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Whatifalthist, also known as Rudyard Lynch (because he was dumb enough to dox himself for attention), is AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


...Sorry, that was just my wish for him to actually put effort into his content, furiously trying to make itself known.

Does he deserve his following? Well, he says he does (he did that, when he wasn't asking for work in his video), but he LOST a debate with Vaush by being a worse arguer than I am, and by agreeing to do the debate in the first place.


He's in a weird position for autists such as myself; he says things that are interesting, and in an addicting manner that grabs attention, but even two minutes of watching his content will reveal that he doesn't care about his own stuff even a hundredth as much as his audience. Given his kinda-milquetoast stance usually, and his own claims that no one else cares about what he's covering, the audience is trapped into watching him.

He also shills for something called Pearl, sort of a Discord or Twitter alternative, because one of the people he sleeps with made it.

Gosh, he really thinks he's important, despite how little effort he puts into anything... or maybe he's putting as much effort into everything as possible, and he's just that incompetent.
A horrible channel filled with absurd Eurocentricist biases, and I am not using the word "Eurocentricist" to screech about "racism", but that he tries to view Oriental societies with very wrong lenses. For example, he appears utterly clueless about the reasons behind Chinese "isolationism". One of the reasons for the most recent "isolationist period" was this: The Chinese decided to curtail European trade since the Spanish caused a massive inflationary crisis in Guangdong during the Ming Dynasty due to ludicrous silver inflows, something like that was going to happen in the Qing Dynasty as well, which is why they took those measures. He seems to ignore economic factors and how they have affected the historical process. He has a very "dualistic" worldview between "virtuous" and "decadent" societies, ignoring that those processes are gradual and complex. To conclude, his understanding of history is very superficial and fails to find the essence behind major historical events. It is like if you took an above-average 4channer and asked him to do historical analyses. Ah, I forgot to mention that many of his groupings of peoples or regions are nonsensical.
 
I thought the K&G team were Azeris, huh. I suppose they are basically Turks anyways and are equally as nationalistic. I was aware of the breadtuber subscriptions but didn't know this Twitter account existed.
CaspianReport is also an obvious Azeri… What is it with Azeris making political-ish YouTube channels? Oil wealth allowing for a laptop class to exist? Eternal hatred of the Armenian next door? RUSSIA BAD? Questions like these need answers…
 
A horrible channel filled with absurd Eurocentricist biases, and I am not using the word "Eurocentricist" to screech about "racism", but that he tries to view Oriental societies with very wrong lenses. For example, he appears utterly clueless about the reasons behind Chinese "isolationism". One of the reasons for the most recent "isolationist period" was this: The Chinese decided to curtail European trade since the Spanish caused a massive inflationary crisis in Guangdong during the Ming Dynasty due to ludicrous silver inflows, something like that was going to happen in the Qing Dynasty as well, which is why they took those measures. He seems to ignore economic factors and how they have affected the historical process. He has a very "dualistic" worldview between "virtuous" and "decadent" societies, ignoring that those processes are gradual and complex. To conclude, his understanding of history is very superficial and fails to find the essence behind major historical events. It is like if you took an above-average 4channer and asked him to do historical analyses. Ah, I forgot to mention that many of his groupings of peoples or regions are nonsensical.
He did mention that Spanish gold destroyed the Ming dynasty, though.
 
He did mention that Spanish gold destroyed the Ming dynasty, though.
Silver*. And not, it collapsed for the opposite reason, which was combined with several other events. The Spanish curtailed their Silver outflows which caused deflation, thus destabilising the economy. You had several major natural disasters (the deadliest earthquake in human history lmao), the "Little Ice Age", which caused massive famines. Plagues, an overgrown and cumbersome bureaucracy. The massive expenses sustained for fighting the Japanese in Korea and the utter disregard of Emperor Wanli for affairs of the state (aside from bankrupting the state by supporting the Koreans). All those things caused many peasant rebellions, warlords to appear, and then the Jurchens arrived...
 
