Comments by "Evan Norman" (@Newbmann) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1.  @Mikeyto_Garzilla  yeah its not like Columbia helped pannama and Venezuela when gran Columbia treated those areas like defacto colonies There's a reason why pannama is so much wealthier as a American puppet than a Columbian colony Let's not forget the gran Chaco war a Bolivia for against Paraguay for the express purpose of oil in the gran Chaco region yeah just like the us in Iraq. So yeah Latin America shot itself in the foot way more times than the us pinpoint strikes Latin American elites.
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  2.  @nedisahonkey  hmm Why do you think it would work now? It was made for a early stage industrial society were not only in a late stage industrial now but after DEINDUSTRIALIZATION you expect it to work? Not to say some variation couldnt but dude DROP MARX hes from another era and his ideas were built for said era your going to have to adapt it to modern times. Also communism brand name has a really bad rap it would be alot easier to make a new ideology heavily influenced from communism and give it a new name.
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  3.  @nedisahonkey  yeah fair enough plus it seems to be becoming more and more streched as time goes on I tend to view it in the most focused lens I can. Aparently now its so wide to cover everything from arguably modern Vietnam to Arguably modern Canada and those have VERY LITTLE IN COMMON in terms of ecconomic regulations. I try to get as stable a definition I can which means I end up pissing everone off because I think there pushing the definition to far.
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  4. He has had a meteoric rise Sigh
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  5.  @Knudsen_Hernandez  honestly I dont remember why I slapped the sigh there.
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  6. . . . Okay then 1. Celtics originally 2. Anglo saxons came genocided celtic leaving only the welsh but still a part of english is celtic by this point it was more or less a "nordic culture" just not in the modern sence. 3. Normans invaide Gallicization the upper classes quite a bit 4. Slowly the upper classes and lower classes mix creating modern english. Was that so complex? I probably got a thing or 2 wrong but still.
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  7. Oh god how did we get to the point of rickrolling. Then again there is no standard to online etiquette so ANYONE WHO MAKES A RICKROLL JOKE IS eh I cant honestly say somthing really bad.
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  8. The attempt on americas life has left it scarred. But its peoples will has never been stronger. Some american general turned caesar.
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  9. It used to be acceptable but then it fell far fast well in Europe at least Most success that there has been recently has been with outsourcing. Hints eurobeat although technically made by Italians in English its for the Japanese market and well Italians in Japan. Plus with actual die hards see Vietnamese EDM is seen as better.
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  10. One interesting thing about taiwan is in some ways its more japanese than japan itself with its media at least you have a prime minister running on a visual novel and gouvernment officials doing cosplay for pr. Im not sure if its a anti mainland backlash, being pulled into japans cultural sphere just due to raw size, or ties carrying over from colonial times although I doubt that last one. But I wouldnt be surprised if there was a anti mainland revolt in taiwan if china were to take it seeing as how diffrent the taiwanese and chinese youth are.
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  11.  @louisinese  on the topic of Quebec its really interesting how closely similar the 2 areas were socially as quiet conservative catholic French pockets leading up to maurice duplice or huey long serving as tyrants of French north America at roughly the same time before taking complete 180s afterwords with Quebec going through a "quiet" revolution while Louisiana did not.
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  12. Southern Thai Or northern Dayak IDK what part of malaysia?
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  13. I'm surprised he doesn't compare it to the old HRE because that's probably the best way to sum up its current situation like the old HRE there might be method to the madness but its going to flounder about being pulled in so many directions.
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  14. TBH he did change a thousand years of Italian general competence To act like Italy itself would exist when every country had the same martial skill as the Savoyards who united Italy IRL is very improbable. Oh not to mention effects that would have on stuff like the Italian wars with the Italian mercenaries actually being great fighters instead of just okay.
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  15. Also how did this get political? Screw it Im gona add fuel to the fire Biden said NATO got it right in Libya by killing Gaddafi and trump has stopped reporting drone casualties. Therefore the politician you like is a bloodthirsty joke. Is everyone angry at me yet?
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  16.  @randlebrowne2048  DONT WORRY THEY ALSO DID A POLOCY OF APPEASING IRAN how well did that work out before?
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  17.  @christiandauz3742  I dont know if this is serious or not.
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  18.  @FFFFFFF-FFFFFFFUUUUCCCC  wow I was wrong I was expecting it to end up like how It ended when I told a girl your the ocean I want to dive into. Not realize the multiple ways to interpret that statement
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  19. Im going to view this one before yt takes it down. Missing the south east asia video taught me that.
