🇿🇦 Donn Edwards

I'm a programmer and audiobook fan. I hate laziness, spam, racism and racist thinking. I refused to serve in the SADF. Learning to grow veggies #Resilience

[🇿🇦 Donn Edwards @donnedwards]

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[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Colonial powers built extensive modern infrastructure in places that had only had hunter-gatherer tribes or rudimentary subsistence agriculture prior to their arrival.

Since their departures, the last of which were about 50 years ago, over $60 billion in development aid has been sent to Africa every year, totaling around $1.5 trillion in foreign aid to the continent.

Huge amounts of that money are lost to waste and graft. Infrastructure that is built by international groups in Africa is rarely maintained and is often stripped and looted for scrap.

In 1960, South Korea was basically Gaza; razed by war with a GDP per-capita lower than that of Ethiopia. Today, South Korea’s GDP per capita is five times higher than that of South Africa, the richest Subsaharan country, and about 30 times Nigeria’s.

You can’t blame colonialism for everything forever. At some point, Africa has to take responsibility for its own failures.

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

True. Unassailably true.

[🇿🇦 Donn Edwards @donnedwards]

@JohannBiermann1 @schenckerville I agree completely. @Truecaller must stop spamming its paying customers

[Johann Biermann 🇿🇦 @JohannBiermann1]

1. Get Truecaller to get rid of spam

2. Truecaller becomes your spam

[ddsnorth ™ @ddsnorth]

Exactly right

[John Haigh @good_heavens00]

Executive remuneration is becoming increasingly more vulgar.
Pay them well by all means but this is turning into a competition while the SA economy implodes & unemployment rises.
Customers bear the brunt of costs.
Majority staff wouldn't earn that if they worked 10-15 lifetimes.

[BrianGriffin @GriffinForGold]

@KanthanPillay @RomanCabanac Laughing at us behind closed doors taking us farmers for a poes while our cows die because Jana and John thinks it is one moerse fokken joke ☝🏻😭

[StephanZA @GamingGrifter]

Why is both the DA and Steenhuisen dead silent on this email?

If it is fake, then come out and expose it. If it's real then resign and apologise.

The silence on this is incredibly loud.

[🇿🇦 Donn Edwards @donnedwards]

@CyrilRamaphosa Blah blah blah blah blah blah

NPA stands for
Never
Prosecute
Anyone

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

RFK Jr. told Tucker Carlson the CDC buried its own internal study showing a 1135% INCREASE in autism risk from hepatitis B vaccination.

The researchers were shocked.

So they covered it up.

How?

“They got rid of all the older children essentially and just had younger children who are TOO YOUNG TO BE DIAGNOSED [with autism],” Kennedy explained.

Imagine discovering evidence of catastrophic harm and making sure no one ever found out.

Then, telling everyone it’s “safe.”

If health authorities are willing to keep a signal this alarming hidden from you, what else are they not telling you about vaccines?

Is it possible that your child’s allergies or chronic immune issues didn’t appear organically, but were triggered by vaccination instead?🧵

[haroon meer @haroonmeer]

Why are our @ThinkstCanary booths always staffed by our engineers?

We get to do this:

“Someone came past yesterday to chat https://t.co/0FSXvJhakT... our emails didn't include the event name for aws api key triggers. He came back .. today…fix was already live”

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

After calling them out last week, I'm thrilled to see that SIX Barnes & Noble bookstores close to my office are now carrying my book "Dangerous Misinformation" IN THEIR STORES!

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Ex-YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki admits to deleting over 1 million COVID videos to silence anti vaxxers.

People died because of this evil woman's censorship.

[🇿🇦 Donn Edwards @donnedwards]

@VillageGuluva Actually the problems aren't that complicated:
Stop the ANC looting
Abolish BEE and Cadre deployment
Prosecute incompetence
Privatise SOEs
Reform labour laws and reduce minimum wage to R300 so it matches the social distress grant

[Village Guluva @VillageGuluva]

I don't care whether you support the deportation of illegal immigrants or not, but don't deceive vulnerable South Africans into believing that chasing them away will solve the unemployment crisis, reduce food prices, or fix the country's high crime rate.

The challenges we face are far more complex than that.

[🇿🇦 Donn Edwards @donnedwards]

@BernieSanders Yet you continue to vote for the policies that make people poorer and more dependant on the state, and accept donations from special interests.
#hypocrite #paybackthemoney

[🇿🇦 Donn Edwards @donnedwards]

@HelpF85398 @ConCaracal It has taken around 30 years for some to catch on 🙈

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

It is difficult to imagine an American who has been a greater parasite on the public coffers than @BernieSanders. He has contributed NOTHING to the United States other than decades of cantankerous and sullen envy-fuelled anger at those who create.

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

Stereotyping MAGA is the kind of bigotry Pride month ostensibly opposes, but here you are, painting everybody with the same brush because it suits your political purposes. You are the hatred you pretend to oppose.