Congolese craftsmen carves a fully functional transport scooter out of wood.

Can you believe this? I just saw it on Reddit's r/videos page.

  1. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    silly me forgot the link

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      AMAZING

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      lmaoo I thought it had an engine, so let me review this, they made a motorbike looking device that is powered for going downhill to move loads? Then why the fuck not making something with 4 wheels without poor balance if you need to move a lot of loads easily, or just make a fucking bike that you can pedal it even uphill???

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >lmaoo I thought it had an engine, so let me review this, they made a motorbike looking device that is powered for going downhill to move loads? Then why the fuck not making something with 4 wheels without poor balance if you need to move a lot of loads easily, or just make a fucking bike that you can pedal it even uphill???
        Ever seen the video of the future engineer/lawyer carrying a wheelbarrow full of bricks?

  2. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    oh shit they've discovered the wheel

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      next is inventing the compass so they can make it round

  3. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Africa confuses me.
    They live on fertile lands, ripe with fresh rivers, and abundant rains.
    The ground is rich with minerals, and the trees hang low with fruit.
    The wildlife is diverse and plentiful, and they have more clay in their soil than anywhere else.

    They were handed all the cards, and they still managed to play a losing hand.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >t.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      there's a really good copypasta about how they never were wanting of anything except social status

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        > Maybe we should be a little less proud

        That's basically the problem here. They're proud of being poor because it's like a medal for them. "We were victims of whitey, this is the best we can do after they destroyed us! give us praise for trying hard at least". Their whole culture is A for Effort rather than for actual results.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          That's also the message of country music on the radio

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah, country music really sums up African American attitudes about themselves, their surrounds, their history, and their idea of a good time, absolutely anon

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        A sobering monologue, for any people
        Hard not the feel the same way about the absolute state of the world, even as a white person

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        that man is spitting lava. there is literally nothing anyone can say to prove him wrong

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      leftists will tell you africans couldn't succeed because of European exploitation (which only would have affected their development when colonialism began - nevermind the lack of development in the stone, bronze, iron ages and throughout the nearly two millenia AD before colonialism) or because Africa didn't have as good of resources.

      But then those same people will tell you Europe colonized Africa to steal their resources.

      But ultimately I think a lot of leftists subconsciously admit the realities of race, while consciously or openly ignoring them. They think it can *mostly* be fixed with stalinist communism or global transsexualism or whatever.

      It's funny to me that leftists ignore the reality of race while acknowledging science, evolution, genetics, etc. while ignoring the metaphysical truths of the world. And it's funny that people who don't understand or agree with evolution can see that it's clear as day that non-whites are fucking retarded

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >And it's funny that people who don't understand or agree with evolution can see that it's clear as day that non-whites are fucking retarded
        Blacks are. South/East/South East Asians & Middle Easterners deserve to be lumped in with them. Those groups have managed to build and maintain a civilisation, and achieve various forms of high culture. Blacks haven't.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >It's funny to me that leftists ignore the reality of race while acknowledging science, evolution, genetics, etc.
        Evolution is real, but also, human brains are exempt from evolutionary pressures. Thus, all humans are exactly as intelligent as all other humans.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      leftists will tell you africans couldn't succeed because of European exploitation (which only would have affected their development when colonialism began - nevermind the lack of development in the stone, bronze, iron ages and throughout the nearly two millenia AD before colonialism) or because Africa didn't have as good of resources.

      But then those same people will tell you Europe colonized Africa to steal their resources.

      But ultimately I think a lot of leftists subconsciously admit the realities of race, while consciously or openly ignoring them. They think it can *mostly* be fixed with stalinist communism or global transsexualism or whatever.

      It's funny to me that leftists ignore the reality of race while acknowledging science, evolution, genetics, etc. while ignoring the metaphysical truths of the world. And it's funny that people who don't understand or agree with evolution can see that it's clear as day that non-whites are fucking retarded

      richest man in history was african Mansa Musa pasty whitebois.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        The same mansa musa that plundered gold and slaves from every other tribe around him? The very same mansa musa that sold slaves to arabs and euros? That mansa musa?

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >The same mansa musa that plundered gold and slaves from every other tribe around him? The very same mansa musa that sold slaves to arabs and euros? That mansa musa?
          There was no slave trade between West Africa and Arabs. Those slaves came from East Africa. Do you realize just how logistically impossible and a financial disaster it would be to transport slaves from WA to even EA, let alone West Asia?
          There was practically no trade between interior WA and Europe in general in the Middle Ages.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        What did he do with his great riches?

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Bought a big gold dildo and made videos of himself masturbating in his car for his onlyfans

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >What did he do with his great riches?
          Some of it was spent while en route to Mecca for Hajj. The rest was spent for trade and local stuff by him and his successors.
          An idiot might read the first line and think spending massive amounts of wealth overseas while on Hajj is foolish, but in reality it was the world's biggest PR and tourism campaign. It put Sahelian West Africa on the global map (literally), and brought in trade and scholars and expanded the Mali Empire's and later Songhay Empires' influence massively.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      There is an economic theory that says that it's not actually a good thing to have too many natural resources, because it means there's no incentive for development. If you could go take a walk in the woods near you at all time and find a decent meal there no one would've bothered inventing agriculture. Europe had the advantage of being liveable but still harsh enough that you can't rely on nature alone.

      In modern times it also applies to nations. First world countries derive their wealths from their citizen's brains. Researchers, engineers, and so on. It means the leaders have a reason to keep their population happy because their own wealth and status is tied to them. If your country's entire budget comes from mining diamond, well you don't need to create an environment that encourages people to think so you can keep accumulating wealth in the long run, you just need people to show up at the mine with enough arms to swing a pickaxe.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It's like how spoiled, idle rich kids end up squandering their fathers' fortunes and end up destitute.

      When you want for nothing, there's no reason to try and improve your situation.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      If you have it all, why do you need to work for it?
      Africa's borderline neolithic "civilization" worked fine for most of them and the most advanced bronze/iron age-level cultures were small and fell to either foreigners or bantus

  4. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >OP is so late to the meme that there's already a statue
    many such cases

  5. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >it's entirely inferior to the 50 year old European made scooters whizzing past
    powerful

  6. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Why is it seemingly almost impossible for Africans to make anything nice?
    Hardly anything they make looks appealing or attractive, not their architecture, or their artwork. Everything looks so crude as if it were made by orcs.

  7. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It feels wrong to make fun of people in poor shitty countries who are just trying their best. I derive no pleasure from it.

    With the exception of India, of course.

  8. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They gaan

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  9. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    The famous Congalese Engineer, Ambasing Ambatakum and his wooden scooters changed the lives of people in his country for the better

  10. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Go back and check some more of the cool videos there.

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