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Foreign Affairs › Re: Serbia Just Elected The World’s Brainiest Parliament by Kobojunkie: 7:20pm On Oct 31

blankslate:
➜I say ethics is a great piece of technology, that betters the life of all parties involved, because when there's ethics we cooperate seamlessly, and that there is the huge unlock.

So, as long as we all subscribe to similar core values, we are good. Otherwise, we have no reason to be in the same zip code. 😒😒

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Serbia Just Elected The World’s Brainiest Parliament by Kobojunkie: 7:16pm On Oct 31

blankslate:
I agree. We need less pomp more useful competence. Even if politics may not be one's personal objective, the real-world-competence frame of mind is one good heuristic for life.

At the same time, we need to be able to require that the politician give real-world updates on a regular schedule to the people on every single promise made. Voters should not have to be kept in the dark on what is going on. They need to be able to track regularly how far their politicians have come towards fulfilling promises made. That is one of the many things I will give the Trump administration kudos for doing. 😒😒

I have not had to depend on third parties for my news on what is going on with the Federal Government, as I get daily updates directly from the white house and staff on what is happening. I know enough about how far along most of the campaign promises are. And can then make more informed decisions as a result during this primary election. I wish we could have the same at all levels of government starting now on. 😒😒

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Serbia Just Elected The World’s Brainiest Parliament by Kobojunkie: 7:02pm On Oct 31

blankslate:
➜Jordan did; true, he had years of real-world practice. To add to your second point, what ends up in books comes from real-world experience. Out of curiosity, what other skills would your ideal politician possess?
➜ (To digress a bit, when I saw your first comment, I assumed you were an APC data boy.)

1. A track record of tangible, measurable success(not abstract nonsense/awards) in the real world. I want someone who has a long business record that can be looked up and examined, and also one who has remained a law-abiding citizen through it all. Running a small mom-and-pop store for 2 minutes is, of course, not what I mean. 😒😒

2. I no dey do Nigerian soup-idity, abeg! 😒😒

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Serbia Just Elected The World’s Brainiest Parliament by Kobojunkie: 6:58pm On Oct 31

blankslate:
➜Now I see your perspective. Contemporary academia isn't the old school of Athens. There's this man, Nial Ferguson and his wife Ayan Hirsi, together with others such as Bari Weiss (The Free Press), they founded a new university, the University of Austin, during the woke storm which seized most American universities.
➜ So yeah, if those students aren't as classical as they need to be, then prayers indeed. It was great conversing with you!

I listen to a lot of those folks too. But I would never seek to make politicians out of them. It is not necessarily whether they are contemporary or classical that makes the difference. There are wise people in academia who should remain in that circle. And then outside of all of that, are those who can make good politicians. 🥱🥱

2. Students are students... they have little to no understanding or full grasp of the world and how it works. I would never think to hedge my survival on students, regardless of what school they belong to. 😒😒

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Foreign Affairs › Re: 48 African Leaders Meets Putin In Moscow For Russia-Africa Summit (Photos) by Kobojunkie: 6:47pm On Oct 31

Emmamay10:
I hope the African leaders warned Putin to stop exploiting vulnerable Africans for his meaningless war in Ukraine. Putin cannot continue to romance African leaders, while also luring vulnerable Africans to destruction.

Why can't he? 🥱🥱

Foreign Affairs › Re: Serbia Just Elected The World’s Brainiest Parliament by Kobojunkie: 6:42pm On Oct 31

blankslate:
➜ That's a valid example. And COVID too. But there were those in academia who were also against migration and the strict clampdown of social freedoms during COVID; some of those professors lost tenure at the universities they taught at.
➜ Academia has its bad eggs, yes, but there are bearers of light within her walls as well.
➜ Perhaps you know Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist who was cancelled for his views.

