Comments by "Christopher Conard" (@christopherconard2831) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. Thank God we've simplified it today to "Anyone I disagree with".
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  2. Who needs graphics or animation? We've got fingers! Another excellent video.
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  3. Why send in the Italians? Because when their brilliant plan fails they need someone to blame it on.
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  4. I tried reading it once. Mainly to see the mindset of the early Nazi movement. I gave up. It was unreadable gibberish. Not the offensive content, that was bad enough. The way it was written, it is the rantings of a madman. If I transcribed a homeless guy yelling at a telephone pole I could write a more coherent political commentary.
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  5. Germany: We are not retreating. We are reorganizing the battlefield in a more advantageous location. That just happens to be 100, or so, kilometers behind us.
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  6. Get sponsorship and still be monetized. Replace the usual symbols with chocolates. Hershey for Americans. Cadbury for British. Ritter for German. A potato for Russia.
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  7. Part 1, of 73.
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  8. That French officer's views carried on for some time. There's a documentary with interviews from soldiers that served in Vietnam. One talked about regularly being volunteered for scouting missions because he was an Indian (Native American) and therefore better at stealth in the wilderness. His response was "I'm from Detroit! What do I know about the f*cking jungle?"
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  9. Welcome to World War II Conspiracy Theories. A 27 part series down the rabbit hole of absolute WTF.
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  10. I was in highschool back in the 1980's when I learned the "recommended" sources such as books and articles were almost the only accepted source. Reading other books on a given or parallel subject, even when sighting them in the notes, was often discouraged and cause for being marked down. The situation is much worse today. Repeating anything beyond the party line can result in a failing grade.
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  11. And Madman Hitler.
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  12. Do NOT Google this. Sometimes being slightly ignorant of a subject is a good thing.
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  13. When it was announced I asked which would be longer, the Battle of Stalingrad or TIK's video. It was meant as a joke, not a challenge.
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  14. When it was first announced I joked about which would last longer, the battle for Stalingrad or TIK's description. It was meant as a joke, not a challenge.
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  15. I'm beginning to think you might not have faith in Keynesian Economics.
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  16. There was a lot of "Do as I say, not as I do." mentality in their leadership. Of course, they were hardly unique with this pattern.
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  17. He's only exited the stage, not dead. I'm sure he (Or at least the physical manifestation of his ego) will return when it's properly dramatic.
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  18. It's not cheating if you can convince the other players it's a real word.
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  19. TIK, thank you for the information you've put out. Last night I was dealing with another online argument about how the Nazis "privatized" everything and Germany was run by corporations during the 1930's/40's. Yes, it was with someone who misses the good old USSR. When I mentioned you at one point it was like spraying a cat with water. It may come as a surprise, but you are not liked in certain corners of the internet.
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  20. ​ @user-yv4mm6bx3c  It has a high likelihood of being overturned on appeal. I'm only going by comments from lawyers. But two arguments he has are selective prosecution. Basically find one other developer who didn't do what he did, specifically the claim he overstated his value for a loan. Second is the ham fisted way the judge handled it shows bias throughout the trial. I find it interesting that he can only sell his property to people approved by the prosecutor's office. I'm sure that list won't be loaded with people that happened to be major donors to NY Dems.
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  21. In their defense, they didn't know how deep in British territory they were at that point. Or where friendly troops were. Probably just chose to go with the plan that was working at the time.
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  22. A former professor used the term Polibrish. Political gibberish. It's when a person wants more, usually power but often wealth in general, but doesn't want to appear greedy or entitled. They won't say "The government should pay me X dollars a month just for existing." They will couch it in "The government should provide us with X dollars to ensure greater equality." By transferring their desires to the group, a group they coincidentally happen to be part of, it comes across as altruistic not greedy or lazy.
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  23. See also General Sherman of the US North Army during the civil war. He was quite proud of his army's ability to acquire food and other supplies while on the move. Admittedly he occasionally allowed his troops, and the people (Mostly freed slaves) following them to intentionally target civilian areas for looting for three reasons. 1) He had no way to take care of the camp followers so picking up food from the locals was about his only option. 2) He truly hated the South. He saw all pro succession people as traitors, and anything short of hanging them all was being nice. 3) Anything his troops took couldn't be used by the enemy.
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  24. Kamphy chair? I didn't expect Spanish Inquisition (with Germanic overtones) references.
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  25. From US history. Half drunk farmers vs the British Empire. Half drunk sailors decide they are tired of fighting on ships, and want to form units to get up close and personal with the enemy. Form USMC. Okay, not entirely historically accurate. But never underestimate the power of an armed, inebriated mob.
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  26. Or just blame Italy.
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  27. Now I'm trying to draw connections between Plato, Descartes, and the positioning of the South African Corps in relation to an Italian advance. This is becoming very confusing.
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  28.  @Etaoinshrdlu69  It was, I believe, supposed to be the final insult to the German people. There had been several reports of attacks on German citizens and Polish citizens of German ancestry before this. Some likely did happen, but most were blown out of proportion if they happened at all. Hitler and his allies within the government needed the people to ask them to "do something" to protect fellow Germans.
