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Family › Re: Is This Not Enough Reason To Divorce Him? by SmartyPants(m): 7:41pm On Jun 18, 2023
yunus22:
I want talk to you sir
Hold on small. I'm too tied up with persobal commitments.

As God permits, i will get back to you.
Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Sierra Leone: AFCON Qualifier (3 - 2) On 18th June 2023 by SmartyPants(m): 6:54pm On Jun 18, 2023
Not surprised at all. These players are way below standard.
Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Sierra Leone: AFCON Qualifier (3 - 2) On 18th June 2023 by SmartyPants(m): 6:07pm On Jun 18, 2023
Nigeriagood:
ha zaidu and niddi played better na but Simon 🤔🤔
These players are below average. How many crosses did Zaidu make in the entire first half? Watch him well this guy can only pass in the direction his body is facing.
Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Sierra Leone: AFCON Qualifier (3 - 2) On 18th June 2023 by SmartyPants(m): 5:56pm On Jun 18, 2023
Reference:
Soccer Nigeria cannot see that the guy has reached the highest levels of performance he can muster for years now and cannot do more yet they cannot find a better replacement. We don't retire or replace people until they 'surrender' by themselves.
So many misfits in this team. Look at Zaidu...no single technical quality to his game. Such players are not supposed to be in the national team.

Moses Simon is another. Dribbling with zero end product. Ndidi still cant control simple balls.
Crime › Re: NDLEA Official, Umar Bala, Accused Of Raping His Colleague’s Fiancée In Lagos by SmartyPants(m): 5:30pm On Jun 18, 2023
That lady had feelings for the bala.
Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Sierra Leone: AFCON Qualifier (3 - 2) On 18th June 2023 by SmartyPants(m): 5:28pm On Jun 18, 2023
Hotwest:
that's if he even see a goal. He is over hyped on local games. He no dey perform
Any further comments?
Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Sierra Leone: AFCON Qualifier (3 - 2) On 18th June 2023 by SmartyPants(m): 2:54pm On Jun 18, 2023
Gppgn:
15 goals
No idea what you're trying to say
Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Sierra Leone: AFCON Qualifier (3 - 2) On 18th June 2023 by SmartyPants(m): 2:01pm On Jun 18, 2023
Hotwest:
that's if he even see a goal. He is over hyped on local games. He no dey perform
Really? Who has a better goal-scoring record in the history of the Super Eagles than Victor Osimhen? You should rather check the quality of your Super Eagles.

Midfielders that can't provide through passes, fullbacks and wingers that can't put in a single decent cross and you want a striker to thrive?
Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Sierra Leone: AFCON Qualifier (3 - 2) On 18th June 2023 by SmartyPants(m): 2:00pm On Jun 18, 2023
phobia2002:
Liberia not Sierra Leone. Monrovia is the capital city of Liberia
We're facing Sierra Leone in Liberia because Sierra Leone's stadium is currently not fit for games of this class.
Politics › Re: Tomide Akinribido Accuses Peter Obi Of Giving Delegates Cash Filled Envelopes. by SmartyPants(m): 10:23am On Jun 18, 2023
jmoore:
He said "Peter Obi started it". This line already shows the Tomide dude is a vulture. Tinubu, that the whole universe knows moves with bullion van but envelope that is very small is your focus.

Timlubuu clowns have already infested this thread. But when news of 40 people are slaughtered by bokoharam is created, they will avoid the thread.
It was an Obidient that said Peter Obi started it - that was in reference to the first tweet on rejecting monetized politics.

Why is it that you people don't reason well once Obi is in the news? slow down and process before rushing to defend!
Food › Re: David Hundeyin Advises Nigerian Chefs On The Mad Chase For Cook-a-thon GWR by SmartyPants(m): 10:17am On Jun 18, 2023
Kaxmytex:
Records are meant to be made and broken...

