Trump said: “We have thousands of stories talking about it,” then ordered his staff: “Turn the lights down and just put this on.”
Sitting next to Trump before the fireplace, Ramaphosa forced a smile and turned to look at a big TV screen as Trump’s South Africa-born billionaire ally Elon Musk, JD Vance, the defence secretary Pete Hegseth and diplomats and journalists from both countries looked on.
The video included footage of former South African president Jacob Zuma and firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema singing an apartheid-era struggle song called “Kill the Boer”, which means farmer or Afrikaner, as supporters danced.
Trump forced him to listen to the Kill the Boer song
full video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TLkZv3gzO0
The part where Trump forces Ramaphosa to watch the “Kill the Boer” compilation starts at 00:20:45
Thank you for contributing your analysis.
I don’t like to post in the megathread. I’m not going to post in the megathread. In my opinion, posting every news article into one thread goes completely against the design of lemmy and link-aggregators in general. It’s difficulty to read and navigate the megathread. It’s impossible to view the megathread alongside other instances. On a link aggregator website, links should be posts and comments should be user discussion.
I post things that I think are interesting. I will admit that I did not write a full analysis of the meeting. I noticed that nobody had created a post about the meeting. I chose to center my post around Trump forcing the South African president to watch a twitter propaganda video because it was the most outlandish part of the meeting and I think unfortunately most people don’t read a full analysis of a press meeting. The themes of “white genocide” and “kill the boer” also relate to the news stories from the past week where Elon’s AI started spamming those same terms.
The post links to an article by The Guardian. The Guardian has a longer analysis of the meeting. The Guardian article mentions the South African Billionaire and the golfers. I also included a link to the full video for people who are interested.
I wish you would make posts of important things as posts instead of dumping comments into 1 thread. I can understand putting lesser known stories into a megathread. In my opinion, confining the top news stories of the day inside of the megathread makes Hexbear into a worse website.
That’s cool, I don’t really care about “who posts first” or where they post or anything like that. I appreciate your posts, and it’s always good to keep posting, especially posting outside of the megathreads so more people can see it and with added articles for context, that’s very important.
I just felt like responding with a comment, was too lazy to type out a full comment of everything that happened, so I just posted a link to what I said previously. It’s not about promoting the megathread or saying “I actually posted this first” or anything like that. Yeah the megathread format is annoying and I definitely understand why people don’t use it. However, I mainly post in the megathread as it’s the community that’s been most accepting of the type of content that I’ve posted in the past.
Again, I don’t particularly care about who posts what or at what time or where, and I apologise if it came across that way. Keep doing what you’re doing as long as you enjoy it.