Comments by "William Innes" (@williaminnes6635) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1.  @Mbrace818  "The People's Republic of China as a state structure is 70 years old" would be a more precise way to word it, but people know what you mean regardless.
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  2. The carbon thing is mostly nonsense pushed by large corporations in order to drive down real wages. India and China alone have deleted any effort made meanwhile New York was supposed to be under water by now. It will take off in a similar way that the subprime loans took off, however, because there is now a lot of money in it where it is happening.
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  3. I think he had a bit on the Marathas where he argued they would have burned themselves out with constant warfare. The way to have India never get colonized by the British is you just have Plassey go the other way. Either it doesn't rain that day and the Nawab's weekend warriors are able to fire their muskets, or the Nawab's one general doesn't take Clive's money and actually leads his contingent to reinforce the Nawab, or Clive himself has a bad curry the night before and his judgement is off. Without a win at Plassey, the Seven Years War doesn't result in the East India Company expanding across the continent, with them remaining confined to a couple of coastal trading forts, and possibly getting kicked out of Bengal. The industrial revolution still happens, but the 2BE without India isn't the same thing. UK is not the industrial powerhouse it was in our timeline without the captive market of Company-controlled India. There's also no strategic imperative for the 2BE to be in the Mediterranean, for instance, without the most important colony on the other side of the Suez Canal. British involvement in Africa has much less motivation - the strategic aspect of Cape Colony was identical to that of Gibraltar or Egypt, hold open the sea lane to India - so the pressures which lead to the Scramble for Africa are reduced. Egypt possibly still carves out a swathe of territory uphill of the Nile rapids under that Albanian dynasty. Holland possibly continues to hold Cape Colony - with a dramatically different ethnic composition - Spain and Portugal still hold their enclaves, and indigenous empires like the Sokoto and the Zulus who had the aggression and warrior spirit to expand in our timeline up until they ran into the 2BE might just have kept going. There is no Great Game with Russia over Afghanistan, but, Afghan empires are never prevented from snowballing their way into the Indian princely states every couple of decades. Afghanistan could easily be a major world power today without the legacy left by the imposition of the frontier which divided Pathanstan. With nobody to conquer them besides the Afghans, the Punjabi Empire which started in the 17th century would have most likely continued to be a thing into present day, and most likely be in an ongoing state of intermittent war with Afghanistan. I could see it causing a lengthier period of tensions with America, since South American markets would become relatively more important to colonize with India taken out of the picture. In our timeline, Royal Navy reformer Thomas Cochrane lead South American revolutionary fleets while working as a mercenary in the waters surrounding that continent in the early 19th century. This might, if the British were still the guarantors of Belgian neutrality in 1914 and matters still came to a head then, mean America enters WWI sooner, on the side of the Ottomans, Austrians, and Germans, to get revenge on the British over chronic violations of the Monroe Doctrine. No colonization would also mean no decolonization. There would be no pressure for west Eurasian states to leave their coastal exclaves around the world.
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  4. Not to pick a pointless argument, but your third sentence is inconsistent with the rest of what you wrote. Have a lovely weekend.
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  5. She-sheds amount to modern day menstrual huts.
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  6. I am rewatching mostly to see if he removed the bit where he contradicted his Albion's Seed videos.
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  7. slash erm...Eleven Nations of America IIRC
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  8. The left is evil and corrupt, but they're far from bound to fail. With modern algorithms, the left wing dream of a unitary command economy is if anything more achievable than anything. The economic calculation problem assumes human policymakers.
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  9. Why isn't Malaysia coloured in for strong guilt, Rudyard? had to bust your balls on that man
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  10. 5:07 Why isn't Iberia noted as Georgia if you're going to smooth over distinctions earlier in the video?
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  11. Pedantic quibble, abd al Wahhab was an 18th century thinker.
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  12.  @zachweyrauch2988  Rudyard's excessively optimistic in this one. The federals would just need to go full authoritarian and give the secret police a place of privilege in their power structure, and they'd achieve the same thing Ivan the Terrible did when he became autocrat of Russia and introduced the oprichniki. To be fair, that one was J. J.'s alternative scenario. Confederation dissolving would be the best case scenario. 18 more months of these fucking assholes.
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  13. I guess we'll see but...I've had too many videos about the tunnel campaign in South Vietnam recommended to me not to believe tunnel systems can't be ridiculous. The one Viet Cong trick was to dig a P-trap and fill it with water, so they couldn't be gassed. I expect at least some guys in Hamas have some design features in there that keep the water from rising into some portions of the tunnel system.
