How South Africa's Apartheid Shaped the MAGA Mindset

[AndyTiedye]

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 regime’s 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 Trump’s Maga move­ment. (Furber denies being “Q”.)

In short, four of Maga’s most influ­en­tial voices are fiftyso­mething white men with form­at­ive exper­i­ences in apartheid South Africa. This prob­ably isn’t a coin­cid­ence.

https://ft.pressreader.com/article/282355455139348

[malaise]

1. MUST READ

Rec

[AndyTiedye]

2. The Financial Times is Not Afraid to Call them What they Are

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]

3. This is a very serious article

Vance is who they want Project 2025 will also include removing the CONvicted felon and replacing him with Vance.

[AndyTiedye]

4. and for those who try to tell you that 🐔 is good for the Economy...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219499183

[malaise]

5. The good news is that Harris/Walz are going to win

BIG

[Figarosmom]

6. Yesh i kept thinking

About this very thing.

[electric_blue68]

7. I had no idea there were more White South Africans trying to influence our election. Go away!

[AndyTiedye]

8. They're Trying to Send Back the Wrong Immigrants

Leave the Haitians alone. Send back the South African billionaires.

[Hassler]

9. Yep, Leon Skum and Thiel, the guy with no kids

And no wife. How odd JV Divan is kissing his ass