Takumi @Luznut

After a long conversation, try to remember everything that was said and you’ll be astonished by how empty, unnecessary, and frequently bad it all was.

Doctors be like “I’m an intensivist” Like, ok bro, calm down

Let it be known that Kizza Besigye was abducted in Kenya, with the Government of Kenya fully aware, even provided logistics, and he was driven all the way by road, from Nairobi to Kampala in a booth of a car... Never forget that....

Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH

4 days ago

What will @KagutaMuseveni gain after doing all this to Kizza? Museveni and his rogue son are cowards.

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On this day in 1924, Novelist, playwright, poet and social critic, the late James Baldwin was born. “To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” —James Baldwin

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On this day in 1997, Fela Kuti, innovator of Afrobeat, died. He was 58. RIP

Body of Nirmal Purja recovered after legendary mountaineer confirmed dead in Pakistan Avalanche ladbible.com/news/world-new…

Fair point

Philosophy Matters @PhilosophyMttrs

13 hours ago

This kid really gets it

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@Leonmuigz @QuahogQueen82 Poor people will cut the last tree to cook the last meal -Wangari Maathai

Let's also not forgeythis stain on our nation!

Ronald Muhinda @RonaldMuhinda

a day ago

Kizza Besigye & Obeid Lutale in a lift at Riverside moments before they were abducted by CMI operatives Lt. Col. Ephraim Byaruhanga & Col. Peter Ahimbisibwe on 16.11.2024. Besigye & Lutale were illegally renditioned to Uganda where they have been in prison on charges of Treason.

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Weekend 2. Nicholas Rankin Trapped in History

Coach surfing today after a long week in theatre. Watch 1. The journey of Paul. A very remarkable man whose life is central in Christianity.

Colonialisation resistance 150 years ago today: a August 1876, the warriors of Bapedi leader Sekhukhune (pic) defeated in a decisive battle white invaders of South Africa’s Transvaal Republic, which declared war on the Bapedi nation to seize their lands. With their army destroyed, the Boers would hire a German mercenary, Conrad von Schlickmann, to attack the Bapedi. He will be killed in an ambush, and his unit defeated. The Boers will seek peace with the Bapedi in February 1877.

@WaruhiuFranklin @RufasKe More red incoming. Severe pain loading

This reminds me of this quote from Otto von Bismarck: "Gentlemen, if you contest the right of conquest, you cannot have read the history of your own country." Modern people are uncomfortable with the concept of Right of Conquest because it became essentially prohibited after 1945 to invoke it in any conflict, since the UN and the international order don't allow wars of conquests in terms of one country annexing territories of another country by force anymore. However even the creators of these modern post-1945 ideas never intended to question age old borders which were a result of some conquest centuries ago, when the Right of Conquest was effectively the norm, as Bismarck points out in this quote. Let me explain what the historical principle in international law and political practice known as Right of Conquest actually was. It did not mean recognizing that some country has the right to go on any war of conquest they want, but that a conquest could be seen as legitimate if the victorious party was able to establish effective control over the territory and the defeated were no longer able to resist or reclaim the territory. Historically, this would be seen as establishing a new legal reality, leading to formal treaties that confirmed the transfer. Such treaties were seen as valid and countries could claim legal right to territories by the virtue of having conquered them in the past. So even if these conquests resulted out of wars of aggression which would be seen as illegal, the result of the conquest could still be legally affirmed out of pragmatism and "might makes right" (Macht geht vor Recht) principle, a catchphrase specifically describing Otto von Bismarck's Realpolitik and a reality for most of history. In this context the Right of Conquest would be invoked. This was simply a pragmatic reality in the age where global empires and emerging nation states were regularly going at war with each other and territories switched hands all the time. In this context, the Right of Conquest was actually the only way to ensure peace, because if losing states would not want to accept defeat and transfer of their territories to the winner, peace treaties would be impossible to sign, and therefore leading to perpetual wars all over the world. However the Right of Conquest became essentially banned in 1945 by UN charters. Modern international relations and conflicts were to be guided by the concept of ex iniuria ius non oritur ("a right does not arise from a wrong"), which asserts that if a war was waged illegally, anything that was gained through such war could not be legally recognized as legitimate anymore. And since all wars of aggression are effectively seen as illegal today, countries could no longer invoke Right of Conquest in international law for any new transfers of land. The reason why a "ban" of such historically accepted concept like Right of Conquest was made possible is because of the establishment of international order that was actually able to enforce it. All the major post-1945 powers like USA and Soviet Union essentially agreed to it. For example when these countries waged wars and invaded other lands, they did not attempt to annex those lands and claim their territories but instead installed a favorable regime. The post-1945 order turned wars of conquest into regime change wars. The 1945 borders were practically meant to be frozen, to preserve world peace and provide stability, since such order at least in theory discourages countries to invade another, knowing that their territorial gains would never be legally recognized. So even though the modern 1945 international order banned the Right of Conquest to be invoked in future conflicts, it was never meant to question historic conquests that happened before that. Quite the opposite, because the 1945 borders were meant to be frozen. The modern international order is literally based on the idea that you affirm all the historic conquests that happened before it came into being as legitimate. But now you often see people who want to project the modern international legal order and morality into earlier times in history, and treat historic conquests as illegitimate, as if the post-1945 international laws existed in 15th century. This is just a result of complete ignorance of these people and/or their inability or dishonesty to form a coherent worldview. It's always completely selective too. For example if you think that Ceuta isn't Spanish because it was gained through some military conquest centuries ago, Morocco literally shouldn't exist as a country by the same logic. Or, to quote Bismarck again, "you cannot have read the history of your own country."

ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa

2 days ago

If centuries-old conquests are now fair game to challenge as ‘illegal occupations’ which other very long-standing territorial claims would you like to re-litigate?

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Midwives in public hospitals delivering the 15th child of the evening. It's 10pm.

Dr. Gatimu, PhD @Gatimu

3 days ago

Africa ni home! beautiful.

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@NSE_Investors What's explaining rise and rise in NSE, where's liquidity coming from.

Mexicans after watching The Odyssey

We didn’t have to wait long. *LEOPOLD ASCHENBRENNER'S 'SITUATIONAL AWARENESS' FUND SEEKING ADDITIONAL CAPITAL AFTER AI-STOCK SELLOFF - FINANCIAL TIMES - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS USED LEVERAGE BEFORE DRAWDOWN, LEADING TO SHARP DECLINE IN PORTFOLIO VALUE I warned that you cannot extrapolate much about a person’s investing skill from a four year track record. I said this about Leopold, and I said the same about Shay Boloor, a podcast host turned financial guru whose public investing track record only appeared after the 2022 crash, with no public investing track record before that. He has more than 400,000 followers, many of them paid subscribers, his portfolio is currently down around 25% this month alone. Markets move in waves. If you happen to catch one wave, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re highly skilled. It may simply mean you were in the right place at the right time. That’s why I prefer to judge investors over at least 10 years, after they’ve gone through multiple bull and bear markets. Only then do you get a much better sense of whether the results came from skill or from riding a favorable cycle.

Z @ZeeContrarian1

3 months ago

A 24-year-old YOLOed an entire fund into tech call options at the right time and at the right point, and many people are already calling him the second coming of Jesus, the Messiah. It’s funny how human beings are always looking for someone else to do the work for them -

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