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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #184

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 27th of July 2021 and I'm joined by Carl Hello!
	We are going to be talking about today the Blizzard's death by feminism which is kind of annoying because there's some mixed story in there where it's like there's some serious allegations that need to be investigated but at the same time it's so layered on with nonsense that it makes me want to just disregard the whole thing.
	Right.
	We'll get into that.
	Also the consequences of simping and why you need to stop Yes.
	Yes.
	I was asked to...
	I chewed out young women and now I have to chew out young men, which is fine because there are loads of simps on the internet and you know who you are.
	You're the rod.
	Anyway, also the Dems defunding your police.
	I really hate the phrase defunding the police.
	They're defunding your police.
	You're the one who's down to pay for them.
	And then they're going to use your money to pay for their own private security.
	Because screw you.
	Literally, it was just a power grab of money for me, not for thee.
	Anyway, a couple of things to mention first.
	So first thing is the interview with Benjamin Boyce.
	I believe Bo did this one.
	This is free, I believe.
	So go and check that out on lotuses.com about the War of 1812.
	I think it was like the first global conflict officially as well.
	It's like before the First World War.
	Anyway, also the next thing being the article Rory has written about despite the virtues of the NHS, it's time for it to die.
	Pretty spicy take.
	I'm looking forward to the argument.
	I don't know if foreigners get this, but the cult of the NHS really is a thing in the UK. Didn't David Starkey describe it as the closest thing we have to a religion, a national religion?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And it's annoying, it's insufferable, and it's got to the point now where it's like, well, Britain couldn't exist without the NHS? It's like, really?
	Okay.
	So I saw Shu the other day talking about, like, we need universal health care.
	I'm like...
	Well, from our own sitting, it's a bad choice.
	It's not even that, it's just, it's not some perfect solution to everything.
	No, I don't want the cult.
	Like, get rid of the cult aspect, at least, for Christ's sake.
	Oh yeah, that would be nice.
	Also mentioned the next thing being on 3pm, there'll be a freemium book club of, what was it, Lawrence Fox's...
	Yeah, In Protection of Free Speed.
	So, Lawrence Fox, commissioned through a barrister called, I think it was Anthony Hoare, An argument that can be presented to the government in what the current state of affairs with free speech in Britain is and what can be done to improve it.
	And it's actually really good.
	And so I go through it in depth, go through it in quite good detail.
	To explain these are their arguments, these are why they're persuasive or not, and let's hope that the government actually do something with it.
	It's a really good attempt, if nothing else.
	We don't know what's going to come of it, because of course the question is still being debated, and of course the Conservatives are the Conservatives, but it's really good and it's a very interesting thing to have a look at.
	And also, last thing, we have the Gold Tier Zoom call this Friday, in which we just hang out.
	So if you're a Gold Tier member, tune in for that on Friday.
	I think it's 3 or 4pm do we do that?
	It's 4, isn't it?
	4pm.
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	Without further ado, let's get into Blizzard being killed by feminism.
	So didn't know what to make of this story, had no idea what was going on, and then did the research this morning.
	And there's a narrative from the corporate side of this and from the employees alleging that Blizzard is a company in which it is disgusting to work in.
	It's a frat boy house full of sexual assault, sexual misconduct.
	And there's the thing.
	The sexual harassment, sexual misconduct stuff, those are serious allegations that need to be investigated under any circumstances.
	And Blizzard said they had.
	The allegers are saying they didn't properly.
	And now they're being investigated by the Californian authorities.
	So this is the first article here.
	California sues Activision Blizzard over alleged harassment.
	So they say in here, one of the world's largest game companies is being taken to court over an alleged frat boy, in quotes, culture that discriminates against women.
	Activision Blizzard is accused of unequal pay, promoting men over women, and widespread sexual harassment.
	California's Department of Flare Employment and Housing is taking legal action against the company following a two-year investigation.
	Activision is calling the action disgraceful and unprofessional, and says that the department is an unaccountable state bureaucrat.
	So a bunch of unaccountable state bureaucrats.
	So there's the clash there.
	And I went through the complaint.
	Before we go on, can I just say that this is obviously a feminist attack on the company?
	I think the court documents will prove that.
