Muad'Dib

noblesse oblige || Striving for beauty and wonder.

[Muad'Dib @justin__grae]

Some people only exist as an example of what not to be.

[𝙋𝙖𝙢𝙢𝙮 ✨️ @_Pammy_DS_]

Ironically, some of the cruelest people in my life made me into the kindest person I am today.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

This is the comment I was looking for.

[ᜰ @socetyhatesjay]

brother, you’re myopic and it’s very painful to see. life goes on beyond the 4-5 years you’re going to spend in that school. imagine being grateful to your oppressors for morsels.

when i gained admission to unilag, i was paying 16k as fees. before i left, my fees skyrocketed to 200k. thanks to who???

because of the increment, they introduced this loan. they increased your fees and brought you loan option and you have the mind to tweet this.

[DUNE @dunemovie]

Glimpses of the future. Final Trailer tomorrow. Dune: Part Three only in theaters and IMAX December 18. Tickets on sale now around the world. https://t.co/2uVNytBk6e #DuneMovie #FilmedForIMAX

[Enyinnaya @enyinna_]

I have a 6 year plan for my law practice in Nigeria. On the 6th year, we’re going to set up a solid team for the sole purpose of taking institutions to court: from universities to hospitals.

They’ll hear it.

When we’ve done significant work, we’ll look into FGM. It’s a good thing I’m not hungry. And I’m not an activist. Certain things must be brought down with the people who enable them. And we’re not appealing to anyone too.

Beyond the courts, they’ll fight. They’ll fight dirty. Let them fight. There’s a battle ahead, gents. Let’s see how it goes.

[Enyinnaya @enyinna_]

I maintained a casual friendship with a woman who reached out to me because of what she saw in me. We grew closer over a period approaching two years. She was sweet in her disposition towards me, but eventually got the ick when I went through a crisis.

She’s neither the first nor the second. And one thing that comforts me is that I was prepared for it.

It’s easy for people to like me. Children, even dogs, smile when I look at them. I’ve inadvertently let down people’s guards within brief encounters. Even those who speak ill of me or envy me seem to harbour some admiration for me. I’ve met people who, despite having all sorts of negative things to say about me, betray their own assumptions when we meet. Perhaps it’s because I don’t necessarily express myself through resentment. I express myself through passion. I feel natural unless to those who are too prejudiced by the pedestal they put me on.

You’d think this makes it easy for me to make friends. But I’ve come to realise that people can be drawn to how I look, what I represent, or the role they imagine I could play in their lives, and mistake that attraction for love. Sometimes, they surrender to their own need for me and call it affection.

So when someone tells me how much they admire me, how they gravitate towards me, or how they feel about anything associated with me, I just smile. People enjoy seeing themselves perform love because it makes them feel something good about themselves. And that’s okay. Let people do as they please for themselves.

But I’m usually looking out for what the next person wants from me.

I don’t say this sadly. I’ve simply learnt not to confuse being desired with being loved, or being recognised with being truly appreciated, or more, being safe in someone’s affection.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

This is one of the best things I've ever read.

From Chesterton:

[Yehgha @yaygha]

What you do for her makes you love her; it does not make her love you.

It is the things she does for you that makes her love you. If she does not do stuff for you, she does not love you.

For God *SO LOVED* the world that he *GAVE*...

[Enyinnaya @enyinna_]

People to me in 2023: “Enyinnaya, I get you, but you’re too smart to be having those ‘incel conversations’.”

They didn’t want to discuss what was frustrating them privately because they were more concerned with appearing cool to the same women who had no problem saying “men are scum.” They didn’t even want to acknowledge those things and would rather dismiss the concerns of a few men as “skill issue.”

On the one hand, they didn’t want to be called toxic, backward, or whatever else. On the other hand, they believed attacking men who didn’t care about that made them superior. Now, they’re forming communities around the very issues they once called me controversial for speaking about.

I wouldn’t care enough to identify with such communities because all I did was write about it, it’s not like I wanted my identity to be tied to that.

The thing with many men these days is that they aren’t necessarily “bad guys”. They aren’t good either. They’re just weak. Bland. Even with the show off, they don’t command any respect. Just so fleeting and fragile and simple. Oddly easy to forget. Which is interesting because they spend their whole presence trying to show significance or impact.

Thinking as a man: if I were a woman, I’d be very comfortable with being single until later in life—as I am as a man.

