WhatifAltHist / Rudyard Lynch - History youtuber, galaxy brained, no credentials and no sex

Jondavis2 said:
posting his takes on youtube and posting his videos on twitter.
I wouldn't call it unreasonable, given that Youtube is filled with AI-videos and Twitter is filled with replybots. In fact, the replies on Youtube may be more real by now.
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The replies that do pass, that is. I basically can't use the comment section anymore due to their shadowbans
 
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Frederick Weber said:
Something interesting I uncovered, if you go to rudyard's channel's community tab, he started posting more frequently there in the same style as his tweets around almost the exact time he left twitter around a week ago. It seems that he's not really taking a social media break but just posting in a space where he receives less criticism.
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Classic cow behavior I can think of at least 2 examples off the top of my head of a cow doing this recently.

Ethan Klein "left twitter" by going to instagram and now he just posts screenshots of twitter to instagram and bitches about tweets there instead of on twitter.

YaBoiZack from Comicsgate who "left twitter" and now just posts screenshots to his community tab like he would to twitter.

Ultimate sign the person can't take the heat that they want to give out to others and just want a hugbox to throw tantrums in that also pays their bills.
 
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He is so close to talking about phenotypes and how skull size is different between the Left and Right. I'm so here for it
 
Thank you WhatifAltHist so cool.
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Frederick Weber said:
don't think he realizes how badly he would be destroyed, not even because Fuentes is more knowledgeable
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More knowledagable on what? Look, I'm well aware Rudyard overestimates his own intelligence but I certainly wouldn't call Fuentes more knowledgable. In fact he seems to be fairly historically illiterate. Though I can give points that Fuentes is definitely a better public speaker & could probably articulate cleaner, but still
 
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Lindy64 said:
More knowledagable on what? Look, I'm well aware Rudyard overestimates his own intelligence but I certainly wouldn't call Fuentes more knowledgable. In fact he seems to be fairly historically illiterate. Though I can give points that Fuentes is definitely a better public speaker & could probably articulate cleaner, but still
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Maybe saying more knowledgeable wasn't the right way for me put it, so I apologize for the lack of clarity. In terms of obscure historical knowledge Rudyard certain has an advantage, but in terms of relevant political knowledge that would be useful in the type of ideological debate he wanted to have with Fuentes, I think Fuentes has been a lot more involved in the day-to-day political debates which would give him more relevant knowledge. Rudyard has a strong tendency to try to make every argument in the form of a long, rambling appeal to obscure historical events that tend to distract from the primary argument. For example, if they were to debate about Trump, Fuentes would bring up his proposed policies, positions, and the viability of certain campaign strategies whereas Rudyard would go on some bizarre rant about how Trump is like the Gracchi brothers in ancient Rome and he's going to save the world from an evil left-brained gnostic managerial elite.
 
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I know it's gauche to agree with the lolcow but he does have a point that a lot of the modern humanities is basically operating under a mass delusion that literal millennia of human thought would view as utter nonsense.
Part of me thinks it's better operating procedure to treat everyone as equal even while acknowledging that's untrue but a lot of scholars seem to be true believers and it limits their work.
 
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Majin_Seal said:
He is so close to talking about phenotypes and how skull size is different between the Left and Right. I'm so here for it
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I've been waiting for The Bell Curve video for at least a year now myself lol. No way he hasn't been thinking about it since he took his incel/dissident-right turn.
 
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Nachos Bell Grande said:
I've been waiting for The Bell Curve video for at least a year now myself lol. No way he hasn't been thinking about it since he took his incel/dissident-right turn.
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Rudy always promises but delivers based upon his whims. He teased his fans that actually pay him about his CIA Spirit World Video for an entire year, and then when it came out it was just an average list of what you would find on front page of /x/.

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New video

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Damn, I was about to post this.
Anyways, this is actually a good video about a good point: The insanity of e/acc and techno-optimism that a sizeable amount of the populace still cling onto.
 
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Absolutego said:
I know it's gauche to agree with the lolcow but he does have a point that a lot of the modern humanities is basically operating under a mass delusion that literal millennia of human thought would view as utter nonsense.
Part of me thinks it's better operating procedure to treat everyone as equal even while acknowledging that's untrue but a lot of scholars seem to be true believers and it limits their work.
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Because it's not HIS idea, it's an idea that he read from people smarter than him. Like all cuckservatives he comes very close to reaching the truth but doesn't take his ideas to their logical conclusion, yet he thinks he has already found the truth and it's his mission to "educate" us, it's a Dunning-Kruger effect personified. He has a milquetoast liberal views when it comes to history and he doesn't see the inherent contradiction in being on the 'right' and supporting every leftist movement before 1900. He thinks that the modern left is Charles 1 and he's a dissenter
 
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Pukich34 said:
Because it's not HIS idea, it's an idea that he read from people smarter than him.
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You've brought up a good point that I'll provide some follow-up evidence/elaboration on. Because he (allegedly) has read thousands of books on a ton of subjects, he's very good at regurgitating information from these authors but his own thinking abilities are downright horrendous. The reason I think most people believe he is smart is because he can use arguments made by other people and knows a lot of random obscure knowledge, but he (self-admittedly) said that he's not very intelligent, and when you listen in depth to his videos or tweets he constantly uses terrible logic or contradicts himself. Almost every video he makes is filled to the brim with personal anecdotes that he uses as evidence, using them often far more than actual statistical evidence, alongside making appeals to how because some expert/book said it, it's therefore true.

For example, in "Hanging Out w/ Rudyard from WhatIfAltHist | 315b" from the Sitch & Adam Show, he mentioned that race is real, and when asked to elaborate, he says that experts believe in it, his friends who are experts believe in it, and books say it so it's true.



Which is completely contradicted by a tweet he made where he gets mad that people ask for actual evidence instead of just trusting his 'obvious' conclusion from a random book, going on to say that authorities aren't trustworthy. (which is not even to get into the rabbithole of how much Rudyard hates empirical evidence in general)
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These are only a few examples that I could remember off the top of my head. For every time he repeats some correct point someone else has made about academia, conservatism, history, etc. there are just as many times he says some insane nonsense like how the eucharist in the catholic church was a psychedelic, ancient Rome was atheist, people have definitively proven magical powers, etc. I've had the displeasure of watching a significant amount of his content, and the more you listen to him the more you realize how everything he says (other than points he lifts from smarter people) is complete insane gibberish.
 
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Funny observation made:
Rudy literally treats interviews/podcasts the same way Kamala does.
> "So Kamala how will you fix the economy?"
> " So I grew up in a middle class background"

> "Rudyard those are the events on the demographic level what happened back then and how does that make you draw the conclusion civil war is inevitable"
> "A book that really changed my life was The Great Wave by David Hackett Fisher"

Also it was damned easy to dismantle his 80-year-cycle models, how the hell does Rudy still believe in them?
 
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There is something profoundly naive about this man.
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I think I've managed to figure it out, multiple times this guy has said something about the modern western establishments goal being to make everyone happy as opposed to the cynical old worlds goal to maintain their own power. Despite being anti establishment he's very charitable to them. I think he believes this because the establishment isn't purely self interested and has a religious conviction to progressivism, but he doesn't seem to understand that this doesn't make their actions better, it makes them essentially a demented cult like the ancient aztechs.

And I seriously don't know how he can make this mistake when the establishment has made it their explicit goal to destroy every single country which doesn't submit to them.

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