"The Berlin Wall" | Kip Reacts to The Fat Electrician

Fellow Legends, welcome! Today we have the epic follow-up from The Fat Electrician's Berlin Airlift video. I apologize as due to character limit, I had to abbreviate the title of the video. As always, I have listed all the information to find the original video down below. Let me know if you liked this more relaxed kind of reaction. You should absolutely go ahead and check out The Fat Electrician and definitely check out the original video to show some support for the source material!
Original Channel: The Fat Electrician
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Original Video: The Berlin Wall: How Communism Turned East Germany into a Prison State
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[@the_fat_electrician]

I did to watch it! Thanks for the support.

[@KipReacts]

Oh, absolutely! It's always a pleasure to react to your content, and I have immense respect for you! If I can make discussion videos even half as well as yours, I would consider that absolute win. I can't wait for you to soar over that 2 million Subscriber mark, all the best your way!

[@steadfastscout4606]

The chubby electron man has perceived kip! Love your videos, man!

[@Rebel3000]

How is chubby zappy boy not pinned xD

[@ShadiC636]

Capitalism may have its faults but you never see people escaping from a capitalist country to a communist one.

[@KipReacts]

You see that 1%, but outliers aren't indicative of the other 99%.

[@InstrucTube]

@@KipReacts This is exactly what so many people don't understand. There are ALWAYS exceptions. They don't represent the rest of the people.

[@czarnynight]

Private King few months ago done exactly that. but North Korea kicked him out. but except that one i can't name any other cases that weren't espionage driven. But that's the exception that proves the rule. You don't escape from capitalism to communisms. Ik i wouldn't done that.

[@joeojeda4651]

​@@czarnynighthe fled because he got caught with uhhhh untoward material..,about kids. It's a wild story.

[@imaran1303]

​@@czarnynight You only escape capitalism when you are a shitty human being, like said soldier who turned out to have a LOT of CP.

[@Tsurf]

TFE was not taking any prisoners with this video. I loved every minute of it!

[@jameskarg3240]

Im still suprised he DIDNT talk about the Checkpoint Charlie standoff during this. A simple flex almost spiraled into an armored tank battle between two whole tank columns

[@morgankuikka4940]

Different video, operation paul bunion

[@KNETTWERX]

@@morgankuikka4940 Paul Bunion was Korea. Checkpoint Charlie incident happened around the time the wall went up in Berlin during Kennedy’s time in office. The tanks of both sides were pointed right at each other, and were gradually pulled away from the brink 1 inch at a time.

[@morgankuikka4940]

@@KNETTWERX i mixed up checkpoint 3 and checkpoint Charlie

[@benn454]

@@KNETTWERX Bunyan. A bunion is a bump on your toe.

[@KNETTWERX]

@@benn454 autocorrect sux.

[@gfwinn]

There was actually a movie made about the hot air balloon escape attempt. It's called Night Crossing I believe, and it's definitely worth a watch.

[@Hanmacx]

They did a 2018 Version named Balloon too

[@viperbike2489]

Incase you didnt know kip cus watching the unsubscribe podcast isnt for everyone, he debates college kids regularly who socialism is the future, and it really shows in his enthusiasm for these topics

[@Springy05]

Also want to point out 21:10, many people don't recognize the hypocrisy here that "oh its a communist country but there are billionaires in it while the huge majority of people are barely surviving and being oppressed by a totalitarian government". Great to see you recognizing it there man, thats why I like your reactions. Even if a theme is controversial, you still incite discussion and can point out your own points

[@animalm4st3r]

i mean the point is, they allegedly dont want that to be the case for their form of goverment, nobody eversaid capitalism is fair and everyone will have a fair shot at everything

[@stratigangames508]

​@@animalm4st3r But that's the ultimate ironic failure of Communism. It only increases the wealth divide by removing the middle class. It becomes poor workers and the rich and powerful government officials.

[@arielrife3792]

That, and also, if you tell someone who’s pro communism, “hey, why don’t you just move to a communist country if you think it’s so much better?” They say, “no, but we should try it here!” Like, if you really believed it was better, you’d absolutely want to move to a communist nation.

[@xeros672]

As someone who lives in germany it is interesting to hear my father talk about how in the time of split germany he would live in the part of germany that was "controlled"(couldnt find a better word" by the french and how he would casually go to the american part some days just because the americans would throw parties and festivals there

[@davidgray3061]

I don't know why but i feel if Kip was my History teacher I would be so confused in about half of his classes

[@KipReacts]

It's a good thing I have friends who are history teachers. They are actually quite interesting. I'm a dingus.

[@ilovejettrooper5922]

@@KipReacts Do any of them have channels along the lines of TFE?? Having watched both of your reactions to him, it's been made apparent to me that I *really* need to start upgrading my historical and civic knowledge. You've earned a new subscriber out of me.

