Youtube comments of buddermonger2000 (@buddermonger2000).

  1. Okay... yes Daniel Nariditsky is indeed a prophet. The man said "If he takes your knight then you get him with a nice scholar's mate, though if he knows what he's doing and plays bishop then it's a slight inaccuracy... but why don't you risk it anyway?" Bruh there is no reason why he should've beyond "it's funny and it might just work"
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  2. I think the one who admitted it on his deathbed seems to make the most sense to me. There is no countervailing evidence for him unlike the others with the one after him having far less evidence
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  3. I think the biggest thing that the last clip hit on is that the US is an intentionally disunited and slow system and thus really only responds to very long cultural shifts which leads to a lot of mindless bickering. I think it's also worth noting that as a bloc, the US states are very much the equivalent of the EU countries in terms of level of governance which makes the focus on the federal government make even less sense overall. Individual states should probably embrace that and take more power but with the focus on the federal things won't change that way.
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  4.  @evelynericamorrison9497  you could hear them remark on it after lol
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  5. I think it's also worth noting that for the Anglosphere, with their openness, technical and maritime prowess, and shared language that the Anglosphere is poised to become a civilization state much like China is today. It's a lot easier to maintain an empire when your People can easily traverse it and speak the same language which is exactly the situation it finds itself in today. The only other major language it is developing is Spanish (in a rather poor geography might I add) which will just make itself easy to integrate into and tie another continent to it at the hip for it to draw from as well as give space to improve.
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  6. Zeihan has officially transitioned to an actual video presentation. The most basic form of it, but one nonetheless.
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  7. I think what's incredibly interesting is how fast literacy increased in the US. We're at roughly 99%, but by the 1850s it was already at roughly 90%. It increased here earlier than basically everywhere else in the world, even Britain.
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  8. I suggest doing a new one of these where you do the ballistic visors. The clear bulletproof glass that attaches to helmets. Unlike the face masks, they're a distance away from your face. So the real question isn't backface deformation, but instead penetration and shrapnel.
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  9. Yeah I have to agree and I commented something similar on his most recent video. I think he's a expecting too much to see "Strong Female Character" to realize where the differences are. I mean here, she's his wife and just wants to know what the hell is going on because Mark left her in the dark. She's capable but not overpowered and most of the time she was saving it was saving Steven who's genuinely the one who's so weak. It's not like she really saved Mark. Also worth noting... she never really won legitimately or if she did was really for the reason that she's a main character. Like it was evident that Ethan Hawk was basically toying with them the entire time and it's evidenced when he just pulled a gun and shot Mark outright after he was sufficiently standing in his way. Two in the chest and that's it. And she was completely helpless to it too. She couldn't do shit. And her superpower part was explicitly temporary with her deal as per the agreement: "Just for this" and when she did tell Mark how to do that spell she was told how via that goddess so it's not like something SHE knew. She was even successfully tempted by Ethan Hawk so realistically she "lost" that battle of wills with him. So I kind of don't agree with his take here really.
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  10. Honestly there's probably a few things likely exacerbated by Great society programs which got rid of much of the financial reasons for marriage and decline in church authority in the world which started to rid some of the cultural reasons for marriage and weakened away some of the greatest gathering places for the community (the churches). These 3 things happened around the time of that interstate displacement meaning it's likely a confluence of these 3 events as homes were lost, stress caused homes to break, and the cultural factors which kept families strong withered away.
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  11. That's pretty insane how one war fought paved the way for civil wars on both sides afterward.
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  12. I wish you had touched on the fact that also: much of the US equipment is old equipment that is no longer in service but instead in reserves which will soon be slated for scrapping. And scrapping doesn't cost people nothing. So there's actually some savings in value even though the aid is being evaluated at list price of the items.
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  13. Of course Florida ended up on here
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  14. Seeing what goes into this I'm a lot more hopeful about this rifle than I am the Spear even though I know it probably won't win. This rifle seems like a genuine game changer with the ability to just switch to a rather controllable automatic fire
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  15. I think part of what makes this scenario most likely to me is geography. I was always trying to make sense of how any world War could really be pulled off given the only place with any real ability to be fought over is Eastern Europe which realistically is just Russia alone at this point and facing about a billion people. Himilayas, Indo-China, the caucuses, and the mountains which define the borders of Iran are just really difficult to move troops through and is largely why everyone is in the places they are today. The positions are just too defensible with the exception of the Pakistan-Indian border on the north Gangetic plain with realistically the Indian army actually being the better army here. It's really difficult to do any real war. The best you have is a naval conflict at the first island chain which limits casualties a LOT (ships are just inherently limiting with regards to Population) and a conflict in Eastern Europe because of Russia but Russia can't take on all of NATO anyway. So a conflict where China and the US try to break each other's backs economically while trying to keep themselves alive at home makes the most sense with various collapses elsewhere.
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  16. 8:12 "Rather than actual moral action" kind of struck with me. Despite how cringe this connection is, I'd been reading some manga recently and the protagonist has a pretty bad personality on the surface as he openly mocks people, insults them to their face, questions authority, and even tried to seduce his kingdom's queen (all of this is mostly Because he doesn't care and actively WANTS the consequences of those actions). This is contrasted with (at this point) the antagonist who's on the surface very good and has gained the affection of other people seen to be good people. However, the person in question is actively trying to steal the place of someone else genuinely good because she doesn't think anyone can be that good and the people who's affection she gained shirked their duty to both the kingdom and their previous engagements and even break promises they'd made. This is compared to the protagonist actively tries to help people while they're down, attempts to comfort others, cover for misdeeds, and help even people he really kind of hates for the sake of people not dying. The comparison here is apt of people who have the right attitudes and present themselves as moral even though they'll lack it in action vs the person who's actually moral in action even if he doesn't present himself as such in manner. TL;DR this truth is basically the idea behind "kind but not nice" and "nice but not kind"
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  17. Oh so we'll have a bigger and better Davy crocket?
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  18.  @Aaronlcyrus  I'm going to have to look up what Joinery is. Also tbh worth noting that wood has lasted very long in many places across the world and about half of the reason they're destroyed is war.
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  19. I think with Isreal that it's worth noting that they've got Good relations with basically everyone but their immediate neighbors now and are a fairly important regional power that has only survived by having a kick-ass military and a committing to technological superiority. I think there are enough interests in keeping Isreal alive that it can survive.
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  20.  @amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849  Yeah it's just been shit. However I'll always enjoy Moon Knight for having the balls to have its main Villain just shoot the hero. Like come on he's just a normal dude. Shoot him. And here... he does. It does do a fairly good job at making Ethan Hawke feel entirely in control too. Issue is more just poor execution on ideas arguably from studio rigidity as it is almost as formulaic as the rest.
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  21. Worth noting that it isn't just culturally a derivation of Romanian. That's an understatement. It's been Romanian for about as long as Romania has existed as a country up until roughly 1940 where the soviets demanded it with the two options given being cede it or be invaded. For anyone who plays Hearts of Iron 4, Moldova is Bessarabia.
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  22.  @taan1424  That's the problem and why such ideas are seen as villainous as overall you're basically advocating for extreme social engineering because you think we can't provide for everyone and that we'll run out when realistically it's never been the case and is basically the plot of Soylent Green
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  23. Isn't that basically how Stalin came to power?
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  24.  @jackthorton10  I don't think it would've been that dangerous. And honestly a lot of the issues with the Russian empire was that it hadn't yet modernized. And as they were basically enemies of the British they weren't exactly getting any help on that front. Now imagine they gain an Ally in the only empire who can actually compete with the industrial might of the British. With the basically inability to TOUCH the US from Europe, what the US gains in an ally is the potential next hegemon of Europe. And that not only Aids in power projection but now puts the US squarely in European affairs as a fairly major power.
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  25. Well the last century was irons and the limiting factor of 300m was you know... human vision. The designated marksmen and snipers were all made to take out people at longer distances. They did this by having magnified optics. Now what are they giving every soldier who fields one of these weapons? A magnified optic which can automatically do any calculations and thus hit targets far farther out. Issue isn't things like foliage and never has been. Simply human vision.
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  26. I think the intro of "Not capitalist, not socialist, simply criminal" is the best way of breaking down nazi policy. Fascism itself is such a hard thing to nail down because everything under "fascism" was so radically different in policy and implementation that it's very easy to refer to them as different systems entirely. They didn't really share anything beyond the belief of service to the nation and the best way to describe it is: "a slur for people you don't like." It just gets super bad no matter what and also gets into the issue of what you define as left or right wing. I found one definition where it defined it as "equality vs hierarchy" which is fine enough, but goes so far against many other definitions such as "how much government inference in the lives of the citizens" (that's simply in my words but definitely a vision seen by many citizens). Fascism is just a mixed bag all the way and the best way to refer to the nazis is just that: nazis. They took whatever ideas suited their desires best and stirred it into a pot and just like that Nazi Germany was born. Very strange thing to look at. I also appreciate Sparticus Oleson's pinned comment. Absolutely stunning breakdown and I LOVE it. I believe it even qualifies as BASED.
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  27. I saw the title and my first response was "Again?"
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  28. I'm going to be honest here, the single most important thing here that needs to happen is stable government. Governmental stability is probably the number 1 factor in a successful economy as that investment doesn't just get stolen by an elite. This ties into social cohesion where you trust your own neighbor to not steal your stuff. The second most important is to have a liberal enough system to have free markets and robust trade so that the economy can adapt. Everything else comes second and will be a net benefit.
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  29. 19:30 Also try to check out Botswana who is currently as rich as a country like Chile and only slightly behind Spain. It's also a place that was never created around a bunch of ethnic groups and instead around one tribe who in colonial times made the decision to be voluntarily colonized and then got left alone meaning it didn't suffer any of the negatives of colonization while also already having a generally pluralistic society and a decently organized one as their "kings" were elected based on competence. So it seems like a place ripe for expansion in the future.
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  30. 4:46 See, here's my contention, I think the issue is seeing her as a supporting character. Given how the entire intro was about her and developing her, i think it's safe to put her as main character in her own right. This would basically put her as the protagonist and miles the dueteragonist. And i think this can be supported with the rest of the film as we never really leave her perspective but for the time we spend with miles, until they meet again, at which point they're either together or time is split between the two. For an analogy i can pull from, it's the original pirates of the Caribbean where we're introduced into the 2 protagonists of the story, William and I think Emily. They're roughly the first 10 to 15 minutes of the movie up until the introduction of captain Jack sparrow. Jack sparrow is basically the third protagonist in the film, but he's used as more as a major supporting character as he is only ever shown at the side of the two protagonists having moved from one to the other. This translates to our perspective actually being on Emily and William at any given time which puts them as the protagonists and not Jack. To tie this in, we see Gwen and Miles used in exactly the same fashion. We don't really break from either of their perspectives and they're the only ones given that level of time and development. This implies it's their story together, not just miles, much like how Pirates of the Caribbean was William's and Emily's together, not just William's or Jack's.
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  31. Adam something made a video about "Can Ukraine win this war?" and he actually covers it very well. I don't agree with him at all politically but that video is very Good on the subject. But.. to summarize: The rasputitsa is basically the worst mud in the world bogging EVERYTHING down Which means they need to use roads. The second part is that this entire invasion was supposed to conclude within a week. They were meant to capitulate Kyiv within about that time and capture all major objectives in about 3 days. This, was not to be. Due to their initial strike being largely ineffective as destroying their equipment, and the chain of command staying in place, with Ukrainians also offering fierce resistance, meant that this invasion got bogged down. It depended upon the linchpin of that strike taking down everything and it looks like there was no plan B. The final part is that the Russian forces here have 0 morale and no air superiority which means that their fighting is of little effect. They are conscripts fighting what they view as their own people and air superiority is a huge force multiplier which is being denied to them thanks to numerous sorties by the aircraft they do have and lots and lots of anti-air. With no will to fight and little support, fighting a motivated enemy that will blow themselves up just to delay your advance is damn near impossible. The invasion was well-planned but the plans were thwarted and brought the Russian army into a fight it had no intention of getting into and was NOT prepared for.
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  32. It's actually an old joke, told from an Italian perspective, mostly about how to differentiate the different armies and it was their response to their firing upon them to how you'd learn: British with accurate rifle fire, Germans with machine gun fire, and Americans was just silence as they were calling for all levels of ordinance. The key level to know that what you've said is apocryphal, is that the Germans never fought the Chinese. They trained the Chinese to fight like them. If anything, that's a Japanese perspective.
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  33.  @marktrain9498  Also worth remembering the cutoff for gen X was 1964 and 1980. So while many of the later boomers probably had a kid in gen X, majority of gen X are kids of the silent generation (1925 to 1945). The way the generations are supposed to work are that the ones classified basically alternate in being kids of the others (for example gen Z is primarily the children of gen X). Though of course due to ages and age of having children it isn't always 1 to 1.
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  34.  @fluoroantimonictippedcruis1537  That's true, but remember that one of the conditions for language formation is isolation from mother language which we are not getting so long as the internet and television exist. There will be shifts, but there are enough connections amongst the various places to keep that to a minimum. And remember that even middle English is still intelligible with modern English which is from 1300. So likely there will be less changes overall, the changes will be likely far more widespread, and even then they'll be mostly intelligible with the language we started around today. Remember right now we're experiencing accent loss among English populations. That is something that's Unheard of historically but facilitated through the internet and television.
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  35. I'm just kind of baffled that they really thought force on force warfare no longer mattered. Even weirder since they'd just done it 3 and 15 years prior to your start in service.
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  36. ​ Richard Mangus  Recoilless guns are a type of artillery and much more accurate than saying "recoilless rifle," their more colloquial name. Recoilless guns work much like bazookas with pushing gasses out the back to cancel out recoil at the cost of reduced range in exchange for reduced weight due to not having a heavy recoil system.
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  37. Parents of GenX are the ones before the boomers
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  38. In that point it did make some sense since everyone around them was a world power as well so the only way to survive was to also become a world power. In its current position it's also a world power as it drives the entirety of the EU along with the French. So really right now it achieved that goal.
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  39. How did Japanese carpentry work?
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  40.  @TheComedyGeek  No the parents of Gen X are the silent generation. They came after the greatest generation but weren't the kids of said generation.
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  41. On the note about their percentage of the population, I'd like to add that small percentages are actually a significant portion of the population. Take 3%, like he said the communists were in the Russian Civil War. It sounds like it isn't very large, since it shouldn't be, but the working age population of almost any country is only 60%. So that's already cutting off almost half of the population, and thus your 3% is almost 6%, at least in relation to who your actual opponents are. If you cut another half to get just men, you already have all working age (fighting age) men in just 30% of the population. Your 3% is now 10%. If you cut off below 30 you get to about 10% or less, and now your 3% has become 30% of your cohort. Now imagine 1 in 3 young men taking up arms. Give them those arms and suddenly they can dominate their cohort, and once they've done that their only resistance is the over 30 crowd who, though most of the modern population, are less capable in their overall physical capabilities and have far more to lose. Once you're above 45 you're basically incapable of fighting. And thus you're only fighting another 10% who is already slightly weaker. And every other cohort, quite literally cannot fight. Thus, by the time you get down to the relevant percentage, you've already wiped away the vast majority of the population who can actually oppose you, and so a small percentage only has to win against a relatively small share of the population. Because once that share falls, there's simply no more resistance to be offered. You've Nickled and Dimed your way to a very large percentage of the truly relevant population.
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  42. I think India's institutions, while young, will likely persevere. The system actually maps well onto their society as states have more often than not caved to the broader society than the reverse in India. So they should broadly keep it.
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  43. Well to be fair, a decent bit of fights take place like this and neither side here likely has solid artillery and definitely no air forces meaning that there will be no support but you still have to take the ground anyway. Fights over open fields in armored vehicles are almost the norm in many areas because the fields are open and you HAVE to take ground. So... you grab an armored vehicle and go. Try not to die.
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  44. Also I'd genuinely like to see any actual significant force get through the Himilayas. There's a reason those countries are still there in the Himilayas and that there have been skirmishes but no real war. It's the Himilayas. You thought the Alpines would be bad? Himilayas you just can't move through in any significant numbers. They're natural choke points so a token force can defend the entire border. The only real force concentrations would be through Pakistan as the east would be too filled with jungles. You'll see some battles but nothing too major. The countries we see there today are only there because they couldn't be conquered by their bigger neighbors. It's not for lack of trying but lack of ability.
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  45. It's the thinking of most people in the world. The only thing is that the people who don't want to benefit everyone else usually don't realize they're benefiting themselves too.
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  46.  @Gamerguy826  Nah Turkiye is still doing pretty great tbh. It's hit a rough patch but overall carving out its own sphere, admittedly due to the lack of any real powers in its neighborhood (12% average inflation do be a bitch though).
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  47. There's this idea that electric cars are the future but in real terms nothing actually supports that. Electric cars are in real terms only sold by Tesla since all other ones suck. And from there there's this idea that oil won't continue to be our future but it's still the basis of everything we do and green tech just isn't viable in a LOT of places.
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  48. I think it's also worth noting that said Kaiju battle was mostly in the background and not the soul of the fight. It was a parallel fight to give extra clarification and I guess not have Khonshu be completely useless. In that end I'm kind of fine with it.
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  49. Damn you. No more formations for you. Everything is played in square.
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  50. Man really did read the future
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  51. ​@lightningstrike5024 They did not have that much manpower. They may have spent that much dying, but they did not have that much on the Frontline at any time. The American army for context was 11 million strong alone. Both sides had roughly 6 million men at the front when they met in Germany, but while the Allies lost combined only about a million men (outside of the Indian famine which affected little of the main players) while the USSR lost 20 million people combined due to the German occupation. This also doesn't discuss the equipment difference of a fully mechanized force that the Russians never actually faced, and against the two largest air forces in the world, with a logistics chain so good they would later bypass a Russian blockade of Berlin.
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  52. Pretty bad tbh
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  53. Gotta love the military revolution of the 21st century.
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  54. @Serge Vtorushin  That's kind of how war is. Tech is for qualitative advantage and using it to increase capabilities you'd otherwise lack
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  55. Everyone came back here huh?
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  56. Now that is quite interesting. Though frankly back here in the US is happening as well. Hell it's how Donald Trump got elected. And much of our current cadre of new representatives.
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  57.  @cascadian_ultranationalist14HH  The average age in China is greater than the US. And this is only going to go up soon. The USA will remain stable. Btw no not really we're really closing off the immigration and Asians and Hispanics tend to intermarry a lot with whites meaning they'll largely integrate. Also most immigrants can speak English.
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  58. My issue is that while this perfectly describes the internal divide of the west and allows a clarity of view on the situation that we currently face at home, it takes a divide not present in Russia, a cultural misunderstanding of the way Christianity works in Russia, and the facsimile played by Russia to drum up nationalist support for the war and then spins it into a narrative which doesn't actually apply in this war. This essay, though well-written and well-spoken leads astray all who hear it and plays into the natural tendency of the West to see themselves as the ones at fault. It's the same thing the left does when it pushes its authoritarianism. It is the same facsimile which allows the flourishing of the Marxist takeover of the West in the absence of God. But you fail to see the reasons for this war, why the West is supplying Ukraine (a place we don't care about), and the limitations Russia faces. Russia is a dying nation which no longer controls the avenues of attack. It does not matter if the West didn't have these new Marxist cultural values it matters that Russia does not hold control. Russia is the giant which seeks domination of all avenues of invasion from its homeland. But it is one without the population to do so any longer. It is the last war Russia can even launch. For you I recommend listening to Peter Zeihan a man who looks at things without the cultural lens that you navigate so eloquently. Zeihan quite masterfully outlines the issues which plague the modern Russian Federation (and indeed Ukraine and Belarus as well), and shows exactly why this war is happening. The issues are such of an inability to perform modern battlefield tactics and thus realizing that the situation is such that Russia coming for the rest of the NATO alliance (an inevitable outcome as Russia is in a desperate push to reach its historic avenues of invasion by force) will result in Russia truly falling into the corner that is so feared. As long as no troops set foot on Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian soil then Russia is not cornered. Russia has ground. Russia will not be forced into nukes. If Russia is subject to the humiliating defeat which would come if it invades the west proper, then it truly is forced to use the nukes and it is the outcome which is most desired to be avoided. Without the decimation of the Russian army in Ukraine however then Russia comes full force into the NATO realm and triggers the inevitable series of events which leads to the 10 minute war which would mark the end of history. Furthermore I would like to address this idea of yours that the current global order would be possible to maintain going forward. No I must apologize but said order is going away no matter what. It is an inevitability at this point. Covid and the Russian invasion have truly shown that the order is on the out-and-out. What comes next is the normal state of the world without this global order. The Americans have already decided consistently that since the end of the Soviet Union that it no longer desires to keep up the globalized order and prefers to deal with regional issues. It desires little to deal with Eurasia anymore and prefers to now deal with the islands outside of the continent. This is the end of the globalized order as we see it. No-one who wants it can keep it intact. The time to decide how the world would go forward was in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union but in the US's continued lack of desire to make a choice in the matter and focus on its issues at home it has since abandoned that idea to let it run entirely on inertia which is now running out due to issues such as demographics within the world. This world system is at its end. There is no saving it. I understand that on the face of it the radical left has gone unabashedly in support of somewhere that we simply do not care about. That is not in our sphere of desired influence and has no bearing on ourselves without further look. However in looking deeper we find the true source of the problem which I've outlined here in this response. One which is far more dangerous than simply supporting a nation at war against the Russians. It's the less risky path in an attempt to prevent a situation which leads inevitably to the destruction of all mankind. In being the only path which prevents that destruction it is of strategic and moral imperative to support Ukraine in its defense. And to this I'd like to ask you to expand your view, outlines, and analysis to the material which does affect the cultural. As such a student of history I would ask you to study economies, demographics, and geography. At least enough to see how they interact and influence the development of countries and cultures. In learning of these you may yet get an understanding of the world which is more clear than nearly anyone else in all faculties of life than simply of the great influence you are on the cultural front.
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  59. We need more who understand basic firearms safety
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  60. Tbh the Americans are pretty removed from the world so the rest of the world literally affects it less. Also looking to other nations very easily falls into the trap of putting their cultures onto the ones discussed even if it doesn't apply. The biggest issue is that due to the short history of the USA, doesn't have as much to look at in its past to look at. It's also worth noting that the US only ever existed in an industrial form. There is no pre-industrial America. Pre-Industrial America is basically France immediately after the Frankish conquest. I.e. a Society with cultural influences which exist but hadn't yet worked through the population and into the broader society yet. This means that there really isn't a good analogy for the USA elsewhere in the world just like there's no good analogy for China or India. Only difference is that China and India are about 10x older in comparison and thus have a rich history to draw from and look back to and see how it's changed.
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  61.  @iRobins.  Perhaps attractive people are just attractive no matter what? And People have preferences?
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  62.  @ShavoSoaDer  honestly the biggest issue with big corporations is the trend toward using the government
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  63. So much he managed to avoid firing on people while he was on the ground and getting caught up to by others. One guy raised his hands and went back and Kyle put down the gun. Then the guy with the pistol came up
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  64. 4:38 FG-42 and STG-44 are both great case studies here, especially since the former is already in production by Smith Machine Group
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  65. It will!
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  66. ​ @thebeautifulones5436 they're relocating to the USA
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  67. Even better, there's something to be said for something which, even when you've shot that much through it, can be fixed for probably about $200 ($120 for the barrel without a sale from PSA, plus a new bolt carrier which can be bought for $50). Which means you're still ahead on price and have comparable performance.
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  68. Honestly I'd say it's more that China got about a 10 year head start and an extra amount of time in the spotlight which drove a lot of the investment to China instead of India. India on the other hand is honestly very similar to where China was about 10 years ago. And India is about to get a big influx of investors who are disillusioned with China and trying to find a better market of over a billion people.
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  69. My comment from the last video was something along the lines of "it sounds like a very compatible civilization to that of the Anglosphere with both being open and fairly curious of other cultures while also being in economic, geographic, and demographic situations that compliment very well"
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  70.  @tomhalla426  Do you think you could elaborate a bit more on this? It sounds interesting and I'm curious.
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  71. Bro I don't even speak decent Spanish despite living in Miami now. My family probably assimilated harder than even most of the rest of the Hispanic population since my grandmother was from New Jersey, went to Puerto Rico, had some kids, my mom, divorced, went back up to Florida and married a guy from Alabama (who to this day is my grandpa), and my dad is currently married to a woman from Illinois. I didn't even speak Spanish for years while I was living with my grandparents because it was all white and I needed English not Spanish in addition to the fact that my grandpa didn't speak a lick of the language. Also the Miami accent literally is mirrored in Spanish and a local phrase is "eating shit" because it's directly translated from Spanish.
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  72. I think the part which isn't discussed nearly as often as it should be is that the tech level on both sides was basically the same. They were two modern industrialized countries duking it out in a war. With the same doctrine. It is two Russian armies. Much more akin to the American Civil War than most other wars
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  73. Oh my God I love how terrible a take y'all have on Tim. And the comments agree: y'all suck
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  74. I think this is an interesting quirk that isn't well touched on. American manufacturing half died because it was too expensive to come in anywhere but the back of the line when the low cost was centralized in China. If it's centralized across a land border it'll make a lot more sense overall to have it in a variety of steps than simply the final step.
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  75.  @whm_w8833  Honestly it makes no sense beyond being a coalition. The US really can't take both on and I think it's stupid to think that the US would try to take on both at once or at the very least not give up in Eastern Europe first. The video brought up something very important here: the defensible line is in Poland and not Ukraine. Which is why Russia really only cares for the neighbors of Poland. I can honestly see after this being a deal in that if either side invades through Poland they go to war and so there's a non-agression pact around Poland. Russia NEEDS that as a defensible line. They can't afford otherwise and it's a similar situation for Kazakhstan in Central Asia where the mountains buttress the Chinese borders.
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  76. Do you think you could elaborate and give examples on how?
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  77. ​ @EC-mc7vg Exactly. In real terms, there's so much you could do with this that the price calculations honestly make this a no brainer. Even then, I think it's very much a case of 90% of the capability, for 10% of the price. At which point, I struggle to see the purpose of the more expensive rifle.
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  78. I think a problem which you seem to have overlooked is that in the age of population decline, even the anchor cities would lose population. Which means that everyone would fall into economic decline.
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  79.  @mofewilkie5707  You'd think that but no. Because people don't care what desirable qualities they vote for who they like, makes them feel good, and tells them good things. Education doesn't change this at all. Even the college educated will vote this way as many of their voting patterns are shaped more by their beliefs in whatever they think is a moral good than anything that's proven to be Good for a country. And people heavily partake in confirmation bias regardless. Before you can even try to get there you have to get to a point where you don't think your neighbor or local official is going to steal from you if you try to do anything such as start a business or try to trade with someone. You have to have that level of trust and get along well enough with your neighbors before you can engage in anything else. The biggest thing you can do to Enlighten the electorate is integrate the young so they early on befriend those in other ethnic groups and so don't try to just go in favor of their own ethnic group.
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  80.  @mikeybarboza3086  We're going to blow it up while doing so
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  81.  @yoyonn1  The west for a long time (and still is) like Greece: politically disunited but politically very similar. At least in comparison to the other civilizations.
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  82. Looking on paper yes, but looking at the actual situation on the ground with the logistical difficulties and hits to stability it's taken from this, such an idea is ludicrous. Not that the Ukrainian military is properly equipped to deal with the full Russian military, but it can't even bring that full military to bear in the first place because of other commitments. And with the poor logistics it really only takes the proper sabatoging of its supply lines to stop it entirely.
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  83. Yeah i think you're on the wrong side of the Dunnings-Kreueger regarding modern war. I think you need some reevaluations regarding how firepower wins wars. You're right manpower is required so drones cannot replace soldiers. However, the reason German output spiked was because it had officially committed its entire economy to the war effort which it had been reluctant to do. Separately, air power won the day in the 3 desert wars as advances in precision munitions allowed not just destruction of strategic assets, but the ability to destroy air defense and command and control assets, something impossible during WW2. This allowed units to roll over now disorganized and effectively leaderless units who thus offered little resistance. Fundamentally, still completely possible in mountains. Though you're correct regarding mechanized pushes in them.
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  84. ​ @julesjmj5682 See that would've made it anti-woke
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  85. My thought at the point where he said "The US military doesn't innovate anymore" was asking "At which point did they stop innovating?" and having to ask myself if you can cut it off at 30 years ago to make that decision before realizing that even immediately after that, those prime contractors have been making new stuff, and they're still making new products in order to try to sell to the government...
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  86. @rffg781  No. It's not. Ultimately, every industry is run by people. You can have "laws" but realistically a personal connection gets you in the door regardless. You can't prove anything 90% of the time.
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  87.  @jeffdarnell7942  The Thompson is cool but if someone told me I needed a submachine gun and I could have any from history, I would choose this thing. No contest.
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  88.  @Internetbutthurt  The biggest thing is the threat more than the actual effect. Forcing pilots to take evasive action disrupts the sorties. The TB2s have seen continual usage throughout the conflict and are still being seen. Static AA emplacements have still been seen active in many areas of the country. The idea that all of the S-300s were in one location seems a bit weak and even then the Ukrainians still have a lot of AA systems such as Tor and Strelas. The reason we see so much footage of infantry is that it's easiest to follow by civilians and it's why they're often recording the aftermath of battles. Following tanks on foot just isn't really possible and following in a truck is a death wish. It's also the fact that most of what's seen is in cities and not in the countryside where there is still substantial fighting because that's where the people are. Civilians are logging this not military. The idea that Ukraine is out of the fight is ludicrous by any metric even if the odds of actual victory slim. However it's very clear that on both sides total victory is not being pursued as peace negotiations were started within days of the invasion by the Russians and are still ongoing. Frankly the question of Ukraine winning shouldn't really be the question anyway. The question should be "How many concessions can Ukraine avoid?" or even "Can Ukraine get back the previously annexed regions from a weakened Russia?"
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  89. You have a lot of things that'd happen if society just collectively said no lol
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  90. Vietnam is playing the best geopolitical game it can. It's not so much playing the powers off of each other but more like just trying to keep itself by being invaded by using the other 2 powers as a shield against China. Also in terms of not helping out Taiwan, given that the Vietnamese navy is primarily green water, there's not much they could do anyway, and also if they did try they'd probably be invaded which really negates basically all attempts they've done since they're really just trying to dissuade an invasion.
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  91. ​​​​​ @EC-mc7vg Honestly, with this, I'd maybe just upgrade the bolt and barrel, and I'd still be ahead on price allowing me to do exactly that for less than half of the price. Or, just eat the cost, and every once in a while make a $200 purchase worth of replacement parts and just eat the cost, because it'd take me almost 100k rounds to break even on price (in the best case scenario for the expensive rifle). At which point, I'd like to see what didn't need to be replaced on the more expensive rifle.
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  92. Yeah it really was Norse heaven on earth.
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  93.  @Aaronlcyrus  I wonder how they treated the wood
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  94.  @GeoScorpion  Getting dates sometimes wrong is the BEST way to be wrong. Because those were never set in stone anyway. They're a rough estimate. And for large timescales, that's basically within margin of error
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  95. Man has about a thousand ways to refer to death and it's honestly quite impressive.
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  96. "Assault rifle with high capacity magazine" lmao leave the man alone. Stupid New Jersey law
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  97.  @Shoe0nHead  Gotta love that irony
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  98.  @angrydingus5256  "People are chasing him down in the street" I think that proves the point. They're not running away... they're chasing him down. He saw the kid shoot two guys who were ASSAULTING HIM. Also no he didn't see him shoot two guys btw he saw him point the gun at one guy, that guy move back with his hands up, then ANOTHER guy try to assault him at which point he fired, and THEN draw.
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  99.  @amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849  Even then it looks like they were kind of fighting it in making the kaiju battle in the background to parallel with the more grounded fight between the main characters.
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  100. That's not an L dude. That's just a tragedy. Ls are meant to be funny because they come from your own stupidity and or feelings. That was just not even your fault.
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  101.  @ThiagoPagogna  But that's only if they can fix their demographic issues as well
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  102. @DistrustHumanz  That's called occupation. Also, we're barely in Iraq right now. Only 2500 troops. The armies fell in less than a month for each of those counties, and we changed the government, while continuing occupation to prop it up while they recovered.
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  103. @zachariahhoots1735  Honestly some of the worst. However, I'd actually refrain from saying Ukraine is the smaller army. The trend for manpower for much of the war so far was actually in favor of Ukraine, and the first counter offensive was conducted with personnel advantage. And it's precisely what Russia lacked and was another limiting factor on Russia. But you're right they are absolutely transitioning to western equipment
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  104. What has Happened in Ukraine is that Ukraine has already been mobilizing for 6 months while Russia hasn't had any mobilization in the meantime. Thus, the original force that invaded, has seen very little reinforcement and so those units who have been grinded down to nothing basically no longer exist. The losses on the Russian side have also been greater and so without significant reinforcement they've been taking less sustainable losses than Ukraine. This is what has led to the current situation where Ukraine has numerical superiority in manpower (even if really nothing else).
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  105.  @user-pq4by2rq9y  Yeah they can't actually touch the bullet. All parties were given the bullet and told to just make it happen.
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  106. No America is quite far removed. Even with mountains on the border there are far more who could come in. The difference between the Italian and American positions is that there is no land route to Europe, and that no-one can really invade the US through Canada or Mexico. Those are effectively choke points which cut it off completely in a way the Italian peninsula never could be.
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  107. He's been on the podcasts who talk about it. His answer was essentially "It doesn't work enough and it isn't real thus not being sufficient" My personal belief is that it's bullshit. It's a series of coping mechanisms which generally happen through these crises anyway and so doesn't stop the underlying problems. I think the aging of society explains that much better, however, for the younger societies such as even America, you do have a much greater potential there. Personally, I've seen things kinda stop happening in countries, including the cessation of economic growth, occurs around when society reaches age 40. At 40 and over, your society seems to just stop and ossify. There's just a bit of wiggle room left in America's age structure for things to kick off big time, and i think Britain shows that even an older society can have tensions that explode.
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  108. sadly a lot of Europe seems to be bought by them as well
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  109. Tbh barring South Sudan and the Congo, the countries are all mostly functional enough that the merger would indeed give EXACTLY that in increased integration and development.
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  110.  @DarkShroom  That's quite a leap because that's NOT what he said. He spoke about the attempt to reduce men from mission-critical elements. Automaton makes economic sense but adding a person is a necessary redundancy to keep a platform from failing due to the vulnerabilities inherent within automated systems. In essence: automated in conjuction with a person is good, automated completely removing the person is bad.
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  111. I'm not sure it's a force multiplier itself so much as it is denying ENEMY force multipliers making them much more even.
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  112.  @mrblackmamba117  Like another said: they're central Asian peoples. And in fact the ottomans were an invading force which eventually made Anatolia their home and saw themselves as the successors to the Roman state (the original name was the "Rûm"), who at that point had already conquered through Iran and took up cultural characteristics. Also look up the Seljuks. Turkic history is quite long and in real terms some of the only ones to admit they're foreigners who made a new home where they currently are. Btw Xinjiang is "East Turkistan" where they're primarily Turkic peoples
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  113. Except Britain didn't strip India of anything with the local lords still having a lot of power, while also giving institutions and technology to the country. Meanwhile, the reason India was poor was because it already was poor as that's the human norm. However, due to industrialization, massive wealth could be created and so agglomerated among the industrial states and left the rest of the world behind. This is why the European powers had more economic might after abandoning their colonies than when they had them.
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  114. I'm honestly fairly certain that most young Hispanic males gravitate toward that as we live in a region where the consequences of the opposite are blatantly obvious while also not wanting to be oppressed. Though I know plenty who aren't and I've got an entire group chat of young male Hispanic left-wingers who do just seem to come off with too much trust in the government.
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  115. someone had to mention it
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  116. Also worth noting that with the way the M16 platform is designed, you can kind of just assign small shops small parts and then all truck them together at other plants to make full rifles and then just go
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  117. The Roman Republic fell into decadence and stopped being functional at which point a military dictator took power and started the imperial phase where they pulled it out of decadence but at the cost of all other pillars of society which is why once the system ran into child emperors it finally fell. The Senate may have survived, but its legitimate power clearly did not after the republican period. And to point out the other part: the wars of religion were a period of barbarism caused by unchecked power and vigor of the population where they had loyalty to God and their communities. They were willing to die for their countries. This is why we saw it on the rise. The doctrinal differences were often part of political disputes more than anything else (which is why we saw catholic France team up with the protestants in the numerous coalition wars), and the nobility were still very much using everything they could for the purpose of gaining power and influence. During that period, it was determined through control and military prowess. Even the wars of religion were very rarely purely about religion, but even then, it's about teachings and the afterlife that do not impinge upon your ability to see the world as it is. Usually, you kind of have to when you're getting invaded every 10 years.
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  118. ​ @SeanMendicino-n3d Mass can be achieved through firepower. Which the US has in spades. And it's a specific issue unique to the Ukraine war in that no-one involved really did the prep for a long war. Compared to the US who has legendary planning abilities complete with pre-positioned stockpiles specifically meant to counter issues regarding munitions shortages.
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  119. I'm going to be honest I don't think China will populate Siberia because it just won't be in any way expansionist demographically and thus doesn't have a way to actually populate the area probably staying within their own boundaries for a while longer. It doesn't make sense to expand in area with a shrinking population and less young people than old. Edit: watching this again the same thing applies to Poland honestly since well... it's aging and a declining population thus making little sense as expansionist unless Belarus just joins Poland willingly.
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  120. well the issue is that basically all of Europe just wants to lay down and cry especially the most militaristic factions (Russia and Germany)
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  121. To be fair, the US is one of the only militaries which practices infantry calling in artillery and Air strikes. In most other militaries you have a chain of command that needs to be approved and gone through which is often very long.
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  122.  @Laotzu.Goldbug  Chinese communist China effectively runs on the same grounds as dynastic China with its central bureaucracy and control of the population. Realistically the difference between dynastic China and communist China is the difference between Burbon France and Republican France. Nowhere near as huge a change as you're attempting to say it is. The British Raj ruled India through its historical ways of local princedoms and local power which was the same way India had been run forever. On top of that, biggest thing which changed India was the abolition of the caste system. It's an incredibly large charge which can't be discussed enough as it removed one of the central pillars holding back Indian society. However India has always had a strong society and so democracy simply fit as the next logical form of government. Also the delay or restart of that which happened in the west still look millions of lives in the case of the black death and finding of the new world. And realistically this idea that it's inevitable is complicit in the decline.
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  123.  @JohnnySilverFinger  On top of that she's stronger than STEVEN. Not Mark. Once Mark is in the picture she's relegated to the backseat. And on top of that, things usually end up worse when it's just her and Steven. That pair is clearly weaker in the story.
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  124. Lmao the fuck? It was a GAMING channel?
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  125. ​@asmirann3636 First off: most Americans are actually Anglo in background. They just downplay the background in surveys. Anything objective shows they're dominant. Secondly: yes, they're Anglo countries in the same way Hispanic countries are Hispanic. They've the same cultural origin. Also, the colonies were so permanent from Roman and Greek times that they completely overshadowed their original colonizers for centuries after and colonized them back (Spain and France with Italy and Rome with Greece).
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  126. Imagine the conversation which took place: "Uh sir... they aren't there" "What do you mean they aren't there?" "As in they aren't there. There's dead bodies from the army but they aren't there" "Uh... let's just move in then"
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  127. I think overall it's probably fine anyway in the long run given how important Spanish is becoming to the USA anyway so by the time that investment is even completed you may have the US just naturally having Spanish speaking theme parks. They already make announcements in Spanish after an English one so overall I think it services it well enough.
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  128. The USA is what happens when you take Britain's Island diplomacy, stretch it over a continent, and also have no continent where there are significant powers to have a tie to the continental diplomacy. This is a position that will be largely untouched for likely hundreds of years more. The challenge will be whether or not it can continue its power projection as time moves on.
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  129. Just spread across theaters in multiple continents. Frankly I mostly can't see Russia doing a full European alliance fight and definitely can't alone so I'm personally predicting a fight between the US and China at sea without ever touching either mainland. The geography involved makes conflict in Eastern Europe inevitable but conflict in Asia almost impossible. If you have enough army to guard your coastline naval invasions realistically are just not going to be successful and trying to put anything through the Himilayan mountains and the jungles of southeast Asia is damn near possible thus making a Sino-Indian conflict difficult to pull off. So no real world War possible.
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  130. @nlocnil3602  You're right, but the reason is that first off, they're not allowed to compete, and secondly, they're nationally controlled industries. The government allows them that payment because it can and it subsidizes their massive R&D budgets. Which, even with that 10x increase, allows F-35 to cost near 80 million per aircraft. Which is similar to the Saab Grippen of Sweden, which is a generation earlier and is dwarfed in capability.
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  131.  @infoseeker3047  To be fair they also managed it really well. Which is the biggest thing the Americans have going for them. They just learn to deal with whatever comes their way.
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  132. I think there's something to be said regarding perception. Minus Vietnam where we were trying to prop up a government that was failing to defend itself and couldn't simply invade to end the war (one of the problems he mentioned here), we 3 times rolled a country in a month. And then got annoyed with occupation and left. So we "lost" a war we weren't actually fighting.
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  133. What about Perun and Binkov?
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  134. Yeah a lot of times the jobs that should take you just for showing up don't. Only reason I have the job I do right now is that mine was desperate for people as well.
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  135.  @naughtiusmaximus7103  Well now I just want this world of Russian and American hegemony but more stable because not communism.
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  136.  @whm_w8833  I'll be honest it probably makes more sense that way. Honestly the US's influence has expanded realistically way too far for what it can hold and you clearly don't understand the vital importance of Taiwan. Taiwan creates most of the computer chips for the world so what happens for that is that China gets a grip on the whole modern world. If Russia gets Ukraine the Russians have a defensible border and the US actually has a spot in the Central European plain which is narrow enough to defend. In terms of what can be held the US is overextended and needs to retrench. The far east can be held without too much issue as long as there's an actual balance of power. With Russia a Chinese enemy it allows China to basically be surrounded on all sides and keep it from expanding. The US has the best navy in the world so it can hold the seas which dominate the far East. The US can't hold the largest tank army in the world which is entirely suited to fighting in flat plains. Eastern Europe is realistically all Russian anyway. Honestly the US needs allies though and should probably try to stop any action in the middle east, Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. Western Europe is mostly fine on its own and it can keep the support there without too much effort. Far east is all water so that's all about its naval presence. Let the Indians and Turks split the rest. Protecting the incredibly important computer chip trade is much more important.
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  137. Well uh... I remember that analysts tend to look for signs in production when it comes to preparation for war. This kind of sounds like they're gearing up for it.
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  138. i think the most interesting thing that could happen is life not being extended at all even if we physically retain our more youthful looks for longer so we just end up with 80 year Olds looking like 30 and 40 year olds.
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  139. The biggest thing that those drones are useful for is reconnaissance. And they do tend to die quickly as a result. Secondly, it's worth noting that said war is lacking in air superiority much less air Supremacy. When you have air Supremacy you have ISR free from attrition. It's also worth noting that the US is actually currently training for drone swarms and with far bigger precision munitions. You're absolutely correct in the effectiveness of said munitions, but the US owns the sky from day one. There's little for those drones to defend against when command and control is bombed out thus depriving your units organization and supplies.
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  140. Can't make Frontlines with hexagons. Bad for tactics. Was initially made for squares and octagons are squares with the corners cut off. Made for UI purposes.
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  141. Yeah see that was a point I was going to bring up too. It was even easier for Afghanistan than Iraq. We "lost the war" because we didn't go full out with occupation and when we stopped occupying it a new group took over. Imagine you release all control to your puppet and they simply lose to a dissident group. That's what happened in Afghanistan. Yes I'm using HOI4 terms not because real life isn't infinitely more complicated, but because in this instance, it models that very well.
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  142. I imagine the returning boomerang was basically made as a kids toy to help them learn how to use the real thing?
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  143. Still better than having to pull out a maxim gun. Also tbh we still use the M2 so can't complain too much. It's got a suppressor and modern optic. For all intents and purposes, you're equal. Also remember that the MG42 is still in service as the MG3. Biggest thing that separates older weapons from modern ones is attachments and manufacturing (which helps in accuracy in rifles but machine guns are not exactly a system for accurate fire). As long as you have things like a modern optic and you're not using say a bolt action to bust down doors you're about equal.
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  144. Yes, but they're the exception, not the norm. In fact, you can really only point to the East India companies to that end. Almost everything else were simply companies who set up shop in the new land (which I don't think is really getting rich off of conquest since you could potentially do that anywhere), and not to mention how they were usually quite expensive to maintain which meant that almost any riches gained were not actually affecting the balance sheet for a net positive
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  145. Probably most similar to Canada honestly. The issues they face are regional but culturally and politically all of the CANZUK nations are incredibly similar. They're basically regional variants of the same people. The US has changed so much and had so much spreading of other populations that have assimilated into it that it really isn't like the rest of the anglosphere. Compare that to CANZUK which are realistically just the Brits across 3 areas. Oh and even more similarly: they're projections of American power and influence.
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  146. I don't agree honestly, but that's more due to Lucas than him
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  147. Frankly that's about what you can ask for. Autocracy isn't naturally authoritarian and many Autocracies have some sort of counter-balancing force which prevents despotism and so can be fairly free (though I'm aware Singapore isn't).
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  148. They kind of ARE nearing upheaval. Except for Spain they're kinda okayish. They have massive social tensions. But of course, the problem here is the lack of release valve.
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  149. Turks are industrialized. Very fun. And with that, instead of trying to compete with the super majors, they're going with the option that has outsized returns on investment compared to other more traditional designs as an alternative to the established options.
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  150. Yeah Sweden basically is an export Goliath on the ranks of the Russians and with a 10th the population.
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  151. I'll be honest I had better ability to relate and interact with those 5 and 10 years older than me than 2 years older or younger. It's so weird all of this
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  152. Yeah but it's still a problem and here was an opportunity to in some form correct that mistake. And then did nothing.
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  153. Operating costs, paying your men, gas, money, food, taxes (you have legitimate businesses too). Logistics says otherwise.
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  154. Cheap Rotary powered cruise missiles like these are incredibly interesting with the lack of complexity and fact that it can be made with even just a simple Rotary engine. Saves on rocket fuel and systems required for guiding rockets. Even if slow the lack of expense while still filling in the capability is definitely something that more middle powers should be looking into as the potential to match capabilities are fairly decent.
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  155.  @orboakin8074  May I recommend you the whatifalthist channel? If you can agree with that you'll likely enjoy his content. Realistically you just need to not completely kill your markets and have robust competition with your companies, and your leaders to not constantly try to steal from the Population. Good leaders are optional so long as they're not so bad as to send you into a death spiral of complete collapse.
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  156. I'm too poor to
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  157. We're men. Simple as.
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  158. Probably because it mostly wasn't a war here. Everyone not directly involved just hung their head in disappointment about the whole affair.
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  159.  @WispFigment  Yeah I was referring more to a lot of things that'd end. Universities would go broke, the government would basically just be unable to do anything, etc
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  160.  @kabobawsome  It's less a disregard for human life and more just not knowing modern war. Franco-Prussian War had happened only about 40 years prior. Armies were still standing in lines and requiring massed fire. Tanks hadn't been invented yet. The biggest firepower of a soldier had no way to match any sort of emplacement. The war was old ideas and new equipment. And we all know how that goes down.
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  161. As another point of contention, there was effectively no maintenance on this rifle. Yet it ran fine. With the barrel especially only having massive copper build up from never being cleaned. At which point, it's just a torture test, and would benefit from just basic maintenance.
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  162. How does that even make sense??
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  163. Not just that but in real terms South Sudan will already be a drag on the country. It'd still be easier to integrate though as it was a former British colony and with the benefit of the nile. The Congo however is just dead weight with no real way to integrate or map out. Yeah no that'll kill this thing tbh.
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  164. @José Miguel Carrera  Tim Pool's takes would've been pretty average like 10 years ago and he was a Bernie bro for the longest time. The fact that you're saying "that's not the left" is that exact purity function speaking as well as the fact that the space of liberals who feel the left left them is shared with the right
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  165.  @a.wadderphiltyr1559  Has to do with the definition of "right wing" and the social views. People are idiots regardless.
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  166. You simply grow up that way. You learn to be stronger. Your parents role, and indeed growing up, is meant to prepare you for this. Without that preparation and being dropped in the deep end, for someone who had already been not the most mentally stable, probably would've shattered her. And it seems it did. In many ways, it seems that being a woman is what ultimately did her in. As she was far more empathetic, and felt guilt by association, while also feeling things more strongly. So by the end of it, it was just too much.
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  167.  @ian3693  I think you missed the point then. His point is that everyone else also saw that reduction. I mean... if you flipped the switch and the light turned off it was probably you. But... if everyone else's light turned off without flipping the switch then it probably wasn't. And then you later find out that everyone's lights went out because someone else flipped the breaker. That's basically what this guy is attempting to outline.
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  168. Yeah the amount of power concentrated in elite as a result of knowledge concentration was a huge aspect of history which is basically just gone now. And well the printing press really does make sense for comparison even through that lens because beforehand you had to have the writings of People to get their knowledge and it'd really only be preserved once somewhere. Compared to the printing press where you could distribute thousands of copies. And now I have to Wonder if the printing press is what allowed the rapid acceleration that allowed the rest of the inventions of the industrial age to occur.
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  169. It was, but it was also fairly localized, affecting the great plains, a frontier zone not being the powerhouse of US food (it's one part in a larger zone which makes the breadbasket), and thus not the whole culture. It's also notable in basically being the only famine the US has ever known.
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  170. Honestly...I think the Union kind of would've come out on top here and creating a central and Eastern Europe domination of the continent.
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  171. 28:18 You do realize that they have to own all of those states to be considered "conquered" right? Sparta didn't completely control Athens, Russia split Poland among 3, and the French only got part of the Netherlands. Also if you only hold the territory for a couple of years before it getting completely taken away from you it seems like less of a complete conquest. Not to mention how many of these were just "big country crushes little country"
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  172. At this rate it looks like Europe is facing so many Challenges from abroad that it almost seems like it's on a pathway to a state run model once again which it's already partway in to. With declining economic competitiveness, it's running into solutions it can't just manage its way out of. The next decade is going to be hard for Europe and i think going to be a point of serious self-reflection as the golden age ends.
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  173. ​ @weirdshibainu No the US is pretty good at war. Rather objectively. The difficulty however is more of defining objectives and victory conditions On top of that, the US is just really terrible at occupation. It doesn't know how to actually set up successful governments because it can't come out of its own mindset. Though it has been successful at its nation building efforts in the past. Both with its own territories of the south it was able to reintegrate, and surprisingly, the Phillipines where it was able to put down a revolt, put in a military government, and then relatively quickly put in a civilian government which by 1935 was intended to be a period where they'd transition to full independence (though it was intended to do so 15 years earlier until a political change in the US stopped it from happening).
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  174. ​@u2beuser714 It's fundamentally perception. However, the corruption is relatively well documented
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  175. They hang around dead bodies so that probably explains it
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  176. @Julia Sepúlveda  The only other thing I will say is that women are the ones who initiate the divorce 70% of the time and 90% when college educated (college educated earning more generally). Women as a rule are hypergamous, which means that they date above their standing. Money is an unfortunate objective measure of one's economic standing and also their social standing in an era with weak class divides and incredibly weak social divides.
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  177. It really wasn't. I was born here too. And I've also lived in other parts of the state. Florida is simply a water prone state and we've dealt with water quite well with basically all planning and building taking that into account. So by all accounts it's fine.
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  178.  @RAIDENCHEEKS  I think the future wars video predicted 2 or 3 The problem is that a lot of his others are basically decades in the future so it's hard to see when they'll actually arrive.
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  179. I'm going to make a bold statement here, but the last 3 you mentioned matter FAR more than the two preceding it.
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  180. Yes, just ignore how they managed to kill 10 million civilians. Also, ignore that the reason Hitler could divert the resources to the East because Germany could never take out the UK and had no plans to. Also ignore that the Germans also had a ton of divisions building up on the border, how they were also stockpiling supplies, and how Stalin had less troops on that border than the Germans did. Also ignore how such ideas are literally published in Nazi memorandums. Come on bro.
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  181. @J. Jonah Jameson Because blacks are even less expected to know a second language. Hell it's not even common to find a black guy who speaks Spanish at least in the US. And forget about Asian languages. Blacks simply basically don't exist in Asia. So finding one that speaks any Asian language is basically a novelty in itself.
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  182. 12:03 Well that's been proven correct
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  183. I said something along the same lines without mentioning as many as you did. The US had much better generals and overall a better doctrine of actual strategic victory it simply took time for them to start reaching the higher ranks. Once they had however it was a done deal and the US was already on track to just go full industrial which it would've done even harder here.
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  184. ​@Richard Mangus A recoilless gun, also colloquially called a recoilless rifle, is a type of artillery that works much like a bazooka with a shell and waste gasses propelled out of the rear of the barrel. In exchange for the reduction in range and velocity, you do not have to have a recoil system built into the platform meaning you can make them far lighter than traditional artillery systems. 😊
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  185. Adorable and completely deadly. So fun!
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  186. @Lyn oluoch  They're largely not. It's been more due to a failure of doctrine and execution rather than an issue of the platform. Mobile protected firepower is always useful and the IFV concept isn't meant to take on any kind of Anti-tank munitions. They've always been vulnerable. But also light infantry has been very useful in a defensive role
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  187. Yeah from everything else I've seen, it's mid-tier quality for bare bones cost.
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  188. You know... given a deer charging you is exact opposite behavior, pattern recognition of a change in norm in a negative fashion, perhaps worth following the line of logic.
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  189. Not really. And they just got out their 5th gen. Whatever they're making, it just started and won't be relevant for at least 2 decades. And both gen 6 programs from GCAP and NGAD have been around for over a decade
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  190. Another relevant factor is that religion is how countries managed to form, as tribes could work together
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  191. The important part to recognize about the anglosphere (excluding the US) is that it's largely one people spread out across 3 continents. They have no real political conflicts having the same system and no religious conflict having largely the same religion. Culturally they're almost identical varying not too much from regional differences and so in terms of unity of a polity they'd have it were it not for the policy of decolonization pushed by the United States. In a way think of it as cores from the HOI4 game in which they're all part of your main population and as Britain it would realistically claim them all as core territory (this is as opposed to conquered territory). If they decided to simply unify and put a capital somewhere they honestly could with little issue. Even now they still work closely together and have similar law with the same legal and political system. Tbh the only hiccup would be the incredibly close ally that is the United States which would be the country which allows them to exist. However at the same time they're basically dragged along with the United States anyway and would realistically be an extension of US power and prominence. Europe is on one trajectory but tbh the US is on a different one and largely dragging the anglosphere with IT and Europe not really doing much pulling in their direction. If they wanted to (which tbh after the CANZUK union might happen in a few decades) could fairly easily federalize in a way Europe never could and make a globe spanning state. It would honestly probably contend with the Russian federation today as a power (in terms of population and resource control) and possibly be even better due to its better wealth and more developed economy. They have a lot going for them.
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  192.  @dstinnettmusic  The thing flies fine and is honestly pretty damn effective. It's just kind of old doctrine with being traditional Bomber.
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  193. @theofficialken1755  Yeah I wouldn't trust what they put out (just because I wouldn't trust what any government puts out as reliable figures), but it's definitely interesting to see the government saying they're trying to go after artillery. Though it'd lend credence to my idea that they're not actually outgunned. The qualitative advantage in "shoot and scoot" seems to be working out for them
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  194. @James Furey Where did you get that idea? Only stagnation would be in language possibly and even that won't happen. But of course the conditions for language development are no longer around given audio and visual recordings we keep with us and still use. Due to that, accent and language shift will likely slow. But that's the only part that is slowing. And frankly it applies to every language on earth now.
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  195. That in itself is kind of unrealistic and you can apply the same idea back to the US "What kind of secret technology are they working on?" and it's really silly for these comparisons. It's not something we know, not something we can know, and so all of these come with the asterisks of "Yeah from the information we have this is the scenario"
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  196. It's a pretty common trend for people to "leave the left because they left me" as the extremism got intense and it's how figures like Tim Pool have gotten famous. Due to the high purity function they've developed, they're growing increasingly cult like and then accusing their opponents of being in one instead. The left were in vogue and then has started the process of losing everyone old enough to remember what it was to not be an extremist. Problem is they also hold power but hate using force meaning that they're the least violent of the extremists and thus far harder to deal with. And thus trying to goad the right (who is far more willing to use force, and deadly force specifically), into a violent reaction would be a way to justify action against them they're otherwise handcuffed to.
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  197.  @tedcrilly46  In short: that is silly and stupid. It's an exaggeration with 0 understanding of how things work. Economic chaos for local markets? How? Local industries serve local needs. The bureaucracy of sending goods across 3rd party countries? Usually minimal. Minor customs check and fee, and limited anyway due to majority of countries having a coastline. Why would workers from one country not unload from another without a pay raise? That makes no sense. 26 different trade regulations is the norm. That's how products get across the world. They're bilateral and thus easy to manage. Trade disputes are always bilateral, not continent wide. Your analysis of the eventuality is silly and exaggerated in every formulation.
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  198.  @bojangles8873  I think he's just going to take it as "It's a bunch of fan boys over the US who don't understand things" rather than realizing that he's on the wrong side of the Dunnings-Kreueger for this one
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  199. @bojangles8873  Honestly, if we can "take Iran" really is just dependent on win condition. Is it trying to nation build? Or is it simply destroying their armed forces and attempting a regime change? He says the current is lower tech powers being able to win, while all victories he referenced were achieved after the US stopped caring about occupation and simply left.
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  200. Up until you get about a million men on either side raiding the country and trying to take territory.
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  201. @milanmarinkovic3016  Because it inherited one from the Soviet Union. Also, France has a space program. I believe Britain did at one point as well. It's way less difficult than you'd think. India just went to the moon for less than many Hollywood movies. I mean, China had one since the 70s, even when it was absolute backwater.
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  202. Everyone failed all the rules of firearms safety. Ignorance kills.
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  203.  @weirdshibainu  Why do you say we're only average at war? The only times the US has "lost" is when public perception turned and they voluntarily left. There has never been a military defeat of the US in the strategic domain.
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  204. Well no Americans fundamentally have the same problem. And I imagine it's not very different between the UK and Canada either. The UK proper suffers the least from this due to pure proximity but still exemplifies this in its old attitudes where it effectively said "Those silly continentals are at it again" until one gets too powerful. Each of these places are effectively islands completely removed from nearly any threats and events happening literally an ocean away. History doesn't happen to you when you've got huge barriers separating you from everybody else. History happens far away.
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  205.  @clamum9648  Nah I'm only here to comment that the project largely failed because they were so loud and weren't really good enough to justify their expense.
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  206. @Julia Sepúlveda  The only thing I will say is this: thoughts are revealed by actions and not words. There are a lot of women who say that they'd prefer the man to be the one to stay at home and take the cut, however, on average women who start to make more than their man divorce them at astonishing rates. It's not a certainty in any case, but in terms of women's attitudes, I'll say to, in general, trust not their words, but their choices. That goes for everyone regardless of birth.
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  207. @Julia Sepúlveda  On a separate note, it's not actually that great. Most of the factors basically boil down to "women more often feel unhappy in marriage because they're more emotionally attuned" and "women want to be like their friends who are divorced" and so overall, it just sounds incredibly selfish. These aren't so much explanations, but more so symptoms of greater problems it seems. All of these would be explanations if men actually divorced closer at the same rate. However, no, it's women who simply decide they no longer like their husbands. And this can be influenced by seeing what they think are red flags or their friends having a divorce. It's almost as if they don't want to resolve any conflicts or do something popular for fitting in more. Yes I'm aware other things were mentioned such as bearing the brunt of the labor, however they're basically all simply seeming like excuses a person would make for why they'd divorce as they don't want to give the real reason because it sounds terrible. They're worse off afterwards (which is the data posed), but they still are satisfied with the divorce. Either they're terrible at picking partners, or there's something deeply wrong which isn't being discussed. I'm not going to accuse them of knowing something they don't which is what I sound like I'm saying, but these really don't seem like good reasons to get a divorce. Humans are complex and make strange irrational choices, and each relationship must be looked at individually as you don't know what fights have occurred, what they feel, etc. However, This doesn't sound like a healthy situation nor does it sound like a truly root cause.
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  208. Isn't that how we won the first cold War?
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  209. There's a rule when it comes to headlines in the form of questions: the Answer is always "no". The exception is when immediately in it says "yes"
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  210. Honestly, the only reason I went to college was that I was indeed intellectually gifted. Even had a "gifted" program that meant nothing once you got to middle school and above. I'm studying to be a mechanical engineer, because I liked the idea and knew it'd make money. Figured it was the solution of best fit for me. Also helped that my state heavily subsidizes education to the point that my first year was free, and I would've gotten a fully free ride had I tried harder.
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  211. A: First thing is that events like any climate disaster is just kind of ignored for the sake of this video. B: The thing with the US is that he's gone over why he thinks it'll stay alive without much issue: the US is having a bad day. Ideas like Healthcare being a basic principle of a democratic society is kind of naive and more reflects your own personal beliefs than anything inherent or can be compared to history. The US has internal tensions but France went from being invaded in 1790 to 1810 going on to face off multiple coalitions. That's 20 years of not much and there isn't really any dooming Achilles heel the US faces. C: The Hispanic integration is one of statistical fact. Say what you want about the blacks but US born Hispanics marry into the white population at 40% and Asians at 45%. And since Hispanics are primarily over 60% white by grandchildren it would make that generation only 10% non-European. As a population we also are definitely more invested in the US System than our home systems which is why we left in the first place. So what that indicates is that there will be a strong cultural heritage but ethnically Hispanics will be known as white like everything else. Also come on you really believe that racism nonsense? Racism happens but it's so little against us lmao I think you've been watching a bit too much TV. D: European collapse into war and extremist groups would be after the coming demographic collapse which will in real-terms destroy their societies. Yeah no desire for war now but when everything has gone to shit? E: American neo-colonialism of Europe will in no way have the intention of colonialism and you seem to have not been paying attention if you missed that part. The entire idea about it is that it's an attempt to actually protect Europe and prevent it from collapse where the US continually tries to let it be free but it can't keep itself together without the US military and so it just keeps coming back until it's a permanent presence. F: Sweden and Norway joining would be a trend of smaller countries joining together to survive in a world where countries are just bigger. I hope this alleviated any issues.
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  212. I hurt at the thought of the phismosis. Thought it was normal. Welp. I just hope I can be asleep for the procedure and that my head can be numb for a while that area gets used to rubbing on my underwear.
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  213. To be fair Japanese culture, and specifically honor culture, is a lot about taking pride in what you do. It inherited that bit from confucianism but the biggest issue here is that it really helps in getting dedicated workers who base their lives around that stuff. In fact they base it so heavily their lives are even more strict than normal westerners as their whole lives are getting into good schools from elementary school to get into the next level of good competitive school to eventually get a good job. Since their entire lives basically revolve around that at that point it's a mark of pride. And it just ends up making really taxing jobs because the populace isn't willing to do things like try to get better hours and doing something like that brings shame. It's a very different way of meaning which happens to fit really well into having workers who will do anything. I think a great example of how ingrained the workplace is in lives is how couples frequently find each other at work and it's accepted. There's nothing taboo about it like there is in the west. Hell workplace trainings have explicitly told me such things are bad because they cause conflicts of interest. When that's your entire life kids become secondary and really just a point of duty to your family line.
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  214.  @Scottygthreethousand  I think we are. They still have a VERY long logistics chain attached to them with limited time they can be active and have little creative thinking. Good for logistics though once they can be quieter.
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  215.  @ashtons.2483  As much as he distrusted it and proliferated it, I don't think it can be discussed without also discussing his opponent. Remember that he is the most popular incumbent in history. And he lost to a guy who honestly barely campaigned and was liked by no-one really. It's also important to note that people distrusted the new method which hadn't Been done before (mail-in ballots are not the same as absentee), and then there was evidence that a few dead people did vote and a few addresses from voters did not exist. I think the real damage that was done (for the better) is the shattering of the illusion that the major media, long meant to be a watchdog of the government (and part of the reason for free press), really was about as blatant a partisan actor and full of money hungry corporations as any other business. In real terms it's damaged our democracy because what is true and what we know which is meant to create an informed voter base and foster trust, is shown to no longer be the case and diminish trust which helps to foster ideas that the democracy is bad and means the voter-base is more often misinformed than it was before.
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  216. ​@breadfan7433 Yeah these are all allegations that don't actually hold water in the real world. It's essentially atheist cope and exactly the issue he's speaking to. It means your only view of human history is at most 200 years old and more likely, only about 80. I can tell because you said "humanism hasn't been around that long" when those forms can clearly be seen in the historic record with Plato honestly being a good example. Hell humanisms actual starts in the Italian Renaissance was generally off the tail of an atheist streak in Italian universities. Ultimately the humanist philosophies by putting humanity first, do treat him as a god in his own right. They deify his status as one who can carve the world. It's not a humble philosophy and even the alleged "arrogance" of "the world being created for you" comes with asterisk of "Yeah you humans really can't do much alone" which ends up at a completely different characterization. Now, this is just intellectual masturbation so I'll leave you to stew in your own arrogance as you no doubt type a response somehow refuting everything I said.
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  217. Mobile Air strips are just exceptionally useful as an offensive weapon as it allows you to have an airfield off the bat with limited ability to retaliate pull offline (due to their mobility), and can provide command and control near the front. Paired with an amphibious Assault ship, you have an expeditionary warfighighting capability, meaning you can potentially fight any coast on earth. And fundamentally, obsolescence is not about whether or not a platform is vulnerable. That comes whether you want it or not in almost any form eventually, but instead about the capability it gives you. And this gives you power projection across the sea.
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  218. Though I'd say the lesson of industrial war consuming a lot of resources was learned long ago, it seems to keep being forgotten somehow. However, your statement overall does seem fairly insightful and I do think it's important to highlight how incredibly important it is to have the capacity to ramp up and down the production of munitions given how quickly consumables are depleted in war.
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  219. He starts off by noting the advantages and that it made a lot of money. One of which was infinity war hype which is why even captain marvel had a lot of people go to see it. When did he say it was a masterpiece?
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  220.  @innosam123  Yeah honestly a lot of the initial expansion wasn't initially that profitable either. Kind of just started exploring and then went "Oh let's just see what else is here" and then found something profitable. And many many people are willing to take significant financial losses to do this as well as the fact that it requires significant investment to further bring down the cost. Realistically, the limiting factor here is that there will be no real gain for a long time and so the only way to pursue it is via a childhood dream basically.
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  221.  @Laotzu.Goldbug  Literally just said when. Or did you not catch "century of humiliation" (China) and "century of foreign rule which also had a fundamental restructuring of society" (India who afterward abolished the caste system)
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  222. I think they may be seen differently much like the caliphates of old when they rose to power
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  223.  @SaadBinAlamgir3345  They simply left because they didn't care to continue the occupation. Government had no support. It's nothing like a conventional war.
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  224. ​@szymonbaranowski8184 Garment is clothing. While hair is white, other reasons for white hair exist. Which is the reason for the pedantry. Plainly he is old, but there's no indication of beard.
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  225.  @theodoroseidler7072  I think the only other thing I'll mention here is that the Spanish actually sent their population over in many capacities and thus share that heritage in many ways with the homeland. But you do have a pretty good argument there
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  226. For your final line, I can pull a scene from Rick and Morty of all places. Rick, the selfish nihilistic genius who crosses the multiverse and has the powers of a god, finds himself in a situation he cannot solve and faces death. He willingly did so in order to save his grandchildren and at that moment he says he is okay with his action. He then immediately finds his way out, says a small prayer to God as he tries to fix the device to enable him to escape, and then tells God "fuck you" as he succeeds. Because of the nature of the event, the other versions of him do similarly and kneel down praying, only to assert there is no God upon escape.
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  227. Because culture is a nebulous thing and they'd have to admit their complicity.
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  228.  @matthiuskoenig3378  Not just the native plebs but also local nobles who didn't want to deal with the requirements of the Roman state
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  229. I think the issue may be the expense. Something tells me that this would be pursued by the middle powers, so think the Turks and maybe the French in the future. But the Turks are the ones heavily investing in drones technology and are becoming a leader in the field. Maybe also in use in the FPV drones being used. But I'm not sure in either case. Maybe it's just that it's not something so commercial yet to come in the appropriate shape. Or perhaps the need for jet fuel. May even be that you can't carry much on them since the jets aren't actually that powerful and could be slowed down. Finally, it may just not be made aware of yet since it's pretty niche
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  230. @Lethal_Spoon  Probably? It's much less than one percent but 100% is also impossible. Also 2% of the population is below 80IQ and they struggle to function on a basic level. Thus, their literacy may be a bit more in question especially for the relatively high bar that is modern literacy
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  231. Honestly it seems like America will probably be what it was always kind of destined to be: a mega Britain (but without continental affairs to affect it). It's 18th century Britain allowed to stretch across a continent and the ability to sustain a population. I think the biggest thing for the coming centuries is if the US will basically just be the naval mirror to China. It's difficult to look to historical precedent because the US is still a relatively new country on the world stage and is really the sole relevant power on a continent which didn't exist in the eyes of the world until a few hundred years ago and thus is still finding its footing in that regard. I really do see the trajectory for it to be much like a China interfering with the world system occasionally and other times just ignoring it because it doesn't have to bother. It also much like China has a very strong tendency toward isolationism because of its value of being left the hell alone and not really having to care. Island diplomacy on a continental scale as you put it in one video and so shares a lot with the similarly isolated China. I really wish I could go ahead and see what happens in a thousand years from the history books.
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  232.  @StuffandThings_  Well the thing is that the US MADE IT stable, industrialized, and well-irrigated. Because for a long time that land was just crap but with better plows invented it was able to till that soil. Rocky mountains in the way of unity? Build trains or take ships! Or just deal with the journey regardless. The natural resources like oil are also quite handy but let's face it, if they didn't they'd just take it from the Canadians lol. The US BECAME a hub of trade thanks to its large resource grain exports and its large burgeoning industry. The US basically just improvise, adapted, and overcame. Rivers really did help with the Louisiana purchase land though.
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  233.  @Dutch_Uncle  That's why I put governmental stability as number 1 as a stable government is indicative of enough social cohesion as to not do that. Since of course... trade is still seen as a form of theft it currently lacks enough to not trust your neighbor to not steal your stuff. In lacking that it can't even get to the second most important one.
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  234. Well no. If anything I imagine some of this is just to catch onto the weaknesses which have come from the larger corporations. Remember when they scooped up Gina Carano after she was canceled? As far as I can tell the entire idea of the Daily Wire expanding as a company is simply to offer as much creative freedom as possible to prominent figures on the more mainstream right. Even The Blaze is much more prominent in this aspect as it's basically a bunch of talk shows and the like. However the daily wire is a news organization (which you can take however you like their quality of reporting) which is moving into other media production. Fox and Vice already have done this. It's not even an uncharted path in that sense. So pulling in the prominent cultural figures, creating movies to as well influence culture, seems to all be in service of this goal. The idea is to influence culture with better ideas and communication. Instead of just ranting about it trying to DO something about it. You have things like "What is a woman?" but you also have things like "Run, hide, fight" and now with Jordan Peterson (who I'd call one of the linchpins of the modern mainstream cultural force of the right) it just seems like they're doing their best to finally fight culture on the cultural front. These things are basically to better color their brand and overall de-color the current tinge they have from those who don't really identify politically. At least that's how I see the whole trajectory going.
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  235. 4:05 This chart is actually a bit generous since both Vietnam and India are lukewarm at best and both have had talks of countering China.
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  236. 17:09 That explains why now, 2 months after this video is released, that Russia has started to get north Korean artillery ammunition
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  237. The thing here is that the ammo is specialized to work in a certain weapon. The point the army is trying to go for is getting a system which complements each other naturally such as allowing a barrel to be 20 inches but still being under a certain length so you have a bullpup and then the true velocity ammo only has to get to a certain level. Sig made the gun a carbine and then made the ammo for it afterward because it was the only way to get 3000fps from a 13" barrel. Is it even possible for the textron ammo to work in a platform which isn't that weapon? That's the thing at hand here and why the army decided the caliber and told them to go wild.
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  238. Yeah realistically it seems that the military is trying to stay away from urban combat. It's easily the fighting with the highest casualties that are for the most part unavoidable because it's so easy to entrench. So you just want to overall avoid it.
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  239. The army roles fundamentally stay the same huh?
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  240. @James Furey Cringe and in many ways blind. First off is the homogenization which actually doesn't exist. The ability to cross culture and thus increase the spread of pop culture does lead to more shared pillars of things to communicate with others regarding... but that's about it. The homogenization you're speaking of in real terms isn't happening. You're also asking Ireland to go in a direction it no longer can. Gaelic when in real terms... it doesn't exist. At least not how it did. And it can't be revived at this point. It's like asking to revive Roman or Pre-Norman England. It doesn't work. It's not an English colony either it is English core territory the same as the Americans are. And frankly this is the channel that spoke about the 9 nations of North America. So you should know just how different nations are even if they don't end up completely ethnic. On top of that you're saying Anglo-American culture is leading to doom when it is one of the most dynamic cultures on the planet and has been for almost a millennium. Simping for a slave society that died due to its own weakness and inability to be in touch with reality and a weak confederation that was dominated by larger states and unable to coordinate to such an extent that larger powers tore it apart with ease is also LAUGHABLE. The HRE was stuck in the middle ages and in many ways China still carries the bronze age legacy and both suffered heavily for it (not that you mentioned China but giving another country that also has had also been socially stagnant). We're in the industrial world and most pre-industrial legacies have to adapt or die and you're picking simping for the specific societies that died because they could not adapt. And frankly you should know how little sense being an identitarean of that nature is given how Ireland had so much cross pollination with England. It is not an imperial legacy like India, Africa, or Malaysia. It is one like Canada, Australia, and even the US. We have create new ideas for this industrial world. And either old ones adapt well or they too must die. And we've seen how they've done so with things like NatSoc. Twice.
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  241. @James Furey The dynamism that Anglo culture has is a willingness and capacity to change. Rapidly too. In fact the issue the US has is a willingness to change too fast. Frankly you see very high assimilation from most groups. And honestly the ones with the least capacity for assimilation are the Muslims. But beyond that most populations that come in are compatible enough to assimilate. Also I want to separate Anglos from the broader western community since for all intents and purposes they're on a drastically different track. From Lisbon to Moscow is a belt of low birth rates that have no capacity for revitalization until a collapse happens first which forces a restructuring and re-evaluation of the people within it with the exception of France. Woke culture is actively being fought against but more than anything else you are a result of that thanks it pushing you to the direction you are in now. It's also manifesting in much of the world even beyond Europe. Frankly the culture that is falling is the one of Europe barring France and those off of the continent. That is the area in trouble. The others? Well the Nords have already learned the limits of social justice and egalitarianism. So they're likely first on a track away from it. And on the Gaelic question... like I said: the Gaelic culture which existed before Britain is dead and gone. Your attempt at revival will be a pale imitation that will have no power. You will be an island and alone. Join the larger coalition of the civilization you're already a part of. The most Anglo part of the civilization is in institutions that have been broadly successful (UN isn't really one of those institutions given it basically wasn't meant to work in the first place), and the coalition is one of power and strength. It is having a tough time, but still in a position far beyond the others so long as it's willing to tap into its strength. And you should join too to help that revival. And this is because the Gaelic tradition will still be held. These myths and legends, this cultural revival, can be facilitated through the civilization. To join the coalition, as was done in 1808, to solidify the connection with the English as has been present for a millennium. Please remember that Ireland has been on track with the English since the 1100s and have royal English holdings since the 1500s. You are a core part of the Anglosphere. As core as any of the settler colonies. And were a large part of the kings armies world wide. Both can exist, but it would behoove you to join the larger and more successful coalition that is the Anglosphere.
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  242. Because it is. Russia is absolutely in its death throes with this situation which is why it's important for them to get a handle on their borders now so they can at least ATTEMPT to survive. Most nations just don't come back from this deep of a hole though however if there is any one which can it would be the RUS. I do say the Rus because that includes Belarus and Ukraine who are realistically about as different from Russia as Canada and Australia are from Britain but with time spent under different rulers more often. And to that extent Ukraine probably could come back and become the new elite to lead Russia once again if Russia itself does not. Russia resisted the Mongols, the other Steppe nomads, Central Asian Muslims, Germans, Swedes, and the French. Russia has pulled so many Hail Marys that it basically exists via complete refusal to die. If anyone can pick themselves back up and form a coherent nation again it would be this one.
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  243. The problem is that populations without education in that way often never learn how to actually use the technologies or use them properly themselves. Separately, why do you think Nigeria has been in decline when it's been pretty consistently growing?
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  244. My theater was actually relatively quiet, and me enjoying it made me the loud and annoying guy at the theater. Not everyone can be happy
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  245. Russia being saved by winter here also has no merit given that for all intents and purposes...it applies to both sides. For historical analysis about Russian winter, Ukraine is just as Russian. Not to mention they're in the south around the black sea where it's comparatively warmer anyway. So... not really much of a consideration here. In real terms it's like saying winter is on the side of the Russians while they fight the Swedes or Finns.
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  246. They sell a lot of raw materials and war materiel. They export a LOT. And unless you're in the US, you've got two options for oil: middle east or Russia. And Russia is actually the more stable of the two areas. It's also that it's subsidized by the Russian government because Russia has spent centuries being invaded and so stockpiles a lot of equipment. And in the industrial age it's done a particular lot of stockpiling given they've stockpiled everything that's usable from the past 150 years because the ultimate Russian fear is being one again invaded and forced to trade hundreds of thousands to millions of lives just to stay alive. Now they've got nukes but that's last resort. So Russia's ultimate aim is to expand and hold all avenues of advance into the Russian heartland and will do whatever it takes to have the military necessary for that.
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  247.  @cgpxae2119  Kinda garbage. One commenter called it about 50/50 bs and accuracy. I agree.
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  248. Did you watch the video? As fundamentally he didn't post any positions of his own but instead worked to deconstruct the arguments of Second Thought using the very information cited in Second Thought's video. Which makes it very difficult to call it "my propaganda is truth" since he didn't even bring his own information...
