Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" channel.

  1. The Lotus Eaters are clearly moving up in the world when they can get former prime ministers on for interviews.
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  2. Every man has a right to cry at his mothers funeral.
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  3. Fun fact about the film Lawrence of Arabia: the movie was initially banned in many arab countries because they thought that it would misrepresent a lot of arab historical characters. But then Omar Sharif arranged a viewing with President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt to show him that there was nothing wrong with the way they were portrayed. Nasser loved the movie and allowed it to be released in Egypt, and it became a smash hit among egyptian movie goers. Also, when they were shooting the film in Jordan, Alec Guinness resembled King Faisal so closely that a lot of people mistook him for the actual King Faisal when he was wearing the costume and make-up. I watched Lawrence of Arabia for the first time quite recently, and I can highly recommend the film. The production value is off the charts, and not solely "for it's time". There's battle scenes in it that rivals the Lord of the Rings films in it, only there is no CGI whatsoever, so all that mounted cavalry you see is played by real people riding real horses and camels. It's quite a spectacle.
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  4. That's right Posie. Never apologize. If they accuse you of something, be stone faced and just double down. The left views apologies and explanations as a weakness. So don't humour them by trying to be agreeable.
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  5. It's not just not wanting to fight for Britain. We've also seen how the British government is intensely disloyal towards it's troops. Like with that stellar example of the government wanting to prosecute veterans who followed their orders when dealing with the IRA during the troubles, several years after the fact. Like you're told what to do by one government and you follow those orders. Then another government several decades later decides that you should be prosecuted for following orders. What kind of a moron would sign up for that and also put their own life on the line?
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  6. "My wild side" In other words, she was ridden by more men than a village bicycle...
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  7. If I was Musk, I would kick out the current legal team asap, and hire a completely new one. You can never trust these people to be professional. If Musk or Twitter face any legal challenges, the current legal team might purposefully offer bad legal advice in order to land Musk into trouble as revenge for taking over the company.
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  8. Labour: "We need to seize the means of production from the capitalist class!" Actual labourers: "Uhm, we don't want to take the property of the capitalist class. We want someone to make sure that the capitalist class give us a well deserved piece of the pie, instead of running off with all of the pie."
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  9. Nothing wrong with the wife being in charge of the household. It's about as traditional as it gets. Plenty of European cultures had it that way. The wife was given legal authority over the household, while the husband had the authority of bringing in resources. This worked for millennia.
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  10. Anyone who claims that english cuisine is disgusting have never enjoyed a full english breakfast
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  11. "Look what England did with slavery" Yeah, the English banned slavery. Not just in England either, but fought to ban slavery worldwide and actually succeeded in a lot of non-english territories.
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  12. "Why does the hero always have to be a white guy?" Blade, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Captain Sisko of Star Trek DS9, Mr Miyagi, Mowgli, Aladdin, Mulan. Etc. Etc. Ad infinitum.
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  13. "We're doing our best to make our people hate their country, and we're getting weaker! What are we doing wrong!?"
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  14. Honestly, Sauron as a Labour MP would probably end up making the party less evil. At least Sauron values industry.
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  15. "Nobody NEEDS a jet fighter Lego set!" -The Left, probably
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  16. "I will use the rights and freedoms you grant me to take away yours" -Every socialist ever
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  17. The English are no longer the majority demographic. Now they are just another "community".
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  18. Nobody owns ANY culture. You can be the creator of a culture, but nobody owns it. That's what makes culture beautiful. Anyone can partake in it and enjoy it, regardless of which culture they were born from.
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  19. If you feel undervalued at your current job, joining the armed forces will not really improve that situation 🤣
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  20. 1990: "Lol! You throw like a girl!" 2022: "OMG! He DELIBERATELY misgendered someone! Reeeeeeeeeeee!
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  21. Imagine the arrogance of Netflix for rejecting David Lynch' ideas...
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  22. How will you ever attain a position of strength when you're afraid of people freely using words?
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  23. I'd argue it's definitely worse to kick a cat than being racist. Being racist is just an opinion. Doesn't have to hurt anybody, aside from perhaps emotionally. And even if you're a violent racist, then at least your victims are humans who are capable of fighting back. A cat is small and weak compared to a human and can only really hope to run away from abuse. The cat can't defend itself whatsoever, and thus is automaticallu being far more oppressed than any human would be from racism.
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  24. I don't care if the world turns into a Mad Max-like desert hellscape. I'll roam the deserts in a gaz guzzling muscle car, equipped with a grill in the passenger seat, cooking up some steaks as I run over enemy warboys.
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  25. That black guy shouting down a chinese woman... The chinese has been around in the U.S since the 19th century, working on building the railroad and such. So they have more or less as much justification to be in the U.S as black people do. I suspect he's not a history major.
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  26. "The England Team would not exist without immigration" Right, because they surely couldn't have replaced the immigrants with any native english football players if there weren't any immigrants to get ahold of. 🙄
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  27. "Walking into a dangerous situation with a gun", well that's the thing. There are no laws against it. Kyle Rittenhouse had as much right to be on those streets as the left wing extremists. If the left wing extremists attack him then THEY are the ones breaking the law. So there really is no argument to be had about Kyle being there. It doesn't matter if someone thinks that "common sense" should've caused Kyle to not go there. "Common sense" is not the law.
