That Time the U.S. Government Intentionally Poisoned and Killed Over 10,000 of Its Citizens...
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I used to work up to 96hrs a week in UK 2008 kitchen, leg and arm cramps were not strange to me, but in 3 years time ive made up for many years before lacks of social, work and interpersonal skills. If you like it, work hard on it,
Um… Simon? Um… Anyone else feeling a bit uncomfortable after reading the title? Hahaha
Define conspiracy theorists people that were right about something before anyone else knew about it 🤯🧐🤫
Margaret Sanger loved eugenics!
Any time someone says "the government would never do that" this is one of about 50 examples off the top of my head that proves that stupid notion wrong.
The new rumors of the purge tells me what ( bloody !!) government ,!!!!!!! Robbing people of their 401k !!! Sick !!
Tuskegee.
Operation Northwoods, Operation Sea-Spray, Operation Midnight Climax (part of the MK-Ultra Project), Operation Paper Clip, Operation Underworld, Operation Ranch Hand, Operation Warp Speed, etc. 😶
@@AgoristsRising I have not even hear of half of those! I will need to look them up!
Trail of Tears
Japanese-American Internment Camps
The whole "abandoning black southerners to Jim Crowe after Reconstruction ended" thing.
Hey Simon, your next channel should definitely be called "the past was the worst!" Obviously you know what the content should be about.
Businesses, right?
Brain no? 😂
Tangents, all of Simon's channels are, by time, mostly tangents only the flavor of the tangents change based on the channels.
@@martinfilion794 Mmm, tangent flavor!
No, he needs a cameo in multiple movies and that should be his catchphrase
Simon screaming was the best part. "Get back in the bloody mine" I died 🤣
It was so good! Lol
Died just like those coal miners when their mines collapsed
If you don’t already watch it, you need to check out his channel Brain Blaze 😂😂
5:28
Agreed. I don't know if I have seen him drip with so much sarcasm as he did in this video, but it has been a while since I watched this channel consistently. I loved it.
There was a man named George Mueller who ran an orphanage in Charles Dickes' time. I didn't realize until now how truly countercultural he was. He took in anyone who was in need, fed them through donations, and educated them. A truly great man, worthy of the title of Christian.
@@JesusistheonetrueGod you twisted fuckwit.
Title of humanitarian*
Christians have never been nice people and what the church calls "Christian values" are
1. not historically existent and not followed by an overwhelming amount of people (between Jesus and the late 18th/early 19th century nothing of these supposed values were a thing) and
2. a simple renaming of the Code Civil by Napoleon, a man that honest to heart did not believe in any Religion, only its success in controlling people.
yes, i agree
Dickens was amazing
in stark
contrast compared to
infamous 3rd Reich Mueller
Yes, far better than the "lifestyle Christians" of today
I learned about him growing up in my literature book. Amazing true story 😊
I love that Simon starts by spending the length of most youtube videos just setting the stage for how unpleasant it was to live in basically any time in the past.
it always drives me nuts when people talk about going back to a "more civilized time". London 1850. You step out of the local watering hole, barely placing your hat on your head before raw sewage rains from the sky. You walk past 3 empty lots piled 2 stories high with horse dung on your way home. Laudanum addicts lounge in the gutter stinking of piss. In the distance you see a group of men stab an unlucky victim and push him from the pier. You quicken your step.
A thousand ways to die in the west really set that tone
The number of horrible things the US government has done over the years and conveniently almost no one talks about is sad as hell
But we're the "best country in the world"
We've been having propaganda rammed up our asses for generations now.
100% ! How incredibly unfortunate and dumb of our countrymen to not remember!
I think they’re in shock I mean it has the most extensive surveillance and disgenics program since probably ancient Egypt.
The number of things The Chinese government has done and is still doing no one talks about.
@@ketjustin100 Everyone talks about that. It's all the warcrimes the US has committed against Native Americans, and in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, all the coups you committed in Latin America, the bullshit invasion of Grenada, the list is damn near endless. Everyone shits on China and Russia, but the US deserves a whole heap of shit on it's head too.
"We hate the idea of people wasting their lives drinking, so let's try to poison them. It's ok, we'll tell them not to drink it so it's not our fault when they definitely die."
I know the past was the wurst was about a German sausage factory's early days of business.
Drugs will ruin your life. To protect you, I'll ruin your life if I catch you with drugs. -Governments everywhere
sounds like the war on drugs
Typical Democrat bollocks! Poisoning people is very typical of Wilson.
Yeah, that and variants of that crop up all the time. Essentially, it is justifying why there are "haves" and "Have Nots". The Chicago School of Economics is based on this sort of reasoning (and has made several people wealthy who promoted it.)
I love when you rant about how bad the past was. I agree. My grandfather use to tell me how horrible the past was, especially the Great Depression. His sister's crib? An empty drawer.
The bathtub is a convenient crib shape
Another propagandist. You get paid too?
Mine used to tell me how he was always sickly when he was young...until antibiotics were discovered.
@@MrBuzzzzz what?
My grandma was a twin and they were born premature, they were kept in the oven. Her twin sister passed and my grandmother was reported as dead. She didn't know that until she filed for SSI. She had to go through court and the judge wrote "NOT DEAD" across the death certificate.
Yet another example of why you shouldn't just follow the rules. Sometimes the rules are wrong and the people making the rules are evil. Question authority because authority isn't always right.
Indeed.
We live in dangerous times.
Especially the last 3 years, but most are blind, following the governments intents, together with pharma and the elites, who have their great agenda on their shedule.
We never learn.
Aren't rules the decider of authority?
