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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:46pm On Apr 10, 2025
budaatum:
Hear yourself. If they have orders from Amazon, Home Depot and Walmart, wouldn't they get paid? Or perhaps you just haven't heard how quickly China can repurpose a factory.
He has to prove that he knows Chinese can quickly rewind a transformer or more.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:43pm On Apr 10, 2025
GloriousGbola:
It is how you know he has never stepped on the shores of the us

That's why he can swallow bs from right wing edge lords on 4chan

I was trying to remeber Henry Louis gates but I got this instead


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnhMIYrxTB4?si=Bit5xw43aRKBM2JB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy

People arrested in their own homes. Does a old bookish man look like he can break into a house?

This is the same way they killed breonna Taylor and house niggers keep doing their best to defend police


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3662COVmn8?si=f-zrobG_foxXPLZD

Back in the 50s this man would have been lynched. They lynched a 14 year old because some woman said he cat called her.



You need to read more. There is one fundamental thing about whites - they do not behave like a monolith. Whites went to war against other whites over slavery. Whites joined blacks as freedom riders. Lyndon Johnson pushed the civil rights Bill. Whites provided support networks for runaway slaves. Today as some whites cheer trump on, others oppose him.

Gene rodenberry wrote the star trek I spoke about.

Stan Lee created the xmen - whose leaders are a civil rights metaphor magneto as Malcom x and Martin Luther as Charles xavier

Maybe the Jews should also get over the Holocaust. Maybe the Koreans should get over the comfort women, maybe Vietnamese should get over the war. That is the thinking of spoilt children who have never experienced pain and think others suffering is a joke.
Tell me why a lot of people in the west end up changing their career after college at home. If they are deported noone would employ them , they have no relevant experience to their undergrad.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:36pm On Apr 10, 2025
Maeve7:
Yeah, the (white) blue collar assembly line workers that you were referring to were doing it because they were passionate about their job. cheesy
Someone has to do the job. Everyone can't be a boss. Some people in the rust belt were raised by factory workers, when they grew up they went to work in those same factories.
They had a comfy life, better than most people in Nigeria.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:33pm On Apr 10, 2025
cococandy:
Well that didn’t apply extensively to black people.
The jobs available to them then were mostly low wage or service jobs. That’s why you see a lot first black man or first black woman to do this or do that. They didn’t have the same opportunities.

It wasn’t until the mid 1950s before black ppl had the unencumbered right to education. Sure some of them could’ve gotten educated before then but not without lots of obstacles. So which of their passions could they have pursued easily if their right to education wasn’t guaranteed before then?
Is this related to Stockholm Syndrome?

Harriet Tubman: “I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”


I do agree,can you make everyone happy? Today there are many people who are not happy and will never be happy
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:26pm On Apr 10, 2025
Maeve7:
I’m very happy with my career. My overall happiness level is 9 out of 10. It will be 10/10 once the MAGA movement goes down for what it is, another shameful period in American history. It’s just a matter of time.
I'll repeat.
There are jobs that require a true calling ,nowadays money is the biggest factor
Those days people followed their passion and calling ,money would obviously come.
That's what I mean by happiness.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:21pm On Apr 10, 2025
IjeBos:
The same whites you spend your life here defending and cooning for?
Mind Blown. 🤯🤯🤯
I'm better than you . I know they don't like me. I support those aligned to my interests.
In your case , you don't know they don't like you but you still support democrats and liberals who are mostly white
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:02pm On Apr 10, 2025
[quote author=Maeve7 post=134932337]You have just proven Coco’s point.

So let’s stick to your source, shall we?
It’s divided 50/50. Obviously, your golden age wasn’t better for half the country. grin[/quote

Are you happy with your career for a start? Are you learning a new trade just to keep up
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:55pm On Apr 10, 2025
cococandy:
Did you miss the point in this post that you shared?
Gee I wonder why. Why do you think white Christians thought life was better then?





So what we said then?
Generally that's what I've picked from comments , not necessarily from white people. From mostly disqus and substacks.
Older generation not specific to any race. It was easier achieving one's life targets.
One area was job availability. Most people took up jobs they were passionate about be it a teacher, coach, fireman. They chose a career , most stuck with it and were able to raise strong families.
Today careers are all about money for a majority Not passion.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:46pm On Apr 10, 2025
cococandy:
Yet here you guys are cooning for them.
I’m convinced some of you don’t even know what it is tithe arguing for.
I've said this over time and time again, you can search my posts here.
Whites don't like us, they think they are better.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:40pm On Apr 10, 2025
Maeve7:
Because you say so?

