Chelle 😊

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

Edmund Burke

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

@AfricaDailyZA Every pre-schooler's art is interesting to their parents, but it doesn't deserve a place in a world class art gallery. Defending mediocrity under the guise of equal respect is an embarrassment.

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

"All of the Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises."

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

"Money doesn't have power in & of itself. People get confused sometimes they think an economy is money. Money is a database for exchange of goods & services. The actual economy is goods & services"

一 Elon Musk

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

@eNCA And South Africa's leaders have enabled and excused every African dictator.

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

A recent study found that some South African companies spend more on race law compliance than they earn in profit, with one firm paying 307% of its annual profit to achieve Level 2 BEE status.

Race laws are destroying the South African economy and jobs.
https://t.co/dzgTPwH1Cv

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

@Mkhize_vela So how happy are with you with the performance of the designated groups in SAPS ? Race quotas working out well?

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

Whites may not be more than 9% of SAPS, and will not be promoted if the racial quota has been filled. Preference is given to other races.
SAPS operates under South Africa's Employment Equity Act (1998) and develops Employment Equity Plans (EEPs). These aim for a workforce "broadly representative" of national demographics (roughly 79-80% African Black, ~9% White, ~9% Coloured, ~2.5% Indian).
Measures include:Preference in recruitment, training, appointments, and promotions for "designated groups" (Black Africans, Coloureds, Indians, women, and people with disabilities). Numerical targets or goals by race and gender at different levels (e.g., upper/middle management).

[Human Progress @HumanProgress]

Bjorn Lomborg did not deny climate change, but treated it as one problem among many.

The past 20 years vindicate his position: emissions are rising more slowly than feared, disaster deaths have fallen, and poverty remains a more acute threat than climate.
https://t.co/mHYY0azefv

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

SAPS operates under South Africa's Employment Equity Act (1998) and develops Employment Equity Plans (EEPs).
These aim for a workforce "broadly representative" of national demographics (roughly 79-80% African Black, ~9% White, ~9% Coloured, ~2.5% Indian).

Measures include:Preference in recruitment, training, appointments, and promotions for "designated groups" (Black Africans, Coloureds, Indians, women, and people with disabilities).

Numerical targets or goals by race and gender at different levels (e.g., upper/middle management).

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

@FsTebza Whites can't be promoted in SAPS because SAPS has a race quota system. Skin colour is more important than performance.

Same in all government departments, and new laws are going to force private business owners to put race first in their own companies as well.

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

@wicks_jeff Never forget - Affirmative action quotas mean that people like Sanders cannot be promoted.

[Joshua Meservey @JMeservey]

A court recently forced the release of a report, nearly 7 years after it was written, on Zimbabwe’s land redistribution program. Bottom line is that the state received less than 10% of the value of the land allocated for redistribution, the rest was lost to massive corruption and incompetence.

This was supremely predictable. Forced expropriation of the type Zimbabwe did is morally wrong, of course, but it’s also impractical. When a government as corrupt and incompetent as Zimbabwe’s expropriates property, it will always become a self-dealing circus.

So, while “land reform” was sold as a just cause necessary to redress historical wrongs, it was really just a money grab by deeply unscrupulous people. It’s a broader lesson that applies across the world: when corrupt and power-hungry regimes or groups sermonize about the need to correct past injustices, what they’re usually really after is more power and more opportunities to exploit others.

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

@LLBiggers Judith Curry

[mark 🇿🇦 @markmywords]

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE Research puts hard numbers on BEE’s economic cost.

The Solidarity Research Institute (SRI), working with the Free Market Foundation, calculates annual BEE compliance and related losses at R145–290 billion — equivalent to 2–4% of GDP.

That’s up to 192,000 foregone jobs every year.

In a country with one of the world’s highest unemployment rates, this is not abstract policy debate. It’s real capital, real investment, and real opportunities diverted year after year.
Over nearly two decades the cumulative drag has exceeded R5 trillion in lost economic activity, with GDP growth reduced by an estimated 1.5–3% annually.

Report: “The Costs of B-BBEE Compliance” (FMF & SRI, June 2025)
Full PDF: https://t.co/gqzRxgQtbY

Is the current model still defensible when the costs are this visible?

