Posted on 04/24/2025 7:03:42 PM PDT by grundle
This is a 78 minute documentary from 2011 about people who are trying to build a road in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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They’ve had 14 years, did they finish?
I was going to watch this but it turned out to be a 77 minute video and not a 78 as advertised, and I felt lied to.
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Here’s a direct link to the video on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pDJ4-MtAkQ
We’ve been working on high speed rail in California even longer.
Saw that. God Bless their hearts. Hard row to sow. Some people don’t want anything from white devils.
Had the World Summit On Climate Change, or whatever it was, been held in the Congo, they could have built the road there instead of clear-cutting a bunch of Amazon’s precious rainforest to put the road there instead.
But hypocritical elitists.
It’s all so tiresome.
that video tells you everything you need to know about africa ...
MOVE IT! Or I’m going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world! I will motivate you, Private Pyle, IF IT SHORT-DICKS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!
What did Sgt. Hartman mean by this?
Sounds like a sure bet for an Academy nomination!
I am now inspired to sit in front of my phone & record, all in one continuous shot, a 250 minute documentary detailing my 1 month marriage & 11 month divorce, back in 1984.
Talk about an exciting documentary!
It’s all so tiresome.
Building a highway through the Congo. Optimist. But more doable than Gavin’s bullet train.
Depicted, two Congolese women stand by the edge of a pool, both wearing patterned wraps.
Both carry large clay water jugs atop their heads, complaining to one another that it is all so tiresome.
Enter Wayback machine: the Mesopotamians invented the wheel in 3500 BC.
Africa wins again.
Chinese guy is based. No politically correct filter.
“We’ve been working on high speed rail in California even longer.”
And now the governor of Colorado wants his own choo-choo train. They can’t maintain the roads but they want to build a choo-choo train.
Why would the governor of Colorado care about where the choo choo goes?
To be honest? I watched it all.
Ever wonder why Africa is as undeveloped as it is? Watch this video and wonder no more! It follows a Chinese company’s attempts to build a 20 KM road in the Congo to connect 2 “towns”. And reveals their interactions with the locals that they’ve hired, the constant thievery (They have to measure the fuel in the generator in centimeters because if they measure it in an greater point someone will steal JUST ENOUGH every night to make the previous measurement still valid, but nets them some diesel). Shows the company trying to deal with local gravel vendors. (You get there at noon and the boss isn’t there yet, so the workers are just standing around doing nothing. The workers don’t know anything, and can’t do anything until the boss gets there. When he DOES arrive he has very little information, and obviously doesn’t have enough big rocks to be able to produce 2 truck loads of gravel for the day). There’s a point when the workers are tasked with doing something. They do it, and it takes them an hour to come back to report that it’s done, and to get their next assignment.
And the Chinese have thrown a bunch of money and some people to try to get this done, and at the end of the documentary it looks like they haven’t gotten 1 meter of road done, let alone 20 KM. (13 miles).
You will drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet it will still return. - Horace
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