₦airaland Forum

Baddestguyp:
even this one is ending in years already

Dennis can't catch a break

Enugurangers:
APC = Republican Party

Labour Party = Democrats

This has to be the most soy-facing, basement-dwelling, Vaush-watching, Hasan-simping, twitter-brained, reddit-fried, NPC take I've heard in my life.

benalvino3:
Mother -checked
Father - checked
Family looks decent.

What is missing in most black neighborhoods

*Black American neighbourhoods

Kaycee7:
Miri almost sent their asses to jail 😂😂

Naijatask:
Onee chan, sauce please 🥺

Trap status confirmed

Tfw your first two kisses ended in tears so now you can't help but be on guard when a woman makes a move.

Kaycee7:
Should've got that trademarked, Megumin

Steal!!!

Enugurangers:
Context:

Did then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld report that $2.3 trillion was missing/lost?

No, that's not true: Rumsfeld gave a speech on September 10, 2001 about the bureaucratic red tape in the U.S. government and his plans to update processes. He remarked that it was difficult to track financial transactions within the current system. He did not say that $2.3 trillion was missing.

Or maybe you were referring to another $2million dollars.

So "bureacratic red tape" caused all that money to go unaccounted for? Savlme shxt, different toilet.

Goodvibes007:
Same here. I have lost count of how many times Atiku has switched political parties. He was once a big wig in APC. Even PO who seems to be gaining popularity among younger Nigerians was just a few years ago Atiku's vice presidential candidate in PDP. The chance of him returning to PDP if he doesn't win the presidential election next month is high.

Political parties in Nigeria have no ideology, they are just a vehicle for members of the ruling class to chase more power. That's why they change parties like a Kardashian changes boyfriends.

I like the point you brought about PO. The guy clearly saw an opportunity with the youth of today and he has exploited it masterfully. This guy was in PDP for years so he definitely Isn't an outsider in any way.

Somehow Nigerians think they are going to solve all their problems by voting for an ex-governor who "helped" save money for his state using banks that he ran.

adamusuleiman1:
We believe Special Intelligence Officer Benalvino3 of Nairaland over the Pentagon.

Remember when the Pentagon lost $2 trillion?

IMAliyu2:
Something of a unifying narrative/identity can go a long way towards building a better country. Which is what current day Nigeria doesn't have.
A reason secessionism keeps growing I think.

An idea of a Nigeria has to be sold to the people, wiether it's a grand ideas of becoming a real life Wakanda, or something that's just an economic and security union of convenience.

What I learned from Nigerian history is that it wasn't always like that. During and after our struggle for independence.
There existed a sense of nationalism based off an anti colonial and anti imperial sentiment. A drive for self determination, as well as ideas of Pan-Africanism, was present in our political class.
That died out during the series of military coups (and discovery of oil) that came after independence, and left us with a generation of a cynical and power grabbing political class, with no ideas or ideals.

This is one of the reasons why diversity is not our strength. A homogenous population can strive to achieve a common goal, while a diverse population will degenerate to infighting (note that I'm not talking about race or ethnicity, I'm talking about culture and values).

Nationalism was our unifying goal during the fight for independence. Once we achieved that, we didn't even last a decade before the civil war.

Pan-Africanism is a pipe-dream when you can't even get different ethnic groups within the same state to stop trying to wipe each other out (e.g., Kaduna). Unless, of course, you decide to go full Genghis Khan and conquer all your neighbours, then go full Stalin and kill all dissenters.

benalvino3:
it is funny how Budaatum missed it
that's the beauty of trolling them. When you say a joke/mockery or something sarcastic, you still have to tell them because these days they don't seem to recognize those things.

That's the thing about holding ridiculous beliefs; you don't know when they're being ridiculed.

nani667

budaatum:
I'm struggling to make sense of the above.

Gender roles are not " made-up construct", but are the result of 'mummy carries baby, daddy provides protection', and were imposed on the couple, first through desire for one another and to propagate, and because a 9 month pregnant individual could not chase off wolfs.

