Comments by "HomerOJSimpson" (@Homer-OJ-Simpson) on "Johnny Harris" channel.

  1. ​ @zinjanthropus322  "My argument is that the initial mapping of the known world was impressive particularly because the people who did it weren't that more advanced than the people in the places they found. " Not at all relevant to the topic and argument. The argument is against Johnny Harris calling Europe poor in 1492. Literally the the first comment that we are all replying to. Are you know in agreement that Europe was not poor in 1492? That it was at least no worse off than China and India? The academic research indicates western Europe had higher GDP per capita than China or India. And the banking mattered tremendously as that's how they were better able to finance such operations and also how Europe became wealthier per capita than India and China. What they lacked in national resources they made up with economic policies, banking infrastructure and practices, and development of new superior ships
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  2.  @zinjanthropus322  The conquistadors defeated the natives in part because their armor and in part because of canons. Their guns played a smaller role but still a role. The Indian Ocean conquest as Europeans began colonizing or establishing trade posts in South Asia and then East Asia were almost entirely from superior ships and weapons from ships. At least initially.
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  3.  @zinjanthropus322  You're not even answering the questions, lol!! So obvious. Even if Inter-European trade was ssmaller than Indian Coean trade, how does that mean western Europe didn't have higher GDP per capita? All you are arguing about is populations -- yes, far more people around the indian ocean. But why can't you admit the academic research shows western Europe had higher GDP per capita? Why can't you admit the banking practices of the Italian states were the most advance by 1500? Why can't you admit any of this?
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  4.  @zinjanthropus322  let me guess, you are a w8ma0 and feel compelled to criticize Europe as a way to defend China? I can't imagine any other reason for you to not accept facts.
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  5.  @zinjanthropus322  So you're argument that western europe wasn't on par with China and india on per capita is simply "I don't trust the academic research, only reason it appears like that is record keeping was better in Europe".? And you continue to keep making argument that are essential just based on pure population size. "The banking practices of Europe were not special at all however." Wow, getting paid to make such comments? They spurred many of the financial practices that would help shape the world banking practices. Even wikipedia says "The origins of modern banking can be traced to medieval and early Italian Renaissance, to the rich cities in the north like Florence, Lucca, Siena, Venice and Genoa. "
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  6.  @zinjanthropus322  Just going to repeat this part since it clearly shows your bath faith arguments: "The banking practices of Europe were not special at all however." The banking practices of Europe in the 13th to 15th century spurred many of the financial practices that would help shape the world banking practices. Even wikipedia says "The origins of modern banking can be traced to medieval and early Italian Renaissance, to the rich cities in the north like Florence, Lucca, Siena, Venice and Genoa. "
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  7.  @zinjanthropus322  "My argument isn't population alone" all your metrics point to population though. and your refusal to even recognize the great accomplishment of Italian city state banking in the late middle ages demonstrate your bad faith arguments. You also refuse to consider what the academic research says.
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  8.  @zinjanthropus322  lol, once again unable to acknowledge facts and just resorting to weird arguments such as “well it was Jews doing the accounting” as if that’s relevant to the discussion. I’m 100% you’re a .5 yuan type since you use the same strategy.
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  9.  @zinjanthropus322  ok? So so if was Jews doing the accounting that sounds a lot like you lost your argument that there wasn’t great banking in Italy and you’re just trying to suggest Jews weren’t European.
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  10.  @zinjanthropus322  you get .50 RMB, right? Is this where I if bring up China in the modern day has conc c@mps you deny it?
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  11.  @zinjanthropus322  Just testing you because you have literally followed the same exact playbook as those .50 yuan soldiers. Why can't you accept the academic research showing wester Europe had higher GDP per capita? Why can't you accept the the Italian banking of the late middle ages became the best of the world and is considered the start of modern banking?
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  12.  @zinjanthropus322  I’m glad you agree China committing genocide, thought for a second you were a CCP worker
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  13. It's a shame the US basically stopped building any nuclear plants about 40 years ago and basically stopped research into it. Even with wind & solar energy, those are constant sources of energy and thus still need another source of energy.
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  14.  @njpme  Bet you did nazi that coming.
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  15.  @big_bird8597  What is the most important parts? I don't see you even backing up your claims. I'm not saying you are wrong because many of his videos have issues but at least give us details what is wrong with this video.
