Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Samurai Sword | I Didn't Know That" video.

National Geographic gives in to fanboyism and japanophile woo. Everyone with even the slightest knowledge of swords will know why this is bullshit. You can cut the same tatami mats at least as well with European longswords or sabres or really any kind of sword that is used for cutting.
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CreepyWilly What a gross misrepresentation of the video. It was clearly implied that the katana is exceptional among swords in general.
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M Spencer The reason why you consider Asian arms and armour superior to European ones is the traditionalism and nostalgia in parts of Asia as opposed to the progressivism in Europe. With the Orientalism in the 20th century, Europeans and Americans began to buy into, for example, Japanese folk theatre, which glorified the Samurai.
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M Spencer Alchemy is a pseudo-science that doesn't work and so is acupuncture. Anesthetics were used by the earliest cultures all across the world. Astronomy was widely practiced long before the Middle Ages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_astronomy#Prehistoric_Europe Early blast furnaces were not much better than bloomeries and the improvement of ovens and smithing technology took place all over Europe, Africa and Asia. The Chinese were never able to mass produce books. ... All technology and knowledge took a long road. It wasn't just cooked up in one place at one time.
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***** What?! And I thought European people wore pieces of fur and ate their own shit! : 3
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M Spencer Last time I checked, Europe was still the largest exporter and marketplace in the world. It's also the place, where the language you are speaking stems from.
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M Spencer >>the whole Europe is relying in Chinese products<< The whole of China is relying on Europe to buy their stuff. You see how that makes no sense? >>And last time I checked Europe is the one that suffers from terrorists attacks and not China.<< No, it doesn't. Terrorism is mostly a problem in Africa and the Middle East. Your fundamental lack of knowledge shows again and again. >>And English is widely spoken bro<< That's the point, you moron. XD You can't do anything but repeating yourself over and over again, trying to provoke me while failing in the attempt to appear knowledgeable. In future you might want to pay attention in school. Then you need not rely on lies and insults.
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M Spencer I'm clearly wasting my time on you. I'm explaining and arguing, while you are just repeating yourself like a broken record and insulting me like a child on the schoolyard. : / If you like China so much, why are you not writing in their great system? Why use letters and the inferior English language? ...Oh right, because modern culture is European culture. You can't avoid it.
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Vaughn The Rice Farmer Oh I was just being grumpy on the internet, but I'm glad to hear that! : D
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M Spencer You are doing it again. You are parroting phrases you have heard somewhere else with no comprehension. You are a mindless tool.
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M Spencer Do you not realize that your pathetic attempt to demonstrate self confidence only makes you look even more desperate in the eyes of anyone accustom to youtube comments?
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M Spencer You have to be the most pathetic person I have ever seen. Read your comments one after another. It is embarrassing.
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