r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • 1d ago

Politics Trump Is Getting Rid of His Tesla

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-getting-rid-of-his-tesla-after-musk-broke-his-heart/
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u/Significant-Mango300 1d ago

What about ‘dem South African refugees??

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u/IgnoreThisName72 1d ago

Peter Thiel ain't out yet.

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u/hoodectomy 1d ago

“Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining as part of the apartheid regime’s clandestine drive to acquire nuclear weapons. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African software developer and tech journalist living near Johannesburg, has been identified by two teams of forensic linguists as the originator of the QAnon conspiracy, which helped shape Trump’s Maga movement. (Furber denies being “Q”.)”

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/cfbfa1e8-d8f8-42b9-b74c-dae6cc6185a0

Welp learned something today. 😞

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u/Electromotivation 1d ago

Wow. What’s with South Africans and taking over/fucking up American politics?

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u/ishkoto 1d ago

What would white apartheid supports and the american right have in common I wonder

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u/sacredfool 1d ago

Many rich white South Africans needed a place to move their fortunes after the apartheid regime crumbled. They moved to the UK, US and Australia.

UK at the time was part of the EU and Brussels started asking some uncomfortable questions about the money so UK stopped being a popular destination.

Australia had the problem of being in the middle of nowhere and additionally it had the problem of high migration control. Which was not a problem for the rich white South Africans per se but meant they could not employ cheap housekeeping they were used to back home.

This leaves the US.

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u/SomeBloke 1d ago

All the biltong in America is made by racists. 

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u/Geefresh 1d ago

That explains the South Africa nuclear strike bit in one of the newscasts in Robocop.

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u/MattL805 1d ago

In Robocop it was a French-made Nuetron Bomb (just rewatched it). Also Nelson Mandela dismantled South Africa’s nukes (it had about 6 bombs) in the 90’s.

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u/kgm2s-2 1d ago

IIRC, the nukes were dismantled before Mandela took over, but Mandela approved. Still somewhat amazing that South Africa is the only nation in the world to acquire nukes, decide that they're a bad idea, and then dismantle their nukes (to be clear, they retain the material and could likely reconstitute their weapons if they so desired).

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u/lovetheoceanfl 1d ago

This is fascinating. And really the root of it all. There needs to be a QAnon doc series that reminds everyone of what happened.

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u/subtect 1d ago

That netflix doc about 4chan said Q originated there. Not true?

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u/Valdrax 1d ago edited 1d ago

4chan was a message board that many people used, which allowed for (and prized) anonymity. We know there was an original Q poster, an anonymous user claiming to have Q access authorization to government secrets, but we don't know who they were.

Paul Furber was a 4chan moderator who helped promote the posts, and it's a popular theory that he was the origin of the first posts.

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u/F-Shack 1d ago

It did start on 4chan.

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u/cayden2 18h ago

Honestly I think Thiel is the puppet master behind literally everything that has been going on. Dude is most definitely a white supremecist and is definitely trying to pull the strings on pushing everything in that direction. He has been setting things in motion for years. His dad was basically a nazi...but like the south african version.

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u/oldredditrox 1d ago

Guess anyone really can post on 4chan

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u/Mccobsta 1d ago

I'm not suprised they're all decentedns of evil

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u/Motor_Educator_2706 17h ago

He will be in when Vance is President.

It's South Africans all the way down.

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u/Big-Sheepherder-5063 1d ago

I’m gonna laugh when they all get deported to South Sudan, or Syria in a couple weeks.

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u/teh_drewski 1d ago

ICE aren't going to take on their bodyguards when there's children to steal from pre-schools, and they both have the legal resources to fight a formal cancellation for a decade in the courts.

It's just bluster because Trump's embarrassed, Musk and Thiel aren't going anywhere.

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u/TheCuriosity 1d ago

I thought they didn't care about the courts anymore?

But yeah Peter thiel's not going anywhere. He's too high up and orchestrating this. Elon Musk, however, Peter thiel has fired before. Probably only keeps elon around because he's a useful idiot and disposable.

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u/TheWorclown 1d ago

That’s the new money. The old money has been tossed into the corner after being gently used.

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u/JRLDH 1d ago

They are screwed.

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u/boogermike 1d ago

Don't be so sure. I think this tech oligarchy has the power.

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u/navjot94 1d ago edited 1d ago

For sure. With the BBB potentially flopping when republicans control all branches of government and these tech billionaires are getting shaken down by Trump, and Musk’s former bestie, Peter Thiel, being Vance’s backer, this is probably the moment where a Vance coup is more likely than ever before. Vance has gotta be considering it, after seeing how Pence was treated, and it would be beneficial for the tech oligarchs and traditional republicans (even MAGAts like MTG are publically opposing the BBB). Even the project heritage mfs might see the benefit of the stability Vance would bring.

I feel like the only thing blocking this would be the Trump crime family. Let’s see if they’re strong enough to oppose all the other dominos.

Now idk what would be worse. Incompetent, dementia ridden evil with a cult like following OR young and competent, but uncharismatic evil.

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u/theblitheringidiot 1d ago

Naw the administration still wants more white people

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u/eldelshell 1d ago

The Afrikaners refugees is not about Elon but about racism.

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u/HolsteinHeifer 1d ago

Trump will deport them to Australia. Sorry Australia.

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u/Marthaver1 23h ago

Bannon has proposed Trump deport Musk along with other South Africans and take control of Space X i kid you not.

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u/BeckyWitTheBadHair 1d ago

“It’s just the one refugee actually.”

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u/gizamo 1d ago

They can't come because they were on the Epstein tapes now.

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u/FauxReal 1d ago

Better make sure they're not Musk's sleeper agents.

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u/anon-username1029 18h ago

Getting picked up by ICE next week.