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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:20am On May 19
The insurrection was instigated by FBI .
Get that through your head.
Those jailed for merely exercising first amendment rights need compensation.
They wanted Trump permanently to cover their crimes. You are a victim of the liberal lies.

bayelsaowei:
Biden pardoned his son. Condemnable.

Trump pardoning insurrectionists and then getting poised to compensate them with tax payers money??

Oboy. Is enough not enough?

Is it everything that must be supported?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:12am On May 19
If you love your democrats that much advice them to stop targeting their opponents.
In 2017 , IRS settled over 400 lawsuits after they were caught targeting Tea Party tax exempt organizations.
....whose tax-exempt status was significantly delayed by the IRS dating back to 2013, “based solely on their viewpoint or ideology.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-doj-settles-lawsuits-over-tea-party-targeting-by-obama-irs

St Jesus of Chicago can do anything because he is black. This targeting of Trump and his supporters including manufacturing J6 would never happened if Obama didn't chose to target him before 2016 then organised the coup to remove him.
Democrats suck big.

bayelsaowei:
So you mean folks who went through the courts, were convicted by federal judges or juries deserve reparations?

Is there not a time in your sorry lives when it’s becomes appropriate to say enough is enough.?

Trump is telling the whole world that the US and its rule of law is a joke.

The implications of what Trump and his gang are doing is unprecedented and a reputational disaster.

Trump is now no different from our Nigerian politicians who just deep hands into the coffers of the country and compensate cronies with it.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:48pm On May 18
Trump is dropping the suit because there is a racketeering investigation going on in Florida. The leak was part of a coordinated lawfare campaign against him. It shields IRS from the Florida investigation but doesn't shield the individuals responsible

$1,776 B is symbolic


IjeBos:
Trump is dropping the suit in order not to have any judicial oversight.
The judge was going to drop the hammer.

The dismissal of this suit allows him to negotiate with his own DOJ to attempt to steal 1.7 Billion dollars for some nonsense fund.
This is pure outright corruption that we wouldn't even see in Nigeria let alone the US.
There is nothing altruistic about this move.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:17pm On May 18
GracieX3:
Only a cultist would argue that Jan 6 was a good thing.

MAGA madness.
People were protesting. FBI had hundreds of agents and informers in the crowd whose role has never been specified.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:57pm On May 18
IjeBos:
He said "sue in a friendly judges court in a state they are a minority". (That statement is ridiculous in of itself and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the redistricting process and US courts).
Sounds like a smattering of things put together that someone has heard on right wing radio.

The truth is that anyone who reads mostly anything you write will be more illiterate for it.
You are barely literate on US laws and the US court system to be even offering any commentary.
Yet you continue flooding this forum with nonsense like this, fooling anyone who may think because someone could write it means there must be a grain of truth in it.

You should spend a fraction of the time actually reading relevant non propaganda sources and you would sound 100% more smarter.
In fact, if you just stopped consuming all the right-wing propaganda you do, you'd instantaneously sound smarter for it.
There were black districts imposed by courts in Republican majority states.Yes or No?
Supreme Court rejected using race as a criteria when redrawing congressional district maps.
What's so hard to understand about that.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:55pm On May 18
Obrigardo.Take note.

REPUBLICAN PAUL WYMER CRUSHES DEMOCRAT IN RIO RANCHO MAYORAL RACE — 63% TO 37% LANDSLIDE

Republican Paul Wymer just delivered a massive victory in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, winning the mayoral runoff 63% to 37% over Democrat Alexandria Piland.

“That’s a huge victory for Republicans in this city,” reported local news.

Wymer highlighted his campaign focus: “We ran a positive campaign. We talked about the issues that matter to the people of Rio Rancho. We’re going to focus on public safety, we’re going to focus on economic development, and we’re going to make sure that we keep taxes low and keep our community the great place that it is.”

Trump only carried Rio Rancho by 3 points. Wymer’s +23 point overperformance marks a bloodbath for Democrats in this key New Mexico city.

This is another clear sign that voters are rejecting one-party Democrat rule and demanding results on safety, taxes, and growth.

Though I think for a mayor the individual matters.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:22pm On May 18
bayelsaowei:
This is your evidence?

🤦🏾
Stephen DAntuono.
Remember that name.
Add this event too. Michael Fanone body cam footage.

