Get Surfshark VPN at surfshark.deals/cobbler - Enter promo code COBBLER for 83% off and three extra months for free! DISCORD: discord.gg/faxjJA9r These simply are not the kinds of videos I want to make. This video was a failure, and it had to be, it was written by a pillar of salt. I've finished my fall of the Republic video now, the next one I write is going to be fun. It will be about the inevitable Red Dead Redemption 2 show
I don't know if you are reading this but please once in a while make some gaming related video or essay that you used to make those videos were amazing and I really enjoy listening to your opinions on games. Thanks, hope this comment finds you.
you know what i dislike more than interrupting a video for the sponsor? Not beeing able to tell when the sponsor is over and video continues. (so i can skip there...) keep the great work
I'm glad the minimum wage wasn't increased. It would make our fiat currency even more worthless. Increasing minimum wage without instituting price controls would have only increased inflation. It was a rare act of (self-serving to secure votes in Arizona) patriotism on the part of the former porn star, now an alleged Senator.
“No one can buy a house anymore, no one can afford rent anymore. We just spent two decades fighting wars that did nothing but scar our men and line war profiteer pockets, and everyone is eating poisonous food that keeps getting more expensive. And when it inevitably makes them sick, they can’t afford to be made well again.” Holy shit you could throw that on a history book, that was fucking powerful
A small criticism of the historical accuracy of the script: MacArthur did not say "let's nuke Korea", he said "let's nuke China to stop them reinforcing Korea".
@@griggorirasputin6555 More the border between China and North Korea, a big reason its so hard for defectors to escape is because of the huge river between them, which you could make impassible with big bombs on bridges
Let's face it, he probably asked to nuke "asia". If that meant Korea, China, Eastern Russia or even Japan (again) depended on the moment. It was probably more like "give me the good shit and I'll use it wisely. Trust me!"
Thanks for educating us on Smedley Butler. I was in the Marine Corps and all they taught us was that he had two medals of honor, Like that’s all he ever was.
This doesn't make any sense. Where the hell do you live where drug dealers have such fierce competition they try to beat the market through rapid development of new products to the point that people have developed a culture where they're excited for a new drug that's going to be released any day now?
@@jesustyronechrist2330 I think he is saying that the videos are like drugs in the sense that a drug addict would count the hours until they take more hours
Jesus. After 19 years in the military, 3 tours overseas, and continuing questions on how I am going to secure my future, this video almost brought me to tears on a public flight. Don't stop cobbler.
you would think the actions of the CIA and the country being dismantled from the inside by politicians who are nothing less than treasonous throwing their own citizens under the bus to enrich themselves would bring you to tears.
Ditto. I just keep trying to ask myself what the fuck was it all for. So many of us bought into the war we were sold. We fuck off, civilians are slaughtered, the enemy takes over, and they say we won. We didn't win, they did because we were expendable. Men like Butler are why they keep trying to add service members to lists.
Historian here, particularly a historian for the Soviet Union. You better BELIEVE I acknowledge desperation as the 4th and most important ingredient for revolutions. No man would fight a revolution if things were good, he would be conflicted and think "I benefit, everyone benefits from the current system." They need desperation and a years long drought of hope before thinking "things will NOT get better. We have a moral obligation to end today's tyranny."
Truly a sad day September 30th, 2026 was. Can’t believe my favorite youtuber DJ Peach Cobbler shot himself 3 times in the head with an anti-material rifle.
I once saw a video talking about world building, specifically on writing megacorps. One of the points he made was that it is incredibly difficult to convince someone to die for a paycheck, so a massive private army was illogical and would be doomed to fail. What I've learned in the years since is that you don't need to use money as the driving factor. Tell thousands of boys that they're fighting for their country, protecting their families, or "spreading democracy" and they'll kick in any door at your behest
"One of the points he made was that it is incredibly difficult to convince someone to die for a paycheck, so a massive private army was illogical and would be doomed to fail." And yet that's exactly what a professional standing army is, the etymology of the world soldier is literally that of the word mercenary, or a 'sold arm'. Then you have all the privateers and contractors like the conquistadors and the mountain men. Basically that statement is way off base, getting men to kill & *risk* death for a paycheck is actually pretty damn easy, why wouldn't it be? Death is certain in the long term anyway and certain in the short term without a paycheck regardless.
Its Impossible to convince someone to die for a paycheck. The trick is nobody thinks they're the one that's going to die. Same mentality as gamblers playing the slots or the lotto, we've all convinced ourselves were the exception to the rule, regardless of the static's were confronted with.
@@blackwolf671 Exactly. It's easy to die for a paycheck when you think you're the main character in life. All the other mercenaries that died? The story wasn't about them, it's about me, obviously I'm going to be the one to kill the 10 million dollar bounty: because I'm the main character and the story is about me.
I have never felt so vindicated before in my life. I'm in the midst of moving out of my apartment to live with a friend because rent is impossible now and 2 grocery bags and a sack of potatoes costs eighty fucking dollars. Meanwhile my ancient coworkers complain the new genrration doesn't know how to finance and are getting in their own way of success. Meanwhile, the old fucks sell a half acre with a 1920 brick shithouse for $140,000. It is so expensive to live now that most people my age don't even go out. Don't believe me? Go to a bar Friday night. The youngest you'll see are 30 year olds. Go to a social hall or arts class, nobody has time. Everyone is either working a grueling job, going to college, or both. The only time I see someone my age is when they are working a register. But ask anyone older and they'll say we're just stupid, irresponsible children addicted to our phones. Fuck now I'm pissed.
Time you check out some Mao and Fred Hampton reading. Also look into your community for any activism you can help. Whether it be spreading the news on Tik Tok or helping the group on the ground. It's time for revolution
As a Marine Vet I thought this was going to be very Anti USMC and showing that Smedley Butler was garbage because he is one of the best the Marine Corps has ever had, but it was the exact opposite, he was even better than his legacy would lead you to believe.
He was a better Marine than the Corps could handle, was my reading of him. Lots of fun anecdotes about him. When he was leaving the Philippines, some locals came up and showed him some IOUs his Marines had signed "George Washington" or "Uncle Sam" and the like. Butler knew his 50+ troops so well he recognized all their handwriting and made them pay up. While he was running Camp Pontanezen, Butler's superior lit up some young LT for some minor mistake in the mess hall. Butler personally walked into his superior's office and yelled at him for like 10 uninterrupted minutes. Slamming his desk with his fist, real biblical shit. Butler's superior respected Butler so much he gave the LT a public apology. I make videos about classical antiquity. Legends. Caesar, Alexander the Great, Augustus, and so on. None of them have impressed me as much as Butler.
@@DJPeachCobbler I feel like that's the fun of studying Modern history. Way more gray/horrific shit, but the hero-.....no....the truest human beings begin to shine the brightest.
It's fascinating you brought up the Late Roman Republic. The Roman Republic after the Second Punic War was catapulted to become a super power of the Mediterranean World. Her Legions would be sent abroad more times and for longer than ever before. Slaves, loot from these military campaigns flowed into Rome. The Republic flourished. For some. The demise of the Roman Republic was brought about internally. The pieces that would bring the end of the Republic was born slowly in the post-Second Punic Wars era of Rome when it was riding high. Rome's borders and influence expanded to cover the Mediterranean World, the Legions conquered their way into our history books. Rome had never been so large, rich, and powerful. Yet the number of land owning Romans became less and less. Land owning Romans would be called into service, serve abroad, then return to find nothing. They were adrift with their family. They lost their farms to some rich guys that were buying out everything. It's kind of a big deal because traditionally, to be eligible for service in the Legions, you had to be a Roman citizen. *A land owning Roman citizen.* The kind of Roman citizen that became scarcer, yet Rome was sending her Legions out more frequently and for longer duration. What Gracchus was talking about with these soldiers and their families having nothing, wandering like ghosts... That was real. Gracchus tried to remedy this by distributing land so more Romans owned property to call their own and be part of the Republic once again, but he got assassinated by the rich and their butt buddies in the Senate. His brother tried to do the same thing and he got murdered, too. This problem wasn't being fixed, and the precedent of the Romans now resorting to assassination for internal politics opened the next set of doors that would lead to the fall of the Republic. Some guy named Marius recruited straight from the poor. HE paid them. Not the Republic, not the Senate. The new Legions raised were his. Paid by him, loyal to him. Not the Republic. He took care of them since the Republic would not do that itself. More assassinations would follow. Rich men raising personal armies, not the Senate. This was happening long before Julius Caesar came onto the scene. Ceasar wasn't the one to make the first stabs in the heart of the Roman Republic. That started long before him. The Roman Republic was in reality destroyed long before Augustus Caesar became the first Emperor. The Romans destroyed it themselves much earlier.
Its terrifying how many parallels there are between the late Roman Republic and the USA at the moment, despite the many differences as well. I really think it'll be 2016 that's marked as the beginning of the end for the US if they don't pull themselves together
@@tuxtitan780i doubt it. the U.S. is much stabler. the U.S., like all countries, will always have problems, but we haven’t resorted to constant assassinations and insane corruption yet. and our democracy is stronger than Rome’s. as long as the good people keep fighting the good fight, America will live.
Fake news, I've heard he deliberately get pregnant just so he can abort it on the 8th month. In fact, he has done it so much that Texas is trying to ban him doing that (it backfired because he just move to a different state).
I’m working as a history teacher right now I teach 6th grade world history at a charter school This week I’m getting into the fall of the republic, from Cicero to the brothers Gracchai to Caesar himself And I’m I’ve the moon for it, these videos have been not only fun in a general sense as weird history nerd but as a massive coincidental parallel to the lessons I’m trying to bring across to a room full of kids. (No I don’t recommend these videos to 12 year olds but I do take some relevant talking points) Keep doing you desert man The republic is dead, long live the empire.
Seventh grade civics class was the beginning of my disdain for the American gubment. My teacher, Mr. Frye was an alcoholic with a poker habit, but the man could teach. Him and his buddies would play poker on the weekends in the second floor of a gas station my mother happened to work at. My mother would warn me when he had a losing night. You didn't want to forget your homework when your teacher had a hangover and was in the red, lol.
It was wild, I do not come from money my entire family is poorly educated blue-collar people. And to go to College and become a Historian (lowe case h it's just my bachelor's but I do have a paper that should have been published) and to hear historians talk about certain topics is baffling. I wrote a paper about how George Wallace, the horribly racist govenor of Alabama, and how he gained support because the media insulted the poor and uneducated, both political parties were moving away from the actually impoverished and relishing in turning American cities into desolate hell holes where only the uberly wealthy can survive in peace... and the Historian's reaction was the fact that George Wallace was literally Donald Trump. I cannot fathom a more milk toast response in my entire life, I presented a paper which all but told people when you treat people like shit they turn to the worst ideologies and violence and I was met with that response. I cannot put it into words.
I know that it’s painful to see people act in that way sometimes- almost as if they forgot how to think critically. But don’t you think they have a reason to act like that? Hear me out. Our world is crumbling around us. Not just the foundations, but the idea of history and our sense of purpose- our countries are built on lies and exploitation. Isn’t that what your paper proves? When confronted by this, what do you expect people to do? They could see it, process it, remember it. But it won’t change anything. It won’t put their world back together. They’ll just be able to see more cracks. Turning a blind eye to the destruction of your history and society is obviously the wrong choice, but for most people they just want to live in a dream. Ignorance is bliss, and those people who can’t see what you’re truly trying to say, will never hear you. Because all their lives, they’ve just been blocking out and removing the cracks in their world, because it makes them feel unsafe. Take solace in the fact that you are correct, and you know the truth. But do not expect others to be so eager to learn. It’s not your fault, but it’s their nature to be content, and our nature is to learn. Not to make any offense, but maybe instead of being unhappy that the historian does not understand what you have found, be happy that you, someone, knows it at all, and that makes it important.
