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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 4:12pm On May 19
tctrills:
No, you are wrong but then, let me use your analogy.
Choices we make at puberty affects our adulthood.
So if a girl chooses to become pregnant and become a mother of 4 in her teen years, would you be surprised if she doesn't complete school?
So what choices are we are a race making now in our puberty?
If you know the bold to be true, you have been wasting our time arguing against the obvious.
Can you also discount the circumstances of birth?

Abi it doesn't matter if someone was a homeless orphan and you compare his struggle to that of Dangote's child?
And if he reminds you that he was a homeless orphan you shout "excuses!"
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 4:09pm On May 19
raumdeuter:
60yrs ago and beyond at the worst times for American blacks they stayed with their women until the Left started incentivizing the breakdown of the family with their No man at home policy

An here we are 50yrs later, the demography with the highest kids born out of wedlock
Why.
Answer.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 4:09pm On May 19
raumdeuter:
You must always be a victim, You mentioned Atacama Peruvians, Are they also white good, black bad?

Once you have a hammer, everything becomes a nail. Your hammer of racism and victimhood cures everything
Oh, and Peru is a first world developed country doing better than African countries today right?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 4:08pm On May 19
raumdeuter:
There are multiple researches that show a direct relationship between a single parent household and poverty
And what is the cause of this social dynamic?
Or did God create blacks with that unique genetic predilection for single parenthood and absentee fatherism?
Is that your explanation?
God made us so?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 4:05pm On May 19
raumdeuter:
WHy will I give excuse for whites? They are not my business. I am sure white people who care are dealing with issues in their community
Unless you dont believe in cause and effect, even for them, there is a cause, a reason, and explanation for everything. That is the law of cause and effect. Unless you believe in voodoo.

So when you say things like - oh the problem is absentee husbands. Please follow up with "Why?" Rather than make it appear as though God created blackmen with that unique tendency.

When tctrills says oh, its leadership and corruption, he should do the same - ask why such poor leadership and why such corruption, rather than make it appear as though it comes naturally with black skin.

And when someone is giving you well researched scientific answers, all you can do is throw up your hands and shout "excuses!"
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 3:57pm On May 19
raumdeuter:
Just tell them racism is why they are not doing well in anything. Racism is the reason why 70% of kids are born to single mothers
I have literally written epistles pointing out a hoard of interlocking factors.
You are the one who lazily wants to stick with white good, black bad.

We are telling the story of man's life and I am looking at it from birth to childhood to puberty, to adolescence, to young adulthood, to full adulthood, to middle age, to early old age, to advanced old age to death.

You, by contrast are determined to analyze only his puberty and discount the everything before that and everything after that.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 3:55pm On May 19
tctrills:
They are very correct so how come our so many necessities in Africa today is not leading to meaningful invention.

And again it too simplistic to say environment influences lifestyle and culture over time. Many things influence culture and lifestyle.
I have literally written epistles pointing out a hoard of interlocking factors.
You are the one who lazily wants to stick with white good, black bad.

We are telling the story of man's life and I am looking at it from birth to childhood to puberty, to adolescence, to young adulthood, to full adulthood, to middle age, to early old age, to advanced old age to death.

You, by contrast are determined to analyze only his puberty and discount everything before that and everything after that.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 3:52pm On May 19
GracieX3:
Lol.... i remember how they didn't even answer or criticise the wealth that white south Africans gathered from apartheid- majority of the farmland and big businesses....
You can say that again!

Not a whimper!

But they will be quick to tell you how useless the black South Africans are for not creating Eldorado in 30 years.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 3:51pm On May 19
TV01:
1. But environment and climate are not wholly determinative and have largely been overcome. And neither of these limit how civilised a peoples can become
We are telling the story of man's life and I am looking at it from birth to childhood to puberty, to adolescence, to young adulthood, to full adulthood, to middle age, to early old age, to advanced old age to death.

You, by contrast are determined to analyze only his puberty and discount the everything before that and everything after that.

