Comments by "Hermit Oldguy" (@hermitoldguy6312) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. The person who never made a mistake, never made anything.
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  2. If history teaches us anything, it's that whatever happens, it's Britain's fault.
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  3. Churchill said "I know history will remember me kindly, as I intend to write it myself."
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  4. I may be wrong, but I think the Soviets had an army in the East to guard against Japan - in which case the Soviets weren't fully committed, either. Edit - ah, you got that point, too.
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  5. Asking "who was the Axis" is like asking "who was Fleetwood Mac," after the first couple of names it gets complicated.
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  6. Merry Xmas, TIK. (Just coz they claim it, doesn't make it theirs.)
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  7. That's as far left as you can get!
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  8.  @drewpamon  ... By those who obviously didn't read his books.
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  9. I noticed on Wikipedia that General-plan East got watered down over the years,and General-plan West disappeared.
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  10.  @freedomordeath89  You just reworded what I said, while denying the meaning of what you wrote!
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  11. Commies are taking over everything, and they don't like folk telling truths.
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  12. My point was that autobiographies - and biographies - are often terrible sources, as they were written to defend (or attack) - they are not neutral. First-hand remarks are also not neutral. Some criminal defendants' pleas are the greatest works of fiction devised by man.
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  13.  Wulf  Mussolini only made one train run on time - the one that took him to ... um,... Milan? Or was it from Milan to Rome?
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  14. 3:35 "Pienaar reports a large force ... to the East, which is probably meant to be the West." The South Africans have actually got a good excuse for that. South Africa is around 30S, Egypt is 30N - the Sun's at the right height, but on the wrong side of them, so East and West will swap over. If a man knows instinctively which way is North (ie facing the midday Sun) giving him a compass wont help - he'll see what he expects to see.
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  15.  @russelledwards001  You lie.
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  16. Speaking with zero authority, I think "Blitzkrieg" was a term made up by the UK press to describe to the British public a new tactic the Germans were using in the opening days of the war.
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  17. I keep seeing absurd claims that Britain caused the war by failing to defend Czechoslovakia.
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  18. The Brits took to gardening, and didn't have occupying troops stealing and destroying their crops. Brits also had POWs and Land Army girls working the farms. I'll bet evacuee children were also helping grow food.
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  19. Germans saw a link between the Dutch and the Deutsche? Me too.
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  20. It's an attack on a person's identity. "Happy is he whose name is well spelled."
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  21.  @jeffreymcfadden9403  I'm English, and I have a hard time understanding English dialects.
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  22. I'd like to add my thanks to the patrons who make TIK's work possible, and without which I wouldn't get to learn so much. Cheers, guys, and merry Xmas to you.
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  23. Germany has long had strong ties with Turkey, and Turkey is the long-time enemy of Greece.
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  24. I agree, Turkey's a fortress.
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  25. From the Book of Arguments, Chapter 3, Verses 7 to 15. "Three shall be the counting of the hours, and the counting of the hours shall be three. Four shallst thou not count, and neither shall thou count to two - excepting that thou proceedeth on to three. Five is right out!" ... "Then lobbest thee thy history hand-grenade towards thy enemies, who, being naughty in thy sight shall shut up."
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  26. Goering wanted to recreate aurochs (big cattle) for his hunting forests.
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  27.  otto Lincoln  Superficially, your comment was completely pointless: a waste of your time, and everyone else's. But if you think about it, it's a self-answering question. You hate X, and you don't know why, yet you take the time and make the effort to tell people that you hate X.  You hate X because other people told you they hate X, and you don't know why, because they didn't tell you why. So, you are spreading hatred of X without cause, and you wonder where hatred comes from.
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  28.  @jeffreymcfadden9403  We English grew up watching American shows on tv.
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  29.  @keithsledger6282  Several people here don't realize you can start a war without making a declaration - an act of war often suffices.
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  30. The trouble with putting men in the city is that they're harder to supply, and the more densely they're assembled, the more effective the German artillery becomes.
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  31. There was also a German judicial inquiry in the 1970s that opened the graves and came to a figure of 22,500.
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  32. Capitalism is a law of nature - each plant and animal must make a living - must  work to eat. The cheetah is a capitalist. Socialism is also a law of nature - the family is socialist, the family meal is the redistribution of wealth.  Parasitism is also a part of nature - Marx was a parasite.
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  33. No, TIK did not say "soldiers should pay for their ammo. You made a stupid strawman argument.
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  34.  @calebmon  Yes, he literally spoke (aot we, who are literally writing and figuratively speaking).That he literally spoke does not mean that his words must have a literal interpretation.
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  35. Stalin never had a job. He went from student priest to bank robber.
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  36. Oh TIK, you have low self-esteem. Your videos are utterly awesome. You get good and bad responses, and can only believe the bad ones.
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  37. Brilliant stuff - bravo, but one quibble - no, you can't just "go and live in the woods" - almost every aspect of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle is illegal.
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  38. TIK said the problem with minority governments is that they can't get anything done. In periods of stability/prosperity, the less governments do, the better.
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  39. @Razzberry And in the Spanish civil war, the various communist factions fought each-other: Orwell was nearly shot on his first day there for being the wrong kind of communist. And the various communist factions of the French Resistance spent more time fighting each-other than fighting Germans.
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  40.  @TheImperatorKnight  There are Wikipedia pages for James Bond and Sherlock Holmes. Maybe there should be equivalent pages for these fictional characters Hoffman and Allerberger. That's a way to "get the word out".
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  41. I contend that capitalism is a law of nature; the cheetah must get more energy from her food than she used to catch it - she must make a profit.
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  42.  @calebmon  In your paraphrase "if a soldier ...", do you see the word "if"? Do you understand the meaning of that word? IF A does X then Y,  DOES NOT MEAN A should do X
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  43. Tik,when you said "don't spit out your coffee", you nearly drowned me! <cough>
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  44. Not just the deaths, but the demographics - the knock-on effect on marriages and births.
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  45. The military restrictions were economically helpful to the German people - a war-machine is a very expensive thing.
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  46.  @stanislavnovikov8880  Condescension is not a valid argument - that's something you'll learn when you're older.
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  47.  @soulknife20  No,, the crazy part was killing all the Poles that lived in the forest.
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  48. It's economics that produces tanks - along with everything else. The most vital thing to understand is that we are fed because there is profit to made by feeding us. Where there is no profit, there is no food.
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  49. Good questions, Naama.
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  50. They didn't go away - the Europe Union was the same goal by other means.
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  51. Some folk'll criticize because they've never done anything great themselves. It's easier for them to bring you down than raise themselves up.
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  52. You just take the outcome - (say) US defeat of Japan - and assume that's what the Japanese Emperor/Govt. wanted. Then the evidence supports your "theory" and you get to feel superior to everyone else - which is the point of the exercise.
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  53. What about Judea?
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  54. Some folk are very fixated on the idea that "socialism" involves workers owning the means of production. How do workers do that? If they combine their wealth to build a factory, they are capitalists. If they take the factory, they are thieves.
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  55. There have been huge increases in yield-per-acre since WWII.
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  56. @Jasta 2 So you're another troll, talking nonsense.
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  57. What i see is 187K subscribers, 1,860 views (1% of subs) and 188 likes (10% of views). That suggests either a) only 0.1% of subscribers like Tik's videos, or more like likely b) YT is stealing at least 400% of TIK's (**) income. ** and everyone one else's since this 10% likes happens to all videos (that I watch).
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  58. @Patrik Kalus I think it was the same basic plan - murder the weak, enslave the strong, Germanize a few, and reward collaborators. What varied was the numbers.
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  59. In the '30s a small one was fine, but in the '40s everyone wanted a big one. I read somewhere that the nmber of people in uniform was; Germany 19 million, British Empire 18.5 million and Soviet Union 55 million (USA unknown).
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  60. IG Farben didn't sell the idea of the Holocaust. They produced what they were told to produce.
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  61. Not quite. The British would have invaded Norway, but the Germans beat them to it (by one day). So when the British arrived they were not invaders, but foreign aid.
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  62. It was a $5 job, just to read the question!
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  63. Churchill said "I know history will remember me kindly as I intend to write it myself."
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  64. There's also the problem of insurance: a cargo-laden ship is a ruinous thing to lose at the best of times.
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  65. OMG! THIS IS HUGE!!!!
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  66. The Libya - Egypt border.
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  67. That's called "appeal to selected evidence."  That you single out 1933 suggests that your claim is not true for 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939. That you point to "size" of the army, suggests your claim is not true for warships, war aircraft, tanks, etc, - the "strength" of Poland's military - for 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, and even 1933.
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  68. So you moved the goalposts from Baltic elections to Russian elections. There were US diplomats in Riga (Latvia) to 17 June 1940 and Tallinn (Estonia) to 4 Sept 1940, in Helsinki (Finland) to 17 December 1942. And so on.
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  69. Socialism is theft. You cannot steal stuff you own. First you must sell it, only then can you steal it!
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  70. "I am not in any way condoning german war crimes" Yes, you are.
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  71. @The Nerevarine Spammers? They're working a) spreading propaganda - which is recruitment, and b) trying to get TIK banned.
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  72. The UK IS being dissolved.
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  73.  @ferdinanddaratenas3447  There aren't many reliable sources for that one.
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  74. You know you're over the target, when you're taking the most flak.
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  75. @Brandon_37 Jim Bo knows it's a lie. He's just trying to rationalize the fact of the German starvation of Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Greece, Albania, and so on, and so on. Germany, along with Japan and Italy, were responsible for food shortages around the world. When millions of men are having to fight, food production falls. Thus Germany, Japan and Italy caused the famine in Bengal.
