Comments by "James the Other One" (@jamestheotherone742) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. When it fit the needs of the state (or at least the whim of whatever bureaucrat who was given the authority to decide whom was who). The Nazis weren't exclusive to Jews in their mania to eliminate, anyone else handy also went to extermination. Gays, the mentally ill, criminals, etc. I am sure that more than a few were "found" and marked for death because those that did so stood to gain, for the state or on the side for themselves. The Soviets (and later Chinese) did similarly, although the death tolls were as much incompetence as malice. And to be completely fair, the ol' capitalist West has its share of blood for profit on its hands too, Colonialism etc. Pretty much the most absolute power is life and death after all. And you know what they say power does.... Thats why I am always baffled that anyone who knows even the briefest of world history or understands human nature believes in Socialism. But perhaps such knowledge is rare.
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  2. You should ask folks who have lived under socialism how great their social contract turned out in reality. That is and always will be the fatal problem with socialism, it can never live up to what is promised. You have to try very hard to pretend that there was a difference between the Soviet's Global Socialist Revolution and the Imperialism of the age before. Both were about accumulating power, the "All domestic policy serves foreign policy". But at least Imperialists and Capitalists are honest about it instead of selling a lie of rights and equality. When the reality is all the common people did was trade one master for another.
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  3. OTOH- Those millions of men, fuel, supplies and transport (trains, rolling stock etc.) could have been better utilized in Ag., esp. in the occupied West where they would have been a hell of a lot more motivated than the French farmers to produce and ship food back home. The German Army was never self-sufficient on its campaign in the East. It was always a drain on German resources of all types, even when you subtract the pillaging, er... I mean foraging. Either which way,,, the National Socialist's mis-governance of Germany doomed them to eventual failure regardless the even greater misadventures of its foreign policy. What is worse than a socialist? A half-assed social capitalist.
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  4.  @jussim.konttinen4981  More just disillusioned by the flaws in socialism and in human nature. Today he would be considered a conservative.
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  5.  @infantjones  Really? The aeroplane. The transistor. Jet propulsion. The Internet. Various plastics. Whole elements and alloys. You inhabit a strange world that seems like a museum to Soviet socialism. BTW- "quoting" to avoid sending the person you replying to a notification so that your ridiculous posts won't be refuted (easily) is intellectually cowardly.
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  6.  @Paciat  From your link; "With the rise of the Nazis to power in January 1933, the ideological gap between fascist Germany and the communist Soviet Union became too large and the fighter school at Lipetsk was closed on 15 September 1933."
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  7. I find it tragic that anyone who has received even a primary education does not understand this.
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  8. Yes. The US and all of Western civilization is racing to embrace authoritarianism and socialism faster than the former socialists are running from it....
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  9. I doubt it was "the" Elon Musk, since he complained about a power cut. I pretty sure Elon has one of his Power Walls installed at his place.
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  10. @19:40 Its worse than that, the Entente powers intentionally drew (or had them drawn) the borders of the successor states to build in ethnic tensions and de-cohesion. Its the same trick they used in the Middle East, drawing national boundaries between tribal and Islamic sects to set them against each other within their own boundaries. Time ghost's "Great Wars" and "Between the Wars" goes into exquisite detail of these shenanigans.
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  11.  @roberthansen5727  And Germany couldn't possibly defeat France in six weeks either. Or catch the allies flatfooted in Scandinavia. Much like on the continent, most of the RN's supremacy was in obsolete and vulnerable surface combatants with the tactical and strategic thinking to go with it. Luckily for the RN, the KM brass on up to Hitler were even more outdated in their thinking than they were. So no. If we are playing the "what if" game, and if we presume that conquering England was a priority to Hitler and cronies, then everything you think you know about the BoB and Sea Lion would be different. The historical German war machine was designed and geared for a short, tactical continental war because that was their plan all the way back to when the general staff were navel gazing right after the 1918 armistice. They were ill equipped for amph. ops. and strategic airpower on purpose. But that does not mean that they couldn't have been. The money spent on those useless battleships and getting ready to stick their hands into the hornet's nest of Russia could have bought a lot of uboats, landing ships, and bombers.
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  12.  @roberthansen5727  Oh and take your pills.
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  13.  @davidlogan4965  Why couldn't a monarchist support Keynesian economic theory?
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  14.  @nickhambly8610  koo koo kachoo. Perhaps you should consider how you are perceived outside of the echo chamber of your own head.
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  15. Those same people probably believe the Earth is flat so....
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  16. The only thing worse than socialism is malicious socialism...
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  17. Do you think Ivan in the GAZ factory really had a say as to what the factory was producing, how it was producing and how it was distributing it's products?
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  18. Boy you guys sure have a high bar for who counts as "socialist". lol
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  19. Blitzkrieg rolls off the English tongue easier. Poland was the first, imperfect try. France was the technique perfected. Russia as biting off more than any strategy could handle.
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  20.  @ajsimo2677  Not really. Greece was an ally of England and it would have been a dangerous base of operations right next to Italy and the Romanian oil fields. Even if Italy hadn't tried its fumbled invasion, Hitler would have had to take it anyway.
