[pavlov]

He didn’t need to watch Handmaid’s Tale. He grew up in 1970s South Africa and has never accepted that this model of society lost.

He and Thiel claim South Africa’s current government is engaged in genocide against whites, but they have never criticized apartheid.

[sdoering]

On that front an interesting read is: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk...

[SR2Z]

Supposedly the South African side of his family is actually pretty reasonable - it's the Canadian side that had the virulent racists.