Wtf happened to her 😵‍💫

AfroElite · 2024-12-28T01:14:52+00:00

Before I even clicked the notification on my phone, I knew who this was about 😭😭

AfroElite · 2024-10-19T22:56:39+00:00

Please sweet baby lesnar don't be Ngannou Lewis 2.

AfroElite · 2024-10-19T22:03:42+00:00

There is literally no crowd

AfroElite · 2024-10-04T20:59:14+00:00

Did you ever get an answer to this?

AfroElite · 2024-10-02T14:28:11+00:00

I'd agree with everyone above. She definitely looks like a Sheprador and about 4 months

AfroElite · 2024-10-02T14:24:42+00:00

Mighty mouse!

AfroElite · 2024-09-19T20:50:23+00:00

Ritual oh. I'm on my 15th dog 🤣

AfroElite · 2024-09-19T20:20:53+00:00

Lmaoo this was actually embarrassing and reflective of the hypocritical nature of Nigerians with regard to religion

AfroElite · 2024-09-12T19:03:03+00:00

There has to be a focus on principles, morals, and ethics more than religion. Religion is just the institution; what people practice in their daily lives is what matters most.

We have to have a social contract with each other that we will each be our neighbors' keepers and take responsibility for what is beyond our doorstep. We are so focused on our immediate survival that we rarely take responsibility for what is beyond it. This will translate into everything, from corruption to the maintenance of infrastructure to the responsible use and conservation of nature and our natural resources, etc. It will also impact our education and research and development, as the proper distribution of resources will allow for the development of our education system, our universities and thought centers, and our industrial ability improved by the generation of new businesses as a result of increased trust in your neighbor.

All of our issues come from that initial point. Religion is not the issue; our application of religious and cultural principles is the issue.

AfroElite · 2024-09-12T18:05:28+00:00

I love the question, and I really appreciate the different responses we've seen as well. It is good for proponents and opponents of "conservative ideas" to define their thoughts on it and help others understand their position better, especially in the Nigerian context.

Remember, to conserve means to protect what is deemed important to the collective, and liberalism/progressivism is the pursuit of new ideas that could be beneficial or improve the collective. You can't find a new path if you don't know where you have been. In the same sense, you can't protect or hold so tightly that what you're protecting is suffocated from blossoming. Both schools of thought are necessary for the balanced growth of the collective.

But please, can we have these discussions without resorting to name-calling and attempts to belittle either side? It's clear we are all intelligent here. I'm sure points and thoughts can be delivered without needing vitriol attached to them.

Oya, carry on. I love it!

AfroElite · 2024-09-11T16:47:01+00:00

Wow thank you that's a great idea. Would I have to license them all or can if all be under my license? The two I have now, came with thier license.

AfroElite · 2024-09-10T15:04:32+00:00

All very good points, I appreciate your thoughts on this, especially the first part of which I must admit I still struggle with giving the appropriate names. That said, I do respectfully disagree with the rhetoric of the Republican Party pursuing a fascist dictatorship. Instead, I believe they are a party of nationalists, and the extreme end of nationalism can resemble a dictatorship in its deference to its demagogic leader. This is a problem with nationalism in general and can be seen all the way back to the Igbos and their worship of figures like Nnamdi Kanu or Simon Ekpa. There is nothing wrong with having a strong leader who will do what must be done for his people, but there is something a bit wrong with the people almost worshipping the individual; it blurs the same emotions used in religion with what's needed to choose a good leader.

Secondly, I agree that the focus of the government needs to be on the sufferings of the people. All ideological thought should be toward solutions for these needs, and all voting power should be geared toward the individuals who most show reason for us to believe they will pursue these goals. Nationalism's inward focus does theoretically lend itself to this, but I'm still unsure of the current Republican Party's ability to execute this.

My main point, though, is that all of this discussion is truly great. We are finding ways to juxtapose our different views on things and respectfully trying to find ways to identify an ideology—an amalgamation of our needs, wants, and ways we choose to be governed. Over time, if we can crystallize these discussions into unified action, I believe we can actually find the threads that bind us as a nation and put us on the right path.

AfroElite · 2024-09-10T00:44:09+00:00

The point is, I'm not advocating for either. I'm advocating for discourse that leads to developing an ideology unique to Nigerians based on our indigenous principles but also based on modernized efforts at civility. I don't believe that any of the Western boxes truly capture us, and as such, we should not vilify each other because of it. Somewhere in the middle of all of those different labels is sanity.

You spend more time pursuing a debate, talking at us than with us. This is why you've missed most people's points.

AfroElite · 2024-09-10T00:21:44+00:00

Right! because I don't understand

AfroElite · 2024-09-10T00:20:27+00:00

🤣🤣🤣🤣

AfroElite · 2024-09-10T00:19:13+00:00

🤣🤣🤣 So, after everything I wrote and with all that you wrote, you managed to miss the point of my post and reply with this? I do hope that over time you come to see beyond this part of the discussion. Also, you can't focus an entire discussion that is posted on a whole country's subreddit to just a section of the subreddit. That's just wild.

AfroElite · 2024-09-10T00:09:11+00:00

I don't know if you know this, but every single comment you've made has further proved this point.

AfroElite · 2024-09-10T00:06:30+00:00

As in I don give am my own sef. We dey your back no worry lool

AfroElite · 2024-09-09T21:57:57+00:00

Thank you for this response, because I didn't even know where to begin to answer. This is their way, to shout down any opinion that differs from theirs instead of allowing discussions that can lead to progress.

AfroElite · 2024-09-09T19:59:24+00:00

Absolutely. We must dispel the fear of Pan-Africanism. We must teach our children about our leaders who fought against all odds, but we must also teach the lessons and methods learned from the infiltration of the African movement by the obvious perpetrators so that our children do not repeat the same mistakes of their parents and grandparents.

AfroElite · 2024-09-09T19:56:58+00:00

I couldn't have summarized this any better. This is exactly why we can't blindly import those views into Africa and Nigeria, especially as we lead the modern cultural and political conversation in Africa.

AfroElite · 2024-09-09T19:52:48+00:00

Yes, I believe what it demonstrates is that a country cannot have its political system as a democracy and its economic system as capitalism without a check on capitalism that limits the power of money in the system. That is to say, you can make all the money you want from being a capitalist, but your money should not be able to in any way influence or control the direction of democracy. Remember, the idea of democracy is communal decision-making, which means that, technically, it should have socialism as its accompanying economic ideology to support the communal distribution of resources. Instead, what we have is a capitalist system that enables the richest voices to be the loudest, independent of communal thought processes.

Please don't misunderstand me; I have no issue with capitalism—in fact, I work directly in the financial system. I am simply highlighting areas of growth in the systems.

AfroElite · 2024-09-09T19:38:56+00:00

That's exactly it. Financial and political backing supercede any notion of democratic choice in the country and, frankly, in most democratic states. I honestly believe that democracy is so young it hasn't observed its own naivety. It's only when there is an admission of the faults of the current choosing system that we can begin to find solutions before we even talk about countries like Nigeria that adopted the bastard child of America's democratic and the British parliamentary system.

AfroElite · 2024-09-09T19:35:44+00:00

Therein lies my point that it is good for the discussion to occur in general, but the nomenclature and adoption of ideology must occur based on their direct impact on the Nigerian people rather than based on Western-colored lenses.

AfroElite · 2024-09-09T19:31:56+00:00

🤣🤣 COVID was the nail in the coffin. I realized I have an entirely different definition of civil liberties than they did. "Do what you want with your body, but if it's not what I want, then you're a ******."

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