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  20. I think a better question would be the joseon sorry korean empire. Qing china even if it did modernise would still have to reform with it in a way the gouvernment simply wouldnt do thus it would end up being so unstable it would fall in on itself.
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  21.  @TylerSolvestri  what part I'm assuming not in suburbs or Californian or in my case Midwestern cities which efficiently teach mitochondria being the powerhouse and little else.
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  22. Gotta say wiah branching out from simple alt hist conntent 20 other creators do into your current mass apeal anthropology monopoly was a great buisness decission. You are a smart shrewed man
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  23. Wow this got heated fast let me through my hat into the ring. So I guess the Arrano beltza is not ok because the spainish fascists used it despite the fact its been around for 800 years. That would be like a really old Indian symbol not being ok because the natzis used it OH ITS NOT same deal ok.
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  24.  @costakeith9048  Well that's the most recent examples What really was a great feat of colonialism was what sinicization did to the Baiyue,Qiang or various other ethnic groups that no longer exist. Sure this is closer to what the French did in Africa than what the Americans did IE small settlement of initial settlers to "culturally convert" the natives to something akin to your culture but no one would say France didn't practice colonialism in Algeria as a "random" example.
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  25. Beter question what if the aboriginals didnt use Fire-stick farming.
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  26. Timurlane not exsisting The effects of this are highly reginalized Ends up with a cossack libertarian possible superpower siberia and superpower Sweden I don't think that's only going to have regional effects. Edit finished watching this and we'll I don't think there would be a Indian counterbalance to China in this time line IRL so uh no timurlane time line 21st century China runs even more rampant.
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  27. You cant just constantly tease us with future videos. Now you have to make a sequel to the orthodox civilization video about what MIGHT replace it simply because fans dont forget tiny teasers like the one in this video.
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  28.  @ANTSEMUT1  okay same land corridor part applys to taiwan without the strait. Even if it would be alot less times getting invaided than vietnam I doubt they would be nearly as good at fighting the chinese so I would think it would only take one potentially 2 times for china to conquer tiawan. Plus well not a jungle that makes it easy as well.
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  29.  GNnisa orobo  escape from taiwan the movie.
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  30. Here before this video gets mass reported by indian nationalists for rudyard claiming The british never CONSCIOUSLY conquered india
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  31.  @sachemofboston3649  not really it would be more of a armenian,greek union with quite a few south slavic populations like serbs or bulgarians. Oh and albanians as well.
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  32.  @mr.peanutbuttersfavepisode  pff even the finish continued to call themselves the 3rd Rome for a short while after the Russian Civil War.
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  33.  @briaormead4239 yep keep in mind that the same thing would happen if you would call a fin a Swed so it's not JUST a Russian thing.
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  34.  The Nova renaissance  1 British and "American cultures" are different not much sure but about as much as Bulgarian is from Serbian without the language difference I say American culture because there is no single American culture but rather a American culture group I mean you can't say a American living in Appalachian Ohio is the same as a Texan living in Texas or yankie living in Boston. Do you see that point? Sure they do have a lot in common but not enough to call them the same culture 2 it's not a cultural or societal argument but rather a political one since we'll that's the only part of the former Russian empire where white Russian generals managed to create a state out of the former Russian empire Poland doesn't count since it wasn't lead by former white Russian generals when it was created and with the Baltic states same thing it was a independence war not a part of the civil war OK it wasn't directly a part of the Russian civil war but rather a separate finish one with the same factions. And lastly I was explaining how the fins claim the title of 4th Rome which they do IS IT DUMB YES but they do it. 3 no one alive today actually takes it s
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  35.  @neasper  ah yes turkey currently competing with France in the eastern med as France attempts to contain turkey there trying to pick up influence wherever they can.
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  36.  @WhatifAltHist  yeah I know which is why I brought it up How long before you make a video on player piano and the effects of creating a alternative to human labor? Ie robots Probably never but since you ranted about the effects of space warfare in your video about the 10 hardest countries to invade It's not out of the question.
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  37. Daily reminder Rural Louisiana is also a part of Latin America by the same standard. This is true until you realize Latin America is a artificial grouping and in the colloquial sense its used 99% of the time its not.
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  38.  @Sigismundssword  Im aware japan has alot of problems with the remaining youth like coin locker babies and defining the term "workoholics" but japan is still in a much better position than china or noko or even europe because they had the entire world system to prop up there transition into terminal population decline. Something europe and the rest of east asia hitting at the same time wont be able to do.
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  39. The revolutions of 1848 did succeded on a minor level. IE scared the rulling classes enough to reform.