As soon as you said, "War is a racket," I knew exactly what this would be about. You summed it up perfectly, my sweet pastrie gaming video essay daddy. We do, in fact l, live in a society.
@@Snoop_Dugg "War is bad, therefore we should do nothing as our democratic allies get smashed by foreign dictators -oh, just because I am ideologically aligned with them doesn't mean anything" A lot of people mistrust pure anti-war types since there is a history of those kinds of people unironically concern trolling for their favorite foreign dictators. The Silver Legion and the Socialist Party USA both did that for the sake of Nazi Germany and the USSR respectively.
@@stephenjenkins7971 Well to be fair - the US does not have an official position regarding Taiwan (seems to be changing now) Both Taiwan and the mainland consider themselves the 'One True China'. The US's position is that they should resolve their issues peacefully, and will only get involved if the mainland tries to annex it. Also since Taiwan produces the latest computer chips at 3nm scale, it is of immense value to American industries. Apple and other countries are starting to build their own manufacturing plants but it could take 10 years to catch up to the precision. In terms of ethics - The US independence was hard one and hard fought against the British. Surely Taiwan deserves the opportunity to do the same without foreign influence? ___________________________________ Concern trolling? I haven't heard about the Silver Legion etc. that's very interesting. I'll go research about them next. I will say that the rest of the world views war less... uh flippantly than the US does, many other countries label the US president as a warlord of sorts (hey it's the largest industry! 🤷♀)
"Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up."
Gamers rise up from your gamer chairs, and go outside. Not only to touch the grass, but to light it as the torch, that shall see the world burn down before they may take our chicken nuggies.
14:50 - It's not simply the great depression that had caused this issue. The US government would make the payments from the end of WW1 UNTIL 1945, with most people having their due dates closer to those later dates. And albeit having your entire life destroyed by physical and mental trauma caused by the greatest war in history (so far), these men were at the very least going to receive their money and they were sure it would be what it was promised to them because at the time the dollar was backed by gold. If the government told you you were getting 1000 USD, that had a real equal value in gold that would remain true regardless of when you received it. They were protected against inflation. But in 1932 the US government was in advanced talks about dropping the gold standard. Since their protection was the value of gold, removing that meant that whatever they would get in 1945 would be, at best case, the nominal value of what was promised to them in 1918, corroded by at least a full decade of inflation. I feel this is quite important, because it's one thing to think these veterans who put their lives on the line and suffered through the worst of the great depression, reached the brink and took a desperate measure to try and fix their lives. Another is to see that these veterans who put their lives on the line and suffered through the worst of the great depression, got swindled by the US government first when they got home after the war, and then again one decade later. These people gave everything they had, got nothing in return and were about to lose the little they were owed.
What happened when the US removed the gold standard and given permission to create all the money they wish out of thin air? FDR withdrew the dollar gold standard. Resultantly, the Federal Government grew by illegal leaps and bounds and the purchasing value of the dollar crumbled as the private bankers, including the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank, created trillions and trillions of dollars out of thin air. Today the US Dollar is worth only one or two percent of what it was worth before FDR (later NIXON) removed the gold standard and opened the flood gates of money printing! In 1787, colonial leaders assembled in Philadelphia to replace the ailing Articles of Confederation. As we saw earlier, both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were unalterably opposed to a privately-owned central bank. They had seen the problems caused by the Bank of England. They wanted nothing of it. As Jefferson later put it: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." To be sure, pursuant to the Constitution, it is illegal for Wall Street Bankers and the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank to create money. But it does. As a direct result, the Federal Government has grown exponentially, the wars increased in size, scope and tempo; and, inflation the ultimate result: Neo-feudalism! Without a gold standard, the banks can counterfeit and the government has unlimited powers of spending (current US Government debt is $32 trillion and unfunded liabilities $220 trillion). All Wars are Bankers wars - To summarize Butler’s solution against the Wall Street Banking Terrorist creating endless wars: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. We must take the profit out of war. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes. "Military Men Are Dumb, Stupid Animals To Be Used As Pawns For Foreign Policy." - Henry Kissinger
That closing momologue hits deep. Im 30, im never gonna own a house, i know that now, i'll never own land, ill never he granted a loan to go to college for a higher paying job and even if i did, i'll never pay it off. I eat poison and feel sick regularly, i cant afford to see a doctor and im gonna need to move again soon because sometime this year the rent is gonna go up again. All of this, while im working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. The people have never once in human history, failed the state. In every single instance, it has always been the state that fails the people.
I'm sorry I hope you get the point you want to not in spite of what's kept you down but because what kept you down helped you realize your stronger then you actually are
"They have sewn hopelessness, and will reap tyranny" is a line that goes way harder than it has any right to. This entire video kinda goes harder than it has any right to. Thank you UA-cam Funnyman.
Legit as soon as he finished saying that I was starting to breathe the words thus always to tyrants as he said Sic Semper Tyrannis. I swear if he tried, the man could lead a coup.
Weird that American businessmen would have approached the most anti-big business American general for a pro-big businesses coup. Seems a bit counter-productive
The mentality seems to have been that he was the only guy in America who could be the figurehead, and they probably assumed Butler was a disingenious lizard person like they were
If you have a guy that fights for people as a representative of your campaign you can easily pass anybullishit you want. Their critical flaw was thinking Butler was just pretending and not an actual people's man
Damn the American Legion has changed a lot over the years, when I was a kid there was a chapter in our town that was a soup kitchen run by veteran's club (because most of the veterans were homeless and had mental issues that the VA refused to help) and basically nothing else.
Maybe I missed this part but Major General Smedley Butler refused those oligarchs and the only reason we are talking about this because he made it his life's work to bring this to light.
basically the american legion was poised at the perfect confluence of power, wealth, and popularity and with a famous well respected man at its head. It could very easily have become American Fascism and ended the Republic if not for the honor of one man, Butler himself.
It truly was an amazing wrap up to the video it made me inspired, depressed, and nut all at the same time. Like boy are we totally screwed but at least we're all screwed together.
@@jhopkins1515 and at least when we're all screwed, those who screwed us (the wealthy) will be dead by either us or their escape rocket exploding because they underpaid the workers
@@007kingifritWhat makes you think what comes after would be any better? Not that the US is good as it is, but from the perspective of a European it’s pretty clear to see that as soon as a restructuring takes place, people are going to try and take advantage of a fredh slate from the very beginning. To think of it another way, what do you think will happen to a country that has more guns than people, if any significant change were to be made to the social order? Everyone is afraid of the US because we can see it’s on a tipping point. A brink. The precipice of an extremely slippery slope. Polarisation has got to the point where something bad is going to happen no matter who it’s for. You also have to think about new trends, people trying to get around the system, the huge anti-authoritarian wave going around right now with both red-pill losers and pro-life preachers. People are so sick of the system they have that they won’t even stand for a new one, even if it benefits them. Overall, the point is that the US is at place where, if their constitution and social structure breaks down, there is absolutely no assurance that anything will rise in it’s place. Similar to the Romans, in a way.
I know how that feels. On the bright side, in the eventuality of being proven right from the start, there’s no such experience as cathartic and validating.
I got hit by a 250lb IED in Afghanistan on my 1st deployment which jacked me up a bit. On my 2nd deployment, my body was finally giving in to my injuries. Being infantry the physical toll was getting to be too much. I tried to reclass, but big army said no and med-boarded me instead. They only see you as useful if you are useful. If you're not deemed useful, then good luck, and thanks for your service.
Most of the time it’s some asshat officer trying to make his numbers look good for awards, “my unit is at 100%, what? Somebody got hurt? Not in my unit”
I got smacked in the head with a baseball bat and struck by lightning while I was a police officer. I have tinnitus pretty much every day, have trouble focusing on anything, and my vision is deteriorating due to damage from when I was hit in the head. The state has told me that I am not entitled to disability because I was on duty the day after both incidents and therefore I was clearly healthy and I’m only trying to scam the government out of assistance with medical bills. Suppose that’s what I get for being an overachiever.
I am very impressed you brought up the issue of land reform in ancient Rome, it's so rarely mentioned how big of a factor that was in the fall of the Republic. It literally lies at the heart of everything. The Roman army, pre-Marian reforms, was a levy army comprised of land owners. Too serve in the army you had to be a land owner and own a certain amount of land, it wasn't a profession it was a duty and a privilege. But as more and more land got bought up and there were fewer and fewer land owners the Romans had to keep lowering the land requirements in order to keep their military going until eventually they got their asses kicked by the Cimbri and were struggling to replenish their army. This as opposed to the Roman army of the Punic wars that could lose whole armies and navies and just keep coming back, that's how strong the Roman middle class was. But as Hannibal was burning everything he could in Italy those small farmers had to sell their lands when they came home after the war, which started or at least accelerated land consolidation. As a response to this problem and their defeat the Romans adopted the Marian reforms, lifting land requirements entirely and making the position of a soldier into a profession. Rome would now have a professional, standing, salaried army. Armies more loyal to their generals than to the republic. This directly led to the fall of the Republic, the rise of the Empire, the constant civil wars, all of it can be tied back to this single issue. And what did soldiers get at the end of their service? Land.
Except what he brought up was literally centuries before the fall of Rome. He instead was saying that is the reason Rome became a dictatorship instead of its semi democracy it had at the time.
Tacitus, paraphrasing the words of a demagogue who stirred the Illyrian legions to revolt during Tiberius' reign (that was later defused by Drusus), said that the land received was some worthless provincial bog, and the soldier was too old and worn out to make much of it by the time he was allowed to retire. It does seem to be a form of indirect wealth redistribution. Rather than break up the latifundia, ruining crop yields in the process, they were instead taxed to pay soldiers. But since the soldiers no longer had ties to anyone besides their comrades and the urban rabble they were recruited from, they simply banded together to extort the state for more money whenever the leadership let them, or failed to stop them.
People had to die for weekends and 40 hour work weeks. The IWW used to be a pretty strong union organization, if it was still strong today maybe things could be better, but capital will always fight to get ahead and crush the people that decide to organize against it. Obviously I’m a lefty commenting this. I’ve been trying to get to the bottom of your videos for years now peach! Your content is fucking fantastic and keep posting for as long as you can. All love
It still blows me away to this day how international and domestic terrorists just straight up....go for the arguably least effective targets. Like wtf is attacking a bunch of random people gonna do? They don't know why, they just become more fearful and vote for their own demise
My theory is that all of the actual effective plots (say against governments or corporations) get stopped, because they threaten capital As in- the government doesn't usually notice plots which will not end up directly affecting them
@@plasmaxl8626 That also gets me thinking...how many of these 'plots' could be sponsored by governments/corporations themselves in a bid to scare people and boost their own power? It sounds a bit like a tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory, I know, but is it really so out of the realm of reality? We already have big businesses bribing influential politicians to turn a blind eye to their activities, proven cases of governments funding rebel groups for their own interests, corporations with enough power to exert their influence over an entire nation or even several, etc. With their abundant resources, would it be so hard for, lets say, an oil corporation to fund some 'eco-extrem1sts" to to sabotage some of their equipment or maybe even vandalize priceless museum artifacts, before publicizing it to create a negative image of environmentalism that will dissuade people from pushing back against them and keep their fossil fuel business running and profitable? Just my two cents on it and some food for thought...
Smedley Butler holds a special place in every Marine’s heart. For those like me, who joined after Afghanistan, he holds a very, very special place. War is a racket
Probably holds the same place in every Marines heart regardless of if they joined before or after Afghanistan. Don't know what joining up after Afghanistan has to do with anything.
@@Ronfost89 Afghanistan for a lot of people both in and outside of the military was the war that made a lot of people realize that the idea we were 'spreading freedom and democracy' wasn't really true.
