Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. Or MAYBE the national superiority complex and xenophobia were fueled by 200+ years of isolation and government demonizing everything foreign, and an attempt to turn them into a less jingoist society so people could peacefully trade was pushed back by reactionaries who played nationalism to the max.
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  2. Rasputin actually survived an earlier attempt on his life when he was knifed, as he was a huge, physically tough man, that probably contributed to poison being not potent enough, so the THIRD real murder of him worked, so for what it's worth, the historical three attempts on his life with different weapons were a thing. Rasputin was thrown into a river. As water was found in his lungs, people gossiped about him surviving the shot and drowning, which, again, while doubtful in this specific case - is not a fantasy scenario, as even a lethal gunshot won't necessarily kill outright. FINALLY, when they burned his body, the ligaments snapped and corpse twitched - now he was 100% dead at that point but it just looked to be creepy and demonic.
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  3. The obligatory STATES RIGHTS TO WHAT moment.
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  4. Chinese also did a variation on that sometimes. Killing siblings to the heir was not as universal, but often influential generals and courtsmen that were important in the rise of a dynasty suddenly all appeared to be totally traitors... thinking of that, maybe Stalin copied that from China.
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  5. I still don't see the parallels... Ceasar is a salad... Napoleon is a cake... one is a sweet dessert, other is a vegetable meal. I guess you stab them both with a fork is about all that's common between the two.
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  6. Using the newspeak word "serfs" for slaves in chattel slavery where their children and grandkids were all owned as property of some pomeschik, should also be done with a LOT of brackets.
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  7. Also read Ibn Rustah, he was a Persian traveler who also journeyed with the Rus' peoples and described their habits in a more positive way, while Fadlan was very fixated on gentiles not doing the Muslim ritual washing, though both complimented the varangians on having luscious, clear, well-combed and often braided hair))) Legolasland.
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  8.  @devanis  the irony is that's ALSO because of the war. Hollywood monopoly started when USA forgave French their lend-lease debts by... making them show American movies a lot. Seriously.
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  9.  @spiko1755  literally nobody roots for Octavian, he's BOOORING. Antony knew how to PAAARTAY, and so did Ceasar and Cleo!
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  10. Media: "this coronavirus is just a normal flu, don't panic, or the stocks will drop too fast, so die silently"
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  11. You'll take my life but I'll take yours too You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through So when you're waiting for the next attack You'd better stand there's no turning back!
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  12. Just don't call it "Ukrainian conflict" but russian invasion. You don't call WW2 "the Polish conflict" okay?
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  13. Kingsman the Golden Circle and Bond Live and Let Die crossover we never deserved.
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  14.  @BaconHer0  if you lived in an anarchic commune, you'd have communists accuse you of being a Trotskyst and a traitor, destroy your communes, and execute farmers as "bourgeois", happened in USSR, Cuba, Spain and everywhere else.)))
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  15. @Michael Terrell II both sides had guns and samurai used them for centuries at that point. It's that one side had more modern guns.
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  16.  @paulbutkovich6103  sacrificing yourself is literally the definition of honor.
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  17.  @TBrewer64  Author of Gospel of John kinda identifies as the Beloved Disciple, though scholars still argue about the authorship.
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  18. To themselves. That move has effectively made Soviet Union isolated and jumpstarted the Cold War which... is kinda still ongoing with Soviet Union losing and now whole world (except Iranian, North Korean and Assad's faltering regimes) hating russia.
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  19. 3:45 Imagine if Rome adopted a Middle Eastern God, yeah as if that VatiCan happen...
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  20. We actually don't care, but can play grammar NS just to mess with people, as long as you don't claim the invaders are "brotherly people" anything goes. Except humanizing those who colonized us.
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  21. Egyptian life expectancy was kinda higher than 19th century Europe tho, as they had primitive antibiotics (moldy bread) and didn't know humorism so didn't bleed people out with dirty instruments to "cure" them... Dry climate also helped.
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  22.  @thecleitom9497  I guess porn version lmao.
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  23.  @GauravSharma-dy8xv  seriously, the current government in India is extremely pro-Hindu and keeps supporting attacks on other religions and cultures, not just Muslims, like attacking men for bringing beef or women for going out instead of sitting at home, Modi is a rudiment of colonial times.
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  24. I kinda hate this rhethorics now. Bothsiding is a gaslighting tactic: no, you can't pretend violently fighting back against slavery or genocide is the same as being the aggressor. I'm Ukrainian so biased in current wars so let's take another example: Ever heard of Yugoslav wars in 90s? Probably something like "all sides committed war crimes". This is a manipulation. That entire war was in Bosnia, and two other factions tried to ethnically cleanse Bosnian lands from Bosniaks. Literal concentration camps. Later in Balkans Kosovo was the victim and Serbia the aggressor. No other way. They are also trying to equate Tigray war with bothsideism (rebels are the victims) or Syria (90% of kills are by Assad and pro-regime forces) or even cases as clear as 80s Afghanistan, where USSR was invading a sovereign country, Mujahedeen were the good guys defending their land. But to this day we SOMEHOW get defenders framed as "terrorists".
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  25.  @yvindhagester9613  But many were actually punished... Soviet war criminals never faced justice, and PoWs from USSR had their entire families repressed UNTIL THE 1990s. When you were watching Ninja Turtles and Back to the Future, my mother had to fill in that "nobody in my family was interred" to be allowed into college.
