Bruce Chelius 🇿🇦

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@HermanMashaba Small man energy

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@JNSports1 @FinanceGhost He never says he didn’t know sandpaper was being used. He just says he didn’t know sandpaper was being taken onto the field. Big difference.

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@b3l_Air @grok @Saxon_African Durban will be 2x Cape Town

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@ME_Beaumont What’s your beef? You are a small party.

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@FinanceGhost That would be the ultimate irony of the US election results

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@gabyj1 @Meneer_Mann @MYANC @Our_DA @uMkhontoWesizw @Action4SA My bet is they won’t

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@AtholT There it is. Ego above all. The ASA way. They learned it from their master.

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@SimonBorchardt @Brucekmain Wessels drawing 50% of his tests 😳 unthinkable today

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@morrow_nw @AustinFriars It has always been, and remains, the most perfect description.

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@GarethCliff I suspect if you held a referendum on KZN independence in KZN it would win. And I suspect if you held a referendum in the rest of SA on KZN independence it would also win.

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@ME_Beaumont The DA this, the DA that. Yawn 🥱

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@ElijahMhlanga @helenzille @NicholasNyati Who is lying here?

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@zekewareley @geordinhl The DA should send Lesufi a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue as a thank you for all the free publicity he is giving them.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Recently I was talking with a friend about universal geniuses. And something struck me.

Florence, 1480–1510. Same city, same moment: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola. Raphael right behind them. They walked the same streets.

Europe, 1600–1700. Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Pascal, Huygens, Newton, Leibniz. In two generations, we got calculus, modern mechanics, probability theory, and the scientific method.

Athens, 470–320 BC. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Phidias, Thucydides. One century, one city, and the foundations of Western thought were laid.

Europe, 1890–1930. Poincaré, Hilbert, Einstein, Marie Curie, Tesla, Planck, Bohr, then von Neumann.

Always the same pattern. In every great era, the West had 15 to 20 minds of this caliber alive at the same time. People who could touch everything and push the frontier of several fields at once.

Today we have one. Just one. Elon Musk.

And Elon is an anomaly.

Not in the sense that he shouldn't exist. In the sense that the world we built is designed so that someone like him never emerges. Statistically, he shouldn't be here.

Because what forged Elon was an absolutely insane move.

October 2002. eBay buys PayPal. Elon walks away with roughly $180M. Anyone else buys an island and never works another day.

He puts $100M into SpaceX, $70M into Tesla, $10M into SolarCity. Almost everything. On rockets and electric cars, two industries no sane person wanted to touch.

2006–2008. The first three Falcon 1 launches fail. Tesla is burning cash, the financial crisis hits, investors run. He has enough left for one last launch. Just one. He borrows money from friends to pay his rent.

September 28, 2008. The fourth launch reaches orbit.

December 23, 2008. NASA awards SpaceX a $1.6B contract.

December 24, 2008. The Tesla round closes at the last possible hour. A few more days and everything collapses.

That's what a genius is. Not just IQ. The ability to put everything on the table when the entire world tells you it's impossible, and be right.

Now the real question: why do we only have one?

Because a genius needs three things. The freedom to try. The right to get massively rich if it works. The right to fail without being destroyed.

And that's exactly what the collectivist left and the technocrats have torn down across the West for the past 50 years.

They turned success into suspicion. Making a lot of money became a moral failing. Taking risks became irresponsible. Rising above the crowd became an insult to equality.

They stacked up norms, committees, permits, regulations written in Brussels by people who have never built anything in their lives. In Europe, Elon would never have been allowed to blow up three rockets. He'd have been stopped at the first form.

They want to tax capital before it even exists, cap fortunes, redistribute what others created by risking everything.

They replaced excellence with conformity. Our schools produce docile people, not dangerous ones. And a genius, by definition, is someone who disrupts. Their entire system is built to neutralize the people who disrupt.

The result: where we should have 15 to 20 universal geniuses alive at the same time, we have one.

Just one.

And you want to put him in prison.

You summon him before judges, you raid his offices, you insult him morning, noon and night, you dream of breaking up his companies. The man who lands rockets vertically and wants to take humanity to Mars.

You're disgusting.

History won't remember your names. It remembers Galileo, not the inquisitors who tried to silence him.

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@TomMcEv05228150 @Elizabeth_Ruler @rickygervais Trophy Hunting is a necessary evil.

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@andyCatHB @mark_barnes56 I feel for the players. They deserve better than we are giving them.