Check their credentials, and you will find that those were the minority who had at least one foot, or maybe even half of their body, solidly planted outside of the academic bubble. 🤔🤔

2. The lightbearers are not made lightbearers as a result of being part of academia, but as a result of the wisdom they have gleaned from their many "majority failed attempts" at trying/testing what they have learned out in the real world. See, being 100% academic is like living inside of one's head. The only way to truly learn and make something out of oneself is to step out of one's mind into the real world. 🤔🤔

3. I know of Jordan Peterson. That man had many, many years of real-world practice even as he worked in academia. However, I would never vote for such a man to become a politician. Why? Because a politician should have even better skills than what Peterson's resume reveals. 🤔🤔

Foreign Affairs › Re: Serbia Just Elected The World’s Brainiest Parliament by Kobojunkie: 6:36pm On Oct 31

blankslate:
➜ All academics are not intelligent. Intelligence is formed by a practical life. All academics don't live practical lives. Wisdom is formed by practical living. All academics are not wise. Wisdom is necessary to establish a great civilization. All academics are not people who can establish a great civilization.
➜ The stuff of truth, sound judgement, and inventiveness are not found in academia. But those elements are found in life outside academia.
➜ I seem to think the above is what you see. Correct me. (No sarcasm, I'll like to understand your viewpoint; my views are not superior. Thanks for your attention so far. I'm new to Nairaland.)

1. Precisely! So, when a headline reads that people voted in Academics and the people who made it happen were many of the same students who were locked up in the same academic bubble as those they voted in, prayers are needed! 😐😐😐

2. Exactly! A life that most students have never known or even considered what it truly holds for them once they leave the academic bubble many of them have been groomed in. 😐😐

3. The people of Serbia need our prayers as they embark on this journey! 😐😐

Foreign Affairs › Re: 48 African Leaders Meets Putin In Moscow For Russia-Africa Summit (Photos) by Kobojunkie: 6:32pm On Oct 31

WriterNig:
Is Trump Europe's new Hitler? St00peed question.

I am glad you clocked the st00pid-ity of your own question there before I could. Trump cannot be to Europe what Europe is to itself, given that the EU opposes the US and has been destroying itself for decades now. 😐😐

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Foreign Affairs › Re: 48 African Leaders Meets Putin In Moscow For Russia-Africa Summit (Photos) by Kobojunkie: 6:23pm On Oct 31

Is Putin now Africa's new Gaddafi? lipsrsealed

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Serbia Just Elected The World’s Brainiest Parliament by Kobojunkie: 6:20pm On Oct 31

Back in 2018, EU voters were warned of what their academic heads were about to do to their continent.

MUST WATCH: Janice Atkinson’s 2018 warning about the UN Migration Compact looks spot on in 2026. She called the direction of mass migration years before the headlines caught up. Please RETWEET this. pic.twitter.com/aUUxhvf8os
— Amelia (@makeukgood) October 31, 2026

Fast forward to 2026, the report card is in, and we all now see how the academics damaged the constitutions and life in the EU.😐😐😐

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Serbia Just Elected The World’s Brainiest Parliament by Kobojunkie: 6:07pm On Oct 31

blankslate:
➜ Historically, could you be kind to cite a few examples.
➜ Intelligence does not only thrive in academia, yes.
➜ But the grind of everyday life doesn't afford most the chance to live the life of the mind and of actions that can alter reality. So perhaps the academic bubble is a sound bet given the sort of people contemporary politics and government tends to attract.

1. The greatest civilizations on the planet were built, not by academics, but by mostly laymen or educated men who had long since walked the path that ordinary men walked and gained so much wisdom from the journey. Compare that to what you find even today in Europe, Africa, and Asia, and you will find this to be the case time and time again. 😐😐

2. Don't shift the goalposts now! Your post literally celebrates academics, not intelligence!

Dozens of academics become politicians after student group’s stunning victory

Two totally different things. One does not equate to the other. 😐😐

3. It has never been a sound bet. Hence the reason why I offer my "prayers to the Serbian people. 😐😐

Foreign Affairs › Re: Serbia Just Elected The World’s Brainiest Parliament by Kobojunkie: 5:50pm On Oct 31

blankslate:
Yeah, it's such a challenge to have high standards and be better for it. Indeed, we sympathize with the well-meaning people of Serbia.

