Youtube comments of KaiserBauch (@kaiserbauch9092).

  1. I immediately noticed lot of hate on the AI images. I get a lot of requests to make the videos more audio-visually compelling and I thought this might be an interesting thing to try. If you hate it, I do not have to do it. But sometimes I am looking for a picture of something that I just can not find on the free stock image platforms. I will make a poll on the issue. I also said that Istanbul is the capital, while it is obviously Ankara, which is pretty stupid mistake to make. Sorry for that! I am going to edit it out.
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  2. That is sad.
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  3. It certainly play´s a role!
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  4. I very much agree with you. Western culture completely separated sex from having children and it just creates societal paralysis and decadence. Sex just became a vehicle for physical pleasure and dopamine hits, many women are feeling worthless because of the hook-up culture making them feel as sluts but they also are giving in to it, because they crave attention (sexualised content on social media etc.), many men are porn addicted, depressed and sexless, because they are unable to attract any females in a society where social norms does not give woman any incentive to settle with less than the best possible genetic material (the so called "chads"). It is quite depressing.
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  5. I. Introduction: 0:04 II. National Revivals of endangered nations: 8:47 III. Independence, interwar period and World War II: 14:49 IV. The Cold War: 23:38 V.Post-communist and contemporary period: 35:07
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  6. I am glad to hear that! I have a British friend from Manchester who just moved to the Czech Republic, among others for such reasons.
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  7. Since there are quite a few comments under this video likening its content to the Whatifalthist´s videos, many of them in a positive way but some of the comments in a manner indicating that I am duplicating his work, I feel it is fair to address it. I am, of course, aware of his work, and I do enjoy it. It would be disingenuous to pretend otherwise. I am also aware that many points I am raising in this particular video, for example, the cultural emulation or share of the European GDP falling, were raised by him in his work, and I was thinking about the implications when I was working on this video since I obviously do not want to seem as a copycat of a very successful established creator. But on the other hand, I genuinely believe those points to be true, I know that I was thinking and reading about them and this whole topic years before I even knew that Whatifalthist exists, and I also believe that I can offer different perspectives and also more detailed knowledge of inner workings of Europe since I am European myself. I hope this clears things up a little bit! Thanks for all the positive comments and the constructive critique alike!
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  8. I would argue that most of Europeans do not even dream of the past, they consider it deplorable. I would be much more satisfied if we were trying to proudly preserve the past, knowing that we cannot come close to the greatness.
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  9. In Russia, it is actually both.
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  10. It is cringe.
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  11. It sure seems like a prequel, but I wouldn't call it sci-fi, I would say it is just a prequel to a return of good old history to our world, with all the good and the bad.
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  12. That is interesting! You are an expat here? And I definitely see a surge in young believers in the Czech Republic. I think we will see the impacts in coming decades.
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  13. This video is doing great so far. Thank you all for watching and for your kind words of praise! I will try to work on the pronunciation and intonation! But I need to address certain issues appearing in the comment section since some of the comments are really unhinged. I won't delete any comments, but I want to clarify that I denounce and disagree with the following: Giving too much weight to research regarding IQ and race since it leads to very ugly rabbit holes and is just an evil way to evaluate people. If IQ is so important, why wouldn't you measure the IQ of the population of your country and expel the low-IQ people? Anti-semitism and the notion that the "Jews" are behind everything. Even if I ignore that it is foolish to think that they would wield the power to influence world affairs in such a matter, why would they do it? How does, for example, the state of Israel benefit from the pro-Palestine stance of Europe? How is it in the interest of Jews to increase anti-semitism in France so that the Jews emigrate to Israel? Jews are not a monolith. Sure, some Jewish people promote globalist secularist liberal values, but there also are conservative nationalist Jews and everything in between. Obviously, and I am somewhat surprised I even have to write it, any manifestations of neonazism. If Hitler had won, as some people in the comments suggest, my people and many other Central and Eastern European peoples I hold dear would not be here. Eastern European Neonazi is an oxymoron; I am an Untermensch according to Nazis. Any calls to violence. As for the Great Replacement Theory, I already spoke about it in the video about the Great Demographic Implosion (part II). While it is just a mathematical fact that in certain countries, for example Germany, every year the number of people that dies, mostly ethnic natives, are balanced off by immigrants so the population and the workforce do not decline, I sincerely do believe that it is not some grand conspiracy by the elites or "the Jews" or whatever. It is a combination of, in my opinion, not well-thought-out policies, conformism, and lack of political courage. But the world is not a place that can be governed in the way people believe conspiracy theories think it can be managed. It is mostly chaos, an intersection of hundreds of interests, events, and incidents. Assuming that it is all run by some nefarious elites in the background gives us a certain sense of peace by believing that it is all governed by someone. It is not. The truly scary reality is that nobody runs anything; it is a train without an engine driver.
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  14. I would prefer if Microsoft or Apple were developed in Europe. I do not know how long can we survive by regulating tech developed elsewhere.
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  15. Yep, we are just adding nails to our coffin. I will talk more extensively about this in the second part of this series.
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  17. Thanks for spoiling the video for everyone.
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  18. It certainly is part of the equation.
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  19.  mozaic529  Why do you think that?
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  20. Thanks for that, gonna keep it in mind!
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  21. Addressing frequent criticisms: 1.) Many people have pointed out that I did not foreclose, point out, or filter out my political biases. After thinking about it for some time, I must admit it is a legit criticism. This channel and the analysis are rooted in my worldview, which can be described as right-wing or conservative. I have presumed that my regular viewers know this at this point and did not really think about it, but it is true that I should have thought about the new or irregular viewers and pointed this out somehow. The first chapter, which is more or less ideologically neutral and descriptive, only highlighted the contrast with the next chapter. In the chapter about society and politics, my views influence the analysis more. 2.) Many people have pointed out that they never heard the argument that gay marriage would improve the economic situation and get as economically closer to the more developed countries or that this it is a nonsensical argument. But it is important to note that I have NOT said that in the video. I mentioned the example of same-sex marriage in regard to the, in my opinion, false dichotomy presented by certain Czech politician presenting same-sex marriage as something that puts us civilisationally either to the West or to countries like Russia, not in regard to economic development. I have repeatedly listened to that part of the video to confirm this. Still, since many people repeated this criticism, I should have probably presented that part more eloquently or understandably, and it is thus on me. Have a nice day!
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  22. @metodiusm428 That is a very good point!
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  23. It is a disgrace.
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  24. Good point. I am aware of that. But I would say that it is good to note, that I was refering to economic right and economic left. The division is more complicated with PiS, since they are cultural right, but economically more leftwing. So it does make sense.
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  25. At 12:50, I talk about the famous Czech novelist Milan Kundera, and I mistakenly say, Miloš Kundera. I am ashamed since he is one of the most celebrated modern Czech writers. Sorry for that! Sometimes I make stupid mistakes like that.
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  26. That is a good analogy! Let´s hope there is not any Gavrilo Princip walking around to fuck it all up :D
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  27. Yeah, the meme thing is a good way of putting it :D I also got that vibe from it
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  28. I just want to thank everybody for their comments, praise, ideas, questions and critique! I was trying to answer to every comment, but now when the video sort of blew up, which I am very grateful for, I am unable to do so because there are so many. But I hope that I will answer at least some of your questions in the second part, which I would like to publish within two weeks!
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  29. I can not agree here. I think that you overlook the 1 most important source of American power - the geography. American geography is absolutely unmatched. Unlimited access to both Pacific and Atlantic oceans, largest continuous sway of fertile farmland in the world, best network of navigable rivers, huge deposits of natural resources like gas and oil, insularity from all the potential competitors and so on. No other country is even remotely close to this set of characteristics. tha tis the main reason why the US can just join a war anywhere in the world and the war never touches US mainland. China, while very technologically capable, is surrounded by hostile or semihostile powers that fears its rise, is completely dependant on imports of gas, oil, coal and food and is also in completely tragic demographic shape.
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  30. that was an honest and unfortunate mistake :D
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  31. @quantumfoam539 That is sad. We need to fight against this view.
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  32. German energy-related decision making in the last 15 years was one huge mistake.
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  33. What the fuck does have that to do with anything
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  34. Sure, but the pace of immigration to Spain is very rapid, it will also bring troubles.
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  35. You might be right. But the history acts in mysterious ways and the pendulum might swing back. We will see.
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  36. Thank you! Yes, when I see some people simultaneously speaking about the "inevitable" American decline (Russia and China are about to launch their own reserve currency that is going to destroy the dollar any day now!) and the rise of Europe as a world power, I do not know if to cry or if to laugh. But the notion of American decline which many people seems to believe in the US just points out to the exceptional position of America. Its position is so strong, that people look at any small kind of inconvenience as a sign of coming decline.
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  37. Yes, the Canadian example is very alarming.
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  38. @idanzamir7540 I am glad we agree.
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  39. I agree with you, but I wanted to show the European perspective, where in most countries is basically unimaginable for a private citizen with a semi-automatic (If I am incorrect about the type of rifle he used, I am sorry, I am not a gun-buff) rifle would go to keep the peace somewhere during such riots. But I am not condemning it at all.
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  40. This is of course true, free movement of people within the EU looses meaning without external borders.
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  41. Thank you for all the comments, both the praise and the views challenging my video; they are all welcome! I want to clarify a few points in response to some repeated critiques from the comments: I am aware of the inclusive rhetoric of the Russian elite trying to coerce different ethnicities within some new Russian civilizational identity. But I think that was the case both in the times of the Russian empire and in the times of the Soviet Union, and both times, it was mostly a utilitarian facade behind which was Russian imperialism leaning to a large extent on Russian ethnicity. The rhetoric is one thing, and the actual policies another. Imperial and Soviet elites were trying to culturally Russify the subjugated populations by denying the national languages within the education and "exporting" ethnic Russians to the ethnically non-Russian regions. This goes for both the conquered people in Europe and Asia. The exporting of Russians stopped only when there were not enough Russians to export. When there was a choice to be made between letting other peoples suffer from famine or the ethnic Russians in the imperial core, the leadership did not wait for a second. Even during the Soviet Union era, which was pushing the universal post-national socialist future, the Soviet leadership was very nervous when looking at each new census and the decline of ethnic Russians within the state (in the bio of the video is a great book that deals with this topic). They even rolled out pro-natalist policies implicitly aimed at ethnic Russians/Eastern Slavs since they were not implemented in Central Asia and the Caucuses.And I doubt it is different today. Kamil Galeev, who some will undoubtedly say is biased and anti-Russian but who nevertheless writes excellent books about Russia and knows it deeply, says that even in the current 2021 census, there were significant pressures to expand the percentage of people declaring Russian ethnicity, which points to the interest of the state on at least maintaining the facade of significant Russian majority. From this angle, I want the parts of the video discussing immigration from Central Asia to Russia to be viewed. I do not think the increasing number of non-Russians within Russia is objectively wrong because of the lower amount of "white Christians" or anything like that. I think it is a problem for the Russian state that is, explicitly or implicitly, an imperial project of the Russian people. From my point of view, Central Asians were exposed to the same Russian imperialism as Poles, Baltic nations, or Czechs. I wish only the best to Central Asian nations. They never did anything bad to my nation or the nations in my part of the world. Russian imperialism did. As for the critique aimed at my alleged anti-Russian views fueled by Western propaganda, so be it. There is a hard bridge, maybe impossible, to cross between the opinions of people that support Russia in the current war and the overall geopolitical struggle between the West and Russia and the people that support Ukraine and the West, with all its faults. I belong to the second group.
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  42. Brussels is dull and boring. But the worst city I visited is Charleroi, about an hour from Brussels. Worse than the worst looking and most drap cities I have visited in Eastern Europe.
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  43. That is very interesting insight, thanks!
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  44. Yeah I screw that up :D I meant MP
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  46. Thank you for this insight! What you wrote is basically what was my understanding of the situation as well!
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  47. I completely agree. Very well put.
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  48. I am aware of the study, I also used it for the video and it is in the bio. As I said, I think that US is more like certain Catholic countries in Europe (for example Poland) that is still in the earlier phase of the secularisation, even though religion is still playing much larger role in the life of Americans than in any European country. But in the study, the statistics that you are citing are lumping together all the religions and religious people. If you for example isolate only non-denominational protestants (especially those over 75%, meaning those groups where more than 75% of members said agree that "the Bible is the word of God") and pentecostalists, they all have higher fertility that they need to grow. ..."nondenominational movements have seen extraordinary growth: they only need to have about 0.8 children per woman to grow, yet in fact have around 1.9. This means they will more than double in size over the next generation, even without immigrants." I believe this cores of believers are bound to grow over time.
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  49. I would love to visit Athens!
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  50. Thank you for this insight! The info about the provinces pushing up the population numbers is very interesting. It is also definitely true that many of the ethnic groups that has lived within the Russian state for centuries and are Russified, are not the main issue here, even though they might be antagonised by being used as a cannon fodder by the military in Ukraine (which was happening las autumn, for example in Tuva). Nevertheless, the simultaneous mass emmigration of ethnic Russians, often from the most developed regions, and immigrations of people from Central Asia that, as you have pointed out, are largely excluded cheap labour, is challenging for the Russian Federation.
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  51. It is truly disturbing.
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  52. As always, thank you for all the comments, both the praise and the constructive criticism! I will try to respond to them in the following days. I need to correct myself for a mistake I said in the video, which viewer @staeins informed me about. From 11:25, I speak about how there is a contradiction in our perception of different family systems, where the one perceived as the most modern is actually the most anachronistic, from the anthropological perspective, and the one perceived as the most primitive, the clan structure used in the Muslim world, is the most sophisticated since it has developed the longest in the area where the agriculture has been practiced the longest. The mistake I made lies in the fact that the family system sedentary agricultural societies used was the patrilineal stem family system, in which primogeniture is used, and the oldest son with his family lives with the father and inherits the belongings which help to preserve the wealth within the family. The nomadic Arabic, Turkic, and other conquerors imposed the clan structure with high levels of cousin marriage on the agricultural middle-east populations. The nuclear family allegedly often used by the pre-agricultural societies, was misplaced by the Stem, or authoritative, patrilineal family system, and the clan structure brought by the nomads stood outside of this development and was then imposed by the nomadic conquerors. I again checked the book I used as a source; its information agrees with what @staeins writes in his comment. Thus, the notion that the family structure often perceived as the most primitive is actually the most sophisticated is, at least partially, not correct and I stand corrected. I had to mix it up in my head when writing. I apologize for the mistake and I thank @staeins for pointing it out. Edit: The part where I say the incorrect statement could, fortunately, be relatively smoothly edited out, which I did. Thank you!
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  53. That might be true to a certain extent, but the native Dutch birth rates are still significantly higher than the East Asian. No European ethnic group has fertility under 1 children per woman.
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  54. Very interesting insight, thanks for that!
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  55. Hopefully.
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  56. @KingCatsTube Sure. I think it is also because the people in the Western countries have been for decades removed from any real sense of terminal threat.
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  57. I would say that it is not a sign of patriotism, but of lack of opportunities and pressures from the government.
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  58. The American example does not really apply here. The differences within Europe are much more significant, even though people tend to overlook the significant differences between different American regions.
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  59. It is very good book, but even better, in my opinion, is the book Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West by Christopher Caldwell. I feel like Murrey took a lot of inspiration from that book.
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  60. I agree. The thing that people often does not seem to realise or at least ackownledge is that retirement precedes death.
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  61. I definitely might do non-European states, but have to do the proper research first! And thank you!
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  64. @PaddyDogg I would say that people are encouraged to have children in many states, usually just not in a way that could actually succeed.
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  65. That of course is possible! It is very interesting to think about, but I probably do not have the imagination to come up with something like that.
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  66. @xdlol59 I think that continental Europe also contributed its fair share tbh. Frankfurt school and the 1960's French postmodernists are very important in the woke pantheon.
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  68. True story!
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  69. I wish the best of luck!
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  70. In the past, the groups with moral all-seeing god were more succesfull than other groups in the intergroup competition, since it increased the interpersonal trust. When you believe that your neighbours are following the same moral code as you, it makes you believe to strangers and not just your kin.
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  71. I think that the level of Italy or Spain is reachable, but not of the Germanic countries like Netherlands or Germany.
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  72. Thank you for this insight! It sounds that most of these cultural things are pretty universal, at least throughout the western world. I would say that the most specific are the economics of Southern Europe, but otherwise it all sounds pretty familiar.
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  74. Thank you very much! I do not plan to stop!
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  75. Well, large scale famine.
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  76. I am also curious about that is going to go!
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  77. Yeah, but the thing is that while tourism can pretty much sustain the economy of 1 mid-sized city, it sure can not sustain a continent's economy.
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  78. Thank you! I agree!
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  79. We will see, but I would honestly not be too hopeful in this regard.
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  80. Shit, you are right. Thanks.
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  81. I get your point, and I know that the current Russian ruling class is trying to craft an inclusive Russian civilizational identity not tied to a specific ethnicity. But do you think it will be more successful than during the Soviet times, when they, at least rhetorically and nominally, tried the same? I mean, even during the Soviet Union, which was pushing the universal post-national socialist future, the Soviet leadership was very nervous when looking at each new census and the decline of ethnic Russians within the state (in the bio of the video is a great book that deals with this topic). They even rolled out pro-natalist policies implicitly aimed at ethnic Russians/Eastern Slavs since they were not implemented in Central Asia and the Caucuses. To me, it seems clear that while different populations can be and are integrated into the Russian state, for example, the mentioned Tatars, it will have severe consequences for the Russian state if the ethnic balance shifts even further in the coming decades. Maybe I am wrong; I definitely might be. But I think that history is pointing more to me being right. The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union were trying to Russify the subjugated populations, European or Asian. Because they knew it was in the interests of the state that were both Russian imperial projects. As for the religious populations and their fertility in Russia, I do not have sufficient data to analyze them. In my video about European religious fertility, I based that video on a book regarding the subject. I am not saying it is not valid, just that I do not want to presume without sufficient data bedrock.
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  82. Sure, Western Europe invented the modern world back then. Now it is just a shadow of its former glory.
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  83. That is a very good point. Legit. Football trully is the last European cultural soft-power weapon.
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  84. Well, I am from post-communist Europe and of the perks of that is the fact that such riots never happens here. Literally never since the revolution of 1989 there was something akin to BLM riots or the rioting in France. So I do not know how the public would react and, to be frank, Czechs would never riot like that, even though gun laws are very benevolent here in the European context. But in France, and overall Western Europe, I think it is basically completely left to the police to react and non-rioters just go inside.
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  85. That is what the Danish state says.
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  86. Well, there might have been some collateral unwanted benefits. But to say it was a blessing? No way.
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  87. @_Devil solid plan, I want to do likewise.
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  88. Yes, but other regionally-specific trends are also in play.
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  89. Yeah, I am curious what the birth rates in the US will do. Your higher birthrates and stable population structure is one of yours greatests strenghts against all your pears and if you look at the countries deemed as potantial or real economic or geopolitical foes (USSR/Russia, China) or competitors (Japan, EU), they all got more or less screwed by their demographics. But I do not know if the high birt rates will be sustained with the gen Z, since I got an impression that there are many social issues in the youngest generations going against high birth rates (incels and stuff).
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  90. I am glad so many people seem to share this view!
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  91. That is interesting, do you have any data for this? I mean the fertility difference.
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  92. Glad you like it!
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  93. Thank you! And yeah, what I find most absurd is that people in our countries, the Czech Republic and Poland, are jumping the "white privilege post-colonial guilt" jumpwagon, while Slavic peoples were victims of racism for much of modern history in Europe and the world "Slave" is derived from Slav.
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  94. Agreed. Russia is very good at presenting itself to western conservatives.
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  95. People are incredibly in the dark about the whole cascade of repercussions of this issue.
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  96. The pleasure is on my side!
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  97. That is a good point. I am going to do a separate video on demographics of Russia soon!
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  98. The relatively higher poverty play´s a role, but it is reductive to say it is just that.
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  99. @tj-co9go It is much more complex then that. Labor shortage is just one aspect of the issue. Sure, if you are a worker in a sector with labor shortages, your wages might go up. But if you are for example a patient that needs healthcare and there is a massive lack of nurses and doctors, that is not so rosy. If the population reaches an average age of 55 and the number of elderly will surpass a third of the population, the number of issues will be very long.
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  101. That is an interesting point, Chinese are very famous regarding their stealing of technological know-how, but I am not familiar with cases of Turkish cases in Germany. I will look into it.
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  102. I unfortunately agree with pretty much everything you wrote.
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  103. Great peace of propaganda :D
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  104. It is fair to say that since this video was created kind of unexpectedly, I did not deal with all the arguments used. The hiring of Eastern Europeans in Western Europe is an unrelated topic. Only difference is that now Eastern Europeans have the choice to go to the west and do what they can (nobody is forcing them to go there, it is a voluntary choice of certain individuals to pursue work opportunities in the west). During communism, they mostly just could not emigrate legaly, but if they could, millions would. Dismantling of socialist industries? They were completely uncompetitive in a market environment, they worked just in the absurd bubble of socialist economy, where things were often made just to complete a 5-year plan, not because they were wanted or needed by the people. And things that were wanted, like cars or a wide variety of consumer goods, were not available. Even a relatively poorer family today can get things like tropic fruits relatively regularly and own a smartphone or a computer. Under socialism, most people might get a banana or an orange few times a year and the domestic indutry could not come even close to manufacturing a normal computer.
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  105. I would say that in reference to their historical developments, Visegrad and Baltic countries as well as Romania and Slovenia and likely Croatia has been doing rather well.
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  106. Since quite a lot of people seems to have a problem with the statements about the suitability of certain parts of the world for democracy (Orthodox countries, Muslim countries), I feel like I need to clarify it, because I might have wite it in a manner that people misunderstood or I just wrote it in a way that is hard to comprehense (my bad). It is a rather complex issue, but from a wide range of psychological researches, it has been proven that the level of exposure to the efforts of early western church (circa 500-1000 AD) to break the kinship structures had a profound effect on creation of impersonal trust (since in kin-based systems you learn to trust your extended family or a clan, but not strangers), increase opposition to authority (since you are not subordinated to the family patriarch), increases individualism (since you are not acting as a member of a collective clan, but an individual), voluntary association (when clan structures are broken down, people start to associate in guilds, councils, Orders etc.), personal property (since in clan based soieties property was usually corporately owned by the clan), modern markets creation (when you have to interact with non-kin strangers, norms to regulate trade and simmilar conduct need to be created) and many other aspects of what sow the seeds of creating the modern west. These efforts were mostly successful in the western Europe, which then became adherent of western chruch after the Schizm. They were less successful, even though present, in what was later to become the Orthodox civilisation and non-existent in the muslim world. There is a fascinated book about this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_World So, it is not about something connected to Islam or the Orthodox church religious practises as such, but more about the unexpected collateral impacts of the efforts of the church to extend its power (church was getting more money from the testaments if it persuaded people to not left everything to the family, as was the practice before, church also enlarged its influence on marriage by having the monopoly to legitimate marriage. Before, arrenged marriages were common etc...). So church in the west have sowed the seeds of the modern western civilisation pretty much by accident. And to not be accused of some arrogant or even racist western supremacism, I just want to clarify that even my neck of the woods, the Czech Republic, is not fully western in this regard. The Central European countries were exposed to this efforts by the church, but to a lesser extent then the core carolingian lands (France, Benelux, Germany, northern italy etc..). I do not think that it means anyone is inferior. I also do not think that democracy is inherently the best way of government. It is best in certain circumstances, there are better alernatives in other circumstances.
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  107. Indeed.
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  108. Yes! Lead by example!
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  109. Thank you! Comments like this from my fellow Eastern Europeans always make my day!
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  110. It is hard for me to feel any kind of Slavic-based affinity towards Russia at this point. The cultural and political diversity of Slavic countries is so massive that it is very hard to find some coherent pan-Slavic connections. Average Czech has much more in common with average Hungarian or Austrian than with average Russian or Macedonian, even though the languages are different. Average Pole has much more in common with Lithuanian than with average Bulgarian. Average Serb has much more in common with average Kosovar than with average Czech, even though Serbs would likely want to slap me for this statement and even tough one speaks Albanian and one slavic language. This is not an attempt to distance myself from these ethnicities and try to say the classic "oh we are more like the developed Germans than the poorer Slavic countries" sense, but to a certain extent it is that way. Geographic location and the resulting cultural surroundings have much more influence on peoples than language family. It goes both ways. Even though Romanians speak Latin language, they have much more in common with the surrounding countries than with Spain or France.
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  111. Thank you, I am very glad you like it! But I would not be so harsh on Americans, there is an incredible amount of great content from American creators!
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  112. I talk about Europe in this video. I have not said a word about US, NZ, Canada or Australia. I also did not say further immigration could not be stoped, I am talking about large scale remigration. And I never said the reason is large population of Asia and Africa :D
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  114. I will work on it, I swear! I am aware it is not ideal. However, you could not have finished the video just yet! :D It is not possible, I just uploaded it!
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  115. There truly are many overlaps in the interests.
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  116. The fact that Nazi's sometime pragmatically utilitized the local populations does not mean that Slavs were not seen as racially inferior Asiatic race by the Nazis. They of course were. The majority of Slavs on the lands that German deemed as their Lebensraum were targeted for mass exetrmination/expulsion and smaller percentage for cultural Germanization, if deemed racially viable. Millions of Slavs were murdered by the Nazis.
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  117. The demographic rise of religious people within Russia is possible, but I just do not have enough data. In my video about the same process in Europe, I was using data from the book Shall the religious inherit the earth by Eric Kauffman.
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  118. I will look into that in the next part of this video!
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  119. Thank you very much!
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  120. This is not entirely correct. Even the secular Jewish Israeli population is on 2.2 or 2.3 children per women, which is sort of the ideal birth rate. But Israel is a state sui generis, hard to apply its solutions to other countries.
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  121. I think that certain societies with more dense kinship structures (Southern Italy is a good example) will definitely fall back on this wider family structures. Greece is also good example.
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  122. The British approach: Whole of Europe is Balkan with Brussels the new Constantinopol!
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  123. It is an important factor indeed. But then, on the other hand, there is for example Israel, very urbanised country with very high birth rates.
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  124. Do Hungarians from Transylvania often migrate to Hungary?
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  125. Could not resist.
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  126. @neznamtija8081 What from my videos do you find racist?
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  127. @Gemer9094 also the children, I imagine.
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  128. @xensan76 The inverted age pyramids are most definitely a problem.
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  129. I think that it might happen when we are old.
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  130. You mention the university and for me one of the most frustrating thing is the overall pressure created about the need to go to the university just for the sake of doing it, even if one is not particulary interested in anything or that talented. We can than boast about the number of students and graduates growing, but huge proportion of them is just studying something not that useful, the prestige and quality of college education is going down and we still have huge need for STEM graduates, number of which is going down, since most people wants to study humanities, which are just easier. It does not make any sense, since in my age bracket in the Czech Republic, people that are doing crafts are usually much better off than people that studied economy, sociology or even law.
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  131. Well I do not really think immigration is a clear cut issue, it is a complex one. But I think that the important questions of its impact on the substance of the nation state are not being debated enough.
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  132. Agree.
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  133. Well, that makes the disparity between French and English even larger in the 11th century.
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  134. @256shadesofgrey True, that is already happening for the people that do have kids.
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  135. Thank you! I am just happy that someone likes it :D
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  136. We need to save ourselves, first and foremost.
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  138. I put it in as an easter egg to see how much heat I am going to catch :D
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  139. @samiamgreeneggsandham7587 I am glad to hear that!
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  140. You raise an interesting point with the disguised euro-chauvinism. It for example manifests itself in the different approach to people that Western Europeans deem as also European and thus holding to different standards than non-European peoples. USA, post-communist Europe or Israll are criticised heavily for things that are never brought up when discussing nations that are deemed non-European and thus, in a passive agressive way, too primitive to be criticised for their behaviour.
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  141. Thank you for your kind words!
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  142. Thank for that assurance!
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  143. @edjeon Yes, this pattern is very common!
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  144. Sure, you are right that is it tricky to extrapolate. But I kind of feel that the appeal of the secular world view is slowly starting to diminish because people start to realise on critical thing, that they are very fucking unhappy. I am not saying that this is just because of the secularism, there are many causes. But I kind of start to see around me in real life more and more examples of young people and families that are religious and just puts on significantly happier vibe than the majority of people. They seem more satisfied and less prone to the overall anxiety and depression off the times. I think that this kind of stereotype of happy young churchgoing family (I have relatively lot of those around me) might start to compete with the most prevalent stereotype so far (the strict, cold, unsympathetic parents that forbids their children from listening to rock'n'roll and hate it since its gay or something like that).
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  145. Thanks! I would gladly meet-up any time!
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  146. @bencesas3482 Well, while particular regulations might be beneficial, their sheer number in its totality just leads to massive loss of economic dynamism. And also, are right to repair or standardised chargers really the problems that are that important to the contemporary Europe? I think we really have bigger issues to deal with.
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  147. @martinfalkenberg64 That creates a space for a fruitful debate!
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  148. Exactly :D
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  149. I agree, the gap might never really close. But that is the point I am trying to make, one have to evaluate Eastern Europe in the context of Eastern European history. Even Romania is succesful in this regard.
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  150. Thank you for this insight!
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  151. Great comment! Thank you for that. Probably the most informative in this regard yet!
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  152. Thank you very much! Even though I do not come close to him in the range of topics he is able to cover.
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  153. Very interesting insight!
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  154. It collapsed in regards to the war in Ukraine, but the two countries will still support each other when facing votings in the EU institutions regarding the EU funds and such. They would otherwise dig one's own grave.
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  155. That Nazis wanted to exterminate the Slavs a repopulate Eastern Europe with Germans? Yes. I believe that propaganda.
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  156. @ernimuja6991 It is good to keep in mind that we do not really know anything about the demographics of North Korea.
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  157. @globaltheater9343 That is true.
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  158. I hope so.
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  159. That is good!
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  160. Thank you so much, that means a lot!
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  161. maybe, but it must happen organically and not be enforced by force.
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  162. It certainly plays a role, but on the other hand, the main decrease in fertility happened before the internnet became a thing.
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  163. That is a very good point. I completely agree.
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  164. I do not considered immigration to be bad per say, but I also do not think large scale immigration from culturally alien sources is a viable solution for ageing populations and population decline, for the reasons I specified in the video. And I consistently pointed out the difference between western Europe and the Anglosphere in this regard, which is connected to a large extend to the geographic insularity of USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand from many sources of immigration and thus their ability to pick economically useful immigrants, which is what you are describing (illigal immigrants versus skilled labourers). I would also argue that while UK definitely attracts skilled labourers from all over the world, it is still unfortunately more similar to western Europe than to the rest of the Anglosphere.
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  165. Thanks! I think that you are right!
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  166. Well I am not sure what label to put on my beliefs, but I increasingly think that if one wants the people to uphold the idea of a nation, there has to be some level of economic solidarity between its more and less privileged members.
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  167. I understand, since from within person always see all the corruption, incompetence, bickering and such. And Poles are very self-criticising. But you have a lot to be proud at!
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  168. Thank you very much for your kind words! My next video will be about the coming demographic implosion of many parts of the world, I sincerely hope this topic will interest you!
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  169. Thank you!
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  170. There is a very crucial difference between plague and ageing. Plague will mostly kill the weaker, elderly and children, but it will left you with the prime-age population as the most robust age group. With ageing a sub-replacememt fertility, you will end with society with very high median age and very few young people.
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  171. @duckpotat9818 The world sure got a lot smaller!
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  172. Well, the conventional way to look at it is the Anglosphere + those parts of Europe that were historically Catholic and Protestant. That means that Eastern Europe would be split along the Catholic+Protestant/Orthodox lines. From the antrophological point of view, the true core of the west is in the protestant countries of Northwestern Europe and the Anglosphere + the former Carolingian core, since that is where the values of individualism and impersonal trust are most ingrained. Russia is certainly not the west, Latin America as a whole is also not a West IMO, the sociogenesis of Latin American socieites is just too different.
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  173. Sure, but the believe systems that do not possess any transcendent elements (like the secular one) never ever proved to be sustainable throughout the human history.
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  174. @Avaricumstudios Thank you for this insight!
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  175. I agree.
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  176. Shit I meant MP :D
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  177. I mean, this all sounds nice in theory, but I truly believe that the theories about the third way (this is what is this called in the discourse in Czechia, some mystical third wave between capitalism and communism) is largely an utopia IMO. The shock therapy was the best option because as soon as the people would start to fell the negative aspects of capitalism (there was always going to be a period of pain in the transition), they would have likely voted for the politicians that would roll back the reforms and that would made the whole things much worse.
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  178. IQ can improve with improved education, observable in the much better results of African-American children growing up on US military bases. I disagree with segregating ethnicities based on IQ. That is evil and leads to ugly rabbit holes. Many low-IQ people are in every country, even if the average levels differ.
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  179. Unfortunately, you might be right.
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  180. Thank you!
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  181. I do not have any desire to move to America either, I love my country. The brain drain I am talking about is of a peculiar character. It is not really noticable in the statistics, because it might consist of tens of hundreds of people a year, but those are often the entepreneurs or the highest paid professionals. The brain drain from eastern Europe to the west is much more massive and conventional. And as you said, Sweden is one of the places in Europe that is surely in the best shape, the whole Scandinavia is. American left is envying your social system, but they also do not understand that the solutions are not universal and what can be applied in a Scandinavian countries is not universally aplicaple in other places, like the US with vastly different social structure and history. And the whole Scandinavia combined is something under 30 million people, so it is not gonna to pull whole Europe up.
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  182. That is not really how I see it. Eastern Europeans suffered mostly under imperialism. Imperialism, defined as a subjugation of a nation uder the rule of imperial nation, came in a Nazi or Socialist forms, but it was mostly nationalism that stood against it.
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  183. That is very interesting way of puting it!
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  184. I agree that the wokeness can only grow in the wealthiest countries where majority of people do not have to deal with trying to secure really basic necessities, since the woke ideology is really going against the most elemental human and group instincts. But there are also very developed and wealthy societies that are not woke, like Japan or gulg countries. Culture matter and central and eastern Europe won´t ever be that woke.
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  185. @mitonaarea5856 Are there any statistics on this? I am not saying it is not true, I just have not found the stats on the difference in fertility between native Portuguese and immigrants.
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  186. Definitely.
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  187. The Israel case is truly fascinating.
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  188. I think about it like this: From the 19th century onwards, the Christian faith started to loose its power and was being replaced by many versions of some secular-religion/ideology (Marxism, Fascism, modern progressivism...). The modern progressive humanist atheism (very much influenced by Marxism) is just another believe structure that competed with the traditional Christianity and completely rolled over it during the 20th century, almost exclusively through the power of conversion. But there is a small minority of people rejecting this new value system and they have significant fertility advantage. If these people were to succumb to the pressure, they already would and that is hinting to the possibility of genetic predisposition towards religiosity, which is scientifically proven. At the same time, the competing value system (secular progressivism) has a grave inherent vice build in it- it just unavoidably leads to very low fertility and thus cannot expand biologically but just through conversion. So when it wastes its conversion power by hitting on the wall of the genetically religious people, it gets into trouble.
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  189. While the percentage of Muslims will go higher in almost every western European country, they will still be a minority (10-20%) by the end of this century according to the serious projections. That is why I think that it is possible that the Muslim minority and the native+immigration background Christian population might ally on certain subjects against the secular bloc. But we will see.
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  190. Thank you so much! Dík moc!
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  191. @enticingmay435 I talk about this phenomenon in the video, but even the secular and traditional Jews have 2-2.5 children per woman fertility rate, higher than any other OECD state.
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  192. I do not engage in IQ differences. Even if there were true un-changeable IQ differences, which is scientifically dubious, it is evil to base any kind of analyses of policy on it. Cultural questions are fine with me, since culture is not biologically given and is anthropological in nature. IQ is not. There are many low IQ people in any nation, but the states do not segregate them or anything.
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  193. I do not know how he would like the idea of half of his beloved Prussia being Poland now :D
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  194. Nope, it is the Youtube.
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  195. Maybe :D
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  196. This surely plays a role.
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  197. I do not really talk about the specific societal groups in the video, more about the overall genetics behind fertility.
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  198. @MrJigssaw1989 This is certainly a factor.
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  199. @FOLIPE That is a good point.
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  200. Thank you very much! I will, just need to research it more!
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  201. Thank you! I need to research India properly, the complexity of Indian demographics is mind-boggling :D
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  202. Yes, the examples are plenty!
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  203. Thank you for this insight!
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  204. Yes :D
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  205. Yes, in the international perspective African-Americans are very rich. But they also live in the richest country in the world.
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  206. I did my fair share of videos about Western European situation in this regard.
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  207. I am glad to hear this!
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  208. It is fair to say that the rest of the world just sees all post-communist countries as Eastern Europe.
