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Culture › Re: African Women Don't Need Feminism? by budaatum: 3:39am On Nov 11, 2024
kkins25:
How can the bolded be achieved when our African feminists are the gladiators of YHWH and still cling, strongly, to their Genesis chapter 1.
Not all African feminists are gladiators of ignorance. Many are lifting sisters up one at a time.
Culture › Re: African Women Don't Need Feminism? by budaatum: 1:40am On Nov 11, 2024
Yes they do! If only to fight female genital mutilation, which is rampant in some African countries, and to debunk the stupid notion that the woman is a man's rib.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Iraq Slashes Legal Age Of Consent To Nine Years Old by budaatum: 1:28am On Nov 11, 2024
basilico:
Budaatum Let's meet here if you have the cojones.
Do not consent to marrying your daughters off until they at least have finished their first degrees and have a job please, wherever you may live. If you do, I will meet you in real life and clobber you to death.

You, basilico, have been warned.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 1:18am On Nov 11, 2024
Kukutente23:
Where did I infer that the teacher programs them? Are you sure you're not having English comprehension issues?
If I have English comprehension issues you'd be able to tell by my own use of English regardless of my own opinion about my comprehension. All the same, read the bold slowly please, and tell me you are not claiming the school and teachers are programming kids.

Kukutente23:
You're totally misinformed. The state law empowers schools to teach kids the different genders available. It also allows schools to teach kids that they can be trapped in the wrong body. These are being taught in most public schools. So except you have the money to take your child to a private school, you basically have no control over what is fed to your children.
That last sentence, about "having no control over what is fed to your children", is very untrue by the way, since I can teach my child to be program proof from when it is in my womb, and put anti-programming by others in its milk too. Critical thinking, its called. Its good nutrition for adults too.

Kukutente23:
How many times will I tell you the parents are not expected to pay for gender affirming care? Are you not aware even prisoners have access to govt funded gender care but to mention school kids?
Oga rest abeg
You can tell me as many times as pleases you.

Gender affirming care goes either way. You can either be affirming the gender the child was born in or the gender it has been convinced to choose, and an intelligent parent would chose wisely. You would after all want your gender dysphoric child to get some care, so why would you let others pay the piper and dictate the tune?

Gender care in prison is not as you are lamely implying. A person who is already receiving care for their gender dysphoria before being incarcerated does require continuous care while incarcerated. The hormones et all that they had been taking before incarceration needs to continue or their overall health would be at risk. Its in fact similar to the care that would be provided to a person being treated for cancer. You wouldn't expect them to pay for it while you've jailed them, and while they can not work and earn to pay for their care themselves. And I hope you are not so heartless as to claim a prisoner with cancer does not require the care they'd have received if not in prison.

Below is the initial stage of Gender affirming care, which I'd hope every parent would consider for their gender dysphoric child.

Treatment for children and young people
If your child may have gender dysphoria, they'll usually be referred to one of the NHS Children and Young People's Gender Services.

Your child or teenager will be seen by a multidisciplinary team including a:

- clinical psychologist
- child psychotherapist
- child and adolescent psychiatrist
- family therapist
- social worker

The team will carry out a detailed assessment, usually over 3 to 6 appointments over a period of several months.

Depending on the results of the assessment, options for children and teenagers include:

- family therapy
- individual child psychotherapy
- parental support or counselling
- group work for young people and their parents
- regular reviews to monitor gender -identity development
- referral to a local Children and Young People's Mental Health Service (CYPMHS) for more serious emotional issues

Most treatments offered at this stage are psychological rather than medical. This is because in many cases gender variant behaviour or feelings disappear as children reach puberty.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 12:32am On Nov 11, 2024
Kukutente23:
So when the child is 18 and decides to go his own way, you agree the parent is no longer a failure? Kids are not programmed bots. There's no guarantee they'll go the road you laid for them.

I'm simply pointing out to you your deliberate use of wrong pronouns. If you're woke, use they/ them. That's better than it don't you think
If kids are not programmed bots, why do you keep insisting their teacher will program them like they are bots?

Regardless, what's more important is that parents are not programmed bots such that a teacher gets to program them to pay for the program the teachers and school program into your children. When the child is 18 it can do and pay for whatever gender or program it wishes to run. It is after all an adult by then.

