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Aug. 14, 2021 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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Why I Removed My Reply to Lindsay Ellis

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	I think I'm live.
	Pretty sure I'm live.
	Just going to leave it a minute.
	No Fallout Boy playing this time.
	Hey, folks.
	Hello, chat.
	Goblins.
	So, I've decided I'm going to remove the reply I just did to Lindsay Ellis because, honestly, I felt bad about it.
	And I think that if you feel bad about something, then you should make amends.
	Because honestly, I didn't need to be so harsh on her, I think.
	I look at the position she's in and the way that things are for her and the community she's trapped between, and the wish I think she has that she was getting the kind of attention that maybe she got a few years ago and honestly, I felt bad, and if you feel bad about something then you should take steps to correct it.
	I hope we can treat this as an instructive lesson on the right thing to do.
	I shouldn't have gone so hard.
	I suppose I should have been a bit more reserved.
	But after walking away from it you know, I was just sat there like okay, I'm feeling annoyed at myself now because the thing is, it's almost like it kind of like got to me or something.
	I mean everything I said was true, like I'm not attracted to at all.
	So her assumption is completely wrong, but I shouldn't have been so harsh about it.
	I just walked away feeling cruel, and I don't like feeling cruel.
	I don't think of myself as a cruel man, and so I think the right thing to do is to take the stream down.
	Yeah, you can call me a simp.
	I'm not simping.
	I'm not not saying anything positive about her, am I?
	And I'm not defending her from any of the things that I said, because they were true, but I still felt overly mean and I think that if there's one thing we could probably do with less of it's meanness and you know, I don't know, I just it just didn't sit right with me.
	Maybe it's because I've aged and I've matured and I, you know, being a father, I'm thinking, okay, what would my son think about this if he watched this in like 10 years time or something?
	I think I'd be annoyed with myself, and so I'd rather do something about that now than let that happen.
	But I mean, I think I made pretty good points, you know.
	But for anyone who's wondering well, what was the other stream about?
	So primarily, the other stream was about her lies.
	I'm just gonna very quickly recap that actually, just so posterity will know what I was talking about.
	So basically, she did this video nine things I wish I knew.
	I watched it because I was actually interested to know what she was going to say, and then she attacked me, claiming that I was only talking about her in any way because I wanted to get with her.
	No, she's 37 and married, and I'm married to a woman five years younger than her and I'm not really interested in her in that way, but this is all based on her video, because she was trying to cancel JK Rowling and she was claiming that my audience was review bombing her, which they aren't, because I mean, if they are, why is only the one stars at two percent rather than at like 20 percent, like that?
	So she's just lying and I just felt that was just more mean than I needed to be, and I don't want to be mean, I want to be a nice person.
	I think we should be a nice person.
	Nobody got me, nobody's got anything on me, and I'm not apologizing, I'm just taking it down and replacing it with this because I want to be better than them.
	I really want to be better than them.
	Oh, a quick correction as well.
	So this video by Armour Skeptic that I referenced, he had uploaded it, re-uploaded it the other day, yesterday.
	But apparently, this was something he did after VidCon in 2017 and took down, and he's re-uploaded it.
	I didn't know that.
	I didn't see it the first time.
	So in this, he talks about how H Bombay was a lying scumbag because he is.
	But the thing is, this is the point about the left-wing content creators online, isn't it?
	They're not good people.
	They're actually really mean and cruel people.
	And I was worried that I was becoming like them, actually.
	And I don't want to become like them.
	I think that it's actually better to not become like them.
	But I mean, all my criticisms stand.
	I'm not into women like Lindsay.
	Certainly wouldn't date a left-winger.
	And I am married with kids, and so I'm very happy.
	And that's not the point, though, really.
	The point is, she's lying about being review-bombed.
	She's not the victim of anything.
	In the video I covered originally, which was this one, she admits that she made money out of being cancelled because being cancelled isn't being cancelled for her.
	Being cancelled is just being harassed by her own audience.
	But those segments of her audience that aren't excessively online Twitter leftists just started giving her more money, so she was fine.
	In fact, she made more money out of it.
	But you can see it emotionally affected her.
	I didn't want to be that.
	Also, that thing that drives her mad, you know, and like continues to hurt her mental health.
	Because honestly, I'm not here to hurt people's mental health.
	I don't want that.
	You know, and I don't want to be.
	I don't want to think of myself in that way.
	And that's the thing that bothers me.
	I was sat there thinking, God damn it.
	You know, I was probably too harsh on her.
	Even though she's being very harsh on me, I'm the better man here, and I will prove it by not sinking to her level.
	That's why I have removed it.
	But what I figure, folks, is we can just hang out and chat for a bit if you want.
	I'll answer some questions.
	Remember that I do this for free.
	So, you know, as Michael says here, as funny as it was playing into it, the Goblin King has a point.
	Got to be above it.
	Yes.
	Yes, you do.
	I can indeed, as Jordan says, offer Lindsay some diet tips.
	The first one would be stop drinking the beer.
	On the keto diet, you shouldn't.
	Oh, it's a good time for me to proselytize ketoism.
	No, no, I have been obviously using the keto diet, which is why I lost so much weight.
	And I'm glad, Solo Boxer, you quite enjoyed the stream.
	I enjoyed it too.
	Yes, it was fun.
	It was funny, but it was also not the gentleman we should seek to become.
	And so, yes.
	I mean, if someone downloads it and re-uploads it somewhere, well, that's outside of my control, isn't it?
	But I'm not going to do that.
	But yeah, beer, unfortunately, is not keto, so I'd knock that off.
	But sugar and bread, basically, and things you don't even have to be autistic about it.
	You know, you can just be like ultra hard, hard line to see some really productive results.
	You know, just generally knock off pasta, bread, potatoes, and beer.
	And sugar.
	And, you know, you can see some quite good results.
	Will there be any more medieval Total War 2?
	So I was thinking about playing some Rome 2 Total War later.
	I've been reading Polybius again recently.
	It's been a while since I've read Polybius, but I was reading it for the epochs.
	And I can't help but want Carthage to win the war on Rome.
	I don't know why.
	I love the Carthaginians.
	I think they're really interesting.
	Even though they're not very nice people, but then who was?
	You know, the Romans were very nice.
	And so I was playing a Carthaginian campaign.
	Was going quite well until things absolutely collapsed in Spain.
	I was doing very well in Sicily, but the Spanish theater was very poor.
	Afghanistan thoughts.
	Who has thoughts on Afghanistan, really?
	I mean, you know, there's no, I don't think it can be westernized.
	I don't think it's going to be westernized.
	I think it's got deep Islamist roots that are not going to be easily torn up without great violence.
	And I don't want to see great violence.
	And, I mean, it's called the graveyard of empires for a reason.
	This is no point.
	Let the Chinese have their turn ruining themselves in Afghanistan.
	You know, who cares?
	They were basically Bronze Age Venice.
	They were kind of like a Bronze Age British Empire, actually.
	It's interesting how they worked.
	But best unbiased history video.
	Oh, well, God, Dover Hattie's done.
	I mean, his entire body of work is just fantastic.
	absolutely fantastic although what was in fact let me let me have a quick check so there was There was one that was just so good.
	The new stuff about Byzantium is fantastic as well.
	But there's...
	Oh, God, which one was it?
	It's probably the Caesar one, actually.
	It's just brilliant.
	But no, they're all fantastic.
