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

  1. I'm Aspergers. I can't process what a person is saying with extraneous noise and that is ALL music would be in the case of your videos Lewis: a mentally painful and distracting noise that negates rather than adds. You are actually probably the ONLY historian working in visual media whose work I'd put on a par with those who work in writing. You have the depth and content AND your contextualisation with the rolling map etc. is very often superior; for the reasons you give. I'm glad you are pausing Stalingrad: winning one battle for History isn't worth losing the War for History; or more importantly, your sanity and health. 🙂
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  2. TIK is TIK and labels are for boxes. See his bibliography at the top of the page under the vid. "America's Great Depression" (Two editions); "Man Economy, and State with Power and Market"; and "What has the Government Done to Our Money?" all get a mention. His video "1946: The Greatest Depression in US History (prior to 2020)" and its' specific bibliography will probably answer your questions.
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  3. Didn't even do that in a lot of cases. The Twins were very good at running away! All credit to them covering the Heer and evacuations in the Baltic in '45 though, mettle in adversity.
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  4. Xtians are too much invested in their own bollocks, tah but no tah.
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  5. Lewis is talking about the outcomes of that move; what you are talking about is secondary to his point.
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  6.  @mikereger1186  Fortunately, the wait in George's case has led to some of us realising his opus is actually a bit crap and we are the better for that realisation.
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  7.  @rcwagon  You can't do anything about commies, wehraboos, woke, new agers, the religious, and other delusional foolish people. They should just be mocked or ignored.
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  8.  @ColonelSandersLite  Big differences in dialect; "dialectical" is Hegelian tripe inherited by Marx. Well done: you proved your own point!😉
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  9.  @punishedgloyperstormtroope8098  We might pay attention - except you are a loony.
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  10.  @TheImperatorKnight  Her better ideas were just watered down Powell. I'd be interested in hearing your take on John Enoch someday.
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  11.  @robertskrzynski2768  The Chamberlains should have stayed in local government; that was their's and the Liberal Party's forte.
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  12.  @neiloflongbeck5705  Gort managed a masterful withdrawal in contact but he was as remiss as Gamelin in not using the preceding eight months a quarter as well as was possible.
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  13.  @neiloflongbeck5705  In preparing his army. As for command there were several layers between him and Gamelin. He had EIGHT MONTHS to cotton to the Frogs not being up to snuff EWIGHT MONTHS to sort the clusterfuck of the command arrangements out. But the EIGHT MONTHS not spent honing the BEF, an entirely mechanised army to be the Ententes arm blanche? EIGHT MONTHS to make Arras the settling of the Nah-zees hash instead of of a half-arsed raid. French was a twat but the Ist BEF did exactly what it was supposed to at Mons and Le Cateau and sufficiently discomfitted the Hun to lead them to wreck on the Marne. French and Smith-Dorrien have eight months to save the sum of things for pay?
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  14. Liberalism and Conservatism are specifically ENGLISH, not Western positions. You can stretch this to the Anglosphere; the English-speaking world. American politics do not map on to English politics do not map onto European politics. You can break down French politics not mapping onto other European's politics. "The West" is an artefact if you think there is no granularity to it.
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  15. Excellent map. I second everyone else that Terri and yourself need to copyright each of your works. If there is ONE thing I get tired of hearing about any war's history books it's "The maps are rubbish". This certainly is NOT the case here. Kudos to you both; especially Terri!
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  16. Churchill is my go to guy.
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  17.  @stevengrogan9972  Made up as in constructed; or made up as in fiction, and bad fiction at that? "Mein Kampf" ain't no "The Iron Dream", baby!
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  18. Mellon was Treasury Secretary. "The problem of the government is to fix rates which will bring in a maximum amount of revenue to the Treasury and at the same time bear not too heavily on the taxpayer or on business enterprises. A sound tax policy must take into consideration three factors. It must produce sufficient revenue for the government; it must lessen, so far as possible, the burden of taxation on those least able to bear it; and it must also remove those influences which might retard the continued steady development of business and industry on which, in the last analysis, so much of our prosperity depends. Furthermore, a permanent tax system should be designed, not merely for one or two years nor for the effect it may have on any given class of taxpayers but should be worked out with regard to conditions over a long period and with a view to its ultimate effect on the prosperity of the country as a whole. These are the principles on which the Treasury's tax policy is based, and any revision of taxes which ignores these fundamental principles will prove merely a makeshift and must eventually be replaced by a system based on economic rather than political considerations." "I have never viewed taxation as a means of rewarding one class of taxpayers or punishing another. If such a point of view ever controls our public policy, the traditions of freedom, justice and equality of opportunity, which are the distinguishing characteristics of our American civilization, will have disappeared and in their place we shall have class legislation with all of its attendant evils. The man who seeks to perpetuate prejudice and class hatred is doing America an ill service." Read him. Greider writes for "Rolling Stone"; don't read him.
