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DOGE is Elon's revenge for divestment during apartheid South Africa [1]

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Date: 2025-02-05

Elon Musk was a teenager when divestment changed South Africa, his family ran a mine…..so divestment changed his life. As much as everyone has been focusing on his wealth and power and influence, don't forget about the venal and personal and historical.

Elon Musk wants revenge for his countries’ “stab in the back” to use a German turn of phrase and he views the United States and the west as being responsible. It’s why Elon was drawn to Trump. I don’t think the bond between Trump and Musk can be severed at this point, they are a symbiotic organism, more importantly…..they want the same thing, so even if they are torn apart, they will again be drawn to each other. Elon and Donald share a core value of racism and they want vengeance for what was done to them. They are BFFs now, Best Fascist Friends.

The “S” in BRICS as most people reading a political site likely know is “South Africa”, not “Spain”. South Africa is a hilarious excuse for a country….they can’t keep the lights on….as in their electrical grid is so old and broken it only sort of stays on 24 hours at a time nationwide. They hosted the World Cup 15 years ago and somehow their infrastructure traveled backwards in time to the 1950s since then. FIFA is corrupt enough they could definitely get approval to host again, but a real organization would host the event in a real country.

Why is the Department of Education a target to a South African immigrant? Because public universities were instrumental in South African divestment….it’s personal to Musk. The ultra-right isn’t full of complicated thinkers, it’s base level lizard brain instincts for folks that believe in lizard people conspiracies.

The stunt with the Treasury department and payment credentials show Elon Musk is simply Bane in “Dark Knight Rises” and his techboys are just the minions on motorcycles. For a long time I thought Elon wanted to be the world first ever trillionaire, that comes with an asterisk in history books now (even ignoring Putin’s secret personal wealth being #1). Now I see that it was never about that for Musk, he was drawn to THIS campaign because Trump talked about vengeance and Musk also has a list of enemies.

Two off-topic thoughts that might turn into diaries, but feel like sharing here given current events:

1. You can’t use logic and information to argue people that still actively believe the Earth is 6000 years old or whatever and Santa is real. Disinformation and Misinformation have actual appeal to these people, fact checking is a waste of time when they prefer a world that doesn’t exist.

2. Fascism is a business focused ideology. Lost in all the gory details of World War 2 is who profited from the camps. It wasn’t Germany directly, it was BUSINESSES. Fascism is a business-political arrangement first and foremost. IG Farben, Bayer, etc. The Prisoners weren’t randomly worked to death, they were systematically worked to death for the benefit of corporations who then sold their goods to the German war machine…..that link in the death camp chain between government and business is an important one to remind people of during what looks like a hostile takeover of a government by a group business people.

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