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

A short 🧵👇
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.”

A huge problem with illegal immigration is that it brought truly nasty people here, from random criminals to MS-13-style gangs, and created a significant potential for South African-style farm attacks

This is a serious problem in some American farming towns, and in cities 🧵👇 First, as to the scope of the problem:

This is a major problem that's not often thought about, but should be in mind given the Tren de Aragua (a gang of Venezuelan illegal immigrant criminals) takeover of apartment buildings across the country

But while cities are most thought of, it's a rural problem too. Farms have imported totally unvetted, often criminal, workers by the truckload, and the opioid crisis has meant the widespread establishment of drug networks spreading out across the heartland.

The county of Galax, VA, for example, has a significant MS-13 problem. Drugs and farm laborers meant the establishment of illegal immigrant networks, and that has meant gang networks as well

It's MLK Day. So, to pair that with my favorite subject, what was MLK's stance on Ian Smith's Rhodesia?

As could be predicted given his communist connections, he stood totally opposed to Rhodesia's existence and independence

Instead, he sided with the communist rebels🧵👇
First, yes, in addition to being a serial philanderer and plagiarist, MLK Jr. had communist sympathies

Namely, some of his closest advisors and speechwriters were outright members communists

One was Stanley David Levison. He, who worked for the defense of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, traitors who handed nuclear secrets to the Soviets, was known to the FBI as a major financial coordinator for the Communist Party USA through 1957. He was an advisor and close friend of King; Andrew Young, a main villain of the Rhodesia story, stated, "Stan Levison was one of the closest friends Martin King and I ever had. Of all the unknown supporters of the civil rights movement, he was perhaps the most important."

Another was Harry Wachtel. Another lawyer, he was a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America, and his wife was a communist too, being identified in 1944 as a member of King County Communist Party. Wachtel founded the Research Committee, which not only provided King with philosophical, financial, and legal help, but helped write many of his speeches. Wachtel handled King's estate after his death

Dressing down, which Fetterman is known for but nearly all do, is quite important

It shows why the American system seems to be falling apart, and why Trump represents a slight rejection of our present moment

Namely, it's a symptom of mass democracy and civilizational decay🧵👇 Dress is, as I spoke with @NecktieSalvage about recently, a great lens through which to view how a civilization is doing, whether it is vital or decaying

In vital ones, in ones that are doing well either on the upswing or in maintenance, you see willing formality amongst the top of the power and wealth elite, and striving to emulate them from the lower orders

Everyone wore a suit if middle/working class or morning dress/tails if middle-upper/upper class in Victorian/Gilded Age society, for example. We were doing well and wanted to show it. So you even see laborers doing their work in a waistcoat, and soldiers in formal dress

This isn't a new problem, but it's worth noting thanks to the TikTok mess:

The CCP's tentacles are buried deep in America, from Hollywood to land adjacent to military bases

I'll explain the 5 most worrisome means of subversion (none of them TikTok) in the 🧵👇 The first is the land matter:

Though some states are now starting to fight back against it and try to ban CCP-connected entities from buying land, the Red Chinese own about 400k acres of US farmland, most of it adjacent to US military bases

Why's this a problem?

Right now, as is already happening with drones spotted around 17 bases near which the Chinese own land, it makes surveillance, visual, electronic, and otherwise, of our bases easier. With land right there, and thus an excuse to be next to the bases provided, they have a far easier time of it with garnering what intelligence can't be captured by satellites (or balloons, for that matter).

In the event of war, this makes it far, far easier to wreak havoc on sensitive sites. Whether using drones to attack them, infiltrating the bases and attacking, providing intelligence back to the CCP, or otherwise, having vast acreage adjacent to US bases would be a boon for sabotage, intelligence, and targeting efforts

There's a reason other countries don't let foreigners buy land adjacent to their military bases, if they're allowed to buy land at all

What must be understood about the West's support for the communist terrorists who attacked Rhodesia is that supporting them meant supporting terror

Torturing civilians, shooting down civilian airliners, mining civilian roads - the commies did it all, and "we" supported them🧵👇 This is a critical point that was, of course, not discussed at the time and is often forgotten now

The rebels were called "terrs," or terrorists, by the Rhodesian government and civilians for a reason, and there's a reason the civilians stayed heavily armed

While they did fight the Rhodesian security forces, their operations mainly consisted of attacking civilians, black and white alike, in the hope that the terror would force the Rhodesian government to surrender. Eventually, that took its toll and started to work

The thing is, this meme is accurate: were it not for Reagan's abominable surrender on immigration policy, namely amnesty for 3 million illegals, this wouldn't be happening

If Trump wants to fix California, he'll have to do much the opposite. Fortunately, that's possible🧵👇 First, the policy. I've written about this before, so I'll keep it brief (more details in a linked thread at the end of this one)

Under the 1986 Immigration Bill, Reagan gave amnesty to nearly 3 million illegal immigrants (first 2.6 million, then 300k minors) who entered the country illegally before 1982

The bill was supposed to have limited future illegal immigration by enacting provisions like harsher punishments for business owners who hired illegals. But those were mostly stripped at the last moment in a bit of perfidy from the Democrats, and Reagan signed it anyway.

