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Will Tanner

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Nov 18

This is what Zimbabweification means for landowners, and really anyone who is normal and has assets

As leftism is built on envy and grievance, like Mugabe's Zimbabwe, the jackals are coming for wealth in the name of equity, as has happened before in England

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Mugabe is far from the only communist to do this, of course. All such regimes, from the Bolsheviks to Mao, confiscated land in the name of leveling society

But Mugabe is particularly apt, as his land confiscation wasn't so much for economic reasons as for spite and envy

To some extent, that was true of all communist regimes. But some of the Soviets at least appeared to think farm collectivization would lead to some prosperity for at least some of the USSR. Similarly, Mao's collectivization and bird killing had a drop of (quite poor) economic reasoning behind it. It was all ridiculous and foolish, of course, but not motivated purely by spite

Mugabe's land expropriation was. No one thought that taking land out of the hands of intelligent farmers and putting it in the hands of various regime cronies and ex-guerrillas would lead to more prosperity. They just hated that the whites owned it, and so they wanted to steal it while citing racial "equity" as their reasoning

This is essentially what's happening in Britain now

Much as they claim that growing crops or raising animals on land is "hoarding" it and taxing families out of existence so that solar farms and migrant shelters can be built on fields that have been farmed for a millennium, that's not actually what they care about, nor what they really think

Only the dumbest could think poisoning the land with solar panels...in a county known for being cloudy, would be anything approaching a prosperity-inducing idea. It has even less sense behind it than Pol Pot killing people with glasses or Mao killing sparrows. Similarly, the migrants who need shelters built for them are an obvious drain on society rather than being anything prosperity-inducing

So, it's near impossible for anyone with a brain to seriously think that stealing, through brutal taxation, land from farmers would lead to prosperity or "new life"

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Will Tanner

@Will_Tanner_1

Nov 15

Anarchotyranny in Albion

England used to be the land of ordered liberty, surpassed in individual freedom only by America...now it's less free than Russia

Here are five recent examples of bureaucratic anarcho-tyranny in formerly free, now-perfidious Albion 🧵👇

These are by no means the worst examples of anarcho-tyranny in the land

That dubious award would probably go to the "Grooming Gangs" situation, in which woke police let Pakis r*pe young English girls for "cultural sensitivity" reasons. But they are some of the recent ones that have stunned me, and show the problem remains one for formerly merry England

First up: in Wales, the police let an al-Qaeda connected, Rwandan immigrant stab three little girls, and they were more concerned about anti-immigrant backlash than protecting children from terrorists

Now, cops are enforcing bans on teens buying eggs and flour because of egging incidents. Focusing on what's important!

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Will Tanner

@Will_Tanner_1

Nov 15

England's Labour regime is taxing away the land of farmers: "My family's been on this land for 375 years. I want to pass this down to my boys...you're taking that"

Who's to blame? Winston Churchill, who the Duke of Beaufort thought should be fed to the foxhounds for it

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First, the policy

Because farming is essentially non-remunerative in this free trade world (at least for ag. products), something @JeremyClarkson has shown on Clarkson's farm, and farmland has skyrocketed in price due to inflation, family farmland wasn't taxed upon death in England

That was important because, with few exceptions otherwise, it would be near-impossible for families to pass land from one generation to the next and keep farming it. It would have to be sold to pay the tax, given how little is made from farming now and how valuable farmland is (£30k an acre in some areas)

But Labour wants more money with which it can pay for wind farms and migrant benefits...and regime cronies want to be able to buy up land to put solar farms on and get the subsidies handed out for those. So, now Labour will tax farmland over £1 million in value at a 20% rate, which will destroy family farming and be the death knell of English agriculture

The thing is, we're now acclimated to death taxes because they've been used to destroy family fortunes for generations, but they're quite new, on the grand scheme of things

In fact, after being around briefly, and at a low rate, during the Napoleonic Wars, England brought them back around the turn of the century to fund the expansion of the Royal Navy

But it wasn't until around the second decade of the 20th century that they were ratcheted up to the point that they became painful. That came with the People's Budget, which raised death taxes to the painful 15% rate and taxed land

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Will Tanner

@Will_Tanner_1

Nov 14

Questions I frequently get when I write about Rhodesia are 1) if I'm from there and 2) why I find it interesting

