Comments by "Quizmaster China" (@QuizmasterLaw) on "A Complicated Question about Technology, and it's impact on History | Q&A" video.

opening lines of U.S. Const. are "We the people". U.S. founders wanted a republican federation, but democracy at the states especially at local governments.
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Khalkhyn Gol is feeling terribly neglected ) Stalin's moustache is twirling!
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@Charles Yuditsky Japan wanted no one to know of its defeat and USSR wanted no one to know of its victory. Distance and language barriers added to the secrecy. Khalkhyn Gol decided the war since the Japanese knew they could not defeat Russia even in Kamchatka let alone Siberia. So Japan did not invade Russia instead attacking America.
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Why a knife? Well, what if i run out of bullets? And what if I want to kill someone quietly? And what if my rifle gets all dusty and breaks. I do think drones and AI are super important. Thing is in war everything breaks all of it in fact the enemy is TRYING to break your fancy toys! And so knife knife knife.
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I still wonder why no one compares the Ardennes Offensive of 1940 with the Ardennes offensive of 1944-1945.
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Aristotle explains that historical laws are dialectical wyhich means they emerge out of the comparison between competing ideas to attain the best approximation of truth i.e. the closest estimate. Social laws are not nomothetic as laws in natural sciences but are instead general tendencies. We can predict the future, but only roughly.
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there were remarkably few tank-on-tank engagements and no real tactical lessons could be derived from the war of amateurs and foreigners. they did however get good data for performance repair maintenance and especially close air support. Khalkhyn gol is the money shot, not Andalusia.
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@agusti92 I don't actually think the purpose of history is to prove general theories; that's more the purpose of philosophy. History seeks an ACCURATE recordation of what actually happened; even that is an immense task. The inferences we may draw from that are philosophical/theoretical. TIK rightly points out some true facts which are often overlooked: the NS regime was absolutely in an energy crisis and that fact shaped its entire war-effort. I also don't think anyone convinces anyone else ever. All you can do is expose your own ideas and then see if anyone agrees. This is a much more effective method if you wish people to take up your ideas. TimeGhost is an example of a historian with some clear biases and an (unstated) agenda which distorts his presentation of facts. It's quite common in fact, lots of fakers in this world. This is why well I disagree with some of TIK's ideas I still think he's the best one going. MilitaryHistoryVisualized is also very good about being factual objective and intellectually honest. Chieftan is also really good. Idk about Invict yet but I have hopes. Point is you are always gonna have people who you disagree with which is another way of saying others will always disagree with you. All you can do is honestly expose just exactly what you think and then if others run with it great if they don't so what?
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I'm not libertarian or even an individualist. The state is a necessary and good institution because people are fully capable of being terrible: the same faculties which make them wonderful can also make them terrible. Socialism is state ownership of the means of production. Social welfare provision is done by most states in some form or other. Good luck finding a modern industrial state which does not feature free but compulsory primary education. You cannot even have an industrial economy without basic literacy and numeracy. Often social democratic states try to claim to be socialist. They rarely if ever even control primary industrial core functions of the state. It's not that the SDP or Labour or (insert euro social democratic party here) don't WANT to control enterprises with golden shares owned by the state or state inserted members of the board of directors or labor regulations out the ass. They generally aren't capable electorally or intellectually to muster the forces needed to seize what great Lolnin called "the commanding heights" of the economy. EVEN the literal USSR could not purge its banksters! EVEN THE USSR COULD NOT GET RID OF THE BANKERS. So... there is an enormous amount of delusion illusion and deception in the left wing, unfortunately. I think the best domestically organized state of those states in which I have lived is either Ontario or NY. The worst was probably Ukraine, but even it looked pretty good -- on paper. The thing oppressing the workers isnt' the bankster. It's the fraudsters. Of states I have not visited which from the outside look well organized domestically I must mention the PRC and Singapore. I lived with someone from Sing. and must say that person really loved their government and country. But maybe if I were to live in China i would find it to be the authoritarian hellhole literally every single overseas Chinese person warns me about! Then again those clever orientals could very well be hiding the goods from lao wai me! Ya never know! )
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@agusti92 his economic statements are largely accurate if not entirely so. and you can really only appreciate the triumph of liberalism over varieties of dictatorship if you have a good understanding of economics. though i hate libertarians. they are simplistic even at times childish.
