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The red pill term was derived from the 1999 movie; The Matrix. In one scene the main character, Neo was offered a choice between the red pill and the blue pill. The red pill had the power to show him the “truth of reality”, and the blue pill would lead him back to ignorance, preventing him from seeing the harsh truth of reality.

This term has become popular amongst social media manosphere, consisting of a bunch of men who believe that “taking the red pill” shows them how to become “real men” and how women should be treated. It is dangerous and really just a guideline to misogyny.

Apart from that, I will be listing a bunch of reasons why this ideology makes no sense whatsoever and reducing it to what it actually is; misogynistic rubbish.

Now, there’s probably some guys who associate themselves with “redpillers” and use their terms because they don’t see it for what it is but sorry to break it to you.

Getting into it.

The belief that women lose “high quality men” as they age:
Now, one would have to carry out research to come up with this “fact” right? Secondly, what you consider “high quality” might not be high quality to a woman. For example, these “redpillers” believe they’re high quality men, but to me they’re not. So, while you’re thinking “high quality men” stopped talking to a woman, she’s probably thinking that she lost low quality men and that’s good for her. It’s called preference. Also, for every woman who would tell you men stopped talking to her as she grew older, there’s another that’ll tell you more men have been talking to her as she grew older because our realities are not the same.

Women have a sexual market value that declines as they age;
Once again, a “fact” that wasn’t based on research.
First of, human beings are not inherently sexual. You chose to reduce women to sexual objects and that’s one you. So no. Women do not have a sexual market value because we do not even exist for your pleasure in the first place. Not sure how the male ego will handle that.

Alpha males;
This term was initially used by an American biologist to describe the social behavior IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, not in humans. The term was later adopted by the media to describe rich and influential men like Bill Gates and Elon Musk, but then it was discarded and readopted by this manosphere. In reality, there’s no such thing as an alpha male. If they were, he would be leading a pack of men and not trying to dominate women with force and aggression. You’re not an alpha, you’re a clown.

The “real man” and the “real woman”;
the dominant/ masculine male and the submissive/ feminine female.
Dominance is not a male trait, just as submission is not a female trait. These are individual traits. If it’s not there, it’s not there. We see feminine men who love to wear “female clothes” and put on makeup just as we see women who “walk like men”. They exist and they’re normal, no matter how we want to convince ourselves otherwise. This alone debunks the idea that a real man is one who is masculine and dominant, while a real woman is submissive and feminine. The existence of a “real man” implies the existence of a fake man. Who’s a fake man then? No one is in the position to tell anyone they’re not good enough to be called men or women. You cannot take anyone’s manhood/womanhood away from them.

Women lose value as they age. Men gain value as they age;
Men become more attractive to women while women become less attractive to men. Maybe your taste in women is just rooted in pedophilia? If you say it’s because men make money and become independent as they age...well, that’s the same way that young guys chase after and marry rich old white ladies. So we can agree it’s not about gender but about wealth? Okay.

I think that women should try as much a possible to avoid anyone who uses terms associated with the red pill because they’re dangerous and sexist. In reality, they’ll try to hide it just to get you( because they’ll only bold enough to be that with other men) but eventually it manifests.

How to tell:

1. They use terms like alpha male, beta male, sigma, simp, sexual market value (smv), prime, high value, masculine male etc

2. Constantly talking down single mothers, divorced women, black women(comparing us with other races)

3. Constantly harassing women online and threatening with singleness; “you’re going to be an old cat lady living all alone”

4. Constantly trying to justify women’s bad experiences; “men are allowing bad things happen to women because they want equal rights”

5. Constantly trying to prove that men are better than women; “man is the prize”

6. Constantly making fun of men who are nice to women. Calling them simps or weak men. For example, Prince Harry is a simp for protecting his wife against racism and choosing her over a royal position. Russell Wilson is a simp for marrying a single mother etc

7. Constantly trying to debunk feminism; you’d find them in movements like men’s rights activists. Men Going Their Own Way(MGTOW)...they’re all a part of the manosphere.

8. Encouraging predatory behaviors. Because they believe women have a sexual market value, they encourage older men to target girls who are way younger. Also because they believe younger girls are easy to manipulate and brainwash.

9. All they talk about are sex, relationships, marriage. What type of men girls like to bang, and what type of men(simps) girls don’t like to bang. Almost as if they have been girls before lol

10. Constantly preaching to women about what they should do with their lives. You’ll see them telling women not to choose their career over men because men don’t really like independent women. Or that women should choose marriage before anything because “one day you’ll start losing eggs”.

11. Shaming women for natural things like menopause and aging. Also shaming women for wanting love Eg “old newspaper”, “you’ll end up in Shiloh”

12. Projecting their fears on women. Eg “you’ll die alone”, “no one will marry you”

13. Refer to women as females. They hardly ever say “girls” or “women”

I personally think that redpillers are closeted Incels. They hate women because they incapable of finding a romantic partner (of their choice), and so they become the thing that they think will bring them women; masculine, aggressive, spiteful...because “girls prefer bad boys” right? It’s ironic that they constantly sh*t on “simps” for being nice to girls but at the same time, become the thing they believe girls will choose over simps. I also think they’re insecure about their masculinity. They believe there’s only one way to be a man and they must achieve that, and they’ll cuss out other men who refuse to be that way.

Not sure this is a good way to end this but...thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

Iyaebe:
Femi:Unrepentant cheats. Chuks:Never believe these ones,they are smooth operators. All those ones that bears Sly:They don't only cheat but also patronize prostitutes. Tony:The annoying thing about these ones is that they are always very ugly but chase everything under the skirt. Joe:They are always in one mess or another,they always end up having babymamas all over the place,they are very irresponsible. Sorry I can't mention one name.

SmartPolician:
Just look how Nairaland has ruined most of our brains. People are more interested in names than the news.

If a people refuse to identify with you, why impose yourself on them? Self-worth should mean something to these Igbo boys on Nairaland.

timesup234:
Vagabond Israel days are numbered

Cholls:
My brother I find this article really insightful.


Under the cover of counterterrorism, AFRICOM is beefing up Nigeria’s military to ensure the free flow of oil to the West, and using the country as a proxy against China’s influence on the continent.


Last month, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times. It might as well have been written by the Pentagon. Buhari promoted Brand Nigeria, auctioning the country’s military services to Western powers, telling readers that Nigeria would lead Africa’s “war on terror” in exchange for foreign infrastructure investment. “Though some believe the war on terror [WOT] winds down with the US departure from Afghanistan,” he says, “the threat it was supposed to address burns fiercely on my continent.”

With Boko Haram and Islamic State operating in and near Nigeria, pushing a WOT narrative is easy. But counterterror means imperial intervention. So, why is the Pentagon really interested in Nigeria, a country with a GDP of around $430 billion – some $300 billion less than the Pentagon’s annual budget – a population with a 40 percent absolute poverty rate, and an infant mortality rate of 74 deaths per 1,000 live births, compared to 5.6 per 1,000 in the US?

A US Naval Postgraduate School doctoral thesis from over a decade ago offers a plausible explanation: the Gulf of Guinea, formed in part by Nigeria’s coastline, “has large deposits of hydrocarbons and other natural resources.” It added: “There is now a stiff international competition among industrialized nations including the United States, some European countries, China, Japan, and India.”

Since then, the US has been quietly transforming Nigeria’s police and military into a neo-colonial force that can support missions led by the US Africa Command (AFRICOM). Buhari’s offer makes US involvement in Nigeria appear as if Nigeria is asking for help, when in fact the stage is already set for AFRICOM.

The Pentagon’s broader aim is to stop China and Russia from gaining a foothold in the continent. In the meantime, it aims to crush any and all opposition groups that disrupt energy supplies so that oil giants can continue exploiting Nigeria’s resources.

A brief history of a complex country

It’s important to get an idea of Nigeria’s ethnic and regional complexities. The country’s 206 million people, nearly half of whom are Muslim and nearly half Christian, live north of the equator in West Africa. Their country has 36 states, seven of which are coastal. The country borders Cameroon in the east, Benin in the west, Chad in the northeast, and Niger in the north and northwest.

A US Strategic Studies Institute report from the mid-‘90s describes Nigeria as “an artificial state created according to colonial exigencies rather than ethnic coherence.” Its fragility explains the country’s susceptibility to ethnic, religious, and class warfare. The majority of Nigerian Muslims are Sunni, but Islam in the country spans the spectrum, from Sufism to Salafism. The Christian population is distributed among the Protestant majority as well as Anglicans, Baptists, Evangelicals, Catholics, Methodists, and Roman Catholics. Most of Nigeria’s Muslims live in the north in 12 states whose laws are based on sharia.

