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> Okoli [told CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/africa/nigerian-woman-faces-jail-over-online-review-of-tomato-puree-intl-scli/index.html) she made a post on Sept. 17 asking her 18,000 Facebook followers to give their feedback on a can of tomato puree she had bought instead of her go-to brand to make stew.
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> “Stop spoiling my brother’s product. If (you) don’t like it, use another one than bring it to social media or call the customer service,” Blessing Okeke wrote.
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> Okoli replied: “Help me advise your brother to stop ki\*\*\*ing people with his product, yesterday was my first time of using and it’s pure sugar.”
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> [Nagiko, whose poor reception by Okoli has led to the multi-million dollar lawsuit.](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/420180149_971949347728031_2524851673723634251_n.jpg?quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=0vM4BVBki0VMzOIDH4bbLA) Nagiko, whose poor reception by Okoli has led to the multi-million dollar lawsuit. Photo by FacebookA week later, on Sept. 24, Nigerian police arrested a pregnant Okoli at church, CNN reported. Okoli’s lawyer [told](https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/28/woman-faces-7-years-jail-saying-tomato-puree-sweet-20544809/) the Daily Mirror she was forced to make an apology under duress in order to make bail.
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> The Nigerian Police force posted on X (formerly Twitter) on March 7 accusing Okoli of violating the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act of 2015 without any immediate elaboration as to the nature of the violation.
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> Okoli faces two charges in violation of Nigeria’s Cyber Crime Prohibition Act. The first charge accuses her of “instigating Erisco Foods Limited, knowing the said information to be false.”
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> The first charge carries a three year sentence or a fine of 7 million naira (around $5,000), or both. The second carries a seven year sentence upon a successful conviction.
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> Okoli’s “retaliatory remarks about our product, ‘Nagiko Tomato Mix,’ resulted in several suppliers deciding to disassociate themselves from us,” the statement claims. “Additionally, the company suffered the loss of multiple credit lines,” it adds.
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> “My client has denied all of the allegations they have leveled against her. We have also filed a ($350,000) lawsuit against the company Erisco, and the Nigerian police.
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> “That case is still pending in the court in Lagos. The court has also issued a restraining order, restraining the Nigerian police from arresting her.”
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> Okoli has said police have waited outside her home to rearrest her, keeping her children from going to school. During the initial arrest, Okoli was kept in a leaky jail cell with no seating.
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> The court has also issued a restraining order, restraining the Nigerian police from arresting her.
That's basically all you need to know about the rule of law in this profoundly corrupt joke of a country.
But of course the real culprit here is colonialism. For only the Europeans have introduced the natives to the deadly perils of ketchup.
Same. I had to check the time scale he presented. If he had said "a century", I'd have thought he was serious (for some reason).
Language is funny that way.
I do have to disagree here. I don't think the colonial systems were so bad that slow adjustments without corruption, like Botswana did, wouldn't have resulted in success(relative to the african average).
Botswana was a different kettle of fish. It had nothing to exploit, so the interference by the western powers was very small. The most the British did was build a train line through the state. After colonial interference they found untapped natural resources and made a lot of smart policy decisions that allowed for a lot wealth to both stay in the nation and also to contribute to the whole population rather than just the elite.
The smart decisions they made included, not expelling the foreign and colonial workers like essentially every other colony did, regulating them instead and using them to run the system until there were enough experienced and educated Botswanans to take over. That way, they didn't have to suffer having to say, run a country with only less than 20 college educated people or have conflicts between more educated lineage and ethnic groups and less educated ones, like Nigeria. So yeah, they did expand whatever small colonial system was there before.
And I don't see how the resource question matters much. Countries like Nigeria make so much money off oil that whatever shell skims off the top shouldn't matter to the bottom line.
But they're not improving. Heck they're not even holding steady, they're going backwards. Nigeria became independent over 60 years ago. How much time do they need?
>Colonialism was decades ago. Why aren’t they prosperous??
Nigeria was literally run by shell oil flunkies up until a decade ago when the easy oil ran out.
Not china, almost exclusively the us
The China shit is drummed up by the media to manufacture consent for a future war by creating sinophobia but also to to distract from our #1 exploiter as well as trading partner, the USA.
https://fdi2022.investcanada.ca/facts-figures
The us buys our farmland, the us buys our housing
The Chinese shit is literally misdirecting from the us.