Regarding your attempt to program my use of pronouns, you'd hopefully notice buda is not a bot you get to program.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 7:25pm On Nov 10, 2024
basilico:
Trump is getting sworn in. He is letting them commit fraud then he brings down the hammer on them. Kari Lake should get restored as the rightfully elected governor, Trump has the Senate numbers he needs for now.
I pray dump does what you say here and overturn the democratic unelection of Kari Lake.

Nothing would bring me more joy.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 7:07pm On Nov 10, 2024
Kukutente23:
Educating a child is not a guarantee that such child will not be rebellious or choose to go his own way
A child is not "it". Are you woke?
Of course no one can force you to give consent but note that your consent will no longer be required once the indoctrinated child turns 18
Are you a parent? There are different factors that determine how a child turns out and parental care is just one.
Your child can not go its own way when it still needs to go your way in order to be fed. And once your child is 18 and hence an adult, I would hope you'd want it to go its own way after you must have spent 18 years laying the road to where it got to.

Imagine you trying to tell an adult not to call a child "it", but not being able to tell your own child in 18 years what gender it must be. If I were you, I'd seriously be considering my priorities and what and whom I should be influencing so others don't influence your child.

For your information, buda is more woke than not woke, and neither your approval or consent is sought.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 4:04pm On Nov 10, 2024
Kukutente23:
You're totally misinformed. The state law empowers schools to teach kids the different genders available. It also allows schools to teach kids that they can be trapped in the wrong body. These are being taught in most public schools. So except you have the money to take your child to a private school, you basically have no control over what is fed to your children. More importantly, it is not you who pays for the hormone changing drugs or gender affirming care. It is govt that pays for it. All that is required is your consent for the gender reassignment AFTER the child had requested it. That's the only place you can step in. Go and get educated properly about the issues around this gender issue in the US. As Trump said, it is purely child abuse
State law does not stop you educating (indoctrinating, even), your child about its own gender long before you send it to schools. You might even decide not to send it to school and school your child at home. No one can force you to consent to what you disagree with.

If your child requests reassignment of its gender, you, parent has been negligent.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum:
Kukutente23:
I proposed it to show you that kids can be impulsive and rebellious. It doesn't make the parents bad or incompetent as you claim.
It's like saying a child who grows up and then takes to crime should hold his parents responsible for the life he chose.
A child has the school as one of the agents of socialisation. A school that teaches kids that it's OK to change your gender without informing your parents can't be blamed on the parents as you posit. It is a classical case of govt interfrence in parenting.
And I am proposing to you that a well brought up child will not be so impulsive and rebellious that it would now be confused about its gender. And its school can not convince it to change gender.

The school will after all not pay for the gender change. And if the school does convince the child to change gender then the parent should have not sent their child to that school, and should gave been more responsible in school choice and the overall development of that child.

Just think a little. Imagine you'd gone to your parents as a child and told them you are not the gender you were born with, and they should pay for you to change gender. I bet they'd tell you they must have fed you too much and your belly is too full. Because, if it weren't, you'd have focused on the education they paid for you to go get at school.

If my child told me such nonsense, or even if the school had told me my child wants a gender change, I'd ask if it wants to change species too, into a dog perhaps, and the school should pay for it, because I definitely wouldn't be wasting my own money on such nonsense when I could be using that money to feed and educate my children.

I would be very concerned if my child can not tell me and instead tells their teacher. Something must be wrong somewhere, and I would look at myself first before blaming my lack of responsibility on my stupid child who should have been more focused on its education.

Fuq! Child should be telling me it wants to be a doctor or lawyer or Elon Musk or the president, and not a dog or the gender it was not born with! After all, na me born am, so why was I not indoctrinating my child to be what I want my child to be?

If my child is that stupid, I fuqed up somewhere, same as if my child decides it wants to be an armed robber or a mass shooter. If I trained it well, it would be an astronaut instead, but if as you claim, child is impulsive and rebellious, then I guess it can go buy its own food and pay its own rent and be whatever pleases it when it leaves my house.

Note. The child is not holding me responsible for its gender confusion. I am holding myself responsible for my child's gender confusion, just as I am responsible for its general overall wellbeing.
Politics › Re: Susie Wiles Worked For IPOB Through Her Lobbying Firm by budaatum: 7:50pm On Nov 09, 2024
America should focus on its own states seeking to secede.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 7:07pm On Nov 09, 2024
Kukutente23:
You're simply being ridiculous. No serious parent will allow a child of fifteen or below have a girlfriend. Your claim now is that such kids who do so have bad parenting to blame. You simply are not a parent to be so unaware of how children are.
If no serious parent will allow their "child of fifteen or below have a girlfriend", then why was that what you proposed in the first place?

