Comments by "" (@orboakin8074) on "Based Camp with Simone & Malcolm Collins" channel.

  1. As a Nigerian, here's my simple answer: Bad geography, poor social and economic systems, poor political systems, failing legal and social institutions, dutch disease, tribalism and others. During the golden age of Islam, under Harun al-Rashid, the civilization was experiencing great economic, social and scientific development and Islam was moderatingbabd becoming more Secular until Orthodox pushback from Imams and others caused these changes to stop. Then, the Christian West embraced modernity and reform and advanced in all fields. The fact that Christianity abolished institutions like slavery, broke clan structures by removing cousin marriage, and stopped the ban on usary which led to stuff like capitalism and meritocracy, while islam refused to do all of this. Also, the colonialism excuse is just lazy and mainly used by tribalist Arabs as an excuse. Same way Pan-Africans use it as an excuse for Africa's failings.
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  2. I remember first seeing Scott on Timcast and how he was doing the cleanup work in California and that made me an instant fan of his. Then, I remember him starting the mail-in activism for Republicans and I was even more amazed by him. He is a genuinely Goodman and I respect him. I hope I can meet him one day
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  3. 13:50 As a Nigerian, I am genuinely shocked that you guys didn't have formal laws requiring ID to vote 🤔 Why?! I mean, even here with all our issues, voting ID is mandatory by law. Why didn't you guys have this to begin with?!
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  4. An anime that came out recently, Sakamoto Days, features the MC (a former assassin) who retired, fell in love with a store clerk and now runs a convenience store with her and their little daughter😂 The location in the anime was not in Tokyo or some metro place but in a somewhat dingy semi-urban town but the town had a lot of families and kids and had a really easy going culture and many of the characters woukd cone off as soft Yankee types and with more realness and likability. It's interesting how this phenomenon is also being reflected in Japanese media too, especially the prevalence of Gyarus😍
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  5. Now this is a topic i have always been fascinated by😲😢 As a Nigerian, the issues with black Americans does intrigue me, especially considering how much better and stable and developed the US is compared to Africa. Even more strange is the fact that many African immigrants (mainly legal) in the USA tend to do better socioeconomically. Makes me think the issue is not racial but cultural🤔 I have been reading Thomas Sowell's writings on the issue but still need to understand more.
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  6. As a Nigerian millennial, this sad trend just shows me that all of thos wokeness a d identity politics and victimhood ideology can ONLY exist in a developed urban first-world environment where no existential problems exist a d where said urban dwellers embrace destructive ideologies due to lack of meaning and purpose😢 That's also why thos trend is rareky seen in rural western areas or among legal immigrants from countries tgat actually have problems.
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  7. That point you made about pro-natalists being more happy, even despite hard living circumstances, is so true. Reminds me of grandmother in Nigeria. She, her husband, and kids were all poor but very happy and determined to succeed in life. Doubly more so after she and my late grandfather converted to Christianity. They had many kids and worked to put them all through school and today, the family does better and now she is encouraging me to get married and have kids of my own and I fully agree with her. Similar stuff can be seen in Isreal where previously it was Paelstinians who were having more kids but that trend switched a while back. When your culture and society is not consumed by toxic identity politics or lacking in drive, demographics will improve.
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  8. 39:10 As a Nigerian, i am genuinely shocked that this is the reality in a country like the UKand much of Western and Central Europe 😢 Even here, with all our problems and social issues, it's unfathomable. We have insecurity but no one is ever going to say that boko haram has a right to kidnap and terrorize people. So why a developed and first world country like the UK, allows these gro*ming gangs to do such horrible things to children is baffling to me.
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  9. As a Nigerian, here's my simple answer: Bad geography, poor social and economic systems, poor political systems, failing legal and social institutions, dutch disease, tribalism and others. During the golden age of Islam, under Harun al-Rashid, the civilization was experiencing great economic, social and scientific development and Islam was moderatingbabd becoming more Secular until Orthodox pushback from Imams and others caused these changes to stop. Then, the Christian West embraced modernity and reform and advanced in all fields. The fact that Christianity abolished institutions like slavery, broke clan structures by removing cousin marriage, and stopped the ban on usary which led to stuff like capitalism and meritocracy, while islam refused to do all of this. Also, the colonialism excuse is just lazy and mainly used by tribalist Arabs as an excuse. Same way Pan-Africans use it as an excuse for Africa's failings.
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  10. So much good stuff in this video. I had no idea the Yankee groups in Japan were this deep but it makes sense. They eschew the urban metro lifestyles of the majority of the country and focus on blue collar jobs and have more lax but wholesome culture in their communities. It's no surprise that they have better birthrates. Makes me even more determined to get into the skill trades myself. I wanna be an automotive technician after wasting years in college/university on business 😢
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  11. It's so weird how this practice of plagiarism has become normalized in the USA😕 Here in Nigeria, despite the corruption problem, in academia, plagiarism is a VERY serious offense but apparently, if you have the right race/gender in the west, it's okay? Is that not bigotry of low expectations?!
