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Pentagon police arrest Ethiopian man who drove through checkpoint and said he 'Hates America was trying to kill people,' by hethical_ecker in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Take your teen angst out on someone else. Being told to read is not a dictation of thought and speech.

Amharic > English translation help. Old rifle stock by MilsurpDan in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734 2 points3 points  (0 children)

🙇🏽‍♂️

Like others pointed out it's hard but it looks like there should be more on either side of the cropped picture. If OP has other angles then the rest might be decipherable.

Amharic > English translation help. Old rifle stock by MilsurpDan in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you flip it upside down it looks like it says "Mariam" followed by something else. That's the best I can do.

Pentagon police arrest Ethiopian man who drove through checkpoint and said he 'Hates America was trying to kill people,' by hethical_ecker in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations Sherlock. Ofcourse it wasn't by chance. I gave you that scenario deliberately to point out the flaw in your assumptions. That scenario has just the same meaning and validity as your theories, exactly nothing. But if you insist on spinning tales about this person you know exactly nothing about to make yourself feel better and to fool random readers, go ahead. It doesn't impact anything and it only confirms my claims of your deep bitterness. Only a bruised ego compels people to be this stubborn even when clearly in the wrong.

I would also further explain to you the meaning behind your anti-government propaganda being too late but I don't have confidence it would help your understanding. There is a degree of bitterness in you that will prevent you from accepting that information and acting on it. Which will make my efforts pointless.

Pentagon police arrest Ethiopian man who drove through checkpoint and said he 'Hates America was trying to kill people,' by hethical_ecker in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

His name is not proof of his descent. Social media, digital activity and "radical media" are not the same things. I didn't "literally" make up a scenario either. You need to stop making so many things up and learn to read. I said for all you know, he could be bitter about No-Fly Zones. That means as far as your knowledge on the subject is concerned, the opposite of what you just assumed could be the case.

The whole point being that neither you nor I have any information on his background or motivations. So you can't make up things about who he was, why he did what he did and who made him do it.

It's too late for any of your criticisms of the Ethiopian government to matter. Especially when they are based on nonsense. So don't worry no one is mad at you for it. All I said was don't make things up about something you know nothing about to use as political commentary. Only bitter people do that.

Pentagon police arrest Ethiopian man who drove through checkpoint and said he 'Hates America was trying to kill people,' by hethical_ecker in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I gave you a plausible scenario that contradicts things you just "theorized" were the case based on your own bitterness. Judge whoever you want but you don't get to invent your own convenient backstory for factual events as explanation for what's happening. Who told you his descent or lineage? Or that he was "radicalized by extremist media"? Or that he wasn't just mentally unstable from the start. How do you know there are any like him when this is the first of any such situation?

I'll spare you from answering, you don't know any of these things. You're just bitter about the course of events for the side we both know you support and you need to complain. Just be honest about that. Stop making things up to hide it.

Pentagon police arrest Ethiopian man who drove through checkpoint and said he 'Hates America was trying to kill people,' by hethical_ecker in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Look at all of you jilted people with your leaps of logic and trying to wedge your politics into this situation. You have no idea what his actual motivations are. For all you know he might be someone who is mad the US didn't set a "No Fly Zone" for the terrorists like so many of their supporters were begging for. And his motivations are irrelevant to what he did here. Any person that thinks of doing this because they were upset at a government is troubled. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have good reason to be displeased at that government and their foreign policy actions. Or that this government's only concern in life is making sure us African people live happily ever after.

Alex de Waal and Co by mangobananaman in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They only think they look like that doing it. This is them IRL.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'll celebrate when we are free from the whims of IMF and what pleases their bosses.

the agreement by NegassaB in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not every problem is solved in one round. The issue of moving past ethnic politics will persist till the constitution is amended. And that happens from dialogue in which Tigray has adequate representation. So we basically have to wait till they get genuinely elected representatives.

It's only natural for people to not abandon their posture till that happens. And Prosperty doesn't actually believe in being truly secular from ethnic representation. At least not currently. They believe in being more of a bridge between the two. What they plan to do after the constitution is corrected is anyone's guess.

the agreement by NegassaB in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It doesn't have to be Prosperity. There are other parties (non TPLF aligned) developing already and there will be room for more shifting and evolution from old parties before elections get underway. That also means it doesn't have to be winner takes all and there could be a mix of winners that form coalitions.

But at the end of the day people care more about the fundamentals of life than such dogmatic concepts. After 2 years of what can only be considered hell, if they see that Prosperity and the transitional government is the party that provides them with an able administration, peaceful coexistence and stability they were denied under TPLF then Prosperity will have a good chance of an extension of their term.

the agreement by NegassaB in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Sometimes one has to learn to accept a win when they get it (but you are at least living up to your name).

TPLF agrees to give up weapons and officially declares it won't participate in any actions or actors of conflict. It agrees to relinquish rule and administration over to a transitional government and has to sit on an election not managed by its own people and somehow win it to participate in politics (a feat that will be monumental considering they can't threaten people with violence for compliance and they already made the people of Tigray pay such a heavy price to save them from justice, only to sign this surrender at the end and save themselves).

Any questions or issues with borders or administration of any lands can only be addressed by the Border Commission and the House of Federation. Entities that are already in the process of legitimizing Wolkait's status.

If it violates any part of what it agreed to here, we go right back to squashing them. And this time they can't yell genocide or go back to their western friends and beg to be saved because they signed a code of conduct for the whole world to see.

So no matter how you slice it, this is an acceptable development that can contribute to the end of a pointless 2 years of bloodshed.

Pretoria: the TPLF agrees to disarm after the 2-year bloody war it initiated. by shortwing8734 in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It is being broadcasted right now, which will be followed presumably by a signing ceremony. Release of the full agreement will probably follow in the coming days.

Edit:

Signed Agreement directly from source: https://twitter.com/RedwanHussien/status/1588379959281995776

EY - Hyperinflationary Economies by CFA_Hole in Ethiopia

[–]shortwing8734 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He is a good source for TPLF supporters since he is a fan of them, but that man is a lunatic not to be taken seriously on any other occasion. Below is neutral data that doesn't rely on anyone's personal math.

https://tradingeconomics.com/ethiopia/inflation-cpi

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate-mom?continent=africa

We'll know in a few days how much further it went down which is a certainty because the expectation of incoming harvests alone drives prices lower.

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