Whatever else the white South African descendants of Dutch colonists may or may not deserve, they deserve their collective name. They are not boars, but boers. That is their traditional name for themselves; it just means “farmers” in Afrikaans. The name is not their enemies calling them swine.
So the name does not imply an affinity for baby back ribs!!! Perhaps that will alter Ajax's perception of dismantling colonial rule within South Africa.
Hopefully, this will be accomplished without the need for another Boar War. The displaced South African "Whites" might test their mettle in replacing those New York Jews for a homeland in Florida. They might become regulars at the mud pulls with new power trucks.
Whatever else the white South African descendants of Dutch colonists may or may not deserve, they deserve their collective name. They are not boars, but boers. That is their traditional name for themselves; it just means “farmers” in Afrikaans. The name is not their enemies calling them swine.
I was pleasantly surprised that he had at least heard of the boers. Spelling and understanding the term may be too much to ask of him. Still, I always approve of such corrections, however futile the effort may be!
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
The mere fact that I'm contributing here guarantees that this thread will definitely make it beyond the first page, which is something that doesn't occur for you very frequently.
LOL! Indeed!
I'm trying to imagine how small and pathetic someone has to be to have their ego tied to the length of the threads they start.
Seems like it might be a small dick issue.
Religion is for people whose existential fear is greater than their common sense.
Redistribution based on income rather than production is immoral. . .
You don't really believe that redistribution based on income is immoral. You apparently see nothing at all wrong with that as long it is redistribution from the poor to the already wealthy. Mark twain may not actually have ever said, “When the rich rob the poor, it’s called business. When the poor fight back, it’s called violence,” but according to The Apocryphal Twain:
There are, of course, many things we wish Mark Twain would’ve said. And this aphorism, with its elegant structure, and its biting cynicism certainly sounds like Twain, particularly early polemics like “Open Letter to Commodore Vanderbilt” (1869) and The Gilded Age (1873).It is not terribly difficult to find instances of Twain skewering the rich, even after he counted himself one of them. As late as 1906, he recast the opening lines of his “Revised Catechism” (1871) as “the gospel left behind by Jay Gould,” the gist of which was, “Get money. Dishonestly if you can, honestly if you must. But, by any means, get money.” This witticism, clearly one of Twain’s favorites, was a poetic inversion of something Judge Frederick Loew said in 1868.
. . .This quote deserves to have its anonymity preserved. As a genuinely crowdsourced piece of collective wisdom, rather than just another sharp jab from America’s favorite satirist, it speaks much more directly to the inequality and injustice it describes, as well as the idealism of the Occupy movement.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
I'm trying to imagine how small and pathetic someone has to be to have their ego tied to the length of the threads they start.
Seems like it might be a small dick issue.
Trolling works. At the same time, I know that not everything I post is interesting to others. I post it because it is interesting to me, but I know that my interests and views are often not in the majority here. I guess I could choose to care about that, but that would require too much effort. I prefer to share the things I find interesting and let the chips fall where they may.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
Trolling works. At the same time, I know that not everything I post is interesting to others. I post it because it is interesting to me, but I know that my interests and views are often not in the majority here. I guess I could choose to care about that, but that would require too much effort. I prefer to share the things I find interesting and let the chips fall where they may.
I find that the longer a thread goes on, the less interesting it becomes. I haven't been back to my own "Politically Motivated" thread in a couple weeks because Markk entered it and it became boring due to idiotic right-wing BS talking points.
Measuring the success of a thread based on its length is like basing Trump's success on how many mistakes he makes, which is likely why HoH does it. It's a metric for dimwits.
Religion is for people whose existential fear is greater than their common sense.
t's sad that Ajax doesn't know more about the Boers. The question isn't whether the Boers could be MAGA. The answer to that is "no", at least not without selling out their heritage. The question is whether MAGA could ever be Boers. The Boers are the apex white culture from the perspective of MAGA. Burly bearded guys with trad wives who listen to cheesy folk music and avoid speaking English even if they know it. They prefer to stick with their own. They have the AWB, far more hardcore than MAGA could ever hope to be. I say bring them in and let them work on these Trump farms. It won't be long before they own the farm and the Trumpers are homeless. If you want to be replaced, these are your guys. Whatever moral failings they may have in regards to insularity, they aren't stupid and completely lacking in common sense like Trumpers are.
Social distancing has likely already begun to flatten the curve...Continue to research good antivirals and vaccine candidates. Make everyone wear masks. -- J.D. Vance
Before you get too carried away, can you tell me what it is that "they" are doing to the white people in South Africa? You make it sound like every white person in South Africa is in some kind of immediate danger.
The fact that you're trying to redistribute land based on race is bad enough. Until I learned of this racial Marxism I thought nothing was more insidious than communism. But I think I've found it in South Africa. Redistribution based on income rather than production is immoral but redistribution on race, especially when you can't even define what race is, is indeed even worse than that.
In that the Marxist principal is redistribution based upon production not privilege we find how Ajax has Marxist sympathies.
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If you had it your way, you'd be doing to me what they're doing to white people in South Africa. The left in the US is nearly identical to the leadership in South Africa. Thankfully they just aren't as numerous nor had a lock on power since 1994. This should serve as a lesson to those who give up their guns and means of self defense. You don't get to have civil rights and private property when you do things like that. "Kill the boar." Nothing racist or genocidal about that? Name one other racial group you could replace with boar and not classify this as genocidal language. Institutional racism in democratic law seems fine for you so long as the minority is white, as if it's impossible to discriminate against white
I find myself a bit surprised at the amount and kind of fear Ajax lives with. Is he seeing what I am missing.?
I made a comment about a past of taking unfair advantage of a group of people setting up a situation always producing fear. Perhaps but my comment is shortsighted. We live with lots of sources of fear. There is fire storm flood, thieves and violence. We can be cheated, even people we are close to can betray or take unfair portions. There is lots of reason to fear. Fear creates what ifs and lots of them. This or that might be aiming to cheat me or slight me. Thieves are lurking.
Ajax,
You propose that political forces like me aim to do you harm in ways I cannot imagine intending. I hope I am right and your fear is unfounded.
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