Radio War Nerd EP #355 — Ottoman Empire's End (Part 1), feat. Ryan Gingeras

It depends on whether such resentments are politically useful or not. Korea continues to stoke resentments about Japanese atrocities going back centuries because it's a good way to rile people up (and it's also something that the North and South can have in common). Nobody cared about the Jews who died in the Holocaust and the victims only wanted to move on with their lives, until it became a useful talking point for Zionists. Then the loudest and most militant voices shrieking about the Holocaust were people who never lost anyone in the camps, and who immediately aided and abetted the ratlines helping Nazi war criminals flee prosecution, and who have created the world's largest concentration camp for Israel's captive Arab population. But I also don't think that the colonial oppressors have forgotten. Quite the contrary; if you pay attention to racist rhetoric, a lot of it boils down to "We've got to kill them off before they do to us what we did to them." And there's a lot of absurd, illogical personal resentment there, too. Dolan always likes to quote this Irish story, something like: An Englishman and an Irishman are fighting in some battle, and the Englishman skewers the Irishman with his bayonet. As the Irishman dies, he gasps out, "Why do you hate us so much anyway?" and the Englishman leans in and whispers, "We'll never forgive you for what we've done to you." Psychology is weird. I don't know if there's much of a lesson to be learned at all, except that people will exploit whatever's politically useful and ignore the rest.

Welcome to the Turkic worldview, whereby everyone from Slovenians to Xinjiang Muslims are considered Turkish: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_peoples

Well, Chapo Trap House are just kids. Ames and Dolan already did tons of projects before RWN. I don't know how wide an audience the eXile ever got, but the global elite paid attention to their journalism (like that time Ames's article about the Ambani brothers was used to sparked massive riots in India), and Putin did ultimately shut them down. Not sure what Ames and Dolan's financial situations are like, but they're already way more accomplished and notorious than the Chapo boys, for whatever that's worth. Like, Chapo just makes fun of wretched journalists, academics, and op-ed writers. Ames (or his associates) threw horse sperm pies into their faces.

aw be nice. he doesn’t have the essential Kermit the Frog characteristics that make Peterson so goofy