Comments by "worn down" (@worndown8280) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" channel.

  1. I use to live in California. I was born and raised there. I have seen if go from a conservative paradise, with the exceptions of small enclaves in the bay area and LA to a progressive nightmare that grew like a cancer to strangle the whole state. The turning point was in the 90s. Sane and rational people fled to the central valley, which up until recently had been solidly conservative. But no more. A person who is conservative just cannot abide California anymore. It certainly isnt the place Reagan knew and loved. As far as banning things, I went into Home Depot to buy cargo straps for the move out of California and noticed that they had tagged the wood department as "toxic", The state of California has now determined that lumber, untreated two by fours and such, cause cancer. The state is a lost cause.
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  2. When you realize that the "rape exception" will be abused by women simply crying rape when they want an abortion...
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  3. No your numbers are to kind. Fertility starts its very rapid drop at 28. The biggest problem is this in never taught to young girls at school. They get told they can push it off, then when they do, reality hits them. Nature doesnt care.
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  4.  @umiluv  Thanks, we got burned out in the Camp Fire. Couldnt rebuild with insurance costs so like most of Butte county we left. Now I have a small farm in Tennessee. I dont take pleasure with what is happening in California and joke about it. I tell everyone im a political refuge. I dont think people really understand what happened in California. They just think Californians are crazy. If only it was just that.
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  5. Its the colleges that the elite go to. The go, are "educated" and then come into the world thinking that its the way. The rest of us look at them like, "are you retarded?" And then there are the grifters, they are legion. I think most are just trying to make a buck so if they have to push BS, they will. Like all tho faux male feminists who just want their pp touched.
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  6.  @litrogue6328  Why did you bother to use quotes when you failed to quote the person properly? Removing his qualifier does change his point, only shows that you cannot create a straw man to tear down. Im going to guess you went to a university didnt you?
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  7. The question is who is playing Attila?
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  8. firearm safety course... 1) Treat every weapon as if it was loaded. 2) Never point a weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot. 3) Keep your weapon on safe and your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire. By the time my 3 sons were 5 years old, they each knew this. How Baldwin, after multiple movies handling firearms doesnt understand this, is criminal.
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  9.  @BaldorfBreakdowns  The stats people are citing you are from a study that found and massive disparity of the number of males vs the number of females who are having sex in younger demographic cohorts. And it is massive. Womens numbers are steadily rising while mens have crashed more than 50 percent. That basicly women are having more sex, with fewer men. Now I dont think its as extreme as most say it is, "10 percent of men sleeping with 80 percent of women", but I think some may be conflating the studies and also surveys taken by women on dating websites that show that women find 80 percent of men non dateable. If they wont even date them will they even consider them for a sex partner, probably not no? Multiple studies show this including one by Dr. Peter Ueda, a postdoctoral researcher at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, the U.S. General Social Survey up until 2018. Meanwhile sex at middle age has utterly collapse. Single men and women, which there are more than ever due to divorce, are no longer mingling. And these stats are all up to 2018, so cant blame the coof. If you would like more studies, I would be more than happy to tell you them. I totally understand why so many people would be uncomfortable with this data and the evidence it shows. Its damaging to both sides, for different reasons and will effect both men and women in completely different ways. I mean most people dont even see the demographic collapse thats about to happen. People dont understand whats coming.
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  10. I had a friend who was a mechanic in the Polish army in the 70s and the 80s. That was when it was communist. He finally made it out of the Eastern Block into Denmark, then to the US. He would tell anyone who would listen that most of Polands forces were paper. That yes they had 30000 tanks but only 2000 operated. He said this was standard for all equipment types. This mindset came from the Russians. So it doesnt surprise me that their equipment is falling apart.
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  11.  @Karathos  I think most people in western nations are oblivious to the amount of graft that occurs in the rest of the world that is considered normal or part of a nations "culture". China is a prime example. I only spent 4 months in Russia on a troop exchange when i was in the Marine Corps, but I saw it even there when the unit I was attached to received its supplies. Everyone had to cough up cash. But this was in the mid 90s. So it was literally the worst time to be in the Russian military.
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  12. Where would one find one of these fabled creatures? I am not asking for myself, but for my sons. I dont think most women understand what is about to happen. Most young men are completely disinterested in young women. I'll ask you how many mothers and fathers raise their sons to be good husbands and fathers? Now, how many raise daughters to be good mothers and wives... you cant, thats patriarchy. Feminism and family cannot co exist. One must stay the other must go. And men seem happy to let women choke on what they want.
