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Is Trump a fascist?

Is Trump a fascist? Will he end democracy in the United States? Will he impose an American dictatorship? Is the whole country going to crumble apart into a new dark age? With the inauguration on January 20, these are major questions whose answers are very important to this country and the entire planet, even if you think the answers are obvious. Now, I’m going to try to be as NEUTRAL, HONEST, and FACTUAL as I can be. I’m going to shed all my personal biases and look...

WhatIfAltHist is OVER

New video! Red Germany

New Script: Red Germany

The Second World War was the most decisive thing that happened in the past century. But what if it went completely differently—what if Germany went in the opposite direction after the First World War? It almost did, which I’ll talk about in a second, but really, the only plausible way for a communist revolution to succeed in Germany is if the respectable German middle-class wasn’t as scared of communism as it was in real life—so, Russia’s communist revolution would...

NEW VIDEO! Hakim Debunked

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What if America had different parties?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about a little thing called the 2024 United States Presidential Election. The fate of the republic is at stake! Crazy plot twists abound—the incumbent president dropping out, a controversial foreign war, and every single Tweet scientifically designed by the best algorithms a billionaire can buy to utterly enrage me, singlehandedly contributing to the complete degradation of my hope for this country.

But anyways, if ther...

New script! Hakim-Molotov-Ribbentrop

So, I’ve made a couple videos now on how right-wing YouTubers lie about history, so I figured it’s time to talk about how one left-wing YouTuber lies about history. Let’s talk about Hakim, specifically his video on the German-Soviet Pact before the Second World War, which has a 100 thousand views:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FRmflmnTkc

This is What Why How, and that’s wha...

The United Monarchist Party of America DISSECTED

United Monarchist Party of America

So, this is a bonus dissection of the United Monarchist Party of America’s platform for my supporters on Patreon (you).

https://www.unitedmonarchistpartyofamerica.com/

As far as I can tell, UMPA is not actually a legitimate political party in the United States. It seems to be run by one guy and it’s not especially widesp...

New video! Lavader DEBUNKED

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New Script: Lavader Debunk on Monarchy

There is a worrying trend these days: people who unironically believe we should have a king. Not just a ceremonial monarch who waves a staff around and sits still for weird paintings, but a legitimate king with actual legitimate powers.

Now, this is not a major trend, especially not in the United States of America. But in the Western World, including Europe, this strange fringe of the far-right is growing steadily in prominence. One channel that fits this description is Lavader, ...

New video! How to Become Emperor of Rome

Time Traveler's Guide to Becoming Roman Emperor

Imagine you were beamed right now back in time 2,000 years to the Roman Empire. Now, imagine you were the enterprising sort of individual and wished to become none other than Caesar Augustus, the Emperor of Rome. How would you do it? How did people become the emperor of Rome?

Well, this is What Why How, and that’s what the video’s about. If you like this sort of thing, don’t forget to like and subscribe.

Ok. It’s a warm autumn day sometime many centuries ago. You�...

President Bernie Sanders

New script: President Sanders

What if Bernie won?

No man has had more influence on American politics in the last 10 years, and not won the presidency, than Bernie Sanders. Senator Sanders of Vermont galvanized the progressive movement in the United States, popularizing policies that, today, define the Democratic Party and motivate everyone in my generation. And he did that while losing the Democratic primary for president twice.

But what if he didn’t lose? What if Sanders w...

1421 DEBUNKED with facts & logic

New script! Did China discover America? 1421 Debunked

1421

If you ever wander into a bookstore, you might just find this book: 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies.

https://archive.org/details/1421theyearchinadiscoveredamericabymenziesgavin 

Actually, newer versions of the book have a new subtitle: The Year China Discovered the World. 2024-08-17 21:23:26 +0000 UTC View Post

New video! Disunited States of America

New (Extended) Script: Disunited States of America

What if America never unified?

Today, America is the strongest country in the world. But this wasn’t inevitable. While people like to talk about the risk of the Civil War permanently dividing the union, a comparable time of crisis occurred in the late 1700s, after the Thirteen Colonies first got their independence from Britain.

Back then, the nascent Union was seriously vulnerable. The federal government, ordered not by the Constitution but by the weak Articles ...

Native America

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New script! Native America

What if the Native Americans won?

Today, Native Americans make up less than 3% of the total population of the United States. They once made up the total, but after a wave of smallpox their numbers plummeted; next, Europeans colonized the shores and drove Native Americans into smaller and smaller reservations in wars of destruction.

But this wasn’t inevitable. Even in real life, across Central and South America, the denser populations of indigenous people survive...

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Script: PaxTube DEBUNKED

PaxTube is a self-described “Catholic YouTuber and social critic” with about 100,000 subscribers. His first video up on YouTube is “Why the US is NOT a nation of immigrants” followed promptly by “Why People Like Anime Girls.” His most popular video, with 2.5 million views—so, much bigger than Zoomer Historian—is “Why the Crusades Were Awesome Actually.” What a great first impression.

But if you dig a little deeper – like look up the g...

The Next 25 Years! - Preview

Bonus Vid: Hate Comments

Edit: DELETED by YouTube, up for my Patrons!

Full Script: 2024 - 2099

Future History of the 21st Century

So, about a month ago I made a video roasting political scientist George Friedman for his zany geopolitical predictions of the coming century, which include Turkey, Japan, and Poland becoming great powers. A bunch of people requested I make my own predictions. So, here it is: this is What Why How, and that’s what the video’s about.

If you like this sort of thing, why not subscribe?

Okay, so I’m not as accomplished...