Hearted Youtube comments on Whatifalthist (@WhatifAltHist) channel.

  1. My bad guys i just found 55 trillion dollars of lost wages under my pillow the economy should get better soon
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  2. >Depression >Pessimistic View >Cold Environment >Resource Crisis >Sprawling Militarism Earth: Become Russia
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  3. Jeff Bezos 15,000 years ago: Kills a mammoth and shares it only with prime tribesmen
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  4. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Rudyard said: “Many of my friends are Mongol cavalry members, very successful people that fought with Ögedei Khan. I can’t tell you their names but we fought together against the Khwarazmian Empire. I’ve had lots of conversations with very successful Mongols including the rich and powerful and I can tell you that they’re miserable, even with all their concubines.”
    1800
  5. I'm a 23 year old Ukrainian, from Kiev, and I urge you not to underestimate the irrationality with which your mind avoids the reality of war. Even if you say to yourself "The russians might invade in a month" or "Second American Civil War will start over elections", you are still not accustomed to the idea of large-scale violence enough to react accordingly, because you lived a peaceful life. You just wake up one day with missiles flying overhead and your home city under siege. You can store food, arm yourself or build a bunker, and still, your life might end because of stray missle, crossfire or maraudery. In the very end, it all boils down to two choices: join one of the sides and do everything to bring its victory or flee to a place that will not be engulfed in the conflict. If you go with the first one, may God help you make right choices for yourself, your loved ones and your society. If you want to avoid the cruel meatgrinder that is war, take yourself and whoever you hold dear (somewhat forcefully, if it comes to it), and get away to a foreign country, or at least as deep into cuntryside as you can. It may seem like a overreaction, doomerism and apocalyptic thinking right now, it may hurt your career, relationships or finance, but these things wont matter when the war starts. I wish you all the best luck, may you and your loved ones come out alive and well from the struggle, and may our children inherit a better world than we did.
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  6. During the French Revolution, the radicals literally sat on the left side of the legislative chamber and the less radical members sat on the right side. This is where Left and Right originated.
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  7. I read an interesting book recently called "After Nationalism" that discusses various different phases of American identity. The author talks about how deeply Anglophilic the old Anglo-American elite used to be, particularly the leaders of Federalist Party. Even long after the revolution, English-American elites used to really venerate British culture and history, and view the United States as being largely continuous with "English Civilization," as opposed to some entirely new thing. This manifested not only in continued allegiance to the old English churches, but also a preoccupation with teaching the history of England and venerating English cultural ideals like Shakespeare, the Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution, and so on. There was also a deep obsession with viewing everything through a France-v-England or Spain-v-England lens, with England's traditional enemies presumed to be America's as well. It's interesting how much of this has faded now. I think we now associate Anglo-Americans as having been mostly subsumed into distinctly "American" cultural traditions that are entirely detached from any identifiably British heritage, including Evangelical Christianity and the culture of "the South" more broadly. Other than defensiveness about the English language, I am not sure what would be the most visible signs of an ongoing effort to preserve English culture in America. I can only think of small things, like the ongoing fascination with the British royal family, or perhaps what Christopher Hitchens once described as America's distinctive "Churchill cult."
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  8. You missed the most important one: that aliens were present at the Battle of Gettysburg. Ancient Aliens—under the guidance of god emperor Giorgio Tsoukalos—is revered for unearthing this groundbreaking fact. I remember the History Channel before it competed with Comedy Central 😂
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  9. One factor to consider when a group becomes a bureacracy, which is Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy. The people who are good at dealing with the internal politics of the organization tend to run it, at the expense of what their purported mission is. Public schools are a prime example, as is General Motors.