	So, yeah.
	Come watch Laughing at the Guardian.
	I'll see if I can.
	I'll see if I can.
	China's only interested in mining.
	Well, maybe.
	They're interested in world empire, because that's essentially what they have.
	Why do you think that modern Marxists deny Hegelian dialecticism as an essential component of Marxist philosophy?
	Do they?
	I haven't actually seen modern Marxists denying that.
	To be honest with you, the modern Marxists just seem like anachronisms.
	Like, you know, committing to a 150, 200-year-old ideology that has obviously failed, and repeatedly so.
	And even other Marxists all through the 20th century were like, okay, this doesn't work.
	We've got to find a way of making this work.
	There must be a way of making this work.
	There's no...
	I just feel kind of bad for them.
	They look kind of quaint.
	They've been outflanked and conquered by capitalism at every turn.
	And they're still desperately like, no, there must be something here we can salvage.
	There isn't.
	Marx is wrong about everything.
	I mean, look at his predictions.
	The proletariat will rise up.
	No.
	The proletariat are what you would call far right and are the most conservative, anti-revolutionary segment of society.
	Oh, capitalism will collapse.
	Yeah, right.
	Okay.
	When?
	Like, you know, what century are we expecting capitalism to collapse at this point?
	You know, hundreds of years on and capitalism's doing better than ever.
	You know, capitalism is not collapsing.
	I love the way they say late-stage capitalism.
	You fucking wish.
	You wish it was late-stage capitalism.
	You know, you have no idea when capitalism will end because I don't think it will.
	Because I think private property rights are always going to be a desirable thing.
	And I just posted on my Instagram, actually, a cartoon by communists arguing that essentially capitalism will always defeat communism unless there's a worldwide workers' revolution.
	As in, if everyone in the world agrees to abolish capitalism, then we can have communism, or else capitalism will always win.
	It's like, yes, because capitalism is clearly better.
	The reply was the right of, well, yes, but, you know.
	I don't know.
	I just didn't feel good about it.
	Because the thing is, like, the things that I'd said were so self-evidently true that I was just like, I feel like I'm punching down, you know?
	I feel like I'm just.
	I feel I feel like her position is so embarrassingly poor.
	And when a woman is like oh, you're just, you know, especially when she's a you know what I'm gonna call a left-wing intellectual, when they, when they resort to, oh you're just doing this because you fancy me, it's like you know being being harsh about it in return, it's over the top, it doesn't need to be done.
	It's so obviously not true.
	And she wishes.
	So it's like, yeah, do your employees get any Keto reparations for your Keto tyranny?
	The hell, they do they get.
	They get Haram.
	No, I do not actually uh, impose Ketoism.
	Uh, thanks for the response, Carl.
	Have you read the new class by Milo Van Jalia Jillas yet?
	No, I have not.
	But uh, i'm sure it is a great critique on communism but uh, to be honest with you, I feel like i've got a pretty good critique of communism anyway.
	So um, she's gonna take that as a win.
	Mustn't say mean things.
	All i'm gonna say is, I guess she needs the wins right, she needs the wins, and so she can take that as a win.
	Uh because, like Callum clipped like one bit of where i'm saying this stuff and I was looking at it thinking wow, I actually look so much better than I used to a year ago and she looks so much worse.
	And I was like ah just, you know that I don't need to say these things right, and there's just self-evident.
	And so yeah Lindsay, if you do listen this you um, you definitely need to consider the Keto die.
	It's good for you, makes you feel a thousand times better than you did previously as well.
	Um yes, i'm sorry about the thumbnail, it was the only thing I could find at short notice.
	Um, compare what you said to Lindsay to what you said about the communes on Locales, Weekly.
	Uh, if you said to her, it is mean.
	Then the criticisms of communisms?
	Uh, surely weren't you taking them down to?
	I don't think so.
	I don't think i'm saying anything personally mean to the communists, uh, they're just uh, they're just stupid.
	You know, uh.
	So you know and I, everything I say about the communists is ideological really, and I mean on a personal level, they all behave in just utterly, utterly immoral ways that there is no honor in communism.
	They don't understand the concept of honor, because honor is not a materialistic concept, it is a I guess we'll call it transcendental concept, and I think that we should be the more honourable people.
	I think this is actually the way forward.
	I love that you guys are hating that thumbnail.
	Uh yeah, i'm I, the.
	I I believe I don't know whether these announced it um, but uh, we're thinking about doing a Fallout One fallout Rp, which I really like the sound of, because I love, I love the fallout setting, love the fallout setting ever since, ever since the uh, the very first Fallout game, which is i'm not sure if Fallout One or two was the best one, but uh the, the isometric view, definitely excellent.
	Um oh, i'm glad some people like the thumbnail.
	I love the thumbnail.
	It's just, you know, just just a fun thumbnail.
	What's wrong with it?
	What's the?
	What's the problem?
	Just, you know, just a goblin thumbnail.
	I found being called goblins quite amusing, to be honest.
	You know, Goblin King.
	There's nothing wrong with that.
	I think it was cute, actually, to be honest.
	Have I checked out ex-Muslim YouTubers like the Apostate Prophet, Infidel Noodle, Holy Humanist, Apostate Aladdin?
	Have you considered streaming any of them?
	To be honest with you, there's not really any point criticizing Islam while the leftists are in control of the social levers of society.
	They were not allowed, basically.
	It'll end up becoming like criticism of Islam when it becomes cutting and pertinent will be framed as a hate crime.
	And I don't really want to be given a criminal record for committing hate crimes.
	So we have to deal with left-wingers first.
	There's just no getting around it.
	Literal vampire potbelly goblins, as Alex Jones points out.
	Never going to fall out.
	Good God.
	Don't get me wrong, you know, I'm sure that the ex-Muslim YouTubers are doing a great job.
	You know, I'm sure they are.
	Because obviously, there are a million valid critiques of Islam.
	Have I talked to Jim lately?
	No, I have not.
	He's got cancer and is not doing well.
	Well, I hope he gets better.
	What do I think of Halo Infinite?
	I haven't played Halo.
	It's never my bag, Halo.
	Same with Call of Duty.
	I was never really into it.
	I've been playing Bannerlord Online and a bit of Rome.
	Well, so I've been playing.
	Let me get my steam up.
	And Gladius as well.
	I enjoy Gladius.
	I prefer strategy or war sims, you know, military sims.
	Do you find that leftist urbanites have a particular contempt for suburbanites, or is it just me saying this?
	Well, yeah, because they view them as kind of bourgeois, but they don't seem to realize that living in big cities is just awful.
	It's just awful.
	No one's happy there.
	Take on the Aztecs.
	Based on Red Pilled.
	I don't know.
	What do you want me to say?
	They're interesting.
	Keto didn't work for me.
	I mean, don't be wrong.
	Like, I really enjoy ancient civilization and just, you know, foreign civilizations.
	I find them really, really interesting.
	And so the Aztecs I find particularly fascinating.
	I watched a documentary a couple of months ago about how Cortez and the allies that were subjugated by the Aztecs rose up against them and they were fighting in the streets of Tenochtitlan or however you pronounce it.
	And it was absolutely fascinating.
	Absolutely fascinating.
	But yeah, Dryce says, Keto didn't work for me.
	I lost £30 in two months, but I gained it all back in two weeks.
	Well, that's what happens if you go back to the bread and sugar.
	You can't go back to the bread and sugar.