Nigeria boasts hundreds of languages and ethnicities, the largest groups being the Hausa (who make up 30 percent of the population), Yoruba (15.5), Igbo (a.k.a., Ibo 15.2), and Fulani (6 percent). There are, of course, exceptions, but in general the Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri peoples tend to be Muslim and the Igbo, Ijaw, and Ogoni Christian. Islam and Christianity tend to be mixed among the Yoruba. During the late-19th century “Scramble for Africa,” the British colonized the region, Christianizing the south and leaving in place the Islamic political structures in the north both for convenience and as a useful divide and rule technique.

Black gold, British rule

Drawing up “contracts” for energy companies, the Foreign Office (FO) created a monopoly for Anglo-Persian oil (later BP) and particularly for Shell. Prospecting contracts were awarded by the FO in the late-1930s, but it was as late as 1956 that financially viable amounts of black gold were struck. Most of the country’s oil is in the southern, Niger Delta region populated by the Ijaw and Ogoni peoples, hence there is little militant Islam in Nigeria’s illicit oil sector. Shell operations began in Ogoniland in 1958.

Nigeria gained slow and painful independence from Britain in 1960. Seven years later, armed Igbo fought a war of secession in the oil-rich south to try to form their own country, the Republic of Biafra. Under a One Nigeria policy, the British supported the central regime of General Yakubu Gowon during the Biafra War (1967-70). Fighting and blockade  led to three million deaths. Biafra failed to secede.

The UK Labour government’s Commonwealth Minister, George Thomas, explained at the time: “The sole immediate British interest in Nigeria is that the Nigerian economy should be brought back to a condition in which our substantial trade and investment in the country can be further developed, and particularly so we can regain access to important oil installations.”

As the British Empire declined, the US gradually pursued the same policy in Nigeria. At first, the US considered supporting Biafra.

The Kennedy administration initiated $170 million in economic and military spending in Nigeria under a plan that continued until 1966, into the Johnson administration. William Haven North, who served as the Director for Central and West African Affairs for the US Agency of International Development (USAID) said: “The issue of supporting Biafra was also tied up with the question of oil interests; the major part of the oil reserves in Nigeria were in the Eastern Region with substantial American oil company investments.” In 1978, the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet began the regular exercises in the Gulf of Guinea that continue to the present.


Indigenous activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was arrested on phony charges and executed by a Nigerian military functioning as a private army for the Shell oil company

Enter Uncle Sam

In 1990, the Nigeria-dominated Economic Community of West African States (ECO) established a military wing, the so-called Monitoring Group (ECOMOG). The George H.W. Bush administration contributed $100 million. The succeeding Clinton White House said that for so-called peace-keeping operations in other African countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone, “Nigeria provided most of the ‘muscle’.” At this point, the seeds were sown for Nigeria’s use as a delegate for US wars in Africa.

By the dawn of the new millennium, the 3rd Special Forces Group (Army Command) was training Nigerian battalions to assist United Nations support missions. The Nigerian military enjoyed tens of millions of dollars-worth of US weapons.

Meanwhile, indigenous activists suffering under oil spills and environmental destruction established the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. Nine of this group’s leaders, including Ken Saro-Wiwa, were later arrested on trumped up charges and executed by the national military that had been funded by Shell to act as its own private army.

The murders sparked international outrage and activists successfully pressured the US to terminate military aid. General Sani Abacha, under whose dictatorship the Ogoni Nine were hanged, established a Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) to fight both activists and gangs. The MNJTF was later centered in Chad and used as a base from which to fight Boko Haram.

In 1999, Nigeria ended its military rule, at least on paper. By the mid-2000s, Human Rights Watch was wrote that, under the façade of parliamentary democracy, “the conduct of many public officials and government institutions is so pervasively marked by violence and corruption as to more resemble criminal activity than democratic governance.”

With the Ogoni, Ijaw, and other Niger Delta peoples crushed with force, some turned to violence. Following lobbying by Shell, Nigeria’s old colonial master, the UK, began spending taxpayer money on military operations to counter armed groups: £12 million between 2001 and 2014, when Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) co-authored their report. CAAT documents the UK exportation of nearly £500m-worth of weapons to Nigeria in that period, including missiles and grenades. It cites increased UK arms exports as a direct reason for the failure of the southern ceasefire. UK “security contractors” including Control Risks, Erinys, Executive Outcomes, and Saladin Security were embedded with mobile police units to crush protestors.

Nigeria and the “war on terror”

Western propaganda paid less attention to Shell’s systemic violence against the Ogoni and other peoples, focusing instead on the more headline-grabbing resistance, such as high-profile ransom kidnappings and pipeline disruption. State oppression in the drier, less fertile north, meanwhile, fed the narrative pushed by Islamic groups: that Western culture is toxic.

