Comments by "Jake Johnson" (@ElectronFieldPulse) on "TimeGhost History" channel.

I mean, how can you talk factually though? If you want to get factual, the Palestinians are a radical group of people who would be on par with Nazis or Imperial Japan in ideological fervor. This is a point of pride for them, they are not shy in saying this. Most Palestinians who weren't radical already left. This entire drawn out conflict is a strategy by the Arabs. They knew they couldn't defeat Israel militarily, so they decided to reframe their struggle to Western audiences all while continuing to want the destruction of Israel. Poll after poll shows this. Even the daily lives of their citizens shows this. Look at what Palestinians have focused on and what kind of society they have built. Israel does bad things like every Western liberal democracy does, but it is miles different from an Islamic theocracy or dictatorship like in Gaza. Why are the supposedly objective YouTube content creators not displaying the culture and mentality of Palestinians? It is the key component to all this, it shows why they are willing to sacrifice everything and are backed by the Arab and Muslim world. It just seems everyone wants to paint them as helpless everyday folk just trying to get along, but that isn't the case. You can't transplant a Western mindset to your average Gazan, they hold very extreme and fanatical views compared to the average Westerner. And sure, criticize Israel, the entire Islamic world does it non stop, so I think we have that covered. But why is no one talking about this?
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@MarcoAuPizzarus - Modern left in a nutshell. Justify the most henious stuff with "its never my fault!"
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@kensurrency2564 - No, you are misunderstanding what theocracy means.
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So, no room for responsibility for the actual parties involved? I have noticed a trend, cultures which take little to no accountability generally do very poorly. It's called an external locus of control, and a society oriented like that is a sick society. Rampant with rumors, conspiracy theories, and all manner of deflection from personal failings.
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@spartacus-olsson - You are talking about nascent nationalist movements and what they aspire to. And while yes, geopolitics affects that, it isn't what most people are talking about. They suggest that the majority of their problems are because of colonialism, which is just nonsense. Colonialism didn't make the Muslim and Arab world poor, they were poor before colonialism. Their main failures are all internal, and as such the only way they can make progress is with reform. But how likely is reform when the popular narrative is that it is the West's fault for all their problems? This speaks to a fundamental problem in Muslim/Arab society. They are quick to blame others, conjure up conspiracy theories, etc... I believe this all traces back to their ultimate problem: Islam. They believe they have a perfect religion written word for word by God. So, instead of deep reflection on why their societies don't work well, they think "Well, our religion is perfect, so Allah just wills it this way for now" They need secularism badly. The constant blaming of others is a symptom of sick society, and boy does that society have a lot of malaise.
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@TimeGhost - Man, you guys are going blow for blow with a lot of people in these comments. Kind of surprised how candid many comments are.
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@Madmen604 - This would not have changed their fate. The issues in the Arab world fundamentally relate to their outdated ideological framework. Their religion proscribes behavior in all spheres of life, from legal to political to spiritual. Therefore, they aren't allowed to view democracy in the same way as the West, since whatever leader it produces cannot breach the fundamentals of Islam, which are laid out quit clearly in the Quaran and various Hadiths. This is why, often when the population is given a chance to vote, like in Egypt, they vote in the Muslim Brotherhood which quickly moved to make the government illiberal and undemocratic in the name of Islam. All of this causes many issues permeating every aspect of their culture. In a very globally competitive environment, adoring to a 7th century set of rules tends to impart a significant handicapp on your country's ability to develop. This is a pretty significant hurdle that community will have to negotiate with.
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@spartacus-olsson - Also, I upvoted your comment, because I might not agree with you, but you present your opinion in a logical and emotion free manner, which I always appreciate. It leads to actual discussion.
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@spartacus-olsson - I find that is a complicated problem. A lot of citizens would much rather have a higher standard of living than self rule. It is a big risk for a newly independent country to strike out on their own, there is no guarantee the new institutions will provide more for the citizens than colonial institutions. It is a natural desire though, so it will always be present in some form. Transitioning is going to be complex for some, but I really can't think what western nations should do that wouldn't amount to charity. We donate and that gets criticized. We invest, and that gets called neo-colonialism. We leave them alone, then we get called uncaring. We can't make other nations prosper, but for some reason that is often assumed.