[@alexsav2301]

ahh, nice, another kip video me seeing the original video being not even half as long as the reaction: someone is really passionate about the berlin wall

[@KipReacts]

I try to have a lot to say when I react. I feel like I need to add some substance, and history is something I rather enjoy discussing.

[@alexsav2301]

@@KipReacts indeed, it feels nice to have something more than a small png in the corner breathing and grunting once in a while over the original video

[@DillanWill]

And this is one of the reasons I love Kip’s reactions.

[@benn454]

@@KipReacts Good on you. I would much rather watch a reaction that tries to offer insight and engages with the material in a more meaningful way than making surprised faces and yelling "Wow!" "Really?" "OMG!".

[@FairElephant]

Hey Kip, just gotta say I am glad you are going to stop trying so hard to avoid 'opinions' so to speak, whether I agree with you or not as long as you are respectful about it I will continue to watch because if someone disagrees with me I like to know why (Granted based on what I have seen we seem to have similar views but that's besides the point). I think that even if you alienate some of your current audience I believe this will be a good decision for your channels success. The reason why being that you A. will increase the quality of your reactions by making it more personal thereby adding to the original content, and B. I feel you will enjoy making and be much happier with the state of your content. (not to say I understand what is going on in your life but based on what you have said in videos and community posts in the past it seems you have not been enjoying creating content as much and have felt like you aren't happy with the current state of it). I want to emphasize I have zero experience making content and am going strictly off of what draws me towards content and what I have seen in other creators. To end this essay of a KZbin comment off I want to say, Kip, I wish you al the best now and in the future, you are one of the few reaction channels that I can return to time and time again, I found you through your TFE reactions and now found other awesome creators like Laser Pig, Martincitopants, and TheRussianBadger. I always am happy to see an upload and look forward to seeing many more. Here's to the future!

[@sniperboom1202]

My great-uncle Clarence was a combat engineer under Patton's 3RD army. He landed on D+7 and fought till September 44. He had accumulated enough "points" as the system that they use back then to transfer home and work as a Coast guard patrolman for the west of the war. His job was to drive up and down the coast of every state on the east coast to pick up the bodies of u-boat sailors that had been killed.

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

It is interesting to see the growth and learning in how some countries acted post WW2 compared to post WW1. Post WW1 everyone was more or less out for blood and focused most of their attention on Germany. Post WW2 several big intentional players seemed to have learned from this and had a generally more compassionate approach since they had learned that kicking people while they're already down has a way of backfiring. Then there's The USSR who tried to basically repeat the exact chain of events that set the stage for WW2.

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

Some of my thoughts on Communism and the argument "That's not real Communism." is to wonder if maybe people should consider if maybe the common horrors we see from Communism throughout history are in fact part of Communism and what they actually want isn't Communism and they need a new term for what they seek to make.

[@TheFirstSword]

What I feel is one of the best examples of families getting split by the wall is linked to one of the first incidents of someone jumping the fence. A East German border guard was assigned to the fence while everything was being constructed, and one of the things he had to watch was a woman handing flowers over barbed wire to her mother because she could no longer be there for her birthday. So having to watch incidents like that all day, hearing people on the other side call out to him to run west, and realizing the window was closing he jumped the wire and booked it into a West German police vehicle. The West Berliners felt he'd eventually flee East Germany and had called the police to help keep him from getting shot.

[@chaoticdusk1316]

I have to say, I'm normally not one for reaction channels but I've really been enjoying your Kip. You also got me to sit down and binge Fat Electrician videos after I watched a few of your reactions to him and now I've come back to binge your reactions to them before I check out other vids. I really enjoy how much you actually add commentary wise. It's interesting to hear your thoughts and reactions to things as you go through the video. I also love your avatar, it's very nice.

[@KipReacts]

Thank you. I really, really appreciate this. I'm not a Mr Beast or Asmongold, I'm glad that I can bring points and conversation to the table and try to make something more than just looking at a video for X amount of time. I don't think I give myself enough credit, I really do appreciate the kind words.

[@voraciousblackstn]

1989, one of my dad's best friends was at Checkpoint Charlie when the broadcast went out that the border was opened. I was 8 years old. We watched live as the Wall came down. It was a hell of a time.

[@Crazycoyote-we7ey]

I was 4 years old when the wall came down my Dad was partying like there was no tomorrow because he fought Communist North Korea and China

[@jaredthehawk3870]

In the case of communism not following Marx at the end means one thing. They read Marx, found it lacking or insufficient in some areas and discarded those parts and made there own. This means that Marx by itself is inefficient and not capable of working when it hits certain issues.

