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The most prominent Ethiopia politician stated that his sources are telling him the TPLF's elite have mostly fled to Eritrea and let Ethiopian soldiers into the region with the intent of carrying out a massive ambush.

Given that the TPLF's forces know the region better than anyone and have been entrenched there for decades, this seems to most likely be the impending 'big act' of the war. Remember what initiated the Tigray War? TPLF forces attacking sleeping government soldiers.

Abiy doesn't care much for the Ethiopian forces. His goal of a 'Greater Oromia' means Ethiopia must fall first.

See this as the beginning of a choreographed destruction of the country's armed forces.

In 1887, Italian troops imported Rinderpest-infected cattle into the port of Massawa (Eritrea), unleashing the virus into a continent whose cattle had zero natural immunity.

It began at the port of Massawa, spread throughout the highlands of Ethiopia, and eventually made its way all throughout the continent.

In Ethiopia, 90% of the cattle died, resulting in 1/3 of Ethiopia's population starving to death. This crippled Ethiopia from pushing Italy out of the region, resulting in Italy walking in unopposed and creating the colony of Eritrea. This is documented in Ethiopian history as 'Kifu Qen', which means 'The Evil Day'.

For Sub-Saharan Africa, In just 10 years:

- 90–95% of the continent's cattle died.

- Roughly 10% of the continent's human population starved to death.

This meant European empires didn't have to conquer thriving nations; they walked into a starving, post-apocalyptic wasteland.

This is the absolute linchpin to the success of colonialism in Africa, yet it is almost entirely erased from mainstream history books.

Most Ethiopians don't even view or use this subreddit. Out of 120 million people, the majority live in the rural countryside and don't have one or more of the following: safety, electricity, a device, internet access, and, finally, English proficiency.

Most of them use TikTok, where there's essentially a parallel Ethiopia. If you really want to know what's going on, that's the place to look. However, they predominantly speak and write in Amharic, so it's not really possible to learn much about the country if you can't at least understand the language. TikTok's simplicity, versatility, and lack of friction makes it effectively the only social media used. YouTube is alright but not many people have the time, interest, or internet data for that.

The only Ethiopians you might find using this subreddit are those from privileged backgrounds or those who simply have the prerequisites listed above. Even then, nothing interesting is said here because of how biased the moderation is and how much the diaspora and natives conflict in their views.

Then there's the diaspora. Most of them don't know anything about the country's history or actual politics. Coming from the diaspora myself, most of them really don't know anything about the country let alone speak the language. They consist of some westernized people who are a night-and-day difference from Ethiopians, some uninformed people, and a minority who see the majority and just lurk after realizing there's no point in posting anything. That's one thing to note, Habeshas are really into lurking.

This is true for all the subreddits related to Ethiopia(ns) 🫩.

Some say this was inevitable.

Can someone fact check if Denver, Colorado has banned TPLF?

The guy is genetically a Somali but larps as a Habesha, calls himself an Agazian, openly hates on Ethiopia, and almost exclusively focuses on Eritrean or Tigray history.

That's a lot of the Eritrean Agazian Nationalist types. They're usually descendants of mixed post-Aksum nomadic migrants who settled there, learned Tigrinya, and went around claiming Habesha and "HabeshaHistory." Their lack of affinity for Ethiopia makes sense all of a sudden.

However, immigrating onto stolen land doesn't make it yours. Neither is it's ancient history yours to claim.

He does all this history but chooses to lie to fit his Eritrean bias and narrative. He ignores the well-documented fact that Aksum changed its external name to Ethiopia during its conversion to Christianity and instead chooses to say Ethiopia and Aksum are unrelated and that Ethiopians stole Aksumite history.

I honestly wouldn't have cared if he focused on Eritrean or Tigray history. It's just that he started blatantly lying and misleading people about history while using the name "HabeshaHistory." It's more accurate to name the account "TigreHistory" instead.

Hating on Ethiopia: https://www.tiktok.com/@habeshahistory/video/7649286161772383509

Genetically a Somali Eritrean:

https://preview.redd.it/pw7f76huwtkh1.png?width=1919&format=png&auto=webp&s=704a5576b66f20b2117f5d203d20490031afd2e1

https://preview.redd.it/mmamg8huwtkh1.png?width=1919&format=png&auto=webp&s=452abcb44f4c576cc9f879d54132f14ac3c24406

Its obviously counterintuitive to use the latin script and im sure they struggle to make it work lol.

The Amharic script naturally contains everything you could possibly need in Oromina so its definitely adequate.

It just seems completely vain and unnecessary to use the latin script. A detrimental statement piece.

