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  1. always amazed how quick it takes for him to write these
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  2. My sister who was basically an SJW, has turned centrist watching these videos.
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  3. Middle Eastern country : collapses Turkey : Bonjour
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  4. It’s bizarre how Norwegians, Swedes, and Finns settled exactly in the same arrangement as in Europe from west to east, and in the center north.
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  5. Tolkien in his literary universe, created two races: Elves, which were immortal till the end of the Earth, and Men, who lived on earth only a little while, but then departed the world to go elsewhere. You might think the Elves had the better deal, but they lived in a marred world which was prone to entropy, thus the Elves became wearier with each passing year. Whereas Men would only be on Earth a little while, and then escape beyond the circles of the world upon dying. A fallen world is no place to be an immortal. Tolkien was expressing the Christian ideal of the Resurrection, and that it wasn't just getting tossed into an afterlife, but a transformation of the soul to prepare it for the unfallen Kingdom of God.
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  6. RE: 5:00 Actually a massive amount of the Soviet KGB's archives are now publicly available and open. The main reason you don't hear about it is cause it's all in Russian and only a few people are trying to translate and disseminate that information. But some huge things were already revealed by it, like that a ton of Hollywood and academics were on the Soviet payroll during the "red scare" which probably needs a rename in light of said info.
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  7. The more I study politics, the more I thank God I found Him, because nothing humanity builds will ever last forever.
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  8. The boomers knew exactly what they were doing all along. My teachers (who were generally the same teachers my parents had) taught us all about what would happen in the future. My teachers told me the pandemic was going to happen, and told me the inflation was going to happen. There were books written on the subject such as Brave New World or 1984. Trying to talk about it with my parents is futile. Generations before them told them what problems were going to occur as a result of their actions and now generations after them are telling them the same.
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  9. Spot on once again. “Society is a dystopia in which the boring Karen’s won, and restructured the world and western civilization in their image”…..couldn’t have said it better myself. The lameness, the fact that everything revolves around safety and liability is absolutely infuriating; it’s preventing real shit from getting done. This so-called democracy has me so disillusioned, I’d never think I’d feel this way. If you told me in 2016 that I’d be leaning Trump in 24’, it would have shocked me. I don’t think I’d believe it “The 2024 Election: Or how I stopped worrying, and love the Trump bomb”
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  10. one of the things that has always struck me as a death blow to our society is corporate degree requirements. you need a degree of some kind to get into any position of leadership or power at almost all major corporations, which on its face is economically insane because it excludes a huge pool of skilled labor but is also eerily similar to laws restricting commoners from holding officer or governmental positions during past eras. and worse still is that this idea has totally eluded the VAST majority of people, even common people.
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  11. Meeting people from eastern Europe is always interesting. The millenials being children of communist citizens makes things VERY different for them. Many adults are ego maniacs after being complicite in the communist heirarchy, or they were outcasts and poor. You can kinda tell who was who, much deeper direct history than we see in the US
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  12. “The incel revolution will be led by chads” Im dying bro😂😂
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  13. This is highly oversimplified. The business elites are roughly equally split between the republicans and democrats, as evidenced by the majority of silicon valley business leaders and the everyday programmers who lean democratic. It is also not very true that the "religion" of the right includes classical liberalism and that the "religion" of the left is confined to social justice. Clearly, classical liberalism is championed by parts of both the left and the right, while disdained by their other, more extreme halves. In reality, there is the social justice left, the big government traditionalist right, and the majority of centre left/centre right Americans, stuck in the middle. I think the increasing party polarization that you described reflects not the increasing polarization of most Americans, but rather that both extremes have managed to gain more power and prominence through organization/the dynamics of national and social media. The best analogy to our current craziness, I think, is the Italian "years of lead" in the 1960s-80s, where communists and fascists gained prominence and bombed businesses and killed politicians, while gaining support by saying that they're "defending" society against the other extreme. Eventually, the silent majority of reasonable people got tired of the violence and division, and banished the communists and fascists into the political wilderness.
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  14. I saw a post on Reddit by a mother who said she introduced her daughter to feminist writings, but after her dad died she became an extremist and is constantly ranting about men to the point she’s worried if she can even have a relationship (even mentioning she made a tiktok in anger after a guy asked her to move so he could walk past her).The comments were full of “feminists” basically saying the daughter is right somehow. Every trend seems to be leaning towards it getting worse. The pattern seems to be Young suggestible girls are conditioned into liberal feminism through media and education, it fails and they get burned, they become even radical anti-male feminists. Ex. Young women enter college, start being promiscuous due to hook up culture, end up getting burned over and over (partially because it’s a natural result of casual relationships, partially because women tend to be more attracted to men who display dark triad characteristics) then become jaded towards men in general. To make matters even worse all the corporations and institutions hire from these colleges, and though it’s usually men in the top positions they fill middle management and are actually responsible for the day to day effects on everyone’s lives.
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  15. It’s basically a system in which miserable people fail to make their lives better so they make everyone else’s life miserable instead.
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  16. Son: Dad? Why is my sisters name Rose? Me: Because your mother loves roses. Son: Thanks Dad! Me: No problem 100K special. My 12 best maps.
