Donavin van Eeden

Enjoys life, values family and friendship, strong work ethic and ambitious.
Appreciates fine wine and companionship.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Animal Farm by George Orwell, in short:

1. Old Major, the fattest pig on the farm, delivers a sermon about "liberation." He has never missed a meal in his life – but he is the most envious of the Man – the producer, the entrepreneur…

2. “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy” – the ideology is manufactured from the start, designed not to free the animals but to direct their resentment away from the pigs and toward a useful target. Every revolution needs an enemy. The pigs chose the farmer.

3. The revolution’s commandments were never a constitution. They were a management tool – sacred enough to motivate, vague enough to rewrite, and controlled from the beginning by the only ones who could read – the pigs.

4. Boxer the horse, the most honest creature on the farm, decent, loyal yet naive, totally devoted, responds to every setback with the same answer: “I will work harder!” He means it completely. He works himself half to death. It is the most heartbreaking sentence in the book – because the new system is perfectly designed to absorb exactly that kind of devotion and give nothing back.
When he finally collapses from exhaustion, he is sold to the knacker. For cash. The pigs buy more whisky with the proceeds.
The other animals are told he died in a hospital receiving the best care. The most useful animal on the farm is the one who never once suspects he is the product.

5. The commandments get rewritten at night not because power corrupted the revolution – the rewriting was always the plan. Language was the weapon from the first speech Old Major ever gave.

6. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” – this is not the system’s failure. It is the system’s true face, finally visible once the animals are too exhausted and confused to object.

7. Orwell’s message: the lie came first. And the "liberation" it promised delivered something far worse than what came before – because the fattest pig was merely selfish at the start, but by the end is selfish and fluent in the language of "justice." He took all the eggs. He took everything. And made the hens thank him for it.
The fattest pig knew what he was doing all along…

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Donavin van Eeden @donavin50]

@Matt_Pinner I can't

[Donavin van Eeden @donavin50]

@elonmusk Not in our lifetime unfortunately. Would love to come back next century.

[Donavin van Eeden @donavin50]

@Gabbar0099 Terrible. Israel ensured that October 7th would never be repeated.

[Donavin van Eeden @donavin50]

The cost of everyday items that you have bought so often hit home when I left the R65 box of Ouma rusks on the shelf at Spar

[Donavin van Eeden @donavin50]

The cost of everyday items that you have bought so often hit home when I left the R65 box of Ouma rusks on the shelf at Spar

[Donavin van Eeden @donavin50]

@elonmusk Who would have thought? 🤣

[Donavin van Eeden @donavin50]

@benjamincowen The graph for Crypto currencies looks like a heart monitor for a person with palpitations

[Donavin van Eeden @donavin50]

@TotsShelly Not one of those named in the Zondo report will ever don an orange jumpsuit

[Donavin van Eeden @donavin50]

@Julius_S_Malema @GardeeGodrich Another young life tragically cut short. My condolences to the family. RIP

[Donavin van Eeden @donavin50]

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[Democratic Alliance @Our_DA]

R14,3bn budgeted for bloated executives & legislatures, while SAns must pay R16,5bn in personal income tax 😡

@DavidMaynier on #Budget2017

[South African Government @GovernmentZA]

The @SAWeatherServic has issued a watch for severe Thunderstorms in Gauteng on Thursday. HEAVY RAIN & HAIL possible from 2pm-11pm. #Floods

[Tom Eaton @TomEatonSA]

The ANCYL says nobody, not even in the ANC, is going to remove Zuma.
When morons accidentally tell you that their president is a dictator.

[Justice Malala @justicemalala]

#Zuma says this is not a Banana republic. So why aren't Tom Moyane, Berning Ntlemeza, Shaun Abrahams in a cell this morning? #SARSwars

[Recipes for Love and Murder (Both Worlds Pictures) @zanews]

Tyrant Swamp https://t.co/oS4J1octgM by @ricoschacherl

[Donavin van Eeden @donavin50]

@TannieEvita those bricks the students are throwing at them hurt