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  76. Why?
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  77. My take on that was that Lewis was giving the official line, with his own opinion reserved and open to persuasion.
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  78. Goering said (of the race registration law) "I will decide who is a Jew and who is not."
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  79. Those awesome ones - your patrons - without whom, folk such as me would never get to see your superb videos - are the ones whose opinions matter.
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  80. Power is a drug.
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  81. @Stugbit Fz Yeah, but they were also developing the Elephant: there's a certain amount of "proof of the pudding" and a certain amount of "Madman Hitler".
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  82. You can easily spot a Marxist- when they've got no argument, they claim your pov is "debunked", the claim the question is "settled".
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  83. The Gulf War is a good example of that. One day they were blowing up bridges, the next, they were rebuilding them.
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  84. Eurasia was starving.
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  85. Life's too short to pick apart all the world's bogus claims - "falsus in uno falsus in omnibus" applies.
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  86.  @Freedomfred939  A crime is the breaking of a law. Laws are founded on sovereignty (my house, my rules). Nations cannot bind each-other with laws because that goes beyond the limits of sovereignty. Rules for the conduct of war are made by treaty (I won't bomb cities if you wont.) If one side breaks the treaty, the other side ceases to be bound by it - or else the transgressor would have an advantage.When Germany bombed London, they gave Britain full licence to bomb German cities. That's all there is to it.
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  87.  @benholroyd5221  And thus you clearly demonstrate why socialists are more likely to go to war! You know nothing of the costs of war - you don't even know why they should be a factor to consider.
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  88. That's less than 250 Calories - and that's if the bread's made of wheat - no sawdust.
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  89. Wow! That's a bit disorienting. Producers have been wrecking documentaries for the last 50 years, and this is the first time I was ever able to complain _and be heard_! Thank you.
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  90. 1938 was 20 years after 1918. France lost a generation of young men in WWI meaning they had a shortage of young men for WWII.
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  91. Anarchists are only opposed to government until the government collapses; then they're communists.
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  92. According to the map at 10:40, Donetsk - being NW of Rostov - was in German occupied territory.
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  93.  @ratitsiklauri1468  Ah, I see, yes, fair point.
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  94.  @TheImperatorKnight  You're really very good at dramatic reading - better than some audiobooks I've listened to - well you've had lots of practice! ;)
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  95. You're aware of foreign embassies and diplomacy, right?
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  96. Britain's had diplomats in Moscow continuously since 1922. The US had diplomats in Moscow continuously since 1933.
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  97. The immensely expensive West Wall, shows Hitler had good reason to think he'd have conflict with France - one way or another.
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  98. Italian fascism didn't start out as racist.
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  99. Speak for yourself. You can't wait, I can. TIK is worth waiting for.
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  100.  otto Lincoln  In other news, Mr kicky (footballer) likes Crunchy Snacks, and Ms Poseur (actress) washes her hair with Scrubbo. You might now want to wash your Crunchy Snacks with Scrubbo.
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  101. Well said.
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  102. I just watched a program on UK free tv, called "Nazi victory: the post-war plan". It didn't contain a single sentence about a post-war plan.The war itself was only mentioned in the last 90 seconds of the progam. The rest of the program was about Nazi pre-war policies and actions and considered if they were "good" things. For example, the 1936 Olympics was cast as an all-round "good thing." Essentially the program was a propaganda attempt to cast totalitarian authoritarianism in the best possible light.
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  103. Oil and gas prices are high; Europe is financing Putin's adventures.
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  104. (- dead - captured - missing)
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  105. A man contemplating his own execution can usually think of little else.
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  106. @rimacutem of Alsvartrsmiðr You're right that left and right lost their meaning, but I'm fighting against that. It's about laws and liberty. Under the Roman system of law, "that which is not prohibited is allowed". Every law made reduces personal liberty. As a Roman General observed, "where the laws are most numerous, there is the greatest tyranny. " Thus the political left and right were born by the making of law. The left seeks to take away personal liberty and the right seeks to preseve/restore it.  Totalitarianism is when everything is prohibited. By redefining left and right as International totalitarians v national totalitarians, the very idea of personal liberty is being excluded from political discourse.
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  107. Why was Germany operating a radio station in Poland?
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  108. The Soviets had a hard enough time crossing the Volga when they held Stalingrad. If they lost it, that crossing would be impossible.
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  109. Nonsense.
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  110. No, you've got it backwards. History teaches that Socialism lays waste to everything. TIK has learned that lesson.
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  111. @Rob Palmer I was just watching an old movie -"Night Flight from Moscow" (1973) in which they mentioned the Soviets "restoring Democratic Socialism" in Czechoslovakia (1968) - with Russian tanks. https://youtu.be/s5c6K9klgEo?t=1659
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  112. 1. It's a long, long way from Britain to Russia - a declaration of war would be symbolic only. 2. Britain is an ally of France, and France and Russia are long-time allies - There're political/diplomatic considerations. 3. Perhaps, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." National Socialism and International Socialism cannot be friends, so Russia was going to be fighting Germany sooner or later.
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  113. I think it's forbidden to show the naughty German symbol on YT.
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  114. Winners write the history? Haupt would disagree! Survivors write the history. As Churchill said "I know history shall remember me kindly as I intend to write it myself." Similarly the likes of Mannstein wrote histories to cover their crimes.
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  115.  @mahadhosh6400  Goebbels is not the originator of that saying.
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  116. Madman Stalin?
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  117. Didn't you hear those Courland stats on how many Soviet tanks the Germans were destroying?
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  118. @Stugbit Fz Point is, if you think you're destroying 200 enemy tanks a month, at a cost of a dozen of your own, it would be really dumb to copy the enemy tank design.
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  119. @Stugbit Fz ... in hindsight.
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  120. He's already done it. The Japanese advance pushed 1 million refugees (mostly from Burma) into Bangladesh - a country that often had famines without an extra million mouths.
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  121. Yes, they really should - the Stalingrad series is a masterpiece.
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  122. Speaking as a Brit, I have great admiration for the Finns.
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  123. There are always more questions than answers - that's just the way it is.
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  124. Prolly on BitChute - but that place is a dumpster fire.
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  125. @Rambling Recruiter who said "any military planner should have known..." That's hindsight! WWII warfare was new - there wasn't the research to know such things, was there?
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  126. The details are lacking in the chaos of that time.
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  127. "The heroes were the inhabitants of the German cities" ... who had voted AH into power - unlike the inhabitants of Warsaw, Stalingrad, London, ...
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  128. He who never made a mistake, never made anything.
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  129. Prove it.
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  130. Still pushing that lie,I see. Tell me, what loyalty did Britain owe to the Czechs?
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  131.  @PresleyPerswain  Yes, I think you're right, and one of the beauties of the English language is it's flexibility of word order - we can split, with gay abandon, our infinitives.
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  132.  @benholroyd5221  War is enormously expensive!
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  133. Fresh food (plants and animals) is about 70% water. You can save a whole lot of trucks and fuel by dehydrating as much as possible.
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  134. @Orc Lover who said "I think the definition of insanity is losing one's free will. " No, it isn't. Historically it was thought to be the inability to reason, but now it's seen more as the inability to discern facts from myths. What you've got there is a false fact. You do not have free will, you have the illusion of free will. You are constrained by morals, society, fear, ...
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  135. @Orc Lover No, you're wrong again. I have 3 decades of arguing with ideologues (religion, science, politics, etc) on the internet and have not once changed anyone's mind. I'm not in the slightest concerned with what you believe, but feel obliged to gainsay falsehoods lest they gain popularity. Lies lead to murder. People dispute the shape of the Earth - a simple matter of observable fact - and for all the decades of bitter argument, no-one changes their mind. People then are liars or fools. Are we all insane? No, of course not. Being sane has nothing to do with being correct about anything, but about being capable of being correct.
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  136. Attack and defence plans are part of determining military spending.
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  137. Ahh, subtitles - I never thought of that! :) Thanks.
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  138. No, he's not saying that. The Russians say lend-lease wasn't important. TIK pointed out it was more important than a second front.
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  139. Because free markets don't protect ships from torpedoes.
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  140. It's to show what WWII Soviet propaganda looks like. We westerners don't see much of it.
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  141. I disagree with your claim that Allied bombing of German cities was a war crime. As I see it, crime is defined by law, law is limited by jurisdiction and that is limited by sovereignty. Law is limited to nations.  The Geneva Convention is an agreement between nations - a contract. If two signatories wage war against each other, the agreement holds only so long as both sides observe it. Once it is breached, it is null and void. If Germany did not sign the Convention, they cannot break it, and they cannot seek the protection of it, either.
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  142. @Ann Onymous Yeah, run away, troll.
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  143. Ha! That's easy for you to say!
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  144. Thank you,you noble Patreons, without whom I'd never have been able to see and learn so much. :)
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  145. There's a question if radio broadcasts from Gleiwitz could reach Berlin - that's 275 miles (440 km). (SW = Short Wave) German Wikipedia says Sender Gleiwitz was built in 1935 and was a MW/SW station (107m to 40m, 2.7MHz to 7MHz). https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Gleiwitz Just a month later, Lord Haw-Haw was being broadcast on SW from Hamburg, to Britain and to the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw-Haw The BBC was running the British Empire service on SW from 1932, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_World_Service And the Post Office was running a SW point-to-point radio-telephony/telegraphy network across the British Empire - which I know because it was still going when I did my apprenticeship at just such a SW radio station. I think it started in the 1930's. I could be wrong, of course, but I'd guess Sender Gleiwitz could be heard in Berlin.
