Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. Next you're going to say that red, blue, and green quarks aren't actually red, blue, or green. And that would be a strange matter indeed!
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  2. Elron certainly knew a fair amount about the occult, and he incorporated that knowledge into Scientology, but if you really want to understand Scientology, you have to understand that at its heart it is not a religion or a belief system, it's just a scam. The only revelation Elron ever had was that fleecing rubes with a fake religion would pay WAY better than writing science fiction.
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  3. Ethnicity and race are not remotely the same thing.
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  4. I mean, China was founded by Aryans? It's clearly nonsense from the get-go. His main means of defending his ideas was throwing anyone who dared disagree with them in public into a concentration camp.
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  5.  @harrisonlincoln8343  "Assuming the Israelites were Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe?" That's reversing the chronology. Ashkenazi Jews are the descendants of ancient Israelites who came to Eastern Europe, not the other way around. Hebrew, a Canaanite language, is much, much, much older than Yiddish.
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  6. Like many people who are communists in their teens and 20s, he grew up. Unfortunately, he grew up to be a fanatical racist and militarist.
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  7.  @CantusTropus  Because they weren't socialists. Do you think North Korea is a democracy? BuCuZ iTs In ThErE nAmE!!!!!
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  8.  @ManiacMayhem7256  Signing a pact of convenience with the USSR didn't make Nazi Germany socialist any more than allying with the US and UK later on made the USSR a democracy.
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  9.  @ManiacMayhem7256  You clearly haven't been reading the discussion.
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  10.  @ManiacMayhem7256  No, they don't. If the high taxes mostly go to fund the military for example, that isn't inherently leftist. Or if they go to support an oligarchy. Louis XIV's France had ruinously high taxes, but it wasn't leftist by any stretch of the imagination.
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  11.  @ManiacMayhem7256  No, it wasn't. You're just being silly.
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  12.  @ManiacMayhem7256  France did have high taxes on the rich. Just not the nobility. Who do you think was responsible for starting the revolution?
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  13.  @ManiacMayhem7256  That is incorrect. I suggest you read more on the revolution. The bourgeoisie had become the real creators of wealth in Europe and it was because the French political system didn't adapt to that new reality as the English did that France had a revolution. The poor eventually joined in for their own reasons but the issues for them were different.
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  14.  @faveology  I would agree.
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  15.  @kingpriapatius5832  No reason to give a Nazi a platform.
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  16.  @kingpriapatius5832  He was literally proven in court to be a Nazi apologist. Given that I see no reason to boost his readership.
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  17.  @kingpriapatius5832  I just told you.
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  18. "Aryan" is a term found in the Vedas and some other ancient Persian and Indian literary sources. Its exact meaning is hotly debated, but the prevailing theory is that it was used to distinguish a member of the groups speaking Indo-European languages and practicing the ancestral Indo-European religion from other people in the area who had different languages and/or religions. 19th century racialists concluded that Indo-Aryan languages (a subgroup of Indo-European languages) were brought to India and Persia by invaders from the steppe who conquered and subjugated those already in those areas and established a system of segregation to keep themselves a distinct ruling caste, and that light skin was one of the key features used to distinguish the ruling class from the conquered classes. This was further developed into the concept of an "Aryan race" that brought civilization to these areas, even though archaeology had proved even by then that civilizations existed in them prior to the introduction of Indo-European languages. Most of this is discredited today, although whether the introduction of Indo-European languages was the result of a conquest and subjugation of the natives are also still hotly debated. The subject is also clouded by the development of Hindu nationalism, a pseudoscientific mythology which insists (again, contrary to all archaeological evidence) that all Indo-European languages originated inside India and spread from there to Europe and west Asia.
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  19. The Germans had millions in slave labor too.
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  20. Gulags: we're running out of labor! Stalin: I think I know how to solve this problem.
