Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. Don't blame banks for war-induced inflation. Even if they take bills out of circulation markets will still go crazy.
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  2.  @TheImperatorKnight  no one needs an excuse to print money. No one is playing 4d chess with war declarations just to screw you out of meager savings. The fact of the matter is nations invariably do throw all they got into a war and purse strings are just as important as logistics. Collosal bankruptcies are frequent, like the collapse of Napoleonic France where massive debts, collapsing industry, and the death of so many of the most productive workers meant there was simply no way to arm and supply troops anymore. A failure which can be calculated in currency and relative prices.
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  3. Sign you have no idea what you're talking about.
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  4.  @AgendaFiles  did I say everyone?
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  5.  @AgendaFiles  a lot of people are powerless but power hungry. They might defend a regime one moment, and spot their chance to seize control the next.
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  6.  @AgendaFiles  since when does more people in on a scheme make it sincere or legal? But more to the point, when the Free Officers took over Egypt, they outlawed any major cliques in government so that no one could take over like they did. They also deplored their predecessor's corruption whilst giving their cronies large cash "bonuses," extra leave days, wild drinking parties with prostitutes, and other perks. All the while insisting they took over for the good of the Egyptian people...
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  7.  @AgendaFiles  you have a excessively idealized perception of revolts. But note the term Revolution refers to the turning of a wheel on it's axel. All sorts of wars happened that are characterized as Revolutions, and sometimes the only difference between a coup, civil war, riot, and revolution which you want to call it. Again some people support/oppose such uprising based not on the national interest but their personal interest. Like how the Syrian Ba'ath was a conglomerate of Arab Socialist parties. However, after seizing power the only Socialist reform they introduced was nationalizing major businesses... Whose budget they treated as their personal pocketbooks. During the time when Syria went through a dozen governments in just as many years, however, there were many instances where the bottom line between a group's support/opposition was whether or not their bosses could get cut into the deal. There were coups within coups as party bosses knocked each other off so they could dominate the movement, and so on and so forth. Criminality knows no social barriers.
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  8. He was also obsessed with 4d chess moves and wouldn't be caught dead in such a position. At one point he allowed his men to be arrested because while they did their job and robbed/vandalized a Jewish store they destroyed evidence and made it look like garden variety crime rather than take credit for a terror attack.
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  9. Hilarious. But some people will say that unironically.
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  10.  @QuizmasterLaw  don't be ridiculous. People were indiscriminately buying emergency goods like bottled water and predicting the literal apocalypse. One economist predicted a ten year bear market and 8 figure death rate predictions were the norm.
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  11.  @QuizmasterLaw  dude, people panicked. It was very annoying at the time all the insane stuff people were saying, and the contemptuous stuff at the other end where people licked store shelves to mock quarantine.
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  12.  @QuizmasterLaw  there was never any threat of that occurring. And the literal conspiracy theory you're touting is quite the bizarre 4d chess that would be impossible to conceal and couldn't possibly work.
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  13. Yeah, it is confined to YOU
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  14. TIK, I think the word you are looking for is "integration."
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  15. Shut up
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  16. You spend way to much time addressing the insults that fools hurl at you.
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  17. If that were entirely the case, Japan should be America's enemy #1 post-WWII
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  18.  @alexzero3736  not entire the case and by your logic it shouldn't have mattered since Japan begrudged the mass hanging of officers. But yet, they had a baseball craze instead. Likewise, Jordan should have eternally swore vengeance on Israel after 1967 instead of peacing out like they did. It seems that fines and blame shifting is the least of anyone's problems, even if idiots at the time wouldn't shut up about it
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  19. That's an exaggeration. And don't call it incompetence when you definitely wouldn't have done better.
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  20. Go away gong fei
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  21. What situation? The Syrians earn that title for genociding the Mizrahi, not for doing nothing about the Yeshuv before it became Israel. Also the word anti-Semitic was coined by the Nazis as code for Jew-hating.
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  22. Do you have a death wish?
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  23. Not just the debt, but the economy was cannibalized for the war effort. Equal amount of cash plus less to buy with it equals rising prices.
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  24. "So many wars" is a bit of an exaggeration. Some of those conflicts would have happened anyway, and many areas saw nothing important happen.
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  25.  @QuizmasterLaw  googling... All I got is a Slavic band and a term that means either slave or thrall. And I certainly didn't mean to imply either of those things weren't common back in the day, as was extortion and revenge murder. The difference is the Nazis were talking about enslaving entire surviving populations.
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  26.  @zava5025  please leave history to those of us who actually read history
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  27.  @zava5025  you're on a channel with the highest ratio of degreed historians anywhere on YouTube. You sure you want to throw around baseless insults, conspiritard?
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  28.  @zava5025  shut up and get drafted, you lying hypocrite.
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  29.  @zava5025  shut up
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  30.  @zava5025  shut up
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  31. Weird joke
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  32. This is the point where the German High Command should have realized they were in a bad spot.
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  33. Lose the false dichotomy. He didn't give an opinion on specific state institutions nor did he say how things SHOULD be run, he simply explained the reality of Socialists. I'm not familiar enough with local politics in Scandinavia to give an opinion. But what I understood there's a bunch of state controls in some areas but not others and there's still an open market. Heck, Norway has a sovereign wealth fund that's a hedge fund, what could be less red than that?
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  34.  @billbolton  excuse me, but investing assumes an open market to invest in. Investment funds are not possible in any totalitarian state.
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  35.  @billbolton  if you don't know or care for basic facts about business and economics, why you so intent on damning everyone richer than you?
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  36. A troll is someone who annoys you for their amusement. These are bullies.
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  37. No. Screw that bullshit.
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  38.  @stevewatson6839  TIK is most concerned about pre-industrial economics than anything else
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  39.  @cyngaethlestan8859  lean years in spring is a fact of life before rails
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  40.  @derduebel  Not if you have any idea what either of those things are.
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  41. The thing is these days there are so many programs making degrees cheaper that a lot of majors have wide surpluses of persons. Especially if it's perceived as an easy degree (liberal arts) or a degree that will make you lots of money (programming).
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  42. ​ @ZESAUCEBOSS I've received over 15 grand in grants and 100 grand in subsidized loans just for being poor. It's called FAFSA.
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  43. ​ @222toastedtoasters3 he's even lying about the US which (as always) has programs similar to the UK.
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  44.  @ZESAUCEBOSS  you might as well use it if the government pays for it. Patriotism is a myth.
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  45. Vhut? If your comments are auto-removed, lose the insults, curses, and (perceived) threats
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  46. They encouraged religious like zeal... AFTER they took over.
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  47. On the contrary no one will shut up about them. Name one that isn't wildly overrepresented by the sources.
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  48.  @johnnystulic42  that's silly. The Romans didn't have ideological movements or parties.
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  49. [Laughs in Aztec]
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  50. I wish.
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