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  249. @appakinggg  It's arguably the most accurate. Even PPP has issues and comes short. Thus GDP is the most consistent. The problem is that Russia missed out on 10 years of growth in the greatest period of economic growth ever, it in fact actively declined during that period, and no longer had the resources of the former superpower of the Soviet Union. The USSR was a superpower. Russia isn't.
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  250.  @2811JPR  Thinking of logistics is basically my pastime.
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  251. There's also the little factor that the US can actually manage such a war because naval war requires vastly less in terms of manpower and on the European front the US really doesn't need to call in any allies. I think people think too highly of the US but also overestimate the kind of war the US would be in against China: a naval one. The US never invaded the Japanese mainland and only lost 400k troops throughout the whole war. Hell only 400k of the US troops were marines who were fighting in the pacific. Doesn't take anywhere near as much.
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  252.  @Lawrence_Talbot  To be fair... that wasn't her fault. She was asked the question. How was she supposed to respond? I mean in context. Clearly... the writing for that scene is kind of dumb.
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  253.  @Lawrence_Talbot  Looking on it from her respective I kind of see it as "I have superpowers and I really don't have time to explain do I'll just say yes" even though reality that interaction was just for "the message" a tiny bit.
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  254. @Kaiser Wilhelm II did nothing wrong  Kraut is only center left in a European context so he's quite a bit further away and I feel like he'd be the type to call someone an apostate. Though Kraut accepts that some cultures can be better than others so there might be something there.
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  255. ​ @UnknownUser1000-v7n Iran can't defend its skies or seas from the US. Ask the last time Iran messed with an American boat.
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  256.  @tomhalla426  So basically you just appeal to who actually controls things and become a bureaucrat?
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  257. @Julia Sepúlveda    The reason I put it on them is because I truly doubt that such are coming on such a common rate. You made the assumption that it's the woman dragging the man to couple's therapy. You've made the implicit assumption that the man is the one who isn't trying, and it's quite interesting while being the exact thing that I'm basically suggesting isn't the case. And if the decision isn't made lightly, and if it's a stressful time where very few people aren't stressed because they had such a stressful relationship, then why get a divorce at all? It sounds like you're willingly going through something awful for very little benefit. Also, please don't misunderstand me. The reason I said them as if only one person was because I was explicitly talking about the woman's reason for wanting a divorce. So in this case it would be one person and their decision. However, when you've agreed to such a relationship with a person, you've gained a duty to them. To shirk them is indeed very selfish, and even more importantly, you've shown yourself to be unreliable. Now, as I've said, relationships are complex because they're made of people who are complex by nature and of histories almost impossible to understand without taking the same time those individuals did. Along with their choices, knowledge, and attitudes at the time. You would have to be the people themselves to properly understand. But in aggregate, women are the ones who are initiating it more. The person initiating is the one who has the problem. You have the problem, then it's yours to solve without hurting others until last resort. And if you're at a last resort, then it's truly unlikely for a divorce process to be more stressful rather than a relief.
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  258. @Julia Sepúlveda  I think the most important thing to note is that they're not just financially worse off but emotionally too. They are unhappier in the long run as well. It's actually quite concerning. My biggest point is this: you made the decision, due to a variety of factors that have made you feel unhappy, but afterward you take the decision to be even more unhappy. I know your entire point is based around putting in work that ends up fruitless, but that seems like a stereotype more than anything else. More importantly, it seems like rather than putting in effective work, or looking for real solutions based on the other person, that they'd rather look in women's magazines and toward other women for answers which eventually simply leads astray. This is a bit abstract, but I'm going to give a ridiculous example simply to get the idea across. If you're looking to break a brick wall by brushing it with a tooth brush, you can put in all of the work you want, but you'll never get anywhere. The problem is that you have to figure it out on terms relevant and not just what you're told. Human relationships are complicated and such phenomena are difficult on both parties. Very rarely is any one person at fault. However, I actually do have to support that it is fundamentally their own fault. Because they have to care about those things. They can simply choose to set their expectations lower. They can choose to not have a problem with what's going on. That is always a viable choice and you must choose to have such desires. Finally, there's a fundamental problem with looking for a relationship that benefits you. That's fundamentally one which will fail. If you're looking for a relationship as a benefit to you, you've already set it to eventual failure. They are family and you don't just cut off family due to a downturn. Even if you do eventually cut off family it's basically because they've done something so heinous or they're so lost and dependent on you to keep afloat their bad behavior that you have do it for their own good. Not that relationships should actively hurt you constantly, but it's basically the symptom of such commodification you brought up that you're looking for benefits. If you're looking for happiness then you're choosing pleasure and dooming your relationship from the start. Happiness is inherently fleeting. Address your own discontent within yourself and you'll eventually reach contentment in anything and live a richer life.
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  259. History of American-Japanese relations except for a pause between 1937-1945.
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  260. ​ @lucasmilligan5615  I forgot about that bit
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  261. That rule isn't quite so universal. More accurately it needs to keep the keys to power up. In many instances the bottom will be a key to power, but in ages like when the chariot dominated bronze age warfare, they were so disconnected they largely had no part in any of it. They were repressed by everyone and everything. This made countries rise and fall in the same areas incredibly common, but since it had little to no effect on the living standards of the people (that is to say... barely any at all no matter who) it doesn't work. The class structure can't be too top heavy while the bottom can actually do something. If they just can't do anything regardless no matter what, they might as well not even be in the system at all and contribute nothing to whether or not it exists.
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  262. Hyper industrialized small population with artillery focus. Beautiful.
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  263. I had absolutely no idea he looks like he's in his 50s
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  264.  @1mol831  Honestly the first reason starts with the same reason China doesn't try to immediately invade Taiwan right now: naval invasions are difficult. IIRC Taiwan is even harder because of some weird weather patterns in the strait which only clear up 1 month at a time twice a year. Oh and it's also like 3 times the distance of the English channel. Second reason is related to the first: there's no staging ground for an invasion of the Chinese mainland. There's not an ally on any border of China that would allow American troops in to invade from. If you ever played the US in HOI4 in a not so historical fashion you've learned this the hard way when trying to invade someone. The third reason is that even if they did try to stage it, it would get wiped out via missiles and rockets because those technologies are destruction of any collection of men and equipment. Fourth and final one is thus: why even bother? What do you really gain from doing so? The ramifications of it are so insane because you started WW3, threw away millions of lives, pumped trillions from a total war, and on top of that there's no real gain because you make the Chinese submit and then do what? You're not anywhere near so It's not like you can just annex it. You make it an ally I guess but the local Chinese probably hate you for doing so anyway. The problem everyone has with China anyway is them being bellicose and expansionist and for that it's just fine to not even try and just dig your Trench around the country to just make sure they can't expand and then you get none of the negative benefits of kicking off a world War, far less men and materiel commitments, and in the end get practically the same result.
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  265.  @graveyardshift6691  Okay sorry but I have to push back on two key aspects: You can't call the Gulf War a fluke when it did it twice (two gulf wars the same result) and then did the same thing to Afghanistan. And the Americans are a remarkably militaristic people despite the overall desire for peace especially from any perceived attacks. The US suffered 3 damaged buildings from some planes and because of it invaded 2 countries in the middle east and completely decimated them in less than a month. The US entered two world wars over some ships being sunk with Americans on them. The thing that the American populace more than anything else hates is being lied to and long occupations. Vietnam was 20 years long and less than 60k dead. Afghanistan was less Than 2k dead over the same time-frame. Oh and north Vietnam was near capitulation after the Tet Offensive but despite it being an American victory the US populace got mad at being lied to and thought it wasn't going well. So the US probably has the stomach for war.
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  266. ​ @likeAG6likeAG6 Yeah no way they don't wipe out the Iranian air forces. The most modern stuff they have are airframes that the US is actively retiring or already retired. I think they capped out at the oldest generation F-16s. Plenty fine for BVR kills with F-35 and even other, more modern, F-16s will blow them out of the sky. They don't have a domestic fighter industry. Or at least not a capable one.
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  267.  @stephenjenkins7971  I think the biggest thing is that the US has faith in its institutions and the populism really was just in the pure meaning of the word being popular among the people. In terms of battering the democracy he didn't even really do anything. Everything he did was pretty standard affair for the office so the populist wave did nothing but have a change in overall policy in some wings of the party.
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  268.  @ashtons.2483  No. Trump was the most popular incumbent in history this is a statistical fact. Within his own party is also fairly disingenuous as he drew a lot of people to the party who otherwise hadn't been politically active. He was more popular at the end of his term than before it. Biden did barely campaign I was trying to follow the Biden campaign and for decent chunks of time I couldn't hear a single bit of news and some stories came out saying "Where is Biden?" as it wasn't just campaigning in democratic states. That still gets in the news. The only way to stay out of the news is by not campaigning at all for a while. The biggest thing that was going against Trump is that more big mainstream sources who say "Trump bad" and "Trump wrong" all of the time were around than those who either give a balanced view or say what he says. He also with his mean tweets had people thinking he was the cause of division and craziness currently happening instead of a symptom that was borne out of the situation and thus voted against him for a return to normalcy. However outside of the "Trump bad" bubble, he was very popular with many moderates and independents which is why he is the most popular incumbent in history even if Joe Biden is "the most popular president in history" (I put quotes because I'm well aware he was a compromise candidate and more seem as trying to bring back Obama-era memories than being himself popular while many many other people voted against Trump).
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  269.  @steven_003  I think it's because they had another idea of how war is fought. Especially since the Brits are in a "doing more with less" mentality. They're the ones who got rid of a fighter in the cold War because SAMs were too good. So honestly, just ignore the Brits in this case. Unless they specifically stated the reason why they didn't need them was because they weren't fighting enemies with tanks, just assume they're doing something weird again.
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  270.  @disposabull  Except that they don't have that yet. They don't have lots of emp and China probably doesn't think they even need them. Though if you fact prove me wrong fair point. However I doubt they'd use that on what they believe is an easy victory. Most armies haven't adapted to 21st century warfare. And most 21st century warfare isn't that anyway. 21st century warfare isn't physical. It's ideological for hearts and minds. For political power. War is for getting people's stuff. And you're not going to get it by trading lives anymore. You make it so that you convince people to give you stuff and make it so stuff can be made by you instead of by others. Influencing the people of a nation to get rid of leaders that don't like you and back leaders that will. That's the new and current warfare. You're not fighting for lives and territory but people and influence. You want land? You buy it or take it in bad deals. You want stuff? You make a deal that requires them to give it back when they can't pay. Or you just buy it with money. You want influence? You back leaders and promote propaganda across a populace. Invasions are an old warfare tactic. It was for stuff and influence. That's the old way. Not the new.
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  271. Importantly as well, the reason it Exists in that way until observed, is that for these subatomic particles, we can only observe them, by hitting them with other subatomic particles because that's how we process the information. If a baseball is floating around at relativistic speeds in a certain area, the only way to really know where it is at any given time is to hit it with something else. That imparts in it a force and so changes where it will be and go. It doesn't stop being there. But you imparted information upon observation due to the nature of the observation.
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  272. Shit I'll see it
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  273. Tbh given he was only there 2 years, I'm not sure there really was much option. Unless he decided to personally cancel development of everything in production, most of that would've been in greenlit and in production before he even took the helm. Anything that would have come out under Chapek would be coming out right about now at the earliest. It would take probably another year to see what was greenlit under his leadership. And that would only be the very beginning as well which would be when he hadn't had enough time to move. It would take over a year to see what he greenlit after he established himself.
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  274.  @annahusnain6209  If you haven't noticed it's the Indo-European language family. They all share a decent amount in common. African languages come from more diverse families.
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  275. lmao the only one with an attractive personality was the Asian
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  276. To be fair, it's mostly concentrated among the youth
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  277. @Michael Ozark  A: Depends heavily on the scorpion. One with no danger you're basically just having an annoying day because you got stung you'll keep on walking. One with enough to at least immobilize you, you're done without some help. B: Even with training, with an injury, your chances of survival in the night in the desert are slim. You say they have the equipment, but if the equipment is only enough for a patrol, then you're unlikely to do so. Remember that this is the 60s, not the modern 21st century western soldier. Much more basic kit. C: Also way to put in your own conceptions in a channel dedicated to military organization.
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  278.  @pcgamerz3081  Your reading comprehension needs work
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  279.  @Laotzu.Goldbug  Well no it can be reversed. It just requires a very large cultural shock to do so such as a "century of humiliation" or century of foreign rule that fundamentally restructured your society afterward.
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  280. If it was just demographic that'd be a far smaller shock. The real issue is that due to the millennials' experience with college and the realization that it doesn't guarantee wealth, people have stopped going to college as other avenues open up
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  281.  @dayangmarikit6860  That means nothing. Problem is regarding the cultural force which largely comes from the elite. In this case largely dominated by the Spanish and church
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  282. *most herbivores
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  283. ​@reaperz5677 You're right. China is a capitalist country whose only current pretense to socialism is the government levers on the largest businesses in the country and a large. Unlike China, Europe is primarily socialist having the government actually run their economies as well as the expansive welfare systems where they provide for the populations.
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  284. Turkiye is funny because their foreign policy is rather segmented as they ask "Why can't we cooperate with Russia?" while at the same time having a jet engine program with Ukraine prior to the outbreak of war, and telling the Russians in no uncertain terms "Give Ukraine all of its territory back" as it continues to make ships for Ukraine and send it other aid as well. I think the only supporters of Ukraine more vocal than Turkiye are Poland and the Baltic.
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  285. I don't think deportations of Hispanics in the USA will at all put a significant dent in the Hispanic population. It sounds like a pipe dream that doesn't understand that the majority of that vast majority of that population isn't actually foreign born with the example of Mexican immigration to America being net negative for over 10 years. Not to mention the high levels of integration of these populations into the society who don't actually bring their views along with them, or at the very least don't pass them to their children. By gen 3 while they check "Hispanic" on US census data they do not speak Spanish nor have any line to their old countries and entrench themselves in American politics more broadly. What's more likely to happen is that Hispanics who by and large identify as white and have an inter-marriage rate of about 40% will integrate into the broader white population. Just look at Brandon Herrera, Ron DeSantis, or Ted Cruz who by last name are obviously Hispanic in ancestry but who would largely not be characterized as such and are obviously part of the small government conservative Bloc.
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  286. Total honesty: I never heard of BRICS until now. I learned it as BRICM where it had Mexico tacked onto the end.
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  287. Not Hakarl!
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  288. ​@badart3204 The problem is a larger cultural phenomenon prioritizing the self and the present instead of others and the future. Not to mention how having kids isn't always seen as good. And in fact I know plenty of instances where it can be seen as "low class" which makes it all the worse. It's why religiosity is so tied to fertility and how even secular Isrealis have a higher fertility than the average westerner. They know their place in the world and feel a duty to others and their future. The Jewish Nationalism is unironically part of their continued success. They have a founding myth and founding mission the entire population supports. That duty outside of you is what determines it.
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  289.  @daweed7950  Ironic
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  290.  @theodoroseidler7072  Actually your paragraph sentence is wrong. They were all Spanish colonies and thus part of the Spanish empire.
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  291. ​ @НикитаТишкин-п1б  Yeah it is because people used to work from dawn to dusk and people died from overwork (work took more calories than eaten). So yes. Because it's ultimately a mindset. "I need this amount to have kids" when it's most often the poor who have the most kids anyway. Everyone defaults to this. It's always wrong. It is never a factor besides when actual starvation is a problem. The only reason it matters even the slightest bit is because people's perceptions determine their willingness to have kids. So if they think that they'll be unable to afford them, instead of just not caring and making it work, they won't have them.
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  292. @Jackson Teller  Even the tank designs of 1917 were never like this. And honestly my first thought about it was "This looks like someone saw what the Americans were doing, didn't understand why they did it, and tried to one-up them" as you're right it really is that bad
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  293.  @موسى_7  Yeah it's something I ended up putting together once I looked at HOI4 and wondered why they had such a small percentage of the population. For example 2.5% is "limited conscription," 5% "Extensive Conscription" (with a debuff to boot), and 30% is "Scraping the barrel" (with the penalties you'd imagine of conscripting basically your entire male population) and caps off what's an otherwise doubling percentage of the population for manpower. And that's the reason why. The answer is, "It's a large portion of the population, you just don't understand why"
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  294. @pincermovement72  They mostly are. They're not prime candidates. You can revise the upper number to 50 and lower to 16, but beyond that, it just doesn't really work very well anymore. You're drawing from non-prime cohorts and getting into the role of auxiliaries only. That can still be helpful, but they're not really fighting except in that most desperate immediate didn't have enough rifles for everyone due to a shortage at that location. Yes, you will have men who perform well and shine through, but it's in no way the norm, and for most purposes, it just doesn't work as well. You're not sending your 50 year olds to storm trenches. If you do that, you're asking for a waste of life. They're very much like women in service. It's not impossible, it's not even really that difficult to do, however, as prime fighting ages are concerned, they're really not. And it's what I was really trying to get across.
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  295.  @tardvandecluntproductions1278  Not necessarily. Austria and Czechia (especially Czhechia) have fairly high rates of it and comparatively lax laws on it with Shall issue laws and Czechia having a law which mirrors the Second Amendment but predates the USA by 200 years and literally only were disarmed during Fascist and Communist occupation. You're thinking of the Swiss which is that of a military context for the most part. The rest, not so much as they either have very strict laws and very few people at all owning firearms or they're the Austrians and Czechs.
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  296.  @thomasau3204  Not at all. It's going to be China on the offensive. They're the ones with the most to lose by not going at it first. And they need it to be quick but we all know how "quick wars" go.
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  297.  @FF-ch9nr  Pan-Africanism seems less likely than Pan-European identities which are already a note of a particular place, time, and cultural influence that is likely to be but a pause in the cycle of history and not an actual path forward. Also wouldn't make sense having all of the parts of Africa be united when they don't speak the same language, don't have similar geographic features, have vastly different social situations, etc. Even a Pan-European identity is facilitated by the language of English being widely spoken by so many people. Without it such an identity is basically impossible. What you can get are Pan-Germanic (which is already the case but can possibly include the Nords), Pan-Nordic, and Pan-Latin due to mutual intelligibility between each of the languages.
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  298. Even more interesting to me, is how you can probably just upgrade the the barrel and BCG for less than $500 once you've gotten that experience, and by the time you've hit $2500, you're now shooting with the best of them. So for almost none of the cost you're in a better position than like 80% of shooters.
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  299. We let them. They're national industries. They're state Controlled in all but name
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  300. That's awesome
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  301. You did the responsible thing and got punished for it. Yeah this definitely won't in future prevent people from seeking help for fear of getting their rights stripped away.
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  302. To the final note: I think it's worth noting that the world which is slowly evolving, is one where no international community exists.
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  303. What were the problems when you were young?
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  304. Now THAT'S an all-purpose rifle
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  305. ​@gpsoftsk1 Ironically, this seems to be a theme with demographically advanced countries. Maybe it's just due to the way it plays out and the workers involved, but a lot of the aging economies seem to have high youth unemployment. I don't know much about Japan, but Germany, Italy, and seemingly Korea too face this issue. Not to mention there is a large slice of unemployment that is semi-voluntary as it's less ability to find work and more that they just refuse to work the terrible hours offered. Nothing wrong with that, just a different case than forced unemployment.
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  306. Basically the Mongols fucked over everyone by brutally killing everyone they interacted with and stunting their growth and development while making them lean toward autocracy to keep from ever having another Mongol conquest.
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  307.  @acegarcia3719  Honestly it was. The reason for this was the need to assimilate but also an early age to do so. If I didn't have him in the house I likely would've had much more trouble with that but by the age of 4 I was only like 2 years behind on English language development which of course accelerated with constant practice in the home.
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  308. ​ @calluxdoaron1903 Humanity doesn't need constant advancement. Overall, the other issue is that we already have massive social issues from pursuing that exact goal. In reality, the answer is unintuitive, where we stop going so hard on scale. Or the idea is to have a decentralized network that's simply more resistant at the expense of scale.
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  309. I don't think anyone accuses Greece of being that
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  310. To be fair... it's only about 2 of them and it's largely due to having been conquered for thousands of years
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  311. @ledocteur7  Worth noting that as an extra bit of info: in the USA, it has ALWAYS been legal to make your own firearms at home even if not legal to actually sell them. So in real terms "ghost guns" are just trying to make it scary by association with the word ghost. Btw if you're European... check out the Czechs.
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  312. Groups 1 and 3 got with likely a single or series of bad experiences which sent them off a cliff (with group 1 possibly having the intellectualism kill them internally), and group 2 with no brakes from others in the friend group or other social factors to retard this development, ended up going to the logical extreme of that behavior.
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  313. Honestly it sounds like a sequel tbh.
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  314. Yeah tbh Xia is the one with the least evidence and considering that they're the ones who initially "lost" the mandate of heaven it makes most sense that the Shang created it as a justification for their rule.
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  315. @James Furey I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but that kind of thing isn't going to work for the sole purpose that the national identities of the Anglosphere are flexible enough to accommodate. And you also have significant mixed populations within each country. Hell the entirety of the Hispanic population is mixed and it makes up a plurality of the whole of North America. He brought up a significant point at the end there: "How do you reconcile an ethnic based culture with significant mixed populations?". The short answer is you can't unless they're placed into their own ethnicity. But they're so damn mixed and in such varying quantities that LOOK different that it just doesn't work. Hell most Irish and Italians in the US belong ostensibly to both groups so how do you have them pick a side? In real terms for anything to survive as an identity in the Americas they have to turn to basically being a group like the berbers or going toward Christianity as an overarching umbrella as religion unites different ethnic populations, and even races, under one roof. Your ideas can work for Europe where there are long histories in place. But even then, significant portions of the Irish population are mixed. But it's harder to see that when you share broadly similar features. Remember that the Germanic tribes "wed" the women which made up the area that is now England. Y'all have similar genetic pools. And with the crossover from the days of the imperial heartland, more than you'd think together. And unfortunately that's the legacy of the empire. France has faced a similar issue and gone down a similar route as the Anglosphere with being primarily civic and the way to be French is to talk and walk French. The ultimate problem with your ideas, are that they are SEVERELY removed from the realities on the ground. The Anglosphere has mixed. A lot. They've for a very long time been flexible with migration which means that they got a lot more chances to mix. It's why the Germans, slightly greater population genetically to the Anglos of the US, can't even realize as such. And with assimilation those groups mix MORE. How are you to reconcile the reality of the mixing of all of these populations and even your own in Ireland?
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  316. I think the problem is that it's just that it isn't as attractive as a concept equally to the two groups. Women are, on average, more interested in people and men in things. It's basically an interest gap more than anything else.
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  317. 8:00 The guy didn't even want it to be published it seems and you said the guy didn't even want others to really know so I don't think he'd really care.
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  318. Probably classiest reaction from anyone who was basically lied to
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  319. 2:27 I got an ad for this before the video
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  320. Yeah bunch of comments in here saying 7 year Olds are dumb. No this is more impressive than most realize because kids aren't dumb. They're just naive due to literal ignorance. Sheltered teens and adults don't really end up much better than children for this reason. So no, they're very intelligent.
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  321. ​ @Donner906 A culture that respects men and a building of community at a local level so that people can properly meet, have meaningful and healthy relationships, and have something to care about. We're in an atomized age and we need community and meaning. We have neither.
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  322. ​ @AbandonEarth911 It is explicitly socialism. They use the economic system as its been outlined and intended. They also have the communist ideology. "State capitalism" as you use it is closer aligned to a market socialist system than "capitalism" and it's the type of system France uses. Authoritarian capitalist was China back in 2008 to about 2016. They've gone more and more toward the market socialist system as time has gone on and they're specifically going in a Maoist direction again. Tbh a socialist economic system is one where the government controls the economy as it owns the means of production in the name of the people under the Marxist lens. It's the most consistent definition across time and countries if we view actions rather than words.
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  323.  @chico9805  How about you actually answer instead of absolving yourself of having to actually defend your position?
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  324. @Tristan Thamm  Yeah fun fact: Brits ARE northwestern Germans. The nearest fraternal language with English is Dutch. And they themselves were a predominantly capitalistic sea faring empire. They were hated cousins of the Brits compared to the other silly continentals.
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  325. ​ @tedcrilly46 If everyone just focuses on their own internal local markets, like most of history, then there's no need to simplify trade.
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  326.  @newtubevector  You know trade has always happened right??
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  327. The simple man comes home and wonders what's for dinner, the complex man comes home pondering the unknowables of the universe, the enlightened man comes home and wonders what's for dinner.
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  328. Okay, first off: It's not about the vulnerability, it's about the capability. Secondly: aircraft carriers are mobile and it's hard to target things at sea Thirdly: They have air bases nearby. They don't need to use the aircraft carriers as the prime airbases. They're fundamentally command and control centers and even then there are others. This whole point about aircraft carriers is moot. That's not even mentioning the fact that the point of an aircraft carrier escort is things like air defense to protect them from that very threat.
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  329. Man praised a movie from Bollywood and All quiet on the western front. Not sure how that stacks up. But was he even disingenuous? He starts off by saying it made a bunch of money and why. Nothing he said contradicts this video. "Black Panther had a stellar cast, hype leftover from infinity war, and a sociopolitical movement behind it which wanted its success" doesn't mean it was good. In fact by completely omitting his ideas about the plot it says how bad it is through omission if that is all the praise he can give.
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  330. ​@coreyander286 Yeah, I don't think I really need to explain that much at this point as I'm sure many others have added already but I'll add some notes. First is that backlash isn't in the form of YouTube videos. That's nothing. That's "rabble rabble" and not what's referred to at all. It's the top at the center which keeps the extremes beneath at bay. Secondly, The red pill isn't going anywhere. The problem with it is that it speaks broadly to general patterns of behavior regarding women. It's not something that's chosen, it's basically an active process that you can't really choose so long as you have enough interactions with women. Whatever YouTubers come out as bad people, you have 100 more who are about as clean as it can get for a person. It's nowhere near destruction. Thirdly, yeah, you're probably right that they're getting off to that idea. But why would they even WANT to get off to that idea? If the current system was providing healthy and stable relationships, then why would it be at all an attractive thought? It's like people who are prepping for an apocalypse but hoping it won't happen, why might they want an apocalypse if the society wasn't basically crushing their soul in some way? Same with this sentiment. What's building up is still very much on the fringes and for every guy who says "I hope it doesn't happen, but it's coming" who is actually going to participate in the action, there's 100 who have no intention of ever doing so. When men say things like that, it's never something they seriously want to do, unless they're so radicalized what they're already planning it. The difference is the planning stage. That's when it's serious. As a final note: women are the only ones who can stop this via a change in behavior. When you push someone's buttons for too long, they're going to lash out, and at some point it's your fault for exhausting their patience if they've sat there with mostly no complaints or complaints which have been ignored for a long time, and this has been multiple generations of worsening conditions in this category. We already have incel extremists, now imagine 50k actually manage to organize, and thanks to the internet, that's not even a herculean task. There are enough of them btw, when by a conservative estimate, a third of men under 30 are virgins (which skews lower) with the number still rising, you're going to have enough men who can create a fire large enough to actually burn down the village and impossible to put out. Jordan peterson was mocked for feeling sympathy for incels and saying someone should at least advocate for them. The problem isn't getting resolved any time soon because it's completely undisciscussed.
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  331. Short term vs long term. Remember that in 1945 Africa was under complete English and French control while in 1845 it was completely left alone. 1845 Russia was a backwater state which hadn't even started industrialization to 1945 where it was the powerhouse of the East and dominated all of Eastern Europe into Germany. 1845 Japan was closed to 1945 having an empire being taken away from it. 1776 America was a colonial society of roughly 2 million to in 1876 around 90 million, industrial, and one of the largest economies on the planet. 1645 to 1745 Spain starts from the fringe of Europe to largest colonial empire. 1745 Spain is the master of the colony game, to 1845 stripped of nearly all of it. 1645 Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth is a powerhouse of Europe. 1745 Poland is depopulated, weakened, and soon going to be partitioned by Austria, Prussia, and Russia. Why all of this? To reinforce the point that a century is a very long time. It's the time between the rise and downfall of nations. Really don't underestimate what can change in a century. You've only been around in this form for a single one. You're surrounded by completely non-functional governments and split ethnic identities. And frankly you have a history of being the core of a multi-ethnic empire united under Islam, with a good geographic core, an active industrialization, and honestly an economy and population on the upswing. Also EU is probably coming apart and Russia on the decline. You've got more in your favor than you realize and a lot of time to do it.
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  332.  @adrianalter8935  Either we start being better or they win
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  333. @Ikkin -  The fact that the US managed to lose more men in its civil war 80 years prior than the entirety of its 4 years in WW2 is an accomplishment to say the least.
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  334. The Americans really were similar to the Russians damn
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  335. ​ @richardmetzler7909 He's being sarcastic
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  336. I do have to wonder if the West simply leans more heavily on the Air Force as a secondary artillery park. The USA for sure does this with an incredibly high number of aircraft, though looking at the British their aircraft inventory is roughly 5%-10% of the American numbers which seems to be an incredibly high mismatch for what should be a similar doctrine. In terms of a doctrine that leans heavily on artillery, the British seem to have recently gone to that type of artillery heavy doctrine with their deep strike doctrine. Thus, for them specifically, they are 100% ill equipped in terms of stockpile for that kind of doctrine.
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  337. Was India a nation at all before the Brits? This is a serious question. And frankly, China, who was never directly ruled, also fell deeply behind as a result of European growth. In comparison, the Japanese were also colonized, but immediately changed and managed to grow immensely, and so much that they are among the wealthiest in the world as well. This is simply due to industrialization rather than the factors of being colonized. Look at Latin America, who is still behind despite being a colony (as well as Spain frankly), and then the former British settler colonies who are also immensely wealthy despite being resource economies.
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  338.  @damienharbin242  I'm going to be honest, the Spear is a weapon for the Russians in that it's easy to repair, having specific fallback points, and nothing really big changing. It can take probably more punishment even in addition to the extra punishment it's taking from its own ammo. This is in comparison to the bullpup (I can't remember its name lol) which is meant to have a new system which increases soldier abilities in combat. MG 6.8 is better than no MG though and that was a mistake on their part.
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  339. I have to wonder if in any capacity this is a sign of a deal with the current leaders of Afghanistan. That would be interesting if they basically traded that location in order for the US to just kind of get off their backs.
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  340.  @mukulmehra007  It would only take about 2 years of war for rebellion to rise considering the toll it would take on the Chinese people.
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  341. 6:06 You don't give off the aura of being hard to pin down. Especially at 5'3" lol
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  342.  @RememberTheElephant  Oldest name is Asia minor and most of the names we use aren't actually corruptions of local names as those names would often come from within the language roots which described something specific. Just harder to see with English since it has so much Greek and Latin influence from medieval France.
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  343. You still get characterization within them in the movie. How they act and the decisions they make. Their attitudes etc. All of that is character building. You're thinking of backstory.
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  344. Wait a minute are you telling me Islam is as much a descendent of the Roman empire as the Christian one is?
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  345. Oh also it's worth noting that it's not how many people you have but how many you can mobilize. And honestly considering the size of the modern US military despite everything, it'll likely still mobilize more than the Chinese. If the US actually wanted a land war they could likely win. China hasn't had a history of actual significant mobilization for at least 150 years at this point with the attitude still being about mercenary armies protecting them and a general low opinion of the military as good steel does not become nails. If you wanted to go by WW2 numbers of induction the US could mobilize 40 million with the Chinese only mobilizing 20 million. 14 million were pulled into the whole Chinese army in the second world War but the actual army peak strength never exceeded 5.7 million. They did not in any way mobilize effectively and the middle classes seemed to not care for it. It seems that China has existed purely by the fact that its population stays as a united group because they're relatively easily conquered and then the conquerers get integrated because there aren't enough of them in comparison.
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  346.  @markomihhailov9804  Yeah this type of thing needs to be normalized but people here just say "IT SHOULDN'T BE HERE RAAHHH!!" and never learn.
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  347. @Julia Sepúlveda  The BBC article said they were more stressed and that their quality of life suffered immensely. It really wasn't just about financial security but also other stresses. And the thing is that just as you've said it's 2 to tango, men absolutely can do the same thing. But here the reason they bite the bullet is because they are the ones who fundamentally are the ones upset. The one upset is the one who ends it. They're upset, they leave. You can simply choose to not be upset. Being upset is a choice. And while yes fundamentally you can find contentment in single life as well, at that point just never be in a relationship if you're just going to end it because you feel like you'll be more well off. And yes abusive parents exist, such things exist, but as I noted, relationships shouldn't actively harm you. But they're family. It doesn't matter if they're chosen. In fact, that makes it even more imperative that you stick together as you have even more reason to consider them family having made that choice yourself. To un-choose is to betray the entire idea of if. You made the choice. Don't make choices spuriously. Take the time and effort required to live with your choices. Work on yourself. Improve yourself. But no people don't actually do that. Especially women. They no longer believe the men are worth it and leave. This is at rates of 70% to 90%. They don't feel they have to improve. The man serves them and their desires. Should this stop, they leave. I think all of the attitudes you've displayed are evidence of this as that's what the conversation has fundamentally been around. Which brings back to quite well relating to why they divorce once they make less money. They no longer feel the man meets their desires, however deep seated and subconscious those desires are. This is not to suggest that they're just naturally feeling such ways, but it's more to do with the fact that women will say they just no longer feel attracted to him, feel something is off, feel they see red flags, etc, which are all reflective of subconscious attitudes which aren't well expressed in their own minds for reasons as various as blades of grass on the ground.
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  348. @Julia Sepúlveda  If you're in a relationship to contribute to your own well-being you have made the first mistake. Because there is near no relationship in existence that you will have for a long time which will contribute to your well-being the entire time. Such things are inherently short-term and self-interested. There are inevitable ups and downs and as imperfect creatures and so both parties will inevitably make Grevious mistakes. You care about the other person. If you stop caring about them, that signals a problem more with you than the other. And yes because it fundamentally is materialistic and no-fault divorce basically incentivizes that. Earlier you said marriages of love were recent but people were choosing their own partners for literally a thousand years in the West and romance novels have existed for basically the existence of the printing press (actual romance not erotica). Fundamentally, your care should extend into the mundane. If you only care for the novel and interesting, then you've already missed the point. Nothing will be novel forever. That's basically an oxymoron. You're saying you only join because you like them now, but if you see no future, if you aren't prepared for the inevitability of the mundane with relationships inherently intended to last decades, you've already made a fatal error. Finally, you said that I've a ride or die mentality. Well, marital vows explicitly state this. The most well-known line from those vows is "until death do us part" and so if you aren't prepared for that, don't get married. PS: That Bell Hooks like sounds like garbage to me. If you're looking to nurture spiritual growth, you've already put in a goal. Goals just kind of put built-in failure conditions. And it's even worse when the people involved aren't very spiritual like myself.
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  349. I think this one is a bit obvious: in the US domestic air travel is still the go-to way of getting around. And internationally people have always traveled to far off places. Before it was by ship. Now it's by plane. May see a decrease in travel but planes are still likely to take people places. What other nations realistically COULD gang up on the US? Only two countries share a land border with the US (both of which are under de-facto American control) and the US has the largest navy in the world. Can't really do anything to it. Another book of his outlines the coming wars of disorder with the current Russo-Ukranian war simply being one of many.
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  350. Genuine question: in Moon Knight where was "the message"? Like I genuinely do not know where in that show that it was. There was no mention of race and the only thing from the woman was that She wanted to be included and told things when she was left out. I guess you slightly have it with her getting powers from Tawetit but that was very specific and there wasn't anymore afterward. Plus she didn't even do much with those powers. She always took a back seat to Mark who was always more capable. She was only more capable than Steven since he was made to be the "safe" man who was out of his depth since he didn't even know what was going on with himself. I think you're kind of stretching things a bit there.
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  351. The irony of Gen Z is that like half of us genuinely didn't care because we didn't care about school anyway and perhaps already having an internal focus.
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  352. Having seen the potential of Ukraine in a recent video with an industrial base inherited from the soviets, numerous reforms on corruption and government, military reforms from the Donbas war, and the ability to feed itself and much of the world around it, I wonder if it could potentially take the reigns to lead the Russian people or if they're too focused on their Ukrainian identity to really adopt a more Slavic focused identity.
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  353. @Night Raven  Yes but economics is a social science rather than a hard one. Rather than hard laws you can observe, much of these values are subject to humans' erratic behavior.
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  354.  @itsj4375  Yeah bro you're probably going to actually just find a hard time finding English speakers at times. Especially in little Havana. Hell probably half of the parents of my high school classmates don't speak English.
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  355.  @farzana6676  There have been some attempts at it and they've realistically all failed. Hell Japan is currently still trying it and still getting nowhere. The biggest thing is that the ideology which has taken much of the west is that of pure comfort. Child making does not translate to that. Military strength does not translate to that. The only thing which does translate is welfare spending. Think of all of the people who are unwilling to have children if not for climate change reasons then reasons like "I don't want to bring someone into this terrible world" or "It's just too hard and uncomfortable I don't want that" with a lot of focus on abortion if things go wrong. The West just doesn't want to and incentivizing it only convinces those who really don't care either way which with child making just isn't a large portion of the populace. Isreal doesn't really incentive fertility via government but more so via culture in that they're very religious and very devoted to their religion. Their government is a reflection of this and so rewards it. They're also de-facto expansionist with their pushing into Palestinian controlled areas. These are all factors of a growing population and a people who believe in themselves. The west largely does not.
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  356.  @ralphnoyes4366  The idea here seems that the Canadian provinces most aligned with the US join up for stability.
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  357. he finally did a video on it I think
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  358.  @paulmurgatroyd6372  No no the US has had an empire. It's simply been of the smallest sort. Hawaii, despite now being actually core US territory in some sense, was basically annexed, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines were ceded to the US in a war (with a bit of trolling to the Filipinos), and most of the pacific islands known as "Territories" legally are also basically from that time. We also took the Panama canal for a while. So it did do a bit of empire while it was fashionable. Also in real terms the US has an informal empire on Europe right now where despite not being called it, US culture is pretty damn dominant, a majority of some of the European states speak English, and of course they're under the American defense umbrella. They're also kind of tied to our banking system having helped them out with 2008. If you're defending their land, regulating their economies, and infecting them with your culture... are they not imperial holdings? At the very least they can be considered client states.
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  359.  @toadofsteel  Yet you're watching Monsiuer Z? He's the right-winger to Whatifalthist's center bias
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  360. The only issue with your English is 3 minor spelling mistakes so you're fine.
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  361. ​ @loissio481 My family name is also from there. Decent chance of an origin there. I think a lot went to Puerto Rico.
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  362.  @PURENT  Yes but until 86 it was incredibly low
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  363. Hasn't been like that in the west for a few decades now either
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  364.  @jerrysun44  Here's the thing: it's not like the Chinese are without brain. The issue is that China all has forced hands. There are only so many beaches that CAN be landed on. China can only cross over that 60 mile straight. China can only sail through a specific window. China can't make a small sneak invasion. There is just a lot of can and can't. China doesn't have a robust amphibious fleet. This entire battle is about preparedness. There's a reason Taiwan hasn't been invaded for 60 years. This seems to basically be it.
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  365.  @repo445-d4h  The good thing is that the American industrial base is actively being increased and fairly rapidly as industry is currently flowing back to the USA (largely due to automation). However the expense of re-training the skilled workers seems to overall be a very low bar so long as it is able to be brought in. Also while the missiles are largely private entities, the munitions plants are all government owned meaning wage in this case is less of an issue
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  366. There's genuinely no precedent for this in history either lol. I don't think any country has been this good at assimilating other peoples besides maybe the Chinese. And then the absolute obsession with technology and progress has gone to an absolutely insane degree. We'll see if this can last.
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  367. That's actually hilarious
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  368. It's never been that way. Ultimately, it's always demand driven, in certain in demand cities. That's where the lack of supply applies. If you go to somewhere like, I think Victoria? Anywhere northwest you'll basically find dirt cheap homes. Ultimately as well, as another commenter alluded to, homes are often treated as a speculative asset and is the underlying current of every housing bubble video. Thus, they can have all of the capacity they want, it doesn't really change that much until it's greater than demand. Which, isn't necessarily driven by population.
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  369. Botswana was already a decently successful society it seems. However, having 0 development from being around 0 development and no way to even try to learn meant that it wouldn't be as developed as any Eurasian society. However, thanks to globalization, industrialization, and the information age, the country now has enough connections to try. Watch Botswana become the jewel of Africa in coming decades.
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  370. Part of this is that in the same time, the explosive rise of bureaucratic institutions which increase costs on EVERYONE. For example, one of the biggest factors in Healthcare inflation has been that administrators outpace physicians by roughly 100x. It's just really not feasible overall, but it's something that we've gained culturally as something of a necessity for reasons which I'm not entirely sure of. Whether it be fear of conflict or people refusing to be told no. I can't really figure it out. It's a symptom of the managerial revolution where middle managers have most control and the organizations are more complex and impersonal ruling most people's lives.
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  371. I've seen two already in this comment section who basically said that lol. One even characterized it as "colonial daddy issues"
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  372. Tbh, that does sound like a bit of a strict reading. The primary idea behind not evacuating casualties during an Assault is at least that you can pick up the wounded later when you, too, aren't in danger of getting shot. If you're on a patrol with no contact it does seem like you should be treating the wounded.
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  373. They don't understand their own absurdities which is why some horrible dystopia to them is actually pretty nice
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  374. Accurate. And basically what they had to do to stop being invaded
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  375.  @OLDGREGG315  Better than the alternative it seems. Barbarism vs decadence if you will. As it's still a stronger society.
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  376.  @magnus7153  The food is basically just a reflection of region. In fact most of the food of the Caribbean isn't actually shared with Spain at all. Things like rice, which is eaten quite a lot in the Caribbean despite no Asian influence until recently, aren't at all eaten in Europe and aren't even ubiquitous in Latin America. So going on about food seems to be a non-starter. However when it comes to cultural systems the culture seems distinctively Latin even with a more Asian flavor (an example of the Asian flavor being even now a predominantly shame based rather than guilt based society).
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  377. The Indians seem to have not really reached the east side of southeast Asia and the Philippines, not really being on any trade routes, were largely kept out of the spheres so that seems like a non-starter. If there really was a lot of Chinese and Indian influence it'd be much more obvious much like in Indonesia where even more Islam takes a backseat compared to the Latin culture overtly present in the Philippines. Though clearly there are differences and they didn't dominate as a foreign people more as a foreign elite which of course limits how radically it changes the society, but it seems to have influenced society to a similar degree as to the degree Islam and Buddhism took the rest of southeast Asia since the previous cultural norms weren't actually that strong and it's how an identity was formed It's also important to understand that cultural influences submit to local conditions and it's how you have African and Indonesian Islam for so long being radically different from how it is in its home soil. And unlike the rest of Latin America the foreign born population didn't come in and basically displace the native one making the population very much of which inherited those cultural norms so of course they aren't going to be anywhere near the level of cultural similarity. And even then the nations of Latin America are very different from their home country of Spain due to local conditions and various other influences as well as simple time factor. However, despite all of this it still fits in fairly well with Latin civilization even if it is of course closer to the rest of southeast Asia making it both much like how most of southeast Asia has most of its culture shared with each other even if significant parts of their culture end up as part of another civilization which seems to overall be the story of this civilization in a nutshell. In other words: Southeast Asia, having come in too late, sandwiched between twin sons of civilization, and too isolated to ever be forced to make something themselves, are best seen as a mix of their neighbors, natives, and the other outside influences which came to them for several centuries.
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  378.  @danielbirchfield8552  Yeah that's an assumption, most viewers of southeast Asia don't agree with that statement (even this one is a fairly small complaint), and there's no real proof of it anyway. This is a great way to peddle misinformation because apparently you don't like learning about cultures in anything besides the most glorifying manner and peddling of positive myths.
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  379. ​​ @brandonschwietzer8757 Another comment noted that they never cleaned it. That barrel was never even cleaned, so basic maintenance would have this gun lasting maybe even 5x longer, though I can see that being a stretch.
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  380. No that's not right. At all. In all of these you see them basically going back and trying to fix it. The most interesting part about the ships in this instance is that the US had already divested its other ships and so tried to get these to work despite design issues. It's also a problem with regards to what the government wanted. They wanted size, firepower, and range, so compromises had to be made. The problem started with a shit idea. The fact that it was used is not the problem of the companies, but instead that of policymakers. And it's very interesting how he's basically cherry picking for this video given the immense success of the Joint Strike Fighter despite the immense cost overruns from an attempt to make things LESS costly via a new manufacturing method.
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  381. ​@nickporter9264 Tbh, even 30 years ago Japan was simply very wealthy, not in any position to really assert itself on the world stage as it knew America was its master and not 10 years prior in the 80s America went to Europe and Japan and told them to stop manipulating their currencies to undercut America. And they did.
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  382.  @nicksam5518  I'd say more the parents or possibly even little brother.
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  383. "Why is it capitalism's fault though?" is a section that is so wrong I don't even know where to begin and also doesn't work when going back in time or taking a broader look at time and how the world actually works. I'm stunned.
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  384. Well to be fair, it has to be a trait of the people themselves to be accepting of that. However, I find it almost Roman in how willing they are to just take things wholesale
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  385. Go find some Orthodox monks. Visit, avoid Prelest, and hone your gifts.
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  386. Governments have no incentive to decrease spending and just throw money at things until it works.
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  387. First off: We do actually have supporting documentation from the opening of the Soviet archives. Especially with how soviets were an explicitly atheist state. Secondly: The fact is simply that China has a university enrollment rate that's incredibly high just generally at roughly 60% while a country such as India has roughly 28%. Especially when it was facing a potential issue with students and youth unemployment, it's absolutely a solution. Of course, the alternative is just doing nothing at all, an action at odds with the government's desire for stability.
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  388. Would be be able to not simplify?
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  389.  @djohnston6214  Specifically in the category of "leading by tweet" however for Wilson it would be "leading by Oration". Though there may be a good deal flawed there upon further review.
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  390. accurate lol
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  391. Yeah...i don't think it's possible to avoid it with the threat of deindustrialization
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  392.  @texpatriot8462  then they've gotta be using true velocity somewhere in there as a separate contract because that ammo is too good to pass up
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  393. ​@KellyMonk156 Because he's trying to abstract it to a way that doesn't make sense.
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  394. ​@harrymon0 No, that's exactly what that indicates.
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  395. @Anders Juel Jensen  I think more than anything else it'd probably be about how much gas you'd need but if you can run it off diesel or even gasoline you'd really not have a ton of problems only using it once. Definitely fine for shorter distance affairs. Maybe even using it as a budget ballistic Missile.
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  396. Unless of course, the hand is forced
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  397. @Jonathan Pfeffer  Well, the thing with that is the reason the chamber pressures even existed in the first place. Anyone could've just done a bullpup and in fact True Velocity did exactly that. Problem here, is that what Sig decided to do was get 800m out of a 13" barrel. For context, that's basically the optimal barrel length for 7.62x39. They made a carbine length barrel go long. It was completely unnecessary as long as they did nearly ANYTHING else, but they did it anyway as a method of brute forcing it.
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  398. I'm pretty sure the MG-42 is still considered the best GPMG short of its barrel swap system but maybe I'm just catching enough of the conversation
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  399.  @kalamir93  Don't worry I have had to do that a few times myself in describing things so thank you. Also part of it was that I didn't notice the lack of "s" in the words so I thought it was just the same word with the "ü" different and was just very very confused
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  400. I'm glad the Nicaraguan canal didn't go through. That's a freshwater lake and SOOOO many problems would come from connecting that to the salt water ocean.
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  401. Something that may not have been really gone over because of the Mexican focus is that the skilled Mexican manufacturing is what really helps (and where those better jobs are). Not only is it useful for Mexico, but it basically substitues a key step in American manufacturing. Automation has gotten good enough to bring back the bottom step in manufacturing back to the states. It also is there for the high-end stuff. But there's a middle potion which is too expensive to do in the US, and Mexico fits well into that. Goods actually travel to and from the border that way a lot with less finished goods being sent out, only to be sent back for the finishing stuff. Repeat a few times. So at the end what you have is a symbiotic relationship where you have a structure that's incredibly complimentary for manufacturing in a way that's really not comparable elsewhere except for maybe Germany and Poland (except with 3x to 4x the population).
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  402. Lol this is really really dumb. Great "reporting" from the Fox News review show. Y'all are just as bad or even worse than Fox News. Keep it up guys.
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  403. ​@sleepyjoe4529 For all intents and purposes, it'd be about the same. If anything, the Americans might be more motivated as they're much more militaristic in comparison. Remember, the example he gave was of the Brits fighting 10,000 miles away against the Argentina going for islands they claim. So if we're making any comparisons the Americans have the advantage with the better military.
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  404. "A whole new world" but it's "A whole new gun!"
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  405. Yeah no. The only countries with youth unemployment so high are countries like Spain or Sweden. Germany for example has 6%. The maximum in America is 13% and has an average of about 8.5%. Nothing like that.
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  406.  @TheAgentOfDeath  California has i think around 12%. That's why i said the maximum as i meant the maximum in any state was around 13%. The average for America is about 8.5% as i said before.
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  407.  @neolithictransitrevolution427  The difference between the positions is that you wouldn't need a Triremes to invade Rome from the north.
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  408.  @tianwong152  China sank a Vietnamese ship around an oil platform in the South China sea. The US has said nothing to the South Koreans or the Japanese about arming again. The Japanese have kept a self-defense force largely and would have no reason to start a blue water navy were it not for a threat beyond its immediate shoreline. Which would mean China or Russia because the US is realistically too far away and those two are the two biggest powers in the region. Saying Japan is under US occupation is ridiculous honestly considering the JSDF is more than capable of dealing with any force the US would realistically send and Japan is incredibly popular in the US and the US incredibly popular in Japan. This can be seen in the two's shared cultural media. It's also worth mentioning that the Japanese are ramping up joint military drills with the US. By the way, if America was weakened by a stronger China (which isn't how that works by the way) and can't deal with Korea in a way it wants to then wouldn't the South Koreans be more open about disliking the Americans? But instead the South Koreans are ramping up joint military exercises with the Americans as well. That does not indicate an unfriendliness or poor relation with the Americans. As much as you have this idea that China is the protector of Asia, are you really so certain that the other Asian powers see China in kind?
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  409.  @cm-pr2ys  Yeah I think that's the only pair that's compatible and what we're going to get because they know that TV is an easy upgrade and an improvement in logistics, but the Spear is clearly the superior weapon. Though I've a soft spot for the textron bid as I've learned more about it.
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  410.  @christopherchan6505  Range. Realistically the effectiveness of 5.56 starts to dissipate after 300m and after 600m it becomes basically useless. This thing is to go to 800m and still put down targets. Frankly when it comes to jungle fighting... well that weapon has filled the arsenal.
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  411. Okay, I completely forgot the modem Iraqi army was reformed by the Americans and also largely independent. I understand it's a coalition battle, but it's Iraqi led, and that's super cool.
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  412.  @scottlarsen4144  It's the UK. Not exactly one of the current best militaries. They have a decent one with some excellent units, but definitely not exactly a top contender.
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  413.  @Rocktypeh  I think that's largely accurate. Because among all of the fascist movements it's really the only common thread between any of them. I'm not sure about the Palingenetic portion However as I'm unsure how much any of the main fascist movements really focused on rebirth, but populist ultranationalism I think is a fine enough definition. However I think "ultra-" portion of the word needs to be specified as "at the expense of the individual" which is to say that all individual freedoms are less important than that of the state or nation. Though even then... I'm not sure that's enough. I think maybe simply to also add that they'll do anything for power. And that's probably the best definition of a fascist.
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  414. I understand the point of the video, but the title is all kinds of misleading. Jesus didn't outline a very cogent view of how to get to heaven. He had like 2 rules and basically everything else was thought up by the organization around it which grew from his life and worship. Does that mean anyone who doesn't follow the Catholic church isn't a Christian? Catholics probably will say yes. You reading this, probably not. That's basically what defines a Marxist in the modern world Clearly, i do not believe it makes sense to be a Marxist in the current year. He gets it wrong from the get-go with surplus value and he'd know that had he even run a business and had to take in operating costs (Spolier, if the only thing into consideration for the price of a product was work done by the laborers, it could be a lot lower while the business still exists and everyone has a job), and fundamentally the relative theory of value works as a much better economic framework for understanding costs. Marxism is only attractive because it gives power to intellectuals who otherwise don't have it, and the industrialized world makes us feel like like tiny cogs in an unending machine taking away all power from us. With the decline in religion as well, it provides an attractive moral framework in its absence. It's not so much a useful tool but more of a popular trend from people who feel that something is wrong and giving them something to aim their anger at because the world is complicated and we like simple answers.
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  415. They even used the same intro animation
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  416. @John Gilligan  Yeah it is the answer. "Fair and respectful in foreign affairs" doesn't apply when others aren't playing fair. Not to mention it doesn't at all take into account geopolitics which is markedly more complicated than just milquetoast "diplomacy". Diplomacy requires you being able to back your words with force. We keep ourselves safe at home by dealing with the problems abroad. But when you fuck it up then Yeah no-one is really eager.
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  417. I think that is rather obvious from the literal translation alone. Especially with the context given and the subsequent elaboration. In this case, going with the literal translation gives us the same perspective someone receiving that threat for the first time may understand. Especially since in English, and especially America, the phrase "eat lead" with respect to bullets, is widely known. Thus, unlike many other literal translations, this idiom does indeed keep its meaning across languages.
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  418. @James Furey I mean... like I said this is a global phenomenon. This isn't just in the Anglosphere or even Eurasia. It's everywhere with internet access. Due to the ease of connection it's important to be able to communicate with large amounts of people. And you also get recordings of your language constantly. It's why we're seeing accent loss as people's peer groups grow to national levels. Though monoculture will not come and even now the Anglosphere has none. We just don't recognize it otherwise for the sake of unity
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  419.  @NoHairMan  Great actually. The French are having issues because they started switching them off lol
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  420. I think another key factor as to the punishment for declarations of war is the required mobilization of your own population and the stigma of the world Wars making nearly all war total wars in people's eyes. There's a lot of things which go into declarations of war on the home front as well, such as rationing, government actions to fund the war effort, industrial mobilization by forcing people into the factories, etc. Such things are now associated with the war effort and have made it difficult. These have mostly risen due to the large industrial wars and are better avoided if not declared at all. Another example of the difficulty is in the USA with congressional approval required for declarations of war and I think Russia needing to declare war to use conscripts outside of its borders where it initially didn't want to use them at all.
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  421. The only empire to ever rise once but fall twice
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  422. Yeah I did the math and you'd need almost 100k rounds to break even on cost just occasionally replacing the bolt and barrel
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  423. Honestly if Russia didn't push Germany back within the first year or less you could probably see American lend-lease motorizing the Russian force as having old or modern trucks doesn't matter too much for logistics or troop transport.
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  424. 12:44 Rudy you REALLY need to update that chart. Everything has fallen by a decent bit after 2020 and the military has gone to only 50%. Still the highest, but no longer such a huge margin.
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  425. ​@chico9805 The British settler states are all doing it. Even the French are and the Spanish also have. So I have to disagree there
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  426.  @chico9805  Still actually pretty well, as seen from say the Kenyan and Nigerian populations who make up much of Britain's foreigners. And no the settler states are important to discuss, because they had near nothing to start and still managed to become wealthy, and then you can compare cultural abilities in that you see one set remain poor, and the other ascend to wealth.
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  427.  @chico9805  You did not. You simply said "I'm from the UK and we're balkanizing" so I asked you to specify, and it's why I brought up the waning independence movements among the UK nationalities (and really only exists of size in Scotland) which would actually be Balkanization. It's not a matter of research, it's about being able to tell what you have. Because the breakdown of the UK migrants are overwhelmingly from Europe and the Indian subcontinent with some Nigerian and Chinese. I'm telling you to defend your position. That requires answering questions, because only when you have your positions laid bare like that can you establish what is happening. That's how discussions work.
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  428. @Gus Gone  Honestly battery technology needs a major revolution in terms of capacity before they can really be used for anything super significant. However, once they get there, you do have some significant options. Also I'm a fan of the whole bicycle infantry concept. WW2 hadn't yet created mountain bikes which is why they failed but we have those now so they'd probably work. Also do very much want to have some holes picked in the idea of adding a small gasoline motor to those bicycles and making them like early motorcycles where you can turn it on and go fast if needed but if not use them on the March. I know some militias in south Asia have been known to use bicycles as well though.
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  429. 33:51 Technology made absolutely no advancements between the 30 years war and Napoleonic Wars? Pike and and Shotte gave way to muskets and field artillery. This was enabled via technologies that could allow more reliable gun firing (flintlock), and smaller cannons instead of the large bombards mostly used for sieges
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  430. Because people change and get over their issues??
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  431.  @tedcrilly46  You're right it's globalized to the extent of those. However, none of those are necessities, they're all luxuries, and even more relevant, none of that is affected besides customs. You act like nowhere in the world gets foreign imported food. What about the Mexican bananas or avocados, the Chinese and Indian rice, you still have those. They go to whatever is the cheapest (closest) port already. Even if you put barriers back up, tariffs are rarely present on food stuffs already, and most food shipped via ocean, and thus doesn't go through the EU system since it goes port to port anyway for cost purposes. I can't speak to Lidl, I don't know anything about it, but most supermarket chains I know are generally local already, and plenty of agricultural multinationals outside of Europe don't use that coordinated EU system. "Disputes and chaos" is the way you characterize this hypothetical scenario. Clearly everywhere must be in chaos regarding trade because they're not all subscribed to the same rule system.
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  432. Yeah honestly just going to blame that one on France and a bit too much anti-communism. They were very much trying to just overthrow their colonial rulers and pretty sure in any other situation America would've helped.
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  433.  @johnathancreque8303  Not necessarily. Many honest left wingers will line out that those protests are both a leftist led/supported movement and on top of that have caused property damage and deaths. If we're being honest, what he's saying is factually accurate. Whether you call them protests or riots you can't deny that they have caused property damage and deaths as has been covered fairly extensively. Which are evidence toward them being riots and not protests.
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  434.  @thomaskalbfus2005  Right wing has economic and social. The original term for right wing was actually in reference to support for the monarchy and was originally coined in revolutionary France.
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  435.  @johnathancreque8303  No you're right. No Democrat. Many honest leftists do though. Anyone who dislikes violence should decry it and a few have though many haven't.
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  436.  @qjtvaddict  Yeah the link between education and innovation isn't exactly linear tbh. The education levels have little to do with that as the issue with innovation comes from the bureaucracy of the company and government limiting it as well as natural barriers to starting a new manufacturing business which means that the system favors entrenched players. New up and comers have to face the behemoths without any of the capabilities to even begin to compete. And of course the complexity and size of the systems themselves lend themselves to difficulty with starting. When your Missile costs a several million it's often because it costs a few million to produce. And of course you're not making just one. Not to mention how you'll go under if you don't land a contract.
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  437. @senhox970  The biggest thing is that this works with an actual civil war, which can only kick off if the army participates. Either it fractures, and there are now relatively equal professional forces with which to base a force on force conflict, or it almost unanimously picks a side and crushes the rebels or the government. If the military splits allegiances and you have lower officers breaking off, then there's no longer an easy win for the military and you have a conflict. To give a point of reference, say in the invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's forces really did simply fall over without much of a fight and Russia really did win in 3 days. That's what it'd look like if the army remains united and only picks one side. If it fractures, then you get the Ukraine war as it actually happened since there's now enough resistance to stop a knockout now. In that environment, recruitment, mobilization, production, now all play a role. And in that environment, that's when you see some guys go to a local bar to pick up some more boys and raid a federal building.
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  438. Yeah that's the primary reason. I haven't gotten through the video yet, but I knew exactly this. US refining is literally too good for our own good. So it's better to export our own quality oil and import nasty oil to sell it right back to them.
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  439. @TrevorCrook-c1s  The Russian economy isn't based on production, but instead resource extraction. Just like Australia and Canada.
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  440.  @paulheinrichdietrich9518  I'm not saying that it was any worse than another system of the time (for example the actual caste system of India was honestly kind of worse), but the point is that the strict class and lack of social mobility really did hamper much of that progress with no strong merchant class.
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  441. Basically everyone hates the American equipment because it isn't in metric?
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  442. Yeah the issue is that the pre-Soviet borders were defensible and especially the eastern bloc as they served as buffer states and getting into a more narrow part of the plain. However the modern Russian borders are completely indefensible and leave it incredibly vunerable.
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  443. @CraigPerry  First off: you're incredibly dense and lack some basic reading comprehension. Secondly: The pension systems would be adequately paid for if the pot wasn't often used as a source of extra funding and simply allowed to be a system that you pay into and then receive your money back. Thirdly: Yes you're right you can tax more to run a surplus obviously. However, the tax lever is not the most effective. The most effective long term is to dismantle the budget in order to run a surplus. Simply taxing your citizens more reduces their ability to pay for goods and services and hurts long term growth. Which, also means your tax budget stays stagnant while it would be growing with faster economic and wage growth, even with the same tax policy.
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  444. The other apart about that is that the US is the reigning naval power and China has never had practice launching a naval invasion. And naval invasions are incredibly difficult logistically. It's a massive undertaking requiring complete and total domination of a sea. It's Also worth noting that it's much farther away than the English Channel and straights of dover as well as completely impassible for many months of the year. The invasion of Taiwan will be the greatest logistical undertaking in history. Something China has never proved competent at. It also requires YEARS to achieve naval dominance might I add. And they aren't going to have that. It's also important to understand that heavy equipment is almost impossible to attempt to get onto shore without being destroyed. The Allies of the second world War had complete dominance of the air and sea facing against unprepared not even reserve forces made up of the injured and others not suited for fighting on the real war in the east with a sudden invasion that still had a high chance of failure. Oh, and their heavy equipment was in Another location because they were expecting it in said area. While missiles can to an extent make up for the lack of heavy equipment, landing craft are still incredibly vunerable and any sort of prepared defenses will have a field day with them as it's almost literally shooting fish in a barrel. The invasion will be a hell on earth comparable to no man's land of the first world War and will have to throw hundreds of thousands to take and wear down Taiwan through pure attrition with Taiwan always having the numerical superiority because there's only so many people you can pack into landers. And they have the defender's advantage. It's going to be a huge debacle unlike anything we've ever seen unless Taiwan is caught so completely off-guard as to border on incompetence.
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  445.  @cameronspence4977  Sure, but even precision weapons can only make up for so much of it. It's a defender's advantage nonetheless and the entirety of the Chinese strategy will have to be "We have more things to throw at you than you have to throw back at us" and the precision network is both vunerable and of limited effectiveness. It's missiles are going to be more of a "To whom it may concern" honestly than a direct recipient just because of logistical issues. It's also worth noting that the Taiwanese military does have a lot of its stuff stored in mountains and behind that wall away from the missiles which is part of why I said it will be limited effectiveness. You also have the fact that regardless of everything, it's still going to be prepared defenses of a naval invasion which will be the biggest issue it will face. Honestly China doesn't have landing craft and I haven't really heard it do much to really fix that problem. So it's going to be even WORSE on that front as they're going to be using civilian boats which are incredibly more vunerable. The best conclusion is that the battle will be won by attrition and if the mainland can properly settle on the beaches for more than like 3 days without being destroyed which is why I say it's going to basically be no-man's land. Between the mainland missiles and island artillery it'll just be the trenches but this time there's boats. Who wins is really up for debate as the question is if Taiwan can hold out for the like month in which it can be invaded and if it can rebuild after (don't think it can really rebuild) and if support for the CCP and invasion sour as tens to hundreds of thousands die in a huge debacle of the worst PR nightmare ever that not even the CCP can hide once the island isn't taken after said month.
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  446.  @npc2480  First off China's submarines are incredibly noisy and easy to spot and thus very ineffective. Second off for as great as the missile threat is, they rely on a very complex kill chain which can be disrupted via electronic warfare, along with the fact that the US doesn't even NEED to send carrier battle groups because the missiles I'm fairly certain don't reach the other side of the island and they can use that as a staging point or keep out of range and stay in the air to deny Chinese air superiority. And finally if it was so easy to take Taiwan by just bombing it into submission, Chinese could've taken it years ago. Extensive bombing will almost always have limited effect do to factors such as accuracy and that people and militaries almost always find ways to hide from said bombs allowing them to survive. Helps when your island is all mountains too and you can store your heavy equipment inside.
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  447.  @llbshane2120  I'll be honest, the opinion of China is so low right now in the US it might actually be willing to go for limited war to defend Taiwan. The only real question is if everyone involved will be sane enough to forgo another total war as wars have almost never been that except for the Punic Wars and the European Wars Between the Great Powers. There's also something specific I mentioned earlier: that said invasion would be a debacle. This is important because if Taiwan can hold out through the invasion window, the CCP has a lot of explaining to do to its people. The CCP has bought the loyalty of its people through very specific continued economic success. It has also had years of propaganda saying that Taiwan WANTS to be part of the mainland. If it shows that and the CCP can't have a successful initial invasion, there is a lot of explaining to do. Especially with its own population crisis.
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  448. he's old and French
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  449. You have an island. It should be a lot easier to curb that
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  450. Plot twist: the guy has infiltrated the Klan to destroy racism
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  451.  @theondono  Do you think you could edit this into the initial comment? It seems like a really good explanation that doesn't get seen unless you click on the section and it seems criminal to not simply see it.
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  452. Now, why would you think it'd be going back to normal? Come on now.
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  453. actually a while back it was covered in "The monolithic economy of the USA" and actually got 2 or 3 videos on it
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  454. Another thing is that they all share history of being British colonies. So they have that shared history as well and English in their Repitoire (easy trade with the Anglophones has historically brought in cash). While South Sudan has that the Congo does not. So it is honestly pretty questionable adding in those two.
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  455.  @tomhalla426  Do they even still have stock?
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  456. ​ @swell07_ If the US spent 30% of its GDP on defense you'd see the entire economies of Japan and the UK combined spent exclusively on defense. You have no idea what you're talking about. If you believe as a percentage of the government budget, you're correct it's not 3%. However, spending is tracked as a percentage of GDP as a way to keep things relatively constant since government budgets can change over time and can choose focus.
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  457. Enjoy the AK in modern warfare reboot
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  458. He's tackling it from only one angle and deliberately not discussing others as another said
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  459. Only option to annex middle east and reform ottoman empire?
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  460. Can't change the fact that it's at a snail's pace and that it's long and grindy relying heavily on artillery and civilian obliteration
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  461.  @emilianolaurenzi464  Except... that's not what's happening. While the idea that boots on the ground would be eliminated has one that's always been floated, it's also always been proven false and here was always going to as well. Much like with the tank, there's nothing that can replace the infantry because there's nothing else that does the job of the infantry. They hold territory and they're the only ones that can do so. Anyone who actually knew anything about militaries at all knew this wouldn't change. Secondly while Russia has EXTENSIVE artillery reserves, the quality and ability to maintain it is an open question. We've had repeated confirmation over the course of this war that Russian equipment isn't actually all that great. And even more interesting: they're reliant on western electronics for all of their modern weapons systems. Those have now been cut off and it's why their tank production facilities have shut down. What they're left with is primarily a lot static stuff and dumb fire munitions. However, Russia in having stockpiled 150 years worth of war materiel and still being an industrial power can mostly sustain a lot of that stuff. But they're still losing men and their weapon effectiveness continues to go down as more equipment is destroyed and they reach deeper into their reserves. One comment put it very well "Russia is a large and modern force, but the large stuff is old and modern stuff few" and we're seeing that here as much of the modern stuff just kind of goes away over time due to constant battle. What's being sent to Ukraine is a lot of the modern stuff that allows them to also keep that stuff intact longer as it's mostly self-propelled heavy equipment. Also firing deep into Russian logistics which is actually genius (they've been blowing up munitions depots deep behind the front in the dead of night when the Russians can't really attack). It's also mostly still in transit the heavy equipment Ukraine is using and still low. It's unlikely to be a match for Russia proper but it's still doing quite well with hampering the Russian attack on the front which is exactly what's desired. Also no, Russia is not trying to avoid civilian casualties. Beginning of the war they actually did look to be going that route, but then they got returned to Belarus and were forced to consolidate in the East in order to try to make their pushes. They've resorted to civilian obliteration which systematically destroys any and all infrastructure and gets populations to self-select in either being civilians who leave or fighters that remain. It sounds like they're trying to avoid civilian casualties from that statement, but no they're just not trying to outright kill civilians because they're not cartoonist monsters or looking to genocide a population. Anyway it saves the time of trying to get fighters out from hiding among the civilians (whether willing or unwilling on the part of the civilians) and denies a lot of cover reducing everything to rubble and open ground. However, it also takes a lot of munitions and starts to wear out the barrels on the artillery. Also while a collapse of the defenses in the southeast might increase the speed of advance... it also might not. We've already seen what we thought have been key cities been taken and honestly not a real change in the pace of the Russian offensive. On top of that we've seen the Ukrainians be able to conduct successful counter-offensives in the northeast. Fundamentally this is a war of two industrialized powers. And it's starting to get grindy and attritional. This is in many ways starting to resemble The Great War. World War ONE. And if we've learned anything from those wars it's that industrialized states can endure a LOT of punishment during wars. And this doesn't actually lead credence to the idea that as things move forward the Ukrainians lose confidence. In fact you only have to look at the Soviet Union for that one as they used the fear of death to feed more men into the grinder. Such conclusions aren't foregone here. Honestly, the biggest and most important player here in terms of confidence is actually the West. If they don't feel confident they'll likely start reducing the shipments Ukraine is depending on. And honestly given the number of men involved in this conflict that's a much more decisive factor when it comes to the war on attritonal grounds. And finally, this is actually the time most suited to an offensive and actually pushing. It's summer. No more mud and no more biting cold. This is optimal conditions for an offensive and they're still going at a snail's pace. That's a testament to the Ukrainian defense and Russian weakness in Ukraine that they're unable to really push very quickly despite the ideal conditions. Once summer ends the other big deciding time for this war will likely be in the winter as the problems which hit the rest of the world from Russian and Ukranian wheat and fertilizer going offline finally arrive.
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  462. CANZUK would basically need to rapidly become a naval power that can rival the US's own and even surpass it if it wants to be separated from the US. However, the US itself is part of the anglosphere even if it doesn't like to admit it. And so honestly what this would amount to is the ally that the US is sorely needing. The USA is facing a world where it will be overextended unless it can get allies but most of the Allies it does have seem to have fallen into decline and unwilling to put in any effort meaning that it is largely on its own. The only real ally it would be able to count on is this CANZUK union which would probably by in part subsidized by the USA and also able to help in at least some fronts that it doesn't have otherwise. By being able to at least form a confederation even if not a real federation the CANZUK super state would be able to actually hold its own in some capacity, strengthen its leverage over the areas of importance by drawing upon the other member states, and get at least more bargaining power with the US even if it'll immediately be an ally. Honestly despite the member states taking a similar path to Europe in some regards, Britain has always been on a more independent path to Europe than the mainland and all member states are closer in ties to the US than Europe. So I honestly see them following the path closer to the US than that of the rest of Europe being kind of brought along as the total greater anglosphere. Edit: There's also a few things which I wanted to add here. First off that even with the very different trade realities of each member state, the British empire historically used its empire as a system of preferential trade to rival the US and Germany economically since it couldn't on its own. The states would also be free to pursue their own trade realities but also be able to bolster the economy of each other by better exchanging their resources with each other. It's also worth noting that the UK is the second biggest NATO spender (though the US does still subsidize the whole thing) and Canada still spends about as much as Italy despite literally being the northern US border and so practically not really having to spend at all which means that as a united power they likely would be willing to spend enough to be a decent military power unlike the current EU and rest of NATO. It's Also that the CANZUK union is largely a state of one people spread across 3 continents in a way that almost no other union could boast. They share also incredibly similar culture so splits like the India-Pakistan split wouldn't realistically happen. It'd arguably be much more like the Han Chinese level of cultural unity than any other group of countries.
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  463.  @ddwkc  What's funniest about Manchu vs Koreans is that they're the most similar genetically.
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  464. ​ @Boababa-fn3mr Pop culture has reached far across borders and cultures, especially with the rise of the internet. Not to mention, industrialization does change culture. Not to mention how political development occurs anyway. For example even Iran is fairly westernized. It's thought of as deeply conservative due to leadership, but its fertility rate betrays the reality. Not to mention, secularism is a form of culture. You see the level of secularism and religiosity generally having an effect on fertility rates for that reason. Secularism comes with a culture all its own. Thus it spreads and kills the fertility rate.
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  465. And then you combined this with a technological focused, fairly cohesive trickling of societies, with functional institutions, and a founding myth of making anything out of nothing in a highly competitive internal system... you kind of took everything the world had to offer and gave it the best starting conditions ever.
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  466. Ah the Asians have it. They're also completely miserable. More so than we are. Minor blessing. Though I've lamented the aesthetic issue too
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  467. I think it's even more applicable to the last one where he went over the rules and which ones were broken.
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  468. Owls are evil but crows have learned to have an instant hatred of owls because those that did survived. Damn lmao.
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  469. it's basically become the fucked up version of the American system honestly
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  470. 28:07 As someone interested in physics and is in a physics related major, yeah sounds 2/3 like things we actually already do being anti-particle and particle balance, space-time being one fabric, and the third one sounds possible given that I'm unaware of any limits on the size of super massive black holes (scientific name btw) which makes it completely possible that literally everything in the universe is actually orbiting around one huge black hole. And frankly given the size of the universe it's completely possible to not even realize we're in orbit around something that way given the fact that we've only been able to even try to see these things for really about a century. And even more frankly, trying to figure out that we're orbiting with a reference point of the Oort Cloud (where most of the solar system's comets are said to come from). For reference, Voyager 1 which passed Pluto about 12 years after launch, will reach the inner edge in 300 years and leave it (along with the Sun's gravitational pull) in 30,000 years, and the Sun already from Pluto is only the brightest star in the sky with a light level about 5 to 10 street lamps. What all of that reference is to say, since the amount of time to even try to note the distance of travel is so great, it would be a very long time before we could really even try to figure that out.
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  471. ​ @2ndcomingofFritz less important as you still carry artillery with you
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  472. Suppressors not so much. And there's been a lot of improvements to scopes since then and especially in the mid-range with things like prism scopes.
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  473.  @kaochankddr6920  China's economy has not surpassed the USA even in PPP. Industrial capacity however is definitely a weakness which has currently been on the upswing to repair. The USA was the largest industrial power and has the means to do so again. In terms of manpower the US has never really tried to make a very manpower heavy military and always specialized in making a small but strong infantry which will likely come again. The US military is also at the forefront of innovation in all but hypersonic missile technology in a fashion the WWII Germans were never at and in fact lagged behind in almost every instance. So there's a technology gap as well to consider. The carriers are important for naval warfare as they as of yet have not become superceded but you're correct in how they matter little in a ground war which will be how this is fought. The biggest thing however is that the US will in no way be fighting alone as China has a lot of enemies and even its "allies" hate it. With a way to grab in probably the only other power which can industrialize and grow as fast as China: India who will likely be happy to help crush China in a war. There will be 3 key allies for the US to win: Turkey and Eastern Europe to hold back Russia, India to face down China and hold back attrition, and then Vietnam to provide a border to invade China from. Those key allies and the Chinese coalition falls.
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  474. @Old Seattle  Which nations believe US hegemony is good? Actually not the US and it's why its trend is increasing towards pulling out. The ones who think it good are the ones dependant on it which is western Europe minus France and Britain.
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  475. @Aldon Froelick  When was this? We saw the collapse of only one nuclear armed country and that was a peaceful dissolution.
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  476. Yeah not yet. Unfortunately, what polymers work poorly with are high levels of heat Thus making them poor for dealing with repeated heat in many areas. Also, for rifling to work properly, it cuts into the round. Thus, it requires something that can withstand that force AND heat from the now required friction. Though it would certainly be interesting to test how bullets would work on a less frictional surface with rifling
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  477. 90% of the utility, 10% of the price.
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  478.  @Theviewerdude  finally someone in this comment section who isn't pushing leftist talking points
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  479.  @mecampbell30  Polymer ends up as a better heat sink as demonstrated by the stone cold chambers after the True Velocity ammo is fired. Polymer is also cheaper than metal in every capacity so it wouldn't take long for the new facility to start up and then pay for itself in the long run. I actually agree with Chris here and say it was probably the lack of a belt-fed option and Sig playing politics saying "Machine gun only comes with our rifle" since everything about the GD bid seems to have been better except the suppressor looking a tad silly and you absolutely know they would've taken both if they could've when we know asanine the army is about recoil and hit percentage via follow up shots on target which is how the 3rd burst came into being in the first place and is facilitated by lighter ammo allowing soldiers to carry more.
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  480.  @savioblanc  The biggest thing about Brazil is a series of geographical issues and the complete lack of trust in their government and populace which is characteristic of much of Latin America. India has much more social cohesion even if its government is openly corrupt (there's a bureau of bribery lmao). With that it can probably sustain itself.
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  481.  VPN  The definition of poverty is also INCREDIBLY different lol. Poverty in India is lacking clean water. Poverty in the US and UK is just having to work a lot and get funded by the government. Not comparable at all.
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  482. That sounds a lot like how Florida functions currently where it's one of the demographically unhealthiest states on paper, but the retirement communities really shift the balance there. What's weirder is that a lot of northerners move south in the US for similar reasons, and they're still more demographically stable than the north.
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  483.  @horridcrowd  National socialist ideological would not have but there's no reason that monarchy wouldn't give the same economic ability as that's strictly political much like democracy. Hell even under a dictator it can do well as in Chile they're probably the wealthiest or near wealthiest in Latin America (but dictators like to control things like that for a lot of power, also recently most have been communist). You really just need a STABLE political system and country and for the system to not regulate you so much you can't do anything at all.
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  484. already has actually
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  485. Tbh, Better than MP7
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  486. I think the reason there aren't yet any verifiable results is because he explained he hasn't much funding so perhaps not yet the time to have created much
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  487. ​@ataraxia7439 Probably not tbh since they needed the colonies to be profitable, and bringing a lot of labor was hard. Slaves were made out of conquered people who were usually very aggressive on contact (and later integrated), or from the African trade which was already ongoing and then later abolished. And it could have only been abolished after first taking part.
