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Mal<p>The storm video yesterday was from when I went for a run near where I live.</p><p>On my route is a smallholding, one of many, with a building complex, horses, dogs that bark. Quite normal, except for the sign, which I won't reproduce right now.</p><p>'Professional Adventure Training' is the banner on the sign. Sometimes when I'm running I pass small groups of young men dressed in fatigues, carrying fake guns. They're based at that smallholding. You see, it's a training venue for <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/mercenaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mercenaries</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Security</span></a> companies in <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> are all kinds of messed up. The slightly more famous version of this was the base training <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Libyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Libyan</span></a> armed organisations. But these training camps are ubiquitous. And most of them I suspect are not training <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/MiddleEastern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEastern</span></a> radicals, but are training guns-for-hire, with a substantial crossover into local security business, which is itself directly connected to the heavily armed <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/gang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gang</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/syndicate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>syndicate</span></a> systems that run <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/protection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protection</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/drug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drug</span></a> rackets all across the country.</p><p><a href="https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2024-08-15-ninety-five-libyans-arrested-at-alleged-military-base-to-be-deported/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">businesslive.co.za/bd/national</span><span class="invisible">/2024-08-15-ninety-five-libyans-arrested-at-alleged-military-base-to-be-deported/</span></a></p>
charvaka<p>If the <a href="https://hivemind.plus/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> was a functioning political party, it would have ditched <a href="https://hivemind.plus/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> in January 2021 after he had lost them the House, the Senate and the White House. Including TWO senate seats in Georgia. After its leaders in both the House and the Senate made speeches blaming <a href="https://hivemind.plus/tags/WeirdDonOLD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeirdDonOLD</span></a> for Jan 6, it would have shunned him forever. </p><p>The GOP is functionally a <a href="https://hivemind.plus/tags/mafia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mafia</span></a> organization now. Like any crime <a href="https://hivemind.plus/tags/syndicate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>syndicate</span></a>, they are not all on the same page, but they play by their own rules and disregard the <a href="https://hivemind.plus/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a>.</p>
charvaka<p>The <a href="https://hivemind.plus/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> party, on the other hand, behaves like a <a href="https://hivemind.plus/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crime</span></a> <a href="https://hivemind.plus/tags/syndicate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>syndicate</span></a> or mafia organization. It prioritizes protecting its <a href="https://hivemind.plus/tags/bosses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bosses</span></a> from prosecution, even if that costs them on politics and policy. </p><p>Similarities between <a href="https://hivemind.plus/tags/WeirdGOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeirdGOP</span></a> and the <a href="https://hivemind.plus/tags/mafia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mafia</span></a>: <br>- witness intimidation<br>- evidence tampering<br>- threatening juries and judges <br>- free legal representation to co-conspirators to prevent flipping <br>- pin crimes on low level staffers, then protect them in jail and try to get them out</p><p>2/n</p>
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