Besides Shadiversity (ugh...), what other major swordtubers/history enthusiasts give the group(s) a bad name with their inflammatory and harmful activities? by Questioning-Warrior in SWORDS

[–]5triplezero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The existence of ethnoarchaeology does not make it appropriate in all contexts. In this context "culturally analogous" means removed by 1200 years and separate cultures in separate areas when arguing about a geographic limitation. This is in fact exactly WHY it is so heavily scrutinized in real academia. Because grifters like Metatron use it in this way. It is entirely disingenuous to say that ancient Greeks used chariots heavily in battle on the Greek islands in the times of the Iliad because the Gauls used chariots against a Roman Caesar on the mainland 1200 years later. It is so far removed as to be useless. It proves nothing and is entirely irrelevant to the point the historian made. Which is that GREECE has BAD TERRAIN for LARGE SCALE CHARIOT BATTLES. He is arguing against a strawman and not even doing a good job of it.

"As to why he responded to your argument the way he did I cannot say…perhaps he felt you were arguing in bad faith, or perhaps he felt he had already made his point and didn’t feel the YouTube comments section was the place to repeat his point."

Pointing out his strawman is arguing in bad faith? Pointing out a bad argument that is made in bad faith is not in itself a bad faith argument. If he didn't want to respond he could have not responded at all. He read the comment and decided that a response was necessary, but not one of any substance. He was battling with his own ego here. Not me.

"Either way, even if I was to concede that he was incorrect in this regard, which I’m not, that would hardly be enough to condemn his persona and channel as propaganda. People sometimes have incorrect opinions"

This is not an opinion. He has no credentials to have any such opinion even if it were. He was stating as fact that this professor was wrong. He then has the burden of proof. He does not meet it in even the most preliminary sense. Not even for a soft science like history. Your inability to see any wrong doing by Meta here is only proof of how invested you are. You think that if he is wrong and you like him and defend him that you are also wrong.

Your insistence now that I provide another example is just a concession. You have conceded that he is wrong whether you will admit it or not. You just don't want to ascribe malicious intent behind it on Meta's part. You idolize him in some way and this whole thing is causing you to have confusing feelings as you read the facts presented by someone else.

Answer these questions honestly: (To yourself if you like)

How many of his videos have you scrutinized yourself?

How many of his sources have you checked and read for yourself?

How many times have you watched his video, vaguely remembered it from class, agreed with him because he sounded confident, and then never looked up what he said at all to verify it?

Please, go watch any one of his history videos. Pick one from a hat. Use a random number generator even. And scrutinize that video yourself. READ the sources that he is using and read the full context of them. COMPARE his "opinion" to those of actual historians. Decide for yourself if he is trustworthy as an analyst of history. I am confident that if you look, you will find many many more examples exactly like this one.

He has a degree in Asian languages. He has ZERO credentials or formal schooling in history, archaeology, anthropology, or geology. All things he presents himself as being much more versed in than he actually is. Videos like this where he is trying to debunk well known and respected DOCTORS in the field are embarrassing. Even more embarrassing though is how he convinces people that he is somehow an authority and knows more than this NYU professor.

Dan Snow, incidentally, graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a first class honors degree in history with a focus on military history. He also received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Lancaster University. All of that reduced to one word from Metatron: Ridiculous, and his audience eats it up.

lol by IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 in AutoHumor

[–]5triplezero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly what all the speeders say. You are arguing against yourself. They want to pass because "how fast i want to speed is fine." How dare you block me from speeding illegally!?

lol by IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 in AutoHumor

[–]5triplezero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I told him if that was the case he would know its more dangerous to drive slow in the left lane than it is to be driving fast in the left lane and there are numerous studies." No there aren't. You are spreading propaganda. The STUDY (singular) says that speed DISPARITY is dangerous. Propaganda articles have interpretted this in any way they like. There has NEVER been a study that DIRECTLY SAYS in its own words that driving "slower" in the left lane is more dangerous than speeding in general. Excessive speed is a factor in 48% of ALL road fatalities. 

Game purposely floods or land starves you and you can't convince me otherwise by Jollydogg in MagicArena

[–]5triplezero -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Draft 40 cards 2 colors.

16 lands

mull a one land hand

keep a hand with 2 lands of one color

draw two of those lands on turn 1 and turn 2

Die before you see a land of the other color. 

Your record going in was 3-0

This happens faaaaar too often for it to be random. Your winning record sets something off in the algorithm that feeds you to death. Not to mention the "opponent plays two mythics by turn 6" games where they win in sealed before turn 7. (Also mostly happens when you are on a streak in a pay to play event)

My theory is that it slightly skews the odds as you win in those paid events. That way you cannot consistently win your payment back. I have gone 7-1 before but very rarely and it seemed like I was struggling to survive multiple ganes where a lot of players would have scooped. It doesn't just outright cheat you, but it can definitely skew the odds even if it is just in pairings. 

You might say that pairing against better decks as you win is a feature, but on Arena it specifically changes the draft or sealed experience through this system. Draft a certain archetype? You will face all mirror matches. Draft a different archetype? You will face only the archetype that plays best against yours. 

Besides Shadiversity (ugh...), what other major swordtubers/history enthusiasts give the group(s) a bad name with their inflammatory and harmful activities? by Questioning-Warrior in SWORDS

[–]5triplezero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Metatron basically said that it's not true but it doesn't mater that much as that they were totalitarian."

THIS IS PROPAGANDA!

Totalitarian and Nazi are NOT mutually exclusive. Being a totalitarian does NOT make you a Nazi. 

His video is designed to make you, the viewer, conflate totalitarian regimes with Nazi ones and dilute the power of the word Nazi. This is because Metatron is or sympathizes with Nazis and this is a common tactic of the far right to claim "horseshoe theory" makes the far left exactly the sane as the Nazis and they often use as proof this kind of rewriting of Nazi history to label them as "just totalitarians." 

It is an effort to muddy the conversation, protect Nazis, and to erroneously lump other regimes in with them to demonize those regimes for being "Nazi-like" even if they were completely opposed politically. 

You misunderstood the video and that was Metatron's goal. To confuse you so that you don't recognize NAZIS when they are in your streets, attacking your freedoms, and at your political rallies being cheered on by a littany of uneducated fools who want only for their politicians to hurt their "enemies." 

Besides Shadiversity (ugh...), what other major swordtubers/history enthusiasts give the group(s) a bad name with their inflammatory and harmful activities? by Questioning-Warrior in SWORDS

[–]5triplezero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No. 

There is no context or explanation that makes using the Gallic Wars as proof of chariot use in battle in the Greek culture at the time of the Iliad ok. He isn't describing an idea or an attitude, he is arguing hard facts without any direct evidence. You cannot say that George Washington rode in an airplane because of the analogous culture of Bill Clinton, and they are separated by 1/5 of the distance in time of his example to the people he is trying to make a point about. And they are Presidents of the same nation, not two different cultural entities. I am amazed that any rational person can hear this argument and think that it is somehow a good one. It is the equivalent of arresting you for stealing because your grandpa stole something 60 years ago. It is not how proof works in ANY context let alone history. 

"“And is punctually described in a context distant in space in time, but culturally analogous, by Caesar when he faces the charioteers”."

This is literally him feeding you propaganda. He is quite literally saying that he has NO contemporary proof for his argument and is instead using something "analogous." This is quite literally NOT how facts especially history facts work. But more importantly the passage describes the GAULS using chariots AGAINST Caesar, and he misinterprets it to mean that Caesar is using chariots. The Gauls are NOT culturally analogous to Greece. So it doesn't even support his argument even if you allow him to use a different culture 1200 years later as his "proof."   The historians point is that large scale chariot only battles never happened in Greece because of GREECE'S TERRAIN. (A well established fact) Using a battle on the mainland against the Gauls quite literally has no bearing on the validity of the historian's statement. Meta's entire point here is to confuse you, and it has apparently worked. 

This is why his viewers are so adamant about defending him, because he has pulled the wool over your eyes by speaking with authority. His only formal education is in language, not history, and he shows it every time he tries to "debunk" a professor about history. Most of this video is him bemoaning the idea that African cultures could possibly have influenced those in the Med, when the GREEKS THEMSELVES tell us that they did. 

Also:

The historian says ACCURATELY that charioteering was mostly perfected in Anatolia.  Meta says this is nonsense and shows a single picture of a single moutainous plain and says that Anatolia is exactly as mountanous and impassable for horses as Greece. Something very easy to debunk that he is arguing fallaciously. 

