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Seun, iwọ ko ni se asedanu ninu ọdun 2026!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt5HlaPQuog?si=9UtwbNNX7m3zIAzO

The Art of Making Both Sides Hate You

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/06/elon-musk-back-politics-new-hobby-instead

benalvino3:
Sometimes I wonder if you truly believe when you say crap like this you mean it.

I definitely can't mean it when referring to your sort who think the sun shines out of a Caucasian ass, but fortunately my world is mostly occupied by people like me who have evolved to deal with colonisers better and know only ourselves can save our country Nigeria.

IbeOkehie:
Among all governments, the one in the USA is the best - not because it's run by better human beings, but because its powers to steal are almost PERMANENTLY & EXPLICITLY LIMITED by the basic law called the Constitution of the United States. That document is the ONLY BASIC LAW in the world containing the words "GOVERNMENT SHALL NOT". That's the REAL REASON the USA is the greatest nation in the world, the greatest and best nation in HUMAN HISTORY, it's a fact that's undisputable by the living or the dead, ordained by God and the Devil.

Dump is shaking my faith in the powers of the words "GOVERNMENT SHALL NOT", I daresay.

IbeOkehie:
Whatever sha...China will save Africa. Indeed. It's so terrible that Nigerians don't understand these simple things. Shhhheeeesh!!!

An old English friend used to say China will exploit us more than Britain did.

My response was, the fact Britain has exploited Nigeria has educated and made us more aware and somewhat vaccinated ue against colonial exploitation to some extent, and he should credit us with brains to know that only ourselves can save ourselves.

I know I exaggerate a bit, since many still seek their own salvation from heaven, but we most definitely on the whole do not think "China will save Africa"!

nateevs:
This is proper BS. You are mad at the consequence of Chinese strategic industrial, economic, engineering growth plan and readiness for many decades.

The Chinese graduate 1.6m engineers every single year. You think this came about by just reverse engineering 5h!t? This is result of long term planning..... government-led, government-financed strategic mobilisation across all facets of society. They are going to dominate everything for decades to come.

Imagine this nitwit complaining about China, whilst enjoying Chinese privilege on his cheaply-made Chinese phone.

Whilst you are busy tainting the Chinese as evil pirates, China is concentrating on domination of the future.

80% of the world's most advanced AI researchers are in China. Over 80% of new AI patents are tendered by Chinese.

China produces more electric power in one year than the whole of Europe, US, and Canada combined.

China controls more than 80% of the world's renewable energy supply chains. China by far dominates the world in robotic engineering, EV technology, 5G wireless communication technology, and in time, they will dominate the world's automobile industry.

Whilst Trump was intent on tariffs and banning China from accessing Chip technology, China dug in, and now China is on the verge on creating the world's first commercial EUV lithograph machine not built by ASML.

You must be mad thinking dominance of this scale across multiple sectors is by copying.

What was the US doing whilst China was laying down the ground work for this scale of dominance? .....deindustrialisation, capitalism and warning the whole world about Chinese dangerous socialists.

You decapitate Chinese influence by socialism. Government-led initiatives to industrialise across all sectors. You build your own supply chains from the ground up.... not by going to kidnap other presidents because they chose to align with China, instead of the US.... That's dictatorship of its own.

I had to post this here to lead me.

magoo10:
so you are serious you are looking for thief when you are defending one with your life already.

And which thief am I defending when I am telling you how I will defend my own house and my own land and my own country?

nairalanda1:
Lol. US dependency on Nigerian oil has fallen drastically,

How drastically?

The chg and % is interesting.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MTTIMUSNI1&f=M

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/nigeria/crude-oil-petroleum-bituminous-minerals

magoo10:
what it means is if thief enter your house you will set it on fire.

If that's how irrational you think I mean then so it is.

As for me, if thief decide to enter my house and settle in my house, first I will cut the water to my house and cut the electric to my house and put juju on my house and the thief. Then I will put dead cow in my house and block the entrance to my house and dig up the road to my house and stone the windows of my house so as to diminish the thief enjoying my house before burning it if thief doesn't get the hint. And after that I still might not get my house back and might need consider further obstacular measures so thief severely don't enjoy occupying my land.

I perfectly understand if you differ as we are not all the same.

magoo10:
you will blow up your oil so it cant be stolen as in how?
you guys should take it easy in being emotional.

I, Nigerian, "should take it easy in being emotional" about foreign thief breaking my house on my fatherland and kidnap my peoples and sell the asset for their own benefit and profit?

Magoo10, I am not like you. Add severe anger and a dose of I no go gre, and that's buda.

If thief enter my own house and steal my asset to sell in the market, I will terr⁰r¹se them back in return, and if I'm not strong enough to terr⁰r¹se them, I will definitely dig my road and puff my factory and put every other possible obstacle I can muster in their way to reduce their profiteering and get the f off my land.

It's a strategy that's been used after all, so why not Venezuela?

Antichristian2:
Can God die?

Yes Gods die, as history shows.

Humans just need to stop worshipping them and they die.

On the flip side, insurgents might blow up Venezuela's oil so it can't be exported, and that would explode oil prices. But I see FreeStuffsNG has already explained this scenario so I shan't belabour the point.

Just think what we would do if it were Nigeria and some foreign country deposes our president and tries to steal our oil. I'm very certain we'd blow our oil up so it can't be stolen.

Antoeni:
Ask Your Yourself,How Come Borrowing Has Tripped?

Are you asking that we create some fake conspiracy to support your unsubstantiated claim, or will you provide evidence to substantiate your own claim?

kayjordan:
"Good morning!

I noticed you haven’t replied to my last rebuttal...

