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Think southern Africa might just be far enough away.
Ramaphosa and decisive is an example oxymoron.
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Ramaphosa vows decisive action in 2026 to revive ailing municipalities or face voters’ wrath
As the country moves towards the local government elections scheduled to take place between 2 November 2026 and 31 January 2027, the ANC has placed municipalities at the centre of its political str
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-01-11-ramaphosa-vows-decisive-action-in-2026-t-to-revive-ailing-municipalities-or-face/?utm_source=dm-app&utm_medium=link
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Seems about right.
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Helen will be excited by this. Thrilled probably.
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This is not good news for this region which, since the end of Apartheid, has enjoyed relative peace and stability.
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18 days ago
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Just like a lack of prosecutorial will and competence has allowed so many Apartheid criminals to escape justice as they pass peacefully away unpunished, so too with more and more State Capture accused.
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Former Gauteng health MEC Brian Hlongwa dies after short illness
Former Gauteng health MEC and provincial legislature chief whip Brian Hlongwa has died after a short illness.His death was confirmed by Gauteng ANC provincial task team spokesperson Mzi Khum
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-12-24-graftaccused-former-gauteng-health-mec-brian-hlongwa-dies-after-short-illness/?utm_source=dm-app&utm_medium=link
18 days ago
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Richly deserved accolade for John Steenhuisen aka Dirtbag of the Year.
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Environmental disaster: John Steenhuisen on how to march backwards
Some awards are earned slowly, through years of dedication and quiet persistence. Others are clinched in a single, inspired moment of political theatre. This year’s Dirtbag of the Year – for whom y
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-12-24-environmental-disaster-john-steenhuisen-on-how-to-march-backwards/?utm_source=dm-app&utm_medium=link
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Just in case you want to know why this spendthrift Minister wants to hijack the resources of the private Healthcare system... Motsoaledi’s 4 trips in 3 months cost taxpayers R5.6 million
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Motsoaledi’s 4 trips in 3 months cost taxpayers R5.6 million | News24
Between June and September, the travels of Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and the officials who accompanied him have cost the taxpayer R5.6 million.
https://www.news24.com/politics/motsoaledis-4-trips-in-3-months-cost-taxpayers-r56-million-20251220-0878
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It needs pointing out to the MK Party (and the EFF) that 37/40 seats is not a majority. The point is everyone else, i.e. the majority of voters, don't want you in power, and want their party to work with all the others to keep you out of power.
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Chaos in legislature as MK loses bid to control KZN | Daily Maverick
MK MPLs banged their fists on tables, stomped their feet, jabbed their fingers in the faces of police officers and sang Umshini Wami. The legislature was disrupted for more than an hour until Speaker ...
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-12-15-chaos-in-legislature-as-mk-loses-bid-to-control-kzn/?utm_source=dm-app&utm_medium=link
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Delusional if he really believes this.
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Motsoaledi insists NHI will not be ‘captured’ amid corruption fears | Daily Maverick
The corruption and capture exposed by the Special Investigating Unit at Tembisa Hospital should not be used as a justification to deny South Africans universal health coverage, the health minister ins...
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-12-14-motsoaledi-insists-nhi-will-not-be-captured-amid-corruption-fears/?utm_source=dm-app&utm_medium=link
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Just a horrendous blight on the country. Depressingly necessary read.
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As someone who feels co-responsible for the bad decision a TV character is about to make, I find the ANC's "it's not us, it's the (ANC led) government" attitude completely nauseating. LIVE | Mokonyane calls criticism ANC faces over Madlanga, ad hoc hearings ‘unfair’
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LIVE | Mokonyane calls criticism ANC faces over Madlanga, ad hoc hearings ‘unfair’ | News24
The ANC’s 5th National General Council (NGC) kicks off in Johannesburg on Monday and will focus on challenges to renewal, including effective leadership succession management.
https://www.news24.com/politics/live-ancs-5th-ngc-kicks-off-in-johannesburg-20251208-0472
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Our talented Minister of Agriculture doing a sterling job cosying up to the hunting lobby; less so on the agricultural front.