Don't care what direction you decide to take with what you put out. You're a clever and studious guy and I can't imagine you'll lose what makes you interesting to watch. I appreciate your current mission of educating people in a digestible and entertaining manner. It certainly makes learning about these subjects a bit easier on my tiny monkey brain.
The combination of confidence and lack of direction is the reason this channel is awesome I don't usually do "favorites" but this channel is dangerously close.
Your videos are some of the most well structured, informative, and passion-filled pieces of content ive ever found on this platform Please, never stop, the voices need new shit to keep me awake at night
Completely agree about your take on a lot of historians/journalists. Picked up a book on the American Civil War where the author went from debunking the Lost Cause myth to becoming some sort of jingoistic take that secession was a greater crime than slavery itself.
For the south it was. Emancipation did not become a priority until later on in the war for the Union. West Virginia was even admitted into the Union as a slave state after the emancipation proclamation as it only made slavery illegal in the south. The author, Ty Seidule, decried how slavery was a great evil only to immediately counter by saying “but the south’s greatest crime was secession”.
He also conveniently omitted nearly anything that would cast a negative light on the Union or, more specifically, West Point due to his position there. I don’t subscribe to the Lost Cause rhetoric that the south did nothing wrong. In fact I think the author did a decent job debunking much of the myth. What I find to be inexcusable is pretending one side was perfect when many impressionable people reading the book might actually believe it. It’s disproving one myth only to push another.
I like the skits in your regular videos but this video still felt funny but more impactful, more emotional. I loved how you connected these three points in history so well, describing the condition of modern day america in a very enlightening way. Keep up the good work!
This is probably the single most profound thing I have watched in a long time, simply because it pushes aside all the BS and just tells us what has been happening in front of our faces with zero pretense or fart huffing. Thank you.
As a Marine corps vet Cobbler I thank you because I didn't know just how great of a man Butler was. Even though the lessons I don't really have the weight him or Daily had. I really hope we don't end up getting into another now.
I learned about Smedly Darlington Butler and the Business Man's plot many years ago I am really pleased to see it becoming increasingly well known It should be taught in school Thank you for helping in this process
Revolutionary optimism is more useful than nihilism. Nihilism means they win. They cackle when you get overtaken with apathy. It’s okay to focus on making sure you’re in a good place mentally, but there are things you can do to help bring change. A lot of it may be engaging with electoralism, but there is direct action as well
As long as he doesn't make videos based on the sponsors (or directly financed by them), which many big educational channels like Wendover and Kurgscfsomething do but don't inform the audience of their financed bias.
Yeah I'd probably immediately volunteer to fight for someone who promised I'd be able to buy a house and have a family. An unfathomable rage is brewing in young people, a generation that genuinely has no hope for the future under the current system. When the water breaks, and the revolution is birthed, we'll experience a time of unparalleled violence directed at every group and person perceived to have caused our social ills.
I was so hoping you'd get to his story, as it so cleanly transitions your obsessions with the past and our concerns with our future. Please feel free to do an extended version. Great stuff. Semper paratus.
This is undoubetly your best video so far. Can feel a passion in this, and the topic clearly resonates with me. It's not the US problem, it's universal at this point. I've had too much free time in the past year. And it feels almost surreal to see the same conclusion said by other person, with completely different background, from the other continent. You know, that thing you say at the end of Cobbler's Crackdown? It hits different now.
Totally agreed. Out of all the media I' ve been digging into daily for a long time, this essay made me question my previos thoughts, even though it's on a completely different topic. Hell, the longer I think of it all, as I'm writing this, the harder it all hits
The best propaganda is the one with slick editing and music in the background. That’s what this is; propaganda. He only gives you a fraction of the truth and leads you into a solution that makes no sense.
@@kylevernon he didn't give any fucking solution because it is probably THE HARDEST urgent question in the WORLD right now. How do we perfect the State? so that the average citizen is happy? How do we make those who are rich complacent? Can a state even last while being perfect? What do you think this is propaganda for? Socialism? democrats? No, his videos are like wake up calls, getting people to know about these topics that have been neatly covered by a thin veil for so long. Content like this is becoming widespread, i've seen a ton other people talk like this or about this. The point of this propaganda is to demoralize the public? incite violence? for what purpose? what does this man have to gain out of the country falling into civil war? he relies on youtube and VPN sponsors to eat, why threaten even his life? being of age to be drafted in case of an emergency? it's all a gigantic question mark and none of us have a solution, it must be talked on by the People and the Government, without a place for private interests in state matters. The US is merely a vessel for corporation to tread on people's dreams and hopes to extract as much time of work and value as possible.
There was a long time that I was upset at myself for dropping out of school to start working full time to help around the house and felt like I ruined my future plans because I wanted to join the military after high school. I still remember the day my mom popped out of bed and came running to my room crying. My Grandpa that served in WWII came to her and told her to explain to me why he was proud that I didn’t go and how the military is just a big business venture now basically instead of being to protect our freedom.
I knew about Butler and business plot from a great friend of mine who is an American Marine Corps combat vet, but this is also a great piece of political commentary and gave even someone well acquainted with the events something to chew on. Great job!
As a Marine Corps vet, I applaud your commentary on Smedley Butler. People often discount servicemen as less intelligent than the average citizen, but some of the greatest minds in American history have come from the humble beginnings of the enlisted. Their thoughts and ideas often discredited by peoples assumptions of them based on their career path. Another great American warning us of these same follies was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Im shocked at some of the things our military members do to their own veterans. Like the WW1 vets who were chased out of D.C. for protesting their mistreatment after their service, by the very same people who would soon be in their shoes. A grim foreshadowing of what was to come for them.
I'm not american, but I can plainly see my country slowly following the US descent. I hope that more people listen to what you said and they realize what kind of future were walking towards.
@@eightstunningangles Don't be too hopeless! Your country recently did what America could not. You got rid of the bug person known as Jair Bolsonaro and replaced him with the non-bug Luis Ignácio Lula da Silva. We got rid of our bug person and replaced him with a bug-human hybrid that is still 75% bug. For Brazil's sake, let's cross our fingers that the CIA doesn't get any ideas.
Got interested in Butler and found the book "Gangsters of Capitalism" pretty good so far. Goes into Butler's impact on the world after his conquests. Appreciate you showing me this bit of history.
I've already watched this 3 times today. I rly appreciate your content and the way you go about making your points, and this video feels like it broke me. As an active duty marine officer, finally hearing someone else talk about Gen Smedley Butler's life outside simply the context of his medals just brings about alot of feeling of what it means to be in service of a nation you love, but also disillusioned by it's contemporary acts. Thank you, and keep producing the content you clearly love to make. Semper Fidelis. Sic Semper Tyrannis.
It's so refreshing, in a sea of videos on why you should buy a beer vs why you shouldnt, to see this. I'm from Poland, and for some time every single time a celebrity or politician, any public figure actually, stands up and says anything, the disconnect between the shit that pours out of their mouths and the reality in which we live - where a year ago my wife and I were able to put a third of our income into savings, and today we're unable to do so at all, where the gas price is pumped up almost by 100% by refinery margins (which was public information at the time!), while the companies and politicians say "it's Putinflation, deal with it", and then the CEO of the biggest national petrochem BRAGS ABOUT RECORD HIGH INCOME JESUS FUCK OK so this is why I don't watch TV anymore and get my news mainly on meme sites. Anyway, keep up the good work, you're the sanest man that I enjoy watching, and your commentary is universal (well at least it makes sense on the other side of the Atlantic, can't say what they think about it in Africa and Asia. Comments anyone?).
@@laurioho2041 The problem is the lack of alternatives If you say socialism I'd look at its track record, the fascist branch that grew off socialism had more success and less deaths and misery in comparison
@@commisaryarreck3974 Yeah, socialism does not have the same ring to it in eastern Europe, as it apparently does in the west. Try it for 50 years and you might find out why.
@@commisaryarreck3974 fascism didn't grow from socialism, its still a capitalism, just radicalised and openly monopolised, with usage of radical reactionary ideas (such as nationalism)
@@commisaryarreck3974 also wonder how are you judging and comparing socialist systems and fascist. I'd say fascists killing over 20 million citizens of Soviet Union alone is a high number
One of the things that I keep screaming at people getting upset at "woke communist brainwashing" is that the surest way to prevent a communist, or a fascist takeover is to simply *FIX THE PROBLEMS IN SOCIETY THAT HAVE PEOPLE UPSET.* That's it! The blame isn't on people exploiting your broken society for their political gain. It's on the people who failed to deliver on their promises in the first damned place.
I mean that is basically how Germany didn't descend into civil war and rebellion after world war 2 their government put food on the table and roofs over their heads and suddenly having another go at fascism didn't seem that appealing to most !
@@doublebreastedweskit1854 good luck fixing societies problems under communism. It has the same dam problems but in the extreme. it ultimately leads to an elite political class abusing the poor in society. At least with capitalism it doesn't lead to the inevitable overthrow of democracy. We should ultimately embrace the ideas of capitalism that people only work for their own benefit most of the time but endeavor to more closely align the political class via electoral reform and advocacy to bend towards the common good of the people. Capitalism isnt inherently evil. It is amoral. There is a difference. Thats why in its purest form it allows so much evil acts to persist and thrive under it. Why it must be tempered with morality, with socialist policies but not discarded whole cloth.
But come on, there's no problems with the Weimar Republic (((having to pay taxes))) and the Vienna accords (((Geneva Convention))). I have everything (((nothing))) that I'll ever need (((body pillows))).
@@doublebreastedweskit1854its literally happening constantly lol. where do you think minimum wage came from? safe working conditions? social security? sick days? vacation? child labor laws? antitrust acts? etcetera.
There’s nothing I love more then a warm chobani perfect peach cobbler to go with my Sunday morning at my job. Listening to America’s (almost) Caesar takeover in my ear while I work is the best.
"No one can buy a house anymore. No one can afford rent anymore. We just spent two decades fighting wars that did nothing but scar Our men and line war profiteers pockets, And everyone is eating poisonous food that keeps getting more expensive, And when it inevitably makes them sick, Make afford to be made well again. Get a fucking grip." Exactly
Well, that was harrowing. Im not used to my unbearable realities being near-undiluted by schizophrenic ranting and general chaos. Great vid, gonna go sit in a corner and go insane now
This was one of the most informative, serious and entertaining videos I've ever watched. I don't think I've ever finished a DJ Peach Cobbler video without feeling genuine dread and fear. This was the first. Unexpectedly powerful video man. Thank you for making it.
@@marceloantunes998 Oh fatherland, fatherland, show us your sign, your children has waited to see. The morning will come, and the world is mine. Tomorrow belongs _to me..._
@@marceloantunes998 I enjoy watching his videos, they're very well crafted and researched. My comment isn't about the contents of this specific video lmao
It's amazing how your content just keeps getting better with every video. This one resonates especially well with me because I live in France, a country which is also going through the same kind of funny social shenanigans you described here (minus the part about veterans, at least for now).
@@-Zakhiel- Yeah, but we don't have a large number of veterans living in poverty. Of course, our army is significantly smaller than it was in the past, but our latest governments have generally been smart enough to keep people with combat training (i.e. soldiers and police officers) well fed and mostly happy with the status quo. It's probably the main reason we haven't had a revolution in a while.
@@Serpillard The military being a State's beating stick ought to be maintained well enough. Otherwise, it'd break when being used or having pressure being applied upon it. When the stick breaks the result isn't pretty for the one who holds it.
