Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1. Well no even the millennials didn't deal with this. On top of that the boomers are the ones who built it and Gen X grew up with it. If they were a significant contributing factor, it would show up in those generations. Not Gen Z.
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  2. Well no France basically uses Germany as free money they'd be unable to get otherwise but they're mostly self-sufficient and get the really important stuff from places like their colonies. Also just as a factor of distance lots of population crossing happens and just pure movement of peoples can cause those numbers even though in real terms they're actually nothing. A truck driving and making a delivery makes for a trade number but that doesn't say anything about how connected their industries are.
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  3. Well we secularized education and the only real moral systems are religions. Beyond that all you can do is have "sharing is caring"
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  4.  @Bogfrog1  I literally get told I'm less Puerto Rican lmao. Eh.
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  5.  @TrueMakaveli50  I mean... like it or not some groups have done certain things which have resulted in good. Such as the Muslims having large leaps in science just before the Mongol hordes and then bringing that to the Europeans after the crusades. Btw the crusades even though they failed in their objectives brought all of the knowledge back to Europe and giving a spark to the enlightenment.
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  6. @Lando1876  Well part of it is that at that point the Spanish never had the control anyway.
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  7. I wonder if the slaves in DR eventually became slaves in the way Janissaries are slaves
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  8. Well there's a specific region that got brought over which likely shares many similarities between each other
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  9.  @ahmedmuawia2447  Sure, but that's localized economic conditions which is present quite literally everywhere. Cultural conditions however are usually less localized unless you have very different cultures in close proximity which could be the case with the African slaves but from what he said sounds like it was primarily from some specific groups which likely have traceable genetics to them. And considering how diverse the African tree is and how much it matches up with the cultural tree it's probably true that it's mostly from the same people.
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  10.  @Athian_Athian  I didn't even know he called himself that
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  11.  @Athian_Athian  Arm the turks and Indians
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  12. Watching these I'm learning just how much the massive gains of the industrial revolution have changed society by uprooting and destroying almost all previous human living conditions.
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  13. I wonder why religion became not cool. And especially why people have looked toward science to explain the world over religion when they have often gone hand-in-hand.
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  14. 2:03 Funny enough the Weimar republic actually DID solve all of the crises but Hitler got to power before it could be fully felt and so he inherited the economic growth and repair from that. From there Hitler basically made a bunch of business cartels that got preferential treatment, made a bunch of heavy industry secretly and thus a bunch of war spending, and then redistributed the wealth of the Jews.
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  15. @James Furey I foresee a revival of the Christian faith. Such things have always been important in the US and its tendrils will reach out through the Anglosphere and pull the Irish kicking and screaming. There will be no void. It will come back with a vengeance as meaning comes back from those loyal to God. The US dominates Europe in willing participation on their part to not be conquered and keep themselves from going to war. The US no longer cares And will leave voluntarily. Long histories also do not guarantee researgeance or power and in fact often do quite the opposite. Join the alliance. Resurface the culture under proper and functional institutions so that you can rise under a successful umbrella. You already have grown under the umbrella and it was when you were most successful. Your greatest successes were as part of the English world. And you grew along with them just like the Scottish. All should remain in the house of the king but with enough autonomy as to maintain their culture as with the rest of the Anglosphere. And no the Germans are not Italians nor is the reverse true. We are not all mixed. It is primarily the Anglosphere that is mixed due to its time as a global empire that it maintains to this day. You cannot take that the same position. And tracking through the father alone erases 2/3 of someone's hisory and links to the cultures in question. That's how you turn an Anglo Spanish when everyone damn well knows he would belong to both. And such links cannot be taken away easily.
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  16. @James Furey Worth noting about the Celtic capacity... English are almost as Celtic as the Irish and Scottish are honestly. And with the Normans coming in they themselves were mixed and so brought an extra Celtic German mix to the side. Remember that the French are as Celtic as the isles. And while they did trade populations with the Germans as well... not as much as you'd think given they were primarily a ruling class and one that died out relatively quickly. Of course you always have your border mixings, but Alsace-Loraine is the majority of that when it comes to Celtic-German mixing. And Belgium. Also remember for the Welsh that they have revived UNDER the kingdom and are still attached to the stronger coalition. Ireland should follow their example. And I'm stressing the dual loyalties so much because I stressed the entire time the importance of it working within a flexible identity such as the Anglospheric identities. Less so with ethnocolonies.
