I would pay to watch Iran vs USA in the World Cup

Vinicius waking up after scoring hat-trick against Nigeria 😂

Trying really hard to disbelieve this

It is tragic that those of us here in Africa who are victims of imperialism, who still carry the physical and psychological scars of colonial looting, are comfortably celebrating the rise of imperial monopolies like Netflix, Uber, and Temu or Shein, just because we want to deliver a cheap punchline for a few brainless retweets, to chase worthless online clout, or to sound intellectually superior while cheering on our own economic destruction. Netflix did not "out-innovate" DStv, and DStv was not sleeping. The fundamental, unaddressed difference is that one is a local African broadcaster working with meager, heavily taxed local funding, while the other sits on a mountain of subsidized Western capital, an endless money-printing machine backed by Wall Street, and the geopolitical muscle of the US government. Netflix gets about $17B in effectively interest-free capital and tax-subsidized benefits every year, which allows them to run their operations at a massive loss while aggressively capturing sovereign markets. On the other hand, DStv is treated as a value stock, meaning public markets ruthlessly demand immediate dividends, strict fiscal discipline, and quarter-by-quarter profitability. If DStv spent ten billion dollars on a single year's content, its share price would crash into oblivion overnight, its board would be wiped out by panicking investors, and its credit lines would be cut. And just in case you are wondering, the South African government cannot step in to rescue DStv with interest-free loans, thanks to the predatory, highly restrictive treaties enforced by the ruthless World Trade Organisation. If the South African government dared to offer DStv a simple one hundred million dollar grant, they would immediately face brutal litigation at the WTO, because African nations foolishly signed suicidal trade agreements which dictate that if a sovereign state subsidizes its own local industry, it is legally obligated to offer the exact same financial welfare to the foreign predators invading their market. And this is just the WTO. We have not even discussed the financial hitmen at the IMF or the World Bank, who view any form of state support for local industries as fiscal irresponsibility, a violation of free-market dogmas, or an outright sin. If the government gave DStv a massive loan, the IMF would immediately downgrade the country's credit rating into junk status. This engineered downgrade would make it punishingly expensive for the South African government to build clinics, fund schools, or repair highways, because the interest rates on their national debt would skyrocket to line the pockets of Western lenders. But brainwashed Africans, who are the primary victims of this neo-colonial economic castration, will happily log onto Western platforms to tell you that Netflix was innovative while DStv was just sleeping. The absolute worst part of this farce is the brain-dead comparison between Uber and local taxi drivers. A local driver must make an immediate profit today to buy maize meal, bread, and petrol tomorrow. He cannot compete with a multinational behemoth that has an explicit mandate from Wall Street to burn five billion dollars a year in predatory pricing, artificially subsidizing rides just to starve local operators into bankruptcy and clear the field. The local taxi driver is the most visible, highly vulnerable target of his own state's predatory municipal machinery. He is hunted daily by corrupt traffic officers for compliance, like an expired permit, a slightly worn tire, a missing fire extinguisher, or an arbitrary traffic offense. For him, a single fifty-dollar ticket is not just a minor inconvenience; it is a catastrophic blow, the difference between his children sleeping with a full stomach or going to bed hungry. But Uber does not even recognize these drivers as human beings with labor rights. They see no need to protect the dignity of work, the right to a living wage, or the basic sovereignty of the citizen. Instead, Uber smugly informs the courts that local labor laws do not apply to them, because they are just an app, and their drivers are merely independent contractors. With this legal sleight of hand, they have effectively deleted the Bill of Rights for millions of working-class men and women. They have engineered a lawless corporate territory where they can terminate a breadwinner's account via a heartless algorithm with zero human review, pay him slave wages after stealing 30% in service fees, and refuse him a single cent of medical coverage for the crashes he suffers while lining their pockets. Worse, they offer their rides at a 50% discount because they are heavily subsidized by Silicon Valley venture capitalists playing a global game of market conquest, and local governments are too terrified to intervene, knowing that any attempt to regulate these giants will result in immediate economic retaliation, diplomatic bullying, or Washington threatening to sanction them into oblivion. Newspapers did not lose because they were lazy. There is no physical way a local newspaper can compete with Facebook or Instagram, which sit on massive surveillance networks, endless pools of free user data, and algorithmic monopolies designed to capture human attention for profit. This is exactly why China banned these digital parasites and built their own sovereign ecosystems to allow local industries to develop. How do you expect African manufacturing to ever survive when Shein and Temu are allowed to flood our markets with heavily subsidized, ultra-cheap fast fashion and low-quality equipment? Do you honestly think China would have transformed into an industrial superpower if they had allowed their territory to be used as a digital and physical dumping ground, a massive cesspool where the West discarded their second-hand clothes, their obsolete laptops, their toxic e-waste, and their plastic garbage under the fraudulent banner of free trade? This is the core problem I have with motivational speakers, with their brainless "grindset" rhetoric, and with how they completely erase the structures of global capital to blame the victim, because in their world, your poverty is a personal failure rather than the predictable outcome of an international economic system designed to keep you subjugated. Let me conclude by saying that we must stop applauding the very chains designed to bind us, we must stop worshipping the corporations that are asset-stripping our continent, and we must realize that true innovation cannot exist without economic sovereignty.

