Comments by "panner11" (@panner11) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

@rqks1581 You clearly have no understanding if you think starting a company in Africa is a good idea. Your company will be at the full mercy of the various regimes there with no freedom. I can understand having an established company and branching out there if it becomes relevant to the business, but not starting there. Also, people can only really only understand doing business, the economy is far too complicated to have a real understanding of anything. This is clearly just a sad attempt at dissociating yourself from your generation because it is a group that gets criticized a lot, and you want to think yourself superior to it.
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@fuzzyplasmacat6357 You're reaching. He has always been against conspiracy type behavior like jew blaming, etc. There are many things in the video that I don't agree with, but he is not coming from the angle of fascist. From what I can tell, he is actually left leaning socially but hates idealism, and a moderate economically. You're the kind of person that prevents civil discussion by accusing everyone of being a fascist when they make point that you don't like.
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yeah but the agricultural counties there are still Republican
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I don't disagree with you about this particular point. I think the left holds more power than he presents in the video. However, no one knows how that sort of complicated and severe situation will play out. And it's important to note he didn't say that a military dictatorship is likely. Only that it is more likely than an authoritarian regime with a politician seizing power. His main point was that there will likely be no civil war, only some urban disturbances. The american system will still the same, but the parties will reorganize. Let's not get too angry at points made in the video that we disagree with. This dude is actually very well read, and knows a lot about these issues. There can be a healthy discussion here.
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Which part are you referring to here?
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Because they are still too stuck in their left or right paradigms. Look at all these trump worshippers and outraged leftists.
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He never said they were. They currently are allied to the US more than China in that picture. He explicitly said India and Japan have no choice but to side with the US.
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@Sid4president yep. The truth is no late stage industrialized nation ever had a real civil war. Even though there are big problems, the vast majority of people live comfortable lives and aren't actually willing to fight to the death for their causes.
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It's important to note, I don't think he's anti-progressive left, just the over-idealist interpretations of it and multitudes of people going too far with it right now. He's very pragmatic and hates conspiracies and values democracy the most. So he really despises figures like Trump who threatened not to accept the election. Agreeing with him is not contrary to being left.
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You are really insinuating so many things to argue points that were not presented at all. You're grasping at straws. You clearly have strong feeling about this subject, but they have very little relevance to the actual video.
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The crux is your assumptions are based on if the distribution is fairy equal, which it is not. "If the value of work would drop due to increasing population, then also the value of produced goods, due to increase in quantity, would go down" sounds very rational in theory. But the empirical evidence shows the value of produced goods doesn't go down in this instance. That chart showing the average price of consumables depicts this. The thing is increased population increases demand which acts against price decrease, and increased worker supply gives a lot of power to the employers who take most of the benefit of the increase in the value produced. Thus, making the distribution not equal.
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when did he ever insinuate that. What are you talking about?
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I actually think he is left leaning. He is just pragmatic and anti-idealist. It's hard to say where he really lies, but it's clear he isn't influenced much by left and right wing politics. Hardly a right wing shill. On the Gish Gallop, I see a little of what you mean since he talks concisely and bluntly, throwing a lot of points, but he isn't debating and is just stating his thoughts, so I wouldn't say it applies really.
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Unless, you're saying the voting was rigged, it's still democratic. Just because you don't like the representatives and think they're fake, doesn't mean anything because they still had to get voted in. Everything else you mentioned about what you think about different people in the state has no relevance to democracy.
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This is what all people who follow a strong cult of personality figure say.
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@Zoomer Enlightenment Sure the younger generation and popular culture is very far left right now, but that can hardly be said about the Dem. Party. If they were so radically progressive, why did they so actively prevent a real leftist like Bernie Sanders from leading, and had a centrist like Biden voted in. This video details some of the actual socio-economic and geopolitical reasons why the US is so divisive. It's not because of one group or another. You accusing other people of pushing this country towards civil war is in fact what's actually inciting war.
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Racism is a symptom not a cause. The current situation has caused imbalances in the well being of classes and generations. But the right wing politicians wants to blame everything on immigrants and minorities groups. The problem is class warfare, but it's masquerading as race warfare in the media.
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The dem. party hasn't been very liberal in a long time yes, but the general younger public has been trending that way. Maybe that's what he was referring to?
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To sum up, most of your points is arguing against idealism. Or more specifically, the most idealistic interpretations of the statements presented as the twelve lies. So I definitely agree with that aspect. That being said, I don't agree if the twelve lies are taken at face value and not idealistically. For ex. your statement about how morality does exist and that if we try our best it's better than doing nothing at all is obviously true. But most people who argue morality is relative aren't saying it so idealistically than they mean that morality doesn't exist at all or is useless. Certainly there are moral evils, but moral grey areas exist too, and those morals can be considered relative.
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Yeah I definitely agree here. It was interesting to hear his perspective though, but I think the connection of immigration and wages is correlation not causation.
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It's a good way of viewing. His way of presenting information is extremely concise, possibly too concise since the information is delivered too densely to be comfortable at times. Still it's very well researched and thoughtful content. Though definitely should be taken with a grain of salt.
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I'm gonna go with the latter. The US is obviously very divided, centrists are hard to find.
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Tbh, isn't it the opposite? He's actually too concise. He presents most ideas quickly and doesn't fully explain a lot of things. It's only sometimes as an alt history channel, that he goes too deep into a certain scenario. Like in the video where he talked about the military dictatorship scenario probably a little too long. But in general, he's not long-winded at all.
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I think he's talking about the younger generation and in popular culture. Though I can't be 100% certain if that's what he meant. The dem. party itself is not very left at all as you say.
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