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Slava Ukraini!
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Curious.
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Meh.
South Africa showed more resistance to Zuma than the US is to Trump.
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The daily contrast between the targets of Ukraine and Russia is huge. One is military/ aids war effort, the other is mass slaughter of civilians, including children.
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John Scalzi - legendary author, interdimensional diplomat, inventor of sentient lasagna, and first human to beat an AI at galactic Calvinball. His funeral will feature a kazoo orchestra, a clone dance-off, and live commentary from his immortal cat.
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You have to exist. Otherwise, who wrote all those books?
QED
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I really do admire people with success in different fields.
See also, for example, JC Smuts, who came up with the modern word and concept of "holism" in addition to doing several rather boring day jobs.
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Huh. Interesting.
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21,000,000 million equals two hundred and ten trillion.
There aren't that many people on earth.
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Well done.
Very lifelike statue too.
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Medical Insurance isn't Healthcare.
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Medical schemes in South Africa are not-for-profit organisations. The contributions are collected and pooled for the benefit of the members and used to reimburse all relevant medical services purchased by members and to pay administration costs. Any surplus made, remains in the Scheme.
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And, of course, the will of the people is whatever the dear leader says that it is.
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Bayonets!
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*them
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Except for the wealthy guy, that makes the lower-class Afrikaners, who hold the same range of jobs as any other population group.
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Why would you call either worse?
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It was founded on Enlightenment principles which were non-religious.
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Why put your shortest guard on the side the shoot was coming from?
And then assume the position of a rugby flanker in a scrum?
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Unknown causes or "Unknown causes"?
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Oh, the Dutch also like their eels.
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What are you doing about it, Amber?
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Israel is fast losing the support of the "normals" and it is going to come back to bite them.
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Exactly.
It won't be painless, but the world would survive without the USA.
The USA without the world would become a backwater.
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👍
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There's town criers for that.
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Yep. And for a country that has always preached to others about democracy and freedom, it is particularly galling.
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You know what else?
People saying that they're Democrats or di
don't support ain't gonna help.
Other countries aren't interested in US domestic politics. Trump is a US problem, not a Republic party problem.
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Happy Birthday!
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Perpetrators of genocide always hide the evidence and certainly do not provide grave markers conveniently near tarred public roads.
That alone should signal to anyone who can think that this is so much bullshit.
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Didn't European colonists do the same in the US? 🤔
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IN FRANCE
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Oh, OK then, we will call them the Secret State Police.
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South African journalists in general are pretty fearless. Probably why SA now has a freer press than the US.
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Yah, this wouldn't have fazed Ramaphosa at all.
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Definitely not. Neither would a lot of other patriotic South Africans.
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At least go read the Wikipedia article.
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I watch it regularly.
Although it actually does not say white South African, just South African, which makes the song itself fairly stupid.
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Not a bad book or movie, but the white savior undertone bothered me.
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No, we haven't. In general, South African violence is crime-related, not mental illness-related.
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Honestly, the vast majority of maga voters are functionally illiterate.
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He is getting what he voted for. 🤷♂️
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Reputational damage!
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I think you'll find the vast majority of racists in the US have US accents.
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"I'm reforming the Knights Templar and declaring a Crusade."