Tutankhamun

it took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. History enthusiast |War Journal

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

@Canice_tweets Absolutely nothing

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

I'm not trying to demoralize what you're doing, but we did more than this in 2023. We sensitized, we galvanized, and we even contributed our scarce resources to make sure Obi wins. Obi clearly won that election and victory was taken away from us.

[PO’s MainChic😎 @D_goodybag]

Today, I successfully completed 75 online registration despite the disappointment & severe back pain from yesterday.

I AM SUPER HAPPPYYYYYY

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

@Akunwambada Are you not getting the point here, they’re hundreds of videos that was posted here in 2023 election, did those videos change anything? In Rivers state for example, irev clearly showed Obi was having a landslide, but Tinubu was declared winner. The system is rigged against you.

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

@Akunwambada How do you defend your votes? The umpire that is responsible for the election is compromised, the judiciary is compromised, the police and military are compromised, their thugs are armed to the teeth, they control the media.

Again, how do you defend your votes against this?

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

@_onGodMode Like, the memory is still fresh, I'd say this is just a distraction to tackle the main issue

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

I admire your vision, but you can't achieve that when the sponsors of terror you intend to fight practically owns you

[Nathan Nwachuku @_KingNath]

Terra will help Nigeria become Africa's largest defense exporter in a few years. But beyond Africa, our goal is to defend the Global South against terrorism

The Global South cannot rely on imported Western and Chinese systems not designed for asymmetric warfare. We will need to build defense gigafactories across Africa, LATAM, & Southeast Asia to win the war on terror.

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

I’m genuinely asking, what stops the ruling party from the doing the same again? You can’t keep doing the same thing over and over again keep expecting a different result.

How about we try something different

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

So again my dear comrade, the evil we want to uproot is far more entrenched than the examples you mentioned.

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

My learned comrade, I totally understand your point on the need for us to start fighting back, I'm all in for that as well.

But the examples you cited in Eastern Europe during the cold war were all CIA backed coup, we in Africa are facing a different entire scenario.

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

A CAUTIONARY TALE!!!

One question I’ve been asked a lot over the past couple of weeks has been this: “So what can we do?”

I want to believe it’s not for lack of ideas on what is required that some people ask this. Mostly it’s a resignation to the inevitable. That underlying belief that “this is beyond us.” But that couldn’t be further from the truth.

And I say this because I’m a student of history who likes to believe that the past always has a way of repeating itself.

Let me take you to Romania and the Romanian Revolution of 1989, which successfully toppled the corrupt dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Ceaușescu’s oppressive rule had plunged the country into severe poverty while the elite lived in luxury. The uprising was marked by a sudden, powerful unification of the Romanian people and ended the country’s communist era.

But what led to this revolution in the first place? Why did the people eventually decide to put their skin in the game and break free from their captivity?

It all began in December 1989 in the western city of Timișoara. Protests broke out after the government attempted to forcibly remove a local evangelical pastor, László Tőkés, who had criticized the regime. Citizens united to defend him, and these demonstrations quickly swelled into massive, citywide anti-government protests. When security forces opened fire and killed dozens of civilians, public anger reached a tipping point.

Despite tight government censorship and control, news of the violence in Timișoara spread across the entire country. Within days, the movement unified a diverse cross-section of Romanian society. Workers, students, intellectuals, and eventually the military joined forces. Millions of everyday citizens abandoned their jobs and took to the streets to demand the removal of the regime.

So, did it work? Well, Ceaușescu initially thought he had it under control, but he couldn’t have been more wrong.

On December 21, 1989, he organized a large public rally in Bucharest, intending to project an image of control and unity. Instead, the crowd turned on him, and the live broadcast captured the moment the dictator lost the support of the public. The following day, protesters occupied the Communist Party headquarters, forcing Ceaușescu and his wife to flee by helicopter. The military, which had defected to the side of the people, captured them shortly after.

On December 25, 1989, following a hasty trial, the Ceaușescus were convicted of crimes including genocide and corruption, and were executed by firing squad.

All this happened in less than 25 days.

While the Cold War environment shaped the geopolitical outcome, the boots on the ground belonged to everyday Romanian citizens risking their lives.

This is the story of Romania. But they were not alone.

Poland (1989). Decades of economic stagnation and strikes triggered the peaceful collapse of the regime just months before Romania’s uprising.

Czechoslovakia (1989). The movement known as the Velvet Revolution, led by Václav Havel and student groups, brought the government to its knees.

East Germany (1989). Huge weekly demonstrations (such as the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig) overwhelmed the state, leading directly to the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.

The Philippines (1986). Millions of citizens took to the streets, and a crucial defection by the military helped topple the corrupt, long-standing dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.

All of these happened during the Cold War era, but the pattern holds.

A people pushed to the wall always fight back. Except of course for the exception in West Africa.

As a student of history, I like to think about things like this while asking the pertinent question: if freedom is not given, how do oppressed people become free?

The future is a blank canvas. Whatever you choose to write on it will depend on you.

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

The same CIA that engineered these regime changes and coups in Eastern Europe, is the same people making sure that organic-driven revolution would never happen in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

Europe spent 400 years using slave labour in colonies to build its wealth, rebranded this extraction model in the 20th century and somehow its citizens still believe their social conditions are a result of some superior intellect rather than inhuman violence.

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

@Sholynationsp If Kylian can have the kind of longevity Ronaldo is having, he would surpass 1000 goals before he retires.

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

Nah! This fellow has to be a bot, I refuse to be rage baited

[The New Nation Project @TNNPHQ]

Debunking Generational Lies.

#TNNP #TheNewNationProject

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The wait is over.

We have 2 golds: Chimdiebube Onwubiko and Don Anele Munachimso.

We are the best in the world!

Egejurum Onyedikachi’s name was omitted. He should have a gold.

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

Nobody lied to you, you were just stupid to recognize the facts before you.

Even with this revelation, nothing about your stupidity has changed.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

After watching the size of Khamenei's funeral processions, I feel lied to about Iran

[Msunu ka Floyd Shivambu @khumo_k7]

South Africa takes Israel to the ICJ for genocide against the Palestinian people.

Israel retaliates by funding a xenophobic group known as March and March, which causes chaos in South Africa.

Israel wants to ensure that when they strike, no African country will stand with SA🇿🇦

[AGUNWA IGBANI 🇳🇬🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷🇧🇫 @Igbani27243]

My Dream is to work with like minded young people to build a Bureaucratic Machine Capable of replacing this decaying Establishment. If you share the same Dream Pls DM

[Tutankhamun @smiling_dictato]

Just make me his executioner🙏🤲

[CHIZOM @iam_polymath]

@Abu_The_Truth Adeboye is an asset of foreign intelligence. Whether it’s Mi6 or mossad or the CIA or all of them combined, I know not.

This is why he must be tried for treason. The amount of damage his organization has caused us as a country is inestimable.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Today we shed our colonial name. We are no longer Upper Volta; we are Burkina Faso—the Land of Upright People. We will pay no more imperialist debts. He who feeds you, controls you. Let us consume what we alone produce!

Thomas Sankara on African Independence & Anti-Imperialism (1984)