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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 8:29pm On Apr 04, 2022
Ibime:
Those guys think economics happens in a week.

Rouble performance since 2014 is equivalent to Naira decline - lost 2/3rd of it's value

If only they knew how much Russian central bank is spending daily to buy Roubles to support the price over the last week, and how they plan to keep it up.
I am seriously embarrassed discussing economics with them, especially since they find it impossible to admit its a subject they know very little about.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 8:27pm On Apr 04, 2022
Ibime:
McCain couldn't have beaten Obama regardless but he ushered in the Pandora's box of the Tea party with his Palin pick. He was visibly embarrassed by her throughout that campaign
I do agree, though America would have been a lot better if he'd chosen someone else and still lost. Worst decision of his life, no doubt.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 5:58pm On Apr 04, 2022
basilico:
I am not getting your points.
I understand. If it were Sunday, you'd have easily understood, and you'd be more civil too and I wonder why.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 5:55pm On Apr 04, 2022
benalvino3:
When will North Korea revolt?
how is the revolting working out for Syria?

this is not the 90s. America made their enemies economically strong and because the enemy of my enemy is my friend... when the sanctions come they stand together... when the people revolt they get help from outside. when will you guys understand this?

By all means, use every tool to destroy your enemy and let bombs be the last resort but i am saying sanctions will not deter the idiots ruling those nations
Russians have not been as hoodwinked as North Koreans and Syrians have been, Ben. And while Sanctions might not "deter the idiots ruling those nations", sanctions seriously compromise the damage and hurt "the idiots ruling those nations" could have inflicted if nothing was done.

If nothing were done to Russia, Ukraine might have been Russia today, which would only further empower Putin to threaten further, and North Korea's Kim might have tried it on with South Korea by now too if not for sanctions against Putin. As for Syria, sanctions stop them getting involved in Israel.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 5:48pm On Apr 04, 2022
basilico:
Ive added a video . Gamestop.
We all know you are not the brightest chip on the block by the way.
GameStop was ramped up on Reddit and had nothing to do with 4chan, but if 4chan is the "brightest chip on the block" for you, it shows how unbright you who claimed only yesterday to be here to learn must be.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 5:44pm On Apr 04, 2022
Former president Donald Trump on Sunday endorsed Sarah Palin for Alaska’s lone congressional seat, throwing his weight behind the ex-governor who embraced Trump before he came to dominate the GOP.

Palin announced Friday that she is running for the seat vacated by Republican Rep. Don Young, who died last month after representing Alaska for nearly a half-century. Trump’s approval could boost the former vice-presidential candidate’s standing in a field of more than 50 candidates.

“Sarah shocked many when she endorsed me very early in 2016, and we won big,” Trump said in a statement Sunday. “Now, it’s my turn! Sarah has been a champion for Alaska values, Alaska energy, Alaska jobs, and the great people of Alaska.” Like Trump, Palin portrays herself as a brash voice against the establishment and the media, and the former president went on to praise Palin for standing up to “corruption” in government and the “Fake News.”

Palin cast herself in a Facebook post last week as a fighter against the “radical left.” She shot to right-wing stardom as Sen. John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election and remained in the headlines even after leaving political office, boosting the tea party movement and embracing her pop-culture status on reality TV.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/03/trump-palin-alaska-congress/
A marriage of MagaTea. I blame McCain for succumbing to this. He might have been President if he'd swung Centre instead of the Right he tacked to by running with Palin.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 5:39pm On Apr 04, 2022
basilico:
https://www.youtube.co.m/watch?v=vw9zyxm860Q

4chan has very bright kids

Let me also add that a reddit user figured out that a certain company was overpriced because of shorting their shares.. They drove up shares and the hedge fund managers lost billions.

Never underestimate the human mind.
4chan is not indicative of the human mind, bas, and I never underestimate stupidity because it does a lot of damage with its ignorance if not checked.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 5:38pm On Apr 04, 2022
benalvino3:
and I am saying the sanctions are not put in place because of the citizens. they get hurt but the people who call the shots do not care. nowhere i mention that the citizens don't care about sanctions
Ben, do I need to be the one to form a conspiracy to tell you that Biden is already sending money to organisations that will destabilise Russia and cause a regime change?