Did you drink?

Poe's Law

benalvino3:
this World is crazy sha. People can't just be impartial.

This video goes even further into highlighting the bias inherent to ChatGPT die to its training model. It is a good watch and I hope people from all sides can acknowledge the issue at hand.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Klkr6PtYzI

1stGenAmerican:
One post from one user doesn’t hold weight to a credible source of information such as Syracuse University:
https://news.syr.edu/blog/2020/11/02/the-man-who-helped-turn-4chan-into-the-internets-racist-engine/
Here is another from a reliable source:

https://www.ceros.com/inspire/originals/4chan-rise-white-supremacy/

If you search the web, you’ll find hundreds of peer reviewed reports cited by thousands of scholars and accepted by universities all over the world that declare it to be a hotbed of racism and White Supremacy. Ask any IT professionals in advanced countries how many companies block it from
being accessed by their employees.

4chan is a 'white supremacist' site because it is mostly unmoderated. So all the Nazis went there after getting banned everywhere else. Back in the 2000s all the 4channers hated George Bush but ever since the internet became corporatized and sanitized, the Nazis moved in. They eventually got banned too they're containment boards for being, though.

Majority of the boards are pretty benign. I go there for cool wallpapers and fan art.

1stGenAmerican:
I said, “other unsavory people”. I have nothing against nerds (I’m a bit of a nerd myself) but if they frequent a White Supremacy toilet bowl like 4chan then yes, I consider them unsavory.

4chan is not a white supremacist site. Only the /Pol/ board has nazis and that only happened when they got banned from everywhere else. /Pol/, /b/, and /r9k/ are the containment boards for them.

The rest of the site is just guys with niche interests and waaay too much free time. You can literally get people to Photoshop the perfect anime wallpaper for you free of charge just because. Webcomic creators congregate on the /co/ boards to trade advice and get low pressure feedback.

Just look at this white supremacist, incels, turbo-nazi below:

Enugurangers:
Buhari and Emefiele are both Nigerians too. May God help us in Nigeria. Mr balablu is hoping to continue the "good" work of Buhari.

And when Balablu succumbs his dementia/crack addiction. We'll have Mr Boko Haram on hand to replace him.

Enugurangers:
Buhari and Emefiele are both Nigerians too. May God help us in Nigeria

Well, Buhari has cousins from Niger, soo...

Enugurangers:
Coolusername. I wasn't joking when I said Nigerians are very wicked and cruel. This post operators are your average Nigerian.

See screenshot below

I asked one why it was so expensive and she told me it's because they in turn, have to buy the money.

It's not the vendors who are wicked. It's Buhari and Emefiele

IjeBos:
That being said. I'm a hybrid. I'm an old school - new school type of guy. Comfortable with a woman being equal and yet still feel there are roles I should fulfil. And I still believe at times you have to meet force with greater force.

Gender roles are a made-up construct used to perpetuate white supremacy is a far right hegemony. To subscribe to these roles only serves to strengthen the patriarchial system which were allowed to proliferate through western imperialism. Gender only exist to give us guidelines to serve under the capitalist chokehold we live in.

And what do you mean by meeting force with greater force? Don't you know that The Force is female?

There Will Be Blood (2007)

"Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? Watch it. Now, my straw reaches acroooooooss the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I... drink... your... milkshake!

[sucking sound]

I drink it up!"

Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Daniel-Day Lewis and Paul Dano.

There Will Be Blood follows Daniel Plainview, a simple man who risks his life to discover oil on a plot of land and then becomes a rich man. Then he continues trying to become a richer man and then even richer, everything and everyone else be damned.

Plainview is a man so consumed by greed that he basically becomes a force of nature by himself. Daniel-Day Lewis perfectly portrays that picture, his performance is as outstanding as it is astounding. He will buy your land, he will take your son, he will drink your milkshake. Then he will rub your face in mud.