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  146. Always march (ok, steam) to(wards) the sound of the guns. {Edit: thanks @Akm72 - YT won't let me reply to people]
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  147.  @neiloflongbeck5705  You don't assign an artillery unit to aircraft repair.  If an aircraft repair unit "performs well, it goes without saying it repaired lots of aircraft. If an artillery unit "performs well" it goes without saying that it performed artillery bombardment.
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  148.  @aidanb.315  You're wrong.
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  149. Is "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" demoralising* propaganda? *corrupting the morals
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  150. Oh, the Sun goes the other way, too! We northerners face South and see the Sun move left to right. In SA, they face north and see the Sun move right to left. That's got to mess with your head.
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  151. @japeking1 I'm just speculating.
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  152. You've changed the meaning. It's "it doesn't matter who votes", which means you don't have to prevent the opposition supporters from voting - a thing that is observable by foreign agents.
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  153. Hmmm. You know what diplomats don't do, but you don't know what they do. I think I know what you're doing, and I'm not interested in continuing.
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  154. Capitalism gives us healthier, longer, more comfortable and enjoyable lives.
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  155. I like trains.
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  156. Don't forget to click the like button, comment and subscribe.
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  157. The Germans did go East - to Poland (1sep39), and France declared war (3sep39), attacked Germany (9sep39), withdrew (16sep39). What's notable is that Russia did not assist her long-time ally, France, but either seized the opportunity to profit, or prepared for German attack, by invading Poland (17sep39), Estonia (after 28sep39), Latvia (after 5oct39), & Lithuania (after 10oct39). So the question of "what if Germany hadn't attacked France" is moot: France attacked Germany. The interesting "what if" is "what if France hadn't declared war on Germany?" They had several good reasons not to; the terrible losses from WWI, the lack of preparation for another war, the Maginot line, the incompleteness of the Maginot line, the West Wall, ...
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  158. Yes, Britain and France were not ready. That's a good point about the USSR. Makes me wonder about how it became decided that they and we were allies. We certainly didn't support their attacks on Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania & Finland.
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  159. It's never fun to talk to a Marxist - Marxists lie - always.
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  160. Prior to Einstein, there was no scientific basis for gravity, yet the apple dropped.
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  161. "dummy" = "comforter" - I think: rubber teat that babies suck on. "Pram" = "big version of pushchair" - for transport of babies.
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  162. Read Adam Smith's " (An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of) The Wealth of Nations". You can get it free from Project Gutenberg.
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  163. Bingo. You can't have a fair system because nobody wants a fair system - everyone wants a little more, or a lot more.
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  164. https://uktvplay.uktv.co.uk/shows/nazi-victory-the-post-war-plan/watch-online/?video=5741284213001
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  165. You question is better phrased as "how does one create wealth"? 1.Invest things that are cheap eg, time and skill, to transform low value items into high value items. Eg., take a lump of stone and hammer it into the shape of a building block. 2. Move goods from where they are common (low value) to where they are rare (high value). Eg, Spanish oranges to UK, African bananas to Norway. 3. Dig it out of the ground.Eg., gold, diamonds, oil, etc. 4. Get your friends to talk you up. Then you can ask a much higher price for your inexpensive goods. Eg., dresses, paintings, music. Once you've created some wealth, you can invest it in more expensive ventures, eg smelting ore to make iron. And invest those profits in even more expensive ventures, eg railways.
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  166. If you think you're free of delusions, you're deluding yourself.
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  167.  @hakapeszimaki8369  You're an idiot or a liar. Certainly, you're far-left; you try to make the killing of millions seem moral because Britain was somehow "mean" to Germany.  You manage to make the Versailles treaty - at the end of WWI - a cause of its beginning!
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  168. It's written in the slogan "eat the rich".
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  169.  @BrokVoekler  Me too. Lysenko was not Darwinian.
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  170.  @timmick6911  Nonsense.
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  171.  @davidhimmelsbach557  That was a very interesting post - thank you. You might be interested in a (free) book at Project Gutenberg , by George L. Vose - "Handbook of Railroad Construction" * (I may have edited the title in my bookmarks) book number 56688. It not only details the costs of materials and construction, but also the costs of moving things by various kinds of transport.
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  172. *Lancashire.
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  173. @TheIfifi Wow. Fanatics really don't get irony, do you?
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  174. @TheIfifi Hey, TheIfifi, what's the road to Hell paved with?
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  175. Don't feel bad,TIK - a lot of Met Offices don't know how to measure temperature, either.
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  176. What I find so remarkable is, only 20 years after winning the war,Ted Heath set us on the path to subservience to the EU.
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  177. @Maxim Jochim If a government controls food supply, it isn't capitalism, it's socialism; State control.
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  178. Seconded. TIK needs to know he's worth waiting for.
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  179. You are not the world. Some of us appreciate the warning.
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  180. @Ricky Torres. Theft is a crime. Conspiracy to steal is a crime. Socialists are de facto breaking the law.
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  181. @Joonatan Nõgisto And you've just destroyed the morality of your cause. There's simply no point fighting to replace one bunch of liars, murderers and thieves with another - likely worse - bunch of liars, murderers and thieves.
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  182. London: the Germans used time delayed fuses.
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  183. The only point of your comment was to repeat the lie that Franco was right wing.
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  184. You misspelled "thousands" - it's spelled m i l l i o n s.
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  185. Yes.
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  186. Daniel Wallace wrote: "Das war ein Befehl! Der Angriff Steiners war ein Befehl! Wer sind Sie, dass Sie es wagen, sich meinem Befehl zu widersetzen?" Which translates to:- "Your dog has no nose!!" "You correctly observe that my dog has no nose!!" "Is it the case then that he is unable to detect that he is unpleasantly odourous?" Which is why there isn't a big export market for Germany comedy.
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  187.  @karapuzo1  Unnecessary additional complication of conscription. Can a volunteer afford his own equipment? If not, why not? He has a job.
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  188. There were many songs - "Fuel on the Hill", "These Fuel-ish Things", ...
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  189. He inherited the Baronetcy in 1928. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley
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  190. Fuck off.
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  191. The air force's problem is with identifying the enemy in a theatre with no front line.
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  192. 2:00 "If you don't go into Italy in 1943, where do you go?" Romania? Secure the oil - deny Germany, supply Russia (and ourselves), A pincer movement in Ukraine, trapping Germans between Brit and Russian forces. Get the Germans on the retreat again. Keep Turkey out of the Axis. Keep post-war Russia out of a lot of the Balkans
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  193. Ooooh, now I'm intrigued.
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  194. On a more practical level, you can dig it out of the ground, or steal it from other banks.
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  195. Honestly, I thought Crusader was so good, I still want to hear what happened next in that theatre.
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  196. The Normans enslaved the whole of the English people.
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  197. Did Keynes just rip off Hitler's ideas?
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  198.  @TheImperatorKnight  Luke is prolly one of them - wanting to claim you promote H.
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  199. He's talking to English-speakers who would struggle to recognize "Shpayer".
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  200. @ John Brakes Learn to read: "government" and "economy" are not synonyms.
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  201. @Simplicius Nice work.
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  202. TIK, some people climb Mount Everest - it's difficult, dangerous, expensive, and often fatal. Why do people do that: simply to be able to say they did it? Seems pointless to me. Now then, you're halfway up a figurative Mount Everest, and it's undoubtedly been difficult, expensive, and so on. You're probably asking yourself what are you doing, and what is the point. What you are doing is amassing, collating, evaluating and presenting the collective knowledge of an important part of history in an accessible way: a way that aids the further study of those events.  And what is the point of that? Well, what is the over-all lesson of World War II? I'd suggest it this: if you devote the whole of your resources to destroying your neighbours, you will most likely destroy yourself. (That's open to debate, obviously. ;) So, then, had Hitler watched your videos, and seen the ultimate futility of the course he set himself - and his nation - perhaps he might've been dissuaded from that plan. Had Hitler stopped at Poland - as tragic as that would've been - it might've saved 30-40 million lives and 3 or 4 years of war in a dozen different nations. By telling the stories of the monstrous stupidities of the past, you're helping to prevent them from happening again - and that's worth doing!
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  203. International law is established through treaties - it is contract law, ie each side is bound only so long as the other side is bound. When Germany bombed London it freed Britain from any obligation to restraint from bombing German cities. Hence, the bombing of Dresden by Britain was not a war crime. (USA can't say the same - Germany didn't bomb any US cities.)
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  204. <sigh> Authoritarians are far-LEFT!
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  205. @rimacutem of Alsvartrsmiðr No, monarchs are dependent on allies - eg the barons. It takes a (violent) collective to impose a tyranny on the masses.
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  206. @rimacutem of Alsvartrsmiðr The English Billof Rights was written because the lords collectively opposed the king. (It was an accident that it applied to the common people - who were also "English".).
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  207. If we put aside the Marxist redefinitions and start from scratch ... In the beginning - before law, every man was his own master. Farmers need peace in order to grow crops and prosper. To have peace, you need law, and to enforce law, you need a collective (that can overpower any law-breakers). Any law takes power from individuals and transfers it to the collective. Thus the political left and right were born. The left is the power of the state, the right the power of the individual. (An individual has no authority over others and cannot be an authoritarian.) Hence politics is the pratice of writing laws, and is done mostly by lawyers. The right always loses because it's composed of individuals championing the liberties of the individual.  The left, championing the cause of the collective to take more and more powers, is de facto authoritarian. Thus the ratchet of power inexorably moves to the left - the state. Only real democracy - hearing the voice of the people - can slow its progress (keyword). Once in a while a law is repealed - eg, decriminalizing of homosexuality, drugs, etc., but it's rare.