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  21. The Japanese had all the oil they needed and then some. What they lacked was any means to get most of that oil back to Japan where the refineries were and to protect the ships so employed. You'd think they might have planned for that, but the generals who were running the government just kind of assumed the navy would take care of it somehow. The Germans would have had the same problem if they'd managed to secure the Caucasian oil fields.
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  22. They were receiving oil, but not as much as they needed.
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  23.  @Botzorz  What exactly constitutes the occupying force you imagine controls Germany? What army? What paramilitary police force? Who is going to do the arresting you claim will happen to anyone speaking out against it? And why was this foreign occupying power powerless to prevent the only country that has ever expressed a wish to leave the EU from doing so? Why isn't Boris Johnson in a deep, dark cell in some EU prison or Gulag? And where are you spouting this rubbish from? Have you ever even been to Germany? Or known anyone who lives there?
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  24. The problem is that once it leaves here about 95% of the time it's used maliciously and dishonestly to defend modern-day racist right-wing extremists and tar modern-day democratic socialists with Hitler's crimes.
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  25. Did Thatcher going really change anything? Blair was only too happy to jump into Iraq and Afghanistan. I'd say the real change was in the 1950s and 60s when the UK woke up to the fact that it was no longer a great power and became a US ally and dependency instead.
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  26.  @Lunkwow  As tot he latter: sure, but that's corruption, not socialism. One could also argue that the USSR was a capitalist system because vast wealth was diverted to the private use of party officials - but again, that wasn't capitalism, it was corruption!
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  27.  @suddenuprising  There is no authority under eminent domain in US law for the government to seize a company for declining to make weapons or to force it to make weapons. You're stretching to make a point that simply isn't there.
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  28.  @suddenuprising  Can you cite the case law, statute, or other authority authorizing that? And are you even from the US?
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  29.  @suddenuprising  Okay. What examples? If they aren't from the US they aren't relevant.
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  30. You make that sound very one-sided. Like Hitler, the Japanese militarists engaged in a long series of violations and escalations, invading Manchuria, invading China itself, conducting numerous massacres and atrocities in the course of that invasion, bombing a US naval vessel, invading French Indochina, bullying Thailand into a very one-sided alliance, and making their intentions very clear to absorb other European colonies like Malaya and the Dutch East Indies into their "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere". What was the US supposed to do, just sit by and whine while Japan conquered and brutalized half of Asia? And why was it unreasonable to expect japan to surrender half of China? (To the Chinese government, not to the US.) They were conduction an aggressive war. No one was asking Japan to give up an inch of territory it controlled before 1937, including its conquests in Korea, Formosa, and Manchuria. And as for the US naval buildup, Japan, not the US or UK, was the first to repudiate the Washington and London Naval Treaties. The US naval building program was a response to Japanese aggression, not the cause for it.
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  31. They absolutely would have lost. The effect of the Western Allies' blockade cannot be underestimated. Without it Germany could have bought all the oil and other resources it needed from overseas. Even if the US and UK refused to sell to them, imagine all the oil from Venezuela and/or the Netherlands East Indies flowing into the Third Reich, plus the rubber, tungsten, and other strategic materials - with those resources logistics on the Eastern Front would have reached a whole new level which means Germany would probably have knocked the USSR out in 1941 and definitely would have in 1942. That's not even considering all the German men and equipment lost in the west in 1940 or the effect of being able to concentrate 100% of their forces, particularly their air force, in the east in 1941-42. Why do you think Hitler wanted to make peace with the UK so badly in 1940? He knew that even without a significant land front in the west the drain on his resources from the blockade and the air war were likely to be decisive, even crippling.
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  32. The existence of forms of socialism other than Marxism does not mean that Nazism was such a form. You are doing for "socialism" exactly what Orwell said was being done to "fascism": turning it into a category so broad as to be meaningless, and essentially nothing more than a curse word or a simple derisive grunt.
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  33.  @destubae3271  If Sikhs aren't Christian, then what sort of Buddhists are they? Do you see the problem there?
