Why the 2024 Election will start a Civil War

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Комментарии • 13 тыс.

  • @WhatifAltHist
    @WhatifAltHist  3 месяца назад +213

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    • @Hotdogenthusiast
      @Hotdogenthusiast 3 месяца назад +12

      What’s your advice on what to do before the upcoming Civil war. How should we prepare?

    • @jessetorres8738
      @jessetorres8738 3 месяца назад +17

      Roughly 620,000 Americans died during the U.S. Civil War! To put in perspective how deadly that was in today's terms, it would be the same if over 6.5 million Americans died over the next 4 & half years. I say this because it seriously worries me everytime a Conservative says they want or believe another U.S. Civil War might happen when they don't seem to understand the severity of it!

    • @MiggerPlease
      @MiggerPlease 3 месяца назад

      ​@@jessetorres8738I'm that nigga

    • @MiggerPlease
      @MiggerPlease 3 месяца назад

      ​@@HotdogenthusiastI'm that nigga I hope that's ok with you

    • @SnowyButterfly1
      @SnowyButterfly1 3 месяца назад

      WHATIFALTHIST THE CHANGE OF A SECOND CIVIL WAR IS 0%!!!!!!😡😡😡😡

  • @Oneiromancer._.
    @Oneiromancer._. 3 месяца назад +7010

    I feel like Althist has been 22 for the last 3 years.

    • @strongraider1014
      @strongraider1014 3 месяца назад +402

      I’m glad I’m not the only one.

    • @paull3278
      @paull3278 3 месяца назад +441

      He actually ages in reverse.

    • @samhughes6895
      @samhughes6895 3 месяца назад +701

      And he’s had EU4-addicted high-schooler takes for his entire RUclips career lol

    • @demun6065
      @demun6065 3 месяца назад +250

      I’ve been watching since his “hand maids tale” vid. He has definitely progressed in terms of confidence, used to stutter a fair bit back then. Good to see.

    • @tirididjdjwieidiw1138
      @tirididjdjwieidiw1138 3 месяца назад +52

      @@samhughes6895that totally wasn’t me during highschool 🙂

  • @Gumdropnipples
    @Gumdropnipples 3 месяца назад +3545

    Our society isn't tired of empathy, its tired of forced tolerance.

    • @saladin3273
      @saladin3273 3 месяца назад +526

      This. People are tired of tolerating the intolerable and defending the indefensible.

    • @LucasFernandez-fk8se
      @LucasFernandez-fk8se 3 месяца назад

      You have to tolerate the endless “slut walks” and riots but they can’t be expected to tolerate even a SINGLE Trump presidency.

    • @divergentthg7925
      @divergentthg7925 3 месяца назад +87

      Apparently not that tired or else it would have already been taken care of by now. Too many scaredy cats nowadays to really worry about any major change

    • @jimmmybacon9043
      @jimmmybacon9043 3 месяца назад +105

      As someone that lives in this society. Uhhhh . . . who is forcing you to be tolerant? No one has forced me

    • @user-pt5xc1pp4z
      @user-pt5xc1pp4z 3 месяца назад +119

      @@jimmmybacon9043You know what he means, But yes, They can tell me homophobia is wrong but that ain't gonna stop me!

  • @misterE-1989
    @misterE-1989 Месяц назад +232

    Unlike the first civil-war, a second civil-war has no geographical solution. It's not the north vs the south like the first one, the second would be urban vs rural. Crazy times.

    • @Kaiserboo1871
      @Kaiserboo1871 Месяц назад +51

      There is kind of a geographic divide.
      It’s the coastal globalists vs. interior nationalists

    • @jacobwaddell6075
      @jacobwaddell6075 Месяц назад +47

      Last place I would want to be is urban. Absolute chaos, food shortages, rural is a clear advantage.

    • @TheoHawk316
      @TheoHawk316 Месяц назад +10

      ​@@Kaiserboo1871 I'm on East Coast and I'm a nationalist.

    • @misterE-1989
      @misterE-1989 Месяц назад +12

      @@jacobwaddell6075 That is why the people dwelling in the rural are preparing for mass migrations of urbanites into the countryside.

    • @raevj
      @raevj Месяц назад +7

      @@jacobwaddell6075 yeah, & rural has the land & food supply too.

  • @danielroehm2822
    @danielroehm2822 Месяц назад +111

    The term "Normie" is also called "Normalcy Bias" which is the psychology of thinking that life will continue "as normal", despite the occurrence of obvious, abnormal events such as the partial breakdown of society that we're seeing it in our cities, not so much yet in the suburbs or country-side.

    • @CeoMacNCheese
      @CeoMacNCheese Месяц назад +12

      Honestly it might be a good thing the suburbs and country side remain socially cohesive as that's where all the children are born and raised. Its also the places where people usually have something to fight for(their children and homes) So people are likely to not just you know destroy their homes over what? Your neighbor having slightly different political beliefs than you?

    • @ReeseJamPiece.
      @ReeseJamPiece. Месяц назад +13

      I used to be one of those people who hated "normies", and how dull and conformist everyday life felt. When you get older, you realize there's nothing wrong with being average or liking mainstream things. There is nothing wrong with wanting a basic humble life, a nuclear family unit and a meaningful existence without being a complete autist over politics or understanding the esoteric niches of Internet media. We get so caught up in these bubble communities online that we can't function anymore as people. Like those Redditors who boast about their savant IQ on r/cognitivetesting but have no notable life achievements or skills and still live with their parents. I grew up in a rural post-industrial city and hated it at first. Now I go on walks to park and relax. 90% of jobs are useless, we have too many ideologically-driven overeducated academics and dysgenic weirdos that it's garaunteed society will collapse into chaos. An average normie life would be a blessing in today's insane modern world. Blissful ignorance.

    • @danielroehm2822
      @danielroehm2822 23 дня назад +3

      @CeoMacNCheese Yup. Most people who vote Dem here would inevitably join with neighbors in community support where needed.
      With severe normalcy bias however, people would shrink from joining things like a community watch, or arming themselves...perhaps until it was too late. If a situation like that arises, most people think it's going to return to the "normal" way of life we've always had.

    • @punkhop23
      @punkhop23 21 день назад +2

      Not so much the country side? Brother I have a few trips for you to go on in rural Virginia and Texas, towns dominated and decimated by large private interests. Left to be hooked on opiates or feed the private prisons their town hosts.

    • @Eddie616
      @Eddie616 20 дней назад

      lol doom and gloom.

  • @ethanlocke3604
    @ethanlocke3604 3 месяца назад +4132

    I also think you underestimate the power of the endless mind numbing content distractions to suck the motivation and energy out of anyone who would start any sort of civil war

    • @user-pt5xc1pp4z
      @user-pt5xc1pp4z 3 месяца назад

      Indeed, It is the final barrier, Mindless entertainment...But what happens when you become so poor and so taxed, You can no longer afford rent at all? When you cannot afford food or medicine or anything?...Forced out onto the street by a "nation" that hates your guts?...THEN...These men have nothing left to distract them, nothing left to loose.

    • @luigimrlgaming9484
      @luigimrlgaming9484 3 месяца назад +238

      They don’t work anymore

    • @ethanlocke3604
      @ethanlocke3604 3 месяца назад +50

      @@luigimrlgaming9484 huh?

    • @alexnolan6032
      @alexnolan6032 3 месяца назад +393

      yeah fr, how would the sides even organize, in twitter group chats?

    • @VoiceOfTheEmperor
      @VoiceOfTheEmperor 3 месяца назад +20

      Aaaah, another Kyle Kulinski fan!

  • @Not.a.bird.Person
    @Not.a.bird.Person 3 месяца назад +1277

    One thing I think when I hear or read ''young men aren't willing to fight'' is : they aren't willing to fight for *you*, not for themselves.

    • @tanimation7289
      @tanimation7289 3 месяца назад +37

      That is what the left thinks.

    • @Patson20
      @Patson20 3 месяца назад +74

      The depression and suicide data shows they aren't fighting for themselves either.

    • @cernunnos8344
      @cernunnos8344 3 месяца назад +211

      ​@@Patson20 cause fighting "for yourself" is still fighting to "get" something. And our society doesn't have anything young men want. We're constantly shat on and demonised, anything we do will always be interpreted in the worst possible way, there's no getting a decent girlfriend, let alone a good paying job or a house. Nevemind a family.

    • @tanimation7289
      @tanimation7289 3 месяца назад +24

      @@Patson20 That is more the weak. Besides the Great depression has a high suicide rate as well.

    • @Patson20
      @Patson20 3 месяца назад +30

      @tanimation7289 ....and did we have a civil war during the great depression? No, even though we should have. But people tend to not fight when they have nothing to fight for. And currently we don't, no wives no families, no lands, and no ideals.

  • @captainamerica6525
    @captainamerica6525 Месяц назад +79

    The fuse has been light long ago and the kettle is on a low boil. I dont know what will set this whole thing off but its coming.

    • @Kaiserboo1871
      @Kaiserboo1871 Месяц назад +15

      The signs of a collapse were starting to show as early as 2012-2014.

    • @neromax4424
      @neromax4424 Месяц назад +8

      The fuse lit with Obama

    • @CWhyNot75
      @CWhyNot75 Месяц назад

      I'm thinking by the end of year the election or an event preceding the election will be the final spark. I want to be wrong, but I don't think there is any turning back without some form of societal breakdown.

    • @user-uo7fw5bo1o
      @user-uo7fw5bo1o Месяц назад +1

      The fuse was lit with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution back in 1964 and it's taken this long to burn to within sight of the explosives.

    • @Kick_Rocks
      @Kick_Rocks Месяц назад +2

      Trump 2024

  • @Solongsocialmedia
    @Solongsocialmedia Месяц назад +78

    America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, we'd understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart.

    • @Chungus581
      @Chungus581 Месяц назад +4

      “Unsolvable problem” we’re one of the most prosperous countries on earth and have had the same government for 250 years what are you talking about dude? “If we were a startup” it’s a good thing we’re a country.

    • @Solongsocialmedia
      @Solongsocialmedia Месяц назад +7

      @@Chungus581 people like you wont understand.

    • @brooklynkeith2877
      @brooklynkeith2877 Месяц назад

      I agree this liberal self hatred and guilt is killing this country. I thank God every day i am not afflicted by the liberal disease

    • @drakecarter1780
      @drakecarter1780 Месяц назад +3

      Thats why we need one party control. Preferably, a Republican dictatorship.

    • @Chungus581
      @Chungus581 Месяц назад +1

      @@Solongsocialmedia if I don’t understand you it means I’m not irredeemably online so that’s good.

  • @MrSomethingdark
    @MrSomethingdark 3 месяца назад +942

    In Bosnia we had a joke after the war when some people were refugees in the US and came back. When asked what the US was like they would say that the US is 30 years behind Bosnia. When asked why the funny reply would be "Bc there still is no war there".

  • @MarlKitsune
    @MarlKitsune 3 месяца назад +576

    "You don't have to be crazy to kill. You only have to think you're right" Yoko Taro.

    • @WallNutBreaker524
      @WallNutBreaker524 3 месяца назад +11

      Facts.

    • @nathanielwestermann
      @nathanielwestermann 3 месяца назад +4

      Wow.

    • @Alien_DNA_
      @Alien_DNA_ 3 месяца назад +35

      I've always said morals are a delicate luxury, put anyone in a bad scenario against the wrong people while you're starving and feel your rights are violated and we can all do some crazy things.

    • @benfelps
      @benfelps 3 месяца назад +2

      see oct 7

    • @keonkla
      @keonkla 3 месяца назад +2

      @@Alien_DNA_ more like "decadent" luxury but I understand all the same.

