>There are no perfect history podc-

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>>3239937
Get the fuck out with the low tier b8

>>3239937
John Green is a blight

>>3239937
>much noble savage meme
>Greeks would've been better off being conquered by Persians because they were le progressive!
>Islam dindu nuffin and has done nothing since (crusades were super terrible though)

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>>3239937
Fixed the pic for you OP

John green is such a fucking hack
Not only does he insert bias into his videos but he also is straight up wrong about a lot of things.
He should just stick to writing books for emotional women.

>>3239968
My nigga

>>3239968
confirmed good taste

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That's a nice opinion anon, but I'm going to have to stop you there as we're running short on time

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>>3239968
Patrician Taste

>>3239968
Anything detailed enough to draw normies away is good in my book

>>3239937
trash
>>3239968
gold

>>3239988
Absolute kino. The Seneca one they did recently was great.

>>3239978
>>3239954
Can anyone explain to me more extensively the problem with John green and his shitty YouTube channel? I hate him as well but I've never really been able to articulate exactly what makes him so shit?

>>3240299
When people say he's biased they aren't memeing.

>>3240313
I said more extensively please.

>>3240299
SJW like him

>>3240299
He tries to combat Eurocentrism by being blatantly pro-anything else, like the Persians should have ruled the Greeks because Sparta had slaves, and then claiming slavery didn't exist in Persia when it did

>>3240317
He's very, very anti-European. Like Noam Chomsky, he's chosen to become so aligned against something that he literally cannot see anything good that they ever did, all while whitewashing non-European cultures.

>>3240299
I would say, rather than just his bias, is that he looks condescendingly at the past. He suffers from the "Historian's Fallacy" (i.e. the idea that just because something seems obvious at the present means it was in the past). Because of this, he presents historical people who made mistakes as idiots, and presents people in the past as having obviously wrong ideas even though those ideas passed a great intellectual rigor.

>>3239968
Care to explain who he is?

>>3240359
The Great War channel on Youtube. They do weekly recaps of what was happening a century ago in WW1. Words cannot describe how comfy and simultaneously informative their videos are.

>>3239968
I like the channel and the content, but I really don't like the guy. He just kinda gets on my nerves, just the whole way he talks -- its just like Jon Stewart doing when he hosted the Daily Show.

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>>3240372
>t. John Green

>>3240299
I stopped watching when he said the Macedonians conquered Persia because they invented the Sarissa, a pike, a very long spear, which you can imagine the Persians could have easily manufactured thus obviously couldn't be the reason.

He seems pretty smart so he must have known this. Maybe he thought his target audience had an extreme dislike of military history to the point even this very basic inference would instantly bore the to death. Even if you happen to hate military history and think it is patriarchal and offensive or something, he still outright lied and distorted history egregiously and likely does so throughout his videos, so I wouldn't waste time watching them.

>>3240374
no no no
I literally HATE Crash Course, it's existence sickens me.

>>3240466
At least you aren't a lost cause then

>>3239988
The latest podcasts are great. But the earliest podcasts, let's just say Bragg's voice made me feel sleepy. It's interesting and all but god, his voice can sound monotonous at times.

For our /pol/ friends lurking. So far, I haven't heard feminists pushing their agenda in this podcast.

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>>3239937

>>3240374
Why does the image say "in touch"?

>>3240555
reference to a meme

>>3240481
The episode on the crusades would trigger most /pol/tards. It sure triggered me because they spent like a total of 10 minutes sperging on whether or not christians were literally satan.

>>3240565
Which meme?

>>3240574
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNzBQhQIarc
Metal Gear Rising was probably the most memed on game of 2013 on /v/

>>3240299
I only viewed his psychology series and it really upsets me, some basic terms you can totally just follow the textbooks but he decided to make shits up even wiki is better than him

>>3239968
Never watched it. How does he cover the lead up/start? Is it actually reasoned or is it standard Anglo Germanophobia bullshit? That alone tells me whether or not it's worth the time.

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>Hello... and welcome to The History of Rome

>>3240853
>Is it actually reasoned
Oh, it's very well reasoned. They use a fuckton of sourcing and nailed the July Crisis for what it was, a tragedy. Still, the channel improves as it goes on and the team gets more experience.

>>3240863
Never seen anyone have strong negative opinions on that. Hard to imagine one that isn't pure autism or just hates the format.

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>>3239937
Were slaves stuffed in boxes?

>>3239937
>Here's my biased diluted version of world history that you could just easily read in a few short paragraphs yourself instead of a long boring visually uninteresting video read by a nasally voiced dickhead which you'll forget a few minutes afterwards which begs the question why you didn't just research it yourself and actually learn something from legitimate resources rather than some tertiary snarky liberal asshole

>>3240863
love this guy.

>>3239968
Just started watching his vids, this mfer is comfy as fuck

>>3240863
I prefered revolutions, although that's probably just because he got better, the History of rome felt very abstracted to me, whilst revolutions established places, names and dates which i could use to get a clearer picture of what was happening.

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>>3239968

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>>3241316
>Steel Ball Run race will never be real

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>>3239937

>>3240853
not germanophobic at all, if anything he is a bit german biased as he constantly goes into how fucking stupid the austria-hungary generals were and how they wasted millions of lives.

>>3240863
rome was good, revolutions is great

>>3239988

Love it when two historians sound like they're about to come to blows over some obscure debate

>>3240299
he just gets most things wrong. It's like the other Anon said, in a mission to be the contrarian/anti """yurocentrist""" he just emphasizes everything any other culture has down and talks down everything European. I've forgotten most of it but its basically prevelant is most of his videos, things like Arabs started the Rennaissance. It's just nonsense a lot of the time, or he's got it from a biased source or its not sourced at all and he's made it up. He isn't a professional historian, it's as simple as that.

>>3241926
His main source is his former high school teacher as well.

>>3240299
he runs vidcon and promotes SJW's probably what make you feel like he's shitty.

>>3240863
He looks exactly as I pictured

Honestly one of the best podcasters ever, his voice is so soothing

>>3241926
continuing on, a big problem is flashy graphics and 10 minute videos is never going to give you a proper perspective on the wide subjects he tries to cover. It's an awful format for covering history, but it's just good for entertaining """history buffs""" and 'normies'. It's just little, bitesize select facts and John just comes across as a little pretentious or a little to enthuasiastic, especially with the jokes he tries to pull. At least to me, that is, but it is hard to pinpoint honestly

>>3240569
So you don't tip your pizza guy?

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>>3240299
In the words of a famous Slovenian, "pure ideology".

>>3241916
Fucking this. You can feel a steady build up of passive aggressiveness in some episodes

>>3240555
play Metal Gear Rising, faggot

>>3240863
The most based nigga.