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ijebosb:
I even think influence peddling is a loaded term. I'm not sure that's what he was doing.

The overloading was intentional, even if Hunter was peddling influence. He would after all have known some were paying for his name and it's perceptible door opening powers, and why not. It's not like he peddled it for a $2b hedge fund of which I hardly have complained.

Fact is, if maga don't like they should not vote for Hunter.

ijebosb:
In Big Law, Finance, Consulting, Lobbying etc. people are paid big money because of the networks they are in and thus the people they can bring in. If I have a great idea and need financing and have a friend who knows a bunch of billionaires, it only helps me. If a partner of my law firm knows a bunch of billionaires who need lawyers, it benefits my law firm. That's one of the benefits of going to top law/business schools. The people you meet. Because they hire these people doesn't mean that they are doing bad things, it just means they have more access to sell their products. And it could be good products.

I'm not saying what Hunter Biden was selling was legit, I don't know. But I am saying, arguing because he was being paid because he was a Biden, misunderstands how networking works.

Also, if the argument that Biden wasn't selling anything tangible so his work was illegal is the new standard. That means a lot of the stuff big consulting firms like Bain, BCG, McKenzie etc. do would be illegal. What do they sell besides ideas? Same with lobbying firms.

'Influence peddling', we call it in Blighty, and some, 'privilege', because of the exclusivity of the institutions one had to belong to, considering some institutions didn't let you in unless your great-great-grandfather was in, but I can understand it in today's supposedly more 'egalitarian' world where brains connected to matter

I'm sure I'd be paid too if I have connections to sell, and I can't see why I shouldn't even paint pictures if find a maga.

Basiloco, show me Joe peddled influence so I can berate him a little.

basilico:
You agree that Biden is a grifter? He was paid by foreign govts for no .work done, just Hunter and James offering a WH through pass.

Hunter Biden, you mean.

From WSJ

aieromon:
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nigerias-dangote-refinery-export-first-fuel-cargoes-2024-02-14/


https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/nigerias-dangote-wants-set-up-trading-arm-lagos-mega-refinery-2024-03-05/

They are literally begging to give him their money in advance for his future product!

Basilico. This is for you.

https://wapo.st/4ajpz74

MaxInDHouse:
Choose your words carefully because she will report you to her neighbours whom she realized as the nicest kind of people she has ever known but ironically they are Jehovah's Witnesses born and raised with:

My Book Of Bible Stories

I have never reported anything of the sort to you, and I strongly object to you bearing false witness against me!

As I told you then, I had 'jw muslim pagan christian rasta pasta atheists druggies buddhists drunks irish dogs cats all sorts' as my neighbours, and they were all the nicest people I have ever known, as are my current neighbours too.

I am nice, you see. And I reap what I sow.

Aemmyjah:
Those with common sense understand that complexity cannot come by chance
Non life cannot produce life

That is not therefore a reason, assuming you are right that "complexity cannot come by chance", which I doubt depending on what is meant by complex and come by and what, all of which require a lot more than just sense that is common to understand; to then claim a God you read about in a book created life, if literally speaking.

That's why many are out there investigating life and it's nature, to better understand rather than just accept godidit. They don't know how life came about so they knock and ask and seek with all their hearts and souls and minds and being so they may learn more.

That said, not everyone learns, I guess, or at least not at the same rate or to the same depth. Some broke their teeth on my book of bible stories, while some broke theirs on the King James Version, so you might understand the difference.

Aemmyjah:
Practically, it tells you that your life, existence is a result blind chance and lacking meaning. Only a insane parent will want his child to think that way

Those who are trained to read would understand that no book "tells" them "life, existence is a result blind chance and lacking meaning".

It fact, learning to read helps children develop their own minds so they can discover their own purpose and give meaning to their own existence on earth, and they'd certainly write and reason better than those who grew up on "my book of bible stories", and they'd be better behaved too.

ijebosb:
I should have, well shorted it, that is. Didn't know the financial statement was coming out today, so didn't expect it to lose so much today already. Well happy at least the Trumpers are losing their shirts. Could have been a nice steak on the MAGA's dime though. Hopefully the MAGA's learn a good lesson in crony capitalism.

Price will up and down within a dwindling range until November when we'd have discovery, if it hasn't imploded by then.

Basically, it's a proxy for dump's election chances. Good polls will meme it up and bad polls will meme it down.

It's the ultimate maga scam.

basilico:
Is it possible that some can short sell the stock to drive down prices

That's not how it works. You can short sell stock and it's price may rise and you lose money, since it's not you who dictates the market price.

Dump Bible is falling simply because more are selling than buying at current price, likely because they think it would be worth less in future.

And we are watching charts to see who is right.

Aemmyjah:
Go and give your children Darwin book so they'll understand that their existence on earth is actually by accident and meaningless, without hope

I will, thank you. And there's no way they'd read Darwin and "understand the existence on earth is actually by accident and meaningless, without hope", because Darwin did not write that "the existence on earth is actually by accident and meaningless, without hope", which is what those who haven't read Darwin would think especially if they had learnt to read with "my book of bible stories".

Meanwhile, how much is the dump bible?

Obrigardo:
I seriously want to take a big step backwards engaging with them. They can't even do any damage to US democracy from this Kobo Kobo forum. Maga cultists like basilico loco and his deranged gang can't even vote in the US. If this makes watching their misery in November the sweetest, I'll hold back a bit.
I'll only come here to taunt them when Criminal trump is on trial and gets convicted.

The good thing is they are like dump in that the more they show themselves the less appealing they become to the reasonable rationally minded.

Almantra:
send cash make I test,then tell u the result

I should send you my own cash so you can use it to deconfuse yourself?