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  19. Stalin's applause was due to the resistance being commie.
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  20. Tails don't wag dogs; contrary to your impression.
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  21. Bankers; monopoly capitalists and ... China. That I could nod along with. The same and the Soviets? Nah; if that had been the case Gorby would have been an acolyte of Deng Xiaoping and not a promoter of Perestroika. It is probably China pulling the strings of the bankers and monopoly capitalists rather than the other way around though. "Woke" and "The Long March Through the Institutions" looks like the orphan code and zombie processes of Comintern subversion that Peking is taking advantage of opportunistically. Critical Theory bollocks will destroy the the institutions if allowed; not benefit banks and monopoly capitalists that will just be pauperised by them. If Monopoly Capitalists are running a conspiracy it is a singularly incompetent one! :-)
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  22. UKIP are still here. A Nigel Farage does not a political party make.
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  23. You dispute a core argument; yet it is a "Great" video? You are a tad confused, mate.
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  24.  @tristanthamm505  Let's go back before society, eh? How did we handle this when we were just another Great Ape and hadn't ascended to quasi-Godhead? 2 or more beta males would come together (form an association) and overthrow the Alpha who'd "gotten out of his box" so to speak. Our putative "not-a-state" by its very nature has distributed "power" centres delivering those services the state monopolises, multiples of associations in competition/cooperation with one another in a free market. Now this "not-a-state" isn't in a vacuum, there are still states outside of it organised as monopolies. So it follows our "not-a-state" would have analogues of the Free Companies of the Late Mediaevel/Renaissance; and everyone would have a commitment to defending the "not-a-state" and keeping it so analogous of the Israeli/Swiss "Nation-in-Arms". Organised Militias as opposed to the USA's unorganised militia. Lewis spoke of "Mom and Pop"; what we are doing is replicating that kind of organisation up the hierarchy in a non-malevolent manner. So two or more not-so-powerful associations would act against this association of yours that gets out of its box.
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  25.  @TheImperatorKnight  Grab some Graeber and Wengrow; James C Scott; and David W Anthony. The anthropology of the New World; Old Europe; and the highlands of Indo-China is robust riposte to W.I.E.R.D T.I.N.A. There are plenty of roads we w.i.e.r.dos have not taken and that other cultures have explored with gusto and success. I haven't thought about this in any depth for decades. Tah for resuscitating a somewhat moribund mind!
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  26. You should probably pick up a New Testament and read it without the prattlings of your priests getting in the road. Only The Father knows The Son and only The Son The Father. (The Gospels; passim) This was so until the Father chose to reveal The Son to the Apostles. (Paul; passim). The Jews are the brothers of the Devil; sons of a "god" who was always a liar and a murderer. (G.Jn; 8:44). Those that threw the Nicean New Testament together wanted to have their cake and eat it. Xtianity had to be seen to be sufficiently Jewish, and so sufficiently ancient: religio as to be legitimate in Roman eyes; and not a rootless cult de novo: superstitio; while being sufficiently distinguished from Judaismos as to not invite Roman ire at a people seen by the state by the mid-Second Century as the ultimate anti-Romanitas and anti-Hellenismos on steroids. And so we have this kludge to the present day.
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  27.  @faeembrugh  Orangemen don't like to recall that at the Boyne the POPE was on THEIR side. THEY were allied with the Pope.
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  28.  @ozansimitciler5781  "The Irish fight well under White officers", or so I am told. It's an anecdote now: I no longer have the reference for the quote; though it checked out at the time.
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  29. No, a Democrat. Which is true; the Party that is the acme of an ass.
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  30.  @jonathanperry8331  It is a Judaeo-Xtian trope. The thousand year reign of the Messiah on earth; the Millenial Kingdom. All socialisms are Judaeo-Xtian heresies and usurp Judaeo-Xtian mythology; witness the British Labour movement and 'New Jerusalem'. The Volk is an usurpation of The Church as The Chosen People. The Church as Israel is an usurpation of The Chosen People/Israel. This is why the Confessing Church stood for the Creed in church services when they had not done so before AH came to power. They would have no Fuehrer but God. This is why the Jews had to be destroyed: there could be only one Chosen People of God, and guess who they were? I'll be very interested in the videos Lewis makes to tie this altogether on the faith front. I suspect his 'Hitler wasn't a Xtian' argument will be suspiciously similar to the Wehraboo and Tankie arguments that Hitler wasn't a socialist. Xtianity is a very broad phenomenom; it is more truthful to say there were and are many Xtianities. Hitler's was a variant called Positive Xtianity which launched off Gnostic and Marcionite Xtian ideas. The Hidden Rulers in Paul and other Gnostic writings are demons and/or fallen angels.The anti-Semitism finds its blessing in John 8:44, which equates the Jews with the Devil as siblings of the same evil father. Just as Marx and other socialists "secularised" Xtianity, launching off of Acts 5: 1-11 Hitler "secularises" the Demons, hidden rulers of the world, as the Jews, hidden rulers of the world. When we say Jews are demonised, we are speaking the literal truth. A truth validated for several different varieties of Xtianity by G. Jn. Whether Hitler was a Socialist or a Xtian boils down to semantics and whether or not you exclude the middle. Both are distinctions without differences.