	Well, I haven't read the court documents.
	I'm just, from what we have here, it's obvious to me that feminists are attacking a company because they didn't get what they want.
	So there's the sexual harassment stuff and the sexual misconduct.
	I don't know the facts of that.
	It's impossible to know at this stage.
	and that's a thing that can be taken seriously.
	But just when we start reading the complaint here, you'll notice a pattern that is very obvious.
	So they start the complaint on the first page, in which they say, sexism has plagued the male-dominated gaming industry for decades, and increasingly so in recent years.
	Oh, it's the revenge of Anita Sarkeesian.
	They didn't pay her off enough.
	Women and girls now make up half of gamers in America.
	That's a false statistic, but carry on.
	...even in California.
	So the ladies who wrote this, or the department that wrote this, are kind of dunking on California there.
	Even in California, they're still catering to men.
	Why?
	There aren't any.
	But you mentioned any Sarkeesian.
	And this is where this gets really fishy.
	So if we go to the next link here, this is what they quoted.
	There's the link for that, because they quote every piece of statement they make.
	It's a New York Times article talking about Anita Sarkeesian and how she's a poor little woman who's facing threats in Gamergate because everything goes back to this goddamn thing, doesn't it?
	She had nothing to do with Gamergate as well.
	She inserted herself into it.
	But that's their opening gambit.
	The opening gandit is to talk about how sexism in the gaming industry and also game companies like men, not women.
	Therefore, they're bad.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So we go back to the complaint and we continue on this.
	So they continue in the blistering argument by why everything's sexist.
	Unlike its customer base...
	I feel like I'm in 2015 again.
	I know, it's weird.
	That's why I'm stumbling.
	I'm just like, what the fuck are we talking about?
	Unlike its customer base of increasingly diverse players, Defendant's workforce is only about 20% women.
	So?
	What's that going to do with anything?
	Because your customers are, let's just assume, 50% women, therefore your employees have to be 50% women.
	The customers are definitely not 50% women.
	But also, what a communist standard.
	That's not a liberal standard at all.
	Its top leadership is almost exclusively male and white.
	Oh, wow.
	I knew they were bad when they said male, but now that they said white, now I'm certain of it.
	The CEO and president roles are now, and have always been, held by white men.
	Yeah, this is going to be very serious, isn't it?
	It's like they're saying skeletal.
	Women who reach top roles earn less salary, incentive pay, and total conversation than their male peers.
	Defendants also promote women more slowly and terminate them more quickly.
	And the BBC added on in here, in which they spoke about it, which wasn't included in here, saying, and when one female employee taking the managerial responsibilities asked for an increase in pay in her promotion, her manager, quote, commented that they could not risk promoting her as she might get pregnant and might not, sorry, and might like being a mum too much.
	Which I just thought was interesting.
	But back to the article itself.
	So they also say, defendants have also fostered a persuasive frat boy workplace culture And often engage in inappropriate behaviour towards female employees.
	Now, just assuming that's true, it explains why Blizzard's games are crap these days.
	They just spend all time getting drunk.
	Yeah.
	But also, I find that statement weird.
	Women are subjected to cube crawls.
	Except they're not the ones taking part.
	The men are getting drunk and crawling around.
	I don't know what this is.
	I don't know.
	It's unprofessional.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's not going to make your games better.
	No, I mean, I'm just going to assume it's true.
	Yeah, I've got no reason to doubt it.
	But the idea that this is an attack on women, I think it's just unprofessional.
	I mean, maybe.
	Maybe they're being perverse towards the ladies, which is obviously inappropriate.
	Male employees proudly come to work hungover.
	As if that's a crime.
	Again, just unprofessional.
	Let's not attack on women.
	Play video games for long periods of time during their work.
	I feel like I'm being berated by my mum.
	Whilst delegating their responsibilities to female employees, engage in banter about their sexual encounters.
	That's the wording in here.
	They're saying that the men engage in banter about sex.
	And that's an attack on women.
	To be honest with you, in California it probably is.
	They also talk openly about female bodies.
	What kind of puritanical talk is this?
	But then they say they also joke about rape.
	Ugh, okay.
	Okay.
	Like, none of this is a crime.
	Like, they're engaging in dumb tonfoolery.
	Again, unprofessional, you could argue.
	If I were the boss, I'd be like, why aren't they making things?
	Yeah.
	Like, that's what they're being paid for, yeah.
	Female employees are subjected to constant sexual harassment, including having to continually fend off unwanted sexual comments.
	And advances by their male co-workers and supervisors, and being groped at cube crawls and other company events.
	Now that's where the sort of serious stuff comes in, where it's like, right, that's harassment, you know, that can be misconduct, and therefore it can be investigated and tried, and if Activision doesn't take that seriously, then yeah, they're guilty or something.
	In a particularly tragic example, now this is a weird thing to bring up, a female employee committed suicide during a business trip with a male supervisor who brought butt plugs and lubricant with him on the trip.
	That's where that ends.
	Okay, I would like to know more about that story.
	You would have thought there'd be more information in which they're making the allegation that Activision essentially made this woman commit suicide at work because she went on a trip and the supervisor had butt plugs with him.
	Well, the implication is that somehow the butt plugs and lubricant contributed to her suicide.
	Yeah, but there's not much more there, except that the BBC also later on, a bit more info, saying that one female employee even killed herself due to a sexual relationship with her male supervisor, so presumably she was in a sexual relationship with him, and, quote, a tragic example of how the harassment that the defendants allowed to foster took place, because she had gone on the company trip with him, but before they'd done that, they did another trip in which it was alleged that male co-workers had passed around images of her intimate photos.
	Right.
	So, okay.
	But to allege that the company caused her death is pretty out there.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, it strikes me that if half of this is true, then Activision really should have done something about this kind of behaviour in their workplace.
	Yeah, the behaviour stuff is important.
	What I find strange is the framing, in which they're just talking about, like, you know, let's link Anita Sarkeesian and talk about sexism in video games first.
	This woman committed suicide because of butt plugs.
	It had nothing to do with the men being drunk at work.
	That's just unprofessional standards, I would say.
	Sure.
	Now, the thing with all this that I'm reading is it's the allegation.
	Yes.
	None of this is proven.
	This is just the Californian authorities saying that Blizzard done this.
	Activision has issued, because it's Activision Blizzard, have issued a retaliatory statement and said, We are sickened by the reprehensible conduct of the Californian authorities to drag into the complaints of the tragic suicide of an employee whose passing has no bearing whatsoever on this case and has no regard for her grieving family.
	It is this type of irresponsible behavior from an unaccountable state bureaucrats that are driving many of the state's best businesses out of California.
	Which is true.
	A lot of businesses are leaving California.
	They are.
	And a lot of the equality legislation is nonsensical.
	The anti-harassment legislation, worthwhile, but then I have to wonder how much of this is in good faith.
	They actually go on to later complain about whether they're in good faith.
	random allegation i found later on which is also very strange in which the californian authorities say that a male supervisor openly encouraged a male subordinate to buy a prostitute to cure his bad mood and this was evidence of them being a sexist company Are these sex-negative feminists, are they?
	I presume so.
	Sex work is not real work, say the women accusing Blizzard.
	Because that's the thing.
	You're throwing in jokes in with serious cases of sexual harassment or misconduct.
	And it makes me wonder why...
	Because these two things aren't the same.
	one of them's not criminal one of them's not even that big of an interest it's just stupid non-professional nonsense and then you've got the serious stuff why why are you throwing that in anyway so here's one of the people who made the allegation against it and she's saying you know she's going to come out and say it and she has a bit of the deposition in here which is interesting so she says i was one of these women my incident happened in 2013 at blizzcon i didn't say anything officially until i decided to leave the company last year because of the name recognition and of retaliation and the section she's linked in here
	is them alleging that one of the main guys is a serial uh harasser abuser i don't know what the right term is so alec friend barzy i'd say alleged sexual harassment she says in here Aphra Bazi would hit on female employees, telling him he wanted to marry them.
	I don't know why it says him.
	It's just a misprint, I guess.
	Attempting to kiss them and putting his arms around them.
	Also, he was known to engage in sexual harassment of female employees and that his suit was nicknamed the Crosby suit after alleged rapist Bill Crosby.
