trajekolus

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

C'mon. Like any politician, she had to try and be electable if she were to accomplish anything. How can it be that this is not obvious?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Defeatism leads to losing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

He is not an Afrikaner - as the child of immigrants he went to English schools, and has nothing to do with Afrikaans.

Your prejudice makes you dishonest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

While he grew up in SA, he has no loyalty to South Africa either. We don't want him nor be associated with him

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Reich did not suggest using a British alternative.
His words from the article: "The sooner the US government revokes his security clearance, terminates its contracts with him and the entities he controls, and builds its own alternatives to Starlink and SpaceX, the safer America will be"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you really need to be an expert to see a problem with Musk's Russian sympathies?

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bezos owns the Washington Post, not the NYT

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Looking at the European situation from outside is also baffling, with putinite parties on the rise by whipping up fears over migration. Similarities with the USA situation easy to find

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Defeatism has a self fulfilling outcome if enough people have it