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Straight talk. No fascists. Retweets don’t imply endorsement.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Accusations of racism have been weaponized to stop criticism and common sense.

No more.

[Markus @Markusorilious]

@kushika_twt Good question. It’s the same reason why people in low income areas burn down their schools/libraries etc when they’re angry. Bringing everybody into their lonely space of self destruction, seeking company in their despair rather than solutions to their problems. That’s hell.

[Markus @Markusorilious]

Bureaucracy getting in the way.

[Morgan Barrett @MorganBarrettX]

Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm show on Amazon is the most radicalizing piece of mainstream media I’ve ever seen

Just one example (bear with me):

Badgers became a protected species in Britain 40+ years ago.

The population has exploded and now frequently transmits tuberculosis to cows

But farmers can’t cull the badger population to protect their cattle because the government still considers them to be endangered

Instead of addressing the root cause, the UK has the most batshit testing regime for cattle

There’s no TB vaccine. So the cattle have to get tested. The vets administering the test have to measure welts on the cows neck. Whether a cow lives or dies comes down to a vet trying to discern 1mm on a caliper (reactive vs non reactive).

If a cow tests positive, the farm (already running on super thin margins) is quarantined and starts hemorrhaging money.

Jeremy Clarkson’s cow (pregnant with twins) has an inconclusive test so it’s separated from the herd. It receives a second inconclusive test so they have to kill it (before it can give birth to the twins).

Now here’s the kicker: the autopsy reveals no sign of TB. It was a healthy cow needlessly killed

So - silver lining the farm should be removed from quarantine, right? WRONG - it’s still under quarantine and has to keep testing and can’t sell its beef

Kafkaesque doesn’t even begin to describe how f’d up it is for British farmers

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

When 46 individuals capture over half of all BEE mining deals, the grand illusion of economic transformation is completely shattered.

This is not empowerment. It is institutionalised kleptocracy disguised as social justice.

The BEE has functioned as a closed loop syndicate for a tiny, politically connected elite.

In South Africa, you do not achieve success through operational excellence, mineral innovation, or capital efficiency. You achieve it through proximity to the ruling party's deployment committee.

Forty-six ANC cadres get unimaginably wealthy by simply signing their names on ownership certificates, while the actual miners and surrounding communities continue to live in absolute squalor.

Global capital and serious mining houses look at South Africa and see an uninvestable landscape. They are forced to hand over massive equity chunks to non-productive political cronies just for the permission to build.

Instead of investing profits back into advanced machinery, geological exploration, and stable logistics, billions are siphoned off into luxury estates and foreign bank accounts.

When a regime treats its national resources as a private treasury for a selected few, it has surrendered all moral legitimacy to govern.

[Markus @Markusorilious]

Terrible!

[Europa.com @europa]

🇿🇦 An elderly couple, Piet Bouwer, 80, and his wife Joheen, 72, were brutally attacked at their farm near Allanridge in the Free State.

According to their son, Christiaan Bouwer, the attackers beat his father with a hammer and steel pipe and assaulted his mother before tying the couple up and ransacking the house.

Follow: @europa

[Markus @Markusorilious]

@benonwine Ideology over reality.

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

Remember, it's illegal to use your phone while driving. Instead, use the giant iPad built into the car and flip through 50 settings to use navigation or turn ac on.

[Gina @ginnydmm]

FAFO:

UCT boycotts Israel. 🇮🇱

No more funding.

Now they’re in Kak

[Markus @Markusorilious]

@Saxon_African Sounds reasonable.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

This right here. 👇

[Spitfire @RealSpitfire]

To the idiots celebrating government controlling kids, you just agreed to adults having to hand over facial recognition, digital ID, passports and/or credit card details to prove you are not a child.

Your stupidity is immeasurable.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Elon Musk is a trillionaire. I am not a trillionaire. This strikes me as unfair. Nobody should be allowed to have more than me. The amount of money a person should be allowed to have is exactly the amount I currently have, and no more. I am smart. I really am. I’m serious.

[Markus @Markusorilious]

@jas_d_barbie Then you shouldn’t be getting a raise at work unless your working harder.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

So let me get this straight:

Leftists want 16 year olds to vote.

They want 12 year olds to be able to consent to sex changes.

But they don’t want those same teenagers to read conservative opinions on social media, only Blue Sky?

Their agenda is pretty obvious.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

If Elon Musk’s one trillion could do so much good, then why haven’t all our multiple trillions in tax solved all the world’s problems before now?

[Kyle Tibbitts @KyleTibbitts]

I’ll take the trillionaire creating thousands of millionaires over the millionaires creating trillions in debt.

[wokeandwoofing @wokeandwoofing]

If I had Elon's money I would solve world hunger instantly.😡

Sent from a device purchased with with a sum of money that could have been used to feed an Ethiopian family for a year, but wasn't, because my generosity is purely hypothetical.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

They don’t care for the poor.

They just envy the rich.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Cute theory, let's play it out.

A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.

But... oh wait, there is no pile.

It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.

The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.

Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.

The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.

But it gets worse.

Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.

Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.

So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.

So the monkeys sit there.

No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.

Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.

OH

And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.