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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #175
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 14th of July 2021.
I'm joined by Carl.
Hello!
And today we're going to be talking about the football cope, the cringe around taking the knee, and also the prosecution of the guilty.
And yeah, this is going to be focusing around this, not because it's maybe the most interesting thing, but it is the perfect example of where the left has staked out their ground and is now having the chickens come home to roost.
I mean, it's not, as we mentioned before, something we would usually care about with football, but it's the politics around it that are so unbelievably interesting.
So before we get into that, some of the things I want to mention first.
So the video you did called Your Scars, which is up, that's free.
You should go and check it out.
Talking about the fact that you should make prudent decisions because prevention is better than a scientific cure.
Yes, it is.
Also, the next thing is an article from Hugo which he put up this morning, which is Boris's plea for personal responsibility.
So going for that, I read that's also free.
And for premium content, we have, of course, the interview Hugo did with Michael Malice.
Michael Malice was kind enough to come on and give him a chat about the Anarchist Handbook, Michael Malice's new book.
He's a very entertaining chap as well.
I really like Michael Malice.
I didn't know that much about him and then I only started following him recently and it's pretty good.
Yeah, he's fun.
Right, so let's talk about the football racism scandal that is engulfing the current political class.
And the reason that we were joking about, like, you could replace the word racist with Jew and the word England with Aryan or Nazi is because this all sounds like a massive witch hunt done by Nazis.
And you'll see as we go along, like...
Everyone's getting way out of hand.
They're taking this way too far, and they're talking as if they are Nazis hunting down Jews, and I can't stand it.
The concept, as we showed with Mike Graham, that if you're a racist, therefore you're not a human.
Yeah.
Which...
Is exactly the Nazi opinion of the Jews.
If you're Jewish, you're not a human, and therefore you shouldn't have access to a bank account, social life, passport.
Yeah, this is all things that the Nazis would have quite easily said about the Jews.
And so I actually really hate the way that the racists are being pathologised, because what they mean when they say racists, they mean white working class as well.
That's what they mean.
And so it's just, this all sounds awful, right?
But anyway, let's get into it.
So beginning with Gareth Southgate's massive cope.
Now, I watched this interview on Sky.
It wasn't worth taking clips out of because they messed up their stupid Zoom presentation.
And so they had the people on the Zoom call presented for most of it, so it kind of ruined the clips.
But basically, he spends a lot of time lavishing praise on the team, saying they played particularly well.
Now, I've heard from friends, and we'll cover in other sections.
Now, I'm not a football fan, so I don't know whether they played well or not, but I've heard the complete opposite from people who are football fans.
So I guess we just have to move on because Gareth Southgate said, well, they played great and everyone's like, okay, well, we can't talk about that.
Let's talk about racism.
And that's all the national dialogue has been.
It's been constant since the defeat, in fact.
Constant racism, racism, racism, racism.
So, okay, well, let's talk about it.
In Parliament right now, that's what the entire Parliament is talking about.
Yes, they're currently debating this in Parliament.
And the Labour Party will say, well, we need to do something about these online racists.
And Boris has already gone, yes, we'll ban all of these online racists.
It's already illegal as well.
It's already illegal, yeah.
But anyway, so this is just one example from LBC where there's a chap called Richard who says he's seething.
He's been seeing racism for the past 35 years, listening to the abhorrent, obscene gestures they're giving to the footballer wearing an England shirt.
35 years has gone and nothing has changed.
Seems not true.
But I mean, maybe.
Maybe.
I'm not a football fan.
Every black footballer, every footballer of colour dignified themselves by letting it go over their heads.
I could not do that.
But anyway.
So it's a perennial problem, in his opinion.
And I think that, honestly, it just stems from the fact that you're dealing with a tribe.
The working class England football fans are a tribe of people, and you're acting as if they shouldn't understand themselves as a people.
And unfortunately, I think that's going to be the case everywhere.
But then, after condemning just the regular people of England, we get on to Priti Patel being the problem, because of course it's Priti Patel that's the problem.
This was a footballer, Anton Ferdinand.
Yeah, who...
Like some 12-year-old said the N-word online, therefore Priti Patel is evil.
Yes, that's exactly how they got to.
I'm someone who's received a load of racial abuse on social media.
You would never find me saying it's okay to boo a gesture that is against racial equality.
That's a political statement.
That is nothing but a political statement.
Speaking of Priti Patel, he then said, Yeah, but the reasons are political.
I don't understand how she can go against that and how she is somebody who has been racially abused herself.
It just doesn't make sense.
That's because you're viewing this through a one-dimensional political lens, and there is a political lens adjacent to that that also opposes racism, but doesn't oppose racism in the same way as you, and in fact, you have a contradicting position there.
But again, you don't know anything about this, do you?
You've not read anything about the people involved.
You don't know why they say that the UK is structurally or institutionally, systemically racist.
You don't even know what their definition of racism is, because by the liberal definition, we can actually get away from institutional racism, which I think we have.
But of course, by the woke progressive definition, our entire society is a form of racism.
And so it's no wonder that Priti Patel, being a conservative, is like, well, I'm not going to agree to that.
She shouldn't agree to that.
And that's, again, not something I think that anyone having this debate in Parliament understands at all.
But anyway, carrying on, more people said that Priti Patel was the source of the racism.
Everyone thinks that this brown woman is the cause of white supremacy in England.
Because common sense.
This was a player called Tyrone Mings, one of the England players.
She, Priti Patel, of course, herself, who has been subject to racial abuse because...
Yeah, that's not actual racist abuse according to the left because she's not actually brown-skinned according to the left because she's in power.
I guess she's not.
I mean, she tweeted out, I'm disgusting that the England players who have given so much for our country this summer have been subjected to vile racist abuse on social media.
There's no place in our country and I back the police to hold those responsible accountable.
I mean, like we've already said, it's a crime to be a racist online.
So, why wouldn't she say that?
She can be against racism.
She doesn't have to be a communist to be against racism.
She could be a liberal or, you know, conservative in this case, and also be against racism, and also be a person of colour who thinks differently.
And this is a position that Priti has had to defend with a great amount of energy, because, of course, the left simply don't understand that not all non-white people think the same.
They seem to think that if you're not white, then you must agree with left-wing politics, and...
If you don't vote for Biden, you ain't black.
Exactly.
It's exactly the same philosophy that we are seeing here.
And so Tyrone replied to that, saying, you don't get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labeling our anti-racism message as gesture politics, then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we're campaigning against happens.
She can be opposed to your gesture politics of anti-racism and also against people racially abusing you, Tyrone.
This is not a contradiction.
It's perfectly congruent and it's disgusting that so many of the conservatives and people who should know better are just agreeing with the statement.
Oh, Tyrone's right.
No, he's not.
He's absolutely right.
And we've got the example before in 1938, I think it was, when the England team did the Nazi salute.
You could label that gesture politics and be like, well, you shouldn't be doing that.
And he's like, no, no, no, it's not just gesture politics.
We stand by it.
I was like, well, then it's evil.
Don't do it.
In the same way with your modern socialist salute.
It is awesome.
And again, remember, this began because of George Floyd.
This didn't begin because of something that happened in England to a black person or anything like that.
No, this had to have been imported from the outside from radical left-wingers in America.
Interpreting a killing which was not racist.
Yes.
No evidence of racism came out of the George Floyd case, nor was it even alleged.
No, it was never alleged, at least in the court documents.
But anyway, so one MP decided that they were going to rightfully say something about this.
And this MP, this Tory MP, said, we are proud of our England team who have had the support of the whole country over recent weeks, but please focus on football, not politics.
If you win for England, you win for everyone.
Now, that's a sensible statement because what Tyrone has done here has taken a particular partisan talking point and said, right, everyone has to agree with this.
Which is not how partisan talking points work, especially when you're talking to your opposition, who definitionally don't agree with your partisanship.
Of course they're not going to.
Whereas if you were to depoliticise the England game and say, right, this is just for England fans, wherever you come from, whatever you stripe, you could have international England fans supporting it then, couldn't you?
But instead, it's become one of those things where it's like, look, if you support England in the progressive mind, then you have to be in support of the communist politics that underpin bending the knee.
And it was natural for the Conservatives to turn around and say, well, look, intuitively, we don't support them bending the knee.
And actually, the England fans, if they disagree with that as well, they have a right to boo.
And that's not a form of racism.
That's a form of, in fact, liberal activism opposing communism.
But of course, former Tory party chairwoman, Baroness Worsi, criticised Patel, saying that she was guilty of dog whistle politics.
Dog whistling to people who think they're free and can oppose communism.
It's time to stop the culture wars that are feeding division, she said.
Dog whistles win votes but destroy nations.
Sorry, who started the fire that Tyrone and Worsi are complaining about here?
Who was like, oh, well, everything's racist, everyone's a racist, we need to start...
Worshipping a guy who died in America.
Like, oh, you're stoking the fire.
You're stoking the fire.
Look, don't light the fire if you don't want it stoked.
You didn't have to take the knee.
You know, you could have done press conferences or something saying, look, we're really concerned about all of the racism that's happening in America.
And here now, apparently.
Uh, and we could have, we could have had that conversation and he'd gone onto the pitch, you know, sung the national anthem and then gone and won a bunch of games and everyone would be like, great.
I don't care that their opinion off the pitch is whatever their opinion is, because of course they're going to have, everyone's going to have opinions outside of their profession that they are going to want to share.
But instead you made it a core part of the England team's like aesthetic when they're playing their matches.
It's not surprising.
That people were opposed to all of this.
But anyway, of course, then we discovered that actually it was Boris Johnson that was the source of all the racisms.
Gary Neville lost his absolute mind on LBC or somewhere.
Because Boris had said, again, just in the same way of Pretty Tell, this England team deserves to be lauded as heroes.
We'll get back to that, Boris.
Not racially abused on social media.
Those responsible for this appalling abuse should be ashamed of themselves.
Yes, that's a right and proper statement from the Prime Minister of the country.
There shouldn't be segments of the population that should be targeted for abuse based on their race.
Agree.
Whether they be black, white, Jewish, whatever, they should, you know, Muslim, whoever it is, they shouldn't just be abused on social media or anywhere generally just for being what they are.
