Thursday, November 14, 2024

Musk, Thiel and the Shadow of Apartheid South Africa

Elon Musk lived in apartheid South Africa until he was 17. David Sacks, the venture capitalist who has become a fundraiser for Donald Trump and a troll of Ukraine, left aged five, and grew up in a South African diaspora family in Tennessee. Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining as part of the apartheid regime's clandestine drive to acquire nuclear weapons. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African software developer and tech journalist living near Johannesburg, has been identified by two teams of forensic linguists ...

More

Comments

Elon Musk has lately become so influential over our government that I think it is important that concerned Americans look deeper into who he really is.

#1 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-12 12:19 PM

No wonder they seem to have much sway in the current GOP.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-12 02:52 PM

Look up Curtis Yarvin and Blake Masters.

#3 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-11-14 10:13 AM

For the non-elitist, here's a link to the article that doesn't have a paywall. You're welcome.

archive.ph

#4 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-11-14 10:16 AM

I think Thiel had a large part to play in the
'smoothness' of the election for Trump.

I'm not saying Trump wouldn't have won anyways,
I just think an AWFUL lot of states were easy
quick wins for Trump. And then there was Trump's
ID/EGO speaking from a month or two before the election
that he 'wasn't concerned about the vote', and he didn't
even campaign very hard.

It all points to something fishy happened.
And it would fit for a Trump 2nd Presidency.

Someone should do a detail statistical cross examination of
the Popular Vote vs the Electoral College, and see if it turns
up anything peculiar.

#5 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-11-14 02:18 PM

Elon Musk has lately become so influential over our government that I think it is important that concerned Americans look deeper into who he really is.

#1 | Posted by danni

Why bother? We never looked into rupert murdoch.

#6 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-11-14 05:29 PM

Drudge Retort Headlines

Trump Picks Matt Gaetz as Attorney General (240 comments)

Trump Picks Fox News Host for Defense Secretary (175 comments)

Trump Picks Musk, Ramaswamy for Government Efficiency Effort (48 comments)

The End of America's Well-Intentioned Empire (40 comments)

Trump to Launch Massive Attack Against Higher Education (39 comments)

Trump Taps Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence (25 comments)

Guardian no Longer Posting on X (23 comments)

2024's Other Big Loser -- Mainstream Media (21 comments)

Scientists Warn That a Key Atlantic Current Could Collapse (16 comments)

Warren: Trump Transition 'already Breaking the Law' (15 comments)