I'll revisit when I get more information.

bayelsaowei:
My goodness..

So it’s like a movie. I thought you had choking evidence to share.. May God help you.

Season 1: Stephen DAntuono orchestrated the Jan 6th insurrection (irrefutable evidence not yet available)..

season 2: evidence to be revealed once more information is obtained.

Oh my..

😂😂
I mentioned Michael Fanone. The cop who testified how he was brutally assaulted by maga-mafians.
They had refused to release to release his bodycam footage.
Here it is.

It appears he lied about the extent of the attack.

https://vidmax.com/video/238089-new-bombshell-jan-6th-bodycam-footage-from-michael-fanone-has-been-released-and-it-seems-he-s-been-lying-about-a-lot-of-things

More lies getting exposed bit by bit . I usually just don't stop names without some backup.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:35am On May 18
DeepSight:
Ideally. But in the real world, the truth is that stance on racial issues is critical (mind you, stance on racial issues is not your race). For example, the rep of Memphis has been white for two decades.
Courts shouldn't order which race drawn map to use.
Democrats after a census would challenge a redrawn map where they are a minority in the state. Then they would sue in a friendly judges court who would authorize their map .
That has been corrected by the Supreme Court decision

One day both parties will come up with a workable plan .
As of now democrats are crying because the Republicans are set to gain upto 14 seats if they all redress the imbalances that exist.

After 2030 census , projections are that republicans could pick up another 6-8 seats . Voters have moved from democrat states to tax and business friendly republican states
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:05am On May 18
The creation of congressional districts should not be based on race.
Final ruling.
Democrats have abused that. Courts have imposed districts where democrats are likely to win.

Obama won some white solid republican states like Indiana or Ohio and retained others.

An election win should be based on policy or substance not just race.


DeepSight:
Repent.

Everyone knows the game being played. Everyone knows what is being done is targeted at denying blacks and Dems seats in the next election and everyone knows the true purpose beyond the words being bandied about. Even both of you also know it.

Look at Memphis a predominantly black city which would normally get a seat based on the majority of its people's desire. You now go and split it up into several districts so that it cannot vote as a majority black area and thereby strategically deny the black population its choice. This is known as "cracking"—a gerrymandering technique where a cohesive voting bloc is split across multiple districts to dilute its political power.

No one is stupid, including your side, everyone knows exactly what is being done and both of you know it too, so no amount of pretending that it's segregation will impress anyone.

As for me, I simply say what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If your side is doing it and you are happy, just don't complain when it's also done to you, period.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:23am On May 18
Bemeruca and raumdeuter. Better watch this.

Leyan Fullham , earns $80 Grand a year protesting on behalf of the Chinese Singham and George Soros networks.

Natie Friedman exposes them loading up tens of pro Iran signs from their office and follows them to the protest .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm2rJfIzEH0?si=r3bTRctAJuuxtluS6

How are these cretins allowed to teach Marxism.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:52am On May 18
A lot of people don't see it this way.

When democrats carve out a black district ,they are in effect segregating.
They get their black safe districts.

The suburbs get their Republican safe districts too.

So in effect they are creating separate black and mostly white enclaves .

A racist republican doesn't depend on appealing across the board to all voters.
A black house rep knows he only needs to win the primary to retain his seat.Ditto the Republican.

An example.
Spreading Democratic voters thinly across multiple districts to maximize Republican seats, a Democratic surge in a midterm year could actually make up to three separate South Carolina districts highly competitive for Democrats

tctrills:
The supreme court says you can't segregate people based on colour
Démocrates claim it is a racist ruling.
Dems believe that segregation is the solution to racism.
The supreme court says all Americans should be treated equally, no special districts based on the colour of your skin.
But Dems want segregated district's.
Who do you support?
Do you support segregation as the solution to racism or do you want a colour blind society.
DeepSight the bast guy, what says you?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:39am On May 18
A Cuban gives her take on Communism.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CUpZC1G3V/

Do you have an opinion on the job that Trump is doing so far?

Sure. I think he's doing great.

What is he doing great right now? Everything. Because I came from a communist country, and this country's becoming communist.

Which country did you come from? Cuba.

You're from Cuba.
Yeah.

So what would you say to all the democratic socialists that think that socialism is the answer?

