Richard Poplak
@Poplak
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Journalist, filmmaker, graphic novelist, doggeralist (so this should rhyme, but nah.) Editor at large @dailymaverick.
Johannesburg, Occupied Mzansi
Joined March 2009
Afriforum's logic: We support the rule of law only if the SA courts rule in our favour. If they don't, we cry to foreign governments and undermine our country's sovereignty.
The US, @USEmbassySA and @realDonaldTrump's concerns regarding the well-being of Afrikaners are understandable, given that @PresidencyZA @CyrilRamaphosa and the courts still refuse to condemn the call for the murder of Afrikaners through the “Kill the Boer” chant.
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The business model of AI is that there is no model. There is no profit, there never was and there basically never will be* (*maybe as a small cottage industry for super-high-end use cases only)
Bain & Co say the sector needs to be grossing $2 trillion by 2030 in order to break even, which is more than the combined grosses of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple Nvidia and Meta: https://t.co/0kPWFHMbAC—bain–companys-6th-annual-global-technology-report/ 5/
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🚨 ATTN. New Jersey: We can do SO much better than Mikie Sherrill. She voted against the child tax credit… She voted for tax hikes… She voted to give your money to illegals… Reject her on Nov. 4th.
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A RAND study found $79 trillion was stolen from the bottom 90%. Red tape is bad & should be fought, but America's biggest problem is not red tape reducing abundance. America's biggest problem is oligarchs hoarding the abundance. Glad to be quoted with @BernieSanders in @NYMag.
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Americans are weird. Faddish bullshit scholarship doesn’t need to be “purged”. It needs to be laughed at, which has so many more advantages, including killing the fad.
This pseudo-scholarly activity has negative value and it all has to be purged
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After the Israelis overplayed their hand for seven decades, broke deal after deal, came to DC to insult American presidents in their own house, and murdered with impunity while getting paid to do so, who could’ve seen this coming 🤷‍♂️
In 2019, I published a piece puzzling over the anomaly that Trump could be a man so full of animus and prejudice - and yet also show substantial care and concern for American Jews. 1/x https://t.co/bcyyJCXHZU
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The United Arab Emirates-armed Rapid Support Forces paramilitary in Sudan are filming their atrocities. That is evidence for prosecution. Now we need the International Criminal Court to use it ASAP.
Fighters with Sudan's Rapid Support Forces recorded themselves conducting an execution while surrounded by dead bodies inside el-Fasher's Saudi Hospital. As Al Jazeera's @hiba_morgan reports, it’s the latest example of RSF paramilitaries filming their own actions.
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Somehow, the United States of America has found a way to combine two of its greatest foreign policy failures — the Iraq War and the War on Drugs — into a single regime change narrative.... and sell it again to the mainstream media. Incredible.
“This is a criminal organization masquerading as a government,” says Ambassador James Story, the last American diplomat at the now-closed U.S. Embassy in Venezuela. https://t.co/nD2RsT441l
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The “free trade agreement” part of NAFTA sort of sells this.
Reagan vs. Trump on Tariffs: The Gipper was a free trader, no matter what the current President says.- WSJ
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Snowflakes hated it?
What you need to know about Ontario’s anti-tariff ad
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Once again, the SAJBD renders its own existence moot — the louder it shouts, the less it is heard. And that’s a good thing.
[STATEMENT] The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation stands with the Nelson Mandela Foundation against the SAJBD’s baseless attack for hosting UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Speaking up for Palestine is not anti-Semitism, it’s standing for justice and humanity. Read full statement:
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Javier Milei’s approval rating falls to its lowest level since he took office as economic expectations remained negative and corruption topped voter concerns, @Pat_Gillespie reports https://t.co/gYvuWoWmSp
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In a better world, this is a top-rated masterpiece. A stunning, unforgettable film.
Martin Scorsese spent nearly 30 years bringing Silence (2016) to life. A meditative, haunting masterpiece, it traces two priests in Japan confronting faith, doubt, and the unbearable weight of silence.
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You realize that Apartheid South Africa had signs written in Zulu right?
Super weird how an alleged "apartheid state" takes the trouble to post its signage in the language that's allegedly not allowed by the fake apartheid conditions. It's almost like the influencers are lying.
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Like a low budget Independence Day, but the aliens are MAGA plastic surgery freaks 👽👽👽👽👾🛸
This is such a gut punch to see our history destroyed by one man’s vanity and ego
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Only civilized country in the Middle East.
Israel is responsible for 95% of journalist and media worker killings in the Middle East since October 7, 2023, according to CPJ data. More than three in every four journalists and media workers killed worldwide over the past two years were Palestinians in Gaza.
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Wait, which one is the West?
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Have they tried releasing the hostag-… Oh.
BREAKING: Israel has killed 97 Palestinians and wounded another 230, committing 80 ceasefire violations since October 10, according to the Gaza Media Office. đź”´ LIVE updates: https://t.co/iUZ5f2OJlc
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A dying capitalist pseudo-democracy run by like 12 tech barons and their political aides has an insatiable appetite for fuck-my-life drugs. But bombing speedboats should do the trick.
In the modern war on drugs, the U.S. has produced laws and policies ensuring that collateral damage isn’t just tolerated, it’s inevitable.
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Only civilized country in the Middle East.
Maccabi Tel Aviv "ultra" fans (MTA Fanatics) roam the streets of Jaffa earlier today, looking for victims to beat up, before the game that was eventually cancelled against Hapoel Tel Aviv. UK people, do you want this in Birmingham?
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