listening to people like that , that think that your interpretation of history is something to brag about. Go read a history book , a real one. Not fiction that is written by the USA
Okay, let's do this. I'm going to take a shot every time you said 'That' in your first sentence, then we'll get started. For real though, you should learn how to redistribute some grammar skills if you're gonna talk smack on the internet. Anyways, if you have a problem with my interpretation of history, let's see how USSR leadership interprets history. “I want to tell you, from the Russian point of view, what the President and the United States have done to win the war. The most important things in this war are machines. The United States has proven that it can turn out from 8,000 to 10,000 airplanes per month. Russia can only turn out, at most, 3,000 airplanes a month. England turns out 3,000 to 3,500, which are principally heavy bombers. The United States, therefore, is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines, through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.” - Stalin "The American contribution was decisive for the Soviet Union in its struggle against Nazi Germany. Lend-Lease provided us with such things as aluminum for aircraft, ammunition, and other strategic materials. We could not have produced them ourselves. Without American trucks, we wouldn't have had anything to pull our artillery with." - Stalin "If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me." - Nikita Khrushchev "The United States provided invaluable assistance to the Soviet Union through the Lend-Lease program. This aid strengthened our military capabilities and helped us withstand the brutal onslaught of the Nazi war machine." - Nikita Khrushchev "People say that the allies didn't help us. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. And how much steel! Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? And now they are saying that we had plenty of everything on our own." - Georgy Zhukov "The Lend-Lease program played a significant role in the Soviet Union's victory. American trucks, tanks, and aircraft were essential for our military operations on the Eastern Front." - Georgy Zhukov "The Soviet Union will never forget the help received from the United States under the Lend-Lease Act. This aid was crucial in our fight against fascism." - Vyacheslav Molotov I would love to hear about communist exports. I'm not super well-versed on that topic, but last time I checked, I think their biggest export was refugees. But please fill me in! Furthermore, if you have a problem with American history being fictional, why associate with America at all? Why be on an American social media platform that you access through the internet (another American invention) with your smartphone (another American invention) or your PC (another American invention), all of which run on AC electricity made practical by Nikola Tesla when he was in America?
A bottle of Tide laundry detergent is $46 USD in Cuba. Fuck I grew up in south Florida. All I need is one of my 2 yachts to bring 300 bottles of tide to Cuba for $15 a bottle and holy shit I just ruined communist Cuba and made a fortune doing it. I’ll go deeper. As a mid 30 year old american why do I have DOZENS of Cuban females in their early 20’s trying to get me to marry them so they can leave Cuba? Because communism is crack cocaine for heroin addicts. They don’t want it!
With social democracy you do not have any breadlines. Either extremes are shitty to far on government control or to far with privatization. Balancing the two is the best system.
@@hatlessatlas communism sucks but so does capitalism, there needs to be a balance betwean both but what The Fat Electrician is talking about is nonsense, acting like the us is a saint is just wrong, it was just buisness for them to supply the soviets, they wouldt have done it if they knew they wouldn't get anything back in the end, thats why the us and other country's are supporting now ukraine, they will get all that money back IF ukraine wins this war but since it looks like ukraine will lose in the long run now the NATO members need to get in or the will lose all of that money and equipment they gave away in the end its just money and not the care for ''democracy''
I mean the commie simps are right, it's not 'REAL' communism, but Nic's right too...we will NEVER have 'real' communism because humans keep getting involved.
Seriously! It’s actually a very accurate simile. It only works well with a non busy road while it it was supposed to be for a busy road, car crashes and road blockages would be common
Im totally gonna steal that line. Where i live they love replacing every single god damn road with a roundabout so i need a better way to describe my hate for roundabouts
I love that quote about halfway through, “My sons could grow up and be gay all they want, but if they grow up to simp over the USSR, I will have failed as a father.”
Yes! It's about being reasonable, rational, and sensible people. Gay folks, trans folks, they're just trying to live their lives and be free, and they aren't trying to hurt nor control people. But there are definitely people out there that are trying to control and oppress, and they must be resisted. Remember, even simple things we take for grant today like worker's rights, social liberty, and women's suffrage, were won using blood and tears, and if we are not careful, we will lose them again.
My wife and I actually met in the 9th grade after I was sent out in the hall for incessantly talking shit to my friends during our reading of "Animal Farm". She was sent out for different reasons, but when she came out, I was still fired up about how stupid Communism was in practice, and she seemed willing to listen, so she was unfortunately subjected to my unhinged Ted Talk as our first 1-on-1 interaction. Anyway, we've been happily married for 10 years. Love that woman lmao I would happily buy Fat Electrician a glass of TX Whiskey and talk shit about Communism for hours. Keep fighting the good fight, brother!
Honestly, im pretty well convinced that if your passionate enough about something you can convince a woman about just about anything. In high school i almost got a emo/hippie chick i was dating to think like me, pretty much like these guys. She eventually dumped me and doubled down on being a hippie.
Depends on the college. Big name brand ivy-league stuff, yeah, scam. Smaller operations that don't break the bank (or at least not as hard), and offer similar as well as more grounded real-world based degrees, might actually be worth your time or necessary depending on job occupation. Nick would certainly be part of the history dept, if not leading it, at the latter.
Anyone can go to college for free. There are billions of dollars in grants and scholarships available. All you have to do is apply for them. I was getting $16,000 a semester in grants and scholarships on top of my GI bill. Books and tuition averaged around $2,300 a semester. No one should leave college in debt… just do the paperwork.
@@LilSebastian_ depends on your state, college, income, family's income, major, disability status, amount of children/dependents, your sex, race, your grades, SAT scores, ACT scores etc. Went through that headache for over a year working with multiple people trying to get some funds from a grant or scholarship to help cover tuition. Most I got was 1k for books, and 500 for tuition for 1 semester. Yes, there are resources out their but an absolutist statement such as "Anyone can go to college for free" is ridiculously disingenuous to say it just takes doing some paper work. Often times you also need to be incredibly lucky to fall into a niche select group of people that qualify for a grant and even then you still have beat out other applicants.
2:25 as a Cuban, I'm glad he brough this up, because this take from people drives me mad. I mean yeah, Cuba is suffering because America has an embargo on them. But why is that embargo there? Because Cuba sided with the USSR in the cold war. But by all means, Cuba was doing GREAT before that. As in, when America (capitalism) was giving Cuba aid, it was amazing! And then as soon as that aid was cut off and they had to rely on raw communism, oh look! Fidel Castro (the communist regime leader) has killed almost 10 million people! And that's only the ones we know for a fact were killed by him! My grandfather isn't counted towards that, he (crippled, not able to move on his own) just got up and left in the middle of the night! Oh look, our currency is worthless and our economy is in shambles! Well, it's capitalism's fault for not giving us free shit! I have not met a Cuban who will say communism is great. Most of us are cursing the communist regime. But hey, all these rich American kids tell us the we have it great and we're so lucky that we don't have to deal with capitalism! Because they have it so bad over there! If you're turning down cheap food because you don't like their politics, ranting about the price of your two bedroom home with reliable water and electricity, being mad that some police officer on the other side of the country shot someone you didn't know the name of before it hit the news, and crying over how unfair having to pay for your college education is, your opinion on social structures is invalid. I'm sorry. Rant over, Nick can feel free to use this testimony from someone who's lived under communism their whole life as evidence next time he gets into an argument about this :)
Tis a shame ya need a lot more likes on your comment here most definitely. When i was a young teen i was all for communism but i didn't really know what i was talking about, talked to my immigrant father who went thru the life living in the USSR and or did more research over time made me realize its not what it seems. I mean that human greed is never going to allow the "actual communism" to happen its a nice idea but in practice always fails. But yeah sorry lil rant but yeah a lotta blindness and distractions in America whole lotta stuff to complain about that doesn't amount to much when compaired to the hardships others have had to live thru. Another lil rant sorry. I hope your in a better place if your not i hope ya survive! Not trying to say anything offensive trying to say something positive but im unsure on what to exactly say.
@patwick7351 Yeah, I think the big thing is that no research can teach you how bad it really is because most of what happens to us is off the books. Cuba never reported on its starvation crisis, or how we couldn't get enough water to bathe, or any number of "small" problems. So, to an outsider, it looks like communism is a pretty great system apart from the people at the top. But those of us who've lived it know that's far from the truth.
Capitalism isn't the best, but when you compare it to communism, it's like platinum compared to dirt. I'll also reiterate what a lot of people who understand the crux of communism and don't actually simp for it as much; communism, on paper, is a great idea. In practice, it sucks more rock salt than a sea slug. To prove why this is a fact; the helicopter, on paper, cannot work. Mathematically and pure physics equations, it doesn't work. In reality, it does. Just because it's been written doesn't make it factual on any level.
Ran into that delusion a couple years back, the dude had just entered university in communist Czechoslovakia, in 1989/90. Apparently his family was favorably by the Party. He now lives in Central American and owns a hotel that caters to tourists. He has hotel staff/servants to wait on him and lives a very comfortable life. However, he claims Communism was a paradise and a much better system than Capitalism. He never had to actually work in the communist system as he was a student.
I wish that Communism could work in the real world. Main issue is that Humans are involved and Humans are selfish, dumb, assholes. Yeah Capitalism is the best we got for now. It has its issues but it handles humans really well.
@@warbacca1017 In no small part to the fact that the options were step down or die, and that's how it worked until Julius Caesar became to powerful and was assassinated, and then his adopted son (Now known as Caesar Augustus) riled up the people that supported Julius Caesar and started a civil war.
I would absolutely pay to have Nick make a 30 minute or 40 minute long video of every single example of communism that has ever existed in human history, why it failed, why it sucked, and why it will never work in the world today. If we had a 45-minute long video, fueled by hatred and logic, that could be sent to every procomy, that would shut down every conceivable argument they could ever make, that would be one of the most valuable assets to everyone on a college campus, or in high school, in the entire country. It would even be valuable to people outside the US. That would be the greatest contribution to mankind this year.
Fat electrician talking about the t34 like Lazerpig said, “The t34 isn’t an inexpensive tank produced in large quantity. The t34 was an expensive tank produced cheaply.”
My favorite thing the United States gave to the USSR during lend-lease was a tire plant. Not as in "they built it in Russia" as in, "in an unholy feat of logistics only we could pull off, the USA physically lifted and transported a Ford Tire Plant from River Rouge to the USSR". And then twenty years later the CIA wrote an entire report dunking on the Soviet tire industry where they noted the most advanced tire plant in Russia at the time was the same fucking one they gave to the Soviets during WWII. Like twenty years later the Soviets were poking around this Tire Plant like it was lost technology from a precursor civilization they couldn't replicate but which was still critical to the functioning of their economy. It's CIA-RDP62S00346A000100210003-1 if you're interested in reading it.
As a Canadian I've never heard about this, and found the CIA article you left up... are you kidding me?!?! 🤣🤣🤣 and to be fair their probably still using the same plant to this day ☠️
@@thedabblingwarlockThe Soviets LOVED those things. The 37mm wasn't great against other fighters, but the .50 cals were more than enough to punch through what little armor German fighters had and they were both absolute monsters at low altitude.
@@griffinfaulkner3514 .50 cals were also notorious fire-starters against aircraft. Especially Japanese planes, many of which carried positively HUGE fuel tanks in the wings.
I LOVE how much he hates communism. This is the best way possible to keep people informed because he makes it funny and entertaining. You are the hero of the internet we didn't even know we needed!
Two thirds of Russia's entire population after the War were Women. Russia lost so many men after the War that they still, to this day, never fully recovered, with Women still significantly out-numbering men, causing a frickin' cliff-dive in birthrate that hasn't gotten any better since the War. Yeah I'd agree in saying Russia's "Victory" was very much a Phyrric one..
Funny and wholesome. I used to carry my little sister on Black Ops and let her take all the credit, but over time she's transformed into an FPS prodigy while I was stressing about work and growing rusty. Now I'm afraid to face the monster I have created.
Yeah as a Cuban i hate when people bring Cuba as a communist eutopia. Like my brother have you see the amount of Cubans that live in Miami there is a reason for that.
6:46 - This is the biggest point right here. I get so sick of people crying about how capitalism supposedly always creates a rich minority and everyone else ends up as wage slaves. That’s a stupid and overly-simplistic statement in general, but on top of that, look at any economic system or social structure, and you will ALWAYS find the assholes who are born into wealth and power, or figure out how to exploit others, and then act like they’re better than everyone else. That’s not a capitalism problem, that’s a humanity problem. Humans sometimes just suck, and there’s no avoiding that.
It's not even Capitalism's fault we ended up this way with National Debt on top of that. Blame Woodrow Wilson. He signed the Federal Reserve Act in 1912, and that bank has been run by a Private Bank Cartel for more than a century at this point. If Congress wanted to, they could print debt free money. But they don't, cause the bank has them by the balls.
I think the biggest difference is that we as westerners all agree capitalism isn't perfect and that it takes effort and constant vigilance to make it work right because we as humans are flawed. Communist sympathizers, on the other hand, think communism is perfect in every way, despite all the historical evidence to the contrary.
Exactly, it's the reason why all utopian ideologies are dangerous and idiotic. They all fail to acknowledge that human nature won't allow a truly flawless society to ever exist.
The irony is that this actually is exacerbated in communism. They claim to make everyone equal but really they just make 99% of people peasants while all wealth is concentrated at the top. At least in capitalism you have a means to work your way up. How many billions of dollars was Fidel worth when he died? 20? It's all just a scam to steal wealth.
The thing is about them is sure you have shitty drivers that have no idea how to use them. But that's the same with everything, people just generally don't know how to drive which is the problem.
And 4 way stops are fucking amazing, never saw one until I got to America and it’s a beautiful thing. It’s like a roundabout but on the cheap cheap. “We need something to control the flow of traffic, but the space or budget is too small for a roundabout.” Is the thought process in my head… HUTH THEN SOMEONE FUCKS IT UP. Literally stop and wait your turn but someone always fucks it up and almost causes an accident then we all have to deal with it.
As a brit, no roundabouts are just the best, they keep traffic constantly moving, if your not a dumb ass and don't know how to drive a roundabout. Also what's next Free health care (a human right in most countries) is that communism?
Patton was kind of a terrible person when it came to Government overreach. Remember what he did with the Hoovervilles before WWII? Think Nick even touched on it in a video.
Liberty doll just did a peace about the Bonus Army in the early 30s. Bunch of WW1 veterans came to Washington to protest they needed the money and care they were promised. Both General Patton and MacArthur commanded troops and tanks to drive them out of DC. That is the reason for the National Firearms Act.
As a person who studies economics I can not express how good it feels Nick stating the practical failures of Marxist ideology and as a addendum even the theoretical aspects of Marxism are demonstrably untrue.
He does great in admitting that ON PAPER communism is great, but when applied it never works, never has worked, and will only work when scarcity is zero for a long enough period of time for the warlords to die or be killed off (a.k.a. maybe in a few millennia.)
@@ilovejettrooper5922 You can only give other people's money to people who don't earn money at all, for so long, until you run out of everyone's money to give... At that point, the only alternative is print money... And there's an entire second global war that started, and printing money and the effects of printing that money, helped start that whole thing... That and a huge not so very happy, very sad time for everyone on earth because money was scarce. Thanks to printing oodles of money for no reason than to hand it off to other people.
Now why does that sound SO familiar right now? Feels like deja vu... Huh... Ah well, I'm sure there's nothing to see here folks! Back to watching the Super Bowl, or whatever it is that we serfs enjoy!
Lets talk about how they manufactured "more tanks." They were able to do this for two reasons: one, factory 183 was MASSIVE. The more critical point though to this is that two: they produced those tanks incredibly quickly not because they were efficient and refined...but because they took MASSIVE shortcuts to get them built quickly, like just leaving important components like sights, seals, lights, not heat treating internal components, and in general just making the worst examples of those tanks that they could so they could save time and meet quota. So as a result, their tanks and crew died in equally MASSIVE numbers. Roundabouts cause problems when every mfer thinks that THEY have the right of way.
Another fact to consider is that the US fully intended to build just as many Shermans as the USSR built T-34s, but had to divert steel to build a metric fuckton of ships, from the simple Liberty ships that brought supplies all over the world, to the dozens of aircraft carriers that were the spearhead of the war in the pacific.
from what i heard: heat treated armor in higher temperature than it should be and armor is too hard and brittle it lowers the survival rate, skimmed on heat treating things that are not armor including engine shaft.
@@kerededyhPeople harp on about the tanks thing but America built the 2nd most tanks while simultaneously building the world's largest airforce, the largest navy, and splitting the atom all the while fighting a war on literal opposite sides of the planet. So I don't dwell on it.
USSR sucked. But to be fair, in average the quality of life was better in USSR Russia compared to Czarist Russia. No freedoms in either, but less food insecurity in the Communist one over all (until around the 1970's). Not sure how Ukraine was prior to USSR (definitely not grate in the USSR with the Holdemore, or for the Crimean Tartars, etc). Though that is basically the story of Russia. Little bit of improvement in quality of living, then "have you met our new invention the Oprichnik". The USSR, the workers paradise, where strikes are met with worse crackdowns than 1890's America.
Building tanks wasn't really a big sign of prestige back in WWII. Like it kind of was, but at the same time uh, how many ships did the USSR launch in the early 1940's? They borrowed the USS Milwaukee, gave it a dumb Russian name, it was one of their mainstay and best flag ship cruisers of the war and to this day, they still haven't built a successful aircraft carrier? Also their entire Frigate fleet consisted of US borrowed ships they renamed dumb names because they were too busy blowing up their own ingenious tanks with dogs to build any of their own. So industrious, those commies. Meanwhile in the US, freak'n Henry Kaiser and his manufacturing plants are throwing out Liberty Ships in 5 days at their peak. They're tossing out light carriers and Fletcher class destroyers in weeks. All of them sea worthy, no major f*ck ups with functionality, and while Liberty Ships were being sunk by the handful in the Atlantic, Kaiser was dumping them into the Pacific by the dozens.
Wooohooo. La Crosse! But seriously. I was on river watch. Why do drunks shamble towards the river in the middle of winter? You know there is an unsoiled ally behind Brother's right? Like go look for the backwards ball caps and frat bois. You'll find it easy.
I have friends in the RAF and I was joking with one one day about if he ever worried about Russia sending over T 95 bombers and he said no way “ no worries at all mate “ because we can hear them coming long before they show up on radar 😂
When I thought I couldn't like Fat Electrician any more; the roundabout thing is so on point. We call them "circles" in NJ and still have a few that haven't be converted to an overcomplicated mess of traffic lights. When everyone understands how they work everyone zips right through. But there's two types of people that will screw it up; the entitled Dbags that don't believe in yielding and make everyone slam on their brakes to avoid an accident and the ones that assume nobody will yield and hold everyone up waiting until there is a quarter mile gap between cars before going.
There is *one* roundabout that I know of on the east side of North Dakota. It's just *outside* Grand Forks at a three-way intersection for roads that are so rarely used I've *never* seen another car on them. And yet, somehow, I keep managing to *miss my turn.*
Or the unfortunate folks like me, who in my 30's and has never encountered a roundabout i real life ever, who pulls up and goes, "What in the fuck is this." My bad.
That is inarguably the most beautiful rant - truth - I have heard in a long time! Roundabouts - but of course! I’d be lying if I said I’d never had the same rant - but I went to college in the late ‘80s. Communism has alway sucked in my life
1987, while I was stationed in West Germany, some of our border patrol guys offered to give me a tour of the border with East Germany. We stopped along the fence line where the East Germans were building a new guard tower, at a brand new fence line. The top of the fence had barbed wire facing inside, to keep the East Germans inside East Germany. Not to keep us out. That's all you need to see to understand communism.
Roundabouts are actually a good analogy. On a small scale in the suburbs they are far superior to traffic lights. However trying to do every large intersection with dual lanes across eight exits... not a good idea. It works on the small scale, but the larger and more complicated it gets the more it breaks down.
Just to provide an example for what you said: The city in live in here in Germany has around 70k people, obviously there is a good amount of traffic that comes with that. How many roundabouts do we have? Three. And two of them are only three way roundabouts that serve their purpose pretty well, the third one is technically a 4-way roundabout, but it's placed in a lower traffic area. Roundabouts can do great as part of your street infrastructure. But you can't use them as an universal solution to all your traffic problems, because that would only make the overall traffic issue worse. There are some good and many bad spots to build them.
Holy shit, I never expected to find you here haha. Honestly, it does give me hope seeing people on opposite political spectrums enjoy each other’s content and have civilized discussions
There's 3 round abouts about 15-20 minutes from me. 1 is very small with two separate one way streets feeding into it, works amazing. 2 your normal two way road feeds into it but it's kinda outside of town so not a lot of traffic, again works amazing. And the 3rd, this post has FIVE two lanes feeding in two coming off the FKEN HIGHWAY. And one lonely one way This is 6 separate roads feeding into it, it's always a cluster fk of minivan moms big rigs clueless teen drivers and lifted pickup trucks, I fuken hate going on that roundabout
*The Fat Electrician is 100% right about roundabouts.* Instead of most people usually going fast, EVERYONE SLOWS. Most people don't know how a roundabout works, so it creates traffic buildup. Not that I blame them, because the painted lines are so poorly crafted that someone can accidentally go in circles! Gosh, I hate them so much. My city has at least five of them, and I'm a vocal opponent of every single one.
being a car guy who keeps up with stuff, I tended to be fine with them because I know how they work and how much better they are than a 4-way stop. But as Nick says, always gonna be that one dipshit who doesn't know how to use it. (especially since when learning to drive, they reference it once on a page or some shit.
In my experience, they usually work fine, HOWEVER, if you put one on a major road where most of the traffic goes in one direction, good like getting through the other way. There's one in a city where I used to live. It's on a major thoroughfare. Most traffic on it moves east-west. At peak times it's nearly impossible to get through from north-south. There's another one where they just gave up and put traffic lights in the circle. It's an unholy abomination that I hope you never see.
@@InfantryWoman I don't know where you live but my experience is the opposite, no one knows when to use the inner and outer lanes on roundabouts and it's a miracle we don't have more accidents. It is to the point that many roundabouts are getting the inner lane deleted so it's only one lane and you don't have to deal with idiots who only stay on the outside or just cross from the inner one without notice
The Soviet Union also lost more tanks than anybody else in WW2. No shit they manufactured more, they couldn't keep any of them alive to begin with. The USSR's heavy losses at the start of the war in the east also included HUGE amounts of modern up to date equipment and was largely due to absolute shit leadership and very poor organization, and because of those massive losses you can just look at the huge corners that were cut in order to hit those production goals. As built, if you got a Russian tank in WW2 it was highly likely to be a death trap even compared to early Shermans.
Shermans were leagues above the T34 in practically every way, even the Early ones. There's a REASON Soviet tankers absolutely loved the shit out of, and jealously guarded their Lend-Leased Shermans from other (T34) tankers.
They sure did put a nickel in him 😂 The best was when you think TFE is about to wind down and then says, “….and further more!” 😎🍿 A literal Clark Griswold rant 😂😂😂
Wait until he meets the commie devs, immigrants who left their post soviet country to go in London and sell their game for 40 quid financed by a businessman. Commies are a plague I swear
I know this won't be seen. My mental health lately is completely in the shitter but heads down Nick and his videos and rants and Unsub are the only reasons I haven't run face first into traffic. Thank you guys.
We see you, bro. Stand up straight, shoulders back, chin up. Now look that monster call Life in the eye and tell it to get the fuck outta the way. You got shit to do.
i was literally a half dead junkie 4 years ago. I mean oded many times and almost not brought back yea the cold long black lonely i even remember being out lol sick af couldnt get out of bed without using junkie tbh there was awhile when i thought id die that way bc i was that way for a long time. Things can always be worse but things can always be better and as long as your not in the ground their is still a fight to be had! I'm sober today and very thankful for life it's not great but it's better than being dead, Dont let the enemy win bro! Keep up the good fight.
Nick/TFE in this whole thing was only missing an exasperated "Fuckin...godamn it i need a break..." and everyones quiet for a beat before from off screen you hear "And another fuckin thing!"
John Parshall gave a great lecture comparing US, USSR, and German tank production in WW2 that can be easily found here on yt. Btw, the only reason the USSR produced more tanks is because the US realized it wouldn't need as many in late 1944-1945 and scaled pack production. They were both still over 100,000. Also, communism is awful on paper too.
I think TFE needs a blog to put his collection of collegiate diatribes on - I’d read that for sure! I’d listen to an audiobook he self narrated as well!
… and the diesel engines to go into those tanks they “built”. Lend Lease sent so much material over that that at the end of the war there was tons of materials rusting away because they weren’t used!
Nobody hates communism more than someone who escaped it. I was too young to experience communism but I lived through the aftermath. It is only many years later I realized how fucked everything was
Let's also not forget all the food, fuel, tanks, jeeps, planes, and ships the rest of the Allies gave to the USSR for the war. The USA had a ferry system where female pilots would fly newly built fighters from the factory to Washington state where they were then transferred to male pilots who would fly them to Alaska where the planes were finally handed off to Soviet pilots. One of the USSRs top scoring aces flew the P-39. Hell Russia's heavy bomber fleet didn't get a jump start until a few B-29s had to divert, and land in the USSR. Oh yeah, all of that while also fighting Imperial Japan, and Italy at the same time in addition to the Nazis as well as supplying various resistance groups, and carrying out special operations in occupied countries. "Russia built more tanks than the allies" Yeah, that's easy to do when they're all missing parts, the parts that are on the tank are garbage anyway, and the welding isn't even done right.
Lol best rant I have heard in a while. Most people do not know or undertood the implication's of operation paperclip. A real operation at the end of WW2. A recent study say's 46% of American adult's can read at an adult reading level.
Technically real communism has never been practiced on a large scale... *Because real communism is literally impossible and every nation that has tried to reach it couldn't get out of the socialism stage because you literally need to get the entire world on the same page to form the communist utopia* in the first place. However, even then it would fall apart because real communism (no hierarchies, etc.) is anarchy and anarchy leads to someone filling the new power vacuum. Most American aid didn't reach the Soviet Union until 1944. As for tanks, the T-34 was only garbage pre-1944 because they were being rushed out of the factory and often were being sent out without support. The T-34/85 was a good medium tank.
I like the fat electrician, but I kind of find it funny how he gladly cherry picks only the good stuff that came out of US history so far. Shining example is Afghanistan, Stoutly defended by this channel, some of the guys reluctantly admitting that it could have been handled a bit better. Well, lets look at the numbers shall we? The us went in to replace the Taliban with a democratic government, So after 20 years of war, and 3 TRILLION Dollars, you replaced the Taliban with....the Taliban....not much to brag about....
I can just imagine Brandon clutching his kalashnikovs and nagant’ss protectively as nick goes on his rant! He pets the ak’s telling them he won’t let the bad fat electrician man get them!😂🤣
This should be on the "Fat Files" I was in tears laughing over this. Nick needs a segment we're he dunks on communists on Twitter....the highest of comedy this would be.
The propaganda y’all have been fed. About the Soviet Union fighting against Germany is crazy. Russia didn’t help beat Germany they were the main cause of it. America just helped. America beat Japan, but only helped with Germany. Also the ussr had a great economy prior to ww2 industrialization was crazy. I’m not supporting communism but saying they just contributed and America did most of the work is crazy. Do your research in a non biast American history, read history from all the sides.
listening to people like that , that think that your interpretation of history is something to brag about. Go read a history book , a real one. Not fiction that is written by the USA
Okay, let's do this. I'm going to take a shot every time you said 'That' in your first sentence, then we'll get started. For real though, you should learn how to redistribute some grammar skills if you're gonna talk smack on the internet.
Anyways, if you have a problem with my interpretation of history, let's see how USSR leadership interprets history.
“I want to tell you, from the Russian point of view, what the President and the United States have done to win the war. The most important things in this war are machines. The United States has proven that it can turn out from 8,000 to 10,000 airplanes per month. Russia can only turn out, at most, 3,000 airplanes a month. England turns out 3,000 to 3,500, which are principally heavy bombers. The United States, therefore, is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines, through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.” - Stalin
"The American contribution was decisive for the Soviet Union in its struggle against Nazi Germany. Lend-Lease provided us with such things as aluminum for aircraft, ammunition, and other strategic materials. We could not have produced them ourselves. Without American trucks, we wouldn't have had anything to pull our artillery with." - Stalin
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me." - Nikita Khrushchev
"The United States provided invaluable assistance to the Soviet Union through the Lend-Lease program. This aid strengthened our military capabilities and helped us withstand the brutal onslaught of the Nazi war machine." - Nikita Khrushchev
"People say that the allies didn't help us. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. And how much steel! Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? And now they are saying that we had plenty of everything on our own." - Georgy Zhukov
"The Lend-Lease program played a significant role in the Soviet Union's victory. American trucks, tanks, and aircraft were essential for our military operations on the Eastern Front." - Georgy Zhukov
"The Soviet Union will never forget the help received from the United States under the Lend-Lease Act. This aid was crucial in our fight against fascism." - Vyacheslav Molotov
I would love to hear about communist exports. I'm not super well-versed on that topic, but last time I checked, I think their biggest export was refugees. But please fill me in!
Furthermore, if you have a problem with American history being fictional, why associate with America at all? Why be on an American social media platform that you access through the internet (another American invention) with your smartphone (another American invention) or your PC (another American invention), all of which run on AC electricity made practical by Nikola Tesla when he was in America?
Say "That" one more time!!
@@the_fat_electricianDamn, you just murdered that man.
holy shit dude
@@the_fat_electrician Ok just for that, the next time you're back here in Boerne I owe you a drink or twelve lol.
I could listen to Nick rail against communism all day! LOL
It is beautiful xD
HE GOT SO HEATED IN THE END IT MADE ME CRY
I'd pay to have him sent to universities Crowder style.
A bottle of Tide laundry detergent is $46 USD in Cuba.
Fuck I grew up in south Florida. All I need is one of my 2 yachts to bring 300 bottles of tide to Cuba for $15 a bottle and holy shit I just ruined communist Cuba and made a fortune doing it.
I’ll go deeper. As a mid 30 year old american why do I have DOZENS of Cuban females in their early 20’s trying to get me to marry them so they can leave Cuba?
Because communism is crack cocaine for heroin addicts. They don’t want it!
😂 only thing that could derail his rant.
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"With capitalism, you occasionally get bread lines. With communism, you occasionally get bread." -styxhexenhammer
Gotta luv Styx. 👍
I would like this comment, but at 69 likes, you've already achieved perfection.
With social democracy you do not have any breadlines. Either extremes are shitty to far on government control or to far with privatization. Balancing the two is the best system.
@@BS-vm5btwith social democracy you have no-go zones in Sweden
@@KibitoAkuya Yeah those used to be called ghettos, we have them in America too.
"If you want anticommunist propaganda, open a history book."
-The Fat Electrician
*dons helmet*
*grabs keyboard*
“BUH! But that’s not “real” communism! BUH!”
"read real history damn capitalist!"
-"pinned" down submissive communist: proceeds to get clapped with just mentioning the Lend-Lease act
@@hatlessatlas communism sucks but so does capitalism, there needs to be a balance betwean both but what The Fat Electrician is talking about is nonsense, acting like the us is a saint is just wrong, it was just buisness for them to supply the soviets, they wouldt have done it if they knew they wouldn't get anything back in the end, thats why the us and other country's are supporting now ukraine, they will get all that money back IF ukraine wins this war but since it looks like ukraine will lose in the long run now the NATO members need to get in or the will lose all of that money and equipment they gave away
in the end its just money and not the care for ''democracy''
"And if you want communist propaganda, go to an ivy league university"
@@randompotato2894 Or turn on CNN
Nick: Does a 24 hour livestream to rant about communism.
Me: "Yeah, so, im sick and cant come to work today."
That Anti-Communism rant is a thing of beauty.
I'd happily have that as a ringtone.
I would, without a shred of sarcasm, listen to Nic do an I Hate Communism segment every episode and not get tired of it
I cross my fingers every episode for tbe communism rant 😂
Yes I agree
Agreed I spent the whole time laugh my ass off at this
I would love an episode on the podcast or one of Nick's channels where he just spends the whole time destroying every every argument for communism lol
I worry that he might get tired of it though 😂 one can only rehash the same points so many times
That one uncle promising not to get political on the holidays after 3 beers
Me
Oh fucking yeah… that same uncle you love him more than your father!
That one Uncle is Uncle Sam 🇺🇲🦅🗽
Except this uncle is based.
One uncle? This is all my uncles!
Someone said “communism” and homie blacked out and had a moment 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You remember that Sam Onella Video where Ike goes wild after hearing the word, "Commie"? Yeah, that's our boy Nic.
Nic has a code word and "Communism" just floods his bloodstream with the raw power of the US
@troybaxter "yeah, go get em, boy"
@@Thehudats REEEEEEEEEEEEEE-
I think the proper term is triggered
Ukrainian here. This man is correct about communism and genocides.
I mean the commie simps are right, it's not 'REAL' communism, but Nic's right too...we will NEVER have 'real' communism because humans keep getting involved.
no hes not
shut up
@@secondoctoberseventhcommitter Red fascist found
@@kriegsmanguard7326 can't be fascist lol
"Roundabouts are the communism of road structures"
The Fat Electrician
That hot take is a work of Art.
Seriously! It’s actually a very accurate simile. It only works well with a non busy road while it it was supposed to be for a busy road, car crashes and road blockages would be common
Im totally gonna steal that line. Where i live they love replacing every single god damn road with a roundabout so i need a better way to describe my hate for roundabouts
Heart Rate Monitor: Please add an onscreen snapshot of Nic's heart rate and read him Communism simp comments.
live feed of his fitbit or we keyboard riot! - buh
It would be called Nick edges an aneurysm.
