Hearted Youtube comments on Whatifalthist (@WhatifAltHist) channel.

  1. Some where in Beijing, there is another althist guy, speaking in mandarin saying nearly all the same things about America. I find that beautiful.
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  2. About 6 months ago a Karen accused me of snapping a photo of her children. She became irate. I immediately went up to her and showed her all the images on my camera so she would calm down. It was as if I was talking to a brick. She kept on continuing asking why I took a picture of her children. I told her I did not again and she became even more worked up and said she was going to call the police. I told her I was the police for 30 years and am now retired. I showed her my retired badge but it did not calm her. She actually went across the street and got a police officer from a Sephora store which keeps on getting robbed by you know who, and tracked me down. At that point I had already walked away from her not knowing her intentions. I explained to the cop I had just taken a photo of the accordion player near her kids but did not film them which is not illegal anyway. They detained me for almost 15 minutes. They ran my identification to verify I was a former police officer. When I told one of the officers I thought she needed to be medicated by her hysterical behavior, he told me to be quiet. I was absolutely shocked I was being treated that way. It was truly bizarre. Karen's are amongst the most dangerous people in our country. They are illogical and are hysterical. They cannot be reasoned with. After that incident I vowed I will never be polite and take the high ground with a Karen. If they want to get hysterical, I will be glad to give it right back to them. What's the point if you cannot reason with them. You may as well have some fun.
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  3. 6:00 Fear 11:03 Shame 18:30 Pride 23:58 Disgust 29:52 Guilt 35:10 Envy 41:28 Anxiety
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  4. If I was on your production team, eugenics, the tie between eugenics, population control and authoritarianism, sterilization and the history of abortion and child "sacrifice" aka infanticide would be on deck. Keep it up.
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  5. I would love a similar episode on Southeast Asia
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  6. I've always found it funny how married men are actually a huge part of the incel demographic, but then pretend that they're not.
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  7. Antideppressants can cause serious adverse effects.. Every doctor I've ever seen has tried to prescribe me antidepressants. It doesn't seem to matter what I went in to see them about. Even though I have bad reactions to them. They always say "Well this is a new one and shouldn't effect you that way." But I've yet to try one that didn't make me waaaaay worse. That is a huge red flag for me. I flat refuse to take them anymore......not even to humor a new doctor.
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  8. « My top 3 fears are: being eaten by a crocodile, marrying a horrible wife or being killed by a totalitarian state » Hahaha I love your channel
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  9. The trope of "African borders hur dur" is such a cliche to be honest. It's a very modern and very Eurocentric thing to even think that a state must only have one ethnicity. Some of the most successful states in history like Rome and Persia were mixed. The problem is the colonisers never developed systems of power for the colonies to rule themselves. African states don't have regions/cities/tribes powerful enough to rule over the entirety of an ex-colony because colonisation does not allow that to form naturally. The only African colony with it's centre of power WITHIN its borders was probably South Africa with the Afrikaners ruling from the powerful core around Johannesburg/Pretoria, and that's just because in that case the colonisers just happened to live IN the country and not outside of it. The problem is not borders but institutions, or lack thereof, and those institutions could not have naturally formed within the borders under colonisation, and the coloniser also didn't do the trouble to develop them.
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  10. San Francisco is trying to ban stores from leaving and the Hawaii Supreme Court basically just denounced the construction citing a “law” from the previous kingdom of hawaii. Politics and law is just getting more crazy. The economy is looking weird as hell right now and will probably blow up this year. 2024 will likely be remembered as the inflection point at which post ww2 modernity officially ended.
