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Jul 23, 2021Liked by Noah Smith

messy hair Noah will be missed :'(

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Jul 23, 2021Liked by Noah Smith

In other news this meeting has created so much concentrated butthurt among EJMR posters that a black hole has formed at what was once the location of the EJMR servers and is now expanding and consuming all that comes near its event horizon. We, all of us, will soon be destroyed in every way it is possible to be destroyed-and even in some which are essentially impossible.

Thx Noah!

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Great video! She's going to be a well known economist very soon! One of the reasons Ghana is more peaceful is that the borders are more in line created of where the dominant empire ruled. The Ashanti empire controlled most of what is modern day Ghana, East of Ivory Coast and some of West Togo. The only territory that the Ashanti didn't control was the North of Ghana, which is more Muslim and Gonja & Mossi tribe. The majority of Ghanaians are Christian and the plurality of Ghanaians are Akan, making the nation "relatively" homogenous compared to other African countries. Meanwhile, Ivory Coast has an Akan, Christian South and a Muslin Mande North which is roughly 50-50 which made it historically more tribal.

There's a map of how well/not well some West African Empires map to Countries in my substack article on Ivory Coast:

https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/history-of-cote-divoireivory-coast

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Did you ask how much she scored on the GRE or how many fake accounts she created to edit her Wikipedia page?

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