	And I mean, like, so I think that occasionally you can cheat on your diet.
	You know, that's fine.
	You know, like, a few months ago, I went to bath, and when I'm in bath, I've got a bit of a ritual, which is going to a nice tea house, tea room, and getting a cream tea and scon.
	And so I did that, even though it's not keto-friendly, but it was delicious.
	And I felt a little bit guilty about it, to be honest.
	But I didn't make it a habit, you know, and so I went back to, you know, afterwards, I went back to my normal habit of not having bread.
	And I, you know, it was just a nice treat because I had been so good about it.
	But £30 in two months, man, that's great.
	Go back to it.
	Get on it.
	Come on.
	You can do this.
	What do I think of Peter Hitchens?
	I think that Peter Hitchens is an incredibly well-informed man.
	He's obviously very smart and he's quite black-pilled on Britain and its future.
	Understandably so.
	And I wish the Conservatives would take his critiques seriously because then things may be able to get better.
	But the thing is, he's, you know, I think he's in his 60s now.
	And so he's just like, right, okay, you know, this can't be fixed.
	This can't be changed.
	The trajectory that Britain's on, nobody seems to want to try and understand or change.
	And so he just accepts that this country is basically over.
	And he might be right.
	He might be right.
	But I'm only 41, so I think I still have to keep trying and doing my best.
	Yes, stay away from Sugar.
	What do I think about Chris Chan?
	I think that he's probably a mental patient who's been given access to the internet.
	And I don't think mental patients should be on the internet, especially they shouldn't be famous on the internet.
	Probably not good.
	Why do I dislike the German people?
	I don't.
	I just dislike German governance.
	I lived in Germany for eight years.
	The Germans are lovely people.
	Absolutely lovely people.
	But the way that they think about the world is simply different to the way that the Brits think about the world.
	And the way they view the world, the way the world should be run.
	They have completely different views.
	The Germans are totally systematic and expect conformity across all levels of society, generally speaking.
	Whereas the Brits are the opposite and they tolerate eccentricity.
	I've actually got a book review of Roger Scruton's Where We Are going up.
	And he does a great job of elucidating how they're different, how the Brits are actually quite unique.
	It's going to be well worth it.
	But no, the Germans are all lovely.
	Will there be a dadism lecture about the Plymouth incident?
	I haven't had time to look into it, but I've noticed that there have been, I mean, it's just spamming my feed, obviously.
	You know, look at this incel, incel, incel.
	Oh, we must do something about the incels.
	It's like, okay.
	I mean, what do you think?
	There's one solution to the incel problem.
	Who wants to volunteer?
	I don't think I can volunteer.
	I don't think I'm the guy who can solve that problem.
	Ladies, you've got to kind of step up.
	I don't know what to tell you, you know?
	Like, is there going to be a government campaign being like, you know, save a life, date and incel?
	What's the plan?
	You know?
	It's just, you know, British government declares war on virgins.
	Oh, God.
	Like, this country is a joke.
	But I just want to say, this is a consequence of feminism.
	You didn't have incels under patriarchy, did you?
	T-pose to assert your dominance.
	That's a good point.
	Good idea.
	The only real solution to anything, really.
	Do I prefer Autobots or Decepticons?
	It's interesting, isn't it?
	Like, the question, you know, do you prefer the heroes or the villains, right?
	Because one doesn't make sense without the other.
	And so I've got a kind of, I don't know how to describe it, like almost poetic view of it.
	Well, I want the heroes and villains to both exist, but the heroes have to win for the world to be rightly ordered.
	Become a woman, a good idea.
	I'll run it by my wife, see how she feels about it.
	But if the world is to be rightly ordered, then there does have to be villains in order for the heroes to demonstrate their heroism and to show why villainy is bad in the first place.
	This whole, like George Lucas's, you know, the Jedi need to bring balance to the force.
	How?
	By wiping out the Sith.
	It's like, that's not balance.
	That's genocide.
	Like, don't know what to tell you.
	You know, you need these things to both exist.
	But the heroes have to be vigilant, have to be virtuous, and have to win.
	And if we are to be the heroes, then we, of course, also have to be vigilant, virtuous, and victorious.
	And so we will.
	And this is, in fact, why I'm doing this stream.
	Do you think we will win the culture war?
	Yes, in the long run, because all of left-wing philosophy is built on lies.
	Let me get an example, actually.
	Let me show you an example.
	There's a great meme going around.
	Where did I put it?
	Must have been on Getter.
	By the way, follow me on Getter at Carl Benjamin.
	If anyone's using it.
	I'm quite enjoying it.
	I mean, it works just fine.
	It was a perfectly serviceable replacement for Twitter.
	So is Gab.
	Obviously, follow me on Gab.
	I've been using Gab for ages.
	I'm sure a lot of you use Gab, so I've got quite a lot of followers there.
	But let me show you what I mean.
	So this is the meme.
	Don't know how well you can see it there.
	Right, so you've got Elizabeth Warren, Native American, Kamala Harris, African-American, Michelle Obama, oppressed, Joe Biden, competent, George Floyd, hero, Bill Gates, scientist, Greta Thunberg, expert, riots, mostly peaceful, and the health minister, I can't remember her name, but woman.
	It's like, yes.
	All of these things are untrue.
	And yet, all of their narratives, all left-wing narratives, are based on subverting essential truth and presenting the antonym as being the equal of the initial proposition and saying, well, these are just as valid.
	And it's like, they're not.
	They're just not.
	Things that aren't true aren't true.
	And even if you can terrorize people into pretending that they're true, that can't last.
	You know, the second that you're weak and your grip on the narrative slips, then the whole thing collapses.
	And so it's just easier to dedicate yourself to truth.
	And I think eventually they will.
	They will fail.
	I mean, look at, like, look at how, look at how poorly the Biden regime is doing in the United States right now.
	My God.
	Yeah, if you need that meme, you can go find it on Getter at Carl Benjamin.
	Like I said, I'm enjoying the platform.
	It seems like a lot of mainstream Republicans are on there, so I think we should probably start using it in the same way we use Gab.
	I can't seem to use Parla.
	It's not in the App Store on my Android, so I can't get on it.
	Shame.
	I like Parla, but the Powers that be killed it.
	I assume that Getter isn't within the realm of destruction for the powers that be.
	And so, don't know what to tell you.
	I've got to use the options that we have available.
	Like I said, I use Gab and Mines and all the other ones just fine.
	So not, I just use all of them.
	But yeah, no, I think in the long run we will win.
	I don't think that they can win, and I don't think that they can be tyrannical enough in the long run.
	So, but yeah, if with Biden, right?
	I can't imagine what Biden could do more if his intention was to destroy the United States.
	If he wanted to destroy the United States, what else would he do?
	Would he open the borders?
	Would he cause international conflict?
	Would he feminize the military or wokeify the military?
	You know, would he ruin and debase the American currency?
	Would he?
	Did you see the thing that was going around?
	Let me find it.
	Like, it's mad.
	It's absolutely mad the way that they are viewing people who disagree with their narratives as pathologizing them literally as terrorists.
	And it's just like, okay, you know, these people, these people have absolutely no interest.
	Here you go.
	So this was reported by Fox.
	Oh, no, MSNBC.
	Sorry.
	Not even.
	See, I thought this was Fox when I first saw it.
	I thought, right, okay, they're going to complain that, you know, oh, this is Fox misrepresenting.