Send me your juju please so me too can use it.

zendi:
Maybe you didn't get my point. If it took the Supreime Court to stop the fascists from disqualifying him for the election, it is stupid of the repubs to trust that they will be fair to Trump in the conduct of the the election.

Well, that's what the Supreme Court is there for, and I'm glad they did their job. It's why we fight for democracy you see, so fascists don't get to rule.

This shows how dirty.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/for-the-sake-of-all-of-us-sonia-sotomayor-needs-to-retire-from-the-us-supreme-court

Almantra:
so someone pop on from no where on my WhatsApp saying I should vote in a music award,that after voting i will be rewarded instantly. so I was confuse as I saw package of each vote some 2k for 20k and so on...

Are you confused by the instructions?

Test it please and tell us the results.

zendi:
Which counting will be conducted by these same fascist Secretaries of State already removing his name from the ballot.

No one can remove dump's name from the ballot. The Supreme Gods said no.

Aemmyjah:
What about you? How do you view this book?

I do recall, about 10 years old, someone presenting it as evidence of what they claim was written in the Bible, and I guess that would set me against it. For why read a reduced copy of a book when you can read the full unabridged version.

I've also since found that the basis of the arguments of some are as shallow as this book compared to that of a Bible reader or that of one who has bothered to learn the history of the Bible or of writing itself, and books.

I wonder what we'd have said if Nigeria had been indoctrinated with a condensed version of the Holy Bible, but I guess I dislike the short lazy version of anything since they just program the mind to be lazy.

This is the "Bible" one gives one's kids to program them to be not as smart as the one's given a Holy Bible I think.

A Key focus of SYNC is to facilitate collaboration and partnership (“working together”) of all Students and Youth groups in the UK. The theme of the event this year is ‘Shaping Our Future Through Innovation and Collaboration’

SYNC – Students and Youths of Nigeria Conference is a collaborative initiative between Nigerian Students’ Union UK and Nigerian Youths in Diaspora Organisation. This conference brings together Nigerian Students, youths and stakeholders within the education, business and leadership space, to engage in high impact, solution based discussions, build collaborations and create opportunities and partnerships that work for all. The conference features keynote addresses, panel discussions and presentations; break out sessions, networking opportunities, Post conference Gala Dinner, Awards and Entertainment.

https://uwsu.native.fm/event/annual-students-and-youths-of-nigeria-conference-sync/220655

Free event (No, not to Marylebone, sorry).

Was reminiscing.

Gerrard59:
I am curious, people in your circle, do they intend to retire in the West (UK, US & Canada) instead of Nigeria or other African countries?

Yes. Even parents borning in the 60s 70s are returning to UK, US & Canada to retire after their children they took to raise in Nigeria are old enough to return to where they were born and barely visit Nigeria, and often wouldn't retire there. After all, why leave good healthcare for Nigeria healthcare, if nothing else.

Children taken to Nigeria are even turning against their parents, "why did you take us to that place when you should have known it was hell", especially if they return to UK, US & Canada to find colleagues they left are often more settled in life. Their children, who barely visit Nigeria are definitely not retiring there.

It's the education opportunities that tend to swing it. One learns more knowledge when it's not Nepa and schools are equipped with libraries, or rather, computers as they are these days. Most want the best for their own children and they know where it is provided.

It's what pains me most about Nigeria. The fact that we have not yet learnt the implications of the garden.

Obrigardo:
They are so exhausting, damn. They just don't accept they are so unpopular. How do they think the hate they spew is what the majority is salivating for? You are right; their main aim is just to keep sowing discord and making sane people get annoyed on obvious lies.

This is the reason I ignore them much. Why let them exhaust one's energy and time when I can be exhausting my own time and energy not for them.

I hope this observation of yours is recognised and not forgotten going forward.

FRANCISTOWN:
Her religion is the religion of illusions.

His effect is to have produced an actual real thread that will be learnt from for decades to come.

So, immense thanks for politely activating us PoliteActivist. You, will actually really surely live long.

Just so it don't seem one has little regard for Descartes, I post the following,

Maynmaynmayn:
When you have no oxygen, food, you are talking about a thing, zero or nothing is not a thing.

Zero was used as a placeholder not a number.
https://www.livescience.com/27853-who-invented-zero.html

With regards.

basilico:
I read it then saved the page in archive.is do it does not get rubbed off the internet.

You are maga!

basilico:
What you see when you search. The Twitter foia release ?
Or you see fact check leftie liberal loonie sites.

What did you see? Did you even look?

basilico:
Michigan. I'll prematurely post this link, it might be a big nothing burger.

https://www.lopmatrix.com/government-provided-with-cold-hard-evidence-of-voter-fraud-two-days-after-2020-election-buried-it-as-they-threw-people-in-prison-for-questioning-results/

As soon as one reads, "In an email from that day, Michigan attorney Troy Cummings reached out", smarts run to a search engine bas, but you obviously wouldn't before you put your magacrap out there.

samuelson06:
Shortly you leave the camp, then it's teaching JS1 to SS3 students in a private secondary school in exchange for 5k naira monthly. Many private school owners are totally depending on this cheap labor provided by corpers. Good luck to them. Who wouldn't want to take advantage? Some would even want to select corpers based on gender. I still remember going to a school and the school owner insisted on only male corpers. Meanwhile, she's a female. These are the people that makes the most profit from the NYSC.

NYSC is alimanjeri for graduates.

It exploits graduates by deflating wages ensuring teachers lack experience so we can be exploited even more!

I want NYSC banned!

basilico:
I've seen two sources I will not link them for now.

Sums you up I guess.

But What Happens When They Do?

https://humanglemedia.com/almajiri-children-grow-old-too-but-what-happens-when-they-do/