Kyle S Zietsman

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[Kyle S Zietsman @KylesZ]

@HamptonThink … and in turn aim to imprison(ed) the whole world with same - call it “democracy”, “international rules based order”, “free-market”, “freedom”, “protection of humans rights”. Sew chaos and discord everywhere under this ruse. All for money. The only God they truly worship.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

The primary cause of SA’s astronomical unemployment is the lack of an industrial policy.

The more manufacturing shrank, the higher unemployment rose.
The government gave corporations carte blanche to build world-class malls instead of factories, now they’re all acting surprised.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Here is the honest version of the conversation Western politicians will not have with their citizens:

The standard of living you have is not fully explained by your productivity, your innovation, or your cultural values.

A significant, structural, foundational part of it is explained by a global economic architecture that prices the labor and resources of poorer countries below their actual value, then transfers the difference to you.

That architecture is maintained by institutions, trade agreements, debt structures, and, when necessary, military force.

As that architecture weakens, as more countries develop the political will and the coalitions to renegotiate its terms, your cost of living will rise.

Not because you are being attacked.

Not because your enemies are winning.

But because the gap is closing.

Because people who were paid nothing are demanding something.

Because resources that were taken are now being sold.

The honest political leader would say:

This is coming. Let us figure out together how to build an economy that does not depend on other people's poverty.

No Western political leader will say this.

Because the voter who hears it will feel it as an attack.

Because justice, when you have built your life on injustice, always arrives wearing the face of an enemy.

[Kyle S Zietsman @KylesZ]

@mteton @PetersWonderboy Exactly!

[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

I have served long enough in leadership to recognise a troubling pattern. Too many among South Africa’s elite - black and white - appear to believe the rules that govern the rest of us do not apply to them.

As chairman of an SOE, I am regularly approached by business leaders asking me to intervene in operational or procurement matters. When I explain that my role is governance and oversight, not management, they say they understand. Yet the requests continue. This reveals a belief that exceptions exist for the connected few.

It was therefore striking to see Business Leadership South Africa and BUSA, organisations that have been vocal against state capture and political interference in state-owned enterprises, actively advocate for political intervention to transfer transmission assets to the Transmission System Operator. These are the same bodies that insist on corporate governance and board independence. Where, then, is the role of the SOE board? What exactly do they believe in?

Equally concerning are recent allegations involving former Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. Senior figures within his own party, including John Steenhuisen and Dion George, have raised issues that appear to involve conflicts of interest and undue influence. This from a voice that has long lectured on ethical standards and clean governance. Do these rules apply to everyone, or only when politically convenient? Selective morality is not morality at all.

When those who position themselves as guardians of good governance apply different standards to themselves, public trust erodes. But South Africans are watching. We see the inconsistencies. We now know where people stand.

The path forward requires courage. We must expose wrongdoing wherever it occurs without fear or favour. We must demand that those who preach accountability live it consistently. We must insist that rules bind the powerful as they bind ordinary citizens. And we must model the ethical society we want to build.

South Africa does not lack good people. What we need is the collective will to insist that principle applies to all. Let us find that courage. Let us call out double standards and build a nation where no one is above the law. That is the South Africa worth fighting for. #ProudlySA

[Kyle S Zietsman @KylesZ]

@amaBhungane Click bait of the the highest order

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

When a Western country loses manufacturing jobs to cheaper labor overseas, it is called a crisis. A betrayal. A national emergency deserving political response, trade protection, economic intervention.

When a Global South country loses economic sovereignty to Western financial institutions, it is called structural adjustment. Reform. The necessary medicine of the market. The responsible path toward development.

Same process. Different direction.

When it hurts them: injustice.

When it hurts you: efficiency.

The moral framework didn't produce the economic system.

The economic system produced the moral framework.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Ain’t no way Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are taking over Albania’s island to build a luxury resort. These people aren’t playing games. They understand their collective power and will burn it all down before they allow their land to be stolen. All power to the Albanian people!

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

In just a few years, “No AI” or “Zero AI” will become a coveted badge of honour for companies, much like “eco-friendly” and “non-GMO” labels are today. Brands will proudly showcase it everywhere and charge a premium for products made entirely by humans.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Most Americans are not evil.

That would be too simple.

And too flattering.

Evil at least implies intention.

A great many people inside the empire are not intentional enough to be evil.

They are domesticated.

Domesticated by convenience.

By spectacle.

By the narcotic rhythm of paycheck, purchase, panic, distraction.

They live inside a system that trains them to mistake access for virtue.

If I can still buy coffee, things must be normal.

If Netflix still works, collapse must be exaggerated.

If my neighborhood is quiet, the screams must be far away enough not to matter.

That is how imperial consciousness works.

Not as constant bloodlust.

As managed distance.

Distance from consequence.

Distance from production.

Distance from history.

Distance from the people paying for your calm.

And because the distance is moral as well as geographic, the average citizen can participate in atrocity without ever feeling like a participant.

That is the masterpiece.

Not just killing people.

But teaching millions to live comfortably inside the kill chain without ever seeing themselves in it.

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.

The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.

AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions.

And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.

We built the library.

Someone else started charging admission.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

We lost the plot when we started viewing Earth as a giant store or landfill instead of a life-supporting miracle we’re part of.

[David Icke @davidicke]

The anti-human agenda by a non-human force. Jeff Bezos: 'Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place. Sometimes you have to prioritise the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down.'
Always you have prioritise human intelligence that will save us over the AI agenda designed to enslave us.
https://t.co/MWlAkG6bwY

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Call me whatever you want, but I believe the goal of a society should be to secure the happiness and highest quality of life possible for its citizens and not to endlessly generate capital for the ownership class at the expense of everyone else.

[Àyànfè @Danny456080]

The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows

After a while, people start to think oppression is just the normal state of things.

But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being unfree.

[Kyle S Zietsman @KylesZ]

@OrevaZSN So basically “off with our heads”

[Kyle S Zietsman @KylesZ]

@Danny456080 … and the politicians themselves are oft proxies of their western benefactors “placed” to maintain the very system you refer. The ones that buck (Gaddafi, Lumumba, Troare et al) are deligitimised, destabilized and ultimately made examples of to maintain the status quo of looting

[Àyànfè @Danny456080]

Africa is not poor because Africans are incapable

Africa is poor because a system was built and maintained to keep African resources cheap and African markets open

The resources exist, the people exist, what’s missing is the political will to prioritize Africa over the system

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

In case anyone's unclear, Trump will never deserve any "credit" for making peace with Iran, even if he does end up pushing Israel to comply with the deal. You don't get praise for starting an unprovoked war of aggression and then losing. That's not a thing.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Remember when they sold us the slogan, “Go paperless, save trees, save the planet”?

Now we've gone digital, and it's consuming enormous amounts of water, destroying ecosystems, harming bees, and contributing to environmental damage on a scale paper never did.