@@boslyporshy6553 No, the ability to do something if people tell you no is what decides authority. As well as people's decision to comply. But if we refuse to comply, and "they" have the ability to punish us for it, then they have the authority. They also have authority if we grant it to them, but if we can take it back at the drop of a hat because they can't do anything to us, it kinda means we had the authority.
That's how I see it anyway.
@@heide-raquelfuss5580this is a painfully stupid comment 😂
@@CaerEsthar
With so little information i give, to not get in trouble...obviously, and you give such a comment? What is so painful stupid?
I do not expect by the way an answer, so here i let it all go.
Kind regards.
Dang, Simon! That was powerful content. The part about the mother writing to Roosevelt after the loss of her 6 year old daughter brought tears to my eyes. Screw the ‘good old days’ horse crap.
The good old days is generally used for one's childhood because of the fond memories you had as a kid. It's typically not 50 or 100 years ago.
Horse hockey indeed!
I live in the mentality of decriminalize drugs and offer help to people with addictions. I say this because i dont think the cat and mouse game of "keeping the drugs off the streets" works. Its more of an excuse to target poor people who are making money. And real joke is people will cheer spending $50,000 to have poor people get beatup for dumb crimes but will be outraged when $10,000 is spent trying to help them.
Where have you been, sir?? 🍻🥂
We dissident few shouldn't be ranting solo. Solidarity 🎩
Always remember, there is no law so trivial that the Government isn't willing to kill you to enforce it.
That's why the Department of Education needs it's own SWAT team.
Like what?
@@watamatafoyu People in Chicago are regularly killed by police for simply exercising their 2nd Amendment rights. And how on earth are you overlooking the entire war on drugs?
@@scockery no, it's because you rednecks have more guns than people, which causes school shootings when paired with bad mental health.
To this day untaxed alcohol is called denatured alcohol because they poisoned it well past any natural point.
They still blame illegal moonshine for the poisoning that happens to this day when people drink "denatured" alcohol.
The past wasn't all that long ago. I well remember the government led Paraquat/marijuana scare of the 70s and 80s.
“Reefer Madness”!
@@Coronado-nz7wu was filmed around the time marijuana was made illegal much earlier in the 20th century. It became illegal not for health issues. More in order to jail the lower classes (people with too much skin melanin) creating a low cost (chain gangs) work force.
The amount of people that complain of yesterday's government but then trust today's is miraculous
There are currently a lot of bad guys in government and corporate positions who can do what they want and go unpunished, but the world has improved since the past. Our current reality is endlessly preferable to the state of the past.
Miraculous??? Or Ridiculous!
Bigger, more evil, and more unaccountable than ever before.
@@ProctorSilex bigger/less acountable - yes
more evil - depends on how you define evil, but probably not
Yet things get better
Something to remember when the government does anything they advertise as "for the good of the people."
"... that we're exterminating"
What Simon is mentioning here on the Kinder Eggs (for those who don't know about it), is how people here in the U.S. keep insisting that we have Kinder Surprise eggs here (chocolate egg surrounding a yellow plastic capsule with a small toy inside) when we don't. These are the ones that are illegal to bring into the country. The chocolate egg that they are allowed to sell in the U.S. is the Kinder Joy (half the egg contains creams with wafer bites filled with cocoa. The other half of the egg contains the toy). The separation of the toy from the chocolate is what makes it legal in the states. Kinder Bueno does not have an issue in the U.S. as its just a candy bar.
Ive never bought one but ive had a couple kinder surprise eggs here in the U.S. I suppose that can be added to my file.
I get what yall are say but I grew up in the 90's and there was no separation of the egg and toy but yea it did go away...for a long time and some kind of Mandela effect happened and everyone says we are crazy this happened decades b4 but how can u explain 1000's of ppl resembling the toy in the 🥚....its like u saying a jawbreaker doesn't exist.....
I’ve bought the regular ones in the states, I have eaten it, it had a capsule inside the chocolate shell, it was a lil bit ago and possibly in a store with imports, but I’ll go turn myself in now 😔
I've had the real Kinder Eggs because they have them in the Argentinian run general store across the street from me, and yes, I do live in the US.
@@mzprizzy314 I remember there was a knockoff version of the Kinder Egg that was sold in the 90s too (chocolate egg that had loose plastic toys inside it and no plastic egg container).
Having actually had Kinder Surprise when in South Africa, I was disappointed when Kinder released Kinder Joy in the U.S. Unlike Kinder Surprise, Kinder Joy hold no joy, only disappointment
Sadly I haven't seen any Kinder Surprise in years in South Africa.
US "joy" then...
Last time i wanted to bring my nephews an egg (living in germany) the only thing on the shelves at the largest retailer was this "joy" thing, didnt know what to make of it and got something else for them - this was before the yearly summer break.
Ten children worldwide have died from choking on parts of the Kinder toy surprises... Death for chocolate would be quiet a surprise.
@@fukkitful yet, hundreds die from the flu, and adults still fight wearing masks🤔
I agree, the past was the worst, but could the methanol in the alcohol making people blind be the origin of the phrase: "Drinking yourself blind"? Maybe a good topic for the next TIFO video...
Very astute observation... I'm curious as well
Perhaps owing to the temporary effects on vision (and memory) of excessive drinking... references to being blindly drunk go waaaaay back. In common use in the 1600s and various similar usages earlier into Greek and Roman times. So clearly not the origin of the phrase. However, while it's not the *origin* of the phase, I totally agree you'd expect the term would be used more aggressively and with a sharper meaning once significant numbers of people found themselves *permanently* blinded by poisons added *to* alcohol.