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  34. Trump - Made a "career" leveraging Daddy's money and swindling people, still managed to lose billions and declare bankruptcy six times. Never did a single honest day's work in his life.
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  35.  @keithstevens5614  There were Semitic-speaking people in Mesopotamia and the Levant from the very beginnings of recorded history. They just didn't start writing until around 2500 BC or so. Sumer was always confined to the southern part of Mesopotamia, the north was Semitic. Where the Semitic languages originated is the subject of much debate, but they had spread throughout the Middle East before the invention of writing. The Amorite language is more closely related to northwest Semitic languages like Canaanite/Hebrew and Aramaic than to Arabic or the south Arabian languages.
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  36. At 32:12: there was no peacetime for the Nazi state: there was wartime, and intervals during which the state prepared for the next war. War was ALWAYS the priority of the Nazi state. War was the way in which the volk effected its will to power, and the state was the engine by means of which the volk waged war. This was always the very center of Hitler's philosophy and policies, made very clear in Mein Kampf and in every action he took after seizing power. This is the key difference between the Nazi Party and the Labour Party as far as economic policy is concerned: you may be correct that the policies of Labour do not, in fact, improve conditions for the workers, but Labour's policies are nevertheless driven by the (erroneous) belief that these policies will make workers better off, not because they increase the state's power for its own sake.
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  37. Don't forget Pol Pot, who wanted to murder everyone who was literate because only ignorant peasants were politically reliable.
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  38. Stalin was gonna get medieval on his ass.
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  39.  @108lvl  I don't remember exactly what I was referring to when I wrote that, but IIRC in Buddhist usage the left-facing swastika is usually considered more auspicious, and in cultures like the prehistoric Celts and sometimes Slavs where it was a sun symbol the left-facing one had a more positive context because if you visualize it rolling along a surface you would expect it to roll clockwise (sun-wise), from left to right, like the sun does if you're watching it in the northern hemisphere, while the right-facing one would roll counter-sunwise, which is unlucky.
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  40.  @daizyflower272  First off, polar shift and magnetic polar shift are not the same thing. The earth has been spinning the same way since it formed. The continents have been in different positions WRT the poles, but those drifts take place over tens of millions of years. Second the magnetic poles haven't reversed for nearly 800,000 years, which is longer than the our species has existed.
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  41. I don't think any of that oil had been discovered at that time.
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  42. And the name of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has the word "democratic" in it - does that mean it is democratic?
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  43.  @aleksazunjic9672  Wait, when did the US fall?
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  44. This is more of a cultural problem than a legal one. De-Nazification was for Germany and Austria, not the US or UK. Domestic culture discredited Nazism unofficially. the problem is that the left int he west went from Stalin shills to denying they had ever been Stalin shills rather than admitting their mistake.
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  45.  @aleksazunjic9672  Don't bet on it. Unless you're betting bitcoin. 🤣
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  46. That is so not true. Ever hear of Douglas Southall Freeman?
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  47. Disagreeing with the Party on anything was no longer a thing that unions could do. That means DAF was a sham and a means of state control over both workers and employers, not a union.
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  48. Because socialism being inherently antisemitic is bullsh1t. There are antisemitic socialists (Marx was one), but that is not at all the same thing. TIK is relying on a blatantly invalid syllogism here: Jews are capitalist, socialism is anti-capitalist, therefore socialists are anti-Jewish. If you can't see the problem there, you BADLY need a class in formal logic (as does TIK). You might just as easily argue that Jews are socialist (Trotsky was an extremely prominent one), TIK is anti-socialist, therefore TIK as antisemitic. And that would also be bullsh1t.
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  49. A window dressing of egalitarianism is not the same as socialism, not even remotely. The British Royal Family took great pains to look like they were undergoing the same hardships as East End dock workers, that doesn't mean the class distinction between them was abolished.
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  50.  @nicholasconder4703  Right. Which meant it had nothing to do with socialism.
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