	Crosby?
	Not Crosby, but whatever.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	I was like...
	Look, there are serious allegations, and then there's the stuff you're coming out with on the side to try and make it sound worse, but it doesn't sound serious.
	So that's why I'm suspicious.
	You'll see the trans-inclusive feminist Black Lives Matter intersectional.
	There's also another one of these in which there's a clip going around in which people are trying to big up as being an example of Institutional sexism at Blizzard.
	Sorry, I got these mixed up.
	The last one was the trans-inclusive feminist.
	This one's the polyamorous queer girl who says that she was offered money to go on dates.
	And if we go to the next one, this is the clip that was going around.
	This is from 2010, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	So an 11-year-old clip has been dragged up.
	But it's being used, again, to be like, hey, look at how bad and sexist the gaming industry is.
	But it's not really serious.
	That's the thing.
	You've got these serious charges in there, but then why the feminist nonsense of other stuff that's not serious?
	And the not serious thing here is they have some lady who's asking a question.
	Yeah, she's complaining, oh, why do your female characters look like they have a Victoria's Secret catalogue?
	And they're just like, well, what catalogue would you like to look from?
	It's a pretty good rebuttal.
	It's a pretty funny response.
	But the complaint is from the dowdy feminist who's like, I'm intimidated by the attractive women that I see.
	How dare you?
	It's like, well, I'm sure the guys all look quite attractive as well.
	But that's not a problem because...
	It's just normal?
	It's not how sexism works in the feminist mindset.
	Well, I suppose so.
	But yeah, this is very 2013, very 2012.
	Well, 2010 this is.
	I mean, it was very old, you know.
	Yeah.
	But that's something.
	We've got to the next one.
	There have been some messages from employees.
	Apparently this guy is an employee.
	And he says, Many of us will not be working today in solidarity with the women who came forward.
	The statements made by Activision Blizzard King do not represent us.
	We believe women.
	We will continue to strive to do better and hold others accountable.
	Actions speak louder than words.
	I'd like a day off too, to be honest.
	It's just not going to work.
	Okay.
	So, there's also been releases from some other employees who have said that, no, I mean, men would also be harassed, assaulted.
	I don't know what the right term is here.
	And the example they give is, again, it's not a rapist.
	It's something stupid.
	They say in here the company's frat boy culture also included senior managers engaging in games that involved groping male colleagues' genitals.
	One of them was called Gay Chicken.
	Right.
	Like, that's the thing.
	Like, it's so schoolboy, stupid, unprofessional nonsense.
	Sure, shouldn't be in a professional workplace.
	True.
	But the perception of this being like it's, you know, everyone's a roving rapist in Activision.
	I'm not sure I... Well, I mean, I kind of hate Activision and Blizzard these days, so I'm down with it.
	Right, yeah.
	Activision and Blizzard, full of roving rapists.
	Yeah, so one of the men released a video about this, so we go to the next one, in which this guy, he says in this video that he was also sexually harassed, and then he says, but women had it way worse, and he gives us so few examples in which he fought to defend women.
	And, yeah, this doesn't go down well with the people accusing, who are alleging that he was the one who made women cry a lot.
	Oh.
	So we go to the next one.
	There's Danny Batt, a former Blizzard employee.
	She describes herself as an activist, and also she, they.
	Oh, wow, what a surprise.
	Yeah, and then she released some messages from presumably insiders who were like, yeah, this is rich.
	This guy made me cry all the time.
	I'm sorry this man had me crying his first day as my team manager.
	And it every opportunity preyed on my confidence issues to pit me against my own female reps.
	Okay.
	Right.
	And if we go to the next one, there has been a response to the message put out by Blizzard that this lawsuit is an attack on them that doesn't bear out in reality.
	And you can see over a thousand Activision Blizzard employees sign a letter condemning companies' response to allegations.
	They say in here, again, there are the parts that just make me have a bit of a think, because it says there, for example, it damages their ongoing quest for equality.
	And they say in the letter, we believe these statements have damaged our ongoing quest for equality inside and outside the industry.
	That's interesting.
	Categorizing the claims that have been made as distorted and in many cases false creates a company atmosphere that disbelieves victims.