I found this article on Slate about this very subject
"The phrase blind drunk doesn’t derive from either methanol- or lead-related blindness. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase has been used for more than 350 years to refer to the more figurative meaning of being “so intoxicated as to see no better than a blind man.” (The Spanish ciego, for blind, can also be used to mean “very drunk.”) Similar phrases, including blind-weary and blind-hearted, have been used in English for about a millennium"
I can attest to large amounts of alcohole causing tunnel vision and reduced awareness/responce to visual stimulus
Any whiskey still will kill you if you dont know how to use it, no government required, no excess drink required.
You people are getting more and more stupid by exposing yourself to this dolt.
On my first day of medical school, the Dean gave us a bit of information that has stayed with me ever since then: “it’s been only in the past 100 years that a typical patient interacting with a typical physician had a better than 50% chance of emerging better for that experience“
Hard hearts, hard times, poor of us
“Drinking is bad, let’s mass murder.” ~Government.
And people wonder why I don't trust the government
Whats not to trust about Americas biggest welfare recipients 😁
Exactly!
It only takes a bit of study of U.S. history outside of public school to come to the logical conclusion that the government isn't very trustworthy.
No one who has even a basic grasp on history should. It's not the first time the US government (or any government) has intentionally killed or non-consensually experimented on their citizens, or made other policy decisions that lead to mass misery and death. What makes anyone think they wouldn't do it again?
Because something was put across in the Depression?
I remember, as a kid in the 1950s, hearing adults talking about how important it was to be sure where you got your alcohol. They often mentioned how less expensive alcohol could be poisonous outright or tainted. So it was either still a problem or they were heavily influenced by their experiences growing up when tainted alcohol was common. I know I was a bit worried about it well into my early 20s. Gradually, it became clear that coming into contact with tainted or denatured alcohol was no longer common or easily possible.
I too, as a similar age, remember that fear expressed by "grown-ups" in the 50 - 60's. However, having worked in Norway in the recent past, it is a ligit. concern there! The Norwegian Government in an attempt to limit drunkeness taxes all forms of alcohol .... so drinking in bars there is VERY expensive. To counter this the locals have stills that are used to make cheap booze, and there is a habit of "pre-loading." Drinking this home made booze before going out so you needn't buy so much in the bars to become happily "minging". Unfortunatly some people aren't very good at the distilling and produce booze that will blind you, or even blowing up the still, which if you live in a block of appartments can lead to collapse and death of several people. .... Thank "F" our governments work to protect us !!!!
I got warned about that growing up in the 90's so it's still something people need to be aware of I guess. Was in Rotherham though.
@@jo77183 It still happens now, had an illegal still explode in a nearby town a few years back and there was a lot of knock off vodka available until recently.
You come in contact with it all the time. Rubbing alcohol is still denatured. The government never changed this policy, people just learned to listen.
Was warned about this issue in the '80s.
35 cents a bottle was around $5.58 in today's currency. It wasn't all that cheap for poor laborers in the south whose wages were often less than 40 cents a week.
The MINUTE you mentioned Scrooge's "surplus population" quote, I hoped so deeply that you'd mention the Ghost of Christmas Present throwing it back at him.
Once again, you did NOT disappoint. Well done as always, Simon.
England got a wakeup call with ww1, when they learned that feeding and providing some modest education to the poorer classes was necessary to be able to field an army
Are we sure this is a Today I found out video? Simon's energy and shouting levels making it seem more like a BrainBlaze episode 😂
AM I RIGHT PHILIP!
@@kylen7351 OGBB
oh god you folks know what's up lol
I was gonna post a comment pretty much saying the same thing, but thought I'd scroll through here first to see if someone else had beat me to it, and sure enough 😂 I legit paused the video twice to make sure I wasn't losing my mind 😆🤣
@musickttn +1
I never understood people who want a time machine to go to the past where dentists were a guy with a pair of pliers and you died when you were 40 if you were really lucky. No thanks.
A time machine would be awesome... assuming I could come back to the present.
Average life expectancy is misleading, when you hear that it used to be 40 or whatever, that doesn't mean people were just dropping dead when they were 40, it's mostly because of infant mortality, and people dying of sickness when they were kids. People still lived to their 80s and even longer pretty regularly.
@@FC-tq1yj I mean live there. Yes a two way “Back to The Future” DeLorean would be ideal.
@@Balthorium I've actually thought about this a lot, and if we were able to achieve time travel, it would probably be a one way ticket. Because as soon as you travel back in time, you're inevitably going to change something that will change the future, and the present that you came from no longer exists, at least not from your perspective. You've started a new and separate timeline, like an alternate universe. Would be really interesting to see what changes, because one person probably isn't going to have that much direct impact on anything globally speaking, but the little things you do impact will impact other things, and so on and so on.
well 40 is still the time when people die, just look at how much intervention that is required to keep people alive.
we have drugs, dentist, operations, and so on. on your own you would quickly die before 40. we can not even get children normally soon.
The last 3 years have shown us which people would clap and cheer for something like this happening today.
You mean one side would just want to live the way they always have without crazy restrictions, and the other side would laugh and hope the first group died?
@@TeslaHaxz yep, all while the 2nd group accuses the first group of wanting people to die.
The side that decided to believe what the government said, gets what it deserves. They should have taken some time to do some critical thinking. It’s on them now.
@@quentindaniels7460 lol
Yea, it's pretty frightening. I've seen people calling for death of others who disagrees with them. That sounds even worse than what Simon described as having criminals and poor people not being able to have children.
The saddest parts of videos like these is realizing that very little has changed over the course of centuries.
We pretend we're more enlightened than humane than our "barbaric" ancestors, but most of their atrocities still exist in the modern world - it's just intentionally obfuscated by our corporate overlords and their government lackeys.
None of this exists where you and I live. So be grateful.
100% we're in the middle of global depopulation agenda as we speak
@@ricardoalves2804 LOL
I have learned a lot about our continued failings, including things that are really obvious but we usually don't think about like our handling of drug addiction, mental health, private prisons advertising to investors about the high rates of recidivism, sheriff joe arpaio and the whole system that enabled him, the continued belief that if people are poor they didn't work hard enough and people exist to work, xenophobia and discrimination, racism and the wealth gap 50 years after the civil rights movement, a normalization of anti-democratic behavior and talk, the sky falling... Anyway I was planning to go somewhere positive with this... We are going to a better place. Hmm... I got depressed once and realized looking at this stuff too much actually distorted my view of reality. People are better than stories about our most extreme failings. Sometimes it seems like we are regressing, but as a society we tend to learn from our mistakes. Sometimes we are very slow to acknowledge our mistakes. Some people still think slavery was "a necessary evil" or something. But this video does a lot to show how far we have actually come in just a century. We understand that alcoholism and drug addiction are medical conditions, not a moral failing. It's strange that we as a society can't all just see when we are f-ing up, but we are going to see it eventually and do something different. Maybe we will realize democracy doesn't work and get a great dictator to solve all our problems. A century ago my previous sentence probably would have been taken seriously. We are slowly getting smarter. We are still human but we understand better.
@@ricardoalves2804 Right on! Safe and effective.
I am a 37 year sober alcoholic. My first AA meeting was on Sept 21 1985. My first sober day was Sept 24 1985. No one in AA, who follows their sobriety program, will tell you that you can NEVER drink again hence the saying, "One Day At A Time".
I resolved to quit drinking on Sept 20 1985 after coming close to beating my own mother to death at 3:AM in HER driveway. I never touched her as she was smart enough to not approach me. I was extremely violent then but I still drank every day.
I have said all this to demonstrate the power of the addiction. When I walked into my first AA meeting on 9/21/85, I wasn't especially craving a drink. While this wasn't the message, my subconscious translated what was said as, "YOU CAN NEVER DRINK AGAIN!". As one who would not be ordered around, when I walked out of that meeting, I had never, in my life, wanted a drink as bad as that moment.
This is NOT an indictment of AA. In fact, treatment and AA saved my life and the lives of my parents and my then 10 month and 3 year old sons whom I had gained custody of. If I had come into the house in the morning of 9/20/85, I am convinced to today that I would have killed them all, slept like a baby and it would have been all on me and no one else.
THIS is the power of alcohol addiction for people who are susceptible to it. It is NOT a moral weakness or any other bullshit that non believers /non addicts may tell you. It is a chemical incompatibility between alcohol and the physical, chemical makeup of the brain of people who are prone to addiction.
Fun fact. More people die of unmitigated alcohol withdrawal than heroin addicts going cold turkey and second only to unmitigated barbiturate withdrawal. Alcoholism is no joke.
Yep... even though I've never smoked, drunk, gambled, looked for porn or taken any illegal substances, I have some conception of what addiction is like. Usually when it comes it takes the form of electronic device use, especially video games. And I do agree, there are definitely people who are by nature more susceptible to addiction than others. It's sad but true. I'd consider myself one of the more susceptible crowd. I'm just grateful to have been raised in such a strong family, a Latter-day Saint family no less that is particularly vigilant about addictive things and habits. Addiction will probably get ya one way or another if you're susceptible to it, but it's probably because of my family's values that when addiction does strike, it comes in the form of something less harmful (though by no means harmless) like video games. I'd so much rather be addicted to playing a video game for hours than spending vast amounts of money on drugs, alcohol, or gambling and suffering physical side effects as well as mental. I reckon video games are probably less addictive overall than most illegal drugs too (though don't quote me on that). I recognize that I'm privileged in that way of having a family that can help keep me away from the more serious and destructive addictions. I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, I guess my point is, addiction will probably find a way if you're susceptible to it, but having a strong support system and willpower will make it drastically less damaging and help you recover far more easily. Support systems may not be able to prevent addiction altogether, but they can keep it in check and make it manifest itself in less harmful (or even productive) forms. I've never experienced anything close to the depths it's possible to sink to with addiction, and without the moral support of friends and family, I don't always like to think where I might be. Sometimes I need to be reminded of the power of accountability and support from others when I'm suffering a mild addiction.
@@matthewmitchell3457 Friend, you haven't a fuckin' clue what addiction is. Long story short, go to an alcoholics or narcotics anonymous OPEN meeting. Once there, put your hand up, tell them that you are trying to understand addiction from THEIR perspective. Ask them what chemical withdrawal is like. Compare this to your "game addiction" then come back and tell me all about your suffering.
It is a character flaw
@@thumper84 Alcoholism had been recognized by the American Medica; Association as a disease as it had well defined effects on the mind, physical brain and body. An alcoholic can, however develop character flaws and / or have existing flaws amplified. Mine, as mentioned above, are a flash temper and violent rage. Together, they make a dangerous mix. I am happy to say that I haven't had a problem with rage in 37 years.
My temper does the talking but my rage gets physical.
My temper is, on the other hand, another story around sensitive people as I tend to verbalize my dissatisfaction with things that cause me difficulty and in ways that, I'm sure, God doesn't find pleasing. I do a lot of apologizing to God.
@@matthewmitchell3457 Thank you for being a sane , rational individual.
Kinda surprised you didn't mention A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. Using youngsters as a replacement for game hunting or making ladies handbags, satirical yes but still crazy stuff.
that would require reading a writer from The Past is the Worst. Plus i am not sure he'd get the satire..he has stated many times he doesn't enjoy reading.
Swift's proposal was about Ireland, it was a highly satirical essay on how England was trying to destroy Irishness
@@stelladonaconfredobutler9459 Exactly. Swift used extreme and appalling satire as a trojan horse to give his actual message.