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  16.  @f-86zoomer37  Iraq isn’t part of the US though. In fact, they have kicked out most of American troops. Meanwhile, parts of Georgia are effectively run by Russia
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  17.  @infernamus  The US is both a liberator and done bad things. People who do not recognize the US govt has done some bad cannot be trusted -- but people who think the US has mostly done bad cannot also be trusted. There is certainly far less excuses for many of the bad things the US did before WW2...but after WW2, while there are certainly bad things done the overall fight against communism may have helped shape the world into a better place. If the world was run by Soviet / communist hegemony and values, I'm confident that the world would be worse off. Unfortunately, people tend to take the extreme and will defend every thing the US did in the cold war or even before...or they will criticize everything the US did and blame the US for everything.
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  18.  @DanielRoPhotos  OP statement is a blanket statement made to get likes. Often from a b0.t.
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  19. Beijing or Moscow. Time to guess where OP works.
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  20. This looks like a very tough life to live but I'm sure for them, it's not that difficult...well, other than the new changes from global warming.
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  21.  @malakatan3235  yes because communist countries aren’t corrupt….
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  22. I would believe most Chinse here if they weren’t at the same time denying what’s going on Xinjiang
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  23. Are you legally allowed by your govt to acknowledge what’s going on in western China?
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  24. Hey ,for once Johnny Harris is NOT making a video highly critical of the US or US history.
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  25.  @Thebreakdownshow1  Duke Homer OJ Simpson sounds nice
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  26. 10:00 why yes, I was thinking exactly that (if this video is about the Bermuda Triangle or Johnny Harris soul searching about facts and story telling). Lol!
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  27.  @houseplant1016  concern gnome is obvios. Slava Ukraine and Go Taiwan!
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  28. If you ever been to Bermuda and their tropical beaches, you might not want to leave.
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  29. Now he needs one on SHIPS.
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  30.  @cosmicgregg  you just made up stuff about the polls and then argued against it? And then you also defend it by saying “it jumped up after trump”…ignoring it was high under Obama as well? Seems like you just want to stick to the trump era in order to defend your argument? In addition, you seem to now ignore countries that the US performed a coup and which are now Allies with the US. You’re basically looking for any way to keep to your argument that US is disliked by most around the world. The 37 you mentioned appears to be from only one polling group, pew research. So when you looked up this info, did you see Vietnam? A country where the US fought against. How about Mexico? A country the US stole lands from? What about Chile? Panama? Guatemala? Dominican Republic?
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  31.  @cosmicgregg  my comment describing how you created an argument full of falacies by only wanting to look at US favorable numbers under trump but not Obama and Biden and how you don’t count countries that are now allied with the US despite the US being part of a coup in that country isn’t showing up for some reason.
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  32.  @Cokastz  "about what non-americans think about them. " You mean LITERALLY discussing polling and surveys OF non-Americans? What are you even arguing?
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  33.  @hegaliandialectics4289  "We don’t defend our allies " You say that as the US has been the biggest supporter of Ukraine. LOL. Oh, and the US is keeping China in check preventing an invasion of Taiwan and preventing China from stealing the seas to it's south. - "and constantly box in so called “rouge” nations while refusing diplomacy " Sounds a lot like you just want to defend authoritarian and dangerous regimes. Do you dislike China and Russia?
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  34.  @hegaliandialectics4289  "but did Libya deserve to be destroyed" You seem to defend authoritarian regimes. On this one, it was a UN supported operation lead by Europe where the US got involved. let me ask you this, do you think India would prefer to never have received their independence? In the several years after independence, millions died in violence. - "Authoritarian regimes will exist throughout the world why does the US choose which ones get destroyed? Why has Saudi Arabia not been destroyed? Or Israel?" Because you know that isn't practical. If the goal during the cold war was to stop the spread of communism, do you think the US should have invaded Soviet Union? No, they need to be practical and realistic. If there was an easy way to cause regime change in Saudi Arabia, the US likely would have done that by now. But there isn't. Asking such questions just demonstrates you have zero understanding of nuances and geopolitics.
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  35. 95% of the time it was communism so what guy blabbing on about?
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  36. These comments here sound like someone took econ 101 and think they know what is the best policy yet most of the suggestions are something that even I know would be horrible.
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  37. Johnny snatching up half of the great Vox journalists! Search Party and now this new channel. The other half are Howtown’s Joss Fong team and Cleo Abram.
