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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 9:05pm On May 22
budaatum:
Listen to yourself. In one sense you claim I am "not stupid enough to say nothing good came out of it", and in the other you claim I "talk about the suffering and selfish nature of it" like both can not be true, though I do not quite know what suffering, apart from slavery, you might be refering to.

The colonisers did not colonise us for our own benefit but for theirs, but I could argue we might still be killing twins or all be Muslims, since Muslims colonised us first.

Perhaps post links to where "You and I have discussed this many times" so you can be seen not to be lying.
You should listen to yourself because you are reading faster then your brain can process.

You critique colonialism, you are the champion of it as far as this thread is concern.

You are not stupid enough to say you did not benefit from the English Language that you speak.

That is my point.

I have made the case time and time again that colonialism is bad, our ancestors suffered. I also argued about the benefits that came out of it.

No one said they did it for our benefit, it does not mean we did not benefit anyway (in this case or context the language we speak).
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 8:59pm On May 22
IjeBos:
Bwahahahahaha
I think you've made my point about you not having a proper basis in English and that being the reason you use ChatGPT
"anyway" is not "any way".
"anyway" means "regardless or nonetheless"
"any way" means "in any manner"
The proper usage is what I wrote.
"any way you slice it" or "in any manner you slice it"

You are such an uneducated Joker
A normal person would run away and hide like tctrills did.
But you, nah.
You mean Grammarly which says you have 4 mistakes this time.

Just like I said earlier, remain pained.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 8:48pm On May 22
budaatum:
Why must you always lie, ben?

Where did buda "champion in criticising colonialism", which buda knows was inevitable? Or do you not know that Britain was colonised by Rome?

So you know, the smarter would always colonise the less smart. And it is the less smart's fault for being less smart. Also, it is stupid to colonise the colonisers in the language of the coloniser. And for your information, I'd be dead if I hadn't run from my colonised home to my colonisers home.

Here is a thread about colonialism. Read it and know buda's view instead of making up lies to believe!
You and I have discussed this many times. You critique it, you talk about the suffering and selfish nature of it, that's criticism.

You are not stupid enough to say nothing good came out of it, even the language (English) that you speak.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 8:44pm On May 22
bayelsaowei:
You think I am picking a side? I am saying what and how I feel.

Your obeisance to colonizers is alarming..

You are the one on a path to lunacy..
Nobody is worshipping colonizers. You throw it words like this easily.

Saying English is useful as a common language is not obeisance. It's the truth, a basic reality.

You are attacking English while using English to communicate your argument. Are you serious?

Our ancestors suffered under colonialism, yes. That does not mean every single thing that came through that history has zero practical value today. We can test that by how you communicate with me. Have ever written a memorandum in your place of work in ijaw? Why not? What about your Thesis?

Christianity, the Bible, the Gospel, and your awareness of Jehovah and Jesus also spread widely in Africa through the same colonial-era channels.
Are you going to drop your religion too?

Or do you accept that something can come through a painful historical process and still become useful or meaningful to people today?

Stop arguing nonsense, you know better.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 8:31pm On May 22
bayelsaowei:
You think I am picking a side? I am saying what and how I feel.

Your obeisance to colonizers is alarming..

You are the one on a path to lunacy..
Yes, you are not a dumb person.
You are picking a side. It's the only way to explain this, otherwise it's a shame.

Before you jump to Trump or my support for Trump, this is not about Trump.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 8:29pm On May 22
bayelsaowei:
So I should thank the white man and colonialism for teaching me English, because without it I would struggle to communicate.
Goalpost shifted. I never said we should thank the white man. Where did I say that?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 8:22pm On May 22
TV01:
Ekemefune, you are back...missed you grin.
The only person I enjoy trolling more than ShallowVision is you.

Please sir, what is Igbo for "mitosis", or Yoruba for "chromosomes"? How about the Ijaw word for "Autophagy"? What native Nigerian language had a scientific lexicon? How would speakers of native Nigerian languages have engaged in scientific discourse?

In the absence of "misadventure" from the west. or the use of their language, what scientific engagement did African tribes have, or could have in their native tongues?

If English had not come to us by way of colonisation, to even begin to partake of the technological advancement of the more developed nations we would have had to use their language? How would Nigeria develop a common language? I see Fula may be on the cards grin.

Colonisation was damaging, but not wholesale without benefit. Keep using it as a reason for not advancing.

How's the market in vibranium (sorry I forget i's indigenous name) cheesy. Wakanda ko, Zamunda ni.


TV
My issue is with Bayelsaowei, who I believe is a very smart person, siding with this lunacy for the sake of picking a side.

Budaatum, who is a champion in criticising colonialism, recognized its benefits.

