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Cake day: July 28th, 2023

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  • In South Africa, it is illegal to open carry, unless you are a police officer or security guard. So citizens are required to conceal carry. Yet in the rural areas where I am from, most of the firearm carrying people prefer to open carry, they feel it is a deterrent and easier to reach.

    It’s really weird how everyone in America, what I assume we are referring to, wants to conceal carry because the government does not want you to, and here in SA we want to do the opposite because of what the government wants.

    PS this is my opinion from personal experience, maybe a lot more are carrying but I do not see them.




  • I believe this isn’t 4D chess in which he makes a snide remark about South Africa again, but Cyril Ramaphosa signed a controversial bill called Bela or Basic Education Law Act where the ANC wanted to give more state control and give less control to school governing bodies, in regards to languages being taught at schools. Many Afrikaners, myself included, ( just Google Pretoria girls highschool of you want to read a rabbit hole of government overreaction) felt this was a ploy to try and exert control to try and dictate which languages should be taught wat school, such as choosing English over native mother tongue languages (like suppressing Afrikaans for example). There are merit and drawbacks to the bill, but even if Trump is obsessed with us white Afrikaners in South Africa (sarcasm), I do not think this is what he meant, and if he did, we would like him to allow us to deal with our own issues through dialogue and democratic methods






  • What I mean is of course there will be health benefits, disruptions to established food networks, environmental benefits… Cool, I feel a High schooler could have come up with a similar article, especially with the thumb sucked scenarios it feels like.

    Where is the juicy bits, like let’s take cigarettes, could have written a similar article. Just now the end of cigarettes is in the horizon, maybe not fully but clearly in a terminal death spiral.

    What alternatives are proposed and is the global supply chain able to change. Will we achieve meat free through taxation, like cigarettes, and what will be the effects not only on the poor, but the cost benefits for the poor through health gains outweigh the extra costs?

    They touched cultural and religious meals, but will religions adapt and seize these practices just like slavery, or would there be an unintended radicalisation effect.

    Like I said these are just questions I thought of within 5 minutes. I believe the writer of the article could even have prompted ChatGPT for interesting angles. My opinion, which I believe everyone is entitled to, is that the article is shallow and leaves a lot of potential left on the table







  • Yeah in South Africa when our then President, Jacob Zuma, disbanded our independent corruption body, the Scorpions, that started basically corruption on such a scale, even had a commission of inquiry for state capture. Just look at South Africa’s growth since then, basically entrenched poverty and joblessness to our countrymen.

    Be afraid Ukraine, even if Zelensky has good intentions, what about the next president. All the advice I can give you is to become active, continue putting pressure on your elected officials. The people have the power, especially through the ballot