Hello Mr. Cobbler I also discovered that Tim Elliot article while researching my Honor thesis for Undergraduate, and I am so happy you gave your thoughts on it as I found the same problems with it. Yet, for me, it is a perfect source because my thesis (which is weird because I dislike it), my thesis is not on Rome or politics but rather on the ways we understand and view the past from a viewpoint that by necessity is present temporarily and ideologically. In particular, it is about how we construct the past with the help and at times complete reliance upon Historical Fiction. In other words, how much of history happened, versus how much of it was fabricated, and whether or not that even matters? Historiography is as much a narrative as a novel, and when done poorly historiography can be less trustworthy than well-researched fiction, etc. Anyway, my thesis just happens to focus on how our contemporary conceptions of Julius Caesar are created, so I just happened to find this article, and Oh boy is it a perfect source of how history becomes fiction and then fiction becomes a cultural symbol. Caesar and his assassination/ the Ides of March (which is famously and heavily understood through the Shakespeare play "Julius Caesar", because the American school system is the way it is) has become a symbol of political upheaval and in some ways just a name you use to call someone "bad" for "democracy", both words being very subjectively understood. Of course that is a basic overview of many months of research, however, I do want to say thank you for discussing this article which also gave me a headache as you have allowed me to really grasp it better. It was a pleasant surprise. P.S If you read this. Please keep this up, you will be the only content creator that will get me through postgraduate!
They way I understand it now, after years of methodically studying history, is that teachers, both highschool and university, teach history via presentism, and not through the lens in which the past existed, i.e. the past. I will always remember the quote, though I do not know where it came from, that "the past is like a foreign country, they do things differently there."
I've always heard about how Fascists attempted to take over the US before the outbreak of WW2, but never actually donated time to research it. Thank you for this, very educational
Have a listen to the podcast "Ultra", it's fantastic at detailing how a literal agent of the Third Reich was influencing US politicians in the lead up to WW2.
@@cameronmcleod8419Sure glad he failed! Now we can all live in our pods and eat the bugs!! Well done defending the democracy General Butler! You saved us!
@@va1hk you are a wall street backed CIA operative. It sure would be lovely to be doing exactly the same or even worse due to big corpos (even earlier)
Here’s the thing. During the Republic of the Punic Wars the elite were in the legions. This is like a world where our CEOs and senators fought. Where the President was leading the battles as well. You had to own land to be part of the legions. But the losses of the Punic War wiped out this class (they lost 50k at Cannae in the 2nd Punic War) and Marius couldn’t have an army without people and thus his reforms were allowed. Their model worked when the republic was a regional land power, not so much as masters of the Mediterranean. And the Social War brought a large middle class to Citizenship which eventually allowed Rome to field massive forces.
I have never felt so vindicated. I have been saying what you said for years and I felt like I was going crazy. The media was always focused on some issue or struggle people could fight for like blm or lgbt rights or whatever when those were never things we should have been focusing on. We are living in the second gilded age and it feels like voting doesn't matter because whoever you vote for will just get bought just the same as anyone else. I do not see any way in which this problem would be solved from within. Congress is never going to enact laws that would prevent them from lining their pockets and most have always been rich and have no understanding of how things really are for the majority of us. What bothers me is they think they can do whatever they want and nothing will ever happen to them and what bothers me most is so far they have been right. I feel like I am being put on a watch list for even thinking the way I do. Before we get put away it was at least nice to know someone else sees it and I am not the only one going crazy.
Growing up in a former Soviet country, this seems very familiar. Complete chaos, old institutions getting treated like scrap metal to sell off, and amidst all that some kind of unconditional chant for national unity and callbacks to history by random singers and actors. But the people my family knew, those people whose parents and grandparents suffered the most under Soviet rule, seemed to respect it the most. They didn't respect the Soviet rule, to them simply saying "Soviet rule" is a braindead thing. The people who personally care the least about politics seem to know most about who the politicians actually are and where they came from, but those same people got labeled as the remains of old dirt. And there's no room for any questions, we aren't trying to make ideas, we're just choosing between them and only thinking about the deviations from those ideas. However, due to recent events the popular perception got a lot healthier and more complex, although more people can now simply follow the trend. That's a small piece of what I believed when I was around 7-9, very funny things.
Wealth inequality is higher now than it was then. I say, if this shows how terrifying it was then, what is the unseen tragedy of now going to look like to those seeing it from a hundred years in the future. Just because you can't see it now, doesn't mean it's not there.
@@rugierro Its a bit kind of terrifying to see right in front of us how the ultra rich can just snap their finger and change the fate of a country. Look at Iraq and Syria, not to forget Lybia too who pushed a bit too far with it wanting to go back to the gold standard - and in turn got royally scrubbed in the back side. And now we are seeing that with China and Russia too. Well China kind of deserved it for being an ass and gaddang stealing EVERYONE's tech
This is a masterpiece. We have reached the peak. There is nothing that could make me want to see more from you, and the life of this wonderful man Smedley, who did so much for the US businesses and interests, and in the end upheld the Republic. Absolute fuckin banger.
i made 7.50 working at a mcdonald’s in mississippi in 2020 at the start of covid most places you look now here in ms bottom out around $10 at least where i am, but i can distincitly remember most places offering 7.25 here until 2022. we’re the poorest state by far and it’s not without reason. i found this to be a very powerful video. binging your channel for the last week has really changed my mind on many subjects especially in regard to socialism. and if any state truly needs proper socialism, it’s mississippi. 1/3 of our people live on welfare, and well more than that live in squalor and bleak poverty including that 1/3. i love my state but our issues are glaring, and we need help.
I've never been more radicalized by a talking pie. Thank you for the videos, they've been some of the most entertaining media I've seen in recent years. I can't think of another creator that has compelled me to research on my own other than you. Here's to many more years of success for you.
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These simply are not the kinds of videos I want to make. This video was a failure, and it had to be, it was written by a pillar of salt. I've finished my fall of the Republic video now, the next one I write is going to be fun. It will be about the inevitable Red Dead Redemption 2 show
I don't know if you are reading this but please once in a while make some gaming related video or essay that you used to make those videos were amazing and I really enjoy listening to your opinions on games. Thanks, hope this comment finds you.
If I win the lottery I will put it all behind you in a locked room with congress armed only with a 5lb rubber mallet and a 7lb silicone phallus.
you know what i dislike more than interrupting a video for the sponsor? Not beeing able to tell when the sponsor is over and video continues. (so i can skip there...)
keep the great work
God damn this video goes hard! How the fuck are you still active duty. If i released something like this 2 years ago my ass would have been grass.
I'm glad the minimum wage wasn't increased. It would make our fiat currency even more worthless. Increasing minimum wage without instituting price controls would have only increased inflation. It was a rare act of (self-serving to secure votes in Arizona) patriotism on the part of the former porn star, now an alleged Senator.
“No one can buy a house anymore, no one can afford rent anymore. We just spent two decades fighting wars that did nothing but scar our men and line war profiteer pockets, and everyone is eating poisonous food that keeps getting more expensive. And when it inevitably makes them sick, they can’t afford to be made well again.”
Holy shit you could throw that on a history book, that was fucking powerful
poggers
I watched this video for the first time a few days ago and I still think about that quote.
@@thegethconsensus393 kkkkkkkmkkkkkkkkkklkkkkkkkkkkkkkm
@@thegethconsensus393 ppp
the "get a fucking grip" has been stuck in my brain all week
A small criticism of the historical accuracy of the script: MacArthur did not say "let's nuke Korea", he said "let's nuke China to stop them reinforcing Korea".
Didn't he suggest nuking the border between north and south?
@@griggorirasputin6555 More the border between China and North Korea, a big reason its so hard for defectors to escape is because of the huge river between them, which you could make impassible with big bombs on bridges
Let's face it, he probably asked to nuke "asia". If that meant Korea, China, Eastern Russia or even Japan (again) depended on the moment.
It was probably more like "give me the good shit and I'll use it wisely. Trust me!"
Americans were happy to threaten nukes at anyone who didn't have them.
macarthur fanboys are probably seething that their wholesome war criminal murdered strikers and veterans.
“What do you do next, you and your angry, combat trained friends?”
I mean I don’t have legs
Still could make a hell of a turret though
You train the young men to fight the battles you no longer can
Got a mind for logistics?
That’s ok Lt. Dan, I’ll grab you an m4 and I’ll wheel you around
@@Darkwolfsbaneor shrimp boats ?
Thanks for educating us on Smedley Butler. I was in the Marine Corps and all they taught us was that he had two medals of honor, Like that’s all he ever was.
His book should be required reading in schools.
“Two Marines, two medals, Dan Daly and Smedley Butler” hahaha
A man with the power to change the world who fell at the finish line
Uploads are coming too frequently. Shut this shit down NOW
@@starcrawler77 Isn't dude cut from same cloth as tim eliot? Insane, bug people?
"They have sown hopelessness and will reap tyranny"
fucking chills dude.
don't tyranny plants grow from hopelessness seeds or have i been buying from the wrong co-op?
Only one answer to that problem.
@@mattd5240 The answer will cause the republic fall
@@King_Flippy_Nips Think you might just have the wrong breed or something. Mine grow from desperation seeds.
@Mortarion *HELP*
Planted *desperation* seeds got stuck with *consoomers*
“Roman people did not fail the republic. The Roman republic failed the people.”
Subscribed.
Dj peach cobbler videos are like drugs. You click on one, then you count the hours until a new one releases.
This doesn't make any sense. Where the hell do you live where drug dealers have such fierce competition they try to beat the market through rapid development of new products to the point that people have developed a culture where they're excited for a new drug that's going to be released any day now?
@@jesustyronechrist2330 🤓
@@jesustyronechrist2330 he doesnt know 😂😂😂💀💀💀
Instead of a comedown from the high, it's more like existential dread
@@jesustyronechrist2330 I think he is saying that the videos are like drugs in the sense that a drug addict would count the hours until they take more hours
Jesus. After 19 years in the military, 3 tours overseas, and continuing questions on how I am going to secure my future, this video almost brought me to tears on a public flight. Don't stop cobbler.
you would think the actions of the CIA and the country being dismantled from the inside by politicians who are nothing less than treasonous throwing their own citizens under the bus to enrich themselves would bring you to tears.
Same man... SAME
Only one more year and you're free.
Ditto. I just keep trying to ask myself what the fuck was it all for. So many of us bought into the war we were sold. We fuck off, civilians are slaughtered, the enemy takes over, and they say we won. We didn't win, they did because we were expendable. Men like Butler are why they keep trying to add service members to lists.
Man, I broke down. I got out at 13 years, broken physically and mentally, and I'm still lost years later. This shit struck a nerve.
Historian here, particularly a historian for the Soviet Union. You better BELIEVE I acknowledge desperation as the 4th and most important ingredient for revolutions. No man would fight a revolution if things were good, he would be conflicted and think "I benefit, everyone benefits from the current system." They need desperation and a years long drought of hope before thinking "things will NOT get better. We have a moral obligation to end today's tyranny."
I am looking forward to the pedophilia allegations in 3 years, it'll be hard but every youtuber will have to go through it.
same, that is going to be a banger
You think his name's going to be the only one on the Epstein client list when it's finally released?
My money on it being a harem of discord catboys
Truly a sad day September 30th, 2026 was. Can’t believe my favorite youtuber DJ Peach Cobbler shot himself 3 times in the head with an anti-material rifle.
The day DJ does an apology video is the day they have won, don't ever give in my brother.
"Bug people.
Bug people shit.
I'm sorry calling you a bug person Tim.
You seem nice."
-Cobler, DJ Peach.
lol
Schizo statement.
Cringe shit wasn’t funny at all
@@johnnylarry4242 It's okay Tim, we still love you.
@@MOB-fz5vfno reprecussions
I once saw a video talking about world building, specifically on writing megacorps.
One of the points he made was that it is incredibly difficult to convince someone to die for a paycheck, so a massive private army was illogical and would be doomed to fail.
What I've learned in the years since is that you don't need to use money as the driving factor.
Tell thousands of boys that they're fighting for their country, protecting their families, or "spreading democracy" and they'll kick in any door at your behest
Yoko Taro approved
Which channel?
"One of the points he made was that it is incredibly difficult to convince someone to die for a paycheck, so a massive private army was illogical and would be doomed to fail."
