Comments by "Guinness" (@GuinessOriginal) on "Adam Curtis on the fall of the Soviet Union's worrying parallels with modern Britain" video.

  1. The British who lived and fought through the war did to a certain extent, Russians had the sympathy of that generation. The real problem is the Americans who don’t understand and don’t care. Russia’s feels threatened and the longer this goes on the more likely it is to end in nuclear war
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  2. Apparently it’s not so bad in Holland and Denmark, amongst other places
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  3.  @NDMeow93  the USA feels threatened 😂 tell me, what country has got the military capability to threaten the USA? The USA has got a larger and more powerful military than the next 19 national militaries combined, and 17 of them are allies. So please, tell me who is threatening the USA? Which country has got 5 aircraft carriers and their fleets stationed at Cuba, 70 miles from the U.S. coast? What country has surrounded the USA with its military bases in Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland and the pacific islands? What country decided to move America’s manufacturing base and company ownership outside the USA to other countries?
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  4. Loads of Brits have got black money. They wouldn’t be any to get by otherwise.
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  5. There’s a lot of people ergo don’t want to die who are being killed anyway
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  6. We’re going to need far better leaders than we’ve had for the past decade or so, and there’s no sign of them on the horizon. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better
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  7.  @danielbrown5621  just like the USA didn’t feel threatened by Cuba
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  8.  @TheSeanj87  power comes from the barrel of a gun and is only ever taken and never given.
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  9. You’ve just opened up a rabbit hole for yourself, prepare to be amazed
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  10.  @adsyoffinch  Oliver stone made some brilliant documentaries on Ukraine that promptly got banned and taken down as soon as the war started
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  11.  @pjl8119  I think you’ve just completely failed to grasp the central tenants of their ideas
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  12. It’s going to get a lot worse too.
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  13. The impression I get of the elites are grabbing as much as they can now because they know there’s a big economic crash coming
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  14.  @PauliusTautvydas  I’m a 24 year old Irish Republican, so you’re way off the mark. Typical American, not a clue about anything or anyone outside their state.
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  15.  @danielbrown5621  lie down with dogs and you’ll get up with fleas
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  16.  @simonbrown9757  same right as the USA C has to invade and impose sanctions on Iraq and Afghanistan and Haiti and Cuba and everywhere else I guess
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  17.  @Simonet1309  the USA is under threat from itself. The American empire is rotten to the core, just like the Roman Empire, and it will destroy itself in the same way. Who needs enemies when you’ve got us politicians and corporates
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  18.  @nativenickenglish43  because of anti Russian propaganda that’s been peddled and pushed down our throats
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  19.  @marks7167  c it’s the other way round. Capitalism = War. Come on Wall Street don’t look slow, why man this war is ago ago, there’s plenty of good money to be made, by supplying the army with the tools of the trade, let’s just hope if it breaks out and if they drop the bomb, they don’t blow us all to kingdom come
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  20. @velvet1865 what a poor attempt to try and justify a genocide by lying. Stalin was Georgian not Russian. Most of his politburo was Georgian or Ukrainian, there were very few Russians in it. And your average Russian didn’t have any choice in anything , but you’re going to celebrate their deaths anyway because you’re evil. It was Ukrainians like Bandera who collaborated with the Nazis, not Russia. Russia liberated all the concentration camps and defeated Germany and took Berlin, they clearly weren’t allied with them unlike Bandera who fought for them
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  21. I don’t know, our government cheered when the Ukrainians overthrew their government in 2014 so maybe we should just do the same
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  22.  @enemywithin1295  the establishment was never going to let Corbyn anywhere near the reins of power. Your has generals saying publicly they would kill him if he got elected, the media crucified him and he was accused of anti semitism which is a complete joke. Harold Wilson was similarly stitched up and essentially kicked out in a coup by the establishment
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  23.  @daniles  yeah but for a lot of people they were better off then than they are now, they were certainly worse off in the 90s
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  24.  @GreenTeaViewer  for some reason or masters have seen fit to sha dowb an your comment
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  25. Radical ideas like this inevitably involve shifting power away from the the present establishment. Power is only ever taken and never given, and usually via the barrel of a gun.
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  26. I agree. At a time where we need real leadership and proper statesmen, we are sadly lacking.
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  27. It’s probably even worse than you think too. Have you heard of blackrock, vanguard and Aladdin?
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  28.  @edlawn5481  really? So why is one of the richest men in Britain now the prime minister? It sounds like what you’re saying is rich people aren’t patriotic at all
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  29.  @ennesshay5040  what’s this?
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  30. Agree with both of you. I think things will have to get a lot worse before things change, and at the moment it looks like they are going to get a lot worse. Unfortunately I expect we will be dragged into a war to stop things having to change too much, and all the young people who would drive any change will be killed instead.
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  31.  @sichambers9011  and to the end they’ve decided to shadow ban your comment
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