She has a damn name: Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
Kudos to her, great move.
Netu…Net….Not gonna put up with Trumps shit.
As much as this comes amid a flurry of "screw the US" sentiment (and fair play for that), this move also included thirty other countries and has been a long-standing political issue in Namibia. It also was announced months ago and went into effect two weeks ago, and we're only hearing about it now for some reason.
This bold decision, spearheaded by President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is framed as a move towards establishing reciprocity in international relations, asserting that if African citizens require visas to enter the United States, then American citizens should also be subject to the same requirements when entering Namibia. The President emphasized that this policy change is not an act of aggression but a matter of fairness and national dignity.
Smart move, especially with the recent mineral finds in the country. Hope they don't get obliterated for having the sheer audacity to not bow to imperialism.
I did a quick lookup of the quote you posted. Except for facebook and insta reposts, I found nothing. otoh, from yesterday's news:
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has slammed circulating claims that Namibia is planning to deport 500 American citizens, calling the allegations false and urging the public to be vigilant of fake social media posts.
A press release issued by the Presidency on Wednesday said it has noted with concern the circulation of social media posts and online articles alleging that Nandi-Ndaitwah ordered the deportation of the American nationals on the grounds of visa reciprocity.
The statement pointed out that various social media accounts circulated this fabrication attributed to the president. “These posts feature fabricated quotes and images containing misinformation and disinformation intended to tarnish the image of the president, the Namibian government and to create potential diplomatic embarrassment,” it read.
I didn't say anything about the deportation of american citizens though, since I couldn't find a legit source. I think I snagged the quote from OKAY (for some reason, maybe I was high?). The quote is at least accurate in its contents.
But seriously, thank you for the follow up about the deportation being BS.
Us evangelicals have been try to f'ed with african politics for a while, basically to get things like anti-abortion, anti-lgbtq+,,,etc into thier legislation, and has written some of thier laws too.
Not to be a party pooper, but where tf are you folk hearing about this? I can't get a fact check on this story anywhere. msn.com "reporting" what people are sharing on social media doesn't count, as Yankee mass media cannot be trusted any more than Russian.
This feels very disinfo to me - using the black female president of another country to accelerate the race war in the USA. Just because it's something I like to hear, or something I agree with, doesn't mean it's legit.
What I have found, from The Namibian today,
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has slammed circulating claims that Namibia is planning to deport 500 American citizens, calling the allegations false and urging the public to be vigilant of fake social media posts.
A press release issued by the Presidency on Wednesday said it has noted with concern the circulation of social media posts and online articles alleging that Nandi-Ndaitwah ordered the deportation of the American nationals on the grounds of visa reciprocity.
The statement pointed out that various social media accounts circulated this fabrication attributed to the president. “These posts feature fabricated quotes and images containing misinformation and disinformation intended to tarnish the image of the president, the Namibian government and to create potential diplomatic embarrassment,” it read.
I hope everyone holds off sharing this "story" til a reliable site backs it up. There's a reason it's posted as a text image in a humour community, and not on worldnews or something.
Thank you. I was trying to figure out if this was a fake story in !funny or a true funny story.
@cm0002@lemmy.world would you mind adding a [fake news] mention?
Thanks for this.
This feels very disinfo to me - using the black female president of another country to accelerate the race war in the USA.
Yeah - this seems designed to go on Facebook to bait “lol Namibia isn’t even a real country” and comments about her physical attractiveness.
Exactly. It'll rile up the "eating dogs and cats" nazis, for sure. But just like here, it'll get amplified as well by people who love the idea of Namibia kicking Yankees out of the country, or who are just excited to contribute commentary about Namibia's awesome, stylin' Pres.
And anyone deliberately amplifying it can easily post a link to Namibia's visa requirement changes, knowing hardly anyone's going to click through, much less check the details. Sucks that she had to take time out of her workday to issue the denial. It's so frigging frustrating. I'd like to post her press release everywhere as a heads-up, but I know the accelerationists want that as well (they don't care about sides, just making the talking point louder).
Not trying to preach to the choir or educate here; just venting.
What an odd coincidence. I recently got off a long phone call with my uncle, who works at Nintendo. He was discussing a secret "easter egg" in Super Metroid that if you do it you get to see Samus Aran topless at the end of the game. In an amazing coincidence, he mentioned this exact story and can vouch for the veracity of it.
Does this really belong here? It may be funny to some, but it's not intended to be.
If people are upvoting it they're saying it fits here 🤷🏻♂️
Maybe not. Often when a post appears on the main home feed, people will upvote or downvote based on that post in isolation rather than in the context of its sub-community - because the all the posts are from different sub-communities, and it isn't obvious which is from where.