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:33pm On Apr 10, 2025
Maeve7:
You couldn’t prove it if your life depended on it.
A typical working blue collar worker could raise family and retire comfy more easily than today
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:29pm On Apr 10, 2025
cococandy:
Because happiness is all about money.

Any conversation that doesn’t take the very vital component of American history which is race into consideration is null and void.

Because your dollar ain’t taking you nowhere when you can’t even buy a house in the neighborhood you want.

Dull conversations without nuance irk me
The whites never liked you then, they still don't . Majority if not all
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:27pm On Apr 10, 2025
Maeve7:
Serious question, have you taken your meds today?
That was in jest , symbolically, if you didn't realize.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:24pm On Apr 10, 2025
cococandy:
It takes a special level of buffoonery to say people were happier in the 50s. This totally disregards the experience of black people. The only people who were happier in the 50s were white people. If you can’t see that because you choose not to see things “through a lens of race”, it means you’re totally disconnected from your own identity. It’s not a flex. Unless you think only white people are humans. Therefore when assessing happiness only their happiness counts.

If we make American great again to be like the 50s, you will not be part of the prosperous class. You’re going back to fighting for civil rights. I can’t believe we’re having this conversation in 2025. A group of black men who want to go back to the times before they had the right to vote.

I’m nauseated 🤢
Subject to debate.Wasnt about race.

Context was ,how far could a dollar take you?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:18pm On Apr 10, 2025
Maeve7:
The myth that life was easier in the 50s, even for white people, is a just that, a myth. Basilico dodged my questions because he likes to live in an alternative reality where facts don’t matter.
In Africa we had the whole sky for water and whole forests for toilets.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:16pm On Apr 10, 2025
bemeruca:
Humans in the 50s vs today.
Great progress.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:13pm On Apr 10, 2025
GloriousGbola:
What job opportunites do you think black men had in the US in the 50s?

Do you understand what the civil right act and affirmative action were about?

Maybe next you will say Nigerians were also doing well in the 50s

Go and watch Malcolm x. Watch devil in a blue dress. Watch hidden figures. Watch fences. Watch till. Those movies will give you an idea of what life was like for black people in the 50s.

The nostalgia is from white people who were guaranteed a good life on a high school education. That is gone partially because of the corporate greed Raum celebrates but also because white people now have to compete with blacks and browns for jobs.

You can also watch actual movies from the 50s. The only roles for blacks - cleaning


One of the reasons star trek was so groundbreaking when it came out was that it featured a black woman (uhura) in a leadership role. Not as a mammy or a maid or a cook.

Unfortunately those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it, so here we are.
I'm not the author please.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:06pm On Apr 10, 2025
Whoopi Goldberg lies on air saying egg prices have not fallen.

https://www.aol.com/whoopi-goldberg-falsely-claims-egg-183629880.html

He did promise to lower the price of groceries, I have not seen an egg fall one cent since this man got in,” Goldberg said, prompting co-host Sunny Hostin to falsely say they are going up.

These people are paid to lie. Sunny Hostin was forced to read a legal memo some months ago trashing Matt Gaetz.

They know half the country will believe them.
Those who believe these people are just dumb dumber dumbest
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:47pm On Apr 10, 2025
IjeBos:
Bemeruca even argued that the 50's were the best time for the US or he might have even said the World.
Make American Great Again right?
Nostalgic .

https://historyfacts.com/arts-culture/article/life-in-1950s-america-by-the-numbers/

The “nuclear family” (describing married couples with kids at home) was ingrained in the culture; more than half of all people (68% of men and 66% of women) were married. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of these cultural norms would be upended, but this generation left a lasting mark on American society. H
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:09pm On Apr 10, 2025
GloriousGbola:
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1jv6f1d/lenovo_stops_shipments_to_the_usa_as_of_today/

https://www.gizmochina.com/2025/04/09/us-laptop-imports-paused-tariffs/

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-HP-Dell-and-others-suspend-US-shipments-for-two-weeks-due-to-US-tariffs.996427.0.html



you are a nigerian

you know exactly how this will turn out.

from 2006 to 2015 a brand new corolla was 4m or so. crv like 7m or so. then in 2015 customs increased import duty and the price rose to 18 -24m or so. of course that was the beginning of the end of most corporate entities buying cars for staff.