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  13.  @RiskOfBaer  the military is already done. It was done along time ago. Its combat effectiveness is in the toilet. Most operations are done by special forces and air strikes for a reason. A legion of single moms can't do much, and when half your unit decides to get pregnant before a deployment and are then considered non deployable what do you do? And then there are the men, fat, out of shape POGs. Utterly useless. And this was in the late 90s, I can only imagine the hell that it is today in 2021.
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  14. You have to protect your children from this before they leave the home. If not they are like lambs to the slaughter.
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  15.  @MC-ze8wj  Water shortages will take care of that.
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  16. No they intentionally targeted non union independent truck drivers with their emission controls and all the other crap drivers have to put on their rigs to cross the state line. Total shipping volume into the port is down, I am not even talking about the slowdown, just the amount of stuff offloaded and waiting to be offloaded. Everything going on there is political. Its staged. They want compliance.
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  17. It literally wouldnt surprise me if the person responsible for pulling the trigger on telling all the civilians to get out of Afghanistan was working from home because of the coof. And on their desk is a sticky note from some GS-7 that reads, tell all the civilian contractors to get out of Afghanistan by X date.
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  18.  @Ufphen  That would be amazing. Lead hazard. lol
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  19. My family has been in California since after the civil war. I left after the Camp Fire in northern California. Took all my family with me. Only my uncle stayed but he is in his 80s and doesnt want to start over. The progressives ran us from the bay area all the way out to the far north. It was the only place left that was sane. But after the fire, you couldnt afford insurance to rebuild and the state wouldnt let PG&E charge more for insurance so power was rarely on. 34 less Californians. Oh well, they didnt need us hard workers I guess. To see Butte county go from solid red to blue in a year because all the hard workers left, breaks the heart.
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  20. I dated a girl in the late 90s when I came back from Japan to the US. We had the body count talk, she said 4. Then a month into the relationship she tells me how she was raped. And pointed to the guy who supposedly did it in the bar we were drinking at. I was like wtf? She then went on to explain, how since she didnt want to have sex with him, but didnt say no, she still considered it rape. And then I said, so you only have had three relationships? She didnt understand and I said you only had sex with 4 men right? She responded with the kicker, no I dont count the men who raped me. Men?! How many men raped you? 34. She was 22. For you younger guys, that was considered 304 status in the 90s. Are all women like this, no. Are most today, yes. The mental gymnastics women go through to allow themselves to function like this is amazing. No wonder so many are on psych meds.
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  21. I am not sure what Hungary you are talking about but their current fertility rate per woman is 1.5. In the UK its 1.7. But it was 1.3 in 2014, in Hungary. Still not replacement levels. Not even close, but still not as bad as South Korea where is a laughable 0.5. Thats 1 in 4 South Korean women having a child. Women are broken. Or maybe men are broken so women arent doing what they normally would.
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  22. The farmer in that story must have been the only Ukrainian wheat farmer who didnt plant a winter wheat crop. Winter wheat is planted in the fall goes dormant over winter than then produces in spring. The problem is now is the time you hit it with fertilizer so you increase yields. So even if you stopped fighting now, the Ukrainian winter wheat harvest would be 3 times lower than normal at best. Then you have the fall harvest which gets planted after the winter wheat is harvested. Neither of these can happen without fertilizer which has been effectively shut down. 2 of the three main sources are offline. At best we are going to be short two harvests. At best. I would not want to live in Africa once the fertilizer shipments stop.
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  23. Make your own business. People need to walk away from the companies who do that. Let them rot with the SJW
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  24. @Jackfrost Yes they are married already.
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  25.  @natrone23  humvees were never meant for assault. It would be like ordering troops to assault cities in jeep willies during WWII. It was retarded. If it wasnt for the armor and AAVs we would have gotten shredded. I remember seeing the TOW guys with their missile systems and was thinking god, I would never want to be in a war in that thing. To heavy, under powered and only carries a fire team. Pre war when I was at 4th Marines, were the only infantry regiment in the Pacific and half our vehicles never worked. Total dumpster fire. I am not even going to talk about the busted ass 5 tons
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  26. The "crash" in Georgia didnt even hit the plant, just landed on the grounds. The one in Idaho there is a smoke stack in the approach to the air port. It has no lights or beacons on it. She hit it during a night approach.