Well... Don't get her started. Don't get me started. Go off, queen. Go off, queen.

I think you need to wake up and realize what's really going to happen when you have no food, no medical, nothing. Because they take it all away from you. Oh, and by the way, you happy little darlings, your children don't belong to you either. They'll belong to the government.

So that's what America has to look forward to?.
Oh, yeah. If they keep going down this path. Oh, yes.

And do you believe that Trump is trying to stop it from happening?
Of course. But they're trying to stop Trump. And let me put it this way. When you speak the truth, people will stop you. And there was one person that walked around this earth speaking the truth, and he got crucified. And that was? Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. I'm not saying Trump is Jesus, but I'm just saying it's the same old pattern.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:04am On May 18
ijebosb:
Imagine not even living in the US and yet routinely falling for right ring propaganda.

The acting AG will have to go under oath in Congress for a confirmation hearing.
What is the probability he says any of this under oath? (There is a chance he does expecting a Pardon from Trump).
And then what is the probability that in 3 years they release this "evidence" and it's credible? 0%

The US looks like a joke right now.
I think he doesn't want to be AG because Senate will ask him not to pursue the elections.

Remember this name. Harrison Deal . Let him RIP. I hope he doesn't come up in the investigations.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:12am On May 18
Hello .
Joe Biden was the most corrupt administration in history of America.
That's an undisputable fact.

cococandy:
The fact that we can recognize that corruption is holding Nigeria back but turn around and support an administration that is so corrupt it makes Nigerian leaders look like angels is wild to me.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:49pm On May 17
DeepSight:
The DOJ is only doing the bidding of its master. All this QAnon talk of the DOJ will expire once Trump leaves office.
I trust you know better than the US AG .
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:47pm On May 17
cococandy:
I support banning gender reassignment surgeries in minors. Same way I support banning marriages in minors too. I don’t even think teenagers should be having sex (even with each other) but definitely certainly not with older people who are pretending the magical hour of the clock hitting 18 makes them grown and mature enough all of a sudden.

What I don’t support is 🤡s using kids as political props when they’re trying to scapegoat certain communities. But when it comes to actually being against harm to children, they support every measure that goes against it. While supporting those actively and credibly known to harm kids.
The west was founded on Judeo Xtianity values. Actions condemned by the bible are largely against the law.lbgtq for instance is condemned , under pressure churches have been forced to officiate same sex marriages by the left
You are more likely to find paedophiles among liberals than conservatives. Both sides have their own lists of convicts, the side with the loudest megaphone is the left.
The left perpetuates ,celebrates and normalizes violence against the right .
Africans are inherently conservative despite being influenced by the west.
I wrote all that and realized I said nothing.
I'm sleeping early today. It's 8.46 wherever I am.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:30pm On May 17
Tell me the acting AG is spreading conspiracy theories.
The reckoning is coming one way or another.


Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. AG Todd Blanche just dropped a bombshell, confirming the DOJ has MULTIPLE active 2020 election fraud investigations in Georgia and Arizona

"We're very focused on finding out whether the right people voted, whether people that were supposed to vote voted, whether there was one vote cast per voter!"
"There's a ton of evidence that the election was rigged. That's not something the DOJ needs to tell you about. There's been evidence about that for many, many years!"

"That's what we're doing in multiple states. You'll say to me, how long has it taken? Why has it taken so long? The reality of the answer is because it takes a lot of work to uncover what happened in 2020."

"It takes a lot of old, good old fashioned law enforcement police work, which is what we're doing."

"We have great prosecutors working on it as well. I assure you, I assure the American people that as soon as we have something to say for it, whether it's charges, whether it's a report, whether it's a result of an investigation, the American people will learn about what we uncovered


Lordreed.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:18pm On May 17
DeepSight:
Ye have been excommunicated until ye repent, dust and chaff are thy portion.
The whip of the scorpion and the sting of the serpent resteth upon thy back.

Be gone, oh purveyor of human trafficking.
It's good going on an academic journey on the disadvantage Africa within the tropics had when it came to development.
That's in the past ,those factors have been sorted out.
Israel has no oil ,their deserts bloom,they have more companiea on Nasdaq than the rest of the world after America and China.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:09pm On May 17
DeepSight:
Without arguing for or against, let me just point out that marriage is a social contract with another person. People need to be adults to enter binding contracts. This is different from working on your own body.
Listen to yourself oga.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:25pm On May 17
Kansas judge sets aside law banning gender transitioning surgeries to under 18 albeit temporary.

