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  • #61
    Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny View Post
    History can help you there. See Belgian Congo 1885-1908.
    It only became Belgian Congo after 1908.
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    • #62
      Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
      10 million is a highball estimate, while iirc 5 million is a lowball. They are in the same order of magnitude. I won't disagree that the Congo Free State was ludicrously awful, but I stand by my contention that it's not possible for governance in africa to get much worse than it is.
      There's actually been a lot of progress the past decade or two. Orderly democratic transitions are fairly normal now and policies tend to be more business-like instead being just being all about revolutionary/socialist fervour.
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      • #63
        Hard not to make progress with the bar set so low.

        Plus, modern communications shine a light on things that were previously hidden and/or ignored.

        Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
        Is picanninny a racial slur? That didn't strike me as racist.
        Holy crap, HC.
        Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
        RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-Arms

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        • #64
          Originally posted by -Jrabbit View Post
          Hard not to make progress with the bar set so low.
          The claim was that governance couldn't be worse than it is.
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          • #65
            Originally posted by -Jrabbit View Post
            Holy crap, HC.
            I'd never heard the term "picanninny" before. Absent that, it struck me as trying to be edgy by using vaguely racial undertones.
            If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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            • #66
              Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
              I'd never heard the term "picanninny" before. Absent that, it struck me as trying to be edgy by using vaguely racial undertones.
              I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
              [Brandon Roderick? You mean Brock's Toadie?][Hanged from Yggdrasil]

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              • #67
                Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny View Post
                Did this love for Boris shine on unabated when he was publishing racist stuff?
                Aptly put by his predecessor :

                'Everybody who’s never met him loves him, and the people closest to him loathe him.’
                Remember, this is the self-publicist who lied to his wife, his editor, his party leader, the public, his party, et cetera.

                I can't wait for him to f*ck up again big time and have done with public life and politics.
                Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

                ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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                • #68
                  Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                  Is picanninny a racial slur? .
                  Are you really this stupid ? No, plead the Fifth.
                  Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

                  ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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                  • #69
                    Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                    It's hard to imagine Africa being run worse than it currently is. .
                    I don't know. You could have Americans in charge. You did such a superlative job in the only colony you have there.

                    And in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua....
                    Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

                    ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny View Post
                      Try checking them.
                      Oh come on. This is one of 'Poly's resident cheerleaders for apartheid era South Africa.


                      It's easy to talk of the rosy past of the colonial era in Africa when you know so little about it.
                      Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

                      ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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                      • #71
                        Originally posted by self biased View Post
                        OK I have no idea what this is from. I'm also not sure what his shirt says. Something monkey for life?
                        If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
                        ){ :|:& };:

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                        • #72
                          the interesting thing to discuss about boris johnson, is not the frequently made accusations of racism, which although not totally baseless, are really about a certain kind of colonialist attitude to places like africa, rather than prejudice based on skin colour, but rather the reason why he is popular. i think it's because he (and nigel farage for that matter) is seen as honest, compared to other political figures. this is rather ironic of course given his unrelenting dishonesty is all areas of his life, but there it is.
                          "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

                          "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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                          • #73
                            Originally posted by Colon™ View Post
                            The claim was that governance couldn't be worse than it is.
                            I was responding to:

                            Originally posted by Colon™ View Post
                            There's actually been a lot of progress the past decade or two. Orderly democratic transitions are fairly normal now and policies tend to be more business-like instead being just being all about revolutionary/socialist fervour.
                            Pick a lane.
                            Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
                            RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-Arms

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by C0ckney View Post
                              the interesting thing to discuss about boris johnson, is not the frequently made accusations of racism, which although not totally baseless, are really about a certain kind of colonialist attitude to places like africa, rather than prejudice based on skin colour, but rather the reason why he is popular. i think it's because he (and nigel farage for that matter) is seen as honest, compared to other political figures. this is rather ironic of course given his unrelenting dishonesty is all areas of his life, but there it is.
                              That and the British love an 'eccentric'. It's like watching a fat, less intelligent Magnus Pyke at times. And of course, for Johnson to pose as the swashbuckling outsider bringing truth and justice to Parliament or politics is truly hilarious.


                              He makes my flesh crawl.
                              Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

                              ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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                              • #75
                                yes that's definitely part of it. he's that posh buffoon that the british so love; a cuddly representative of the class born to rule.
                                "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

                                "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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