Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "History Debunked" channel.

  1. Another reason the US decided to take action was the Barbary Pirates, local sultans etc were basically running a protection racket. The European powers at the time had other concerns. A little thing like the Napoleonic Wars for one.
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  2. ​ @neddyseagoon9601  It's not like Britians or other Europeans invented the written word. Using symbols to convey ideas, concepts, or specific things likely originates in the following areas. The Fertile Crescent, the Yangtze or Yellow River valleys and Mesoamerica. I think there is some question whether Egypt developed the idea completely independently. But use of the written word is an entirely different matter. I remember seeing a statistic concerning the publishing industry from around 2003. Just Spain alone saw more published in that year than the area from Morocco to Pakistan. Granted a large percentage of the books published in Spain might have been trashy fiction. If the supposedly literate swath from Morocco to Pakistan saw that little what does it say about Sub Saharan Africa.
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  3. I sincerely hope you and yours the joy of the season. Lock downs and all. Hopefully we will see something of a return to sanity in 2021.
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  4. Hunter Gatherers also tend to eat a lot more organ meats than agriculturalists. But if the agriculturalists are also raising livestock they may have a much more reliable source of animal protein.
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  5.  @philm9593  A Colt or Remmington revolver were not cheap in the 1860s and later. The average cowboy did not make very much. In fact the cowboy was looked upon as a less than desirable person. The term cowboy actually has its roots in England. Much of American cowboy practice was adopted from the Mexican vaqueros.
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  6.  @cardinal-fang  Or stupidity.
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  7. In all likelihood if you were living in a predominantly black or brown country that was seeing unlimited immigration Europe or any day of the Anglo-sphere nations and objected to it the liberals (1) would agree with you. 1) Liberals in the modern sense. Not the classical.
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  8. Dianne Abbott 2.0?
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  9. Invading armies? Hordes more likely. Just wait until Clan and Tribal fueds take hold.
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  10. If it is so cold why are they there?
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  11. By the standards of today Cecil Rhodes was not a nice man. So what. Neither were a lot of historical figures.
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  12. If it was an image of a Kardashian it would just be a big bum
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  13. Not too many hockey players, luge riders (can't call them Lugers, it might cause somebody to have the vapors), speedskaters, ice skaters of any type really, ski jumpers, curlers doing curling (not to confused with hurling), cross country skiing or biathlon. Although I remember the US and Jamaican bobsled teams tried using Olympic Class sprinters in the four man bobsled teams. Yah, the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team. Heck they may still be doing it.
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  14.  @johnbowkett80  Nor should you. Of any of the horrendous things that have been done by the English (1) over the course of time you are not personally responsible. Also while you can take pride in any of the good things done by the English or English government*. None of those good things actually reflect on you personally. *Why is it that in the UK, the English are the only component that do not have self rule? And yes as a Yank I know the difference between England, Britian and the UK 1) And face it, England and the English through the UK government over the centuries have done some pretty awful things. Some of the actions taken in Ireland come to mind. But then just about every nation has done things (and some still do) that would be beyond the pale in the past.
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  15. And high diving. Not a lot of fencers too. And we must do something about th hose white fencing suits.
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  16.  @jocktamson6493  Or Black Prince
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  17. BBC = Belittle Britian Continuously
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  18. I have long been of the opinion that myths and legends come from three sources. The first is that they are a garbled retelling of actual events that as they were handed down from generation to generation they changed so much that little beyond the basic story remains. I would place things like Flood Legends in this group. The second is they were a way for people to give explanation to the world around them. Myths such as the Greek ones regarding the Cosmos. The third is they began as tall tales told around the fire. If our civilization fell could we our descendants have myths regarding a Niel of Ohio who journeyed to the Moon on a pillar of fire. Or would Paul Bunyan become a figure of myth rather than a tall tale. And if our civilization fell to the hunter gatherer stage so that the only traces of us would be Mount Rushmore and some of out larger dams by the time our children's, children's, children once more rose to the heights one of the few signatures left to them of our time would Richard M Nixon*. Tell that to a liberal and watch them explode. *His name is on the plaque attached to the Descent Stage of the Eagle sitting on the Lunar surface at Tranquillity Base
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  19. ​ @johnholmes5674  And face it. Electric vehicles will get taxed extra to make up the revenue lost from decreasing tax revenue on liquid fuels. After all your EV is just as damaging to road surfaces. Plus all the other things the money junkies in London, Paris, Berlin, DC and numerous state governments love to spend it on.