  • @guishenStreetB
    @guishenStreetB Месяц назад +178

    Waiting for 2024 when his prediction inevitably goes wrong and no civil war happens

    • @nelsongonzales1263
      @nelsongonzales1263 Месяц назад +7

      Same

    • @spoonerreligionandpolitics
      @spoonerreligionandpolitics Месяц назад +22

      God willing.

    • @tylerdoss7644
      @tylerdoss7644 Месяц назад +17

      I hope to god your right

    • @tylerdoss7644
      @tylerdoss7644 Месяц назад

      I dont think anyone is truly ready for what real war looks like in the US because we havent had a war reach our people in over 140 years at least

    • @joedatius
      @joedatius Месяц назад

      his type will just say it will be next year or next election. its always about next time with these people. too scared to do anything themselves because they know deep down they dont wanna be the ones to do it.

  • @AlbuquerqueBandit
    @AlbuquerqueBandit 21 день назад +8

    Yep. I just moved away from New Mexico last month. There was an executive order that anyone carrying a gun was automatically considered a criminal. So I just conceal carried without a permit. One reason I never got a concealed carry permit. Less paper trail. If I had one there, they'd know I was probably still conceal carrying, giving them reasonable suspicion.
    There are dozens of reasons why I moved, but that was certainly one of them.
    And wouldn't you know it, the state attempted to withhold the paperwork i needed to transfer my career's license to the state I now live in. On multiple avenues, NM tried to prevent me from leaving. I'm happy to live in a better place that isn't socialist. NM is pretty much a socialist republic. That's why half of the people in the state are on some kind of assistance. Some people my own age are just living off the state when they could work, but they choose not to. They are even experimenting with UBI by paying familial households quarterly per child. They admit it's just the first step in trying it out.
    And everyone I talked to about that told me they think it's a good thing, while at the same time complaining about the insane increases in cost of living there. As if the two are mutually exclusive. UBI and hyperinflation. People there are dumb af.

  • @grummy1681
    @grummy1681 3 месяца назад +689

    I'm a 23 year old Ukrainian, from Kiev, and I urge you not to underestimate the irrationality with which your mind avoids the reality of war. Even if you say to yourself "The russians might invade in a month" or "Second American Civil War will start over elections", you are still not accustomed to the idea of large-scale violence enough to react accordingly, because you lived a peaceful life.
    You just wake up one day with missiles flying overhead and your home city under siege. You can store food, arm yourself or build a bunker, and still, your life might end because of stray missle, crossfire or maraudery.
    In the very end, it all boils down to two choices: join one of the sides and do everything to bring its victory or flee to a place that will not be engulfed in the conflict. If you go with the first one, may God help you make right choices for yourself, your loved ones and your society. If you want to avoid the cruel meatgrinder that is war, take yourself and whoever you hold dear (somewhat forcefully, if it comes to it), and get away to a foreign country, or at least as deep into cuntryside as you can. It may seem like a overreaction, doomerism and apocalyptic thinking right now, it may hurt your career, relationships or finance, but these things wont matter when the war starts.
    I wish you all the best luck, may you and your loved ones come out alive and well from the struggle, and may our children inherit a better world than we did.

    • @bchaveezy
      @bchaveezy 3 месяца назад +57

      Thank you, stay safe.

    • @JayWalker-qj1kv
      @JayWalker-qj1kv 3 месяца назад +35

      Thank you very much for the insight brother. Be safe, God bless

    • @matthewdimarcantonio4627
      @matthewdimarcantonio4627 3 месяца назад +28

      Wow that hit home. What was the month leading up to the war like?

    • @grummy1681
      @grummy1681 3 месяца назад +57

      @@matthewdimarcantonio4627 Kind of like any other month. I moved in with my friends, had an argument with my gf about logistics of cat transportation across EU "in-case-of-anything", laughed at Putin's history lessons on Feb 21

    • @Crimea_River
      @Crimea_River 3 месяца назад +23

      Your English is exceptional for a Ukrainian.

  • @billybill1272
    @billybill1272 3 месяца назад +1044

    And we have no one to blame but ourselves if this happens. Decades of absolutely no accountability regarding the governments repeated failures to serve the interests of the nation. Nobody cared. The time to salvage the situation was 30 years ago. And now the fissures have become an abyss that will sink us all. God helps us.

    • @Darth_Bateman
      @Darth_Bateman 3 месяца назад +38

      “We”…..?

    • @billybill1272
      @billybill1272 3 месяца назад +87

      @@Darth_Bateman well I guess not me cause I’ve only been around since 2000

    • @LaFonteCheVi
      @LaFonteCheVi 3 месяца назад +76

      @@Darth_Bateman Society is a collective organism. Everyone is equally to blame for it's state but also not to blame at all. Nobody has control over it.

    • @touge242
      @touge242 3 месяца назад +158

      50 years ago. Society died the moment mothers told their daughters having a career is more important than a family, or the moment fathers told their sons having a career is more important than a family.

    • @billybill1272
      @billybill1272 3 месяца назад +39

      @@touge242 agreed, this is one of the driving factors

  • @honkeykong4049
    @honkeykong4049 Месяц назад +17

    "His model predicted shit that already happened"
    I know what you mean, but I still had to laugh

    • @Aphelion67
      @Aphelion67 21 день назад

      It was poorly phrased and I laughed too, but I understood his point to mean that the model in a blind fashion said "x event will occur at y date" and was accurate as research would show that indeed that event did occur. Which is fascinating really!

    • @apollontheintp3257
      @apollontheintp3257 16 дней назад

      Backtesting a retrofit model is a bit tautologic, righr?

    • @benjaminchaulk6269
      @benjaminchaulk6269 16 дней назад

      ​@@apollontheintp3257
      That's literally what ai does lol

  • @timcreations8059
    @timcreations8059 Месяц назад +6

    Edible Plant List (Not including most crops):
    This list is very incomplete but these are the species I know about. I strongly encourage you to look into and learn about these plants. Also grow your own crops (those plants are not on this list since most of them are common knowledge) and herbs (mint, parsley, etc.). Check your climate zone, USDA hardiness zone, annual precipitation and temperature before planting anything or attempting to forage for wild edibles.
    Temperate
    Bee Balm
    Bugleweed
    Cattail
    Chives
    Clover (both white and red)
    Coneflower (echinaceae)
    Dandelion
    Daylily
    Evening-Primrose
    Greenbrier (young leaves and stems)
    Hibiscus
    Hosta
    Plantain (weed)
    Rose (fruit/hips)
    Sunflower
    Tulip
    Wild Grapes (careful not to confuse with moonseed)
    Wild Rice
    Wood Sorrel (in small amounts; large amounts can be toxic)
    Desert
    Agave (sap)
    Pinyon Pine (seeds and inner bark)
    Prickly Pear (pads after removing spines, fruit)
    Polar and Sub-Polar
    Arctic Raspberry
    Cloudberry
    Cranberry

  • @alaricvis09
    @alaricvis09 3 месяца назад +405

    I was in the Army from 2006-2015. People constantly said things like, "You don't need to learn that. That's for conventional wars. Nobody fights like that anymore." I strongly disagreed. Well, two years ago, I was vindicated.

    • @Mandatory-Fun
      @Mandatory-Fun 3 месяца назад +38

      Yup. I joined when training and SOP was focused on counter insurgency. I remember people saying the same thing and thinking that was stupid while watching China and Russia expand and reform their militaries.

    • @Donner906
      @Donner906 3 месяца назад

      The Russian and Chinese milities are crap. They are not capable of fighting the US conventionaly.

    • @buddermonger2000
      @buddermonger2000 3 месяца назад +18

      I'm just kind of baffled that they really thought force on force warfare no longer mattered.
      Even weirder since they'd just done it 3 and 15 years prior to your start in service.

    • @brett.c1649
      @brett.c1649 3 месяца назад +1

      Right there with ya buddy we where also in the same time

    • @sigmaactual1075
      @sigmaactual1075 3 месяца назад +2

      Story of my life as an air defender

  • @tylercochell2253
    @tylercochell2253 3 месяца назад +393

    The most plausible conflict to me is an Northern Ireland Troubles scenario where paramilitary factions fight one another with the government unable to stop them/occasionally making it worse.

    • @AmericanAdvancement
      @AmericanAdvancement 3 месяца назад +52

      The problem with this is that the states are also itching for a fight as the current border crisis has illuminated. When you factor in that the democrats war games a Trump victory in 2020 and advocated for the west coast to secede, you will quickly realize that both sides of the political isle have secession on the table if they don’t get their way this year.

    • @factsandlogic4709
      @factsandlogic4709 3 месяца назад +21

      yeah i disagree with this take mostly because norn iron works upon ethnic and sociocultural lines as opposed to political ones. I am a unionist. my father was a unionist. his father was an unionist ect. the reason why NI was so bad was because on one side all the catholic intitutions IE the catholic church, GAA clubs and catholic adults told catholic kids that they had their land stolen and are opressed by ulster scots colonialists. the flipside of this is protestant intitutions like the orange order, protestant churches, and the unionist political figures telling us that we came here peacefully and they just want to kill us out of bitterness.therefore the crisis has been perpetuated for so long. its a rather different situation. american states are more likely to just secede rather that tactically support paramillitaries with their own veiws

    • @TheBrunohusker
      @TheBrunohusker 3 месяца назад

      Agreed. Also look into the Years of Lead in Italy and the fights between neo Nazis and the Bader Meinhif gang in Germany. It makes more sense. Plus look at Georgia. You didn’t have militias forcing a gop governor to change things and they didn’t just bow to Trump. They recounted and found out Biden won and the gop leaders who run elections in Georgia just ended up pissed at Trump. It might be different in swing states with Dem governors but let’s say Iowa has a close election. The governor is a big Trump supporter but she ain’t going to let the militias cause trouble. At best she’ll do a recount, vouch for Iowa’s electoral system and Trump will call her out. Maybe shots are fired but if that’s the case, expect a kind of three way war and also people using the feds to hurt their rivals.

    • @chadwells7562
      @chadwells7562 3 месяца назад +4

      It’s going to start with a troubles like paramilitary scenario and end up in large regional factions

    • @FullyOnVolks
      @FullyOnVolks 3 месяца назад +2

      @@AmericanAdvancementyep, any of these events would trigger a fully fledged Rumbling.

  • @VictorSanchez-kx5hb
    @VictorSanchez-kx5hb Месяц назад +17

    What comes down to is who's more willing to die for what they believe in and the courage to see it through the bitter end!

    • @johnanderson8253
      @johnanderson8253 Месяц назад +6

      Spot on! Totally underrated comment...

    • @SeanEustace-zk3mc
      @SeanEustace-zk3mc 26 дней назад +4

      The only people left with any balls in this country with any large numbers are the Gen Xers and they are rapidly aging. I’m sorry old men don’t fight wars. I really don’t see the scenario playing out.

    • @antibull4869
      @antibull4869 24 дня назад

      @@SeanEustace-zk3mcwrong.
      Conservatives are happy to die for their beliefs (certainly in higher numbers).
      Liberals only use violence to support their beliefs when they are in a mob.

    • @lopoa126
      @lopoa126 16 дней назад

      @@SeanEustace-zk3mc Proud of the youth protesting genocide and pointless wars pushed by MIC

    • @cumcumson5661
      @cumcumson5661 4 дня назад

      Nah, will doesnt triumph over logistics and supply in a civil war lol. Whichever faction is recognised as a legitimate government by foreign allies wins this supposed civil war instantly. There's no arguing it.

