Comments by "Steve Watson" (@stevewatson6839) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. Brown is actually orange, Lewis.😉
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  2. Almost everything in a phrase: Folk are just daft. If you don't account for Man the Eejit; you won't go far in any discipline!
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  3. My first history teacher at grammar school accused me of plagiarism in the first term. I wasn't even twelve. I handed him his head. As a child with not the greatest confidence in themself, 'owning' that fool did me a world of good. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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  4.  @finlaymcdiarmid5832  That was the EUrine from even before the git-go, when it was just a Francophone loon's brain fart.
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  5. Happened before WW1, mate. Look at the 1906 - 1916 "Liberal" govt. A Socialist's wet dream a lot of the time; even the King was half-Commie!
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  6.  @jimmydesouza4375  Your not fathoming comes from the same wellspring as sociopathy and psychopathy.
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  7. @flatdot9036 Lewis is rather Duning-Kruger. I can see why he reasons so badly on Hitler as a Xtian: he began from pedestalling a Randroid interpretation of the reasons for Hitler. Whatever its' saving graces, Objectivism is objectively wrong when used as a lens for interpreting religion or philosophies other than Objectivism. Lewis has for the moment succumbed to Randroid zealotry.
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  8. He's just another Fake Fakir, but in a suit.
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  9. You are carting round a BUF sigel and you are surprised? You are dressing up as a duck and wandering in front of a Punt Gun. What was it gave you away at seven, pray?
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  10. And home of Critical Theory, the basis of Wokism.
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  11.  @noreply-7069  What is this guy saying? I don't see his posts, but others think them meanigful, if OTT.
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  12. I like Belloc; you can't go far wrong with a million rounds of ammunition and a Maxim Gun!
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  13.  @jrton1366  ? Compared to that "Mein Kampf" is a work of towereing intellectual brilliance. You were probably more coherent at 6 months.
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  14.  @jacobbrown6250  That's what I meant. Interesting chap who references interesting folk. I can't quite connect the dots though. A little bit too out of left field for me and there are too few hours in the day. TIKs view of it all would interest me too. Another pair of eyes not looking at it from the usual points of reference.
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  15.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  Got that tee-shirt! Hell is other people.
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  16.  @jpjpjp453  57 men? It almost looks as though someone didn't want the Nazis to win. :-) This op calls for Student, ALL the Fallschirmjaeger, ALL the Transportgeschwaden and AL the Italian equivalent . "A Genius for War" .... Yeah, right. ^-^
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  17.  @KameradVonTurnip  I prefer sticking it to banks myself. 😉
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  18. German Workers Party at 45:20-60? He is having a go at... Socialists. If what appears on screen is an exact transcription of the book; there is no pause here: it is a single thought.
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  19.  @TingTong2568  You forgot the brief war they had the year before. ;-)
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  20.  @fredjohnson9833  Erm... was I talking about some racist slaver rebel?
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  21.  @str.77  Catechesis, son. I went through the whole thing in that brief moment between Vatican II and the RCC falling in on itself as a result. Father Peyton made no sense, and could make no sense of the Catechism, to me. This was several years before I read the NT through in any proper sense. Even then, Robinson in 'Honest to God' had already made noises about what was taught in seminaries not making it into sermons and out of the pulpit to the pews. I'll maintain that you need no more than read "scripture" to defeat the same 'til my dying day, and take Paul at his word that his is the wisdom of fools and we already have "The Law" unto ourselves. Which renders his endeavours more than a little moot and pointless.
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  22. "By focusing on prices as they are, catallactics aimed to avoid the pitfalls of culturally or ideologically biased assumptions, where economic policies are designed around idealized notions of what "ought" to happen" "Economics is not about what ought to be, but about what is. It describes and analyzes the reality of human action, without imposing any personal valuations or ethical imperatives." Von Mises would shake his head; the Viennese market has decided the price of von Mises vis Lueger. Ironically, your stance is 180 that of von Mises.😉
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  23. Why am I not surprised? :-) Mexico understood what being in bed with an Elephant meant. No one gave tuppence about rebellion in Texas or the Intervención Estadounidense en México and the stealing of half their country in a put-up war. They also understood the damage a feckless Hapsburg Emperor could wreak.
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  24. 4 destroyers; half of WW1 vintage; half of 1930 vintage; 1 submarine; 2 minelayers; half a dozen torpedo boats. Conways 'All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-46
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  25.  @RealCeress  Take your comment and TIK's. As you look at the screen they are clearly seperate. Zoom out, you won't be able to tell one from the other. Catch my drift?
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  26.  @IvorMektin1701  Shouldn't that be "Cherman"? 😊
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  27. Franco was a typical Latin caudillo: a conservative authoritarian. The easiest tell is the far lower body-count. Fascists, the Phalange, attached themselves to him, but he wasn't attached to them.
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  28. Poll tax replaced the domestic rates; council tax "replaced" the Poll Tax. More like put a pair of knickers on it imho! The Domestic Rates if I recall properly were a part of Liberal governance before they went off the deep end.
