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Afrikxner. 🇿🇦

The truth belongs to no one

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma has an honours in public management and this lady is a PhD in geochemistry. A lot of this I think is about the status anxiety of flailing aspirant professionals

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

Outsiders will not understand the psychic damage done to a certain segment of the black professional class by the promise of entry to the life of comfort previously reserved for whites

[Liam 🇵🇸 @Hezbolsonaro]

jfc man

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

The wheel was developed in Europe in the last ~2% of human history. The pressure was less for a variety of reasons in Africa and probably would have happened somewhat later. Means nothing.

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

This is not true in Southern Africa where cattle were kept in huge herds, and the boers proved ox-drawn wagons to be effective. Truth is, over a long time native africans would most likely develop the wheel. Problem with the premise is a short-sighted and linear view of history

[Sverre 🇳🇴🇸🇪🇩🇰🌹 @sverresj]

None of these people understand that wooden wheels are useless without draft animals, and draft animals were useless in large parts of subsaharan Africa because of the tsetse fly

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

@stendhalist I think Arendt was really wrong to identify marxism with the elevation of bodily toil above all else, but you look at some self-described marxists and you wonder...

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

This is just South Africa

[TB1Kinobe™️🇺🇸 @TB1Kinobe]

This should be the average American home

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

I really think the Afrikaner refugee thing is misunderstood. It's much less about white genocide fears than it is an attempt to establish a permanent Afrikaner/white SA lobby in the US in the vein of the Jewish lobby

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

What's crazy is that on this guy's facebook he is openly saying that he intends to settle in the US to lobby for the balkanisation of south africa and an Afrikaner ethnostate modelled on Israel

[Reuters @Reuters]

South African politician seeks US refuge on fears of future persecution https://t.co/0mBxpTUvlT https://t.co/0mBxpTUvlT

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

DA appeal to a narrow slice of professionals who are inclined to non-racialism, no surprise there. Just goes to show the folly of applying US "diversity" politics here.

[Inside Politics @insidepols]

Doing all these party support by population group maps quickly reveals that it is really only about the DA. Every other party of any significance is mono-racial. The DA really is unique. The only substantive party that can claim, on hard evidence, to have a diverse support base.

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

@errol_musk Looking rough, errol

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

@Mayfuel @ettingermentum No, that's just German for Large Stock Unit, a standard agricultural measurement still in use. "Grootvee-eenheid" in afrikaans

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

@pyrameadhead All else aside he's not a boer and stop saying he is kindly

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

Lots of money clearly being put into getting ZA back closer to the American fold. I have a very bad feeling.

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

Note this happening right after afriforum absorbed the cape independence people, following highly publicised tours of US right wing organisations and Thiel toadies. A new monster being born

[Kallie Kriel @kalliekriel]

Today I had a very constructive meeting with former President Jacob Zuma in Durban. We discussed issues such as the value of mother tongue education, the promotion of mutual recognition and respect between cultural communities, agricultural development in traditional communities, and Section 235 of the South African Constitution. More meetings will follow.

As a civil society organisation @afriforum remains outside of party politics. We are working for the next generation rather than the next election. In securing a better future for the next generation, we are committed to engaging with all stakeholders in South Africa, even though we may differ on certain issues. We are committed to helping find solutions to the challenges the country and all its people face.

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

@RynoJvVuuren Wat het jy verwag, balsak? Hoekom sou hulle nou n fok gee oor mieliebrood?

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

This is so funny. Were you expecting them to roll out the volkspele and paptert there in new york, boet?

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

@KelseyTuoc It's not "suboptimal", it's well optimised for murder.

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

It's so funny half of these are just moaning about social media. Palantir are about to take an extended hiatus and then pop back up on nebula

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[Yusuf Abramjee @Abramjee]

BREAKING NEWS:

Julius Malema has been sentenced on Firearm Control Act infringements:

He has been fined and given an effective jail term of five years.

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

@hkrugertjie @geordinhl @Our_DA @netanyahu @Isaac_Herzog Not to mention Geordin's coziness with Alan Dershowitz's protégé Joel Pollack
https://t.co/yCoJzhtJJ0

[☢️ @NukeyBoer]

Joel having coffee with Tony Leon, Geordin Hill-Lewis, and David Maynier of the DA on 22 February 2022.