• klu9@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    I thought I was so original posting this yesterday:

    Elon “I can’t possibly be a racist troll, some of my best serfs are Negroes!” Musk.

    Turns out his own father beat me to it!

  • Elkot@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    My family is originally from Rhodesia, I was shocked when my father told me he had servants growing up

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      10 hours ago

      It’s very common outside of Europe and North America. You don’t need to be wealthy when so many are super poor.

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    20 hours ago

    I read the headline and was absolutely positive that it was an onion article, then saw where this was posted.

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    21 hours ago

    It’s the “I have black friends” defense but with servants. What’s next? “The people he had locked up were his best chums so he’s still not racist?”

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    21 hours ago

    Look, I think my opinion on Elon is obvious, but “my son made friends with people whose best interest was to be friendly towards him and not mouth off” is not a good argument lmao

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          15 hours ago

          In the early 1990s, Errol, then aged 45, married Heide Bezuidenhout, a 25-year old he described as “one of the best looking women I’ve ever seen in my life”. They had two children. Jana Bezuidenhout, who was his stepdaughter from that marriage, and four years old at the time Errol became her stepfather, later became his romantic partner.

  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Yowza.

    Just shows how disconnected from reality these people are. They live in a bubble of luxury, affluence, yes-men. They’ve never experienced any semblance of hardship or struggle, ever. He grew up with servants for fucks sake.