Comments by "Ayodeji Olowokere" (@ayodejiolowokere1076) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

  1.  @UzumakiNaruto_  if the world left Northern Europe alone the Germanic peoples and Finns would likely still live in thatched roof huts as well. Progress has always been spurred by contact with other peoples. Yet no people needed a yoke over them to progress. Why should the Africans be ruled over by aliens?
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  2.  @UzumakiNaruto_  If the surrounding world had never interacted with Northern Europe, the Germanic peoples and Finns would likely have never progressed beyond thatched roof huts either. Progress has always been spurred by contact with others. A yoke though? No.
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  3.  @UzumakiNaruto_  your own vice. The majority of Africans in North America are not involved in illegal activities. In fact, in the US they exceed the average household income.
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  4. What does that have to do with the video though?
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  5.  @1pcfred  it's not ideal but Southern Rhodesia was even worse.
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  6.  @angrydoggo7160  nah. Zimbabwe isn't segregated.
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  7.  @angrydoggo7160  they couldn't. It was capped.
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  8.  @karlwalters6975  this is false. Seats were reserved based on race. In the 1969 constitution, tax revenue by the entirety of races was used to determine individual representation. Only sixteen Africans could sit in parliament. And eight of those were aristocrats paid by the government.
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  9.  @daviddavidson2357  your point is nonsensical. Based on data, Rhodesia was even worse than Zimbabwe.
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  10.  @kazam3527  I don't feel like it. Look it up yourself. Compare literacy rates, infant mortalities and urbanization.
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  11.  @lishnyak1925  and based on that that explains why Russia and Eastern Europe are such a mess compared to the West and Japan, according to you.
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  12.  @lishnyak1925  and your point fails. The scale difference is more like comparing the Netherlands to Germany if you actually use a comparable ratio.
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  13.  @lishnyak1925  So North Korea is less developed than South Korea because of genetics? Belarus is less developed than Singapore because of genetics. You poor little baby.
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  14.  @lishnyak1925  you ignored everything else. Now you're back tracking because your argument has failed.
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  15.  @Donfryesmustache  war is politics. Your statement is meaningless.
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  16. @lishnyak1925  then you've destroyed your argument for me. You've admitted you create arbitrary points to determine what measures you determine national success by.
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  17. @lishnyak1925  and tell me. Why haven't you decided to employ that for the difference between Eastern and Western Europe, and North and South Korea?
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  18.  @lishnyak1925  learn what a strawman means.
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  19.  @lishnyak1925  you didn't.
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  20.  @lishnyak1925  when it benefits your argument it's genetic, when it doesn't, it's external factors.
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  21.  @lishnyak1925  none of your arguments are based on data. You just repeat yourself in different ways.
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  22.  @lishnyak1925  in the 1950s the average of the major US population was 85. Furthermore, poorer people across every cohort have a higher rate of offenses. Your arguments are useless.
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  23. @lishnyak1925  no. You don't. It's a culturally and motivation sensitive test that also sees population scores change across income brackets, and therefore over time.
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  24. @lishnyak1925  you're starting to bore me.
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  25.  @lishnyak1925  where are you even from? Ukraine?
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  26.  @lishnyak1925  if Asian folk in America have more wealth than the dominant US population, how can they come from environments harsher than Americans of African descent? And how can that be the case if the dominant population has more wealth than black Americans? You just make stuff up.
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  27.  @TheMostDeletedComments  hence why Rhodesia collapsed, I suppose.
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  28. @jaredmaxwell9225  you arbitrarily dismiss an industry to fit into your preexisting notions. Based on your way of thinking these countries should not have high HDIs at all. The fact you have to randomly dismiss their economic mainstays without justification shows how absurd your position is. And a high HDI is the objective reality not your irrelevant opinion.
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  29.  @The13thRonin  it's not. Now answer my question.
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  30.  @The13thRonin  These things happened in Rhodesia. Will you answer now?
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  31. ​ @urmum3773 and still lost.
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  32. @donaldgoodinson7550 it was a settlement arrived at after the guerillas destroyed the major petrol depot and South Africa pulled support. The rogue government capitulated because it could no longer continue indefinitely.
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  33.  @donaldgoodinson7550  the rogue government capitulated after the guerillas successfully destroyed its major petrol depot. After South Africa withdrew support it could no longer continue. This is a defeat.
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  34.  @donaldgoodinson7550  the government capitulated after the destruction of its major petrol depot, and the withdrawal of South African support as a result of their loss in confidence of the Rhodesians' ability to pacify the situation. Considering this was all a result of insurgent activity, this was an insurgent military victory.
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  35. @john-rambo-1982  so if you knew Rhodesia was an apartheid state, you'd still support it?
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  36.  @robboinnz  most white adults were not born there.
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  37.  @UzumakiNaruto_  the heck are you on?
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  38. @1pcfred  it's more developed than Southern Rhodesia in terms of human development. If you doubt me, look at literacy, life expectancy, infant mortality and urbanization rates. In addition, look at per capita income and keep in mind sites adjust these to the same dollar value.
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  39. @1pcfred  it hasn't been ideal but most of the people that take an interest in this topic have a ethnic supremacist bent. They distort the issue to fit their politics as a result. Rhodesia was a terribly underdeveloped state.
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  40. @1pcfred  I'd say being ruled against your will by outsiders is the worse of evils in this case.
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  41. @1pcfred  no. I'd rather feed myself if it came to that. If that's all your freedom is worth, reserve it for yourself.
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  42.  @1pcfred  no. I'd rather feed myself if it came to that. If that's all your freedom is worth, reserve that for yourself.
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  43. @1pcfred  the country saw even more poverty and food insecurity during the Southern Rhodesian period.
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  44.  @1pcfred  to be honest, I'm a little surprised, against my better judgement, you're just mindlessly supporting people because, like you, their roots are European. You have no care as to what they were doing or why. Oh well.
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  45. @1pcfred  it didn't. The government leased land to foreign nationals whose lands were confiscated. No one ever asked settlers to return.
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  46.  @1pcfred  it didn't. The government leased land to foreign nationals whose lands were confiscated as a condition for sanctions to be lifted. No one asked settlers to return.
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  47.  @1pcfred  time and time again, I point out Zimbabwe is more developed. Time and time again, you ignore this to defend people only because they're the same ethnic group as you.
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  48.  @1pcfred  they didn't. Land was leased as a condition for sanctions to be lifted.
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  49. @1pcfred  Unemployment Rate in Zimbabwe decreased to 9.10 percent in 2023 from 9.30 percent in 2022.
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  50.  @1pcfred  source: Trading Economics.
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