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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #83

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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eats for Monday, the 8th of March 2021.
	I'm John McCallum, and just on a personal note, oh my god, I'm so thrilled that my kids get to go back to school.
	I just can't tell you how excited I am about this.
	But that's not the most exciting thing that's happening today.
	The most exciting thing that's happening today is an update to the website, in fact.
	We have added a section that we're calling Dispatches, because we have a new staff writer called Roy, and he will be doing regular short news updates of things that happen but don't necessarily need a giant article, a deeply researched article, all of their own.
	So this is a new section on the website, so if you just click on the Dispatches bit, you just get the information that's being presented, and Roy's an excellent writer, actually.
	very crisp writer.
	And so that, I think, will be a very useful tool that we'll have on the website.
	We also have a brilliant article by Ian Miles Chung about Clubhouse.
	Now, you may have heard of Clubhouse because it apparently has been completely overrun by Black Lives Matter activists.
	This happened to Brett Weinstein as well in a very five-hour long call that most people, I guess, So this is a good summary of the problem.
	But Ian was on Clubhouse and has encountered the wokeness on there himself.
	It appears that it can actually be used to form a kind of coup to take over any kind of rooms.
	And so anything on there can be used and taken over for wokeness, which is not good, obviously.
	And another update as well.
	We're still hiring.
	I guess we weren't clear about these things.
	So we are looking, if you go to lotuses.com slash careers, we're looking for another writer and a video content producer.
	And you will be required to use your real name, and you will be required to work from the office in Swindon.
	So if those criteria are not something you can fulfill, fair enough.
	But be aware.
	Anyway, Callum.
	I have a question for you.
	Now, it may well be illegal for me to ask you this, but have you ever considered yourself to be super straight?
	I don't think that's a crime.
	Only if you were hiring me, I think it's a crime to ask me.
	But from what I've heard, it describes me.
	This is a new subject, isn't it?
	It is.
	It's brand new.
	New frontiers in gender and sexual identity.
	To be honest, it kind of reminds me of the Tumblrites making up nonsense genders, and then this is the mirror image.
	Why do you think it reminds you of that?
	That's exactly what this is.
	We'll go into it in a minute.
	So here's the original TikTok video of just some guy who had this idea, and it's fantastic.
	Let's watch it.
	Yo guys, I made a new sexuality now, actually.
	It's called super straight, okay?
	Since straight people or straight men is myself, I get called transphobic because I wouldn't date a trans woman.
	You know, they're like, would you date a trans woman?
	I'm like, no, why?
	That's a female.
	Uh, no, like, that's not a real woman to me.
	Like, I want a real woman.
	No, you're just transphobic.
	So now, I'm super straight.
	I only date the opposite gender, women, that are born women.
	So you can't say I'm transphobic now because that's just my sexuality, you know?
	How can they possibly argue with that?
	There is absolutely nothing outside of the view of intersectionality, inside the view of intersectionality that allows you to object to this.
	Because the reason that they can sit there and make up gender after gender after gender, sexual identity after sexual identity, is because everyone, within this rule set, everyone becomes a kind of legislator for their own personal identity.
	And the point is, so eventually everyone can essentially say, I identify as myself.
	But they've got their own scientific ways of doing it.
	And so he, as a kind of legislator for this, can, of course, create his own sexuality.
	There's absolutely nothing stopping them.
	And in fact, that's what they do all the time, which is defining the boundaries of what they are and...
	What that means, who they're attracted to.
	And so, how could you possibly argue?
	I mean, there are so many different, like, SJW nonsense terms.
	Like, I mean, I just, there are so many, I can't actually pull it off.
	I mean, demigender.
	There we go.
	What does that even mean?
	Yeah, exactly.
	All of these things, right?
	And so they get to define their own little boundaries and go, this is me, this is how I identify.
	And so he's been like, okay, well, I'm super straight, which means I am looking for authentic biofem bodied individuals.
	So biological females.
	Okay, that's valid.
	We can identify that.
	He's allowed to say what he wants in a partner.
	You know, I mean...
	Yeah, and if you criticise that it exists, you're super straight-phobic.
	And how is that not exactly as valid as all of the rest?
	It's perfect.
	There's nothing stopping this at all.
	And so SuperStraight trended on Twitter, and my god, people were not happy about this.
	A lot of the anti-SJW types, of course, were like, hey, this is a great idea.
	But there were lots of people who were very angry.
	Anyway, so one account posted, one account called Super Straight posted, What is super straight?
	This is a new sexuality that means you are only attracted to cisgender men or women.
	It was made due to an influx of people saying that you aren't straight if you're attracted to trans women or men.
	We are part of the LGBTQ plus community now.
	Hashtag super straight.
	Wow.
	Now, this had more than...
	Hey, where's our own letter?
	I don't want to be in the plus.
	We want our own letter.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Well, the plus is the extensions of letters, so LGBTQ, S. Yeah, but Q got their own letter.
	I mean, that was new.
	The S can have their own letter.
	Yeah, we can have an S in there.
	And to show how totally not mad the progressive Twitter was, this tweet alone got over 10,000 quote tweet replies.
	10,000 angry, angry people who are totally mad on Twitter.com.
	Stuff like this, just randos.
	Super straight, more like, shut the F up.
	It's like, whoa!
	And in fact, that's, whoa there, partner, we don't stand for that kind of transphobic nonsense.
	It's like, well, hang on a second, Miss Violet.
	I mean, I don't even know what pronoun I'm supposed to use, actually.
	Hang on there, Violet.
	If...
	Saying that I've defined my sexual identity as being attracted to biological females, like adult human females, is transphobic.
	How is being gay not straight-phobic and being straight gay-phobic?
	How is it that you're saying, well, I don't actually have sex or I'm not romantically interested with the same gender that I am?
	How is that not homophobic in and of itself if this is also transphobic?
	And, of course, the answer is it is.
	And what she's also saying is that people are not allowed to define their own preferences now.
	No, no, no, no.
	She's going to define your preferences for you.
	If you don't like it, you're a transphobe.
	You're going to be shamed into including a certain kind of person into your sexual preferences.
	Which seems kind of rapey to me.
	Seems kind of like rape culture.
	Let's talk about the lesbians for a second.
	I mean, the argument here is that if you're a lesbian, you are meant to want to have sex with a trans woman who has a penis.
	Yes.
	You're meant to take the penis and then consider this lesbian sex.
	Suck the dick, bigots.
	Yeah.
	That's where they're at.
	They literally are at this position.
	And so it gets better.
	I mean, this was my, this was my absolute favorite tweet of all time.
	I think I might get this tweet printed out.
	If you can get to the next one, John, I think I might get this, this one printed out.
	Right?
	So for people listening, someone has posted, "This is a new sexuality that means you are only attracted to cisgender men or women with a picture of a clown sat at a desk typing." So yeah, right.
	That's the clown world.
	That's what we're at.
	Not the octigender, demigender types with pansexuality.
	Don't worry if you're a lesbian.
	That's a female penis.
	That's not clown world.
	The fact that you're attracted only to cisgender men or women, that's the clown world.
	It's like, do you even hear yourselves?
	Just get off of Twitter, for the love of God.
	It's clown world for adult human males to be attracted exclusively to adult human females.
	The next one is again another brilliant one.
	So this is someone called Matt, who in their bio describes themselves as, quote, Jewish homo in stiletto nails, he they.
	And Matt has to say, society is broken and there is no fixing it.
	Is that a fact, is it, Matt?
	Is that a fact?
	Society's broken.
	Thank you.
	From the, uh...
	Just...
	The person who defines himself by, I guess, sexuality?
	I don't even know what that was.
	Jewish homo and stiletto nails.
	Society's broken, by the way.
	Yeah, I wonder who's responsible for this.
	Well, how do I describe myself?
	My identities, that's it.
	Yeah, well, I mean, I like taking it in the arse.
	Do you need to know that about me?
	It's like...
	I'm going to clip that.
	Consider it done.
	But either way, no Matt, we didn't need to know that about you.
	That was just, you know, nobody and then you pop up going, hi, I'm a Jewish homo.
	Thanks.
	Yeah, do you like cars?
	Can we talk about something else?
	How did you feel about Breaking Bad?
	I thought that was pretty cool.
	Yeah.
	But anyway.
	So yeah, let's carry on with them totally not being mad on Twitter.com.
	This just random one.
	Just delete your effing account.
	I don't care if it's just a joke.
	This is incredibly bigoted, hurtful, and just plain transphobic.
	The bio is even worse as it implies that trans women aren't women when in fact we are.
	F off.
	hmm hmm hmm but i mean what i love about this is the um the there were loads and loads of them that were just like i'm going to kill someone who identifies as uh super straight And it's like, right, okay, there we go.
	You have no counter-argument, and you've just jumped straight to, I would like those people exterminated.
	Genocide, please.
	Yeah, genocide, please.
	Because those people expose a glaring weakness in my anyone can identify as anything that they want, and they can construct their own genders and sexualities.
	Like, right, okay.
	What happens when they construct a gender or sexuality that doesn't include the thing that you wish to be included?
	That means they need to die.
	That's where they are.
	That's where they are.
	I think we should also mention super gay and super lesbian as well, which is so if you're a lesbian who wants to have sex with adult human females or a homosexual male who wants to have sex with adult human males, therefore you would be super gay and super lesbian as well.
	And there's nothing wrong with that.
	I love this so much.
	So, yeah.
	The next one is, this is literally just transphobia.
	And if you want to be in the community, you need to be supportive of everyone in it.
	This is just an excuse for transphobic cishets to be transphobic.
	There's a T in the name for a reason.
	Don't put yourself into a community of people you're against.
	They've already got their own slurs for their genocide, huh?
	Hang on a second.
	Hang on a second.
	Nobody...
	Nobody is saying that trans women aren't valid women.
	No one's saying that.
	Straight people may well find themselves attracted to women.
	That might include biological women or trans women.
	That's just one kind of gender preference.
	Super straight just happens to be those who are attracted to biological females.
	It's not saying that trans women aren't women.
	The initial statement from the super straight account does not exclude trans women as women.
	Exactly.
	That person is just saying, that's not for me.
	Exactly.
	And, you know, at the end of the day, it may well be that there's no way of knowing, right?
	I mean, we've all heard this about trans women.
	You may have well dated loads of trans women you just didn't know.
	You've heard this before, haven't you?
	No.
	You've not heard this?
	I've not heard that one.
	Oh my god!
	There are so many of them, the memes going around of, you know, you may have dated trans women and you just don't know because they're just women, just like all of the other women, and it's like, hey, I agree.
