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Caaz:
Breakfast

Is that ALL breakfast?

Me, I'd fall into a coma and not be productive for the next 2 hours.

cococandy:
What happened to cutting govt. expenses? What did all those Americans lose their jobs for? What was the point of cutting research into kids’ cancer? research into health care for women? Etc? What did your friends and neighbors lose their retirement savings for?

When we tell you republicans that you’re dumb, it’s not elitism. It’s based on observable facts. You are lied to that the Republican Party wants to save Americans money yet they all unanimously vote for a bill that increases spending in the trillions. Make it make sense pls. Try to reconcile what they say and what they do if you can.

When have they ever in the past 50 years been good for the economy? The answer is NEVER. That’s if you let your common sense lead you instead of these emotions you feel so strongly against other people- that influences you to vote against your wellbeing every single time.

Now Elon is trying to distance himself from it. As if he hasn’t succeeded in what he really set out to do. Which is crippling the agencies responsible for putting check and balances on his operations.

By 2034 when the deficit has ballooned, another republican will emerge and convince the dimwits that he’s the solution to this problem. A problem that could’ve been avoided if you people had common sense to begin with.

There isn't any real policy cohesion in the GOP because their goal isn't policy but to win elections using soundbites and political gimmicks.
So they go from day to day saying things that are then contradicted by the bills they pass.
And their supporters get whiplash trying to defend the the opposite of what they defended yesterday.

benalvino3:
But God did say, You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.

God's prohibition was protective guidance, not arbitrary control. Like you will tell your child, Don't touch the stove, it will burn you. The moral framework existed, but Adam and Eve chose experiential knowledge over revealed knowledge.

But lets see,

If humans lack free will, they're not truly moral agents they're just sophisticated puppets

If humans have free will, then genuine choice must include the possibility of "wrong" choices (Which God gave them)

But if God creates beings capable of choice and then forbids certain choices, that's not really eliminating the choice, it's just adding consequences. You and I know there are consequences to every decision we make.

This is not about enslaving Eve and Adam; it is a warning about the consequences of choosing a certain path.
The warning isn't control, it is information. But the deeper control lies in creating us with the capacity for choice in the first place. God could have made humans incapable of disobedience like; lets say rocks, but chose not to.


You see, sometimes the lack of experience concern comes from people genuinely worried about outcomes rather than trying to maintain control. But let's assume they don't care. A rapid transition without adequate preparation can hurt the very people it's meant to help. rural farmers need functioning supply chains, credit systems, and markets, regardless of who owns the land. As I sourced the other time, 90% of the appropriated farmland failed. they have all the funding and support they need, to the tune of 5 billion. What we're seeing in South Africa is anything but external sabotage. This is your way of excusing their failure and cycling back to the idea that it is the white man's fault. Will you ever allow the space for taking responsibility for the path they choose?

If we revert to the eve metaphor once more, it suggests taking the fruit of knowledge regardless of the consequences. But in policy terms, the question now becomes: if you know external forces will try to make you fail, do you have an obligation to sequence reforms in ways that maximize your chances of success?

Benalvino/Bemeruca- "ChatGPt write me a post on Adam and Eve and give it some gravitas"

Everyone's going to struggle with AI and spotting when it's being used. But unfortunately for you the formulaic sentence/paragraph structure of this post is a dead give away. Your not even very good at converting AI into your own words.

What's the point of writing forum posts using someone else's words?

raumdeuter:
Hamas wanted Kamala Harris to be president, a freed Israeli hostage has claimed.

Omer Shem Tov, has said his captors had hoped the Democrat would win the election and credits Donald Trump for helping to secure his freedom.

“As soon as Donald Trump was elected, they understood that he wants to bring the hostages back home,” Mr Shem Tov told CNN.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/05/28/hamas-wanted-kamala-harris-president-says-freed-hostage/

Wow. Hostage held by Hamas says the t*rrorists wanted Kamala to win because they were scared of Trump.

They knew Trump would make a deal and try to get the hostages out.

They started treating him better when Trump was elected.

“He [Trump] got me out.” pic.twitter.com/oqyRUjAmqv

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 28, 2025

DId you think the people fighting for a Palestinian state would prefer Trump who now wants to remove all Palestinians and build a beach resort?
Breaking News. People prefer people who more align with their ideological objectives even if they don't agree with their means.

Sometimes I wonder if any intellect exists for you.

More Trump Winning Losing.

Court strikes down Trump's tariffs, ruling them illegal
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/court-strikes-dow-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-ruling-them-illegal/

A federal court on Wednesday froze many of the large-scale tariffs imposed by President Trump on virtually every foreign nation, ruling the levies exceed the president's legal authority.

The ruling — issued by a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of International Trade — halted the sweeping 10% tariffs Mr. Trump assessed on virtually every U.S. trading partner on "Liberation Day" last month, with higher tariffs threatened for dozens of countries. The court also blocked a separate set of tariffs imposed on China, Mexico and Canada by the Trump administration, which has cited drug trafficking and illegal immigration as its reasoning for the hikes.