In his opinion, Judge Folsom wrote that the Kansas Constitution protects “personal In his opinion, Judge Folsom wrote that the Kansas Constitution protects “personal autonomy,” which includes “the fundamental right of parents to the care, custody and control of their minor children.”

The judge described genderbending care as “the treatment with the most evidence of being helpful to treat gender dysphoria” and said it is “harmful to withhold medical treatment or withdraw medical treatment in progress that is safe, effective, and medically indicated,” which includes “the fundamental right of parents to the care, custody and control of their minor children.”

The judge described genderbending care as “the treatment with the most evidence of being helpful to treat gender dysphoria” and said it is “harmful to withhold medical treatment or withdraw medical treatment in progress that is safe, effective, and medically indicated
[/i]In his opinion, Judge Folsom wrote that the Kansas Constitution protects “personal autonomy,” which includes “the fundamental right of parents to the care, custody and control of their minor children.”

The judge described genderbending care as “the treatment with the most evidence of being helpful to treat gender dysphoria” and said it is “harmful to withhold medical treatment or withdraw medical treatment in progress that is safe, effective, and medically indicated


I have been seeing cococandy criticize a 19 year old getting married .
What do you think about this law? Under 18 shouldn't be allowed to mutilate their bodies by all means.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:12pm On May 17
DeepSight:
Point out the flaws.

You cannot even follow simple reasoning.

Oya tell me the map of the temperate zones is a coincidence.

What I am telling you is as simple and as kindergarten as saying that a freezing person will have to look for heat and that has ripple effects and you are denying such self evident things. Shior.

At the end of the day even if we use an extreme example and say one person was put in an oasis and he prospered, and another person was put in a barren desert and he starved, you basically will want to say that the person who starved only starved because he was not intelligent and the person who prospered in the oasis prospered because he was brilliant.

You will bring up their respective culture like Tctrills and forget that their environment dictated their culture.

The tragedy is that if the person who starved was white you will make excuses for him. But if he was black you will say it's because he was daft and claim that anyone who points out that he was in a desert was making excuses and not taking responsibility.

The factors I have pointed out are backed by detailed and extensive academic studies.

If you say they are rubbish, lets have your explanation.
You are not wrong at all with your anthology. Why are we still lagging when there are enough blueprints to move us forward. The wheel was already invented.
Include African Americans too.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:28pm On May 17
Deepsight.
We don't really need history to know why Africa lags behind.
We know how the Asian tigers built theirs. We know how the Europeans and Americand built theirs. Do we need to go to their starting point.No we don't.
They had plans that they implemented.
We have amazing plans also. Short term, intermediate and long term .

I kinda feel you are still blaming others for our sorry state. We are our own enemies, simple .
Let the causes of why we remain (ed) stagnant be studied by historians as we stride ahead to an $11 trillion economy by 2050.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:51am On May 17
Two charged with murder of an unborn baby.

https://borderhawk.news/two-illegals-charged-with-murdering-unborn-baby-in-texas-shooting/

One of the victims was a 17-year-old girl who was pregnant. She was taken to the hospital. Doctors performed an emergency C-Section, but were not able to save the baby.

Calero-Jiron has nine charges against him. They include capital murder, numerous felony aggravated assault charges, and firearms and drug charges.


Someone here should quickly rush there and correct the charge sheet to read unmitigated and unplanned death of the unborn foetus.
You know yourself . Don't have to mention you.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:29am On May 17
Climate Change.
I've been calling it a hoax and a scheme by the liberals to siphon money while micromanaging every aspect of the society.
A scheme to bankrupt the world leaving the civilian population dependent on the all powerful government.
Elites have been quoted declaring that "we know best".

In a framework published in the journal Geoscientific Model Development for the upcoming Seventh Assessment Report (AR7), international climate modelers formally classified RCP 8.5 and its updated equivalent, SSP5-8.5, as "implausible".