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  14.  @grimkahn3775  Benefit of the doubt, it COULD be that they're conscious of the fact that it's a set of guilt-motivated societies going through secularization (which has all ready unstitched them as a nation) while simultaneously absorbing mass migration, creating a need for some sort of guilt-object to replace Christ in the assimilation of the children of migrants to the mainstream, hence orange shirt girl to replace little baby Jesus for seculars, the mass grave of children in the residential school yards to replace Golgotha, etc. It is ridiculous at one level but at another remaining a set of guilt-motivated societies is better than transmuting into a set of fear or shame motivated ones.
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  15.  @carletonrutherford1799  You're assuming "Canadian" continues to be a category of person-as-they-think-of-themselves, rather than just a passport, and that ship may well have sailed.
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  16.  @carletonrutherford1799  It's a good passport. It's an all right place to incorporate. It's an all right place to on-ramp into a profession. However, the postnational state is a reality.
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  17.  @carletonrutherford1799  In my view, the more accurate term is failed nation. Nobody would say of Somalia that it is a poststate nation.
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  18.  @carletonrutherford1799  I assume you are about 60, 70 years old?
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  19.  @carletonrutherford1799  *2015
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  20.  @carletonrutherford1799  It is true that there is no Philadelphia or Detroit in Canada, and therefore no pockets of warzone level homicide to drag up the average, but the rest of it applies to either side of the 49th.
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  21. OK Kozneczny is hilarious AF when you get into his whole thing about how it's about the division between what each values.
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  22. What region of what province are you from? and if you say Toronto, I know you're lying.
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  23.  @christophercharles3169  In dead nation? Question is always rhetorical.
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  24.  @PotatoeIsland  Central Ontario feels like you're going back in time a few decades. Western Ontario just feels like it has more space and is more livable. The race thing is more noticeable in northern Ontario. Eastern Ontario is more foreign.
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  25. Thank you for your engagement. 😃
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  26. 18:45 but Buddha DID say that
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  27. Pedantic quibble, the kriegspiel was much older than WWI.
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  28. Vive le Quebec Libre
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  29.  @galymzhankyrykbaev2976  I feel like when ISIS evaporated in Syria in the late 2010s - whether that was because Trump cut their funding or for some other reason - the propaganda engine that had been going through the War on Terror stoking distrust between Muslims and Christians was also allowed to run dry.
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  30. It's excessively optimistic.
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  31. He's excessively optimistic. Common civic values may be dead, alongside the last stuttering embers of the old Canadian nationalism, but the federal government could totally maintain its authority over population centres dispersed along linear infrastructure across wide spaces in a bad temperate climate. Since Confederation taken as a unit is most similar to Russia, the direction it would have to evolve would be that of the Russian state since the 16th century, authoritarianism undergirded by a place of privilege for the secret police in its power structure.
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  32. He looped back to charters, around the end. Cheers.
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  33. Stalin in my view doesn't fit neatly as a left winger but as more of an archpragmatist working from the baseline of Russian culture and Leninist revolution. Stalinism forsook worldwide revolution, invited in foreign investors to achieve the necessary levels of capital and entrepreneurship to achieve its Five Year Plans, and in the wake of Barbarossa, allowed the Red Army to take up the iconography of its Tsarist predecessor. Stalin is rejected by more ivory tower style orthodox communists - Marxist fundamentalists, in other words - as well as by socialists who view the core of their movement as the reduction of societies world wide to grease stains beneath their jack boots. From the perspective that the left is antimarket and the right is antileft - I can't recall the original person who argued it that way - and in the context of the European rather than the English-speaking political spectrum - stakeholder rather than shareholder capitalism - there is a case to describe Hitler as right wing, but if one accepts the Hitler's Circle of Evil thesis, he was a fringe figure for decades to whom the public only turned with the increase in world interest rates in the wake of the Great Depression, which made it impossible for America to continue to refinance the Weimar Republic's inheritance from the Kaiser as cheaply as it had over the 1920s. There is also an argument that the idea that Stalinism is left wing and Hitlerism right wing stems from arguments made by Stalin and Stalinists to distance themselves from criticism from Trotskyists.
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  34. eh state level actions and individual decisions such as moving away from progressive areas are both positive. Just don't live around liberals and their bullshit, and then it doesn't affect you, and if your governor, DA, state house and senate majority, sheriff, mayor, and HOA president see things your way, then who cares if the Bay Area is hosting drag queen child sacrifices to Moloch on the reg
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  35. Islamofascism with free speech areas and special economic zones
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  36. Canada got to be the most important British possession in the British Empire by default in the long 1950s. Every punch Canada threw above its weight class in the late 20th century came out of that status.
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  37. They're just deliberately sowing secondary deviance to push back the reaction against the big corpos for what they did in 2008-2009 for the Bush-Obama bailout package. Divide et imperator.