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KZN dairy farmers face massive losses amid the ravages of foot and mouth disease | Daily Maverick
The foot and mouth disease outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal is wreaking havoc on the dairy sector, which is responsible for 30% of South Africa’s milk production.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-12-08-kzn-dairy-farmers-face-massive-losses-amid-the-ravages-of-foot-and-mouth-disease/?utm_source=dm-app&utm_medium=link
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I swear people take slow and stupid pills as they enter the mall. Especially at Christmas time.
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Ahhh, there are rhetorical questions, and then are just idioctic rhetorical questions. We have been a full blown mafia state for at least 18 years.
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about 1 month ago
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The zero was overly generous.
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about 1 month ago
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Very interesting comment on Putin and his future prospects. For those that lived it, the downfall of Apartheid was a crashing economy. It's also how Putin is going to see himself off.
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For once South Africa climbing over the fence and standing on the morally right side in the Ukraine war.
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The DA not DA-ing so well.
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The questions the DA and Steenhuisen won’t answer over the Dion George ministerial saga | Daily Maverick
The DA has always prided itself on being the party of transparency and accountability. However, not much of that is on display in the current furore over the replacement of its GNU environment ministe...
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-12-03-the-questions-the-da-and-steenhuisen-wonnhuisen-wont-answer-over-the-dion-george/?utm_source=dm-app&utm_medium=link
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The faux Ministerial outrage is galling. It is on his (and his ANC predecessors') watch that the public health system in South Africa has been annihilated. But NHI... Motsoaledi outraged at failures highlighted in health ombud’s damning hospital report
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Motsoaledi outraged at failures highlighted in health ombud’s damning hospital report | News24
Two new reports by Health Ombud Taole Mokoena paint a devastating picture of failures in both the public and private health sectors, detailing systemic negligence and alleged criminal misconduct at Pi...
https://www.news24.com/southafrica/news/motsoaledi-outraged-at-failures-highlighted-in-health-ombuds-damning-hospital-report-20251203-0701
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Eben Etzebeth's eye-gouging hearing today. In mitigation, his excellent and exemplary prior disciplinary record over 141 test matches. In aggravation, he's a Springbok and therefore obviously a violently brutish rugby player prone to regular acts of extreme foul play without any prior provocation.
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Anything said by Nicholas Crisp and his colleagues at the Delartment of health about the Public Healthcare system being underfunded has zero credibility until they address the fraud, corruption, and poor management crippling it.
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Financialisation is the last thing South Africa’s National Health Insurance needs | Daily Maverick
<p>South Africa's National Health Insurance (NHI) aims to address healthcare inequities, but the rise of financialisation threatens its success. Treating health as an asset compromises universal healt...
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-11-30-financialisation-is-the-last-thing-south-africas-national-health-insurance-needs/?utm_source=dm-app&utm_medium=link
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It's been obvious for the longest time that Emurhuleni is a crime scene. One that no doubt includes the Gauteng ANC as a whole. HUNTED | How Ekurhuleni mayor tried to divert scrutiny from Mpho Mafole’s murder
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HUNTED | How Ekurhuleni mayor tried to divert scrutiny from Mpho Mafole’s murder | News24
Ekurhuleni mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza sought to divert investigators’ attention by publicly insisting that chief auditor Mpho Mafole was working on an irregular rates clearance audit ahead of his mur...
https://www.news24.com/investigations/hunted-how-ekurhuleni-mayor-tried-to-divert-scrutiny-from-mpho-mafoles-murder-20251130-1248
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Pierre de Vos - truth telling for AfriSol members (and their ilk). Pierre de Vos | AfriForum Trump-style lies: Turning a handful of laws into 144 ‘race laws’
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Pierre de Vos | AfriForum Trump-style lies: Turning a handful of laws into 144 ‘race laws’ | News24
Pierre de Vos reflects on a 2023 report AfriForum submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which relies on Trump-style dishonesty by inflating a handful of redress laws ...