And yet that's exactly what a professional standing army is, the etymology of the world soldier is literally that of the word mercenary, or a 'sold arm'. Then you have all the privateers and contractors like the conquistadors and the mountain men.
Basically that statement is way off base, getting men to kill & *risk* death for a paycheck is actually pretty damn easy, why wouldn't it be? Death is certain in the long term anyway and certain in the short term without a paycheck regardless.
Its Impossible to convince someone to die for a paycheck. The trick is nobody thinks they're the one that's going to die.
Same mentality as gamblers playing the slots or the lotto, we've all convinced ourselves were the exception to the rule, regardless of the static's were confronted with.
@@blackwolf671 Exactly. It's easy to die for a paycheck when you think you're the main character in life. All the other mercenaries that died? The story wasn't about them, it's about me, obviously I'm going to be the one to kill the 10 million dollar bounty: because I'm the main character and the story is about me.
I have never felt so vindicated before in my life. I'm in the midst of moving out of my apartment to live with a friend because rent is impossible now and 2 grocery bags and a sack of potatoes costs eighty fucking dollars.
Meanwhile my ancient coworkers complain the new genrration doesn't know how to finance and are getting in their own way of success. Meanwhile, the old fucks sell a half acre with a 1920 brick shithouse for $140,000.
It is so expensive to live now that most people my age don't even go out. Don't believe me? Go to a bar Friday night. The youngest you'll see are 30 year olds. Go to a social hall or arts class, nobody has time.
Everyone is either working a grueling job, going to college, or both. The only time I see someone my age is when they are working a register. But ask anyone older and they'll say we're just stupid, irresponsible children addicted to our phones.
Fuck now I'm pissed.
Revolution time baby
Something something marx
Time you check out some Mao and Fred Hampton reading. Also look into your community for any activism you can help.
Whether it be spreading the news on Tik Tok or helping the group on the ground. It's time for revolution
@@runningbetweenspaces >Mao
POV you want to kill billions
@@runningbetweenspaces You mean The butcher of China
As a Marine Vet I thought this was going to be very Anti USMC and showing that Smedley Butler was garbage because he is one of the best the Marine Corps has ever had, but it was the exact opposite, he was even better than his legacy would lead you to believe.
He was a better Marine than the Corps could handle, was my reading of him. Lots of fun anecdotes about him.
When he was leaving the Philippines, some locals came up and showed him some IOUs his Marines had signed "George Washington" or "Uncle Sam" and the like. Butler knew his 50+ troops so well he recognized all their handwriting and made them pay up.
While he was running Camp Pontanezen, Butler's superior lit up some young LT for some minor mistake in the mess hall. Butler personally walked into his superior's office and yelled at him for like 10 uninterrupted minutes. Slamming his desk with his fist, real biblical shit. Butler's superior respected Butler so much he gave the LT a public apology.
I make videos about classical antiquity. Legends. Caesar, Alexander the Great, Augustus, and so on. None of them have impressed me as much as Butler.
@@DJPeachCobbler I feel like that's the fun of studying Modern history. Way more gray/horrific shit, but the hero-.....no....the truest human beings begin to shine the brightest.
Yeah it's a shame how the Navy war college talks about him. They said he was bribed to make up the business plot and basically shit on him.
@@Bmc19234 Just goes to show how deep the corruption goes nowadays.
As someone going to basic in 3 months for the USAF I’m still going but it gives me more for thought thank you
It's fascinating you brought up the Late Roman Republic. The Roman Republic after the Second Punic War was catapulted to become a super power of the Mediterranean World. Her Legions would be sent abroad more times and for longer than ever before. Slaves, loot from these military campaigns flowed into Rome. The Republic flourished. For some.
The demise of the Roman Republic was brought about internally. The pieces that would bring the end of the Republic was born slowly in the post-Second Punic Wars era of Rome when it was riding high. Rome's borders and influence expanded to cover the Mediterranean World, the Legions conquered their way into our history books. Rome had never been so large, rich, and powerful.
Yet the number of land owning Romans became less and less. Land owning Romans would be called into service, serve abroad, then return to find nothing. They were adrift with their family. They lost their farms to some rich guys that were buying out everything. It's kind of a big deal because traditionally, to be eligible for service in the Legions, you had to be a Roman citizen. *A land owning Roman citizen.* The kind of Roman citizen that became scarcer, yet Rome was sending her Legions out more frequently and for longer duration.
What Gracchus was talking about with these soldiers and their families having nothing, wandering like ghosts... That was real. Gracchus tried to remedy this by distributing land so more Romans owned property to call their own and be part of the Republic once again, but he got assassinated by the rich and their butt buddies in the Senate. His brother tried to do the same thing and he got murdered, too.
This problem wasn't being fixed, and the precedent of the Romans now resorting to assassination for internal politics opened the next set of doors that would lead to the fall of the Republic. Some guy named Marius recruited straight from the poor. HE paid them. Not the Republic, not the Senate. The new Legions raised were his. Paid by him, loyal to him. Not the Republic. He took care of them since the Republic would not do that itself.
More assassinations would follow. Rich men raising personal armies, not the Senate. This was happening long before Julius Caesar came onto the scene. Ceasar wasn't the one to make the first stabs in the heart of the Roman Republic. That started long before him.
The Roman Republic was in reality destroyed long before Augustus Caesar became the first Emperor. The Romans destroyed it themselves much earlier.
Its terrifying how many parallels there are between the late Roman Republic and the USA at the moment, despite the many differences as well.
I really think it'll be 2016 that's marked as the beginning of the end for the US if they don't pull themselves together
@@tuxtitan780i doubt it. the U.S. is much stabler. the U.S., like all countries, will always have problems, but we haven’t resorted to constant assassinations and insane corruption yet. and our democracy is stronger than Rome’s. as long as the good people keep fighting the good fight, America will live.
@@qwertyasdf4081Our corruptions pretty bad and theres more assassinations than you think. Could be a lot worse though, yeah.
DJ may not be pregnant, but he never fails to deliver
Amen
Fake news, I've heard he deliberately get pregnant just so he can abort it on the 8th month. In fact, he has done it so much that Texas is trying to ban him doing that (it backfired because he just move to a different state).
Fu$%, that is GOOD
Well played
WHAT DID BRO MEAN BY THIS???
Unless….
I’m working as a history teacher right now
I teach 6th grade world history at a charter school
This week I’m getting into the fall of the republic, from Cicero to the brothers Gracchai to Caesar himself
And I’m I’ve the moon for it, these videos have been not only fun in a general sense as weird history nerd but as a massive coincidental parallel to the lessons I’m trying to bring across to a room full of kids.
(No I don’t recommend these videos to 12 year olds but I do take some relevant talking points)
Keep doing you desert man
The republic is dead, long live the empire.
Show my videos and get fired, you coward.
Show the videos before that silent kid in the back of the class decides nobody really gets it, and tell his few friends to wear red shirts on Monday.
@@DJPeachCobbler i made a sonic oc for you it costs 50 bulgarian levs buy it
Seventh grade civics class was the beginning of my disdain for the American gubment. My teacher, Mr. Frye was an alcoholic with a poker habit, but the man could teach. Him and his buddies would play poker on the weekends in the second floor of a gas station my mother happened to work at. My mother would warn me when he had a losing night. You didn't want to forget your homework when your teacher had a hangover and was in the red, lol.
I did it 455 to 455 likes
It was wild, I do not come from money my entire family is poorly educated blue-collar people. And to go to College and become a Historian (lowe case h it's just my bachelor's but I do have a paper that should have been published) and to hear historians talk about certain topics is baffling. I wrote a paper about how George Wallace, the horribly racist govenor of Alabama, and how he gained support because the media insulted the poor and uneducated, both political parties were moving away from the actually impoverished and relishing in turning American cities into desolate hell holes where only the uberly wealthy can survive in peace... and the Historian's reaction was the fact that George Wallace was literally Donald Trump. I cannot fathom a more milk toast response in my entire life, I presented a paper which all but told people when you treat people like shit they turn to the worst ideologies and violence and I was met with that response. I cannot put it into words.
I know that it’s painful to see people act in that way sometimes- almost as if they forgot how to think critically. But don’t you think they have a reason to act like that? Hear me out.
Our world is crumbling around us. Not just the foundations, but the idea of history and our sense of purpose- our countries are built on lies and exploitation. Isn’t that what your paper proves?
When confronted by this, what do you expect people to do? They could see it, process it, remember it. But it won’t change anything. It won’t put their world back together. They’ll just be able to see more cracks.
Turning a blind eye to the destruction of your history and society is obviously the wrong choice, but for most people they just want to live in a dream. Ignorance is bliss, and those people who can’t see what you’re truly trying to say, will never hear you. Because all their lives, they’ve just been blocking out and removing the cracks in their world, because it makes them feel unsafe.
Take solace in the fact that you are correct, and you know the truth. But do not expect others to be so eager to learn. It’s not your fault, but it’s their nature to be content, and our nature is to learn.
Not to make any offense, but maybe instead of being unhappy that the historian does not understand what you have found, be happy that you, someone, knows it at all, and that makes it important.
I had a college professor try to tell me that Donald trump is worse than Christopher Columbus
@@burtreynolds8030 god I hate liberals so much
@@burtreynolds8030sorry your historian is a bug person
Bigboi and Wasabi are both right lmao.
"The people did not fail the Republic, the Republic failed the people."
Excellent quote.
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In a good republic the people are the republic
@@p0k3mn1 It becomes a bad republic when they become convinced they live in a democracy
@@p0k3mn1 That's called a Democracy.
@@cameronmcleod8419 still a republic
As soon as you said, "War is a racket," I knew exactly what this would be about. You summed it up perfectly, my sweet pastrie gaming video essay daddy. We do, in fact l, live in a society.
I like to believe this is in fact a society, and my mom won’t give me any chicken nuggies
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That's why they're talking about Taiwan right?
@@Snoop_Dugg "War is bad, therefore we should do nothing as our democratic allies get smashed by foreign dictators -oh, just because I am ideologically aligned with them doesn't mean anything"
A lot of people mistrust pure anti-war types since there is a history of those kinds of people unironically concern trolling for their favorite foreign dictators. The Silver Legion and the Socialist Party USA both did that for the sake of Nazi Germany and the USSR respectively.
@@stephenjenkins7971 Well to be fair - the US does not have an official position regarding Taiwan (seems to be changing now)
Both Taiwan and the mainland consider themselves the 'One True China'.
The US's position is that they should resolve their issues peacefully, and will only get involved if the mainland tries to annex it.
Also since Taiwan produces the latest computer chips at 3nm scale, it is of immense value to American industries.
Apple and other countries are starting to build their own manufacturing plants but it could take 10 years to catch up to the precision.
In terms of ethics - The US independence was hard one and hard fought against the British. Surely Taiwan deserves the opportunity to do the same without foreign influence?
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Concern trolling? I haven't heard about the Silver Legion etc. that's very interesting. I'll go research about them next.
I will say that the rest of the world views war less... uh flippantly than the US does, many other countries label the US president as a warlord of sorts (hey it's the largest industry! 🤷♀)
Yeah, his video was extremely predictable trite that is easily debunked.
I wouldn't mind if there were more videos like this. As long as they are this well researched and have your signature humour I'm all for it.
I think the movie Amsterdam with Margot Robbie is based on that story but it is a over dramatized of course
The schizo rant where he declare all “rich people” and journalists, and people with degrees, to be bug people is a bit extreme.
@@AL-lh2ht I've seen two of your comments already on this video. Thank you for your contribution to trying to cover up the obvious, FBI / CIA intern!
"Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up."
Gamers rise up from your gamer chairs, and go outside. Not only to touch the grass, but to light it as the torch, that shall see the world burn down before they may take our chicken nuggies.