** Some time ago our efforts to get a big tech setup a data centre in Nigeria relying fully on its own power plant failed. EU would fine the company for using fossil fuels. It's😀 ridiculous to say the least.**

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:20am On May 17
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy knocked out by Trump approved challenger in the Republican primary.
He voted to impeach Trump in 2021.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sen-bill-cassidy-faces-a-primary-for-the-first-time-since-his-trump-impeachment-vote/ar-AA23kmZr

Those waiting out Trump forget the voters and internet don't forget betrayal.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Deepsight.
Does this sound like someone who wants to suspend the constitution.
Begging Senator Thune to pass a bill that already cleared the house several months ago.
No Kings protest were all about stopping this dictator.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Aimee Bock. The white woman who masterminded the Minnesota fraud says Nur Elmi Ilhan Omar knew

https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-news/minnesota-rep-ilhan-omar-knew-about-250m-covid-meal-fraud-mastermind/

Bock talked to the Post by video call this week while awaiting sentencing and claims:

🔺️There were gaps when waivers expired mid-month and renewals lagged, that's when Omar stepped in to keep the cash flowing.

🔺️Omar “would personally step in whenever waivers ran out, allowing the rampant fraud to continue.”

🔺️“A lot of the sites were working directly with her, being that a lot of the operators were from the same Somali community,”

🔺️“There were a lot of people that had been reaching out to her office and staff, and I presume her personally, to work through some of those gaps with the waivers.”

🔺️Omar introduced the MEALS Act in March 2020. It let restaurants join the program without site inspections and shifted to self-reported data, slashing oversight.

🔺️ The Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee’s final report explicitly states Omar “played a critical role in creating the conditions for fraud” by pushing those changes.

🔺️In May 2020, Omar filmed a promotional video at Safari Restaurant, the No. 1 fraud site, praising it for serving 2,300 meals daily to kids and families.

🔺️Safari later claimed 5,000 meals a day and raked in over $12 million before collapsing.

🔺️Omar held her 2018 election night party at Safari.

🔺️Court exhibits from Bock’s 2025 federal trial list Omar’s name at least six times in emails and texts between Feeding Our Future and her office about waiver help.

🔺️In 2021, Bock emailed the Minnesota Department of Education flagging suspicious sites like House of Refuge.

🔺️The department replied it “takes no position if fraud has taken place.”

🔺️ “I have the emails that show that I told you, so you knew,” and “I struggle to believe that we notified them and they didn’t alert the governor, or our state or federal officials.”

🔺️Omar is being protected by democrats who voted against issuing a subpoena for her records tied to the fraud - after Omar refused to go to a hearing on the matter.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:38am On May 17
DeepSight:
Jesus, please. I was going to say something, but for Treaty.
That's to Ijebos .
I'm not one to sit back while being maligned.
Fight Fight Fight😀😀
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:53am On May 17
ijebosb:
He said there is a way I frame things. You mean intelligently? Lol

So, now I'm GracieX3 too?
I think I've made my point.

I can't with the mental instability of it all.
The way you frame things like someone who never went to school stands out like a sore thumb. Very easy to spot.
When you change your handje a careful person should be able to smoke you out by your second post.
GracieX3 foolish response to a post a few weeks back had me wondering whether it was you in disguise.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:49am On May 17
I've read and responded twice so far to the same post.. Actually a third to bemeruca too on same
It's long and I'm answering in bits .

DeepSight:
This is a surprising response not just in its brevity but in the way it completely misses the essence of what was said.

You also have not lived up to the spirit and letter of the treaty. Look at the fine work TV01 put out in response (even though I do not agree with much that he says). He made sure to fulfill the terms on thoughtfulness, studiousness and scholarly input.

One thing I must say which mildly turns me off with you is a suspicion that you don't read much what is said once it appears lengthy.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:48am On May 17
Another short reply.
Blaming tribes and lack of homogenous society doesn't cut it
Colonizers left us a working system
We do annual budgets. We have extremely learned people in every discipline making policy decisions.
Yet we are still backwards as a nation. Plenty of poverty. Blaming the colonizers. There's enough water all around but not in our taps. Electricity shortages.
Private sector CEO who don't grow the company get shown the door.
Yet we have annual budgets snd internal audits department. We have long term and short development plans .

We don't need to be homogenous ir speak one language to develop. Our development plans have existed for decades.



