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Posted: 7/14/2021 9:54:20 PM EDT
[#1]
Has OP not seen the movie Zulu?
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Posted: 7/14/2021 9:54:57 PM EDT
[#2]
Too busy industrializing Gaza.
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Posted: 7/14/2021 9:56:02 PM EDT
[#3]
Political instability...among other things.
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Posted: 7/14/2021 9:58:13 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/14/2021 9:58:41 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The problem with Africa, is that it’s full of ________. I literally laughed out loud |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 9:58:50 PM EDT
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Well, in the 1960's they were on their way to industrialization. Then......Africa happened. All over Africa, the former industrial infrastructure is rusting away. Railroads are cut up and sold to the Indians and Chinese as scrap metal, highway bridges are left to rot until they collapse, aircraft and airfields ate looted and cut up to make pots, and looted mines dot many areas of the continent. Many older Africans with 8th grade or better educations regale their nearly-illiterate grandchildren and great-grandchildren with stories of the past about bus systems, telephone networks, fully-stocked stores and cafes, train trips, etc. There are many factors that led to this co this outcome, and historians will argue forever over which factors(s) was/were the primary cause(s) of Africa's "failure to launch".
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:02:33 PM EDT
[#7]
Let's industrialize yet another group of people that hate us, brilliant idea!
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:04:05 PM EDT
[#8]
Reminds me of Kipling's "The White Man's Burden". Great poem. Great author.
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:06:15 PM EDT
[#9]
Christianity is exploding in Africa. Really cool to see.
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:07:36 PM EDT
[#10]
Because its Africa
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:07:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Christianity is exploding in Africa. Really cool to see. No woke Methodists over there. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:08:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:09:26 PM EDT
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Well those in America who hate America figure they had a much better chance getting primitive backwards America hating China industrialized and invading America long before they could ever get Africa to.
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:10:03 PM EDT
[#14]
Lots of raw materials in Africa. Like S.America.
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:12:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I read a good article by an American in Africa who said the US perceives Africa as a giant shit hole not bothering with. The Chinese view Africa as "some parts we can make a buck in" and with super populated and competitive China it's worth the risk to strike out and gamble in trying to make money in Africa No doubt. Anyone that travels Africa will tell you that the Chinese are all over. Every airport I’ve been at has had Chinese flying in and out, even Liberia.  I stayed at the Sheridan in Addis Abba and it was full of Chinese businessmen and women. They even had an entire Chinese breakfast spread in one of the restaurants. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:16:11 PM EDT
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minimal infrastructure outside of the coast, political instability in every nation, major nasty diseases, corruption on the level that makes democrats look like saints, the list goes on and on.
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:16:38 PM EDT
[#17]
 African Airplane Compilation | African Aviation |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:18:14 PM EDT
[#18]
The average IQ there is roughly 64. That's why.
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:18:52 PM EDT
[#19]
It is bad enough that jobs have gone to all of these other shit holes over the last hand full of decades. As the economies of those nations improve, their people have more disposable income so they consumer more which puts pressure of raw materials and goods which drives up prices for us. So do we want to send more jobs to Africa?
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:19:13 PM EDT
[#20]
Read the book "Something of Value" by Robert Ruark. The answers you seek are within.
For every step forward made in Africa, tens steps are taken backwards. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:19:28 PM EDT
[#21]
The answer is: Because math is racist, and there is no industry without math ?
Did I win the cookie ? |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:20:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I read a good article by an American in Africa who said the US perceives Africa as a giant shit hole not bothering with. The Chinese view Africa as "some parts we can make a buck in" and with super populated and competitive China it's worth the risk to strike out and gamble in trying to make money in Africa The Chinese had a substantial presence in every city I went through in Africa when I was doing work over there. Africa has the natural resources that mainland China does not. Hard to start up manufacturing operations in an unstable political environment. Too much capital involved. Most of Africa is politically unstable. Ergo, we primarily engage in trade with them for resources and raw materials as opposed to highly manufactured goods. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:26:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If we don’t export freedom there. China will by it up and build communism. Will? Try "has begun to". |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:30:31 PM EDT
[#24]
Because shit would be dismantled and sold for scrap.
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:32:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It’s a continent of exploitation. Always has been. Then we would have factories there and not China |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:33:15 PM EDT
[#26]
I think China's already on it.