Paul Dano, as usual, nails his beta male, neuro-atypical role to a tee. He plays a man that would sell out his family for $500. He also plays a man that would use his position in the church for petty revenge, then come back and beg the same person for money. He serves God; he serves mammon.

There Will Be Blood is a movie without any action set pieces, or high-art visual fuckery going on—it doesn't need those distractions. For entertainment, the onus is solely on the script and the acting. Well, the script and acting just so happen to be damn near perfect.
The action is their lines, and visuals are their excursions and the pizzazz is in the way they move. Even the little kids are great in this one.

One of the best movies I've ever seen. I highly recommend it.

Enugurangers:
Where is the lie. Lol.
8k is now available though.

For you, it should be 88k.

1stGenAmerican:
I didn’t mention Nazis however it is the home of White Supremacy as well as thousands of Incels, nerds, and other unsavory people.
Two things can be true at once.

Nerds are unsavoury people?


So this is what racism feels like...

IjeBos:
Right. Generally what weak and insecure men do. Hence the attempt at bullying people while anonymous online where there are no repercussions.

Well actually, by portraying men who don't behave themselves as weak and insecure, you are perpetuating negative male stereotypes and promoting toxic masculinity. A man being physically or emotionally 'weak' should not be subjected to mockery.

However, western patriarchial society has normalized the mockery of men perceived to be weak which can lead to even more toxic masculinity, mental health problems, and at worst, suicide.

Furthermore, this stereotype is also harmful to transmen who are already seen as physically and emotionally weaker (which is deeply rooted in misogyny) and are more likely to harbour insecurities due to their dysphoria.

I urge you to stop using gendered terminology during your arguments. It is killing men and trans people.

Enugurangers:
The African mind is gullible and easily swayed. At some point, one would think that there were Russian BOTs on Nairaland propagating kremlin propaganda, but No, it's actually Africans (Nigerians) working OT doing the job free of charge for the kremlim.

Caught in 4k 📸

SlyFoxxEternal:
Chinese spy balloon found hovering over the US.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/chinese-spy-balloon-china-montana-pentagon-today-2023-02-02/#app

Well, we already know that Hunter likes to get high.

1stGenAmerican:
These same guys proudly discuss frequenting trash piles like 4Chan to participate in chatter. Let them tell users on 4chan, Quora, and racist areas of Reddit that they’re actual Nigerians living in Nigeria and they’ll get a quick lesson on what those people really think of them before they’re chased away.

People think that 4chan is full of Nazis but it's 90% nerds, incels, and closeted homosexuals.

IjeBos:
Black people who propagate racist tropes get me even more pressed. Esp. when they have bene made to understand the tropes they are using. The English lexicon is too large for you not to find other words to communicate the same thing. So, at this point you've made a purposeful choice to propagate language and thus ideas that will eventually hurt young black/brown children.

Yeah, because insulting the violent thug that tried to kill a Hispanic child is hurting black and brown children.

[quote author=Brokeloser post=120589150][/quote]Tbf she probably wasn't expecting all those shadow clones.

IjeBos:
Both of your comments get back to my point. You don't live in the US and so have little understanding of it's culture. If you did you would understand the reference to both. But your frame of reference is what you get in your conservative ecosystem. So you can sit here and say the most offensive things to African Americans without any cultural sensitivity of the lives they actually live or trash Omar without understanding the hypocrisy of that vote.
https://news.yahoo.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-tries-squirm-005914269.html

"Dindu nuffin" really got you pressed. Funny thing is that I was saying it in reference to a white man.

Also, MTG said some frankly insane things about Roger Kimmel, PG&E, and Rothschild Inc. While stupid, how did this become Jewish space lasers? Now, I won't be surprised if she actually said anti-Semitic stuff but this is a reach.

IjeBos:
It's odd, you drink from the well of people who hate people who look like you. And worse you spew their propaganda as if you think being around them they would see as that different/good Negro. Actually being Nigerian and the way they see Africa, they'd see you as some AIDS infected malnourished immigrant, from that shithole country. Good luck rationalizing to them you think it's a shithole country too.