"Here is...."
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14:50 - It's not simply the great depression that had caused this issue. The US government would make the payments from the end of WW1 UNTIL 1945, with most people having their due dates closer to those later dates. And albeit having your entire life destroyed by physical and mental trauma caused by the greatest war in history (so far), these men were at the very least going to receive their money and they were sure it would be what it was promised to them because at the time the dollar was backed by gold. If the government told you you were getting 1000 USD, that had a real equal value in gold that would remain true regardless of when you received it. They were protected against inflation. But in 1932 the US government was in advanced talks about dropping the gold standard. Since their protection was the value of gold, removing that meant that whatever they would get in 1945 would be, at best case, the nominal value of what was promised to them in 1918, corroded by at least a full decade of inflation.
I feel this is quite important, because it's one thing to think these veterans who put their lives on the line and suffered through the worst of the great depression, reached the brink and took a desperate measure to try and fix their lives. Another is to see that these veterans who put their lives on the line and suffered through the worst of the great depression, got swindled by the US government first when they got home after the war, and then again one decade later. These people gave everything they had, got nothing in return and were about to lose the little they were owed.
What happened when the US removed the gold standard and given permission to create all the money they wish out of thin air?
FDR withdrew the dollar gold standard. Resultantly, the Federal Government grew by illegal leaps and bounds and the purchasing value of the dollar crumbled as the private bankers, including the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank, created trillions and trillions of dollars out of thin air. Today the US Dollar is worth only one or two percent of what it was worth before FDR (later NIXON) removed the gold standard and opened the flood gates of money printing!
In 1787, colonial leaders assembled in Philadelphia to replace the ailing Articles of Confederation. As we saw earlier, both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were unalterably opposed to a privately-owned central bank. They had seen the problems caused by the Bank of England. They wanted nothing of it. As Jefferson later put it:
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
To be sure, pursuant to the Constitution, it is illegal for Wall Street Bankers and the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank to create money. But it does. As a direct result, the Federal Government has grown exponentially, the wars increased in size, scope and tempo; and, inflation the ultimate result: Neo-feudalism!
Without a gold standard, the banks can counterfeit and the government has unlimited powers of spending (current US Government debt is $32 trillion and unfunded liabilities $220 trillion).
All Wars are Bankers wars - To summarize Butler’s solution against the Wall Street Banking Terrorist creating endless wars: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket.
We must take the profit out of war.
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.
"Military Men Are Dumb, Stupid Animals To Be Used As Pawns For Foreign Policy." - Henry Kissinger
That closing momologue hits deep.
Im 30, im never gonna own a house, i know that now, i'll never own land, ill never he granted a loan to go to college for a higher paying job and even if i did, i'll never pay it off. I eat poison and feel sick regularly, i cant afford to see a doctor and im gonna need to move again soon because sometime this year the rent is gonna go up again. All of this, while im working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.
The people have never once in human history, failed the state. In every single instance, it has always been the state that fails the people.
I'm sorry I hope you get the point you want to not in spite of what's kept you down but because what kept you down helped you realize your stronger then you actually are
Go to Mexico you'll have enough to buy land but mind the cartela
@@kailara8002That logic only works til someone blows your legs off for owning them money not gonna feel too strong without ya legs now will yah?
Not with that attitude
Bro you live in a third world country, what else do you expect from your life lol
"They have sewn hopelessness, and will reap tyranny" is a line that goes way harder than it has any right to. This entire video kinda goes harder than it has any right to. Thank you UA-cam Funnyman.
Legit as soon as he finished saying that I was starting to breathe the words thus always to tyrants as he said Sic Semper Tyrannis. I swear if he tried, the man could lead a coup.
Weird that American businessmen would have approached the most anti-big business American general for a pro-big businesses coup. Seems a bit counter-productive
The mentality seems to have been that he was the only guy in America who could be the figurehead, and they probably assumed Butler was a disingenious lizard person like they were
If you have a guy that fights for people as a representative of your campaign you can easily pass anybullishit you want.
Their critical flaw was thinking Butler was just pretending and not an actual people's man
Well they probably thought everyone has a price.
Bug people logic
Hirohito probably wasn't that big on military coups based on his reactions to all the couping.
Fascism is about symbols, not reality.
Damn the American Legion has changed a lot over the years, when I was a kid there was a chapter in our town that was a soup kitchen run by veteran's club (because most of the veterans were homeless and had mental issues that the VA refused to help) and basically nothing else.
Yeah at first I thought he meant the Silver Legion of America, but no, it was THAT American Legion.
Same, all they do on my town is sponsor a youth baseball league
They did the same back then. They just hated commies
Maybe I missed this part but Major General Smedley Butler refused those oligarchs and the only reason we are talking about this because he made it his life's work to bring this to light.
basically the american legion was poised at the perfect confluence of power, wealth, and popularity and with a famous well respected man at its head. It could very easily have become American Fascism and ended the Republic if not for the honor of one man, Butler himself.
Finally cobbler comes out as a patriot
I knew he was a white supremacist
s/ just in case
Such must be punished
Take his crayons from him.
And his chalks! Take them too!!
@@l.e.b.3541 Don't forget the TV!!!
Freedom from the corporate masters
That whole ending monologue was perfectly written, DJ. You finally put words to feelings many of us have had for a while, thank you.
It truly was an amazing wrap up to the video it made me inspired, depressed, and nut all at the same time. Like boy are we totally screwed but at least we're all screwed together.
@@jhopkins1515 I will come to your house tonight and tell your mom you’ve been looking up ways to poop the bed without getting caught on the internet
indeed, not a single institution remains functional in america, why preserve the republic?
@@jhopkins1515 and at least when we're all screwed, those who screwed us (the wealthy) will be dead by either us or their escape rocket exploding because they underpaid the workers
@@007kingifritWhat makes you think what comes after would be any better?
Not that the US is good as it is, but from the perspective of a European it’s pretty clear to see that as soon as a restructuring takes place, people are going to try and take advantage of a fredh slate from the very beginning. To think of it another way, what do you think will happen to a country that has more guns than people, if any significant change were to be made to the social order?
Everyone is afraid of the US because we can see it’s on a tipping point. A brink. The precipice of an extremely slippery slope. Polarisation has got to the point where something bad is going to happen no matter who it’s for.
You also have to think about new trends, people trying to get around the system, the huge anti-authoritarian wave going around right now with both red-pill losers and pro-life preachers. People are so sick of the system they have that they won’t even stand for a new one, even if it benefits them.
Overall, the point is that the US is at place where, if their constitution and social structure breaks down, there is absolutely no assurance that anything will rise in it’s place. Similar to the Romans, in a way.
I love that he is seemingly insane but in reality is just frustrated that he feels like the only sane person left.
Funnly enough I stopped calling Cobbler unhinged. He is the only one actually hinging to reality
I know how that feels. On the bright side, in the eventuality of being proven right from the start, there’s no such experience as cathartic and validating.
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I fear that if cobbler is proven right he will not feel any kind of happiness or validation, but a deep rooted feeling of doom
I got hit by a 250lb IED in Afghanistan on my 1st deployment which jacked me up a bit. On my 2nd deployment, my body was finally giving in to my injuries. Being infantry the physical toll was getting to be too much. I tried to reclass, but big army said no and med-boarded me instead.
They only see you as useful if you are useful. If you're not deemed useful, then good luck, and thanks for your service.
That's how every military works
Most of the time it’s some asshat officer trying to make his numbers look good for awards, “my unit is at 100%, what? Somebody got hurt? Not in my unit”
Then you’ll have the butt sniffer NCOs that would rather be in good terms with officers than help their joes
thank you for your service
I got smacked in the head with a baseball bat and struck by lightning while I was a police officer. I have tinnitus pretty much every day, have trouble focusing on anything, and my vision is deteriorating due to damage from when I was hit in the head.
The state has told me that I am not entitled to disability because I was on duty the day after both incidents and therefore I was clearly healthy and I’m only trying to scam the government out of assistance with medical bills.
Suppose that’s what I get for being an overachiever.
I love you cobbler man don’t ever stop or I’ll find you
Same bro
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Actually a great comment 😂 had me laughing my ass off
I'm attaching thermite onto his rooftile as we speak. Big fucking hole, coming right up
Then cobbler stops making videos so that he can make a quasi dateline video with you as the centerpiece
PLEASE never stop making videos the way you like them. We enjoy watching them as much as you seem to enjoy making them.
It's such a shame Cobbler overdosed on black tar chalk next Thursday.
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I am very impressed you brought up the issue of land reform in ancient Rome, it's so rarely mentioned how big of a factor that was in the fall of the Republic. It literally lies at the heart of everything. The Roman army, pre-Marian reforms, was a levy army comprised of land owners. Too serve in the army you had to be a land owner and own a certain amount of land, it wasn't a profession it was a duty and a privilege. But as more and more land got bought up and there were fewer and fewer land owners the Romans had to keep lowering the land requirements in order to keep their military going until eventually they got their asses kicked by the Cimbri and were struggling to replenish their army. This as opposed to the Roman army of the Punic wars that could lose whole armies and navies and just keep coming back, that's how strong the Roman middle class was. But as Hannibal was burning everything he could in Italy those small farmers had to sell their lands when they came home after the war, which started or at least accelerated land consolidation. As a response to this problem and their defeat the Romans adopted the Marian reforms, lifting land requirements entirely and making the position of a soldier into a profession. Rome would now have a professional, standing, salaried army. Armies more loyal to their generals than to the republic. This directly led to the fall of the Republic, the rise of the Empire, the constant civil wars, all of it can be tied back to this single issue. And what did soldiers get at the end of their service? Land.
Except what he brought up was literally centuries before the fall of Rome. He instead was saying that is the reason Rome became a dictatorship instead of its semi democracy it had at the time.
@@AL-lh2htbetter democracy than what we have😂
Tacitus, paraphrasing the words of a demagogue who stirred the Illyrian legions to revolt during Tiberius' reign (that was later defused by Drusus), said that the land received was some worthless provincial bog, and the soldier was too old and worn out to make much of it by the time he was allowed to retire.
It does seem to be a form of indirect wealth redistribution. Rather than break up the latifundia, ruining crop yields in the process, they were instead taxed to pay soldiers. But since the soldiers no longer had ties to anyone besides their comrades and the urban rabble they were recruited from, they simply banded together to extort the state for more money whenever the leadership let them, or failed to stop them.
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Yes, which is what lead to the collapse. Rome could have never survived as a dictatorship, especially not in the way it manifested in.
Implying the Republic was better than the Empire lol.
People had to die for weekends and 40 hour work weeks. The IWW used to be a pretty strong union organization, if it was still strong today maybe things could be better, but capital will always fight to get ahead and crush the people that decide to organize against it.
Obviously I’m a lefty commenting this. I’ve been trying to get to the bottom of your videos for years now peach! Your content is fucking fantastic and keep posting for as long as you can. All love
Do you associate your socialist views with progressive ones (like minorities gender etc) ?
There is no upper, middle, or lower class, just people who work for people and who have people work for them.
hmm, that sounds familiar.
It still blows me away to this day how international and domestic terrorists just straight up....go for the arguably least effective targets. Like wtf is attacking a bunch of random people gonna do? They don't know why, they just become more fearful and vote for their own demise
My theory is that all of the actual effective plots (say against governments or corporations) get stopped, because they threaten capital
As in- the government doesn't usually notice plots which will not end up directly affecting them
Its almost like the FBI stage terror attacks to push an agenda.
Their beef isn't specifically against the government, it's against the people. They hate our way of life, our ideals, ect ect
@@plasmaxl8626 That's exactly it. The big ones get killed before they can start and the ones that happen are the small ones that are overlooked.
@@plasmaxl8626 That also gets me thinking...how many of these 'plots' could be sponsored by governments/corporations themselves in a bid to scare people and boost their own power?