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@spartacus-olsson - My point is that they don't uniformly want to "try". Many are more worries about the economy. It isn't a simple situation.
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@spartacus-olsson - That is why it irks me to no end when people say that a single event or group of people are responsible for a country doing badly 40 years later. Countries are enormously complex entities, trying to conclusively prove a single thing cause such a wide and far reaching effect is incredibly difficult to do. There are very few "black swan" events, as they are known, which would even be considered as having that kind of deterministic power. Colonialism falls far under that threshold, and it isn't at all clear that it caused many issues which are attributed to it. I do agree that people deserve and strive for representation and autonomy, so well just have to help the MENA region and Africa as a whole as best we can. Democracies and human rights should be promoted at all turns when possible. I guess I am a bit pessimistic because I think so many people from the region only think sharia law is valid, or some code strongly influenced by Islam. Until those shackles are removed, it will be difficult to progress. Thanks for discussing this with me, I enjoyed it.
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@uwanttono4012 - No, it doesn't. There was no thriving economy beforehand, colonialism didn't destroy anything in many instances. And there is no evidence it did. As in actual scientific evidence, not sociologists just assuming so. Many occupations through history ended up benefitting the nation, this is historical fact. The problem we have now is that entire racial groups are putting their thumbs on the scale trying to turn it all into a morality play. So historians are afraid to explore certain topics or go against the orthodoxy. There is a very serious rot occurring in academia right now, and it has sprung from the soft sciences or social sciences. Since they can rarely produce actual testable scientific theories, they instead resort to activism. And then people think "science" says that colonialism did this or that when in reality it is professors purporting a lot of things yet being really silent on the actual proof. I am a biochemist and it has become a running joke how non rigorous sociology is.
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@julianshepherd2038 - America isnt civilized? That must be terribly embarrassing being dominated and outclassed by "uncivilized" people. Another way to phrase it would be to say that America hasnt become so feminized that it cannot accept any risk like the meek Europeans. But really a better way to say it would be that Europeans and Americans have different value systems, and there is no need to denigrate one another.
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@benjaminhenderson5025 - No, that isn't true, and you have no idea what you're saying. They know they are fanatical, and it is praises in the Arab world. I have seen conversations in Arabic where they compare themselves to Imperial Japan fondly. The only reason most Muslim countries aren't like this is because they have despotic rulers who don't follow the voice of their people. If it was up to the people, a loooooot mote people would be dead right now. You really don't know how Islam has crippled intellectual growth in that region, they banned the printing press for generations ffs. They aren't "more or less Westerners in values who happen to live over there". Naive leftists from the west aligning with them is no surprise, otherwise they wouldn't be naive leftists.
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@benjaminhenderson5025 - Palestinians diaspora craft their messages for Western audiences. Most of the Western YouTube content is from diaspora. If you were to find actual gazans with those views, I would question if they were legitimate, because what they tell the West and what they speak in Arabic are often very different things, like Osama letter to America in English compared to Arabic. In any case, I am sure there are some people in Gaza who genuinely want peace, thr problem is that percentage is much smaller than the percentage who want to destroy Israel. After the attack, gazan approval of it was over 75%. The majority of gazans support hamas by a significant margin. Furthermore, the ones who don't support hamas aren't all doing it for peaceful reasons. Many think they aren't violent enough, evidenced by hamas popularity shooting up after the attacks. I feel sorrow for the small minority who genuinely want peace and would allow Israel to exist, but the reality in life is that sometimes you are trapped as part of a group that is bringing this on themselves. If a group like that existed and killed Americans and wouldn't stop for decades, they would be removed and the world's approval would mean little.
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@Nudnik1 - What was changed about Jewish history? Or black history?
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@Nudnik1 - Jewish history is very interesting. I do understand why such a tiny minority gets less coverage in history classes , but hopefully that improves.
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- Ya, pretty much. Anyone from Russia acting like the US was a bully needs to get their head checked. Stalin would have killed 100 million people worldwide if someone didnt stop him.
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So would 55 be about the average expctancy if you were an adult?
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