Comments by "Seek1878" (@loner1878) on "History Buffs" channel.

  1. The actual battle of Stirling Bridge sounds 100x more badass than some generic open field fight. How did they not go with that???
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  2. Historically inaccurate, yes, but cinematography is brilliant, I still enjoy watching it. I just think of it as historical fiction.
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  3. "the very celestial body that every single human being who has ever lived has gazed upon" Blind people: "Ahem..."
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  4. Also we had zero business being over there.
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  5.  @asdasd-ty9se  And tell, what good did over a million dead civilians and tens of thousands of dead Americans, plus millions in war costs, do to stop china, sweetie?
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  6. Except that the Republican and Democrat parties swapped politics and voters in the Southern Strategy. The Republicans became the conservative party and the Democrats became the liberal one.
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  7.  @7superdaimajin  LOL, what a load of crap. Look up the southern strategy, dear. The old pro slavery conservative southern democrats switched to the Republican party, the liberal Republicans who fought for the end of slavery became Democrats. Ever notice who wants the statues honoring slave owners to come down, and who sobs about "muh heritage"?
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  8.  @Stacey_-bf2mb  LOL, looks like? What delusional drivel is that? The US lost, that's the bottom line. We wasted thousands of American lives and for nothing. Murdered countless civilians, and for nothing. Capitalism is not inherently good and only benefits those at the top in the end, the same types that thwart any political system.
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  9.  @Stacey_-bf2mb  I love how you pretend capitalism hasn't fucked over millions of people, here in the U.S. and abroad. The elites love capitalism so long as it earns them money. And they tell you to stay afraid of communism, lol.
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  10. I just took the smallpox girl to mean hints at prior European contact, maybe scouts or something. nothing to freak out about. Its kind of a preview of the ending.
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  11. Cliches have to start somewhere...
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  12. "Science flies men to the moon. Religion flies people into buildings." Seriously though, don't try to sugarcoat christianity (or religion in general) by saying "back then" - look no further than american evangelicals trying to ban mention of evolution, basic sex ed and force bible classes into public schools. Religion was a cancer back then and its a cancer now.
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  13. Colored woman? Are you typing this from the 1950's?
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  14.  @damebesos8497  Historical facts are pathetic to you? lol snowflake
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  15.  @Stacey_-bf2mb  lol what kind of delusional view of reality is this? The U.S. lost. Period. We wasted the lives of soldiers, brutalized millions of civilians, all for something that would have come by even without U.S. meddling. Capitalism is used by the elite regardless of political systems to crush the blue collar workers.
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  16. You are sick minded to whine about attacks on native people as "political" just because it offends your political sensibilities. Shove it, no one needs respect from people like you.
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  17.  @victortran4561  Yeah what a great success that was /s The US did so much fucking damage to the world and ended so many lives out of the communism paranoia. We overthrew democratically elected leaders in central and south america and installed brutal fascist dictators like pinochet. Killed over a million civilians in SE Asia in the vietnam era. murica!
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  18.  @rickyj5547  I'm sure they didn't want agent orange dumped on their land and millions of people killed by foreign forces either
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  19.  @Luluchan00  Funny how all the things they say happens under communism (breadlines, homelessness, poverty) happen under capitalism, usually at the hands of those who warn the loudest about the evil commiez.
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  20.  @Christopher-rw2bp  >Ignores that all the bad things republicans claim will happen under communism happen under capitalism.
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  21.  @Stacey_-bf2mb  "Communism or capitalism, people were fucked" Yep
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  22.  @Christopher-rw2bp  Sounds like someone doesn't understand the actual history of this war and what led up to it.
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  23. Except people do think the history in them is accurate when it isn't. The "ItS jUsT eNtErTaInMeNt" line is a flimsy excuse.
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  24. Lots of Japanese apologists and whataboutism in these comments...
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  25.  @themightyempire3511  "socialistic stuff" You mean decent healthcare, social security, post offices and public libraries? The horror.
