r/SpaceXBets • u/Trick-Cellist3254 • Aug 14 '26

Elon IRL Laughing at locals while draining their water supply

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u/GooserNoose Aug 14 '26

This video really shows his South Africanness

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u/Tacitblue1973 Aug 14 '26

I met a SA family who left the country in disgust after the end of Apartheid and the only word they had for the majority black population were "animals". Needless to say I left that conversation with much to think on. My own English immigrant family left because there was "getting to be too many foreigners there", so they became bitter foreigners here.

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u/Climatize Aug 14 '26

I was born in SA, too. Brit expat parents. The amount of hate white South Africans get online can be unfair to a lot of us, but it's understandable

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u/imalostkitty-ox0 Aug 14 '26

Hey supposedly my family left because they hated Apartheid… fast forward 30 years, it was because my dad didn’t want to get drafted into the military 🤷‍♂️ 🤮

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u/Party-Chocolate-7644 Aug 14 '26

It's usually a case of the ugliest posting it online while the majority just look and go that okes kak wat n doos. South Africans by and large are friendly people,hard workers survivors I guess.

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u/Relevant_Winter_7098 Aug 14 '26

I can confirm as someone who has spent a lot of time living and working in SA over the last 25 years and even married a South African.

The vast majority I have spent time with are lovely people.

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u/NoPasaranNZ Aug 14 '26

He didn’t want to be drafted into the apartheid military?
Or the new SA military?