2. Not necessarily. And certainly not at all in many cases. Why did we need trains? Or Space travel. This saying which you repeat often is not science or fact.
Preponderantly. One cannot over estimate for example, the amount of innovations WW2 ushered in. We have that war to thank for even the internet we are using.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 3:47pm On May 19
TV01:
Nope. I am saying the FD of the fuoola peoples means they will not achieve your desired state of modernity under their own steam.

And, unless you can show otherwise, I see nothing natal that will cause the fuoola FD to incline towards what is required to advance to modernity under it's own steam. Simply citing time does not cut it. External intervention perhaps...hmmm...let's not go there.

Please note, the expansionist mindset of the fuoola was extant prior to colonialism. The Yoruba have had to fight them off prior and the emirate of Ilorin stands as testament to their gee.hard.eest mindset. Does the fact that hundreds of years later, despite all the advances and global visibility of what modernity could look like, the fuoola, still insist on the medieval ways - spreading across the sahel as we speak.


TV
The Fulani are not the only tribe in Nigeria and even within the Fulani the reprobate and violent tendency is not the only tendency.
I asked you a question about where black Africans will be in a century, its not sufficient to point to one violent tendency in one tribe and end your analysis there, concluding that on that account, the entirety of black Africa will either stagnate or regress.

There is progress everywhere if only you are not prejudiced to see it.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 3:39pm On May 19
raumdeuter:
While they are true
Why has environment and necessity not worked in our favor in Africa to create inventions and prosperous lifestyle?
Very good that you admit those statements are true.

It's not hard to decipher. It's as simple as saying that someone in hot weather will have darker skin and someone in cold weather will have lighter skin.
Politics › Re: “You Like Prison Small?” — Sowore And El-Rufai Interact In Court by DeepSight(m): 3:34pm On May 19
WizardOfNG:
Lol. Sowore the biggest drama king, joker and fifth columnist in Nigeria.

He understands the script well. We are in a social media and visual culture age.

The more you make yourself visually controversial, the more majority of human beings will have strong opinions about you leading to popularity and trending visibility. Even if you are totally empty and worthless as Sowore is.
.Bagudu.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 3:28pm On May 19
GracieX3:
So as everyone can see. Tctrills and Ramdeuter have no solution to improve the lives of blacks.

Just blaming and condemning blacks.
What is irritating is if you flip the script by pointing out anything negative about white populations, they will have thousands of "defenses."

Not excuses oh.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 3:13pm On May 19
tctrills:
Same thing,
You have presented your excuses using your links but once I produce a counter, instead of you to consider it and maybe present an answer, you get overcome with anger 🤬.
Funny chap
Look, if you can tell me these two statements are false, then good enough.

1. Environment influences lifestyle and culture over time.

2. Necessity is the mother of invention.

Just say these are lies, and let us rest.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 3:12pm On May 19
raumdeuter:
Excuses are like shoe sizes you will find one that fits. Later you will complain about the size of the sand grains

EXTRACTED:

​While both the Atacama/Peruvian Desert system (often collectively referred to as the Peruvian coastal desert) and the Sahara Desert are hyper-arid environments, they possess vastly different ecological profiles, soil compositions, and "fertility" dynamics.
​When comparing their fertility, we have to look at two distinct dimensions: agricultural potential (with human intervention) and natural ecological productivity.

​1. Atacama / Peruvian Coastal Desert
​Despite being one of the driest places on Earth, the Peruvian desert strip is an agricultural miracle when managed properly, driven by unique geographical and geological factors.

​Soil Composition: The soil is primarily composed of mineral-rich volcanic ash, alluvial deposits from the Andes, and sand. It lacks organic matter but is incredibly rich in phosphorus, potassium, and trace minerals.

​The Andean Advantage: The desert is crisscrossed by over 50 rivers flowing down from the Andes Mountains. This creates fertile river valleys (oases) that cut through the arid landscape.

​The Humboldt Current & Camanchaca: The cold ocean current creates a thick, dense fog called camanchaca. This fog provides moisture that sustains unique, specialized ecosystems called Lomas—isolated islands of vegetation in the desert that bloom with flowers and shrubs purely from fog moisture.

