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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow South Africa's Apartheid Shaped the MAGA Mindset
𝖲𝗂𝗆𝗈𝗇 𝖪𝗎𝗉𝖾𝗋 𝖥𝗂𝗇𝖺𝗇𝖼𝗂𝖺𝗅 𝖳𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌
Elon Musk lived in apartheid South Africa until he was 17. David Sacks, the venture capitalist who has become a fundraiser for Donald Trump and a troll of Ukraine, left aged five, and grew up in a South African diaspora family in Tennessee. Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining as part of the apartheid regimes clandestine drive to acquire nuclear weapons. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African software developer and tech journalist living near Johannesburg, has been identified by two teams of forensic linguists as the originator of the QAnon conspiracy, which helped shape Trumps Maga movement. (Furber denies being Q.)
In short, four of Magas most influential voices are fiftysomething white men with formative experiences in apartheid South Africa. This probably isnt a coincidence.
https://ft.pressreader.com/article/282355455139348

malaise
(280,574 posts)Rec
AndyTiedye
(23,533 posts)Much of our press is running scared. The Financial Times is not:
𝖬𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗂𝗇 𝖶𝗈𝗅𝖿, 𝖥𝗂𝗇𝖺𝗇𝖼𝗂𝖺𝗅 𝖳𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌
...The question arises: are the oligarchs who are trying to make Trump president and JD Vance vice-president, the latter a man who has declared he would not have certified that election, about to learn what it means to have a tyrant as president? Yes, someone who attempts a coup against the electoral process the very heart of democracy is a would-be tyrant. So is someone who may fill his government with people personally loyal to him. Nobody then can truly be safe, except loyalists and sycophants....
The plutocrats who support Trump may remain safer than Berezovsky. But can they really be as free as they want? Yes, a further erosion of democracy might protect them from interference by the elected politicians they detest. But the men they put in power, in their stead, have a tendency to turn themselves into absolute rulers. Nobody can then be truly safe.
https://ft.pressreader.com/article/281814289130125
malaise
(280,574 posts)Vance is who they want Project 2025 will also include removing the CONvicted felon and replacing him with Vance.
AndyTiedye
(23,533 posts)malaise
(280,574 posts)BIG
Figarosmom
(4,219 posts)About this very thing.
electric_blue68
(19,846 posts)AndyTiedye
(23,533 posts)Leave the Haitians alone. Send back the South African billionaires.
Hassler
(3,986 posts)And no wife. How odd JV Divan is kissing his ass