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

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  2. The Norman's were the one's who were ultimately responsible for the outlawing of slavery and they discriminated against it from the start, Anglo-Saxon England was certainly continuing the policy of the Norse by having so many slaves but as they were Catholics this was abnormal at very least in scale due to the strong disapproval towards slavery (especially of fellow Christians) by the church. The Norman's were Norman, they very much did things their own way, one was the aforementioned centralisation which you can absolutely bet stood against the interests of the nobility, the late traitors among the nobility even discussed the breakup of England itself. However the power of the Monarchy under the Normans meant that the lower orders were largely protected from the capricious and\or arbitrary predation of the nobility who unlike the idealistic view of late mythmakers of English freedoms were in no way guardians of English freedoms before, during or after the Normans, if anything the expansion of liberties to the whole population was a clinical move by the Monarchy to undermine attempts by the nobility to accrue privileges to themselves as was dominant in France, ruinous to the Holy Roman Empire and would prove ultimately fatal to Hungary and Poland. By making the upholding of the liberties of the population ultimately reliant on the crown they monarchy also managed to make itself indispensable to order of the Kingdom up until the Civil War when parliament theoretical usurped that responsibility, though the modern parliament seems to have relinquished it.
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  10. The idea that crimes are simply not reported while true to a certain extent fails to account for the fact that it is as much if not more a fact in western countries. Japanese police are notorious for not intervening in domestic situations and for only going ahead with cases they know they will win, but it's not exactly like western police even reach that level. Japanese police have patrols and numerous local stations, this is not a capability held by British police. Also people have a very romantic image of the yakuza, they are not nice people, the reputation for honour is mostly media creation, they are mostly of foreign background, or are burakumin, they are not sympathetic to the common people, most of the nastiness in the underbelly comes from them. Even now many of the problems with the host clubs and sex industry come from them. While they were less open and brazen than the newcomers that is because they knew the game better and had more extensive connections. They are used that to mostly move into legally grey but morally repulsive areas with the recent crackdowns, but they have always been scum and still are. We have to remember that a big purpose for the western media is slandering other systems, if they have a narrative it is almost certain to be a pack of lies. The purpose of saying that Japan doesn't have lower crimerates is the same as saying Britain has no native people, it is to justify the power of our existing regime, nothing more nothing less. In Japan's case there are games journalist levels of knowledge, Wikipedia is a substantially better source for Japan than the BBC or Times, western journalists know nothing about the country and make no effort to try, when they talk about it they have information that is decades out of date or they picked up from movies, even those who live in Japan basically make no effort to get deeper than tourist level and even then the average tourist is probably much high iq and picks up more. I say this with real frustration, as someone who has tried to research the Japanese education system, these people are lazy and plain old dumb, they will talk about things that were perceived back in the 80's and forget to mention utterly vital education reforms that have transformed the whole system. The vast majority of content in western media and academic is cope or whining, and usually archaic in actual content. You will frankly learn much more about Japan from the Japanese themselves, but be ready as they are quite insulated from the west, and tend to have a very naive view of developments here due to not really understanding the underlying logic, a bit like a child looking at a drunken father and thinking that as an adult he must know what he is doing, they tend to assume we aren't just straight up idiotic with our policies and political structures.
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  32.  @voller340  My view is 100% that Europe increasing military capabilities is a good thing, I want the people's of Europe to survive and with current policies going they won't. On the America point there's a book called 'Generation 68' by kerry bolton that goes into how the right was barking up the wrong tree for most of the cold war, with the soviet union being seen as reactionary and socially conservative by the american deep state, and the student movements and the like receiving American backing and funding, not soviet. They were very active and there was a lot of money involved (like incomprehensible amounts), and got up to insane stuff like paying off respected academics to give bad reviews to right wing books, or running a radio show in California telling students how to make and use different drugs. Though McCarthy had an almost prefect record for finding communists (mostly because he went after people who had been very open about it) according to the KGB archives, he like most republicans didn't understand that the most radical revolutionaries were both within the American system and violently opposed to the soviet union, being internationalists who had been refused a world government at the end of the war by the soviets themselves (who saw it as a suggestion of global American empire), and were socially radical in a way the soviets had only been for a short period in the early 1920's (because unsurprisingly it started breaking apart the society at it's seams). Trump is a great thing, but I doubt he will be able to do enough, America needs consistent and strong leadership to root these people out.
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