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Will Tanner

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Oct 13

The below video, in which former President Trump sounds off on the precedent that illegal immigrants and migrants get over Americans in every area of life, from hospitals to schools, is incredibly important

Why?

Because it is evidence of America's late republic moment🧵👇

What did he say?

"You cannot get into a hospital, by the way. Because the migrants have all the beds. You cannot get into a hospital. You cannot get your kids into a school because there are migrants there that don't even speak the language ... they're getting precedent over your children"

https://x.com/smalls2672/status/1845108572243341533

Take, for example, the below claim: "No, we can't pay Americans a living wage. Instead, we need to import a vast horde of laborers to do it cheaply for us, whatever the long term consequences for the state"

https://x.com/smalls2672/status/1845108572243341533

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Will Tanner

@Will_Tanner_1

Oct 12

One of the saddest most infuriating aspects of the Rhodesian story is that all the destruction was for nothing

It was just race communism that turned what would have been a highly successful country into a starving hellhole, as best shown through Rhodesian agriculture 🧵👇

Remember, up until Mugabe destroyed everything with land expropriation, Rhodesian agriculture was highly successful

It l started, of course, with the Pioneer Column

Once those brave men trekked north and secured the area for the British South Africa Company, it set about drawing white settler-farmers to the area

Encouraging agriculture was a must, as the gold mining in the territory was far from enough to support it. So encourage white farmers the BSAC did, drawing them with high quality land and access to modern railroads

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Will Tanner

@Will_Tanner_1

Oct 11

This Rhodesia video is a good one, and quite accurate about what the conflict was about

Particularly, the anti-Marxist focus and the history of what happened after the Rhodesians lost serves as a stark warning as to what will happen if America falls to similar forces🧵👇

Make no mistake, much of what we have here is the same thing

They want gun control, effective immunity for regime allies who attack the supposed “oppressors,” and property confiscations - whether through taxes or otherwise - for the benefit of those allies at the cost of the supposed oppressors

It’s the same thing, just under the guise of “reparations” instead of outright thuggery

Similarly, the impetus for such policies is the same

It’s race communism

It’s the idea that, broadly, it is moral to make the supposed former oppressors (almost always productive white people) pay for their supposed sins, and that those they supposedly oppressed should benefit from their suffering

While payments to the regime clients are to some extent the goal, it’s much more that suffering is the point. They’d much prefer suffering to profit

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Will Tanner

@Will_Tanner_1

Oct 11

This is so dumb

The reason Americans are fleeing cities obviously isn't "courtyards"; that's facile

The reason is that their areas have been flooded with the mentally ill, homeless, druggies, and thugs

Cities can be fixed easily, but just putting in courtyards will help 🧵👇

First, yes, courtyards and beauty are nice, of course, particularly of the traditional sort that accounts like @archi_tradition write about

No sane person wants to live in the below hellscape, a video from the residential area of Anhui, China

But that's not why cities are being deserted in droves

The obvious problem is crime increasing friction and making life in a city, unless in Singapore or some similarly harsh on crime spot, highly dangerous

This is something @ArbitrageAndy1 and I discussed on our recent podcast together

If you live in NYC, or somewhere similar, you are at risk in multiple ways that make life a gamble

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Will Tanner

@Will_Tanner_1

Oct 10

What is it that made Rhodesia a pleasant, non-corrupt country and Zimbabwe a pit of poverty and corruption? Why were Rhodesians more successful?

British psychologist Theodore Dalrymple, in Rhodesia before the fall, noted it was because of the cultural attitude of Africans🧵👇

The version of the book I read is called “The Mandarins and the Masses,” and in it Dalrymple mainly focuses on the vices and self-destructive attitudes of the British lower class, as @_jburden and I discussed in our recent podcast

But he also wrote about his time in Africa, particularly Rhodesia, as a doctor, and how the Africans had such a view of helping extended family that it made it impossible for the successful ones to get ahead in life

Describing how discrimination was not to blame, Dalrymple said:

“Unlike in South Africa, where salaries were paid according to a racial hierarchy, salaries in Rhodesia were equal for blacks and whites doing the same job, so that a black junior doctor received the same salary as mine. But there remained a vast gulf in our standards of living, the significance of which at first escaped me; but it was crucial in explaining the disasters that befell the newly independent countries that enjoyed what Byron called, and eagerly anticipated as, the first dance of freedom.

“The young black doctors who earned the same salary as we whites could not achieve the same standard of living for a very simple reason: they had an immense number of social obligations to fulfill. They were expected to provide for an ever expanding circle of family members (some of whom may have invested in their education) and people from their village, tribe, and province. An income that allowed a white to live like a lord because of a lack of such obligations scarcely raised a black above the level of his family. Mere equality of salary, therefore, was quite insufficient to procure for them the standard of living that they saw the whites had and that it was only human nature for them to desire—and believe themselves entitled to, on account of the superior talent that had allowed them to raise themselves above their fellows. In fact, a salary a thousand times as great would hardly have been sufficient to procure it: for their social obligations increased pari passu with their incomes.“

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Will Tanner

@Will_Tanner_1

Oct 9

A "wealth tax" of a different mold is what destroyed Britain, turning it from the preeminent nation on top of Olympus to a socialist backwater rotting in the depths of Tartarus in just a generation

Anywhere that does the same thing will follow in its footsteps

A short 🧵👇

Remember, Britain was the world's preeminent nation by pretty much every metric headed into the twentieth century because of its gentry and aristocracy

These were the men who, thanks to the profit motive and public-mindedness, had:

1) Funded the Agricultural Revolution and made British agriculture a world leader

2) Developed the iron and coal mines that were soon to power the Industrial Revolution, and when they ran them, as the Fitzwilliams did, set the record for safety

3) Provided much of the cash and land for the railroads that carried the coal and ore to the factories, goods to the cities, and extra food provided by the Agricultural Revolution to feed the workers

Altogether, those things meant that Britain could have its Industrial Revolution and feed the workers, and have enough of a surplus to build a new empire and grow its way out of the national debt it incurred in the 7 Years War and War of American Independence

Without them, particularly the Agricultural Revolution, which was effected through the highly expensive process of enclosure and drainage, which made farms far more productive, none of that would have happened.

But it was highly expensive, requiring generations of wealth. Enclosure had at least a present value of somewhere around $20,000 PER ACRE, meaning the usual sort of 5k-10k acre estates were shelling out the modern equivalent of millions of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars for enclosure alone, and similar amounts for drainage schemes. Then they invested yet more in mines and railroads

That wasn't just because of public-mindedness, of course. They made a great deal of money off of it

But, they then generally used that money to 1) build country houses that supported the local economy, and 2) send their sons abroad or Westminster to serve the empire in the raj or in Parliament

There was a great deal of care about the public, the empire, and the state, and gentry and peerage were able to act as they did, and turn the empire into what it was

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