Comments by "Incurable Romantic" (@incurableromantic4006) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1. It's staggering to me that in just 50 years, we've moved from thinking civilisation would collapse from over population, to thinking civilisation will collapse from population decline.
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  2. During the CHAZ - people who claimed to be protesting police racism and brutality, murdered a black teenager in cold blood for stealing from them: then destroyed evidence to ensure no one would be held accountable. Do not underestimate just how VICIOUS and unprincipled many people are as soon as they think they are free from punishment.
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  3. Blaming "evil colonizers" is a very convenient alibi for the incompetence, dogmatism and corruption of post-colonial leaders. You can see this a lot in India where it's become fashionable to blame the British for all their problems: despite the fact their country wouldn't exist without Britain, all their institutions are based on British ones, and their economy magically started taking off once they dispensed with the socialist ideology they adopted for the first 40 years after independence.
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  4. The reason "NPC" is such a compelling description for so many people, is they respond in such incredibly predictable ways. Bring up any subject in conversation, and you can predict word for word what they will say - it will be whatever the corporate/mainstream/regime media said about that subject most recently. It becomes striking when you realize, "Orange man bad" or "diversity is our strength" is really just the same verbal tick as "I took an arrow to the knee" and "Do you get to the cloud district often?"
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  5. I really loved something Rudyard said in a recent video - "You wouldn't blame someone living in the Great Depression for being poor". A lot of people who feel they're failing in the nightmare of modern society - need to hear that message.
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  6. More plausible than what we were told happened to a certain former proprietor of a certain island known for his connections among the elites.
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  7. I actually think in a sense - you might be right. I suspect we will see a drift back towards religion as this century wears on just because so many people find life without it so utterly bleak and meaningless.
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  8. "The only thing missing is the global economic collapse" I think we're having one now - it's been going on since (at least) 2008 and has gotten continuously worse the whole time: people haven't really noticed because it's happened slowly, and there wasn't a one day event like the Wall Street crash that made everything unravel all at once. However if you look at the staggering decline in standard of living across the western world compared to the 80s and 90s - I think it undeniably has happened, and is continuing.
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  9. At least in Children of Men they resisted the Islamic takeover.
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  10.  @aAverageFan  If it hadn't been the British - it would have needed to be some other empire. Dozens of small feudal states don't come together voluntarily
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  11. You sure? After Rome fell, it was well over a millennium before Europe started to reach comparable levels of prosperity and stability. And of course - that wouldn't have comforted a far-sighted Roman much since practically nothing was left of their culture.
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  12. "Our Great War’s a spiritual war" That's really true - staying sane is becoming the supreme struggle of the age.
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  13. I admire your "glass half full" attitude.
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  14. That's because the last three years has felt like ten.
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  15. Agreed - I think the easy availability of infinite amounts of prawn is dampening down a lot of the male anger and frustration out there.
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  16.  @genestone4951  "I often refer jokingly to this as Nazi Gardening" Fitness, dieting, childrearing, reading old books and working hard have all been declared "far right" - so I imagine gardening will be next.
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  17. "Two ways to view the world, so similar at times: two ways to rule to world, to justify their crimes" That line sounds a lot like Biden and Putin, or Biden and Xi, doesn't it?
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  18. I hate to put it this way - but I don't think feminism is going to be reined in by women moving towards moderation (all the signs right now are that they are doubling down). It will be reined in if and when men as a group say "ENOUGH!"
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  19. Agreed. It's honestly shocking as someone just entering middle-age to realize how massively quality of life has declined in the last 25 years. And we're all being gaslit to think it's the opposite.
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  20.  @tristenatorplaysgames6833  "he assassinated an Iranian general" For good reason. And in doing so he set a clear boundary with them which was respected for the rest of his presidency. Like almost everything Trump did it was a grounded and effective.
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  21. I'm merely horrified. But I'm gonna stick around just to spite the people who want me gone.
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  22.  star3torres  India's birth-rate is now below replacement level. Of course their population is still massive and their average age is still relatively young: but they are on the same path that we are.
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  23. The difference of course - is the depressed don't generally devote their time and effort to actively trying to make things worse for everyone else. I can speak as someone who's had depression.