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:33:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No doubt. Anyone that travels Africa will tell you that the Chinese are all over. Every airport I've been at has had Chinese flying in and out, even Liberia. I stayed at the Sheridan in Addis Abba and it was full of Chinese businessmen and women. They even had an entire Chinese breakfast spread in one of the restaurants. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:35:05 PM EDT
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Quoted: Surely there is something that can be made there 
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:39:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Chinese beat us to it. Plus, they have the will to dominate we lack. So the Draka are actually the Han Chinese and not a bunch of displaced American southerners and English? That's fucked up. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:42:40 PM EDT
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Quoted: I cannot think of a single thing I own that says made in Africa. Surely there is something that can be made there.  I met a local guy about 10 years ago who would set up textile operations in the cheapest labor markets he could find. At the time he was making clothing for Harley Davidson in East Africa cause Asia had gotten too expensive. Guy had some awesome stories, like running factories in the middle of Central American civil wars paying off both sides for protection. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:46:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We all know the reason, but if we say it we get banned. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:46:13 PM EDT
[#32]
We will right after we're done turning middle eastern countries into functioning democracies with the rule of law and respect for individual rights
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:57:46 PM EDT
[#33]
C'est l'Afrique, c'est comme c'est.
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Posted: 7/14/2021 10:58:54 PM EDT
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Trying does not mean succeeding.
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:04:13 PM EDT
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Quoted: Why do we set up factories in Thailand, Mexico, India, China, Malaysia, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, etc…. But nothing in Africa. I cannot think of a single thing I own that says made in Africa. Surely there is something that can be made there. Really? Read up on the Belgian Congo. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:04:23 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The problem with Africa, is that it’s full of ________. Chinese. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:07:01 PM EDT
[#37]
What is an inability to keep themselves from looting and destroying required distribution hubs?
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:08:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lack of maintained infrastructure due to the failure of the colonial governments to create a governing structure that was sustainable upon independence? With the tribalism a lasting governing structure that encompasses a former colony rarely works. I can think of several though, Kenya, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia. Mozambique and Tanzania might make it. Usually, a governing structure lasts one dictator’s life.m span. ETA: The idea of preventative maintenance and it’s benefits, or even just preparing for tomorrow is largely foreign to indigenous Africans. No joke. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:08:14 PM EDT
[#39]
Genesis 4:12
King James Version 12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. You cannot escape the Book! |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:12:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We tried, back in the 70s and 80s. Ask Volkswagen and Pepsi how it works when the government decides to nationalize your factory. Plus the Ford, GM and Coca Cola factories in South Africa. Ford of South Africa built some kickass performance cars using American 302s and European bodies. When the country was blacklisted by Carter and those companies pulled out, the Ford engineers moved to Australia and fueled Ford's performance boom there. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:20:41 PM EDT
[#41]
Because all business disputes would be
resolved with machetes. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:47:08 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The problem with Africa, is that it’s full of ________. Lions, I mean real lions, not like those lions you be fucking with at the zoo "Hey lion, motherfucker", nah man, these lions will eat yo ass. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:47:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We have hundreds of thousands of people illegally crossing our southern border on this subject the dimocrats aren’t interested in getting to the root cause. I would rather see us work to get rid of corruption and industrialize Central America than Africa. That would require our crooks in the govt. to have their crooks in the the govt. run out on a rail as opposed to the emulation our politicians currently have for them. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:52:00 PM EDT
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Quoted: Why do we set up factories in Thailand, Mexico, India, China, Malaysia, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, etc…. But nothing in Africa. I cannot think of a single thing I own that says made in Africa. Surely there is something that can be made there. China has paid too much money to USA politicians to have the USA go and making money off of anything. I mean, look at Afghanistan. USA soldiers spill blood and guts to "keep the country safe" just so the Chinese can get sweet mineral mining deals.  China was bitching last week over the USA pulling out. Apparently it's making the country unsafe for Chinese business interests. All while the commie media tells their voting drones to throw a fit if the USA makes money in a foreign country. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:52:04 PM EDT
[#45]
OP is channeling Rudyard Kipling. Let China have Africa. The US has had enough savage wars of peace.
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:53:14 PM EDT
[#46]
Yeah... several European countries tried that in South Africa, Namibia, and other places there.
And we see how that all worked out...
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:54:01 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Lots of raw materials in Africa. Like S.America. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:59:33 PM EDT
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thread title makes it sound so easy..
  Why is Africa Still So Poor? I watched this video the other day, I thought it was a rather fair take... you can judge for yourself, it's 40 minutes.. |
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Posted: 7/14/2021 11:59:43 PM EDT
[#49]
Why do my tax dollars need to go to another shithole?
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Posted: 7/15/2021 12:02:54 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We have hundreds of thousands of people illegally crossing our southern border on this subject the dimocrats aren’t interested in getting to the root cause. I would rather see us work to get rid of corruption and industrialize Central America than Africa. That would require our crooks in the govt. to have their crooks in the the govt. run out on a rail; as opposed to the emulation our politicians currently have for them. |
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