Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" channel.

  1. Take it up with God.
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  2. As it wasn't obvious to some people, if we have military training we can launch a coup. The new brits are unlikely to join unless dragged kicking and screaming so it's to our benefit to go along with it until we are formed into capable military units. Due to demographics such a force would be overwhelmingly on our side, and the current internal security apparatus would not be able to suppress the military. If we are disorganised and stupid enough to be deployed, then just switch sides, the Russians will thank the UK for training up the manpower for them. Unhappiness is extremely widespread, as things stand we are just boiling frogs, it's better if we have an out not matter what it is. I for one would sooner die in a civil war than one with Russians.
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  3. How many responsibilities do they have, because this sounds like the perfect system to create localised power bases, might want to read a bit into the Carlist movement. A governor with the support of the local population is very hard to dislodge, meanwhile an unpopular one is merely a target. Such a system can be gamed, the British right simply have to take the take the gloves off and grow a pair.
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  4. No, we don't even know if he was African, all we know is that he was dark skinned (many groups in South Asia are just as dark skinned if not more than Africans and the Portuguese also had contact and brought slaves from them). He was made a retainer, meaning he was in Oda's personal company, he was not a samurai, just as European retainers were not knights by proximity to a Lord (retainers were paid, but samurai were both given more and explicitly recorded as samurai, he was not, from what there is he was basically a domestic servant meant to impress dignitaries with his exoticism and the worldlyness of his Lord by standing near him, western courts would later use Africans as doormen in court for the same reason, as well as the additional court cultural influence from the Ottomans). He never fought, if he had the honour code of the day would not have allowed him to survive the death if his Lord. This segment covered that the historian making this stuff up is an insult to the academic school of history, frankly not just should he be fired, he should have his academic qualifications stripped from him for disgracing subject with his unethical practices.
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  5. The samurai class was abolished during imperial restoration in the 1870's, the occupation by America had a huge effect on Japan, but not in that way, they were already very westernized prior to losing the war. The closest thing that happened was that the peerage (modelled off European nobility) were abolished. Also the mega-corps were officially disbanded, though they continued with a looser affiliation and were instrumental both to the Japanese having a backwards corporate system, and with the Americans not managing to take over the economy and wreck it. The Americans notably brought in the culture of liberalism, filled the education system with communists (which they then panicked about and brought in counter-weights to) and spent their occupation acting towards women very like the Soviets did during the invasion of Germany, as it continued for years it might have reached higher numbers than the Soviets, as Stalin only gave his troops a certain period of freedom on that account as spoils of war.
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  6. Unfortunately too many.
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  7. How would you even pay the taxman in countries, would they tell him to cough up 40% of the GDP of the commonwealth. Inheritance tax should be scrapped, however there is an older law that would do, traditionally all property of traitors were forfeit to the realm. I say that what was extracted should be recouped, in addition to the main punishment.
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  8. I support a return to dress standards, pretty sure the one of the old popes put out an official definition of modest dress.
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  9. I know there is a Russian Orthodox Church in Cardiff, but not many near where I am. There are Greek orthodox but unfortunately they have close political ties to the American regime. I would recommend church plantings heavily, the Latin mass lot are the only alternative and facing extreme pressure from the top. Not only would strident Orthodoxy make massive inroads, so would any Latin rite orthodox push as that is greatly more familiar in aesthetics to western sensibilities. The Church of England is divesting itself of Church's but if the money is limited (which I imagine it is) then I recommend buying small plots of land, consecrating it and then putting yurts up, very cheap in a property nightmare and permanent so long as a stove is kept burning to keep out the damp. The opportunities are great, and a righteous Church which recognises Orthodox, Autocracy, Nationality, deserves to sweep up the shattered remains of Christendom.
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  10. He's a cringelord with suspect relations to state forces, that's why. Carl is fully aware, he is just careful about expressing it and open to alliances of convenience/willing to associate more widely than most in the space. One of the reasons he has stayed relevant is that he cultivates widespread relationships and then acts as a mediator within the community. He saves up good will for the crusades he thinks he can win.
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  11. Churchill made a great deal of mistakes, and he was also involved is large scale war crimes, the most notable is the mass deportation (minimum of tens of thousands, but it's still heavily classified so we don't know exactly) of Russian emigres (yes including their families) to Stalin, he did save some Ukrainian camp guards though (to act as translators for MI6).
