Posted on 05/30/2025 2:46:43 PM PDT by Drew68
Instead, what unfolded was nothing short of a community-wide, slow-cooked rebellion.
I'm certain our tax dollars were involved somewhere in this.
Served with a side of seed corn?
There’s always long pig when the beef runs out.
It’s why they can’t have nice things.
Some people can’t have nice things, because they can’t understand or value them.
I guess they don’t believe in delayed gratification.
Satire. Not exclusive to us.
We thought the exact same way.
Give a man a fish,,,
Like the little kids given a choice of having one cookie now or two cookies after school.
I know a guy that would go to Haiti to install water wells and piping. They tried to teach the locals how to do it. The locals could do it so they planned out the next piping system (the well was already installed), and ordered the supplies for them.
When he went back the following year the well was just sitting there not doing anything. Turns out the locals just sold the pump and pipes. And still using the dirty creek water.
"Truthiness"
Maybe it happened? Maybe it didn't? But it could have and if we donated 30 cows to start a livestock project, you can be certain they'd get eaten, just as every power transformer we build pretty much gets instantly disassembled and the copper wire stolen and sold for scrap.
Pretty much par for the course for every penny we've spent in Africa. There's nothing to show for any of it.
This reads like satire. Guessing it is.
That’s how I read it too. But good satire has you thinking, “Yeah, I could see that happening.”
“We understood the assignment. We just chose the tastier route.”
She’s proud to play them for the chumps they are.
Sounds like what happens in certain areas of our country.
Satire? Probably.
But if it happened while Obama or Biden were in the White House, the Limpopo guys would be moved to the U.S. as refugees and sent to Iowa or Wisconsin to teach U.S. farmers about African farming practices.
Kill the Boer!
Imagine what they’d do with credit cards.
A good friend of mine worked on helicopters for oil companies in Africa.
They told him to not leave the compound, for his safety, but he did regularly.
One of his favorite stories is about walking thru a defunct apple orchard that was created by some NGO. It was supposed to be managed by locals for food production. But the locals, when hungry, would just break off a limb to get a few apples straight from the tree.
If the apples were too high, they would just cut the tree down to get the ones they couldn’t reach.
The trees were barren or dead. No apples to be found.
He used it as an analogy to describe the culture as a whole. No long range planning. Grab what you can today before someone else gets it. No one cares about what will be left for tomorrow.
It will never change. And it is spreading to anywhere those people go.
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