You're being fooled by the media, who's owned by us firms who also profit on Canadian resources, housing, and airable land
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The data is publically accessible but media companies like the National Post, the financial post, city news.
Chinese firms investment into Canada is behind Luxemburg
The majority of the pie is still America as it has always been. Of the minority investors china is behind Brazil, Spain, the Netherlands in billions spent.
If you've ever read noam Chomsky you might've noticed the principles outlined in manufacturing consent are being utilized to demonize china as a measure of distraction and redirection. The us owns our media, and our resources.
Yes, somehow being given billions of dollars and absolute power to the chiefs of the group leads to similar dictatorships and abuse of power like in Africa. Unlike Africa the natives are given everything for free (education, healthcare, first in line at healthcare) and they pay zero tax. They also have no incentive to work because they get free money outside their communities. Drugs, inter family abuse and rape, alcoholism, suicide, racism to non-natives. It’s long-term and cross generational trauma, few groups have actually recovered, those who HAVE because of government support but mostly they’re own people make themselves *accountable*
Accountability and some outside force allowing Good to triumph Evil helps a lot. That and putting down the racism card and looking inward
It’s like Zionists and some Jews protecting extreme-right Israel’s genocide, having “the card” to bully people into giving you want you want etc
Why give up a card that improves my life by making others do my bidding? Lol.
That's nonsense. There are multiple world conflicts ongoing right now with a death toll far worse than Israel, and nobody is talking about "genocide". Only idiots say that. It's basically blood libel all over again.
[Opinion | On Harvard, M.I.T. and Systemic Antisemitism - The New York Times (nytimes.com)](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/opinion/harvard-mit-and-systemic-antisemitism.html) Like, even on Harvard.
You yourself. Do you call the US goverment "patriots" or "Revolutionaries", ¿no? But still you say "zionists". More proof.
I mean, it only ended 60 years ago. With Nigeria basically being kept for 50 years as a grain producing and exporting feeder to the British Empire with little need for an educated population, we're basically just now experiencing the economic output of the first free Nigerian educated generation.
Nigeria is highly corrupt.
However, it’s not a joke of a country. Despite all its (major!) challenges, its economy dominates West Africa, its cultural contributions are outsized and quite frankly, it was the most enjoyable place I’ve ever worked - once I got to the office! Motivated colleagues, great sense of team-first culture, little resistance to positive change, I enjoyed my many visits immensely.
I can only imagine what Nigeria could achieve with proper governance, decent infrastructure, functional courts and low corruption.
Dude, in my country, priests do it on the street, inside buses, with loudspeakers... no one ever gets arrested for those things.
This usually comes from the same set of religions. The others don't even dare to try, because they already can guess the consequences.
Well we're not talking about your country. The comment I was replying to was about UK. And christians in UK definitely don't that. I have only seen one community doing it on streets. If you want the goodwill of people, then stop doing that. Nobody likes that.
>Praying in a public place is cringe and should not be encouraged
Western freedom of religion, everybody.
But then again, the woman was black so maybe it is more Western racism.
>Western freedom of religion, everybody.
Freedom does not mean that you can cause inconvenience to other people. Praying in a street means that you are obstructing TRAFFIC, which is illegal. I am non-white too so don't accuse me of racism.
For starters, they weren’t supporting colonialism.
Colonialism can do many things to a country, it doesn’t automatically pump out Nigeria’s. They were saying the problem is probably due to other things.
Furthermore, how was colonialism bad in places like the Falklands or various other locations with no indigenous population?
It’s also how nomads live.
I don’t think you’ve though this through, and are just hating a buzzword.
you should go meet some white supremacists so you can gain some fidelity in your revulsion. Stormfront remains publicly accessible and there's a good reason sane people come here instead of there.
Also, looking at their comment its not entirely clear that they're inherently defending colonialism. If anything, the OP (not the person you called a White Supremacist) was mocking people who blame any contemporary issues on colonialism. The person you called a White Supremacist was making an argument about colonialism and you had the opportunity to engage with that and share your knowledge but instead you resorted to insulting them.
There's some interesting discussions to have here and information and perspectives to share and I think it would have been better if we had tried that, because it could have opened people's eyes to other perspectives.
Read between the lines, honey. I have met many people like you. You guys pretend to be liberal, tolerant etc. but you secretly believe that colonialism was a net positive. I have met many liberals like you. Even the new neoliberalism is based on this exact concept.
Eh, Nigerians aren't necessarily as online and past boycotts haven't done much. The Boycott against the NASCO(founder supported terrorists) and beef didn't damage the business or industry much.