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  17.  @Eric__J  I don't think they will merge into a new language. Language formation requires being isolated from the mother tongue which just isn't the case here and NEVER comes as a result of two languages merging. Languages don't merge. If they do it's in the form of pidgins which can eventually become a creole language but that seems unnecessary if people simply pick it up as a secondary language and still grow up in the dominant language because the rest of society outside the corner uses it.
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  18.  @agdgdgwngo  Your idea is actually entirely inaccurate. First off: UK has already ceded lots of power to the Americans. So your first idea is incorrect. Secondly: There is an idea for a union of the former dominions with Britain under the CANZUK plan, a plan supported by majorities of all countries involved. Third: Scottish independence is from an idea that they have lost the benefits of the EU. That idea tends to fall apart quick if the EU is dissolved thanks to crisis. It's also worth noting that if you're a small country without really any friends from being on an island... not exactly smart to reject your neighbor on that island when you're tied to them in basically all metrics and you're not even a top 10 economy who pours a fair bit of benefit into the system.
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  19. @Aleks Vos  Isolation, while being a factor in very conservative languages, are not at all a guarantee given that some radical departures came from isolated languages. While greater volume of written and unregulated communication, you do not actually see that much of a radical change in language evolution. What you see is the meshing of many distinct varieties of English and thus seeing a much more standardized form of English with the only differences largely just due to cultural context in certain settings. Also... while centralized institutions preserve languages, you've never been able to preserve the auditory (and most important) versions of the language before and that's something you completely fail to acknowledge. And while the differences aren't the same in Anglosphone countries, they are still linked among the English language and thus really aren't in any position to really separate and you will likely soon start seeing those languages start coming to the largest standard. And while language will change when people are free to speak it, people will most often match the language they hear growing up. So if you raise them with older varieties you will slow that down. And that is possible now since we can now record those varieties and play them for as long as we have a mechanism to do so.
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  20. ​@gr77552 Yeah it's the highest priced place in the country
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  21. 23:45 Is the weirdest thing ever seeing all Anglophone states, Burma, Sri Lanka, and a former British colony
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  22. @sosig6445  I mean that's a fantastically good point. Which is part of why I just gut instinct thought "this sounds like bullshit"
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  23.  @sebastianprimomija8375  Okay then you've lost an entire portion of communication because people don't know what is or isn't a restaurant by your definition.
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  24.  @sebastianprimomija8375  You know the fire nation was Japan right? Also the Song kind of had a reason to fall having lost to the manchu banner armies of the Later Jin. AAAAND squashed their nascent industrial revolution. But otherwise you're correct it could've industrialized first.
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  25.  @sebastianprimomija8375  Well yeah but they're French and this is in English so that thought doesn't translate without an explanation. Also realize it came off a bit weird overall but my point was just to explain since most people don't understand that to be restaurants.
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  26.  @sebastianprimomija8375  I mean I'm not doubting it... my point was if the American view of restaurant is what's taken shape, then you need to explain what the French and establishment view of it is and go from there.
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  27.  @sebastianprimomija8375  Just a clarification of what counts as a restaurant in this context??
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  28. Well the reason for that is that the Great Powers have just not been fighting so that form of warfare has been unnecessary even though it in real terms is an extension of that form of warfare.
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  29. ​ @mrobocop1666 Well it's a bit more than that. It was both things. In fact, the second bomb was dropped roughly 6 to 12 hours after the invasion of Manchuria. And it still took multiple days to try to organize an actual surrender due to the issues regarding the government at the time.
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  30. 4:50 Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere but for real this time
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  31.  @Sara3346  Quote from one of his videos: "American conservatism is a form of liberalism"
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  32. But what's the importance of the famine beyond who was brought over because of it? This isn't a video about how the technology developed it's simply a cultural history of each group in the US with the brief explanation of the roots they had when they left. Once again what's the biggest part of the selective pressures? Only certain groups were frontier peoples in the US and even more importantly for a rather brief period.
