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South Africa is in a struggle to salvage the criminal justice system. Whistleblowers are the lifeblood of efforts to stamp out corruption. The Madlanga Commission is but a small step towards creating a system which is honest, reliable and consistent.
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White staff at the BBC earned less on average than ethnic minority colleagues in six of its seven pay bands last year, according to the corporation’s figures. @_Harry_Brennan_ breaks down everything those figures suggest ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/money/consum…
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Awful, but it's been the other way forever. Why were you not whinging then, when others suffered. I've an idea join a union. This, omg, white people don't command top pay schtick, is boring. Here's a thing, perhaps they're paying on merit. Oh and top band, white by any chance?
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Everyone was “whinging” when it was the other way. The difference is when it’s this way it’s considered fair 😂 The same argument used to be used when women and non-white people were paid less. “Maybe it’s merit” and that didn’t hold water. It can’t work this way now.
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George Galloway at a Cape Town mosque: Israelis may be planning a "second Israel" in South Africa, like in Argentina and Cyprus. Beware an independent Western Cape, it will quickly become a "new Tel Aviv."
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My God. These people are insane. They are so afraid of the Jews. It’s Adolf all over again. Telling their supporters to fear the Jew and his global expansionist designs. Unreal.
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Iran's social media game is still outstanding
Iran parodies the FlyDubai plumber incident
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It’s hilarious when hundreds almost die. Hahaha. So funny.
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ANC government gives white people houses. ANC is a non-sexist, non-racial organisation. People of South Africa beyond colour do matter to the ANC. We must keep ANC in power to advance the transformation agenda.
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Today marks exactly three years since 7 October 2023, when Hamas militants launched what we regard as a fully justified attack on the illegal Zionist settlements occupying Palestinian land. The apartheid Zionist regime responded with a vicious and ongoing genocide in Gaza that has continued for the past three years and shows no sign of abating. The Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) are absolutely clear that the attacks by #Hamas were justified under the UN Charter as legitimate defence against an illegal colonial occupying force. We stand unequivocally with the people of Palestine and condemn the ongoing war crimes and genocide being committed by apartheid Zionist Israel and its enabler, the United States. #WeAreHamas! Palestine shall be free, from the river to the sea. #VoteEFF
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Not even Palestinians consider the attack justified and you are trying to justify it? You are mentally unsound. They committed mass murder. Whether or not Israel acted disproportionately is irrelevant to determining that Hamas is a mass murdering terror organisation. If your party believes October 7 was justified then it must be true that what Israel is doing is not genocide and is also justified.
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From @TheAthletic: If the Indiana Fever ever wants to go back to being a basketball team, Sophie Cunningham has to go, our columnist writes. "Cunningham is too combustible, her takes too turbulent to be paired with Caitlin Clark."  nyti.ms/4eiBPJ0
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Based on the fact that less than 0.1% of viewers liked this, you can tell it was a bad take.
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Self defence against apartheid is not a crime
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I see. Murder of unarmed civilians is justified if you believe you are oppressed, got it.
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Replying to @VanoSequestered
They liberated you
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I see. So crazed ideological killing is only bad when some people do it, got it.
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If Bernie’s 5% a year billionaire wealth tax had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $1 trillion he’s worth today. He’d still be the wealthiest man alive & every senior in America would have dental, vision & hearing under Medicare.
BREAKING: Elon Musk's net worth has just surpassed $1 trillion, again. With that money we could make college completely free in America for over a decade.
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He would likely be worth far less actually. The tax would have a compounding impact on the ability to produce future wealth as well as the motivation to do so.
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This is what it’s really about - getting their hands on our minerals
We stand ready to advance mutual prosperity. The Ambassador has been clear: we’re ready to turn that commitment into action.
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And for our politicians, they’d rather receive personal kickbacks and allow China to take them for free. Hmmm… let America build factories here and employ people, pay for the minerals, beneficiate them here, uplift the community with jobs and economic activity OR receive personal gifts and let China do what it wants. Ask Zimbabwe how that is going for them. The rich politicians will tell you it is great. Everyone else will say they’d rather have a job.
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North Korea has nukes and ICBMs that can hit the entire U.S. Iran has neither. If nukes were the point, you'd be bombing North Korea. You're bombing Iran because Israel told you to.
Rick Scott: "I don't like high gas prices, but I don't want to be killed by a nuclear weapon"
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If the enemy already has nukes, you can’t bomb them. Did you miss the entire Cold War portion of your history syllabus? You can’t engage in open warfare with an adversary that already has nuclear weapons, because each party knows that the other could obliterate the other. Leave analysis to people with common sense.
