YouTube Historians/HistoryTube/PopHistory

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
who dare wins? said:
What are your guy's thoughts on Alexander the Ok? I understand he is more so of a youtuber who discusses Engineering/specific systems throughout history but he often touches on the development of whatever he's covering + the greater political and historical context of such. My opinion is he is nice to listen to in the background but is clearly a huge bleeding heart libtard.
Click to expand...
Whiny obnoxious cunt.
 

1773019055079.png

This seems like an oversimplification....
 
LovisXVI said:
Reminds me of the one I posted about a year back, all of this is easily sourced from accounts of their policies and various manifestos. Though I define left-right as wrt one's views of inequality being a product of society or inherent qualities like culture, races, or genes.
Click to expand...
I personally describe it as by and large "Dictatorial Paleoconservatism", though economic policies and approaches to the ideology being utilized vary by country.
 
Candlelight Desolation said:
I personally describe it as by and large "Dictatorial Paleoconservatism", though economic policies and approaches to the ideology being utilized vary by country.
Click to expand...
It's such a vague term with so many wildly varying definitions, it's not really worth taking seriously and arguing about imo. The last definition I read for fascism basically boiled down to "any form of government that isn't 20th-21st century western liberal democracy/republic". 99% of the time someone uses the word fascist, they're just trying to say "nazi", but they're self-aware enough to know that they'd sound like a child.
 
One could argue that the absolute worship of liberal democracy without any sense of criticism of its shortcomings, even if you support the system, is a great irony. If you are even neutral about states like Russia or China your called a Waymo or Vatnik even if you don't support those states either. I know this is generally beyond those who make history content, but the sheer confidence of talking about how evil and dumb our "enemies of democracy" are while the economy, safety, and freedoms fritter away generally shows a lack of self reflection.

It's people like Cypher though who I don't think actually supports Liberal Democracy, just likes it as a weapon he can use against his enemies who are evil and all consuming, yet also inept and dumb like all who are captured by their ideology. He actually likely hates the US but must act like he's the true American so his ilk can delegitimize his opponents as well as the foundation it's formed on.

I'd say I generally hate the man, but that's not needed as he's being punished enough by his growing irrelevancy along with no schools hiring him, likely knowing that he's an actual propogandist.
 
The Secret Sauce said:
It's such a vague term with so many wildly varying definitions, it's not really worth taking seriously and arguing about imo. The last definition I read for fascism basically boiled down to "any form of government that isn't 20th-21st century western liberal democracy/republic". 99% of the time someone uses the word fascist, they're just trying to say "nazi", but they're self-aware enough to know that they'd sound like a child.
Click to expand...
Fascism is vague because while it has a set of pretty well defined and comprehensible principles. The People it's built around is never defined in a general sense. So one view of fascism will never align with another because the group they champion will have different lines. Also because it's only focused on the political the economical is whatever you feel like it. Fascism had both corporatism and syndicalism being championed at the same time by people fighting together in a civil war.

There was also this push and pull game that has been happening less and less as the liberals spiral leftwards socially. Where liberals try to make fascists sound like commies and commies try to make fascists sound like the armed wing of liberalism.
 
Slap47 said:
Pretty much all of the Yale courses are good.

The one on modern France is probably the best overview of the country you could possibly have.
Click to expand...

Could you possibly help find the one on modern France? I find the post WW2 France very interesting given they kept a shadow empire going in Africa, fought tooth and nail to keep their colonial empire, had a near socialist type economy all the way to the late 80s, and really only seemed to suffer political crisis with now attempting to maintain the most generous welfare state in the Eurozone with a rapidly spiraling economy.
 
Kyria the Great said:
Could you possibly help find the one on modern France? I find the post WW2 France very interesting given they kept a shadow empire going in Africa, fought tooth and nail to keep their colonial empire, had a near socialist type economy all the way to the late 80s, and really only seemed to suffer political crisis with now attempting to maintain the most generous welfare state in the Eurozone with a rapidly spiraling economy.
Click to expand...

 
JJLiautaud said:
He really slags off the liberal party and almost but not quite puts the war blame entirely on them
Click to expand...
He teed off on them so often that I was beginning to wonder if they killed his dog.

I finished Old Britannia's five hour marathon last night. He front loaded the video with his snark because the second half was pretty light with them.

But my Lord, he certainly used some of those graphics and animations so often that they almost became threadbare. If I had slugged a shot every time those three pith helmets traveled from Brit'an to just across the border from Belgium, I'd have died before the end of the video.

That said, it was quality work. I hope we don't have to wait as long for the next part.
 
Zyklon C said:
But my Lord, he certainly used some of those graphics and animations so often that they almost became threadbare. If I had slugged a shot every time those three pith helmets traveled from Brit'an to just across the border from Belgium, I'd have died before the end of the video.
Click to expand...
That's uh... that's kinda just what the Western Front was like my guy.
 
Zyklon C said:
He didn't use the graphic to illustrate the meat grinder, he just used it any time he mentioned that the Limeys might send troops if there was a war.
Click to expand...
I would just like to call you a madlad for actually watching a five hour long history video instead of just listening to it while doing something else.
 
A nice video on wagon based logistics with a worked example using the Domesday Book data.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom