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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seeders for the 9th of July 2021.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be talking about the foreigners who are censoring wokeness, the Trump lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google, which is interesting.
	Ambitious.
	Yeah.
	And also the race merchants who are coming for the shires of England, which...
	Yeah, it was only a matter of time, wasn't it?
	It was.
	Anyway, first thing to mention was just some of the stuff we have on the website.
	So this is the first thing here, the interview that Roy did with Sheldon Thomas, the former gang member and now runner of GangsLine, in which he's trying to get people to leave gangs.
	Yeah.
	And, I mean, extremely relevant, considering especially the situation in London, but not just London, of course, across the country.
	Birmingham, Manchester, various other places.
	Yeah.
	That's premium, so go and sign up to Lotuses.com to get access to that.
	Yeah, he's talking about the sort of psychology of why people join gangs and things like that.
	It's really interesting.
	Yeah.
	So the next thing we have is Hugo's new article, which just went up, which is free, How to Lie Through Statistics.
	So him exploring that.
	I haven't had time to read it because it's just gone up.
	No, but I'm sure he's done a good job.
	Go to that and check it out.
	And the last thing is the premium podcast we did about the vagueness, which you gave me a lecture about the concepts and why they're useful.
	Yeah.
	And not only that, why you have to understand them to be able to defend against them, because people can demand that you explain something that can't really be explained, and that's unfair.
	You can push back on that.
	Completely unreasonable.
	Yes.
	I'll leave this to the end, the other thing, which is relevant to the video comments, but we'll do that.
	All right, so let's start with the foreigners.
	Yeah, so the foreigners are censoring wokeness, and...
	Is that a good thing?
	Well, I should probably say it's a good thing.
	I should probably say it's not a good thing, sorry.
	What do you mean by their censorship?
	Well, by literal censorship, right?
	And I mean, I'm not pro-censorship, but I'm also not pro-Nazi ideology undermining liberal democracies.
	And so I can understand why they're looking at the West and saying, nope, that's just not happening here.
	I mean, I can't blame them, yeah.
	Can't blame them at all.
	Sorry, we're not having it.
	We're not having it at all.
	So, beginning this with Boris's view on wokeness, which I'm going to be a bit uncharitable here, because he was being asked whether, you know, is Joe Biden woke a few months back.
	And he gave a blustering response, because obviously Biden was recently installed in January, and he didn't want to upset the apple cart, as it were.
	And so he was like, I can't comment on that.
	What I know is a fervent believer in the transatlantic alliance, and that's a great thing, and a believer in a lot of the things we want to achieve together, so insofar as there's nothing wrong with being woke.
	Well, there is.
	There are lots of things.
	This wasn't the only mess-up of that period as well.
	He then went on to say, what was it?
	We need to build back better and a greener...
	Gender neutral, more feminine way.
	Which makes no sense.
	There's a contradictory term.
	The woke language was taken on for Biden's visit.
	Yeah, of course it was.
	Most charitable interpretation is he's just taking this on for a better trade deal.
	There's always the lingering suspicion with Boris that he's a bit too lefty.
	Which is disappointing.
	But anyway, so there is something wrong with wokeness, obviously.
	And I would suggest that the first thing is banning to kill a mockingbird from schools.
	Why would you do this?
	Like, this is the classic anti-racist text that English schoolchildren, I was taught when I was a kid, to explain that, look, there is an inherent injustice in racism and a racist society.
	And it's a genuinely heroic story.
	It's a moving story on how Boo Radley doesn't get hung or something like this.
	And, I mean, defended by Atticus Finch, and you have to go through the reasoning and the rationale of it.
	It's been a long time since I've read it, so you'll have to forgive me if I can't remember the exact details.
	But I have very fond memories of the book, and I think it's useful.
	But, of course, it's being deplatformed from an Edinburgh school, James Gillespie High School in Edinburgh, because it has apparently a dated approach to race, as in, it promotes a white saviour narrative.
	I should correct you when you said it's an anti-racist thing.
	It's not.
	It's a non-racist thing, not anti-racist, which is their terminology.
	Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, fine, fine.
	But it's a work against racism and to show the injustice of it, and it was good.
	The seminal text is to be excluded from classrooms in Edinburgh as this high school because it's as part of wider plans to decolonise the curriculum.
	Sorry, there being a white guy at all is the colonization.
	Yes, that's literally it.
	Just to be clear, you can't decolonize Edinburgh because Scotland, part of the United Kingdom, was the place colonizing other places.
	It wasn't colonized.
	So decolonizing a place that was not colonized means abolishing the native culture.
	That's what it means.
	So, the proposals are part of this wider initiative to decolonise the curriculum, with greater emphasis placed on works from non-white authors with less Western-centric viewpoints to better reflect a diverse range of experiences.
	So, colonising.
	That's what they're doing.
	They're not decolonising, they are colonising Scottish education system as if Scotland isn't full of Scots.
	Which, as Edward Longshanks rightly pointed out in Braveheart, is exactly the problem in Scotland.
	And so these people are getting to work on that.
	These people have the same opinion.
	Well, yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They've got the Edward Longshanks opinion on this.
	Now, you know, speaking as an Englishman, I actually do think that if there's one proper place for the Scottish people, it's in Scotland and we should build a wall.
	Rebuild Hadrian's Wall.
	Sorry, Vicki.
	But the point is, you can't decolonise Scotland.
	You can only colonise Scotland.
	Calvin Robinson came out with a good statement about this, saying, we can contextualise them.
	Teachers are not just reading the books, they are teaching English literature.
	We can talk about the use of the N-word and why that's not appropriate for anyone to use.
	I think it's ridiculous to cancel the books because of it.
	It's a good take, but that's not why they're being cancelled.
	In fact, they give us exactly why these things are being cancelled.
	They say they are now taught less frequently because these novels are dated and problematical in terms of decolonising...
	What's that word?
	No, not really.
	Not according to my spell checker on here, anyway.
	They do put sick next to show that this wasn't their mistake.
	In terms of decolonising the curriculum, their lead characters are not people of colour.
	That's their reason.
	The lead characters are white.
	So use the N-word all you like, but don't make the lead character a white guy.
	Yes, that's their concern.
	Specifically with To Kill a Mockingbird, they're also talking about Mice and Men, which has the N-word in it.
	The representation of people of colour is dated.
	Yes, it's an old book.
	It's part of...
	Did you know 300, their representation of Spartans is a bit dated?
	Actually, it's a bit too modern.
	Well, it'd be a representation of Greeks, I should say.
	It doesn't represent Greek life now.
	No, I suppose it doesn't.
	Movies of medieval England represent English people in a bit of a dated way.
	As if they're from the medieval age.
	Henry V has Henry riding on a horse.
	Why doesn't he drive a car?
	English people rarely ride on horses these days.
	97% of English people ride cars.
	Anyway, so the representation of people of colour is dated, and the use of the N-word and the motif of the white saviour in Mockingbird, these have led us as a department to decide that really these are not texts we want to be teaching in third year anymore.
	Okay, but maybe you should resign and let teachers who don't want to erase the history of Scotland and the indigenous people's culture of Scotland take over.
	Or just insane people who can't fathom the idea that a book is old.
	And I just want to be clear, that doesn't necessarily mean white people.
	That just means people who aren't antithetical to Scotland and Scottishness.
	You don't have to be white to like Scotland.
	Lots of white people don't like Scotland.
	Lots of Scots don't like Scotland!
	Sorry, I'm going to move on.
	Anyway, this just keeps going, right?
	Wokeness is everywhere, and it's gross.
	And everything it does, everything it touches, it just turns into rubbish, right?
	This is the Deliveroo's alphabet soup can with a rainbow flag on it, and of course it's got the letters LGBTQQIAAP. They're the only letters in it.
	Because...
	Pride.
	Why two Q's and two A's?
	I have no idea.
	Okay.
	And you can see, though, it's not just the rainbow flag.
	It's the racial pride flag rather than the traditional conservative flag of pride.
	Yeah.
	Where it has the black and brown stripe to represent black and brown people in a separate but equal fashion.
	Yeah, but what's that P doing on the end?
	Yeah, I don't know.
	What does the P stand for?
	Deliveroo.
	Deloveroo.
	Whatever you call it.
	But also, you're a food delivery company.
	Sure, but what's the P? What does the P stand for?
	I really want to know.
	I've heard people argue it's pansexual.
	Oh, yeah?
	I've heard it's something else.
	I don't even know what that means, though, so...
	It means you will literally have sex with anything.
	There's no intersex logo on the flag.
	Correctly pointed out, John.
	Good point.
	They must be deliberately excluding intersex people.
	They've got an I there.
	Presumably that's what intersex...
	Possibly, but if they exclude them from the flag, I'm happy to chalk that up to them hating intersex people.
	Anyway, moving on.
	Woke Raytheon.
	The meme has come to life.
	The bombs that will be dropped on foreign countries, on black and brown people around the world, will definitely have a Black Lives Matter fist and a trans pride flag painted on them, because the second largest defense contract in America is apparently imposing an anti-racist program using critical theory, arguing that white or straight Christian men should identify their privilege, participate in reparations, and decolonize their bookshelves.
	There's cancer is everywhere.
	It's literally everywhere and it can't be stopped.
	Could you imagine being ISIS and getting bombed?
	To be honest, it's almost kind of mocking.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, it used to be that, like, the Greek slingers used lead bullets, right, about this big, and on them they'd inscribe something, like, catch this, or, you know, take that, or whatever.
	And now it's Black Lives Matter.
	You know when they used to put, like, you know, get effed or, like, freedom on it?
	I mean, that would be a good mockery and you're bombing ISIS with the words freedom written on it.
	But if you've got written on it...
	Trans rights.
	Or the racial pride flag, it's almost like you're kind of justifying the opposition to the United States there.
	Yeah, if one of the bums falls and it doesn't blow up, they're just going to be like, see?
	Well, you're bombing the Russians and the Russians just turn to the Ukrainians and, like, show them the bomb and be like, is this what you're fighting for?
	Exactly.
	So this program is titled Stronger Together...
	Yes, that's right.
	Stronger together by persecuting the white people.
	Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes supported the campaign by signing an Action for Diversity and Inclusion statement promising to promote diversity and cultural meaningful change in our society.
	Aren't you meant to be defending the society rather than changing it?
	Anyway, so, excuse me.
	So, what's his name?
	Rufo.
	Some chap called Rufo.
	I can't remember his first name.
	Is it Christine Rufo?
	Something like that?
	He's Chris Rufo.
	Chris Rufo, that's it.
	Went on Tucker Carlson and explained.
	They launched this really, really political indoctrination program, teaching employees to judge each other on the basis of race, asking employees, actually, to identify one another on the basis of race during their conversations.
	Wow, that sounds awful.
	They provided specific rules for white employees, how to speak to black employees, presumably which fountains they're supposed to use to get their drinking water from.
	And they even said that the employees should reject the principle of equality in favour of equality of outcomes, which is for socialism, maybe communism.
	God, I can't get over the idea in my head.
	They're like, yes, when you're addressing a white employee, you should say, oh, Mr.
	Smith.
	But when you're addressing a black employee, use their first name.
	They don't deserve the accreditation.
	It's that, but in reverse.
	But like I said, they've doubtless got their own water fountains, so it's okay.
	Separate but equal, I believe, is the Raytheon position on this.
	I presume they're using the flag as well.
	I think they did change their logo for Pride and did use the racial flag, so they do believe in separate but equal black people.
	What else is that on the flag?
	It's ridiculous.
	It's so ridiculous.
	I can't believe I'm still amused by all this.
	It's really astonishing because this is one of the largest corporations in the world, and of course a defence manufacturer.
	So that's awful.
	Thanks for bringing back racial workplaces and segregation.
	But I guess it gets worse.
	On the alphabet soup can, they didn't have a Z at the end.
	What?
	Zoo files.
	People who like having sex with animals.
	Yes.
	Disgusting perverts or just misunderstood?
	Ask Russia today.
	Meet the zoo files who have sex with animals and want to be embraced by pride.
	It never gets better.
	It never, ever gets better.
	I can only hear their argument in my head and I'm not going to repeat it because it's disgusting.
	Well, go on, what's the argument?
	Because, you know, the typical thing you'd say, well, you can't have an animal consent.
	And I bet, I bet a million dollars that they're going to be like, yeah, but what if it's a woman and she just bends down in front of a dog?
	And the dog does it, they're consenting.
	And the leftists will have no rebuttal on this.
	You'll have to default to the right-wing position of being like, yeah, that's disgusting.
	Yes.
	So, zoophiles believe it's acceptable to be intimate with an animal and want the LGBTQ plus movement to add Z to its name.
	Rush Today spoke to one of them who very few would talk, and this person was someone called Toggle, who said that they would speak to Rush Today on this because of their dissatisfaction at how zoophiles are portrayed in the media.
	I'm surprised it hasn't been very accepting, frankly.
	I imagine The Guardian's got a bunch of op-eds in favour of them.
	He was adamant they cannot be excluded from Pride, no matter what the masses say.
	Zophiles are quintessentially queer, he says, but if you think Pride is a social event that you can be uninvited from, you misunderstand it on a fundamental level.
	Pride is a protest.
	Pride is about defiance against the society that doesn't want you to exist.
	And as you know, love is love.
	Love is love.
	That's the phrase.
	How are you going to keep them out, Pride organizers?
	Some people may have forgotten that, but I haven't.
	So people can say things on Twitter like zoo files aren't welcome at Pride, but they can't stop us from participating.
	Pride isn't something other people can take away from you unless you let them.
	Toggle is apparently attracted to male dogs, boars, stallions, and mares.
	Although he's not zoo exclusive, he is also attracted to humans.
	They don't say that he's subscribed to Vorsch, but I'm just going to assume he is.
	Sorry.
	Oh, God.
	To say zoophiles are queer.
	That's all what being queer is about.
	Well, there we go.
	I mean, there we have it.
	That's what pride's about, though.
	Douglas Murray is completely correct.
	There are homosexuals who are just gay, and that's their life, and that's the end of it.
	And then there's this.
	And then there's the zoophile leftists.
	And so we covered the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus.
	Like, as yesterday, they said that they were coming for your children, which is probably true, especially as it turns out that a bunch of people on the internet were checking around and, oh yeah, that's right, at least one of them appears to actually be a registered sex offender for having conducted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14.
	I only saw this one floating around.
	I believe he's not the only one.
	I saw some others in which some other people were picked out, but I can't verify them.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I wouldn't be surprised if there were more.
	What a shock.
	I posted this on Getter, so go follow me on Getter, just at CarlBenjamin and follow LotusEaters underscore com on Getter and all of our other social media networks, obviously.
	But anyway, so this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that China is just like, no.
	Just no.
	That's it.
	Because on WeChat, they've just erased all of the LGBT accounts.
	Just no.
	Just no!
	Wait, so gay accounts or LGBT accounts?
	LGBT. Right.
	I don't know much about Chinese homophobia.
	My understanding is it's a very homophobic place in general.
	Well, I imagine so.
	Against gays, not necessarily queers as we're defining them.
	So I don't know the situation, but...
	Pride flags on WeChat.
	We don't think so.
	But that's the thing.
	I mean, if you want gay toleration around the world, well, in a country like China that isn't, well, what are they going to see when they look to the West?
	Do you really think that's helping?
	Oh yeah, I can't imagine that this was uninformed by leftist Westerners, this decision.
	I mean, like, so dozens of these accounts, mostly run by university students, were deleted on Tuesday night, sparking fears of a tightening control over gay content.
	The closures have garnered a wave of online support for the LGBT community, with many asking students groups to hang in there and do not give up.
	It's like, hanging in what?
	It's been deplatformed, roundly deplatformed.
	But others welcomed the move, saying that it was about time that they were silenced.
	What's it like to have the shoe on the other foot, you...
	Eh?
	What's it like?
	What's it like when the power structures are actually against you and not your enemies?
	So when you're going, oh yeah, very good, very good, deplatforming all those Nazis that we hate, whether they are Nazis or not, obviously...
	In China, it's the other way around.
	It's like, sorry, don't have to have LGBT representation on our social media, so we won't.
	Gone.
	Suck it.
	That's what it is.
	Same with Soviet Union, though.
	It's just like the wave of people who define themselves as queers and then get interested in socialism.
	It's like, don't you know...
	These things don't go together.
	Do you think they like queers over in the Soviet Union?
	Anyway, China decriminalised homosexuality in 1997...
	But the LGBT community continues to face discrimination.
	And on Wednesday, at least two LGBT student groups issued statements in response saying, They want to wokeify China.
	I mean, if there's one way of destroying it, that'll do it.
	Exactly.
	Should we send them $10 million for gender studies programs?
	I think we should send them more.
	Meanwhile, I can't pronounce half of this, but another student university group said it was frustrated that years of hard work had been burned in one go.
	Don't say based, don't say based, don't say based.
	And these are two of China's top educational institutions.
	The US State Department was like, oh, we're concerned that their accounts have been deleted.
	Really?
	Not concerned that a sitting president was deplatformed by Silicon Valley, but a bunch of agitators and communist universities.
	You're like, oh, well, what about their free speech?
	Unreal.
	Unreal, but of course...
	Because, again, you completely lose your moral high ground, like, when you engage in this sort of thing, and then abroad.
	I mean, you take this with just...
	It's a perfect example.
	They're like, yeah, well, what about censorship in other countries?
	You do platform the president in a cabal situation.
	Yeah.
	And then you wrote an article in Time magazine bragging about it.
	Like, sorry, I've got no sympathy at all.
	Um...
	So yeah, other Chinese social media users did celebrate this, of course.
	I don't mind if the LGB community quietly does their own thing, but why do they have to keep shoving their ideals in my face through these groups?
	It's right to shut them down, said one person.
	Don't say based, don't say based, don't say based.
	Well, I don't know what these groups are.
	Like, I'm always a bit suspicious when it comes to, like, China or Russia talking in this language, because...
	They're leftist woke university groups.
	Have you confirmed that?
	Well, no, but that's what the BBC is saying.
	Right, okay.
	And I trust the BBC... How does it feel?
	After receiving relevant complaints, all content has been blocked and the account has been suspended, the notice said.
	Get what you deserve.
	Hungary is taking all of this quite far, though.
	They've decided to fine a bookshop over a picture book depicting LGBT families.
	So, the picture book, which I'm not going to try and pronounce, is a Hungarian translation combining two titles by a US author, Lawrence Schimmel and illustrator Alina Braslina.
	Early One Morning, which shows a young boy's morning with his two mothers, and Bedtime Not Playtime, in which a young girl with two fathers is reluctant to go to sleep.
	Reuters report that they were fined about £600 and the local authority blah blah blah.
	The Pest County Commissioner told Television Station, again all these names I'm not going to try and pronounce, that it had violated the rules on unfair commercial practices by failing to clearly indicate that the book contained content which deviates from the norm.
	And we have no authority in the UK to criticise them at all, because Count Dankula was fined £800 for a meme.
	Yeah.
	Well, look at the platforming to kill a mockingbird.
	Why?
	But I mean, in this case it's a fine, but it's like, oh no, how can Hungary find things that they find offensive?
	We do.
	We actually find Dankula more than they find this bookstore, incidentally.
	But the book was among other fairytale books and thus committed a violation, Tarnay said.
	There is no way of knowing that this book is about a family that is different than a normal family.
	And Schimmel wrote on Twitter that the Hungarian government is trying to normalise hate and prejudice with these concerted attacks against books like mine, which represents kids in the plural and diverse world they live in.
	I mean, it's a very marginal position.
	Okay.
	What do you mean?
	Well, okay, if we were to add up all the families, how many of them have heterosexual parents, and how many of them have gay parents?
	Yeah.
	And you'll find less than 1% are being represented in these books.
	Of course, the EU is not happy about this.
	Ursula von der Leyen has decided, no, you're going to become gay, or you're going to feel the full force of the law.
	LAUGHTER It's like an anti-China covering Europe.
	I'm just reminded of the meme.
	There's an image of, I think it was like a Russian riot policeman who's been attacked and he's got like blood on him and then he's got like a thing and there was a pride flag behind him.
	It was like the last straight man in 2019.
	I don't know what was going on in that situation but it's just the meme was funny.
	So, yeah, the European Union is basically turning into a sort of negative photograph of China.
	They're both governing the same way, but for different reasons.
	China's going to stop you being gay.
	They're going to make you go gay.
	Well, not just gay with the EU. Well, yeah.
	Yeah, of course.
	I'm just joking.
	But, yeah, so they are coming after Hungary.
	Speaking at the European Parliament on Wednesday, von der Leyen said that the law used the protection of children to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation and proclaimed that Europe would never allow parts of our society to be stigmatised.
	Germany banned English travellers.
	Moving on.
	The critical race teacher literally banned Brits from going to Germany.
	Why?
	Because we're salty.
	That's why.
	Salty, salty Germans.
	Their imperial project for the second time in like 200 years, the third time in 200 years, is falling apart.
	Anyway.
	The 10th Genocide?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Anyway, so...
	And the reason that this is all good, I mean, look at the way the response to critical race theory has been going.
	When it comes to teaching critical race theory, teachers should go on the offense with inquiry, according to Larry Falazzo, an English and social studies teacher at a high school in California.
