@spikedonline With respect, the political powers are elected in democratic elections.
England voted for this. Directly.
Pearl-clutching now, is rather stupid.
I agree; the results are horrendous but this is the effect of Stupid voting.
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Anton Kock
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Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Christopher Hitchens, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius. Good ice-cream is hard to find. Messrs Murray and Herrnstein.
South Africa Katılım Mayıs 2019
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The gang-rape in Brighton proves it – ordinary women are paying the price of the reckless ‘virtue’ of our globalist elites. Enough is enough, says Brendan O’Neill
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@PatrioticMedia1 Most African countries simply cannot exist without external aid and supervision.
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NIGERIA: GIANTS OF AFRICA QUEUING FOR RICE
According to Global report on food crisis, Nigeria is among the top 10 countries in the world facing food crisis.
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@TimesLIVE The inability of the average voter in South Africa to understand cause and effect is truly bizarre and unpleasant.
Stupid apparently will inherit the earth.
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The SAHRC has found that more than 70% of municipalities in the Northern Cape may require formal provincial intervention ebx.sh/O3pcbR
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@Clint_Davey1 I agree.
We tend to loose when we make woefully wrong assumptions.
"All peoples are the same".
We are not.
Some cultures simply cannot function in a complex society without external aid and oversight.
Assimilation without discretion is suicide.
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Lots of people in the comments saying "Ha ha but Rhodesia lost lol."
They didn't lose because their troops lost battles.
Rhodesia became diplomatically isolated after the Carnation Revolution in Portugal (which was backed by the CIA).
Rhodesia became surrounded on all sides by countries harbouring communist guerrillas, and lost access to overseas resources. Plus these guerrillas were supplied by the Soviets, Chinese, North Koreans and US.
Then the British government had them agree to a peace deal that eventually handed the country over to Mugabe.
Nothing to do with losing battles. The RLI and Selous Scouts were still doing high-impact raids with very few losses into Mozambique right at the end of the war.
Clint Warren-Davey@Clint_Davey1
Some of the most lopsided battles in all military history are from the Rhodesian Bush War in the 70's. You'd have units like the Rhodesian Light Infantry fighting guerrillas that outnumbered them 10 to 1 or 20 to 1 or 100 to 1. And they would inflict thousands of casualties with like 1 guy injured.
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@ChrisHatt11 Governance by feeble minded beaurocrats, appointed by delusional leaders, elected by contemptably ignorant voters.
Idiots ruling the Capable.
The Capable forgetting their backbone.
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@JacoKleynhans Much as most South Africans avoid publicly denouncing the criminal nature of the current regime in South Africa, preferring black solidarity above realistic, pragmatic, wealth creating governance.
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Reza Pahlavi asks the most important questions here and makes a valid and serious accusation against the Western, especially European media. Please watch the short video.
Brian Kilmeade@kilmeade
Listen to every word. Europe siding with Iran. No question
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@DavidAnsara "We".....
There exists a vast chasm of the "who all" and "me" in your "We".
Therein lies the, much avoided, answer to "Our" problems.
By no means an easy discussion, but I feel we cannot solve what we cannot truly understand.
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"We seem to believe that the world owes us something because of our history, and anybody who dares question our failed policy choices is themselves to blame for our shortcomings. The President’s rhetoric in Barcelona is a case in point – simultaneously railing against the West while demanding its help and money."
My latest column for @CommonSense_ZA (linked below)
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@KwazaUnathi We have a profoundly disappointing asymmetry in many laws and legal frameworks:they systematically favor bureaucracy with broad protections,presumptions of regularity,and procedural safeguards, while providing scant enforcement procedures and accountability mechanisms to restrain
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South Africa is cursed with a host of regulations and laws that stifle business freedom and discourages companies from employing workers unless they really must...
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@ChrisHatt11 I am SO tired of utterly incompetent fence-turtle beaurocrats, penning policies which has vast impact, without ever being called to accountability.
I wish we had a system to punish these future-thieves severely.
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Platinum is not a critical ingredient in EV batteries.
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Black culture's lack of impulse control is a threat to civilisation.
National Conservative@NatCon2022
Out of 129 app-based gig worker murders from 2021-2026, 82.4% of the known suspects are Black!
