Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. Imagine a war ending like that: "Your king has died of dysentery."
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  2. About the inflation of the era: This was the "widecat banking era," when most paper currency was issued by banks, not the government. Often it was only useable in the region it was issued, and when banks became insolvent the paper money became worthless. Since no one really controlled the money supply, no one could stop inflation or deflation.
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  3. Proof that people will complain about anything or get addicted to anything. It sounds like it was a symptom of the great depression because it was cheap and took a lot of time to finish
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  4. The word TENET means "holds" in Latin and it is among the most famous word puzzles because since the word is perfectly symetrical you can make a 5x5 box saying tenet backwards, forwards, up, down, and diagonal
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  5. Fun fact: Lions don't murder other lion's cubs because they want their bloodline to dominate, they kill their step-cubs so the lioness will go into heat but they do love their own cubs.
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  6. Just think of the first guy to make cheese. "Hey guys, we forgot about this this jar of milk in the back of the cave from last spring and now it's sludge... Wonder if it's still good.
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  7. Don't give Mayor Adams ideas
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  8.  @poetryflynn3712  Dude, you seen the mess connected to crypto banks?
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  9. Some things never change
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  10. I know a Kansas historian arguing that Bleeding Kansas didn't happen. There were at most 4 dozen murders over the course of a decade which included no authority figures, but the 1950s a movie staring Ronald Reagan of all people presented as fact high attritional losses of army officers because of assassination that simply never happened, not even once.
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  11. Found Florida Man
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  12.  @kerokero_furogu  some are functional, getting hair out of the way. Others are to show off how manly or girly one is
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  13. Or when the vigilante landowners start charging each other "war tax" to protect them from other vigilante landowners
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  14.  @donnajohnson3334  Until the 20th century you didn't need a license or insurance to run a bank. That's why in the old west when bank robbers came, they were literally robbing entire towns. Sometimes the bankers were a band of bros who took a lot of leverage and/or didn't know what they were doing. Charles Ponzi was one such wildcat banker when he lived in Canada.
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  15.  @poetryflynn3712  Yes, that is true... It is also private money, and the wildcat banking era was far less than the systemic fraud in the crypto space, but it had many of the same problems. And leaving the gold standard didn't devalue currency. Gold fluctuates in price by as much as 100% depending on supply and demand. The Feds keep the currency stable compared to a whole basket of staple goods and they buy and sell gold and bonds to do so.
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  16. Lying isn't necessary in this instance
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  17. You mean people actually do those puzzles?
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  18. The problem with this video is the hoaxes of Sam Clemins are widely known, there was even a Bonanza episode on it. Videos on hoaxes some people still believe would be appreciated, like the myth of men getting rich selling shovels during a gold rush. The reality was it was so expensive to haul goods across the frontier that those men were just as liable as the miners to go bankrupt.
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  19. @ You misread. They kill other lion's cubs, not their own (mostly)
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  20. Strange you should blame looting for the failure when the Rebels were so desperate for supplies that they were going nowhere without loot. Many didn't have shoes and it was fall in Missouri.
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  21. You somehow surprised there's a mainstream culture that does weird stuff?
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  22. Oh the horrors you must have endured in the 80's
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  23. An important backstory of this offensive is that it was done by the surviving Missourian and Arkansan infantry but most of both states had been lost. These regiments were mostly not destroyed in the fighting around Fayetteville, Little Rock, and Vicksburg but forced into the south of the state where they were so poor they were using jars instead of canteens and carried bullets loosely in their pockets because they had no ammo boxes and many lacked winter clothing in a campaign expected to continue through the winter.
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  24. This is a good case in point how political BS obfuscates everything. All the chroniclers are so busy whining that it's hard to know anything for sure.
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  25. This is case in point why you should never count on mass defection. I assure you, the press reports you're reading saying that the enemy population are all oppressed dissidents is total bull.
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  26. Woes is you
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  27. History Guy is the right age to have worn one...
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  28. Except we frankly have no idea how Jesus wore his hair
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  29. Rumored cartel connected, but the gangsters are mostly the landowners themselves. Those gangs collapsed after getting blacklisted by US regulators.
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  30.  @katmurphy6634  Often but not always. Grown lions are competition for lionesses, cub lions are obstacles to lionesses.
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  31.  @katmurphy6634  There's nothing esoteric going on, they're just cats fighting over who gets to have sex.
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  32.  @larrymyers6327  That is a side effect. It shouldn't surprise you that cats have a much more basic motive of having more sex.
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  33.  @dancoroian1  shut up
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  34. The idea is to enslave animals, not people
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  35. Ok, boomer (sarcasm)
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  36.  @bar-1studios  What's even the point of those? Is cyberpunk an actual style?
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  37. Keith Gill approves.
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  38.  @mikeskelly2356  or both.
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  39. @BillWendell-y5c  so?
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  40. I think Nevada is a separate state in order to circumvent gambling/prostitution laws.
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  41.  @HM2SGT  There's nothing slavish about it
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  42.  @hiramnoone  There's mainstream political parties despite no one agreeing on anything in that sphere
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  43.  @hiramnoone  something tells me you're one of those hipsters who look just like every other hipster
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  44.  @hiramnoone  I don't know a thing about fashion let alone have a style. My family insists I shave the beard and I wear army style cargo pants.
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  45. AKA State of Denial
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  46. There are entire wars over the avacado fields in Mexico. It can be sold at fat profit margins and since Americans are much richer than the Mexicans in Michaocan the avocado trade was more profitable than the drug trade (until the gangs running the joint were blacklisted in the US). The Hispanics will fight over anything that is worth money
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  47. Shut up
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  48.  @syzl___  shut up
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  49.  @Federalist2159  shut up
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  50. Shut up
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