  • @mmiles317
    @mmiles317 Месяц назад +9

    Sir John Bagot Glubb (AKA Glubb Pasha). Army General and historian, he studied eleven empires starting with the Assyrians in 859 B.C. and ending with the British in 1950 A.D. Sir John determined that each followed a remarkably similar pattern from birth to demise. Spanning a period of about ten generations, each went through 7 Stages of Empire:
    The Age of Pioneers (Outburst)
    The Age of Conquests
    The Age of Commerce
    The Age of Affluence
    The Age of Intellect
    The Age of Decadence
    The Age of Decline & Collapse

    • @lolololololo97
      @lolololololo97 27 дней назад +2

      Flynn’s stages may be true but he really reaches to make them all fit into 250 year timespans

    • @user-yc5um2pl5v
      @user-yc5um2pl5v 23 дня назад +2

      That was one steamhammer of a text, couldn't tear myself away. That, to me, explains the cycles every civilization goes through. A must read, as they say.

  • @kaiserchan4683
    @kaiserchan4683 3 месяца назад +2725

    “Tim Pool has liked this Video”

    • @JoshuaKimbrough
      @JoshuaKimbrough 3 месяца назад +355

      Tim: breathes
      Us: SAY THE LINE
      Tim 😩 "civil war"

    • @maroindefinitlyhuman6857
      @maroindefinitlyhuman6857 3 месяца назад +26

      Lmao

    • @Darth_Bateman
      @Darth_Bateman 3 месяца назад +180

      @@JoshuaKimbrough my favorite part when Tim pool said “it’s Poolin time” and then Civil War’d all over those guys. 😂

    • @onionfarmer3044
      @onionfarmer3044 3 месяца назад +74

      About to see whatif on Tim pool after he finds this video.

    • @BonusHole
      @BonusHole 3 месяца назад +66

      It's certainly true that if you say 'Civil War is coming' multiple times per day, one day when a civil war inevitably happens, everybody will think you where a prophet.
      When really even a broken fence sitting clock is right twice every 24 hours.

  • @guilhermeotelles
    @guilhermeotelles 3 месяца назад +1260

    Even if im not an American Citizen, the rest of the world will feel 10X instability than before. China, Russia and many American enemies will gain freedom to achieve their stuff, while American allies(Europe and Asia and small South America countries) will feel the uncertainty when comes to America Aid

    • @Alex-vm6ef
      @Alex-vm6ef 3 месяца назад +86

      It'll be for the better in the end, even if it is difficult on the way

    • @alexanderryan1176
      @alexanderryan1176 3 месяца назад

      Ah yes, the ever present "American Aid" keeping our "friends" in europe allied to us.

    • @guilhermeotelles
      @guilhermeotelles 3 месяца назад +129

      @@Alex-vm6ef Innocent always will be on the line, i highly believe 2030 something big will happen.
      That quote, "you will have nothing but you gonna be happy" scares me every time!

    • @keithmurray5791
      @keithmurray5791 3 месяца назад +133

      Europe needs to become more self-reliant defensively anyways. Can start by making sure they cut off the flow of immigrants from the south and make life more manageable for folks who want to have a family and kids.. Ditto for Canada..

    • @HWQFish
      @HWQFish 3 месяца назад

      @@Alex-vm6ef Yes cant wait to be microchipped in a few years for social credit score by the supreme communist party.

  • @henrydieterich397
    @henrydieterich397 Месяц назад +3

    I love the ending! Very good work!

  • @erosionhead420
    @erosionhead420 Месяц назад +27

    I’m blown away with how interesting these comments are.
    This production was very well done. I subbed.
    I will say that Most people are clueless as to what’s going on.
    They just watch Lester Holt and think that’s the news. I envy those people. Many of us have tried desperately to go back to sleep and we can’t.
    I’ve never lived in an urban area fortunately.
    I’m more worried about the release of another virus.
    I won’t go willingly into a FEMA camp. That’s the hill I’m willing to die on.

    • @aidanrockstar2003
      @aidanrockstar2003 20 дней назад

      This production is biased as hell. Him saying that there was no theocrat or fascist here in the USA three years ago is the biggest lie of all and you think this was a well put production???? Your thought process will be the reason why our country is going gonna fail, because you’re believing propaganda lies. Both sides want us fighting against each other. We need to unite as WE THE PEOPLE instead of listening to either party who are intentionally tearing us apart.

    • @lopoa126
      @lopoa126 16 дней назад

      Living in a city is great. So much diverse food and culture to explore. Adjust your tinfoil hat.

    • @chrisvallianos8164
      @chrisvallianos8164 15 дней назад

      I won't go willingly anywhere, you are not alone. Not all of us enjoy diversity.

  • @noahwarp9
    @noahwarp9 3 месяца назад +923

    A classmate and I discussed today that we think empathy is dying in US society because people do not take care of themselves physically or emotionally anymore. To have empathy, you must first be healthy in your own body and mind. If you are unable to love yourself or have any form of stability, there's no chance that you can even consider putting yourself in somebody else's shoes.

    • @beskamir5977
      @beskamir5977 3 месяца назад +72

      Yeah, exhausted/stressed people are bad at caring about other people. There have been studies on this topic in the context of stressful work environments such as paramedics, doctors, lawyers, etc. Which is equally concerning but when it's literally everyone in the country... well things will become really dire.

    • @amandap9332
      @amandap9332 3 месяца назад

      ​@@beskamir5977this is only one reason why we should end the monetary system entirely and permanently.
      Not to usher in some kind of utopia.
      To change the incentive to change the behavior that results.
      And if we do that before the situation fully devolves into more war, that would be beneficial.
      For the planet and its people.
      That would also give us a unifying cause. It would take about a decade to shift to a natural resource based economy. (Reduce the need for production by only creating the highest quality products with the longest possible lifespans using easily repairable, replaceable, upgradable parts. Ending planned obsolescence forever. That also reduces resource extraction and energy requirements for all production. And reducing that also reduces the waste generated and pollution for all production) Giving all the people on the planet a goal to work towards.
      There's a lot to this idea. More than i can put in a RUclips comment section. So, if you'd like to learn more about this, please check out Peter Joseph's RUclips channels, revolution now, or culture in decline. He's an excellent place to start.

    • @Valosken
      @Valosken 3 месяца назад +19

      If that were true, then empathy would be virtually non-existent throughout history

    • @noahwarp9
      @noahwarp9 3 месяца назад +66

      @@Valosken Considering that most of human history is war, famine, and conquest, it is easy to argue that empathy is not common. If empathy were common, the world would be a more peaceful place.

    • @Valosken
      @Valosken 3 месяца назад

      Because you can only say this relative to some baseline, I think it would be more illustrative to say "Empathy is nowhere near as common as we chronically suppose it is" (or some more, uh, *common* way of saying that).
      Because of course relative to literally any other animal, we are overflowing with empathy, and potentially relative to any other time in history as well.@@noahwarp9

  • @kingwolf396
    @kingwolf396 3 месяца назад +1011

    We have a society where a bunch of young men have practically nothing to lose.
    That being said, Men should wake up, and make the change for themselves.

    • @karnubawax
      @karnubawax 3 месяца назад +175

      A MAJORITY of young men have nothing to lose.

    • @222toastedtoasters3
      @222toastedtoasters3 3 месяца назад +45

      id make my mom sad

    • @therearenoshortcuts9868
      @therearenoshortcuts9868 3 месяца назад +65

      again, individual angry people with nothing to lose can't do much
      if they are disorganized...
      what nucleus organization will they rally/organize around?... that will be interesting to see...

    • @AmericanAdvancement
      @AmericanAdvancement 3 месяца назад +60

      @@therearenoshortcuts9868My money will be around the state rather than the nation. As the country descends into chaos, state authorities will be able to maintain some level of stability and rally people around their banners. Just look at the reaction to the pandemic and how the states, not the federal government, led the response.

    • @jgw9990
      @jgw9990 3 месяца назад

      ​@@therearenoshortcuts9868Crisis lead to upsurge in religion, which opens a route. The reality is that the organisations of war won't exist until the conditions for war exist. Especially in civil wars, the most savage groups tend to succeed even if they're in a minority during peace.

  • @michaeldalton8374
    @michaeldalton8374 23 дня назад +4

    The first civil war fought in three hour shifts, with breaks so the combatants can take their meds and have a snack.

  • @liaml.e.5964
    @liaml.e.5964 4 дня назад +1

    "People are tribal. The more settled things are, the bigger the tribes can be. The churn comes, and the tribes get small again."
    -Amos Burton; The Expanse-

  • @dkoodziej2063
    @dkoodziej2063 3 месяца назад +454

    Watching from Poland, let me give you advice from my grandfather before he passed. He was in Polish resistance, a survivor of the Warsaw Uprising.
    He said when you feel catastrophe is coming, do 3 things. Go to church, pick out your tomb, and fight with honor. Better to die with honor than live in shame.
    Typical dark Polish humor but Americans seem like they could benefit

    • @USMCx_Campbell
      @USMCx_Campbell 3 месяца назад +15

      Rah 🇺🇸

    • @Karlsator
      @Karlsator 3 месяца назад +6

      Did he fight the communist?

    • @stevencooper4422
      @stevencooper4422 3 месяца назад +39

      ​@@KarlsatorPolish uprising fought both sides

    • @antiglassesgang
      @antiglassesgang 3 месяца назад

      Typowe bohaterskie polskie pierdolenie a potem płacz że Polska dostaje wpierdol tysiąclecia. W dodatku sianie fermentu.

    • @dont.ripfuller6587
      @dont.ripfuller6587 3 месяца назад +12

      Texas here 👋🏽 Hi Poland!
      Amerykanie nie zmienią swojego postępowania, dopóki nie zmarzną, nie będą siedzieć w ciemności z pustym żołądek. 😢
      Nie wszyscy jesteśmy głupcami, ale wielu z nas jest ślepych na kontrolę nad dostawami żywności.

  • @jasonblack4208
    @jasonblack4208 3 месяца назад +554

    small correction: Strauss and Howe didn't predict a civil war in the 2020s. They predicted a crisis era that would start sometime in the 2000s and end between the late 2020s to early 2030s. Their work doesn't deal much with predicting the specifics of the exact timing or nature of conflicts. Instead, it's about 18-25 year periods of societal moods/conditions that recur in the same order, because the current mood/condition has a predictable influence on the young generation at the time, who in turn shape the next period in predictable ways. Example: the blissful post-war period of the 1950s is called a "High". The children of a "high" are called "Idealists/Prophets" because they come to view the cheerful conformity of their youth as fake and lacking in morality, creativity and passion. This is why twenty years later, you got the |"Awakening" period of the 1970s.

    • @akkikishore3770
      @akkikishore3770 3 месяца назад +14

      check out the new book

    • @xLeeroycranex
      @xLeeroycranex 3 месяца назад +20

      Well, they may not have predicted as such back then for the crisis but Howe is currently going around saying a civil war or World War is possible and probably has to happen before the next age is ushered in.

    • @AJ-kv1po
      @AJ-kv1po 3 месяца назад +1

      I can't remember the details but Robert Greene's the laws of human nature has a good explanation of the cycles of generations at the end. Good book too 👌

    • @InJouHande
      @InJouHande 3 месяца назад

      War is part of human nature. Its a horrible but necessary part of society as a whole.@@xLeeroycranex

    • @Enhancedlies
      @Enhancedlies 3 месяца назад

      this one - The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End?@@akkikishore3770

  • @UAPReportingCenter
    @UAPReportingCenter 22 дня назад +2

    Really well said… I’ve been saying just about the same thing. We are unretreiveably broken and divided.

  • @ironangel6610
    @ironangel6610 4 дня назад

    I truly enjoy your content. It is thoughtful, reflective, and unabashedly damning. It is refreshing to speculate on pending circumstances with both qualitative and quantitative data. While I truly hope that your prediction can be avoided, I appreciate the insightful journey that we must embark upon. Please continue making your content. There are those of us who prefer consideration over reaction.