High standards? Historically, high standards have never actually been set by those from academic circles, but rather by those who have everyday experience of life and living, business, and struggle outside of academic bubbles. So, yeah...my "prayers" or something resembling that are with the Serbians as they go through this. 😐😐

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Serbia Just Elected The World’s Brainiest Parliament by Kobojunkie: 5:28pm On Oct 31

OMGOSH!!! Our prayers are definitely with the Serbian people as they go through these challenging times. 😐😐

Family › Re: Is It Normal For Your Mother In-law To Ask You Money Almost Every Time? by Kobojunkie: 4:15pm On Oct 31

Apogee14:
yeah that's why all the farmers have lost all their workers and farms are closing down. He has deported all the farm workers 😒 food is now more expensive than gbana and gold 😒 house rent is now the price of platinum 😒. Bloodclat best president my yansh. The voting I am talking about is midterms na

. You should see this too!
https://www.nairaland.com/8775327/q-message

Family › Re: Is It Normal For Your Mother In-law To Ask You Money Almost Every Time? by Kobojunkie: 4:11pm On Oct 31

Apogee14:
➞ yeah that's why all the farmers have lost all their workers and farms are closing down.
➞ He has deported all the farm workers 😒 food is now more expensive than gbana and gold 😒 house rent is now the price of platinum 😒.
➞ Bloodclat best president my yansh. The voting I am talking about is midterms na

1. Only farmers who utilize slave labor would lose all their workers and have their farms close down, though. There are numerous other farms where use of slave labor is not practiced, and they seem to be doing ok going by the fact that the stores are filled with cheap produce week after week still. (I would say much cheaper than during the previous administration in many cases.) So, are you insinuating that slave labor is OK? 🥱🥱

2. Only farm workers who were here illegally were deported. All others who came in legally on the farm worker program are still here. And this is evidenced by the fact that the stores are still stocked with reasonably priced produce week after week. (Of course, the prices are lower in some other states and counties than here in Illinois or Chicago, but still cheap.)
https://www.jerrysfruitandgarden.com/specials
https://napervillefreshmarket.com/weekly-deals/
I bought 3 dozen eggs for $1; I bought 10 of them, which I have almost finished and plan to replenish this coming week; that was about two weeks ago. (I have maintained my diet of eating 4 eggs a day since this past January and intend to continue doing so until I get over my hump.)🥱🥱

3. I measure progress by promises kept(or measurable progress made towards keeping the promise made), and the degree of enforcement of our laws. On both, the man is doing hands down better than any of those in the last 30 years. If only we can get the same results at the State and local levels, and we should see the State and City pushed many years forward as opposed to being dragged years backwards with each administration.🥱🥱

4. Anyways, I get it if you don't see what I see! 🥱🥱

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Foreign Affairs › Q - The Message by Kobojunkie(op): 4:02pm On Oct 31

https://x.com/YAlwhashy/status/2116325835808313444?a=9mgoDZjSaiLZ1tRSRHA&s=20

Romance › Re: Her Parents Rejected Me Because Of Where I Come From by Kobojunkie: 3:07pm On Oct 31

KennDEO:
After 2 years of our relationship, I decided to go see her parents earlier this year as we were planning of tying the knot by December, but after she informed her parents of me and my coming in now distance time, they turn down the move and she could not stand for me or make any defensive point but quickly accepted their opinion.

