Wtf lmao? I didn’t watch the opening ceremony, so I didn’t see it.

They should’ve been watching Copa America instead. We got two good games, the USA losing to Panama in a game with 500 leg breaking tackles, and Uruguay thrashing Bolivia. True classics.

Have they seriously not heard of Adderall?

Bolivia’s main advantage is that they get to play at altitude for their home games which is very difficult for the opposition who do not have adequate time to adapt to the altitude. At games in neutral or away grounds, this advantage does not exist. So I’m not expecting Bolivia to do well at Copa America. But anything can happen in football.

I’ve seen mall security guards with full on submachine guns and assault rifles like the Beretta MX4 and various Galil/R4/R5 variants, along with body armour.

South Africa is something else at times.

The marijuana dealers trying to coup the DRC was hilariously embarrassing.

Didn’t the Jackson Hinkle guy also get invited to some conferences in Yemen? What’s up with him appearing everywhere?

Also how the hell do you go from being friends with Amin to talking with a MAGA communist! It seems like such an illogical jump.

The first thumbnail makes it look like a boomer cowboy version of trailer park boys.

Good news but yeah anti LGBT discrimination is still a big issue as stated later in the article.

American specialists based on their own US satellite intelligence data.

This is why those clauses around space weaponry in the UN are very important at the moment. If spy satellites are directly participating in the war by providing imagery and intel, there’s an argument that they are valid military targets, from both the US and Russian perspective. Both have anti satellite weaponry sitting in a storage facility somewhere.

sam altman

People don’t realise how incredibly easy this guy is to blackmail by agencies like the NSA. There are credible sexual assault allegations against him which could definitely be weaponised by the three letter agencies if Altman were to oppose their demands. This is a move that the feds have done to many people who have dirt in their past.

I mean it’s true, the jets on the carrier were flying round the clock missions 24/7 to intercept missiles and bomb launch sites, and they were doing this for over half a year. It’s much more intense than people think, Ansar Allah/ the Houthis have anti ship ballistic missiles with a hypersonic terminal velocity, there’s not much of a window to take out a launch site, intercept, or dodge the missile. Though ballistics are “easy” to dodge if you’re in moving military ship and know that the ballistic missile is incoming, thanks to radar. It’s also the first time in history anti ship ballistic missiles have been used in conflict. I think the closest we’ve seen so far to a military ship being hit is one of the US destroyers using it’s CIWS to shoot down a subsonic cruise missile, as cruise missiles are a lot harder to dodge. Th

Ego

He’s always been like this, for over a decade now.

The DA haven’t actually succeeded, they got the same share of the votes they did last time, around 20%. What has happened is that the ANC’s share of the vote has fallen below 50%, thus a coalition government is a reality. The EFF did try to get votes from Zulu nationalists and tried to get Jacob Zuma to join the EFF, but that was a failed endeavour as Jacob Zuma simply started his own political party in the MK. The EFF and MK are ANC off shoots already, Malema was part of the ANC Youth League, and Zuma was president.

As for why the ANC went into coalition with the DA, it’s because it was the only viable option to actually form a government. The MK is led by Jacob Zuma, ex ANC leader and ex South African president. The MK demanded the resignation of Ramaphosa as the leader of the ANC as a prerequisite for a coalition. This was considered a non starter for the ANC. An ANC+EFF coalition also was not viable as the ANC+EFF together do not have 50% of the vote, so other parties would have to get involved. The EFF wanted to work with the ANC as a senior coalition partner and get multiple smaller parties to join to get just barely over 50% with no DA involvement due to ideological reasons, or to work with the MK in a ANC-MK-EFF coalition. The first option was not considered viable by the ANC as multiple parties coming together to barely get over 50% could easily fall apart. The ANC also viewed the EFF as hypocritical as they have worked together with the DA in the past to attempt to “destroy the ANC” in their view. The second option was also not viable due to the MK’s stance on Ramaphosa. Thus, we are left with the ANC - DA coalition.

Main problem with the ANC has been corruption and ineffective service delivery moreso than policy, though policy is certainly a major issue.

To understand the DA’s success amongst the coloured population, you have to understand that the coloured community is very socially conservative, and that there is anti black racism amongst older coloured people. You just have to compare the performance of the PA, the socially conservative political party based around coloured identity, to GOOD, the socially progressive party based on coloured identity, to see how socially conservative the coloured community is as a whole. The closet thing to the coloured community in the United States would probably be the Mexican/Latino community, though there are too many differences for it to be a 1 to 1 comparison. But the social conservatism is very similar. Also, the majority of coloured people in South Africa live in the Western Cape, a province that has been governed by the DA for quite some time now, and has the best financial management, despite growing inequality. So voters in the Western Cape want to keep that despite all the issues around DA governance.

The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, just got inaugurated for his second term. I saw some of the fighter jets practicing their flyover near the Union Buildings earlier this week. Today is the first day of the Government of National Unity (GNU), effectively a coalition between the ANC and DA. To mark this occasion, old video footage, from 2010, has emerged of DA Member of Parliament Renaldo Gouws using racial slurs. For some background, Renaldo Gouws was an “anti SJW” YouTuber during the 2010s, that joined the DA last year for reasons no one can quite explain. What a way to start the GNU… Day one and a DA member is already involved in a racism scandal.

New racist video of DA MP Renaldo Gouws surfaces, Independent Online, 19 June 2024

The full video of the incident on the internet archive, warning for racism

In South Africa in certain cultural groups people will literally walk with you outside of their house to the street to say goodbye and make sure that you leave safe.

China even does AI generated memes better than the West lol.

I like the example of a clay ball and car/bicycle wheel/rim, as it’s easy to understand. For instance, a clay ball has little value on its own. But by removing some clay from the centre to turn it into a bowl or cup, it becomes more valuable, even though there is less clay. Same with a wheel rim. A solid block of steel doesn’t have much value beyond its raw material. But by shaping it into a circle and removing material from the centre to create spokes, it now becomes light enough to be a wheel, and is more valuable, despite there being less steel. The formal laws of logic would state that the more of something you have, the more valuable it is. But here the opposite is true, by having less of something, we have made it more valuable. How can this be, it’s a contradiction! However, the contradiction is synthesised by understanding that the labour to remove material from the object in a specific way, so that the object can be used to complete specific tasks, has drastically increased the use value of the object, to the point that is is much more valuable than the raw material it is made out of. The lack of material in certain locations actually makes it very valuable. That is dialectics.

This is paraphrased from an explanation of Zhongyong Dialectics that I saw a few years ago. I hope I didn’t screw it up too much.