  • @AgentPerry8018
    @AgentPerry8018 3 месяца назад +783

    No matter which side wins something bad is bound to happen

    • @thatsTylerDurden
      @thatsTylerDurden 3 месяца назад +52

      Well yeah, cause humans.

    • @Erik_Ochoa013
      @Erik_Ochoa013 3 месяца назад +81

      Best thing to do then: Pray and prepare yourself this upcoming November. That or it’ll be the most boring election according to my fellow coworkers in retail.

    • @matthewhewitt4145
      @matthewhewitt4145 3 месяца назад +63

      If you think any side wins but the side that supports owning guns, staying sober, having big families, and "being a tough man", I don't know what to tell you

    • @nicholashodges201
      @nicholashodges201 3 месяца назад +64

      ​@@matthewhewitt4145you've not been paying attention. The side that wins is the side the military joins. And the current military, unfortunately has a lot sympathy for the extreme left due to recent events.
      Likely best we can hope for is a similar split in the military as the states and then it's down to which side has the best militias and the largest state guards

    • @richardcollins9060
      @richardcollins9060 3 месяца назад

      China wins.

  • @zachweaverproductions2523
    @zachweaverproductions2523 3 месяца назад +452

    I used to fear this kind of scenario, but I also thought I would have something to lose by my early 30s

    • @tanimation7289
      @tanimation7289 3 месяца назад +79

      That really sums it all up.

    • @arrtwo1375
      @arrtwo1375 3 месяца назад +21

      I have a wife but that’s really it

    • @donovanchau3483
      @donovanchau3483 3 месяца назад +82

      I know so many people who are thrilled for such an event. Whether jokingly or completely serious, it was always the other young men my age. I was in the same boat as you, afraid I’d lose everything, but now as we approach the edge, I find myself with nothing to call my own. An uncertain future with no social security, no retirement, an oversaturated job market, dwindling economics, no ability to buy a home, no ability to raise a family. Even my friends who are more tame and laid back are now open to revolution and civil war. The last couple years has been radicalizing the only level headed youth we have left.

    • @Ben-rq5re
      @Ben-rq5re 3 месяца назад +54

      I think a sizeable factor for many young men is just boredom and lack of meaning. Every day is the same dull drudgery with no end in sight, so many would flip the board just to see what would happen.

    • @User-54631
      @User-54631 3 месяца назад +8

      Special forces operators hate people calling for war who have no experience in it.

  • @sniper161718
    @sniper161718 25 дней назад +3

    22 years old and you gave me a better history lesson than any University professor could

    • @gm9460
      @gm9460 6 дней назад

      I’m not sure what university professors you know but any mid level university history professor knows more than this guy and a fair few high school level teachers as well. He’s just saying some things that some people like the sound of that academics won’t say

    • @cumcumson5661
      @cumcumson5661 4 дня назад

      Definitely haven't been to Uni then

  • @ursalaoutrageous9249
    @ursalaoutrageous9249 Месяц назад +17

    You are one of the first people I’ve heard who has addressed the contrast between now and 60 years ago. And you, at such a young age, have the wisdom to notice it! I’m 73. Sixty years ago my mother bought a three bedroom home with a small garage, a beautiful little yard and a basement for 10,500 - on a secretary’s salary. Daddy was hospitalized longterm, so he was not able to contribute. Mother supported four of us in that home. Women’s lib hit in the mid-sixties. Thank goodnessness I got to be a housewife from 1980-1994. My daughters do not have the same option. It takes two to finance a home. There is no one home during the day to care for the dog. It’s a major ordeal to have a sick child. No one is available to care for frail elderly. Like you said, everything is exponentially more difficult. After my parents died my brothers allowed me to buy Mother’s home from them. I owned it outright. Taxes, insurance and utilities were so high by then I had to move to a smaller home.

    • @rogierb5945
      @rogierb5945 Месяц назад

      Problem is the boomer 'house as an investment' mentality. Sure you can buy a house for 50.000 en sell it for 500.000 once you are retired, but now your kids and their peers have to buy a house for 500.000 instead of 50.000 with less purchasing power because of wage stagnation and inflation. Houses used to be for living, nothing more.
      Also the housewife phenomenon is microscopic anomoly within human history. Through human history virtually all women worked including during the 1850s till 1940s. The 50s housewife was an self-containted post war phenomenon. Housewives have historically been a privilige for wealthy men, and normie men had working wives.

    • @lopoa126
      @lopoa126 16 дней назад

      Barely having regulations on companies led to some massive greedflation since then. The way right wingers dismantled unions is another sad factor. Harder to be a blue collar worker these days with how corporations get a slap on the wrist when a worker dies.

  • @vjbd2757
    @vjbd2757 3 месяца назад +669

    Whatifalthist: "Why the 2024 election will start a Civil War."
    Tim Pool: "Could he be one of my people?"

    • @satan6548
      @satan6548 3 месяца назад

      They both are probably Russian trolls, here to divide Americans among themselves.

    • @KingMinionDemon
      @KingMinionDemon 3 месяца назад +22

      Actually lol'd. Solid comment.

    • @teaadvice4996
      @teaadvice4996 3 месяца назад +38

      Breaking news: as civil war breaks out tim poole is leading a group of incels to the capital

    • @Randomperson-yr3gp
      @Randomperson-yr3gp 3 месяца назад

      @@teaadvice4996breaking news the government falls apart due to it being ruled by weak men

    • @the_expidition427
      @the_expidition427 3 месяца назад +39

      @@KingMinionDemon A presidential candidate being removed off a ballot hasn't happened since Lincoln

  • @mauser98kar
    @mauser98kar 3 месяца назад +475

    37:50 - As a Ukrainian I can testify - after nearly 2 years of war raging in my country I kinda struggle to recall how it was before. Fear never goes away, and you can't quite adapt to, for example, sounds of jet bombers tearing through the sky, or missiles tearing down something a few short miles away. But sometimes you feel a bit weird when there is no air raid siren whole day.

    • @saladin3273
      @saladin3273 3 месяца назад +27

      I heard the Butcher of Bakhmut is now in charge of the military.
      Good luck with not getting Shanghai'd.

    • @khaccanhle1930
      @khaccanhle1930 3 месяца назад

      As an American, I'm sorry that my countess turned you into a human shield to advance the totalitarian goals of the elites. This war is not necessary and the fault of the elites who hate humanity.

    • @Chosen_Ash
      @Chosen_Ash 3 месяца назад +18

      As a Ukrainian blooded Canadian i gotta feel at least sympathy for the Ukrainian people

    • @Aaroncoppelman
      @Aaroncoppelman 3 месяца назад +13

      Радий, що хтось ще з українців також дивитися цей класний канал)

    • @lukefriesenhahn8186
      @lukefriesenhahn8186 3 месяца назад +19

      I pray for the Ukrainians.

  • @christinatemple3483
    @christinatemple3483 4 дня назад +1

    I love the description of the left's inability to fight. Lol

  • @MrBillyd603
    @MrBillyd603 Месяц назад

    at 11 minutes you had a map up i know what red and blue are but what does yellow indicate? thankyou

    • @user-uo7fw5bo1o
      @user-uo7fw5bo1o Месяц назад +1

      Yellow means tossup, i.e., too closely divided politically to determine if it'll flip red or blue come November.

  • @incurableromantic4006
    @incurableromantic4006 3 месяца назад +455

    During the CHAZ - people who claimed to be protesting police racism and brutality, murdered a black teenager in cold blood for stealing from them: then destroyed evidence to ensure no one would be held accountable.
    Do not underestimate just how *VICIOUS* and unprincipled many people are as soon as they think they are free from punishment.

    • @Sam-hd7iy
      @Sam-hd7iy 3 месяца назад +87

      CHAZ was one of the craziest larping I've ever seen

    • @user-fo6cu2xv7q
      @user-fo6cu2xv7q 3 месяца назад +113

      ​@@Sam-hd7iyyep ran out of food and fell under dictatorship in 12 hours haha

    • @BexSlaughter
      @BexSlaughter 3 месяца назад +34

      Well, I hope those folks don't underestimate the defenses of people who spent most of their lives sitting patiently in a deer stand.

    • @TheSutanian
      @TheSutanian 3 месяца назад

      What are you talking about? They said that everything would be better if we did go along. I like going into discord servers and advocating for the full blown defiling and bereavement of white children only to be called a “fed”, insisting they’re beyond capable of it, only for the entire mod staff to harbor another mod grooming a child, when caught.
      Meanwhile, its all just hateful disgusting rancid snark by >90% of everyone peacocking to one another.
      And i think thats the thing that drives me insane the most. This quiet-before-the-storm “limbo” point.
      EDIT: Treating everything they read as a grand narrative and not something to be fucking afraid of.

    • @bobborlog1677
      @bobborlog1677 3 месяца назад +16

      Typical leftist

  • @alexniklaus6216
    @alexniklaus6216 3 месяца назад +884

    San Francisco is trying to ban stores from leaving and the Hawaii Supreme Court basically just denounced the construction citing a “law” from the previous kingdom of hawaii. Politics and law is just getting more crazy. The economy is looking weird as hell right now and will probably blow up this year. 2024 will likely be remembered as the inflection point at which post ww2 modernity officially ended.

    • @jakeroper1096
      @jakeroper1096 3 месяца назад

      There’s a chance China starts to realize their mistake siding with Russia and will make efforts to rejoin the world.
      If so, we’ll see the market “blow up” like nothing before.

    • @Trisket
      @Trisket 3 месяца назад

      ​@@TrolololololoChing"Texas sovereignty is disputed" lol, lmao even. Mexico City would be wiped off the map before the US hands over Texas.

    • @zeroconsequences
      @zeroconsequences 3 месяца назад

      "post ww2 modernity" otherwise known as the Liberal World Order.

    • @TheZestyCar
      @TheZestyCar 3 месяца назад +14

      And what does 'post ww2 modernity' refer to exactly?

    • @AntiquatedApe
      @AntiquatedApe 3 месяца назад +59

      I've been waiting for an end to the age of modernity. Whatever comes next is anyone's guess.

  • @normanprotorczyn5017
    @normanprotorczyn5017 Месяц назад +2

    As a European, I can't stop watching. Delulu cranked to 11. Good content.

  • @skrimshaw72
    @skrimshaw72 Месяц назад +12

    37:10 I was in Ukraine last September (2023), You’ve pretty accurately described what happened in Ukraine. Putin called Zelenskyy (a Jewish man) a Nazi orderd Russian troops to go “De-Nazify” Ukraine, my friends there spent 9 weeks hiding in the metro tunnels, but eventually all came out and started going back to work again, celebrating birthdays under light discipline (I had my 51st birthday In Ukraine), and now spend every day trying to live some semblance of a “normal” live, with air raid sirens and alarms via phone apps telling everyone when to take cover, before coming back out, and going back to work and life again.

  • @cachavik6858
    @cachavik6858 3 месяца назад +668

    Civil War sounds crazy until you realize we have been in a state of constant domestic skirmishes since 2016. We have had neither a peaceful transition of power since the 2016 election nor a strong unifying issue for the entire population to unify behind since 9/11. 2024 is very likely to finally break the camels back, especially as people are finding themselves with less to lose presently and nothing gain going forward in the current state of affairs.

    • @coryhoggatt7691
      @coryhoggatt7691 3 месяца назад

      Guess you forgot that Hilary claimed the 2016 election was stolen from her too.