That was a common attitude on Reddit. Mods are needed to determine if things fit a community and abide by the rules. Readers may not even know what community they are in and will upvote things they enjoy. They generally don't upvote based on fit to community.
I didn't notice the comm until it was point out. I don't mind it too much but if it is too lax, people who curate their feed a lot will be seeing more spam.
I get the sentiment, but worry that this is punishing people that don't have anything to do with the atrocities being committed by the US regime. Some of those 500 US citizens may be seeking asylum, like some of the rest of us are considering.
They could also be working with aid organisations, and they're almost certainly bringing money with them.
I fear this is a poorly considered retaliation.
Don't worry. They changed some visa requirements, but it looks like the "deporting 500 Americans" part is disinfo meant to rile up the internet. The President had to put out a press release denying it, asking people to only use info from the government before sharing.
More poor people caught in the crossfire of politicians
Are they even people if they don't have a net wealth over $1billion?
I'm loving her outfit. She's looking classy as hell
The theory of Trump's tariff actually has rationale. He tries to force countries to submit to US' economic demands and imperialism. The problem with this, though, is that Trump and co. assume we still live in 19th century, when you can still perform gunboat diplomacy and that the international community won't retaliate.
Trump is a really strange character. He probably doesn't have actual control. The only persons benefitting from this are the tech bros and oligarchs. They stole as much as they could from government data to surveil people and train their AI. And Putin may either have kompromat or funding Trump, or both, for the US president to kowtow to Russia.Trump is the frontman and being propped as pazi should shit hit the fan on the administration.
Edit: added info
The idea that the US was getting a bad deal is just fucking laughable though. The reality is we have had 70 years of neoliberalism forcing the entire world to do what we want because our economic and military might had our boot to their throat.
Oh but we had a bad deal. -Trump
No, NOW we have a bad deal. Fucking dipshit ruined a soft empire where we subjugated the entire god damn planet in order to... make the beneficiaries of that subjugation work harder? We had already won! All we had to do was maintain the petrodollar and fuck over China's ability to form relations with the first world. But now we lost.
Like, I hate capitalism and I hate neoliberalism, but at the same time I'm like, if you're going to change the world, well, fucking up the positives only to leave a pile of shit is not really much of a solution. These religious right wing hogs know nothing about how the world works. I still have to remind myself Trump is a symptom of a system that can no longer carry on. I mean, every Empire falls, soft to hard, don't matter.
Makes more sense when you see it through the lens of self enrichment, not about getting anything more for America.
I'm sure down the road it will come out that he hinted to trade delegations to make an investment in $Trump coin help negotiations along. Whilst of course also making timely personal investment decisions in the American markets fluctuate.
It's just so stupid too, America had won world trade, in so much as there is an actual winning. No one is actually winning from this, oligarchs are changing their power from near absolute control over the globe, to absolute control over a sinking empire. Like good job guys...
Trump and his team over-corrected (can that word even be applied considering the results?) with trying to re-shore jobs to America to appease his base. But even his base are now also pissed off!
Edit: I should also add, that Trump fascism with Project 2025 are trying to export their ideological brand to other places. They especially have an axe to grind with the EU's "over-regulation', which is why Trump and his administration are basically telling France to be more racist, and telling the EU to accept US' chlorinated chickens, or stop trading with the US' entirely.
I don't believe there is any rationale behind it beyond harm to the USA.
This is just Krasnov doing as he's told by his boss, the goal is damage. You'd have to overlook the absolute myriad of Russian ties, convictions, scandals and verified facts to see any other plan at play - yet the US news continually gives him the benefit of the doubt and thus the populace is left looking for alternative motives.
Not trying to disagree with you, but many things can be true at the same time. The theory of Trump's tariff is still conforming to his close ally's, Steve Bannon, view of "economic nationalism". But at the same time, Trump may well be getting signals from Putin. After all, Putin still indulges the right.
Let's call them republicans ?
take my up vote, beautifully worded and 100% support.
Namibia and Botswana are decent places to be in, off the radar and politically safe and liberal
Off-topic: that orange paint in the right photo gets wonkier the more you look at it. Terrifying, really.
I can't tell if it's a photo or not. His make up is crazy stuff
Ouch. Sadly this is what Trump wants.
Based
Time for a color (...) revolution, I see.
Bonus points if you use a secrete police force to kidnap them off the streets, slap them in irons, and ship them back in a military aircraft without any of their belongings.
Right into Florence
Drop them off on the white house steps still in chains.
But Canadians are still good, right?
No actually. This is actually part of Namibia changing its visa requirements for a bunch of countries including Canada.
Good for her! And for Namibia!
... They didn't before? Why not? It only makes sense.