It is sad, but take it as it was all for the best. 🥱🥱

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Family › Re: Is It Normal For Your Mother In-law To Ask You Money Almost Every Time? by Kobojunkie: 3:04pm On Oct 31

Apogee14:
😅😅 but wait ooo are we voting for trump again ? That apocalyptic miscreant is a spawn of the devil himself 😒

Not according to his record so far. He is the best President that America has had in the last 30 years. I know because I have watched the decline of America over the years, wondering what the plan had been all this while, only to find out that it was merely the steady disregard for the rule of law, something I also witnessed happen back in Nigeria before I left. So, I disagree with you on that. 😐😐

Also, Trump isn't running for re-election. Remember, this is his second and last term in office. You must have at least read the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist Papers by now.😐😐

Anyways, the primaries are to vote to keep the progress going, and this time to codify most of the changes for the better. 😐😐

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Family › Re: Is It Normal For Your Mother In-law To Ask You Money Almost Every Time? by Kobojunkie: 2:53pm On Oct 31

Apogee14:
meet me at the corner of Sheridan and foster. I want to tell you something. I will be the one in black suit and black brogues and pink shirt with paisley blue tie 😒

Ogbeni,,,if you have nothing more interesting to do on this wonderful Halloween, I suggest you clean house, and if you can, go vote... vote Red all down the ballot... and maybe sit back and watch a good movie. 😁😁

My day is booked as is! 😐😐

Christianity Etc › Re: 40-year-old Islamic Nigerian Man Married A 6-year-old Baby by Kobojunkie(op): 3:03am On Oct 31

Shocking new figures from Germany reveal that 358 child marriages have been recorded in the state of Baden-Württemberg since April 2012, many involving individuals from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Despite hundreds of documented cases, only eight marriages have been formally annulled, and authorities confirmed that no annulment proceedings are currently underway.

The figures were disclosed following a parliamentary inquiry submitted by politicians from the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

Among the cases identified:

- In 2020, an 11-year-old Iraqi girl was recorded as married to a 17-year-old Iraqi teenager.

- In 2018, a 14-year-old Afghan girl was recorded as married to a 30-year-old Afghan man, twice her age.

- Since 2015 alone, authorities have recorded 350 cases involving underage spouses, the overwhelming majority of whom were girls.

AfD politician Nikolaos Boutakoglou revealed that nearly 40% of the recorded child marriages involved Syrian couples.

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2116335596373475686?a=4FWW3argrwU2eVK6eOc&s=20

Foreign Affairs › Re: DHS Paid $495.6 M To Purchase Prison Offered To State Of Minnesota For $75 M by Kobojunkie: 2:44am On Oct 31*

laiperi:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) paid $495.6 million to purchase the shuttered Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minnesota, just one year after the private prison company CoreCivic offered to sell the exact same facility to the state of Minnesota for $75 million. NYTimes Holy cow!

Did CoreCivic attempt to sell it to the federal government at the same price? Or was the lower price only to the State?

CoreCivic offered to sell the Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minnesota, to the state of Minnesota for $75 million (including upgrades) in May 2025, before the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) / ICE purchased the facility for $495.6 million in August 2026.

All of the major reports merely tell us that back in 2025, CoreCivic offered to sell it to the state of Minnesota for 75 million dollars. They don't tell us how much CoreCivic offered to sell it to DHS when approached before it was eventually sold at $495 million. What happened between May 2025 and August 2026? 🥱🥱

Business › Re: The Problems I Have With Billionaires by Kobojunkie: 1:58am On Oct 31

Ibrahim1985:
1. I am already good and build, so there is not need to suggest me to do this or that. I am entitled to my opinions
2. We can agree to disagree. To some billionaires are genius, job creators and wealthy. To others, Billionaires are evil and wicked.

I don't agree! I'd rather believe that you are generally misinformed and conflating issues. A criminal is a criminal whether he is a poor man or a billionaire. SO, for you to try to make a case against billionaires in general simply because some of them might be in crime is a clear sign of ignorance. And that is what I am here to point out to you. 🥱🥱

Millionaires or billionaires do not owe you anything... your government does. So long as a billionaire or any regular person does not commit a crime, it is not your place to go trying to paint them all as wicked. The only reason anyone would do so is if the person is likely just jealous! 🥱🥱

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Business › China’s $340B AI Bubble Has Popped — And The Charts Prove It by Kobojunkie(op): 1:00am On Oct 31

China’s AI stock bubble is popping, and the data is overwhelming. Since its peak in late June, China’s Star 50 AI stock index has declined 42%.

