Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. gotta love those 1800s printers thinking they were screwing the writers. without them we wouldn't have had dickens either
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  2. at least Eli Whitney had a lot of innovation in machinery used for making guns to get back at the people who made this atrocity
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  3. with the way the movement system derps out in HOI, that's about right. I always enjoyed planning a push only for my troops to get on a ship and redeploy halfway around the world with no supplies for some reason
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  4.  @TheArklyte  IJA and IJN, never before has a country fought so hard against itself for itself without a civil war
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  5. Dracopol there's no such thing as an illegal immigrant in a world of one unified government.... also most of the veterans are horribly maimed anyways, they are fighting 15 foot tall killer bugs after all.
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  6.  @ilovemuslimfood666  tbf most south american countries don't really need a military for external deterrence anymore.
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  7.  @BeaverChainsaw  and the last point wasn't even like an 18th century thing, the british deliberately caused massive famine in india during ww2 by increasing their mandatory exports of foodstuffs while the continent was experiencing a massive drought
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  8. John Dunkelburg Paul Verhoeven has pretty much never made anything he would want anyone to take seriously. Robocop, total recall and starship troopers are all bitingly satirical
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  9.  @CIDILIABRA  Aztec Mythology: "Hold my bloody sacrifice."
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  10.  @florians9949  doubtful, in a lot of these cases the actors in question are more interested in the abstract concept of an emperor or a king, instead of the actual person. If the japanese emperor stood opposed to the militants in the 20s, they'd have just branded him as a softened by western ideologies, and found another 'true' replacement for him from the royal family who could have kept quiet and let them work. this still happens today sadly.
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  11. probably a lot of pharohs given their 1-20ish average rule and the couple thousand year institution of the pharoh
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  12. was half expecting the naval officers to do something like bombard a government residency
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  13. its also interesting that we probably would still forget about this guy if we hadn't found Tut's tomb and later connected him back
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  14. Getting america into ww1 was seen as such an important heroic thing but that just means making the war worse instead of better
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  15. youkikazi is also an amazing dystopian novel about constant war and the toll our war machine extracts on our soldiers
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  16. the thing is dune mesiah turns everything around, paul won, he controlled the world, the galaxy, and became the emperor of men but he caused an enormous genocide, he created a religion that was way worse than the benegeserites, and he inadvertantly destroyed the fremen by civilizing them. in the end, he just walks away from it all
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  17. not to be confused with bowling green ohio, bowling green kentucky or bowling green the college
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  18. there's a joke that Dayton told him he could only take one of the Wright Brother's workshops
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  19. "soma, an opioid-like drug that makes you happy" so its just the same as opioids and antidepressants
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  20. "He reportedly wandered the streets at night in disguise with a massive sword killing anyone he disagreed with" ya that's totally a thing normal people do
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  21. his collapse was so total the US military pulled Henry Ford Jr from the war told him his service would be keeping the company in the war
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  22. yaaaaaaaah paul was bad at the whole ruler thing. His dad was kind of bad at it as well, though we're given to believe that everybody was bad at being rulers in Dune
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  23. Too bad libertarianism basically created a free pass to return to such crazy economic strangulation and things like white vrievance has kept the middle class from actually pushing back against the current pile of trusts we have
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  24. 2 minutes hate, more like 2 hours of fox news or any rupert murdoch controlled media outlet
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  25. I just got a new kitten recently after my adorable companion of 15 years passed away. this cuts to the heart
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  26. that would require the supreme court to put itself deep into election law, something the gop picked 'originalists' have resented, unless its to uphold voting restrictions
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  27. mumble mumble Watney's Red Barrel mumble mumble
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  28. #Notmymauddib
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  29. "Please don't tell daddy bezos" Too late, blackwater exists, or did until recent rebranding, also south dakota sold its national guard to a billionaire already
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  30. one thing asimov didn't really get around to doing is exploring AI as their own people. the three laws are great for slave robots, which is kind of exactly the failings in his stories he explores but they don't give robots free will asimov also foresaw big corporations and the ways the rich will isolate themselves from society, and ultimately wither away as a result of that isolation. Robots of Dawn always read like a planet of the rich, especially since his main character was from an earth that was dirty overcrowded but not quite a dystopia for some reason, but by the next robots book that world is no more as the rich and their eccentricities ended up withering away
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  31. the mentats are like rand paul, make great logical arguments but base it entirely on bad premises
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  32. hail Ford and the model of T
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  33. this is what happens when your avenues of political dialogue are useless. I wish more politicians would understand this but its seemingly a constant
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  34. all hail ford and the model of T
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  35. "THE EVIDENCE IS IRREFUTIBLE, WHAT SAY YOU COFFEE" Glug
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  36. it gets even worse because challenges to maps now have to be purely along state laws as the 2019 supreme court decided all federal courts can't police electoral boundries the success in challenging gerrymandering that happened in the last 5 years cannot be replicated using the same tactics going forward because of this.
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  37. Standard's problem, he should have bought the media. The business class learned that lesson, now they got their own media to tell people these investigations are fake
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  38. Campion, Wagalan, Perth, these are not real places
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  39. Sledgehammer (the US 1942 france invasion plan) would have been an absolute failure as the 1943 Torch landings would show, we had no idea what we were doing
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  40. the japanese book Yukikazi is right up your guy's alley, the blend of man, war machine, and the question of where one ends, the other begins, and how long man will even be needed for it and who's the master when wars are plotted by computers before fighting battles
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  41. nasa glenn has been running 20KW ion engines for nearly a year proving reliability. xeon is so much better as a storeable propellant than LOX we only need to figure out the power source
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  42. everybody should just bootstrap and be glad for what they have! sincerely NeoConservatism
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  43. if death did not exist before his son killed his consort accidentally why did he have a sword, a weapon who's only purpose is to kill? Why would one make a weapon that can only do something you don't have any concept for?
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  44. the fact is, the aussies brought machineguns, Australia brough emus, and Australia won
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  45. you guys could just do a whole season on PK Dick
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  46. ah what could explain miraculously surviving the war of 1812, maybe just the british not always being unbeatable
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  47. aw you skipped number of the beast a book that no amount of weed will ever make make sense
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  48. I think heinline would hate and love today's america, there's so much jingoism today and overt militarism of culture. There's so many young men and women that went over to afghanistan and iraq in quite the same way they went after the bugs.
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  49. ya asimov is hard to read, especially foundation which just overflows with atomic age and pulpy dialogue, but the overarching plot is something that he started
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  50. ya but if we did that someone would loose, so we can't do that
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