Who can disagree with that?
Who can disagree?
Well, Gary Neville.
Gary Neville can disagree.
How dare you?
You promoted racism in the past!
Yeah, that's right.
That's right, Boris just said, yeah, I'm pro-racism.
Idiot.
I'm just reading a breaking news that says the PM condemns a racist abuse of England players, says Neville.
He was on Sky News, sorry.
The Prime Minister said it was okay for the population of the country to boo those players who are trying to promote equality and defend against racism.
Gary, there is more than one way to defend against racism, and promoting equality is a deeply political statement because you don't even know what you mean by equality.
You don't know what you mean.
And if I were to question you on this and probe you on this, your case would fall apart instantly.
And you don't know that, obviously, but like, anyway.
But we had players lined up for five days on the bounce, and they're telling us they were taking a knee against racism and to promote equality.
Yeah, okay, that's the problem though, isn't it, Gary?
You are choosing a partisan political position.
Anyway, we had high-ranking ministers, including the Prime Minister in this country, saying it's okay for our population to boo them for taking the knee against racism and promoting equality.
It is.
It is okay for them to do that.
That's what a free country is.
Plurality of opinions.
Your position of everyone must agree with me or else they're evil or else we should treat them like the parasites that they are is not really a very tolerant, inclusive or diverse position to hold, is it?
It's not a liberal one either.
It's totally illiberal, in fact.
But it's exactly the same sort of thing as socialist politics have always done, which is why the comparison to the 1930s is not inappropriate.
But anyway, there has been so much division in this country over the last two or three years.
The way Brexit was debated, not Brexit itself, leave or remain, but the actual way it was debated, it promotes division.
Ah yes, agree with me or you're being divisive.
Taking the knee of the past month against racism was ridiculed by top-ranking government officials.
Yeah, you shouldn't have done it.
Good, so that's Herrian mindset.
Agree with me or you're being divisive, comrade.
Closing divisions in the ranks.
I don't think Gary Neville or whoever it is, I don't think this footballer is among our best and brightest thinkers, and I don't think he knows what any of this is about.
I think he's taking everything on face value and being like, well, you're just saying you're for racism.
No, I'm saying I'm not for communism, Gary.
I know you don't understand any of this, so I'm not going to go at you necessarily, but I do wish you'd just shut up before publicly embarrassing yourself like this.
It's not about Conservative or Labour or Liberal Democrat.
It's to do with integrity.
It's to do with doing the right thing.
Oh, thank God.
Gary Neville has figured out what the right thing is.
Everyone at home, stop what you're doing.
Gary Neville knows what the right thing to do is, and it's not partisan political.
Oh, thank God.
Thank God someone's figured out the genius that is Gary Neville.
Shut up, Gary.
Honestly, you idiot.
You're such an idiot.
Literally, the founders of Black Lives Matter, open communists.
Read any critical race theory textbook, you realize it's a deliberate attempt to undermine liberal democracy.
And Gary Neville's like, yeah, that's the right thing.
Shut up.
End of story.
Anyway, let's just move on to people calling Boris Johnson a racist, because why wouldn't they, right?
This Gary Lineker tweets out, booing and racially abusing the fine young men that play for our country has given us so much pleasure over the last month.
No, wait, I've misread that.
He's not in favour of booing.
Booing and racially abusing the fine young men that play for our country and have given us so much pleasure and joy over the last month is not being an England fan.
This goes for the pathetic fighting at the ground too.
It's a minority, but it's a loud one and it's embarrassing.
Which, actually, I agree with.
I think that's a fair statement.
It is a minority of people who do this, and I do think it is a loud one, and I do think they are embarrassing.
I think it's also improper for them to make an excessive noise and go around trashing stuff.
But I love this response.
Phrases like, it's a minority, are why nothing changes.
How could it be a minority when the literal Prime Minister is racist?
He did not get there by accident.
Well, then you're in a racist country, Jama'a's in London.
Don't know what to tell you.
Well, what can you take from that, if that's your opinion?
Of course, the Islamo-leftists are not happy.
This was my favourite Zahra Sultana, my favourite Labour MP. Racism does not come from a vacuum.
It's promoted from the top, whipped up by politicians like Johnson and Patel, who refuse to condemn the booing of the knee, and the right-wing newspapers who stoke bigotry and hate every day.
Well, that 12-year-old that's been arrested for this was subscribed to Boris Johnson's newsletter, looking up to him for his advice about how to talk to people online.
I guess, but I love what she's doing.
I mean, what does she think she's doing if not stoking hate and bigotry against the right wing?
That's all she does.
That's her entire political platform.
She can't think outside of terms that aren't stoking bigotry and hate against right wingers.
She can't stop herself.
But again, one of these things, you either agree with me or you're evil.
That's her position.
Okay, thank you, Islamo-leftist.
And then you move on to the typical leftist response.
Let's hear from Dawn Butler.
Oh, don't we all want Dawn Butler's opinion?
You know this is going to be good.
She's accused the government of deliberately going on a path of stoking hatred and division.
Well, it's like the MPC update has arrived.
They're all saying the same thing.
Hatred and division, hatred and division.
Agree with us or you're promoting hatred and division.
Sorry, I'm not a communist.
You're the one promoting hatred and division by demanding that people who don't agree with you agree with you or else.
The government has been the most divisive government I've ever seen in my lifetime.
They've stoked a culture war deliberately.
The gall.
The gall that you would say this, Dawn.
They've stoked a culture war deliberately.
Hashtag BLM! They have said they're having this war on woke.
The woke advocates are annoyed that the conservatives are opposing wokeness.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
We just don't agree with your racialized, the race consciousness view of the world.
We want to transcend that.
We want to be race blind, if that's okay.
We'd like to be party politics, where you can choose which party you support rather than being forced to support the party for blacks or Muslims or whites or whatever.
It's just awful.
You're awful people, right?
Woke is about being considerate to others.
That's what woke means.
It's not what woke means, Dawn.
It's the opposite of what woke means.
It means actually not having to consider others because you know everything about them because of their skin colour.
That's what woke means.
That's why Priti Patel is being just...
She's strung up and beaten like a piñata by the left at the moment because she has particular skin colour and doesn't agree with your politics.
And so it's not just about being considerate to others, otherwise you wouldn't be quite so evil towards her, would you?
Anyway, she noted she's optimistic for the future after seeing more positive anti-racists in society than there are racists.
Really, that's amazing.
You can't find a racist constituency to be actually pointing at and arguing against.
Where are the avowed racists?
Where are the people who are saying we're pro-racism?
Where is the company tweeting out hashtag racism day?
Yeah.
Where is it?
Where is this?
It's all fictional.
That's why, Dawn.
Because you're not understanding why people oppose you.
You are opposed to liberty.
People are in favor of liberty because, frankly, you look like you'd install a kind of tyrannical government that would openly persecute people, which is already happening, by the way, because we'll get to that in a bit.
Anyway, when we call out the burning injustices, what does the government do?
Produces a race report that says racism doesn't exist.
That's not what they said.
But then you don't define racism in the same way as the government does.
So we can't even have a conversation with you, really.
Anyway, it's not just what you say, it's what you do and how you treat people.
You will not silence us in this fight because society will be better when we eradicate racism.
Society will be better when we call it out and eliminate it from all of the system and structural racism in our society.
Okay, Hitler.
Okay, Hitler.
I appreciate that you've got a particular constituency of society, a minority in society, as you say, that you want to eradicate, but are you sure you want to use that kind of language?
I mean, not very liberal, not very tolerant.
Sounds a bit Nazi-ish to me, which again is why if you replace the word racist with the word Jew, it just fits.
I mean, just look, you're not silenced in this fight because when we eradicate Judaism, society will be better and when we call it out and eliminate it from the system and all the structural Judaism in our society.
Dawn Butler.
Dawn Butler, 2021.
Unbelievable.
And you complain that other people are stoking culture wars.
That's the thing.
Racist humans are still humans and therefore have human rights.
Mike Graham.
And Dawn Butler now.
And Dawn Butler.
And Sadiq Khan when we get to that.
Boris, of course, has said, no, I'm not responsible for people being racist on the internet because he's not.
Don't know why I have to say that.
The Prime Minister made it clear that he wants to see everyone getting behind the team to cheer them on.
Would have been a lot easier if the team wasn't actively out there dividing the political landscape with their gesture politics.
The For some reason, it has to be about communism.
Don't know why, but they are.
But he made that clear, of course.
To those who have been directing racist abuse at some players, I say, shame on you.
I hope you crawl back under the rock from where you emerged.
Ah, yes, the man who's pro-racism.
Like, name the man.
Yeah, name him.
Name someone who's in favour of racism.
Because this entire team played like heroes.
Boris, we're going to come back to that.
I'm sure this is just the start of the beginning of their achievements.
I say, bring on Qatar next year.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Okay, Boris, arch-racist.
Right, got it.
The next one, of course, Boris is responsible for this.
Don't know who James Moore is, but I love one of the end parts he's got here.
I'm not going to go so far as to call for a boycott of number 10.
Boycott the Prime Minister?
What does that mean?
How do you boycott the Prime Minister?
He's not a private service.
Refused to pay taxes, I guess.
Yeah, okay, based.
But what does that mean?
Duns.
But anyway, some Conservatives thought Priti Patel was responsible for this.
Johnny Mercer, MP for Plymouth, decides to open his mouth and ruin everything for everyone.
The painful truth is that...
What's there?
Mings is completely right.
It's a very uncomfortable position the conservatives are needlessly forcing ourselves into.
Do I fight it or stay silent?
Modern conservatism is almost so much more to me.
We must not lose our way.
That's right.
If we're not agreeing and bowing down to everything the left demands of you, you're not a conservative.
Nothing I haven't said before.
I'm uncomfortable with some of my colleagues and their unnecessary interventions.
Yeah.
If you're not in favor of communist race politics, you're not a conservative.
There are some people who are public fans and media personalities who are understandably angry at the loss.
Oh, we're talking about the loss of the England team and how Gareth Southgate was effing useless according to fans of football?
You know, the issue politics instead of race politics.
If that's okay.
If that's okay for five seconds with the...
I was going to say proto-Nazis, but I think that's being too generous.