Sanctions are put in place to destroy the economy which mostly does affect the people. The idea is that when the people suffer they will blame their leaders and revolt. But perhaps because we do not revolt successfully in Nigeria, you think Russians are like you who are ready to put up with being made to disappear so you'd rather shut up than fight for your rights. In Russia, where the citizens who care do express their hurt, it will be at their own "people who call the shots" that they will express it to, and they will not express it peacefully but loud enough so that the "people who call the shots" will have to care for the safety of their own heads!
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 5:26pm On Apr 04, 2022
Fox News viewers who were paid to watch CNN for 30 days eventually became more skeptical and less likely to buy into fake news, according to a new study.

The study titled “The manifold effects of partisan media on viewers’ beliefs and attitudes: A field experiment with Fox News viewers” by David E Brockman and Joshua L Kalla was conducted in September 2020 and published last week.

“Of 763 qualifying participants, we then randomised 40 per cent to treatment group. To change the slant of their media diet, we offered treatment group participants $15 per hour to watch 7 hours of CNN per week, during Sept. 2020, prioritising the hours at which participants indicated they typically watched Fox News,” the study said.

The study found changes in attitudes and policy preferences about Covid-19, evaluations of then president Donald Trump and Republican candidates as well as elected officials.

“Despite regular Fox viewers being largely strong partisans, we found manifold effects of changing the slant of their media diets on their factual beliefs, attitudes, perceptions of issues’ importance, and overall political views,” the authors of the study said.

Fox News covered racial issues “extensively but selectively about Biden and other Democrats’ supposed positions on them and about outbreaks of violence at protests for racial justice in American cities”. The study found that CNN provided little information about either.

The two networks also covered the issue of voting by mail, but again differed on the information provided about it in addition to offering different frames.

A survey was conducted after three days on the participants, which captured significant shifts in beliefs.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fox-news-cnn-partisan-media-study-b2050240.html
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 5:23pm On Apr 04, 2022
basilico:
there are a lot of bright people there. I cannot dismiss every opinion I read about because the website is deemed racist. There are a lot of racists on 4 chan.
there are very bright minds there.
Let me reference this story about a flag meant to fly during Trump presidency . These autistic kids located it. this is beyond your capabilities

https://www.rt.com/viral/380338-4chan-capture-anti-trump-flag/.
He did not divide us because we kicked his orange ass out!
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 5:21pm On Apr 04, 2022
basilico:
I like 4chan, patriots.win and so on.
Like, how? Like I like laughing at the idiocy of Breitbatians, or like being maga nuts like them that see bamboo in their kraken?

If the later, bas, I am telling you the following for reasons included:

what value do you add here except irrational complaints. Sort out your life my friend.
Im telling u as a friend. You need to look inwards at yourself.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 5:17pm On Apr 04, 2022
benalvino3:
those being dictated to did not invade Ukraine or want to invade Taiwan... the dictators are and that is what we have been talking about. the leader of those countries don't care if sanctions are tearing their citizens apart, anyone who tries to speak or make noise will disappear.

So again, those dictated to care... the dictator doesn't care and if anyone speaks against the dictator, that person may disappear
I suppose you do not know the history of Russia that made a lot of noise against the leader called Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, which is why you'd think "anyone who tries to speak or make noise will disappear", is going to stop Russians who survived disappearances under the Soviet Union from making noise under much less competent at disappearing people Putin.

That's what you may be talking about, Ben. I am saying that the citizens those leaders are tearing apart do care that sanctions are tearing them apart. gambojimeta even posted increase of Russians fleeing, which shows some already care.

Ben. We shall all live long enough to see how this plays out.

During the July Crisis, Nicholas supported Serbia and approved the mobilization of the Russian Army on 30 July 1914. In response, Germany declared war on Russia on 1 August 1914 and its ally France on 3 August 1914,[9] starting the Great War, later known as the First World War. The severe military losses led to a collapse of morale at the front and at home; a general strike and a mutiny of the garrison in Petrograd sparked the February Revolution and the disintegration of the monarchy's authority. After abdicating for himself and his son, Nicholas and his family were imprisoned by the Russian Provisional Government and exiled to Siberia. After the Bolsheviks took power in the October Revolution, the family was held in Yekaterinburg, where they were executed on 17 July 1918.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 4:46pm On Apr 04, 2022
basilico:
I am not getting your points. Truth social by now should have how many users?
I'd expect you to be a user, bas, but since its so useless that even drumpfght does not use it, zero.

How many people use truth social, bas?

