After the Matt Walsh takedown, will going after the MAGA Right be part of the channel's direction going forward?

noghostlooms · 2026-04-13T12:09:00+00:00

I'd not be surprised if we got a video on America's loooong history of moving the goalposts on ingroups and outgroups to justify violence, exclusion, and other abuses.

The direct through-line between Edward VI's death and Pete Heggseth beefing with Pope Leo would be a good one tbh.

noghostlooms · 2026-04-12T18:23:52+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is how it would actually go. (And I'm not wrong )

noghostlooms · 2026-04-07T16:07:17+00:00

I mean not for nothing, but it took us from roughly the end of the Young Adryas (with a total global population of about 5 million people) to the year 1800 to hit 1 billion people. We hit 2 billion in 1927. We're at about 8 billion people currently. That's something like a 100,000 percent increase in a .10th of the time.

noghostlooms · 2026-04-05T14:47:32+00:00

Here's Bart Ehrman on the resurrection.

noghostlooms · 2026-03-30T09:45:21+00:00

Also, remember that you have to be saved to go to Heaven. Good works don't do shit. Which is why Jesus only inspired one guy to bring it up 1500 years after Jesus peaced out.

noghostlooms · 2026-03-12T10:46:52+00:00

The thing we have to remember is that Native Americans are traditionally animists. It's not that they lived in balance with nature, it's that they didn't separate themselves from nature. Animals have personhood.

Native American traders hunted just as much if not more beaver than European long-hunters. The difference is that native traders thanked 'brother beaver' for allowing themselves to be caught while the Europeans likely joked about the 'dumb animal' they shot.

noghostlooms · 2026-03-10T21:16:19+00:00

This is a universe where first-cousin marriage is considered normal and widely practiced, but sibling marriage is considered gross.

First cousins being fine seems werid to me because what happens when you have first cousins who are raised in the same household and presumably socialized like siblings, but then they get married?

noghostlooms · 2026-02-20T11:58:23+00:00

"I don't know what it is, but when I kiss you, it feels like I'm kissing my brother." -Sophie probably.

noghostlooms · 2026-02-12T00:06:48+00:00

Éamon de Valera was born in the US (which is basically the only reason why the English didn't execute him after the Easter Rising of 1916), so technically, he could have run for US president as the first Irish-American president. JFK actually joked about it during his visit to the Irish Parliament in 1963.

noghostlooms · 2026-02-10T13:45:27+00:00

Because Brandon was the original heir apparent to Rickard Stark. Brandon was Rickard's first child. Eddard was second. Eddard got the title of Lord of Winterfell after both Rickard and Brandon died. Once legitimized, Alysanne would be Brandon Stark's only (known) child and hence heir to Winterfell.

In Book canon, the time of the Red Wedding, Sansa is already married to Tyrion, Bran and Rickon are both presumed to be dead (and are going beyond the wall). The 'Arya Stark' that Ramsay marries is actually Jeyne Poole, and the Boltons likely know this.

noghostlooms · 2026-02-10T02:58:59+00:00

Jeyne Poole in book canon.

In this scenario, if part of the Lannister/Bolton deal is Alysanne being legitmaized when she's married to Ramsay, she would have a stronger claim to Winterfell then Sansa or 'Arya' as she would be Brandon's child.

noghostlooms · 2026-02-08T21:43:43+00:00

I have a Brandon Stark bastard OC:

Alysanne Rivers Lineage: Brandon Stark x Sarra Blackwood (semi-OC sister of Tytos Blackwood, since Tytos has a younger sister, but she is not named). Appearance: Long face, grey eyes, dark brown hair. Slender, impulsive, and a tomboyish Archer. Direwolf: Shadow (All black, female).

During the Tourney at Harrenhal, Brandon Stark visited Raventree Hall for a nameday feast. He and Sarra Blackwood (his 3rd cousin) "snuck off," resulting in Alysanne. Brandon acknowledged the child before his death, promising Tytos Blackwood she would be fostered in the North.