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  488. Realistically this is true due to their location. They're on the Steppe. It's flat in that direction too. Before now they were conquered from there and constantly sold into slavery in Central Asia until they controlled the region. They're also the cap on China. If Russia dies what happens is that it becomes a rump state in the middle of the continent vunerable on all sides completely unable to defend itself. Before now Russia's greatest strength was its birth rate and large population relative to who it was fighting. This is no longer the case and it's approaching a point where it will simply be unable to compete and just die. Unless it somehow starts having families of 7 kids per woman again it'll realistically just die with other peoples populating where it is on the continent.
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  489. The Guntuber -> Congress elite production chain is not one I could've predicted
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  490. I'll be honest...I don't think it would've been as much of a victory as you think it was. A lot of the issue with earlier union issues were with simply navigating the ineffective generals and tossing them out. As soon as the good generals were able to rise and have power, the union were on a track for a successful victory. A lot of the union generals were really focused on strategic victories vs the confederate idea of a single, big, tactical victory that would prove their might. Despite the intervention of the British and French I don't think they would've stopped the Anaconda plan which was already a crippling strike to the confederacy. And with the British intervention pulling out so early thanks to the Mexican intervention, it seems like the union would've been able to successfully take on the confederacy as normal. And as soon as the French and British are distracted again thanks to the European War, the US probably would've gone through the confederacy just as they did to try to cripple their economic power. And as soon as that's over probably would've supported Mexico to kick out the French. Overall what I see is a confederate loss and a failed French gamble with an expansion of Russian and Prussian power. Though I doubt the union would have much of the political will to try to suppress the Northwest Republic.
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  491.  @dabo5078 ??? What is this about total population? I said MOBILIZED. As in how many soldiers they managed to get to fight. The Chinese only mobilized about 1.5% of their population and 2.8% of you count for the entire 8 year period and everyone who served. The US in 3 years mobilized 12.9% of its population for only 4 years. Also lol it doesn't matter if you have more total factories if they aren't producing as much. 5 factories which make 2 planes per week will still be less than 2 factories making 3 planes per week. Also doesn't take into account size or efficiency. Also the US could bomb it while the Chinese can't because the Chinese can't reach North America but the US can reach damn near anywhere.
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  492.  @RWebster325  Too much personal experience. Not enough data. Not enough feedback. You proved some people wrong and now everyone is up to your standard and always will be despite being a provable outlier.
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  493. Hungary is probably just apologetic for being with Austria during the time of partition
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  494. 7:10 No no she has a point.
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  495. The queen is the one with all of the power
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  496.  @avroarchitect1793  I'll be honest if there's anyone without the stomach for war right now it's China considering any sort of losses is the end of thousands of family lines which are incredibly important to their society. Also uh... encirclements neaty avoid that problem.
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  497.  @emperorarima3225  Actually I'll be honest I see the American total war having more problems than a more limited conflict because limited conflicts are a "Whatever you have is what you got" kind of war and China has... really just a shit military. Like it's not even good. The soldiers are the worst part of it but at this point the American military can literally coordinate all of its tanks at once and has some of the most disciplined soldiers in the world currently. Chinese break at the first bit of fighting. Also would probably completely de-legitimize the CCP since currently what's keeping them in power is the idea of overwhelming and continuous success. Once that ends.. that's it. Tbh the Chinese military is just a bunch of bafoons in really expensive equipment. The only threat is hypersonic missiles. Everything else is completely ineffectual and the Americans have a defense against. In many ways it's like the French army in the Franco-Prussian War: well funded but completely incompetent. But in this scenario it's magnified by 10 since the French at the time knew how to actually fight a war and had respect for its soldiers while also having superior equipment in many respects with the leadership being the main limiting factor. The Chinese however lag in EVERYTHING but hypersonic missiles. Nothing else is at parity and the troops are completely unreliable. It's basically like Italy in WWII but even the Italians were good when put under good Commanders. Chinese broke at the first sign of fighting when part of UN security forces and only get trained for half a year with leadership rotating in and out. That's not a recipe for success. That's a recipe for getting routed in every battle.
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  498.  @blessedpigeon6304  That is probably the best recipe for economic, social, and political collapse you can have as the right is largely the retarding force on the leftward push. The left unopposed goes too far, too fast, and eventually everything just unravels.
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  499. reloading, while popular, is a small part of the civilian market and so can be realistically ignored
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  500. ​@loke6664 Well I'm not sure the UK's needs are that different from that of the US given that they're both expeditionary powers with enemies overseas and thus limiting logistics and repair. Which is the central limitation on American tanks
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  501.  @MightyRude  This is correct. The top comment has a point here in that Russia especially has been collecting equipment for literally 150 years of warfare straight. Their main rifle through two world wars was made in 1891 and they've brought out the accurized versions to fill in gaps for snipers and marksman rifles. The cartridge from that rifle is also still used in their machine guns to this day. They've basically been standardizing calibers and the like the entire time and on top of that dumb artillery shells are VERY easy to make. Biggest issues are the barrels...
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  502.  @dynamicascension981  While this has limited much of the high tech required for precision weapons and guided munitions, they are still able to make dumb shells quite easily as it's simply very easy to make dumb shells.
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  503.  @buddinglearner7085  Solvency is having money or otherwise just not being bankrupt. Retarded is having a mental disability or otherwise being mentally deficient but when people call each other that it's usually just a synonym for stupid. So broken down, the quote is "We can keep taking idiot actions longer than you can still have money"
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  504.  @MrPicky  Considering the very important fact that was brought up by another here, I think it's worth noting that the American "two party" system is more analogous to a coalition system where both parties are realistically coalition parties who don't actually all agree on everything. This is reinforced by the fact that candidates in the same party get switched out for those with better platforms while in any other party realistically it would simply be choosing a different party. In fact such an example took place in the US state of Virginia where a candidate was half ousted by his party because he diverged in a few areas, so he switched parties, changed no positions, and won as the other party candidate. Now does that sound like a real unified party or does it sound like a coalition with a party changing to the other coalition? In the other idea of "abolishing the electoral college" the issue behind that is that the US is a federal system. The electoral College remains for 1 purpose: choosing the chief executive who runs the whole country. To that end, he's chosen by the electoral college which represents the states. The system is in place to ensure that the chief executive represents at least the interests of a majority of states. While of course every state is not equal thanks to population, if it were based entirely on population then it would be Entirely dominated by the needs of a few states who have vastly different concerns due to things like geography. To compare this with Europe, it would be like the EU choosing a representative that meets with other world leaders and supports certain policies chosen by a majority of member states and weighted by their populations. This means that states like Poland, Hungary, and the Balkans get a chance to be represented and have a candidate who focuses on defense from Russia instead of focusing solely on western Europe and relations with North Africa (I'm not sure of the population dynamics but for this let's just assume that the states from Portugal to Germany have all of the population). That is the purpose of that system. My final thing is simply a question as to who funds the campaigns for the European political parties? Absolute pure curiosity as the money has to come from somewhere and they can cost a lot. At least for the US it can easily be in the millions especially for the presidency as you have to campaign everywhere from Oregon through to Florida to secure enough votes to assume the Office. Not to mention competing with your own party members for the chance to even run against the other party in the first place. Its EU equivalent is having to campaign from Portugal through to Romania against other members of your coalition before getting pitted against another candidate from the opposing coalition.
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  505.  @ashtons.2483  The question is "Does he actually think of them as authoritarian or did he support them for different reasons?" as while yes he literally couldn't have done anything, I have many more doubts as to him supporting subverting Democracy. Even when he was trying to overturn the election, the man seemed to genuinely believe there was fraud and only finally relented once things got out of hand to the point that his supporters started a riot in the capitol building. Btw while he literally didn't have the support, the secret here is that if you have the power and loyalty, you can simply not follow the law as ultimately it is simply a piece of paper. The strength of American democracy comes from a culture of having over 250 years of unchanged rule from that initial creation of the republic while in comparison countries like France went through at least 4 governments since the creation of the American republic. And in because of that any populist candidate would HAVE to submit to democracy or else the people would literally attempt to oust them. The only way people would accept illegal actions would be if they see it as legal or somehow see the ruling party as corrupt enough to start from scratch or if they saw those illegal actions as legal because of framing.
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  506.  @dannybonura3927  Last time they had to defend they just left. I forget the incident but this was around 2010 I believe. China just took an island.
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  507. Well the point is that Europe doesn't. And realistically, in terms of global economy if it's impressive that the US has maintained a stable quarter that kind of just supports his point. They've ceded their power in comparison as they haven't been dynamic enough and so China has largely taken their place. On top of that, since their reconstruction where they dominated 36% of the global economy they should've been in an even BETTER place to move things in their favor than the US. But instead have moved lower. And on top of that those places mentioned just never really started as civilizations in the first place. There was never barbarism, civilization, and then decadence. They haven't even started on that train and so honestly their counter-point is in being a counter-point to the model in the first place. Also if anything you can argue that the middle east is in a state of barbarism tbh and that turkey can lead it to civilization.
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  508. Germany proved that twice lol
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  509. 24:39 Yeah we're still adjusting to industrial society and still wading through it in many instances. Combine that with the fact that the internet has made information easier to access proportionally to the printing press and you kind of understand what it is our society is grappling with and still figuring out what is and isn't weird.
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  510. I think the comment about the right being overtly racist but not in actuality is pretty well seen in most right wing spaces. You'll see them joke about "basketball Americans" but as soon as they see one agreeing with them the veneer falls apart. And then they'll roast them for disagreeing for reasons entirely unrelated to race. The American right is a genuine treat to watch do things. Especially since their behavior is entirely equal and opposite to that of their opponents.
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  511. If you don't get the word out you can't get something to change. Also worth noting that he is working toward that in other ways with friends if I remember correctly.
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  512. I'm not even sure it's that. It's just the war they've found themselves in. They have prepared for decades about a mobile conflict on open ground but what they've found themselves in is an urban conflict constricted to roads. And you can see that the whole issue they're seeing is that they've got unsupported tanks in city streets and forested roads where they're sitting ducks. Issue is use.
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  513. I've generally agreed with this statement, however southern Europe with that exact situation seems to have the lowest fertility rate.
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  514. I think that the biggest thing is that China as the aggressor fighting a civil war would basically just end the war quickly in the same way Russia or Germany surrendered
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  515. ​ @michaelhuett9916 Hey how's it going now?
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  516. Pretty ironic that the USA initially took the Philippines for the sake of proximity to China, and roughly 80 years after releasing it, coming back for power projection toward China
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  517.  @krasavchik8714  This is incredibly unlikely. People REALLY overestimate the strength of these oppressive governments. Oppressive governments are never and have never been able to order its population this way. Any and all loyalty is bought and as soon as they're forced too much they either revolt or get conquered by an outside power as people refuse to defend it. People don't like being oppressed and once oppression reaches too much of the populace the frustration builds too much and they're replaced. The core of what lets these states survive is that they're built on oppressing only those who don't comply at first with reasonable and then increasingly unreasonable demands to continue to comply. Once that tips over a certain point, you start to get revolts and rebellion because people genuinely can't take it anymore. There's a reason that Qin China (the dynasty we get its name from and that united China) died within 20 years. Loyalty has to be maintained by something other than by buying it. There has to be some genuine goodwill or love for the institutions. Tzarist Russia maintained control via the church, military, and national pride. The military was an institution which people were able to have immense pride in and one of the key triggers of the animosity towards the Tzars were Russian military failures. Their repression also ended up fairly local and the repression generally took a trajectory of being less repressive. It was only after that started to reverse that we got the seeds of the Russian revolution.
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  518.  @rhalfik  Their fertility rate is under replacement rate and their population pyramid is growing smaller at the bottom. It doesn't matter now it matters in future.
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  519.  @rhalfik  I believe it may have been mentioned or simply not have crossed their mind mainly because this type of thing doesn't really like to get talked about. It's really convenient to kind of ignore. But yeah the point is that the population pyramid should be a pyramid going up for growth or stability. Even a rectangle is stable. What is not, is an upside down one on the demographic chart. The birth rate is what determines demographics are okay because those matter in future. It doesn't matter if you have a growing population right now, if in 50 years people are too old then in 50 years you're going to have a population decline (which is what a lot of Europe and East Asia are facing). And at that point it can't be fixed. You're done and you're in for a demographic crunch.
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  520. I understand the sentiment, but in real terms, that's how a lot of real papers start and are written, and usually, it's given as a quick answer to the video title. He starts with the conclusion, but he does actually support it quite well throughout the video, and in real terms, it comes out as a thesis. Thus, he has effectively used his conclusion as a thesis. Which is perfectly acceptable since the whole idea of argumentation is to prove why what you initially said is correct.
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  521. How to know you've a badass dad: the first father-son bonding experience is murdering a bunch of nobles for the sake of honor.
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  522. Yeah India was the last resort and came from learning the lessons of the American revolt
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  523. Ryan Reynolds has been trying to play Deadpool for at least ten years and he finally got his wish. God bless his soul. Unrelated but anyone up for a Chris Pratt and Ryan Reynolds buddy cop?
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  524. Well... it may have been a republic but also largely was an IMPERIAL republic. So... still an empire.
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  525. @brini'staco  The biggest thing here is that it must become a social norm. Women entered the workforce, and that became the social norm. It must become the social norm to take time to foster a family. How that is done with industrial populations is the challenge of the future. A possible idea would be seasonal work much more akin to old agricultural styles of having festivities when not in the growing seasons rather than year-round industrial work. Also a return to the church (or at least some way to foster communities which was the historic norm for populations), so that people can find partners when they're younger and start far younger when less established.
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  526. @Terranallias  He was saying he was making more money and thus raising his standard of living. More than any worker protections this is the thing which is desired. And even then worker protections are intended for this exact purpose by preventing lower standards of living. If the worker protections aren't keeping you afloat though then who really cares?
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  527.  @Faustiangemerald  Well that's not what he's discussing
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  528. You're right that no civilization has done anything on that scale, but please remember that most empires brutally opress everyone just basically for fun until the brutality catches up to them and face revolt. In fact, that's how the Spanish conquered the Americas. Btw it's also disingenuous to not acknowledge that the most important part of the transatlantic slave trade was started by the Africans selling their captured enemies to the Europeans in the first place. Okay so what's wrong with condemning Arab countries for what they do wrong? Is it also wrong to disagree on certain points? Also why does a government need to apologize for the whole affair when it got rid of the institution? Btw America is completely exempt from your second edit because they both changed their constitution and I don't think there's any apology better than spilling the blood of your own for the freedom of another.
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  529. 6:45 For evidence of him not actually doing that, it was under him that in the parks that toy guns were no longer allowed to be sold. Small thing. Very small. But very clearly done not for financial reasons. And it was under his leadership. He's 100% the problem.
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  530.  @fruitella196  Yeah but it's not because of any advantage. The best thing you had was that you were hard to invade, and then you had a sea culture to make sure that you couldn't be which is more geopolitics. The USA ended up being the perfect version of Britain. Why do I say that? Take Britain and the policy, talents, etc, and expand it by millions of miles. It's island diplomacy on steroids. Tbh in reality the US controls at least half of the world itself having the whole western hemisphere as its sphere of influence even if it doesn't directly control it. And it did it while Britain was up controlling half of the world. Canada may not have been directly under the American sphere, but who's going to be more relevant to you in control? The island of your countrymen thousands of miles across the ocean, or the country who out-populates you and shares thousands of miles of border with who really Only doesn't invade anyone due more to disinterest fueled partially by lack of real reason to do so? So honestly Canada was under American domination as well in real terms. So overall the whole thing is basically that the US is just... bigger Britain without a Europe to concern itself with. That's it. Britain itself was always only partially interested in European affairs and primarily concerned more with its colonies which honestly were more economically important at least for resources of production. So honestly? Take Britain, make it the size of Europe, and then you have the US.
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  531. probably as well as any other machine gun lol
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  532.  @mrconfusion87  I think there's a good point to discuss about how the people are compared to how the government is and that the government will often have a very small direct influence on the people especially on foreigners. Like the government casually disappearing 20 people (usually political dissidents) is bad and would show that its authoritarian but if you're one of the other hundreds of millions of people you really aren't going to notice much unless for whatever reason you get a target on you.
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  533. From a purely rational and selfish point of view there's 0 reason to have kids as it's the ultimate form "not for you" but is necessary for you know.... life and Civilization. Go have kids. Most people aren't prepared for them. You'll make it work. Unless you're going to pass down something that will kill the child, go have kids.
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  534. I understand, and reading that I'm similarly concerned, but if you're looking at a geographic map, it does work but only with a larger Hungary. Really what you can do is trace a map of the old Austrian empire by the mountains in the region
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  535. ​ @auflex6383 Well look at the sloths
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  536.  @auflex6383  Bruh moment.
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  537. Sounds like Europe has already fallen and America is just the last holdout with a strong revolt against the decadence. And the middle east and China are basically trying to find their footing to become players on the world stage again in barbarism.
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  538. Here's the thing: I have several very large Ls including fumbles which were entirely my own fault and I regret to this day. But I'm not posting them in a YouTube comment section.
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  539. The reasons really boil down to two: the society and institutions are unable to inspire really anything positive in the youth, and even of those that can apply are too unhealthy to even join. And frankly I agree with the diagnosis that it's a canary in the coal mine. The society is not exactly in a healthy state. And in the mean time we'll see real physical damage until it can be righted.
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  540. 1:19 No I'm quite happy about this and now excited than I've been in a long time. I'm glad I get to watch.
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  541. Farming is an industrialized sector. And without fertilizer you de-industrialize the sector which reduces the amount you can get.
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  542. smooth brained dictator lol
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  543. 38:21 Jordan Peterson becoming a new Marx for the young man of today makes sense given he never actually led anyone either but people took it and ran with it as far as it could go.
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  544. Why do these governments always try to print their way out of the issues? It always ALWAYS leads to hyperinflation!! Did NO-ONE learn!?
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  545. @Pierre-Olivier Jolin Yeah no I have to disagree. Chinese are boxed in and they're still going to have to deal with their own supply lines. And the numbers start to even out once you take the population of the whole NATO alliance vs an Eastern one. However those supply lines will also be incredibly difficult since how are you going to try to push through Siberia with modern supply trains and even just modern forces? There's a reason Russia hasn't been threatened from the East since it got to the pacific and it isn't just because China was weak. Japan would've never made it to Moscow even at its height just because it's Siberia. Just no infrastructure all through there to use. On top of that... realistically China doesn't want to fight Europe anyway and the Russians and Chinese are nowhere near strong enough allies to let troops within each other's borders except under heavy surveillance. It just isn't realistic and frankly it's the same complaint I have about China invading through Pakistan: where would it get the supply through? Just doesn't work. Also as an addendum: barrier between China and Russia in Manchuria is also mountainous.
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  546. @Pierre-Olivier Jolin While the geography is literally the same, the interactions with said geography have changed. And frankly, this is the point here when it comes to moving armies through the Steppe. It's a VERY long way through not great terrain and poor infrastructure not conducive to moving supplies and men and without really means to get those things over very well.
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  547. Oh yeah that's about how he's described it before
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  548. Bruh the submarines are working unimpeded how are they not just mercing almost any combat ships? Surface fleets aren't necessary to just completely sink ships. If you want true control they're very important and even more so for actual power projection, however if you're trying to deny control and sink transports they're more effective than any surface fleet. Also completely ignored India which is part of the anti-chinese alliance. Japan just completely decided to give up. I agree with the other comments this is a best-case scenario.
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  549. Yeah but what "wrong opinions" would there be here? It's about a civilization and how it acted with the end message saying that it's a very open one. So not sure what the issue would be here.
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  550. I'm excited for the day the Franco-German alliance ends and then so does the EU
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  551.  @miguelbaca8086  No. What i said was that we proved the soviets did in fact have these motivations when these things occurred. Secondly, the point isn't proven. The implication is that it's a false narrative. It's simply reality.
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  552. @miguelbaca8086  Your point isn't proven if the proof was we found the motivations were correct
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  553. ​ @TheVvolfgang Someone responded to your point about a naval blockade but I also want to say something: Blockades do not work unless you intend to shoot the ships. There's simply no volume of ships large enough to actually plug in all of the holes. So it simply wouldn't work. So this entire idea simply falls flat on its face and it's why blockades are an act of war.
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  554. Yeah the EAF needs to kick out the DRC and possibly even South Sudan until later. Without those two the unification is a relatively easy process. Literally NONE of the borders make sense with the ethnic groups. However all except the DRC were British colonies. So they all have a common language, common real lack of national identity that can be formed due to industrialization, and are relatively stable. If there's a time to try to create a national identity and form a nation... this is about where you'd start.
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  555. I think the biggest thing with choosing the traits of children before they're born is that you're going to completely OBLITERATE any ideas of equality. The idea of equality before God is based on the idea that despite us being good at different things, we have the potential to do, most things, and we all have the spark of divinity within us. Now imagine when you can create genuine castes of people. And if we're going to be selecting for certain traits already, those kids likely won't be able to select for other traits down the line because they just won't have them. And you're relatively quickly going to form a caste society which are inherently VERY unequal and probably going to ban inter-caste breeding reinforcing the traits initially selected for. Edit: just in case it's not self-evident, gender equality does not exist in a caste society. You simply cannot make as many women who can compete with the men in those categories as they'll be at the extremes already, especially in strength where the female body has a lot of limiting factors for the sake of childbirth.
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  556. ​ @DistrustHumanz Joking because he almost always brings up Emmanuel Todd
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  557. @Appletank8  I mean, even if that was the case (no, there is still substantial dual-use development they draw upon), this wouldn't be the data to draw on to make that point as it's flawed for the reason I just discussed. It'd still be the incorrect conclusion from the data.
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  558. I think the most interesting characteristics about the west is how it believes itself to be so morally superior that they genuinely cannot come to grips with the fact that they've not lived up to an artificial standard and feel that being better than most of the world is a blemish upon their moral record. In contrast, the saddest thing about the colonial leaders is that they do their best to divest themselves of all blame by blaming their problems on the west, and use its own moral system against it for freebies and as a scapegoat so that they don't have to improve. At which point my only question becomes: "When do these societies eventually take responsibility for themselves and stop blaming their parents for their own mistakes, and accept what they gave them?" Finally, i think the most interesting part about colonization was that it was basically impossible to control and most often looked more like inter-tribal warfare, wars among local lords, or simply normal business ventures, than any specific efforts by the governments of these empires.
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  559.  @georgefloydsfake20dollarbi28  While the clovis culture is a very strong influence and something he referenced, they have found some issues with this where there's no idea why certain DNA strands are found there and apparently there were some people there before the clovis culture. They have come to dominate a lot of the gene pool, however there's a lot more mixing that has come into play like he said. I happened to do a little digging myself out of pure curiosity recently. Native Americans are very difficult to nail down for a variety of reasons but one of them is the fact that the tribes didn't really share all of the same genetics and why you can find absolutely none of that ancestry but the other person did.
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  560.  @perthdude21  I mean... nature and nurture. It's the genetic inclination. It seems that it's probably true enough but clearly isn't the end-all-be-all. I mean the Indo-Aryan group should theoretically carry in it the same amounts but for cultural reasons went on very different tracts. Nurture determines which genes manifest in a lot of ways. Also he did say "some tribes" so it could easily be the Comanches or Caribe compared to like the Taino people.
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  561. please give me context
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  562.  @daweed7950  Is it just that hard to get a gun that at That point they just don't care or do they just have really lax law?
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  563. 0 hour lol
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  564.  @gunzablazin01  Nah. The most important thing to understanding the NFA is understanding which weapons the prohibition era gangs were using at the time. One of them was automatic weapons and others were things like the Thompson. Basically they were trying to criminalize anything that would be commonly held by those such as Capone to combat gang violence. Only issue? Prohibition ended around the same time making the law completely pointless while also no-one ever taking the time to repeal it
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  565. Yeah the book "the population bomb" was silly because it was written basically 2 years after we saw industrialized birth rates fall off a cliff. I don't think most of our problems can be traced to overpopulation. You have local overcrowding which can cause social tensions, but that's an administrative or social issue primarily rather than an economic one. The biggest problem economically is that people make up the economy. And socially, there has never been a period of population decline which hasn't had immense social issues. Not to mention, most periods suffer economic collapse. If you take Japan as an example, its economically all but died and has now been on 30 years of life support. What do you think happens when they slowly lose even more people overall? I don't think it'll end well. Overall, while growing populations have their issues, they're far less than losing people.
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  566. which is why the Russian tanks are so small
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  567. I know the army says that it won't mix and match ammo and weapon, but true velocity seems like a better match for Sig Sauer than general dynamics. Textron CAN'T have that mix and Sig seems to have weapons that are more suited to keeping in line with current army service. They also have a heavy machine gun lined up to replace the 7.62 since this 6.8 is replacing 5.56 not 7.62. With the benefits of the true velocity composite ammo, it is vastly superior to the bi-metal cartridge with none of the downsides of the CT rounds, I can't see them NOT adopting them. The Sig weapons seem way too suited to the current army doctrine of weapons for them to reject either. So overall it seems like Sig will get weapons and True velocity will get a huge ammo contract for probably the rest of all military ammo.
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  568. I think it's less that it was because of being unable to in Afghanistan and more of testing the waters to see if that was at all possible to do with making everyone a designated marksman. And well with these new scopes that can do exactly that, it seems kind of a no-brainer to do so. Also historically Assault squads have wielded different weapons to actually engage in CQC like this so I see the M4 being put exactly in that role again if that needs to be done. Assault rifles basically allowed militaries to do away with the submachine gun because the Assault rifle could handle that role as well. Seems like exactly where all of that extra stocks of munitions would go. More than anything else it seems like this would've best been fit by the general dynamics bid mentioned earlier with the only possible issue being over-penetration due to the way that rifle is designed. However due to a lack of belt-fed option, no dice and it was shelved.
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  569. If you want to gain an understanding of American politics first thing you need to realize is that international or EU level politics for you is the same level as national politics for the US. Local politics are always more diverse.
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  570. Yeah Miami actually has a lot of that same bill
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  571. Yo he called out the left too if you watched long enough
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  572. congrats on reaching 1 million!
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  573. Exactly. Even more interesting, imagine if it was cleaned of that extensive copper build-up. Probably would be.
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  574. Yeah, Western Europe didn't actually get too much from the triangular trade. Spain got a lot of gold and silver, which gave them a temporary boost, but it eventually crashed their economy due to inflation. Even more relevant: Europe was already the wealthiest place on the continent by the time it went colonizing (look at the Nordics and Germans for more evidence on that). Realistically, the colonies didn't do too much, except for three things: Crash Spain and drag it down long term, create the British settler colonies, of which America became the biggest and thus best economy to trade with, and finally the introduction of new world crops such as the potato to Europe which helped feed the booming population of the industrializing continent.
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  575. Carbine version is useless and honestly for that you have 5.56 as basically a PDW role
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  576. I think the best way to actually put that line at the end of it is not "I'm evil" it's a bit more sad: "I'm broke" Streaming makes nowhere near the money per show TV did. So... no money. Most shows get few if any views. Again, no money. And then finally probably a plurality to even a majority of the audience just wants to watch re-runs of nostalgia shows so it's just like "What am i even paying you for?" Edit: Due to difficulties with allocation of budgets and amount of money brought in vs spent, more than a few of these writers are costing more than they give back.
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  577. Ah yes "The humbling of Thor" Impossible but almost not. Whoops.
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  578. FUCK YEAH! Keep going
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  579. I think my only issue with this comment is that put in context I'm wholly confused to if your initial statement is simply a part of using the same format in a counter-point or a real position you hold.
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  580. Idiots. Complete numbskulls all of them. All of this was just pointless. Complete mob for no reason beyond anger. Vandalizing and fighting. And for what? Ended up causing people to die who had no reason to. I also feel bad for the others in the crowd in the early stages who had no idea what was going on being pushed by the crowd and seeing open doors and roads having no idea what came before them because of the sea of people getting caught up in this as a result. What did they know? Idiots who led other idiots into crime and breaking random things. And then they call themselves "patriots" after. Would be laughable if it wasn't for how terrible they are.
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  581. Well that's one way to deal with that feeling. Though all it does is set you on a really poor road which leaves basically everyone worse off. It's not exactly shiny, but it's probably the most effective system for overall wellbeing as well as ability to carry human populations. The biggest problem is inherent inequality. However even the floor rises under the system (especially since it's really the only reason industrialization started at all given how Russia had to import western industrialists to industrialize and how none of the centrally planned systems allowed it and in fact in China actively crushed it in the 11th century).
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  582.  @degamispoudegamis  Imagine thinking you're being exploited because someone else is richer than you and then calling the only system which ever gave you the means to wealth unimaginable to your ancestors, capable of carrying over 2000 times more people than before, and for the first time in history twice as many people obese as there are starving with less than 12.5% of the world starving (and even then being largely for political reasons), terrible and something that should be torn down. And once again... all because your country was simply late to the game and only started recently.
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  583. @ABPAID  You are selling your labor. Without the capitalist getting the surplus value, they are broke and treading in place. I know to you this sounds like a good thing, but without the capitalist making money, they have no way to pay more workers or give raises, nor do they have the money to live either as they have to pay themselves. It's not exploitation. It's a necessary factor of all production if everyone is to benefit.
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  584. @ABPAID  A: some people have to own things. Someone has to foot the bill for the upfront costs. If no-one foots the bill, it doesn't get started. Then no-one has a job and nothing is done at all. Not to mention that the other thing you're getting for selling your labor is a steady income. Such a thing is not guaranteed for the capitalist. Thus, working for someone else is safer. B: In terms of everyone being working class, if you want to have that and still have industrial society, then you're looking at a technological barrier and not a social one. The way current technology is, centralization is power. Centralization = more production => more output/more growth. Industrial manufacturing at this moment is not viable enough in small scale to really have such an economy yet. We're getting there. Though as things stand, still favors centralization. Edit: There is technically one way through social change to break the power of the large owners: buy local. If people have a stronger sense of community and are more incentivized to buy what is best available in their community you break the power of large corporations by denying them markets they'd otherwise have as well as distributing the population under far more owners who are far more accountable to their local areas than you do currently. They also have a higher stake in the success of local businesses given that the communities would depend on them. However... people who are incredibly money conscious need to be willing to pay more to support their local businesses.
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  585.  @ultraman_99  I don't think this means what you think it means. Why would competition mean as much profit as possible? I'm not going to pretend it's some moral system that won't try to depress wages or often become too obsessed with higher profits, but I'm going to bring up that companies often have to raise wages to be more competitive because of that very competition. If they get all of the workers, no-one else can compete. Companies are trying to lower their costs, but wages are only one part of that. Reputations and quality are also important as that's much of their customer base, unless they're deliberately selling the bottom of the barrel. I'll also bring up that companies have to operate in a sustainable enough fashion that they can continue to survive and make more money, thus, there's a practical upper limit to how much profit they can chase or else that very competition will force them to either collapse or stop as they'll stop being competitive and bringing in more money. So no. Companies aren't trying to extract as much "surplus value" as possible. It doesn't even exist. It's just the total cost for the factors of production, but the labor is also a cost.
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  586. @ultraman_99    labor is actually in the imperial core. Not the periphery or semi-periphery. Secondly, usually the pay there is actually better than most local pay meaning that the average wage there rises as well. They're paid what they produce. A labor monopoly is basically impossible to establish except through the state owning all of the labor. They're not going to push the wages immediately back down because then they'll simply leave and people will be around to start their own businesses again which pay better. No natural monopolies have ever existed, even the famous Standard Oil in the USA which was split when it had less market share than it started with. The only time one exists is when they're already the most efficient producer (though there are industries which are simply difficult to get into). If you lose all of your workers by paying less your monopoly is broken as others are simply able to come back and undercut you. Reputation is in regards to quality. While many may buy The cheapest good, there are many tiers of goods and thus many tiers of supplier. We all admit that quality of goods are not equal and so aren't priced that way. Competition in markets does not force excess profit generation. What it will do is force down prices in order to generate one. However, so long as you're generating profits and can in the future, other companies have little effect on you. Others eating into your profits is a long term threat of no longer being profitable. Forcing more profits than the others is simply ridiculous of a notion. Finally, no, expansion is a luxury caused by having enough profit to afford it and thus repeat the action. Without that profit, no expansion.
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  587. @ultraman_99    While in some capacity, it's been moved to the periphery and semi-periphery, it's not even a majority for the core. The reason they're lower is usually, most fundamentally, a lower level of production per hour of work. With lower capital costs to boot. This is changing as we speak. Yeah, no, the wages are usually not paltry, or if they are, they're paltry to us with the wages from the core. There are several examples where the local company, due to its increase in pay, is basically a driver for local economic development which is the normal pattern of behavior. The dependence is short term as the wealth spreads among the population. Also, while cartels are enforced by force of arms, if you look at the history of trusts and monopolies beyond what's normally said about it, you'll find it's true what I've said about the market share declining with the biggest example of standard oil. They were certainly large businesses, but they weren't monopolies and those businesses you mentioned aren't monopolies even now as they all have very large competitors. Also, no, the majority of people worldwide do NOT buy the cheapest good as unless you're at the poverty line where that's all you can afford, there are still tiers of goods with differing quality for different markets. That's simply the truth of any economy as income brackets exist. Also, no, the unfortunate reality is that YOU don't know what you're talking about. And in fact, you quite literally contradicted yourself as if the goal is maximum profits, then trying to undercut your competitors by not generating profit is explicitly antithetical to that goal. The problem is that the idea of the monopoly is simply a widely held myth perpetuated by the trust-busting of the gilded age in the US and as a useful rallying cry today. The closest analogue to an actual monopoly coming from the free market itself are those very capital intensive industries with a high barrier to entry. Beyond those, no such thing as a monopoly from the free market. It's always from states, who are themselves monopolies in a certain area, who grant them such as utilities or historical examples such as the East India Company. Whether or not it's necessary is a separate conversation, but they're an example of actual monopolies being created and controlled by the government. Finally, yes it is a luxury to expand, as loans come with terms and conditions, and even then, have to return the investment over time. So it's not like they can simply not profit, or they must go under. Cheap money keeps businesses afloat who would otherwise have already fallen, so called "zombie companies", but they fall eventually either in the next recession or simply when the money runs out. Because it does run out.
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  588. ​ @adventurefaps9571  ironically the most common enemy of capitalism
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  589. You know 100 years on this is a bit too relevant in USA October 2021
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  590. To be fair there's definitely more stresses from combat now... though soldiers have historically been the fathers as well as the sons.
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  591.  @Wackaz  Which countries which have embraced socialism are actually happier? Please don't point toward the northern European countries which are A: not socialist and B: more have a social sigma against unhappiness. There's also the trends of suicide and other such matters which if you've looked closely mirrors more from the death of any sort of lived philosophy. The takeover of more atheistic values and generation of historic wealth (which you're lying to yourself if you say it isn't as a direct result of market system and its growth from the industrial revolution) which makes actual struggle in life almost gone. Humans which have lived generations struggling to even feed themselves have never really had the time to develop depression and other such issues. And there's a direct correlation in states between wealth and suicide currently where you don't see any of the massive suicide rates in poorer countries (which also tend to have a proper religion). Vietnam may be "much happier" but also live in a semi-opressive regime where you can't criticize the government. Happiness indexes are also more metrics at how acceptable it is to be unhappy as I alluded to earlier. The actual communes of Vietnam being the happiest parts of society is also very disingenuous as a commune is largely a small area with a small group who lives together on a patch of land and might as well be an extended family which have historically been quite happy for thousands of years with little they actually do besides work their living. The fall of an actual culture in much of these societies is much of the reason for their current situations and not really related to capitalism. Capitalism is just a means of building wealth which thus brings prosperity by allowing people to engage in the FREE movement of goods and labor. Socialism is the exact opposite of that and much of what it does is simply redistribute wealth from those who genuinely generate it and then misallocate resources to produce things inefficiently. There's good reason that every government which has been explicitly against capitalism eventually moved back toward it. You cannot have an industrial society without Capitalism as you're attempting to supplant a system with one which isn't built for it which is why despite Marx's prediction the revolution would come in western Europe, largely came in the un-industrialized countries such as the ones in Asia (Russia too) which also used it as a way to expand the revolutions against their previous shitty governments. I think the only real evidence of "capitalism killing millions" is in bengal with the domination of the east India company who ruled the county as a company. Which is generally a no-no as a rule and directly led to its regulation. Every other case of people starving is almost entirely from governments who want it for a political reason or are using it in such a misallocating of resources as to be negligence so bad it's malice. Oh also you're an absolute LIAR if you're saying Vietnam is still progressing toward socialism when they're arguably embracing capitalism more than ever before with its expanding economy. You're also an absolute liar for saying Cuba is happy when we just recently had a VIRAL movement of Cuba attempting to get its freedom. They aren't happy. They're controlled. As an aside: You used fascism wrong and so I know you don't actually know what it is beyond something you don't like and you're the type to in the 1940s call the soviets Fascist to try to defend that socialism isn't an oppressive system inherently. If you're a Marxist and a Historian with being an economist you have something fundamentally wrong with your thinking either missing key details or ignoring them for ideological purposes. Marx can be forgiven for inventing it and not seeing what the trend is at this point in time. If you currently think that it's at all applicable in this point in time you need to re-evaluate your view of at the very least economics. It's also disingenuous to say war is from learning from ourselves. That's an idealistic and honestly idiotic view of why we're at peace. We're at peace because of the major powers of the world were to wage war we'd be subject to nuclear annihilation decimating everyone equally. NOTHING else is the reason. It's the equivalent of the biggest gun ever. It's the equivalent of giving two people guns and then saying if the other shoots, you have a way to kill them regardless so you just both lose. War has winners and losers. Nukes don't.
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  592. I dub the Greeks of the 1940s honorary Americans for fighting for freedom with strength, courage, and deterministic in excess of even the Americans at any point in our history. And I'm proud to see a people who love freedom more Than even ourselves.
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  593. No matter what manpower is required to occupy a country and solidify gains. Even if they just walk in, that part is important. It's how you hold territory. It's how you have a Frontline.
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  594. after this video I really want one too lol
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  595. Yeah but that applies to the entire south. Not just Florida. So it's not really of relevance here.
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  596.  @michaelsommers2356  You're right, however 90% of the south before air conditioning basically made it as much of a backwater as Russia was and not being the major population center of the USA. However, after the invention of air conditioning the southern states now account for half of the population of the USA.
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  597. Well in the coming decades the stagnation is going to stop and wages are going to inflate dramatically as much of that stagnation was from globalization and the huge population that was the boomers which is ending. Lots of costs will likely go down due to energy availability of the USA as well. On top of that, it's known that the US has it probably more expensive than most of these other places which have much more government intervention to depress those costs. However, the US still had their kids while the rest of the world did not. Frankly the idea that it's the cost of living which depresses the birth rate doesn't stand up to scrutiny unless it's REALLY hard times which occur such as famines or things like locking down your entire population.
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  598. Perun went over this is one of his videos. Wars are very long and expensive affairs. So you have to have the necessary production to survive but algal the necessary stockpiles to survive until you can spin up industry since industry doesn't just turn on or off. But industry also doesn't stay on unless stuff is being bought. The only ones who seem to have taken this into account were the Americans.
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  599. You know... really all you need is a lot of will and a WHOLE lot of blood to do that. Or to find many who are like minded and start going.
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  600.  @FirearmsAndFitness  No. They wouldn't. Even for your true GTW rifles, you can convert it to that. It's something they very much overlook and almost refuse to touch on. Because at that point, it's almost objectively a superior rifle.
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  601. So we've got one near east power, two middle east powers, two east African powers, and a European power which controls west Africa and possibly contends for the Mediterranean with the Near Eastern power. I'll be honest France and Turkey just sound like old rivals who took a break for a generation coming back for more. Edit: I just looked at the fact that France helps supply the Turkish military and it may be more of a partnership
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  602.  @everypitchcounts4875  You know, I was referencing NGAD (FA-XX is also NGAD) but I completely forgot about B-26, and I haven't even heard of project mayhem.
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  603. @Jonathan Pfeffer  Yeah, that's kinda stupid actually. I understand that to some degree it'll be okay with the sake of wear, but it sacrificed basically everything else which can make a rifle a functional weapon to achieve the requirements. Nothing is compatible with the M4, and frankly, the ammo factories still need retooling ANYWAY for the new ammo. The only thing really similar is the manual of arms, which is one of the least important things when it comes to the expense for the transition to a new platform. In terms of transition, it was not exactly a cost saving measure.
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  604. 24:28 This is incredibly disingenuous and the appeal to the early gun control in the early parts of the video is equally disingenuous. Much of the gun control in the early colonies had to do with limiting groups that we'd now see as protected. On top of this, while you had laws about it being to the militia and early rights, this didn't necessarily transfer to the newly formed states and in fact you had examples such as a letter from the president saying he could arm his ship with canons and many of the restrictions post revolutionary war being ordinance restrictions basically on the grounds of noise complaints. "You can own your Canon but please don't fire it near the city because it's loud" On top of this, you basically lied when you said the reason for the second amendment as it stands was to prevent the government from preventing the states being able to fight back. It was written as is to prevent people from mandatory military service requirements. Not to simply oppose the federal government. On top of this it was created in an environment where most of Europe was disarmed and thus was created basically in opposition to Europe's lack of firearms among the citizenry except in a few key places where it was often a requirement to own it basically because they got invaded so often. This is honestly a pretty disingenuous look at things and you've now gone through half of the video basically praising gun control and bashing on firearms advertisements because guns, but haven't really addressed the cultural predilections toward violence which persists even without guns as the US has a high homicide rate even without firearms. US has a higher knife crime rate than Britain and it's the 3rd most used weapon for the US while the first in Britain. I was hoping to get an actual cultural breakdown but what I'm getting is a fairly half-baked history lesson and a bashing of advertising. At least get the history and context right guys.
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  605. I don't think it really is. In some capacity they're are examples of society responding to the traumas of what they experienced, but even with the Native Americans much of that was caused by simply having no cultural controls on the new western developments and lifestyles. It's also the fact that depression is a phenomenon primarily driven by the middle to late 20th century. Where as before you were raised to have enough hardship to grow accustomed and adapt accordingly, much of the west simply hasn't from that period. I think the lens of depression may be from the extreme potency which it has since manifested in modern society.
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  606. That comment about African diseases is but one more piece of evidence that Africa really was our natural ecosystem. And then we left to advance without dying.
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  607.  @KalonOrdona2  Why? Just because there are a lot of people complaining doesn't mean they're the majority
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  608.  @cas343  HAHAHA!!! I love it
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  609. @Lost Souls   No we aren't. Those estimates are very old ones which didn't take into account the effect of declining birth rates. That's the world where China and India reach 2 billion and Africa is a few extra billion. This isn't that world. The revised one is one where all of East Asia and Eastern Europe halve their populations, India loses 300 million and Nigeria reaches 900 million (which is basically impossible because that's actually pushing on real Malthusian limits and the kind of thing which creates the pressure for a large civil conflict or outside conquest keeping it from ever getting to that size). Not to mention, creating a demographic structure like that will KILL an economy and basically be the death of that nation in some capacity, especially if a power grows strong enough to capitalize on that. There has never been a single time in history where population decline has been peaceful. You want the setup for worldwide chaos, this is it.
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  610. 4 months later is an oof
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  611.  @NotEvenDeathCanSaveU  Frankly it's a question worth asking if we want to be factual. Whether it happened is not in question. However, the actual numbers to get the true total is worth asking. I know for a fact the number starting in 5 to raise the total to 11 was false and its admitted it's false. So it's worth asking if the number 6 is also true.
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  612.  @tonywillingham8109  What was the topic?
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  613. Only reason I'm still in college is that I do live comfortably off my degree and I've never been the best with my hands, but I've always been good with numbers. Thus, I'm an engineering student. Job at the end of it.
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  614. 3:13 Nationalism is a good thing and to deny it and its appeal is to not understand human behavior. Also... can you actually tell me why identitarianism and fascism are bad ideas? I can tell you what makes them bad ideas, but can you genuinely tell me what makes them bad ideas? Your entire thesis is based on saying that bad ideas can win but simultaneously saying that those who "win" are labeled good under the marketplace of ideas system. Thus, what grounds do you have to say that any of these ideas are bad or did you just pick ideas that currently have a bad reputation that most people actually have very little knowledge of in any circumstances of to their mechanics or what makes them appealing to people? Do you even have any idea of how to combat these besides simply attempting to ban them or attempt to send them to the dark corners of the internet? I suspect if you could you would not have made this video. And in fact you've proved this idea correct by labeling people who express xenophobic sentiments as fascists at 4:26 which shows 0 understanding of what it is. Very sad.
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  615. It's not just nostalgic boomers but the fact that the manufacturing sector provided basically all of the middle tier jobs. But some manufacturing is coming back to the USA anyway and I think American-Mexican manufacturing is likely to grow in a complementary manner much like Germany and Poland which the US-Mex relationship has already had to a large degree.
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  616. ​@brucebaxter6923 They didn't exactly win the space race. And the reason they got into space first was they didn't care as much about safety vs the Americans testing things more thoroughly. Though it goes out the window when there's a competitor
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  617. 2:50 looks like it has gone back to that since the fall of the Soviet Union
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  618. How do the Chechns and Kazakhs fair in Russian?
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  619. Considering the way he's described some of the issues with crisis coming, this quote seems like half of his videos lol
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  620. I'm now very confused lol
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  621. @Pennis-Prager  They also often can't actually spend it. It's "wealth" which means the only way to do anything with it is to sell it. Usually, the wealth is tied to their own company, and trying to sell either bleeds you of control at best or tanks your own value at worst.
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  622.  @XxOrangesoda2610xX  so am I
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  623. A controllable battle rifle. We need these back.
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  624. @5 MOVIES 5 GREAT SCENES!   What Lucas wanted was incredibly bad. And it's known to be very poorly acted. It's not a cliche, it's just poor acting and dialogue. Point was more about writing being poor. You're just trying to be a contrarian.
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  625. Most bad things are usually a result of the government. Or military in war (an arm of the government). Trusting your government is the same as trusting the guy with the gun pointed at you. The only difference is that sometimes you have the option of changing who's behind the gun. And everything in that metaphor is completely literal.
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  626. Most of the "rare earth" metals aren't actually found in China so they Could be re-sourced
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  627.  @stefanmetzeler  I'd say there's a 50/50 chance we're on different continents however. Though I'd love to find a way to work with you
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  628. What makes that propaganda? It's a sponsorship like any other. Masterworks exists as a company and asks you to invest in art over stocks and It's not exactly considered propaganda. It's just an ad. They exist. We all know what they're for.
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  629.  @sprockkets  The irony falls flat if you at all think about it. We know the ad.
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  630. ​@Mmjk_12 They don't do the job better. They're adjuncts. Missiles are missiles. You still need aircraft for patrol, and fundamentally they're better at tracking and killing naval vessels better than other naval vessels are. Drones are fundamentally more attritable versions of capabilities we already have.
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  631. Well people have been believing in the death of the infantry forever so it's not like it's unheard of. Everyone thinks push-button warfare renders them obsolete.
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  632.  @jwenting  I think we just have a tendency to see ourselves as smarter than our ancestors because we have more technology and have more access to information, but at the same time we've made habits of proliferating myths about our Ancestors' ignorance. The truth is we don't know how a lot of things work still, but often how to deal with it. Part of the human condition is seeing patterns and trying to draw conclusions. While that can sometimes work against us by drawing incorrect conclusions or seeing patterns where none exist, it's always been an incredibly useful tool in surviving. Many times patterns have a C variable which is the true independent variable while the other two are simply dependent, as long as you act in accordance with the pattern you can still have a reasonable amount of success with isolating the C variable only useful for better increasing it. Sometimes you'll just accidentally meddle with the C variable regardless. A lot of times tbh. I think we discount ancient wisdom and tradition just because we think we know more now and don't see why it exists, but usually part of the reason we don't is because the effects were kept down by said tradition. Very interesting to go through history and have modern science support old traditions.
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  633.  @flavivsaetivs5738  What's so American about the B-52?
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  634.  @mikochild2  Yeah this is basically the issue. In Miami for instance an efficiency is $1k per month. Compare that to the two bedroom two bath for only 2/3 the price. But people keep moving to Miami because big city means tons of jobs. I guess this could possibly facilitate the changing of some industries to more flexible job types and definitely a lot more remote jobs. City workers will always live in the city as well as small business, but there are also tons of people who are working in huge skyscrapers who are normally driving up the price of housing and could possibly live elsewhere now distributing housing prices making a marginal increase in smaller communities but taking a big chunk out of the big cities.
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  635. No that's about the recoil I'd expect
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  636.  @Youngblood457  Nah the issue is that the democrats weren't even really that in the first place. It was a select group called the Dixiecrats. So it was pretty much a given once they dropped their power. And also much of The republican states are out to the Midwest. In fact most of the Democrat states are simply republican states with big cities. So nothing really changed lol.
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  637. That is the ability of all Americans
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  638. For me it would be more of all guns and ammo to disappear across the world overnight. Because otherwise you just have a situation in which it's easy to opress people.
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  639. ​ @momoware nope...
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  640. That doesn't mean a lot given that military health is governed by the VA and not related to any of the points discussed
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  641.  @tianwong152  If you can't earn the loyalty of your military through means beyond money you have many other issues on your table.
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  642.  @stormystudios9804  Then for your sake I hope China will soon decide to change to an interior focus much like the US has decided to do more recently. If it does then you're safe. Otherwise you're going to need allies as China attempts to grab ahold of the region. Honestly I've a decent feeling that being on the periphery Vietnam will be dragged into the conflict that comes. Indo-Chinese relations are getting worse as China is currently damming the Indian water supply and India does not seem to be ready for a real war with China as it's in transition and also integrating its transition poorly. While the US is also in transition but has a much clearer road and is ready to take another decade wide leap ahead of China. Those will be the three biggest players in a possible war. There will definitely be huge repercussions if India becomes a Chinese puppet state since that would effectively mean that China has half of the world as its real population and drag it to a point where not even a coalition could realistically touch it for a very long time. Definitely would turn all of Asia into China's realm and Vietnam would very much be dragged into that.
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  643.  @stormystudios9804  Once again, not sure you'll be able to. Much of the reason Switzerland was able to avoid it was that it is entirely mountainous and largely surrounded by them even on the German side making an invasion pretty pointless and costly with many other larger targets for its ideological concerns (mainly "living space" which entailed eastern expansion and wanting to get payback on the French). The Chinese ideological goal in comparison is control over Asia and while Vietnam is very mountainous in the west, it is much less so in the East and North which means no mountain fighting and it's already gotten friendly/puppet governments in the rest of southeast Asia (Myanmar military coup comes to mind) which means that Vietnam is the last holdout in the region. I can see it being perceived as friendly however as long as they make no moves against China and maybe make a few gestures against the US.
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  644.  @tianwong152  The majority of the world stands with China? India hates China, southeast Asia largely doesn't like China, Central Asia doesn't like China, Russia doesn't like China but hates the Americans too, Europe is neutral at best about China but still doesn't like the human rights abuses or the unfair deals, and Sub-Saharan Africa doesn't like China because they're becoming the dominant economic force in the continent. Then South America is too irrelevant to have much of a real stance, most of the North Africa and western Asia really are too focused on their local regions to care about China beyond maybe some economic utility. In terms of "Standing with China" no countries really apply in a way similar to how countries stand with the US. China stands almost completely alone with any "allies" honestly ready to turn on it once they can find a better deal or break free.
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  645.  @tianwong152  Do you know that the American Asian population is statistically the wealthiest in the US and on top of that consistently doing better than other groups in almost every metric? While this is not equal among Asian groups as Asians encompass everything from Chinese to Filipinos, they have a high status in American society and are doing better than the white population contributing very highly to much of the continued American development. If you believe they are actually being ethnically cleansed while they are increasing as a percentage of the population you are simply in a parallel world where the only thing you can do is accuse others of doing what your country is doing because China can't do anything wrong. The fact that you attempt to say that China does nothing wrong no matter what is a degree of dishonesty and delusion that is far too gone. Perhaps you are trying to save face on the part of China, however such a concept largely does not exist in the west. The idea that the US is somehow the embodiment of Nazi Germany when it openly condemns discrimination and the fact that the US does not actually have a coherent real majority ethic group who's definition continually expands across the decades and currently considers Arabs whites for legal purposes means that in terms of any sort of ethnic cleansing or slavery is so incredibly unlikely and is simply a situation which is so difficult to exist it is LAUGHABLE that you lable this accusation toward the US. Btw, I'm not American, I'm Puerto Rican and Cuban. Inglés es me lengua segundo. You have very good English for a Chinese seemingly living in China. However, please do not delude yourself into thinking only one source of information is correct and everyone else wrong. That is almost always not the case.
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  646. Tbh it's 100 million people with a culture of fighting off invasions with insane fever and probably a lot of US foreign aid. It seems like a quick way to make an effective army very quickly. I'd equate it to the Koreans who in the Vietnam War outperformed the US troops in pure ferocity and brutality. China is a bad neighbor and you only survive by being incredibly good at fighting which is what the Vietnamese have become.
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  647.  @Cluelessdad-hj3uu  I don't think they have to. I believe that rifle is already adopted and continues to be modernized to this day.
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  648.  @karenwang313  Yeah see initially I'd have said similar, except I know of the other countries with similar structures in similar positions. I'm going to guess it's that a lot of positions simply don't open up when you have that kind of age structure.
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  649.  @cedrikdurand4740  Dude half of that shit is contested and decent amount of that is defensible. One: Joe Biden actually being enough that he'd worry to actually care? It seems more like he wanted to investigate that Russia scandal. Speaking of... Two: No collision with Russia and let's face it only reason he was accused was because he said "Let's not be enemies with Russia!" and a fake report Three: Generally presidents do not like administrations that would undermine their authority. It's your job to get things done if your own employees are stopping you then it's time to fire them Four: FBI is an enforcement agency and thus under arm of the executive so you shouldn't be investigating your own BOSS because you don't agree with him Five: Paris accords were left because others who had agreed weren't doing their fair share same with threatening NATO and the NATO thing is more important because Paris accords are nonbinding (which means it's symbolic so leaving was a good symbolic message) but NATO is a legitimate treaty and the member countries aren't putting forth the REQUIRED 2%. Can't guard EVERYONE because we have other interests so let's have the European countries put in that required GDP because you know what? They have the money to do so. Six: Please point me to the things about Latinos that weren't related to illegal immigration Seven: the rest fair enough. However he's also honest in a paradoxical way so you get a half point on the lies (lies about stupid shit but he was honest about selling WEAPONS to SAUDI ARABIA so generally honest about the big things)
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  650. I can't go through 30 fucking seconds without you saying something completely incorrect holy shit. "Only under capitalism have people lost meaningful work" and you must've ignored the roughly 70 years of socialist systems which were implemented in which no-one had meaningful work except maybe the people doing R&D for the military and space programs. Mainly because of similar issues regarding choice in work and motivation to work. Do I need to explain why college education is no longer the guaranteer of a job it once was? Aaaand you completely misunderstand the natural rate of unemployment. "In order for the capitalist system to function there must always be a desperate pool of free labor" and that's where you completely misunderstand the concept. The natural rate of unemployment comes from the people who are largely actively looking to shift jobs and change from one to the other. While there is clearly a market made up of desperate people who cannot find work (some even made there by government policy), it's usually smaller in comparison to labor which is shifting jobs and why it's generally seen as a bad thing for 100% employment as 100% employment means that people are trapped in their jobs and cannot quit. I understand you're a staunch critic of capitalism but please at least understand basic concepts before trying to put them in your video.
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  651. No, no no not at all. What happened is that they actually all went to high skilled exporters who had all of the good jobs and subsidized the economies. Everyone else was essentially living off their money. However, they're now all getting old and cashing out thus causing their money to pull out.
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  652.  @JMM33RanMA  In what way can it be contradicted or proven false by that concept? What about it creates a comtravening factor? If human progress is due to that broad spectrum, then why are some places more inclined to certain types of progress than others? What even is progress?
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  653.  @jacksonsmiler8028  There's a Caribbean plate IIRC
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  654. Issues: first you're trying to use a gas. The costs associated with using gasses are INCREDIBLY high with regards to transport. Frankly if it were viable we'd be using electrolysis of water and then using the hydrogen-oxygen reaction and be using those hydrogen fuel cell cars (but they didn't work due to issues transporting or creating the necessary hydrogen). So it's just stupidly expensive. And then from that you do have to somehow mix a solid into a gas, and then you have to somehow separate the sodium from the compounds which it naturally resides in. Edit: no that is NOT the cost of getting sodium. The cost of getting sodium is storage, lubrication to keep it from reacting with other substances, keeping chlorine gas from poisoning everyone, transportation (arguably the easiest part), heating, and then getting the filaments to both not melt and also facilitate the movement of electrons. Oh also making sure CHLORINE doesn't react with a bunch of stuff. Also please don't advocate for putting particulate matter into the atmosphere.
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  655.  @emblemblade9245  That's because the writer actually knows how to write and knowing the power of his medium knew he could basically fuck with anything he wanted. Honestly he's an incredible writer who knows how to tell a story with realistically his only restriction being "continue to make us money with your series that you love making"
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  656. I'd argue they were unreadable BEFORE the fire
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  657. The problem here, and Perun illustrated this quite nicely recently, is that both sides are 100% winter warriors. Fighting in winter happens often for them historically and the climate on the home front denies this possibility (for Ukraine of course the military situation is one which lends itself to continue pushing)
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  658. Issue is Australia hasn't really been in a position to need it since the world wars. Cold War was still off on 4 other continents getting nowhere near it. Peacetime breeds complacency. And now for the first time a power is starting to actually threaten it since the Japanese back in that conflict (thankfully this time they're on the same side). So it's finally time to start the process of rearmament.
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  659. @James Furey Except with the way you describe is in no way the case. I intentionally said it of a very narrow purview that you are trying to expand more than is true. It is not cultural homogenization (and in fact the internet will likely heterogenize it as disparate groups and people's can congregate more easily who share some characteristic), but it is lingual slight homogenization. In real terms it's more lingual entrenchment. The reason languages shift, change, and are created new are due to being separated from the mother tongue for some reason for some time. Thus, whatever patterns existed beforehand are magnified as there is no longer a connection to keep them from moving on. However, if you record the languages audibly, such changes won't occur as you are going to grow up listening to that version of the language and that'll be your version of the language. Before it was the slight change people had as generations went onward and people moved or interacted differently. Now, you'll basically hear the language as it was and likely grow up on that. It's also that you have a larger community to interact with and thus more connection to the mother tongue on a massive scale. NOTE: None of this applies to culture. These are rules exclusive to language. These are rules exclusive to how people speak. Not how they act or interact with their general environment which creates and changes culture.
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  660.  @sandraleiva1633  No it hasn't. You've missed core principles. I said "civilization state" as in singular. Also the mixing with the native cultures of our Spanish ancestors ended up creating things which were significantly different from the homeland. Not only that, but we also fractured among many different political lines. So many political lines we almost wiped Paraguay because he tried to be Napoleon while not leading France. Not only that, but the Anglosphere primarily is one of outside settlers so it integrated people on its own terms not so much creating an entirely new ethnic group via "marrying" the native women after killing and enslaving the men... and the women.
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  661. US doesn't care about a deal with the EU. They're basically tuned out. Not to mention... already have a deal with the UK.
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  662. Is it capitalist or is it a state monopoly and thus functionally similar to any Soviet industry minus the literal production quotas?
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  663. He's going over roughly the region not being exact
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  664. That's basically why they're investing in Africa. The definition of a superpower is power is global power projection, but if it can integrate Africa into the Franco-Sphere then what happens is that France is effectively only one state out of like 20 it can pull from
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  665.  @deadrose007  That's honestly a topic still debated to this day in many respects. Realistically by the time the lend-lease had kicked in the German tide had already been stemmed and Russian industry was starting to activate again from beyond the Urals so whether or not it was completely decisive is still pretty inconclusive.
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  666. ​@Asvnaro No, but it does mean much of their population has actually physical jobs unlike the less connected college educated classes
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  667. 24:20 This is accurate. China uncensored did a video on it and basically it's a purge of the faction still aligned with the previous chairman who still holds a lot of power. Honestly it seems like Xi is trying to become the next Maou at least in my eyes.
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  668. It's just that since it features a situation that has happened and is politically charged in the news they call it "exploitative"
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  669.  @dmitriyparfenov  I'm not sure about it but I think Germany simply wants to fool itself into thinking there is peace as in most of the west when war is just across the horizon unless they do something about it. I don't think it'll do anything to actively curb Poland but if you've got anything which shows that they've Been snubbing Poland consistently I'll admit they are. Also the US isn't attempting to make the EU more dependent on it. It is simply attempting to keep it independent from Russia itself by making sure things like energy reserves aren't tied to Russia. The EU has no will to do anything besides fund its own decadence. It has been nearly completely pacified with the exception of France and the Eastern region. France is still a colonial empire and the East is worrying about Russia. But the rest have been pacified and resolved to simply pay for decadence. The USA is on this path as well but it's a much slower process which is being pushed back.
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  670.  @mn5499  the joke is the US is an empire lol
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  671.  @k0zzu21  Russia has been and up until now was the largest supplier. Kazakhstan is also in the Russian sphere. Australia also doesn't output very much so there's an open question to how much that can be scaled.
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  672. 'Will anyone in the west compare to the Roman empire?" in terms of achievements... you have the British
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  673. Fortunately, we're probably not at that point. Drones like that lack capability and the most prominent use of drones continues to be in recon at that level. Not to mention, that the EW defenses on there are still plenty able to keep that from happening as well. In any case, it's best to look at drones as the new machine gun. The battle space is forever changed and there's now nowhere to hide. Information's place in warfare is now magnified as at this point, if you can see it, you can probably kill it.
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  674. I think the term here in America is "champagne socialist"
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  675. ​@vincenzodemarchis7736 From his extra context reply: due to how expensive iPhones are in Brazil, you're either rich, in debt, or a criminal if you have one
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  676. When he says it he means the textbook definition
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  677. Yeah I've felt it myself. Really weird how there's more Puerto Ricans in New York than Orlando where I've heard most of them settle at least in Florida. The fact that there are more there than on the island even weirder.
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  678.  @miguelenriquez181  I'll be honest I don't know anyone who's gone back
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  679. Ian definitely and divinely
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  680. ​ @fduranthesee  you are a very silly man
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  681. Probably about 80% of people in the world hate the Chinese government.
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  682.  @truongphuc93  Uh... band together to screw them over? Lol the reason people hate the Chinese government isn't because they came up on their own. That's incredibly stupid to think and only from a very high degree of narcissism but I've seen from reading some of the Chinese comics the attitudes on the Chinese on certain topics and wow are they not very nice. But regardless, the reason they hate the Chinese government is the HOW. Actually not even the how as they got there by taking everyone's labor and selling admirably. No the reason they hate it is because the Chinese are trying their hardest to be as terrible as possible to everyone and take everyone's ideas but defend their own using other people's laws. To try to advance using what's there for the benefit of all and then trying to make sure others cannot benefit. And on top of that trying to take people's rights away. Because right now they're using slave labor and harvesting peoples organs in Xinjiang and the suppression of people's such as the Uyghurs and Falun Gong
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  683.  @truongphuc93  I mean overall they are a government. And I guess you missed the US and USSR aspect of the cold War if you have missed what was done then. Overall we are coming to those properly deserved relations However things are slow. Also how are those countries worse thanks to democracy? The US did the exact opposite of democracy in those places. Also China may be the second largest economy... but the US economy is twice as high and with a quarter of the population. The EU which has a similar population to the US is also roughly double that of China. I also didn't say anyone was brainwashed. Neither did I reject the fact that bombs were brought destroying countries and killing innocents. Yeah. Those are bad things. But how is that democracy? What does that have to do with democracy? And I guess you seem to have missed the part where the US soldiers have very good relations with many of the people there and are on good terms with the governments there working side by side to eliminate threats to said governments. Why do you say the only actions are shitty propaganda about China? What about what I have said about China is propaganda?
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  684. I have a question: If Julius Caeser is closer in time to us than to the old kingdom of Egypt, what other time in history looked a lot like the Roman empire? If we have the strange parallels and history really does have this much in common, how about the actual origin of something like the late Roman Republic? I'd also very much like to add a few fair things here: Ireland and Scotland have had a shared history with England about as long as the Etruscans and Latins had with the Romans until the late Republic and together FORMED the British empire. So putting them as separate peoples and part of being "ethnically diverse" is honestly a bit silly. On top of that, Rome literally DID conquer Greece. It was independent, and Rome went and conquered it. It also conquered everyone else that it eventually assimilated into the Roman state. No large group of people went into the Roman state and simply became Roman by culture by choice. So with these HUGE caveats... I really do wonder how you actually justify this without actively just wanting to say that the USA is the new Roman empire for clout basically. Quote from another video: "Greece could no longer take care of its own problems and no-one called it colonization" You're right but they did call it conquest since that's what it was. Kings and Generals has an entire video series on it neatly put into one two hour video. Smaller Greek states formed an alliance to help against the larger states. But when they saw the way things were going (Rome going for direct control) they declared war to maintain independence which the Romans simply did not want. And then they lost, giving the situation where Rome annexed the territories by force. I also want to add something else I found at 8:17 : The Greek colonial states were initially helped by an outside power only to be conquered by Rome in the Punic wars. Why the Romans allied to the Southern Greek states isn't found anywhere, and on top of that, the comparison to the Americans falls flat again given that the Americans didn't care what happened to the western Europeans very much and instead had to be attacked, having war declared on it rather than declaring for themselves. The Achaen league was also not created by Rome. They asked to be allied with Rome later.
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  685. Nope. Yeah sounds biased but actually it would be the western allies. You know who ACTUALLY had the numbers? The USA. The Soviet army was on the brink of destruction back in 1942. And while the UK and France were war weary, the US was fresh, untouched, and logically and industrially more capable than the USSR. You can see that in production figures. The T-34 was the most produced tank of all time and started production in 1940. It was only about 10k above the M4 Sherman who was who had started production 2 years later and was being switched as the US army started to voluntarily shrink itself. Keep that up for another 2 or 3 years and you can see the gap widen much much more. The US tank crews also almost never died and so taking out a tank was almost a non-issue and could be easily replaced. There's also the huge gap in air power the US enjoyed and invested in. The red army was an armored force, the US army an air force. If anyone was in place to take the Soviet Union on, it was the USA in 1945. The US also never had the logistical issues that the nazis and soviets had thanks to its hardy trucks that actually gave the USSR any logistical capability at all. Honestly the US could've pretty easily bled dry the soviets in a war and the soviets would've been fairly easy pickings at that time to just be completely capitulated and forced into unconditional surrender. Not to mention the force projection the allies enjoyed to potentially launch strikes on the Soviet industrial base which was not possible for the US. The Soviets were a miraculous story of getting back up from the brink of death and taking down their enemy. The US however was a fresh new fighter, with all of the strength of both fighters combined, and completely ready to take on what was a military largely on its last legs. 34 million Soviets served in the great patriotic war and about 16 million died. The US mobilized 11 million, with over half as support troops, and less than half a million dead. With... roughly similar total populations I might add. That was not a game the soviets could hope to win. If war did break out, they'd be done for.
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  686. 20:40 Yeah I've been saying this for a while. The alliance is one of convenience and there really aren't enough hang-ups to not try to pull what's honestly the most sensible move and gaining another ally/front in the Sino-American war.
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  687. Well no the Bronze Age collapse involved a number of factors such as invasions into the civilizations present by "Sea Peoples" as well as a number of other factors. The reason why we wonder how it happened is because the main writings we're able to gather and translate are so sparse with the details and so we're left with bits and pieces. This really has no analogy.
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  688. I imagine the SCAR would've done better had it been the Robinson Arms XCR which if I'm remembering correctly actually beats out the FN model in every metric.
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  689. Not necessarily. They might be able to false flag but losing this badly as the aggressor I'm not sure he has the political capacity to actually properly escalate. And the war will not get any easier on Russia this way as the longer the war lasts the more time the west has to ramp up production and give material. On top of this, single largest transfer of equipment more than that which has been transferred over 6 months turns a military which has been running almost exclusively on manpower into one that's suddenly injected with the equipment they actually need to conduct a war. Remember the Ukrainian military is a RUSSIAN military. Equipment, tactics, etc. They're post Soviet but they were part of the core of the Soviet Union. So they did inherit that style of fighting. They've basically been mixing in western things as needed to comply with their equipment use or what's just seen as more useful doctrinally but they're primarily a Russian army. It's also worth noting that the mobilization will still favor the Ukrainians due to the time it takes. I highly doubt with the state of its military at the start of the invasion that it really does have the capacity to mobilize millions of men in a few weeks. And even if they do, they still need to occupy Ukraine. It really doesn't look good.
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  690. Sardinia made modern Italy though
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  691.  @Donner906  Good question. Ideally I'd actually need a group to mostly agree. After that, a plot of land, and a small church everyone can go to, and for the women to use as a social club when it's not holding service. After that, hurdle, see if we can start becoming more self sufficient with regards to materials and electricity. Also of course need a school for the kids. Ultimately, just try to grow the town.
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  692. That's not quite what it is. It's very simple: the stated budget just isn't what people think it is. People think the budget is equipment. That's wrong. It's things like food, soldier pay, and medical care. This means that the actual defense budget going towards the true "defense" is less than expected. The government procurement function in the US is what causes the problems we see, not the companies themselves.
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  693. ​@Ashlevon The reason you believe the US to be a dumpster fire is because of the current political turmoil. Imagine a revitalized economic and Political system with a lot of unity and growing wealth, which is the expectation for the US going forward and would make it attractive to join. Especially if Canada starts to fracture due to its own demographic and political issues.
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  694. he just likes money and stuff
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  695. they did inherit that after all
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  696. Usually the pensions are outside the military budget.
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  697.  @tedcrilly46  They usually don't defer to outside organizations. They just conduct bilateral relations. My entire point is that you've been exaggerating because you've no idea what you're actually talking about lol. People have disputes, that is just a fact of life, it's a cost of doing business. Just like corrupt government officials or anything else. It's just the cost of doing business.
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  698. @lennart266  Yeah, no, not quite. The reason being that most countries simply couldn't. The state aparatuses were not centralized or strong enough to stop it. Simply wasn't national level trade besides whatever the crown purchased itself. Whatever was specialized was sold to whoever could afford it. Luxuries were the most which crossed large borders due to justifying the cost.
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  699. Frankly I imagine the US is depleting the artillery stockpiles, but I'm going to leverage a guess and say that the US is making the decision that it probably won't need them given that they're shifting to the pacific theater. Those small islands aren't exactly prime howitzer fighting given that they're often less than 50 miles across. Fighting is going to be done by the navy in large sea areas or in coastal areas with likely a very limited set in simply preventing China from breaking out of the first island chain. Those howitzers are for fighting the Russians and so might as well let them do it.
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  700. Even then, they didn't clean it. At the very end it's almost like they tried to save it and justify the more expensive stuff, which, at worst, can be upgraded to for cheap.
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  701. There's a genuine question there as to why the most successful states under capitalism seem to hate the system. Both US and global states.
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  702. as was brave new world but then we made that a series
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  703. First off: caseless worked and was going to be adopted, but got thwarted by German reunification. Second off: we've had an incredible increase in availability, cost effectiveness, and ability of polymer materials. Thus, as an effective material, it isn't an issue. In fact I believe you can purchase straight from the true velocity website.
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  704.  @manfredrichthofen2494  thought it was art
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  705. not anymore lol
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  706. Honestly I can see them joining the US if they think that they'll root out the corruption of the cartels and the US government will ABSOLUTELY crush them if they dare try to act as blatantly as they do in Mexico. And those states would honestly have access to their own protection in the form of ease of firearm access. It seems like it would have some growing pains but if they decided to join up with the US I really see it as a move to crush the cartels or at least one of preservation against cartel rule. Though of course the government might be okay with it since so many are corrupt as well and then the people say nothing.
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  707. I think the Textron bid is best in isolation, the ammo weight savings and the way it deals with the casings is very interesting. General dynamics seems like it won't win based on rifle alone but it's worth seeing how polymer ammo will deal with heat. The Sig bid is probably the best from a logistical standpoint. The only real difference in production will be the type for making any new cartridge and they even have similarly the casings already for it from the 7.62 cartridges as it's a ×51mm cartridge and so much like the 5.7×28mm it's a fairly simple switch for the cartridges.
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  708. Banking systems possibly but uh...I think he went over what gave much of those senses: mainly the British and Germans.
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  709.  @scottstempmail9045  Literally nowhere in a completely unedited post did this come up. He spoke exclusively of his own life.
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  710. How did your mother end up with your father (a military vet), without having at least some respect for men? Like how do you get that bad? It had to have happened afterward right? I can't imagine marrying in to that family and finding that as a rational position.
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  711. Not sure, but you're definitely not a leftist or at least not very far from the center. I heard a few things in this video which most leftists would completely deny and a fair few right wingers would deny. I'm personally more right wing myself and if I hadn't checked my biases for a minute would've thought you couldn't be right wing. Edit: that was within like 2 minutes. Edit two: Oh yeah you just said you're on the right basically lol.
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  712.  @jamesricker3997  AI can't actually replace a lot of the decision-based jobs tbh. Single tasks they can, others they can't.
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  713.  @horridohobbies  Not exactly. It's a democracy... on paper. As soon as those elected officials start to elect other elected officials your "democracy" starts to fall apart which is why Xi Jingping recently got term limits removed and basically became leader for life. There's also a lot of power in the executive more so than the others. And I'm pretty sure Xi Jingping can't be removed by anyone short of revolution. If someone can't be removed from office it's not a democracy. The constituents of the politburo are the other party members who work within the party. That's not exactly much of a democracy. Part of why there's so much satisfaction with government is that the people are rightly concerned primarily with their local governments which they do have a lot of control over. The national activities simply aren't thought about and will continue to not be as long as the economic going is still good. There's no transparency either so they don't even know what's going on. Can't really get any information from outside (though many use VPNs), biggest source of information is the people's daily (which is just propaganda), and overall have little real Control. Right now that China is is much like what it's historically been but to a much more extreme degree thanks to the Russian communist influence. It's currently an authoritian security state led by an all powerful leader with various levels of control on the local level. It claims democracy by having representatives with term limits but they're simply ceremonial roles rather since they're all central party members who still have power within the party both before and after. The west is not arrogant in Saying its democratic model is best... however it's the only actual democracy format currently in style and it's incredibly ignorant, negligent, or just dishonest to call China a democracy. It's a sham that honestly insults the concept. The people don't rule. The party does. As long as that's true, it's not a democracy. As long as the people control the party, it's a democracy. If they don't, like China, it isn't.
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  714. To be honest... that's a good thing. It requires a lot of popular support. It also means that mistakes happen less often. Great, China put down all of that high speed rail. But what is it good for? What's the benefit? Is there a guarantee that it won't be useless within a few years or even immediately after it was finished? There are absolutely benefits to fast moving systems, but the point of the political systems was intentionally to be slow. It wasn't meant to ram through policies and instead make very slow and deliberate progress.
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  715.  @horridohobbies  That is the most ignorant line I've read in a very long time. "The west did not invent democracy." You've outed yourself as entirely ignorant on the concept and history. Democracy was invented in ancient Greece in the city-state of Athens. It was a direct democracy and then evolved into the modern idea of the republic/ representative Democracy by the Romans. In that time, China still used the Civil service system which was an entire bureaucracy managed by itself in which they would enter new bureaucrats as needed. This system would continue all of the way until the 1900s with the overthrow of the Ming dynasty. Similar systems were very much the norm across the east and honestly the democratic system itself has been very abnormal over the course of human history and even the original democracies eventually fell to autocracy.
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  716.  @horridohobbies  Democracy is "rule of the people, by the people, for the people" and I think you have somehow missed the definition of "by the people" because "by the people" requires the choice of said people in its control. If there's only one choice, then it simply isn't a choice. If you can't dissent, then you don't actually have a choice. If you do not have a choice then it is not "by the people." It is "by those in charge" and they are not the people being referred. Dissent is incredibly important as it is the measure of satisfaction with the government. To disallow dissent, is to effectively disguise the satisfaction with the government. It keeps issues with said government buried. It keeps people in line artificially by not allowing them to express what may need to change. If after that you still attempt to say that dissent is not required with a democracy, then you fundamentally do not understand what a democracy is and are only bounded by the party's manipulation of it to convince you that this is the best option and a version of it, when it simply isn't. So that you can attempt to tell people online that China has a democracy when it demonstrably DOESN'T by any accepted definition.
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  717.  @horridohobbies  Has it really been falling? I can see those points... and yet about half of them are still democracies. Btw the USA used to have representatives duel so Taiwan parliament fights are pretty low deal. Brazil is still a democracy. USA democracy is not really a sham. The countries you named are still democracies with the exception of Venezuela which is a result of a socialist state takeover. Hey wait a minute which other countries have had socialist takeovers of the state? 1912 in China the issue is that the attempt to become a republic was foiled by people who wanted to restore the Qing and someone who wanted to make an empire with him at the head. On top of that immediately descended into civil war. You can't say China attempted to become a republic when it didn't even start. You're also correct about Russia and the "democracies" the USA led. However it's honestly been pretty widely accepted that they were simply USA aligned dictators. You also curiously leave out all of western and even current eastern Europe, other South American countries like Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina, and Even south Africa. Terrible track record? 50/50 at worst. It's also worth noting that many democracy movements get co-oped by various Marxist movements, and then immediately become undemocratic oppressive regimes.
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  718.  @horridohobbies  That is not representative democracy. That's the antithesis of the idea. Representative democracy consists of Representative choosing either specifically other un-elected positions and voting on laws. It also must require a general assembly and really can't extend further than one level. As soon as you extend beyond that your democracy tends to become a lot less so.
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  719.  @10244325  I think this is a very bad take in which you say that the people are deeply and irreversibly divided and very much a modern situation as this is the type of thing which has happened and then reversed over time. It's also important to understand that the propaganda hides any and all missteps by the party and highlights all good things. It has no free press so overall problems don't get highlighted and that transparency is important. In fact even the divide is important at times to make sure that different ideas are debated and tried. One set of ideas doesn't respond well to everything. It's also rather dishonest to say that the CCP is the reason the Chinese people enjoy their current standard of living as the best thing they did was start to get out of the way and spent decades killing millions in terrible industrialization plans and ideological purges. They allowed foreign investors and private firms. These are things which ACTUALLY raise standard of living and do good for the people and if the CCP was not an authoritarian security state they would arguably be even better than they are today.
