Claude of the Von Claudes

@cypherpunkHRH @readryansa @against_biased @Jetour_SA Hope your two sons in the back don't play rugby for the first team. Chess players only.

@readryansa @against_biased @Jetour_SA If your gf weighs 80kg then rather get a bakkie for her

There’s a reason why @Jetour_SA has been voted car of the year 2026. I own some of the finest German, Japanese and British brands and love them for what they are (quality, reliability and bespoke) The Jetour T2 is proving to be just as good so far. The price point is unbelievable for what you get in return.

@OptimizeMax @RomanCabanac "I went to a halaal shop and asked them why they don't sell pork..."

@RomanCabanac But I bet they don’t allow soccer ⚽️. I put my son in an Afrikaans school. When I asked why they did not have soccer as an extramural, the principal said it was a black man's game.

All my children attend the same Afrikaans school, we put them in this year. The change in attitude, sport and cultural activities has been startling. They were in 'English' schools before but the gees at this new school is night and day,

@IamSpartacus10 @OwenBenjamin In SA we have a saying, "You get 2 kinds of gay; gay and rugby gay"

@OwenBenjamin American football, rugby, lacrosse, baseball, boxing, wrestling, fencing, martial arts, are aggressively heterosexual. Pickleball is aggressively geriatric. They have a league at my mother-in-law‘s retirement community.

Pickleball is an aggressively heterosexual sport. I stand by it. Gays aren’t even allowed to play. Officially.

@rudi_maritz @MaryvVixen @Our_DA Discussions on X are "opposite world", embrace the moment 😁

@MaryvVixen @Our_DA How am I a leftard if I defend an ostensibly right wing politician from being falsely accused of sleeping on the job? Please enlighten me of Vixen

🚨 28,000 parolees have effectively vanished from the system. The DA has called on Parliament to summon Minister Groenewald to explain this shocking failure and outline a plan to get these absconders back into custody.

@9mmsmg In aesthetics that Ferrari is a nice generic electric car. But it's generic. I'm sure it has very impressive underpinnings but compare it to Plaid... The Tesla runs better at ⅐ of the price. And that's where the comparisons lie now with that car, with EV's and not supercars.

The vehicle at the top is a Lamborghini Aventador Ultimae Roadster. It's powered by a 6.5 liter v12. The bottom is a piece of garbage that Ferrari is releasing because tech geeks have taken over the world. The Ferrari is getting a lot of hate and it's all well deserved. The focus is mainly on the it's looks and rightfully so. It looks like a tech guy designed it. Tech guys are great at, well, tech. Other things? Not so much. Show me a tech genius and more often than not I'll show you someone with absolutely no style and zero sense of aesthetics. There's nothing wrong with that, they specialize in other areas. But when you allow them to create things, they all end up looking something like this. Everything becomes an Apple Watch. Looks aside, it's simply missing a big part of why people love high performance sports cars. The engine. We live in a world where we can't drive 220 mph in our day to day lives. Open it up on a track? Sure. But most people who spend 300k or more on a vehicle aren't doing that with any regularity. You want to feel it, though. You want to hear it. You rev the engine of a v12 Lamborghini and you know you're sitting on power. The rumble. It feels like you're sitting in a fighter jet. This is what you're buying. You're in part, buying a fantasy. You sit behind the wheel of an electric super car and you don't get that feeling. It's sterile, it's too clean, it's just... gay. Performance is crazy, I'll give them that, but you're essentially tootin around in a Jetsons car. Lacking exterior style and internally power you can feel, it just feels entirely soulless. It's the same reason I absolutely loathe smart watches. Id rather pay 1000x the price for a mechanical Swiss Watch than an Apple watch that would offer more accurate time keeping and functionality. I'm not an anti technology Grug, but I also hate where everything is heading. Clean, sterile and gay.

@DavidF1969 @AnnCoulter "retains" - telling ... Comrade. How about you make a plan to grow that 35% instead of taking the 65%.