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  209. I do not think you understood what I am saying tbh. I clearly said that I think the narrative about Russian disinformation was dumb cope.
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  210. Yes, that is vey interesting documentary.
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  211. Thank you for this insight.
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  212. Are there troubles with Brazilian immmigration? Is there popular discontnent?
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  213. That is interesting!
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  214. @Khalimdorr At least they tried something. Better than most.
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  215. Glad you liked it!
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  216. Thank you very much! I will try to publish the second part within couple of weeks. As for your points about the possible distortions, I have to say that they seems legit when I think about it.
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  217.  @bottleofwatero1  thanks! I have to honestly admit I never heard of Revel. What similar thoughts do we have?
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  218. I can not say that I agree. I believe that the roots of European decline are deeper and rooted within the psyche of the European societies. While the specific policies you named are hard to disagree with, I do not think that there is such an easy fix.
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  219. Thank you! I am glad you like it!
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  220. Yes, the culture war is raigng here. But we are at least a decade, probably more, behind the west in these matters and there is a significant opposition to western wokeness brewing within the society. It will be interesting to see which way will it go.
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  221. You are right, my bad. I will correct this in the next part of the series.
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  222. Very true.
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  223. @-haclong2366 India is a hell of a complicated and intriguing country. Many people always ask me if I will do a demographic deepdive of India, but I would need to study it for years to be able to do so. There are like 500 ethnic groups and 354 religious groups :D
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  224. @liamwilcox641 Thank you for this insight. I am kind of on the fence about this, since while you definitely have a point to a degree, I also think that too much online remote living, working and learning also has detrimental effects on the mental health of people. I think that especially children needs to be in contact with their peers.
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  225. Sure, this will be slow process that will take couple more decades before eventually being significant in the society, after 2050. It is not 99% to 1% though, it is like 10 % to 90%, which is difference. And I do not think it will result in christians having majority, but increasing their share from the low levels of today to something higher, like 30% maybe. And if this 30% would be relatively fundamentalist, that would change the debate significantly.
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  226. Are the Jews telling you to give up your religion?
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  227. @medstudding2760 Thank you, that means a lot from an Israeli!
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  228. That is definitely good!
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  229. I think that deportations might increase, but I do not think that it will happen on a scale that would significantly influence the broad demographic balance. Even if the bad apples and criminals were deported much more regularly than was the case up to now, you would need to deport millions of children to really change the course of events. That remains highly unlikely. As for the taboo on intermarriage, time will tell. But so far, the data does not support it. I am aware of the change in the public atmosphere, but I also feel people on the right tend to overestimate it. Labor is still positioned to hugely win the next elections.
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  230. That is a fair point.
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  231. To be precise, it is nowhere near the half of the population.
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  232. I completely agree with you that there is a huge difference between the African-Americans and immigrants to Europe in the reason why there are where they are. The immigrants came voluntarily, and Africans were shipped as enslaved people. Crucial distinction. I also agree with you that the word assimilation, as it is usually used regarding immigration, usually carries more cultural connotations than in the context of African-Americans. Black Americans are quintessentially American; I agree with that. The contribution of your people to what is perceived as an American culture is undeniable. But, at the same time, Black Americans are still an economic underclass that often lives in segregated inner city neighborhoods (I do not deny that racist policies were contributing to that, I mention it in the video) and often perceive themselves to be in opposition to the mainstream "white" culture, due to their previous struggles. What I meant by the comparison, which Christopher Caldwell initially formulated, is that I fear that the destiny of immigrants and their descendants in Europe will be more similar to the social role of African Americans in the USA, economic underclass living in segregated neighborhoods, than to most of the other immigrants to the USA that assimilate completely, culturally and economically, among the "white" mainstream culture.
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  233. Thank you for this insight!
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  234. Thank you so much man, it means a lot to hear such a praise!
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  235. @filipninkovic9058 You might be right, but I do not really like the idea of Western countries working to reduce population growth in the developing world. I would be much more glad if we are able to have sustainable populations ourselves and thus do not feel threatened by the growth elsewhere.
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  236. I am aware of the book, but my reading list is so stacked up that I will be glad to get to it within a year :D
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  237. It is kinda depressing.
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  238. I do not hate any ethnicity. Russian state though? Not a lot of good experience with it where I came from, let me tell you that.
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  239. Superpower 2020
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  240. You are the most important representatives of Slavs in the American ethnic make-up! Almost 10 million Polish Americans.
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  241.  @JC-ld2uo  No it is not.
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  242. According to the most detailed data, there likely won´t be an islamisation, but I think that it will atomise western European societies and they will loose social coherence.
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  243. Thank you very much!
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  244. Thank you for your insight!
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  245. Thank you!
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  246. Interesting point!
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  247. I am glad to hear that!
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  248. I am glad you liked it!
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  249. Nice! :D
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  250. I think people that see some grand conspiracy or plan in motion are overestimating the capabilities of the ruling classes and underestimating the sheer chaotic nature of the world. It is not a conspiracy but a combination of short-sighted policies, lack of political courage, and conformity.
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  251. Díky ti za slova chvály! Hlavní je neztrácet naději, všechno se může obrátit k lepšímu!
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  252. I got The Decline of the West this christmas, but I haven´t started with it yet. It seems to me that it will be very challenging read and I thus always start reading something else when I finish the book I am currently reading :D
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  253. That is partially true, but it is not the whole story. There is undeniable cultural dynamism and energy that makes American culture so appealing to audiences that do not speak English at all.
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  254. Thank you! It is also fair to point out, that Denmark is one the richest and best governed countries in Europe and the future is likely pretty bright there. But it is not that way for most of Europe.
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  255. Thanks! I also think that the level of immigration is bound to explore the limits of a nation state. Europe is very different than the Anglophone countries in this regard.
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  256. Communism destroys the basic social fabric of a community.
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  257. I might, but I have not yet find such a deep antropological and sociodemographic deep dive into Russia as Emmanuel Todd provides about the US.
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  258. Thank you very much!
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  259. Thank you so much! I will definitely do some of them in the future, I already did a video on East Asia.
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  260. @Anewman-qv3rq Yeah, this kind of arguments drive me nuts :D
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  261. I mean, this is PRECISELY the tactic that I am critiquing in the video. Basically not a single thing of what you said is correct. - I am not hating gays. Not a single thing I have said in any of my work points to that in any way (if you do not want so see it there of course). I did not even oppose gay marriage that much. - What I do hate is your type of argumentation that equals dislike of certain political position with automatic hate of the group that it concerns. You can oppose gay marriage and adoption of gay couples for many reasons that have nothing to do with homophobia. - Paying homage to the victims is not what I critique in the video and it is not what happened. Paying homage to the victims is good and desirable. - After the murders, the deaths were unscrupulously used by the pressure groups to try to morally blackmail politicians to push their desired political agenda. The activists could barely hide that they are almost glad the murders happened in a way, because they were great ammunition for their goals. -Who told you that I do not want to have a discussion about the topic? I could discuss it for hours. - I have not been silenced in any way nor do I propose at any point in the video that I have been. - You are not discussing anything either, just proposing that all my beliefs must be guided by some innate hate and homophobia.
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  262. Very interesting nisight, thanks!
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  263. Thank you!
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  264. I am an ethnic Czech born and living my whole life in the Czech Republic.
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  265. Where did I say one word about civil war in the video?
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  266. Well it was, among other things, the ethnic divide between German dominated and non-German world.
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  267. Congratz boys!
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  268. I think that the constant presence of danger and the ackwnoledgement that your statehood is not granted enhances thi instincts. Vast majority of people in Western Europe have lived their whole lives in relative safety and prosperity, mostly shielded from the wild dangers of the world. This is also visible in the more grounded approach of post-communist Europe, which still remembers that the world can fuck you up very easily.
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  269. That is very interesting food for thought!
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  270. Thank you very much! I know it is a big old cliche, but comments like this gives me great motivation to keep grinding!
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  271. In a relative comparison to other European countrries, it likely still is, even if not in comparison to its past self.
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  272. That surely also plays a role.
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  273. Yes, but germans can blame only themselves. Buying Russian gas was a gamble and now they have to pay the price.
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  274. I agree with you, but I think less is the way to go.
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  275. @Francisco-1179 Southern Europe definitely deserves its own video!
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  276. @eatinsomtin9984 I am totally allergic to this rhetoric :D I get pissed off immediately.
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  277. Japanese are very good at preparing for the future by outsourcing the factories to the future markets.
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  278. I agree.
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  279. In all depends on who you compare it with, but in comparison with proper woke countries like Germany or Sweden, it is still a based paradise here in Czechia. But the woke thoughts are creeping up through the institutions in media, academia, non-profit sector and such.
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  280. Thank you very much! I am glad you like it
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  281. I am glad you like it!
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  282. That is a very interesting insight!
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  283. It is true.
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  284. @margea.9506 I think they are victims of the false narrative being soled to them under the rug of empowerment.
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  285. @MM22966 Good quote!
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  286. Thank you for this insight!
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  287. Thanks! So far, they are not so bad!
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  288. Thank you for this insight!
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  289. @pyszczek88 Thank you! 1 - That is interesting insight, thank you! 2 - That is interesting, in the Czech Republic, Poland is increasingly perceived as a country that did many things right in the economic sphere and we should be inspired by how the Poles do it. Many Czechs have historically perceived Poland with certain dismissive arrogant view, as a poor undeveloped ultra-religious country that is good mostly for trying to buy some cheap low-quality merchandise (not by all people of course, but it was present). This views id dying out now, since people see the progress that Poland have made. It is very obvious in regard to the transport infrastructure, where Czech Republic is incredibly stagnant while Poland made massive progress.
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  290. @darthguilder1923 The migration point sure seems interesting!
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  291. @connor1414 Yes. Even if the migrants were all perfectly productive workers, they will still get old in some time and the whole cycle will have to continue.
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  292. @GodsOwnPrototype I think there is quite a lot of idealisation of Japan on the western right. Sure, the crime rates are low. That is indeed a valuable asset and I do not want to underplay it. But otherwise, Japan is far from some ideal society. There is lot of issues and lot of them is caused by the demographics.
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  293. @SelectKiko When you take age structure into account, it is incredibly damaging issues. It is not so much about numbers as about the age structure.
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  294. @user-hr2cf9kb9t I agree.
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  295. "It is not the fault of politicians, if people do not know what they are voting for." Here I disagree. For democracy to work, you need reasonably educated voters that are able to understand what they vote for and how the system works. But that is basically impossible within the current EU context. I mean, I am a person that is really into politics and I even have university education that helps me to grasp EU politics, but even for me it is relatively challenging to make some sense of it. How can you ask an average voter, some guy that is working normal job and not spending majority of his free time reading up on politics (and if he is, it is about the national politics, not the EU politics) to make a qualified decision in the EU parliament elections, which are mostly a rehash of the national elections anyway? He would need to know the whole EU power structure, not just the formal one but also the informal leavers of power, to do so and he would also need to think in the context of Europe, to evaluate how the elections will end up in the other EU countries and vote in this context. In my opinion, democracy can not work like this. It is too diluted. The EU is formally democratic, it has all the institutions, but it do not have the psychological base for it, the constituency. And it is the fault of the politicians if the people do not know what they are voting for, since the mostly do not explain it to them properly. If you say to the people "Green deal means sustainable, environmentally sensitive economy based on cutting edge green tech", sure, sounds great, who wouldn't want that. If politicians said to the people "It also means very high energy prices leading to uncompetitive industry and possible Deindustrialization, lowering living standards and so on", who would vote for it? Almost no one. And you can now see in Germany, one of the most environmentally conscious populations, that the people are now seriously second guessing it. And the problem of the EU, in my opinion, is that it incentivises lack of accountability. Stuff like this is decided in Brussels, too far away from the hearts and minds of average voters.
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  296. Starting a war was clearly a huge misjudgment on the Russian part.
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  297. There just ain't any chapters in this one due to it being fairly short :D
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  298. It will be very interesting to see the results, but I am afraid they will be simmilarly limited as in the case of Hungary.
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  299. Thank you!
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  300. Kinship density means basically the prevalence of cousin marriages and patriarchal families living together ruled by the oldest male. You have very low kinship density in Western world, where the nuclear family is prevalent, and very high kinship density in the Muslim world especially. It is a hugely important factor influencing culture.
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  301.  @sultanskinny  "It’s interesting how you don’t compare how Muslims in the US and Canada integrate compare to countries in Europe. " I explicitly mention exactly this in the video, even though we would probably not agree on the causes. But I mention all of it in the video. Have you even watched it past the military part? And yes, I consider military service to be a rather good, even if not perfect, marker of the self-identification with the state. As for the other things, you accuse me of being one-dimensional while also saying stuff like: "Europe and the US has made their mission to completely destabilize, control and impoverish many of the countries that the people you are scared of come from. The prosperity of Europe really rests on the exploitation of these countries and their people. So if given the option of living and working in the imperial core or the subjugated periphery" Which just clearly shows that you are seeing the world through very one-dimensional, anti-western, very likely marxist infused "west - evil oppressor/the rest - poor victims" kind of way. All of the things you mentioned are completely wrong from the historical perspective and the whole "imperial core or the subjugated periphery" terminology is just marxist BS. Have the West done many bad things to its colonies and their successor states? Sure. Is it black and white one-dimensional story of oppression and subjugation? Of course not.
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  302. Well, that is really not that surprising. gay people have very valid reasons for fearing and opposing the ethnic change in Europe. The newcomers are not that fond of homosexuality.
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  303. I agree with that, that is why I said in the conclusions that it is not technically hard to stop the migration via mediterranean. But on the other hand, if the current trends of emigration and population shrinking in the Balkans continue, I can imagine a scenario, for example 40 years from now, when the Balkan countries might have serious problem to even somehow populate institutions like police of army, because every generation is smaller than the previous in country like Serbia. If there is some kind of governmental collapse and the migration pressure gets extreme, for example in case of famine in the global south, it might happen.
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  304. Thank you! I mean the loss of religion did not happen over night, it was a process that took several centuries, moved in different pances in idfferent countries and most importantly, it moved from up downwards. So it started in the 18th century with the elites and aristocrats and trickled down to the common folk.
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  305. Well, I think the worst is stil lawaiting Europe.
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  306. Indeed, indeed
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  307. thank you!
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  308. For the difficult.
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  309. I sincerely hope it will turn somehow.
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  310. Thank you! I am glad to hear that.
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  311. It is of course true. There are many interesting books about it, for example The American Nations.
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  312. Next video will be about Visegrad countries!
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  313. The difference between 0.8 children per woman and 1.5 children per woman is massive on the societal level over a couple of generations.
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  314. @tomorrowneverdies567 Many people from all over the place wrote this to me, I should have done some research :D My bad.
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  315. @artilleryman895 Another "Other" trying to change the proper catholic ways! :D
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  316. @GeoPhilosophy Thank you very much!
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  317. Well I am addressing your concerns in the video. The whole point is that there is now a very small minority of people that remained true to their faith and they are a new core of believers that will start to expand demographically. The Czech Republic is a telling example, since while there is only a 7% of catholic among young people, 24% of them are churchgoing, which is one of the largest proportions in Europe. And these trends will gain pace throughout the century as the majority populations age and decline, the percentage of churchgoing christians might start to rise. But I am not claiming that they will be a majority, I think they might get to something like 30%, which would be huge societal change compared to the current state. "I don't know where the stats came from suggesting that university students in that country are becoming more religious" - It is from a study of the Czech census from 2011 by the Czech bureau of statistics, it is in the bio.
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  318. I am glad to hear that! I definitely do not think that the invasion is perceived lightly, but from my numerous conversations with Slovaks on the topic, it was nowhere near as crucial in their view as in the view of your average Czech.
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  319. @ermin2248 Thanks! Sure, the are interesting and successful companies in Poland as well as in the other countries. But so far, there just ain't enough of them and they are not big enough on the grand scale. And I completely agree on the east Germany, it is mostly forgotten that Prussia was very Eastern European in many respects and that East Germany was basically what was left of Prussia,
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  320. happyelephant5384 I think there might have been a slight misunderstanding on your part. In Northern Ireland, the dynamics indeed did produce high fertility rate among the Catholics, it just ended with the troubles.
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  321. Good point.
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  322. haha :D
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  323. @freddy4603 Well, India is a whole different beast :D Most complex country on earth IMO. Very hard to grasp.
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  324. Thank you! To be honest, I had German at high school and I have just always liked how these two words sound, individually and together. But there is no deeper meaning behind it :D I guess the word Kaiser is just cool since it means emperor and Bauch sounds a little bit like the word for God in Czech (Bůh).
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  325. I do not see this neocolonial relationship though. In what way are they a colony? Sure, they are poorer and the west is richer. Lot of the trade and investment comes from the western Europe. But a colony? Do people really not realise how the colonies were treated in history? The eastern countries strongly opposed the immigrant quotas in 2015 and they achieved their goal. Poland was again pressured to let in the migrants that Belarus was pushing at their border. The Poles got their way. Germany, the alleged colonial overlord, is very opposed to the idea of Poland and Czechia building new nuclear power plants, but the plans are still going through, with US and Korean firms. The Eastern EU members are conducting a policies towards the Ukraine-Russa war that are very differnt than those preffered by Germany or France. There is nothing colonial like about it. Sure, the eastern countries are on the less favourable end of the market relations, but that does not mean colonionalism. People just operate with terms that they do not understand.
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  326. Russia will get its own video in time, because its demographics are highly specific.
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  327. Yes, I mostly agree with you. I thus analyse the differences in the demographics profile of Europe and east Asia in the video. We will see how it will play out, but I do not think that we can assume the same rate of the decline for sub-saharan Africa as we saw in China. There are also other factors in play, not only the demographic transition (urbanisation, religiosity, economic development etc.). I will go through these in the second part of the video. But in principle, I agree. European birth rates increased, but it is nowhere near the level of increase needed to turn the negative trend over. While the fertility rates increased in many countries, the crude birth rate stagnated or declined, since there are less women of childbearing age.
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  328. Thank you! You are completely right about the S. Korea, where economic dynamism leads to birth rate levels that will likely destroy the country in a couple of decades.
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  329. I mean, does Russia gives me any other choice?
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  330. The French would never do that IMO. No nuclear power wants other countries to join the club, it dilutes the exclusivity.
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  331. Erdogan, is that you?
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  332. That is of course true. There are several great books about it, for example The American Nations.
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  333. Thank you! Well, I would be rather cautious with the cultural similarity after the massive drift apart in the last 70 years.
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  334. Thanks! :D Enjoy Prague! The city center is beautiful, but it is a complete tourist disneyland. As for the joke, its fine :D No problem
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  335. @Taeb000ty Thank you for this insight! I definitely hope that the change will come when people see the result in real time.
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  336. @joshp.2872 It is going to be a shitshow.
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  337. I think that the millenials were probably the most woke generation even in the Anglosphere. With Gen Z, it looks like there is more polarization going on with minority of very right-wing people, almost all of them being men.
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  338. Good point!
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  339. @AcornRolling Sure, one side has to lose.
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  340. @tomorrowneverdies567 That is a misunderstanding, I am afraid. If everyone was of one ethnicity, religion and culture, then ethnicity, religion and culture would just not be the demarcation lines, it would be something else. If you would put a couple of millions of Lutheran blond Swedes on some distant island, couple of centuries later they would be divided based on eye colour or favorite band (those are stupid examples, but you get the point).
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  341. Thank you!
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  342. Sure, I do not know for sure how it will work out. As I said in the video, the scenario of secularisation progressing further and eating of the demographic advantage of the churchgoers is plausible.
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  343. Thank you for this insight!
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  344. @hybirr All right, I am gonna list here some of the things empirically happening in the West that I see as very damaging and I do not want them to happen in my country: 1.) Indoctrination of schoolchildren with very suggestively made information about issues of gender and transgender leading to a high number of children identifying as either trans or non-binary while the system is very supportive of this, even though it is of biologically impossible for all of them to suddenly truly be "non-CIS" and vast majority of them just have some kind of teen identity crisis (which most adolescence or teens have). This leads to underage children undergoing transitions without medical due diligence, significantly damaging them for life. This is empirically happening in the west, mostly the Anglosphere. I think that the Czech laws regarding trans-issues (it is of course possible, but the due diligence is very, very thorough and it takes years to prevent possible mistakes) are sufficient and well-made. 2.) Legal anchorage of gender as something separate from biological sex. This is currently being implemented into the Czech law in the Istanbul treaty that medially presented as a treaty to fight against violence on woman, a subject that everyone can get behind, but is actually sort of "by the way" quietly implementing the legal institute of gender (so far, the Czech law recognises only biological sex). It is a prime example of progressives pushing issues that they could not push through democratically by various backdoors. Hopefully Czech parliament will not ratify it, but the EU as a whole will accept it anyway. 3.) The ESG regulations that pushes private companies to ostentatiously promote inclusivity, diversity etc., otherwise their funding from banks might be negatively influenced. This is completely deplorable practice that uses big capital to push ideological agenda. It is already happening in here too, I hope that the current push against it coming from USA will also influence Europe in this regard. I could go on and on, but I think this is sufficient as examples of progressive ideas related to LGBTQ+ issues that I think are very dangerous and damaging to society and democracy. Now you might disagree with their dangerous nature, but they are definitely not imaginary. All of this is very real. "To assert that this movement is ....inherently political is fraught with inaccuracy" It was not the conservative side that made it inherently political. This was done by the progressives. And now it is inherently political and it will stay that way. And you might say that it is not connected to gay rights or to gay marriage, but it was not the conservative or reactionary side that inseparably connected this together. I think that the people that connected the LGB part with the other letters damaged Gay rights more than anyone else possibly could.
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  345. Thank you for this insight!
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  346. I am glad to hear that!
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  347. Thank you for this insight!
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  348. @TriStarIII It sure is!
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  349. @dvirm.l1475 Thank you! I will definitely look into Judea and Samaria.
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  350. @matsv201 The birth rates around 1.8 - 2 are mostly sustainable. But the amount of countries with this birth rates is declining fast. Even countries like UK, France, US and such are going to 1.5-1.6 values.
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  351. @eliasorbon450 This point is often brought up, but I think it is rather debatable. If you measure the success of the EU purely by it existing, then yes, it is successful. If you however take a look at the position of the European continent in the world, it is unquestionable that it is declining very fast, especially since the EU integration started to become more fast-paced. Now, correlation does not mean causation, the decline could have been the same or worse without the EU, we will never know. But if you would measure the success of the EU by the overall position of Europe in the world affairs (economic growth, cultural influence, military power, demographic growth, technological innovation etc.), the EU cannot be called a success.
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  352. I have been to Russia! Not that a few days spent in Moscow would enhance my understanding of Russian demographics in any meaningful way, but I have been there!
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  353. I am merely using the flag connecting gay, trans people and people of color as a representation of woke ideology. The ideology is based on perceiving everything in society through lenses of oppression, victimhood and power dynamics. The flag is thus good reprezentation of it, since it puts together groups that have not much in common except being perceived as victims.
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  354. I agree.
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  355. Good approach! Bratislava is a very interesting city, I see some similarities with Warsaw. While the cities do not have that much historical sights (due to WWII in Warsaw), there is a lot of modern development, which I like!
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  356. Thank you!
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  357. Thank you for this insight!
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  358. What is interesting about your critique is that the hate of the muslims towards western countries due to the military operations in the middle-east, which is justifiable and I would not blame them for it, does not stop them from migrating to the western countries. Military is just an extension of the state power. If one hates Britain so much, why would he want to live in it and enjoy all the opportunities it offers? And second, it does not change anything about the main message of this video: that the mass immigration to Western Europe from the Africa, middle-east, Turkey and Pakistan just does not work. Nowhere in the video am I saying that Islam is bad, nor do I think so. I called it a proud and ancient culture in the video, which it is. It is just not that compatible with the western culture, if properly implemented. If the reason for the disfunction of the current state is partially the fact that the West has been acting ruthlessly and damagingly towards the countries, so be it. But the end result is still the same. As for the cultural fixation, that is just about what is included within the term culture. To me, hate toward western countries because of their military interventions is part of the broader culture. I am from post-communist central Europe and we do not like Russia for the same reason, which is also integrated into the culture at this point. But if you damaged certain region with your military, maybe it is not such a great idea to continue importing people from a region where they have many legitimate reasons to hate your guts?
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  359. I am ethnically Czech, it just seems that I have a weird accent :D
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  360. I agree that pro natal culture/religion are very important factors, but to say that population growth and the level of development have nothing in common is nonsense.
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  361. @Titanelephantbird I am sorry but how is that relevant?
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  362. Patreon for 1 dollar a month!
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  363. It is possible, it is of course a matter of great interest to me, how the demographic crisis will pan out (I made two videos about it). But it will not help anything, that is for sure.
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  364. Thank you for your kind words! I am glad you like it!
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  365. Thank you very much for this insight!
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  366. Thank you! I will do a video on Southern Europe and will include Greece. But I exceedingly feel like Greece is an Eastern European country that managed to LARP as a western/southern European one for a few decades :D But the East is calling you back!
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  367. Might be, it depends mostly on the scale of the African population growth.
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  368. Thank you!
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  369. Thank you so much! And I wish you all the best for your military career and Poland all the best in the future!
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  370. Indeed!
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  371. Superpower 2020!
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  372. All those things are easier sad than done.
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  373. Sure, I will look into this in the next part of this series.
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  374. I will definitely make a video on Israel! But need to do more research first.
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  375. Well, I definitely might be wrong. Then they are screwed.
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  376. It is a puzzle that is hard to solve though, since urbanisation is just indivisibly connected to economic prosperity. We have to try to find some balance.
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  377. @MysteriousSlip It is certainly a very complex issue, with a myriad of economic, social and economic causes.
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  378. Definitely.
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  379. @casualpasser-by5954 I do not think climate change can achieve this. I think the nature is too impersonal.
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  380. Well, that is the base of it all.
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  381. Thank you, I plan to continue! And sure, you might be right. We do not know the future, it might go both ways!
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  382. I think about it like this: From the 19th century onwards, the Christian faith started to loose its power and was being replaced by many versions of some secular-religion/ideology (Marxism, Fascism, modern progressivism...). The modern progressive humanist atheism (very much influenced by Marxism) is just another believe structure that competed with the traditional Christianity and completely rolled over it during the 20th century, almost exclusively through the power of conversion. But there is a small minority of people rejecting this new value system and they have significant fertility advantage. If these people were to succumb to the pressure, they already would and that is hinting to the possibility of genetic predisposition towards religiosity, which is scientifically proven. At the same time, the competing value system (secular progressivism) has a grave inherent vice build in it- it just unavoidably leads to very low fertility and thus cannot expand biologically but just through conversion. So when it wastes its conversion power by hitting on the wall of the genetically religious people, it gets into trouble.
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  383. I sure hope so.
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  384. I am glad it did!
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  385. Thank you!
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  386. Thank you for this insight!
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  387. I mean, fair enough, I get your point. On the other hand, the East Asian video was really about demographics and I studied several books and research papers for it. Thus it is much more topic-focused. This is more of a broad societal overview based on my personal and general knowledge of the region where I live. I would not make video such as this about any other region.
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  388. @littledumb5186 The American support has not been that crucial for some time now.
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  389. @edjohnson8017 It is obvious to me, but it seems to me that to most people it is not.
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  390. @edjohnson8017 Not indefinitely.
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  391. It is not about the Orthodox church not being suitable for democracy or the western church being fit for it as such. It is a rather complex issue, but from a wide range of psychological researches, it has been proven that the level of exposure to the efforts of early western church (circa 500-1000 AD) to break the kinship structures had a profound effect on creation of impersonal trust (since in kin-based systems you learn to trust your extended family or a clan, but not strangers), increase opposition to authority (since you are not subordinated to the family patriarch), increases individualism (since you are not acting as a member of a collective clan, but an individual), voluntary association (when clan structures are broken down, people start to associate in guilds, councils, Orders etc.), modern markets creation (when you have to interact with non-kin strangers, norms to regulate trade and simmilar conduct need to be created) and many other aspects of what sow the seeds of creating modern west. These efforts were mostly successful in the western Europe, which then became adherent of western chruch after the Schizm. There is a fascinated book about this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_World But that is not to say that there can not be democracy elsewhere or that all the countries perceived today as western were exposed to this destruction of clan-based structures. For example in Finland, kinship structures remained very strong. But I believe that relatively few coutries are really antropologically western and suited for democracy, mainly in northwestern Europe and the Anglosphere. Even the Visegrad countries are, in my opinion, mostly westernised, but the values ingrained in the Western core are not really deeply rooted in (more than in Orthodox countries though. Same goes for regions as Southern Italy or Southern Spain or Ireland. As for the Greek case, I agree. I mentioned Greece because it was relevant in the another parts of the video that were suppose to come afterwards, but I then decided to make this video into a separate one. that is why I do not mention Greece later. But I consider Greece to be an Eastern European country.
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  392. my wife
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  393. Shit you are right, corrected. Thanks.
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  394. For me it is interesting how little is this talked about. It is as if the general public discourse is afraid to talk abut the implications because there are terrifying and modern liberal cultures do not know how to react at all.
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  395. Yes, this factor is very significant. Luckily, in post-communist Europe, it is sort of inverted. There is still significant supsicion towards the far left.
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  396. It is true that if you isolated Czech lands it would be higher.
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  397. I agree in principle, though I would not put the West anywhere near Russia in the terms of actual danger. Russia in on another level. But the cultural influence from the west is detrimental in the past couple of decades.
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  398. I mean, for me the best way to react is not to care and just improve the image of the term Eastern Europe!
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  399. Thank you for this insight! It is true that in the context of the Russian empire, the Polish lands were the most advanced.
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  400. If Germany had won WWII my people would not exist. So fuck no.
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  401. I think people that see some grand conspiracy or plan in motion are overestimating the capabilities of the ruling classes and underestimating the sheer chaotic nature of the world. It is not a conspiracy but a combination of short-sighted policies, lack of political courage, and conformity.
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  402. Thank you for this insight!
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  403. Thank you!
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  404. Part of the equation, not the whole story though.
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  405. Yes, but the cultural forces might override their genetic inclinations.
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  406. Yep, Western Europeans can be as smug as it gets.
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  407. That is exactly right.
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  408. That is true.
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  409. So far, it did not happened and it has been over a year. All just talking.
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  410.  @georgem2509  Thak you very much!
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  411. It is truly remarkable. It is as if we are not able not to have an opinion about something that is a subject in America.
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  412. I agree.
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  413. Thanks! That is an interesting insight, Berlin truly is a hipster´s paradise.
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  414. Hope you are doing good overseas.
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  415. Thank you!
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  416. Hopefully the former and not the latter.
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  417. There is great Polish movie Volyn about it.
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  418. Thank you! And Mexico being more woke than the US, that is sure surprising to me!
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  419. Thank you!
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  420. Thank you very much! I agree.
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  421. It will come!
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  422. I do not really think that can happen since the huge growth of the Amish is allowed due to the fact that they are still a relatively small minority within the context of America and if they would grow too large and start negatively influencing the surrounding populations, they would like be somehow restricted.
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  423. Thank you very much, you have my favourite nickname out of all the regular viewers! :D
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  424. I am Czech :D the fact that many people, presumably westerners, can not tell western Slavic accent from an Indian one has become somewhat of a running joke on this channel.
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  425. Do you have any literature to recommend on the subject of natural selection and fertility? Genuinely asking, since I want to research that topic but I have not find many books dealing with it. So far I am stuck with academic research papers that are bitch to read and expensive as hell :D As for your language credentials, that is genuinely impressive my man. I am honoured that someone as smart is spending his time watching my stuff!
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  426. That is true, but in comparison with East Asia, it is still much better.
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  427. Thank you very much!
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  428. @davidplowman6149 It must come from the bottom up then.
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  429. Thank you very much!
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  430. @bader3677 I have to be wrong then.
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  431. @user-uf2df6zf5w Very interesting insights, thank you!
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  432. @Nick-bs6yo Thank you for this insight!
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  433. I have not red it. But it definitely is that way, the cultural revolution of the 1960´s had a huge impact.
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  434. True, I think that is to large extent driven by the rise in sexlessness among young men in the West today, which is very interesting phenomenon in itself.
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  435. Maybe you are right.
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  436. Thank you for the feedback, I appreciate it! The birth rates of practising christian women are over 2 in many of the researched countries, for example France, Sweden or Netherlands, since those are countries with relatively higher fertility, and they are around 2 in countries with very low fertility like Spain or Poland . As for the assumption of children not defecting, I am not really assuming it. As I say in the video, there is a possibility that they will defect and the secularisation will continue. But the data from the countries, where the secularisation is furthest (Czech Republic, Sweden, The Netherlands, France, UK) suggests, that the decline has flatlined and the bottom was found and there is very real possibility that growth will come in the coming decades. Also, I believe that the conversion rates might start to change, since many people are really unhappy in the current world and they are looking for something to believe in. I think that it will more likely be certain branches of protestantism (charismatic church, non-denominational protestantism, pentecostalism and such) than catholicism or traditional European protestantism, since those are forged on the competitive American religious "market" and it would be in sync with the Americanisation of European culture. As for the boringness of the data presentation, I guess you got the point. But the data are also kind of the meat of the video and I needed to present them somehow and I did not come up with any more amusing form. And as for the lack of well rounded analysis, I guess that it is possible. I am not a sociologist or a demographer. These videos are not scientific research papers. I just wanted to talk about the things I am interested in and I hope someone will enjoy to watch it! But I will try to get better with the coming videos.
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  437. Thank you for all the comments, both the praise and the views challenging my views! Since many comments seem disturbed or angered by the comments regarding same-sex marriage in the video, I want to clarify my position on this issue in this comment. The example of same-sex marriage was primarily used to illustrate the dishonest and, in my opinion, stupid argumentation that certain people use. Creating pressure by saying that on the issue of same-sex marriage, we are deciding if we want to ally ourselves with Russia (a state that most people understandably do not see positively) or with the wealthy, democratic, developed West is misguiding and manipulative. Gay marriage has very little to do with foreign policy, economy, and geopolitical positioning. By not having same-sex marriage, I could say that we are allying ourselves with Italy, Poland, Japan, or South Korea, developed democratic countries. And by legalizing same-sex marriage, we are associating ourselves with South Africa and Colombia. It is like being a child saying that I need a new iPhone or something and then arguing that I need it because other kids have it too, instead of talking about the merit of the thing itself. And gay marriage has valid arguments going for it. That just isn't one of them. So, to begin with, there are two ways to view marriage as an institution. First, it is a form of ritual and legal recognition of the relationship between two people who love each other and want to live with each other. Since it is their private matter, they should be allowed in a liberal society. That is currently prevalent in the West. The second is that marriage is the foundational bedrock of any functioning society, and it has one principal purpose - to create a fitting environment for conceiving and raising children. Now under this second view, it can, by default, be only allowed for heterosexual couples since only they can biologically conceive. Sure, you might argue that heterosexual couples that can not or do not want to have children can also get married, and that is true. Still, in principle, heterosexual couples can create children while homosexual couples can not. Now with the first definition, the problem is that if marriage is understood as a form of ritual and legal recognition of the relationship of people that love each other and want to live with each other, there are not many arguments to be made against, for example, legalization of polygamy, since why could not more than two people that love each other and want to share their lives also get this recognition and get married? They are not bothering anyone; it is their private matter. But monogamy is one of the foundations of the success of Western civilization (WEIRDest people in the world - great book about the topic by Joseph Heinrich). Sure, many will say that this is an argumentation fallacy, creating a scenario that hypothetically stems from the issue at hand and then arguing against the hypothetical scenario instead of against the issue at hand. But I consider it quite dangerous to tinker with marriage as an institution too much since we usually do not think about the possible long-term consequences of such changes; we are just riding on a wave of progress that feels good. Homosexuality should be respected as a way of life in a liberal society, which it is in the Czech Republic, and any manifestations of homophobia that are against the law should be punished accordingly. But I do not think that having a separate legal institution for the relationship of gay people is either homophobic or is it making them second-class citizens in any way. It is just a recognition of the fact that marriage between a man and a woman is, due to the biological reality, different in nature than a relationship between two men or two women. The second point is that the situation is specific in the Czech Republic for two reasons. First, the word for marriage in Czech is manželství, which comes from the proto-Slavic combination of words for man and woman. So it is baked into the word's etymology, which is not an issue in English. Now there is currently a debate about the subject in the Czech parliament; one side wants to legalize gay marriage, other wants to have a different name for the institution but otherwise equalize all the rights connected to it (taxes, bureaucratic stuff, common property, heritage, etc.) except for the rights related to raising children (I support this. I believe that gay people should have the option to have their relationship recognized by law and have all the advantages of marriage in terms of legal and financial matters. I will get to the question of children later); the third side wants to put into the constitution that marriage has to be between a man and a woman (that won't pass, IMO). Now the situation is complicated because if the law calls it marriage, it automatically means that the couples will have the right to adoption since the law about adoption just gives the right to any married couple (the lawmakers did not think about same-sex marriage at the time). But that is an entirely separate issue since the people that want to enact gay marriage constantly repeat that it is just between the two people and will not affect anyone else. Still, they want to legalize two things at once - marriage and adoption. But with adoption, it is different since that is not only about the two people getting married, which arguably really does not affect anyone else, but mainly about the child. Now you might say that being raised by a gay couple is better than an orphanage, and I agree with that. The problem is that in the Czech Republic ( I assume that in other countries, it is often similar), the demand for children to adopt far outstrips the supply since many couples can not have children. While orphanages are full, a substantial portion of the children in them is either Romani/gypsy, disabled, or often both. And, to be frank, most couples want, let's be real, white and healthy baby. So gay couples really could not adopt a baby from an orphanage since there will always be a huge number of heterosexual couples that want to adopt. So the adoption of the children often revolves around surrogate motherhood, which is problematic in many ways since it is often done by very poor mothers, often of migration background, and opens up a lot of additional ethical themes. It might be good to regulate it somehow, but it needs a separate societal debate. That is why I support the proposal to equalize all the rights except adoption and use a different name for this legal relationship. But the proponents, of course, wildly disagree since they also want the adoption, and the word marriage has great symbolic value for them. Then there are two additional things to mention. First is the slippery slope argument. There is a machine of nonprofits, journalists, and various pressure organizations, often financed by the EU or some liberal think tanks (also frequently funded by the EU), standing behind the relentless campaign for same-sex marriage. That is, of course, fine; people are free to propagate their ideas. But when the goal is reached, this machine won't stop, even though they often claim that this is all they want. The people are ideologically driven to implement more concepts known from the West, and it is also a profitable business for many people connected to the EU/other significant Western financial sources. Thus, as soon as the gay-marriage is legalized, some new, more advanced goal will be immediately established and pursued with the same fervor, now or never rhetorics (do we want to side with Russia and Hungary or with The West??), and media pressure. This might sound cynical, but I see this issue as a kind of dam holding other, much more damaging progressive ideas at bay for the moment. And finally, the way in which the proponents of gay marriage are leading the campaign is repulsive to me. The defenders of the "traditional" understanding of marriage, often members of the Christian conservative right that is a fairly minor force in the Czech Republic and certainly does not pose any threat to anyone, are relentlessly attacked and mocked by a large portion of the media sphere as extremists, far-right, catholiban, clerofashists, ultraconservatives, and bigots; they are often accused of being connected to Russia (which they are not, and the court proved it). I see it as two legitimate political positions being discussed, both of them with valid arguments to be made for them. But by a very large portion of the media landscape, one of the positions is seen as a medieval barbarity that should ideally be banned, and the other as the default view to have if you want to be a part of a "decent" society. Every attempt to argue, however thoughtfully, against the legalization of gay marriage is met with hysterical accusations of wanting to create second-class citizens from gay people or not giving all citizens the same rights. That pisses me off. Have the decency to at least think about the other side's arguments; they are not some evil clerical demons; they just think about the world differently, more continually. Sorry for the length; I wanted to clarify my position.
