As an African citizen I completely agree with this. We don’t even need internet here. In fact, I’m posting this reply via carrier pigeons.
IDK why microblogging platforms show which client apps were used to make posts, but it’s quite easy to spoof. It would be fun to take the IPoAC joke there.
What people think Africa looks like:
What modern Africa really looks like:
What people think Europe looks like:
What modern Europe really looks like:
They literally posted the same picture twice as well.
Great point from OOP there, now do Africa before and after European colonialism.
“This continent/culture/country is so undeveloped and primitive,” says the person whose ancestors made said continent/culture/country like that by fucking them over, stealing pretty much everything they had, and destroying the systems they had had in place for decades or centuries.
This (the original tweet) shit is 100% Russian agitprop fwiw. They know precisely how to sow cynicism in western progressives and leftists which just so happens to interact with their interests and Donald Trump’s policies. It’s actually very obvious to anyone who doesn’t get high on their own farts
The real irony is that most of the aid money is spent paying charities that in turn pay for yuropeean or 'murican companies or organizations to do stuff the way they consider ideal. Coldfusion TV has a very good video on the topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aExnZ-1eHY