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  24.  @philosopherpresident4896  Indeed. I've noticed war-hawks never seem to have the slightest intention of volunteering to put their own lives at risk.
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  25. "The most redpilled and misogynistic men were originally extremely romantic toward women" As a guy with the handle "IncurableRomantic" - I can confirm this to be true. At least the redpilled part.
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  26. "Going to think on that for a bit" That's why I watch this channel - it always gives me a lot to chew over and new and different perspectives on things.
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  27. Go read what it was like to be at Stalingrad. You might change your mind on "glory".
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  28. I'm seeing this this with all our serious social problems - anyone who raises them is immediately subject to a barrage of shaming and personal abuse.
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  29.  @rayres1074  Err. . . .are we supposed to be impressed that you wrote down some widely held opinions?
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  30.  @snapdragonzoroark  "if we did we wouldn't face much difficulties" I wouldn't recommend saying that in earshot of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  31.  @kushagraverma4943  "You can't predict an alternate reality" That's literally what you just did - claimed that without the British all those small Indian states would magically have decided to unify through some process too laborious for you to think through. Without Britain, India would be like the DRC - just countless warring tribes.
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  32. The number of people trying, with a straight face, to claim that - "This is the best economy ever", absolutely blows my mind.
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  33. Speculating on the future is impossible without "fantasy" since by definition it hasn't happened.
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  34. Perfect microcosm of what is going on all over the continent.
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  35. "I'm 22 years old" This makes me feel rather inadequate. . . . . .
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  36. Completely agree - and what makes it worse is that Britain would have been one of the better places to wait out a major global crisis: if it were not for elites deciding to import the entire 3rd world here in 15 years. The only ray of hope is that I think quite a lot of the immigrants would leave if we would just stop paying them to be here - but that requires people to willing to make radically different political choices, and I can't see that happening quickly enough to save us.
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  37.  @filmbuff4  "People blame Jews because they're too scared to blame women" - Rudyard Lynch.
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  38. The other tactic they love is to demand - "Saaaaaaaauce????????????" And if you say anything that isn't a massive media conglomerate - they just laugh and dismiss it.
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  39.  @keyes858  It's true though
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  40. Rationally - no one wants things to just fall apart. But there's a part of me that can't help thinking, "Better an end with horror than horror without end".
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  41. "Tolerance" is the most pathetic excuse for virtue imaginable - it's saying, "We have no standards and will just put up with anything". A cowards morality.
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  42.  @globalnationalismyoutube  "Indian leaders don't blame the British for our post-colonial problems" Plenty of Indians do do - every time I make a comment on British India I'm deluged with hordes of dingbat Indian nationalists foaming at the mouth about supposed quadrillions of dollars "looted" from India and supposed trillions "murdered" by the British (the numbers keep getting more and more hysterical as they compete with each other to be the most extreme). There's never acknowledgment of all Britain did for the country or of their own poor policy decisions since independence.
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  43.  @BigSneed-q3w  It always makes me laugh when people just flat out state as you just have - "I can't answer any point you've made".
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  44. Thing is - the haters are already losing interest compared to the last video. If you just stay on mission and keep doing your thing, they have very little to latch onto.
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  45.  @nikitaafanas  Isn't the moral of that story that strength doesn't always look like what you think it does? Not that strength is somehow un-virtuous>
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  46.  @Kneejair  Why are you watching a channel devoted to futurism if you think it's pointless?
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  47.  @kushagraverma4943  You didn't really provide an argument you just offered a counterfactual based on the theory that a loose coalition (that was too weak to fend off a country projecting tiny military forces from thousands of miles away) - would have magically developed the strength to become it's own continent spanning empire. It's an interesting piece of "what if" speculation - but its still a pure theoretical.
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  48.  @kushagraverma4943  Not at all - extrapolating from a real situation that really happened: is not remotely the same as inventing a pure theoretical and extrapolating from that. It's the difference between empiricism and ideology. Plus - I guarantee that if your rather fantastic scenario had happened: there would be people in other regions of India today blaming their woes on "centuries of oppression" by the Marathas. I've seen the phenomenon in my own country with the Celtic nations.
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  49. This channel has done an amazing job of explaining how radical leftism is essentially just organized mental illness.
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  50. I have observed the same thing with evangelical atheists - they're really touchy about being judged for their actions.
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