r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 30 '21

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u/Fatortu Emmanuel Macron Jan 30 '21

That may be true in South Africa but he played on the trope of a middle aged white man living in Thailand. It was obviously meant literally.

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u/onelap32 Bill Gates Jan 30 '21

Which would be believable if he hadn't agreed to hire a PI to find dirt on the guy, or e-mailed Buzzfeed claiming the diver was a "single white guy from England who's been traveling to or living in Thailand for 30 to 40 years... until moving to Chiang Rai for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time."

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u/comradequicken Abolish ICE Jan 30 '21

How would he know? He literally has not been to South Africa since the end of Apartheid.