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  26. it was used as a slur, and it actually predates WWII for that purpose. Its not an abbreviated form of "japanese"
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  27.  @DOCTORDROTT  Oh shut it, Even Russia doesn't think the moon missions were faked. You know what we didn't have in 1969? The FILM technology to fake a landing.
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  28.  @ciceroaurelius3757  The same people who bitch about welfare tend to bitch about reparations too, in my experience. They are doing poorly because they've been treated like utter shit for centuries, discriminated against and forced to live in some of the worst areas possible.
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  29.  @ciceroaurelius3757  You imply discrimination is a thing of the past and not ongoing. That's where you're very wrong. You don't just magically heal from centuries of that kind of treatment.
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  30.  @ciceroaurelius3757  Poverty is a crippling issue for many of those communities, along with poverty comes lack of voting power, representation and ability to improve. Abandoning them wont help things either, its not like they can go back to hunting buffalo and being nomads in today's world.
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  31. I would, this is fun lol
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  32.  @ottovonbismarck1375  Fascist lover detected. See how easy that is?
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  33. ​ @sirbagelsworth9463  I don't know that anyone "loves" capitalism so much as just living/enduring in it, like working three jobs in a gig economy to barely make ends meet. Funny how people like you leave out thriving democratic socialist nations like Norway, Finland, Sweden. We get plenty of people fleeing non communist/socialist countries, can you explain that? You also ignore how many originally "socialist" ideas we have in our capitalist society, including public libraries, the post office, fire departments, etc. In fact I'd love to see libraries proposed as a new idea today, see people like you freak out: "FREE books? And how will you be paying for that, STALIN?!"
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  34. You mean from the catholic church and republicans?
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  35. I find it amusing, lol.
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  36. Well Gibson didn't direct this, he was just in it. If he had directed it though, you'd likely be right on.
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  37. Both cultures were messed up.
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  38.  @freddeagostino4038  Yeah, socialism in this country is only for the wealthy and corporations. Rugged individualism is for the poors.
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  39.  @lukeschilperoort9934  Actually they are all "socialist" ideas, and you'll need a better counter than "NUH-UH!" And if you think the post office handles things so badly, enjoy mailing a letter for $7 with UPS, lol!
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  40.  ARL 44  No they dont...
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  41.  @MrShadowfax42  Honey, democrats and republicans swapped politics and voters a long time ago ;) That's why republicans cry over their slave owner traitor statues while trying to claim they had nothing to do with them. Democrats are also the ones trying to teach the history of racism in this country, which also makes republicans tantrum LOL @ republicans
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  42. So click away instead of crying about it, snowflake.
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  43. 10:46 When you're the protagonist in a shonen anime
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  44. Fun fact - It turns out the production of Scott's Robin Hood is ultimately the story of two films: the movie you saw, and a wholly abandoned project called Nottingham, which would've been possibly the single most original Robin Hood movie done so far - the Sheriff of Nottingham is the main character and protagonist, who investigates a string of grisly murders in the area using 12th century detective techniques (Ethan Reiff is a history buff btw and researched how actual killings in that era were investigated). The sheriff then pursues a Robin Hood (who is described as more of a misanthrope) for the crimes only to find out that Robin was actually being framed. The film climax would be a siege of the city of Nottingham between Prince John and King Richard, all while the Sheriff tries to find the real killer. The original script (written by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris) was the subject of a bidding war betwen studios (Universal wound up paying $1.5 million for it). Then, director Ridley Scott came on board and basically demanded that all the standard Robin Hood stuff be put back in there. The movie was renamed Robin Hood and lots more scenes with people shooting bows and arrows were added. A few rewrites later, very little of the original screenplay remained.
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  45. HMMMM HMMMMMMMMMMM!
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  46. Cry harder, ya snowflake.
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  47. Well he didn't direct
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  48. Ok rambo
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  49.  @CoolChris-vn8hz  Give an example of reparations causing more problems please. And its not "taking money away from someone" its a government paying out. And its not over an isolated incident by an ancestor, its continually benefitting from a system put in place by them that operated at the expense of others.
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  50.  @MA-hn9vo  Sure ya can.
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