Posted on 04/13/2026 8:33:57 AM PDT by RandFan
@elonmusk
South Africa won’t allow Starlink to be licensed, even though I was BORN THERE, simply because I am not Black!
We were offered many times the opportunity to bribe our way to a license by pretending that a Black guy runs Starlink SA, but I have refused to do so on principle.
Racism should not be rewarded no matter to which race it is applied.
Shame on the racist politicians in South Africa. They should be shown no respect whatsoever anywhere in the world and shunned for being unashamedly RACISTS!
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“The $64 dollar question though, what could have been done to avoid this outcome?”
Well we have the same problem here. As to what could have been done in our case - we should have picked our own damn cotton.
Also, Lincoln wanted to resettled them all to a central American country after emancipation, but he chicken out at the last minute.
So here we are today in our race dystopia. So the 64k question is, what do we do NOW?
Opposition to Reconstruction in the post-Civil War South was largely driven by the same concerns. One doesn’t have to agree with all of the post-bellum Southern state’s tactics to recognize that they had a point.
Elon Musk has been a champion of beleaguered Whites in South Africa. He most likely brought their plight to Trump himself.
Good news:
“99.9% of Refugees Resettled in US Are Persecuted White South Africans”
—Revolver News
When the Boers landed the area was essentially uninhabited. WHen the Boers built the country into something prosperous, then the natives started showing up, looking for a piece of the pie (food, jobs).
The irony is that most of the black south Africans who hail from various Bantu tribes (Xhosa etc) aren't any more "native" than the Boers. The only "native" South Africans were the !Kung bushmen, a hunter-gatherer tribe that was displaced by both the herdsman Bantus who came from the northeast in Africa and later by the Boers.
So the ANC has no legitimate historical claim to being native or having priority to any of the land or resources.
“The satellites are in space, irrespective of the South African government’s concerns.”
There is a whole contraband market for Starlink in SA, right now. It’s a lifeline for white farmers and isolated communities, there is no way anybody, except Musk, can stop it. He’ll probably set up Starlink Tanzania or Starlink Madagascar to serve SA so nobody with enforcement power (say, a demoncrat judge) can catch him.
There were even greater luminaries who were "cancelled" and ostracized just for stating the facts, e.g. the late James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA double helix structure.
According to what I have read, Union General Benjamin Butler met with Lincoln on the very day of his assassination regarding a new plan to move the former slaves out of the country, and he claims Lincoln was quite enthusiastic about it.
“it could have order and prosperity, or it could be “democratic” by enfranchising the blacks “
The North had even more racial prejudice than did the South. Prior to the Civil War, they had passed all sorts of "Black Codes" to keep blacks out of their states, and to punish severely those who committed the least offense.
From AI...
“Lincoln’s Initial Plan for Resettlement
Abraham Lincoln initially supported the idea of resettling emancipated slaves outside the United States, particularly on Île à Vache, a small island off the coast of Haiti. This plan was part of his broader colonization strategy, which aimed to address the challenges of integrating freed African Americans into American society. Lincoln believed that colonization could provide a solution to the racial tensions and societal issues of the time.
Key Aspects of the Resettlement Plan
Location: Île à Vache, Haiti
Objective: Relocate 5,000 formerly enslaved individuals
Support: Federal funds were allocated for the project
Living Conditions: Promised homes, schools, and hospitals
Reasons for Abandoning the Plan
Lincoln ultimately abandoned the resettlement plan due to several critical issues:
Disastrous Conditions
Poor Living Conditions: The island faced significant challenges, including inadequate housing and sanitation.
Disease: Many resettled individuals suffered from illness due to the unsanitary conditions and lack of medical care.
Mismanagement
Failure to Provide Resources: The promised support and resources for the resettled individuals were not delivered, leading to further hardships.
Political and Social Opposition:
The colonization movement was largely unpopular among African Americans and abolitionists, who viewed it as a denial of their rights to live freely in the U.S.
Conclusion
These factors combined led Lincoln to reconsider the feasibility of the colonization effort. The mismanagement and adverse conditions experienced by those resettled ultimately caused him to abandon the plan, reflecting the complexities and challenges of addressing slavery and racial integration during his presidency.”
They did the same thing in Rhodesia in the 60’s. The British were kicked out and now it’s Zimbabwe, a sh!thole.
Then South Africa went from an otherwise civilized western country with significant racial issues... to a sh!thole with different signficant (but internationally ignored) racial issues.
Anyone with any sense of history repeating itself can see the libs of the world are trying to wipe out Israel - the only western/civilized country in the region.
They just keep pushing. I hate liberals.
“the satellite paths may not be engineered to provide a lot of coverage in that area — have satellites orbit above other areas with more customers.”
Starlink satellites do not bypass (or deliberately avoid flying over) areas with few customers.
Their orbits are fixed paths determined by physics and the overall constellation design, and satellites pass over every part of Earth within their orbital inclination range—including remote oceans, deserts, polar regions, and low-population land areas.
How Starlink Orbits Actually Work
Starlink satellites orbit in low Earth orbit (mostly ~480–550 km altitude) in multiple inclined orbital planes (e.g., many at ~53° inclination, plus some at 43° and near-polar shells for higher latitudes).
Because the Earth rotates underneath them, the satellites’ ground tracks sweep across virtually the entire planet over time (within the latitude limits set by their inclination). They do not steer around specific regions.
The constellation is designed for near-global coverage, with higher satellite density (more satellites visible overhead at any time) naturally occurring at mid-to-high latitudes in the northern hemisphere due to orbital mechanics and how the planes are spaced. This often benefits populated regions in North America and Europe but is not “bypassing” low-customer zones.
What Starlink Does Optimize for Customers
While the orbits themselves don’t change to skip low-demand areas, SpaceX manages the service in smarter ways:Beam steering and power allocation: Satellites can direct their beams and adjust capacity toward areas with active users.
They don’t waste full power beaming strongly over empty oceans or remote deserts when no one is connected there.
Load balancing:
Your dish may point toward satellites over the ocean (where there are fewer users) to shift traffic away from congested land-based satellites. This helps maintain performance in populated areas without changing the orbit.
Capacity planning: Starlink works best in low-population-density areas because each satellite beam has limited total bandwidth shared among users in its footprint.
High-density cities can overload beams quickly, which is why Starlink is positioned primarily as a solution for rural, remote, or underserved locations rather than dense urban ones.
In short: Satellites fly over low-customer areas all the time—they can’t avoid it due to orbital mechanics. But the network intelligently directs capacity where demand exists, making efficient use of the constellation without “bypassing” geography.
This is one reason Starlink excels in rural and remote spots but faces natural limits in very crowded cities.
For balance, we can also have a biopic of Nelson Mandela starring Brendan Gleeson.
Why not, right? MLK has already been done:
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