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i don't agree with much of his economics or political ideology but he is no fraud. he is sincere and honest. you can be wrong for the right reasons.
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@damyr "it doesn't posess territory" and therefore is not a state. part of being a state is being recognized by other states especially the more powerful ones. Do you think being recognized as a state by Kiribati bears as much weight as recognition by those countries which under international law hold a right to veto UN armed action aka the security council members? It does not, at least not outside of Kiribati, a tiny tax haven with about no territory or people. Since it has no territory I bet it also has no courts. Or an army. Or a navy. And those two are reasons why its not a state. It sucks that you were ignorant of what a state is, and now are no longer ignorant. But that you are so stupid and pig headed as to ignore the obvious facts means we might as well be talking about your imaginary friend Heebeus Jebus or any other myth.
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cherry buster.
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@damyr all the catholic ones lol and none of the communist ones or the anglo americans it seems to be a state under international law you need a definite territory and a permanent population. the freemasons aren't a state. neither are the order of malta the moose the elks or the grateful dead.
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Ei Dirst Azerbaijan or Armenia
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Ei Dirst yeah, by the way if you say "moo" you're still a person, not a cow. get the point or do i need to clarify further?
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@damyr Which other states recognize it as a state? I doubt there are many or even any. States jealously guard their claim to the monopoly of legal violence.
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@IndSovU they had fuel for at least a couple more.
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@damyr No, the SoM is not a U.N. Member State very likely doesn't exercise sovereign functions like levy taxes, adjudicate disputes before its own courts of law, raise armies nor is it recognized by large and powerful Security Council Member States like the USA China Russia Britain. SoM is at best a government in exile. SoM has obviously never been a party before the International Court of Justice (since it only takes claims made by or against countries, not private persons or institutions). I am not saying this charitable trust you champion has no legal existence and it might even be considered an international organization and thus have at least limited international legal personality. It's not even a de facto state like Taiwan (permanent population definite territory but very little de jure recognition). I am sure some or even several of those countries which supposedly recognize SoM as a state a) do not and others (all of them) qualify their recognition. Just because you issue a passport and even have other states allow its use doesn't mean you are a state. That is however an aspect of de facto as opposed to de jure recognition. Google "novelty passport" to see how you too can be a citizen of the archipelogo of mythia, with all the rights and privileges and even a knight in the order of mythia. It's fine that you like SoM but it's not a country since several hundred years.
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HK has its own passports for example; yet is definitely NOT an independent country.
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recessions have many causes; long term however inflation is horrible for any economy.The greater the inflation the worse for the economy. Recessions have many causes.
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@The_Original_Default_Username Inflation can be caused in a specie based currency where the specie is suddenly increased due to discoveries or invention. So e.g. aluminum once was more expensive than platinum and thus plates Washington's monument. In fiat currency systems printing lot of money will ceteris paribus result in inflation, but that's only one way to increase M1 or to affect inflation. You can attain an inflation by reducing taxation for example (presuming taxes are used non-productively). You can also get a nice inflation going by issuing lots of bonds. In some economic circumstances a government might wish to inflate its currency for reasons having nothing to do with the economy. So for example when the US was waging a very expensive war in Vietnam it decided to fund it by devaluing its currency, ending the gold standard and printing money. That eventually contributed to the recession of 74 and 79 which were however much more caused by arab embargos and boycotts, especially the oil embargos. What I am saying here is: I know exactly what I am talking about and likely more than you since you about this topic. Inflation and recession both have many causes and are not uniquely mutually causative.