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  27.  @satyakisil4289  China? That's funny. They can't project power and domestically they are barely functional. They are has hollow as the Soviet Union in the late 80s.
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  28.  @jamestoney6599  Paid for by the US tax payer. Whats your point? China is not a military threat to the US, period. Does stating that very fact make me a Sinophile? I think the nation of China is a nightmare and im glad I dont live there, but it will fall on its own in short order. We dont have to poke the dragon in its death throws.
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  29. Or, get rid of the state, the welfare system, the heavy burden of taxes and let men and women do what they have done for countless eons. Oh yeah, where is the power in that?
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  30. Men typically didnt start families until then. Took that long to scrape together enough coin. The 20th century was an aberration. Men typically married women a bit younger than them. Even just a quick genealogy of a persons family into the 17th, 18th and 18th centuries should show this.
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  31. One man cant save the west. At some point each one of us must ask, do we want to save ourselves? I would argue many don't. Half the nation is utterly black pilled.
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  32. The issue is they dont have to procreate, they steal others children in education. Those who are then educated go out into the world and infect everything. This seed was planted in the 1930s. Its taken us a hundred years to get to this point. But there is no where to hide from it now. There is only one course of action remaining. And good and decent people are horrified that it will come to that.
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  33. Nah, that was Trumps plan. You didnt get the memo... Orange Man bad. BBC told me so.
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  34. People often see nukes as a sword, but in all honesty its the best shield a nation can have.
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  35. Hey Thomas Sowell is one of those white supremacists I heard about on the news isnt he? lol
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  36.  @silverhost9782  Places like Niger and Nigeria will tear themselves apart when demand from the west dissolves and all the foreign aid ends.
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  37. @S. The irony of your statement is funny. You give more benefits to people to spend it increases the cost of goods and service they buy, AKA inflation. Then goods and services cost more and the debt you incurred has to be paid back so your people are poorer than they started. People are bashing 20 year olds because typically in the 20th century having kids in you 20s we economically feasible. That has become the standard now even though historically speaking the 20th century is an aberration. And of course they didnt have the massive debt burden killing the economy and the need to live like minor nobles. But at the same time people in their 20s now have a much higher standard of living. In short people value things more than they do other people. As people become less common, that will change. Economics rules everything.
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  38. @S. Well for one regulation. I am not sure but coding laws in the US are insane. That creates a supply bottleneck, which creates cost increases. Add city planning to the mix, were certain land is approved for certain types of buildings, leads to a bottleneck, which creates price increase. Take the price of wood. And I am not trying to turn this political, but the Biden Admin levied a doubling of the import tariff on importing of Canadian lumber into the US, this raised the price of lumber. Canada being pissed by this, decreased its output of lumber reducing total board feet. So increased tariffs and lower supply, thats right lumber prices quadrupled per board foot. This raised the price of construction of the average US home by 40k. Would you want to live in a 1960s home? Worse wiring, no dishwasher, no washer and dryer maybe, so technologically have to spend more to bring it up to what is acceptable now. Increases the cost of a home. But there is a bright end of the tunnel. And I know you live in Britain, but I am not at all familiar with your housing markets but I am familiar with your demographics map. So in the US, right now we have 2.8 people for every domicile. After the boomers pass, that will drop down to 2.2 to 2.3. Thats massive. Many places in Europe will see larger drops. You will have massive amounts of empty housing. Which will cause what up until the probably 1960s, when the boomers showed up, for residential housing to return to what it almost always was, a depreciation asset. Meaning its will become cheaper the older it gets, like a car. So if you do have kids, know your child or children will have it easier in that regard. You are already seeing this in Korea and Japan. The demand curve is changing. And if Britain and other western nations stop bringing in foreigners it will collapse markets. And that usually causes governmental change. Also your mortgage laws dont help. The fact that you cant get a pre negotiated rate for an entire term of the mortgage shocked me. I still dont understand how you can sign a mortgage and have it periodically update by the bank. That sounds absolutely predatory and seems designed to keep people renting. So I get that the US and British housing markets are totally comparable.
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  39. He saw the alligator looking at him. And he didnt like the look in its eyes.
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  40. Technically the afghans are white. So its true, from a certain point of view....
