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Big Jules

@bigjulesCape

Logic doesn’t dictate, common sense ain’t so common, and the big picture is not a sum of all the small pictures

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Big Jules
Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@Osint613 Sorry guys , has to be the most rubbish cop display ever in world policing. Really , call yourself a 1st world country - Zimbabwe would have done a better job. What a f*#cking embarrassment
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Open Source Intel
Open Source Intel@Osint613·
The moment both terrorists are taken out in Sydney Australia after kiIIing 11 and injuring 28 at Hanukah event.
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Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@cutmaker Sweet pic - hope you cracked open the bottle in the background
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Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@LouStagner The reason their index would stay the same - is that when they put their score in, par off the closer tees is lower than off the back tees
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Lou Stagner (Golf Stat Pro)
Lou Stagner (Golf Stat Pro)@LouStagner·
If a scratch golfer (0.0 Index) who normally plays 7,000+ yards... Moves up to 6,400 yards... ▶️Their handicap index will likely get WORSE ▶️They will no longer be scratch players
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Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@jk_rowling Just imagine you told a black South African that you want to pull your cock out in a women’s bathroom, and being denied that right, is akin to the beatings, torture and detention your mother and father endured during the 80’s. Do you fkn hear yourselves?
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J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling·
Yes, men who have to use the men’s bathroom at theme parks really do put Nelson Mandela’s struggles into perspective.
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Big Jules
Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@Will_Tanner_1 2/2 - if we had to hand those Companies over to the auto workers in Detroit, or the unemployed of California, how do you think they would fare in this mad, ever-changing world
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Will Tanner
Will Tanner@Will_Tanner_1·
One of the most infuriating aspects of the Rhodesian story is that events proven them entirely right, but their Western enemies never admitted it They said that mass democracy was a bad idea because the blacks would elect a demagogue tyrant who’d wreck the country and economy. Citing the Congo, Zanzibar, Zambia, and others, they noted that destroying “colonial” rule in favor of mass democracy brought with it only destruction and chaos So, to preserve their propertied voting system, which limited the franchise to the responsible, they declared independence from Britain and fought the Bush War The West claimed they were “racist” and mass democracy would work anywhere, and then used that as a reason to back the communist rebels who were known mainly for targeting women in children in awful terror attacks Eventually the combined might of the world wore down Rhodesia’s 250,000 whites, and after 15 years they gave in to mass democracy Exactly as they predicted, the tyrannical demagogue Robert Mugabe was elected and spent the next three and a half decades destroying every single positive vestige of what the Rhodesians had spent a century building So now the former breadbasket of Africa is repeatedly wracked by famine and ruled by a military clique instead of a modern, Western government that rules well The Rhodesians were 100% right, and the world destroyed them anyway
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Big Jules
Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@Will_Tanner_1 1/2 : America today, looks EXACTLY like Rhodesia did , pre-independence. A minorty of smart, resourceful, insightful folks that run Nvidia, Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft; run the economy for 330m people(as did the 100k white folk of former Rhodesia).
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Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@craigbrockie This is just pathetic. For Gen Z loafers who don’t work. Try an 18 hour shift as a trainee at a law firm , or a resident surgeon working nights . Go do yoga on the beach you bum , this is for tech billionaires, not hard working folks in the real world
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🧬Craig Brockie
🧬Craig Brockie@CraigBrockie·
Fasting for 72 hours is the best medicine on Earth. It triggers your body to "eat up" tumors, inflammation, and toxins. It's literally a doctor within. Here's how to fast correctly (according to science): 🧵
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Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@Leon_Schreib Now that you have cleared the backlog of Visas - can we maybe clear to queues at O R Tambo passports at emigration. 2 hour waits - and there is no one from Home Affairs/BMA working - it is school holidays. Has been like this for 20 years
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Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@FinanceGhost Have you seen the Grecale in the flesh - absolutely gorgeous. It’s like they had this conversation in the boardroom, and Chairman said to the head of the design team : “We need a smaller Levante, but please don’t make it look like a chick’s car - we don’t want another Macan”
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The Finance Ghost@FinanceGhost·
Some Sunday viewing pleasure of my favourite car brand in the world - for the petrolheads, any anyone who still has a beating heart: youtu.be/fCdvFFo60OQ?si…
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Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@Politicsweb It’s actually quite ironic, actually fraudulent, that an admitted Jew and Israel hater like Dag - would employ Leni Riefenstahl tactics straight out of the Himler Nazi party handbook to discredit a hard working civil servant. Shame on you Turkish immigrant
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Politicsweb@Politicsweb·
🧵1/ It must have been a disorientating week for Leon Schreiber. No sooner had the DA MP been appointed Minister of Home Affairs in the new Government of National Unity than he learnt on X (formerly Twitter) that everything he thought he knew about himself, and his origins, was a racist lie. Schreiber had long believed that he was born in September 1988 in the then Cape Province, as his birth certificate indicated. On Sunday evening, shortly after his appointment was announced, an anonymous Wikipedia user in the Eastern Cape updated Schreiber’s profile with the explosive revelation that Schreiber had in fact been born in Borrowdale, Harare, Zimbabwe. Not long after that another Wikipedia user updated his nationality to “Zimbabwean]]n”.
