afrikaner. southern african. african. european. agterplaas boer. unus sed leo. round peg, square hole. 1688. 11th generation Jacobs 🔸🇿🇦 teenrewolusionêr.
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The owner of this platform has blood on his hands 👇
EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink in Ukraine, The Telegraph can reveal.
The billionaire tech entrepreneur approached the US president with the proposal to introduce speed limits on the system, which hampered Ukraine’s drone defences, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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Wall Street Journal goes woke 😉
The WSJ editorial board states outright: “…there needs to be a bipartisan reckoning for Mr. Trump’s budding alliance with the Kremlin against Ukraine, Europe and American interests.”
wsj.com/opinion/to-russia-wi…
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Such a devastating reply this, no one can respond, just go straight for logical fallacies. Hilarious to watch. I even saw one person ask Grok to formulate a reply for them. Just too funny. When actual argument required, Twitter mob got nothing.
Traditions in the West.
On the left we have a strand that runs from Rousseau through Robesspire and Saint-Juste and through Marxist-Leninism to Stalin, who had of course stopped any pretense at being for “the people” or the helping the hand of history and exemplified nothing more than the will to power. It ends with the Gulag.
On the right we have a tradition that marries attachment to authoritarianism (the pre-reformation church; monarchy) with the Romantic response to the enlightenment, which gave rise to the identitarian politics of the right, including nationalism, nativism and ultimately fascism. Again, it ends with the naked will to power. It ends with Auschwitz.
Then there is the liberal tradition, with a small “l”. Conservatives, social democrats, many western socialists and of course liberals with a big “L” belong to this tradition, which draws a belief in reason from the enlightenment and a belief in the uniqueness of individuals from Romanticism. This is the tradition that gives us the US Revolution, rather than the French version. It’s the tradition that gives us respect for reason, human rights, separation of powers, market economics, the welfare state (broadly defined) and universal franchise. It’s the tradition that gives us much of South Africa’s constitution, too.
That third tradition is the one that has delivered freedom and prosperity to the West, and for those non-western countries (South Korea, Japan, etc) that have embraced the universal values on which it is founded. And it is the tradition that needs defending now, from both anti-democratic, authoritarian left and ethno-nationalist, authoritarian right. It needs defending in the West, but also right here in South Africa.
This tradition is of course not without its own faults as the history of colonialism shows. Or as the person of Thomas Jefferson reveals. But as Barack Obama put it, it is in this tradition that the arc of history bends towards justice. The other two traditions, not so much.
So when people say they are defending “western civilization” it helps to be clear about which tradition they mean. One of those traditions needs urgent support. The other two need to be defeated, again.
And in South Africa you don’t do that by pitting your ethno-nationalism against someone else’s, or your nativism against someone else’s. You do it by holding the centre: individual rights, separation of powers, democracy, a market economy, a welfare safety net, due process, a dollop of respect for humanity. Basic human decency.
That’s how you stand up for civilization.
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Max du Preez | The R5.6m refugee drive: How Afrikaner nationalism and MAGA built a fiction news24.com/opinions/columnis…
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Liberals need to be wary of allies like Ryan who say Marco Rubio’s ideology needs to be destroyed again and again and again while sipping expensive wine paid for by propaganda work he did for Saudi Arabia and the CPC.
Traditions in the West.
On the left we have a strand that runs from Rousseau through Robesspire and Saint-Juste and through Marxist-Leninism to Stalin, who had of course stopped any pretense at being for “the people” or the helping the hand of history and exemplified nothing more than the will to power. It ends with the Gulag.
On the right we have a tradition that marries attachment to authoritarianism (the pre-reformation church; monarchy) with the Romantic response to the enlightenment, which gave rise to the identitarian politics of the right, including nationalism, nativism and ultimately fascism. Again, it ends with the naked will to power. It ends with Auschwitz.
Then there is the liberal tradition, with a small “l”. Conservatives, social democrats, many western socialists and of course liberals with a big “L” belong to this tradition, which draws a belief in reason from the enlightenment and a belief in the uniqueness of individuals from Romanticism. This is the tradition that gives us the US Revolution, rather than the French version. It’s the tradition that gives us respect for reason, human rights, separation of powers, market economics, the welfare state (broadly defined) and universal franchise. It’s the tradition that gives us much of South Africa’s constitution, too.
That third tradition is the one that has delivered freedom and prosperity to the West, and for those non-western countries (South Korea, Japan, etc) that have embraced the universal values on which it is founded. And it is the tradition that needs defending now, from both anti-democratic, authoritarian left and ethno-nationalist, authoritarian right. It needs defending in the West, but also right here in South Africa.
