The Man Behind the Man/Quotes

"If I have learned anything as a wizard it is this: never fight your own battles."

—Waffa, sorcerer of Nyomba, Magic: The Gathering

"You're just a microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by his Red Right Hand"

—Nick Cave, Red Right Hand

"I'm just a small cog in a very big machine!"

—Jonas Hodges, 24

"Tavros, at this point it should 8e o8vious. I am the unseen hand 8ehind every major event in their session, and to some extent, their whole lives. At least those events not happening 8y the volition of their own natural incompetence! Don't you think this is how it should 8e? Shouldn't the greatest player leave her fingerprints on every step of the rise to power of her ultim8 nemesis?"

—Vriska Serket, Homestuck

Imperialism was itself anti colonialism, and “anticolonialism” is simply imperialism carried to ever greater extremes. Observe that all anti colonial regimes use the same language, for example “National Liberation Front”, as if they had a bulk job of rubber stamps manufactured in Harvard, which is roughly what in fact they did.
An actual national liberation movement would be unique to the traditions, history, and culture of its country, as the Somali revolution was. Instead, we get the mass mindless regurgitation of Harvard and London School of Economics talking points. One microphone, ten thousand loudspeakers. You cannot tell which anticolonialist you are hearing from, they all blur together.
In Africa, all the regimes except the Ethiopian, Somali, and Botswanan regimes are imperially installed muppet regimes.

— From blog of James A.Donald

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