“Men are now reawakening,” yeah yeah, bleh.

[Muad'Dib @justin__grae]

@Mrpossidez Failure in a particular field is more common than success.

When people talk about making it in a particular field, they only use success stories as examples, while neglecting the very large percentage of people that went that route, did their best and still failed.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

Never underestimate the value of deeply loving and supportive parents. There is literally no amount of money in the world, nor greatness, brilliance or accomplishment that can award you loving parents. You either have them, or you don't. And if you have even one, you are blessed.

[48 Laws Of Power Bot @48_quotes]

Recognize the fortunate so that you may choose their company, and the unfortunate so that you may avoid them.

Misfortune is usually the crime of folly, and among those
who suffer from it there is no malady more contagious:

Never open your door to the least of misfortunes.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

The female equivalent of the pick up artist is the conceited woman who endlessly self-aestheticises, poeticising about devotion, spirituality and archetypal romance, imitating the mythic and speaking in its register, whilst possessing none of the integrity, humility or necessary depth and obsessive force to properly create and sustain what she wants you to think she intimately embodies and breathes.

This farce - even more than smut itself - is the height of feminine porn, a debasement and corruption of the pure through the masturbations of the pretender - a mock beauty paraded and adorned to signal a greatness that is conceptualised as it is repeatedly verbalised, without ever being internalised. The signalling itself as a mode of incessant consumption is the product, because that which it implicitly markets does not even exist.

In any other domain, we’d call that a scam. With the unimpressive but imaginative woman, we generously call it “romantic imagination”.

Like the pick up artist, the pretender muse tries to pass herself off as a woman far more soulfully pretty, morally virtuous and intricately sophisticated than she really is, to try and entice a caliber of man she does not grasp or deserve.

For every 1,000 pretenders there is approximately one genuine article. You do not know her, because she does not want you to know her, and so as far as you’re concerned she does not exist - your entire reference frame is fakes.

The genuine article is so rare, that the frauds are the majority and so deception easy, for most men do not have a genuine reference point to compare the pretender to, and so think her remarkable until they see beneath her performance and realise she’s shallow. Masks are temporary, they can only be worn for so long until they begin to crack and invariably drop. In terms of rarity then, the psychic would be more analogous to the muse than the pick up artist, for they too perfectly encapsulate what it is to be the mythical exception in a den of frauds.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

The real price you pay for being in a place you don’t belong, is pretending to be someone you’re not - the slow erosion of your soul to permit your material survival through a thousand slow cuts to your essence.

Most people are dead by 30 because not even a decade of habitual faking and they’re already withered husks. Zest and optimism is unremarkable and generally normal for teenagers and young adults, but rare beyond one’s nascent youth for good reason - life is full of soul sucks, and so people lose themselves along the way.

Sometimes, you do what you have to do. You don’t always have the luxury of being free to be you. Just make sure that when you’re in enemy territory, you have a corner of your head you can retreat to where the real you is just free to be. They don’t have to see - that’s fine - but do not conceal yourself even from you.

[Enyinnaya @enyinna_]

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[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

The best thing about a child's questions is that even when they are simple, they are honest and without agenda - they are not trying to trap you or coming with preconceived notions you will have to do battle against - they simply wish to understand the thing for its own sake, and in doing so make you question and flesh out your presumed knowledge to ensure you know what you're talking about, and can communicate that clearly.

[Yehgha @yaygha]

Everything good in your life today required work, effort, stress and 'mental games'.

Your degrees
Your business
Your well paying job
Your best friendships

None of these things came without stress.

But somehow you want a good relationship without any of those things.

You don't want stress. You don't want to do mental games. You just want to live in romantic utopia and rest your head on a woman's breasts while singing kumbaya.

But you do mental games to pass exams, send proposals, apply for visas, prepare for interviews, negotiate business deals, maintain a good rapport with your friends, and even to grow a twitter account, nau

You accept the intellectual and character demands of doing virtually everything you consider valuable.

So how come when it comes to the most consequential decision of your life, which is choosing the woman you will date and potentially marry, you suddenly develop an aversion for anything that stresses you?

Don't answer that. I will help you.

It is not the stress or mental gymnastics per se that you do not like, because, as I have already pointed out, almost everything good in your life today is a result of stress and mental games on your part.

You clearly do not have a fundamental objection to playing stressful mental games.

