Future President of the Republic of South Africa ๐ฟ๐ฆ | ๐Shanghai ๐จ๐ณ| Radical black intersectional feminist โ๐ฟ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ต๐ธ๐จ๐ฉ๐ธ๐ฉ๐พ๐ช | human rights โ๏ธ
I'm so proud to be South African ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ We really stood on business when we said we'd take Israel and their genocidal apartheid regime to the International Court of Justice.
Stop the genocide. Free Palestine! From the river to the sea ๐ต๐ธ๐ต๐ธ๐ต๐ธ
@CJ_KIRIN@timnitGebru I'm never going to defend idiocracy. Why the hell do you care so much about Berlin conference borders? I thought ubulima bakho was a choice, but no shame awuzenzisi. It was clear ngesikhathi udidiswa ivpn... Mxm Uyanyanyisa.. Rhaaa.
@CJ_KIRIN@timnitGebru "Jungle" is...certainly a choice. Ya ne... How are you using racist tropes on your fellow Africans??? Awunyi perhaps? Ungakholwa ukuthi ungumuntu omnyama.
FYI: Location says US because the vpn server is there. The great firewall necessitates such.
@LuluhPops We don't know all that was said at the fire pit...
She didn't say weird things. She said "Carl and I have more in common" while he said "Aniya and I don't have anything in common"... You can compliment someone without disrespecting another
My husband and I bought a high-end video baby monitor for our newbornโs nursery,
but three nights ago, the audio channel started picking up a faint, rhythmic clicking sound that didn't match anything in the room.
My husband said it was just interference from the neighbor's Wi-Fi or a baby monitor on the same frequency.
But the sound only happened between 2:00 AM and 3:00 AM,
and it always followed the exact same pattern:
four rapid clicks,
a long pause,
then two slow clicks.
It sounded like someone tapping on glass.
I became completely obsessed with it.
I couldn't sleep.
I sat up every night staring at the black-and-white night vision screen,
watching my daughter sleep,
waiting for the clicking to start.
On the fourth night...
Ya'll claim to hate apartheid but went from 0 to dompass in 3.5...
Using skin complexion, hair texture, and language to determine whether somebody is "illegal" or not???
The March for Mossad agents are actually enemies of our state. #30June
When people are being manipulated, they donโt realise it. Otherwise, it wouldnโt work.
Whenever bad actors seek to destabilise a country, they donโt manufacture grievances from scratch. Instead, they identify genuine, existing frustrations and use them as vehicles for mobilisation. That is simply the most efficient strategy.
This is why those being mobilised often react emotionally when confronted with the suggestion that someone else may be exploiting the movement because deep down they know in their heart of hearts that they feel very strongly about this. Who are you to tell them someone else is putting ideas in their heads?
In fact, the more genuine the peopleโs grievance, the easier it is for dark forces to weaponise, and the harder it is for the person experiencing it to see the puppet strings.
This is because external actors donโt invent grievances out of thin air; that would require too much energy to sustain. Instead, they act like a lens focusing sunlight on the grass of genuine systemic failure, economic hardship or social injustice. On things the target population has every right to be angry about.
The crucial distinction lies in where the energy is directed. Instead of channelling public anger into reform, accountability and institution-building, โsolutionsโ are redirected toward maximum polarisation and social fragmentation.
So, anytime someone tells a mobilised citizen, โYouโre being used by hidden forcesโ, the citizen doesnโt hear a political analysis. They hear: โYour pain isnโt real. You are too stupid/gullible to think for yourselfโ. Naturally, the ego and the emotions revolt and commitment to the cause deepens.
Thereโs very little anyone can do about this. Directly confronting someone who is emotionally charged with the fact that they are a pawn is always counterproductive. It causes them to dig in deeper because the alternative, admitting they were manipulated while processing their real pain is psychologically devastating.
Another important dimension is how external agitators donโt intervene randomly, but pick moments when those grievances are already near a boiling point. This makes the intervention difficult to detect and attribute. This way, any attempt at de-escalation gets reframed as betrayal or collaboration with the enemy.
The deeper irony is that the very qualities that make someone a good citizen, such as caring deeply about injustice, being willing to act on their convictions and refusing to be gaslit about their own lived experience, are precisely what makes them more recruitable.
The sad thing about destabilisation is that the grievances are real, but the proposed โsolutionsโ are designed not to solve the underlying problems, but to deepen division and erode public trust.
In the end, the people on the ground are left holding the matches to burn their own country down, entirely unaware of who brought the petrol and tyres.
I donโt debate human rights. My stance is always clear. Free Palestine, Sudan and Congo. Stop GBV. Pro-lgbtqia+. Stop Afrophobia. Fuck Israel. Fuck Trump. Hold the ANC accountable. Itโs simple.
It must be the cartel, or Mossad... Our boys are fearing for their lives ๐ฅฒ opting for red cards instead of being on that pitch... That's the only reasonable explanation for South Africa's performance in this game... #BafanaMexico#fifaworldcup#fifawc#mexico