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raumdeuter:Well i see your point, it is the sense of security not actual security itself, because truth be told, you can't predetermine anybody's intentions until they act on it, and for the truly criminal, they'd only go through official borders if their disguises can withstand scrutiny or they'd smuggle themselves or their products through alternative routes as has always been the case. If crime of certain forms is to be reduced e.g drug trafficking, then the demand for such drugs has to be reduced first by working towards making the US the country it should be with all its resources, the US lags behind on many development indices as compared to other developed nations and this is due to a popular notion that certain things considered fundamental rights in other countries are priviledges you can only acquire to certain extents your financial muscle can tolerate, i might be wrong, but i don't think there's that much of a drugs, crime and gun problem in Scandinavian countries as there are in the US |
raumdeuter:is it the concept of border security or the reality of it that makes Americans hate open borders in your views? Historically, America was founded by and prospered on immigrants and immigration, when you practice closed borders as a concept, the reality is that you only succeed in stopping immigration not cross border crime, organized crime will always find a way through the paper wall called border security, it is as true in Nigeria as it is in America and many other countries except north Korea for obvious reasons, if you agree with my assertion, then all closed borders imply is in stopping immigration which has never been bad for the US economy. On Nigeria, the belief we even have borders stopping human traffic is farcical at best, our borders exist only to milk revenues both legally and illegally from trans border commerce esp illegally so no, the concept of closed borders for Nigeria is deceitful so it is not worth pondering |
Anduku:Blah blah blah state it here simple, I did, i didn't ask you to go research me, I'm as interested in you as you are in me you pander towards conservatism right? (I stand to be corrected though) how does that play out in your views concerning Nigerian politics? Those are the simple questions i am asking, let us know you're a conservative or whatever else through and through, abroad and at home where your charity begins, that is, if we are still holding on to the premise that we espouse opposing political ideologies |
raumdeuter:So i take it that Americans generally hate open borders? |
Godsgal:Chai! |
MufasaRebirth:Bloord of simba! bloord of scar! I cast and bind you by DA bloord! ![]() |
Martinez19:And pray tell me what is wrong with the open border policy? I'm interested in learning mind you but i won't accept any trump talking points |
Anduku:You try too hard to paint me a "you" a.k.a hypocrite! and pander to other shallow thinkers who enjoy your commentaries, i asked you, for your very open and known stance on american politics, where and what is your Nigerian equivalent? What does conservatism mean to you in the Nigerian context? Your response must be well defined as mine or you remain a blatant hypocrite! Or isn't charity supposed to begin from home anymore? |
MufasaRebirth:The thundah wen go faya u and Tottenham ehn! dem still dey titrate am for Kinshasa quaters for Kampala zoo Mogadishu! For where my gunners dey? Oloun maaje! |
Anduku:Not hypocrisy dude just wrong forum, trust me i go full ballistic on his non policy issues on other fora but i try to abide by the spirit of this thread i.e the politics, or you would tire of me covfefe-ing around your praise singing of the orange trumpetskin! ![]() |
budaatum:My apologies then if i jumped the gun and implied you were stupid, point is i don't want atiku either, but he's the best shot at unseating buhari, his multiple cross carpeting which is unique to Nigerian politics indicates that his primary loyalty is to himself! Any politician who cross carpets even once without being practically forced out of the party like shehu sanni has lost my trust for life, the two major political parties in Nigeria are a single breed and i am not naive to believe otherwise, same politician different flag and they'd always blame the previous party for all the ills they helped execute! I honestly don't believe atiku is incorrupt either, a former public officer acquiring so much wealth can only be through manipulation of statecraft to suit his ends, but it all ends there====> "belief" I believe this in my heart of hearts but i can't prove it and for now atiku for me serves the purpose of unseating buhari so he has my total support! Now to buhari, i never supported this man, but he rode into power on a wave of goodwill of the alleged majority, he had it within his power to make a massive difference with little to no opposition, my grouse with buhari asides my hate is first and foremost his hypocrisy that stinks to the high heavens pertaining to corruption, yes corruption is far far worse under buhari and the APC but they came into power wielding the sword of propaganda and they have been sharpening that sword and hacking with it ever since, selling the narrative that corruption is an exclusively PDP thing, on your experience concerning jobless people making more money under the previous government, that isn't true from my own experience, down here in the south, only having an official government portfolio no matter how ridiculous would guarantee that because politicians here dont go around sharing money except during campaigns, anybody who wants to live of the cash harnessed from a "rankadede" would starve in either regimes but people could live better back then because they had jobs, what went wrong is the dearth