No emotions should be attached...
An Indian once hold the record before, a Nigerian break am, nothing xup if another Nigerian decides to make it a lil bit more difficult to be broken....
That's not the point. The point is, it's now boring. Every day trying to break the same record - it loses its flavour. It starts to sound like a broken record.

If you don't get it forgerrabourrit.
Politics › Re: What Boko Haram Leaders Told Me - Obasanjo by SmartyPants(m): 8:05pm On Jun 17, 2023
Nonybb:
Obasanjo is like darkness and light. This is a man that chose a Niger Deltan, GEJ, to succeed him, ignoring all the Igbo candidates but has now turned to promote Peter Obi
Meaning the Niger Deltan has less rights than an Igbo to be president?
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Bans Uganda Officials After Anti LGBTQI Law. by SmartyPants(m): 4:42pm On Jun 17, 2023
Treadway:
no, my reasoning is spot on.

Your words below
Among the underlying principles of democracy and the rule of law is the idea that what every applies to one man should apply to another - thus, a rule that specially targets one set of people to deprive them of rights due to others, is undemocratic, and in a functioning democracy, such a law should be held to be unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court of a standard democracy ought to find that such a law is unconstitutional because it violates the certain freedoms that are guaranteed to others.
Wrong. Democracy is based on the rule of law, not the rule of the majority, and it protects against all forms of tyranny, including that of the majority. That is why we have Courts that are empowered to defy the majority by overruling popular but unfair laws
.

If a law states that inanities like lgbtqrst are illegal, it tramples on the rights of 'those who feel they fall in these groups'. If a law states that polygamy is illegal, it tramples on the right of those who desire to have a harem of wives or husbands to be happy. The happiness of ALL is the principal thing right? Like you said true democracies and courts should defy the majority by over-ruling popular and unfair laws. Only thing is the US being the sick rabble rousers that they are, are just being a darn nuisance with their fake human rights crusade esp on LGBTQ. Make dem remove the logs in their eyes first, na then I go take them seriously. I no even wan go deeper, I'll just stick to this basic surface level premise
Wrong. Happiness is not the foundation of my argument. People can derive happiness from things that are bad, for example, paedophiles. or necrophiles to give a better example.

The general point I agree with but how you arrive there I don't agree with.

To explain further: the law that bans LGBTQ is not wrong just because it deprives you of your happiness. it is wrong because it is discriminatory.

It is discriminatory in the sense that it criminalizes something that happens entirely within the privacy of two consenting adults on the basis of morality while allowing other immoral acts that may happen within the same consenting-adult context.

My argument for polygamy is a little different and comes under the heading of the right to practice religion. Not allowing polygamy is not in itself discriminatory if you rule that everyone has to practice monogamy regardless of who they are. There is no discrimination in that sense; but the law overreaches to the extent that it prevents you from practicing your religion.
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Bans Uganda Officials After Anti LGBTQI Law. by SmartyPants(m): 4:08pm On Jun 17, 2023
Treadway:
lol

Therefore, the US is engaged in human rights violations by deeming polygamy illegal. Marrying several wives harm absolutely no one, and depriving people of that right is also a human rights abuse using your exact logic and words. The US and you, should remove the log in your eyes before talking about the speck in the eyes of others.
But why didn't you wait to find out whether i agree that not permitting polygamy is a human rights violation? I do agree.

However I may point out that your reasoning is wrong - nothing in my argument applies to the polygamy situation.
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Bans Uganda Officials After Anti LGBTQI Law. by SmartyPants(m): 3:59pm On Jun 17, 2023
anonymous1759:
You said we shouldn’t have laws that will not accommodate some people that everything should be fair. I referred you to Animals which we consume . The so called right for everyone to have a guns has resulted to hundreds of thousands of deaths . Not all things should practiced in the name of democracy .
So you're saying animals are people. Lol. Ok
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Bans Uganda Officials After Anti LGBTQI Law. by SmartyPants(m): 3:43pm On Jun 17, 2023
anonymous1759:
A working Democracy won’t legalize guns for every citizen if you want to look it from that angle. Animals shouldn’t be eaten too they’ve a right to live if everything is supposed to be treated with respect and equity .
How? The principle is equality of all - if a law says all citizens can own guns, then how is it unfair to anyone? Also did I say everything or is said everyone is to be treated with equality?