It sounds a bit like a tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory, I know, but is it really so out of the realm of reality? We already have big businesses bribing influential politicians to turn a blind eye to their activities, proven cases of governments funding rebel groups for their own interests, corporations with enough power to exert their influence over an entire nation or even several, etc.
With their abundant resources, would it be so hard for, lets say, an oil corporation to fund some 'eco-extrem1sts" to to sabotage some of their equipment or maybe even vandalize priceless museum artifacts, before publicizing it to create a negative image of environmentalism that will dissuade people from pushing back against them and keep their fossil fuel business running and profitable?
Just my two cents on it and some food for thought...
Smedley Butler holds a special place in every Marine’s heart. For those like me, who joined after Afghanistan, he holds a very, very special place. War is a racket
I instinctually said rah when he said the name
Probably holds the same place in every Marines heart regardless of if they joined before or after Afghanistan. Don't know what joining up after Afghanistan has to do with anything.
@@Ronfost89 Afghanistan for a lot of people both in and outside of the military was the war that made a lot of people realize that the idea we were 'spreading freedom and democracy' wasn't really true.
Don't care what direction you decide to take with what you put out. You're a clever and studious guy and I can't imagine you'll lose what makes you interesting to watch. I appreciate your current mission of educating people in a digestible and entertaining manner. It certainly makes learning about these subjects a bit easier on my tiny monkey brain.
The combination of confidence and lack of direction is the reason this channel is awesome
I don't usually do "favorites" but this channel is dangerously close.
oh this aged good
Your videos are some of the most well structured, informative, and passion-filled pieces of content ive ever found on this platform
Please, never stop, the voices need new shit to keep me awake at night
Completely agree about your take on a lot of historians/journalists. Picked up a book on the American Civil War where the author went from debunking the Lost Cause myth to becoming some sort of jingoistic take that secession was a greater crime than slavery itself.
The author obviously came from money as well.
I should also specify that by crime, I mean which action was more morally reprehensible to the author.
I mean, secession’s main cause was slavery so I can almost see it…maybe…sort of
Who was the author, btw?
For the south it was. Emancipation did not become a priority until later on in the war for the Union. West Virginia was even admitted into the Union as a slave state after the emancipation proclamation as it only made slavery illegal in the south. The author, Ty Seidule, decried how slavery was a great evil only to immediately counter by saying “but the south’s greatest crime was secession”.
He also conveniently omitted nearly anything that would cast a negative light on the Union or, more specifically, West Point due to his position there. I don’t subscribe to the Lost Cause rhetoric that the south did nothing wrong. In fact I think the author did a decent job debunking much of the myth. What I find to be inexcusable is pretending one side was perfect when many impressionable people reading the book might actually believe it. It’s disproving one myth only to push another.
I like the skits in your regular videos but this video still felt funny but more impactful, more emotional. I loved how you connected these three points in history so well, describing the condition of modern day america in a very enlightening way. Keep up the good work!
This is probably the single most profound thing I have watched in a long time, simply because it pushes aside all the BS and just tells us what has been happening in front of our faces with zero pretense or fart huffing. Thank you.
Schizo rants are fun.
This rant is so cliche it’s funny
mid bait. Seen better bait.@@mharley3791
As a Marine corps vet Cobbler I thank you because I didn't know just how great of a man Butler was. Even though the lessons I don't really have the weight him or Daily had. I really hope we don't end up getting into another now.
I think that’s the wrong message to take away. The real solution would be to make it so people never felt we needed a fascist-military dictatorship.
I learned about Smedly Darlington Butler and the Business Man's plot many years ago I am really pleased to see it becoming increasingly well known It should be taught in school Thank you for helping in this process
Please more of this. We feed on the depression it gives us.
This should be hopeful, if we know that this is happening we can do SOMETHING about it. Or at least the someone will. The right person.
Revolutionary optimism is more useful than nihilism. Nihilism means they win. They cackle when you get overtaken with apathy. It’s okay to focus on making sure you’re in a good place mentally, but there are things you can do to help bring change. A lot of it may be engaging with electoralism, but there is direct action as well
organize your workplace. everything can bestopped with a general strike
You got the wrong message
Depression is cringe.
Just wanna say I don't really mind sponsors if it means you can get some extra crayons to eat while you make these amazing mad ramblings.
As long as he doesn't make videos based on the sponsors (or directly financed by them), which many big educational channels like Wendover and Kurgscfsomething do but don't inform the audience of their financed bias.
I agree with the high performance race car above me, as long as he doesn't do any of that, I whole heatedly support it.
I thought it was chalk?
He eats chalk
@@mclarenf1gtr99 I knew about the Kurgestsbiznaodnxkoal one but what’s the controversy with wendover?
Yeah I'd probably immediately volunteer to fight for someone who promised I'd be able to buy a house and have a family. An unfathomable rage is brewing in young people, a generation that genuinely has no hope for the future under the current system. When the water breaks, and the revolution is birthed, we'll experience a time of unparalleled violence directed at every group and person perceived to have caused our social ills.
I was so hoping you'd get to his story, as it so cleanly transitions your obsessions with the past and our concerns with our future. Please feel free to do an extended version.
Great stuff.
Semper paratus.
This is undoubetly your best video so far. Can feel a passion in this, and the topic clearly resonates with me. It's not the US problem, it's universal at this point.
I've had too much free time in the past year. And it feels almost surreal to see the same conclusion said by other person, with completely different background, from the other continent.
You know, that thing you say at the end of Cobbler's Crackdown? It hits different now.
Totally agreed. Out of all the media I' ve been digging into daily for a long time, this essay made me question my previos thoughts, even though it's on a completely different topic. Hell, the longer I think of it all, as I'm writing this, the harder it all hits
The bourgeoisie will drag us all down.
The best propaganda is the one with slick editing and music in the background. That’s what this is; propaganda. He only gives you a fraction of the truth and leads you into a solution that makes no sense.
@@kylevernon What solution ? There is no solution.
@@kylevernon he didn't give any fucking solution because it is probably THE HARDEST urgent question in the WORLD right now. How do we perfect the State? so that the average citizen is happy? How do we make those who are rich complacent? Can a state even last while being perfect?
What do you think this is propaganda for? Socialism? democrats? No, his videos are like wake up calls, getting people to know about these topics that have been neatly covered by a thin veil for so long. Content like this is becoming widespread, i've seen a ton other people talk like this or about this. The point of this propaganda is to demoralize the public? incite violence? for what purpose? what does this man have to gain out of the country falling into civil war? he relies on youtube and VPN sponsors to eat, why threaten even his life? being of age to be drafted in case of an emergency?
it's all a gigantic question mark and none of us have a solution, it must be talked on by the People and the Government, without a place for private interests in state matters. The US is merely a vessel for corporation to tread on people's dreams and hopes to extract as much time of work and value as possible.
There was a long time that I was upset at myself for dropping out of school to start working full time to help around the house and felt like I ruined my future plans because I wanted to join the military after high school.
I still remember the day my mom popped out of bed and came running to my room crying.
My Grandpa that served in WWII came to her and told her to explain to me why he was proud that I didn’t go and how the military is just a big business venture now basically instead of being to protect our freedom.
Military has been that’s at for a long time.
I knew about Butler and business plot from a great friend of mine who is an American Marine Corps combat vet, but this is also a great piece of political commentary and gave even someone well acquainted with the events something to chew on. Great job!
As a Marine Corps vet, I applaud your commentary on Smedley Butler. People often discount servicemen as less intelligent than the average citizen, but some of the greatest minds in American history have come from the humble beginnings of the enlisted. Their thoughts and ideas often discredited by peoples assumptions of them based on their career path. Another great American warning us of these same follies was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Im shocked at some of the things our military members do to their own veterans. Like the WW1 vets who were chased out of D.C. for protesting their mistreatment after their service, by the very same people who would soon be in their shoes. A grim foreshadowing of what was to come for them.
Well put together!
Hi
I'm not american, but I can plainly see my country slowly following the US descent.
I hope that more people listen to what you said and they realize what kind of future were walking towards.
Just curious, but where are you from? We are all in this together, don’t forget that
@DeathSeller And if he is indeed from Brazil, as a Brazilian I can attest that he is correct
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How many is a Brazilian?
Sorry that quote has been stuck in my head for years
@@eightstunningangles Don't be too hopeless! Your country recently did what America could not. You got rid of the bug person known as Jair Bolsonaro and replaced him with the non-bug Luis Ignácio Lula da Silva. We got rid of our bug person and replaced him with a bug-human hybrid that is still 75% bug. For Brazil's sake, let's cross our fingers that the CIA doesn't get any ideas.
But the thing is, which country should we follow? I'd rather live in a world dominated by the US then for example by china.
“This video is sort of weird”
Yes, brother. That’s why we’re here.
Got interested in Butler and found the book "Gangsters of Capitalism" pretty good so far. Goes into Butler's impact on the world after his conquests. Appreciate you showing me this bit of history.
I've already watched this 3 times today. I rly appreciate your content and the way you go about making your points, and this video feels like it broke me. As an active duty marine officer, finally hearing someone else talk about Gen Smedley Butler's life outside simply the context of his medals just brings about alot of feeling of what it means to be in service of a nation you love, but also disillusioned by it's contemporary acts. Thank you, and keep producing the content you clearly love to make. Semper Fidelis. Sic Semper Tyrannis.
It's so refreshing, in a sea of videos on why you should buy a beer vs why you shouldnt, to see this.
I'm from Poland, and for some time every single time a celebrity or politician, any public figure actually, stands up and says anything, the disconnect between the shit that pours out of their mouths and the reality in which we live - where a year ago my wife and I were able to put a third of our income into savings, and today we're unable to do so at all, where the gas price is pumped up almost by 100% by refinery margins (which was public information at the time!), while the companies and politicians say "it's Putinflation, deal with it", and then the CEO of the biggest national petrochem BRAGS ABOUT RECORD HIGH INCOME JESUS FUCK
OK so this is why I don't watch TV anymore and get my news mainly on meme sites.
Anyway, keep up the good work, you're the sanest man that I enjoy watching, and your commentary is universal (well at least it makes sense on the other side of the Atlantic, can't say what they think about it in Africa and Asia. Comments anyone?).
Yeah if there ever was a time to use as an example against capitalism and its failure to provide people with basic needs, it is now.
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The problem is the lack of alternatives
If you say socialism I'd look at its track record, the fascist branch that grew off socialism had more success and less deaths and misery in comparison
@@commisaryarreck3974 Yeah, socialism does not have the same ring to it in eastern Europe, as it apparently does in the west. Try it for 50 years and you might find out why.
@@commisaryarreck3974 fascism didn't grow from socialism, its still a capitalism, just radicalised and openly monopolised, with usage of radical reactionary ideas (such as nationalism)
@@commisaryarreck3974 also wonder how are you judging and comparing socialist systems and fascist. I'd say fascists killing over 20 million citizens of Soviet Union alone is a high number
One of the things that I keep screaming at people getting upset at "woke communist brainwashing" is that the surest way to prevent a communist, or a fascist takeover is to simply *FIX THE PROBLEMS IN SOCIETY THAT HAVE PEOPLE UPSET.* That's it! The blame isn't on people exploiting your broken society for their political gain. It's on the people who failed to deliver on their promises in the first damned place.
I mean that is basically how Germany didn't descend into civil war and rebellion after world war 2 their government put food on the table and roofs over their heads and suddenly having another go at fascism didn't seem that appealing to most !
Good luck fixing society's problems under capitalism.
@@doublebreastedweskit1854 good luck fixing societies problems under communism. It has the same dam problems but in the extreme. it ultimately leads to an elite political class abusing the poor in society. At least with capitalism it doesn't lead to the inevitable overthrow of democracy. We should ultimately embrace the ideas of capitalism that people only work for their own benefit most of the time but endeavor to more closely align the political class via electoral reform and advocacy to bend towards the common good of the people.