He actually said Irish babies should be fattened for English tables.
The last bit about the work houses exploiting workers by telling them they will end up in the poor house, sounds eerily similar to how some employers in the US use the loss of the employee health care to exploit their workers. That and the lazy are poor is similar to popular belief that the lazy are homeless ...... views from an ausy who has traveled in the states
I have been homeless before, and can attest that there are many common misconceptions about the homeless. I was homeless because of being abandoned by my current husband at the time and he left me in an apartment that he hadn't paid rent on when he said he had. He knew I just lost my job and left just before they were to evict us and took his name off the lease, but left mine. Resulting in my being homeless. Others lost jobs and weren't able to keep their place they lived and only after being homeless turned to alcohol or drugs to try and cope, though there were many there because of drugs and alcohol. It is also hard to find a job when you have no address or are able to have clean clothes or even be clean yourself. I was fortunate that I was able to stay in a homeless shelter till my mom and aunt were able to drive 15hrs to come get me
Yes it did sound familiar see the great depression for more.
@@Naomi-pq6tv Yes even though women only make up 5% of homeless population we have over 10,000 shelters for them. Only two men's shelters both in Texas. Society doesn't care about you as a man if your on the streets. there's program after program for women.
To be fair, stereotypes exist for a reason. Having been homeless myself I can assure you that many (though not all) homeless people around me simply did not want to work. And yes, a big chunk of them drank and/or did drugs. It ruins it for those of us who just fell on hard times but it's how it is.
But most people are in poverty because they are lazy
Kinder Egg/Surprise: Plastic egg with toy inside, outside of egg coated in white and milk chocolate. Banned in the US.
Kinder Joy: Plastic egg with two separate and sealed compartments, one with a toy, the other with chocolate and candy. Available in the US.
Source: Lived in England for many years, live in the US many more, bought both types for my son when he was younger.
Banned in the US: chocolate with a kids' toy.
Avaliable in the US: real guns designed specifically for children, complete with bright colors.
I can't with this b.s. country. 🤦♀️
It is also in EU countries.. The point is not to have plastic toy inside edible chocolate. Like Kinder Surprise or any other rip-offs.
Thank you for this one.... One thing I might add.... the "Government is us, and we are the Government"... any change in action comes about from us, or not at all....
I've been talking about this subject for years. No one seems to take it seriously, amongst the long list of other bodies created by governments around the globe.
Those people are in intense denial that evil on such scale can happen.
Have you done videos yet on how the U.S. fed radioactive food to disabled children in the MKUltra program in Canada and the U.S. or infected human subjects with syphilis in Guatemala and Tuskegee?
or how colonial America saw the gov't giving infected blankets from cholera wards to the native Americans
Also covid & poisonous shots. The biggest psyop and gene editing experiment ever.
Or numerous horrific experiments on U.S. soldiers and prisoners. God can bless America, but count me out.
I’m not sure. With the US only being 250 years old he doesn’t have as much content to pull from as the older countries.
Either he or Bailey Sarian has
I always like when Daven writes a script, and before I saw the end credits I had an inkling that he may have written this. When will you guys do another episode of the Brainfood show? It’s been a long time, you two work well together on a podcast
I read in an old book, that was written by a man in the south that visited the northern states before the civil war, that the people working in the factories in the north, were actually treated worse than the slaves in the south were treated.
Obviously I can’t prove that was true, and I’m certainly not condoning slavery, but I can believe that they were treated at least as bad as the slaves were, from reading other sources in history books
Simon yelling "get back in the mine" is just priceless.
I am happy that you are calling out how utterly shit the past was. Even if we look into the relatively recent past (say 70-100 years), it was actually pretty goddamn awful compared to now.
No. It's the same. Just wait till we hear the things they hid from us now in 40 years
I'd even extend and say the recent past is worse than further back. Like, the worst times in history of the world to live in would be like 1300-1950. Though further back is also worse than now, of course.
Not much has changed the last 800 years
Agreed. For example, I recently moved to Florida, and I often find myself wondering how people got by in hot regions without air conditioning when they had farms to work and food to cook on indoor wood stoves. They were likely used to it and didn't know any different, but it sounds miserable, and even somewhat dangerous.
If you look at crime rates as well, we are living in the safest cleanest time period for millennia, probably ever. The News has a vested interest in you being depressed tho, so all bad news for you!
Addicts not stopping using because government says so, and it might kill you too.
Yeah, its called addiction for a reason.
Actually the US Government did this multiple times. And to this day, do it and get away with it. Common knowledge actually
What's sad is that many people know this, but they somehow think their government wouldn't do it again.
They're doing it right now with the most commonly prescribed opioids. There is no reason to put Tylenol in them, it's used because it's dangerous. If you take too much vicodin or percocet, you risk liver failure from the APAP (acetaminophen aka Tylenol). See, we're supposed to know how dangerous Tylenol is, but I find that most people don't, or may not know that's what APAP means on their prescription bottle.
I've heard the vaccines caused health problems for a lot of people. Intentional or just horrific negligence, they're never gonna admit they caused it
Which brand of alcohol does the US government sell?
Yup, the pill form of hydrocodone (Lortab), for a number of years the most prescribed medication in the US, .was not available without acetaminophen. Adding APAP, of course, would deter the misuse or abuse of the drug. tbf, prescriptions are required to be clearly labeled , and they give you the printout of what each drug is, what it's for, & cautions and warnings. And (US) it's not too difficult for one to learn more about whatever it is you decide to put into your body. ( of course exceptions exist)
when the Varus went global ,- disinfectants and sanitizers- were highly sought. In Iran, where education and information , access to knowledge, are limited for reasons , and drinking alcohol is forbidden, the population began to procure the alcohol that was available (denatured alcohol). Many people consumed it, to kill germs &c., and for many months it was far greater a cause of death than the 'Rona.
