I’m not surprised. Tell them to voetsek with their racism.

White South Africans who left during a certain, uhm, period taking their brand of racism with them into new countries.

Find myself in Miami, Florida, not sure I want this to become home. It’s a shithole - an expensive shithole, but a shithole nevertheless. Sure, if you have money, you can cover it all up and live on a waterfront McMansion property with a boat, nice views, garden service, a swimming pool, generator for when a hurricane takes out the power, etc., but if you’re an ordinary person…

The roads are in a terrible state, the I-95 is full of crazed drivers; drainage systems have not kept pace with increase in inhabitants; everything is expensive, even cheap food at the grocer, and mediocre food at restaurants; people try constantly to scam you with hidden fees or ghost fees; people are never on time (“Oh, that’s just Miami time”); there is this weird, excessive politeness that is transparently fake; when I open my apartment windows on cool mornings, I just smell dog shit; the arrogance of many of the people of Cuban descent, especially the light-skinned ones, of which the elders are openly racist, and fervently in support of rightwing fascists like Desantis and Trump. Home insurance and auto insurance premiums have gone through the roof.

I could go on, but yeah, it’s a sunny place. For shady people. And I come from one of those countries derided as “shit hole countries” by Trump. Smh.

USA: the huge contradiction between the easy availability of guns and its role in school shootings, on the one hand, and the almost melodramatic “performance” of the duty of care and safety, on the other hand, in school zones - cf traffic speed enforcement and presence of cop cars, having to stop behind a schoolbus if its loading and offloading.