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Big Jules
Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@TheVesuvian @AGHamilton29 America will fall, before Israel does. Israeli citizens are united. They may not support Bibi - but they are united, as one. Can’t say that about many Western Nations these days. Risk of Civil War in Israel - zero. Risk of Civil War in a First World Western Nation - not zero
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TheVesuvian@TheVesuvian·
@AGHamilton29 If Israel falls, for whatever reason, it will never come back and Jews will never have a home that is willing and able to protect its people. There are many who are not Jewish but who do understand the importance of the struggle. Godspeed.
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AG@AGHamilton29·
I know most of the people responsible or who are covering for it don't care, but let me explain how American Jews are feeling right now: The overwhelming majority of Jews only live in a few countries in the world. Our families were driven out of much of Europe by pogroms and The Holocaust, and then we were ethnically cleansed from most of the Middle East.. something that rarely gets discussed. As a result of that history, there is only a feeling of safety in societies that protect pluralism and in the world's only Jewish country. The existence of Jews in Israel is central to the Jewish religion, no matter how much some people would like to pretend otherwise. The point is that for most Jews, Zionism is part of their identity. It's not about support for the Israeli government or any particular policy, but simply the right for the existence of the Jewish state. Now we get to America and these protests. American Jews are Americans. We support the right of a Jewish state to exist, but that doesn't mean we want to be Israelis. Just like a French American can support the existence of France, or an Iranian American can support the existence of Iran (and can care about what happens there..). Yet I want people to understand how concerning it is to see what we are seeing now, especially given the history of the Jewish people. More upsetting is that much of this is just being ignored or downplayed by those in a position to speak up. We are seeing videos of Jewish kids being restricted from entering school libraries. Jewish kids are being assaulted. Jewish kids face mobs attacking and harassing them simply for maintaining a belief that is central to their identity. And they are told that it's not an issue because all they have to do is denounce that part of their identity and then they can be counted as good Jews and accepted. Then we are also seeing these mobs now openly chant for violence against "zionists," demand that "zionists" be banned from public spaces, chant for "Zionists" not to be allowed on the streets. Chant for violence against an overwhelming majority of Jews. And often also the ethnic cleansing of our relatives in Israel. When most Jews hear that, it means us and our families. No amount of spin will change that. The goal is to try to make us feel unwelcome in these spaces and it is explicit. You have no idea the feelings that video of a group of idiots at UCLA not letting a Jewish kid go to the library because he was a "zionist" brought out for Jewish Americans... And before people start to argue about what things like "there is only one solution, intifada revolution" and "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Arab", we know what they mean. More importantly, we've made it clear how we perceive these things and that has made the mobs want to chant them even louder because they view it as effective intimidation. Not one of these chants has ever helped a Palestinian. Not one of them has ever changed a single Israeli policy. They are specifically aimed at intimidating people in America. But it has gotten worse... Businesses owned by Jews in Los Angeles are getting threatening calls telling them they either need to openly oppose Israel or they risk harassment/attacks. Jewish Synagogues facing bomb threats. Jewish-owned property is being vandalized. Jewish organizations are being explicitly targeted. Jews who support Israel are being actively targeted. And the demand is that we just accept it. And again, the sickest part of it is not only the relative silence, but those who are supposed to inform the public on what is happening are pretending like it isn't happening because it would undermine a "mostly peaceful" narrative they prefer. They are actively covering for the mobs doing these very things. And by the time this escalates, it will be too late. We can see where this is headed. And not just for Jews, because while we may be at the top of the target list, the people behind this also hate so many other aspects of American society and are open about saying so. They think they are revolutionaries and the society that Americans sacrificed so much to help build is their ultimate target. The education system is failing as an institution to teach these wannabe Red Guards why this behavior is wrong. The media is failing as an institution to tell people the truth about what is happening. The government, mostly in deep blue areas, is failing as an institution to live up to its part of the social contract in protecting people from these criminal mobs. That's a lot of failures that are driving us into dangerous territory. American Jews aren't going to accept this path and being bullied out of public spaces without fighting back. I hope non-Jewish Americans wake up to it and also stand up against it because the more these mobs get away with, the further they will go. It may start with Jews (or "zionists"), but it won't end there.
