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I suspect being in the trenches of Delville wood was somewhat easier, physically exhausted but you knew exactly who and where the enemy was.

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Your fear of living probably means you are dead already.

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@griptmedia Luckily the Irish became a sovereign state in 1922, no more being dictated by far of bureaucrats and unelected leaders....

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@McNamaraMEP Brussels does change a person it seems......

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Sadly the courts found the song NOT hate speech, compromised judiciaries are everywhere....

Yes, in part — and then later courts said no.

In 2011 the Equality Court (Judge Colin Lamont) found that Julius Malema singing the song (commonly called “Dubul’ ibhunu” / “Shoot the Boer” or “Kill the Boer”) was hate speech. The court said the words could reasonably be understood as intending to be hurtful, to incite harm, and to promote hatred against white Afrikaans-speaking people, including farmers. Malema was interdicted from singing it.

That earlier finding did not end the issue. AfriForum later sued Malema and the EFF over later public performances of the song (including after the 2020 Senekal farm-murder case). In 2022 the Equality Court (Judge Edwin Molahlehi) dismissed that complaint. It held AfriForum had not shown the lyrics demonstrated a clear intention to harm or incite harm; the song was treated as historical political/struggle speech that should not be read literally. AfriForum was ordered to pay costs.

The Supreme Court of Appeal upheld that 2022 ruling in 2024. It said a reasonably well-informed listener would understand Malema was using a historic protest song as provocative political speech, not a literal call to shoot farmers.

In March 2025 the Constitutional Court refused AfriForum leave to appeal, stating the application had no reasonable prospects of success. That left the 2022/2024 findings as the last word in that litigation.

So: an earlier Equality Court judgment did classify the song as hate speech and banned Malema from singing it; later Equality Court, SCA, and Constitutional Court decisions on subsequent performances found it was not hate speech under the Equality Act and was protected political expression. Separate later hate-speech findings against Malema have concerned other remarks, not this song.

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@ClaireK02605534 @TandemCompute Hi Claire
Put the following question to Grok:
"In Ireland how much does data centres contribute to the economy and how much to the tax collection"

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@KieranCurley3 @bennyjohnson .... same amount of nothing!

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

The global left's obsession with turning a failing state into an ideological blueprint is the height of intellectual laziness and political delusion.

The fact that Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist politician from New York, looks at South Africa and sees a model to emulate proves just how detached Western progressive academics are from the brutal realities of African governance.

They treat lived economic tragedies as experimental playgrounds for their virtue signaling.

To look at South Africa and see an economic North Star requires a breathtaking level of willful blindness.

There is absolutely nothing good to copy from the South African reality.

The country is trapped in a low-growth loop, with astronomical unemployment rates and a completely suffocated private sector.

The municipal water networks are collapsing, and the national rail and logistics corridors are in shambles.

Law and order have effectively broken down, turning the country into one of the most violent, high-crime zones outside an active war theater.

Decades of porous borders and failed regional foreign policy have fueled explosive, unmanaged migration, sparking violent grassroots conflict.

Mamdani and the global left look at this smoking ruin and somehow see a progressive paradise, simply because the political rhetoric sounds nice in a Manhattan lecture hall.

The core defect of the socialist fantasy is that it is entirely obsessed with distributing wealth but utterly incapable of creating it. The strategy is always to "eat the rich" and penalize success. They overtax the productive middle class and the corporate sector to fund massive, unsustainable social grant systems.

When you destroy a business-friendly landscape, capital flees the country. Factories close. Intellectual property leaves. You cannot distribute wealth that has already fled the borders.

Once the rich are "eaten" and the business class is gone, the state is left with nothing but an impoverished population and a broken tax base. The "comrades" end up presiding over equalized misery rather than shared prosperity.

Western leftists like Mamdani love South Africa because they only engage with its symbols, the progressive constitution, the anti-apartheid history, the radical rhetoric of economic transformation.

They don't have to live with the rolling blackouts, the dry taps, or the fear of home invasions. They champion ideologies that kill production and development because they are completely insulated from the consequences of their own ideas.

