Why is Rhodesia so popular here? Tell me something good about that country.
Also, what are the differences between Rhodesia and modern day Zimbabwe?
Why is Rhodesia so popular here? Tell me something good about that country
John Parker
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Jayden Wood
>so popular here
8 years of /k/ memeing. Reminder that there were /k/ommandos from Veeky Forums and opchan who unironically planned on retaking Rhodesia.
Christopher Bailey
It's not, edgelords are attracted to it because edges. Failed states are fascinating though.
Oliver Wilson
>Tell me something good about that country.
It was a functional country unlike the pool full of shit that is Zimbabwue
>Rhodesia and modern day Zimbabwe
Rhodesia was wealthier than Portugal per capita.Zimbabwue is poorer than the Congo
Mason Edwards
>edge
>failed state
Too obvious/10
Brayden Barnes
There is nothing edgy about liking it.
Jace Murphy
I'd like to see it desu. An original Veeky Forums meme that went too far.
Nicholas Martin
>Reminder that there were /k/ommandos from Veeky Forums and opchan who unironically planned on retaking Rhodesia.
No way, that is awesome
Sebastian Campbell
>unironically
You are far too pompous.
David Thompson
>rhodesia
>edgy
theres literally nothing edgy about it. It was one of, if not the, most prosperous counry in sub Saharan africa at the time and was betrayed by GB in its time of need to hordes of communist who turned it into a third world shithole of starvation.
Brandon Rivera
Don't worry, in an hour or so you'll get the
>RACISM RACISM RACISM REEEE
autist who doesn't understand why unilateral democracy wouldn't work for a massively uneducated populace.
Then he will attack Rhodesias efforts to educate them, as insufficient and mainly focused on Urban areas (unaffected by warfare) where the knowledge they can provide is useful rather than the 80% rural and 60% tribal natives who have no use for maths and sciences or learning English and so on, especially in the middle of a war.
Rhodesia did the best they could to remain stable while being sanctioned by the whole world.
Adrian Campbell
>facebook memes
Off yourself
Austin Gutierrez
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Ryder Bell
>who doesn't understand why unilateral democracy wouldn't work for a massively uneducated populace.
This. The same faggots who believe that "democracy" in Syria wouldn't result in Islamists being eleced.
Chase Thomas
>Dictatorship is justified b-because of Science
t. Sam Harris
Nathaniel Campbell
And here he is folks.
>dictatorship
Sorry, where in the bizzaro world of history is Rhodesia a dictatorship?
Logan Howard
Remember that time Iran voted to become an Islamic theocracy?
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Kevin Cruz
The one that dipshits live in.
The one where more people voting automatically = better.
Lucas Sullivan
>it was approved by 98.2% of eligible citizens, according to official results.
Hmmmm
Asher Foster
People tend to boycott elections when they know they're going to lose, as though to not give the results legitimacy.
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Zachary Richardson
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>communists and nationalists voted no
>liberals and "social" democrats boycotted
Interesting.
John Jones
Why did the "free world" sanction it to hell, paving the way for a communist backwards horde?
Bentley Robinson
Rhodesia wanted independence from GB at several points so it could negotiate its own foreign policy (I assume) and it was a pretty profitable colony
Liam Morris
Because:
Democrats were in the Whitehouse.
Labour were in HoC.
Had Reagan and Thatcher gotten in 5 years earlier Rhodesia would have lasted until 1994.
Charles Campbell
Britain had a policy to decolonise with majority (black) rule.
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The thing is, the whites in Rhodesia saw how "well' majority rule independence had gone in East Africa, which in the best case was experiencing terrible economic collapse and in the worst was featuring mass ethnic tension and decided they didn't want that. Britain wouldn't let them remain white minority rule, so in 1965 they declared independence, to avoid the fate of east Africa.
Evan Clark
>autist who doesn't understand why unilateral democracy wouldn't work for a massively uneducated populace.
But Rhodesia did everything in its power to prevent blacks from getting any decent education.
Juan Rodriguez
except it didn't.
Now fuck off.
Ryan Brooks
>Rhodesia was called the breadbasket of Africa
>Current day Zimbabwe is literally a shithole thanks to communism and African leadership
Parker Ramirez
>Why is Rhodesia so popular here
Stormfronters and shills
Nathaniel Young
>muh white africans
>Africa is rightful white clay
>might is right hurr
>why are shitskins in Europe
Like pottery
Colton Rogers
Excellent strawman
Logan Adams
>white man conquers savages and brings them civilization
>black man wanders into white nations and creates a vast underclass of ghettos and crime
yeah, they are exactly the same
Jeremiah Perry
What's it to you if they choose to do nothing with their land
Either you accept people have a right to their land, or you bear waves of migrants
Your choice bitchboy :^)
James Barnes
>Tell me something good about that country.
It was literally the Switzerland of Africa. The richest, safest most prosperous African country. And even at the height of segregation between whites and blacks blacks in Rhodesia still benefited because they lived in a stable country that had so much food that they were exporting tons of food to the rest of Africa.
Compare that to today when Zimbabwe is a complete shithole of a country led by brain dead fascist where all the valuable lands is in hands of complete retards that literally don't know first thing about agriculture and around 90% of the population is constantly in danger of starving.
Levi Brooks
Every country has a right to the land it founded. Rhodes founded Rhodesia, ergo Rhodesia is rightful white land.
Chase Baker
What fate of East Africa? I'm genuinely curious here.