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  10. Whatifalthis is literally Datamining whatever God put in the game
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  11. 1984 is the single most terrifying book I ever read. Not because of its brutality, or authoritarianism, or hopelessness, but because Orwell knew something about humans that almost nobody else seems to... For the vast majority, perception of reality is dependant on consensus. The normie mind NEEDS social acceptance to function, and that means they will always be easily manipulated by whoever understands this and has the means to exploit it. For someone who is capable of perceiving reality independently, it means you'll always be subject to the stupidity of the mob, and there's nothing you can do about it. You are forever forced to witness but can do nothing to save society from itself.
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  12. When I watch videos like this all I can think about is the fact that I've survived cancer so no matter what happens at least I'm around to see it
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  13. If this video still exists in 10 years, then no.
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  14. So this timeline is basically what a 19th century English gentlemen would expect to be the natural order of things in the future? It does seem to correlate with a Victorian speculative fiction [sci-fi] view of the 20th century.
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  15. working in a western bureaucracy is literal hell
    1600
  16. A man who snuffs out his emotion becomes a robot. A man who does not develop his mind becomes an animal. Balance must be achieved.
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  17. As someone that is pushing 38, I thought as a kid in the 90’s we were heading into an era of unprecedented peace, prosperity and scientific advancement. I thought we’d see the beginnings of a fantastic and wonderful era, where people would have easier and happier lives. Where my generation would be apart of grand projects like colonizing the solar system and laying the ground work for the human species to eventually colonize the galaxy, I thought the USA was going to lead that progress and that thousands of years from now our descendants would look back on our civilization with pride and thankfulness for what we began. I didn’t see this coming and I can’t began to verbalize my heartbreak, disappointment or anger for what we got.
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  18. This decade is starting to have a rerun on some historical classics: Plagues Thucydide's Trap Declining Hegemony Ancient Silk Road 2: Electric Boogaloo Turkey becoming powerful France in Africa Cold War Oh yes its all coming together
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  19. Yes, lovely to be asked why you don't have a job by someone.. That didn't have to fill out 8 confusing digital applications, submit to drug screening to get hired, in fact they were probably told "Go see Bill down at the the mill" & we're hired on the spot.
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  20. Whatifalthist: "Genetics is showing us an epic history we would have otherwise known nothing about. For, matching with archeology, we found absolutely epic events occurred behind the veil of history from before we have records. Massive wars and migrations took place and leaders rose and fell in the dark of pre-history." Me: "Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!"
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  21. I was very sorry to hear about Rudyard's suicide... Two shots to the back of the head from a distance of 20 yards. You think you know what someone is going through. Smh
    1400
  22. Showing compassion towards lower ranked men is often treated with suspicion, a weird thing.
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  23. It's 2 am, and in 10 hours I'll start my shift at McDonald's. What a perfect video to start watching right now :D
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  24. The most recent information from Ukraine: explosion happened in so called DPR, tens metres away from their administration. Their leader Pushilin declared mass evacuation to Rostov oblast(Russia) and states that Ukraine are going to invade very soon. As ukrainian it's really scary seeing your already burning country standing on the edge of the cliff and being pushed by separatists and Russia to jump off. Wish us good luck this night)
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  25. You know it's bad when WIAH posts a video called "The Great Wave Crashes" a few days before the election.
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  26. Even if im not an American Citizen, the rest of the world will feel 10X instability than before. China, Russia and many American enemies will gain freedom to achieve their stuff, while American allies(Europe and Asia and small South America countries) will feel the uncertainty when comes to America Aid
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  27. H. P. Lovecraft, a man who suffered a great deal form mental illness, wrote extensively in his fictions that as humanity progressed in unlocking the secrets of the universe while the old social mores and rules decayed, it would begin to slip into collective madness. He personified it as ancient and primal cosmic horrors in the form of twisted villains, monsters, and demonic gods exploding onto the landscape of human reality, but really I think he may have been onto something.
