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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Joy Of Democracy
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:21:32 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-23, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2024-10-23 2:30 a.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-10-22, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2024-10-22 3:34 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2024-10-22, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-10-21 9:21 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:59:58 -0400, Joel wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I would almost believe this if Trump were going to win, but he isn't.
>>>>>>> Kamala will make him defeated again ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Harris seems guaranteed to win the popular vote over Trump. In a
>>>>>> democracy, that would be enough. In the US, it isn’t.
>>>>>
>>>>> Even the dumbest citizen knows that it wouldn't make sense for the
>>>>> presidency to be decided by the metropolises of the country simply
>>>>> because the agricultural sectors feeding the parasites of those areas
>>>>> are sparsely populated. The Electoral College ensures that people doing
>>>>> the real work get to have a say, not just the welfare recipients living
>>>>> in slums having twenty children despite not being able to feed any of them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Without such a system, there would be no reason for agricultural states
>>>>> not to decide to secede, especially since the politics of the masses are
>>>>> wholly incompatible with every one of their values.
>>>>
>>>> Yep. That's why the U.S. has an electoral college, so that a few cities
>>>> can't run the whole country.
>>>
>>> Considering who lives in places like Los Angeles and New York City, I
>>> don't see why anyone would be willing to give them as much power as they
>>> want. People whose IQ never reaches anywhere near 100 and with no hope
>>> or ever owning property shouldn't have any power whatsoever over politics.
>>>
>>> Once again, I submit Rhodesia as an example of how to do things right.
>>> Despite being landlocked, the British there turned a sparsely-populated
>>> land into the breadbasket of Africa. Whites and blacks both had the
>>> right to vote as long as they owned property and while this was the
>>> case, the country prospered. Then, the Communists emerged from every
>>> side to destroy it, and with the support of the Soviet Union, China, the
>>> United Kingdom and the United States, they ended up bringing it down to
>>> become Zimbabwe. Now, those brilliant progressives are starving and
>>> desperately asking the Whites to return to feed their useless asses.
>>>
>>> The lesson here is simple: don't let progressivism into your country.
>> 
>> Not just Rhodesia. South Africa was slated to be one of the top five
>> powerful countries in the world at one point (in the 70s or 80s). But I
>> think race relations were better in Rhodesia than in South Africa, even back
>> then.
>
> They were. I think that like in Angola and another African nations, the 
> blacks who had it quite good in Rhodesia were convinced by Communists 
> that it could somehow be better. Since Rhodesia was landlocked and 
> stripped of the aid they should have received from the UK at the very 
> least, the Whites fought to the end but couldn't stop the threat all 
> around them, including that of dumb blacks who rallied to the Communist 
> cause. I hope they enjoy the starvation they are now facing.

Putin has offered an opportunity for farm land to those displaced by this 
stupidity.

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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien