Submitted by delano1998 t3_123xxjg in todayilearned
>the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho
For reference, it's slightly larger than Massachussetts.
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And completely surrounded by South Africa, with quite a large gap from border to any other country.
This makes me so unbelievably sad today. I love music. Music brings me great joy. Why can't we all get along. Why can't we share? Why can't we enjoy others music without violence? What are they losing? Everyone can make music. Music belongs to none of us it just is.
Tell that to the battle drums.
What is wrong with us?
We need a peace envoy like Weird Al.
It's not us, it's them.
This sounds like Chicago Drill Rap where they threaten rival gangs and then carry out the threats. Seems like both are dangerous pastimes
> For reference, it’s slightly larger than Massachussetts.
That honestly just helped me understand the size of Massachusetts much better.
Sshh! They’ll hear you
> Now, though, the murders are not just over accordion music. Rival Famo groups also battle for control of the lucrative illegal gold mines in South Africa where many of their followers work.
There it is
Yeah talk about burying the lede xD
He's a national treasure and must be protected. Keep him the hell away from thete.
Exactly.
Not over the shitty accordion music, they won't.
Imagine all the peeeeople...
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Thats crazy, imagine polka music wars in Idaho. Just goes to shows its not the just inner cities having violence problems
You take that back you son-of-a-bitch, the accordion music is amazing! Fight me!
Weird Al: your Lesotho tour dates have been cancelled
Use an accordion, go to jail. It's the law.
Lesotho is only slightly smaller than the state of Maryland in the USA.
ecksDEE
Country vs Western
It's actually for control of illegal goldmines that the music fans work at according to another commenter.
Had no idea that there were gold mines in Chicago
Living all equally...exceptmeandyokopleaseignorethisbigwhitemansiooooooooon......
There isn't? I'm talking about lestholo
Racism still alive they just be concealing it…
Hey I’ve been there! Didn’t hear an accordion, or get murdered. Did have a great meal though. 7/10
>Why can't we enjoy others music without violence? What are they losing?
Gold mine money. It's not the music to blame. From the article:
>Now, though, the murders are not just over accordion music. Rival Famo groups also battle for control of the lucrative illegal gold mines in South Africa where many of their followers work. Last Christmas, one miner, Sello Ntaote, came home for the first time in three years to visit his wife and two small sons in Lesotho. Days later he was shot dead at a New Years Eve feast - along with three other guests.
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>His friends believe he was killed for alleged "treachery", because he'd just moved from a mine controlled by one Famo gang, to another, taking his earnings with him.
They could've put that in the title, but "deadly accordion wars" gets more clicks... and of course, clicks also equal money, so... *shrug*
Who knew that polka music could be so dangerous?
I admit I did not read the whole article as closely as I should have. But I do wish we could all love each other and work together to make things good for all humans. Why must we kill over gold or diamonds? Why must we kill and enslave others for cobalt and chocolate?
If someone gets threatened, they seem to react accordiongly.
and is pronounced like 'Lesootoo'.
So... Like Bob Marley and his thugs back in the day then?
I figured it wasn’t over Zydeco.
Follow the money.
Someday there'll be a documentary about this, and by necessity it'll be a musical. So the good news is, there's an incredibly awkward Oscars ceremony to look forward to.
>imagine polka music wars in Idaho
Worst... dance-off... ever.
testosterone?
It's really more like Lesötö
I'm glad I could help.
Poverty?
Tchaikovsky fans commit drive by cannonings
So its like rap then?
Cowabummer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amapiano went brrrr
Wow. I read your question and thought poverty, then wondered why the downvotes, then spent a few minutes in your comment history. Yecch. Seriously?
(Edit: The comments of yours I'm referring to seem to have been deleted from the posts, so have lost their context, but pretty sure I understood them. Apologies if wrong.)
do you own anything gold? it's in your electronics. do you eat chocolate?
there's a demand. someone will meet that demand, no matter what.
Yes I know. But why war and slavery? Why do we chose this?
TIL: Darwin is an accordion fan.
It's sealed away to protect the rest of the world. Ruin has come to Lesotho. You remember our venerable kingdom, opulent and imperial. Gazing proudly from its stoic perch above the moor. I lived all my years in that ancient, rumor-shadowed country. Fattened by decadence and luxury. And yet, I began to tire of conventional extravagance. Singular, unsettling tales suggested the country itself was a gateway to some fabulous and unnamable power. With relic and ritual, I bent every effort towards the excavation and recovery of those long-buried secrets, exhausting what remained of our family fortune on swarthy workmen and sturdy shovels. At last, in the salt-soaked crags beneath the lowest caves we unearthed that damnable portal of antediluvian evil. Our every step unsettled the ancient earth but we were in a realm of death and madness! In the end, I alone fled laughing and wailing through those blackened arcades of antiquity. Until consciousness failed me. You remember our venerable kingdom, opulent and imperial. It is a festering abomination! I beg you, return home, claim your birthright, and deliver our family from the ravenous clutching shadows of the Darkest Africa.
Yeah but the accordion thing is funnier
unexpected r/darkestdungeon
r/angryupvote
i dont know darkestdungeon (referenced below) but this sounded very Lovecraftian to me.
If gangsters in the Chicago rap scene also were fighting for control of gold mines.
Wingardium Lêsøtõ
Do you think Weird AL would be like the God of this country or would they try to kill HIM too?
r/woooosh
But also, the fights over gold mines started well after the killings.
The killings significantly predate the fights over gold mines.
Just eat it.
Everyone gangsta until Werd Al shows up.
Because it is a lovecraftian horror roguelike.
If it helps, us in South Africa pronounce it the way you spelled it. At this point in time, Lesotho should probably be our 10th province.
Probably sounds a lot better than gangster rap, especially the fake gangster rap made famous by guys like Tupac. Well, he said it was fake anyway idk.
For an accordion, that's a pretty metal fact
I mean ultimately it's just greed and a lack of love for your fellow man. People just want what other people have or can do for them.
Yeah but how much of it is arable and/or populated?
Yeah I figured it would be more than just music
Who said anything about buried lede? They're mining gold.
L.A., you say?
That user was almost certainly a Russian burner account. They’ve moved on to another account.
Thx. These are strange times.
I forgot what I was responding to tbh. I think the deleted comment was some dude being racist though.
iwascompromised t1_jdwu0y9 wrote
There’s a 25 minute video about this on YouTube. https://youtu.be/iYEDo3Tv00g