Billy

Philippians 4:8

[Duille @DuilleDesign]

"Stanley". David Hockney. 1993.

[Luddite Wendi @soetsappies]

Same is true for South Africa. We're probably at around the same point in the road where Nigeria was when this was written.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

The worst thing the West has exported to Africa is communism.

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Taxi driver during the week, footballer on the weekend - Orlando Pirates founding member Sameul 'Baboon Shephard' Shabangu, April 1953. Credit: Jurgen Schadeberg, Drum Archive

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

Re: Karmelo Anthony and his defenders:

Obviously there is some blind black tribal loyalty involved, but I think there’s something else and arguably worse.

The facts seem to be this: Karmelo invaded another track team’s tent. He did this to assert dominance. When asked to leave, he issued threats: “touch me and see what happens.” After repeatedly telling him that he was not welcome, and in response to provocation, Austin Metcalf pushed him, trying to get him to comply with basic social norms. Karmelo, no doubt delighted that he had now received permission for escalation under his own code, stabbed Austin to death.

The black defenders of Karmelo believe this is how society should operate: an endless war of all against all to assert dominance, escalating when one’s assertions are rebuffed. They’re mad that the justice system got involved, because in their minds this is the proper way to conduct business: omnipresent dominance signaling, inevitably leading to violence.

They genuinely don’t understand that other people don’t operate according to those rules. And they certainly don’t understand that our rules, by drastically reducing friction and needless cost, are the very reason for the disparities in group power they complain about. We are polite internally and can thus exert greater collective power externally. A few Karmelos in the mix destroys this system.

But they don’t care that running things their way would be the end of civilization, the end of their cell phones and EBT and air conditioning, because they don’t understand it. They don’t understand anything about the modern world. They are lost here, confused. This state of affairs is not sustainable.

[HowlingMutant @Howlingmutant0]

Personal responsibility feels like oppression when you’ve been indulged like a spoiled child for sixty years

[Jon 🔬 @JonnyMicro]

I was told riots are the language of the unheard, mate

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Jean-François Millet 1858
Vincent van Gogh 1890

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

We came close to a truly colourblind culture - and the woke left screwed it up, on purpose.

[Impressions @impression_ists]

The Black Sea by Ivan Aivazovsky

[CameraLab @cameralab21]

Matthew Salacuse - Louis Armstrong, "What A Wonderful World" - 1960's

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

A family enjoying a meal, c 1960. Credit: Drum Archives/BAHA

[Tobi Marshall @CoededMarshall]

Nina Simone & Lauryn Hill ❤️

[Billy @TarkaTambo]

Julius was always a wannabe African warlord. He never wanted to lead this country. He just wanted Charles Taylor's nachos, badly.

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

My favourite Jurgen Schadeberg photo: South African jazz guitarist and actor General Duze is seen playing to a small group of children, c 1950s. (Photo by Jurgen Schadeberg)

[oecolamp @oecolamp]

One of the most intolerable behaviors in a woman is psychoanalysis. It's never the result of rational introspection and always just a thinly veiled dominance behavior. "You only do/say that because-"*slap*

[Billy @TarkaTambo]

Sia_TheBee >>>

[Robert Duigan @uMarhobane]

Everyone loves Orania, especially those who hate it.

[Landeur 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Landeur]

“We can’t just deport millions of people, it won’t work.”

Meanwhile, Pakistan…

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Jazz guitarist and actor General 'Genie' Duze with his wife, c 1954. Credit: Drum Archives