Comments by "Young C" (@youngc570) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1. Before them, someone who delivered mail for a living could buy a house and start a family.
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  2. Anyone with half a brain cell would have protested getting shipped off to an absurd war.
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  3. Don't let anyone gaslight you otherwise, it is much worse now. Growing up I thought "golden ages" were like a silly thing from olden time in dusty history books, but clearly culturally we are in the worst dark age, just compare old movies/tv/music to "culture" today.
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  4. Boomers - all the unfathomably horrible and evil things they did, could be called an outright wicked generation Gen X - the last bloom of American culture, should have done more to resist the boomers, so ultimately failures Millenials - responsible for the collapse of American culture, kind of a mini-boomer, whatever effected the boomers passed onto them like a regressive gene Zoomers - some seem thoughtful, but they have the deck completely stacked against them Gen A - could be completely unhinged
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  5. Do a tier list of worst generations in history. Boomers should be up there with Bolsheviks, Chinese commies who ratted out their own parent, the French revolutionary chimp out, etc.,
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  6. Boomers are especially messed up because they were the first generation raised on television, which did a completely thorough job of propagandizing the interest of powerful institutions. They were the only American generation that trusted journalists and news for example.
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  7. Housing, colleges, healthcare, food, starting a small business, starting a family etc., were all affordable before the baby boomers screwed it all up.
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  8. Pretty damn accurate, I knew a lot of shlubs who owned a home and raised a family when I was younger. Impossible to do that nowadays.
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  9. Unfortunately their narcissistic and sociopathic culture, for lack of a better word, has taken hold of our government and corporate institutions, and there really is no easy way to fix that.
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  10. ย @Leegreen002ย  Socio-economic charts and data are almost all worse since the boomers, for almost everyone.
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  11. They literally called themselves National Socialists. And you can check off the checkmarks: statist, pro-war and violence, anti-religious, anti-free speech, anti-civil liberties - just like our current day leftists.
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  12. Our economy is like any socialist economy like the Soviets, the workers pretend to work and the government pretends to pay them.
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  13. None of it surprising though, boomers are exactly like the progressive secularists of 1840s Russia as described in Dostoyevsky's novel Demons, which lead directly to a generation of nihlistic sadists and ultimately WW1->WW2->Stalin. And of course which lead to scars in Russian society that's still not healed today and will probably take another century to heal.
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  14. Seems like Israel is getting it from multiple ends, which is concerning, for the stability of the region and world.
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  15. Damn. Its their religion.
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  16. I mentioned early in the war its WW3 if Israel invades Rafjah, that no longer applies as that scenario did not go as expected, presumably they are saber rattling during ceasefire negotiations now.
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  17. ย @phil3751ย  Yeah, "invaded". I was originially envisioning Israel systematically taking over Gaza and Rafah being a kind of Alamo situation.
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  18. China has the worst of both worlds, they manage to combine the worst aspects of communism with the worst aspects of capitalsm. What a nightmare.
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  19. We might also wind up like declining Rome, full of cults. If that already hasnt happened.
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  20. Everyone was ragging on Japan's economy since the 90s, but our best glide path is for our economy to shrink as "gracefully" as Japan did, facing the same issues of declining population arising from a secular nihilistic emptiness. Don't think that will happen here in the US though.
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  21. Interesting series of events with the Iranian president in the chopper crash and Ukraine attacks on radar stations facing Iran. Separately seem like normal events...
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  22. They lack empathy.
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  23. I swear those narcissists must have started calling themselves ๐Ÿ˜† And btw the one thing they got right, protest the Vietnam War, is because they were getting drafted into a patently absurd war.
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  24. That's how manipulative con artists and scammers operate, they're often the ones screaming loudest about virtue.
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  25. Recent events pretty much make it clear what is going to happen. For one thing, at least one side in the conflict is extremely incompetent.
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  26. At least some us are aware of the ridiculous absurd joke of our current situation, which raises the interesting question if people reacted similiar in other degenerate cultures. People couldnt as readily shiptost, but things like dada art seems to suggest they did.
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  27. Heinlein's Starship Troopers was an excellent political examination of our current failing society and what could replace it, a kind of classical liberalism dream. Many SF writers over the decades tried to refute it like The Forever War, but never quite succeeded until Ender's Game - the authorities will absolutely manipulate you to do horrifying things.