	Just attacks on critical race theory and educators' efforts to teach about systemic racism happening through the country.
	Teachers will share how they plan to respond to these attacks.
	And basically, sum it up as, go on the offense, teach it anyway, and go and complain on social media about it.
	So Republicans, just purge.
	Purge everything.
	In your state, everyone who seems to even be in defense of critical race theory or like, well, I think there's something to this critical race theory, fired.
	Just fire them.
	Get rid of them.
	And if they're like, well, I'm going to teach it anyway, definitely get rid of them.
	I mean, if you want to go to a privately funded school and teach this nonsense, go for it.
	State money, new.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	Anything that has been funded with state money, just purge.
	Purge the lot.
	And so, yeah, there is very clearly a worldwide culture war going on with wokeness.
	And critical race theory, and the authoritarian regimes can see it for exactly what it is, and they're just going, no, we're shutting that down.
	And the woke authoritarians are going, no, you're going to be this, and we're going to be engaging in a French resistance against the people who are not prepared to go along with the new regime.
	Let's move on to the Trump suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
	So Trump is suing social media giants, Twitter, Facebook, and Google, I think, in a class action lawsuit.
	And this is the Guardian's reporting on it.
	And you can see that they put the word censorship in little quotations.
	Right.
	He's suing them for censorship.
	No, that's good.
	Sorry.
	Let me quickly restate my...
	China censored the LGBT accounts on Weibo.
	It was censorship in Hungary.
	It's hilarious.
	Yep.
	Just whenever it happens to someone, they're like, it's not real censorship.
	Real censorship's never been tried.
	Anyway.
	So the former president announced a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, and Google, claiming anti-conservative bias.
	Trump's...
	Trump...
	This writer's words as well, not mine.
	Trump was once an irresponsible, agenda-setting force on social media, but in the wake of January 6th's insurrection, was banned from Twitter and suspended from Facebook until at least 2023 because of the risk of inciting further violence.
	That's true.
	Trump was based on social media, got it.
	What a ruling, though.
	Ban until 2023.
	Yeah, this is a free world.
	This is how things should work.
	This isn't absurd.
	So Trump, sorry, Trump says, we're asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to order an immediate halt to social media companies illegal, shameful censorship of the American people.
	Trump said in a faux presidential setting of a blue lectern, white columns, and a dozen of U.S. flags at his golf club in Bedminster.
	I love the way they're trying to denigrate him by saying that.
	He's trying to pretend like he's the president.
	In America, it's just customary to call any ex-president Mr.
	President.
	Yeah.
	Like, if Obama did this, no one would be like, oh, what a fake.
	Exactly.
	He was the president, mate.
	Like, what are you?
	You're some journalist for the...
	Not even journalist, just some smear merchant for the Guardian, I should say.
	Yes.
	So, Trump continues, in which he says, we're demanding an end to the shadow banning, a stop to the silencing, a stop to the blacklisting, banishing and cancelling that you know so well.
	Our case will prove this censorship is unlawful, it's unconstitutional, and it's completely un-American.
	We all know that.
	We all know that very, very well, he added.
	Well, he's correct.
	Yeah, I mean, I love how they have to lay out his speech and it's just like, well, when you read the quotes, you're just right.
	Like, it is un-American.
	Yeah.
	The arguments about it being un-legal or constitutional, well, that's a legal debate.
	But we all know it's wrong.
	We all know the current situation in which the sitting president can be just taken out of the political sphere until 2023 isn't wrong.
	And that's only on one platform as well.
	On all the other platforms, they're just like, no.
	Permanently, forever.
	Till the year 10 million.
	Yeah.
	He's just gone.
	Until he's dead, presumably.
	Yeah.
	So the interesting thing about this is the Wall Street Journal actually gave him an op-ed in which he was able to explain his case, which...
	Yeah, that's good.
	The Wall Street Journal.
	Like the nonces who went after PewDiePie and tried to get him shut down.
	Lots of horrible people, but weird.
	They also published an opinion piece, an editorial from the editorial board today, or yesterday, saying that wokeness is a massive problem and it's infecting the school system, but we'll talk about that on Monday.
	It's also crashing on newspaper.
	Yeah, it's crashing on newspaper, it's tearing apart our societies.
	Yeah, so here's the article, Donald J. Trump, why I'm suing big tech.
	And he says in here, and it's pretty well written in its way.
	So one of the greatest threats to our democracy today is a powerful group of big tech corporations that have teamed up with government to censor the free speech of the American people.
	This is not only wrong, it's unconstitutional.
	To restore free speech for myself and for every American, I am suing big tech to stop it.
	Social media has become central to free speech as town hall meetings, newspapers and television networks were in prior generations.
	The internet is the new public square.
	In recent years, however, big tech platforms have become increasingly brazen and shameless in censoring and discriminating against ideas, information and people on social media, banning users, deplatforming organizations and aggressively blocking the free flow of information on which our democracy depends.
	And you can see how he's laying this out.
	He's like, look, he's not necessarily arguing point-by-point law, but just laying out, like, you know this is morally wrong, you know it undermines our entire system, and our system of liberal democracy cannot survive in a regime in which the free flow of information is blocked by a handful of people who are all of one political persuasion.
	That is no different than the king and his men being able to censor anything that is anti-king.
	Yes.
	I mean, he's right.
	Yeah.
	So he continues, big tech companies ban users from their platforms for publishing evidence that showed the coronavirus emerged from the Chinese lab, which even the corporate media now admits may be true.
	In the middle of the pandemic, big tech censored physicians from discussing potential treatments such as hydroxychloroquine.
	I suppose YouTube's going to point a gun at my head here to tell you that there's no evidence.
	It's totally false and doesn't work.
	Just so you know, that is actually a part of YouTube's editorial policies, is that we have to denounce hydroxychloroquine Not being chemists, we don't know anything about it.
	This is just his statements.
	I'm just saying Trump said that.
	In the weeks before a presidential election, the platform banned the New York Post, America's oldest newspaper, for publishing a story critical of Joe Biden's family, a story the Biden campaign did not even dispute, and still does not, because the evidence is uncontrovertible.
	They have his laptop, and it's his data that shows him being a degenerate.
	Which is why it got censored.
	And if it was Don Jr., would it have been censored?
	Or would the headlines everywhere, CNN, MSNBC, all of them be like, hey, Donald Trump Jr.'s son is a degenerate, doesn't this undermine his ideas of being a conservative?
	And that would be fine, and everyone would be fine with it.
	with it but no because it was jerry biden son had to be censored so he says in recent weeks after the election big tech has blocked the social media accounts of the city presidents if they can do it to me they could do it to you and believe me they are in recent years we have all watched congress haul big tech ceos before their committees and demand that they censor false stories or disinformation labels determined by an army of partisan fact checkers loyal only to the democratic party that's completely true i I love that he's got all this.
	He's got it all.
	Stephen Miller did a very good job writing this.
	Big Tech and traditional media entities formed the Trusted News Initiative, which essentially takes instructions from the CDC about what information they need to combat.
	Combating information.
	The tech companies are doing the government's bidding, colluding to censor unapproved ideas.
	And this is the legal part of it.
	private companies have set up a cabal with government departments in this case the cdc and they are doing the government's bidding the government doesn't have the right to censor people for disagreeing with the cdc and they are essentially using private companies as a means to do it which is a bridge of the constitution because the government shouldn't have this power and this faux version of doing it which is we all know true is disgusting this coercion and uncoord this coercion and coordination is unconstitutional the
	The Supreme Court has held that Congress can't use private actors to achieve what the Constitution prohibits from itself doing.
	In effect, Big Tech has been illegally deputizing as a form of censorship from the US government to the private companies.
	Yeah, legally deputized as the censorship arm of the US government.
	And that's true.
	I think that's very true.
	So my understanding is the legal rules of this.
	So the legal part of this is most people think it's going to be unsuccessful across the board from lawyer types.
	And the reason for this is, as with every other anti-censorship lawsuit that has come before them, they can just be like, yeah, I brought a private company.
	We can do what we want.
	Yeah.
	That's not the reality, and everyone knows it.
	That's what kills me about reading this, because it's just like, Trump is completely right, you know he's right.
	Even leftists have been posting that, yeah, this is the situation, as we've seen from the Twitter this morning.
	And the law will not come down on his side, most likely, which is...
	Yeah, I agree.
	I don't think he's going to win this.
	It's awful.
	But anyway, let's go to the BBC version of this, which they also put in quotes, alleging censorship...
	What does it mean when the sitting president is deplatformed from every social media and banks and all the others on the same day?
	How is that not censorship?
	It's just combating hate.
	Of course it is.
	The Chinese Communist Party is just combating hate.
	Yep.
	So the only interesting thing about this is they rerun it, but then the analyst at the bottom is very, very happy about the whole thing as he writes, Donald Trump's muzzling on social media has been extremely effective.
	What?
	Not censorship.
	Muzzling!
	But we muzzled him.
	Okay.
	This lawsuit illustrates, if it were needed, just how important the big tech social media companies are to him.
	A key strategy of Trumpianism is being able to speak directly to voters, bypassing traditional media.
	What a condemnation of everything that isn't Trumpism, then, in the American system.
	Yeah.
	Like, they need the gatekeeping of corporate media, whereas Trumpism can just speak to the voters and convince them.
	The Biden ideology of whatever he's promoting relies on corporate media.
	And gatekeeping and the participation of the Silicon Valley cartel and all of the others.
	It's also pointing out it's the key strategy of his entire ideology and campaign, in which case the entire right-wing movement in the United States is currently banned.
	It's de facto banned, and as Trump points out, in collusion with the state.
	So, I don't know what else to say other than, in effect, de facto, may not be du jour, but de facto, a large part of the right wing of the United States is being criminalised and banned by the state.
	As a deliberate attempt to exclude them from politics.
	That's the point.
	So, Facebook proved particularly important to Trump, giving him access to millions of Americans at the click of a button.
	Experts believe that the lawsuit will be unlikely to succeed.
	And Trump desperately wants to get back on your newsfeed, but that may not be likely to happen anytime soon.
	Again, it's just the analyst here pointing out what everyone knows to be true, which is you guys are very happy about this.
	You know it's muzzling, and yet you put censorship.
	And this isn't sustainable.
	You know this isn't sustainable.
	You can't just block half the country's ideology from being able to be represented in the public square.
	It'd be like, yeah, that's problem solved.
	We'll have to deal with that again.
	I mean, how are you not like...
	People don't exist.
	How are you not like communist China?
	It's the thing, me being like, ha ha ha, what's it like to get the institutions against you?
	Well, I already know.
	We already know.
	Donald Trump already knows.
	And it's not like it's less than 1% of Chinese people who are LGBT. It's half of their entire country.
