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  1. Scottty

    Rhodesia thread

    Those "Lawmakers" are not here to defend their point of view - but you are. And we're not blaming you, just disagreeing.
  2. Scottty

    Rhodesia thread

    Yeah the thing that the Global Warming Panic people don't want everyone to know is not that it's been colder a few centuries back, but that before that period, it was warmer. The Medieval Warm Period had temperatures that the Al Gore types would try to scare you with. And things were great...
  3. Scottty

    Rhodesia thread

    The cultural gap between German and Russian is nothing like that between English and Shona.
  4. Scottty

    Rhodesia thread

    They were. And it turns out that doing that made many of them want someone other than Mugabe running the show. To quote Thabo Mbeki: "It's easier to govern if the people are ignorant".
  5. Scottty

    Rhodesia thread

    The basic problem with Democracy, is that all the stupid people get to vote. But... all of this assumes something that isn't true - that Zimbabwe is a democracy. Nope. Rhodesia was arguably far more democratic, in that more of the population got an actual say in things. Communists don't do...
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