Copying South Africa's current economic trajectory isn't a progressive strategy; it is a blueprint for national suicide.

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@Nick_Delehanty What a joke, urged to use less... Ye sure, as if fuel were so cheap the past 5+ years we used to just let our cars idle overnight for giggles 😡

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Conservatives are individuals, the left has a hive mindset.

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

Have you ever taken a minute just to read through X?

I see a lot of Republicans fighting with each other. You know I never see Democrats fighting with each other.

I don't know what it is about the right but we just can't seem to grasp the concept of teamwork.

Be like Reagan and find that 80% you do agree on. Focus on that and stop obsessing over the rest.

If Democrats take over, we're going to get 0% of what we want. Wouldn't you rather compromise on 20% to get 80?

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@Certa fuel Ireland, why is HVO the same price as diesel? Are you importing that from the Middle East too?

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@TopOil shame on you, 70% price increase for heating oil when a barrel went up by 30%....

[Alice VL @RiseAgainstEvil]

Don’t you tell the minority in South Africa what they’ve gone through or what they haven’t.

Don’t minimize their trauma and the soul-crushing decision to apply as refugees in countries they never asked to flee to. Don’t pretend you know the full extent of the persecution they’ve already endured or the nightmare they see coming. And don’t lecture them about “loyalty” to a government that writes laws explicitly designed to punish them and their children for the crime of existing.

More than anything, don’t dismiss the cultural persecution; the slow, deliberate erasure of a people’s soul that no amount of “it’s just crime” or “post-apartheid correction” can justify.

Their language, Afrikaans, is being strangled in the very institutions their parents and grandparents built. Universities that once taught in Afrikaans; Stellenbosch, Pretoria, Free State, have been forced into English-only or dual-medium policies that make Afrikaans second-class in its own homeland. Children are told their mother tongue is “divisive,” “colonial,” or “not practical.” Textbooks are rewritten to airbrush their history. Statues of their heroes are toppled or vandalized. Place names that carried four centuries of memory are scrubbed and replaced. Boer War memorials are defaced while politicians dance and sing “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” at rallies. Not fringe extremists, but leaders of the ruling party and its allies. That song isn’t a metaphor when White farmers are slaughtered at a rate that makes South Africa’s already apocalyptic murder statistics look tame.

This isn’t abstract grievance. It’s generational. Afrikaner families have lived on this soil since the 1600's, longer than most Americans have lived in America. They speak an African language born on African soil. Their culture produced writers, scientists, engineers, and farmers who turned arid land into the breadbasket of a continent. Now the state tells them their very identity is the problem. Land expropriation without compensation is sold as “justice,” but everyone knows which minority’s farms are targeted first. Race-based B-BBEE laws, employment equity quotas, and university admissions that openly discriminate against White students don’t “level the playing field,” they slam the door on an entire generation of South African kids because of the color of their skin and the surnames on their birth certificates.

These are not “settlers” plotting to return to Europe. Most have nowhere else to go and never wanted to leave. They stayed through farm attacks that include torture, rape, and mutilation the media downplays as “robberies.” They stayed while politicians openly called for their land and their removal from the economy. They stayed while their government imported Cuban doctors, Chinese infrastructure workers, and Zimbabwean cadres while telling qualified local engineers and teachers they’re “over-represented.”

So when some of them finally say “enough” and apply for refugee status in America, Australia, or Europe, don’t you dare call it betrayal. Don’t you dare tell them they’re “exaggerating” or “racist” for wanting their children to grow up without racial quotas hanging over their heads like a death sentence.

You weren’t there when the lights went out on another family’s farmhouse. 
You weren’t there when another Afrikaans school was told it must change or close. 
You weren’t there when another mother explained to her child why his university application was rejected “because of transformation targets.”

Sit down. Shut up. And stop gaslighting a minority that has already lost more than you will ever understand.

Their trauma is real. 
Their culture is under siege. 
Their decision to seek safety is not disloyalty; it’s the last act of desperate parents who still love South Africa more than the politicians who are destroying it ever will.

https://t.co/uyfPpaCPXD

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@NiohBerg There's only one place in the world where "Voetsek" is said....