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  720.  @horridohobbies  I simply have to wonder what would happen if they got a taste of western democracy. And no I can judge. I think everyone has a right to judge the systems of others based on their merit. And there are certainly benefits to the Chinese system. However due to a focus on personal freedom (which leads almost directly to economic freedom), much of the world has a distaste for the Chinese system.
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  721.  @horridohobbies  Possibly, but the western democracies still work even in those societies. Take Japan for instance. Or a country like...I want to say Norway but it may be Sweden. You can also take South Korea. Two of which are very collectivist and two of which still eastern even with the feelings of personal freedom So I don't think they're mutually exclusive. China's collectivist ethos is largely ignored as well with the party beyond the party. Where normally you would start to see the rollout of numerous social services China has next to none in comparison. I don't know enough about South Korea to really say much on either front however beyond that they are still a democracy. You can say cultural differences all you want, but I think there are enough similarities to the culture of other differences they you can find the issue is not actually the culture and simply that a party wants to stay in power by any means necessary and that the reason the people are willing to accept it is because the standard of living is on the rise so consistently. I can't imagine the party was popular during the cultural revolution. Or with the mass collectivization and how the system was on the verge of collapse until the government started to do less and open up and allow economic freedom. An oppressed populace isn't necessarily a happy populace. And the party doesn't necessarily have to reflect even a portion of the populace to be in power. It took about 50 years to bring stability and they're in danger of bringing more instability to the system with the current trend. We will simply have to see where the Chinese Soviet ends up.
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  722. To the last point I'd like to add that even the Byraktar TB2 which we've stopped seeing so much of likely still has operations ongoing that are more with regards to sensor data and very limited direct strikes even though they were very useful and public early war. The situation changed and so their use changed as a result. Which is with any system.
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  723.  @nhatvu4605  For you and the others in this thread, primarily when we refer to a country we're very much referring to the government more than we are the citizens. In common English usage we call the government the name of the country. It's more of a shorthand. This is seen such as when we say "France instituted a new policy" because the government is in charge. So when we say we don't like China, we mean the CCP. We mean mostly the government. For the citizens that's not part of it. Also in America we have a large Chinese population with Chinese food being very popular. We have plenty of areas within cities that are known as "Chinatowns." So overall... we hate the government.
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  724. 3:53 From being an anarcho-socialist to saying "socialism doesn't work" is an interesting change
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  725. tell all of the socialist descended types because they still don't get it
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  726.  @TrevorCrook-c1s  PPP is an imperfect indicator and nowhere near that large of an economy even in PPP
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  727. @milanmarinkovic3016  So... not quite. Yes the military investment on the whole of Europe is generally quite low in western Europe. However... you still have the major powers of Britain and France, and Germany is still a massive exporter of Military equipment. They just don't use it themselves. They also have a huge civilian manufacturing economy (not Britain lol), as Germany was a huge exporter of tons of products. Even now, Europe still does compete on the world market. They simply do so on quality rather than price. Which is why their goods are still very much in demand for many countries. Though Germany is now starting to de-industrialize as it's lost its gas connection from Russia.
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  728. Yeah glad you brought it up since they didn't
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  729. Form an army. Equip them with Galils and PKMs as base equipment. Congrats you're probably one of the most effective combat units on the battlefield with as much ammo as you can ask for.
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  730. ​ @semi-useful5178 Now this is the gnostic tradition in full force
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  731. Every job is.
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  732.  @paulheinrichdietrich9518  Founded cities and universities yes, but also had a rigid caste system and enough economic barriers built into this social system as to stop real growth.
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  733. I was surprised he actually ran. He's recently been re-elected governor of Florida (which is coincident with midterm congressional elections), and it would've made sense to continue gaining wins in his home state to outlast this presidential cycle and make a genuine bid. This just isn't really going to work overall, and he's just been floundering hard because of it.
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  734.  @technophobian2962  Have you seen their positions?
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  735. Also only $120 from PSA lmao. In fact, just for the sake of doing it, I took the best case scenario in favor of the $3500, in order to match it in price, simply replacing the bolt and barrel, you'd have to put almost 100k rounds through that gun.
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  736. That moment you look at India and realize basically they'd inherit the British ability to go into pure naval power once fully industrialized.
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  737. So how do you feel about this video now after finding out you're Bosniak?
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  738.  @christiandauz3742  Unstoppable militarily maybe but it'd collapse on its own divisions. Such an empire lacks any real cohesion and would be too drunk on its own perceived superiority to notice. Btw congrats we actually have an example of what you want and it's called the PRC. Btw I'd never argue it Isn't powerful and you can even argue that it could stay up. HOWEVER the world would be in such a shitty place it would basically look like the world of "The Hunger Games" in complete dystopia of pure shit for everyone but those at the top.
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  739.  @ΒΞΔΝ  There's like one other exception and that's engineer. Any stem or law job it's good. Anything not in that narrow field is just a scam.
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  740. ​ @angryotter9129 It's not. Poor people have more kids, not the reverse. Not being able to afford things has never been a reason to not have kids. You must make sacrifices for them. "Affording kids" is not sacrificing the current lifestyle for that. But you make do.
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  741. Seems like Poland needs to grab the Balkans, Baltic, and Romania if it wants a proper power center.
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  742.  @avroarchitect1793  He's good regarding social understandings but regarding the material inputs and even the strategy he's definitely missing more than a few parts of that whole. I don't blame him, but trying to opine on it as a video he apparently did a lot of research on makes it foolhardy. Very silly.
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  743.  @ismailmertcileci4199  I'm fairly Certain Turkey is in NATO and with the convincing of being able to take the territory of their enemy seems like an easy way to convince them to get into the war. Lmao maybe turkey will get Crimea.
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  744. @CraigPerry  It is the deficit, yes. That deficit requires payment via debt. So that's how you increase the debt. In order to decrease the debt, you have to still shrink the government budget (but don't change taxes), so that you can run a surplus and pay down some of the principal. Btw our current interest is greater than the military budget.
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  745. don't admit that
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  746. You are given 0 rest at any given time
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  747.  @dantecaputo2629  Well the generational cycle is an age of 20 years not 10 so that would still be on track timeline wise. But it's also not entirely about material conditions as history is far too complex for that.
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  748.  @fuaddanial2029  If we're talking about motivations and character... you're correct. It's a bit of a Mguffin chase. The plot pushes the characters forward rather than the other way around. But structurally? Specifically within this movie? Thing is basically solid because it literally goes back and explains it. There's only simple thing it needs... a sequel. Like seriously. And not even like a franchise just one sequel. Because it's only half finished. It's pretty clear that the goal was "an end at the beginning and a beginning at the end" in a lot of ways, and he hasn't done that. He also told us that it's only halfway through. So it needs a sequel. Oh also in terms of the movie's idea with the plot moving the characters forward, it's king of a cop out but within the context of this movie it's kind of what's supposed to happen. It's literally a static timeline that you're following forward and backward in.
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  749. 16:22 That's not a tribe, that's a proper kingdom.
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  750.  @Quickshot0  The central premise here is incorrect in the idea that things turned out significantly worse for several centuries. It didn't. In fact the middle ages was a time of great progress and one which was occurring under the catholic church. It had average height and life expectancy increase compared to the Roman empire, saw increases in technology and knowledge, and set the foundation for the ideas of the enlightenment. The Eastern Romans also didn't really decline for a fair few centuries until basically the perfect storm finally brewed and those Turkish migrants were finally able to take Constantinople after they were greatly weakened by yet another civil war and had their capital sacked by other Christians. At that point it's more of a surprise that they stayed as long as they did. Finally the idea that scientists which drive progress were less Than religious is one which is false in the first place as the entire idea came from the religious notion that doing so would help better understand God. Its practice was one which was funded and encouraged by the church itself in doing so for most of history until the church was so weakened in the 19th century as to make it no longer a significant player in European politics. And it's from the 19th century that we get many of our modern industrial ideas and norms from given that it was the start of the industrial revolution, however there was nothing which would stop it from having happened under church guidance.
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  751. I just realized something incredibly important: Fertility rate is per woman. Usually this matters little especially since most countries have slightly more women. However for China... this isn't the case. What happens is that since there are 3 men for every 2 women, only 4 out of the 5 population are replaced and thus the population will shrink regardless. 1 man and 50 women and restart a civilization. 50 men and 1 women can only restart a family.
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  752. So it seems that the real inheritors of the spirit of Rome... was England. Wow.
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  753. ​ @mrjubjub  How does he rarely read the whole book? Can you give some examples of how you know?
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  754. It's bad because it's a bad situation. And in better times, it's a sign of your own failures. Usually, there's a way to overcome, even if difficult. Though today, much of the system is indeed actively against you.
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  755. Yeah not sure what you mean here
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  756. ​@soumen_pradhan Very simple: for most of history, society was majority rural with i think the most urbanized society in prehistory getting to like 25% urban. The rest of history is roughly 10% urban for developed states. Thus, the effect, though present, was minimized. Today, society is majority urban. The US, is still roughly 63% urban despite its more rural tendencies, and much of the developed world is around 90%. Ultimately, this has led to the historic drop in fertility which has led to the fertility crisis we see today, which also now leads to the sex ratio imbalance.
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  757. I looked because I was watching this with my stepfather as I recently bought one. Replacement barrel is $120 without any sale.
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  758. HAHAHA!!! The first issue you had is the way you plotted those people on the authoritian right. Because their stances clearly go much more to the left than that chart actually shows such as a lot of economic issues that they clearly displayed. Now since you went on the voting record you can probably find where they voted very much against policies that they advocated for which makes them simply liars. However based on their stances those democrats that you put in the right column is very dishonest (however good to point them as liars) and their platforms mostly equate to center-left authoritarian. Tulsi Gabbard is one of the few at least who puts her money where her mouth is though. I also find it very dishonest that you put Trump as far-right and he's in the middle of the right at most. He did left many regulations but he didn't de-regulate everything as that far right puts you to no regulations whatsoever. It also is very disingenuous to call him authoritarian when he largely made less laws and many social issues he enforced were more freedom oriented so the most he can be in the authoritarian column is maybe about 25% up. skip to the bottom for the tldr on this next long section Finally... on what basis did you put the nazis as right-wing? You put them there saying "yeah socialism in the name doesn't mean it's actual socialism" which is quite obvious. And the argument is far from simply "they had it in the name that's it" and it extends to many of their policies. But I also understand that describing nazi policy is out of the scope of this video. I will also not be calling them left-wing though because I have a very good understanding of their policies and you can largely find a video called "Nazi Economic Policy" on the between two wars channel by Indy Niedell and will be basing my information off of both that video and further readings. First thing's first: fascism is largely meaningless as a term and has had its most consistent use from 1944 onward (as documented by George Orwell who was actually a socialist btw and can still be seen today) as an insult for people who oppose you and you don't like. Part of this is because fascism is not an ideology beyond power and support of the people to the state. There was little to no overlap in Fascist ideology beyond being nationalists and authoritians which isn't exactly unique to their group. Second: fascism at least on the political compass is largely impossible to document beyond the authoritarian axis because they had a lot of contradictory views such as if they answered "Are the workers or the owners the priority?" the nazi answer would simply be "yes" and then later "no." Fascists just wanted power and do whatever they can to keep it. Probably why they relied so heavily on charismatic speakers. So now that we've broken down that fascism Isn't an actual ideology, let's look at the nazi economic policy. Nazi economic policy had two goals: money to the party, and growth through conquest. How was this done? First they banned unions as all control was to be given to the state getting people back to work in the factories making military equipment. Then they started to create cartels that had some business and the factories in that got all of the preferential treatment, and everything else outside of the cartel got shafted. Then started taking direct control of many of the industries. As they geared up for war it would become lebensraum where they would make more factories, more war material, to make more lebensraum to make more. So we've explained the policy, now what? Let's stop and analyze: the first thing you notice is that this Isn't an economic system. It's cyclical and really only has an end when the world is conquered where it just kind of falls apart. It's not a real economic System. It's not meant to work. It's a giant ponzi scheme that either ends in defeat or once the entire world is conquered. Overall it just kind of reaks of a madman who just wanted to burn everything down which if you've studied enough Hitler... you can see it might be the truth. Now for the individual policies: Worker protections being lifted is definitely right wing... if it benefits the private owners. Taking over and getting rid of the owners by the state is not right wing at all and very similar to the Socialist systems of state run industry only however the point is for it to be at the control of the people ultimately which it was not which makes it not so cooperative like the left-wing desires. And now for making business cartels, now that just isn't right. As in not okay. It can't be right-wing as it's an un-free market. However it isn't left-wing as it's not at all a co-operative economy. It's simply arbitration and overall just illegal or... criminal. Overall that's the whole system, criminal, and why the video I listed actually starts off with this intro: "Nazi economics- not capitalist, not communist, simply criminal." Now there is one definition that does lend fascism to the right-wing and that is "equality vs inequality" which is fine enough... but it doesn't really fit many people's definition of left or right wing and part of the reason the political compass even exists as a concept. Fascism was envisioned to be this new third way beyond the right or left wing. You don't get to call it either or because it doesn't fit. The best you can do is make the true statement that it formed as an offshoot of the socialist movements of the 1920s and 1930s who were dissasfied with their party and the focus on internationalism (to this extent the USSR under Stalin largely came to fulfill this promise), however the ideologies also took their own routes becoming unique and strange takes that ended up calling for war, conquest, and subservience to the state above all else (except Franco, good on him) leading to their ultimate demise and discredit as a system which largely simply never existed in the first place. I feel like I should sign off but I don't really know how so instead have this tldr. tldr; Hitler was a crazy idiot who really just wanted war and cared little on how making him neither right or left wing Edit: this comment is probably longer than the video if I actually recorded this
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  759.  @Sienna6164  Oh no. Yeah I can see your problem here
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  760.  @sinoroman  Yeah that's an interesting one. To be fair though, new Qing historiography largely does support this view as they didn't have much of a foreign policy and on top of they only attempted to modernize AFTER losing a war even if they did also use guns.
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  761.  @moritamikamikara3879  Why would that be prohibited in Britain? And honestly if that's the case with regard for the military it really does sound like there's little hope for it
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  762. @PatagoniaAries  Sounds about right. Mainly because they kind of drifted in and were simply arrested by some patrol boats. So by the next morning, they were released. Before that, Iran attacked a ship, and so I think 3/4 oil platforms used as bases and half of Iran's navy got destroyed in like 3 days.
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  763. 5:38 It's less about the Americans not agreeing, but instead having learned from the F-4 Phantom (a fighter with no cannons), that a backup cannon is pretty necessary and so the cannons currently had are backup weapons in case everything else fails. Kind of like the pistols.
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  764.  @inesharroyuy341  Yeah 7.62 Tokarev is a hot sucker so if there's any "stopping power" it's this thing. Spagin outdid himself honestly.
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  765. 36:05 Here there is something which is very important that I think needs to be addressed: the type of property that is owned. Is what is being discussed things like homes and other personal property, or productive property like farmland? I see you mention land a lot and I wonder if the reason land is so important is not because people didn't own their own homes or if they didn't own some sort of economic productivity as two very different solutions exist for making your average citizen a property owner for this context and if it's something like home ownership then a place like Pakistan would be fine and not basically feudal since 75% of its citizenry own their own homes.
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  766. How do they even produce this stuff when they're literally a city-state?
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  767.  @JeroenJA  Yeah that's incorrect in a lot of ways. The problem is that our mainstream news (the ones that would make it over there) basically have most leaning only one direction and the accuracy of most of the news networks, as well as degree of bias, is about the same. But all of that is almost completely irrelevant as what was actually the part played by the news channels here was giving him free coverage at every single moment because of how boisterous he was. He was a television star and he used it to his advantage to get BILLIONS of dollars worth of free coverage just by being the guy who does things. He was then the centerpiece of the news cycle because it's not like his character changed at all. He was free content for networks that had to adapt to 24 hour news cycles and the internet age where people don't pay attention as long. Hate content gets clicks and he was perfect for it. Also social media shares largely the same slant as many news sources get blocked from some sources who have as much credibility as others basically because of political slant. Biggest thing that would help is basically ground news but most institutions in the US regarding the media, big tech, and universities, are all taken with some degree of alignment with social justice and they're the leadership. So literally none of that would be done as it goes against their own political leanings.
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  768. still use uranium
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  769. Eh socialism is usually such a small part it isn't useful and honestly won't be good for many countries unless they can rid themselves of corruption
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  770.  @u2beuser714  The problem is that it's based on survey data. And it's based on what they think of. If you don't deal with the government often, you won't really see it.
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  771. Inner Mongolia is in China?
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  772.  @boblecter8091  I'll be honest sounds like standard affair for the CCP. Also you've the least Asian name I've ever heard of. May I ask where that came from? Also if that's inner Mongolia what's current Mongolia?
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  773.  @boblecter8091  fair enough
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  774.  @sinoroman  Okay but those aren't inherently nomadic practices. Literally the military practices of much of Europe and then calling them less civilized since they work very well militarily. Really the only thing there is "Khan"
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  775.  @ExtraVictory  See that's what we call awesome
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  776. That's incredibly interesting to me. Especially since they're very different to my knowledge from the nazi economy
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  777. Not really. Colonialism didn't actually do a ton for the developed countries. The natural resources were nice, but only in relation to the hungry industrial structures and not a ton more. The undeveloped countries in exchange got infrastructure and schools, even though it was mostly for the elite and so wasn't that much. The reality is a bit more muted in each direction than you posit.
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  778. To be fair... no more superpowers will ever come again. Simply a descent into great powers Again.
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  779. Yes.
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  780. So uh... why don't the immigrants try to get visas to Canada or perhaps a European country?
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  781. 2:29 I wonder if Ben's rating accounts for the fact that he runs the damn daily wire news organization and thus maybe shouldn't be counted among top 3 sources. Might slightly change the balance there. Also very funny for her to find out right there that she's in an echo chamber. And then that he's less so.
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  782.  @Serkanbah  Much like the Prussians who then united Germany
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  783.  @tezcanuyank3446  Yeah and frankly one of the few ones left in the world and in a region where you're surrounded by no others. Once the Americans pull back and shift internally again, Turkiye absolutely has a shot at remaking the ottoman empire
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  784. Ah yes. Industrial wars consume resources incredibly quickly. This lesson was not an insight of this war but instead one forgotten from basically every other industrial conflict. It has always been costly but the ability to shift industry and men has been something industrial nations have always grappled with. The trick of today's wars is that the mobilization systems which existed prior to the world wars have largely degraded into nonexistence and thus in essence no country now truly goes into war prepared (the USA experienced this roughly every time it declared war of not being ready for war).
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  785. Added together: Russia + Belarus + Kazakhstan + China + Pakistan is a coalition of 1.795 billion people. The USA + India + Japan is 1.835 billion. This puts the numbers more in favor of the American coalition just barely. And since the anglophone countries would almost certainly join the US without much complaint (even if the rest of Europe may not), you can add an extra 137 million to the mix. How hard the US would have to pull would almost certainly just be India. The Europeans striking a deal with the Russians would be honestly do little to affect the rest of the anglosphere who are all essentially islands. The only real linchpin in this war would be India. If they're in, the numbers are in favor of the Americans. If they're not, it's a 4:1 kill ratio.
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  786. @Khalil Mohammad Mirza  Except the issue is that the real things America lacks are honestly a small portion. A temporary increase in prices as everything shifts to the resource and technologically rich American homeland would basically just be a way to pay the difference for its difference abroad. Not to mention that the USA isn't the only place America can draw from because in real terms, Canada and Mexico are basically interdependent with the USA and thus will be used even if it cuts off everyone else. Canada is extra resource rich (about as much as Russia), and Mexico is the middle tier industrial goods, thus solving 90% of all problems regarding imports, none of which were critical anyway. The real question will be lithium for batteries and silicon for chips, but those could be taken from Australia, which would almost definitely be in the American sphere anyway. An isolated America neither abandons its Anglosphone family nor its Mexican frontier zone.
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  787.  @warrioroflight6872  Heh. Just go look at China. Mao really wasn't the first.
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  788. Not really, unless they want the full Russian Empire experience.
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  789.  @jaidengabriel1675  While Europe as a whole is kind of a proxy to the US, France is the least dependent on the US in part because it's still a colonial power. The US is the de-facto leader of the anglosphere and so basically has the UK and commonwealth as the most integrated allies.
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  790. Why is there a dog and soldier flashed up on screen?
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  791.  @thevoiceofthelost  What do you mean? That's the point that IS peddled to us. That's why I said "leftist talking point" because I've seen it so often. And I find it stupid every time. Especially on that bit about 1/3rd of the world starving since it's at least half of that and most of it is because of political reasons with dictators wanting to opress their people. Because for the first time in history no-one starves unless people specifically will it.
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  792.  @thevoiceofthelost  Basically any leftist news outlet you can find a piece on that. And furthermore they're really not business friendly. They're simply the type to do whatever it takes to hold on to power and because of that frequently specifically keep from doing things like industrializing which would make them more rich. The only ones they're really "business friendly" are the Chinese as they go ahead and attempt to Basically turn Africa into China. It's not that it fails to meet the needs of the people so much as it is a tool for controlling them and keeping them weak so that they can't just rebel. Latin America in particular is basically a story of giving the CIA too much credit. In many instances they blamed the US but Latin America has tons of problems that really are there with or without the Americans. Honestly the thing the Americans do most is by keeping out other powers so they don't just get conquered again. Btw Bautista in Cuba was ousted in part by the Americans because they thought he was too oppressive. Iran in particular is an interesting one to me because if the negotiations weren't held so incompetently and the optics so bad it probably wouldn't hate the US like it does currently because the US has a habit of installing a dictator or regime (historically it's really just been to oppose the enemy who would've done it themselves and so that entire thing is more an issue of foreign politics than capitalism) and then sending in another team to overthrow the power because they got too brutal. They didn't like the dictator they had but he wanted treatment for a disease so they just said okay. Btw while it's bad that 9 million die of hunger every year, it's entirely for political reasons and without the free market system in the first place even more would die as currently there are less than 1 billion skinny people on this planet and more than 2 billion obese which has never been the case in human history. I think it's right to criticize, there's also informed criticism and also considering the alternative. Because there's absolutely a way to solve that: invade and depose the dictator so that the people don't go hungry. Can't just pressure them because China (and previously the Soviets) will support them instead. Welcome to global politics where the reason people get screwed over in tiny countries is because other people are self interested and being not self interested gets you killed 99% of the time.
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  793. Welcome to the 21st century.
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  794. Okay that one got me good
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  795. @Julia Sepúlveda  It's simply been a bit irrelevant, but to respond: if you're trying your best and it isn't working out, then you're simply going about it wrong. Simple as that. You are doing something wrong, and I thought I touched on this. You can do your best brushing a brick wall, but it won't get you through the wall. People working hard and not trying to actually figure out more central issues is a key factor in many problems. As for sharing a life with them, it should be quite obvious that it's difficult and to be ready for that difficulty mentally rather than assuming it to be something to just walk into. The biggest thing with sharing a life with a person is just being prepared for it to be difficult of which very few people are. As for the reason you can't find it before the 1700s, it's because there's just a lot less literature before then. The printing press was created in the mid to late 1600s. So first, the technology for the average person to actually publish works needed to be created and then proliferated to such an extent that it could be possible. Beforehand populations were not only far less literate (which leads to less personal writings), but also far less able to publish works since everything was copied down by hand. This basically led to mostly official documents being written down or books with at most a few hundred copies. Each of these was for specific information and not pleasure. Thus, in real terms, that tended to fall through the cracks. And "patriarchy" is simply a foolish word to describe much of it. You had family acceptability because people still found partners within their own communities and usually known their potential spouses since childhood. People were choosing their own spouses in the west basically since the church banned cousin marriage shortly after the fall of Rome and we have sources of basically to 1000 AD of the western European marriage pattern being one of choosing your partner and usually the feelings linked to that. This is actually why the eastern arranged marriages weren't as bad as is normally made out to be since the families involved tended to pick spouses from basically childhood friends. The evils of arranged marriages were mostly from political marriages in the nobility where we have all of the arranged marriage tragedies from. Also, you're right. I could change my expectations that marriage lasts forever. That's true. But it'd damage my relationships by telling my partner I have no faith in them, and also opening myself to going into a situation that I know I'll inevitably lose out from. At which point, I just wouldn't get married. Nip it at the bud. Now, you've not really proven anything tossing my words back to me. It's just worth adding the caveat that such changes in attitude should work to better yourself or the relationship (if you're even interested in preserving it, which you should if you actually managed to get married), and if you're just changing them to suit your desires it'll never take you anywhere. Misuse of anything won't get you anywhere. Honestly, betting on it not lasting is dooming it to failure as well. It sounds like there's a lot to doom these things to failure. Because there is. But this tended to be a bit more well known and better understood in the past of how to do it right. As with a great many things, there are so many ways to be wrong and so few to be right.
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  796. @Julia Sepúlveda  A relationship is a continuing action. To end, it is the most obvious sign of a failed relationship. Just because things continued well doesn't mean it didn't ultimately fail. The end of the relationship is ultimately the failure of it. Why it did or if it was necessary to are unrelated to that condition. It's why divorce is seen as a failure. Because it ultimately is. That sounds heartless and something you'd disagree to at first clearly, so I'll give another example. If you die, you fail to survive. If you hold your own in a fight but lose, you fail to win. If you drive very well but then crash, you fail to be a good driver. Such are the characteristics of continuing processes. You can still fail with the success being until you die. So, in that case, the relationship failed. It's also very important to understand that it is a failure because if you don't, you can't have a continuing relationship for a long time. Having lots of relationships indicates a problem with you. Having so many end indicates a problem with you. So it is very important to understand that it truly is a failure. Because there's another success condition. Also even if you hang around like-minded people, all you've done is shrink the pool to something which will inevitably fail. And while for you I understand you say you want that, in reality very few people truly do. All things are doomed to failure eventually unless the window is limited. How long you succeed is important, but if you're looking to fail, you will inevitably do so. Also, i will partially retract my statement about them marrying for love before then. While it was for love, it was one which was far less fleeting. One less dependant on passions and romantic love but ones far deeper. You still were marrying people you knew your entire life and loved them accordingly. They were people from your community and were supported by it. You didn't marry people you disliked (unless you were out of options) and knew better than to pursue based on those passions. Also were probably love-making with a few more people anyway because it was polite to have sex with friends and in front of the children in the 13th century. If you're not sleeping in the bed together naked you're being rude.
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  797.  @shawnpavlik3756  "A woman cannot desire a man who is beneath her" is less a statement of fact and more reflective of the reality of many blogs where older women can't find men who make more money than they do, the fact that women do statistically divorce men after making more money than they do (though this has started to shrink in the 90s, without significant data post that period), and that women generally have a pattern of hypergamy toward partner selection. While generalizations cannot be absolute, it's generally a rule to support when looking at relationships.
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  798. 9:00 You know what makes this worse? Could've done it. Could've used the very same trick they used twice on Reva and on the Grand Inquisitor: could've stabbed him and then had him survive.
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  799. Btw estimates put highest US casualties in Korea at 33,629 and lowest number (Chinese numbers of dead) at 110,000. And across the whole war the US was doing much more with much less. And given the US doctrine and how much it took... there's your 4:1 kill ratio. Btw those are Chinese statistics with the median being about 430,000 dead and highest estimate being over 900,000 dead.
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  800. To be fair, probably has to be normalized for population as those barbarian invasions failed with none of the population, and then on top of that, when those invasions were repelled were when Rome was less urbanized.
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  801. Is this firing 20mm? No? Then this isn't the most powerful sniper. Check out the Anzio 20mm.
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  802. Extreme politics? I think you're missing something if you think that's the result. For example, in the 60s, the parties were so close politically that there were calls for diversity. The reason for the polarization we're seeing is multifaceted but has more to do with the cultural changes of the internet, the pill (much weaker but still the), mass college education, secularization, urbanization, and deinundustrialization. These all have extreme changes on the economy and culture that cause a lot of issues. When you realize the parties are themselves coalitions, this view of them being extreme falls apart.
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  803.  @orboakin8074  OH yeah just look at the channel's newer stuff
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  804.  VPN  Access to water has nothing to do with water filtration services and ability to have potable water. China has plenty of actual water but they've polluted it to complete uselessness in many areas. Water is 76% of the earth's surface but humans can only have 3% of that. There's a reason I said access to clean water and not just water in general. Your point is completely moot.
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  805.  @jramsey9690  Eh. Yes. Their immediate community. And that's it. And even then, still a fair bit of "me". I'm sorry but you're wrong on that one.
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  806. I'd love to know more about the differences in the Kurdish groups. Also, I think you're right. I wonder who in the modern day has outsourced occupation to local militias
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  807. Worth mentioning that Taiwan would only need to defend 70 days because after that an amphibious invasion is impossible for another half year
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  808.  @hoodaticus  5th republic and 7th constitution IIRC
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  809.  @MustacheDLuffy  Originally they were "These United States" However being "The United States" has only been a post-WWII thing. You're also trying to somehow equate what I'm saying to the US under the articles of confederation? The federal union of the states does in no way necessitate a growth in federal power and its growth has been borderline unconstitutional since it's been under the interstate commerce clause while having little to do with that fact. While there's definitely been a cultural shift where people identify themselves more as "American" the issues have come in the overstepping of bounds where policies are trying to be enacted for the whole of the union where they make no sense coming from the federal government when they should be local issues. Once people learn to focus more on their own communities there will likely be much less bickering at the top since the energy will be redirected towards places that matter such as local communities and states which they'll likely spend their whole lives in. The only reason there has even been such a focus on the federal government is the fanfare of the federal politicians and their disproportionate news coverage being essentially TV celebrities for each year. Once people realize it doesn't change much for them and focus on where it will that will likely end.
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  810. Probably what WW2 or the 30 years war felt like. I mean Sabaton literally sung about the latter with "Has man gone insane?"
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  811. @Rm_1776  Yeah I think the only ones who experienced similar levels of depopulation were the Poles. But if you were a Russian soldier serving in 1941 you died at about the same rate
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  812. ​ @alexer52 Because the mongols are important in establishing the Russian legal and governmental that we see today. I looked into it and it really was insane how much of it was built from the mongols. He did mention Orthodoxy which became the heart of Russian civilization, but none of the byzantine legal traditions survived and the Norse legal traditions were all killed by Moscow.
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  813. @azamatbagatov7161  First off: The part of the Mongol empire that ruled Russia, the Golden Horde, were actually a settled people who developed and thus did have governing institutions. Not to mention that the Mongol style of governance was to be listened to or die. Now, onto the list: Moscow being the capital of Russia (capital of the Tsardom of Russia, originally the Muscovite Tsardom) , the elimination of the veche system and democratic culture of the Rus, the flourishing of Orthodox Christianity (which existed because the Golden Horde allowed it), The census and tax collection system, centralization of power and rise of Russian autocracy, the Russian Tsars (started by the "Grand Prince" title granted by the Mongols), the destruction of Kiev as a center of power and splitting of the Rus, Mestnichestvo hierarchy, 15% of Boyar families, postal road network, increase in capital punishment (used to only be used on slaves), use of torture as a criminal procedure, certain punishments introduced such as beheading for alleged traitors and branding of thieves, and also the fiscal system and military organization, since that last part was required to fight the mongols. In a story, much like Korea and Vietnam, the Russians we know today took cultural forms from the mongols in order to fight them off.
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  814.  @retro2103  He's not of the traditional tribe which people associate with the right wing. However, I've never really found any disingenuousness from him in speaking and he seems to be remarkably candid. Outright lying I find very hard to believe.
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  815. 15:51 What are you talking about? In the case of the classical world, it was ONE GUY who was just THAT GOOD, and the empire fell apart IMMEDIATELY. This was mirrored best by the conquests of Ghengis Khan rather than anything the West did. The reason this is important is because classical civilization didn't do this, ALEXANDER did that, which means that the trajectory had nothing to do with the state of the civilization but instead one man and thus the parallel is moot. It also means that the succeeding parallel is pretty weak too since the aftermath of Alexander's conquests would be more akin to French Indichina, the British Raj, and the Dutch East Indies fighting with each other vying for supremacy as the old nation's back in Europe simply fell apart. Or even better, the rest of the British Raj and British Africa, fighting the British isles for control over the whole of the empire.
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  816. The pressure valve letting out nothing only builds more pressure. In it trying to get out, it'll build until it can.
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  817. Well the goal here seems to be very specific: hitting the enemy and taking them out of the fight from a much farther range. The reason for this is that the fire control systems will allow them to do so beyond the 300m range in which most fights took place. That's the point of this whole program in the first place
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  818. Ah yes. Yet another random video drop. Thank you Rudy
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  819. I need some extra elaboration on this
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  820. It's what I plan to do.
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  821. THEY'RE ALIVE!
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  822.  @quisqueyanguy120  But they share the same civilization and so what hampered them was their governmental system which is the only real difference. On paper they should be as wealthy and powerful as the US. They should have been much like northwestern Europe. But it's poor and has been poor the entire time. And it's been around while being independent and exposed to the west for far longer. Basically everyone else who isn't wealthy is because they haven't been independent and have only very recently been exposed to industrialization. Thus, they're only poorer by not having enough time to grow. But Latin America, which has been around longer than Anglo America, is still poor. We know the factors of why Eastern Europe isn't rich and it's because of the Soviets really which hampered a lot of that growth. The Asian countries aren't rich because they industrialized in a generation and the only one which started to industrialize earlier is already rich. They'll almost certainly be rich before Latin America is as they always have been. Turkey will likely drag in much of the Arab world along with it as it's largely already industrialized. And then some parts of Africa are industrializing and growing very quickly such as the newly formed EAF which was a region entirely under British rule
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  823. I've come out of this learning 3 things: America really does foot the bill for the world despite how arrogant it sounds, war with China is all but guaranteed, and more world empires will rise again.
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  824.  @dontatmebro-  Stick drift basically came from the fact that the sticks are buttons. Repeated uses will simply start to make issues regarding the use of the sticks as they get pushed very slightly out of place over time to where there is shift in 0.
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  825.  @farzana6676  Actually yes with the exception of Africa barring the EAF, maybe Ethiopia, and if west Africa continues to be led by the French. The rest of Africa is just too poorly integrated into the global economy, their borders make no sense, and on top of that largely rely on capital from Europe and Asia. The Middle East will rise once again likely under the Turks since they're already industrialized and can follow their track or their lead. There's also a lot of Muslim nationalism which transcends the political and even ethnic borders which could make an empire. India is also basically the place of Russia during the first world War with a massive young population and actively and rapidly industrializing. This will likely pull all of south Asia into its economic and cultural orbit. Europe and East Asia will face a crisis in the coming demographic crunch and after the recovery probably be go back to the world of the 16th century with strong politically split civilizations which sometimes work together for broader and smaller goals.
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  826.  @farzana6676  Well honestly the US replacement rate has only JUST started to dip and part of that has been because we've entered some hard times which historically pushes down the birth rate. Also the creeping of an anti-natal ideology that everyone is growing to hate and will likely eradicate within a decade as things get too hard to sustain such an ideology so the birth rate will likely climb back up afterward.
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  827.  @markmuller7962  I think you're the one who is really uneducated on this. Demographies around the world are incredibly unequal such as the rapid birth rate in the middle east and throughout much of the Muslim world compared to the incredible collapse in East Asia and Europe. This has applied very heavily to Russia and to ignore what have historically been the strengths of Russia (large population and birth rate which allowed them to grow to their current borders in the first place) and how those strengths are no longer around and overall showcased better in countries such as China in regards to population and central Asia and other ethnic minorities in birthrate. This also paired with the very poor geography that comes from an incredibly flat terrain with few natural borders means that the only way to survive is by military strength. You seem to lack understanding of the mindset of the historical Russian state and its goal above all else: secure the borders of the Russian heartland. This has dictated the actions of Russia since its unification under the rise of Novgorod and has largely dictated its foreign policy since. It's also idealistic to view the modern world as a status that will continue onward and specifically this commitment to peace from all of Europe which is not followed by much of the world outside of it. People want to be represented in their governments and often identify with their own groups so Want their groups as part of the government. In many instances they also want their own land and this is the start of the nation-state model: a core desire for your people to have a state. Empires have largely dominated this by being a larger state which can defend all of the territory but the groups within either united and part of the larger identity or subjugated and maybe sometimes represented if that empire cares to. Now within all of that context there needs to be something here to address in my statement: Russia is either a world power or a rump state. The reason is because the only defensible borders that it has are found THOUSANDS of miles apart. It has the Pacific in the East, some mountains north of Manchuria and Mongolia, used to have mountains south and east of Kazakhstan, the Caucuses in the south, used to have the north pole in the northwest (now it's just Finland), used to have the Carpathians (now Moldova), used to have the black sea (now Ukraine, and used to have the Baltic sea. These all pushed into mountains and uncrossable water to the North, East, and South, and pushed far into the north European plain in the west. This prevented any force from pushing in once it got its military in order but Russia had to be powerful enough to control all of this land and also had to have the population which populated it to be truly Russian to maintain control. This was lost when Russia weakened. If Russia doesn't grow back it loses Siberia to China as climate change makes the region more temperate and loses the region just East of the Urals to people who out populate Russia in that area as the Russian heartland is in Eastern Europe and if Russia becomes weak enough to lose the area past the Urals to other groups it'll never have the ability to keep itself protected at its Western border. This leaves Russia completely indefensible as the only areas around it are flat grassland perfect for invading from. Btw world powers do not have to be exclusively from military ability and most often wield very strong cultural and economic influence over many regions.
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  828.  @markmuller7962  I'm sorry... WHAT? Did you just accuse me of in ANY way defending Russia? I'm sorry but I in no way defended Russia however to not understand demographics is to not understand their situation. Central Asia is not the developed world and has a fertility rate of 2.75 births per woman and a population of 74.3 million people. The excess people can literally move north and out populate the Russians in the region of Siberia. They simply have more people in the region and if they want to migrate and settle the region then Russia can't stop them. If Russia is too weak to keep it then they lose that territory. China has an incredible demographic problem which will halve their population yes. However their population is still MASSIVE and by the end of the century will still be 7x that of Russia. And all of that Russian population is in Eastern Europe and not in the far East which means once again that they can just move in and take territory by settling the region. This is because in the local area Russia is out populated not because of its pure population. Once that demographic crunch kicks in both Russia and China will be weakened but Russia much more heavily than China. And thus Russia would lose out in any contest over territory. Will any of this happen? Not necessarily. Can it happen? Yes. The key thing to understand is that either Russia is strong enough to hold its territory or it becomes so weak that it can lose it. Which is why it's important for the sake of Russia to be a world power. And World powers involve things other than military might.
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  829.  @markmuller7962  To be a superpower you have to fundamentally be able to project power far beyond your borders and make it so that no-one will touch you. To that end military power makes it so that no-one will touch you. It also allows you to stave off issues like migrations if you have successful control of people so they either don't enter or if they do you have the means to keep them from either seceding or causing issues in your government. But your question misses something and if you've watched this channel long enough you'd realize: these wars aren't random. Not by a long shot. These wars are for one very specific goal: a return to the defensible borders of the Soviet Union. The least defensible border of pure plains needs to be reduced as much as possible so they're trying to push into the Carpathian mountains and the Baltic sea. The wars in Chechnya and I want to say Georgia were to push to the Caucasus mountains. And Russia currently holds de-facto control over Kazakhstan which allows it to push to the mountains on the west of Xinjiang in China (the heavenly mountains), and the mountains in the south of Kazakhstan. This is literally just Russia trying to secure its borders. However the issue is that no-one really wants to be in Russia's sphere of informer and it lacks the institutions to be liked and actually good at its economy (mostly thanks to the length of communist rule) for much of those states. So it goes to hard power and invades. The point here of why Russia needs to be a world power is that it needs to be strong enough to hold all of this land and keep others from coming in so it can be secured on as many sides as possible.
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  830. IIRC Czech Republic has a similar right to own firearms enshrined in their constitution. Also I'd be surprised to see them more relaxed than MOST US states. If you're not working with "shall issue" permits at the minimum you're on the higher end of restrictive.
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  831. We have. We tried them. They were too expensive and haven't worked. We'll revisit the concept in 20 years.
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  832. Tokarev was going speed over size before it was cool. And was still better. And still had better volume of fire.... remind me why we went 9mm standardization?
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  833.  @vytas5584  They will. It's the difference between .38 special and .357 magnum. They're the same diameter and case length, but VASTLY different cartridges.
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  834. If it isn't a problem that interferes with reproduction nature doesn't care
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  835. Iran's fertility rate is actually 1.71. They've been at 1.8 about as long as the USA has been at 1.7. They're stable. But that's it. Also, birth rate differences that small matter less when the population difference is over 3 times. But that's not exactly the point anyway.
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  836. Ancient Roswell?
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  837.  @Archenw  That's actually kind of funny
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  838.  @3rdblindmouse544  I can understand why you see it that way. For me however I never quite saw it as simply privatizing because even the "privatized" industries had significant government ties and oversight. The most I'll see it is as a merger between capitalism and socialism as it does understand that outside markets exist and engage in trade to an extent and grow its own economy whereas socialism tends to be implemented at the expense of the economy. Fascism likes the ideas and ideals of socialism, but attempts to work it into the contemporary capitalist world economy.
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  839. I really do love industrial waste. It only stays waste for so long.
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  840. I believe it May be necessary to keep European sovereignty as it's incredibly difficult to coordinate many militaries under joint command. But a common military would allow a lot of standardization and other benefits. In terms of militaries centralization of power is always preferable for efficiency. So the option is trying to coordinate multiple militaries with their own equipment, training, and specialization, or just make it yourself. Also I find it funny that the language for this United military would be almost guaranteed to be English.
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  841.  @stephenhodgson3506  Tbh... the states do share a history as being part of the United States and largely being started by the same ethnic groups. They also all share history under a single government having given troops. It's also a much more recent history with most states being less than 200 years old. Compare that to at least a thousand for every European country. It's a little disingenuous to me when you try to compare it to the US when the USA is created entirely by migrations of people and largely still forming its culture and traditions. Unlike Europe which largely has the same groups in the same places for the entire time having traditions millenia old. Though I guess you could compare it to India which was largely the same. I also kind of feel like it's a bit disingenuous to say that Germany only existed since then when the HRE was basically in its place since 800. Alsace-Lorraine has been on the fringe of both countries. And I'm pretty sure Spain didn't rule the Netherlands and lost a war to them in which they immediately bought weapons from after because the Dutch were just kind of pulling Chad moves. Maybe you're confusing the Netherlands for southern Italy. Belgium you have a point though. Fake country.
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  842.  @stephenhodgson3506  I'm aware of the Prussian situation... and that completely ignores my point about the Holy Roman Empire which ALSO fought napoleon and did so before Prussia. Germany as we know it today is simply united German states (although under the Prussian cultural tradition). Compare that to the also united German states of the Holy Roman empire. It was a different name and government but largely the same territory which is why I say it's unfair. Also worth noting that the "Spanish Netherlands" is actually present day Belgium and Luxembourg instead of the Netherlands proper. Also beyond Louisiana... most of the territories you're thinking of have generally weak ties to their history and have long since been dominated by whoever moved there. Case in point Texas, which was largely removed from any of the Spanish influence by the time it joined the USA as even the Mexican government had a weak hold on it to the point where they seceded. It was long influenced by American settlers in the region and the Mexicans in the area were largely pushed out. Same thing with a lot of the Mexican territory ceded to the USA. Also really funny you mention the Louisiana purchase as with ALL of that land which came from that... only Louisiana proper ever had any cultural tradition from before beyond the native one. Similar for much of what was gained in the Mexican American War because it was largely desert with more significant migration to those states coming from the previous hundred years. The culture in those states are largely created by the migrants and have little ties to who had them first beyond the city names such as "Los Angeles" and "San Diego." Also largely important to note that the borders there which mark them today largely had little to do with who was actually in those areas as they mostly didn't exist yet. And you can't compare that to anything in Europe because even Belgium has a population that has been there since longer than the United States has existed. Btw Florida? Spanish actually had little presence apart from St Augustine and that is incredibly evident from the city names which aren't Spanish at all being almost completely pushed out in the transition. Never was a big colony for the Spanish.
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  843. Only issue is that Islamic was fundamentally derived from Roman civilization and the influences of the others by the bronze age collapse can barely be felt
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  844. Yeah let's me honest, the history of Russia is the history of coming back from levels of death and horror that would cripple literally any other population. But not THE RUS. They're the embodiment of "It doesn't matter how many times you get beaten down just how many times you get back up."
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  845.  @RWebster325  The rifle is supposed to be for the average soldier. Great that you're better. But uh... if you've kept up at all with this whole thing, the average soldier is supposed to have this in a few decades as that was the intention of the program with this first bit being limited adoption within the newly created "Close Combat Force" which isn't even all of the combat forces of the US military. It's given first to the highest tier operators and then down further down the line.
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  846. Thank you for the extra information. Wish this could've made it to him
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  847. I clicked because of the thumnail
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  848. And socialists everywhere bear evidence of lacking this mark
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  849. Probably need this translated by Google for you but I basically said the same thing in English
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  850.  @db_prod  No no actually you're here first and just kind of found you afterward. I'm really just saying that I ended up saying the same thing in a different language without connotation. Just that it happened which is cool.
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  851. I think the most damming thing for the Euro is that it only exists to supplement the dollar and as an extension of the empire.
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  852. Yeah I take issue with the statement about the "more technologically advanced Germans" as they weren't really ahead and in some ways were behind. The biggest thing they had was coordination and the initiative to move quickly which is how their early victories and all successes of the war came. However you can see the deficiencies with such things as getting to the semi-auto rifle last, the fact that their tanks were worse than the French and even Soviet tanks (but had radios and had better economics) and weren't industrially capable of actually fully motorizing. They were certainly great at engineering and invention but honestly it was only to a certain point. It was really rough technological parity the whole time without any significant advantage. It's not like the soviets were 10 years behind. This really isn't comparable to the US who is ahead and always attempting to be ahead and if you keep up with any of the military stuff seeing that it's once again making a leap ahead.
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  853. One example? He provides multiple from multiple countries. Really, the actual outcome is that it was only profitable for one country.
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  854.  @emperorarima3225  Doesn't matter as much if your army gets routed and your capital is surrounded in 6 months. Which is about what I expect to happen. I doubt the Chinese can even really replace their heavy equipment so quickly since that takes time to build and it's even harder when you're having your industry taken over. And unlike Russia which is big and MOVED its industry, there's nowhere to move the Chinese industry to. You're just going to lose it no matter what. Your population is going to no longer be under control of your government so you can't coordinate, and overall trying to actually resist would be just the Chinese government handing rifles to a bunch of random citizens to then get blown up by artillery fire.
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  855.  @emperorarima3225  Honestly the thing here is that China is more a bunch of scared peasants with rocket launchers if that. Honestly the Chinese might be able to pump all of that out but kind of hard to do that when you're being blown up by close air support and artillery about a kilometer out. I'm not trying to simp for the US, but currently the morale difference is just really huge. And you know... don't quite replace loses that quickly when you're not at total war levels. Also yeah all of this is hypothetical. You're not getting to the Chinese mainland. This is the biggest thing I don't understand when people speak about possible war with the Chinese: WHAT LAND WAR!!??? Any boots on the ground are going to be in Taiwan or Korea providing support. Not the Chinese mainland. There's nowhere to invade from. And honestly it's a lot easier to just hold a coast than an actual invasion. Not sure who the hell is thinking of an actual invasion of China. Best I can think of is maybe they base in Korea and invade a small into Beijing to get them to sue for peace after defending Taiwan for long enough of they don't agree to a cease-fire in a year.
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  856.  @emperorarima3225  Yeah I broke down the reasons for that guy why the US couldn't just invade China. Tbh I think even a war inside China's borders could be won, but the question is why bother and also where to invade. There's no reason for it and if there's such little reason for it then you just don't to it.
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  857. @loissio481  Family memory not really. We just have last name to go by. And the all important 40% Portuguese in genetics (probably Galicia)
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  858.  @CM-wr6zn  Not always. And honestly superior training has trounced numbers in many instances. Especially when you can execute defeat in detail of enemies via encirclements. Also worth noting that at this point you can levy your industry a lot harder than your manpower. French took over the continent and 6 coalitions almost entirely by artillery and encirclements and that was in the early 19th century. Big guns do a lot of damage. British took over India via drill (even though they did also use guns).
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  859.  @bhgtree  "I play both sides so I always come up on top"
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  860. Biggest thing is that the first world War is the straw that broke the camel's back for Russia and Austria. Without it, both countries likely wouldn't have had so many issues. They needed about 10 more years to solve the issues before it started.
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  861. These are the kinds of conversations I like to have with people.
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  862.  @Ggyhhggtyyy  Yeah they've exported much of it out like America. I'm fairly certain the exceptions to this are France and Germany who still have decent industrial sectors. UK simply couldn't complete in its industry without its colonies. France is just still a colonial power.
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  863. 5:20 What about the smoking snakes bro? You forgot about them when saying Sabaton couldn't sing about them
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  864. Well sadly the issue is that the left is actually going around and killing people (often beating people to death), and in a few times were armed with guns. On top of that, the right is a mostly unrelated Coalition that hold a lot of the older values which allowed our Society to function for so long so in terms of overall social impact they're less important. As an overall social impact, they're also in many ways less in power. The ideas of social justice have spread to all sectors of the elite (even business) as the counterculture of the 60s won out and became the mainstream culture in many ways. These all tie much closer to the left wing being the greater danger. The right has little institutional power so for as bad as many of their extremist movements are, they have little overall impact thus they really don't deserve the same scrutiny in the context of macro shifts in society. Also the right tends to purge their extreme wings MUCH more. Most of the right doesn't associate and condemns such actions and in many ways is forced due to not having institutional control as they'd otherwise be purged (when you have values, practices, and ideas most people can agree on you will likely exist even when institutional power doesn't necessarily like you as normal people then start to notice due to no longer having the popular support to purge them). Compared to the left which realistically only has its extreme in the mainstream due to tacit agreement and factional institutional control thus not necessitating such purges.
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  865. Also while correct about MLK, he was explicitly a socialist and on top of that what did survive were the things that most people could agree on. Also he was martyred.Thus what survived in history was the agreeable while the disagreeable fell to the wayside.
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  866.  Zoomer Stasi  What about it is cope?
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  867.  @JellyAntz  Yes increase the industrial production and crash the cost which decrease standard of living.
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  868.  @qinby1182  I'm 90% sure our income tax does not simply count salaries as paid wages but any sort of money you accrue except I think capital gains. Also I believe it for Sweden or even many other places. The issue with counting the US as a single bloc is that if you want to get an accurate comparison between it and anywhere in Europe you're going to get more comparable numbers if you either A: divide the US states or B: take the EU as a single country for comparative purposes. Also absolutely they know how to avoid that and it's why accountants make so much money.
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  869.  @stephenjenkins7971  He was literally the most voted for president in US history. And any "lies" he spread about the media were found to be true. The only things were voter fraud which were actually found in a few instances. And he pushed for recounts in the states with the context of "finding him votes" being that votes meant for him were lost. If you care at all about being honest saying he damaged democracy is just disingenuous
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  870.  @forumrider86  Nah not for construction. That's minimum wage in Florida and even when it wasn't it was pretty low for the job.
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  871. 8:25 Yeah you got me. I laughed.
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  872. @scorpixel1866  Yah that's true the Brits only need like one tank brigade to make pushes. I can't forgive their neglect of the air force though. It's so small with a force which depends on air Supremacy and have sacrificed like half of their navy just to get out the nuclear carriers. Whatever with the army, the navy keeps you safe long term. Though yeah both France and Britain are in the corner of the map away from any land wars. They're not built to fight a land war. So I'm curious to see how they'll go for it again.
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  873. ​@ransakreject5221 It's because in real terms he knows very little about hard science. He's very much in the humanities and nowhere near entrenched enough in modern science to really speak on it with authority. I trust him on his humanities because he's read hundreds of books on the matter. He very much has not read enough science or really gone into that world at all to speak about it.
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  874. There's a few now
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  875. Yeah imagine if the majority of migrants to Canada, Australia, and the UK were all American in origin
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  876. well if that's what had to be done that's perfectly understandable
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  877. Because it's concentrated among a very small group, which is the point which has been made. It's why incels Exist at all. Apart from prostitution, most guys aren't finding relationships (which is how sex normally comes) with many women cycled among a small "chad" class rather than more evenly distributed. Due to all conventions being released, it's easily attainable... for the guys who are most sought after. If you're not sought after, you don't get much.
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  878. 39:37 I think the story Harrison Bergeron embodies this quite well
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  879. Also worth noting that's all Citizens not public servants which that formula doesn't apply to
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  880. it might be more than 2 seats lmao
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  881. We're just genuinely the romans but with the ability to actually make new technology besides architecture
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  882. I really can't see how this is at all American exceptionalism. Problems are thus: Russia is DECIDEDLY losing right now. Russia is requiring the pulling back of all troop commitments regionally and globally. This clearly has consequences with regards to the quiet alliance structures which has made up the world post 1991. And most importantly, he didn't even start with the American consequences but those closest to the area in question. And then moved on to what the US cared about. There's nothing here about the US being the greatest. In fact the US was mostly out of it except for a leash on Isreal which may no longer be held and the ability to probably clear the western hemisphere of that influence.
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  883. No that would require him to actually win first. If he's still at war where he's trying to win and can't even use troops from that border anyway then it really isn't something he can do anything about.
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  884.  @Danishpolice-potatogod  Not necessarily. In real terms the Lukashenko regime is not that of the Russian regime. They are a significant loss but they're not one that either can be defended right now or one which actually endangers the Russian state.
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  885. So are you going to make that video on economics inside prisons yet? You're at 20k now
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  886. Napoleon was 5'2" in French units. The issue is French inches are longer than American/ British inches so it translates to about 5'9" in modern freedom units
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  887. I really don't get why the Allies losing "tens of thousands" is a problem when the soviets had lost hundreds of thousands. The Allies combined lost maybe a million? Soviets lost 20 million people total and somewhere between 6 million and 10 million dead soldiers. The Allies also still had reserves
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  888. Asian guy only got saved by coincidence. She happened to play Valorant too. If it wasn't for that, he'd have floundered. However, very important: this is how real Rizz works. This is the WORST situation to try to approach a girl because there's no real situation or context clues to start a situation. You're in a white room, with the girl in front of you doing nothing. You have nothing to work with. It's harder to NOT sound awkward.
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  889. That video can't be put on YouTube lmao
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  890.  @MildPsychedelic  Isn't it a tax credit and thus not something that is directly subsidized but instead just not taxed on?
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  891. The difference between Mongol invasion of Europe and the current timeline seems largely to be "What would happen if the central European powers were weakened when the powers of the peripheries decided to invade this time?" and that is this version of Europe.
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  892. Link me your other channels but right now this honestly I'm just going to get ready for the coming revolution and global conflict.
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  893. Well fuel costs exists and that takes weight to transport.
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  894. The appropriate question to this is if the conquest is discussing just that of direct European contact, of which that 55 to 60 million surely is not doing, because most of the disease was spread from already infected indigenous populations. Thus, they're not directly responsible. 8 million died in present day Mexico from the conquest, but the lions share even there was disease. Because of disease, by 1650 (before most colonies were established), that 55 million figure was already gone.
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  895.  @JudeMalachi  The US largely doesn't face a demographic problem. Unlike other countries who are decades into this the US only dipped VERY recently into this in a way other countries just haven't.
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  896.  @rhalfik  Nah France will probably be okay as realistically it controls west Africa and is rooting out Islamic extremists in the region. The French identity is also somewhat malleable as you don't have to actually have a certain look. Just be French by being as French as any other Frenchman which means that much like a religion, you can convert to being French, it just takes a lot more effort than like becoming American or anglophone. However that buts up against Islam which is very much NOT a part of French identity and as a different and ingrained culture means Muslims integrate poorly overall.
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  897. Now for you: fundamentally your timing is off as there are two fundamental issues you've missed: The millennials are an American only phenomenon. Everyone has boomers but only Americans have millennials. Boomers refused to have kids and so a baby bust occurred in the WWII areas at the time of that cohort getting into age (1970s) and it's what's causing the demographic issues of today. Secondly the demographic crisis is hitting NOW. The reason Russia had to invade THIS YEAR was because this was the LAST year that it could even ATTEMPT to start an invasion as it is entering into terminal decline. China has already entered into terminal decline back in the early 2000s since they over-counted their population on scale of over 100 million people. Their population bulge goes into mass retirement within 10 years and the idea that we'll even get there before something in the Chinese system gives is simply ludicrous (Chinese already suffer numerous issues which are country killers such as insane debt to gdp) and such a give will Permanently stop their economy (China is where Japan was 30 years ago but on the scale of 10x the population and 1/3x the wealth with probably 2x the bubble size) and thus they will suffer a stop which is simply unprecedented given the size and situation. As for the other things please understand that Xi didn't condone the Ukraine war because he didn't even know it was going to happen. On top of this, while they know the war for Taiwan will go poorly they're in a state where they too will need a diversionary effect because they're about to start running exclusively on nationalism. This means that there's a more than 10% chance of war for Taiwan. You think the US has no appetite for war but the Americans are self-righteous quickly and frankly they'd get into a "splendid little war" type scenario because war with China looks like a level of sanctions that was put on Russia and blocking the strait of Malacca which results in the complete deindustrialization of China. The US doesn't need troops on the ground to win that war it just needs to stay far away from the mainland and then not allow any shipping into China. Frankly the biggest thing is that I don't see the Americans fighting war in Europe. THAT is liable to be completely ignored. The global crisis is coming within the decade. And in real terms if we want to kick it off it would be with a famine. That comes November to December 2022. Dominoes fall from there.
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  898. Nah everything he says has a point. There's nothing that is untrue of what he says. Pointing out flaws doesn't make you triggered.
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  899. Okay I don't think it's quite that which is being discussed here. It's more of "I'm the dangerous one when you're one order away from trying to kill me?" and it seems drinker here has understood That as well. He's also correct in it being completely stupid. They point guns at the Hulk too. Why? Because he's a Rampaging Monster destroying things. And she's holding thousands hostage for the sake of a fantasy.
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  900. The problem is he doesn't know what an empire is lol
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  901. @williampennjr.4448  That's not what an empire is, lol. An empire is explicitly the domination of one people over neighboring peoples. They're explicitly expansionist and increase their boundaries by force and by conquest acquire peoples. Even more relevant, they prioritize their own people and put their group as the administrators and leaders, thus cementing the domination of their nation at the expense of others. So, while an empire must be multi-ethnic and thus multi-national by design (unless you're a failed empire like the holy Roman empire), that doesn't mean every multi-ethnic state is an empire. Otherwise, you get the very silly allegation that every African country is an empire. This makes no sense and runs into a LOT of issues. Multiple states into one is also just incorrect as well as the states who come under the purview of the first are dismantled. They cease to exist. The people remain, and the nations remain, but the state that has governed them is dismantled and replaced by the incoming power. Finally, a "country" is a state. A state is a political entity with shared laws within a given set of borders. A nation is, in fact, a group of people with a shared culture and identity. In fact, they often share blood as well. It's a people group first and foremost. You have stateless nations such as the Kurds, but then you have nation-states like Iceland and Japan, and finally, multi-ethnic states like the rest. At this point, this is just social studies 101.
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  902. Well there are a fair few polymers that are more heat resistant and the most important part to its to keep high heat resistance for a fraction of a second. As long a it clears that, it should be fine.
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  903. King of battle. We all know the God of War is logistics
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  904. It seems he took this advice to heart because uh... well I have a feeling you know where this Channel is now
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  905. Both. See the thing about libertarians and other right-wingers is that they meme about themselves... often. If you know about the ancap community they make memes mocking both ancoms and ancaps.
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  906.  @alansmithee419  they don't know how to argue
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  907. Number 1 cannot be topped until some anime decides to come along and destroy some universes.
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  908. +Luis 24 Zeno?
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  909. +Luis 24 Oh, I didn't actually catch his name when he made his appearance at the end of the Beerus vs Champa champion tournament.
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  910. @Benjamin Burkhardt Not quite considering Seth McFarlane basically a textbook liberal in his beliefs and the show encapsulates that. But you know things tend to change when economics are halfway irrelevant
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  911. I haven't thought about home field advantage in the sky, but that does shed some light on things with that in regards to the air war
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  912.  @dacooker_1448  Russia is Russia. Choosing Russia is never wrong.
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  913.  @kyleharrell4853  Island or Papua?
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  914.  @carlhansen6802  Eh so are you. Since it has an independent state it isn't PART of Indonesia.
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  915.  @binozia-old-2031  That was a thing?
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  916.  @snowmanleblanc6053  Name of the island itself is new Guinea (at least in the English language) while the country is Papua New Guinea. I also recognize the small country of west Papua on the island.
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  917.  @RockBrentwood  Eh... technically the Americas have different tectonic plates and also happen to be split down the middle in a narrow canal so... north and south are a little more appropriate.
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  918.  Tracy Sharp  There will not. A United Africa would not last very long simply from all of the ethnic tensions. It'd be a fragile alliance who's seams would be as tight as a loose screw. Most countries start out as a collection of a single ethnic group and then (in western countries) slowly accept outsiders or start as a buildup of immigrants for a long time. However, in Africa most of the countries are very much as unstable to do its corruption as it is its ethnic conflict. Now multiply that by 4x the population and a government very far away from you. Congratulations on your domed escapade.
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  919. WHERE THE HELL WAS HIGHSCHOOL DXD!? SOME OF THE SEXIEST ANIME GIRLS ARE FOUND THERE!
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  920. Imagine making a 150k USD salary in exchange for going to war. That's the current soldier pay Russia is using to send people to Ukraine.
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  921. Oh yeah CON actually sponsors people who speak out for whatever reason.
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  922. I'm not sure that the most powerful military force on the planet is capable of actually defending it all. And in fact i think that while you've a point about the formal military, we've seen police departments also screen out for ideological loyalty on the right. Essentially, "you try to enter and we'll eject you" which means that control of the police is rather difficult. At best, the police departments are equal in terms of control. Not to mention that the ideological current is in fact to reduce the funding of the police departments, especially in left wing cities, and very often calls to stop funding the military. At best your characterization of the left as "preparing for war" is misguided as you're accusing the left of ideological and political cohesion that they 100% DO NOT HAVE. Which is part of why this future fight is winnable. Neither side has any sort of unity. The right is capable of greater unity, but controls fewer institutions. The social liberal current has however far too many factions among very thin lines and niche issues to truly cooperate, and worse still, they're actively trying to kneecap themselves in anything besides an ideological victory, of which is accidental as they believe it's the truth. Seeing any of this as anything besides a stand-alone complex from people with ideological similarities is a truly gargantuan mistake. This allows a small faction to get control and rule on either side. Just like a traditional civil war.
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  923. Ian in the takedown video: "This gun is remarkable easy to shoot, lower rate of fire made it controllable" Ian in the shooting video: "I can't even keep my sights on target and end PPSh is just a smooth water hose that doesn't move"
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  924. I'll be honest I have to disagree. I think it simply comes with being an empire as when it weakens and falls the countries which form the cultural heartland lose their holdings and revert to their more homogenous center. The Roman empire eventually fell to its more Italian center under Ordoacer and founded the kingdom of Italy. The byzantines which carried on the empire were majority Greek until the turkic migration which displaced the majority of the population and thus rose the Ottoman empire in its place. Which then expanded to the more Middle Eastern from its imperial status (as well as incorporating the Greeks and Serbs) to then fall and retreat to its more homogenous heartland of present day Turkey. Persian empire fell and retreated to its more homogenous heartland of Iran. Btw I said "more" homogenous not just completely. But the point is that as an empire expands, they incorporate more and more diverse peoples from the lands they conquer. And thus they pull their conquered peoples into the fold. Until the empire falls. The exception to this: is migrations. When it's basically the population being the dominant one in the area, then they retain a lot of their ties to their homeland. Case in point: the Latins first conquered Italy and now the people before them basically don't exist. Which is how you see the current Italy. Now more important than ethnicity is culture, however it is entirely disingenuous to say that the success was of very mixed populations when they're almost exclusively empires which conquered those populations and then lost those terroritories later on as they fell.
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  925.  @bruhtonbruhkkinson6848  Tbh even China is an empire and its not a particularly loved one by the people in its western holdings (especially Tibet)
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  926. Well it's just a significantly lower barrier to entry tbh. Not everyone can really have the space or spend the money to get a vertical mill or lathe, but 3D printers go for like $300. Most people can afford that. Also most are small enough to fit on a desk. Most people have space for that.
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  927. that first six seconds alone is gold, alright let's watch
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  928. ​@MazeColony So do the countries around it. They're all unstable with weak claims to legitimacy. At least Turkiye has an actual idea. Tbh freezing the borders in 1945 makes no sense anyway.
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  929. ​ @HypnoticChronic1 I honestly think that'd be an interesting way to create dependencies among the neighboring countries
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  930. I commented to not be destroyed
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  931. 10:33 Kurzgesagt, you forgot the ONE, SINGLE, EXCEPTION. Georgia. In the Caucuses. They managed to turn around the fertility rate with increases year on year until 2015 with only a modest decline afterward. I feel like they're important to mention.
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  932. Scientists and engineers try to be as practical as possible. And that means using things you have on hand that will get the job done well enough. If it gets the job done, much better to just take something you have on hand then try to spend extra cash on procurement or building of something that will do it.
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  933. Never heard of the Triple Action Thunder eh?
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  934. For Russia it's an attempt at future survival. For much of Eastern Europe it is the same. Sometimes one's survival comes at the expense of another.
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  935. ​​ @meplin Just talk to the people there bro
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  936. ​ @Phoenixrising2055 Yeah no that's true. I know plenty of Cubans with similar stories.
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  937. ​ @MaxStirner123 Usually soviets who fled got these stories out. The gulag system was real. It's pretty common for the governments wanting to not let this get out because it's bad press on the world stage and they want free stuff.
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  938. Though even then there's a lot of give in the Missile and artillery department
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  939.  @innosam123  Yeah fur trade and lumber took a fair amount of time to be profitable and needed a fair amount of people to start being profitable. Also, even worse, initially the colonies weren't self-sustaining despite the fact that the environment could sustain a population for the most part. It was that bad in the early days and they needed outside support to stay alive. When they didn't well they resorted to cannibalism.
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  940. Well they're mounting optics and suppressors to them which along with manufacturing is really what separates WW2 weapons from modern ones. Lack of detachable magazines and picatinny rails as standard features too. However, most machine guns don't benefit from the better machining as realistically it just makes more accurate rifles (open bolt machine can only be so accurate), machine guns rarely have any of those additional mounts, and we're still using WW2 and Pre-WW2 machine guns (M2 Browning, MG42 in the MG3, etc). So honestly if you put on a suppressor and an optic on a machine gun from WW2 you've basically equaled the playing field (Russians and Ukrainians are still using the 7.62x54R from the imperial Russian days as their bigger cartridge).
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  941. The thing is that many actually DO want that because they think a society run by them from the top will be better than that from the bottom. In many ways it's been the way China has been ruled for millenia however what that runs up against is no way to really advocate for people and society and keep people downtrodden until they organize an actual rebellion or get conquered.
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  942.  @obamagaming-zv4vy  Rwanda and the other would still be worth adding. Rwanda is now on a path to wealth unlike a lot of the others and managed to build a lot of stable institutions. Overall there's a lot of ways to integrate the first five but South Sudan and the DRC really don't have that way
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  943.  @dirtyaznstyle4156  Navy has the biggest penis guns of them all. Of course. Well... they used to up until about 50 years ago. Now they just have big penis missiles and super quick shot medium penis guns.
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  944. Pakistan front will be like that, but the Himilayan front will be much more like WW1 western front. Mountains are incredibly easy to defend and with how much will be at stake for them it'll be defended to the teeth.
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  945.  @obamabinladen5055  As much as the US really doesn't like such actions, it hates the Chinese much more and honestly the only thing holding us back currently from full on aggression is memories of the world wars. That changes with an actual attack. With a war starting there's no stopping the Americans since the US has such a low opinion of China it'll be quick to rally together for a full scale war.
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  946.  @THEUNION-nd4pv  USA being polarized seems to be the natural state of things. It wasn't even very united during the opening of the second world War yet still made a huge army it shipped overseas. Which is... honestly insane
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  947. So the workhorses of the Wehrmacht were the panzer 3, 4, and 5. Makes sense.
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  948. 7:20 I wonder if it's just her way of personally dealing with the terrible script and role so she based herself off of AOC because then it's fun.
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  949. 3:26 I love the dig. Thank you.
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  950. this sounds like HOI4 type ambitions lol
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  951.  @wolfsblutgraumond7530  lol just look up HOI4 Turan
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  952. Honestly, yes, the ideology of the current ruling coalition of nearly all developed countries is basically anti-life and a product of the industrial boom and change to year-round work. We need to find a way to create the time necessary to have a family without compromising enough money to simply not live.
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  953. So if they counted on a years-long struggle in the west with France? How did they plan to deal with the Soviets?
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  954. oh hey Count Dankula
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  955. I'd love to see super batteries used on electric bicycles as you'd get more power out of them, as well as being able to charge them incredibly quickly making them much more useful in getting around our cities quickly. I'd also love to see how it'd go if you strapped a small motor to your bicycle with that setup on turning your E-bike into a hybrid whose motor you turn on every few minutes getting insane gas mileage, or perhaps actually being able to set it up to such an extent that you can genuinely charge the bicycle as you ride it simply due to the energy it can take in at any given time.
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  956. ​ @stipebalenovic6497 IIRC he's Russian and actually came out as such. Also reflected in the name: "Binkov"
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  957.  @henrytsang5200  Honestly it sounds like "Peking" was actually a variant of "Peiping" because we've a historical event called I think "15 days at Peking" around the turn of the century which then further adds to the confusion.
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  958. I think it was about a month after this video dropped that China's hypersonic missile circumvented the earth
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  959. Isn't the Tsar Bomba 50 MT of tnt? Which means it WOULD make an earthquake...
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  960. THIRD UPLOAD
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  961. AN-94 video
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  962. Well, the jetpacks did exist at the time of this posting, and the flying cars are now on the market (personal eVTOLs because laws are stupid), so now it's simply time to bring this back
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  963. Is there a chance that what happened with that AK explosion was just a squib round or would that simply not cycle entirely? Or maybe some other bad ammo in there that obstructed the bore?
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  964. Ireland did too
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  965. Two comments: I do find interesting that this is simply a criticism of the writing and not even the goal of the writing and a perfect example of letting your goal get in the way and actually ruin your attempt at it because you were blinded by it. I also find it interesting that, had these rules not been in place, we would have well formed and actually strong female characters. Characters who have depth and genuinely stand along their male counterparts. But that takes work. And maybe having a temporary submission to the male heroes who came before. And that hasn't been allowed for 10 years.
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  966.  Jormangandur83  every one they took
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  967. The name of the rifle is the MK1 EBR. It is enhanced
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  968. The only way to enforce diplomacy is with economic and military force. If you want to protect the oceans, someone is going to have to risk starting a war over this as that's what REAL diplomacy entails.
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  969. How to avoid this: CANZUK and Anglosphere federation to regain their English identity. And then the US expands south to annex Mexico.
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  970.  @bayoubilly5176  I think this may be the One time where you have a case. However it has been shown in many instances even when they don't show such footage that they will be hit with the censor. YouTube frequently pulls down videos for little things which are far less than this such as putting a swastika in a video concerning the nazis. On top of that there's very much a "made for kids" section that goes on a certain section of YouTube that is specifically catering to that audience. Otherwise YouTube acknowledges the intended audience is 13+ which is out of the range you mentioned. YouTube will sometimes demonetize a video for curse words or people making suggestive jokes, but nude yoga will be allowed. There are supposed to be exceptions for educational content and content such as historical videos are clearly in that category, but then those rules won't be applied. It is very malicious in how it basically attacks anything but a whitewashed history instead of the red splattered canvas it really is. On topic of cancel culture you are mixing up the outcry of the censoring of conservatives vs the censoring with cancel culture which is any bad thing you say ever will be used against you see: James Gunn or Kevin Hart apology campaign or Gina Carano. On the topic of censorship of certain political stances the Vox and Steven Crowder Adpocalypse was kind of a part of that as the only reason he was published at all was seemingly because of his stances as he used words to describe Carlos Masa in words he used to describe himself and then Carlos cried hate speech. The only reason they couldn't really go further is because Steven Crowder has sued YouTube multiple times whenever they try to take him down. Twitter once pulled his account for literally no reason given (the reason given portion of that notification was blank) and similar things have happened to his contemporaries. Another important thing to note on this is the Misgendering policy of many companies (though here YouTube seems to not have one) which usually in the vein of not calling transitioned individuals by their preferred pronouns where if it were from the right wing perspective misgendering would be a person referring to a woman as a man. What this indicates is that there's a bias even within the rules themselves as they are from a certain point of view which may not be shared by everyone. Algorithms themselves are simply will in code and are subject entirely to the whims of who make them which will have their biases within them just not even consciously but just by how they see the world. Nothing can really escape this unless you have people with differing viewpoints on the initial algorithm level. So it can be invisible in many instances just because it gets something like that on there. There's some of it intentional, and some that isn't. But the clear truth is that there is a bias present and it's hurting the discourse.
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  971.  @Cobalt20  Yeah the reason is the motivation and outcomes which in Strange's case both positive. He breaks them for selfless reasons and saves others. She breaks them for selfish reasons and enslaves others.
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  972.  @Yourghostuncle  Lmao honestly. Probably why he wasn't exactly scared of dying in infinity war. Mother fucker already did it thousands of times and knew he'd be back to life in a moment (to him at least).
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  973. We actually know why. It's due to moral foundations theory. There are 6 moral foundations and leftists only pull on two, while conservatives pull on all 6. Thus, the left is missing most of the picture while the right knows intuitively what's missing.
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  974. 0:14 No no only the Anglophones. The rest of the Europeans are great at it
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  975. "Hedone" presumably the root of the word "Hedonic" being joy in Greece is something that's honestly completely in Greek fashion. i assume it's much like the word for abduction. Though i think the Greeks also did that one themselves this time.
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  976. That gun just doesn't move. They really didn't need to change a thing about this except for quality control. Really needed to make the PPS-43 just an all metal variant with a better magwell.
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  977. Need an alternate history scenario where Hong was removed from power by that general and actually removed the Qing
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  978. 18:44 I'm aware at the making of this video you'd have no knowledge of this but I've a more recent example of this exact phenomenon where polls on US attitudes toward the Ukraine war basically said that they didn't want to send more support than the current level or more direct involvement, but in the same poll voted yes to a "No Fly Zone" which effectively means that the average US citizen doesn't want boots on the ground or increases support but wants outright war via the USAF.
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  979. That intro was like "Yeah I'm feeling you" for the first half. And then she said "I'm so irresponsible with my money I can't support the entertainment"
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  980.  @mweskamppp  So is much of Latin America lol
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  981.  @mweskamppp  That's because the Spanish had a lot of integration and the native population died.
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  982.  @mweskamppp  Well Spain itself has such diversity with many looking Arab. The issue with Spain is that you have just as many dark Skinned and dark haired as you do blonde-haired blue-eyed. You're correct in it varying from region to region, but the biggest thing is that the nobility was largely wiped out or converted to Spanish nobility which made the whole thing overall convert into mostly Spanish culture.
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  983. Shhh... don't spoil but he's the one who set the whole thing up. It was an assassination plot and he was at the head. He had a prepared statement and everything so that it looks like he's respecting her when he's laughing in that plane not 5 minutes later. Don't trust Trump!
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  984. 13:04 Barret looks at you very conspicuously
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  985. That's not so easy though. Although it's very nice to try to get them to be allies realistically there are a lot more cultural differences between Russia and the rest of Central and Western Europe which make that integration very difficult. Also would prevent them from obtaining defensible borders in Central Asia and leaves them vunerable to a backstab from the west. Also with so much animosity toward them from the rest of Europe it wouldn't be very easy at all.
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  986. The biggest barrier is the trade realities of each country as they span different continents and rarely trade with each other. At least currently. However for centuries the British used their empire as a system of preferential trade allowing their less efficient industries to survive. And while it can only exist with the support of the US, in real terms the US really can't NOT support and will lend its support
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  987. No idiot will ever think they're an idiot. So all you'll find are either people with no self confidence or people who think they're smart.
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  988.  @MrAndrew535  Not necessarily. And in the event that the comment about using real names applies to me then please understand this was created as a child and I simply don't care to change it as it is unnecessary for YouTube. Now let's acknowledge that no worldview is truly consistent with reality as it'll be inevitably poisoned by the perception created by ones upbringing and even in the face of figures and statistics the way they're done can be manipulated as to not know the true nature of it so even worldviews based on the facts can be distorted. It also depends on the evidence provided and even when proven beyond a reasonable doubt that information the individual knew is false, as emotional creatures humans will still reject them. This is all a point to say that due to humans being emotional creatures influenced by upbringing and genetics above all else, their self perception will be based more around that than any statistics that could be shown to present a picture of the world as it is. Then your tangent about laziness shown by the access to information is also a misconception as people only look up necessary and or desired information. If it's unnecessary and there's no desire to then there's no reason to find that. You attributed that as proof and that people only have incorrect self perceptions due to their own laziness to verify (correct me if I'm wrong) but as I've espoused no amount of self reflection can overcome genetics and upbringing so every view will be distorted. The reason I mentioned confidence is because substantiated or not confident (oftentimes arrogant) people will overestimate themselves and same for underestimation in those who are self deprecating or not confident. Those are the internal factors which are largely based on the individual's environment and genetics which contribute to the level of confidence which will ignore external factors which can be unreliable anyway due to no matter what, our social circles largely agreeing with ideas we have or all agree with the individual in question disagreeing. In summation: no matter what no-one will have that. Say the person you posited did exist then that's the only person who could possibly have a true assessment of themselves.