Two tech execs RESIGN from Trump's Truth Social just a year after being brought on with downloads plummeting and no Android app after a bungled launch
Two key executives have left Truth Social, according to Reuters
It is the latest bad news for Donald Trump's troubled social media platform
It still has no Android app - potentially cutting off 2/3 of its potential market
And on Monday it emerged that Josh Adams and Billy Boozer had left key roles
'If Josh has left, all bets are off,' a source said, calling him the 'brains' of the tech
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10684393/Two-tech-execs-RESIGN-Trumps-Truth-Social-downloads-plummeting-no-Android-app.html
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 4:25pm On Apr 04, 2022
Obrigardo:
TODAY, We are talking about the Failure of Criminal trump's "Truth"Social
Your feeble attempts at distraction will not work tongue
He must have thought all his magas were on iPhone.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60922717

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 4:20pm On Apr 04, 2022
feedthenation:
---The Russia ruble got a slight boost---but how long can this can be sustained in the next few months will be interesting to know---

https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/currency
Is this what they call Russian Ruble appreciation?

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 3:51pm On Apr 04, 2022
benalvino3:
They will spend money to make people disappear? Not really.

They don't care about tax. They are dictators.
And where did I say they will like to live in a country like that?

If they speak up or out they die or disappear. So they remain silent.
You seem to be talking about the dictators who benefit from dictating, while I am talking about those being dictated to who would care.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 2:11am On Apr 04, 2022
I feel I should apologise for flooding the thread with posts from this source. I had a thread for it but the mods shut it down for some reason so I decided this is a good place for it. It's America, after all. And the dollar. And Wolf does write very well, I dare say.

https://wolfstreet.com/2022/04/03/my-wealth-disparity-monitor-of-the-feds-money-printer-era-holy-moly-april-update-of-the-greatest-economic-injustice-in-recent-history/

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 1:55am On Apr 04, 2022
PDPGuy:
Some grim economic facts:

- 63% of jobs in the US only offer salaries of between $15,000 - $20,000/year shocked

- Since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, the US has been losing 50,000 manufacturing jobs per month. Which means, over 12.6 million of such jobs have been lost since then.

- Meanwhile, only 23% of the approximately 11 million US job openings are your typical middle class positions.

- 21.3% of the US population receives financial assistance from the US government every month.
The US has been exporting, is more like it, since they are the ones who invested in building factories in China.

And how did China manage it? By providing cheap labour that so outweighed the benefit of the dollar that Americans converted their dollar into remnimbi to pay for Chinese labour instead of their own American labour because the returns were higher, so higher that America goes into debt to purchase it.

Now, that's how intelligent people win economic wars in the twenty first century! Make their money flow into your economy.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 1:49am On Apr 04, 2022
Bas, I'm watching All The President's Men. Great insight into government and media, with no impliance on my part that today's Washington Post is anything like then's or not.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC3YFyah_Yg
Politics › Re: Why Do Local Oil Companies Seem To Be Mandated To Help Northern Communities by budaatum: 12:27am On Apr 04, 2022
babasolution:
The local oil companies have a very strange and worrying practice.

If you are a keen observer of the happenings in Nigeria you will notice that a lot of local indigenous oil companies do a lot of CSR in faraway northern communities far more than they do in say the West or east or even south south were they are based and earn their profits.
Even though many here will just believe you, you are going to have to provide data for this to be accepted by those who use their own eyes and mind.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 12:19am On Apr 04, 2022
benalvino3:
the folks at N. Korea don't want to put up with such sanctions. but when you have a government that can make you disappear and a system that supports such government... you will have to put up.

sanction did not make Iran, North Korea, Russia change
It makes their people suffer and you'd have to spend more money making people disappear, and you'd also not be able to steal much tax from them.

You, folk, for sure, don't sound like people who'd like to put up with living in any of those countries. Is that perhaps because it would be too much suffer for you or are you just being sarcastic, again?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum:
benalvino3:
they really don't care. and the west may be losing its strength through sanctions as we can see
Imagine Americans having to put up with Russia type sanctions and it's inflation alone, Jan 6 will be like a celebration party compared, and Let's Go Brandon will be Let's Burn Biden, left and right.

I would not agree that the west is losing any strength through sanctions. Sri Lanka, Greece, I hear, are rioting. Watch to see as others join in, including Russians, eventually.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 10:31pm On Apr 03, 2022
benalvino3:
it has bounced back to pre-invaded value.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/russias-ruble-rebound-raises-questions-sanctions-impact-83768547
Time will tell us which way it ends up and whom it costs.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 9:47pm On Apr 03, 2022
basilico:
we can also say that Putin has decreed to be paid in roubles Europe gas needs are 40 percent from russia,
. the rouble value has risen, how u explain that?
It's still a lot below its pre-invade Ukraine value, and does hurt Russia, as inflationary evidence shows, and will get worse.