The woke Nazis who are making everything about race.
If we're going to actually talk about the performance on the pitch, because I don't know whether you remember, but they didn't win.
Danny Baker, a well-known football fan, reacted to the loss saying, Southgate was hardly the messiah.
Southgate is getting the expected soft ride from all the pundits.
It's the old boys club.
F-ing disgraceful management from a winning position.
We have been average for so many games now, more than the few that we won.
Nobody mentions that, though.
Well, that actually sounds like a football fan to me.
That sounds like someone who's not a political activist.
That sounds like someone who's actually concerned about the state of English football.
But there we go.
I mean, lots of people are like, no, no, what are you talking about, man?
You know, I've always respected you.
Delete this.
He's just delivered the best result of the Euros ever.
What happened to its coming home?
We're happy with the loss.
Are we?
Why are we happy with the loss?
Is that something we celebrate in England now?
Is it losers?
Because that's something Keir Starmer celebrated.
The England players are brilliant role models for Britain, on and off the pitch.
The team strengthens its diversity, and the players' determination stand up for what's right.
Couldn't it have been winning?
Like, couldn't it have been the victors?
Couldn't it have been bringing home the cup?
I mean, I'm not an England fan or an England football fan.
I don't support England.
I don't watch the matches.
But at least, at the very minimum, I'd like us to win.
Look at the dichotomy there.
Like, the team's strength is not their experience or their rapid training or their talent or their excellence.
The ability to win tournaments.
Yeah, it's their diversity.
That's the strength.
I mean, this is just Corbyn's argument.
Back into race politics.
Exactly.
Straight back in.
This is Corbyn being like, yeah, well, we may have lost the election, but we won the argument.
Oh, big deal.
The Italians took home the cup.
I mean, look at this next one, right?
Let's cherish talent, folks, from Dawn French.
They didn't win.
They didn't win.
If they're talented, it's not as footballers, is it?
I'm probably being overly mean here.
You could say they're better than all the teams that lost worse.
Brilliant.
They're better than the other losers.
But it is weird.
When you lose a game, especially the final, and then you're just like, yeah, these guys are the best.
I wonder what the Italians make of all this shit.
Well, I can tell you what the Italians make of it, actually, because I happen to have that lined up next.
The Italians are bragging about humbling the Lions and turning them into Cubs.
Yeah.
You proud of that?
You proud of the Italians saying, actually, we crushed you?
You're an embarrassment?
Italy is better than England?
Are you happy with that?
I'm not really very happy with that.
God, that crown does look funny.
It's hilarious.
Why is that?
I couldn't get my better one?
It looks like it's literally a plastic thing from Burger King.
But anyway, a paper called La Stampa said, this is the real Brexit.
Claiming that England had wanted to win the match and climbed to the pinnacle of Europe, to the position that the English love to be in since it allows them to look down on everyone else.
Yes.
That's the point of winning.
That's the point of having high standards.
That's the point of competing and being obsessive about the training and, again, the standards that you apply to your team.
They did, however, give high praise to the fight against racism and for diversity by the English players.
Yeah, I'm sure they did because that enabled them to win.
Like...
Like, there really is the difference here.
There's the rightist value of winning, you know, hierarchy, all the rest of it, and there's leftist value of, like, I don't care if we come third or fifth for every tournament in future as long as we're able to push racial politics.
That's their victory.
That's what victory looks like to them.
That's exactly the question.
Is it about actually being the best?
Is it about merit?
Or is it about, as they say here, listen to this, right?
If the team is not the best on the pitch, the England team is not the best on the pitch, it is when it comes to ethics, right?
Well, I'm sure that's easy for the winners to say.
The Labour Party didn't get elected, but at least they won the argument.
Exactly that.
It's like, sorry, I thought we were competing for a cup here.
I thought we were going to take something home.
But never mind.
I guess I don't know anything about football, right?
Il Mesegaro was less polite, stating, Justice is served against these unpleasant English who booed our sacred national anthem.
Sacred national anthem.
You've been a country around in 20 years.
Shut up.
A sacred national anthem.
Okay, we've been fascist for more than we've been anything else of our history, Italy.
Shut up, honestly.
Sorry, sacred national anthem.
Where were we?
Where were we?
You better switch sides again.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Italy constantly covering itself in glory.
Despite everything they say about the civilised Wembley crowd, sure, come and teach us good manners again.
I mean, they've got us there.
We're ethically the best, but for some reason our manners are the worst, and also we're losers.
So, you know.
Yes, football and the cup are coming home to our home.
Noting the booing of the Italian anthem, newspaper Carreri di Salo...
I can't pronounce these words.
Enough with this famous British sporting culture.
Well, there we go.
Now, the Italians, and presumably the rest of the Europeans, are looking at the sporting culture.
It doesn't even win, and it's not very good.
Okay, good.
This is what the woke have done to our prestige, I guess you could call it.
Italy's leading sports daily, La Gazzetta, said the three lines were dominated.
We turn them into cubs.
But at least you're ethically the best.
It's cringe.
I can't stand reading this.
We were stronger than the good wishes of the Queen, the indictment of Boris Johnson, and good luck from Tom Cruise, because this time the Mission Impossible was delivered by Italian actors.
Okay?
It's just disappointing to read that the Italians are dunking on us.
That's all I'm saying.
But that's what happens when it's issue politics.
And what's the issue?
Winning the game.
And what happened?
They won it.
Yeah, because they were more concerned about that.
But yeah, I mean, there were banners that said F the Queen and stuff like that, of course, as you'd expect.
But anyway, so yeah.
From the fascists.
Yeah.
That's that.
That's that.
They won the ethical victory, which I don't agree with, but there we go.
Anyway, so I want to talk about taking the knee and the whole saga with the knee itself, or aka the socialist salute, as I'm dubbing it.
So we get the first one up.
This is just a Labour MP talking about this and saying we need to be supporting them taking the knee, because of course that was the stance throughout this.
It is a leftist point.
Socialist salute.
Therefore, Labour supports it.
And of course, the Tory MPs also agree because they're also leftists, apparently.
No, I'm sorry.
Goddamn sick of it.
Tory MP admits it was not right to boo taking the knee.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was not right to boo the 1936 England team for giving the Zieg Heil.
They were just standing up for German solidarity or something.
Yeah, I mean, you've got to understand.
They're ethically correct.
The other thing about this is, as mentioned, the mural has been desecrated.
So this is a mural to Marcus Rashford that was put up in response to him campaigning that the government should pay for children's meals instead of the parents.
And he got that victory, so someone put up a mural to him with a quote.
And then someone went down and they defaced the mural with the words, well, the F word, the S word, and the B word.
None of them racial slurs.
None of them in a phrase.
They're just on their own.
Just F word.
I think we can say the word bastard.
I think that's it.
But the point there being that none of those are racial.
None of them are phrased in a racial way, in which case it's not about race, that is.
It's about the issue.
Seems like someone's upset that he lost rather than because he blacked.
Yeah, I mean, this was scrawled on his mural an hour after the defeat, an hour after he'd failed the penalty shootout.
So it really does seem to be more about the fact that he lost the issue rather than the skin colour of the person.
I mean, he didn't write anything referencing the skin colour.
Why does he have a mural?
He's not dead.
Yeah, it is a bit weird.
He's not a winner.
He's not dead.
Why does he have any kind of monument?
So the response to this from him was to say that he accepts that he's not very good at playing the game, but he won't apologize for having brown skin.
No one asked him to.
The person who graffitied the mural wasn't asking for that.
He was asking that you win.
Whatever.
So what happened?
Well, of course, leftists jumped on this because they've got nothing else to do with their evenings.
And a Trotskyist-run organisation called Stand Up to Racism decided to organise a protest...
I don't even know what they call it.
A rally?
A rally in which they all took the knee in front of this mural after people had put, you know, love letters all over it.
A hate crime probe is being launched into this.
Because someone put the F word on the mural.
I'm unhappy that you lost.
But there is no...
They're not there saying anything racial, and therefore we need a hate crime investigation on the basis of race.
And literally Marcus Rashford turns around and goes, yeah, well, I'm not apologizing for being black.
It's like, no one's asking you to.
Yeah.
Anyway, so if we can go to the next one, stand out to racism.
We're outside chanting for BLM as well, which was pretty damn cringe.
But let's just go to the video and play this just so people can see what went on.
Audio?
Yeah, I can't hear anything.
Black lives matter!
Who disagrees?
Also, he's not dead.
Like, don't you guys usually do this after the cops have shot someone?
Or, you know, someone died?
Like, why are you outside a mural chanting Black Lives Matter?
And then they took the knee to more chanting.
Guy misses a penalty.
Black Lives Matter.
Black Lives Matter.
What?
Can't he just be better at football?
I know some people have been saying the N-word online, but he's not dead.
I don't know what else to say.
So here's the first mural, as mentioned, so you can see people putting up supportive messages there.
Presumably this is in response to the fact that he had people saying the N-word online, and therefore it's giving support, which I don't understand, but it's a bit strange to have this deification.
And you could argue this one would be okay.
But it doesn't end there, does it?
No.
So in response, loads of people have been picking up murals to him and the other black players.
To losers.
Which is strange.
To people who lost.
To people who didn't win.
So we go to this one.
This is them putting up another one, which is clearly just...
If you can scroll down so we can get the image here.
Why?
What is this?
Here are the three men that cost England the game.
We're going to put crowns on them.
Never apologise for who you are.
What, losers?
I don't know.
I actually think maybe you should apologise for being a loser.
I remember the image of the Italian guy who won with his crown and the cup.
Yeah, the actual winner.
He's there with his crown and they're like, nah, put these graffiti crowns on the players who lost because people said the N-word online.
But what about the rest of the team?
They lost too.
They're also losers.
You would argue it's in response to them getting specifically singled out because of their race by...
But who singled them out?
Who was saying diversity this, diversity that, diversity the other, diversity...
Oh, look at our black players.
That's a good question.
Who did that?
If we go to the next one, you can see the organisation that put this up.
They took a bunch of pictures.
It's just one thing.
Never apologise for who you are.
They're not the only ones.
Another person did this.
If we go to the next one, you can see the three young kings.
Keep your heads held high.
And again, it's like a drawing with them having crowns on.