	And this isn't when we're just dealing with deplatforming.
	Because, of course, with the shadow banning thing that he mentions, this is something Chinese censors are very proud of.
	You can go watch South China Morning Post, and they've done a series on the Chinese censors who censor Weibo and whatnot and livestreams.
	And they are very proud, and they're like, yeah, we have smart censorship.
	We're very intelligent here with our censorship.
	They're like, oh, what do you mean?
	He's like, well, if someone's looking up anti-communist party stuff, we just slow their internet down, so then they just get bored and go elsewhere.
	So yeah, I mean, you can access it, but it's really hard, and therefore people don't.
	They're extremely proud of that fact, and that is what we have implemented in the West, in the United States.
	That's basically Twitter.
	You get very few interactions, you just don't bother with it.
	Getting shadow banned, so on and so forth.
	This is just the Chinese, what they are proud of.
	They call it censorship.
	The censorship department is happy of it.
	Then what is Twitter's department doing the same thing?
	They are a censorship department, and they're doing it for the state.
	So let's just talk about some of Trump's loyalist supporters, because I found this article really funny and it kind of ties in here.
	So this is going undercover to infiltrate the Chinese-American far-right networks.
	This is good fun.
	So the person here who is unnamed, the 33 Australian researcher who asked for our name not to be used in this article, tiptoes her way through these far-right Chinese-American networks as an undercover infiltrator to understand how disinformation flows through the diaspora.
	Oh, disinformation.
	Disinformation, yeah.
	False claims of voter fraud, in particular, spread like wildfire among the extremely conservative Chinese immigrants of North America.
	I assume the BBC have investigated these claims, even though no one else has, right?
	A small group, a small but vocal group among the diaspora communities.
	The Chinese Americans who support Trump, they're saying they're a small group.
	They really shouldn't be, if they are.
	So they also mention about them donating to the Proud Boys as if that's some kind of massive sin.
	Like, this is proof that you're an extremist.
	And they say, Yeah, but the Canadian government's run by a communist.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	The Proud Boys are a meme.
	They're a meme set up by Gavin McGuinness, a man who, if you call far right, I'm just going to endlessly post pictures of him making out with Milo at you.
	But Justin Trudeau lets the Chinese Communist Party do military drills in their country.
	He sits there and says, oh, I'm really envious of China's ability to run a one-party state because it would make government very much more efficient.
	And they're like, oh yeah, they're bad.
	Shut up.
	What was it?
	Go put on some more blackface.
	Jesus Christ.
	Was it the biggest chapter?
	I think it was the Florida chapter of the Proud Boys, run by Mexican as well, so it's like...
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, I mean, Enrico Tarrio, I think it was, the Cuban, the black Cuban immigrant man.
	Yep.
	Neofascism.
	The leader of the Proud Boys because they're white supremacists.
	They're not socialists, they can't be.
	It doesn't make sense.
	But yeah, so the message starts with a poignant line in Chinese.
	For those who pave the road to freedom, do not leave them struggling with thorns and thistles.
	Followed by a rose and heart emojis, as well as links to the crowdfunding site.
	While the Proud Boys are an anti-immigration group...
	I don't know if they are.
	Not sure.
	In the eyes of the Chinese-American far right, they are freedom fighters against communist forces.
	I mean, that's definitely how they see themselves.
	Because they fled communism, because communism is awful.
	Again, trying to put them down here.
	I'm sure there are far-right groups.
	I'm sure there are fascist Chinese in America, but that's not what these people are.
	Otherwise, they wouldn't support Trump.
	It wouldn't make any sense.
	Seriously, I don't know if the Proud Boys are anti-immigrant, you know.
	But I definitely think they view themselves as freedom fighters against communism.
	Yeah, and if the BBC doesn't, I'm worried.
	So in less than a month, the fundraiser raised over $100,000, according to the data provided to a whistleblower.
	So they raised the money.
	Of nearly 1,000 individual contributions, more than 80% came from donors with Chinese surnames.
	Oh, we're profiling them now, are we?
	You've got a surname that sounds Chinese.
	You're going on the naughty list.
	Yeah.
	Although it is interesting that the money being raised is apparently largely coming from the Chinese population of the United States.
	The people who fled to America with the ideals of the American dream in their head and freedom and prosperity.
	They're the ones who want to protect those and help those people who are standing up for freedom and prosperity.
	What a shock.
	Yeah, like all the polls over here are just like, yeah, communism, and then they just look at you like, well, yeah.
	So, a Chinese-American woman who gifted $500 to USA Today.
	Told USA Today.
	Told USA Today.
	You have to understand how we feel.
	We came from communist China, and we've managed to come here, and we appreciate it so much.
	So please don't turn us into communist China is what she's saying, leftists.
	Yeah.
	So, many are propelled to right-wing political sphere by the opposition to affirmative action.
	E-N-O-S. A policy that aims to reduce inequality in education and employment.
	Communism.
	No, it doesn't.
	It aims to increase it, let's be honest.
	Well, no, even if that's the aim.
	Even if, right, we want everyone to be exactly the same.
	That's not freedom.
	That's communism.
	But it's seen by some Chinese Americans as damaging to educational opportunities of their children and grandchildren.
	Because it is.
	It should be seen by all.
	Also, all white students.
	All Indian families as well.
	Oh, absolutely.
	And any other group that just overtakes the mean.
	I mean, the West Africans are probably up there now.
	Oh, doubtless.
	So many believe baseless claims that Biden is closely coordinating with China.
	What?
	He's like, I've spent more time with Xi Jinping than any other world leader.
	Or even controlled by Beijing, citing his son Hunter Biden's previous business ties with Chinese companies.
	It's only because of all the millions of dollars they give the Biden family?
	But look at the double thing there.
	Baseless claims that he's controlled based on the fact that his son has business ties with Chinese companies.
	And we know that the stacks are going to the big guy.
	Baseless.
	But based on this.
	Amazing.
	Amazing.
	But yeah, that's what's going on with that lawsuit.
	And also, I love that the Chinese Americans are rising up against communism.
	Yeah, defund the BBC. In fact, speaking of the BBC. So, the Communists, I regret to inform you, are coming for the Shires.
	They want to diversify the Shires, which means colonise.
	They want to colonise the Shires.
	And it's because they can't stand Englishness.
	As we get a nice write-up on Novara Media about this, because, of course, in the grip of football fever and the England team winning victory after victory...
	The communists are like, well hang on a second, this isn't going to lead us in some kind of English nationalism.
	We're not going to be patriotic towards the country that we live in and the team that we're supporting, are we?
	Because that would be awful against communism.
	They say, after all of the victories of England so far, all of this means that English euphoria, read nationalistic fervour, is at an all-time high.
	Their shops have sold out of England's shirts, and you'll be hard-pressed to find a room in a pub where they face Denmark in the semi-final tonight.
	This enthusiasm, which they won, incidentally, this enthusiasm has only increased the result of how nice this year's squad is, whether it's Gareth Southgate's redemption narrative, Byakko Saka grinning on an inflatable unicorn, Yeah, if you're a radical leftist, you're like, yeah, they're allies.
	Great.
	Which is something you'd have been hard-pressed to say about some of the previous England squads.
	Oof.
	Thrown under the bus.
	These kinds of fuzzy feelings lead people to being easily seduced by the patriotic nature of international football.
	Outside of a successful tournament context, supporting England is seen as an unfashionable, best left to bald white men draped in the St George's flag.
	Just a moment of solidarity with North FC. But seriously, that's how we've immediately gone on to the condescending race and class rejection.
	But they've also defined themselves as we're only interested because we want wokeism.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	If they're woke, we like them.
	If not, they're gammons, is what they're saying.
	But after a couple of victories, the wider public understandably wants to be part of the collective joy, which is the only reason you're talking about this.
	Suddenly it has become acceptable to get behind the national team.
	As if it's not acceptable to be behind the national team normally.
	And as a result, the supposedly necessary patriotism of the game starts to take on a new form.
	The key difference here is it seems to come down to class background.
	As soon as middle class people get involved, the patriotism that was previously seen as vulgar quickly becomes palatable.
	Yes.
	That's you.
	That's you, the insufferable middle classes.
	This particular brand of patriotism celebrates the range of backgrounds represented in the England squad without questioning the hostile immigration system that would attempt to stop their parents or grandparents from arriving here today.
	Cry about it.
	It becomes apparent how woefully fragile such a position is when England loses.
	All of the fanfare and support immediately falls away.
	Footballers are once again spoiled and overpaid.
	Their fans are once again racist hooligans.
	And the middle classes fade away, waiting for the next sporting event that they can co-opt for their liberal lands.
	Yeah, I agree with you on the middle class, to be honest.
	The communists aren't wrong about the Portuguese.
	If there is a bigger problem in the UK, it's not anything other than the middle class.
	How can we embrace a nationalism that so easily discards those claims to celebrate?
	Good question.
	What is the point of a patriotism that only ever hangs in the warm summer air after an England victory in a couple of pints?
	Great point.
	But communists aren't patriotic, are they?
	Despite seeming like a man who never watched a football match in his life, Boris Johnson was quick to post pictures of himself and videos of himself watching the game against Germany, while also showing images of himself posing on a gigantic central George's Cross before England's quarterfinal match against Ukraine.
	Bear in mind this is the same Prime Minister who refused to condemn the England supporters for booing their own players when they took the knee.
	Yeah, so he's being consistent.
	He's pro-Britain, pro-England, and he's anti-communist.
	That's fine.
	They're free to boo their own players if their own players are, say, zig-heiling, or taking a knee for communism, or whatever else it is.
	They're completely free to do that, and it is not inconsistent.
	All of these behaviours, whether by the government or the public, focus on Englishness as an organising principle.
	Ah, you can see the problem here.
	Englishness as an organising principle?
	In England?
	That's not very communist of you.
	How dare you, sir!
	Centering the country as the place where our loyalties must ultimately lie.
	Thank you for admitting that you're a traitor.
	Thank you for admitting your loyalties lie, not to the country and the people who live in it, but to something else.
	You are nationalists for communism.
	Despite this, it is still possible to celebrate the England team without engaging in nationalistic hysteria.
	Is it?
	Indeed, the values these players embody are actually far removed from such fervor.
	There we go.
	That's the part that people are booing.
	The imported foreign values of communism that are being imposed on the rest of the country.
	While those who embrace patriotism look to celebrate the country as it is, England's current squad have turned their hand to improving it.
	Instead of posturing, they take action.
	Whether they win the Euros or not, there's plenty for us, the communists, to be proud of.
	This was basically replicated in The Guardian, which is essentially the same message.
	So you can see that the radical left have got the same sort of narrative that they're going to be pushing forward on.
	No, no, no.
	You know, the England team awoke and therefore they're ours.