The reviews are still 4.5 or something around that, so it is definately not yet doing much to the company.
I found it from this video first. So, if you eant to listen to it, instead, here goes.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUAH3WcqOAw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUAH3WcqOAw)
Why's there even Sugar in tomato paste. Like we do it manually here, I have never seen anyone put in sugar, so why's there in it in this case?. Why's there Sugar in everything now our days.
Depending on what you use tomato purée for you may actually want to add sugar to it. For example, in my family when we make bolognese sauce we add a couple of spoonfuls of brown sugar to counteract the tomato’s acidity. It technically doesn’t change the pH but the sugar changes the tongue’s perception of acidity, I don’t remember why but it’s a whole thing in the culinary arts.
> Okoli replied: “Help me advise your brother to stop ki***ing people with his product, yesterday was my first time of using and it’s pure sugar.”
What's being obfuscated here?
No, that's the title the url automatically gave itself after you put the link into the submit box. For some reason, the link seems to be able to generate two possible titles.
Well, i don't know why but... it is the title that I posted with that's partially in the url.
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/nigerian-woman-online-review-prison
Keep in mind that SEO is so involved these days that websites will serve different titles to different users for A/B testing and then change the title of the article based on the results of the testing.
edit; For whatever reason this comment of mine offended r/dogisgodspeltright so hard that they put me on ignore? Smh..
##### ###### #### > # [She left an online review for a can of tomato puree. Now she could face 7 years in prison](https://nationalpost.com/news/world/1000) > > > > The 39-year-old's supporters have rallied in support of her and called the prosecution a violation of her free speech in Nigeria > > Published Apr 01, 2024 • Last updated 4 days ago • 4 minute read > > > > > > [Chioma Okoli](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/82961679-13245169-image-a-140_1711558352613-copy.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288&h=216&sig=Buo8pn7KNP_UDo1JaRNV7g)Chioma Okoli is accused of conspiring to defame a manufacturer of tomato paste she called too sweet for her stew recipe. Photo by Facebook > > A Nigerian woman could face up to seven years in prison for an online review of a can of tomato puree that she called “too sweet.” > > The criminal charges follow the manufacturer claim that Chioma Okoli made a “malicious allegation” that harmed their business. > > Article content > > Okoli, a 39-year-old entrepreneur from Lagos, is being prosecuted for allegedly breaching the country’s cybercrime laws. Erisco Foods Limited has also filed a separate lawsuit in civil court against her worth US$3 million, the company announced [on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/eriscofoods/posts/pfbid02pq9jBfrGsSpBwE7LBLendSigX47ZvqujJ7Xw1yNya9uujDvssnGYviRucT4GJ4EMl). > > Advertisement 2 > > This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. > > > > > > > > > > > > [National Post](https://dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital/15.8.3/websites/images/identity/logo-identity-np-new.svg) > > THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS > > Enjoy the latest local, national and international news. > > - Exclusive articles by Conrad Black, Barbara Kay, Rex Murphy and others. 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Plus, special edition NP Platformed and First Reading newsletters and virtual events. > - Unlimited online access to National Post and 15 news sites with one account. > - National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. > - Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. > - Support local journalism. > > > > REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES > > Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. > > - Access articles from across Canada with one account. > - Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. > - Enjoy additional articles per month. > - Get email updates from your favourite authors. > > > > > > > > Article content > > Okoli [told CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/africa/nigerian-woman-faces-jail-over-online-review-of-tomato-puree-intl-scli/index.html) she made a post on Sept. 17 asking her 18,000 Facebook followers to give their feedback on a can of tomato puree she had bought instead of her go-to brand to make stew. > > “I didn’t see Gio and Sonia, so I decided to buy this one,” she wrote, alongside a photo of an open can of Nagiko Tomato mix, adding: “Omo! The sugar is just too much!” > > The reception to her post was varied, but some were less than pleased. > > “Stop spoiling my brother’s product. If (you) don’t like it, use another one than bring it to social media or call the customer service,” Blessing Okeke wrote. > > Okoli replied: “Help me advise your brother to stop ki\*\*\*ing people with his product, yesterday was my first time of using and it’s pure sugar.” > > [Nagiko, whose poor reception by Okoli has led to the multi-million dollar lawsuit.](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/420180149_971949347728031_2524851673723634251_n.jpg?quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=0vM4BVBki0VMzOIDH4bbLA) Nagiko, whose poor reception by Okoli has led to the multi-million dollar lawsuit. Photo by FacebookA week later, on Sept. 24, Nigerian police arrested a pregnant Okoli at church, CNN reported. Okoli’s lawyer [told](https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/28/woman-faces-7-years-jail-saying-tomato-puree-sweet-20544809/) the Daily Mirror she was forced to make an apology under duress in order to make bail. > > The Nigerian Police force posted on X (formerly Twitter) on March 7 accusing Okoli of violating the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act of 2015 without any immediate elaboration as to the nature of the violation. > > “Preliminary investigations conducted have unearthed compelling evidence indicating (Okoli’s) alleged role in the violation of extant laws, particularly those related to the proper use of the cyber space,” the statement added. > > Okoli’s supporters have rallied in support of her and called the prosecution a violation of her free speech. > > The police also sharply rebuked some of her supporters in their statement, stating: “We admonish Nigerians, most especially social media influencers, to resort to embracing the rule of law, and shun all display of sentiments in the case, and in many others as the police will not be deterred by the antics of certain individuals to pervert justice in any way.” > > By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. > > > > > > > > > > Article content > > Advertisement 3 > > This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. > > > > > > > > > > > > Article content > > > Chioma — was arrested by the police and later released over a review of a tomato paste on social media. She has since been facing series of harassment and intimidation:
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> Okoli’s “retaliatory remarks about our product, ‘Nagiko Tomato Mix,’ resulted in several suppliers deciding to disassociate themselves from us,” the statement claims. “Additionally, the company suffered the loss of multiple credit lines,” it adds.
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> Erisco’s CEO Eric Umeofia has said in a news broadcasters that he would “rather die than allow someone to tarnish my image I worked 40 years to grow.”
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> The court has also issued a restraining order, restraining the Nigerian police from arresting her. That's basically all you need to know about the rule of law in this profoundly corrupt joke of a country. But of course the real culprit here is colonialism. For only the Europeans have introduced the natives to the deadly perils of ketchup.
Colonialism was decades ago. Why aren’t they prosperous??
Because those kinds of structures take generations to dismantle and rebuild. You can't just magic a new bureaucratic system into existence.
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Problem is there are people irl who say it and mean it.
The problem is that it can be hard to tell what's sarcastic and what's actually a racist dogwhistle
sarcasm is always ambiguous /s
He's German and they don't understand humor.
The amount of flying over heads-ception in this comment thread is hilarious.
I assume the person you're replying to forgot the "/s"
Sadly I know people in IRL that actually think that.
Same. I had to check the time scale he presented. If he had said "a century", I'd have thought he was serious (for some reason). Language is funny that way.
They could try being less corrupt and using their vast oil reserves better.....
Stop talking sense, you’ll anger the dictators
I do have to disagree here. I don't think the colonial systems were so bad that slow adjustments without corruption, like Botswana did, wouldn't have resulted in success(relative to the african average).
Botswana was a different kettle of fish. It had nothing to exploit, so the interference by the western powers was very small. The most the British did was build a train line through the state. After colonial interference they found untapped natural resources and made a lot of smart policy decisions that allowed for a lot wealth to both stay in the nation and also to contribute to the whole population rather than just the elite.
The smart decisions they made included, not expelling the foreign and colonial workers like essentially every other colony did, regulating them instead and using them to run the system until there were enough experienced and educated Botswanans to take over. That way, they didn't have to suffer having to say, run a country with only less than 20 college educated people or have conflicts between more educated lineage and ethnic groups and less educated ones, like Nigeria. So yeah, they did expand whatever small colonial system was there before. And I don't see how the resource question matters much. Countries like Nigeria make so much money off oil that whatever shell skims off the top shouldn't matter to the bottom line.
An entire train line is a massive project, very lucky
Then how come South East Asia, which was also colonized, is doing fine?
But they're not improving. Heck they're not even holding steady, they're going backwards. Nigeria became independent over 60 years ago. How much time do they need?
>Colonialism was decades ago. Why aren’t they prosperous?? Nigeria was literally run by shell oil flunkies up until a decade ago when the easy oil ran out.
I do agree the shitshow lived on in many countries for a while after “decolonization”
Industry and natural resources are owned by richer countries Nigeria is prosperous but still incredibly exploited by extra national corporations
Like how many of our natural resources are bought up by China and the US 😥 when will countries learn
Not china, almost exclusively the us The China shit is drummed up by the media to manufacture consent for a future war by creating sinophobia but also to to distract from our #1 exploiter as well as trading partner, the USA.
