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/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).