Lawyer & Runner. International Arbitration & Geopolitics. German & French Speaker.
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One reason why the anti-feminist movement does not succeed is that every generation eventually realises that women’s rights are human rights.
One thing I love about job interviews is the moment you finish, you know whether you did good or bad.
This is the second time I am giving a road side trader cash in this Lagos and they are rejecting it on the basis of it being rough. For a people that live in such a dirty environment, I find this funny.
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The Chinese will drop the most unhinged savagery and insults at Turks 🇹🇷 online, no problem, but the moment a French footballer laughs at a photoshopped meme of himself as Mao and says he's "some guy - I think he's a Chinese dictator” in the most offhand way possible, it’s full Cultural Revolution mode.
Within hours, energy drink Dongpeng announced it was ending its partnership with Kylan Mbappé.
Then Mengniu, China's largest dairy producer, cut every tie with "immediate effect." Mengniu said it has "zero tolerance" for any words or actions that hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.
"Dongpeng Beverage ends cooperation with Mbappé" became the number one trending topic on Weibo.
For laughing at a dumb Mao meme on a French show, and not knowing who he was, Mbappé lost sponsors, and the state is now blacking out La Liga on Chinese TV.
Which is important context seeing that the Chinese keyboard warriors who popped out from behind the Great Firewall to hurl high IQ, historically sophisticated venom at Turks this past week have been advertising “look how free and based we are.”
But you're not really free and based if you can't even be ignorant of or not supply sufficient reverence to your nation's leaders and heroes.
Kylian Mbappé lost major Chinese sponsorship deals after joking about a meme of himself as Mao Zedong.
On the French YouTube show The Bridge (hosted by his France teammate Aurélien Tchouaméni), Mbappé was asked about his favorite meme of himself. He said it was the one where his face is put on the body of a “Chinese dictator” (Mao Zedong). He added that it really makes him laugh and that he uses it a lot with his friends (e.g., while gaming online).
Dongpeng (Eastroc Beverage / Bu Shui La brand), a major Chinese drinks company and one of Mbappé’s key Chinese sponsors, terminated all cooperation immediately. It stated it firmly opposes any conduct that hurts national sentiment and applies zero tolerance.
Mengniu, the large Chinese dairy company, also cut ties and removed Mbappé-related content from its social media (including Weibo).
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He wasn’t even mocking him, he just called him "a Chinese dictator" (it’s clear from the video that he had no idea who exactly Mao was), saying the meme in which they had replaced Mao’s face with his had made him laugh. This hyper-sensitivity is kind of pathetic to be honest.
Major brands in China have dropped Kylian Mbappé over a clip in which the French football megastar appeared to mock Mao Zedong, China’s modern founding leader.
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Nigerians are so deep rooted in classism that it happens even amongst our elites.
Imagine being with Mark Zuckerberg and the first thing he does is to check if your watch is expensive 😂
Did a job interview and the moment they asked me a question that I told them I had little experience on but have them the little knowledge I had on the topic, the started acting like sharks who smelled blood and came for me.
The wealth of Lagos is best demonstrated by private Individuals in form of expensive cars, houses etc outside of private wealth, public infrastructure in Lagos does not show that Lagos is the richest state in Nigeria.
The gentrification of low income neighborhoods in Lagos is scary. More old buildings are being demolished and turned to storey buildings which the average Lagosian can't afford.
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Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa. So no surprise if you find us everywhere. The surprise is South Africans always acting like they love their land so much they wouldn’t emigrate 😂 but are everywhere
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Uganda is tapping its nearly $7 billion in reserves to lessen the blow of a plunging shilling, which is the world’s second-worst-performing currency this month after Iraq’s dinar. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The world is closed to travel for most Africans. Visa apartheid has created two systems were Westerns are able to travel the world freely while Africans are restricted by visa restrictions.
The idea that the world is closed off to travel compared to the past is bullshit.
Everything east of Berlin was essentially inaccessible. Any tour of a Soviet country would require you to be monitored at all times by the secret police. You couldn't walk out of a hotel by yourself half the time. You had a guide who told you the state line and that was it - he would be monitored to make sure he did too. Even if you go to China or Russia today, you will never be on the receiving-end of something like that.
South-East Asia was a no go zone pretty much as late as the turn of the millenium. Cambodia had a Civil War into the 90s and Vietnam was borderline African in terms of poverty until the Doi Moi reforms of the 1980s. China itself was completely closed until recently. There are multiple news reports of China from the 1970s/80s where the Great Wall was totally empty as no one was there.
South America was vastly more violent back in the Escobar days, and even the Opreration Condor Days. Coups were happening back and forth and well funded Communist militias had a great incentive to kidnap you for ransom. Even Cuba wasn't what it became - it only became a tourist place after the collapse of the USSR and the need to find money elsewhere. If you went in the 80s it was an extremely sterile place, it was far more repressive even if slightly richer than what it is now, and parties/prostitution were extremely rare.
Africa was equally fucked up. In the aftermath of decolonisation and Cold War geopolitical plays. Does anyone even know there was a reverse Rwanda-Genocide in 1972 that killed a quarter of a million Hutus? How many people know about the mass killings of Arabs in Tanzania? African rulers at the time were far more insane than they are now - Mguema, Amin, Bokossa, you would absolutely not want to fuck with any of these people.
Even if you wanted to go to the States, it was a nightmare. 1970s and 1980s American cities, where you'd presumably want to go to see NYC of DC, were post apocalyptic hellholes with murder rates comparable to Latin America. Entire districts of New York were completely abandoned. Times Square wasn't Tourist Disneyland, it was just porn theatres and muggings.
So yeah, this is legit the best era in history, with trivial exceptions.
