You could fill a library with what I don't know about Africa... I genuinely am struggling to pinpoint a date or event you may be referring to. I'm ignorant, but not proud of it
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you know the name "muammar gaddafi" tho, or some spelling rearrangement like this? they assassinated him.
By stabbing him in the anus, on camera
I do know! I just struggle with the country names sometimes. Leave me alone!
fine
Admittedly, I don't know a whole lot about it, and only really learned what I know now, much after the fact, from a bitcoin-literature context (the whole breaking away from dollar stuff). I spent many a year far less interested in politics and news than I am now
I'm going the other way - used to be addicted to the news, bitcoin was part of a change where I'm paying less attention to the world.
Destroying Libya was a really bad move. It only makes sense if the people who orchestrated it are truly out to harm humanity. Not that it was a utopia or anything, but this is objectively worse, and the motivations are as antihuman as I can imagine.
I think I've got a decent balance these days. Far from a news junky, but at least a bit more clued in than the occasional headline and water cooler mentions of yore. I do try to pay closer attention to the big stuff, like Venezuela, these days.
The Libyans nearly killed Dr. Emmett Brown and his friend Martin McFly in a shopping mall parking lot in Hill Valley, CA on October 26, 1985, a day that will live in infamy.
Was feeling growing shame as I started reading lol. This account of history I do understand! Thanks
They also bombed Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988 over Scotland, killing 259 people including 190 Americans, so I don’t exactly consider Gadaffi a sympathetic historical figure.
That's pretty bad. I'm sure there's a whole rabbit hole there.
My loose understanding is that he was overall liked by his people, and helping lift the country and broader region up, and out of American influence. Prob best I limit my commentary here, as I only know the broadest of strokes of the events. Thanks
He was basically locked in for assassination once he wanted to lead an African Nations currency backed by gold that broke away from the West’s hegemony.
Propaganda runs deep on this one
All the bad guys had AK47s and RPGs back in the day
It’s amazing how much people don’t actually know about it.
The worst are the folks who repeat some news blip they heard on YouTube, then claim to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the continent since you didn’t hear about that one story.
Yeah, in my defense, zeta sometimes knows more esoteric stuff, so I think my mind was going that direction and failing to recall the obvious Libya reference that I of course am a little familiar with. I didn't follow it live back in the day, really only know the littlest bits of info, mostly related to the currency stuff from a bitcoin podcaster context.
Doing a better job these days in at least collecting what seems the relevant parts of news on the big stuff as it happens.
Powerful images 😢
That's the freedom many on Nostr are cheering for. It's disgusting
I'm not seeing a ton of cheering, but I'm usually deep in shitpost threads. Maybe a bit of justification posting ("this time is different") but at least it seems thoughtful and not so rah rah merica.
Not to get into a serious debate I'm unequipped for, but would you say your position is we should completely stay the hell out and do nothing? Valid on first principles grounds, but I try to be a realist. I'm a bit of a fence sitter, but that's justified given my now well-documented ignorance.