Rhodesia
>>64412683>RhodesiaRhodesia
We used to have daily threads. Just shows how much this place has changed over the last decade.
>>64412753>i wish we would have the same threads posting the same 100 images every day
>>64412759I don't care that much, I've moved on from it. I just think its notable how a topic that used to be such a foundational pillar of board culture is now largely forgotten.
>>64412772>hmm ya i dont actually really care, please understand i have no emotional attachment to this topic but i did make a thread about it.
>>64412803Im not OP. Seeing a Rhodesia thread in the catalog just made me remark on how unusual that was in the current year. Please stop malding.
>>64412683Indeed. Love the Leopard and how they and South Africa kinda wrote the book on COIN years before we'd figure it out in Afghanistan
>>64412772Rhodesian-wank went too far and the fanboys got annoying. It was a failed state run by absolute morons in a poorly run war that they lost. Yeah, a couple jokes about short shorts was funny, but there were actual people with no connection to the place getting "Let's slot floppies!" tattoos and other stupid shit. It's like some guy in Minnesota who's family didn't immigrate until post WW2 gushing about the CSA. Cringe af.>>64412826Board trends die out all the time. Back before the CZ75 was popular, it was a board darling as an underated pistol. But that ran it's course and people moved on, just like literally every other trend on this board.
Rhodesia is proof that the world can't handle a successful African state
>>64412914uhhh
>>64412928That's literally just an abandoned island full of talking lemurs, I don't know what you're trying to imply
>>64412939>i dont know what im talking about, i said something ignorant and i refuse to admit or even believe what i said was incorrect>it will be cringe to say anything other than "Yes."
>>64412759The Rhodesia posts will continue until such a time as morale improves
>>64412948>being this immune to a reference
>>64412683Is super!
>>64412683
>>64412683Cool aesthetics and military stuff, L on most other counts
>>64412928President was literally ousted some days ago due how much corruption and nepotism was ruining the country.
>>64413492So they have first world problems. Cool.
>>64412753>>64412772>>64412826We also used to have daily threads worshiping Russia, and daily threads devoted to racist memes about shooting Black robbers in self defense /k/ isn’t that place anymore, go to /pol/ for it
>>64412683Quod estis, nos fuimus; quod nunc sumus, vos eritis
>>64413492these are france overseas areas
Because of the Rhodie threads here i bought an Enfield SR1 and a Webley Mk IV BSAP and a baby poop striped No4Mk2. I read Tim Bax, Andrew Balaam and Chris Cocks while listening to Its a long way to Mukumbura.Had good times, great guns & reads.Dont miss it because of peer pressure, ek se.
>>64412769Is this Jennifer Connelly?
>>64412928>prez flees country>everyone lives in poverty>greatest export is povertyNot real successful.
>>64412683Rhodesia.
How much dakka can you fit on one unimog?You know the drill, /k/.I count at least for machine guns on this one returnig from a mozambique raid
>>64413639six tube launcherthe handle behind that guy looks like a .50and the mg in the foreground
>>64413639>>64413736what does the driver listen to?
>>64413739its fair to say the driver doesnt listen go anything at allwhats the twin mg?
>>64413739>eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
>>64413639The perfect anti drone measures
>>64412772We also used to autoban the word "nigger." Would you like to go back to that time?
>>64413622these places are apart of france
>>64413815>france>prime minister avoids no confidence by retracting unsustainable retirements >3rd president this yr outsted>riots and killings in the streetsNot suprised.
>>64414015No like really apart of france
>>64413755>>64413639does a twin mg count for 1 or 2?
>>64413807oh nigger my nigger
>>64414056Probably better off living on an active volcano, than Parisians livingnl in Paris.
>>64413807roody poo
>>64414015It wild how when out government shuts down life goes on like normal if you're not a welfare queen or federal employee. Meanwhile when France's government does the same its fucking pandemonium
>>64413639how much dakka? flakka - dakka.
