pansophist: China is one of the countries that are not afraid of the US militarily, and the US knows this. Because the scenario for China to challenge the US militarily has not occurred in recent times, doesn't mean China is afraid or cant. or haven't in the past.
Take the Korean war as an example, it was China that entered the war and chased the US from North Korea, returning the country to the status quo of ''38th parallel north''. If it was not because of China's intervention, North Korea would be defeated, and China will have a direct border with Korea, a US ally/vassal.
Have you asked yourself why the US didn't shoot any movie concerning the Korean war? the answer is simple, the humiliation was too much. There is just no way the US could slice and propagandize the movie and emerge as a hero, it is just not possible. Think about it.
China entered the Korean war just after over twenty years of the Chinese civil war. So we are talking about a badly equipped military whose only reason for entering the war was their love for their motherland. A peasant country where protein was a luxury, and a country with no military-industrial complex.
China was so poor, and have lost millions of men in the recently paused civil war, the country was in shambles and largely destroyed, and their national wealth was stolen by the fleeing KMT to Taiwan which the US supported. China was at its lowest state, where it was not unusual for people to die on the street due to starvation.
China has no plane, no airforce, no navy, no nuclear weapon, and was badly equipped. They only had a population and humans willing to die in their millions. The US with its heavy support for Korea, planes, tanks, ships, and intelligence, couldn't defeat the Chinese until they called for a ceasefire. China drove them out of North Korea, after killing thousands upon thousands of US forces led by General MacArthur.
It is also important to know that China today was not recognized as a country by the US back then. So if an underequipped, new nation called China could fight the US out of Korea over seventy years ago, now will be a different ball game. China is a Confucian country, and they just don't do things out of ego, but if it comes to fighting, fear those guys.
If you think too many people in their millions died in the second world war, it might interest you to know that of all the bloodiest battle in human history, over half of them was fought in China. If the Chinese want to kill, they kill in the hundreds of millions, not thousands like the Russians are doing in Ukraine. Self-restraint is not a weakness. It is only when you know how evil you can be, you prevent anything that will make you go there.
I deh like your update. I know this because I watched a documentary on how the Chinese rose.
Karnice600: This was what Pansophist stupidly came up here to spill some weeks ago. Now you pick up the same line. That's how ignorance spreads like virus, because some people don't read.
I'd rather be this ignorant than be wise and support a country that has a history of either being in war or linked with war for the past 100years.
Kennyfancy: Whatever you think, always remember that the world is more safe with American as the control head than any other countries being the control head,,,,So let your reasoning be defendable
If that's your thought, it should remain your thought and everyone is not as daft as you to realty of USA.
IbeOkehie: This is seriously funny. Please there's data about economic conditions in Nigeria, this isn't like 25 years ago. Let's quote some of them offhand -
* Only about 0.5% of Nigerian workers earn over ₦200K per month, about 95% of bank accounts contain less than ₦500K. Only 7% of Lagosians have running water in their homes...imagine the rest of the country. Life expectancy in Nigeria is about 60 years for men. That last one has been hitting home for me recently because I personally know 5 relatively healthy acquittances who left the USA & UK to live in Nigeria in the last 4 years and died from one emergency health issue or another. One just happened in Lagos LAST WEEK, the man had a heart attack and was stuck in traffic for 6 hours and died inside the car taking him to the hospital. This is someone that many of his friends had repeatedly advised him to come back to the USA. It just makes concrete the reality that choosing between Nigeria & the UK can be a matter of life and death.
I used to be a hospital lab technician. There's something called platelet concentrate that is sometimes used for babies born with some sort of haemoatology problem. When I moved back to Nigeria in 2011, I was at the FMC Hospital in Owerri when a child was born. The doctor on duty determined that the baby needed platelet concentrate. It was not available ANYWHERE. And the baby died. This is a product we used to throw away like water at my USA workplace because it has an 8 hour shelf life. The standing procedure is to have it available at all times just in case of a neonatal crisis. But in Nigeria it was NOWHERE to be found. The doctor cried and I cried too. It's not that babies don't die in the USA or UK, it's that they don't die cheaply. By the way, the son of a serving Federal Minister also died of the same thing some years ago, he had a crisis and needed a blood product that wasn't available in Nigeria. He died in an air ambulance on the way to the UK. Unfortunately I can't put their grief out here in public, but it's a lesson on how precarious life has become that someone so highly placed can't even save themselves. So much for living the good life in Nigeria.
Simply put, your chances of staying alive are higher in the West, period.
Yes there are people earning millions of dollars in Nigeria, I know a few field engineers in the oil & gas industry or top bankers or people working remotely for big IT companies. Yes, they are there but the more important point is that the numbers of such people in Nigeria are so few as to be negligible. They're a statistically insignificant number and their situation is getting more precarious with each passing year.