https://www.news24.com/opinions/analysis/pierre-de-vos-afriforum-trump-style-lies-turning-a-handful-of-laws-into-144-race-laws-20251130-0741
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Johnny Steinberg - truth telling for all South Africans. Jonny Steinberg | The inconvenient truth about apartheid’s economic ‘success’
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Jonny Steinberg | The inconvenient truth about apartheid’s economic ‘success’ | News24
Anyone suffering from apartheid nostalgia should read the work of renowned economist Charles Feinstein, writes Jonny Steinberg. His research revealed how South Africa plummeted from relative prosperit...
https://www.news24.com/opinions/columnists/jonny-steinberg-the-inconvenient-truth-about-apartheids-economic-success-20251130-0744
about 1 month ago
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The American government behaving like a third-world warlord.
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about 2 months ago
This comment section is people going: Nah, misogyny has nothing to do with it, it's the fact that Hillary and Harris were centrist and that's totally worse and more horrifying than being a moronic crazy bigoted rapist pedophile insurrectionist fraud. With a straight face. Like that is a sane take.
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Umm, Daily Maverick...🤨 This is not a new threat! Its been going on for decades!
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Is organised corruption a growing threat to SA’s municipalities?
Some local government corruption is highly organised, and will further undermine the delivery of essential services and democratic governance.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-11-14-is-organised-corruption-a-new-threat-to-sas-municipalities/?utm_source=dm-app&utm_medium=link
about 2 months ago
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The Democratic Alliance pandering to two revolting special interest groups - right wing Zionists and now the captive lion breeding industry. Just gross. So much for being the moral party immune to corrupt influences.
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Dion George axed, despite ‘doing my job without fear, favour or prejudice’
In a brief note, President Cyril Ramaphosa has accepted DA leader John Steenhuisen’s request to remove the key wildlife portfolio from Dion George.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-11-12-environment-minister-dion-george-axed-despite-doing-my-job-without-fear-favour-or-prejudice/?utm_source=dm-app&utm_medium=link
2 months ago
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Well, behaving sycophantically has its price. As does needing a bailout. It's not like South Africa can loan him the $40 billion he needs. Argentine President Javier Milei joins Trump in skipping South Africa’s G20 summit
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Argentine President Javier Milei joins Trump in skipping South Africa’s G20 summit | News24
Argentine President Javier Milei will not be attending the upcoming G20 Leaders Summit set to take place at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg on 22 and 23 November.
https://www.news24.com/politics/argentina-president-javier-milei-joins-trump-in-skipping-south-africas-g20-summit-20251112-0572
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Dear John - feels like another Roman moment doesn't it? An ill-judged decision as leader based on pleasuring a special interest group? Bit of a tangle again. DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30
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DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30 | News24
DA spokesperson Willie Aucamp tells News24 that he would “absolutely” replace Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Dion George if President Cyril Ramaphosa so decided.
https://www.news24.com/business/climate-future/news/das-aucamp-absolutely-ready-if-asked-to-replace-george-who-is-in-brazil-at-cop30-20251110-1049
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Well said
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- these self-interested bigots have contributed nothing to the South Africa most of us aspire to live in. You left out the odious Ernst Roets though. Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump
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Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump | News24
History will call out the names of those who could but chose not to call out Trump’s barefaced lies about the persecution of Afrikaners – one of the wealthiest tribes in Africa – to advance his white ...
https://www.news24.com/opinions/columnists/adriaan-basson-the-collaborators-who-betrayed-their-country-for-trump-20251110-1110
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Been wondering what was behind @jsteenhuisen decision. Thought it might be George going after single use plastics and manufacturers like Coke. Or Steenhuisen courting the hunting farmers as (conflicted) Minister of Agriculture. Maybe it's all three.
