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Wow! People in their thirties and forties are old??? You people are scaring me!!!🏃🏾♂️🏃🏾♂️🏃🏾♂️🏃🏾♂️
Fox: "Why are you here this morning?"
Trump rally attendee: "Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front."
Listen, if you don't understand this joke, then you will understand why studying history is critical. 🤐
"Under King Leopold II, 15 million Congolese people died as a result of physical abuse and outright murder and mutilation due to exploitation for slave labor and resources, starvation, and disease.
Cecil Rhodes is responsible for millions of deaths of African people, as result of his greed for diamonds, which caused him to take over entire areas of "Rhodesia" (now Zimbabwe), bringing in military forces to enforce his power, all the better so he could get rich.
His DeBeers mining company caused the violence which dispossessed millions from their homelands, and laid the groundwork for blatantly racist policies like apartheid.
Winston Churchill was a vehement racist and imperialist whose actions caused 4 million Bengal people to starve to death. He even made openly racist remarks once saying, out loud and recorded for posterity, "I hate Indians. They're a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits". He felt that power should be arranged in a "tiered" form with white people at the top, because white people were the "superior race". His policies in that area were brutal and unapologetic.
The point is, if we are going to talk about powerful, greedy men who are historically responsible for the deaths, injuries, displacements, and other horrible crimes against human beings, we need to understand that the worst of these were not committed against white people. They were committed against Black people, and other people of color, by white men. Period point blank, end of discussion!!
Now that we can access and research the actual histories, let's get our facts straight.
It might also be a very good time to stop being lazy and depending on memes. Click around a little, and learn some things before the stinky orange pile of shit in the torn up house previously known as the White House and his greedy and ignorant rich fascist friends remove the entirety of the truth from our sources for information.
If you do add information to the memes you post, you also have less of a chance of having your post dropped into the news feeds of trump supporting white trash, who will run run run to drop their laughing emojis and their irrelevant hateful opinions based on nothing but their obsessive, jealousy-based hatred of a former president who is Black."
- Christine Swinler
0ctober 29, 2026
#DaughterOfAmadiOha
"This is one of the most unpatriotic statements I have ever heard in my life. If you understand what this man said here, then you will understand how disturbing it is to have people with this type of mindset run our government.
What he said outrightly here is that they at ACN (now APC) knew that Jonathan's government was doing well. They knew that the policy he was trying to implement was very good for Nigeria and Nigerians but because they didn't want him to succeed they lied to Nigerians about the policy. We knew that Jonathan was right but because we wanted to take power, we found a way to condemn what he was doing and even deceived Nigerians to come out and protest against it. Simply put, what this man is saying here is that they knew Nigeria was heading to a good direction but they disrupted it for their own selfish reasons. What it means is that these guys don't mind putting Nigeria in a bad condition just so they can get power.
This is so serious and so disturbing. He is actually saying that all the protests they organised against Jonathan were fake and NEVER about the interest of Nigeria or Nigerians but just for them to grab power. Now I understand why Peter Obi would always say, that he won't be in any coalition just for the sake of grabbing power.
This statement from this man shows you that the people in power right now don't give a damn about Nigerians. Now you understand why they implement these harsh policies since 2015. Now you understand why they live in plenty while Nigerians are becoming poorer by the day.
Now you understand why APC has thrown over hundred million Nigerians into poverty. It's simple. They don't care. Everything is politics for them. They play politics with people's lives. Very dangerous and very pathetic. God forbid.
Dear Nigerians, this man has told us plainly that APC is not in power for you but for themselves.
We must do something about it in 2027."
- @governance_101 10-26-2025
What Twitter has shown me: All my life I've been conned into reading many books and essays that should have ended at exactly 280 characters.🚶🏿♂️
What if the hundreds of millions of dollars given to Nigerian NGOs were simply dumped on Makoko and IDP camps from airplanes instead?💪🏾🙌🏾🎉
Just wondering: How were hundreds of millions of USAID funds spent in Nigeria?
"A Ream of Paper" by Jane Hirshfield, from her 2020 book Ledger.
It's beautiful. But then, many Nigerian poets have attended MFA mills where they are taught to write like this. It's beautiful, it's personal, do not compare this poetry to the poetry of previous generations before globalization - or you'll be mightily frustrated. This generation of Nigerian poets is like no generation before it. The reader has to merely adjust his expectations and the edge will wear off. Or should it? It is well.
- October 29, 2025
Transportation in Nigeria is expensive sha. Fly to four places round trip, one million Naira don drop! Road trips are gas guzzlers. I don't know how people survive there! Glad to be back here in the US where my only stress is yelling at Donald Trump!
