• Godort@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    No, you don’t understand. He’s rich and white, so he shouldn’t be subject to those pesky regulations.

    That’s how it works in the US, so obviously that’s how it should work in South Africa too.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah. At the very least banned from everything everywhere, except jail and hell.

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    1 month ago

    Isn’t this stupid fuck FROM South Africa? The levels of shit here I swear to god.

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      He lies constantly to stir up shit with his base and enemies, something for us plebs to “discuss/argue about” while they distract from the grift. It’s part of the game to play the victim.

      Our leadership is less than dog shit.

      He says dumbass shit like this, then wonders why his Nazi salute was called a Nazi salute and not whatever excuse he gave.

      Same shit for Trump, talks shit, then cries when someone points out he’s a fucking racist, rapist hypocrite.

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        That’s their core propaganda mechanic. Some bit of offensive trivia is found and shared by Elon. He’ll tweet it. Trump will share it. It’s on the evening show on fox they evening and in newspapers by morning. Repeat this the next day.

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    1 month ago

    Funny enough, I do believe our BEE laws in South Africa should be scrapped. According to our news he offered to pay 26% in royalties, like Google does for example in South Africa, but did not agree to give away equity. The BEE laws are basically a way for politically connected ANC members to get a slice of the pie, does not one bit help the majority of people here.

    Look Elon is a shit, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. There also needs to be empowerment laws, I say to poor citizens not based on any race laws, even though the majority of extremely poor people are black, coloured indian, mixed…, but not ones that mostly filter to the politically connected like the current BEE laws favour.

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        1 month ago

        I admit it is not royalties, it’s called something else not sure what, word that came to my mind. But basically an equivalent of paying similar money but without giving away equity or ownership.

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          It is called equity equivalents, this is where you don’t give away equity but basically still pay as if you are, hence I admit royalties are maybe not the right word but for my it is similar. Unlike other international tech companies like Google or Microsoft in our country that pays equity equivalents, the telecommunications requirements are equity or slice of your business.