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  208.  @SamuelJamesNary  You keep on talking about "extremism" - idk what you mean by that. It usually means political terrorism.
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  209.  @SamuelJamesNary  So extremism and authoritarianism are completely different things. Authoritarianism is the trampling of people's freedoms; freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of action, ... banning tobacco, plastic straws, etc, making people stay at home and wear masks in public is authoritarianism.
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  210.  @SamuelJamesNary  You're just not learning anything, are you? You have a narrative and you're sticking with it. You failed to show that nationalism leads to extremism (because it doesn't). You failed to show that extremism leads to authoritarianism (it doesn't). You haven't touched the "fascism is far-left" point, and you're utterly silent on the authoritarianism of communism. But you did waste my time,so there's that.
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  211.  @SamuelJamesNary  Nah, you just use the terms "extremist", "fascist" and "nationalist" interchangeably.
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  212. "very little criminality", yet the Stasi maintained files on 1/3rd of the population.
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  213. TIK, you take our celebration as criticism. You need to understand you're worth waiting for.
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  214. There's no pottery (or metals) on coral islands.
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  215. Hitler's bank would've been in Switzerland - obviously.
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  216. And now we can delete this thread. I just need an ok from you, then I can delete this comment, and then all the other comments are yours.
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  217. There's something of a long-standing convention not to try to pronounce foreign place names. Britain calls Britain "Britain", France "France" and Germany "Germany". (On that we're correct.) France calls France "La France", Britain "Angleterre" and Germany "Allemagne". Germany calls Germany "Deutschland", France "Deutschland" and Britain "Deutschland".
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  218.  @TheImperatorKnight  Sounds like an inside job - someone at YT with a scam on the side.
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  219.  @wmccune30  Good question - I doubt it, it's not a melody.
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  220.  @mahadhosh6400  I don't know.
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  221. See the Wikipedia article on Mastercard re biometrics and vaccine status.
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  222. I wonder if the port facilities at Stalingrad will be adequate for an evacuation.
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  223. Yay! :)
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  224. The title tells you what the video is about, not what TIK is about.
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  225. It looks like I replied in this thread and my reply was deleted. I wonder if it was the word Nazi.
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  226. Encirclement is part of the German way of fighting.
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  227.  @Dave5843-d9m  Have you noticed the Roman Catholic connection to totalitarianism? On top of France, Spain and Italy, you can add the South American dictatorships. And of course the Pope is fully "woke".
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  228. These things happen. 1887 Conan Doyle published the novel "A Study in Scarlet". 1891 - 1893 A series of short stories published in monthly magazine "The Strand". Then Conan Doyle threw Sherlock Holmes off a cliff (but he got better). 20,000 people cancelled their subscription to Strand. 1901 - 1927 After an eight year hiatus, Conan Doyle recommenced writing Sherlock Holmes stories, producing a total of four novels and fifty four short stories - many of which are available for free from Project Gutenberg. source: Wikipedia, because it's easy and doesn't matter.
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  229. Iraq? Go through Syria, not Turkey.
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  230.  @grandadmiralzaarin4962  Well, Rommel's army went to Africa by sea.
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  231.  @grandadmiralzaarin4962  I didn't say it'd be easy - just easier than going through Turkey.
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  232. I wouldn't rush if I were you. Youtube is a communist organisation.
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  233. You RESPECT the Germans for killing 60-70 million people and bringing misery and suffering to hundreds of millions?
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  234.  @alexanderryan1176  Firstly, you are arguing the numbers to deny the fact - The Germans brought about the deaths of many tens of millions of people. (How many tens of millions of innocent lives is acceptable to you?) Secondly, no. If you respect them at the very least for A, you also respect them for B,C,and D.
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  235. Rorke's Drift.
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  236. 14:00 I think you should have liberalism in the middle, and socialism between liberalism and communism.
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  237. There's a third possibility. Perhaps the raid happened in early August, but the failed radio broadcast meant no-one was aware of it, so they repeated the raid at the end of August - with the precaution of including a radio operator. Hence Naujocks fortnight stay in Gleiwitz.
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  238. There's no criticism of Finland.
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  239. Inexperienced pilots try to fly straight and level, not throw their planes around.
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  240.  @cleancoder3838  The trouble with English grammar is that the English don't know the rules of it. "Stays always open" is perfectly within the rules - it's just not conventional. Were it not within the rules, we'd have to throw out half of England's finest literature - including most of its poetry.
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  241. The whole point of Communist revolution is that if you are poor, you can benefit from stealing from the rich. (KIll thy neighbour, steal his stuff.) That is why the people Communists hate more than they hate the rich, are other Communists - they are competing for the same treasures. (See: Spanish Civil War, WWII French resistance,...)
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  242. @ Le Rapace Utter nonsense. Land is initially free - it belongs to whoever can take it. (Thereafter, it is bought and sold: citizens do indeed own their city - they bought it, they built it.) The means of production always needs an outlay of capital.
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  243. I understand that you chose land because it is the one form of property that is not (usually) made. My argument is not invalidated by it: land itself is not a "means of production", it must be prepared; cleared, drained, hedged, ploughed, tilled, fertilised, etc. - that requires capital. On 25th December 1066, All England belonged to one man - King William I. He stole it, but nevertheless, he held it and no-one could make him give it back. He disposed of most of it as gifts (to his lords, the Church, etc). That is the basis of all property rights here, today. The property rights of the land I own derives from that. Feudalism is irrelevant - a strawman you raised only for the purpose of having something to knock down.
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  244. @ Le Rapace I cannot make you see what you refuse to see. Your "tu qoques" are false, your feudalism strawman irrelevant and boring. I am done entertaining you. Goodbye.
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  245. Only 1% thumbs up? That's some YouTube bullshit right there.
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  246.  @reginabillotti  Thanks, Reg, for sorting that out. I could offer many good excuses, but we both know who's really to blame ... YouTube! <g>
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  247. The key word there is "world". To want a war and to want a world war are very different things.
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  248. 1967 is when Ted Heath started disarming the British people (Firearms Act), and destroying the Constitution (Criminal Law Act) - eg the Statute of Praemunire - to hand over Britain to the EU (ie Germany).
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  249. Because States are criminal in nature and intent.
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  250.  Wulf  You didn't say anything about how Libya or Syria support your case - you just pointed at them
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  251. That's a rather shameful display of cowardice, and what's worse, it invites enemy action - not just just on yourself, but on your nation.
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  252. The State does not invest capital - it has none, it owns nothing, it does no work.
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  253. Also, technological superiority isn't the deciding factor. Russia didn't win Stalingrad or Kursk with technological superiority. Britain didn't lose Singapore through technological inferiority. Rorke's Drift.
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  254. Yes, he didn't give any explanation as to why it was a war crime. (It wasn't.)
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  255. So many comments finish mid-sentence. Why is that? Don't people read what they write, or don't they know they can edit their comments after posting them?
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  256. Yeah, it's funny how they miss that clue.
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  257.  @empowl1607  40,000,000 sq km? Sounds like your mom.
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  258. I agree. You'd think an invading General would have the sense to get the crops harvested - he's got an army to feed.
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  259. Me too.
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  260. I think Hitler forced agricultural workers into building the west wall (and probably the autobahns).
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  261. I'd advocate voting rights restricted to land-owners (not corporations).
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  262. @SirusKing Nations cannot be capitalist - a capitalist is "a worker who owns his own tools" (-TIK). Nations are not in business, they are collectives working cooperatively to create an environment in which people can thrive and prosper.
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  263. The coal thief is Goering - he stopped the coal by lowering passenger fares.
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  264. You comments on socialist history apply equally to socialist science. There's a feminist war on physics (the few most intelligent people on the planet are almost exclusively men) and a socialist war on Quantum Mechanics (dullards who don't understand it are trying to dismantle it - See Lubos Motl (Quantum Physicist). Climate science was born as a socialist science.
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  265. @Broreale Don't be silly. How can I possibly be "trying to attract" anyone? Only people who are already here can see what I wrote!
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  266. You mean "try to be more obscure so fewer people understand you."
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  267. Just ask Google - they are the arbiters of truth - they are all-knowing - they said so.
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  268.  @markitgeek  That, too, is a comment - as is this.
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  269.  @markitgeek  I agree with you about the inanity - it wastes everyone's time and energy. This conversation is entirely pointless. But in the context of YT, comments have value - even inane comments, So, even this pointless discussion has value. :)
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  270.  @markitgeek  All's well that ends well. Cheerio.
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  271. The Eastern Front was not the war: Britain was bombed for 5 years!
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  272. @Simon Grey. I said BRITAIN was bombed for 5 years. Can't you read?
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  273. @TIK You've already done the video that answers all these questions. Grey is a troll.
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  274.  @Edax_Royeaux  In 1932, Britain had 22% unemployment. In 1936 it still had 13%.
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  275. "Making people work for you" is slavery. Itym employ people.
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  276. @mike deck TIK has said that in previous videos, too.
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  277. It seems to me, Hitler didn't "let the British Army go", he used it as bait to draw in the Royal Navy. Adolph needed to sink RN ships and at Dunkirk they were sitting targets.
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  278. Peer-review is little more than a spell-check.
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  279. I think Tooze and Martin have got some explaining to do.
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  280. It's interesting that you mentioned soldiers being unmotivated to recover equipment  in Egypt. In the Merchant Navy sailors get salvage money for recovering ships and their cargoes. [Edit removed RN from my salvage claim because I don't know it to be  true.]
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  281.  @richardvernon317  Thanks, Richard. There's a movie about a convoy ship's crew abandoning and then re-boarding their own ship and getting salvage money.