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@QriousP @TheKevinDalton 😂 Is that a faux pas in your last sentence or deliberate?

[Ernst Roets @ErnstRoets]

Lex Libertas & New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) - Joint Media Statement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 24 FEBRUARY 2026

A WARNING TO THE WEST: @NYYRC Delegation Arrives in South Africa for Extended Visit and Strategic Engagement

Pretoria, South Africa – A delegation from the New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC), led by its President, @StefanoLforte, has arrived in South Africa for an extended visit of more than a week at the invitation of the think tank and advocacy group, @LexLibertasOnX.

The NYYRC has expressed concern that South Africa’s decline since 1994 is a warning to all Western nations as to what is in store for the White population once they become a political minority — the end of civil rights, redistributive injustice, and a perpetual anarcho-tyranny.

The American and Afrikaner people share a tradition of self-determination; the NYYRC is here to study the perils of race-socialism and the fallacy of “the end of history.”

Lex Libertas and the NYYRC will host a joint press conference on Friday at 09:00 local time, where Dr @ErnstRoets and Forte will announce follow-up initiatives aimed at bringing a fuller account of South Africa’s realities to American audiences and to policymakers in Washington, D.C.

Beyond the conference, the visit will include a comprehensive programme designed to expose the delegation to the full complexity of South Africa. Dr Roets said that the trip will include exposure to the best and the worst that South Africa has to offer through meetings with business and institutional leaders and engagement with various projects aimed at addressing the deteriorating state of South Africa.

This includes:

- Meetings with victims of violent crime, including farm attack victims;
- Meetings with institutions involved in poverty alleviation initiatives, particularly for those who have experienced exclusion under race-based legislation;
- A visit to Orania to exemplify self-reliant and community-driven development models;
- Experiencing Afrikaner culture, visiting historical sights and the White Cross Monument;
- Observing both the challenges and successes of modern South Africa, including deteriorating central business districts, vandalised monuments, informal settlements, thriving enterprises and prosperous suburbs; and
- Experiencing the natural beauty and geographic diversity of the country.

Dr Roets said the visit is an important step in strengthening international understanding:

“South Africa is often discussed internationally in abstract or ideological terms. This visit is about engagement with reality — the best and the worst, the successes and the failures. It is about ensuring that informed voices in the United States understand the complexities of our situation and the importance of sustainable, community-driven solutions.”

Forte said that the delegation looks forward to meaningful dialogue:

“The Club is here to witness firsthand the results of DEI policies brought to their natural conclusion. White Afrikaners are being persecuted, murdered, and altogether barred from aspects of South African society – all while Western media turns a blind eye, just as they will when this inevitably comes to our doorstep. Make no mistake, the American Left’s goal is ultimately the South Africanization of the United States, and our Club is here to expose what the consequences of that would be for the American people.”

Further details regarding the press conference will be released separately. Journalists interested in attending the press conference on Friday are encouraged to send an email to [email protected]. Foreign journalists can contact [email protected] for livestream information.

Lex Libertas is a South Africa–based think tank and advocacy group working toward a viable political dispensation for the peoples of South Africa, based on the principles of freedom, decentralisation and self-governance.

The New York Young Republican Club is the oldest and largest Republican club in the United States and plays an active role in shaping conservative political discourse and engagement.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

This wasn't allowed in public incase it offended anyone.
So please don't retweet it. Thanks 🙏https://t.co/1stbtsOxvz

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

🚨 Forget the flight logs. This email is worse.
December 2014 — six years after Epstein's conviction for sex trafficking.

Bill Gates hosts a breakfast with billionaire donors. Afterward, he emails Jeffrey Epstein a detailed readout on each attendee.

Epstein writes back — coaching the richest man in the world on what he did wrong and how to fix it.

His advice: "The idea first and foremost is about SHARING… I, Bill Gates will be your partner, your friend, your colleague in the giving arena."

Epstein then offers to personally run the next meeting. "I suggest we have another meeting. Let me run it. Moderate it."

This wasn't a social relationship. Epstein was operating as Gates' strategic advisor on a philanthropic fundraising structure — the Donor-Advised Fund — the same financial architecture documented across this entire investigation.

