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Louis Foxwell
Posted on 05/16/2019 8:35:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is what happens when a country disenfranchises Whites and takes their land and money, and then allows the folks to kill them without consequence.
RE: Those of us old enough to remember South Africa pre-Carter, can recall Johannesburg as being a first world city
So, a city that legalizes apartheid is a first world city?
Judging the past with today’s standards is fun and easy.
Running an electrical infrastructure is a very challenging and engineering heavy process
Not only do you have to produce the power in centralize plans but you have to have a massive distribution system of electrical lines transformers switchgear stations and a computer system to manage this entire enterprise
You have to know and plan for your big users are and what their loads are going to be and you have to plan for contingencies and maintenance and downtime for any of your power plants
Trying to run diesel fired power plants which is very common in the Caribbean is in itself a complete disaster. Not for environmental reasons as much as operations and maintenance reasons
Coal fired power plants if designed and engineered properly and with a steady state of supply of coal can’ operate quite well in quite a long time but again are very heavily on the maintenance side
In a place like Africa or the Caribbean you’re going to have all kinds of shenanigans going on and people trying to steal things and power and equipment
The bottom line is you need to have not only competent engineers but also a security force to protect your infrastructure from criminals saboteurs and idiots
It's probably racist to report this.
That’s a great joke.
Want to talk about your hyperbole.. the following segment tells you this article is propaganda....
“Storing perishable food in the fridge has become a gamble. The meat you buy today may be inedible tomorrow if the rolling blackout arrives and lasts long enough to destroy all the food you cooked.
With rolling blackouts that can last for as long as twelve hours”
Your cooked and chilled food is not going to ROT in 12 hours in a closed refrigerator that was to temperature when the power went out, even in 80 degree heat. Its not ideal, but its hardly, your food will ROT and be inedible.
While S. A. does have its share of problems, and I am all for criticizing them and pointing them out, there is no need for this kind of lying crap to try to make your point.
Folks in SA are not holding off buying meat because they believe their electrical grid is so unreliable they don’t trust refrigeration.... Stupid claim for sensationalism.
There’s another huge problem in SA in the energy and mining industry. Jobs have to be apportioned on racial lines. So 80% of power plant workers or miners or civil engineers etc etc have to be Black. Regardless of training, qualification, supply. So the power plants can’t get fixed or run correctly. Ditto the mines, dams etc. They have taken what was a first world country and are rapidly moving it into the third world.
Socialism. An entire country hooked on heroin.
People who fall for Socialism are like those who fall for multi-level marketing schemes after being burned already. Some people never learn.
It’s amazing how many people think Wakanda is a real place in Africa. The reality is that a place like Wakanda could never exist, no matter what.
I wanted my girlfriend
to Wakanda wild side.
She said she Congo.
California plan on rolling blackouts.
They have already tried brownouts.
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Louis Foxwell
Back then, South Africa was one of the most prosperous countries in the world.
People develop a power not to see. They believe so passionately in something, that the evidence staring them in the face telling them unequivocally they should NOT believe is simply not seen by them.
I see this with Socialism. Those of us who have not been infected by that disease can easily look at it and see the fundamental problem, and with clear eyes, see the evidence in the real world with examples of just how badly socialism will not work.
But the starry-eyed suckers out there WILL not see it. And so, we are destined to fall into it, even those of us who see it clearly, because the people who DON'T see it will drag us along with them. Sure, we will resist, but emotion-based movements have a way of carrying the good to their doom along with the bad.
This is one of the best videos I have seen on it by Bill Whittle, using Venezuela as an example:
Bill Whittle: Socialism is For Suckers
It is just over four minutes long, and well worth the view.
To the right of that photo is Joe Slovo, a Soviet operative.
Socialism requires millions of extra bureaucrats to ration the shortages; Capitalism requires millions of extra sales people to market the surplus.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The favorite book of FR ??..Suspect so....
Should be required reading for all high-schoolers/college freshmen....
However, once they were overthrown, the 10 biggest tribes (84% of the population) devolved into two civil wars and turned it into a $#*+hole country again.
The PC world treated the Americo-Liberian faction much as they treated white South Africans and reaped similar results.
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