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@lindiforchange @ErnstRoets Never ever heard this song

One quick search and here is one: 🎵 Song: “Die Rooinek” (The Redneck / British Soldier) Afrikaans lyrics: “Rooinek, jy sal bloei, Vir wat jy van ons neem. Jy bring jou vuur en staal, Maar ons sal jou bene breek!” English translation: “Redneck, you will bleed, For what you take from us. You bring your fire and steel, But we will break your bones!” There’s more….

The Afrikaners / Boers have many folk songs. Bundles upon bundles of them. Almost every single one of them is about our love for our culture, people and country and our commitment to make things better. I can't think of a single Afrikaner song that encourages or romanticises violence, except perhaps Siembamba, which is about killing a snake to protect a baby.

FROM BACKYARD BBQS TO EXISTENTIAL DREAD IN 3 GENERATIONS Turns out trading game nights and family meals for algorithm-fed outrage wasn't the serotonin hack we thought it’d be. x.com/GigaBasedDad/s…

How is beauty important in our everyday realities and constructs, both with each other and to the built environment? There are two kinds of beauty: the individual, expressive and revealing gesture, and ordinary harmony and fittingness. In everyday life it is the second kind of beauty that is important, and it is exemplified in home-building, gardening and the design of squares, houses and streets. It is important because it expresses and amplifies the human desire for settlement, for an environment in which things fit together and people too. It is an instrument of peace. -- Thinking in Practice interview 2014

@Mikedotcoza Daar hoef nie net gekies te word tussen Apartheid of n korrupte ANC regering nie. Dis n oorvereenvoudiging van n komplekse probleem

This is the status quo that Elon Musk and his groups are trying to preserve in South Africa.

@banbadmen Please don’t use Jesus name in vain?

Jesus. 😤 Are you even remotely surprised by this?

Then came the moment that brought the house down. Kennedy recalled a behind-the-scenes meeting with food industry executives. What he told his team beforehand? It became the soundbite heard around the country. “When I went in a few months or about a month ago to meet with food companies, I was talking with my staff about these petroleum-based dyes.” Then came the line that ignited the entire HHS auditorium: “I said if they want to add petroleum, if they want to eat petroleum, they ought to add it themselves at home. But they shouldn’t be feeding it to the rest of us.” 🔥 The crowd lit up. He didn’t stop there. “Without our knowledge or consent.” Then, like a general declaring war, he laid out the next phase of the mission: “We are going to get rid of the dyes and then one by one we’re going to get rid of every ingredient and additive in food that we can legally address.” This wasn’t just a policy update. It was a declaration of war on the toxic garbage filling America’s grocery shelves. And judging by the reaction, it hit its target.

That’s when the man himself, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the stage—and sounded the alarm on what’s at stake. What he said next wasn’t just sobering—it was terrifying. “When my uncle was president 3% of American kids had chronic disease, today it is around 60%.” As Health and Human Services Secretary, Kennedy didn’t hesitate to say what public health officials have ignored for years: we’re living through a silent epidemic. “These are broad category, the ones that Marty mentioned, like ADHD, the neurological disorders—speech delay, language delay, tics, Tourette syndrome, narcolepsy, ASD, autism, all of these are injuries that I never heard of when I was a kid,” he said. “They were not part of the nomenclature. They weren’t part of the dialog.” Back then, chronic illness in children was so rare, it didn’t even register on the budget. “There was zero spent in this country, treating chronic disease when my uncle was president. Today it’s about $1.8 trillion annually.” That number hit hard. But Kennedy wasn’t finished. “It is bankrupting our nation.” Then came a jaw-dropper that rippled through the audience: “74% of American kids cannot qualify for military service.” And that led to the brutal question on everyone’s mind: “How are we going to maintain our global leadership with such a sick population?” This wasn’t politics—it was a wake-up call. And Kennedy was just getting warmed up.

@RealCandaceO Just such a pity that Joe is using God’s name in vain in his podcasts

Oh the tears that will flow from this Joe Rogan interview with Ian Carroll. Our cup shall overflow with wonderful, beautiful, neocon tears.

@WillyFoosball Orania!

South Africa has completely taken over my audience on here. I am now one of y’all.

UPDATE FROM ORANIA, SOUTH-AFRICA. The ANC government in South-Africa is doubling down on land expropriation. A shocking new bill was just announced; land expropriation based on majority demographics. That means; land ownership must reflect the demographics of South-Africa. The Department of Land Reform and Rural Development announced today to the relevant parliamentary portfolio committee that the so-called "Equitable Access to Land" Bill will be introduced this year, the idea is to rush it through before the end of Neither the department nor the portfolio committee is making a secret of the fact that this bill specifically targets land ownership by white Afrikaners. They regard it as part of the freedom struggle that was left unfinished in 1994. This is another way of saying that they have decided to unilaterally suspend that settlement in yet another way. Dr Wynand Boshoff, Member of Parlement for the Freedom Front Plus, sent out a press release after the announcement of the committee. Negotiations in the 90’s between the previous government and the ANC were based on two basic foundational agreements. Afrikaners can keep land that were their property, and Afrikaners can have their own educational institutions and schools. In the past few months both these agreements fell victim to the ANC’s dishonesty. If some Afrikaners want to leave SA, I completely understand and, though saddened, wish them well. Orania however is suggesting a new dispensation. Territory for Afrikaners should be recognised. Without a dispensational change, the ANC will continue to vilify Afrikaners in order to cover up their own failures and satisfy their voter base. Recognizing a territory for Afrikaners will be stabilising for the region, in the interest of peace, and a nett positive for everyone. What we ask, we also extend to others that can maintain the same. Be solution driven. Be like Orania

@katiabeeden @realDonaldTrump Orania is the only answer!

Orania’s formal reaction to president Trump’s most recent executive order. “Help us here” - not with USD, but in recognising the Afrikaner’s legitimate pursuit of self-determination as the only long term solution to South Africa’s dispensation crisis.

Why did past societies build so much "useless" beauty everywhere — and why did we stop? It might be a measure of a culture's health... (thread) 🧵

"The only way to secure equality is by making everyone equally poor"

"The visual fixation of our culture will certainly destroy much of the impact of the written word, which to me has always been a holy thing"

"The ruling principle of our educational system seems to be that children should be made to feel good about themselves" Know Your Place

"Culture, like religion, addresses the question which science leaves unanswered: the question what to feel" Modern Culture

Our Democracy in SA is sick. It is every child/adult's right to be educated in their language, so why this constant attack on Afrikaans?