	But I'll move on just to the next bit.
	We don't need to go through it because it's basically the same message.
	But yeah, so this of course is being noticed by just people, regular people.
	And this chap posted this video on YouTube and a message to England from an Irishman.
	This is interesting.
	Hello English people and to a lesser extent the Welsh.
	As you may be aware there is quite a lot of history between our two nations.
	What with all the invasion, colonisation, starvation and population decimation and whatnot.
	But I'm not here to criticize you or your genocidal ways.
	I'm just here to tell you that despite being a big bunch of prods, that I actually don't mind if you win.
	As you're made up of a team of immigrants and there's nothing the English love more than immigrants.
	Be they Irish, African, French, German, after all your queen is a German, or whatever else.
	So good luck England, or as we say in Ireland, Chucky our law.
	I mean, he's not wrong there.
	He's got us completely.
	It's the one thing the English love, it's immigrants.
	He's not wrong about the immigration either.
	One of those sort of leftist publications has been popping up, keeps posting things like this, being like, see, there wouldn't be an England team without immigration.
	It's like, look, this is really saying things that maybe you don't want said.
	Because if you're like, look, if your team is being represented by people from overseas, it's either, I mean, it makes the English team look positively imperial, to be honest.
	It also looks like a far-right meme.
	It very much looks like a far-right meme.
	England without immigration.
	Wait, what happened to all the English?
	Yes, that's exactly the point.
	It looks very much like a far-right meme.
	Your players have been replaced with foreigners, and the left are pleased about this, and the far-right, I guess, are furious about this.
	But the point is, this is in everyone's faces.
	The team is not very English.
	And so this leads us on to the question of England and Englishness.
	There's a very, very good article published in The Telegraph, which is not something I say often.
	Not that I dislike The Telegraph, it's just usually it's incredibly milquetoast.
	But this is a fantastic one.
	England has been denied the voice it deserves by elites who would rather Englishness doesn't exist.
	As we saw with the Novara Media article, which replicates the general tone and tenor of the Westminster view on England and Englishness, they can't stand it.
	And so Nick Timothy here makes some really, really great points.
	When pundits ask, well, what is England other than the sports team in Shakespeare?
	He goes through and gives a very large and voluminous explanation, but I'm not going to go through it now because there's not enough time.
	But he says, the answer is rather a lot, but it suits many to pretend that English identity is non-existent or negative because it excuses their own failure to respect the English and the status of England.
	They seem to hope that if Englishness must be appeased, they can make sure that whatever follows is an elite-led project where they can keep everything civilised, as in in their own order.
	And that's right.
	That's exactly what Navarro media are worried about.
	Wait, what if this breaks out and people are just patriotic for the country they live in, and the culture in which they have been born and raised, and the people with whom they identify?
	What if they're patriotic towards that?
	That's going to create unity among the classes.
	That's going to create a general happiness and merriment in the country, and we can't have that.
	There's no revolution coming out of that.
	That, in fact, seems like the sort of conservative, reactionary political body that might resist communism.
	Anyway, so he says,"...from philosophy to science and inventions to the arts, English culture is rich with significance.
	It is needlessly destructive to ignore, denigrate, or misrepresent it.
	Or it's purposely destructive." If you're a communist, why wouldn't you engage in that purpose?
	All of this matters profoundly.
	Shared identity is what allows us to recognize familiarity and strangers, and that familiarity, psychologists attest, encourages trust and solidarity and willingness to make sacrifices for others.
	You and I might have never met, but we have a language, places, habits, customs, and shared history, culture, and stories to help us trust one another.
	This national shared identity means we can look beyond the narrower identities, racial, religious, regional, whatever, that divide us.
	Now this is a very, very important point, because this is why when you go for a walk in the countryside and you bump into someone you don't know, you don't suddenly think, oh god, they might be here to kill me, because you know, as an Englishman, they're just out for a walk for their dog or something like this, you know.
	The shared assumptions that you have of the personal respect for one another, how you should treat one another, are embedded in what are local communities.
	And it's likely that it's going to be someone you know if it's someone in your local community that you bump into as you're walking.
	Even if you don't, you say hello or goodbye.
	Exactly.
	In the city, you don't.
	There are certain kinds of shibboleths, ways of knowing that the person is culturally compatible with yourself.
	They're on your side, effectively.
	You're all in it together.
	That's the basic theme of what is being said here.
	And it allows you to feel safe and secure and trusting of your environment.
	And this is what a high-trust society looks like, where people have these shared values and actually care about the quality of each other's lives.
	And so he says, A UK government was elected mainly by English voters,
	thinking of issues that devolved elsewhere makes no sense to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
	If one day we end up with a UK government elected with no English majority, but expected to determine policies in England that are devolved elsewhere, we will face a constitutional crisis.
	English votes on English laws does not resolve this issue, and there can be no return to the unitary state of old.
	The only sustainable remaining solution is an English parliament and English government within a federal UK, supported by a political culture that respects and cherishes pride in England, This is a great point, because England has definitely gone neglected since the fall of the Empire.
	There's no question of it.
	And I really hate the way things are going here at the moment.
	But I don't really like the idea of a new English Parliament.
	I mean, our Parliament is Westminster, so why is it being occupied by the Celts?
	Moving on.
	So this is, it's not gone unnoticed by the left, the leftists who work at the BBC, that the countryside is full of English people.
	Just riddled with them.
	Absolutely riddled with these ramblers walking their dogs and closing the gates as they walk through fields and saying morning to each other as they go past, you know, and kids running around on the fields and like, you know, hitting stinging nettles with sticks and things like this.
	It's terrible.
	It's got to stop.
	It's got to stop.
	And this is literally described as racism.
	Rural racism in Dorset.
	Why is our countryside 98% white?
	98% English?
	Like, it's not full of Germans!
	I don't know what they were expecting either.
	Yeah, exactly!
	Oh my god!
	Like, if I walk around the English countryside, I'm literally met by English face after English face.
	Not a single Frenchman among them.
	Bizarre.
	But anyway, obviously the BBC being riddled with race grifters can't describe this as anything other than race, even though that's not the salient quality here.
	But they say the death of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests may have seemed a distant reality as many people endorse it.
	I guess they probably did.
	What the hell have the good people of Dorset got to do with it?
	That'll be because it's distant.
	It's not near.
	In the predominantly rural county, the population is 97.9% white.
	Sure.
	And what's wrong with that?
	But they're not 97.9% French, are they?
	Or Spanish, or Italian, or all these other places that I'm busy calling non-white.
	Saying white doesn't mean they're full of Russians.
	It means they're full of the English.
	But also, what's the problem?
	Why'd you bring that up?
	Exactly.
	Why would it be a problem?
	Why does that cause you emotional harm?
	What's your bigotry?
	What is your bigotry that causes you that harm?
	Exactly.
	Are you not concerned about indigenous populations?
	Because that's what that is.
	If, if any, if anyone's indigenous to anywhere, the English are indigenous to England.
	So why is that an issue?
	Why do you feel the need to colonize that leftists at the BBC? But as some of, as some of the 2.1% who do not identify as white can testify, racism can be just as much of a problem in the countryside as in our cities.
	Oh God.
	Well, maybe you should Also, that makes the city sound awful.
	Yeah, I mean, the cities are awful.
	Good God.
	But, like, the racism in the multicultural cities is off the charts.
	They're like, yeah, the countryside's just as bad.
	Right, okay, so the multicultural city and the area that's 99% white both have the same amount of racism, do they?
	So then we don't need to import people to end racism.
	That's not going to work.
	Why the hell do you live here?
	If I went to a country where I thought there was actually like an anti-English animus...
	Pakistan?
	Like in Pakistan, right?
	And I was like, oh my god, everyone in Pakistan really hates the English.
	I wouldn't live there.
	I just wouldn't do it.
	I would think that would be a silly thing.
	I might find a country that was mostly English and live there.
	That would be sensible.
	But, of course, this isn't going to last forever, given the way things are going.
	Jag Patel moved to Gillingham 18 years ago with his wife, where they bought a newspaper shop and started a family.
	Mr Patel, who now works as a taxi driver in the capital, can recount numerous incidents, including abuse shattered from people in passing cars, being stopped by a woman who openly asked, why did you come here?
	Why didn't you go to your own country and buy a shop?
	What's wrong with that?
	Why didn't you?
	It was a fair question as well.
	Yeah.
	Like, if I was in Spain and I'd brought a shop there, and the Spanish guy asked me that question, I'd be like, I want to be in Spain.
	Weather's better.
	Well, yeah, what was his answer?
	You know?
	I don't know.
	That's not abuse.
	That's a perfectly poignant question to ask anyone who's not from the area.
	But the thing is, he's acting like there wasn't a community there.
	Like, he's just gone and imposed himself in this new community.
	They're like, oh, why have you come here?
	We should have an answer, surely.
	Yeah.
	I mean, why did you buy the house?
	Because you like the local community is the easy answer.
	I really like the area.
	The people seem really nice.
	And I'm looking forward to fitting in is the correct answer.
	Because then they'll be like, oh, right, okay, then.
	Because that seems non-threatening and harmless.
	And that's you becoming a part of integrated into the relational structure.
	Because one thing I think that the big city folk don't understand about the provincial country rubes...
	Is that there's someone nice to raise my kids, as John says.
	There's a very thick and old series of relationships that exist in local communities like this.
	And so anyone from the outside, anyone at all, gets looked at as if they're foreign.
	I mean, I've had this experience when I lived in Cornwall.
	I mean, I'm not, you know, from Cornwall, and I obviously don't sound like I'm from Cornwall.
	And so when I walked into like a local corner shop, I would get literally the same questions.
	Why are you here?
	What are you doing here?
	That's fine.
	And that's fine because obviously, you know, they have a local community that they want to make sure remains as it is.
	He said, coming from London, I wasn't used to anyone speaking to me in that way because I grew up in quite a multicultural area.
	Yeah, but you're amazed that someone could speak English at you.
	Sorry, I don't speak Urdu.
	I don't know what to tell you, you know.
	But that was easy.
	The lady coming up to me honestly was easy because someone is coming up to me and telling me her intentions.
	What's difficult is when people come to the shop and they quite clearly have a face at you.
	What does that mean?
	They have a face.
	Alright.
	And it's at him.
	I'm sure he'll live.
	And he didn't like it, which is why he lived there.
	Criminologist and co-author of Rural Racism, Professor Neil Chakraborty...
	English patriot, no doubt.
	Describes that face as covert racism.
	They say it to literally every foreigner.
	Honestly, going into a corner shop in Cornwall, I know what he's talking about.
	I know exactly what he's talking about.
	It's not because they were racist against me.
	They just were like, you're not from here.
	I don't know who you are.
	I don't know what your values are.
