It would be good if more public figures -- both Republicans and Democrats -- say this to Israel: "You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have."
Full screen advertisements during the water breaks is crazy @FIFAcom@FIFAWorldCup does anyone actually buy the products being advertised during these hydration breaks, or do we just consider the game well and truly gone?
@hurtch The I in BIPOC means Indigenous. Everywhere-including Nigeria we're both from-is captured by American discourse, that's not unique to CAN.
Also this disregards how much African& West Indian immigration there's been, and how responsible that immigration is for a lotta CAN growth.
At the barbing salon.
Barber about to cut a kid. Asks his father what hairstyle he should cut for him.
Father says: "Ask him what he wants."
I shed a tear inside.
So @FIFAcom’s position is that a referee they selected for the World Cup can be excluded because of one host country’s racism, and FIFA bears no responsibility whatsoever.
Then why wasn’t he assigned to Canada or Mexico?
The tournament has three host countries. The obstacle is one country, not the entire World Cup. So why isn't FIFA finding a solution?
What FIFA is really saying is that when officials from the Global South are discriminated against, accommodation is impossible and exclusion is acceptable.
A World Cup that only works for holders of the right passports is not a global tournament. It’s a privilege masquerading as one.
Reported demands made by the terrorists who kidnapped children and teachers in Oyo state:
1. ₦1 billion to be paid into an account in the Benin Republic.
2. Release of terrorists currently held in Agodi and Abolongo Prisons.
3. Two Hilux vehicles.
4. Amendment of Oyo State laws to enforce and introduce sharia law.
For those of you who continue to make excuses for terrorists, who refer to terrorists as your brothers and who applaud this lunatic government when they release these barbaric murderers back into society, please be aware that you will eventually be ruined by this same satanic ideology you endorse.
This is actually sexual assault. This is why Nigerian men are jailed abroad every day for sexual assault and being predators. They don’t understand the concept of consent. Why would he even wager such a thing? Despite seeing the girl was uncomfortable, he didn’t take it as his cue to back off.
Lol there will be no revisionism.
The truth is that the smoke reached the South b/c the North refused to put out the fire. We don't get to look down South & smirk, "it's finally happening to you,"to say that requires a level of blindness we can no longer afford.
The Northern establishment spent yrs coddling this crisis. How many people even admitted there was a "Northern problem" in the first place? For a long time, the strategy wasn't to confront the rot, but to mask it under the guise of political correctness & regional solidarity using religion as a mesh.
There's no form of insecurity in the North that didn’t find a significant Northern bloc of politicians, clerics, & natives defending, justifying, and supporting it. We literally watched active, decisive attempts at destroying Boko Haram get sabotaged from within under the banner of "you're killing our brothers."
Ironically, Southerners were often some of the most vocal voices sounding the alarm against Northern insecurity. They understood a fundamental truth that our leadership chose to ignore : you cannot be part of a single body & watch a limb rot with gangrene, expecting the rest of the organs to stay safe. Eventually, the sepsis spreads to the heart. We are in "SIRS" now.
The Northern elite silenced the alarms and coddled the arsonists. We are not going to pretend even for one second about this reality because if we do, we will not find any way forward.
When people say “they are close to Lagos”, “they are now in Oyo state”, I really don’t understand
The places they’ve been attacking are not as important?