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  438. @varsovianspy2992 Thank you, I agree! In Czech Republic, AfD did not spark any massive reactions. It was criticised by liberals since AfD is seen as a far right populist party and it was seen with people opposing the Green deal as a sign of potential change in German politics in regard to the climate change. But the implications connected to some kind of rapprochement with Russia were not accented that much.
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  439. Thank you for your praise and for your insight!
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  440. Thanks! And as for the critique, the issue is that there are many very family oriented cultures around the world with very low fertility. Slovakia or Southern Italy are indeed very family oriented, even clanish, societies. But the fertility is very low.
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  441. @feliz2892 Good country to take an example from!
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  442. @F1R3S74R73R Yes, I talk about it in my previous video in detail.
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  443. @BigChapDidNothingWrong While it is tempting to blame Americans for the EU, the EU is a uniquely European clusterfuck. American could not conceive such a bureaucratic mess :D
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  444. I am just putting my law degree to use :D
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  445. Ahoj! Jsem rád, že jsi nikdy nečelila diskriminaci a doufám, že se ti v Praze líbí! Nemyslím si, že v Rusku panuje diskriminace vůči těm menšinám, které v Rusku žijí po staletí, a už vůbec ne vůči židům. Rusko je bezpochyby mnohem etnicky rozmanitější země než Česko :D Ale i přes to si myslím, že postupný úbytek etnických Rusů v Rusku rozhodně představuje značnou výzvu pro Ruský stát a jeho vedení, zejména pokud jde o současnou značnou emigraci vzdělanějších vrstev (příkladem této emigrace jsi nejspíš i ty) a zároveň velkou imigraci lidí z podstatně odlišných kultur střední Asie. Chtě nechtě, Rusko je stále impérium a má svůj imperiální národ, kterým jsou Rusové, ačkoliv vnímám, že Rus může být i etnicky odlišný od Slovanských Rusů.
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  446. Shit, I did not even know that my videos are so pessimistic :D
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  447. Thank you! Zdravím!
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  448. I think that the two identities can coexist. If the East-West dichotomy is used, then we are Eastern. If one is using more detailed divisions, then Central.
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  449. Hopefully Latvia will demographically survive.
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  450. I believe they are completely integrated.
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  451. The term carries different connotations with immigrants and African-Americans since the situation of African-Americans is very particular. They are culturally assimilated, and their culture is quintessentially American. But, at the same time, they are an undeniable economic underclass living in segregated neighborhoods, and they often perceive their identity in opposition to the mainstream "white" American identity. That contrasts immigrants from other groups who usually assimilate to the mainstream "white" identity over a few generations. What I meant by the comparison, initially formulated by Christopher Caldwell, is that the fate of European immigrants might be more similar to the societal role of African-Americans, so the economic underclass living in segregated neighborhoods with very bad socioeconomic matrics (education, wealth, labor participation, etc.)
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  452. I still believe it is a conspiracy theory, at least in the sense that it is all some grand conspiracy and secret plan by the elites or the Jews. It is mostly mismanagement, conformity, and lack of political courage.
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  453. Thank you for this input! Interesting read.
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  454. Sure, there are political forces that quite openly promotes this. But I believe that it is reductive to put the responsibility for these large scale societal changes on the "elites". If people in the western European countries really wanted to stop it, they could. There still is democracy and elections every couple of years. When you look at the Visegrad countries, you can see that accepting migrants from the problematic sources (mostly middle east and Africa) became completely politically toxic after the 2015. Any politician that can be just implicated to want to accept migrants will just flatout loose any large election, except maybe comunal elections in Prague or some big cities. That is the power of the people. But in the western Europe, parties that proved to be unable or unwilling to change things are still getting major election results every elections. If there would be strong popular will to change things, Labour would never win another election after Tony Blair and people in Germany would not change their government from CDU/CSU to even more pro-immigration government of SPD and Greens. And I could continue.
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  455. The thing is that the period between the potential stabilisation of population on some level in the future and today will be incredibly disruptive. People often say that lower population would be better, which might be true in some cases, but they disregard the population structure, which is the key in this. It is not about the absolute numbers as much as it is about the population structure. Situation, in which majority of the developed world is heading into inverse pyramid population structures and will thus see its production base, consumption base and investment base collapse can´t lead to anything else than large scale global economic decline or even collapse. It is something completely new which humanity never experienced, since the world is incredibly interconnected economically and thus fragile.
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  456. @fredrickvonstien861 That is a very interesting point, I have not though about that!
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  457. That is the United Nations forecast, I do not know how they did it, they are quite optimistic.
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  458. That is an interesting thought!
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  459. Keep strong brother, as long as Kyriakos Grizzly is alive I am afraid!
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  460. God, that sounds awful.
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  461. @StaszkoProductions123 Hopefully, things will change for the better!
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  462.  @deji2379  Well, it could increase testosterone of males and thus the sperm count, which could lead to more pregnancies. But I think the overall impact would be relatively small.
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  463. I could not disagree more.
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  464. Yeah, it is true that significant instability in the agricultural supply chains could have apocalyptic consequences on the population of many parts of the planet, mostly in Africa. But I hope that there won´t massive famine costing hundreds of millions of lives. But it might happen, which is really nightmarish.
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  465. I do not think that is fair, I twatch quite a lot of European cinematography, I am European after all, but the reach of continental European culture, be it cinematogrpahy or anything else, is just not even rmeotely comparable to that of the Anglosphere.
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  466. Thank you!
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  467. As a Czech, this is good news :D
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  468. I do not think that contmeporary Europe will find some new purpouse in any near future, I think we are in for slow corosion of everything. It sure will change at some point, but it is hard to say if the continent will have much in common with what we know right now at that point.
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  469. Fair enough :D
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  470. I do not think any European country will have the American-style melting pot. European cultures have much less magnetism and are much less confident in themselves.
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  471. Thank you! Well, I sincerely hope you are wrong.
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  472. I think that there likely will be some tensions in the transition from basically an ethnostate to multicultural one, but the common plight of Poles and Ukrainians today will very likely sooth over all the differences on religion and such.
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  473. It might!
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  474. Thank you for this insight! I mentioned this in the footnotes.
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  475. Germans truly are a nation of extremes.
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  476. That is an important distinction.
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  477. I think that Germany might even include the cringe.
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  478. What are the Russian losses according to your estimates?
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  479. Yes.
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  480. I guess it is because Asia is just split into two parts in this graph - East and West, thus many poorer nations are included in East Asia that are often included in South-East or South Asia. Also China, that constitutes vast majority of the nations commonly seen as East Asia, is not that wealthy in per calita terms
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  481. Thank you for this insight!
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  482. I am currently researching the relationship between fertility and natural selection and it is very complex, but it is obvious that external reasons can override the reproductive instinct, at least to a certain extent.
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  483. Hopefully not. That would be a complete horror-show.
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  484. Thank you!
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  485. Definitely will, one of the demographically most fascinating countries in the world.
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  486. We might see the answer within our lifetimes!
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  487. @rogerc6533 The future is going to be interesting, to say the least.
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  488. @chazzatheninja Unfortunately, you are right.
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  489. @enfant00x It is very similar in the Czech Republic so far. Very disturbing.
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  490. @ouafallouz Thank you! Yes, the French case is very peculiar, I might look into that!
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  491. @besttom8823 It is the greatest problem of our times.
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  492. @anonymousAJ Natural decline is just a term that means less births than deaths without immigration.
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  493. Bojna Čavoglave is a banger.
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  494. Thank you!
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  495. @clmdcc The simple answer is that they do not perceive their situation as an existential threat. I have worked a lot with Chinese/Taiwanese people in the past and they are very similar to each other in number of ways and also the two countries are very deeply intertwined, business-wise. I do not think that Taiwanese people are really that afraid of Chinese invasion. A for the South Koreans, from what I have read, the do not really see North Korean invasion as a real threat in their daily life.
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  496. @itspatrick1922 I would say that there is much more to that than just globalisation. US economy is much more innovative and the difference is widening. Except for ASML, Europe is increasingly on the receiving end of the modern digital economy (smartphones, consumer electronics, AI, cloud etc.).
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  497. @malnigman7654 I would say that part of it is just the day and age. Having sub-replacement fertility just wasn't the norm in the times when Hitler and Mussolini ruled. But it is true that the collapse of fertility in Franco's Spain after it democratised is interesting.
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  498. @FOLIPE I should have put it differently. It does not predispose you to inequality, but it makes the people tolerate it much easier. Latin America has high inequality, but people cannot tolerate it and thus many LATAM countries oscilate between far left and far right strongmen.
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  499. I do not know, but I think that it that would be the case there would be higher birth rates.
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  500. Thanks! I will!
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  501. Thank you for this input!
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  502. I will try to explain my stance on this issue since it is rather complex, and there are several ways to look at it. I am not some hard-core anti-gay-marriage activist, and I have thought about the issue quite a lot. So, to begin with, there are two ways to view marriage as an institution. First, it is a form of ritual and legal recognition of the relationship between two people who love each other and want to live with each other. Since it is their private matter, they should be allowed in a liberal society. That is currently prevalent in the West. The second is that marriage is the foundational bedrock of any functioning society, and it has one principal purpose - to create a fitting environment for conceiving and raising children. Now under this second view, it can, by logic, be only allowed for heterosexual couples since only they can biologically conceive. Sure, you might argue that heterosexual couples that can not or do not want to have children can also get married, and that is true. Still, in principle, heterosexual couples can create children while homosexual couples can not. Now with the first definition, the problem is that if marriage is understood as a form of ritual and legal recognition of the relationship of people that love each other and want to live with each other, there are not many arguments to be made against, for example, legalization of polygamy, since why could not more than two people that love each other and live with each other also get this recognition and get married? They are not bothering anyone; it is their private matter. But monogamy is one of the foundations of the success of Western civilization (WEIRDest people in the world - great book about the topic by Joseph Heinrich). So I consider it quite dangerous to tinker with marriage as an institution too much since we usually do not think about the possible long-term consequences of such changes; we are just riding on a wave of progress that feels good. The second point is that the situation is specific in the Czech Republic for two reasons. First is that the word for marriage in Czech is different, it is manželství, and it comes from the proto-Slavic word for man and woman. So it is baked into the word's etymology, which is different in English. Now there is currently a debate about the subject in the Czech parliament; one side wants to legalize gay marriage, other want to have a different name for the institution but otherwise equalize all the rights connected to it (taxes, bureaucratic stuff, common property, heritage, etc.) except for the rights related to raising children (I support this), third side wants to put into the constitution that marriage has to be between man and woman. Now the situation is complicated because if the law calls it marriage, it automatically means that the couples will have the right to adoption since the law about adoption just gives the right to any married couple (the lawmakers did not think about this at the time). But that is an entirely separate issue since the people that want to enact gay marriage constantly repeat that it is just between the two people and will not affect anyone (as you said). Still, they want to push two things at once - marriage and adoption. But with adoption, it is different since that is not about the two people getting married, which arguably really does not affect anyone else, but mainly about the child. Now you might say that being raised by a gay couple is better than an orphanage, and I agree with that. The problem is that in the Czech Republic, the demand for children to adopt far outstrips the supply since many couples can not have children. While orphanages are full, a substantial portion of the children in them is either gypsy, disabled or often both. And, to be frank, most couples want, let's be real, white and healthy baby. So gay couples really could not adopt a baby from an orphanage since there will always be a huge number of heterosexual couples that want to adopt. So the adoption of the children often revolves around surrogate motherhood, which is problematic in many ways since it is often done by very poor mothers, often of migration background, and opens up a lot of additional ethical themes. It might be good to regulate it somehow, but it needs a separate societal debate. That is why I support the proposal to equalize all the rights except adoption and use a different name for this legal relationship. But the proponents, of course, wildly disagree since they also want the adoption, and the word marriage has great symbolic value for them. Then there are two additional things to mention. First is the slippery slope argument. There is a machine of nonprofits, media, and various pressure organizations, often financed by the EU or some liberal think tanks, standing behind the relentless campaign for same-sex marriage. That is, of course, fine; people are free to push their ideas. But when the goal is reached, this machine won't stop. The people are ideologically driven to implement more concepts known from the West, and it is also a profitable business for many people. Thus, as soon as the gay-marriage is legalized, some new goal will be immediately established and pursued with the same fervor, rhetoric, and media pressure. This might sound cynical, but I see this issue as a kind of dam holding other, much more damaging progressive ideas at bay for the moment. And finally, the way in which the proponents of gay marriage are leading the campaign is repulsive to me. The defenders of the "traditional" marriage, often members of the Christian conservative right, are relentlessly attacked and mocked by the media as extremists, far-right, ultraconservatives, and bigots; they are often accused of being connected to Russia (which they are not, and the court proved it). I see it as two legitimate political positions being discussed, both of them with valid arguments to be made for them. But by a very large portion of the media landscape, one of the positions is seen as a medieval barbarity and the other as the default view to have if you want to be a part of a decent society. That pisses me off. Have the decency to at least think about the other side's arguments; they are not some evil clerical demons; they just think about the world in a different, more continual way. Their argumentation is more profound, I would say. And the argumentation, "Are we with Russia, or are we with the West?" would be idiotic, even if I would completely agree with gay marriage. Sorry for the length; I wanted to clarify my position.
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  503. @danielfischermann5694 Well it is hard to compare the Taiwanese case to the Israeli one, Taiwanese are ethnically and culturally basically Chinese.
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  504. @shylockwesker5530 Maybe!
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  505. Where do you see the contradiction?
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  506. I believe the continuous conflict plays a role in the continuity of the high fertility rate.
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  507. @user-nv9jn7su3u Yes, urbanisation certainly plays a role.
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  508. @truckasaurus9510 Might be.
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  509. @DrainedPunk Well, I would go the other way. Cut all the unnecessary building regulation connected to environment, cut the length of the process, let people build. The prices would go down.
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  510. @FOLIPE I do not know if Latin American governments should engage in something like land reform. It would not go well IMO.
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  511. Easier said than done.
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  512. Good point. But I do not like the feeling of being misunderstood, I then doubt if I express myself correctly and it bugs me.
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  513. Race is not a social construct at all.
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  514. @aramismanzie462 Man, believe me, writing this video was a pain :D you are completely right, EU is hypercomplicated and it is actually one of its problems. It is unexplainable to people.
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  515. @chacka4292 The EU most definitely has a lot of merit. No doubt about that.
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  516. @alexpotts6520 haha :D they will never leave, smug liberal academics are going to haunt you!
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  517. @susangoaway The Youtube algo must do it, I do not delete any comments.
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  518. I am Czech :D
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  519. Thank you for your praise and your insight!
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  520. You could definitely find such examples in Europe today (for example Catalonia, maybe Scotland), but to me the difference between Spain and Russia (193 ethnic groups) is quite obvious. I mean, the future will tell. I do not see the prospects for Russia being very high in this regard, since it is a declining power and the people throughout Russia will inevitably toy with the though "Wouldn't we be better off if we are independent" in their heads. If Russia was ascending power with dynamic innovative economy and strong self-confident cultural norms, I would bet on them managing to integrate the minorities and immigrants under some pan-ethnic umbrella identity (as the Lations and Asians in the US). But they are not. It is a declining empire trying to race against the dying light. Millions of educated middle lass professionals have left the country in the last decade. The war only magnified all the already existing processes.
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  521. It is quite easily explainable actually. When you look at the births in Russia, there was a significant drop in live births between the late 1980's and the early 1990's (from almost 2.5 million in 1987 to 1.3 million in 1993). The women born in the 1990's are now in the childbearing age and there is just not enough of them. Plus the economic situation of Russia has been deteriorating for years now, since the oil price boom ended, the rubble loosing value, the war in the air, all that stuff.
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  522. I will do India sooner or later, but I need more research. Indian ethnic composition is complex as fuck :D
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  523. Nothing is wrong with it. The issue with woke is that they perceive everything through the lense of oppressor and oppressed, of power relations and victimhood, every social relation and institution. That is why I used the flag that puts together gay people, trans people and people of color, even though these groups have nothing in commom except being seen as oppressed by woke. And the oppression lense applied to everything dissolves society.
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  524. I believe that the west has a tendency to overestimate and uderestimate Russia at the same time. I think they clearly are a declining power, but collapse is rather unlikely. I will talk about Russia in my next video!
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  525. Do not lose hope!
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  526. That is exactly what I wanted to communicate!
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  527. I think that it is even more complicated by the fact that Baltic states had a German elite ruling class, which would made them more Western in the perception of Westerners.
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  528. I am glad to hear that!
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  529. I am glad to hear that my friend!
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  530. I completely agree!
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  531. I completely agree with the police point!
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  532. Was the only party opposing the Finns Party?
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  533. Yes, but there just are not any statistics that I could use in this regard.
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  534. Thank you for this! I was actually wondering why the software I am using to spellcheck did not correct this mistake and it turns out it is not a mistake after all :D
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  535. I am planning to read the book, definitely on my read list!
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  536. Do not do anything like that man! Even though demographics are screwed, there is still lot of good in life and it has meaning!
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  537. Yes, but it is not a sustainable compromise.
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  538. Thank you!
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  539. It is mostly about the population structure. Never in history was there a society, that had their population pyramid inverse (top heavy). We absolutely can not work with it and it will likely hugely negatively impact our societies.
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  540. In this video, I basically covered the regions I evaluate as problematic, in both decline or too rapid growth. The regions I did not talk about are mostly fine, demographically (South-east Asia, Latin America, Turkey, Iran, central Asia etc.). So I agree, the demographic crash won´t happen there, likely!
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  541. Thanks!
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  542. Well that is not really the case, Germany attracts large amounts of immigrants. But the Anglophone countries are very succesfull in attracting high-skilled immigration since they are english-speaking, culturally more open and also offer larger wages.
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  543. Good for you!
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  544. Why not?
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  545. I agree, that is certainly possible.
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  546. Thank you! I might, we will see!
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  547. Thank you! As for the automation, I unfortunately do not think that it will have such an effect.
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  548. Well the causes are numerous, but technology certainly plays its part.
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  549. Sure, I am quite content eith armless Germany, from the Czech POV. It is their smugness and hypocrisy that is blatant.
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  550. I have no problem with Germany being armless, but from the American point of view, their smugness must be irritating.
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  551. That is just not true. USA are pushing Germany towards greater militarisation for years with no success. Also, USA are bigger export market for Germany than China.
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  552. Thank you very much!
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  553. @thefallen55555 Southern Europe will come!
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  554. @julioalmeida4645 Wait, what?? 1 million? Are there any news sources about this?
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  555. I strongly disagree. It is challenging, but it is also highly rewarding and it gives life meaning and continuity. I really do not understand as having a child could destroy your passions, commitments and dreams. Vast majority of highly successful people across all fields have children, sooner or later. Maybe not at this exact moment, but someday. Do you honestly think that you will be fulfilled the same way by your work in you 50's, 60's, 70's? When the winter of your life will be inevitably coming and most of the people around you will be fulfilled by watching their children grow up and having grandchildren?
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  556. Thank you very much! Stay tuned for the second part, I am working on it!
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  557. I actually mention the ASML in the text at 20:10.
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  558. Glad you are doing good!
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  559. I think we are not there yet, but it might be relevant in the future.
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  560. It is a very complex question, but I believe that things get worse before they'll get better. When the generations of around 40-50 years of age today will experience mass elderly poverty, which is rather likely, I think that people might once again start to have children as an insurance against old age poverty. I will do a video about that.
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  561. Between these three, likely France at this point.
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  562. Basically every proto-state was created to unite people facing external threats.
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  563. I will definitely put together a google document paper with books I am using as sources, but I likely won't do research paper style sources, it would be incredibly time consuming. Maybe if I am able to quit my job and do this on full time :)
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  564. I agree completely. But for that to happen there would have to be complete overhaul of western European political map.
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  565. Yes, greece is very simmilar to rest of Eastern Europe in this regard.
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  566. Socialism is not appealing to me, so I do not agree.
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  567. Get ready for the 1 h 30 min long demographic deep dive of Andorra.
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  568. As for the demographic obsession, it could be. But I cannot help it. It is what fascinates me and drives me. It is the fire within. Most people might zone out when hearing about some new set of demographic data released by the statistical authority of some random country. I get excited as a child. As for the universal law you are describing, that is the demographic transition and yes, it is more or less universal. That by no means mean that the different scale, time-frame and different levels of the equilibrium fertility reached by different societies won't have major impact on the world. You say that demographic boom ends with some kind of stabilisation, but that is not what is happening. In majority of the world, it goes to sub-replacement levels and the impacts of long-term sub-replacement fertility will be massive throughout this century.
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  569. surprised pikachu face
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  570. I am aware of both of them, and I actually made a whole video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnIo2zQOYPw&ab_channel=KaiserBauch With the Dutch bible belt, the fertility is significantly higher than average, but neither the fertility or the level of seclusion and pre-modernness is not comparable to Amish. They are more similar to conservative evangelicals in the US, IMO. As for the Laestadiands, their fertility was likely very high during the 20th century, but there are no data on the retention rates (how many young people growing up in the communities stay there and keep practicing in adulthood) or the precise fertility. But I agree that if some examples in contemporary Europe are coming close, it's these two. The sparsely populated Finland might offer certain characteristics similar to the USA in geographic regard.
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  571. Thanks! And yes, although the community ties seems to be weakening in the recent years.
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  572. @anjeloambi6425 It always depends on the specificities of host country and source country. But in the case of very highly specific, rather ethnocentric cultures like the East Asian ones, the integration of vast numbers of foreigners would be very difficult. If Anglophone settler societies are on the one end of the spectrum (easiest integration), Europe might be in the middle and East Asia on the other end.
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  573. Thank you very much!
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  574. Thanks!
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  575. Damn, how could I overlook that.
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  576. Expecting my first, definitely plan on having more. As for the fame and money, you might be seriously overestimating the reach of this channel :D
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  577. I do not really see how is that relevant for the birth metrics though. It is just an African state in the high growth phase of the transition.
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  578. @dava00007 The climate change became a religion for many people, especially in Western Europe.
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  579.  @tomorrowneverdies567  I honestly do not think so.
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  580. Jing a Jang. Díky!
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  581. @Bolsarz I did not say that, I just pointed out that the religiosity is in decline AND fertility is low.
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  582. @dhuh6760 Interesting take!
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  583. Superpower 2020
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  584. @ente866 Thank you very much!
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  585. @Astillion Things like demographic decline or climate change are too impersonal to cause such mobilisation.
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  586. I am sure it won't be so bad :D And these processes will take a lot of time, many decades, to play out if they are even right.
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  587. I agree.
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  588. Good to hear that.
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  589. When I done the 23andMe DNA test, one of the findings was that I have more neanderthal DNA than 80% of the people that took the test. Maybe my ethnocentrism is some weird echo of the cavemen DNA :D
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  590. I agree.
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  591. I will look into that, I have to admit that I am not familiar with it at this moment.
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  592. Legit.
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  593. I need to read up more!
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  594. Thank you for your praise and for this insight!
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  595. Thank you for this insight! The people you talk about would annoy the shit out of me :D
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  596. Thanks! But I think that in regards to imperialism and colonialism, it is a swap of cause and effect. The West got rich and powerful and thus was able to colonise and subject the whole world. Not the other way around. It is not like every other civilisation in the world would not love to be powerful and mighty. Others just have not got the strength.
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  597. Feeling save, more accepted and welcomed is fine and well. No problem with that. I am for example talking about the indoctrination of school children leading to absurd numbers of kids identifying as transgender and then undergoing the transition without being really mentally capable to make that life-changing decision. That leads to many children ruining their lives, regret it afterward and being deeply depressed, often leading to suicide. This is happening a lot in the Anglophone countries. There are many other examples. The whole concept of gender being something that is completely distinct from biological sex and that can be changed depending on the current mood of the person is, in my opinion, non-sensical and dangerous.
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  598. I am glad you liked it!
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  599. @tranya327 Thank you for this summary!
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  600. @albertalu4583 Maybe there is something to it.
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  601. Turkey, yes. But I am afraid that Georgia is too small to generate views.
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  602. @katarzynalpzm0arajko-nenow32 Damn, that German statistic is brutal if true.
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  603. @ayonio5723 Thank you! I will think about this idea!
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  604. @Eren-px2sr Yep, that is very naive.
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  605. @klausschwab26 Yes, that is true. But the problem is not so much the numbers as the age structure. I would rather have a country of 8 million with healthy stable age structure than a country with 11 with inverted pyramid structure. But if the fertility rates remain low, the population won't magically stabilise at some random number like 8 million.
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  606. I would day that it is probably more general urban/rural more than south/north.
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  607. @mikaelbohman6694 I would argue that Germany is still somewhat more trade and market oriented than France and Spain. The French are for sure the biggest enemies of free trade and anti-protectionism in the EU, but their influence is very big. If some free trade deal between the EU and some other country fails, it is usually either due to the European parliament trying to implement environmentalist rules within the deal or to protect French agriculture from foreign competition.
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  608. @santoriniblue8413 good point!
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  609. I am an EU citizen.
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  610. It is strange that people continue to use this argument regarding the pride flag. But it is not just a simple pride flag, I specifically used the elaborate type of pride flag that combines together gay people, trans people, people of colour and disabled people, since it is a perfect encapsulation of the woke ideology seeing the world purely through the lenses of oppression. Those groups included have nothing in common except the fact that they have been chosen as victims. It is idiotic idea that is destroying the fabric of a society.
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  611. Well you can always categorize from top down. You can use the Western Europe term and then go lower to Benelux, Scandinavia, German speaking Europe, Mediterranean and so on. You can say Latin America and then categorise further to Central America, Southern Cone, Brazil etc.
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  612. Díky!
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  613. Radical problems require radical solutions.
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  614. Sure, there have been significant brain drain, but Poland has managed to turn the tide and is now a net immigration country.
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  615. This in no way contradicts what I have said in the video. On the contrary.
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  616. Sure, there is always some resentment. But generally, the norm is to held old people inrelatively high regard.
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  617. Thank you very much!
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  618. Yes, that is also the most prevalent view among Czechs.
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  619. That is not my idea, pope came up with it!
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  620. Thank you! And yes, some of the comments are unhinged.
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  621. I did not make the map and I honetsly did not noticed that :D
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  622. Best of luck to you!
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  623. Those are some very real and relevant questions. Honestly, I do not have the answers. But the generational struggle will be one of the central societal struggles of ageing societies. Especially in those with high immigration, since much of the youth will be of different ethnicity than the old people and that will further diminish the soldarity.
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  624. That is a shame.
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  625. Thank you! I am glad you like it!
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  626. That is a bad fit, sorry to hear that.
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  627. It is kind of the conclusion I arrived at in the video. The cultural forces are stronger.
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  628. It is not really relevant for this topic.
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  629. @BlackpilledBuddha6476 You are projecting onto me something I do not say or believe. Have you even watch the video? While I am somewhat aware of Dutton's ideas, I do not agree with them and the scientific papers I studied arrive at the opposite conclusion. I am not genetic determinist, Dutton is. "relaxation on natural selection via industrial revolution, rise of mutations in gene pool, decline in birth rate and religiosity due to mutated people known as spiteful mutants etc etc." It is the opposite, the industrial revolution started the selection regarding fertility, it did not relaxed it. As for the other stuff, I do not mention any of it. "It's more like a general opinion because I recognize the type of channel this really is and what is secretly believes in behind closed, private doors." You are projecting, there is nothing secretly believed behind the closed door. I believe what I say in the videos. "religious will inherit the earth, save mankind and bring paradise onto earth''. This is a very powerful narrative myth pushed by Dutton" My video about this issue is inspired by book by Eric Kauffman Shall The Religious Inherit The Earth?, not by Dutton. I include my sources every time.
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  630. Well, let´s agree to disagree :)
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  631. Thank you! Say hi to Kyriakos grizzly!
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  632. @ZombieARO97 Will come at some point!
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  633. @slawekra4822 Thank you for this fascinating insight! I am well aware of the historical baggage between Ukrainians and Poles and of the atrocities. The Polish movie Volyň is fantastic. I was under the impression that the war managed to kind of put it under a rug, it is disheartening if that is not the case. And it is also quite foolish on the Ukrainian side.
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  634. I am 27.
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  635. I will look into that in the next part of the video!
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  636. Thank you very much!
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  637. Where are you living? There are places where that is true, but they are mostly in Africa, miidle-east or south Asia.
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  638. Yes, it definitely will impact the future importance of countries. But it is not deterministic, factors like geography, culture, technological prowess still matter a great deal. It is highly unlikely that any country will surpass USA in importance in foreseeable future, even if it will surpass its population. It is thus unlikely, that North Korea will be able to somehow surpass South Korea, even if it will become more populous, since South Korea is a technological powerhouse and North Korea struggle to feed its population.
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  639. Well, I would not include India among the developed countries, but otherwise, agreed. Also Sweden.
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  640. You are correct, it has a huge influence. States are functioning in certain boundaries created by the demographics transition, but they have a lot of flexibility within that boundaries and religiosity certainly impacts things a lot. I will talk about that in the second part of the video!
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  641. Many were hoping so when the conflict began, especially in regards to the green deal (more realistic approach) and defense spending. But as more time passes, it looks less and less hopeful. The western European mainstream seems to double down on the green deal (the logic is that we need to cut us away form the fossil fuels, but the numbers just do not add up on this one) and it looks more and more like German plans on increasing their defense spending (100 billion euros and what not) were just plans, they are not really realising them.
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  642. Why do you think that is the case?
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  643. You make compeling arguments. Europe still has an economy of 20 trillion dollars and that money as to be made somehow. So there is a ton of very big and succesfull companies, for example in the construction sector. But the trend is also undeniable. Every decade there is less and less of these sectors where Europe dominates. 150 years ago Europe dominated pretty much all of them. 50 years ago it competed with US and Japan for dominance. Now, you can name a few. How do you think it will look in 50 years?
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  644. It is true, the American geography is just completely superb and gives them great geopolitical isnularity.
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  645. I believe that is a very European and skewed view of life in the US.
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  646. I definitely will do video about Russia at some point, but there are just so many topics in the pipeline and not enough time!
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  647. Do not lose hope.
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  648. The roots of the European decline are internal.
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  649. Thank you for your praise! I was not suggesting that Hungary is now conspiring with Russia to expand territorially. I suggested that it might happen in the future (maybe with Russian, maybe with someone else). This whole video is based o the preface that Americans will withdraw from Europe and NATO will stop being relevant. It is rather likely going into the future IMO, and if the current security architecture fails and chaos sneaks into the region, Hungary might act this way. The contemporary European political and security architecture (NATO + EU) might crumble much easier than people think. All it might take is one big, proper economic crisis.
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  650. Diky, jsem rád, že se Vám líbí!
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  651. I think he is really good with the purely geopolitical analysis, but is very reductive when it comes to cultural topics.
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  652. Glad it amused you, it was not even meant as a joke :D
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  653. I have to partially disagree. The cultural difference between East Germans and West Germans has older cultural roots. Eastern Germany was a remnant of Prussia, culturally distant, altough German speaking, nation.
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  654. I think I have the answer for this. Russia got this self-preservation mentality even stronger because they were attacked and colonised the hardest in the early period of their history. Russia was constantly attacked by almost every country around them and since it was on a flatland, they eventually adopted a foreign policy aimed at conquering land up to some hard geographic border that is easily defendable.
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  655. I agree. But it is a question if it will hold.
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  656. tack så mycket!
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  657. It is true.
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  658. Thank you!
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  659. Vielen Dank!
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  660. "only beer and porn no heavy industries" That is an interesting statement to make about the country with highest share of industry in its GDP mix in the EU. "Btw as a jew I do find your overall bias a bit naziesque" Elaborate. I constantly try to denounce any anti-semitism or white supremacism that appears in the comment section. Do you have any real basis for this accusation or it is just a form of silencing tactice? "I can assure you Russia is whiter than all of the west and will be whiter than Poland given their mass immigration campaign" When I cast aside the fact that your personal experience and data-based analyses really do not have the same predicative value, white or non-white really has not much to do with anything of this. Ethnic groups and races are not the same thing. Caucasian ethnic groups are white, same as the Poles or Balts were within the Russian empire. That does not mean that they identified with the Russian state. What I am interested in is the impact of lessening prevalence of the nation-building ethnic groups within states. There does not have to any racial difference present, although there sometimes might be. "Moscow and Budapest are much nicer cities than Prague" You do you. Budapest is indeed beautiful. Moscow is majestic, but make one's feel very small and inconsequential with all the huge imperial buildings. Not a lot of playfulness in it.
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  661. Crimea was included in the 2021 census, as for the Eastern Ukraine, we just do not know yet.
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  662. Thank you for this insight!
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  663. Well in China and much of the world, it is classic urbanisation. People move from villages and small towns to big economic centres. That is basically universal. But Americans are more prone to moving from one large city to another.
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  664. I also do not know why these strange discrepancies are there. But they are still very good depictions of the broad picture.
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  665. Thank you! I hope I will tackle that subject with dignity.
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  666. I am obviously not an European? :D man I was born and I live my whole life in the Czech Republic, I have never even been to India. The fact that some people can't tell western Slavic and Indian accent appart is just a source of humour that I indulge in. As for the rest of your critique, I feel like you misinterpret the things I said in the video as critique of America even though it is mostly praise. I agree that the American system functions better then the European one. It is quite obviously said in the video. And the family systems, those are thoughts of Emmanuel Todd that I present to audiences since I find them interesting. He might be wrong on some things, but he is very broadly recognised as a capacity in the field.
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  667. What I have read was translated to English.
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  668. The real problem is the age structure, not the population numbers.
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  669. Not really. Most demographers work with it as with part of the equation, even though it if course cannot explain everything.
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  670. In time, sure!
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  671. IQ?
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  672. Youtube is doing it to several of my videos all of sudden
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  673. @user-ng8fk8vn7q Many people from all over the place wrote this to me, I should have done some research :D My bad.
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  674. @FOLIPE Huge part of Latin America is going to experience massive demographic issues.