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  31.  @TheImperatorKnight  You need the down-time from combat, a pass to the rear areas or even home for some well-earned R & R. 🙂 This is now the TIKhistory channel and you can re-commission HMS TIK from the reserve; re-list your old gaming videos, and have fun. We want you well rested and refreshed when you return to cut off the Tankie salient (I don't think they have a salient argument btw); tidy up the battlefield; and assemble the artillery park for the Final Break-In Offensive before you Thunder Run Das Kapital; raze Highgate Cemetry and sow it with salt. Delenda est!
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  32. See under the video; the sources are listed there and there is also a list of the channel's broader source material.
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  33. More importantly, thanks to you Lewis, we no longer have recourse to the horseshit rations offered by others. Well done and have a super Yule and New Year.
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  34.  @posham219  He's a spammer. I'm only seeing his comment because it is misplaced, LOL!!!
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  35.  @flashgordon6670  You have an attention span that makes goldfish look good. I rest my case and hope this helps. /s
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  36. Putin.
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  37. Open a good dictionary; you'll find every term has half a dozen definitions. You are not a native English-speaker; perhaps the majority of TIK's audience is American, and we are English. That is three different ways of defining things right there; nevermind the different definitions in our respective countries/cultures. Original meaning by all means; but whose?
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  38. The same goes for 1+1 dear. Unsurprisingly Russell wandered into Commie, CND, and all sorts of other dipstick.
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  39.  @darkalan1562 ? Making sense isn't yours
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  40. We're living in a bloody tampon, mate!
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  41.  @TheImperatorKnight  Recommend authors; not texts. Job jobbed.
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  42.  @wolfNov1942  Maybe you think I give a flying fuck for dead krauts. 'Butcher' Harris killed far too many Smiths with his plan of attack... and not enough Schmidts to justify it. That is my major criticism of our war-fighting.
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  43.  Marcin Marczuk  There might not be the granularity for that in what information is available about Soviet forces and the information might be more contradictory.
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  44. First you have to build the assault ships and landing craft, as well as the logistics to support the breakout from the beach head and blah blah blah. Considering 'Torch' though, a direct assault from across the Atlantic if I remember correctly, an Anglo-American assault on that sort of timescale might have been an outside possibility. You have to remember though that Churchill had serious willies about the Krauts - he thought they had used 3000 heavy tanks to take France and had been over-egging the Luftwaffe & U-Boats specifically. Corporal Jones' "Don't panic!" cries in Dad's Army satyrised this.
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  45.  @Darko_CC  Roosevelt was a foockin eejit and probably Stalin's bitch to boot.
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  46.  @bradojacko8247  Just work your way through the recent back catalogue (Apart from the Battlestorms and other military asides, mind.) There is plenty to get your teeth into.
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  47.  @bradojacko8247  Niche topic. It's the crazy du jour, but even if you define things widely; you ain't talking more than 5% of peeps. Ernst Röhm has come up a couple of times; but as a political threat to his knibs. Other things are just incidental. As they are to the vast majority of people the vast majority of the time. Not our community, mate; so not our interest.
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  48. You can't call it a World War until the WHOLE WORLD is involved. If your definition is going to be fighting allover the world between globe spanning empires you'd best call it WWV; the Seven Years War, French Revolutionary War, and the Napoleonic War were global conflicts meeting how you are defining "WWII". The War was confined to Europe until Italy broadened it to North Africa. A couple of brief sideshows in the Middle East hardly extended it to Asia. Even the Soviet Union was basically a European power fighting a European war. Even after Pearl Harbor, Latin America was absent from the rota. Calling it a "World War", regardless of iteration, makes even less sense than the "World Series" in Baseball: that is just semantic error; but if whole continents avoid the fighting for most, if not all, of both you can hardly call either a World War.
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  49.  @TheImperatorKnight  Re: "Hitler's Table Talk"; see Nilsson, Michael (2020). "Hitler Redux: The Incredible History of Hitler's So-Called Table Talks". Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge. Also "Hugh Trevor-Roper and the English Editions of Hitler's Table Talk and Testament"; Mikael Nilsson; Journal of Contemporary History; March 10, 2016; PDF available on Sage; and Carrier, R.C. (2003). "'Hitler's Table Talk': Troubling Finds" German Studies Review 26 (3): 561–576. More at richardcarrier dot.info; search on "Hitler's Table Talk". It is crazy just how untrustworthy the Hitler/NAZI narratives are.
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  50.  @nicholasconder4703  We fought in Cyrenicia in WW1. See "The Sanusi's Little War" by Russell McGurk.
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