    • @deleon83
      @deleon83 3 месяца назад

      Yes, cause the demoncrats want it this way

    • @thelaughingman1
      @thelaughingman1 3 месяца назад

      Thats all its going to be, at the height- it will be like the troubles in ireland. It won't look like pitched battles like the us civil war. It will look like random attacks while you're at your day job and then you go to work the next day and the number of homeless and crime continue to skyrocket until the value of the dollar reaches zero.

    • @selohcin
      @selohcin 3 месяца назад +1

      The only "domestic skirmishes" we've had are media-driven frenzies that lie to people and try to induce panic.

    • @firefly9838
      @firefly9838 3 месяца назад +15

      People said that about 2020...

  • @Rabbit_511
    @Rabbit_511 3 месяца назад +530

    this legit made me cry. I've deployed overseas to combat zones in syria. I've seen first hand what war looks like. What first struck me when I was there was how happy the locals were. sleeping on dirt floors and clearly malnourished, begging for water and cots to sleep on. But they all smile and just live their livves as if its normal. I remember I gave one of my flashlights to one of the locals that worked on base, because he was complaining that the scorpions kept stinging him and his wife at night, and he wouldent have been able to do anything because they had no power and couldent see them. That simple act, ive never seen a 60 year old man so happy. Thats what war does, the only thing the bullets affect are the fighters themselves, everyone else is starved, everyday things they took for granted are taken from them. Power, internet, clean water, etc. Infustructure suffers at the hands of war first. Thing is, when I saw the charges trump was on, knowing he was likely going to gain the majority vote in 2024, and knowing how bad 2020 was ive been telling people to be prepared for some serious shit to go down, but with the border crisis taking place, honestly the timing couldent be more perfect. And ive been telling people this, the thing that struck me most was, people dont say "oh your crazy" or "whatever dude", the just grin and give a sigh or an "idk man". Some slight denial. The same denial I saw in the eyes of so many folks in syria, with crisis and death all around them. Even I would fall victim when I was there, "this aint so bad" id say to myself. But when reality hits, thats when people suffer the most, that the hammer of war falling down on everyone around you. You can deny and deny, but once you look him in the face you just cant, and you are left to just feel helpless. We romanticize fighting, I get it, I do too, im infantry. But fighting is but the smallest fraction of what war is. Look at Ukraine, tens of millions of people displaced, homes destroyed, livelihoods ruined, entire generations turned to ash, but how many see the frontline? 2 maybe 3 or 4 million? And to what extent do they see that frontline? Thats just the thing. War in this country that I love so dearly scares me so much, to the point of tears when im faced with its coming reality. And I speak for almost any veteran, we dont want war, gosh no, we want all our hard work to actually mean peace here at home, we want this country to be nothing less than what our founding fathers envisioned, and nothing more than what we sacrificed for.
    Yknow, I was watching the livestreams in ukraine when tanks first rolled over the border. I captured what the media deemed "the first photo of the ukraine war". I saw that war coming from a million miles away, and we all knew it was coming pretty much exactly when it did. I remember second guessing myself, in the livestream street cams folks were commuting like normal, there was no panic, they must have known it was coming, I was in america and I knew. But they just continued as normal, that is, until rockets crashed down in the streets in front of them. I remember turning to my gf at the time, I didnt say what had happened, I just said "I think people will look death in the face and deny he is there until he's got his grip on you". There is a name for this, its a psychological phenomena, I forget what its called. Lesson here, take it from me, don't be sheep, train, be equipped, and be flexible. Dont live in denial, adapt to the changing times.

    • @hiperventilat8064
      @hiperventilat8064 3 месяца назад +53

      Such a wise comment. What saddens me most is how conflicts end up scalating unnecessarily when things, as hard as they can be, can be solved before war.

    • @adambordeaux4876
      @adambordeaux4876 3 месяца назад +30

      Cognitive dissonance

    • @ChalcolithicPrizim
      @ChalcolithicPrizim 3 месяца назад +2

      The GWOT is different from a peer conflict

    • @untenableposition
      @untenableposition 3 месяца назад

      ukraine war was fake and gay

    • @jnwilliams1986
      @jnwilliams1986 3 месяца назад +17

      11bang here, they will romanticize the idea of conflict and doing “what's right” up until the front comes to their door. Once they see it for all its grim realities then it's weight will start to sink in. Either they will double down or see it for its futility and stop. Hopefully, the latter. AATW. RD7 out.

  • @Entelechhhy
    @Entelechhhy Месяц назад

    Your videos are so good❤

  • @RainmanRaysRepairs
    @RainmanRaysRepairs 3 дня назад

    We’re in a position where everyone will be forced to “pick a side” We the People are the side, as a population we have been deliberately divided to pit us against each other causing us to ignore the real agitators

  • @richdobbs6595
    @richdobbs6595 3 месяца назад +463

    Not only do I remember a time before New York being burned, I remember a time when Minneapolis wasn't routinely used to illustrate the collapse of civilization.

    • @Maxipadtriplesix
      @Maxipadtriplesix 3 месяца назад +17

      I lived in NY during the protests, we really didnt burn anything down. I think I saw on the news a cop car on fire once but I dont think any buildings got set on fire

    • @ianweir3608
      @ianweir3608 3 месяца назад +2

      I'm 31 and I don't. Is that when Kevin Garnett was playing?

    • @ImGoingSupersonic
      @ImGoingSupersonic 3 месяца назад

      "The Fall of Minneapolis"
      It's a documentary about it and mainly Floyd and how we've all been lied to. Blew my mind

    • @richdobbs6595
      @richdobbs6595 3 месяца назад +18

      @@Maxipadtriplesix Dude, the New York quip that was a reference to the future civil war as shown in the end of video. You did watch the video didn't you?

    • @LucasFernandez-fk8se
      @LucasFernandez-fk8se 3 месяца назад +2

      I was 12 when the Blm riots first happened. I quite frankly don’t remember much of a time when every city wasn’t on fire

  • @DadHominem
    @DadHominem Месяц назад +2

    Assuming there is a civil war, and then assuming it is something like left vs. right or red vs. blue, how do you see foreign interests getting involved? Which countries do you think would support which sides? Which countries might provide weapons, food, medical aid, etc. to which sides? Also which countries do you think have a preference - for any reason - for an actual civil war to take place in the USA.
    Second question, who do you see staying in the USA and who flees? I think anyone with assets of 8 figures and above flee for sure. Maybe some 7-figure people. What about others? If the left truly consist of the "managerial class", is it possible that so many of them flee that the war is a bit one-sided, and those on the right end up eliminating many/most of the left?
    It would be great to see a follow-up video with your thoughts on this.

    • @philguer4802
      @philguer4802 28 дней назад

      Simple. Every single democratic nation will support the side they supported in 2020: the one not refusing to accept election results.
      Russia, and probably China, will support the other isolationnist, losing side to divide the US and limit its global influence.

  • @techpriest6962
    @techpriest6962 Месяц назад +5

    Already began years ago, it has just not been a hot conflict.

    • @PricelessBinkey1337
      @PricelessBinkey1337 19 дней назад +3

      It never starts as a hot conflict. That's what people never realize.

    • @techpriest6962
      @techpriest6962 19 дней назад +2

      @@PricelessBinkey1337 Yep, few people pay enough attention to the very moments that lead up to events that make history.

  • @WSKRBSCT
    @WSKRBSCT 3 месяца назад +400

    A big thing that I really didn't hear addressed in this is that if these people think they're miserable and broke now, wait until a war started. That would take miserable to a whole new level.

    • @geo5146
      @geo5146 3 месяца назад

      I KNOW right??? It’s stupidity honestly. As Mike Tyson said “everyone has a plan, until they get hit in the mouth.”

    • @fryguy994
      @fryguy994 3 месяца назад +38

      True, but once you open that box you can't close it

    • @tylerknight2993
      @tylerknight2993 3 месяца назад

      If things get worse, society will crumble. That’s very possible since we aren’t even in war times or recession and that is likely very soon.

    • @prettyboyjeremy
      @prettyboyjeremy 3 месяца назад +49

      @@fryguy994 Sure they'll lose everything but they'll have nothing else to lose which means BIG BIG risks

    • @renotv3860
      @renotv3860 3 месяца назад +12

      Yeah, until it's over and we can start building a better nation.

  • @idiotengineer3925
    @idiotengineer3925 3 месяца назад +1186

    I lived in Washington state during the summer of love and covid lockdowns and that time really radicalized me. I was already bitter having fought in Afghanistan and coming home just to listen to my leftist boomer family members tell me that I can't afford a house because I need to work harder despite making 6 figures as an engineer. I can't lie, I want the 'system' to get what'scoming to them and I hate having that mindset when i used to be so positive about the future growing up.

    • @mirceazaharia2094
      @mirceazaharia2094 3 месяца назад

      Just make sure you build something better as replacement. The Romanian revolution ended with bloodshed and the old commies thrown out.
      But our future was stolen by the former commie operators turned businessmen.
      It's not about returning to "business as usual" after some bloodshed. It's about CHANGING THINGS, FOR THE BETTER, IN THE LONG TERM.

    • @Anonymous-bi2wy
      @Anonymous-bi2wy 3 месяца назад +237

      Our generation got lied to, bro. We kept our end of the social contract & the boomers laugh because they knew they were lying then.

    • @CybinTalus
      @CybinTalus 3 месяца назад

      Our entire generation was betrayed en masse, sold a bill of lies, and told they would become goods once we arrived

    • @thomaslamb8635
      @thomaslamb8635 3 месяца назад

      We are all homesick for a time and country that no longer exists.
      The image of the typical American man coming home from work, to a homemaker wife and three children supported by his income alone. Middle class.
      This was stolen from us all.
      Now, we either live in apartments or tiny homes. Our women were taught to hate us. Our children are taught to be the opposite sex. We are viewed as cannon fodder to those who run the country. Too stupid to understand anything, according to them. Our aging parents have no clue what they voted for or why.
      Yeah. We were lied to. That’s pretty damn obvious to anyone with open eyes.

    • @CeoMacNCheese
      @CeoMacNCheese 3 месяца назад +40

      Honestly I’m aware of this lie it’s just that my family college tuition is getting paid for by the government as my dad served in the military. I just simply wish to take a break from academics after I get my high school diploma, and just directly ask skilled engineers go teach me the more advanced things. Granted my mother tells me to go to college and keep trying. I just don’t want to be held down anymore by being in college. Especially considering the fact that I may end up with a bad professor that doesn’t really know how to teach.

  • @beacarr9652
    @beacarr9652 Месяц назад +5

    The most violent cities in America = 1) St Louis 2) Detroit 3) Baltimore 4) Memphis and the list goes on. They're microcosms of what could happen on a larger scale. The soft on crime mandates and initiatives have opened the floodgates- the law abiding citizenry is justifiably scared witless. Add to that the push to limit the right to carry which only compounds the fear and keeps the weapons in the hands of felons. Speaking from a Baltimore perspective, which I know is a bit slanted since we're living in a sht show.

    • @umpakatiunit6685
      @umpakatiunit6685 Месяц назад +1

      Although I'm in baltimore County I go to baltimore city alot and it's quite clear it is a shit show everyday on the news you hear about a new shooting

    • @someguy710
      @someguy710 Месяц назад +3

      Thats just garden variety black on black violence.

    • @johner3364
      @johner3364 20 дней назад

      @@someguy710That’s not the point. The point is that soon enough, the rest of America will be just as anarchical as Watts or Whitehaven.

  • @timothytrudelle9245
    @timothytrudelle9245 16 дней назад +3

    This guy consistently posts content I enjoy.