[@federicofilippini6780]

Marx was just a smuck That contradicted himself all the times in his own manifesto this is a sentence he says in one part of the book: the proletariat should listen to only the to proletariat(says the litteraly middle class guy that the proletariat following his logic should fight against aka they shoudnt read Marx’s book because it’s what Marx said lmao) but yeh Marx is an overhyped guy that didn’t know wth he was writing about especcialy when he left all vague as shit

[@jaredthehawk3870]

@federicofilippini6780 No kidding, he was a lazy, spoiled rich boy loser who had an education yet beat his wife and kids and let two of them starve and die of malnutrition because he refused to find a paying job.

[@kaminsod4077]

​@federicofilippini6780 Marx' only real talent was his writing. His style and prose were very seductive and easily convinced many people at the time. Of course he was completely ignorant on most subjects he talked about, being the 19th century equivalent of a lazy trust fund kid.

[@Marveryn]

@@federicofilippini6780 i figure that the only way marx work is in small groups where everyone is trying to work together. The larger the group, greed and the need for leadership start to take over. Once you need leadership you end up with the person in charge always having to make decision for the group and it start turning into only a select few are in charge.

[@federicofilippini6780]

@@Marveryn correct but even than it would be difficult to mantain, what Marx did is package what a lot of ideas people want to hear and than meshed them together adding in a silly division like the class one(when such social classes definitions are shaky at best and also the fact a social class isn’t just a dam hive mind it’s formed of individuals that have their own ideas hell a certain Italian dictator was a middle class socialist that than got kicked from the socialist party) and in general there are no hard limitations on who the enemy is so everybody can be the enemy of the revolution even those that as private property have only their house and a piece of land see how many holes this has? It’s so vague and not based on reality that u can just mold into what ever, also fun fact Marx wrote the manifesto to get money as soon as he did get money guess what, he behaved like he didn’t write it cause it’s not even what Marx thought he was a drifter middle class bum that as soon as he got back to his welthy status ditched the ideas he wrote himself, also fun fact Marx in the manifesto Preaty much is trolling those who bought it cause in it is write: the proletariate shouldn’t listen to the bourgeois for their ideas. This is particularly funny considering Marx was always a bourgeois that had rich family members bailing his ass out, aka in his own book he said: u reader are stupid shouldn’t be reading this. Yeh in essence it was an ideology meant to fail cause the guy didn’t even try he just slapped in just some intelligent sounding quotes to make himself look smart.

[@FeyTheBin]

Whenever someone tries to tell me communism is a viable means of government, I would just blast "Look at the Owl" in full volume.

[@mayborneflower]

0:30 - The chubby electron man doesn’t make sense, he makes dollars. That’s the point. :p

[@phoenixsoren]

There is actually a movie about the hot air balloon that escaped East Berlin, it's called Night Crossing

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

THANKYOU! I'd forgotten the name!

[@Hanmacx]

Also a 2018 Version named Balloon

[@chriscalvin5083]

Yes thanks for reacting to this video kip

[@Entertainment-ux8ww]

Did you know that the Fat Electrician has a second channel called the Fat Files.

[@KipReacts]

Yep! Those uploads are on the way!

[@rhysthomas1699]

President JFK: Democracy isn't perfect, but we never had to put a wall up to keep our people in.

[@RubyGB]

The agricultural problem in the USSR was their "5Year Plans" which controlled all aspects of farming methods, crops planted, and land use which were written by political commissary with no.knowledge or experience in farming. When you add in the use of antiquated farming equipment which was in limited supply so the multitude of work was done manually, you have the makings of famine and starvation.

[@KipReacts]

It really was just an awful time in history.

[@panniguin862]

not even mentioning the massacres of people who did know what they were doing with regards to farming (the Kulaks say hello).

[@horace7346]

I already heard about the hot air balloon escape due to the Mythbuster’s trio creating a show on Netflix a few years ago called, “White Rabbit Project”, and in an episode covering insane escapes this escape was covered.

[@captin3149]

Night Crossing (1982) is a movie about the Balloon crossing.

[@nero1798]

If you want to know more of the guy escaping East Germany with a ballon, the I would recomend you the German film "Ballon" by the regisseure Michael "Bully"Herbig.

[@briandstephmoore4910]

It's all bs for control like he says. Classless moneyless society for you comrade but moneyfull and classy society for us comrade.

[@luk4s56]

yep it was bad for rich and middle class people but it was good for low class people, i mean imagine having no homelessness and equal education for all, you finish school there is job arleady set up for you for people with a dream thats awful but for people who had nothing thats amazing. and if you work more you get rewarded for it instead of punished like under capitalism i in no way support cummunism but im just speaking what i know from old people who lived under it and reminice of it as the "good old days"

[@briandstephmoore4910]

@@luk4s56 name one communist country in history that didn’t have homelessness or in equalities? I’ll wait because it doesn’t exist. Atleast capitalism is honest, communism is just capitalism for those in power and mediocrity at best for everyone else.

[@spdbggy9675]

I was in basic training when the wall fell. I was lucky enough to have the Berlin Brigade as my first duty station in February of 1990. Wild Times. Still have a piece of the wall I knocked off myself. An elderly German man was kind enough to let me borrow his hammer to do it.

