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27/07/2004
Obama was introduced to the American people.
That night in Boston.. He delivered a speech so good that experts say:
"Without that speech, he wouldn't have been President"
I've spent 7 hrs dissecting it.
And it's one of the best VSL's I've seen
A 9mins read. 🧵
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Currently 1600+ on Lichess..
Haven't read any books or even learnt the board notations.
As long as I keep winning people rated higher than me, I'll get to 2000. Just with time.
During that Christland school girl saga, one of my tweets was mass reported. Twitter then restricted my account and gave me the option to delete the 'offending' tweet to regain access.
I had chaotic internal deliberations over it for some time and in the end, I deleted it.
Immediately after, I felt myself losing virtue
I felt gagged
I felt like a coward
felt I had betrayed myself
felt I had cowered in the face of consequence
felt my illustrious slave owning ancestors look down on me in disappointment regret and contempt.
Couldn't shake the feeling, so I asked myself
"What's the worst thing that can happen if I make that same tweet again"
"You lose an account with 14k followers"
Was the answer
Small price to pay
So I made the tweet again.
A couple hours later, the account got suspended.
Saw the pop up notification on the bottom right corner of my screen while working and swelled with pride
Because I had redeemed myself, regained my dignity and the respect of my ancestors
I had stood on business until the very end - the business here being going against concensus and saying what I believe to be true irrespective of how much it costs me.
Moral of the story:
Those who say they want a better Nigeria
Those who admonish others to get their pvc, have refused to realise that the Nigeria they want will not happen via the ballot box.
We have been trying that channel for decades across republics. It doesn't work
So the Nigeria they want - or more realistically, the version of Nigeria they want - whatever name it is called, will have to be payed for in blood
A lot of it
2027 will come, Tinubu will 'win' - Whatever 'win' means
And we will either tweet about it over a weekend, and resume work on the Monday that follows
Or we will make the country ungovernable until he steps down. Shots will ring out, blood will spill, mothers will cry but that is the only way
If we are not willing or able to do that; to suffer, to sacrifice, to bleed, then we do not want a country that works
Our desire for a better Nigeria, is in a fundamental sense, like my belief in the freedom of speech:
It is only as meaningful as the price we are willing to pay for it.
If we are not willing to suffer for it, we do not want it.
Desire without sacrifice is wishful thinking
and if wishes were horses...
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"For Hailey, who, everytime I see her, leaves me more amazed.
For Dawson, who, everytime I see him, leaves me more convinced he will do great things.
For Leia, who, everytime I see her, leaves me a happier man."
-Robert B. Cialdini
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Nigerians only unite in the face of an external aggressor.
We are ultimately too divided to bring about a change via revolution in this country.
Therefore, it is an intelligent assumption that we are onwards a downward slope with no ray of light.
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This!
The most powerful men worship Baal and sacrifice kids on islands
This magnitude of darkness exists because an even greater light has perpetually persisted
You may have questions as to why the source of light has turned blind to these evil, but do not deny it's existence.
the Light because a shadow can only exist if there is a light casting it.
Think of a criminal who prints counterfeit hundred-dollar bills. Why does he do it? He does it because he knows that somewhere out there, a real central bank exists, and real hundred-dollar bills hold