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  29. Germans are on an unstoppable roll. Russian army is staggered, alternating between falling back, surrendering en mass, or just running away. How could Germany possibly lose?
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  30. ​ @kieranmettler468  Also the word adjacent. As in Racist Adjacent. You claim not to be but agree with something that someone said, even if it isn't truly relevant to their overall view, so you are supporting them. Which makes you one of them. Or even worse because you aren't willing to come out and admit you are "one of those people". For example. TIK could release a video explaining why the Ruben sandwich is the greatest sandwich of all time. He'll list 12 reasons. (With footnotes below) If I post a comment saying he's wrong about 8 points, two are subjective, and maybe two are right. I am declared Ruben Adjacent and subject to full attacks as a known BLTphobe. Furthermore the PB&J fanatics, who normally hate the pro BLT lobby, will join with the BLTists in demanding my cancellation.
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  31. Haven't the German commanders shared the battle plan with the troops? Sure, it's hot and dusty, but don't worry too much. They'll be in Moscow by early September and the war will be over as the trees begin to turn Fall colors. There's no way Russia can stand up to the obvious German superiority.
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  32. Three hours until I have to go to work, what's on YouTube? Damnit!
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  33. I had a theory that postal workers loosing it might have had something to do with their seniority system. It was, and still may be, set in stone. If you were hired a week after me, I would always be above you. No matter how well you or I did our jobs, I received preferred treatment and first choice for things like promotions or vacation time. After a certain point most people will either go nuts from the frustration or give up and do just enough to not get fired.
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  34. What happens to things like MEFO bills or government backed bonds after a war if they are issued by the loosing side? I understand that if it ends with a treaty and redrawing a few lines on the map the issuing authority is still responsible. But in the case of Germany or Japan after WWII, or Russia after WWI that government no longer exists.
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  35. I have the urge to repeat that with a Dr Evil voice.
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  36. I've started before, when this was announced I asked which would be longer? The Battle of Stalingrad or TIK's series about it. I meant it as a joke, not a challenge.
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  37. Balance?
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  38. I had only heard of the events in passing. Like Russian, or other Soviet citizens who were POWs asking to not be sent back. This is the first time I saw it as an overall policy of the US and UK. I had no idea it was so extensive or resisted to such a degree.
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  39. At least canvas was a restricted item at the time.
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  40. Thank you for stating and explaining the shifting official numbers, and pointing out some of the bad research in the past. It is in these mistakes that Holocaust deniers get most of their more legitimate sounding arguments. History, as you have pointed out before, is not a set of absolute facts. It is the best we know from the available evidence. As the evidence changes, so does history. That doesn't mean an event didn't take place, it just means we have a clearer picture of what happened.
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  41. In my head I keep hearing TIK in his Hitler voice "They are only crossing water. Blood, as everyone knows, is thicker than water. And it is true, pure German blood that is the best. Let pure German blood flow, let it lead and there is no need for a ferry or bridge."
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  42. My dose of TIK history. The only tikling I will tolerate.
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  43. Something you mentioned that a teacher explained when I asked a similar question. Creating synthetic oil also required a lot of electricity and water. Both became less reliable as the war went on, and bombs were being dropped on anything larger than an outhouse. It required the prewar industry and economy to build up a surplus for the wartime economy. So, like a lot of Germany's ideas, a good plan just too late. This also only solved the problem of lubricating oil for machinery. Trying to convert coal into something like automotive or aviation fuel isn't practical even today.
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  44. Thanks for this video. I've seen numbers that are all over the place and almost every person giving them quotes "the Germans", but rarely gives an actual source.
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  45. I really need to check the title first. My brain was having a hard time remembering when Rommel arrived at Stalingrad.
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  46. While not the same, look at the Soviet blockade of Berlin a few years later. It is when business (capitalist) style logistics were put in place, the city was fed.
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  47. Just to clarify, are you saying a Socialist nation won't fight a Socialist nation?
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  48. We will not tolerate your silly metric spelling system. You'd think people from a place called England could learn how to spell in English.
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  49. People in the logistics chain had been less than accurate (lying) about what they had and where it was. When they were advancing this wasn't much of a problem. You can claim depot #27 has X tons of canned meat if the front is moving away and you probably won't need to send it to them. But when it stalls or falls back and you are ordered by a General to send your non-existent supplies forward, it gets bad. By the time anyone realized how bad the situation was, it was too late. Besides, Göring had personally promised Hitler that the airlift was possible. On paper maybe it could have been done, but in reality it was doomed from the beginning. But he wasn't going to say that. There's also the problem, as TIK said in the video, what you send doesn't matter nearly as much as what they receive.
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  50. The major problem with food for the US was logistics. We had it here, we had problems getting it there because of the war. The major problem with food for the USSR was a lack of food overall. It was a problem feeding Western Europe, but one we were overcoming when cargo ships stopped sinking
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