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[–] [email protected] 99 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Based. If libs pay attention: this is how decolonisation looks.

[–] [email protected] 113 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Liberals love decolonization as long as it never leaves a sociology class.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Commenting here before Ibrahim Traore gets assassinated.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fidel Castro, give him your strength! 🙏🙏🙏

[–] [email protected] 60 points 9 months ago

French fash frothing for financial firmness fucks French finances.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was gonna say going on the gold standard is an odd move with predictable downsides, but when the alternative is pegging your currency to the US dollar or the Euro, it makes a lot of sense.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Having a gold reserve means you're not exposed to a fluctuating foreign exchange rate or SWIFT sanctions cutting off your ability to borrow.

Niger can get away with it most of all because they have so much to mine. An expansionary gold supply solves the problem of growing your currency at the pace of your economy.

So it's not as bad idea on its face as it is in theory.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Guh. Got this crossed with the other coup leader.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You aren’t totally wrong though, Traoré is the de facto leader of the entire Alliance of Sahel States (ASS) in addition to being the leader of Burkina Faso.

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso form ASS, an impromptu anti-colonial alliance formed to oppose ECOWAS, France, Nigeria and ISIS/Western backed jihadists. They are aligned with Russia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_of_Sahel_States

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Alliance of Sahel States (ASS)

Imma need them to team up with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) 🥵🥵🥵

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I kinda read your comment as saying, if Niger can do it, Burkina Faso should at least try.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

Niger

oooooh wrong country

[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He cute too. Ladies, get yourself a man who can cook AND fix your currency to the gold standard!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

And them cheek bones, perfect complexion, a badass battle scar... My man's a revolutionary thirst trap!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago

We are so fucking back 🇧🇫

sankara-salute

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago

Burkinas back baby

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

My fuckin hero right there

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

Traore brings hope.

Traore nos trae esparanza.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN sankara-bass

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

The money printing merchants won't like that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

All the unrest around the world recently has me feeling like let's swarm Area 51, they can't stop us all at once

How long can the CIA play whack-a-mole

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Lib Media: Authoritarianism is on the rise in Burkina Faso

Edit: lmao I knew it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

'bout to win the gold medal in it, some might say.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’ll hold my judgement for now. The communist party there didn’t seem too fond of him and his crew.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Traore was involved in Marxist and Pan-African groups, then was a captain in the military fighting western backed ISIS and jihadists. He upholds Sankara.

Everything he has done so far after seizing power has been decolonizing and pan-africanist and anti-imperialist. If communists don’t like that then they are being ultras

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Well the communist party in the country likely understands the situation better than any of us, so I’ll reserve my judgement

Edit: I was thinking of the Niger coup, my bad. I haven’t seen anything from the BF party. Can’t keep track of all the coups

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Ultras can exist in every country, there’s nothing about being close in proximity makes one automatically correct. Imperialism is the primary contradiction and sometimes if you are too close to some domestic issue you can’t see that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Let's fucking goooo!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

this man is easily my top five for favorite government leaders