Comments by "kokofan50" (@kokofan50) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1. You really don’t understand the US. American expansion was mostly the government try to stop Americans from breaking the treaties, and we’re not changing. Right now SpaceX are taking the lead, not NASA. China doesn’t have the man power or capital, and they’re beginning to turn inward. Japan and the EU have aging populations who won’t be able to support something so expensive. Also, as long as the US exists, Japan will never be a superpower.
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  2. The CCP leadership is in that range, and Chinese culture, what’s left of it anyway, highly values elders. The CCP isn’t beyond doing it, but it’s suicide.
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  3.  @marcin8680  you never answered my question: how do you suppose China would deal with the civil unrest caused by your plans?
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  4.  @marcin8680  Chinese people aren’t stupid. They’ll notice, and this would be far worse than Tiananmen Square, which the CCP were afraid lead to their overthrow.
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  5. Except the naked tyranny of it. You even have the last living signatory of your charter of rights suing for abuse of power.
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  6. 1) have you seen the leftists? 2) you can’t magic up a city’s worth of food and water over night. 3) there’s no reason the roads, railroads, and rivers would stop working. 4) who is going to support the cities? They don’t produce the food and other basic resources. They make the high value added good which are mostly consumed within the US. 5) the left has installed left leadership in the military, but the rank and file are more like 60/30 in favor of the right, and the way the has been treating the military is just causing disaffiliation. Also, the military oath is to up hold the constitution, not blindly fallow orders.
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  7. We’re not a maritime empire. We’re a continental power that ran out of land and resources to build a navy
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  8.  @mafinalmessagechangedaworl7131  if Biden wasn’t restricting the number of wells that can be drilled, we would be producing more than enough oil for out needs.
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  9. No, the cities aren’t where the power of the US comes from, and even if they were, the rural ares would just cut off food, water, and electricity without damaging most of the infrastructure. Also, the left has been getting much more radical over the last 5 years. Just this year a million people switched from Democrat to Republican or independent.
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  10. The EU isn’t nearly as cohesive as you seem to think.
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  11.  @saismo1657  he’s saying Biden is bought off by China in an incredibly rude way.
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  12.  @saismo1657  because Hunter Biden took millions of dollars from China as his dad’s middle man
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  13.  @saismo1657  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OkUSt6sA04
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  14. Humans think in mythical terms. While science and reason are powerful tools, they can’t change human nature. Even many of the most devout adherents to science and reason have turned them into a religion.
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  15.  @alexarr8395  out demographics and geography are good. Everything else is the way it is because we chose it.
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  16. The E4 mafia under an American military dictatorship would be the most powerful shadow organization in human history. Although, I would much rather deal with them than the DMV.
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  17. And it would have worked if a few things went differently.
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  18. They’ve captured most of the elites, but not the body politic
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  19. It doesn’t matter where people are if there’s not enough young people to support the old people. Also, test scores are a terrible metric when it’s all you’re using. Test scores just prove people know facts, not if they know to apply what they know or can work through a problem.
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  20.  @user-uf2df6zf5w  no, the eldest son supporting his parents is once they’re too old to work is how civilization has worked until recently in industrialized nations with a pension system, and even pension systems require young people paying in.  Again, you miss my point. PISA reports to measures the ability to apply skills, not the ability to develop new solutions.
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  21.  @user-uf2df6zf5w  you don’t understand humans, and you really don’t understand Chinese culture. Even in the hyper-individualist US, we don’t abandon family, and in China, where the culture is heavily influenced by confucianism, family is 100 times more important. Knowledge is a lot easier obtain than creativity.
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  22. And the wumao roachs have come out
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  23.  @thelitsquad2718  we’ve had ATGM for decades now and had several wars with them. Tanks are still here.
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  24.  @thelitsquad2718  and your point is that tanks have always had threats to them? That seems counter to your previous point.
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  25.  @thelitsquad2718  no, you’re point was that tanks are obsolete, and you tried to use how easy it is to destroy tanks as the explanation why. For every new weapon there is a defense. Active defense systems have been developed against missiles. Various strategies are being developed to deal with drones.