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There is no serious ideological competitor to liberal-democracy. Both Fascism and Marxism-Leninism are dictatorships. Dictatorship is unpopular rigid fails to attract adherents or compliance can only compel and cannot persuade. Even pan-Islamism is barely able to put a dent in liberal-democracy. There's still no credible ideological global challenger to liberalism. I don't anticipate one appearing and have modelled this exact question quite intensively here's a reading list Strasser Hitler Marx Lenin Mao Stalin Proudhon Bodin Hobbes Locke Rousseau Smith Ricardo Keynes Friedman Mises Rothbard Self determination + Self interest is pretty much unbeatable as core ideas to global liberalism. Even literal dictator Xi JinpIng is unable to develop an effective alternative model and believe me he is trying. Even authoritarian strongman Putin cannot develop a truly credible alternative to liberal capitalism. People want to self-define, self-determine, to care for themselves, then their family clan nation and race and in pretty much that order. Efforts to ignore the self or mix up that hierarchy of loyalties are pretty well doomed.
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Fir shit. 2 minutes 2 late
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@damyr I know basic reading escapes you: I said and I meant it I am done with you. Unrecognized by 80+ states AND the UN. It's a great myth you have there! Bye.
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@damyr sure go with that why not i'm done with you; you don't understand that states require foreign recognition and territory. SoM might be an international organization but isn't a state。 See: No Territory. See also: no capacity to carry on regular relations or even be recognized legally by other states. A bunch of catholic cheerleaders want to say its a state. So?
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"good luck making capital without them" liberal capitalist states create framework conditions for private persons to make wealth. this is why they claim a right of eminent domain and a right of taxation but those rights are conditioned respectively on fair compensation and political representation. Dictatorships don't do that. They claim at least an absolute right of expropriration if not otright state control over all resources and each and every act of so-called private life. There is no public-private distinction in the totalitarian dictatorships, unlike the authoritarian ones.
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Spoiler alert: "Little Boy" was a German design fueled with German enriched uranium seized from the submarine U-238. You can do a patent search for the bomb's design and look it up yourself if you don't believe me. Oh yeah, the Roman empire is still here but the Vatican City is all that is left of it. Maybe the principalities too that I'm unsure of. Hope it gets a lol.
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Pepe The Great my blowgun says it was great to No You.
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But the FT-17 was a piece of shit and produced in wait for it 19 17. It was already outmoded by the time of the Spanish civil war obviously (which is why they sold it off and didn't keep it for home defence).
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@Belsen85 that's somewhat true but only somewhat. USSR deep battle doctrine had already been developed and even applied succesfully in Manchuria prior to Finland. Conditions in Spain were not however appropriate for deep battle. What Stalin was testing more than actual tanks were generals and spies. He did not know whom he could and could not trust. He knew he could trust Zhukov, but did not know about Timoshenko and so gave Timoshenko lots of leeway to experiment in Finland; Stalin figured out he could trust Timoshenko but that Timoshenko wasn't so competent, but at least his incompetence wasn't traitorous. True USSR wasn't certain if the monster-infantry tank was a great or bad idea but they did know that tank-on-tank engagements would be won by the better guns and armor and so had both the KV1 and T34 ready to roll as early as 1940(!). Were your position entirely accurate there would have been no T-34s or KVs not even on the drawing board, but instead those were already in production.
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Whether to organize tanks as brigades divisions or corps and how much mechanized infantry to bring along for the ride that was stuff which could not be learned from Spain or even Finland, even into 1942 the USSR still didn't have a good tank organization or doctrine of the correct ratio of tanks to infantry. But neither did Germany. Or the USA. Or the UK. In other words that was something that could really only be learned in brutal large scale battles, not smaller engagement.
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Ei Dirst but demonstrably smarter than a cow so at least you are a human and not another slobbering zombie.
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