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  12. It would be a start.
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  13. True to a certain extent, but Africa isn't actually homogenous, it has the highest concentration of different ethnic groups in the world, basically the whole place is a ramped up Balkans, and that is before you factor in the clan structures within those groups. The African Americans would be a better example, they are fairly homogenous as others avoid their neighbourhoods and they roughly have the same ethnic makeup (predominantly west African Bantu with about 15% Ulster Scot ancestry).
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  14. You can outlaw heroin or give it out to school children for free, will you do the second because the first doesn't work perfectly.
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  15. We are us, other Europeans are our relatives, outsiders are outsiders. Simple stuff really.
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  16. Anime ironically has a lot more diversity of values than any western media, overwhelmingly so when it comes to children's media. Their are a lot of hidden gems and intrinsically traditionalist series, also a respect for Victorian society and morals that you would never find in the west in the series that cover it (though not all of them certainly the ones with passion behind them). Even the majority of the subversive stuff is 1970's level degeneracy and focused on empty sexuality and selfishness, though an increasing amount are becoming westernized as the Japanese are far too uncritical of western society, American influence has already made the country a lot worse but the new ideology is now knocking on the door and the idiots haven't noticed the nature of it.
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  17. God willing.
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  18. @ It would be tainted by whiggism and the religious disputes of the early printing age. Personally I want a medieval Latin manuscript ai.
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  19. There are loads of Chinese students in Bath because they are the ones that leave campus to go into the city or turned up for the course at all. There are about as many Indians but they live on campus and never leave for lectures or anything else, they are probably the ones getting the work done on their behalf. The Chinese students do attend, but their English is poor and they keep to themselves, honestly though they are so much better than the English students, their influence has after years meant most of the girls (it's like 95% female and 2% creepy bloke in a miniskirt) are in trenchcoats rather that crop tops like they used to be (yes in this weather) and honestly not understanding the course will make you much more qualified then learning what they are teaching here.
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  20. "When is it okay for women to be sexual in society", behind a locked bedroom door, with the curtains closed, the kids off with the grandparents, alone with their husband.
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  21. We need the return of fanatical Christian mobs.
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  22. The good thing is that he's brought his audience with him.
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  23. Only if they promise not to leave any survivors.
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  24. Who knows how real any of it was, the guy was a compulsive lier about practically every other aspect of his life, including pretending he was involved rather more than he was after being sent to a regiment on the western front in disgrace after Gallipoli, he soon left back to politics after some photo opportunities.
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  25. Cricket bats were invented for a reason.
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  26. I'm doing an education uni course in the UK. They are raising the next generation of teachers into this.
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  27. There has for some time been an influx of westerners to Japan because it is the only western country that is still first world. Not to mention that rural property is affordable, as in young people affordable. Unsurprisingly it had to be shut down. Also Kurds are very much equivalent to Pakistanis. And America patronises both as helpful groups to destabilise potential rivals. Japan's economy was wrecked by America after they did too well, they seem to be a rival now because they aren't doing badly enough.
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  28. Nothing ever used to be open on Sundays, the funeral of the monarchy had the whole population in mourning dress (black everything, frock coats which were more formal than suits for men and veils and actual dresses for women) there were black drapes up people's windows and the whole mourning period was observed (that being the official one rather than the much longer one for members of your own family/spouses/children) as a result and given the emphasis on propriety it was probably a much more sullen affair (also republican would have been taking their lives into their hands to be disrespectful, even in Ireland).
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  29. I mean he doesn't need a personal one, 4chan is pretty much a honeypot at this point.
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  30. Excellent showing from Dade.
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  31. Ash is 100% cognizant of the game she is playing, this woman is just very female in her logical process, very misinformed and deeply conflicted about her identity. She isn't a friend, and in most circumstances is an enemy, but she is a footslogger rather than a commissar.
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  32. Japan is unfortunately on a similar trajectory to us, just a few decades behind. The damage done by western influence is irreparable but they largely don't recognise it as previous influence had been overwhelmingly positive.