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  675. @disgruntledtoons This, while partially true, ignores the fact that people often adapt different cultural patterns than those they have been raised by.
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  676. Well, we will see in a couple of decades.
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  677. I value every contribution equally!
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  678. Yes, I agree. I would very likely voted for him again. But I still was surprised.
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  679. I have been thinking for a long time about your comment, and in the end, I partially agree with you. I think there certainly is a liberal establishment in the Czech Republic, represented by media like ČT, Český rozhlas, Deník N, Aktuálně, Seznam zprávy or Respekt. Those media are connected to fact-checking entities and particular political parties and occupy a disproportionately large part of the public space compared to the voting results of political parties they are ideologically aligned with. You can clearly see as many public figures are essentially pushed out of the "decent" public discourse. I am talking about people like Dan Vávra, Petr Drulák, or Vlastimil Vondruška, that are basically considered to be dangers to democracy or something by the establishment, even though they are not saying anything that controversial and are very successful in their respective fields. It is funny how you mention Václav Klaus since he is probably the best example of how the hate of the liberal establishment I am talking about makes one of the two most prominent politicians of post-1989 Czech history essentially a marginal figure in the public debate with opinions that are regarded as entirely unacceptable and who now has to declare his support for a party like SPD because no "reasonable" party is servicing his part of the electorate. Other examples are the attacks on the conservative candidate to be a deputy Ombudsman, the attorney Jakub Kříž. Without the very intensive smearing campaign against him by the liberal establishment and the non-profits before the Senat held the vote, he would likely succeed. Also, the fact that the current government, which an allegedly conservative party leads, sends someone like Kryštof Stupka to represent the Czech Republic at the UN climate conference, even though he does not have any expertise in the field whatsoever, is bizarre and seems like something reached by the long march through the institutions. The public media are also terrible at even pretending to be objective in any way, which they should be because every citizen pays the concession fee. But their hatred of people like Babiš or Zeman is evident. It pushes about half the country's population to a strange position since they constantly hear that they are voting for undemocratic parties and are basically looked down upon by the establishment. As for it only being properly present at FF UK, it always starts somewhere. In the West, it was only at this or that university at some point. But the FF UK example is bad enough. Look into what is, for example, Ela Plíhalová, a postgraduate on the faculty of social and cultural anthropology at FF UK, saying in her articles on A2larm or in her podcast Rozpustilý*í. It is top-tier woke shit, and I am fucking pissed that my taxes pay for it. Another example of strange woke Western ideas penetrating the public space is the absurd amount of media coverage given to the actress Tereza Těžká when she publicly declared that she is in polyamorous relationships or the neverending supply of articles in the aforementioned media supporting childlessness and again and again pushing the narrative that the aunts and grandmas asking women where will she have children is some form of emotional abuse or some shit. Also, there clearly is a contracting space of what views it is acceptable to present in the public discourse, for example, when compared to the 1990s. There are many examples of the "canceling" mentality of the Western woke movement penetrating the Czech public space. Politicians like Jana Zwyrtek Hamplová or Daniela Kovářová upholding unfashionable views (I am not saying I agree with them on everything) are under heavy medial fire, and the establishment would love to cancel them if they would not be elected politicians. But, on the other hand, I agree that woke or neo-Marxist is an incorrect way of naming a lot of that stuff, because there still is strong anti-communist flair in our public space, and that includes the liberal establishment, and that it is too early to accuse Petr Pavel of being influenced by such pressure groups. In the end, I decided to cut out the first part of the video, partly because I was thinking about your comment and partly because, from some other comments, people misunderstood my point and may have been misunderstood and misinterpreted. I understand this comment is fairly lengthy, but I gave a lot of thought to your comment, and I aimed to cover as many aspects and factors as possible.
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  680. Bojna Čavoglave is a banger.
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  681. I eventually decided to cut it out. The Introduction of the video did not sit with me right, I was still thinking about it in my head, and I concluded that the rest of the video functions fine without the Introduction, which is always a bad sign because it likely means that part of the video is not necessary. Furthermore, the Introduction was hyperlocal focused (Czech politics), which might dissuade some viewers in the first minutes. From some comments in the comment section, I also got under the impression that I did not make my point there clear, and it might come out as homophobic, which I do not want to do since I sincerely do not feel that way. Therefore, the Introduction was not worth it regarding risk (possible attack on the channel ) and reward (new viewers gained).
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  682. @AmandaSamuels Thank you! The most important books are always in the description!
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  683. @mobilityproject3485 I do not think global warming can achieve this.
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  684. It seems more true every day.
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  685. @MM22966 Sure, having an enemy certainly can not be the only thing that matters.
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  686. Thank you!
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  687. Thanks!
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  688. I am Czech. Thank you for this insight!
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  689. What makes you say that?
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  690. Well that is a separate subject in my oponion.
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  691. Thanks for this input!
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  692. Thank you very much!
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  693. Easier said than done, but agreed in principle.
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  694.  @TheWillWojtek  Ok, I understand where you are coming from. You are right, It comes out more harshly than I wanted to. The thing with the used photos is that I always need some visual representation of the thing I am talking about. In the first case, I said that "people want to westernise the countries with large emphasis on cultural subjects like LGBT rights, climate change, female empowerment and migration", so I mentioned a bundle of things with LGBT+ not necessarily being the most important one, but the flag is an easy visual representation of the things I am talking about. I will diversify the pictures I am using. This was the case also in the second case, where I showed the pride march photo. But yes, I should have said something like "apart from other reasons, the push for these agendas is in the case of Visegrad countries supported also by inferiority complex and emulation of the West". Fair points.
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  695. Thanks for the tips!
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  696. @PedroElPolako Thanks!
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  697. Climate change definitely is very pressing issue. But it is good to see it in some perspective. If you are Polish and there is a real possibility that, unless you are an economically competitive state with funds to support strong armed forces, you might be destroyed, once again, by Russia, what is more pressing? Climate change or economy? Or if you are in India and only way to continue the economic ascension of your people is by consuming vast amounts of coal, oil, steel, concrete etc., what is more pressing? Climate change or ascension of hundreds of millions from crushing poverty? I do not think climate change is not a big issue, but it is good to have more orienting points and also to take into account economic security and competitiveness. In Europe, this is not happening. In my country of the Czech Republic, our industry is suffering and will suffer significantly due to the energy price increases caused, not exclusively by significantly, by the EU anti-climate change policies. The people will be much poorer. And the results of stoping or even slowing down the climate change are unlikely to be achieved anyway. As for the progressive ideology, climate change as such is not a part of it, since it is a natural phenomenon, but the reaction to it is definitely part of the broader progressive ideology, at least in Europe. If it was not ideological, without different imperatives at play than just trying to stop the climate change, the EU would push one thing mercilessly: Build as many nuclear power plants as possible as soon as possible, since that is the most rational way to go. Instead, they are making it as hard as possible to build new nuclear power plants. Where is the logic?
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  698. The problem is that diversity and acceptance are just words, it is all about the substance they are filled with. And there is the problem. I am all for homosexuals being able to live safe lives without being harassed in any way from homophobic people and this is currently the situation in the Czech Republic (sure, you can always find some assholes harassing people, but it is generally not tolerated by society). Any kind of homophobic behaviour that is against the law (inciting violence against group of people based on their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation etc.) is and should be punished accordingly. There is registered partnership in the Czech Republic as a form of legal institution regulating the relationships of same-sex couples. Now, currently one side wants to achieve the legalisation of same-sex marriage. Any kind of opposition to this proposal, however thoughtful or well constructed, is immediately attacked as backward homophobia and opposition to diversity and acceptance. Do you do not want to be part of the civilised world?? Do you know which country oppress gay people?? Russia! But in my opinion, and in an opinion of many people, having separate legal institutions for the relationships between a man and a woman, which is unique since it can produce children and thus secure the continuation of society as such, and for the relationship of same-sex people is not oppression. It is not creating second class citizens or a denial of basic rights in any way. It just respects the biological reality as well as the etymological reality, since the word for marriage in Czech is manželství, which contains Proto-slavic words for man and a woman. Maybe this is also the case in Slovenian language. There is nothing homophobic about this.
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  699. Indeed.
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  700. Thank you very much!
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  701. Thank you!
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  702. @waynesworldofsci-tech Thank you!
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  703. @ShnoogleMan Fair enough!
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  704. Man thank you so much for your contribution!! I do not know how I have missed this earlier, I am very grateful. Sorry for not thanking you earlier!
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  705. Many people do :D
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  706. @Nakla I hope there is some solution possible.
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  707. @ornei2615 I have made a video about the interplay of natural selection and fertility. Unfortunately, this scenario is far from certain since the genetic inclination towards fertility can be easily overridden by environmental a social factors.
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  708. @abdulkerimdogan6036 I will definitely do a Turkey video.
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  709. @williampersichini2044 Thank you for this insight! Italy is undeniably in a dire demographic straits.
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  710. Thanks, I try to listen to my viewers !
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  711. It is true that just "Asians" is an extremely heterogenous group
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  712. Yes, here in Czechia there also is relatively large community of legal gun holders. The biggest difference is that the state has to give you permit and the tests are relatively complex, but I think they are based on very rational criteria (knowledge of safe usage of the gun, psychological tests etc.).
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  713. Thanks! Well, as for the heading of America, I sort of dealt with that in the end of the first video. I honestly do not know if the current decline in the birth rates will be just a temporary thing or a start of longer decline. It remains to be seen. I think that the demographic powerhouse scenario is more likely.
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  714. It will come, sooner or later!
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  715. Yes, I think it is pretty likely that it might happen again.
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  716. I will!
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  717. Is there also a high percentage of single mothers in Jamaica?
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  718. Thank you very much! There is a lot to look forward to!
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  719. "nationalism is irrational, wierd, self destructive and generally a cancer on the world as a whole." Well, I disagree.
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  720. @lauravergot9995 I am glad you found it interesting! I am definitely not an energy specialist, that is a very complex topic indeed.
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  721. @bigytutoshd5146 Man, would you care to try to describe me the situation from a Spaniard point of view? It is very interesting and very underreported in our media (I do not think that is for some nefarious reasons, Spain is just relatively underreported here).
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  722. @iangeraldking I actually do not think there is any imposition (you mean the US I would guess?) in place. It is just an attempt to institutionally square the circle (creating a framework in which supranational entity takes significant amount of sovereignty from nation states without it feeling like loss of sovereignty since popular legitimacy is crucial) and it leads to such overcomplicated results.
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  723. @arpandey698 "The current European nation states just don't have the natural resources or demographics needed to remain big players without coalescing their human and natural resources." this argument is used a lot, but it just does not work in reality. The EU is declining in its importance just as it is integrating. If the current trajectory continues, the EU will be on its way to becoming large, unproductive colossus like Ottoman empire or USSR (not politically, but in terms of productivity and efficiency). It will have the numbers, but not the agility.
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  724. Wow, quite a lot of information here! Thank you for your insight. The increases around Moscow and the decrease within Moscow seems like classic suburbanization, people are moving away from the large cities to suburbs around them. As for the iffy stuff around the census, I have read quite a lot of info about significant pressure being exercised to increase the number of ethnic Russians within Russia by the state administration, so I think we just do not know. It could be that many ethnic Russians decided not to declare ethnicity, but why? It could also be that the officers were somehow reluctant to include some people of non-Russian ethnicity to their data and left them undeclared. Who knows. It all ads a significant uncertainty to all the provided data. But the fact that the there was 1.5 milion more deaths than births in Russia from 2011-2020 (the decade between the censuses) and simultaneously, the population of Russia did increase by 4 million in the same decade suggests that it is mathematically impossible for the number of ethnic Russians to stay stable, since all the population growth in the last decade was caused by immigration. So to me, any shenanigans surrounding the census points more to the option of the Russian ethnicity being overcounted, not undercounted. As for the immigration, I would say that it is significant especially in synergy with the simultaneous mass emmigration, that was taking place on a very large scale even before the invasion and the invasion just magnified the trend. Sure, some portion of the 900 000+ which left had probably came back, but when you take into account that people were leaving by hundreds of thousands yearly in the last decade, it is almost guaranteed that this outflow will continue after the war. On the other hand, the immigration from Central Asia did allegedly also decreased rapidly after the start of the war, which would slow the process if sustained. I would say that Russian demographics are very concerning, since the massive decline of population is almost certain to continue and even increase in the coming years and decades. The emmigration is especially problematic since those leaving are both those who would have children and also those who would significantly pull up the economy, since it is mostly the educated middle class. Russian economy is almost certain to enter a period of long stagnation/decline and people are preparing for it. There are for example thousands of Russian women flying to give birth in Argentina, so that their children have Argentinian citizenship and they can use this backdoor to emmigrate if they need to do so. As for the Chinese fertility, sure, it is even worse. Not doubt about that.
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  725. I think that is a misunderstanding. To me, Central Asian populations were exposed to the same ruthless Russian imperialism as Poles or the Baltic nations. I wish them all the best. I am not saying that the decline of Russians within Russia is a problem because it is objectively wrong that there will be more people of Muslim faith and Central Asian origin in Russia. However, I think it is a problem for Russian Federation since it is a Russian imperial project and is explicitly or implicitly based on Russian ethnicity. Central Asians never did anything to my homeland, Russian imperialism did. I do not feel any ethnic or cultural kinship to Russians, Czech do not have any reason to like Russia.
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  726. I will definitely do them!
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  727. I will definitely do more of these deep dives! Thank you!
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  728. Agreed.
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  729. So you think that the cause is that a significant number of Russians stopped declaring Russian ethnicity in the census? Why would that be? I do not think that is likely, especially considering that from what I heard, there are certain pressures to expand the number of people identifying as Russians. So that points more to the possibility of people of non-Russian ethnicities declaring no ethnicity instead.
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  730. Well, their fate remains open :D
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  731. This.
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  732. This might be impactful, good point.
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  733. I will try to explain my views: As for the abduction of Ukrainian children, the sources that shows that it is really happening are overwhelming and it is not possible for me to brush them aside as Ukrainian/western/anti-russian propaganda. As for the reasons, I do not think these two are necessarily mutually exclusive. Sure, the abductions can be justified by security reasons, but the fact that the children are then, and there are many sources showing the statements of children that have been to Russia and then were rescued, exposed to brainwashing was clearly showed, as well as the fact that the children are separated from their families and given to Russian families for adoption. I think that Ukrainian propaganda is almost certainly inflating the extend to which this is happening, the numbers are definitely much lower than it is claimed by the Ukrainian side, but the fact that it is happening is for me beyond reasonable doubt. As I said, you can brush the sources as western propaganda, but you can do the same with the Russian sources repudiating them and I just do believe western sources much more than Russian sources. As for the claims regarding the way Russian government sees their ethnic minorities, I do not really see why it is controversial. I am not saying that Russia is a racist state that do not treat minorities well because they are not white/Slavic/European or whatever. That is not the case at all. But if Russian authorities deem something as as a potential source of destability of the Russian state, they will act ruthlessly in accordance with this persuasion. If there is an option to un-proportionally target the poor, peripheral and ethnically non-Russian regions during mobilisation and this is deemed to be more advantageous than to target ethnic Russians in the core western regions, it will be done. This was consistently done throughout history both during the Tzarist times and during the Soviet times. Cultural Russification and population exchanges was a popular tool of Russian imperial and Soviets elites. As I said in the video, the Soviet elites were very nervous about the changing ethnic balance of the Union even though Soviet Union was not a racist regime, but the elites knew that the backbone of the state are ethnic Russians and other Eastern Slavic ethnicities. I think this has not changed. But it is not based on racist predisposition, more on ruthless pragmatism IMO.
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  734. Thank you for this insight!
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  735. Thank you!
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  736. Oh, I see. I do not share this view. For me, the never-ending effort to persuade the world to call us central Europe is a futile waste of time. In the mental maps of 95% of the world, a hard line separates post-communist Europe from former-capitalist Europe. But what we, Central Europeans, often forget is that this line is nothing new. The division between what is perceived as the Western world and what is "not really the western world" was on the German/Slavic border in the minds of Westerners for centuries. People often say that the western-eastern dichotomy is a cold war invention, and before that, people just perceived Hungary, Czechia, Poland, etc., as Central Europe. That is false. These countries were perceived as Central Europe primarily because they were governed and often also inhabited by Germans (roughly the western part of Poland was Germany until 1945, there were millions of Germans in Czechoslovakia, and it was part of the Habsburg empire). But do not for one minute think that westerners are calling our neck of the woods Eastern Europe because they are unfamiliar with our wish to be called Central Europeans. Oh, they know. They heard it hundred times (we are Catholics, not orthodox, etc....). They do not care. In their minds, we are Eastern Europe, and that will never change. So why care? Embrace it. Also, I think it is condescending towards nations like Ukrainians or Romanians to try not to be perceived as Eastern Europe desperately. You are basically telling them, "sorry, I just really really do not belong in the same group as you" (some backwater primitive countries under the influence of Russia...you said it yourself). Fuck it. I am Eastern European, loud, and proud.
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  737. Thank you! And yes, I agree. It is harder to do it than say it though :D
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  738. Very interesting point. I was thinking about this myself.
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  739. That is trully depressing outlook.
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  740. I agree with you. And it is interesting that according to the findings by the author of the documentary Birthgap, Stephen J. Shaw, the number of kids per mother did not really decreased that much since the time the fertility rate was over 2 children per women, so 1970´s-1990´s, depending on the country. So it is mainly the increase in childlessness that is fueling the decrease in birth rates, at least in the western Europe. As for the genetic argument, It definitely seems true on an instictive level, but I need to research genetics little bit more to really get into it. But I would love to make video about this. One thing that is fascinated to me is that when you take into account that we (well, I am not sure how old are you, but I was born in the 1990´s), meaning the current generations of 20-somethings, are the smallest generations ever recorded almost everywhere in Europe and East Asia. When you take into account the fact that significant portion of our generation will remain childless, it creates significant genetic bottleneck and the relative genetic impact of those of us who will reproduce, the more the better, on the future of our nations will be significantly higher.
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  741. I agree.
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  742. Yes, this aspect of it is very interesting and I will definitely do a video about it in the future, but I need to research the genetic aspect of this all more.
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  743. I completely agree.
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  744. I have to hardly disagree with you evaluation of our medical care. If you take into account the amount of money we pay for medical insurance, it is almost a miracle how good it is. Better than in the UK for example. The real divide in health-care services is actually on our eastern border. Go visit a hospital in Slovakia or Poland. In Czechia you can get an appointment with a specialist (endocrinologist, ORL etc.) much quicker than in many western countries, including Germany. I have never experienced a problem in our health-care. Hospitals are not hotels. Sure, the rooms might look worse. But the actual operation rooms are top notch.
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  745. I am glad to hear that!
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  746. I am glad you like the video!
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  747. That is correct, but this democracy was basically matter of the nobleman (around 5% of the population if I am not mistaken), but the rest of the people were often serfs living in poverty in comparison with the west, while in the west people might live under absolute monarch, but their freedoms were gradually increasing. Also the republican spirit was very dysfunctional and it contributed to the doom of the state.
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  748. Well the word for Slave comes from Slav because majority of slaves in the early middle-ages were Slavic.
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  749. I think it is relatively likely.
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  750. I think that Southern Europe got hurt by having Euro, since they can not devaluate their currency to make their exports more attractive. I think Greece could have been in much healthier economic situation if they would be allowed to leave the Eurozone.
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  751. Yes, the land-based character of the region is also one of the main characteristics.
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  752. Thank you for this insight!
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  753. Thank you for this insight!
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  754. I agree.
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  755. I think that such migration is bound to be very limited in scope and might mostly include people that can work remotely. In that case, it might be tempting for people to have western wages and Eastern living costs, especially if they appreciate the cultural climate of post-communist Europe. But for majority of people working not-remote jobs, the difference in living standards is too high. But there are certainly much much more westerners in post-communist Europe than a decade ago, I think that the post-communist Europe is now in the sweet spot where the living standards in the big cities are comparable with the west, especially if you are working in IT or doing something remotely, but it is still kind of exotic and fresh.
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  756. Thank you for this insight!
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  757. Thank you!
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  758. I am sad to hear that. Thank you for this insight!
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  759. Thank you for your praise and for the insight! It is very interesting that Poles are so pessimistic about their own country. Poland seems to be doing really great, all things considered. I have traveled through Poland in 2021 and was very pleasantly surprised by the state of the country. Everyone I know that visited Poland during the communist period or in the 1990´s (my dad for example) says that the progress is incredible. Poland experienced second highest growth after China in the last 30 years. Sure, the living standards are lower in comparison with Germany an such, but still increased dramatically. I personally find Poland to be quite an inspiring country, as a Czech. That would be very minority view among Czechs couple of years back, but the perception is changing. People see that you left us behind in building highways and railroads, that your energetic policy was deeply farsighted (Baltic pipe and the LNG terminals), your military buildup and overall push for national interests. Young Poles really should have higher meaning of teir homeland, you have lot to be proud of. But if nobody will have any children, then Poland will truly be lost.
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  760. Well, if there are some Poles or Russians causing troubles in the west, I have absolutely no problem with westerners kicking them out. That is the right and responsibility of every nation.
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  761. The South Korean case is truly remarkable, with birth rates that low nothing can really save them. I am very curious about the South Korean case.
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  762. Thank you very much!
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  763. I sure hope you will succeed!
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  764. Thank you, I will! As for Eric Kaufman, that is quite a coincidence. I love his work, both Shall the religious inherit the earth and Whiteshift are one of the best books I ever read and my next video that I currently am working on is based on Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth!
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  765. I did not say that it did not have any effect, but it is not the cuase of the ultra-low birthrates, since the low birth rates predate the crisis for almost 20 years. There was a modest slump, but even before the birt rates were much lower than in France or UK. As for your other insights, the lack of space might play a role for sure!
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  766. Thank you! Many people write this explanation, but there is a problem with it. The total fertility rate measure only the birt rates among the women of child bearing age. That means that if the state has some overview of how many women leave the country and how many are living within, it should not affect it much. For example Poland, Slovakia and Romania all had a census in the past couple of years and the results did not affect the total fertility rate much, meaning that their low fertility rate is not caused by the lower number of women in child-bearing age. On the other hand, in both Bulgaria and Moldova, TFR went up significantly when the census found out that there are much fewer women of child bearing age in the country and thus the number of children was bear by lower number of women. But for example in the case of Poland, researchers found out that Polish women in England have significantly higher fertility rate than Polish women in Poland, which points to some reasons connected with Poland itself.
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  767. I unfortunately agree with pretty much everything you say.
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  768. The scientists making the research papers I studied disagree.
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  769. @emiliopenayo4738 Would you be so kind and please tell me one thing in this video that is even remotely fascist? Every bit of information is taken from peer reviewed scientific papers that are listed in the description.
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  770. Thank you!
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  771. Thank you!
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  772. Indeed, that is the conclusion I also arrived at in the video.
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  773. Thank you! I will work on it!
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  774. I agree.
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  775. It will be one of the leitmotives of this century in western Europe
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  776. Thank you! I think that European federation is not an option in any conceivable future, because Europeans are not a nation. Either some European nation would have to conquer the rest and dominate it as an imperial nation, but everybody tried and no natin in EUrope is trong enoguh, or there would have to be a process of nation building for many centuries or even millenia.
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  777. Yes, the South Korean case is truly remarkable. I am very curious to see how that will pan out in the near future. With birth rates that low, nothing can save them, immigration or automation.
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  778. Europe can not be global Lichtenstein by default. It is a continent with hundreds of millions of inhabitants.
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  779. I am Czech person living in the Czech Republic :D I am so dark skinned that when I spend 3 hours without t-shirt on the sun, I get red as a fucking tomato. It is really interesting that my accent sounds Indian to people, but it is just thick Western Slavic accent. And what did I say that you have found racist?
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  780. Thank you! I am gonna keep on grinding, maybe it will happen :D
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  781. Thank you so much! I plan to do everything in the future! But I need time to research it!
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  782. @istvanpeterkovacs730 Damn, that is disheartening if true.
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  783. @jerzyzbiaowiezy6249 Today, everybody would just get anxiety from being online nonstop :D
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  784. Jsem rád že se ti kanál líbí!
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  785. @xxxxx9470 To be honest, it is just a matter of what I am used to. My whole life I have lived in the Czech Republic. Couple of years ago this new name Czechia came along and while I understand the reason for it, I am just so used to saying and thinking Czech Republic that it sounds more natural to me.
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  786. Thanks! I stay corrected
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  787. Thank you very much! I hope I will be able to release the part II. within two weeks
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  788. That is true, but there would not be the ability to lead this kind of war effort without the German demographic profile at the time.
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  789. I completely agree with you on the first part of your comment. But I also think that this situation will pass and there is a light in the end of the tunnel. I believe that there will be a significant crash and the current status quo in wellfare, pensions, growth and such will completely crumble. The living standards will fall significantly and society will become much less complex. But I also think that at that point people will start having more children again, because its is hardwired into our genes. We now live in a huge evolutionary mismatch and our society is so unaturaly lacking any real dangers and struggles (for majority of people in the developed world) that it hugely weakens our natural survival instincts. But I think that after the crash, we will again find them. As for the coping with the reversal, there were many periods in history where population collapsed on a massive scale (like plagues) and maybe a third of populaiton of some region died. Those drops were much more sudden and there was even less time to cope. And many economists also think, that economic growth will be much lower if any (there might be significant degrowth), there will be much less inequality, since the cost of labour will go up significantly, while it was decreasing very fast in the past couple of decades because of globalization. So we will see.
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  790. I am aware that many points I am raising were also raised by him in some of his videos, for example the cultural emulation, but it is just true, so it is hard not to speak about it. Nevertheless, I was reading and thinking about this subject years before I even knew that Whatifalthist exists and I hope I can offer somewhat more detailed view with better knowledge of Europe itself, since I am European.
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  791. that is true, the memory of communism is still present.
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  792. So the anti-americanism in itself is a symptom of American ifnluence? Interesting!
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  793. Thank you!
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  794. Thank you!
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  795. It is a big problem, but it is also problem that is quite universal and not even remotely unique for Europe.
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  796. Guilty. I am Czech.
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  797. I am glad you like it!
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  798. Well, I do not know if I would bet on the countries you named flourishing in the near future..
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  799. I would say that it depends on the level of your ambition. Do you want to get into some kind of upper managment position in a corporation, get a mortgage and be moderatly rich and comfortable? You are perfectly fine in Europe. Do you want to be a visionary CEO of some new tech-giant? I would consider US.
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  800. In theory? Of course. In practice? I don't see it.
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  801. Well, I think that inclination is clearly there. But the capability, that is now qustionable.
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  802. France, most likely.
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  803. But we will face it anyway.
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  804. That depends entirely on which definition of the region is used. Central Europe is by no means some scientifically demarcated region, it is mostly in the eyes of the beholder. My next video is specifically about this subject (Central vs. Eastern Europe), so you will see where am I coming from.
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  805. That is an interesting point!
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  806. Sure, Poland is not likely to posses living standards on the German level and will deal with the massive population ageing. But it simultaneously might be a regional power. I believe that the presence of external danger gives countries clarity and focus that long-term secure countries lack. Will to power goes a long way.
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  807. I think India definitely will be one of the most important countries in the world in the coming centuries, but I do not think it will reach the Chinese level of development.
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  808. Orthodox brothers :D
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  809. Thanks! Me too!
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  810. Thanks for your praise and for your insight!
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  811. On the other hand, Russia will have hundreds of thousands of men with battle-experience.
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  812. So far, yes.
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  813. Thank you very much! I will work on the audio!
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  814. I could not believe it either
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  815. It is an Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world, you are right that these things you mention seem like a mistakes that are not present in the other variations of this map. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Culture_Map_2017_conclusive.png
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  816. Thank you very much!
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  817. Thank you!
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  818. Indeed.
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  819. I have not even noticed that :D
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  820. Thank you for the feedback!
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  821. Thank you for the feedback!
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  822. With France there is the limitation of lack of ethnic data which are not collected.
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  823. Thanks! I will definitely do a video on East Asia!
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  824. Explanation as well as way to still see the video is in the pinned comment and the description of the Climate video.
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  825. 40-70K? Allright. As for the other stuff in your comment: "I had commented on your first part on how you failed to take into account the current conflict and its demographic repercussions, both current and potential. You mentioned Crimea in this one, but completely disregarded the influx of the Ukrainian population, both in the form of refugees as well as purely on newly annexed territories. Which are counted in millions, and obviously do play a role. Plus, all the potential Ukrainian population in tandem with the respective pieces of land, that can still be conquered or lost in the process." I mention Crimea in this one since it is relevant for the 2021 census which I am talking about. I mentioned the large influx of the Ukrainian refugees as well as the fact that it is not often mentioned in the Western media discourse in the first video though. "But yeah, Russia lost "hundred of thousands" on the battlefield, is losing badly, and is about to collapse by the means of internal coups and interracial wars. I want to believe" I never said any of those things expect the one about hundreds of thousands of casualties, which is mostly agreed upon by broad spectrum of military experts from many countries. "According to your definition, YOU, personally, don't live in a country that is any less "authocratic". And if you think otherwise you are delusional. (For example try to go outside and say that Ukraine is actually the bad one, see how much time it takes til you get "cancelled".) 😂😂" That is too absurd to engage with.
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  826. Thank you for the feedback!
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  827. Thank you for the praise!
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  828. Thank you! I will!
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  829. thank you very much!
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  830. Thank you! I am glad at least someone enjoys my hard to shake down Western Slavic pronunciation :D
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  831. I made a lot of people laugh with my pronunciation of Chicago without even trying :D Damn my accent is biting me hard :D
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  832. That is for sure.
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  833. Thank you! That is precisely what I am going for.
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  834. There are two more issues I would like to address in response to some of the comments: Around the 15:08 mark, there is a text wall in the video where I called what Kyle Rittenhouse did "vigilante justice." I did not really think through the negative connotations that the term vigilante carries, and I should have used another term. I am aware of the fact that he was acquainted since he was just defending himself, and he thus did not break the law and, therefore, should not be called a vigilante. More than to get into the ins and outs of this particular case, I wanted to illustrate the alien nature of the whole situation to most Europeans. In many European countries, the right to carry any firearms is severely restricted, and often only people working in some kind of security occupation can have guns (luckily, that is not the case in my home country of the Czech Republic). So, the whole situation in which a guy takes his gun and goes to a violent riot where many people are armed, gets attacked, and then uses his weapon to defend himself and shoots two people is precisely the kind of scenario that really could not, and do not, happen in Europe. I was not condemning his action; just using it as an example. But it is also undeniably true that this whole situation is, in its nature, a situation that usually happens in less developed countries without strict law and order, and this is precisely why it is an excellent example of the American uniqueness. But it was not a condemnation in any way. The second point, many Americans in the comments seem insulted and get defensive about the things said in the video regarding the alleged similarity of Americans to original Homo Sapiens. I hope I have made it clear in the video, but the things said about the primal characteristic of Americans, pointed out by Emmanuel Todd, are not meant as insults at all. On the contrary, it is a tribute to American success and an explanation of its anthropological roots that I find interesting. And the contradictory European approach towards Americans, the combination of contempt and jealousy, is not a view I personally adhere to, even though I understand it. I was trying to communicate the approach that is very prevalent in Europe, especially Western Europe (post-communist Europe is very different in its attitude, as I said at the beginning of the video). So if someone got offended by it, It was not meant as an insult at all. I will repeat this message in the next part of the video so also the people that won't see this comment hear it.
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  835. My friend, if you think that Emmanuel Todd, one of the Frenchiest Frenchmen out there, will do a video in English, you do not know the French :D And thank you!
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  836. Sure, I agree it was hyperbolic statement. But they are very large.
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  837. The population pyramid? What is wrong with it?
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  838. What a journey :D
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  839. That is interesting, why is that the case? I mean the support for unmaried families.
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  840. Thank you for this well-argued insight!
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  841. People were flagging them and Youtube disabled the comment section
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  842. Thanks for that, I edited the part out of the video
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  843. @jasser6470 Thank you for your praise and your insight!
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  844. Yeah, many people wrote it to me. My bad.
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  845. @garypowell1540 Thank you for this insight!
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  846. @AG-lz2gg I am glad you like them!
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  847. I highly doubt that there is 80 million white christians with TFR above 4 in the western world.
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  848. @CordeliaWagner Damn, I am sure glad my wife did not get the memo.
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  849. @justaaltaccount4196 Thank you! I am glad to hear that!
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  850. @Rubinrus Thank you for this insight!
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  851. Thank you very much!
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  852. All right! I will!
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  853. That is a good point!
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  854. Do you mean if the votes ale falsified?
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  855. That is good point, thank you for that.
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  856. @chinchillaruby4170 I will look into it!
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  857. I will try that!
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  858. @prokiller1660 Thank you very much!
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  859. @narcispana9361 Thank you!
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  860. @Kaslor1000 That would be ideal :D
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  861. Thank you very much!
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  862. Yeah, probably guilty.
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  863. Well I operate with the fact, that churchogers have the fertility advantage, so their faith affects their fertility. I take that as a marker of religiosity, I do not judge who is real believer and who is not.
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  864. Good point.
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  865. as for the part n.4, it was a figure of speech and it is also universaly accepted that contemporary Europe is culturally by far most strongly influenced by the Christianity period of its history. Without Christianity, modern western civilisation would never came to be. So it is not meant to be taken literally from the biogenetic point of view. As for the point 5, na 6, it is very widely accepted among sicentist researching the subject, that there is a genetic component to religiosity. Some people just are genetically inclined towards religiosity much more than others. You can easily research that online. But culture of course is hugely important factor, it is an interplay among the two factors. In a very secularised culture, only the people that are most predisposed towards religiosity will remain religious, in a very religious culture, almost everyone will be religious since it is incentivized by the society. I am sorry if this was not conveyed by the video.
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  866. Thank you very much!
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  867. I am glad you did find at least something interesting in the video! "But I have to add one comment about the thinking of the progressives about questions like LGBT rights: That is, I have almost never seen argument in the form of "if we employ these policies that are normal in the West economic prosperity will come too" as you described it. Maybe I am not reading A2larm enough but I really don't know who is argumenting along these lines" That is not what I have mentioned in the video though. I mentioned the example of economic development in regards to Climate and immigration policies, something I would be able to document by some examples if given time. The example of gay marriage was used in the context of the dichotomy between Russia and the West which was currently used by Olga Richterová. That argument I find stupid and misleading. But I did not said that anyone says that accepting gay marriage will make us as rich as the west (even though I would have been likely able to find even that line of argumentation).
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  868. @JAKE-em5xr It would not be able to support itself economically, unfortunately.
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  869. @Slidan Hopefully, I will visit Kyiv someday! So far I was only in Odessa.
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  870. @YarennSagorXiyat I am gonna make a video about it some day, but if you are really interested in the topic, read this book:https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Transplant-Migrants-Make-Economies/dp/1503632946
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  871. I mean, I mostly agree with you. I would have preferred to keep the civil unions for gay couples, but otherwise, it is reasonable.
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  872.  @TheWillWojtek  I have made some small cuts in the video to tone it down a little bit
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  873. @TheWillWojtek Fixation? I mentioned it like three times on a span of couple of minutes in a 44 minutes long video. We might definitely disagree on some aspects of the issue and that is fine, but it is hardly a fixation. "You know that gay people do exists in V4 countries too, right?" understand that it is a rhetorical question, but some of the misunderstanding comes from reducing the LGBT issues on gay people and gay marriage, issue that is arguably not that problematic, even though I have my reservations. There is much broader ideological push behind it and the truly concerning issues for me comes with the legal recognition of gender as something separate from biological sex and with overtly permissive transition policies without proper medical due dilligence. I just won't repeat all the letters in the acronym every time I discuss the issue.