​Agricultural Output: Because the soil is a blank canvas rich in minerals, the introduction of modern drip irrigation (using trapped Andean runoff) has turned the Peruvian desert into a global agricultural powerhouse, yielding high-value exports like asparagus, blueberries, avocados, and grapes.

​2. The Sahara Desert
​The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world. Its sheer scale means its fertility is highly fragmented, resting on ancient geological remnants and subterranean water.

​Soil Composition: The Sahara is largely covered by shifts of sand dunes (ergs), stone plateaus (hamadas), and gravel plains (regs). The soil is heavily weathered, highly alkaline, and generally lacks the fresh volcanic mineral wealth found in Peru.

​Fossil Aquifers & Oases: Natural fertility in the Sahara is almost entirely localized around oases, which are fed by massive underground fossil aquifers (like the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System). Where this water reaches the surface, the soil is highly productive, supporting date palms, figs, olives, and citrus.

​The Dust Export (Global Fertility): Ironically, while the Sahara's soil isn't highly fertile in situ, it is a major source of fertility for the rest of the planet. High winds lift millions of tons of nutrient-rich Saharan dust across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust is loaded with phosphorus and iron, acting as a crucial fertilizer for the Amazon Rainforest and marine phytoplankton in the Atlantic.
​

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 3:08pm On May 19
raumdeuter:
Excuses are like shoe sizes you will find one that fits. Later you will complain about the size of the sand grains
Look, if you can tell me these two statements are false, then good enough.

1. Environment influences lifestyle and culture over time.

2. Necessity is the mother of invention.

Just tell me these are lies so we can all rest the issue.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Fury As Donald Trump Sues US Government, Settles Case For $1.8 Billion by DeepSight(m): 3:02pm On May 19
Mattswaggz:
Provided the victims deserve the compensation they're getting from the money then there would be no need for all the so called "fury".....let me understand this case well though elsewhere because if it's the democrats anyone is following then you'll likely be misled because they'll complain about almost everything Trump does to discredit his government and gain more popularity and public sympathy.
Do you think there is a problem of conflict of interest when a president negotiates such with a department he supervises.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 2:58pm On May 19
raumdeuter:
The left, the party of excuses and finger pointing, Nothing is ever their fault
Of course you will not stop to ask if there were Native tribes even living in the Sahara at all, would you?

And God forbid you task yourself to compare the nature of both deserts.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 2:56pm On May 19
tctrills:
Lol.
This always happens and I always love when it happens
Superior argument hits you and you throw tantrums.
It's not anything superior. It's the fact that you don't read and don't think that is annoying.

I have given you people scientific links. Are those scientists making excuses for Africa? Are they leftist politicians?

Look I can't think for you if you can't think for yourself.

I give you lucid explanations about how culture evolves in the temperate zone and you ask why the same doesn't happen in an arid desert where no one lives in the first place.

It is exasperating.

Look, if you can tell me these two statements are false, then good enough.

1. Environment influences lifestyle and culture over time.

2. Necessity is the mother of invention.

Just say these are lies, and let us rest.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 2:48pm On May 19
raumdeuter:
Was the weather in Europe different then? Didnt they have winter or snow
Pls ask basilico. Something tells me the same answer will land better in your mind from him.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 2:47pm On May 19
raumdeuter:
Environmental factors are responsible for lack of growth..

Now Sahara desert is also harsh? Another excuses drop

Excuses are like shoe sizes, you ill always find one that fits
It's not my problem if logic is your problem.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 2:45pm On May 19
tctrills:
Mr excuses.
Did you know that native tribes in Peru developed tech to farm in the desert? Why does it have to be only excuses for Africa?
You know what. This is actually beginning to annoy me. Don't mention me again. Thanks.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 2:37pm On May 19
tctrills:
This excuse is no longer valid. People living in the Sahara and Kalahari should also develop methods of agriculture in the desert and prevention of excessive heat that should force them into an organized lifestyle and efficient methods as a matter of survival

But then these excuses no longer make sense in the modern world.

