Darryl, love your stuff. I know you're not a Nazi or a Holocaust denier etc. However, in the tucker interview you did kinda come off as saying that Holocaust was sort of an unintended consequence of capturing a whole bunch of people with no plan to feed them. You obviously know that Hitler put word out to his generals beforehand that kil…
Darryl, love your stuff. I know you're not a Nazi or a Holocaust denier etc. However, in the tucker interview you did kinda come off as saying that Holocaust was sort of an unintended consequence of capturing a whole bunch of people with no plan to feed them. You obviously know that Hitler put word out to his generals beforehand that killing of 20m or so people was part of the plan to create the lebensraum necessary for German expansion. So yeah. That probably could have been clarified.
Also, coming from one of your oldest fans: some of your Nazi/ Hitler related tweets are... kinda weird. Like do you really think Nazi occupation of France would be preferable to fat drag queens in the Olympic opening ceremony? Do you really think Hitler is in heaven? If so, what the fuck? People who haven't listened to a hundred hours of your content like I have would be forgiven for getting the wrong idea about you if that's all they've seen.
Agree; I have the same questions. The guy who wrote the opening to Fear & Loathing about the guy in bed at night worried about pogroms is hard to reconcile with those tweets.
I've been taking Darryl at his word for a while that he's largely a troll on Twitter and should probably be ignored. I don't think he thinks Hitler is in heaven (I *think* that was a reference to Trump surviving the assassination attempt), but I do think he might be serious about the drag queens. I know I'll disagree with him on that last thing and very many others (like Tucker Carlson being a worthwhile listen), and I'll keep listening to and reading his excellent longer-form thoughtful work, but I mostly ignore his Twitter provocations and suggest you do too.
I am struggling at this point tbh, twitter trolling is all well and good but acting like millions died because of inadequate logistics and perhaps actually for humane reasons is beyond the pale.
He was referring to the millions of POWs they captured. They had no adequate plan to feed so many of them & rather than just leaving them to starve to death, they killed them. I'm not sure what's so 'beyond the pale' about that.
X really brings out the worst in people. As fun as it is to troll the woketards that dominate X, Reddit and other platforms, it just kind of detracts from any valid points you’re ultimately trying to make.
The way I took the drag queen tweet was that it was preferable to live under fascism than in a democratic system that leads to the mockery and destruction of everything in the culture that a nation holds dear. One deprives you of your ability to vote, the other makes a mockery of everything that you love about your country, and life itself.
That said, the sentiment doesn't work at all if you are Jewish or any other group Hitler considered undesirable...
Or it could mean that the solution to Hitler - kicking him out of France - was much simpler than whatever the solution is to the gradual deterioration of your culture from the inside.
Additionally, in the first photo, Paris was being destroyed by the Nazis, an external enemy. In the second photo, Paris was destroying itself through cultural degeneration and blasphemy.
Yes, this was the point of the tweet as I understood it-- in some ways it is better to be conquered than subverted, because conquest is more likely to evoke resistance.
The French have always been dressing like that. Look at paintings of old French aristocrats. Nothing about French civilization is even challenged by a tableau of drag queens. Having a problem with that sort of more open and bawdy sexuality is much more germanic than it is French.
It isn’t the dress. It’s the satanic messaging embedded in the performance. This wasn’t accidental. The blasphemy was discussed, okay’d, planned, choreographed, rehearsed and implemented on a world stage. They knew there’d be pushback. Didn’t care. And, WTF did it have to do with sports? Naw. This was a message. A hateful, divisive, evil message. I refuse to normalize it as just so French.
It's an intentional troll aimed at Christians. "We're here, we're queer, nyah nyah nyah". And of course it's now practically a cliche to mock Christianity. Christians should not lose their cool at all, and use it as an opportunity to say any true word about the gospel.
Oh try not to piss your pants. I have the same contempt for this sort of offence-seeking as I have for those complaining about disrespectful cartoons of the prophet or a joke about Kaitlin Jenner. Looking for something to cry about is pathetic.
Great take. Their are no solutions, just trade offs, and this applies to democracy as well. I personally think democracy only works when built on a moral and cultural foundation. Individualism is great in moderation, when take too far, it leads to selfish degeneracy.
Thank you! I didn’t get it. 🫣 Now I understand WHY he’s so bad at social media. If his MM audience isn’t understanding his posts at first glance, there’s not a chance for anyone else to understand it; and an extremely high probability it’s going to be interpreted the wrong way. Truth be told, none of it matters to me anyway. I like Cooper. I like the fact that he’s kinda hard to read because I want to form my own opinions. He’s one of the few guys just telling the story. Maybe he should bring you on board for X post explanations.
