What was his problem?

>>3110569
I mean, it was the policies that the local administration placed on the mercenaries that caused the problems really

t. youtube

>>3110569
He was an absolute monarch and racist who was extremely profit-driven, with nothing to keep his private enterprise in check. He's pretty much the embodiment of pure evil.

>>3110569
I thought we already agreed the answer was autism

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>>3110569
You can say he had a handful of problems

>>3110569
Anglo propaganda

>>3110569
He cared only about profits and realized that their was a time limit on the value of his rubber so he ok'd extremely inhuman treatment to maximize profits right at thr key moment

>>3110569
He was obsessed with maps and geography and desperately wanted Belgium to have a colony and thought getting one would help Belgium be taken seriously and tried buying the Philippines. He got a colony and treated like private property and had tonnes of mercenaries work there and killed millions and then everyone hated Leopold and his colony was going out of business.

He was the first anarcho capitalist

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>>3110569
He was a Jew.

>>3110569
>send soldiers to defend your colony
>they waste bullets hunting african animals
>to avoid losing money on shipping bullets, demand a human hand as proof that the bullets were used to kill rebels
>soldiers just cut human hands and go hunting anyway, because hunting is fun
>in order to prepare for soldiers coming to take their hands, tribes raid other tribes for their hands, and give them to the soldiers
>hands become a currency, they are exchanged on the market, since they have objective value (bullets)

Capitalism, ho!

>>3110598
He got mocked for his nose by Benjamin Disraeli, 'such a nose as a young prince has in a fairy tale, who has been banned by a malignant fairy.

>>3110608
Not even the most creative ancap memeball creator could come up with anything half as insane is this.

>>3110569
His congo was the natural result of an ancap state

>>3110569
First of all there was no belgian empire with values to export nor a logical colonizing policy like france ore england, the enrire enterprise was for profit only (fun fact the congo was property of leopold personally not the crown). This is literally the worst possible example of colonialism to make whitey the devil. The portuguese and british colonies were better places to live than any of the independent black majority countries.

>>3110666
>The portuguese and british colonies were better places to live than any of the independent black majority countries.

What exactly are you talking about?

>>3110727
In the 60s and 70s when Africa was started to get liberated economy, life expectancy,literacy rate, infant mortality, malnutrition etc, were much better in Mozambique, Angola, Rhodesia, South Africa, etc than in lets say independent Ghana, Nigeria or the Congo
>But muh democratic black majority
Literally all of those places became one party dictatorships which executed political oponents shortly after independence whereas in the other colonies you had some degree of representation before independence.

>>3110569
He hoped to enrich his country with refugees a century too soon

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>>3110569
>>3110584
>>3110590

He was ahead of his time. Abolish the state. Taxation is theft.

>>3110569
He was a spiritual ancap.

>>3110757
And then most of those places became better. Democracy isn't an instant process.

The white minority rule model us unsustainable as fuck because the results the netted came with a big catch to them. Also the blacks in Portuguese Africa had to revolt (nor even talking the independence movement) to get the Portuguese government to stop shitting on them. Without force or threats the rulers had no need to actually give concessions or conduct change.

>>3110583
>The embodiment of pure evil
So you're saying he's Belgian?

The G*rmans are just retarded and fuck stuff up. The French are just full of it. The Belgians are aware of these stereotypes and hide behind them.

>>3110803
In Portuguese Africa that stats for blacks were jackshit awful.

In Rhodesia and south Africa they had much more support from the UK so compared to other blacks in Africa they were better but not by much and in those colonies they were rock bottom socially, politically and economically with it being enforced and strengthened and peaceful agitation for equality never worked

>>3110757

Yeah, life under the portugese was so great that the big daddy UN had to take them away cuz autistic Salazar thought slavery and torture were acceptable

In the end they lost anyway. Portugese suck ass, dont ever post this shit again

Hell, even the Portugese that came to Angola thought it was disgusting. Google it, fgt

>>3110803
>And then most of those places became better.
South africa and zimbabwe are objectively worse by any possible metric you can apply. And most of subsaharan africa is entirely dependent on western subisidies so not real progress. Nigeria, Botswana and Namibia are relatively good places but they are the exception and are rapey as fuck too and a little too violent for rest pf the world standars.