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  282. Please, TIK, I'm trying to follow and understand what you're saying, and music just washes your words away - it's really fustrating,and ruins your work.
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  283. For a while you had the music turned down so that it was subliminal but it's been creeping up in the last 2 or 3 episodes. The thing is that what you're saying is packed with information, and I'm not as familiar as you with the subject or the language, so I really have to concentrate to follow this tremendous and exciting story.
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  284. 25:30 That vision of an Aryan utopia ruling over (Slavic) slaves is basically Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
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  285. The battle of Stalingrad alone involved some 2 million men (adding both sides). Same thing at Kursk - and they're just short sections of the Russian Front.
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  286. To get a good answer, you must first ask a good question.
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  287. There's less than 100 miles between Russia and Iran.
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  288. So why did Czech.... have loads of war materiel sitting around? They made themselves a target.
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  289.  @StandaBlabol  yes, so they should've delivered them.
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  290. So far as I can see capitalism is about the creation of wealth and socialism is about the use of wealth. I define capitalism as the wise use of wealth to create more wealth. The basic unit of wealth is food (or energy), so capitalism is a product of nature. The Cheetah must gain more energy from its food than it used in catching it - and that's true for all animals. To survive, you must gain as much as you use. To grow, you must gain more than you use. To feed the wife and kids, you must gain even more. To improve your standard of living, you must gain even more. To contribute to social capital projects (eg, roads) you must gain even more. I define Socialism as the distribution of wealth to maximise the common good. The family unit is socialist; dad creates the wealth, mum distributes it according to need, etc.. The first problem that arises is that dads must compete in their efforts to garner wealth. Nature says "kill thy neighbour, steal his stuff." Competition breeds conflict, and conflict destroys wealth. Otoh, nature says "many hands make light work," and "your neighbours' kids are your own kids future spouses". Peace is desirable, so regulation of competition (and violence) is desirable - ie "government". How much government do men want/need? None = anarchy. Little = liberalism. Lots = fascism. All = absolute tyranny. That's the realm of politics - the degree to which we will enslave ourselves to spite each-other. Capitalism and socialism are not competing economic systems. The antithesis of capitalism is waste (the broken window fallacy.) The antithesis of socialism is waste. (Give the kids an equal share of dad's profits and they'll just buy sweets and toys.)
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  291. Oh, and what any of that has to do with a old religious group is a complete mystery to me.
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  292. Completely ruined by stupid music; not watchable.
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  293. @Dick Faggotson Yes, I understand - you have nothing to say, you just want attention. Are you happy now?
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  294. Speaking as someone with long experience of internet debates, ... Truth is not established by debate - consensus is. Name-calling is psychological warfare; if your opponent is insulting you, it's not a debate. Just because you seek the truth, does not mean your opponent does too. Proselytes do not engage you to learn, but to teach. Most importantly, they lie about socialism's history because they are trying to do it again! Speaking as a radio engineer (ret.d), the electric field (pun) is young, and full of jargon - conventional words used in strange new ways. In ac, the electrons go back and forth, in dc they all go one way, so in my understanding, Gleichschaltung is like rectification, but I would use the term "conditioning". We are in a new Gleichschaltung - and have been for a long time. They want to destroy the family, so they're trying to take away family-related words, eg; woman, mother, father, etc. They call us racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, transphobic, etc, - which all mean "shut up". How many times a day do you hear these words; net zero, equity, sustainable, diversity, ...? We are constantly bombarded with such socialist propaganda - that's conditioning.
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  295. My guess is that it was a dairy-processing factory.
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  296.  @alxix001  Interesting stuff, but Kamyshia (Kamysin) at the bottom of that map, is 100+ miles north of Stalingrad (Volgograd) - as best I can tell.
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  297. That's some dry humour there.
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  298. I'm sure the guy who invented it, meant for the sporran to be worn on the inside.
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  299. Well said.
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  300. Yes, but it's stuck in China - you can't put it on a plane, or a ship.
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  301. We are all born ignorant - that is not evil.
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  302. We don't talk about the algorithm because YT can punish creators if they suspect shenanigans.
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  303. Except that you can write unjust laws. You can ban anything, and if everyone gets to have the thing they hate banned, then pretty much everything gets banned.
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  304.  @TheEvilmooseofdoom  Do you know the word "IF"?
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  305. Of course, a monarchy is a fascist state.It's inherently nationalist, and inherently socialist.
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  306.  @fiddlersgreen2433  Thanks.
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  307. Norway and Sweden both had big merchant fleets, I believe.
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  308. Before the battle, it was jst another city in a long line of cities. Paulus expected to take it in a fortnight.
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  309. He should've rallied all the nations to present a united front against Hitler.
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  310.  @TheMakumakumaku  Ah, lol.
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  311.  @TheMakumakumaku  and yet, I think my reply still stands.
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  312. He's stating points of view that are not his own - which should be obvious from this very series, and if not, then from the Operation Crusader series!
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  313. Long war? Short war? A"war" is when two armies are fighting, so you can see right there ... The Nazis did not plan for war, they planned for victory! Who could stand before them? Whoever tried would be crushed! Quartermaster: But ... They could not and would not contemplate anything else. Quartermaster: what about ... Anyone who did was a defeatist and an enemy of the State. Quartermaster: supply lines? They planned a lake where Moscow stood, Quartermaster: It's a long way to Moscow. a hunting forest in N. Poland with giant wild cattle (aurochs), Quartermaster; Winter uniforms? Berlin would be completely remodelled as a cathedral to (Hitler) the mighty German people. Quartermaster: Ok then.
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  314.  @TheMave34  I could be wrong, but I don't see that you've actually contributed anything.
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  315.  @TheMave34  You made me look again. I understood the radio station to be "In a border town" and naturally assumed the Germany-Poland border. It seems to now be called Gliwice, and is near Ostrava, Czech - is that right? temporary pause.
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  316. Heavily doctored, imo. Note the short-barreled rifle on the right, and the variations of lighting of the faces.
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  317. Essentially, liberalism is "all that is not forbidden, is allowed", while totalitarianism is "all that is not allowed, is forbidden".
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  318. Your first question is semantic and founded on a false premise.
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  319.  @WitherRakdos  Only as defined by communists to separate it from communism - they're almost identical. In reality, the left is the power of the State, the right is the power of the individual. The idea of individuals having power over their own lives is almost a forgotten thing.
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  320.  @WitherRakdos  Literally? You don't know what you wrote. You don't know the difference between a state and a State.
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  321.  @emg7882  Don't involve me in your idiocies.
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  322.  @aaronbrown8377  Fascists ARE Socialists!
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  323.  @aaronbrown8377  Yes, that's pretty much it.
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  324.  @sethfrisbie3957  This is not an insult. You are a confused child. I repeat, not an insult. You want a beneficent dictator - a "superman", who is kind to you and ruthless to your enemies. The reason it's not an insult is because it's the ideal - it's what everyone would choose - were it a real choice. You want to be ruled by your dad. it's the same psychology as with "gods". If your father was kind, you imagine "god" is kind. If your father was strict, you imagine "god" is strict. To grow up, is to understand there are no "gods", and dictators are never beneficent. To want a dictator is to want to be told what to wear, what to eat, where to work, when to go to bed, what to think, etc. To be a grown up is to want to govern yourself. The balance of power between you and the State is the left/right dichotomy. There cannot be an "authoritarian right wing" because that would be you ordering yourself around. Authoritarianism comes naturally to us,because it's how we raise our children - we don't let them govern themselves. Consequently the State strives to treat us as children, and some of us are comfortable with that. But tyranny has a ratchet that does not exist in families. In families, children are encouraged to grow up and make their own choices. The State never willingly returns the freedoms it takes from you.  As for economics, there is only one way to create wealth and that's capitalism. The State does not create wealth, it steals it from you (some taxation is necessary),and concerns itself with how to spend what it has collected. Capitalism is, btw, a law of nature. The leopard must get more energy from her food than she used to catch it,or she will die. That's true for all animals, and even plants. Unfortunately,theft and parasitism are also laws of nature. I've covered a lot in few words - some thought will be required.
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  325.  @sethfrisbie3957  Apparently that was too much for you to read in one go - and thinking is beyond you.
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  326.  @hre2044  Inasmuch as it is opposed to personal liberty, yes. Note an absolute monarch is not a one-man band - he rules by the grace of his Lords - and their armies. An aristocracy is a collective enterprise.
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  327.  @hre2044  The rebranding of left v right  to mean revolutionaries v reactionaries  is itself MARXIST DOGMA. By doing so, you eliminate the concept of liberty from politics.
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  328. I'd guess this "racial tier system" explains the varying percentages of General Plan East.
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  329. ... and over-estimated themselves.
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  330. Supplies weren't getting through.
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  331. They only ever planned to win.
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  332.  @Therworldtube   "Four days after the signing of the Polish-British Common Defence Pact, three destroyers of the Polish Navy executed the Peking Plan and so evacuated to Great Britain." "On 1 September 1939. At 04:45, the old German pre-dreadnought battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish military transit depot at Westerplatte, in the Free City of Danzig" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland#German_plan
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  333.  @Therworldtube  Yes, you chose a date that suited your point - that's not a good thing. You also didn't say what you wanted us to glean from your comment - and that's also not a good thing: it's the logical fallacy of "failure to state".
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  334.  @Therworldtube  I'm not arguing with you! I'm explaining to you that you are using poor evidence for your unstated argument.  You seem to be suggesting that Germany had cause to feel threatened by Poland's large Military. If that is your point, ffs say it! If that is not your point, then Idk wtf you're at.