Why is it always about white people for you? You are obsessed with whitey. You believe that I think the way I do because of white people, while you do everything to toe the line of acceptable black thought because you won't be seen as pandering to whites.

I don't care about their race, tribe, religion, gender, sexuality, or politics. As long as there's mutual respect, we can put our differences aside and vibe. All I care about is family and friends.

Nigeria's leaders have always looked like us but they don't love us. The different tribes don't love each other. Christians don't love Muslims and vice versa. They use our different identities to pit us against each other. I don't care for it and I won't participate in the bullshxt.

IjeBos:
As to Ilhan Omar, what is your guiding thought process as thy she was kicked off the committee? Is it people who have said antisemitic things shouldn't have committee assignments? If so, explain why Ms. Jewish Space Lazer MTG and Mr. White National Gosar have committee assignments. I don't mind discussing with anyone. But those discussions have to be rooted in intellectual honesty. And a lot from the alt right sycophants seem to be rooted in simple sound bites.

I know MTG is dumb asf but where did she mention "Jewish space lasers"?

SlyFoxxEternal:
But on a more serious note though, you raise some very important points. The media has gotten so polarized these days that almost every platform is radically aligned with one side either right or left. Nairaland is one of the few places you can still get a fair balance of opinions from people across the political spectrum and state your own opinions without fear of censorship. The only thing you have to fear, as you rightly pointed out, is getting scolded and belittled by these tyrannical Akata liberals who have zero tolerance for any opinion that does not fully comply with their radical leftist perspectives.

Nairaland reminds me of the good old days of the internet. You can speak your mind and get the true pulse of the people. Where you can call someone a 'figgernaggot' and they'd just insult your mother in return, rather than get you banned and fired from your job.

SlyFoxxEternal:
I am honest about myself and where I stand. I am a staunch conservative and social traditionalist. I and very troubled by the increasing radicalization of the Democrat party especially on issues such as race, gender, education, entitlements and sexuality. I wouldn’t call myself a “Trumpist” but I supported him fully on policy - I never defended his personality but I feel liberals get unnecessary antsy about his silliness to the point of an irrational derangement and obsession which I always find funny. My favorite US President is Ronald Reagan and I am rooting for Ron DeSantis in 2024.

I sincerely believe that the culture war is a distraction for both establishment Dems and Republicans use to score points with their supporters while the middle class continues to suffer. Kind of like how in Nigeria, the ruling class has divided us by tribe and religion so that we can elect the next murderous thief because of the name they give the Jewish deity that they follow.

SlyFoxxEternal:
These are my general political inclinations but I am never under any pretense that I know it all. I am willing to listen to anyone who can rebut any of my opinions calmly and respectfully without getting all emotional and abusive like a woman on a particularly heavy period and that is my major problem with the Akata liberals on this thread. They haven’t mastered the art of nuanced and civil debate. Probably because they know their ideas are so flawed they subconsciously try to compensate with unnecessary aggression.

You have to understand that these people are used to screaming down their opposition along with a bunch of other like-minded people all while fully backed by the social media platform. Furthermore, some people have replaced their religion with leftist ideology.

SlyFoxxEternal:
Whatever the case I appreciate people like you who don’t fit in any box and can help bring a more balance perspective to this cesspool of a political thread. I have also noticed you get into fights with people on both sides but you are typically very respectful and tolerant in your engagements. That’s a good thing that a few people here could learn from you.

I just don't have it in me to get too upset over comments by faceless people on the internet. Maybe it's because of my time on 4chan (mostly just the anime and comics boards) or whatever but I just don't really care if someone tells me to kill myself on the internet. Like, sometimes I'll find myself typing multiple paragraphs in response to an argument only to delete everything and drop a single joke and go somewhere else to talk about anime.

Occasionally though, I do little trolling...