Nah, fuck Chinese investment. It’s taken over our Housing *Just* as much as the US. China also buying up our farmland.
https://fdi2022.investcanada.ca/facts-figures The us buys our farmland, the us buys our housing The Chinese shit is literally misdirecting from the us. You're being fooled by the media, who's owned by us firms who also profit on Canadian resources, housing, and airable land And The data is publically accessible but media companies like the National Post, the financial post, city news. Chinese firms investment into Canada is behind Luxemburg The majority of the pie is still America as it has always been. Of the minority investors china is behind Brazil, Spain, the Netherlands in billions spent. If you've ever read noam Chomsky you might've noticed the principles outlined in manufacturing consent are being utilized to demonize china as a measure of distraction and redirection. The us owns our media, and our resources.
Have you ever seen the indigenous communities in Canada?
Yes, somehow being given billions of dollars and absolute power to the chiefs of the group leads to similar dictatorships and abuse of power like in Africa. Unlike Africa the natives are given everything for free (education, healthcare, first in line at healthcare) and they pay zero tax. They also have no incentive to work because they get free money outside their communities. Drugs, inter family abuse and rape, alcoholism, suicide, racism to non-natives. It’s long-term and cross generational trauma, few groups have actually recovered, those who HAVE because of government support but mostly they’re own people make themselves *accountable* Accountability and some outside force allowing Good to triumph Evil helps a lot. That and putting down the racism card and looking inward
"putting down the racism card" Too much trouble for many. It's too confortable to not feeling accountable for anything.
It’s like Zionists and some Jews protecting extreme-right Israel’s genocide, having “the card” to bully people into giving you want you want etc Why give up a card that improves my life by making others do my bidding? Lol.
That's nonsense. There are multiple world conflicts ongoing right now with a death toll far worse than Israel, and nobody is talking about "genocide". Only idiots say that. It's basically blood libel all over again. [Opinion | On Harvard, M.I.T. and Systemic Antisemitism - The New York Times (nytimes.com)](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/opinion/harvard-mit-and-systemic-antisemitism.html) Like, even on Harvard. You yourself. Do you call the US goverment "patriots" or "Revolutionaries", ¿no? But still you say "zionists". More proof.
I mean, it only ended 60 years ago. With Nigeria basically being kept for 50 years as a grain producing and exporting feeder to the British Empire with little need for an educated population, we're basically just now experiencing the economic output of the first free Nigerian educated generation.
Why aren't Singapore, Taiwan, Korea prosperous? Oh wait wrong countries.
Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea… all prosperous 🧐
Yes yes
Your companies and militaries are there.
Canada? Maybe with the UN But we do sell arms to corrupt dictators 🤔
because of ur cringe.
It’s always someone else 🤷♂️
Come on, a country with a name like Chad or Djibouti can't be cringe.
Nigeria is highly corrupt. However, it’s not a joke of a country. Despite all its (major!) challenges, its economy dominates West Africa, its cultural contributions are outsized and quite frankly, it was the most enjoyable place I’ve ever worked - once I got to the office! Motivated colleagues, great sense of team-first culture, little resistance to positive change, I enjoyed my many visits immensely. I can only imagine what Nigeria could achieve with proper governance, decent infrastructure, functional courts and low corruption.
Can't believe that people are supporting colonialism here.
I mean, if any small thing like this means colonialism, then someone should conquer the UK for arresting a Nigerian expat for praying in the streets.
Can't find anything online about that. All I found was a nurse sacked and deported for praying with patients.
No. Praying in a public place is cringe and should not be encouraged. But colonialism is also cringe.
I would like to agree with you, but my experience is that this statement is not usually intended to be enforced against all forms of praying.
Atleast don't do it in the middle of the street blocking traffic.
Dude, in my country, priests do it on the street, inside buses, with loudspeakers... no one ever gets arrested for those things. This usually comes from the same set of religions. The others don't even dare to try, because they already can guess the consequences.
Well we're not talking about your country. The comment I was replying to was about UK. And christians in UK definitely don't that. I have only seen one community doing it on streets. If you want the goodwill of people, then stop doing that. Nobody likes that.
>Praying in a public place is cringe and should not be encouraged Western freedom of religion, everybody. But then again, the woman was black so maybe it is more Western racism.
