In your opinion where did it go wrong?

1985… when the National Party decided to commercialise and deregulate everything in the hopes of causing socio-economic chaos in the country - which it did. They, for instance, knew perfectly wll deregulating the taxi industry would cause chaos - they literally commissioned White Papers to research the outcomes - and they did it not in spite of the findings of that research, but because of it.

Same thing with Eskom - commercialised in 1985, and by 2002 Eskom was disconnecting more households than they were connecting - I literally have the UKZN research papers on my desktop to prove it - because Eskom was now being “run like a business.” The outcome we see today shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, but because the media has been lying to us about the root cause of our problems we are all making surprise Pikachu faces while whining about “corruption” and “incompetence.”

The ANC took one look at this state of affairs and went, “Oh, we’re fine with this” and they’ve been doing the bog-standard “living it up while the rich gets richer and the poor get poorer” neoliberal shuffle ever since. Don’t get me wrong… the ANC is as corrupt as fuck - but that doesn’t make them unique here in South Africa or the rest of the world. But they are not the root cause… it’s the socio-economic system that enables this shitfuckery that is.

What should the government/country do to get out the current crisis?

We already know how… the same people that now applaud the DA or ActionSA every time their talking heads use the word “privatisation” are the very people who remember (or rather, selectively forgets) how well our public infrastructure worked when they were actually run as public infrastructure and not profit-making “businesses.” That’s what the country needs to do - reclaim our public infrastructure. But don’t expect the snivelling racketeers (whether they be ANC, DA, EFF or any of the parasites squatting in parliament) in our political establishment to push that idea any time soon…

I have never understood why people anticipate game realeases - I mean, people have learned how the AAA game industry works by now, right?

ANC short sightedness

What ANC short-sightedness? They’re doing what all the rich people wanted them to do, aren’t they? Running everything “like a business?” I guess South Africans are now seeing for themselves how short-sighted running “everything like a business” was always going to be, huh?

Laughs hysterically in South African… where we now have no choice but to use gas for almost everything because our electrical grid is collapsing due to IMF-approved neoliberal shitfuckery.

I have zero sympathy for anyone that bought anything connected to Phony Stark. Zilch.

You knew what you were buying into - you live with it.

There is no “left” in formal, establishment politics - none. Formal establishment politics is fundamentally right-wing - therefore, blaming the actions of political establishments on any left is inane.

I recently came back to Lemmy from reddit to escape the batshit pro-Israel censorship happening on there right now and I have to say that the quality of the content and discussion has just gone up.

Israel no longer has any use for bombs and shells.

Riiiight… and all Jewish people had to do to stop the poor, victimized Nazis from doing the Holocaust was to stop doing “Jewish-Bolshevism”, right?

What other bullcrap do you want to peddle here, Clyde? Auschwitz was just a holiday destination with bad press, perhaps?

What did old Malcolm X say about the media again? Something about the media’s purpose being to make you hate the oppressed and love the oppressor?

Soooo… they “reject” “all forms of racism” - except when it comes to white supremacist settler-colonialism?

Just your bog-standard right-wing pretzel-logic, methinks.

You need to consider that modern-day Saudi Arabia is literally a US foreign policy “success story” before you say that.

Where is the (so-called) “free world”? They’re the ones handing Israel the funding that paid for all those bombs and shells they’re dropping on you, chief. That’s where the (alleged) “free world” is at.

When it comes to war, the two parties are always in agreement.

And that’s the left’s fault how?

It’s actually somewhat difficult to tell which aspects of US policing wasn’t born out of the slave patrol. I guess you could say that the Texas Rangers is an aspect that wasn’t born out of it… it was born out of the need to commit pogroms and generalized genocide against Native Americans.

You lost me at “Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine.” You can just call it what it is… an invasion.

And if you think “the left” in the US is so powerful that it could have made any kind of dent in the narratives surrounding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine I have to call bullshit.

When has the west not chosen the wrong side of history?

No arguments from me.

I’m sure he would rather put them on trains. And still wouldn’t see the hypocrisy.

Funny you mention that… one of the things that barely gets any mention in history books is how enthusiastically Europe’s police forces collaborated with the Holocaust - the Vichy police literally rounded up Jewish people by the thousand to send off to the death camps without the Nazis even asking them to do so.

It’s almost like the institution of police was invented to act as a distillery for the worst right-wing goons that the people at the top can sicc on anyone that the status quo has painted as a threat and/or scapegoat.

but they are some of the worst people I’ve crossed paths with

Sooo… just like pig everywhere?

but when your own countrymen fellow ghetto inmates launch a large-scale

FTFY, apologist.