“History, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one another in monstrousness.”
The ANC inherited a very nice art museum in Johannesburg from the previous government. The collection includes pieces by Rodin, Picasso, Goya, Degas, among others, along with the work of the most celebrated local artists. This is what it looks like now.
MUSEUMS IN THE THIRD WORLD
How are historical artefacts looked after in the Third World? It’s true that they don’t get destroyed but very often they’re left to rot in sparse, run-down museums with flickering lights that nobody visits. On what many Third World Museums are like 🧵
First worlders, please chill. I live in Omricon ground zero and people aren't really dying from it, despite the region being full of diabetic fatasses and only 30% of people being vaccinated.
Meanwhile, the Johannesburg Central Library, which houses priceless Africana, has inexplicably been closed for three years. No one knows what is going on in there.
If a white person (8% of pop) publicly said the things Malema is saying about Indians (2.5% of pop) about black people (80% of pop) they would be arrested.
Our power grid is collapsing but at least South Africa is focusing on the important issues, a podcast host not being sufficiently respectful of the "lived experience" of a black woman and a cricket player who won't kneel! Very cool, guys.
The worst class of person is the Zanu-PF baby who studied at UCT and then moved to the US or UK where they fight "systematic racism". Absolutely shameless.
Bf's brother married a nice woman, had two kids, decided he could do better and got divorced. Had a much younger gf for a while but they had terrible fights and broke up. His ex-wife has since met someone else while he's alone and miserable. Many men are delusional.
Positive affirmation parenting has been a disaster for the human race. I cannot cope with how many dull, stupid people think they're special and talented. I say this as someone who is untalented and not particularly smart but at least I know it.
In the middle of a pandemic the Police are arresting doctors for doing their jobs. This level of authoritarian stupidity places the lives of patients at risk. It’s despicable.
(Pictured: ENT surgeon - Dr Ivan Jardine)
I love how South Africans with peasant sensibilities think having a PhD means you're not stupid or your opinions are worth listening to. You know who had a PhD and was considered a brilliant academic by contemporaries? Hendrik Verwoerd.
A lot of "dissident" Americans have an inverted sense of American exceptionalism where they think their government is the only one that has agency and is a malevolent actor.
Has our president considered the fact that employers insist on work experience for entry-level jobs because they don't feel they can trust that even university graduates are functionally literate these days?
Just when it seemed like life would return to normal, we could be entering the worst part of the pandemic. Omicron will hit home for all of us. Close friends of mine now have it, and I’ve canceled most of my holiday plans.
Some of you really, really, really need to remind yourselves that Twitter is for crazy people and if you go talk to people on the street they have no fucking clue about the fights on here. It's Candy Crush for schizos.
@AMacomia
Do you think people who don't have ANC connections are employed at these places though? I can assure you a black person with an art history masters degree will be passed over in favour of a cadre with an FET certificate.
This outpouring of hatred towards Indians is very worrying. While it's upsetting, the rhetoric against whites has a historical grievance that makes it something I can intellectually understand. The Indian thing is just hating people for not being black.
South Africans don't realise how much we're getting fucked. Friend who just moved to Italy tells me groceries cost less there, even when converted from Euros to Rands.
Black farmworkers in Mississippi lost their jobs to white South Africans brought to work in the cotton fields. In interviews and in a lawsuit, the workers said they had trained their replacements, who were paid more. Pics by the great
@sbmaney_
An army of Zulus could kill all the Indians in KZN and a few days later, we would have think pieces about how it's really the fault of white people and the victims for being anti-black.
Many of you are too young to remember or have forgotten but the Christian right was just as cringe as shitlibs currently are. Some teachers at my primary school earnestly believed there were hidden Satanic messages in rock music.
Former EFF deputy chair Jackie Shandu has issued an apology for the "One Settler one bullet, one Indian one bullet" remarks he made outside the Durban City Hall.
Westoids struggling to understand that many Ukranians are not fighting for Zelensky but against Russia, which is not an unimportant distinction. Apparently the saying in Ukraine now is "there is no more politics".
Many shitlibs I know are starting to become concerned about surveillance laws that were passed over the last year as if they didn't call people who warned them this would happen conspiracy theorists until now
[BREAKING NEWS] President Cyril Ramaphosa to address the nation this evening at 20h30.
Tune into Newzroom Afrika, DSTV channel 405 for more details.
#Newzroom405
There's a type of upper middle class Millenial Wasp that pushed this stuff thinking it would never affect them and they're learning a very hard lesson now. In my "lived experience" Wasps are far more guilty of things people accuse Jews of than Jews actually are.
Academic who researches the right realizes he can’t get a job because he’s a white male.
He complains, gets laughed at by a woman at Yale. He accuses her of “punching down” at him, thinking lack of employment makes up for his race and sex.
Talk about a teachable moment.
@olivia_account_
I'm old enough to have seen the same people diagnosed with depression, followed by bipolar disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy and then ADHD as trends in psychology changed.
Today I saw a homeless man who was having a mental breakdown get filmed by a group of awful teenage girls. How the fuck were these kids raised? I almost went to tell them off but they started walking away before I could get to them. They probably would have called me a Karen.
One of the things Twitter has taught me is that South Africans (black and white, young and old, left and right) are even more ret
@rded
that I previously thought.
With everyone trying to scare women who don't have children, I'll tell you all about my aunt. She never had kids out of choice. She's now a widow but lives by the sea and has many friends and family. She told me she feels guilty because she's the happiest she's ever been.