• flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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    Sorry but South Africa hating Nazis? You have to try harder than that wishful thinking.

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      The majority did and do, tho the majority weren’t allowed to vote until 1994! (Only whites were allowed to vote [except for a sham tricameral system since 1984 for mixed-race people and people of Indian decent].)

      Nelson Mandela was released from jail in 1990.

      Musk emigrated to Canada in 1989, and went to Pennsylvania in 1992.

      While Musk is a narcissistic, psychotic, white supremacist (supporter of Republicans, televised nazi salutes at Trump victory party, AfD and similar support in many other countries, lying about a white genocide in South Africa, …), and there were signs in South Africa that the Apartheid regime were having trouble with the growing international boycotts against it, it’s not clear Musk left because Mandela’s ANC and other anti-apartheid organizations were to be unbanned soon. He probably did it knowing that in the USA psychotic, omnicidal greed is rewarded, and ethical behavior is punished.

      Side note: In 2009, the majority of South African voters elected, and re-elected their own Trump-lite narcissistic, psychotic, openly corrupt, racist president: Jacob Zuma. His party eventually prepared a motion-of-no-confidence against Zuma, so Zuma resigned.

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        Yeah just saying that South Africa doesn’t exactly have a great track record in antifascism.