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  29.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  I think he realised this subconciously and that was why cancer quickly saw him off when it all went tits up. His final idiocy was promoting Churchill to the King. Norway was HIS fiasco and the old drunk hadn't put a foot right for 25 or more years. EVERY time he held high office you were guaranteed shit would happen.
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  30.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  No he won't, THERE WAS NO THREAT in 1940/41; at least in the Great War the High Seas Fleet could assault its' gaoler, the Kriegsmarine couldn't even mange that. Sure it could EMBARESS us but no more. I'll draw a veil over the German Airfarce.
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  31.  @richardcutts196  As i said, fools. There was never any chance of that. Even without the Pact.
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  32.  @iambob6590  'In his book, The Devil and Karl Marx, Kengor points out that Marx loved the line that comes from the devil character, Mephistopheles, in Goethe’s Faust: “Everything that exists deserves to perish.”'
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  33. When you are starving the population and killing hundreds as reprisal for ones and twos, i imagine that helps keep the population cowed. Another thing to remember, Belarus and Ukraine had just swapped one jackboot for another. If they didn't have the means to oppose Beria and his thugs, where do you think the means to oppose Himmler's thugs was going to come from? The likes of the Ordnung Polizei existed anyway; totalitarian regimes always have thugs on the books that can't be used as a military resource. If they were, the regime collapses. Stalin also had hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of internal security troops tied up and trains and railways keeping Gulags full when they might have been better used elsewhere. we had the same problem in the Middle East; probably 90% of that command was tied up in occupation duties, admin and logistics. It had a terrible tooth to tail ratio.
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  34. Stalin knew of the Bomb. "The first use will be Moscow" was all that needed to be said.
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  35. Which still failed.
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  36.  @z000ey  AH picks up the 'phone to Madrid. Franco would be attacking Gibraltar whether he wanted or not.
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  37.  @nicholasconder4703  DAK was fighting a holding action until the Caucasus were taken. No one expected Rommel to be that good, nor us to be that bad. Even then Rommel was stopped were you would expect him to be stopped. A Mediterranean strategy might look obvious but you have to start a lot earlier than Ferb '41 to have all your ducks in a row to make it possible.
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  38. Apart from tying up a million+ in flak units; tying up the guns in the flak units; and wasting the ammunition fired by the flak units....
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  39. At no point in the war could the UK be described as threatened with defeat. The Werhmacht was even more incapable of achieving that than the Kaiser's lot. That late in the day the Dresden air raids had zero military justification. Any campaign that results in 45% KIA is criminally stupid in the first place; nevermind when the operational and strategic direction is obtuse to say the least.
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  40. That was explicit in the video - the German bomber commander refers to him as Air Marshal Student (mis-transalation of his Luftwaffe rank)
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  41. STOP PRESS: THE NARRATIVE DEFEATED AT STALINGRAD: NEVER IN THE FIELD OF INTERNET CONFLICT HAVE SO MANY OWED SO MUCH TO ONE MAN. WE HAVE THE LEWIS AND THEY DO NOT.
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  42. Stolen - with accreditation.😏
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  43.  @kenrudd6362  Reading; listening; and connecting the dots. A shred middle term going unnoticed a lot of the time.
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  44. Some odd-ball pronounciation going on in this. 🙂
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  45. He offered it to Churchill, which was no better at best and in my estimation, purely as an Englishman, much worse from the perspective of England and its' Empire.
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  46.  @midnightflier629  Goering was a Nazi. Which bit of "anti-Nazi Plot" are you ignoring? LOL
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  47.  @ruberxwibebadhi  Steady on, mate! Let the lad catch his breath. 🙂
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  48. ​ Deejii Varissuo  Deeji, the Demiurge is straight out of Plato - δημιουργός or dēmiurgós. See Plato's dialogue Timaeus/Τίμαιος/ Timaios. If you know your Plato you should recognise it written down. You probably pronounce it differently or have only ever seen it written down and that is what is throwing you. Anywho, you should have your bearings now and can get as good a grasp of what Lewis was yammering about as any of us.
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  49.  @TheImperatorKnight  Which Saint John? G. Jn., 1 Jn., 2 Jn., 3 Jn, and Rev., are all by different authors. The Johns of Gospels/Acts and Paul are different Johns again and the Apocryphon stands even further apart. If you line the Johannine scripture up in order you'll see the kinship it all has but if you only have the far ends you might be buggered to see what they have to do with one another. You'll have to be clear which writings you are talking about; you appear to be conflating quite a lot and dragging in a boatload of dubious material to boot. I can recognise what you are talking about but it is all very cartoon. Your going to wind up with The da Vinci Code or the The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail in drag if your not careful. I'm sympathetic because I've following you for years, I'm familiar with your argument and your material and I'd already reached some of the same conclusions. Early Xtianities; "Gnosticism";The Hidden Stream and all that are things that have interested me since about 1970. And trust me; on the evidence of this video your trashing both the subject and your own credibility.
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  50.  @aminrodriguez4707  Not quite. Irenaeus, Tertullian, Epiphanius, and several other Early Fathers and Heresiologists had quite a bit to say about about Xtian sectarians of a gnostic bent from the late 2nd to the early 5th century or thereabouts.
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