If you were in 1930's in East Africa, for whom you fought Italy or Abyssinia?

[Aurelian]

Don't ask me why I am thinking about this

 

[Aurelian]

@Basra you'd you be my Bella Abissina ?

 

[attash]

Neither, I would take advantage of the situation to xoog both of them

 

[Basra]

@Basra you'd you be my Bella Abissina ?

Yes. I will be pro Ethiopia!

 

[Aurelian]

Yes. I will be pro Ethiopia!

no, i didn't mean that

 

[Aurelian]

Neither, I would take advantage of the situation to xoog both of them

nice

 

[wonyluvr]

 

[Basra]

no, i didn't mean that

u mean in the front like and fight beside Ethiopians? Hell Naaww Ethiopians are fuleeyins # 1. They are notorious for having a weak heart- theyd be hiding behind me fighting! Naah

 

[wonyluvr]

This is the funniest question I’ve heard

 

[wonyluvr]

I’ll choose neither.I’ll steal weapons and money from the Italians and I’ll start a rebel group and liberate Galbeed and all lands inhabited by Somalis

 

[EyiPunter]

I do fight the aidtiopian and simulate Oromo and make them fully Muslim. Now Somalia population would have been 80 million.

 

[Yami]

Neither, I would take advantage of the situation to xoog both of them

How did you know I’m dhulbahante

 

[World]

Italy

 

[Burqad]

You fools! Don't you realize what it means if the Chinese remain? Don't you remember your history? The last time the Chinese came, they stayed a thousand years. The French are foreigners. They are weak. Colonialism is dying. The white man is finished in Asia. But if the Chinese stay now, they will never go. As for me, I prefer to sniff French shit for five years than to eat Chinese shit for the rest of my life.

Switch out French for Italian and Ethiopian for Chinese and this Ho Chi Minh quote is right

 

[Aurelian]

You fools! Don't you realize what it means if the Chinese remain? Don't you remember your history? The last time the Chinese came, they stayed a thousand years. The French are foreigners. They are weak. Colonialism is dying. The white man is finished in Asia. But if the Chinese stay now, they will never go. As for me, I prefer to sniff French shit for five years than to eat Chinese shit for the rest of my life.

Switch out French for Italian and Ethiopian for Chinese and this Ho Chi Minh quote is right

Ethiopia wasn't in Somali Lands for thousand years.

 

[Ghengis Kaarhis]

Do it like my awowe, fight for italians to karbash the habashi then betray italians

 

[Tenz]

Neither, I would take advantage of the situation to xoog both of them

Xoog shit no hoe shit

 

[Aurelian]

Do it like my awowe, fight for italians to karbash the habashi then betray italians

yes, yes, yes. This is they way

 

[The Oponian Guild]

I’d play both sides

 

[Tiyeglow]

I was actually thinking about this literally the other day - there are two camps:

Olol Diinle (Fought with the Italians to oust the Ethiopians)

vs

Cumar Samatar (Fought with the Ethiopians to oust the Italians).

It all depends on strategic needs to be honest - I respect both, Cumar Samatar is one of the most underrated Somali heroic figures of 20th century, he was essentially Ra'iisul wasaaraha Suldaanka Hobyo. Both did it, not out of opportunism, but because where they were was occupied by that specific colonialist. My great-grandfather fought for the Italians against the Ethiopians in the Second Ethiopian-Italian war in late 1930's early 40's. He incidentally died in Qalaafe,w which was the historic town for the Ajuraan Sultanate, where Olol Diinle himself ruled. So my great-grandfather was more Olol Diinle. I'd rather an enemy that is clear and obvious rather than one that is sly and makes me off-guard. One of the main issues of Somalia is that unlike the SYL generation where they had a clear enemy and opposition whereby after they leave there is a new chapter, Somalia today doesn't have that given AMISOM have made this their home and the fact that this is African troops means its gives the pretence of not being colonial due to their melanin, even though AMISOM + Halane is quite literally apartheid colonialism