>>64412683Rhodesia? Rhodesia
>>64414094The cringiest version of this was on the TTAG blog when some faggots were trying to make "nigizerang" be a thing, when we all knew they meant "nigger." My personal favorite was always "redguard."
>>64413639>>64413736>>64413755>>64414100you are all little babies>>64413739the more important question in this case is, what does the driver see?
all you need is unimog
>>64414118jesus christ, i can imagine
>>644136391xheavy mg2xmed mgbattle rifles for everyone (is this cheating?)
>>64414118Redguard was pretty good, I was partial to dunmer or N'wah. Jogger was also pretty good
another level
>>64414210Jogger is bad because the guy actually was just jogging.
>>64414254Is anyone really innocent? Are you?
>>64414251>shoots tire
>>64412683I've given you my allNow I'm nothingNothing nothing nothing nothing
>>64413511No your government getting coup'd is not a 1st world problem
>>64414301None are innocent gut Jesus, but some are more guilty than others.
>>64414330>somebody touched my stapler!!>reee!! off with their heads!!>Nancy Pelosi
This is a reminder that besides South Africa and Portugal, Israel was the one of the three countries in the world that actively bent over backwards to support Rhodesia by supplying military equipment and training to them, even when they got pressured to stopped helping them they still never sanctioned them.
>>64414254Lolno
>>64413618Yes, in 'blood diamond'. She is significantly not impressed when Leonardo Di Caprio's character says he isn't south african, he's rhodesian.
>>64415207Thx, thought it (she) looked all grown up.
>>64412683inb4 the globohomo woke glownigger JIDF redditor mods nuke the thread or move it to /pol/.
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>>64414254Wait he was? Then what was the hammer for?
The Selous Scouts are still revered and mythologized by all legitimate special forces around the world.
I'm surprised this thread hasn't gotten filled with seething faggots.>pic rel>i made it years back when discord troons were the ones mainly shitting up threads
>>64412683Top-tier looks IMO. That perfect middle ground of professional and slapdash, especially with their vehicles
>>64415480Nigger I've been here since 2006 and /pol/niggers have no one to blame but themselves. It was about guns and uniforms and tactics, but /pol/fags made it 95% talking about blacks and jews. Why can't you retarded faggots keep /pol/ in /pol/? It's fucking cringey as shit.I'd even tolerate Wehraboos if they stuck to talking about guns, drip, and vehicles.NTA btw
>>64415497>muh /pol/ pee pee poo poo said the meanie words reeee>I was totally here back in 2006 okay!?lmao fuck off niggerfaggot
>>64415497>>64415506Guys we were having a nice thread so far. Can we not for once, please? Whoever is responsible for shitting them up, they're clearly not here
>>64415296It's largely faggots from the leftist side of twatter and niggers from bunkerchan that come to have melties in these threads.If only we have a proper mod and janny team that actually cared about the board and the rest of the site by extension, but hey some things are just simply too good to be true in this clown world.I honestly don't blame the shartyteens for pulling their hack months back.
>>64415373If you kept up with the trial, you'd know he didn't have a hammer, and the running shoes he was wearing were shown at trial. Colion Noir had two videos on it way before the trial and both times he got shit on for predicting exactly what the outcome of the trial would be.
It's a long way to Mukumbura...
>>64414107This is one of my favourite historical pictures of all time.
the blueeeeees
>>64416605echo to echo baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiise
>>64412683Africans are better than Jeets. That is all
the lefty nigger lovers and the troons will continue to piss of people with their retarded bullshit till they get trumpeled and iced. and then they are gonna cry. oh nosy.
prenam was hotter but dryerknew an mg gunner who told me that the aussies in nam mostly got their tactics from the expat rhodies in australia.and that every charly they coin captured was bitter how british gentlemen could resort to such (i.e. the vietcongs own) tactics.