Ah. Yeah the shooter was looking for his Hitler (Trump) and is disappointed to only find the shitheads that Rittenhouse popped. If it’s that tricky for us to figure out, of course the media isn’t going to get it.
I am not on X but when I saw the tweet I saw it as reflective of the fact that there was a clear and obvious way to fight against Hitler, physical warfare. There was a very easy to define enemy (they kindly wore uniforms so you could tell who to shoot at) and the problem could be solved by the age old art form of extreme violence.
The destructive potential of the movement that brought us the trans Olympic nonsense is every bit as terrible as that of the Nazis but it’s harder to know how to combat. Clearly French resistance fighters trying to take out the performers and those involved the way they fought the Nazis isn’t appropriate. Even if it was how do you identify the “enemy”? They don’t wear uniforms. We know how to defend our nations and our peoples from an outside martial threat, we know what to do against Barbarian hoards. We might not always win but at least we know what to do.
It’s much less clear how to fight the rot from within. When foreign soldiers march through my city streets in their uniforms I know what time it is and what actions must be taken. It’s much less clear to me how to respond when my kid’s school wants to have explicit material available to twelve year olds or even teach it. It’s less clear to me how to respond to foreign criminal gangs taking over buildings and neighborhoods when law enforcement refuses to act. It’s less clear to me how I should respond when the government wants to draft my son because they DEI’d the military to the point that no one wants to join and then they went and got into multiple hot land wars anyway.
Nazis in the streets of Paris are bad and the solution is to shoot them is pretty simple. Not easy but it’s simple. Fixing the moral rot of our societies and institutions is neither simple nor easy.
" I know you're not a Nazi". The Nazis were a 1920s-1930s political party in Germany. Literally, no one here is a "Nazi". I detest that shorthand, no offense intended towards you.
Dude, my comment says almost the same thing. Includes the tweets. Part of me thinks is he subconsciously acting out the intro to Dan Carlin’s Wrath of the Mongols
Darryl, love your stuff. I know you're not a Nazi or a Holocaust denier etc. However, in the tucker interview you did kinda come off as saying that Holocaust was sort of an unintended consequence of capturing a whole bunch of people with no plan to feed them. You obviously know that Hitler put word out to his generals beforehand that killing of 20m or so people was part of the plan to create the lebensraum necessary for German expansion. So yeah. That probably could have been clarified.
Also, coming from one of your oldest fans: some of your Nazi/ Hitler related tweets are... kinda weird. Like do you really think Nazi occupation of France would be preferable to fat drag queens in the Olympic opening ceremony? Do you really think Hitler is in heaven? If so, what the fuck? People who haven't listened to a hundred hours of your content like I have would be forgiven for getting the wrong idea about you if that's all they've seen.
He was referring to the deaths of POWs being an unintended consequence of capturing so many of them without an adequate plan to feed them.
He didn't mention the Holocaust.
Agree; I have the same questions. The guy who wrote the opening to Fear & Loathing about the guy in bed at night worried about pogroms is hard to reconcile with those tweets.
He wants to be a serious academic but he can't keep the troll in sometimes.
Well put. Darryl is a mystery. I wish he would stay off social media and stick with his wonderful deep dive history podcasts. That’s where he excels.
I've been taking Darryl at his word for a while that he's largely a troll on Twitter and should probably be ignored. I don't think he thinks Hitler is in heaven (I *think* that was a reference to Trump surviving the assassination attempt), but I do think he might be serious about the drag queens. I know I'll disagree with him on that last thing and very many others (like Tucker Carlson being a worthwhile listen), and I'll keep listening to and reading his excellent longer-form thoughtful work, but I mostly ignore his Twitter provocations and suggest you do too.
I am struggling at this point tbh, twitter trolling is all well and good but acting like millions died because of inadequate logistics and perhaps actually for humane reasons is beyond the pale.
He was referring to the millions of POWs they captured. They had no adequate plan to feed so many of them & rather than just leaving them to starve to death, they killed them. I'm not sure what's so 'beyond the pale' about that.
X really brings out the worst in people. As fun as it is to troll the woketards that dominate X, Reddit and other platforms, it just kind of detracts from any valid points you’re ultimately trying to make.
Well said.
The way I took the drag queen tweet was that it was preferable to live under fascism than in a democratic system that leads to the mockery and destruction of everything in the culture that a nation holds dear. One deprives you of your ability to vote, the other makes a mockery of everything that you love about your country, and life itself.
That said, the sentiment doesn't work at all if you are Jewish or any other group Hitler considered undesirable...
Or it could mean that the solution to Hitler - kicking him out of France - was much simpler than whatever the solution is to the gradual deterioration of your culture from the inside.
This is a very good point.
Additionally, in the first photo, Paris was being destroyed by the Nazis, an external enemy. In the second photo, Paris was destroying itself through cultural degeneration and blasphemy.
