Comments by "rejvaik" (@rejvaik00) on "Into the Shadows" channel.

  1.  @karlwikman3874  well said vengeance brings nothing but misery and we all know misery loves company and it is indiscriminate on who it chooses This plot was never justified, but I can understand the reasoning When you loose literally everything as many of the survivors of the atrocity did your emotions are in a whirl and you can find yourself having nothing left to the point that your moral compass is effectively broken beyond belief
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  2. Free Manchuria Free inner Mongolia Free Xinjiang Free Tibet
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  3. I think the worst part of this is that Pol pot never suffered any consequences for his actions Much like the Chilean dictator and the Spanish dictator Pinochet and Franco they lived their entire lives and died peacefully never seeing a jail cell or courtroom
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  4. I'd welcome a dictator video on Peru under Japanese-Peruvian president Fujimori His daughter is still surprisingly also involved in Peru politics to this day
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  5. How Simon keeps his sanity and not not become jaded, cynical, or apathetic to human suffering after narrating horrible atrocities nearly every day is a miracle
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  6. Oh he gets hit from time to time I think his channel into the shadows had so many videos get demonetized and flagged because they went into nasty bits about history I remember his video on the white rooms, was down for months as he had to edit it and reupload it so it would receive the blessing of the censorship gods of YouTube
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  7. Well Tibet is in a difficult position because it's technically been part of the Chinese Empire since the late 1600s And conquest and formal control was established by the Chinese in 1720, Albeit during a brutal sacking of Lasha and nearly burning the entire city to the ground So understand this isn't me defending the Chinese but to help others understand that their historic claim to the land does have some international legal merit because they have been the rulers of the land for over 250 years Now to be fair the Right of Conquest isn't allowed anymore by international law ever since 1949 but that's neither here nor there and not helpful in Tibet's current situation IMO though they aren't worthy to the claim, because of how badly the Tibetans have been treated as a result of those 250 years and the subsequent half century since Chinese control was reestablished in 1953 But unfortunately Tibet finds itself in a very similar position to Taiwan where it's not a legally recognized country and even worse is that unlike Taiwan who was at one point given a seat at the UN, Tibet never had such a luxury Meaning there's no historical legacy within the recent global world order that Tibet can point to and therefore seek help in regard to it's situation
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  8. China has been in Tibet ever since 1690, they formally conquered it and annexed it in 1720 but they treated the Tibetans horribly as a result And have burned Lasha many times since to pacify the Tibetans That's a why it was no surprise that when imperial China fell in the early 20th century Tibet was overjoyed that their 300 year as a colony was seemingly at an end They tried very hard to organize themselves and gain international recognition as an independent nation but it was unsuccessful And Chinese control was formally reestablished in 1953 We may think that was the the first time China dominated Tibet because it was the first time the collective West was exposed to the issue but that's not the case
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  9. "In every Genocide there is a denial"
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  10. Never forget it was a nachi party member who saved thousands of Chinese civilians form the imperial japanese forces John Rabe ......RIP 😞
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  11. Eventually they will have to turn down the anti doping brigade if it becomes an acceptable practice to allow women on testosterone because they are transitioning I'm not sure how you can support both ideas to keep pro sports free of doping and the transition movement's access to the same substances
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  12. It's also because Tibet has unfortunately been a part of imperial China for 200 years ever since 1720 Meaning most other nations see Tibet as sovereign territory of the Chinese empire and it's successor state the PRC
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  13.  @sillysad3198  called it lol But yeah it's sad
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  14. This is true even before the Europeans arrived when the Arabs conquered a lot of the African continent they employed very similar brutal tactics to ensure they would have a long and continued rule
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  15.  @kieronparr3403  actually Taiwan struggles very hard to fill its military ranks the Taiwan civilian population is extremely loathing of their military servicemen They do not like them, and it's why the government of Taiwan has to do a balancing act to ensure that they mandate forced conscription but they try not to piss off their civilian population so they keep that conscription. Really low about 4 months And 4 months is utter garbage of a time period to train a soldier to learn almost anything and then retain it years later in the event of a national emergency Taiwan only very recently changed their conscription. To 1 year but again that's a very gradual change as it currently stands it's still a 4 month service period
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  16. Neither do they in the US only plasma
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  17. Kuru: I agree with Rabies you gotta pump up those numbers!
