I’ll send my compliments to your Rhodesian address.

@mathprofbrony
Seethe harder. As long as we live here in Rhodesia she will never die, commie scum!

Thank you for your erudite, finely reasoned contribution to the discussion which so clearly showcases the superiority of education outside of those regions, which consequently also gives me another in my approximately annual series of reasons to come back here and tell another racist to kindly piss off into the same historical roundfile as the country he so admires.

@Background Pony #A466
zimbabwe is such a shithole it shouldn’t have no right to exist same thing with haiti

Pretty sure it’s pretty dead, bwah.

Rhodesia will never die!

“And eventually we get utterly forgotten by history, until some fucker wears our flag and shoots up a bunch of innocent black people, which suddenly makes us popular again among racists who had never heard of us before.”
 
Nice tune, has a beat, you can mass-murder to it.

@Background Pony #09D6  
“Because were all rhodesians and fight through thick and thin”

@RhodesiansNeverDie  
“Well go alone with pride”

dontsayitdontsayitdontsayit RHODESIA SHALL LIVE ON! FUCK!

Rest in peace sweet Rhodesia, you were too good for this world

@BigMax  
The fact more than half of the army and business in Rhodesia were black also sort of undermines any claim that it was just another Apartheid. Smith feared communist and how they sold the blacks the idea that communist would make all of them wealthy because reasons, because their ideology is retarded and destroys every country they’re allowed to have real power. Anyone defending Zimbabwe can only be said to prefer ideology over people.

somebody post this on /k/,i wanna see their reaction

@Alex Vostox  
It’s all been a matter of false perception and political correctness for merely electoral motivations. They simply could not support a country with racial laws.

@BigMax
 
 
Welp, Blame Thatcher and Jimmy Carter for that. Their failure to help and stem communist advance on once great Rhodesia breed what a poophole now we called Zimbabwe..

Welp, I say this is slightly better than >>931882

the FAL is a rotten gun.

@mathprofbrony  
“Reorganized”.

Whoever made this picture probably never heard of the place until it made the news that Dylann Storm Roof wore the Rhodesian flag before shooting nine black people. That would be enough to give the country a halo for the editor, no doubt.
 
Long and the short of it is that Rhodesia existed solely to maintain the power of the white colonialist minority over the native Africans. Nobody ever recognized it and it shortly reorganized as another country. I think that’s a pretty good definition of a failed state.

@panzerkampfpony  
“Failed” in what sense? Rhodesia was a country far more advanced economically and technologically than most African countries of the time.  
Of course it had racial laws, so it wasn’t a dream land if you were black back then.
 
But I think the worst part came when it was swallowed by guerrilla factions. You know nothing good can come out of them.

@Background Pony #52F1  
Rhoesia was anti-communist, not racists. I suggest you try to find apartheid like laws in their law code. It might be an enlightening experience for you. Everything Smith predicted would happen has happened, and all his predictions were based upon the fact the armies fight the Rhodesian were communist that couldn’t be trusted, using cheap rhetoric to get the supports of the blacks. These communist, like communist and socialists are wont to do, eventually destroyed the lives of those very people they got the support of and blame those who didn’t for their continous failure.
 
 
@panzerkampfpony  
I can’t speak for the others, but rhodesia wasn’t a failed state. It was a growing economy that was raising the standard of living of everyone in their territory, produced roughly 25-35% of all the food that Africa was making at the moment, and many other achievements. Zimbabwe, the resulting state after giving power to the communist? Now that’s a failed state. Rhodesia wasn’t perfect, but it literally didn’t fuck its popilation over government policy.

@Background Pony #52F1
 
No: Pro Rhodesia = Pro Civilization.

Never got the nostalgia people have with failed states like Biafra, East Germany, Rhodesia and the CSA.

pro-Rhodesia = pro-racism