Abso-fucking-lutely.
😂😂
YES! PLEASE DO THAT!
i was just on Nic's merch site and he has a Shirt that has I "heart" Communism on it and guess its 999.99 and it only comes in small
Hahahhahahahahhaa
Add another 9 since only a rich person or an idiot would think communism is a good idea.
It'd be great if someone got a picture with him in that shirt at an upcoming event
Of course. Because communism is only good at one thing. Caloric deficits.
@@comradeeverclear4063yup Communism is great at lightening you, and your wallet.
Both of you will never be full again!
I love that quote about halfway through, “My sons could grow up and be gay all they want, but if they grow up to simp over the USSR, I will have failed as a father.”
Yes! It's about being reasonable, rational, and sensible people. Gay folks, trans folks, they're just trying to live their lives and be free, and they aren't trying to hurt nor control people. But there are definitely people out there that are trying to control and oppress, and they must be resisted. Remember, even simple things we take for grant today like worker's rights, social liberty, and women's suffrage, were won using blood and tears, and if we are not careful, we will lose them again.
I resonate with this so hard as I'm gay and hate communism.😂
@@ThinWhiteAxeRAH A true patriot right here 🫵RAH
better pink than red
This rant against communism just made me subscribe, good to know there's still a few good patriots left in America.
My wife and I actually met in the 9th grade after I was sent out in the hall for incessantly talking shit to my friends during our reading of "Animal Farm".
She was sent out for different reasons, but when she came out, I was still fired up about how stupid Communism was in practice, and she seemed willing to listen, so she was unfortunately subjected to my unhinged Ted Talk as our first 1-on-1 interaction.
Anyway, we've been happily married for 10 years. Love that woman lmao
I would happily buy Fat Electrician a glass of TX Whiskey and talk shit about Communism for hours. Keep fighting the good fight, brother!
Thats the best fucking love story I've ever heard. Many happy returns brother!!
@@MusicNinja87 United in love over hatred of red...
SOMEONE! GET THE SCRIPT WRITERS
Based.
Honestly, im pretty well convinced that if your passionate enough about something you can convince a woman about just about anything. In high school i almost got a emo/hippie chick i was dating to think like me, pretty much like these guys. She eventually dumped me and doubled down on being a hippie.
That's the most American love story I've ever heard
I think college is a scam, but I would go just to be in Nick's class and listen to him rant about communism. Pure gold.
Me to but I’d stir up the communism pot any chance I got so I could sit back and watch the man cook
Depends on the college. Big name brand ivy-league stuff, yeah, scam. Smaller operations that don't break the bank (or at least not as hard), and offer similar as well as more grounded real-world based degrees, might actually be worth your time or necessary depending on job occupation. Nick would certainly be part of the history dept, if not leading it, at the latter.
Anyone can go to college for free. There are billions of dollars in grants and scholarships available. All you have to do is apply for them. I was getting $16,000 a semester in grants and scholarships on top of my GI bill. Books and tuition averaged around $2,300 a semester. No one should leave college in debt… just do the paperwork.
Depends on the Major. I wouldn’t want a Dr with a GED but a liberal arts degree is useless
@@LilSebastian_ depends on your state, college, income, family's income, major, disability status, amount of children/dependents, your sex, race, your grades, SAT scores, ACT scores etc. Went through that headache for over a year working with multiple people trying to get some funds from a grant or scholarship to help cover tuition. Most I got was 1k for books, and 500 for tuition for 1 semester.
Yes, there are resources out their but an absolutist statement such as "Anyone can go to college for free" is ridiculously disingenuous to say it just takes doing some paper work. Often times you also need to be incredibly lucky to fall into a niche select group of people that qualify for a grant and even then you still have beat out other applicants.
2:25 as a Cuban, I'm glad he brough this up, because this take from people drives me mad. I mean yeah, Cuba is suffering because America has an embargo on them. But why is that embargo there? Because Cuba sided with the USSR in the cold war. But by all means, Cuba was doing GREAT before that. As in, when America (capitalism) was giving Cuba aid, it was amazing!
And then as soon as that aid was cut off and they had to rely on raw communism, oh look! Fidel Castro (the communist regime leader) has killed almost 10 million people! And that's only the ones we know for a fact were killed by him! My grandfather isn't counted towards that, he (crippled, not able to move on his own) just got up and left in the middle of the night! Oh look, our currency is worthless and our economy is in shambles! Well, it's capitalism's fault for not giving us free shit!
I have not met a Cuban who will say communism is great. Most of us are cursing the communist regime. But hey, all these rich American kids tell us the we have it great and we're so lucky that we don't have to deal with capitalism! Because they have it so bad over there!
If you're turning down cheap food because you don't like their politics, ranting about the price of your two bedroom home with reliable water and electricity, being mad that some police officer on the other side of the country shot someone you didn't know the name of before it hit the news, and crying over how unfair having to pay for your college education is, your opinion on social structures is invalid. I'm sorry.
Rant over, Nick can feel free to use this testimony from someone who's lived under communism their whole life as evidence next time he gets into an argument about this :)
Tis a shame ya need a lot more likes on your comment here most definitely. When i was a young teen i was all for communism but i didn't really know what i was talking about, talked to my immigrant father who went thru the life living in the USSR and or did more research over time made me realize its not what it seems. I mean that human greed is never going to allow the "actual communism" to happen its a nice idea but in practice always fails. But yeah sorry lil rant but yeah a lotta blindness and distractions in America whole lotta stuff to complain about that doesn't amount to much when compaired to the hardships others have had to live thru. Another lil rant sorry. I hope your in a better place if your not i hope ya survive! Not trying to say anything offensive trying to say something positive but im unsure on what to exactly say.
@patwick7351 Yeah, I think the big thing is that no research can teach you how bad it really is because most of what happens to us is off the books.
Cuba never reported on its starvation crisis, or how we couldn't get enough water to bathe, or any number of "small" problems.
So, to an outsider, it looks like communism is a pretty great system apart from the people at the top. But those of us who've lived it know that's far from the truth.
As a Puerto Rican, I stand with you 🇵🇷🇨🇺
Capitalism isn't the best, but when you compare it to communism, it's like platinum compared to dirt. I'll also reiterate what a lot of people who understand the crux of communism and don't actually simp for it as much; communism, on paper, is a great idea. In practice, it sucks more rock salt than a sea slug. To prove why this is a fact; the helicopter, on paper, cannot work. Mathematically and pure physics equations, it doesn't work. In reality, it does. Just because it's been written doesn't make it factual on any level.
Ran into that delusion a couple years back, the dude had just entered university in communist Czechoslovakia, in 1989/90. Apparently his family was favorably by the Party. He now lives in Central American and owns a hotel that caters to tourists. He has hotel staff/servants to wait on him and lives a very comfortable life. However, he claims Communism was a paradise and a much better system than Capitalism. He never had to actually work in the communist system as he was a student.
I f****** love Nicks rants. His concept on communism being perfect on paper but impractical in real life is exactly how I feel about it.
On top of that it relies on dictators willingly relinquishing power... so realistic and possible.
@@reptowolfe8322well, Rome did pretty well with that for the first 500 years
I wish that Communism could work in the real world.
Main issue is that Humans are involved and Humans are selfish, dumb, assholes.
Yeah Capitalism is the best we got for now. It has its issues but it handles humans really well.
@@warbacca1017 In no small part to the fact that the options were step down or die, and that's how it worked until Julius Caesar became to powerful and was assassinated, and then his adopted son (Now known as Caesar Augustus) riled up the people that supported Julius Caesar and started a civil war.
I would absolutely pay to have Nick make a 30 minute or 40 minute long video of every single example of communism that has ever existed in human history, why it failed, why it sucked, and why it will never work in the world today. If we had a 45-minute long video, fueled by hatred and logic, that could be sent to every procomy, that would shut down every conceivable argument they could ever make, that would be one of the most valuable assets to everyone on a college campus, or in high school, in the entire country. It would even be valuable to people outside the US. That would be the greatest contribution to mankind this year.
5:45 Bro on the left was SCARED. FOR. HIS. LIFE. 😂😂😂
Nick: The Fat Electrician, Chubby Electron man, the Thicc Power Ranger, the Commie Dunker, or The Great American Corn Golem
The Great American Corn Golem nahhhhhh 💀💀💀💀💀
@@mithrandir2333 I think that wins
The Great American Corn Golem? Get him the Corn Megazord! 😂😂😂
I am calling my Ohian Friend Corn Golem from now on holy shit
Fat electrician talking about the t34 like Lazerpig said, “The t34 isn’t an inexpensive tank produced in large quantity. The t34 was an expensive tank produced cheaply.”
