Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

@johnmartin4641 As far as Gen X goes, if that was the generation you raised because it was split with the Silent Generation, then that was the exception. Gen X was the least supervised generation in history. We raised ourselves. Our parents didn't guide us because they were never there. We were latchkey kids for a reason. That's why there was an epidemic of runaways. Our parents ignored us and when they weren't working they were busy partying or dating to find their next spouse. There's a reason marriage rates took a nosedive in my generation.
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@acbower4468 You don't understand what happened to Generation X. Our parents didn't raise or guide us. They didn't teach us. They had us because they were supposed to and ignored us as soon as possible. My parents were involved in my life. I was lucky, but I wasn't the norm. Even so, I saw my parents maybe 30 minutes a day to eat dinner that we cooked (the children) with them locking themselves in their bedroom until we saw them 5 minutes in the morning as they headed out for work. Again, I was lucky. Most didn't see theirs that much.
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@Larry_Sycamore Where did he say his children are moochers and don't contribute? Multigenerational households was the norm until extremely recently. Were the 18 year olds that fought in WWI and II mentally behaving as children? The vast majority came from multigenerational homes. Especially the ones in WWII because they were recovering from the Great Depression.
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@nadrewod999 Don’t forget most of the houses they’ve taken debt for are shells that aren’t livable and will never be completed. It’s truly bizarre.
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@dangerousdays2052 You threw God into it and that's the opposite of what God says. God doesn't put anyone on Earth to make others suffer. No matter how much you claim it, it doesn't make it the right way to behave.
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@xila-man8249 I mean you’re free to ignore the population collapse if you want. Since China doesn’t allow hardly any immigration, nothing will prevent it. A much lower workforce can’t produce enough to sustain to the current economy. It’s just how numbers work.
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@EekChocolate Everything you're saying is completely false. Gen X, my generation, created a new economy because we had to to survive. Those jobs being shipped out are why 90% of what you're complaining about happened. Because there were no more good paying manufacturing jobs that don't require a lot of skill disappeared, that resulted in higher skills being needed. That caused the push for college and the government to step in to attempt to guarantee its availability to those no longer earning from the lost manufacturing which drove the price up. College became so common that businesses now use it to gauge employment readiness which drove the demand even higher. If you watched the video, you'd know wages are usually pretty stagnant, but because of when you grew up you're used to them growing rapidly. They have grown extremely rapidly to be clear. When I was a teenager the minimum wage was $3.20. Now it's over $10 to start in most places and $15-$20 in many areas. That's in less than 30 years. That's massive growth. As it increases so do prices to go along with it. I currently live in a fairly small town in a sparsely populated state and it's $13+ to flip a burger. That's a $5+ hour increase in less than 5 years. That's not stagnate. The wage increase combined with the shortages caused by getting too much stuff from overseas has caused prices to rise and products to shrink. That's not Reagan economics, that's just plain supply and demand. So again, not manufacturing here has caused an increase in prices that wouldn't have occurred. The other major issue no longer making things here has caused is a lack of invention and progress technologically. Competition isn't nearly as fierce to create new things so it's become stagnant. That's where the real stagnation has occurred. You went on a tirade about cars. There were always other big car manufacturers around the world. Tariffs added costs to them, making the ones made in the US cheaper and it drove car manufacturers to constantly be improving their cars in looks and quality to appeal to more people. Seeing cars made outside the US was uncommon and limited to the more wealthy before. You can see it across all product markets. It's no longer about improving how well something works or how long it lasts, but just adding little gadgets onto it to increase the cost. Let's look at washing machines. There's been no real big improvements to their functionality in decades. They've simply added some technology into them, but their core functions haven't improved at all. Simply because I can start it with my phone, somehow makes it worth thousands of dollars when the much cheaper one does the exact same core function just as well. Our society now puts massive value on gadgets rather than actual functionality and quality which is a direct result of the Boomers driving the economy into a consumer one. My generation simply responded to what Boomers wanted in order to survive, but it was never what we wanted. That's why the middle class is now collapsing. It was never sustainable, but making things is. If you think it isn't then explain China's massive economic rise since we've shipped most of the manufacturing of our ideas over there.
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@davidcook680 It's not about labor, it's about family. That you put it in those terms means you view everything as a transaction, which is sad. It's called love and honoring your parents for having provided for you and taken care of you. This father taught his children generations of knowledge of how to provide for themselves off the land. The value of that knowledge is worth more than any expensive college degree.