Does this mean you finally concede to my previous point that: -  "Youngsters in the UK have the free-will to choose between Science and Religion as they mature"?

No one said Youngsters in the UK do not have the free-will to choose between Science and Religion as they mature. And your reading of the Church of England report does not support the increase you seem to think there is.

The growth in church attendance is mainly in pentecostal churches, and that is full of immigrants. It is not growing amongst the natives. Churches, and even pentecostal churches, are shutting down as attendance and revenue dwindles.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/369080/church-of-england-attendance-by-service-uk/

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/31-october/news/uk/church-of-england-statistics-for-mission-contradict-claims-of-quiet-revival

I have included the exact phrases used in my questions for the images below so you can falsify it to see the relevant links and not just assume AI.

Good morning.

kayjordan:
- and as you grow into an adult - you make the decision to know which to align with - scientific knowledge or biblical knowledge.

Either decision is like a choice of the operating software one runs their hardware on. And understanding matters much.

Science would teach one that force multiplied by velocity equals power, but religion might leave some thinking the power is in yelling Jesus.

Outcomes will definitely differ, since both are not exactly equal useful 'knowledges', but one can eventually lead to the other if some brain power were applied.

For instance, the Bible teaches Power = Force x Velocity, just in a rather obtuse way. The power to produce my daily bread depends on the effort I exert by the rate of time that effort is exerted, which shows the Bible's usefulness in the basics, but not very useful when attempting to travel to the moon or build a superpower computer or simply letting there be light, if any of those are desired that is.

tarboshi:
you have zero ideas to share.

Definitely not with your sort, that's for sure.

You'd need to first learn to talk respectfully before I even look at you.

raumdeuter:
Forcing a recession brings down interest rate

Yep. That is indeed an option. It will result in job loses and high unemployment, and will force the Fed to lower interest rates, but might not make lenders accept lower interest rates on bonds however.

But to be sincere, I'd need to see this to actually know if it might. And I wonder how that would make America great again.

raumdeuter:
That is why Trump is trying to force down interest rates to refinance the debt at a lower rate.

Dump can not force down interest rates to refinance the debt at a lower rate! And I'm very concerned you don't know this even more than dump not knowing it!

Even if dump forces down the Fed Rate (by firing Powell and installing his stoogee), it will not lower interest rates on bonds that finance interest rates on US debt, and will in fact raise bond rates.

Thinking otherwise is like saying you can dictate to a lender the rate of interest at which you borrow.

Pierocash:
that is how it is been calculated, rent relief. For those paying insurance, mortgage, debt and so many other deductibles will be deducted before the balance can be taxed

But you still haven't shown where you got your information from even though your deductables do reduce one's tax if true.

Cashylyxcartalk:
Budaatum seriously or really , my content are not educating or it is topic that you need to fight on ?

I am not fighting you. I am merely giving you some business advice. And I wouldn't bother with the suggestion if your content were no good.

If I open a shop to sell very cheap good stuff that everyone wants but don't clean the outside of my shop, will people enter my shop to see my very cheap good stuff and buy it?

Your content is educating, and might benefit from the cleaning of the outside of your shop please, so you can get more customers to educate.

You don't sound tired of salary work yet.

Because anyone with a business idea won't just give it to you, but either hire you on salary to effect it or sell it to you.

So, my question to you is, how much you buying business ideas for?

MONEY247:
Salary work is good but I think should be temporary...
OK... Please is there any business or skills I can start this 2026

I keep wondering if your "What Are[s]" are intentional.

It makes me think you do not understand what you are writing, and wonder if your incorrect grammar actually gets you the desired effect of being read.

I am your customer giving feedback.

kayjordan:
You are taught to believe in science.

I have chosen to address this one statement for now because it completely misses the point.

In UK, we are not taught to "believe in science" or anything at all. We are taught to use the scientific method (or as I define science, use our senses like Eve is written to have).

Once one believes a thing, one stops asking and knocking and seeking for knowledge because one assumes that what one believes is knowledge, which it isn't or you'd say you know, instead of, "I believe". I see this as a huge issue in Nigeria where we tend to believe a lot.

Belief in anything, is religion. It is not encouraged in the UK education system. The use of the senses is, and that's why Rule Britannia!

By the way, buda is a non-believing atheist, as in one that does not just believe that gods do not exist, because I know humans create figments of imaginations of gods in their heads.

Good morning. Hope you woke well.

Fafo, lol.

https://www.change.org/p/deport-nicki-minaj-to-trinidad?

I can't quite understand why you choose to learn Igbo from people who insult you.

Are they paying you to learn perhaps, or are they the only Igbo teachers in the world so you can't go find teachers elsewhere?

You seriously need to be more responsible for your own learning, is what I think, instead of trying to take your learning from those who seem to be doing everything so you don't learn Igbo.

Was I really wrong for serving her chicken feet and head?

Yes you were very wrong indeed!

If chicken feet and head was as fleshy as you claim, why did she not serve it to herself or to her husband and children?

And I bet he slapped you because you were playing voltron arguing that you were right, and therefore literally asked to be slapped in front of your maid.

But I really don't know how you intend to survive this, I dare say, because he really humiliated you, and a flip side is if your husband is making the maid his second wife, and whom he might prefer to you. I sure wouldn't be surprised if he's thinking he mismarried.

You are fortunate if you are uneducated and have no means of earning, or you'd most definitely need to consider dumping that man and going to seek a man who aligns with your ideology of feeding dog food to the maid on Christmas day! But as it is, change your ways and grovel and hope you get him to love you more.

Oh! And get rid of that maid!

pocohantas:
He said he is almost 45. I don't know why some of you think these guys are young sha. They are older than you. 😂😂

It might be because some of them sound and behave like we'd expect 12 year olds to.