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@cremieuxrecueil I feel this finding is the same as political issues: we tend to blame the supplier/politician, but the problem originates with the consumer/voter who makes decisions NOT based on good data, but emotions and then they are reluctant to take responsibility for their own actions.
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"Food deserts" are an example of social scientists getting causality backwards
They saw poor people eating unhealthy foods and blamed local supply
They should have blamed demand!
Using data from 13 years of supermarket entries, there's basically no effects on healthy eating🧵
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@cremieuxrecueil The drivel being passed for publication in many journals are extremely distressing.
Money buys journal space and somehow article reviewers let absolute nonsense through for publication.
I am horrified at how rigour is avoided.
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Science is about to get absolutely nuked.
Unless we get extremely strict about providing and opening up code and data and documenting lab experiments rigorously, a torrent of credible-looking but fraudulent papers is upon us.
Ruslan Rust@rust_ruslan
Can water intake prevent Alzheimer’s disease? No. This is fully AI-generated… but the data below could easily pass as real. The new ChatGPT image model is truly impressive, but I think it poses a real risk for scientific integrity in future. For example, I could just generate a dataset with a single prompt that appears to show something like water preventing Alzheimer’s disease. Ironically, we used to laugh at obvious “AI slop” (like those weird generated mice), but that’s changing pretty fast. If I were reviewing this fake figure today, I’m not sure I could reliably tell whether this figure is real or AI-generated? The bigger issue is that the usual signals we rely on e.g., how realistic or plausible something looks are no longer enough. I think we really need more comprehensive AI detection and, more importantly, stronger verification standards for scientific submissions going forward. We’ll probably also need better ways to digitize lab notebooks and ensure access to raw data, something closer to how code and version history are tracked...
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What’s one thing causing inequality in your country right now?
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The unexpected and beautiful result, of allowing people to pursue civilisation.
Unfortunately not an idea contemplated by the South African ANC/EFF/MK alliance; a den of thieves who can only destroy.
How distasteful to be forced to experience this unwashed.
Johnny Midnight ⚡️@its_The_Dr
Wow! What an incredible Show, Johnny asks if anyone can play the Piano in the Audience and a Guy comes down in Flip flops and a Nike shirt. Then he gets to play!
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@shanselah @JacoKleynhans Smuts was more of an inclusive thinker. I think South Africa would have had a much more inclusive and pragmatic future, if he had won.
South Africa would be much better off, if blacks find and vote for pragmatic leaders.
The world works better when Individual Liberty rules.
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@AntonKock3 @JacoKleynhans Smuts? And to whom/what was his affiliation?
"Signs and symbols rule the world. Not words nor laws."
Confucius.
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Serious violent crime in South Africa has spiraled out of control. In any functioning democracy, a government so spectacularly incapable, and often unwilling, to protect its citizens would have been voted out years ago. Instead, we have seen active complicity in the breakdown of law and order: the deliberate weakening, politicization and mismanagement of the entire criminal justice system, from understaffed, unproductive and often corrupt police units to dysfunctional courts and overcrowded prisons. The result is not merely incompetence, but the effective surrender of millions of South Africans to predators.
Kevin Anderson@KAndersonATP
My cousin Bruce was attacked in his home a few days ago and did not survive. He leaves behind his two children, Alex and Savannah. A fundraiser has been set up to support them. If you're able to contribute or share, it would mean a great deal. backabuddy.co.za/campaign/suppo…
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High ranking criminals CAN be convicted.
Here's looking at you ANC/EFF /MK alliance and supporters...... 🔒⚖️
Brave Romania@brave_romania
🇲🇩 Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc has been sentenced to 19 years in prison. The fugitive former Democratic Party leader was convicted in the “theft of the billion” banking fraud case. The verdict is not final.
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Anton Kock retweetledi
“We will not solve our problem by electing the right people. We will only solve our problem by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.”
— Milton Friedman
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Anton Kock retweetledi
“The problem with the Western model is that it ignores the fact that people are essentially tribal."
- Lee Kuan Yew (Father of Singapore)
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South Africa is at a crossroads:
Either
* we uphold the Constitution.
Fully, consistently, and with accountability or
* We abandon it and accept the consequences of stepping outside the society it protects.
We're wasting time tolerating assholes.
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