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@LucasFernandez-fk8se The problem is the word "fair". Life isn't fair. So choosing that word, because it's pretty much interchangeable with equity, causes problems. What you're describing is equality. Real equality. Each person is based on their strengths and weaknesses regardless of sex, race, etc. Unfortunately because young women have been pushed into this by those in authority positions, they don't understand what equality is. They don't want equality, they want fairness which would be equal representation regardless of ability. They want rewarded for effort, not results. Edit: To clarify even more, when a child puts forth maximum effort to get something and still don't succeed, they say it's not fair. That's because they did what they were told would produce the desired result when it didn't because someone else was better and got the reward. Fairness is everyone that put forth effort getting rewarded. The trophy for all is fairness. What we want is meritocracy. The best person for the position regardless of sex, race, etc.
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I wish we still had my family farm that I grew up working. I would have loved my children to have helped grow the food they ate and understand the work that goes into it. My grandparents sold it to their nephew who still lives there when I was a teenager. Everytime I run into my cousin he has to tell me my grandfather's old 50s tractor is still running and he uses it every year. Most likely it will be split between you and your brother. That's how land is typically handled. Just like that farm was split between my grandfather and his siblings. Each got 2.5 acres and it feed our family of 8. My grandparents grew up in the Great Depression and taught us how to can and preserve food. How to eat well even if you're poor. If we didn't grow it or trade our excess for it, we didn't eat it as far as vegetables went. We'd buy half a cow from a local family and hunt or fish for the rest. Until me and the hubby moved 2 years ago, we were still buying half a cow from the same family.
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Same with autoimmune diseases. Things we didn’t realize were being caused by them we can now test for and see. Hypothyroidism for example we now know is usually caused by Hashimotos. Where as before we could test for it occurring and even treat the hypothyroidism we didn’t know the root cause.
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I didn’t play a lot of EQ2 but EQ1 and the working together was in both areas in it. You’d have the occasional ahole that wouldn’t but for the most everyone did. As for the starting areas, they reflected the god that you followed. So yeah if you follow the god of hate that’s what you’re going to get. Edit: It should also be noted that EQ2 was specifically designed to be able to solo unlike EQ1 which required cooperation. So it was made to draw in people that didn’t want to have to work together.
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@przyna Yes because knowledge and learning about things is just bad. You do know you can learn and still “go outside”. I’m not surprised you’re not capable of doing something children do everyday.
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@vorynrosethorn903 You sound like the Russians who brag about how many dead they had. I guess they don't understand that's a reflection of how incompetent their leaders were. Stalin thought he could win by simply throwing huge numbers of men at artillery. Finally he allowed tacticians to take control and the casualties dropped significantly. The US had some of the best tacticians at the time, so of course their numbers were lower. That doesn't mean they didn't take significant losses during certain operations like D-Day. Cunning isn't a sign of weakness, but of intellectual strength.
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@bitcoinzoomer9994 That's not even remotely true. Trauma is trauma and how the brain deals with it isn't new. What's considered traumatic may change, but not the results of it. It was documented in the US during the Revolution and the Civil War, it just wasn't called that. War has always resulted in a certain number of soldiers not being able to reintegrate back into normal society. In the past, they would remain in the military if it resulted in them not being able to let go of their bloodlust. Those that it broke mentally usually would become hermits or enter a religious sect. Edit: The main difference is their line would die out unless they had previous children. In my tribe they would go live in the capital and help take care of and teach the children that lived there because their parents were divorced. Children from what we'd call broken homes today would go live with the Chief and his wives and family. On the anniversary of our "marriage" we would meet at the river. If one didn't show, the marriage was dissolved.
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A bit of nuance on the house purchasing graph. That was overall home buyers instead of first time which is the usual statistic looked at. That age range would be the largest number that lost their homes in the 2008 crash, so it makes sense they'd be the ones purchasing. It's also because it's in preparation for the incoming crash. You tie up your retirement money or anything you can before inflation gets real high to maintain the value of that money.
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Sorry no. That would be “Somehow Palpatine lives”. Nobody’s going to tell you how or what happened so it’s just “somehow”.
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That's not what happened with Jamestown. I'm a descendant of settlers of Jamestown and the Native tribe. You've got to go back to the start to understand. When the first settlers arrived and built their fortifications, the tribe didn't attack. Even though we were a warrior tribe and had conquered 40 other tribes, we were extremely polite. I know it's weird, but customs. During the first winter they were forced to dig up and eat their dead to survive. So we taught them how to survive and helped them. We thought if they learned how to take care of themselves, they'd leave. That's all we wanted. Just for them to leave and go somewhere else. They didn't and we couldn't communicate very well so we started attacking in an attempt to drive them away. We came close to totally defeating them a few times, but that wasn't the goal. We did sign a peace treaty. Included was that they wouldn't encroach any further onto our lands. They did, driving us further and further back on our own lands. Eventually Chief Powahatan died and his brother took over as chief. He ordered the war to begin again. Technically they broke the treaty first. We just didn't act on it right then. So saying he pitied us and signed a treaty and we were the ones that broke it is just factually incorrect. They also didn't like that we wouldn't return their escaped slaves and indentured servants that escaped and joined the tribe. Then again they didn't return our tribesmen that they'd enslaved either.