Unless they didn't draw a cup in their hands.
I don't get it.
Like, what's with the deification?
Like, saying racism bad and deifying the black players as kings is two different things.
And they're not the same thing.
Let's be frank.
So there's also art and propaganda being produced about this, which is really strange.
So this is the England verified account tweeting out, Our three lions love heart.
And then it's three drawings of the black players.
Crying.
I don't know why they're crying.
Because they lost.
This is what they looked like after they took their penalties.
I know, but that's the nonsense of like, we're going to produce propaganda.
It's called R3 Lions and they've got their shadows as the lions, right?
So it's trying to make them look strong and yet at the same time you've got the players crying.
But it's so disrespectful to the rest of the players because it's like, look, I know you scored your goals but that doesn't make you a lion.
When you miss your goals, you're a lion if people say nasty words to you on the internet.
I can't imagine being Italian and looking at this.
Just like, what are the English doing in response to losing?
They're calling themselves lying lions with pictures of their players' crime.
No, they're only calling their black players lions.
Yeah.
They're not calling their other players lions because for some reason we have a weird racial divide in the England team at this point.
And if you lose and you're black, you get called a lion.
But if you lose and you score, you just get ignored.
I imagine if you're just the Italian guy, you go on your phone, you see this, you're like, right, I'm going back to the cup, I'll see you in a bit.
What the hell, man?
The English have lost their minds, got it.
This isn't the only one either, there's another one of this, in which you've got people making more propaganda.
95,000 likes.
For these kings?
For the people who miss their penalties.
If you can agree that singling out the black players as the leftists did originally, and as the The racists did as well.
The people saying the M word online.
There's that.
Both of those things are wrong.
Singling them out yet again in a weird way, in a fetishised way, is also bad.
It doesn't help the situation at all.
What would is a return to issue politics and liberal politics instead of race politics.
But I guess we're just stuck in this quagmire for the rest of the thousand years.
So, there's also more incoherent propaganda.
I love this so much.
Pete Hitchens tweeted this out.
If we can scroll down a bit so we can see the full picture.
If we can open up, so it's in the screen.
But you can see it's ITV, Stand with England.
Together we will never lose.
And the picture's been colourised to make it look like it's some sort of 1960s civil rights photograph or something like that.
But this is just so incoherent.
Stand with England.
Well, they're all kneeling.
Together we'll never lose.
You did lose.
What the hell is wrong with you?
What is wrong with you venerating losers?
On the shelf behind Callum, we have a little model of the HMS victory.
That's not there because they lost.
If Nelson wouldn't get his column in Trafalgar Square, we would have called it Trafalgar Square, if he'd lost the Battle of Trafalgar, there wouldn't be any point in venerating a loser.
What is going on?
I hate this attitude.
I hate it.
Also the extreme nonsense of ITV doing this.
ITV, we're anti-racist.
ITV have job applications where if you're white, you cannot apply.
We've covered this before.
That organisation is like, yeah, death to racism, but also whites need not apply.
Yeah.
Incoherent.
So just to talk about why we're kneeling, why these players are standing up, why kneeling, is just an LBC article trying to list the history of this.
So they mentioned that Colin Kaepernick in 2016 was the first one to do it in a big setting.
That's right, calling America a systemically racist country.
I am not going to get up to show pride in a country that oppresses black people and people of color.
Right, okay, so just socialist lie about the US. Social talking point, the United States is an unbelievably racist country in 2016.
Okay.
And then in 2016, of course, the BLM movement sparked up and ended in that year because a black nationalist who specifically went out to target white police officers shot and killed white police officers in Dallas.
Five of them, if I recall correctly.
Yeah, and then after the non-racist killing of George Floyd, there was no racial element to the George Floyd death.
There was a knee on the neck, though, so it does make you wonder about the optics of taking a knee.
But in response, the socialists jump on the idea you're taking a knee, and again, it doesn't make much sense when we're talking about that's the method of death there, which is what's said.
And it's like, okay, this doesn't make any of it look good.
Like, looking at this makes it look more absurd.
But anyway, talking about out of the GB News, Andrew Neal, the Conservative, back when people still had their heads, Correct.
That is a correct statement.
And, again...
The taking of the knee by Kaepernick was specifically to suggest that America is institutionally, structurally, systemically racist.
And so if you were going to import that over to Britain, then you're saying, well, okay, well, everything about Britain is also racist.
So you have to kind of explain, well, why are there so many non-white people in such positions?
But why is Priti Patel the racist in chief?
How did that happen?
Why do we have job applications in the UK that are discriminatory on the basis of race, but only against white applicants?
I mean, based for saying Britain's a racist country, I suppose.
So, the GB News, because Andrew Neil's been on holiday, has done a goof.
One month!
Took exactly one month for GB News to go woke.
So this is a co-host.
So I thought he was a guest.
Turns out, no, he's not a guest.
He's a co-host of the show.
And you can see, I can't remember her name.
Mercy.
Mercy behind him.
You can see her face where she's like trying not to pull a cringe face.
And she's like...
It's basically the meme of visible disgust.
It's amazing.
But this guy was insufferable.
Literally one month to the exact day, it was on June 13th, Andrew Neil puts up his monologue going, we're not going to be a woke show, and boom, kneeling.
Yeah, and this isn't the only instance that's been a bit embarrassing in response.
This is the thing, you need to keep your heads in a time of emotional nonsense.
So this is a producer for GB News who tweeted out a tweet saying, This is unacceptable.
We lost the game.
We didn't lose our humanity.
With a caption of some people...
Seemingly attacking a person.
13 people of colour already been stabbed.
Stay safe out there, especially if you're black or brown.
These English fans can never accept a loss without violence or racism.
The picture is of people wearing red and white shirts, so I guess she thought, well, that's good enough.
They also have the word Polska on them.
Polet.
Because they're Polish players, and they're beating up Russians.
So, it's just complete...
But it's so obviously fake news.
Like, they have the word Polska tattled all over them.
They've got the scarves and everything.
And also, there's no brown people in the picture.
Also, it's just some random caption saying that 13 people have been stabbed.
No attempt to verify, and yet she tweeted that, which...
What an L. What an L. So, there's also the question of...
Well, she deleted that tweet, which is why we had to get a screenshot of it, and then had to post things saying, yeah, I didn't fact-check this, sorry.
So, yeah, why were you trying to jump on the bandwagon?
Like, what, you just, oh, I condemn the working class of Britain.
Okay, gotcha.
So there's the question about the minority.
So the minority of people who are saying such things.
And you can see our favourite race grifter here.
The lady who said, what was it, white lives don't matter.
That's what she's famous for.
And refused to leave England, even though she hates it here.
Saying, how do you know the racists are a small minority?
Well, we have the numbers.
That's the thing.
So if you go to the next link, Spiked actually did some looking into this.
Brendan O'Neill.
Good man, Brendan O'Neill.
Not someone who loses their head in the home of crisis, let's say.
So he says in here, Channel 4 News reports that there has been an analysis of 850,000 tweets sent during the Euro 2020 tournament.
Of those, 1,913 were flagged as potentially abusive, with just 167 were described as containing high-risk abuse.
0.02% of online chatter about this topic after the loss had any mention of something that could be labelled as abusive.
By the numbers, that's the statistics we have.
So when he describes it as a moral panic, he's not wrong, is he?
No.
I love how Channel 4, who did that, decided that they wouldn't make that the headline.
Only 0.02% of comments online.
It's hard to inflame people's hatred against England if you do that.
So to get the next one, this is what they said instead.
Nearly 2,000 abusive tweets target Marcus Rashford, Jaden Sacco, and so on and so forth.
It's just like...
Wow, okay.
So you got the number, you managed to show to yourselves that this is a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage, and you're like, yeah, let's just pick it up.
Let's just not mention the percentage, because it doesn't go with the narrative, does it?
It doesn't help.
Well, it would help reality, but that's not important.
So there's also the claim here that, well, the UK must be irredeemably racist to the core.
Yeah, this morning presenter says the core of the UK is rotten.
Is that okay?
Because a 12-year-old said the N-word online.
Well, 2,000 12-year-olds, said the M-word.
Apparently only, well, with actual abuse, it was what, down to 167?
Oh yeah, good point, yeah.
So almost, well, just under 212-year-olds had access to Twitter, and so the UK is irredeemably racist, rotten to the core.
Again, it puts you in the Prim Yava Gopal camp of...
Why are you here, then, if that's your opinion?
I wouldn't live in a country that I thought was irredeemably racist against England.
I wouldn't live in Italy.
But anyway, as we mentioned before, which is that...
Just joking, Italians.
The response from the conservatives is to say that we will prosecute such people, we will prosecute such children.
As we noticed, there was a 12-year-old who was the first person to be arrested for this.
That's why I keep mentioning someone who's 12, because that was the person that was found by the police.
And they got 20,000 likes for that.
On Twitter.
The local police force is like, we've arrested a 12-year-old.
And then they got 20,000 likes.
Oh, thank you.
Racism's over.
We did it, boys.
Racism's over.
That's all I've got to say.
Yeah, so the government, of course, will tell tech giants to immediately hand over the details of racists who abused England players so the government can make examples of them.
That's right.
If there's one thing you don't want, it's the working classes telling their betters what they think of them in an offensive manner.
I mean, 167 of these people need to go to jail, really.
Because they've done this before, like we were saying about the 12-year-old.
This happened in 2020.
A 12-year-old boy from Solihull, Birmingham was arrested after a string of vile, racist messages were sent to Crystal Palace footballer Wilfred Zaha.
So, looking at the power dynamics, the poor, oppressed Crystal Palace footballer was deeply, deeply oppressed by this 12-year-old on Twitter.
The user, blah, blah, blah, I can't bother to figure that out, sent him photos of the KKK and told him, you better not score tomorrow, you black C-word, or I'll come to your house dressed as a ghost.
That's not appropriate for a 12-year-old, obviously, or anyone ever.
But this is still coming from a child, literally pre-teen.
What I love about this story as well is that he checked with the manager to make this public and then went through talking with all his friends and no one at any point was like, it's a 12-year-old.
Yeah, why are you responding?
Don't worry about it, mate.