Founded in 2002 and led by Mohammed Yusuf who was later executed by the state, Boko Haram is officially called the Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad (Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād). It emerged in the northeastern city, Maidugari, close to Chad and Cameroon, where it set up semi-autonomous communities. Religious graduates who studied in Sudan attempted to form similar communes but were attacked by the police. In 2009, Boko Haram members allegedly fired at a police station in Bauchi. The government response was to trigger civil war.

The MNJTF mentioned above, is described as “notorious” in a British House of Commons Library report. It was reactivated, this time to fight the Islamists. The report also notes how the Nigerian Armed Forces terrorized the civilian population with raids, arrests, and indiscriminate shelling.

The UK ramped up its training of Nigeria’s military while the US used Chad as a base for its “war on terror” operations: the Pan-Sahel Initiative (covering Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger) and the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (which included Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, and Tunisia). AFRICOM’s initial operations in Nigeria involved maritime training and integrating the country’s forces with those of other African nations to foster pan-African military alliances.

In its early years, AFRICOM paid little attention to Boko Haram. But this changed as the profile of attacks got bigger.

In 2011, Boko Haram launched a formal insurgency. A report published that year by the US House of Representatives Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence outlined Boko Haram’s roots and the reasons for its popularity. They included “a feeling of alienation from the wealthier, Christian, oil-producing, southern Nigeria, pervasive poverty, rampant government corruption, heavy-handed security measures, and the belief that relations with the West are a corrupting influence.” It added that “[t]hese grievances have led to sympathy among the local Muslim population despite Boko Haram’s violent tactics.”

These grievances were met with the kind of violence that further fuels grievances.

The US escalates involvement

In the context of the “war on terror,” the Pentagon saw Boko Haram as an opportunity to train Nigeria’s military and employ it for its objectives. The primary US goal was ensuring that the oil-rich regions did not fall into enemy hands.

The Congressional Research Service noted that by the time AFRICOM was founded in the late-2000s, Africa “supplie[d] the United States with roughly the same amount of crude oil as the Middle East.” An Armed Services Committee report in 2011 noted: “Nigeria’s oil rich Niger Delta is a major source of oil for the United States outside of the Middle East.” The US Energy Information Administration states: “Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa. It holds the largest natural gas reserves on the continent and was the world’s fifth–largest exporter of liquefied natural gas.” The country has 37 billion barrels of proven crude, second only to Libya, which was bombed to pieces by the US and NATO in 2011.

Nigeria’s forces summarily executed Boko Haram’s leader Yusuf in 2009. A thesis published by the US Naval Postgraduate School notes that in addition to the assassination, “security forces killing or displacing thousands of Nigerian Muslims, is credited with swelling [Boko Haram BH]’s ranks.”

Yusuf’s deputy, Abubakar Shekau, took over and escalated a suicide bombing campaign. The Navy thesis also notes that “the actions of BH, along with other militant groups such as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), have reduced the country’s oil production, displacing Nigeria from 5th to 8th on the list of America’s largest foreign oil suppliers.”

In 2013, the states of Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe imposed emergency powers. The Pentagon announced a $45 million-dollar budget to counter Boko Haram by training troops in Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. One of the consequences is that Nigeria has been transformed from a peripheral US interest to a proxy force. Years of war, mostly in the north and border regions, have led to 2.1 million internally displaced people. The World Food Program calculates that 3.4 million face hunger and that 300,000 children are malnourished.

Building a Sparta state

In June 2014, it was reported that a 650-person unit, the Nigerian Army’s 143rd Battalion, was set up on the ground and trained by US Special Forces from the California Army National Guard’s Special Operations Detachment-US Northern Command and Company A, 5th Battalion 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne). By then the Nigerian Army was active in 30 out of the country’s 36 states.

Chief of the US Army Africa’s Security Cooperation Division, Colonel John D. Ruffing, said: “It is not peacekeeping … It is every bit of what we call ‘decisive action,’ meaning those soldiers will go in harm’s way to conduct counterinsurgency operation[s].” One US soldier said: “This is a classic Special Forces mission—training an indigenous force in a remote area in an austere environment to face a very real threat.”

In 2015, Boko Haram’s leader Shekau reportedly pledged allegiance to Islamic State, rebranding the organization IS West African Province (ISWAP). A Congressional Research Service report notes that ISWAP “has surpassed Boko Haram in size and capacity, and now ranks among IS’s most active affiliates.”

