There is also generally a difference in both attitude and belief even if the religion is roughly the same. Hell, you can even see it in the data with the fact that Protestants were still more Red than Catholics.
And I am all for it. Even if he has his misses (motions at Cybertruck)
New rules: Doomers are either enemy infiltrators or internal saboteurs. No other options, and treat them as such.
They got absolutely plastered by Hispanics as well. Almost a 50-50 split, and Trump outright won Hispanic Men. They were down in everything...except Black Women and College-Educated White Women. Literally the DEI demographics. So you can guess what will be on the chopping block in short order.
Love our geniuses, we must protect them. They will be what gives the US its next golden age.
Moreover, I think Trump's victory was just too vast. They need to have at least the air of legitimacy around them as they do their things, and they may have tried to pull it off if it was another case of an EC win but PV loss. But with Trump not only winning the EC, not only running the table and winning every single swing state, but also running up the numbers in Blue states and winning a healthy advantage on the PV, they cant pull it off. It would be a bridge too far. Their credibility is already shot as it is. The only thing they can do is pull back and try to find a new angle to come at things from, and that means Trump gets in and Kamala is politically toast.
I had already come around to it being my stance, but this just solidifies it for me. Anyone and everyone engaging in blackpilling and doomerism is to be regarded as either an enemy interloper or a traitor saboteur. There is no other explanation.
And in the end, the fun part being the hard part is what will make it easier to do. Pick your favorite hype music and get to it.
Orthodox jews in NYC go more than 80% for Trump.
The fun one is he is doing this while also outperforming with Arabs/Muslims. Mostly on the grounds that while they arent super happy with his support of Israel and Jews, they do like the Abraham Accords and his commitment to trying to achieve peace in the Middle East.
It is fucking hilarious to me that the Dems threw Gov. Shapiro under the bus for the crime of "Der Juden" hoping it would help them in Michigan with Muslims, only for it to fall through and drag them down across the board.
We are very lucky they are so fucking stupid.
Moreover, there has already been a lot of reshoring taking place because a lot of companies (as well as startups) are finding out that China is nowhere near as cheap as it used to be as their financial situation worsens and their population bomb starts to materialize. Yes, you are still going to have the ultra-massive international conglomerates trying to cut their nose to spit their face and remain overseas, but the last time Trump was in office we also saw a lot of domestic startups rising up to compete with them.
Also, what the hell is it with Monarchists popping up as of late? I could venture a few guesses there...
At least from what has been the case with most of them I have seen (including Aydin and one of her cohost Aristocratic Utensil), it is because they think that democracy is a scam and something that will only ever lead to tyranny, and that an absolute monarch will take away the "chaos" of a system by making all of the choices for their citizens. And they will inevitably have the best interest of their citizens at heart since they dont have to worry about being popular enough for an election.
I dont think I have to point to the many examples in history where that is almost exactly the opposite of what actually happened. And more than that they seem to ignore that pretty much every monarch currently in Europe are the ones pushing woke and are usually wildly more woke than any government (you give King Charles unlimited power and the Brits would be begging for parliament back within the week), and ironically I have found many of them dont know history like they claim. Like when Utensil tried to make the case for an American monarchy, and made the argument that the Founding Fathers were just uppity aristocrats who lead the colonials astray and put false ideas of "freedom" into their heads, and that if they had an enemy it was Parliament and they should have appealed to the King if they felt they were being oppressed.
Pretending that, you know, we didnt try that. And that it didnt have decidedly...negative results.
But at the same time, they both lie for a living.
Spoiler: They are the same. Because as I will always state, Rome was right about actors.
Honestly, most of Aydin's video essays are worth a watch. She is really good at what she does and breaking it down, to the point I will even overlook her being an unironic Monarchist in the year of our lord 2024.
Just to help with some of it:
(The KMT? Gah, it's been a while)
You actually have it backward. The KMT were the Nationalist under Chiang Kai-shek. Mao's forces were the Red Army (shortened from "Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army", although I cant find the acronym for them).