Why are you a millionaire football star and responding to a kid online?
But he said, he said, he said, KKK, he's going to come dressed as a ghost to my house.
I don't think he is.
Exactly.
I don't think he is.
I think his parents might have actually grounded him by now.
But that's why he's not leaving the house.
But yeah, so, you know, after widespread condemnation, messages were highlighted to the West Midlands police and confirmed that they had arrested the 12 year old in connection with this racist abuse.
Thank God.
Thank God.
Let's have a salute to our heroes in the Westminster Police who say, thanks to everyone who raised it, racism won't be tolerated.
Presumably the kid was fired out of a cannon into the sun or something.
The Mike Graham solution.
Yeah, the Mike Graham solution to this 12-year-old on Twitter.
The 12-year-old question.
Yeah, millionaire footballers are crying over Twitter and 12-year-olds are going to pay the price.
It's insane what social media has done, combined with social justice to this country.
The inverse of power dynamics here is amazing.
Even if this was just a regular guy, he wasn't a millionaire footballer, still I would say it's a 12-year-old.
I'm not going to press charges.
I don't want him arrested.
What are you getting your panties in a bunch about?
You'd speak to the dad and be like, can you ground your son?
Yeah, exactly.
You know, why has your son got access to social media?
You're a bad parent by letting him do this.
But anyway, Sadiq Khan had a final solution to the racism problem.
Again, if you read this through the lens of Sadiq Khan being a Nazi and racists being Jews, it sounds pretty intimidating, to be honest.
I'm kind of terrified of what Sadiq Khan might do if given unfettered power.
First, we need to acknowledge that racism is not confined to social media, but is a societal problem that runs much deeper, one that infects many of our institutions and sections of our communities too.
Second, it is not simply enough to say you're against racism and then be a silent bystander.
Instead, we must all raise our voices and actively oppose racism in all its ugly forms, whether that's by showing solidarity with sports people taking the knee, you know, the millionaires, or by calling out racism whenever you see or hear it, so harassing 12-year-olds.
We should also encourage our leaders to say loud and proud that diversity is a strength, not a weakness, that immigration enriches rather than diminishes our nation.
Right, we've all got to become communists.
We've all got to become left-wingers.
We've all got to become radical left-wingers who are open borders and anti-free speech and should be focused on race politics at all times.
Thanks, Sadiq.
What a shock that that's your solution.
Like, he could say we should say that race is bad, but no, it has to be 12-year-old has to go to prison.
Yeah.
I mean, if we weren't talking about race, if none of the conversation around the football was about race, and someone was just like, oh, he's black, everyone is black, that's really inappropriate.
Why do you bring that?
That's nothing to do with it.
So are the Italians.
What's your point?
Yeah, exactly.
It's got nothing to do with any of it.
That's the thing.
And it would become less and less of a problem the less you highlighted it.
And the more everyone around them were just like, look, that's just inappropriate.
Stop bringing that up.
Bring up the fact that he's a crap player.
Bring up the fact that he keeps missing his shots.
Bring up the fact that we're celebrating losers.
Why bring up the fact that he's black?
It's got nothing to do with it.
Anyway...
This sparked, again, the massive moral panic, as we saw in the last segment.
And it was amazing that the former adult, like, page three girl, Katie Price, formerly known as Jordan, a pseudonym, created a petition that had been signed by 665,000 people, when we put this together, to make all social media accounts verified and to erase anonymity and pseudonyms.
Rather ironic.
One of those cases of pulling up the ladder after you've done exactly that and decided, nope, I'm here now.
Now I need to know everyone's names, but anyway.
And so Boris is to meet with social media bosses and he's doubtless going to capitulate everything that the Labour Party are asking for and make, presumably, anonymity online illegal.
But he's expected to urge them to up their game in preventing racist abuse and content from being posted on their sites.
Christ, as if they don't do enough already.
As if they don't do enough already.
People get suspensions for posting just the St.
George flag on St.
George's Day already.
Like, we've been sent these messages from people.
Yep.
Of course, police already have a range of powers to identify and pursue those who use anonymity to spread hatred, but we've committed to strengthening the criminal law in this area.
Oh, thank God.
Thank God.
I'm sure Commissar Clegg is on the job right now as we speak.
Lisa Nandy told Sky News that Tyrone Ming's accusation against Patel was correct.
We've never needed to come together more.
We have this amazing moment on Sunday.
We lost.
She says, okay, the result was not exactly what we wanted to see, but you made the final.
Oh, we're celebrating.
We're the first losers.
Brilliant.
In the middle of the pandemic, this was the moment the whole nation should have been lifted...
By the loss.
And instead, because of the actions of a vocal minority stoked by senior politicians, we saw the worst of those rallies on display.
Again, big Jeremy Corbyn, we won the argument vibes coming from Lisa Nandy there.
And so Boris has recently, today, in fact, just before the podcast, he announced his ban for online racists.
Racist abuse of footballers.
Online will trigger a ban on attending matches.
Oh, thank God.
Thank God.
I don't have 12-year-olds at football matches.
By the way, almost all of the people who said anything online are not...
We'll get to that.
We'll get to it.
Don't spoil what I'm going through.
And so, you will not be going to the match, no ifs, no buts, said the Labour Prime Minister.
Because there's no redemption.
Of course, this will be forever.
You'll never be able to un-racist yourself.
If you're a 12-year-old and you tweeted what you thought was funny because you're an immature kid, that's it for the rest of your life.
Presumably, you'll get the Mike Graham treatment.
And so Instagram was asked, what's going on with all of the people posting banana emojis and monkey emojis on the Instagram pages of the black players who missed their kicks?
And Instagram said, that's okay.
Which is genuinely surprising.
They've refused to take down much of the racist social media abuse directed at black English football players in recent days, including the frequent use of monkey emojis, saying it did not violate the terms of service.
Did they say it doesn't violate the terms of service in the country it was posted?
I haven't got those details.
Well, that's a question on my mind.
And then, of course, we found that these accounts then weren't removed.
94% of the accounts directing racism towards the footballers on Instagram were not removed.
Big L. I can't believe that's going to be allowed to stand.
But this is an insane moral panic, because Tom Harwood has actually done something useful, shockingly, and posted this.
The Centre for Identifying Digital Hate has identified 105 Instagram accounts that directed racial abuse against Rashford, Saka and Sancho, and BBC Newsnight analysed the location of these accounts, and of those they could identify, 59 were outside of the UK, and just 5 were within the UK. Moral panic.
Moral panic because people in other countries knew that this would wind you up.
You make a big deal about saying, race this, race that, race this, diversity, diversity, diversity.
We're woke, we're woke, we're woke.
Racism bad, racism bad.
And then you lose and it's like, I know what I'm going to do to piss you off.
Only five accounts.
And so who was one of those people?
Well, we know.
An unnamed suspect from Powick near Worcester was detained on suspicion of inciting racial hatred following reports of an inappropriate tweet he posted.
Thank God the West Mercia police are out there.
Go, what did this criminal tweet?
We can't see.
They didn't tell us.
But I'm sure it's bad.
Ain't that interesting.
Ain't that interesting.
Because with a 12-year-old, they just told us.
Yeah, and also with the mural that was defaced of Rashford, I had to spend a lot of time looking for what was written on that mural because every news report was just racist, racist, racist message, racist this.
Is that really?
What do you post?
It took forever just to find it was just a couple of swear words, nothing about race.
Buried.
Every single time in a story like this, what it's actually said is like, that's not important, mate.
Don't need to look at that.
Exactly, because it's actually on the mural was not about race.
So I don't know what this guy tweeted.
I'll just assume that he tweeted the N-word repeatedly or something.
Actually, no, I think I do know who this guy is, and I think he actually did tweet the N-word, because he claimed his account was hacked.
Hmm.
Yeah, don't believe.
Good excuse.
X the doubt.
Yeah, my account was hacked too, Jack.
But the point is, he was a youth football coach, so he's a football fan.
And the thing is, he seems to be a normal guy, living a normal life, doing normal things.
And he is the problem that the Westminster Bubble are facing.
Normal people in the Shire.
This is the systemic racism, this one 50-year-old.
And the 12-year-old.
And 163 others, or whatever it was.
But they weren't in the UK. Well, the 5% of them that were in the UK were the problem.
So literally what is that, like 12 people?
Less than that, 7, 8, something like that, it's 5%.
It's very, very low.
And just to add on to the end of this, the England fans have been suppressed from their own culture as well.
I think that's important to note.
This is an interesting example where the West Midlands police said they were sorry for any offence caused after one officer was seen taking part in the, quote, disrespectful Ten German Bombers song?
You're aware of this song, right?
Hang on, sorry.
Disrespectful towards the Nazis?
Yes.
Hang on, what?
Disrespecting the Nazis is now wrong?
You insult the Luftwaffe, you get disciplined.
Because that's what this song is.
Now, this song is an English folk song that appeared in the subsequent victory of Britain in World War II. The song goes, there were ten German bombers in the air.
There were ten German bombers in the air.
And the RAF from England, the RAF from England, the RAF from England shot one down.
And then this song repeats.
There's another inflame.
There were nine German bombers in the air.
Exactly.
Ten green bottles.
And this was described as an ultra-nationalist song.
You defend yourself from Nazis.
You're an ultra-nationalist.
Yeah.
Yeah, the Luftwaffe were really the good guys.
And the cops have joined in singing this anti-Nazi song.
How dare they?
Don't they know they're meant to be Nazis like us?
Hail anti-racism.
Absolutely.
And so they are in trouble.
This song is, of course, banned by...
They just hate London or something.
They want to see it bombed to the ground.
Yeah, by UEFA, have banned this song.
You're not allowed to sue.
Oh, okay.
So it's the Germans who are upset about us making fun of them.
Sorry, I didn't realise that Nazism is such a core part of German identity.
But, of course, the question, though, is that where were the police of tolerance and diversity when all the chaos was going on on the London streets?
You saw the fans storming the Wembley Stadium, fighting the streets.
Well, it turns out the mercenaries are worthless.
That's what.
You know, the police who were singing about the 10 German bombers, probably not worthless.
But these, just absent, totally absent.
Where were they?
Good question.
