TheVarus Strakes Buck | Paws Reacts to Internet Historian

[@sunderzilla]

I love the new model, that tracking and rigging is superb. It makes you a lot more expressive.

[@judehylton466]

And classy.

[@Incubansoul]

We somehow rolled the dumbest apocalypse scenario in the book.

[@popg21-the-epic51]

We critically failed

[@115DELDE]

dumbest for sure, but thankfully it wasn't the worse.

[@KriegVII]

It was a nat 20

[@abnegazher]

This pandemic teached me that I don't hate celebrities enough.

[@SapunMan]

taught*

[@gehtdichnixan9005]

13:41: "Where are peoples manners?" Bless your innocence, my child...

[@alaxbird4954]

"Can I have my Tampons" damn near choked on my drink when you said that

[@ShaggyRogers1]

"it makes us equal" She says from her multi-million mega mansion. Meanwhile the "essential workers" were getting shafted by being forced to continue working, and non-essential workers were worrying about feeding their children dinner. As for the private jets, what you were thinking is pretty much exactly what they mean. Public shipping companies and air travel is classified as such that their primary business is moving people/parcels as ordinary business. Companies such as DHL or UPS have standard import/export systems in place with local authorities. The protective equipment was being sent out on private jets that are individually tasked/chartered. It is the same thing as hiring a private passenger jet, but they probably hired private cargo planes.

[@MetalNCarnet]

Unfortunately those $1000 stealing limit laws are still in place in the US where they implemented them. You can tell where those places are by the lack of stores in the area or everything in the store is now behind glass. Also more people living in tents on the street than in homes, and not a single cop in sight because they all quit.

[@Hatenashi_Raza]

what's even more crazy to me is that aparently the under 1000 dolars thing IS STILL A THING to qoute a friend who lives in new york " 'catch and release' program if you are arrested from shop lifting if you are under 1000$ in stolen goods in that one case, they will not imprison you. They will just release you"

[@lostinthenight2005]

Yeah, I am still wondering why they haven't walk back that

[@electricbayonet2]

Yep. Similar issues in California, too. One of the latest room-temp IQ political moves was in San Francisco where the response to stores closing due to increasing volumes of theft was a proposal to make said stores open to civil liability (getting sued) if they close without first arranging for a ‘replacement’ store to take over.

[@pawsvtuber]

WTF 😣

[@Jobocan.]

​@@lostinthenight2005Because they want crime to happen.

[@wessltov]

Thieves still get held responsible...but they get a chance to lengthen their records first. Charges still get filed against them, but as you said, they get released right after. When they inevitably fail to show up to court, the judge files a bench warrant to capture them once again (after which some courts just release them again after posting bail, rinse and repeat)

[@leradmuiel7634]

1:56 the states went lukewarm IQ mode during all of this and it hasn’t recovered at all.

[@foogoose1439]

And the temperature is in Celcius

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

No, they went honest tyrant. Politicians think they are better than the people, and have since the Bush administration in American at minimum. This is what they really are.

[@razargrey59]

And dropping farther still, depending where you are in the states.

[@waffel_weapon]

Great reaction. I hope you will react to more IH Videos in the future. I personally would recommend "Man in Cave". It's a longer one but one of his best in my opinion.

[@MrDredme]

With a little help

[@insanity9329]

Meanwhile, Keanu Reeves: *Probably staying calmly at home and sharing sanitizer and toilet paper with the nearest regular person*

[@glenntk8434]

In norway during that time there were a record high of poeple buying "back door" toys

[@Langeng1]

for the varus protection, gotta keep all entry points sealed :)

[@surfingraichu7594]

I like this new information about my country very much

[@Nod0nFire]

28:04 making money isn’t bad, no. Making money by grossly overpricing a product after ensuring no one else in your local area can access them, especially when that product is an essential product like sanitizing supplies during a pandemic…that’s bad

[@loknaz97]

As someone living in a small town in sweden nothing changed much. No mask requirements, no restaurants to be closed, factory still open.

[@eur0be4t3r]

As another swede I can back this up

[@Unknown-hb3id]

A good chunk of America went defense early on, then dropped it when they actually saw the effects. Urban areas always do the stupid shite.

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

Covid did one good thing. It showed us how much we DIDN'T need celebrities. And on the hand sanitizer thing... the trick would be to hold until prices rose, then sell at below cost to not gouge AND provide an essential product.

[@AquaLantern]

"But I don't wanna fight a monkey :(" -Paws, 2024

[@daniel4647]

My town had no cases of infected people starting out, so the mayor just closed the whole town down, said if anyone left they weren't getting back in. City people that wanted to escape to the cabins they owned in our town were mad as hell, and the national government said what we were doing was illegal, but our mayor stood her ground and just told them to f off. So we had no cases for a long time until many months later when we were finally forced to open up, but we still had very few cases, so the whole thing never really affected me.

[@thaliacrafts407]

That's some "The Stand" level shit

[@Faravid829]

Your mayor sounds like an absolute unit. Glad you all made it through ok, more places should have handled it like this.