The Trump administration has justified the tariffs by citing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, or IEEPA, which gives the president the power to regulate imports during certain emergency situations. But the court on Wednesday rejected the government's interpretation of the law, and said it would be unconstitutional for any law passed by Congress to give the president blanket authority to set tariffs.

"The court does not read IEEPA to confer such unbounded authority and sets aside the challenged tariffs imposed thereunder," the judges wrote Wednesday.

The court said Mr. Trump's global 10% tariffs aren't authorized by IEEPA because they're designed to deal with trade imbalances between the U.S. and the rest of the world, which the judges said should fall under non-emergency legislation.

benalvino3:
Now that gravitas is involved in what I post you are fuming.

He said "ChapGPT add more gravitas to this post".

Bwahahahahahah

benalvino3:
Now that gravitas is involved in what I post you are fuming.

The guy who can't conjugate a verb, now wants to sound intelligent and with "gravitas" so he lets ChaptGPT write his posts.

Gosh, who even says that or does that?
I'm laughing hysterically here.

benalvino3:
You know I have two accounts, why block the one that hurts your feelings, and not include the other?

This is the second account. If you are not seeking attention, block it, not just when your feelings are hurt.

Because people switch accounts hourly. Lol.
I guess it makes sense when everyone blocks the other one.

Does this post have "gravitas" as well?
I can't.
Next you'll be pretending you have all this "gravitas" because you graduated from Yale with a degree in classical education.

Reminds me of your boy Fake Life Femi who said he flew between Cambridge in the UK and Georgetown in the US during the weekends so he could get both degrees.

This thread. I can't.

benalvino3:
Now that gravitas is involved in what I post you are fuming.

I'm dying here.
You have ChaptGpt write your posts so you can have "gravitas"?
I can't. I'm dead.

benalvino3:
Aren't you supposed to block me?

You want to get your feelings hurt before you block my second account again? Or is it that you want the old trolling guy?

Go play somewhere, maybe in your sandbox before you rage and block me again for the sun of responding to you.

Now that gravitas is involved in what I post you are fuming.

Oga, do what cow wards do and block me.

You keep changing your usernames. I block one you move to another one.
But how does that change the fact that you've been using ChatGPT to write your posts?
It's clear that if a post doesn't have spelling and grammar errors you didn't write it.

Lie about living in the US.
Using ChatGpt to write your posts.
You seem so insecure about who you are and your capabilities.
And insecure people can't hurt my feelings.

benalvino3:
The way you veer off into this bizarre Adam and Eve analogy that’s about as relevant as a fairy tale is to tax policy. It is outstanding, the red herring is very strong.
Your biblical spin about God punishing Adam and Eve with drought is a cute story, but it has nothing to do with the economic and political realities of post colonial Nigeria or South Africa. And comparing it to Pharaoh’s retaliation? Wetin you they talk. You can be smart, and i will admit, you lost me here.
Nigerian business failures were primarily due to external sabotage the withholding rain metaphor, but this oversimplifies the real challenges of rapid economic transition. We are seeing it in modern day South Africa. The power plant they took over and other vital infrastructures are collapsing. I bet you will blame the colonial power for all these, even if they have no input on the direction South Africa is taking. The decline of Nigerian manufacturing had multiple documented causes: Lack of institutional knowledge transfer before the handover, Insufficient time for capacity building, Global economic pressures unrelated to colonial legacy, and Infrastructure challenges that predated independence.

Colonial powers certainly didn't prepare colonies for economic independence, and attributing all post independence failures solely to external sabotage ignores internal policy choices and structural challenges. You know your countrymen and the corruption that runs through their veins.

As for Israel and Palestine, the situations have fundamentally different contexts.

You should stop feeding your posts through ChatGPT.
You don't think anyone can tell when you're not writing your own grammatically incorrect posts?

AmazonTopaz:
Morally bankrupt people peddling as Christians.

Exactly.
People who don Christianity as a shield because at their core they are morally bankrupt.
And it wasn't like people didn't know this about him before they started cheering him on.

This is the person Trump made a deal for to release. And this is the person MAGA was cheering for.
This is Trump's conservative party.
https://apnews.com/article/tate-brothers-andrew-tristan-rape-uk-britain-085cf07c394f4ead035b86f981060e92

Who would have saw this coming.
Well everyone who didn't have to wiper orange makeup off their lips.

https://newrepublic.com/article/195763/humiliated-trump-anger-putin-grows-gopers-start-breaking-ranks

cococandy:
But we were supposed to believe it’s only about illegal immigration. These brown dumbos online yapping about illegal immigrants think they’re are different from an illegal immigrant in the eyes of a racist white person.

This has got to be the saddest thing in this whole sitution.
I remember the story of the women who voted for Trump because he would deport the immigrants with criminal records.
I'm sure it slipped her mind that her immigrant son had a felony. Now he's in ICE custody awaiting deportation.
I'm sure she thought it was just the other immigrants with criminal records. Her son was one of the good ones.

happney65:
Trump’s pick to investigate waste, fraud and abuse at the Labor Department, Anthony D’Esposito, is a former Republican congressman who lost his New York seat after he was accused of putting his mistress and fiancée’s daughter on his payroll.

News.

