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Look at fast food and all you see is burgers. Look through fast food and you see the world.
Sometimes I publish things, lately in Jacobin, the Conversationalist, elsewhere.
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www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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But if you’re going to call out white South Africans categorically, at least get the ethnic particulars right first
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Trump’s policy is bigoted and idiotic and it seems designed to draw in only white South Africans willing to play to his worldview of worldwide white oppression, but it is wrong to write off all white South Africans as racist bigots themselves and to restate those prejudices as if they’re fact
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And there are liberal and progressive white South Africans of all stripes, include Afrikaners. Many of them think it’s strange that they’re people exists at all, but many have also stayed while their relatives and friends left to do what they could to make a plural South Africa.
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Trump’s refugee policy applies to all white South Africans, not just Afrikaners. It might be Afrikaners taking advantage but it’s not an “Afrikaner resettlement policy”
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The difference between English and Afrikaans South African matters given that the two groups were at war in the 19th century and to win, the English put the Afrikaners in the some of the world’s first concentration camps
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Elon Musk is not an Afrikaner, neither is David Sachs
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Afrikaners are an ethnic group with their own language and history. They constitute the majority of white South Africans, but not all white South Africans are Afrikaners. There are Jewish and English-descended white South Africans, and others who are descended from entirely different groups
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If 3G plays it like they did with Burger King, they’ll start selling it aggressively in developing countries and maybe find a way to work chicken into the business plan
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Let’s just drop the “modern” part. It doesn’t need a qualifier.
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Weird time to be showing off an import
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Bill Gates?
WTF no.
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Also glad to see my @jacobinmag.bsky.social story added to the pressure on Stand.earth to change their claims about the Gates Foundation. Doesn't look like it did much, though... jacobin.com/2025/02/bill...
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Some of the biggest aren't sticking with their promises but still reaping the kudos for making them in the first in the first place and then gaslighting the few reporters who raise questions.
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This is the “nice shop you got here” part of what’s really a two-part statement.
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“They’ve done nothing wrong” says the guy that’s been putting federal workers on the street by the thousands because he thinks they shouldn’t have jobs in the first place.
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People who say to ignore the rhetoric and just react to what they do can shove it. The words are bad enough as they are and if you wait for the action to take it seriously you will be so late your own words won’t matter worth a damn.
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Not to give them any ideas, but I could see them starting with
Kirsten Gillibrand
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Just in time
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I agree. Fun is the organizing principle. We are beholden to pyromaniacs with Jerry cans of gas who like torching the structures of civilization because it’s something to do.
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Great, now give us some specifics
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Man I really hope they don’t hold back with this reboot. I need resolution on this matter.