Comments by "Ronin Dave" (@RoninDave) on "Metatron" channel.

  1. The best defense is to go into a Matrix pose slowing time down as you effortlessly dodge bullets or if you are armed with twin katana swing them fast to deflect the bullets.
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  2. there's been an atmosphere created over the last decade encouraging this type of behavior of no accountability which some women opportunists have taken advantage of are literally unaware of their blatant hypocrisy.
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  3.  @DenUitvreter  yeah I've described like Irish Americans trying to lay claim to Rome's glory because Ireland and Rome is in Europe and both are white so...
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  4. I think the production crew largely didn't know much about Japanese history so much of what the talking-head historians were saying to them (and probably ended up on the editing room floor) went over their heads. They went with what they knew and what they thought their audience knew which isn't much. So a lot of things that could have really pushed the docuseries into interesting territories was missed.
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  5.  @undertakernumberone1  exactly with the Age of Enlightenment squeezed in. There was a vested interest by various academia to disparage the Middle Ages to make their own times seem much better and more enlightened in comparison
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  6.  jasonvoorhees5640  showing someone's house on social media with bad intent is pretty damn wrong considering potential consequences.
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  7. Two wrongs don't make a right. Afrocentricism was part of an inner-argument of the US's racial issues which later spilled out into the world via public media. It was originally a reaction to vile racist ideologies and norms of the past and a way to give hope to a downtrodden people with a glorified past. However, it has warped into a conspiracy theory like mentality where everyone was black back then but it's been covered up by the (white) authorities. Now Egyptians are harassed and called invaders in their own land which DNA shows they have strong ties to its past more so than the US descendants of West Africans many of whom have never visited Egypt or Africa which seems to be treated as though it were a country of one people and culture rather than a vast continent of great diversity. Personally, racism aside I think it's more a reflection of Americans in general regardless of race or politics being very myopic and self-centered in our view of the rest of the world.
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  8. These history docuseries are geared to the ill-informed who only know about 3 or 4 names from Egypt or Africa for that matter so forget there being any real research into overlooked cultures and peoples.
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  9.  @EstradaDuran-sg6co  charges have to be pressed
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  10.  @EstradaDuran-sg6co  exactly - huh? is the response. Showing up at someone's house whom you have a grievance against could be seen as an implied threat and when you through the potential consequences of doxxing someone to millions of followers it can become even more of an issue.
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  11.  @texasfuneral4787  it's because you have people seriously saying black people were there first. There's youtube videos on it and most of it is from Americans.
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  12. Some people think Africa is a country with a monolithic culture and race rather than a very large continent with a lot of diversity. That expert apparently is one of those people.
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  13.  @RaccooniusIII  but Blackthorne/William Adams arrived with the first Dutch to reach Japan and only a handful were alive. If any had been black it would have been noticed.
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  14.  @tylerwellman8252  yeah the samurai one was all over the place and made Oda Nobunaga look like a slob
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  15.  @texasfuneral4787  🤔 You've lost your mind, sir
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  16. It7s weird how he bypasses the entire Levant which is geographically closer to Greece and jumps to Africa for the source of everything Ancient Greece. Ancient Greece had a flood myth close to the Sumerian one in Gilgamesh for example.
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  17.  @texasfuneral4787  no they weren't
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  18.  @jeffwells641  problem is William Adams/Blackthorn was with the first Dutch to reach Japan and there were only a dozen survivors on his ship so there would not have been any black africans brought by the Dutch until later in 1609. Yasuke was so rare he caused quite a stir.
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  19.  @alias-wave  absolute nonsense. Ainu are descendants of Jomon and Northen Siberians. But yes they have nothing to do with Black Africans.
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  20.  @CurtisCT  I'd say a good reason for Cleopatra to learn the native language was a way to have an advantage over her brother/husband
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  21. that was later in the Edo Period
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  22. Can you point on the ningyo (人形) where they hurt you? I said it before, if it were a drama I'd be more forgiving - artistic license, dramatic purposes, etc... - but a documentary should be dispelling myths not perpetuating them. I still can't get over them showing Toyotomi dispatching Imagawa personally in the 1st episode despite we not knowing if he was actually even at the battle not to mention it was duly recorded who DID dispatch him. And let's just forget how all the samurai were mainly presented as warriors for the working day ignoring all their cultural arts and patronage. They were poets, calligraphers, tea ceremony aficionados and masters, Noh patrons and players but no lets just focus on katana(s) and ninja(s) and call it a day.
