• Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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    14 hours ago

    This is what Musk came to America for, the land of the free, free of laws, free of oversight, free to do terrible things without reprecutions.

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      3 hours ago

      I was gonna say “lol dude was in South Africa do you realize how corrupt and incompetent it is there with situations like Eskom routinely shutting off power to paid customers?”

      But then I realized in South Africa the “evil black man” stood up to the Afrikaans to take back their country so they won’t bend over backwards for him.

      America on the other hand… They’re a bastion of recessive policies and racist undertones.

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        What you have to understand. South Africa took back democratic control. As a country we have been forced to process institutional racism. We have been confronted by it and have to work to over come it. It was done in a remarkably smooth way as well (but let’s not forget all those who died to achieve it)

        The USA and many other countries never had this flash point realisation/reckoning - it’s just in the back ground with people who deny racism exists - or don’t understand privilege. It’s all just hidden under the surface.

        South Africa has its issues and a hangover from this past but it also has people who work very hard to try get us back to functioning well. We are stronger as a nation because we have confronted these racial ideologies and it’s out in the open - there are words for it - it can be identified- and so now it can be processed and healing can happen.

        It’s been a generation since and it’s going to take another two or three to get there but we doing it.

        Counties with this sub surface crap will never confront their issues - and they will need a reckoning.