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Big Jules
Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@smalltalkdaily @FamousBrandsSA @VandAWaterfront Went to Wiesenhof at Lanseria. No Castle Light, no Wellington Sweet Chlli, out of smoked trout, on a long holiday weekend. Seems high rates, higher electricity and transport costs, municipal charges, all contributing to higher inventory costs. Most retailers low on stock.
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Smalltalkdaily Research@smalltalkdaily·
It may be workers day but nothing is “working” at the @FamousBrandsSA outlets I visited (or) tried too this morning at @VandAWaterfront Mugg & Bean, queues to get in, NO staff at front counter, empty tables, no accountability. I go in & ask “why is nobody assisting the queue of customers”. I get a look from an employee daring to question why I even ask. I & others leave the queue Amble to Tashas. Friendlier service, quickly seated, order placed. An extended wait for food - understandable but it’s not particularly busy. Food arrives - cold - part of order forgotten. How do you mess up a simple toasted sandwich. They do, twice. How long had that food been sitting at the pass unattended ? Food returned to be kitchen to be re-heated….comes back AGAIN barely luke warm, again part of order missing & this customer wasn’t given cutlery. Had to get up to ask for 🍴 Looking at customers around me, I was not only patron experiencing service & menu problems this morning @FamousBrandsSA no wonder your share price is tanking as your standards clearly are I should have gone to @SpurRestaurant for better service & HOT food
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Visegrád 24@visegrad24·
BREAKING: First picture of the terrorist who killed several people in Sydney, Australia. He stabbed in a shopping mall in a Jewish area (Westfield Bondi), right next to an Israeli restaurant. Via @AnnoymousGiraf
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Big Jules
Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@HilzFuld Not sure I understand. They are trying to bomb Tel Aviv, every minute, every hour, every day. Just not very good at it. Perhaps they should chant “bomb Tel Aviv better”
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Hillel Fuld@HilzFuld·
Thousands chanting “Bomb Tel Aviv” in a Gaza protest yesterday… Wait, what? I’m being told now that this wasn’t in Gaza. Wait, where was it?? Come again? Folks, this happened in New York City. Yesterday. In 2024. In New York. In 2024. After this protest, they continued on to the next one where they chanted “Ceasefire now.” Then some more “Bomb Tel Aviv”. Then they went to a “Globalize the intifada” march and then a “Stop the war” march. Then a “Kill all the Jews” march followed by a “Give us a state” march. You simply cannot make this stuff up. If you did, you’d be hospitalized for having delusional thoughts that are totally disconnected from the real world.
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Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@News24 So you would rather give up running water, for a Party for Palestine. You would rather deprive yourself of water from the taps, because maybe the DA have not flown 10,000 miles for a protest, but instead focused on serving their citizens. Great choices
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News24 🇿🇦
News24 🇿🇦@News24·
The ANC wants International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor to be its candidate for Western Cape premier. brnw.ch/21wHYaW
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Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@Rabbitking007 While Koko, Jooste, Gupta, Senzo killers etc walk amongst us. They must be quivering
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Mr Rabbit
Mr Rabbit@Rabbitking007·
🔴 "When you come home, we are going to arrest you” The country's foreign minister stated that IDF soldiers holding dual Israeli-South African citizenship will face immediate arrest. Is this legal ... on what grounds ? ... 🤔🤔🤔
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Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@OnneVegter @PhumlaniMMajozi It’s the escalation. You can come in now with a low wage, but a few Union Strikes later, and three years down the line your payroll cost has doubled. Why don’t you ask Sibanye how that is going. Impossible
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Onne Vegter@OnneVegter·
For the record, I don’t think South Africa’s minimum wage of R27.58 per hour is too high. I checked, and China’s minimum wage is in fact higher. In several parts of India it is however much lower. But overall the labour legislation in SA is a disincentive and not favourable to employers.
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Phumlani M. Majozi@PhumlaniMMajozi·
Why are these big western companies, Tesla and Apple amongst them, not establishing manufacturing plants here in South Africa? I mean, we have the highest unemployment rate in the world. Surely getting them here would help. What stops them?
