Comments by "Bob" (@bobs_toys) on "History Summarized: Augustus Versus the Assassins" video.

  1. Yeah. See. That last one is so amazingly superficial I have to wonder if anything was learned from it. Like... Hitler is just a man. He wasn't a country or an army. How he convinced people to follow him is a major thing. And to say that Hitler started it is simplifying it a bit... It's more accurate to say that Hitler and Stalin started it together. What happened in WW2 isn't where the lessons are. The important lessons are how WW2 happened in the first place. And... So much more. What you've done would barely qualify as a cartoon. As far as that being the 'only' reason it's important.... In many ways, (together with WW1, considering how intertwined the effect of those wars is) it represents the killing off of the old world. It delegitimised the dictator in Western eyes. It's also a classic example of why using violence to suppress speech or influence politics is bad. I'm looking right at Antifa as I say this. They've got far more in common with Hitler's brownshirts than they do with most other groups.
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  2. This being said, it wasn't long before this that it really wasn't. That only really started with the Brothers Grachii.
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  3. The real ones are well worth reading up on, though.
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