	I don't know whether you're about to rob my shop.
	I don't know anything about you.
	Unlike everyone else who comes in the shop who I know, you know, because it's a local community.
	But anyway, this is a covert racism.
	What happens to a brown person, but when it happens to a white person, I guess it's not.
	He just said, I know where you're going.
	You're going to work.
	We get a lot of carers down from London.
	So this is another point here where he says that the covert racism there of having a face put at you leaves the victim not knowing if they've been discriminated against.
	But if they don't know if they're experiencing discrimination, why are we talking about racism?
	That's so weak.
	I may have been discriminated against.
	How?
	I'm not sure.
	I feel it.
	He gave me a face.
	Okay.
	So this next story is from the Ghanaian lady.
	Right, right.
	So there's a Ghanaian lady who...
	Half Ghanaian, I should say.
	Half Ghanaian, sorry.
	I was the only person with brown skin in the countryside.
	Okay.
	What can be done about this?
	Anyway, she says, she encounters someone and he said, I know where you're going.
	You're going to work.
	We get a lot of carers down from London.
	They go off and look after people and they get back on the train to London.
	I said, I'm just going home, actually.
	I'm a writer.
	He assumed, looking at the colour of my skin, that I was a care worker and in his head, that's the only reason a black person could be at a train station in Dorchester.
	I think there are probably worse incidences.
	Also, there's not many black people there, so he thinks you're from London.
	This is not the end of the world.
	It's not even racism.
	It's just him making a reasonable inference.
	Inference, yeah.
	But the thing is, this is happening in Swindon now.
	There are loads of people who have moved from London, because obviously London's a left-wing hellhole, and they want to escape it, and so they've decided to come and colonise Swindon.
	It's like, no.
	Go home.
	Go back to London.
	No, seriously.
	Go back to California.
	Go back to New York.
	Go back to London and live in the mess you've created.
	Or go somewhere else, you know?
	There are communities and people who live and don't want to have their lives uprooted by you guys coming in and going, oh, I don't like it here.
	You're not treating me the way I expected to be treated in London.
	You're not in London.
	Deal with it.
	Or leave.
	Anyway, it gives you a feeling of, oh, okay, people don't see me as belonging here because of the colour of my skin and the texture of my hair.
	No!
	They don't see you as belonging there because you're not from there.
	You don't belong there.
	You belong somewhere else.
	That's why.
	It's nothing to do with your skin colour.
	It's about the fact that you're foreign.
	And I know this firsthand because I was foreign to the places that I moved to as well.
	This is part of being a forces brat.
	You get to move everywhere and find out you're foreign everywhere.
	But the thing is, it also gives you an appreciation when you start trying to integrate yourself into the community.
	You actually say hello to your neighbours and you actually say hello to people on the streets and things like this.
	You don't have to be just some sort of London atomised, like, Well, I don't think she was.
	She was actually, she says she's from the West Country.
	But then it's the point of just being like, well, why do you not act like this is fine?
	Yeah.
	Like, why are you so surprised by this?
	But it's nothing to do with the colour of your skin and the texture of your hair.
	It's to do with the fact that you're not from there.
	This is my home in terms of my culture.
	I'm a white West Country person, but in my looks, I look like I'm from somewhere else.
	Right, okay, so, like, how is it they don't know who you are?
	If you're from there, how do they not know who you are?
	When you walk into a room and you're the only person of colour, you stand out.
	You feel different.
	I can't blend into the landscape around you.
	You just feel like everyone...
	But really, you just feel like everyone else.
	I'm British.
	Well, they're English.
	Why don't you feel English?
	Why aren't you acting English?
	Is it because you're race?
	There's also the idea that you walk in somewhere and you're like, I'm the only brown person there.
	How horrible this experience has been for me.
	Have you ever been to Tower Hamlets?
	Have you ever been to Birmingham?
	Have you ever been to other parts of the country?
	If we can get up the first image here.
	The next image there.
	This is Sajid Javid's school in Lancashire.
	But, you know, being the only brown person in an area is the worst injustice someone can feel.
	In fact, it's so much injustice that the BBC should write an article about it.
	This is nothing.
	Move on.
	Not interesting.
	Not interesting at all.
	So if we can go back to the article, there's just one more thing I thought was worth mentioning on here because we have time to wrap up, in which she says that we're talking about George Floyd again because why not, I guess.
	So...
	If we see a black African-American man being killed at the hands of the police in America, it might feel as though it's got nothing to do with us.
	Nothing to do with Dorset, she said.
	It's because I don't.
	But actually, it was white men from Dorset and the West Country who left the area, travelled around the world, colonised other countries, set up plantations, enslaving people, and they were some of the first people who were instrumental in setting up the systems of white supremacy we see today.
	Oh, I'm glad we can pin white supremacy, plantation slavery and all that onto Dorset.
	Yeah, the current people in Dorset, all their fault.
	So when George Floyd is killed by a cop in America, that's Dorset's fault.
	And the people of Dorset aren't rising up and that's their shame.
	How can you do this?
	This whole thing is ridiculous.
	But that was her again, where it's just like, look, the way you think is what makes me wonder whether people are confused about you.
	Because you're insane.
	Yeah, I don't believe it.
	Because, I mean, you live in these local communities, and just after a while, they get used to it.
	Remember the one we did about the 40-year-old journalist who moved down to some very rural area in Cornwall or something like that?
	And she's like, oh my god, they're acting like I'm a foreigner from somewhere else.
	You are.
	I mean, she got treated exactly the same way as that lady, because you are...
	She was acting foreign to the area.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You're acting foreign.
	You're acting like it's weird that you're there, and that's because it kind of is, you know?
	Why are you there?
	You're there to take advantage of the community they have set up, and you don't want to integrate yourself into that community and follow their values, follow their standards.
	You want to kind of impose your London-centric view on things.
	Well, in this case, the Yankee and Yaf left his view of blaming the people of Dorset for George Floyd's death.
	Sigh.
	And slavery.
	And segregation and everything else, presumably.
	Let's end it there.
	So we're going to go to the video comments.
	First thing I wanted to mention, though, was we had a video comment from a guy called Nicholas, who we're going to address now because he used a clip of Caesar from Caesar's Legion, and it was copyrighted, so we couldn't use it, but it was a great comment.
	So it was just showing, like, California and how degenerate it's become with corruption and homelessness problem and all the rest of it, and Caesar being like, yeah, I mean, look at it, it's degenerate.
	You need to play New Vegas.
	But he says, when's the podcast on why Caesar was right?
	And to be honest, I really do want to do a podcast on just the factions from New Vegas and discuss them.
	Well, I haven't played it.
	But you do need to play it.
	You know what?
	If you live-streamed it as well, I bet it'd be really good.
	I bet it would.
	I bet it would.
	I wish I had the time.
	Too busy reading this goddamn Critical Race Theory textbook.
	I'm going to force you to play it at some point, and we are going to do some podcast on that, because that'll be great.
	It'll be great fun.
	But otherwise, let's start with the comments we can play.
	Okay.
	Hello, Lotus Eaters.
	One quick note.
	This...
	This is soccer and this, this is football.
	I don't get it.
	No, I have no idea what the difference is.
	Carl or Callum, whichever one of you it was that said that you find it embarrassing that religion was never able to make a good argument for itself, let me just say something as briefly as possible, without just making this really long and making this into multiple days.
	It actually has made good arguments for itself in the past.
	However, we have the dogmatic atheist, the militant radical atheist, who, um, you know how the leftists refuse to admit Donald Trump did anything right at all ever?
	Same thing with the militant radical atheists and religion.
	Same kind of problem.
	I mean, I agree.
	They're reminding me.
	So the reason it's soccer is because they're kneeling, and football is when people play football.
	Ah, right, okay.
	Okay, well, I'm happy with that.
	But no, I mean, I think he makes a good point.
	Like, the militant radical atheists say, well, everything about religion is bad.
	Well, if that was the case, it wouldn't have persisted for such a long time.
	Carl, you are thinking about the why would a father need a reason to defend his children too logically, okay?
	Adam, Zeus is asking Adam this because, Adam, you could just hide in the Garden of Eden and escape humanity being destroyed and left extinct.
	You could just hide and never deal with the consequences of anything and be a terrible father like me.
	So why?
	Why, Adam, are you defending your children?
	Why would I need a reason?
	I'm a dad.
	That's why his dad isn't right.
	I haven't seen the anime, so I don't know. so I don't know.
	I like this place and I'm like the respectful of it.
	If there is no interest in summaries, I can stop.
	Also, I'm fully aware my voice is quiet and monotone.
	I'm trying to speak clearly and improve, believe it or not.
	Sorry.
	No, it's fine.
	What's the dragon?
	Oh, it's Jordan Peterson's thing.
	There we go.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The Dragon of Chaos, which he's trying to explain the archetypal stories.
	I've never actually read that.
	No, I've not read it either.
	But I'm sure it's good.
	This is a terrible idea.
	Yeah, I'm just gonna see where the waders are coming.
	That was perfect.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	I don't know if you're just prying around and you're like, yeah, I'm going to send that in.
	That's great.
	I love the way they had to put on this as a fake frog.
	No real frogs at hand.
	Yeah.
	Hello, Cedars.
	Two things.
	One, if anyone ever makes a race report intro, it needs to include the four-second audio clip.
	When you look at those numbers, it feels really low, like there isn't a problem at all.
	It's got to include that.
	Secondly, I very recently discovered Count Dankula's Mad Lad series.
	It's amazing.
	I think there's over 60 episodes.
	I've only seen about 20 of them, but they're great.
	So my question is, who's your favorite Mad Lad that isn't Alcibiades?
	And do you have any that you recommend I watch for this weekend?
	Has he done one on Hannibal yet?
	He probably hasn't.
	I'm going to bully him into doing one on Hannibal.
	It's got to be Killdozer.
	Yeah, it's got to be Killdozer, isn't it?
	Killdozer's best one.
	Genuine hero of the people.
	What you're looking at is a forest in West Virginia.
	What I was trying to say in my original video was that you're looking at Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
	Now, that was a 15-minute walk from my house, and while I loved living in a walkable city with such rich history and, you know, the Liberty Bell right across the way and the Constitution Center, it was not worth it to live among the progressive violence and everyone just assuming that you're a liberal.
	And so I had to leave.
	So that was my initiation leaving to Texas.
	I'm honestly looking for Bigfoot.
	What?
	Was it with you?
	I just think I can see one.
	But she makes a good point.
	I mean, it's also with...
	I can't imagine myself ever going and living in London.
	No.
	A myriad of problems with it.
	I mean, not to mention the crime and all the rest of it.
	The politicisation of it is unbelievable.
	Never.
	Never.
	Build a wall.
	Push London into the ocean.