>>64416841macvsogafrican edition
I can't imagine carrying a fully fledged battle rifle with me at all times. Its interesting seeing the choice of weapons that some nations used back then.>>64414964They were the ones to actually do something right. The US, and much of the world, would rather build bottomless pits of despair instead of support an ex-colony. Although, to be fair, the US didn't really have much of a choice. Even that half-wit of a president, Reagan, did the right deed of vetoing the South African embargo act.
>>64414964belgium also did a lot for them and South Africa off the books. the port of Antwerp carried more South African goods than any other country and it's diamond sector offered a vital lifeline to foreign currency.
>>64416841>>64416854the gear: ammo, ammo, ammomaybe 2 waterbottlesvery nice
>>64416854>the longer you fight your enemy the more you (look) like them. sun tzu
>>64416998mimicry
>>64414964That's the thing that gets me. Why? Was there an ideological tie or did they just see Rhodesia and South Africa as untapped markets that they knew they could get away with making deals with?
>>64417004To my understanding the latter, opinions on Israel in the West were generally nowhere as strong as they would be after the end of the Cold War but globally speaking the country was far more isolated. Both Rhodesia and SA also happened to have prominent Jewish communities that were favourable to Israel, so someone like John Vorster could use the fact he prayed at a Jerusalem synagogue as deflection for accusations about his past.
>>64413529sounds so different
>>64417004>>64417015no, it's because they were all colonial powers and supporting the colonial governments in south africa, rhodesia and portuguese africa gave more legitimacy to the colonial cause of israel in palestine.also, south africa and rhodesia were under embargo and couldnt get military hardware from anyone directly, israel took the opportunity and sold them some stuff (centurions, mirage upgrades, missiles, tooling for the R1/FAL and galil are the notable ones).
>>64413529>daily threads worshiping Russiathey got outed as a cardboard army, no wonder the fascination ended.
>>64416882You need more than 5.56 if you want to hit something through the bush and still kill them
>>64417107>You need more than 5.56 if you want to hit something through the bush and still kill themIt's true that light bullets are easily deflected.
>>64417029Are those colonial powers in the room with us?
>>64417029colonial powers like the ever genoziding soviet union or commie china just done invading tibet?which had half the world under its yoke while claiming to "liberate" countries like rhodesia? huh?
Rhodie Vampires: max. comfy
>>64420380
For me it's the Portuguese Colonial War
>>64415407I don't doubt it. The first time i find out about the 32 Batallion was in Metal Gear, being mentioned along the Selous Scouts. More on SADF than Rhodesia, their insignia looks like a Waffen SS thing. Don't know much about them beyond having Rhodesian soldiers in ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa4-C6W95Vc
>>64420717Hell yeah borther
Rhodesians Never Die.
>>64412939i liked your reference anon.
there is a weekly YouTube channel run by Rhodi vers that interviews other Rhodi vets, really goodhttps://youtu.be/DBGM2CsTNDQ?si=1vl_ULyGZxmOeqoualso please post music editshttps://youtu.be/K48Piu-g36g?si=8VgXCxbKZlDE0RjR
>>64425447https://youtu.be/oXxOaFSxUAU?si=q0zER_SXOfL66hS8https://youtu.be/s4s_1p8Ddac?si=K0ZaSFnFThBT9JOr
>>64420717any good books on this?
GOIN TO STIRhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phJlbpsACn4&list=RDphJlbpsACn4&start_radio=1
We have some Saffers in the outfit, they're a foot taller than everyone else and ruck 20kg more. Aryan super soldiers.No idea how they could have lost, the way they put it, they inflicted 20:1 damage and just didn't have enough support. Inclined to believe this. Glad they're on our sideNone of them want to identify as Rhodies, they were all first generation so will just say they were Dutch, Swiss, wherever they were from before the colonies. But you know.
