@Maartins definitely ktt's umar johnson lol

Steelworkers in Volyn Oblast are making hedgehogs to block the Russian advances. These are very effective at disabling the tank tracks and ironically these were invented by the Soviet Union in World War 2.

Liberate where?

world is too busy and fast paced.

Nigga, MFs out here trying to find a way to make it tomorrow. Tf does do better even mean. Ain't no time to "do research" when the light bill gotta be paid tomorrow and they gonna take the car

The Crimea

I mean, that's a highly complex situation but the Russians illegally annexed it and staged a sham referendum

fam think the average person has time to s*** talk on the internet let alone an informative forum.

KTT'ers in general gotta stop acting like they're the norm. We're not.

Nothing will ever change with this mentality

African folk are deeply trusting but that’s what gets us

I knew there was a huge african community in eastern europe that goes there as students in order to get a somewhat better education, I also knew before war that they faced deep racism and abuse

I just really thought that you know in a war these people would act like you know…humans

But it’s all the same strain of human evil. What causes a powerful country to needlessly invade another and take peoples lives is the same s*** that perpetuates this. Exact same through line

Do people not understand how nuclear weapons work?

Niggas trynna find where they next meal coming from and y’all want them to google african conflicts on an empty stomach. Most black people dont care for ukrainians only reason why it’s gotten so much attention is because this conflict can escalate to become a nuclear one.

Like yeah of course people gonna pay more attention to a conflict that can lead us back to the stone ages lol. It’s not likely but still.

What a stupid post

I come from a deepl tradition of pan-africanist leftism. It’s a serious philosophical school, nothing memeable about it

I feel for ukrainian lives but we have to be open eyed about the multiple interplaying dynamics that is reality for the black lives in those regions

Tf outta here with this "I just took my first semester of African studies" ass take. C'mon now, did you forget how f***ing hard it is just living while black? Most MFs so busy trying not to end up on the street they don't even know who on the city council. I'm not saying it's right, but it's just f***ing immature to be that removed from reality of everyday life.

only reason why it’s gotten so much attention is because this conflict can escalate to become a nuclear one.

That part.

Okay well regardless of how we got there. It's the reality on the ground now, talks of "liberating" the Crimea is a threat.

And why not propose an internationally observed referendum then? Because they know the result will be to be part of Russia, as polls have shown.

Yep.

The thing that people forget about all those 60s movements is that people were actually on the ground making information accessible for the common man that had to do all that work s***.

Thanks to the increase of things like academia, that whole "make s*** accessible for the common man" part got lost in the mix.

yall should know better than share news coming from countries at war

Not to mention, with social media, and the birth of customizable media flow, if niggas ain't subscribed to a newsletter or following news (and who tf would want to after 4 years of Trump and 2 years of COVID), we find out whenever the memes start flying

if you spend time on social media you have time to do some research on what you're talking about

F*** off with these african studied bs i'm african myself nigga and from a working class family myself stop talking out ur ass, stay on subject and quit the personal attacks

If my single mother can stay educated on these topics so can others, it's not impossible. I acknowledge that there are factors that keep people from doing that, but at the end of the day we cant let those disadvantages stop us from being educated, nobody else is gonna help us but us

social media has done wonders (especially during the early BLM days before it got co-opted bt frontrunners and scammers, shoutout to blue vest and talcum x) as far as getting information about issues out but nothing will ever top community outreach.

That b**** a lost art lol.