He was probably close to being senile at that point, so this was more an HW Bush decision than Reagan's alone. Still, he's the one who signed it

"You Best Start Believing in the South Africanization of America...You're In It!"

See the signal jammer?

This is the big change coming to American crime

We've long suffered the predations of criminals and their enablers, but signal jammer use shows how it'll get worse

🧵👇 First, here's how @k9_reaper described signal jammer use to me in a November of 2023 interview:

Signal jammers are being used for everything from everything from hijackings, cash-in transfer heists, home invasions, and farm attacks as well. So the signal jammer, depending on the model, works at blocking all incoming and outgoing signals from everything from cell phones to radios to even some security cameras in a range of 25 to 100 meters. The sole goal of a signal jammer is to ensure that your target can’t call for help. The reason they use them for farm attacks is that a lot of farmers are out of the community safety initiative and they rely on radios to be able to call for help to one another, to come and assist.

You’re probably thinking of that famous picture of that guy with the signal jammer backpack during a farm attack. It was like a black-and-white photo, and he had that proper military signal jammer. That wasn’t just anything you could get from Alibaba, or even from Mozambique and just driving it over the border or something. That was a proper military use jammer pack in use with the SADF. You’ll see a lot of military and ex-active duty military personnel in these farm attacks, and they often just take what they need from the military before they go out on the attacks.

In essence, the farm attacks are the most brutal thing anyone can imagine. They make those attacks going on in Israel and Gaza look like a walk in the park. And the use of the signal jammer packs is real. It is happening on a daily basis. Both to the citizens of the Republic of South Africa and to people they want to assassinate.

This is such nonsense

Ever since the Greeks built a culture around wine, the West has functioned quite well with alcohol as a social bedrock

And while min-maxing every tidbit of life is ridiculous anyway, there's not really evidence that reasonable drinking is bad for you🧵👇 First, the cultural aspect:

There is something unique about the West that was typified by its Mannerbund beginning but has held true through the ages; the ties of hierarchy, feelings of individualist, and pairings of brotherhood and merit created something truly astounding to behold

Such men could, with their ties that bind intact and providing strength and individual quest for honor and glory providing impulse, conquer the world

In fact, they quite literally did so; only a few minor realms remained outside Great Power control by 1913, and much of that had been conquered by adventurers of the Courtney Selous, James Brooke, and Julius Caesar mold. Men who created intense ties of brotherhood within their group and dominated the world as small bands

Meanwhile, back at home, the societies they lived in and which their compatriots built were, on the whole, more gorgeous than any competitors: where were the county houses of Imperial China, the parks and coverts of Mesoamerica, or the opera houses of Dahomey? None existed

Why did the West work with the communists to destroy Rhodesia?

Or, why would the "free" side of the Cold War ally with the communists to destroy a thriving, resource republic in a critical area

It makes no sense at first. But it makes much sense with a closer look 🧵👇 Critical to understand here is what the two main sides of the Cold War were

On one side was the communist block. It wanted, whatever its internal divisions, to spread communism abroad, mainly by launching revolutions within the old Empires of the Great Powers

The other side was America. It, by hook or crook, aimed to contain and then roll back communism, mainly by subsuming the same former Great Power colonies the communists were aiming for, and replacing colonial government with nationalist-minded locals that would engage in free trade with America and at least pay lip service to liberal democracy

One thing I've seen missed in the housing price debate on here the past few days is that, while the price of houses has increased tremendously in fiat cost over recent years, valued in real money it has held steady for a century

A short thread with some helpful charts🧵👇 This is one helpful chart given its length, and though it only goes to 2020, it does show the general trend:

Priced in real money, housing has actually gotten less expensive, even despite increasing in square footage, quality, and complexity; think of all the extra plumbing and electrical wiring now compared to 1900!

Meanwhile the fiat value has rocketed upward tremendously, as anything exponential eventually does

The only time housing increased priced in gold is when gold was artificially suppressed as inflation raged from the mid-1930s to gold being legal to purchase again in the 70s