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  989. I know that gun. He did do a video on it. Look up .50 spotting rifle
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  990. Not necessarily. Bringing 100 year old regulation isn't a real solution. And it's not like they're not competing either. The anti-trust laws were also created to prevent monopolies which clearly aren't the case given that there still is a decent amount of competition in the field. Not to mention, the biggest issue regarding the industry is that for proper industrial companies (especially military industry) there are a LOT of natural barriers to entry which means small companies don't really come up a lot. In fact that's what's happened with the airline sector as well. The entire field is very capital intensive with very long waits for a proper return on investment and able to make ANY profit. Thus, the system favors entrenched players. And it applies on a global level as well. Especially with larger systems as unlike with small arms who really can be invented by a few dudes in a garage, all of those systems are incredibly complex and expensive to produce. With another final problem being, like he said, bureaucratic hurdles which makes it more expensive to compete.
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  991. I'll say that from the springboard 4 years ago when i saw things were happening, my mind was always going to "This is going to be fun. Can't wait to see it all"
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  992. I think it's just agreed that Americans are just an incredibly strange aberration in human history
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  993. Forgetting requires that i knew in the first place
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  994. I'm on the toilet bro.
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  995. It's not even really complacency but the difference in power from an unindustrialized country to an industrialized one. And that makes a lot of difference. We'll see this continue on in future as other powers crop to
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  996. 27:47 Once you got to Mauryan you really started to stretch the definition of "Fascist" beyond needing, and Macedonia doesn't count because it had a military genius. If this is just evaluating the cultures who united their civilizations then that's really doing the work for them. I also don't know enough about the others to say anything about them. Also no the Aztecs were far closer to the definition of Fascist with how absolutely brutal and militaristic they were than a republic.
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  997. @testacals  If that was the case I would've called China socialist for being a government that does stuff (they've been boosting their GDP via government funding of random useless infrastructure they can't afford to maintain). Europe is socialist not because of their welfare state, but because many of them make the majority of their economies via national industries controlled by the government and then subsidies to other industries.
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  998. We have a general problem with a lot of the young being far too sheltered and not exposed to anything real and thus unable to cope with any stress at all
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  999. The left is even less United than the right. I think that's a truism. There's really no united Bloc amongst them. The Great unifier is in fact their enemy that they can put a face to: Donald Trump. Or sometimes just Republicans in general. Social justice groups purity spiral like mad and all socialist factions do too. It's impressive how badly they're split.
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  1000. ​ @Masteroogway40 The eastern theater that's applicable. The west fell relatively easily. The cavalry leaders mostly went confederate but got themselves killed at prodigious rates. Honestly, another thing that has to be discussed is how people leave the military during civil wars. They side with their local communities over the central government. Also, just as a quick side note: the Bolsheviks managed to successfully court the army and many lower ranking officers to build up the new ranks.
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  1001. Honestly, welcome to the 21st century.
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  1002. Maybe make a video on why people aren't making hydrogen fuel cell vehicles instead of normal battery powered EVs
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  1003. HYPER INFLATION! ECONOMIC CRASH! RISING POWERS! POLITICAL POLARIZATION! WHO'S READY FOR THE. THIRD! WORLD! WAR!!!
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  1004. America is what happens when you take an island's values but give it an entire continent to work with. Edit: honestly more like take Britain and stretch it across a continent
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  1005.  @ayushanjay4983  Yeah but those are both American backed anyway.
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  1006.  @UwU-ok2jr  Low grade authoritarian but at this point basically just capitalists much like the Chinese 10 years ago.
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  1007.  @viethungle8627  In terms of pure self-interest this largely sums up the geopolitical situation of the region.
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  1008. i am in an interesting predicament since from a young age i never really saw the Simpsons or John Hughes America. In fact, i never even had that delusion since I'd never watched any of that to a significant degree as a child. By middle school, so about the time i could become conscious, i could already see what was happening and following that YouTube rabbit hole of the modern culture war as it was gearing up. I already lived in a feminist and female dominated world with a single mother. So, to me, I've never had the delusion destroyed that i lived in a functional society, since all I've known from my window into society is dysfunction. In fact, I've actually seen excitement at the chaos in the modern world, liking to see what comes next even if i have to go through it honestly quite excited to see what comes next and rise through it. Though, of course, this is also profoundly stupid because i don't even have a proper girlfriend at 22, and my entire life was more about studying and grades while living in the capital of Latin America, and thus divorced from most of the decay in much of the rest of the US, though still feeling the effects of managerial bloat. So, quite different from this.
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  1009. 1:45 Her name is literally "Cruel Devil"
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  1010. Clarence Thomas, the black man, voted against it.
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  1011. That was only for F-35 with F-22 not doing anything near that. Not to mention that the reason for F-35's expense being kinda stupid as a production and development process. They tried it, failed massively. Now, look at the proposed budget for B-26 and remember that it came in under that.
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  1012. @fatgrubman645  They may be deepening trade ties, but it's because Russia is running out of trade partners. Turkiye isn't a wealthy country and in the middle of an economic crisis, so they're not in the position to really refuse. They're basically extorting Russia in as they're in a position of weakness. Ultimately, as I said, their foreign policy is very segmented. This means that everything is on a case by case basis, not holistic. Russia has money they need to hide? They're quite happy to accept it. However, remember that Turkiye is the one that refuses to let Russia put more ships into the black sea, that they're building ships for Ukraine, that they negotiated the grain deal (a benefit for Ukraine), and that they've themselves given and sold weapons to the country, as well as having the position I said earlier of saying that even Crimea is Ukrainian. Realistically, it seems the reason Turkiye doesn't do more is that it needs to preserve diplomatic firepower to get concessions out of Russia. Which even then, serves to keep Russia from making bolder moves as they do still have things to lose. Personally, I've heard nothing of sanctions busting efforts by Turkiye, so I can't speak on that.
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  1013. oh shit here it is
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  1014. Irony is always funny. Though honestly I only have one question and that is: if suburbs are the reason the birth rate is still okay why did Canada suffer a bust and France maintain itself?
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  1015. Lol gotta love it when the government gets to shut down speech by quasi-nationalizing the modern public square in the form of a tech company.
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  1016.  @thepodcasts8268  "Hitler later"
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  1017.  @forsagebone  "I'm in danger"
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  1018. @TheBandFiles  This is all kinds of stupid. TL;DR WW2 USA faced literally 0 of these factors as you've brought up having been as you've said massive industrial investment. However, not even that really happened. First off what happened immediately after the war was that they did what no other time did: they took money OUT of the economy afterward which basically set it back to 0, not to mention that the change was actually quite gradual with money increases of only 2.5% to 5% for 4 years with an immediate 10% reduction. Mass printing of money was not something that happened rather Mass loans as a result of trying to pay for the war... which is basically what always happens unless they genuinely can. Not to mention the US genuinely financing the war with the help of the population by issuing war bonds almost constantly. Secondly, those actually didn't do much and had the economy still been falling it would've done near nothing. WW2 did almost nothing for the US economically and in fact, the reason for surge in productive capacity was more related to the fact it was the only economy left in the world rather than much else. It was also an economy which had recovered by the outbreak of war in Europe and thus the productive capacity was capitalized on rather than truly increased with other civil sector goods. The generous benefits of the GI bills only really served to put veterans into homes and increase specialization. It didn't do anything to create the high employment and stable prices. Not to mention we still have high employment. The stable prices were also a function of not much in the way of real economic competition.
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  1019. i also wonder if multiple comments on a single video by a single person have an effect
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  1020. Tbh that's about proportional to the distances present in space
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  1021. That's true. But most of those are usually the descendants of actual material elites, and on top of that much of it. On top of that, it's still the lefty elites who are voting for that war as it's become a court-like scenario with fake manners and fake virtues. Also that local sociology professor usually votes to make said utility more expensive which hurts the poor.
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  1022. So an autocrat, has in line a despot, and rules over fancy titles to welcome people into huge walls, seas of people, and then once inside the palace you're watched by the holy mother of God as well as God himself flanked by literal condescension?
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  1023. @Pierre-Olivier Jolin Few things here to address: Mongols were completely sweetly sufficient nomads. In fact their logistics were AMAZING because they didn't need nor use any and it's the reason they could operate with impunity. The fundamental issue of industrial warfare is logistics in a way that wasn't a problem in the ancient world. Before and during the early stages of gunpowder adoption the chief limiting factor was food and repairs. Now you have to worry about oil, bullets, and complex parts which require resources from around the world. And another thing to address here: only fully Eurasian powers have been the Russians and Mongols. Of which Mongols were primarily a central Asian power and Russians have primarily been a European power who wanted to never have a Mongol horse army exist again. Conflicts in Asia were also very limited from Russia.
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  1024. Whenever you see a title with a question, unless you get the answer of yes immediately, the answer is always no
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  1025. Still good videos. Keep up the content
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  1026. @Saverian Nathan  Well normally it wouldn't be since accurate for a machine gun is usually 4x the size of what a rifle does due to the open bolt, but I believe this one is simply exceptionally well made where it somehow doesn't matter
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  1027. It's worth noting that much of the reason for the current situation in Ukraine is that this is actually two armies who inherited a defensive doctrine from the previous state. The Soviet military knew that NATO would own the skies from day one. So they built masses of air defense and designed their planes in order to contest the skies. Built masses of tanks in order to conduct armored offensives in order to break through the lines under contested air, and made 3 line deep defenses as a way to defeat NATO forces. As well as loads of artillery in order to boost those defenses present. Now, Ukraine used that very doctrine to contest the skies, break offensives using 3 deep line defenses and massive artillery, against an army who did not invest in SEAD or DEAD capabilities for their air force, and also had tons of armor. So, they use their massive artillery to push using infantry assaults. This is because ATGMs are very effective, and ISR is also about even due to intense drone penetration. This invasion was conducted in mud season, using light forces, among strong choke points, with massive equipment losses due to logistical failures by the Russians. In short, since Ukraine did everything right, and Russia everything wrong, there has become relative parity, and the spear blunted, allowing everyone to dig in. That is not anywhere near all wars. First off, air supremacy changes this calculus greatly. Drone penetration only works when under contested air, and the opportunity exists. Secondly, armored offensives fail under enemy air superiority. In fact, it's why Ukraine's counter-offensives failed, as they advanced without their AA, and so they were destroyed by Russian helicopters. In such a way as how Russia was destroyed when it lacked its air defense network in that first few weeks of the invasion. Thirdly, America has insane levels of precision munitions in stockpile, with better precision, allowing them to target important locations like logistical hubs and command and control to make any army Iran fields completely disorganized and near inoperable. While also having a massive logistics focus. In short, any war would be different. Not because of drones not being a revolutionary technology in warfare that wouldn't matter "in a real war," but instead because about half of the fighting is basically missing from the equation. It's back to WW1 because it's mostly recreated WW1 conditions. No planes, elaborate trench networks (which have always been difficult to break), nullified tanks, and massive amounts of artillery. US-Iran is, many planes, no trench network focus, no artillery focus, mostly nullified armor.
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  1028.  @MrCougar214  You know like half of Congress has said the opposite right? I'm guessing you don't keep up with the national conversation.
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  1029.  @illicitlegacy3783  What questions were in the survey?
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  1030.  @illicitlegacy3783  lmao
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  1031.  @MrCougar214  Btw uh...I actually disagree with you, the BBB, and that half of Congress. So... I'm not doing any of that.
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  1032. ​ @robforskinstein 96 actually
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  1033.  @jcdenton2187  Yeah I kind of got that with his characterization of Layla in Moon Knight. I absolutely expected "Strong Female Character" and was presently surprised to NOT have that and it really did seem like he was cherry picking for a through-line. One which did not exist and you'd catch if you were at all paying attention. But he also seems to not care at this point and it seems about probably where his mind is at at this point. He's not exactly invested anymore and whatever investment he did have earlier was eroded by everything that came out prior so why would he be so now? Even more so considering almost everything else fits with the rigidity and issues that come with all other Marvel things I think he just doesn't care anymore to see what might have influenced certain things and just call them stupid.
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  1034. The fascists want a word with you
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  1035. The US should follow that example
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  1036. Yeah one faction much too much honestly
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  1037.  @forickgrimaldus8301  That's part of an ethnic group. And with the genetics being different enough to expect a mountain or desert between... eh...
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  1038. ​@bentuovila5296 Hey Rudyard stop using your Alt account
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  1039. @Cafelogis  Nah, what they wanted was the bullet coefficient for the sake of aerodynamics and ballistics, and then they wanted it to get to a certain speed. This demanded a full power cartridge. Remember that 9mm is technically a larger caliber than 5.56 despite being a pistol round. Caliber only means the width of the bullet, even though the cartridge gives it all of its power.
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  1040. @MOPARman345 HEMI  It's going to be adopted. It already has been. You know that in competition what they do is just not adopt if they have no plans to. They already had 250k on order. That's adoption.
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  1041.  @hippocrap9189  Cappy fired 2 of the 3 NGSW bids. He didn't look to be struggling on the true velocity bid.
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  1042. @David N  Nah not even that. The true velocity bid did nothing of the sort, though the reason there's an 80k PSI cartridge is because the M5 has a 13" barrel and Sig brute forced it.
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  1043. @jesse terrell  only the training ammo not the full power load (akin to .38 special vs .357 magnum)
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  1044. @jesse terrell  Not for full power cartridges. The stoner line has the buffer tube because it was designed around 7.62x51. The AR-15 has that as a holdover. The MCX doesn't because it was dealing with 5.56 where that didn't really matter. Now they went back up and honestly that buffer tube would REALLY come in handy about now.
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  1045. @Shane Knoll  Full power is a lot worse Than .308 for 6.8x51
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  1046. Tbh a lot of people have gotten tired of hearing about "wealth disparities" so I can see why they're getting stupid about it. They're still being stupid about it but that's just why. Overly talked about in modern political circles.
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  1047. the answer to any headline in the form of a question is "no"
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  1048. ​ @mushyroom9569  Submission to the state in a godless failed 20th century ideology and trying to revive that for a world that no longer exists.
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  1049. I know they SAY they can't mix and match... but I don't see them NOT mixing and matching. Specifically the true velocity ammo and Sig Weapons
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  1050. should've tried 5.7 or 10mm
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  1051. Man didn't even get into the good stuff such as their de facto control over west Africa and war in Mali. Bruh moment.
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  1052. Basically he missed the addition of Belarus giving access
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  1053. There it is. I was wondering what he'd get on. Kind of silly to me to hear this whole thing. I don't think he understands what democracy is. The idea that this will make anything less democratic is silly as the internet puts the mob in control in a way that isn't really understood well by a lot of people. You can democratically elect a theocracy, or slavery, or atheism. All autocracies besides monarchy, are at least in some way democratically supported. The people put these people into power. Tyrants are often elected. You know that last sentence to be true. But now there's an independent method of organization independent of government institutions. That is the digital order. That is the future of democracy. There is no winning.
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  1054. man posts this but not the communism
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  1055. Yeah clearly they used effective RPM but with the BAR they used cyclic
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  1056. Issue number two: the thing which it was created to stop (namely the prohibition gangs of the time who were using these things) were for all intents and purposes dissolved after prohibition ended making the entire law completely pointless anyway.
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  1057.  @saltwater8915  Even funnier is that the anti-gun side takes the exact same position on their opponents saying they're the ones with logic and reason while pro-gun are fear and emotion thus making the entire affair an exercise in contempt of the other and refusing to comply.
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  1058. I want the timeline where the British settle south Africa. Seems like an interesting timeline where one more piece added to the pie of imperial federation and thus having the Brits as a co-equal world power to the US today.
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  1059. Tbh China is investing in Africa for the same reason.
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  1060. ​@junyuanma4243 I'll say this: taking an island, and preventing it from being taken, are two very different things. Air and sea power could level any defenders, but wouldn't necessarily allow it to actually be taken or used as an effective supply hub
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  1061. I think the modern consensus is that naval invasions are even harder now than before. Missiles make fire support much easier, satellites allow improved ISR to know exactly when the enemy is coming, and contested naval invasions are effectively impossible tasks. Normandy was a hard invasion that almost actually failed, and that was under the most optimal conditions of 1944 with no real ISR, a very long deception campaign, and second line units that no-one actually thought would end up fighting as they were already injured or deemed unfit for combat.
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  1062. The answer is all gold. Because call of duty modern warfare.
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  1063.  Graf von Losinj  ping me when it comes in please
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  1064.  Graf von Losinj  Explain further? I'm confused.
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  1065. I mean, realistically, they got good degrees. I do wonder what happened to them
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  1066.  @kenshirokun8860  MOOOMMM THE POLES ARE SHOWING UP AGAIN!!! Germans (including Austrians) and Russians turn heads with greed in their eyes
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  1067. Yeah I can't see a ceasefire happening until the end of summer. The Rasputitsa is gone in one month. Right now what's held everything back is the fact that the offensive for all intents and purposes began in Spring (the worse time to fight in the Steppe) and was characterized by lots of fighting on roads and in cities because tanks would get stuck on the soft muddy ground. Hitler and Napoleon invaded Russia on June 21st and 20th respectively. The worst is yet to come. Full on Eastern Front warfare will be here in one month. We'll see what happens now that both armies are ready to fight a true mobile war.
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  1068. @skylinefever  Less people were already equal blank slates and more, material conditions would obliterate cultural constructions, and the logical conclusion is India until 1950. Realistically, enough people are close enough to average for this to not matter. Specialize enough like suggested in this model, there is no average.
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  1069. I agree with the idea that the people who cry for more spending on social services and the like tend to talk overlook what the US military actually brings in as benefits as they've just grown up in that environment and it's why they are in favor of things like disarmament not realizing that the US foots the bill on global security. They look at places like Costa Rica and say "Look they don't have a military!" and then completely lack the context that America literally has given Them a security guarantee and that it's effectively a modern American colony because so many Americans go there for things like retirement and pleasure. It's also really difficult to get capabilities back once you lose them. So any sort of disarmament would be basically permanent as you can't just buy back a military from scratch. It must be built over years or even decades with continued investment or capabilities simply can't be sustained. A tank factory can't be built overnight, and neither can the electronics or sensor suite, which gives you the capability to use them effectively. More relevant is this: industry cannot be turned on and off, and thus, you need to have the relevant stockpiles and surge capacity to survive until industry can finally accommodate. Without that you simply lose before you had the opportunity to really fight unless you manage massive lend lease from others who did stockpile.
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  1070. I'd say that likely isn't the case given the US
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  1071. Now this is going to be controversial
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  1072. 0:20 Straight from call of duty world at war huh? Fitting Edit: 18:30 you used the soundtrack again huh?
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  1073. That suppressed maxim is my favorite thing maybe ever
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  1074. If the speed of light is instant in one direction... that means that certain photons can be used to send messages across the universe in real-time. Even if one way, you could potentially take the preferred direction to the limit to get messages across the universe in minutes.
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  1075. 10:36 Honestly can't really take this argument seriously given that EVERYWHERE that it has been tried, it has FAILED having negligible effect on the fertility. It's actually quite comical how often they fail tbh. Only one success story I've ever heard about a policy increasing fertility rate. That story is of Georgia 🇬🇪 who managed to increase it via the patriarch of their orthodox church saying he would personally baptize all children. Only time ever that a country's national policy managed to increase fertility rate.
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  1076. I think there's something to be said about even big trade partners going to war, for example, how it's never actually worked. Such as with WW1 Germany and Britain being the largest trade partners, but fighting regardless.
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  1077. 0:47 What's the gun he's talking about here?
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  1078. Just realized what that meant lmao
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  1079. For sure this is no gulf War. The US lost 3 Bradleys and about 150 men over a full month. The Russians have lost far more in roughly 4 days.
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  1080. I'm going to push back on the US being weaker here for one reason: the US still has its heartland and everything it inherited. And with competition with other American powers it seems like it'd be arguably stronger unless the Spanish states are getting lots of foreign immigration as well. The US with still controlling much of the Great Plains (the breadbasket of the world), still having the industry of the northeast, martial tradition of the southeast, and then actual naval access Sonora would mostly lack, I don't see Sonora competing as well and feel like it'd be eaten in a Great Power war on the north American continent. Since most of the population of Sonora would be on the west coast and on the edges of the Great Plains with lightly populated desert in-between, it's pre-disposed toward division and until rail and air conditioning it would mostly be not great. We can also likely assume a gold rush with Americans flooding the region basically colonizing it before it even starts a great power war. At which point it would integrate the population effectively after its annexation. Thus putting the US in a position as basically the Hegemon of North America and allowing it to build up mostly unmolested after since likely not even the Spanish states would be able to project power there. A continental hegemon is a pretty good starting place and basically gives the US its current status as just a mega Britain even if can't control South America.
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  1081. @kirilll7806  Yeah no way to expand north when you're already desert and hard to control. Even with extra wealth there was just no expansion against the very hostile natives and even more hostile desert.
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  1082. @kirilll7806  For me it's been over a year. However, while Sonora may not be completely uninhabitable, it's really only inhabitable in the modern day with extra technology and much better irrigation. So much so we can grow cotton there. Outside of that, it was basically unsettled with incredibly isolated pockets crowded around small water sources. Most of Texas's population is in the green East, and most of Mexico's population is in Central Mexico around Mexico city. There's almost no reason to settle in Sonora and the borders are still pretty natural as it's a big fuck off desert which is hard to live in.
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  1083. @kirilll7806  The problem here is that even the Europeans probably wouldn't have figured it out. Comparatively wealthy nations aren't necessarily as inventive and it's simply the Americans who were able to pull that off. Wealth doesn't mean they know how. Nor have the desire for expansion.
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  1084. A "blast from the past" which fits fairly literally here
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  1085. it's you again holy shit
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  1086. I wonder how this will be complemented in future by that new composite barrel which acts as a heat sink on the barrel proper and the True Velocity composite ammo which leaves the breech cool to the touch and allows for more ammo to be carried.
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  1087.  @urphakeandgey6308  I've actually happened to read an article on that. Your results would probably put you as a fair bit of Polynesian, slight Ainu, and slight Korean or possibly just a variant of Japanese. I Happen to have clicked on an article about the origins of the Japanese people and in there are the other local groups of the Manchus, Ainu, Koreans, Mongols, Taiwan aborigines, Han Chinese, and Ryukyuans. Japanese is split into 3 groups and the thing that largely differentiates the Japanese from the surrounding ethnicities is a gene pulled from the Ainu (called haplogroup D1b) adding into the Manchu gene pool in a fair amount (Koreans seem to created from the slight Japanese reintroduction of the gene). The primary differences between the Japanese from North to South seems to be the amount of this gene which is possessed and thus the amount of the other genes which are present by comparison from the original (or at least from what I can get from the pie graphs original) Manchu gene pool. The Ryukuans also have a less than 1% of some other haplogroups which aren't represented on this graph and aren't present in the rest of the Japanese (or at least in enough to be relevant) likely having a higher ratio of Manchu to Ainu DNA. The only thing which could potentially throw a wrench into how I'm understanding this is that the gene the Ainu share with the rest of the East Asians (one called hablopgroup C2a) is LESS present in the Japanese even though it's present in the rest of the East Asians and Ainu more with the exception of the Taiwan Aborigines in which have none (Mongols are dominated by this gene much like the Japanese are dominated by the D1b). The article says this gene likely came from Siberia and so the people who had it maybe simply stopped going farther south. The whole article is fairly interesting and I'll drop the link to the site. https://wa-pedia.com/history/origins_japanese_people.shtml
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  1088.  @georgefloydsfake20dollarbi28  Funny enough Siberians aren't actually very related to the Native Americans and I believe said relation only really extendeds to a select few north American artic peoples and even then the Siberians which are related are actually a minory in Siberia (I'm using the term "Siberian" a bit loosely here because while they're from the same place they have their own name but I can't actively remember it right now).
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  1089.  @tooeasyy5287  Will be again soon. And in that environment fucking Turkie will likely end up being the one who does it.
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  1090. 1:18 3 things to run a war and it's why they have the names they do: Infantry, the queen of battle, is required to hold territory and makes it impossible to make gains without Artillery, the king of battle, the source of all high explosive armaments and the greatest source of firepower that any military can have and will be used to devastating effect Logistics, the actual god of war, the way by which to supply both infantry and artillery because infantry and artillery without ammo and supplies are dead weight or just outright dead.
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  1091. I'll defend wonder woman 1984 in that that movie was just not built around it. It wasn't the traditional and the movie was never about it. The villain fit the themes and it seems that the struggle for wonder woman is never actually against the villain but what's around him. Except for the cop-out in the first movie which seems like it was tacked on for a cheap fight scene and resolution because that took away from everything it was trying to say. Basically wonder woman movies have a theme and the villains have been in service to that theme and works especially well with wonder woman because she's basically a goddess among men and can honestly kick the ass of basically all of the villains with her little finger as soon as she gets to them. So it's a respectable narrative choice and one seemingly made intentionally unlike the other ones that are examples here which are clearly the result of ineptitude and incompetence.
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  1092. Hey Wisecrack!!! Do the philosophy of legion!! The FX superhero show about a psychic schizophrenic if you haven't heard of it. It plays out like a drug trip and gets philosophical at times. So check it out if you haven't and do a video on it!
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  1093.  @RobertDecker417  What was the chicken tax?
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  1094. last one is gold
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  1095. Well tbh the great war everyone was itching for some power grabs and the German empire was definitely part of that. Honestly great war was going to happen over SOMETHING but no-one knew what. And then they experienced true modern war. It was also in no way peaceful as Germany and Italy fought wars of unification about 50 years prior. Kaiser Wilhelm oversaw the Franco-Prussian War 40 years prior. They had the ideas of old but had no idea what tools they were working with.
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  1096.  @blugaledoh2669  Half at best. They don't come from material conditions.
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  1097. @blugaledoh2669  No. That's the materialist worldview. It is not true. Ideation exists outside of that. It's why the Greeks or Romans didn't industrialize but Europe did. No framework for it.
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  1098. We do, but the parties who review are, surprise, the ones in control at the time of making the borders and so are incentivized to make them benefit themselves.
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  1099. Remember that both of these countries are not at a total war footing, and that for them they likely could go for that as both see this as a battle for survival. Basically, we could probably see something like WW1 come out of this. Though I'll admit there's a potential for them to simply not have the mobilization systems required in order to pull that off. Tanks are incredibly helpful for breakthroughs, but this can only be done after enough attrition occurs.
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  1100. Seems like God was on their side when the water helps you. He was later brought to Korea and they did understand his magnificence later.
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  1101. Daisey Ridley can't act
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  1102. What that sounds like is a broken training system, so i wonder what's happening in the Bundesheer, however, things like shoveling gravel are probably more important to conscripts than pure shooting given that they're most often line holders and people who do menial tasks rather than Assault elements. However, literally watching paint dry is an unforgivable level of utter incompetence.
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  1103. That's if the nations involved don't die. Also this is going to be a period of INCREDIBLE chaos as population contractions of this size are NEVER peaceful. This would be like the black death level of bad.
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  1104. Yeah isn't the M240 being replaced by the MG .338? Also can't wait to see TV getting their own separate ammo contact and then get it paired with the Sig weapons of the MG-68 and MCX Spear
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  1105.  @theimmortal4718  Because the technology hasn't caught up yet until now. 20 years ago the computing power of your phone took multiple full power computers to match. The advance has been in computing power.
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  1106. The logistics of operation Barbarossa
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  1107. create the bomb so that hand grenades can level buildings and one shot from artillery can wipe out entire army groups.
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  1108. Well no that wasn't going to happen lol. Japan was trying to take over China they weren't about to care who was in charge when they failed and were under the US authority.
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  1109. I'd like to add that Isreal only started out with about 500k people and it's up to 7 million today. If you multiply that out by 6 times over by importing 6 times that, you get a very large nation that's still not minority Jewish. Or more accurately, tiny minority Jewish. Probably the 55-45 split of 4 million to 3 million which started it.
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  1110. he's on the bottom
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  1111. Batteries dying faster in the cold? Never been my experience.
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  1112. 0:05 No.
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  1113.  @alexanderrahl7034  Temperate and island? Wow that's not a combination I think I've heard
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  1114.  @alexanderrahl7034  Buy a G3
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  1115.  @alexanderrahl7034  HK. As in also the Cetme.
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  1116.  @alexanderrahl7034  No you used it right it's just most islands tend to be tropical lol
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  1117.  @alexanderrahl7034  it's mostly because most of the islands in the world are there lol
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  1118. Nah he's doing a pretty good post-mortem here. Also he's originally Midwest i think from like Iowa or Missouri.
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  1119. The Chads of today were often themselves once incels and tend to try to teach others how to be like them. Perfect counter-elite
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  1120. @joedatius  Bro incel is a portmanteau for "Involunary Celibate," which is what it says on the tin. Not to mention, "Chad" is simply a term for those popular with the ladies, and realistically, now, those who are talented and skilled people. People of virtue. Say whatever you want, the internet is here, it exists, it influences our lives, and it's important to analyze these phenomena.
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  1121. 2:15 Way to name basically everything that's not the western rocky mountain states
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  1122.  @djohnston6214  nah I doubt it given that he's effectively what was described here with Trump
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  1123. Now this... this is peak America. I love it. Wow and this is imported from Korea. But then also mixed with the values of the American tradition. Okay yeah try finding something more American.
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  1124. 24:40 Yeah that sounds like it applies to basically any republic or even any democracy tbh. That system of government is super fragile. Wonder if any other Republics can get to that 600 year mark. USA is a little less than halfway there.
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  1125. 33:55 Here's the problem: you fundamentally misunderstand the goals of the southern states. The goal of the southern states were to keep the institution of slavery alive. The southern elite needed it at all costs to stay alive. The problem is that with the growing population, with ceasing the expansion of slavery past the Mason-Dixon line, and the increasing movement of northerners west, that new states would be formed which would end slavery democratically. The war for hearts and minds on the issue was failing with "Uncle Tom's Cabin" being a major boost to the abolitionist cause and coloring the issue to millions and creating more die-hard abolitionists. If not the civil war, then the 13th and 14th amendments get drafted and adopted anyway by the new states. A constitutional convention is called, the southern states are out-voted, and it's a done deal. Slavery is banned. The confederate cause dies not with a bang, but a whimper. Thus it dies anyway. With secession, at the very least they could claim the constitution did not apply. They could try to make their own USA but with the institution of slavery preserved. It was a last ditch effort that only failed due to what was essentially happenstance of igniting a full scale conflict. The rebellion too would be a last ditch effort when out of options and people being pushed to their breaking points under crisis after crisis. The pressures of the 20th century's fallout overwhelming the population, until the best interest their elites have is to in fact, launch a rebellion for control of the government.
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  1126. That's not what defines a superpower and the term came into being in roughly 1950 when the soviets had only been 1 year into the bomb.
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  1127. I'll be honest I've never bought the lack of government support for low birth rates given the US matches or exceeds several countries with much higher support and every time a country tries to boost birth rate with support, it has failed. So...I don't buy it.
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  1128. 3:23 Well, what did you expect of the anglophone states? It's kind of their thing. Got it from the Brits.
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  1129. "It was in the comics" isn't really an excuse. If everything bad about the movie is from the comics then it's a bad comic too. The two aren't mutually exclusive. And regarding the "colonizer" thing Wakanda here would have the least legs to stand on as they hypothetically let it Happen and did nothing. If they're roughly a century ahead due to this super material any Europeans in Africa should've been completely expelled from the continent. So... really dumb.
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  1130.  @publicminx  Godzilla had a stroke trying to read that. Please rephrase that
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  1131.  E  Nope. Sure it has a ridiculous amount of powder, a few things to understand: With a barrel as short as 8.5" you get the same energy from 7.62x51 as 7.62x39, but win tons of drawbacks like increase concussion, increased muzzle flash, and a whole lot more recoil (which only increases with increased powder). It's also important to understand that for the ranges with which an SBR is applicable, the 5.56 can still pierce modern body armor. The 6.8 cartridge is intended to pierce it at range where 5.56 is limited. Also you can carry more 5.56 in a magazine of the same size as you can for full power. Thus, the only thing you have from a raptor, is a very loud toy. Only maybe as effective, with more drawbacks, and only possible benefit being streamlining ammo, but you want a weapon which is designed for your CQB Assault squads regardless which 5.56 is half designed for as an intermediate cartridge.
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  1132.  E  Don't use an 8.5 inch weapon lol. It's needlessly small and on top of that you have all of the mentioned drawbacks. You're better off using something like .300blk than trying to use a full power cartridge.
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  1133.  E  Raptor is 8.5 inches. Also worth noting that speed, breaks armor and the pure energy required is not as good a metric of breaking body armor.
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  1134.  E  It's worth noting that the .277 fury is designed to cause enough back deformation as to take them out through the army at that range and not necessarily break it. But 5 inches is a huge detriment especially as it shrinks as a percentage of barrel. So you've a point, but still seems like a toy when you lose so much of the velocity you have. And it's my entire point. I wonder what range that test was conducted at as well.
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  1135.  E  I hope so
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  1136. @gefadsfrrewdgfbt5811  My brother in Christ, if you cost someone more than they bring in, why are they paying you?
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  1137. @criticalthinker3262  Why do you think they actually are? "Tons of people are watching, and they're raking in billions!" Yeah, no. The ad rates are down, so ad revenue is low, Less and less people are watching and they're slowly bleeding subscribers. And even Netflix had been pushing it because they put quantity over quality as well as their overall model of the entire show dumped at once, it meant few shows are seen and thus actually making any money for them (which is where the meme of them greenlighting everything came from). If they wanted to strike, the Iron was hot in 2020 while riding the covid high. That's when they made in all of their profits. Now? Nah.
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  1138.  @criticalthinker3262  They do tend to be fired so yeah
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  1139. @criticalthinker3262  It's not dodging the question. You don't get paid if you tank the value. You get fired. Which is effectively a negative salary. If negligence can be proven, you get sued for damages, which means you pay them and now you've actually reached negative in ways very few lower tier workers ever do. Now, as your comment about paying more workers if they weren't being paid millions, you've completely ignored my statement. The issue is that the workers aren't paying for themselves because they don't bring in the required attention and income from their projects. The solution isn't more workers, but instead better workers. So these workers are incurring a loss on the company due to their shit work. And that's why they're broke. Even if they paying for 300 extra workers by completely pulling his salary (and those people still wouldn't be paid near at all as that's below the poverty line by a significant margin, so it's actually going to be closer to 20 because those writers are paid 6 figures), it's not going to justify the income that they're demanding, because they don't bring in enough money to do so.
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  1140. even more accurately: so that they wouldn't be thrown off by the other
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  1141. ​ @theseukonnen1200 Yeah it's funny. The enemy proves itself incapable of anything besides cultural force every day. Which is important as institutions can call on people who will support the government. However, that's it. They themselves cannot wield power. It's not in their value system. They're somehow both stupid and delusional, with also no concept of hard power. It's not miestimation to say that a people who do not hold a value system capable of getting through hard times, who venerate weakness, and pride themselves on who can be most weak and ineffectual to not be worthwhile as soldiers, or even insurgents. Not to mention, that they do shoot themselves in the foot strategically by calling to defund the very institutions they could use to win in any scenerio. I think it's also miestimation to say that a unified front is required when civil wars are won by the most radical factions. I think he's taken a black pill where he's given up any hope and can't see anyone on the right actually fighting. You can see it in the start of his closing thoughts where he asks "Where's the red line? It's been crossed long ago and you've done nothing!" It's essentially thinking "I don't believe it can happen here, because I can no longer see a trigger"
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  1142.  @alexanderdesturion4346  Hmmm... for that kind of thing he definitely seems like the leader Russia needs right now to pull itself from its shit. If he lives long enough to see a US-China war he could easily make a deal with the Americans to pull out of Eastern Europe and help crush China. To which the strategic goal of minimizing risk of invasion from the west would be much more realized and then kick out China from Central Europe putting Russia back in a spot where it has defensible borders from its neighbors.
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  1143.  @alexanderdesturion4346  I think it's going to be interesting to see what happens if it can hold together long enough to see Putin out of power
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  1144. It's funny how I've had the opposite growing up because my home state has a society that's simply too recent to have gone through any of these cycles yet and is arguably only now feeling the downturn.
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  1145. history is filled with shit like this and then the godless communists say wars are fought for economic reasons
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  1146. You know those stories in games of a highly advanced people which all technology generated from as they conquered the galaxy or ruled the world then collapsed after a great internal conflict? That's literally the west if you take it as one civilization since it just completely self-immolated taking 100 million of their own population with them in the great catastrophe.
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  1147. Seems like the biggest issue Poland faces is the unfortunate situation of being between the Russian and German people
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  1148.  @degamispoudegamis  Oh my God you're actually stupid. First off: He said he was Nepalese. What you said genuinely doesn't apply here given that they were never conquered and actually had friendly enough relations that continue to this day in the form of the elite Gurkha unit. In this capacity his country was never a colony in either formal or even informal capacity since relations for foreign elite troops have been a tradition of a fair few militaries across history (another example is the French foreign legion). Secondly: Most of the issues of the post-colonial states have little to do with the actual colonialism itself and more to do with the instability that comes from the ethnic makeup of the regions not correlating with the actual borders and thus no real national identities to really govern around. In fact some evidence of this was with how the economies of the colonies actually shrank after the end of colonialism while the western nations still grew. And of course the fastest rising economies were the ones who industrialized while still having a national identity (see the Asian tiger economies + China + Isreal). Those who have weaker national identities have risen slower as they industrialized but even now many of those places can still be seen as rising (take Nigeria for example as well as 5 of the states of the EAF who have very fast rising economies and other examples can be seen in the southeast Asian states such as Indonesia and the Phillipines). And then finally, I'd like to add that time is a crucial factor in this. Most of these places have only been independent for 70 years while most other states have been independent for double or more which has allowed them to build that wealth. In real terms the differences in wealth come down to a combination of level of industrialization and level of trust in a society (something that affects political and social stability and even slows industrialization). Ethnic tensions drastically lower social trust which stops much of the normal building of wealth. Then there's economic mismanagement but that tends to really just affect industrialization speed.
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  1149. @Alex  Well, fundamentally, there are some pre-conditions to industrialization as well as the resources required for it. It's also the intellectual and population resources required to implement the technologies until they sufficiently advance to be able to be implemented easier. For example, if you've no coal in the 1850s, how do you expect to be able to even try to make a factory? Then as another example, how do you expect to make a steel foundry if you don't actually have the technology to access the Bessemer process or know-how to build the thing (and this is very early tech not even modern steel production)? Remember that agricultural societies at the start of the agricultural revolution were a very small few until such practices began to expand and started to out-compete the more migrant peoples (which I'd also like to add, wasn't until the invention of gunpowder since nomadic horse archers would still create piles of bodies through invasions every few centuries). The fundamental problem is that all practices take time to create and disperse (you don't just press research and get the correct outcome, sometimes your R&D just doesn't come out with something that's any good), and then after to learn and implement (most places had to import western technicians to get the industrialization processes started). I'd also like to add that the poorest countries are in places where the state basically didn't exist until the Europeans LEFT. Which is almost exclusively Africa as even southeast Asia with either history of state structures or simple length of time under colonial rule meant that they already possessed state structures before decolonization. Add to that the fact that most countries before widespread globalization simply didn't have the fuel resources required to attempt to have widespread electricity and creation of factories, and you had honestly a select few countries at the start for proper development, and then afterward the environment changed to allow said processes to disperse via the internet and globalization. Not to mention, renewable energy maturation means that more places have the ability to power an industrialized society.
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  1150.  @jacoblandry9377  they are Marxists after all
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  1151. @andresamplonius315  Marxist realism cannot exist due to the fact that Marxism is inherently false.
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  1152.  @andresamplonius315  The problem is that it's not exploitation, which I've gone over in quite a bit of depth at this point. Though, realistically, grassroots cooperation is indeed a way to really give a check on the power of capital.
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  1153.  @andresamplonius315  Ultimately, Marxism is realistically better seen as a bad religion than a realistic tool of analysis.
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  1154. This is more common across history than we'd like with historically entire social classes hijacking the system for their own benefit
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  1155. NO NO NOT THE DBQs AHHHHH!!
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  1156. It's literally the game Mao
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  1157.  @inovakovsky  No they don't. Only example is Bengal with India but beyond that it's entirely political and from governments.
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  1158. I just saw a pamphlet for sale on how the art of war applies to business lol
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  1159. ​ @mirceazaharia2094 If you're sane in a madhouse, you're the insane one. But I am too
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  1160. I like how despite the obvious sign of doom and collapse many people are saying everything is fine. I was saying we were going to see inflation but "Ah we aren't seeing it you're crazy" and here we are. Revolutions happen when your normal everyday people can't afford food. And with that much money in circulation there's no way hyperinflation isn't coming. And as "Economics Explained" put it: "Hyperinflation is GAME. OVER. You can't carry on without a major regime change or total abandonment of sovereign currency" and with word of civil war around... this could be what sets us off. I know the US doesn't know what civil war looks like because the US had a war of secession with defined borders essentially making it a conventional conflict, the US is about to see a real Civil War with a rebellion that will claim to be the legitimate government of the United States and assert the other faction Bow down or die.
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  1161. Well yeah unless you're storming buildings you don't really need that full auto function do you? And as long as you can reload quickly stripper clips would do just fine. Or you use a stock that can use magazines and then you get a semi-auto AK for all intents and purposes.
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  1162. Where do I watch this?
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  1163. ACW was wild but kind of shows the American commitment to getting all of the shiny new toys as soon as possible and how effective they will be in war by getting absolutely brutal with their generals as they sack them for failing. But also how spirited they can be as they fight and how much shit they can pull. Also even more fun is that since it was a secessionist conflict with set borders, the whole thing played out as a traditional war against two countries instead of a true civil war.
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  1164. Everyone claims low income but the people who have the most kids have the lowest incomes on average. In fact, it's the highest incomes with the lowest Level of children. Combine that with living in apartments instead of houses and you have low birth rates. In real terms the only way bad economics depress birth rates are when they're so bad you have things like famines.
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  1165.  @tomfields3682  Okay, but this video is about factors unique to Florida. That is not one of them.
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  1166. Julius is basically a big ol' question of "Did the ends justify the means?"
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  1167. 37:07 Yeah that's wrong. Why it's wrong is that you have to remember that almost half of the population of the confederacy was enslaved and their TOTAL population was half that of the north population. So in real terms they were fighting with about a quarter or less.
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  1168.  @TheMagicJIZZ  Okay and we see almost 0 Hellenic branches of Europe. Why I say the pan-Nordic, pan-Latin, and Pan-Germanic is that it lines up with the languages of Europe. If you want me to get technical I mean Pan-Romance when I say Pan-Latin but almost no-one will think that when I say that. And in fact Pan-Germanism is how we have modern Germany. But it's exactly the fact that the languages are similar enough to thus possibly unite is basically why I brought it up and in fact that's what I meant by including them in my previous reply. Empires are vastly easier to control when you have a shared language.
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  1169.  @TheMagicJIZZ  Okay no they're in no way Greek and I've got no idea how you even have that as an idea. They've no shared cultural roots nor are they similar enough. And frankly modern Greece basically has nothing connecting it to even the Eastern Roman empire besides language. Even the philosophy has taken a different route with the enlightenment as a good place for that comparison where Greek philosophy said logic was more important actual testing. No what you see in Europe is basically LARPing that they're saying they're the children of Greece and Rome and while they kind of are in some ways, children are almost never their parents and that applies here too. Hell part of the reason Charlemagne's empire was rejected in Constantinople was because they basically called themselves the new Roman empire while the Roman empire was literally there in Anatolia and felt that the European kingdoms were too far beneath them to even attempt at the title.
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  1170. I love this thing. It's amazing. It's a tiny pack of pointless power.
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  1171. Lmao if the Russians are this poor, the Chinese are almost guaranteed to be even worse
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  1172. My favorite part about trying to survive the human attack is this advice works for other humans. Unless of course they're also packing heat.
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  1173. 8:54 This too is a pretty easy read. It's biggest weakness is not having a couple of maps for reference as without that the issue of how much land is demanded is a pretty pointless piece of info. Each group had demanded 2/3 of a province. However, "How big is the province?" is a question so poinient it basically decides what is or isn't reasonable. Unless you're discussing it from the point of view of the provincial governor themselves (which it seems to hint at as the relationship was seemingly between that governor and the German), in which you're losing most of your land and so it is simply unreasonable anyway. Also funny that they're saying that Clovis was such a good controller that he stopped the barbarians from doing barbarian things.
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  1174. The late war for the nazis was not a good time as they started to lose their veterans and the soviets started getting veterans killing nazi veterans. So the new recruits of the nazis stood little chance at that point.
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  1175. 21:30 It's the difference between London and the rest of the UK
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  1176. ​@ZeroGravitas187 The US actually has a fair bit it can privatize if it wants. Ultimately, the cost of living crisis is mostly limited to the cities and driven primarily by cost of housing, something the government is historically pretty bad at managing. There's also a question of how long the cost of living crisis has been around, and the answer is less than 10 years and globally relevant (every developed country and many developing countries are having a cost of living crisis). Thus, this argument falls pretty flat. Not to mention, the medical costs aren't the reason for the cost of living crisis.
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  1177. @johnmarks227  He claimed it was "for decades" and we're clearly discussing about today. Especially relevant given during the great depression that no governments had as much funding or as many duties as they have today. This was something only created in the post-WWII paradigm. Go back to school and learn reading comprehension and then history.
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  1178. @johnmarks227  Do you know the average government spending to GDP ratio for most of the world in the 1930s? Because i have a graph that tracks from 1910 into 1960 for most major combatants and can easily find data for the rest.
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  1179. You haven't watched the video
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  1180. The US has 2 6th Gen programs
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  1181.  @ja1111112  2020 it only spent 2.1% of GDP on military expenditures. For comparison the US spends roughly 3.5% of its GDP on its military (one with global commitments especially in its navy). The UK with only really NATO commitments and a few global trainings (supporting the Americans) is at 2.2%. Isreal with its requirement to have a military for the sake of existing is at 3.3%. Realistically Poland only spends a lot on its military in relation to countries which really don't need one. However with the likely joining of Belarus with the Russians, Poland will once again be on the forefront of being threatened with invasion from the East and thus likely needs to reach around 3% to go ahead and start being competitive again and able to actually meet the demands that will soon be on it.
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  1182.  @Anurag-xe2jp  UK spends more than France but France sees regular military action in Africa while the UK has switched to just supporting the Americans.
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  1183. Lmao Jannisary memories?
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  1184. He used the sources from Second Thought's video...
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  1185. @Jonathan Pfeffer  I don't think it would've been. In real terms, the bi-metal case is just as new and untested. And frankly, while the XM5 is a mostly okay rifle, like I said, the requirements came at the cost of everything else. Remember, this rifle is meant to be the replacement for the M4. So, how does it fare in this task? First off: despite the fact that it is I believe 20" in total length, it only has 20 rounds of ammo per magazine and also is a heavier rifle with more recoil meaning that it is harder to maneuver with and has reduced situational awareness. This makes it very poor for the close range engagement area, and in fact, it's the reason why battle rifles were seen as poor for those ranges in the first place. Secondly: while it does have a 3000fps velocity at the muzzle as well as a bullet with a superior ballistic coefficient, which makes it ideally quite good for longer engagement ranges, it also still has more recoil which means it is more difficult to get repeat shots on target and more difficult to be accurate. It would also greatly benefit from a longer barrel to get a complete burn, which it does not actually have. For the purposes of replacing the M4, the goal was to gain capability while not losing capabilities or only losing them marginally. What has happened here is that the close range capability has been reduced to the point of almost being lost, and it is a sub-optimal setup for long range. Now, to address the point of retraining 1.3 million troops: you don't have to. They firstly only are giving this to the close combat force initially. This means that they're only training 250 thousand troops with the other troops being trained presumably going to be recruited in the new cadre which comes up and not the current standing forces. While an expense, the manual of arms is actually the LEAST important part of training. The most difficult part in training is making sure that soldiers can learn to fire their weapons accurately, and bullpups don't significantly affect this. In fact, most people can adjust fairly quickly to the new manual of arms of a bullpup. Finally, the polymer ammunition had far more economic benefits in that being a lighter case brings down logistics costs, which makes it a far better argument for long-term expense. This is not to mention the battlefield utility of having lighter ammo you can keep more on your person and the utility in a case which keeps heat from both your fingers and your barrel which means that overheating becomes less of an issue from firing more. Also important is that polymers tend to be easier to manufacture than metals with the case technology also better able to be retrofitted should the desire come once the factories are built. Another thing to consider is future-proofing. A bi-metal cartridge is by no means future proofing as it is never tried because no-one is dumb enough to do so. No-one in their right mind designs a case with such insane pressures because they don't want to blow up their guns and waste money. A polymer cartridge that likely lends itself to production as well as shaving logistics costs and better exploring ammunition in that route as materials science improves IS future proof. They went conservative, and in most cases that's a good thing. Here? It was a bit of a misstep. There would've genuinely been a superior rifle if they were to try to take a hot loaded 6.8x51, put that into an AR-10 (with its buffer tube which helps absorb recoil), given it an 18" barrel (5" really isn't going to be a huge issue), and added some picatinny rails. That would've been a better replacement for the M4 in a way which lent itself to easy transition as you suggest the Sig bid was meant to be, than the actual XM5.
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  1186. @Jonathan Pfeffer  Let me clarify some points: XM5 with optic is a 14 lb rifle. That is heavy by virtually all standards for a rifle. An AR-10 from genuinely the initial production runs may start to hit the 10 lb mark and end up in the same weight class, but I do not think one with modern manufacturing would unless I simply forget the way the AR-10 is in which case I will accept the criticism. The XM5 is based on the Sig MCX series which is a short stroke gas piston action. It is why the stock can actually fold over. The buffer tube would not let that happen, and in fact, I believe it is mentioned in this very video. The polymer cased cartridges would not achieve the necessary velocities out of a carbine length barrel that is correct. However, the True Velocity offering was in a bullpup, giving it a full 20" barrel to work with to achieve complete powder burn and achieve the necessary velocities within the overall length requirements and thus not being an issue. Polymer ammunition also provably absorbs more heat and helps reduce heating of the barrel. In fact if you watch the Task and Purpose video on the True Velocity bid, you see exactly this phenomenon taking place as the host Chris Cappy touches the barrel, the breech, and the case and noting that it is cool to the touch. Finally, the point about situational awareness was in the section about close range combat for a very good reason. Full power cartridges out of rifles on full auto tend to lower situational awareness to a great degree due to excessive recoil. InRangeTV noted this with their video about G3 vs FAL full auto and is also noted by Ian in videos on the Soviet interwar full auto rifle (can't remember the name) as well as the video on the full auto M14. In fact, I believe the only one which didn't end up in that category was the full auto FG-42 due to the recoil being forced into the buttstock and having a buffer tube along with the compensator.
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  1187. @Jonathan Pfeffer  On the point about full auto, yeah it's probably going to be less of an issue when outside but you're right full auto fire in those situations is that of the machine gun, except when they have to get close. In terms of the suppressors ability to reduce concussion, you're normally right but with 80k PSI I do wonder if you're running into a situation much like suppressing 50 BMG where yes it's lower than before but by no means low. Though that is 100% open speculation on my part so you are correct on that point. To return once again to the question of polymer ammo, you're comparing the current XM5 to the True Velocity bid which are two totally different weapons. The True Velocity bid, having a long barrel and not necessitating the insane pressures to brute force the velocity requirement, did not have an especially heavy barrel capable of absorbing more heat. Not only that, but heat does not act like electricity. While electricity will take the path of least resistance with regards to heat, just because you heat an insulator doesn't mean the heat just doesn't go anywhere or doesn't transfer, it simply means that the insulator does not conduct the heat outside of it easily so it does not transfer it to yet another object with much ease. This means that you can heat the objects quite hot on average, but it won't transfer out and burn something else as easily. To put it another way, because heat isn't like electricity, heat will simply go to the nearest object. And the factors which determine what makes a conductor vs an insulator for heat are not any innate ability to transfer heat, but how easily heat is retained and how difficult it is to raise the temperate per given thermal unit. Metals, with their low specific heats, are simply worse at carrying out thermal energy as they cannot retain heat as easily nor can they absorb as much heat per unit. For a barrel, for the properties of cooling, you would want it to be metal since it would release heat to the environment instead of keeping it in the barrel. However, with regards to lowering temperature, which is transferred to the barrel via case ejection, polymer is superior. In fact, much of these properties are used when using coolants. They're typically high specific heat, insulating liquids, so that the heat can be transferred to them and either provide a sink for the heat, or if need be, able to be quickly replaced with a new batch with which to continue cooling the system. It is of note the utility of liquid is the ability to take the shape of its container in this.
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  1188. 20:30 The answer, is women ☕️
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  1189. @The136th  That's literally the opposite of what's true. It's so opposite, they'd be unable to do any normal building if it were true
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  1190. @widodoakrom3938  That aligns exactly with what I've said, at least for China's timeline. 6 Gen fighters are planned for the 2030s
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  1191. I'm like number 1800. Nothing more. Just seemed neat
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  1192. There are very few analogies which fit THAT well. And that one did.
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  1193. Btw what's the context about same as 9x19 power in a smaller package?
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  1194. The MG338 is meant to replace the M240B. M250 of course meant to replace M249
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  1195. I think you got your wish
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  1196. Bruh they blocked school choice?
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  1197. I think I can't over learn the lessons of the war. But one of the issues with Ukraine is that the Russians messed up massively with their initial ambitions, and daddy America gave the Ukraine the info to avoid the worst outcome that Russia was trying to inflict on them. After a significant loss of equipment and personnel, they then sent their leftovers into areas that had 8 years behind them to get built up in fortifications during the previous war, and then grinded away during mud season while they were stuck on the roads and couldn't avoid anything. Due to those failures and massive equipment and personnel losses, the Russian Army we see today is a shell of its former self having not been built for the war it intended to fight, and then never adapting it before the invasion thinking it would be quick. And had they invaded during the permafrost, and without daddy America's involvement, they may have actually won too. And in fact this is something that applies to WW2 as well. The defense is actually quite strong and always has been. The issue with WW2 is that the defenses were always bypassed, which meant that they often didn't matter. However, the urban fighting which characterized cities like Stalingrad showed that the defense really was quite strong. Also, come on, you know better than to say that no military technology improved during the 1600s and Napoleonic wars. Pike and shot gave way to riflemen and lines of bayonets with muskets, which meant much more firepower could be massed while also killing off cavalry better.
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  1198. It's not about alliance to a party but about their leanings. Though it's the liberal justices who can end up with decisions which are overturned more often just because they tend to not often be textualists and end up with weak rulings.
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  1199. In real terms almost every failed project ends up as a design that later uses the technology developed in it
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  1200. so far the only option is a Korean or Chinese scenario it seems
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  1201. 6:14 What? That makes 0 sense unless you're basically just saying it's morally unjust to be for profit
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  1202.  @tonywillingham8109  I can't find the video
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  1203. They were using PUs which were the sniper variants and they're likely not using something such as the shot out garbage rods which are usually sold as surplus (if it's not sold it's likely still of some use and a bolt action in Stock is likely one that's in fairly good condition). Likely the intent was in using them in their intended marksman rifle role (which is basically how Russian sniper doctrine works).
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  1204. Good on the cotton being removed because frankly growing cotton in Arizona was effectively the same impact as the soviets diverting water from the two rivers of limited capacity into thy desert in Central Asia.
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  1205.  @Josh-hh2cu  I mean... it's not like he's all knowing or something and was mostly distracted as he was focused on other things and moving forward with her for all intents and purposes "defeated"
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  1206. Yeah I'd say that after making this video, go talk to Perun
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  1207. Well, i was here for the announcement. Congrats!
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  1208. I think he misses how this has been rising even before covid
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  1209. This is historically an important factor. Birth rates tend to go up when times are good but also decline in times of economic hardship. They both increase age of marriage and decrease children per marriage
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  1210. What's even more impressive is that they still beat them back despite the horrific casualties when pushing
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  1211. ​@@jackjones4824Tbh, the welfare state seems to decrease children by roughly half a kid as the children are the original welfare.
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  1212. @@jackjones4824 Well not when they're children, but they grow up and become adults and are expected to care for their parents in their old age
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  1213. I think one of the things people fail to understand is that even things like increased efficiency (which lowers costs) helps for climate change since more efficient things consume less.
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  1214.  @delphic464  Well voter ID it's not like they can deny you as long as you have that ID which is usually just something you can show up for. Buying a firearm also usually requires an ID normally IIRC. However saying you need an ID to do so wouldn't really be infringing upon your constitutional right mainly because it's half the government's job to give you one anyway. You not having an ID is just ridiculous honestly. Everyone except basically the young have an ID. Now yes there's a small percentage of the population who do not have one. It's not unreasonable to get one though.
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  1215. @Jeff Aguiar  It's an incredibly important one because it's been the biggest barrier to democracy historically before the industrial revolution. Not to mention, so many systems have failed because of that very reason. People are not all good and will not simply sit idly by. You must be defensible and stable as a state. If you don't have a state... good luck resisting the states in your area.
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  1216.  @drd105  So if one looked significantly enough like those groups they could potentially gain Intel no?
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  1217.  @drd105  Even if they were potentially a Chechn or Kazakh?
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  1218.  @drd105  got it
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  1219. ​@BIasterXD Yeah I'm not sure how they got $400 either. Though on sale you'll get that rifle he's holding for $500.
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  1220. 7:32 I wonder if this is why we've kept the imagery of gods being in high places, as it's inherent to the word and its context.
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  1221. You know, given Baron has become the head of his father's PR strategy, especially on the internet, he probably watches you and would give that recommendation. That'd be super funny.
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  1222. I don't think I've interacted with enough real women to have one actually flirt with me.
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  1223.  @wolf_7479  yeah was more confused because I missed the s lol
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  1224. Yeah, people usually get it beforehand. Even more often, on accident. So, not quite.
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  1225. Why is the journalist reviewing this? Do they simply want women to be alone? You know the "man hating feminist" allegations aren't being beaten here
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  1226. I'd say more like a huge raging river that in a year suddenly got a huge dam in the middle of it. While if you only did a part of it, the water would flow around it. But instead what you did was block the water so the water only has the option of filling up until it overflows or breaks the dam entirely.
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  1227.  @l-y-d-s  The resources aren't really the problem in most instances and by that argument we wouldn't have even been able to get where we are now in the first place. Biggest thing is constant population growth. That won't keep up forever because it hasn't been the norm across history. You have periods of strong growth as factors allow/necessitate it and then periods of mostly stable populations.
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  1228. Has been for a long time as it's incredibly fragile and prone to shocks. The biggest thing is that the current system of the last 100 years is basically unprecedented within history and so we're basing modern economics on whatever the trend of the last generation or so have been. But it's not their fault since there's not as much to look back on. Modern economics doesn't begin until like 250 years ago so they don't have much of a reference and looking back doesn't yield as much since not as much was written about it and economists usually don't go for history past its inception anyway. It'll take a while for economics to reach a point like modem science has in the amount of records and progress. Also economics will always advance slower since any actual applications and tests have tremendous stakes since entire populations depend on it. Oh also lacks controls and any sort of isolating abilities you'd be able to do in actual science. Basically we're not going to have a complete grasp on these concepts and realize how we've fucked up for about another century or so. Hindsight is 20/20 anyway.
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  1229. He really did over-estimate the power of the state.
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  1230. I need to look at their personal salaries but I once saw Bezos or Musk only making less than 6 figures in personal salary. Or maybe low 6 figures (under 200k), and while definitely quite a bit of money, usually not enough to make a significant dent into something like this.
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  1231. 12:57 The Muslims also took Bangladesh and were spread around India a lot more until the population exchanges after the separation of Pakistan and India
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  1232. To be fair, that's a bit more realistic to think of weeks when things change so quickly
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  1233.  @dontcallthemliberals3316  Honestly no. Maybe if gen Z in Europe was a bit more like the Americans or if they're adaptable enough to just say enough then yes, but if they get indoctrinated Enough into the "Welfarism" then they're basically going to just be conquered or a tributary state. I've got some hope for France and CANZUK (as the former still colonial and the latter is honestly getting pulled by the Americans) but that's about it. I think Poland is going to be stuck with Russia and eastern Europe and even kind of the Balkans are just Russian clay
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  1234. ​ @Andres_81  The historical dialectic of Marx can't be disproven because it's essentially a faith based argument. It's like asking to disprove religion. It doesn't work. The reason academia leans left is actually a recent phenomenon that began slowly after WW1 and then accelerated in the US in the 1960s as a result of the Vietnam War that has now played out over multiple generations. It's specifically from the abandonment of Christianity in the aftermath of the Great War and then afterward a combination of draft dodgers and the all important Frankfurt school Marxists who migrated to the US and then had a large body of disaffected and hippie-leaning students to teach who now dominate the highest echelons of these institutions and have pushed that idea to all of their students. Btw that PhD in economics did in fact infect many students because the capitalist idea set is not in fact dominant in the cultural conversation. The Marxist set is. It's simply Marx taken to a society where class has always been a very weak hierarchical divider between people and 150 years removed from him. There's a reason socialism is popular among the youth and it's not because of capitalism's dominance. Also Hegel was wrong on so many things. Just... German philosophers in general are terrible. Discount them entirely. They've set us back just as much as Plato has.
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  1235.  @Andres_81  The problem is that it doesn't actually have much basis in our lives. It is arguably an actually rigid structure that doesn't make sense. In the basics of "thesis, antithesis, and synthesis" it really doesn't actually make the way forward for development and implies that development is guaranteed which isn't actually true. It's an idea that the opposite must be fused to achieve higher understanding but that implies that there's parts of the truth in both which isn't always the case. Not to mention that it depends heavily on framing in order to make itself work. Then you have the dialectical materialism of Marx. and Engels First off, as a materialist philosophy and view of the world, he's just straight up missing most of history. Especially since material change is so slow across most of it. Idealist views of history reflect the underlying reasons for even the cause in material changes than the historical dialectic. Secondly, contradictions need not exist in the material world. It's not a useful lens with which to advance despite what some have taken from it. The material, due to its matter, exists as is. Without inherent meaning, there is no contradiction at all. Which also makes it not a materialist mode, because the meaning is idealist in nature.
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  1236. To be fair "conversion kit" in that game is a bit "liberal"
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  1237. @BIG DAN TEE  this is questionable and no the director owes the movie going audience a good movie. This is huge cope.
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  1238. @Luke Rojas  I think that's just fans in general who love their franchises but without the ability to see why. Quite sad to see people unable to see flaws. Though i do believe the prequels are far better than the sequels in all but cinematography and production value. Even the acting isn't worse, just really bad dialogue. But then you find similarly bad dialogue in the sequels, so it's not really a win either. And let's face it, the acting of those lines (especially from the main protagonist) could've used some work in both. Also, at least the general writing of the prequels was coherent, compared to the almost nonsensical writing of the sequels with simply more human dialogue.
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  1239. A replacement barrel is only $120 from PSA too. If you really want to, you can also buy just a chrome lined barrel and replace it. You've spent maybe $1000 at most and it'll now live beyond almost anything and genuinely be "just as good"
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  1240.  @raquetdude  And what real issue does that propose? Such things can be changed and the trading partners doesn't have to change but can shift and pull them away so that they're no longer completely reliant. And even before during the imperial days they did manage to keep together as one empire even as dominions so it doesn't seem like such a ridiculous idea.
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  1241. That would be the imperial federation yes
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  1242. The assumption here is that there likely won't be much more migration to the US. Demographics mean that the younger people (the ones with the least ties and largest likelihood of migration) are probably not going to be very much anymore because they'll have all aged out. So can't rely on immigration anymore.
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  1243.  @OnlyGrafting  Well as much as it is an economic and not much of a political union, the movement of peoples seems to be very free and he referenced the Aussie deal with NZ as a good framework for what could happen where they're basically already are treated as common citizens. However the issue with such agreements is that in order for it to work on a scale it really does need to integrate into something more at the least into a point where it can defend its own trade and requires common military integration to keep up the maritime trade. Which requires near federal level integration.
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  1244. I feel like it's mostly shoehorned. The devil is in the details, and those details basically completely recontextualize the stories that are laid out here. For one: the leveraging of the Americans massive population to overpower their enemy. It simply didn't happen. The Anglo-American alliance put a maximum of 4.6 million men in Europe at war's end to a maximum loss of the coalition at roughly 1 million spread across the entirety of the British commonwealth, Isles, and USA. USA and Britain both only lost 400k men, and that 4 million figure is basically only once they break into Germany proper as beforehand they were at about 2 million together in France until the border. (this is in comparison to the Germans who had roughly 3 million men in the field at any one time and took almost 6 million dead in losses) And that's one example out of basically all of them.
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  1245. They're stifling their own economy long term
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  1246. I saw the death chart and holy shit Brazil is doing even better than we are. Also the US is not that bad in any sense when you compare it by population
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  1247. truck guns aren't kept in the bed?
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  1248. Jordan Peterson looks entirely in his element here
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  1249. You know if the state media admits it's 1.09, that the real number is probably Koreonic (0.68).
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  1250.  @neoprofin  Need to keep that one in my head
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  1251. Yeah I still don't buy the Europeans becoming Americans because what's absolutely insane is that the dominance has spread into basically all parts of Asia as well but you don't see that as a basis for them becoming American satellite states. The reality is that the Anglo-American coalition has dominated the world for about 300 years and has caused tremendous effects on literally every single country on earth. Africa still speaks majority English because of this domination. And of course just because hard power declines doesn't mean soft power does. The Anglosphere dominates most of the world in a cultural sense still and is carried by the fact that they spread their language via commerce and conquest for the entirety of what created the base of the current era. I think you're reading a bit too much into the American cultural domination without realizing it. And on top of that the Americans pulling out of Europe also comes with the historical idea of basically telling Europe to fuck off and the Americans focusing on its own neighborhood. Leaving Europe to just go die seems honestly more likely than the Americans genuinely caring about Europe returning to the history it had before 1945. Especially with France and Poland in effect having their own empires. And without a lot of the actual conflict which characterized the Greek City states it just doesn't really work. Finally the biggest thing is that Europe is a collection of very strong identities and multiple people groups in a way that Greece never really was. It just doesn't seem right. You can still learn Greek and understand the thoughts of the ancient Greeks. You have to Learn variants of German, old French, and Latin to learn anything about Western Europe and still won't learn anything about eastern or northern Europe. It just is missing too many pieces in my opinion.
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  1252. ​ @Letsplay222 What world are you living in that they always lose to HAMAS? Conscripts can be high discipline forces, and there's a mountain of evidence that Israeli forces are relatively disciplined units. So I don't know what you're on
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  1253. yeah they hacked Lockheed and other aerospace companies to steal their tech
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  1254. We need to annex Canada and Mexico to form the USNA and just own it all. More coastline. More authority. More manpower. More industry. More resources. More EVERYTHING.
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  1255.  @ozymandiasnullifidian5590  Please explain why it's unrealistic
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  1256. Seems like what the Indians really need are licensed Galil Aces lol. Fundamentally an AK but with an overall better design and manufacturing process (and the reason the AK is good in cold is because of its design) so if they used those they'd be in a decent place. Also could standardize on it since the Gail Ace comes in all Indian calibers.
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  1257. There are no random crits. Extra damage comes as a guarantee for a flanking hit
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  1258. Plasma, Plasma, gotta go get that Plasma. Without Plasma life is boring. Plasma everywhere!
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  1259.  @legobros2020  no lol
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  1260. @George Murdock  Gotta correct you on that: in an ideal socialist world no-one would have to work if they didn't want to. Companies are a benefit to society? Well that's simply based on opinion, and you also have to separate the idea of them in aggregate vs the practices of any one company.
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  1261. @Stefan Metzeler  I'd like to remind you that for many African states it's not just political "tribe" but literal tribe as the tribal social system hasn't collapsed in those areas. It's also worth noting that government is just like anything else a result of the incentive structures, but it's incredibly difficult to create one with an incentive structure which continually rewards good behavior.
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  1262. @Stefan Metzeler  Unfortunately, I'm at least half of your age. And there's definitely issues regarding coordination and how small you want the systems. Also, I'd hesitate to try to put a "One Size Fits All" solution on anything. First off, Nigeria isn't a European country, nor are they of that background. They're based around the Sahel, so we'd have to look into the history of the Sahel states before colonization to try to get an idea of what might work. The other one is actually treating the post-colonial British states, almost anglophone, in some regard as they have inherited some of those cultural hallmarks. But before any of that, of course, you need to actually get some sort of social cohesion on the ground.
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  1263.  @stefanmetzeler  gf is very young lol
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  1264. @ioiio ihb  Befriend people of other tribes and invite them into your houses. Encourage the others in your tribe to do so as well. Unfortunately, you're unlikely to see the results truly bear fruit within your own generation. The other thing is to go ahead and support those people of your community heavily so they don't go ahead and do crimes. Criminals tend to congregate together and as well come out of being outcasts of their own groups. Prevent this, and you'll probably start getting down a decent bit of crime. None of these are cure-all solutions as you will have to address things as they come, and they also sound a little strange as you're attempting to build a nation from what's effectively a forced tribal Confederacy from scratch. But, doing these things will create the grounds to create the social trust necessary to create those effective social and political institutions. They will take time, and they will probably fail a few times (especially the first time), but eventually, it's a path that if everyone embarked on tomorrow, would create the institutions necessary to actually create stable, and eventually wealthy, societies. Btw, I know these sound very strange, that's because they kind of are. You're effectively asking people to go against every natural tendency they have. This is also most often done as a response to a war in the form of a multi-generational conflict against an outsider to create a functioning national identity and state, as well as usually a few hundred years of existence under the same government. To say that it's easy would be the understatement of the year.
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  1265. @Atwell atwell  Half right. Resource wealth is not wealth. The wealthiest societies are those which are usually rather resource poor ironically as they're forced to create institutions to effectively use the resources they do have. Wealth is more about effective institutions than resources. However, your conclusion of what must be done is very correct as it's quite literally the solution because if you can have enough trust, those institutions will more likely work.
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  1266. Not quite. It's not so much that it's just unprofitable so much that it's just not useful. No-one there uses it, and so it's still largely disconnected from the east. Not to mention, if it truly wanted to connect it, traditional rail with less energy usage would've done the job fine. More than anything else, it's pride and for trying to keep up its economy through vast construction. Idle hands cause rebellion. It uses its state growth as ways to inflate their own statistics more than anything else. It's much like it's ghost cities which are used to keep afloat their housing bubble rather than it popping.
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  1267. @Emma aka VolVol  The reason we try to keep things profitable is that even 1% profits means it can keep running without issue. Profits also mean you recoup the costs over time as if you never break even you'll never be able to do another. Once it goes into the red, it's a net loss and requires extra money forcefully taken from the people to keep it afloat. And if it's not providing a critical utility, you're effectively increasing people's burden by wasting their money making something more expensive than it needs to be and potentially preventing it from keeping itself afloat. Basically, unless it's critical to life in terms of staying alive or keeping people working, usually there's a reason for assessing whether or not it's profitable.
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  1268. @Luke Cheuk  800 million were brought out of poverty not by any specific policies of integration but instead just the phenomenon of industrialization which brings EVERYONE out of poverty. For China this is effectively their roaring twenties. You're trying to compare a country having already finished its process compared to a country which is on the tail end and has huge numbers simply due to population. Fundamentally, this is used more as economic stimulus by vast construction projects (as it's like 30% of their economy), and for pride more than anything else. The reason I can say this confidently is because normal rail and airport infrastructure could do much of this same work for integration with the rest of the country as HSR with likely far less cost.
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  1269. @Zeth  You might need to redo your definition of western here. Not to mention... to list off: USA, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Spain, UK, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Dermark, Belgium. Almost all of them have ethnic minorities with pockets to live in speaking only that minority language or are federations made of people who already speak different languages and have active protections for minority languages. And of course only 4 of them has English as a native language which means all of them you can be in without using English. Oh and if you really want to add we can go into the rest of the Americas and pull out all of the Spanish speaking countries there. Anyway your comment was effectively saying "tell me you know nothing about Europe without telling me you know nothing about Europe"
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  1270. @Frank Ng  How accessible do you need to make it, though?? I'm sure there are a fair few different ways to connect to the outside provinces without HSR. They'd all be less expensive and do the job reasonably well. I'm more inclined to believe that this is more akin to economic stimulus and pride than actual economic utility given a few things: A: Chinese economy is like 30% kept up by construction which gives rise to ghost cities and projects like this (those ghost city houses are owned btw but they're an investment asset and not a place to live). B: HSR is kind of a meme in that it's kept alive by being "high speed" and extremely expensive with intense infrastructure upkeep making it a money sink for all but incredibly dense urban areas with no actual infrastructure for delivering the necessary business inputs like capital. C: My final point here is that in real terms, the same thing could be done with conventional rail and maybe an airport. Given the amount of people who will actually be traveling to these areas, air travel will be plenty fine for getting people quickly to and from and even conventional rail can deliver people as well as things. You'd reduce the cost on everyone and still accomplish the goal without much issue. You just wouldn't be able to call it HSR. On another note: you say this is something capital fundamentally cannot do. This is nonsense as this isn't even very difficult. All you need to do to make it profitable for a company is for a government to tell them they'll pay the people to build it and the government will continue to manage it. Profitability is a soft cap keeping people from making stupid economic decisions and over extending beyond what their finances can support. Profitable means it doesn't go under or pull hard on the population to support it. For anything other than critical inputs for life, this is incredibly important for staying within your own financial means and growing at a sustainable rate. Otherwise, what happens is you have to borrow and borrow a lot. Up until you can't borrow anymore, at which you have a collapse from going completely broke.
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  1271. @sumyamchi  Okay well you've admitted yourself normal rail is in places where HSR can't be built but said isolated mountainous areas are the exact areas where it is difficult to build and having an extra few hours of travel isn't going to affect that much in terms of economic integration to such remote locations.
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  1272. I've heard India compared to Russia in the 19th and 20th century... yeah sounds about right
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  1273. could you possibly explain further?
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  1274.  @toomuchtrashpodcast7412  I think the issue has to be with where the job is and requiring to move to another place entirely with its own local market. But huge cities command a ton of jobs and also command insane premiums on the cost of living.
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  1275. How does that even work? Especially if you can prove that you pay more in rent?
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  1276.  @tompatterson1548  it WAS Rome
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  1277. that was my thought too
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  1278.  @erickrasniewski567  Honestly if you're not supporting the free market you're just being incredibly stupid economically.
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  1279.  @erickrasniewski567  Yeah no it hasn't lol. A: international trade isn't necessarily free markets. B: lmao the reason they do blm is because those people get up in arms if they don't. You want them to stop? Start getting people up in arms about them doing so.
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  1280.  @erickrasniewski567  There was a study done about who cares about the morality of business and perceived politics. No-one cared if a business was Democrat politics or had no politics. But republican politics they had a problem. Why? Democrats would rate them less favorably and only them. The Republicans did not have a similar reaction. Although sure there are definitely those who do that. In that case, get in these companies and do better. The wokies get less power when they're exposed for how much harm they're doing. And then go for classical liberal capitalism instead of neo-liberal. Where business and government are separate instead of merged.
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  1281. This is actual projection lol
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  1282. It's also not even the right number but may be a specific year that had a 1.5x increase because normally it's under 30k
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  1283. It's honestly likely the same the issue is that you know... when you leave and then become completely replaced there for generations and the original pop was small to begin with it's mostly not much influence.
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  1284.  @another5961  bro lol he isn't
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  1285.  @peace957  no that looks like when he's shooting the Spear
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  1286. It also did historically
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  1287. The obvious answer here is shotgun. If not enough gun, use more gun.
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  1288. when are you going to reform the commonwealth?
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  1289. Are binary neutron stars shadows from from software? Because those are the only other things I know to die twice.
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  1290.  @Youngblood457  Radical Republicans were the ones who ended slavery lol.
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  1291.  @frustratedmillennialz  Bro not at all. You think anyone from the 1800s or even 1950s would align with today's social values of the democrats?
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  1292.  @Youngblood457  Not the case lol. Popular narrative but not actually true
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  1293.  @Youngblood457  also these videos can give you some context https://youtu.be/UiprVX4os2Y https://youtu.be/2RBFOTdY1yY https://youtu.be/qOgdjoMtscU Second one isn't that great on opinions but gives some extra context third one is retreading the same facts but good to nail it home
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  1294. That's a very good archer impression please do more
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  1295. Tbh probably will return soon once Russia stops being a jackass.
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  1296. Does it get to 800m with that power?
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  1297. ​ @brockstrong451  They need it so they can train
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  1298. welcome back fellow retard
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  1299.  @w8stral  The HRE came out of Germania and Charlemagne's empire of the Franks who then proclaimed they were the successors to that empire.
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  1300. If you need a gun that will run when frozen: use AK. If you need a gun that will run in mud: use AR. If you need a gun that will probably care about as much as you do: use FG.
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  1301. This one is less obvious. The issues here are structural regarding the economy. On the one hand: the economic growth couldn't go on forever. In the other hand: the Chinese elite have tried their hardest to keep it up as long as possible. The fact that the underlying fundamentals to it were eroding wasn't a fight they could ever win, nor quite seemed to understand.
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  1302.  @momoware  I know. Even then. China is just That bad right now
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  1303. 5:08 Please Call Henry Chan from 9-Hole
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  1304. Well that's just the standard NYT
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  1305. 9:30 Shoeonhead lefty with a majority male audience and knows what's up
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  1306. ​​ @АлександрДаминин Yeah I believe the "boggy" he means is the infamous "Rasputitsa" mud that comes in Russian spring and autumn. Very VERY difficult to pass through. Native to Ukraine and western Russia but I can see that easily extending east
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  1307. It's funny that the party basically went to normal factions of "let's make money" vs "let's help the people" etc. I mean under those leaders they basically went "alright let's get western investment" and basically allied with the US. Until Xi came in and decided "nah I wanna be Maou" so now we're in.
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  1308. Something similar is happening in the US for similar reasons as due to a video calling platform called "Zoom" that was mass adopted and the growth of computer-centered labor, many people don't need to live in cities anymore and so are moving to the countryside since all they really need is a computer and an internet connection.
