"The white [South] Africans, are not originally from South Africa... They can go to where their native land is, which is probably Germany, or Holland."
This is insanely incorrect
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The Afrikaners built and were built by South Africa
Yes, the Dutch landed in the mid-1600s, but it was the addition of the Germans and French Huguenots that made them a distinct culture
That only existed in South Africa, and was created there by the local conditions
They are African
Second, because of that African ethnogenesis, they have no home country to go back to
They are not Dutch, French, or German, but rather a unique combination of the three. So, they can’t go back “home,” as South Africa is their home, not Europe
Next, it is absurd to pretend that South Africa exists because of the blacks
The Afrikaners settled it and the English invested in it
Under the ANC, it is reverting to what it was before them, which is to say anarchy and below-subsistence poverty
Forcing the Boers away from their home will mean a total reversion to the nonentity the territory now called South Africa thanks to the Boers and English was before them
This is what happened to Rhodesia. It was built by the English, and Rhodesian culture was something new
Then the tribes that existed in paltry numbers before them destroyed it with the aid of evildoers abroad, and it has reverted to the hellish state of near anarchy and total poverty that existed before the Pioneer Column
So the Afrikaners are native to South Africa and have no “home” to go back to, as it is their home
If you made it this far, you really ought know that Mandela was a terrorist, and remained supportive of terror through 1990. Read the proof here: theamericantribune.news/p/nelson-mande…
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"It's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about... White farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated"
This is all true, but why won't the media write about it?
Since it shows why egalitarian democracy always fails 🧵👇
This is key to understanding South Africa: whatever its other faults, the apartheid regime built a prosperous, industrialized country
It was a leader in medical technology, had nuclear weapons, built a space program, and had the best army and infrastructure in post-colonial Africa. And that's amongst many other accomplishments
Now? Not so much: imagine an entire nation that looks like East St. Louis
The nukes are gone, its a leader in nothing other than crime and decay, it went from having a space program to being unable to produce clean water or reliable electricity, and entire cities have been depopulated thanks to crime and corruption-enabled decay
That is what has been wrought by Mandela and his successors
The reason this happened is that the Indochina was the original Rhodesia: a colonial conflict in which the Americans and communists worked hand in hand to destroy colonial, Christian society and spread communism
That lens is the only one that makes the war make sense
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First, we dragged the French along and let them waste their strength, political capital, and blood while providing just enough aid to keep them from losing but not enough to win
Then, when Dien Bien Phu came, we yanked it all away so that they lost in a humiliating defeat and their colonial project, and related war effort in Algeria, took an irrecoverable black eye
The French Empire was finished, and the communist bayonet, aided by our lack of commitment and domestic French leftist agitation, killed it
With that French defeat came the partition, and with it the crowding of the capitalists and Catholics into South Vietnam, with Diem as their leader
We backed Diem in a way that only made him unpopular, and once Diem leaned into pro-Catholic policies, something that would have separated the South from the North and given it a continued reason for resistance, the CIA murdered him and replaced him with a succession of awful and ever more incompetent puppets
Lee Kuan Yew notes in From Third World to First that this was a terrible idea
The central reason the American Revolution proved successful in creating a free and prosperous nation is that the Founders, many of them Virginia and New York gentry, embraced rather than rejected hierarchy
This separated, in practice, our Revolution from the horrors of the egalitarian French Revolution, and is what led to America’s subsequent success as France floundered, though both used similar language about rights and liberty
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This often gets forgotten because 1) they rejected creating a British-style peerage after the war (though they did create the Society of the Cincinnati), and 2) the war is now framed not as a dispute over local sovereignty but rather as a rejection of British culture
That’s an incorrect interpretation of what happened
The central fact is that American culture remained resolutely English in the decades after the war, however much some radicals hated England
This is obvious even in superficial respects.
The White House is a Palladian country house. 4/5 of our first presidents were country gentlemen who ran plantations as their cousins across the ocean ran estates. They are with silver, constructed country manors, hunted the fox on horseback, drank port by the gallon, and otherwise followed the culture traditions of their English ancestors
Similarly, the Scots-Irish, though significantly more hostile to Britain, retained the traditions of their Borderer ancestors, particularly surrounding local leadership by the major men of quality
Every study of the economic contributions of immigrants has shown that only some East Asians - namely the Japanese - and those of European descent in any way contribute to the public coffers on a net basis. The other groups drain them in a huge way
This same general thing bears out in America: the net fiscal impact of those "undocumented folk" is severely negative...
A rat done bit my sister Nell // with whitey on the moon
If anything symbolizes the noxious race communism strangling our civilization, it's this song, Whitey on the Moon, a paean to the stultifying Stone Age spirit of the global favela
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(video by @kunley_drukpa)
The long and short of it is that we face a time for choosing.
Will we embrace what is represented now by SpaceX and Apollo — greatness, aesthetic beauty, and feats of technological brilliance and daring beyond anything seen before?
Or will we embrace the global favela — the spirit, smell, and aesthetic of the steaming, putrid air of a decaying village in Dahomey?
There are a great many people that identify with Whitey on the Moon
They claim to want no leaps forward until everyone is pampered by the nanny state, living in luxury because someone else paid their doctor's bill, as the song's sullen artist indicates
But what they really want is a dragging of all of us into a global favela. They hate any form of achievement, because it reminds them there is nothing they could ever achieve
They, like the glowering savage in the picture below, want to crush anything excellent, beautiful, or marvelous merely because it is so; it reminds them that their ancestors never invented the wheel, and barely escaped the Stone Age
What separated Rhodesia from the rest of the West?
One key matter: it focused on excellence in an age when all others transitioned to ruthless egalitarianism
As Ian Smith put it in the clip below, “We simply have a standard”
That standard is what made the West great
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This is, I think, really the key differentiating factor and is what makes it so interesting to me
In an era when America was in the throes of Civil Rights egalitarianism, tearing down everything to make communist-connected rebels happy, and England was at war with its heritage, taxing those who embodied that heritage out of existence while confiscating their houses, Rhodesia chose the other path
That other path was the one that really matters: it was simply having standards
Their elections are the best example of this. Those weren't racial, but rather required those who were to vote in national elections first prove to the country that they could be stewards, shown through their being stewards in their own lives
Hence the property qualification: requiring the equivalent of $60k in 2024 USD in Rhodesian property, they largely succeeded in screening out those who were irresponsible.