You... MIGHT have seen instances where the Germans sided with Mao to fight the Japanese
As far as I am aware, the Germans never gave aid to the Red Army (that was almost all the Soviets doing). In fact, many of the Nazi party members who were pushing for a Chinese alliance did so on the grounds of helping the Nationalist to defeat the Red Army. To that end, they did give a surprising amount of aid to the Nationalist in the form of officer training, rifles, machine guns, and even a reasonable amount of anti-tank guns. But only ever enough to show the Chinese they were serious, since they were afraid giving too much would turn the Japanese against them.
China and American might have been allied during WW1 and best buds at the time, but by WW2 China had basically undergone... uh... SEVERAL political revolutions, so the ruling political faction really had no correlation between then and now.
The bigger problem between the US and China was more the lack of a strong central government to do anything meaningful with. Kai-shek (the "official" leader of China at the time) was generally on fairly good terms with the US, and even if he had some issues with Gen. Stilwell was still appreciative of American supplies and backup (especially in the form of the Flying Tigers when that was finally set up). However, the central government under Kai-shek controlled very little in the way of true territory, and between them the rest of the country was under the control of various warlords because, truly, there is nothing new under the sun. And many of those warlords ranged from lukewarm to America to outright hostile. IIRC, that incident you cited of the American and Chinese troops "joking" about shooting each other was actually troops from one of the warlords rather than KMT troops.
Then there's the added fun that the entire conflict between China and Japan started in, what, 1938? 1939? When was that stupid conflict on the bridge - bah, whatever. Too tired to do the research.
1937, with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.
Conversely, America would get stuck in a two-way war between Germany/China and Japan... then again, would America even be fighting Germany by this point?
It does actually cause quite the butterfly effect. Germany thought it was inevitable they would have to fight the US because of Lend Lease aid to Britain, but at the same time Hitler was always hesitant and didnt actually declare war until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and he only did that because it was obliged by treaty. So there is a solid case to be made the little cold war between the Germans and the US would continue until Hitler thought it better.
I am also skeptical about how much a Chinese/German alliance would really do to the US. Most of the Chinese leadership that mattered for overseas relations were friendly with both the Germans and the US, so they would likely try to find a way to square that circle and just not get involved. On top of that, China lacked any real ability to project power, as their navy was virtually nonexistent as was their air force. But you may see a shadow war start up in China between German and American advisors similar to any number of US vs. Soviet proxy wars in the Cold War, and perhaps even go so far as trying to fight over those warlords I mentioned previously. This does probably mean that the Red Army gets a pretty significant setback though, as they will lose out on Soviet supplies when the Germans invade and this time they are unlikely to get American supplies like they did IRL.
If I am honest though, it is probably the Japanese who get hosed in this situation. They are not going to avoid war with the US (since they considered it their destiny to fight the US), BUT their industry was only at the point it was even in 1941 because they had a lot of German advisors improve their industrial capabilities in preparation for war. In this alternate timeline, that probably doesnt happen, and Japanese industry remains notoriously inefficient to an even greater degree than we know IRL. It would still be a hard war, but there would probably be less aircraft and some ships would take longer to complete (if they complete at all), so it could change the outcome of the war and cause the collapse of Japanese forces faster than the 6 months proposed by Yamamoto (a prediction he was right almost to the dot about, by the by).
It is honestly probably one of the more interesting alternative histories that doesnt get as much looks at it because not a lot of people in the West know about the war between Japan and China (kind of like how the Pacific front itself is surprisingly sparse in pop media).
To that end, I wonder if they do anything for him in Taiwan. Considering they are the descendants of the Nationalist government who would have worked with him.
Right now, flipping around between Company of Heroes 3, Railroader, Anno 1800, and WARNO. Although I am about to give another shot to Terminator Dark Fate: Defiance. It just takes some getting used to because it plays very differently than a lot of RTS games out there. I may also go an actually finish Last Train Home since I was so close to Vladivostok when I fell off of playing it.
Yeah, they did. At least from the things I remember reading, there was actually a pretty heavy split in the Nazi leadership over if they should side with China or Japan (to the point they were actively arming and training both sides before 1939). A lot of the pro-China ones wanted to do it because they felt it was an ancient nation of strong people that would fit greatly with their beliefs around Aryanism, as well as many of them being drawn to Chinese Legalism thought. But Hitler and his pro-Japan faction knew that China was also on friendly relations with the US, and they had long since realized they would need to go to war with America at some point and so wanted the "also growing hostile to America" Japan as an ally.
