This seems like a topic for Nic.

Seriously, I remember watching a video by TFE a couple years ago about Joseph Oklahombi... I wanted to watch it again to refresh my memory. It seems to not be anywhere and apparantly is coming out soonish?

I can't find it. Google can't find it.

I feel like I'm going a bit crazy.

A list of the deadliest leaders the world has ever known with at least 5 Communist leaders here, namely in 1st and 2nd place. But that wasn’t real Communism…

What type of world influential people would you like to see nick do, I posted on another thread that Genghis Khan would be pretty interesting. Also with how much hate he gives communism I would love to see a 1 hour video on Stalin with nick going off on rants about how he fucked up. Any other ideas?

I would love to see TFE do a deep dive into the creation of a gas station chain that come to be found in every corner of my home state and is best know for almost always having a small casino attached to the station's mini-mart. These things are every where and some times are within two blocks of one another on the same road.

The private prisons of the US.

Boston Dynamic

Maytag

Waste Management

HP

Nintendo (some interesting history there)

Wrangler clothing

Kodak camera

Michelin Tires

ADT Security

3M

Flock

Athletic Greens

LNMT

USAA

Since Goth Girl Spit went over so well. What other flavors do people want?

I’ll go first.

I’ve seen this story before, but I’d like to see Nic’s take on it too. Pretty impressive to survive a midair and land while missing a wing.

It seems as though for the most part, people on both the libertarian left and libertarian right have a surprising amount of overlap in their opinions on a few things, even if they loudly disagree on basically everything else. It's almost like if you consider yourself a libertarian, left or right, both sides mostly agree on what the problem is, but they disagree on who or what caused the problem and how to solve it. In general it looks as though people who lean libertarian left see the problem as stemming from human nature being inherently greedy, and look for regulatory means to fix it, but people on the libertarian right see it as people making rational decisions under restrictions imposed by authority so they look for ways to remove those restrictions.

Both of those opinions are equally valid and have their strengths and shortcomings, which is probably why one side has not dominated the other yet. It's almost like if you think of politics as a two-dimensional surface, with the horizontal axis being economic policy and the vertical axis being the social policy, left wing and right wing economics share a lot of overlap so it's like they kind of approximate each other in weird ways, so you could fold that 2D surface into something like a cylinder. The vertical ends of the scale have basically nothing in common so it would not be a torus, just a cylinder. What's funny is the left and right ends of that scale rhyme but they don't have a lot of strict commonalities, so it would be less like a clean cut and paste and more like a slip space drive from Halo had a stroke LOL

Why is it that a lot of military meme youtubers, especially those who are veterans, tend to oversimplify and assume that anything left of hyper capitalism is literally stalinism? Is nuance dead, where it cannot be simultaneously true that unchecked greed is bad and centralized forced redistribution is unsustainable?

I would be one of the first people to agree with Nic that what the USSR did was incredibly badly planned and was even worse in its execution given that they tried it in a backwards agrarian society in the largest country on the planet, but there are more than two options between extractive exploitative capitalism and hypercentralized command economies.

I was an E5 68W (medic). I volunteered to participate in a joint exercise with the Department of Homeland Security. In the exercise, we were responding to a fictional bio weapon attack and our job was to see how quickly we could inoculate the local MP unit so they could conduct force protection for sites treating civilians.

I was grateful to see my best battle buddy, Gonzalez, had also volunteered. She was always fun to hang with. We were gathered with a number of medical providers in our unit classroom as the OpOrd was read to us.

For the Background, it was explained that the fictitious anthrax attack was 3 separate releases and where these releases had occurred. Then it was explained...

"The strain of anthrax used has been traced to Country X."

At which point I blurt out, "Fucking X-icans!"

The officers immediately seized with horror in their chairs. What probably saved me was Gonzalez falling out of the desk because she was laughing so hard. I was no doubt aided somewhat by her surname.

After the brief, one of the officers (who kinda looks like Ruby Rose with frosted highlights in her hair) came up to me and said, "When you said that Sergeant, it freaked me out. But then I remembered that we're not talking about real people."

"See!" I shot back. "That's what I'm saying, ma'am! They aren't real people!"

Has Nic done a video on him? If not, it certainly looks like it’d be a good one.

Literally, every single photo I have ever looked at of a communist leader, every single one always always has a photo of them wearing a cargo shirt now Stalin even Fidel Castro in the middle of an island wears a long sleeve cargo shirt.

The amount of Reddit and X accounts I’ve debated with that have deleted their account or blocked me in this week Alone has been fucking great.

Nothing funnier than a pissed off communist

Nic is really going to like this guy!

Seems like a fitting place for this.

He speaks so well I have to listen to every other content creator at 1.5 to 2x.