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  20. Prejudice, bigotry and racial hatred are perfectly acceptable when they do it.
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  21. ​ @stumac869  Even in the US the Wrights had a hard time getting traction. The US government was funding Langley. A scale model of which had flown successfully. Shortly before the Wrights first flights (1) Langley tried and failed. Were their other machines that got into the air? Yes. But as stated by others it was controlled flight. In a later aviation meet in France where the Europeans were happy to get "flights" little more than hops. By that time the Wrights were flying literally for miles. 1) After going back to Ohio the Wrights had alot of trouble getting into the air. Turns out the flights at Kitty Hawk took place during a period of high pressure. Plus the Wrights had photographs.
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  22. There is another reason that white liberals embrace DEI. I allows them to lord it over their percieved inferiors. AKA hicks, hillbillies, Southern racists, blue collar uneducated morons etc. Without any backlash coming towards them for their own bigotry.
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  23. I don't care. As long as they are competent at their job.
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  24. I thought Pride was last month? Or has been officially been expanded to 365 days a year.
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  25. In the US Boy Scout Knives were ubiquitous.
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  26. The natives are restless. Does anyone hear "in the jungle, the mighty jungle......." There are places in the US where this is happening also.
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  27.  @notme444  Simply spending the time on this nonsense acts to dilute the curriculum. IMO the history of the development of maths beyond basic maths is something that we will never really understand. I think one reason people like Euclid are considered amongst the greats of Mathematics is because they wrote down what they knew. I don't care who developed which type of Mathematics. I only care that it works.
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  28.  @Damo-np7ul  Widely travelled. He's been to the Moon and had a famous pair of trousers. AKA Wallace.
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  29. This isn't so much somebody playing the race card as it is dome bu ody playing the celebrity card. Oh, the race card was played as well. But the celebrity card out trumps (1) the race card everytime. But if you can play bu oth at the same time. That's a twofer. 1) Will Hoyle's (2) book degining the rules of card games. Especially the ones that are played for tricks (Bridge, Skat, Pinenocale (sp), Eucher, Sheepshead, Canasta, Gin etc) and involve the use of either called or fixed suits of trump cards. Simply because calling them trump cards is "triggering" or a macro-micro-aggression (l claim credit for the term, send copyright payments to my Nigerian PayPal acct). What should we call them instead? BLM suits? They seem to out trump everything else these days. And does anyone play Canasta or Gin anymore? And its easy to tell the point of origin of trump type games. Typically the games ingolving the high cards being Queens are from Central Europe 2) lnterestingly the only card game with no known antecedent which sprung into being with the same rules today is cribbage.
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  30.  @jonbon8598  1) In terms of sustained fire it really isn't much faster if any than a well trained soldier. 2) The pistol caliber ammunition they generally fired simply lacked the desired oomph. 3) As stated the fragility. Drop the weapon hard and theres a good chance of bending the magazine tube. 4) Ease of cleaning. Black powder is corrosive. There was a good number of relatively simple single shot actions that provided good service in militaries around the world. Actually the Winchester (a good English sounding name) did see action with the Royal Marines in WWI during the Zuckerbee Raid. See Drachinifel's channel for a video on Royal Navy small arms. Also on Bloke on the Range's channel The Chap has a series of Mad Minutes with various late 19th Century single shot small arms.