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  335.  @tyvamakes5226  You might make any number of similar observations; UK can beat Ireland, France can beat Belgium, ... it lacks a rhetorical point.
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  336.  @tyvamakes5226  To quote myself "I'm explaining to you that you are using poor evidence for your unstated argument. " That is my point!
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  337.  @tyvamakes5226  No, I am NOT claiming that he's making any such argument, I'M SAYING THAT HE HASN'T MADE ANY ARGUMENT AT ALL!!!! FFS!!!!
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  338.  @tyvamakes5226  OMG, you're an imbecile! For onlookers, an argument consists of one or more premises and a conclusion that was logically drawn from them. OP has a premise - Poland's large army. He has no effing conclusion! Now FUCK OFF!
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  339.  @theovonpapen2355  Oh look, another idiot. You're pretending to be reasonable, while actually throwing fuel on the fire. You're either a set of trolls, or one person with multiple accounts.
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  340.  @jameslebro6598  Lol. You know fullcaps is not real shouting - it's just taken for it. Telling a person to calm down is not a way to make them calm down - it just throws more fuel on the fire.
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  341. I think it's an eloquent proof that 1 and 1 and 1 make three.
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  342. Another problem is archiving. For your work to be cited by others they need an archive to point to and a name for your video. Given that YouTube can delete videos, they can't be a reliable archive.
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  343. Oh my god - you people are hard work! Do you understand "the cat is black" means many things including "the cat is not orange"? So, "we will cheat in the count" means "we will not cheat at the poll booths." Intimidating voters - the Mugabe way - delegitimizes both the election and the government. How do I know Mugabe supporters intimdated voters? Because it happened in public - it was seen - it was reported around the world! Cheating in the count is smarter - it's not visible to outsiders. Also, Saying "I would cheat in the count", devalues the legitimacy of other foreign elections. It says to the world "don't criticize my election when yours are just as crooked." The legitimacy of governments matters in international trade and diplomacy. So having the appearance of free and fair elections matters, and if you're making an appearance, you want to be seen! An election rigger wants people voting, so that they can be seen voting, and so that the government can claim lots of votes for themselves! The magician shows the hat is empty before he pulls the rabbit out. If you're going to cheat in an election, you want it to look as legitimate as possible. Is all that really so hard to understand?
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  344. You mean London - which had firestorms several times - of course.
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  345. Hey TIK, have you noticed the British railway scam? In private ownership, the railways are run down and dangerous. The Govt. say "Oh no! Or railways are run down and dangerous! They're of national importance. We must nationalize them." So the Govt. buys them at a high price and spends a fortune fixing them up. Then the Govt. says "Oh no! The railways are costing us a fortune! We must privatize them." So they sell them off nice and cheap, and brand new. The private owners don't have to do anything except jack-up prices and reap huge profits, while the railways slowly go into decline. Then it's just rinse and repeat.
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  346. Re: passenger numbers. I think that that's a complex question - not one that has a single answer. Interesting, nonetheless. I did a few some sums. For 50 million people, a billion journeys is only 20 each per year - or 1,5 million people daily commuting by rail.
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  347. For me, the last 12 years, my rail ticket has been much the same as and kept up with a packet of cigs - and they're now punitively-priced!
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  348. I'm not defending nationalisation - except for essentials - water, electricity, ... things that must be available to everyone, not run for profit.
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  349. Tsk *"stick to banks"*
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  350. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hoth
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  351. a) yes, b) prolly not, c) I didn't say that.
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  352. I would say it was the German attack on Russia that made Germany the common enemy of us all, and hence we were de facto allies.
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  353. It's much less work than an episode of Staligrad, so it works as a needed rest.
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  354. He's not appeasing them, he's mocking them.
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  355. There's a general rule in life (and hence in politics) - old men avoid wars, young men embrace them.
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  356.  @johnteets2921  It took 6 months to cross, and cost 200,000 lives (both sides combined). That's quite some "mousetrap".
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  357. No, you're missing the point that centralized distribution of resources locks more people off from those resources than a price system does! You are ONLY fed (in a timely manner) because there is profit to made by feeding you.
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  358. @TheAllPowerfulChicken Socialists kill socialists for the same reason drug dealers kill drug dealers - they recognise them as the most dangerous competition.
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  359. For a given quantity of coal, if you want to make more diesel, you'll have to make less gasoline.
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  360. Everyone faced a lot of issues - it was only Germany that wasn't forced to choose.
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  361. Yeah, well redefining words to win arguments is an identifying feature of ... Socialism.
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  362. The saying is, "victory has many fathers, defeat is an orphan."
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  363.  @brucetucker4847  Clearly you are not using "scientific basis" the same way the OP was. It's trivial simple - using your interpretation - to observe race, and trivially simple to confirm with a Dulux colour chart.
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  364.  @brucetucker4847  Godburn is a denier of evolution. He posits race as the mixing of species, and thus has no mechanism for the formation of species - apart from special creation,of course.
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  365. no-one cares.
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  366. The alert for this video gave me some anxiety - I thought TIK was speaking to me, personally.
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  367.  @jboss119  They'd been doing that since September, and they were fought to a standstill.
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  368. @TIK They want to shut you up.
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  369. "Casualties" means - I think - dead, wounded or sick. What happened to the wounded depended on how wounded they were.
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  370. "Many people are stupid." says the communist.
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  371. @Leslie Franklin Fuck off with that "far-right" shit. Hitler was a socialist - a national socialist -as opposed to communists, who are international socialists.
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  372.  @Baamthe25th  And yet some communists think Smith invented capitalism.
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  373.  @hisdadjames4876  Well, the thing is, nature doesn't give a damn. Fungi is an entire class of life that does not make it's own food.
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  374. "Academic conference" - the words sound so innocent. In reality, "academia" has been replaced by socialism. You would be marking TIK as a target for the mob - and you know that.
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  375.  @j.greenriver6293  I know what that means, too. You can't hide the kind of person you are.
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  376.  @j.greenriver6293  It doesn't take a long search to see that you lie. Vienna Students Union organizes weekly protests against students group who wear traditional costumes and attend balls. Dancing is "far-right extremism" in Vienna. Riot police attend these "protests"
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  377.  @j.greenriver6293  There's no need - your mask fell off!
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  378.  @j.greenriver6293  It's finished - your plot has failed. Goodbye.
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  379. It means all of them.
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  380. You mean it stunned you that anyone should spout such obvious nonsense?
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  381.  @tonilehtonen1958  They're not conscripts, they are reservists. House did not say what you claim. (around 40:00 mark.)
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  382. BitChute search does not allow "TIK" (but does allow "BBC") - it reverts to "Tik" and does not find your channel at all.
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  383. Hitler and Stalin were accountable to the people that supported them. If you lose the support of your cronies you'll be arrested and shot. When the Germans reached Moscow, Stalin went to his dacha and waited to be arrested. After a few days, his secretary was sent to ask him when he was coming back to work.
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  384. If you try to add facts to Wikipedia, you get banned and your facts are removed.
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  385. One does not simply invade Turkey - or Russia would've done it long ago.
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  386. Britain can't commit other nations to take up arms. Other nations must speak for themselves.
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  387. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
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  388. So you're racist, but you don't realise it; all your carefully selected "evidence" serves to support your racism.
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  389. and Paris is pronounced "pa-ree" and Germany is pronounced "doysh-land" - unless you're English, and speaking English to an English-speaking audience.
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  390. And there dwells the black market.
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  391. The most successful Soviet lie is that the Nazi's were right-wing (and that fascism is right-wing).
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  392. And that explains who you're upsetting - the communists, because they are the ones perpetuating that lie.
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  393. Well, I have been known to talk bollocks on occasion, and I don't want to waste your time - I'm not a patron of yours.
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  394. Almost nothing there seems to work.
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  395. Your links work, but almost nothing on those pages works.
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  396. Patience, Grasshopper.
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  397.  @aesop8694  If it were TRUE, you'd be able to produce EVIDENCE. As it stands, you look like a lying piece of crap.
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  398.  @aesop8694  Look, dumbass, a pay-walled newspaper article about war secrets does precisely squat to support your claims. Contrast that with the Anglo-Polish agreement 1939, made on the 25th Aug of that year, the text of which you can read online. It was a mutual-assistance agreement. In conclusion, you are exactly the lying piece of crap I took you for.
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  399. You never hear the whole story - you only get to hear what they want you to hear.
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  400. Betrayal of whom, by who?
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  401.  @stevewatson6839  Wtf are you on about?
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  402.  @stevewatson6839  Ah, you're an attention-seeker.
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  403. 1. No. Germany accepts THAT Germany and her allies are responsible for the damage. The "that" is the first word of the clause. THAT, a) the Allies affirm, AND b) Germany accepts, ..... Can equally be written - a) the Allies affirm, AND b) Germany accepts, THAT ....
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  404. My guess is that since Porsche didn't get the contract to make his  hybrid-electric Panther, he was looking for anew way to get a govt.  contract. Also, the Maus would've been handy for the defence of  Germany - had it been available.
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  405. ‘I don’t know what you mean by “glory,”’ Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. ‘Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant “there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!”’ ‘But “glory” doesn’t mean “a nice knock-down argument,”’ Alice objected. ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that’s all.’ THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS By Lewis Carroll
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  406. @yuslaven People are physical inputs to production - they do work - force times distance.
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  407. You're taking the word "responsibility" out of the context of the phrase "responsibility for the loss and damage", and interpreting it in isolation.
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  408. The question is "were the Germans massively outnumbered?" For that purpose, the Finns count because they were fighting the Soviets, too.
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  409. Strategy is in defining goals (ie, choosing which cat(s) to skin), tactics is how you achieve those goals. Strategy is political, tactics are military (or some other way).