DeepSight:
Now, basilico, this was the post that triggered the Treaty of Reasonableness. I said I will come back to it. But beyond the direct issues you raise here, the holistic matter still boils down to the apparent backwardness (lower develpment) of the black race/ black countries in the current age, and that matter will be the subject of my response to TV01 in another post, in which I will copy you.

But for direct responses to this, here -



It is simply effectively a hereditary absolute monarchy where the monarch is seen as a deity and in that regard is not unique in history. Egyptian pharaohs, Alexander the Great, Roman Emperors, the Emperors of Japan up till the mid twentieth century, the rulers of the Khmer (Cambodia) and the foolish Emperor Bokassa of Central African Republic, are examples.

But this is an aside. What is key about North Korea is the absoluteness of its totalitarianism, period. You should bear in mind that Korea was one country and split post-WW2 via the cold war era Korean War. Thereafter, the USA flooded South Korea with investment, technology and its culture, while North Korea adopted the closed totalitarian disposition of communist states China and Russia.

However this is still a little beside the point, even if it explains the immediate causes. The real point is that the peoples of that part of the world have had a completely different history and development trajectory from the peoples of black Africa. Therefore temporary set backs are not enough to imagine that both started the race from the same line. It would be like asking why African countries are not at a par with China and Japan since both countries had to start developing again post WW2. THAT would fail to take cognizance of the fact that these countries have a deep developed history reaching into antiquity and merely destroying their cities does not erase that at all! The mind has reached a certain form and disposition and that is the real development - physical structures will follow!

Fun fact: The oldest hotel in the world which has been in continuous operation is in Japan and it has been in operation for over one thousand years. Beat that.

Thats deep. So calm down when making comparisons okay?



A homogenous society has advantages such as natural patriotism and an easier path to peaceful coexistence and these two factors, peace and patriotism are absolutely indispensable for development.

This is a fact.

Look at Europe. There is a country called England and there is a language called English. German, Germany. Poland, Polish. France, French. Spain, Spanish. Portugal, Portuguese. Italy, Italian. Greece, Greek.

But there is a country called Nigeria and no language called Nigerian.

And we know why.

Because it is a cobbled together entity which has more languages than the whole of Europe put together.

In fact, most European languages are really just dialects of two main sets of languages - the Latin set and the Germanic set. That is how close they are. And yet to achieve the peace and patriotism necessary for development, they have had to battle it out for a millennium.

TV01, basilico, hear this well: development is a path that must be lived and made local in mindset. It is not words on paper that can be photocopied. Institutions and traditions require lived experience. Nothing can substitute it. Not globalization, not the internet and not AI.

Nonetheless this does not mean that non-homogenous societies do not develop, of course they do, simply with more tumult thats all. And we have seen the unique example of America which is a nation of immigrants and has profited massively from the ideas and industry that people from ALL OVER THE WORLD have brought to it. A nation such as America therefore has a unique trajectory and I dare say that it is actually un-American to be anti-immigration because realistically, except native Americans everyone else there can be called an immigrant or the descendant of immigrants. This is, of course not to go so far back in human history that we will have to call even the native Americans immigrants as well.



South Africa is another unique case on account of Apartheid. Even tctrills your co-traveler admitted that its silly to expect black South Africa to emerge developed in 30 years. As I have explained above, they will have to battle their conflicts, internal inconsistencies, prejudices, inequalities and social psychology and melt into an even paste that will permit gradual peace and a sense of oneness sufficient to ground and pursue true development. Not all the advancement of steel and industry brought by the white man can magically do it. It has to be lived.

And there is nothing strange about this. It does not make them savage or inferior. It is just the natural path of all human societies.

You have to bear in mind, finally, that at all ages of time, different societies had different stages of development. Its like a cycle, and so it is not wise to look at one race and laugh them off because at a particular point in the cycle, they are lagging behind. Where were the Caucasians when Persia, Babylon and Egypt ruled the world? Where were Britain and Germany when Rome and Greece ruled (and yet these were people of the same race in the same area? The answer rests in the geography that TV01 so lightly dismisses).

Time and empires are in cycles.

When Europeans found the major cities of meso-America, they recorded that not even the biggest cities of Europe at the time could compare with their splendor and grandeur.

Yet a few factors decided the day. Mainly guns and disease.

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