	No, this is MSNBC.
	Potential terror threats.
	Opposition to COVID measures.
	If you don't support lockdowns, masks, and mandatory vaccines, you're a potential terror threat.
	If you think that there was election fraud and that Trump can be reinstated, you're a potential terror threat.
	If you celebrate or want to honor the 9-11 anniversary or religious holidays, you're a potential terror threat.
	Absolute madness.
	Madness.
	Pathologizing more than half the country as domestic terrorists.
	Like, again, what more does the Biden regime have to do to show that they're actually acting against the interests of the United States?
	They're interested in destroying the country.
	Let me just, let me just say Robert Conquest has got three laws, and which one is it right?
	So, the first one is everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
	And then the second one, and this is the one I think applies to the Biden regime.
	Oh, no, sorry, any organization explicitly not constitutionally right-wing will become left-wing, but it's the third one that applies in this instance.
	The behavior of any bureaucratic organization, such as the United States government, can be best understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
	And what more do you need?
	Like, what more could Biden do to destroy the United States than fill it with illegal aliens, destroy your currency, weaken your military, and show the rest of the world that the United States is vulnerable?
	So, they all, you know, the international order starts collapsing.
	What more could he do?
	I don't even know.
	What chat, give me some ideas.
	What could Biden do that would be worse than what he's already doing?
	I've had too much to think.
	I know, I know, that's exactly the problem, isn't it?
	It's exactly the problem.
	Uh, did the early video get threatened by YouTube?
	No, I don't think it did, it didn't.
	And I don't think it would have been a problem either because I wasn't saying anything untrue, and I wasn't responding to what she had said to me.
	So, I'm not actually worried about that.
	I just felt bad.
	I just felt like I was punching down too much.
	And, you know, did I hear about the gay and proud Muslim on East Enders?
	No, I did not.
	I have not heard that the Saudis played a role in 9-11.
	Oh, no, wait, yeah, no, they're well, yeah, they were Saudi pilots, weren't they?
	I mean, I'd have to go back and check.
	It's been a long time since I looked into it, but like, I'm sure that they were Saudi pilots.
	Is there a worldwide problem with addiction to external validation?
	I think that most human beings are generally predisposed to external validation.
	So, no, it's not a problem, it's a feature.
	I'm not going to do a video on that incel who killed this people.
	I'll have to go and look at look into it.
	But he just seemed like wasn't he like a 23-year-old incel.
	And he, the fact that he shot his mother first implies that there's family problems.
	Um, and one of the one of the things I've been thinking about a lot recently, uh, especially in the sort of realm of conservative metaphysics, is the importance of maintaining and improving our relationships.
	I mean, for example, I've been pretty down recently because I had to remove a friend of mine from my private Discord, and I'm not happy about it.
	And he's going off and being salty about it on the internet, but like he kept leaking things because he was in an argument with someone else.
	I don't want to get into it, but like, I was just like, fuck's sake, you know, like you, you know, that this was meant to be a place of trust where we were like, look, we're not going to take this outside.
	I mean, it's not like we did anything spicy in there or anything like that.
	We just talk about, you know, things and you know, hang out.
	But it's just one of those things.
	It's like, look, if you can't have sort of like this sort of trust between friends, these, you know, in these relationships, then you can't have anything.
	And that's why the left-wing circles are full of all this betrayal and horror and, you know, like fear and paranoia.
	And I don't want that to be around me.
	You know, I want to be able to create spaces in which people can trust one another because I think these relationships of trusts are important.
	I wouldn't have deleted it if Lindsay was a man.
	That's probably true.
	That's probably true.
	You know, men don't age like women.
	I am being sexist, that's right.
	Chad Patriarch.
	Women have a place in society.
	But yeah, I just, I felt bad about it, man.
	I was actually really down about it when I had to do it because I was just like, fuck's sad.
	And the thing is, I tried to talk to him about it.
	I don't know why he was losing his shit over it.
	But I just... Sad.
	How do I argue against Descartes in what way?
	I mean, the fact that he just seems to be wrong about everything, you know?
	The idea that the soul, if there is such a thing as a soul, which I'm not really convinced there is, obviously.
	I do think that Locke and the empiricists are right.
	I mean, the very fact that you can't really refer to the soul without referring to the person implies that the soul is a property of a person.
	And even if it's not, well, we don't have the language to describe it.
	You know, if you talk about John's soul, that is a property of John.
	So, okay, how do you refer to that soul without referring to John as the material body?
	And then you get into the science of it.
	It's like, well, it's obviously, you know, what we're talking about when we say soul, we mean consciousness.
	And that's obviously a product of the brain.
	So why are we even having discussion?
	Descartes was wrong 300 years ago.
	He's wrong now.
	You know, it's not that he was stupid or anything.
	He just lived a long time ago.
	And he's a very interesting man, but like, he was just wrong.
	You know, like, what's his name?
	God damn it.
	I can't remember.
	There was an English philosopher who made a great point.
	He's like, look, if we can't distinguish one soul from another by referring to the name of the, and therefore the person of the body that the soul belongs to or is supposed to inhabit in herein, how do we know that we're talking about different souls at all?
	How do we distinguish one soul from another?
	You know, it could just be one universal soul that inhabits a bunch of bodies.
	Who knows?
	And it's like, okay, great.
	So now we're just left in this.
	So we've got a hypothetical thing called a soul.
	We don't know how it functions or how it's, you know, in anything or how we even distinguish it from one another or how we even construct the language to be able to do so.
	How, why would I buy into this?
	You know, it seems like nonsense.
	So I've just, I've just, you know, I just don't believe it.
	Cogito Ergo Sum is a catchy catchphrase, though.
	Yeah, I know, Stacey.
	I didn't want to have to.
	Someone asked.
	The soul of an axe is cutting wood.
	Interesting.
	But is the soul metaphysically true?
	Now, that's a different question.
	And there are definitely arguments that you could make that there is some kind of metaphysical truth about it that we are projecting onto one another in what we call the consciousness.
	What modern times we call the consciousness.
	So maybe you can argue that.
	Sargon, I quite like Gladius.
	3,000 plus hours on Steam.
	How many hours do I have on Steam?
	No.
	Listen, losers.
	It's only 1,720 hours.
	I don't.
	I don't.
	So Punksta says you shouldn't feel bad.
	She's not under any mental strain.
	She's hustling.
	She wants more sales from a gullible audience.
	Now, there's no doubt that she wants more sales.
	But the thing is, I hate these allegations of you're just trying to make money.
	Well, I mean, I'm a capitalist, so we're all trying to make money, obviously.
	And at the end of the day, we have to make money if we want to enjoy living in houses and eating food and buying things.
	So it's a pretty hollow accusation anyway.
	I do think she believes in the left-wing values that she espouses, but I do also think she is under mental strain.
	I think that her own community is terrifying enough.
	And what she projects onto the right-wing community, I don't think really comes from the right-wing community.
	I don't think you goblins are actually doing anything to her.
	I think that this is an excuse for what her own community has done to her.
	And that interview that she had with the Leopard Print woman just goes to show it.
	She's not scared of talking about you guys at all.
	She doesn't think she's going to get blowback from you guys at all.
	There's no review bombing.
	There's no like, you know, spamming her or anything like that.
	Nothing happens from you guys.
	It happens from her own audience.
	And they know it.
	They admitted it.
	And so it's like, look, we aren't the problem.