	You know, but they're not female.
	That's the thing.
	You know, they still are technically male.
	But I mean, like, as we go to the next one, you know, no one's saying trans women aren't women.
	You know, no one's saying that Stephanie Sterling here, if we can go down a bit, John, isn't super heckin' cute.
	Because, of course, she is super-hecking cute and valid.
	I mean, look at that jacket.
	Look at that.
	It's gorgeous.
	I'm just saying, I'm actually starting to reconsider my position on simping.
	I may well start simping for James Stephanie Sterling.
	I was always a fan of the videos back when he was a fascist dictator.
	Sorry.
	So, I mean, and now I'm just like, that is just so womanly.
	I found the bio, and then I've gone back to the Wayback Time Machine to see what Jim Sterling used to identify himself as in the bio.
	Himself?
	No, at the time.
	It's him.
	Oh, okay.
	So it's a reviews editor for Destructoid, host of Jimquisition on The Escapist, freelancer for hire, my tweets are mine, nobody else's.
	Imagine, back in the time where I do this, this is my job.
	You know, you define yourself by the things you are able to produce.
	And then the bio today.
	They, them, pan and transgender trash is non-binary, finery, indie wrestling super villain, video game critic, proud trash girl.
	Wow.
	If ever there was an advert not to use Twitter, this was it.
	You go from person of respect and production to person who defines themselves by their identity.
	Yes.
	That's them.
	But, I mean, on the plus side, you've won over a new simp, Stephanie.
	I'm going to sign up to your OnlyFans.
	I've got to hold you for that.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	My wife, but what's this bill for OnlyFans?
	I said, don't worry, darling, it's for Stephanie Sterling.
	It's like, okay, fair enough.
	I saw the pictures, you can't resist.
	Super cute.
	But yeah, anyway, what I love about this is that it's just not the same category in the same way that men aren't in the same category as lesbians.
	Deal with it.
	And so we get the tolerant and inclusive messaging from the radical left, of course.
	If you even a little bit agree with any of this bull, unfollow me, we will never be friends.
	I will never respect you.
	So kindly F off, you bigoted C. And it's like, wow, that is just tolerance and inclusivity.
	Why are you such a bigot, Megan?
	Why are you against people because they're defining their sexual preferences?
	Isn't everyone supposed to be able to define their own sexual preferences?
	I mean, how can you possibly take this to be your position?
	I think this is a disgrace.
	Should we start some super straight rights advocacy?
	I think we're going to have to, to be honest.
	If they're going to oppress us like this, with mean words on Twitter.
	I honestly think that everyone has the natural right to be able to define their own sexuality.
	Okay.
	I just realised.
	So under the Equality Act in the UK, sexual orientation is something that is deserving of you getting someone literally arrested for their tweets if they are considered to be spewing hate speech.
	Section 127.
	Section 127.
	Yeah, of course.
	They just literally posted hate speech on the internet.
	Because that's, okay, a big funny in the United States, but here, that's actually a crime.
	That is a criminal offence which carries up to one year prison sentence.
	Oof.
	Oof.
	Just something to keep in mind.
	Just saying that the bigots on Twitter might need to cool down the superphobic hate speech, because there are legal ramifications for this.
	Remember, you wanted...
	The Crown Prosecution Service doesn't look kindly on this sort of thing.
	Yeah, no, this is unacceptable bigotry and has no place in our society, obviously, as we all agree, I think.
	There's no one who's against that.
	It is certainly the law.
	It is certainly the law!
	But yeah, the next one was another one of my favourites.
	Natalie Wynn, otherwise known as ContraPoints, posted, that must be super effing hard for you.
	So, what's wrong, Natalie?
	The super straights aren't obligated to have sex with you, are they?
	They're not entitled to your sexual time.
	You're not entitled to theirs.
	You're not entitled to theirs, even.
	They are free to define themselves as they want, as you have done.
	God, it does sound actually kind of...
	Rapey.
	It does sound kind of weird.
	I deserve to have sex with you.
	You are obligated to find me sexually attractive.
	I don't think you are.
	Sorry.
	Sorry, Natalie.
	But I mean, as a marginalized person yourself, a person of few means and, you know, definitely someone who's just been crushed under the heel of prejudice, you surely understand the problem that super straights are having at the moment, which is the existing power structures are, of course, rejecting them.
	As Vosch has just come out and done, just openly embracing hate.
	Can we open this up fully so people can see it properly, John?
	Repost if you're super phobic.
	Yep.
	Vosch has come out explicitly in favour of bigotry.
	Well, you better be glad you live in the United States, boy.
	Yeah.
	You'd be going to jail in this country.
	You actually would.
	Well, at least you would be breaking the law, I could say that much.
	Yeah.
	I think with Count Dankula it was an £800 fine.
	It was.
	So, we're charging per tweet, I guess.
	It was.
	I mean, you've really got to be careful about this kind of open bigotry.
	I mean, like, literally, putting a flag in the I'm a bigot area, that's brave.
	Yeah, Twitter also has terms of service on sexual orientation.
	They don't define which sexual orientations.
	They just say all sexual orientations are protected class.
	It does.
	And being openly against someone's sexual orientation, I mean, I don't know whether that's worthy of a Twitter ban, but I mean, if people start reporting that tweet, what can you do?
	Well, I have a view that that shouldn't be the TOS, but it is the TOS. Sure, but I don't get to control Twitter and how they do things.
	You know, I'm not part of the LGBT... Make your own Twitter, you superphobes!
	And so people have been asking, well, what's the deal with the flag?
	Of course, the flag alleged to be the colours of Pornhub.
	So it's black and, let's say, off-orange?
	Yep.
	So is it Pornhub?
	I don't know, but I agree with Super Straight India here.
	You know, been seeing a lot of Super Straight hatred on the timeline, which we all have at this point.
	I mean, it's just been awful for years.
	It's nice that we finally got a word that we can use to put to this.
	So, to all the Super Straight people reading, you are valid, you are beautiful, you are precious, you are powerful, fierce, amazing, talented, compassionate, and real.
	And remember, you are brave.
	Say no to superphobia.
	And I just think that's so progressive.
	I forgot that flack.
	It's just...
	It's so progressive.
	And I finally feel free to be myself.
	I'm finally not being oppressed.
	Let my people go.
	Let my people go.
	I welcome this new innovation in progressive identity politics.
	And I think that the gender and sexuality legislators have no alternative but to either out themselves as raging genocidal bigots or accept super straight into the pantheon of identities.
	I look forward to the court cases.
	It's going to be good.
	It's going to be good.
	That's actually going to happen in the UK as well, though, because there are some weird, stupid court cases in the UK. Yes, there are.
	Because we live in Fantasyland with IDPOL. Yes, we do.
	Oh, boy.
	That's going to be funny.
	Speaking of the UK. And speaking of Superstraight.
	Speaking of Superstraight, absolutely.
	Just in time for the census.
	I love how mean magic.
	It's just all coming together.
	I just can't explain it.
	Yeah.
	So the British census is coming up.
	We had one for 2001, and we're now having the 2021 version.
	We had the 2011 one.
	2011 as well.
	So it's every 10 years, so it's just in time for the census.
	I've got one in the post.
	Yeah, I haven't got one yet.
	Most people get them.
	I don't know how they distribute them.
	But my understanding of the law here is that you are required to fill it in, and you are required to be honest, with the threat of a fine of £1,000 if you are not honest.
	But of course, they're not just asking, are you self-employed?
	How many households do you live in?
	Or something like this.
	They have to ask identity questions, because that's what the census is about.
	And how could you ever prove that you lied about something that you self-identify as?
	Exactly.
	As a country, we have accepted self-identification as something that is valid.
	If I identify as a thing, whether it's my religion, my sexual orientation, my sex, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you can do all of this.
	That's legal.
	That's right.
	So I just wanted to go back here.
	So the Jedi census phenomenon, which took place in 2001, was people putting this down into practice, which was self-identifying their religion as Jedi.
	So this went all over the Anglosphere.
	So in Australia, 70,000 people put themselves down as Jedi.
	In New Zealand, 53,000 people.
	So that's 1.2% of the population saying they were Jedi.
	In Canada, 21,000 people.
	And in England and Wales, 390,000 people said, yep, I'm a Jedi.
	Let's put that down.
	And the state had to accept it.
	They couldn't reject it.
	And presumably they won't be able to reject what people put in this census.
	Some interesting tidbits is that the Jedi population of England and Wales in 2001 was higher than the Jewish population of England and Wales.
	Okay.
	So, I mean, if Jews are valid by self-ID, so are the Jedis.
	That's how this argument goes.
	Where's Jedi representation, then?
	Yeah, this also didn't stay just within the Anglosphere.
	303 Croats decided to say that they were Jedi, 640 Serbians, and 15,000 Czechs.
	Apparently the Czech Republic just went mental for this, so...
	Well, how many people identified as Sith?
	I didn't see anyone identifying as Sith, but it was like 15 people in Scotland identified as the dark side.
	The cabinet of the SMP, I presume?
	Based.
	Anyway, so yeah, people are having some fun with the new census, and some of the fun is light-hearted, let's say, so let's go to the next one.
	So this is someone putting their sexual orientation as massive raving bender, which...
	Okay, Rob?
	Tell him that he's not.
	LAUGHTER The next one here, someone identifying as Sigma male as their gender identity.
	Okay, Amber, thank you.
	Not really too sure what that one means.
	Apparently it's like some form of alpha male, but I don't really understand it.
	And then the next one here, some lady saying that she identifies her sexual orientation as only attracted to a-holes.
	Okay, since some of this is light-hearted and obviously just taking the mickey, but then there's the people who are not taking the mickey and honestly are going to fill in memes, but they don't think they're memes because they're absurd people.
	So let's go to the next one.
	Oh, sorry.
	This is, I think it's the Welsh version or something.
	This is the Scottish one, is it?
	Yeah, because we have to accept every language.
	It's just more absurdity.
	What sex would ye be?
	Woman body or man body?
	Is this from the 1500s or something?
	I know, right?
	Medieval English census.
	Yeah, let's get the people taking it seriously.
	So that's the next one, which is the European posting.
	So this is a verified account.
	Oh, God, the cringe.
	In the 2021 census, declare yourself European, stay European.
	I'm assuming this is some actual European person posting this by the looks of him.
	A.C. Grayling?
	Yeah.
	Oh, God, he's a philosopher who is...
	Just insufferable.
	Is he a Europol or an Englishman?
	Oh, he's an English Europhile.
	And he's kind of like the apotheosis of all of the left-wing cringe when it comes to Europe, all wrapped into one guy who can't believe that we're such evil little Englanders.
	Yeah.
	Can you scroll down a little bit?
	I just want to remember how many likes this got.
	Because this wasn't just like a small thing.
	700 likes.
	Oh god, that's even worse.
	Yeah.
	It's not even many.
	But it wasn't just like a one-time thing.
	I found a whole bunch of these.
	I couldn't include them all because they're just sort of endless.
	But this is some account being like, stay European, retweet if you're going to identify as European.
	3,000 likes.
	There are going to be less Europeans in Britain than there are Jedis, is what you're saying, right?
	I think they'll probably end up being more.
	There's a lot of deranged Ramonas out there who are seemingly doing this.
	I mean, they're all on Twitter.
	These are the kinds of people there, so it was easy to find them at least.
	And then there's another, just more, let's just flick through some.
	So the next one.
	This is, yeah, a sublady saying that she's going to do it.
	And then the next one, just someone who actually filled in and did put European.
	It's like, oh god.
	European isn't a national identity, you brainless.
	Someone also filling in national identity as European.
	And then, next...
	Yeah, another one saying they're European.
	And then this one, this was a lady, I think I am obliged to say gunpoint, filled in their sex here as female.
	And they then went in to put their gender identity as woman.
	So it was a bit like...
	I'm not sure that's actually true.
	Because in this country, if you want to become your sex on your passport, I think it's your passport on the rest of it, to be the opposite, there is a long list of requirements for NHS surgery and all the rest of it.
	It's like two years of commitment.
	You have to show that you're taking the hormones, show that you're making real steps, that you genuinely believe that this is going to help you.
	And then you can be identified as the opposite.
	First, we don't use self-ID for transgenderism in this country, is my understanding, by the law.
	Which is why the Labour Party is so upset about it.
	Well, as a super straight person, this is not my problem.
	Not of your interest.
	And there's some other gender weirdness going on.
	So then this person identified their gender identity as genderqueer slash agender.
	I mean, there's literally nothing stopping you from writing super straight on this.
	But I mean, this is the thing.
	Self-identification has been circling around in, let's say, Tumblr circles for ages.
	But in the last 10 years, it's exploded into the absolute mainstream.
	You've got massive swathes of left-wing parties of these kinds of people who unironically think that when they're filling in forms, they need to put their special little made-up nonsense.
	And it's very cringe, but it's going to mess up the census, I think.
	I think you're going to see a significant spike in people identifying as a million different genders, and then the gender figure is going to be kind of worthless.
	You're going to have to just start guessing.
	It'll just have to go back to being sex again, won't it?
	But then that won't even matter.
	Like the previous poster here, they just put their sex as the opposite one to what the law requires them to put.
	Well, I hope they don't get fined.
	That's a thing.
	So then, of course, this went into the politics.
	David Lammy got mad about the census.
	Of course he did.
	So he posted what seems to be here like a screenshot of all the different ethnic groups that we collect.
	But this isn't the one from 2021.
	Just keep in mind.
	This is presumably 2011 or whatever it was.
	And he's complaining here that if you're black and you want to identify in the ethnic category, you can be black Caribbean or black so on and so forth.
	Or you can be white English.
	So he's like, well, why can't I be black English?
	You know, I'm black and I live in England, whatever.
	And that's fine.
	Actually, I should know here he's complaining that his kids can't do it, not him, which is weird.
	Mixed black and white English.
	Their mother was born in Northampton.
	So when do you need to be white to be English?
	Well, the thing is, if you look at your thing there...
	David.
	It actually doesn't specify a race.
	It says English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British.
	It doesn't require you to be of a sufficiently white skin tone.
	So your kids could still just write English, David.
	Yeah, but the idea that he couldn't be British here, he's also just lying.
	The next one, if you can get it up, is just someone pointing out that you can put black, British, Caribbean, or African on the 2021 one.
	So she's just like, did you miss this section?
	Why are you just lying again?
	I just love how David Lammy, whenever he tweets, he always messes up.
	It's never anything normal.
	Whenever he's making a public appearance, he says something stupid.
	Yeah.
	I love that he's in charge of justice for the Labour Party now.
	That's the person who's going to be in charge of it.
	But then, of course, this is the sort of left-wing side of ID poll, but the right-wing side have had equally as much fun with this, because we've all seen that this is apparently valid, in which case, why can't we do strings like this?
	Oh, look!
	This is what I found on Facebook.
	Someone had put in their sexual orientation as super straight, and then in the gender identity attack helicopter.
	Wow.
	And it's...
	And then another one here, gender identity, your majesty.
	It's just like, well, how are you going to argue against it?
	This is, you know, someone putting European in there.
	The last one's just the meme.
	The ye olde census from 2015.
	I don't know.
	What sex would ye be?
	I don't know, William.
	But the super straight people, because of course, I mean, this might just be a new thing, but people are getting into it for the census.
	And I wanted to go to a clip from Posey Parker actually promoting this, that people in the census should put super straight.
	So we'll play this.
	Here's what we're going to do.
	March 21, 2021...
	You're going to fill out the census.
	And if you're a straight person, you're going to say your sexual orientation is super straight.
	We're going to take this wonderful hashtag wave and we're going to insert it into the ONS census because we want to send a clear message that asking for feelings over facts is not a useful way to get accurate data about the state of the United Kingdom in 2021.
	This is my act of rebellion.
	Please join me.
	Yeah.
	So, I mean, who's going to stop them as well?
	Well, there's literally no way of stopping them, in fact.
	Because apparently there was some court case about asking for, I think it was gender identity, in which some people were arguing, well, this doesn't really mean anything.
	Like, surely we'd be asking about sex and that's it.
	And they lost that, and then the civil servants have put in gender identity.
	So it's like, okay, we'll just have memes with it then.
	Because who's going to stop us?
	I mean, you're literally going to argue that self-ID shouldn't matter then.
	In which case...
	How else are you going to do this?
	What are you going to do?
	Start testing people?
	I suppose so.
	It kind of has to be done through self-ID, or else you end up opening a very ugly can of worms.
	You're not a real Jew.
	You don't have enough blood from the Jewish race or something.
	Exactly.
	Is that what the British government's going to do?
	Exactly.
	And so instead, you're going to have to accept that actually everyone's super straight, apart from those people who are superphobic.
	I also have to mention the Kekistanis who have been waiting for their moment here.
	So this is just like someone posting that they've been reminded from the state here with a sponsored post that the census is coming up.
	They're like, okay, we remember.
	Shout out to Lea.
	We're going to be doing Kekistani.
	And some lovely subscriber, and I'm going to play it, mate, because it's so good, decided to actually pay Big Man Tyrone to make a video to promote this.
	So let's just play it and enjoy.
	Fellow Kekistanis, The National Census of the United Kingdom is only held every 10 years.
	It is critical for all Kirkistanis to register as Kirkistanis.
	The National Census states it is recognized that these ethnic groups do not represent how all people identify.
	People are encouraged to write in their ethnicity using their own words If they don't identify with any of the groups on the list, if we become a recognized ethnic group, like the Jedis, our memes and beliefs can be protected under the law.
	Our free speech and our rights of expression are becoming ever restricted.
	We must act now.
	Shaddily Because that's technically true.
	That is the thing here.
	Because it's all well and good us saying, oh, super straight or Kekestani or whatever, right?
	But if it actually gets into the census, because that's all that really matters when it comes to government policy, it's the thing they'll look at for the next 10 years.
	If they have that there, and you say, well, under the Equalities Act, sexual orientation is defined, bigotry against ethnicities, so Kekistani's here, then, well, what are they going to do?
	The law has actually got its hands tied, where it's like, look, Tony Blair did this, there's nothing we can do, mate.
	Like, we're essentially using the leftist weapon, turning it on its side, just shouting it back in.
	Yeah.
	Using their own strength against them.
	Yes.
	And I love it.
	I love the salutes in the chats as well.
	Good job, man.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	But that's what's going to be happening with the census.
	There's a lot of meemery going on already.
	I don't think it's due for another 10-15 days or something until the end date.
	So people are still filling it out, so anyone who's watching this, I'm not advocating you break the law in the slightest.
	I'm advocating that you identify as you identify, because that is what the state is asking you to do.
	That is their demand of you.
	Self-identification.
	So please do it accordingly.
	So when the results come in and it's like 70% Pakistani and 30% Kekistani, it's going to be really confusing, isn't it?
	It's like, well, what does this mean for the result of mass immigration to prison?
	Also, everyone's sexual orientation went from straight to super straight within 10 years.
	What happened?
	You can just imagine future historians being like, well, it was straight, straight, straight, and then super straight after the advent of LGBTQ. LAUGHTER Seems the population wasn't in favour.
	Oh, man.
	If that isn't a perfect representation.
	Oh, I love it.
	The fact that it's super straight, that is a great term.
	Anyway.
	Don't have anything against gays or transsexuals, but you're not going to force me to have sex with people I don't want to.
	I'm not sucking the dick.
	I'm just not doing it.
	Oh, man.
	Oh, dear.
	Right.
	So let's talk further about cancel culture.
	And in this segment, we will also be talking about Meghan Markle.
	Now, you might think, well, hang on a second.
	What's Meghan Markle got to do with cancel culture?
	And the answer will reveal itself.
	But anyway, so Dr.
	Seuss was cancelled the other day.
	Six books had dramatic representations of people who have non-European heritage.
	And so, of course, it was cancelled.
	And then people started selling it on eBay for prices of upwards of $5,000 a book.
	And then eBay were like, oh, no, you don't.
	And decided to deplatform them from selling secondhand Dr.
	Seuss books.
	Just in case you're wondering, yes, you can buy Mein Kampf on eBay.
	Yeah, that was actually the next thing.
	I mean, unironically, you actually can go on eBay and buy an original 1941 copy of Mein Kampf.
	Height of the war, this was published.
	The Germans are busy ravaging continents, and you can buy that.
	That's fine, right?
	But go back to the previous one.
	So the previous one, eBay have given us a reason, right?
	This is amazing.
	One seller who sold a copy of one of the discontinued books received an email from eBay pointing out that the site would not allow the book to be sold because of its, quote, offensive materials policy.
	Wow.
	Explaining that they've stopped the publication of this book due to its negative portrayal of some ethnicities.
	And then if we flip back to Mein Kampf...
	I wish I'd taken some quotes out about the Jews just to make the point.
	Yeah, well, I mean, I... Yes, but, like, the point is...
	It's a very, very anti-Semitic book if you ever get through even just the first couple of chapters.