>>64413529The threads were literally titled Slavshit and you think that was fucking admiration? Yeah we admired the prices back then anyhow."Racist" what, do explain how someone actually robbing you ever has a race angle, unless you went to the ghetto and groomed your robber?Fuck you. /k always says nigger and will always hand a black brother with a sense of value a burger and a beer you faggot. "Nigger" isn't about race here.
>>64414094I'd fucking forgotten about that autocorrect lol.
>>64415296>the globohomo woke glownigger JIDF redditor mods nuke the thread or move it to /pol/.Did you ever think that this shit is why they move it? That you are the reason we can't have nice things? Because of your complete lack of a sense of humor and screeching of gay memes all the time kills discussion, did that never occur to you? You are the reason we can't have good discussions here. Go on, call me a troon and prove me right.
>>64425726>You are the reason we can't have good discussions here.I automatically hate that guy.
I'm gonna be honest with you guys, I grew up in South Africa in the 90s and every Rhodesian I ever met was kind of a loser. We used to call them whenwes.
>>64425733Look at you both now; both losers
>>64425965I moved to America and got citizenship.
>>64425965What an ass.
>>64425733There was a series of cartoons by a Rhodesian couple that's kind of funny. "Whenwes" is a joke because they'd always "when we were in Rhodesia...." The depiction of them in these cartoons reminds me of rednecks where I'm from.https://www.flickr.com/photos/68249384@N00/albums/72157594367652830/with/292970173
>>64412908Rhodesia was cringe in a political sense and as an idea. The country never stood a chance to begin with; they where clearly an apartheid state that would only have worked by continuing to dominate the native Africans who made up an overwhelming majority. Theirs a reason no western power wanted to help them. The idea that you can form an ethno state from a racial minority is not retarded per say but, in the case of the dominant population making up only around 10% of the total population then, yeah, that is a retarded idea. Their ability to carry out really complex combined arms ops, and fight as hard and effectively as they did all while being cut off from the rest of the world was, on the other hand, fucking based. They where always going to lose but they put up an amazing fight and looked f'n kino while they did it.
>>64414301I touched meh pehpeh
>>64414056All French colonies are France, not some protectorate. People born there are French sometimes even after independence.
>>64422954You do know 32 Bn was black right?>>64425454Read The Rhodesian War by Paul L Moorcraft and Peter McLaughlin for the 'detached' historical account, Fireforce by Chris Cocks for something more personal.>>64427029The Rhodesian ruling class was quite possibly the most shockingly clueless leadership of any nation in the 20th century that wasn't led by literal watermelon sellers or witch doctors. There are accounts of Smithy outright rejecting the idea that rural blacks wouldn't be loyal to his government. Fucker was fighting a 1970s war with a full-on 1920s mindset. Good administrator but terrible, terrible leader, and he managed to become lionised by both sides.
>>64427089Thinkin' you weren't the first and only.
>>64427296>Chris Cocks for something more personal.Heh.
>>64427296>You do know 32 Bn was black right?It had black and white troops.
>>64427296>You do know 32 Bn was black right?Not all
>>64414254Yeah totally with his jogging boots and jogging hammer
>>64412683I just fucking love jungle camo.
>>64428095It's great isn't it?
>>64412683Since it's being brought up the album "A passage to Rhodesia" is an excellent look into the mindset and attitudes of both sides in the conflict, as well as just generally being a great fucking piece of music. Highlights in particular are "One Fire"https://youtu.be/3tr3maxRqSEand "Hate us and see if we'll mind" - the single version is better than the album version imo (stronger intro) https://youtu.be/3tr3maxRqSErome's discography in general needs more attention from /k/ because the guy is basically obsessed with looking into the human experience of various (or europe related) wars and associated philosophies heavily fixated on conflict, suffering, duty, etc. Check this shit out basically.
>>64431658sorry I'm retarded here is the link for the second song:https://youtu.be/NOwRB3q4DRo
>>64414254>out for a run >in timberlands and jeans Why do you choose to live with such levels of delusion?