Because you're going to need a lot of police to prosecute all of the guilty racists of England, according to left-wing philosophy, because apparently a new report from the woke think tank, the Runnymede Trust, has decided that England is, quote, systemically racist.
So that makes everyone in England a racist.
So the race report came out, the Runnymede Trust lost their minds because they were going to be unemployed.
So now they're just like, alright, well, really something in response to saying we are.
England isn't systemically racist, that's why you're wrong.
Like, everything's racist.
I'm laughing because in my head I'm just like, yeah, Churchill, ultra-nationalist.
Montgomery, ultra-nationalist.
It's basically a Nazi.
Anyone who sings about defeating the Nazis is basically a Nazi.
The report says that ethnic minority groups face sustained disparities across health, the criminal justice system, education, employment, immigration and politics.
Education?
Education?
What are you talking about?
I think minorities are doing brilliantly in education.
That was the main key takeaway.
The lowest group is free school meals, white kids.
Yes.
The white British working class are the ones doing worse in education.
They're not doing great in all the other categories as well, to be honest.
But I just find this like health.
Are we supposed to...
We're systemically racist because of what black people eat.
And the amount of exercise that black people take.
Huh.
Are we supposed to force them to eat certain foods and take a certain amount of exercise?
We should regulate the food.
I mean, that's weird, isn't it?
But then again, like employment.
It's like, sorry, we literally have jobs that say literally no whites need apply.
So yeah, I mean, yeah, there is systemic racism on that basis.
Sure, but not against ethnic minority groups, which is the argument she's making.
And so, right, no, they're actively privileged, okay, and employment, education, immigration and politics, just...
Where?
Where is this?
Where are you going?
You've got ethnic minority shortlists in all the political parties.
It's just such an obvious and total lie.
It's just obvious, Cope.
They got butthurt about the fact that the evidence does not justify their existence.
They're like, right, we'll just make some up then.
Well, everything justifies our existence now, don't you understand?
Sorry, I can't get over the ultra-nationalist point.
It's just...
Posing Germany is ultra-nationalism.
Unlike the tolerant, progressive Germans.
Mid-century Germans.
Well, they were socialists.
Socialists of a feather flock together.
You know how it goes.
Sorry, that tickled me to no end.
That's an amazing statement.
Because I've heard even people I've known from time to time refer to people as ultra-nationalists.
You just kind of look at them like, you're just saying words, aren't you?
You have no idea what you're doing.
What does that mean?
I think it's meant to be like, my country, right or wrong, so literally, even if we committed a genocide, we're still right because we're us.
What?
Well, A, that's the Nazi position, but B, I think...
Well, no, it's not necessarily on the basis of race or anything.
So, like, if you just stormed into a region, invaded Iran, let's say, and just killed everyone, and we're just like, this is our land now.
That could be ultra-nationalism.
Sure.
Defending yourself from the invading Nazis?
I'm not sure that counts.
But it's so weird as well.
Like, denying the English their folk traditions seems like a form of racism to me.
And a part of the English folk tradition is defeating the Nazis.
I'm sorry.
I hate to be a German phobe or something.
It's the Nazi perspective as well.
On Britain, they're like, yeah, they're doing this to us.
It's like, what the fuck is that?
You invaded Poland, you moron!
You're invading us!
That's what the Battle of Britain was!
Anyway, let's go for the next one.
Sorry, I got a problem with the video comments.
So we see...
Bye.
We need to have the conversation again about ID being linked to social media accounts.
Now, I can see why a lot of people think this is a good idea on the face of it, but they don't realise that this will completely get rid of whistleblowers.
The most vulnerable people in society tend to have anonymous accounts, and we're punishing the population as a whole for something that a fringe minority of people have done.
They don't realise how dangerous this is.
Everyone I've spoke to about this Just doesn't think about these consequences.
They just think bad words, bad.
So what are your thoughts on this?
Very much in agreement with that perspective.
There are legitimate reasons to have anonymous accounts.
Now, I just want to be clear.
I've never bothered with anonymous accounts.
I've had a pseudonym, of course, online, but that was always me because, I mean, frankly, I want to take credit for the things I say online.
I'm not only thinking that someone else is coming up with my brilliant takes or anything.
I'm just too egotistical.
But there are obviously advantages to having necessary needs to being anonymous sometimes.
But more importantly as well, I suppose they've got this kind of full-spectrum dominance perspective, because it just looks to me like they're saying, right, we're going to make sure that no Jewish people or no black people online can hide.
You can't pretend to not be Jewish and not be black.
I want the racist to be able to see you.
You're putting a flair on these people saying, no, this is a black person, this is a Jewish person.
And so the racist from around the world will be able to see.
Because remember, 95% of this didn't come from within Britain.
It came from around the world, so they can definitely get you then.
You can't even be anonymous there.
The thing on my mind is I was thinking of Ella Hill, so she doesn't want her real name out in public because she's a victim of a grooming gang and likes the anonymity.
Could be targeted by those people who already victimized her.
And Piers Mung is like, no, you must have your name online.
Go to hell.
Thanks, Piers.
Hello.
On the topic of abortion, there are some people that should not be allowed to make decisions who is and who isn't human.
And those people are socialists.
Well, they've decided that the, again, the socialists have found a constituency in a country who aren't human, and they're the racists.
They're not human anymore.
Everywhere socialists go, they just take a group of like, right, if we kill them, then we'll solve all the problems in the world.
Yes.
That's their ideology.
That's literally it.
Fundamentally, let's be honest.
Just every time, every goddamn time.
Just pick your demographic.
Okay, Callum, you don't know anything about Christiania.
What you said yesterday is just completely untrue.
What you are actually referring to is Pusher Street, which doesn't exist anymore, a part of Christiania, which, true enough, used to have a lot of drugs.
But the people of Christiania always have one rule.
There cannot be any violence at Christiania.
There cannot be any guns.
You are not allowed to ever attack a police officer.
If anyone ever attacks a police officer, the people who lives in Christiania will go down Pusher Street themselves.
Then five years ago, one guy brought one gun to attack or threaten one police officer.
The police didn't even manage to arrive.
The people of Christiania were true to their words.
No violence.
And they closed down pusher streets themselves.
And there haven't been a pusher street since.
Because from its foundations 50 years ago, they said no violence and they meant it.
So what's this in reference to?
So Christiania is a thing in Denmark, in Copenhagen, in which the government decided they would just leave it alone and then see what happened as a social experiment.
I got told that my stories of Christiania come from a friend of mine in Denmark who lives in Copenhagen who goes and buys his weed there all the time.
So any mistakes, I'm going to blame on him for that one.
But I thought there was some issues with violence there.
People had been shot, but...
I'm more insulted that she didn't pick up on my terrible attempt with Danish last time she sent in the it's coming home stuff but alright thanks can we play the next one?
Go on.
This is a response to Cat of Kit.
Your argument fails because of the progressive tax structure.
The largest group of people pay the least in taxes, and those that pay the most in taxes have no voice in democracy.
I don't know, because I don't remember who he's referring to.
Sorry.
Callum, we already have a huge chunk of land set aside for socialists.
It's called Canada.
LAUGHTER Yeah, true.
I mean, this is the joke that comes up every time something...
So Cuba right now, there are conservatives joking, oh, well, we'll send you all the bluehead feminists and you can send us your base patriots.
Why not?
Why not?
Actually, someone in government...
I want some actual...
Like Bolsonaro.
Someone like him.
Just be like, right, we'll do it.
I just see what the Cubans say.
Sold.
I know, I've been seeing an awful lot of Cuba simping on the communist pages.
Literally, one of these, and he's got hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook, one of them posted, if you're a leftist and you can't even support Cuba, then how are you a leftist?
It's like, what, if you can't support the communist dictatorship of Cuba, you're not a leftist?
True.
Fact check.
Yeah, based.
Thanks for coming out and just saying it.
Mask off.
Look, if you're not for tyranny, you're not a leftist.
I agree.
let's go thanks are they lotus eaters yeah man love me shorty love me footy love me queen simple based did you I didn't see the Jamaica bit yesterday.
Did you include the fact that in 2011, 63% of Jamaicans thought that Jamaica was governed better under the Empire?
Yeah.
Good.
And then the government was trying to get rid of the Queen.
They failed in this.
It was just like, wow, interesting.
Like, people want this, and you're like, nah, not doing that.
Good.
Well, Kellan, I didn't realize that I only had 30 seconds, so I'll make this as fast as I can.
If you tossers were not broadcasting your live stream at 6 a.m., then I might be able to comment on the live stream.
But as it is, I'm seven hours behind you, so I'll have to resort to posting my comments on the forums or on the comments section on lotuseaters.com.
So, maybe you could, you know, push it back an hour?
Thanks!
I love it when Americans repurpose British insults.
Toss us.
Yeah, twat.
I love the term bloody.
Anyway, we can't move the podcast just because of how things work, I think, set up this way.
If you post it underneath, I mean, we do still read the comments.
It's not like we ignore them after the fact or anything, so we'll get around to probably reading them.
I don't know what to say.
AA's Tory Voyeur video really made me think of Operation Crusader.
This is where the British tried to liberate Debrooke.
They held the Strategic Initiative and the advantage in men and material, but they split up their armour.
This allowed Rommel to defeat them in detail and gain the Strategic Initiative.
And this is where the parallels to the Conservative Party come in.
Both them and Crusader don't know their strengths, don't know their enemy, And don't know how to be aggressive.
Simple as.
Well, it's true.
I want to see the conservative meme.
It's just like, don't know this, don't know that, don't know anything.
Simple as.
Vote conservative.
Have we considered putting up a mural to those people who came second?
I mean, they won the argument.
They were ethically correct.
You know, the Germans weren't ethically correct there.
Well, I mean, some people in the Football Association will think they were, but why can't we just celebrate those losers?
I mean, what's weird as well is that Rommel's got a much better reputation than the people he defeated.
People think highly of Rommel as a strategist and a gentleman, whereas nobody remembers who he defeated.
The thing on my mind is, I'm wondering, do you ever watch Potential History?
No, no.
I really like him, you should.
And he does a lot of good memes as well.
But there's a video he made that I watched the other day that was really interesting on this topic about the idea of how good are the generals.