	Yeah, I mean, I'm sure we don't have to explain that to people.
	But the point is, yeah, if this is the case, then, I mean, the idea that this is about anything other than just, you know, the sort of, the vector of public outrage, you know, this particular point has been, you know, zoomed in on by the Twitter hate mob, and oh, quick, cancel that.
	Yeah, but what about this giant anti-Semitic tome over here?
	Yeah, no, we've got thousands of those, you can buy those all the time.
	I think I know what eBay will say in response to this, which is the same thing the British government does when we ban...
	Historical value.
	Yeah.
	No, well, they have a...
	I think it's like a 50-year mormatorium or whatever.
	It's like after that period, then it's no longer of interest in banning.
	Yeah, but how old is Dr.
	Seuss?
	I don't know.
	It was from the 50s.
	I think that one would actually...
	So that excuse wouldn't even work?
	No, it wouldn't.
	Hmm.
	That's a good point.
	And the thing is, it's not like you can't buy new copies of Mein Kampf as well.
	So it's like...
	The Indians are producing them like Matt.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They are, yeah, yeah.
	I could just go on Amazon.
	They're all producing Indians.
	Weirdly popular.
	So yeah, anyway.
	The problem with cancer culture is, of course, that it's not consistent.
	It's about outrage on Twitter, as we talked about last podcast.
	And the best one, though, and I kind of actually agree with this one, is Pepe Le Pew is absolutely next on the chopping block.
	I would have used the New York Times post, but the New York Times post was paywalled, so I had to go for the TMZ reporting on this instead.
	New York Times op-ed writer claims skunk perpetuated rape culture.
	Have you ever watched Pepe Le Pew?
	I think I've seen it before.
	Doesn't he just smell bad?
	No, he is basically a rapist.
	Oh, is he?
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	I mean, I remember even as a kid thinking, this is weird, right?
	Because he is essentially actually a rapist.
	And it's hard to disagree with his New York Times op-ed writer.
	So, I mean, the first complaint isn't actually about Pepe Le Pew.
	It's about Speedy Gonzalez and Mammy Two Shoes.
	Yeah, because, you know, racism takes more precedent over raping.
	Apparently it does.
	Apparently it does.
	Speedy Gonzales is a negative depiction of a Mexican.
	Is it?
	Is it negative?
	I mean, it's inaccurate.
	Is it not just a joke?
	LAUGHTER I don't know.
	I can't believe that these are the discussions we have to have.
	But anyway, so these are racially insensitive pictures of a Mexican mouse and a black housemaid, and therefore cancelled.
	But the important one was Pepe Le Pew, because he genuinely does perpetuate rape culture.
	He normalizes and perpetuates it, saying, quote, Right-wing blogs are mad because I said Pepe Le Pew added to rape culture.
	Let's see.
	One, he grabs and kisses a girl stranger repeatedly without consent against her will.
	She struggles mightily to get away from him, but he won't release her.
	He locks the door to prevent her escaping.
	Yes, that's true.
	I mean, he literally is...
	The whole cartoon is this French skunk literally chasing down this woman to rape her.
	And she's doing everything she can to get away from him as well.
	And, like, I remember being a kid and watching this and thinking, right, okay, I don't like this.
	You know, I don't particularly like this character.
	They're not wrong.
	Is that, like, his common joke?
	It's the entire theme of the character.
	There is nothing else about this character other than the fact that he is a horny Frenchman who's trying to rape women.
	So it's not an inaccurate description.
	Not at all.
	Absolutely not at all.
	I mean, if anything was going to be cancelled for being in this sort of domain, Pepe Le Pew is actually a legitimate target.
	I'm not even going to lie.
	They at least have a real argument here.
	But anyway, the reason I want to talk about cancel culture is because of Meghan Markle, because this is all getting quite spicy.
	Now, I don't give a damn about Meghan Markle or the World Family or any of the drama, blah, blah, blah.
	Traitor.
	I know, I know.
	I'm not saying I want to get rid of them.
	I'm saying it's fine.
	They can exist.
	I just don't care, you know?
	But the Americans love it.
	There are presumably people in Britain who love it.
	It's just not my thing.
	But anyway, so the allegations have been flying thick and fast because Meghan Markle, as I'm sure people are, married Prince Harry, who's definitely the true and legitimate descendant of Prince Charles, in the same way that Justin Trudeau is definitely Pierre Trudeau's son.
	And I'm in trouble now.
	But the point is, they got married and the drama surrounding her and her relationship with him has been Very interesting.
	And they said, oh, we're going to step back.
	We don't want any press coverage.
	We don't want to be in the limelight.
	And somehow they're still doing all of these interviews.
	I mean, they did one recently with Oprah Winfrey.
	Like, really?
	You don't want press coverage, and yet you do an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
	Very congruent.
	But anyway, so the palace have made their first move in this war.
	And they, I think they've already made a mistake, frankly.
	They accused Meghan Markle of bullying the staff in the palace, because everyone was concerned about the staff in the palace.
	And this came in report of her, like, I don't know, bullying and attacking various people in the palace.
	And they were like, no, this is an attack on her character.
	And the palace was like, we don't accept bullying.
	It's like, I don't know.
	Priti Patel's probably there stomping on Philip Putnam's face as we speak.
	Maybe you do.
	I just don't know.
	But anyway.
	The response to this from Meghan Markle and her friends was pretty extreme, if we can go to the next one.
	They're trying to make her miscarry.
	That's a hell of a statement.
	These people will not, because of course she's pregnant with another child, congratulations, and the tabloids and the palace have a particular kind of secret relationship.
	They're not really secret, I mean everyone knows that- No, it's unspoken rules.
	Yeah, unspoken rules, but everyone knows what it is, and it's the fact that the tabloids will give nothing but fawning, glowing praise to the royal family in exchange for access and photos, because they assume that people want that.
	And so, yeah, in response, these people won't stop until she miscarries, which is...
	Bit ridiculous, really, I would have thought, but hey, what are you going to do?
	I mean, break out the big guns.
	You can see the stakes have been raised.
	This is getting serious, but we haven't got to the ultimate allegation yet.
	But anyway, so this is obviously part of a palace takedown, according to...
	Who was it according to?
	UK broadcaster Gail King says the Duchess of Sussex was vilified on their show, and the palace, which is also known as The Firm, has launched what appears to be a full-scale takedown of Meghan Markle, which is raging in the UK right now, saying she was a mean girl who mistreated staff, and if you meet Meghan Markle, nothing could be further saying she was a mean girl who mistreated staff, and if you meet Hmm.
	Hmm.
	they hit back by going yeah but Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew and the palace is like oh Ixnay on the andrew we don't want to talk about that and And so anyway, you can see how incompetently the palace has actually handled this, because a bunch of, like, commentators...
	We can go to the next one, John.
	A bunch of commentators, like, you know, royal commentators, sorry.
	So these are the people whom the tabloids...
	Used to gain access to the royal family, and this is how this sort of relationship works.
	They'd recorded a bunch of stuff that was released after the...
	Recorded a bunch of stuff before the Oprah Winfrey broadcast to comment on what was said in the Oprah Winfrey interview, not that it was correct, and then they got exposed as having done this, and so obviously they're just saying pre-scripted things.
	They knew which side they were going to be on, they knew they were all going to...
	Have the same opinion, and of course this is not looking good.
	It makes them look incompetent.
	It makes them look like they've been outmaneuvered by an American.
	An American, like, strumpet, to be honest.
	It's like, disappointing.
	If you're going to play the games of high politics and media outrage, Palace, I expect you to be better than some random American woman.
	But she's kicking your arses?
	What are you doing?
	Anyway...
	So, next one.
	Let's get back into Meghan herself.
	Kind of framed that wrong, really.
	But the story surrounding Megan, she appears to be publicly controlling of Prince Harry, and this is something that people have noticed for quite some time.
	It's not just in the fact that he seems to be melting in place while she looks over and smirks at him, as if she's the cat that got the cream, but it's in the body language, the fact that she kind of pushes him around in public and things like this.
	She seems to be controlling of him.
	And it was reported that he was depressed and isolated in Los Angeles.
	He must be tormented, if you can go to the next one, John, by his fractured family ties.
	She made him sell his hunting rifles and give up hunting and things like this.
	It's like, right, okay, that's nice, isn't it?
	You know, thanks, love.
	Yeah, you can't do any of the fun things you like to do.
	No, this has all got to go.
	These 50 grand hunting rifles, they've got to go.
	It's not like he's in line for the throne or anything.
	Well, he probably isn't, to be honest.
	That's what I mean.
	Like, he gets shot by doing a hunting accident.
	It's like...
	Anyway, so it's been long reported that she essentially has taken control of his life.
	Insiders have said that he has completely changed since meeting Markle, and obviously everyone knows that he went woke.
	He used to be the sort of guy who would go to parties with Nazi symbols and armbands.
	For a laugh.
	For a laugh, yeah.
	He was a lad.
	And he's completely changed.
	He's become woke.
	He's become an activist.
	We can go to the next one, John.
	And yeah, so he's not on good terms with his brother.
	He doesn't spend any time with the rest of the family.
	She has cut him off from them.
	And everyone can see that it's made him miserable if we go to the next one.
	People can just see it.
	And various insiders have been saying, well, it's not just a coincidence that he always looks depressed.
	I mean, you can see it in that picture.
	He looks concerned.
	She's smirking.
	She's the cat that got the cream.
	She's the one pushing him around in public.
	She's controlling the relationship and everyone can see it.
	Anyway, so on to this Oprah Winfrey interview.
	Meghan Markle, in it, claims to have had suicidal thoughts during her crisis with the monarchy before she and Harry left.
	She was pregnant with her previous son, and there were conversations about how dark his skin might be and concerns the child might be too brown.
	Yes.
	I mean...
	There's no way I'd believe that.
	He's going to be like an octoroon, isn't he?
	As a fellow octoroon, I can tell you.
	She's so white already.
	Any child that comes out of that is not even going to be slightly brown-skinned.
	And the ginger prince.
	That's going to come out black, is it?
	No, it's not.
	But it doesn't really matter, because the point is, of course, we can get to the next one, that we have reached the ultimate progressive takedown.
	The royal family are racist.
	I mean, probably.
	She is like 80, what, 90?
	I don't even know.
	Racism is a form of exclusion, but they're really exclusionary in every other way, too.
	I mean, they're going to be classist.
	Literally any family that's not part of the royal family.
	Literally sexist as well.
	Until they got rid of the rules about becoming king.
	Religionist, presumably?
	Yeah, no Catholics.
	No Catholics whatsoever.
	Presumably no Muslims either.