@AnnCoulter Murdered at a rapid rate? Yes, at a quarter of the rate at which black South Africans are murdered. In spite of being privileged to the point that the 7.2% of the population which is white still retains 65% of the wealth.

There are only about 5 million whites in South Africa (currently being murdered at a rapid rate), but among South African tech founders in the U.S. are Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sachs and Roelof Botha. Trump can't get white South Africans here fast enough.

@KingHenryV1386 @Devon_Eriksen_ That's a different conversation. Plant trees by all means. Doesn't mean a state gets to claim something is a crisis and then claim crises = new taxes

@Devon_Eriksen_ Yes but generally speaking I do believe that we need more trees. Concrete and asphalt are just giant heatsinks and there’s a lot more now than even 20 years ago

The words "climate change" do not simply refer to the idea that the Earth is getting warmer or cooler. The Earth is always getting warmer or cooler. Sometimes there were ice ages. Sometimes there were hippopotami in the Thames. No, the words "climate change" are something more. They are a political slogan. They do not merely mean that the world is getting warmer right now. They also mean that this is necessarily a bad thing. That it is your personal fault if you are White and live in America or Europe, but not if you are brown and live in India or China. That you must give up technology your ancestors enjoyed, and pay more taxes so that California can spend 132 billion dollars on 100 meters of rail. "Climate change" means treating a slow, inevitable, and natural process as a perpetual crisis requiring perpetual money. This is nothing but a perpetual grift, where the politically connected swear the ice caps are melting, fly around in private jets to tell you about it, then collect your money to buy beachfront property.

@johnkonrad Hangovers have always been a pain for me, but one or two whiskey & water seem to pass through safely.

This is a problem I have faced. I gave up drinking entirely for years because of the severity of hangovers. The problem is it’s nice to have a drink once in a while but you go into a downward spiral… the less you drink, the more a few drinks is a shock to your system. Wine and beer have their cultural roots but each has major drawbacks. Wine hangovers often feel worse because wine, especially red wine, has more congeners, tannins, histamines, and sometimes sugar, which can amplify headaches, flushing, brain fog, and poor sleep. Beer hangovers often feel more sluggish and bloated. Wheat, gluten, yeast, or hops seem to worsen that puffy head / cotton brain fog. Dry white wines have less sugar and tannins and can be easier for your body to process Light beers have leas sugar and less yeast and hops too. I think that’s why those two options have become popular… but you get to a point where your tolerance is so low you can’t process that either. The problem is a dark beer or deep red wine is very inviting sometimes. Here you can test high quality brands. I don’t like the headaches all wine gives me so I avoid it all together but some brands of deep dark stout are fine. Just avoid ones with sugar added. But the real solution is hard alcohol. This too gives people crazy hangovers but usually because they either use bottom shelf booze or add loads of sugar. Stick to something simple and mix it with something you drink normally but you can get zero calorie seltzers in loads of flavors. I like a coconut seltzer with Goslings. Be sure to count your shots. I hate nothing more than a bartender who “hooks me up” with extra booze. So my rules: If you must go with a beer or wine check the sugar content. Avoid anything with additives. Either go really light and simple or very dark and high quality. Be honest with yourself about the glass size. Hard alcohol is the best but mix it with stuff you drink normally. If you drink diet coke regularly (not recommended but whatever) then have a whiskey diet. But if you don’t drink soda, don’t start at the bar. Get middle shelve or higher. Final tip. Traveling on short trips ain’t the time to try something new. Neither is a workweek. Stress will make any hangover at least twice as bad. Stick to known simple drinks on work trips or anywhere stressful. The time to darker, more expensive wines and beer are relaxed Fridays at home.

@wil_da_beast630 Relative rates matter because of our races inclination to suicidal empathy and low birth rates; 2 things which are our own doing so....