I'm not from there

But I find it interesting because of the promise it held and because it was the one proud, vital civilization, not decaying, Western country 🧵👇

https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1/status/1856733277119263135

The promise part I have written about before, such as in the thread below

Generally, I see it as a place that showed how both liberal, mass democracy and communism could be rejected in the name of Old World-style prosperity and stability

https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1/status/1856733277119263135

But that's just part of it. The other thing, something I spoke about recently with @RowdyHODL, is that it's a glimpse at a still vital and thriving country, even in wartime, when the rest of the West was battered down by malaise

As we put it, they were happy warriors in the fight for civilization, not a depressed and downtrodden land full of those who just wanted the unpleasantness to end

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Will Tanner

@Will_Tanner_1

Nov 13

The problem with monarchy is the "what about a bad king?" question, a major problem with "democracy," the proponents of which mean mass, liberal democracy, is that it allows a mob of ignoramuses to rule

The solution isn't technocracy, it's Rhodesian-style propertied voting🧵👇

The general problem is that one-man rule has pitfalls related to the judgment of that individual, though it does at least ensure that there's responsibility and at least a reason to care about stewardship of the country

Mass democracy, on the other hand, means reliance on the mob's (almost always poor) judgment. Even if the mob eventually wakes up, as has happened across the West as of late, the problems created by mass democracy are often quite far along because there wasn't much of an impulse for sober judgment until things got quite bad

An example of that is the case in England, for example, where the Reform and Parliament Bill-enabled mob voted for prosperity-destroying Labourites, namely Attlee and Wilson, for years, and then only recently realized how poorly things are going. Now it might be too late for the country

The problem with technocracy, meanwhile, can be seen in American tariff policy. Industry-protecting tariffs were long tossed aside in favor of the "free trade"-style policies the technocrats wanted. Those, in a result that the technocrats cared not a bit about, resulted in a hollowing out of the American industrial base and the men who made it work. Now America can't produce naval vessels, is outproduced in simple military equipment like artillery shells by the Russians, and is seeing itself outdone by the Chinese in terms of not only ships, but also everything from drones to steel. Tariffs would have avoided a lot of that, but "the experts" were focused on short-term spreadsheet profit maximization rather than the long term

So, the problem becomes, how do you encourage screen for stewardship and weed out the incompetents who compose the mob while also keeping power out of the hands of either one man egg-head experts who don't know or care about results on the ground, for the people of the country?

Propertied voting of one sort or another seems like the best way to handle this. Power is in the hands of neither the mob nor "the experts" nor a singular king, but rather the competent people of the country

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Will Tanner

@Will_Tanner_1

Nov 13

One of the saddest aspects of Rhodesia's intentional destruction by the West and commies is the immense lost opportunity that its destruction represents

This is true both materially and spiritually: its destruction benefitted only civilization-haters

I'll explain in the 🧵👇

The material case is quite obvious:

As Ian Smith noted in The Great Betrayal, Rhodesia was like the Congo, also intentionally destroyed, in that it was full of natural resources the West could have had access to had it done anything other than subvert the bastion against communism

Particularly, Rhodesia had access to the world's second-largest platinum deposit and immense chromium reserves. Chrome is critical for military uses, particularly for armor plating and protection against erosion. Platinum is only found in southern Africa and Australia and is needed for modern automobiles

So, had Rhodesia been supported, those two critical minerals that are found almost nowhere else could have been fully exploited in a stable environment with rule of law. Instead, companies have to trust the Zimbabwean, Congolese, and South African governments not to expropriate them through outright means or taxation, or just let the minerals go unexploited

Related is that Rhodesia was hugely agriculturally successful. Originally that was the cash crop of tobacco, but because of wartime conditions it became grain, the most critical crop for the continent

So, it was the bread basket of Africa and could have fed the continent into the present day. Instead of all the famines (including in Zimbabwe) caused by poor harvest, instead of having to rely on low-quality (low-protein) grain from Ukraine and Russia, instead of counting on handouts from the West, the continent could have been fed by high-quality Rhodesian grain

The starvation and deaths by famine could have been avoided, the food insecurity from the Russo-Ukraine War could have been avoided, and Rhodesia would have remained a prosperous agricultural exporter that, with the nature of its economy, provided a great deal of relatively well-paying jobs to native agricultural laborers

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