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Foreword:  This was originally written on April 25, 2021. The oldest post that I've had on here so far. I wrote this when Rodrigo Duterte was still the president of the Philippines 🇵🇭, and I was inspired to write it after I saw a video by Canadian YouTube cultural and political commentator 🇨🇦, JJ McCullough where he talked about how Duterte threatened to go to war with Canada 🇨🇦 if they refused to stop sending their recyclables ♻️ over to the Philippines 🇵🇭. I don't watch JJ anymore, mostly because of his awful Frutiger Aero video which I hated. That video was so bad that it completely turned me off to him as a YouTuber and I never wanted to watch his stuff ever again. You can read my response to his video on Frutiger Aero and Gen Z nostalgia overall here . But, his video where he mentioned Duterte's bluster and saber-rattling about Canada 🇨🇦 was one of his good ones.  The whole video was about recycling ♻️ and recyclables ♻️ and how the whole thing is a scam and ...

Note:  This article was originally written on Tuesday November 2, 2023. I wrote it because I had seen TheAlrightyOne's alternate history video on South Vietnam, and I just couldn't stop thinking about it. I had some things to say about it, things I couldn't really express or articulate any other way. So, I basically decided to write this long article or journal, whatever you want to call it, just gushing about his video and recommending you watch it for yourself. I especially liked the interconnectivity between his video on South Vietnam, his video on the Khmer Republic, and his video on the Kingdom of Laos.  They were all apart of the same shared universe. Not a cinematic universe, but just a literary universe or video universe for lack of a better term. It also helped that I was becoming obsessed with South Vietnamese music as well as 70s Cambodian music 🇰🇭 as well, music that was written and preformed by Cambodian artists 🇰🇭 prior to the Khmer Rouge taking power in C...