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unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Rutibex posted:

colonialism, basically. its like asking why a hooker smokes meth after shes been hosed by gross guys all day

except the meth is poop

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Freaking Crumbum
Apr 17, 2003

Too fuck to drunk


WorldsStrongestNerd posted:

In any case, I've always found it fascinating how the white man got on the cusp of total world domination, then got cold feet and pulled back in a wave of doubt and self disgust.

physical occupation of a place is exhaustive of both manpower and resources and national will. we just figured out it's 1000000% easier to rule them economically, and leave any acts of physical coercion (when necessary) to whatever local group is willing to suck our dicks for the time being

20matar
Jul 9, 2013

70fugir

unpacked robinhood posted:

Needs more AKs and AIDS

Yeah, you know the Romans loved rifles.

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free
rhodesia lmao

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Gaunab posted:

this thread is a great place for "ironic" racist

Yeah, if it's trolling it's still dumb and awful so it's hard to see the point.

BigBoss
Jan 26, 2012

by Lowtax

Nation posted:

basically they gave guns to the germs and now they steal

:pusheen:

EmperorFritoBandito
Aug 7, 2010

by exmarx

unpacked robinhood posted:

Needs more AKs and AIDS

Pic on the right is actually the AIDS virus under very intense magnification

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free
I dunno why we should be sending aid to africa when they have so many aids already

Zeno-25
Dec 5, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

XMNN posted:

decolonisation happened in the 60s you colossal loving moron

Hong Kong was decolonized in 1997, Africa has had more than enough time

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine

Zeno-25 posted:

Hong Kong was decolonized in 1997, Africa has had more than enough time

ITS ONLY BEEN 50 YEARS THATS CERTAINLY NOT ENOUGH TIME TO GET BACK ON YOUR FFET!




*doesn't put 2 and 2 together*

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

the only variable here i can see that is different is africa is full of blacks

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine

TEAYCHES posted:

the only variable here i can see that is different is africa is full of blacks

Africa is a collection of countries

there's places like Lagos, Nigeria that do very well for themselves. There's not just one type of African person, much like there's not just one type of european

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

The Taint Reaper posted:

Africa is a collection of countries

there's places like Lagos, Nigeria that do very well for themselves

so what explains africa?? the world is looking for answers and turns to you, taint reaper. what do we do?

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid

The Taint Reaper posted:

ITS ONLY BEEN 50 YEARS THATS CERTAINLY NOT ENOUGH TIME TO GET BACK ON YOUR FFET!




*doesn't put 2 and 2 together*
sorry i just didnt trust the guy who cant even get basic facts right for analysis of the black mans savagery

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine

TEAYCHES posted:

so what explains africa?? the world is looking for answers and turns to you, taint reaper. what do we do?

Well first off you would have to dig a shitload of man made canals all over the continent in order to have enough water to supply agriculture. Maybe even turn a mountain range into an inland sea.

Africas hosed because poo poo is too spread out.

glowstick party tonight
Oct 4, 2003

by zen death robot
capitalism and tribalism are actually quite similar

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine

mdm posted:

capitalism and tribalism are actually quite similar

it really isn't because tribalism is an entire governence system where as capitalism is all based in the economy. Tribalism still keeps loving the native american tribes that still roll with it. The tribes that integrated into modern society and did poo poo like start banks and just have their ancestry just be a novel point of intrest all are thriving.

Because on native american reservations the tribal leader always plays favorites. So if you fix up your house nice the chief or whatver can force you to give up your place to his friends or cronies or else you're exiled. That's why nobody really fixes poo poo on reservations, because the moment something looks nice it gets taken away from them..

glowstick party tonight
Oct 4, 2003

by zen death robot

The Taint Reaper posted:

it really isn't because tribalism is an entire governence system where as capitalism is all based in the economy. Tribalism still keeps loving the native american tribes that still roll with it. The tribes that integrated into modern society and did poo poo like start banks and just have their ancestry just be a novel point of intrest all are thriving.

Because on native american reservations the tribal leader always plays favorites. So if you fix up your house nice the chief or whatver can force you to give up your place to his friends or cronies or else you're exiled. That's why nobody really fixes poo poo on reservations, because the moment something looks nice it gets taken away from them..

lol nice :chanpop:

7c Nickel
Apr 27, 2008
One of the reasons that you don't know about African cultures and achievements is that the colonizers actively attempted to destroy and suppress that knowledge. When the evidence was too large for that to work, like with the Great Zimbabwe ruins, they instead tried to claim that white people actually built them. You see some Romans got lost one day and ended up in the middle of southern Africa.

Yolomon Wayne
Jun 10, 2014

You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is
Grimey Drawer
You mean like how africa had electricity 4000 years ago?

FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy

The Taint Reaper posted:

Africa is a collection of countries

there's places like Lagos, Nigeria that do very well for themselves. There's not just one type of African person, much like there's not just one type of european

Yes there is. The European is a lazy socialist white guilt soccer living fruit. The ones who aren't Muslim yet, I mean.

Shadow
Jun 25, 2002
lol if you compare Hong Kong's colonization to Africa's. holy poo poo this thread....

various cheeses
Jan 24, 2013

probably because you get eaten by lions and poo poo if you venture outside your village

SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe

CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:

because of white ppl

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

Tramadol Junkie posted:

Because of their low IQ's, simian-like brains, laziness, their stupidity, their complete inability to handle even the simplest tasks. Their is so much research demonstrating that Africans do not perform well on standardized tests of intelligence, college entrance exams, and in terms of academic achievement. In fact, they perform abysmally, in all regards, and so outside the norms that one must question their very humanity. Africa is almost nearly an entire continent inundated with a mass of human failures.



(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

All humans have "simian-like brains". That's because humans are simians, so whatever our brains are like is, by definition, "simian-like". lmfbo at calling other people stupid when you don't understand basic phylogeny.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Europe still had full-blown colonies in Africa into the 1960s, and when that system collapsed it wasn't a dignified handing over of power--it was through civil war and rebellion. Since then it's been a struggle for African countries to get off the ground for the same reason a lot of Middle Eastern countries are still so lovely. Borders were drawn by Europeans with no consideration for African ethnic and cultural presence, so you have people groups split between multiple countries and majority groups oppressing those split minorities because that's what people do. The people in charge are backed up by Europe, America, and Asia because it's not like colonies going out of style was going to stop outsiders from wanting all those resources.

But D&D taught me that civil war and revolution leads to a socialist utopia???

Dr. Eldarion
Mar 21, 2001

Deal Dispatcher

The Taint Reaper posted:

there's places like Lagos, Nigeria that do very well for themselves

Yeah well anywhere with that much royalty crammed into one location has to be pretty nice.

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Unknowable Hole
Feb 2, 2005


Pillbug
A large mustachioed fellow stepped on all the good parts.

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