When Alt-History Goes Off the Rails, Whatifalthist
9,768The side that wins is the one that wants it the most -- source; trust me bro.
This meandering 30-minute video attempt at theorycrafting a second American Civil War has about 5 minutes of actual interesting content, 2 minutes of ads and 23 minutes of a strange man's weird ideas about politics. I was losing my mind throughout all of this video.
This is my first ever video like this that I've done, it was recorded and edited in one day. I'll inevitably have made some mistakes, and I've had to leave out things for time. I'd love to address everything while citing actual journals and articles, but the video is just a shotgun spread of bad takes that need addressing and I have a dissertation to write. I also know the guy has many nuclear-level takes in other videos but making a response to each of his videos as he keeps pumping out new ones would be like playing whack-a-mole, except instead of a mole coming out of the hole it's Benito Mussolini.
References:
Bush v Gore: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/25/donald-trump-rigged-election-bush-gore-florida-voter-fraud
Haymarket Affair: https://www.britannica.com/event/Haymarket-Affair
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/eight-hour-day-movement
Night of the Long Knives: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/night-of-the-long-knives
Cuban Revolution: https://www.britannica.com/event/Cuban-Revolution (I'd also like to recommend the Blowback Podcast if you want to hear more about Cuban history.)
Battle of Blair Mountain: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/battle-blair-mountain-largest-labor-uprising-american-history-180978520/
Whatifalthist's Bad History:
He doesn't understand Africa: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/ma9sus/whatifalthist_claims_precolonial_africa_had_no/
He doesn't understand "The West": https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/wk4m1u/is_western_civilization_commiting_suicide/
He doesn't understand Democracy & Ancient Civilizations, Part One:
https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/rqky7n/minoans_dorians_and_greeks_oh_my_whatifalthists/
Part Two: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/rtaltu/you_really_cant_have_a_democracy_based_upon/
He doesn't understand that MLK actually was shot: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/u0hnn9/the_existence_of_gandhi_and_martin_luther_king_is/
He doesn't understand Latin America: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/rnkhms/whatifalthist_assures_us_that_latin_america_is_a/
The original video: https://youtu.be/5JDLrSRROC8
#civilwar #history
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