	I don't know.
	In the Bible, the Israelites want a king, so they send Samuel to talk to God, and God's like, wait, what?
	No, that sounds like a terrible idea.
	He's going to take away your property and freedom.
	Don't do that.
	But then the people still want a king, and so God is like, fine, you idiots can have a king, but don't blame me when crap hits the fan.
	Just saying, based libertarian God.
	That's true as well.
	I remember that from when I was reading the Bible.
	It's very weird that all of the other nations around have kings and the Israelites just have judges.
	Hello, Carl.
	I am the Eminence Sire Williamson.
	I've been following you since, well, since before, people didn't know what Gamergate was.
	That was really my seminal moment, I guess, getting involved in politics and political discussions.
	As you can tell, I'm quite the avid gamer.
	Anyway, I signed up for your gold membership at 30 pounds sterling a month, which is about $15,000 a month Canadian.
	So, we'll see how long I can keep this up.
	But I just wanted to submit the question to you, or statement to you, about how you had said that the gay people coming after our children are actually ideologues and leftists.
	I would actually have quite the argument, quite the discussion with you over that, because I've known quite a few LGBT people as I am intersex.
	I am an LGBTI person.
	And that is something that you are actually born with and I can show you, but I'll save that for the OnlyFans.
	I don't think that this is a leftist thing.
	I think that there are some homosexual people who are not coming after our children, but it is definitely homosexuals that are coming after our children.
	And I could go in a great deal over that.
	For now, this is Sire Williamson, officially recognized and used by the media.
	That is my pronoun, Sire.
	See you later.
	I respect them pronouns.
	Yeah, I mean, I just find it interesting how they're always in the leftist movements.
	Yeah.
	I love how quickly people were able to find out that these guys were convicted of paedophilia, though.
	Yeah, of course they are.
	Leftists who are promoting corrupting children with convictions of paedophilia.
	There's also, what's the guy, the Rittenhouse Rule now?
	Yeah, fire into a crowd of Antifa, you're going to hit a few pedos.
	But I don't know.
	I think that there are conservative gays who are not interested in interfering with children and who are against the idea of interfering with children.
	And it seems to me it is just the lefty ones who are promoting that.
	I don't see the right wing ones doing that.
	Well, it's the distinction Douglas makes, I think we mentioned, which is Douglas, a conservative, he'll say as a homosexual man, and the homosexual men I know, we're just gay and that's part of our lives.
	Yeah.
	Whereas there are the queers.
	Our lives.
	Yeah.
	And then you'll be with the queers, where being gay is their lives, in which that is everything about them, and that's why they spend all their time proselytizing, and why they end up turning into videos in which they sing, we're coming for your kids.
	Let's go to the next one.
	One of the biggest problems in navigating the political discourse of today's muddied environment is the use of political language under the assumption that their definitions remain constant, regardless of shifting political paradigms, which is very much not the case.
	A great way to resolve this issue, rather than looking at the labels in political terms, instead try using them as verbs.
	To liberate implies the removal of restrictions, of obstructions.
	To conserve implies protection.
	What is the trade-off of your liberation, and what is it then that you wish to conserve, and how?
	Here's a short preview for the video coming up later today lads.
	hope you guys enjoy that's a good point did we skip one there though?
	because there was a well okay we'll get the next one G'day gents I've noticed a lot of people have been complaining that, oh, Western culture is at a dead end, we're not creating any new culture, and I often point to myself and say, hey, I'm on it, I'm creating new culture.
	And, yeah, a lot of people clearly agree because they're buying my books, but I wanted to ask, do you guys have any plans in the future to sort of fund your own culture creation as well at Lotus Eaters?
	Let me know.
	Yeah, we've got stuff that we're working on, but we're not going to say anything about it now.
	I mean, this is one in and of itself.
	I do love the idea that everything's on C.S. Cooper, though.
	I mean, lads, we all take the sticks out.
	He's only produced a few books.
	He's not reformed all of the West overnight.
	Well, until you've got the new Harry Potter, Mr.
	Cooper, we can't consider the West saved.
	But he's also got to do all the movies.
	He's got to do all of the new art, like all of the paintings.
	Everyone else can go and have a cup of tea.
	Greetings, Lotus Eaters!
	How are you all doing?
	First time sending in a message?
	Been a fan for quite a long time.
	Following up on that oil guy's request from last week.
	There you are.
	The best I can do for now.
	I can't really keep it any longer due to my work.
	I have to wear a dust filter with the work I do sometimes.
	So this is about as long as I can keep it.
	But yeah, just wanted to leave a short message.
	Have a great day!
	Those shirts are exclusive now.
	Can't get them anywhere anymore.
	Yeah.
	Kind of sad, because that was one of the best designs.
	Yeah, it was.
	It was amazing.
	Yeah.
	I did wonder, my understanding is, what was it, World War I, people had to trim their beards because of the gas masks, because of the problem, but you could still have a moustache, because they didn't interfere.
	And then, if they not invented a gas mask yet, they can deal with a beard.
	I have no idea.
	I would have thought there'd be one way of dealing with it, but I don't know.
	I get that, but I don't know why there isn't some thick plastic or some kind of malleable plastic that you can do with beard hairs, but maybe I'm just an idiot.
	Let's go to the next one.
	The cutoff point at which we can save premature babies keeps getting pushed earlier.
	If we can save it, it's not part of the body.
	Something cannot be human when the technology to save them exists, but not human when it doesn't exist.
	Therefore, whatever point at which we ultimately are able to save them is the point at which they become human however many years in the future.
	So if we guess and set our cutoff point earlier than that, then people have unwanted kids that could have had abortions, but if we set it later than that, that means that we have killed millions of children that should have been allowed to live.
	The gamble seems obvious.
	I'm afraid I couldn't understand that.
	He was talking about abortion, and if we said it too late, then we've essentially accepted that we've killed loads of kids, and if it's earlier...
	Well, yeah, we'll have a video going up about me talking about the yawning moral chasm that underpins abortion, because...
	Essentially, that's one of the reasons that the left have to stick to their guns at all costs on the argument of abortion, because if it ever changes, then it turns out that they're actually genocidal monsters, and that they've been killing literally millions of babies, and especially black babies, and this has been...
	Well, that's one way of looking at it.
	And, I mean, if you hold those presuppositions, that's a fair assessment from their perspective.
	From the leftist perspective, killing a baby up until the point of birth is considered fair.
	This is one of the reasons why I think the left are pretty gross, and it's going to all age very badly.
	I just think all of the things that the left are promoting at the moment are just going to age really poorly.
	In, like, 20 or 30 years, people are just going to be like, look, this is just the consequences of the Yeah, we probably will have to be strict about the 30 second rule.
	Sorry.
	One of the principal tenets of economics is that people act and react based off of incentives.
	So, you say you want to stop cussing on the podcast.
	Well, here's your incentive to stop cussing on the podcast.
	Every time you cuss on the podcast, you owe the Labor Party five pounds.
	This also works for smoking and other bad habits.
	So enjoy!
	We will keep count.
	No, don't worry.
	We already have AA's recommendation.
	It just beats me with a stick every time it happens.
	Did you see AA's stream about that?
	No, no.
	It was like, you should get a stick.
	It would just beat me when I do stuff wrong.
	I think there might be labour laws that prevent that.
	Yes.
	God bless the leg potty.
	I have no idea if they passed it.
	Fuck, I can't use your five pounds.
	Probably both.
	Hey guys, just to be clear, everything has a price.
	The price of my beard was about double minimum wage.
	I'm going to say something truly controversial today and say, although I was born in Aberdeen and I've been Scottish my whole life, I really consider myself British first.
	And, um...
	Yeah, I hope England wins.
	I really do.
	I hope you smash those Italians.
	Alright?
	Wow.
	The Italians want to ban communism.
	Yeah, I know the English are becoming communist, so I'm the meme.
	I'm under that meme.
	We're going to fight under a new banner.
	I hope we lose.
	I don't want us to lose, but like, oh God, I can't stand it.
	John, I don't think this next one's meant to be played.
	I appreciate the solidarity, though.
	That's nice, you know.
	And if the roles were reversed, I'd definitely want Scotland to win.
	Yeah, I mean, if it was Scotland versus Italy, I'm voting for Scotland.
	Unless they're coming out and being the wokest people on the planet or doing Nazi salutes.
	Well, yes, there are conditions on my support of Scotland's team, obviously.
	But that's their condition with the English team.
	That's what I'm looking at online.
	But I appreciate the sentiment nonetheless.
	I thought it was nice.
	Hey Carl and Callum.
	Since Marxists really love critical theories, I propose critical liberty theory.
	The basic question is, is liberty present?
	Essentially, can you speak your mind here, there, or over there?
	And so, if we're legionaries with a simple question, we would just have this as our weapon.
	I think that critical liberty theory would intersect with dadism, being as liberty is the freedom to do what one ought to do.
	And dadism, I believe, could be summed up as a question of what ought a father to do.
	Also, I think that China may have a sliver of niche freedom of speech.
	A Lego figure of Hitler.
	What?
	They sell them?
	Obviously they do in China.
	Oh god.
	I love his smile here as well.
	They sell these.
	This is the cheekiest thing.
	To be honest, if I ran across a place that sold that, I'd probably buy it just for the meme as well.
	Yeah, me too!
	Really?
	If I found a Stalin one or Mao one, I'd buy it too.
	It'd be hilarious.
	I bet they still sell it in Italy.
	They probably sell them in India, you know?
	They do sell them in India.
	Everyone knows that for sure.
	I don't have to visit.
	Don't even have to check.
	But that's legit hilarious.
	But no, I think you're absolutely right there, because one of the interesting things about dadism and the way that I'm viewing...
	I guess I'm kind of putting together an ideology, I suppose, in a way.
	But it's personal, right?
	It's about personal conduct.
	It's not about how the state should be dealing with you, because I'm very much still on the classical liberal view on that.
	As in, I think the state should be deeply restricted, we should have a tradition of liberty, etc, etc.
	And so I'm all for that.
	But that doesn't tell you what you should do in your daily life.
	But you do still have obligations based on the relationships that you already have.
	And of course, dadism being one of those things, and what should you do, I think it does intersect with how can you do it.
	And if you don't have the liberty to do it, then you should.
	Let's go for the next one.
	I'm going to have a special video for you guys in a couple days with some interesting statistics.
	But for now, I'd just like to mention Viktor Orban and Hungary's law, which is fairly reasonable, it seems.
	But look, I mean, the news stories.
	We should destroy the law, anti-LGBT law.
	16 countries condemn the anti-LGBT law.
	Yes, it's all very, very terrible.
	Unless you read the comments, apparently from Hungarian people.
	Well done, Victor.
	We love Victor.
	Make Victor president.