[@Aughtel]

​@@Faravid829exactly. To hell with rights. They ony get in the way.

[@Johnlanzer]

28:35 that's only PART of the equation in capitalism and economics 101, that's just the seller. But if the market/buyers can also respond by liking/buying the product, or outright rejecting it (like what happened to him). No one bought his products or no market would accept his products. So he got a negative incentive for hoarding and price gouging.

[@atrophos4104]

i love your content keep doing what you're doing, and shoutout to my barber for recommending me this video

[@electricbayonet2]

If you want a more wholesome counterpart to the ‘making hand sanitizer with prison labor’ thing, there were US vodka companies that produced dedicated products with 50% higher alcohol by volume (at least 60% compared to the normal 40%) so that it could be used as a sanitizer.

[@VisualOrchestra]

This video by Internet Historian was like a prophecy of how trash NYC and LA would become.

[@toospooky051]

Both cities were already trash, Varus™ just put it in the spotlight

[@HypnoPantsOnline]

The snitching thing was child's play compared to Scotland's new hate crime law! 🤣

[@GregAtlas]

The sad thing is that this memeified version of events is the tamer side of things that were happening. Reality was much worse. Just a couple that come to mind is the jailing of people who defied lockdowns by taking a walk in a park alone yet they started releasing the rapists, child predators, and murders out of New York and other big city prisons because of the risk of spreading the coof. You might not like that the grocery store worker is wishing that the thieves overdose, but they're directly hurting that worker's livelihood and they have no legal way of stopping them because California's draconian laws, even if the looters directly attacked them. Many of those stores are now closed down, killing those jobs and removing a community's source of goods. Even the big chains have had to close down those areas because of massive losses. I think wishing them to overdose is reasonable at minimum even though the government was also providing drug kits to help them get high without overdosing because they're supervised. Yep... Government passed out free crack pipes, heroine, and meth, too. Still do in many areas.

[@PhysicsGamer]

The thing about huge chains closing down due to massive shrinkage losses was fake, actually - but the way in which it was fake was something else. You see, that narrative came direct from Walgreen's. The CEO trotted out the line repeatedly to explain why they were closing so many stores. Then some investors did some digging and found that was a lie. A lie made to investors in order to hide the fact that tons of Walgreen's stores were mostly not profitable because not many people wanted to go there (go figure). That's called 'fraud'.

[@DomainofInsanityA113]

Damn, I didn't know Vanessa played that little Blue Star in the new Super Mario movie

[@jerryalbus1492]

Old model: Mommy. Respect. New model: Nee-san 🥵

[@GamingPiper]

As a software engineer with a primary hobby in video games, i totally understand you... My life during covid changed not at all except having a mask in the car to wear when going shopping and saving a bunch on gas money because not driving to the office and working from home.... 😂 Most of the shit that went down i only learned of after the fact through youtube, especially the two ih videos.

[@ndr2q]

Tail so soft and fluffy ❤

[@izaaksosebee528]

The new model is amazing!

[@MadMattInc1]

As far as I'm aware. A lot of these laxed rules on crimes is still a thing. You couldn't pay me to visit the coasts with the way things are being run. And then they sit there wondering why businesses are all closing down.

[@PhysicsGamer]

Genuine question - have you ever considered that you might be being lied to...? Or if not, how there are any businesses left on "the coasts" when they've all apparently left three times over?

[@gohantube7017]

I laughed to much at some of this stuff. Thanks for sharing

[@electricbayonet2]

32:56 Well...everyone was basically stuck inside. Gotta pass the time somehow.

[@Kyle_116]

Meanwhile I still worked 40-45 hours a week and never had a single lockdown due to working a retail job.

[@thomasalvarez3298]

I can't wait for you to react the the man in a cave one IH did

[@TheRealBlackNet]

"What is this ad?" Its "Rayconman:Origin"

[@Velvex_Vancreed]

Most of the time and I'm pretty sure the FFC kind of enforces it but cargo transport via air is usually done by specialized aircraft for cargo transport usually owned by FedEx or other mail companies

[@l__l2328]

07:45 This is still going on btw

[@Owarikun]

good to know I wasn't the only one living under a rock during covid... I had no clue of what was happening around the world during that time and only did so when I watched these videos a long while later...

[@AzayBae]

The craziest thing about this time in the US was the summer of love. Tons of rioting, attacks on city buildings, clashes between police and protestors. That one zone IH mentioned, CHAZ , sprang up. CHAZ was basically its own country in the US for a bit. Random thugs with guns ruled the area and killed some people. It was nuts. In retrospect I think people seeing how tyrannical governments can be, how happy some people are to fall in line or commit crime when given a loose leash was good. People are more realistic about seeing how fragile society is to supply lines being cut and stuff.

[@gohantube7017]

I fucking forgot about CHAZ, OH MY GOD! what a wild time.

[@leradmuiel7634]

Fiery but mostly Peaceful- CNN

[@TheForsakenEagle]

CHAZ was allowed to happen due to seditious Democrats.