If your "child of fifteen or below have a girlfriend", then in my own opinion you must be irresponsible, and moreso if you do not educate your "child of fifteen or below" about safe sex such that they now need to go and ask their cool uncle about condoms. You are even a worse parent if your "child of fifteen or below" does not know or accept the gender you gave birth to it with such that someone else now gets to indoctrinate it to be a gender it is not.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 6:22pm On Nov 09, 2024
basilico:
I assume you are a responsible parent who won't answer a simple question.
Do your children know you post here as budaatum?
Stop asking me a question I already responded to! If you don't understand my response, try a follow up that at least shows you are using your brain please.

budaatum:
My grandchildren too. Their knowing stops me from being stupid and irresponsible because they will query me about it. But even if they don't know, if I lie here like you often do, I will lie to them too, and they will eventually find out and not trust me, and trust their teacher (or peers) more than they their trust me their parent. And in my own opinion, that would make me a bad parent who failed at parenting, especially if I then come on here wailing that some teacher has more influence over the child I created.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 6:18pm On Nov 09, 2024
raumdeuter:
No one in the west will accept the working conditions in China where 8yr olds work in sweatshops and earn less than $5 a day, So China will always win the labor war. They have 1.5bn people
This is dumpism, and I'll just ignore it. You can't sell "8yr olds work in sweatshops and earn less than $5 a day" in Europe because we don't condone child labour.

raumdeuter:
Per the medical and doctors, Its not about what you want, Hospitals have found that its cheaper to employ Tele doctors and you as the patient will have no choice, Now they will give you tablets that you will describe your symptoms and a doctor will join you on the call, If you want a 1v1 contact with a real life doctor, you have to pay a premium for it beyond what an average person can afford.
This is not true where I live, and if it is true in America, then perhaps America needs to put tariffs on health care too, though I bet it would just inflate cost, and America would need those eating the pet people to fill the hospitals with doctors.

raumdeuter:
Remember, whatever you do now, there is someone else who can do it for cheaper in another country
I can't help not think of those taking care of the elderly. They can't work remotely with a tablet to clean bottoms and feed their clients. They have to migrate where their clients are.

I'm waiting to see what tariffs dump imposes and their consequence. It's an economic war (not battle) that I have been expecting for like 20 odd years now, and I'd love to see how it plays.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 5:48pm On Nov 09, 2024
raumdeuter:
If made in America Apple ends up being $3k and made in China Samsung is $500, then slam $2700 on the Samsung phones and make them $3200 and more expensive to buy
And this might work in America. Except for the fact that Samsung can easily be smuggled into USA so tariffs are avoided. And America Apple does not just intend for its product to be sold in America. Or do you think Samsung will not relish undercutting America Apple everywhere else in the world where their product will end up being cheaper?

This is playing out with EVs at the moment by the way. China produces them cheaper than anywhere else, so everyone wants to manufacture in cheap China while everywhere else wants to put tariffs on Chinese EVs. Unfortunately, China is also the biggest market for made in America Apple and EVs, so it's literally like shooting one's own feet and head even.

https://mobilityportal.eu/european-ev-manufacturers-produce-china/

That other stuff, doctors abroad, I'll ignore, as I'm certain you are aware that most people would rather not do zoom for medical health. And I don't even want to bring Tinubu et al to Nigeria, so there.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 5:22pm On Nov 09, 2024
Kukutente23:
A child is not "it" Mr. A child is either he or she
Why should a child even be considering gender change in the first place if not indoctrination?

If you have children, you'll know they are good at keeping secrets and it has nothing to do with being good or bad parents. Besides, a parent should be a moral police fire their children so if your kids are comfortable discussing everything with you including whether or not to get an abortion, you need to check yourself
Why would you irresponsibly let your child be indoctrinated to change its sex when you likely wouldn't allow that same child to be indoctrinated to change its religion?

Can your child keep secret from you that it does not worship your god anymore and now wants to go worship some other god? And if your child can't keep that from you, how the fuq should it be keeping the fact it wants to change its gender or species from you?