China’s tech sector, per the country’s CSI 300 index, is down 18%.

Both indices are drastically underperforming the benchmark decline of 1.5% for the Nasdaq 100 index over the same period.

Publicly traded stocks in China’s AI sector with mainland operations, as major constituents of these indices, are leading the declines

AI model developer MiniMax is one particularly egregious example. Its shares closed trading in Hong Kong on Thursday at 87% below their HK$1,330 high earlier this year.

Unisound, a Chinese AI speech technology and language model software company, has experienced a similar drawdown from its 2026 peak.

Combined market capitalization losses by 14 Chinese AI stocks are $340 billion below their 2026 highs.

Drawdowns were so bad that only three companies out of 14 had “good” enough performances to have declined less than 50%.

To ensure relevance to China’s publicly-traded AI sector, Protos limited its list to companies with substantial mainland China operations whose financials demonstrate a majority of revenue coming from AI models, AI software or AI computer chips.

A partner at Shanghai Zhuozhu Investment Management admitted to the carnage in Chinese AI stocks. “All bubbles inevitably burst,” they said. Lotus Asset Management’s Hong Hao warned that many mainland AI stock listings are being paused.

AI stocks are still roughly 40% of China’s stock market. Bank of America’s Alex Liu told Bloomberg, “Right now it’s actually hard to say who’s going to survive.”
https://protos.com/chinas-340b-ai-bubble-has-popped-and-the-charts-prove-it/

Business › Re: The Problems I Have With Billionaires by Kobojunkie: 11:29pm On Oct 30

Ibrahim1985:
➜Na this argument I like pass My point- it is easy for you to write because if you have not work for one where they make millions while workerd workers barely earn a living or earn groundnut, there is nothing you can do because someone can earn millions of dollars and one is earning a kobo. Some Nigerians and their love of heartless billionaires need to be study.
➜ Everyone knows Cheap labour is basically slavery in disguise
➜ and let me do not start talking about child labour that billionaire use to make their products.
➜ Unions exist because of greedy Billionaires in the first place. Unions members may not be perfect but they are effective, and efficient because they give workers the opportunities to fight back.
➜ So what billionaires do is to bribe unions leaders or send thugs to harrass workers who protest.
➜ They steal ideas, personally i do not have any ideas that a billionaire stole but i wish they could because i can sue with a good lawyers and win. Microsoft is an example

1. I have worked for small companies owned by non-millionaire and for big companies owned by billionaires. And I still don't see your point, assuming you even have one? 🥱🥱

2. Wrong! Not all cheap labor is slavery. Slavery is something entirely different and separate from this discussion. 🥱🥱

3. Child labor is illegal. Therefore, a billionaire using child labor is a criminal who should be arrested and prosecuted. Again, this is a completely different issue since not all billionaires employ child laborers. 🥱🥱

4. Some unions are equally greedy. So, again, arguing that unions are the ultimate solution is nonsensical. 🥱🥱

5. Oh wow... so unions are not the ultimate solution after all, yet you are so sure they are? OMGosh! 🥱🥱

6. I suggest you instead focus on building your ability to think critically because, the way you are going, even if ideas were stolen from you, you would probably not be able to know at all. 🥱🥱

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Christianity Etc › Re: Meet The God Of Genocide - (scriptural Facts) by Kobojunkie: 10:33pm On Oct 30

HacheNoire:
➜Okay, if it’s not genocide or ethnic cleansing, what was it? Purification or sanctification? Massacred people because he wanted to take their lands and you here defining genocide in UN terms? I ask you again, what is it?

If it is not a genocide, it is simply not a genocide! You don't get to decide what words should mean whenever you feel like it! 🥱🥱🥱

Foreign Affairs › An Israeli Soldier Has Been Charged With Spying For Iran by Kobojunkie(op): 9:42pm On Oct 30

An Israeli soldier has been charged with spying for Iran, according to The Times of Israel.

