Patrice Rupertheimer

My views can (and have) evolve(d).

Sometimes nasty cuz I have to be, not cuz I want to be.

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@dagothchud @buckleycarlson "son"?? 😂

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@RomanCabanac who will lobby for Afrikaner interests in SA....similar to the way the Cuban expat community in the US, is the major player in US policy towards Cuba. I would still prefer the Afrikaners to stay. But whatever happens, happens.

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@RomanCabanac True. But it can also be beneficial to Afrikaners in general, the overwhelming majority of whom will remain in SA. Because the eventual, say, 100k Afrikaners who will settle in the US, including many who will become very successful, will produce a large advocacy group component

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@Capn_Spalding @EricLDaugh The opposite, actually. A conservative American may be a bit too left for a conservative South African. A conservative South African is a true conservative...unlike those in Australia, Canada, NZ or the UK, who sadly (to greater or lesser degree) tend to have a 'liberal streak'.

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@thedrunktongue This is AI. The lion is too big relative to the car. A lion is big but not that big.

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@Vipintiwari952 True. But I remember some 'fans' spraying Tom Cruise with a water-pistol in London. Not to mention the aggressive pursuit by the paparazzi that led to Princess Diana's death in Paris. This does not take away from the fact that Indians tend have a very low concept of civic-sense.

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@BoerHindoe SA, albeit imperfectly, was becoming RELATIVELY happy and successful for all groups! That is the probable reason for the uprising and anarchy that followed. Internal and external forces didn't want him (and his plan) to succeed.

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@BoerHindoe The NP is sometimes judged too harshly. PW (and Vorster before him) got scammed into joining the 'Cold War' (when they should have actually maintained Verwoerd's principle of neutrality). But PW, in a best of a bad-bargain context, was actually starting to pull it off in the 80s.

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@kwets11 Now do a thought experiment. Imagine there were NEVER any whites in SA to begin with. Which of the shit you mentioned would you have, or could even have conceived existed/could exist?

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@sandileswana Could someone built like a sumo-wrestler be coached to run as fast as a Jamaican sprinter?

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@BoerHindoe Unpopular truth but this superficial/manufactured 'vibe' was set in motion by Francois Pienaar (whom I like) with his 1995 RWC-winning quote:

"We didn't have 60,000 South Africans, we had 43 million South Africans"

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@Tessa_Dooms It's municipal, not national, elections. It IS about the potholes, etc, not foreign policy.

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@KofiSparkles @Constitution_94 You neither answered nor understood the question. The OP posed China as a model, not as a villain. And suggested that Zuma was the impediment to SA emulating that model and that if Cyril had his way (sans Zuma's 'mess'), SA would be as developed as China. Nope!

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@KCruicksha73275 @Constitution_94 You neither answered nor understood the question. The OP posed China as a model, not as a villain. And suggested that Zuma was the impediment to SA emulating that model and that if Cyril had his way (sans Zuma's 'mess'), SA would be as developed as China. Nope!

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@Am_Blujay Bantus are a big time problem in many ways. But not gonna lie: that shirt looks cool. Looks like Bantus got some good design skill.

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@Cthulhucachoo You: Full anti-foreigner pogrom unfolding in Durban. Man killed in front of his two kids in road-rage incident in broad daylight in Emmarentia. Family of 7 in KZN murdered (1 of whom was raped) and bodies dumped in a bush. But let's focus on William's post.

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@popped_blog @uMarhobane @DieAnderJannie As a matter of principle, don't doxx (not even partially). She IS a lunatic but we should respect the privacy/anonymity of even the nutjobs all up in here.

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@NkululekoMhlaba You have hit the nail on the head but not in the way you think.

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@ActionKillerman @zizipho50 Because she is intelligent and capable. She was built for something far more than cleaning houses and doing the laundry. She will be leading the richest city in Africa soon. And I'm not even a DA supporter and find many of their positions problematic.