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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHey Repubs! I hear you are looking for dangerous immigrants?
Good news! I found one! From South Africa!

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Hey Repubs! I hear you are looking for dangerous immigrants? (Original Post)
USS_Dauntless
Jan 3
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usonian
(25,381 posts)1. And his fellow South Affrican immigrant.

ETA
Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africa
https://www.ft.com/content/cfbfa1e8-d8f8-42b9-b74c-dae6cc6185a0
If paywalled, https://archive.ph/iHN66
electric_blue68
(26,876 posts)2. Is that Theil on the right? Looks kinda psychopathic.
usonian
(25,381 posts)3. Nutcase.
More than you ever wanted to know.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220704626
Thiel reflects fellow nutcase Curtis Yarvin's twisted philosophy. See the linked post.
electric_blue68
(26,876 posts)4. He's a RW Christian Nationalist amongst other things.
Thom Hartman warned us about them (Dominists) back in the early '00s!
Be Leave On
(430 posts)5. Goldwater
Even Barry Goldwater warned about them, in the 1960s.
ShazzieB
(22,604 posts)7. Imo, they're both psychopathic!
electric_blue68
(26,876 posts)9. Oh, you're Absolutely Correct. But we know that about Eloon, I didn't know if that was actually Thiel, or someone else.
ShazzieB
(22,604 posts)10. It's Thiel all right.
Sorry for the confusion! It looks like usonian edited the post to add that information, sometime between when you first saw it and when I first saw it. I didn't realize at first that the version I was looking at had additional info. I wouldn't have known who that was myself otherwise!
electric_blue68
(26,876 posts)11. No problem!
soldierant
(9,354 posts)6. Why does this photo
make me think that Afrikaaners are pretty inbred?
Wolf Frankula
(3,837 posts)8. I have local Afrikaner immigrant friends
They call Elon Musk " 'n lafhartig bomfok."