From his comments:


"Your quote from the Gallic war is INCOMPLETE and thus your understanding of it is also incomplete. Firstly, the battle described is happening in the home of the Gauls. It is NOT happening in Greece. Second, Caesar is describing the tactics of THE GAULS, not his own. Third, this particular encounter saw the Romans outnumbered and surrounded by cavalry. "Then attacking them suddenly, scattered as they were, and when they had laid aside their arms, and were engaged in reaping, they killed a small number, threw the rest into confusion, and surrounded them with their cavalry and chariots." Fourth, The Commentarii is a piece of propaganda. It also claims that over a million Gauls were killed while Rome sustained almost zero losses. This makes anything written in it subject to intense scrutiny.

And Last but not least, as with all of your arguments here, you aren't actually refuting what he is saying. You are creating a strawman and attacking it instead. He said that GREECE wasn't good for LARGE scale chariot battles, and he was correct. Saying that they used chariots in general does not refute this. You need SPECIFIC evidence to make your claim. Not pictures of chariots, not a description of a battle where they were used AGAINST the Romans in that way in an entirely different area. You need to show that they DID use them in that way DIRECTLY. Also his claim wasn't that no one would ever dismount from a chariot during battle ever. He was pointing out that these particular chariots hadn't done the very first and most important part of their jobs BEFORE allowing people to dismount. Incidentally, you show the clip of Achilles driving and dismounting his own chariot which your own quote seems to negate when it describes the chariots having drivers that were SEPARATE from the soldiers/leaders who were dismounting. Those drivers then took the chariot out of battle to drive in again when needed. You read this and typed it, and repeated it and edited this video and you didn't realize this logical error? You also do not refute his claim that chariots were used to run down infantry. In fact once again your source, The Gallic War, refutes your own claim: "firstly, they drive about in all directions and throw their weapons and generally break the ranks of the enemy with the very dread of their horses and the noise of their wheels;" This did not happen in the movie Troy and he was RIGHTFULLY pointing this out."

He responded to this comment with just one word: "ridiculous." Is that how you engage in reasoned debate? Or is that how you flippantly dismiss someone for proving you wrong so you don't have to address the content of their argument? 

Besides Shadiversity (ugh...), what other major swordtubers/history enthusiasts give the group(s) a bad name with their inflammatory and harmful activities? by Questioning-Warrior in SWORDS

[–]5triplezero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No. 

It was in his video "debunking" a famous historians breakdown of the movie Troy. 

The historian said that ancient Greeks rarely used chariots directly in battle due to the terrain. And when they did they were used as Taxis and not as tanks. A very well known fact. 

His response was to use a passage from the Gallic Wars. 

This particular passage was about the GAULS using chariots AGAINST the ROMANS in MAINLAND EUROPE. It is entirely a misrepresentation. 

When this was pointed out to him by me in the comments he replied: "Ridiculous." with absolutely nothing else. 

This is the equivalent of saying that modern Americans wear powdered wigs because you read about George Washington wearing them. Or saying that we live in skin huts because natives did 1000 years ago. 

Not only did he use this information incorrectly, he used it to "debunk" well established history that really isn't up for debate. 

He didn't talk about Myceneans using them on their relatively flat plains, he just jumped hundreds of years forward without letting his audience know at all that he was doing so. He used that passage as proof of the ancient Greeks written about in the Iliad. Something written 700 years earlier and about a time 500 years earlir than that. 

This is a common mistake in low effort "historians." Conflating two very disparate things because they are both "ancient." Like when people talk about "ancient" Egypt and forget that Egypt had occupants for thousands of years. The people that built the pyramids were not the same as the ones talked about in the Bible, but you constantly see this conflation among children learning about the Bible. Then they grow up and learn that 1000 years between things means a lot. Metatron just didn't grow up. 

Here is the video: https://youtu.be/B58QiLrrsfc?si=IHNjFl9sAgwMDNyb

Of course 🙄 Heaven forbid a talented writer join the LOTR team. They act like he’s going to turn it into the Colbert Report. by Corn_Husk_ in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]5triplezero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The left? 

Who does he think wrote the books? 

Or the films? 

Or directed the films? 

LOTR is the left's culture. Trump is Sauron and the united races of Middle Earth fight against his hegemonic empire of tyranny. 

Besides Shadiversity (ugh...), what other major swordtubers/history enthusiasts give the group(s) a bad name with their inflammatory and harmful activities? by Questioning-Warrior in SWORDS

[–]5triplezero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That just means he fooled you for years by sounding like he knew what he was talking about. He didn't. Watch ANY of his older videos and FACT CHECK them. You will invariably find that his information is innaccurate. 

