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I agree that there's a ton of parallels between now and the period just before WWI (e.g. I've only recently realized how much a tangled web of alliances the Middle East / North East Africa is).

But of all the parallels that could exist, I really think the "men aren't manly enough" attitude we see today / saw them is not a good indicator of us heading towards the next world war. And even if you think it's a good one, I also think there are just way better indicators, to the point that recruiting propaganda trends aren't going to be a major contributor.

Time to lose my eye sights from mustard gas like my great grandfather yippeee

This sounds interesting, but I sure as hell am not downloading TikTok to see it. Is there a mirror anywhere?

Haven't watched the tiktok but there are a few parallels to WW1 for sure. For one there's the advancement of weapons technology in colonial wars being used by peer/near-peer combatants in parallel with old tactics to disasterous results (machine guns and artillery in WW1, cheap drones and anti-tank weapons in Ukraine), the aforementioned period of colonial "policing" leading people to drastically misunderstand what modern war entails (look at how war was treated as an adventure prior to WW1 and compare to how the brigades were talking about it), mass media controlled by the ruling class misleading and outright lying to the general population (I'm sure everyone has seen the modern day examples, and for an example for WW1 let me plug a post I made on news coverage on the Battle of the Somme )

I don't really see parallels. WW1 was a late-to-the-game empire inciting war to usurp the more established colonial imperial powers. I guess maybe you could place Russia or China in Germany's role but it doesn't feel right to me.

has anybody checked in on the band franz ferdinand?

Sounds interesting. I hope he'll make long-form content on YouTube.