Hearted Youtube comments on Whatifalthist (@WhatifAltHist) channel.

  1. If society decides to trash your reputation for doing the logical and rational exercise of asking the unpleasant questions, looking to past known outcomes, and then extrapolating into the future one of the possible outcomes. Then I think it would only be adding confirmation to your hypothesis. Keep asking and exploring the tough questions. You have a mind suited to it.
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  2. Bruv, at my school we would literally have three hour seminars about the current thing. My favorite one was the transgender one where my friend and I got really high and were told to donate our clothes to be good ‘allies’. I would also get indirectly berated for being white and blonde almost everyday, even though a big chunk of me is Arab and my skin is darker than more than half of the ‘persons of color’ in the school. Being a Christian (I love Jesus) was also a big no no, but being a Muslim (our Abrahamic Brothers who think Jesus was a Prophet) was celebrated.
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  3. I have literally studied religion at various levels for over forty years and last year I learned something that changed everything making me realise that I know nothing. The concept "religion" is an artificial construction created by Western academics about 300 years ago. The implications of this are incredible. Basically, Western culture is the only one that sees religion as something distinct from culture. This is most obvious in Japan where something like 6% of the population consider themselves religious but over 95% attend Shinto temple regularly. When people in the West attack religion they are unknowingly (or knowingly) attacking the culture. Religious wars are culture wars and culture wars are religious wars. Yes, "wokeism" is a religion. It is an attempt to create a new culture. Last example, critics of Islam will say that they are attacking the ideology an not the people, but the people, the culture, and the ideology are the same thing. I believe this explains why religious decline and cultural decline go hand in hand. It because they are the same thing.
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  4. What if Avery the Cuban-American is a Sentient Robot from the Future?
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  5. Turkey annexing or 'vassalize' Israel, Greece and Egypt, no i don't think that will happen.
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  6. Whatifalthist double upload is definitely making my hospital stay more bearable… cheers Rudyard
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  7. Got an ear infection rn and just sitting in my apartment in fucking agony. Job said that it's two points since I missed, and that 8 total points will get me fired. I have 4 now. Haha life is greatttt
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  8. I feel BAD for my cousin who's name is actually KAREN.
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  9. I love when you point out how school kids are basically expected to work 13 hours a day. It's a point I try to make, but it's so normalized nobody cares. You're right. Kids have roughly 7 hours of school, a couple hours of homework/studying, and then a few more hours for extracurriculars and/or sports. I was only in high school band and we put almost 20+ hours a week into practice before and after school. In terms of just sheer hours worked, no adult even comes close.
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  10. 12:50 "The more disease a society has the more authoritarian..." this hits hard for me, living in China. Crates of smoked meat and canned food and pasta, in case we get welded in our apartments for 3-6 months, standing in the middle of my living room.
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  11. I'm so glad this has aged poorly so far with the warmest winter ever
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  12. The UK has a fairly entrenched class system, but I've been confused by recent events namely how easily "liberal elites" became a slur for usually just any middle-class professional stating their expertise, while the actual landed gentry became "men of the people". Envy makes a lot of sense: the latter being from and in an unreachable level of society, while the former are generally just people who did better in school.
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  13. FWIW I'm 51 and most of my adult life I've been trying to tell younger people "It's not just going to just be OK, the authorities lied to you" and for most of my life I've been labeled a misanthrope, or whatever insulting descriptor sits opposite of each authority figure's alignment. I've gotten through to about 7 people, and these have become some of my most trusted friends.
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  14. Saturdays are slow days at work. Im so excited to listen to these for a few hours during my shift. Thanks for the double drop, amazing work im sure!
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  15. Long time watcher of WhatIfAltHist, i've been watching since i was 13, now im almost graduating highschool and thinking into graduating anthropology thanks to Rudyard, Can say all the praise given by my fellow WhatIfAltHist Fans is warranted, the last few videos about modern topics have been kinda repetitive and it's nice seeing a video about historical topics with proper academical bibliography such as the old ones about explaining civilizations.