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

The hypocrisy and uneven prosecution of the imposed rules was what really pissed people off. The politicians that imposed these rules were often caught flagrantly violating them because "they're special." See Chris Christie and that Beetlejuice lookin' MF that was mayor of Chicago.

[@gehtdichnixan9005]

Hopefully both the "We don't need prisons or punishment!" and the "We have to focus on rehabilitation (and remove prisons)!" crowds took notice of how far removed from reality their ideas are.

[@poochyenajones1362]

To be honest, Cardi seemed the most sensible out of the bunch.

[@elevate07]

She was the least bad just because she spent the whole time making fun of it

[@thomasalvarez3298]

The ears make the model even cuter, I may be biased tho

[@ezracosay3790]

I love your voice and laugh ❤

[@xbling_shutdown2815]

Hahaha lol in nz right from the start we just shut down our country, closed it off from the rest of the world and stayed inside, cleared up pretty quickly. Afterwords If anyone coming into our country didn't stay in our quarantine hotels for 2 weeks or didn't wear a mask, they were sent right back home.

[@juarezamorim]

Too bad we never got a Part 3 of The Varus.

[@thaliacrafts407]

Pretty sure the bird flu dlc is going to drop any moment now

[@jacobstewart1950]

I was tested for flu in January 2020 and had the flu. Later on, I had a test for covid and was negative, but I had tge antibodies

[@alexfromproduce1521]

Pretty much showed if the black plaque happned there would be not stopping it

[@Shadowkey392]

Honestly the bit with the celebrities coming together to sing a song was a pretty cool idea. Lots of other people did it (“The Wellerman” TikTok videos come to mind), I don’t see why their being celebrities made it such a big deal for some people.

[@Hammershaimb]

Because they are hypocrites in ivory towers singing about being "equals" with actual struggling people

[@xcom_rx7241]

8:10 me to :D

[@cmotdibbler4454]

I never realised it until today but Ellen Degenerate really looks like Odo from Deep space 9

[@RCPDcap]

Ok fine you got a sub out of me, this was hilarious:)

[@icemeltdown2237]

Yes

[@ITCodex]

If you live all the time with your boyfriend you either need condoms or medicine for stress 😂😂

[@Ixiah27]

Nice :)

[@FraudEvaderOfTaxes]

People suck

[@sic111]

The capitalist is raised to profit, and profit does not mean make everything more expensive. For instance if their hand sanitizers were too expensive for the consumer, no one would buy it, and they as capitalists would've been forced to lower the prices to profit anything, since they risked their money to buy all of those hand sanitizers they would rather sell and get their money back with some small profits instead of keeping all the hand sanitizers in stock while being more poor. They would've been forced by the market to lower the prices since soon new sanitizers would been made and exported to the region where it was scarse, effectivelly making their bussines irrelevant. For a capitalist, 'price gouging' is a good thing, because it ensures a good distribution of scarse materials; If theres not much of the same resource, due to anything, the prices of said resource goes up, so only people that really needs it would see it as still valuable, people that just wants it due to routine would be scared by the prices and see the product as not worth it, the high prices this resource is being sold in the area also incentivate other business (fhilanthropics or capitalists; for different reasons) to export the same resource for this same area where this product is selling for a high price, effectivelly making them less scarse and more cheaper again. This kind of economic correction would never be made, or it would drag longer, if the prices where forced to be cheap while the product is scarse, in other words, If the price of the scarse product in the area is the same as other areas where the product is abundant, there would be no (fhilanthropic or capitalist) incentive to fix the scarcity of the product. Also, since the product is scarse and cheap people would demand it and buy it more, trying to evade having it to buy later when it gets out of stock, making it a "whoever comes first gets the prize game", that keeps scarcity for a longer time, and this is a self perpetuated cycle, if its a mere belief that the product is scarse people would just come first and buy as much as they can get, and make the product scarse, we have the covid toilet paper situation as example, no toilet paper in stores because people thought it was going scarse and bought way more than they needed, rendering people that needed it without none.

[@PhysicsGamer]

The problem with what you describe is when the scarcity is artificial. Like what happened with the hand sanitizer guys in the video.

[@BerialAstral]

You still have hope for Humanity? I lost all hope a long time ago...

[@smaragdwolf1]

Let put this into perspective. Roughly 110 years ago, there was another, wordwide pandemic. Back then LARGE amounts of europeans died. Chaos, panic, paranoia. Then we have this pandemic. Many people died worldwide and what was the behaviour? Mostly paranoia and chaos, but mainly because people didnt care that most Limitations were put in place for their own safety. Humanity devolved in a span of 100 years to become insanely stupid regarding their own health. Some because they know that their nations healthcare system will probably save them, others because their nations health system is already below that of a third world country, so they simply didnt care anymore.

[@PhysicsGamer]

110 years ago cities hired people to walk the streets with guns to "deter the 'mask slackers'" as they called them at the time.

[@thaliacrafts407]

Vaccines, hygiëne and antibiotics made us cocky. We no longer respect disease like we should.