We see what Israel is doing with the Negev, why are we not doing same?
Everything has a ripple effect over time. The barren Sahara is not the same as the Temperate Zone which is habitable and yields. What is possible with modernization is different from what shaped culture for millennia already. Every time you people keep comparing apples for oranges. Pls what excuse did Europe have for stagnating for one thousand years, tell me. I am sick and tired of you calling logic excuses. Enjoy yasef.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 2:28pm On May 19
raumdeuter:
Thats the manner which a life of excuses come up. Some works for some, and it doesnt work for some
Just try using your grey matter. I didn't invent those academic studies and they were not done by leftist politicians either. They are done by seasoned anthropologists.

It's simple madness to deny that the environment influences lifestyle and to call the results excuses.
Politics › Re: El-Rufai's Wife, Asiya, Protests His Continued Detention (Video) by DeepSight(m): 2:26pm On May 19
GloriousGbola:
https://thenationonlineng.net/dadiyatas-wife-im-sad-about-el-rufais-son-mocking-my-husbands-abduction/



where is deepsight to twist the knife in my back cheesy cheesy cheesy grin grin
Oh I guess this is about my comments on people being arrested for what they post or say.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 2:22pm On May 19
tctrills:
Africa has about 30% of the world's unused arable land.
About 30% of mineral resources. Some of the best climate for renewables and a demographic that the rest of the world should envy
You are not thinking deeply.

You talk about culture as though it came from nowhere.

Look, people who live in a place where the land will freeze for half the year will necessarily invent methods of both heat and preservation and will be forced into an organized lifestyle and efficient methods as a matter of survival as opposed to people with fertile land and clement weather all year round.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 2:17pm On May 19
TV01:
The one he doesn't believe in grin grin grin.

TV
Yahweh is not God.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 2:16pm On May 19
raumdeuter:
What has the harsh Sahara desert one for us in Africa?
I explained the effect that had in locking us away from the connected old world which spanned the Mediterranean world all the way to China.

You have to be studious and thoughtful please. Not every harsh environment works. Some would kill you off. Some would render the whole race extinct. Some would be just harsh enough to force you to organise yourself.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 1:38pm On May 19
TV01:
Thanks for capturing my post in full. It's been banned, as was I.

There is no gainsaying the forced alliance of the Nigerian nations was always going to prove problematic and almost certainly cause long-term harm.

However, likewise, you have to admit, the level of FD or civilisational quality (that would lend itself to driving a modern state) has nothing to do with the colonial invaders? Indeed, ill-thought out amalgamation apart, they would have left some artefacts that could aid that drive forward, no?

This is not a user case or journey experience. Just another claim. Why is it ludicrous, what evidence or data (apart references to long ago empires grin), can you furnish to predict otherwise? Is there a blueprint we are tracking too? Signs of significant change that cannot be denied?

The world does not "evolve" in lockstep. And as I noted, there are trickledown, and crossover effects from the developed to the less developed. That does not remove real obstacles to development in certain regions.

The only solutions are one, a resolute defence. But by whom and on the basis of what? To what aim, other than survival and perhaps the chance to disaggregate, which would be most welcome and certainly make modern statehood more achievable for some of the constituents. The other is foreign intervention, which would hopefully reduce casualties and fallout, and hasten any split. But who wants that? Even as the foola issue is currently spreading across the Sahel.

"Starter for 10". A phrase from the quiz show university challenge. Used as an entry\warm-up question.


TV
You are essentially saying that black people are good for nothing and will end up in a rotten regressive mess even given long stretches of time such as centuries to build up.

Do you understand that this is your conclusion?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 1:32pm On May 19
bemeruca:
Climate and geography are your craziest excuses.
You think I invented them? These things are well studied.