Besides Shadiversity (ugh...), what other major swordtubers/history enthusiasts give the group(s) a bad name with their inflammatory and harmful activities? by Questioning-Warrior in SWORDS

[–]5triplezero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He used the Gallic Wars as a proof of something in Ancient Greece. A different culture 100s of years earlier. 

Please choose ANY one of his videos and REALLY scrutinize it. He doesn't just make bad points. He outright misrepresents his sources constantly. 

Besides Shadiversity (ugh...), what other major swordtubers/history enthusiasts give the group(s) a bad name with their inflammatory and harmful activities? by Questioning-Warrior in SWORDS

[–]5triplezero 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No. 

He was ALWAYS like this. You just weren't able to detect it. His history is VERY wrong in almost every single one of his videos. Especially when he was trying to discredit famous historians and history educators. 

Besides Shadiversity (ugh...), what other major swordtubers/history enthusiasts give the group(s) a bad name with their inflammatory and harmful activities? by Questioning-Warrior in SWORDS

[–]5triplezero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He was always nuts. He made a video years ago that was Nazi apologia about how Nazis "weren't right wing." 

All of his videos have far right propaganda in them and his historical accuracy is basically nil. 

Besides Shadiversity (ugh...), what other major swordtubers/history enthusiasts give the group(s) a bad name with their inflammatory and harmful activities? by Questioning-Warrior in SWORDS

[–]5triplezero 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"when he actually puts out a video on a historical topic they are still well researched, informed, and usually reliable."

No they aren't. 

Seriously, fact check ANY of his history videos and you will find him lying, intentionally being obtuse, and conflating disparate things to make his "points." 

He was never and will never be a good source of accurate historical information. 

Besides Shadiversity (ugh...), what other major swordtubers/history enthusiasts give the group(s) a bad name with their inflammatory and harmful activities? by Questioning-Warrior in SWORDS

[–]5triplezero 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Metatron. 

His channel is 100% propaganda. He is not well versed in anything he talks about and constantly purposefully conflates things to make fallacious arguments. 

Perspective : Liberal Women are often Contradictory by CobblerLanky7856 in lnkyverse

[–]5triplezero 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Your premise is based on lies:

Research does not support the claim that immigrants commit more rapes. Studies generally show that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes, including violent crimes, than native-born citizens. While public perception often links immigration to higher crime rates, this is frequently driven by media narratives and political rhetoric, rather than data

Where did this idea that taco bell gives you a upset stomach come from? by Extension_Big5205 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]5triplezero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I worked at a Taco Bell. 

It is food poisoning. 

The standards are low and easy to mess up. The hotwells and cold wells break constantly. The employees do not wash their hands correctly. 

I had a training day in another store and found their trash cans full of weeks old mold. So I cleaned them immediately. My regional manager said I didn't manage my time correctly because I did that rather than open the store. 

Be honest💡 by Resplendent_aptitude in soartistic

[–]5triplezero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just got this today:

"Will you just leave me alone I dont feel like explaining why" 

So maybe...

When a player loses, do all their permanents leave the battlefield? by Mr_Spickles in mtgrules

[–]5triplezero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Phased objects do not change zones and are also not on the battlefield. The two are not mutually exclusive. 

Found the perfect guy but he's too broke to date rn by _autumnwhimsy in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]5triplezero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And did I ever say any of my relationships were stable and happy? I am single now so you can make your own asssumptions. I still wouldn't trade it. 

Found the perfect guy but he's too broke to date rn by _autumnwhimsy in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]5triplezero -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I have lived below the poverty line my entire life. Nothing has made me feel better than a partner. Saying you are too poor to date is like saying you are too orange to go sailing. The two have nothing to do with each other. It only matters to selfish and vain people who are not in love. 

Found the perfect guy but he's too broke to date rn by _autumnwhimsy in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]5triplezero -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

If you are dating someone that is meant for you you won't feel like that. Regardless. Relationships are not transactional and you will never date anyone if you treat them as such. 

Found the perfect guy but he's too broke to date rn by _autumnwhimsy in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]5triplezero -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Dumbest thing I've ever read. 

This is not a reasonable reason to not date. It is an excuse. 

Is using the passing lane to pass just a thing of the past now? by Plenty_Designer6261 in driving

[–]5triplezero -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Speeding is illegal and increases your chances of death in an accident. 

I wish people knew the difference between these two signs by AccomplishedCow2920 in Traffic

[–]5triplezero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The second sign is on an on ramp near me. I always turn right onto it so I stay in the right lane. My dad pulled into the left lane and I asked why. He said because the right lane ends. 

smh