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Botany

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5. And why did Musk and his henchmen close USAID?

Reply to brakester (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 6, 2026, 01:27 PM

5 hrs ago

Because Musk was an Afrikaner from Apartheid S. Africa who grew up being taught and culturally
assimilated to the idea that black people were the enemy of white people and USAID helped black
people in Africa and those black people deserved to be treated like shit because they were inferior to
white people.

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