	No, Muslims are allowed.
	How are we going to have a Muslim head of the Protestant church?
	That's the rules.
	You tell me.
	We've never had to deal with that problem.
	Well, that's a good point, but I imagine it's going to come up eventually.
	But yes, so the way this is being reported by places like Cosmopolitan, Meghan Markle has opened up to Oprah about the racism she experienced while living in England.
	Specifically, the Duchess revealed there was a racist concern about her dark-skinned baby, even though she already has a baby.
	This is a black woman, is it?
	Apparently, yeah.
	What are they trying to sell?
	I can see you.
	I mean, if you didn't tell me, I wouldn't have known, to be honest.
	I would have assumed you're from Spain or something.
	She looks like Southern England.
	No, no, I could see, like, dark hair, you know, she's got quite dark hair, dark eyes.
	Maybe a stretch.
	So, you know, I could say, you know, Italian, Spanish, something like that.
	Nah.
	Looks plausible.
	But she says, in those months when I was pregnant around the same time, we had in tandem the conversation he won't be given security, he won't be given a title, blah blah, and then conversation about how dark his skin will be when he's born.
	So yes, we have reached the strongest weapon they have, which is racism.
	You racist.
	You racist.
	But it's obviously bull.
	Yep.
	Woman.
	And the worst part is the palace have kind of stuck their foot in their mouths by, if you go to the next one, admitting that racism is the highest crime that is possible to commit.
	There's no place for racism in our society, says one palace minister.
	There is a place in society for Prince Andrew, an alleged child rapist, and fan of a convicted child sex trafficker, personal friend of which before he committed suicide, but racism...
	Is more important and somehow worse.
	I look forward to them denouncing classism as well.
	It's surely not going to be as bad as racism.
	But yeah, anyway, so this was a palace minister who should have shut his goddamn mouth.
	There's no place for racism in our society.
	You should have just turned around and been like, you ain't brown.
	I mean...
	That would have been funnier.
	Yes, but like, but the point is they've already conceded the ultimate premise, which is if she can pin them as being racist, then they win because they've admitted that racism is worse than anything else.
	I mean, she could have been, I mean, and she looks like the type, to be honest, to have been bullying the hell out of the staff.
	You know, listen, you intermensch servants, you know, do this, do that, do that.
	She seems at that kind of time, you know, kind of bossy bitchy woman, right?
	But if they're racist, then suddenly they're oppressing her.
	Nonsense.
	And the way this has been reported as well, I love, is what does this say, say NBC News, about British racism?
	Oh, it's just now the whole country that's racist.
	Thanks, Palace.
	Thanks for doing this to us.
	They interview a bunch of black African students who have come to England and say, like, this Enolia Ladapo remembers vividly how she felt watching the American actress become royalty.
	The image of a biracial foreign woman welcomed into the bosom of white tradition as Britain carried colossal symbolism for her.
	I feel like I'm talking to a racist here.
	I'm being talked at by racists.
	Like, yeah, well, I mean, if you don't share my skin color, I hate your...
	It is how the alt-right talk.
	It is how the alt-right talk, right?
	I saw a white person being represented and I thought, oh, finally I'm being represented.
	It's cringe.
	Anyway, the history of the royal family is built around the British Empire, so it's almost like coming full circle, said Ladapodo19, who grew up in Nigeria and is now an undergraduate student at the London School of Economics.
	I thought, now there's going to be a child in the monarchy who, no matter small, has some African heritage in him.
	And that's what matters.
	It was so powerful to me.
	Another person, Munya Chihuahua, 27, a broadcaster and satirist who was a pundit for the BBC during that day, said, It felt like something out of a storybook.
	I actually felt a bit tearful, seeing a foreign woman of colour not only being accepted into the royal family, but applauded by the masses filling the streets.
	I felt like I was a part of a moment in history.
	And then someone called Pis Ogbanyuai, That's right!
	American media is full of nothing but effing N-words in the headlines!
	What world do you lunatics live in?
	MSNBC reporting effing in the words kneeled on by cops.
	Like, is that what he thinks the media is?
	What the fuck?
	Oh, sorry.
	I just...
	I just don't know what world these people live in.
	In pseudo-world.
	I mean, the fact that this is of importance to them at all is also just, you know, crazy.
	All I'm saying is, Brian Stelter, you have expectations placed on you.
	And her friend Rhoda Sakati, 16, chimed in, they are blinded by their white privilege.
	It's the older white men.
	Her friend's joining in unprompted to enunciate the words in unison.
	The white men are the ones who are chatting the most.
	Oh, really?
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	That's right.
	And so we have the, if we can get to the next one, the allegations.
	It's racism.
	So Meghan Markle's fans are calling racism on the palace's allegations of bullying.
	So accusing Meghan Markle of bullying palace staff is itself a racist allegation and proof of the racism.
	Checkmate.
	I mean, it's kind of concerning that you could just logically invert this and say, yeah, well, allegations of racism are a form of bullying.
	Have you considered that?
	Because I think, actually, at this point, they probably are, to be honest.
	Let's be honest.
	Three other sections of you watching?
	Yeah, exactly.
	You literally should be saying this.
	Calling people racist without any kind of explicit proof is a form of bullying.
	But of course, the reason I bring this up in a segment about cancel culture is because this is where this is all going.
	That's right.
	Cancel the monarchy.
	There's where we arrived at.
	We can go to the next one, John.
	LBC are reporting that an anti-monarchy group called Republic has weighed in, going, well, of course, we're very progressive Republicans, and therefore the monarchy needs to go.
	The chief executive, Graham Smith, has called for an honest debate about the future of the monarchy, of shocking revelations and accusations made by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
	I think they've actually had those titles rescinded from them, so they're not.
	It's just some random American and her ginger husband.
	He branded the fallout from the two-hour interview the worst crisis facing the institution since the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936.
	Pretty sure Edward VIII was pro-Nazi, which is why he abdicated.
	Well, it was also because of the American divorcee.
	Oh, was it?
	Yeah.
	She was twice divorced, which made it a problem of him being the king of the church.
	Also, she's an American, so, you know...
	What, the king of Henry VIII's church?
	Yes.
	Oh, God.
	I mean, you tell me why, but that's how it works.
	But, I mean, Americans.
	I mean, twice.
	Twice now.
	So, hashtag abolish the monarchy.
	No, no, no.
	Just turn around and be like, abolish Americans from marrying into the family.
	Well done.
	I mean, honestly, I think accepting an American into the royal family was a mistake.
	Yeah.
	Because they don't understand the institution.
	I'm sorry to be rude, but this is the problem.
	Look, there's only two scalps.
	We're not doing this the third time.
	Yeah.
	This, of course, as I said, led to the hashtag Abolish the Monarchy trending on social media all the last day.
	And Piers Morgan had to chime in, saying, So Abolish the Monarchy is now trending, albeit below me.
	Congratulations, Meghan and Harry.
	Your mission is complete.
	So Meghan Markle, according to Piers Morgan, was a kind of...
	I don't know how to describe it.
	Kind of like a Chinese spy whose mission was to infiltrate, sleep her way to the top of the monarchy and break it apart from the inside.
	There is some people in the chat suggesting that that's what was going on.
	That the Revolutionary War never ended.
	It just went by different means.
	Well, I mean, I've heard that too, and it's hard to refute.
	But anyway, so yeah, the point is now that the progressives are going to try and cancel the monarchy for being racist, and Piers Corbyn is most affected by this.
	He seems to be having some kind of nervous breakdown.
	It's always fun.
	And I don't really know how to say about it.
	Did I say Piers Corbyn?
	I meant Piers Morgan.
	Piers Morgan.
	Yes.
	Sorry, Piers Corbyn.
	You're probably not having a meltdown on Twitter about this.
	I'm like, Piers Morgan, who is?
	But, I mean, he has a daily meltdown about everything.
	But the thing is, the monarchy is clearly something that's deep and close to his heart.
	I don't know.
	How do you feel about getting rid of the monarchy?
	No.
	Based.
	Okay, go on.
	Sorry, okay, this is coming from a man.
	No republics, no Americans.
	This is coming from a man who went to a, what was it, a cathedral, and you saw the line of all the bishops going back to six-whatever, and you were like, right, I have no right to interfere with this whatsoever, and you're asking me what should we do about the monarchy.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'm asking what your opinion is.
	Leave it alone.
	Ban the Americans.
	Simple as.
	The monarchy's racist.
	Yes.
	Against Americans, yes.
	British tabloids.
	F-ing N-words.
	I mean, That's what would have to happen, though.
	F-ing A-words.
	But the thing is, there is merit to the idea of English republicanism.
	It means we get to yeet the Celts, because literally the monarchy is the only thing holding Britain together.
	You know, you don't have to rule over the Celts with the Queen.
	You can let them go.
	I mean, I agree.
	I'm happy to return to being the king of England.
	God, I mean, that would be an interesting referendum, wouldn't it?
	Let's do a referendum in England on Scottish independence versus keeping the queen.
	It's like, right, we either get rid of them or we keep the queen.
	Your choice.
	I don't think anyone's going to like the answer to that referendum.
	Yeah, very salty.
	Yeah, but I'm not a pro-English Republic person, but I think there are probably worse futures.
	But to be honest with you, I think that there's something eternal about the monarchy in England, and even if there was a sort of interregnum, Where there was an English Republic of some sort, I think there would be a restoration eventually, because we just seem to be that way inclined.
	We've already done it.
	Well, yeah, exactly.
	That's what I'm saying.
	We'll just have another one.
	So, yeah, I think this would be the case.
	I think it'd be a temporary thing.
	So, you know, I don't think it's going to happen or anything like that, but this is definitely going to be the way they go.
	And the thing is, the monarchy is in the weak position here, believe it or not.
	Yeah, it is embarrassing.
	I do agree with your criticisms that they're not doing this in the best of positions.
	They appear to have allowed Meghan Markle to put her boot up their arses.
	Yeah, they should have just come out full strength and been like, right, no, you're a bully, we don't care what you have to say.
	Also, we're banning Americans from the list to make it about that issue.
	Make it about an issue instead of it being left to her to gloat on Americans.
	This is about goddamn rebellious colonials!
	That's what this is about!
	Well, it'd be a much popular position as well.
	Like, sure, okay, maybe you might upset the American president for a week or so, but, I mean, worth it.
	Also, I mean, this has happened twice.
	I mean, you've got president here.
	It's not like this is, oh, I just dislike this American or something.
	It's like, okay, well, both times we let them into the family, they've screwed it up so bad that it became a royal scandal of epic proportions.