1. Harsh climate change was the primary driver in the development of civilization, according to new research by the University of East Anglia.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Severing-Climate-and-Civilization-35804.shtml

2. "The archaeologial and paleoenvironmental evidence is consistent with the notion that the development of complex societies in the Middle Holocene was largely the consequence of the responses of the precursor societies to deteriorating environmental conditions associated principally with the orbitally-driven weakening and southward retreat of the northern hempisphere monsoon belt."

http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2006/11/17/accidental_civilization

3. Climate change helped the Incas build civilisation

Their warfare, building and agricultural skills may have been impressive but, according to scientists in Peru, the Incas would have been nothing without good weather induced by climate change.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/5916353/Climate-change-helped-the-Incas-build-civilisation.html

4. Climate Changes Affect Ancient Civilizations: The role of climate in the development trajectory of the Near East, Greece, and Rome is discussed here -

http://www.suite101.com/content/climate-changes-affect-ancient-civilizations-a107526

5. Climate's Role in Ancient Chinese Civilization

A suddenly cold climate about 5,500 years ago coincided with the advent of ancient Chinese civilization, implying some relationship between the two events, Chinese scientists said Monday.

http://www.china.org.cn/english/2003/Feb/55500.htm

...One doesn't have to be a genius to know these things. The environment always has consequences on lifestyle and necessity is the mother of invention.

One has to be insane to deny either of these two statements.

Cc: TV01, basilico, raumdeuter, Tctrills, cococandy
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 12:08pm On May 19
TV01:
Good question. In short, hold or continued steady decline at best, wholesale failures and collapses at worst. There are probably a number of ways and various considerations to model this. And there will always be a degree of speculation and the "unknown, unknowns".

Taking a point from fairly recent history and looking at how things have changed more broadly and considering specific events, I personally see little or no reason to expect anything other than mostly regression - the questions to me are, how bad and how fast?

Let's hone in on a single phenom. Would you agree that the Fula, driven be notions of ethnic and sectarian supremacy have barely concealed expansionist desires? Their aim is for what I will call "Uthmania", built on what is Nigeria.

The pogrom is already underway. Yet Nigerian leaders are arguing semantics! Whether or not it is a "Xtian genocide". What it is is a gee.hard.dicide against every non-fula-moose.slim. With undeniable indications of state sponsorship.

This will not end unless the fula are vanquished or largely subdued, or they succeed. They have swept across the north, through the middle belt and are now insurgent in the more urban and cosmopolitan regions of the nation.

In a very real sense, I am happy for the best solution to prevail from a marketplace of worldviews, philosophies, belief-systems and ideas. But all the fula have to offer is a Nigerian shaped grazing area with the attendant share-ria laws and feudal overlords. Not even modern day style ranching. How will that lead to the modern day nation you claim all roads lead to?

You often refer to the wars and battles that developed nations have had to fight. Now there is one on your doorstep - not for progress, or advance, or for rights, but for survival! And it's quite clear that there is no stomach for it. An existential threat and there is more written about detty December!

Unless it is headed off at the pass, this is going to metastasize into civil war and chaos. At best, persist as low level outbreaks of carnage. It recommenced almost 20 years ago. When and how will it end? Or is this in your view not happening? or just one of the many things that must happen over a long time before Nigeria morphs into Sweden?
Your concern about the Fulani is well founded. I cannot resist pointing out that it was not black people that joined us at the hip with them. The mistake of 1914 thus haunts us and by your prediction will haunt us for a century more. Thus, you yourself concede to the over arching negative effects that sometimes can be seen from Colonialism!

Nonetheless it is ludicruous to imagine that we will only either stagnate or regress a hundred years from now.

Such a pessimistic view point is not rooted in any reasonable view of how the world is evolving. That sounds more like deep seated prejudice against all things African. Like Mrs. Gates saying that Africa would be full of corpses on the streets during COVID.

I don't believe we ever got into the details, it was mostly sweeping assertions, grand claims and optimism? Hopefully the starter for 10 above helps.


TV
What is 10 above?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 11:32am On May 19
cococandy:
Right? Besides black people are just naturally stipud right?. Except for the four and half of you on this thread.

Such that when black folks pass rigorous exams and get into medical school, we shouldn’t just believe it. Why would we. The facts in the white books don’t match that .

We need to sue them. Because how on earth can the naturally stipud black people finish their prerequisites, get premed degrees, pass the MCAT and get into med school?
They all agree with Kirk that all black Doctors don't deserve their degrees. ALL

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