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  17. “People who do not trust one another will end up cooperating only under a system of formal rules and regulations, which have to be negotiated, agreed to, litigated, and enforced, sometimes by coercive means. This legal apparatus, serving as a substitute for trust, entails what economists call ‘transaction costs.’ Widespread distrust in a society, in other words, imposes a kind of tax on all forms of economic activity, a tax that high-trust societies do not have to pay.” ~ Francis Fukuyama
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  18. "If mouse utopia was to happen as a human society, what would it look like?" - It would look like California.
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  19. This literally sounds like elements of warhammer 40k. Thats actually kinda terrifying
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  20. You showed a slide of a hospital where the administrators make millions, while a doctor starting out would make in the low to mid 100,000’s with a tremendous student loan burden. My hospital was taken over by a larger hospital and they decided to kick all the physicians in my department out. You were then invited to apply for your own job, but I never got the courtesy of any response to my re-application. So I looked for another job and when I found it I was told I had to stay until the end of the year so as not to “burn any bridges”. I had a family to feed and did not want to risk being unemployed in the new year. I had worked in that place for 15 years and this was how they treated doctors. Like disposable commodities.
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  21. So, you're saying, Christians talk about Jesus too much, but Muslims don't fixate on Muhammad? Seriously? Christians believe Jesus IS God. Muslims believe Muhammad was a prophet. You'd expect Jesus to be at the center of the Christian religion. To Christians, Jesus IS God. If Christians elevated Paul in their discussions to the extent Muslims elevate Muhammad, you'd be right to question why he's the center of all discussions.
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  22. I'm from Wyoming. Watching the illustrations of past wars in your videos, I've reached the conclusion that things have improved in one respect: we now leave the horses out of it.
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  23. My friends had a Reddit intervention in which my friend Gerret hacked my Reddit account and corrupted it. The app was an echo-chamber in which I was attacked for my religious and political views and thus I would lash out with intolerant bigotry in response. Ever since then I've been a whole lot nicer and more productive. I totally agree with Rudyard on this one. The time you spend on social media could be better spent texting or calling a friend.
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  24. Its just frustrating with everything that's happened, that there are people who will say its not an issue and try to gaslight that things never changed like an abusive partner. I am just so sick of hypocritical people getting away doing the things they accuse others for, telling everyone how they should live their lives while they do everything they criticize others for. I am so tired of it all and I just want it to stop.
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  25. "Rudyard, there are certain hills that you have to die on to be a man." The most based quote so far in 2024 goes to Mr Lynch "We're getting to the point where a large part of the population needs a civil war so they don't kill themselves." - bonus quote X'D
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  26. Hey Whatifalthist I just wanted to say I love your videos. I’m finally in college and a poli sci student and your videos really give me perspective and clarity. I’m writing my first attempt at political theory and it was inspire by you and common problems I see with historical perspective. I’m so happy more people are recognizing how awesome your channel is so I just want to say thank you for making such great videos.
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  27. There’s no such thing as a “too long” whatifalthist video. You could make a 3 hour breakdown of a historical topic chosen at random and we’ll happily watch it because we know you make quality content.
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  28. The Greeks and Roman’s were indeed stunning and brave
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  29. Hey whatifalthist I have a video suggestion for you. I had this idea about trying to predict the future from a viewpoint from the past. You made a couple of videos where you try to predict events of the upcoming century. But what if you try to predict events from a viewpoint from the past. For example: you are a person living in the 1800 and you try to predict what will happen in the coming hundred years until 1900.
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  30. "The US-Mexico borderland is the borderland with the greatest difference in wealth between two countries in the world." North and South Korea: am I a joke to you?
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  31. The analysis on family connections being replaced by the bureaucracy blew my mind and is completely changing the way I view society. Keep up the good work Rudyard
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  32. Sometimes I think the CIA went from dealing crack cocaine to dealing to shitty memes.
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  33. Current Elites: "Yeah, the elites used to believe that stuff... haha... used to... yep... haha..."
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  34. I've been thinking lately how the One Ring in LOTR is very analogous to technology in general and smart phones specifically. Like the one ring smart phones give you great power but slowly destroy you. The one ring makes you invisible to the normal world, look around, everyone is buried in their phones, are they really there IRL? The one ring grants Sauron constant surveillance of you, how many eyes and ears are on these devices we carry around 24/7? Imagine Frodo in Mt Doom with the ring in his hand, except that its you and it's your smart phone, no so easy to let go. Look around at the world and the state of technology, the internet, smart phones, all of it, and the direction we seem to be going. These words suddenly gain new meaning "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them." Great video!
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  35. Im a construction worker. I build pools, which entail plumbing, dirt work, concrete work, tiling, painting, plaster work, and carpentry. I make 22/hr and i work on the road for 5 - 10 days a week, just so i can barely scrape by and provide for my family. I have no control over my life or my destiny. But if i fail, then people that depend on me feel the impacts. My wife works as well, we live paycheck to paycheck, no savings no retirement, no light at the end of the tunnel. I will work till i die
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  36. "I think 2008 is the most important year in the 21st century." YES! Looking back, give or take a year, that was when the decline turned into a freefall.