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  410. Fascists ARE leftists - they are revolutionaries, not reactionaries.
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  411. "98.5% of the countries in the world ..." is appeal to irrelevant evidence.  TIK is not speaking to countries - countries can't talk - and have no interest in history. TIK is speaking to PEOPLE. TIK is speaking English, hence he is speaking to an audience that understands English. That is not 98.5% of either the countries, or the people of the world. "Use standard units of measurement" The mile IS a standard unit of measurement. It's no harder to understand a mile than a km. A km is 6/10 of a mile.
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  412.  @kilyaproductions1385  You're just repeating the original commenter's argument. You've completely ignored my rebuttal. You haven't contributed anything new.
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  413. The speed at which Rothschids' name was defended, is remarkable.
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  414. Yes, I was surprised about his concern for German children. I'd note that; 1) the Nazi regime rose to power by making threats against children (paraphrased - "it's easy to control the people, just tell them their children are in danger ...") 2) Fear of communism - they lost WWI because of hunger-driven revolution at home, and expected Soviet attacks since they were weakened. 3) Fear of a new popular revolt against their own regime. In light of those, Goebbels concern for German children was concern for his own neck.
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  415. That's called appeal to irrelevant evidence. The opinions of the US Supreme Court (which may be overturned) extend only to the US.
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  416.  @jjcustard6378  And the Holocaust happened where? Legal definitions are often perverse eg, a corporation is a person.
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  417. Excellent! I just gotta get a cuppa ...
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  418.  @Edax_Royeaux  A free market can buy trains from other countries.
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  419.  @Edax_Royeaux  You think Britain (or any other country) can only make rolling stock for its own rail gauge? Or do you think you're a genius and we're all imbeciles?
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  420.  @Edax_Royeaux  Yes, you're completely correct. The fact that German trains didn't fit Russian lines proves that it was utterly impossible for Germany to buy rolling stock from anywhere, ever. (sarc,obv.)
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  421. The person responsible for the bombing of Dresden was Adolph Hitler.
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  422. You people sound really pathetic when you cry " but Dresden!"
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  423. No, he's speaking English to an English-speaking audience.
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  424. "Social Democrat" is the new lie since "Liberal" was stolen and murdered by communists. Socialists are not democrats.
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  425. @ Korgull I have neither the patience nor crayons to explain things to you.
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  426. No. Germany accepts THAT Germany and her allies are responsible for the damage. The "that" is the first word of the clause. THAT, a) the Allies affirm, AND b) Germany accepts, ..... Can equally be written - a) the Allies affirm, AND b) Germany accepts, THAT .... Show less
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  427. Tools, factories, land, seed, materials, ...
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  428. Antony Faucci killed 1/10th of the number that Hitler killed. Is Faucci mad? Is he 10% mad?
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  429. The issues here are your business model and your relationship with your Patreons. Your first business was/is making awesome content. This attracted patrons - sponsors - who fund you to make more of that awesome content. Your second business is as a consultant. Due to your awesome content, you've established an excellent reputation: people value your opinions. So, some folk may pay you to answer their questions. You can accept that work - it might be good for you to take breaks from your regular work, but your sponsors are going to feel ignored. It's a tricky balancing act. Good luck with that. ;-)
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  430. You can try to be all things to all men, but that's how you end up shouting at pigeons.
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  431. Yes, AH did say NS was virtually identical to Marxism.
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  432. @D L I tried to find out online. NS Munich speeches were published in a periodical. The Smithsonian has a copy of them. AH gave a speech in Feb 39, published Apr 39 in which he said "Yup, it's Marxism -lol." (paraphrased)
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  433.  @TheImperatorKnight  While we're on it, melee is pronounced "mel-ay". You can type words into google translate and it'll say them for you.
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  434. So which self-proclaiming socialist's words should we take at face value?
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  435. Germany taking the Caucus, and Britain taking the Caucus are completely different things: the first is strategic, the second, tactical.
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  436.  @tihomirrasperic  Yeah, I figured the sick & wounded as a transitional group: they become dead, POW, demobed or returned to active duty.
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  437. 4 years? They hoped to defeat Russia in a matter of months!
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  438. So tell me, why do you feel entitled to rob, murder and enslave people?
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  439. They picked every fight they were engaged in.
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  440. Poor communications increase the fog of war, and delay the reaction to the unfolding of events.
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  441. Dictionaries are always getting embroiled in religious politics. For example, my Little Oxford Dictionary shows ... -------------------------------- unicorn n. mythical animal Allah n. Muslim name of God. <Apollo - no entry> Jehova n. OT name of God. <Jesus - no entry> <Thor - no entry> <Vishnu - no entry> god n. superhuman being worshiped as possessing divine power, (God) creator & ruler of the universe atheism n. belief that no God exists. theism n. belief in divine creation & conduct of the universe. ----------------------------- Apparently establishing the fact of the existence of a god called "Allah"/"Jehova" & "God", and the falsity of atheism. The entry for atheism isn't even grammatically correct. Your dictionary will vary.
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  442. The Axis Order of Battle for Operation Crusader 1941-42 WW2 (Pub 28 May 2018 Rommel's failure to exploit his successes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwPJWb2BUj4
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  443. @Raskolnikov70 It's a reliable cash crop - every country south of Scotland would produce some. Spain, Portugal, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, ...
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  444. Argument contrary to fact. The pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, the West Wall, the Atlantic Wall, etc,etc., hundreds of years of slavery in dozens of countries; in some, even to this day.
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  445.  @hq3473  You're arguing contrary to fact, too. The West Wall (aka the Seigfreid line) and the Atlantic Wall are both C20th. Why are you .wasting my time with obvious nonsense?
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  446. Bravo, sir, bravo!
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  447. The West Wall.
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  448. Christians are essentially the same as fascists.
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  449. *have *hadn't
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  450. I completely disagree. If you want music, play your own music. I can't concentrate on what's being said when there's distracting background music.
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  451. @Allan Brawer I've complained on previous TIK videos about overly distracting music, yes. Yes, there are documentaries where the music is so loud it drowns out the narrator - especially war documentaries. It's a plague of modern documentaries. I'll try to find an example. The reason music is added, is to make it more exciting - I don't want to be excited, I want to learn. I find war exciting enough.
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  452. @Allan Brawer I found the TIK video I compained about. https://youtu.be/UGxODQR6GS0
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  453. @Bill Callahan Don't try to make out like you're being reasonable. If you want to listen to music, there's nothing stopping you. Here's an hour of war music, enjoy. https://youtu.be/2F6-GCMHZNI While you're listening, try to think of a reason why I should be forced to listen to it, too. I want to listen to TIK, and if his words are drowned, there's nothing I can do about it.
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  454. @TIK Stand-up comedians don't have background music. Why not? Because if you miss a word, you won't get the joke.
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  455. I don't object to music in itself. If I'm watching Primitive Technology https://youtu.be/JgQ-07VgJuY I open another tab and play some music. I'm playing music now, while typing this (Under Pressure - Queen) I have broad musical taste - often listening to Vivaldi and opera arias. https://youtu.be/QPba-i26YNA, https://youtu.be/gFoet3qe6L0?list=RDC1ZL5AxmK_A The Danish National Opera did a series of Western movies - Fistful of Dollars, Sicilian Clan, https://youtu.be/4niv522mbtM https://youtu.be/mOFyRCMlXIo I like the pop music of the 60s and 70s (my era). (now California Dreamin') https://youtu.be/sB_gALjOLqI I like some modern songs; Back to Black, Don't Speak, Torn, ... If I'm playing a video game (eg Anno 1404) that has background music, I turn it off - it (slows the game down, and) gets repetitive after a short while.
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  456. @Allan Brawer Dude, surely you understand I wasn't suggesting you edit music in. I don't know about you, but I'm using a browser - I can open multiple tabs - I can play a music video in one tab, a speech video in another tab, and hear them both. The only thing I need do is set the volume levels so the music doesn't intrude on the speech.
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  457. We're talking about TIK here, not Hollywood. He just has music playing in the background - it's not timed to match the script. Sound effects? What sound effects?
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  458.  @AllenLinnenJr  I live in a constitutional monarchy - it has nothing to do with power. Franco was a far left dictator.
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  459.  @AllenLinnenJr  Typo <obv.> - about to be edited.
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  460. All gods are false gods!
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  461. Getting them to the front line is also a big issue.
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  462. The oil comes from south of Stalingrad.
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  463. I don't think you're right on this one,TIK. The very big reason why Finland wouldn't seek territorial gains is that it would give a ready excuse for yet another war. A second advantage of helping the Germans get into Russia is getting them out of Finland. The two combine to form an exit strategy. For analogy, Britain also invaded many countries it had no intention of keeping; Iceland, Norway, France, Italy, Germany, ...
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  464. They knew the Americans carry loads of supplies.
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  465. According to Wikipedia - which lies - Pliny the Elder was dismissive of rye, writing that it "is a very poor food and only serves to avert starvation" and spelt is mixed into it "to mitigate its bitter taste, and even then is most unpleasant to the stomach".
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  466. One word is neither an explanation nor an argument.
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  467. In a world of subsistence farmers, there is no time for philosophy, and no money for research. Capitalism produces the wealth that makes an idle aristocracy that wants education that creates universities that produces scholars that study science.
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  468. The Angles were Germans, and the Saxons were Germans (the Jutes were Danish), so "Anglo-Saxon" is "German-German".
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  469. Typical German - always trying to blame someone else.
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  470.  @Edax_Royeaux  Yes, and so what?
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  471. If TIK put Tibet on his map, Youtube would block the video - they serve China.
