Man, I just wish my dad lived long enough to hear white guys telling each other to go back to Africa
@patrickworld I haven’t stopped laughing at this story since I read it
@are0h a true classic πŸ†
@patrickworld Another one for the β€œyou’re so X even other X can’t stand you” files.
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Aren't the white people in Africa just colonists?
@alavi @patrickworld yes, that's the joke - racists in the U.S. often yell at people of color "go back where you came from", so to see them doing it to each other is pretty amusing.

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No I mean even though Elon was born in africa, he's not African. He's just a colonist that was there.

Same as "Americans" who are British people that just killed all the true Americans and took over the land.
(Sorry not sorry Americans πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ)

@alavi @patrickworld yes! they're ALL colonists, which is what makes the "go back where you came from" funny.

@akamran @alavi @patrickworld when do colonists become natives? There were no Arabs in Africa 1500-2500 years ago, no Hungarians in Hungary, no Turks in Turkey, no Germans in Germany, no Dutch in Netherlands, no Russians in most of the modern Russia. Parts of Malaysia were colonised before Portugese by Tamils.

Boers (mostly Dutch, but also refugees from France) in South Africa started to arrived in 1657. It was not a colony. Land had been purchased from the locals. Violent oppression of the natives is much more recent, and started with British colonisation, who fought bloody wars against Boers (in the process, British invented concentration camps). Apartheid was born there about 100 years ago.

@dimpase @akamran @alavi @patrickworld switching from immigration to control is colonisation.
@dimpase @akamran @alavi @patrickworld It depends on who's asking. To a Paiute, I'm still a colonist. To a new immigrant, I'm a native.
@alavi @akamran @patrickworld He's afrikaner so like it's like Americans.

@alavi @akamran @patrickworld I've got some Brit in me but also huge part Irish and Scott and a bunch of German Jew. The British part is actually rather new, which is why it's a big part...that guy was actually Canadian. There's supposedly some native American in there too, but I think that was a boyhood fantasy of my great grandfather--I had to disprove his genealogy stuff he came up with on that line.

I'll return to where I came from when my remains are scattered to the four winds.

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Most were born there, without having asked one way or another.

@patrickworld Except that, true to the β€˜Flood the zone with shit’ mantra it is now practically a love fest between them. Maybe Bannon realised (!) how much monetary influence Elon has or it’s just them messing with us.
@patrickworld πŸ‘πŸΌ πŸ‘πŸΌ

@patrickworld Close, Mr Musk, but I'm afraid that his preferred Reich did _not_ approve of that font (using it on the cover was one of the hints that the 'Hitler Diary' was a fake) and so his quest is not at an end.

(…not that the average M.A.G.A.t could read Fraktur.)

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Uhhhhhh ... do they mean South Africa?
@patrickworld This image makes me feel just how unworthy the species is. An angry me would say, we deserve hard-core failure, pain, and suffering for our follies.

@patrickworld Have they noticed that is where our species evolved, and thus everywhere else we are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants?

It might help them think.

@patrickworld damn I’m the 666 person to like this post. 🫣
@patrickworld Brilliant πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
@patrickworld oh that’s a hearty chuckle from me. πŸ˜„πŸ˜„
@patrickworld the cradle of civilization... and of queen of #Sheba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Sheba πŸ’Œ
Queen of Sheba - Wikipedia

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We must enjoy the little things I suppose.