customs has continued raising import duty, to the point where most people just say fk it and buy naija used cars.

it is the consumers that will suffer. anyone who has cash will be scrambling to buy things he /she wants because this may be the last time they will see them at those prices.

china will be fine.
There will be a glut of high end products in China, look for a laptop with UL rating smiley
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:04pm On Apr 10, 2025
bemeruca:
I was not fully invested in solar. I just had a little bit of everything. Electricity was constant enough; the generator was for the night. The panel was for during the day in case we have transformer issues. At night, the Gen takes over and charges the batteries.
Oh I see. Solar can be expensive but once you start generating several kWh a day , you want to push it further, space willing to add more panels and batteries.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:32pm On Apr 10, 2025
budaatum:
Canada, along with parts of South America, Japan, Taiwan, and Saudi Arabia, primarily use a voltage range of 110V to 127V AC and would buy if cheap enough.
A factory with orders from Amazon , Home Depot and Walmart will simply ship the products elsewhere. It's that easy to you.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:25pm On Apr 10, 2025
GloriousGbola:
Saudi is 220v tho.

this is the thing. for an industrialized china, it is not a big deal. a competent road side electrician can rewind the transformers of devices to run on 110 volts instead of 220 and vice versa. it is just small component swapping that can be done at the factory.
Really, it's an added cost to finished products.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:13pm On Apr 10, 2025
GloriousGbola:
you are actually right.

this is from the brochure for jinko 550w

we are project managing some solar deployments and this is from vendor material literature
Half cut cels 144 are the rage nowadays. More efficient.. Their Vóç goes to around 50V or more.
You have a choice between Ntype and P type too.Tje figure you want to look at practically is the NOTC but STC is the official rating .

Didn't have to type this,the bit is correct here.


STC (Standard Test Conditions)
Definition: STC refers to the conditions under which solar panels are tested to determine their performance.
Conditions:
Irradiance: 1,000 watts per square meter
Temperature: 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit)
Air Mass: 1.5 (which simulates the solar spectrum at a specific angle)
NOCT (Normal Operating Cell Temperature)
Definition: NOCT measures the temperature of the solar panel under real-world conditions, providing a more practical performance metric.
Conditions:
Irradiance: 800 watts per square meter
Ambient Temperature: 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit)
Wind Speed: 1 meter per second
Key Differences
Purpose:
STC is used for standardized testing and provides a baseline for comparing different solar panels.
NOCT reflects more realistic operating conditions, giving insight into how panels perform in everyday situations.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:05pm On Apr 10, 2025
bemeruca:
My mom sold my inverter and battery cells. The panels are not priced well so I asked her to not sell it. So I want give it to a friend.

I was using this nightmare 😂😂
For home use below 10KW.
That's a PWM controller. Very cheap.
You should use MPPT charge controllers.
Inverters integrated with a CC are all MPPT nowadays
They are upto 30% more efficient. They also just accept a range of input voltages say 100V upto 500V.. You just connect your panels and make sure the voltage from the panels doesn't exceed their rated input ....
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:59pm On Apr 10, 2025
bemeruca:
My mom sold my inverter and battery cells. The panels are not priced well so I asked her to not sell it. So I want give it to a friend.
Panels have a 25 year warranty of sorts. Batteries, inverters and separate charge controller, get a buyer at a reasonable price.. sell pronto. More efficient ones are coming out that you can also integrate into a home assistant.
The prices are also really down thanks to competition and climate change Activism.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:51pm On Apr 10, 2025
bemeruca:
The solar panel sitting in my house in Nigeria is 48V
GloriousGbola as usual "I too Sabi" always has something to say.

Pretty soon he will start saying a true solar panel is 12v because (insert a stupid reason here)
That would be a 144 cell, half cut in reality it's 72 cells. They are more efficient, they will go up to 50V.
Ordinary 72 cells are nominally rated 36V but the voltage with just a meter between the positive and negative is around 42-44V with a Vpeak of 40-4V.