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  16. There was a good point near the end that should never get overlooked, being the reaction. "Rubber band" movements as I call them fling themselves far in the opposite direction of the previous or mainstream thought. Some of the most extreme ideologies of the modern era are arguably rubber band movements against aspects of the medieval period; e.g. communism rejects the landed nobility in favour of top down bureaucracy which ironically is what the king wanted most of the time, and Facism which is a direct rejection of the idea that the weak should be protected and cared for and that there are more important things than your nation to fight for. Arguably we are on the trend of returning to effective paganism, as the rise in atheism has precipitated a massive reduction in moral teaching among those who do not pursue it, this leads to the standard massive inflation of a single moral precept above others in society as happens in all ideology: loyalty to ones family and local community in confucianism at the cost of long term stability; provision for the down trodden in marxism, at the cost of the successful; loyalty and stability in facism, to the cost of freedom; protection of ones people in Nazism, to the cost of the minority; and the pursuit of truth at the in enlightenment philosophy, to the cost of tradition (not always good or bad). In the worst cases only the negatives come out; warring states, holodomor, Holocaust, and I think we're experiencing the move towards full rejection of tradition for the first time at the moment (though that point will likely never be reached).
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  17. The thing I found as I have gotten older is how lonely it becomes once you learn all the tricks that everyone lives their lives willfully believing. You end up realizing how absolutely mad the majority of people are. Most people have absolutely no idea what they are talking about because they haven't even thought about the subject long enough to formulate a proper opinion. I actually fun with this sort of thing at my last job on my last couple weeks. All the customers that would spout meaningless political bs for no reason, I would humor them. I would go "oh who is that, what did they did that's so bad?". And in 9/10 cases the person would pretty quickly realize they had no idea what or who it was they were mad and talking about. That is the sad sad state of the majority of your average people that are just going through life. They aren't thinking about anything. They aren't thinking about the reason they are doing the job they are doing, they aren't thinking about the stupid bs that drops out of their mouths, and they most definitely aren't thinking about wider repercussions to their actions. It's literally as if a muscle/part of the brain which these people have lost. They are as if functioning npcs, the perfect burnt out husk of a human to do a day job until their body fails.
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  18. Something extremely bad is coming in the uk, not only are we plagued with the issues mentioned in the video but the young men like myself are also incredibly divided politically with (from experience) a roughly 50/50 split between left and right with generally aggressive (yet not violent) reactions from both sides to those of opposite opinions. Add to this a rapid decline in power and status coupled with arguably the worst ten years in the last 400 years of British history and you can really start to see the parallels to weimar Germany. I predict increasing radicalisation and eventually violent clashes between radical groups on the left and right. The end result is dangerous regardless of who comes out on top. My country is in a sad state of affairs and the future looks very dark and very radical.
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  19. It's funny but I've taken people as adults real camping for the first time (not like park a car and melt a marshmallow but long canoe trip) and people have like panic attacks when it's time to leave. I always say "It's crazy how when you keep an animal in a cage for it's whole life and then take them to their natural habitat, they freak out when you try and make them leave" lol
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  20. He's now upgraded to dedicated case officer.
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  21. We will have to explain what "Karens" were to our grandkids because their society will be way too poor to support Karens... A bittersweet victory.
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  22. As a fellow Pennsylvanian, you might be interested to know that last week they passed a law dropping the corporate net income tax (CNIT) by 50%. It was 9.9%, second highest in the nation behind New Jersey, and will now be 4.5%, making it one of the five lowest of the states which have a CNIT (I believe about 40-43). They’re trying to encourage some new business and manufacturing return finally
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  23. Why is Kekistan not on the list?? I now find this offensive.