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  1309.  @stormystudios9804  Interesting. In comparison the US has never had issues with that corruption and have an entire private industry centered around the military. However US corruption tends to be low compared to many other countries except maybe western Europe. Also a lot harder to try to do something like have military interference in the government when the government is often being watched and the country has a fairly unbroken history of civilian control of affairs. And don't even think of a military coup. The military is largely loyal to the civilian government and the populace is actually armed enough in all but heavy equipment to actually start an armed rebellion against any such activity.
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  1310.  @tianwong152  You have a bit too much fear of the CIA. Very incompetent in comparison.
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  1311.  @tianwong152  I'm not sure they'll be able to avoid it. The rumblings and mobilization of China is a conflict engulfing ALL of Asia. All parties with influence or presence on the continent will be dragged along likely as far away as Indonesia and for all powers it's basically going to be a question of "Who do you hate more?" for who to side with. In terms of overbearing forces however the Americans tend to become somewhat benevolent patriarchs as they're too far away and inward focused to try to crush anyone who isn't in their own backyard with very soft influence and won't try to simply overtake your culture. The US is first and foremost an economic empire. They like to trade with any friendly governments but also hate oppressive regimes which is why the South Koreans and Japanese have become very wealthy in comparison to many neighbors. This is compared to the literal oppressive regime that is currently China and why its relationship with the US has soured as they were happy to trade with a country that seemed to be on the road to freedom and let them make cheaper stuff until the more aggressive military actions, started to simply take stuff in the form of intellectual property theft, and start to go down a more oppressive path seemingly to go ahead and wrest control of Asia for themselves... or more accurately: the Chinese Communist Party authority. And considering the Chinese attitude of attempting to annex both Korea and Vietnam multiple times across its history, there's a decent chance of attempting to do so again. While I'm unsure of the Chinese attempting to invade Korea and annex it since they seem to be mostly fine using North Korea as a buffer state, the Vietnamese are definitely next within the crosshairs.
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  1312.  @tianwong152  That "Made in China 2025" plan has largely fallen apart as those countries have cut down on the Chinese intellectual property theft.
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  1313.  @stormystudios9804   @Stormy Studios  And such realities are why I said it has comparatitively low corruption overall at least compared to other countries that aren't western and Northern Europe. Also while the normal wing of the Republican party is fine with it, the populist and libertarian wing of the party (which is in a current takeover ousting the main party) is not and is actively pushing for reindustrialization. Also despite the exodus of manufacturing the US is still only 10% reliant on foreign trade which is incredibly low and very good for self-sufficiency. Also surprised you're so well-versed in American affairs currently as it seems you know a lot about China and Vietnam as well.
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  1314.  @stormystudios9804  Which country is that may I ask? I would guess Vietnam but never want to assume.
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  1315.  @tianwong152  And that is how China has pissed off the majority of the world.
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  1316.  @tianwong152  Social credit system.
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  1317.  @tianwong152  There is no question? That makes little sense given the current situation as any coalition would be able to kick out the Americans from the pacific. It's a very stupid idea to think that the reason the Asian countries side with America is because China simply isn't strong enough. In fact in many case the Americans are seen as protection FROM China. I'm also not saying the US is benevolent, however from the current oppression of the Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang to the increasingly bellicose actions of the government in trying to take more territory in the South China sea and poor deals in places like Sri Lanka if I'm remembering correctly has soured many to the current Chinese government and in comparison the US is MORE benevolent. It's also worthwhile to say that "not letting the US colonize us" is incredibly dishonest and factually inaccurate as the US was happy to trade for decades as China industrialized and came into its own and had no ideas of "colonization". It's only been as China has started making deals that are seen unfair and losing to the rest of the world that they have soured relations such as engaging in intellectual property theft and making it so foreign businesses simply lose in China. The US currently dislikes China as to the US population they feel that China has taken away their work (despite that largely being self-inflicted and thus stupid) and seen the human rights abuses with groups such as the Uighurs and the birth of the social credit system. If you can't accept such a reality you're honestly about as far gone as thinking the coronavirus came from the USA despite the fact of you having global internet access. Edit: The Japanese, South Koreans, and Indians would not be expanding their military if they liked the Chinese. If they wanted to kick out the Americans they would not have waited until now to do so and have made plans long ago and not in this era of new aggression from the Chinese government. In fact the South Korean and Japanese states as they exist today are only because of American creations in certain periods of history with US-Japanese relations at an all time high and South Korean relations with the US have not taken a downturn in any recent time so the worst any of these countries are considering the US is that of a useful ally. Even Vietnam has a favorable opinion of the US at least from the populace but the same cannot be said for its view on China which has invaded it many more times than the USA and in a time-scale longer than the USA has even existed. While the China is definitely powerful and influential in the region, the US benefits from simply not being there and avoids potential dislike from actions such as the Chinese expansions into the South China Sea.
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  1318.  @tianwong152  The social credit system has been recorded and reported on. Whinny the pooh loves his surveillance.
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  1319.  @tianwong152  The Uighurs are getting their organs harvested in Xinjiang. Chinese government told Sri Lanka it would build a port for them, and gave them a loan, and then once it was built went ahead and claimed it as their own. And if China is the protector of Asia then why is it militarizing the South China Sea when the countries who need it most can't compete? The US is not pretending the South China sea is not the possession of China. It simply does not belong to them and acting like it is the sole claim of China based on a name is about as ridiculous as saying India has a claim on the entire Indian Ocean because it's called the INDIAN Ocean. However by international treaty countries have an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) which is 200 miles out from their shores until it bumps up against another EEZ in which it is split down the middle. China claims the whole thing as its EEZ and that is in no way fair to the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, or anyone else in the region. Currently the Uighur Muslims are having their organs harvested and forced to work in camps without pay with many records of this in sources across the globe. You have access to the Broader internet you should be able to find this yourself.
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  1320.  @tianwong152  I never said you said the virus came from the US. I said if you did you would be a lost cause as it's a popular theory I've heard among the Chinese and Chinese sources are attempting to peddle this theory that the Covid-19 pandemic started in the US and not China.
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  1321.  @tianwong152  Why would Americans want to do that to the Uighurs? Especially since the US is one of the biggest criticizers of the whole program. The US doesn't even have Uughurs. And if the US was actually doing such actions they would not be able to cover it up and would immediately be in compliance with an idea that it fought a war with itself to end. The port in Sri Lanka was created for Sri Lanka or at least that was the agreement however it was taken after. And uh... what? Are you serious? I'm especially curious about how Australia somehow fits into the South China Sea equation since they're incredibly reliant on China and have good relations with all of the countries in the area (at least to my knowledge) since they just keep to themselves largely. Also the countries around the South China sea have explicitly said they are not okay with China taking these actions and thus China is not protecting them.
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  1322.  @tianwong152  Ships float. They do not sink, unless they are damaged. And China made a Vietnamese vessel sink with a warship and thus were the cause of the sinking. Wait how would Japan kill the US if they left? Genuine question. I have no idea how you think that could or would be done. Also uh... I'm not sure you understand how countries under occupation operate. An occupier does not teach a country how to fight if it wants to control it. It disarms its military and fights on its behalf while maintaining military control over the police force. How would Americans be slave owners or occupiers? That requires them to actually be occupying any territory. Honestly if you "know" the Asian countries see you as protectors then you are incredibly deluded to a degree that I cannot fathom given the fact that you have access to the outside world and all of the information which comes with it yet still choose to believe China is the benevolent force defending Asia when Multiple countries are gearing up for war with it and this information is easily accessible to you by a quick search. In contrast, I do not think the US is a benevolent force but definitely has stopped many of the worse actions and routinely angers its population when it finds out what things it has been hiding. You should really learn from the guy named Storm. Much better grasp of the situation than yourself. Final note: if China was a true protector and with how close Vietnam really is and the limits of US power projection, would it really need to play an act of neutrality when it can easily just side with China if it really wants protection from the Americans?
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  1323.  @tianwong152  The ASEAN countries also do not care about the deal beyond the fact that it is an escalation within the region and don't want to be caught up in any fighting as they will be caught in the crossfire. The perspectives differ overall with the Phillipines and Vietnam saying that they welcome a better balance in the local strategic competition. Also wow you must be deluded if you think the US wants to do that to the Uighurs considering it has absolutely no business of that type and I explained exactly why it would not do that. The issue is that it is not a lie about Chinese treatment of the Uyghurs. This information is publicly available.
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  1324.  @tianwong152  Can you back up the "ethnic cleansing" of Asians in the US in any capacity? Or are you unaware of the major position Asians occupy in American society?
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  1325.  @tianwong152  If everything China says is true and everything else is a lie you're far gone and not worth discussing with. Have a very nice life.
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  1326.  @tianwong152  India doesn't have a choice? So does anyone have a choice? Also what does central Asia want? Curious. Since when is Europe the enemy of the US lmao? What are you actually talking about? Becoming the dominant force doesn't mean someone likes you it means you have power there not that anyone likes you. Also only Australia? Then why is the quad alliance even existing? They can't play nice with anyone who isn't white? The Indians, Japanese, Filipinos, Malaysians, and Vietnamese would take issue with that as the latter 3 have all had positive opinions on AUKUS and the former 2 are part of the quad defense pact.
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  1327.  @tianwong152  I did tell you how I was not American, but anyway honestly no Russia is probably likely to make a deal with the Americans and then just go ahead and hit China too or at least stay out of it. Go ahead and believe China has allies, but you'll see that when the time comes, it will have none.
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  1328.  @tianwong8514  What is the Chinese dream? Also the number is 16 million not to protect their western borders but to protect from extermination. I'm aware of the Russian desire for the Baltic, Belarus, Ukraine, The Caucasus, and Central Asia.
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  1329.  @tianwong152  Alright I said I'm done but I really am now. Two days of wasted time. Goodbye and continue to be delusional. Few things however: No-one forces those countries to play nice and easily could openly side with China if they really hated it, The US is what really pressured the British to pull out of India, seeing people as less than human is so wrong it has to be a projection as Americans see the world as wannabe Americans but the Chinese as Barbarians. And getting independence so they're not tied to America is nowhere near the same as being an enemy. Also the Africans know better than to trust the Chinese after they see how much wealth is going to China and not going back into their own countries. Please actually speak with people from those countries before you say anything else so stupid.
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  1330. It's no balls! Not no dongs
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  1331. Lol imagine British soldier in the 18th century seeing a Terran soldier and wondering "What the fuck happened?" just to be told he's from a colony of a former British colony and then wondering even harder how they got from where he is to where the Terrans are
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  1332. He was referring to demographics lmao.
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  1333. The lesson here is that 20" is much better all around
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  1334. I'm conservative. And I denounce this entire thing.
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  1335. Does it cost $4M to acquire or to run? Because using that for 1000 seconds (or 16 total minutes), and you're already at 75% of the cost.
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  1336. Hmmm sounds like how I win battles in Fire and Maneuver
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  1337. ​@whitemakesright2177 Well to be fair, I know the same feeling like when he did the "What would happen if America invaded Iran?" video, and I know a lot about the technology and tactics he talks about, and he got completely roasted in the comments of that video since he really doesn't know what he's talking about, so i understand the feeling. Though personally, I do actually know a bit about this topic, and I feel it's generally correct as a rule from what I know.
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  1338. @Erowens98  I don't know if he outright denies relativity, but he also has no idea what the fuck he's talking about in that field. Arguably should probably try to, if not pick a lane to stick to then pick some to outright ignore. I remember him saying he doesn't know much about science, which is obvious, but my favorite stupid thing he says is "Science has confirmed that existence is tied to observability" which is probably derived from particle study where we can know where an electron might be and where it's going, but not where it is unless we change where it's going. The reason for this of course is that we can only observe these particles by hitting them with other particles. It's a limit of technology and our perception. Basic object permanence says it's still there. I'm going to guess he got that from the book "The Eye of Shiva" which he has taken a bit too much as gospel.
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  1339. let's see how long it lasts before people refuse to come lol
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  1340.  @Darkest_matter  So are Thailand and Vietnam. Saudi Arabia and Qatar actually rather oppressive IIRC, but others like Bahrain seem to be on the better side. Range of oppression in autocratic societies is higher than in democratic ones, but it doesn't necessarily mean being really oppressive. And even that oppression doesn't normally reach a ton of people. Also monarchies are by definition autocracies so they do fit the bill.
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  1341. 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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  1342. I think he's referring to prism scopes and importantly suppressors and scopes haven't really entered wide adoption until relatively recently instead being mostly niche purposes such as for your snipers and marksmen.
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  1343. 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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  1344. Can warrant its own video? Then by all means give us that video
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  1345. You know this whole thing has put into perspective the idea of "2020 too"
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  1346. truth like the 1619 Project lol
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  1347. Who the hell actually thought war was over?
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  1348. 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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  1349.  @dvf1736  Yeah honestly Canada is America Lite. Most people outside of us can't really tell the difference anyway. Soo... let's just annex Canada. Then we'll eventually expand south (after buying Greenland) and we'll become the USNA The United States of North America. One continent, one flag. First the continent, then... the WORLD!
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  1350.  @scottlarsen4144  Well the truth is... you are. And so is Mexico. Honestly so is the entire western hemisphere. America has made it a policy to basically have complete military control over the region. It doesn't like foreign powers in the region and so it makes sure they don't get to interfere there.
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  1351.  @misdazewoken  Which one was the one you had an issue with?
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  1352.  @rick7424  Yeah but France basically created the EU/EEC for the same reasons the US fostered globalization. 99% France has options, though Germany never seemed to have learned any lessons.
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  1353.  @Bogfrog1  I literally get told I'm less Puerto Rican lmao. Eh.
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  1354. @JMM33RanMA  No, they're legitimate questions exactly to understand your philosophy, but also somewhat rhetorical because they're fundamentally philosophical in nature. You say "progress" as a nebulous term and don't state its nature, thus indicating much closer to an appeal to a value system than point than a real statement of substance. The first paragraph of questions are the ones most important, as they're ultimately asking for an explanation as to your point. I don't see how an exogamous impulse would at all ameliorate the need for in-group vs. out-group collective identities for human society to function, especially since not all societies are, in fact, exogomous, and variety is only needed up to a certain point or unless a disease wipes out a population. These common identities are ultimately what bind people together, even down to the family unit. You rally around the highest collective identity under threat. If none are attacked, then it's very obviously a race to the bottom in terms of social atomization. In fact, this theory of external threats even explains the rise of transnational identities and the rise of social justice caring about causes like climate change, which are focused on global issues as that's what they view as a threat.
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  1355. @JMM33RanMA  If what I've said is word salad, then you never earned yourself your position.
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  1356. @JMM33RanMA  I asked you to explain why variety and exogomous character would ameliorate the phenomenon in the video about collective threat in social cohesion, and then to explain what you meant by progress. It seems you didn't read my response.
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  1357. I want to see the effect of that slug on armor
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  1358. Who is going to laugh at you and likely this whole video
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  1359. @Second Thought  Yes as he had one good thing which was said and the fight for equal rights was seen as a good cause but if you take his whole worldview there's no-one besides other socialists who would really band with him and in fact in this context it makes much more sense why he wasn't as loved in his own time.
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  1360. That's not what he said at all though. He said it doesn't matter and doesn't imply that the poor are poorer for it which is entirely different and supported by a growth in such but a reduction in poverty by roughly 10% in one year.
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  1361.  @Aryam007  It has not stayed the same and has changed wildly by product in question
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  1362. @JXRDY.  Why does it matter? If you take the premise that having more money does not automatically mean others have less, and you can prove it by showing a 10% decrease in the poverty rate in one year (which is a measurable rise in wealth in the most vulnerable part of the population), on what grounds do you have to say in which it matters? What is the line of reasoning you have to attest that it matters in any way besides that it kind of looks bad and stokes envy?
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  1363. @JXRDY.  No no see here's what I don't understand: what is the problem with someone having more money Than others? What is wrong with having so much wealth? I mean what I've brought evidence for is that it doesn't actually take away from the wealth of others and given examples to support that. You haven't indicated either that you believe that it is taking away from the wealth of others. In this context, what is wrong with income inequality?
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  1364.  @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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  1365.  @hughmungus2760  Who did that?
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  1366. @Lando1876  Well part of it is that at that point the Spanish never had the control anyway.
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  1367. I wonder if the slaves in DR eventually became slaves in the way Janissaries are slaves
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  1368. Well there's a specific region that got brought over which likely shares many similarities between each other
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  1369.  @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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  1370. too heavy and expensive there's the video
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  1371. It's because of the relative cultural and political homogeneity between the parts. The other part of that is that with other parts to draw on than just the island it stands a better chance than simply alone. It's also a lot harder to starve out a population when it has other trading partners than just what's near.
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  1372. WW1 RUSSIA LET'S GOOO
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  1373. I don't think that's quite the correct direction that's going to be taking. Dog like robots would be at best logistics carriers or perhaps for certain breaching operations since those will be operated by humans. True AI controlled systems are frowned upon and not really used. They have to have orders carried out by humans. Not to mention, there are all kinds of disruption tools to interrupt links, shut down advances, or otherwise defend against that technology. So it's not going to be one to one. Not to mention, there's the time tested tactic of DIGGING protects from 99% of all attacks and even robot dog infiltrations doesn't exactly work when facing a minefield, machine guns, and heavy artillery, which I hope you've caught on to, are tactics and equipment straight out of WW1. While I think you do have a point regarding the utility of drones, I don't think they will purely become the tip of the spear. In fact, much like the tank, a probable integral part of both offensive and defensive actions. Their current utility is primarily with reconnaissance, but also with lower level fire support. I don't see them escaping from that role because they're VERY good at those and other systems are better at long range roles (though if you give a missile wings, is it now a drone?), and payloads simply reach limits in terms of weight due to the requirement to becoming airborne without a large rocket or jet engine which just makes them missiles. The true question is going to be this: will the mobile protected firepower role still be an optimal way to break through enemy units? I'd suggest, that much like the cavalry it replaced, that role is far better suited to being the tip of the spear, than local limited firepower. The way to use drones is to not create an independent drone force. That completely defeats the purpose. No. What you want is complete integration of this equipment throughout all combat arms from Land, Sea, Air, and Space at even the individual soldier level.
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  1374. ​@jamsbean4383 Drones do not act autonomously. We've half banned the concept already. Basically, everyone recognizes the danger in that and has an incentive to prevent that vector of use. Not to mention that it's just that much more vulnerable to fratricidal engagement than simple remote controlled measures.
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  1375. ​@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 This is basically entirely false. Lancets neither roam nor are Ukrainian drones completely jammed. Drones, as they currently work, are slow movers incredibly vulnerable to air defense, making larger drones simply not viable in the current conflict. What's far more useful of a concept is using them for artillery spotting, making them incredibly huge headaches and priority targets whenever seen for both sides. Also, the Ukrainians have had more success with those small drones than the Russians have due to just having more experience with off the shelf options. That's how you get the grenade drop videos, with most FPV videos being Ukrainian. The battlefield is littered with drones from both sides.
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  1376. 0:50 Look at this rate black bears are the next domesticated animal
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  1377.  @Athian_Athian  I didn't even know he called himself that
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  1378.  @Athian_Athian  Arm the turks and Indians
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  1379. it has been confirmed lol
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  1380. White power symbols? Lol wow 5 minutes in and it's already terrible. I don't even know who the oathkeepers are and I'm pretty sure y'all smeared them because you claimed that they claimed they had those orders without letting them say such themselves.
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  1381.  @Iepicfailmmorpg  The reason I said that is because the "white power" signs are just the OK symbol and it's stupid to think it is. I then spoke about them because they already smeared the Proud Boys who are led by a black Cuban. So they missed out on letting the groups there speak for themselves and have already mischaracterized one that I DO know. If at any point they brought up information to back up the simple claim of "Trump's orders" I wouldn't have said this. But they haven't. So if they already don't show that research (like a 5 second snippet) and just make an allegation, why should I believe that their "research" is actually such.
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  1382.  @architech02  why are they all air?
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  1383. It's titled "Deep or dumb"
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  1384. Is it still because of the private companies or has the government stepped in?
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  1385. Yugoslav war is the best war due to its soundtrack and energy
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  1386. ​@toorero Something far more relevant here is scale. Yes, Germany is a federal system. But frankly, so are the states of the USA in many of them. The scale of the USA in terms of land and population is much more comparable to the whole European union than it is one state. The population of Germany is roughly two of the most populated states (which makes sense since there are 50 US states and 26 EU states). It also has less land area to compensate for than a few US states (this is important due to geographic differences). So, any real comparison must come to any US states. Of which, some do things much more like Germany than others. In other cases, they do things more like Greece. In relation to your comment about politicians getting things done, within states there's usually much more cultural agreement on actions to take which is why they'll differ so radically in terms of policy. But then you get to the national level and get deadlock (due to recent polarization might I add, much like in the EU because you have so many competing interests. Except the deadlock still isn't as bad as it is in Europe at that level because there is more cultural agreement than between EU countries. I haven't made a very good explanation and takedown of the topic here (I just can't seem to think that well today), but I think I at least got the broader point across.
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  1387. Someone didn't watch the video. But the point is that it's not likely to be a game changer since the problems in the Russian army are systemic and not in anything to do with capabilities. The drones are pretty great actually.
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  1388. I think you've taken a black pill lol. You seem to hyper-focused on divisions between factions who don't actually hate each other and largely do trust each other. Now regarding local loyalties to each cause i think you have a point but besides that they really do exist together
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  1389. That is an incredibly stupid take.
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  1390. I think a lot of this simply rests on the US having a very different political culture, and a political mindset when it was created. The idea for the USA was to have Basically property owners (people with a stake in the system) to vote. This is how most democracies historically have even come about as in most political systems the propertied classes have say, and democracies came from those societies where the average person was a property owner. The other idea was to base America more on Rome than on Athens, which means critically, that the framers went with a republican model, not a democratic one. Of Rome's model, it did something very specific: it had an upper and lower house (much like Britain). Today, that means very little after the 25th amendment allowing for direct election of senators, but before, that meant that the individual states had 2 representatives in congress, and then the people in each state had a representative per specific population. While not lords and commoners as per Rome and Britain, it was an elected position, vs an appointed position, with the appointed position having just a bit more power. The reason for this, the electoral college, and many other undemocratic practices, are to tame the worst excesses of democracy: namely, that tendency for radical factions to come about, and popular movements abusing the large minority population via democratic vote since as the saying goes "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner" and is a weakness often not understood. Entirely separately, Europeans never seem to understand that Americans do have a multi-party system, but, those parties being made of coalitions, it means that they have the outward look of being only 2, when that's not the case. America has primary elections, which means that people registered in the party, vote on who runs. So they effectively vote for which sub-party runs in any general election voting for candidates, not parties. Due to Americans voting for individual candidates, it means that much like the parliamentary model, it's still very much run by coalitions, but crucially unlike that model, candidates can break and even switch parties if they so desire, and still win anyway. Separately again, making something a "human right" does not make it right to declare it as such. America was designed under negative rights with freedom to not be bothered by others. The only way you can make things like Healthcare or post-secondary education "a human right" is by forcing it on people who would give the service. It may not be morally right to not help someone in need, and few if any healthcare workers would do so, but it means that should they choose not to, they must be forced to, at gunpoint. Related to this point, parents are actively punished for not educating their children by state guidelines already, via mandatory education. Also, not declaring these things human rights does mean less is paid in taxes, which Americans are quite sensitive to, and of course most Americas do not want to pay for someone else to do what they view as waste time in college. Separately again, yes gerrymandering is a problem, but it's a bit of an unsolvable one simply due to the fact that it can't be legislated away. So long as the districts change (because the population does), there will always be an incentive to draw them for your own party. And any wording you can think of to solve it via law will of course lead to other unintended consequences. Finally, I don't understand the confusion behind the differences between states. They are effectively different countries, why would they not have local laws which differ being made for their own populations? It's one big country, kind of. It's not a centralized country, nor does it make sense to be that way. Why would it matter if traffic laws are different, besides minor annoyances? Not to mention, the wealth gap between states is largely cultural, as it is with the wealth gap between say the Netherlands and Romania, or even Denmark and Bulgaria. Each state is a small country, why would they be the same?
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  1391. 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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  1392. 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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  1393. 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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  1394. They may not be a NATO army but they are not outgunned in artillery. If they were, there'd be no attack at all from what i can see. But you do have a point in the lack of air power. Let's see what happens. I'm sure they've considered this as well
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  1395. @cl1ntonbodycount652  It was in certain areas which has changed over time. Also Ukraine has greater Shoot and Scoot capability than Russia currently which evens the math a bit
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  1396. @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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  1397. @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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  1398.  @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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  1399.  @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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  1400. @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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  1401. ​@gr77552 Yeah it's the highest priced place in the country
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  1402. Remember boys that gun is gun and realistically the only thing separating old designs from modern designs are optics and manufacturing techniques that allow better barrels and ammo
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  1403. 23:45 Is the weirdest thing ever seeing all Anglophone states, Burma, Sri Lanka, and a former British colony
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  1404. At the very least if he can explain why it didn't happen according to the events there's a decent credibility there. With the Russia thing he at least explained that Russia has just turned off the warmer oil wells and not the ones under the permafrost. We'll see what happens with China. Also, unfortunately, you don't get huge surges in credibility for being NEAR a date. I watched a talk in which a dude said he'd predicted war in Ukraine by Russia in 2020. 2 years earlier than when it did clearly. Whoops. Also kind of silly how probably the only reason Russia didn't invade in 2020 thinking back is because of the pandemic. If everyone's sick it's not a great time to launch a war.
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  1405.  @artmallory970  Who cares honestly? One is more PC than the other I guess? Reality is that everyone came everywhere through migration. Didn't really start in the rest of the world.
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  1406. @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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  1407.  @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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  1408.  @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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  1409.  @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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  1410.  @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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  1411.  @sebastianprimomija8375  Just a clarification of what counts as a restaurant in this context??
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  1412. 7:49 It's a lot less silly than it sounds, as in principle what it's trying to prove is equating moral disgust with physical disgust which are the same areas in the brain. The problem is that arguing for an opposing view must make you feel this moral disgust in order to work which is rather dubious.
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  1413.  @yglnvbrs  Well they got to keep what was stolen from the Russians. Before the Mongols the Russian princedoms were fairly free and advanced arguably more so than western Europe at least socially in things like legal court and parliaments. Russia went down that road to survive and push back against the Mongols. Ukraine was however ruled by Poland who were much less oppressive being not the Mongols. So Russia basically turned into as militarized a state as possible to Keep from anything like the Mongols ever happening again.
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  1414. Yeah see that's happening in Canada too lol
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  1415.  @EasyEight3674  Yeah I don't think too many realize that they really aren't special. Times are good in retrospect not during in most instances.
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  1416. 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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  1417. ​@magicblanket2414 I think you're viewing them as a monolithic force which they really aren't. He seems them accurately: as coalitions. Coalitions exist as they prefer their partners to the others. The two parties we have today are coalition parties just like Europe. We vote in primaries by voting for a candidate. That's the internal party. So it's a mistake that we have a "two party system" because of the nature of the parties in the US vs elsewhere. However, these two groups agree on NOTHING today. They live different lives and have different religions. Different customs and diet. They're two different societies. They just happen to speak the same language. That's the problem of today.
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  1418. ​ @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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  1419. Wait can someone clear this up? From the direction the recoil spring is facing it looks like it's the same direction as bullet which means it would be constantly pushed backward because springs push outward. So how does it get pushed back into place?
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  1420.  @K9River  Spencer's is a version of hot topic that also sells sex toys
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  1421. From the American perspective containing Russia is plenty a reason to help. We don't really want a strong Russia which can challenge us and so keeping it contained is already plenty beneficial. We also have a history of political will favoring independent sovereignty with much of the less savory actions happening under the table. We also as a whole don't care too much what other weaker countries do under our care. We allowed China to rise just because we wanted more people to sell shit to and overall just care so little as to make it so that it's a benefactor which simply allows almost complete free reign. Geopolitics is a game for America because there's no real repercussions for not doing it well. Worst that happens is maybe we end up with higher prices. Because of this we have a very idealistic view of it and so the understanding of Geopolitics being only interests doesn't really apply to the US as much. And we can afford to be because no-one can really hurt us (across the water with weak neighbors). Hell most of NATO won't even fulfill the requirements of the treaty yet we haven't done anything to them. Overall the US is the best benefactor of any country which is neither Marxist nor headed by a dictator. It's not the most difficult list to fulfill and so means they can give a lot and will give a lot. I think the biggest question that has to be answered is this: who gains from these states being weak and who gains from them being strong?
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  1422.  @LancesArmorStriking  I think what will prevent Eastern Europe from looking like Latin America is the proximity to Russia and the west which allows it lots of trade and the reality that they can simply die unless they are careful and can find help. Latin America is just shielded from the rest of the world and if they just had some true investment without pushback from the populace and its elites it could actually be prosperous.
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  1423. Legit. They're fairly average in terms of looks and maybe a bit below, but these guys are definitely all at least above average. I don't think the girls' personalities were that bad but lol if they wouldn't give any of these guys the time of day they're possibly just a tad delusional.
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  1424. Tell that to the USA
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  1425. @John Cam  Yeah I honestly would place a bet that the amount increase is only marginally more than equal proportion to men in "HEAL" (I've no idea what the acronym stands for besides having Healthcare and first I've heard of it is in this comments section), as the gap is primarily one of interest by person. Issue is that in aggregate it means large discrepancies
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  1426. Nah they WANTED war. Another European conflict was going to come. I don't know what they were referring to with peaceful considering Germany and Italy were fighting unification wars and France had just fought the German Empire only 40 years prior in the Franco-Prussian War. The goal was war. Those ideas weren't going to go away until people properly saw what their new weapons could do.
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  1427. 4:50 Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere but for real this time
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  1428. The issues with the classical Greeks were that they'd invent things but never try to use them because they thought it was beneath them to interact with the material world.
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  1429. Russia built itself as a defensive force ready to go toe to toe with the west in one final invasion the scale of the Great Patriotic War once again. For that, they built their army around contract soldiers who do the complex stuff, and conscripts who can be quickly mobilized to fill the ranks and thus have very quickly an army of millions with which to defend the land. However, that's not the war they found themselves in and in fact that's not the army you have if you're trying to be a world power. Those need armies of highly motivated and well equipped units which come usually from very well paid contract soldiers. They also were on offense but it was a preemptive offense to close the border so that they'd have a smaller front and more space with which to resist that final invasion on a country they didn't even think registered as a power. Due to this, they didn't even try to retool for that goal and so that's the cause of the situation they're in now.
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  1430.  @Sara3346  Quote from one of his videos: "American conservatism is a form of liberalism"
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  1431. 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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  1432. The Finns drink coffee!? FUCK YEAH!!!
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  1433. Well you know what they say "The right thinks the left is misguided while the left thinks the right is evil." It's just stupid that the obvious fact that no group exists in a monolith is ignored.
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  1434. Am I the only one hearing Witcher 3 music in background? I know he uses this soundtrack a lot but it's what I hear.
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  1435. To be fair... how did she get in charge in the first place and how did she get there? She's the only Valkyrie left. Everyone else is dead. Also she was only in charge because whiny fat Thor had given up and became a hermit so she was already leading. She was de facto leader already and then he gave her de jure. Also It was supposed to be temporary. Though.... we know it isn't.
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  1436. Incredibly hard to ship natural gas. Unlikely to really ship. Probably stay in US markets.
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  1437. 15:46 I once was literally bitten in the ass by a swan as a child.
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  1438. So here's the thing: local culture is usually very sacred to many and so they'll bring it but culture isn't stopped by ethnicity or the like. So someone from Texas very much hates someone from California. While there is a lot of shared heritage and we seem to have mostly gotten over the ethnic issues by just not giving a shit (since the culture is very shared a black and white from the same town have more in common than a Croat and Slovene). However the issue is that many cultures are incompatible and with the US still having a very big rural population it means that the rural-urban split is still VERY strong. Those two value systems are fundamentally incompatible as one set of policies often comes at the expense of others. Things like focusing on climate change may not affect the urbanite but it takes away jobs from the coal or oil Town. Things like paying more taxes for Healthcare may help the urbanite 10 minutes away from the hospital for each boo-boo they get but doesn't for the guy on the farm who has to learn how to do first aid because the nearest hospital is an hour away and so only the most grevious of injuries are important. The urbanite population is very dependent on others while the rural is necessarily self-sufficient which is why such values differ. Why do you need guns when you have the police on hand with 2 minute response times? How can you not have guns when the police are a half hour away and you need to deal with bears? Why do you care about Chinese food when they've never shown up and you need to learn to cook whatever you have? Why do you need to cook when you have cheap food from a bunch of immigrants who started restaurants in your coastal city? Why do you care about God when everyone has gone to your local university and told you religion is a tool for control that kills millions? How can you not care about God when you're counting your blessings daily for each little good that's happening because you know it isn't guaranteed? It's two very different value systems that have come from two very different lifestyles. And they each bring them where they migrate so that when they interact they don't like each other. They also really didn't interact until very recently with the internet because they had no place or reason to which is why we see so much of what's going on today. But most people want to get on with their day and just move on with life not giving a shit.
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  1439. You have an enforcement mechanism: either Putin complies, or The US fully committs and opens the cupboard to flood Ukraine. That's the current threat.
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  1440. 5:41 I saw Rollo on a podcast once and knew he was on something
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  1441.  @truongphuc93  Ah you mean like your own dirty snakes? The ones that take advantage of countries that can't afford to pay things to receive territory? I wish you weren't in such a bubble. Otherwise you would be more like Japan or Vietnam. In fact 10 years ago you were very much like Vietnam. Now I understand dirty capitalists will be dirty capitalists, but did you forget that you yourselves also have the same issues? Trying to hide so that you can take from others without being seen as such? On top of that that's why there are protests of these companies who do things like that. Also what's that claim to the south China sea you have? The fact that it's NAMED that? Well I guess the Indian ocean is all Indian territory and thus you do not get to trade there. I'm sure you would very much like to control that. Yes you want to say it's the west. You have no idea about the west. Whatsoever. I know the Chinese. I also understand people are individuals. The Chinese outside of China and even many in China are much better than people like yourself who celebrate the takings of others. But I have a question for you. Very simple. Are you more free Than the people of even Japan and Vietnam?
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  1442.  @truongphuc93  I don't think you do. And that's why Ho Chi Minh spoke of not being angry with the soldiers or the citizens but instead the government. Also while you have seen enough Syria, Afghanistan, Libia, and Syria, you seem to miss Japan, Western Europe, Canada, even Mexico and Brazil. Saying the US isn't great isn't exactly controversial. But just because the US had that massacre, doesn't mean you get to forget the Đắk Sơn Massacre. Though I'll admit that in Vietnam it was likely the worst conduct of the US military that has ever been undertaken and why it is such a black mark on our history that we the US regret. People do very bad things and to attribute that to democracy is very naive. Which is what I believe you seem to be. That is more the issues of war and humanity. Actions like these can be found across history no matter the government or people. Communism and fascism (neither of which very democratic in those implementations) had so many war crimes on the eastern front it makes Vietnam look like a clean war in comparison. . Btw I apologize for the assumption of you being Chinese. Last time I talked to one from inside the country he spoke very similar to yourself about China (I probably should've assumed you weren't since you had access to YouTube though I know they all use VPNs). Saying that people commit atrocities is not controversial. And I hope you remember that everything you mentioned in the middle east had a lead-up to it. Unrelated but at least you understand you don't have democracy. The Chinese idiot thought he did with one party rule and a dictator and then attempted to say Japan was (although it kind of is it's actually because the people just kind of don't care enough to end it and is more a coalition anyway). Overall I hope you simply understand that thinking democracy is the problem or that it is simply jealously and western snakes that is the reason China's government is hated is fairly unfounded.
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  1443.  @truongphuc93  Oh now this is ignorance. You're correct that it is just cost. But we want those factories back. In fact in the US there is a very strong movement to bring back factories to the US from China though I do not expect you to know internal US politics. And the reason people bitch about rights is that we like having rights and like giving it to others. Also while we did abuse the Chinese from the start we also abused ourselves first. That's why Karl Marx exists. Also did you not notice that China is also now attempting to outsource them to Africa? Seeing China be a worse version of the worst version of the US is fairly amusing. I think the US is the only developed aside from maybe Germany that is attempting to open more factories instead of less. I'm sure many people in the west would agree with you that it's a bad thing that cost put them to have factories in China instead of their own countries. Also on top of that China had the choice to improve human rights for their citizens. They chose to worsen them for different parts of the population which the west moved away from. Worsening human rights is not necessary for cheap labor. At the very least you keep them where they are. Things like better pay or better restrictions on work are not rights. And that's not why we bitch. Just you know... don't kill your political opposition and don't harvest people's organs. That's like the bare minimum. Rights are freedom. We like being free. Which is why the US bitches about it more than the rest of the West.
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  1444.  @truongphuc93  Lol guess you don't know the actual state of affairs with Iraq and those other countries. And we did. But so did you. So did literally every country in the history of ever. Also how am I saying it's Heroic? Because the people do want us there now? I simply said a fact about the relations with the people and government and our soldiers. That's all. What that means is up to you.
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  1445.  @truongphuc93  Uh...I never said we were wanted in Vietnam. Though we were. By the French. And if you don't know of the public attitude in those countries then I think you need to do some more research then. The reason they're liked is because they're currently serving as De facto police officers for the citizenry and are training the police and military of the region overall serving the purpose of keeping out the people who kill them and destroy their homes in the name of a jihad.
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  1446.  @truongphuc93  Huh? Cold blooded? How? Btw my grandparents and that entire generation of my family had nothing to do with Vietnam and were barely citizens. Yes millions of refugees because of wars, but you want to say the US started them and not the group that went and attacked us? Btw we didn't go to war with those countries. We went to war with the groups who did it. Those groups who were very much using the citizens as hostages and destroying their homes too. You're leveling baseless accusations under the idea that no group could possibly want the US anywhere and it's just inaccurate. Also how am I playing victim? What have I done to suggest that we simply suffered and we're hurt always from everyone? My points have been that you accused us of committing war crimes and I mentioned so did everyone else. However I apologize for not making it more clear that it doesn't make it okay as my overall point was that it wasn't just a US, democracy, or western thing. And how are we provoking people to hate by calling out the wrongs of others? "China you shouldn't kill your own citizens and harvest their organs!" "Hey Russia you shouldn't starve out a portion of your population just because they don't like you!" (look up the Holodomor). They also both killed millions of their own people. You want to paint the US in this evil light. Yeah no in comparison we're certainly better than a fair few. However that doesn't mean we don't do terrible things or haven't done terrible things and those things need to be stopped and made up for. They're not okay. I think that's fair. But I don't think it's fair to say we have only ever done bad things anywhere and everywhere.
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  1447. 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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  1448. Well, to be fair, you predicted Biden would win. Kamala isn't Biden.
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  1449.  @scaleyback217  What about what I said was nationalistic in any capacity? The reality of the situation was that the US was producing on its own double the numbers of the axis combined and was the largest economy in the world. It was supporting the Soviets with 45% of all their trucks and even sending Sherman's to the USSR under lend-lease. The USSR also industrialized a belt the size of Britain. Population of the USA was just under 140 million and the USSR 190 million. Also I missed some numbers on my tank count. The M4 Sherman was produced to about 50 thousand in 1942-1945. The T-34 was 30 thousand and the T-34-85 35 thousand produced in 1941-1945 for a combined total of about 65 thousand. If you do the math on that the USA and USSR were producing roughly equivalent numbers of tanks per year (with slight edge to USA at 16.67 thousand per year vs 16.25 thousand to the USSR). I also forgot to do my due diligence with 3% crew mortality rate as that is across the whole war and not when the tank was destroyed. In that they were very similar at 24.6% of Sherman crews and 28% of T-34 crews. But where the US really dominated was the air war where it produced over 300 thousand planes compared to just over 150 thousand Soviet planes. And the USA was making 100% of its own trucks and expanding its navy. And then lend-leasing to everyone else. The point here is that the UUSA was much more industrially capable than the USSR and it shows in production figures. Also had to master logistics out of necessity and was completely motorized. They were everything the Germans wanted to be but couldn't: masters of logistics, masters of industry, and a much more comparable population to the USSR.
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  1450.  @Matt-mt2vi  Post-Modernism will be around for quite a while. Remember that people still think Marx was correct and will attempt to find ways to bring in the communist utopia. But the idea are currently being disliked more and more by the populace. It's also definitely worth mentioning how FDR unintentionally made worse the Great Depression in the USA with his new deal programs and has lasting effects on the current state of affairs. Still not as bad as Wilson though.
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  1451.  @Matt-mt2vi  For me the reason I said the US was fresh was that for them despite being war weary on the home front, they had been untouched and their battle casualties miniscule in comparison to the rest of the participants. So on the important scales of how much the population had to deal with, it was very little. The reason I mentioned the US however was because they were the back bone of the Allies and compared to the soviets in production much higher. This comparison was to show that even alone the US was far more industrially capable with a very split industrial effort than the Soviets able to match and surpass them in near everything. In war, economies are everything. And when your economy is so incredibly large as to outclass your enemy on all fronts and you're not even fighting alone, that's pretty good indication that the fight is not really one that could be lost by actual casualties.
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  1452. It was said from the beginning that they'd join in
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  1453. New idea: what if the British let their colonies industrialize and integrate into their empire?
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  1454. ​@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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  1455. @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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  1456. I think the kicker to all of this is she manganese to infiltrate a city and take over its underground organization at only 14.
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  1457. Well this channel is called "Forgotten Weapons" not "Forgotten Firearms"
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  1458. I know they say they won't, but I can't see the army not sticking the TV in this rifle. Especially with what they can do with the cartridge. This is the rifle that the army wants. But TV is the ammo the army wants. It seems like the perfect pairing and TV is definitely attempting to show that they can be useful even without the weapon they're in the bid with and I absolutely believe they can get the velocity requirements from the 13" barrel with some tweaks. I imagine they can probably also pump out ammo faster being polymer than metal. And also extend the life of this rifle. And lower recoil. And basically just turn this rifle into a weapon that probably will be able to actually do it all. The issues of the rifle are primarily ammo related. TV just seems like the perfect pairing for this rifle to get everything the army wants. I really can't see them not having talks of getting the Spear into the hands of TV and asking them to see if they cab modify their 6.8 to get the required velocity out of the 13" barrel. If they can, and I believe they probably can, then it's the match made in heaven.
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  1459. I think the biggest thing is that to a degree, it further equalizes the relative power between global opponents. It means for relatively low costs, you can give quality equipment to many forces. So long as you're not facing crushing air Supremacy, there is now quite a bit you can do to counter threats from superior forces. That's what the rise of cheap precision does. Even for smaller and middle powers in a context of government V government, that too is true. The rise of autonomous systems and lower production costs associated with them means that they can afford to expand their air forces enough to contest the skies and not be immediately crushed by air superiority. Overall, it's a further democratization of the battlefield. Though likely still in favor of smaller, better equipped and technical forces, rather than very large forces. As far as the current trend is going, it seems the future is dominated by a small core of very expensive systems that can achieve breakthroughs, aided by a vast number of very cheap autonomous systems meant to compliment them.
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  1460. What wedding is an act of God they're not hurt
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  1461. I think Pete seems to forget that he's also one of the people in power. He said it was about people in power trying to keep them down, but seem to be completely oblivious to the power of the widespread support they have even in institutions.
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  1462. So Japan is corrupt and half yakuza but because of that their crime rate is low
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  1463. 4:06 The answer is that they don't rotate around each other but instead a shared point of gravitation called a Barycenter that they both orbit around. That center is within the tree
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  1464. Military Arms Channel went over something similar saying "Yeah I know his name is Gairend but the military says Gahrand so that's what we'll go with"
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  1465. How does body armor affect that equation?
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  1466. The thing about the low birth rates is misleading. The problem isn't people getting together, though people are lonely and without connection more than ever today, it's that those people who are together, refuse to have kids. They each have 1, maybe 2. Very few couples are having 3 kids. In many ways, if you look at the divorce rate (I think it's near 50%), I'm not sure many couples are together long enough to even have 3 kids. Though, generally, couples simply choose to not have 3 kids. Due to prescriptions about the world and their place in it. That's the cause of fertility rate decline. Every time.
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  1467. @Outstanding_Gal  No, it's not. Everyone goes to that. That's never how it works. The poor have more kids, because the attitude is just "we make it work and this is right" "Not having the money to have kids" is a problem of worldview that is inherent to the fertility problem and why it's very correlated with religiosity and negatively correlated with wealth.
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  1468. @Outstanding_Gal  It's not the truth. As i said, you make it work. Daycare is 100% a luxury. As are extracurriculars. You can scrap those immediately. Clothes can be bottom of the barrel and hand-me-downs. Bills that's fair, but realistically, it doesn't change too much from adding two kids from two adults. Rent doesn't change either. Rent doesn't change from adding two kids. Education is free in just about everywhere where these costs are concerns. The increase in expenses are food and medicine, and they don't even eat as much as children. That's most of it. The reason I can say that is because the poorer families have 2 and 3 kids. They have larger families. In comparison, it's the wealthy people who don't have kids, as i said. They're the ones who cap out at 1 most often. If you go to the ghetto they usually have 2 or 3 kids. If you go to the country, they usually have 2 or 3 kids. If you go to the suburbs, they still tend to have 2 kids, but you see more 1s and 2s than 2s and 3s. If you go into the wealthy city center, you see 1 kid, if any at all. Sometimes 2.
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  1469. @Outstanding_Gal  I think if you prioritize having more first, the rest will fall into place. In the West, it's very difficult to have unhealthy children. It's very difficult to leave them uneducated. What's most difficult is to raise them with your values without specific effort put in, but that seems to be a fact that isn't affected by the amount of children you have. I don't need "super children" who are in every extracurricular and at the top of their class in everything. I think giving them just a loving environment will do a lot more.
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  1470. @Outstanding_Gal  I'm sorry, that would be incorrect. I know it's not necessarily cheap, and I know what goes into it. It's a misconception on your part, however, on just how much it costs. You need to learn how to stretch budgets, and you give up a great many luxuries, however, it's nowhere near impossible. You make it work. Separately, you're again incorrect as to why it's difficult to find uneducated and unhealthy children in the West. The reason isn't because we focus our money and resources into that kid, but instead that it's all subsidized by our governments via our taxes. You do not have to provide that yourself. You are in a clean environment that has free education for everyone for at least 12 years of life. It's very difficult to be unhealthy in the West. It was not a result of focused effort. In fact, the story of America's founding, is having 7 children per generation who were all healthier and more educated than their European counterparts, and populating entire sections of a continent as a result. As an addendum, have you ever met people from those families? Me personally, when I have, I never found them wanting for much of anything.
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  1471. @Outstanding_Gal  Unfortunately, you'd again be incorrect. If neglectful parenting was such a problem, you'd find those with worse mental health among the lower classes who have more kids and their parents working more often. However, that's not the case. You find it disproportionately, again, among the middle-high classes with MORE money, not less. The reason for the skyrocketing increase in mental health issues is for a combination of reasons. One of them, is in fact just the rise of the internet and loneliness. The social impacts of the internet are just now being fully felt, and we don't know how to deal with them. We don't know how to properly use the internet. For young women, they often have a ton of comparison and platforms where bullying never stops because it follows them on social media. Separately, we've actually done something very bad. We've been too hands on as parents for the last 10 or so years. What that has done is that, with those fewer kids and focusing off all of those resources, the children have been more and more sheltered until they were unable to actually develop properly their response mechanisms and now essentially have mental allergies. Their mental immune systems are intensely overactive, thus decreasing their overall health. Realistically, there are plenty of other things, but suffice to say that the modern world is best characterized by a combination of crude social experiments that we've no social adaptations for yet. So we get hit with the worst effects today, and that tanks all of our collective mental health. It also bears mentioning that just like high religiosity is correlated with more children, it's also correlated with better mental health.
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  1472.  @Dimitris_Half  What does it mean to be poor in your eyes?
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  1473. @Outstanding_Gal  I don't think you are understanding me. The wealthy children are those with worse mental health, more generally. It's not about getting help, but instead that they're simply less well off mentally. Which is the crux of my point. They're worse off, despite better access.
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  1474. @Outstanding_Gal  Good, we established a definition we can agree on. None of that comes about from having too many kids lol.
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  1475. @Outstanding_Gal  The problem is not "if you're poor". That's not the main argument. No no no. You've confused correlation with causation. My argument is a very simple one: money is negatively correlated with children. That is not a casual relationship. However, in order for not having money to indeed a factor in NOT having children, they have to at least be correlated. Everything I've discussed is to point out a certain truth: that you make it work. My point in discussing not relying on things like daycare and similar is to point out that what you describe is an apprehension which is more linked to worldview than it is a reflection of reality. In truth, everything you've brought up doesn't affect the children that much except for your definition of poor. That definition of poor is one where you're basically at rock bottom. Though yes they too are more likely to have more children than the wealthy, it's why I've specifically mentioned "lower class" and similar. However, it's not very difficult to avoid that. You'll sacrifice a lot that's true. But what you'll sacrifice is more things like expensive vacations and new technology. Things that are more basic but not really limiting overall quality of life. It's also why I mentioned religion in both mental health and having more children. It's to push the idea that it is worldview, not economic woes.
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  1476. @Outstanding_Gal  From the get-go I said it was expensive, but less than you'd think, IE: not enough to be a significant factor in the decision. I think a better question is: what is the best life for your kids? One of luxury, or one where they understand the costs and appreciate everything?
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  1477. @Outstanding_Gal  The first part is completely doable in near any environment. But the best Healthcare and best education? What constitutes good healthcare? What constitutes good education? "The Best" especially is very difficult no matter what. Everything else you said, just like i said before you don't need to be wealthy at all to do accomplish, however.
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  1478.  @Dimitris_Half  When you start doing private school, piano, martial arts, etc, that is indeed expensive. They're wealthy people things and always have been.
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  1479. ​ @Guardian__Angel I just want to know what parts you believe are illogical
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  1480. ​ @shonewarrior2178 Why do you believe his Turkish projection is nonsense?
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  1481.  @co0lguy272  But they're part of the European continent right?
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  1482.  @johnmarston7606  It's on the continental shelf though. Water level there is comparatively shallow to the rest of the ocean.
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  1483. ​@arnaudgeline6263 The USA is the only country who doesn't trade with Cuba. It's entirely self-inflicted by an extractive government who refuses to do anything for its people, and only sees them as a resource to be exploited. Ironically, exactly what it's so often said to be what capitalism does. The government is a monopoly by definition and being an economic monopoly as well with the socialist system, it has every incentive to treat its people like shit. So it does. They don't have food. They have no culture (they themselves say this when asked) There's plenty of countries who sell food. America doesn't sell the food that they would eat anyway. It's self inflicted by any metric. People just want to be apologists.
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  1484. ​ @arnaudgeline6263 The USA is not in any way responsible when it's the only country who doesn't trade with Cuba. Everyone else trades with Cuba, but not America. That's important because Cuba doesn't have food. Not really. Talk to the Cubans themselves and they say so. They don't even have culture. They live under an extractive system who treats the population like a resource to be exploited. Which, ironically, is something accused from capitalism. The reason for this is what the government is by definition a monopoly. In a socialist system, they're also an economic monopoly, this leading to all of those issues. It's entirely self inflicted by a system who doesn't want to change. The defense of Cuba by blaming the USA is just a cop out in order to give credence to the one socialist country that's not explicitly a theocracy. The problem is that it's a lie. Its coasted on the embers of the capitalist economic development. A trade embargo doesn't cause engineers and doctors to have to work as cabbies to make ends meet. That's simply an extractive system. One enabled, by socialist incentive structures.
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  1485.  @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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  1486. The more I watch the more I learn that North America is the safest continent.
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  1487.  @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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  1488.  @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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  1489.  @lif3andthings763  Well that's the point. How many men can be thrown
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  1490. 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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  1491.  @ciaotiziocaius4899  I believe that's what's being referenced here
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  1492. 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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  1493. Yes we're wet robots that only act according to our programing. Yeah come on we all know that's not true intuitively and this is one of the limits of science. Science says that due to a complex interaction of certain chemical receptors and how said interactions record data, we make all of our decisions from this data. And it's technically correct but all it does is take away all autonomy from people. Regardless of whether or not you say "Oh no it doesn't actually change anything" no no it very much does. It's one of those things which effectively absolved people of responsibility by saying they didn't even make their own decisions. And so even while this is technically true, this is a very unhealthy way to view people and their actions. In fact at 8:41 You have correctly embodied this problem. The point here is that you used "lock them up" and you've taken agency from people once again. Even when you attempt to avoid it you cannot actually do so. And the type of morality which governs a society inevitably morphs from one which is individually focused to one which is collectively focused and thus you do not matter to the whole. This is the type of thing where the basis of the idea of any rights at all get eroded and you get effectively systems of morality where the only morality is what is good for the group. That comes heavily at the expense of the individual. We know how these systems work because we've seen them before. This can only be seen as acceptable because you don't understand the consequences of this. Also really only possible in the current environment where God is dead and thus we severed our morality from its origin. The immediate response will be "This is science, God has no place here" but that's actually wrong. First off science was actually created by a bunch of catholic monks. It is a Christian institution which was later secularized during the initial stages of the death of God. Second off this impacts morality in a big way. Humans only really function in social groups as large as we have built through religion since we're optimized to living in groups of 150. Ants have pheromones, humans have religion. Said religion informs how we create our morality. The morality that the West has had for its entire existence was based on Christianity. That brought a few things. One of those things is a focus on individual action as the basis of morality and it's why the west is guilt based morally instead of shame based like the rest of the world. That came specifically from a personal connection with God where he would forgive you and thus you did not need to have done so by the broader society. It means you could pursue what you want without other people bothering you. The morality was centered on the person individually since all morality was derived from God and a connection with him. With the idea that you have no free will, you have no basis for a guilt based moral system. You have little basis for individuality. You no longer really exist as an individual. Only as your effect on society. This changes more than we can really calculate. But the potential to lose any respect for human rights is high and you'll probably see things emerge such as ritual killings for being bad as none of that is in any way horrifying unless you have a individualistic guilt-based moral system. Of course this takes a LONG time to play out (the time scale is centuries), but this is the end result of the trajectory of having no free will. A final thing I'll add is that she wondered why people even cared about free will in the first place. And it's an expression of the very deep desire and need for humans to express that they exist on their own and on their own terms. That they're autonomous agents. Without free will, this concept, does not exist. You do not choose anything yourself, but instead are simply a sum of reactions to stimuli. You were programed and thus cannot choose if you do it. I think Futurama actually tackled this well when someone asks Bender "If someone jumps off a bridge would you do it too?" to which he responds "Let me check my programming... yes" and this is the situation that all humans find themselves in without the concept of free will.
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  1494. 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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  1495.  @christiandauz3742 ???
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  1496.  @aidandix7296  That's how most people view it
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  1497. So an insurgency as per usual
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  1498.  @victory7999  However this was in comparison to the devolution to local autonomy the Austrians were practicing. It's not like the Austrians didn't do the same thing, but the irony here is that Hungary did the same integration as Austria when Hungary was a product of the devolution.
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  1499. 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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  1500.  @j.peters1222  it never really did tbh
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  1501. Now imagine how that historian tries to trace "bruh" back to PIE almost completely removed from its original meaning (bruh often being a reaction to some negative action). It's kind of silly.
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  1502. He's done the second in other times but yeah part of this is contributing to the jobs
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  1503. Unfortunately, you are part of the problem here. The biggest thing is that a child cannot create those mechanisms of they do not encounter any issues in the first place. And so while there is some merit to the idea of it breaking another, it is INCREDIBLY unlikely and even if it does the healing process from that means that they will likely not break in future. Secondly, it's a large misinterpretation to say it is in any way an avocation or can even be used as an avocation to bully and abuse others. As it's simply being willing to go into things that might be harmful not one to say it will be harmful. Final thing is calling Ben Shapiro a bully and claiming he will victimize the marginalized lmao. I genuinely don't have any idea where this comes from and seems like a narrow idea that tries to paint conservatives as those who want to bully others which is such a large distorting of the Temperment and values to really question if you've ever taken a minute to even think about what is advocated for.
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  1504. My first thoughts too
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  1505. Does Japan even NEED to attack Pearl Harbor in 1941? Now as part of the Axis would the Russians still not trade with the Japanese to provide all of those raw materials? The entire point of that attack was to secure the islands for materials production that the US owned and or defended so they needed to go to Pearl Harbor and sink the ships so that it would stop the US response and keep them from defending their islands.
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  1506.  @Crashed131963  I never said it wouldn't
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  1507. 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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  1508.  @TheDominionOfElites  Issue is that Chinese party mouthpieces have spoken openly about war with the USA and the Sino-American relations have become such that the Americans are dead set on China and are actively changing their military to fight China. The Chinese have also been trying to get bases and for years been investing into long-range anti-ship missile technology. Both countries are gearing up for war. And that's just the part about war. Most of the issues with the global system which is causing its collapse are fundamentally outside of ANYONE'S control. Within that environment everyone loses control as the populace goes wild from the aftereffects of the collapse of the global system. When food gets reduced your people start getting very uppity and often very well armed. Frankly the US, Turkiye, Argentina, and France are in the best positions to make it through this so unlikely to face those issues. Other places are going to be hit a LOT harder. This is where the collapse will come from. Aftershocks start wars by basically making it so everyone stumbles into it.
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  1509. Most people think innovation and trade will stop wars but it never has and even during the great war of the 1920s Germany and Britain were trading essentials basically making that whole hypothesis right into the dumpster. The only weapons which made war unviable were nukes as they had no winners. But if you have much smaller wars of swear off the nukes they'll still happen and internal conflicts always have a chance at happening.
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  1510. Worth noting that for Singapore the entire country was created effectively as a Chinese exclave and given that in Asia they effectively own the economy in many of the countries there they're effectively the jews of the East. So when the British decolonized they made Isreal in the East. And for Rwanda what happened there is that they effectively Eliminated their ethnic tensions since they killed an entire ethnicity. It's an absolutely horrific way in which to let out the Steam which inhibits social cohesion but it did let it out and due to that it's probably one of the most socially cohesive post-colonial states. Most other states don't have that due to effectively being a hodgepodge of ethnicities which were grouped together for political purposes in Europe and really didn't mix well beforehand so what you're seeing is the long process of attempting to integrate everyone within those countries to form new national identities. And of course Rwanda skipped the process entirely by going full brutality for about 3 months. Before any economic freedom can occur you have to have the trust in your society beforehand. Mostly trust in your neighbor to not steal your stuff and then trust in the society to not try to swindle you once you get past that level which you've touched on.
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  1511. @aaabbb-zc7sx  Well, no, i explained how that was incorrect, but you don't like reading. In short: his entire thought process is based on the idea that foreign trade keeps everything in working order. That's incorrect. Local industries can meet demands, they simply have a higher price tag due to limitations, or are lower in quality. However, production lines adapt as does industry. Without the subsides of foreign trade everything still works. People still live their lives. Even more importantly: trade still occurs. He makes his argument as if all trade stops, which it doesn't. Thus, things adapt and it's far less of an issue than he believes.
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  1512. I think his presentation is a bit... strange... to say the least but the idea is largely correct. The US is pulling out of the world system and the rest of the world's civilizations are industrializing. We're in many ways heading back to the world of the 16th century. That would include how warfare was conducted which... includes mercenaries. Without one dominating force on the globe, smaller powers rise and without concerted effort to put down certain activities they rise again. So mercantile and mercenary armies make a lot of sense.
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  1513. it's still functional and also improving at the same time
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  1514. 14:03 Jake Tran has a video on that too
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  1515.  @Boofus90  Then the entire economy will fail and be inefficient usually making everyone worse off. The only reason competition isn't a driving favor in socialism is because there's only a single entity in the first place. Not enough people want to do things out of the goodness of their hearts and essentially get the same as whatever the worker does. People who seek status are usually the biggest producers in society as they do so to seek status and wealth. As a consequence this allows for more to be produced and societies to become wealthy increasing the standards of living. So there's not enough positive incentive and so the only other one is basically the threat of death of deprivation. On that basis I'm very curious as to how there can be a market socialism when socialism implies state-run industry only. I'd love to pick your brain about That if you would indulge me.
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  1516. Do you think you can describe market socialism to me real quick? As I understand it there can't really be a market in socialism since the government is the only entity.
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  1517.  @djole94hns  Basically it's a social market economy (I want to compare to like Germany or the Nordic states) with only worker co-operatives at least in how I understand it. That's certainly a very radical view compared to currently, but honestly the only issue I see is the mandating of the worker co-operatives. It's a very capitalist take on the philosophy but in real terms it might as well be in isolation probably one of the stable and least authoritarian of the takes on his philosophy. I feel the biggest issue there on a macro-scale is that it probably works best in a very peaceful world where military spending doesn't need to be very high so you can have much of that welfare spending. However if you prioritize the spending enough you could possibly have enough to allocate to the military and welfare as long as the central bureaucracy isn't too bloated. Yeah it's definitely not really socialism but definitely a very workable take. Edit: thinking about it again I wonder if it could work if food and water is decommodofied. Government production is usually the least efficient of production but if it could be lowered to only basic rations or simply be qualified by the fact that you have to work it would basically keep all of the utility of a capitalist system. "You don't work you don't eat" has been the primary motivator in getting society to work but in terms of getting it to succeed it's having the incentive of success. So you very much at the very least have the important reward for success which allows the growth in standard of living and production which drives the current world.
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  1518. That's untrue because you can only be an idiot if you're dumber than the norm. So in that case he's just saying the masses are dumb.
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  1519.  @SuzanaNature  Clearly you're pretty out of touch. First that you think they're are more idiots on the right when they actually have more rational arguments on a lot of issues than the left if you bother to hear them. And you also kind of forget that the metrics decide the norm. But the norm is the average. It's like a bell curve and because of that there's only the same amount of idiots as intelligent individuals. It's a misnomer to say there's more idiots and to think that is arrogant because that's saying that (most likely you) are smarter than the masses because they're all stupid compared to you. You can be average, above, or below in every area. However keep it mind what an average is.
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  1520. I'm halfway through and I'm even more confused about the difference between national socialism and fascism. I guess the difference comes from syndicalism?? Which is still a socialist movement? Edit: finally there
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  1521. No there isn't. That's why there's non-violence as a concept
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  1522. Check the Turkish navy. They're going all in on the drone carrier concept.
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  1523. ​ @TheCriticalDrinker that's what we pay you for
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  1524.  @Jyrnpup  World class military is pushing it. It's got hypersonic missiles and a lot of boats. That's about it.
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  1525. I think you're assuming far too much competent on the part of the government, and too much incompetence on the side of the right
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  1526. Yeah the US hasn't really had a significantly higher increase to its debt. Realistically as well, the US also actually has more financial firepower than Europe. The US bailed the EU out of 2008 and even then the union stagnated ever since. The US also is the dominant global currency. There's just more room when the currency everyone is using is controlled by the US. Even if the EU did try to use more debt, they'd just kill themselves faster as their fundamentals are simply worse having an older, weaker, and more regulated population. The EU has "better standards of living" as a consequence of making it nice currently and has now sacrificed its future in the name of that with the government driving the largest and wealthiest European economies. They're cashing out and there's no way to undo that because the problem is cultural, not technical. China is rising because there's more space to grow (even though its nominal GDP is a complete fabrication by its own admission) but Europe is already at the top and has no desire to grow. The technocrats in charge of the Union are the problem, and the large elderly population are those who are unaffected by its fall with no more skin in the game.
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  1527. Alright gotta get that high schooler. I'll drop out and move to Japan. Or go to a Japanese university.
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  1528. He'd never agree to it lol
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  1529. @Eliot Guerin  I'm not sure it is, but being representative of the EU status quo, I'm not sure he'd even try to engage given the way those two operate. He's basically said that Europe is still the forefront of political development with a proud European identity and Rudyard here has literally said "Europe is a shrimp" and that the union cannot last which are so violently far from his position that I don't think he'd ever even try to engage.
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  1530. ​ @markpukey8 You're delusional
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  1531. I actually watched you for that one
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  1532. So the key thing here seems to be to have enough people invested in the civilization that it survives despite hardship. However if people have no investment the civilization will collapse since realistically no-one wants it.
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  1533. Thank you. Whole world is just collectively stressed huh?
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  1534.  @haltdieklappe7972  At the very least in the US you can basically just switch countries while keeping most of the laws since that's what each state basically is and there is a lot of countryside
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  1535. Where's empire?
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  1536. Bruh a Bernie sanders dictatorship will be funny as fuck
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  1537.  @thomaskalbfus2005  Well the context is in an armed conflict so... kind of out the window
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  1538.  @johnathancreque8303  Ah okay I see what you mean now. Maybe I used the incorrect terminology. I used leftist for anyone on the left as well most aren't actually liberal. So Joe Manchin by my definition would be a leftist.
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  1539. Another point I'd like to add about more numbers winning with technological parity: Vietnam with China. Also worth noting that the US didn't win in Vietnam since they couldn't change the lines on the map and the American people simply wanted out. A few more weeks after the Tet Offensive and the Vietnamese would've collapsed since they were on the verge of it. This is compared to a completely bungled invasion in Vietnam and 0 experience. Honestly I'm half expecting the Chinese to try to annex Vietnam again before they try something so that they can try to figure out how to actually war since the Russians did that with Poland and Finland figuring out what their issues were (though mostly on accident)
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  1540. Except it largely isn't. Income inequality is a natural phenomenon that comes out of a hierarchical structure that is business. In terms of growth of money... notice that American businesses tend to be larger than European ones and also often much newer which means they're able to grow much faster in wealth due to being more recent industries with higher margins and being built up recently compared to the costs of being an old company in an industry with lower margins
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  1541. @Warren Englehart  You said it was connected to our politics and our democracy while then attempting to pin the blame on corporations funding politicians. What I Have said is that it is a natural phenomenon that comes from having any sort of business environment at all and would exist with or without any involvement from politicians and in fact would be largely unchanged without their interference.
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  1542. @Warren Englehart  Yeah and businesses really aren't a democratic process nor should they be given the effort to get there isn't democratic. What you're arguing for is basically that someone who takes the effort to create a company should not have Control over it because he has to hire people who don't make the decisions nor have as much investment in it as he does. Also frankly they naturally must maintain a competitive edge which doesn't necessarily come well with a democratic process. Not to mention that even in a more democratic process such as a worker co-op income inequality still exists because you MUST demonstrate the difference in position and ability who have different levels of importance.
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  1543. @Warren Englehart  You're right people with lots of money fund politicians. However with all of the competing interests the benefits are actually fairly minimal. And in real terms much of what is wanted by the people is completely contradictory. Not to mention how many interest groups are created from the people which then go ahead and use the same influence as the wealthy via collective buying power and donations. Which overall takes the influence from "We control the government" to "Not so negligible that there's no benefit, but benefits tend to be small" as the benefits more than much else tend to just be tax code benefits... and since taxes are immoral anyway I see little problem with it. In terms of exacerbating problems of income inequality... the effect is negligible.
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  1544. @Warren Englehart  First i think you need to watch Kraut's video on what Americans don't understand about public Healthcare but I digress. And In real terms they're getting donations for positions they already have and are still supported by large sectors of the population. It's not like it's simply opposed by broad consensus and if such consensus existed it likely would not matter if they were having the donations to it. I also think it's fairly obvious that these politicians still need votes and their constituency doesn't like it they just get voted out
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  1545. While I don't entirely agree, two days ago I had a woman asking for help and everyone was busy so we'd get to her in a bit. But the store was running on 3 people + manager so we were all busy and so she asked "Do you only have 3 workers?" to which I replied "Yeah basically." Though to be fair... doesn't really need a lot to run. It's just a store and honestly the only reason we even have 3 is because someone runs the register and we have a separate center that requires someone. Overall there's not much to do so you could run it on one person if you could automate the checkout and the separate center with a self-service. It really wouldn't be that hard or even over-worked because the only real job would be helping customers find what they need.
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  1546. SEND HELP WHO'S KEEPING YOU HOSTAGE!!!?? TBH any other not Soviet weapon you can try doing.
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  1547. 0:20 Nearly win. That's funny. Furthermore I'd like to add that the German high command were just as bad as he was and his decisions often saved things. He prevented the destruction of an army and departed an army for oil because they were running out while his Commanders were focused on just trying to win battles. They also all agreed with the invasion of the Soviet Union and were blinded by ideology.
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  1548. When they made the comment that ending half of the world is a little overkill I said overkill is just the right amount of kill. Now I know they just got bored to go so overboard they decided to do the math on all uranium on the planet into bombs so now I have to rethink my position on the right amount of kill.
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  1549. 6:31 What about the 1921 Soviet-Ukrainian war?
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  1550. What is this hearing? Now that's a terrible board to try to do that. Blatant mischaracterization of Candace Owens there. And this is supposed to be a kind of court right? And they don't do that basic due diligence of the question beforehand and play a snippet of what makes her look... honestly not even that bad because it was her saying Hitler did bad things and only looks like a defense of Hitler if you don't think about it.
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  1551. It truly is insane how much the USA really is Earth's Final boss and is just so far at the top that they'll throw away completely game changing technologically just because. Though, hey, Kudos to it releasing this stuff at all. Maybe if the US continues down this road the government just spawns new technologically and techniques, throws it at the population and says "Here, make of this what you will"
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  1552.  @10244325  I think the fundamental issue is that the people do not recognize that the wealth when strived for still help the people. And considering the distinct lack of social services, I don't think the government is really doing much for the people. Now, me personally, I don't think they have to. However if the idea is to benefit the people, well the people seem to be benefiting themselves more than the state has and the best decision it ever made was to start leaving people alone to do it themselves.
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  1553.  @horridohobbies  He was also an idiot which probably largely came from his belief in socialism. And the party compositions are currently being changed out.
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  1554.  @horridohobbies  You're right, but the party isn't controlled by the people. It's by the party. People who aren't elected control that. It's all internal party politics instead of any control by the people. And the fact that there's an entire chain to the representative democracy means that it is less representative of the people in the higher levels and simply their own agenda.
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  1555.  @bojangles8873  I think that'd be a consistent throughline for a win condition, but I wonder if it's indeed what he meant by that, since he seemed to think the US would simply get stuck on the coast without an ability to advance but in bloody trench fighting.
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  1556. i thought you guys were dead
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  1557. @PPPA1  Still mortars and wouldn't be enough to soften the position probably. Also seemingly against other armored vehicles.
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  1558. It's very lazy. Hated it as soon as I saw it. Really really just unfortunate
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  1559. At this point the South is more industrialized and arguably more populous than the north. So we'll see how things go
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  1560. It's the "we have the technology" meme but real. And promising.
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  1561. For what this was, very good. Wish we could've gotten some AK or 5.56 to try.
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  1562.  @Carno_Yujia  I think that's the point as it helps with clicks and isn't inaccurate.
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  1563. "There's only so much lying you can do, and at the end of the day I'm a girl" No you're just bad at it
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  1564. Let's buy Greenland, then annex Canada, then start expanding south as we liberate Mexico and the central American countries to American standards and eventually become the United States of North America.
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  1565. Hey is it ethical to simply shoot guys in the balls who are too stupid? I mean we aren't killing them.
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  1566. ​@hiperventilat8064 I'll be honest, everyone says that, but from how it's used, I doubt it's true
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  1567. Well if they're ASKING for liberation, well neighbors next door sound like they should be fine to go in.
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  1568. So... the problem with anything woke, is that they make fun of themselves without realizing it because they don't realize their own absurdity. Which is why they'll try to make fun of their opponents and fail. Which is why with context, it's probably actually woke. The problem is that a dystopia for the wokes is pretty damn good for all involved.
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  1569.  @markpukey8  Another one is known as NEET. But yeah Japan has that as a problem.
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  1570. Because it used to be one. So that attitude has lingered
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  1571. @mikecrooks8085  Oh no I'm guessing the bomb damage and bullet holes were probably from the gang and political violence.
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  1572.  @TrevorCrook-c1s  They don't use PPP
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  1573. @milanmarinkovic3016  First off: no 30 years is not enough. The base still exists even if degraded (which, it in fact, is, especially now that the foreign investment is no longer forthcoming). The know-how isn't immediately lost. Though it does degrade. Also, Russia doesn't make their own machine tools anymore. They're imported from the west. Btw, also, that doesn't prove anything at all about what you were saying, lol. The question was, "Why do they have a space program?" and the answer is "A space program isn't actually that hard" since China's is 50 years old. What this highlights is, in fact, YOUR perfect measure of a space program. However, the greatest things that show are a combination of GDP and per capita as it's wealth. This wealth and size respectively lead to different ideas of how to discuss these things. However, when discussing war, you have only one specific thing you must discuss: the defense industrial base specifically. The inputs available to run it, from financial to material, and finally human capital. This leads into the other discussion about war: the population available and political will. All of these are separate from GDP and are not discussed when discussing "superpowers"
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  1574.  @TrevorCrook-c1s  technically they use both
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  1575. @TrevorCrook-c1s  Incorrect. Russia is a massive importer of western and Chinese machine tools. It doesn't have its own CNC machines. Also the chips are also still overwhelmingly western in origin. They're still found in the missiles. They're just getting the sanctions through third party sources. NASA was using Russian rockets for a very long time since the space shuttle program ended. However, as stated before: all legacy systems from the Soviet era as these are Soyuz rockets. They also brought in crucial money to keep the Russian space program solvent. The reason Russia can even supply everything now is due to legacy systems in storage they're reactivating. I don't see why they'd be better than say... Britain or France under wartime conditions today as Pre-War they had similar production rates of heavy equipment. Especially since they've been unable to advance from the T-90M in the tank department.
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  1576. @fsaldan1  No they shouldn't. It's itself an imperfect comparison due to it being unable to differentiate between quality of goods. That's why GDP is the preferred method more generally.
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  1577.  @fsaldan1  It is. PPP is a way to normalize costs among a fixed basket of goods. It's how they adjust it. The problem inherent to that is that the fixed basket of goods does not discriminate based on quality.
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  1578. @milaro222  That's actually another one. Russia has a comparative advantage in things like agricultural goods due to being a grain exporter. So that'll come up in PPP despite it having little to do with the price of wages.
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  1579. Ah yes. America where even the animals put things aside to start working together. Got some coyotes and badgers and ravens playing with wolf pups and helping them hunt. Also unrelated but do Elaphants have a calendar???
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  1580. At this point seems like it would've been easier to simply take Greece
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  1581. Why do you hate men?
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  1582. ​​ @cyrilmrazek6649 West Germany got 14 billion in 2019 dollars. Italy got as much, and the Netherlands almost as much. France and the UK each got double. Frankly, West Germany didn't get a lot out of the Marshall plan. Not to mention Europe as a whole only had about 10% imports and attracted little capital influx, including Germany suffering capital loss. Thus, it mostly had to rebuild manually.
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  1583. If you watched he kind of explained it and more accurately he kind of differentiated between classical civilizations and the modern west. It's much like his decision on Latin America not being the west even though it is. However there are enough differences and it's more the modern context. Latin America and the West are the children of the classical civilizations.
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  1584.  @paulheinrichdietrich9518  LA is part of the US and the West. Miami is basically just north Cuba. But the point is that they're fairly distinct in internal affairs. Basically all of the west has been empires compared to the tumultuous cluster fuck that is the Americas which got pretty screwed by the Spanish.
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  1585.  @paulheinrichdietrich9518  Uh... I'd push back on that somewhat. The wealth of the colonies largely went back to Spain without much left for the colonies themselves and thus didn't prosper too much. They didn't get much wealth out of their colonial status and when Spain was finally kicked out they didn't really have much left. I'd encourage you to watch his "How does Latin America work" video to elaborate more as he Explains much better than myself.
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  1586. If an execution fails, really should have your sentence commuted to a lesser punishment.
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  1587. I'm a gifted kid who's two years into an engineering degree. And uh... my wall was continually putting in less effort since I don't want to actually do any work or pay attention. And having realized that with this video, I'm not even putting in the effort of my peers. And I get what a lot of they get with less effort. So if I haven't even gotten there yet, I'm in for a world of hurt soon. I also have ADHD this is going to be great.
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  1588. first?
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  1589.  @censorduck  Eh... not really in the fact that it has never really made it much in the way of wealth, however it was industrializing quickly and could feed itself which
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  1590. Well... nah pretty good idea. Would've needed more social cohesion to properly have one and as demonstrated, they don't.
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  1591. When people think of evil people they think of comical evil bad guys from stories. People who just do evil for the sake of it. Not really sane or trying to be evil for no real purpose than to be evil. This isn't how villains work in stories and it's not how evil works in reality. Evil has a *GOAL*. A malicious goal with some deeply personal and dark motivations, but a goal nonetheless. And within that framework is how evil works. They still in many times have moral codes but either not traditional ones or the idea to violate them if it's more effective at attaining their goals. Evil people are still people. And they work like people responding to circumstances as in real terms almost any person would. It's how they forge alliances and create followers. It's how they manage to get to the places that they do. Evil in a real sense is a two-faced lying bastard who uses you and betrays you because it's expedient. Evil is not some random killer who just kills and loots for the sake of it. Even the truly insane of the mass murderers don't simply go full evil. There's a deep and malicious goal. Something they're working toward that they'll act like anyone else as they go to until the goal is finally in sight. Ted Bundy didn't get caught for so long as he was a deeply charismatic man with a deep desire. The desire was simply one which was incredibly dark. Evil is not insane, simply malicious.
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  1592. That pistol is probably older than the current owners lmao. Still amazing that they pulled this off though.
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  1593.  @justcallmehaterik  Correct. It's too strong of a national identity to do anything like actually unite, but too weak of one to do anything like fight for it. Europe has had a thousand years to think "this is what my country is" but after dragging the world into two wars of millions of deaths shies too far away from nationalism and demonizes the concept unless you're someone like France. Culture is just too incompatible in many instances to properly unite.
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  1594. They really haven't and even with that it's so much higher than any other group it's genuinely no contest. There's studies on racism on arrest rates (the study was police responses to calls vs arrests where if blacks were being arrested on mass that would be racism vs if just arrest on calls that's just doing their job to which they found almost 1 to 1 on calls. Blacks just happened to make up the majority of the calls. So... blame the callers who are also largely black).
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  1595. I agree. Similar to the Krinkov in being rear line service, but I also imagine it may be what would fill the submachine gun role for taking houses and the like
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  1596. 7:57 Let's go ahead and add graphene to Roman concrete and see what happens.
