People clearly do not understand the outsized role that the US plays on this planet, that's why they mouth these gratuitous amounts of nonsense.
If the US were to fall into chaos today, your life in West Africa would be over as you know it. You must think this is a game.
Your health sector is HEAVILY subsidised by USAID. Without a functional US govt, Nigeria's entire HIV antiretroviral and family planning health programmes would cease to exist.
Your goat's open tyranny has only the US as its SOLE counterbalance. Who else will do it? India? EU?
The US dollar is the global reserve currency. Without a functioning US Treasury Department, global trade as you know it ceases to exist. No imports, no exports.
That container you're waiting for while cheerleading an anarchist in the White House...oh well.
The US is not just another country, and its internal politics are not a TV drama.
You better learn about the world you live in and stop being wilfully stupid because you love a strongman.
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Of all the Trump legacies I hate, the one that I hate the most and that is the most universal is pride in foolishness. It's now cool to have absolutely nothing inside your head.
Just be as loud, brash and unapologetic as possible about it and you're a hero now.
Never read, research, fact check or even do a Google search - just shoot from the hip and then turn it into a shouting match when you're called up on it.
All information is now equal - there is no such thing as an objective fact or truth anymore - it's all about who can shout!
My loudly expressed ignorance = Knowledge and expertise.
My flippant opinion = All considered positions.
My unsubstantiated feelings = confirmed and documented facts.
My Dunning Kruger syndrome = Confident expert knowledge.
If you call out my ignorance, I just talk over you
People are really stupid sha. Going on about "Biden stole the election." How??? Do you even know how the U.S. electoral system works?
A system with no singular point of failure in Washington DC, but rather 13,000 independent local electoral bodies.
You think this is INEC????
Lack of knowledge and refusal to google things in the 21st century is basically natural selection.
5 people have died now because they believed some bullshit an orange man told them about an election being "stolen ."
An election that is functionally impossible to steal🤷🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
A simple google search and a glance at Wikipedia will tell you that fear of a single point of failure is exactly why the US has no federal agency overseeing voting, but rather this power is fully decentralised to all states and counties.
Same way Igbo people are just as Nigerian as anyone else, yet the Nigerian military conducted an ethnic genocide against them in the name of "nationalistic" war effort.
If you really love a country, you don't need a megaphone and a gun to prove it. You just do.
I can wake up tomorrow and start scapegoating Efik people as the problem of Nigeria. I will call myself a "Nigerian nationalist" and claim that I love Nigeria so much that I want to get rid of the group I have arbitrarily designated as its "problems."
Maybe now some people can stop pretending that this was ever about anything but racial animus.
This has been brewing since Timothy McVeigh's Alfred Murrah bombing in 1995. Finally we are here.
The entire free world is now in critical danger because some people aren't over 1864.
Every single year, the FBI publishes a threat assessment that ranks domestic terrorism from white separatist political formations as a bigger threat than even Islamoc terrorism.
Every year DC clears its throat and looks away because god forbid they offend Jimbob in Ohio.
Congratulations. We've now arrived at the destination we've been travelling to for 25 years.
Maybe now they'll finally accept that Jimbob is not more important than the world's most successful civilisation and more importantly, that he will destroy it if they let him do it.
Once upon a time, there was a neighbourhood which was a popping upper middle class district of Lagos. Till now if you wander round it, you will see abandoned properties with architecture that hints at what it once was.
There was even a Corona School there when I was growing up.
The Ibru family owned vast amounts of prime waterfront real estate there. It was actually too expensive for many of our parents who owned property in VI and Ikeja to invest in at the time. Living there was a status symbol.
But people started violating the urban planning code.
It was near Nigeria's busiest port, so people began selling and leasing out their land to developers who built tank farms, container terminals, warehouses and trailer parks.
Slowly, this neighbourhood turned into a crime-ridden industrial slum with collapsed infrastructure.
1. Leaving the diaspora and moving to "Gohna🇬🇭" without a plan for earning income, then trying to survive in Gohna by monetizing your new YouTube channel about life in Gohna.
This thing is becoming a ponzi scheme and it must stop⛔