[@phoenixsoren]

My step dad was actually there when the wall fell, he still has a chunk of it Edit: I'm positive people will ask this, so I'll preempt them by saying he lived in West Berlin

[@Springy05]

38:26, that moment made me fall in love with this guy. HE DESCRIBED TWITTER XDDD "Everyone that disagrees with me is a N@zi", THATS TWITTER RIGHT THERE! And I'll call it out, it is specifically the brazilian twitter in this exact second

[@Ender-bg2hx]

Don’t know why I didn’t mention this but Fat electrician in the unsubscribed podcast goes even HARDER on people who say “thats not real communism” or “USSR won ww2 by itself”

[@SgtAwesome97]

Holy crap, until you started talking about it, I never really gave much thought to just how many medical offices there are here in Idaho lol its actually fuckin insane.

[@goldenhate6649]

The medical industry is nutty. But then again, hearing the horror stories out of Europe that are often stifled by the EU and their media, yeaaah. I'll take the expensive healthcare...Take the US's VA, now apply that to everything, and that is what its like. Once the Government's money runs out, so does your healthcare.

[@ColtonRMagby]

The hot air balloon is amazing, but it would've been cooler if they had tandem bicycles instead of a wicker basket.

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

I SWEAR there's a movie of this. I watched it when I was a kid and it's a good movie. Can't remember the name though.

[@mismatch5015]

Get back to us if you figure out the name. People enjoy a good heist movie. Especially if it is about completely normal people thrust into a terrible situation due to a system that failed or betrayed them. Take "Going In Style" a movie where three senior men decide to steal their pension money back after the bank uses their savings to bailout a failing multi-million dollar business that the bank happens to be a part owner of.@@johnj.spurgin7037

[@Hanmacx]

They did a 2018 Version named Balloon too

[@robertlombardo8437]

​@@johnj.spurgin7037 I think it's called Night Crossing. I've heard people talking about it in the comments.

[@etherealswordsman3214]

Economics and politics is one of the most complicated things i know of. Like, figuring out everything that's going on is a similar level of insanity to trying to make a rocket engine behave. You can't safely have full on capitalism without regulation, then you get monopolies, labor exploitation, essentially the rich people become able to rule because you get to a situation where money *is* power, and once you have enough money, you then also have the ability to decide where other peoples money goes. The rich get richer, and the living conditions of everyone else slowly gets worse, a reality that the US is slowly sliding back toward. On the flip side, full on communism/socialism doesn't work, and truly direct democracies are dangers as well, because people aren't exactly smart. You still have to incentivize people to work somehow, without reward, why bother trying? it's a similar issue to even the modern relatively capitalist work force. "I work way harder than my coworker, i get my work done faster, and my only reward is getting more tasks to do. so i'm just going to do less work." Then you get to seeking direct democracy. Great, in theory, but a lot of important work is done by non-majority people who, like the rich in capitalism, don't have a clue what's going on with people who aren't in their group and frankly probably don't care about them, even though they rely that other group, thus collapsing the entire system because, as i said, people are stupid. Politics is the same way. Most actual politicians aren't truly evil, but they don't have a single clue how to actually raise the quality of life for the average person and also want money for themselves so corruption gets in that way, and boom, every modern country pretty much. Predictably, the actual most effective answer exists somewhere in the middle. Our current system, as its currently headed, isn't working. Communism, without fail, creates a power vacuum that leads to a very power hungry actor taking over within the system. The answer that actually balances opinions and voices the best and increases the quality of life for as many people as possible, while lowering the quality of life as little for as few people as possible, sits somewhere between the two, which is why i sit in the economic center like i do, a little left center, but functionally the economic middle. That said, i am on the spectrum, so like, i find it hard to know what would actually work, because it's really, really hard to comprehend what neurotypical people are thinking and doing sometimes. So frequently i find myself thinking, "Okay, this should work, this will overall increase people's QoL while reducing few or none." Then people start arguing homosexuality should be illegal, or the freedoms i would like to have get abused, and I question why I myself continue to willingly identify as human when so many humans willingly act like jerks for no discernable reason. And then i remember i do things too sometimes that i still find it hard or impossible to forgive myself over, or in cycles that i just can't break, and i get sad. And then people somehow still don't think i'm justified when i say my mental health is poor. I like watching you kip, i really do. they way you say things feels like how i think when my mental health is actually doing better. i relate to you, at least on my good days, so thank you, and keep up the content. i'll support you, and i do actually want to hear your opinions. ... well, that went longer than i expected.

[@etherealswordsman3214]

oh, senpai noticed me.

[@silverphinex]

I agree with a lot of your points but i think in a lot of areas the regulations have gotten so restrictive its been hurting perspective new ideas that could improve the quality of life for many.

[@etherealswordsman3214]

it's, once again, not that simple. in some situations, the regulations are very much the problem. in others, the issue becomes that the companies already present are so rich that they just buy you out the second you have a modicum of success, and then shut your product down, and nothing happens.@@silverphinex

[@panniguin862]

I'd disagree on the point of monopolies forming, a lot of modern monopolies exist BECAUSE of regulations and/or government backing choking out any competition in their respective fields.

[@MasterCrawford343]

I agree kip, in my section of Idaho I can count 7 or 8 different medical facilities in just my small hole-in-the-wall town. As a member of one of them I also would like to point t out that we are also not fairly treated or paid.

[@Zabiru-]

It might not be the most common reaction (at least when Nic tells it), but I get kinda choked up hearing about the two families and the hot-air balloon. Imagine the kind of fucked up situation you have to be in where you think that the best option is to risk both of your families lives in that way rather than stay put.

[@animalm4st3r]

unoftunetly he does not talk about "the hoff" singing down the wall XD

[@darkwindplus]

Come on people communism has some incredible advantages. 1. Allowing you to fit into last year’s swim trunks. 2. Making sure you follow through on your new year’s diet. I won’t hold my breath on additional ideas

[@robertlombardo8437]

Expanding your culinary experiences by forcing you to eat bugs and your pets.

[@alexfischer7876]

@@robertlombardo8437 That's North Korea's side of things. Soviets wouldn't force anyone to eat bugs and house pets. They were nice like that.

[@Kez_DXX]

The irony of the Stasi side of the Berlin wall calling it the Anti-fascist protective rampart is *chef's kiss* delicious.

[@Crazycoyote-we7ey]

The Movie Hannibal Rising shows what the wall looked like Red October has dialog about traveling without doing paperwork to travel

[@GuardianWolf85]

Love it when he goes “keyboard warrior” for the idiots

[@jondoe9389]

Those that forget history, are doomed to repeat it.

[@Juan-Dering]

It's not just borders of countries that screw people over. So, used to live in an unincorporated part of a city up in foothills, close enough to cities that it wasn't much of a trip out to things, but far enough away that traffic wasn't an issue. Our water system was amazing too. It was set up so we had some wonderful fresh water coming out from the mountains and glaciers up there. It was fresh, tasted amazing, and all they had to do was ensure it was filtered from contaminants. No need to do anything else it was clean. HOWEVER, more affluent types in the nearby city wanted that water, so they made a huge push to incorporate my part of the area into their city, came up with all sorts of bullshit reasons why and pushed and lobbied for it like crazy. They won. We got pulled into their city limits, and as soon as that happened. The water was diverted to the city center and the more affluent areas, and we were connected to the standard, recycled, treated, and chemical tasting municipal water supply. I would have been totally happy to not have that border re-drawn.

[@LcplAnimeGuy]

Oh boy, Nicks gonna rant in a half

[@vincentconnett5358]

And I agree for the most part with it especially the opening can apply to anti anything

[@slimslimonstar8454]

At like 28:00 i definitely experienced that at Best Buy DC where newcomers were getting hired in at a rate higher than i was at 3+ years and so i quit.

[@FriendlyArchpriest]

Oh Kip, I finished my fourth small data modelling course today and I thought, great, now all I need is a NoSQL course and I will finally be able to read RPG Maker MV files with my own eyes... But now I opened a whole rabbit hole of courses that I feel like I need, courses about Data Science... and I was just trying to make a humble text-based RPG with a lot of customisation and player agency... I study on my country's branch of Alura by the way, an international online tech school apparently based off Canada.

[@AlucardVanHellsing454]

Craziest part of this video is that Kip didn't graduate from college 😂. Like if u told me this man was a teacher I wouldn't bat an eye

[@datmanydocris]

In regard to the calling people who disagree with you a nazi, I have lost count of how many times I, _a rothbardian libertarian,_ have been called a nazi by idiots on Reddit and in KZbin comments. Like brother, I disagree with nazism on _damn near everything,_ it would be pretty difficult to have any more of an antithesis of nazism than my beliefs. It's truly remarkable how little a large portion of people understand about what nazism (or other politicsl ideologies for that matter) actually is.

[@anzaca1]

The problem is many prominent Libertarians associate with neo nazis.

[@ShadiC636]

That’s a typical communist/socialist tactic: if you don’t like someone or you’re losing an argument against their talking points, just pull a “bad-person-name-calling” card. Works like a charm, especially against the dumb masses that take anything at face value instead of doing their research.

[@goldenhate6649]

@@ShadiC636 The most fun is people still believe the media tells the truth even though a vast majority of their sources are 'anonymous' or 'experts' who either A) never existed or B) are absolutely NOT experts.