I know TWO highly placed families in Nigeria where both parents and ADULT CHILDREN and spouses and grandchildren have moved from Nigeria into the town where I live. These are people who live in Banana Island, Ikoyi, Maitama, who work at major oil & gas companies, banks and are in politics. They pulled up EVERYTHING and abandoned Nigeria. I don't live in a major city so imagine the number that are migrating to London, New York or Houston. The last push for one of them was being REPEATEDLY robbed in Abuja after fleeing the same problem in Lagos years before. The woman told me this personally.
These are people who know what is going on in Nigeria and they're leaving! It's not always about MONEY, it's also about quality of life and peace of mind. The elites of Nigeria - the perm secs, federal directors, academic elites, business moguls, top politicians - are a disgrace to the Black Race. I like the way things are going now, many of them are being forced to flee the results of their own idiocy, now in the West they have to rub shoulders with their victims on an equal basis. And everything I see tells me it's going to get worse.
What is the deception? It's telling that ORDINARY LOWER MIDDLE CLASS life depicted on Facebook is viewed as exaggerated luxury by Nigerians. I know many Nigerians who have been working low wage jobs for over 25 years and they all own homes in good neighborhoods and MULTIPLE cars and their kids are university graduates working good jobs. Most if not all of them have scrimped and saved to build homes in Nigeria too. However much they spend in UK it's still enough to send plenty of money to their relatives in Nigeria.
This very topic is what brought me to Nairaland. I was SHOCKED to read people mocking the standard of living in the Anglo countries. I came to the USA with zero money, my plane ticket was bought with borrowed money. I started life working illegally in a restaurant. I know for a fact that even back then, working in that restaurant, I was better off than 99% of people in Nigeria. Summary - if I can live a good life in the West, most people can achieve it too.
I'm in the Nigerian community, I hear of people moving to UK all the time, I see people coming into my community every week, every month both illegally and legally, married with children and single, rich and poor. Even when they're starting from scratch, within a year or two they have fully paid off used car they couldn't dream of having in Nigeria, they live in apartments - maybe with a single roommate - with running water, flush toilet and 24 hour electricity. Breathing fresh air with no dust and generator fumes. They can walk the street with confidence, no police checkpoints, they can drive for hours on the highway with no fear of being waylaid by armed robbers or kidnapped. Those are things that are not guaranteed even in Lekki Phase Zero or VGC.
A Professor, a scion of one of the most prominent families in my ancestral village, was kidnapped right in front of his house in Nigeria. The kidnappers collected their 40million and still killed him.
Good thing too Nigerians going to the West now are learning to do manual work like landscaping, computer wiring/network setups, auto mechanics and mobile car wash, cooking food and selling from their homes, sewing clothes & shoe repair, so having papers is not even as much a problem as before. Honestly I wish I had such skills when I arrived here, life would have been a lot easier. There's a woman who sells Nigerian food that we patronize often, we buy like one week worth of food at a time. When you go to pick up at her home you can see they're VERY BUSY. There's one or two more people that have opened walk up - carry out restaurants. They cater parties too. A Nigerian mobile car washer cleaned my car last week, he came to the office and did it. Who needs Green Card to do that?
Nigeria today is not a good place to live for the VAST MAJORITY and it must be a terrible burden to even be rich in the midst of such misery. Hopefully it will get better but all this fakery about life in Nigeria must stop. Y'all know you're not real.
This is a good read. The problem with Nigerians is that they want to come to another man's land and start at the top.
It's been long since I contributed here. However I've been reading a lot especially from people I follow... Heartofcity12, ubunja, Martinez39s, Pansophist etc.
What will make will make a man make such comment to his friends? What js special about wedding and marriage?
Modified: He might think he sounds romantic saying it, he only sounds like sissy. Between him and the woman who is supposed to set such rule for the other. He went ahead and did it himself. I tell you what, these women get men hooked on the illusion of perfection, and let sunk cost fallacy take the wheel on cruise. This mofo might be thinking I'm doing this to please my woman. Come to think of it, a man who has got his shit together would not be home by 7pm no matter where he is in the world. So tell me where in bleeps sake would be to be having uninterrupted sex with your woman by 7pm. Even business men that are worth billions can take calls from anyone because it can be business... I'm not even being funny but this shit don't fly anywhere.
This is the reason for being here if you are looking for one.
Andre603: I stay in Port Harcourt, I have a job paying me 50k a month. But I also have a good car. Is it adviceable to quit the job that pays 50k monthly and start doing Bolt?
loliapoopy2013: Am confused and don't know what to do. As am typing this message, am crying and devastated, my heart is broken into bits.
I have 2 sons, aged between 10 and 14. I have refused to live with any maid up till this time, fearing they might be abused. Am into confectionaries, so despite my stressful business, I manage my boys as my husband works offshore.