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  28. What if humans didn't trespass in my woods all the time
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  29. 1:03 you are wrong. Latin America has many similarities with Southern Europe: more agrarian and less industrialized than it's northern neighbors; Their governments were also relatively authoritarian and religious (both Spain and Portugal suffered from dictatorships until the end of the 70s). Edit: thank you. I really like your channel and just thought you kind of contradict yourself by saying Latin American countries aren't similar to Western Europe, when you showed in this same video some examples on how they are pretty similar to their western european colonizers of Spain (the democratic and relatively liberal Spain is quite a recent development).
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  30. That's amazing. They can identify a 3 second blurry video. But they can't identify the criminals on Epstien Island.
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  31. 1:03 Rudyard, while my country (Nigeria) may trade a lot with China, we are not a strong Chinese ally. They rejected us for BRICS membership (mainly due to our stronger western ties) and when the USA and other G20 members offered us a more solid membership, we gladly took it. We are actually more aligned with the west than many people realize. We have stronger diplomatic, military and economic ties with the west. Heck! We also have a long-standing relationship with India. China is an major economic partner for us but not a strong geopolitical one.
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  32. When I was 15 we were in English class and had to do an experiment where we broke into groups and designed a utopia. We then had to debate the other groups as to which one would work. My group refused to listen or work with me because I argued that utopias were not possible and that man as species wasn't designed for it. When they told the teacher, she asked me what my views were and I told her. She said, "Wow, that reminds me of the Unabomber." I had no idea what the Unabomber's views were until this video today.
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  33. The rest of South America would hate Argentina, but the rest of South America already hates Argentina. So, nothing new under the sun.
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  34. More like: What if the falklands claimed Argentina?
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  35. Let's be real, we are all just NPCs in the Story of the REAL player one, Chris Chan
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  36. The 1st one is really easy to grasp but people don't want to. Morality is much more of a way to stop your society and or ingroup from weakening itself and is more a subset of practicality that grew more complex and caused us to feel good as we were doing something effective for the group. Today instead of making morality a subset of practicality it's flipped so we do things to feel good while hurting the group and that's why we're seeing problems not commonly seen as severely in history despite our knowledge and wealth. You need a sturdy base to not have your whole shit collapse on itself.
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  37. Lincoln did warn us right before he died there will another American Civil War.
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  38. Is this a sign that I should become an Appalachian warlord?
    1100
  39. "...if 2008 never happened." B-but then, the Phillies don't win the World Series
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  40. "The duality of of the autistic masculine and the hysteric feminine." You hit the nail on the head with that one! I've never heard anyone describe modern civilisation so accuratley.
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  41. On one hand, the region offers Neruda, Borges, Magical Realism, and many other groundbreaking advances in Western culture. On the other hand, it gave us Lele Pons.
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  42. “The line between good and evil runs not through states, nor between classes, not between political parties either, - but right through every human heart.” - A. Solzhenitsyn
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  43. I believe you Rudy, but once again i live in argentina and this has been everyday life for three generations now
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  44. "Malarial rice farmers ade universally bad fighters" Vietnam and khamer screams
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  45. Some where in Beijing, there is another althist guy, speaking in mandarin saying nearly all the same things about America. I find that beautiful.
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  46. "Most scottish americans are lowlanders" - well yeah of course. When it comes to highlanders there can be only one.
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  47. It was great working with you again, Whatif! As always, we truly appreciate the effort and detail you put into your videos. Predicting the future is ultimately a lesson of the past. For our team, we’ve seen what happens when tribalism and echo-chambers have taken hold in the past. The lesson is to not let it happen again!
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  48. 6:00 Fear 11:03 Shame 18:30 Pride 23:58 Disgust 29:52 Guilt 35:10 Envy 41:28 Anxiety
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  49. Bro could have just said "Pennsylvania, based or cringe?" but had to elaborate for 1.5 hours
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  50. "Magic isn't real!" He says as he manifests ancient symbols on a glowing tome with nothing but his fingers. "That'll show them" He thinks to himself as he taps the mechanism responsible for casting a series of encoded spells that invisibly and instantly transmit his thoughts into the minds of people everywhere.
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