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

  1. "There are only three sports. Mountain climbing, bull fighting and automobile racing. The rest are all games." Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s or 30s iirc. The implication being that every time you you picked up your cape or ice axe. Or climbed into the race car there was a significant chance of death.
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  2. Anyone to the political right of Mao or Pol Pot is pretty much Far Right these days it seems.
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  3. I do some writing myself. Purely for my own enjoyment. I do not consider myself good. But l am better than some stuff I have read. But one thing l can not understand is when modern "experts" can not believe that Shakespeare could have produced so much when the total word count is less than many modern potboilers
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  4. The tee-shirt gets it wrong. As do the Black Lives Matter ones. In truth All Lives Matter. At least until the individual in question may undertake actions that may remove that protection.
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  5. Facism took a while to die out. And can raise its ugly head again. The regime's of Portugal and Spain took until the 70s to pass a way. Today Latin America seems to be the last possible bastion of facism. Another might be Africa but there it seems hide behind the Socialist label. In reality it is just rule by dictatorship.
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  6. I like to say I have a common ancestor on my mother's and fathers sides of the family. I imagine there was some young Irish lass on my mother's side. who was raped and made pregnant by some raiding Dane on my fathers side. I really don't care about any ones ancestry. I don't care if they were famous or unknown farmers (most likely). I don't care of they were slaves. Or owned slaves. I don't care if they were saints. Or sinners. What I care about is the quality of the personal character of people today. We are judged by our actions. Not those of our ancestors.
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  7. In Cornwall's trilogy the narrator is a Saxon orphan who is raised in Merlin's household. He becomes a warrior in Celtic Britian. Arthur is not a king but a war leader. The book series is excellent as much of Cornwall's historical fiction is. While the series is a work of fiction it takes place during the period when Celtic Britian was undergoing colonization by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes from what is today northern Germany and Denmark.
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  8.  @dans2971  It isn't any athlete in any sport I have any issue with. It's the crybabies either in any sport that get upset publicly when they don't win. Along with the whiners that cry when they do not see people that happen to belong to a a genetic group similiar to them.
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  9. If he's a member of Labour he'll likely be the only working class Labour member.
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  10.  @tsopmocful1958  Or anthiest. What the blazes ever happened to being responsible for your own actions
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  11. BBC= Bolsheviik Broadcasting System.
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  12.  @careytitan9097  In reference to the last part of your reply. If it refers to my post concerning doctors and engineers. Truly you really need to learn how to recognize sarcasm. I am not opposed to immigration in of its self. What l am opposed to the free for all we are seeing in the UK, the US, Canada and other places.
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  13. Or the Major and the Enlisted
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  14. BBC stands for Black Broadcasting Corp. I have no doubt that there was the occasional person of African descent living in Britian prior to the period of empire. But that they played an ever increasing role and were pivotal players in majors events. Sorry, I do not think so. Nor do I think the odd European who found himself in Africa played a major role in those societies. Britian in job way had a labour shortage post WWII. If anything it had a job shortage. If British industry was short of labor then why did the government sponsor immigration to Australia and I presume New Zealand and possibly Canada. Plus looking at the demographic picture in the period from 1945 to 1960 one could see that if anything the situation would get worse.
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  15. Babaylon Bee did a video about university admissions. First applicant. Exceptional academic record. Numerous extracricular actual vities. Captain of his high school tennis team. Very WASP sounding name. They turn him down while winking at each other. Video ends with black kid reading his rejection letter.
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  16. ​ @lkearney7299  At least "far wrong". The term "far right" is the lefts dog whistle".
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  17. ​ @Gillby47  Is this an adaptation of Cornwell's Winter King? If so listen to the audio version.
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  18. Right up there with the "when did you stop beating your wife" question.
