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Aug 19, 2024 7 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Yes, this is actually happening in Britain, but it’s not new or innovative

The Bolsheviks did the same thing

A short 🧵👇 Image
First, as a reminder for those who don’t know what is going on, riots in Britain started after an Islamist butchered three young English girls and the government, currently headed by socialist Labour PM Starmer, did pretty much nothing

Years of frustration about immigration, legal and illegal, turned to riots

Starmer responded by cracking down on the English for protesting and now is locking up people for even retweeting posts siding with the rioters

So, now, Starmer is letting actual criminals out of jail so that Englishmen who simply don’t want their daughters murdered can be stuffed into prisonImage
This is horrifying, but it’s not new

When the Bolsheviks acceded to power, they opened up the jails and freed all the violent criminals.

General Wrangel describes this happening in Crimea, and Gustav Krist, the Austrian prisoner of war who wrote Prisoner in the Forbidden Land describes the same thing happening in Central Asia

After the prisoners were free, the Bolsheviks established the Red GuardsImage
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The Bolsheviks weren’t freeing prisoners because they had kind hearts or disagreed with the idea of prison. They went on to kill tens of millions in prison camps, as we all know

Rather, it was about establishing control over the population. It’s a whole lot harder to think about the political system when you’re starving and having to deal with a huge crime wave, after all, the the freed prisoners create the anarchic conditions in which Bolshevism thrivesImage
There’s not really much else to say about it other than that the Bolsheviks thrived on the anarchic conditions their prison policies created, then went on to fill the prisons right back up, only this time with political prisoners rather than real criminals

Solzhenitsyn described the communist attitude toward crime quite well:Image
So, that’s what Starmer is now doing.

Like the Bolsheviks, he’s letting real criminals go free do that the prisons can be crowded with political prisoners whose only crime is having a different opinion of immigration than he does

The state sees that as necessary because crime isn’t a threat to its rule, whereas an angry populace of competent people could beImage
Ok apparently the butcher was Rwandan rather than an Islamist

Whatever. He’s not an Anglo or Norman and so ought not be there

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Feb 20
Time for a very short 🧵with some of my favorite memes about the Rhodesian Bush War

First up, of course, is this about Operation Eland, the amazing raid on ZANLA in Mozambique in which 4 Selous Scouts were injured, and 2000 "terrs" left "slotted"

The rest 🧵👇 Image
Up next: always remember what's possible

The Rhodesian security forces never had more than a few thousand first-line fighters, yet they fought a nearly successful, 15-year war against terrorists backed by not just the communist bloc, but the "free world" as well

Few things are impossible to those willing to go all out fighting for them, as the valiant efforts of the Rhodesians in the Bush War show, and thus even their loss is inspiring. If they, a small and landlocked country of ~250k whites and a few million blacks, could almost win a fight against the whole world, we can surely rescue our countryImage
Then there's: your average Joe has no idea about any of this

People frequently ask what I do and I end up telling them I generally focus on the history of "decolonized" Africa, with a focus on the tragedy of Rhodesia. They're shocked to discover America aided communists destroy a free and prosperous state in the name of race communism.

Further, it seriously changes their view of not just the Cold War, but also the American Civil Rights Movement, which was backing Mugabe and Nkomo even as they launched terror attacks on Rhodesian civiliansImage
Read 9 tweets
Feb 15
Never forget that despite the mythology of the Cold War being that it was a global fight against communism, America aided communist terrorists who attacked free and prosperous Rhodesia

Thatcher shows what the Cold War was really about

A short 🧵👇
Why did they do that? Because Rhodesia stood for what they hated: hierarchy amongst men

Namely, though it had no apartheid, it had propertied voting; to vote, one either needed to be highly educated or have a certain amount (about $60k USD in modern money) of Rhodesian property Image
That common sense law screened the incompetent out of the voting pool

Only stewards could vote, and thus those controlling the direction of the country were better able to steward its prosperity and future Image
Read 8 tweets
Feb 12
"Well, we won't stand for that"

I'm often asked why I find the Rhodesian story so compelling

Much of the answer lies with this short clip, as I'll explain in the 🧵👇
The thing is, when faced with fighting the whole world in a desperate attempt to defeat "democratic" race communism, the Rhodesians took that plunge

They did what was honorable rather than easy, and spent a decade and a half battling nearly the entire West plus the entire communist blocImage
Their enemies had Soviet advisors, Chinese training, brand new Communist-bloc weaponry, and total moral support from the democratic "free world" which meant the UN was on their side and the Rhodesians were cut off from world trade

But still the Ian Smith-led government didn't give in. Despite being surrounded on three sides by 1975, being grossly outnumbered, and having the South Africans stab them in the back in the name of detente, they didn't give in until all was lost in 1980Image
Read 7 tweets
Feb 12
America isn't, and has never been, a Catholic country

We don't have to listen to the Pinko Pontiff as he attempts to push Gay Race Communism: Catholic Edition on the world, and have our ancestors' refusal to embrace Rome to thank for that
I remain shocked by how many people are like "this is good, actually, and America should listen to him" Image
Many of our Catholic brothers are great guys, I don't have anything against them and wish them well

But I find it absurd to 1) pretend America is a Catholic country, 2) say we should listen to what some communist in Rome says, and 3) describe Protestantism as heresy at the same time as the Catholic Church pushes race communism

Yes, some Protestant churches are full of heretics. But the Anglican Church of America, for example, is certainly far closer to accurate than whatever Francis is prattling on about
Read 4 tweets
Feb 7
There's something about colonial advertisements like this that's just fantastic

A quick 🧵 with some of my favorites Image
Of course, this Rhodesian recruiting ad from Soldier of Fortune magazine is one of the all-time greats

The spirit it encapsulates is superb, and it looks cool at that Image
Then there are colonial ds like this, beckoning you to the vas, still-being-explored land

Whether on a steam train or in a wagon train, a whole continent of opportunity beckoned, and the ads showed it Image
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Feb 3
Why does England look like this?

Why is it a rotting husk of its former self?

While a great many failings are to blame, one of the earliest and most insidious issues lying at the root of Albion's immense decline is free trade, which destroyed England and her Empire

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When the story of His Majesty's empire began, the reasons were clear:

England needed resources that potential colonies could provide. Cheap raw materials for its early manufactories, markets for those finished materials, an outlet for the surplus population, and existing wealth and geographic positioning to be exploited to the detriment of rivals

This mercantilist framing made sense for the home country, particularly the adventurers, industrialists, and capitalists within it who could make immense fortunesImage
Further, the framing was self-reinforcing

Protecting markets from external competitors while providing raw materials and ever-growing export markets for your finished goods made sense, and was generally positive

Manufactured goods could be cheaper, as markets were larger and raw materials less limited. Opportunites abounded for those who wanted to leave settled life, letting off steam from a long-settled society. National security-related sectors, from shipping to basing abroad, was advanced by having more reasons to and opportunities for shipping men and material abroad, watching and raiding rivals, and establishing forward bases

There were flaws, of course, but the system worked reasonably well for the Anglo world when paired with a focus on settlementImage
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