Lazerpig is a loser.
My favorite thing the United States gave to the USSR during lend-lease was a tire plant. Not as in "they built it in Russia" as in, "in an unholy feat of logistics only we could pull off, the USA physically lifted and transported a Ford Tire Plant from River Rouge to the USSR". And then twenty years later the CIA wrote an entire report dunking on the Soviet tire industry where they noted the most advanced tire plant in Russia at the time was the same fucking one they gave to the Soviets during WWII.
Like twenty years later the Soviets were poking around this Tire Plant like it was lost technology from a precursor civilization they couldn't replicate but which was still critical to the functioning of their economy.
It's CIA-RDP62S00346A000100210003-1 if you're interested in reading it.
As a Canadian I've never heard about this, and found the CIA article you left up... are you kidding me?!?! 🤣🤣🤣 and to be fair their probably still using the same plant to this day ☠️
lmao damn this is awesome gonna use this often the cia number even works. Fr thanks bro
This feels like 40k with the cult mechanicus and stcs. Too funny.
Bro gave us the fvcking file number.
G fvcking G my guy.
"Babe, I promise I won't be political at the cookout." - Me three beers later. 😂
Nic forgot that Russian aircraft, particularly fighters, didn't drastically improve until Lend-lease provided them with P-40s, P-51s, & Spitfires
Didn't we also send them the P-39 and P-63? The Bell fighters that has a cannon in the nose and the engine behind the cockpit.
@@thedabblingwarlockThe Soviets LOVED those things. The 37mm wasn't great against other fighters, but the .50 cals were more than enough to punch through what little armor German fighters had and they were both absolute monsters at low altitude.
@@griffinfaulkner3514 Good to know. Thanks!
@@griffinfaulkner3514 .50 cals were also notorious fire-starters against aircraft. Especially Japanese planes, many of which carried positively HUGE fuel tanks in the wings.
@@septimus7524 API-T rounds plus no self-sealing fuel tanks in the Zero equals a complementary cremation.
I LOVE how much he hates communism. This is the best way possible to keep people informed because he makes it funny and entertaining. You are the hero of the internet we didn't even know we needed!
its to keep morons from getting important seats of power and watching the dickriders cry a river lol
Nick is the modern day version of Sam Kinison's character in Rodney Dangerfield's Back to School!
This comment wins the internet for the day!
Well Didn't know you wanted to get involved with the the discussion Mr. Helper. SAY IT SAY IT!!!
Yeah he cares, about what I have no idea
My favorite scene
@@ryananderson4283 -- honk honk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love how they just sit back and let him go OFF ... just wound him up and turned him LOOSE. Amazing ... GLORIOUS!
Russia claiming the win in WWII just for having more people than the Germans had bullets doesn't feel like a win to me
Two thirds of Russia's entire population after the War were Women.
Russia lost so many men after the War that they still, to this day, never fully recovered, with Women still significantly out-numbering men, causing a frickin' cliff-dive in birthrate that hasn't gotten any better since the War.
Yeah I'd agree in saying Russia's "Victory" was very much a Phyrric one..
6:16
*the shoulder grab.*
Everyone’s face : He’s about to kill this man for asking a question.
After 6 rounds of COD last night, my wife got 1 kill, the final kill cam kill and proclaimed "I won".
You’re carrying her… you are doing all the work. She’s the smart one and won.
😂 that's amazing
Funny and wholesome. I used to carry my little sister on Black Ops and let her take all the credit, but over time she's transformed into an FPS prodigy while I was stressing about work and growing rusty. Now I'm afraid to face the monster I have created.
Yeah as a Cuban i hate when people bring Cuba as a communist eutopia. Like my brother have you see the amount of Cubans that live in Miami there is a reason for that.
Yeah. The Cubans invaded the USA and the idiot President didn't throw them back. The Mexicans and the rest of the third world took due notice.
Communists will claim that people fled Cuba because they were “malcontents” and didn’t want to share and be equitable in societ
6:46 - This is the biggest point right here. I get so sick of people crying about how capitalism supposedly always creates a rich minority and everyone else ends up as wage slaves. That’s a stupid and overly-simplistic statement in general, but on top of that, look at any economic system or social structure, and you will ALWAYS find the assholes who are born into wealth and power, or figure out how to exploit others, and then act like they’re better than everyone else. That’s not a capitalism problem, that’s a humanity problem. Humans sometimes just suck, and there’s no avoiding that.
It's not even Capitalism's fault we ended up this way with National Debt on top of that. Blame Woodrow Wilson. He signed the Federal Reserve Act in 1912, and that bank has been run by a Private Bank Cartel for more than a century at this point. If Congress wanted to, they could print debt free money. But they don't, cause the bank has them by the balls.
I think the biggest difference is that we as westerners all agree capitalism isn't perfect and that it takes effort and constant vigilance to make it work right because we as humans are flawed. Communist sympathizers, on the other hand, think communism is perfect in every way, despite all the historical evidence to the contrary.
Exactly, it's the reason why all utopian ideologies are dangerous and idiotic. They all fail to acknowledge that human nature won't allow a truly flawless society to ever exist.
The irony is that this actually is exacerbated in communism. They claim to make everyone equal but really they just make 99% of people peasants while all wealth is concentrated at the top. At least in capitalism you have a means to work your way up. How many billions of dollars was Fidel worth when he died? 20?
It's all just a scam to steal wealth.
Nick ranting about communism is oddly relaxing and satisfying all at the same time😂
I have been shopping at Trader's Joes for over 30 years. Love that place.
I love how Vet with a Sign looked uncomfortable the whole time Nic was going off lol😂
Haha, he hasn't gotten used to it yet. Hope vet comes again in the podcast soon.
That's the look of a man going, "this guy just took a speedball, and is actively returning to monke. The hell do I do now?"
"Roundabouts are basically communism." Agreed.
The same people fuck up 4 way stops, too, though.
The thing is about them is sure you have shitty drivers that have no idea how to use them. But that's the same with everything, people just generally don't know how to drive which is the problem.
And 4 way stops are fucking amazing, never saw one until I got to America and it’s a beautiful thing. It’s like a roundabout but on the cheap cheap. “We need something to control the flow of traffic, but the space or budget is too small for a roundabout.” Is the thought process in my head… HUTH THEN SOMEONE FUCKS IT UP. Literally stop and wait your turn but someone always fucks it up and almost causes an accident then we all have to deal with it.
As a brit, no roundabouts are just the best, they keep traffic constantly moving, if your not a dumb ass and don't know how to drive a roundabout. Also what's next Free health care (a human right in most countries) is that communism?
Roundabouts are better.
The reason my 40 minute drive isnt 20 minutes is because of stoplights.
Can someone put this man on a stage with a chalkboard with only one thing written on it communism sucks I'd watch that all day
For peak entertainment value, do it on a college campus in front of a crowd of blue, pink, and green hair feminazis. 😂
When I've had a bad day, I rewatch this video and it makes me smile
Wow, you can hear his blood pressure increase the longer he rants.
I have a feeling that Nick and General Patton would have been best friends
Bro might be the reincarnation of Patton
He would have convinced Gen Mac to say F off to Truman and ride or die to Beijing
Patton was kind of a terrible person when it came to Government overreach. Remember what he did with the Hoovervilles before WWII? Think Nick even touched on it in a video.
@@albertochavez1454 i do not disagree with u. I think it was Jack that touched on it
Liberty doll just did a peace about the Bonus Army in the early 30s. Bunch of WW1 veterans came to Washington to protest they needed the money and care they were promised. Both General Patton and MacArthur commanded troops and tanks to drive them out of DC. That is the reason for the National Firearms Act.
As a person who studies economics I can not express how good it feels Nick stating the practical failures of Marxist ideology and as a addendum even the theoretical aspects of Marxism are demonstrably untrue.
He does great in admitting that ON PAPER communism is great, but when applied it never works, never has worked, and will only work when scarcity is zero for a long enough period of time for the warlords to die or be killed off (a.k.a. maybe in a few millennia.)
Can you do the economics version of what Nic did in the video? :D :D
@@ilovejettrooper5922 You can only give other people's money to people who don't earn money at all, for so long, until you run out of everyone's money to give...
At that point, the only alternative is print money... And there's an entire second global war that started, and printing money and the effects of printing that money, helped start that whole thing...
That and a huge not so very happy, very sad time for everyone on earth because money was scarce. Thanks to printing oodles of money for no reason than to hand it off to other people.
