idealistic realist

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

Meanwhile, Donald Trump on Elon Musk...

[ALX 🇺🇸 @alx]

Elon Musk on Donald Trump: “The more I’ve gotten to know President Trump, the more I like him. I love the guy, he’s great”

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Take any population on earth.

For several generations, remove their most physically capable members by force and sell them abroad.

Destroy their existing political institutions and replace them with administrative structures designed to extract rather than develop.

Draw their borders to maximize ethnic conflict and minimize political coherence.

Extract their mineral and agricultural wealth for a century at prices you set unilaterally.

When you leave, install governments that serve your economic interests rather than their populations.

Fund civil wars when those governments are threatened by leaders who want to redirect resource revenues toward domestic development.

Then, three generations later, administer a cognitive test.

Compare the scores to those of the populations who spent the same period accumulating capital, building universities, developing public health infrastructure, and compounding the advantages of political stability.

Put the results on a map.

Call the map a "nature documentary."

Tell yourself the scores show something biological.

Tell yourself the history had nothing to do with it.

Tell yourself you arrived at this conclusion by following the evidence.

You did not follow the evidence.

You followed the map to the place you had already decided to go.

And the evidence, the entire, documented, sourced, cross-disciplinary evidence, is the invoice you refused to open.

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

@damisi_kv @Chetuyachinago So why even comment at all, knowing you'd be missing the full context, when you've purposely chosen to not read till the end?

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

On Friday, May 15, 2026, highly organized armed bandits launched coordinated, ruthless raids on schools in the Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State. The attackers arrived in massive convoys of motorcycles, systematically targeted multiple learning centers across the local government, and brutally rounded up innocent students, pupils, and teachers, forcing them deep into the nearby forests at gunpoint.

Oyo State is a territory incredibly endowed with massive, highly lucrative deposits of solid resources and critical minerals. In fact, this year alone, there have been more than thirty high-profile arrests directly related to the illegal extraction of lithium. Those arrested notably include a compromised traditional ruler, Chief Jacob Adefabi Sobaloju, who treasonously handed out illegal mining permits in exchange for raw cash, allowing foreign agents to comfortably strip-mine valuable gold and lithium right inside the sovereign forests of Oyo.

On January 8, 2026, state security forces tracked a massive convoy of heavy-duty trucks carrying tons of lithium ore illegally mined from Oyo State. Security forces intercepted the convoy, impounded seven trucks of raw ore, and arrested six truck drivers. Two Chinese nationals were also arrested and forced to forfeit their assets, as they acted as the untouchable kingpins of the entire operation, working directly with six corrupt Nigerians to illegally mine massive quantities of lithium and mica, process it locally in hidden rural factories, and smuggle it out of the country through the porous, highly compromised ports of Lagos.

This terrifying feature of insecurity, banditry, and terror activities currently exploding in Oyo State is absolutely not a coincidence. We witness the exact same bloody connection in other highly mineral-rich states like Nasarawa, Zamfara with its blood-gold syndicates, Plateau with its columbite and tin deposits, and Taraba with its heavily looted sapphires and uranium.

So, as deeply painful as the situation is, when we watch the horrific videos posted on social media featuring traumatized mothers helplessly pleading for their lives, weeping for their abducted children, and begging the government to pay exorbitant ransoms, we must choose our vocabulary very carefully. We must urgently recognize that this form of systemic insecurity is not just random "kidnapping" or petty theft. It is not a bug in the system. It is a fundamental, heavily financed feature of a neo-colonial machine manufactured to violently clear local populations from their ancestral lands, to extract, refine, and smuggle these critical resources out of the continent, while the blood of innocent Nigerians is simply written off as necessary collateral damage on a corporate balance sheet.

If this undeniable connection between banditry and illegal mining is not enough to convince you that this insecurity is artificially manufactured to loot resources in Nigeria, please permit me to give you further operational details as to why such large-scale, synchronized kidnappings are physically impossible to pull off across different states of the federation without the active, treasonous backing of both local political giants and heavily armed foreign cartels.

To coordinate these massive attacks, these syndicates need a vast, highly paid human intelligence network on the ground to monitor the schools or religious centers that are always their primary targets, to meticulously map out complex escape routes, to identify which communities have weak vigilante presence, and to pay off local informants. The main combat operations involve highly trained, ruthless thugs wielding high-grade machine guns, anti-aircraft weaponry, and rocket-propelled grenades that cost tens of thousands of dollars on the black market. Their escape routes are pre-arranged to either completely bypass military installations, or to ensure that their marked vehicles are cleared by corrupt, highly paid police officers stationed ahead to avoid any friction during the operation.