#BEE #SouthAfrica #Economy #Jobs

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

@kevinaclarke @Cernovich Low IQ populations cannot create efficient governments because their irrationality prevents them from electing effective representatives. No Ai can overcome this obstacle.

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

Groenewald has repeatedly highlighted recidivism and parole risks in speeches and parliamentary responses.

For example, he has warned against using parole just to ease overcrowding and stressed public safety/victim justice. He has flagged high reoffending numbers (e.g., over 18,000 parolees reoffended in recent years per departmental stats).

He has pushed for reforms like better electronic monitoring, parole reviews, and addressing overcrowding.

This is an inherited, decades-old failure across multiple administrations, worsened by resource and coordination gaps.

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

They love "diversity" until it's reversing anti-white policies in a country where whites (mostly Afrikaners) built the modern economy and are now targeted as a minority. Trump slashes the overall refugee cap to record lows (smart, after decades of lax vetting and welfare strain) but carves out spots for people who speak English, have skills, and aren't importing clan feuds or jihad. This isn't "racism"—it's pattern recognition. America already ran the experiment of mass low-skill inflows; the results aren't pretty in crime stats, fiscal costs, or social cohesion.

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

@News24 Satire account?

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

"The purpose of merit isn’t fairness. Nature doesn’t give a damn about fairness. Merit is survival. It is the mechanism that convinces talented and ambitious people to build civilizations instead of turning against the people strangling them.

What these people do not understand is that eventually a society produces someone with a critical mass of intelligence, ambition, discipline, and honor that cannot be contained forever by mediocrity, corruption, and ideological gatekeeping."

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Bullying journalists is more American than apple pie, baseball, and driving your car with the AC on and the windows down.

What this insufferable civilization killing shrew doesn’t understand is that her words are poison to the United States military.

What she also fails to tell you about are all the other women across services getting promoted to flag rank. But she won’t tell you that because it’s inconvenient to her midwit narrative.

Here’s a little history lesson about why merit isn’t some abstract goal that some people like and others don’t. It is NECESSARY to preserving civilization itself.

A civilization can spend years smothering excellence under layers of ideology. Then one day the ceiling caves in all at once.

That is what @PeteHegseth understands and the DEI priesthood does not.

The people screeching about “equity” think this is just another political knife fight. Just another turn of the wheel. They think standards are social constructs and institutions are toys that can be bent around ideology forever without consequence. But history says otherwise.

George Washington spent years trying to earn a royal commission. He fought for the British. Fought and bled for them. Then built formations the British themselves respected immensely (the Virginia Militia). None of it mattered enough to penetrate the arrogance of a system that had started rewarding class and proximity over raw ability.

The empire looked at a dangerous man and saw a provincial, a mere colonist. That was
THE most expensive personnel mistake in human history.

This is the eternal pattern. Once institutions stop rewarding merit, they stop attracting loyal excellence. Honor sours and ambition detaches from the state. The people strongest enough to save the institution begin quietly calculating whether it deserves to be saved.

The fools always think the danger comes from men with standards. NO! It comes from institutions that mock them.

The purpose of merit isn’t fairness. Nature doesn’t give a damn about fairness. Merit is survival. It is the mechanism that convinces talented and ambitious people to build civilizations instead of turning against the people strangling them.

What these people do not understand is that eventually a society produces someone with a critical mass of intelligence, ambition, discipline, and honor that cannot be contained forever by mediocrity, corruption, and ideological gatekeeping.

George Washington was not born wanting revolution. He wanted recognition, advancement and a path upward through merit and service.

Then one day they discovered they had not insulted a man. They had insulted a force.
That is the danger of arrogant systems. They mistake honorable people for obedient people. They assume talent will tolerate humiliation forever. They think ambition can be endlessly chained down without consequence.

IT CAN’T.

Eventually pressure becomes heat. Heat becomes rupture. Then the same ruling class that spent years mocking standards and walling off advancement suddenly stares in disbelief as the foundations begin to shake beneath them.

So yes, Hegseth is bringing back merit. Sometimes women get promoted, sometimes not. Same with men.

What do you care anyway? You can’t even define what a woman even is.

Stop dividing us. Or we will continue to stuff you into the digital locker of consequences like the divisive geek you are.

[Chelle 😊 @ish18_e]

@Martin_ASFL @avidseries Is there any evidence to support that view?