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  19. The next time they make a film about Shaka Zulu I want either a blond blue eyed Swede or a redhead Irish woman to get the role. If any historical film, or even a fantasy film is to have any level of consistency it needs to be on all levels. The only exception to this in my opinion is on the stage. If one is producing one of the Bard's plays it is more about the devilery of the lines as an example
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  20.  @crowdpleaser1036  From an outsider's perspective it seems a lot of the initial push for more immigration arose out of labor shortages and a supposed jobs (insert nationality) are willing to do. Much of Western Europeis going through a demographic crisis. An aging population with a falling birth rate amongst the native population. Some of the aging population is due to longer life spans. Another part of it in my opinion is the relatively large number of people starting with the Boomers but hot li ited to them that actively decided to not have children. Or stop at one. No matter the reasons stated in my opinion it stems more from selfishness. The I'm not going to put my life on hold for kids attitude.
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  21. Socialist Workers. None of whom are actual workers.
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  22. Of course contrails have chemicals in them. Chemicals like H2O, CO2 and NO2
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  23. One thing a lot of people seem to forget every incoming president swears uphold and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. The other part of the job is to protect American interests. Not the interests of France, Mongolia, China or any other nation. Trump what ever his faults seemed to understand that.
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  24. Islamophobia is real. Typically exhibited by those in positions of authority afraid that Muslims might get mad if they say sonething critical.
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  25. Dunces Employed by Idiots.
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  26. We've seen the same thing in the US. Especially in the real estate market. Houses are no longer being described as having a "master suite". Never mind nobody would advertise a home with "slave quarters" for the other rooms. I wonder what they must think of "masterbation". Let alone Master Craftsman (racist and sexist that one), "Master of Ceremonies", The Masters (the might have a point there). Plus you need "master" tapes to "re-master" recordings. All of this nonsense reminds me of the old joke about the various parts of the body trying to decide who should be in charge. Constant turmoil until the rectum goes on strike.
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  27. Not only a 5th column but a 6th and likely a 7th one too. The same applies to New York, LA and other places.
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  28.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Oh I'm reasonably sure the general statement has been in use in form or another sense, oh I don't know. The Neolithic probably.
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  29. I think they have plenty of other slurs they can throw around.
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  30. ​ @anthonycooper3072  Snowmen are racists. Until they get stained by exhaust fumes etc
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  31. In a previous life he identified as a Greek chorus
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  32. I remember a line from Last of the Mohicans about making the World England. Today its Make The West the World
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  33. Just think how peaceful the Middle East could be today if post WWll the nations there had welcomed Jewish refugees seeking a safe haven following the experience of the Holocaust (1). Welcoming a population of educated and skilled individuals could have done wonders for their economies. 1) l say could instead of would because playing that game is little more than wishful thinking.
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  34. I wonder just how many people who consider themselves "woke" will vote for him simply to show their "support" for diversity. After all. Without diversity how will they get their next trendy restaurant.
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  35. It depends on who is involved. The Yemenis simply aren't worth their hate.
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  36.  @gillian-n2s  Whose hate. The "progressives". The 'antifacists". The usual suspects that hate everything the West has ever done*. I use quotation marks because they do not want progress. What they define as progress will only result in universal poverty**. And they act like fascists when they seek to restrict the right of free speech of others. If they want to protest or chant. Fine. They have that right. What they do not have the right to do is. 1) Limit the freedom of movement of other people involved in their lawful business. 2) Shut down the speech of others because they judge it hateful, racist, transphobic, homophobic or any other excuse they can dream up. *l am not saying the West gets off Scot free. There are people and nations in the West that have done despicable things. Yet these "progressives" would ignore everything good the West has given humanity. And toss it in the trash bin for a failed political philosophy. A philosophy that fails because it ignores the very nature of human beings. **Tax the rich will become a sliding scale. Once the billionaires are taxed out of existence they will set their sights on the millionaires. Until they eventually get down to anyone who has any savings period.
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  37. The abhore the use of slang or demeaning words yet they throw out words such as "racist" and "white supremacist " at the drop of a hat.