	And I actually do feel bad for her because, you know, I'd feel bad for anyone who's being harassed by that.
	Is Justmira is David Pacman really unwatchable now?
	Yeah, so there's the sort of I guess we'll call them center-left commentary community on YouTube.
	It's just it has become totally unwatchable because it's just become raw clickbait.
	Like, look at the Young Turks video titles.
	Let me, let me just.
	And David Pacman's the same.
	i'll find it they've got they've they've welcome to the shut up david they've They've hit on a formula that I'm sure probably has increased the number of clicks.
	Shut up, chink.
	It probably has increased the number of clicks, but it's really gross, right?
	So what they do is they've got, you know, QAnon believer murders their own young children.
	Okay, maybe that's not actually it.
	That's actually probably whatever happened.
	But Tucker Carlson's disgusting attack on AOC.
	So the Catholics, and this is just like raw clickbait, you know, shocking, Britney Spears, you know, moderate Democrats threaten.
	And Timpool does this too as well.
	That's not, you know, and Timple's a good guy.
	But My Pillar Guy melts down.
	And David Pacman does the same thing.
	You know, it's like, you know, Supreme Court rejects anti-vaxxer lawsuit.
	You know, Matt Gates' child sex trafficking case moving forward.
	yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, this is, and so they've become really unreasonable.
	And so whenever I watch them, Jimmy Dore is pretty much the last left-wing progressive.
	I occasionally watch Karl Kalinsky, but he's been in the echo chamber for a bit too long now, in my opinion.
	And he's just, I know exactly what Kalinsky is going to say on every video.
	As soon as I see the title, I can literally just sit there and go.
	He's going to say this, this, this, this, and then he's going to complain about Medicare for all.
	I know exactly all of his positions before I start.
	And so I don't really have to watch him anymore.
	But yeah, Jimmy Door's the only one I like.
	Yeah, when I say centre-left, I'm, you know, relatively speaking to the rest of the left.
	They are centre-left-ish.
	For 5 million subs, they don't get many views.
	they do not I don't even yeah I mean I'm being very generous to call tyt center left obviously But, yeah, no, I'm not really into them anymore.
	I can't even be bothered to watch them.
	And the thing is, as well, I've noticed that, like, Anna and Chenk, or at least Anna particularly, seems very stressed.
	I watched a couple of their videos the other day.
	Just as, oh, I wonder what they're like these days.
	And they were just angry, like they were punching.
	And it's like, look, they've been projecting their anger at the right wing for such a long time without ever having to deal with an actual right winger.
	It's like, why don't you just invite one on?
	So you can have a conversation.
	And so they've essentially built up any right-winger to be this evil, like, malevolent force.
	And that's, oh my God, Sauron's over there.
	And I have to shout as loudly as I can into this camera to show the world that Sauron's wrong.
	It's like, okay, we'll go and talk to him and see if he is actually Sauron.
	Go over and do something, you know, engage.
	But of course they can't.
	Nationalism is an act of nostalgia.
	There are no sovereign states.
	Well, So I agree with Orwell on the idea and Scruton on the idea of nationalism being a will to power and therefore it's actually an enlightenment ideology that projects a glorious future, whereas patriotism is more about nostalgia and the love of the past and the love of the home.
	The love of the Oikos again got a really good book club going up uh, on next week.
	So go to Lotace.com and enjoy that, because it's honestly really good.
	I think Scrutonian conservatism is the safest and most likely place that uh, the victory will come from.
	And I say this because i've i've, i'm about two-thirds, three-quarters of the way through the uh Sjw's Critical theory.
	Uh, the key texts that made the movement, or whatever it's called, and some of them are remarkably Scrutonian in their view of native American tribes.
	I'll obviously do um a breakdown on this and explain you.
	Get all the examples and look at the parallels here you know.
	And so basically, what this means is that we can essentially become critical theorists for our own civilizations and operate from within their framework to burst out of their framework, which is not going to be very pleasant for them because they're basically going to have to admit that they're a bunch of colonizers from America.
	They're not going to like it, but it is true.
	And so this, I think this will allow us to turn the tide and stem the force of their advance uh, which would be very useful uh, especially since we can't seem to just get everyone to just ignore critical theory uh, which is all we need to do, right?
	And so, the more, the more I study critical theory, the more I realize that what it is is about casting enough doubt on what is otherwise considered to be a certainty in order to leverage open a question.
	You know it could be, it probably is this, everyone thinks it's this, but maybe it's this.
	And then, because maybe it's that and maybe we'd have to spend a lot of time checking, and they go, no, we'll assume that that's correct and then move on and build on that maybe, but the thing is, all you need to do is close that maybe off, because generally they're not true.
	You know, the maybe, maybe it's this nice bollocks, is not?
	Maybe it is how we thought it was and it'll go the correct way.
	But we need to attack them on that point where they're leveraging open the doubt.
	Once we get that, we've uh, we've gotten completely uh, and so all of critical theory is built on this idea of being able to leverage a possible alternate narrative and then spinning that as if it's the equivalent of the main narrative that we have as society, which which we can fix, rip apart their skin suit made of your ancestors ideas.
	Yes, basically yes.
	Engaging with the myth that you've built upon dispels it.
	You can't sit on the throne of lies.
	I agree, that's exactly right.
	Notes on nationalism changed my life.
	Yeah, me too, me too, or Orwell.
	There was a we.
	We did a book club.
	Bo Particularly did this book club on Orwell's Road To Wick And Pier for the site and he did a fantastic job and he made he made some great points I had never really considered about Orwell, the first being, I mean, Orwell was the worst critical that the left has ever had for, like why the left is bad.
	You know he's.
	He was really harsh on them.
	But also, oh crap, what was I gonna say?
	Damn it, I hate it, when the thing I was about to launch into, I subvert my own point.
	What was I gonna say?
	Orwell pointed out that it's gone.
	I'm going to have to get out there, because something reminded me of that.
	Oh, goddammit.
	Okay, I can't remember.
	Aiden Paladin, Lindsay would never show this kind of concern for you, but still good on you.
	Well, that's the point, isn't it?
	You know, that's that's the point.
	I went away and I was being self-critical and just you know, try and thank you, by the way.
	Um, and I was, you know, love your work, you know, keep going, obviously.
	Uh, but that's the point, isn't it?
	You know, this is and this is why I think that the previous stream I did had such moral force.
	Is that look, you're being terrorized by your own team, and then as soon as the opportunity arises, you go, Yeah, let's humiliate Ben Shapiro.
	It's like, why are you humiliating anyone?
	Isn't the act of humiliating your opponents the problem?
	I thought we were actually meant to be a shared civilization here.
	Thoughts on Camus?
	I've never read Camus.
	I've been too busy with other things.
	But yeah, am I being too nice?
	Maybe, but I would just, I wouldn't feel good about it.
	So I want to do the right thing, and this is what I think is the right thing.
	So I thought I'd come on and be like, sorry, guys.
	I'll have a chat with you.
	My blue shirt is like, thank you very much.
	I've been because I've been like, you know, standards.
	Got to have some standards.
	I've had to go and buy a bunch.
	And all of my old clothes now, they're like fucking tense on me.
	Like, they're literally, I can just pull them out.
	And my wife was commenting on it earlier because I was just wearing an old t-shirt earlier.
	In fact, I've got it here.
	Right.
	Look at this.
	Look at this.
	Giant fucking t-shirt.