Furthermore, to sustain such a prolonged, high-stakes military operation deep in the forest, you need highly secure communication channels to bypass signal triangulation from federal law enforcement agencies. This is why Starlink satellite terminals, encrypted satellite phones, dark web communication networks, and untraceable digital infrastructure are the preferred systems actively used by these terrorists. You also need thermal surveillance drones and real-time satellite feeds to monitor the square perimeter of the forest camps, to watch out for local vigilante groups or military convoys approaching, allowing the bandits to instantly regroup and evade capture.

Now you must understand that this is not a small, ragtag operation of hungry thieves. It is a highly sophisticated paramilitary campaign, and it would be absolutely impossible to sustain without both local comprador elites and foreign corporate cartels working shoulder to shoulder.

This knowledge is incredibly important, because from the naive uproars online and in real life, it is painfully clear that the vast majority of Nigerians do not draw this vital connection. Nigerians who have been thoroughly lobotomized by the democratic illusion truly believe that this deeply entrenched insecurity is just a political bug that can be magically corrected by simply voting the "right" candidate with their permanent voters card. Let me be brutally clear: it does not matter who you vote into the presidency, the insecurity will continue uninterrupted because the underlying economic incentives of the global resource cartels remain completely untouched.

Our brothers in the Sahel regions have even executed direct military coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, systematically throwing out the French imperialists, yet the same banditry and terrorism continues to bleed their borders. This again proves that the driving financial force behind this insecurity ravaging Africa and parts of the Global South is a structural, international resource war, and it is absolutely not something that a mere symbolic, democratic change in local leadership can easily correct.

What truly allows terrorism, illegal mining, and banditry to thrive is the absolute vacuum of the state. Yes, the foreign cartels provide the sophisticated weapons, the untraceable cash, and the satellite feeds to serve as the logistical backbone for the attacks, but this does not work in isolation. They need desperate agents on the ground to carry out these bloody attacks and to physically clear communities for illegal mining. These violent agents are obviously not recruited from the shopping malls, the air-conditioned bank offices, the university campuses, or the corporate boardrooms in the cities. They are recruited directly from the remote, impoverished rural communities that are completely detached from any state apparatus, economic oversight, or human dignity.

You see, because our government institutions are incredibly weak and aggressively corrupt, government budgets and fiscal spending are almost exclusively concentrated in the capital cities. This means the vast majority of these rural communities have absolutely no functional healthcare, their electricity supplies are non-existent, and in most villages, there are no power poles or wires. The people have to desperately depend on expensive solar panels or petrol generators just to sustain their petty businesses. There are practically no paved road networks, except for the major federal highways that lead straight to their towns solely for the government to deliver ballot boxes every four years or to host manipulative political campaigns.

All of this systemic neglect creates a massive, gaping government vacuum in rural communities across Nigeria, and this rolls out the red carpet for foreign nations to deploy intelligence-backed NGOs and establish heavily funded religious schools. These radical schools are where the vast majority of our twenty million out-of-school children get their basic education. Many times, these foreign-funded schools also offer daily feeding, free basic healthcare, community protection, and a twisted sense of belonging that the Nigerian state completely denies them. So, essentially, these radical institutions always operate as a highly effective, heavily armed state embedded directly within a failing state.

Most of these vulnerable students are heavily indoctrinated and later awarded exclusive scholarships to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other Middle Eastern nations to complete their militant Islamic studies, exactly the same path taken by Mohammed Yusuf, the very man who founded the Boko Haram terror network in Nigeria.

So, this bloody insecurity in Nigeria and the rest of the Sahel regions will never stop until this massive government vacuum is violently accounted for and permanently filled with genuine, socialist state infrastructure. This vacuum is exactly what paralyzes government intelligence agencies, such as the recent catastrophic case in Mali, where over 12,000 highly armed fighters completely overwhelmed the Malian and Russian military in Kidal in a massive surprise attack. For a hostile force of 12,000 troops to successfully coordinate and execute a fearless, synchronized attack on a state capital, it proves without a shadow of a doubt that the state is totally lacking in human intelligence. That critical human intelligence is missing because the local population is loyal to the parallel state that feeds them, rather than the central government that abandoned them.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There are Ghanaian engineers at NASA.