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  874. @happyelephant5384 I will copy here an answer from other comment where I try to explain my view on gay-marriage. But I would just add that while relationship and intimate life definitely are a private matter and homosexuality should obviously be respected and openly homophobic acts should be punished by law, marriage is a bit different. That is a legal institutions regulated by law and it has many legal and societal repercussion. "I will try to explain my stance on the issue of gay-marriage, since it is rather complex, and there are several ways to look at it. I am not some hard-core anti-gay-marriage activist, and I have thought about the issue quite a lot. I definitely not think that being gay is not correct. So, to begin with, there are two ways to view marriage as an institution. First, it is a form of ritual and legal recognition of the relationship between two people who love each other and want to live with each other. Since it is their private matter, they should be allowed in a liberal society. That is currently prevalent in the West. The second is that marriage is the foundational bedrock of any functioning society, and it has one principal purpose - to create a fitting environment for conceiving and raising children. Now under this second view, it can, by logic, be only allowed for heterosexual couples since only they can biologically conceive. Sure, you might argue that heterosexual couples that can not or do not want to have children can also get married, and that is true. Still, in principle, heterosexual couples can create children while homosexual couples can not. Now with the first definition, the problem is that if marriage is understood as a form of ritual and legal recognition of the relationship of people that love each other and want to live with each other, there are not many arguments to be made against, for example, legalization of polygamy, since why could not more than two people that love each other and live with each other also get this recognition and get married? They are not bothering anyone; it is their private matter. But monogamy is one of the foundations of the success of Western civilization (WEIRDest people in the world - great book about the topic by Joseph Heinrich). So I consider it quite dangerous to tinker with marriage as an institution too much since we usually do not think about the possible long-term consequences of such changes; we are just riding on a wave of progress that feels good. The second point is that the situation is specific in the Czech Republic for two reasons. First is that the word for marriage in Czech is different, it is manželství, and it comes from the proto-Slavic word for man and woman. So it is baked into the word's etymology, which is different in English. Now there is currently a debate about the subject in the Czech parliament; one side wants to legalize gay marriage, other want to have a different name for the institution but otherwise equalize all the rights connected to it (taxes, bureaucratic stuff, common property, heritage, etc.) except for the rights related to raising children (I support this), third side wants to put into the constitution that marriage has to be between man and woman. Now the situation is complicated because if the law calls it marriage, it automatically means that the couples will have the right to adoption since the law about adoption just gives the right to any married couple (the lawmakers did not think about this at the time). But that is an entirely separate issue since the people that want to enact gay marriage constantly repeat that it is just between the two people and will not affect anyone (as you said). Still, they want to push two things at once - marriage and adoption. But with adoption, it is different since that is not about the two people getting married, which arguably really does not affect anyone else, but mainly about the child. Now you might say that being raised by a gay couple is better than an orphanage, and I agree with that. The problem is that in the Czech Republic, the demand for children to adopt far outstrips the supply since many couples can not have children. While orphanages are full, a substantial portion of the children in them is either gypsy, disabled or often both. And, to be frank, most couples want, let's be real, white and healthy baby. So gay couples really could not adopt a baby from an orphanage since there will always be a huge number of heterosexual couples that want to adopt. So the adoption of the children often revolves around surrogate motherhood, which is problematic in many ways since it is often done by very poor mothers, often of migration background, and opens up a lot of additional ethical themes. It might be good to regulate it somehow, but it needs a separate societal debate. That is why I support the proposal to equalize all the rights except adoption and use a different name for this legal relationship. But the proponents, of course, wildly disagree since they also want the adoption, and the word marriage has great symbolic value for them. Then there are two additional things to mention. First is the slippery slope argument. There is a machine of nonprofits, media, and various pressure organizations, often financed by the EU or some liberal think tanks, standing behind the relentless campaign for same-sex marriage. That is, of course, fine; people are free to push their ideas. But when the goal is reached, this machine won't stop. The people are ideologically driven to implement more concepts known from the West, and it is also a profitable business for many people. Thus, as soon as the gay-marriage is legalized, some new goal will be immediately established and pursued with the same fervor, rhetoric, and media pressure. This might sound cynical, but I see this issue as a kind of dam holding other, much more damaging progressive ideas at bay for the moment. And finally, the way in which the proponents of gay marriage are leading the campaign is repulsive to me. The defenders of the "traditional" marriage, often members of the Christian conservative right, are relentlessly attacked and mocked by the media as extremists, far-right, ultraconservatives, and bigots; they are often accused of being connected to Russia (which they are not, and the court proved it). I see it as two legitimate political positions being discussed, both of them with valid arguments to be made for them. But by a very large portion of the media landscape, one of the positions is seen as a medieval barbarity and the other as the default view to have if you want to be a part of a decent society. That pisses me off. Have the decency to at least think about the other side's arguments; they are not some evil clerical demons; they just think about the world in a different, more continual way. Their argumentation is more profound, I would say. And the argumentation, "Are we with Russia, or are we with the West?" would be idiotic, even if I would completely agree with gay marriage. Sorry for the length; I wanted to clarify my position."
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  875. I feel you my man :D
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  876. Thanks!
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  877. I am Czech, I just think this is memorable name. I like it.
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  878. Thanks!
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  879. Thank you very much!
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  880. Thank you!
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  881. @vde1846 It would be awesome, but I frankly remain sceptical. Israelis are not Ukrainians.
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  882. @georgios_5342 Thank you for this insight!
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  883. I just have juvenile sense of humour :D
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  884. @user-rp5un5zf8q Thank you!
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  885. Broadly speaking, I agree.
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  886. @dreamer2260 Thank you!
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  887. Thank you!
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  888. @davidrubinstein3679 Thank you!
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  889. If you are interested, I have all the scripts in written form, it is not a problem to share.
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  890. Thank you for this insight!
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  891. I was mostly focusing on the Israeli Jews, that is true.
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  892. I hope it did not disapoint!
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  893. @gold-818 I agree.
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  894. @TheSwedishHistorian Yes, I just wanted to make it clear :D
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  895. @belstar1128 It is very unique indeed!
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  896. @jhrusa8125 Very interesting point.
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  897. @10hawell Hopefully it will have some effect!
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  898. Interesting point!
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  899. Support your local products!
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  900. @anachronisticon That is a very common argument but it is overlooking one of the most important aspects. It is something completely different if population with healthy age structure is suddenly reduced by natural catastrophe and you are left with much smaller population with most of the people in productive age (since mostly the older and children were likely killed by the plague). But we are in a situation when the population is declining and you have more 60's years old than 50's old than 40's old than 30's old etc. It is diametrically different issue.
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  901. Glad to hear that!
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  902. @Taeb000ty Me too!
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  903. Those eastern catholics were Poles, not Germans. Should have mention it.
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  904. I obviously did not say anything of the sort
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  905. I have to read more about China before doing so!
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  906. Thank you very much!
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  907. In the future!
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  908. I am as Czech as it gets :D I think @edjohnson8017 is trolling :D
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  909. Thank you for your insight! I also read that French-speaking Canadians are more anti-immigration than English speaking Canadians, since their national identity is more exclusive since they often tried to preserve it within Canada.
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  910. Hope it did not disapoint!
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  911. Good!
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  912. Thank you! :D
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  913. Turbo-folk is based and if there was a commissionaire for Turbofolk, my faith in the EU would go up by 17%.
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  914. That is not really true though. Sure, the US did shrunk from the 1950 peak, but in the last 30 years, the US are holding up on the 25% more or less, while the EU has shrunk from almost 30% to 16% and is declining even further. I mean, the whole digital revolution supercharging the world economy had largely bypassed Europe completely. We are here arguing about this on US/Asia made notebooks/smartphones and on an American web (Youtube).
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  915. I think the problem is that even though there are smaller and larger states in the US, they are all Americans. You are just dealing with different shades of American (rural and conservative versus urban and liberal and such). You can thus have Pan-American political parties. But this is not the case in Europe. Do you think the American system would work with 8 different parties in every state and 100 parties in the Congress?
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  916. @tubetotto I am glad we agree!
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  917. @tomorrowneverdies567 "Who is Poland protecting Europe from exactly? From what I know, Russia has no intentions to attack any EU member." Well, looking at how the Ukraine war is going and how the EU manufacturing capacities are completely lacking in terms of military industry and how the isolationism in the US is gaining strength, I would not sleep very calmly if I was living in the Baltics.
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  918. You are god damn right it is biased. But people are obviously not indifferent at all.
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  919. Based idea, unfortunately contradicted by economic reality of the region being a German economic sphere.
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  920. @tann_man Nothing. The question is if the member states or the EU can do these things better.
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  921. @susangoaway This is an interesting point.
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  922. @puer4787 That is an interesting idea indeed!
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  923. Well put.
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  924. No, I have not. The number of ethnic Russians among those who declared ethnicity is 81 %. Among the total population, it is 71.7%. Those are statistics from the Russian Federal State Statistics Reserve. I have actually ignored much information about the controversial practices during the census aimed at expanding the number of Russians so that it might be even lower in reality.
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  925. I sort of did in the Who Will Dominate Eastern Europe video
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  926. Tatars are probably one of the more Russified minorities, I would not expect much troubles there.
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  927. It is true that Navalny's opinions were significantly white-washed for him to be seen as a champion of democracy in the west.
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  928. It got nothing to do with racial purity or whatever. That is mostly Germanic thing of the past. But as you said, with mentality. And I specifically mention in the video that I do not expect any disloyalty towards the Russian state from Tatars, since they have been very Russified throughout the centuries. But the simultaneous dying out of ethnic Russians, exodus of educated Russians abroad and the inflow of immigrants from Central Asia will have impacts on the functioning of the Russian state. Ethnicity matters, even if it is true that Russia posses certain level of pan-ethnic Russian identity. Russian Tzarist regime knew this and Soviet Union leadership knew this and they have acted accordingly.
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  929. Nikdy jsem netvrdil, že jsem neutrální. Mám o světě poměrně ucelenou představu a ta nemůže být hodnotově neutrální, i kdybych chtěl. Nemám problém s tím, když se to odráží v mých videích.
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  930. Thank you so much!
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  931. This is one of the most prominent misconceptions. The birth boom was mainly caused by the fact that Eastern Europe was largely in the earlier stages of the demographic transition than the west, meaning they were just going down from the higher levels in the second half of the 20th century + the communist countries were closed systems where you could not do much more with your life than to have a family. But the fertility rate was going down throughout the 1980's almost everywhere and as the economic system of the Eastern bloc would inevitably erode, if the eastern bloc did not disintegrate, they would became sub-replacement in a couple of years. YOu could demonstrate that on East Germany, the most "western" of communist nations, which had sub-replacement fertility for decades under communism. You would the end up with sub-replacement fertility within completely uncompetitive un-dynamic deteriorating economic system in the 1990's or the 2000's. Sure, the 1990's were a huge shock and they certainly did cause a demographic crisis, but that was just the inevitable showdown caused by communism and the need to experience the shock therapy. Communism fucked Eastern Europe hard.
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  932. I honestly do not know man. I never deleted even one comment from anyone.
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  933. Thank you!
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  934. Yes, this point seems out of place in this video, since it was suppose to talk about Greece in another context (the script for this video was suppose to be first two chapters of a longer video with different topic). In this video, Greece should not have been included
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  935. Why do you think so?
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  936. Thank you very much! As for the footnotes, I will improve them from now on. I am writing the scripts for the videos using Grammarly to avoid mistakes, but I was not using it for the footnotes, since I am writing them in the program while doing the visuals for the video. I will use Grammarly on the too from now on! I Hope it did not ruined the videos too much for you!
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  937. As always, thank you very much for this insight
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  938. It is a rather complex issue, but from a wide range of psychological researches, it has been proven that the level of exposure to the efforts of early christian church (circa 500-1000 AD) to break the kinship structures had a profound effect on creation of impersonal trust (since in kin-based systems you learn to trust your extended family or a clan, but not strangers), increase opposition to authority (since you are not subordinated to the family patriarch), increases individualism (since you are not acting as a member of a collective clan, but an individual), voluntary association (when clan structures are broken down, people start to associate in guilds, councils, Orders etc.), modern markets creation (when you have to interact with non-kin strangers, norms to regulate trade and simmilar conduct need to be created) and many other aspects of what sow the seeds of creating modern west and also democratic society. These efforts were mostly successful in the western Europe, which then became adherent of western chruch after the Schizm. There is a fascinated book about this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_World Muslim nations usually are on the opposite end of the spectrum (heavily kinship-based). It is true though that India is also heavily kinship-based, so you have a point there. But I think that successful democray in the societies outside of the antropoligacally western parts of the world is more of a exception than the rule and is to a large extent influenced by the contemporary geopolitical environment ad might not stay there for long.
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  939. It is not about the Orthodox church not being suitable for democracy or the western church being fit for it as such. It is a rather complex issue, but from a wide range of psychological researches, it has been proven that the level of exposure to the efforts of early western church (circa 500-1000 AD) to break the kinship structures had a profound effect on creation of impersonal trust (since in kin-based systems you learn to trust your extended family or a clan, but not strangers), increase opposition to authority (since you are not subordinated to the family patriarch), increases individualism (since you are not acting as a member of a collective clan, but an individual), voluntary association (when clan structures are broken down, people start to associate in guilds, councils, Orders etc.), modern markets creation (when you have to interact with non-kin strangers, norms to regulate trade and simmilar conduct need to be created) and many other aspects of what sow the seeds of creating modern west. These efforts were mostly successful in the western Europe, which then became adherent of western chruch after the Schizm. There is a fascinated book about this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_World But that is not to say that there can not be democracy elsewhere or that all the countries perceived today as western were exposed to this destruction of clan-based structures. For example in Finland, kinship structures remained very strong. But I believe that relatively few coutries are really antropologically western and suited for democracy, mainly in northwestern Europe and the Anglosphere. Even the Visegrad countries are, in my opinion, mostly westernised, but the values ingrained in the Western core are not really deeply rooted in (more than in Orthodox countries though. Same goes for regions as Southern Italy or Southern Spain or Ireland.
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  940. I agree.
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  941. That is very interesting and disturbing point.
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  942. Eastern Europe also is not grey and depressing, that is just the stereotype. But to be fair, Rieka for example is kind od like that :D
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  943. You could say the same about Western Europe, Sicilian have very little in common with Norwegian. Every kind of label has its limit.
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  944. There is a difference between being communist and being part of the Eastern Bloc. But Yugoslavia was not a capitalist country.
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  945. I mean, I agree with you. I just try to say in the video that it is not really right to present this as some scientific and historical truth. And that from the perspective of a Dutch or a British person, it is rather understandable to perceive as Eastern Europe.
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  946. That is the best approach yet! :D
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  947. I was just describing the issue, the point of the video is to say that I do not really care about what label people put at my region, we should build our own identity instead of trying to persuade someone else to call us something.
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  948. That is interesting, I never heard about the project.
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  949. I think that the Central European and Eastern European identities can coexist.
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  950. I am not insulting anyone :D
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  951. I agree.
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  952. I mean, good for you, I guess? :D
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  953. I think that some probably did at some point :D
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  954. Thank you!
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  955. I do not know.
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  956. I agree!
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  957. That is very interesting point, I also do not like the fact that we are basically triggered by the term and then we belittle others by labelling them as such.
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  958. Thank you for your praise and for your insight!
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  959. Thank you!
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  960. Thank you!
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  961. Sorry for that mistake! :D
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  962. I did not make the map and I honetyl did not notice this :D
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  963. Thank you!
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  964. Díky moc! Snad tvoji nabídku někdy využiju!
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  965. Thank you for this insight, this is very interesting!
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  966. I agree.
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  967. Thank you!
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  968. Yes, they are absolutely unique in this reggard.
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  969. Well this was the situation with the European countries that industrialised first and it was mostly because of cultural reasons and the speed of industrialisation, which took longer time. You were born in the village among 6 children in a highly religious environment where having many children was the norm. The societal took longer back then and there still was some infant mortality present which reminded you of your instincts, so even if you moved to the city, you still had a lot of kids.
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  970. Thank you very much!
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  971. I do not know about the age reversing technology, but I plan to do video on the possibility of the demographic revolution cased by higher birth rates of highly instinctive people, that is a very interesting topic!
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  972. Thank you for that insight!
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  973. Thank you for your insight, that was an interesting read. But it still does not really explain it for me, because every one of those factors you mentioned are really absolutely identical in the Czech Republic. Lack of affordable housing for young people? Check (the price of housing in ratio to salaries is worst in the EU for Czechs, average apartment is worth 13 years of average salary, it is significantly less in Poland, which is often cited as an example here, because you construct much more housing). Lack of accessible, high-quality institutional childcare? Check (under 5% of children under 3 are in institutional childcare), even though I think that is a good thing. Lack of flexible work options on the labor market, making difficult to combine parenthood and part-time work? Check. I do not know it is worst or better than in Poland, but it is a subject of debate here all the time. And all the stuff about the housing you wrote is identical (investment in housing, high rates and freezing market, high rents because of that and Ukrainians. So either Poles are reacting normally and Czechs are just weird, having kids even in those conditions. Or there just is something else in it. It is really interesting.
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  974. Thank you!
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  975. Thank you! Interesting insight!
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  976. That is a very appreciated insight, thank you!
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  977. Good point.
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  978. Thank you! After I release second part of the Decline of Europe, I want to make video about the future of central and eastern Europe.
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  979. I am gonna talk aobut that in my next video!
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  980. Thank you for this insight! That is quite a sad read, but I hope the tide will turn for Poland!
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  981. Thank you!
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  982. Thanks! Interesting thought!
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  983. I am genuinely pro-family person.
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  984. I mean, you might be right. On the other hand, and I do not want to sound like a buck passer, but every bit of information from this video was taken from peer reviewed scientific studies that are listed in the description. So, the scientist think there is a natural selection ongoing.
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  985. @nilsmadej9091 Well, I would not say that it is inevitable. As was established in the video, the external cultural forces may prevail.
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  986. That is not a good idea, on a societal level.
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  987. It is actually much more simple than that. I need to have a shape of Europe that is somewhat whole and finite for the thumbnails, that is why I am usually not including Russia, because Europe would go too far to the east and it would not fit in the thumbnails. It is a practical issue. The stuff I debate in the video might also apply to Russia as well and for other places too.
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  988. I will talk about the future of Eastern Europe in my next video! As for the V4, people tend to overestimate its internal cohesion. It is a very valuable pact when it comes to pushing certain common interests in the EU (for example during the migratin crisis, possibly even the Green deal policies), but otherwise, the V4 countries have very different geopolitical interests.
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  989. Thank you for this insight!
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  990. I believe that technological innovation is the way to beat the climate change. And that is not happening in Europe with all the bans and regulations. It will happen elsewhere and that will do more to save the planet than all the duties and taxes in Europe.
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  991. Thanks!! Pozdrav Hrvatska iz Češke!
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  992. Thank you!
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  993. Thank you! I will
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  994. Sure, boomers can walk with transparents in the streets, but they won´t start a revolution or a civil war. As for the schizm regarding Ukraine, it is morec omplex than that. You have Sane-pro Ukraine government in Italy for example.
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  995. That would be great.
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  996. Thank you very much!
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  997. Thank you!
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  998. Thank you for your insight! I am unfortunately unable to answer all your points due to time reasons, but I love to read them.
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  999. Wait, I do not understand. How would less young people increase the chance of revolution, if they are responsible for it?
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  1000. Thank you!
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  1001. I am fascinated by demographics and Israel is a demographically deeply fascinating country.
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  1002. @deaththekid3998 Sad but true.
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  1003. @StankoAx I am glad to hear that!
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  1004. @ragnargrabson1287 That is true. Poland might profit from that significantly.
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  1005. Thank you! I mostly agree, but all of the points are much much easier said than done :D
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  1006. I am aware.
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  1007. @-haclong2366 Most people I know are.
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  1008. @Frosty-cg8xf Where exactly you visited?
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  1009. @practicaltheory6604 Will do!
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  1010. @thebeautifulones5436 The issue is that we would like to also remain industrialised countries :D
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  1011. The economics you brought up sure do influence thinks, but I would say that overall the cultural atmosphere is more important. The people 100-150 years ago had many children even though they were living in absolute poverty, compared to even lower class people in the west today. As for the second topic you brought up, that is subject for whole separate video I will probably do sometime.
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  1012. This is a possibility.
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  1013. Will try to work on it as fast as possible!
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  1014. Thanks!
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  1015. I would argue that without globalisation, the collapse of 1/3 to 1/2 of population of whole western and southern Europe during couple of years can be seen as an even a bigger collapse than what we are facing today. For a European of the time, what was happening in China, India or South America was completely irrelevant, his world just burned. But yes, I get your point. We are sailing to completely uncharted lands. But I would say that it is part of the appeal of the subject. There is a lot of catastrophic predictions to be made, but the truth is that we do not know what will happen and how it will look. We can try to make predictions, but we have to wait and see.
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  1016. It is highly unlikely that it will solve much of these issues.
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  1017. True, but the demographic crisis is not an European phenomenon, as you correctly wrote. Places like Brazil, Turkey, Iran, Thailand and others will likely ecperienced on their own in the future.
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  1018. I am Czech.
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  1019. I glad to hear that.
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  1020. I would not bet on it, not directly or between the first pioneers to do so.
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  1021. There is gonna part 2 of this series that is coming out (probably) next Sunday and I am going to talk about the geopolitics part extensively!
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  1022. I can not say I really agree. I do not think European bureaucracy is particulary well-functioning. It is out of touch with reality, getting in the way of entrepreneurial people and just uses markets as something you drain the resources from. Also, concept of basic human rights is not something unique to the EU, American constitution as well as other countries around the world upheld human rights. But human rights are not some empirically scientifically measurable entity, understandings of what is a human right can differ in different parts of the world.
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  1023. Thank you!
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  1024. Interesting insight! Thanks!
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  1025. Thanks!
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  1026. Sure, I have been to California, it sucks. But the US have a great internal dynamic, so as one city or state declines, 5 different rises. So while California might be turning into a shithole, Texas and Florida are rising etc.
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  1027. Californian cities are not pleasant places to visit.
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  1028. Thank you for this insight!
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  1029. All right, I forgot about that one :D
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  1030. Thanks! I sure will do more videos about this topic in the future.
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  1031. I agree with you in the sense that US is hard to compete against, mostly because of absolutely stellar geography of the North American continent. But Europe has been stagnating not just in comparison to US, but also to other Anglosphere countries (Australia, New Zealand) amd East Asian countries (South Korea, China or Taiwan are leaps ahead in many technical segments), which points out to domestic European problems.
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  1032. Well, it could be worse.
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  1033. Of course you have became the fourth largest economy also, not exclusively, because of your ethnic make-up. Different populations have different traits, different family systems, levels of kinship density, work ethics, propensity towards education and wealth accumulation, levels of individualism and other deeply anthropologically and culturally ingrained traits that influence the success of different nations. If you do not think that Germans were historically, and also today, very different then, for example, Slavs and other Eastern Europeans, and that it did not contribute to their economic and industrial success, you are wrong. And I say this as a Slav, even though it is not complimentary for me. Sure, immigration s economically helping Germany since it is sucking up workforce from other countries and is offsetting the population ageing, but it will also dilute some of the prevalent traits of ethnic Germans that have been instrumental in your success. How this will turn out is to be seen. But the comparison with United States is flawed. United States are able to integrate immigrants much better than most continental European state will ever be, which is also given by many deeply ingrained historical reasons. Apart from that, I was not talking about immigration in relation to economy, but to the willingness of the population to fight for the country. There is study done by Robert Koch institute that examines the changes the Bundeswehr is facing because of the rising ethnic diversity of the population and the Bundeswehr officers are themselves admitting that the ethnic minorities do not have interest in becoming soldiers (in America, the recruitment rates of Hispanic Americans are the same or higher as those of White Americans). "EU, the most ambitious peace project this continent has ever seen" well, it is also existing largely because Americans are guaranteeing peace and protection of Europe with their military which allowed for most European countries to became basically militarily non-entities.
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  1034. I find it a little funny, I will stop laugh when Germans remilitarise. Then I will worry :D
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  1035. History is full of such events.
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  1036. That is indeed the question.
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  1037. That is an important point.
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  1038. I think it is very complex issue, this whole Central/Eastrn debate, I plan to do a video about it. But I think that there is some truth to that, even though it would very much anger our countryman.
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  1039. Kaiser Bauch just sounds better then Císař pupek
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  1040. Interesting point.
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  1041. I am gonna take that as a compliment.
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  1042.  @jerzyzbiaowiezy6249  Napsals to dobře!
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  1043. Thanks! I hope that in my new videos it is much better, the voice issue. A got better mic and I hope I talk better.
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  1044.  @cyrusol  who cares what German says
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  1045. I am not aware of any signfocant conflicts between states in the region since the WWII, if I do not count Russia/SSSR bullying somenoe (Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova...) or the wars of Yugoslav dissolution. The relations between the states in the region are best they ever have been.
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  1046. Chad Republic.
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  1047. It is a logical fallacy.
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  1048. Communism certainly plays a significant role, but it goes even more to the past, in my opinion.
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  1049. That does not say that it is not ethnically European, but that it is 89% ethnically Romanian (the rest being mostly Hungarians and gypsies).
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  1050. That is a very interesting subject, I am gonna touch on it in on of my future videos. But East Germans was basically a different nation that West Germans, since they were the basically Prussians and Prussia was very specific nation, which was mostly historically connected to Eastern Europe and not to the west like Western Germany. It Eastern Germany stayed independent country, it would probably be closer to Visegrad countries than to West Germany in many aspects.
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  1051. I will work on it!
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  1052. Thank you very much! Glad you liked it!
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  1053. I am not an anti-semite, I have a great deal of respect for the Jewish nation.
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  1054. The statement that CEE countries are German economic colonies is overblown and simplified. There definitely is an argument to be made about CEE countries having more than healthy parts of their economies owned by foreign capital, but Germany is far from having some kind of clear superiority in this matter. Germany is usually (not always tho) the biggest single investor, but other western countries like France, Netherlands, UK, US or Belgium combined are always much higher. Baltic states are for example more economically intertwined with the Nordic countries. Biggest investor in Poland is the Netherlands. In Romania, Germany has 14% shares on foreign investment, while France has 9% and Italy 8,5%. So it is far from total hegemony. These countries have pretty high share of their trade done with Germany (usually about 25-30%, for perspective, Canada has 80% with USA), but that is a state of mutual co-dependancy. German economy can not work without supply chains from east Europe.
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  1055. Thank you!
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  1056. I will try to use better images!
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  1057. That is very reductive.
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  1058. Unfortunately, the lack of data that are prohibited by the French state to collect makes it hard to do France properly.
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  1059. Good point!
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  1060. Thank you!
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  1061. Thank you!
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  1062. Thank you for this insight!
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  1063. Thanks!
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  1064. From what I know, the Chinese data are even worse in their predicative value.
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  1065. Turkey is definitely an interesting one!
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  1066. I might!
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  1067. That was definitely the case in the 1990's, but almost certsinly not in the 2010-2020 period when up to 10 million people have left, mostly educated, urban and young a almost certainly predominantly, not exclusively, ethnically Rusian. I know several of these people in Czechia, all of them except one are ethnic Russians.
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  1068.  @jabrilbalakrishna  Alright, but there is a difference between exaggeration and straight-out putting words in my mouth. As for the Ukrainian refugees in Russia, it is on timestamp 23:05 of the first video if you want to fact-check. And as for the freedom of speech. I do not know where do you live or how much information do you have about the life in Czechia, but what truly is absurd is to implicate that the restrictions on freedom of speech here are on any level even comparable to Russia. Here, the population is relatively heavily pro-Ukrainian in regards to this conflict. If you would shout out that Ukrainians are bad and to be blamed for this conflict, it would certainly spark a discontent among many people. You might get into a conflict with people on the street or on social media. If you were in a position of some well-known public figure, you might face attempts of cancelation in the form of petitions of citizens or maybe cancelation of sponsorship by companies that would not want to associate themselves with your opinion since they are not in sync with what the population believes. But this is not done by the state. Police would not react at all. Only way in which you might be criminally charged is if you actually commit the crime of "prompting violence towards some group of people based on ethnicity, religion and such". If you said that Ukrainians are the bad ones and should be all killed, that would be a crime. But it would also be a crime if you said that about Russians. There was a case of school teacher that said to her pupils that there is no war in Ukraine, nothing is happening there and it is all propaganda. She was dismissed by the school and charged with crime of denying genocide. But the court acquainted her, since her deeds did not encapsulated the nature of the crime, which I agree with. I do not see genocide happening in Ukraine, only aggressive war of conquest. But there are no political prisoners, no politicians of opposition parties in jail, no killed or imprisoned journalists and such. The state respects freedom of speech and you will get due process in front of the court. To compare that with the Russian situation is just insane, sorry. I am all for a good debate, but if you start such a debate by making comparisons like that, it is very hard to take your accusations of my un-objectivity seriously (sure, I am definitely not completely objective, I support Ukraine in this conflict), since you obviously are also heavily biased in this matter.
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  1069. Thank you!
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  1070. Thank you very much for your insight!
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  1071. Good point!
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  1072. Thank you very much!
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  1073. Thank you for your insight!
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  1074. Thank you! And thank you for your insight.
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  1075.  @karolkwiecjasz9356  oh Poland will come for sure.
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  1076. This is an underrated comment.
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  1077. It exists, it is called Anthropoid and Cillian Murphy plays Gabčík :D not that good unfortunately, not bad though
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  1078. Good for you my man!
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  1079. I will look into that!
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  1080. Thank you for the recommendation!
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  1081. I will try to elaborate more on it in the next part! And thank you!
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  1082. I have to find some books on the subject, then I will gladly do it!
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  1083. I am aware and I understand it. But how does it relate to the content of the video?
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  1084. It is not :D But it is cool!
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  1085. Well, I completely unknowingly made a lot of people laugh with that :D
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  1086. The incarceration statistic is also manipulative, though, since the USA also has a much higher violent crime rate than the majority of the industrialized world. If you calibrate the incarceration for the number of murders, the discrepancy between the U.S. and other developed countries is much less dramatic. For every person who is a murder victim in the United States, the number of people incarcerated is 127. Switzerland has a ratio of 124-to-1: America's incarceration rate is 8.6 times as high as Switzerland's—but America's murder rate is 8.4 times as high. Other countries in which the prison population is less than 127 times as high as the number of murder victims include the United Kingdom (117), France (99), Germany (74), and Canada (59), while those with a higher prisoner-to-murder-victim ratio than the U.S. include Japan (142), Italy (160), Australia (188), and New Zealand (222).
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  1087. I mean, your geopolitical worldview is certainly your own business. I just fail not see how any of this relates in any shape or form to the substance of this video, where I did not speak at all about the current war in Ukraine.
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  1088. Well, the expectations for the video about India will be high, since third of my viewers think it is my home country :D
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  1089. I will try to tackle it with dignity!
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  1090. Thank you for your insight!
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  1091.  @waynesworldofsci-tech  Damn. Just put "The Church's crusade against cousin-marriage did not create the Western nuclear family" in Google, it should be the first thing on Google, if you are interested (it is on substack).
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  1092. Thank you for your praise and for your insight!
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  1093. lol, old B.J. likely never visited Mallorca in summer and saw the hordes of "swarthy" old German tourists red as tomatoes after 3 hours on the sun :D
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  1094. They had Stem family type that is prevalent in Germany, Austria, Czechia, Sweden, Korea, Japan and other places and it means that the oldest son stays and live with the parents in their household and then inherits the property while the other children have to make it in the world without the inheritance.
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  1095. Thank you for your praise and your insight!
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  1096. Thank you!
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  1097. Thanks, I will keep it in mind!
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  1098. Definitely might in the future!
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  1099. How do you know it is genetics and not culture? I do not think that this distinction is scientifically provable. Might be both, but we do not know.
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  1100. I think I managed not to offend anyone too much with this one! It is a nice change :D
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  1101. Well, it is debatable if Hong Kong is an independent country. I would lean towards no. Plus city states are specific, lower fertility is expected.
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  1102. It is definitely combination of socio-cultural, environmental and genetics. It is very complex.
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  1103. The point I am making in the video is that the Confucian civilisational heritage influences the ultra-low levels of fertility under 1 child per woman in opposition to levels around 1.5 common for example in Europe. The per capita income and industrialisation brings fertility down universally, but there is a large difference between having 1.7 children per woman and 0.8.
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  1104. In the future, sure!
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  1105. Thanks for the ideas!
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  1106. It is hard to do worse than East Asia though, in regards to birth rates.
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  1107. @ham8196 I agree.
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  1108. It is definitely possible, I am aware of these estimates. But I just ran with the official data since they really are bad enough to prove the point I am making in this video. But it is possible it is even worse.
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  1109. Thank you very much!
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  1110. Thank you very much!!
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  1111. @willyhill7509 Yep, EU is in a bad spot for sure.
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  1112. @andrewbobb3170 I am going to buy a truckload of baked beans in cans.
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  1113. One so far. But I am pretty young, there's gonna be more :D
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  1114. @EconGun Interesting!
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  1115. @DungeonMarshal I do not have many options, let me tell you that :D
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  1116. @mamadoufall5940 Maybe, maybe. But there are many hurdles in the way. The African geography has been a major obstacle to its development forever and that is unlikely to change.
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  1117. @JohnTovar-ks8dp Indeed.
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  1118. @WilliamSantos-cv8rr The demographic decline of Brazil is going to be pretty insane.
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  1119. @foxenlik Thank you!
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  1120. @slavchomarinov9909 It certainly play a role, but I think it is first and foremost cultural.
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  1121. @xianxiaemperor1438 I will look into it!
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  1122. @slimee8841 Hard to disagree with :D
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  1123. @14pat78 I hope you are right.
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  1124. @mattbelger7256 Very interesting point. I think that it might lead to a huge difference between the level of upkeeping in the depopulating countryside and in the few crowded cities.
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  1125. Thank you very much!
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  1126.  @dorukgunduz66  this year
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  1127. Brno
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  1128. Yes, Beatles are good and all but one can not top Bojna Čavoglave.
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  1129. Yeah, I also noticed some similar elements with his new video (mostly the left not caring for the working classes), although the overall themes of the videos are different. But yeah, It is just a coincidence. These videos take some time to make. So if they came up the same day, you could be sure there is no time to "copycat."
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  1130. Hopefully you are right!
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  1131. Hopefully I won´t be canceled :D thanks!
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  1132. The term Long March through the institutions was inspired by it. Hence the thumbnail.
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  1133. Lack of options.
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  1134. Thanks!
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  1135. Thanks!
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  1136. Thank you!
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  1137. Yes :D
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  1138. Imagine that :D
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  1139. The problem with this variant is that the second parts (I already did some) get the leas ttraction of all the videos :D But I will probably just do longer videos.
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  1140. True, mostly in Protestant countries.
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  1141. I will put together a Google document with my book recommendations! And as for the name, I just always liked these two words, Kaiser and Bauch (I speak some German). I do not know why. But I think that it sounds good together, is memorable, and if I picked Czech name, most people would not be able to pronounce it :D
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  1142. @drohiczyn Yes, that is a good point.
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  1143. Thank you!
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  1144. @chinchillaruby4170 Well, one always has to be the loser.
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  1145. Thank you for this insight! Czech nationalism also perceived Catholicism as connected to Habsburgs and it likely contributed to the Czech secularism.
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  1146. Díky!
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  1147. @susangoaway That is an interesting take, you are probably right about the UBI.
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  1148. Maybe!
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  1149. @huihui5059 That is good to hear!
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  1150. @waynesworldofsci-tech Someday, when I have more time, I will gladly listen to this! :D
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  1151. @jirislavicek9954 Thanks for the recommendation!
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  1152. @bogfrog1404 Thanks!
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  1153. @harshjain3122 Thank you!
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  1154. @AnHonestConman1 I know what you mean.
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  1155. @Radonatorr Thank you for writing this so I do not have to :D
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  1156. @FOLIPE I see your point. I am gonna have to think about the answer.
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  1157. Díky za obsáhlou odpověď a zajímavý vhled! Bohužel z časových důvodů nemůžu odpovědět jednotlivě na konkrétní myšlenky, ale velmi rád jsem si to přečetl :)
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  1158. Sure, or early christians.
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  1159. Nice!
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  1160. That truly is an issue.
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  1161. It is just the number in which statistics measuring the reproduction starts., that is all.
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  1162. We would like some of that Texan economic tech boom :D oil also would not hurt
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  1163. I do not disagree with the Amish part or the Haredi part. I do not say in the video that their demographic rise will be a force of good for the US or Israel. I am just observing the reality that is taking place.
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  1164. You are right that the secularisation pressure of the modern society is very significant, but the data shows that in the countries where the secularisation started at first and is most pronounced (France, Netherlands, UK....), there might be a hard-core of people that are immune to the pressure and those kinds of people have the fertility advantage. And also, incredible amounts of people, mostly young men, are disgusted with the current social norms and they seek something to replace it with. But it remains open!
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  1165. Thank you!
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  1166. You sound like an Edward Dutton fan :D
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  1167. @petterbirgersson4489 Climate change is a reality. But the reaction to it on the side of the EU and many Western European countries, for example Germany, is full of hypocrisy and ideology. Instead of building one nuclear power plant after another, Germany is shutting them down, and the EU is very "meh" towards supporting them in the same way as renewables, even though it is basically the only rational way to go. We are gonna ban internal combustion engines and only make EVs charged by coal-burning power plants. Where is the logic in that? We are going to cause deindustrialization in Europe to achieve what exactly in a situation in which the rest of the world is happily increasing their emissions? It is just absurd, and to add to all this there are teenagers glued to the roads believing we will all burn to death.
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  1168. @xSkyWeix Thanks for this insight, and thanks for your praise!
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  1169. Discord nemám, v informacích o kanálu můžeš najít kontaktní email. Pokud chceš, můžeme dát call na Teamsech nebo něco, velmi rád dám diskuzi!
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  1170. @TheSwedishHistorian Thank you so much! You would be welcomed! I have a friend who is an older Swedish guy who lives here, hew is also fed up with Sweden.