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  23. How is this even a debate? Showing up at someone's house uninvited with no warning posting said house on social media is nuts and you know if the genders were switched the guy would be banned in a heartbeat. Given the low IQ level of her average fans, this opens him up to a host of attacks both physical and online. I'd be worried about getting a scenario of shooting Reagan to impress Jodie Foster type of thing from one of sniperwolf's besotted fans.
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  24.  @jacquilayton2557  yeah it's ironically racist in its own way by making Africa a monolithic people and culture just to appease the general ignorance of Americans
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  25. nonsense! the katana is the swordest sword that ever sworded a sword!
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  26. domestic abuse? robbery? She sounds like a real basketcase as if the stalking wasn't enough.
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  27.  @MichaelPrefontaine-p9i  as you say it was case by case as there was no central authority at that time. The Jesuits had more freedom of movement depending on the local lords while sailors had little interest in venturing inland. But the whole point with that clickbait article is that there would be nearly no black people or very many Europeans anywhere unless attached to missionaries.
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  28.  @EstradaDuran-sg6co  huh?
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  29.  @ḵulagaaw  DNA of mummies from going back to the New Kingdom showed more ties with the Levant than Sub-saharan Africa which was introduced after the Romans. As for Cleopatra, the Ptolemies preferred to keep it in the family for generations and it would seem strange that Cleopatra VII would be the odd one out of the bunch. With her struggles against her siblings such a difference would have been exploited against her.
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  30.  @ḵulagaaw  keep your tinfoil hat theories out of academic debate, thank you
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  31. With dramas I generally roll my eyes at all the armchair historians pointing out the obvious historical inaccuracies big and small (kilts in Bravehearts, wrong shields in Gladiator. etc...) but a historical drama you expect better. I can even give a pass to inaccuracies with costumes if they just didn't have all the set pieces but actual historical details that are blatantly wrong and fabricated are not so forgivable. First episode states Okehamaza was a night battle and shows (fortunately doesn't actually say) that Toyotomi Hideyoshi killed Imagawa Yoshimoto. People might try to brush that off as artistic license which would be fine for a drama but not for a "historical" documentary. Imagine if another country did a documentary on a piece of your country's history that was so well known by even the lowest educated in your country and got the basic details wrong, you wouldn't take it seriously. A Japanese person once they got over the visual inaccuracies would be scratching their head at Okehazama being treated as a night battle when they grew up hearing it was in the afternoon after a thunderstorm. Granted, the actual details are murky and the accounts rather apocryphal (the timely thunderstorm in particular) but a documentary should address this if it were a misconception (and night battles weren't so unconventional - hello, Battle of Kawagoe? Hell, the Hogen no Ran). And Toyotomi (forget he wasn't called that at the time but whatever) killing Imagawa? Might as well have Lincoln riding into battle at Gettysburg and executing Stonewall Jackson on the battlefield (like they did with Ishida at Sekigahara). I give them a "C" for effort but it's obvious this was for a largely American audience with only the faintest of knowledge of the history and for many whom "katanas F'ing rule!" However, I hope they use the momentum of the series to make better and more detailed documentaries that don't squish more than half-a-century worth of events.
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  32. but you have these gun nuts who think they can pull off some kind of a quick draw on someone who has a gun pointed at them
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  33. notice Asian, Arabic, or Native American don't get this kind of representation like a Pakistani Achilles or Korean Elves in Rings of Power
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  34. I'm confused - is Iaido wrong in its ideology that a person should disregard it and have their sword out before their fight or that video games/movies are wrong in their presentation of Iaido or both? It seems like you are dismissing the art as a whole based on the assumption that samurai did not fight or practiced in this way. The scenario presented also seemed unrealistic as in a battle the likelihood of being by yourself in these duel-like conditions of one-on-one encounters was very slim. Sengoku warfare wasn't like earlier samurai warfare where they announced their name and lineage seeking out a worthy opponent (and fought him on horseback with a bow). If you were down to your sword and weren't mounted and alone, you were in a pretty shitty situation that retreat (yes, samurai would retreat) would be preferable. In an Edo-era town the chances of an enemy giving you the luxury of knowing their intent with a drawn sword was also rare. Accounts of fights in the Hagakure for example show that they often erupted quickly with little time to draw the sword and assume a proper posture. Also you assume that an iaido person would allow their opponent to get as close as you did in your demonstration (with a person who doesn't seem proficient in iaido).