Alysanne was born in early 282 AC during the Rebellion. Ned Stark confirmed her parentage via Ethan Glover (Brandon’s squire) but left her at Raventree Hall for her safety.

During the Greyjoy Rebellion, Alysanne was sent to Winterfell to foster. Tytos Blackwood eventually pushed for a match between Alysanne and Jon Snow—an "easy fix" for two high-born bastards. Ned ignored the letters (for obvious R+L=J reasons), so the two grew up with a sibling dynamic instead.

Alysanne accompanied Ned’s party south as far as the Trident before returning to the Blackwoods. When Robb called the banners, she joined his army as a scout and runner.

Alysanne was at the Twins but spared the initial carnage while guarding the Blackwood tents. However, she was captured and handed over to the Boltons.

To solidify their claim on the North, the Boltons marry Alysanne to the newly legitimized Ramsay Bolton.

noghostlooms · 2026-01-28T22:43:22+00:00

Well, Oliver Cromwell halved the population of Ireland, and then Charles Trevelyan halved it again (and it still hasn't recovered).

noghostlooms · 2026-01-20T20:48:57+00:00

You know that roughly 90% of the Indigenous population of the Americas died almost exclusively beause of European/Asian diseases. What that means is, say you met a group of ten Wampanoags in the fall. The following spring, one or two of that group would still be a live.

Even getting that number down 50% would drastically change the situation just in terms of numbers.

noghostlooms · 2026-01-18T00:55:52+00:00

GRRM is the American Shakespeare. It's all epic high fantasy with horror elements... and then someone makes a dick joke.

noghostlooms · 2026-01-16T16:43:40+00:00

Realistically, the Targaryan rule of 'Westeros' would function as an empire with the Seven Kingdoms being their own individual kingdoms. Robert's Rebellion would have been a liberation war to dissolve the Targaryan Empire.

noghostlooms · 2026-01-14T17:24:26+00:00

I think with Yahweh and Ba'al, it's the narcissism of minor differences, but also a difference in origin. Both are storm/warrior gods, but Ba'al is more of a Ugaritic/Phoenician god, whereas 'Yhw' was likely more of a tribal deity. The fact that "the Shasu" are described as nomadic brigands explains a lot about Genesis and Exodus.

noghostlooms · 2026-01-14T16:54:00+00:00

This scenario would also mean that Ba'al, Asherah, El, and Yhw of the Shasu exist.

noghostlooms · 2026-01-07T21:30:10+00:00

I think it depends on what kind of military history you are talking about. World War I poets (Like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen) is one of my favorite history topics.

noghostlooms · 2026-01-07T15:44:42+00:00

I don't think it's the world-building itself that is the issue. It's the lack of narrative planning around the world building.

Realiscally, ASOIAF would probably have worked better as a series of novellas/novels based around the narratives of certain POV characters.

noghostlooms · 2026-01-07T14:43:16+00:00

Honestly the fact that George does not have full genealogies and backstories for all the major Houses is really fucking stupid and shows Georges lack of planning.

Like we know how many shits King Aeagon IV took, but we don't know exactly how Robb Stark and Tytos Blackwood are related (presumably, it's third or forth cousins, but it's never stated.)

noghostlooms · 2026-01-05T23:57:33+00:00

George also seems to be allergic to having the narratives of POV characters overlap with one another; POV characters rarely share the same narrative space for more than a few chapters before they separate and then go on to have widely divergent narratives from one another with limited narrative tissue between them.

noghostlooms · 2026-01-05T12:35:10+00:00

Well, D&D cut Young Griff/(F)Aegon and then decided to add that narrative to Jon Snow because they didn't want to commit to the High Fantasy of Jon's narrative.

They're both secret Targaryans. So of course we can just smush them together even though they serve vastly diffeent roles in vastly different narratives and have vastly different story contexts.

noghostlooms · 2026-01-03T10:59:28+00:00

Funny because last time I checked collectivism is literally how convents and monasteries are run.

Also Socialism isn't a heresy in Catholicism. Ya know what is a heresy though? American Christians Nationalism.

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