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  28. It's not even about self-sacrifice. When you really care about someone, you don't consider listening to them opening up about frustrations as "labour". You have a genuine desire to find out what goes on in their minds and daily lives, and you feel like you want to do something to fix it. But you won't get that feeling if you're not emotionally invested into a person.
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  29. "They have freedom of speech... AND THAT'S A PROBLEM!" -Lefty mainstream media 2021
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  30. The first two to three Alien films was really female empowerment done right. Not once do you think of Ripley as a woman trying to be a man. She's vulnerable and scared and quite clearly aware of her limitations, but she perseveres against the cosmic horrors through force of will and ingenuity. In the second alien film, she became the mama bear rage personified instead of trying to act like a male action hero, and it worked perfectly. If I am blessed with a daughter, I'll have her watch these films for inspiration.
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  31. Can muslims really claim to want children to be left alone though? When they marry off their daughters at ages as young as 12, knowing full well that their "husbands" will consumate the marriage.
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  32. No, it's always wrong to harass and inconvenience regular people, regardless of your political cause. The people trying to use the road did not put Assange in prison, nor are they responsible for whether British houses are insulated or not. If you're gonna do activism, then you can inconvenience someone with actual authority. Making life a living hell for a powerless civilian is terrorism and unacceptable.
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  33. 2021 sucked most of the time. But despite restrictions I was able to see my girlfriend who lives abroad, not once but twice and we had a great time. It's quite the hassle living apart like we do, but that's what happens when you first meet online and discover that you live in different countries. The timing was pretty crap too since Covid reared it's ugly face just six months after we first met. We're both holding on though and everything feels good. We're looking to move in together as soon as possible, but travel restrictions prevents it for the time being.
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  34. "Safety online" means not having your bank account hacked and emptied by thieves. It means not having your devices infected with malware that destroys the contents of their hard drives. It means holding all online vendors to account and making sure they can't scam customers out if their money. It does NOT mean that your "feelings" are to be protected from offensive content you see online at all times.
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  35. Funny how the Jordan Petersons of the world thinks it's fine for us plebs to mock and criticize people in power... So long as they're not "God's Chosen People".
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  36. You can just imagine the saudi executioner, sharpening his beheading sword crying and lamenting that the gay people won't come visit Saudi Arabia.
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  37. Some figures for you: Russias national debt as of 2023 is about 15 percent of Russias GDP. The U.S national debt as of 2023 is about 122 percent of the U.S GDP. So when it comes to pointing fingers over who mismanages what... The enemies of Russia don't look too good.
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  38. Reminds me of a Steve Hughes bit on Charity: "Don't give that homeless man your money! He's just gonna spend it on booze and drugs!" Steve Hughes: "Well what did you think I was gonna spend it on?" 🤣
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  39. Ubers business strategy basically bottles down to getting unfair advantages over regular cab companies. Uber expects you to supply your own car, and they pay scraps for the maintenance of your car. If it breaks down, then fixing it comes mostly out of your own pocket. Whereas a cab company has to supply the vehicles and their maintenance, and pay for your public pension and other fees etc. Uber should be banned.
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  40. If a certain people don't run Hollywood, why is it that all the movie industry veterans who don't belong to that particular group often end up being massively antagonistic to said group? Really makes you wonder.
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  41. "Freedom is not a right for whitey!" -BLM, implicitly
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  42. Lolberts: "If you don't like it, build your own social media!" *builds own social media, and web hotel shuts it down. Lolberts: "If you don't like it, build your own web hotel!" *builds own web hotel, ISP shuts it down Lolberts: "If you don't like it, build your own ISP" *builds own ISP, electricity company shuts it down Lolberts: "If you don't like it, build your own electricity company!" Starting to get really expensive to utilize your freedom of speech inside the Lolbert utopia.
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  43. "Germany has different cultural norms. Therefore I, as an american president will not call out Hitler on his cultural practice in dealing with jewish people"
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  44. The smartphone isn't the heroin. It's the syringe. The heroin is social media feeds. But a syringe can also be used to inject good things, like antibiotics and vitamins. Their internet counterparts would be history content, tutorials for learning new skills and so on.
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  45. What she neglects to mention is that the meat industry as a whole is also ensuring the survival of many species of cows, pigs and chickens. Cows are not the same as their strong auroch ancestors from pre-historic times. They are not physically equipped to fend for themselves in the wild anymore. So if you ban the meat industry, then who takes responsibility for all the cows? Are you just going to "set them free" and watch them be devoured en masse by wild predators until they go extinct? Or are you going to continue breeding them in capitivity as a form of preservation where there are no financial profits to be made anymore. Also even if you're not slaughtering the cows, they still need to eat. So any conservation efforts will still take up the same space of farmland as before. Only no food for humans is being produced out of it, making the whole operation a net financial burden on society.
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  46. Israel being underhanded and spying on it's supposed "allies"? Imagine my shock...
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  47. Beau looking like Mr. 47 contemplating which globalist he's going to hit next.
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  48. ​ @NotQuiteFirst Matt Easton who runs the channel Scholagladiatoria. He had a few collabs with Shad in the past that were amicable and friendly. But then some leftiest started telling Matt that Shad have "problematic views", and Matt took the road of a coward and didn't even speak to Shad about it but just posted on facebook that he disavows Shad completely and cut all associations with him.
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  49. "95% of Britons want a second referendum on Brexit" -Yougov, probably
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  50. I take it that motorsports fans are not to happy about the WEF-mandated future of only "electric" racing cars being permitted on the track?
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