He probably uses 100W panels,nominally rated 12V but with an Open Circuit voltage of 21V. Today it's pointless to use 100W ,the costs are really down, most users are doing 450W upwards to almost 680W
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:41pm On Apr 10, 2025
GloriousGbola:
man is lying through his teeth cheesy cheesy cheesy

he cant say he does not know about jinko solar panels or felicity - at least those ones are not chinko/chinesium
Almost all batteries especially Lithium are Chinese made. Countries import grade A cells and assemble them with a different brand name such as Growatt, Ecoworthy. It's UK made but the cells are Chinese. They just get the casing ( from China too) ,add a BMS and voila ,a UK or America made battery.You can also get a Chinese assembler to brand them gbola or whatever fancy name you choose.

The two top solar panel manufacturers are Longi and Jinko. Chinese companies.

Solar panels are not all 12V. They are made of cells anywhere from 36,48,60 or 72 upwards to the half cut 120 or 144. Each cell has 0.588V or so so you'll find some with 21-50V when open circuited. But they have nominal rating 12,24,36 or 48V .
I've had enough problems importing from China,as you mentioned sone have no manual,can't get a refund easily if at all you ever
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:27pm On Apr 10, 2025
budaatum:
Yeah, Chinese are that stupid. They can't make 240V appliances, and that's why they sell no electronics in UK, and Nigeria.

Even their solar panels are limited to 110V, which is why you only install them in America?
How you convert a110V single phase appliance to a 240V . Easy Add a step down transformer from the 240V outlet. That's another gadget .
With 3 phase industrial devices either use a transformer or a variable frequency drive . More expenses .

Americans buy a lot of electrical and electronic stuff . How many you think Chinese warehouses have in store,that are facing 104% tariffs ,And that no other user anywhere else will buy - because first it's expensive and secondly need 240V to 110V step down
..
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:30pm On Apr 10, 2025
feedthenation:
---This is going to happen very soon over the next 90 days---Bessent can't stand the rapid inconsistencies from Felon 47 economic and trade agenda---
You are out of your mind


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLP1mME8nZE?si=axjtR7mXFUoqDRLV

That looks like someone who is resigning .
Democrats are the ones who are plotting to oust Elon Musk within 130 days of being sworn in.....
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:54am On Apr 10, 2025
Cococandy,see how MSNBC lied about Joe Biden.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/2909317/the-best-biden-ever/#google_vignette
This article appeared on March 7 2024.

[b]THE BEST BIDEN EVER.’ On his MSNBC program Wednesday, former Republican Rep. Joe Scarborough launched an impassioned and aggressive defense of President Joe Biden — specifically, of Biden’s mental fitness to serve a second term as president. Scarborough’s performance was an attempt to show that the best defense is a good offense: In Scarborough’s view, the 81-year-old Biden is not only not declining cognitively, but he’s absolutely the best he’s ever been. And to majorities of voters, both Democrats and Republicans, who believe the president is not up to a second term, Scarborough had a simple message: “F*** you.”

Scarborough said he had “spent a couple of hours with Joe Biden, sitting, talking, going around the world as far as talking issues, talking the economy, talking inflation, talking.” After those discussions, Scarborough came to believe that Biden “might misplace a word here or there” but is in fact really sharp. “I undersold him when I said he was cogent,” Scarborough said. “He’s far beyond cogent. In fact, he’s better than he’s ever been intellectually, analytically. Because he’s been around for 50 years.”[/b]
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Democrats wanted targeted tariffs
Now he has targeted China and they are still wailing
Trump may act stupid but he isn't. Every nation gets 10% tariff and they are all happy, 10% on top of whatever tariff existed before. Quick calculation. If US imported $3T then the extra tariffs will raise $300B above last year
Democrats and RINOs are clearly in the pockets of China . The globalists want a weak Europe and America, that's why they promote China. Foolish of them feeding a crocodile hoping it will eat them last.
China is isolated. Begging Australia for friendship after it's been sending it's warships all over East in a show of force . Let's see what happens to the islands they been building .

China extends hand of friendship to Australia
China's Xi Jinping is offering to 'join hands' with Anthony Albanese to defend global trade against Trump’s tariffs.

The communist regime's ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian wrote that China and Australia should join forces to maintain an ‘open and cooperative’ trade relationship.

Mr Qian does not spell out specifically what he meant by joining hands.

'Under the new circumstances, China stands ready to join hands with Australia and the international community to jointly respond to the changes of the world, resolutely uphold international equity and justice, defend the multilateral trading system, ensure the stability of global industrial and supply chains, and maintain an open and co-


Everyone can also see that China doesn't play fair in trade deals.
Trump in less than 3 months has shown that America is too powerful. How successive leaders use this power remains to be seen.

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