Well...no. The global white population has INCREASED dramatically. 14.5% of all humans, counted honestly, are now white. There are over a billion whites. The only decline is RELATIVE. Because of near-magic tech invented by whites and many others - we just cured Guinea Worm, India just went to the moon, AI exists - other homo-sap lines are thriving as well! Isn't that...wonderful?

@9mmsmg We try our best

Some of you have been consistently posting on this app every day for years. You're always in your favorite users comment section, being a dedicated reply guy. None of your posts have more than one like and still, day after day, you show up and post. You are the real heroes of X. The employee who hasn't taken a sick day in 30 years for minimum wage. Algorithm? Never heard of it. Just posting for the love of the game. True kings.

@Bound2Liberty @BigDaddyLiberty Recently had dealings with a couple PhDs (I can only assume in something in the arts fields) and ... ja, ... The kind of people that insist you call them Doctor but can't reverse a car or sort out a food order.

I'll be honest, I haven't been a great fan of the DA for a while, but this is rather silly .. some of the smartest people I know have no degree, because they couldn't afford the fees, or because they went into a field that didn't need tertiary education. Just because you don't have a piece of paper with your name on it, under the name of some fancy expensive institution, doesn't mean you are incapable of using your brain.. Conversely, some of the dumbest people I know have degree's, because they assume having that fancy piece of paper somehow gives them intelligence. With the Internet, all knowledge is basically open source and anyone can educate themselves at will.

Wait, so people without a tertiary education are not “clever”? Shocking how snobbish and elitist some of yall are. Some of us were raised by parents and/or have siblings/friends who have no tertiary qualifications, and they are/were exceptionally clever and resourceful people.

@Americanlife178 @PieterVand37940 The Dutch landed in 1652, my forefather arrived on a VOC shop in 1717.

@PieterVand37940 Afrikaners fall totally inline with the standards set forth by our Founding Fathers in the Naturalization Act of 1790. Which incidentally was only 48 years after the Dutch first landed in SA, which was totally devoid of people except the Khoisan. The Bantu weren't there at all.

Finally something we agree on, South Africans are not Americans. The moment I set foot on American soil I denounced my South African citizenship and I became a proud Amerikaner. 🫡 Take note of the flag I fly, it is not a South African flag, nor a Palestinian flag or a Somali flag. 🚨 America is my country now.

@FSF150 @9mmsmg In all fairness "just the right time" is virtually every waking moment of Trump's life. The only time there isn't a camera on him is probably when he is on the crapper. Basically anytime a nutcase tries something, good press will be a guarantee.

@9mmsmg Some idiot leftist taking shots at Trump at just the right time to give him good press and remind us they’re psychos is consistent enough now that I’m starting to have some sympathy for the “they’re all staged” libs at this point

It's at the point where if someone actually successfully assassinated Trump, live, on camera, in high definition, a liberal will post, "He knows his approval rating was dropping so he pulled this stunt to get a boost. He's going to run again and he knows that dying will get him the sympathy vote. Typical!"

@utonomosthought @BasilTheGreat And there AFTER, deport his ashes; as Basil said...

@BasilTheGreat wanting to put a guy on a plane home after he raped one of your women is extreme unprecedented weakness and cuckery. deportation should be for the ones who aren't committing crimes. this "person" needs to suffer a lot more before being executed

I do not say this lightly Seriously... deport his f**king ashes.

@9mmsmg This is the only viable solution

Considering using this an excuse to get into falconry.

If you want to know how my life is going, we saw a mouse inside the house this morning. A singular, small mouse. My solution was to act like a normal human and buy a mousetrap. What are we doing? We're going to a hotel until an exterminator comes, lays traps and figure out any possible entry points. Why? Wife is worried about the Hanta virus and other diseases rodents can spread. Am I being unreasonable in thinking evacuating is ridiculous? It was a tiny field mouse. There's no visible droppings anywhere I can see. "I can't sleep knowing there is a filthy wild rodent in the house"

@callmesol3x @elonmusk Didn't one of your team mates try and declare a Nigerian Kingdom in South Africa in the past few weeks? Maybe let your colonial ambitions take a back seat before worrying about who holds power in South Africa.