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  28. Seems like the buzz about US-Israel is attacking Lebanon seems to be looking valid. Umm its a plan I guess ๐Ÿ˜•
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  29. The British Liberal party gave Stalin top of the line jet engine tech. Mig15s were quite a pain to deal with.
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  30. Interestingly enough, it still might be the best industrial economy, a "graceful" decline is better than many other options, only one I can think of that is in better shape is Taiwan. But yeah in general the secular industrialized nations in the world have major problems.
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  31. Unfortunately they left behind a world where that's not a "problem" anymore, as life expectancy has been going downhill, with increased wars, death, mental illness, loneliness, poverty, unemployment, disease, violent crime, stagnating technology, etc.,
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  32. Fyi prostitution was very commonplace even before OnlySTDs or widespread internet.
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  33. Why do nazis have much better fashion sense then commies?
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  34. Neoliberalism is just a codeword for globalist elites, or that is the politics that they push to continue to enrich themselves at everyone's expense.
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  35. Just about every relevant demographic dislikes the boomers, except the boomer media of course.
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  36. Christianity (especially Catholicism) = God Emperor (God-Man) Technologist = Cullt Mechanist Marxist = Tyranids Darwiniist = Orcs or Chaos
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  37. A generation of reprobates. The debt is such a large number, the human mind can't even wrap its head around such a number. If Dr. Evil were to demand 35 trillion dollars, everyone would laugh at him "wtf where can anyone come up with that kind of money? lol". From studying history, I foresee a future of people having to cart around a wheelbarrow full of hundred dollar bills to buy a loaf of bread.
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  38. What if it doesn't?
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  39. Fallout was right again! Show is pretty good.
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  40. Narcissism explains all of their behavior. How can you do NOTHING when you left behind for your grandchildren a nightmare existence of debt and hopelessness? It's incomprehensible. Also its what made them so easy to manipulate, make them think they did some good for the world with some emotional hot topic issue (and of course they managed to make even those things much much worse), while to continue a functioning society, everyone needed to focus on things like civil liberties, family and community institutions, economics, business, budgets, investment, taxation, civics, etc.,
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  41. We are like the Weimar, but a lot more clownish! ๐Ÿคก
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  42. My theory is that bronze aged societies also collapsed for similar reasons as to Rome and the US, crippling bureaucratic bloat accrued over the years just chokes out the life of any institution - its just sexier and more fun to assign the bronze age collapse to "sea people" or some plague in the lost history of the distant past.
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  43. ย @silverback7675ย  Yeah zoomers seem almost as nutty, but some of them do definitely seem a bit more thoughtful, especially compared to millenials.
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  44. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli... I think the Tripoli part was part of the Barbary pirates ๐Ÿ˜…
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  45. I think they're just getting warmed up.
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  46. Its naively childlike to think one side is right and the other side is bad.
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  47. Three of those ideologies are a complete joke. Its a collective narrative that tech will always advance, there has never been a more demonstrably wrong economic system in history than Communism, and Darwinism is a joke theory - although they have a badass dinosaur symbol. What may be the dominant ideology of our nightmarish hell world today is a Cult of Narsicism. Christ provided the only viable sociological and economic system for the world, and its very basic and simple.
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  48. Celebrities are glorified prostitutes.
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  49. He said US is screwed, but 9n the bright side we have a lot of barrier reefs on the east coast. Never noticed til now ๐Ÿ˜…
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  50. Carrying wheelbarrels full of worthless currency to buy a loaf of bread dont sound like too much fun.
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  51. What has also become chillingly clear was that the 20th century was a golden age akin to Renaissance Europe or 5th century BC Athens. All you have to do is compare and contrast the art produced then and now. Thanks boomers for casting us into a squalid dark age.
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  52. Let us cavort like the Greeks of old. You know the ones I mean.
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  53. Of course they do. They use it to quash smaller businesses.
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  54. There is no reason, except it helps maintain a society. Many cultural norms are patently questionable otherwise, and this is something even most toddlers understand.
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  55. Long time doom fan, and always disappointed by doom and never really saw it happening. But things are different now, and there are certain underlying trends, not discussed in worthless cnn, that do make me now think things can possibly spiral out of control.
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  56. I've been a long time doom fan for decades, and always yearned for a good fun doom (like zombie or alien invasion), but also was "pessismistic" because I knew in the back of my mind it likely wouldn't happen because the world was just too... stable. Some of you people aren't paying attention to what is happening of late.
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  57. ย @futurereflections4097ย  Chairman Mao would be proud.
