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I need some sunshine so you're to be complimented for being more optimistic than me. That arrives with cynicism because, after all, Top Gun is propaganda for the military industrial complex which results in taxpayers dying in foreign countries. Our country kills us in a different way.

Which country setting for the movie? My bet is Iran, though I believe it was meant to be confusing, and the setting is actually an amalgamation of Iran, China, Russia and North Korea.

On the money side, the strengthening dollar, albeit an ironic reaction to their weakening country, is bad for third world areas such as ours. I'm no economist but global geopolitics is rocking badly. Wouldn't surprise me if we dropped to R25 to $1. The main concern is that our debt repayments are increasing whilst more skilled and rich South African's flee further than Cape Town, across the Atlantic.

The DA sucks. The ANC sucks more. Political comparisons suck because using a low bar is not the best metric for a future where the sun rises higher than our problems before we die.

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