The first reports of the Rape of Nanking, came from the victims who fled the city, and Japanese officers who admitted that they had lost all control of their own men, and were unable to restore order.
The Nazi German ambassador also had reports, since he was there trying to get closer ties with the Chinese and used his power as an ambassador to shelter as many people as he could stuff into his quarters.
You know you done fucked up when a Nazi is writing to Hitler telling him to break off relations with the Japanese because [paraphrased] "It would be a stain on our reputation to be associated with such barbarians."
Also worth pointing out that the researchers went in with a bias and wanting the answer of "They hate sexy video game characters", and then had to torture the hell out of the data just to even get this result. If you actually read the study, it turns out that they just put words in a lot of their mouths of "Well, it is just because they think it is feminine to be sexy and they are being drawn to the feminine representation." And of course, saying this is more proof you must change media.
I don't agree and my example is the problem. That tribe has been doing that for as long as anyone in their tribe can remember.
I wasnt speaking in the case of that tribe specifically, and I would argue it continues only because they dont really have any solid contact with outsiders that test their way of life through direct means like you would have seen among tribes on continental masses (where constant fighting means only the strong survive). The same I would argue applies to Native Americans, just because of how spread out they were from each other.
I feel the need to interject on this because yes the Vikings made steel. Shit steel.
To be fair, I wasnt trying to imply it was some sort of extremely high-quality steel. Just that when they were going up against the various Anglo-Saxon and Celtic kingdoms of the British Isles even their shitty steel was better than their crude iron. But there is a reason the Vikings struggled more against the French (as well as their better fortifications) and why the Vikings who took on French methods (the Normans) became the ultimate winners.
Traditions may solve problems, or they could be completely wrong.
And you can usually tell which was which because the ones with traditions that solved a problem usually became extremely powerful.
For two I know off the top of my head, the Jews cleaning rituals compared to most Medieval Christians kept lice at bay, which is why there is a random dead zone in Poland where there were minimal deaths to the Black Plague (which was spread by lice). And the Vikings had a tradition of taking the ash of their ancestors when they were burned on a pyre and adding the ash to their weapon so that they could carry their ancestors into battle. Ash is carbon. Congratulations, you just reinvented steel when everyone else is using iron.
Another thing that I feel gets left out with France in 1940 is how much they had deliberately nerfed their own army for political reasons between the World Wars. Mostly because France was in a politically unstable situation for pretty much the entire inter-war period, and many of their Leftist governments were more concerned about a coup by their own military than German aggression (as they felt their military officers were too conservative, monarchist, and Catholic). This is a large part of the reason they favored the Maginot Line, since a static defense cant march on Paris.
Hell, they almost got rid of all of their tanks (and some called for getting rid of the entire army itself) because some unknown general named Charles De Gaulle wrote a paper about doctrine for tank warfare calling for a professional instead of conscript army, and calling for dedicated armored divisions as the tank was such that it could set the pace of battle through shock and the power of the attack (as well as combined arms with air force units). He was crushed down on by army officials who told him they would absolutely not publish his paper, De Gaulle went and did it privately, and a French Socialist minister found his book and used it as proof that the French army clearly had ulterior motives to create an army loyal to French officers and sweep a new Napoleon into power by overthrowing the Socialist government.
What is more shocking is that the British were blindsided by this rather than the idea that the French army would collapse under such circumstances.
Having watch the video, it is a quote from some Japanese people who watched one of their previous videos talking about the problems of these third-world immigrants coming to Japan, but the Japanese government deciding to ignore it. So Japanese people were asking why these foreigners seem to care more about them than their own government.
Surely it is not that easy. Surely it is because he is going to offer some sort of extreme concessions to them and prop up dictators. That is what I was told by the policy geniuses after all.
And you know damn well if Russia and Ukraine reach some sort of ceasefire, they are just going to use it as proof that Trump is a Putin stooge, even though that is still a massive lose of face for Putin.