of the private sector and the middle class and this brings me to the second and worst reason why i absolutely hate buhari, buhari killed our economy and crippled the middle class, you might want to defend buhari citing price of oil, foreign debt and so on, but obasonjo came into power in 1999 with the price of oil at around $10/barrel, massive foreign debt, massive corruption and looting of our wealth by the previous military administration(s), incessant crisis in our oil producing sector with the proliferation of many Niger delta militant groups so much so that under him Nigeria was hardly ever able to meet its OPEC quota, massive opposition and multiple attempted impeachments in the national assembly, but obasonjo persevered and improved our economy, negotiated debt reduction, saw to the rise of the middle class and many more, so why should that excuse suffice for buhari? The difference between an obasonjo and a buhari is simple, buhari might be literate but he is poorly educated and as such makes terrible decisions based on his poor understanding, buhari goes around the globe demarketing Nigeria and Nigerians, he wants to create a global image of himself and just himself alone to be the only incorruptible Nigerian a.k.a lone ranger and if he throws the entirety of Nigeria under the bus to achieve that so be it! What is presidential in that attitude? Every single word a president utters has ramifications that can't be easily predicted and this he has in common with trump, he started his admin talking about bringing parity to the exchange rate one of his many superfluous promises, he talked about using the organs of state to achieve that in a supposed free market with many foreign investors, that kind of language from a new president of a new party whose political/economic agenda was vague to start with forced the hands of many a foreign investor who withdrew their dollars from our economy, instituting a massive capital flight and folding up of these companies with resultant folding up of the Nigerian companies they did business with in a domino effect with the eventual loss of millions of jobs from the collapsed companies all in the private sector which is supposed to drive an economy forward and that is the source of our recession, couple that with the massive spike in the exchange rate caused by the shortage of dollars due to foreign capital flight and the resultant inflation in the cost of imported goods on which we are heavily reliant and you get the bleak picture, these two things have little to do with corruption and oil price, these are two policy/leadership failures that can be placed directly on the doorsteps of the president and no one else! No one else can take the fall for these no matter the narrative his propagandists spin, we in the supposed middle class are feeling the bite, i have never worked for government or benefitted from government, I don't earn that sumptuous government monthly salary, I have always been in the private sector and strived to make my ends meet, but since buhari's second recession, that has gotten harder and harder even with juggling extra jobs, the money we earn now no longer has same spending power as it used to and our cumulative expenses and bills have increased so why should i be Happy? I recently chatted with a colleague of mine working in Dubai who sat for a promotion exam along side about 20 other candidates including from other African countries like Kenya and Uganda, they all got promoted except him and the other Nigerian! They made a query to management demanding to know if it could even be possible they failed the exam, HR called them aside and pleaded with them that they did pass the exams but management was uncomfortable with putting Nigerians in positions of authority because of their corruption "as stated repeatedly by their president!" so do you get it? My friend lost his promotion and better pay directly because of your president and no one else! And this is just one example and my friend is understandably furious! He hasn't shown interest in Nigerian politics for a while but he does now and he is massively anti-buhari for obvious reasons! I can go on and on about the corrosion and politicization of institutions and instruments of state, the massive corruption cases cronies of buhari are involved in but is being swept under the carpet and/or ignored but i don't want to bore you further, your decision is made as is mine and we will all suffer the consequences of it so may GOD help us all, I wish i had the alternative of farming many middle class individuals have up north which you apparently do, I hear it is profitable and i for one would welcome the extra income, I don't depend on government and don't want their largesse, but i would like my hard work to suffice for me and be able to save too like i used to before buhari's calamity |
Limitednow:I wish i could vote for this guy |
glosplendid:madam your greatest selling point on your CV is your profile pic! If i get job opening, I for personally employ you myself! Chai! see my employee oh! Dem don thief you go! Chai! ![]() |
Abbeybailey:jesst look @ them! yinmu ![]() |
budaatum:nah dude! Bubu is more trumplike (except in tweeting) too many gaffes, always bulk passing and blaming someone else, always trying to portray themselves as awesome and pseudo messiahs come to save the day, I can go on and on but let me stop here, my opinions though |