A month ago, my mum brought a 19-years-old cousin who looks like a 14-year-old boy to assist me in kneading dough. I panicked because my husband has warned me never to bring any relatives to his house. But because he is a boy and my relative, and was very industrious, I never thought of anything evil, I let him stay.
Yesterday was my birthday, I didn't want to celebrate, but my friend brought me a cake which motivated me to go to the market to get goat meat for pepper soup.
According to my friend, immediately after I left the house, my 10year old son went to take his bath, and that's when my cousin followed. Not liking their movement, she went and peeped, and behold, she saw my cousin having anal sex with my 10-year-old son���. She started banging on the door and they immediately started taking their bath, pretending as if nothing happened.
My friend told me as I got back. I confronted my son about why did he not tell me. He said my cousin cut himself, drew out blood from his body, and warned him that if he tells anyone, he will die, fearing for his life, he refused to tell me. I asked him, why he didn't tell his elder brother, and he said his elder brother is always playing ball downstairs. I then ask him how many times have they done it, and he said almost 10 times. That at first he enjoyed it but he is beginning to feel pain and doesn't know how to end it. I ask my son to bend over, people! my son's anus is wide opened and filled with injury, ������
Please house, what do I do? These are my fears:
1. My son has been introduced to gay sex life by my evil cousin. 2. How can I help ( counsel) my son and rehabilitate him? 3. I might lose my marriage because my husband warned me to protect his kids from relatives.
I need advice from you guys please����������. Please, no insults. I will not purposely put my son in harm's way����.
Being gay has very little problem to this issue, however, the problem here is a 19yo engaging a minor in gay sex. I'm afraid your son has been introduced and may never be straight, however that 19yo needs to leave your house now, not on the basis that he is gay but on the basis that he committed a crime punishable under the law by engaging a minor into sexual activities.
pansophist: You are the one that is heavily bias and lack truth in all nonsense you write in support of Ukraine, and your dislike/hate against China. You are the one that should get fast help because you're beyond lost.
Now have a discourse with me. Leave those easy opponents who are still shaky in their belief. Face me directly. One quick question.
Why should Russia allow US nukes stationed in Ukraine under the guise of NATO membership, when the US refused when the soviets stationed nukes in Cuba?
pansophist: And not only that, serbia is the only non EU/EEA country in Europe that their citizens are actively against joining the Western league. To demonstrate Serbian resistance, hell will freeze before Serbia join the EU.
A recent pole shows that majority of the population prefer closer ties to Moscow and Beijing. Also, one of the prerequisite of accepting Serbia into the EU is their recognition of Kosovo, and Serbia will never do that. Any politicians that tries it will have his career ended.
And don't blame them, they have a strong reasons for such behaviour. The bombing of their country in the 90's by NATO forces is still fresh in their memory, and to make matter worse, the US helped a part of their country (Kosovo) broke off and installed their largest military base there.
If you ever visited Belgrade (I've been there lots of times), they intentionally left many of the destruction by NATO as it is, to remind coming generations what the US did to them. And for that reason, they have lots Serbia forever.
So when I see lots of idiots who are against Putin for not wanting Ukraine in NATO, they only understand politics from the first layer, or just have lost their morality. Especially that NATO was created for Russia in the first place, and Kiev was the birthplace of Russian civilisations. It's an insult to them.
Also if any idiot use statement such as "NATO is a defensive alliance", feel free to land him a dirty slap. Lol. Then remind him about the destruction of Serbia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and so on. I guess they do not count because these country are not white but wait, Serbia is white. Oops
The mods have closed down the real news on Russia Ukraine war
pansophist: Remember the last time I wrote to you that Japan is a vassal of the US and that the US destroyed its economy to make them never a threat again by forcing them to sign the plaza accord? An Indian YouTuber I respected so much just released a video specifically on that a few mins ago. Watch it, to understand the depth of what the US did to Japan, its so-called ally.
pansophist: 1. If I magically become a twenty-year-old again, I will never go to a traditional university, I will instead, go to NOUN (national open university of Nigeria) or study online in a free online university (''uopeople'' is a good one) so I will have a lot of free time, then start a business along the way, make all the mistakes necessary and succeed in it. This way, I kill two birds with one stone. A degree and a career that sets me up for life and makes me attractive and respected in my 30s. And it's cheaper too, without the distraction of strikes, cultism, too expensive, the temptation of prostitution, etc.
2. If you want to understand human nature, politics, women, society, and how power structures work, study the animal jungle. Animals will reveal to you the true nature of humans without the mask of laws, civility, and democracy (lol).
3. By default, trust no one. And if they give you reasons not to trust them, believe them. If you come to trust them through proven track records that span a reasonable amount of time, still make sure you have a safe landing if things go bad.