>>3110837
I never said portugues africa wasnt a dump just that it wasnt as bad as most of the newly free countries

>>3110837
>Hell, even the Portugese that came to Angola thought it was disgusting. Google it, fgt

Lol there's reports by Portuguese government people that are like "dude what the fuck."

>>3110846
South Africa improved in most metrics though and Zimbabwe only went south in the 2000's due to a failed gambit in the Congo War.

Most African countries are developing pretty decently and your criteria for real progress is awfully arbitrary.

>>3110854
It was pretty awful for most of its history with its hey day being where it's still was a mess barring small centre's of exclusive development for the Portuguese while the rest barely sustained off them in a "birds eating corn from cow shit if they could even get shit" manner

>>3110886
Allright, social conditions in south africa went to absolute shit, mean gdp and economic metrics up also because sanctions were lifted but its benefits are distributed unequally. And Zims problems beyond the retarded land grabs and ethnic violence stem from having a one party dictatorship ruled by an afromarxist lunatic something ian smith warned for years on end would happen.

>>3110924
mugabe isn't a Marxist and it's pretty rich that Ian smith would say that despite him in engaging in dictatorial measures to both whites and blacks to prolong his rule lol.

South Africa was always a incredibly unequal nation in its history so changing us gonna take years and years.

>>3110569
based

>>3110569
>le 10 million dead niggers meme
completely made up number desu, not even remotely realistic

>>3110608
Taxation is theft, hand cutting freedom from the State when?

>>3110875
Link

>>3110608
That's hilarious

>>3110569
Don't mess with belgians, my man

>>3112758
yeah, but everyone believes evil whitey killed them 10 gorillion niggers while in reality the vast majority of deaths came from nigongs slaughtering each other
not saying Leopold dindu nuffin but still

>>3110591
correct!

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There are still tons of statues of him around Belgium, nobody seems to care except for Anglo's and lefties

>>3113504
Because those soldiers are under Leopold's mercs command and under his rule. The responsibility falls on him and his Free state cronies with their rule and polices.

WTF I hate Belgians now

>>3114925
for the Belgians he litteraly is the greatest king the country ever had, he expanded the nation with a colony that was more then 300 times the size of the original nation. And many of the riches he gained in Congo he reinvested in Belgium.

He was aesthetic as fuck.
>>3114925
The Muslims won't care, they love chopping hands off

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>>3114964
The dude literally invested all his riches into Belgium. For example he let build the Central Station of Antwerp, he transformed Ostend from a fishing village to a glorious sea side resort.

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>>3114978

>>3114978
He truly was the greatest king belgium ever had and will have. Imagine what he could've acomplished had he been king of a nation like UK.

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>>3114986
Here's the man himself (tall dude with the rad hat) ready for the inauguration of the Saint Peter and Paulus church in Ostend (1905). He's talking with the bishop of Bruges, Monseigneur Wafflaer

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>>3115009

I got some rare Leopold II's I will be posting

>>3115018
>He even manspreads
Is he the eternal bane of Leftism?

>>3115002
Then Ireland would have to answer the Buddhist Koan "is it possible to clap with one hand"

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>>3115018
Don't forget his private villa, Villa Leopolda, in Villefranche. Which is the most expensive house ever sold (anno 2016).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Leopolda

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>>3115028
Here's good ole Leo walking along the Belgian sea dike

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>>3115023

>>3115036
>when our coastline wasn't a complete disaster yet

>>3115041
>when there actualy where dunes

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Some more rare Leo

>>3115041
What's gone on about the coast? Please say it's litter, and not human garbage.