It’s not as if strategists don’t understand that violence doesn’t work. They understand that violence escalates violence which can then be used as pretexts for more violence. A US Council on Foreign Relations article from 2020 notes: “the last two years have been deadlier than any other period for Nigerian soldiers since the Boko Haram insurgency began.”

As the war against Boko Haram waged on, Niger Delta gangs in the south threatened to resume attacks on oil infrastructure. US “aid” expanded to include training the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) across the country. In November 2016, 66 officers graduated from the Fingerprint Analysis and Forensics training program, an initiative run by the US Embassy in collaboration with the Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement and Atlanta Police Department.

In March 2017, 28 Nigerian officers graduated from courses offered by the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs division, led by US police from Prince William County, Virginia. The program also provided “equipment, training, mentoring, and capacity-building support to various Nigerian law enforcement and justice sector institutions.”


U.S. Army soldiers deployed to Nigeria Army’s School of infantry trained more than 200 Nigerian soldiers in 2018

Expanding AFRICOM’s role

In what the US State Department calls a “whole of government” approach, military operations continued as police training expanded. In early-2018, 12 US Army soldiers, led by Captain Stephen Gouthro, trained 200 Nigerians at the Nigerian Army’s School of Infantry. Facilitated by the US Army Africa, eight Security Assistance and Training Management Organization soldiers and four 1st Brigade Combat Team soldiers shared “ground-combat tactics” with the Nigerian Army’s 26th Infantry Battalion.

In July this year, US Army Special Forces trained 25 officers of the Nigerian Navy Special Boat Service as part of JCET: a five-week Joint Combined Exchange Training program.  The Acting US Consulate Political and Economic Chief, Merrica Heaton, says that the training is designed to help the Nigerian military stop crime in the Gulf of Guinea and “counter violent extremists in the Northeast and enforce the rule of law throughout the region.”

As observers seemingly spotted the top-secret US stealth drone—Northrop Grumman’s RQ-180—over the Philippines, the Department of Defense sold nearly $500 million-worth of propeller planes to Nigeria, marking what the US Embassy and Consulate describes as “an historic level of cooperation …  between the U.S. and Nigerian militaries.” AFRICOM recently confirmed that the inauguration of twelve A-29 Super Tucanos into the Nigerian Air Force will serve a “critical role in furthering regional security and stability.”

The Pentagon allocated $36.1 million to the US Army Corps of Engineers to renovated Kainji Air Base, which will host the Super Tucanos. In addition to training simulator and small arms storage units, the Base includes “aircraft sunshades, a new airfield hot cargo pad, perimeter and security fencing, airfield lights, and various airfield apron, parking, hangar, and entry control point enhancements.”

To be continued on request!!!!!!

FreeSpirited:
Truth is butterfly is no more common, at least for me, it's being a while I saw them. I don't care anyway.
The question is, what's are the importance or essence of having butterfly around? Do they affect us or our environment in any way? What is their contribution that should necessitate their conservation?

Conservationist should educate us. To me, all these animals have life-cycle and they can't be on Earth forever. No amount of conservation policy will change that..
And what if by conservation we are even disrupting the natural plan and system that set limit to the existential cycle of certain animals and organism? Even human spp have evolved and disappeared at some point. Do we blame evolution or nature?
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So, I want to put it to conservationist who say we should conserve this and that...imagine all animal spp never went on extinct, won't the world be overpopulated with animals today?
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Imagine Dinosaurs were still around and no spp of dinosaur, snake, lion, whale is gone...how will the world cope with such volumnous density of dangerous spp of animals?
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If u say human is the cause of disappearance of animals today? well, animals did disappear at some point, at least before earliest human civilization dinosaurs and thousands of animal spp already gone extinct, so who do u blame for that? Natural disasters?
Then since it can't be stopped, it must be part of natural cycle as well as human civilization which is blamed for decimating certain spp of organisms..About animal conservation, I feel there's so much needless noise and fuss about it.
Though we can document, keep the gene and specimen of certain animals for reserch and posterity, this doesn't require so much noise and fund as being wasted on conservation today.
Many developed country choose to conserve certain animal and leave others cos obviously they can't conserve all spp of animals..so what criteria are they employing in making this choice.?
Conservationist should address all those points and convince us why we should keep promoting conservation for a kind of animals while living others to perish

Islie:
https://www.thecable.ng/revealed-in-june-2021-fg-quietly-made-new-tax-rules-that-could-kill-your-business-in-six-months


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walkbrazil4k:
Yea

Lionnation:
Before i thought women dress to impress men, i don't even know they do all this to compete with their gender