Ever since I discovered Hardcore History I really appreciated Dan Carlin's take on both history and current events through his podcasts. Recently however, on his Common Sense podcast, Dan let loose a TDS rant that I didn't think was possible for someone I generally considered fairly moderate. In retrospect, he was a journalist at one point, and so probably leans to the left and things rather highly of the news, which we know to be full of bullshit now, especially when it comes to Trump.
His main argument seemed to be that Trump is a populist and authoritarian, and likens him to other historical figures who either were warnings, or the cause of, internal unrest (think Caesar or Hitler). He also made note that he trusted Biden more with nuclear launch codes than Trump, conveniently leaving out all the good Trump has done in the foreign policy realm that has actually de-escalated tensions around the world with some pretty trigger-happy countries.
What really gets me is that he completely left out all the things the Dems, and by extension the left, have done to destabilize and radicalize the populace and all the violence that, while yes is occurring under Trump's administration, is being caused by leftists and not right wingers.
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"'Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 60, The Celtic Holocaust' 929K views 3 years ago.
"Julius Caesar is our travel guide as he takes us through his murderous subjugation of the native Celtic tribal peoples of ancient ..."
Are you truly incapable of seeing the Marxism seeping from every word, aside from the timestamp and view count?
Let's start with definitions. The Holocaust/Shoah is called that not because Germany defeated Poland and invaded western Russia. The Jews in the Polish Army who died fighting Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia are not part of the Holocaust. The millions who were starved and shot in the KZs are. A military defeat can be humiliating, frustrating, etc., but it's not until you go on to slaughter the women and children that it becomes genocide. Even the Diaspora, Rome's expulsion of the Jews and elimination of the Kingdom of Judea, isn't a genocide.
Likewise, the Romans didn't do anything to the Gauls that the Gauls weren't doing to themselves. The Gauls took slaves as war captives. So did the Romans. Also, Rome moved into Gaul when friendly (which usually meant, more civilized) Gallic tribes were under attack from more primitive and aggressive Gallic tribes, who themselves were being pushed west by the even more aggressive incoming Germanic tribes.
Is Carlin a Marxist? He probably doesn't think of himself as one. He just uses this language he hears all the time to "speak truth to power," even though he's completely ignorant as to who has been taking victory laps in America for the last 50 years.