	Weird how you can't let the Republicans into the royal family.
	No.
	Just weird.
	Don't get it.
	Yeah, they don't get it.
	Anyway, we've got a few...
	Any video comments do we have today?
	Three.
	Okay, let's go for it.
	Hi, guys.
	I'd like to bring up a new white paper that was published called The Impact of COVID-19 on Pediatric Mental Health.
	It's by Fair Health Incorporated.
	I think it would be a great subject to break down for someone more medically minded at the Lotus Eaters organization because I think it'd be important for adults and parents to understand what effect lockdowns are potentially having on our children.
	So that's my...
	Okay, well, I guess emailing it to tips at lotuses.com, so it gets to the writing team, where I think Josh is probably the best person to look at that.
	Hopefully you'd be interested in doing so.
	Send that across.
	Do we have another one?
	Yeah, this one is just audio.
	I'm American and I support exclusively Americans.
	Well, hang on now.
	If you're not born in the United States, you can't become the president.
	No.
	So that's rather exclusionary.
	So I think that we're totally justified in saying no Americans.
	Yeah.
	I mean, we could extend it to no republics if you want.
	No Americans, no Europeans.
	Who else?
	Well, you know...
	Presumably no Chinese, too.
	I have no problem with other systems in which they understand the monarchy.
	It's just the Americans have a unique problem with this, where they're sort of obsessed with it, but they don't get it in the same way.
	I can't really voice it very well.
	I'm not the greatest person to explain it, but there's something about it, and everyone knows it.
	I speak to anyone, everyone understands this.
	Yeah, no, I agree.
	I think the Americans do have a weird view.
	One of the things I always love about when Americans are talking about the American Revolution, they're like, yeah, we were revolting against British tyranny.
	What do you mean, tyranny?
	What do you mean?
	Constitutional rights that you had as Englishmen?
	What tyranny?
	Oh no, 1% stamp tax.
	God, I wish I was paying a 1% tax.
	That sounds like a dream.
	And then when you compare it to the rest of the world, it's like, yeah.
	In the 18th century, the worst thing that was happening was British tyranny, was it?
	It's very idealized, and I find it very adorably.
	Like, it is true that taxasemore representation is a bad thing, but you compare it to literally any other place on Earth through that time period or since, and it's like, well...
	It was a pretty light yoke, but I mean, I don't...
	I agree in principle that they're correct.
	So, you know.
	Hey, Sargon.
	Speaking as the greatest moral philosopher in history, should we execute the children of murderers?
	If not, why not?
	And if not, why should we execute the children of rapists?
	Either children are morally and legally culpable for the crimes of their parents, or they are not.
	Well, I mean, he's right about me being the greatest moral philosopher of our time.
	So I think he's talking about abortion, though.
	Yes, of course he's talking about abortion.
	Yes, that's a very well-formulated question.
	I do agree that we should execute the children of murderers.
	I mean, this is the Trump position, actually.
	Remember, with the terrorists, you've got to kill their families.
	Yes, yes, and they got really upset about it, and he was like, yeah, but I'm just pro-abortion.
	This is presumably why these American states, the Republican states, that are currently in the process of trying to outlaw abortion, are currently saying, no, we don't even care if your baby has Down syndrome or is the product of rape.
	Actually, it's only in the cases when the mother's life is under threat that they are trying to permit it.
	And that's presumably the line of argumentation they're going to use.
	We don't kill the children of murderers, so why should we kill the children of rapists?
	I really, really, really don't want to have to think about this subject any further, though, because it's really awful.
	I don't really have an opinion on it.
	I mean, I spoke about this last time.
	Like, I think I'm on the camp of...
	Just as a complete idiot, I don't really have that much of a thought, but I think I'm in the camp of abortion useful, but there must be a line somewhere, and where that line is, I don't know.
	I know the conservative argument is from conception, it's a person, and that just doesn't sit right with me at all.
	It seems like medically there must be some level of weeks in which they can say that this is more...
	I think the heartbeats are pretty good.
	Isn't there a standard that's like six weeks or whatever the hell it is?
	Yeah, where you can detect a heartbeat.
	Yeah.
	I think there's a pretty good standard if you're going to have to choose one.
	But apparently John says, Ancient Chinese laws mean some crimes mean your entire family gets yeeted, including cousins.
	Eight degrees of relations.
	Really?
	Eight degrees of relations?
	Like, wipe the entire family off.
	They have the same thing in North Korea.
	If you are committed of a crime that's anti-revolutionary, you, your family, and everyone, you know, bloodline, gets sent there.
	And it's for three generations as well.
	So your children are in prison for the rest of their lives, and their children are also in prison for the rest of their lives.
	What happened?
	Your grandfather did something wrong?
	Yes.
	He fought on the wrong side of the war.
	He engaged in anti-party activity.
	Wow.
	Well, there we go.
	Alright, let's go for the next one.
	Hey guys, don't know if you've already had the chance to talk about it today or not, but the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has recently told its reporters to avoid using the term pedophile in case it marginalises people.
	Just to find the decision for you, not saying that it may make pedophiles less likely to seek treatment.
	So, a multi-part question for you.
	One, do we care in the slightest if pedophiles feel marginalised?
	Two...
	Shouldn't the social stigma attached with marginalising pedophiles act as partial deterrent?
	And three, do you think there's any logic in the claim that it will make them less likely to seek treatment?
	Cheers.
	Right, I don't think there's anything wrong with marginalising pedophiles.
	I think that's desirable.
	Apparently this is real, but the article's saying it's buying a paywall.
	Right, okay.
	See if John can get it up.
	Yeah, I put it in the chat.
	So, marginalising the pedos.
	Pro-marginalization for pedos.
	I mean, that's a bit...
	I'm not pro because it's not hard enough.
	Like, death penalty is surely sufficient.
	Well, all those people who keep arguing against the death penalty, really, they're all silent as soon as it comes to the question of what to do with convicted pedophiles, aren't they?
	But that's the thing.
	I've always been, like, death penalty bad, but...
	I think there are some crimes that deserve death, to be honest.
	You do a certain thing that is bad enough, then...
	I mean, I'm not saying, you know, it should be the first thing, or to the eighth generation or whatever.
	Bring back the bloody code.
	Yeah, you know, I'm just saying that, like, there are some things that are just so awful, though, where it's like someone's tortured someone and raped someone and done all these terrible things for days and days.
	Do you remember Joseph Fritzl?
	He built like an underground bunker and kept his daughter under there for years.
	Like made children with her and then raped the children?
	Yes.
	Like in this one on for years and years and years and it's okay.
	I'm not against the death penalty for that guy.
	It's also like you know he's done it.
	Yeah.
	He knows he's done it.
	The question of his guilt wasn't really the question.
	The question was how severe should the punishment be?
	And it's like, well, it should just be quick and over fairly swiftly because humanity doesn't need him around.
	You know, like, how can we justify?
	Like, well, yeah, I mean, but we don't want to, we don't want to what?
	We want to get rid of a person like that.
	The ultimate argument against the death penalty is the one of whether or not they're guilty.
	Yeah.
	But in which case, even if they are guilty, I suppose the only argument then is, are we justified in doing to him?
	Yes.
	Society is justified in killing Joseph Fritzl.
	I think that's true.
	Yeah.
	I don't...
	I mean, sorry.
	The things that they've done have been so heinous that there's no coming back from it, in my opinion.
	So, like, you know...
	Can we look it up?
	Don't call predators pedophiles.
	ABC tells reporters.
	That is mad.
	Sorry.
	Says, another consideration is from their point of view.
	There are a lot of pedophiles slash people with pedophilia.
	People with pedophilia.
	Right.
	Who do not act on these impulses.
	Essentially, if they can reach out for and receive professional psychological help, describing Griffin as a paedophile could discourage them from seeking help, making it more likely that they were abused children.
	I mean, what a rationale.
	Hmm.
	I mean, I personally don't think that that's going to prevent...
	I mean, maybe there should be some sort of pedo outreach.
	If you think you might be a pedo, go to this place and get help.
	I mean, I'm all for them getting help, obviously.
	You know, because I mean, if you want to describe...
	A hardware store with the wood chippers in the back.
	If you want to describe it as a mental illness, which I think is...
	You could, you know, I think it's...
	Nah.
	Sure, no, no.
	Because they're going to be...
	Like...
	With a lot of this, I imagine it comes from, like, childhood trauma, right?
	And so they were traumatized as children, and so, you know, they do need help because otherwise they'll go on to traumatize in further generations, right?
	And so, yeah, like, getting them help so they understand that actually it's about trauma and actually this isn't something normal that they're actually into or whatever, and preventing them from being pedophiles, that sounds great.
	You know, that sounds useful.
	But not calling them pedophiles is just like, sorry, that's the word that we use to describe it.
	I don't know.
	I've always been very sceptical of the slippery slope argument, and then I've seen it happen, and I'm like, ah, seems like a slippery slope to me.
	Yeah, I saw a meme going around the other day.
	We should do a segment on it or something.
	But it was like, all of them were just, you know, deductive arguments.
	So it's like, well, if this is that, then the conclusions must be true.
	And then the one for the sort of libertarian right was like, well, if we allow, you know, gays to marry, then, you know, whatever.
	It's slippery slope.
	The thing is, slippery slope argument is an inductive argument because it's predicting what's going to happen in the future.
	And the thing is, that's just based on the strength of the premises.
	So if you have a weak premise, if you've got like, well, if we allow gays to marry...
	Then suddenly we'll be having pedophile rights advocacy.
	It's like, okay, but A, that happened.
	And B, that's not the only thing.
	We allow women to vote, then gays to marry.
	And then the arguments keep stacking up.
	And it turns out that eventually you do get to pedophile advocacy movements like this.
	Don't demonize the pedophiles.
	Like, sorry, why did you associate gays with pedophiles?
	I didn't do that.
	You know, to me, they were two distinct categories.
	But I feel like accepting them as, oh, it's a mental condition, therefore it's not their fault or something, starts to take away the evil part of it.
	It's like, no, let's not do that.
	Let's just go, no, evil woodship.
	Done.
	ABC. Yeah.
	So basically, I'm just totally against the idea of destigmatizing pedophilia.
	I just don't know why I have to say that.
	Speaking of words, you know we were talking in the premium podcast we did about thick concepts, and I think there was some super chat about...
	This goes on to the ethics of social justice one, where it's devaluing the words.
	Yeah.
	And you were talking about, like, ethical concepts.
	I've decided to watch Life on Mars, like, I think you mentioned it.
	And there's something weird, like, it's so...