The Special Occasion

In the context of ancient farming societies, cattle had immense value. Because of their value and edibility, slaughtering one was one of the highest signs of wealth and hospitality. While one farmer obsessively cared for his one or two cattle, another man with ten could afford to slaughter one during a special occasion. All the beef wasn't eaten raw; rather, only a portion was, for the sake of displaying its quality to those attending the occasion. One can hide bad or old beef through spices and cooking, but it's very hard to hide bad beef when it's raw. Given that, serving the beef raw was entirely meant to signify that it was fresh and clean. Not from a bad cattle or simply old beef that had been stored somewhere. Nowadays, this tradition has been commodified due to industrialization and lost the point. However, some people still practice the fresh slaughter tradition during special occasions.

The Archaic Wartime Strategy

Given Ethiopia's ambush-favoring terrain, wartime strategy often depended on stealth. Whenever someone was about to cook, they'd have to light a fire, but that fire would give away their coordinates. So when a party was mobilizing or intending an ambush and happened to have beef, instead of cooking it, they simply ate it raw. This did not happen all the time. It was in specific cases where they were trying to be as covert as possible and happened to have beef. An interesting case of this was during the Kagnew Battalion's deployment in Korea. They were seen eating raw beef by North Korean soldiers who were shocked because they saw their comrades lying dead nearby and assumed they were being eaten by the enemy. In reality, that battalion was simply practicing an archaic wartime strategy.

Why can you call people Black, Brown, or White, but never Yellow or Red? It makes no sense, given that those classifications were also part of the original racist worldview. You can label everyone from Africa as "Black," but God forbid you call someone from Asia Yellow or a Native American Red.

Racists invented this childish system of color-grouping completely unrelated people, yet it remains the default instead of using nationalities. Racists are the same guys who drew a separate "continent" out of one massive landmass and called everything else "Asia."

Iraqis and Chinese? Asians. Sri Lankans and Mongolians? Asians. Syrians and Koreans? Asians.

They separated people by skin color and proximity to Western society, historically even labeling Ethiopians as "brown Caucasoids."

Today, some Ethiopians think they're combating what they define as racism (colorism) by defining themselves as Black, while in reality, they're defending actual racism.

It's weird when a brown-skinned person seriously labels themselves "Black" and sees nothing wrong with it. Why not go all the way and call yourself Pink, Orange, or Blue? It's really just a litmus test for critical thinking at this point.

People fail to realize how absurd color based-classification really is.

Two populations can have literally nothing in common, from DNA to basic awareness of each other's existence, yet because they share a similar skin tone from living in a sunnier region of Earth, they get dumped into the same bucket as if that means anything besides "they're from a sunny place."

Is it just geography? White/Pale = barely sunny, Brown = sunny, Black = really sunny... What about Red and Yellow?

Color-based identities are Eurocentric, inconsistent, trivial, and literally racist.

It's a joke.

Every time an Eritrean hates on Ethiopia, it's usually because of what the Derg or Haile Selassie did. First of all, Ethiopians at the time of Haile Selassie didn't like him. There is a reason there were 2 coup attempts on him, the second coup being the communist Derg. The Derg did a majority of the crimes against Eritrea, but also against Ethiopians. Both of us suffered under both governments. Eritreans make it seem like Ethiopia is a one-ethnic-group government set out to destroy them or something, which is just outright wrong.

Most of them never even ask themselves why there is an "Eritrea" shaped like it's specifically designed to cut Ethiopia off from sea access. Most don't even know that Medri Bahri was a province of Abyssinia like Gojjam or Gondar. They try to do revisionism by reinterpreting history to make Eritrea seem like it was always a separate country or something.

- Mai'kle Bahr was created by the Zagwe ->

- Abyssinia replaces the Zagwe and creates Medri Bahri (northern Eritrea) ->

- Medri Bahri gets colonized by Italy in addition to the entire coastline(Yohannes IV caused this) ->

- The colony of Eritrea is given to Ethiopia(mishandled by Haile Selassie) ->

- Derg -> TPLF-era secession -> Same merciless dictator rules Eritrea ever since.

People never honestly and without bias ask, "Why is it this way?".

Tigray state media reports that the TDF has engaged combat with government forces in western tigray(possibly in the disputed welkite territory). The TPLF will soon make statements regarding the occasion.

There is already the war going on in the Amhara region. If this is true then Abiy is opening a two front war whilst losing one.

Most of the information regarding what happened during the TPLF era is in forums, obscure websites, and old YouTube videos(snippets). They're always generally about random kidnappings or detention centers.

It's hard to find first-person accounts of things people experienced themselves.

Do you have any stories from that era? Stories you've heard of?

Why cant the value of a like be calculated across;

- How much does the person liking the content know about the topic in the post?
- How good is that person's reputation on that social media?
- Likelihood of being a bot account

Based on those 3 factors, you get a score of like 0.1 to 1, 1 meaning it registers as a full like. However, if someone's like is registered as a 0.5, the post would need someone else with at least a 0.5 for that post to have one full like.

A lot of people aimlessly like and because of that pointless posts flow up the algorithm. I think this is a far more accurate way of representing the value of a post.

This is a thought i had recently.

The notion that skin color = race is really pervasive.

