–] Fordry@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Red Alert has a strong female character and is definitely age appropriate... :)

 

I think we broke them.

 

Giving the Angels a nice little beat down to about end their season is pretty nice.

 

Looking forward to the rest of the Houston series. Maybe a sweep? Maybe? And the offense is still not totally clicking. Julio, Kelenic, France, Cal, and Teoscar have all been a little cool here lately(or longer).

Gonna need an upgrade at 2b cause Caballero isn't a starter and Wong just doesn't seem to have it.

 

What happens to the accounts that signed up on that server? For instance, if lemmy.world drops what happens to all it's users?

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