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  24. As someone born in 1998, I largely agree. Despite having been on a dozen dates with different women and having moderate success on the dating market (a few matches a week) having good social connections and close friends in various groups (family, students, party politics, hobby groups, plenty of social media followers), I am still an incel. I am in relatively good shape due to jogging and good diet even if otherwise I don't do exercise much. And I can communicate with women and men in a normal manner, I am just considered too "nerdy" for their tastes for liking school, video games, books, art, history, classical music etc. and taking myself seriously. I have some weird traditional upper-class mores like self-improvement, curiosity, seriousness, propriety and good manners, which are generally disrespected Despite being highly intelligent, coming from a good family, and studying a degree which should provide me a high wage level, I still feel hopeless in today's job market. My field is extremely hard and requires an extensive understanding of math, statistics and programming. School before university was a child's play, now it is a constant grind and banging my head against the wall (metaphorically). Even so demanding, that I am thinking of maybe trying a different education field or career path. I do enjoy learning things, but the price for success is high. I am burned out after doing my bachelor degree, and right now I have no motivation to continue my studies, even if I could continue to complete the masters degree. I have been in two-entry level jobs which can be replaced by robots. I have handed out forms in buses and did telemarketing for useless products. The former was the more decent one for a job, and I actually enjoyed it. I have also volunteered for counting votes in election but thats only once a few years. But, what you do when you can't get even a damn job as a shopkeeper or waiter or something, even if I have often applied. Even if my relatives are all highly educated in three generations, have been executives in companies or hold high positions in public sector and other jobs. Even if I have large amount of savings (hundreds of thousand of euros) invested in bank account thanks to my relatives, who I might later inherit for millions, I am still worried for my financial future. I don't know if it is good that I have gained so much wealth for nothing as an employed student, it breeds apathy in me for working. The bit about mental illnesses and nihilism hits me. During corona I became depressed, had anxiety, just like all the people I knew. Plenty of them have had those even before. In addition, I was diagnosed with autism as a child and I might have ADHD as well. This all seems fairly common for my generation and people I knew. Especially the prevalence of ADHD is skyrocketing and will probably continue due to changes in our society. Above all I hate modern pop culture and popular phenomena, which feels soulless and appealing to the most common denominator. What do I even use Youtube for then? To listen to classical music, find documentaries on history, math and science, and on video gaming. But the dopamine thing is hard. Thing is, I would like to concentrate and stop using social media and waste my time on Internet. But everyone else uses it, so I must too if I want to participate in discussions and planning events. I need to use the computer constantly whether I like it or not, in my job and studies. I was addicted to porn, but I got mostly free off it. Now I only addicted on video gaming and social media. I am also addicted to Wikipedia surfing and gathering more information from the web. I am NOT a person who you should give a device which can provide endless information for them and endless debates with strangers.
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  25. Hey my holy master, I want you to remember my name in the future
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  26. "The state is a dildo" is by far the best line Lynch has ever said 35:11
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  27. As someone who vehemently disagrees with most of your points, I love your Youtube channel. You present your opinions in a way that (usually) aren't intended to incite anger but rather genuine debate, you draw from a wealth of evidence, and you make calls to action that focus more on lifting each other up than pulling each other down. You make one of the best cases for centre-right politics I've seen, and I come to your videos because you force me to actually justify my opinions and go looking for evidence to back up why I think you're wrong. Leftists who dismiss you as a bigot are doing themselves a disservice. We're eating ourselves alive because we refuse to listen to people like you.
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  28. I've been suggesting this in LITERALLY EVERY VIDEO.
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  29. The toxic man: the tyrant The toxic woman: the parasite.
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  30. As our parents grew up, they saw the world get better. They lived through the dissolution of the USSR, they lived through some of the biggest economic booms from the latter half of the 20th century, they saw Dictatorships going from the norm to a shunned ideology that was ousted by Democratic values, they grew up in a time where focusing on your family was the priority and your happiness was seen as a necessity. But we didn't. As we're getting older, we're just coming across more economic decay, and the outlawing of national identities, and the promotion of the idea that what we as individuals think do not matter and it's what we do as a collective that define us. I (b. 2002) have never lived in a world where the average person not only owns the house they live in, but can afford a mortgage and to have children, and I don't know if I ever will. But history is full of surprises. Like he said at the beginning of the video, we all have this feeling in our gut that a breaking point is almost upon us. And if that happens, I predict that the corrupt leaders we all hate will be deposed from office and younger, more knowledgeable people will take over. It'll take a lot of time but it'll happen eventually, if things continue how they are.