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  38. this one was pretty spot on. There isn't much to debunk. The ones where he has gotten debunked were the "How X stole Y" series. But since he was called out on the first of "how Europe stole Y" episode, began working with some fact checkers / historians. His last episode on the European series was much more factual. He had exaggerated some parts earlier for the purpose of story telling but I think he's cut back on that since then. The only part he might have problems with in this video is when he takes a few minutes to go in depth on the science and mfg of the chips. But that's not the important part of the video so it won't deserve a "Johnny Harris debunked!" video.
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  39. I would believe most Chinse here if they weren’t at the same time denying what’s going on Xinjiang
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  40.  @Aria-cd6dq  Most of the native americans died before the British even arrived and over the centuries, most native Americans have mixed in with the group. You think all those Germans that arrived in the 1800's are still 100% German today?
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  41.  @henrykwieniawski7233  yeah, because orange man was so good. He greatly increased the debt WHILE the economy was doing well. Obama in final years saw the deficit shrinking while economy was doing well but then Trump comes in and reverses the deficit trend!!
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  42.  @henrykwieniawski7233  “at least gas and diesel prices are extrmely low before the pandemic”. Hey Einstein, gas prices all over the world are at their highest ever so it has nothing to do with US politics
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  43.  @bradenwallace7519  Everyone returning to work is exactly what caused the worldwide supply chain issues and inflation. What's your I*Q?
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  44. Putin’s plan only works if it succeeds this winter and europe has enough of the high energy costs that they force Zelensky to negotiate. But europe has filled up their gas reserves for the winter and will survive. What that means to Russia is that Russia will continue to lose on gas and oil sales to europe and a global recession is happening so gas and oil prices will drop leaving Putin in 2023 with fewer options to sell the energy and at lower prices. In addition he forever lost europe as a customer so it will set russia back decades. Even if say Putin is removed next year or in 2024, europe will have to penalize Russia and that might be never buying russsian energy or forcing Russia to build back Ukraine in return for europe buying Russian energy again.
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  45. Because China has sided with Russia, is threatening to invade the peaceful country of Taiwan, has conc camps of Uyghurs, is looking to steal the south China sea and bully its neighbors.
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  46.  @superstormthunder3  US isn’t perfect but China is bad for the world. US is what’s stopped China so far from invading Taiwan, actually taking control of the south sea, and who knows what else China would do — economically bully all democracies? US is also what’s kept Russia in check. Without the US, Russia would likely have not only taken all of Ukraine but also had taken over many other countries before.
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  47.  @superstormthunder3  and my main point was that the issues between China - US is because China intends to do a lot bad things. So even if the US had nuked Guatemala last year, the issues US v China is about what China is doing and wants to do. I’m assuming you don’t support an invasion of Taiwan? Nor support Chinas attempt to steal most of the South China Sea? Nor do you support Chinas backing and support of Russia? You don’t see the same problems with US vs Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, etc. only China and North Korea in that region. And surely you understand both China and North Korea are a threat to the region and even beyond?
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  48.  @superstormthunder3  just as I sent last comment, saw your news one. I very much hate the US military industrial complex. But that military industrial complex isn’t going to lead to the US invading Russia or China, two nuclear nations with large militaries. But we can’t let china just invade Taiwan and steal the South China Sea and steal parts of Japan, etc. that’s why the US has to be tough on China and Russia as well. But I also don’t want it to be dominated by the US so I support a stronger Europe in NATO and even out of NATO and I support a stronger Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, etc. the more those countries grow in strength, the less influence the US has which means more countries are weighing on each matter / conflict.
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  49.  @superstormthunder3  diplomacy works if the other side has reasonable goals. Russia and China don’t. That’s doesn’t mean give up on diplomacy because it’s still an important part of the process but it means that you can’t just use diplomacy with Russia and China. That’s why there is need to get more countries allied with each other and present a “block” that Russia and China have to get passed when diplomacy doesn’t work. For China and / North Korea, the US has partnered up with South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and india along with smaller partnerships with Philippines and Vietnam. Plus the UK and a few other Europeans are also helping out in the east. And with Russia, it’s most of Europe and most of those I already mentioned allied against China (not including India, Philippines and Vietnam or course).
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  50.  @superstormthunder3  sure it will be better if that’s how it was — but that won’t happen unless China first says it won’t invade Taiwan and says it won’t try to take most of the South China Sea (and has to remove its bases from the artificial islands they built). But that won’t happen anytime soon so the US and others have to be prepared.
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