Ghanaian surgeons running hospital departments in London.

Ghanaian economists at the IMF and World Bank, some of them administering the very programs that have failed their home country.

Ghanaian mathematicians. Ghanaian architects. Ghanaian writers who have won international literary prizes.

Ghanaian tech entrepreneurs building companies that work.

When given access to resources, institutions, and an enabling environment, Ghanaians perform at the highest levels of every field.

This is not an argument that individual talent solves structural problems.

It is a refutation of the claim that the problem is the people.

The problem is never the people.

The people are everywhere.

The talent is everywhere.

The ambition is everywhere.

The capacity is everywhere.

What is not everywhere is the policy space, the institutional support, the geopolitical backing, the market access, and the freedom from externally imposed economic programs that systematically prevent the conversion of human capacity into collective industrial development.

The difference between a Ghanaian running a department at a London hospital and Ghana having a functioning public health system is not the Ghanaian.

It is everything around the Ghanaian.

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

@solexjp @ImANorthernGirl @narendramodi He's simply a politician doing what politicians always do - pandering.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Everybody knew who Trump was before he was elected. He raped E. Jean Carroll, he told you about his predilection for grabbing women by the p*ssy. His ex wife Ivana Trump testified in court that he raped her. Cheated on his wives. Slept with a porn star...

Since the 1970s, at least 28 women have accused Donald Trump of various acts of sexual misconduct, including rape, kissing and groping without consent, looking under women's skirts, and walking in on naked teenage pageant contestants (The Howard Stern Show).

He told us exactly who he was and you voted for him anyway. Now, people are reading these things for themselves. But, want to deny that it's true? Are these the spoils of rich men in America?

How did Trump become a God to these people?

Is everyone lying on him?

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

@olusola_alani @DidiBiggs @Mayoveli Somehow you still managed to equate being Black to evil.

Why couldn't he be a white dude running on white software?

Too many of you - even when attempting to appear illuminated - still think too highly of whites, and too little of yourselves.

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

@ken_Pbutler @KaiUzama @emiigolden Yes of course, every good Christian loves the man who famously said of women to "grab 'em by the pussy".

No one is surprised by this.

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

@kizi_ug @ajeropikin You're all over these comments with not a single understanding of the context of his tweet.

Sometimes, pause before tweeting your thoughts to the world.

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

@ShowBenson1 And what exactly is the motivation for feminism to "destroy the family unit"?

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

A different narrative is starting to hit the mainstream

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

@bweather43 @Mlx1360537 @sajitblr @Bitcojner @elonmusk And yet, here you are jumping to a conclusion that Trump was "never implicated in any wrongdoing" - without seeing or presenting any evidence whatsoever.

[Animal Mother 🐺🗡️ @Engxxxge]

“She lied about her age”

Let me tell you boneheaded ass niggas something:

Ain’t a universe, lifetime, or timeline where you wouldn’t be able to tell you’re talking to a fucking 14 year old.

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

@BlackAtheistNWA @pokemosity @Engxxxge Women in Europe grow differently from the rest of the world or what?

You can absolutely tell the difference between a 15 and 25 yr old in any part of the world, you fucking predator.

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

@MegaLoScani @okaythenfuture Sounds to me like you're looking for servants to flex on, as opposed to raising well-adjusted humans.

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

@SGVT_ @ADogmaticCaveat @Celes_tine__ @0hour1 You're conflating terms.

Gentle Parenting ≠ Permissive Parenting.

If you're going to criticize something, at least properly understand the concepts first.

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

@temperedg12 @Quigons_miss @HackForumsNet @no_one_quits Oh, so like the USA.

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

@DeeWaynee94 @Mike14737621466 @Ariannnyy_ Silence isn't "data" though. It's confusion dressed as an answer. Data implies objectivity, ghosting=ambiguity.

Expecting clarity isn't emotional outsourcing either; it's simply expecting basic decency.

If you can start a relationship with words, you can also end it with words.

[idealistic realist @iPurist]

@uri_tibon @Kathleen_Tyson_ @leonardaisfunny Normal human beings do not "decide to escalate things" upon merely hearing a foreign language.

Otherwise, there would be chaos on every flight all over the world.