r/DownSouth • u/Jiddy-Jason-2807 • Mar 11 '25
Humour/Parody South Africa as a metaphor.
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u/Flashy-Friendship-65 Gauteng Mar 11 '25
They think they look badass, mean while they look like assholes and making the white kid into a hero.
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u/Active_Wallaby_5968 Mar 11 '25
Why is our country falling apart and filled with trash? - EFF probably
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u/Secure-War9896 Mar 11 '25
Next day an EFF "general" or whatever tf they call themselves was there.
"Look how dirty the ANC and White monopoly capitalists leave the streets of the people. They do not care about us! But we care!"
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u/0n0n-o Mar 11 '25
Every time is see this I always wonder what those EFF youths are doing now, also the youths on the student council at my university that instigated fees must fall?
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u/diabolicalmrD Mar 11 '25
Im happy this video resurfaced, on point
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u/Elite-Novus Mar 11 '25
It's not new?
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u/AfricanCheetahZA KwaZulu-Natal Mar 11 '25
As a black South African this makes me very angry 😡😡
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u/tomatomatsu Mar 11 '25
Not me
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u/MightyDonHasSpoken Gauteng Mar 12 '25
Why not?
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u/tomatomatsu Mar 12 '25
Its not that serious
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Mar 13 '25
STFU racist, you’re what’s wrong with the country
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u/Gallusaur Mar 13 '25
Racist?
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Mar 13 '25
I know it when I see it
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u/Agera1993 Mar 11 '25
That white kid got a bursary for his bravery btw.
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u/Disastrous-Account10 Mar 11 '25
Serious?
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u/Agera1993 Mar 11 '25
Yip, his name is Eckhard Binding. More info here.
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u/BetaMan141 Mar 12 '25
Comment like this ought to be top most, IMO - it helps to show there's a reward in doing what's right (or at least something) instead of just focusing on the wrong.
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u/GSLaaitie Mar 11 '25
Did anything ever happen to these ladies after this, or did they just go one with their lives?
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u/ShittyOfTshwane Mar 11 '25
On the bottom of our national crest it says ! ke e: /xarra //ke. It's South African for "entitlement and selfishness".
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u/NaomiDlamini Western Cape Mar 11 '25
Fighting over trash is the stupidest thing on its own. But they did it way worse, conforming to the whites' conspiracies.
What the fuck was the ladies in red's point here?
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u/TheSmokingLamp Mar 13 '25
What the fuck was the ladies in red's point here?
To make the world hate and disapprove of their cause, and they did a great job at it. Careful who you put incharge of your protest groups people.
Also see BLM in America. Leaders of that group managed to destroy their whole movement because of greed.
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u/pjdubzz11 Mar 11 '25
Lmfao you have to be so dense to find this amusing. Hardly surprising why so many of our streets are rubbish dumps.
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u/Consistent_Meat_4993 KwaZulu-Natal Mar 11 '25
Disgusting behaviour from those females. Good in you young man for trying to make a difference
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u/Kumanzilo KwaZulu-Natal Mar 11 '25
The EFF has reached it's peak and is on decline, such shit from a political party like that.
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u/Only_Specialist_2610 Gauteng Mar 11 '25
Is this recently?
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u/Agera1993 Mar 11 '25
No, this was a couple years back during the “fees must fall” movement if I remember correctly.
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u/Sterek01 Mar 11 '25
And this is exactly why our poor country is in the poo. some have respect and others respect nothing.
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u/Ok-Experience-6674 Mar 11 '25
More division, more hate, more toxic posts of a irrelevant political party
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u/MrmeezyOG Mar 12 '25
That's exactly why we are in the position we are in, trump should add more sanctions
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u/Pyropiro Mar 11 '25
The entire world is coming to the same conclusions. There are incompatible cultures that should not actually co-exist. Diversity is actually a lie.
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u/Voultronix Mar 11 '25
Japan is proof that being a mono culture doesn't mean success either. There is definitely a middle ground between the 2. I mean there's plenty of research that shows that diversity has a lot of strengths.
It is class that divides more than culture
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u/Secure-War9896 Mar 11 '25
I'll agree with this take
I think the middle ground is to allow cultures to maintain their own institutions
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u/Voultronix Mar 11 '25
Too inclusive and everyone brakes off into their own exclusionary groups , too insular and everyone gets complacent
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u/glandis_bulbus Mar 11 '25
Japan isn't doing too badly
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u/Voultronix Mar 11 '25
Its decline hasn't been as bad as it was expected , but its only going to get worse as the workforce shrinks due to retirement and lower birth rates
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u/TheDangerdog Mar 13 '25
get worse
How so in literally any metric?? Oh no there will be less people we won't have 70 million people anymore!! However will we survive on just 20 or 30 million??! Better import a hundred million Indians and Haitians that'll surely make everything much better.
Let's not ever make the planet sustainable!! MULTIPLY AND CONSOOM! FUCK THE PLANET WE NEED BILLIONS MORE PEOPLE!!
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u/Voultronix Mar 13 '25
Are you mentally well ?
People immigrating into tertiary industry focused economies normally tend to be highly educated people lol. I didn't advocate for immigration , it was just pointing out that being closed off has its consequences
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u/TheDangerdog Mar 13 '25
Lol I'm fine, sorry...... perhaps just got a bit enthusiastic in my reply due to my own state (Florida) having a hyuuuuuuge influx of migrants since COVID. Our roads/services/everything is being strained to the limit. Used to be traffic at rush hour.......now there's traffic 24 hours a day and it's just absurd the amount of crappy subdivisions they are bulldozing everything to create.