~~ Government Alcohol Sales (US) in my home state, (and many others), any and all sales of distilled spirits originate from the state liquor board. Suprisingly , its left up to each state how to regulate and tax liquor sales. federally, they control production ,bonded by government to manufacture liquor. the A in ATF.
.there's nothing new under the sun.
And yet today we see the very same attitudes towards the poor.
Despicable.
Hey we've gone full circle in america! Can't go to the doctor? Check. 100 hour work weeks? Check. Still can't afford to sleep inside? Check.
As a woman who is 50, I'm leaving my child bearing years now. I lived at the peak, all my life I had my own body. And now that my children are starting their families, my daughters will not have that. As I live in Oklahoma childbirth is more dangerous.
Celebrating having your own body seems rather insensitive to Siamese and co-joined twins.
Wow that’s powerful
Yeah too bad you didn’t abort your children while you had the chance.
Kinder has an egg candy here in America, but it isn't the classic surprise egg. I think that's the cause of the confusion there.
It's called Kinder joy. That's a completely different candy that we have over here too, mainly during summer.
Simon Whistler : "good luck surviving in this time period, because f%@$# you that's why!"
lmao definitely my 2022 quote of the year! :)
Just as I was thinking the alcohol poisoning was rather eugenics sounding, you confirmed it, it was a eugenics program aimed at the working class
This has to be one of your funniest presentations yet. Not trying to take from the magnitude of your points, in fact I think you really do call attention to the incredible and unfathomable pains and sufferings of the past.
There's always the idea that another time period was better, or the present one is better, or a future one may be better, etc. I once read an article that stated people were happiest in George Washington's day. I asked my uncle what he thought about that, and he said there were probably people back then that were very happy and just as many that were miserable, same as today. It's not the time period, it's your own life circumstances and state of mind that make the difference. Nobody (in any time period) has it easier than wealthy people and look how many of them self-destruct in one way or another. As long as the world is run by people, with flaws galore, no time period will be all that terrific.
When you only look at the people who had the time, money, and historical significance (aka power) to leave written evidence of their feelings, then yeah, you'd probably come to the conclusion that they were happier than the average person today
I think the difference lies with existential dread, we have more time for it now due to increased prosperity.
Yeah but let's be honest here, the past was worse. There's a war that's called the 30 year war because it was 30 years long. 30 years. That's as long as I lived so far. Or like the video said, epidemics that erased a third of the worlds population. Obviously there'll always be individuals who have it particularly rough, even today. But overall, these are much better times than the past.
@@babblgamgummi6029 That logic ignores anyone that wrote books are articles ABOUT the poor or less fortunate. There is more information from history than that which was written by greedy aristocrats.
thanks that someone has a nuanced take. any blanket statement will just be that, blanketed. as a general think i would agree that we do have a lot of benifits today in many aspects, but different situations have their own aspects, for good, ill and qualitatively unique.
I had to watch that "GET BACK IN THE BLOODY MINE!" part twice because... holy crap, dude. Simon. Do you need someone to talk to? That really felt like you were working through some stuff there, my dude. xD
😂😂
That's his "Brain Blaze" energy. He yells a lot over there, and it's bloody hilarious.
Just in case anyone needed any more reason to realize how terrible the US government is.
Still better than China
@@leonleeoff2216 For now.
@@leonleeoff2216 That's.... not a very high bar.
Along with every other government
Get your COVID-19 boosters
That prologue was absolutely fantastic! 😂
And they wonder why people don’t trust the Gov.
Brilliantly written and researched, a big thanks from me to Daven. I think we all need a good reminder every now and again as to why we have so many rules and regulations (some more than others), and how bad things can get even in what people see as the "first world" if we fail to fight for and hold up such protections.
I was thinking of the miners' families in Colorado, who were murdered (mostly burnt to death) by the national guard, in retaliation for refusing to work in an unsafe mine....
"Together we bargain, divided we..."
Different parts of the country have different last word:
-divided we starve
-divided we beg
-divided we die....
I was kind of annoyed when the introductory "the past was the worst" segment went on for so long that I ended up thinking "yes, I get it, now get to the point".
But in the end it was necessary, because, as a person who has never been addicted to anything, when Simon reached the part of "people knew the alcohol might kill them and they just kept on drinking it", my first reaction was "Well... I mean whose fault is it then? You know it might kill you. Going on drinking is basically Russian Roulette".
... You know, Russian Roulette. That game that very happy and well-off people played when they had the world to lose.
I guess it's hard for me to really understand this, but there are/ have been people in the world whose lives were so fucking shitty that forgetting that very fact for a few hours was more important to them than going on living.
Hell, considering the whole 'thou shalt not commit suicide' that every single religion in the world espouses, some may have thought it was the perfect way around that rule. The alcohol might kill me, but I can't be sure - so I didn't commit suicide, I just drank alcohol that someone else poisoned and I didn't know it was poisoned.
This is a prime example of the origins of the phrase, "there are things worse than death."
I think this sort of “the past sucks” thing is to appeal to the youth. We also feel that we are making “progress” forever and ever. So this is just good marketing. Still, I agree, it’s annoying.
@@garrettbryan2717 What I meant was, it was annoying that it went on so long, but it was necessary to hammer it home for the audience (or at least, for me) to see the light that Simon (or the writer of this) wanted the audience to see this event in. Because, as mentioned, having never been addicted to anything myself, my first thought was "these dumb sods should just stop drinking", but the whole point of the video was that they had a reason to want to keep drinking.
I absolutely agree that the past was the worst in many, many aspects of life, from medicine to social justice and equality, to the rest of science (for example forensic science and its positive effects on crime) and its progeny, modern technology.
