Comments by "TheSuperappelflap" (@TheSuperappelflap) on "South Africa's Slow, Inevitable March Towards Collapse" video.

Dont worry, European politicians dont abdicate or get voted out if they get caught either
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@theviniso is it racist to say that standard of living in the west has declined since multiculturalism and mass import of people from other continents became the norm? because thats just a fact in my book.
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@CriticalCipher lack of proper nutrition during childhood and lack of education causes low iq. now imagine what happens if you bully and threaten all the people who did have proper nutrition and education until they leave the country. did i put this in a way that doesnt offend anyone? i hope so, because i cant say it in a more diplomatic way.
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could say the same about the Balkans, and yet there is the proof that misery doesnt have to be permanent.
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@engin3ar it has been from the ottoman rule up to quite recently. some might argue it still is. africa also had civilizations, look for example at ethiopia or egypt. or benin. even the nomadic people in the sahara region once had civilisations, before climate change and desertification forced them to become nomadic. during the roman period, carthage, founded once as a phoenician colony, definitely qualified as a civilisation, and north africa was the bread basket of the roman empire for centuries. it was during the arab invasion that this changed. forced from their homeland by climate change and overpopulation, the arabs overgrazed the land in north africa and it turned to desert. who knows what is still buried beneath the shifting sand?
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@engin3ar Ethiopia and Benin are technically sub saharan but okay, sure, generally you are right. Most of sub sahara has also historically been jungle and had very low population density, preventing forming of strong civilisations just like it did in the forests of northern europe. The environment prevented that until the romans showed up and introduced some new ideas. Perhaps if Rome had conquered further into Africa it would have had a similar effect, but the Sahara was too much of a natural barrier until shipbuilding technology, which the Romans werent the best at anyway, improved to the point that people could sail around that massive desert over open ocean. Saying that sub saharan Africa is hopeless, when they have had a few centuries of contact with what you would call civilisation, while most of northern europe has had that contact for two thousand years, is a bit ridiculous. Probably equivalent to how the Romans and Greeks thought about my barbarian people back then.
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@robscafidi4070 yes because its a tax haven lmao
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At least India is still a growing economy. The others, not so much.
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thats not an argument for libertarianism, its an argument for proper governance. unless you like digging your own wells and hiring bodyguards to drive your kids from your private gated community to your private school, then go ahead.
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@WhitefoxSpace you cant afford police and military in a society that is completely privatized. unless you are going to tax all those private businesses. so then you also need a tax agency, and a finance ministry, and a central bank and a legislative branch and judges and oops we invented government again. libertarianism is anarchy. you just dont want to be called an anarchist because of the connotations of that term. but hey if thats what you want i guess youre a lucky guy cause it sounds like anarchy is exactly what ZA has to offer. youd have to go to the western sahara or deep into the amazon rainforest to get anything similar.
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you cant simply take over a bureaucracy. historically, when a culture with a strong bureaucracy is "taken over" by a culture with a weaker bureaucracy, the opposite happens. see for example, when alexander the great conquered persia. or when the ottomans conquered persia. or when the romans conquered greece. couple years later everyone was speaking greek in the roman senate. the south africans went with the only other option and that is to completely remove the stronger bureaucracy, with nothing in its place.
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