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  40.  @pokytheturtle1757  social justice is not about equality It's about equity and FORCEFULL inclusion there's a big difference there There all ready is equality among all demographics are you aware of the civil rights law of 1964 SJWS want to end people self segregating by changing stuff like the civil rights law of 1964 so they can force companies to have a certain percentage of "POC" at the company SJWS are not OK with the meritocracy of the army because it currently has white people leading black people even if there's nothing stopping them from becoming generals My biggest problem with SJWS is they don't even know what the problem The problem is its not with white supremacy how many "East Asian" people are CEOS in this country. It's not with Racism We just had a black president The problem is with Class that simple and more social programs will just strain the national budget even more.
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  41. With whatifalthist Expect the unexpected because he always delivers quality in a unexpected way.
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  42. @Илья Ветров I mean that's something else but even if everything goes great with centralization well then there's still another problem the lack of geographic demarcation lines there is a reason why in the direct aftermath of WW1 eastern Europe was the mess that it was the cultural make up of the eastern reaches of the former PLC was a complete mess. There's still the problem of the ruthenians supporting the Russians in case of war or the Crimean germans supporting the Austrians in case of war minor in comparison but still a problem Putting it simply even if Poland is able to unite politically it still would be far from United in terms of culturally I wouldn't be surprised if even if the PLC remains strong when the age of revolutions comes around there's major ruthenian,tartar,and hell even through Prussian in there revolts. keep in mind this was that was the same time the Scottish rose up roughly 200 times just in hopes of restoring the house of Stuart so a very minor agitation would be all that would be required. Keep in mind it's not even like they could create a "proto intermarium" like federation since no matter what they do it will upset someone weather it's the belorussians over Lithuania or the Lithuanians over Prussia owning memel hell what do you do between the tartars and ruthenians/pre Rusification Ukrainians.
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  43. @Илья Ветров I mean it's not just the ruthenians it's also the Prussians,Lithuanians,Crimean Greeks,Crimean Germans not to mention how much of a loss spitting up ruthenian would be for Poland just like that roughly a third of there manpower gone just as a example Not to mention your saying a "UK is harder to create between 2 hostel power's" just look at what Denmark did after the failure of the union of kalmar surrounded by Sweden and the Hanseatic league which we'll wasn't exactly Friendly to there control over what gets into the Baltic Sea. Sure a UK wouldn't work in Polands case but saying it can't is wrong But it doesn't need to it only needs to keep there support think more Yugoslavia than UK not a better comparison by any means but that's not exactly what it would be just the best way to get the idea of what it would be this would be a uniquely polish system so comparisons are hard. No matter what Poland did unless they granted at least some form of limited self government to its largest cultures other than polish and MAJOR reforms in a lot of other areas and on top of that held out long enough for Bismarck to be raised in polish controlled Neumark which is not as hard as it seems just let the holzensours marry into the polish vassal of Prussia and just like that your vassal has a Pu AND he was loyal to Poland and he still was the Bismarck we know and then Poland can continue to be a great power till today otherwise we'll more of a impact but not one that is still being felt today.
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  44. @Илья Ветров it was a very strategic area which Is why I'm bringing up the tartars a good way to make the Commonwealth stronger is for it to simply have taken the chrimea from the ottomans fairly early on there's a reason why the Russians wanted it back so bad And yeah realistically Prussia probably would get there independence but it's not like it's impossible for Poland to hold on to it and there's a fairly simple change to make it more likely as in a lot more likely they hold onto it and even if they dont would make prussia a much lesser threat put greater focus on developing the Prussian countryside which was where the majority of the poles were living in the area and we'll a government can only survive by support of the populous and we'll just look at the "greater polish uprising" as a example of why this would either destabilize prussia or stabilize it under polish rule.
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  45. Drinking game Take a shot every time wiah says IRON RULE.
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  46.  @k.t.5405  are you sure about that the Northern us states or the richest part of the US at the time never really had the slave plantations the south did. I could see the american south but not the north or canada.
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  47.  @k.t.5405  Im aware but global also includes the arab slave trade as well as the atlantic one. Also like I said south sure but the northern states let me ask you this how many slaves were in new york or boston? Vast majority of slavery was in the south east of the country.
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  48.  @k.t.5405  yeah it was legal at first doesnt mean it was very widespread. The peak # of slaves in boston was 1000 now compare it with modern china and there 3.86 million slaves a drop in the bucket. Edit also okay then so why did you say global if you ment the US? Also you sure there counted with inflation in mind? Thats higher than the global cash circulation at the time.
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  49.  @r.ladaria135  okay yeah fair enough it was the Castilian crown of Philip not spain as a hole.
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  50.  @r.ladaria135  well they did do alot of buisness with slave owners just were mostly not slave owners themself. Like alot of buisness
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