	Life on Mars, for people who don't know, is a guy, he works in, like, 2006, cops, UK, and then he gets hit by a car, he goes into a coma, and then he's relived in 1970s in the police.
	And one of the things...
	Well, they've had effing N-words on their head.
	No.
	No.
	But one of the things I did notice is whenever they're talking about the people they're going to go and get, in like 2006 and today it's always we deal with the criminals, the person who's committed an offence, blah blah blah, and it's all very sterilised.
	But in the, of course I'm probably exaggerating, well the show's exaggerating, but they all refer to everyone they go after as villains.
	Yeah.
	It's like, let's get the villains, let's get them off the streets.
	Yeah.
	It's just, it's very moral.
	It is.
	And that's definitely the right place to be.
	Because yeah, well if someone's out there committing crimes intentionally, then how are they not a villain?
	Yeah.
	But it's the fact that it's got that evil...
	That moral intonation.
	So what Callum's referring to is a podcast we haven't actually released yet, but when's it going to be ready, John?
	Probably tomorrow.
	Tomorrow?
	I think tomorrow the premium podcast talking about thick concepts will be up.
	It's part one of a sort of two-part podcast that I've been working on really hard in preparation for Brave New World so we can actually understand what is being said in the book Brave New World.
	Because I bet that there's stuff in there that most people don't even realise.
	Anyway, White Hot Peppers, our roving reporter from the capital occupation, has left a message.
	I'd love to answer your questions from Friday, but I'm afraid there's a bit too spicy for me to be answering while I'm here.
	Even hypothetically, as much as I want to ask my fellow soldiers for the lols, I just can't.
	I think it's ridiculous that we can't meme around here anymore and we just aren't allowed anymore.
	If the wrong person hears it, there could be a lot of trouble.
	I feel like you guys have a pretty good idea of what would happen if I did, so sorry.
	Don't worry.
	Don't do anything stupid.
	Don't do anything stupid.
	We understand.
	The military has unfortunately become a festering cesspool of pussies that can't take a joke or criticism.
	New soldiers don't even get shark attacked in basic training anymore.
	I think we call that beasting in Britain.
	We have a few new soldiers in our company who are just not soldiers.
	I can go into more details once I get home and do a video comment.
	I can't do that one in DC. I've been saving all the PowerPoints, notes and papers about being offended, sexual and racial segregation in the military for the past five years.
	I'd love to make an article on your website about the progressive erosion of the military of the years.
	All I'll say for now is weak men are about to make hard times for our military because all the strong men are leaving en masse and the army is getting desperate and just degrading into another government program for people to take advantage of.
	You know, that is actually the fear that I had and I thought that the US military might be able to resist that kind of subversion, but it sounds like it's not.
	Sounds good times ahead for the Americans.
	You're the reason why I'm able to keep a straight head here, seeing all the things I've heard.
	The constant agenda pushing.
	Wish I could tell you everything that's happened here, but OPSEC is no joke.
	They're always watching.
	Things are not as they seem.
	Don't worry about me, everyone.
	I'm a big girl and face worse.
	Well, thank you, and good luck.
	Stay safe.
	Don't do anything silly.
	Heathcliff will doubtless be able to do an article once you're able to.
	Heathcliff says, We'd be very interested to see a weekend podcast on how a man used to be able to support a large family on one salary, but now that seems impossible.
	Was everyone just poor and frugal back then, or has the labour market changed?
	The labour market's changed.
	I mean, it's demonstrable how it's changed.
	Women in the workplace has changed.
	What happens if you double the size of the labour pool, Callum?
	Lower the wages.
	Yeah, half the wages.
	That's right.
	George C says, Hi lads.
	Hope all of us subjects are celebrating Commonwealth Day, or it's better named Empire Day.
	The most important international women today are Her Royal Highness and Britannia.
	I wish Britannia imagery were more common.
	It really feels like one has disappeared.
	If the Tories weren't so wet today, it would be a national holiday.
	Well, yep, but you can guarantee on one thing, and that's the Tories being totally wet.
	George Happ, on this International Whamans Day, I have to summon all my courage and unfortunately come out as super straight.
	The oppression is horrific, but being normal is a reward in its own right.
	Well, all I'm saying is don't let the bullies on Twitter get you down.
	It doesn't matter how invalid they call you.
	Remember that you don't have to suck the feminine penis.
	You just don't have to.
	Interesting tidbit about interesting whamans.
	My body, my choice.
	Interesting tidbit about International Women's Day that we said before the podcast.
	So, it's a communist holiday, obviously.
	Like, they made it an official holiday in the Soviet Union.
	And in Russia, apparently, it's still a holiday.
	But they don't have an International Men's Day holiday there.
	So, some people try to argue for that.
	But instead, apparently, when we were there, we got told that, what is it?
	Defender of the Fatherland Day, which is basically a celebration of the war.
	They used that as International Men's Day instead, like, colloquially.
	Which, yeah, does work.
	I mean...
	I know a lot of women died in the war as well, but it's a lot of men.
	Yeah, but the Russians, didn't they have women snipers?
	They did.
	Yeah.
	But it's a lot more men's eye.
	It's just very inclusive.
	Christian Watkins says, The BBC website main headline today is, Meghan didn't want to be alive anymore.
	Imagine the goddamn ignorance and narcissism you would have to have in order to feel like this with this level of genuine privilege that she has.
	Absolute clown world decade.
	Yes.
	Like I said, that picture of the clown being like, I'm only attracted to cis men and cis women with a clown face.
	It's like, Alright, that's where we are.
	Ignacio says, Good evening, gentlemen.
	Once again, from one of Europe's hellholes, Spain.
	Well, don't worry.
	I mean, it's as much of a hellhole here as it is anywhere else.
	I wanted to ask your opinion on a topic that's very present over here in the UK. How much should or rather can a country accept and entertain the idea of regional separatist movements?
	I think it wouldn't be moral to shut down the concerns of said movements, but allowing the splintering of the country and its people seems as immoral.
	Godspeed, Lotus Eaters.
	That's a really good question, to be honest, because all of the arguments that are based, say, the Brexit arguments, are all completely applicable to the SNP and the Scottish arguments.
	And Nicola Sturgeon was sat there making all of the Brexit arguments in favour of the SNP leaving, and then would argue for Remain.
	It's like, it's the same goddamn argument, Nicola.
	Well, there's the complexity here, which you mentioned on before when we were looking at separatist movements across Europe.
	I mean, there are loads and loads of them.
	There are.
	But they're all ethno-nationalists.
	They're all based on that.
	In which case, the intersection there with the leftists is incredibly absurd.
	I mean, take the IRA. I mean, Northern Ireland should be part of Ireland because they've got Irish blood and Irish ancestry.
	Ireland for the Irish.
	Blood and soil.
	And yet they're all Marxists.
	It's just like...
	Nervous, sweating man with two buttons, you know?
	Like the Labour Party supporting this?
	Yeah.
	Okay, England for the English.
	The Labour Party's like, shut up!
	That's racism!
	But it's the same with Ash Sharkar.
	She's like, oh, my great-aunt was a communist Bengali...
	Bengali nationalist.
	She literally killed people in the name of Bengali nationalism.
	Yeah, Bengal for the Bengalis.
	And it's like, that's so brave.
	I'm so proud of her.
	Also, I'm a communist and I hate Britain.
	But also Britain is for everyone.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But Bengali is just for the Bengalis, huh?
	Yeah.
	Interesting.
	And one of the things people forget is before the Enlightenment, there were no ideological revolutions.
	It was all about...
	I mean, the only one I can think of, really, would be the Jewish revolutions against the various occupiers of Judea.
	But even then, you can't really separate that from being an ethnic movement as well.
	So almost all revolutions against empires in history were ethnic autonomy.
	That's what they were about, ethnic autonomy.
	And so you'd have, you know, one group of people, a people, revolting from the rule of whatever the empire was, and wanting their own ethnically self-governed state.
	And up until, like, five minutes ago, that was a totally legitimate position to have.
	I mean, that's what the Scottish National Party is arguing for in their independence referendum.
	Like, that's what the Kurds are arguing for.
	And I support Kurdish independence.
	I think the Kurds should have their own state.
	I think the Palestinians.
	Yeah, right.
	The Palestinians should have their own state.
	Why not?
	Why the hell should they be dominated by the Turks or the Iraqis?
	I was watching Labour Party Conference, I think it was like two years ago.
	Unironically, they went through a series of arguments about how the far right and the UK need to be shut down because they want England just to the English and things like this.
	And then they went on to the next section, which was talking about how the party is in favour of Kashmiri independence on the basis of Kashmiris and Kashmiri self-determination.
	This is like...
	Well, I mean, this is what Keir Starmer got in trouble for on LBC, when some woman rang him up and was like, well, look, in Israel, they're basically like, you know, Israel for the Israelis, and they want, you know, ethnic autonomy in Israel.
	Why can't I have that in England?
	kiss i was like of course we all want that we all we all have the right for that you know but blah blah blah blah blah blah racism whatever because it naturally followed But then when he was asked about, you know, afterwards, do you mean for the English?
	He was like, no, no, no, no, no.
	And I was like, well...
	Yeah, okay.
	This is an obvious double standard.
	Yes.
	And the thing is, you kind of have to accept that an ethnic group has the right to autonomy, political autonomy, or else you are arguing for imperialism.
	Like, you are saying, no, this ethnic group must be dominated by a superior and foreign political system.
	It's like, no one's going to accept that.
	The Palestinians aren't going to accept that from the Israelis.
	The Kurds aren't going to accept that from the various nations, the Turks.
	The Bengalis won't accept it from the British.
	The Scots won't accept it from the English.
	Why would anyone have to accept that?
	And as soon as you then go, yeah, so, immigration into England then, and everyone loses the plot and heads explode and everyone's a racist all of a sudden.
	Anyway.
	Nicholas Malson says, Hi folks, happy International Women's Day.
	My home country of Latvia celebrates this day.
	Communist.
	Ex-Communist Day, obviously.
	Celebrates this day, so I thought I would thank you to all the real women for the love and hope they bring, the super straight women, for the femininity they preserve.
	Now, regarding today's podcast, super straight is based.
	Yes, it is.
	But let's be inclusive about this.
	Super gay and super lesbian is also...
	Super bi, I guess you could say, is probably something that could exist.
	What would be, like, Dankula, for example, someone who only wants to have sex with traps?
	Well, super Scottish.
	Super trans attraction?
	I don't know, but the point is...
	Substrate.
	This will all be established as time goes on, but the point is, supersexual is a valid sexuality according to all of the laws of intersectionality itself.
