atomic bomb live version :eyes:

Rewatching your content and realised I'd love to see you do a video on Dick Cheney.

S. R.

I came here to first and foremost say thank you for putting so much effort into the full systematic breakdown , not only in your last vid, but throughout them all. Secondly I'd like to request a topic inspired by the Lions led by Donkeys podcast. The Wehrmacht and /or operation unthinkable. When I heard about these subject I was was shocked into stunned silence similar to how I felt about your most recent video. Please consider covering this/these in the future, and defiantly listen to that podcast as well. Happy 2021, you're amazing.

Samuel Cain

The part about US deciding to target Japan and not Germany in 1943 due to racism is a bit shaky. The main concern at the time was that the bomb wouldn't go off and Germans would be able to use a dud to advance their own nuclear weapons program. See here: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/10/04/atomic-bomb-used-nazi-germany/ Great video nonetheless!

A stealth PragerU response is any video dealing with reality.

Regarding the so-called "Patriarchy Paradox" used as the title of the lecture, it was founded on some pretty shaky grounds. From what I can see, in its labeling of individual countries as progressive or traditional on gender issues, it pretty much just looked at on-the-books laws and other surface-level markers of progressivism, while completely failing to take into account historical and deeply rooted cultural factors that can influence the socialization of children into certain gender roles. For instance, most would regard the Nordic countries as progressive in regards to social issues, but many people don't realize that many of those countries were very late to the women's rights movement, and in fact, women in Switzerland only received the right to vote in the Federal election in 1971. So to do a bs, surface-level analysis, and when your results from that analysis seem contradictory and paradoxical, to, instead of considering that maybe you made a methodological error or two at some point, argue that you've in fact uncovered some new paradox that shows that when you try to remove people from their true, biologically ingrained nature by "inforcing equality" it causes people to "bounce back" and adhere more closely to classical gender roles is, worth questioning, I would say. I would also consider looking at the authors of the study with a more critical eye for so hastily jumping to that conclusion. Now, I would not be so bold as to assume that the results are certainly incorrect, only that the study was not well conducted, and that it should be reattempted with improved methodology. But, if we're being honest, what's more likely, the freaking Patriarchy Paradox, or that they screwed up and needed to look more closely at the cultures of the countries included in the study to get a better sense of historical gender norms in those countries before giving them a progressiveness score?

A Goblin

Regarding your next video, something in the same vein as your CGP Grey response video about the monarchy, or your one on why privatization fails, using the British Rail as an example, would be fun, I think.

A Goblin

‘Stealth PragerU response video’. 😂😂

Me too.

This video made me join your Patreon

Rado

Amazing video, wonderfully researched!

Aaron Bono

Tremendous amount of work and excellent structuration IMHO. So glad you posted, such a genuine milestone in the end of that bloody but still utterly interesting year. As I mentioned the USSR/ Japan relationship in 1941 and even after is pretty interesting. The Japanese were not keen on attacking Siberia after their defeat a couple of years ago. And no Japan never took anything from the USSR in 1941, everything goes back to WW1 and even pre WW1, you know Port Arthur, Tsushima, Russian complete fail, that kind of stuff. Super minor though

Raphael Dordeins

It'd be nice to hear some more media criticism stuff that isn't necessarily political. Didn't you write some thesis or something on that Irish author who's name escapes me. The one who wrote the sexy letters. If you have any musings on art and literature I'd lap it up

Sasha Rose Blatchley Hansen

For short projects how about a response to the video that got the Eton teacher fired? It was about sexim and from what I have heard perpetuates a lot of false myths about feminism.

At 1:56:00 you say "should've went public" but I think the 'correct' phrasing is 'should've gone public.' I think it's very balanced and I particularly enjoy sensing the kind of dull panic of everyone involved after they realised they might have done something really wrong, or at least deciding that they need to alter the story to avoid some really intense questions.

Walkersward (Adam)

I'll 2nd this request!

Henry R. Seymour

having name tags under pictures when you present people for the first time would be super helpful if there are no subtitles. especially for people like me with auditory processing issues. very well researched and informative video otherwise <3

Theodore Stagnum

Small project on puppies

Corran MacCorran