Youtube Recommendations

[FunkMonk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo&fbclid=IwAR1YBs_80I7Bc75Lmj82vWUElIvCOP-7lCV7SYLsJT3lK1oMV8JJjy0kuGU

An amazingly well done re-telling of Midway. Amateur animation extremely well presented that shows the dilemma and problems Nagumo faced the morning of June 4th.

This is really, really good - IMO.

Parts two and three are up!

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXjydKPcX60

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHO6xrSF7Sw

Extremely good stuff. I appreciate he approached this from the Japanese point of view.

[grumbler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo&fbclid=IwAR1YBs_80I7Bc75Lmj82vWUElIvCOP-7lCV7SYLsJT3lK1oMV8JJjy0kuGU

An amazingly well done re-telling of Midway. Amateur animation extremely well presented that shows the dilemma and problems Nagumo faced the morning of June 4th.

This is really, really good - IMO.

Parts two and three are up!

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXjydKPcX60

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHO6xrSF7Sw

Extremely good stuff. I appreciate he approached this from the Japanese point of view.

Yes, it is basically Shattered Sword with graphics.  The one thing that he failed to point out, though, was that the Japanese plane that spotted TF 17 wasn't supposed to get to that position for another hour (the pilot turned back early).  Without that, Nagumo wouldn't have had his dilemma.

[Syt]

In case people missed it, Atun-Shei put up a new "Checkmate, Lincolnites" about Sherman's March to the Sea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYj9CSxlGSk

[Syt]

This guy has been posting on reddit. Apparently he recently got a camera with binaural microphones and has started recording walks in Vienna. No commentary, just the ambient sounds. So far he has taken a stroll from Westbahnhof down Mariahilfer Straße (the main shopping street), a stroll around Stephansplatz/St. Stephens, and a walk from the new Hauptbahnhof and its area of new office buildings through the 4th District and its side streets. The videos are about half an hour long.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmJyklELcNBeu2p1eAZylXA

[Syt]

As Finnish came up in the Trump thread a weird flashback of my earliest exposure to Finnish. When I was a kid and we would take the bus to the next biggest town for going to the department store (later this would take me to advanced school and work), the bus would pass through Hohenlockstedt, formerly Lockstedter Lager, and past this sign:



It points the way to the memorial for the Finnish Jägers who were trained in Lockstedter Lager during WW1 and who would go on to play an important role in the Finnish fight for independence. There's an annual ceremony with a Finnish dignitary and a representative of the German military and politicians to commemorate this.

What I didn't know is that the town of Kellinghusen where I grew up also holds a memorial these days for some of the Finnish soldiers who died of disease during their training and who were buried there (in the WW1 section of the main cemetery): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po-LmdGiVD8

[jimmy olsen]

Medieval crossbow enthusiast

Had no idea you could fire one that quickly, he's getting a bolt off every 10 seconds

https://youtu.be/iIkxyjVu9gc

[The Larch]

So far he has taken a stroll from Westbahnhof down Mariahilfer Straße (the main shopping street).

That's a route I do pretty often whenever I'm in town. 

[grumbler]

In case people missed it, Atun-Shei put up a new "Checkmate, Lincolnites" about Sherman's March to the Sea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYj9CSxlGSk

Yeah, he can't hit a home run every time.  That was pretty weak sauce.

[The Larch]

I'm slightly worried/concerned that an educational Youtuber I follow (Geography Now, for anyone interested) is either developing fringe conspiracy-adjacent opinions or has always held them and is only now showing them or I'm just starting to pick them up. Normally I'd watch his videos almost inmediately upon release, but due to this I'm putting them off at the moment as it kinda brings a bad taste to my mouth. I should have never started to follow him on Twitter...

[Syt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4G7asMHqZ4

MAGA and Fascism | Renegade Cut

Is MAGA a movement based on ultra-nationalism, race-based and religion-based divisions, and an obsession with the past? If it is, then, we need to stop avoiding what that is called..

