Rene 📚🕊️

Fierce Freemarketeer 🇿🇦🇵🇹🇮🇱📚✨

[Rene 📚🕊️ @Elfiny]

“Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.” - Milton Friedman

[Rene 📚🕊️ @Elfiny]

@RiebvJanbeeck Helen of Mamelodi on Black Friday at Checkers

[Rene 📚🕊️ @Elfiny]

@Finnthehuman80 Zuma also visited some interesting people in Madeira recently. Wonder what the old snake is up to? Why wasn't his passport confiscated

[Rene 📚🕊️ @Elfiny]

@spencerpratt Instead of harvesting golden eggs, they want to eat the goose. So clever!

[vertzy 🇺🇸🇺🇸🥩 @Vertzy24]

@SenSanders But it is

[Rene 📚🕊️ @Elfiny]

@NickKristof @elonmusk Hospitals where patients have to lie on the floor in their own filth while the adminstrator drives a Lamborghini.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Thank you Germany 🇩🇪 and UK 🇬🇧 for heroically sacrificing your economy to save the planet 💪
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[Rene 📚🕊️ @Elfiny]

@RomanCabanac You do know two things can be true at the same time, right?

[Jason Bartlett @Jason2bartlett]

This is a stern warning to America from a white South African!

America is the last frontier!

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

This pretty much explains it all…

[Rene 📚🕊️ @Elfiny]

@Jonathan_Witt Then when there are shortages, proceeds to import from countries without dumb laws.

[Volkstaat @Volkstaat10]

Written by someone else but very well said...

South Africans keep asking how much worse things can get.

That is the wrong question.

The question is what happens when decline becomes permanent.

For more than thirty years we have adapted to failure.

When electricity failed, we adapted.

When policing failed, we adapted.

When municipalities failed, we adapted.

When water systems failed, we adapted.

When roads deteriorated, we adapted.

When corruption was exposed, we adapted.

Every crisis became another inconvenience to work around.

Every failure became another expense.

Every expense became another sacrifice.

What we call resilience today would have been considered unacceptable twenty years ago.

The danger is not the collapse of institutions.

The danger is the collapse of expectations.

South Africans no longer expect functioning municipalities.

South Africans no longer expect reliable electricity.

South Africans no longer expect effective policing.

South Africans no longer expect government accountability.

We expect failure and then congratulate ourselves for surviving it.

That is not resilience.

That is surrender disguised as resilience.

The average South African is now paying to replace functions that government was created to provide.

Private security.

Solar systems.

Generators.

Water tanks.

Boreholes.

Medical aid.

Private education.

Armed response.

Tracking systems.

Insurance products designed around government failure.

Every year more responsibility moves to the citizen.

Every year more authority remains with the state.

That is the imbalance nobody is discussing.

A citizen who spends most of his income defending himself from decline is not building a future.

He is preserving the present.

His children inherit the same burden.

Then their children inherit it again.

Eventually an entire generation grows up believing this is simply how a country operates.

That is the true danger.

Not that South Africa collapses tomorrow.

Not that there is some dramatic event on the horizon.

But that decline becomes institutionalised.

Permanent.

Accepted.

Normal.

History shows that societies rarely lose their freedoms all at once.

They lose them gradually as independence becomes more expensive and dependence becomes more necessary.

The question South Africans should be asking is not whether the country is getting worse.

The evidence already answers that.

The question is this:

At what point does survival stop being resilience and start becoming acceptance?

Because once a nation accepts deterioration as normal, the battle is no longer against corruption, crime, failing infrastructure or incompetent governance.

The battle is against the belief that nothing better is possible.

And that is the moment decline stops being temporary and becomes a way of life.

Written by Shaun Schutte
14 June 2026”

[Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth]

This is still one of my favorite moments ever on X.

[Rene 📚🕊️ @Elfiny]

@WhiteLionII1 Sadly, I read that microplastics are now in sea salt because of ocean pollution. I doubt we can really escape the plastics these days and the quantities are obviously minute.

[Rene 📚🕊️ @Elfiny]

@GamingGrifter He basically just reads off AI slop at this point.

[Phylax @PhylaxM]

No, the Soweto Uprising on 16 June 1976 was not in protest against apartheid.

It was in protest against being educated in Afrikaans, a language native to Africa, and in demand of being educated in English, the language of the colonizers.

[Rene 📚🕊️ @Elfiny]

@Martin_ASFL Visiting South Africa is like visiting Jurassic Park: amazing experience but stay in the bubble at all times.

[Meek Zeeker @Toutavouz]

Now you’re getting it comrade! $Burnie

[Skye @SkyeZedA]

No one on earth is poor because Elon Musk is a trillionaire.