“GET BACK IN THE BLOODY MINE!”
Holy fuck his voice when he said that.
But how did it really make you feel? 😆🤣 If you think that's crazy, you should check out one of his other, many channels, Brain Blaze. Things tend to get pretty wacky over there. xDDDD
I got pretty sick as an electrical worker. I suspected the PCB's they had some of us removing for a while after learning about what GE did to a neighborhood. There were lots of hazards in that job though so it could of been a number of things. Poor genetics according to some of them. Imagine them telling you that after giving your life to those companies to do those jobs? My immune system has never been the same. Survived a bit longer to talk about it though. They even had an instructor tell us some of us may not live until retirement age for doing some of those jobs. I thought they were just trying to get us to quit when they said those things. Ah well.
The sheer amount of time, money and lives wasted by governments trying to meddle in the private affairs of citizens "for their own good" is staggering... and hauntingly familiar.
Love that you threw shade at people about the kinder eggs lol
Its hilarious because they sell kinder eggs at like every store in America
@@randallmiller1219 they're a different product in the US. The toy is in one half, the candy in the other. In Canada the toy is inside the candy shell, which is illegal in the USA.
@@likebot. I can't even imagine my childhood without them. Why make an egg if the toy isn't inside? That's just a waste of space.
@@221b-l3t I have no idea but i would assume that many stupid kids just swallowed the eggs whole and chocked to death with the tiny plastic toys. Darwinism at its best, but that may have been enough to sue the company.
@@221b-l3t"Why make an egg if the toy isn't inside?" Not if there's chocolate in it.
Sees title. My big brain: Ah Simon & company is going over how the US government poisoned moonshine ingredients. Watches first 5 minutes: Simon I know how you about the past but damn!
I dont remember hearing about gov poisoning moonshine before but guessed thats what the title referred to.
He’s reading a script prepared by another person.
I love how law abiding citizen means your trustworthy but the chemist were promoted as soldiers in a chemistry war.
Addiction is about the need to escape reality. Maybe a better reality would be the answer.
Someone needs to cast Simon as an abusive foreman, he's very believable! 😊
That bit about Roosevelt is beyond ironic, as he was "a cripple" and not worth living in the eugenics theory
You might want to look harder at Polio.
@@robertt9342 Regardless, according to much of the eugenics theory supported by Democrats at the time, FDR wasn't worthy of life, showing the typical hypocrisy of believers in the various forms of eugenics.
The Roosevelt Simon is talking about is Theodore Roosevelt not Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I've been watching Simon for years now I love the more laid back comedy he puts in his videos 😂
It's not his, it's called a 'script' and other people write them.
The 'Picard' line was well-deserved.
That time a New York Real Estate agent became President and let nearly a million Americans die, rather than engage in testing and tracing...
_"The more testing we do, the more cases we find. I like my numbers where they are!"_ -Donald Trump
I like how that one president publically demanded Hydroxychloroquin be made readily available for everyone knowing that the CDC would than suppress availability, threatening doctors license and intentionally designing a protocol not to treat victims until oxygen saturation is at critical level. Fuci and Bricks thought they were subverting orange mans attempt using therapeutics to end covid pandemic before their agenda goals were implemented when clearly he wanted more people dead. I personally think that same president set Derrick Chauvin up to create civil unrest promoting BLM and Antifa because they are his favorite people. Thank God the media hasn't realized this. They may not go along with the narrative once they realize the orange man wants all the chaos and unrest they promote.
More people have died under Biden than Trump. If you’re complaining about one you look silly by not mentioning the one who actually did worse.
Methanol and Ethanol definitely don't smell the same
It appears some politicians and social media commenter's views haven't changed on the "proper" way to help the poor. How many have said that poor are poor because they are lazy and they should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps? I'm looking at conservatives, whatever flavor they are in your country.
On the population item; it's interesting to see that today, the "fear" is that we're not breeding enough. That we're going to run out of those workers who we can exploit (usually pointing at soc sec for the justification)
Picard… all bad things must come to the end. That was solid gold.
Of course our government would NEVER do anything like that today. Why has the "goodbye" rate in the US suddenly increased by 40% (or more?) Why are people suddenly dropping like flies "from all causes?" It's so SAD. What are we doing differently now than we were a year or two ago? Why are we now forbidden to question certain things or even use certain non-profane words?
Simon just blew all the "back in my day" stories out of the water. For the last 300 years or so, it seems every generation can say the kids never had it so good.
Considering that when Malthus wrote "Principles of Population" in the early 1800's, the world population was still under 1 billion... now we are at almost 8 billion... so time has adequately proven that his fears of overpopulation were ungrounded... today however, there are still people talking about the same thing... and it's always the well off insect on the leaf that wants to get rid of the poorer insect at the base of the tree.
At the time, there was very little knowledge about how to improve soils fertility, fertilizers weren't invented yet so with the yields of the time I would have been impossible to have as many humans on earth as we have now.
And while it is possible to not deplete the planet's resource and screw the climate with 8 billion, it's not going very well right now. Having more people isn't helping either.
@@meneldal You're listening to propaganda. If the rich weren't so greedy megalomaniacs and governments weren't so tyrannical, there would be plenty for everyone.
Wouldn’t be the first time not the last, lots of little sneaky “operations” and testing on the public.
If you're here for the alcohol story...
Here you go- 7:00
The fact I could play out side with less fear was true
Simon, you are the best host on UA-cam, IMHO. I absolutely love your dry, British sarcasm. A huge fan of your channels and podcasts.
He is back. Back again, the fact boy is back. Tell a friend
I would have enjoyed it more if along with this information you also stated the federal laws implemented at the time. Such as the 'Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906', the 'Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906', the 'Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetics Act of 1938', and the '1914 Harrison Narcotics Tax Act.'
