Comments by "BVargas78" (@BVargas78) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" channel.

  1. So an article criticizing the repression of homosexual people in the middle east would be considered homophobic now would it Owen? I guess it would be both homophobic and islamophobic at the same time! 🤓
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  2. Surprisingly clever move from the conservatives. Numbers of economic migrants trying to go to Britain under the guise of asylum seekers will drop dramatically in the near future, as they'll rather stay in France or other countries of the EU than go to Britain and risk being sent to Rwanda (which is not a terrible place incidentally, they are making real economic progress). The horrible Calais camps will soon be a historical footnote!
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  3. I see Callum is sporting the modern day London garb! Very good!
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  4.  @iller3  It's because Poland is their neighbour. And the Ukrainian refugees are women, children and the elderly as opposed to fighting age men. It is expected that nearly all will return to Ukraine after the war and being so close will facilitate that. Plus they have fair cause, they are not economic migrants, shirking their duty to better their home country. Which is the case with most middle eastern and african migrants.
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  5. 1:22 They've actually welded the doors of the buildings shut in many cases! Imagine if a fire breaks out!
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  6. Is this going to be another video about Vee? 😁
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  7.  @gabrielboorom2683  House Atreides used to use pug often back in the good old days.
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  8. I'm in Chile too. Voting aside we are in quite the decline as a country, compared to how things were 10 years ago! 2022 has been particularly bad.
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  9. Culpability also lays on the officials/bureaucrats who decided to let his parents into the country.
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  10.  @gabesteinberg6244  It's great if you've managed to find a loyal and altruistic person as your spouse/partner but that's not easy these days. Every now and again though, (it's getting unusual) you get two people come together and fall in love, i.e. both being altruistic and ready to sacrifice for the family unit rather than selfish wants and desires. These unions lead to the families that are happiest, the most harmonious and loving. When it comes to family and marriage you have to get into it with the right intentions and you have to really get to know your would be wife/husband inside out before taking it to the next level. It doesn't help that we live in a 'want it all want it now' culture where people rush into things.
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  11.  @thehammer9599  Yeah, the multicultural west beats fictional Oceania for sure lol. But the more homogeneous Japan and South Korea beats the multicultural west on many metrics of living standards and quality of life. Except diversity that is! And you know one of the big reasons why? While there is more than one, a big factor is because mass immigration allows for wages and conditions to stagnate, prices to remain high (especially the extra demand on housing). And these less than ideal conditions then lend themselves to people, particularly the lowest strata of workers, and youths who found that there are less and worser paid jobs due to the extra surplus of workers, to choose crime as a rational alternative. Especially when there's little to lose in giving it a try, due to authorities being soft. We've seen it happen in Chile too since they opened up the borders to mass immigration under Bachelet around 2015. Chile was on the verge of becoming a first world country, but then it got knocked back down to second world status and the way things are right now it could easily get even worse.
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  12. Saudi Arabia and Iran in the same coalition? What are they smoking, and can they give me some?
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  13.  @ItsJustRyan89  I don't think it will end the problem, but I do think it will reduce the numbers. If you were a third world economic migrant, posing as an asylum seeker, or even an actual asylum seeker, would you travel all the way to Britain, only to risk being sent to Rwanda? Or would you rather remain in the European Union where they don't have such a system in place, and where there are many countries that are economically well off, and with similar opportunities to what the UK has?
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  14.  @ItsJustRyan89  In the short term yes, but I think that in the long run it will save money if the message sinks in that going to UK = Rwanda. And it will, word of mouth gets about. That's why so many migrants came in the first place, when 30 years ago it was rare. They all knew of someone who got into the UK and did well out of it. It made them want to try it too. Likewise in the future, they'll all know of someone who got into the UK and ended up in Rwanda. Which from their point of view, kind of sucks!
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  15. I thought it was 'poofter' 🤣
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  16. Being LGBTQ doesn't necessarily mean you have to be left wing. Though there does tend to be a lot of far left people in the LGBTQ Plus community they tend to be young and I think a lot of them will change their views over the next five to ten years. On that note, as Harry mentioned you can be economically left leaning such as Peter Hitchens to a certain extent, but socially/culturally right wing or more conservative/traditionalist. The small Social Democratic Party of UK is also a bit like this, with a left leaning economic and protectionist economic stance. But right wing/right leaning on social policies such as family, also on issues like immigration and europe (such as supporting brexit).
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  17. Actually Turkey is mostly sunni 🤓
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  18. Population (birth) control isn't needed in europe and most developed first world countries as it's already stabilized, even declining if not for mass immigration to prop up the numbers. But in impoverished third world countries where they just don't have the infrastructure to support large populations, nor the political will to develop it (due to corruption), it just leads to over-spill and will get worse as global temperature rise and water/ground water reserves diminish. I seriously think it should be promoted, even incentivized in third world countries, otherwise there'll be even larger waves of incoming economic migrants and we're kind of at a breaking point as it is.