Who's shifting the goalposts now?

And why? huh
Politics › Re: Watch Out! Tinubu Will Be Nigeria's Best President Ever, Says Matawalle by SmartyPants(m): 3:28pm On Jun 17, 2023
Israel07:
I definitely don't know how to read at all which is being able to read what u typed here is very surprising to me. The person u quoted said Tinubu is making policies that are populist n u brought up subsidy which he countered n I'm as well. You're trying to give d praise to Tinubu which is not right n must stop as it is evil. You don't condemn a thing and then go back to praise that same thing. Nobody likes a dog that goes back to its vomit..
Just ignore.
You don't sound like coherent at all.

The person I quoted said Tinubu is making populist policies; I said, no his policies are not populist.

There is no iota of either praise nor condemnation in any of my comments. It's objective analysis - but even if I chose to praise him, what concern of yours is that?

lol. It's alright anyway! No problems.
Travel › Re: Black Cinderella Calls On Kenyan Ashawos To Come & Protect Nigerian Customers by SmartyPants(m): 3:16pm On Jun 17, 2023
Generalmystic:
Omo why are Nigerians being arrested in Kenya again?.

Why are they being extorted
When Nigerians talk down on this country so badly it is usually because they have never travelled and therefore have very little knowledge of what other countries are like.

Kenyan police are the most corrupt in the world and love to harass Nigerians -- of course, to be fair, some of our brothers have taken drug dealing and yahoo over there so there is this natural hatred they have for us.
Politics › Re: Watch Out! Tinubu Will Be Nigeria's Best President Ever, Says Matawalle by SmartyPants(m): 3:13pm On Jun 17, 2023
Israel07:
I didn't mean to be rude in anyway but if u found it to be so then it's completely an ego problem on ur part that completely has nothing to do with me... You said my humongous library had no paragraph yet u you could deduce the introductory paragraph is something i commend, You did well.
I also think you should stop deceiving urself with "populist" grammar u keep typing.
Subsidy removal was never populist at any point and Tinubu wasn't the first person to remove subsidy so you thinking it's worthy of praise or not populist according to you is weak.
Tinubu being a member but not part of the last regime is also a farce. He's a part by proxy, he had his own people there, Osinbajo being the most prominent.
Lastly this discuss is done. Just ignore it. .
The bolded is exactly what I have said in my last 3 comments. Do you know how to read at all?

Cheers anyway.
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Bans Uganda Officials After Anti LGBTQI Law. by SmartyPants(m): 3:10pm On Jun 17, 2023
anonymous1759:
Don’t shift goal post please there’s nothing like “ought to have have , standard democracy “
Allow every country to practice their own type of Democracy In peace . A standard democracy in America ought to have passed a bill against gun ownership in the USA killing people everyday I wonder what their Supreme Court judges are doing about it but their hands are tired because it’s democracy and majority of Americans still believe having your own gun is the best form of defense. That’s their democracy and they’re enjoying it let them live Uganda alone to practice theirs it’s not too much to ask
There's no shifting of any goalpost, perhaps you simply don't understand. Standard as I used it here does not refer to a type of democracy, it refers to a working democracy.

Among the underlying principles of democracy and the rule of law is the idea that what every applies to one man should apply to another - thus, a rule that specially targets one set of people to deprive them of rights due to others, is undemocratic, and in a functioning democracy, such a law should be held to be unconstitutional.

What does gun ownership have to do with this??
Health › Re: How Many Hours Do You Sleep In A Day? by SmartyPants(m): 2:18pm On Jun 17, 2023
workdays usually 1 am - 7 am ; weekends vary.

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