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The amount of errors in this chart is going to get me killed.


Source: Lynch, Rudyard. "The Future of Europe." Alphabet, YouTube. Web, accessed June 30, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkIX5yHF1dU
 
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DirtyHegel said:
Except Europe just gave the free handouts basically, while we had to trade cotton with them. Also Irish Immigrants were a massive part of a lot of northern armies and then complain about Imperialism while perpetrating it against us.
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The New York draft riots were poorer Irish fighting richer often Irish policemen, soldiers and politicians defending the city government. There was no great willingness among these poorer Irishmen to fight for the blacks (astonishingly competing with them for work not gibs) and empire, but empire won. Empire usually wins.
 
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Foxxo said:
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The amount of errors in this chart is going to get me killed.


Source: Lynch, Rudyard. "The Future of Europe." Alphabet, YouTube. Web, accessed June 30, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkIX5yHF1dU
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Antonine Plague might have been indirectly responsible for China's crisis of the 3rd century, but not Rome's. only contribution was killing off Marcus Aurelius but he was sickly and old anyways and Commodus' ascension was inevitable. The plague didn't do too much when the Severan Army was way larger than the Antonine Army, and it was excessive donatives from the Severans making the legions greedy and short-tempered which started the crisis.

Overall chart is convoluted I don't get what it's saying.
 
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protec cat said:
The New York draft riots were poorer Irish fighting richer often Irish policemen, soldiers and politicians defending the city government. There was no great willingness among these poorer Irishmen to fight for the blacks (astonishly competing with them for work not gibs) and empire, but empire won. Empire usually wins.
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fair, but its still a shame most Irish went along with it and were utter hypocrites
 
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Akashic Retard said:
I'm sure he's been mentioned already but I'm going to recommend Mark Felton Productions. He's a history professor specializing in WW2 and always has videos on interesting things about WW2 that I've never heard about anywhere else. If he's got a political agenda, I haven't been able to detect it.
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Listened to a documentary from him yesterday about the alligator Saturn who was in the Berlin Zoo in 1945 and taken to Moscow and lived through the end of the Soviet Union and died in 2020. Kind of a heartwarming story. At the very least Mark isn't a tankey because he called the Soviet Era a totalitarian regime comparable to Nazi Germany in it. So that's good at least.
 
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Gisvarg said:
Antonine Plague might have been indirectly responsible for China's crisis of the 3rd century, but not Rome's. only contribution was killing off Marcus Aurelius but he was sickly and old anyways and Commodus' ascension was inevitable. The plague didn't do too much when the Severan Army was way larger than the Antonine Army, and it was excessive donatives from the Severans making the legions greedy and short-tempered which started the crisis.

Overall chart is convoluted I don't get what it's saying.
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It's supposed to show the demographics collapse that presaged a period of crisis. In this case, the Antonine Plague supposedly left Rome with fewer men for replenishing the armies constantly at each others' throats during the 3rd century.
 
I can't find it, but I remember seeing someone in Multimedia mentioning a good documentary made by a Youtuber talking about stuff like Waco and the Unabomber. Does anyone know anything about it?
 
DirtyHegel said:
fair, but its still a shame most Irish went along with it and were utter hypocrites
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Most means the herd, Fr Abram Ryan, a Vincentian until the War of the States, his parents from Co. Tipperary (not sure if the north or south riding) shows that mattered little enough. 'The Conquered Banner' shows that well enough. Anyhoo concerning Atun-Shei, there was point when he was continually suggested. I subbed, to stop the annoyance. His content can be tolerable, even if it is now utter strawmanning, and his older stuff was quite okay, and Karl 'govern me hard Daddy Government' Cuckarda is only in a few of them.