[grumbler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4G7asMHqZ4

MAGA and Fascism | Renegade Cut

Is MAGA a movement based on ultra-nationalism, race-based and religion-based divisions, and an obsession with the past? If it is, then, we need to stop avoiding what that is called..

This would be a lot more convincing if the author actually knew what fascism was, rather than creating a new definition for fascism so that he could call MAGA fascist.  MAGA is a lot of bad things, but it does not exalt the race or nation over the individual, one of the key defining ideas of fascism.  His "fascism" is what knowledgeable people call "paleoconservatism."  MAGA is very close to being paleoconservatism, except for the Imperial Presidency desires.

Vids like this are the problem, not the solution.

[Josquius]

I've seen some of his videos before. He has a pretty good handle on what fascism is.
It's important that these things aren't binaries and Trump definitely ticks a lot of the boxes.

On the topic Philosophy Tube's video was pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgwS_FMZ3nQ&t=770s

I'm slightly worried/concerned that an educational Youtuber I follow (Geography Now, for anyone interested) is either developing fringe conspiracy-adjacent opinions or has always held them and is only now showing them or I'm just starting to pick them up. Normally I'd watch his videos almost inmediately upon release, but due to this I'm putting them off at the moment as it kinda brings a bad taste to my mouth. I should have never started to follow him on Twitter...

What has he been doing?

[Razgovory]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4G7asMHqZ4

MAGA and Fascism | Renegade Cut

Is MAGA a movement based on ultra-nationalism, race-based and religion-based divisions, and an obsession with the past? If it is, then, we need to stop avoiding what that is called..

This would be a lot more convincing if the author actually knew what fascism was, rather than creating a new definition for fascism so that he could call MAGA fascist.  MAGA is a lot of bad things, but it does not exalt the race or nation over the individual, one of the key defining ideas of fascism.  His "fascism" is what knowledgeable people call "paleoconservatism."  MAGA is very close to being paleoconservatism, except for the Imperial Presidency desires.

Vids like this are the problem, not the solution.

You must have missed the part when they were calling for people to sacrifice themselves for the economy.

[The Larch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4G7asMHqZ4

MAGA and Fascism | Renegade Cut

Is MAGA a movement based on ultra-nationalism, race-based and religion-based divisions, and an obsession with the past? If it is, then, we need to stop avoiding what that is called..

This would be a lot more convincing if the author actually knew what fascism was, rather than creating a new definition for fascism so that he could call MAGA fascist.  MAGA is a lot of bad things, but it does not exalt the race or nation over the individual, one of the key defining ideas of fascism.  His "fascism" is what knowledgeable people call "paleoconservatism."  MAGA is very close to being paleoconservatism, except for the Imperial Presidency desires.

Vids like this are the problem, not the solution.

Without having watched the video, how is a movement that literally has as its motto "Make America Great Again" not exalt the nation above the individual? I've definitely seen some academics discussing Trumpism and Fascism as close enough to warrant debate and discussion.

I'm slightly worried/concerned that an educational Youtuber I follow (Geography Now, for anyone interested) is either developing fringe conspiracy-adjacent opinions or has always held them and is only now showing them or I'm just starting to pick them up. Normally I'd watch his videos almost inmediately upon release, but due to this I'm putting them off at the moment as it kinda brings a bad taste to my mouth. I should have never started to follow him on Twitter...

What has he been doing?

Hydroxicloroquine, Epstein papers, human traficking is the real issue, why is Bill Gates in the vaccine business, stuff like that. It's not as if he's ranting 24/7 about it, but he brings it up every now and then.

What kinda triggered this was his adamant defense of the "demon sperm" doctor.

[grumbler]

Without having watched the video, how is a movement that literally has as its motto "Make America Great Again" not exalt the nation above the individual?

If patriotism = fascism, then fascism is so commonplace as to be unremarkable.

I've definitely seen some academics discussing Trumpism and Fascism as close enough to warrant debate and discussion.

Sure, debate and discussion.  Not blanket condemnation as fascism on no better grounds than "they are the other side and so must be evil."

The video is the opposite of debate and discussion.