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  38. No offense, but I don't know if I trust a Dane with what sounds like an ESG thing. Those guys have this caveman thing in their culture where it's like tall poppy syndrome in First World English-speaking countries outside of United States or crabs in the bucket in some individual communities of the United States but on crack.
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  39.  @jaimay125  Catholics with a traditionally feudal economy are liminally Western? You don't say.
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  40. Thank you for your engagement. 😃
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  42. Had the British stayed out of WWI, there would have been a LOT of 20th and 21st century tragedies which would have been avoided.
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  43. A distinction used to be made between science, or any system which can present falsifiable evidence, to use the Karl Popper definition, and scientism, or the attempted application of the principles of science outside of science per se. Strictly speaking, at this point I think we're talking more about the compulsory aesthetics of scientism. Spot on about the need for abstract theories.
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  44. eh the Palestinians are their own distinct thing from Egyptian Arabs at this point, a bit like how 18th century Americans were different enough from 18th century English while also being almost entirely an outgrowth of them I know neither Transjordan nor Lebanon has had great experiences hosting the Palestinians or are all that happy with the Palestinians who moved there after the Nakba, who form an unassimilated minority in each country.
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  45.  @hassanbassim4007  That's not what I've gathered from my chats with people from that part of the world who were going to school here. The Palestinian guy said he loved Transjordan, the Transjordanian guy said you had to watch out for the Palestinians, because they had short fuses and came in packs. The Lebs keep'em in walled camps IIRC and the main war crime of which Ariel Sharon was accused was allowing the indigenous Lebs to massacre a refugee camp of Palestinians, rather than risking any of his own men to reach the terrorists within.
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  46.  @hassanbassim4007  I guess I don't know if the Lebs still hold it against the Palestinians for having provoked the Israeli intervention that destabilized Lebanon and set off the civil war in the 1980s.
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  47.  @hassanbassim4007  well yeah we are talking about countries with fair sized Christian populations
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  48.  @hassanbassim4007  You think it's mostly a face saving thing by the king of Transjordan with respect to Transjordan's claims to West Bank, which...I'm willing to believe, these are all face-based cultures, I just don't believe for a second that the Palestinians in particular aren't seen as a horrible minority by absolutely everybody in their immediate vicinity, and there is WAY too much Muslim-on-Muslim terrorism for me to believe that the ummah is much more than an ideal to which to aspire.
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  49. He's excessively optimistic. Even as a postnational state which no longer possesses any civic values in common between its regions - "Canadian" had been ceasing to be a thing since the 1960s thanks to secularization, 2015 was just the final veil removed by Stephen Harper - Canada could very well stick together by the same means Ivan the Terrible applied to the analogous situation of dispersed population centres along linear trade routes in a bad temperate climate: authoritarianism undergirded by a place of privilege for the secret police. I mean, I hope Canada falls apart, that would be the brighter of the two futures, but realistically, there has to be a solid chance, one in three say, that it just Russifies. History and poli sci are both absolutely dog shit majors when it comes to opportunities, but one thing I will say about Rudyard's videos is that enough of the nonspeculative ones are eerily close to the direction my profs went with the topics.
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  50.  @anthonysaunders345  You know what, for the sake of argument, I'm going to assume you're speaking in good faith. There is an intrinsic incompatibility from first principles built in to the predominant evolved forms of regional civic sentiment in these provinces. Multiculturalism in the form in which it exists on the ground with its felt and understood but often unthought and unarticulated assumptions about individual rights can not be reconciled with secularism in the francophone tradition, due to the implicit assumptions multiculturalism makes about individual rights. By Benedict Anderson definition, a nation represents an imagined community, held together in Anderson's view by specifically print media. 1830s-1840s through 1960s, the old nationalism worked on a system of guaranteed standards of second class citizenship for the nonProtestant minority groups. I'd argue that this in and of itself was something specifically southern Ontario was able to do because of its heritage in having been originally settled - set aside the Neutral Nation who had been ethnically cleansed by the Iroquois - by Pennsylvania Loyalists who were themselves heir to the culture imported by the Religious Society of Friends along the Black Walnut Trail following the Revolution. For having had, since the Potato Famine, an analogous ethnoconfessional dynamic to that Northern Ireland imported to it, this ought to be seen as stroke of good fortune that the basic ingredients necessary to build multiculturalism had all ready existed here for so long. Just because this is going to get to be about five times as long as that, I'd just like to clarify with you that you are, in fact, about 75 years old and speak English as your first language; and would like to ask you in which part of which province or territory you live, and if you or your parents or grandparents moved there from somewhere else. I'm from around Toronto.
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