Feels like a bit of a null question. Africa isn't a monolith, there's north/south/central/etc etc. A fully communist africa wouldn't make sense at all, it would be like saying a communist europe. Which, europe's a continent full of different countries, with ideological differences.
[Most] americans (westerners in general maybe? I don't know how negative anti-capitalism was viewed as a result of the cold war beyond the US) would probably avoid it completely if it was socialist (which as of now, i don't recall any leftist government in africa.)
Anyway, africa has been socialist before (at least, north africa). Afaik, under Gamal Abdel-nasser in Egypt with Nasserism (i have a mixed view of nasser, personally.) And Gaddafi with the Third international theory (yeah fuck this guy lmao) [north] africa was socialist. Both were dictators, unfortunately.
My views on nasser are mixed, since he was an anti-imperialist willing to stand up against western imperialism and wanted to unite arabs. But... he also turned egypt into a military dictatorship, putting their tentacles in everything. Make of that what you will, though.
Well, that's interesting. thank you for the facts, i never knew that.
Yeah, saudi arabia was WAY worse like 7-13 years ago, but it's still horrible today. Maybe one day we'll become a democracy too, but i'd expect at least a century before the idea of that even becomes plausible lol.
From what I heard, it's worse than PRC, do you feel scared when talking about politics at home?
I almost never talk about my beliefs/criticism of the government, it's a risky game. Only the internet i'm actually free to say as much shit as i can (that is, if they don't find me lmao)
Like in PRC, the expectation would be prison / forced apology depending on severeity. Isn't dissent like a death sentence in Saudi Arabia? 😬
Wait, really? I never knew it was that lightweight in china. Yeah, it's flat out public execution (even torture depending in some cases) it's pretty fucked. Oil barons are absolute scum 🫠
(I hope you are using Tor btw)
Only on mobile i use orbot on almost all social media, but desktop's still a WIP on privacy. Learning about good opsec right now.
Should probably specify, i am not an immigrant and have never set foot on american soil. We have our own clown show in my country, and is an absolute monarchy which is why i usually butt heads with basically everyone else lol. Republicanism is a very frowned upon (and illegal) ideology lol. But when's that stopped anybody?
Not a good one, that's for sure. Actually my parents are the exact same, monarchist bootlickers. When i shit talk the government in front of them, they always defend it as hard as possible and talk about how dangerous it is (It is, but that's literally part of the problem??)
Ffs, my dad literally had a co-worker ""disappear"" and he still defends the government. It's just always "thank god for what we have, we shouldn't get involved in politics"
As context, i've been a republican (for americans, i mean actual republican, not the US party.) from a pretty young age, and i still am. Which is why political debates between my family are always fun ;^)
Oddly enough i haven't seen any from .ml, so good job keeping the fucks off lemmy. Can't saw the same for LW and SJW sadly, though i always ping the admins each time i see em.
If only we can keep them contained to hilariouschaos or their own instance, at least. If you're going to be racist, at least do it there and spare us from the BS.
redditors were the reason i left reddit, too many racism against arabs so i decided lemmy would be a better place. It still has a couple of the traits left over, but it's miles better than that shithole. So i'm really disappointed seeing them here :/ though it's funny seeing them get dunked on lol
I wish too. Unfortunately, the redditors are coming here, and i've noticed a pretty big spike in racism/transphobia :D I've been trying to keep them on a leash, reporting them to other admins directly and banning them from dbzer0, but the attitude itself being there disappoints me heavily :/
Damn, never knew about it thanks.