What's a good resource if I just want to read about the most hilariously awful things that happened in Africa under colonialism?

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>>3115049
Architectural garbage

>>3115049
it's one big concrete shitfest all the way from the French to the Dutch border

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>>3115049
This is how it used to look...

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>>3115054
Oh dear, that looks like an American city. How sad. In my heart, I secretly hoped it was still like it was in old pictures.

>>3115054
>>3115059
It's like I'm in one of those brutalism threads.

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>tfw Oostende used to be a cool historic town but got ruined

>>3115066
some of the old buildings Leopold had build are still around so you can def spot some, but it's mainly just concrete slabs everywhere.

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>>3115067

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>>3115070
That's what you deserve for creating this abomination

>>3115066
the difference is that, usually, there's some open space
belgian coast however is exactly like that from one border to the other

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>>3115075
I actually meant like this.

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The Belgian coast, from the Panne to Knokke, basically just looks like this for kilometers on end. There are basically no spots of nature left in between (big exception being Het Zwin national park)

>>3115088
Only the churches are still standing.

>>3115091
there are a few spaces of open dunes in Koksijde, although these are slowly getting filled with beachside villas.

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>>3115088
The last time the Flemish country side looked like that was probably 1831. Flemish country side today is a densely populated architectural mess

>>3115091

It looks the version of Limbo from Inception.

>>3115094
Those will probably be knocked down within our lifetimes. There's no Christ in the west anymore, just emptiness and ever encroaching Islam

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>>3115088
We also have this bad habit of "lintbebouwing", which is people building next to big roads with the result looking like this.

>>3115103
not to mention flanders has perfected the art of fucking up city planning

look up the term "lintbebouwing" if you want to cry

>>3115109
It looks like a bleeding wound.

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>>3115106
>Those will probably be knocked down within our lifetimes. There's no Christ in the west anymore, just emptiness and ever encroaching Islam

You think Europeans are going to knock down buildings over 700 years old? The church of my hick town was first built in 856. Empty churches will get sold and be used as bars/gyms/restaurants or whatever.

>>3114943
we hate ourselves too

>>3110569
>10 million dead

Most of them died from disease.

Belgium is perhaps the best example for why Imperialism was bad. People use Britain as an example even though they did nearly as much good as harm in the places they imposed order. Belgium though just straight up raped the Congo. No protection, no lube.

>>3110569
Dindu nuthin. Those slaves shouldn't have stolen if they didn't want their hands cut off.

>>3115167
Worked out fine for the Imperium

>>3115167
WRONG

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>>3115167
>british propaganda still being parroted to this day

why dont you hand over some AIDS blankets to the Aboriginals

>>3115155
Disease from open wounds caused by hands chopped off

>>3110569
He knew Africans aren't capable of becoming modern civilized societies so he treated them as animals.

>>3110569
Does anyone know if it was all part of his plan? He seems like a typical monarch who knew where not to look like some other monarchs. People always blame him for everything and yes he was in charge but was the brutality of the regime his idea?

>>3110969
>literally land grabbing to 'give to the poor people'
>even has his own -ism form of Communism, so you know he's the real deal

Ideologically an African nationalist, during the 1970s and 1980s he identified as a Marxist-Leninist although after the 1990s self-identified only as a socialist; his policies have been described as Mugabeism.

>>3115253
Sleeping sickness epidemic around the late 1800s in Congo.

Most were genocided

>>3115342
Oh nvm found interesting article.

http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2010/05/monarch-profile-king-leopold-ii-of.html

>>3110569
None. His neighbours broke the NAP

>>3110591
Is there a single nation untainted by this perfidious venom?

>>3113504
>i will come next week to take your mother's hand
>or i guess if you find a hand from somewhere else, that will do too

Wow, nignogs so evil and barbaric, so savage.

>>3114925
Don't some people saw of the statues hands

>>3110598
>not a hook nose
into the trash it goes

>>3110569
niggers