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   PaulS

   September 3, 2026

   In SA, the brutal laissez faire model of capitalism died with Smuts in 1950. It was replaced by the even more brutal nationalist model, which favored the interests of white working classes over other ethnic groups at all costs.

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      Avi

      September 3, 2026

      Wasn’t the White (Afrikaner) working class the backbone of the whole system? Without the White working class underpinning the whole structure of society – including the army, the police, menial jobs in administration requiring a modicum of education – the whole system was destined to collapse: the system literally could not have survived a single day without ordinary white laborers.

      President de Clerk’s initial idea of a minority veto was dismissed by the ANC early on, so in the end he secured the protection of capital (wealth and property rights) and to hell with everything else. Or did he think that under Back majority rule the White working class would simply be able to look after itself? I think I know how it ended.

      I suppose de Clerk was a pragmatist who ran out of options, but in the end it was poor Whites who bore the brunt of the “racial revolution”. While wealthy English-speaking Whites and Afrikaner corporate elites were able to hold on to their financial capital and executive power, were left to their . Of course I understand the injustice of artificial economic security for Whites under apartheid, I just wonder in what ways the current system is actually an improvement overall for Blacks, apart from political enfranchisement, obviously.

      The overwhelming focus on race often obscures the class aspect of the issue, which is a typical Neoliberal strategy, as Clarissa is wont to say.

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         Avi

         September 3, 2026

         Oops, missing sentence: … working-class Whites were left to their inglorious destiny.

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            oldcowboy3

            September 3, 2026

            Well, as Rhodesia/Zimbabwe demonstrates, the problem was never race as much as culture.

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            PaulS

            September 3, 2026

            The problem was that the apartheid succeeded so well that the majority of whites became middle class and there just weren’t that many white working classes left.

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   oldcowboy3

   September 3, 2026

   “The non-inscribed Americans today are nostalgic for a system that did work. It was a kinder, gentler capitalism of nation-states.” 

   But most of us are well aware of what social media has been doing to the sexes for three generations. Both Canada and the USA not only built the industrial wealth that won WW2, but most of the populous escaped the damage. And when the boys came home, both nations offered them educational and financial advantages, not least including home initiatives. But most important was the earned respect, the sexes actually liked the other.

   Some educational advantages were offered in veterans in wars after that, but not only were the financial rewards lesser, so was much of the recognition, the respect. America had to utilize significant conscription In WW2, Korea, and particularly during Vietnam. And male veterans were often actually routinely openly verbally insulted during the latter.

   While the people of Canada retained their respect for veterans, our Liberal governments definitely does not. To appease UN weaklings, they cowardly failed to support Dallaire in Rwanda, and actually hid the Princess Pat’s fight to stop the Croat’s horrific ethnic cleansing Bosnia for a decade. And I cannot politely say what the bastards/bitches have subsequently done to our military.

   

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      Clarissa

      September 3, 2026

      I’m looking at the public opinion polls, and it’s deeply concerning how often young women say that they don’t like or trust men. In my modest opinion, you have to be an absolute moron as a young woman to be unhappy with American men. The North American culture creates wonderful men. Of course, there are criminals and evildoers everywhere, but the overwhelming majority of men are literally the best in the world. I’m so happy that my daughter is growing up and will be looking for a mate in America.

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         oldcowboy3

         September 3, 2026

         Well, Kid, we have all seen the behavior and the polls, and it should not surprise anybody. We have had three generations of it, the first affected were largely limited to university girls, working class girls knew better. But no fault and increased family breakdown left almost all but the upper class exposed to envy/hatred/distrust. And divorce runs through generations. Plus even if one is not exposed during family destruction, both sexes are often treated much differently from very early education.

         Fortunately, polls do not find the same high degree of distrust in North America amongst young men, the vast majority still want to marry. While some have given up, failing to launch, enjoying the decline, whatever, but so far those proportions are currently much lower than Korea, China, and Japan.

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      PaulS

      September 3, 2026

      SA military in WW2 were all volunteers. It was the apartheid military who were conscripts.

      I heard from an SA man who traveled to Cuba and was told that the Cubans were pressed into service to fight in Angola despite none of them wanting to go. So you had two groups of conscripts fighting each other for a country neither of them cared about.

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