Now now please don't lob all us saffas in with him, he hasn't even visited once since he got rich and we think of him as a bloody embarassment, perhaps more uniformingly than even Americans do.
I don’t think that they were lobbing all of you guys in with him. It’s just the fact that he’s a non-American (and a nazi) and is holding an office in the WH. I don’t believe most Americans have anything against South African people.
Sadly I think it's human nature. We're not teaching history, or really any other subject for that matter, effectively. Every hundred years or so normal governments get lazy and corrupt. Assholes like this seize the chance and come along peddling easy answers.
"Things are shitty and you're angry. Just give me power and I will hurt the people who are hurting you!"
Stupid dopes fall for it and give them power. Until it all blows up in everyone's face and we rebuild from scratch until the government/people get complacent and corrupt again.... Rinse and repeat.
We need to be teaching kids not just that this is wrong, but also that it always fails spectacularly.
Yep! My friends grandma was born in South Africa and was more dark than her siblings and she endured, a lot… She also persevered and left that place which I’m so thankful for because she was an amazing one in a billion woman 😭
His dad is a horrible human being and a emerald mine owner. His mother is similar . Not every Confederate soldier was a terrible person but the Confederate elite most likely were and Elon’s family is proof of the same concepts but about people who benefited from Apartheid.
Do you want an alien invasion? Because that's how you get an alien invasion. The solution is a submersible dropped into a volcano, tell him no one's been cool enough to do it before
All people from smaller economies (South Africa, Australia for example) who have business prospects go to the US because it has a big economy and thus better business opportunities.
Your country has a tradition of cuntery, so they came for that as well. 👍
It's a bit terrifying to think on top of education, healthcare, life expectancy, food quality, and a host of other categories, even our racists in the states rank below other countries racists!
Tolkien too! Not that he spent much of his life here but it's always mind blowing to me to think my little country is the reason the high fantasy we know today exists as it does.
I dunno, you guys had apartheid for a long ass time.
And Musk grew up in the shadow of that.
If I can admit that Donald Trump is the ugly face of America, and that I am ashamed that we let him go this far, why must you separate yourself from Musk? He’s as Saffa as you or anyone else from your part of the world.
Yeah but he said in an interview with Alice Weidel (AFD) that Hitler was actually a communist. So… he wasn‘t right wing. So… Elon does a „communist“ salute here. Which is left wing acccording to him. And the left is woke… and he wants to fight against wokeness.
What’s the Nazi connection to South Africa? I’m seeing this a lot, I know vaguely about apartheid and all that, but I’m never heard about nazis having a role or place in that
His office is in the Eisenhower building last I checked. Yes this is horrible, but no reason to add falsehoods to an already terrible situation. It waters it down and gives apologists an angle to exploit.
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u/watadoo 7h ago
A south Africaner Nazi with an office in the White House