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[–] pauly_pants 2 points 26 points 28 points (+28|-2) ago
It will be soon.
[–] CervicalStrike 6 points 18 points 24 points (+24|-6) ago (edited ago)
God, this is gonna be funny when it happens. Imagine the cultural Marxists being strung up like, "But...but...I just wanted to bring in more great vibrancy! D-d-diversity is our strength?!"
[–] mamwad 6 points 16 points 22 points (+22|-6) ago (edited ago)
Before they were colonized, the locals were part of a fairly complex society that made its money by controlling trade routes, mining gold, and harvesting ivory. Then, hundreds of years of colonialism sparked a protracted civil war that destroyed the economy and put nationalist warlords in power, who promptly killed the educated white people and fleeced the gullible, albeit legitimately pissed, masses. Kind of typical of most of human history, really.
[–] AlphaWookie [S] 5 points 17 points 22 points (+22|-5) ago
Explain Hong Kong Macau, Singapore, and The Republic of Ireland, then. They where colonized where they not?
[–] mamwad 6 points 14 points 20 points (+20|-6) ago (edited ago)
I don't understand your question. I'm not saying that history always takes this specific course. It just doesn't surprise me that it went down as it did. The cycle of the oppressed becoming the oppressor is typical, and drastic land reform measures (i.e. taking land away from people who know how to farm it and giving it to government cronies who don't) tend to lead to famine and/or economic collapse.
[–] primaryappellation 2 points 6 points 8 points (+8|-2) ago
They should be allowed to keep slaves again. It seemed to be the key to african civilization
[–] Thruxton 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
by controlling trade routes, mining gold, and harvesting ivory
You mean warlords robbing merchants, forcing slaves to mine gold and killing elephants for more gold. So, they are back exactly where they game form but with more powerful weapons.
Do you know that not a single African tribe/country ever made it to a proper iron age without the "evil" colonists getting involved. Most of them where stuck in stone age and many still are. I am not saying stone age is bad. Not at all.
[–] luckyguy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Reading up on it the only indicator that I see that they were advanced is that they traded. Nigerian gangsters do a lot of trading today. I wouldn't call them sophisticated. So do gypsies. Did they have secure households, education, and a lack of squalor? If somebody farmed something could they expect it to not be harvested by someone else?
The only thing I see is that they hunted elephants and got kind of good at making the ivory into things. They had a king but bush people with a power structure are still bush people. Maybe the king had cool artifacts. I see evidence of imports, but too often histroy measures the advancedness of a society by the richest person there. I don't think that's class centrism. I think it's creating excuses for the fact that a lot of societies that historians study are just backwards villagers or bushmen. Nobody wants to admit that they've dedicated their lives to studying idiots so they make up any way to spin that what they are studying is actually super sophiticated.
[–] Diogenes_The_Cynic 1 point 5 points 6 points (+6|-1) ago
Zimbabwe was never modern.
[–] PM_ME_UR_NOODZ 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
What's wrong with eating rats and mice?
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[–] SecularPenguinist 0 points 19 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago
You could always steal other people's rats.
[–] consumer_supplier 0 points 27 points 27 points (+27|-0) ago
You see, they have to steal each other rats. What else are they supposed to do? You gotta understand, they're from the hood. They ain't got no other options. /s
Seriously, can they not come together and build a single functional farm? Oh, that's right, people with "no options" would just rob it and burn it down. Damn, what a life...
[–] ratsmack 1 point 9 points 10 points (+10|-1) ago
Just like the hood.
[–] Lodley 2 points 14 points 16 points (+16|-2) ago
When the white farmers where deported the farmland was given to friends of the ruler that knew jack shit about farming and didn't have the capital to run large corporate farms that where there before. These are the poor hardworking farmhands that where making a living working for wealthy white farmers that where making enough food to feed the country and export. Zimbawe is really a test bed for everything not to do from an economic standpoint assumptions about monetary policy and property distribution that where just assumed to be correct where proven correct by Zimbawe.
It's ok, the white farmers where given land in neighboring Nigeria where they created new farms and brought money and jobs to an impoverished reign, whitey always wins.