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Palestinian kindergarten 💔
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@grok tell me I’m hallucinating or that this is fake.
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[Watch] President @Julius_S_Malema delivered his speech at the EFF Eastern Cape Provincial Manifesto yesterday, where he committed to turning Gqeberha and Nelson Mandela Municipality into a construction site, rebuilding the water infrastructure to provide drinkable water, and making electricity affordable. #VoteEFF2026 #VictoryOrDeath
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He plan on doing that from inside prison?
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"We used to be a real country" and it's the flag of the people who put your people in concentration camps. An amazingly example of natural slavery in action.
We used to be a real country.
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That example is “amazingly” everyone.
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From 1971 to 1994 under the National party the rand weakened at a compound interest rate of around 7,1% per year. From 1994 to present, the rand weakened at a compound interest rate of around 5,8% per year. It isn’t strange that the more inflationary previous period aligns perfectly with the National party being in power, and it isn’t strange that the less inflationary latter period aligns with the ANC being in power. What is strange is that Roland chooses to ignore the preceding years.
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The Rand likely weakened significantly during Apartheid due to major international pressure on the government. Very different circumstances at play in both scenarios. The one is a national government grappling with public international pressure due to immoral social policy and the other is a national government grappling with incompetence fuelled by greed and corruption. While numbers certainly can be used to make points, context is equally important if you want real information. The lowering value in one scenario is likely due to external forces and in the other is likely due to internal forces.
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The “hijacker’s name is Hammam Al-Hammami” (Bathroom al Bathroom). And the flight was rescued by a Plumber? Seriously? What kind of toilet humour is this? @MoatsTV @ZGallow8y
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His name in Arabic is هَمَّام الهَمَّامي, not حَمَّام. Hammam with a هـ is a very common Arabic name that the Prophet himself liked, and it means resolute or determined, not toilet. The Hammam tribe (قبيلة الهمام) is also a very well-known tribe. tasarih-zawaj.com/%D8%AA%D8%AC%D… sunnah.com/abudawud:495
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I have considerable expertise in aviation and hijacking situations, having watched dozens of YouTube videos. The Saudi-Israel plane hijacking just doesn't ring true to me. Almost certainly the plane was a simple hologram projected by Israeli satellites. This is the most plausible explanation.
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Are you sure? I was thinking perhaps it has been a long-term operation whereby Israel has convinced the rest of the world that air travel exists, even though nobody has ever witnessed flight, just so that it could initiate the airborne hijacking hoax to gain favour for its unpopular war. That seems the most likely.
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Smit Machchhar, the hero Flydubai captain who fought off a savage attack by his copilot, kept fighting because he could not "let everybody else die," he said in his first public remarks since Wednesday's suspected hijacking attempt. cnn.it/4yxYNUS
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Try not to be a complete moron about gravity, aerodynamics and seat belts.
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Careful. The ground is slippery when you’re an idiot 😂
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250 years ago Dearborn, Michigan had virtually zero white Europeans. In the 1820s and 1830s, Europeans flooded the land, stole Indigenous lands and forcibly removed Indigenous peoples and Michigan became majority white European. No one in Dearborn voted for this to happen, the invading Europeans just forced it on them. An entire population became a minority in their own community. See we can do this too.
100 years ago Dearborn, Michigan had virtually zero Muslims In 2023, it became the first Arab-Majority city in the U.S. No one in Dearborn voted for this to happen, their leaders just forced it on them. An entire population became a minority in their own community…
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My post is clearly showing the logical fallacy in the quoted tweet. How you missed that is beyond me.
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There is no logical fallacy. It is a series of statements that are true. The conclusion that the residents of Dearborn are marginalised by being now part of the minority is also true. Unless you would assert that the native Americans were not marginalised by the massive influx of European immigrants? I am certain many Native American communities and community members would disagree. Your statements all prove the point. You rightly draw the parallel between what took place then and what is taking place now but somehow want people to reach a different conclusion. You do not explain how it is that the actions are similar but that your conclusion differs. The only possible meaning behind your post is that because the present day residents of Dearborn who have just become marginalised are white, and because their ancestors did the same thing hundreds of years ago, it must be acceptable that it happens again, this time to the white people. Based on that, it is entirely based on a fallacious idea that present day white people in Dearborn are somehow collectively responsible for the sins of their forebears but also that they are doomed to have whatever was done by their ancestors done back to them today. If anything is fallacious, “Professor”, it is your post.
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