Which is, after the war, of course, all of them are just like, yeah, that Hitler guy, he was to blame for a lot of stuff.
But also, I'm fantastic.
And there's a whole bunch of generals which people are now looking back on after getting access to the Soviet archives, especially on the Eastern Front.
They're like, wait, no, you're a moron.
And everything you did was retarded.
I don't know about Rommel though, so...
Okay, so I got sick of people asking me why I'm hesitant about taking the vaccine, so I decided to do a deep dive to see if I could find some data to rub on our stupid little faces.
So I used my awesome hacker powers, namely, clicking this into the export button down here, and now I have a database.
Now I can break down the data any way I want.
It's very basic at the moment, but it does give us some interesting data.
My plan is to continue to work on this to add more and more data.
This way people can be informed about what they're actually taking.
I'm not your mother.
I don't really care if you get the vaccine or not.
What I do care about is that people have access to information so they can make a choice for themselves.
Yeah, that's it.
Cheers!
Yeah, that's awesome.
I'd love if you put the percentages as well so we could see, like, you know, here's the percentage chance of death from this, and then you can compare that to chance of death from virus for your age group or health group, couldn't you?
That would be very useful.
Yeah.
And then we could ask questions about why they're vaccinating teenagers.
Hmm.
Was that the last one?
No.
You're right, lad.
So I'm finding a lot of this information about the COVID passports being used within the UK quite blackpilling.
Now, I haven't been vaccinated, nor am I going to get vaccinated out of principle, but I'm obviously in the minority.
And it seems the majority of people that have been vaccinated no longer care of the minority are discriminated against.
A lot of people that I speak to are just kind of like, it's easy, just get vaccinated.
And it seems to be that people are more concerned about what's easy rather than what's right at the moment.
I just want to know your thoughts and maybe your advice.
I mean, he's completely right.
I haven't been vaccinated.
I'm not intending on taking the vaccine because I have previously had COVID, so why would I bother?
But I guess that'll just make me a second-tier citizen.
I got really mad yesterday night thinking about this, because let's say you are like, yeah, we'll take the vaccine.
Why?
Government said we can have some, you know, this or that freedom back.
For example, going abroad.
And then you did it.
And then maybe you've had side effects, maybe you've not.
But you and your friends and family have done this.
And then they released the information that all of the vaccines they had were from India, and therefore no one's getting any of the access to go abroad.
And then, screw you.
You did it for nothing.
And also maybe some of your friends got side effects.
For nothing.
Yeah, I'm really mad about the whole thing.
Yeah.
I mean, we know people who have side effects from these vaccines, and it's not like there haven't been a number of cases of people having blood clots and dying from them.
And to be honest with you, I just don't want to take that risk.
Well, it's just the scumbag thing of, like, let's say there's none of that.
Zero.
There's no problems whatsoever.
And then we won't give you the freedom back anyway, because screw you.
Yeah, that is also scummy.
Right, there's no investment, though.
There's no reason to do it.
Go to hell.
I've got a family depending on me.
I'm not taking a risk on these things.
Sorry.
Let's go to the next one.
Hey Callan, you asked about a white pill yesterday, and I was a quasi-spook in the Navy.
If you notice that socialism is in its late game stages all around the world, even here, both in the UK and America.
So, would you rather us spooky types be silent with our power or out in your face so that you can see it and counteract it?
I don't really know what that means.
A secret agent of some sort, right?
Doing clandestine operations.
Would you rather them be open in public or would you rather them be operating behind the scenes?
It's not a bad point.
I was reading, I started that Bretton Woods book you gave me, and one of the things he started off with was the negotiator from the United States was a secret communist at the time, and no one knew, and he kept him to himself.
And then he organized his policy around the idea that the Soviet project was something desirable.
It is nicer that it's in public, I suppose.
That's a good point.
Yes.
A manga recommendation, but a very good one.
Moriarty the Patriot.
Before he was Sherlock's rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class system in England by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance.
But even the most well-intentioned plans can spin out of control.
Will Moriarty's dream of a more just and equal world turn into a hero?
Or a monster.
Okay, I think I see where that's going.
Banned.
I'm joking.
Callum, allow me to whiten your black pill.
Scenario one, they pass these laws, beating out of everything on social media.
Suddenly people are thinking, well, I don't want to be not anonymous on social media.
I'm not going to use Twitter anymore, and I'm not going to use Facebook.
Suddenly, all these companies, they stop being used and...
Scenario two, people find out that, wow, all the people who are posting these nasty tweets and racist tweets, well, they're black, or they're these race activists, or they're bots, or they're just no one in this country.
Wow, it's almost as if this racism narrative was made up just to stir up controversy.
The racism narrative...
Win-win, man.
Go and watch the first day of Rubin interview with Candace Owens, if you don't believe me.
There's a bit of a white pill.
That's fantastic.
So, as you can probably tell, I enjoy gaming, and I know Kyle mentions Fallout New Vegas a lot, and I played it a little bit, but I didn't like it a whole lot because it reminds me of where I live and I hate where I live.
But I was wondering what kind of games you like to play, like if you do lots of first-person shooters or if you play anything else.
I like Dark Souls and different stuff like that.
And so I was wondering what kind of games that you guys prefer.
And then I also wanted to share my woodworking creations, since other people have shared theirs, but I don't have my name words, so I just have pictures, and I will include them.
Hmm.
Cool.
NCR. Yeah.
Good.
You should really play.
Yes, you've been sending me enough clips, and maybe I'll be persuaded.
I sent him the Legion's opinion on women yesterday.
I love that one of the top comments was like, who knew that Caesar's Legion was filled entirely by gamers?
Yeah.
The only problem I have, because I was thinking about this, the comment he said, I'd love to see you guys' take on the different political factions and what they're proposing.
The only limit in the whole thing that irritates me is you've got to accept what the outcomes and situations in the game are in the game is true, and some of them don't make sense in reality.
But other than that, it is a pretty well-crafted world.
The people who wrote it took some serious care.
And you can see they actually delved into what's the ideology of talking like this, therefore research it and write a character that's coherent and not just bad guy.
Like, the Legion get memed on for being the obvious meme, but they have their argument.
It's an absurd one, but it's an argument.
It's one that's come from 4chan.
Yeah.
Although for games, I really like Paradox games, to be honest.
Yeah, they're good.
I've been recently getting into Battlelord with you.
Yeah.
Been enjoying Battlelord online?
No.
Right.
Because I got screwed.
Yeah, but that's fine.
I've rebuilt my army after the crushing defeat we had the other day.
So now I've got nearly 30 really solid heavy infantrymen and 15 heavy cavalry and then something like a dozen or so horse archers.
I'm crushing it.
Absolutely crushing it.
Do you play the single player much?
No, completely online. completely online.
That would be the left's argument for ending racism.
you I'm getting more turned around to the idea that the AA might be right about having a vanguard.
Maybe democracy is difficult.
Well, democracy is the best of a bad system, a series of systems, as Churchill put.
But what are limitations on the franchise besides vanguardism, let's be honest?
Well, the point of constitutionalism is that the majority cannot tyrannize the minority because there are certain limits to anything that government power should be able to do.
But, I mean, our governments are so far out of our control of them.
There are no constitutions.
The governments are just doing whatever they like.
Sure, but I'm just talking about like, I'm not saying actually one party state or anything, but the thing in my mind as I'm thinking of is, say we have the limitation of age for the franchise at the moment, and you've spoken about the idea of limitation on the basis of veteran status or so on and so forth.
There are different ideas.
Well, I'm not really, that's not really...
I'm not saying you're for it, I'm saying those are different ideas there, right?
And it used to be 21, property owning, and so on and so forth.
I'm watching a friend of mine debate someone talk about the anonymity thing.
They were one of the people voting the $600,000 petition.
I'm just listening to them and thinking, you know, I'm not sure about the franchise for this one.
I don't know.
Do you know, apparently it's a mostly cloudy day, according to my phone.
I guess the weather app has been taking its advice from...
From CNN. And it certainly is fiery, but mostly cloudy.
The sunshine's gone.
Amazing.
Something truly dangerous must be happening.
It's important.
Is it the last of the video comments?
SH Silver says, It really seems that Corbyn was right that they, quote, won the arguments.
Everyone is subverted by leftist sympathies, so much so that even if the general public isn't terribly woke, their patriotism for the football team overrides them realising how terribly woke it's become and causes them to reflexively defend it on woke terms.
Yeah, I've had a few of my own friends say this to me, actually.
And so it's like reflexively defending it on woke terms.
It's annoying.
But you are right.
I mean, the corruption is so deep, man.
Robin says, you must be a fool if you let your enemies educate your children, because if you do, you would not have planted the trees whose shade the future generations would sleep under.
From this, the moral underlying philosophy of liberalism becomes disregarded by many, and the age of the West comes to an end, embracing safety over freedom.
The bonds that hold us break, and the New World Order slowly comes to replace the old institutions, governance and culture, educate your children.
Yeah, and that's why the Conservatives are constantly putting rainbow flags up.
They have nothing, no animating fire within them, and so they just constantly are trying to hold back the left, but the left is relentless, because they think this is a crusade, they think it's the right thing to do.
Carbohydrate Crusader says, Blackpilled this week guys.
Any words of encouragement?
Post what I anticipate to be a further Blackpilled podcast.
Yeah.
Memento mori?
I don't know how you guys do it.
Listening to this stuff can be so depressing.
It must be hard to deliver it.
Sorry if that seems scrambled.
Trouble at home.
Mother isn't well.
All the best.
Well, hopefully things get better at home and your mother gets better.
But you've got to remember that all things pass, I think.
This won't be forever, and I don't think they're going to win-win in the end.
Matthew says, if the English Conservative government is going to investigate anyone, should it not be the leftists that suddenly took a liking to the English team and are proud of their country?
Wow.
In a better world.
Well, no, I mean, this law has been applied.
Section 17, for example, was applied to the, what was it, hashtag kill all white men.
Oh, was it?
That she was investigated by the police, but that was it.
But I'm sympathetic to the idea that some malicious compliance might be in order, in which we just start reporting the wokest literally every day for everything they tweet to the police officers.
Yeah, I don't see why not.
They are breaking the law.
The law is you can't post anything grossly offensive.