What you object to is being told to do the same mental gymnastics in a domain you simply do not have the strength of character for:

Romance with women.

There, I spelt it out for you. Thank me later

But instead of you to acknowledge this weakness and work towards overcoming it, you protect your fragile ego by attempting to discredit advice that was not even directed at you

"Too stressful"

"Mental games"

"Opt for situationship"

It's like catching another person's sub and impelled by your insecurities, jump to defend yourself against something that was not even meant for you.

Toh!

Your problem is not stress

Your problem is not mental gymnastics.

Your problem is temperamental fragility

Your problem is emotional incontinence

Your problem is your inability to stop your judgement from being subordinate to your emotions when a women you love enters the fray.

Your problem in basic terms, is weakeness

But since strength is foundational to masculine identity and social standing, admitting that weakness would threaten both how you see yourself, and how you want others to see you.

So you resort to self deception, and attack any advice or suggestion that threatens that delusion.

You convince yourself that the problem is not your inability to exercise emotional discipline, but the supposedly unreasonable demands of any advice asking you to do so.

That is exactly what you're doing.

Okay, okay... I've talked too much.

The point is, you cannot enjoy the rewards of a 'good' relationship without the emotional discipline, strength of character and strategic thinking required to build one?

All worthwhile pursuits demand effort, discipline and difficulty

Or as you'd rather call them "mental games"

Real life is not some hollywood romantic slop where the good guy "follows his heart", marries the beautiful girl and lives happily ever after.

In the real world, following your heart is a remarkably effective way to ruin your life. Try it and find out.

I'll see you in 5 years

[Yehgha @yaygha]

By breadcrumbing

Instead of 200k at once, make it 20k and spread it across months.

Instead of getting her that iPhone 18 that you can comfortably buy, get her a 14PM

Instead of opening a business, give her 20k every now and then while reminding her to get a job

Instead of calling her today, and calling again tomorrow, call today and don't call again until she calls

If she called to ask for money, that does not qualify as a call.

Instead of asking her to come over this weekend, and then again next weekend, ask her this week, and don't ask again until she invites herself

The point is

1. whenever you think of giving her something that costs x, divide x in half, then give her that half

Even/especially if you can comfortably afford x.

2. Give her room to reciprocate the bare minimum things that she can reciprocate. That way, it is much easier to gauge her commitment to you.

And the easiest example here is calls. If you're calling more than her, whilst spending on her, what exactly is she doing for you then.

She may not be able to spend much money on you so the asymmetry there is expected.

But anything else that she can do for you to balance what you do for her, you have to take a step back and allow her do it.

That is where calls and initiating visits come in.

She should be calling you more than you call her. That is one of the easiest ways to know when she starts cheating on you - because the calls will stop.

But if you're the one doing most of the calling while also doing all of the spending, then you're setting yourself up.

Your financial investment in her must be reciprocated by investments from her in other areas.

And no; sex is not an investment because it is an infinite resource she gives to everybody

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

ENDSARS LEKKI TOLL GATE: NEVER FORGET OCTOBER 20, 2020

Today, October 20, 2026, marks the sixth anniversary of the Lekki Toll Gate shootings, a painful reminder of the price Nigerian youths paid in their demand for a better country.

On that fateful night, peaceful #EndSARS protesters were met with gunfire. Lives were lost, many were injured, and the nation was left with questions about justice, accountability, and the sanctity of human life.

We must never forget. We must never normalise injustice.

As we remember the victims, I reaffirm my belief that a New Nigeria is possible—a country where citizens are protected, not brutalised; where young people are heard, not silenced; and where government power is exercised with responsibility and respect for human rights.

Nigeria must become a nation where no citizen is punished for demanding good governance and a better future.

May the souls of the departed continue to rest in peace. May their sacrifice strengthen our resolve to build a Nigeria where this tragedy will never be repeated.

A New Nigeria is POssible. A Nigeria where every life matters. -PO

[Tennis is Rigged @KaboomKinggg]

If your name is Gaël Monfils and you're reading this, get back on the court for the whole of next season. You deserve to go out on a high. You've earned this.

P.S. I'd also love to see you play doubles with a Russian partner preferably Putin

[Enyinnaya @enyinna_]

More and more into the future, I'll be justified by my position that people today can't be as mentally mature as previous generations, because they use social media to distract themselves from self evaluation.