  • @Dominic.Dybala
    @Dominic.Dybala 3 месяца назад +539

    "Rudyard, there are certain hills that you have to die on to be a man."
    The most based quote so far in 2024 goes to Mr Lynch
    "We're getting to the point where a large part of the population needs a civil war so they don't kill themselves." - bonus quote X'D

    • @CMA418
      @CMA418 3 месяца назад +13

      1823 April 11. (Jefferson to John Adams). "[T]he truth is that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words. and the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors."

    • @bobbyshaftoe
      @bobbyshaftoe 3 месяца назад +5

      The Tree of Liberty....

    • @ProfessionalMusician74
      @ProfessionalMusician74 3 месяца назад +5

      The Civil War quote has to be so comically unhinged

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 3 месяца назад

      ​​@@CMA418 100% And it's the Christian Nationalists who want to have a Christian Revolution much like the Islamic Revolution in Iran 1979. Their leaders are mostly Boomers, Xers, Silent, and even a Greatest or two. I don't think any younger people L or R will stand for it.

    • @charlesrhodes1089
      @charlesrhodes1089 3 месяца назад +3

      Wort wort wort

  • @bigbootros4362
    @bigbootros4362 3 месяца назад +325

    War is pretty horrendous. I think a large proportion of young Americans dont realise this.
    You will hate this if it happens.
    Your loved ones will suffer. You will see many people starve and you might also. You will see many atrocities and you might victim also.
    It will be awful. I'm surprised so many young Americans are happy about this.

    • @bikesrcool_1958
      @bikesrcool_1958 3 месяца назад +59

      It makes sense for the generation that hasn’t had to go through a war concerning them the most wouldn’t know most evils in war, I too have not experienced getting bombed, running from bullets, or watching my friends getting killed

    • @loneIyboy15
      @loneIyboy15 3 месяца назад +87

      I don't see how the cons outweigh the pros of finally fighting the Communists.

    • @sunphoenix1231
      @sunphoenix1231 3 месяца назад

      The poor fight the wars the rich wage. This isn't any different. Both Republicans and Democrats in power don't care beyond that culture wars or military wars are profitable. Anyone who wants war is clearly deluded.
      I'd never die for the rich willingly.

    • @briitash
      @briitash 3 месяца назад +87

      Better to suffer the burdens of enduring the hardships of war than to stand aside and age in relative peace, but leave the fighting to be done by your children.

    • @sunphoenix1231
      @sunphoenix1231 3 месяца назад

      @@briitash dunno why you'd want to fight in a war that's being pushed by the rich. Trump is as much an Elite as Biden.

  • @TitanicSubGoBoom
    @TitanicSubGoBoom Месяц назад +2

    I live in Michigan and the gun ownership percent has to be higher than 28.8%. Everyone I know owns at least one gun.

  • @mathewbell8609
    @mathewbell8609 Месяц назад +2

    I too believe I am an Empath. I know exactly what you mean about the overwhelming depression that you can feel among the population. This is true, even in small towns.

  • @ThatDamnedGamer1
    @ThatDamnedGamer1 3 месяца назад +280

    The biggest dice roll that we are watching is the border, both sides are lining up waiting for the other side to blink. We are at the point where a single hunter will be able to set it all off.

    • @Manospondylus
      @Manospondylus 3 месяца назад +46

      A hunter or cartel soldier.

    • @thetapheonix
      @thetapheonix 3 месяца назад +27

      An the Feds already lost. Tucked tail.

    • @Endwankery
      @Endwankery 3 месяца назад +20

      ​@@thetapheonixThey'll try something. Get ready

    • @user-ud6ui7zt3r
      @user-ud6ui7zt3r 3 месяца назад +17

      That's what happened at Lexington and Concorde, which we use to mark the start of the American Revolution. One guy got nervous/jumpy/antsy, fired a shot, and then everything went to crap. Personally, I think both sets of soldiers should realize that they are being used as political pawns, and, likewise, refuse to be used as pawns. How? By throwing their guns down on the ground, right from the get-go, and, instead, engaging in an Angry Dance Off with each other. Does such a strategy waste time? Sure it does. But so does participating in being used as a political pawn.

    • @Endwankery
      @Endwankery 3 месяца назад +35

      Refusing to stand our ground before is why things have gotten this bad, it won't help us if we do that in the future. It's time to nut up or shut up

  • @hlriiiviiiv9570
    @hlriiiviiiv9570 3 месяца назад +486

    Don’t ever think that once the shooting starts, the “world” will let us sort it out for ourselves like last time. Once the giant falls the ants will get to work.

    • @bulbasaurbrutal5137
      @bulbasaurbrutal5137 3 месяца назад +43

      These days, a power vacuum is like punching a hole through the hull in your ship in outer space. It is instantaneously depressurized! Schloop! Schwoop! Doop!

    • @hochstapler9298
      @hochstapler9298 3 месяца назад +19

      This comment goes hard

    • @Faus4us_Official
      @Faus4us_Official 3 месяца назад +13

      This is the main reason I advocate for peace. I know this only lasts so long as people become fat and comfortable in their lack of ambition and vision beyond immediate sensory gratification and ego satiation. I don't want to be that guy, but I feel the world is giving me no choice.

    • @kram9863
      @kram9863 3 месяца назад +40

      The crazier part is that China is also on the verge of demographic collapse and i would suggest a psychological disaster impending. Russia is fighting a losing war in Ukraine. What happens if all the major powers suddenly fall apart in a short time?

    • @seafoam6119
      @seafoam6119 2 месяца назад

      China dies of population collapse. Russia dies because of a self destructive war. America died because of retarded communists who believe men can become women. Good grief.@@kram9863

  • @jonmichaels-se9xk
    @jonmichaels-se9xk Месяц назад +2

    A correlation is not a prediction, however much you want it to be

  • @lostbooks2918
    @lostbooks2918 Месяц назад +1

    Bro about to hit 600k . Good stuff man

  • @martinpospisil3747
    @martinpospisil3747 3 месяца назад +66

    “History is made by active, determined minorities, not by the majority, which seldom has a clear and consistent idea of what it really wants.” -Ted Kaczynski

  • @NemisCassander
    @NemisCassander 3 месяца назад +152

    I recall when the Ukraine war started, and my friend's grandfather (who is second-generation Polish immigrant to the US and a retired Air Force Colonel) asked when I or my son would go fight.
    I just looked at him and replied, "Why would I go fight for Ukraine?" Note that it's a moot point for me, as I'm in my mid-40s and my eyesight would be a physical bar to entering the military. My son, though... I'm scared for him.
    Basically, when a lot of older people think that the younger generations are too weak and won't fight, my mental response is, 'What you mean is that they won't fight the wars you want them to fight. Give them a cause they believe in and why wouldn't they fight?'

    • @brent4073
      @brent4073 3 месяца назад +35

      Right? No way in hell I am going on any foreign soil to fight a war to protect trans people back in the states or the hoards of single 30+ cat ladies who friendzone or ghost you after a 1st date.

    • @francogiobbimontesanti3826
      @francogiobbimontesanti3826 3 месяца назад +2

      In the 40s would you have fought to liberate France or the Low Countries?

    • @kaihinton6623
      @kaihinton6623 3 месяца назад

      This is the same mindset that led to the nazis conquering europe and america not being prepared for pearl harbour

    • @Moses_VII
      @Moses_VII 3 месяца назад +5

      @@francogiobbimontesanti3826 They were fighting the literal Nazis, and war used to be fashionable back then, unlike now when we realise the value of peace.

    • @francogiobbimontesanti3826
      @francogiobbimontesanti3826 3 месяца назад +5

      @@Moses_VII They valued peace back then too. They appeased Japan and Germany until Japan and Germany came for them. They could have stopped Germany in the Rhineland, then in Austria, then in the Sudetenland, then in Czechoslovakia. But only when the Germans went for Poland did the allies decide to do something. The US took even longer, could have stopped japan in Korea, Manchuria, China, Vietnam, Malaysia etc. But people valued peace so much back then that eventually war came for them.
      Let’s not repeat the same mistakes from the past, Russia already invaded Moldavia, Georgia and Crimea and is now going for the rest of Ukraine. In Ukraine it feels like just by supplying them they can win, but politics is getting in the way.

  • @waynemathias8074
    @waynemathias8074 8 дней назад

    For an example of ideologically-driven conflict, I recommend studying the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Mountains of books have been written about it. Our circumstances today are quite different, yet parallels exist, enough to make the SCW highly relevant. For ex., we should assume that foreign allies and/or rivals will try to influence the outcome, overtly or covertly.

  • @wildemthefem5773
    @wildemthefem5773 Месяц назад

    I watched your video “Explaining American Civilization” and it was amazing, so I clicked on this one as well. I’m only about a third of the way into it, but I have to ask, what about those of us in the middle? I don’t identify with the left or the right; there are things about each “side” I love and despise. Maybe if I keep listening there will be more, but I really hope we all get out of this way of thinking that tries to place us all on a “side”.

  • @elijahbutterfield4869
    @elijahbutterfield4869 3 месяца назад +206

    Pip: "It’s so quiet,”
    Mithrandir: “It’s the deep breath before the plunge.”
    Pip: “I don’t want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can’t escape is even worse.”

    • @beskamir5977
      @beskamir5977 3 месяца назад +32

      Tolkien was a war veteran. He definitely knew what he was talking about from first hand experience.

    • @kellyfj
      @kellyfj 3 месяца назад +10

      "We come to it at last"

    • @therearenoshortcuts9868
      @therearenoshortcuts9868 3 месяца назад +15

      show them no mercy for you shall receive none
      we don't get to choose what times we live in, all you have to do is decide what to do with the times given to you...

    • @bobsingh7949
      @bobsingh7949 3 месяца назад +6

      well used quotes sir, well used indeed.
      I also find Mithrandir's reply to Frodo during the discovery that Frodo's ring is the One. Specifically Frodo's wish the situation hadn't happened to him and in this time.

    • @elijahbutterfield4869
      @elijahbutterfield4869 Месяц назад

      @@bobsingh7949 "so do all that live through such times..."

  • @spacecandygames7575
    @spacecandygames7575 3 месяца назад +282

    I’m in a state that supports Texas, and tbh it SEEMs most military people who are willing to fight are the ones who would support Texas.

    • @donaldtrumplover2254
      @donaldtrumplover2254 3 месяца назад

      You'd be surprised, a lot of them only support Texas as a state. In a secession crisis I don't doubt a very large portion of the military would fracture no matter where you went. Though I'm 90% sure there will not be a civil war, the right cards just are not in play. A lot would have to go wrong at once for that to happen.

    • @vibejourney3662
      @vibejourney3662 3 месяца назад

      There are real reasons to secede and there are stupid ones
      Texas is being stupid
      Imagine being willing to give up free travel through the richest states, nuclear weapons, navy vessels, most military bases, trade agreements, international alliances, access to the Pacific Ocean, federal funding, and soso much more just because you’re sad some razor wire is coming down? 😂
      Fr could be mitigated with a bill and seasonal visas for jobs that most certainly American citizens will not do like fruit picking and meat packing. Blame corporations for hiring illegal migrants to pay them cheap not the people themselves. And if you get them to pay taxes so what win win

    • @Funkiy
      @Funkiy 3 месяца назад

      What? The college nerd liberals who eat soy and artificial meat don’t wanna fight? It’s the gun owning current and ex military republican men? Who would’ve thought

    • @christianedwards6364
      @christianedwards6364 3 месяца назад

      Military people want to get paid and go home. They don't want to fight Americans. Whoever is president doesn't really affect day to day shit in the military

    • @marcusaustralius2416
      @marcusaustralius2416 3 месяца назад +53

      I've got a mate in the national guard who's colleague, also an NCO, straight up told him that if the feds told them to take guns or abandon the border, that he would either fight with sympathetic NG against the government or ditch and join a militia
      The level of sympathy within the military for the federal government is very low, the brass are supportive because that's who gave them their position, but the officers, NCOs and grunts seem to heavily lean towards the right

  • @MrEkzotic
    @MrEkzotic Месяц назад +1

    Military wars are fought by the young, but rebellions are fought by all.