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  12. 17:50 As a cough researcher of Japanese offbrand anime, i can confirm this is true😂 So many gyarus tend to be depicted as wanting to be happy wives who give their loving husbands many kids. One of the manga i recently bought is also like this. It's called Gal Gohan and it's about a gyaru in highschool who joins a cooking club with her teachers, they develop feelings and get married after she graduates.
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  13. This is one of the reasons why i enjoy your brand of conservativism😂 You guys are traditional but also moderate and open to modernity. You are also intuned with pop culture (especially anine, which i like😊) and embrace art which is important for influencing culture. You are basically what Matt Walsh would be like if he were smart and not constantly bashing entertainment.
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  14. So is he the white guy version of the black guy who created Qwanza?😂 As a Nigerian, I was always confused whenever my friends in North America asked me if I celebrated that holiday and then I discovered it was created by a convict and con man😂
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  15. Speaking from my perspective as a Nigerian (Christian) this practice and reaction is mainly from MusI!ms in the Arrab world and South Asia😕 In places where MusI!m faith has very little Arrab influence, the practice of ch!ld/cousin marriage is taboo. For example, Southern MusI!ms (Yoruba, Igbo, etc) absolutely forbid it in their culture. Same thing in countries like Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Balkan Countries. It's mainly the Arrabs and South Asian MusI!ms who continue the sick practice of cousin and ch!ld marriage due to their clan-based cultures, views of women as lroperty, and reticence to modernize their culture and societies.
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  16. That's ehat Raw Egg Nationalist looks like?!😮 I only ever seen his tweets😂 Cool. Respect from Nigeria 👍 i like how even though most of us conservatives are different due to culture and nationality, we dhare a lot of common interests, like anime and manga and PC gaming in my case😊 I hope you guys get someone who os into Warhammer 40k on your channel one day.
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  17. 😂That intro! Nice subversion! Also, i am not surprised by this observation of demographic decline in the Arab lsIamic world and I largely ascribe it to sociocultural, socioeconomic and even religion. Basically, Arablc lsIam failed to embrace modernity centuries ago while other religions and cultures did and this is ehy they are failing. Speaking as a Nigerian, my own observation here is that while our largely musIim north has had higher birthrates due to cultural differences, their high levels of insecurity, underdevelopment, and low infrastructure would eventually compound and lead to a decline. For example, there is a practice called Almajiri where musIims are encouraged to have large families even when poor or illiterate and if they can't provide for their children, they give them away to random beggars/"lslamic scholars" who raise them as beggars. These kids then end up becoming trrorists or just derelicts😢 It stems from their agrarian society and has created such a problem there. This is firther compounded by poor female education and socially ingrained sexism, the low industrialization, low economic development and high illiteracy and insecurity there. I mean, the richest man in Nigeria and Africa, Dangote, is a northern MusIim but he relocated all his businesses and family to the South for better opportunities and stability. Comparatively, here in the South, we have more Christians but a sizeable MusIim population and due to our more modern cultures here, stuff like birth control, education, capitalism and industrialization are more accepted. Our birthrates in the South are now almost on par with the North and it's more healthy and stable due to the the better levels of development and security. Plus, women here tend to be more educated but also more incentivized to have better families due to the less restrictive cultures here compared to the north.
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  18. 21:40 Fully agree with this sentiment. Even here in Nigeria, there is a constant tension between us in the South and those in the North. Due to our cultural differences, the South tends to value education, industry, capitalism and economic reforms while the more "traditional" Muslim North still tries to maintain their backwards ways. For example, there is this practice called Almajiri where poor Muslim families have as many children and wives as possible even when they can't provide for all. They then hand off the excess kids to some random Muslim man who is a "scholar" and he has them beg for alms and these kids tend to grow up maladjusted and either become bandits or worse😢 This is largely reinforced by their elites who want to keep their privilege and ensure no modernity improves their society a d they use Islam as a cudgel. Ironically enough, here in the South, we have many Muslims but due to our culture, they value education industry capitalism and modernity more. This dichotomy definitely plays a huge role in the tensions between our two regions.
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  19. Respect to Israel from Nigeria. Even here, our government maintains economic and some military ties with Israel because of how effective they are at dealing with insecurity; a sad reality we live with. We buy a lot of weapons and military tech from them and given how many Muslims we have in government and citizenry here, that says something
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  20. 11:30 As a Nigerian, I couldn't agree more with you. I have come to the conclusion that black America's problems are cultural and not racial. I may not live in America but even I know how the richest racial demographics are Asian-Americans. I also know that legal African immigrants do better socioeconomically there. It can even be seen here in Nigeria. The tribes and regions tgat do well socioeconomically are mainly the ones here in the south because our cultures embrace more modernity, capitalism, education and civic nationalism while northern states tend to be poorer for the exact opposite.
