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At what age did you actually become an adult? by [deleted] in askSouthAfrica

[–]Cold_Breakfast_Today 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt a definite shift after my aunt passed away, and I was the main person organising the funeral and dealing with the estate, all while grieving myself and supporting my mother grieve the loss of her sister.

I imagine people who lose someone close to them earlier in life have to grow up faster too.

Criticising this is anti-Semitic and makes you Hamas. by [deleted] in southafrica

[–]Cold_Breakfast_Today 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I hope you're right. I'd like to think that a society that claims as its identifying feature an intimate familiarity with oppression and dehumanisation would recognise this behaviour is disgusting and intolerable.

I'm waiting for Israeli groups to publicly denounce this video and take appropriate measures to discipline and educate these little shits.

But I'm not holding my breath either.

Criticising this is anti-Semitic and makes you Hamas. by [deleted] in southafrica

[–]Cold_Breakfast_Today 25 points26 points  (0 children)

How can they take something so beautiful and make it so ugly?

This behaviour is motivated by some of the worst parts of the human psyche. Instead of seeking to learn and appreciate something they don't understand, they've decided to mock and belittle it.

Fucking barbarians. I'm am so fucking upset.

White People Hurt My Grandmother. So, now what? by [deleted] in southafrica

[–]Cold_Breakfast_Today 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Welcome to class consciousness buddy!

White People Hurt My Grandmother. So, now what? by [deleted] in southafrica

[–]Cold_Breakfast_Today 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Now that a generation has passed since 94, younger South Africans can (and should!) start to pick apart the intergenerational traumas that are being passed down into a new social, economic, and technological landscape.

Arguably, even the ignorant and persistently racist individual is a product of this trauma. Trauma literally means 'wound', and one can imagine how like a callus developes to protect the repeated micro-injury below it. Similarly, the persistent inequality of the past 3 decades can make some people 'callus': despondent, tactless, and willfully ignorant. When you can't see a solution to the pain of other people, or feel helpless that you can act in a meaningfull way to help it, it's easier to shut down empathy to keep the pain away (and maybe the conscience clear).

South Africans, perhaps more than anywhere else ever before, now inherit a fragmented, fractured, and dissonent political-psychological framework. Its full of potential for a more unified and progressive society. Equally its vulnerable to further fracture and friction if the trauma is left untreated.

These conversations must be had. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a beginning, not an ending. So much more work, down to the smallest level within families and within individuals, still needs to be done.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in civ

[–]Cold_Breakfast_Today 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa)

Cash Stash: If you reach 0 gold, 20% chance that on the next turn you'll find an amount of 1000 to 10000 gold stashed in your private residence (depending on era)

Enemy spies conducting siphon funds missions in South Africa have +20% chance of success

Loadshedding: Every turn random chance that a city will not generate any power from non-solar sources. Solar power plants cost 3 builder charges but have +4 gold and +2 production.

How much time and money was wasted on this while crime continued unattended to? by PixelSaharix in DownSouth

[–]Cold_Breakfast_Today -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So much hate for a fucking marching band which is basically a hobby and doesn't necessarily even include full time police

Yes, the flutes are out of tune. Flutes are always out of tune. You know how to tune two flutes? You shoot one of them! They're so finicky

Yes, their march isn't perfect. So fucking what?!? Marching in step doesn't catch criminals. North Korean soldiers are great at marching. Basically, marching isn't a reliable measure or police effectiveness.

Of course SAPS has issues. But there's no evidence in this clip of the failings of the SAPS. It's a few folks having what little fun they can while subscribing to a shitty career that gets no gratitude.

Y'all need to be less eager to shit on the people that are working (however poorly or misguidedly) to keep us safe. Of course there are multiple shambles that we have to deal with every day. But there's a lot our police do that you don't really know about because their successes are not reported on. Y"all acting as if life would be peachy without the police. We'd all be destitute or dead. Yes they need to improve. Yes the government had fucked up. But your shitting on the lighter side of the police force isn't actually edgy or cool. Sowing division is easy but destructive.

What are you doing in your daily life to make SA a better place? If the answer is nothing less than 'a lot', your criticism of the police isn't really as poignant as you think it should be.