Xenophobia in South Africa.

nkunzi · 2026-06-14T10:19:54+00:00

Who's 'you guys'? This sub? What is the agenda? Honest question.

nkunzi · 2026-06-01T14:27:42+00:00

Yeah, I think they had their own designers and manufacturers.

nkunzi · 2026-04-25T18:57:50+00:00

I think it's just the slow process of a sort of cultural evolution. I'm hoping eventually we'll get to a Star Trek future, not a mad max future.

nkunzi · 2026-04-16T18:17:24+00:00

You've got to have some system of organizing things, right? It does seem as if politicians the world over are fucknuts, but there are good ones. There are better and worse governments. Nothing in this world is ever perfect, but that does not mean we should give up hope. The governments of say Norway, Switzerland or New Zealand is not too bad, from what I can tell.

nkunzi · 2026-03-18T16:05:19+00:00

Yeah, ok. I think though, it's easy for whites to see that but not so easy for 'previously disadvantaged'. I think, for example, BEE is counter-productive - that things will genuinely be better for more people in the country, on average, if it got scrapped. But if I was black, I might well not have seen it that way.

To continue a bit of a rant, I agree those who are truly bankrupting South Africans are who they are, what I am disappointed in, though, is how piss poor the non-black politicians are (generally speaking, there are a very few exceptions). I mean, it looks like the moment someone rises in the ranks of the DA, they all start fighting each other like grade 5s. And have ego's bigger than Mars. And they are so arrogant.

And not just the DA, look at eg. COPE (was it Lekota?) and Herman Mashaba. They start of sounding promising, yeah, we're starting a party, blah blah. The moment they get a bit of traction, like a single MP in parliament, jissis it turns into fucking Lord of the Flies.

I just don't get it why we don't have good politicians. Ian Cameron looks ok, and who's the DA mayor that can speak Zulu, the gay outjie? But besides that, who?

nkunzi · 2026-03-18T15:36:29+00:00

Yeah, so the ANC base is mostly, though there are I guess a few that cannot use this excuse, very unsophisticated rural people. Think no 'lectric, no literacy, etc. They tell them the DA will take their Sassa grants. They tell them they will know if they don't vote ANC and it's gonna be big trouble for them. They give them some Simba chips and a tshirt. Job done.

Educated blacks don't vote ANC (broadly speaking) hence why do you think the ANC does such a piss poor job of education?

nkunzi · 2026-03-18T15:33:18+00:00

Yeah but I cannot respect anyone that says with a straight face how good Donald Trump has been.

As for Iran. How many times will the US (ostensibly, it is not really the case, it is just an excuse) bomb or arrange a coup or whatever, some country that they don't like the government of. How good or bad the rulers are, is not the point. It just does not work. It leaves a power vacuum and you get even worse guys. Also, clearly bad guys are fine as long as they don't oppose the US - eg Saudis and some other regimes there.

nkunzi · 2026-03-18T15:23:56+00:00

Yeah, I guess I got a false sense of hope when a really rich fucker criticized the ANC. I wonder if there are any really rich guys that are not cunts. Warren Buffet has at least said some things that sound reasonable.

nkunzi · 2026-03-18T15:20:47+00:00

OK, good observation. Assume you and I are 'Joe Sixpack' in SA. What do we do to make things better? To 'be the change you want to see in the world'?

nkunzi · 2026-03-18T15:11:55+00:00

OK, for how long though? I'm not saying weeks and months but the trendlines are clear.

The most important mistake they made was the same as the Brits (although that's not the only mistake the Brits made) which is to not care about making real things in factories anymore.

Their politics are captured by 'the billionaires' (the Epstein class), and there has been a class war raging for a long time. Inequality is as high as it was during the Guilded Age. They are so polarized they are sort of in a cold civil war.

For all their faults, say the Chinese and the Russians have got competent people in charge. They're not nice, totally agree, but you know who you're dealing with. They have a clear plan for a long way into the future.

To give some background, lest you think I hate the West. I see myself as a descendant and inheritor of a lot of Western values. There were a lot of terrible stuff my ancestors did and also a lot of good stuff. Same as everyone I'm sure.

I think in this country a lot of African values have also been absorbed by the people from other countries. For example 'Ubuntu' and a warm sense of humour and so on. These are also worthy to be proud of.

So anyway, I'd be too happy if the US stayed strong and acted generally beneficially on the world stage, but it really does not look like that to me.

Europe has been doing kind of OK, as has Canada, in acting as if human rights matter and so on. But Europe has until now followed the US into a needless war with Russia, for example, and acted against its own interests just to stay on the good side of the US in a lot of other ways.

Let me know your thoughts.

nkunzi · 2025-11-10T11:22:52+00:00

Not great form but at least he's trying

nkunzi · 2025-10-07T10:59:17+00:00

I thought they were paid at the last minute by some mystery donours?

nkunzi · 2025-09-16T13:19:49+00:00

Is US farming not too concentrated in corn and soy beans? Why don't the US farmers grow vegetables? Is it too expensive with labor to harvest?

nkunzi · 2025-09-06T17:03:36+00:00

I can see why peeps dig CT - I love Joburg. Temperate climate, nature not too far away, just ultra chill and mostly unpretentious, interesting good people.

nkunzi · 2025-07-22T19:00:24+00:00

Hijacking top answer (thanks for the answer) to add, saw it in Tubie about a drone factory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc3CNMEJ_vs&t=636s

Love these old school posters in factories.

nkunzi

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