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  19. A barbarian culture/religion.
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  20. Even if she (or he) then retract the offer, it's time to move on.
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  21. 3:21 well, kind of i guess. Aren't the jewish people Gods favourite race? lol
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  22. He was a bit of a lefty socialist in his 80's Smiths days but grew out of it and has been pretty level headed common sense driven individual for a while now. I strongly recommend the chaps at lotus eaters listen to 'Irish Blood, English heart' from 2004.
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  23. This could and will happen under any system. Don't blame it on statism. Look at Ohio that was private sector. It's just one of those things, that happens due to sloppy complacency (statism) or cutting corners (private sector) either way it sucks.
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  24. I can see Generation Alpha as grown adults having separation anxiety issues any moment their headset is taken away for more than 5 minutes.
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  25. Social Democratic Party of Sweden has a lot to answer for.
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  26. If only the Hyenas money got spent on modernizing their engine and improving the A.I. I would have loved a Victorian era Total War game that spanned the globe.
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  27. Its only a stunt to gain broader support during the election season. I won’t be surprised if Afterwards they will revert to their open borders policy again.
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  28. Maybe they bought her off. Every person has their price or so the saying goes.
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  29. I recommend Dr Phoxotic's Joevahkiin series on youtube as well, the recent ones with Jordan Peterson were really good!
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  30. Good job calling it out.
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  31. To be fair to feminists it can be a broad term. But theres always a nasty hard core to most ideologies that can have benign intentions at least.
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  32. Well put.
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  33.  @snowheader2200  thats just people being kind. You cant count on it. Even though you have to appreciate the people that try.
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  34. Makes me think of that Morrisey song from around 20 years ago, Irish Blood English heart.
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  35.  @evolassunglasses4673  While I think it's unlikely to materialise I do think it would be a positive thing for the region if it lessens the chances of a war between them.
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  36. Sedentary jobs can be more stressful than manual labor jobs I actually switched from call centre to factory as I couldn't bear that sense of constant mental pressure while I slept well after the more physical labor. Though it's different in James O'Brien's case, he has his own show/segment and gets to talk about issues and topics he feel are imported and is interested in, on largely his own terms. A lot of people would love that, maybe he should do likewise and look for something else if he finds the pressure too high.
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  37. Were they all terrorists though? I'm assuming most of them probably were, but what if some were just people like Kashoggi? Who was a liberal dissident?
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  38. 1:28 NO PLEASE DONT! (Thanks for keeping it short lol)
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  39. Hits the nail on the head well done chaps
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  40. 1:08 would that game be Enemy Front?
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  41. It's true that a lot of people on the left think they have empathy but most of the time they don't until they've experienced an issue for themselves. i.e. crime. If their brother sister daughter etc was brutally assaulted and beaten, raped or even killed in the street, only then do they start to take crime seriously. But due to their actual lack of empathy they are incapable of this until it affects them personally.
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  42. lol Sam Hyde totally sounds like the reverend Ian Paisley when he goes full irish :)
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  43. Its just a PR stunt.
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  44. In a nutshell thats similar to me. Culturally centre right and economically centre left. And poltically right wing (i.e. national protectionism, anti immigration unless to cover a skill gap or fulfill some political asylum obligation if it matches our interests).
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  45.  @yrooxrksvi7142  Neocons are economically right wing. Look up UK Social Democrats and its not too far off from me. I'm a bit tougher on the big issues though.
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  46.  @yrooxrksvi7142  Neocons are economically right wing and internationally imperialist. I'm more in the centrist Keynesian camp. And anti imperialism. But culturally i'm conservative leaning. We should share the wealth among citizens who do their duty while maintaining a national culture that serves the greater good of our citizenry and nation state. A capitalism regulated/geared toward favouring the national interest is possibly the best engine for it.
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  47.  @yrooxrksvi7142  System now is the joke. Keynesianism never got practiced properly either. Labour too unwilling to make cuts in the good times. It contributed to inflation.
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  48.  @wackpendejo3000  It was tried for the most part and it gave us much better results than anything since the neo-liberal reforms of Thatcher/Reagan times. Not saying those systems cant work mind, but they got corrupted by globalism. They led to big gains in immediate moment and breaking society over the long term moment. You need to have a more nationally focused capitalism and Keynesianism was a means to do that. More so than neo-liberalism. Globalism is the natural end form of neo-liberalism.
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  49.  @wackpendejo3000  For some reason my last comment isnt showing but my point is that Keynesianism was tried up to a point in the post war period and gave much better gains for the common man than anything that came about after 2008.
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  50.  @Si_Mondo  Again my last comment has disappeared (and i didnt screen shot it this time) but my point was that at least it gave us a system where we empowered a government elected by citizens and centred around nation states. While Hayeks system seems geared to end up leading towards globalism which is responsible for many of todays woes.
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