Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The Coming Far Right Backlash" video.

  1. "Conspiracy theories let you ignore the truth" No. Conspiracy theories are what happens when The Narrative(TM) is so clearly riddled with errors and falsehoods, that people cast around desperately for alternative explanations.
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  2. Technological advancement has topped off in the last few decades. Compare the inventions of the 50-60 year period after the Transcontinental Railroad, to the 50-60 year period after the Apollo program. Most of the inventions we enjoy today were invented before the Apollo program. The late 19th - early 20th century, on the other hand, saw radio, telephone, movies, automobiles, airplanes...
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  3. "No one could have predicted the Naxi movement in 1900" A movement that leveraged the Kaiser's pan-German nationalist propaganda and educational system, an aggressive rump of Prussian militarism, and the mass mobilization of the working class? Eh, someone might have come up with that. They'd have been as shocked by the collapse of the old Imperial houses as anyone else, though.
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