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

🧵👇 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

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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

Continued below 👇 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

A very short🧵👇

This is just false

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

A short 🧵👇

(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?

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

🧵👇 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

Below, Elon argues DOGE is fighting the bureaucracy, and thus might restore Democracy in America

He's right to call bureaucracy the enemy of the people, but wrong to say it's the enemy of democracy

The two go hand in hand, as the West's 20th century decline shows

🧵👇 First, what Elon told Rogan was partially correct, but mostly incorrect

He said, “The reality is that our elected officials have very little power relative to the bureaucracy until DOGE. DOGE is a threat to the bureaucracy—it's the first threat to the bureaucracy. Normally, the bureaucracy eats revolutions for breakfast. This is the first time that they're not, that the revolution might actually succeed, that we could restore power to the people instead of power to the bureaucracy.”

In some ways, that is obviously correct. DOGE is indeed at war with the bureaucracy, as shown by the firings, the court cases, the budget freezes, and so on

Elon, and thus DOGE, recognize that the federal bureaucracy is not only overly expensive, but has been spending and regulating in a way that makes it hard to do anything in America, particularly anything worth doing. Business is burdened by taxes and constrained by onerous regulations. Hiring is difficult, and firing an incompetent employee of a "protected" race is nearly impossible. Innovation is stifled by aging bureaucrats. The Deep State has been weaponized against conservatives, and most bureaucrats go along with it because they just want their pensions.

So, DOGE is indeed at war with the bureaucracy, is winning some battles, and the bureaucracy is clearly the enemy of the American people

I’ve seen much talk about what visas the US ought have, from golden visas to H-1bs

Often missed is that all are highly destructive, lacking a critical focus: assimilation

Rhodesia shows assimilation-focused immigration builds national prosperity without destroying culture🧵👇 This was a critical problem Rhodesia had nearly from the beginning, even as it was still a private colony being built by Rhodes and the British South Africa Company:

Its vast veldt and resultant massive farms, paired with its Anglo roots and the strict criteria on who was in the original Pioneer Column, created a unique and highly distinctive national culture

“We will expropriate land without compensation whether [whites] like it or not. If they object, they can seek refugee in America.”

South Africa is going full Zimbabwe. Never go full Zimbabwe.

A reminder of what happened in Rhodesia and why that's a warning for South Africa🧵👇 As a reminder, Rhodesia was essentially the opposite of either Zimbabwe or modern South Africa

It was prosperous, had no anti-black or anti-white apartheid laws, had functioning civil infrastructure, and was a breadbasket rather than a land of fallow farms that have been handed to incompetents out of a desire for racial redistribution

One of the states I find most fascinating, after Rhodesia, of course, is Singapore

Why?

Because, it, in its undemocratic nature and drive for excellence, shows how we can escape our current decline and build a future of greatness even as decline surrounds us

A short 🧵👇 Why is it a glimpse at a good future?

It, much like Rhodesia, embraced the functional aspects of our civilization without the egalitarian insanity

As such, it shows what me must avoid to have a thriving society

It is undemocratic, and thus practical rather than ideological, prosperous rather than race communism obsessed, and gleaming rather than covered in the usual refuse of the Third World and increasingly Third Worldified West

The trend for the past century and a quarter, one partially shown by this superb video, is that houses prices in gold got cheaper, but priced in fiat they've gotten hugely more expensive

The truth, then, is that Houses Aren't Getting More Expensive, You're Getting Poorer

🧵👇 This chart provides a good showing of the gold trend, though it only goes until 2020, after which the trend accelerated

Priced in gold, which is useful because it represents the cost in a relatively stable fraction of global production, houses have gotten noticeably cheaper while growing larger and more complex

Priced in fiat, they've become unaffordable to the majority of the country

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 🧵👇 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 country

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

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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

"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 bloc

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

https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/1888566267000287478

I remain shocked by how many people are like "this is good, actually, and America should listen to him"

There's something about colonial advertisements like this that's just fantastic

A quick 🧵 with some of my favorites 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

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

🧵👇 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 fortunes

President Trump has indicated he wants tariffs on a grand scale, and that the McKinley presidency is his model for doing so

Why’s that important?

McKinley saved America with his responsible attitude and protection-minded tariffs, and Trump could do the same

🧵👇 The history of the McKinley tariffs is quite interesting. So far, my favorite book on his policies is In the Days of McKinley, but if you want a faster primer, @MTClassical has a superb show on the subject

In any case, the basic problem McKinley faced is this: decades of tight, gold standard monetary policy and relatively unprotective trade policies in the period between the War Between the States and 1890 meant significant deflation in goods prices, particularly commodities and those manufactured goods in which Europe had a head start

This is very much a civilization-destroying idea

Barbarism is the inability to think of and plan for tomorrow, much less past it

Civilization, then, is when men plant trees in the shade of which they will never sit, and greatness and success are measured by their doing so🧵👇 Think of what it takes to build the sort of structures we associate with the great civilizations

The Pyramids of Egypt

The Acropolis of Athens

The Flavian Amphitheater of Rome

Hagia Sophia

Notre Dame

What is similar about them? Legacy is the point. They take years to build, with the work often going on for decades and outlasting the life of he who started construction

But when finished their stone stands as a testament for all time to the builder. Like the Pantheon declaring M. Agrippa, he built this, or as we still know the road Censor Appius Claudius Caecus built as the Roman way, they are a legacy that lasts for millennia

This is one of the stupidest, most mendacious claims of the favela Christian, "shithole socialist" talking points

God doesn't command you to import infinity violent foreigners into your country

In fact, the Bible is against doing so and describes it as a "disaster" 🧵👇

https://twitter.com/michaelt5656/status/1883627801544429895

First, having foreigners invade you is actually a punishment levied for not obeying God...not a commandment of His

Deuteronomy 28:43-45 provides, "Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours. They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers. All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep all the laws that he gave you."

South African President Ramaphosa signed off on a new South African Land-Expropriation Law

It allows for the expropriation of property by the state for the purposes of ethnic economic equity, meaning white property will be stolen

This is how Mugabe destroyed Rhodesia🧵👇
The new law replaces South Africa's Expropriation Act of 1975. Under it, the government is allowed to seize land in the name of "public interest."

And what does that mean? In addition to the normal preeminent domain reasons, per Section 25 of the Constitution, it means "the nation's commitment to land reform, and to reforms to bring about equitable access to all South Africa's natural resources."

This is oft-repeated, but not true

That's because what it means, letting the cream of society rise to the top, leads to huge outcome differentials to which egalitarian liberalism reacts with fury

In fact, it's why the West destroyed Rhodesia and won't tolerate this either🧵👇 The simple fact is there are differences in culture and capability that are generally attendant with ethnic differences. Those, in turn, result in differences in outcome

British doctor Theodor Dalrymple, describing how that played out in Rhodesia, where he worked, 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.

“These obligations also explain the fact, often disdainfully remarked upon by former colonials, that when Africans moved into the beautiful and well-appointed villas of their former colonial masters, the houses swiftly degenerated into a species of superior, more spacious slum. Just as African doctors were perfectly equal to their medical tasks, technically speaking, so the degeneration of colonial villas had nothing to do with the intellectual inability of Africans to maintain them. Rather, the fortunate inheritor of such a villa was soon overwhelmed by relatives and others who had a social claim upon him. They brought even their goats with them; and one goat can undo in an afternoon what it has taken decades to establish.”