@elonmusk The white people in South Africa are Racist. I have a strong feeling they control the South African Government and South Africa 🇿🇦 resources. The Black leaders there are just poppets of the white elite

The South African laws are literally super racist, plain and simple. It’s not complicated: imagine if the law was called “White Empowerment”, instead of “Black Empowerment”! People would have a seizure 😂 South Africa now has more anti-White laws than Apartheid had anti-Black laws. Think about that for a second … The current South African government has objectively implemented Apartheid 2.0. Shame on them.

@mechanical_4u How low do these aircraft fly?!

critical bird strike safety test on a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II cockpit canopy. Test Purpose: Engineers simulate a bird strike by firing a projectile, often a chicken, from a pneumatic cannon nicknamed the "chicken gun". Speed: The projectile is launched at speeds exceeding 500 km/h to replicate actual high-speed flight conditions. Objective: This test ensures the canopy can absorb immense kinetic energy without shattering, protecting the pilot. Materials: The canopy is constructed from layered polycarbonate and reinforced composites designed for extreme resilience.

@busierbath @johnkonrad 🤣🤣

@johnkonrad they have pointed sticks move further from their shores

Reminder: most ships sailing from Asia to Europe today are routing around South Africa. The Red Sea may be reopening, but China already has a naval foothold there. In any serious war, the Cape route becomes critical to U.S. and allied sea power. We can’t afford to ignore South Africa. Our own national security depends on a modicum of political stability there.

@Hoerang26 @cb_doge Very apt of you to use that GIF of a man who's only power was to lash out against another black man on a public stage simply because he was cuckolded by his wife!

@cb_doge Elon Musk should move on he hates South Africa so much he wants to dictate government rules. If he feels South Africa is too entitled please by any means "keep South African name out your mouth" .

Why Elon Musk is RIGHT to fight South Africa’s racist rules blocking Starlink? Imagine this: Long ago, South Africa had very unfair laws called apartheid. They treated Black people badly and kept them from good jobs and money. When those bad laws ended, the country made new rules (called B-BBEE) to help Black people get a fair share of business. The idea was good – like a big helping hand. But now? For companies like Starlink to sell fast internet, they MUST give away 30% of their business to Black partners. Just because of skin color. Elon Musk was born in South Africa. He left as a teen to chase big dreams. Today, his company SpaceX wants to bring Starlink – super fast satellite internet – to South Africa. But the rules say no unless they give up part of the company. Elon said it right: “Starlink is not allowed because I’m not Black.” SpaceX promised to spend about $30 million (that’s 500 million rand!) to give FREE high-speed internet to 5,000 rural schools. That helps over 2.4 MILLION kids every year learn better, get jobs later, and have a brighter future. Real help for the people who need it most! Starlink already works in about 24 other African countries. Villages there now have internet for school, doctors, and business. South Africa’s villages are missing out because of these racist rules. Elon isn’t asking for special favors. He just wants fair play so Starlink can connect everyone fast. Internet = education, jobs, hope. Why hold back millions of kids over rules that pick by race and color?

@Jenna_Newbery @newstart_2024 Scantily clad woman complains about a man with a shirt with scantily clad woman on it...🤣🤣🤣

The guy just landed a spacecraft on a comet — one of the most impressive scientific achievements in years. His reward? A public struggle session because his bowling shirt had scantily clad women on it. Helen Andrews points out the quiet cost of institutional feminization: HR departments now hunt down any maverick personality and stamp it out. We’re losing innovators we’ll never even know about, all because someone focused on the shirt instead of the comet. This is how wokeness actually works. Have you seen real excellence get punished for something trivial like this?