Europe is looking for alternative sources for gas. Once it finds it (could take 2-5 years, so note it's a long term thing, though article says in a year), Russia could eat it's gas for all the world cares, but long before then, Russia will start to eat it's roubles as it suffers from an inability to find anywhere to spend it's roubles except in China, or sell anything else except at a discount.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 9:37pm On Apr 03, 2022
basilico:
Now thats the stuff that grows us in this fora. I learn a lot here. Lets spend more time even in our diverse views to help each other here. Being antagonist all the time does not help.
We are here to grow each other please not compete who knows more.
Bas, are you trying to be funny telling me what I've always done here?

What most don't understand is that with Nigeria adopting the American style of government, we have decided to go down the American historical political root but without the fueling force of occupying the land that America seized plus the free labour they seized with which to develop it, and without the political issues - race, gender confusion, oppression, etc - that they adopted their political system to solve, which is why we can't grow as America did and must find our own way after fully understanding the path we currently travel.

Unfortunately, we turn ourselves into the Right and the Left, a concept that does not even exist in Nigeria except perhaps as the North and the South, or my tribe and your tribe, a division that does get in the way of our learning.

Good thing is, the truth shall set us free. We just have to be mature enough to admit it when we see it bas, instead of thinking those with a different view or opinion are competing with us.

Anyway, I just watched some Chomsky, and all the way through thought, this is Bas' mouthpiece, if only he, bas, knew what he, bas, was saying. His [url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Chomsky%2C%20Noam]books are much better[/url], of course.


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

Health › Re: Depth Of Science!! (pics) by budaatum: 9:11pm On Apr 03, 2022
The fact that some think counting mosquitoes is so impossible or pointless just shows how little we know and how much more we need to learn!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TilyFG2BvEU

Sports › Re: Members Of 1994 Super Eagles Receive Houses In Owerri (Photos) by budaatum: 9:06pm On Apr 03, 2022
Nijagogetsense:
I bet you don't know the gimmick of the APCheat fulani government...

All these are to score cheap political score if you don't know undecided
How much you betting?

I bet this political gimmick a cheap cheat to win votes that APC know how to use than all of the other parties that have produced presidents before now that did not know or bother to use it.

As for their being Fulani, more credit for rewarding those in Owerri who are not Fulani and who achieved something in Nigeria's name instead of rewarding non-achievers from elsewhere. That credit, more votes, makes the reward of their cheat gimmick even cheaper.
Sports › Re: Members Of 1994 Super Eagles Receive Houses In Owerri (Photos) by budaatum: 7:29pm On Apr 03, 2022
na2016:
You can write on something you don't understand ooo�
Na2016, are you talking from experience, and are you assuming buda is like you?
Sports › Re: Members Of 1994 Super Eagles Receive Houses In Owerri (Photos) by budaatum: 7:28pm On Apr 03, 2022
Nijagogetsense:
You know nothing. You still don't know this is a political gimmick right? undecided
A political gimmick that no president has thought of using since 1994.

Is it a bad political gimmick?
Sports › Re: Members Of 1994 Super Eagles Receive Houses In Owerri (Photos) by budaatum: 7:24pm On Apr 03, 2022
na2016:
I don't think you really understand the concept of "nobody owes you anything" that you used here sha.
Yet, I have used it here. Or do you want to also claim I don't understand what I'm writing here?

Perhaps think what you really understand instead of trying to assume to know what I might understand or not understand or be like.
Health › Re: Depth Of Science!! (pics) by budaatum: 7:16pm On Apr 03, 2022
Alexpre11:
Science above everything
The use of the senses to ask and knock and seek so one may know instead of merely believing and trembling like demons and be bitten by mosquitoes.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 7:13pm On Apr 03, 2022
basilico:
I will answer you later. all I can say now that Chinese want dominance.
seizing Taiwan allows them to control semiconductor market.
which we can bet they will
Russia too can be said to have wanted dominance, bas, but what they've got out of the stupid error in understanding how the world works and thinking dominance is the same as 20th century military might, is a vast diminishing of themselves.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-gdp-crash-ukraine-war-inflation-sanctions-energy-putin-2022-3

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