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  472. Bloody Germans - always making excuses. They weren't worried about the numbers when they launched their unprovoked war against the Soviets, were they? And they weren't worried about the distances and supplies, either.
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  473. You mean London, of course.
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  474. TL:DR "That wasn't real Socialism."
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  475. TIK does not count Spain.
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  476.  @MarkVrem  I didn't say anything about Uranus - and neither did you.
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  477. It's a 31:00 video: how is anyone supposed to know what you're going on about?
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  478. @Joe Perez Aiui, individuals own shares in a bank.A govt. can take control by buying those shares at a generous price (encouraging sale), by force-purchasing them, by seizing them, or by making them worthless.
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  479.  @Dave5843-d9m  Yes, utter nonsense. You're pretending the bombing of Dresden was something impressively big when it was relatively trivial. To make your ludicrous claim, you are ignoring most of WWII; the defeat of Axis forces in North Africa, the liberation of Sicily, and France - which made the Dresden attack possible - and Belgium, and Luxembourg, and you're ignoring the far larger bombing campaigns against other German cities; Cologne, Essen, Hamburg, Frankfurt, etc. That's an astonishing level of ignorance!
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  480.  @jdawg1712  Haiti didn't exist as an independent nation until 1804, so it could not have abolished slavery in 1793.
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  481.  @jdawg1712  The question is, given the sovereign nation of Haiti abolished slavery in 1804, why are you lying about it? The stopping of slavery is not the abolition of it. The Haiti of 1793 is not a nation, nor a colony, nor the same place as the Haiti of 1804, and not sovereign.
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  482.  @jdawg1712  said "words mean what I want them to mean" (paraphrased) and so did Humpty Dumpty
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  483. <whoosh>
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  484.  @julianshepherd2038  You're an idiot.
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  485. Fantastic series, Lewis. Well done. 🎖🏅🎖🍰🍰🍰
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  486. @Dimitris Tsakalos He does have a channel on bitchute ...1 sec https://www.bitchute.com/channel/aqCvYwXmjslI/
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  487. *property
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  488. You're not an evolution denier, are you? You see the problem with denying the existence of race is that you cannot then have new species. You cannot walk ten paces without walking five.
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  489. Yes, the N-S route; Berlin-(Dresden-)Prague-Vienna-Budapest, but also a major E-W route;Dresden-Wroclaw-Warsaw or Kracow
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  490. I guessed it was an anti-tank rifle. Google "WWII German anti-tank rifle" and similar looking guns are shown.
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  491. AIui, insanity was traditionally regarded as an inability to reason. Themodern idea is that the insane can reason, but cannot distinguish real from false facts. Eg, thinking the government is using mind-control rays (false fact), therefore wear a tin-foil hat (sound reasoning).
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  492.  @Ian8008  The reality is, we do not have perfect knowledge. Allow me to introduce you to pragmatism.
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  493. @Dan I'm sure he knows that, and I'm sure he knows why.
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  494. Because he's being disingenuous - he does not like the symbol of his ideology being censored.
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  495. @Purplefood He's checking the emblems when the rest of us are enjoying the content.
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  496. @Purplefood You protest too much - you look like a sock-puppet.
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  497. Germany had the Norwegian airfields.
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  498. The Manson family prolly thought Charles Manson was a genius, too.
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  499. Cultists, and their leaders, are firstly and foremostly at war with reality.
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  500. He is getting right - for English speakers - the same as we say Germany, not Deutchland (I can't even spell it) which is how the Deutchlanders (or whatever they are) say it in Deutchlandensprachen.
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  501. Mee-lee? Ah, mel-ay, or meh-lay - a softer version of may-lay.
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  502.  @aleksazunjic9672  said "Venezuela is under Western embargo, West has plundered its foreign currency and gold reserves , and they are not allowed to trade." That is a lie. Here is the UK trade embargo list (it's the same as the rest of Europe.) 1.3 Trade sanctions The Regulations impose trade prohibitions relating to: military goods and military technology (as specified in Schedule 2 to the Export Control Order 2008) goods and technology which might be used for internal repression in Venezuela (as specified in Schedule 2 to the Regulations) goods and technology which might be used for the monitoring and interception of telecommunications (as specified in Schedule 3 to the Regulations) provision of interception and monitoring services (as defined at regulation 20) to or for the benefit of the Government of Venezuela provision of technical assistance, armed personnel, financial services or funds or associated brokering services to or for the benefit of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela (or persons acting on its behalf or under its direction) where such provision relates to military activities, or otherwise enables or facilitates the conduct of armed hostilities, in Venezuela
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  503. You can't have law without socialism - all States are socialist by definition.
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  504. You say "The idea of communism is one that stands against injustice and protects the weak." I disagree. The idea of communism is that a big enough mob can steal anything and everything. The world is not fair - men are not created equal - we vary in intelligence, strength, location, courage, and all manner of other attributes. So it is that some men can do well, and some cannot. Men who do not do well, don't know why, and it's easy to persuade them that they are victims of conspiracy, that it's others who hold them back. Thus the ne'er-do-wells can be manipulated into destroying anything and everything that does not seem to benefit them. (They can be lead to cut their own throats by destroying the system that supplies what little they do have.)  Communism is piracy without the effort and expense of obtaining ships.
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  505. TIK, you're casting pearls before swine. I spent my adult life online debating (religion, science, global warming, evolution), and I never saw anyone change their mind on  anything. Say what you like, and defend what you said against valid criticism, but don't waste your life trying to educate or persuade people who gainsay you - it can't be done.
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  506. There speaks denial. "I don't want to hear these things, so I'll shut down and go to sleep."
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  507. Because he's not speaking of his beliefs.
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  508. Lol.
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  509. No. You're equivocating on the term "god".
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  510.  @chipseal9403  The dictionary often defines "God" as "creator of the universe". The state didn't create the universe, so if you say "the state IS god", you must mean something other than "creator of the universe." That "ultimate authority" statement is just a truism. "If I'm the king, then I'm the king."
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  511.  @chipseal9403  Now you're just being silly.
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  512. It's standard practice to consider various potential conflicts, to guide the estimation of the amount of military strength required to safeguard a nation.
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  513. Given that the USA has had conflicts with Britain, Canada, Mexico and Japan, etc., it should have plans regarding future conflicts with those places.
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  514. These are the facts: 1. all governments, in all places, at all times, are bad - their every act is an imposition on the people; they tax, outlaw, impede and sabotage. 2. since every government is detrimental, the entire history of governance is a history of enslavement and impoverishment. 3. Where the people flourish - as people generally do, it is DESPITE government's best efforts to resist. Thus it is obvious, that the less a government can do, the less harm it can cause. A weak government, or as I would rather say, a strong opposition is the best the people can hope for. Don't imagine this puts nations in danger from external enemies: in the event of war, it is political practice that the party in opposition ceases to oppose, and instead supports the government.
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  515. @ John Brakes. We shall see? I have the entire history of governance to support me. Governments do not create prosperity, they only harm it. Governments do not bring liberty, they only reduce it. Governments do not help people, they only hinder them. The stronger a government is, the more harm it does.
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  516. Where you disagree with me, you are wrong. For example, you say "weak govt = weak foreign policy -> war. In WWII who had strong govts and strong foreign policies? Germany Japan Italy. QED. Stop wasting my time.
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  517. @ John Clearly you are impressionable. "Stephane" is merely taking perverse, self-serving definitions for rhetorical purpose. He's not even interesting, to me.
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  518. @ Stephane. You're boring.
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  519. @ Stephane. I expect you're confused. The question at hand is the merit of weak v strong government. If you can find out what those words mean, you might then be able to say something relevant.
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  520. @ Stephane. I see you've edited all your comments. You are acting in bad faith. Shame on you.
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  521. So you begin with abuse, then edit your posts, then claim you're the victim of abuse, and THEN think I'm going to engage you in a proper discussion? HahahahahahahahahahNO.
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  522. I've been addicted to (medical) morphine twice: I'm not a moral-bankrupt, and I'm not lying!
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  523.  @Chasstful  For info, my experience of morphine is that it stops pain, stops thought, and stops your ability to care. It also made me hallucinate, completely delusional, and sick as a dog.
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  524. I just think when he saw Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", he thought "yes!"
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  525. Excellent vid - as always - but for one sticking point - Nazism. The Nazi Party was the German workers Party, and the German workers were collected into one union - the DAF. Indeed, Hitler banned strikes because "the workers were now the government" (paraphrased). That sounds fascist, to me. So my current model is; communism = international unionism (plus racism), fascism = national unionism, Nazism = national unionism plus racism.
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  526.  @TheImperatorKnight  Lol,then I haven't understood the "Nazis aren't fascists" bit. I'll have to listen again.
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  527.  @dosran5786  You waste everyone's time by writing word-salad.
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  528.  @dosran5786  So you're illiterate AND ignorant. That's a shame - you have a lifetime of frustration ahead of you.
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  529. The Irish are not a race, they're a nation. The English, who use the phrase, are the same race as the Irish.
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  530. Caucasian
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  531.  @TheImperatorKnight  TIK, you don't need to obey the rules of German grammar when you're speaking English. It's like that thing of "you shouldn't split infinitives" (to boldly go). It's in Latin grammar that you shouldn't split infinitives - in English grammar,it's fine.  So the plural of "Panzerfaust" is - in English - "Panzerfausts".
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  532. Hitler tied his own fate to that of the German people (he said).
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  533.  @TheImperatorKnight  You set the target of 1 video per 7days. You're the boss, so change it.
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  534. YT doesn't allow showing the swastica.
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  535. Don't waffle.
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