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  11. I have an anecdote about our broken education system. Two years ago I graduated with a bachelors in history, and I wanted to be a high school history teacher. I got into a masters program that included teacher training, and assigned me to a local high school to be a student teacher. The master's program was of course ideological propaganda, but that's for another time. I ended up being assigned to an 11th grade US history class for one semester. My mentor teacher was a former prison guard who took me on because he wanted me to do everything, which I was honestly fine with. I liked being able to control the curriculum. I noticed that he didn't have any essay assignments planned, which I thought was odd, since reading and summarizing are pretty basic skills that have applications beyond history. So during our WWII unit, I decided to assign one. After two days of telling the story of WWII, I had the students select a country to write an essay on. They could pick any country that significantly participated in the war, and had to summarize that country's war experience in a page in a half, double spaced. Easy. When I was in highschool, I could have done this in twenty minutes. I soon learned why my mentor teacher had not planned any essays. Most of my students simply could not do it. Most of them thought research was googling something than paraphrasing the example text that appears under the search results. Most of them did not even click on an article without me pestering them. Writing quality was generally atrocious. One student thought double spacing meant pushing enter twice after each line of text. I gave them a week to complete it, and gave every one of my 120ish students some tutoring. When the time came to turn them in, only about a fourth of them submitted anything. Of that number, about half were nearly unreadable, way too short, or contained significant plagiarism. In one hilarious example, the student had pasted in an entire article next to her own fourth grade level writing, without even making sure the stolen material was the same color and font as the rest of the paper. The best papers were from the two exchange students, one from France and the other Kazakhstan. About 5 of the American students did really well. My mentor teacher realized there would be trouble, since nobody was turning in the assignment. He made the executive decision to cut its value down to 20 points, the same amount as the other throwaway assignments we were required to give out twice a week. When the students realized its low value, they stopped worrying about it, and we got maybe five more submissions. A few months later, two weeks before finals, my mentor teacher called me over to his computer. On the screen were three colored bars representing our student's grades. the first was green, representing As and Bs. The second was yellow and a bit longer, representing Cs and Ds. The third, which was longest, was red and represented Fs. This was the same year covid ended, so our students were still in the remote learning mode of not turning anything in. My mentor teacher said our mission now was to get half of the yellows to green and most of the reds to yellow. If not, we'd be investigated by the admin and have to deal with a legion of angry students and parents. Every level of the system, from the teachers to the administration to the parents to the students themselves, were incentivized to lower the standards and push everyone through the system, year after year, regardless of competency. The end result was illiterate students arriving in my class, who I was completely unable to help, and could do little for other than put my own seal of approval on their embarrassing performances and send them on to 12th grade and college beyond. My lessons on the internet age and rise of mental health problems were scrapped, and the rest of the semester would be homework makeup days. The students mostly copied late assignments, some which were due three months ago, from students who had actually completed them. I was flooded with late work that was mostly cheated, and from which the students likely learned next to nothing. We also spent a long time preparing for the final, for which my mentor teacher provided a study guide with the exact multiple choice questions that would appear on the test. No critical thinking required whatsoever. Even after all this, the red bar was still too long, so for the last week of school, my mentor teacher gave participation credit for showing up and watching movies. The amount of points the students received for one class period of sleeping through "Red Tails?" 40. Twice the maximum they could have received for my essay assignment. Multiply that by five school days equaled 200 points for watching movies, enough to shorten that red bar to the necessary level. After that I decided to quit high school and get another masters so I can teach college.
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  12. When I watch your videos, I get partly black-pilled, frightened and a little white-pilled at the end. I have no doubt the world is in for some turbulent (or as the Chinese say, "interesting") times but I have a good feeling most of us will make it and it will be grueling and hard but necessary. Heck! My grandparents and my great-grandmother, along with my parents and their respective families, made it through the colonial era of Nigeria, our civil war, military juntas, the cold war, and even I made it through the 2000s, the great recession, the SARS, Ebola, Avian flu pandemics, and much more. We humans are a stubborn and resilient species and many of us have experienced so serious stuff and I am damn sure we will survive what's coming, Amen.😊😊
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  13. i feel bad for the radiators that died in the cold war
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  14. "A dying society's last virtues - tolerance and apathy."Aristoteles
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  15. I think a more useful perspective is to acknowledge the binary between resentment and contempt, where the former is motivated by anger towards someone assumed to be above oneself and the latter contrastingly is fueled by disgust towards someone believed to be below oneself. The left historically has been associated with resentment (envy of the powerful, etc.) and the right with contempt (bigotry, purification), but both flanks are equally capable of embodying either drive.
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  16. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 13:45 - Brazil 20:39 - Russia 25:42 - India 30:33 - China 36:54 - South Africa
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  17. Unlike Asian tigers, India became wealthy by focusing on high-skill service sectors like IT. It's probably the hardest country to understand. It has the highest number of people living under poverty, but was able to eradicate polio before most African countries. Can't make a good rifle, but makes good quality nuclear submarines. And modern Indian military is probably the best military in the history of subcontinent (They even pulled off a blitzkrieg in 1971). A big factor is unlike most European nations today, IA has actually faced war both in conventional and non-conventional way. You should check out how they fooled CIA in 1998 Nuclear blasts. Crafty.
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  18. Lmao I remember when people thought Trump would drive us into WW3. If only we knew.
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  19. Me: “im a unique individual” Also Me: has my entire life accurately summarized in under an hour on Youtube
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  20. The thing that’s missing is Jamie doing this in a WatchMojo voice.
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  21. The perfect mix of the: Arrogance of an Italian Smug inflection of a Frenchman Cold-hearted bluntness of a German All intertwined with a plentitude of American sarcasm Keep it up buddy
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  22. > spend 60 years allowing sexual dynamics to be decided by a philosophy that unconditionally hates one sex > society continuously lies to itself about the nature of that philosophy and its beliefs > population collapses > "Why did no one see this coming?!" I'm really sick of the act. Like totally sick of it.