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  1597. Brazilian Expeditionary force? And when will the CANZUK countries finally push forward to actually attain great power status? Still surprised at the French.
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  1598. I think being a bit liberal here, he mixed up Etruscan and Roman in that position but didn't catch it. Given his editing, I'd imagine it.
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  1599.  @nevbezaire  Explain?
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  1600.  @christiandauz3742  Please be kidding
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  1601. ​@dopaminecloud Here's the problem: mass starvation is actually not an outcome because social factors from overpopulation naturally curb the population. There's a reason growth was small for so long, and it's high death. There are plenty of ways to die via war and disease than before starvation occurs. Not to mention that starvation really only occurs due to crop failures as no population actually overloads carrying capacity. That was the myth of the population bomb and soylent green which never occurred. Carrying capacity can be increased, which is why we got the population explosion in the first place. Now, ironically, the way to cause mass starvation is to make countries deindustrialize because then you'd reduce the carrying capacity. Africa might face that in the wake of potential trade breakdowns. Separately, this sentiment is just completely out of step with the state of the world. No-one actually has population growth outside of countries on less than $5k USD, and real high fertility is closer to $500 USD. This is GDP per capita if you needed the elaboration. And the amount of countries getting over $5k is growing. This points to the idea that the population is already stopped growing and we will be going toward population collapse. Not population stability, but instead, population collapse. Population collapses lead to mass social problems, which lead to more people getting killed, and decent chance that actually restricts the food supply as it'd be a disruption on the inputs for that system, and thus actually cause mass starvation. When you take this attitude, you create a problem that cannot be solved. Overpopulation is a solvable problem. Population decline is not.
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  1602. Yeah Fracking is actually an especially low cost method of gaining oil. So I don't think it'd be lower per barrel costs. Especially since there's only limited areas where they exist and that'd still be from the gulf. Otherwise yeah this is really off base
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  1603. @Harry-fr1iz  US Break even price for shale oil is about $30 for existing wells and $60 for new wells, as of 2023. Saudi oil has not been below $30 since 2003 and from 2018 to 2019 was about $65 with some variations year on year and dropped to $35 for 2020 only to rise again afterward. I'm not sure if it bears mentioning, but shale oil is light and sweet vs Saudi heavy and sour. The former is much easier to refine but I'm not sure how much that is affecting the prices if at all.
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  1604. @Harry-fr1iz  That would be incorrect. First off: Shale oil caused the price reduction in 2014 to 2016 of global oil prices as it came in and flooded the market. Second off: shale oil gets turned off first not because of unprofitabiliy, but instead due to physical constraints. Traditional drilling can't really be turned off and on again at will. Once you drill, it just goes on until you seal it up or it runs dry. Shale kind of can. So you can turn it off with regards to excess production. Also, no, Saudi Arabian prices of $60 are a relative norm and for 6 years from 2008 to 2014 the price was right around $100 per barrel minus 2009 and 2010 where it was $55 then $75. Also, I don't know why you'd think fracking is logically the more expensive process. It takes less time to set up (by orders of magnitude), and by all measures, it seems far more efficient. At least in its current incarnation. Even in 2014, when it was in its relative infancy, Shale created that 2014 to 2016 price fall, which hit all oil prices (even Saudi oil which had to decline to compete in the 2015 year). So, I don't see anywhere where it's the more expensive process. It seems to be less expensive given all evidence. The traditional wells are already set up. That seems to be the only potential mitigating factor. Also feel like it's worth mentioning now that the 2021 and 2022 oil prices for Saudi crude was about $65 and $95 respectively. Which covers the prices from 2008 to 2022, and demonstrates that there's been very few instances in which it was actually a lower cost producer compared to Shale.
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  1605. @avroarchitect1793  Yeah, I'll admit that my knowledge comes from interest and subscribing to YouTube channels that cover related concepts. So I'm nowhere near an expert. But yeah, this is just not it with regards to military analysis. At least with regards to equipment and coordination, there's just so much more with regards to the USA. Iran has been operating through proxies for the last 40 years. Iran-Iraq war was the last war they fought and only really got ahead thanks to better equipment inherited from the USA. And the US fights exclusively with logistics.
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  1606. @avroarchitect1793  Yes. I think the public has been a significant disservice by calling Afghanistan and Iraq occupations "wars" since now everyone equates occupying terroritory against insurgents from an army whose government is defunct to a major combined arms offensive. Which is clearly flawed.
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  1607. @avroarchitect1793  I mean you're right. However, it's largely a post-war activity following a capitulation rather than in itself a traditional force on force conflict which is understood to be conventional war. You can have guerilla tactics employed within a traditional force on force conflict as part of a broader strategy, but usually not the only part of it
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  1608. Be careful about your political commentary. And your criticism of the left. You'll be seen as a conservative for calling them out. Warning from a conservative who doesn't want you misrepresented.
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  1609. 9mm seemed to be quieter and have more power. But you know... can't get any.
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  1610.  @julius43461  With human technological progress the pace basically increases the more people you have. As roughly the same portion of the population is around to think of and make things. But inventions that allow you to increase the percentage who have access to relevant information also allow you to increase that percentage.
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  1611. ​ @alexnolan6032 Tbh, yeah, the internet is basically one huge communication and organization tool. Find some people in your area, load up on a truck, and now you're raiding a federal building and claiming that territory for your side. It sounds silly, and it kind of is, but so long as the actual willingness exists there's little reason why it wouldn't happen.
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  1612.  @antoinelachapelle3405  okay yes you have a point
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  1613. @no way  I don't think it even gets that either as many ancient ones are arguably even worse, and the Mongols managed to wipe out an entire civilization in Central Asia. Basically, every time a new population has moved in the other populations were wiped out, but here the US literally didn't have to try in order to do it as the population was already 90% dead before most arrived, and it was more pushing them back just due to power and population imbalance rather than outright genicidal extermination of the population with evidence to events such as "The Trail of Tears" with the creation of the reservations, and events where we have recorded the attitudes of the natives fearing losing their land, pointing to the reason that the Native Americans basically have no presence in American society is that rather than being killed off is that they were relocated into the worst lands available. And of course, this was 200 years ago compared to the thousands other populations had. As a wrap-up, I think the event that was American population replacement was much more akin to a what-if answer to "What if the Chinese invaded the nomadic horse archers rather than the other way around?" as it was the result of several wars where the Native Population would lose, but rather than the natives having the population advantage the invaders would have to simply work within, the invaders were the population steam roller to one who had just lost enough people to be outnumbered 100 to 1. Latin America is the answer to the question but with the asterisk of "What if only the army settled there after conquest without bringing a lot of women from the homeland once they finished?"
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  1614. Political position and reform which is what he avoids deliberately
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  1615. @CraigPerry  Yeah no not quite. It's literally part 2. It's Government Budget - Tax Revenue. Lower the former or raise the latter you get the same effect.
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  1616.  @davidcoverdale722  Over medium and long tbh
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  1617. In short: China WOULD have invaded Taiwan but Russia failed so hard in Ukraine and the coalition has pumped them so hard that the Chinese basically needed to recalculate from scratch
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  1618. @Free Lobsters That's incorrect. There are many countries which are net exporters of food or can quickly shift to that with little effort and become self sufficient. The US is one of those. I'm not entirely sure about China and Taiwan however as I know they they import most of the things they use but I'm unsure if they import their food as well. It's also not necessarily true that the one who starts it loses influence as really it'll just be the person who loses who loses influence as is the nature of war. Also another thing, if China can't get a quick victory the thing which hasn't gotten mentioned so far is that China won't be able to import anything. They don't have the land routes established yet and some counties are starting to be hostile to the idea. But the maritime empire who carries the weight of the global trade network, the US, is on the side of Taiwan. If Taiwan can hold for the period in which invasion is possible, the US really only has to keep things from going into China and starve out China while still getting shipments to Taiwan via the other side of the island.
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  1619. @Free Lobsters I'd like to emphasize how this whole thing is not about the larger conflict between US and China but the Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Also, while eyes are on who is the aggressor, it doesn't matter as long as you win as whoever wins comes out with more power and the ability to get concessions out of the other side. The global trade network also really really relies on the US navy. So if they want to they can keep up everything for everyone else but just blockade China no big deal. And so the rest of the world just kind of watches as China goes into anarchy from the lack of everything while Everyone else just sees a fair few items out of stock that came from China and maybe a slight rise in food but the food is still okay so no REAL issues. The US feeling the impact the least because it can just do everything itself.
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  1620. @Free Lobsters The issue with land routes is that they're currently severely undeveloped and really just not in a state to be workable yet. Also goes through very VERY weak allies who are liable to just make a deal with the US. China currently is still very heavily reliant on maritime trade which is why I brought it up in the first place. But once again, this is about Chinese Taiwan invasion. You can say whatever you want about many being mainlanders, China has decades of propaganda about taking back Taiwan and is a matter of national pride with them often saying they'll do it. And China will if they believe they can. Taiwan is also a close ally of the US as a result of its animosity toward the mainland. The US will not be an aggressor in the war against China unless something is basically life threatening. They also don't really have anywhere to invade from so likely won't be boots on the ground so much as a blockade of their trade.
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  1621. Well that's what you do with lighter ammo lol
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  1622. Yeah that'll do it
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  1623. 7:20 My favorite thing to do is to go out at night and engage in sneaky breaky penetration
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  1624. "69th, nice"
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  1625. There were some specific requirements being mostly overall weapon length and velocity with lower ammo weight. This is just a function of sig shenanigans for trying to meet the requirements.
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  1626. Bro, go climb a building. You just offered it to us. Go do it. It's content and science. Please.
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  1627. A United Africa would not last very long simply from all of the ethnic tensions. It'd be a fragile alliance who's seams would be as tight as a loose screw. Most countries start out as a collection of a single ethnic group and then (in western countries) slowly accept outsiders or start as a buildup of immigrants for a long time. However, in Africa most of the countries are very much as unstable to do its corruption as it is its ethnic conflict. Now multiply that by 4x the population and a government very far away from you. Congratulations on your domed escapade.
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  1628. @Anthony Gambini The biggest thing is that it's infiltrated the institutions and found popularity among the university class. This has created an ideological spread across all of the institutions and has now started to spread from the top down in gaining popularity but the bottom who understands how stupid it is, is now finally pushing back
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  1629. If this actually proliferates then this is a game changer. Information is the greatest weapon of all and that kind of ability to allow everyone to have the same information limits communication issues. If you can mark targets then what you have is an entire platoon which can engage everyone because you Only need one person to spot the enemy and then everyone can fire at them. Combine that with the NGSW and what you have is a force which can effectively kill an entire enemy force before really the unit can even be seen. Who's going to assume gunshots from 800m away are hitting them until they're losing men and have ruled out all other options or have already been in frequent contact with those engagements?
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  1630. Should the game be successful upon full release, Fire and Manuever, his game on Victorian warfare, will add that war to the game
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  1631. Given how many countries have offered free childcare and managed almost 0 effects of population correction from these attempts, I always bring up that this point is genuinely one which means nothing. It's one that appears like a point because it's an interesting disincentive, but it's not enough of an incentive to really help even if fixed.
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  1632. ​ @lucabrazzi45 We saw them do just that in the post-war era.
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  1633. ​ @Trench216 Why is he a grifter?
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  1634. I agree with cyber security, but the biggest thing is that it's actually not a curse when creating new legislation as the system moves quickly when there is broad cultural agreement. The problem is there is no cultural agreement currently and any legislation passed is unpopular with roughly 50% of the population. So it's better it's not passed overall from a point of stability.
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  1635. ​@tkmmkt6569 They don't necessarily make it out to be, but yes they're incredibly important. The efficiency gains in the engines aren't that important, it's the ability to be efficient in both subsonic and supersonic flight which allows for incredibly long ranges and isn't possible with current engines (this means they can take off on their own but can travel very long distances since they're not using afterburners to travel supersonic). The increases in stealth are correct in that they're not actually super high, but they're still multiple times better (unless you're the US Airforce getting at least 100x better for some reason). Finally, the drone wingmen allow for offloading of capabilities and for one airframe to essentially be an entire squadron of fighters, greatly increasing ability. However, that can't be managed in the single-seat 5th Gen aircraft. Thus, a new airframe is needed. And if they're going to make a new airframe anyway, might as well just do Gen 6 since that's already on the horizon. It's kind of like why the US changed cartridges and didn't go back to .308. They could've, but the reason for the change was weight decreases. So they had to change the casing (most of the cartridge) to achieve that, might as well change the bullet since they needed something new anyway.
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  1636. ​ @threestars7561 I don't think that's true given that we hooked them up to pretty normal trucks already. Look at Task and Purpose's video on that one.
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  1637.  @Lawrence_Talbot  What was cheesey?
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  1638.  @JohnS-il1dr  absolutely
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  1639. ​@SilverStarHeggisist I actually looked into this recently. To some extent that's true, but seemingly not really. The mission currently seems to simply be less public and also more in line with using the sensor package to guide other drones and munitions to their targets while they stay behind the line.
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  1640. No. We're currently making stealth UCAVs in order to be "loyal wingmen" to the fighters they compliment. So we are having drone fighters. The Turks, Americans, and Aussies are all on it.
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  1641. It would just be a sniper k98 which is equipped with a scope but more often a ZF-41 because they didn't have enough ZF-39s
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  1642. This is reflected in most of the world that the affluent focus on their single child. However, it is also reflected in values of either valuing children or valuing personal economic growth more. And of course those who pursue the growth will focus on it more than those who pursue the children. This is why Europe and Japan are in a demographic decline even though they had no formal policy. I'm interested in how this goes forward especially in my home country of the US which seems to value both in equal measure owing to its strong continued ties to religion
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  1643. gotta use that algae fuel
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  1644. different kind of weird in the video
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  1645. This comment is exactly what he's talking about and college education is by all measures being "elite" however with everything else being destroyed and the "elite" now being expected to be the norm despite not really being necessary (seriously trade jobs are making 6 figure incomes now since so few people are doing them) which causes further pressure as it becomes an expectation instead of the luxury it's supposed to be.
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  1646. Yes boycott the USA in favor of the slave driven economy who wants to invade one of our greatest producers of modern tech.
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  1647. The F-35 interface is literally made for gamers lol
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  1648. 3:43 I think the most important thing here is that if you pass the physical requirements, then you've demonstrated that it isn't a problem. Could definitely have less issue.
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  1649. It's called cologne
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  1650. This has been interesting. Thank you.
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  1651. Unironically you'd get a Paretto distribution but instead of 80-20, 90-10.
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  1652. ​@808Castro No, you're not. It's not genetic. Though there's absolutely plenty against you.
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  1653.  @haldanebdoyle  How do we know that and where have you pulled that from? What is your evidence here?
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  1654. ​ @captainvanisher988 Incorrect. Seclurization is generally the effect, not the cause. Also cost and size of housing has in fact been shown to affect fertility, with Kaiser himself having done a video on it. Ultimately it's about the community surrounding it, and urbanization causes atomization.
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  1655. @Ammiragliosalvatorefortissimo  This balances the hypergamic desire by making the pool of older and more established men less common. That's why I didn't mention it.
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  1656. Is this the beginning of the Anglo Federation?
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  1657. Which state is yours which is shaming you for all of this?
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  1658.  @Sienna6164  The bay area or Jefferson?
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  1659.  @Sienna6164  Do you want to perhaps move to another platforms to air out your grievances about the state in a safe place?
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  1660.  @Thecognoscenti_1  Do you think you can point me to that essay or possibly copy paste into here?
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  1661.  @Thecognoscenti_1  Okay so there's only two things on here I'll address: sadly the Chinese did not invent the first grenades or the first breech-loading firearms (unless the Zi Mu Chong, slightly earlier than the similar Che Dian Chong, is not what is being referenced here). This is slightly more suspect but apparently Henry VIII had one and he died in 1547. This is important since that gun was apparently created in the latter half of the 16th century but hey for a difference of max 40 years half of the world away, little difference at that point. In terms of repeating firearms the first was Kalthoff repeater in 1630. And on grenades, the Byzantines used grenades (and possibly personal flame throwers) about 200 years before the Song Dynasty was established. Other than that, I thank you for pasting that comment for me and am happy to have read more about this interesting part of history less popular in the west. Chinese history is so dense it's hard to get into and the whole history community had a hard on for the world wars with the furthest back usually being the 18th century in Europe.
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  1662.  @Thecognoscenti_1  Absolutely. Nothing here is refuted and Chinese gunpowder was incredibly important. Sadly no-one had yet figured out guns by the time the Mongols showed up.
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  1663. I'll be honest I feel like a Russo-American alliance would be pretty quick if something like war with China broke out. Quick deal from the US to tell Russia "we'll step out of Eastern Europe militarily, just keep them economically integrated and help us take out China" which seems like a beneficial deal to Russia with the only other concession being for Putin to open democracy if the US can play its hand well enough because Russia's ultimate goal is to re-establish the defensible borders of the Soviet Union/Russian Empire. Russia in Eastern Europe just makes Russia have defensible borders again. I also feel like a similar deal would be made with Turkey tbh. Neo-Russian and Neo-Ottoman empires. I'm also fairly certain Ukrainians are ethnic Russians.
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  1664.  @davidegaruti2582  I had a stroke while reading this. And I'm going to be honest with you the first issue that came was calling the native Americans a genocide because it wasn't in any terms. Second I'm 90% sure war deaths aren't counted in the wars under communism. The famines under communism only come due to being man-made. The slave trade was interrupted during that time and saying for 3 centuries assumes it stopped in the 1860s which is a strange position to take especially since their trade across all but very few parts of the world stopped long before that, however the ottomans continued until into the 1900s so I guess you can play with the numbers somewhat. And a few other things that require me to read more of your post that I really don't care to respond to because it requires me to copy this this whole response, then erase it, to paste it back so I can read what you wrote. The biggest thing however is that all of these actions of these governments were made in the name of communism. They used it as the justification which is why the numbers can be justified. You can count the tally of those killed in the name of religions and ideologies of which communism falls into the latter category. Trying to count the tally as those which were created while just simply adhering to it in parts of their lives just isn't the same comparison. Honestly the closest thing you get are wars for the sake of business. That you can justify. Other than that, you really can't.
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  1665. With hindsight we know it went terribly
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  1666.  @03david08  To be fair he did say he wasn't a programmer and so I give him the benefit of the doubt of simply not understanding well enough while also being an interesting concept to discuss.
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  1667. It's mostly the first part which comes into issue. The final one is also an issue, but it's genuinely what pushes innovation forward. The second part however is indeed a large problem though, and the US already has problems maintaining that who already exist
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  1668. Another criticism I have of this is the explanation of the relationship between the Americans and Europeans as well as the relationships of the Europeans. First off: the whole idea of America dominating clashes with the idea of France having an empire. If America dominates all involved, France can't have an empire. Second off: realistically the 3 countries that the Americans care about in Europe are France, Germany, and Britain. The Americans have a vested interest in preserving the British and if France has an empire then in real terms Germany is on its own which would leave it being sucked up more into the orbit of a more militarized Poland gaining control of more of Eastern Europe due to the fall of Russia which has arguably always been the interest of Germany. Third: the second most stable country demographically in Europe is Britain which means it should have the ability to stay alive. It's also reaching out to its former dominions to join together which all populations support. This is a union which would easily be approved by the Americans and so even if it requires the Americans to stay alive, realistically this is the power they'd take most interest in and culturally this would be the power it has the most interest sustaining even more than France and Germany, especially if France has its own empire. Fourth: Poland, has almost as terrible a demographic situation as Russia. So it taking control of say Belarus makes no sense when it itself is losing in population because realistically it'd be too weak to join voluntarily or conquer. Realistically this would make an informal German empire in Eastern Europe made of economic dependencies. This is aided by the fact that Germany is more stable demographically than Eastern Europe and thus would have the pull to keep them in their orbit. Fifth: Realistically the Americans are caring a Lot less about Europe now than they did before. Before, America was a European wannabe due to them being the great powers of the world. Now, America is the greater power and its issue was with Russia due to it being its ideological opponent. As time goes on, and especially as Russia falls, I can't see America caring that much about it. The entire argument of this as well is completely predicated on Europe having no way to function on its own, and having France at all powerful (which it is even now with no signs of it decreasing in power) would run counter to that whole idea. France still maintains control over West Africa even now to a degree that both realize they need each other. France still maintains relationships with its former colonies in a closer tie than Britain ever has since its decline. France is still a world power. There's nothing which endangers that in any of the places which it has power. Even in the Arab world it already has no power making its entire power base from its state itself and west Africa which are under no threat from any other power. And frankly the Americans would be happy to give control over to France as it would rather focus on other matters. Honestly the more great power allies the Americans can have, the better. And the Americans would be all too happy to encourage that reality.
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  1669. ​ @Ruiseal CANZUK is what I'm referring to but in all places the UK is the one with the least interest and last I checked it was still with a majority stake. Also remember that this scenario is a world where Europe mostly falls apart as a unit. In a world where there is no single market, suddenly trying to join that single market is no longer a viable option. Not to mention trying to rejoin the single market is just an absolute nightmare. Canada took 10 years to get a deal with the EU and Brexit still had no deal. The reason for that is that there's no deal which can satisfy everyone. It's a much easier option to try to rejoin culturally similar and linked areas despite the geographical distance. Remember That all parties still trade with China so the issue with distance isn't a huge issue. One final thing I mentioned is that it's really only a union that a true naval power would really take away. The only one capable is the US who has a vested interest and it'd suddenly become the second largest naval power with the support of the first.
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  1670. I had an idea for that lol
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  1671. Oh yeah it was kind of obvious to anyone who just kind of asked about the situation. Like you start getting angry in the rundown at the enemy until you get to the part of what caused it. At that point you kind of twist your face in confusion for a minute, start to just sigh and hang your head in disappointment, before you just tell everyone to stand down and stop being stupid before you start a war. Tbh even if it had gotten to conflict once it reached the governments both sides would've been like "WHOA WHOA WHOA WHAT THE FUCK!!??" and just rushed to meetings to resolve the dispute before anyone stumbles into a war over something so completely stupid since neither side really wanted a war in the first place.
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  1672. 11:31 Ah outsourcing US Steel to Japan, who pay us protection money and whose defense policy we decide is fine. They're in bed with us and run the company better. Anyone else is fair criticism, but they or the UK are fair game.
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  1673. Try to design an AK-107. The one with the counter-recoil system
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  1674. Looking at this again I think I just realized the critical mistake that Beretta made with this weapon: they basically made a room clearing weapon with battle rifle ammo. Which is fundamentally incompatible.
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  1675.  @holdercurtis1759  Sadly impossible. There is no America town in China. Cannot even find UK town. Remember Mr Pooh will not tolerate such cultural fusion.... AAAAND I'm taken to "re-education camp"
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  1676. So Austria-Hungary is the one that really wanted war
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  1677. It's interesting that this is on classic Stossel. I'm too young to have really known much of the conservative censorship of the past and so I've only ever grown up with it once Trump was rising to prominence and got into office. To learn It's been this long is very interesting to me.
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  1678. Could someone tell me what he means by "inbuilt cultural submission to the Chinese"?
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  1679. This is a pretty important event in the making of 21st century geopolitics
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  1680. @jhoughjr1  Here's a question: can you win every battle and still lose? Separately, what did it mean to win? That's not rhetorical.
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  1681. 13:50 This is the issue with Wallstreet and our current social model. Only looking to next Tuesday. Our current issues are not looking long term.
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  1682. @Global-yt  It's not even inherent which is so strange about it.
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  1683.  @jonathanjohnson9611  Well that's kind of always his take. But you know... still the end of this part of history and his point after is always "But afterward we'll be fine"
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  1684. I've still got people who are unshaken in thinking that China is unstoppable
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  1685.  @JeroenJA  Tbh best decision they ever made long term since I can't really see the continued length of the union. Europe may be as united as the peace of Westphalia but that didn't last very long and it doesn't really show an overall trend in the other direction.
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  1686.  @JeroenJA  Brexit didn't actually do that shock. There's still tons of people in EU countries who have their doubts. The only reason it works is because of the economic benefits of the union but that's going to stop making sense pretty soon. Remember that most all of the EU countries are going to be aging themselves into Japanese levels of economic slowdown soon (except for places like France), and Germany, the industrial heart of the EU, is going to start losing its industrial capabilities because of just how much natural gas they've been sucking up from Russia and nowhere near enough LNG facilities from ports to make it up with the lignite coal facilities still taking time to spin up. Will they still be wealthy? Yes no doubt about that. But there's no way for them to sustain the EU like they have until now and it's going to make sense for the various states of the EU to start going their separate ways.
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  1687. What a Chad Henry V.
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  1688. ​​ @dustinbrueggemann1875 This is a bit wrong and does some funky accounting (44 trillion across 10 years is basically the entire current mandatory budget for fiscal year 2023). Not to mention that the reason Amazon doesn't pay taxes is because it literally doesn't turn a profit some years, at which point you're essentially asking someone out 10 dollars to pay taxes on that loss of 10 dollars. But at least the defense industry we do get what we pay for. Wendover is a bit misleading when he says that the US military was 30% of all innovation in 1960 and only 3% today given everything that's happened since 1960 with the rest of the world getting wealthy and doing R&D on just about everything now. Not to mention that innovation is primarily in computing, and it's still using those innovations, as well as creating its own, to create new things such as the F-35 for which 80% of the technology for it didn't exist when it was originally commissioned.
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  1689. How would the Holodomor or the red terror be caused by war?? How was the killing of the kulaks killed by war??
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  1690.  @cageybee7221  Considering they were still exporting the grain and still taking it from the local peasants it kind of doesn't hold up to scrutiny as the main source. As contributing factors they certainly are part of it, but the Soviet policies in place exacerbated the problem even more. Though hey at least you know your history in blaming the kulaks as a cheap scapegoat which faced further killing as a result.
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  1691.  @cageybee7221  Nope. 1.73 million tons were exported in 1932 and 1.68 million in 1933 with Soviet reserves over 1.8 million. In comparison only 320k went to Ukraine in "aid" of which like you said... not all made it. By all metrics it was a man-made famine and one which was exacerbated by taking it more from the population there which was starving as well as other misprioritizations
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  1692.  @cageybee7221  "Shapoval and Vasilev, 2001: 104-105; Werth, 2003" from the website I got it from. Btw it's worth noting that the deflection of both sides falls flat when you realize that this was in 1932 and 1933 well after it had finished. The food was being taken from the Ukrainiane during the famine as it was being diverted elsewhere mostly into the cities. It's also in no way a gross distortion as the whole thing started in the first place due to ignoring weather conditions and assuming harvests would be better. This is combined by a switch to more cash crops and reduction in the grain planned. This was also all from the collectivization policies which had started in order to try to get more workers to the cities. btw here's the sources from the bibliography of that page Shapoval, I. and V. Vasilev, 2001, Komandiry velykoho holodu: Poïzdky V. Molotova i L. Kaganovycha v Ukraïnu ta na pivnichnyi Kavkaz, 1932-1933, Kyiv. Werth, N., 2003, “Une famine méconnue: La famine kazakhe de 1931-1933”, Communisme, 74-75: 8-42.
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  1693. Where's the follow up video: what made Rome so great in the first place?
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  1694. I do find it quite silly that camera quality on a military aircraft is dwarfed by our own phones. I wonder if there's a reason that they look to be using CRT cameras for their monitors especially since at this point what's most in production for display screens are all 1080p at minimum. Something like that off the shelf would likely be less expensive and get the job done better. Some of these things seem rather silly.
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  1695. Well i feel like the civilians would enjoy this more tbh
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  1696. Simple answer: go west and get a handle, or continue to be invaded. Which is why the Russian empire (and later Soviet Union) had the borders it did. With the secession of the other states, it's basically in a place to get invaded again. Very bad.
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  1697. Lmao they're talking about American beauty standards. Sorry, it's not about the race or culture, it's just who looks attractive and who doesn't because remember the Latina and Asian were at the top. The Asian girl was really cute, and then her personality enhanced it. Y'all should take a look at models across the world as they have very similar facial structures and body types.
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  1698. All of these things things you say "These may be difficult to psychologically process" I wonder why you think they're difficult
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  1699. @the_expidition427  I've always found them easy to process
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  1700. They created the world's first break action pistol with more Than five shots.
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  1701. ​@marlonmoncrieffe8966 We only ever fought western enemies 3 times. 4 if you count the Civil War given it was also us. But the Spanish might as well not have been a western enemy and was just a very sticky empire who had declined for decades and was mostly killed after Napoleon. So overall I don't really agree with the point here.
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  1702.  @finnfigure  America still has troops in the country. Not to mention how Iran hasn't been in Iraq since the war.
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  1703. @saeedvazirian  If a country leaves not due to economic or even really social instability at home, and instead due to political change, as compared to a strategic defeat on the ground or economic collapse, what do you call that?
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  1704.  @ThePandafriend  Frankly the biggest thing that will decide this is if Russia stays away from a total war (which I'm unsure it can engage in) and if it's willing to just destroy all of Ukraine. The goal was for a quick and decisive victory which would keep the population mostly not feeling the effects of the war and thus mostly able to accept Russian rule (easier to accept a change in regime when the fundamental change is just a governmental one instead of a physical one) and would break any spirit of resistance. So the conditions for victory are to hold back the Russian advance and wait for Russia to collapse. Which is about all that can be done unless Ukraine suddenly turns into Prussia. If Ukraine does suddenly turn into the Prussia of the steppe and does something like unifying with Belarus (which doesn't seem completely impossible considering the Belarusians seeing themeselves as kin to the Ukrainians) to then take Russia proper, you could see Ukraine March on Moscow. The rule of the Russisn regime doesn't seem strong and so a change in government in that fashion seems possibly something that could be accepted. Well anyway that's my favorite future alt-history scenario. Realistically it's just defend until Russia collapses. However there's something important here: Ukraine is holding on because it's doing everything RIGHT while Russia is doing everything WRONG. So if Russia starts doing everything right, then suddenly this war would likely turn in a heartbeat.
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  1705. I'm not the biggest fan of nebula, but if anything is going to get me to join, it's learning about the modern conflicts via you guys.
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  1706. Unrelated as he never said they were left
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  1707. Can't wait until you Finally tackle the USA and China as a whole
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  1708. Yeah the thing with the Mosin is that it's from 1891 lol. Military doctrine at the time was fighting in tight formations (tbh they were getting away from that and spreading out at the time) and they just kind of didn't change the design. So that 2km sight is for area fire basically. Also I'd like you to know that when used in that capacity, yes, that rifle would've been able to actually engage a target at 2km out. British did it with similar style rifles around the time the Mosin was adopted.
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  1709. 36:52 "Suggests... something" lmao. Bro if you're saying this why include it? I imagine it's to further the idea of integration but sounds like you got caught up in something. Considering how the whole thing about conservatives is a love of American culture I can see it or perhaps it's just that Hispanics are very catholic. And that latter is probably what held you back. Overall just kind of funny. Great video.
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  1710. Give it about 50 years with the increase in battery capacity technology and the shrinking of the size.
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  1711.  @Antonio-lt1sp  Did you just called economics explained for leftists?
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  1712. ayo
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  1713.  @nicholaslutsch5036  Well see the issue is that those places have to be explained to many but for those in the know it's easy shorthand
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  1714. This is the most correct analysis. However, corruption lowers with an increase in societal trust. Right now, especially due to tribal conflicts (as far as I understand it) especially among the elite, it's not really a society where you can truly trust everyone to not steal your stuff. Or, even if you can trust your neighbor, you can't trust your government. Especially as others will have implicitly less trust in seeing someone from another group. In real terms, the only way to improve this is to integrate and just get to know your neighbor and or have friends with different ethnic groups. If the youth is already at this stage, that's fantastic. However, it'll still take a few decades to really see that effect manifest in government as they're all still too young.
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  1715.  @tellesu  sounds like political schizophrenia
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  1716. Sounds like Putin needed a varangian guard when he made a praetorian guard.
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  1717. this sounds like when I get T-bagged after losing a 2 or 3 v 1 in Apex
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  1718. @soviet union  The thing with the 2 party system is that it's best to see it as a coalition system as that's how it works in effect. It's not that different from Europe, but what it does allow that Europe doesn't is the impact of charisma in political figures as in Europe you vote strictly for the party and not the candidate. The candidates have no actual wills of their own besides the party. Those smaller parties then form coalitions with others to become the ruling coalition. In the US, the platforms are created deliberately vague to facilitate as many people as possible under their tents, and we hold primaries by the party voters to decide in what policies/people we want at any given time. The republican party of California is not like the republican party of Ohio and is not like the republican party of Florida. Replace republican with Democrat and the sentence still holds true.
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  1719.  @infinityquasar  That is... retarded. It's not been very rapid at all as this is optimal circumstances. The civilians now consider themselves Ukrainian thanks to the invasion. And finally, Ukraine doesn't have the ordinance to engage in civilian obliteration. That's a Russian tactic perfected in Grozny.
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  1720.  @rb3872  He already pointed it out lmao
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  1721. Yeah China is kind of boxed in. And frankly the everyone around it is wary and starting to get wise to the threat a power like that actually poses. I think people everywhere are finally starting to realize that militaries are possibly an even more important tool in foreign policy than diplomacy. Only power checks power and from that has come one of the oldest phrases in the west: "If you want peace, prepare for war"
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  1722. Hey buddy
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  1723. The big battleships did do combat. However the seas were basically dominated as the central powers were land powers first and foremost, and the German navy in jail. There's not a lot of focus on the WW1 naval war, because there wasn't a lot of WW1 naval combat. The 6th generation planes are very much the heart and brains of a system of systems. The planes themselves don't do the work. The drones do.
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  1724. Pushing small arms technology forward by avoiding firearms altogether
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  1725. I wonder why the American revolution was so successful
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  1726.  @dannybonura3927  Pretty sure the only way to have dual citizenship is to be a natural born American citizen from another country.
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  1727. FITTY
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  1728.  @thfkmnIII  What's funny is that the Balkans aren't even distant they're basically siblings.
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  1729. @James Rutterford  No-one can agree 100% on everything with a person unless they don't think and or stay in their lane to such a degree that they only really say incredibly well sourced info that's basically common knowledge in their field. And even then, that's not absolute
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  1730.  @riesenfliegefly7139  Well apparently now... the US army
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  1731. 22:32 2 million people pay for the debt and growth of billions. Kind of insane.
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  1732. I kind of doubt it's just tanks. As of September 7th Ukraine had captured 1500 pieces of vehicles (range of MBTs and SPGs to Supply Trucks). Btw those were visually confirmed so that's a floor. And that was near the start. We're another week in and the logs are starting to catch up. On top of this I can't actually find anything that says 350 tanks were transferred over. 230+ T-72 variants were sent by Poland and other allies along with a batch of PT-91 Twarty which hadn't been disclosed. So it seems highly unlikely that it's gotten to even 300 tanks. Thus, 350 captured tanks is very much higher than 6 months of shipments.
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  1733. Jordan Peterson outlined those two along with the atom bomb as fundamental changes to society
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  1734. One of the things that made the death of the tank quite silly in hindsight was that cavalry didn't die until the late 1930s with the rise of the tank in maneuver warfare and mass motorization of armies as a result of more developed industries and the spread of assembly line production of vehicles. Tanks and trucks did the job of cavalry better. Why do I bring this up? Because it's an example of a wrong lesson learned from just seeing that a certain platform was vulnerable. People need to see the underlying issues of a certain phenomenon before they try to learn a lesson.
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  1735. So... we have changed literally nothing from 2000 years ago, just what we use to do it. Brilliant.
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  1736. Yes. However, it's a common question. The answer is also no. Rule of thumb: if a headline is asking a question, the answer is "no"
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  1737. 30:21 Better Generalship? Silly. Honestly. Also, this parallel also kind of falls flat given how the Americans lost basically no-one in both of those wars and didn't leverage its massive population really given how little it actually committed. You want to see leveraging a massive population? You go to the eastern front, not the western.
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  1738. Tbh, there's only so many places to go once you've gone to both seas.
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  1739. well someone had to tackle it
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  1740. ​ @SkipperTyrrel  same he looks way bigger than before
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  1741. Even did it 2 years later on Perun's video eh?
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  1742. If you're doing extinction then what about the Permian extinction which took out 90%-90% of all life?
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  1743. Okay the German confederation had no legal way to change the states within it but was effectively dissolved anyway. No legal way to change things doesn't mean much in the way of history.
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  1744. @kokofan50  There are very obvious connections with regards to cause and effect that are entirely dependant on how much you can see to entirely understand that. However, the problem is that we're talking about humans and not the world. However logical the world is based on how the systems work, the human mind (the concept being discussed) is inherently illogical.
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  1745. How so? And what do you trade for the alternative?
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  1746.  @w0t_m818  This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard and it's from the man who persecuted all competiting ideologies, started the process of limiting all free thought, and was sent by the Germans to destabilize the Russian Empire so it could close a front. You should read some RJ Rummel
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  1747. So Russia can't actually export all of that since they've got 1 rail line to Vladivostok (Chinese border) and currently have no viable sea connections. That's 1. 2 is that the Chinese also can't get the industrial inputs for growing the crops in the first place. Frankly those industrial inputs are the real silent killer here because it essentially allows you to lie with statistics. Statistics are fundamentally a 99% chance factor C influencing the measurements. Variables A and B being measured doesn't tell you the real reason of why it is that way much of the time. So in this case it's a lack of industrial inputs and China is hunkering down now to prepare for this outcome. They see the writing on the wall and they're trying to take steps to mitigate the collapse and stay in power.
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  1748.  @sinoroman  read my comment
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  1749. I find it interesting how she states the industrial revolution was about compound wealth as if the 19th century up to the second world War, and even into the 21st century in the middle east didn't have massive land expansion. I don't like how she paints the age of globalization as the whole of the industrial era when we had realistically a century of proof otherwise with realistically the reason for fewer wars of expansion being ideological rather than material. It's a very silly statement to say unless you only consider the industrial revolution finished in the 20th century, and even then, it's simply wrong historically. Simply very silly, especially for a military historian.
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  1750. He wants a return to pre-Soviet borders and more than anything a buffer against the west so that they stop getting invaded and suffering millions of casualties in huge wars. He also wants control of central Asia again to contain China and keep from getting invaded in there as well. But for now the west is the bigger threat to them.
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  1751.  @cristianhurtadocabezas208  Still less than that. Since industrialization made the low class workers far more wealthy. Not to mention how many people who settled really did prefer it to the homeland.
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  1752. What do you mean? Most countries in Africa have very little wealth inequality. They're simply all poor.
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  1753.  @zenshulighting8887  The thing is that the superpower was the age of the hyperpower where they were greater than the great powers: powers which could exert significant soft and hard power across the globe and those which could challenge them. Superpowers were the age of powers so strong they were able to exert influence in all countries but those of another superpower. As more powers rise these abilities will erode and powers will have their own spheres of influence once again with a multi-polar world. Superpowers made sense as a concept when the only powers were 2 and 1 powers who could take on anyone. As that becomes no longer the case it doesn't make sense anymore as a concept. I said "descent" as in even the world superpower will become simply a great power. One at or near the top, but simply a great power nonetheless.
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  1754. 17:25 You included Norway and Sweden but those are the most egalitarian countries today not one which thinks inequality is natural
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  1755. Lol Nosense Z once again back with silly takes beyond what's factually present such as the increasing Hispanic majority.
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  1756. Historically we've seen both the brute force numbers route and small well trained and equipped route of infantry work. They both work. It's a question of what's more replaceable for you: people or equipment. If you're really big on manufacturing, then it's equipment. If you're really really bad at that... well then you're paying in blood not dollars.
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  1757. What's his name and how can I see the rest of this speech?
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  1758. No. It's not too big. It's too big without having the proper borders. Which is why the USSR had its borders where it is
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  1759.  @osmanbey8796  Well to be fair I meant the civilization
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  1760.  @bendustin7609  I have to push back. She clearly speaks it fluently even if she has an accent. Just means she acquired it later in life but overall it's very fluent and understandable.
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  1761. What was Trump's initial position "Why do we have to pay for things when you're not even meeting the minimum of your treaty obligations?" Which, now he's gotten exactly what he wanted. Now that the Europeans are finally taking care of business, he can pivot to the real threat: China.
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  1762. Yeah, actually, you can. You can earn 27 million and be 30 million in the hole, and then it doesn't matter. You made 27 million, but you're still 3 million in the hole. You still lost money.
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  1763. @Zionswasd  Actually It means precisely that because the people who don't pay that quickly enough end up going under as their debt increases its interest and makes them pay even more long-term.
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  1764. 29:14 The shaded orange areas are just a rough outline of the country of Japan
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  1765. 12:21 Sounds more accurate given that they used to be part of the same empire for about a millennium
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  1766. The strangest thing I've ever seen from governments is when they change the laws for the definition of what is and isn't illegal and then try to say that because they changed that a certain positive outcome occurred. Like you didn't change any regulatory thing, you just changed the legal status of the thing in question. Come on.
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  1767. Stability and confidence: It may be Argentina, but it's not in a civil war or facing a violent coup or revolution, and that's our real baseline.
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  1768. To be fair... femLoki is Enchantress, a Villain in the marvel universe, and it looks like the Loki series was setting her up for that future role and scarlet Scarab was explicitly temporary at least in the slow (but from that little girl we know it's not). Kate bishop is also explicitly a wannabe that fails constantly so I think she's fine.
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  1769.  @setakh  I don't think Hawkeye was really humiliated. He was doing the humiliating of the naive Kate the whole show until the very end to show that she'd grown which at that point had been kind of earned. Loki I can see it a fair bit more, but in that show as well he was basically given an arc to pursue that direction so it seems less jarring at least. He starts off as the Loki we know and then is kind of beaten into his current self. I think the second season will really determine if he's actually just a shadow of himself since Thor basically went through the same thing and ended his movie as king but Loki was snubbed of that chance at the last second due to the end with Kang. So for him I'm curious to see how he ends that second season. Dr Strange seems the most issue here and his issues began with No Way Home in being irresponsible, but I think that was somewhat justified with him simply trusting Peter too much. But being fine with Wanda's hostage of a town is character assassination of someone who willingly killed himself on two separate occasions to save the universe and basically told Thor and Loki to GTFO because they were too dangerous. He's been a no nonsense character and at this point he shouldn't he our of his depth in the multi-verse even if it's new to him. It seems to have been the case only to accommodate other characters.
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  1770.  @setakh  So the thing with Hawkeye is that it takes place in Holiday of 2025 which is a few years after endgame. And if you know old age at all, it comes slowly... then suddenly. So he's slowing down and getting older. For him, he'd already been like mid 30s by the time of Avengers so nearly 20 years later he's slowing down. Him being feeble is a conscious choice and yeah just a function of getting too old. What you said about Loki is why I kind of see it more there what you're referring to. I don't think they made him dumber per se since he was still incredibly intelligent, but he was humiliated a fair few times in combat even if he was never the greatest combatant and realistically seems to have been basically de-powered and effectively sidelined. Which is why I'm curious to season 2. If it remains the same yeah it's done but I do have a feeling it'll reverse now that Enchantress is seemingly out of the picture. I don't think there's any saving Dr Strange or Scarlet Witch. The latter specifically since she's dead now. Even though the darkhold corrupts people wow did she fall EASILY. And Dr Strange did way too little in context. That'll always be a stain on his character from now on in terms of writing and characterization.
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  1771.  @setakh  Yeah. Honestly just watch the video from midnight's edge about reshoots for the movie. Seems like it was the behest of a very eager overseer who wanted to sideline strange in his own movie in favor of America Chavez.
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  1772.  @setakh  Yeah watch it. But Summary of the problems: realistically it was outlined from the studio anyway the requirements so directors are only there to attach a name and collect a paycheck. But the previous version Chavez was more sparky and strange was genuinely just a side character in his own movie. This is actually an improvement. I'm going to guess Fiege kind of overlooked the way the interactions went until final product was being reviewed and realized "Yeah this is bad and needs to be fixed but our deadlines are too tight to do anything more so let's just tone this down"
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  1773. This is one of the few guns I want to fire in automatic
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  1774. "But slowly" but that's fine. He's right. I've got time. I've never thought people got wealthy quickly. Majority of wealthy people are older for a reason.
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  1775. I think it's going to be very interesting how this goes in future wars against the NGSW. That platform is focusing more on range and single hit probability but combined with the traditional combined arms doctrine. I really do wonder how well the US will be able to keep their distance and take advantage of their weapon. No-one wants to CQC or urban warfare if they can avoid it.
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  1776. @nesrin demirhan  In order: Mostly yes, mostly yes (though most of those were reciprocated), no, and kind of. In any case... whataboutism means really nothing, and I didn't use it as a mark against the civilization or people either. It's just a matter of fact. The point in bringing it up, was that the person I was responding to was asking about the Hittite civilization, and I was saying no. It was simply to say that the Turks are largely a warrior culture and the way they got to Anatolia is reflective of that. Not to mention, I don't believe there is a population of modern humans where they are now that weren't the product of some sort of violent migration that replaced the previous population.
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  1777. @nesrin demirhan  As far as I know, they're today primarily Turkic with definite cultural influences of the previous ones (like I said they considered themselves the successors of the Roman empire in ottoman times), but genetically as far as I know it was primarily a population replacement.
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  1778. @Asker  Eh... there MAY have been a previous Turkic population in Anatolia beforehand, roughly 4000 years ago. But it was very small. The seljuks also did not go to Anatolia because of the Mongols. That may have been the reason they left central Asia, but it's not the reason they're in Anatolia. For North America and Oceania, native populations died at rates incredibly high due to disease leaving a mostly empty continent. For South Africa, that was the Dutch not the British. The British certainly had the largest empire of all time, but what does it even matter? Especially since so much of it was just Africa (a continent mostly in the Iron age and cut off from the world) and India (mostly ruled through local elites in many instances).
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  1779.  @somyaranjansahoosahoo5127  The issue is that China and Russia have been doing a lot of missile defense systems which have the explicit goal of neutering the US carrier benefits and the US hasn't yet caught up in that department. The invention of a technology always comes before it's defensive counterpart.
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  1780.  @Fischdosepremium  While not explicitly vassals, Europe largely is dependant on the USA for its trade and protection. In fact the world is dependent on its navy for protection of trade. Which means that one country currently carries the weight of the world trade system on its shoulders and makes it the de facto hegemon by being the base of the modern economic system. It is so much so that the trade language of the world is English. While yes this is in part due to the British empire and the amount of states which speak the language, it's more from the amount of businesses that the US operated around the world and being the heart of trade meaning that it would be stupid to not learn it.
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  1781. If it's going to be "Commie Tommy" it has to be communist name and thus is the "Lenningrad Typewriter"
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  1782. Conflict of Nations ASKED for a China video? BASED!! Maybe I'll download.
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  1783. I really want to see this eventual world War between the imperial federation and German empire
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  1784.  @deepbludreams  Never got the chance to really change and trying to overhaul your ammo is both a long and expensive process unless you're the USA. Still expensive but not as long for whatever reason.
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  1785. They don't, but at the same time it's true and why the US never had a real standing army until the cold War
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  1786. It's people like this who make conservatives look bad.
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  1787. Yeah everyone says it's just utter crap in the comments section and everyone else saying it's bad, but the fact is that they have to consider that this is INDIA. The problems with much of the population including sewage is prevalent in many places and could possibly be less of a problem due to the proximity to the cleaner areas. And even with the fact that it's India it has still managed to somehow create at least pockets of really clean and comfortable living.
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  1788. About half of these were legitimate, but that's still 6 too many. Y'all might be reading the culture too well.
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  1789.  @josecipriano3048  If it can industrialize them what happens is that they get a huge base of industry and preferential trade. The goal will clearly be to integrate them to France and be an overall larger power.
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  1790. Yeah the thing here is that a lot of trade could be shifted with Canada as the central hub. Tbh the difference between trade with China vs Canada is a week IIRC from Australia and the timeline is like a month for both. Also despite Canada's place in peace provided for by the Americans, Canada still does spend a decent bit on its military and I'm sure Canada wouldn't be too opposed to simply defensive wars. CANZUK also does have some precedent in the Tasmanian Travel agreement between NZ and AU. Overall the CANZUK union would very much be a likely naval first power and jacking up its navy to the level of the US no less but one the yanks would easily cooperate with with likely a small army for rapid response. Seems overall too much to ask even if overall all parties would be very non-violent and not engaging in any sort of offensive wars such as those in the middle-East.
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  1791. Well part of being a superpower is if you can leverage global power projection and if France can compete with the US navy in any capacity in the future then it will be a superpower. I see the US being basically being the China of the west: periods of integration with the global economy and periods of isolation. When the US integrates it is dominant during that period, much like China. China will not be a conquered power again any time in the foreseeable future and the US will similarly fit that capacity. Both have regional holds and I'm curious to see if the US will invest more in Latin America. In this context like you said I think France has the chance to really bloom in this sphere. The US is happy to let a friendly power rise and as long as the French properly integrate in Africa economically and militarily (I imagine a large expansion of the French foreign legion if they can create political allegiance which can be carried as long as the French military is the guard of these countries) then France can easily become the guardian of the eastern Mediterranean and half of Africa. I see the west Mediterranean being taken by Turkey and what's left being taken by Iran. Both are stable powers in an unstable area which have a way to unite the region and industrialize to power their dominance. So it'll be interesting to see how that develops.
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  1792. I suspect you have the Americans to blame for this one being added back in
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  1793. great power conflict time
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  1794. WHO ARE THESE MAD LADS!!??
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  1795. I mean, first off, this is 4 months old so, start with that.
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  1796. I mean first off, this is a year and a half old so, let's start with that
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  1797. They're already wealthy. But the stagnation has definitely taken its toll
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  1798. 9:26 An armed interaction is a polite interaction?
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  1799. At least people like him understand proper firearms safety.
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  1800.  @alexwalker2582  It's about the same size as the M4. Remember that barrel is only 13.5" lol.
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  1801.  @mecampbell30  The breech and barrel are also cool to the touch. Everything is cool to the touch. Also realistically I imagine the reason TV ammo is higher is just volume since they're a small company and the only producer with limited quantities on the market. This is compared to the incredibly large factories which exist for a lot of ammo and the fact that prices are pushed down due to the presence of ammo made years ago still on the market.
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  1802. I think the biggest thing is that the pagans basically don't exist. And for the nationalists, they don't actually care that much about a powerful state, especially if they dominate the culture and don't need one. Not to mention how they're American nationalists and still have a bit of the liberal tradition in them. For all of these, there's actually rather few cleavages between them to really hit against, except for that flavor of intellectual libertarian who says "You're not a real libertarian if you're not an AnCap who also hates religion and studies philosophy!" but they're enough of a weak minority ("I just want to study philosophy!") that they're half irrelevant.
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  1803.  @Perceval777  So in that context I used the qualifier of "basically" which means that while yes they are there, they're so small they're negligible. They're a tiny minority who are, very often, LARPing and just hating on Christianity. Though I'll admit you are what you do and if you LARP hard enough you'll eventually start to believe. The point is that if you go on the street and ask what a pagan is, they'll look at you blankly or maybe reply about them in a premodern concept. They're probably about 0.1 of 1% if that they're so small. I think otherwise you do have a pretty good understanding, but the nationalists in America, unless they're specifically white nationalists, aren't actually super government hungry, as they're fundamentally of the American national tradition which was created in liberalism. So it'll never truly escape that unless it's trying to pull on a European precedent such as that even less existent faction of American monarchists (rent a Hapsburg I guess). On the note about their percentage of the population, I'd like to add that small percentages are actually a significant portion of the population. Take 3%. It sounds like it isn't, since it shouldn't be, but the working age population of almost any country is only 60%. So that's already cutting off almost half of the population. If you cut another half to get just men, you already have all working age (fighting age) men in just 30% of the population. If you cut off below 30 you get to about 10% or less. Now imagine 1 in 3 young men taking up arms. Give them a gun and suddenly they can dominate their cohort, and once they've done their only resistance is the over 30 crowd who, though most of the modern population, are less capable in their overall physical capabilities and have far more to lose. Once you're above 45 you're basically incapable of fighting. Thus, you're only fighting another 10% who is already slightly weaker, and possibly less willing to fight. Every other cohort, quite literally cannot fight. It's pretty crazy.
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  1804. How do I hear the rest of his Speech?
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  1805. @Julia Sepúlveda   It's really not pseudoscience. It's simply a phenomenon that has been observed. First off, you have wrong that we don't know how they lived. In most cultures, we know how they lived unless they were destroyed and leave no records. Secondly, women weren't slaves to their husbands. Especially in the West. The West got rid of the structures which truly oppressed women (the clan structure) when the Catholic church banned cousin marriage shortly after the fall of Rome. In the East, women were pawns of their clans, but honestly, so were the men in many ways, even if much more willing pawns. Thirdly, I'd like you to ask why it took so long for women to truly be independent in the way they are now and to think why it'd take until after the industrial revolution and specifically into the modern democratic order in which to do this. And why you think women didn't have power beforehand. I don't have an answer, but it sure is interesting to notice since basically nothing that doesn't work continues on. Lastly, I have no obsession with this. I never mentioned "high value" or anything of the sort. More than anything else, we look to people's choices and actions. Correlation is not causation, but when 2 things are correlated 9 times out of 10 there is a factor C which links the two together. Of these, women are the ones who file divorce, they are the ones who choose the men, not the other way around. They also at very high rates divorce men once they make less money than they themselves do. It's not about being high value. It's about perception and believing they are unworthy and the factors that go into that. It's a strange way to put it since it's not thought of that way, but I believe it's the most accurate way of putting it.
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  1806.  @shawnpavlik3756  Which idea?
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  1807. I think I'm on like 7
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  1808. Yeah the end result there is about the reason why I said a German empire probably won't happen. They're like a guy who went full macho for like 2 years, finally got put in his place, then got so horrified about what he did he voluntarily neutered himself so that he could never do it again. It's one that's lost any and all faith in itself and honestly liable to just be conquered.
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  1809. Poor woman knew so little about it she defaulted to the corporate answer
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  1810. 14:27 I'm looking at you Washington!!
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  1811.  @kormannn1  That's... that's largely the modern left and much of Europe. And tbh it doesn't really help you deal with all of the bad in the world so as a "religion" it's a pretty crappy one. It also doesn't take into account everything else needed because if you're all scientists and engineers who's building?
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  1812. @dark_matters What's the smearing language?
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  1813. Why?
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  1814. Can you point the other things?
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  1815.  @logman72  A: No it actually wasn't. We've gotten numbers of 1500 vehicles visually reported as captured. And around 350 tanks captured. And the offensives aren't even done yet with the forces across the Dniepro about to be encircled. B: They were not "militarized police" and even if they WERE, it does not matter since they still had all of the equipment and stockpiles from the troops who were meant to be only temporarily reinforcing the South and on top of that the Units who were still there and meant to defend against what was meant to be a decently thin line and not a buildup for an offensive. C: He's not "happy" about it beyond the idea of what was considered a threat to the USA starting to no longer be such. And the things which demonstrate that. Unrelated but I'm a libertarian who's realistic about things. War is necessary. War is important. The idea of there being no war is idealistic nonsense that appeals to the idea that we're post-history and thus it's unnecessary bloodshed. It's a state of mind that is the childlike default of "killing bad thus war bad" as well as the cultural trauma from the world wars that the west is still dealing with. Some bloodshed now can prevent more later. Because a lot of times bloodshed cannot be avoided. And the best way to avoid it is to avoid total war with more limited warfare. It's going to become the norm very soon as well. Make sure to watch.
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  1816. Also i have to refute this idea you have that the fascists fought better per capita than the liberals. This simply isn't true. First off, the only one this even CAN apply to is the Germans via that study, which doesn't take into account being on the defensive for most of their fighting. Second off, Japan and Italy didn't actually fight better per capita, quite the opposite. The Japanese rolled the Chinese with ease, but the Japanese would defend islands, and still fail despite outnumbering the Americans. Not to mention the Italians who were so incredibly inept the only time they were ever effective was under Rommel for a period of a few months. The only other ones who can be compared are the Spanish under Franco, but their opponents weren't even totally liberal and rife with factionalism. Finally, the liberals had the hardest job of all having to fight for territory which was already lost due to being caught basically off guard vs the fascists who got to decide when the war started which really affected the effectiveness of their armies. And even then, they still basically stomp once they were able to regroup being able to do incredible feats like contested naval landings over and over and even breaking the codes and tactics of their opponents basically completely wrecking them strategically.
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  1817.  @VivekKumar-rb7zk  I don't think China even needs to fall to get this point. China is just really hated and people want to get out of it. India is a great alternative but there are too many trade barriers on it to invest fully. If those lowered it'd start getting invested in in a heartbeat with nothing the Chinese could do to stop it.
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  1818. I'll be honest I can absolutely see the army taking the true velocity ammo and sticking it in the Sig Weapon system. Mainly because the two systems CAN work together even if they weren't made for each other. They said they wouldn't mix and match but I really can't see the army doing that when it's fairly evident how much the plastic cased ammo can do in terms of truly adding an advantage, and then on top of that the Spear very much being what an evolution of the M16 platform should be. They would have all of the manual of arms of the weapons (with all of the accuracy benefits) and then all of weight and heat savings of the ammo. The only downside of the ammo is logistics of creating it, but that can be changed. And it can absolutely increase their efficiency in ways they wouldn't have otherwise. Overall I really can't see the US military in good faith not using this cartridge when it's exactly the increase they were looking for with the ability to be even better with just a push of a button. Overall it'll probably be cheaper to produce as well using plastic over metal. It will also increase service life of the firearms. But since the only way you can accommodate the ammo size is with a new firearm, the best tool for the job seems to be the Spear. Being more mechanically accurate means that it'll benefit even more from the casing. And since big army doesn't like change they probably won't go for the bullpup. On top of that the Sig bid also has a .338 heavy machine gun option in their kit despite it not being really part of the contract. So those weapons seem like they would be very attractive to a Millitary that is very resistant to change. And with the 6.8 LMG I believe being lighter than their current machine guns, they would probably be convinced to go ahead and make the change in weapons. Lighter weapons, vastly lighter ammo, improved fuel costs, increased ammo capacities on soldiers, and the ability for the average infantryman to engage to their potential fullest extent. I can't see this going any other way.
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  1819.  @neutronalchemist3241  To be fair, that's the current TV and I can't see them not getting their hands on the sig to get 3k out of the 13" barrel. It'll certainly take an extra bit of powder, but it'll almost certainly take less powder than the sig ammo since TV gets more velocity out of similar pressures. Thus I imagine them having basically an overpressure variant made for the Spear since I doubt the military wants more brass when they're looking to lower costs by being able to transport more ammo for less.
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  1820.  @LRM12o8  I can certainly cede that. And that's due to the history of the USA being very much not solidaric(?) as it was very individual centered. The slogan was always not "Become one of us" but instead "Make it yourself. Your life is yours"
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  1821. Glad to hear an honest review of this. I'm not sure how experienced the writer is, and if this is their first outing this is a great start. If it's not, then they need to find a better writer. Overall not a bad start to a new studio it seems.
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  1822. I honestly don't have much to relate here besides my mother having been a single parent. However despite my father being mostly absentee, I did have versions of a father figure from young. And in fact arguably my hardest time was around 8 when I lost any semblance of one for years until my current stepfather. By which point the relationship never really took off and we've always been kind of distant. In my household my stepbrother and I have a very good relationship, we have good relationships with our respective parents, our parents have a relationship we're mostly not privy to but doesn't seem too troubled (however I've never had that ability to sense the nuances of relationships), but the biggest friction are the children with the opposite parents. It's worth noting that my stepbrother was 17 when I was 11. I'm not quite sure how that has affected my development looking back as I developed social problems after having to change schools and now have a very barren social network. It took me a lot of time how to learn how to socialize again after about 6 years or so of effectively forced introversion (due to my poor socialization skills I didn't make bridges very easily and burned them later due to mistakes I wouldn't have made had I been better socialized, and in addition to this i had no way to attempt to even meet with people outside of school). And thus I've been behind on that front. And honestly I may even be misattributing the poor socialization because well I don't really know. All I know is that I seemed to have been missing components in my social skills and it hampered me for a great deal of time. I'd imagine it likely relates looking back at that fact but I'm not sure to what degree it makes sense. Would likely need a professional for that.
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  1823. where did you read it?
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  1824. @Neonpowar  No the cities to do greater advancements and concentrations of people and wealth, usually meant that they had better ability for sanitation than the rural outside.
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  1825. Is there any footage you can link? And do you know why it was edited out?
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  1826. This makes that video so much less impressive. It's not the Americans fighting a proper army so much as it's fighting the last weak divisions of a dying empire. And even then they mostly lose at long range. It's now more simply impressive that the Germans were still able to hold out so well rather Than the Americans were good enough to beat them. And that's Just so sad for the Americans. Their best is just barely better than the German's worst.
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  1827. Two things: Most but those are also considered losers and he didn't get a chance to really touch on them, and then the ones which are exempt are the old imperial powers of Britain, France, and Sweden who have mostly stable demographics while also being incredibly wealthy and high on the value added chain with options for what's next.
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  1828.  @wich1  The reason for the executive orders is so that when action requires they can be taken very quickly. And it's part of why the president can get operations of up to 60 days for the military without congressional approval. It's also worth noting that the two US parties are in reality two coalition parties with how separated the base is in between and the fact that the voters choose who runs from within the party. It looks like it's united on the surface but underneath it really isn't. It's also worth noting that what you see now with the constant flipping isn't the norm. The parties, being coalition parties, ended up with a lot more concensus, mixing, and agreement than now, however a shift in the world and direction of the parties have made them at complete odds in a way they just usually aren't making each other complete ideological opponents when they normally wouldn't be. This is largely driven by the increase in socialist and postmodern voices which have joined with others who have abandoned what is still the traditional values of their opponents and thus is basically a near religious war that would create such a system anywhere else. Back to the separation of the legislature and executive, this makes the system move ideally even slower as each branch tries to pull power away from the other and thus it works even slower than the European system while simultaneously freeing it from control of the legislature. While it makes the American system on the surface more variable, the policies between administrations aren't usually that different and gains a strength in allowing for more flexibility and is thus more adaptable (it also means temporary measures stay temporary more often at least from the executive).
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  1829.  @honkhonk8009  For that it's more that there are substantially less regulations in the US which means businesses get up quicker but they do also get a big long-term market easier.
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  1830.  @wich1  How does it demand a two-party state? There's nothing in it which incentivizes that. The only thing that's incentivized is a majority of states for presidency. Voting for the candidate you like has no effect on lowering the number of parties.
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  1831.  @wich1  It's simply because that party tends to be an offshoot of one party and not both parties. If a third party was an offshoot of roughly equal members of both it'd have no such effect.
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  1832.  @MatthewChenault  That's not a genuine argument and it shows you don't know your history. It wasn't that they tried to embrace more state power but that their entire economic system would literally be legally voted out so they seceded in a last ditch effort to preserve it as it was. Funny enough you can read the platforms of the Republicans and democrats of the time (republican party was created 1860) and the platforms were the same but the republican platform was literally just calling them out on being hypocrites and only saying it for the sake of slavery.
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  1833.  @GiRR007  Not necessarily. Especially since the system is usually mirrored heavily in the state governments. But it also wouldn't really need it since they'd be responding to local issues which really have little to do with cultural shifts.
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  1834.  @Shorty88766  It's less that we were told to live with it so much that they survive on pure inertia.
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  1835.  @TheBossManBoss319  It's not so much giving them more power so much as embracing the power they already have but don't use. If enough interests put state power first federal power would naturally shrink.
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  1836.  @MatthewChenault  I mean first off I explained and second off... I'm Southern
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  1837.  @lVideoWatcherl  I've a friend who lives in Germany and so I got a run-down of the system. And from that description I can say honestly no the German representation is in no way better and here's why: the US has a primary system where the party members are chosen by the voter base. This means that you're never voting for a party, you're voting for a candidate. And since both parties are coalition parties at their heart you have much more control of those coalition parties as a voter than in Germany. And because the platforms are usually very loose while having to have a broad spectrum, you're not really just being part of one party for very long. The libertarians, green oriented, and conservatives are easy to see from their platforms they they run on, often against other members of their own party. And since the way things normally work is that members of both parties who share interests will vote together, they still go between parties incredibly often. With the multiparty system often devolving into two coalitions anyway the us vs them mentality stays just as easily. Once you understand the US system as a coalition system that changes internally the systems look very similar.
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  1838. 9:30 I actually suggest that the reason many of these changes are occurring is because of the breakdown in the old social relations and that these are actually unstable. Things like polyarmory are inherently unstable because it's yet another person and it's another human relation. And it's probably contributing to many young people not being able to get anything and then turning back into porn which will then continue to exacerbate the issue.
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  1839. Is it weird that I like this one more than the normal AKs?
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  1840. Tbh it sounds more like the Irish should just go back to the English given the coming situation.
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  1841. @azamatbagatov7161  So, in the interest of my time as I need to get going, but I'll forget I'll keep this short: French absolutism only came in the 16th to 17th centuries, and also failed. Northern Russia, which wasn't under Horde control, was crushed by Moscow who was. The Grand Prince title was granted in I believe 1389, by the Horde Khan himself, and was in fact because they were the Horde Tax collector and greatest collaborator. The throwing off of the Mongol Yoke came 2 years after the destruction of Novgorod. While I'm aware the title of Tsar is Bulgarian in origin, the Russian idea and effect, its worship by Russians and control over its nobles, was driven by the mongol example.
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  1842. This kid is a year younger than I am and had to kill two people and then get made out as a monster for trying to be an upstanding citizen who got put into the miserable situation of having to do so in the first place.
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  1843. 13:34 You use a population measure which isn't Chinese official statistics. I don't have any problem with this, but it does mean that you've cited Chinese population figures inconsistent with this data because China has a lot less people and has been in decline since the early 2000s by the fertility metrics you used
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  1844. The most likely reason for why China didn't invade Taiwan was that the invasion of Ukraine was botched by trying to invade after the Olympics and thus during mud season, and that the American reaction to it was to flood it with weapons and intelligence to make sure it could stand and fight and rounds of sanctions so heavy that almost any other economy would've collapsed under their weight, thus undoing 40 years of Chinese strategic thinking where they thought the Taiwan straight would be a quick and fast event where they could institute a fait accompli and the Americans wouldn't do anything, only to prove the exact opposite. Peter Zeihan talked about this a decent amount in some of his videos which sounded like almost an ass pull until you mentioned that China just didn't invade that spring despite all of the evidence pointing toward a potential invasion.
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  1845. 25:25 Why do we always think we're smarter now? Also lol world crisis v51 and WW3 let's fucking goooo!!
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  1846. Bro this is for whoever sees this... lol bro you got it right
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  1847. they don't have enough lol
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  1848. Probably the biggest thing that caused the downfall of the republic was the Punic wars. Rome sacrificed roughly 10% of its population in the first one, and then sacrificed only marginally fewer for rounds 2 and 3. Those wars completely gutted the Roman citizen population and left a lot of land just up for grabs that wealthy Romans could buy on the cheap, and slowly outcompeted the independent land owners who made up the citizen class (and thus the army recruitment), eventually completely eroding their power base and representation creating a stark disparity in wealth. I know Rudyard talks a lot about decadence and the expansion of voting rights, but he really glosses over that stakeholders disappeared almost entirety because of the Punic wars. The transition to empire from republic was set in stone once that final war came to rest as any and all hope of recovery finally died when the last soldier died on the foothills of Carthage.
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  1849. The economic and technological prowess are simply things which augment the geopolitical. Geopolitics is the source. If the US suddenly pulled out militarily and economically from the world system but still managed to be the largest economy with the most technological development then it wouldn't be a superpower anymore just an isolated state who no-one wants to mess with but also has no point in bothering. Similarly if Luxembourg suddenly managed to be the largest economy on earth and the most technologically advanced, since literally everyone around it would be able to just roll in and take it, it'd be a shrimp with no influence. Geopolitics is world power. Geopolitics is defense of your population and world order. That is what guarantees whether or not you get conquered and reduced to a region in someone else's state.
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  1850. and they thought the Russians were bad
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  1851.  @nicename7633  What is the bias you think is present?
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  1852. 2:25 If Elon really tweeted this it's the funniest shit
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  1853.  @camanderson9132  His view on it is not Russian propaganda. It's simply one which he was woefully lacking in understanding. He's primary front is the cultural one. And on that note I actually believe that his move to the daily wire plus makes a lot of sense and if anything will do more to make even more the right the larger tent than it would've otherwise. If his recent interviews are at all to go by it doesn't look like he's going any more into an echo chamber than he already was. However, his success on the cultural front and the cultural lens does not necessarily make sense in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war. It's a cultural lens which includes Russia in the context of the west rather than one primarily at odds with it which I believe serves as a much better representation of Russia as despite their western influence, their biggest influences were the orthodox Christians which have a markedly different development from the catholics and the protestant outcrop on their society as well their Mongol institutions. On top of that, the cultural lens falls apart in the context of the geopolitical. Here this war is almost exclusively geopolitical. It's really not one rationalized well in the cultural context which is why his video so much missed the mark.
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  1854. ​@Phoenix-qu5ss Vietnam yes but WW1 no. Most often not. Though Germany might have been a bit of a special case, I'm not able to confirm that
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  1855. Confirmed: Brandon is a prequel fan
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  1856. 10:17 I'll push back against that airlines point because the issue with airlines is specifically that it's a very difficult market to get into. It's a lot of capital investment and then a lot of upkeep for fairly low margins which makes it very difficult to really enter the market. How much does a plane cost? Okay now multiply that by like 100 and you finally have a small air service that still isn't making much money and needs to constantly pay for landing rights.
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  1857.  @Rockool52  if they could do that it could fit into that "mosaic warfare" concept
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  1858. reloading is realistically a small part of the civilian market but does contribute to wildcat cartridges
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  1859. 12k
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  1860. Can't wait for you to go down the route of forgotten weapons and start making the book about some of these.
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  1861. This is the first time I've seen Count Dankula. I didn't realize you were THIS Scottish. I didn't even know you were a Scot. That's a lot of Scot.
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  1862. Well to be fair American regionalism is just more well known and on more display
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  1863. 1:20 Yeah this has never worked as even in other countries with very strong pro-natalist it just doesn't work. It's there, but it's not a cause unfortunately.
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  1864. 0:13 He broke a little lol
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  1865. It's in the thousands and while that's several orders of magnitude difference, these videos are very off the cuff and just from his head and so I can think of him saying "millions of people to throw" (which Russia does have), and confusing that for the statement with thousands of vehicles. Or even millions of tons of equipment. While there's genuinely a chance he really does believe that, the statement is so absurd and there are contexts where millions applies and so I'll give benefit of the doubt for now.
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  1866. I think 5.45 is the current best cartridge for taking down unarmored human targets. I think the ballistics, and more importantly TERMINAL ballistics, favor this more Than any other caliber. However... if my target has hard body armor, my goal is to dump enough energy into it to deform it or just knock out the guy behind it with the force of the shot. Bud since armor is frequently rated for it just dump about like 5 of them into the target instead of the usual 1.
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  1867. 1:13 Stalin, Hitler, I'm not sure about Mao or Mussolini, but they too were from probably insignificant places and families. So, realistically, this is incorrect. That's just from the 20th century alone. First conquerer, Alexander, was also in the same position. Realistically, it's the archetype.
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  1868. 8:08 Yeah no this is pretty normal writing. In fact, this is fantastic writing. Though i will say it is quite a lengthy section on the opinions others had on Goethe. However i do truly love that final quote there as describing an immaculate man who, though following his dreams, was still committed and noble. He just wasn't someone who would be good for studying law. Also, Frederick the Great saying that the bard was essentially peasant trash and that Goethe should get his inspirations from France is just a very sad mark on Ferderick. It's France. Even though the Bard was occasionally crass, and did intend to show these to the masses, it's silly intellectual bickering. Especially with some of his later works being so magnificent. Even if Romeo and Juliet was just kind of silly (had he only seen that, I'd understand Frederick's opinion here). But yeah no this is not a difficult read. This is at worst lord of the rings level of writing and that was a 5th grade read for me. The only problem with that section is the topic choice itself. However, as it's only 1 page out of a thousand, it's probably not really a problem and it is a relatively brief summary. There's definitely something to be said about the physical page length, as if you were to type that on a computer it'd look far smaller.
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  1869. Did anyone think Germany would intervene in Ukraine? Honestly though it'd be funny if they did and thus start world War 3.
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  1870. Oh yeah which is why I don't think the Chinese will build up the capacity for a successful invasion. It's 3 years later and that thought still holds true. Normandy was a practical miracle, on top of a dedicated misinformation campaign to have tanks and actual troops at a different landing site, with a distracted army using a contingent of troops not even fit for garrison duty. That's why they were on the Atlantic wall in the first place: someone needed to do it but it was so unlikely that it was basically a rest area. And then the Allies invaded.
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  1871.  @wideputin9643  Eh in Miami yeah finding a Mexican is about as common as finding a Russian. But lol I think the biggest thing is just you being Mexican. There are so many white Cubans it's not even funny.
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  1872.  @wideputin9643  So were Europeans until they went out conquering. Africans aren't much better. Xenophobia is just kind of baked into our minds at a fundamental level as it's what's kept us safe and things that have kept us safe have crawled into our cultures.
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  1873. do this for Romanian too
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  1874. How do we keep having so many emergency GMRs?
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  1875. What were those shots you fired at the infographics show lol?
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  1876.  @najayanlama4048  Yeah Himilayan invasion makes no sense to me considering the Himilayas. Any attack would be Chinese forces somehow built up in Pakistan and Burma and with little hope of reinforcement and strong chokes on resupply thanks to the inherent limits on troops which could be sent to reinforce or make up for losses thanks to any reinforcements coming through either Xinjiang and down from Central Asia or through the water of the Indian Ocean. The first is incredibly long and choked a lot which prevents large amounts of soldiers from getting through and the other would be almost outright prevented due to contested seas and no real way to break through. For Myanmar almost all of this applies as well but also being forced to go through thick jungle and mountains in Yunan which are both very heavy choke points along the way which limit troops. Seriously force protection abilities for that would be incredibly limited and all attack would have to be from long and carefully planned buildup which means that any protracted conflict would just be won by India. No way to really break them unless they actually somehow make it through making war just overall very difficult.
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  1877. 8:35 Wasn't one of the ice moons also suspected to have Penitentae?
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  1878. I think we're moving that direction
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  1879. What happened is that in the public perception, especially paraded by the anti-war left, is that the occupation after the initial operation was called "a war" and so in America it's politically known as a war. Problem is that it isn't really a war. Or at least not a normal one. It was an occupation. But in America's mind, a force on force conflict is equated with anti-insurgency operations as a result of political sperging by the anti-war faction (who in their ignorance I'm not sure actually know what it would mean to not be at war to them). This has resonated through a couple of generations of Americans, and now it's just "known" to be our "foreign wars"
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  1880. @SPCv4  No, there were peasant revolts that occurred, but not peasant revolutions. The difference is success for the most part, as well as motive. Not to mention, in 46 BC, the peasants were still largely armed and represented in the Roman senate, meaning that the bottom was indeed a key to power. However, that's not always the case, as in the example I listed above. The iron age was very different from the bronze age, in that you just needed a lot of men in order to do anything militarily, and it was pretty easy to equip people, which wasn't the case with the bronze age.
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  1881. TFW you ask the question "Who in Europe fucks around?" and realize the answer is no-one but Italy because everyone else who fucked around no longer exist
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  1882. at the end there you started describing mass driver cannons
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  1883. ​ @ronsmith3523 So we pulled our troops out and were surprised when upon resistance no longer being present that they could sweep?
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  1884. The point is that it should have been rich And honestly it hasn't advanced much with even Africa starting to explode and get richer and a few African states being as wealthy as the Latin American ones. Realistically it should've been like the US.
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  1885.  @k.t.5405  That's so wrong I don't even know where to begin. First off slave societies are almost always poorer than any other society. Also that's flat out WRONG as they both imported slaves and also didn't exist 350 years before Britain and America outlawed slavery. Next much of the protestants' wealth came not from slaves, but from industry and robust trade which is why the North of the US was so much wealthier than the South of it. Even more so South America (especially Brazil) relied on it far longer than the US did. In fact it's part of why Brazil is so poor today. The Spanish and Portuguese were also the first to import slaves as they started to settle before the British did. So overall... you're just wrong. On every level.
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  1886.  @k.t.5405  It became a safe haven because it was a foreign country and thus did not have justification. That's why Canada was ALSO a slave haven. The laws are only enforceable within your borders. Also you completely have missed out on how the prosperous sections of these countries were NOT the slave parts. Which is why the northern US was also a very strong slave haven. 300 years of slave-free labor? This is 1820 and 200 years earlier in 1605 you had slaves strip mining gold and silver which contributed to high inflation in Spain because of it all flowing back there. Btw Spain only banned slavery in 1811 and Cuba straight refused to ban it.
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  1887.  @k.t.5405  King Charles V was the holy Roman emperor and thus that only applies to the Holy Roman Empire which Spain was never a part of though he did ban it during his time as king of Spain only on the Iberian peninsula and took until 1811 to ban it across the Empire as the ban applied only to the native Americans and Asians, not the Africans. Even then the underpaid labor of the native Americans was coerced. Oh and what's even funnier? Holy Roman Empire is Germany. So Germany got wealthy entirely without slaves.
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  1888.  @k.t.5405  Number 1: That anti-slavery tradition is nonexistent. Completely nonexistent and they were enslaving and buying slaves the entire time. Number 2: While it was outlawed in name it was in limited capacity and so slavery was still practiced even if not just in the strict sense. Number 3: Central and Northern Europe, with 0 slave trade, still came out wealthy and the slave dealing parts of the countries came out much poorer. Oh also Japan is still more wealthy even though it only started in the 1850s. Your reasoning is erroneous and easily explained away. Stop.
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  1889.  @k.t.5405  One: Slaves will as long as it is outside the jurisdiction since the law literally can't be enforced Two: I'm just going to send you the link here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_colonial_Spanish_America Read all about how slavery manifested in Spanish America Three: Well France didn't even really have slaves except in Haiti so jot that down. But the wealthiest territory? Then that would be the Northeastern US, Prussia, or Austria within the Holy Roman Empire. Spain would not be on the list with its large colonial empire. Also you have completely failed to acknowledge how I've brought up Germany and Japan which ran completely without slaves. Hell even the Soviet Union was more wealthy and was a backwater under serfdom. Your entire argument is moot and ridiculous.