You should already be checking yourself if you allow your child to have a girlfriend but neglect to educate said child about condoms and safe sex, unless you want your child to be a father of course. Most parents will indoctrinate their children to not have a girlfriend in the first place, so sex and condoms and abortions are not the issue. After all, you do want your children to be president of something someday, right? And that's why you indoctrinate your child yourself in the way you want your child to go instead of leaving that responsibility to their cool uncle?

Sorry, but if your child keeps such a thing as its gender change a secret from you, then you really have not been spending enough time with that child. If you had, you'd have noticed a change in behaviour and manner such that its not the teacher your child confided in that ought to be informing you about the welfare of your child that you are supposed to be responsible for.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 5:06pm On Nov 09, 2024
basilico:
Do your children know that you have post here as budaatum?
My grandchildren too. Their knowing stops me from being stupid and irresponsible because they will query me about it. But even if they don't know, if I lie here like you often do, I will lie to them too, and they will eventually find out and not trust me, and trust their teacher (or peers) more than they their trust me their parent. And in my own opinion, that would make me a bad parent who failed at parenting, especially if I then come on here wailing that some teacher has more influence over the child I created.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 4:57pm On Nov 09, 2024
raumdeuter:
His argument for tariff is to bring manufacturing home and bring those jobs home, Not necessarily reduce price

If you want to manufacture abroad then you are denying Americans those jobs. If every job you are looking for the cheapest labor to do it then Americans will have no jobs.

Should we also send the jobs of politicians abroad too since there are politicians elsewhere who can do it cheaper
The reason you don't "send the jobs of politicians abroad too" is not "since there are politicians elsewhere who can do it cheaper".

There are no politicians aboard anywhere who can legislate for America, just as you can't ship carer jobs or those of doctors elsewhere where it's cheaper. Instead, you bring those people into your country to do those jobs, hence they are eating the pets in Springfield.

Manufacturers will always look for the cheapest place to manufacture their products. They do not manufacture for the love of their customers or even to create jobs, but to create wealth in their own pockets. Problem is the cost of production is passed on to the consumer, and there is a significant difference in what a Chinese employee gets paid and what an American employee gets paid.

Just think small, if you will. Apple make iPhones in USA. USA employees (woke, and unionised), ask for a living wage. How much do you think that will add to the cost of the phone? And would it be competitive with say, Made in China Samsung?

Frustratingly, there's more to this that makes America uncompetitive as far as manufacturing goes, but we unfortunately don't seem to be capable of discussing such things here. That made in America iPhone will have pension costs added to it too, and you know I'd be striking for a living wage as soon as Apple releases its financials. Definitely not reduce prices if you want to manufacture in USA, and in fact inflate prices instead.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 4:37pm On Nov 09, 2024
Kukutente23:
Ok. But she can't tell the name of her supervisor or Co-worker and she has no record of amnesia or does she?
She shouldn't tell the name of her supervisor or Co-worker, and if she had in fact, that would have been the last straw of my support for her.

Think of the harassment those she named would have received from the magadumpsters and you just might understand why she mustn't.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 4:34pm On Nov 09, 2024
bemeruca:
Many children trust their teachers more than they trust their parents especially in educational settings. I know in Nigeria children respect or fear their teachers more than their parents.
I would expect this from you, lol.

Basilico, this is unacceptable. Your children must trust you more than they trust anyone else on this earth, but if you lie like you constantly do, the above from your pal will be true.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 4:31pm On Nov 09, 2024
Kukutente23:
Let's see. A child goes to tell this cool uncle that he has a girlfriend and he's considering having sex with the girlfriend. He needs advice on the use of condoms.
Conclusion: Bad parent.
I get you.
Most children will not even think of such things as gender change if they are not being influenced. Like what the hell is gender change to start with?
You guys have made the abnormal, normal
Not "a child". Your child. The child you allow to have a girlfriend and who now needs advice on the use of condoms. You haven't stated age here, but I really would have thought you'd have taught your child about sex and condoms, especially if you let said child have a girlfriend. You after all wouldn't want your child to compromise its future by non-condom use now would you, especially if you are against aborting.

As for your child being influenced to change its gender, sorry, but that's because you haven't influenced your child yourself. It's in fact similar to you not influencing your child not to be woke or a pagan and then blaming others for making your child woke and a pagan. If you trained your child in the way you want it to go, and if you did a good job at it, no one should be able to wokify your child, at least not until it becomes an adult.