Communists when they discover that value is subjective and their entire "economic" theory falls to the ground because of it 😶
Now why does that sound SO familiar right now? Feels like deja vu... Huh... Ah well, I'm sure there's nothing to see here folks!
Back to watching the Super Bowl, or whatever it is that we serfs enjoy!
Lets talk about how they manufactured "more tanks." They were able to do this for two reasons: one, factory 183 was MASSIVE. The more critical point though to this is that two: they produced those tanks incredibly quickly not because they were efficient and refined...but because they took MASSIVE shortcuts to get them built quickly, like just leaving important components like sights, seals, lights, not heat treating internal components, and in general just making the worst examples of those tanks that they could so they could save time and meet quota. So as a result, their tanks and crew died in equally MASSIVE numbers.
Roundabouts cause problems when every mfer thinks that THEY have the right of way.
Another fact to consider is that the US fully intended to build just as many Shermans as the USSR built T-34s, but had to divert steel to build a metric fuckton of ships, from the simple Liberty ships that brought supplies all over the world, to the dozens of aircraft carriers that were the spearhead of the war in the pacific.
from what i heard: heat treated armor in higher temperature than it should be and armor is too hard and brittle it lowers the survival rate, skimmed on heat treating things that are not armor including engine shaft.
Lazerpig has a whole video about how shit the T-34 is
Yes, since if i remember correctly, the lifepspan of a T-34 once it was off the production line was estemiated to be on average 2 weeks
@@kerededyhPeople harp on about the tanks thing but America built the 2nd most tanks while simultaneously building the world's largest airforce, the largest navy, and splitting the atom all the while fighting a war on literal opposite sides of the planet. So I don't dwell on it.
USSR sucked. But to be fair, in average the quality of life was better in USSR Russia compared to Czarist Russia. No freedoms in either, but less food insecurity in the Communist one over all (until around the 1970's). Not sure how Ukraine was prior to USSR (definitely not grate in the USSR with the Holdemore, or for the Crimean Tartars, etc).
Though that is basically the story of Russia. Little bit of improvement in quality of living, then "have you met our new invention the Oprichnik". The USSR, the workers paradise, where strikes are met with worse crackdowns than 1890's America.
Building tanks wasn't really a big sign of prestige back in WWII. Like it kind of was, but at the same time uh, how many ships did the USSR launch in the early 1940's? They borrowed the USS Milwaukee, gave it a dumb Russian name, it was one of their mainstay and best flag ship cruisers of the war and to this day, they still haven't built a successful aircraft carrier? Also their entire Frigate fleet consisted of US borrowed ships they renamed dumb names because they were too busy blowing up their own ingenious tanks with dogs to build any of their own. So industrious, those commies. Meanwhile in the US, freak'n Henry Kaiser and his manufacturing plants are throwing out Liberty Ships in 5 days at their peak. They're tossing out light carriers and Fletcher class destroyers in weeks. All of them sea worthy, no major f*ck ups with functionality, and while Liberty Ships were being sunk by the handful in the Atlantic, Kaiser was dumping them into the Pacific by the dozens.
I am reminded of a quote from the film Ghandi: "it takes a lot of money to keep this man [Ghandi] in poverty."
Gandhi**
Being from LaCrosse, Wisconsin, I identify with The Electrician SOOOOOOOO fucking much. He's my fucking spirit animal.
How’s Noah doing?
@@JoshWise1010 per Dontut's video, not well.
Wooohooo. La Crosse! But seriously. I was on river watch. Why do drunks shamble towards the river in the middle of winter? You know there is an unsoiled ally behind Brother's right? Like go look for the backwards ball caps and frat bois. You'll find it easy.
He is your spirit electrician.
Hahahaha oh boy, not La Crosse 😂
Watching Eli and Donut contain their laughter is funny as it gets.
I have friends in the RAF and I was joking with one
one day about if he ever worried about Russia sending over T 95 bombers and he said no way
“ no worries at all mate “
because we can hear them coming long before they show up on radar 😂
I so appreciate you calling out Tucker Carlson!
When I thought I couldn't like Fat Electrician any more; the roundabout thing is so on point. We call them "circles" in NJ and still have a few that haven't be converted to an overcomplicated mess of traffic lights. When everyone understands how they work everyone zips right through. But there's two types of people that will screw it up; the entitled Dbags that don't believe in yielding and make everyone slam on their brakes to avoid an accident and the ones that assume nobody will yield and hold everyone up waiting until there is a quarter mile gap between cars before going.
All-way stops are bad enough for the same reasons. Traffic circles just add more moving parts.
There is *one* roundabout that I know of on the east side of North Dakota. It's just *outside* Grand Forks at a three-way intersection for roads that are so rarely used I've *never* seen another car on them. And yet, somehow, I keep managing to *miss my turn.*
Or the unfortunate folks like me, who in my 30's and has never encountered a roundabout i real life ever, who pulls up and goes, "What in the fuck is this." My bad.
My grandma calls Roundabouts "Socialist Circles", and I will never not call them that.
My granddad (Vietnam vet, avid anti-communism enthusiast) called the act of using a roundabout "The Pinko Pirouette." Loved that dude. 😂
That is inarguably the most beautiful rant - truth - I have heard in a long time! Roundabouts - but of course! I’d be lying if I said I’d never had the same rant - but I went to college in the late ‘80s. Communism has alway sucked in my life
I’m in college now. It hasn’t gotten any better
1987, while I was stationed in West Germany, some of our border patrol guys offered to give me a tour of the border with East Germany. We stopped along the fence line where the East Germans were building a new guard tower, at a brand new fence line. The top of the fence had barbed wire facing inside, to keep the East Germans inside East Germany. Not to keep us out. That's all you need to see to understand communism.
Nick is the hero America needs.
Roundabouts are actually a good analogy. On a small scale in the suburbs they are far superior to traffic lights. However trying to do every large intersection with dual lanes across eight exits... not a good idea. It works on the small scale, but the larger and more complicated it gets the more it breaks down.
Just to provide an example for what you said:
The city in live in here in Germany has around 70k people, obviously there is a good amount of traffic that comes with that.
How many roundabouts do we have? Three. And two of them are only three way roundabouts that serve their purpose pretty well, the third one is technically a 4-way roundabout, but it's placed in a lower traffic area.
Roundabouts can do great as part of your street infrastructure. But you can't use them as an universal solution to all your traffic problems, because that would only make the overall traffic issue worse. There are some good and many bad spots to build them.
Holy shit, I never expected to find you here haha. Honestly, it does give me hope seeing people on opposite political spectrums enjoy each other’s content and have civilized discussions
There's 3 round abouts about 15-20 minutes from me.
1 is very small with two separate one way streets feeding into it, works amazing.
2 your normal two way road feeds into it but it's kinda outside of town so not a lot of traffic, again works amazing.
And the 3rd, this post has FIVE two lanes feeding in two coming off the FKEN HIGHWAY. And one lonely one way
This is 6 separate roads feeding into it, it's always a cluster fk of minivan moms big rigs clueless teen drivers and lifted pickup trucks, I fuken hate going on that roundabout
even the the small ones I stop and look both ways before going because I have such little faith in other people
*The Fat Electrician is 100% right about roundabouts.*
Instead of most people usually going fast, EVERYONE SLOWS.
Most people don't know how a roundabout works, so it creates traffic buildup.
Not that I blame them, because the painted lines are so poorly crafted that someone can accidentally go in circles!
Gosh, I hate them so much. My city has at least five of them, and I'm a vocal opponent of every single one.
being a car guy who keeps up with stuff, I tended to be fine with them because I know how they work and how much better they are than a 4-way stop. But as Nick says, always gonna be that one dipshit who doesn't know how to use it. (especially since when learning to drive, they reference it once on a page or some shit.
In my experience, they usually work fine, HOWEVER, if you put one on a major road where most of the traffic goes in one direction, good like getting through the other way.
There's one in a city where I used to live. It's on a major thoroughfare. Most traffic on it moves east-west. At peak times it's nearly impossible to get through from north-south.
There's another one where they just gave up and put traffic lights in the circle. It's an unholy abomination that I hope you never see.
Most American people*
Here in Europe everyone knows how it works lol
@@InfantryWoman I don't know where you live but my experience is the opposite, no one knows when to use the inner and outer lanes on roundabouts and it's a miracle we don't have more accidents. It is to the point that many roundabouts are getting the inner lane deleted so it's only one lane and you don't have to deal with idiots who only stay on the outside or just cross from the inner one without notice
@@joey_f4ke238 Here in Romania we got a roundabout almost everywhere lol
It's necessary to learn it..