Monsieur Z recently appeared on a small politically-oriented event held by the American Populist Union (APU) somewhere in New York. Seems like he's an active member of this newly-formed political organization.
"renowned historian"
heh

Also wanted to mention that I saw him in Settler's Lament's livestream chat before. He seems to be aware of the reactionary catholic circles on youtube which is pretty interesting. Personally, I like the guy. He seems to be a cool Italian dude.
 
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Got recommended this guy. Never really liked the Out of Africa theory so this was interesting to me.
Robert Sepehr is a weirdo, but a funny one. He's obviously an autist if you've seen his intro's.
He's like a less-schitzo terry but with interests in occultism and anthropology instead of CS.
There are some vids I disagree with but generally he's a pretty coherent and well-read dude.
 
Rudyard is claiming that he's the smartest person he knows, while at the same time admitting he has retard levels of IQ. He claims that not checking references for his maps (which many have claimed to be dogshit) makes him smrt, unintentionally admitting that he REALLY doesn't give a fuck about his videos in the process. He portrays his success as a Silicon-Valley fluke without even realizing it.

I posted in this thread in January about the dude behind the Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages channel being sick and hospitalized for months. He's dead now at age 30. Heart inflammation out of nowh💉re


RIP check out his videos if you like drier matter-of-fact style content.
Did he take the vaccine?
 
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Please tell me that there is people from historytube freaking out over the recent supreme court ruling.
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Casually sharing/liking tips on how to plot to kill Supreme Court Justices.
 
Rudyard is claiming that he's the smartest person he knows, while at the same time admitting he has retard levels of IQ. He claims that not checking references for his maps (which many have claimed to be dogshit) makes him smrt, unintentionally admitting that he REALLY doesn't give a fuck about his videos in the process. He portrays his success as a Silicon-Valley fluke without even realizing it.

The 2 part series was par for the course for Rudy (ramble-y and meanders in a generally pensive, but naïve way — zoomer-(pseudo)philosopher I’ve started calling it). Extra ironic because he shat on philosophy in the video.

In a way, I’m glad he dropped out of college because if he had better test/IQ scores and was in academia (like Cynical Historian, et al), Rudy’s ego and snobbery would be off the charts (he’s already pushing it).

BTW, found this meme which made me think of Rudy (I can never see sailing ship paintings on the internet with hot takes the same way):

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I still never understand the mental gymnastics of that.
hey, speaking of Atun-Shei, can you add him to the OP. I hate that Carpetbagging Yankee motherfucker. From him explicitly hating my people and supporting the Imperialist North (oh but you had slavery which was economically necessary and if removed wouldve tanked the economy harder than the great depression and us freeing them without any economic support or changing Southron social standards totally didnt help prolong racist attitude or segregation), him supporting another Imperialist (of the British variety and hes american https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKF7H09Mjs) and Karl the Cuck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei3TUFI6LSc), with pro confederate arguments from random youtube comments (which totally isnt a strawman and doesnt take into account actual Pro Confederate historians), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lac-8tTuyhs also yes it was Northern Imperialism as they occupied a fort directly threatening Confederate territory, the president in Southron eyes were illegitimate as he got 0 votes from the South and didnt even campaign here (and was also a puppet of Yankee Industrialists which was the prime reason imo why he wanted to end slavery so the Northern Industrialists didnt have to compete). His frozen 50s man series is cringe and ignores credible mccarthyist and anti-communist sentiment (and yes Hollywood was proven to be infested with Communists and later Mccarthy was directly proven to be right with Venona Papers). Atun-Shei needs a genuine thread about him imo, but this should do (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbMzYRMxIvA also why the fuck is Lee in the thumbnail, while he did own slaves, he saw it as an economic necessity (the majority of slave owners thought the same as well), a more appropriate picture is actually the Northern Banks which insured the slaves (like Citibank) ).
 
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