Yes, this is actually happening in Britain, but it’s not new or innovative
The Bolsheviks did the same thing
A short 🧵👇
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 prison
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 Guards
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 thrives
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:
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 be
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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This is one of those perennial questions (though this cathedral was completed in the '60s), and the answer is quite obvious: democracy can't construct wonderous beauties like this because it's not what democracy is geared toward doing
Most of what we look at as examples of the good, the true, and the beautiful comes from well before "our democracy" became a thing
There are a few counter-examples that prove the rule, but, generally, beautiful things came before 1840 or so, with a few remnants of that Halycon Era, as Lord Ernest Hamilton termed it, being built as late as the 1920s, the so-called Indian Summer of the English Aristocracy
The best example of this is in Great Britain's country houses, particularly those in southern and northern England
Most of those beautiful buildings, some of the most marvelous and stunningly gorgeous architectural feats to ever grace the world, were originally built in the Elizabethan-Glorious Revolution Era, then updated and made the beauties they are today in the Victorian Era
Great examples of this are Highclere (Downton Abbey in the eponymous show) and Chatsworth (Pemberly in Pride & Prejudice)
Orania is pretty much the sole success story from South Africa after Mandela acceded to power
So why isn’t it much talked about?
Because it disproves the myth at the root of the “Rainbow Nation” propaganda
First, for those who don’t know, Orania is an Afrikaner-only town in an arid, desert like part of the country
Despite its less than promising location, small population, and hatred directed its way by the South African government, it has grown and prospered in the decades since its founding
And, more than just being economically successful, it’s avoided the problems the rest of South Africa has
It doesn’t have a r*pe every few minutes like the rest of the country, has nearly no murder rather than 85 a day, and its farmers can focus on their crops rather than worrying about farm attacks. While South Africa was more crime-ridden than Somalia in 2023, Orania has nearly no crime 
It was said, particularly of Prime Minister Ian Smith's generation, that the Rhodesians were "more British than the British"
That sounds great, but how did they get there? How did a formerly company-run country in the middle of Africa become so British?
Immigration policy 🧵👇
As a reminder, the British South Africa Company, headed by Cecil Rhodes, conquered the territory that would become Rhodesia in 1890
The group that did so was called the "Pioneer Column". From then until 1923, Rhodesia was ruled by the BSAC as a company province
It then began administrating itself in 1923, and did so under the British aegis until 1965, when it declared independence
It was over that 1890-1920 policy that it first established its culture, then over the 1920-65 period that it solidified that and grew in size
It was through immigration policy that Rhodesia became quite British, though in Africa, rather than either going native or, like South Africa, becoming an amalgamation of European cultures
Orania and Escaping Decline: What Americans Must Know
As America declines toward crime and chaos, Americans ought look to those places that have already experienced decline, namely South Africa. More importantly, we must learn how to escape it
Orania is a great example 🧵👇
First, remember what South Africa is like: as of 2023, it had a higher per capita crime rate than Somalia
It has 80 murders daily, a farm murder a week, a r*pe every four minutes, and two or three riots a day. Meanwhile, there are 3 welfare dependents for every net taxpayer
What once was a relatively prosperous and safe society is a pigsty of crime and chaos; there are safe places, of course, but on the whole, the country is quite poor and dangerous
But then there is Orania
There's no murder, no r*pe, no welfare dependents, no riots, no carjackings, no farm murders
It is an island of old world-style stability and an entrepreneurial, small-scale of life in an incredibly dangerous country that is falling apart at its seams
Those who want the Cold War to have been about fighting communism look at the nuclear arsenals and Reagan Era guerrilla support to pretend that’s what happened the whole time
But it quite obviously didn’t. China fell, MacArthur was sacked for wanting to demolish Red China, Vietnam was lost by the French and then by us, pretty much all of Africa went Red, and South America went socialist if not communist
Further, we supplied the Soviets with grain throughout the tiresome endeavor, after having given them immense material and secrets during WW2
So, if we were fighting communism, those proxy wars abroad were largely lost
It was Churchill who saved Greece from communist domination, much to America’s displeasure
We then forced England and France to abandon their empires, even after they won wars in them (ex: Algeria and Malaysia) and those post-colonial countries turned to communism
Similarly, regions wee claimed to care about or fight in largely went left
Western Europe went socialist, Iberia fell to socialism, Africa was ruled by chaos or communism, and America, until Reagan, largely fell to communists because America found the anti-communists too unpleasant
Other than the FALs, the shorts might be the most distinctive part of the Bush War, but few know why they wore them
So we’ll explore that in the short 🧵👇
It all boils down the nature of the Bush War
This wasn’t the Eastern Front, with huge, mechanized armies opposing each other along a defined front
Rather, it was (somewhat) more like Vietnam and the Malaysian Emergency, with light infantry on light infantry conflict defining most of the war
Commie guerrillas on one side and the Rhodesians, in units like the RLI, SAS, RAR, and Selous Scouts on the other
So, the Rhodesian infantry units were often trying to track and ambush guerrilla units through the thick Rhodesian bush
This wasn’t England…it was thing, briar territory of the sort that is hellish to slug through, particularly if you’re trying to jack your way through it