	Well, you're just assuming that they're victims on the strength of that allegation alone, which means we don't believe in the presumption of innocence.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's the feminist argument, again, from, like, 2010s.
	Yes.
	They're just like, believe women, why?
	Because they said so.
	And it's like, well, that's not good enough.
	Seems to be opening the door to those bad faith actors who might want to take advantage of that.
	Sorry, actresses, who want to take advantage of that.
	And they send the letter as well in their demands.
	They say, we call on Frances Townsend to stand by her word to step down as executive sponsor of the Activision Blizzard King employee Women's Network as a result of the damaging nature of her statement.
	What did she say?
	What did this woman say in charge of the Women's Network that was so bad that the allegation people were like, you need to go.
	She said that the case against them was meritless.
	So if we go to the next one, she sent this internal memo.
	She called the case against Activision truly meritless and an irresponsible lawsuit.
	And I'm looking out on this, Ian.
	I've got no allegiance to anyone involved.
	I just have to wonder.
	A lot of these things flag up as being the kind of feminist nonsense from 2010.
	And it makes me suspicious.
	Because you put alongside that the serious claims.
	The stuff that could be taken seriously.
	And yet you're throwing in, talking about, like, did you know the leaders are white men?
	Yes.
	What's it going to do with anything?
	Well, I find the damaged our ongoing quest for equality inside and outside of our industry makes me...
	Yeah, well, that's the point, isn't it?
	And that just goes, show you, look, they are communists.
	So they've got this religious motivation to have absolute equality.
	And of course, all of their arguments stem from, well, you know, only 20% of the developers are female or something.
	So who cares?
	Like you say, it's not a liberal standard, but it is a communist standard.
	And so now we're applying all of these things, and then these people say, yeah, well, our ongoing quest for equality.
	It's like, sorry, what?
	I mean, at least in the company, you'd have thought that your ongoing quest would have been to make good video games.
	Call me old-fashioned.
	The true purpose of a video game company.
	Equality.
	Making video games.
	Yeah, it's literally, how is this going to help us sell more video games?
	Sell more video games?
	You know, they don't care about any of that.
	And so this obviously comes from people who openly call themselves political activists and then say, well, this is damaging our quest for, you know, our activism.
	It's like, okay.
	Doesn't feel genuine to me, I've got to say.
	Yeah, I've got some very suspicious feelings about this as well.
	I've got no sympathy for Blizzard.
	I hope Blizzard dies.
	But I was hoping they'd die because their games are trash.
	But if they're going to die by other means, whatever.
	But I have to wonder, looking at this, I mean, they've got serious allegations in there, which of course have to be investigated.
	But it's so mixed in with so much nonsense, it just makes me suspicious.
	But I guess we'll find out the truth when it goes through the courts.
	We will.
	Give me your Trieste against simps.
	Yeah, right.
	We need to talk about your simping, gentlemen.
	You know that some of you do it.
	Don't pretend that you don't.
	I know that you do.
	And I know that you do, because it's a goddamn huge industry of e-girls who are taking all of your money, and that has to stop.
	You are the ones who allow this to happen, and that's just not good enough, frankly.
	And it's based on the faulty assumption, and I know that you think this.
	I know that in your heart of hearts, you're thinking, maybe she'll date me.
	Well, I've got some bad news.
	She's never going to date you.
	Never.
	And it's not just because, you know, like you're one of many people.
	No.
	It's because, frankly, you're here when you need to be way up here.
	You are not good enough, and you'll never get good enough if you simp.
	Simping is what prevents you from being good enough to get an attractive woman.
	I'm saying it, and you're going to have to hear it.
	Right, so let's begin with the OK Boomer Girl.
	Everyone knows who this is now because she is now famous, but she didn't use to be famous.
	Another millionaire socialist?
	Yes, indeed, actually.
	She didn't use to be famous.
	This is Nicole Nicolol Sanchez, and she went viral.
	She was an aspiring e-girl who went viral with this OK Boomer video.
	She was on the make and she made it.
	She made lots of money.
	She got lots and lots and lots of fans and subscribers because she is attractive on the internet.
	She also stole the song.
	She didn't steal the song.
	She's remixing it, essentially.