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  1171. Thank you!
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  1172.  @teaCupkk  It is not the same, certain rights are missing from it (financial and inheritance related stuff). Now the progressives are hell bent to push through full-scale marriage and the other side wants to compromise, equlize all the rights except those related to child-rearing and have different name for it, for example partnership. There are two reasons why the word marriage is so important for progressives. There is the huge symbolic value, they won't be able to really present and perceive it as their victory unless thes have full-marriage. Thes love to talk about human rights, but they also want to defeat the enemy side very much. And second, it would also mean adoption, since the law that regulates adoptions gives the right to adopt to married couples (the lawmakers did not consider gay marriage at the time). And as was outlined above by Veronika, it has ethymological implications in the Czech language, aw well as in other Slavic languages. The word for marriage is manželství, which is from proto-slavic words for man and woman. So it just sounds strange to people, stranger than in English where marriage does not have this connotation.
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  1173. I never said anything like that.
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  1174. "The biggest issue which most of the people had was with the name for marriage, "manželství", which to me and numerous other gays is something we could get over, the name of the institution doesn't really matter if all the rights are equalised." I mean, we are basically in agreement. I would let civil union with the equalization of all rights except those connected to adoption, which I think deserve separate debate. From the reactions it seems to be that I came out more radical than I intended in the video. What I do not like is that the liberal side is insisting on the word marriage, which would automatically mean the right for adoptions, since the law regulating adoptions gives the right to every married couple (the issue of same-sex marriages was not concerned by the lawmakers). I think it is kind of dishonest way to circumvent the public debate about adoptions, since the liberal side knows it will be harder cookie to sell than just the marriage.
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  1175. I am glad you like it!
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  1176. Thank you for this insight.
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  1177. Will try to get more info for the future videos!
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  1178. @cossackhistorian7425 I agree, it is a big part of the problem.
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  1179. Thank you for this insight!
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  1180. Agreed
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  1181. @petterbirgersson4489 It is a reality. But the reaction to it from the EU and many western European states, for example Germany, is full of ideology. If it was not about ideology but about getting the emissions down, the EU and Germany would be building one nuclear power plant after another. But the Germany is closing them and the EU is very "meh" towards supporting nuclear in the same way as they support renewables, even though renewables will never support the continent as a main energy source. So, we will ban internal combustion engines and replace them with EV's just to charge the EV's by coal electric power plants? I am sorry, but where is the logic in that? And the ideological part is in the fact that the people in Visegrad countries are just parroting these policies without really thinking them through, the same "west does it so we should do it" mentality is applied, even though it does not make any sense.
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  1182. "not sure why respect for minorities should halt us from becoming economically stronger" I never said this though.
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  1183. Thank you!
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  1184. But Czech and Slovak are on a different level of intelligibility, Polish is more removed, even though you can still communicate.
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  1185. Thanks!
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  1186. That would be based AF
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  1187. I will definitely watch it closely!
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  1188. Jo
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  1189. @maariz1998 Thank you for this insight!
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  1190. It is fine, so far people have mocked me for having an alleged Indian accent, so being mocked for having an accent I actually do have is fine with me :D
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  1191.  @Aliens420  Just in case you are speaking about white genocide or the great replacement, that was not what I was talking about at all. I was talking more about the all encompassing neo-marxist obsession with victimhood and oppression that is leading to a potential cultural genocide. No culture that is led to hate itself can survive for long.
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  1192. I think the regions are much too interconnected for that to happen.
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  1193. Thank you for the tip!
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  1194. Yes, to a certain extent that is true. I have my views rooted in my worldview and experience. This video especially is an opinion piece, it is completely fine to disagree. Even though I am using data to support my claims, it is not data science.
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  1195. Thank you!
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  1196. It is a lot about incentives IMO. In the US, if you are not reasonably wealthy, you might go bankrupt due to medical bills for your kid. That is some motivation indeed.
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  1197.  @franekretek4436  I mean, wasn't the whole LGBT free zones stuff in Poland just a hoax propelled by some activist?
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  1198. I did not say anything of the sort though. And nobody is talking about "not having" gay people, whatever that means.
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  1199. I definitely do not think that everyone in the west is wokie, I talk to many westerners that do not like it. But on the institutional level, it is a ideology coming from the west.
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  1200. Thank you! I need to read up more!
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  1201. Thank you for this insight!
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  1202. Thanks!
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  1203. I think that you kind of missed the point. The example of same sex marriage was primarily used to illustrate the stupid kind of argumentation that certain people use. Creating pressure by saying that on the issue of same-sex marriage we are deciding if we want to ally ourselves with Russia (state that most people understandably do not see in a positive way) or with the wealthy, democratic, developed West, is misguiding and manipulative. Gay marriage has nothing to do with foreign policy and geopolitical positioning. I could say that by not having same-sex marriage we our allying ourselves with Italy, Poland, Japan or South Korea, developed democratic countries. And by having same-sex marriage we are allying ourselves with South Africa and Colombia. It is like being a child saying that I need new iPhone or something and then arguing that the reason why i need it is that other kids have it too instead of talking about the merit of the thing itself. And gay marriage has valid arguments going for it. This just isn't one of them. "From the other comments on the "decaying progressive West," it is possible to deduce your political view, which is not neutral. That would be fair if stated and not falsely hidden." I do not really get this point, I am not hiding anything. My political leanings are clearly deducible or openly stated in my videos and I am not trying to play some neutrality card, which is mostly non-existent anyway, since almost anyone who is invested in politics and societal topics has some personal values and agendas.
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  1204. @HeortirtheWoodwarden I agree.
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  1205. I will try to explain my stance on the issue of gay-marriage, since it is rather complex, and there are several ways to look at it. I am not some hard-core anti-gay-marriage activist, and I have thought about the issue quite a lot. I definitely not think that being gay is not correct. So, to begin with, there are two ways to view marriage as an institution. First, it is a form of ritual and legal recognition of the relationship between two people who love each other and want to live with each other. Since it is their private matter, they should be allowed in a liberal society. That is currently prevalent in the West. The second is that marriage is the foundational bedrock of any functioning society, and it has one principal purpose - to create a fitting environment for conceiving and raising children. Now under this second view, it can, by logic, be only allowed for heterosexual couples since only they can biologically conceive. Sure, you might argue that heterosexual couples that can not or do not want to have children can also get married, and that is true. Still, in principle, heterosexual couples can create children while homosexual couples can not. Now with the first definition, the problem is that if marriage is understood as a form of ritual and legal recognition of the relationship of people that love each other and want to live with each other, there are not many arguments to be made against, for example, legalization of polygamy, since why could not more than two people that love each other and live with each other also get this recognition and get married? They are not bothering anyone; it is their private matter. But monogamy is one of the foundations of the success of Western civilization (WEIRDest people in the world - great book about the topic by Joseph Heinrich). So I consider it quite dangerous to tinker with marriage as an institution too much since we usually do not think about the possible long-term consequences of such changes; we are just riding on a wave of progress that feels good. The second point is that the situation is specific in the Czech Republic for two reasons. First is that the word for marriage in Czech is different, it is manželství, and it comes from the proto-Slavic word for man and woman. So it is baked into the word's etymology, which is different in English. Now there is currently a debate about the subject in the Czech parliament; one side wants to legalize gay marriage, other want to have a different name for the institution but otherwise equalize all the rights connected to it (taxes, bureaucratic stuff, common property, heritage, etc.) except for the rights related to raising children (I support this), third side wants to put into the constitution that marriage has to be between man and woman. Now the situation is complicated because if the law calls it marriage, it automatically means that the couples will have the right to adoption since the law about adoption just gives the right to any married couple (the lawmakers did not think about this at the time). But that is an entirely separate issue since the people that want to enact gay marriage constantly repeat that it is just between the two people and will not affect anyone (as you said). Still, they want to push two things at once - marriage and adoption. But with adoption, it is different since that is not about the two people getting married, which arguably really does not affect anyone else, but mainly about the child. Now you might say that being raised by a gay couple is better than an orphanage, and I agree with that. The problem is that in the Czech Republic, the demand for children to adopt far outstrips the supply since many couples can not have children. While orphanages are full, a substantial portion of the children in them is either gypsy, disabled or often both. And, to be frank, most couples want, let's be real, white and healthy baby. So gay couples really could not adopt a baby from an orphanage since there will always be a huge number of heterosexual couples that want to adopt. So the adoption of the children often revolves around surrogate motherhood, which is problematic in many ways since it is often done by very poor mothers, often of migration background, and opens up a lot of additional ethical themes. It might be good to regulate it somehow, but it needs a separate societal debate. That is why I support the proposal to equalize all the rights except adoption and use a different name for this legal relationship. But the proponents, of course, wildly disagree since they also want the adoption, and the word marriage has great symbolic value for them. Then there are two additional things to mention. First is the slippery slope argument. There is a machine of nonprofits, media, and various pressure organizations, often financed by the EU or some liberal think tanks, standing behind the relentless campaign for same-sex marriage. That is, of course, fine; people are free to push their ideas. But when the goal is reached, this machine won't stop. The people are ideologically driven to implement more concepts known from the West, and it is also a profitable business for many people. Thus, as soon as the gay-marriage is legalized, some new goal will be immediately established and pursued with the same fervor, rhetoric, and media pressure. This might sound cynical, but I see this issue as a kind of dam holding other, much more damaging progressive ideas at bay for the moment. And finally, the way in which the proponents of gay marriage are leading the campaign is repulsive to me. The defenders of the "traditional" marriage, often members of the Christian conservative right, are relentlessly attacked and mocked by the media as extremists, far-right, ultraconservatives, and bigots; they are often accused of being connected to Russia (which they are not, and the court proved it). I see it as two legitimate political positions being discussed, both of them with valid arguments to be made for them. But by a very large portion of the media landscape, one of the positions is seen as a medieval barbarity and the other as the default view to have if you want to be a part of a decent society. That pisses me off. Have the decency to at least think about the other side's arguments; they are not some evil clerical demons; they just think about the world in a different, more continual way. Their argumentation is more profound, I would say. And the argumentation, "Are we with Russia, or are we with the West?" would be idiotic, even if I would completely agree with gay marriage. Sorry for the length; I wanted to clarify my position.
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  1206. Thanks!
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  1207. @wazukyan7696 Not anymore.
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  1208. Souhlas.
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  1209. It will come.
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  1210. Thanks!
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  1211. You are most welcomed!
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  1212. @DungeonMarshal It might play a role!
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  1213. @izzyposen2092 Thank you!
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  1214. You are welcome!
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  1215. thanks!
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  1216. Thank you!
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  1217. The best passtime :D
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  1218. Thanks!
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  1219. Thank you!
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  1220. I was so focused on the Hebrew terms that this slipped through :D It is all the more stupid since in Czech, I would actually pronounce Amish the right way, but I said in the "English" way and thus incorrectly.
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  1221. @martin1453 Thank you!
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  1222. Thanks!
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  1223. You are most welcome!
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  1224. The fertility rate for 2023 cannot be calculated yet, the newest data is for 2021 and that is 1.56
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  1225. Thank you! I will think about this idea!
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  1226. I will!
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  1227. Thank you! Well, the Hungarian effort is objectively the most extensive, hence the 5 % of GDP spent. But you are right, I will go over the other states and their effort is separate video!
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  1228. I am gonna look into it.
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  1229. Thank you!
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  1230. @raithherringbone7172 That is truly a dystopian solution.
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  1231. Thank you!
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  1232. I am glad you like it!
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  1233. @Dionaea_floridensis Yes, it will be interesting to watch.
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  1234. I sure hope so!
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  1235. Thank you, I will!
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  1236. @everythingisfine9988 Definitely will do!
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  1237. Will do in time!
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  1238. @parksideevangelicalchurch2886 Thank you for your praise and for your tips, I will implement them!
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  1239. @MasayaShida Yes, the US is on the apex in this regard.
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  1240. Well, without capitalism the population would decline so fast that I wouldn't have time to make a video about it :D
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  1241. I might in the future!
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  1242. Thank you very much!
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  1243. UE? :D
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  1244. Thank you! Superpower 2020
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  1245. Good point!
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  1246. That is a good point.
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  1247. Their time will come again!
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  1248. I plan to do a video about the current political landscape of Visegrad, and in that video I would include this.
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  1249. Indeed.
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  1250. Well, to be honest, one can just compare the amount of Russians in America with the amount of Americans in Russia. While America is not perfect and those concerns might be real, but the immigration is pretty much a one way street.
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  1251. Thank you very much!
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  1252. I actually delete them after every video and then start over :D So it is not that bad :D
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  1253. Thank you!
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  1254. That is surely true, but it is good to keep in mind that there is one crucial aspect differentiating Muslim immigration to the US from that to Europe. You can come to Europe on foot/in a boat from the Muslim world. You have to fly to the US. That acts as a first large preliminary filter, since only certain kinds of people can enter. They have to have the funds to buy the ticket in a first place, which often puts them among the richer social stratas in the muslim world. You mentioned doctors and sure, people that either are doctors or have the cultural capital to become ones surely won't struggle and they would not struggle in Europe either. But 25 years old guy from Pakistan or Africa who shows up in a boat and have absolutely no high-income skills won't become a doctor.
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  1255. Thank you!
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  1256. Thank you for your praise and your insight!
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  1257. I hope you liked it!
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  1258. Thank you for this insight! But there is something very French about him, I especially see the difference between Anglophone thinkers being more down to earth and pragmatical in their work, while continental Europeans are more prone to more abstract and large scale intellectual constructs. This was true also in classic philosophy and such. But Todd is a fascinating thinker, many of his ideas about the relationship of Americans to race are also very interesting, but I decided to not include them since they would be very angering for many people :D
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  1259. Pakistan was of course
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  1260. I am glad someone caught it :D
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  1261. @seneca983 It very well might be!
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  1262. You are right, corrected!
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  1263. thanks!
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  1264. Nicely put.
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  1265. @wessexexplorer Thanks. I agree. The biggest democratic deficit in the EU is not institutional, but psychological. Almost every European knows more about American politics than about politics in random EU country due to the language barrier.
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  1266. It is actually C! But I understand your reasoning!
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  1267. @crusader2112 Thanks!
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  1268. @sampotter4455 Thank you!
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  1269. @bogfrog1404 thank you!
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  1270. It is C :D
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  1271. The problem is that currently sized Europe cannot have common foreign policy. America is in completely different geographic situation. Imagine people fro. Florida really, really hating Cuba and basing their foreign policy on that, People from Texas and California really hating Mexico and basing their foreign policy on that and the northern US states really hating Canada and basing their foreign policy on that.
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  1272. @FOLIPE I understand your point that it may seem rather cheap to compare the EU and USSR. But I just can not help it, since the plans that the EU stubbornly keeps presenting just fails every time and nobody really believe them from the beginning, the parallel just offers itself. And yes, the US has plans, but they are market oriented instead of subvence oriented. In the US, they support electric vehicles by offering tax cuts to people that buy them. In Europe, they will subvence the purchase of the vehicle. This difference in approach is very representative of the difference between the mindset of people governing the US and Europe. As for Asia, you cannot apply the same concepts, since the civilisations are just completely different. What works for China just does not work for Western countries. The anthropological base is different.
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  1273. @zizzyballuba4373 I am not Indian but I am just working on my Indian accent so I can migrate there when the EU collapses and India is finally the superpower.
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  1274. Well, that is an unexpected inspiration :D
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  1275. Díky! Budu!
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  1276. @aymanla471 I am not Polish
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  1277. @lembitmoislane. I agree with the solution, but it does not seem realistic at this point, unfortunately.
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  1278. @Tsar.44 Well, I agree.
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  1279. @duckpotat9818 I would say that there is massive difference between Europe and India since the whole idea of a nation and a nation state was created in Europe and shaped its modern history. It is deeply embedded in the subconsciousness of people.
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  1280. @leme5639 "if your AI is not regulated, you don't trade with the EU. If you don't trade with the EU, you're dead" For how long will this work? In time of GDPR, the EU was over 20% of the world economy. Today, it is 16%. Ten years from now, it might be 12%. At some point, the people actually developing something and not just regulating it will say "fuck them".
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  1281. @tomorrowneverdies567 The issue is psychological lack of legitimacy, not institutional. Sure, it is a form of indirect democracy. She has been approved by people that have been elected. But it is a completely impersonal process. People in Spain/Germany/Finland are not pressuring their government to approve/not-approve her, since they have absolutely no idea who she is or that she is approved at all. But in basically every democracy in the world, members of the executive branch are directly elected. People never voted for her, there were no elections about Věra Jourová.
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  1282. @user-BasedChad I agree.
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  1283. I will fix it!
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  1284. @ant_cosacco1306 Thank you for this insight!
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  1285. Where do I talk about Hungary as an expert? :D
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  1286. Nope, it is the C option. :D
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  1287. hehe :D
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  1288. @Rubinrus Thank you for this insight!
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  1289. Agree.
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  1290. @vger5857 It is a economic powerhouse since it contains countries that were economic powerhouses before the EU was ever a thing. But it has been declining for several decades now and that decline is just gathering pace.
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  1291. Thank you!
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  1292. Beztak :D
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  1293. Rádo se stalo!
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  1294. You are right, corrected!
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  1295. @DJMacX It would very likely be similar for the Balkan nations as for the already accepted post-communist states. A trade-off between investment and EU funds and depopulation.
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  1296. @garyb455 yep, but the EU elites are in hard denial over this.
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  1297. It is actually real and it likely is about promoting gay marriage and female rights TBH :D
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  1298. Thank you very much for your contribution! That is indeed quite an interesting idea. Do you maybe have some sources that could underline these theories? Would gladly look into them!
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  1299. So the cultural Russification of subjugated populations, European or Asian, throughout history is a hoax? They always did it. Why not now?
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  1300. Thank you!
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  1301. That is very true.
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  1302. I sure also hope so!
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  1303. What do you deem as propaganda?
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  1304. Thank you!
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  1305. Good point.
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  1306. Thanks!
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  1307. No, I have not. The number of ethnic Russians among those who declared ethnicity is 81 %. Among the total population, it is 71.7%. Those are statistics from the Russian Federal State Statistics Reserve. I have actually ignored much information about the controversial practices during the census aimed at expanding the number of Russians so that it might be even lower in reality.
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  1308. I agree, what striked you as fascist or racist?
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  1309. It is always coming! :D
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  1310. The source if on Wikipedia and it is Russian Federal Statistic Reserve. I am just believing the Russian government :)
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  1311. Thank you!
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  1312. As Daniel have pointed out, the ties between Russia and Central Asia are relatively firm. The root of the problem is in the deeply distorted demographics of the Russian ethnic Slavic core, which id dying out fast + experiencing huge emmigration. This, with combination with significant immigration from Central Asia, is challenging.
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  1313. Thank you!
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  1314. It is not just rainbow flag though. It is a flag combining gay rainbow with trans colours and people of colour colours. As such it is absolutely great representation of the modern woke movement that is based on perceiving everything through the lenses of oppression and power structures. That is why it can put together gay people, trans people and people of colour, groups that have nothing in common except being perceived as oppressed by the woke ideology.
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  1315. How so? I explained my reasoning in the beginning.
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  1316. Thank you very much!
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  1317.  @marcdenoire5462  I have visited Gdaňsk and Hel peninsula in 2021, it was awesome!
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  1318. Well, while I am also some times annoyed with the unrelenting use of Central Europe, I think that we are still very far from Belarussian ghetto, whatever that even means.
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  1319.  @Frostchris4121  Oh boy. Well, as you said, everybody is entitled to their own ideology/opinion!
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  1320. It is a rather complex issue, but from a wide range of psychological researches, it has been proven that the level of exposure to the efforts of early western church (circa 500-1000 AD) to break the kinship structures had a profound effect on creation of impersonal trust (since in kin-based systems you learn to trust your extended family or a clan, but not strangers), increase opposition to authority (since you are not subordinated to the family patriarch), increases individualism (since you are not acting as a member of a collective clan, but an individual), voluntary association (when clan structures are broken down, people start to associate in guilds, councils, Orders etc.), modern markets creation (when you have to interact with non-kin strangers, norms to regulate trade and simmilar conduct need to be created) and many other aspects of what sow the seeds of creating modern west. These efforts were mostly successful in the western Europe, which then became adherent of western chruch after the Schizm. There is a fascinated book about this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_World But that is not to say that there can not be democracy elsewhere or that all the countries perceived today as western were exposed to this destruction of clan-based structures. For example in Finland, kinship structures remained very strong. But I believe that relatively few coutries are really antropologically western, mainly in northwestern Europe. Even the Visegrad countries are, in my opinion, mostly westernised, but the values ingrained in the Western core are not really deeply rooted in (more than in Orthodox countries though. Same goes for regions as Southern Italy or Southern Spain or Ireland.
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  1321. That is true.
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  1322. I would say that there are exceptions (the oil producing Persian gulf states) and it is also questionable if Japan, South Korea, Singapore and taiwan can be considered ideologically alligned. They are geopolitical allies, but ideologically distinct, IMO.
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  1323. The transition was always going to be painful. But Lithuania is doing quite well now.
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  1324. Thank you! I do have a lot of ideas and I will keep them coming. And have not red that book, but everybody is recommending it to me in the comments, so I will probably have to read it :D
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  1325. Thank you! I am Czech.
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  1326. ŠKODA Auto is the biggest employer. And why is it a problem that Babiš is a large employer?
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  1327. Interesting. Why do you think that Hungary is so different than the other countries?
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  1328. I am glad you agree.
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  1329. Dziękuję bardzo!
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  1330. I am glad you like it!
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  1331. I respectfully disagree.
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  1332.  @blogintonblakley2708  I am saying that communism was the worst regime imaginable, if you want to fight against the climate change.
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  1333. The climate change argument is just false. The eastern bloc countries were just completely devastating the nature with their unrelenting emphasis on heavy industry. The emmisions of CO2 lowered significantly in almost all of the eastern bloc countries after the transition, since the eastern bloc countries did not have the technlogical prowess to use mor eecological ways in industry. Also, in communism all the power was also concentrated in the hands of a few, but instead of at least some meritocracy being applied (the argument that the richest bussinessmen just stole everything is completely delusional, most of them are among the smartest and most hardworking people, even though it often might have been on th edge of the law), it was just bureaucratic decision of the Party.
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  1334. It is a rather complex issue, but from a wide range of psychological researches, it has been proven that the level of exposure to the efforts of early western church (circa 500-1000 AD) to break the kinship structures had a profound effect on creation of impersonal trust (since in kin-based systems you learn to trust your extended family or a clan, but not strangers), increase opposition to authority (since you are not subordinated to the family patriarch), increases individualism (since you are not acting as a member of a collective clan, but an individual), voluntary association (when clan structures are broken down, people start to associate in guilds, councils, Orders etc.), modern markets creation (when you have to interact with non-kin strangers, norms to regulate trade and simmilar conduct need to be created) and many other aspects of what sow the seeds of creating modern west. These efforts were mostly successful in the western Europe, which then became adherent of western chruch after the Schizm. There is a fascinated book about this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_World
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  1335.  @_sayan_roy_  I mean, I have never really hide my disdain for wokeism, it was present in my first video quiote clearly.
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  1336. I am glad you like it!
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  1337. Fair enough!
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  1338. Do we wanna live in theocracy? Also Iran was on a completely different level of socioeconomic development with hugely religious chunks of young rural population.
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  1339. I agree. I just used it as an example that most people can get.
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  1340. Díky! :D
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  1341. Thank you!
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  1342. Well, maybe. I do not really need to be put in a box.
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  1343. Brno born and bred šéfe :D
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  1344. Thank you!
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  1345. Do not lose hope!
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  1346. First Czechoslovak president T.G. Masaryk said that Hungarians are the Germans among Asian people :D So yeah, yo are right.
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  1347. And did Greeks consider themselves Western?
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  1348. Amen.
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  1349. I partially agree, but on the other hand there is the need for the disassociation from Russia.
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  1350. We truly are in between!
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  1351. That is also interesting take, the difference between Bohemia and Moravia.
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  1352. That is a good point.
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  1353. I think it has its validity if you are using more detailed regional labels, but the West-East dichotomy also works.
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  1354. Thank you this insight!
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  1355. That is not true, the difference was growing for hundreds of years before the Industrial revolution.
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  1356. Thank you for this insight!
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  1357. You are welcome!
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  1358. I am trying! :D
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  1359. I am glad to hear that!
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  1360. Thank you!
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  1361.  @yarpen26  You are right, I was answering to like 150 comments and after a while you get really tired and sometimes do not even comprehend it accurately.
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  1362. Thank you! I am glad you like it!
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  1363. The economy of the Dutch strenght would be nice :D
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  1364. In the contemporary consensus, partially yes.
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  1365. Interesting take :D
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  1366. Sure, from the Intermarium perspective those are the core lands.
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  1367. That is the Chinese perspective :D
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  1368. Thank you!
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  1369. The cultural map is not my creation but the work of sociologists.
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  1370. I hope you liked it!
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  1371. Yes, I agree.
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  1372. Pretty good analysis!
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  1373. It definitely plays a role!
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  1374. I know, they are certainly not to be taken as serious opinion leaders.
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  1375. I hope you are wrong, but I am afraid you might be right.
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  1376. Well, I agree that if confronted with such an absurd image of Eastern Europe, one would love to get out of that labeling.
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  1377. I agree!
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  1378. I agree.
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  1379. Davinci Resolve.
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  1380. Thank you!
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  1381. That is the right approach!
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  1382. Congratulations.
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  1383. What would you say that are the characteristic making Latin America non-western?
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  1384. I hope it delivered.
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  1385. Calling Germany Central Europe won´t offend anyone IMO, but as I sais in the video, it is a little incoveniant when discussing current European affairs.
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  1386. I am glad you like it!
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  1387. Thank you!
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  1388. Thank you for this insight!
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  1389. Thank you!
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  1390. Thank you for this insight!
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  1391. Thank you for this insight!
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  1392. Thank you for this insight!
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  1393. Thank you!
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  1394. I am not saying that British Muslims are wrong not to join the military. I am just describing the situation and the contrast with the US. As for the second example regarding freedom of speech, you might find some hypocrisy. Every society has taboos and things that are sacred to it. They will be protected directly by law or society by shaming and attacking the people who are breaking them. And people that question the Holocaust should be shamed and attacked (non-violently) by society.
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  1395. Thank you for watchning!
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  1396. Thank you!
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  1397. I am glad to hear that!
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  1398. I believe you will find it even better!
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  1399. Still, within societies where birth control is prevalent, there are very significant differences in total fertility rate.
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  1400. Thank you!
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  1401. I completely agree.
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  1402. That does not really make a whole lot of sense. There was a census in Poland in 2021. If what you are saying was correct, then after the census, which would get the numbers of young Poles living in Poland right, the total fertility rate would go up, since the statisticians would find out that the number of children in Poland was beared by lower number of women (this exact thing happened in Bulgaria or Moldova, the TFR of Bulgaria went up from 1.5 to 1.8 after census, because they found out that there are much less women of childbearing age). But in Poland, the TFR stayed very low.
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  1403.  @KommentarSpaltenKrieger  Oh, I see. To be honest, I am completely unaware of such tendencies on the internet among the far right circles. And to add to that, I believe that different ethnicities are differently prone to ethnocentrism dute to many factors, cultural and likely genetic, so this is not something exclusive for the Jews. I could be completely wrong about the genetic part, fair enough, but it sure is not an antisemitic angle from my point of view. I consider ethnocentrism to be good and I repeatedly praise Israel for being the only developed country in the world with such a healthy demographics. So I understand the angle from which you are looking at it, but I am just not an antisemite, quite the opposite. I think that Israel is a state that deserves the utmost respect and the contribution of the Jewish nation to the overall achievement of the human spirit is undeniable.
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  1404. I mean, can you elaborate on what part of my statement seems as antisemitism? Because as far as I know, I think I mentioned that the Israel has higher birth rates (even the secular Jewish population) because of the collective experience of nearly being exterminated in the holocaust. I did not presribed it to genetics.
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  1405. That is actually a rather positive surprise for Romania! Many Romanians I talked to were convinced that there would be much less.
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  1406. That is a very interesting thought, I was thinking many times about the possibility of pension system based on the premise of having higher pension when you have more children. It would be good incentive, but at the same time it would be very unfair to highly succesfull people without children, which were paying a whole bunch of taxes their whole lifes. But no solution is perfect.
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  1407. Thank you!
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  1408. Thank you! I believe that human innovation and adaptability can overcome the enviromental barriers and than to try to help the environment by curbing the natural human instinct to breed and to consume and to basically higher its living standards is not realistic. People also often say that certain population level would be ideal and they might even be right from an enviromental point of view, but they usually do not mention that the way from our population level to the reduced one will very likely be pretty apocalyptic, at least in my opinion. Massive reductions in population ain´t usually pretty thing to live through.
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  1409. Thanks! There is a very interesting thought
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  1410. Would you care to elaborate?
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  1411. That is very reductive way of putting it. While I agree that the relationship of men and women in the modern age is a big issue that needs to be further addressed since the contemporary state of affairs is just not working well for anybody, the biggest change stems not from giving women some undeserved rights, but from majority of society doing jobs that are not primarily based around physical strength and endurance and thus men do not have biological advantage. In today´s world, especially the western world, women can basically live life without needing men in it, she can work for a living and even have a child without men (shee just need to obtain the seed somehow). That is creating a very weirld situation when the role of a man in contemporary modernity is very hard to define and men are clearly in a crisis of purpouse. But women are also not happy, since they are drifting away from motherhood which is biologically the purpouse of their life, like it or not. But to take away rights from women in a society in which they work and pay taxes would be just flatly unfair. So it is a complex issue.
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  1412. It is quite possible.
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  1413. Well, I thought it was quite obvious that it was not meant as a direct anology to humans. Rather as a food for thougts. But the thesis that proximity to danger heightens our primal survival instincts, for example the need to procreate, is proven by many researches even with humans.
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  1414. These factors all likely contribute, that is for sure.
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  1415. Bon appetit! :D
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  1416. Good point.
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  1417. Many people think that, but it is actually not true. The TFR of the native populations of France, Sweden, and the UK is very close to the TFR of the countries. And even non-orthodox Jews in Israel have TFR around 3 children per woman, more than Israeli Arabs.
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  1418. Thank you! I did not comment or India, since their demography is mostly stable and I did not really talk about the stable-demographic countries in the video (Latin America, South-East Asia, Turkey etc.)
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  1419. I mentioned the possible deurbanisation when talking about a scenario, in which the demographic crash will bring complete collapse of industrial society in large parts of the world (though I do not think that it will happen). In an preindustial world, vast majority of contemporary large cities would depopulate immediately, because without industrial agriculture and energy production, they would starve a freeze. The urban depopulation would be very fast.
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  1420. Israel is an utterly fascinating state.
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  1421. I agree, that is the conclusion I arrive at in the video.
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  1422. Thank you for the tip!
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  1423. For the difficult.
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  1424. It would not fit into the thumbnail, plain and simple.
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  1425. For the difficult.
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  1426. Thank you!
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  1427. @banto1 That is the evolutionary override I speak about in the video.
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  1428. How is the cheating relevant for the issue at hand though?
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  1429. Díky moc!
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  1430. I agree.
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  1431. Well at this point this video series is finished, but there sure will be other videos regarding similar topics in the future.
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  1432. Well, they are.
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  1433. Thank you! Glad you like it!
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  1434. Thank you very much!
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  1435. Thank you!
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  1436. What precisely do you mean?
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  1437. There is some truth to that.
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  1438. I sure will!
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  1439. It is not about the EU, the member states themselves (Germany, France, UK) did not react in any effective way.
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  1440. Well, it helped Russia tremendously so far.
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  1441. Thank you very much!
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  1442. Thank you very much!
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  1443. @2SSSR2 It will come!
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  1444. Hopefully it did not disappoint!
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  1445. Yes! One of my best friends, who was my best man at my wedding, is of Greek descent. They were mostly leftwingers after the civil war who flew to communist Czechoslovakia.
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  1446. Thank you for this insight! But for the Texas and Ukraine argument, it is not so much about the population size, more about the population structure. That is where the issue is.
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  1447. Make cost of living cheaper - easier said than done though :D
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  1448. @Ussurin Fair enough! :D
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  1449. @obfuscateidentity2329 5 kids? nice, good job!
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  1450. Great to hear that!
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  1451. @theblancmange1265 It is sad.
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  1452. @cossackhistorian7425 Agreed.
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  1453. @michaszostak1105 That is true, but if you judge by their voting base, they are likely still representing the more well-off economically liberal electorate.
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  1454. @hedy9243 Will do!
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  1455. @Slaweniskadela Hopefully it did not disappoint!
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  1456. @xSkyWeix Damn, that is just sad.
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  1457. @indianboy59 I will do Israel and Turkey, we will see about the others.
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  1458. Thanks! I will do Ukraine at some point!
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  1459. @Cicero_de_fato Yes, this is what also happened in all the remaining Visegrad states.
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  1460. Thank you!
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  1461. @-haclong2366 I agree.
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  1462. Thank you! I will!
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  1463. In time, sure!
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  1464. @TheSwedishHistorian Yeah, young people are all online.
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  1465. @AlexanderEM4840 The alternatives are likely worst.
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  1466. @MarcinMoka1 That is very flattering!
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  1467. @xianxiaemperor1438 Will keep it in mind!
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  1468. @erichamilton3373 Yes, that is what I have also read. The money you can make in USA as a foreign professional are in different league than in Germany.
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  1469. Yeah, it is sad.
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  1470. @cinemacats7543 To zní realisticky a umírněně!
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  1471. @PotionSeller721 It is more likely that women were afraid of such side effects and postponed child-bearing until the vaccination ends.
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  1472. @Hession0Drasha In the "corporate/IT/start-up/city" bubble, that is not an issue. In other parts of the economy it is, since many people 40+ do not speak good english.
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  1473. @jhrusa8125 It is kinda scary how right he is on the bigger picture.
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  1474. True.
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  1475. I think that is it relatively feasible for people doing regular jobs (not for miners, firefighters etc.) to work to, let's say, 70, maybe 72. Not much past that.
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  1476. Thank you!
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  1477. Yes, but they still have a lot of time.
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  1478. In what way?
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  1479. Thank you!
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  1480. I agree!
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  1481. Thank you!
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  1482. Well, it can not be ruled out that there will be mass famines, but it is not certain and it is basically impossible to do any projections with this possibility included. Let's hope that there won't be any large famines. As for the wars, it would really need to be a war of apocalyptic, most likely with nuclear or biological weapons, to somehow relevantly influence the population growth.
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  1483. Thank you!
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  1484. Thank you! Well, the projections are just that, projections. They can just keep showing how the situation will look it the current trends continue, but they are not able to predict the change in the trends, which definitely can and will happen.
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  1485. Thank you!
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  1486. Sure, that is very high skilled immigration.
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  1487. Thank you!
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  1488. Thank you!
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  1489. That is precisely the case!
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  1490. I think there might be some brutal cultural backlash against the current work culture that makes it very hard for people to have children and will plead for a more traditional and family oriented system.
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  1491. Thank you!
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  1492. I agree, but it is not concerning just the west. East Asia is in an even worst position and many other countires around the globe are heading there, if the current trends continue.
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  1493. Thank you very much!
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  1494. Thank you!
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  1495. That is an interesting insight, thanks!
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  1496. I understand what you mean. I believe that the development of the eastern part of the continent will be very different. We never experienced such highs, but we thus won´t see such lows, in the relative terms. My next video (after part II. of this series) will be about the future of central and eastern Europe.
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  1497. Thank god Germans have lost.
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  1498. It is true, the memory of communism os still strong.
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  1499. Thanks!
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  1500. As Aragorn have said, there is always hope
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  1501. I am glad you agree!
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  1502. Congratz :D
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  1503. Thank you very much!
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  1504. The leadership is surely subpar.
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  1505.  @niikasd  Thanks!
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  1506. True, but the fact is that for majority of the world, when the world Europe is spoken, people think about the western Europe. I might not like it, but that is the truth.
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  1507. It is quiote possible that it is the case. If the Chinese statistics are really screwed, Chinese demographic downfall will all the more catastrophic.
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  1508. Thank you!
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  1509. It is true that Europe is more equal, but I am talking more about the international competitiveness of the two systems than about living stadnards of each society.
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  1510. Thank you!
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  1511. I am aware of these propositions, however I think this issues is broader and do not include just western Europe, but the whole developed world.
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  1512. I think that customs just does not make sense for a continent that is so dependant on world trade as Europe is.
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  1513. I mean....that is legit critisicm. But I just like the album Stranger.
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  1514. I am glad your family made it!
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  1515. In the purely geopolitical analysis, he is very good.
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  1516. Slovenian empire from Lisbon to Vladivostok.
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  1517. Thank you!
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  1518. Thank you for this insight! I also hope for more cooperation.