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  31. We were presented with a fictional world, a mythology that we believed was real (because either was ignorant or did not want to hurt our feelings). Now as we are learning, we are disillusioned, and saddened we were lied to and unprepared for reality.
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  32. Nothing better than coming home from the gym, grilling a steak, and consuming some of Rudyard's content. 'cept maybe Jesus.
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  33. Watching this video makes me feel like I'm spectating a civ game with someone doing an analysis on how all the players are playing and stuff.
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  34. "Just pull out and do your own thing" I wish I heard this 18 years ago, I would have saved a fortune on child support.
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  35. Like an old man I'm to early for this also how about a video explaining how Christianity ended up how we know it as today or in better terms the history of Christianity and maybe other religions.
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  36. Your story of watching the news with your Dad reminded me of a similar story on the couch with mine. We were watching the announcement that Medicare part D had passed and my Dad looked at me, smiled, and then kissed me on the cheek. I asked, "what's that for?", he shrugged and said, "Everyone should get a kiss when they get fucked."
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  37. 1:49 god damn Matthew White killed a lot of people how has someone not stopped his reign of terror
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  38. Problem with DNA is: if you start changing one gene or several genes, then other genes reacts...increasing the chance for mutation. We're not there yet to just do what we want without repercussions
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  39. Can you do a video on why our generation brags about smoking, "vibing" and "Chilling" out? on the flip side I think there's a smaller proportion of society especially within academia and corporate America who brag about working to death, pulling all nighters, working 2 jobs, etc.
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  40. Some chick just walked up to me, told me she loves whatifalthist and we watched this vid together. Were now getting married ((Me with the most brutal onslaught of mental problems talking to my imaginary friend))
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  41. Next up: 11 well-known countries with the lamest history
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  42. 18:37 this is a huge problem that isn’t talked about and it’s getting worse. I’m a bit older than this person created here, I was born in 1983 and I started going to talk therapy in college, around 2002. I went on and off since then and I’ve noticed therapists are so ideologically captured that they really struggle to connect with young men’s problems. It doesn’t help that a lot of therapists are liberal women who undoubtedly view men as privileged. How do you think they’re going to react to a man’s suffering? I’ve had two therapists respond to me talking about the physical abuse I endured with my mom by saying, “well your mom grew up in a time where she was discriminated against and held back so I’m not surprised she had anger in her.” Completely inappropriate and insane. You can just tell some of these therapists really want someone other than a straight white male in their office because they don’t see our problems as legitimate. On top of that the APA has pathologized masculinity so now it’s in the books.
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  43. Been with you since 15k subs and it gives me faith in humanity seeing how quickly you've grown. Keep digging and asking questions, you inspire many of us to do the same.
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  44. That toy soldier story is wild. So when I was a kid, I visited fort Ligonier and I got a toy soldier set for the French and Indian war ( I think it was, might have been American Revolutionary War sold incorrectly). We really used to study wars and actually understood the causes and consequences of warfare a lot better. It can be argued, I’m of this school of thought, that WWI basically broke the minds of European scholars, soldiers, politicians etc. and we’ve never fully recovered. There’s a reason WWI study was basically done in hushed tones until very recently.
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  45. Bro you are one of the most unique perspectives on this app like no one else would think to post a video like this. thanks for being one of the best on here.
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  46. You're doing some important work that no one else is doing right now. As one radical centrist to another, THANK YOU.
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  47. 7:36 how the hell is Antarctica a Chinese ally
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  48. Fear -> Courage and Heroism Shame -> Chastity and Honour Pride -> Humility and Englightenment Disgust -> Investigation and Elimination Guilt -> Confession and Absolution Envy -> Learning and Catharsis There is a solution to each and every one of these problems, and you'll find examples of this timeless nobility in each of our greatest gods, heroes, and leaders.
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  49. 'There was this cruel noble woman who send serfs to siberia for looking at her' Feminists: 'Write that down, write that down'
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  50. Also to mention that WW1 is kinda the culmination of western musical tradition, after that pop music and other genres arrived to the stage, and romanticism hadn’t a clear continuation
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