The Roman Empire was bad and it was good that it fell. This is an argument I got from somewhere else, but it's definitely not common. Large empires tend to stifle innovation, both due to killing off credible competitors and due to having increasing internal pressures that incentivize stifling it. We have a model for what a hegemonic empire looks like when left to fester, it's called China, and it sucks.
The United States would have been better off staying separate. The common argument that they would have been preyed upon by the Europeans holds little weight when Latin American nations did little large-scale predation on each other, and the American Civil War probably caused way more deaths (by virtue of being a total war between two superstates) than any small-scale border fights between separate colony-states would have.
The Germans in WW1 don't deserve much sympathy and if I hear someone going on about how WW1 was a pointless war and they're all the same yadda yadda I can assume they don't have a particularly deep knowledge of the period (or at least not non-combat). The Germans were incredibly vindictive at Brest-Litovsk, had no right to invade Belgium, and were generally malicious bastards (look into their targeted destruction of cultural monuments like cathedrals, the cowardly massacres of "francs-tireurs," or their burning of Louvain). Boomers hate Germany too much because of World War propaganda, but younger generations don't hate Germany enough.
The United States Army has mostly protected foreigners and very little Americans. The last time the US fought in a war that presented an actual immediate threat to Americans and wasn't caused by the US deliberately antagonizing foreign powers was 1812.
Joseph McCarthy was objectively correct.
The United States and the Confederate States were both awful factions and worthy of hate. The latter losing was the better outcome but to borrow from Kissinger, it's a shame they couldn't both have lost.
The French Revolution didn't go far enough.
Unpopular on the Far Right: the radical, Reformation-era view of Catholicism was completely right and still is right. It was a nasty authoritarian, paganized, proto-globalist perversion of Christianity.
Related, the Know-Nothings were probably the good guys. With the benefit of hindsight their concerns over Masonry don't seem unjustified in our world of Uniparty, the Catholics were perfectly reasonable to be afraid of given their political behavior in other countries and may have been intimidated by persecution into assimilation. I don't so much
More of a modern thing, but I really see Mexicans now and Italians back then as the same thing, both in the sense that Italians were way worse than people think AND Mexicans are way less of a problem than people think.
I agree that Ashkenazi Jews are largely a subversive influence in the West, but I think the West is reaping what it sowed in hundreds of years of persecution; I also think social factors drive Jewish attraction to radical materialist ideologies more than some in-group preference conspiracy does.
No, China wasn't ruined by Communism. China was always shit and always be shit.
Eastern American Indian society was superior to European society, as someone who does NOT believe in the noble savage crap. Compare the average Indian to the average European
farmer and there is hardly any difference in material wellbeing, except the Indian lives in a much cleaner environment, a much more egalitarian society that isn't completely sexually repressed or run by raving tyrants of preachers, has a generally easier lifestyle, has a very rich extended tribal family life, eats a better diet. Indian life was very seductive to frontiersmen because people who were actually exposed to it tended to like it. I find the barbarism of things like bear-baiting (an English custom) infinitely more disgusting than ritual, religious cannibalism (like the Iroquois).
The Soviets didn't win WW2, they just received enough US funded welfare to turn their population in to a somewhat useful human wave against an exhausted German Army that was being bogged down through attrition from the destruction of their entire logistical backbone by the US and UK.
And their female fighter aces weren't an actual thing, just a psyop by the Soviets in to demoralizing the Luftwaffe as proved by the fact that the Russians never again used female pilots
You can't take my Russian pilot waifus away from me.