Martinez19:I thought i had replied you, well, poor network issues... Here's yours! I call false equivalency on your football team analogy reason being supporting a football team is optional, your nationality on the other hand, hmm not so much! But using your analogy, I support arsenal FC(guilty as sin so you got me ) but i troll Manchester united, city, chealshit threads whenever they loose (the hate is strong in this one! ) but i am invested totally and emotionally only in my darling arsenal! My heart never strays away from home and the Topsy turvy fortunes of my club! I even use arsenal in pro soccer for better or worse so You won't for example, see me selecting a fantasy or winning eleven for those clubs i mentioned because i have no interest in their victories except when it serves my purpose!Having said that, if any of these clubs fields a Nigerian player, (even the disgusting spurds!) I rout fervently and exclusively for that player, not the club but the player, except of course when they play against us so you see, my loyalties are well defined, can you say same for your friend? |
Anduku:And what was Trump's stand on those attacks? He called them out didn't he? As any good president should! Now compare that to his response on other attacks, his interpretation of the Charlottesville riots, his attack on Collins kaerpenick, his response to every other black person with a platform calling out his BS and bias, his belated response when a black unarmed man took down a white mass shooter, his silence on every other headline on police's all too common brutality and use of deadly force against unarmed black people! This for a tweetsy very opinionated president! Do you get the picture now? |
Anduku:yes i do take sides, just not on the politics per se, more on the personality involved! Always goes back to my motives which remain constant, yours however is up to the jury I see you're trying too hard to compare my motives to yours, try harder, i may be a hypocrite on many things, just not this one |
Anduku:My dear, if you fail to see the Smiley's attached then you fail to get the joke, from my own perspective, it is so much fun to observe a character you detest self destruct repeatedly and that's why I'm familiar with trumps many blunders not because it affects me anyways, the evolution of the terminologies involved in his border security over time is very hilarious you don't agree? Well no surprises there! And the stealth f-35 joke sails past you too? Well, too bad! does me finding it hilarious amount to me espousing an American political ideology? You tell me ![]() I'm not you so where again is my hypocrisy? Subscribe to Trevor Noah's daily show pleeezzz! you'd hate that you love it! satire can be brutal! ![]() Trumpanzees, buharideens, didn't coin those terms but damn do they stick! ![]() |
budaatum:I am not calling you names, (not yet anyways) but you called a candidate i support a thief and i am sure you do say that by popular opinion of the political party you espouse, you also went ahead to call me stupid for comparing buharism to trumpism (my reason is simple, both are personality cults hinged on the belief that the object of adoration can do no wrong) If privatization is wrong, what would you rather have? We do operate a capitalist economy right? Right? ![]() I can't tell you what to do with Your PVC but failure to mention atiku's acts of thievery makes you that uncomplementary word that rhymes with cupid! see? I done did it! ![]() |
Anduku:I do appreciate what is going on in the states far better than you because unlike you (at the risk of sounding like a broken record) i have family and colleagues over there and their collective accounts are my basis for my opinions not just news media alone although the media most times buttresses their points even your much vouched for fox news whose newsfeeds i also subscribe to and i challenge your source of firsthand experience this Temple 1288 to come call me a liar too! That is how confident i am that i am not you! Like i said earlier, my source(s) are not liberal news outlets(not only) I subscribe to faux news, new York times also, I stay away from the alt right talk heads of Ben Shapiro, hannity and co because my tolerance wanes anytime i hear them, on faux news, it may interest you that they do give their conservative guests a rundown of possible questions and preferable answers I think a F.O.I request revealed they did for the EPA director anyway, and a latino faux news host or is it contributor went recently and i kid you not "I know i am the designated pinyatta on fox news but to say this caravan of women and children is a criminal invasion is very discriminatory and racist" I hope you're still enjoying faux news |
Anduku:And you calling others insane liberals makes you what? I know where and how i draw my inference Mr! Dont shift goalposts by claiming you don't delve deeper into american politics by espousing an American political ideology! |
budaatum:A known crook and your proof is? ![]() This is your chance to prove you're not stupid |
Kophschmerzen:no this is just liberal media drivel according to Obixcel and anduku, they'd tell you it has absolutely nothing to do with trump but when the shooter is caught (mark my words he'd be caught alive as against a black suspect riddled with a hundred bullet holes by white police officers fearful for their lives) his history will show he supports trump, attended some of his rallies too and bought into trumps narratives too |
Anduku:and oh!.......you missed this part, very conveniently too I also mentioned that it is rich to sit in the comfort of your African skin in your home in a homogenously black African country on the African continent and claim to understand the challenges of what it is to have our skin color today in trumps America where all the closet racists have come out unapologetic with a barely disguised in your face racism because they have an unapologetic neo fascist as president Chew on this! I here is where i fully stand with Abbeybailey you can't here in Nigeria in the comfort of your own race and skin say you appreciate the experience and challenges of a black man in Trump's America better than a black man in Trump's America! Gettit? And if the source(s) of information from which you draw your inference that this is not the case is/are conservative media outlets and talking heads then more's the pity, it makes you an ill informed but strongly opinionated individual! And i challenge you to communicate with at least 20 African Americans currently resident in the states personally and get the overwhelmingly majority opinion and see why you're ill informed Cc Obixcel I hope this replies you sufficiently |