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You don't need to believe to attend church. In fact it's intended for people that don't believe to come and learn. After awhile people might ask you why you haven't been baptized yet, but most won't want to seem pushy. Being baptized is not required to participate in the community of a church or the services they provide. To require that would be against Christian beliefs.
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@josep3776 No the state can’t just decide to remove property from someone. You clearly don’t understand the concept of private property. It’s not “China” buying property. It’s Chinese citizens and companies.
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That's not what they're for. It's to limit movement and driving to reduce emissions. I don't know where you got the community thing from. Most people in cities already don't go far from where they live, except for their job, and don't have a "community". Most don't know a single person that lives in the same building or only a couple. No "the left" doesn't give a crap about the majority of men because they're huwhite. When the current skyrocketing rate of them self harming gets brought up, it's laughed off and sometimes even cheered. "Suburb is what demolished the community in the US". Wrong. You'll find the sense of community still pretty strong in most suburbs and in rural areas. A city center isn't required for a sense of community and I don't know why you think it is. In rural areas where populations are spread out due to being heavily agricultural there's no center because it's so rural that large businesses, which is what populates city centers, don't operate. The school or church is what the community rallies around. I've lived where there was a population of less than 100 people and a single store. No government buildings, no "city center" and the community is extremely strong. The sense of community doesn't really exist in cities because of population density. It's too many different people with different enjoyments crammed into a single area. I don't need to "look it up" since I've lived in every single type of place from a large city to tiny towns. "The left isn't 16-25 year old women. The left is huge. Half of people" I guess you don't understand the significance of the age range you even wrote. He's focusing on Gen Z who are currently 16-25. This isn't about the entire population because the rest of us don't have the issues that he's discussing. We're married and had our children for the most part. By the way, women are 51% of the population so half and yes it's women that predominantly vote left. No the current young left is not nationalistic. The majority hate the country, that's according to polls. You can deny it all you like, but reality doesn't care. Edit: Since I'm from small towns with strong communities I attempted to treat people the same way when I moved to a big city. They didn't take kindly to it. They found my attempts at out reach, like making them a meal or making Christmas treats and giving them to everyone, unsettling and creepy. You know, the things that are typically done in an area with a strong sense of community.
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@stannisbaratheon4393 Unfortunately similar quotes have been inserted into other movies after that about destroying the past. The repeating of it sends a pretty clear message. As far as the horrible sequels go, they also intentionally gave the hero no past. Kylo was referring to both Jedi and Sith orders. To destroy them both and create a new way together. A joining of the two. Edit: It was also the start of his redemption arc.
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@stalledparade You do know it was proven McCarthy was right? Once the USSR fell and the files were opened up he was completely vindicated. Most people, like I'm assuming you're doing, confuse McCarthy with the Congressional Committee that was in charge of the trials that took place. Most of the people put through those trials, including the ones in Hollywood, were in fact card carrying members of the Communist party and again when the files were opened were found to have been in contact with the USSR government in attempting to subvert entertainment with positive Communist messaging. Walt Disney sought their help because his artists came to him afraid and concerned because the Union they were apart of was trying to force Communism onto the members and remove anyone that didn't join the party. Edit: A good video explanation of all this is Razorfist's Hollywood was Always Red. Those poor actors we're told were blacklisted from Hollywood and had their careers ruined were only not hired for a couple of years. That's not much of a blacklist or a career ender. Chaplin didn't flee the country to avoid his trail in front of that committee. He fled because he was facing charges of trafficking a minor across state lines.
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@maayan748 Yes killing over 100 million people, starving your own population, building communities that rat to the authorities on each other if someone dares to have a single apple more than someone else "helped people's lives" as opposed to feeding the poor, giving at least minimal healthcare to those rejected by society because of their illness, and building a community that helps one another. That's pretty much all religions except a couple.
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Yes humans are predisposed to some sort of religious ideas. It's because religious type rituals go hand in hand with our evolution into the human species we are today. Because of our ability to reason it creates a need to explain the unexplainable and our pattern recognition makes us put things together that may not actually go together as we search for cause and effect. That's true even today and even in science. That's why what science says is true today could be proven false as we continue invent and innovate.
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That protest you're talking about was when my youngest was still in high school but the oldest had just graduated. He asked me what he should do. I asked if thought they should be banned, he said no. Then I told him he was giving it more thought than probably 99% were because they were mostly just doing it to get out if class. He was also one of the few that refused to participate. His teacher was angry because she couldn't go because he didn't. The funniest part was this was rural south Arkansas where I guarantee all the boys went hunting and the girl's fathers did too. As for skills we're good. I can grow food, sew, quilt, fish, canning, etc and my husband has become a fairly decent hunter. We'll make sure our family survives. I grew up having to do those things to survive so it'll be just going back. We've taught our two boys those skills between them so they'll survive with each other.