  • @Kjom4
    @Kjom4 Месяц назад

    What is your Twitter? Surely interesting stuff there, too.

  • @burnerjack01
    @burnerjack01 3 месяца назад +95

    “The price good men pay for [their] indifference to civil affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”- Plato
    “All that Evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing.”
    -Edmund Burke

  • @Dock284
    @Dock284 3 месяца назад +240

    "You could say they are master baiters"
    -Whatifalthist, 2024

    • @bhante1345
      @bhante1345 3 месяца назад +10

      Be the master baiter you want to see in this world.

    • @Erik_Ochoa013
      @Erik_Ochoa013 3 месяца назад +13

      I’m master baiting rn 😈

    • @saladin3273
      @saladin3273 3 месяца назад +3

      ​@Californian-Wrong_thinker13. 😐

    • @MarvelousSeven
      @MarvelousSeven 3 месяца назад +12

      If you bathe in the master bathroom are you "master bathing"?

    • @Kim_YoJong
      @Kim_YoJong 3 месяца назад

      ​@@saladin3273🥵

  • @troytegen4538
    @troytegen4538 Месяц назад +1

    As my dad used to say...
    Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

  • @CornCod1
    @CornCod1 20 дней назад

    Nice to see the young guys are reading Dr. Francis. I knew him well. He was my editor at the "Citizens Informer" way back when.

  • @Cordon3
    @Cordon3 3 месяца назад +480

    As someone at university I can tell you that it’s an echo chamber of weakness from those who preach their ideology

    • @visionaryhera
      @visionaryhera 3 месяца назад

      I hate going to university I hate it I hear 24/7 how bad racism is and how bad sexism is and how gender isn’t real and I’m just fucking triggered being there.
      Straight up I gently said “doesn’t that sound a little dumb?” To a classmate saying “defund the police”. She paused, looked at me like I’m ‘one of them’ and said “no they’re racist and literally anything would be so much better”.
      I fucking can’t with these people I put up a façade but I literally fucking can’t deal with this bullshit for another 3 years I’ll probably just go do trade school FUCK.

    • @notallowedtobehonest2539
      @notallowedtobehonest2539 3 месяца назад +48

      Nonsentients have conquered academia

    • @dismaleclipse5587
      @dismaleclipse5587 3 месяца назад +22

      ​@@notallowedtobehonest2539
      "nonsentients" great term, will use
      Thanks))

    • @maximumbrexit4503
      @maximumbrexit4503 3 месяца назад +25

      No they're just smarter than you broski. You think cutting edge physicists are in an "echo chamber?"

    • @zunedog31
      @zunedog31 3 месяца назад +3

      Been that way for 200 years

  • @arturoandrino7071
    @arturoandrino7071 3 месяца назад +282

    As a spaniard having studied the spanish civil war in detail this sounds like a very similar scenario. A conflict that divides families, friends and neighbourhoods rather than states or big factions, a war fought at a very granular level until the army seizes large chunks of the country

    • @Thermopylae2007
      @Thermopylae2007 3 месяца назад +23

      I am reading through Stanley G. Payne's "The Collapse of the Spanish Republic: 1933-1936" and just went through the part about the February 1936 elections that eventually led to the Civil War. I can see plenty of potential similarities with the US today and perhaps some political machinations in Europe. Even the Spanish military was quite split in the months leading up to the conflict, somewhat like the current politicization of the US military, so it would be hard to know how things may fall I'd the US begins to unravel after a contested election.

    • @AmericanAdvancement
      @AmericanAdvancement 3 месяца назад +22

      I’ll make the argument that this will play out somewhat differently than Spain for one simple reason, the states will provide the nucleus for organized rebellion in a way that generals or the average citizenry can’t. Each state is like an autonomous country within the United States, each with its own law enforcement agencies, bureaucratic institutions, and even militaries. Should a FEDERAL election be contested, then the states will be the first to challenge its results in an organized fashion and, should the situation turn kinetic, they will be the only major organization able to muster a significant amount of manpower to the cause. The American people have already relocated en mass to states that align with their views as can be seen in the latest election results with red states getting redder, blue states getting bluer, and swing states disappearing at an alarming rate.

    • @Thermopylae2007
      @Thermopylae2007 3 месяца назад +1

      @AmericanAdvancement Years ago I likely would have thought of such a conflict primarily in terms of sectarian strife at the local level (that could still be the case in some areas) but the increasing division of states and perhaps even some Canadian provinces across political lines suggests that we could likely see such divisions. I think that also opens up greater possibilities for conflict, since many people who'd hesitate to become an insurgent/rebel against the broader society might find it easier to ally themselves with a political jurisdiction that at least gives the colour of law to their choice. It's probably also easier for a higher level of government to go after individual dissidents than to sanction entire states and regions.

    • @AmericanAdvancement
      @AmericanAdvancement 3 месяца назад

      ⁠​⁠@@Thermopylae2007 The scariest part about the states being the ones to organize the war is that they will enact organized purges amongst their populace to ensure compliance. Anyone who speaks out against their state or state coalition governments will be imprisoned or worse depending on how high political tensions get before the war starts.
      Canada is an interesting player in all of this that nobody factors into the equation. I firmly believe that opposition to the U.S. is the only reason why Canada continues to exist as a unified nation. Take that away and Canada will break into five separate nations due to geography. British Columbia (or the Vancouver area) would side with the pacific faction of the civil war, the prairie provinces would side with the republican faction, Ontario would side with the American northeastern faction, Quebec would stay out of it and suffer in silence, and the Atlantic provinces would side with the American northeastern faction.

    • @raysheyo2809
      @raysheyo2809 3 месяца назад

      Me too I compared a civil war to the Spanish civil war

  • @Unitedred45
    @Unitedred45 29 дней назад +2

    You are incredibly smart! I am apart of a political group that is actively preparing for the end. I believe you would be an asset to it. If you want to learn more please reach out.

    • @tanimation7289
      @tanimation7289 28 дней назад

      What exactly are you doing? I really want to know.

    • @biggusdickus9148
      @biggusdickus9148 27 дней назад

      ​@@tanimation7289probably learning military tactics and staecraft

  • @brianm5637
    @brianm5637 25 дней назад +1

    Turn the negative into positive. Turn the emotion into motivation to get healthy, fit, train BJJ/MMA, study Stoicism.

  • @TheStriperhunter
    @TheStriperhunter 3 месяца назад +307

    As a boomer with a son 30 years old, I understand the difficulties faced by his generation. The cost of housing and dating seem unsurmountable. In my son's case though, he seems to not be angry, but apathetic. He's got a great job but because every home that comes up for sale is snatched up by large investment houses ownership is impossible and rent is artificially inflated. My older children (by just 10 years) didn't have this issue.

    • @MrKillswitch88
      @MrKillswitch88 3 месяца назад +15

      If he doesn't mind the commute or just settling for less save up for some bare land (rural) and buy a mobile home or just build something as that is about the only thing left for us poors. Can find homes for like $40k however such are like two hours away from the nearest walmart in mostly abandoned small towns.

    • @SirCatWaffel
      @SirCatWaffel 3 месяца назад

      The zoning and building permits are limiting a lot of this. ​@@MrKillswitch88

    • @Yorktown-pb8bd
      @Yorktown-pb8bd 3 месяца назад

      Need to end the WEF you will own nothing and be happy. Krause Schwab taught by a traitor named Henrry Kissenger

    • @styrfry
      @styrfry 3 месяца назад +28

      I'm glad you understand your son. My boomer father just doesn't understand my apathy towards the world.
      Like others have said, your only real option for an "affordable home" these days involves buying a rural lot 2+ counties away from a large city and building something on it. Hopefully your son can work remotely or get a transfer to a rural area.
      The city I've lived my entire life in has seen a huge increase in home prices these past 5-6 years. They are starting to tear down every spare scrap of green land and converting it into more townhomes, apartments and 5-over-1's. Just off the top of my head in the last few years, an old 9-hole golf course, a major flea market and go-cart/putt-putt area have all been bought out and filled with homes/townhomes/apartments respectively. There's this one house right by the interstate that has been offered millions of dollars for his lot and he refuses to this day. They ended up nearly encircling the poor guy's house with two hotels!

    • @badhabits1965
      @badhabits1965 3 месяца назад +24

      I wish any boomers in my family understood. My dad and uncles just tell me and my brothers that we have it so much better than them because they never had smart phones as kids, and we're just lying about houses being more unaffordable because interest rates are lower. Most common attitude from boomers is that if something isn't a problem for them, then it can't be a problem for anyone else and you must be lying. They have zero empathy. They don't care about society. They don't even love their kids. I don't think my dad loves me or my brothers, since he puts in zero effort to understand us at all. I want to know what the hell is wrong with your generation? What made your generation so selfish that they don't even love their kids?

  • @Lorem_ipsum_dolor_sit_amet
    @Lorem_ipsum_dolor_sit_amet 3 месяца назад +135

    Can't help but feel that the old proverb "the child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down just to feel its warmth" also applies on a societal level. Modern society offers little more than endless hardship and hopelessness to millions of young men and women, so why wouldn't we want to watch it burn?
    Whatever happens, I can't see the current social/political paradigm lasting another decade, its become intolerable to far too many. Anything is better than what we have right now

    • @PNWOverland
      @PNWOverland 3 месяца назад

      any form of marxism would be worse, much worse

    • @GaZonk100
      @GaZonk100 3 месяца назад +5

      step outside your front door and you'll find yourself standing in the First World. . . start from there. . . it's not all bad(from a seventy yr-old rock guitarist)

    • @traiascacodreanu4553
      @traiascacodreanu4553 3 месяца назад +13

      ​@@GaZonk100You grew up in a different time.

    • @Infamous41
      @Infamous41 3 месяца назад +2

      ​@@GaZonk100ur very old

    • @kkvv3699
      @kkvv3699 3 месяца назад +3

      ok boomer@@GaZonk100

  • @franck-oq4jv
    @franck-oq4jv 14 дней назад +2

    A24 should make a movie about this.

  • @nufcblacknwhite09
    @nufcblacknwhite09 Месяц назад +2

    That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by there creator with certain unalienable rights; among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” God bless the USA, we will take it back.

  • @certifiedretart161
    @certifiedretart161 3 месяца назад +114

    "Man, I just wanted to play video games."

    • @keonkla
      @keonkla 3 месяца назад +20

      Didn't we all....didn't we all lmaooo.

    • @Avogadros_number
      @Avogadros_number 2 месяца назад +9

      And this is one of the reasons why a civil war won’t happen. Our lives are too good to give them up for anarchy. Even the poor in this country live better than the upper class during any other time period. It would take more than polarization and political instability for a civil war here. If there’s a significant recession or depression, then yes, it could very well happen, but people disagreeing on stupid topics fueled by the internet won’t do it.

    • @user-ik2fp6ih4n
      @user-ik2fp6ih4n 2 месяца назад +1

      @@Avogadros_number you'll especially be caught by surprise when it does happen.

    • @Avogadros_number
      @Avogadros_number 2 месяца назад +4

      @@user-ik2fp6ih4n sure. I’ve yet to come across someone who isn’t living in their mother’s basement propose this idea. You guys all seem to be 16-23 year olds who haven’t experienced the real world yet and spend 90% of your time online. My time in the military taught me that we’re a lot more similar than we are different. Go outside and talk to people, most people don’t care about politics. They aren’t the fringe from either side of the political spectrum rage baiting each other constantly, the people you seem to be convinced represents most Americans.