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  18. I'm my opinion I'm in agreement because the Chinese lost all rights to the lands with how horribly they treated the Tibetans And that's been going by the Chinese ever since the first burning of Lahsa when Chinese control was permanently established in 1720 However there's a reason why the legality of Tibet has always been up in the air and deemed a controversial issue primarily because it was never a sovereign state after Imperial China annexed it in the early 18 century and never did receive worldwide international recognition when imperial China fell And the issue has been further complicated because is has always been a part of China ever since it was formally annexed in 1720
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  19. It's because there are unlimited wants of mankind and a limit of resources on the planet Therefore it will always breed conflict
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  20.  @JesseJoyce-cj2xg  Taiwan better step up then and start better training and equipping their military or else it's just going to be the same problem with Afghanistan, surrendering as soon as they meet on the battlefield
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  21.  @pixaln  I mean that's a stretch man come on, virus are also composed of proteins in awkward patterns
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  22. I think that because the problems in Yugoslavia lasted for so long and the UN peacekeeping Force failed that's why it attracted the attention of NATO I agree the mere fact that only 3 months violence happened and then stopped in Rwanda was not seen as enough to justify NATO going in there and I don't believe NATO even had capacity and infrastructure to pull something off like that in the 1990s
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  23. Yep Japan diaspora in Peru is very large
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  24. But it's Mao who reigns supreme
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  25. Not blood no, only plasma
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  26. Rules of YouTube and the showcasing of potential extremist symbology EVEN when its done in proper context like that of a history lecture such as this video YouTube doesn't like it when symbology of that type is shown no matter the circumstances
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  27.  @swamp-yankee  it's possible, the problem is is YouTube is an American company so they are really only going to be very familiar with extremist symbols the larger Western society considers to be in that category even they deserve it or not
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  28. Putting a sponsor in this video really takes away from the seriousness of the subject
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  29. I don't disagree but I mean that would only be a temporary solution at best the West would come in with their Superior military strength and be able to push them out and stop the violence but then what do you after? As soon as the western military leaves the violence will just continue "When the cats away the mice come out to play" - as the saying goes So you'd have to basically occupy the land your trying to pacify as well as build up a nation from quite literal scratch and that's an expensive undertaking
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  30.  @SEAZNDragon  I specifically mentioned the women transitioning to men though
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  31. Yeah Tibet has been struggling for a LOOOONG time to refrain from Chinese dominance and influence Around the same time a nation was being born in 1776 in the new world continent Lasha was being burned to the ground by vengeful imperial Chinese
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  32.  @JesseJoyce-cj2xg  oh it's much worse than that they can get you even when you're in a safe democracy country like Canada Ever heard of Operation Fox Hunt? The CCP will go after Canadian citizens w/ Chinese ancestry forcibly take them back to China where they face penalty as a result
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  33. This is up there but for me it was the video on Stalin's cannibal island from ITS that broke me
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  34. A female dictator.... Those are rare
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  35. I just think it's interesting we get to see female dictator via his wife you don't see those very often
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  36. The Olympics are so freaking pointless They are nothing more than a publicity stunt paid for by the taxpayers and the host nation oftentimes to their detriment The International committee on the Olympics is corrupt as all hell and regularly overcharges an bleeds out the resources of the host nation all at the same time with walking out with most of the revenue May they please go the way of the dodo
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  37. I thought the king of counterfeiting was the N. Koreans since they made the Super Dollar Virtually indistinguishable from the dollar save for some minor differences
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  38.  @JesseJoyce-cj2xg  yeah but the taiwanese civilians really need to rethink their impression of taiwan's military They hate it so much they only have a 4-month conscription. That's barely enough time to learn anything They also do not have firing ranges that they utilize on the regular conscripted soldiers go through the entire conscription. Without ever knowing how to properly aim shoot or load a firearm much less any piece of artillery equipment
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  39.  @kieronparr3403  uhh no they don't, infact the civilian population of Taiwan greatly dislikes their military They loathe is so much that they try every trick in the book to become exempt from conscription and those that are conscripted make sure they are not assigned to a unit that would learn how to engage in combat
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  40.  @suprlite  well seeing as you're dealing with the microbial level yes your going to be looking at what they are made out of and even if it is the same material when it's arranged in different patterns it can be considered something different that's basic microbiology
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  41. It took 100 years for the crimes of Leopold in the Belgian congo to finally be accepted by the Belgian government So I won't hold my breath that even though the accusations are probably true it will be many generations before they are accepted
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  42. Eventually they will have to turn down the anti doping brigade if it becomes an acceptable practice to allow women on testosterone because they are transitioning I'm not sure how you can support both ideas to keep pro sports free of doping and the transition movement's access to the same substances
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  43. The Germans have a word for it called Generational Hatred
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  44. Possibly, but know that the institutions and enforcement of laws of the developed world are not very strong outside of that Policing the developing world is a very difficult and expensive process and one that's not had much success from any country trying to do so as often those who try make it worse for everyone involved That's why is so hard for anyone to do anything, the best the UN can often do is merely document the crimes and then bring them to account when the criminal who did it is ousted from power
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  45. Not that I'm defending the current Chinese regime nor their modern day claims on Tibet, because of the Chinese mistreatment of Tibetans But in a purely historical sense yes Tibet has technically been a part of China since the late 1600s and early 1700s, they gained it through conquest It's not a justification for their continued rule however, China had done many massacres such as in 1720 when they burned Lasha to the ground inorder to pacify the Tibetans from revolution and secession from the Chinese empire at the time
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  46. And this is the military that the UN was thinking about sending into Haiti?
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  47.  @LibrarianSankore  that's why I put the ? at the end cause I wasn't sure if this was the military or not
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  48.  @MistaCUNextTuesday  because I have 10 million other things to do and I don't feel like doing it that's why I made a question and had someone else answer
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  49.  @fargr5926  And I admire your unwillingness to research when the babyboomers we're born And when they turned into their 20s and 30s because the counter culture the was the hippie movement is almost entirely exclusive to that of the boomers reaching adult maturity and wanting to engage in coitus
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  50.  @tibetanchineseofchina  and the Lahsa revolt from Beijing rule in 1724
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