Comments by "boz" (@BOZ_11) on "Jabzy" channel.

Gladstone's funny, with the quote: "They are not the mild Mohammedans of India, nor the chivalrous Saladins of Syria, nor the cultured Moors of Spain. They were, upon the whole, from the black day when they first entered Europe, the one great anti-human specimen of humanity" Just a few years later, Gladstone would bear some responsibility for the death of 100 million Indians between 1880 and 1920 though colonial policies, since he was PM from 1880-1885 in his second stint. Britain had a hand in causing the famines in part by taxing Indians, and then using the revenue to buy their goods, essentially getting free goods (agricultural and otherwise) Oh, and a bit of slavery: "In 1834, when slavery was abolished across the British Empire, the owners were paid full value for the slaves. Gladstone helped his father obtain £106,769 (equivalent to £10,920,000 in 2021) in official reimbursement by the government for the 2,508 slaves he owned across nine plantations in the Caribbean.[25]" Just a sanctimonious guy; pretty common for western statesmen
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@arandeepsingh6419 You're asking if "anti-human" is unfair? Is this a serious question? Ironically, you have an Indian name. No love for your deceased countrymen?
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@Leo The British-Eurasian Poverty/riches are measured in GDP (GDP is just counting the sum of all money transactions). The end result is that a country with lots of natural beauty, whose society is largely built on extended families (who basically do the work that would show up on GDP via day care, child minders, tuition fees for tutoring) will not have large GDP. Conversely, in a sick society where families are nuclear or broken (mostly broken in the West), where people live isolated lives and where natural beauty is destroyed to build infrastructure, residential and commercial buildings, GDP is subsequently sky high, despite their sick society. The way we measure is sick
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old Iraqi saying: if two fish fight in the Tigris, the British are behind it
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anything with 100K+ subs is popular
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it's the same as any empire. the romans constantly had to beat down uprising from Frankish, Gothic, Gallic, Brittonic peoples. we know the names of Vercingetorix, Boudica, Arminius and many more, specifically due to uprising against the Romans.
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Christendom was fairly uneventful. oh...wait
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Worked out OK for the Turks, since the treaty of sevres was torn up by Mustafa Kemal and a new (much larger) republic was formed. Population exchange was necessary with new neighbouring countries slaughtering Turkic people
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@christianweibrecht6555 Istanbul/Constantinople under the Ottomans was never sacked. That's a matter of historical record. My last reply; adios
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@JabzyJoe Homosexuality was never as widespread or socially acceptable as smoking cannabis; not even nearly. Women also frequented bathhouses, and the homosexual facet was trumped up by contemporary homosexuals (looking for historic legitimacy, as though they needed it). Homosexuality is estimated to be between 1% and 3% of men worldwide (in that range for nearly every culture). So, the idea that these bathhouses primarily were for homosexual men is not just unlikely, but impossible
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@otten5666 "why" do anything at all? u feel me?
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@christianweibrecht6555 Rome (the city, the capital of the western empire), was sacked five times, by the Gauls, the Visigoths, the Ostrogoths, the Vandals and the Normans. The Ottoman capital was never sacked
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@christianweibrecht6555 not as the ottoman capital it wasn't
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The Levant is more complicated than "Ottoman misrule", since the Ottomans built the Hejaz railway from Damascus to Medina, and another from Cairo to Haifa. France and Britain essentially created Lebanon, Syria and Palestine after WWI, and so those railways fell into disrepair since they now would have crossed multiple nations. Western powers had colonial intentions, of course, and Britain's failed mandate of Palestine is still killing people today in the Genocide of Palestinians by the Israelis. Even more ironic is that the IDF was essentially a terrorist paramilitary group called 'Irgun' (among other paramilitary groups), who used to hang British officers, used WWI era machine guns in drive-by shootings, and killed nearly 100 people in the bombing of the King David hotel in 1946. Not to mention Nabka, and the eviction of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948 (2000 of whom died!). The Arab Palestinians loved their books, were cultured, literate, and had private collections of ancient books and manuscripts. They weren't rolling around in infertile soil, as some of the arrogant quotes suggest. For anyone who's interested in this history, watch: https://youtu.be/GdtCrCsKlw0?feature=shared
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@ridhimalifestyle100 the same liberal democracy that's about to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians? or the other liberal democracy that's engaged in the "war on terror" since 2001 and killed over a million Arabs in 22 years? None of whom had anything do with 9/11, mind you
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@azzamsa7yt109 how did they go before?
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@efinlayson you can see the archaeological dig of the house of Khadija online
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@efinlayson which map(s) of antiquity are you referring to? if you have nothing to bear (you've brought nothing thus far) i'll leave u to it
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@JabzyJoe yes but 'To kill a mockingbird' is a metaphorical title. Where was your use of metaphor?
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@JabzyJoe Fair enough, but knowing what the bargain is, means your right to complain is out the window. Not that you're doing that, but pulses have been raised around here 😀
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@JabzyJoe the janissaries were slave soldiers; a small but elite infantry group. They probably made up about 0.0001% of the ottoman population. Using them as a guide for general social behaviour is a bit myopic. EDIT: moreover, they were a serious political force, as well as a militant one, so any literary output from them is likely to reverberate through history a lot more loudly than the lives of the average man (who was neither a slave, nor a solider, nor a slave soldier, nor gay).
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@itzikashemtov6045 "Just encouraging everything to be priced." ------ exactly, they're such idiots
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