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  26. And Gil refusing Ishtar is age of man superseding the age of gods, as well as prehistoric matriarchy replaced with the patriarchy that followed.
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  27. So tired of this "escalation" speak when defending yourself is called "escalatory" but indiscriminate bombings of civilians areas by the aggressor are not
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  28.  @themore-you-know  imagine trying so hard, renaming months, styling name after Ceasar, and still be mostly known as the bad side character guy from Cleopatra's story. Most famous Roman emperors are Nero, Caligula and Constantine. Octavian is not even making top 3.
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  29. Joke's on you, I seen the movie with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton BEFORE the cartoon and film version of Asterix... she does have a pretty nose though.
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  30.  @Yapscholar  Saber. She's King Arthur.
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  31. You're seriously claiming that after centuries of Rome having varied year lengths, Ceasar just ACCIDENTALLY by literally magic, decided to make calendar exactly as long as Egyptian when... visiting Alexandria. SERIOUSLY?! XD Stop being so dumb, it's a historical fact that Julian reform was literally just adopting Egyptian 365-day calendar with Ptolemaic leap day.
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  32.  @Datartbunch  Canadian geese 🪿 debunk all Lost Causers and I am not American or into US history. It's just a very clear and simple thing.
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  33. THIS DID NOT AGE WELL... As of typing: 169,854 closed cases, 30,299 (18%) dead. Half a million still infected (that's from tested people, multiply several times over for real data), and every fifth of them will die. Over 50 thousands new infected confirmed every day, over 10k of which in USA alone. Italy has almost a thousand officially recorded dead per day. Spain is closing in. Chinese statistics and mortality rate are now considered falsified, while russia records the dead under "unusual pneumonia". It's much worse than anything since the Spanish Flu.
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  34. Hebrew is the other way around... Go Jewish! xD Arabic language is inclusive tho: BOTH right and left-handed people get their writing smeared equally!
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  35. Australia tried to reclaim its military glory by airstrikes on camels. Seriously! The military is proud of defeating defenseless camels (which were brought captive anyway) with aircraft bombs. Still haven't lived down losing a war to emus.
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  36. They did. Two of the three ladies in Boney M, Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett, were actual lead singers (Maizie Williams didn't sing in the studio), but their guy, Bobby Farrell, was a lip-syncing dancer, yeah, and Frank Farian, the producer, did both some of the high-pitched back vocals, and the low male voice in most of their tracks. Specifically, he pulled a Milli Vanilli with just the guy in Boney M.
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  37. Feels like the Space Laser lady is really treated like a toddler by conservatives, like the Israel lobby went to give her a tour of Holocaust museums and explain her history of antisemitism like on a preschooler level, while same very lobby started denouncing Ukraine when we voted in UN for the controversial resolution that "Palestinians have human rights" – now we're hated by both groups and she gets a pass.
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  38.  Dylan Rodrigues  literally Libyan protestors. They put Gaddafi on a bayonet. :3
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  39. MOST civs that didn't start working stone. Majority of buildings in Middle East like Egypt in Africa or Sumer and Akkad in Asia, were made from mud bricks. They didn't last long. City walls made from beaten earth were sturdy enough for a siege. Only temples and sometimes palaces were made from stone. What's left... well, that reminds me of Ozymandias: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away...
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  40. Victorian sensibilities are so weird now like in the movie version, Dracula's true love for his mistress looks amazing, and poor Mina marrying the frigid Harker in the end is the rear horror, I rooted for Oldman over Reeves seriously... Literally the Mel Brooks parody roasted Jonathan's character being taught to repress passion (and Keanu's poor acting) badly while making fun of the Bri'ish in the process.
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  41.  @AlexC-ou4ju  not EVERYONE, mind you, many countries are imperialist, but tons were colonies and just got independence FROM these empires. My Ukraine never colonized nobody.
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  42. Harker, holding back laugh: "SO MUCH BLOOD!" Mel Brooks: "SHE JUST ATE!!!" puts newspapers around
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  43. And Okita Souji is a waifu)))
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  44. At least reactionaries burn 3 and 4G towers instead of "witches" now.
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  45.  @karenmccarty749  literally 50% children died before widespread vaccination. Are you willing to put your child's life on a coin toss? It's three times SAFER to literally load bullet in a 6-barrel revolver and play russian roulette with a kid than not vaccinate them. Let that sink in.
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  46. "two men one horse" was the symbol of knights Templar... so everything evened out in the end lmao)))
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  47.  @Regic  Except that antibiotics should never be used when unwarranted, in that case they just damage your gut by eradicating healthy bacteria that lives there, which makes you weaker. Do you really want to crap yourself when you sneeze? That's what antibiotics do to people with flu, make their stomach weak. You don't need even more dehydration when you're infected either.
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  48. Watch Plane Crash Investigation. Most catastrophies are a string of cartoon level of coincidences. Reality is that there's so many safeguards ONLY an almost comical amount of failures need to coincide for the accident to happen
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  49. Like end of russia is a good thing, shame USSR sprung up... Well, now it's russia again and time to repeat history again.
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  50. ​ @matthewc4590  also North Korea, muscovia, Belarus, Hungary, Slovakia, and Central Asian dictators like Turkmenbashi. They're all basically caricatures.
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