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  21. One major reason i enjoy your commentaries as conservatives is because you two actually understand and engage with pop culture😊 You are clearly fans of escapism and nerd ephemera like gaming, manga, anime, etc😂 As a millennial conservative who also enjoys these things, i respect that. You show that not all of us conservatives are crazy joyless loons like Matt Walsh
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  22. @DorianPaige00  then how is it that anytime voter ID laws were called for federally or statewide, the Democrats always opposed it? Heck, how are illegals able to vote in some cases? We have some of that stuff here too but it usually happens in areas plagued by insecurity and massive poverty like our North.
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  23.  @JimastaJ  that's why I said it's a culture issue, not a race issue. That also why I highlighted Thomas Sowell, a black economist and successful academic/philosopher. He is more accomplished than I will ever be and that is clearly due to his better culture and upbringing. Race clearly has no bearing on this
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  24. 34:50 As a bachelor, i felt that 😢 You guys do give me hope for my future, especially in marriage 😊
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  25. Ngl, the vibes you both give as a couple make me hopeful for my own marriage prospects😂 You both know about anime and manga and video games and you also still manage to balance it out with familial responsibilities? I hope i can find a Catholic woman to marry like that cause i have those kinds of interests.
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  26. Yes, that is one major factor. Christianity in the west, broke the clan structure by abolishing cousin marriage on sanguinity grounds. This had the effect of necessitating more trust-based social systems while the Arab world continues the opposite. And it has led to cratering genetic issues as you point out.
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  27.  @Michael_Salsero  oh, we Christians know full well the history of wars in western Europe but why do you think it is because of Christianity that this happened? You do know that historically, most of the deadliest wars with worse death tolls happened in East Asia and central parts of Eurasia, right? Taipeng rebellion? Mao's famines, Stalin's purges and famines? Mongol hoards? Also, those wars in Europe happened due to political, demographic and economic issues and the eras were largely Secular eras where religiosity was in decline. You hate Christianity. I get it. But no reason to lie about history.
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  28. I believe it's called purity spiral. Both left and right have it, as you mentioned with the example of your dad and that job he tried to get. The difference between us and the left is that our purity spiral is very low compared to theirs.
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  29. @tishie42  so how do you explain the population of Jordan, West Bank, Tunisia, Oman etc also having low birth rates despite not being in "captivity" as you call it?
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  30. When your own mother and child despise you, maybe there's something deeply wrong with you as a person. This is Destiny
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  31. I discovered your channel after watching your video with Benjamin Boyce and I'm glad i did😊 As a Nigerian millennial, i really enjoy your content, conservative views but also how moderate an in-tune with reality you guys are (you are aware of pop-culture, arts, anime and PC gaming🤩👏 Something that most older conservatives avoid) Plus, you give me hope of getting married in the future since you two have successfully done that and are raising a great family.
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  32. 35:21 You hit it correctly! This post-modernidm view of weaker person/groups being somehow morally in the right, against stronger groups makes no sense😕 It's like saying Boko Haram and other bad grouos here in Nigeria are "the good guys" because they are weaker than our armed forces😒 Weak people are bot always good people abd strong people are not always bad people.
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  33. Wow! You got Arch?! I love his videos🤩He helped introduce me to Warhammer. Also, i agree that the sociocultural pendulum is swinging away from the radical left to the right but i do hope we ensure that we don't become like them. As you two have always said, we need to defeat their radicalism without turning into them. One positive example that gives me hope is the recent funeral for Jimmy Carter where even Trump attended to commiserate with the family. They may have disagreed on things but honor and respect demanded that Trump attebd and i'm glad he did. That's a positive sign of unity.
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  34. That observation of how East Asian cultures revere their elderly while having low fertility rates reminds me of a story i read in a Korean folklore book. It was about some guy whose mother was sick. He then has to find some magical ginseng and i think he loses his life or has to sacrifice his kid to save his mom and the story portayed it as a wonderful thing😅 Yeah, that is definitely weird. As a Nigerian, we certainly respect our elders here but not to that extreme and even they rightly understand not to take it to an extreme because while they have ingrained discipline into is, they also don't want us to neglect ourselves and the next generation. My grandmother in her 90s is now being cared for by her kids and us grandkids a d she loves us but also frequently tells us (me and other grandkids) to ONLY help her when we can and not to hurt ourselves on her account. She also jeeps frequently telling me to find a womana ndhave kids because she wants the next generation to happen.