[@FriendlyArchpriest]

I call people Commies when they disagree with me: But my ideoligion is a Frankenstein patchwork of Indivualist Egoist Theocrat, there is a reason my username is Friendly Archpriest, it's because I'm a crazy zealot with an abrahamic foundation whose perfect ideal life would be to become fully independent solo-self found, ascending beyond the human limitations of life support like food, water, oxygen, warmth, and sleep, and also being completely independent from anyone and everyone through transhumanism. (And the Friendly on my username is because I'm trying to be friendlier)

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

I swear it's like the USSR calling the Berlin wall the "anti-fascist rampart." But yeah, like Ricky Gervais said:"Your boos don't scare me! I've seen what makes you cheer!" It's infantile "everyone I don't like is a nazi" crap and frankly if someone I KNOW has horrific views calls me names It means literally nothing to me.

[@wolfdragon1170]

A more political Kip? It may have it's drama, but when it comes to you, I'm here for it.

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

Bruh, it would take LITERALLY advocating for genocide for me to just WALK AWAY from someone I watch. Kip has the right to his opinions, and while I respect his neutrality maybe he should have a Playlist or something that's kip going ham and unfiltered.

[@weeb_disappointment_8917]

Day 1 asking : Kip reacts to Desert Storm (by : Operation Room)

[@RaderizDorret]

I'll expand further: Marx in his era was notorious for showing up to various media publications, playing nice while flooding those publications with his lackeys and then almost violently taking over and he ran many formerly respected publications into the ground. When a place he ran went into extinction, he moved on and tried the same things again. He was literally that rich kid who never once had to earn a living and felt everything was owed to him to the point where even Engels cut him off after Engels wrote a letter detailing his grief over his wife's death and Marx was "cool, bro. I'm broke, send me more money".

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

Pardon but do you have a link? Because that would be an AMAZING read. I will also search on my own time, but currently at work.

[@RaderizDorret]

@@johnj.spurgin7037 There's a video here on KZbin where someone is reading an excerpt from Thomas Sowell's biography of Marx and that information is in there. Video is about an hour long.

[@dominiccason6199]

The answer to your question is this. KILL, I am not trapped in here with you, YOU ARE TRAPPED IN HERE WITH ME. Even if I die trying.

[@SillyHammer]

The best any refrigeration system has gotten is 60% efficiency

[@KNETTWERX]

Kip, I was alive at the time the wall fell. I was only 12 but was very much aware about it. The clip in Fat Electrician’s video show Peter Jennings at the wall with people on it was the second night. (He and most media personalities of the time were no where near the event, because no one saw it coming.) As for David Hasselhof, he was there on the second night, and the video is on KZbin. The Hof in a light up leather jacket did a concert for everyone there. The biggest block party in history is an understatement. I will say that a good portion of East Germans had a difficult time adjusting to the new norm. There is a documentary ten years later where some felt too much change happened too quick. The entirety of the German reunification is a good case study for the future if North Korea falls and reunifies with South Korea. The differences in everyday life in general would be a huge shock to those in the north, much like the reunification of Germany. The biggest difference being Korea has been separated longer than Germany was, and the standards of living, society norms, education, and everyday things we take for granted are so alien between the two Koreas as a result.

[@jamesmorgan8617]

This was my favorite video thus far, your opinion is a important part of the reaction.

[@JF95]

the algorithm wants engagement and the best way to get engagement is to drive emotions and the whether those emotions are rage, hate, love, rapture, other it doesn't matter to the algorithm.

[@ismaeljimenez6562]

WW2 was the second time in less than 50 years that Germans have invaded mother Russia. The Soviets wanted to make sure that germany can never be a threat to them ever again

[@mmasque2052]

“Immediately, without delay.” Ah, that vaunted German efficiency at work once again.

[@RaderizDorret]

Kip... Karl Marx in writings other than The Communist Manifesto spoke fondly of the "holy relationship between master and serf" and called for "The dictatorship of the Proletariat". In other words "violently kill the rich, take all their shit, and anyone who doesn't get in line is either killed or enslaved". And when people balked at this, he said "don't worry, bro. Just do that long enough and we'll suddenly manifest a paradise in which we are all equal, the State will become irrelevant, and no humans have any sense of self-interest".

[@captain0ffd244]

KZbin: you are trying to be in middle of the road and have a nuance perspective. Kip: yes KZbin: that’s bullshit.

[@MIKE_F44]

Honestly, I only watch your reacts to TFE and this is my favorite yet! Well done sir.

[@frenchfrey65]

the increasing regulations into stopping people from fleeing east Berlin or East Germany in general reminds me of the game, Papers Please.

[@40KBoss]

Oh boy. We getting some more spicy Kip in here? Interesting.