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  58. Hes broadly right, but what now seems an almost certainty is that technologcal progress will stall.
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  59. Wouldn't be shocked if Bidens debate performance gives Israel carte blanche to do whatever it wants. Hell, could be a common theme in the world.
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  60. One maybe hope is that younger generations move on from these constant nightmare wars where America just throws away young lives and treasure that boomers love so much with visions of noble and just WW2 movies dancing in their heads. Sorry boomers, that's just not reality for kids today.
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  61. The worst thing i can say about someone I can definitely say about boomers... they are not serious.
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  62. The only "positive" is future generations could hold up baby boomers as examples of all the terrible things you should avoid doing, to hopefully make a better world. Boomers shat the bed when it comes to your one basic duty as a citizen, to make the world a little better for the next generation.
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  63. Who doesn't love pirates. Well at least pirate movies.
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  64. One thing that kind of raises questions are the diagrams in a lot of the documents. Seems a bit... off, doesn't entirely fit the scientific papers of the day (assuming those docs were something like scientific papers). They seem a little too... polished and "consumer friendly".
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  65. That's really all boomer things. I mean, you can think of FDRs New Deal whatever you want, but at least that program actually left behind highways and the Hoover dam. What in the world are those scams tangibly building? Derp.
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  66. People who believe their own propaganda often meet calamitous ends...
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  67. lmao boomers. Watching the news, war and artillery torn towns in the world looks exactly like that little blown up town next to Nellis. Thanks Boomers.
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  68. I don't believe its extremely likely the Chinese populace will revolt any time soon (could happen if China gets its ass handed to them by Taiwan). What will most likely happen is the population will just choose to generationally die off, like any other secular industrial civilization as most of its working class populace loses any hope for a good future for themselves or descendants.
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  69. Kind of sort of theoretical good news, the world is less likely to be affected by resources shortage wars and environmental disaster with declining populations. The bad news? Everything whatifalthist mentioned.
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  70. Having children almost seems irresponsible. There's a lot of manipulative psychopathic people in power.
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  71. Depends
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  72. The skimming is out of control.
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  73. The correlation between China's economic woes and covid are obvious. As usual though, its the causations that's harder to hash out.
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  74. Baby boomers selling you rumors of their history Forcing youth, away from the truth of what's real today
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  75. Academia is literally a scam nowadays.
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  76. Factoring everything, including covid, it seems like the sit in China is worse than we are imagining. Having said that, I'm pretty sure Chinese content creators already have created hilarious, tragic and pretty accurate videos of the decline of western countries.
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  77. You underestimate warlordism.
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  78. If there is a new dictator, he or she will almost certainly be leftist once again (possibly a atheist, pagan worshipping vegan artist type). Traditional conservatives value individual and civil liberties.
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  79. It's hopeless. Even in the past, people had silly faith in socialism and secular scientific utopianism, but we don't even have a silly fantastical ideology like that to look forward too.
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  80. The only funny thing I seen on TV in the last 30 years when the anchorman said the ME is such a mess, even the Taliban is calling for peace.
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  81. Its apparently gotten much worse recently ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿค
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  82. The only way I legitimately see the Chinese populace rising up is if they ban video games (more extensively than they do now).
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  83. Rome was much more politically healthy when they were more an agrarian property holding army. The Marian Reform screwed that up, although it was a temporary boost in military prowess.
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  84. The other huge red flag is why is China's soft power so damn weak? You have plenty of examples of Chinese diaspora dominating fields, like Taiwan and semiconductors, or elite mathematicians like Terence Tao and Yitang Zhang, part of a small handful of still respectable intellectuals, but they work in American universities.
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  85. Iin Soviet Russia society lives you.
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  86. The US economy is in the toilet, also for immigrants unlike not too long ago where immigrants could come to the US and fairly easily set up a small business. Really makes you wonder what's going on in "prosperous military superpower of the future" China.
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  87. Boomers are like Homer Simpson in a fire drill where he escapes through a door, but then proceeds to barricade it so one else can escape. What could possibly be going through their minds? ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ
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  88. They were pretty insane before that, started to set in the 90s. Of course all the old Democrats who are anitwar and pro blue collar worker are long gone.
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  89. It was mainly due to Christianity. Its a fairly unique religion in that it has a very strong sense of historical progress and is tolerant, unlike leftist Marxists - they won't usually go around burning random books (maybe the pope might burn some heretical religious texts).