As someone who works in retail pharmacy as a technician, I wish more of my fellow Americans had the brain cells to comprehend just so short time ago did our government *have* to intervene to protect them from themselves, their privacy and give them some health literacy to take responsibility.
Maybe a history of Pharmaceuticals & their laws in the US exclusively is in your podcast future.
They weren't protecting citizens from themselves they were (for once) protecting citizens from corporations. Companies were putting chalk in milk and god knows what in meat. These laws were spearheaded by Harvey Wiley and Teddy Roosevelt the only president to kick corporate America in the nuts. I wish you could have left out the brain cell comment considering you failed to grasp that when the government tries to save us from ourselves they end up poisoning alcohol or conducting a war on drugs. People should be allowed to do whatever they want to their own bodies, it's the foundation of civil rights.
You should do a video on the food they sell to us which is even worse then the liquor poisoning
Wealthy in USA 🇺🇸 never went without drinks at their parties: Bankers , congressman, the rich who could afford to bootleg it from Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico 🇲🇽
It unusual to see this much sarcasm outside of a Brain Blaze episode. I’m beginning to think it’s spreading to the other channels.
My great-grandfather was a bootlegger’s cook in Oklahoma. He could make drinkable alcohol from anything that could be eaten and fuel alcohol from any plant matter. Well into the ‘50s, he was still distilling alcohol on a small scale, regardless of how many times his stills blew up from using overcooked alcohol as fuel for distilling drinking alcohol.
My grandfather used to take great pleasure in retelling the story of a revenue agent dropping dead after taking a flask full of fuel alcohol for himself in a raid. My great grandfather just watched him do it and didn’t say a word.
Saw the notification and immediately said "This one's gonna be spicy!"
EDIT: I was not disappointed!
Lol, did Simon forget he was doing one of his sober channels... We got some real BB moments in this one today. Love how you're relaxing more and more on these channels. :)
What's unnerving is that the pharmesutical industry still utilizes the pattern of allowing new medication to pass without openly testing it as long as it has something like 80% of similar chemical make up as a previous version. Similar to what happened with Jamaica Ginger.
Interesting that in that case the plasticizer was the problem. We have many toxic plasticizers such as PVC, which have had people fighting to have them removed from children's toys etc but have been unsuccessful. Many people have no idea how bad these things can be especially over time. There's now a brag of "safe PVC" "environmentally friendly PVC" ...no such things and "BPA free" PVC still contains lead, cadmium and other toxins.
Many of the face masks people have worn also contain microplastics and "suddenly" the medical industry is calling out how much people are increasingly having dangerous levels of microplastics in their lungs and blood. It was blamed on land fills........ 🐮💩
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Love Simon’s content…
But he is such a shameless shill
Prohibition: "I'm from the government and I am here to help you..."
The Eighteen Amendment was passed by the People's representatives in both houses of the Congress and ratified by their state legislatures.
@mannacler Look at this guy, believing that our "representatives" actually work for our interests.
@@Michael-zf1ko Prohibition began over a century ago. If you can do better why don't run for office? You have a loser's attitude.
Johnathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” is a great satire of Malthusian ethics.
This is why you should never trust any government.
The government and the Elite 💀
Though 99% of the time it's always the US american or russian government doing this shit.
@@CrayolaCoffeeBean Those are generally the same thing. To paraphrase Voltaire, frequent assassinations and the occasional mass uprising are effective methods of keeping a government honest.
"Hey, Boss. Don't you think we should turn off the mill before we have little Tim climb up and clean out the gears?"
"We can't expect Polio to have all the fun, can we? We'll just have Tom clean Tim out of the gears later."
**And so the cycle continues**
Oh! I thought for a split second from the title that this was gonna be about the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments XD (I know poisonings & infectious diseases are two different things lol, I'm just half asleep). I'm behind on your videos rn but if you haven't discussed this on one or more of your channels yet then you DEFINITELY need to.
I wonder how many takes Simon had to take with the get back in the mine bit where he slipped up by yelling at Danny to get back in the basement
Always love the sarcasm but this particular video has some emotion to it that is frankly hilariously refreshing.
I had to attend a work ready course at the DWP and took my daughter with me as it was the school holidays and had no other childcare. The guy running the course got frustrated with my daughter because she kept interrupting and made a joke about sending her up a chimney. Her comeback was classic. She told him1. She was too big for that job. 2. That's now illegal and would be classed as child abuse. 3. Most places have central heating now as coal is environmentally unfriendly. He just got owned by a 10 year old. 😆 🤣 😂
Why was she interrupting so much? Hopefully he was a turd or something because otherwise that ain't a good look
And then everyone clapped?
@@killianguthrie8502 She had a lot of questions about things like, "Any job is better than no job" mantra they kept repeating. She asked, "If someone here gets any job and it doesn't pay the bills what is the point of getting that job in the first place?" A lot of people in the room agreed.
@@allisonwest7079 No. A few of them agreed with her verbally, some nodded and smiled, the rest just sat there with bored expressions on their faces.
Today's oligarchy still opines the same way about the normal citizenry. "They will eat cake, own nothing, and be happy. Or not. *shrug*"
i could seriously do without the swearing even though it's bleeped out... doesn't add anything of value and highly unprofessional... so no like and no subscribe...
Wow. Why would we ever trust our governments ever again after hearing this? Insane.
If you knew what Biden, Soros, WEF, China, Russia had in store for us then you'd be shocked.
You have much to learn
@@nothanks9503 Oh I know... Bill Gates and all of that nonsense. They want us to eat the bugs and walk while they fly on private jets eating steak. The masses need to wake up. Take the red pill.