    • @user-ik2fp6ih4n
      @user-ik2fp6ih4n 2 месяца назад

      that won't matter either. the vast majority of people will be caught off guard and get themselves killed. @@Avogadros_number

  • @jaredbryan5010
    @jaredbryan5010 3 месяца назад +91

    Gotta love the whole civil war intro followed swiftly by an ad read

    • @ThePalePatriot
      @ThePalePatriot 3 месяца назад +4

      Well I do not see you sending him money to do the videos!

    • @portostrengthunion
      @portostrengthunion 3 месяца назад +2

      ​@@ThePalePatriotI think you are missing OP's point my friend. Ad reads are not very revolutionary

    • @superhanz7190
      @superhanz7190 3 месяца назад +2

      I think your missing the point also, the video is not meant to encourage revolution, just observing it’s possibility

    • @portostrengthunion
      @portostrengthunion 3 месяца назад

      @@superhanz7190 what do you think the point OP was trying to make? My Goodness.

    • @Hap_Shaughessy
      @Hap_Shaughessy 2 месяца назад

      Gotta grift fake narratives to make that money.

  • @damnballah
    @damnballah 6 дней назад +6

    The fact this guy thinks it’s right vs left rather than a class issue is actually hilarious.

    • @mike.6092
      @mike.6092 6 дней назад +1

      hardly so 🤓

    • @ma3stro681
      @ma3stro681 День назад

      The radical left have pushed their woke agenda on the rest of us for way too long. We have had enough, and they certainly aren’t strong physical specimens, the wokies … 😂

  • @awesomeking6
    @awesomeking6 Месяц назад +1

    I don't want to be in battle. But waiting at the edge of one I can't escape as even worse. - Pippin Took

  • @S41GON
    @S41GON 3 месяца назад +71

    "Two more weeks" vs "This time it's different'

    • @SisckoImper
      @SisckoImper 3 месяца назад +4

      It's just sad

    • @eibbor171
      @eibbor171 2 месяца назад

      yep its the same thing and people are to stupid,blind or willfully ignorant to see it or you could do "two more weeks" vs "It cant happen here"

  • @bobsingh7949
    @bobsingh7949 3 месяца назад +130

    "socially already in a civil war," that hit me.

    • @TheGreenKnight500
      @TheGreenKnight500 3 месяца назад

      I've heard it described as a "civil cold war". I think that's what we're in.

    • @steffenaltmeier6602
      @steffenaltmeier6602 3 месяца назад +4

      we went from memeing about the culture war to living in it

    • @mirceazaharia2094
      @mirceazaharia2094 3 месяца назад

      ​@@steffenaltmeier6602
      The Culture War is an actual thing. The Civil War is already ongoing, it simply has not reached the point of widespread violence, sending political opponents to sleep with the fishes, and widespread disobedience towards the Feds.
      Maybe give it another 10 years at most. The timeline would be accelerated greatly if a major figure on either side gets unalived.

  • @CrashBandicot1995
    @CrashBandicot1995 29 дней назад +2

    If i ever became a youtuber, this is the shit i would speak of. Keep it going bro!

  • @user-jj9rt9pr8g
    @user-jj9rt9pr8g Месяц назад

    Great video btw, I agree with the vasg majority of what you discuss here. 👍

  • @tssc1095
    @tssc1095 3 месяца назад +90

    It always haunted me as a child that the one thing that ended the great depression was blood

    • @bc-cu4on
      @bc-cu4on 3 месяца назад

      Wasn't necessary, if you believe Hoover's crew. This was presumably intentional on the part of the plutocrats and their puppet Roosevelt.

    • @ianweir3608
      @ianweir3608 3 месяца назад +15

      Lots and lots of it.

    • @juniper-ug3hs
      @juniper-ug3hs 3 месяца назад +6

      The war didn't end the great depression. Wars destroy. Sure a few firms will profit from war, but overall shifting production to tanks and bombs is great for people who make tanks and bombs, not the economy as a whole. Also, it's really bad for your labor supply both during and after the war. Especially, if your lose a significant percentage of your working age young men.

    • @Donner906
      @Donner906 3 месяца назад +1

      Wow. deep.

    • @tackcolin6645
      @tackcolin6645 3 месяца назад

      We are about to see!!

  • @lukashuettner
    @lukashuettner 2 месяца назад +255

    One important point of "being at war" in general, is the perceived reality of doing something purposeful. A "warrior" or "rebel" fights for "something", that's their only responsibility at that moment. The perfect escape from modern responsibilities - if you even had to cope with any. Most young men feel absolutely useless and purposeless - because, look around us. War makes things simpler, in a very weird way. And not to forget: War brings people together. People who were once completely atomized, now have a shared purpose and a community.

    • @FirstLast-gk6lg
      @FirstLast-gk6lg Месяц назад +24

      Really good point

    • @jadapinkett1656
      @jadapinkett1656 Месяц назад

      Imagine simping for dearh and destruction. Psychopath.

    • @kickbox11
      @kickbox11 Месяц назад +6

      rioting is similar, a la 2020

    • @lukashuettner
      @lukashuettner Месяц назад +18

      @@kickbox11 not exactly. Rioting is temporary. And everyone knows that. Sooner or later, everyone goes back to business. A war is ultimate. Either win or lose

    • @jasonyoung3690
      @jasonyoung3690 Месяц назад +7

      @@kickbox11 The emotions that occur in rioting are more immediate, visceral and temporary. War lasts until an objective is reached. War is far more unifying than rioting. Just look at the individual actions of the rioters of 2020 that stood out, like the people who defaced statues and churches or attacked those who wanted to protect others, like Kyle Rittenhouse. They were acting out in a purely emotional state, trying to cause the most damage in the shortest amount of time while they could get away with it, and only in the short term. There was no common goal or objective, just a visceral emotive hate that needed release. War lasts much longer and has a common goal, while rioting just seems to be wherever the crowd takes it at the moment. War is violent by its nature, but not nearly as violent as rioting and the pure hatred that rioting comes from isn't usually there in a war setting for too long during any prolonged period of time. Sure, hate and extreme violence can and will occur in war, but it never lasts for the entire conflict, only in spurts and sputters. Hate cannot sustain itself in war like it can in a riot during the short timeframe that exists in that riot, thus it is always short lived and cannot continue in war for very long.

  • @2nailgarage609
    @2nailgarage609 6 дней назад

    I can attest to the working at a large company makes you left and working for yourself make you right. I worked since I was a little kid at small shops and hard labor. I was also right leaning. Now I’m working a high level corporation blue collar job and I’m now right center.

  • @RoninSerradaEscrimadore
    @RoninSerradaEscrimadore Месяц назад

    This is a great assessment.

  • @isaacgorski6054
    @isaacgorski6054 3 месяца назад +949

    This is a quote attributed to the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of "The Gulag Archipelago":
    "The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left alone.
    They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love.
    They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.
    The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be.
    Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror.
    TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people's door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy... but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone."
    I love this quote so much and it feels so real today.

    • @skyqueen1148
      @skyqueen1148 3 месяца назад +139

      "I may not have any interest in politics; but politics has an interest in me".

    • @corym.johnson7241
      @corym.johnson7241 3 месяца назад +48

      That is what it feels like I have been doing. I harbor great anger towards feminism, christianity, etc for their corrupt ways or abhorrent negligence among other things. I simply want to have my own family and life that i live. Yet it really does seem impossible at this time. I feel this deep rage inside and do what I can to say no and make peace. Peace within and peace with others. I no longer feel hopeless but I do feel rage and bloodthirst as he spoke in the video. I do sense a coming violence.
      edit: I sense violence coming broadly. To be absolutely clear on that.

    • @lucianraphael9527
      @lucianraphael9527 3 месяца назад +104

      @@corym.johnson7241stopped reading at Christianity. You’re coping my friend

    • @mickeyslaven
      @mickeyslaven 3 месяца назад +44

      @@corym.johnson7241 wake up before it’s too late dude. Jesus tried to warn you and you ignored him.

    • @harleyjordan7959
      @harleyjordan7959 3 месяца назад +52

      ​@corym.johnson7241 you can (and should) have an issue with organized religion. But the Christian faith is not the problem. Flawed and lost people claiming or thinking they're Christian is the problem. People show up twice a year to church and call themselves Christian even though they haven't opened a Bible or prayed outside of those two yearly visits to church.
      That said, I personally don't trust any church that has more members than my childhood hometown of 10,000. Honestly, anything that can be considered a mega church I stay away from. If you have no real chance of meeting with your pastor, then steer clear

  • @man-observing-world
    @man-observing-world 3 месяца назад +164

    As a financial speculator, the most action happens generally after extreme apathy, meaning things start to happen precisely when most people least expect.

    • @vladimirofsvalbard9477
      @vladimirofsvalbard9477 2 месяца назад +4

      @@DrSchredder Action - rioting, protests, civil unrest, insurrection, arrests, etc.

    • @Madseason6x9
      @Madseason6x9 2 месяца назад +1

      I live by that quote

    • @vladimirofsvalbard9477
      @vladimirofsvalbard9477 2 месяца назад +6

      @edder The same thing happened during the 1960s.
      Unfortunately, there are a much larger amount of factors at play this time. Including massive USD devaluation, a public health epidemic, and unsteady social safety nets.
      It will take a lot more than (public perception and a young President) to fix these issues.

    • @kevinmarshall3198
      @kevinmarshall3198 2 месяца назад

      Good point

    • @antilaw9911
      @antilaw9911 2 месяца назад

      Murphys law

  • @t.birmingham2668
    @t.birmingham2668 Месяц назад +18

    No matter what, the American oligarchy will not allow Trump to be President. So, we will probably have a major civil disturbance.

    • @jadapinkett1656
      @jadapinkett1656 Месяц назад +11

      They didn't seem to have any qualm in 2016.

    • @philguer4802
      @philguer4802 28 дней назад

      The oligarchy want Republicans tax break, not a Democratic president like Biden that support unions

    • @zachhoward9099
      @zachhoward9099 16 дней назад +1

      @@jadapinkett1656they thought he would be far more controllable then he proved to be, when he antagonized the intelligence agencies is when Russigate and all the other machinations of the legal system began to form against him in response

    • @mobmotivation6797
      @mobmotivation6797 15 дней назад +1

      @@zachhoward9099you reckon a war will Happen

    • @objectiveperspective777
      @objectiveperspective777 14 дней назад

      This is delusional. Almost everyone who watches Whatifalthist has such a narrow minded view of everything. You think the corperate entities are in favor of leftism and pro union policies? You think they are in FAVOR of Biden over Trump? Trump's greatest 'accomplishment' as president was a massive fucking tax cut for these people. He's the most successful con artist in American history.. First day in office he stacked his administration with Goldman Sachs executives while his supporters clapped like seals. It's baffling to me how gullible people are to the fraudulent two party system in this country. If a civil war happens it's a distraction to keep idiots killing eachother in the streets over Donald Quacking ass Trump while they continue to sit back in the safety of their bunkers and plot their next move to heard us into a slave state.
      If you fell for the Trump card.. Congrats.. I don't know what to tell ya. This is an idiots idea of a strong man who will come in and save the day. His history and records show the exact opposite but yall are too damn lost to ever realize it.

  • @hans8372
    @hans8372 Месяц назад +2

    When did Europe cut of immigration? As a European looking at the numbers it seems the opposite is true.

    • @gm9460
      @gm9460 6 дней назад

      I’m not sure this guy quite understands non US issues at all. He even reveals he doesn’t understand the Israel was in this video and thinks the US isn’t involved (which is pretty ignorant)