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  33. I find it ironic how modern feminism in its attempt to liberate women has disrespected a woman's ability to have kids or be a stabilizing force in the home in favor of encouragement to simply wok like the men in an attempt to "feel powerful" and likely shapes much of our current situation. I have to wonder if the industrial revolution really did lower the pressure to have kids or if it was just a consequence of the society around it to cause the population to be unwilling to have them
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  34. New idea: what if the British let their colonies industrialize and integrate into their empire?
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  35. ​@Nifertx He meant meme in the original context as an idea which can be spread rapidly. But the fact that American memes can spread across the world so rapidly points to that exact phenomenon.
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  36. @zuesmaya8167  Many, but not all, and the relevant technologies were not the technologies of industrialization itself. Also, no I don't think they actually had true universities. That's something a bit unique to the western model. Schools yes, but research institutions which teach students how to research and find truth was pretty unique to the west and was very rare across almost any other societies and it's unlikely they're similarly unique as the Europeans there. Also, since basically no political structures survived industrialization, I don't think they did have the political structures to do so.
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  37. ​ @Guardian__Angel I just want to know what parts you believe are illogical
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  38. ​ @shonewarrior2178 Why do you believe his Turkish projection is nonsense?
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  39.  @chico9805  The mass influx of who? Where are they from? And what lines is it Balkanizing on? The lines of national identities which have already existed in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales which has slowly been decreasing, or ethnic lines which are much newer and have less behind them?
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  40.  @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368  Good times make weak men, weak men make hard times, hard times make strong men, strong men make good times. It's literally just that but explained the how.
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  41.  @markbarta2369  That's not what's going to happen though. First: there has to be rough technological parity for his statement to ring true. Second: The US will not be fighting a war on American soil against the Chinese as they completely lack the naval capacity to do so. Largest navy in the world. It would be an invasion of China and honestly alone considering how they did against the Japanese it's possible enough that they fail. However over extended periods of time it's difficult to have such a high kill ratio.
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  42.  @lif3andthings763  Well that's the point. How many men can be thrown
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  43. I for one am eager to see what the world will create out of the time of that ancient Chinese curse
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  44.  @ciaotiziocaius4899  I believe that's what's being referenced here
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  45. 10:17 I think this was pretty succinctly put in a comment by perun in one of his earliest videos and say something along the lines of "The West really likes to not act like the juggernaut representing half of the world's economy that it really is"
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  46. Yeah a little bit bit at the same time the overall consensus is that this video is kind of stupid. He has a tendency to have good points and bad ones in the same video but on a closer look this one is just kind of bad. You can see the ideological throughline through his videos with this being yet another point on there, but this one is just kind of filled mostly with empty platitudes. He has some points in the fact that the bedrock of society in the west (which has been outlined in other videos and include but are not limited to nationalism, Christianity, and belief in your own people) is actually to some degree being uprooted by social justice (via strict secularization and pushing against any sort of national identity while simultaneously pushing the idea that whites are inherently racist among other aspects), but then throws in ideas of rural vs urban which just miss the mark in any historical sense, end up completely misrepresenting China and India (trying to fight nomadic horse archers without guns was incredibly difficult and fighting strategic geniuses always is difficult), and other such failures of scrutiny. Frankly the biggest failures he has is confirmation bias and a failure to read history outside of Europe after the fall of Rome besides popular knowledge as he tends to rely on that a lot and here it bit him squarely in the ass as they became lynchpins for his argument. I think it's just the fact that in many ways people who are paying attention kind of feel it to be true so many people who agree wholeheartedly do so. However, upon scrutiny, his arguments fall flat when attempting to draw evidence outside of the classical period since he clearly just doesn't know it.
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  47.  @christiandauz3742 ???
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  48.  @aidandix7296  That's how most people view it
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  49. So you're telling me that religion is necessary for longevity? Hmm... then the only thing I can say is: "deus vult"
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  50. The issue is that such a thing is literally all of history and then the crises happen regardless. Going to hell in a handbasket despite no-one wanting to is the norm.
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