Some people think Africa is a country and we're all related or something.

It would be very awkward to hear someone use the n-word as an insult but then it doesn't effect you so you just stand there awkwardly.

It's like using a racist term for white Americans against a Turkish guy.

Like, do you just say where you're from and then the other person has to think of something else? Awkward as hell in emotionally charged situations. I think it would be really funny.

But Imagine someone attacks you because they confused you for another race.

I got asked if i was Indian by a black guy once. I was slightly ticked off because i thought i looked 'Ethiopian'. It was a weird reality check that in this climate, where attacking foreigners is common, Ethiopians can easily be confused for some other race.

Ever made you wonder? Any experience like this?

Is it a thing to you know the different ethnicities and acknowledge them or do you just use "Eritrean".

Does it matter to you or your parents what ethnic group you marry?

The name "Ethiopia" has a literal meaning and an intended meaning.

The literal translation means "burnt face" or "black face" in Greek.

The intended meaning, however, refers to Cush or the Cushites (the descendants of Cush, one of the sons of Ham).

Cushitic refers to a lineage or race of people, not a single empire. For example, Nimrod was a Cushite in the Middle East; just because he was not located in modern-day Sudan does not mean he wasn't Cushitic.

The exact reason as to why the Aksumites adopted the external name "Ethiopia" is, unfortunately, due to a mix of coincidence, racism, and misunderstanding.

1. The most spoken language at the time of the Bible's writing was Greek. If you wanted to spread a message widely in that era, you needed to write it in Greek. Imagine if Jesus had come in this day and age: if you were to write the Bible today, it would be in English to give it the best chance of spreading globally.
2. The Greeks called ANYONE who was dark-skinned an "Ethiopian." In fact, in the late B.C. era, they even went as far as to call Indian people "Eastern Ethiopians." They generalized all sub-Saharan African people as Ethiopians as well. That is the modern-day equivalent of equating skin color with race, which is literally race-ist.
3. Cush is biblically located directly south of Egypt. It is written in the Bible that the lands of Cush were divided by the Gihon (the Blue Nile). In the Bible, Cush was not monolithic. The region hosted different empires at different times in history, but because the people were Cushitic, whether Nubian or Meroitic, they were simply referred to collectively as Cush.

Now, imagine you are King Ezana. You used to be pagan, but you've faithfully converted to Christianity. You read in the Greek Bible that your lands are described as the land of the "Ethiopians" (the Greek translation for Cushites). What do you do? You officially claim your biblical identity as Cushites. You externally change your nation's name from Aksum to Ethiopia, and you call your people Ethiopians.

This historical development was based on a flawed premise, though. The Aksumites only adopted the name "Ethiopia" because:

A. They believed the Bible was the literal Word of God and assumed it had been divinely ordained that they should now be called Ethiopians. They were unaware that this was merely a generalized, racist Greek mistranslation.

B. They wanted the predominantly Greek-speaking, Greek-Bible-reading world of that era to recognize them as the biblical Cushites (the descendants of one of the sons of Ham). However, as the Greek language fell out of fashion, the name aged poorly. Later Europeans began applying the name "Ethiopia" to random regions like West and Central Africa because the term literally just meant "black face". It completely lacked the geographic and ethnic specificity of names like Cush or Aksum.

The terms Kasu/Ksu use an "S" instead of "Sh" because the people of the region did not develop an "Sh" pronunciation until much later. The Egyptians themselves simply recorded what the people of "Cush" were calling their own ethnicity, which was Kasu.

The ethnonym of Cush/Ksu/Kasu has no single confirmed definition, as the name is so ancient that its exact meaning is lost to history. Scholars often assign possible meanings based on context. However, the most consistent pattern is that it connotes a hunter who uses a bow and arrow (which aligns with how Nimrod was described, as well as the Kasu of Sudan).

Therefore, the conclusion is: the historically accurate, Biblically sound, and indigenous name is Aksum(አክሱም), not Ethiopia.

The earliest and unvocalized inscription is A-K-S-M(𐩱𐩫𐩪𐩣) and the vocalized one is A-Kih-Su-Mih(አክሱም).

Just had to clarify this because a lot of places and people incorrectly use Axum for some reason.

I think it's because foreigners incorrectly simplified the Kih-Su(ክሱ) into an X which made it confusing.

Its really abstract but hear me out.

When the temperature is hot/warm youre more likely to be active and freely moving.

When the temperature is cold youre far less active and instead calculated in movement to conserve energy/heat.

When its cold and youre in a group you have to be more organized. If its hot you have less to worry about so organization isnt as existential.

Cold temperature makes your body constrict while hot/warm temperature allows your body to move more freely.

Cold temperature = constrained = more organization to survive
Hot temperatures = free = less organization incentive

Temperature influences how much movement you do and societies are formed by a collective of individuals. Geographic determinism.

This can generally explain how people from certain regions have behavioral tendencies.