These people can't help themselves.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 8:10pm On May 22
IjeBos:
You use chatgpt to write forum posts.
You're a world class joker any way you slice it.
I feel you, bro. The pain 😂

Grammarly says you have spelling mistakes here and there. Should I fix it for you? 🤣😂

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 8:07pm On May 22
smiley
budaatum:
[b]Yes, I would call that ignorance, and deceitfulness for their own selfish benefit. Those who are not ignorant are not selfish, and they know their actions have negative consequences for themselves. [/b]Unfortunately, we Nigerians have not yet learned to ensure those consequences are inevitable, so dishonesty pays some.

Education, as in, proper beneficial mind using education, will enable us to put measures in so the right behaviour is rewarded and the wrong behaviour is paid for.

Do note that you are talking about the education of an individual, while I am talking about our collective ignorance. Currently, if I ignorantly steal all Nigeria's money and take it to my Orolu Kingdom, my own ignorant people would likely make me king. If we were knowledgeable they'd stone me.
This is bad 😳😳😳
Budaatum, go through your logic or reasoning again and tell me if it makes sense.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 7:57pm On May 22
IjeBos:
You already admitted you use chatgpt.
It's clear most of your recent posts have been using chatgpt.

I'm more curious as to why the AI is spitting out what it is than anything you can ever pretend to say.
Hmm. I feel your pain.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 7:50pm On May 22
IjeBos:
I don't think what Bemeruca is writing here matters. It's clearly AI, so he probably doesn't even understand it.

The question is why is the AI model generating these responses.
There are tons of bias in this post esp. regarding Israel.
Is Bemeruca interjecting that bias to get these responses or is it the AI's model that has these predisposed biases.

Bemeruca, can you show us the prompts you are entering into AI?
Curious.
AI is biased about Israel 😂😂😂

I don't expect anything tangible from you, all I see is your Peter Pan syndrome in full display.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 7:44pm On May 22
bayelsaowei:
So without English we would not be able to communicate to each other?

I don’t understand

So my ijaw language I use in communicating is ineffectual or not beneficial?
Of course you don't.
Without cars, we were able to travel from point A to point B; that does not mean that cars are not beneficial.

You use it to communicate with whom?
Hausa? He or she is going to need a translator or learn your language, but do not expect the same Hausa man or woman to learn the remaining 98 languages.

Imagine living in a country like this with over 100 ethnic languages, and we have to have a university unique to each language in its respective location villages, etc. Bayelsa alone has various tribes with different languages.



I am baffled by how you guys reason.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 3:34pm On May 22
basilico:
Wow. No words.
And some will ask "if you have been to America" 😂
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 2:43pm On May 22
budaatum:
You obviously have no clue what I am talking about, and nor do I expect you to.
I know what you are talking about. You are just oversimplifying things.

If someone publicly talks about corruption, the damage corruption does.

Rally against thieves, says all the right things about accountability, sees the benefit of stopping corruption but when he enters office, he uses that same office to steal - that's Nigeria's situation.

Will you call that Ignorance?

You are acting as if once people use their minds, or let to use it, a magically spell has been introduced, they will automatically become honest. We as humans do not work like that.

People can know the right thing and still do the wrong thing. People can understand morality and still choose evil. People can understand consequences for society and still act for themselves.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 2:28pm On May 22
Democrats don't know the Declaration of Independence, even MSNBC news anchors. Anytime they hear "God", their skin burns

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 1:42pm On May 22
budaatum:
Actually, it is being ignorant and uneducated. But I guess by "educated" you mean formal education, and not the sort of education that promotes mind use.

People who are educated to use their minds would see more benefit for themselves and society in not being corrupt, greedy, tribalistic, racist, selfish, or dishonest, for those are things the ignorant do, "educated" or not.
You have no clue what you are talking about. This is you oversimplifying things.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 2:15am On May 22
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 8:05pm On May 21
The people are angry, Kier.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 4:29pm On May 21
budaatum:
You've been called dishonest enough times already, so I am not surprised in the least that you'd project your opinion on to others.
He didn't, you are the one projecting your fetish on him. If you want slavery back just be one.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 4:25pm On May 21
DeepSight:
Hahahahahahahahaha!
Shame!

You are ashamed!
You deny the mans exact words!
No, you are just a liar
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 4:19pm On May 21
DeepSight:
I honestly don't know how you reason. Analyzing a matter is a spectrum from cause to situation to correction. As I said with my analogy of the stages of a man's life. Here you are simply saying we should only analyse with the future in mind and throw away the past, the causes, and even the present reality. I am tired of your games.
You don't throw away the past because you learn from it.

If we'd learned anything from the past, it should be not to treat each other as second-class citizens and loot. Isn't that what we blamed our colonializers for, they looted our resources.

Please move on from your delusion.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 4:16pm On May 21
DeepSight:
Don't you agree with Kirk that blacks were better off without equal rights again?
Grab the lie very hard, it is like oxygen to you.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 4:15pm On May 21
budaatum:
Do I want slavery back, or is this just you being "maths is racist" as usual?
I am doing what you just did to raumdeuter.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 1:14pm On May 21
budaatum:
I guess we should bring slavery back then. Though I doubt many would like to return to a period when the slaves wives and daughters were impregnated by masta for stock to be sold.
Why do you want slavery back?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 1:01pm On May 21
DeepSight:
Progress is being made albeit slowly and painfully and in a scattered and disjointed manner. In some sectors there is stagnation and regression but overall the trajectory still is forward. There is a lot to be done and improved on, we need to get our ideology and politics right as a starter as so much depends on right leadership.