	I don't.
	It just hangs off me now.
	Hangs off me.
	And so I, you know, gotta buy new shirts.
	And so I've been buying shirts that fit.
	And I'm happy.
	Yeah, I'm not too busy for Camus.
	It's just that I've got a bunch of stuff I really like.
	My reading list is like a mile long.
	Stuff that I'm determined to get through because I think it is important.
	And so I will eventually get to Camus, I'm sure.
	I just haven't.
	I'm going to have to read a bunch of French postmodernism as well, which I'm not really looking forward to either.
	Yazzie Mellon, can we see Minnie Acad again?
	I'm afraid they're all in bed now.
	Where they should be and where they will belong for the rest of the evening, thank goodness.
	But yeah, yeah, like, isn't that massive?
	Like, no, I've still got a bit of a little, you know, bit of belly at the end, and I am still working on it, right?
	Because, you know, I'm just slowly but surely.
	But the last little blob at the bottom of your stomach is the most difficult to, yeah, from when I was pregnant.
	Yeah, fuck off.
	But basically, true.
	But the last bit is quite difficult to do.
	But once I've got rid of it and I can actually see my abs, I probably will put something on my Instagram just for the fact that I've done it, you know?
	Say, look, I actually achieved this.
	You know, you can do this too.
	William says, I respect your decision to pull down the previous stream.
	Lindsay disrespects you and your family.
	They're adulterous accusations.
	She is disgusting because of that.
	Yeah, I know, exactly.
	That's the point, though, isn't it?
	You know, she doesn't make herself look good by thinking that my criticism of her comes from a desire for her.
	Like, I mean, there was a part of me that, like, I discussed it with my wife, and she kind of pointed out that, look, maybe she felt like she kind of needed that.
	You know, maybe, maybe actually, you know, this, the whole thing seems like a big cope from her.
	And I went really hard on her about that.
	And I did actually feel a bit guilty because I was like, Christ, she does seem to be coping really hard, you know.
	And if you've got to cope that hard, then I don't know.
	Maybe, maybe, maybe it's me.
	Maybe, yeah, there we go.
	Comron, thinking you desire her is astonishing cope.
	Yeah, I know, man.
	And the thing is, like, I am very proud of how I look now, actually.
	I don't think I've ever looked this, you know, this good.
	And so, you know, like Callum clipped a bit and I was just looking at it thinking, oh, I'm being mean to this not-so-attractive lady.
	And I shouldn't be that mean.
	When I am shredded, though, Tiger Mike, I will boast about it.
	Right winger promotes unattainable beauty standards by attaining them.
	Awesome plan.
	That's exactly it.
	But that's the thing, isn't it, right?
	Because it's just the effort that you put in to make yourself better.
	You just feel better about yourself.
	You know, I'm not like at the body that I want to have yet.
	But I just feel so much better about myself.
	And Lindsay could do the same.
	Just saying.
	Email her.
	I mean, I would be happy to talk to her about the ideological differences that we have and why she thinks that it's okay to not have a definition of the word woman.
	Because it's not.
	We actually need one.
	A lot of society is predicated on our definition of man and woman and having separate spaces for them.
	We actually need this.
	You say Gamergate era sagum was never this cowardly.
	I think it would be more cowardly if I didn't come on and talk about it, right?
	And hold myself accountable to you guys.
	I think that would be cowardly.
	I think it is the right thing if you think you've done something wrong.
	And I hate to say it.
	I guess that, you know, I wasn't a dad during Gamergate.
	You know, like this.
	This may be a consequence of maturity.
	Working out is unironically great if you're depressed, yes.
	Yes.
	I can't.
	If you're feeling bad about yourself, literally, exercise literally makes you feel better.
	Like, it releases a bunch of chemicals in your brain.
	I'm no scientist.
	I don't know anything about it.
	But I know that it does release chemicals in your brain.
	And you just end up getting a better body image of yourself.
	You feel better for it.
	It makes you a better person.
	You should do it.
	And you can be like, oh, well, it's easy for you to say.
	It's like, yeah, it is easy.
	It is easy for me to say.
	I realize it's hard to do.
	But at the end of the day, you have no fucking choice.
	You can sit and go, I'm too depressed to go exercise.
	What are you going to do?
	Just shoot yourself?
	You know, you may as well just get on the fucking treadmill.
	Go for a walk.
	You don't even have to do anything that much.
	Just literally going for a walk in the sun help you out a million times more than if you do nothing.
	And you'll be like, I can't mudfoot myself.
	Okay, but you just have to do it.
	You just have to get your legs up, make your body move, and no one else can do it for you.
	You're the only person who can do it.
	Thank you, free speech extremists.
	I appreciate that.
	If you mentioned Thunderfoot, maybe he and Ellis will make a crossover episode discussing you.
	Well, maybe.
	I don't know what France is doing about Jews, I'm afraid.
	I haven't been following that.
	I'm harboring a war criminal who trauma-bonded millions of children.
	I have no idea what you're talking about.
	Tony Blair, maybe.
	Anyway, get a dog.
	Yeah, honestly, dogs, man, they're called man's best friend for a reason.
	Like, Bill Burr is totally right about this.
	No one is happy to see you like a dog.
	Or actually your own children.
	But of course, if you're in this depressed, single state, you don't have that option.
	So getting a dog is actually plausible.
	And then it gives you meaning.
	You have to go and walk the dog.
	You need to walk the dog.
	What are you going to do?
	Make the dog suffer?
	Of course not.
	You're not that kind of person.
	So you need to get out and walk the dog.
	And you'll feel better for it.
	You will feel better.
	My favorite admiral from history can't say Nelson.
	Oh, fuck.
	Okay.
	I mean, I guess I'm going to have to go for Alcibiades, aren't I?
	You know, undefeated.
	The absolute, the champion of Athens.
	just for someone who's just joined why dare remove it I felt I was too mean on her.
	I felt like I was punching down.
	And, you know, she's got enough problems without me pointing out that I don't find her attractive.
	And she was inappropriate and kind of cringe to claim that my criticisms of her come from some desire for her.
	It's like, obviously not, Lindsay.
	You're not 24 anymore.
	Sorry.
	Kids are only glad to see you before they hit puberty.
	Maybe, maybe.
	I mean, it depends, you know.
	I mean, I guess every kid goes through an adversarial phase of their parents when they hit puberty.
	But after they get over it, I mean, like, I mean, for example, now, I have a fantastic relationship with my parents.
	I never had a really bad one, you know.
	You know, when I was like 15, I probably had arguments with my parents and, you know, wasn't policy in my guest.
	But when they're young and they love you more than anything in the world, you know, you are the world to them and it's the best thing ever.
	And now, like I said, I've got a great relationship with my parents.
	So, you know, there might be a period of time between like 15 and 20 or something when they're a pain, but it's fine.
	It's fine.
	You'll get over it.
	How many people am I hiding?
	Yeah, good question.
	Well, I was just trying to list the people I thought might have fit the criteria.
	And the only one I could really think of was Tony Blair.
	Or maybe the royal who's been accused.
	Stephanie Guffrey, I think it was.
	You know, the guy who was with Epstein, whose name, for some reason, I can't remember, because it's late at night.
	She's got 19 cats and no messages on Tinder, but plenty of corona life.
	Well, that was the thing as well.
	I think there's probably quite a great deal of guilt sat on Lindsay's conscience.
	So, again, I was just like, you know.