Yes, this was the point of the tweet as I understood it-- in some ways it is better to be conquered than subverted, because conquest is more likely to evoke resistance.
This makes a lot of sense. You bond with your neighbors, rather than end up at odds with them.
Excellent point!
The French have always been dressing like that. Look at paintings of old French aristocrats. Nothing about French civilization is even challenged by a tableau of drag queens. Having a problem with that sort of more open and bawdy sexuality is much more germanic than it is French.
It isn’t the dress. It’s the satanic messaging embedded in the performance. This wasn’t accidental. The blasphemy was discussed, okay’d, planned, choreographed, rehearsed and implemented on a world stage. They knew there’d be pushback. Didn’t care. And, WTF did it have to do with sports? Naw. This was a message. A hateful, divisive, evil message. I refuse to normalize it as just so French.
It's an intentional troll aimed at Christians. "We're here, we're queer, nyah nyah nyah". And of course it's now practically a cliche to mock Christianity. Christians should not lose their cool at all, and use it as an opportunity to say any true word about the gospel.
Oh try not to piss your pants. I have the same contempt for this sort of offence-seeking as I have for those complaining about disrespectful cartoons of the prophet or a joke about Kaitlin Jenner. Looking for something to cry about is pathetic.
You're just making stuff up to be mad about. I think being mad about this stuff is sign of weakness. But do you.
It's the decision to use a tableau of drag queens to represent your culture when its on the biggest world stage imaginable.
And the ideology they represent - intersectionality and post modernism - despises tradition and French culture and history.
The display was a deliberate f*ck you to Christianity.
If your God is that weak he's not a real God. So no need to respect false idols.
If your faith is that weak, then that's on you not Jesus or anyone who may or may not have mocked him.
Self evidently wasn't Jesus to those of us who don't have a weak faith we must pretend to be strong about.
You're speaking to a non-religious person; but your point would be just as nonsensical either way.
Then your opinions on traditional behavior are utterly without merit.
You're a modern, not a traditionalist.
You're confusing Paris with France. The majority of France does not act like that.
Great take. Their are no solutions, just trade offs, and this applies to democracy as well. I personally think democracy only works when built on a moral and cultural foundation. Individualism is great in moderation, when take too far, it leads to selfish degeneracy.
Thank you! I didn’t get it. 🫣 Now I understand WHY he’s so bad at social media. If his MM audience isn’t understanding his posts at first glance, there’s not a chance for anyone else to understand it; and an extremely high probability it’s going to be interpreted the wrong way. Truth be told, none of it matters to me anyway. I like Cooper. I like the fact that he’s kinda hard to read because I want to form my own opinions. He’s one of the few guys just telling the story. Maybe he should bring you on board for X post explanations.
Ah. Yeah the shooter was looking for his Hitler (Trump) and is disappointed to only find the shitheads that Rittenhouse popped. If it’s that tricky for us to figure out, of course the media isn’t going to get it.
I am not on X but when I saw the tweet I saw it as reflective of the fact that there was a clear and obvious way to fight against Hitler, physical warfare. There was a very easy to define enemy (they kindly wore uniforms so you could tell who to shoot at) and the problem could be solved by the age old art form of extreme violence.
The destructive potential of the movement that brought us the trans Olympic nonsense is every bit as terrible as that of the Nazis but it’s harder to know how to combat. Clearly French resistance fighters trying to take out the performers and those involved the way they fought the Nazis isn’t appropriate. Even if it was how do you identify the “enemy”? They don’t wear uniforms. We know how to defend our nations and our peoples from an outside martial threat, we know what to do against Barbarian hoards. We might not always win but at least we know what to do.
It’s much less clear how to fight the rot from within. When foreign soldiers march through my city streets in their uniforms I know what time it is and what actions must be taken. It’s much less clear to me how to respond when my kid’s school wants to have explicit material available to twelve year olds or even teach it. It’s less clear to me how to respond to foreign criminal gangs taking over buildings and neighborhoods when law enforcement refuses to act. It’s less clear to me how I should respond when the government wants to draft my son because they DEI’d the military to the point that no one wants to join and then they went and got into multiple hot land wars anyway.
Nazis in the streets of Paris are bad and the solution is to shoot them is pretty simple. Not easy but it’s simple. Fixing the moral rot of our societies and institutions is neither simple nor easy.
" I know you're not a Nazi". The Nazis were a 1920s-1930s political party in Germany. Literally, no one here is a "Nazi". I detest that shorthand, no offense intended towards you.
Dude, my comment says almost the same thing. Includes the tweets. Part of me thinks is he subconsciously acting out the intro to Dan Carlin’s Wrath of the Mongols