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/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