DirtyHegel said:
fair, but its still a shame most Irish went along with it and were utter hypocrites
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These men of New York rioted fiercely for a week in 1863 over a draft which any rich man could buy his way out and an Emancipation Act (one of the immediate provocations) which promised to introduce unwanted competition to the factory worker, longshoreman and railwayman, and a war which had disrupted the shipping of cotton from the south. They did initially overwhelm the heavily Irish and German manned police constabulary, and there were not enough troops for marshal law, but organised bodies of men prevail over the disorganised given time and reinforcement. About 200 blacks died with eleven hanged. Abolitionists and other public do gooders were a particularly target, along with establishments unwilling to slake the alcoholic thirst of some rioters. I do not think it fair to judge a body of men who were mostly recent migrants and not comfortably well off men like Provost Marshal General Nugent whose draft lotteries in the poorest area of the city were particularly loathed, and as a result Nugent found his home sacked with his family barely escaping, despite hurriedly revoking the draft. Paintings of Union officers were defaced by the visiting rioters.
 
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American Civil War can be boiled down as the failure for the Right and Centrist liberals (The left ones were busy causing amok in France) to compromise in the late 1700s/early 1800s. They both had their positives and negatives they couldn't reconcile and it created interpretations about the constitution and human nature itself. States rights, slavery, taxation, all of this can be sourced to these disagreements.
 
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DirtyHegel said:
fair, but its still a shame most Irish went along with it and were utter hypocrites
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I mean, is it hypocrisy when there is next to no choice in the matter? Most micks at that point resided up North in cities like Boston and New York and were very much poor. So why wouldn't they sign up for an army that would've given them a decent pay for the time and maybe a chance to leave the urban hellscape for a time? Sure, the life of a soldier may not be easy but the alternatives ain't much better for a 19th Irishman.

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American Civil War can be boiled down as the failure for the Right and Centrist liberals (The left ones were busy causing amok in France) to compromise in the late 1700s/early 1800s. They both had their positives and negatives they couldn't reconcile and it created interpretations about the constitution and human nature itself. States rights, slavery, taxation, all of this can be sourced to these disagreements.
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That and the cotton gin wasn't much help either, exacerbating the Slavery question the Founding Fathers were struggling to deal with even worse.

Fun fact about Eli Whitney: He didn't make much money from the cotton gin due to patent issues. So he went on to encourage the idea of interchangeable parts and even was contracted to make muskets for the US Army due to fear of war with either France or the UK. During this contract he factored in the fixed costs (the costs that are constant in manufacturing) when determining the price of the muskets, something that was not standard at the time.
 
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Chuck Gruden said:
I mean, is it hypocrisy when there is next to no choice in the matter? Most micks at that point resided up North in cities like Boston and New York and were very much poor. So why wouldn't they sign up for an army that would've given them a decent pay for the time and maybe a chance to leave the urban hellscape for a time? Sure, the life of a soldier may not be easy but the alternatives ain't much better for a 19th Irishman.


That and the cotton gin wasn't much help either, exacerbating the Slavery question the Founding Fathers were struggling to deal with even worse.

Fun fact about Eli Whitney: He didn't make much money from the cotton gin due to patent issues. So he went on to encourage the idea of interchangeable parts and even was contracted to make muskets for the US Army due to fear of war with either France or the UK. During this contract he factored in the fixed costs (the costs that are constant in manufacturing) when determining the price of the muskets, something that was not standard at the time.
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Founding fathers hoped slavery would be economically outmoded in 20 years, which might have been the case if not for the cotton gin which is a shame

I hate history people who act like the founding fathers loved slavery just because they had slaves. They were hypocrites, for sure, but they did want slavery gone and believed they set the precedent to end slavery in the eventual future.
 
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Sleazy Car Salesman said:
I've recently come across a channel called Ruairidh MacVeigh, he focuses on the history of transportation and so it's a bit niche but if you're into planes, trains, and automobiles he's a good watch.
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On the railroading side of things I think he might be the only person I've seen who covers rail topics on the regular that doesn't make me want to end my life watching their content. It's not fantastic or anything, but it's reasonably written, spoken, and recorded, which is very fucking rare for anything to do with rail history.
 
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AsbestosFlaygon said:
On the railroading side of things I think he might be the only person I've seen who covers rail topics on the regular that doesn't make me want to end my life watching their content. It's not fantastic or anything, but it's reasonably written, spoken, and recorded, which is very fucking rare for anything to do with rail history.
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There's one other guy I think is decent and that's Train of Thought. Although his videos are more stepping off points for further reading than anything else.
 
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