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  23. roman empire: all roads lead to rome whatifalthist: all problems lead to the rustbelt
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  24. Been a self-employed engineer for over 25 years and have worked for many companies, big and small. Without a doubt I can say that bureaucracy (namely HR/legal) utterly stifles innovation. The best way to crush invention and meritocracy is to bury everything under a suffocating policy of anti-risk.
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  25. Whatifalthist: You should be neither too conservative nor too progressive. Latin America: why can‘t I be both?
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  26. Man… every time I see one of these videos this verse comes to mind. “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6‬:‭34‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
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  27. 6:01 As a Brazilian, how dare you... To say something so accurate about my country?
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  28. The main discussions in Brazilian media today are about the importance of women's soccer and the importance of non-binary restrooms, while 50% of the population doesn't even have basic sanitation in their communities. I am not kidding.
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  29. The 13 hour school schedule is horrible because you don’t actually learn anything. You study Spanish for 12 years but can’t speak Spanish, you’ve read horrible shit-lib “graphic novels” but haven’t read Shakespeare, you can sort of do algebra but only in a classroom setting, you can’t work with wood or bricks or metal, you can’t write poetry, you don’t understand music, you studied the same 150 year period of American history six times and all of it is wrong.
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  30. Plato's Cave is a cardboard box from Amazon
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  31. "And what did the humans do when their doom became apparent?" "They made youtube videos about it."
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  32. As an old man now I see the difference in the world I grew up in, and the world young men have now. Women my age (in the 80’s and 90’s) wanted a man, and the family that comes with that relationship. They openly talked about it, and the men that they knew in the community. My wife’s friends hanging out at the house gave me more than a glimpse of that side of the equation. There was a definite competition between women. Now with the younger women I know the difference between the generations is clear. 1. Women may not be the ones who ask for a first date. But when I was young men were told “Amy likes you”. I had female teachers and professors tell me, Amy wants you to ask her out. It seemed as if the entire female community played matchmaker. 2. Men and Women were given positive stories about relationships. Happy Ever After was assumed to be the result. It may have been the white washing of marriage. But it was encouraged. Now it’s assumed by both sexes most relationships will fail painfully. 3. When I was younger the Men in TV or Movies were not the bit of the joke, or shown to be a fool at every chance. Women were not expected to be the leader in a relationship. They certainly were in most ways, but it was done in private. The woman may plan the entire roadmap for a marriage. But appeared to follow their man, as if they were showing off to the world the Masculine man they possessed to the world. Yet the strength and confidence he showed the world, was rooted in the support from her. Today I see women more often trying to showcase their own strength and in many ways masculinity to the world. Even if that means causing her man embarrassment. 4. Men were focused on work. It was seen as just part of being a man to put your head down and work harder. Yet it wasn’t that the men were tougher, or more selfless. Just that the support you needed would come from your woman. And as men her approval and affection was all we cared to have. Nothing else mattered. And the women that knew relished being the focus of all he required. 5. Leaving a wife and child(ten) behind through divorce, if initiated by the husband was Reason for social ostracism. And would cut men off from family and friends. Once you had children, the expectation was you would endure misery if necessary. Because being divorced was seen as a negative for both men and women by society.
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  33. Hmm... I blame public education keeping people up late doing homework and then waking them up before sunrise. Since, you know, sleep deprivation is a major part of the brainwashing process.
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  34. To put in very VERY few words Authoritarianism wants you to submit on the political front no more, no less Totalitarianism wants you to submit to EVERYTHING the Totalitarian wants.
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  35. I got completely eviscerated on another rather larger YT creator channel just last week for basically telling people that I teach my 13 year old daughter to stop hating boys/men. (yes I'm an older Mom and the lack of respect and emasculation is a real thing towards boys/men) OMG, the sheer amount of hate I received. No ability for civil debate only immediate hate labeling for standing up for this demographic. And it wasn't even Incels it was just teenage boys. I didn't back down and fought hard but holy schmoly, so many thinking errors.
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  36. As a native of the Pacific Northwest, I found your explanation of the “Ecotopia” to be very good! The idea that the region’s trend towards left wing ideology is actually pretty recent is very fascinating to me. But in a way it makes sense. Outside of the major cities like Portland and Seattle, numerous small towns in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California remain very conservative. As a result, the disparity between the urban and the rural communities only seems to be growing with time. This video has helped me better understand the history behind these political ideas, thank you and keep up the good work!
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  37. The infamous political trichotomy. Equality, Power, and Freedom.
