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I understand. I am making a

rmrd0000 — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 01:30:18 +0000

In reply to AGAIN!!!!The initial article

I understand. I am making a clear point. There is no one in the Trump administration who can criticize the Nigerian police.on the world stage. I'm talking about addressing police abuse in other nations. No one in the WH can criticize any police force

The leader of Hong Kong can now say the US is a hypocrite for criticizing the actions Hong Kong police took against protesters.

https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-slams-us-double-standards-with-protests/a-53655150

We have no moral voice on the issue whether it be Nigeria or Hong Kong.

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I don't take anything you say

NCD — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 01:10:14 +0000

In reply to I thought it was cute the way

I don't take anything you say anymore very seriously. I put some facts out, amongst the arguing, ribald chatter and "sarcastic mockery", for anyone interested.

AGAIN!!!!The initial article

artappraiser — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:22:53 +0000

In reply to You are all over the map.

AGAIN!!!!The initial article is not about U.S. interfering in Nigeria's affairs, nothing about that here! Zero zip. You are introducing it. Adekoya is not American. He is not suggesting the U.S. interfere. He is suggesting to Nigerians that Nigerians need to adopt western democratic ideals.

On this tweet: you CLEARLY have zero understanding of what I am refering to. And that it's ironic.

WHY NOT JUST REFRAIN FROM COMMENTING WHEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND?! Or at least humbly comment. Instead of trying to start an argument about something that doesn't even apply...

CRIMINY! So absurd, it's no different trying to communicate with you than with "Anonymous", it's that bad. You have a very closed narrow approach to everything. What you don't realize: that's textbook xenophobia.

You are all over the map.

rmrd0000 — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:07:57 +0000

In reply to Serendipity I just ran across

You are all over the map. Which administration official would you have give advice Nigeria? Trump?

Trump is not winning.

Generals have turned their backs to him.

Documents discovered at the

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:29:12 +0000

In reply to 1. Germany declared war on

Documents discovered at the UN in 2017 show that the Allied Powers knew about the Holocaust in December 1942 and knew that 2 million Jews had already been murdered.

Serendipity I just ran across

artappraiser — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:13:56 +0000

In reply to rmrd can't even see a

Serendipity I just ran across this guy who clearly differs about the western civilization thing

People say that the West today has no goals, no metrics, no sense of purpose by which to measure itself.

Nonsense! The purpose of every politician, journalist, and intellectual is clearly to amass likes on Twitter. By extension this is now the purpose of Western civilization.
— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) June 15, 2020

It's a joke, but then it's not. If you look at the top of his thread, he started it by quoting a Daily Beast article about the NYTimes op-ed editorial dust up. He's basically saying the Trump way of doing things, i.e, "ratings" is winning. But it's not populism, it's twitterism?

rmrd can't even see a

artappraiser — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:55:04 +0000

In reply to Yes he did, And he thinks

rmrd can't even see a compliment about the U.S. BLM when he sees it.

I actually just posted the article because I am interested in the global reaction, there's the whole colonialist thing influencing the humanities and then there's how the BLM protests are affecting how other countries do about their own problems. Adekoya is especially interesting because, as bi-cultural, he has strongly argued to Nigerians that the western ideals about how civil society should be are superior to others, even though they did not apply them to the conquered when they were colonialists. That the answer to having been colonized is not to imitate the colonization by being brutal to each other, but to steal the ideals He definitely does not see any better ideals anywhere else. I.E., he doesn't think various tribal systems to lead to anything but disaster. (He was therefore probably strongly anti-Brexit, but I am not 100% positive as I didn't read him on that.)

It is widely agreed that Nigeria is a total mess, that's not controversial. Nigerians themselves think so. Lots of emigration anywhere they can go; I noticed looking into Nigeria discussions allover the place, both on Twitter and on Nigerian news sites-- Canada is popular because it's easy for them to get in for some reason.

He has spoken out about

rmrd0000 — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:51:28 +0000

In reply to Yes he did, And he thinks

He has spoken out about police brutality in England and Poland.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/12/europe-needs-to-talk-about-race-too/

There are protests against police brutality in African countries as well.

https://www.france24.com/en/20200613-after-the-death-of-george-floyd-africa-mobilises-against-police-violence

Which US agency would have a credible voice on the issue of police brutality?

I thought it was cute the way

ocean-kat — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:39:32 +0000

In reply to Are you arguing with OK? He's

I thought it was cute the way he took my sarcastic mockery seriously.

Yes he did, And he thinks

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:08:00 +0000

In reply to He brought the United States

Yes he did, And he thinks your opinion Is totally stupid and sucks. Read the article - he says Nigeria is so much more fucked than the US - hard to believe, isnt it.

But if we are to be real with ourselves, we also know that as a rule, 21st century America and other Western societies treat far more seriously the idea every human life is sacred than is the case in Nigeria.

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Nigerian lives will only matter when a preponderance of Nigerians determine that it must be so. Until then, a Nigerian life will continue to mean little if society does not consider you to mean much.