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  38. I used to work for a company here in the US that builds and services machinery and systems for dealing with "waste" (1). The primary side of the business was dewatering machinery for "sludge". Sludge is what is left after sewage plants are finished with the bio side of treatment. If you want to get the solids (poop once it goes through the digesters) you need to dewater it. There are a number of ways to do this. One of the most efficient are large industrial centrifuges. That is what we built. Since I retired l think they are currently building machines with a diameter of around 1 meter on their spin axis. We also built machines for the oil recovery industry, various food and meat processing applications etc. The owner and founder had two sayings. If we had a job that came in that did not smell of roses. The saying for that was "it smells like money". The other was. "lt's a growth industry. Every year there are more people and they all poop. And somebody has to do something with it." 1) There us no such thing as "waste". What most call waste is simply a resource that no one has found a use for. Or is looking for an economical process to employ to that use. The chemical side of the PetroChrmical industry largely derives from research into finding uses for the gunk left over from refining petroleum. The problem comes from the people and governments that just look at "waste" and decide the cheapest option is to just dump it somewhere.
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  39. ​ @phildavies6020  Especially in San Francisco.
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  40. Plus there is the old "we have no enemies on the Left". At least until the revolution is won. And then the knives really come out.
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  41. What is that old saying. "We have no enemies on the Left." Well, they are starting to find out that some of their supposed allies aren't.
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  42. ​ @Occident.  Only they left out the frame, seat, chain, pneumatic tires etc.
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  43. What it means is anyone who holds views or opinions slightly to the right of themselves.
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  44. I can see why someone living in Pakistan etc might want to immigrate. But being willing to immigrate should mean being willing to adapt to the society of the country you immigrate to. This does not mean that someone from Pakistan or Afghanistan needs to become a three piece suit bowler wearing Englishman or Western cowboy if they immigrate to Wyoming. It also does not mean that England or Wyoming have to change their society to accommodate the immigrant. When in Rome after all. In times past cousin marriages were likely common in some societies simply due to isolation. That should not be a problem in any society today simply because of the greater degree of mobility we enjoy. Unless of course someone immigrates and then chooses to recreate the society they fled.
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  45. How long before the bureaucrats is come after the poeple with a lathe or milling machine in the home workshop because it might be used to do something "evil". Hillary Clinton once wanted to ban private ownership of any tool that could be used to modify a firearm (1). It had to be explainded to her that would include any tool down to files and hacksaws. It frosts my backside whenever the oh so morally superior take it upon themselves to judge or belittle anothers persons interests, hobbies or pastimes (2). Just because you or l may think their interest is silly does not give us the right to judge them. As long as they hurt no one it is no the bodies business. Of course if someone does cause physical harm with a pefectly legal object then the government will step in to save us from ouselves. Overstep more likely. 1) We will leave aside the question of whether someone believes that a private individual should be allowed to own firearms. 2) One prime example is "grown men playing with trains" for model railroaders or as you call them in the UK model railways.
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  46.  @MarkJones-ji8fd  No. Just couldn't be bothered to look up the correct spelling. There is a video on BoobTube about it.
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  47. A politician uttering nonsense should be eligible for the Biden Award*. *Given for service above and beyond the Twilight Zone. Related to but not to be confused with the Darwin Award. This award is to be available for politicians of any political viewpoint. For professional public servants I suppose we could also have the Box of Rocks or Bag of Hammers.
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  48. I cannot imagine the BBC doing anything else.
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  49.  @HectorGonzalez-fz6ws  Because none of these countries want them. Yet when they come to Western countries that have a tradition of freedom and tolerance what do they seek their host to do. That the host should change their own society to accommodate them. That they seek to recreate the society they left. The UK is commiting slow suicide. One day the Ethnic British will wake up a minority in their own country. Now let's get to the origin of the Palestinian refugees. In 1948 when the UN created Israel and Palestine out of the British Mandate the first thing the Arab states in the region did was attack Israel. At the same time they asked all the Palestinians in the region to evacuate. With the promise that they would be back home in days. It didn't quite work out that way did it. Instead of absorbing the refugees they kept them in squalid refugee camps. Refusing to give them citizenship.
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  50. Africa's a big place. Aside from Egypt probably the most significant cultures would be the Askum in Ethiopia and the East African Swahili.
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