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  38. Genuinely hate how people misportray you as a racist or an idiot, im both of those things and i know your not
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  39. It’s kind of crazy how much your videos have changed my worldview. Before, I was just you run of the mill republican, I’d vote red for anyone, but (it’s kind of hard to explain) your videos changed my views of reality in some fundamental way, and I stopped believing in the illusions I was surrounded by. I think it was your neutrality, up to that point I had been so used to everything being biased towards one group or another. Then again, watching your videos may just make me feel smart about myself lol.
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  40. I'm so glad I was born at the perfect time and as the right sex to be enlisted in the largest war in human history
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  41. 2 videos in a day! I forgive your hiatus now (but fr if you needed to take a break you should absolutely do it)
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  42. 2:11 Taiping rebellion, the little brother of Jesus Christ starts the third most deadliest war in history 4:00 Demetriu's invasion of northern India, greeks invade India 4:46 The An Lushan Rebellion 6:42 The second Congo War 8:04 Imjin War, the war with admiral Yi, nation hero of both Koreas 6:44 War of the triple alliance, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay vs Paraguay 10:54 The great northern war, Supersweden vs all it's neighbors, including, but not limited to: Russia, Denmark (plus Norway) and the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, later I understand the english join 13:08 The fall of Assiria, the beginning of the end of the first dark age 15:53 Bizantyne-Sasanid war, the end of antiquity 17:35 The Spanish succession war, the whole of Europe and half of Spain vs France and the other half 19:47 Rise of Maurya, the birth of the first grand Indian empire 21:22 30 years war, a big chunk of Germany is killed over a guy being throw out of a window
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  43. 5:50 so, did the monks start the trend of smart people not getting laid then?
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  44. the thumbnail looks like factions in a videogame Edit: And I'm definitely team T-Rex
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  45. Reminds me of a Twitter post I saw ages ago. "You don't understand. You have an entire generation of military-age men who feel they have nothing to live for. You are in danger."
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  46. Going to make a bet that “America has remained a stable quarter of the world’s GDP”
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  47. “It’ll take 300 years to understand Florida” Easy. We are America’s Appendix, if America was a creature that needed it to survive. We filter America’s toxic and indigestible populations then mix them with a healthy dose of a “bacterial” culture, thus making everyone who comes to live here eventually “Floridian.” We’re like the borg in that regard. Sincerely, a Floridian on the I-4
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  48. As Iranian I often laugh when I see videos titling “Will Iran and Israel go to war”. You give 20% chance to it but it is probably around 5%, it is more likely Iran and Taliban go to war over water. Situation for Iranian regime is very bad, they fall to a point that they are throwing all their forces to police people and they are failing at it. There were several rallies in the world especially in the west to sympathize with Gaza, and yet there wasn’t any in Iran, the reason is that the regime tried multiple times and couldn’t even bring 10k to it. The regime itself is no longer a theocracy anymore, just recently a video came out of an official sleeping with a man and nothing happened to him because there wasn’t anybody to replace him. Instead the whistle blower was imprisoned. All these can also be considered as a reason for Islamic republic regime to initiate the war to unify people but they most likely won’t do that because they know they are old and themselves can’t go to war so they must draft young people and the moment they give a gun to them, they will definitely shoot them, even their own guards are starting to shoot them. So rest assured, if Israel or US don’t start a war the chance of Iran starting one is fairly low. At worst Iran will use its numerous proxy groups to hurt Israel or recruit Afghan refugees to do his dirty work.
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  49. "Kill communism forever by supporting families, small business and religion"  Well now it's abundantly clear why precisely those factors are under relentless attack in our time.
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  50. Mao was a librarian. In my opinion, he simply photocopied not Rousseau, but a book from his own land from before the 3rd century BCE, The Book of Lord Shang. It's all there in The Book of Lord Shang, a shockingly cynical book of totalitarian rule that makes anything written in Europe such as Machiavelli look like a children's fairytale. A sample: "Farming, trade and office are the three permanent functions in a state, and these three functions give rise to six parasitic functions, which are called: care for old age, living on others, beauty, love, ambition and virtuous conduct. If these six parasites find an attachment, there will be dismemberment ... If in a country there are the following ten evils: rites, music, odes, history, virtue, moral culture, filial piety, brotherly duty, integrity and sophistry, the ruler cannot make the people fight and dismemberment is inevitable; and this brings extinction in its train. If the country has not these ten things and the ruler can make the people fight, he will be so prosperous that he will attain supremacy." The Book of Lord Shang argues that anything we would consider a virtue has to be stamped out by the totalitarian government. China's philosophical legacy from the ancient past that is reverberating today has nothing to do with Abraham, it is their own philosophy of Legalism.
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