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Big Jules@bigjulesCape·
@KhandaniM The only part missing is margins. Before zero interest rates in Slicon Valley, businesses had to be profitable to invest in. Today, shareholders of new tech are subsidising customers. The shareholders of Takealot are going to have to tolerate lower margins for longer.
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Khandani Msibi
Khandani Msibi@KhandaniM·
Sometimes if u don’t have competition u must create it, I was in the front seat in such a situation. 1995 I was Factory Manager at Bromor Foods, we launched Energade which was a new category of still drinks (game was too weak to be considered in the game). Chris Rowan Perry was MD and he said Energade must not be marketed as strictly a sportsman’s drink like it was the case with Game. He wanted it marketed and merchandised as a refreshment drink in competition to Coca Cola buddy. But this was a daunting task as Bromor didn’t have the marketing money to lure clients way from carbonated soft drinks to still drinks. The parent of Bromor was Cadbury Schweppes and it held the rights to Powerade outside of the USA. Rowan Perry, to our horror asked Cadbury to allow Coca Cola to bring Powerade into the SA market, we thought he has gone mad. He later explained that we don’t have money to be market leader of a new category, we need a market leader that will lead the category against CSD’s by spending huge marketing funds to grow the category. Why not let Coca Cola the company compete with itself. His logic was that if we sell one bottle for every 3 bottles of Powerade we would do well. Coke launched Powerade and when I left Bromor in 1999 Oros was 100 yrs old making R100m in revenue and Energade was 5 yrs old making R100m in revenue. 2 years later I had left Bromor and joined ABI, a bottler of Coca Cola. I was General Manager in Richard’s Bay and then MegaManufavturing Manager in Pretoria. We were in a strategy session when the Coke guys walked in to make some important announcement, proudly so: Powerade has surpasses Energade in market share, I was the only one that didn’t celebrate the achievement, how do I tell them they fell into a Rowan Perry trap? Nespars need online to chow the lunch of brick and mortar and Amazon is coming to help move consumers online. Let’s see if the Energade and Powerade game will Play itself. May the best strategist win!
Asante Mokhuoa@AsanteOnBoards

TAKEALOT UNFAZED BY AMAZON Prepare for a Much-Welcomed E-commerce Showdown: Takealot Stands Unfazed by Amazon's Presence Naspers' South African Unit CEO, Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa didn't flinch at the prospect of Amazon and Walmart entering South Africa's e-commerce arena. In her recent Bloomberg interview, she exuded confidence, underlining Naspers' ability to compete fiercely thanks to its local expertise and established leadership through its online champion, Takealot. South Africa's e-commerce scene is sizzling. Online sales skyrocketed 30% in 2022 to reach a scorching R55 billion, and market research predicts a growth trajectory 3-5 times faster than other countries, igniting a gold rush for potential players. Global giants Amazon and Walmart are recognizing this lucrative landscape and gearing up for South African launches, but they won't face an empty playing field. Naspers, Africa's largest company, holds the reins of Takealot, the country's dominant online retailer. Aware of the impending challenge, Naspers isn't playing passively. Takealot has already rolled out a one-hour delivery service for a range of products, from tech gadgets to toys, demonstrating agility and commitment to customer convenience. This proactive approach showcases Naspers' unwavering determination to maintain its market leadership. We are investing a lot more into our businesses," Mahanyele-Dabengwa declared in her Bloomberg interview, emphasizing Naspers' proactive stance. This is not just a battle for market share; it's a clash of titans, with local agility facing global muscle. While Amazon and Walmart bring global clout, Naspers holds a valuable card: deep-rooted local expertise. Takealot's intimate understanding of South African consumer preferences and buying habits could prove to be a significant advantage in this David-and-Goliath battle. Mahanyele-Dabengwa's calm confidence is a poker player's tell. She welcomes the entry of these e-commerce titans, not with bravado, but with a calculating glint in her eye. This is a game of chess, not checkers, and Naspers has been studying the board for years. Takealot is no longer just a pawn; it's a knight strategically positioned to defend its castle. The coming months won't be a sprint, but a marathon, a slow and steady dance of innovation and adaptation. Will Naspers' local knowledge be enough to outwit global muscle? Only time will tell, but one thing's for sure: this e-commerce epic is far from over. Grab your popcorn, South Africa, because the plot twists are just getting started. #AskAsanteOnBoards

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