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  41.  @michaelevans1690  I have never met one that wasnt. We use to joke about the amount of golf courses on the base vs the graft level. Getting above 0-4 most of them are trash, they bounce the good officers. Above 0-6 I have only seen one admiral who was decent, and he medical. Semper Fi
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  42.  @mistymoor7114  Those rolls are irrelevant today. Those rolls and that type of courtship were designed with specific type of women in mind. Respectfully, I dont know many college age virginal women, who arent grossly overweight, and who dont have a ton of baggage due to previous encounters or relationships running around who deserve that kind of treatment. By the time the typical woman is 30, she has so much emotional damage a stable relationship just isnt really possible. And thats why men are generally done. You want a traditional relationship and courtship, you better be a traditional woman. Otherwise its equality town.
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  43. We are just where you were in the 80s. Thats all. Would you consider the winter war with Finland a "small victorious war"? Regardless, as an American, most of the people here dont want to fight with Russia. This is Biden being led to raise his poll numbers. But it wont work.
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  44. They exist. Its not pretty. Its why 1/4 women are on anti psychotics in the US. The women on anti depressants is even higher. Around 20% of women are on anti anxiety medication. And there is a strong connection to future mental health issues and being raised without a father. No one wants to talk about it though. That might dis empower women. Better that they suffer for the cause.
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  45. I thought that as much, then look what is happening in his conflict zones. The guy is like prophetic. I wish it wasnt so because hes a globalist. But his analysis is amazingly on point. But it amazes me that so few like him can get through to people. Demographers have been screaming to people since at least the 80s. No one listened.
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  46.  @silverhost9782  Demand in the west is collapsing. Who buys the most stuff? Families who have kids. Those simply are not being created anymore for a plethora of reasons. Instead those are being replaced with dinks (dual income no kids) this temporarily boost gdp via production. But has a long term massive economic effect. Since they dont make the next generation, it literally isnt there to consume. Well the west, with the exception the US is now entering it. Dont worry though, the US hasnt been at replacement rates since 1972, but we imported people so we will be right behind you. That said, there will be less demand, then you start a deflationary spiral. You act like African countries birth rates arent dropping. either. They are. We are just a few steps ahead.
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  47. @S. In response to your question about a particular couple. I have a myriad of options, none you will probably like. First off, why is the woman wanting to marry a man who cant provide for her if she wants offspring? All throughout the animal kingdom males reproductive ability is based on calories and if he has extra to spare (in humans this would be income basically). Nuptial gifts are common from insects to Apes. There is also a misunderstood truth here, women determine if sex will happen. Men decide if a relationship will happen. Humans are a little more complex than other animals but we still have the basics that most have. This young woman should look to an older man, maybe one in his early to mid 30s. Who is set in his path forward. This of course would mean marrying a man older than you. It is an option though, historically its the one that occurred most. This couple could move closer to their parents for addition support. They could even decide to live in a multi generational home that was common in the 19th century. But being a man is see a huge issue. The man shouldnt be focused on starting a family at that age if he cant find a decent job, he should be busting his ass to find decent work. This couple you speak of is in its predicament because of inappropriate mate selection. But I wouldnt say they are morally corrupt. I very much am enjoying our conversation.
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  48. @S. In regards to your post about wages. Minimum wage is the issue. It shouldnt exist. I am sure you have heard the pie making example of the value of labor so I wont repeat it. You should only be paid the value of labor your labor provides your employer. If an employer has to pay you more due to a law, that means the money has to come from somewhere. So the price of the good or service must increase. That causes inflation. That makes everyone poorer and eventually that company will move that production somewhere where the labor cost input is less so they can compete in the market against their competition. This has a negative effect on future earnings of new entries into the job market because there is more competition for less jobs. So the jobs will pay less. And this isnt the 20 somethings fault. Its just the world they were born into. Adaption is key. And maybe part of that adaption is changing the laws. I would disagree with the percentage you account for not having kids. I mean clearly that is the reason you feel you cant afford to have kids, which I totally understand. But most women seem to want one, maybe two, if any at all. Thats not my projections, thats from multiple studies in multiple nations. I mean in Japan, the number one reasons people didnt have kids was because sex was a hassle. That was the literal answer.
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  49. One cannot be an expert or knowledgeable about everything.
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  50.  @BlueAxeRacer  People dont have kids, women do. Women dont want to have kids. Thats the ugly truth no one wants to say.
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