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  1519. I am glad you like it! As for the collaboration, at this moment I do not plan any, but if that will change in the future, we definitely can!
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  1520. I hope you are right!
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  1521. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDnK-apZp_U
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  1522. Thanks!
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  1523. That is an important point!
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  1524. Thank you for this insight!
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  1525. That is true, I am just not sure why would Orthodox countries like Bulgaria or Romania necessarily side with Turkey against Russia, if they had to choose.
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  1526. Sparta of Europe.
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  1527. You wrote an article to prove something I am saying in the video. I also concluded that Germany wouldn't try to dominate Eastern Europe militarily. Other than that, we just obviously see the world in a very different way! Cheers!
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  1528. Thank you for your praise and interesting insight!
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  1529. France, most likely.
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  1530. I might!
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  1531. Those are the options indeed.
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  1532. I would say that the conventional wisdom is that they uderperformed.
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  1533. I see you are a Mackinder lover!
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  1534. Why is, in your opinion, Russia mostly dead within the century?
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  1535. Thanks! I am glad you like it. Well, so far I do not have specific video about Hungary planned, there are many subjects I want to tackle, but in the future, why not!
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  1536. I was that this was little bit too obvious, I wanted to outline some less likely scenarios :D
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  1537. Indeed.
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  1538. Thank you very much! I am just getting started!
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  1539. You might try Prisoners of Geography or The tragedy of Great Power Politics!
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  1540. Why not!
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  1541. Next video, should come out around weekend
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  1542. Sorry man, I am aware that it is not ideal, but the videos would be incredibly long if I included all the footnotes in the script and on the other hand I always feel I need to explain something little more accurately to get the point across. Hopefully, when the channel gets bigger I will be able to do long (40+ mins) videos, but so far the shorter videos gets more traction.
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  1543. Yes, those concepts are fairly similar.
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  1544. Thank you very much! Will try to do my next video as soon as possible!
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  1545. Thank you! I am glad you like it!
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  1546. Thank you!
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  1547. Thank you, glad you liked it!
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  1548. Thank you! I hope the audio is better in my newer videos, since I worked on that.
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  1549. Thank you for this insight!
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  1550. The demographic decline is indeed alarming. Check out my videos on demographics if you are interested!
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  1551. It is far more complex than that.
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  1552. Thank you!
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  1553. Thank you!
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  1554. Sure, Czechs are not ideological people, but we also do not like ideology being pushed at us.
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  1555. Thank you very much, I will work on it!
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  1556. Thank you!
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  1557. Thanks!
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  1558. I agree!
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  1559. True.
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  1560. That is highly debatable. I would argue that the greatest hights of western success came long before wokeness and the west, and especially Europe, are now mostly just living of the wealth created by the predecessors. The big demographic and cultural changes conducted by the progressive ideologist are a huge experiment and it is too soon to claim it is successful.
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  1561. Unfortunately, you are correct.
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  1562. Yes, modern woke ideology is heavily influenced by Marxist thoughts!
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  1563. To a certain extent you are right. Finland is an outlier and wealth certainly plays a role. One the other hand, it is not omnipotent. The deep historical cultural reasons matter greatly. Poland or Romania would not be as liberal as Sweden even if they reached the same level of wealth.
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  1564. Very interesting insight!
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  1565. Thanks!
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  1566. Thank you!
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  1567. Thanks for the feedback!
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  1568. Thanks!
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  1569. Thank you!
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  1570. Thank you for this insight!
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  1571. Thank you for your insight!
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  1572. Thank you! I definitely might, but I need to do research first!
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  1573. Thanks!
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  1574. How would you explain it? Genuinely asking.
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  1575. Thank you for this insight!
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  1576. Thanks!
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  1577. Thanks!
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  1578. Thank your for this insight!
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  1579. Thank you! and thank you for your insight!
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  1580. Good for you!
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  1581. Thank you, I will keep it in mind! It is hard for me, I am trying to use the correct English pronunciation and then in a word where I should use the pronunciation I would naturally use in Czech (the Ah-mish is how I would say it), I use the wrong one even though I could have just let it be simple.
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  1582. I would love that!
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  1583. Thank you!
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  1584. What specifically do you mean?
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  1585. Thank you very much!
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  1586. Thank you for your insight! But I have to disagree with your conclusion regarding the nuclear family. https://policytensor.substack.com/p/the-churchs-crusade-against-cousin This is an essay (not too long to read) that is a very nice distillation of why is Todd likely right on this matter and his opponents likely wrong (that is not absolute of course, new findings might be found and change the scientific consensus).
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  1587. Thank you!
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  1588. I will elaborate in the next part of the video.
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  1589. I am glad for that! Even though I hate The Pirate Party :D But we should all be able to have a discussion!
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  1590. What do you mean? Can you elaborate?
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  1591. Can you elaborate on the races? How could they not exist?
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  1592. I will!
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  1593. Thank you for your insight!
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  1594. Thank you!
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  1595. You are not alone ... :D
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  1596. https://policytensor.substack.com/p/the-churchs-crusade-against-cousin Here is a very good essay (not too long to read) that distillates Todd's views and shows why the current scientific findings support his view. It might be wrong of course, but it does not seem like it at this point.
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  1597. Thank you!
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  1598. True.
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  1599. Sweet Home Alabama starts playing in the background.
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  1600. Well, I completely unknowingly made a lot of people laugh with that :D
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  1601. Thanks, will keep that in mind!
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  1602. Fair enough. I now kind of regret that I used the Kyle Rittenhouse example in connection with the word vigilante, since it made people angry and I agree that he does not really fit the term very well and he was defending himself. I will address this in the next part of the video. But on the other hand, if what you are saying is true and the law did nothing, is it not the perfect example of the imperfect monopoly on legitimate violence by the state? Since one would just expect that police won't let rioters or protesters demolish private or public property and the fact that armed citizens have to do it instead is very strange in itself. Why did the law do nothing? And I did not mean it at all as a demeaning "euro" comment about the US. I am also very annoyed by such comments, since they often come from a place of jealousy and envy. But the fact that USA are really the only wealthy developed country in the world where such things happen is just a descriptive truism. I am not judging it, but you won't see anything similar in Europe, developed East Asia, Singapore, Australia, rich Arab gulf states, nowhere. So I thought it was a good example of American uniqueness.
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  1603.  @loathecraft  It is completely fine, I am grateful for these comments since they make me mindful of the mistakes I made. I edited the incorrect part about the clan family structure out of the video, so it is all well!
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  1604. You are, at least partially, right. I again checked the book I was using as a source, and the clan family was indeed brought to the sedentary populations by nomadic conquerors. The sedentary agricultural population was using the patrilineal stem family model, which was made even more dense by the clan structure imposed by the nomads. I will correct myself in a pinned comment, and I thank you for the correction. As for the nuclear family of hunters and gatherers, that is said in the book by Emmanuel Todd, and thus, I will stand behind it for now, at least until I read some book where it is persuasively debunked. I guess that is an anthropological dispute to be solved within the anthropological community.
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  1605. Thank you very much! This is very encouraging!
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  1606. Might be, but I still respect the ordinary Russian/Soviet guys that died while fighting Nazis. Also, while that is correct for WWI, I would say yo are underplaying the Soviet role in WWII. The price paid by blood was enormous. But also fuck them :D They destroyed everything afterwards.
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  1607. Here is a very good essay (not too long to read) that sort of distill why it seems that Emmanuel Todd is right, according to actual scientific understanding!
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  1608. Definitely.
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  1609. Thank you!
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  1610. Thank you! I am from the Czech Republic!
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  1611.  @sanjaykupper7577  Law :D
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  1612. Thank you! And I very well might consider your offer!
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  1613. Thanks for the info, I will change it!
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  1614. Su prostě pasr z Brna, nenaděláš nic :D
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  1615. thank you very much!
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  1616. That is an interesting thought!
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  1617. Thank you!
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  1618. Thank you very much!
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  1619. Hopefully!
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  1620. All right, thanks for that assurance!
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  1621. It is definitely possible! I am aware of the estimates. But even the official data are bad enough to prove the point I am trying to make in this video.
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  1622. Thank you!
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  1623. Thank you!
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  1624. Thank you!!
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  1625. Thank you!
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  1626. I saw it, very good document!
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  1627. Thank you!
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  1628. Thank you very much!
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  1629. Thank you very much!
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  1630. @pacificatoris9307 Thank you!
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  1631. @Winner8501 It is possible, especially because the males and females are getting increasingly diverged in their political views.
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  1632. Thank you!
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  1633. I am not about 40 by a long shot! :D I am in my late 20's. And I am aware of Balkan Odyssey, the videos are very well made and presented, but I just can not bare the communist propaganda. I hate communism.
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  1634. I will watch it!
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  1635. Thank you very much!
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  1636. @juripalka Thank you! I might do a video like that!
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  1637. Thank you!
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  1638. @SebastianLundh1988 Indeed!
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  1639. Thanks!
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  1640. Indeed!
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  1641. I am glad to hear that!
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  1642. Thank you very much!
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  1643. Thank you!
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  1644. @hunorsirko7532 Thank you!
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  1645. @grein545 I am glad you like it! I will definitely continue with these topics!
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  1646. That is likely true!
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  1647. Thank you!
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  1648. Please do so :D It will help the channel :D
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  1649. That is a good one.
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  1650. I am glad you liked it!
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  1651. @opossumboyo Thank you for your praise!
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  1652. @anshulkatare Thank you very much!
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  1653. I uploaded it on Saturday!
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  1654. @bonzaisamurai4072 I sure hope so!
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  1655. @kamikazeblackjack You have to watch that.
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  1656. @tomorrowneverdies567 The problem is that the Israeli solution is not really implementable elsewhere.
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  1657. Thank you very much!
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  1658. Thanks! :D
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  1659. @davidmasaka6547 Thank you!
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  1660. @johanbral5777 Thank you!
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  1661. Well at least they have 2, they reproduced themselves.
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  1662. Thank you! I might!
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  1663. Thank you very much!
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  1664. Thank you very much!
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  1665. Thank you very much!
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  1666. Sorry I have not responded to your comment earlier, but I could not find it between the comments, probably because someone downvoted it. Well, fair enough. Fuck me. But I just wanted to point out that heavy condemnation of any crimes motivated by homophobia by political class is thoroughly welcomed. My problem is with the usage of such murders to morally blackmail politicians to hastily change legal definition of family. Opposition to gay marriage does not equal homophobia. I am gonna ask you, do you think homophobia in country like Slovakia would be reduced it it legalised gay marriage, even though the society do not really identifies with it? The reason why gay people are attacked is caused by homophobia. The sad fact is that many nations around the world are homophobic, for a myriad or reasons. There has been deadly attacks on gay people in the US, where gay marriage is legal and no such attacks in Czechia, where it is not.
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  1667. Bojna Čavoglave is a banger.
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  1668. Interesting. Thanks for this insight.
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  1669. I can not really agree. The promotion of LGBT++ topics diminishes or increases depending on if a Democrat or a Republican is in the White house. It is a partizan issue.
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  1670. Well, it is a little bit more complex. On the economic scale they were etatist and kind of left-wing. But on the cultural front, it was extreme right.
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  1671. Yeah, so it is an international issue.
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  1672. Thank you for the recommendation!
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  1673. True!
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  1674. I mean, I am by no means an expert on this topic since it is likely mostly a scientific issue, but from what I red, it just is not price competitive at all so far. I very much doubt that it could ever be cheaper than grains.
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  1675. I do not think that is feasible in the current societal environment. It will be passed sooner or later.
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  1676. Bojna Čavoglave!
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  1677. Thank you!
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  1678. To include him as my favourite artist in front of The Beatles was obviously a joke. I am aware of the controversy surroudning him connected to Ustaše and everything, I am not endorsing any of that, Ustaše were completely deplorable. But I have to say that I fucking love Bojna Čavoglave, I can not help it, that song just rocks. I listen to it when I need to boost my confidence before something important :D So I just need to separate the art from the artist. His other songs I do not really enjoy.
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  1679. Co je Laschova neotradice?
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  1680. Thanks!
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  1681. Thanks!
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  1682. If it comes to that, then everyone has lost.
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  1683. Thanks!
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  1684. Thank you very much!
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  1685. I just can not shake it off :D
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  1686. Thanks!
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  1687. Thank you so much!
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  1688. Thanks!
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  1689. @Jalu3 I just did the civilisations by Samuel Huntington for the thumbnail, it is not that deep :D
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  1690. Thank you!
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  1691. @nahuelpiguillem2949 Thank you for the insight!
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  1692. @susangoaway I agree.
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  1693. Thank you! I will!
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  1694. Thank you!
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  1695. Thanks!
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  1696. Thanks for the correction
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  1697. @cristofjulun1265 I am not saying we should. But we will. I am afraid we do not know any other way.
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  1698. Very true!
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  1699. @Gorboduc Sure, but that Ireland changed a lot is certain, ideology wise. And some of it is internal.
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  1700. Thank you!
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  1701. @9_9876 LOL
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  1702. @jiminycricket1593 I honestly do not know if this applies on such a microscale :D
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  1703. I am afraid it is so.
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  1704. I hope I would, I can not say it for certain until the test comes, but I hope I would.
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  1705. @Ivan-ll8vf Yes, so far it has been nuts.
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  1706. Thank you for this insight!
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  1707. @JTL1776 I do not mind working with other people, we will see!
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  1708. Thank you so much!!
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  1709. That is true.
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  1710. Thank you very much!
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  1711. E.T. should be scared shitless.
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  1712. Exactly.
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  1713. The demographic content will always be here, but I need some change once in a while :D
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  1714. @TheTruthhasbeenspoken What are you specifically talking about?
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  1715. E.T. should be scared shitless.
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  1716. @ukaszcota8317 I would love that!
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  1717. Thank you!
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  1718. Thank you!
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  1719. Thank you for this insight!
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  1720. I will watch it!
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  1721. Thank you!
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  1722. Thanks for the praise and thanks for the correction!
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  1723. Thanks!
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  1724. Thank you for this insight! Czech nationalists also perceived Catholicism as being connected with the Habsburgs and it is one of the factors contributing to the Czech secularism.
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  1725. Nope, it is a cesspool :D
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  1726. It is the orthodox civilisation in the red
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  1727. Different Youtuber has already done this very well.
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  1728. @effexon I think that the probability of EU disintegrating is much more significant than it becoming military superpower.
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  1729. Yes!
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  1730. @anthonywalker6268 Elaborate please.
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  1731. Thank you!
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  1732. The transition phase was always going to be painful. But Lithuania is doing quiote good now.
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  1733. What do you mean?
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  1734. In this video, I wanted to cover Christianity.
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  1735. Where are you from, if I may ask?
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  1736. I am aware of this, but I find the findings from the Pew research (which I use in the video) to be very solid. They are one of the most appreciated sociological companies and they probably used more sophisticated methods than just self-reporting as in the census. Their research is from 2018, so there likely is some decline in the people considering themselves as christians since them, but not as big. And the majority of the people leaving the christian identification ale secular nominal christians.
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  1737. Thank you!
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  1738. Who do you vote for in Germany, if you do not mind me asking?
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  1739. I agree!
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  1740. Thank you!
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  1741. Could you please elaborate?
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  1742. Thanks!
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  1743. Hopefully it is not gonna be the last!
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  1744. Thank you!
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  1745. Good to hear that.
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  1746. Thank you!
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  1747. Thank you!
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  1748. Thank you!
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  1749. Thanks for the tip!
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  1750. @troo_6656 For me the problem with KDU-ČSL is that they are willing to agree with any EU green deal policy, since they are in the European peoples's party in the EU parliament and also love to redistribute the EU funds to their countryside electorate (completely logical from their point of view).
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  1751. Thank you for this insight!
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  1752.  @vermull19  Very good point!
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  1753. Thank you!
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  1754. I am glad you like it!
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  1755. I am glad you liked it!
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  1756. Thank you!
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  1757. Thanks! I will work on it!
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  1758. @morawiecki5916 Yes, the middle income trap is a fitting term for the situation.
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  1759. Thank you!
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  1760. Cheaper then in Bulgaria?
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  1761. Thank you!
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  1762.  @logbinder6330  In the pinned comment I wrote in length about my perspective on gay marriage. To somehow cut it short: I am for registred partnership (the term might change) with all the legal aspects (health data, inheritance, taxes, etc.) completely equalised. Gay people work and pay taxes and thus should have the right to share their lives with their partners in these aspects. I just would not call it a marriage and I think adoptions and children related aspects of the issue need a separate debate. I do not think this in any way belittles the rights of gay people. It just legally recognises the biological difference between the relationships of people. When I speak about LGBT issues in the video, I am not talking about gay marriage. I am talking about the indoctrination of children with trans-related indoctrination in schools and transitions happening with under-age children without sufficient due diligence (empirically happening in anglo-phone countries), legal anchorage of gender as something different from biological sex, ESG rules pushing private companies to ostentatiously advocate diversity and inclusivity and otherwise facing challenges in getting funding from banks etc. And you might say that it is not related to gay marriage, but it was not the conservative or reactionary side that bundled all of this together. It was the progressive side which always perceives this in a fashion of unstoppable linear progress.
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  1763. It is wrong for homosexuality to be illegal and I would never support anything like that. I also do not think or claim that LGBT people are privileged in any way. And no one is calling for the banning of trans people or gay people. But I also do not think that mindlessly copy-cating everything that western countries do in regards to LGBT or gender issues (that is a very broad and interconnected variety of agendas) is the way to go forward, and I do not even think it is helping the members of the community itself. I am sorry if I have offended you, but I truly do not think anything offensive toward gay people is said in the video. It is much more about the ideologues pushing the agenda than about the gay people themselves. I have no problem with gay people at all. I do not think that different view on the institution off marriage makes me homophobic by default.
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  1764. @xSkyWeix Fair enough :D But from my understanding many Poles are seeing him as at least less unhinged than PiS :D But do not take me wrong, I definitely root for PiS to win in autumn.
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  1765. Thank you!
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  1766. Díky!
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  1767. I will keep it in mind. Thanks for the feedback!
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  1768. Thank you for this insight!
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  1769. @michalmalak13 "I have never heard anyone here in Poland say that we should have gay marriage because that will bring us economically closer to the West" I have never said this in the video though. I mentioned the example of economic development in regard to climate and immigration policies. The example of same sex marriage was used in the context of the dichotomy of Russia vs. West, which is something that certain Czech politician recently have said and what I think is a thoroughly bad argument.
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  1770. What did you perceive as strawmaning?
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  1771. I might!
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  1772. That is interesting, thank you for this insight!
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  1773. Dík vole!
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  1774. I do not veil my bias in any way. I am a conservative person. The reason why you can tell is because I do not hide it at all.
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  1775. @fallingphoenix2341 I agree that Youtube comments are not a good platform for this. I have already answered several people in regards to the issue of gay-marriage, so I will copy paste that here so you can understand my view at least on one of these issues. "I will try to explain my stance on the issue of gay-marriage, since it is rather complex, and there are several ways to look at it. I am not some hard-core anti-gay-marriage activist, and I have thought about the issue quite a lot. So, to begin with, there are two ways to view marriage as an institution. First, it is a form of ritual and legal recognition of the relationship between two people who love each other and want to live with each other. Since it is their private matter, they should be allowed in a liberal society. That is currently prevalent in the West. The second is that marriage is the foundational bedrock of any functioning society, and it has one principal purpose - to create a fitting environment for conceiving and raising children. Now under this second view, it can, by logic, be only allowed for heterosexual couples since only they can biologically conceive. Sure, you might argue that heterosexual couples that can not or do not want to have children can also get married, and that is true. Still, in principle, heterosexual couples can create children while homosexual couples can not. Now with the first definition, the problem is that if marriage is understood as a form of ritual and legal recognition of the relationship of people that love each other and want to live with each other, there are not many arguments to be made against, for example, legalization of polygamy, since why could not more than two people that love each other and live with each other also get this recognition and get married? They are not bothering anyone; it is their private matter. But monogamy is one of the foundations of the success of Western civilization (WEIRDest people in the world - great book about the topic by Joseph Heinrich). So I consider it quite dangerous to tinker with marriage as an institution too much since we usually do not think about the possible long-term consequences of such changes; we are just riding on a wave of progress that feels good. The second point is that the situation is specific in the Czech Republic for two reasons. First is that the word for marriage in Czech is different, it is manželství, and it comes from the proto-Slavic word for man and woman. So it is baked into the word's etymology, which is different in English. Now there is currently a debate about the subject in the Czech parliament; one side wants to legalize gay marriage, other want to have a different name for the institution but otherwise equalize all the rights connected to it (taxes, bureaucratic stuff, common property, heritage, etc.) except for the rights related to raising children (I support this), third side wants to put into the constitution that marriage has to be between man and woman. Now the situation is complicated because if the law calls it marriage, it automatically means that the couples will have the right to adoption since the law about adoption just gives the right to any married couple (the lawmakers did not think about this at the time). But that is an entirely separate issue since the people that want to enact gay marriage constantly repeat that it is just between the two people and will not affect anyone (as you said). Still, they want to push two things at once - marriage and adoption. But with adoption, it is different since that is not about the two people getting married, which arguably really does not affect anyone else, but mainly about the child. Now you might say that being raised by a gay couple is better than an orphanage, and I agree with that. The problem is that in the Czech Republic, the demand for children to adopt far outstrips the supply since many couples can not have children. While orphanages are full, a substantial portion of the children in them is either gypsy, disabled or often both. And, to be frank, most couples want, let's be real, white and healthy baby. So gay couples really could not adopt a baby from an orphanage since there will always be a huge number of heterosexual couples that want to adopt. So the adoption of the children often revolves around surrogate motherhood, which is problematic in many ways since it is often done by very poor mothers, often of migration background, and opens up a lot of additional ethical themes. It might be good to regulate it somehow, but it needs a separate societal debate. That is why I support the proposal to equalize all the rights except adoption and use a different name for this legal relationship. But the proponents, of course, wildly disagree since they also want the adoption, and the word marriage has great symbolic value for them. Then there are two additional things to mention. First is the slippery slope argument. There is a machine of nonprofits, media, and various pressure organizations, often financed by the EU or some liberal think tanks, standing behind the relentless campaign for same-sex marriage. That is, of course, fine; people are free to push their ideas. But when the goal is reached, this machine won't stop. The people are ideologically driven to implement more concepts known from the West, and it is also a profitable business for many people. Thus, as soon as the gay-marriage is legalized, some new goal will be immediately established and pursued with the same fervor, rhetoric, and media pressure. This might sound cynical, but I see this issue as a kind of dam holding other, much more damaging progressive ideas at bay for the moment. And finally, the way in which the proponents of gay marriage are leading the campaign is repulsive to me. The defenders of the "traditional" marriage, often members of the Christian conservative right, are relentlessly attacked and mocked by the media as extremists, far-right, ultraconservatives, and bigots; they are often accused of being connected to Russia (which they are not, and the court proved it). I see it as two legitimate political positions being discussed, both of them with valid arguments to be made for them. But by a very large portion of the media landscape, one of the positions is seen as a medieval barbarity and the other as the default view to have if you want to be a part of a decent society. That pisses me off. Have the decency to at least think about the other side's arguments; they are not some evil clerical demons; they just think about the world in a different, more continual way. Their argumentation is more profound, I would say. And the argumentation, "Are we with Russia, or are we with the West?" would be idiotic, even if I would completely agree with gay marriage. Sorry for the length; I wanted to clarify my position."
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  1776. https://www.blesk.cz/clanek/regiony-brno-brno-zpravy/745192/drag-queen-cetla-detem-v-brne-pohadku-odpurci-porvavali-na-lidi-a-zaklinali-se-bohem.html Drag Queen reading for children in Brno, Czech Republic. Just to illustrate why I used this example.
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  1777. Thank you!
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  1778. That is interesting. What progressive proposals do they push?
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  1779. @farkasabel Are there any results so far?
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  1780. Thank you!
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  1781. I will copy here an answer from another comment in which I try to explain my stance on gay-marriage: "I will try to explain my stance on the issue of gay-marriage, since it is rather complex, and there are several ways to look at it. I am not some hard-core anti-gay-marriage activist, and I have thought about the issue quite a lot. So, to begin with, there are two ways to view marriage as an institution. First, it is a form of ritual and legal recognition of the relationship between two people who love each other and want to live with each other. Since it is their private matter, they should be allowed in a liberal society. That is currently prevalent in the West. The second is that marriage is the foundational bedrock of any functioning society, and it has one principal purpose - to create a fitting environment for conceiving and raising children. Now under this second view, it can, by logic, be only allowed for heterosexual couples since only they can biologically conceive. Sure, you might argue that heterosexual couples that can not or do not want to have children can also get married, and that is true. Still, in principle, heterosexual couples can create children while homosexual couples can not. Now with the first definition, the problem is that if marriage is understood as a form of ritual and legal recognition of the relationship of people that love each other and want to live with each other, there are not many arguments to be made against, for example, legalization of polygamy, since why could not more than two people that love each other and live with each other also get this recognition and get married? They are not bothering anyone; it is their private matter. But monogamy is one of the foundations of the success of Western civilization (WEIRDest people in the world - great book about the topic by Joseph Heinrich). So I consider it quite dangerous to tinker with marriage as an institution too much since we usually do not think about the possible long-term consequences of such changes; we are just riding on a wave of progress that feels good. The second point is that the situation is specific in the Czech Republic for two reasons. First is that the word for marriage in Czech is different, it is manželství, and it comes from the proto-Slavic word for man and woman. So it is baked into the word's etymology, which is different in English. Now there is currently a debate about the subject in the Czech parliament; one side wants to legalize gay marriage, other want to have a different name for the institution but otherwise equalize all the rights connected to it (taxes, bureaucratic stuff, common property, heritage, etc.) except for the rights related to raising children (I support this), third side wants to put into the constitution that marriage has to be between man and woman. Now the situation is complicated because if the law calls it marriage, it automatically means that the couples will have the right to adoption since the law about adoption just gives the right to any married couple (the lawmakers did not think about this at the time). But that is an entirely separate issue since the people that want to enact gay marriage constantly repeat that it is just between the two people and will not affect anyone (as you said). Still, they want to push two things at once - marriage and adoption. But with adoption, it is different since that is not about the two people getting married, which arguably really does not affect anyone else, but mainly about the child. Now you might say that being raised by a gay couple is better than an orphanage, and I agree with that. The problem is that in the Czech Republic, the demand for children to adopt far outstrips the supply since many couples can not have children. While orphanages are full, a substantial portion of the children in them is either gypsy, disabled or often both. And, to be frank, most couples want, let's be real, white and healthy baby. So gay couples really could not adopt a baby from an orphanage since there will always be a huge number of heterosexual couples that want to adopt. So the adoption of the children often revolves around surrogate motherhood, which is problematic in many ways since it is often done by very poor mothers, often of migration background, and opens up a lot of additional ethical themes. It might be good to regulate it somehow, but it needs a separate societal debate. That is why I support the proposal to equalize all the rights except adoption and use a different name for this legal relationship. But the proponents, of course, wildly disagree since they also want the adoption, and the word marriage has great symbolic value for them. Then there are two additional things to mention. First is the slippery slope argument. There is a machine of nonprofits, media, and various pressure organizations, often financed by the EU or some liberal think tanks, standing behind the relentless campaign for same-sex marriage. That is, of course, fine; people are free to push their ideas. But when the goal is reached, this machine won't stop. The people are ideologically driven to implement more concepts known from the West, and it is also a profitable business for many people. Thus, as soon as the gay-marriage is legalized, some new goal will be immediately established and pursued with the same fervor, rhetoric, and media pressure. This might sound cynical, but I see this issue as a kind of dam holding other, much more damaging progressive ideas at bay for the moment. And finally, the way in which the proponents of gay marriage are leading the campaign is repulsive to me. The defenders of the "traditional" marriage, often members of the Christian conservative right, are relentlessly attacked and mocked by the media as extremists, far-right, ultraconservatives, and bigots; they are often accused of being connected to Russia (which they are not, and the court proved it). I see it as two legitimate political positions being discussed, both of them with valid arguments to be made for them. But by a very large portion of the media landscape, one of the positions is seen as a medieval barbarity and the other as the default view to have if you want to be a part of a decent society. That pisses me off. Have the decency to at least think about the other side's arguments; they are not some evil clerical demons; they just think about the world in a different, more continual way. Their argumentation is more profound, I would say. And the argumentation, "Are we with Russia, or are we with the West?" would be idiotic, even if I would completely agree with gay marriage. Sorry for the length; I wanted to clarify my position."
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  1782. Thank you!
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  1783. Thank you!
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  1784. Thank you!
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  1785.  @Aliens420  Can you specify?
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  1786. What conspiracy theory do you mean?
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  1787. @xSkyWeix Fair enough :D I get your point.
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  1788. Thank you!
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  1789. Thanks!
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  1790. Thank you for the tip! I need to read up more!
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  1791. Thank you!
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  1792. Thank you so much!
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  1793. I agree.
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  1794. Thanks!
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  1795. Hopefully it will get better.
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  1796. Based comment.
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  1797. Thank you for this insight! I mostly agree.
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  1798. @jakubladman5113 "I don't know how same sex marriage interferes with economic success, either negatively or positively. This argument makes no sense for me. " I did not said that same sex marriage interferes with economic success though. I mentioned the example of economy in regards to climate and immigration policies. The example of same-sex marriage was used in regards to the civilisational dichotomy presented by certain Czech politicians, putting it as a choice between being connected with Russia or The West.
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  1799. Thank you for this insight and the reading tip.
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  1800. I mean, I am not scientist or an academic. My videos does not need to hold up under academic level of scrutiny. It is interpretation of the world how I see it, someone might agree with it, others will not and that is fine. Nobody will cite my videos in their dissertation. This is still entertainment. That does not mean that I do not believe what I am saying, but I am not claiming that it is some holy truth.
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  1801. Thank you!
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  1802. Thank you!
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  1803. Thank you very much!
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  1804.  @Hildigis  I explained my position towards the same-sex marriage in the pinned comment in depth. Let's agree to disagree I guees.
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  1805. Thank you very much!
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  1806. @Gemer9094 Díky!
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  1807. Good to know I am not the only one :D
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  1808. Thanks!
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  1809. Thank you for this insight!
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  1810. It sure is!
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  1811. Thank you!
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  1812. Thanks!
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  1813. Thank you!
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  1814. Thank you very much! I will be in touch!
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  1815. Thank you!
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  1816. Thank you very much!
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  1817. I am glad you like it!
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  1818. @EconGun Thank you!
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  1819. Vast majority of the used data is from publicly usable sources like Wikipedia (where the sources are mostly the statistical data published by the countries), WorldBank, Statista, OECD and so on.
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  1820. Thanks!
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  1821. Thank you!
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  1822. Thank you!
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  1823. Thank you for this insight!
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  1824. @istvanpeterkovacs730 I mean, it is good not to overplay the achievements. But I just have to appreciate the effort.
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  1825. Agreed.
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  1826. Thank you very much!
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  1827. Thank you! I will do Balkans in the future!
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  1828. That is a fun fact!
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  1829. @andrewrogers3067 Very good idea, I will think about that!
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  1830. Thank you!
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  1831. @SweBeach2023 Thank you!
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  1832. @vincenttayelrand Thank you!
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  1833. Thank you!
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  1834. @helsinkianon Will do!
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  1835. @JarinCOD I get the sentiment, but I just can't vote for SPD. Their economic policies are just state bankruptcy with some extra steps, even though I might agree on some of the cultural topics.
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  1836. @istvanpeterkovacs730 Yes, the very wealthy city states like Singapore are highly specific.
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  1837. Sem rád že se líbí!
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  1838. @JSK010 Yes, sooner or later they will become elderly themselves.
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  1839. @matheenarif8645 Thank your for this insight!
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  1840. @fragdoch-nicht1290 That is very utopian vision.
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  1841. It is neither. Even secular Jews born in Israel have replacement level fertility far above the level of their peers in other developed countries.
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  1842. @Just_Some_Guy_97 Thank you! I highly appreciate it!
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  1843. That is a good point!
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  1844. @hawk0485 I agree.
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  1845. Thank you very much!
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  1846. Thank you very much!
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  1847. Thank you very much!
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  1848. Thank you very much!!
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  1849. Their time will come again!
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  1850. I have to read more on Brazil, but then, sure!
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  1851. https://echo24.cz/a/Sc4Tk/rittenhouse-a-beznadejne-rozdelene-spojene-staty This is a Czech Conservative magazine with an article about the case. https://denikn.cz/429481/mladistvy-strelec-z-wisconsinu-se-stal-hrdinou-ultraprave-sceny-i-zastancu-drzeni-zbrani-kolik-deti-tez-zatouzi-po-chvilich-slavy/ This is Czech Liberal/Progressive newspaper with an article about the subject. https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/tema/739317-kyle-rittenhouse This is an article from the Czech public/state TV webpage. If you are a person interested in politics, you knew about it. And I do not use Twitter. But it is likely too low IQ for you.
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  1852. Nope :D
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  1853. Thank you!
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  1854. I am glad to hear that! It is incredibly interesting, Emmanuel Todd is truly thinking outside of the box.
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  1855. Thank you!
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  1856. Thank you!
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  1857. Thank you!
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  1858. Well, it is hard to be grateful for being better of than Africans when you are visibly the least-well of large group in your own country. African-Americans are not Africans, they are American.
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  1859. In the future, sure!
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  1860. This is truly important distinction.
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  1861. For sure!
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  1862. Progress have sure been made!
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  1863. Thank you!
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  1864. Thank you so much!
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  1865. But don't you think that ancestors of latinos (often with some degree of European ancestry) and white people won't be significantly identifying with the White majority?
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  1866. Precisely.
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  1867. Thank you!
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  1868. Good point.
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  1869. I also heard that "native" Black Americans are often hostile to the newcomers from Africa or Caribbean, do you have such experience?
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  1870. Thank you! To me it is not frustrating, on the contrary, extremely interesting!
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  1871. Thank you!
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  1872. Thanks!
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  1873. Thank you very much!
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  1874. Thank you very much!
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  1875. It would not. Corrupted countries are corrupted because of the people living there. It is not like the corrupt politicians are some separate race of corruptoids, they are representative of the nations. If some country has inherent corruption problems, no institutional change will resolve it. I do not mean this as a jab against the people from Balkans, we also have a lot of corruption in Czechia. But I am always very skeptical towards people claiming that doing "XYZ" will resolve corruption. It won't. You have to always look at how the ordinary people behave. You have people saying they hate corrupted politicians, but then they obviously do not mind participating in small scale corruption on daily bases to get by. In Sweden or Finland, ordinary people behave differently and so do the politicians.
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  1876. @garyb455 I agree, I am always frustrated that people do not see this.
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  1877. @FOLIPE There are theoretical frameworks that work in theory, but they are not usable in reality. This would never be approved.
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  1878. I am gonna make that right, sorry :D
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  1879. @oleksandrbyelyenko435 I can mostly understand, I just highly disagree.
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  1880. I will work on that!
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  1881. thanks!
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  1882. YOu are the only one who guessed it correctly :D
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  1883. Thank you!
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  1884. @Duck-wc9de German central bankers by definition do not have the best interest of Greek people as their priority.
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  1885. @MarcinMaczeta I certainly did not!
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  1886. It has to be the Youtube algo not liking your comment for some reason. I do not delete anything.
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  1887. thanks!
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  1888. Thank you!
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  1889. Thank you for this insight!
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  1890. Yeah, it is ridiculous.
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  1891. @georgios_5342 "but I think there is a lot of value in a European alliance", sure that is without any debate.
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  1892. Thank you!
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  1893. Thank you!
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  1894. Maybe I just lack imagination.
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  1895. The problem is that we are completely economically integrated with Germany. If there are any blocks being created and economic considerations are to be applied, which they have to be, it is very hard to imagine the Visegrad countries not being in block with Germany.
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  1896. 1) Where would you get the electricity? 2) Yep. But ruining our economy while the rest of the world keeps spiting out coal plants does not help anything. 3) Except it is not possible to have a renewables based energetic system, it opposes the laws of physics. They are fine complementation of fossil/nuclear sources. 4) Agree. 5) Yeah, maybe one tenth of those lost due to deindustrialization.
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  1897. @andrewrogers3067 Not particularly IMO. The European continent would be interlinked by trade even without the EU, that is just a geographic given. If you are depending on trade with country that is ageing massively, it will likely hurt you. EU is deepening the trade ties even more, but that is actually one of the good things about it.
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  1898. Thank you!
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  1899. I agree.
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  1900. @tancreddehauteville764 I mostly agree.
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  1901. @florianmaier104 economic and political anchorage in the west + economic development. The EU has also changed a lot since we got in.
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  1902. Truism.
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  1903. I agree completely. It is depressing.
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  1904. @xdlol59 Very well put.
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  1905. @vinfacts11 Based idea, unfortunately contradicting economic reality at this moment. Most of the post-communist countries are completely economically integrated with Germany at this point.