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  21.  @pietersteenkamp5241  Please tell us all about the "tremendous moderation of popular democracy" in the USSR, the PRC, and most any other country who's governement embraced Marxist Socialism. This will be amusing.
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  22.  @Damatis  Do you actually know how little the Bolshevik soviets or the PRC''s "people's committee" were actually comprised of the actual workers, instead of just a new crop of bureaucrats (ie: the low-profile bourgeoisie )? And how little rights and freedoms you actually had as a member subject to the whim of a local soviet committee? Or are you just an internet socialist filled to your eyeballs with BS wishful thinking you've read?
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  23.  @pietersteenkamp5241  Agaain with the philosophical rhetorical navel gazing. The two examples of "socialist democracies" were yours. Not mine. History and human nature proves that your notions are wrong, just as all "socialist thinkers". It simply doesn't work. Socialism ALWAYS devolves into authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Just as communism always devolves into anarchy and disillusion. The USSR and PRC made "radical progress" because they started rebuilding their nations from near pre-historic level, surrounded by an advanced world that they could "borrow" (steal) technology from and bypass the entire Industrial Age development. And they did this at tremendous cost to the individuals that were forced to sacrifice themselves "for the good of the State".
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  24. It would be a refreshing change up to the evils of capitalism for a while. lol
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  25.  @mat_j  Yes its very amusing to watch you flail away trying to fixate on the word "crusader" to express your obvious anti-Christian and who knows what other issues you have.
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  26.  @vantuz8264  Ask yourself why there was such "outside help" to be had.
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  27.  @derekbaker3279  Oh look more neo-socialist revisionism and rationalization.
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  28.  @derekbaker3279  Both are equally appropriate. You and "Van Tuz" should look up remedies for "cognitive bias".
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  29.  @nedkelly4825  There are hundreds of millions of innocent people alive today who would disagree with you.
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  30. More like a historical political comparative analysis.
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  31.  @freedomordeath89  No, just smarter and more educated than you. Thanks for point out that you are also a bigot in addition to an idiot.
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  32. I would put money on "llib " being one of the authors considering how similarly confused its posts are.
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  33. Have you been to Euro-Disney lately?
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  34. I lost it @0:00. The only reason why I clicked is that I'm doing other stuff and I can listen to TIK, and I wanted to listen to him dismantle someone's idiotic house of cards.
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  35. Because reasons... that you could figure out yourself if you had any intellectual curiosity instead of making inane comments.
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  36.  @orclover2353  Yep. The Germans only chance was for Barbarossa to be a "knock out sucker punch" that defeated the Red Army and destroyed to Soviet government before it could react and adapt to bring its vastly superior resources to bear. This failed in mid '42 and it was all down hill for them from there. This was recognized by the German generals in '43 and why they plotted to kill Hitler and sue (coup?) for peace.
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  37. @8:00 Hitler was preparing for a perpetual war. And he wanted it ASAP. So he and the generals started it with the "army they had" thus lots of infantry, horses, and trains. And their tail never caught up. Also remember "those darn kinder" that were into all those new fangled aeroplanes and tanks and stuff, were still in the minority in the late thirties. You can see this in the French campaign, where the old infantry generals were thinking in the old time frames while Guderan and co. were racing forward with the armor.
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  38.  @1210alpha  Yeah, They essential did lay new track all over, both in German gauge and in repairing the Russian ones that were torn up by the Soviets during their retreats and both that were constantly being bombed and shot up by both sides. The RR engineers (on both sides but mostly German) were the hardest working folks on the Eastern front.
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  39.  @TheImperatorKnight  Balkans would be more interesting... all of those campaigns were inter-related.
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  40.  @CSSVirginia  The folly of man is magnified when viewed through the lens of history.
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  41. Oh you should really read up on the Mongol Horde, or even the Roman Empire. They make the Nazis look like choir boys.
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  42. LOL. Thanks, now my brain has dug that song up and is playing it on repeat in my head.
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  43. The Germans incorporated the existing socio-economic structures into its nationalization instead of completely destroying and recreating them. That is the only difference between the two. The average German citizen in the late 30s and early 40s, when they were ignoring the evil around them, thought things were great much like your average citizen in a modern socialist democracy too.
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  44.  @JammKhon  Don't pay your property or income taxes and you'll see how little private property protection you really have. Authoritarianism is a key trait of socialism.
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  45. of logic?
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  46. There would just be different titles the asshats wore. The Human Condition is a tragedy.
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  47. ""civilizing" the natives & spreading the Bible" Not really a lie. That is exactly what they did. Few except for the missionaires that rode along ever claimed they also weren't going for fame & fortune.
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  48. No one makes you watch his socio-economic rants.
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  49. Thats what you get for having too many pans in the fire. ;-P
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  50.  @bernardobiritiki  I see you didn't make the mental leap... Corporations exist to maximize shareholder value. Be that stock holders or citizens or (most often) the upper ranks of a bureaucratic hierarchy. There are plenty of non-profit corporations that exist for reasons other than making a profit.
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