The supreme irony here is that the US government is actually burning more money just to sustain this illegal blockade on Iranian ports than Iran is currently losing due to the blockade. The reason for this is because maintaining a blockade of this scale is a colossal logistical nightmare. Washington has already deployed about 40% of all its active Naval warships to the Persian Gulf and the surrounding Arabian Sea. This maritime assembly alone consists of ships that are effectively mini cities floating in the sea. We are talking about the USS Gerald R. Ford and Abraham Lincoln, both equipped with nuclear reactors with a combined cost of $20 billion. Both are kitted with a phalanx of Naval destroyers costing $2 billion alone to build. These destroyers have their own gas turbine engines that depend on marine diesel to run. Operating at a high-tempo blockade posture which requires constant maneuvering, high-speed vessel interceptions, and maximum power routed to the Aegis combat radars, a single destroyer burns through tens of thousands of gallons of fuel daily. When multiplied across the entire fleet, the fuel bill alone reaches millions of dollars per day. This does not even include the cost required to keep the personnel alive in those floating cities. A Carrier Strike Group houses upwards of 7,500 sailors and aviators. Keeping a steady supply of refrigerated food and drinks, along with handling waste and other utilities, we are looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars per day. And since these ships are mounted on saltwater, which can corrode the expensive rare earth minerals used in the construction of these ships and radars, they need a constant supply of expensive replacement parts and thousands of man-hours just to prevent multi-billion-dollar combat systems from degrading into useless scrap. Now this is just the cost to keep the ships floating on the water alone. To ensure absolute containment and prevent any Iranian tankers from breaking out of Bandar Abbas, the Navy is forced to maintain a relentless, 24/7 Combat Air Patrol. This requires the constant deployment of the F-35C Lightning II, an advanced stealth fighter jet that drains an exorbitant $42,000 for every single hour it is in the sky. Its workhorse counterpart, the F/A-18 Super Hornet, demands $30,000 per flight hour. Operational doctrine dictates that multiple squadrons of these jets must be perpetually airborne to blanket the Iranian coastline, so the daily expenditure for aviation fuel and rapid-cycle maintenance easily exceeds 5 million dollars per day. This figure does not even include the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye radar planes and EA-18G Growler electronic warfare jets that must simultaneously hold the airspace to jam coastal defenses. Now this is just the offensive side alone. On the defensive side, to protect the 13-billion-dollar carriers from Iran’s asymmetric swarm tactics, these destroyers are systematically forced to fire SM-6 interceptor missiles, with each carrying a staggering price tag of $4.3 million. Their targets are mass-produced Iranian attack drones that cost Tehran less than $20,000 to manufacture. So the US Navy is continuously neutralizing cheap, disposable threats with irreplaceable, premium munitions. Because of this catastrophic imbalance, the Pentagon is burning through an estimated $758 million every single day just to replenish the high-end interceptors wasted on these radically lopsided engagements. Also, regional allies have quietly locked the US out of their ports and airspaces just to avoid angering Iran and leading to further escalations. The Navy has been stripped of the ability to dock, refuel, and resupply cheaply. Instead, they are entirely dependent on a massive, agonizingly slow pipeline of USNS supply ships that must drag millions of gallons of fuel and provisions thousands of miles across the open ocean. Even with all of this security detail and massive naval infrastructure, Iran is still shipping out a good percentage of its oil. Iran already calculated a possible US blockade and quietly built the 1000km Goreh-Jask Pipeline, which cost up to $2 billion for Iran to set up. This pipeline has the capacity to carry up to 1 million barrels of oil per day. Because Jask is located on the Gulf of Oman, any oil loaded there completely bypasses the Strait of Hormuz. This means Iranian tankers can load up and enter the open waters of the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean without ever having to sail through the US Navy's choke point inside the Persian Gulf. Considering that Iran is still able to sell a good percentage of its oil, the US blockade may very well be economic suicide. But what looks like a catastrophic geopolitical blunder on paper is, in reality, the most efficient corporate wealth transfer mechanism of the twenty-first century. To call the billion-dollar daily price tag of this Iranian blockade a "waste" is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the American empire actually functions. The money is not evaporating into the humid air of the Persian Gulf, nor is it sinking to the bottom of the Arabian Sea. It is being meticulously and legally laundered directly into the back pockets of the military-industrial complex. Every Tomahawk launched, every F-35 flight hour logged, and every piece of radar equipment vaporized by retaliatory strikes represents a mandatory, fast-tracked replenishment contract for legacy defense titans like Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Boeing. As for Silicon Valley, this war is like a dream come true. The sheer scale and complexity of this blockade have created a desperate need for advanced software. Companies like Palantir, Anduril, and a legion of venture-backed tech startups are currently gorging on defense contracts, selling artificial intelligence and predictive algorithms to the Navy. They are deploying AI-driven targeting software to process the chaotic radar clutter of the Strait of Hormuz, machine-learning models to hunt for Iranian "Ghost Fleet" tankers, and automated logistical systems just to manage the agonizingly slow supply chains keeping the fleet alive. This is why America keeps going to war every year. War is the only way these tech empires and military industries balance their books, and they lobby and buy politicians that will ensure this enterprise never comes to an end.

