I do know! I just struggle with the country names sometimes. Leave me alone!
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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