	While I might be right, there's a time and a place.
	Andrew, that's right.
	Prince Andrew, thank you.
	There's a time and a place to be excessively right.
	Anyway.
	What brand is my bike?
	I actually don't know.
	I'm shit with things like that.
	I just went in and bought a good one, you know, because I knew I'd be using it a lot, so they're okay.
	I don't spend much money on myself anyway.
	because there's nothing really I want you know I'm not very materialistic but if I if I need something oh hey Andrew don't walk man I love you.
	Love your work, man.
	You're doing great.
	Doing God's work.
	And your response to Vorsch was just the tits.
	The absolute tits.
	But yeah, I just asked them for an expensive one, basically, because I knew I'd be doing it a lot.
	Why did I stop this week in Stupid?
	Honestly, because it took a long time to do.
	And there was stuff that I wanted to do as well.
	And I'm glad that I could...
	By the way, if anyone's wondering where This Week in Stupid is, V does it now.
	So you can look for Romanian TV.
	And of course, V is hilarious and does a fantastic job.
	So every Sunday, This Week in Stupid still exists.
	So definitely recommend doing that because V's fantastic.
	And he needs more love, frankly.
	And he'd start an OnlyFans.
	Well, that's what Litzy's.com is.
	It's an intellectual OnlyFans.
	Wow, I'm looking skinny.
	Yeah.
	See, that's what I mean.
	Like, I don't have to say anything.
	And, you know, compare a picture of me to Lindsay Ellis.
	It's like, yeah, she's obviously wrong.
	But no, Andrew, you are doing great, man.
	Same with Aiden, man.
	Like, I noticed that there's two kinds of people.
	There's people who work hard and succeed, and those people who get jealous and envious and are full of desire to tear down those people who work hard and succeed instead of working hard and succeeding themselves.
	And I like to support those people who work hard and succeed because they're the people who are going to win this.
	God, Sargon is looking far thinner.
	I really didn't notice it.
	Well, there we go.
	This is what I mean.
	Anyway, I do think nation states can be preserved.
	And moreover, I think they should be preserved.
	And this is where conservative thought should be drilling.
	It should be looking for ways in order to validate, justify, and defend nation states.
	And honestly, my pleasure, Andrew.
	What to do if you're addicted to porn, though?
	Well, that's a great question because I am not an expert on porn addiction by any means because I grew up in an era where if you could get hold of a porn mag, it would have boobs in it.
	And if you're lucky, it'd have like a hint of bush, but nothing particularly explicit because it was, you know, something you could buy from a shop because I'm old.
	And the, you know, I grew up with dial-up and it'd take forever to get a picture of a naked lady.
	But now, my God, I do not envy young men now.
	And the problem, there's no denying that porn is a massive problem for young men.
	And I don't know.
	I mean, it's easy to say, just don't do it.
	Just don't do it.
	And it's like, yeah, okay.
	But that's not like solving the problem.
	That's not like a reasoned method of getting out of the trap.
	And I don't have one because I've never been in the trap.
	So I'm not really very familiar with it.
	But I tell you what, man, it's not good for you.
	You can see what it's doing to young men.
	And the more you do something, the more habituated you become to it.
	And the more used to it you become.
	And so the worse a dose of it you can take, and this is how people end up down the rabbit hole of absolute degeneracy.
	You really need to start avoiding that.
	And if habituating yourself away from degeneracy is the answer, then do that.
	Just resist.
	And if you can't get off to something, then don't.
	Don't get off to something.
	Go and do something else.
	But like I said, I'm sorry, I haven't got a good answer to the porn addiction thing.
	But porn addiction is a real problem.
	Thank you.
	And 1275.
	Is being in the trap gay?
	Yes.
	You are cringe, Carl.
	Good day, sir.
	That's the kind of disagreement I can get along with.
	Why are guys wearing skinny jeans?
	They do nothing for you.
	I can't stand skinny jeans.
	I've got legs like tree trunks, so I can't really wear skinny jeans.
	My calves are ridiculous.
	Because when I was young, I was fat, but I was also very active.
	And so, you know, I used to roll a blade and climb and I didn't run, but I played sports and stuff like that.
	And so I ended up developing massive, chunky legs.
	And so the skinny jeans just look terrible on me because they're literally like I'm fucking shrink-wrapped onto me.
	And I can't get them on a lot of the time.
	So, and also, I've become a bit sympathetic.
	So when I was young, my dad would show me a picture of him when he's young.
	And they've all got these big, stupid bell-bottom trousers on from the 70s.
	I was like, dad, that looks fucking stupid.
	And he was like, well, couldn't buy anything else.
	And I was like, of course you could.
	And now, all of the jeans are very, very tight.
	And I'm like, Christ, I know exactly what he's talking about.
	God damn it.
	Favorite 40k faction?
	Probably chaos.
	I've always enjoyed chaos because they're the opposite of what I try to create in my regular life.
	I like the Orcs, though.
	The Orcs are great.
	Lore-wise, the Orcs are fantastic.
	Actually, playing 40k, the orcs, I know.
	I think a terrible faction.
	I like elite troops.
	But the orcs, lore-wise and like ethos-wise, you can't beat the orcs.
	They're so much fun.
	But obviously, all of the factions in 40k, apart from the tower, are fantastic.
	And the tower for people who don't like 40k.
	And the necrons, actually.
	I don't like the necrons much.
	No, I would not wear skinny jeans if I could, because they still don't look good.
	They look awful.
	Skinny jeans on skinny legs look pathetic.
	You look like a gazelle, like you're going to snap your ankles or something walking along.
	I can't stand it.
	Had I meet my boyfriend?
	Well, in the gay club, obviously.
	Where else are you going to meet a boyfriend?
	Um, I'm not sure if, um, I don't know how Rucker feels about me now.
	I haven't spoken to him in a while.
	So I don't know if he's still.
	Because the thing is, I assume that if I don't speak to someone for a while, then the relationship that we last had when we last spoke is still the same.
	Because if I haven't said or done anything to them, then why would it have changed?
	But it turns out that, like, a lot of people on YouTube, and like, you know, left-wing people in particular on YouTube, don't share that opinion and will stop being your friend, even though you've done nothing to them or, you know, against them.
	And so I actually don't know whether, I mean, I'm not saying Rucker's left-wing, but like, I don't know whether he's one of these people either.
	And I found that it's mostly Americans who are like that.
	Not saying it's all Americans or anything like that, but there seems to be something in the American sphere that I've noticed.
	But I've, you know, got no problem with Rucker, obviously.
	You know, I hope he's doing well.
	No leather pants for me.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	How long before I buy a Tesla?
	Good question.
	I mean, I'm not adverse to electric cars or anything like that.
	I did follow the He-Man controversy.
	I find it.
	I did a podcast on literacies.com about it, actually talking about it.
	And I've been watching the old He-Man cartoons.
	And man, the more I watch the old He-Man, I'm going to do a podcast on the old He-Man cartoons too.
	Because the more I watch it, the more I realize that, holy shit, we should, you know, no wonder my parents were okay with me watching this.
	Right?
	At the end of each He-Man episode, there's just a moral lecture that is just perfect, like Western moral standards.
	You know, totally in line with sort of classically liberal, Christian, Magna Carta morality coming out of He-Man.
	And at the end of each one, they give a moral lecture and say, look, the right thing to do is this.
	And it's always the exact right thing to do.
