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New book released which provides another expose of the inner workings of Britain's Royal Family, called Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival. See here for highlights: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/news/endgame-book-omid-scobie-royals-b2455528.html https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/28/a-royal-family-in-crisis-six-claims-from-omid-scobie-book-endgame

Over my life I have consumed a great amount of media content (films, TV, music), however, the one medium I have no experience of is video games. My family never got into them and I couldn't be bothered to ask my parents for an XBox or whatever for Christmas. I know that video games are a major part of people's childhood and teenage years, so I'd like to ask all the gamers on this forum: am I missing much?

Don't trust this BS source, The Daily Mail is basically the UK's version of Fox News.

@Leo Gura How could morons run a country (sounds like an oxymoron). Your fear is overblown.

Here's a great example of business siding with fascism (allegedly)

I bet it's probably 4hrs long then.

@Leo Gura If people are not mature enough to handle solipsism, then why upload a video about the subject in the first place? (and then remove it at the last minute).

Classic Blue. See 12:15.

Perfect encapsulation of Trump's Stage Red dispositions.

Tuco from Breaking Bad.

Actually, the middle east and central Asia was more advanced than the west 1,000 years ago. Cities like Baghdad, Cairo, Samarkand etc had great philosophers, scientists, astronomers and scholars, in sharp contrast to Europe's 'dark ages'. Ever heard of Avicenna, al-Biruni or Ibn Khaldun? They also had religious tolerance (mostly). After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in ww1 colonial powers UK and France started carving up the region based on resources like oil, known as the Sykes-Picot agreement. UK, Russia and later US also meddled in affairs of Iran for oil. All this led to a region of underdevelopment and resentment that characterises it today. As Chomsky pointed out in a great video, a region full of nation states leads to constant conflict over land, religion and ethnicity. This is why Europe was at war for so long as states battled out for supremacy in wars that never resolved and then lead to more wars. The colonial powers then transported this system to their colonised territories in the middle East, and Asia and Africa, as well as taking their resources. Explaining why these places are underdeveloped and combustable to conflict today. Europe was actually geopoliticaly disadvantaged as it had few resources, it only began to rise 500 years ago because of resources pulled from its overseas colonies. You guys really need to brush up on your world history.

@Leo Gura btw, If I wanted to go vegan/vegetarian and you also said I should give up wheat, then where would I get my main source of calories from?

Is Bernie Sanders a populist? Sort of similar to Trump and his rhetoric. They both talk about taking on the establishment and elites and claim the system (and the media) is rigged and biased against them. Is Sanders' populism different from Trump's or are they two sides of the same coin?

Interesting words from Putin in an interview a few months ago. He states that liberalism is 'obsolete' and has outlived its purpose and that nationalism and conservatism are the way forward. He thinks that history and evolution is on his side but the world is only going to get more liberal and multicultural not more traditional and nationalistic. Global society is not evolving from SD stage Orange/Green to stage Blue mr smarty pants. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-48795764 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/2880c762-98c2-11e9-8cfb-30c211dcd229

Disney may buy up all of Hollywood in the near future.