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May 26, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
06:42
The Internet IRL with Uzalu
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Come on, Uzalu.
You've ruined the first joke.
Oh, sorry.
So just in case, this is a friend of mine from the internet.
How you doing, man?
Not bad?
Good.
Very well.
Close your mouth, that's right.
Right, I've never used one of these microphone things before.
Well, you're doing very well so far.
Right, now, Sargon.
Yes.
Pretend that he didn't introduce me, because the first joke is, you don't know me and I don't know you, but there's this MP who has a bit of a bone to pick with you.
Is there?
What is your policy on raping MPs?
I know you've never been asked this before.
I know you've never been asked this before.
I'm being very new here.
I wouldn't even, actually.
Now, see, there's only one problem with that.
Only one.
Everyone that says there's a different problem is completely wrong.
The only problem with that is the implication that she's not beautiful, which is, of course, completely ridiculous.
I don't even think anyone would say that.
I mean, how dare they?
How dare they imply that that might be the case?
Exactly.
To say that a woman isn't beautiful is basically a hate crime.
Basically.
No, even basically.
It might as well be a hate crime.
I mean, she's making the laws.
Yeah, at the rate we're going, it will be a hate crime.
She doesn't have any power, so she'll make the laws to make sure you can't say that.
Unironically, the Nottinghamshire police are trying to treat misogyny as a hate crime.
Who the hell defines what that is?
The victim.
Well, yeah, you're absolutely right, in fact.
Yeah.
The victim, yes.
I'm surprised that there aren't half of men in the county in prison.
Probably the only reason is because we live in a somewhat high trust society still.
It's only a matter of time, though.
Yeah.
Now, I had some other brilliant troll questions that have all completely evaporated from my mind.
Okay, well, let's go for a serious question then.
Yes.
I did a video yesterday on the rape definition in this country.
You'll probably know what I'm going at with this.
Could you let everyone know what I'm doing?
Well, what you see with the rape definition in the UK is that only a man can be a rapist in this country.
If a woman forcefully envelops a man with any part of his body in any way, she is only a sexual assaulter at worst.
And if we're doing this equality thing, shall we do it properly?
Well, I agree.
Why should it be a gendered question?
Indeed.
And the government responded to a petition by a friend of Discordia and said essentially that there was widespread agreement among the parliament that that should be the definition, that it should be gender bias.
So it's not something that just slipped through.
They agree that it should only be men that can rape legally in this country.
Why?
Good question.
I think, honestly, it's probably etymological.
At its root, it's probably just traditional.
It's probably just what they think of when they think of rape.
But it might be a social justice definition.
It might be that they think that only someone with power can rape.
Well, there are definitely going to be some people who think that, but I think that there are also, like you say, they're going to be people who have traditionally inherited that's the standard mindset.
Yes.
Because, I mean, like, when you look at domestic violence, like the Duluth model, it's to default treat the man as the abuser, even though 40% of domestic violence in this country is done by women to men.
Yes.
And of course, all those male rape victims had loads of power to exert over the women that had held knives to their necks, tied them up to the bed, date raped them, etc.
Loads of power to exert.
Yes.
So what is UKIP's policy on changing that definition?
I don't think they actually have an official policy on the definition, but I think that if you were to ask them, they'd probably be a lot more fair-minded and say, no, a rape victim is a rape victim.
It doesn't matter what their gender is.
So UKIP is pro-equality communists then?
Essentially.
No, I think they are pro-equality, but I think that's a kind of common sense equality, you know, where you're not making a distinction between a man and a woman, where an unnecessary distinction needs to be made.
Indeed.
There's no need.
Right.
Let's think of something else to bring up.
Damn it.
I've forgotten all of them.
You should have written these down.
I should have written them down, shouldn't I?
I don't want to be consulting notes.
Instead, I just wanted to be sitting here forgetting everything.
So, how can you account for the death of D ⁇ D?
So for anyone who doesn't know what Uzlu means here, we played Dungeons and Dragons.
Right, you're fired.
No.
We played Dungeons and Dragons, and it was quite popular.
We get like 30,000 people a week watching our game of Dungeons and Dragons, but I had to give that up to come and do this.
So that's how I account for it.
Yeah, well, Arch is supplanting you as the other side.
Well, no, when the campaign's over, I will be playing in his campaign.
Fair enough.
There was another one I just had, but I've forgotten it again.
See, when I do videos, I take a long time to say a line, and then I wait and take a long time to say the next line.
But when I'm in person, that doesn't really apply.
Yeah, honestly, one thing I've learned is it's very easy to edit yourself to sound very fluid.
Thank you.
Well, no, yeah, exactly.
But as soon as you're in the public and you can't do that, you've got to be quite quick off the mark.
Yeah, I'd far rather be answering the questions than asking them.
Honestly, it's much easier.
So, Uzlu, what do you think UKIP could do to change the world for the better?
What would you think they should focus on?
It's a big question.
And I've been thinking recently more and more that not exactly a denialist position, that nothing can be changed, but that the country is going to get to rock bottom before it starts sweeping back up gradually, that we're going to have to see some degree of systemic collapse.
And perhaps, this leads me on to what I just remembered, was another thing I was going to mention.
Perhaps that comes in the form of rebel parties stealing members from existing parties such as the Brexit party.
I don't know if you talked about this today or much recently, but what is your take on them being so high in the polls and UKIP being so low relatively?
I think the polling is not necessarily accurate.
It wasn't accurate for Trump, but it wasn't accurate for Brexit.
Or for the new Australian Prime Minister.
Or for the Australian Prime Minister.
Exactly.
Because the polling is done, the internet polling I think is the cancer of the modern age actually for politics because it's done by self-selection.
So it's people who are interested in doing it sign up.
And then my wife does this, for example.
I didn't know how YouGov polls were done.
They're done by email.
So you have to go and sign up, and then they'll email you questions, and then you just pick and choose whichever ones you want.
So it's not necessarily a reflective result of people who are just wandering around enjoying their lives.
Polsters should be on the streets and asking people questions rather than relying on self-selected emails.
I mean, this is why the one in five statistic of sexual assault in universities is so misleading and was disavowed by the people who did the damn study because it was self-selection.
So you've got people who want to go and do it, which means that they're more likely to not be representative of the wider public.
And yet this is a statistic that's bandied about all the time.
And so, yeah, exactly.
I don't know if we can actually trust the polls.
I guess we'll see come May the 23rd.
And on that note, vote Sargon.
Thanks very much.
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