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  26. I think you mean mildly traditionalist government. Europe’s Overton window is skewed so far left actual communists are the moderate left.
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  27. If several states had fallowed their own laws and Twitter and others hadn’t suppressed the Hunter laptop, Biden would have lost. That being said, Bernie wouldn’t have won either.
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  28. The Gnostics were a very strange early sect of Christianity.
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  29.  @InternetLaser  “ Current evidence points to” is uselessly vague statement. What kind of skills do these immigrants have that we can’t produce or at least can’t produce enough of? Sure an immigrant working as low cost labor is going to consume goods and services, but would they consume as much as an American, who would demand higher pay? Even if they do, is it worth displacing our own people?
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  30.  @InternetLaser  even if I give you that someone from Mexico has to come to the US for their knowledge of Mexico’s ecology, not an American scientist doing expeditions and all the other stuff, that’s a minority of people coming to the US. Most people are low skilled. Even if there are only two options, there aren’t, I would much prefer investing in other countries, rather importing masses of people to be an underclass. Moving people from a poor country to a rich one doesn’t magically end poverty
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  31.  @InternetLaser  wow, you’re full of crap. You complain about the example of yours I used to make my point rather than making an argument against my. Then you complain about the words I use to describe the ad hock system that has evolved to bring people into the US. You hold two incompatible ideas at the same time. How is a government supposed to tax people if they hold no control over the flow of people, capital, or goods? Moreover, why would people invest here if those things are so easy to move? Also, “economists estimate” is too vague to mean anything and basic bitch example of appeal to authority. Are those estimates of mass immigration or free trade?
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  32. There’s no point in ending the abuse of power if the abuser is still in power.
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  33.  @Boberman286  peaceful and nonviolent are exactly the same thing. Moreover, how do you terrorize people without at least the threat of violence? The definition of terrorism has violence and the threat of violence in it. How is honking a horn a threat of violence?
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  34. We haven’t invented Skynet and the terminators yet.
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  35. There’s no good reason they wouldn’t join the US. The cultural differences between the US and Canada are smaller than the regional difference within both. Much pf Canadian identity is built around not being American. If that Canadian identity implodes, then all that’s left is the regional identities, which fallow geography rather than political borders. Also, they would probably want to able to make political and economic decisions from the inside rather than being dictated term to by the much more power US.
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  36.  @monkeytime9851  the US collapsing, like the end of the world, has been much predicted and has yet to happen. My understanding is that the western provinces don’t have issues with being part of a bigger country. They have issues being ruled over by people who don’t represent their interests. If the joined the US they would be joining a block of states with similar interests
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  37. They probably couldn’t take Taiwan, let alone project power across the planet
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  38. They’ll be locked in their cities with the electricity, food, and water shut off in days. Mercs aren’t going to be able to stop something that fast or even be hired.
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  39. Generally, you only kill the ruling class when conquering a place, particularly when outnumbered 10-100 to 1. Also, all the genetic, archeological, and linguistic evidence points to Ukraine being the origin of Indo-Europeans.
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  40. I don’t see a Confederate States of America on a modern map.
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  41.  @alessandrodelogu7931  we didn’t lose. We lost interest.
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  42.  @davefranklyn7730  and my point is that the rebellion lost to the US.
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  43.  @davefranklyn7730  secessionists are rather explicitly denouncing their status as Americans.
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  44.  @davefranklyn7730  I was speaking about secessionists in all times, past, present, or future. Let’s take this step by step. Secessionists are implicitly denouncing their citizenship. Denouncing their citizenship makes them not Americans.
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  45. The wokeists make up at least 1/3 of the party, and that fraction is growing as moderates flee for the sane Republicans
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  46.  @nadavgilboa5054  the work by hidden tribes of America estates that 8% of the US population are progressives. It’s common knowledge the Democrats and Republicans have each had about 30% of the voters for decades.
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  47. 1) China’s economy is never going to over take the US’s. 2) China is boxed in by geography. 3) China has ruined their relationship with most of their neighbors.
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  48. Every girl gets a tentacle monster and every guy gets a harem of his choice?
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  49.  @darthutah6649  the last ~70 years show not many
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  50. China is going to be a champion of sucking, so no.
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