	And it's like, okay, this is the, compare that to, you know, millennial, subversive, ironic cartoons that are for children.
	And it's just like, this is, there is a world of difference.
	And the thing is, the more that you realize that millennials have no idea what kids need, the more, and the more you, if you're a father, you raise kids.
	You realize these millennials don't know shit about kids.
	And they've made these cartoons for themselves as adults after relying on the foundations that were laid for them by the sincere cartoons made from, you know, by the Gen X's or the boomers, right?
	And the fact that they don't also put these foundations down for future generations is deeply irresponsible.
	And why that millennial generation is the worst generation we've yet had.
	And if you feel personally attacked by that, well, you can go and complain to your fellow millennials about it because I'm not taking that back.
	No, it's totally irresponsible.
	Subversion and the sort of counter morals are only acceptable after a solid, proactive, pro-Western, pro-Christian values, pro-liberal values, moral core has been established.
	So you actually know what right and wrong are before you can start exploring foreign and interesting moral systems as kind of, you know, thought experiments and things like that.
	You have to have this innate moral core that is correct to begin with.
	And I'm not even going to explain myself.
	I'm just right.
	Make He-Man canon.
	Yeah, well, it is canon.
	The only reason they put those at the end was because the cartoons would be pulled to be doing a minute commercial.
	Yeah, that's the movie Bob view on it.
	And in a way, he's right, but in many, many other ways, he's totally wrong.
	And this is a very thin analysis of it.
	Because, I mean, like, in every episode, I've been watching loads of it.
	In every episode, He-Man is the absolute pillar of Western morality.
	He is, on every point, morally correct and the adult in the room.
	And he does the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing, not for advantage.
	And this is the kind of lesson you want children to be raised with.
	And so, yeah, sure, it may have been that the advertising stands were like, well, you're going to have to put a moral lesson at the end of that.
	Great, good.
	Maybe we should have that for everything.
	Maybe we should have them putting a correct Western moral lesson.
	Because it's the apex of Western virtues.
	It really is.
	And at no point is He-Man grasping or cruel or belligerent or anything like that.
	And it's like, yeah, no, that's correct.
	That's right.
	And I will stand on that and take on all comers.
	Yeah, movie blob more like, yeah, you're right.
	I wonder if Lindsay Ellis is confusing me with Movie Bob when she's like, he's only doing this because he fancies me.
	And I'll tell you what, her response to him was horrible.
	Like, I've got no love for movie Bob, but like, again, publicly humiliating him on Twitter.
	Like, as if Bob isn't low enough on the rung anyway.
	You know, you punching down at him, going, listen, you fat ugly shit.
	I'm not interested in you piss off your stalker.
	Okay, yeah, maybe.
	But like, you know, you know, he's an incel, basically, cutting some slack.
	Any note of subversion?
	On that note of subversion, any advice for removing subversion in the arts?
	Sincerity.
	Sincerity is the answer.
	And so when they're like, are you really?
	Yes.
	Chad, yes.
	Any other questions?
	Well, I can't believe you're standing on that.
	Yes, I'm standing on that.
	Any other questions?
	Well, I mean, I just think maybe you shouldn't do the right thing all the time.
	Well, then you're fucking wrong, aren't you?
	Commie.
	You know, we have got the winning argument every single time on this one.
	They can get fucked.
	All of them.
	Have I played Total War Warhammer?
	Nah, I didn't enjoy it.
	I did get it.
	But it didn't feel like a total war game.
	You know, in all of the good Total War games, I don't feel like I'm playing a Total War game.
	I feel like I'm a general, concerning myself with the dispositions of my troops and the status of my empire and things like this.
	But on Warhammer Total War, I just couldn't feel like I was getting into an actual war game.
	And it's not that I didn't want to love it.
	I did want to love it.
	It was just too bright and it just felt like a video game.
	Any thoughts on Academics Agent's video regarding his vision for the right?
	I do, and I'll be speaking at an event he's holding.
	And so I'll probably comment on it then.
	But I don't think that what he wants is wrong.
	You know, the idea of having a small local integrated village where everyone has a proper place, I think, is the right thing that the right should be promoting.
	Because I think one of the things that the sort of driftless nomads of leftism and globalism have found themselves with, they don't know where they belong.
	Because they don't belong anywhere.
	And if there's one thing I think that a lot of young people are feeling right now is that they need a sense of belonging.
	And so the right could be promoting a sense of belonging.
	But the way the academic agent had framed it was not conducive to actually achieving the end goal that he's looking for.
	But I'll talk about that another time.
	Favorite Total War?
	Wow, I mean, it's got to be Rome, hasn't it?
	It's an absolute classic.
	The remaster was fine.
	Apparently, there are loads of good mods for the Rome remastered.
	I haven't looked into them yet.
	But apparently, they're really good ones.
	Who's the better general?
	Hannibal or Caesar?
	Wow, that's a great question.
	Hmm.
	I think Caesar lost two battles, and Hannibal only lost one.
	And Hannibal didn't get stabbed to death by his buddies.
	So, and I mean, you know, you can't fault Caesar's generalship.
	Obviously, obviously, a fantastic one.
	Played Rome 2 this morning as King Pyrrhus smashed all the way to the Armenians.
	That's what I like to see.
	Solidarity Comrade.
	purist gang rise up i do not still play arc survival um i I would love to play Ark.
	I just don't have time.
	I very rarely play video games anyway.
	I tried to make about an hour or two at the end of the very end of the day, about 10 o'clock at night.
	I'll try and get myself an hour or two just to relax and unwind because I'm constantly reading, constantly being a dad, I'm constantly working, and I'm constantly researching stuff.
	And so I tried to make it just my own sanity, really.
	But I just don't have time for Ark because Ark requires a serious time commitment.
	And I enjoyed it.
	Hannibal never had a successful conquest.
	That's not true.
	He had very successful conquests in Spain.
	He took loads of cities and he secured lots of Italy until the Romans decided that Fabianism was the method to win, which it was.
	And so that's not true.
	Play Crusader Kings 3.
	Again, it's a bit slow-paced.
	I don't have time.
	Do we have accounts of Hannibal's accomplishments that are from people other than Hannibal?
	Yeah, well, none of them come from Hannibal.
	The most reliable one is Polybius.
	And he references a few times bronze tablets that Hannibal erects to say, look, I crossed the Alps with this many people and did this and did that.
	So you could say that that's kind of Hannibal's own report.
	But no, most of what we know about Carthage at all, in fact, all of it, seems to come from non-Carthaginians.
	He did hold Spain.
	He held Spain until he left Spain.
	No question there.
	It was other people who lost Spain for him.
	Have I ever watched the Expanse?
	I haven't, but I've been told I really should.
	Rimworld.
	No, I don't think I'm aware of that.
	But anyway, I think I'm going to have to knock it on the head because I have to go see my wife.
	I told her I'd spend some time with her this evening.
	But I also explained to her that, look, I really have to go and explain why I'm taking that stream down, even though I don't relish taking the stream down because it was good.
	It was effective.
	It was fun.
	But I was too mean.
	I should have been more genteel.
	I could have made the same points in a more genteel manner.
	And I would have been as effective without feeling guilty that I was punching a vulnerable target too hard, which is how I felt.
	But anyway, thank you everyone for joining me.
	I hope I was interesting enough.
	I just thought I'd answer a bunch of questions to make up for having taken down the previous stream.
	But yeah.

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