Naah this has me heated!!! #DeniBandia

Your TV station will not air this because they are all working for the state. If you see this retweet. #DeniBandia hatulipi

We don’t appreciate Okiya enough. @OkiyaOmtatah we love you and appreciate you! Your efforts are never in vain!!!

Now this is where our eyes should be

Good afternoon patriots. Here is your Lunchtime dose of anger. This should make you angry enough to avoid any nice looking thing near you. Today at Milimani High Court. Courtroom 31. One man is challenging KSh 7 trillion of debt. Borrowed in your name. Without your approval. Routed to offshore accounts instead of the Consolidated Fund. KSh 12.4 trillion total. And only 28.6% had proper legal backing. The rest was just borrowed. Quietly. On your behalf. While you were sleeping. The political class is silent. The media is silent. The same media that covered Ruto's misquoting in real time. Silent. The same politicians who scream about the people on rally podiums. Silent. Because this case does not just challenge the debt. It challenges everyone who borrowed it. Past presidents. Current presidents. Treasury officials. The IMF. All named as respondents. Now here is the question nobody is asking. If Omtatah wins. Who pays? You. The same Kenyan who did not borrow the money. Did not approve the money. Did not see the money. Will pay back the money. With SHA deductions. And housing levy. And dirty fuel taxes. This is the most important court case in Kenya's history. And it is trending below Ruto's English lessons. Stand with Omtatah Kenya. He is doing what the whole Parliament should be doing. For free on your behalf. Again. Make it trend as they do not want you to know about #DeniBandia Dismas wa Tabu. Dreaming in installments. Billed in full.

Brit: I’ll schedule the meeting for Monday, June 1st Me: That’s a public holiday in Kenya. I won’t be working. Brit: Really? What’s the holiday about? …

Wow, the likes and replies too.

Algorithm ikikufikisha hapa just retweet. We shall never forget the June 25th Moments.😔💔

The ironies of life

"From our ammunition crates, we have made coffins. We will bury you in this very soil."

''When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.' - Lin Yutang

The Epstein Class says "Epstein Class" is Iranian propaganda.

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Copium I can get behind😂