4. Everybody is trying to capture your mind. Guard it with your life. Your mind is like an engine or a computer OS, if it is corrupt, the whole system will be. An example of a captured mind is he who cannot think for himself.
5. You should know that you are paying a very dangerous price if you refuse to man up, get your shit together, and put in the work. The world is very unforgivable to weak people who prefer comfort, and your refusal to work hard will sink you at the bottom of the food chain, of which you would have been older, fatter, maybe smarter due to experiences, but poorer, and irrelevant.
6. Your 20's will only be the time you will be free. From your 30s, society will not be soft on you the way you are soft on yourself. If you are broke, girls will ignore you, friends will not respect you, and your esteem will be low. And other successful people will rent your life to advance their interests. And it will only go worse from there. And as a man, by default, you are on your own.
7. The earlier you start to run, the quicker you reach the finish line, rest, and enjoy. if your parents are still sponsoring you in your 20s, it is not an excuse to be lazy. Face life as a man, because it gets harder as you grow older.
8. Look for a woman you hate with a passion, then buy a house for her, a car, and maintain the house until you die. This is the pain that awaits you if you marry a woman who lies, manipulates, and is a deceiver because the body is what attracts you instead of the character.
9. Your biggest enemies will always be those in your inner circle. It is difficult to be envious of someone you don't know, who didn't watch grow from zero to hero. haters are harmless idiots who hate from afar, but envy is within. More people have been killed and backstabbed by those who know them than by strangers.
10. In anything you do, make sure that you are able to look at yourself in the mirror and have peace within. You might get away with treating people wrongly, but nothing will torment the soul more than your conscience. Conversely, nothing will burn your soul more than allowing injustice to be done to you because you have no teeth. Grow some teeth, and make sure you can use them, and that single act of deterrence will scare the dangers of this world away from you.
11. You have to be awake to outsmart women. Women by nature are next level' more socially aware than men, so it takes a conscious effort for most men to see themselves through the eyes of women. You will probably spend your life permanently with one, so it worth spending time (and resources) to know them.
12. Have a war mindset, because whether you like it or not, you are in a fight by default. Life is a battle that you win before going to the battleground. A battleground merely confirms your victory. A sheep and a lion don't have to enter the ring before we know that the lion has won.
Half the writeup here, I do. I do it subconsciously. Especially the last part. I like to do things that I know I will succeed in. Not going into things blindly and expecting magic. I like to catch things off guard and not the other way round. Thanks man.
candidtalk: Is there anything you lot will not link to Obi? Even the Sun rising this morning is credit to Obi.
It is actually Obi who was caught with 250 million in cash, proving he hoards cash, so he will likely be a victim of this policy not a beneficiary lol.
Writers employed by Seun. However the "predicament" "the op" is "going through" is not foreign in many homes. In fact a lot of men are yet to discover this. One would wonder 'what a good woman she is'.
LutherSanchez: Was coming back from work one day,tired and stressed out. At the bus stop was this woman heavily pregnant,trying to scuffle with young guys and ladies alike trying to get a cab... Me as a sympathetic fellow, duly begged her to please wait for a Sienna car as it's gonna be more spacious and would be convenient for her and her baby, because the normal taxi won't be comfortable for her,she looked me as if am am non existent and doesn't know what am saying.. Even me self,once it's not a Sienna car,i don't board it (i figured why stress myself and squeeze my legs,being uncomfortable while it's the same transport fare that you'll pay).. Waited for like 25 minutes,then alas!!! A Sienna Car came,the woman instead of her to go to the front sit, decided to go sit at the middle,i was seated at the front seat,some minutes after,our car left and like 15 mins later, because we were stuck in traffic,the woman started complaining that she's uncomfortable where she is,cos the place she is,there were like two fat guys besides here.... Normally i was minding my business at the front enjoying myself and space when a lady inside the car said "Make this bros wey dey front come sit here nah make she go sit down for front since the front seat get space well well",i just turned back and looked at her then faced front again without replying her. Another guy repeated the same thing again,I told the guy that i can't simply do that,and people in the car most especially women started their normal Manipulation,is it were to be your mother bla bla or your sister,would you say you cannot change sit for her,that i should consider the fact that she's pregnant and vacate the seat for her..... All these while,i kept shut,twas when they're done that i told them that...
1. I wasn't the one that told her to get pregnant when she knows she doesn't have a car ...
2. Because she's pregnant doesn't mean she's entitled to shit from anyone,the only person she's entitled to shit from is the person that got her pregnant...(That's if the dude is willing to jeopardize his happiness)
3. Am as equally as tired and stressed out as her and probably gonna pay same T.Fare as her ,so why do i have to sacrifice my own happiness for her own happiness..
They were all dumbfounded... Got to my junction and alighted happily,wetin concern me...
Another reason you shoulda pointed out to them was, you tried to advise her to pic Sienna but she ignored you. So why you go give up your chair.
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