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  35. I like this move by Trump. He starts with a hard ball tactic that most will reject and then forces them to meet him at the negotiating table to get a better deal. Good strategy👍 This signals to the middle East that he is firmly on Israel's side and that they have no options other than to negotiate.
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  36. 1:45 Yeah, i can imagine some take this as s joke but believe me, he is right. The main reason global trade is free and accessible is due to the US navy patrolling global oceans and keeping access and ensuring security. Here in Nigeria, our country's navy frequently holds joint training sessions and operations with the US, French and British navies specifically to counter piracy, oil theft and trafficking. The USA is better for global trade than most realize
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  37. So why is lsrael doing well demographically despite having all of these things you mentioned while Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, and few other lsIamic countries, have terrible birthrates despite their societies having less of the things you listed?
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  38. 20:12 This is a perfect example of why/how Christianity was able to grow, even in Nigeria (my country) and much of Africa. The welcoming, kindness and hopefulness in it is why. The best way to describe it is winning through compassion. Even my grandfather who was raised a pagan converted to Christianity because his mother's family, who were Christian, treated him with so much kindness and he was inspired by their faith. They themselves were treated so kind by the British evangelicals of the time and that made them convert earlier.
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  39. 21:50 This is another reason why I love your content. As a fellow Christian and conservative who enjoys anime and other kinds of pop culture, it's refreshing to see content creators in the same mindset. You help refute that dumb narrative, oushed by clowns like Matt Walsh, that says we conservatives hate pop culture.
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  40.  @yogeybogeybear3542  that explains a lot. Thanks
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  41. That thumbnail 😂😂 You guys make being a conservative more hip and cool than i could imagine 😂 but seriously, nice to see fellow conservatives who enjoy art and pip culture and are not as dumb as Matt Walsh.
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  42. Centrism can be good within reason but when taken to extremes, it's just basically cowardice. I like Dev of Shortfatotaku and while I disagree with some of his takes, I don't think he has become too extreme of a centrist yet since he still criticizes both the radical left and radical right and still supports good things from us on the right 👍 Plus, he is more honest about his biases. Let's continue to give him a chance.
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  43. ​ @yellow1one yeah, you would think so. These countries are nice to visit for tourism but not the best for long-term living😅 Considering most of them lacked (and still lack) stuff like industrialization, functioning stable infrastructure like sewage systems (Dubai still uses trucks to remove sewage😅), fragile economies dependent on oil, poor agriculture a d water issues, ongoing human rights issues, a large percentage of the populace lacking in higher education despite all their "wealth", insecurity, land more issues, I would say they are not developed as you assume. And let's be honest. Most of them didn't become like that because of US interference. They were always like that. Prior to being petro-states, most were known for Pearl or incense or fishing.
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  44. Welcome back you guys. Sad that these types exist 😢
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  45. 8:58 Considering how it was Cyrus of Persia who saved ancient lsraeI and revived theor faith and culture from the Babylonians, this would just be historic "Even- Stevens" 😊
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  46. That's profound and funny 😂 As a Nigerian Catholic guy, myself, I hope to have such a marriage in the future. It's good to see that our faith hasn't abandoned that fundamental dynamic between men and women i.e. we are different but complementary to each other. The rigidity of men is tempered by the affection of women and vice versa.
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  47. The only reason they are still there is because Israel is not an Arab country and is more western oriented. I.e. they don't try to decimate their enemies like their neighbors do. Also, this is a good move by Trump. He starts with a hard ball tactic that most will reject and then forces then to meet him at the negotiating table to get a better deal. Good strategy. This signals to the middle East that he is firmly on Israel's side and that they have no options other than to negotiate.
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  48.  @chemistryofquestionablequa6252  yes, I have seen Gaza. If Israel was doing as you claim, why did they stop? They have the stronger army, economy and military equipment. Why didn't they do as Saudi Arabia did to Yemen? Turkey did to Armenia? UAE is doing to Sudan? Ethiopia did to their rebels? Maybe my western orientation point is more valid than you think.
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  49. 10:29 Funny personal story. My late grandfather in Nigeria, on my dad's side, was a polygamist before he converted to Christianity. He actually cautioned all of his kids against polygamy. He still stayed married to both wives for honor sake and raised all his kids. But he also had a not so good married life, mainly due to the first wife who was an awful woman (she remained pagan and not to fond of Christianity and trief to turn their kids against him). No surprise that my grandma was his favorite and gave him many kids but the stress of the union and other things contributed to his blood pressure issues and his unfortunate passing away at 53😢
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  50. 30:50 i recently graduated from college with a diploma in Executive Office Management🥲 Now, i am planning to go back for a trade in Automotive Technology and possibly get certified as a nurse. I don't want to suffer in the future 😅
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