Andrew Fraser

Andrew Fraser

@arfness.bsky.social

Opinions. Comms. OSINT. Analysis. Marketing strat. Some snark. Radical apanthropist. NB: It's probably more complicated than you think - whatever it is.

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Trump only knows Ernie Els who lives in Florida for tax reasons. He thinks that he represents all South Africans.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "For generations Miami has been a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny in South Africa. I mean, if you take a look at what's going on in parts of South Africa. Look at South Africa, what's going on. Look at South America, what's going on. You know, we have a G20 meeting in South Africa."

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The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish. The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy

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Aaaand they’ve just covered it up. Which is just another layer of irony… …given that this is state action against protest about state action against protest.

Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social

Bravo Banksy. 👏 “A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy has appeared on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in central London.”

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Whether it's Barack Obama having SEAL Team Six kill Osama bin Laden or Donald Trump having SEAL Team Six kill a bunch of random Koreans on a fishing boat, both presidents oversaw deadly SEAL Team Six missions.

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It is completely unacceptable to attack Kemi Badenoch either because she's black or because she's a woman. Racism and misogyny should have no place in our society. We should be attacking her because she's a bigoted, tory bastard. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comKemi Badenoch reveals ‘hysterical’ level of personal attacks faced as a black womanTory leader tells Sunday Times she is surprised at amount of racism she has experienced since taking up post

World War 2 ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany and of Japan. JD Vance doesn't even know history.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."

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if you took a dementia test and thought it was an IQ test you failed both the dementia test and the IQ test

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "AOC -- look. I think she's very nice. But she's very low IQ, and we really don't need low IQ. Between her and Crockett, we're gonna give 'em both an IQ test to see who comes out best. I took a real test at Walter Reed medical center and I aced it. Now it's time for them to take a test."

The US empire is ending. The loss of soft power effected by Trump's aid cuts and isolationism will just accelerate it. Welcome to Chinese hegemony.

Felix Hamer • electricfelix@electricfelix.eurosky.social

"Since 2023, Chinese companies have announced $168 billion in foreign investments in clean energy manufacturing, generation and transmission, according to Climate Energy Finance" “They are dominating these markets” “Market dominance can be a form of soft power” ⚡️⚡️⚡️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It takes decades to leave our Solar System, but we'll be colonizing the galaxy in... er... four and a half years?

Chris Steller@chrissteller.bsky.social

If you actually believed this, you would have to be doing something every day to get ready for colonizing the galaxy in just a few years.

I do love a stock standard ggplot graph. I really hope that those lines continue to decline following the USAID debacle.

Spotlight@spotlightnsp.bsky.social

Graphs that paint the picture of HIV in SA | More people are living with HIV but dramatically fewer are dying of HIV-related causes – we’ve gone from 281 000 HIV-related deaths in 2005/2006 to 53 000 in 2023/2024. This is largely due to antiretroviral medicines. spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/06/09/i...

Explaining Rugby to the Eastern Cape. Ok... Seems... er... unnecessary?

Daily Maverick@dailymaverick.co.za

The Springboks last played in Gqeberha in 2021, and the city is buzzing again. Over the next six or so weeks leading up to the Boks’ match against Italy, radio personality Daron Mann will break down rugby for any confused bystanders. Here’s episode two.

This isn't the whole story. The Democrats are so beholden to corporate interests that they simply won't fix things.

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social

For decades, we’ve had a vicious cycle of 1) Republicans gain power & wreck the government & economy 2) Democrats win but can’t fix major problems due to GOP obstruction & an electoral system biased toward GOP 3) GOP wins back power by blaming Dems for problems the GOP largely caused 4) Repeat

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buff.lyClimate lies: the COP president’s worst nightmare is realOii is the Observatory for Information Integrity, focusing on climate, environment, and democracy. Come take a look

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Analysis | Donald Trump's corruption is breathtaking. But Democrats don't have a leg to stand on because nine years ago, it was revealed that their presidential nominee had used a private email server 13 years ago.

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An understudied issue is how Trump’s victory freed up US think-tank and donor mindspace for chipping away at UK politics again. (Most visible on abortion, but there are signs that Tufton also has benefited.)

Bless you if you thought those red lines hadn't been passed long ago.

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social

Once a foreign government can openly give the president a half-billion-dollar plane as a personal gift, there’s no red line left between a democracy and a full-blown kleptocracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/corruption...

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Replying to @joshbudlender.bsky.social

I genuinely feel sorry for government officials and politicians who have to engage with the Americans on the "merits" of the issue. How do you refute someone's deliberate fantasy where facts don't matter at all? It's like the Haitian cats and dogs thing all over again.

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Replying to @joshbudlender.bsky.social

Mostly I think it's great that SA is, to substantial extent, avoiding getting sucked into this quagmire of nonsense. Perhaps a sign we're maturing. But does mean most of the "discussion" is led by grifters, morons and white nationalists (these categories not mutually exclusive)

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Notable how vast majority of SA knows this Afrikaner ethnic persecution/refugee thing is such obvious bullshit--literally made-up--that it's not even worth engaging with. You can't refute baldfaced fantasy with facts etc. But wonder if it makes reality less clear to rest of world

Wha..?

Rachel Savage@rachelmsavage.bsky.social

The group of white South Africans granted refugee status in the US being welcomed by Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau. He said: “My own father was born in Europe and had to leave his country when Hitler came in… We respect what you have had to deal with...” 📷 AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson