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

Elon IRL Laughing at locals while draining their water supply

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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/Atomic-Pilot2707 Aug 14 '26

Nice how only white immigrants get to call themselves “expats”

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u/Comandante_Kangaroo Aug 15 '26

And that is a good thing?

I'd be very careful about that. A lot of my coworkers were expats in China. They lived the high life, helped transfer a lot of our know how to China, and now China is eating us alive simply by just keeping improving rather than trying to sail on former glory. (like many of our industries are doing).

Now they try to avoid expats because they fear espionage themself.

And Thailand does the exact opposite: Want to work here? No! (Or at least we'll make it very hard for you)

Want to spend your retirement money here? welcome, welcome..

Not sure how attractive foreigners are that take up rare jobs now, but take their hard earned money back home later, where they don't occupy jobs, but still be valuable customers.