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  33. I'm currently studying to become a teacher. It should be noted that even with all that's going on most practicing teachers are only partaking in the ideology as default. The academics of education feel themselves to be at considerable odds with them over this and have getting everyone in line with 'praxis' as one of there for most goals. An example; teachers aren't stupid and can see differences in different students, as such they will refer to children being more capable, having difficulties, etc. The academics hate this and see it as a bad thing. Teachers are meant to understand that children are not different, society creates differences for them. Yes, in their mind someone with ASD doesn't have a condition but is rather created by marginalization and the blocking of access to the 'fair' amount of resources. This leads to considerably tensions as the academics view any failure by teachers meet their ideals as the fault of the teachers (unless the teachers are saved by it being blamed on evil neo-liberal policy makers) rather than the failure of their ideals to stand up in the reality outside of their heads. Oh, yeah and there are a lot more child predators throughout the history of the development of educational theory than are ever covered here. After looking into some of the schools which were essentially 'model schools' for progressive pedagogical ideas I'd say that a nation wide inquest into historical abuse at schools in the UK would turn up abuse on a scale that would blow even Rotherham out of the water.
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  34. We did, in fact the amendment is based on the English version. The problem is that our political class don't care about legal precedent and most of our rights are long gone, the same rights parliament claims their authority based on the protection of (the argument for why they need power when we have a King).
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  35.  @UNrDD  I can’t say I’ve seen that.
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  36. Yep, they have grooming gangs now, they just don't know it.
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  37. Glad to hear that you are bringing Calvin Robinson on-board.
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  38. Technically there were Tartars outside of the Crimea, in areas like the Kuban, but I know that because of personal scholarly interest in the Cossacks, most people outside of Russia don't take much interest and just want the outlines.
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  39.  @lambofdog2584  There is something called just war theory and thats basically the outline of the traditional catholic interpretation of it, likewise the church has a long history of support for the death penalty. To quote the sprit of the thing “He who is not angry, whereas he has cause to be, sins. For unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices, it fosters negligence, and incites not only the wicked but the good to do wrong”-John Chrysostom. Ultimately people have a nasty habit of interpreting the bible or selective parts of it to suit their perspective be that personal or denominational, and I’m not a theologian so most of those arguments go right over my head. I therefore base my view on historical precedence even if the fact that that will favour the Catholics and Orthodox would probably cause Protestants to bust a blood vessel. Which is an easy choice considering what most modern protestant churches are like (including my own, the church of england), helps that history is my topic anyway and that as someone not brought up in the church my logic is utterly secular. I won’t quote bits of bible as I’ll probably just misinterpret them and there are plenty better interpretations already from far wiser men who thought about it a good deal more, and who’s interpretations seem to lead to godly and moral results at the very least.
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  40. Yes, not going to say which side I'll be on when we get there though.
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  41. The purpose of the system is what it does.
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  42. That would require internal emigration and a fool's hope that it wouldn't just be crushed like that plan literally always has.
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  43.  @8darktraveler8  Nah, just the lotus eaters has a lot of people who wouldn't catch insinuation if you assaulted them with it. Tried to keep the power level low in the first one and am surprised the second wasn't deleted (though my experience with the algorithm is that it is extremely arbitrary, and seemingly quite confused, I get innocuous comments hit more than the fed posty ones).
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  44.  @8darktraveler8  They don't seem to monitor youtube as much as tweets, otherwise I'd probably already be a prison preacher. That said I'm young enough that I'd probably just leave the country if they did the usual thing of telling me I had a court date in 4 years. Though it would limit my options of where to go.
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  45. Absolutely the norm, ask people who had family over there, 100% they lost people. My family did and hardly any of them went there, almost all went to Australia or Newfoundland. Also the top ten percent (by income, education, IQ, however you want to do it) of N's have a higher rate of crime than the bottom ten percent of W's.
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  46. They are concerned about the mental wellbeing of anyone who is willingly here when they could be in Australia.
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  47. Might as well mention that despite being on the western front it seems like he never saw action, the regiment decided to keep quiet about his time with them, but he soon left back to politics. Also he did Gallipoli instead of a plan entrusted to him by admiral Fisher to cut off the German war economy and win the war casualties in British army as low as possible. Also throughout his entire career Churchill seems to have had a thing for attacking the 'soft underbelly' by which he seems to have meant mountain ranges on the wrong side of Europe.
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  48.  @belstar1128  I believe they were Spanish and not expected.
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  49. As historical women's fashion youtube will tell you that is an inaccuracy, historically they would have been stereotyped as prostitutes, but actual prostitutes during the period were actually also more modest as looking like a caricature of one turned off many clients and attracted unwanted attention.
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  50. Lot of western pressure on Japan at the moment.
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