Big Mac Daddy

Joburger in CPT. Old school D&D nerd and comic collector. Artful dodger. Standup bullshitter extraordinaire. 🇿🇦

[Big Mac Daddy @Macsimusreigns]

I always feel sympathy for predators on #nationalgeographic. Imagine having to blend into your surroundings while stalking your sandwiches at lunchtime, facing a one in ten chance they would get away...

[Orion @ori0n7]

Absolutely it is

[Big Mac Daddy @Macsimusreigns]

@hostokyo 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

In LOTR, the shire spent so long sheltered from evil that it began to think evil did not exist.

The west is like the shire.

We must save the shire.

[Big Mac Daddy @Macsimusreigns]

@momose_natsuki 🔥🔥🔥

[Big Mac Daddy @Macsimusreigns]

@1800DOMINATRIX 🔥 🧨 ❤️‍🔥

[Big Mac Daddy @Macsimusreigns]

@Wanderlustluca

[Inside Politics @insidepols]

I suspect Redi Thlabi’s article on Starlink carries the kind of Twitter headline (“My piece on why Starlink IS a national security issue for South Africa”) that causes 90% of people to retweet or condemn it based on that alone. But on actually reading it, it is striking how weak it is. For one, it does not provide an answer to the headline. There is no evidence that Starlink is a national security risk anywhere in the article, in any shape or form. Remarkably, there is in fact not a single fact about Starlink. Staggering when you think about the response to it. Instead, most of it is about social media, the dangers of propaganda, on platforms like X and TikTok, and how various governments have or have not responded to those platforms. But on high speed internet access, not a word. That is because all that stuff is irrelevant to high speed internet – it just makes your internet go faster. What makes the article even more bizarre, is that the companies responsible for these platforms, X, Facebook, TikTok, etc, all already operate in South Africa. So, I mean, given her passion for national security, that is what she really should be focusing on. But it’s the patronising paternalism that really grates. Starlink is a product, like Discovery Health or your Apple iPhone. If it was allowed to be switched on here, every consumer, just like every other product, would be faced with a choice: read the terms and conditions, and sign up, or don’t. Whatever you want. And, like all other products, it would subject to laws and regulations, and held to account for wrongdoing. What Thlabi is really saying, in a sort of “mother of the nation” mode, is: “you people are not capable of making this choice, you need me, Redi Thlabi, to make it for you, by advocating for the choice not to be available to you at all.” Of course, she doesn’t do that for any other product. Banks, Facebook, Insurance firms, they are all interested in your personal data. They all tell you what they will or won’t do with it. It’s a decision you make 100 times a year in different ways. Starlink may do this, I don't know, not sure why it would need to, but even if it does, it would give you a choice - sign up if you like our conditions, or don't. As for politics all of those companies have owners with views. Some of them with quite mad views. But it is only on this one that Thlabi is going to fight, not for your right to choose, but to ensure you can’t choose: because if you are given that choice – being the idiot you are, you will make the wrong decision. This is an ego out of all control. Really. And arrogant too. Thlabi starts by dismissing out of hand any other consideration. She says, “We are told this is about rural children accessing the internet, about innovation, about economic growth” and then says she knows “the real question”. Oh really? I think rural children, the unemployed and the economically marginalised would disagree. I think they could tell her the “real question” very quickly: how can I get a job? Thlabi has a job, and internet access. She also thinks she knows what is best for you. Much like the ANC. And much like the ANC, she has offered up a massive smoke screen filled with rhetoric and hyperbole, that deals with nothing but her own animosity towards Elon Musk and, in doing so, shows nothing but contempt for the choices of people themselves. https://t.co/BEkKY63ONn

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Today the ANC asked for your forgiveness. Then proceeded to table an unfunded budget, in a city that their own finance minister declared bankrupt.

You be the judge.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Dada Morero used his final State of the City Address to double down on demolishing the Metro Centre. No consultation and no alternatives.

Just “non-negotiable.”

Here is my response to that.

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

This movie is toast, before it even hits cinemas 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Geordin Hill-Lewis @geordinhl]

🚨 South Africa lost 345 000 jobs in just 3 months 🚨

Entrepreneurs and businesses are being strangled by red tape, unreliable basic services, failing ports and rail, and crime. ❌

SA does not have a lack of economic potential. We have a lack of political urgency. Where the DA governs, we focus on the basics that make grow the economy. Nationally, we will keep fighting for the reforms that can put millions more South Africans into work. 🇿🇦

[I ❤️ Cape Town ~ I Stand with Russia🇷🇺 MAGA @Lolita721611021]

Audio leaked of Cyril Ramaphosa: We used public funds for our campaign

[Justine Limpitlaw @JustineLimLaw]

Just got sent this.
It’s truly frightening.
What on earth is going on in Joburg?

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Joburg Metro Centre Part 3 - The Basement ����️👀

This is the story of Joburg’s building plans crisis. The worst administrative negligence in the history of this city.

Watch this video till the end to see the current state of the archives inside the Metro Centre and how that affects YOU.

In the next video, we reveal more basement politics.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Sinkhole blocking your driveway? The DA will zipline you out.🫡

But we’d rather fix the road infrastructure. Give us the majority in council and WE WILL. 

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Joburg Metro Centre Part 1 - The Chase 🏃🏽💨

Tomorrow we reveal everything we found inside the building and why the ANC and their coalition partners don’t want you to see it.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Joburg Metro Centre series drops tonight.

[Saxon African @Saxon_African]

Why is the NPA not doing their job and prosecuting Melema for threats against the magistrate?

But instead they claim to believe it is so bad, that they now want to regulate media in courts to protect prosecuters and judges, which violates the publics right to transparency and participation in such high profile cases. It is fast becoming an obvious way to cover up court bias and corruption from public veiw, and could actually make the issue of accountability to the people even more out of reach for South Africans. Disgusting.

Melemas comments have not only lead to the endangerment of our judges and prosocuters but its now leading to the corruption enhancing action of smothering the media.

It is becoming clear as daylight that the NPA is ideologically captured. Because if ANYONE else threatened a judge and prosocuter this way, they would lay a chage against them.

The public has the right to transparency in high profile court cases. Now the public looses access to that Because the NPA refuses to prosocute crime by a vile racist and communist. Appalling.

Source: Daily Maverick
https://t.co/br0NeKzQo7

[Nicholas Nyati🇿🇦 @NicholasNyati]

There has been a video circulating on social media re: Helen being asked about Gaza.

Here is her response, which hasn’t been trending.