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  31. To be honest having known a number of lawyers in the US in a social environment. A lot of them haven't really impressed me with their intelligence. I will give them credit for graduating from law school and passing the bar exam. It's not easy to get in. You have to have a high enough GPA (1) after all. But in terms of life skills and common sense they did not strike me as being any smarter than a lot of people I've met. 1) GPA is not the be all and end all. My stepson wanted to go to med school. To get accepted you need not only a high enough GPA. But also a BS in PreMed or BioChem. Not easy degrees. Plus you need to do well on the annual MCad. Think an SAT for Med School. He shot himself in the foot by taking all honors classes during the 5 years of his undergraduate studies (he had to drop a required class one year due an illness). This was at a Public University in the US (UW-Madison) that has a pretty good reputation. Because he took all honors courses he faced a tougher grading challenge. If he had taken the regular non honors courses he would most likely had a 4.0/3.9 GPA. Instead he had a 3.78. Below the Med School GPA for that year pay one point. He still applied to various medical schools (2). He got one interview and blew that one. I talked to my physician about it and his take was the kid shot himself in the ass by taking the honors courses. Because once you are in med school it doesn't mean squat. At the same time the local branch school of the UW system had a 100% placement of it its PreMed students into Medical School programs every year. And to my knowledge still does. All of which proves that sometimes really bright people, which the kid is. Do really dumb things overall. 2) Applying to Med Scool is a racket all in itself. To apply to med school you have to pay an application fee. Given that the majority of applicants are turned down. Especially in the top ranked med schools.
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  32. Did Africans reach the Americas before Columbus? Possibly. But then any number of other people have that distinction. In Africas case I think it most likely that there were instances of coastal fishermen getting swept out to sea and eventually winding up in Brazil. But they were most likely all males. Never tried or succeeded in getting back home and any trace of them simply disappeared. What surprises me is the lack of effort on the part of North Africans to attempt to sail out into the Atlantic.
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  33. Queen Isabela of Spain was black. And so was Cristobal Colombo. He discovered America to find the Ray Charles records. It's true. Flip Wilson said so in the 60s
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  34. At least most of your new citizens are already used to the heat. As to reduced service. Well, it is Britian's responsibility to reach the same level of service that those new citizens were used to at home. No matter how close to the bottom of the barrel is required.
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  35. ​ @sabrinatscha2554  The Marine attack on Derna was pretty much run on a shoestring with very few Marines involved. Primarily mercenaries. Greek iirc. But I could be confusing the facts with a movie featuring John Payne and Maureen O'Hara. The Halls of Montezuma refers to Marine involvement in the Mexican War.
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  36. How long before one sees herds of goats in places like Hyde Park? Or New York's Central Park.
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  37.  @noelpucarua2843  I have Irish ancestors but l do not consider myself to be ethnicly Irish. Nor do l consider myself to be ethnicly Danish. Even though my family tree is 50% Danish. I was merely observing the eventual result of a policy of basically unlimited immigration from other regions.
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  38. Every year we hear news stories out of Saudi Arabia about worshippersgetting trampled in stampedes at one of the pilgrimage sites. Something l have never heard about amongst Christians in Jerusalem during Holy Week. As Christians we may have a desire to visit the Holy Land. But we are not compelled to as requirement. IMO the requirement to make a pilgrimage to Mecca was more about ensuring Mecca's primacy than anything else.
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  39. The Oscar's. Who gives a rats backside.
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  40.  @HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb  Well, there is this classic from Thunderf00t. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tunderf00t+anti+science+video&&view=detail&mid=7F27203CB453952A51257F27203CB453952A5125&&FORM=VRDGAR Note at the end the "enlightened" individual proceeds to pick up her Western designed and invented cell phone to probably check her social networks. And she is speaking in English too.
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  41. ​Randy Andy has a pair. It's what got him in trouble.
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  42. Does this go back to Zoasterism? Or earlier? The mullahs might not like it but cultural traditions are hard to stamp out
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  43. The UN is not a world government. And was never intended to be.
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  44. The original inhabitants of of post glacial Ireland were people who were already living in Ice Age Europe for thousands of years. Plus I wonder how much of Ireland was under the ice.
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  45.  @douglastobor7718  Well tea tasting like shit is an improvement in my book. Maybe I just don't like tea.
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  46. The politics of envy.
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  47.  @raypurchase801  Or a defrocked priest.
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  48. Even as an ignorant Yank l can say 'not bloody likely'. In my opinion one elderly homeless Englishman sleeping on a park bench somewhere in London will be one Englishman too many. To certain powers that be that is.
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  49. And paying taxes.
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  50. It's the BBC. What else would you expect. Everything is racist.
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