[@horacestorm13]

8:25 . . . Well, sounds like my country's Northern neighbor hasn't learned much from history at all. Especially during the 1977-1985 period and even until now😂

[@kingsesaw]

You can find border complications in the US kip, i live in one state but my work is based in another, so i pay partial tax to two states but then all of it applies federally so its just a clusterfuck every spring

[@KipReacts]

RIGHT THAT'S A THING! I completely spaced that the IRS has a section for if you spend time, work or residence, between States. Idaho Driver's Licenses had to (as far as I was aware before the pandemic) all transition into the new Star Card format in order to be recognized between States. That's the gist I understood it as anyway, I think the pandemic derailed that due to staffing.

[@aztumtheknightofwumbo7060]

There is a reason why the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, exists.

[@ilovejettrooper5922]

Or "1984", for that matter.

[@FANSpiele]

east german here. working in berlin, one of my colleague i work whit an eldery man worked as border guard not at the berliner wall but more like outside of berlin but still he had loaded ammo and had to check minefields etc.

[@FANSpiele]

a famous word here from gdr is, "some people are more equal, then others"

[@nunyalastname-ej8vl]

I visited the wall when it was active. Yeah I'm old, to young to be of military age then. It was way more than "A Wall" rather impressive.

[@Crazycoyote-we7ey]

I was in Kindergarten when the wall came down

[@jeremyfigueroa1683]

Funny part that you mention teachers, Mr. Nick from the fat electrician is actually going through college to get a degree in history. So maybe future history teacher? He talks about it when he's on the unsubscribe podcast, don't remember which episode Edit: i believe he starts talking about it episode #108 or #122

[@megmolkate]

I recall someone saying that DDR (German democratic republic aka East Germany) “really” meant Der Dumme Rest or the dumb remain.

[@MrMaradok]

32:37 Ok, if I was me, but trying to escape to West Berlin…hmm…I’m just a housekeeper IRL, so assuming I’m still that, I’d probably need to Oceans 13 this and gather a group of likeminded misfits to bust through each of the defenses. Not much I can do by myself, but together, we should have chance…maybe…

[@Katpiratefan275]

Id also like to go to Germany and Japan. Let's team up and make the dream happen, Kip! I also want to make my pilgrimage to the Netherlands, Austria, The Czech Republic (they have a phenomenal tea culture over there), Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, and Thailand. Because, yes, it our right to travel, to leave our country and then return after seeing how much better some of these countries are in comparison to the USA

[@rmartinson19]

Yeah, the whole concept of "incentivization" is anathema to Communist ideology. Because Communism hinges on the patently absurd idea that Self-Interest/Greed is a cultural construct that can - and must - be trained out of the populace to achieve the Communist Utopia. Thus, trying to appeal to the Greed or Self-Interest of the populace is directly and definitionally Anti-Communist. So tyranny, oppression and naked force are all their ideology lets them work with in this kind of scenario.

[@duckgoesquack4514]

27:27 i love that hug

[@Dragonsofchaos852]

39:30 untill 40:20 Bruh, the fact he didn't say it but insinulated that XD

[@SpyroTigerDovefan34]

One thing to note is that that communist countries have, for the most part, tried at the start to follow the teachings of Marx. The problem of Communism is one thing : It ignores the one thing that cannot be changed in humanity, Greed. It's a very naive economic system and seems utopic until you realize how easily people can fall to greed, envy, lust, wrath, etc, etc (and I say this as an atheist). Also, on the CPUSA. It was never banned and is still around today, it just never rose to prominence because of the two party system. There was a GOP debate on banning it in 1948 and Harold E. Stassen, the Progressive Former Governor of Minnesota, argued in favor of banning it while Thomas Dewey, the Liberal Governor of New York and 1944 Presidential Nominee was against banning it. Dewey won the debate. Really recommend you look into the CPUSA in the 30s-70s, considering it was a Stalinist puppet led by people like William Foster and Gus Hall. Also, Tupac was a member, so that's a neat bit of trivia.

[@jameslars7391]

I will say this when you have a wall one side is covered in graffiti and the other side had guard towers, dogs, barbed wire, spike strips, land mines who is really keeping who out?

[@FluffehStuff274]

4:00 The thing about the advertisers is that a lot of them are left leaning. The ad-pocalypse was the successful attempt to get lower ad rates for advertisers while cutting off money to conservative leaning content. It worked for lower rates but actively encourages pushing one side vs another as that got the increase in traffic to generate money for content creators. This is why Elon Musk told advertisers, including Disney's Bob Iger, to "f-off." They want to use their money to control the narrative especially with an election season coming up. So at this point, as long as you can back up what you say with facts, well go for the throat and make that money. I like how you've been middle of the road balanced, but if you got to skew one way then skew towards the truth.

[@marcbennett9232]

great video! ive watched enough of your reactions that I finally subscribed! I havent looked through your channel much yet, I found you through The Fat Electrician, but have you reacted to the over simplified videos?

[@KipReacts]

I have not! I've been recommended them a few times. I'm trying to find out what content clicks and what content doesn't work still.