I wish every episode had a 10 minute unhinged rant about how much communism sucks. It’s a must watch every time
The Soviet Union also lost more tanks than anybody else in WW2. No shit they manufactured more, they couldn't keep any of them alive to begin with. The USSR's heavy losses at the start of the war in the east also included HUGE amounts of modern up to date equipment and was largely due to absolute shit leadership and very poor organization, and because of those massive losses you can just look at the huge corners that were cut in order to hit those production goals. As built, if you got a Russian tank in WW2 it was highly likely to be a death trap even compared to early Shermans.
Shermans were leagues above the T34 in practically every way, even the Early ones.
There's a REASON Soviet tankers absolutely loved the shit out of, and jealously guarded their Lend-Leased Shermans from other (T34) tankers.
They sure did put a nickel in him 😂
The best was when you think TFE is about to wind down and then says, “….and further more!” 😎🍿
A literal Clark Griswold rant 😂😂😂
Just wait until Fat Electrician tries playing Disco Elysium and meets the commies in that game.
I would literally pay money to see this.
You mean the game created by commies too? Who are now having labor disputes? Lol.
He would try and throttle them
Wait until he meets the commie devs, immigrants who left their post soviet country to go in London and sell their game for 40 quid financed by a businessman.
Commies are a plague I swear
You are the greatest history teacher ever. We need you in every school throughout the world.
I know this won't be seen. My mental health lately is completely in the shitter but heads down Nick and his videos and rants and Unsub are the only reasons I haven't run face first into traffic. Thank you guys.
Chin up brother ❤️
We see you, bro. Stand up straight, shoulders back, chin up. Now look that monster call Life in the eye and tell it to get the fuck outta the way. You got shit to do.
i was literally a half dead junkie 4 years ago. I mean oded many times and almost not brought back yea the cold long black lonely i even remember being out lol sick af couldnt get out of bed without using junkie tbh there was awhile when i thought id die that way bc i was that way for a long time. Things can always be worse but things can always be better and as long as your not in the ground their is still a fight to be had! I'm sober today and very thankful for life it's not great but it's better than being dead, Dont let the enemy win bro! Keep up the good fight.
@@comosaycomosah You guys are awesome. Keep it up!
I get the feeling whenever the word communism passes through TFEs mind he has an urge to refute it with the history he has stored in his mind
Nick, you've got that dude next to you looking scared as soon as your rant power shifted and hit the nitrous!
Nick/TFE in this whole thing was only missing an exasperated "Fuckin...godamn it i need a break..." and everyones quiet for a beat before from off screen you hear "And another fuckin thing!"
John Parshall gave a great lecture comparing US, USSR, and German tank production in WW2 that can be easily found here on yt. Btw, the only reason the USSR produced more tanks is because the US realized it wouldn't need as many in late 1944-1945 and scaled pack production. They were both still over 100,000.
Also, communism is awful on paper too.
Yeah late 44 the US had around 20k M4s in transit of sitting in depots so they stop production at all but 2 tank plants.
The US also ended up diverting the steel that WOULD have made more tanks, to make more ships.
I think TFE needs a blog to put his collection of collegiate diatribes on - I’d read that for sure! I’d listen to an audiobook he self narrated as well!
Nick has another channel called The Fat Files where he does rants. It's great, check it out. 😎👍
What I wouldn't give to spend a few hours drinking with Nick railing against the commie simps XD Love you guys!
"Roundabouts are basicly communism!" YES!!! Finally a kindred spirit.
I fucking hate Communism, roundabouts, and asking for help.
Nick, take my electronic fist-bump... we ARE the same. 😂
😂
… and the diesel engines to go into those tanks they “built”.
Lend Lease sent so much material over that that at the end of the war there was tons of materials rusting away because they weren’t used!
As a eastern European with a burning hatred for communism the USSR and Russia simps i could listen to this for days.
Nobody hates communism more than someone who escaped it. I was too young to experience communism but I lived through the aftermath. It is only many years later I realized how fucked everything was
@@dgurevich1nobody hates communism more than anybody who never lived through it except in their fanfic/wattpad-brained schizophrenic rambles
Damn straight man, capitalism is the most fair system for a species that when given the option always serves itself first.
Enlightened self intrest is the only way you will get humans to cooperate at scale. Its human nature
You need to stay zoomed out during Nic rants. Watching the other guys on the show break over and over again is almost as good as the rants themselves.
Fat Electrician + Jordan Peterson + drinks
That'd be *fantastic* !!!
I can just imagine this
"Dirty Commies" this
"Woke moralists!" that
more "I hate commies" this
some more "post-marxism!!!" that
Dear God, yes please!
*Tusken Raider noises of approval* - Make it happen!
Peterson loves Russia and Putin so I don't think the Fat Electrician would agree with him on some aspects.
Let's also not forget all the food, fuel, tanks, jeeps, planes, and ships the rest of the Allies gave to the USSR for the war. The USA had a ferry system where female pilots would fly newly built fighters from the factory to Washington state where they were then transferred to male pilots who would fly them to Alaska where the planes were finally handed off to Soviet pilots. One of the USSRs top scoring aces flew the P-39. Hell Russia's heavy bomber fleet didn't get a jump start until a few B-29s had to divert, and land in the USSR.
Oh yeah, all of that while also fighting Imperial Japan, and Italy at the same time in addition to the Nazis as well as supplying various resistance groups, and carrying out special operations in occupied countries.
"Russia built more tanks than the allies" Yeah, that's easy to do when they're all missing parts, the parts that are on the tank are garbage anyway, and the welding isn't even done right.
Dude was 4 beers deep🤣
At least.
New video title
"Chubby Electron Guy Fires Verbal Nuke On Communism"
The roundabout thing had me busting up lol
"you're scaring me" lmaooooo
Lol best rant I have heard in a while. Most people do not know or undertood the implication's of operation paperclip. A real operation at the end of WW2. A recent study say's 46% of American adult's can read at an adult reading level.
What kind of damn gold did I just come across. Some of my favorite podcasters all friends at the same table. What the shitttt. Take my money 😂💰
Dude I can listen to this shit all day. 😭
Love when Nick when he crushes these simps
[slow clapping, standing ovation] - Great Rant, TFE! I'm freaggin rolling laughing...
Unhinged Electron Man is the FUCKING BEST!
Beautiful speech...I ain't crying, I got something in my eye ...God Bless the USA
From a communist country so I would agree with Nick here.
Everyone: College
Nic: Intramural Twitter
Next podcast should just be Nick and 4 diehard communists for 2 hours lol
I'd pay to see that.
Technically real communism has never been practiced on a large scale... *Because real communism is literally impossible and every nation that has tried to reach it couldn't get out of the socialism stage because you literally need to get the entire world on the same page to form the communist utopia* in the first place. However, even then it would fall apart because real communism (no hierarchies, etc.) is anarchy and anarchy leads to someone filling the new power vacuum.
Most American aid didn't reach the Soviet Union until 1944. As for tanks, the T-34 was only garbage pre-1944 because they were being rushed out of the factory and often were being sent out without support. The T-34/85 was a good medium tank.
I like the fat electrician, but I kind of find it funny how he gladly cherry picks only the good stuff that came out of US history so far. Shining example is Afghanistan, Stoutly defended by this channel, some of the guys reluctantly admitting that it could have been handled a bit better. Well, lets look at the numbers shall we? The us went in to replace the Taliban with a democratic government, So after 20 years of war, and 3 TRILLION Dollars, you replaced the Taliban with....the Taliban....not much to brag about....
I can just imagine Brandon clutching his kalashnikovs and nagant’ss protectively as nick goes on his rant! He pets the ak’s telling them he won’t let the bad fat electrician man get them!😂🤣
aaaaand Nick goes HAM!!!!! on them!!! (the crowd in silence out of respect for the man's rage) ✊
This should be on the "Fat Files" I was in tears laughing over this.
Nick needs a segment we're he dunks on communists on Twitter....the highest of comedy this would be.
I need a video of nick breaking down arguments he's had with communists sympathizers online, or in the real world if anyone has had the balls to do it
The propaganda y’all have been fed. About the Soviet Union fighting against Germany is crazy. Russia didn’t help beat Germany they were the main cause of it. America just helped. America beat Japan, but only helped with Germany. Also the ussr had a great economy prior to ww2 industrialization was crazy. I’m not supporting communism but saying they just contributed and America did most of the work is crazy. Do your research in a non biast American history, read history from all the sides.
Why am I hearing FE saying "amen...where's the Tylenol?"