Capitalism isnt inherently evil. It is amoral. There is a difference. Thats why in its purest form it allows so much evil acts to persist and thrive under it. Why it must be tempered with morality, with socialist policies but not discarded whole cloth.
But come on, there's no problems with the Weimar Republic (((having to pay taxes))) and the Vienna accords (((Geneva Convention))). I have everything (((nothing))) that I'll ever need (((body pillows))).
@@doublebreastedweskit1854its literally happening constantly lol. where do you think minimum wage came from? safe working conditions? social security? sick days? vacation? child labor laws? antitrust acts? etcetera.
There’s nothing I love more then a warm chobani perfect peach cobbler to go with my Sunday morning at my job. Listening to America’s (almost) Caesar takeover in my ear while I work is the best.
damn they let you use internet for personal reasons at your office even on sundays? sick bro
@@indian_jojotard6133 I scared them into submission saying I was going call in the femboi unions. Always works, you should try it as well.
@@mindedbirdjk4737 they don't want to be associated with that much gay.
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@@NeverUseAnApostrophe sorry my finger slipped mhm
We're so lucky to be able to witness someone like DJ Peach Cobbler in our time.
Archive his videos.
"No one can buy a house anymore. No one can afford rent anymore. We just spent two decades fighting wars that did nothing but scar Our men and line war profiteers pockets, And everyone is eating poisonous food that keeps getting more expensive, And when it inevitably makes them sick, Make afford to be made well again.
Get a fucking grip."
Exactly
This was by far the best statement in the video hands down.
Thank you for gradually radicalizing me DJ love your work.
This comment is not admissible evidence in a court of law.
@DJ Peach Cobbler sorry can't hear you over our deafening parasocial relationship
@@DJPeachCobblerbruh😂
Well, that was harrowing. Im not used to my unbearable realities being near-undiluted by schizophrenic ranting and general chaos. Great vid, gonna go sit in a corner and go insane now
I don’t know why. While I wait for new videos, I always come back to this.
Good day,
Bad day,
When I need it, it’s here.
Thank you.
This was one of the most informative, serious and entertaining videos I've ever watched. I don't think I've ever finished a DJ Peach Cobbler video without feeling genuine dread and fear. This was the first. Unexpectedly powerful video man. Thank you for making it.
Watching a new cobbler video is like injecting the happy chemicals directly into my brain
... did you WATCH the video? Did the words and their implications bring you joy?
@@marceloantunes998 Is a bug person.
@@marceloantunes998 Oh fatherland, fatherland, show us your sign, your children has waited to see. The morning will come, and the world is mine. Tomorrow belongs _to me..._
@@marceloantunes998 I enjoy watching his videos, they're very well crafted and researched. My comment isn't about the contents of this specific video lmao
@@Kirealta No u.
I've never heard someone be so convincing and then quote a famous assassin, good shit man
It's amazing how your content just keeps getting better with every video. This one resonates especially well with me because I live in France, a country which is also going through the same kind of funny social shenanigans you described here (minus the part about veterans, at least for now).
Well... we had generals two years ago who almost called for a takeover by the military. So, you know...
@@-Zakhiel- Yeah, but we don't have a large number of veterans living in poverty. Of course, our army is significantly smaller than it was in the past, but our latest governments have generally been smart enough to keep people with combat training (i.e. soldiers and police officers) well fed and mostly happy with the status quo. It's probably the main reason we haven't had a revolution in a while.
@@Serpillard The military being a State's beating stick ought to be maintained well enough. Otherwise, it'd break when being used or having pressure being applied upon it. When the stick breaks the result isn't pretty for the one who holds it.
So if I don't pay my army I get a BONUS army? War really is a racket you drive a hard deal sir I accept.
I’ve said this exact thing before I’m so glad to see that getting some attention. The rot consumes but only if we lack the will to fight.
Hello Mr. Cobbler
I also discovered that Tim Elliot article while researching my Honor thesis for Undergraduate, and I am so happy you gave your thoughts on it as I found the same problems with it. Yet, for me, it is a perfect source because my thesis (which is weird because I dislike it), my thesis is not on Rome or politics but rather on the ways we understand and view the past from a viewpoint that by necessity is present temporarily and ideologically. In particular, it is about how we construct the past with the help and at times complete reliance upon Historical Fiction. In other words, how much of history happened, versus how much of it was fabricated, and whether or not that even matters? Historiography is as much a narrative as a novel, and when done poorly historiography can be less trustworthy than well-researched fiction, etc. Anyway, my thesis just happens to focus on how our contemporary conceptions of Julius Caesar are created, so I just happened to find this article, and Oh boy is it a perfect source of how history becomes fiction and then fiction becomes a cultural symbol. Caesar and his assassination/ the Ides of March (which is famously and heavily understood through the Shakespeare play "Julius Caesar", because the American school system is the way it is) has become a symbol of political upheaval and in some ways just a name you use to call someone "bad" for "democracy", both words being very subjectively understood. Of course that is a basic overview of many months of research, however, I do want to say thank you for discussing this article which also gave me a headache as you have allowed me to really grasp it better. It was a pleasant surprise.
P.S If you read this. Please keep this up, you will be the only content creator that will get me through postgraduate!
They way I understand it now, after years of methodically studying history, is that teachers, both highschool and university, teach history via presentism, and not through the lens in which the past existed, i.e. the past. I will always remember the quote, though I do not know where it came from, that "the past is like a foreign country, they do things differently there."
I truly truly hope you make it through your post graduate successfully, Mr. hatchet 😊
I've always heard about how Fascists attempted to take over the US before the outbreak of WW2, but never actually donated time to research it.
Thank you for this, very educational
Have a listen to the podcast "Ultra", it's fantastic at detailing how a literal agent of the Third Reich was influencing US politicians in the lead up to WW2.
@@cameronmcleod8419Sure glad he failed! Now we can all live in our pods and eat the bugs!! Well done defending the democracy General Butler! You saved us!
@@va1hk you are a wall street backed CIA operative. It sure would be lovely to be doing exactly the same or even worse due to big corpos (even earlier)
Yeah there were quite a few German American groups just like in other places such as Argentina.
The Bonus Army debacle is one of the most uncovered stains in American history.
Here’s the thing.
During the Republic of the Punic Wars the elite were in the legions. This is like a world where our CEOs and senators fought. Where the President was leading the battles as well.
You had to own land to be part of the legions.
But the losses of the Punic War wiped out this class (they lost 50k at Cannae in the 2nd Punic War) and Marius couldn’t have an army without people and thus his reforms were allowed.
Their model worked when the republic was a regional land power, not so much as masters of the Mediterranean.
And the Social War brought a large middle class to Citizenship which eventually allowed Rome to field massive forces.
Even if this is a new direction you make good shit either way
I cried. This was a stunning production Cobbler
I have never felt so vindicated. I have been saying what you said for years and I felt like I was going crazy. The media was always focused on some issue or struggle people could fight for like blm or lgbt rights or whatever when those were never things we should have been focusing on. We are living in the second gilded age and it feels like voting doesn't matter because whoever you vote for will just get bought just the same as anyone else. I do not see any way in which this problem would be solved from within. Congress is never going to enact laws that would prevent them from lining their pockets and most have always been rich and have no understanding of how things really are for the majority of us. What bothers me is they think they can do whatever they want and nothing will ever happen to them and what bothers me most is so far they have been right. I feel like I am being put on a watch list for even thinking the way I do. Before we get put away it was at least nice to know someone else sees it and I am not the only one going crazy.
Literally living under oligarchy
Don’t worry brother you aren’t crazy but they sure want you to think you are.
Lol love how u just had to throw blm and lgbtq people into your nonsense
What do you say about the US, with huge inequality, having the highest median post-tax income on earth?
@@drunkenn1njaright, like it's not an either/or addition
The moment you quoted my personal hero and role model (Smedley Butler) I knew this was gonna be good.
You haven't responded to a single email of me asking for your address? Why is that liberal?
Growing up in a former Soviet country, this seems very familiar. Complete chaos, old institutions getting treated like scrap metal to sell off, and amidst all that some kind of unconditional chant for national unity and callbacks to history by random singers and actors. But the people my family knew, those people whose parents and grandparents suffered the most under Soviet rule, seemed to respect it the most. They didn't respect the Soviet rule, to them simply saying "Soviet rule" is a braindead thing. The people who personally care the least about politics seem to know most about who the politicians actually are and where they came from, but those same people got labeled as the remains of old dirt. And there's no room for any questions, we aren't trying to make ideas, we're just choosing between them and only thinking about the deviations from those ideas. However, due to recent events the popular perception got a lot healthier and more complex, although more people can now simply follow the trend. That's a small piece of what I believed when I was around 7-9, very funny things.
I’ve seen an increase in this sort of content recently, I hope we’re finally coming to the conclusions we have been missing
Learned about smedley butler in boot camp they only talk about his medals of honor 😂
by "weirdos" he means sheltered and financially privileged from living in a bubble
Thank you for bringing labor struggles to my attention. I wasn't aware things were so terrifying back then.
Take a look at the battle of Blair mountain
Wealth inequality is higher now than it was then. I say, if this shows how terrifying it was then, what is the unseen tragedy of now going to look like to those seeing it from a hundred years in the future.
Just because you can't see it now, doesn't mean it's not there.
@@rugierro Its a bit kind of terrifying to see right in front of us how the ultra rich can just snap their finger and change the fate of a country. Look at Iraq and Syria, not to forget Lybia too who pushed a bit too far with it wanting to go back to the gold standard - and in turn got royally scrubbed in the back side. And now we are seeing that with China and Russia too. Well China kind of deserved it for being an ass and gaddang stealing EVERYONE's tech
Men fought and died for your right to have a 40 hour work week and 30 minute breaks. We had to bleed for that
@@sc0ner783 no, sir they died for oil that’s what this video is about😂
I have to say I genuinely like actually learning things while feeling like I'm slightly losing my mind
They call it learning reality at it's harshest, jailengates4958
Oh no. A centrist. My only weakness! You win this round, fence-sitter! NYAH!
(Snorts a line and skuttles away)
This is a masterpiece. We have reached the peak. There is nothing that could make me want to see more from you, and the life of this wonderful man Smedley, who did so much for the US businesses and interests, and in the end upheld the Republic. Absolute fuckin banger.
Your historical videos just keep getting better and better, they're definatley some of the best things on youtube! Keep up the good work!
"War is a racket, its the oldest one there is." What a banger of quote, if i ever get the chance to use it you'd best bet its gonna be cited in MLA 8.
Thank you so much for quoting Tiberius Gracchus. More people need to know about him and his efforts during the Roman Republic.
Dude was too based for this world
i made 7.50 working at a mcdonald’s in mississippi in 2020 at the start of covid
most places you look now here in ms bottom out around $10 at least where i am, but i can distincitly remember most places offering 7.25 here until 2022. we’re the poorest state by far and it’s not without reason.
i found this to be a very powerful video. binging your channel for the last week has really changed my mind on many subjects especially in regard to socialism. and if any state truly needs proper socialism, it’s mississippi. 1/3 of our people live on welfare, and well more than that live in squalor and bleak poverty including that 1/3. i love my state but our issues are glaring, and we need help.
Cobblers videos are like crack . .you'll not know when your next fix is coming but when it comes it shakes you to your core with how good it is.
This has got to be one of your best videos yet. I really love when you get serious, at least somewhat, about modern American politics
I've never been more radicalized by a talking pie.
Thank you for the videos, they've been some of the most entertaining media I've seen in recent years.
I can't think of another creator that has compelled me to research on my own other than you.
Here's to many more years of success for you.
I read that Tim Elliot article. I agree. He's complaining about folks "clutching at their pearls" while he is clutching at his pearls.