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  35. Chris Wedemann that maybe so but to say "it's always advantageous to have your sword drawn" is rather misleading. And his demo wasn't very accurate especially given the distance between the two.
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  36. Chris Wedemann uh, no... right towards the end he said it's always
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  37. +Fuhq Ewe speaking with authority using absolute terms such as saying it is always is not a good way to present information especially if the person has not practiced that art themselves. they deserve a little harshness.
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  38. Damn that sucks! Good plan to keep the virus down! Those selfish people who have to party are irresponsible as they are stupid.
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  39.  @MichaelPrefontaine-p9i  quite a number of slaves were Japanese and Korean which overlooked.
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  40. We live in an age of misinformation, disinformation, and clickbait garbage. Despite have more readily available access to information, more misinformation is spread far more than ever before because too many people are to lazy to click around and find out for themselves.
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  41. Is it him or his ghost unaware of his fate?
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  42.  @kareemismael6153  I would say the old Eurocentrism of laying European claims on Ancient Egypt ie "whiteness" has for the most part faded away with time but in more recent times Afrocentrists have stepped up with the aid of social media to insult and attack Egyptians. With most Ancient Egypt videos I see far more Afrocentrists than Eurocentrists claiming modern Egyptians are invaders and thieves of culture. It's an anti-progressive attitude that doesn't help anyone.
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  43. You don't correct past wrongs by presenting misinformation and forcing modern socio-political narratives on the past. I've said elsewhere to those ignorant of Ptolemaic roots who think because Cleopatra was born in Egypt and Egypt is in Africa therefore she is black is like saying Gandi looked Korean because India is in Asia. There's a bad habit particularly in the US to boil Africa down to one country with a monolithic culture and race.
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  44. The irony of ironies is that Afrocentric theories do more to ignore actual black history in their obsession to make all people in ancient times black from Socrates to Ancient Japanese Jomon people even early samurai. They'd rather argue based on modern translations of 2000 year old Greek texts about skin tones of ancient peoples rather than look at real black kingdoms and leaders. They are trying to present a mythos of a vast black civilization that spanned the world which was stolen and hidden from them which sounds eerily similar to the Aryan race mythos "somebody" pushed last century. Not a great plan.
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  45. what some people don't get is there is no uniformity in white or black. Most of that is the US projecting its racial issues on the rest of the world
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  46. ​ @Arcantropolo  yeah they are passing off Tibetan nuns in wigs as "black Japanese" being the Jomon people who disappeared 2000 years ago 🤣
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  47.  @Blakobness  it's a fringe group of Afrocentrism most of it from the US. These theories were proposed decades ago and fell rightly into obscurity until the age of clickbait.
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  48. Yeah, when I first heard of it I thought the same thing which if a drama I could forgive certain details for artistic license but a documentary? Maybe it started that way - the B-roll stuff - then they scrapped it for cost reasons and brought in the talking heads.
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  49. "What many don't realize, however..." is a line in about every clickbait Top 10 list ever. The writer thinks they are being clever as they dive deep into misconceptions but often these are only superficial dives into puddles of the authors' own limited knowledge and misconceptions. These articles are the equivalent of the pub know-it-all who after his third drink starts off a conversation no one asked for by saying "You know..." and proceeds to relate some info he half-remembers from wikipedia and a reddit thread.
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  50. John Hinckley shot President Reagan to impress Jodie Foster in 1981 so someone like sniperwolf who has so many besotted fans there is a chance in that 5+ million followers that there is one or a few deranged enough they may act out on those feelings hoping the object of their affection will be pleased
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