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  37. Imagine how proud his dad must be
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  38. I work in private equity real estate and energy investing and thus like to think that I have a decent perspective on the real inputs that go into the global economy. Without getting too much into the weeds, things are looking pretty scary due to a protracted supply/demand mismatch and the implications it has for the economy and global conflict.
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  39. Last time I was this early, Mithraism could still have become the dominant european religion
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  40. Mine said I can but I have to meow every 1 minute until the video is over
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  41. A communist is a good person for believing the correct politics. Real people are good for helping others, personally.
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  42. I started watching Whatifalthist in Junior High (about 8 years ago), as I was very drawn to alternate histories during that time. However, the difference between Rudyard and say alternate history hub for example is that his content matured along side me. While alternative history is fun, I stopped being as interested when I hit my Junior year in Highschool. Currently I’m a freshman collegiate wrestler and Whatifalthist is really the only channel I still watch from my childhood. His videos analyzing American cultures, civilizations, and predictions of the future resonate with me. To explain why, I’m from a Midwestern city of about 140,000 people. It’s in a really unique demographic position as it’s about 60% white surround on all sides by corn fields which are farmed by rural whites. In the city, there’s a hallowed out industrial sector which is decrepit and in ruins. However, my city found a lifeline in having a couple large companies headquartered in my downtown as well as a massive state school of 20,000, a smaller private college of 5,000, and a community college. Finally, there’s large black, Hispanic, Asian, and Indian (from india) populations. The American cultures of the Midwest, foundry, bourgeoisie intellectuals, and yankee are all present to a significant degree. Next about myself- I grew up in a single mother household with two older brothers. My biological dad is a scumbag who’s off doing whatever trailer park white trash estranged dads do. Despite this, I formed very close bonds with my brothers and mother. I would say love for my family most of life choices. My goals in life are to move out of the lower middle class, take care of my mother in her old age, and settle down with a wife and children. With this combination being how I grew up when Rudyard would talk about America’s issues and future it just made sense. Everything he talked about damn near perfectly described my life and my community. To say that his videos have impacted my life would be a bit of an understatement. As a result of Rudyard, I have read Oswald Spengler, Euripides, Virgil, Gilgamesh, Homer (Iliad and odyssey), Aeschylus, and more. My political and personal identity is deeply shaped by the morals and virtues that Rudyard spouts. Today, I’m entering the final stretch of my freshman year in college and my season ended a couple weeks ago. I’m majoring in economics and have been dating a wonderful Chinese girl for the last year and half. Perhaps I’m not alone in being an OG Whatifalthist fan that’s still here, absolutely loving the new content, and looking forward to every new video. Or, I suppose that also a possibility is that I’m some weird guy that spends too much time on YouTube. To each his own I guess. Rudyard if you read this- I’m sure I’m one of many guys that’ve been here from the start who you’ve impacted in some pretty significant ways. Keep up the amazing work
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  43. Reading "Industrial Society and Its Future" changed my life. We are animals meant to reproduce, have families, and have a community.
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  44. So, I think there's ONE good thing about patronage: Art is better when artists are sponsored by patrons rather than essentially being publicly hired. Italy, Spain, France, all had magnificent art compared to Northern Europe.
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  45. Incredible video overall. I have some qualms about the empty quarter, as the mormon urban area I felt would be worth mentioning. Vast majority of Utah's population is in an urban/sub-urban environment (called the Wasatch Front), a stretch of continuous city & suburbs in a valley spanning ~100 miles. Utah is top 5 fastest growing states and is always ranked near #1 best place to start a business. There's now what's called the "Silicon Slopes" to counter "Silicon Valley" in California with so many tech companies starting there, or moving things there. Utah now has some of the most overpriced housing markets (besides places like NY & LA) in the country because so many people have moved here. Also -- politically, Utah is the most right-wing urban state (Vermont being the most left wing rural state), which is interesting to see how an "urban" environment can be right wing. Anyways, thanks for all your work Rudyard
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  46. No, Weimar at least had an impossible peace treaty as an excuse - we did this to ourselves.
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  47. Feeling pretty dehumanized. Wife just up and left. No abuse, no infidelity on my part. She just wanted to relive her youth partying. Married 7 years. Mouse utopia is real and the collapse will happen. There needs to be an end to no fault divorce. Severe financial and criminal penalties should be applied to people who ruin good marriages without cause.
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  48. Bureaucracy is the reason China didn't take over the world. They could, but their bureaucracy made them lag behind the West.
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  49. Born in 2000, enjoy your videos and the way they are presented even if I don't agree with all the takes. The amount of knowledge I've gained from here is immense and nothing beats going on this place at 3AM because I can't sleep. All I can say is, I felt this video. I am extremely motivated to better my own life and do something great, to find out what the purpose of existing here is for me, and yet at the same time I'm also a lazy fuck. Life's full of contradictions right? Thanks for makin the vid bruh, it really does help us out a lot, cheers!
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  50. Whatifalthis: oh yeah, something is going to happen in central Asia Not even a full day later some bad stuff happens in central Asia
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