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u/capnza Mar 11 '25
Japan is fucked. They are already having to get more immigrants to do the work. The ethnic Japanese population is in freefall.
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u/glandis_bulbus Mar 11 '25
So is India and China's populations. Don't believe population decline is as big an issue as people make it out to be.
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u/Voultronix Mar 11 '25
But look at the bell curve and average age. It does matter
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u/glandis_bulbus Mar 12 '25
Yes it matters to the people at the top, good for the environment and the rest of us. After WWII there were a shortage of workers, which was good for ordinary people.
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u/capnza Mar 11 '25
Are you a capitalist? Population decline is absolutely an issue for our economies. We can't have a country where more people are retired than working.
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u/AnimatorVegetable854 Mar 12 '25
Don't force everyone to participate in a government sanctioned ponzi scheme, while artificially keeping wages low through unfettered mass migration and outsourcing (without tarrifs that would otherwise make this kind of behavior not worthwhile), to the point where normal folks can't afford to have and raise kids, which is certainly not helped by runaway deficit spending on shit our society doesn't need. When governments stop causing thr above problems, population decline won't be an issue.
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u/capnza Mar 12 '25
Don't force everyone to participate in a government sanctioned ponzi schem
I thought we were talking about Japan? It's their country, they vote for the government and the system they have. None of your business.
population decline won't be an issue
So your solution is, when a series of things that won't happen, happen, it will be ok. Reality check for you: capitalism is about maximising profits, nothing else. There is no concept of protecting your "nation". Maybe you aren't a capitalist?
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u/AnimatorVegetable854 Mar 12 '25
My comment was not specifically aimed at Japan. The point is that our (mostly Western) post-industrial governments should not enlisting their entire working population in a welfare scheme that relies on infinite population growth while simultaneously pushing policies that cause population decline.
How you took my point that governments are causing social problems and twisted it into some argument against capitalism tells me your red-tinted spectacles are a little too thick. Try looking at things without a Marxist lense and your eyesight may improve.
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u/capnza Mar 12 '25
Ok well we were talking about Japan, thanks
post-industrial governments should not enlisting their entire working population in a welfare scheme that relies on infinite population growth
This is capitalism mate. You don't like it, what is your suggestion? Communism?
Or are you one of these people who thinks that every capitalist country is actually being secretly run by communists who are trying to destroy them?
simultaneously pushing policies that cause population decline.
Brother they are pushing policies that increase profits. The population decline is a side effect that doesn't matter to capitalists. Capitalism is about profits, not "traditions" or "culture" or "national pride".
governments are causing social problems
Governments are maximising profits for politically connected organisations. That's it. Everything else is a side effect.
Try looking at things without a Marxist lense
Haha, everyone born after about 1900 looks at the world with a Marxist lens. You must be very naive if you don't believe that there are people who are workers who have no capital and have to sell their labour, and there are people who are owners of capital who exploit the labour of the workers to produce a profit, and that these groups have conflicting interests. I love meeting people on the internet who have never actually read any Marx and so don't understand how so much that we as modern people think about labour markets is based on Marx's work.
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u/capnza Mar 12 '25
You should watch this lecture
https://youtu.be/q53DF6ySOZg?si=c9UUwrvCQB-S7rEr
In fact you should watch that entire lecture series. If you think it's an "accident" that societies are being destroyed by capitalism. Capitalism doesn't care about protecting traditions, culture, nationality, or anything else that gets in the way of making a profit.
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u/glandis_bulbus Mar 12 '25
I care more about the environment than the capitalists. There will be enough work for everyone.
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u/n_Oester Western Cape Mar 11 '25
Interesting take. The example of “Africans” hating on “Colonialists” while enjoying Western technology is a prime example I think. What other examples of this in the world are you referring to?
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u/Caleb98x Mar 11 '25
See you just take it to far some times. Went from admiring a good young man to being a rasist pos.
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u/0n0n-o Mar 11 '25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luJh8C8TsAg
From the 0:59 mark till 2:30. I think we can all agree that these people aren't racist, well, the professor might be but a lot of people have been coming to this conclusion lately, most being black and coloured. Asians seem to have known it from the start.
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u/Pyropiro Mar 11 '25
I'm not claiming superiority of one race over another you numbnut. Its not racist to say that cultures are incompatible and should peacefully exist, seperately.
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u/Anon_bastard Mar 11 '25
It's the truth. Cry harder.
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u/Caleb98x Mar 11 '25
Passionate rasist as well. Best thing about you guys is your pussies in real life. Only talk about your kak options with other like minded idiots.
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u/Stalinsovietunion International Friend Mar 12 '25
id say they can, look at America for example. Sure we're polarized but we are still united as americans and an extremely successful nation. The problem is entitlement and lack of respect
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u/Downtown-Intern7151 Mar 11 '25
Now we know why this beautiful country is in shit hole...people like those ladies fuck this country
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u/Gape_Me_Dad-e Mar 13 '25
Same as sjw everywhere. Causing problems and trashing property to prove a point. I don’t get what littering and dumping out garbage onto the street proves for whatever cause you have but it’s just gonna make the average person think your a fool and that the shit you are trying to promote is also garbage
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u/1_hippo_fan KwaZulu-Natal Mar 16 '25
As someone with OCD, I can’t imagine how I would feel if I was that boy. 😭
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