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  1890. First off: The largest reason for the lack of upheaval in developed countries is due to their comparative wealth of a golden age and unified elites for most of their post war history. Not to mention the demographic factor which means you don't have enough young people to do anything. Secondly: Yeah no China isn't getting to that 20k anytime soon. That's predicated on a higher economic growth then they have by official metrics. By unofficial metrics they're possibly 60% smaller.
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  1891. @JonTan-z3e  You're right it's absolutely impressive. Though, it's closer to 10k in all likelihood due to the compounding effects of lying on GDP figures and using other ways to measure their economy such as overall night time light emissions. However... i don't think 40k is actually unobtainable. I think it's unobtainable within this generation. I think the central fundamentals of China are significantly below what they should be, and it has many factors which will lead to its own decline in terms of pure size later on. I think if it fixes its fundamentals, and gives it another go in a couple of generations, it could probably get way bigger, though it'll be with a much smaller population.
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  1892. @Logan S  This is the argument for state control of the economy. Yeah no it's wrong. Working together is great in many respects, but working against each other provides the competition necessary for ideas to flourish as they become requirements to do better than someone else.
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  1893. This really isn't one of them honestly. For the sake of a rather weak argument regarding competition and environmental regulation (it's really not that hard to carry another cable) they've completely destroyed any future competition. Different devices have different needs and the different cables largely reflect that. It also means that someone in future cannot create a better cable later on. I think it's one that sounds great and will be mostly harmless in the short term, but in the long term be more detrimental for very small gain in the short term anyway.
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  1894. @Logan S  As far as I'm aware it's whatever is USB standard as they simply went and delegated it to that group. Which, useful for developing the USB lines of A, B, and C, isn't necessarily responsible for all cables. So I'd imagine it's just whatever the USB commission likes.
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  1895.  aa K0stic  What do you think is the Russian position?
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  1896.  @markmuller7962  Let me sum it up easier then: The area east of the Urals is so empty that it takes such a small amount of people to move in and simply outpopulate the native Russians and then do something like split off. Would Russians be replaced at all in their heartland? No. They would simply lose territory. But on flat grassland of the Steppe that territory is their defense and without it there are no defensible borders for the Russian heartland.
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  1897. That was quick Griffin lol. Definitely the best choice of thumbnail.
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  1898. Are you sure it won't be the east African federation?
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  1899.  @fcoomega7734  Because saying someone wasn't something they claimed to be by citing an action isn't saying that they're not bad. And the only reason she brought it up is because nationalism is given a bad name by the deluded genocidal man that was Hitler. To take that as a defense of Hitler is so completely dishonest the only way you can genuinely think it is is to simply not think about it for more than a second and assume she agrees with something she did not actually say.
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  1900.  @fcoomega7734  The defense was that she was in no means defending genocide or any of the other horrible atrocities. And she didn't. However considering her involvement in Jewish affairs it was offensive to her that the allegation was at all made. It's like someone saying It's good Margaret Sanger created planned parenthood the issue is that she was targeting people. And then you're accused of defending Margaret Sanger's eugenics beliefs because you didn't in that same breath immediately condemn the idea because it wasn't relevant to your point. And you volunteer at a community center primarily dominated by blacks and have a boss at a job who's black. Wouldn't that be offensive to you? Also the defense is that you didn't at all claim to support the idea or be defending her you just also reasonably took offense to the idea.
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  1901.  @fcoomega7734  I think you've been watching too many Candace Ownens is bad clips lol.
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  1902.  @fcoomega7734  Most people? Because it's shorter than saying "Jewish person"? Because it's not exactly offensive?
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  1903. Ants did the same and a fair few species are pretty territorial even with their own
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  1904. Remember that none of these announcements are for us the audience, but instead for the out of touch investors who they hope don't have good memories in order to justify their continued investment and capital. If they're "announcing projects" they don't have to address the destruction of the brand because they're "working on it"
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  1905. 9:00 - 11:00 I'm sorry WHAT are you talking about? European system is colonization? Did you miss the portion where Germany industrialized without colonies and the French colonies were small and non-producing until they'd already industrialized? The only ones doing the "European system" were the Brits. And then you call the US model going to war with people before trading with them? This misses how the US traded primarily with EUROPE and That most of its wars to get markets were also AFTER it had already industrialized. After being industrialized means that both were already rich from industrialization. Wow is that just really bad. I mean if you're trying to say it's the Indian perspective on it I can understand that, but come on that should be so much more obvious.
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  1906. Big brains call it the role of the tank (mobile protected firepower)
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  1907. should've watched the video
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  1908.  @hyro1112  underrated comment
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  1909. Tbh, that's perfectly fine
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  1910. I think the only thing is a question of if Europeans hear much about news outside of Europe. Or even the third world out of their geographic areas. Remember, the issue with the USA is that it's more of a continent of 50 related countries than much else. For everyone else, 300 miles is another country. For the US, you can still be in the same state. I think there is simply a "big country" problem for the largest powers.
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  1911. 30:26 I'm pretty sure this is the origin of why "emotional cheating" exists and why women in Japan are basically fine with men sleeping with prostitutes. "It's just sex, it doesn't matter"
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  1912. I find your characterization of an empire wanting. Very few empires worked in the way you described, and for the ones who did it was an integration attempt in order to expand the national identity for the purposes of control. However most empires in history didn't do this. Not the British, not the Chinese, not the Indian, not even the various Muslim empires. Very few empires tried to make their populations integrate into the larger population and most would simply use local elites anyway. This isn't how an empire functions, this is how an empire tries to create a nation. Some worked. Others didn't. But ultimately it doesn't stop the rest of the nation from being a nation if they identify themselves as such. They have to coalesce around shared ideas, values, and enemies. Within empires that didn't really manifest. Within nations, that's how they're formed. This characterization of an empire is simply incorrect and leaves out the most central part of an empire: the primacy of an ethnic group over the others, especially with regards to conquest and administration. This is a quality that is largely wanting in America. Frankly your idea of nations can extend to almost anywhere on the planet that a large national identity as formed. In your newest video released you discussed the Kurds being a nation despite being stateless. It's about this time where i inform you that the Kurds largely can't actually communicate due to lingual distance. Nations are flexible and come from a shared identity first and foremost. Empires rarely shared such an identity. Only those who transitioned to a nation were able to last beyond the destruction of their states (China and Rome).
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  1913. The Indians actually did seem to build a military culture under the British and there were some genuine world beaters in the kingdoms the British fought in the conquest of the subcontinent with some very well regarded units even after occupation. Not to mention the Indo-Pakistani wars during which it embarrassed Pakistan multiple times (Pakistan more than once suffered more casualties with the smaller army).
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  1914. Japanese are taking over!
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  1915. 4:37 Yes this is exactly how i spend my free time. It doesn't help me at all but it's certainly interesting
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  1916. Finally starting a border force?
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  1917. Given the complete 180 young Stalin did in his early adolescence from well-mannered candidate for priest to bank robbing hooligan BEFORE he went communist, it does sound like the spirit of Chi Shi Xuang Di really did infect him and then take over the communist party.
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  1918. Honestly when it comes to India this is arguably not a new concept considering the initial way India came under the British authority
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  1919. I think Xenophon's March of the 10 thousand is far longer. Though honestly, matches this in spirit
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  1920. Worth noting that Russia has basically suffered the same problem Poland did. Russia basically turned its entire culture into having the only purpose to try to secure its borders. Poland though ended up suffering a total collapse of its population losing a third of it. And then got invaded while it was weak.
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  1921. Okay but what you've expressed as those saying "They paid for it and thus those others should pay for it too" which you have implied as using their position to harm or suppress others isn't the case and in fact you are being unfair to them as they have used their resources for this goal and now you are taking more from them to give to others who will simply not use any resources at all. Not to mention, much of that comes from the idea that you think not everyone is able to go ahead and make it for themselves if they truly want to while those making the argument of "you must generate and use the resources to get in" are of the opinion that you can do it to get in. There is a fundamental disagreement in values and who decides who is harming and or suppressing others? And even more importantly: how do you know an opinion is harmful until you actually listen to it?
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  1922. @Beardiemom  Yeah, the standard of living actually isn't higher. Not to mention, you seem to have completely failed to grasp the nature of the question I was asking: ideas on progress, what is and isn't right, etc are all HIGHLY variable and you think is harmful is to others completely acceptable and in fact many people here think free college is harmful. Things like public transportation are harmful. Also while access to medical care is technically more wide reaching, it's not really more effective nor does it have to contend with the difficulties of American lifestyle. Progress means a better future yes. What does greater access to post-secondary education really give to to that end? They're created as non-essential. It's not meant to be for everyone, nor is it necessary for a good life. They're tools for advancement to the elite of society. However, becoming an elite naturally takes time and resources. If the basic primary and secondary education systems aren't preparing students for life, that's a failure of the education system and not an endorsement of post-secondary education. Also worth noting that the most highly value-added careers are the ones which pay for themselves and thus do not necessitate that change to the system. However, someone going for something far less value added has wasted their time. Post-secondary education generally doesn't do much better for people unless in specific fields. So why should we subsidize it and give access to more people who won't benefit and perhaps may even end up wasting an extra 2 to 4 years of their life on something which either does nothing for them or actively hurts them? In that case, it's not an investment at all and, in fact, a net loss as instead of people becoming productive from an early age and having 4 years of experience and built skills they're functionally as useful as a high school graduate.
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  1923. @Connor Holman  Well I did consider it and found quite a long time ago that the rat race was in general the best outcome we have found and basically all other ideas proposed are actually terrible, not to mention the idea of "ever-increasing profits" is a lie pushed by socialists who really don't understand the system beyond a surface level due to the lens of Marx. Also, the reason public transport is a net negative is the encouragement of government dependency, which is an even worse disease than car dependency. I'm actually personally a fan of micro mobility, but I digress. The reason why it's a waste of time to pursue other frivolous degrees is that you are wasting precious time in your life, and the money of not only yourself but often others, for very little gain on your part and on something that doesn't really add much to society. The reason the degrees that make a lot of money are important is that they basically always add direct value back to society with the exceptions in there being things like education degrees (which don't make a ton of money but generally do add far more to society as it's educating the young). But fundamentally, education's primary purpose is to impart skills into people that they will need to succeed in life. Impart skills they will need to better themselves, and hopefully, the broader society as a whole. Far too many degrees have honestly little betterment to society as a whole and produce far more than are actually needed. Scientific research is almost endless in the amount of people who are needed to keep it going, so is medicine (especially since we effectively lose a class a year to suicide), and R&D by engineers just about as important as well. This is why STEM careers are so important. However, almost every other field can genuinely be learned by reading a few books on the subject, and people are wasting years of their life in such degrees. Books which can be read in your spare time as a hobby. Or perhaps you actually chose the arts, in which case almost everything in them has little bearing on your success in said arts, unless you're attempting to teach the arts to others (though I'll admit the band and orchestra credentials of collegiate students do help given their colleges renown in that arena). Education is fantastic as the central idea is of imparting knowledge and skills. However, knowledge is almost never acquired by just sitting in classes and doing assignments as is done when you're attending an institution. And on a fundamental level, everyone knows this. The knowledge can always be found elsewhere. Universities are not gatekeepers of knowledge. They are facilitators of research more than anything else, and when they're not doing that, they're taking money from gullible people who have been told by everyone that college is the way to succeed in life. Only that information was a lie. The degrees are meaningless pieces of paper that say your institution passed you in whatever field you chose. For some careers, they're simply a necessity to start. For others, there are no careers (besides within the university system), or there are alternative means of getting in. Fundamentally, everyone should pursue what they're good at to best develop themselves and contribute to society while pursuing the knowledge they desire on their own time. And if you're doing it with any enthusiasm, you'll know more than any degree holder at the end of the same period of time.
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  1924. I can see ramping up aircraft production, but the US actually kind of dominates aircraft production. Oh and 4x the population who has historically not been very good at mobilizing their population for war. I'm also curious as to how they'll keep everything fueled since they import 59% of their oil. The US imports more but also primarily exports their oil as well as has strong allied import locations which can't be interfered with (Canada and Mexico). This is compared to the only possible access China having through Russia. Which can likely be bombed all things considered. Btw on that mobilization metric: if the Chinese and Americans were to mobilize in similar ratios as in the second world War the US military would be twice the size of China's military in total numbers.
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  1925.  @dabo5078  Yes I'm talking about the mobilization rate because that's a very important factor in war (btw worth noting that by that point the nationalists had united all of the warlords within a few years of the invasion and even then still couldn't mobilize more) and on top of that I'm using it because both countries fought so you can use the conflict and is the closest metric we have. Could that change? Possibly. However culturally the Chinese are fairly opposed to the military with China historically having mostly mercenary armies and WWII attitudes being "Why aren't they doing better when we're paying them so much?" and the Confucian value being that "good steel isn't used for nails" in relation to the military. Also yes why am I bringing it up mobilization rates? Because that's a percentage of the population and thus unaffected by actual population but I made those estimates with modern populations. Also no the reason why China is still cheaper is not because of actual volume but because that the labor pool is so massive as to keep wages low and thus in comparison to the US labor which commands a much higher price. And it's just unlikely to manage to produce more especially since the American factories can still be tooled up incredibly high. In terms of the ballistic missiles the US has very good defense technology against those and so they're unlikely to really do anything. They're also primarily tooled toward local distrances of around the south China sea. They're also expensive, difficult to replace, and overall really not much of "reaching the US". This is also compared to the US who can literally fly higher, fly more, and can fly nearly undetected. The Chinese Air defense however isn't really up to snuff to taking up the US air power in the higher altitudes. Overall kind of not up to the task.
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  1926.  @dabo5078   @da bo  Well no mobilization rates has little to do with how well they can be supplied. While yes that's important, what's more important is getting people to actually fight for you. Even if they're using swords it's still better than nothing. And it's not like I'm using just them as precedent even during the Taiping rebellion the mobilization rate for China was incredibly small. And then in comparison the American Civil War saw a comparable rate to the second world War. Basically the comparison for me is that I'm looking at the long-term trends of the past roughly 200 years to see about how willing each country's population has been to go to war in a comparable high intensity conflict. Your attempt to brush it aside as saying "it's like saying the US wouldn't be able to mobilize because it left Afghanistan or won't help Ukraine" has 0 basis in analyzing how the country fights and reacts to actual conflicts. Afghanistan wasn't a war it was an occupation and the US simply didn't care to end up in a war it didn't care about (which btw is WWII situation is it not?). The Afghanistan war ended within a month. So that's just in no way accurate. And then the US simply didn't care for the war but given a war the US supports (a defensive war for a strategic interest against an enemy the population agrees on despising) you'll likely see the actual mobilization. Also lol no China is still cheap and you compared it to other southeastern neighbors which are all known as cheap labor and thus that argument kind of falls flat. Also the reason India and Bangladesh haven't taken over the industry is that India keeps out foreign investment and so there's been no-one to start up more factories there. Also worth noting that the Chinese usage of all of those materials make sense in the context of providing for the largest population on the planet but also when you consider that they're for thought of future growth which is actually unlikely to occur basically inflating the number higher than it otherwise would because it was only produced what was needed and for a much smaller population. Overall just isn't an apples to apples comparison there. PS American aircraft can fly above all but the newest Chinese Air defense and also operates stealth bombers which would be undetected.
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  1927. Imagine that the properties of acoustics and fluid mechanics apply from the local level on earth to on a cosmic level.
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  1928.  @Archenw  The point is that the neo-colonialism will basically be accepted and not really be any form of oppression. Even now they're basically subjects of the American empire although not explicitly and that's the idea behind the whole thing. Any "neo-colonialism" will be a lowering of autonomy as the US tries to protect them since they're unable to protect themselves. Frankly I'm unsure this will happen and I don't think even Britain will collapse (especially with things like the Norwegians and Swedes rejoining like come on). Frankly this seems like an outcome where they're so weak as to be useless which I don't think can happen if they at all recover from the collapse but I guess the whole idea is that they don't. May have pulled too much from Rome and Greece like you said but he also pulled it from a book.
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  1929.  @Archenw  While I agree, we'd probably have our view points changed if we read the books in question, and on top of that the US already is managing the protection of Europe. Any crisis was basically managed by the Americans. When you're that reliant on one player you're basically their client. It's Amero-centric because reality happens to support it in regards to Europe. The rest of it really isn't especially since it puts China as colonizing Siberia (which I actually can't see happening given their demographics lol) and Japan becoming part of China's "imperium" once again (even though Japan really wasn't much of a Chinese client for a long time having stopped tributes to China centuries before Europeans arrived). Honestly the thing with the US is that it's such a new state on a place which didn't exist in the minds of the world 550 years ago that it's kind of hard to see where it goes. It has its own series of patterns to develop and hasn't had a chance to solidify any yet. Also he in another video put France as a future superpower with control over west Africa and that'd probably prevent statelessness in west Africa along with going against European solidification of going under the US umbrella. Poland expanding and a new civilization rising in the gap where Ukraine and Russia once was (frankly I've got an idea of Ukraine becoming the New Russian elite and possibly leading to an immense reform) also goes against that idea as it presents autonomy and ability he presented Europe as just not having post crisis.
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  1930.  @Archenw  Well it'd be weirder if you did because it was released less than a day ago and tbh I can kind of see that being LARP
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  1931. Sloths can hold their breaths longer than the actual aquatic mammals? How do they live?
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  1932.  @3rdblindmouse544  I like this take very much. Seems the most honest one. However from what I understand of these ideologies, Fascism seems just as rooted in Marxism as socialism. I take this from its origin, its inventor, and how its implementation has ended up together. First off the fascists are an offshoot of the socialists which makes them linked far more than they are to capitalists (as Marxism is very much a reaction to capitalism more than it is any offshoot) and was created by Benito Mussolini in an attempt to refine socialism. He did intend for it to be a new system but it has the socialist principles within it inherently as he still did believe it in. The refining comes from where the power should be and how the people should be united on this front. The essence of fascism comes from keeping socialism within state borders and an allegiance of the people to the state united. The means of production are controlled by the state and in nazi Germany The government really did have a lot of control over all of these companies. Now socialism is very much implemented similarly but with the one caveat of not trying to be limited by its country. It's supposed to unite the workers together to control the means of production and participate in a more "fair" economy and trade. The only issue is that in practice this always manifests as state control is many of these outlets as in order to keep the companies in line the government ends up having to step in. The people end up often being loyal to the party and the party ends up in control of the government. Now... I will say that this is mostly how "communism" has been implemented rather than socialism. The only modern country that has professed socialism rather than communism in wide knowledge is Venezuela in which it did nationalize much of the economy but without the loyalty to the party and instead loyalty to Hugo Chavez. These ideologies are not inherently totalitarian, however unless there is unanimous agreement among the people and companies involved, the only way to implement any of this is through authoritarian rule and forcing it on the people. I would also like to have people not confuse how government policy and intervention that people refer to as "socialist" isn't very socialist as simply having government run programs are not socialist. It's when the government controls not just the economy but the companies involved permanently that it becomes fascism and or socialism. Also there's something to be said for not calling racists fascists. Fascism is a socio-economic ideology based on the people's interaction with the government and economy and not on race.
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  1933.  @ReckerFidelWOLF  I thank you for being an honest commie.
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  1934.  @3rdblindmouse544  I honestly have forgotten what that is so I had to look it up. I feel like the fascists probably subscribed to the Keynesian school from what I could gather. FDR certainly subscribed to the idea or at least used what the theory would support in his policies.
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  1935.  @3rdblindmouse544  Please don't remind me of the worst president of the United States. You actually cannot do worse than he did in current year short of undoing civil rights law and then putting the KKK in power on the Supreme Court and all levels of executive office.
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  1936. I think it's funny that you acknowledged the role of the tax incentive structure, but didn't realize how that's the reason the monopolies exist, and instead called monopolies the natural state of business.
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  1937. this reminds me of the joke of the "the husband store" where the heart of the joke was that since you couldn't go back down, many women continued to a floor that no longer had men available, while the punchline is that "the wife store" never got past the second floor.
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  1938.  @stephenhodgson3506  My point in the Holy Roman empire and that time lapse is that Germany very much did exist and probably why the empire of Germany saw themselves as the second German empire (second Reich after all) and the collapse of the HRE was just the uniting factor in the German states that had fallen apart so Prussia fought napoleon multiple times in that fashion. Also no my point about Texas actually refers to the fact that they were an independent republic before annexation. The fact that the Mexicans had little control due to the migration of American settlers to the region and had started the republic in the first place. Also while the Spanish had a long history in California... again... largely pushed out. California had been very sparsely populated until the gold rush which had created a huge influx with most of that influx being Americans from the east
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  1939.  @stephenhodgson3506  California became a US state BECAUSE of the gold rush a quick Google search would help you get the timeline because it started in 1848 and California statehood in 1850 with the compromise of 1850 admitted as a free state. Gold rush started a year prior to its admittance to the union and part of the reason why it was admitted was because the people who had moved to the state sought statehood. Now...I never said they couldn't have a united military because of this. I simply said the comparison between the USA and the EU is disingenuous because thousands of years of history in the same place with the same groups, cannot compare to a country who's I constituent populations share largely the same cultural roots and who's populations are largely influenced by the influx of migrations of other people's who brought their cultural traditions and not people who've had cultural traditions in their areas for over a thousand years. The lines on the map in Europe have changed little on the local level and the populations have changed equally less. Compared to the United States who frequently pushed out and outpopulated anyone there first which is why the lines on the map in the US largely don't correlate between lines on the map and are more blobs which just fizzle out in terms of populations. Take Tennessee and Kentucky who basically no-one will tell the difference between unless they're from either. Compare Kansas and Nebraska. Compare the entirety of the Midwest. And now compare France and Germany or Italy and Austria. It's not at all alike. Oh another reason why I say Holy Roman empire is because people in Germany still largely see themselves as their constituent states such as Saxony or Bavaria and even has differences in the language. The only difference between imperial Germany and HRE is more governmental and the idea of German nationalism from that time which beyond those two things isn't much difference besides territory as Prussia and Austria had a lot of polish territory at the time.
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  1940. Completely stupid anyway
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  1941. To be fair, they really weren't fighting a total war on two fronts. They were fighting an air war on two fronts but they were completely wiping out their enemies on one front and generally winning on the other until reinforcements arrived and they had to end the campaign in the West. Remember that for Germany they really didn't have a second front until the invasion of Italy. The war in Africa was generally very small and also definitely not a total war.
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  1942. Tbh this line of thinking may have strategic reasons to exist again since the aircraft carrier is starting to come under threat by new Missile systems which make large and expensive ships, like the aircraft carrier, more vunerable.
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  1943. 11:21 is peak America. A few good things got cobbled together to make something absolutely cursed. Or blessed. Depends on your weeb level.
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  1944.  @Saiga-saiga  More like gods of death from said icy hell
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  1945. I'd only disagree with you on one point: beyond the Q stuff, the right isn't ideologically fractured. Most of it agrees on most issues and furthermore isn't divided so heavily based on one single issue as even if they disagree on an issue, they focus more on what they have in common. That Trait does not apply to the left which both contains many more factions with much more heavy disagreements (such as democratic socialists vs unions) and focus much more often on the differences (see the supporters of the 2020 primary nominees). With one final thing being that Donald Trump was NOT just leader and rallying cry for the right, he was also very much a rallying cry for the left as the face of an evil leader which can be seen in the record voter turnout and the leftist coalition. So I don't think they will be much of one either. I'd imagine a second civil war only coming about as an armed left wing gathers a coalition against whatever threat they see, while the right sees that threat and responds in kind. However I am very likely to agree that the right would be much more likely to capitulate.
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  1946. 4:11 Given how much the Catholic church funded science and how many early scientists discovering the natural world were Christian, would this not make sense for most higher echelons of Christian sects to be Deists by this more broad definition?
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  1947.  @RWebster325  Can you potentially see and hit them. Yes. But only because you know exactly the fact that they're targets and the people who engage in that stuff usually have better than average eyesight. At distances roughly around 300m it becomes difficult to properly identify targets. And even farther out you're not even aiming at a target, just an approximate position. Which needles to say is less than optimal for an engagement with a lot of trouble for the average soldier to actively score a hit on.
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  1948.  @DoctorBiobrain  Ah yes. His famous stutter. Which doesn't appear if you look at him speaking 20 years ago and also of course changes Ukrainian to "Uranian" (and almost sounded like Iranian), called Syria "Libya" 3 times at the G7, and created the new word of "trueananonashoppadapressure"
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  1949.  @DoctorBiobrain  Yeah apparently you don't watch the speeches. He trails off and messes up so often if you actually read the transcript they're correcting his speech. And if you've gone through a Trump speech you know what you've said is untrue. You can find like the 5 times he's had any issues lmao. And you know they'd be widely publicized for every time there was one given how much most channels loved to rag on him. Very silly.
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  1950.  @DoctorBiobrain  Biden can't even read the teleprompter properly. And can't even portend to not use one. And of course you watch real comedy. Which is just Trump content. Wow how terrible. So very sad. You're unfortunately lost in the sauce and have 0 understanding of what CNN does considering it milked things like Trump stumbling slightly on a ramp. Very silly.
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  1951. ​@luisa.acevedo3326 I'd say the biggest issue in Puerto Rico is simply the emigration as it comes primarily from their young population. Thus the Island is aging far faster than normal
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  1952. ​@thomgizziz Because you can do that far better than asking people. People tell you what they think on the surface. They don't think about the underlying factors underneath. If you really want to ask, and you really want to understand why outside of what he discusses, the only question you need to ask is "Is living here hell?" to much of the population in South Korea. Because frankly, yes, what you've said is true, but it speaks to something fundamental about attitudes in the region. Why people think something is a cultural factor. Though "Why am I living in hell?" is another one.
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  1953. I think the issue is having to have a budget that you don't directly control. If you're managing your own budget or otherwise having to keep it under a certain number with the rest of it going to you it's not as important to simply spend it all. But when someone else gives you a budget there is no reward for going under budget and you just get less money next time.
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  1954. Can someone possibly give me the context of why these amendments were here and what the bill actually is?
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  1955. Man from Chicago gets traditional Florida welcome
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  1956. CHRISTMAS CHEER!!
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  1957. Western liberalism is what drives America at least to a degree. However the American left has turned more toward socialism and such leanings while also engaging in conscious suicide by creating a de-facto religion of wokeness. It's quite concerning and honestly once people learn that taking the Bible literally is not what you're supposed to do they'll probably open up to more church worship. The biggest issue it has is assuming Christianity believes the world was actually created in 7 days due to many protestant movements based on "Bible First" where they take it at face value. We'll likely see new churches spring up if that idea can be reconciled.
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  1958. Educate me of these references!
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  1959.  @larslover6559  He's in Miami Beach bro they're not there
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  1960. Bro... you're looking in the wrong place. Best place you're getting a mech engineering job in Miami is Missile and Fire control at Lockheed Martin but for that you've gotta prove you've got the aerospace stuff like having done rockets already. There's no market for mech engineers in Miami. You want a place for that? Look in Orlando.
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  1961. I'm all for the second amendment, but... It needs some expansions. Until everyone has access to motorized rocket artillery, we haven't gone far enough.
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  1962. ​@P St I mean if they treat you back to dinner afterwards it seems like a mutually beneficial relationship
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  1963.  @Or5mr  Maybe I do lol
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  1964. Pacifististic views limit the ability to be a good military which is often the difference between conquering and being conquered.
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  1965.  @joshua_here5849  But those are a special Case basically allowed by a cultural view which supports it. Also is small enough that deviations from that view can't really grow. There's a reason they're the only ones who function that way.
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  1966.  @emperorarima3225  I do have to wonder if you're looking at that a bit too much from a total war standpoint since so much of history has had wars settled via a treaty after a limited exchange over a smaller objective.
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  1967.  @dr.woozie7500  Tbh the collapse of the international system will probably come regardless. But yeah the US invades China and it doesn't do anything.
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  1968.  @GL-iv4rw  How did the Manchurians do it?
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  1969.  @whm_w8833  Nah there's strategic reasons for Taiwan as they have very important resources and the reasons China is going for them is ideological only. Ukraine is basically a strategic location where either it exists under Russian Control or is on the widest part of the eastern European plain and is the gates for an invasion which is why Russia went so far into central Europe. Also until now I doubt we could've held it and honestly I'm still not entirely convinced since it would take a fair amount of resources to do so since the only way to hold territory in Eastern Europe is to have a big army holding it so any invader is crushed. Which is difficult on flat plains and requires disproportionately large investment in the military to do so. Central Europe is a small enough width of plain to defend. Basically we can get up up Poland and Romania actually defend it. Ukraine? Nope.
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  1970.  @GL-iv4rw  Well the reason they assimilated was because they had to use pre-existing people and systems. 4:1 isn't as bad as 100:1. So domination would be possible without it. Though honestly it was a genuine question of how did they do it I don't know how.
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  1971.  @GL-iv4rw  I'm even more confused
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  1972. Yeah, the problem here is the European system isn't much different except for the fact that the parties are super niche and in depth that you never leave with no variance among candidates. When you vote in Europe, you vote for a party. When you vote in America, you vote for a candidate. That person and THEIR position is what you agree upon. That's why there are primary elections. So, in effect, you get the European system of a coalition government made of many interests. However, the difference is that you get honestly even more say over how things are done because you're not voting for a party but instead for the person. Don't like the person? Primary election or even the other party. The candidate system is how you get situations like the Virginia rep flipping Republican and winning the race with 0 change in political position. You can break with party lines as a politician as long as you have the support of your base. You cannot do so in Europe or with a more diversified party system as, with more parties, you will naturally be forced to commit to the parties themselves instead. There's no commitment to the American system, which is why independents and swing voters are such important blocs. Does not exist in Europe.
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  1973. "Ah yes thank you for affirming my beliefs that lead to collective destruction"
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  1974.  @Ethan99752  Tbh the Americans were the closest to doing so but leaving 0 support for the army which was trained basically doomed them.
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  1975. I think this concept of "empire" is flawed as it forgets the very simple concept that an empire is based with a dominant population who conquers and annexes populations for subjugation. The Hapsburgs were an empire who dominated as Austrians above the rest, and only gave concessions to the minority groups (but first the largest minority, the Magyars, to form the dual monarchy) once the forces of nationalism threatened to pull the empire apart. This was due to the gained consciousness. No-one felt loyalty to the universal empire of the Habsburgs. They felt loyalty to their nations (their ethnic group). The problem is that nations can be either ethnic or civic. The American identity is a civic identity, much like the Roman one. Though, another wrinkle is trying to find the difference between tribal and national identities, especially in regards to the Roman empire. Few in the integrated parts of the Roman empire felt their tribal identities. However, those who weren't still identified with their tribes. But by virtue of being tribes, they don't for a nation make, as they don't identify with each other to really any extent. The Roman empire, however, is actually a good example of an integrated nation. One who assimilated other peoples. This then formed a united Roman identity strong enough to resist foreign conquest in many parts of the Mediterranean for centuries. See, the key to any nation is the identity of one. The people of the British isles see themselves as distinct, even from each other. However, their descendents across the globe don't even view themselves as from those islands. Even more relevant, they've mixed to such an extent that they'd have no way to even try to tell which is which. Though they share blood, the English genetic diaspora doesn't see itself anywhere their cousins. In contrast, we have the Arabs. Though they were made of very distinct peoples and cultures at one point in the past, and don't share blood very often with one another (and don't even speak the same language even if they can all read what's written), but they still see themselves as Arab. The Syrians, Egyptians, and Tunisians have basically nothing in common in terms of genetic lineage. However, if you were to ask the Egyptians about the Copts or the Syrians about the Syriacs, chances are you could offend them with the question for comparing them. Thus brings us back to America. Although America is an amalgamation of populations who share little in the way of actual history or blood but, you can't find significant pockets of those who identify with the countries of origin past the third generation. Their heritage becomes a footnote, a shared marker of the fact that their ancestry is, in fact, a migration from developed states from across the sea. The fact that they've been born on this soil (or perhaps they are migrants), and the fact that they do identify with this country, while their fellow countrymen too identify them as such, indicates merely that it's a very unique and malleable national identity, and not in itself not being a nation. You won't find a man from small town Alabama denying that people from New York or LA are his people (Americans), even if he wish it were not so. This is of course in contrast to being of the many other peoples, which is what all nations are. A shared group who differentiate themselves from other groups of people by virtue of a shared identity. Finally, though you say they are "disguised" nations, the reality is that nations themselves are tricky things. Remember that if you wish, you can separate people into even the individual family level. At some point you have to realize that the identity is in itself an agglomeration. It is flexible and not necessarily mutually exclusive. Thus the assertion that the nationalities are "confused" rather than realizing that they're simply not truly nations in the traditional sense, is in itself flawed and arguably misguided.
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  1976. 20 years of development left to go but... new revolution is coming
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  1977. 1:22 authentic Kar98k sounds oh damn
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  1978.  @XxXVideoVeiwerXxX  The best strategy is not to compete in a numbers fight but the issue is that the west can't compete in a materials fight either since they'll be raising factories from scratch having outsourced them all to China.
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  1979.  @briansantos1700  It's also again becoming another big target. Hypersonic missiles are a big issue with little counter so far beyond sabatodging the complex kill chain required to use effectively. So right now the best defense is to just not be in range at all.
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  1980.  @bramantios5797  Yeah it doesn't even need India for that. Any power looking for war can cut it off instantly. Honestly China's power protection is really about as good as any other's right now as they're too tied to the global economy which would of course tank in an actual conflict. So it would very much be a war of what you have. There would be no reinforcements, no production, just all of the assets that are already in service. Though in that aspect... China loses. No allies, enemies on all sides (yes, even Russia), and on a spot that can't secure its own production.
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  1981. I've no idea his this works
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  1982. It really wasn't very common. The STG was a bit over 400k of production. MGs and K98s were in the millions.
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  1983.  @henrikg1388  Not in any significant number considering only 400k and the size of the Heer at the time which was still around... let's say roughly 4 million as a conservative estimate as they were getting crushed on both sides even though I'm fairly sure it was larger. That's about 10% who get one. Now take into account that many don't even get to be shipped to the front and also that the ones that do get lost as men die in combat. So you're looking at roughly 5% or less of the army equipped with these at any one time.
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  1984.  @NarasimhaDiyasena  You have shown that you understand nothing. Congratulations.
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  1985. I'm Gen Z. I don't understand half of this shit. Who are these people?
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  1986. 0:09 None of that is what's needed to be a rich country. Controversial take, but i think the record shows that material conditions are basically uncorellated with wealth.
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  1987. Yeah those are the Indo-Europeans for you. I wonder how well the Persians and Anatolians kept it
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  1988. 18:22 THEN WRITE THE BOOK
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  1989. that is the theme of that book
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  1990. That quote is fucking legendary.
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  1991. shame on you for having a tame comment
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  1992. In basic terms: what gave you that confidence was just your men standing next to you. The group mentality of everyone being kept together. But even trained soldiers would run away and if too many died, or even just too many ran, a route would start and you wouldn't be able to get back your regiment.
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  1993. ​ @brooksroberson9861 No. No they do not. In fact I don't think I've EVER seen leftists managing to unify around ANYTHING. Leftists and infighting are like water and getting things wet. They're essentially causal. Education means squat. The emotional reaction decides if they do that. Basically "can we get along" and usually the leftist track record is to purity spiral. Especially with the social justice wing. Though I think your view does have merit to what the left thinks of the right. Though it does seem like the caricature the right makes of you.
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  1994.  @qinby1182  Europe does tax more but they also tax EVERYONE more. Also the US has no wealth tax even if they do have an estate tax. It's worth noting that the highest tax bracket in Europe is taxed a majority of their income while in the US it is simply a sizable chunk (I've seen the highest tax bracket in Sweden too). Honestly the only one with a comparable highest income tax bracket is Finland which is still slightly higher by a few percent.
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  1995. I'm not sure this is as impressive as it sounds, and I'm not sure about its utility with being geosynchronous. First off: that means it has limited coverage. It's one spot. It's eyes in the sky, but it's effectively region locked. Second off: Even GPS isn't in geosynchronous orbit. And there's a reason for that. The reason is that it's very, very high up to each geosynchronous, and IIRC GPS is semi-geosynchronous. So basically, what this indicates to me is that they're trying to get it as far away as possible. And that they're probably compromising in some other categories in order to do this. I don't think this is so much of an achievement as otherwise indicated. This almost seems to be something that hasn't been done yet because it shouldn't, not because it couldn't.
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  1996. @Buba Joe You'd only work construction for 200k a year?
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  1997.  @wrestlerx8494  They will work multiple jobs and live somewhere cheap doing long hours. Along with multiple people in the family working.
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  1998. Oh yeah, you're right. I didn't think about that since you have to pull off all of those panels for inspection and so have to remove and reapply.
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  1999. Did he just end on the meme?
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  2000. Old ideas have a way of coming back in New capacities.
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  2001. @alexcardosa8079  Thinks what?? What about CQB (grenades lol), is even a point here? I'm not sure how that factored into this conversation at all.
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  2002.  @araarasayonara6163  So is basically everyone else. I'm 99% sure that only China likes China and the rest of Asia is basically looking for any excuse and backing to shut them down. A few countries, like I believe Singapore, however benefit from such a major power relying on trade.
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  2003.  @frederickwilliams4727  Yeah not the point. And here they do. Taiwan still fights anyway since that's only half of the island.
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  2004.  @seanzhang3873  That's also optimistic and as they said Taiwan also has spies in China. Though Taiwan has measures in place to basically survive assassinations at least on the military front. It's basically impossible to do that with no resistance. And you bet anyone trying to slow things down would be executed in such an important operation.
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  2005.  @seanzhang3873  Sure. Point is that they'll all be destroyed though so it's kind of a non-issue. US and Japan also have the eastern side of the island to land on.
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  2006.  @treeinc8897  Explain further?
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  2007. more Tarkov memes immediately
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  2008. ​​ @MyName-tb9oz Depends on if AI can acquire a "soul" which is definitely up for debate
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  2009. Considering the wealth of the Venetians and their area of control that doesn't seem accurate. In comparison the South of Italy was kind of a backwater since even before the Spanish conquest of the region with little trade or wealth while the north experienced the Renaissance. So this statement is historically accurate unless somewhere between the Renaissance and second world War it became a backwater.
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  2010. @Hendrik van Leeuwen  Actually, it's an amazing thing. In fact, they actually have lower attrition rates because the life experience knocks more sense into them. It's almost always been a physical concern as well as a time factor as they ideally want men who are in for decades. Also worth noting that the current structure has a fair few situations with 30 year old men being ordered by mid to late 20s new officers out of the officers college.
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  2011. Netflix would never even cover these topics lol
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  2012. I think the American warrior class is such a new phenomenon that it's almost irrelevant. This is that for most American wars they were fought by citizen soldiers. While it's only now an increasingly small pool of people to draw from.
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  2013. ​​ @HornoResident I think that depiction of the Union and Confederate armies is pretty disingenuous, especially since the union had similar casualties to the confederates. In fact, they lost a lot of their officers early into the war since many were cavalry officers, and those died very quickly. Not to mention the western generals who basically mopped the floor with the confederates beyond the Mississippi. Not how the casualties of Grant, the man called "Butcher" on the union side, were lower than even Robert E Lee. Finally is the fact that the confederates were on the defensive and thus should've had a much lower loss rate than the offensive union.
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  2014.  @Jim_Eagle  I think you're right on that. To be fair it's the big wars who draw from those generalized populations while it's the smaller ones who draw from that small class.
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  2015. That's really funny.
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  2016. ​ @markpukey8  I'm not sure he means militarily directly. By the pure wording you can say NATO is intervening in Ukraine. Lending ISR and physical equipment to their hacker, the US Federal government, makes a lot of sense if it's in trouble. I can't imagine they'd do differently if another keystone alliance member like France suffered the same fate.
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  2017.  @TheFallinhalo  Why is it wrong?
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  2018. @Madinogi  You don't understand my question. At all. I'm asking why is it wrong for there to be such a disparity. Why is it wrong to have outsized gains and or benefits? I want you to explain why it is immoral. Why is equality a moral good? Why is fairness important? I want you to explain these things to me. Btw the system where you get what you pay in? Yeah congrats that's the current system. Problem is what's being paid in isn't actually as much as you think it is and different work has far different values making it far more equal in context, but that's not the conversation at hand.
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  2019. Mexico largely ends up in a situation where it was before simply a weak neighbor of the US and now being brought into the US cultural sphere. Tbh I don't think anyone will really be able to rival the US for power over the western hemisphere except maybe Brazil in future. The reason? The USA has enough of an influx of Latin American immigrants at this point so Latin America largely exports their useful individuals to the USA. And with said individuals ends up bringing a lot of cultural ties that end up remaining so what ends up happening is that the cultural force of the US ends up flowing back as well. While those immigrants will eventually assimilate, because of the Latin American tradition on family and the ease of communication and travel I can see those families keeping in touch and so the cultural force going back each direction. This will continue the flow of Latin American migrants to the US. The final fact is that the US is already on its feet while the Latin American countries are still trying to find their footing. As time goes on I can see the American cultural influence becoming very heavy in Latin America as the US's own backyard and thus essentially being brought into its cultural sphere much like the British and the anglosphere. Only reason Brazil is an exception is because they largely are out of those ties and moreover don't have that much migration between the US and itself which means that as a whole it will be disconnected from those cultural ties. We'll see how Brazil affects its local area in comparison.
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  2020. One side will laugh at both jokes and the other will be too mad to laugh while thinking it's too true to laugh.
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  2021. ​ @jsusbdndk1362 You've never met someone who's actually "disadvantaged" in your life.
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  2022. ​ @jsusbdndk1362 The Scandinavians don't actually think otherwise. They're simply obscenely rich and realistically, simply have a decrease cost in drugs. Healthcare wait times for them are usually on the order of weeks to months generally. "Satisfaction" is not a reliable metric due to the culture there not allowing you to show such dissatisfaction. It's why they're the "happiest countries in the world" while also having high self deletion rates. They also have problems with equipment financing and are half subsidized further by the healthier populations generally as a baseline.
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  2023.  @louisazraels7072  So how did 3% remain 24%?
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  2024.  @camerons.9304  Funny as shit this is.
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  2025. This is a requirement
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  2026. This is all really cool.... in terms of the technology, logistics and planning that's all carried out. Also costing you your freedom though and that's why we visit and don't live there
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  2027.  @artruisjoew5473  Nah ANCAPS would just be a huge mercenary army.
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  2028. Yeah same bro! I don't have enough money to try to get any assets lol.
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  2029. I think the point is: even if it does somehow do it, if it's all risked on doing so, what's there to gain?
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  2030. ​ @skogib4846 The IRS will try
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  2031. The rather brutal lesson Russia has taught us is not anything about peace or prosperity, but instead, something far more ruthless: if you smell blood in the water, there are no half measures. If you engage in half measures you just lose. Because your opponents, who go fool out from day one, will stop you. Russia had its opportunity in 2014 but instead decided to just take Crimea and launch a civil war. Even in the invasion Russia launched it with a peacetime strength rather than a proper war footing. It didn't mobilize, it didn't prepare for war at all. It went in and expected the Ukrainians to fold like they did in 2014. And now it's summer 2023, they're on the defensive, and still losing territory.
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  2032. That entire family sounds like a menace to the rest of earth. Especially the wolverines which sound like secret apex predators. When the "apex predators" pay food taxes to YOU, then you're on top. If nature has a will, then it's proud it created these just to troll EVERYTHING else.
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  2033. Cleavage. Also objectively her costume in MoM is more interesting design wise and still does her justice. But you know no cleavage there.
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  2034. 29:39 I wonder what major event happened between 2019 and 2020 which sent everything into overdrive? Hmmm. I've absolutely 0 clue.
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  2035.  @motorpolitan8884  I think there's an interaction where he meets another polyglot and it just goes completely off the rails
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  2036. Australia is basically an island and none of the powers have enough of an actual blue water navy to contest the navies of the west.
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  2037. Problem: The right has radicals. They do desire conquest. Thus, they'll take the faction and probably make a coalition of conquest. Think about the Spanish Civil War
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  2038. yeah that one is a bit mistaken
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  2039. Well first off we likely wouldn't have the new world as it is, but overall yeah the eastern romans were incredibly stable at least as an empire with the only thing which finally broke Them being betrayal, bad luck, and the umpteenth Turkish invasion. Seriously had the crusade which killed the empire just not happened they probably would've come back and reformed with a bulwark against The Turks and they instead inhabiting the rest of what became the ottoman empire.
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  2040. 31:22 Yeah the data doesn't support that. At all. And most major media scandals on it end up coming out with the man being armed. So that's actually a lie. I understand that all videos are self-contained narratives where you tend to push aside things which don't really support your argument, but this didn't need to be in the video, this isn't even relevant to the point, but you brought it up anyway and it's wrong. I think you need a new research and writers room. Or to stick to the script. I was going to respond to the point about the defensive uses of a firearm (the absolute lowest actually slightly above 60 thousand which is still notably higher than all deaths), but this is much more important. This is silly, this is propaganda pushing, and it's disrespectful to your audience.
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  2041.  @liteney  You can be a turk born in Greece
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  2042. Watch out, you've just come out as a conservative and will now be called a Nazi/misogynist.
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  2043. This comment is general but i think the best summation of the individual vs collective mindset is in two proverbs: "The squeaky wheel gets the grease" vs "The tallest blade of grass is cut first"
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  2044. To be fair, he's also said it's not because they'll be improving but because everyone else will be on their level
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  2045.  @BruceWayne-qe7bs  Which is ironically their pre-industrial population.
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  2046. The problem is that it doesn't matter the comforts we have, it's if we end up feeling like we're losing it and so we go for radical actions. The young population is most key in this because if they feel it, they'll join up in droves.
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  2047. @ttpbroadcastingcompany.4460  Speaking as a member of said young population, currently considering enlisting as an artillery officer to set myself in a good position for that potential kickoff. Also dude, you know the 4 ways out of depression for guys and one of those includes a Balkan War. And this would be close enough. Also most of the guys I've hung around joke about it. Even the actual mil guys sometimes
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  2048. 5:15 Mmmmm.... that's a VERY continuous point there.
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  2049. I know it's funny, but he's unironically correct here. At least about the groups that broke. I'm even inclined to believe him regarding the independents who still didn't vote for Trump because there were seriously slim margins and the margins he's breaking down by demographics are honestly pretty large by election standards. Thus completely offsetting the gains by the independents.
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  2050. @LRRPFco52  Ultimately, he's looking from a factional point of view. While I'm inclined to believe you, I'm not entirely sure it's true. I think it's not quite the truth. I'm willing to believe unaffiliated voters did swing to Trump because of the conditions on the ground. However, first is that you're actually getting it wrong, and you're discussing the same group as he is. Peter mentioned that the majority of independents are leaning in one direction or another (and there are no registered independents, btw). So he was discussing the group who really doesn't have leanings because they're normies who get buyers remorse without having any real political leanings because they just don't care. They did break for Trump, but i can't tell you how much either direction. Their concentrations could absolutely matter in this case. However, I'd say that the 5 million vote difference between Trump and Kamala isn't actually from them. I think it'd be a much closer race if it was (and it still was a relatively close race). Though of course, the Amish are in fact indicative of the movement of unaffiliated voters. See, Peter's factional analysis is still correct in that most of the factions that traditionally voted Democrat did, in fact, break. Their traditional bases, often lifelong democrats, did all break for Trump in massive numbers. Even the black belt broke for Trump in certain areas. Thus, I'm more inclined to believe that the deciding vote in this election aren't actually from the purely politically unaffiliated, but more likely to be the breaking of the Democrat coalition, which is represented in spirit by Tulsi Gabbard and RFK. That's the group of previously "unaffiliated" voters who I suspect really swung this election.
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  2051. Ahahaha... my junior year of college I was doing nothing and now I'm in my senior year probably having had a conversation with like 20 girls total
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  2052.  @kartikayysola  The only ones I've spoken to more than once were for business only
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  2053. ​ @jamessloven2204  Switch that to cashier and the idea is still the same
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  2054. As a dark addendum to this, I'd like to add that historically what you do with a large and unemployed young male population with little prospect for advancement, is send them to war which adds another internal factor toward conflict. Now, since these two countries are NOT among the great powers of the world, these two countries may be able to have peace settlements outside of their own countries and thus prevent a total war. However, since these are existential issues for both powers involved, there is a very real chance for this to become a total war. And just like the world wars, the countries involved have a LOT of young men to throw at each other. Egypt is more industrialized, but Ethiopia has more of a martial tradition and genuine geographic advantage (as well as an extra 10 million people). This war will be huge, and the biggest thing which will decide if this war is 1 to 2 million vs 10 to 12 million under arms is if the two countries can create mobilization systems which enable them to use their vast reserves of manpower. This WILL be the largest war of the 21st century, assuming China and Pakistan don't go to war against India.
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  2055. ​ @Kromgar To be fair, with a reaction like that, it just sounds like he's completely uninterested
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  2056. Just like his father
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  2057. 14 lbs
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  2058. I think this plays into something that a channel called literature devil recently went into with regards to DND and a Villain campaign. I know this sounds completely unrelated but please stick with me: When people think of evil people they think of comical evil bad guys from stories. People who just do evil for the sake of it. Not really sane or trying to be evil for no real purpose than to be evil. This isn't how villains work in stories and it's not how evil works in reality. Evil has a *GOAL*. A malicious goal with some deeply personal and dark motivations, but a goal nonetheless. And within that framework is how evil works. They still in many times have moral codes but either not traditional ones or the idea to violate them if it's more effective at attaining their goals. Evil people are still people. And they work like people responding to circumstances as in real terms almost any person would. It's how they forge alliances and create followers. It's how they manage to get to the places that they do. Evil in a real sense is a two-faced lying bastard who uses you and betrays you because it's expedient. Evil is not some random killer who just kills and loots for the sake of it. Even the truly insane of the mass murderers don't simply go full evil. There's a deep and malicious goal. Something they're working toward that they'll act like anyone else as they go to until the goal is finally in sight. Ted Bundy didn't get caught for so long as he was a deeply charismatic man with a deep desire. The desire was simply one which was incredibly dark. Evil is not insane, simply malicious.
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  2059. I'll be honest I completely understood this movie and my brain is usually off for my entertainment. I think it's fairly obvious the point of this film: make a movie in reverse and behind. However I think there's a certain way to watch this movie: and it's to see how everything plays out from the first go-around. If your entrainment of a piece of work comes from characters and attachment to them... look elsewhere. Literally all Hint of drama is taken out as soon as they learn that the antagonist goes back through time. If he's back in time and also supposed to be the end of the world it's pretty obvious they won. In terms of stakes it never really had any but you can also argue that for nearly any movie because the protagonist always wins. You're here for this movie because you had a few too many chats with the coffee and are excited to see it in practice. It also has the enjoyment of like a mystery movie in terms of re-watch value: that you watch it again and see what you missed. Strictly in re-watch value though. The action scenes are poorly written and so is plenty of the dialogue but it's an airtight movie which is VERY fun to watch again.
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  2060. There's a minor problem with a policy shift to try to encourage having kids: it never works. It only barely moves the needle. The maximum you get is 0.2. It has to do far more with worldview than it does policy and the expense of having kids. Even more importantly, it's far easier to convince someone to not have kids, than to have them.
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  2061. I think you really overestimated the Chinese coalition. Pakistan is in no way strong and its largest use is being a location to invade from for the Chinese. The Himalayas are also the hardest place to invade through. Chinese also depend incredibly heavily on sea trade while facing at least 3 navies blockading them with the largest naval power in the fight as well. Russia is also the weakest of the Allies. Russia hates China and might just use the opportunity to strengthen ties with the central Asian Former Soviet republics and then crush China with the rest of the American coalition. At which point it'll once again have defensible borders and secure itself in the world. I really can't see Russia truly joining China. Russo-Chinese relations are just really poor in general and Russia has a lot more to lose with with a victorious China than victorious America because America for sure will not go on the offensive while China will. And that means that Russia can sit pretty and build up in peace because otherwise it's Russia against China and relegating Russia to Northwestern Asia as the easternmost border putting it in the most vunerable position it's been in about a millennium.
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  2062. @jmalcolmg123 Well no. It was cold because the powers didn't directly fight. But yes proxy wars were very hot. And also really a misunderstanding on your part because that insinuates the Anglos and Rus (which aren't all of the Soviets or the Americans) didn't die in the conflict either when Afghanistan 2 (First was British invasion like a century prior) was fought by the Soviets, Vietnam was fought by the Americans, and the Korean War was also fought by the Americans.
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  2063.  @oj3458  Well... if you've seen the trend... sequels always tend to be bigger and Bloodier with scale ever increasing. Remember the first actual world War was in the 1700s. And has all gone up from there. Then you remember The Great War and its sequel World War Two. So sadly... that probably won't be the case.
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  2064. I recently watched the Geopoltics section of Whatifalthist and learned a bit about the "general crisis theory" so glad seeing this reinforced how humanity goes.
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  2065. 15:15 Jealous and hoping to take part
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  2066. Some Russian hated burst rifles and just decided to make a viable full auto. "Fire before the recoil can hit the shooter? Stupid. Just make recoil not exist"
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  2067. Yeah which is why the optics are going to be an absolute game changer.
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  2068.  @gdottothegamer1001  Except I believe they will do the EXACT same thing.
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  2069. So it's the equivalent of a human not poking a hornets' nest?
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  2070.  @ccvcharger  Tbh it only marginally changes and seems to change more with the grammar rules because they're far from universal across languages. It's also remarkably consistent a message compared to most other phrases. Compare that to the phrase for something being super expensive which in English is "It costs an arm and a leg" but in Spanish is "Cuesto un ojo de la cara" and translates to "it costs an eye of the face" but mean the same thing. I think it was probably translated across multiple languages.
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  2071. I'm going to guess it's a translation or perhaps spawned from the same phrase which somehow ended up in the English lexicon of "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" as it does seem like there is evidence of translations occurring when the phrases are that similar but not quite the same.
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  2072. Apart from the Pale Orc who didn't exist, much of this is just Tolkien's Hobbit. It was just basically a children's book as you said. Super simple, but not worth a trilogy. Just a 2 and a half hour movie would've done this.
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  2073. So we come back to the original idea: it's attrition followed by manuever as an unbalance must be established to create a manuever period
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  2074.  @User-gfys-0icu81  That only works when supply is up. Also the free market gave you the 8 hour workday not the government. They set in stone a practice which had already spread and had started to take the form of giving employees benefits so that they're incentivized to stay.
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  2075. Well, no, you've made a mistake, and what it does is distract you from the wealth you have. It's literally the "big fish small pond" comparison of relative situation. If your definition of poverty includes multiple sets of computer electronics as well as most functioning facilities, even though you're "in poverty" you can be doing better in real terms than those in the middle tiers of wealth in other societies.
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  2076.  @kaluschke  It's overall wealth and access which is considered not just monetary value
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  2077.  @nanaa9074  Doesn't matter how nationalism is properly defined as it never came up here so it makes more sense for the summary to say that she believes. Whether or not it's accurate is another matter entirely.
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  2078. We're not getting to 10 billion or even 9 billion. Population decline will kick in well before then.
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  2079. At least the privately owned city isn't a company town lmao
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  2080. Man I've felt for years now of "Interesting times are ahead" but I didn't think they'd get THIS interesting. Lmao get to live through the 30s years war, napoleonic wars, etc. Ancestors give me strength!
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  2081. ​ @hughmungus2760 WW1 Russia and Germany not WW2
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  2082. Yeah could you explain that real quick?
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  2083.  @eidoneverchoosen1171  A different US dominated more by German and Russian populations lol.
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  2084. Viewing this as colonialism is a mistake given this is just normal empire. But these all have goals and the populations at the time supported these activities. This can't really be separated. Not to mention how geopolitics as a whole is governed by power, not morals, and so you have to look at it through that lens.
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  2085.  @Vritzien  Yeah that evidence is misplaced in time frame at best, and simply very suspect at worst. Germ theory didn't even exist until the 1600s (well after Aztec's and Inca's conquest) and you still simply had too few colonists in there for them to be the ones spreading that disease for the most part. So no.
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  2086. He walked a mile. That's 45 minutes if you're stopping every few Seconds to do something. Kid can't go home for that time?
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  2087. @Brian Miller  Actually, it kind of is. It's a primarily Russian speaking part of the country, and do remember that the last time Ukraine was independent for longer than 5 years was when it was the Kievan Rus. The Russian empire would eventually take control of the now Western and Central Ukraine back in 1772-1793. From that point on, there was basically a continuum from the western edge of Russia of Ukrainian and Belarusian into Russia proper. Donbass is on the edge of historically western Russia just before the edge of the former Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth at its greatest extent.
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  2088. @Brian Miller  Actually, all of those are legitimately historical excuses for conquest. Belgium and Canada are also possibly the worst ones to give since Canada is basically America and many areas have identities which align more with the states across the border than a Canadian identity (Canadian national identity is very muted outside of Ontario). Canada is American except Quebec, really. Belgium is also a fake country created as a buffer state between the Dutch and French, which only still exists because of the current norms, basically highlighted by the fact that Brussels governs the EU. Btw the word you're looking for is conquest, not colonization. Colonization implies you're sending your own people into that area. Taking the land from others is conquest. Also, no on Russian borderlands such as the Far East (sparsely populated by anyone at all), it's actually still majority Russian speaking on that borderland because that's the Russian wheat belt. Those who are not Russian speaking are minorities even in the regions where they're most prevalent except in places like the Turkic Republic and the Caucasus. Most of the truly non-Russian populations split off from the Soviet Union but still have Russian speaking populations right around the border area. Now to address the elephant in the room, you have completely missed the very obvious use case which I initially distributed when saying that. They are ethnic Russians. Russian is an ethnicity, and the Russian speaking populations are ethnic Russians. I don't know how I really need to specify that. And of course the Russian state is ideally supposed to be representing the Russian ethnicity. What's worse is that you've accused me as providing justification for the Kremlin despite utter nonsense because I said something ostensibly true and attempted to put things in historical context for you. Of which, I very much need to add, the Soviet borders were not made with ethnicities in mind and were explicitly drawn to screw over any resulting states, which is why there are Russian populations in literally every single succeeding states. And I'm going to reiterate how stupid it is that you didn't realize that it's not just the language, but the ethnicity.
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  2089.  @retroflame3104  Well its not just that. The stimulus itself was not the issue and the goal there was with the implicit acknowledgement that we would have to tighten our belts later. However as that's political suicide the rest of government never got the memo and continued to do so even though sound economic policy going back probably 300 years now says it's a terrible idea. People are trying to justify it and calling it "modern monetary theory" thinking they're special. They never are. And so well... we know what comes next. Make sure to get your rifle soon.
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  2090. Almost? No it's a low level civil war in all but name. In fact, it's deadlier than most civil wars. Honestly, it's effectively a feudal state ruled by the cartels on the local level, and then the central government tries to establish authority from the national level.
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  2091. Probably should've discussed more on the reserve components given state national guards and army reserve given that they're in real terms meant to be equal to us military proper
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  2092.  @mark9099  If you're referring to Russia most of that rate is being grown by non-russians and the reason it's not aging faster is because their men drink themselves to death which is killing the older population.
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  2093.  @hstad100  To be fair the reason it's having a difficult time is that it isn't allowed to mobilize its population and it isn't at war. It's not treating this as a war and conscripts are only allowed in defense of the homeland. Due to also weak communication and coordination it can't pull off what the US did in the middle east. But yeah realistically Russia either exists as a world power and somehow gets back on its feat to stop its demographic collapse or it becomes a rump state in the middle of the Steppe vulnerable on all sides. Russia defended itself by growing big and either it can secure its borders by re-establishing the old borders of the Soviet Union, or it loses everything East to ethnic minorities from central Asia and China leaving its Heartland even more vunerable.
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  2094.  @rhalfik  Honestly the only country which seems to genuinely admit it is Japan which realistically can't try to bury it due to reality hitting it too hard to ignore. Many other countries are trying to turn to immigration but their political and social systems don't really allow for very good integration and the sources of immigration are really not conducive to that such as trying to integrate Muslims into countries which have very rigid national identities and have had national churches for a very large part of their history. This is compared to countries like the United States trying to integrate Hispanics who's differences largely come from language or sect of Christianity and have had a long history of many sources of immigration and a malleable national identity.
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  2095. 3:55 Remember the only way to erase income inequality is to make everyone equally poor
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  2096.  @russellfurbush7499  I'm sorry but you're the one most in need of new sources. The ruble is a zombie currency because sadly the USD is still the world's main reserve currency. No-one wants rubles and you have to fly it anywhere to make money transfers since they've been cut off from banking. That's not sustainable. On top of that "quite well" doesn't look like thousands of troops having died, 3 days of logistics because of a failed plan, 40 mile long convoy which had to pick up and go home, etc. The biggest thing is that now the Russians have gotten into an artillery battle where they have the advantage and have resorted to civilian obliteration which displaces the populace and makes it easy to target people as the groups self-select (Civilians run so everyone else is a military target). However even a victory would not be Russia doing well. Russia SHOULD have swept but it didn't. This is winter war 2 but on top of that it has backfired and swung more allies into the NATO alliance. Seriously this is a geo-strategic failure on all metrics even if they're finally winning the battles.
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  2097.  @scaredcrower  Just stay out of the PRC. You won't be let out and frankly American nationalism is such that you just have to really claim to love America and you're good
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  2098.  @donwarren3253  The global order is collapsing around that time. All of the international organizations such as the WEF and UN are likely to go along with it. Remember that the UN and other international bodies really only work in a globalized world which is ending.
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  2099.  @donwarren3253  We don't know. There's no way to know. In some places it could mean anarchy and complete state collapse. Others have a range of Great Depression level economic woes to just 1970s stagflation. For Argentina it's just Tuesday (they're kind of a rising star and already more than self-sufficient while being terrible economically so there's nowhere for them to go). But that's the transition. For what comes next, my bet is something that looks a lot like the 16th century. A more Natural world with regional and smaller powers which compete and no superpowers. However the idea that the UN, World Bank, and world economic forum survive is pretty silly. Imagine how ineffectual the League of Nations was after 1918. The reason it didn't work was because there was no globalization which was the post-1945 world order. So yeah you're likely to see that again.
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  2100.  @alexmonro1711  Toryama did too so thank it for the last 10 years of dragon ball content
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  2101. I understand the issue but frankly they're starting to be tallied the stockpiles and they're really big
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  2102.  @highbread817  Well the way it's worked is that population correcting events come well before any real malthusian pressures and the way earth is it's to find uses for waste or new resources which replace the old ones.
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  2103. So, not quite. As stated by the video, much of the potential tax revenue was never generated, and most of the way that the benefits came in were strategic except for the British case, of which didn't necessarily have a lot of tax revenue in exchange for it. Not to mention how they were a constant drain on resources to maintain which means that it wasn't just an upfront cost, but in fact a continuing and ongoing cost of administration, security, and related maintenance. Secondly, it's 100% possible to separate the two. While there was a direct benefit in colonialism in feeding the Industrial Revolution, it did this by literally doing so through the food which was able to be brought back to Europe. Foods like potatoes and tomatoes are native to the Americas, not to Europe, but the former fed multiple countries almost by itself and allowed for much of the resulting population explosion which was an enabling condition for the subsequent industrial development. However, as for wealth to power the industrial revolution, that never materialized with the most industrial areas having nothing to do with the ones most engaged in colonialism, and in fact some of the most industrialized countries having near no colonies at all until the late 19th century such as Germany. Not to mention how Italy and Austria industrialized without their colonies. Even France can be mostly included as they lost their American and Indian colonies relatively early on, with their American colonies mostly being used for fur trade and almost entirely unpopulated.
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  2104. @bleeding paper poetry  You read the situation entirely inaccurately and then took the wrong lessons. The Vietnam War, and even the end of the Afghanistan occupation, was due to changes in political will and not due to any military failures. In fact, in Vietnam the Vietnamese admitted that any longer than the Tet Offensive and they would've given up. The Afghanistan pull-out was managed poorly but because there was no plan and a deadline with little notice which isn't being cowardly but instead a failure of politics and bureaucracy.
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  2105.  @nabbyy1044  Sounds like how one of valve's games works off a jpeg of something completely unrelated
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  2106. I want more of this it sounds so fun. But nah only got 5 minutes to hear about sadly.
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  2107. What's Blindness about?
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  2108. it's worth mentioning that this is alt-history WWII where the Germans weren't the real Germans or the Allies weren't the real allies so it went on a few years longer
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  2109. Ah yes. Garand thumb and AK Guy both secret weebs. I'm pretty sure the thumb isn't that secret but I don't know enough in that department
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  2110.  @MrIke86  Because welfare (at least the current system the US has) has results and incentives built in. Those incentives and results include not moving up the economic ladder and allowing women to do much better on their own than they would otherwise. However, in not needing a man, they do not get married. And marriage is the number 1 determinant in the life of a child from said parents. It's like saying women in the workforce depressed wages. Is it a good thing or a bad thing that women entered the workforce? That's up to personal opinion. However EVERY action has unintended consequences and i displayed what is potentially one of them. And so I'm wondering if that line of reasoning holds true.
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  2111.  @MrIke86  Welfare in the American context comes down to the systems that those in low income tend to use as they are under a certain income level and thus qualify for certain benefits in terms of subsidies and tax credits from the government. In this capacity, it is put into brackets with hard cutoffs. So the American system disincentivizes going slowly up the ladder as you'll lose the floor that it has given you once you make X amount of money. And so being one dollar less than that will give you more money than trying to say getting an extra 3k from another job. In this capacity, it incentivizes people to stay within that unless they've already built up a culture of working hard and genuinely fell on hard times. Someone who falls on hard times but is genuinely in a higher tax bracket will not benefit as much as someone who has always been in the low tax bracket as they will see a significant standard of living reduction despite being on welfare. This is the intention of welfare. It is not meant to be a replacement for income and only a temporary floor for people who'd otherwise go all the way to the bottom. However, what you will end up seeing in many cases are those who, because they were always in a low bracket and perhaps were never married, benefit more from staying on welfare than genuinely attempting to better themselves and get into a higher bracket or find a partner who can and is willing to support them. These are abusers of the system. My question, because this has seemingly not been studied besides a general trend around the same period which has many factors, is if this contributes to the decline in marriage in many populations specifically. Of course there are actually situations where there's a bit of a chicken and egg problem which eventually creates a cycle (such as the poverty created by drug addiction), and thus you do have to watch out for that as well. With marriage of parents being the NUMBER 1 determinant of the well being of a child from a given couple, I am wondering if welfare has this adverse effect of driving down marriage. Why is this not related to any of the factors you've mentioned above? While those factors will create local poverty, they're largely not related to the function of marriage. Marriage, in the legal context, allows two people to tie themselves together and fundamentally tie together their economic power. If this economic power is not necessary due to receiving that power from the government, it would be a factor which pushes out marriage from many of the economic considerations. I'm NOT asking if it has an overall effect on poverty. I'm NOT asking if it depresses wages. I'm not even asking if it is a bad thing. I'm asking in a very specific context, if it declines Marriage. Marriage, because it has such a strong correlation with these issues, is likely a confounding variable in poverty. It is enough that it is significantly correlative with economic power in general. Now it can often simply be a marker of social capital, but it's such a deterministic metric that it cannot be ignored.
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  2112.  @MrIke86  First thing to note is that your final point about the decision between work and welfare actually reinforces my point rather than actually criticizing it. And next, I also imagine you've noticed that the marriage rates fell off in a much higher capacity in one group than all others and did so much earlier around the same time where the original comment actually spoke about. They have not declined equally across all ethnicities. However, in this one there actually is a specific reason why it has declined across all demographics: women in the workforce. Due to reasons such as women's better performance in schools and the fact that women in general don't like men who don't make more than they do, they generally price themselves out of the dating pool. However, during the period in which this initial decline happened (which was almost exclusively 1 demographic), it fell precipitously largely without that confounding factor. This would coincide with the breakdown of their communities as a whole due to those things like the highway construction right through their neighborhoods. And finally, no it isn't actually sloppy. They're overall the number 1 indicator of outcomes for children regardless. I also mentioned as well that the correlation is strong even if it may not necessarily be the specific reason. You didn't read carefully enough. However your point where it's macroeconomic and political institutional is completely incorrect as it's visible on the micro level where those who "break out" of the cycle their communities are in are often those who have both parents in the household. If this failing can hold true on a micro level then it absolutely cannot be directly a result of those circumstances even though they can always be confounding variables. And the failing goes across all demographics. There are so many factors which go into making a successful marriage and staying together that becomes difficult to Quantify, but having two parents in the household has continually been the biggest correlation to success on tiny levels across demographics. It can easily be something about social capital but whatever it is that allows the marriage to stay together creates the ability for success later on. Btw on another note I'd like to remind you that you're on the channel which shows jews and Chinese owning entire economies despite being horribly oppressed and completely lacking any and all opportunity locally beyond what they create. So if you can accept that premise as true in any way you must accept that the problems we're looking for are declines in social capital or possible disruptions to that. Which is why I asked the question in the first place of if that at all contributed to decline in marriage and thus success later on. And what you brought up discusses precisely 0 of that.
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  2113.  @MrIke86    Well that is when they started to decline. And then in the 1990s there was a spike which then mostly held flat until about 2000. 2000 is when everything started to again go down and we're actually seeing a slight uptick in the higher brackets. However, I would like you to explain why income inequality would AT ALL cause this? Why would that matter in any capacity? It makes 0 sense as a corollary. The cultural story, would actually in many ways support this as while yes you have a destruction in families, that in of itself creates a new culture in which it isn't respected which then continues the situation. Initial events can change cultures drastically as a result of them and have lingering effects for generations because something happened. It's the reason why blacks who's ancestors weren't slaves do better than those who's ancestors were. A manifestation of a reaction of one event will not simply stop having effects. Those effects take generations to die down. I'm very interested in looking at the book that you're referencing. And actually it does demonstrate that in many cases. The institute of family studies shows that across demographics married couples are much less often to be in poverty. Regardless of educational level. It's a reduction of nearly 75%. There's nothing which is so connected to the chance of poverty as not being married and thus the idea that it's a cross section for race/gender/class is actually a lie on the face of it unless you know nothing about it. I'd love to compare the marriage rates of the US compared to Finland but it's really difficult to find comparable data. And finally, I can't believe I have to say this, BUT I'M NOT JUST REFERRING TO THE USA. Yes the struggles of the jews and Chinese historically are not the same as those of the blacks in the US. However, looking beyond the scope of the industrial age and the USA, you find the story holding true of them being effectively the merchant classes as that is all that they're allowed to do and then they own the economies of multiple countries as a result. Horrible specific oppression on these groups and then they still pull off dominating the economy. A specific example of this is modern Indonesia where they're actively discriminated against and 2% of the population, but dominate 70% of all businesses according to a book published by Amy Chua and used in a paper published by the University of Hawaii. And this is the type of result which leads to the ultimate conclusion that the benefits are in social capital within a given ethnic group that gives them a leg up on others and by the same token can doom them. Australians and Canadians are on a mostly desolate rock and mostly frozen wasteland but are as wealthy as most of Northern and Western Europe. Norway is an oil state like Saudi Arabia but with none of the corruption. And then Russia has been basically in a continual downward spiral since the collapse of the Soviet Union and their men drink themselves to death. This tangent is a bit strange to bring up, but they're a point here. These things all point to things which aren't simply structural but factors which are cultural. They show up on the macro level as well as the micro. Great potential can be wasted and literally nothing can become wealthy. This makes no sense if those structural and economic limitations are what's actually holding groups back. Our environment affects us that's not up for debate. However, we also have a culture that we build which in it has certain incentives that can lead people to success or failure. It's strong enough that you can pluck people from bad environments and they can be successful via almost exclusively a strength of culture. It's very interesting to see these things play out. And while I know you're dead set on structural and institutional forces as that's basically the default position of a lot of people because it takes the blame off of the group (and said blame easily creates an attitude of racism) without realizing the lack of agency that it creates, but it's an attitude which continues to ignore the result of macro-effects of individual decisions or the result of cultural effects because it's not okay now to say that some cultures are actually better than others (because it also easily slips into racism). It's the type of thing which facilitates the reduction of envy. But it's really only one part of the picture and people seem to not want to accept that. Which is the entire point of my initial question: "did this structural change, induce a cultural change which has since lasted to today?" and thus the source of this argument. Also worth noting that the political persuasion which is most present in academia (those who do the most research on sociological issues) since the 1970s has overwhelmingly been of one political persuasion. One in which believes in social constructionism and that people in many ways aren't actually individuals but simply formations of circumstance.
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  2114. What if we could simply erase the clause about "destructible devices" from the NFA? Allow cannons again.
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  2115. Best way I've heard the ending described is this: it's like the ending of a TV show episode where it wants you to be ready for next week, but this time it's in 10 months and not one week.
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  2116. Holy shit you exist
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  2117. More mafia
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  2118. 25:13 well Yellow and Dark blue is generally a good sign. Uh... everything else there kind of spells trouble as long as "far right" here means ultranationalist and not just like anarcho-capitalists or something.
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  2119. Yeah and who would we sell the big ticket items to? I mean as fun as it'd be to actually buy MBTs, GMLRS, and Air superiority fighters to the public, very few private entities would even be able to purchase and or maintain them. In real terms, when talking about arms industries beyond small arms, you're really talking governments almost exclusively even without the legal restrictions.
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  2120. MG3 probably
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  2121. I mean it's a lot easier when there's no more command and control because the skies are owned entirely by one player from day one and they've been bombed to bits. Separately, the Turks might actually let this one through. They're allied to Azerbaijan and much of northwest Iran is Azeri and wants to join with the country. Not to mention, Turkiye kinda hates Iran. So they'd be doing a favor to Turkiye by knocking off a rival and strengthening an ally.
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  2122. @failiprince.  Khamenei is only half Azeri, and still Shia. But Azeris are largely Sunni, not Shia. Not to mention, yes, there has been some contact between the two areas in favor of joining with Azerbaijan. Separately, the west isn't the main power block in the region. Much of it isn't under western control as neither Iraq nor Afghanistan is today. Saudi Arabia is its own power block. So no. It wouldn't be western control of the region.
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  2123. @failiprince.  You're right I did get it confused in saying it was Sunni.
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  2124.  @asmsayeem3973  Tbh it is... the only difference is that the bottom two levels of the pyramid don't apply.
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  2125. Here's a question: are those issues truly created by the actual economic system? What about the system creates these issues? Because by your metrics it would be better for all humankind to go back to the feudal system. Less depression, anxiety, more satisfaction with life, etc. You were happy in your life and nothing really bothered you. You worked the fields with your family and you were happy. I'm really not convinced that the system itself has caused these issues and in fact I'm fairly certain of anything it's the technological innovation that has done so. You don't have time to be depressed if you're focused on simply attempting to not die constantly, if you are simply working all day in a field making sure everything is together, trying to not die to diseases that come from everything around you. What we have is a life of comfort and there's little hardship in modern life. People are comfortable and don't need to work hard. We also tend to not interact with each other as much and view more and more people with suspicion. Have you noticed how many people hate people who just genuinely love everyone or think those kinds of people don't exist? I'm not really attempting to refute your arguments on a philosophical level, but instead asking you to think about this on a historical and practical level. What do you think is different today, that wasn't different before? While thinking about that please remember that all of the problems you've mentioned with people today, largely weren't present before, yet there was still very large wealth inequality.
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  2126. ​@joeneil5485 As evidenced by another comment, they kept reliable maps and recorded discoveries while also keeping in contact with the others. This indicates it's not necessarily the pressures you indicted motivating this exploration, but instead the buildup of all of the techniques acquired allowing them to do it without undue risk. Go out in a canoe into the ocean and you'll see the results for yourself. For example, no-one was so stupid to simply go west randomly from Europe or Africa because no-one had the technology to even attempt to go so far west. It was only with an idiot who got some calculations wrong, along with a country who was seeking some prestige and with the coffers full, along finally with the technology to justify that long (though wrongly attested length) of journey that they even tried, in order to get to a place that recently had its trade access to it blocked off by a rival power across the Mediterranean. In that same vein, clearly with understanding of the avian migration patterns, the cloud formation, and the maritime skills to be able to undertake that journey and know how to come back if it didn't work, that provided good incentive to take the risk of finding a new island even if only due to prestige seeking.
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  2127. ​ @truthnpaws3866 they cap out at Kure Atoll, very far from Alaska only about 25% of the way from the main Windward islands to the Aleutian Islands. Not to mention many of those islets are rocks maybe 100 ft across
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  2128. Come on. You know it'll be fun.
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  2129.  @Shaunks86  You see them interact and it's the truth
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  2130. @stellarjayatkins4749  Genealogy is not so true. It's very much a shared culture and history, but genealogy only really applies to one type of nation. Even more relevant... even in that type of nation, you can actually not share much in the way of genealogy so long as you simply don't look radically different. And even that isn't necessarily true. To give an example: the Anatolian Turks and the Greeks are effectively the same People by blood and most genetic evidence, however they've gone to war most times and literally cannot understand what the other is saying while also not sharing a religion. As another example, the Berber peoples are a pretty cohesive group while also having a range of skin colors from pure African to European. It doesn't quite work as that. Shared blood, shared values, and shared enemies. That's what unites people. They're also effectively the core ingredients of nation formation. It all comes from a few founding families. If people are able to join that nation and add families to the nation is the only question. The American nations can. Finally, the military force of Washington isn't really keeping this together. It did it once when a political disagreement due to economic changes and a moral crusade divided it, but since then that's been it. America didn't go into the world wars divided, it went united. An empire is not merely a collection of nations, it is a result of the direct conquest of one nation above the others, and staffs the upper level government, bureaucracy, and military with its own people rather than local peoples. That's not what America is, and that's a VERY bad lens to look at things. America may have differences within, but nations also have to have consciousness, which none of the American nations do. They all share the sense of belonging to that singular American nation. It's in that sense that nations can theoretically come in and out overnight, provided everyone magically changed their minds one day, even if no physical change has occurred in the world.
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  2131. All of 3 days and we have T-Shirts on this lmao
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