This tradition is of course not without its own faults as the history of colonialism shows. Or as the person of Thomas Jefferson reveals. But as Barack Obama put it, it is in this tradition that the arc of history bends towards justice. The other two traditions, not so much.
So when people say they are defending “western civilization” it helps to be clear about which tradition they mean. One of those traditions needs urgent support. The other two need to be defeated, again.
And in South Africa you don’t do that by pitting your ethno-nationalism against someone else’s, or your nativism against someone else’s. You do it by holding the centre: individual rights, separation of powers, democracy, a market economy, a welfare safety net, due process, a dollop of respect for humanity. Basic human decency.
That’s how you stand up for civilization.
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Traditions in the West.
On the left we have a strand that runs from Rousseau through Robesspire and Saint-Juste and through Marxist-Leninism to Stalin, who had of course stopped any pretense at being for “the people” or the helping the hand of history and exemplified nothing more than the will to power. It ends with the Gulag.
On the right we have a tradition that marries attachment to authoritarianism (the pre-reformation church; monarchy) with the Romantic response to the enlightenment, which gave rise to the identitarian politics of the right, including nationalism, nativism and ultimately fascism. Again, it ends with the naked will to power. It ends with Auschwitz.
Then there is the liberal tradition, with a small “l”. Conservatives, social democrats, many western socialists and of course liberals with a big “L” belong to this tradition, which draws a belief in reason from the enlightenment and a belief in the uniqueness of individuals from Romanticism. This is the tradition that gives us the US Revolution, rather than the French version. It’s the tradition that gives us respect for reason, human rights, separation of powers, market economics, the welfare state (broadly defined) and universal franchise. It’s the tradition that gives us much of South Africa’s constitution, too.
That third tradition is the one that has delivered freedom and prosperity to the West, and for those non-western countries (South Korea, Japan, etc) that have embraced the universal values on which it is founded. And it is the tradition that needs defending now, from both anti-democratic, authoritarian left and ethno-nationalist, authoritarian right. It needs defending in the West, but also right here in South Africa.
This tradition is of course not without its own faults as the history of colonialism shows. Or as the person of Thomas Jefferson reveals. But as Barack Obama put it, it is in this tradition that the arc of history bends towards justice. The other two traditions, not so much.
So when people say they are defending “western civilization” it helps to be clear about which tradition they mean. One of those traditions needs urgent support. The other two need to be defeated, again.
And in South Africa you don’t do that by pitting your ethno-nationalism against someone else’s, or your nativism against someone else’s. You do it by holding the centre: individual rights, separation of powers, democracy, a market economy, a welfare safety net, due process, a dollop of respect for humanity. Basic human decency.
That’s how you stand up for civilization.
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WATCH: ANC Youth League President, Collen Malatji, claims that if you bank with Capitec, you are funding apartheid.
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Stefan Jacobs retweeted
There is no Right. There is just “not the Left.” Being on the Right today is the same as being a Protestant in the 16th century: No one agrees on anything, they just know they’re not Catholic.
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I was doing some research about my family history, and then I came across this passage:
"Because Cornelis Johannes Roets married into this specific Cilliers line in 1890, his son Sarel Arnoldus Roets inherited the direct maternal cousinship to the Cilliers branch that shared a family tree with Jopie Fourie. This is why the legacy of the 1914 Rebellion—and the bitterness over Fourie's rapid execution—was passed directly down to their descendant, Ernst Roets."
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Maybe they didn't teach you that link in your Model C history class. Thankfully you have Google.
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That's why you don't understand apartheid and what we had to go through thanks to Ernstige Roes and his far right broederbond
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So THAT's why you have a compulsion to click your heels and shout "Sieg heil" first thing when you get out of bed in the morning.
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Stefan Jacobs retweeted
liz warren: we’re gonna stop the mayonnaise company from buying a hot sauce company
elon musk:
Elon Musk
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They want you to believe that farm murders are just normal crime. They are not. Commercial farmers are murdered at significant rates. On top of that, the attacks are often exceptionally brutal. There is often no or very little theft involved. There is also ample evidence of political motives in an alarming number of these attacks.
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@ErnstRoets , not every brutal crime is proof of a racial conspiracy! You exploit dead farmers to manufacture racial panic while conveniently ignoring the apartheid legacy that made white farmers privileged landowners. Where is your outrage for Black victims of violent crime, or does your compassion come with a skin colour requirement? Liegbak!
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On #AfricanRwnaissancePodcast today, the last Secretary General of the Nationalist Party, Daryl Swanepoel dismisses AfriSol’s campaign on Afrikaner persecution. 🔥🔥🔥
Let’s all tune in at 15h00: youtube.com/@african_renaiss…
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