Then, at the bottom of the email, this:
"any interesting people visiting the island over holidays. of course you and your family are welcome. eva, kathy ruemmler. women that Melinda might take comfort with."

He's inviting Bill Gates' family to his island. And name-dropping Obama's former White House Counsel as someone who'd be there.

Gates has said his relationship with Epstein was limited to "dinners."

This document shows Epstein running Gates' meetings, critiquing his pitch, coaching his strategy, recruiting billionaires into a shared financial vehicle — and inviting his wife and children to the island.

📄 EFTA02597199 https://t.co/r3uUaV1Jbk

The full five-part investigation — connecting this financial architecture to pandemic preparedness, censorship, and the British intelligence pipeline — is in the thread below. 🧵👇

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z:

You buy a Pokémon card for $50.

Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it.

The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes."
You: "…I didn't sell it."

Government: "Don't care. Pay up."

You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received.

Next month? That card drops back to $50.

Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs.

That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax...

Now picture this.

Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off.

But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have.

So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday.

Gone.

To pay a tax on money that was never real.

Now picture the opposite.

Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it.

Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000.

He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore.

Does the government give him his money back?
No.

Does the government give him his truck back?
No.

Does the government care?
No.

They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine.

You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive.

You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things.

It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday.

They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created.

There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate.

I hope you understand what's at stake.

[MakingSense @MakingSenseInfo]

Translation…

“The EU is desperate for collateral. Its banks are teetering on the precipice of an apocalyptic debt event. The EU tried a number of things to recollateralize the system since the GFC - but sadly, given the nature of the beast, we have to keep laying down runway for what is a low growth debt based system. Top of the list of actions actually was the 2010 Irish bailout, which helped a good deal, but the problem is back with a vengeance - you know how banks are, ho ho. So to collateralize the banks we came up with a plan to seize Russian natural assets by causing a war, but sadly the Russians were far more resilient than we thought! The fallback was seizing Ukraine’s mineral wealth, but most of this is concentrated in Russian controlled areas of Ukraine which is a right bummer. Then, our attempt to seize Russian sovereign assets in Euroclear through an open act of piracy, failed. Even our own ECB thought this brazen attempt was stretching things too far. And so anyway, now, we’ve decided we’ve no option but to take the savings and pensions of regular EU citizens. We’ll just tell everyone it’s for Green and Digital projects…not to mention to be used for war financing. “War financing?” Uhm yes, we’re going to war with Russia in a few years, hadn’t you heard? Well…after Ukraine joins the EU in 2027, that is. Now, admittedly, allowing Ukraine into Europe will destroy Irish Farming - but it’s a price Ireland is ready to pay to stand up to Putin. On a related note, you might have noticed we cleared the way at Cabinet last week to get rid of the Triple Lock, only a few days before some of my EU colleagues started calling for the creation of an EU Army. What a coincidence! The timing! What do mean what about Irish Neutrality. Well I don’t know how up to speed you are on EU affairs but Ursula Van Der Leyen announced at the weekend the EU will be getting rid of the principle of unanimity, which basically means if she starts a war with Russia that Ireland will have no choice but to participate. That’s just the price Ireland has to pay for EU membership. The EU has been very good to Ireland. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves a little bit here - first up is finding a way to selling the asset seizure - sorry, savings & investment idea - to Irish boomers so please notice me as I furrow my brow and feign concern that Irish people are not getting a high enough return on their savings. We in Fine Gael understand that of the older people, the boomers, were wiped out during the Great Financial Crisis and would remind you that Fine Gael has looked this cohort very well over the last 15 years and so it’s time we gave them an opportunity to give something back to Europe…”

Etc.

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@hubertdeslauri1 @Ross_Wexford @NewstalkFM Will look it up.... 🤔 From the reviews it looks more like real life, something the mainstream would have steered clear of? Only on HBO that same channel that gave us naughty shows late at night.
Not something decent folk should look at....

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@SkyNews @Stone_SkyNews @jamesmatthewsky End of the grift...
Now let's get those PPMs to 800+