So I know not all of you but I'm sure some of you play vidya and likey Arma at that. Well Reforger has been having a mod blow up lately, and one of the bigger and more interesting ones is 'BUSH WAR'. I have not played it in a bit, but what I did play was great. No body armor in sight and everyone is running around with 308. Highly lethal weapons all over including mine laying vics and French helicopters lobbing grenades around as well as SPG jeeps and a custom map to boot. Would post pics but I'm on the phone rn.
>>64425733>>64426144Very neat, love cultural time capsules like this
Have any of you guys watched 8RR's videos? He has plenty of war tales from his youth days
>>64415521>It's largely faggots from the leftist side of twatter and niggers from bunkerchan that come to have melties in these threads.No it's because you faggots spam rhodie threads when no one wants them. You only became obsessed with them after that little faggot dylan roof
>>64428033They showed the shoes at the trial, anon. They weren't boots, and he didn't have a hammer. There's a reason the McMichaels and their friend are sitting in prison right now. Just watch the trial.
>>64433945Sounds like we got a butthurt lefty
>>64416726Oh hey! I saw one of these at a sikorsky museum! Asked the attendant why both a pusher and and a puller dual design, he couldn't say. Huh, so it wasn't even a sikorski on display.
>>64425733>whenwes>>64426144>Whenwes" is a joke because they'd always "when we were in Rhodesia...."Holy shit, is this WEWUZings from the other side?
>>64434154>Other sideIf you mean black people then no, it was white south africans getting sick and tired of hearing about Rhodesia.
>>64434163>white south africans getting sick and tired of hearing about Rhodesia.yea but it was also their own cohort saying that, or at least enough of them to annoy the rest.>we were Rhodesia>we wuz kangs
>>64434154Its more of a "back in my day" boomerism. They also wuz something and not a descendant of someone conquered and sold off by an African King.
>>64434173I feel like me equating Whenwes and Wewuzes is bothering you a mite
>>64434183I feel like my correction has stamped on a narrative you wanted to push.
>>64434186I had no narrative. You're thinking too highly of me and too deeply into my shitposts. I was fishing to see how many of the (at least 2, seemingly) South Africans and Rhodie adjacent folk ITT I can slightly upset.
>>64434204>I had no narrative>Explains he had a narrativeLol
>>64434213An incentive is not a narrative, not complex enough in and of itself, but thanks for making me sound smart(er), I guess?
>>64434223You're very smart and not spiteful.
>>64434228>You're very smart and not spiteful.awww, thanks <3But no, I am not spiteful. I just enjoy a little bit if banter. Low-level intrapersonal conflict in good-faith (mostly) is fun.
>>64434248Then why didn't you handle the banter back well?
>>64434253There was no banter. Serious discussion isn't banter. You didn't banter. You helpfully explained how and why I was incorrect. What the fuck am I to do with that? Attacking you with anything other than a dumb reiteration (which I did anyway) of what I have already posted WOULD have been malicious and mean spirited.
>>64434272So you just keep lying to me.
>>64434272>Serious discussions
>>64434461Bernd, it's time to let go.
>>64434473Never. I can go back. It's waiting for me if I can just get back. All of it. Ordnung and serious discussions and even Kuzu.
>>64434473What the other Bernd said. It will be just like old times, as if nothing has changed.
>>64434509>>64434494We're gonna find our way home, bernds. I promise.
>>64434494Cute. Best genes.
>>64413465The race stuff was good
Was the kidney pack side pouch a double fn mag carrier? If so, is it divided as to drop one mag from the bottom cover?
>>64412683>romanticizing losers of the war and their failed stateYike
>>64436352The entire region of Africa is far from saving god forbid a man tries to salvage something. Commie simp
>>64436486Colonizers go home
Are the schizo feuds still going? I stopped watching after it got too meta when some schizo thought another schizo who believed deciduous forests of DC were turning him gay and ruining rhodesia or sth.
>>64420717based
