In your opinion where did it go wrong?

1985… when the National Party decided to commercialise and deregulate everything in the hopes of causing socio-economic chaos in the country - which it did. They, for instance, knew perfectly wll deregulating the taxi industry would cause chaos - they literally commissioned White Papers to research the outcomes - and they did it not in spite of the findings of that research, but because of it.

Same thing with Eskom - commercialised in 1985, and by 2002 Eskom was disconnecting more households than they were connecting - I literally have the UKZN research papers on my desktop to prove it - because Eskom was now being “run like a business.” The outcome we see today shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, but because the media has been lying to us about the root cause of our problems we are all making surprise Pikachu faces while whining about “corruption” and “incompetence.”

The ANC took one look at this state of affairs and went, “Oh, we’re fine with this” and they’ve been doing the bog-standard “living it up while the rich gets richer and the poor get poorer” neoliberal shuffle ever since. Don’t get me wrong… the ANC is as corrupt as fuck - but that doesn’t make them unique here in South Africa or the rest of the world. But they are not the root cause… it’s the socio-economic system that enables this shitfuckery that is.

What should the government/country do to get out the current crisis?

We already know how… the same people that now applaud the DA or ActionSA every time their talking heads use the word “privatisation” are the very people who remember (or rather, selectively forgets) how well our public infrastructure worked when they were actually run as public infrastructure and not profit-making “businesses.” That’s what the country needs to do - reclaim our public infrastructure. But don’t expect the snivelling racketeers (whether they be ANC, DA, EFF or any of the parasites squatting in parliament) in our political establishment to push that idea any time soon…

I have never understood why people anticipate game realeases - I mean, people have learned how the AAA game industry works by now, right?

ANC short sightedness

What ANC short-sightedness? They’re doing what all the rich people wanted them to do, aren’t they? Running everything “like a business?” I guess South Africans are now seeing for themselves how short-sighted running “everything like a business” was always going to be, huh?

but the US knew Saddam had chemical weapons

Yes, I know… the US knew about every gallon of mustard gas and sarin Saddam had - not only did the US provide intelligence to Saddam to specifically help his use of the stuff during the Iran-Iraq War be more effective, they could also literally read almost every damn ciphered communique of the Iraqi army at the highest levels thanks to the fact that Iraq used compromised ciphering machines bought from the CIA front company Crypto AG in Switzerland.

They knew perfectly well Saddam had destroyed all his stockpiles - if he hadn’t, Bush would have never dared to invade Iraq.

Laughs hysterically in South African… where we now have no choice but to use gas for almost everything because our electrical grid is collapsing due to IMF-approved neoliberal shitfuckery.

Regulated capitalism. Prosecuting corruption.

Right, regulate capitalism… by regulating the capitalists that have all the money and can buy the regulators any time they feel like it.

Sounds legit.

I have zero sympathy for anyone that bought anything connected to Phony Stark. Zilch.

You knew what you were buying into - you live with it.

A way to rapidly exit a game a la The Binding Of Isaac: Afterbirth. It has saved that game from being rage-deleted off my machine plenty of times.

Oh look… somebody else that’s still looking for Saddam’s WMDs. How’s the search going?

Now that most credible sources

Which ones? The ones that are still trying to find Saddam’s WMDs?

I know, sorry… Can’t help but be honest about these things.

It’s fine… it’s not your responsibility to come up with answers to these things.

But we’re going to have to find ways if we don’t want our children and grandchildren growing up in bombed-out open-air prisons as well.

Okay… that’s a pretty bleak picture.

Sooo… how do we beat AI surveillance?

And your insult of me is transphobic and ableist, you bigot.

Not proud of being a white supremacist, eh? Now why do you imagine that would be?

In other words, these laws are not “fighting pedophilia”. They are enabling child abuse.

So no different than all these laws that (supposedly) “stop sex trafficking” which only exist to clamp down on sex work while… drumroll… making absolutely no dent in actual sex trafficking?

Yeah… that tracks.

So you admit this meme is simply straight up misinformation?

That’s strangely honest for a white supremacist.

Considering that western media is hysterically blaming Palestinians for Israeli atrocities now, I’d say it’s rather Israel’s (alleged) “plight” that’s getting the limelight - not Gaza.

How convenient… every time Israel indiscriminately murders Palestinians, it’s just going to be blamed on Palestinians?

Riiiight… US intel “confirms.”

Have they found Saddam’s “Weapons Of Mass Destruction” yet?

They’re relatively cheap and provide a lot of nutritional value for the weight - I buy them in big bags straight from the farmer’s market. Tree nuts (peanuts aren’t actually nuts at all - they’re legumes) are literally a luxury only the rich can afford in my country these days - kind of ironic since we’re the world’s top producer of macademia nuts.

Roasting them is actually important since that degrades aflatoxins - they also just taste better.

Some frag grenades and claymore mines would have probably helped, too.