Not sure, but I think it is a joke about him abandoning his wife, who is a person of color, to have a fling with this woman, who is white. Could be off.

Easy, just have to throw it hard enough.

Possibly. He was a weird dude.

How very Himmler of him.

And Hillary’s emails.

Depends how you define “tourist,” I suppose.

And even with that, you are glossing over the Spanish Flu. The “peaceful” time since the '50s included numerous massive wars, not least of which was the Vietnam war.

The idea that every time period has its own chaos is the whole point of the song We Didn’t Start the Fire, written in 1989.

I have been to many Nelson Mandela museums, and spoken with a lot of people who lived through the end of Apartheid. When he took power, both the black and white populations were gearing up for civil war. One guy told me that there were charts up at his school showing the likely kinds of grenades that could be thrown at him. Anyway, Mandela managed to calm things down. He might have been the only guy who could have navigated that exact time period. He did it through a series of policy changes, meetings with key leaders, and speeches. Entirely peaceful, but importantly, there had also been huge amounts of violence leading up to his release from prison and becoming president.

Did the racists change their minds? I don’t know. But the transition to the new government was peaceful.

South Africa doesn’t want him.

Yeah, that is terrible! Spending $50k on something that might be helpful or useful in the future! We should have used that money to purchase one JDAM kit so we can bomb more people.

NASA is about to have its budget slashed, which will be devastating for space science. Private industry does not and cannot fill the gap. Please write to your congressman to save NASA and science funding: https://www.planetary.org/advocacy-action-center#/53

Yeah, defense spending is something like half the discretionary budget. Obviously the place to start when cutting waste, but not politically viable for arcane reasons.

We could have had the trans Pacific Partnership. Had it been signed, we would probably be in great shape globally, with trade securing peace and economic stability.

It’s all been downhill since JFK…

Has anybody made a checklist?

I had a similar thought. I assume there was a /s missing from the end here, but the contrast with the recent pearl grabbing about Biden is kind of hilarious (and sad).

I mean…

• Nominal (current) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of South Africa is $405,870,000,000 (USD) as of 2022. https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/south-africa-gdp/

Elon Musk

$269.3B

Real Time Net Worth

as of 10/30/24 (https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/)

That is so true, my fellow human who is definitely a citizen of the United States!