On a practical note, if anyone asks me, I will say the key to the future is aggressive industrialization.

On a dreamy and idealist note, I will like to see Africa unite. A United States of Africa was a dream of several independence pan-Africanists such as Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Robert Mugabe and Nnamdi Azikiwe and even became a dream of Ghadaffi.

If we are able to achieve it, and I concede it looks very unlikely - men, that is the single thing that will bring Africa to the table with real weight.
So we are back to what I have been saying?

This is basically a concession to my point.

After all the long talk about climate, colonialism, geography, and history, White man, your own solution is not changing or addressing any of that.

Your solution is about leadership, ideology, politics, industrialization, and African unity.

Hmmm, everyone's been trying to bang this points into your head.

Aggressive industrialization and unity are good points. So you proved my argument: Africa’s future depends mainly on what Africans choose to build now, maintain and how they think about the future, their brothers and their unborn children.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 7:00am On May 21
DeepSight:
And oh. Corruption remains a global phenomenon.

And oh. Sango awaits.
How does it explain Nigeria's situation?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 6:44am On May 21
DeepSight:
No one was ever making excuses. Explanations were being offered and you have conceded to them.

Good morning.
call it explanation if you like. But once it is used to shift blame away from present responsibility, it becomes an excuse.

All the people brushing you on this would not have gone back and forth with you if you were just giving explanation.

Good morning.
I woke up with not electricity today. We are still waiting for the stable electricity.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 6:17am On May 21
Take your business and move out of a democrat controlled state.

https://x.com/i/status/2057148900763385950
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 6:13am On May 21
DeepSight:
ALL of those things which you dismissed previously are and remain factors. Simple. And you have now admitted that, so you have ceded the debate.

And I have had to say it ad infinitum ad nauseum that none of that takes away the responsibility of leaders or means there aren't failings we need to correct. That's standard and human.

Now answer me in the name of Sango and on pain of being blasted by a fire from all Native deities: do you use AI to compose arguments?
If none of those things removes the responsibility of our leaders, then you have conceded my main point. How about that?

My argument has always been that colonialism, history, climate, geography, and education cannot be used to excuse present-day corruption, bad governance, looting, tribalism, and failure after decades of self-rule. For simplicity, they are not a factor today. It only explain our starting point.

You can call them that all you want. But if they do not remove responsibility, then they are not an explanation for why Emefiele stole, or why basic infrastructure cannot be maintained 60 years after independence.

That is my point and consistently so.

A factor may exist in history, but responsibility belongs to the people making decisions today.

No matter how much you want to insist on climate and history, it does not excuse our situation today.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 5:44am On May 21
basilico:
The polls Trump sitting on negative approval are fake.
37-0 means his supporters are showing up in numbers everywhere .
Trump supporters are not the entire country. You have the independent voters, who are a huge voting bloc, and the Democrats. So you cannot use this to assess his approval ratings.

What we can say is that his infuence cannot be matched. Tucker, Candace and all those Social media influencers that are high of their own supply are irrelevant.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 5:40am On May 21
Some gullible coco bought this
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bemeruca: 5:35am On May 21
DeepSight:
Oh, I admit I missed that. I did not see the "not."

But none of you have any smarts at all oh. So forget mentioning those people in proof of anything to me. . .

The bigger point is this, overall you are being terribly dishonest and trying to change everything you have argued here.

You and those same laughable fellows have variously spent pages dismissing the relevance of history, colonialism, climate, geography and even education, only for you to now turn up and concede that all those things matter and sneakily try to make it appear as though you always said that they did but were merely saying we are also responsible.

That is false. You outrightly and strenuously threw away those factors and even mocked me for mentioning them. And if your argument was what you are now claiming, we would never have had an argument.

Or do you want to deny laughing off all the history I have pointed out? Do you want to deny laughing off the relevance of climate? Do you want to deny laughing off the impact of colonialism? And geography? Do you want to deny even trying to play down the relevance of education? Do you want to deny completely rejecting the role of racism?

So how come you suddenly now admit that all these factors matter?


So quit the dishonesty at once. You have ceded the debate. Simple.
From everything I have written, my point is the same.

Colonialism does not explain why Emefiele stole billions.

History does not explain why modern Tinubu cannot maintain infrastructure, provide electricity as he promised, secure lives, or stop looting public funds.

If you claim colonialism is still a factor today, then you must also admit it had some developmental effects too. roads, railways, schools, courts, civil service structures, common language, and modern administration.

Double edge sword?

So no, I am not changing my argument. Colonialism may be part of history, but it is not an excuse for present-day greed, corruption, bad governance, and failure.

This is my point.

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