	So get used to it, trans.
	Doug Dimidum says, the supersexual people simply prefer their lover's genitals to be grown and not sown.
	Oof.
	Pastor Crowley says, there's a reason that LGBT acceptance has decreased in both the UK and the US. It went from in your own bedroom to total moral degeneracy on the streets in front of little kids, and now even the LGBs are being forced to take the feminine penis or masculine vagina.
	I stand in solidarity with the super gays and super lesbians on this, to be honest.
	Long Talks on the Neach says, I feel like Trump on Twitter was the proverbial finger in the dike.
	The barrier that prevents water from flooding.
	The dam, yes.
	And deleting him from the public discourse has allowed all this crazy mental sewage to spill into the greater part of society.
	How long before the dam breaks entirely?
	Not long, I would say.
	The way things are going.
	Again, I think the census is going to be a bombshell.
	And for many different reasons, in fact.
	It will be the questions of identity, questions of immigration, questions of ethnic autonomy, questions of all of these things are going to be packaged into the British census.
	And it's probably something people are like, you know, we just want to talk about it.
	That's the British way.
	We'll carry on with this problem for a few more decades before we address it.
	So, you know, Edward of Woodstock, I will admit, probably the best way to shut people up is to say I'm attracted to biological females.
	The reason I am a biological male who has the biological imperative to reproduce, I also prefer them to be women.
	Oh, if you wouldn't date a trans woman, if they were indistinguishable from a woman, then you're a transphobe.
	Or you simply want to make more than just a sexual relationship and want to make a family, but yes, sure, I'm the one with the problem expressing my preferences.
	So, like we talk about in the thick concepts, there is an entirely different way of looking at these things.
	And this idea of being like, yeah, well, if I could literally use science to change your molecules, so your genes from XY to XX, and I change everything about you, then are you still a woman?
	Do you become a woman?
	Because if everything scientific about you is just changed, you know, so it's perfect.
	What happens to your mind?
	Well, who knows?
	But are you then a woman?
	And the answer is, of course, still no.
	You're not.
	Because that's not really the question that was being asked.
	It wasn't, you know, are you materially that thing?
	The question is, are you authentically that thing?
	And when you say authenticity, is that a scientific term?
	No, it's not.
	But it is a term that describes a real concern, and that's what Edward is talking about there.
	I want an authentic woman, someone who has been born female, grown up female, become a woman into her adulthood, and experience that life, and she presumably is looking for an authentic man, And that is something that no amount of sort of gender identity, like, you know, box changing redefinitions can actually change.
	Because at the end of the day, anything that wasn't an authentic woman just can't be considered to be an authentic woman.
	I mean, isn't this literally the Odysseus' ship thing?
	Ship Theseus.
	Yeah, so they redo the ship.
	Is it still the same ship?
	And the answer is, well, it is.
	It's still the ship that Theseus got on to sail across the ocean with.
	Anyway, something we'll do a podcast on at some point.
	Because it is actually a really interesting thing.
	Because it comes to essential characteristics and things like that.
	But anyway, Doug says, discrimination against superstraits is also a crime in the UK, as it is under New York's local law, number 3, 2002, NYC Admin Code, section 8-102, brackets 23.
	So we know the exact laws that it is illegal under to discriminate against superstraits.
	Just thought, no, it'd be like taking an ancient ship and turning it into HMS Victory, and then, like, is this always HMS Victory?
	No.
	Hmm.
	Exactly.
	But the ship thesis thing, the answer is basically yes, because it began as thesis a ship, and it's the ship he ends the journey on, therefore this is the question of identity.
	The identity of the ship never changed.
	That's why my metaphor is wrong, because it would be like taking the ship, turning it into a different kind of ship, and then has it always been that ship?
	Well, no.
	No.
	Capstash says, Hey guys, I've come forth with you some suggestions today.
	We'd love to see you produce a premium podcast on Hong Kong.
	It's history and the current situation.
	You've got to add an edit button for the comments.
	I'd even upgrade to silver for it to keep up the good work, guys.
	I'm sure we will at some point, but we had to get the dispatcher stuff done because Rory started today, so we needed work done.
	We needed somewhere for it to go.
	Yeah.
	But yeah, we've got loads of premium podcasts lined up.
	I'll tell you what, man.
	I'm really looking forward to doing the premium podcast on Bigfoot.
	I can't stop thinking about it.
	I know you don't want to, but we're going to do it.
	No, I'm not saying I don't want to.
	I just find it funny.
	For people who don't know, we've been having this discussion in the office about going to Alaska to try and find the area where Bigfoot is.
	Don't spoil it.
	Don't spoil it, because it's going to be a really good premium podcast.
	With footage on the scene.
	Well, no, it's not about whether we believe Bigfoot exists, because to be honest with you, I don't, right?
	I just can't bring myself...
	It seems like obvious bull, but at the same time, it's also just really interesting to think about.
	But it's not just that.
	There are so many different stories and accounts and events where I can't just turn around and say to that person, I know better than you, right?
	Because it's not just often one person.
	There's like dozens of people sometimes.
	They're all saying the same thing.
	It's like, no, no, listen, I wasn't anywhere near it, but trust me, you're wrong.
	I can't do that.
	That's...
	Anyway, it'll be a critical analysis.
	I can't stop thinking about it.
	Anyway, T.F. Fulspark says, The world's smallest penis condemns super straightness.
	Pega confirmed.
	Theo says, Superphobes should know they do have freedom of speech, but freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
	The serfs, super-exclusionary radical feminists, are on the wrong side of history.
	That is, bravo, super-exclusionary radical feminists.
	We're all living in 2021.
	He's living in 2051, right?
	Yeah, you are way ahead of the curve, Theo.
	And you're right.
	It's not cancel culture.
	It's just being held accountable for your anti-super bigotry.
	Chris Wolfe says, The Clown World tweet hits home.
	Do they not realise that shunning the natural reproductive part of society and increasing the size of the LGBT community will necessitate the handmaid's tail situation of breeding what they fear?
	Who takes care of the elderly LGBT? I must resist all of the jokes.
	There's a book to write, isn't there?
	There are just so many jokes about LGBT that I'm just not going to make about this.
	I'm just going to move on.
	I'll write them down, at least.
	Andrew says, Shadeline, my British Kakistanis.
	Glad to see the memes come home to roost.
	Callum, can I get an orcs, orcs, orcs, orcs?
	Keep up the good work, folks.
	Orcs, orcs, orcs, orcs, orcs, orcs.
	We like the identity.
	We like the identity.
	Shut it up, lads.
	But that's the thing, with the super straight thing, literally, if the entire point is, well, I just feel that way, I like feeling that way, it's literally, I just like it, that's why.
	You made anything about just my own personal choice and self-identification, so now goodbye to all of the things you held dear.
	Robert Rogers says, Thank you, Robert.
	We'd love to hear from you.
	I'd love to see that.
	Right.
	Pretend you're an extremist.
	Okay, I'm there.
	Done.
	1776 will commence again.
	uh henry ashman says i've been saying for years that americans shouldn't be allowed into the monarchy they're obsessed with royalty but they voted very clearly and bloodily in 1776 to have no more part of it i'd go for a simple ruler of don't care what race you are but if your nation left the monarchy by force or murdered their monarchy you cannot be part of the royal family i agree no french yeah No Russians.
	Yeah, no Russians.
	That's fine.
	This is a great standard.
	Get rid of the Greeks.
	Yeah.
	But we can bring in...
	We can keep the Swedes.
	Keep the Beninians.
	Technically, you've got to keep Germany because, I mean, they didn't get rid of it.
	We did.
	Yeah.
	So...
	Keep Denmark.
	Keep Norway.
	Yeah.
	I really want to see the King of Benin get into the royal family.
	We'll have a nice conversation about who started slavery.
	I'm totally in for it for being inclusive.
	They can marry the descendants of the King of Benin.
	Japan?
	Long and complex and intertwined relationship that these two kingdoms have.
	Progressive as well.
	Adrian Webb says, Carl, I'm super straight.
	Also, Carl, I can't stop thinking about Bigfoot.
	Yeah, but not Bigfoot itself.
	The arguments about Bigfoot, right?
	Yeah, but isn't Bigfoot meant to have, like, big-o titties?
	Well, that's another one of those questions, right?
	So the Pat and Gimlin footage, which is the classic footage everyone knows where Bigfoot's walking away, right?
	No one seems to notice that Bigfoot has massive jugs.
	And it's just like, okay, right?
	Now, I agree that it looks like a guy in a gorilla suit, but why would they put tits on it?
	We want to persuade everyone that we saw a Bigfoot.
	Massive knockers.
	Hairy knockers.
	That's not only the only one as well.
	There have been a couple of others where you also mentioned the massive knockers.
	Yes.
	And then they're like, that must be the female one.
	Well, I mean, I guess it would be.
	But who's putting knockers on it?
	Yeah, exactly.
	And ultimately, if all of these accounts of Bigfoot are false, then there must be a huge industry for fake Bigfoot costumes and Bigfoot enthusiasts running around the wilderness dressed up as monkeys.
	I love how there's a business for the suits, but then there's also another business of seamstresses who are like, hey, can you put the...
	Yeah, okay.
	And then they put the extra ones on.
	But not just that, they're always massive as well.
	Like, the pictures are massive boobs.
	And it's like...
	Anyway, we'll talk about that another time.
	I just...
	Again, it's not about Bigfoot itself.
	It's about really the sort of meta-analysis of how we respond to the allegations of Bigfoot.
	Anyway.
	Sort of like Johnny Harris talking about it's not...
	He made a video about flat earthers and he wasn't interested in flat earth theory.
	Yeah.
	He was just interested in the flat earthers and how that theory comes about.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Exactly.
	How do you understand this?
	Yeah, because obviously I can't prove whether Bigfoot exists or not and I don't really believe it does.
	But like, you know, these people, you know...
	Like, how is this real?
	Yeah.
	And the thing is, there are loads of 911 calls where people go, look, I don't want to be alarmed.
	Save it, save it.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's a reason to subscribe.
	Yeah, yeah, it's a reason to subscribe.
	So that'll be a premium podcast we'll do at some point after the Brave New World stuff, probably.
	But anyway, if you would like to support us, you can go to losis.com, become a premium member.
	We're going to have the Thick Concepts podcast up.
	And then next week, we'll do the Ethical Knowledge podcast, which is, again, like part two of Understanding Brave New World.
	And then I'll do the Brave New World book club.
	But all of this is going to be fantastic premium content.
	It's going to be totally worth your time.
	Hopefully highly educational and very entertaining.

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