I'm giving you a pass on your "You guys". Personally, I'm waiting for when children claim they are dogs and then start barking. Perhaps you'd accept the parent is responsible then for stupefying or allowing their own child to be stupefied into thinking it is what it isn't, while better parents are encouraging their children to think they can breath fire.

Basilico, I am talking to you!
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 4:06pm On Nov 09, 2024
raumdeuter:
Tinubu for example was campaigning on bringing Dollar rates down, when in reality he knew the factors driving exchange rates was mostly beyond him at least in the short term
I would say dump has done the exact same thing regarding manufacturing and inflation. But I am willing to wait and see. His tariffs alone will make prices go up, since you can't hire American labour as cheaply as in China and Mexico.

I read an article sometime ago where Apple was complaining that they can't even find the staff they'd need to make iPhones in America, which is why they farm manufacturing out to Foxconn.

Which reminds me. In Springfield, ...........
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 3:42pm On Nov 09, 2024
Kukutente23:
Not true. Most McDonald's keep records of staff even adhoc staff.
Not from that far back when everything was paper based they don't. Too much junk if they tried, especially if the staff worked for a short time.

I know a store that in the 90s would hire over 100 staff every summer just to get through May-August. Their records were often not found when they came back the next summer not to talk of 30-40 years later. McD Franchises are even worse on record keeping.

Incidentally, to get those 100 I'd have to go through like 300-400 applicants. About 80% were immigrants from Italy, Spain and France who came to learn English.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 3:16pm On Nov 09, 2024
Kukutente23:
You mean any time your child hides stuff from you, it's because you're a bad parent?
If your child can not tell you it is considering a gender change, then you really are not communicating with that child, and yes, that does make you a bad parent.

Your child should be able to tell you its concerns so you the parent can address them as you wish instead of farming out you parental duties to a teacher.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 3:09pm On Nov 09, 2024
Kukutente23:
You did not answer the question whether there's a California law that prohibits teachers from telling parents about their kids gender choices.
I think you don't quite understand what you are saying.

Do you not think you have not been responsible as a parent if your child leaves your house and goes and tells a teacher its gender choices that it can not tell you?
Politics › Re: Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif Is A Biological Man by budaatum: 9:59pm On Nov 08, 2024
The miracle in church last night was, after prayer, a man who had his head cut off had it reattached and now he lives.

Jacques Young, an endocrinologist at Bicetre Hospital in Paris who reportedly co-authored the document, has told DW in Germany that he feels his name is being used to spread false information.

Young also hinted he had been used to disseminate an anti-trans agenda. 'I think your statement perfectly reflects reality,' when he was asked whether his name was being used for those purposes.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 8:56pm On Nov 08, 2024
basilico:
.

You think a 74m decision is subservient to 12 jurors from a heavily democratic jurisdiction?
I think a jury of his peers have decided.

That's democracy.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 5:40pm On Nov 08, 2024
raumdeuter:
bemeruca, I will be very surprised if Kari Lake wins, She is trailing by about 50K votes

Politics › Re: Newly Elected LGA Chairman Nabbed For Fraud by budaatum: 5:36pm On Nov 08, 2024
NaMe4:
They use their criminal proceeds to buy titles, qualifications and pay their way into politics.

See the kain pesin wey emerge winner of LGA 'election'.
We elected a suspected drug dealer, and there's a certain country that just elected a convicted criminal.

Just saying.

Politics › Re: Enough Of Wasteful Prayers - Vanguard Editorial by budaatum:
“Seeking the Intervention of God in Nigeria’s Affairs”, will last for a week.
It is very clear that we have not yet suffered enough. When we suffer reach, we would begin to understand the importance of the sweat of our brows.

Health › Re: From Bush To Toilet: Relief For Oyo Villagers After 183 Years Of Open Defecation by budaatum: 8:16am On Nov 08, 2024
SaTo Pans cost only $4 USD each. While that seems cheap by North American standards, it can be too steep a price to pay for many families living in rural Uganda. WaterSchool and Africa Water Solutions have therefore established local saving schemes in rural communities to help make SaTo Pans available to all families.

The 24 established saving schemes are run through new Village Savings and Loans Committees that support families in accessing SaTo Pan technology through the use of micro-loans.


https://www.waterschool.com/sato-pan


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgCgrKBf1Tw

There's also there's also the cost of the pit.

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