Of course he is. Would it make any sense for Trump if he wasn't?
lol

raumdeuter:
You keep crying and wailing like a child, If you don't like America, Move to Gaza or somewhere else. Whining daily a man over 50 whining like this

No wonder you are lonely

Oga one of us is over 50.
And it's the one who spends 5 hours per day on an internet forum sounding like a child.

raumdeuter:
The same Biden who pardoned his own family and even people with no crimes pre emptively? while Obama pardoned a terrorist Oscar Rivera

Biden pardoned his family because Trump said he would go after them just like he is going after Harvard, Law Firms or the plethora of other people he has went after personally using unconstitutional methods (as most of the court rulings so far have said).

When you get your info from far right propaganda you will always sound uninformed. But in defense of your GOd and Savior pardon full throated criminals, this is the best you got.

López Rivera was not directly linked to any specific bombings.[2][3] Many considered him to be the world's longest-held political prisoner, with a number of political and religious groups calling for his release.[4] U.S. President Bill Clinton offered him and 13 other convicted FALN members conditional clemency in 1999; López Rivera rejected the offer on the grounds that not all incarcerated FALN members received pardons. In January 2017, President Barack Obama commuted López Rivera's sentence;[5] he was released in May 2017,[6] having served 36 years in prison, longer than any other member of the FALN.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_L%C3%B3pez_Rivera

bemeruca:
When are you leaving?

When it suits you, you are a proud American, and leaving the American dream, and people should respect you as a result. But you turn around and cry the next moment.

This is why this platform needs a permanent block button.
Useless post after useless post.

feedthenation:
---US embassies to stop student visa interviews---

The Trump administration on Tuesday stopped scheduling new interviews for international students seeking visas to study in the United States as the State Department prepares for expanded social media screening of applicants.

The directive was widely circulated to all U.S. diplomatic and consular posts abroad and signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/international-student-visa-trump

---Felon 47 doing everything to isolate the U.S.---over 1 million new foreign students come to the U.S. each year, contributing over $40 billion to the economy---

Congress should really take the reigns here.
Imagine only people like Basilico who have nothing but good things to say about Trump being let into US universities.
In fact people who support Trump on their social media are the opposite of critical thinking students US universities would want.

bemeruca:
Your friends tear apart their degrees, while some Nigerians tear their passports in anger and rage. You harbor an unimaginable rage for this country inside you, yet you brandish your US passport like you just did, proving my point.

When will you leave the country you dislike so much?

Continue cosplaying as an American.

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bemeruca:
You are living your American dream, and it shows in how you present yourself through the passport you use to post here. You believe that the not so great nation grants you status merely by brandishing your passport, it conveys a sense of class and authority no be so? and yet, you want us to believe that this country is worse than Nigeria and other nations.

You view everyone through your self hate, biases and desire to live in the US or be white adjacent. So much so you pretend to live in the US.
Here was my past profile picture. Notice the passports there.

Again, I am not you. I am 100% comfortable in my black skin Nigerian-ness.

bemeruca:
Forget about my location; let’s assume I am in Nigeria. Why did you want to relocate to Nigeria and the UK, but it never happened? You visit Nigeria occasionally, and a lot of the time, you complain about various issues, while you were only in the UK once, and that one time, you mentioned experiencing racism during that visit. Is it safe to say that you dodged a bullet or two?

I was in the UK at least 3 times just in my senior year. Used to go quite regularly after that as I dated someone who lived there and my homegirl's mom was an Ambassador there. So was always fun times.

As I said speak for your cosplaying self. There is no intersection between my life in Nigeria and yours so you wouldn't even understand why I'd be comfortable moving back.

Again, the self hate and mental colonialism leads you to think that Oyibo are better and "their land (in your mind)" is always better.

benalvino3:
Lmao, so you won't respond? You should stop complaining about this country and grow up. Because of people like you, there's a new trend called "black fatigue."

People like you make us look bad.

You wouldn’t want to live anywhere except the US, yet you act like every single day is a matter of life and death. Shame on you.

There is no "us". I'm an American citizen who doesn't hate himself. You on the other hand pretend to live in the US while cosplaying as an American for whatever cred you think that gives you. Seemingly some sort of mental illness.

When I graduated college, I was planning to relocate to the the UK.
Prepandmic, I wanted to move back to Nigeria. May still do that in the next few years depending on a couple of things.
What's funny is that your whole persona is pretending to live in the US, while the one who actually lives in the US is comfortable not living in the US.

Again, there is no intersection between my world and yours outside this thread.

benalvino3:
Okay,

I am not in the US.

So again, since you dislike this country filled with white people so much, why haven't you moved? There is South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Jamaica, etc. All with predominantly black people. So why haven't you moved? Is there a black nation or Asian Nation you would like to move to? You can throw in an Arab nation as well.

Just a mental illness at this point.

benalvino3:
The question remains, what country would you consider living in since you are crying America is not great?

I'll respond to your ill formed question as soon as you admit that you wake up everyday and lie about living in the US.

If Biden or Obama had pardoned a tax cheat after a 1 million donation who tried to spread the diary of his Opponent's daughter, how big of a story would it be?
How many committees would the Republicans open up?