[@marcbennett9232]

@@KipReacts IMO over simplified is always a good watch. history and humor. quality is top notch. only problem is the release schedule lol. my personal favorite is the first punic war part 1 and 2.

[@Aokreaper]

Call a spade a spade. Im sure its old. Love it. Using it. VIVA LA ENGLISH!

[@huntersquad6]

We may suck, but we didnt need to build a wall to keep our people inside

[@chadbacon4264]

Disney made a movie about the balloon escape

[@Zerpderp0]

Technically you don't even need the money to leave your country. All you need is a passport and the permission to enter another's country unless you border a tract of land that no one owns or claims

[@goldenhate6649]

And passports cost money... 120 usd in the US if the price hasn't changed. Though, if you aren't able to shell out 120 dollars in the US for a passport, I have serious questions about your life decisions.

[@c0baltl1ghtn1ng]

@@goldenhate6649 Don't forget the means of transport, unless you plan on walking and/or swimming there.

[@FriendlyArchpriest]

I'm clicking off the video Kip, but that's only because I have to study, not because of engagement and stuff.

[@KipReacts]

That's totally fair! Your time is your own, and you do what you need to with your time.

[@Crazycoyote-we7ey]

Then the grest escape of 1953 they used a tunnel under the wall until they got caught

[@jameskarg3240]

Also, Communisms hardest sell is basically turning OFF human greed. But turning off ones greed is impossible. Its PART of human NATURE to be wanting of worldly wealth and possesions. Sadly, MOST turn to communism as an EXSCUSE to mark their demand for revenge. For EVERYTHING against human generosity.

[@aztumtheknightofwumbo7060]

Communism is just enacting every sin in the book to warp a society and end up with a dictatorship.

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

Greed and envy are sins, and yet communism would deny their existence despite all of human history screaming the opposite.

[@Shalltear773]

I wouldn't say it's impossible but it would definitely destroy a part of what makes humans... well humans.

[@LWolf12]

In theory, anyone could just throw their shit in their car and start driving for the border at any time. Or just walk. Granted the majority of people won't, but theoretically you could.

[@CentreSwift]

I will be using "tickled my bone" from now on.

[@brotherzane636]

fun fact...there are 30 universal human rights

[@HutchTheWolf]

A lot of the arguments against Capitalism piss me off; like, no shit Sherlock, of course unrestricted Capitalism can be harmful to the everyday man! There’s a reason that the US is a *mixed* economy and, for the most part, tries to take the best parts of many different kinds of economies. The main problem with Communism is that it functions as both a form of government *AND* a type of economy. In the implementation of it creeds, the two halves have a history of getting jumbled, leading to multiple horrifying violations of human rights. It’s the same when we’re spreading “Democracy”, unrequested, despite the fact the United States is Constitutional Republic/ Democratic Republic. Note that the “Democracy” is a qualifier of the kind of *REPUBLIC* we are.

[@Crazycoyote-we7ey]

Capitalism Medicine Top of the line medicine and equipment USSR Medicine hasn't changed since 1918

[@wmdragonj]

If you have the time to deep dive into this stuff Dr. James Lindsay has several KZbin lectures about how Communism internally functions and how it’s mutated through out the years.

[@grantharriman284]

So, the thing that the USSR "gained" by stripping Germany for parts was a kick start on rebuilding its own devastated home territory. The theory in splitting Germany among the Allies was that it would be temporary, so the USSR is trying to get what it can while this lasts. During the war Russian economic centers were decimated, and taking the machines and materials from German factories did go a long way towards getting their domestic production back working. It's not a terrible idea if they had not chosen to also abandon the initial plan of letting Germany reunify and govern itself after a short period of time.

[@nunyalastname-ej8vl]

East Germany was The USSRs wall. It was defensive territory. Sacrafice germany . They were ready for a free world vs communisim. Zka cold war.

[@patrickoverstreet2372]

Sad fact, you can only learn from history if you are allowed to study it without it being censored and many, many countries dont want that so we end up repeating the same mistakes over and over.

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes INCESSANTLY.

[@Shalltear773]

@@johnj.spurgin7037 even more so when people constantly fail to avoid making the same mistakes.

[@InstrucTube]

I too know little about Trickle Down Economics or whatever it's really called, but I can tell you as a worker in the trenches so to speak that the only thing trickling down in my lifetime has been brown and smelly. Also for my money I'm always happier with people engaging each other based on the truth. So tell it how you feel it is. :)

[@chemislife]

@25:25 California is side eyeing you to shut up right now as this exact thing is happening right now in that state lol 😅

[@aztumtheknightofwumbo7060]

Reason why Gavin Newsom won't win the nominee.

[@chemislife]

@@aztumtheknightofwumbo7060 should have lost his impeachment election as well but cheating is strong in Frisco.

[@truegrit2060]

(45:53) Ops! 🤦‍♂️🤣