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  90. obvious plan is obvious
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  91. Its truly galling what is happening in much of the world, that the US used to have a positive influence on. Seems like that's where the US is heading.
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  92. Buying a home and starting a family are out of the question for most people, let alone accruing wealth to invest in oneself and family. Immigrants with no english skills use to start small business all the time.
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  93. There are quite a few naive Xi cultist tiktokers and bots in the comments ๐Ÿ˜… The lesson is CCP is rotten, and so is everyone else.
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  94. My economic advice: the economy is screwed. No investment is going to keep up with runaway inflation.
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  95. Three of those ideologies are genuinely evil. I think things can be put more simply as there is a lot of evil in the world, its probably intrinsic to the world.
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  96. Go back boomer.
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  97. I wonder if there is a connection between lead poisoning + growing up under power lines and the boomers. I have no other explanation for their unfathomably stupid behavior.
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  98. CCP could be stupid, but it wouldnt be rational to invade Taiwan, they would get socked in the jaw. Ambhibious assaults are tricky, as we are currently relearning trench and urban warfare are, what a mess,. Og course assuming Taiwan military morale is at least solid.
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  99. Rafah is going to be a flashpoint, Egypt will be forced to act.
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  100. Milkmen used to be able to buy a house and start a family no problem, but no longer thanks to the boomers. And that begs the question, what sort of paradise was lost where men would deliver milk straight to your door? I have to carry that heavy crap home from the grocery store!
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  101. As bad as the US is the rest of the world seems to be in worse shape. Russia was strengthened but they were in bad shape, maybe only India and Brazil might have some glimmer of hope wuth still traditional values and institutions, but neither are exactly paradise.
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  102. Weimar is a good analogy. Maybe the French Revolution. I think the most apt might be the people living under the Soviets, with their empty hollowed out lives - we haven't quite reached the insanity of Stalin/Mao thankfully.
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  103. I thought China might take advantage of the sit now, but let's face it almost all rulers don't want to rock thr boat, and are fine with exploiting their populace to take nice ski vacations in Switzerland for them and their friends and family.
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  104. From what I can gather, yes there are major problems in China. I can unequivocally say the government perceives the threats of social discontent and a self-harming populace seriously - which is also a MAJOR problem for other secular industrialized nations.
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  105. I was reading about poor ancient Roman farmers, whose breakfast consisted of freshly hand picked garden vegetable pestos ๐Ÿ˜… ๐Ÿ˜ข
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  106. I'm thinking now with what we know of the sit in China and Taiwan, China is more likely to grab territory and resources in SE Asia.
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  107. โ€‹ย @chongqingcapybara1306ย trying to think thos through like the ccp..Taiwan is a tough nut to crack, think they might go for lower hanging fruits, and resources. Of course assuming they feel pressure to do something with things going terribly.
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  108. Beatles were pretty mid. Cream was so f***ing good, but I think the progressives hate Clapton now for some reason, as they usually hate things weirdly and randomly.
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  109. Only one of those systems racked up the Ws building a viable civilization over thousands of years, the others just laughably racked up constant Ls in a relatively short time.
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  110. Don't forget our legislative body leaders. All of them lifetime public servants (except orange man) with multiple homes and millions of dollars. Not sus at all!
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  111. They're crazy war hippies. They still live in a collective Hollywood movie WW2 fantasy world.
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  112. Use facts instead of what you here on tv. It lead to a drastic increase in abortions and single parents.
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  113. Boomer advice is complete poison. The Kardashians are the insane vision of their ideal world.
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  114. People really aren't factoring in the IT revolution, which was akin to the industrial revolution or the invention of the internal combustion engine, and which has fueled our economy for the past few decades - and what happens when you are no longer in a technology revolution.
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  115. We live in a boomertopian society.
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  116. Fallout
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  117. The Taliban were actually pleading for peace in the Middle East. Screwed up world, especially in the last few years ๐Ÿคช
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  118. It might have been Zeihan, but somebody made a good point that our political parties are undergoing transformations, Repubs are basically becoming the populist worker party and Dems are becoming fully controlled by Neoliberals. That party might even fracture with their more far left.
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  119. It's gotten worse for everybody.
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  120. Ha ha suckers, China is holding the bag.
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  121. Reagan was the last politician of his kind, after him its constant ME wars, Nafta, Telecommunications Act, Patriot Act, housing crisis, etc.,
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  122. I forget, did we need a draft during the Civil War?
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