Investigators say he spent nearly a year communicating with Iranian intelligence operatives. Prosecutors accuse him of sharing military readiness details, troop call-ups, and information… pic.twitter.com/v9pTdTt2IQ
— Donald J Trump Posts TruthSocial (@TruthTrumpPost) October 30, 2026

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Christianity Etc › Re: 40-year-old Islamic Nigerian Man Married A 6-year-old Baby by Kobojunkie(op): 9:24pm On Oct 30

A 12 year old girl in Turkey gave birth. Just look how sad she is.

Islam is sick! pic.twitter.com/Vjbbf7Dmgt
— A Man Of Memes (@RickyDoggin) October 30, 2026

Christianity Etc › Re: Meet The God Of Genocide - (scriptural Facts) by Kobojunkie: 8:43pm On Oct 30

HacheNoire:
➜Is that a God in your own wisdom? You are agreeing with me without knowing. Do you know how many innocent people that guy killed? Babies and children that were not even part of the crime. The pregnant and unborn kids.
➜ He killed them and gave the land to someone else. Is that not a genocide or ethnic cleansing?
➜ Imagine if a Christian did it to a village where they worship African gods? Won’t you call it genocide? Let’s just agree and stop debating. God was at some point a genocide and ethnic cleansing maniac.

1. Not trying to hold brief for the one whose comment you responded to, but give us an example of a deity or calamity that ever befell men while sparing those highlighted. I am not just curious to know what being you are here comparing YHWH of Israel to. 🥱🥱

2. Let's consult the meaning of the term you continue to misuse here, shall we?

Genocide is an international crime defined as specific acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

Under the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention, genocide involves committing any of five prohibited acts—such as killing, causing serious harm, inflicting destructive life conditions, preventing births, or forcibly transferring children—with the specific intent to destroy a protected group.

According to Biblical stories, the Canaanites who were killed were those caught in the war. The Canaanite race and families survived the war. What this means is that the condition for genocide as it stands today was not met even over 3000 years ago. Again and again, we are informed that the Israelites settled with and intermarried with the Canaanites and the other peoples whom you originally claimed were genocided. 🥱🥱

3. No, it would not be a genocide. Again, consult the UN-provided definition of what a genocide is. It would be a terrorist attack, but not a genocide. 🥱🥱

Foreign Affairs › Drone Strike Devastated Crowded Amiet Market In Abyei, Sudan, Killing 150 by Kobojunkie(op): 7:54pm On Oct 30

🚨 153 PEOPLE KILLED IN A MARKET STRIKE — AND YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T HEAR ABOUT IT

Because this wasn’t Israel and the Palestinians, there’s a good chance it never crossed your feed.

So I thought I’d share it.

A drone strike devastated the crowded Amiet Market in Abyei, Sudan,… pic.twitter.com/GBvdnUloZe
— Mossadil Commentary (@MOSSADil) October 30, 2026

Foreign Affairs › Re: Massive Voter Fraud As Arabs Chased All Jewish Poll Workers Out In Israel by Kobojunkie(op): 7:45pm On Oct 30

The Shin Bet must arrest all those involved, including the heads of the Arab parties who stole the elections here.

Today must be clearer than ever: Whoever is not loyal to the State of Israel - it is forbidden to give him the right to vote!

השב״כ חייב לעצור את כל המעורבים כולל ראשי המפלגות הערביות שגנבו פה בחירות.

היום חייב להיות ברור יותר מאי פעם: מי שלא נאמן למדינת ישראל - אסור לתת לו זכות הצבעה! pic.twitter.com/fxdHo6tMPz
— איתמר בן גביר (@itamarbengvir) October 30, 2026

Politics › Army Battalion Of Islamists Chant For The Murder Of Christians. by Kobojunkie(op): 7:21pm On Oct 30

BREAKING: Horrifying footage comes out Nigeria where what looks like an army battalion of Islamists chant for the murder of Christians.

“Give me AK47s. Into the infidels. On a Sunday. While they are rejoicing and spray fire on them!” pic.twitter.com/aHXJVLVEWg
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 30, 2026

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