	This person here claims that Victor Orban is an authoritarian and is promptly rebuffed, saying that Hungarian people love him.
	He's given them grants for families, grants for cars, reduction in tax, economic growth.
	And I actually work with a Hungarian lady, so I asked her directly, what do you think of Victor Orban?
	Because all I hear is bad things.
	And she said, he's great.
	I find that really interesting, because I literally see them referring to him as an autocrat.
	Like, that's not true.
	It's just not true.
	He's not an autocrat.
	The only valid criticisms I've seen of his government is corruption.
	Eastern Europe.
	Yeah, okay.
	Like, that happens.
	Obviously.
	The accusation is not, haha, corrupt.
	The accusation is, haha, Nazi.
	And it's like, nah.
	Nah.
	It always kind of amazes me that there's nothing new under the sun whatsoever.
	It's the upper classes in Russia who fund the revolution.
	Hitler sounded like an SJW. The scientists are like a priestly class.
	That bit annoys me.
	That bit really annoys me.
	Like, have you ever tried to have a conversation with somebody in which you criticize the NHS? Or just...
	The science, one word at all.
	It's insufferable.
	Nobody seems to be able to have an honest conversation about it.
	You just immediately jump to, oh well, I don't think you should be starting on nurses now.
	I don't think you should be upsetting doctors.
	It's like, sorry, have they got some divine wisdom that only the true medical professionals can grasp?
	Are they above us in some way?
	Hmm.
	What about engineers?
	No, no, no.
	He is exactly right on this.
	The way that science is being done now, it's very, very similar to sacrificing an animal and reading its liver to divine the will of the gods.
	It's like, oh, well, we did a study and we got this result.
	Okay, what does he think that means?
	You know, replicate it.
	Go on, go and try and replicate that study and get the same result.
	You won't get the same result because many of these studies are just totally hogwash, frankly.
	And they're just done for the sake of being paid, it seems.
	But he's completely right.
	It's turned into a priestly class.
	Oh, the doctors and nurses, what, the people who serve me, who I pay, and pay from the gun at my head from the government?
	Sorry, abolish the NHS if that's the case.
	Well, being a doctor or a nurse is his training.
	So that's why I mentioned engineers.
	I mean, why not engineers?
	Being a druid required training, Callum.
	Yeah, but I am talking of things that are useful, so...
	Being a druid was very useful!
	It's not.
	Yes it was!
	Yes it was!
	No, I'm not taking this.
	Are you insane?
	How else are you going to know whether the omens are favourable for battle that day?
	I lost the SJWs.
	But the point is, it all depends on the paradigm you're trapped in, right?
	All these wokists and the people who kowtow to any kind of social justice thing reminds me a bit about the whole warlock ideal.
	An individual with no power or any special traits makes a deal with something much greater than themselves, and should they ever, ever fall down below a certain standard that the greater force demands, the force will consume them, like, without mercy.
	What do you think about this?
	Because that's literally how it looks like every single time.
	I'm not really sure, to be honest.
	Me neither.
	But going back to the defense of the Druids...
	No, no, no.
	Believe it or not, they actually did have a lot of very useful knowledge.
	You played Mystery of the Druids?
	No.
	You should.
	Why?
	I'm going to show you that afterwards.
	Okay.
	So it's a cult classic game.
	The chat will be mentioning it.
	I know they'll know it.
	And it's this stupid detective who has to investigate a bunch of murders that have been happening.
	And he finds out it's a druid cult.
	And they're just cutting people up and eating them.
	And when you eat it, you become mind-controlled and join the druids.
	And then the game is full of druid lore and whatnot.
	And it's just like, this is all.
	All garbage.
	All this garbage.
	Okay, well, if that's what you think the druids were, then yes, I can see why you would say that.
	But they also actually had actually useful things to do, right?
	For example, they would be experts in medicinal herbs, which is something that's very useful before modern medicine, right?
	What did they actually know, and what did they think worked?
	Well, there are loads of herbs that actually do things.
	I'm not a herbal expert, I can't name them or anything like that.
	But certain herbs that you get for certain ailments, and they do cure them, right?
	And so, what?
	What worked?
	Well, I don't know.
	I haven't got a list.
	But that's the thing.
	It's like medieval doctors where it's just like, they're just making up nonsense.
	But yeah, police are the medicine man.
	It's like, no, but they're still nonsensical people.
	Actually, herbalism actually does have some...
	I know, but how much of it worked in the druid sense?
	Well, I don't know, because we don't have any written records, because it's entirely oral.
	But they also were deeply political.
	They're, you know, very informed on all these sort of topics.
	So it's like the intelligentsia of the Celtic world.
	You haven't met modern druids?
	Well, yeah, no.
	They're nothing to do with the actual jury.
	But, like, it's not right to simply denigrate them as being, like, a bunch of quacks, because they weren't, you know, it really was like a lifetime of work that went into it.
	It's just they were operating in a paradigm that believed in gods.
	And, like, magic.
	Still come across as quacks to me.
	But anyway.
	No more than any scientist now.
	Yeah, I'll agree with that.
	Anyway.
	So let's go to the written comments.
	Anti-science action.
	Teamfighter says, EU, teach LGBT propaganda to children or else.
	Yeah, that's where we're at.
	Sardock Spamfish says, I think the idea behind censoring wokeness is there is no faster way to turn the censors into free speech activists than making them get a taste of their own medicine, even if it's only in their own self-interest.
	Can't say I have much sympathy for censored censors.
	Yeah, that's exactly it.
	Like, obviously, you know, we're not in favor of censorship.
	But if we're going to be continually censored by a bunch of people who are identifiable and are themselves going to get censored, well, how do you like it?
	James says, a negative of a negative is a positive.
	Decolonizing by removing native culture is by definition colonizing.
	That's correct.
	Also, any tips on finding time to read?
	Does reading provide advantages?
	Other forms of media do not.
	It does.
	I never used to really agree with this point, but I think in recent years I have come to this conclusion.
	Because one of the things that I've found is very useful to digesting a book rather than just reading it.
	Uh, is read it with a highlighter and just go through on each page and just highlight like the relative, the relevant sentence that essentially summarizes the point that's being made.
	If you do this on every page and then after you finished it, go back and just make yourself some notes based on your highlights.
	Then you'll find yourself with quite a comprehensive, uh, summary of what's happened in the book.
	And so you end up sort of really burning into your brain a lot more.
	Successfully, at least I find that I do.
	And I get a lot more out of a book than just listening to it on all your book or just a general read through.
	And so that's something I would definitely recommend if you want to actually study something.
	But finding time to read, that's up to you.
	One of the things I used to like when I was working in the public space The public sphere was traveling to work via train or bus because the half-hour journey gives you some time to actually read.
	So that was one positive of it, but it's up to you to manage your own time, obviously.
	Alex says, problematical is a word.
	I didn't know that.
	Royal Navy torpedo design at the beginning of the last century had aspects that were described as problematical.
	Yeah, but maybe that was a typo.
	It is a term that has meaning, and meaning is subverted by the critical school of thought.
	I'd never heard of it.
	Student Fisher says, Bruh, the wokeists are trying to whine about the white saviour complex.
	You have the white saviour complex.
	This nation is full of...
	It is a word.
	Oh, okay.
	This nation is full of white supremacy, and us whiteys must use our voice to help the POC to end it.
	Yes.
	Defense manufacturer George Orwell saw what you did there.
	Problematical apparently means involving or constituting a problem.
	Well, I suppose it would.
	Yes, defense manufacturer.
	Israel Hay says, can we get rid of the LGBT ideology and just say China told us to?
	What's the counter-argument?
	Yeah.
	I mean, what's Justin Trudeau going to say?
	China's great.
	China's great.
	Joe Biden.
	China's great.
	China's great.
	Us.
	Good point.
	Let's get rid of the LGBTs.
	Wait.
	That's what it's going to be.
	I'm not following that one.
	I'm not following that.
	Well, if they're all saying everything China does is brilliant, which they are...
	Oh, okay.
	And then they're censoring the LGBTs.
	Well, I mean, you know, it's just the syllogism rights itself.
	Finally, the God-Empress kicking off the Great Crusade against the Silicon forces of chaos.
	I hope so, but I'm not optimistic with Trump's chances.
	So, I mean, I'd love it if he could get something done, but I just don't think it'll be possible.
	Sardonic says, I fully support the class action lawsuit against Fakebook and Twatter, but the real question is, what will realistically happen to them?
	Unfortunately, I think nothing, because of constitutional protections.
	Matthew Wilson says, Trump's inability to rein in Silicon Valley censorship was his single biggest policy failure, especially since his supporters put him in the White House due to their dominance and understanding of social media.
	It's hard to believe he has more power to shape Silicon Valley as a private citizen.
	He should have come down on the day one like the hammer of God.
	Yeah, but no way.
	Marcus says, what a damning admission of guilt.
	Quote, Trumpism is largely kept afloat because people can hear him speak instead of hearing what we tell you he said.
	And that's exactly what the January the 6th uprising narrative is.
	I mean, he literally said, don't do anything.
	He said it in the speech.
	He posted it on social media.
	He disencouraged them when they were actually in there causing trouble.
	He told them to all go home.
	And they're like, yep, there we go.
	He's telling people to rise up and overthrow the government.
	They didn't.
	This is why the impeachment trial was such a joke, as we reported on the time.
	Because the Democrats come out, make their case, in which they doctored things, made up things, and then, well, just expecting not to have a rebuttal put against them?
	And the rebuttal was just, here's the video evidence of him saying, be peaceful.
	Right, now what?
	And they do this all the time.
	Now what?
	We're railroading him through the courts, that's what.
	The Dems still live in the world.
	I mean, a lot of politicians have this, but the Dems still live in the world in which they just have the corporate media gatekeepers and that's it.
	They don't have to do any more work because they're not expecting you to see what they say on social media like you have with Trump supporters where they just livestream everything, ever.
	Yeah.
	And last comment from Steve Hardwick.
	Callum has opened my eyes to the wonders of North Korean television.
	Yeah, the North Koreans are now live-streaming their TV to YouTube, a platform in which Trump is banned, but the North Korean TV is allowed to be live-streamed.
	We can get messages from the dear leader, but not Donald Trump.
	So, yeah, a lot of people are having fun in the chat there, just enjoying the show, I guess.
	They're probably thinking, why did we put the live chat on?
	They're disrespecting the dear leader.
	And still not as censorious as that.
	No, no, everyone on the chat is being very respectful.
	Love Kim, love the North, simple as.
	Alright, there we go.
	We're out of time.
	Oh, we are out of time.
	Ah, God.
	Okay, we're going to have to end.
	If you want more from us, we'll be back.
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	But we will be back with the podcast on Monday, 1 o'clock.

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