Abbeybailey:you're most welcome |
Anduku:Well, there's that teensy weensy little issue of being more catholic than the pope isn't there? Will infuriate any priest i reckon ![]() |
Anduku:Ah, a tad bit defensive are we? I said and i quote "something tells me" read specifics because it seems you're the one jumping to conclusions here! So good of you to clarify that at least our dear old Nigeria has a niche in your heart! I was beggining to worry ![]() |
Anduku:Point of correction, this is an american thread on a Nigerian forum and yes you and i are allowed to have opinions but that's where it ends, opinions only, but no, you delve in deeper into party membership[i] (sic)[/i] and espousing ideologies, well they say charity begins at home, what political ideology do you espouse to in Nigeria? I have told you mine is progressive cum liberal and yes i support not belong to the PDP, where do you stand here at home? ![]() Yes and yes i attack trump and if you go back to my earliest and successive posts, you'd see i attack him for what i surmised he stands for and allow happens in terms of racial injustices not party affiliation or political ideologies as those have little direct impact on me so where i beg you is my hypocrisy? I said back then and i repeat today that the rational behind the misnomer "a black trump supporter" is very confusing and defeatist to be honest! I also mentioned that it is rich to sit in the comfort of your African skin in your home in a homogenously black African country on the African continent and claim to understand the challenges of what it is to have our skin color today in trumps America where all the closet racists have come out unapologetic with a barely disguised in your face racism because they have an unapologetic neo fascist as president and i am not sprouting hearsay, I actually do have family there, this is something you'd appreciate if you were in constant communication with the family you have there, so having put my opposition of trump into context i ask you, where is my hypocrisy in championing the cause of people(Americans) of same racial stock as myself because that is chiefly what i do on this thread and if that translates to opposing trump, why not? In return i ask you in a different manner, if you do lack a political party or ideology in your own country, where is your much touted wisdom? |
slawomir:Wrong, they may be the highest earners for last year bit overall I think Samuel s Jackson is the richest actor alive currently |
Vinstel:If according to you, they're mere wishes not supported by any concurrent economic realities then i ask you too, WHAT DA BLUIDY HELL IS YOUR GROUSE? see? If i wish for purple unicorns or a volcanic eruption or maybe a shift in the tectonic plates with resultant earthquakes which you know to be implausible, you'd ignore me but if you know my wishes to be in the realm of possibility, then your reaction will be more understandable, so if it is nothing but mere wishing not corroborated by wall street pundits and/or the feds and/or economic analysts why does this mere wishing discomfit you guys so? Why does it not evoke only the type of reaction my wishing for a purple unicorn does? Why the consternation? Or maybe there's some truth to the alternate theory that it is more than a plausibility |
Anduku:If wishing for a recession can't result into one then what's your grouse mbok? I repeat what's your grouse? From what I've read about your comments and that of some other characters, you're classic examples of trying to be more catholic than the pope! You, i and many others are Nigerians resident in Nigeria and you have a political party you support in America lols or is it a political ideology you espouse to? conservatism abi? Since you repeatedly condemn alleged liberals, if you tag me a liberal, i readily accept and own up to being a liberal i.e open minded to better ways of doing things but only and only a Nigerian liberal so in your case, what does being a Nigerian conservative mean? See why i insist you're not qualified to judge anybody's sanity? You can't espouse to a political ideology in a country where you have no stake and no say and lack one in your own country where you have a stake and a say, it is like being more concerned about what happens in your neighbor's bedroom while you have a sexually unsatisfied wife! ![]() See what i have done? I didn't mention political parties whether democrats or republicans because for either of us to claim to belong to anyone of either would be sheer stupidity but something tells me that sometime, somewhere you must have proffessed one which in my definition makes you effing ...................... You can fill in the blank space ![]() |
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you pander towards conservatism right? (I stand to be corrected though) how does that play out in your views concerning Nigerian politics? Those are the simple questions i am asking, let us know you're a conservative or whatever else through and through, abroad and at home where your charity begins, that is, if we are still holding on to the premise that we espouse opposing political ideologies




but something tells me that sometime, somewhere you must have proffessed one which in my definition makes you effing ...................... You can fill in the blank space