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Sacking of Dion George: how a progressive minister is being taken down by the wildlife breeders
The move to oust the environment minister exposes a deeper hijacking – of the National Elephant Heritage Strategy, of policy integrity and of conservation itself.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-11-09-sacking-of-dion-george-how-a-progressive-minister-is-being-taken-down-by-the-wildlife-breeders/?utm_source=dm-app&utm_medium=link
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Hlophe really not a person who smells of roses. The MK circus really is a 3-ring effort! Hlophe accused of harassing Makhubele, sparks war within MKP
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Hlophe accused of harassing Makhubele, sparks war within MKP | News24
Chief whip Colleen Makhubele files damning charges revealing systematic intimidation, false CIA allegations and party implosion after rejecting John Hlope’s advances.
https://www.news24.com/citypress/politics/hlophe-accused-of-harassing-makhubele-sparks-war-within-mkp-20251108-1265
2 months ago
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There is nothing the ANC hasn't poisoned in South Africa. Not liberators - thieves from, and oppressors of, black South Africans.
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Madlanga Commission and Parliament’s police inquiry – Key takeaways
The Madlanga Commission heard from Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala for the first time, albeit through comments he allegedly made to an investigator, claiming he had a number of top cops on his payroll. Parliam...
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-10-31-madlanga-commission-and-parliaments-police-inquiry-key-takeaway/?utm_source=dm-app&utm_medium=link
2 months ago
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Every second headline is ANC cadres' thieving. They are endemically corrupt. All of them. Water utility pays board member’s firm R390m for pipeline that should have cost R80m
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Water utility pays board member’s firm R390m for pipeline that should have cost R80m | News24
The uMngeni-uThukela Water board has paid a company with links to one of its board members R390 million to build an 8.2km bulk water pipeline that should not have cost more than R80 million.
https://www.news24.com/investigations/water-utility-pays-board-members-firm-r390m-for-pipeline-that-should-have-cost-r80m-20251102-0235
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Never mind the 100 BEE beneficiaries who made R1 trillion. The politically connected ANC cadre's extraction from the State over the the last 30 years dwarfs that amount. R3m tax bill: SARS guns for company linked to Mashatile kids in hospital tender scandal
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R3m tax bill: SARS guns for company linked to Mashatile kids in hospital tender scandal | News24
SARS slapped a company with deep ties to Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s sons with a R3 million tax bill for unpaid value-added tax and penalties – costs that it owes the taxman on income from a mul...
https://www.news24.com/investigations/r3m-tax-bill-sars-guns-for-company-linked-to-mashatile-kids-in-hospital-tender-scandal-20251101-0924
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Tempted to apply for the fun of it.
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US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans
Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution
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I still find it completely incomprehensible that the ANC has worked so hard to keep Apartheid crimes unpunished. 58-year-old lie shattered as court rules Nobel Prize winner Luthuli was murdered
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58-year-old lie shattered as court rules Nobel Prize winner Luthuli was murdered | News24
In a landmark ruling that shatters decades of official lies, the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday declared that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Chief Albert Luthuli was murdered by ...
https://www.news24.com/southafrica/crime-and-courts/58-year-old-lie-shattered-as-court-rules-nobel-prize-winner-luthuli-was-murdered-20251030-0942
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Hoo-boy, the Trump car crash Presidency really is gathering speed impressively.
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He'll be a popular dinner guest in Afriforum circles. Not so much for the rest of civilized South Africa.
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Nobody is surprised that Trump has vandalized an iconic 200 year old historic building. Because why would he not?
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The question Americans should be asking is who got the White House ball room contract, how was it awarded, and how much are you paying for it.
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Says the person who represents the people who lie compulsively about just about everything.
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I underestimated Durban tonight. More like this... Diwali full bore.
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Durban tonight.
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Looks like more DOGE style cost-cutting to me. Cut away what the country really needs, waste the "saving" on the king's court.
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Yes, we are. And we didn't need this tech to achieve it. Just Fox News. Fox was delivering what is now the mindless self-reinforcing tech soup-slop the good old fashioned way long before AI. The machines are just accelerating the age of stupid.
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Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Spatial apartheid, school sports coaches, and Durban are the reasons why.
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Torba is a piece of shit, but this idea that men talk like racist assholes by default and it’s somehow anti-masculine to criticize it is fucking untrue and men should push back against it. No, “male communication” is not racist and sexist and hateful when the conversation is being had by good men.
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