Pattern recognition and the ability to always ask "why" is the difference between a thinking, independent adult and a zombie who lets Twitter manage his emotions.
It's when you look at the "South Africa Vs Ghana beef" and you ask yourself why the South African xenophobes whom everyone knows have had problems with Nigerians and Zimbabweans since forever, suddenly decided to go after Ghanaians - the relatively unproblematic group of Africans that are both highly visible and universally liked across the continent.
Why would the Afrophobes seeking a quick and easy win against African immigrants skip over the hundreds of thousands of available Zimbabweans (invisible and easy to pick on) and Nigerians (widely disliked across Africa) and specifically start a beef with the one group of Africans that the entire continent knows and likes?
How many Ghanaians even live in South Africa compared to Nigerians and Zimbabweans? Why did Ghana - the most unlikely target with the least potential payoff - suddenly become the focus of South African Afrophobes? What did that contrived, 1-sided beef accomplish except create a narrative that set the entire continent against them? Why would Afrophobes seeking a win against immigrants go after the one group of immigrants that everyone likes and aren't even that many, when there were tens of thousands of Kudakwashes and Emekas to go after?
Why shoot themselves in the foot for absolutely no reason by making an enemy out of the state that had the capacity to immediately charter widebody aircrafts to evacuate its citizens who were then pictured joyfully singing their national anthem on the plane home? Why score such a disastrous PR own goal and completely discredit their own movement by adopting the role of comic book monsters, to the point where all of South Africa's continental soft power is genuinely under threat?
Are these Afrophobes really that stupid?
Or, or...hear me out - they are just patsies and someone else behind the scenes is carefully curating a sequence of events that leads South Africa into a catastrophic loss of diplomatic credibility and cultural influence, which will then be followed by an assault against the South African state itself, possibly by one or more separatist entities that are already being covertly armed and equipped?
Who was recently seen sending Starlink kits to Orania under the Seal of the US First Lady? Whose ambassador recently met with Western Cape separatists after publicly stating that he "does not care what South Africa's courts say"? Who is currently pushing every button to discredit South Africa on the international stage including disinviting the country from the G7 meeting and using disaster photos from DR Congo to falsely claim a "white genocide" in South Africa?
Pattern recognition is what helps you stitch all these data points together in sequence and reach the obvious conclusion that helps you avoid becoming a useful idiot whose thoughts and feelings are dictated by proprietary algorithms owned by billionaire white supremacists who microdose ketamine.
It's a basic adult requirement.
The entire country of South Africa is being systematically framed by social media bots. I've never seen anything like this before.
I've seen astroturfing of online discourse by bot farms, but I've never seen someone attempt to use AI bots to outnumber and drown out an entire country of 60 million people.
These accounts spewing the same "go beck and fix ya kantri" talking points with "🇿🇦" in their username are not real people! Open each account that you see posting that stuff. Check the signup date, open the media tab and check the replies tab so see what they interact with. They're all bots!
Some crazy person somewhere with more money than God is trying to set up an entire country using Twitter bots!
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When Frank Edoho’s saga happened, when his ex wife was constantly fucking Chike.
People were saying he should have left immediately.
But the truth is, when you invest heavily in someone, It will be extremely hard for you to leave because you practically made the person who he or she is.
I told @guzu_p this.
It wasn’t easy for Frank to leave, he made that woman who she is. Even sponsored her in school and business.
Some even called him a weak man for confronting the Chike
That is exactly what is happening to this woman here. She can’t easily leave because according to her, she invested heavily in the man.
That is why women come here on twitter to tell you that they can’t contribute in the marriage.
This is just so that they can easily leave if the man starts misbehaving.
The women saying this are not necessary bad women, they are just playing their cards right.
That is why I will keep saying your man should bring in his 100% in the marriage/relationship and your woman should also bring in her 100%.
If anyone leaves, it will pain two of you.
I have always known that life is a game and the world is a playing field.
It’s either you’re a pawn or a player, I have refused to be anyone’s pawn.
Even though it’s against my will, I became a player just to survive and not to be devoured by predators in this world of sin.
The good thing is that 2 can play the game.
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My uncle lived in China for 7 years and came back speaking fluent Mandarin and zero generosity.
Ask him for ₦5k, he'll quote Confucius and hand you a mop.
One day I needed money for transport. He looked at me, then looked at his car, then said in perfect Mandarin "Nǐ xiǎng yào qián?" "You want money?"
I said yes.
When the children of Israel marched round the walls of Jericho, they were armed and prepared for battle.
Pray, but by all means, be prepared for battle; otherwise, we’re all just sitting ducks.
@asemota Big Chief, I used to share your sentiment, but last year alone 7 out of 10 Nigerian women I met were living on the lowest rung of maslow’s heirachy of needs, despite some of those 7 coming from well to do families. This was a sharp contrast to other nationalities. Something is up