Death to white people, death to men, so on and so forth.
Probably considerable...
As grossly offensive?
Should be getting some fines, at least.
Alexander says, diversity is a strength, but everyone must conform or else be kicked out of society.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Right.
Um...
Bio Zombie says, Hey Callum, since you mentioned wanting more Fallout comments, here's one for you.
How to maintain and improve myself, I created a scheduling plan around special, which is the Fallout attribute system.
Strength is weight training.
Perception is reading a variety of books.
Endurance is cardio exercise.
Charisma is working on talking to others more.
Uh, intelligence is practicing what I read and study like maths, programming, circuit boards, et cetera.
Agility is doing stretches when I wake up before and after exercising.
And luck is the random elephant element, like quitting cigarettes, cutting back on alcohol, maintaining a healthy fast food free diet.
That's awesome.
Mm.
Uh, Riamu says, hello there, Locitas.
It's another beautiful morning here in Texas.
I'm currently watching the sunrise.
I prepare for a day, a work day after a run.
Carl, I have a question for you.
Do you listen to any 40k content when exercising?
My personal favourite is when running is Blood for the Blood God, but my friend says he prefers Hammer of the Emperor.
As a third party, I hope you can be the tiebreaker in the vote between which is better.
Thanks for the great content.
Keep up the good fight.
Well, obviously, Hammer of the Emperor is superior just because it's not heretical.
What?
I'm more into the lore than the music.
Yeah.
Like, I listen to lore audio.
Right.
But no, I tend to listen to audiobooks of history things.
We're currently bows off sick today because we've all had a cold that's been going around the office.
But working on Herodotus at the moment, it's really interesting actually.
Herodotus is like layout of the ancient Greek world in around 500 BC and the Persian invasion of Greece.
And the Persian army is a fascinating thing that we'll go on and do more podcasts about.
But the next one will be about Scythian justice.
The Scythians being the sort of nomadic people who lived in the steppes above the Black Sea, the Greeks had quite a lot of contact with and have a very interesting opinion on.
But I tell you what, there was no such thing as justice in the ancient world.
And the Persians were awful, as awful as everyone else.
And I'm so sick of the Persian apologetics.
Oh, Xerxes was such a nice king.
Right.
On the way, this old man comes to Xerxes and says, my lord, you've got like three million men in your army.
I'm but an old man.
I'm coming with you, and so are my five sons.
Can I please leave one of my sons behind at home to tend to my property and look after everything I've got?
And Xerxes gets really annoyed by this, saying, I'm going as well, you know.
And so he has his oldest son killed, chopped in half, and both halves stuck up on either side of the road along which his army is marching.
It's like, You insane tyrant.
These people are on your side.
They're coming with you.
He's one of your guys.
And so, yeah, so I'm going to kill your firstborn.
The firstborn's just there eating his breakfast.
It's like, oh, the emperor wants to eat.
What, me?
Yeah, we're going to kill you and chop you in half.
Thanks, Dad.
You know, that's the thing.
There's no justice in the ancient world.
Anyway.
If you want more 40k content, though, I'd recommend Adeptus Ridiculous, which is a podcast that's come out of nowhere, which has been really fun.
It's a guy explaining to another guy the law, and the guy doesn't know anything about the whole thing.
So it's really funny to get his reactions to.
That old guy says, So Callum, what did you think of No Man Beyond This Point?
No, I didn't get time to watch it yesterday.
I wrote it down on this laptop and I took the other one home.
Michael says, It's so lovely that the most base conservatives are two minority women.
I love it.
And they're intelligent to top it off.
Yeah, Kemi Badenock I presume he's talking about and Priti Patel.
Siren says, These people are idiots.
Almost all the comments came from outside the UK anyway, so people need to stop being weak, sensitive clowns.
Yes.
The so-called anti-cancel culture types wanting people to have their lives ruined for mean words.
Yep.
We're looking at UGB News.
They are clowns, soft and weak.
So the same ones going after the comedians.
Britain is looking like a damn joke.
I'm sick of bootlicking everywhere.
Commies are evil.
If you kneel for a commie, you are my enemy.
Well, that's why we don't kneel for commies.
Ignacio says, imagine what they would say if instead of kneeling for communism, they'd use a slogan like, all lives matter.
They'd be up in arms.
They'd be screeching.
All of the left-wing papers, all the left-wing activists, all the left-wing politicians would be screeching, screeching, screeching that it was a racist slogan.
Chris says, Carl, I've been considering the idea of taxation due to the discussion lately and I don't see others bring up this point.
Assuming we agree to a government, they will need resources to function.
They have two choices if they wish to avoid taxation, gain resources through coercion or gain resources through the mint.
So unless we want the government to force us to work for them or print money endlessly until it hyperinflates into the stratosphere, we need to set aside money from the system for the system.
Well, from society, I think you mean, for the system.
But yeah, I mean, that's the basic pragmatic argument that taxation is a necessary evil.
Pete says, why is it that people who bang on about lenses are least likely to be able to try on other lenses, as in ideological lenses?
Think empathy training would be helpful for those types?
I mean, if you feel excluded from a crosswalk or you can't relate to faces that aren't like yours, something is wrong with you.
Yeah, well, this is why it was all really, really interesting how the Muslim hijabis, all of the immigrants are like, oh, the England team represents me.
So are you not English?
It's only when it's an immigrant team you feel represented by just fellow immigrants.
These are people from various disparate parts of the world.
Not what I would say.
That's just so weird.
Yes, I know that I'm from Pakistan and he's from Sudan, but he represents me.
It's like, why?
Well, good question.
Terry says, Callum Callum, quick question.
What's your favourite melee weapon?
Do I have one?
Bayonet?
I like modern history.
I like modern weapons.
I don't like action weapons.
The answer is, of course, the sword.
The sword is the correct answer.
No, bayonet.
It's funny.
You've got this gun, you can shoot people and it's like, nah, knife.
Yeah, but it's not noble.
How is it not noble to put a bayonet on and charge at a line of guns?
Because the bayonet itself is not a noble weapon.
The bayonet charge itself is.
The common man uses a bayonet.
Yeah.
It's not a noble one.
Has it what?
A bayonet is...
Oh, noble as in of the officers.
Yeah, exactly.
The officer class used the swords.
But more importantly, there's a reason for this.
There's a logic that underpins all of this, right?
And it's because the bayonet is clearly just a knife.
Giving it a fancy name doesn't change it from being a knife, right?
And knives are not weapons of war.
Knives have got practical use.
All weapons, all weapons come from some practical tool that people use, except for the sword.
That's a point.
The sword is the only weapon of war.
What about a mace?
What about it?
It's just a cudgel.
But that's what I mean.
What the hell are you going to use a mace for outside of war?
The same things you use a hammer for.
What?
I'm not going to hammer stuff with a mace.
It's got spikes on it.
Well, a spiked mace, maybe.
But the point of, you know, a blunt object, that's just a hammer.
It's a mallet.
I was talking about a mace.
Sure, but, like, the sword has got no other uses.
Free Will says, Yeah, and given the rampant sexualisation of children that's going on on the left at the moment, it really seems that Brave New World was correct.
James says, incredibly frustrating watching Boris reply this afternoon to Starmer and PMQs.
Yeah, I haven't had time to watch it yet, but I can only imagine it's insufferable.
Glad I'm not.
I could have written their rebuffs better myself, and I'm sure everyone listening to this podcast could have done too.
Yeah, don't doubt.
Don't doubt.
Real liberals can understand that when you use different methodologies to approach solving the same problem, lefties believe that if you oppose methodology, you also oppose the goal of solving the problem.
Yeah, if you're not prepared to do things the socialist way, you must be in favour of the problem.
It's like, no.
I just think there are different solutions.
Ones that aren't communist.
But like, oh, what are the Tories?
The party of poverty.
What?
I was actually arguing with a bunch of communists on Facebook the other day who, and I'd managed to drill them down.
They were like, capitalism is oppressing everyone.
Capitalism is the reason people aren't getting medication.
I was like, oh wow, that's fascinating.
What was oppressing them before capitalism?
They were like, feudalism.
I was like, really?
That's amazing.
So feudalism was stopping people from getting medicine.
They were like, yeah.
What was oppressing them before feudalism?
And they literally said nature.
Do you not see the ridiculousness of your own...
Again, hundreds of thousands of followers on this page, and the author of the page is replying to me.
It's been like, yeah, nature is oppressing us.
Yeah, nature is a class traitor.
Yeah, nature is a counter-revolutionary force.
So yeah, sucks that, doesn't it?
Ivor says, Yeah, but to be honest with you, I'm quite looking forward to them.
To just sit there and start roundly attacking England football fans.
Just start attacking football fans in general.
Because, I mean, when social justice infects a community that is an organized activity around a certain thing, it destroys it.
And we know this.
It's happened over and over and over again.
And so, right, okay, now they're going for the big guns, the football fans.
That's right, they're all racist.
They're all racist.
They're not progressive.
You should go in there and tell them that and demand that they be progressive.
Because that'll be a way of really improving the revenues that the Football Association make.
Adam says, did you see we got a problems video yesterday?
Apparently only 120 messages aimed at the players of class as racist and 96% of those are not from English accounts.
Yes, yes we did.
Yeah, so, brilliant.
Supreme Duck says, glorifying these guys is just a massive cope of the race grifters.
Yes.
They're losers.
They lost.
I'm not proud that they lost.
I'm sad that the England team lost because the Italians dunking on us repeatedly.
The Germans and the Spanish are probably doing the French.
God, I don't even know what they're saying.
Don't even want to know.
It's embarrassing.
But we were saying this before as well, which is it's weird to stake your entire political ideology in a football game.
Why would you do that?
Who on earth would think that would be a good political strategy?
It's coming home, Callum.
It's coming home.
It's coming home.
Yeah, exactly.
That was the thing, wasn't it?
It's coming home.
Oh, well, it's going to be the validation of diversity when we win the match.
Ah, shit.
Validation of Caesar's Legion, that's what it is.
Yeah, so.
I also love it though, like, the Italians aren't white, so who cares?
Like, why are we talking about race?
It's so stupid.
Anyway.
We should be talking about Italians and how they're dunking on us.
Let's end the show there.
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