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@soulsphere9242 Not on me! I had no restrictions during the pandemic. Neither did Sweden. Do you call them "selfish"? It's illegal to restrict us in the US. Our freedoms of movement and everything else are enshrined in our federal and state Constitutions. Some governors violated those rights, and some did not. Because they are enshrined the lockdown was ruled unconstitutional by the court in Wisconsin and subsequent cases involving what happened are being ruled on as violations against our rights since then. Meaning, according to the law, they can't happen again since there are now court precedents in place. The states I lived in didn't take an economic hit because we didn't follow the advice. In fact the opposite. We've enjoyed an economic boom as companies and people continue to flee to them. No fines were levied, nobody denied employment or services because they didn't take a medication that doesn't protect anybody else. The lawsuits are flying and being won against companies and governments. There's a saying by a Founding Father in the US. Those that sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither. So yes, we put freedom first. It's not new and it's why we ended slavery, had the Civil Rights Act, and everything else because we've always viewed freedom as the most important thing and take the words written in our constitution seriously. Willingly sacrificing freedom for security is how you eventually get tyranny. Just because you tolerate tyranny out of fear doesn't make you the better person.
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@Jubernuaght The south is where a lot of oil refineries are located and oil wells are all over. It will be fine. I grew up without air conditioning in the Delta region and am well aware it's not as bad as many speculate. It wasn't largely populated because it's used for farmland and agricultural. It was late developing after the industrial revolution. People moved to where the jobs were which was factories. Do you really think those factory floors weren't extremely hot during the summer pre AC? The population increased (though in most areas it's still low) because industrialization spread down to it. You don't build massive factories in your prime agricultural areas as a country unless you want your population to starve so the south was never going to develope like the north which had much shorter growing seasons and less rainfall.
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@dirtyaznstyle4156 It's called oil and lots of it. I'm from a small southern town in Arkansas and there were 3 refineries all using mostly local oil. 30% of Arkansas's energy is also already from water power. Most of the south already has a higher percentage of renewable energy than most other states.
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As others have stated, the southern US will be fine. It's still full of natural resources and has the longest growing season. Combine with the oil supply and already high percentage of renewable power, it's one of if not the best area to survive off grid in already. Most of us know how to hunt, fish, and grow our own food already as well because it's still mostly rural.
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@ashleyhathaway8548 That would be great. Then the farmers can grow crops that are profitable instead of ones the government suppresses the price of to keep them affordable because they are required for a civilization to live. Crops like rice, wheat, and corn. Then when there's a shortage of them, the price can rise accordingly. Unfortunately that will make them no longer as cheap and affordable so people can use them to stretch out their food supply and the cost of everything they are used in, like pet and animal feed, will become unaffordable for most. Then that will drive the cost of EVERYTHING even higher and millions of citizens will starve, but that's a small price to pay to get rid of those pesky subsidies. Right?
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I mean Khan killed so many it reflected in the carbon record. Even though the population was much larger, I don't believe such a huge drop occurred from WWII. So not sure about your prediction for bloodiest period. It would feel more so though after such a long period of relative peace. The people freaking out over the current thing shows me a lot of people no longer understand even the concept of war and what it really is. Even if the numbers coming from one side are correct, it's extremely low considering it's war. In previous ones that would be a single day.
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Waiting on my first grandchild. Oldest just got married in July. This started with my generation, Gen X. It’s because we saw so much divorce and ripping apart of families a lot opted out out fear of causing the same damage to their own children. Then at some point it’s moved into Amazon studios saying you can’t show a woman taking care of a child because it’s a harmful stereotype. Being a mother is a harmful stereotype. Where as when I was growing up and even into early Obama mothers were being praised and the government would show how much they’d make if they were paid to stem off the lazy monicker that was starting to emerge.
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@nicholashodges201 I'm going to push back on that. We're the ones at school board meetings fighting against this insanity. We're the ones now becoming politically active by running for office to try to fix it. I don't agree with the original poster either. Blaming a single generation for EVERYTHING is just as stupid as seeing this generation blame "whiteness" for everything. Edit: If you notice the people pushing most of this is Millennials. The teachers and everything else. Not Boomers, not Gen X. Though I know there are a few mixed in it, it's not the majority.
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@dreb222 I’m not sure where China owning most of US debt started. It’s really weird and an easy thing to look into. You are correct that Japan hold most of our foreign debt.
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@OnlineEnglish-wl5rp I’m not sure who these 2 are trying to convince other than each other. China is collapsing. They sped up the Hong Kong takeover because they needed their financial infusion. Same reason Taiwan is being seriously looked at. China needs the economic infusion to keep going. I’ve seen the numbers of young Chinese men “laying down” as they refer to it which is refusing to participate in the workforce. It was so prominent China banned saying it.
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