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  1906. I agree.
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  1907. Thank you!
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  1908. That is incorrect. In the last 30 years, the EU had shrunk from over 25% to 16% and is shrinking further, while the US economy is still around 25% (as it had been). Sure, they have shrunk since the 1950 peak, but they are holding up much better. I mean, the whole digital revolution supercharging the world economy mostly completely bypassed Europe. We are here communicating on US/Asia made laptop/computer/tablet/smartphone, on American web (Youtube) and the coming AI revolution is the same story.
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  1909. He did :D
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  1910. Není zač!
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  1911.  @zivojinzuti  I actually made a discord, but did not really start to make anything of it yet :D
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  1912. Bojna Čavoglave is a hell of a banger.
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  1913. Thanks! As for the European army, I think it is a no-go.
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  1914. thanks!
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  1915. I will work on that sorry!
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  1916. @leoborros I agree.
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  1917. Thank you!
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  1918. @ParkBURST Thanks! Care to elaborate on the leftwings perspective?
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  1919. @gabrielv5285 I mostly agree!
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  1920. Thank you!
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  1921. I am not technologically educated enough to rationally evaluate this.
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  1922. It is the C :D
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  1923. I am not able to evaluate the quality of the software, but I hope you are right!
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  1924.  @tomorrowneverdies567  Fair point. But I vote for parties that then put people to the position that is representing the values I voted for.
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  1925. I wish :D
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  1926. I am not able to evaluate the quality of software, but I hope you are right :D
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  1927. @Shroud83 I agree.
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  1928. Most content about the EU on youtube is EU federalists praising bike lanes LOL yes :D
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  1929. :D
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  1930. Next video will be on German demographics, all right? :D
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  1931. Damn, this is bad.
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  1932. It is fair to acknowledge that UK is in completely different spot than any continental EU country, especially the smaller ones.
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  1933. Thank you very much!
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  1934. Your American perspective is correct.
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  1935. Thank you very much!
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  1936. @ukasz6310 Thank you for this insight!
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  1937. The answer is C :D
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  1938. Oh, we screw it ourselves.
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  1939. You are right :D
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  1940. It is not! :D it is the C option
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  1941. In Czech Republic we have an ongoing issue with politicians implementing EU regulations and making them even more strict that they could have been and then blaming the EU. It is frustrating :D
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  1942. Not cool.
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  1943. Slovak politics are a hell of a ride.
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  1944. Tell me :D
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  1945. I agree.
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  1946. Thank you! I would say WIAH does a lot of research, but he is more into the macro-stuff, I tend to get into the boring details more :D
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  1947. @jellybean3141 I agree
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  1948. I will sorry :D
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  1949. And more than that, when you look at the number of people declaring Russian ethnicity, it went from 111 million in 2010 to 105 million in 2021. That nicely correlates with the number of surplus deaths (1.5 million) + emigration (cca 5 million, if we are being conservative). Sure, not everyone who died was ethnically Russian and not everyone who left was ethnically Russian, but a significant majority was. I do not know how you can think that the number of ethnic Russians within Russia can possibly be stable 80%. It is not possible.
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  1950. I mean, when you look at the data, it is fairly clear. Since the 2002 census, the number of Russians among those who declared ethnicity is fairly stable, 80%. In 2002, the number of Russians in the overall population was almost identical to the number among those who declared ethnicity (79.8%). But in the two censuses since that (2010 and 2021), the number of Russians among those who declared ethnicity is stable while their number among the general population is decreasing significantly. How could you believe that the 80% is closer to reality, when it is in fact mathematically impossible for that to be the case (emigration, immigration, natural population decrease)? Just explain it to me please.
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  1951. I mean, I can not really manipulate the numbers put out by Russian government. There were 1.5 million more deaths than births in Russia between 2010-2020 (the decade between the censuses). At the same time, the population of Russia increased by almost 4 million people, purely by immigration, and millions of Russians emigrated. Tell me, how it is mathematically possible for the number of ethnic Russians within Russia to stay stable? It is just not.
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  1952. https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/09/23/russia-partial-military-mobilization-ethnic-minorities/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/14/russia-minorities-putin-partial-mobilization/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/09/27/ethnic-minorities-hit-hardest-by-russias-mobilization-activists-say-a78879 https://www.ft.com/content/ae06c532-e1ff-488a-b77c-cb93422d3dd7 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-mobilization-ethnic-minorities-buryat-1.6605501 https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/10/25/russia-putin-is-using-ethnic-minorities-to-fight-in-ukraine https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/23/russia-mobilization-minorities-ukraine-war/ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ethnic-minorities-independence-ukraine-war/32210542.html https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220930-danger-to-the-regime-russia-faces-ethnic-minority-anti-mobilisation-protests https://www.molfar.global/en-blog/national-minorities-of-russia https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-18 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-04/vladimir-putin-mobilisation-targeting-ethnic-minorites/101486642 Sure, you could say that it is all just western propaganda. But it is largely backed up by the voices of the minority leaders from the regions, for example Tuva. As for the comment about the value of human life, people (subjects, comrades, citizens) living in different variations of Russian state have always been treated with much less regard for their lives than in the west. When you take this into account, you could even probably say that Russian living in Germany or the US, with citizenship, is treated better than Russian living in Russia, especially where basic citizen rights are considered (culturally, it might be different).
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  1953. Thank you!
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  1954. Not really countries as such, but I witnessed many people from Western Europe using examples of changing balance of different ethnicities within Russia as a marker of coming Russian problems even though the same people might often deny same issues within their countries. I wanted to show this double standard.
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  1955. Thank you very much!
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  1956. No, I have not. The number of ethnic Russians among those who declared ethnicity is 81 %. Among the total population, it is 71.7%. Those are statistics from the Russian Federal State Statistics Reserve. I have actually ignored much information about the controversial practices during the census aimed at expanding the number of Russians so that it might be even lower in reality.
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  1957. If you go through my channel, I did a video on the impacts of immigration on Western Europe. I never did say that it is a specific issue for Russia.
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  1958. Thank you!
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  1959. Thank you!
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  1960. Thank you! The Patreon is coming!
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  1961. Thanks!
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  1962. Thank you!
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  1963. It is on the wikipedia page about the Ukrainian refugee crisis after the war. Those are likely estimates, but why not use them.
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  1964. Thank you!
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  1965. Thank you!
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  1966. On the one hand, you are right. On the other hand, Russian state experienced this situation once in its history, during the Soviet period. And the Soviet union did disintegrate.
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  1967. I do not agree at all. I do not see the peoples of Central Asia or the Caucasus as some barbaric hord. They are subjugated peoples, same as Poles or Balts. If some state was behaving as a barbaric horde towards Eastern Europe, it was Russia. It is painfully obvious that Russian civilisation is different from most of Europe, even if we look similar. Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok is just a ploy for the deal between France and Russia on dominating Europe together. No thanks.
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  1968. Thanks!
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  1969. Very good point.
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  1970. Thank you!
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  1971. What I have said that you found homophobic or racist?
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  1972. Thank you!
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  1973. What do you mean? I talk about this Romania in this one as well as in other videos.
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  1974. Thanks for this insight.
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  1975. Thank you!
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  1976. Thanks your the food for thoughts!
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  1977. Indeed!
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  1978. Very interesting insight! And I would say that there is tourist exchange between V4 tbh, there are loads of Polish tourists in Prague and almost everyone I know visited Krakow or Budapest.
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  1979. That is likely the most common perception.
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  1980. Thank you! I Will!
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  1981. It is not about the Orthodox church not being suitable for democracy or the western church being fit for it as such. It is a rather complex issue, but from a wide range of psychological researches, it has been proven that the level of exposure to the efforts of early western church (circa 500-1000 AD) to break the kinship structures had a profound effect on creation of impersonal trust (since in kin-based systems you learn to trust your extended family or a clan, but not strangers), increase opposition to authority (since you are not subordinated to the family patriarch), increases individualism (since you are not acting as a member of a collective clan, but an individual), voluntary association (when clan structures are broken down, people start to associate in guilds, councils, Orders etc.), modern markets creation (when you have to interact with non-kin strangers, norms to regulate trade and simmilar conduct need to be created) and many other aspects of what sow the seeds of creating modern west. These efforts were mostly successful in the western Europe, which then became adherent of western chruch after the Schizm. There is a fascinated book about this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_World But that is not to say that there can not be democracy elsewhere or that all the countries perceived today as western were exposed to this destruction of clan-based structures. For example in Finland, kinship structures remained very strong. But I believe that relatively few coutries are really antropologically western and suited for democracy, mainly in northwestern Europe and the Anglosphere. Even the Visegrad countries are, in my opinion, mostly westernised, but the values ingrained in the Western core are not really deeply rooted in (more than in Orthodox countries though. Same goes for regions as Southern Italy or Southern Spain or Ireland.
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  1982. Díky moc!
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  1983. I agree.
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  1984. Well, the living standards in Germany will just stay hugher, that is a fact. But the things certainly have gotten better in Poland.
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  1985. Well, I am afraid majority of people is not familiar with the Intermarium.
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  1986. Since this video was created kind of unexpectedly, I did not deal with all the arguments that are often used against capitalism. Do you mean western companies hiring Eastern Europeans in Eastern Europe or Eastern Europeans working in the west? " drop in living standards in Eastern Europe"- In the countries that successfully transitined, there was inevitably going to be a drop in living standards. However, this drop was relatively shortlived and now things are much better. "dismantling of socialist industries by western capital and government"- The socialist industries were mostly completely uncompetitive in the market environment. They made sense only in the absurd bubble of socialist economy. where you made stuff to achieve the golas from the 5-year plane. But the stuff made was not really wanted or neede by the people. And thing that people really wanted, like a car or a wide variety of consumer goods, were unable and you waited 5 years before you maybe got a car (only one type was available, you could maybe chose a colour, if you knew the car guy). Even a relatively poorer family can get things like tropical fruits relatively regularly now (let´s say weekly or couple times a month) and own a computer or a smarthpone. During communism, tropical fruits were a hot merchandise that people stood lines to get and it was available mostly before christmass. And domestic industry in most communist countries did not even came close to mass manufacturing such goods as a computer.
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  1987. I would say it still is the best way of comparing countries, out of all the imperfcet ones.
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  1988. I don't see it this way. It has nothing to do with skin color and everything to do with anthropological and psycho-cultural historical reasons. Democracy is a highly peculiar system developed in particular circumstances of the Western European social environment. There are deep psychological reasons why democracy has organically grown in North-western Europe. Those historical processes can not be supplemented by a couple of years or decades of institution building. We now live in a world where democracy is somewhat of a prerequisite for belonging to the Western civilizational and economic system, which is why many countries have become democratic. Still, very few will remain democratic after this period ends, and democracy won't be culturally required to join the international US-led system. That includes almost all of the countries that became democratic in the period after WWII (Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Central, and Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, and likely even Germany and Austria). Countries that were democratic before are mostly anthropologically fit for democracy and will likely remain democratic in the long run (Anglosphere, France, Netherlands, Scandinavia, and such.). The biggest misconception is that democracy universally equals good. That is why people accuse me of racism or prejudice when I mention that Muslim nations are mostly not a good fit for democracy (there is variation even among Muslim countries). But I do not see it that way at all. Democracy is not some god-given universal good. It is an excellent system for populations that are fit for it in anthropological and psycho-cultural ways. For many countries, attempting to democratize them was very harmful (Iraq, Afghanistan, and others). In the history of humankind, big societies (states, empires, etc.) run democratically are and will remain a tiny minority in the long run.
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  1989. What do you mean?
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  1990. Not allowed to join the EU?
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  1991. Thanks!
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  1992. To si piš :D
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  1993. Glad to hear that!
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  1994. Thank you!
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  1995. Thank you for this insight, I will try to asnwer at least partially. GDP per capita is not a perfect metric, but you have to use some metric to compare countries and I do not know if there is a more objective one, likely not. Under socialism, everything slowly eroded and rotted. I truly believe that the Churchill´s bonmot "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." is the simplest and most accurate explanation of the issue. While there was a betterment of the living standards of the poorest classes in the first decades of communism (especially in the countries where massive industrialisation of former agrarian societies took place) when the massive redistribution of wealth from the wealthier to the poorer took place, after the best and brightest loose the material incentive to work hard and be innovative, everythings just slowly start to slack and decay. You then slowly lost the base from which to extract the wealth to redistribute. In Czechoslovakia, it was a clear line of decline of the innovative potential and technological advancement of the industry. So, in socialism, you might get a doctor in every village, but his equipment, level of education, motivaton and overall standards will just inevitably decay lower and lower as the socialism continues. The shock therapy was IMO necessary because of one main reason. The transition to capitalism was inevitably going to bring a period of inconvenience for most people. If you would slowly transition, the people would very soon started to vote for rolling back of the measures, since they would feel the bite of the capitalism´s more painful aspects. But countries that choose this path (Romania, Bulgaria) mostly just wasted a decade economically before getting on a growth path. Corruption is an issue and it will remain one, but is is getting better.
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  1996. I sure hope so!
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  1997. Well, if incorporating all the relevant inputs, material conditions included, in the analysis is leftist, then okay.
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  1998. Yes, Greece is very simmilar to the rest of Eastern Europe in this regard.
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  1999. Why?
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  2000. Thanks!
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  2001. Thank you for this insight.
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  2002. Sure.
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  2003. Paráda!
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  2004. Danke!
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  2005. Díky! :D
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  2006. Well, I do not know how he would like the idea of half of his beloved prussia being Poland now :D
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  2007. I agree that people had unreal expectations from the transition, since many people believed that they will live the same lives as before, just with much higher living standards. But that was unrealistic. Everything has a price.
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  2008. I am not deterministic, I am just saying that one should modify the expectations before calling the transformation a failure. I think that EE transformation was successful, countries like Czechia or Estonia are not far from South Korea or Taiwan economically.
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  2009. I am glad you like it!
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  2010. But the fertility of natives also never went to levels around 1.3 children per woman common in Germany, Italy or Japan.
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  2011. Very interesting insight!
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  2012. Very interesting insight!
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  2013. Thank you very much!
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  2014. If it is enough for you, then good for you!
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  2015. Thank you!
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  2016. Thank you very much!
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  2017. Thank you very much!
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  2018. Thank you for this insight.
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  2019. Thank you!
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  2020. As I say in the video, the term has undeniable validity. But it is also understandable to see us as Eastern Europe from the point of Westerners.
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  2021. That is the most common view.
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  2022. I do not think that being part of the Holy Roman Empire carries as much weight as people often prescribe to it.
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  2023. There is a problem with the Haplogroups, for example South Slavic haplogroup is different than the "nortH Slavic haplogroup.
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  2024. Could you please elaborate a little bit? What kind of experience Latin America has with being obsessed with decadence? I am genuinely interested.
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  2025. Thank you!
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  2026. In which way?
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  2027. My newest video will piss you off :D
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  2028. It is based on the sociological survey researching the values of people.
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  2029. Might be.
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  2030. IMO East Central is the best.
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  2031. I agree with all the points.
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  2032. I am flattered! And I am sure you will finish all your uni duties!
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  2033. Thank you very much!
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  2034. Thank you!
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  2035. Thank you!
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  2036. Well, the first part is not really true. The term Eastern Europe was coined during the enlightenment period. I would say that only Australia is a western country, out of the mentioned.
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  2037. I agree!
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  2038. I think that the labels coexist, if you are using the East-West dichotomy, Eastern Europe is legit. If we are using more detailed divisions, Central is legit.
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  2039. Lol :D
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  2040. Thank you very much guys! This surely makes me wanna continue!
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  2041. I am glad to hear that!
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  2042. Thank you!
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  2043. But these terms are much more cultural and political than geographic.
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  2044. I am glad you find it interesting!
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  2045. That is true.
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  2046. Amen.
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  2047. Díky moc!
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  2048. Poland is the only Eastern European country? :D
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  2049. Thank you!
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  2050. That is true.
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  2051. I wonder about that too.
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  2052. Thank you!
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  2053. I do not like playing the victim card + the fact that we are white does not make it legit in the eyes of the westerners.
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  2054. I agree, I think that the two terms coexsit next to each other. If one uses broad dichotomy -western and eastern, we are eastern. If one goes deeper, we are central. Both is fine with me, it is contextual.
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  2055. Not even FInland?
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  2056. The point is to a large extent the disassociation from Russia.
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  2057. I agree!
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  2058. That is an interesting take!
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  2059. Good for you!
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  2060. What do you mean?
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  2061. Thanks!!
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  2062. Where are you from and what do you perceive as the signs of this decline, If I might ask?
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  2063. I am glad to hear that!
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  2064. That is good!
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  2065. Thank you for your praise and your insight! My experience is the same.
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  2066. I agree!
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  2067. That is true.
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  2068. Dik šéfe.
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  2069. True.
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  2070. The East-Central term is probably the best one of the somewhat widely used ones.
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  2071. Best possible explanation.
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  2072. I agree.
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  2073. Thank you!
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  2074. :D
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  2075. I would say that Israel is a state sui generis. Very very hard to put in a box.
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  2076. Somebody said it :D
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  2077. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCQLL9QG9q0&ab_channel=DarkF444
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  2078. Můžete trochu rozvést, co ve videu Vás rozčílilo?
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  2079. Thank you!
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  2080. Where are you from brother?
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  2081. Thank you!
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  2082. I think that the two identities coexist. You can use both Eastern Europe and Western Europe dichotomy and more detailed regional divisions. If you use the binary division, then Poland is East. If you go more detailed, Poland is Central. I mean, when using the dichotomy, you lump up very diverse people together (for example Sicilians+Norwegians).
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  2083. Sure!
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  2084. Thank you!
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  2085. I am glad you like it! And thank you for the insight.
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  2086. A tend to agree.
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  2087. That truly is an issue.
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  2088. Well, if you are not going to discuss it, then I have to obey :D
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  2089. Might be.
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  2090. If you can get your girlfriend to watch my videos, then you should marry her since close to zero women watch my stuff :D I am joking, thank you for your words!
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  2091. Amen.
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  2092. That would be nice.
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  2093. Thnak you!
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  2094. Thank you so much!
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  2095. Thank you! I will!
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  2096. Thank you!
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  2097. Thank you!
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  2098. Glad to hear that!
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  2099. None so far :D hope it stays that way.
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  2100. Thank you!
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  2101. Thank you!
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  2102. I did not make the map and I did not notice this :D
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  2103. Thank you!
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  2104. Thanks! I will do my best!
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  2105. I am glad you like it!
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  2106. That is BS. This was not "The Jews"; it was the responsibility of the people of the nations that let it happen to themselves. Jews are not a monolith. Do you think that Israel is happy about Europe being so pro-Palestine? Do you believe that the Jews that are leaving France because of anti-semitism are pleased to do so? I do not think so. Sure, influential Jews are promoting globalist liberal agenda, and there always were. But there are also right-wing conservative Jews. To me, it is absurd to put the weight of world history on the shoulders of small, albeit very influential and distinct, people. It is avoiding responsibility. I am a big fan of Israel; it is an exceptional state.
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  2107. Díky ! :D
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  2108. Thank you!
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  2109. Thank you very much!
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  2110. I do not think that is fair. Whatever I might think about the overt social liberalism of Western Europe, it is just a fact that western Europe is very liberal and that might cause conflict with conservative Muslims. That is just a description of the situation.
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  2111. Thank you for this insight!
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  2112. 95+% obrázků co používám je z Wikipedia commons (lze je použít skrz autorská práva).
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  2113. Thank you!
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  2114. Thank you! I will!
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  2115. Thank you! And yes, it is sad..
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  2116. Thank you very much!
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  2117. Thank you very much!
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  2118. Díky!
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  2119. Thanks!
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  2120. What family policies are you reffering to? Genuinely interested.
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  2121. I would not put Italy as one of the places that is in the most imminent danger of this development, since the non-western immigration to Italy is much less significant than to the countries in north-western Europe. As for the tendency of the immigrants of second and third generations to be more integrated and less religious,I would love to see the data supporting that statement, since the offsprings of the immigrants are on the contrary getting more radical and less social, according to the sources I saw. And you are blaming me that I presented no evidence of immigration going right, but that is just flat out not true. I Literally said in the video that I am aware that there are millions of well integrated immigrants and showd the example of the fonders of BionTech company. I am just afraid that there is not enough of them on the populational level.
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  2122. Thank you!
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  2123. What do you mean?
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  2124. Thank you!
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  2125. That is a shame.
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  2126. Thank you very much!
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  2127. Thank you!
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  2128. That is very interesting thought, I hope it is right! Can I ask if there are some sources regarding this theory?
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  2129. That is very interesting, I think this will likely be adopted in the public debate at some point.
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  2130. I am sorry but your thesis about the Israeli birth rate is just not correct. Haredi are 10% of the population and even the fertility rate of secular or modestly religious Jews in Israel is between 2-3 children per women, much higher than in the west or any other developed country in the world.
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  2131. Why do you think that? I am genuinely interested.
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  2132. Thanks! But overall, I think that people overestimate the potential of automatization and robotization on dealing with the demographic crisis.
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  2133. Thanks!
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  2134. In what way, may I ask?
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  2135. Thanks for this insight!
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  2136. Yes, but that is not reflected in the TFR, since the TFR only counts women of child-beraing age in Poland. Other poosibility is that the Polish state does not know the exact number of Poish women of child-bearing age living in Poland and the TFR is thus higher in reality (as for example in Bulgaria), but there was census recently so I think that this should not be the case. The emmigration of Poles abroad influences the overal number of births, but not the TFR (if Polish state knows who is gone).
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  2137. That is quite similar in the Czech Republic
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  2138. Thank you! What do you mean by the magic-dirt?
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  2139. Where are you from, if I may ask?
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  2140. I think that is quite normal all over the eastern Europe now, since majority of the opportunities are in the cities.
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  2141. Thank you!
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  2142. Working on it! It is is gonna be out in one week max!
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  2143. Thank you for this insight! My next video is about this precise topic (immigration to western Europe), It should be out soon and I hope it will address some of your concerns and questions!
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  2144. Thannk you!
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  2145. Thanks!
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  2146. Thank you for the tip, I will look into it!
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  2147. True.
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  2148. Thank you!
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  2149. Where are you from?
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  2150. I am glad you liked it!
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  2151.  @banto1 Yes, all of those events you mentioned were serious disruptions and I just believe that the coming implosion will also be serious disruption. I am not implying that the earth will be destroyed, I specifically said that I think such catastrophic scenarios are futile. But it will be very significant negative disruption.
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  2152. How do you view such development?
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  2153. I have read Whiteshift, phenomenal book! I believe that it will happen in Anglophone countries, but I am sceptical about western Europe.
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  2154. It truly is.
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  2155. Ďakujem!
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  2156. Yeah, that is expectable. There are theories by demogrpahers predicting, that in time the conservative immigrants will likely team up on certain issues (LGBT, abortions etc.) with the remains of conservative religious natives.
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  2157. That sounds bleak.
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  2158. Thanks!
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  2159. Thank you!
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  2160. Thanks!
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  2161. Good attitude!
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  2162. Thank you!
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  2163. Thank you!
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  2164. It is a great picture!
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  2165. Thanks! Maybe I will!
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  2166. Oh boy, not again.
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  2167. Thank you!
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  2168. @hufficag Yes, many people seem to get angry at the video and then suggest exactly what I am saying in the video.
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  2169. Thanks!
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  2170. Those two theories are not something that is accepted by modern science. r/K selection theory is not confirmed to be present among humans. Cold Winters theory even less so. Thus, I do not engage with them.
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  2171. Thank you!
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  2172. Thank you very much"
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  2173. Thank you very much!
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  2174. I am glad you agree!
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  2175. I would say that in the long run, the isolationism is invevitabe in both parties.
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  2176. True, but also a it is the reason why hundreds of billions worth of investment poured into the region.
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  2177. Yes, these old maps are awesome
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  2178. I agree, but this narrative is very much present in the media and I hate it. And the primal point of having children is to expand your genes, that is the biological imperative.
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  2179. My bad, just an illustrative picture
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  2180. Yeah, I probably misjudged it. They are.
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  2181. Hardly.
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  2182. Thank you very much!
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  2183. I agree, more or less.
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  2184. Thank you!
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  2185. What would be the benefit of it? Geniunely asking.
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  2186. Daily dose of existential dread :D
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  2187. I am always trying to come up with something that will catch an eye
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  2188. Sure, that is true. But also why hundreds of billions of investment poured into the east.
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  2189. Do not use Twitter.
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  2190. Thank you! Glad you like it. I am currently working on a video about Central and Eastern Europe and the potential future conflict between Poland and Russia, I might like that one!
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  2191. Thank you!
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  2192. Thank you!
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  2193. That is strange, I do not have this issue.
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  2194. Thank you!
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  2195. It is possible.
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  2196. Thank you, I will!
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  2197. Thank you very much!
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  2198. Thank you very much!
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  2199. Thank you very much!
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  2200. Thank you very much!
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  2201. Thank you very much!
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  2202. Thank you very much!
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  2203. Thank you very much!!
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  2204. That is good.
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  2205. Bohužel ne.
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  2206. Thanks!
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  2207. @jerzyzbiaowiezy6249 Yes, that was the time before computers :D
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  2208. @acrossthedamn Is that really the case? I always thought the policies were done in a way to prevent this.
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  2209. @wls2780 Fair enough
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  2210. Kosmo is a good show :D
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  2211. @georgios_5342 When you visit Cyprus (the Greek part), do you feel like you are in Greece?
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  2212. @peterc.1419 They might not return to Ukraine but they also might not stay in Poland.
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  2213. @baronvonjo1929 Do not lose hope!
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  2214. @romanempire7170 Thank you!
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  2215.  @Pidalin  Also, I do not want to be too curious, but do you live in some kind of deprived region such as Sudetenland? Since I know plenty of small towns and villages with quite a lot of communal life and lot of leisure activities in our country.
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  2216.  @Pidalin  Yeah, those work agencies are usually shady as hell. Just ripping people off.
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  2217. @pidala321 Thank you for this insight. It really shows how different reality is in big cities and in villages or smaller towns. I live in Brno and have lived in Prague for some time and I know many Ukrainians who speak good Czech and are perfectly integrated and they are one of the most critical people towards the kind of Ukrainians you are describing, they are afraid of them giving Ukrainians bad name. Most of them arrived before the war and do not really even socialise that much with most of the newcomers. I completely understand what you are saying about do not feeling comfortable. That is exactly the cause of the lower social trust created by immigration. Like it or not, being surrounded by people of one's ethnicity is just different.
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  2218. @tomaszbara8400 Good! Hopefully it will work out well!
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  2219. Thank you!
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  2220. @oliwerf.7152 I am glad to hear that :D
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  2221. @user-bu3sn6kd5n TBH, I prefer ancient ombudsman before some young progressive ultra-liberal ombudsman.
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  2222. Thank you!
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  2223. @Shmidtk On one hand, I agree that Russian specialist could help the economy and also weaken the Russian one. On the other hand, it is a question if it is safe to have a large Russian diaspora at this point.
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  2224. Enjoy!
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  2225. @Misuci Maybe I will get there! :D
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  2226. Well, the reasons are rather obvious.
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  2227. @PotionSeller721 Yeah, it will be likely specific.
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  2228. @Maximmuss_ I got so much of these comments :D
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  2229. Only before industrialization. After industrialisation that is not the case.
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  2230. @pavelsanda3149 Fair points!
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  2231. @oxvendivil442 I agree.
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  2232. Thank you!
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  2233. @bernardkiljanski4312 I will look into it!
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  2234. Thank you! And good luck in the military! Based AF.
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  2235. @ukaszcota8317 I am glad you like them!
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  2236. @ParameterGrenze Yes, the general ignorance of the topic is astounding.
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  2237. @GrubyTolek Thank you for this insight, very interesting, and for your praise!
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  2238. It is some weird glitch in that map, IDK.
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  2239. @aelcadias6617 Yes, it is quite depressing :D
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  2240. @hawk0485 I should start one :D
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  2241. @TheRezro thank you for this insight.
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  2242. @fwfiojhq3 It is important not to overplay the success of the policies, but at the same time it is still good effort.
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  2243. Thank you!
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  2244. @ermin2248 fair enough :D
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  2245. @-haclong2366 Thanks for this insight
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  2246. @crsx1861 Demographic momentum mostly. The Slovak population has so far been relatively young since the population boom happened around 1980. But that is over now. The Slovak population will keep naturally declining indefinitely.
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  2247. @piotrmadalinski8618 True.
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  2248. I am glad to hear that!
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  2249. @baronvonjo1929 Do not lose hope!
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  2250. @varsovianspy2992 Thank you for this insight!
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  2251. I will keep it mind, thanks for the tip!
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  2252. @seneca983 Well, the reason is pretty obvious.
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  2253. Thank you very much!
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  2254. @rafahrynkiewicz8274 Yeah, that makes total sense.
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  2255. @Tommy17889 Thank you for this insight!
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  2256. I mean, I do not know where you are from, but that is not how that is here. Sure, the jobs ain't always paid in gold, but there are also often not cleaning jobs or something like that.
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  2257. I also support them very much.
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  2258. @Stabu I am glad it landed.
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  2259. @jarosawschulz5450 Thank you for your praise!
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  2260. Nepřemýšlel, bohužel to nedává to ekonomicky smysl. Řešením by byly titulky, ale bohužel mi to nedovoluje časová tíseň. Snad se k tomu v budoucnu dopracuji.
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  2261. @clea9070 All right! Will work on it!
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  2262. @juripalka Thank you!
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  2263. @adammandinec7396 It is not that bad.
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  2264. @nikobellic570 I am glad you like it!
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  2265. @vincenttayelrand Thank you for this insight!
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  2266. Thank you!
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  2267. Shalom!
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  2268. Thanks!
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  2269. I agree!
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  2270. Thanks!
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  2271. Thank you!
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  2272. Thanks!
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  2273. https://www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/article/view/310/284 this is the source of the grap, altough I used it to illustrate the different outcomes with different fertility rates, I assume that the neoliberal v. egalitarian influence of TFR is a refleciton of the opinions of the researchers.
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  2274. Yes, if the estimates of Cinese government overcounting their population by a hundred million, mostly in the younge cohorts, are true, it will trully be a massive demographic crash.
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  2275. Thank you!
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  2276. Thank you!
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  2277. Retirement age?
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  2278. True, they are preparing.
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  2279. Go ahead and do so! :D Good choice
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  2280. Thank you!
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  2281. Thanks!
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  2282. Thanks !
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  2283. Thnak you!
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  2284. Yep, the Greek population pyramid is not that great :D
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  2285. Thank you!
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  2286. Thanks!
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  2287. Thanks!
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  2288. Thank you, I will! As for Eric Kaufman, that is quite a coincidence. I love his work, both Shall the religious inherit the earth and Whiteshift are one of the best books I ever read and my next video that I currently am working on is based on Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth!
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  2289. Thanks, It is already out!
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  2290. Thank you!
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  2291. Thank you!
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  2292. I hope you are right!
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  2293. It is because Europe is the first place where the demographic transition happened.
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  2294. Thank you!
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  2295. Thank you!
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  2296. Well, there were many French and German thinkers that the world would be worst without, but I also kind of agree with you.
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  2297. That is interesting, I thought that Australian economy is in a very good shape.
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  2298. Thanks! I am glad you like it!
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  2299. Thank you for this insight!
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  2300. It truly is sad.
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  2301. I am aware that many points I am raising were also raised by him in some of his videos, for example the cultural emulation, but it is just true, so it is hard not to speak about it. Nevertheless, I was reading and thinking about this subject years before I even knew that Whatifalthist exists and I hope I can offer somewhat more detailed view with better knowledge of Europe itself, since I am European.
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  2302. Thank you so much!
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  2303. Interesting!
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  2304. I was just born a doomer, that is who I am.
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  2305. Thank you!
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  2306. That is good news for Turkish production companies.
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  2307. Thank you!
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  2308. Thank you!
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  2309. Thank you for this insight!
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  2310. Thank you! I will keep grinding!
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  2311. I do not know what is more or less useless, but Apple sure is prosperous.
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  2312. Can you elaborate?
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  2313. I agree with the first, disagree with the second part of your statement.
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  2314. Hopefully.
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  2315. Thank you!
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  2316. There is no vacuum.
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  2317. I agree.
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  2318. Glad to hear that!
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  2319. Well in a way, yes. Throughout the history, groups with moral gods were more succesfull in the intergroup competition since it promoted interpersonal trust. You have more faith in your tribesman, beacuse you knew they believe in the same god as you and thus are afraid to not follow the moral code.
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  2320. thanks! I am glad you like it!
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  2321. I am sorry you feel that way, most people are okay with it, but I get a comment similar to yours now and then. I read the script when recording the audio, and the sentences are relatively convoluted. It might appear machine-like, especially since English is not my first language. I am trying to work on it, but it still needs more effort!
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  2322. It is increasingly likely.
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  2323. Thank you!
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  2324. Thank you for your praise and for this insight!
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  2325. I agree!
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  2326. I believe that there are many Hungarians answering in the comments far more qualified than me!
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  2327. Integration of refugees/abducted people/immigrants won't solve demographic problems of any country. It is a temporary fix at best.
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  2328. That is very good point. It will be interesting to see how this develops.
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  2329. Greetings from Czechia!
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  2330. Thank you!
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  2331. Glad you agree.
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  2332. Dík! Snažím se, ale furt to není ono :D
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  2333. Well, that is very broad question, since Muslim world is very diverse. There are many potential powers like Indonesia or Turkey, but many Muslim countries might be threatened with famine.
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  2334. I highly doubt the ideology-driven point.
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  2335. I am not Polish.
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  2336. Hopefully.
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  2337. Unfortunately, I agree.
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  2338. Glad to hear that! Thank you!
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  2339. I am glad to hear that!
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  2340. Would Romanians support that?
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  2341. For the difficult.
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  2342. I mostly use Eastern Europe, even though it would anger many people. I will explain why in a future video.
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  2343. Thank you very much!
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  2344. Thank you!
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  2345. W. ?
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  2346. I agree.
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  2347. That is likely, on the other hand it won't disappear and it still will influence Eastern Europe.
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  2348. I am analysing this in my newest video.
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  2349. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDnK-apZp_U&ab_channel=KaiserBauch
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  2350. Thank you so much!
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  2351. It is all good then :D
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  2352. Thank you very much!!
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  2353. Hopefully.
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  2354. Thank you!
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  2355. Thank you!
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  2356. You mean in the cultural map?
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  2357. Thank you!
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  2358. Thank you!
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  2359. Yeah, in the Czech republic it might also happen.
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  2360. Those two phenomenons have not much in common IMO.
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  2361. Thank you Gigachad.
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  2362. Thank you! I might do a video about that some day!
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  2363. Thank you very much!
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  2364. Thank you!
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  2365. Thank you!
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  2366. Thank you very much! I am from the Czech Republic, as for the reading tips, what specific topic do you have in mind?
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  2367. Thanks!
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  2368. Thank you!
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  2369. Thank you very much!
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  2370. It is the most consensual term to use. I personally do not care about being called an Eastern European, but if I called the video why is Eastern Europe not woke and then talked about Poland, Czechia etc., half of my viewers, that are often from the region, would be angry from the start and 15 first comments would be saying: "we are Central, not Eastern Europe!". Thus, Central and Eastern Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_and_Eastern_Europe?wprov=sfla1
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  2371. What precisely do you mean?
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  2372. You mean that Central and Eastern Europe is not really Europe?
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  2373. Yes, I am aware of that and it is very uninformed and stupid take on things. Russia is presenting itself as a champion of traditional christian values. But you can not champion traditional christian values without regard for basic human freedom and value of every individual. That is not ingrained in the Russian tradition. And Russia also has the highest percentage of muslim population in Europe, it is a superpower in abortions, AIDS prevalence and many other things, that definitely are not conservative and "based".
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  2374. Thank you very much!
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  2375. Thank you!
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  2376. Thank you!
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  2377. Thank you!
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  2378. Thank you very much!
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  2379. Thank you!
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  2380. Thank you!
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  2381. I am not sure if or how it influences this particular subject, altough it might. But it is definitely relevant in regard to birt rates.
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  2382. Thank you very much!
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  2383. Thanks!
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  2384. Thank you!
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  2385. Thank you!
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  2386. You are very welcome!
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  2387. Díky!
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  2388. Thank you very much!
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  2389. Thank you very much!
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  2390. Thank you!
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  2391. Thank you!
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  2392. Thank you very much! I agree!
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  2393. True!
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  2394. Well, I am not American and I do not want to claim that I am a specialist on contemporary issues of American society, but it seems to me that US society is mostly divided. There sure are tens, probably over a hundred, of million of patriotic Christian American, but there also are tens, possibly over a hundred, million Americans that are clearly very liberal and possess views, that I would describe as woke.
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  2395. thank you!
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  2396. Thank you!
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  2397. Thank you!
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