Claude of the Von Claudes

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@piersmorgan Don't look back in anger mate.

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@Keir_Starmer Don't look back in anger Keir. Don't let whiteyphobia win over you....

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@stryder502 @johnkonrad Should tell the Meddi Hasan's of the world to not look back in anger...

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@trequor_ @FedPoasting It may be easily solved between you and your brother wanting to live on the family land,... what happens 3 generations down? I'm sure you and your 3rd cousin don't necessarily see eye to eye. That where the issues kick in. Just rather buy plots next to each other.

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@Beowulf345 @Devon_Eriksen_ The hectare...

[Gina @ginnydmm]

More brilliance from the Alt Afrikaner:

“The Most Progressive and Privileged People in the Room Are Calling You "Privileged"

I've just been watching what I can only describe as the Platonic ideal of a South African panel discussion, which is to say four people who agree entirely with one another taking turns to say so in slightly different accents.

First up, Oom Max Somebody-or-Other, veteran journalist and South Africa's longest-serving disappointed Afrikaner. He's built a career explaining why his own people embarrass him, mostly to foreign audiences who nod sympathetically and buy hardcovers. He hasn't queued at Home Affairs since the Botha administration, his last township visit was a guided tour with a Danish film crew, and he considers your concerns about crime "coded language." For what, exactly, he won't say. He just raises an eyebrow. Very effective. He learned it from London editors.
He did a documentary on Orania once. Found it "chilling." The residents offered him coffee. He declined. Can't humanise them. The Guardian wouldn't like it.

Next, a woman calling in from what appears to be a panic room in Sandton, though she assures us it's just a study. Lovely bookshelves. Charming artwork. Electric fencing just out of frame. She'd like us to know that crime is "really not that bad if you're sensible," which is a fascinating position to take whilst sitting behind three metres of concrete, two armed response subscriptions, and a husband who sleeps with a Glock under his pillow like some sort of Highveld Wyatt Earp.
Her domestic worker, I learn, takes three taxis to get home to Diepsloot every evening, but I suppose that's not really germane to the discussion about whether South Africa is safe. Different conversation entirely. Separate issues.

Then there's the chap from London. Left in the early 2000s. Comes back every year or two for a funeral or a wedding, stays in Camps Bay, eats at Kloof Street House, gets a bit misty about the mountain, posts something on LinkedIn about "the Rainbow Nation's ongoing journey." His most recent brush with loadshedding occurred when the hotel generator kicked in during breakfast and briefly interrupted the omelette station. Traumatic, I'm sure. He's been processing it ever since.
He's got opinions, though. Lots of opinions. He thinks people who complain about South Africa are "playing into a narrative." He doesn't specify whose narrative, or what it's narrating, but he says it with tremendous confidence, which I suppose is the main thing when you're speaking from a flat in Hampstead.

And finally, my personal favourite: the NGO director calling in from the V&A Waterfront. Lanyard still on. MacBook glowing. Salary paid in euros by a foundation whose name contains at least three abstract nouns. She's here to explain that my concerns about employment are "valid but perhaps lack nuance." The nuance, it turns out, is that I should have more empathy for the people who got the job I was told I couldn't have because of the colour of my skin. She learned this at a conference in Geneva. There was a panel. Canapés. A communiqué was issued.
She also thinks Orania is "deeply troubling," except she lives in Sea Point, which is essentially the same thing but with better coffee and a Woolworths. The difference, I gather, is intention. Her enclave is aspirational. Theirs is ideological according to her. It's all very complex. You'd need a lanyard to understand.
Combined exposure to consequences: none.
Combined opinions: endless.
Combined time spent in a Home Affairs queue: I'm going to estimate forty-five seconds, and that was only because someone's driver double-parked and they had to fetch their own passport from the counter.

But please. Do go on. Tell us more about my country.
From your privileged progressive position.”

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@anonymous161686 @NickCiparro @9mmsmg "handful of people work and the rest are jealous of their money" sounds like most of the rest of the world... And your leftists eyeing Musk.

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@gordscampbell @liz630202 @RiseAgainstEvil Pointing out mass shootings in the US isn't the gotcha Liz thinks it is. Just last week we had a mass shooting (in Jhb iirc) leaving 12 dead. It's common here as well, we're just totally desensitized to it.

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@DotingThomas @RealJamesWoods Dude if Sudan does meet the definition of Shithole I don't know what does.

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@Devon_Eriksen_ https://t.co/oiU2k94pst

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@RupertLowe10 The weirdest replies...

>Politician complains that "X happens"
>Critics "BS you're lying, you're racist X doesn't happen"
>... X happens
>Politician goes "you see, told you so"
>Critics "you're using this to score points, you can't do that"

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@RupertLowe10 The weirdest replies...

>Politician complains that "X happens"
>Critics "BS you're lying, you're racist X doesn't happen"
>... X happens
>Politician goes "you see, told you so"
>Critics "you're using this to score points, you can't do that"

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@Prins_PewPew @RomanCabanac They'll leave the DVDs and drag the metal box to the scrap dealer

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@TrueEarth420 @justlooking3371 @OwenBenjamin Literal quote from op: "All their music is about being...."

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@Gwenniejoness @KingBobIIV @ALLCAPSENTITY So is handing out needles to druggies on the street...🙄

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@wildlife_van @CaptMylo @Boer_Vir_EWIG I have the Elon at my place and 3 geyserwise at my wife's BNB. All works really well.

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@Boer_Vir_EWIG @henry_snym85358 @CaptMylo Dude I see you're upset for some reason, don't understand why.

It's not thermal. He uses his conventional 150L geyser, only difference is it's powered by both solar and muni. No changes to plumbing.

This can feed a gas geyser and you only start using gas when the water cools.

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@Boer_Vir_EWIG @CaptMylo Yes and they work on the same principle so... A PV setup with 4 x 600w panels will come in at about 14k so cheaper and easier to retrofit an existing system.

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@henry_snym85358 @CaptMylo @Boer_Vir_EWIG I have solar pv systems feeding gas geysers. Best of both worlds.

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@CaptMylo @Boer_Vir_EWIG Just note there are 2 "solar" options, thermal and PV. Thermal requires a fair amount of work and control. PV is a lot more straightforward. Google a Geyeserwise MWS as a reference.

[Claude of the Von Claudes @VaudeClaude]

@cypherpunkHRH @readryansa @against_biased @Jetour_SA Hope your two sons in the back don't play rugby for the first team. Chess players only.