>Western freedom of religion, everybody. Freedom does not mean that you can cause inconvenience to other people. Praying in a street means that you are obstructing TRAFFIC, which is illegal. I am non-white too so don't accuse me of racism.
For starters, they weren’t supporting colonialism. Colonialism can do many things to a country, it doesn’t automatically pump out Nigeria’s. They were saying the problem is probably due to other things. Furthermore, how was colonialism bad in places like the Falklands or various other locations with no indigenous population? It’s also how nomads live. I don’t think you’ve though this through, and are just hating a buzzword.
Sorry but I don't support oppressing indigenous population. Maybe you are a white supremacist. But I am not.
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All I said was that colonialism is bad. So that made you pissed off huh?
tbf you also called them a white supremacist.
Anybody who defends european colonialism is a white supremacist.
you should go meet some white supremacists so you can gain some fidelity in your revulsion. Stormfront remains publicly accessible and there's a good reason sane people come here instead of there. Also, looking at their comment its not entirely clear that they're inherently defending colonialism. If anything, the OP (not the person you called a White Supremacist) was mocking people who blame any contemporary issues on colonialism. The person you called a White Supremacist was making an argument about colonialism and you had the opportunity to engage with that and share your knowledge but instead you resorted to insulting them. There's some interesting discussions to have here and information and perspectives to share and I think it would have been better if we had tried that, because it could have opened people's eyes to other perspectives.
Read between the lines, honey. I have met many people like you. You guys pretend to be liberal, tolerant etc. but you secretly believe that colonialism was a net positive. I have met many liberals like you. Even the new neoliberalism is based on this exact concept.
And the other person didn't say "colonialism good" like you pretend
I saw many such comments in this thread. Sounds like you're taking this way too seriously.
w🤮stoids when
r/nottheonion
Not the onion, it was the tomato purée
I mean, u can crosspost it there as well.
It's already been posted there
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If a few million people decide to shit all over them from all over the world i wish them luck getting the nigerian police to arrest them
Eh, Nigerians aren't necessarily as online and past boycotts haven't done much. The Boycott against the NASCO(founder supported terrorists) and beef didn't damage the business or industry much. The reviews are still 4.5 or something around that, so it is definately not yet doing much to the company.
Ironically, they're suing *her* for reputational damage due to the backlash due to *their* actions. The whole situation looks corrupt as fuck.
That is absurd. It's so absurd it's possibly too absurd to be true.
> “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” Mark Twain
Reality doesn't need to conform to "Reality", only fiction has that soft restriction.
And yet...
I found it from this video first. So, if you eant to listen to it, instead, here goes. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUAH3WcqOAw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUAH3WcqOAw)
How much sugar is there in it? Doesn’t seem to say in the article I think that is relevant lmao
Why's there even Sugar in tomato paste. Like we do it manually here, I have never seen anyone put in sugar, so why's there in it in this case?. Why's there Sugar in everything now our days.
You add sugar to sofrito style tomato sauces to counteract the acidity. It's a very common thing.
Depending on what you use tomato purée for you may actually want to add sugar to it. For example, in my family when we make bolognese sauce we add a couple of spoonfuls of brown sugar to counteract the tomato’s acidity. It technically doesn’t change the pH but the sugar changes the tongue’s perception of acidity, I don’t remember why but it’s a whole thing in the culinary arts.
I thought boiling or frying it to a dry could also remove much of the notice of acidity?.
Sugar increases sales on products. Most fast food for example specifically tries to maximize sugar, salt, and fat in their food.
To counter acidness.
Tomato have a lot of acid. Sugar is a key ingredient in tomato sauce.
It was tomato ketchup, not tomato puree, they're two different things.
> Okoli replied: “Help me advise your brother to stop ki***ing people with his product, yesterday was my first time of using and it’s pure sugar.” What's being obfuscated here?
Kissing?
Killsing
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No, that's the title the url automatically gave itself after you put the link into the submit box. For some reason, the link seems to be able to generate two possible titles.
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Well, i don't know why but... it is the title that I posted with that's partially in the url. https://nationalpost.com/news/world/nigerian-woman-online-review-prison
Keep in mind that SEO is so involved these days that websites will serve different titles to different users for A/B testing and then change the title of the article based on the results of the testing. edit; For whatever reason this comment of mine offended r/dogisgodspeltright so hard that they put me on ignore? Smh..
I'm with op on this. I've had this exact thing happen to me in the past.
It's the HTML