	Sure, but I didn't see enough.
	Why was there no link to the original author of the song?
	Well, sure, but nobody does.
	That's not how it works.
	But anyway, she'll come out and say things like this.
	Can we just play the clip?
	Alright, simping isn't bad.
	Simping is king shit, okay?
	You're a king if you're not afraid to simp.
	You're a king if you're not afraid to simp.
	She'll tweet things out like that as well, just simping is King S. No, no, right?
	This is literally, literally, like a lion saying to a zebra, you know, oh, you know, laying down and letting me eat you is King S. This is the best thing you can do.
	You're a hero if you let the lion eat you.
	No, that's not how that works, right?
	So what we are looking at here is basically someone who's looking to take advantage of you.
	And that's why they are saying...
	Give me your money.
	Give me your attention.
	I want your adoration.
	I'm going to take advantage of you.
	And how does this pay off?
	Well, it pays off very, very well because there are loads of goddamn simps on the internet.
	She recently put out a video showing around her $2 million apartment.
	And some high-rise flat or something, but it's an amazing-looking apartment.
	And she obviously got a bit roasted for this, because the 10-minute-long video show, you know, I watched the video, and honestly, it's not that great an apartment.
	It's not that impressive.
	Is it just Californian type of thing?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, it's nice, but, like, it's okay.
	But anyway.
	$2 million elsewhere would get much better.
	Yeah, and so obviously a lot of people are like, wow, we went from eat the rich to let the meat cake very quickly.
	And it's like, yeah, but who do you think paid for that, right?
	That wasn't her, you know, producing long-form intellectual content or something.
	No, it was simps.
	Simps paid for this.
	You giving her money paid for this.
	Stop giving her money.
	She's not going to do anything for you.
	Literally not, right?
	And...
	As I said, this is all premised on the fact that these individual simps think that for some reason this girl will somehow notice them and start dating them and that's never going to happen.
	And we know that's the case because as soon as these e-girls happen to admit that they have a boyfriend, oh they lose huge amounts of followers.
	Which means huge amounts of these losers following them were hoping one day that they'd be the ones dating them.
	Otherwise what would be the problem?
	Of course she's got a boyfriend.
	Why wouldn't she have a boyfriend?
	Oh, but I thought that maybe...
	No, it's not you.
	It's never going to be you, especially in the condition you're in now, right?
	So this is hilarious.
	She's gained loads of subscribers since then because this was like a year ago or over a year ago this happened.
	But it was really interesting watching it happening in real time, right?
	So the video went viral and she gained like 100,000 or 65,000 followers, something like that.
	It was a huge number of people in a very short time.
	And she had accidentally let people know that she had a boyfriend.
	And then that same day she lost 65,000 followers.
	She says she has a boyfriend.
	65,000 simps unsubscribed.
	How the hell would anyone do this?
	It's disgusting.
	It disgusts me that there are 65,000...
	I mean, there are obviously more than 65,000 simps in the world, which is way too many anyway.
	But it disgusts me that 65,000 idiots, young idiots...
	You say young.
	I remember reading.
	I think we did a second on it.
	Maybe not even young.
	No, where there were a whole bunch of these types of people who were actually sort of industry-type.
	The kind of people who work at Blizzard, actually.
	They make software.
	They don't have a girlfriend because they're so awkward.
	And then they simp.
	But they have lots of money because they work in software development.
	They think, oh, if I give this woman thousands of dollars, she's never going to notice you.
	She doesn't care about you.
	She just wants your money, idiots.
	But yeah, she literally lost 65,000 followers.
	At the time, she had 100,000 followers, and then she went down to under 30,000.
	Right?
	That's why she's like, no, no, no, simping's good, simping's good, because she wants your money.
	And don't get me wrong, I know it's difficult to be like, oh wow, that's an attractive woman.
	Maybe, no, you're engaging in a flight of fantasy.
	Never maybe.
	It's not going to happen.
	Right?
	Knock it off.
	But anyway...
	I hate the fact that I have to say all this stuff, because this is the sort of thing your father should have told you, right?
	No, I'm not even joking.
	This is genuinely the sort of thing your father should have told you.
	You do not waste money on a girl who is not a dateable prospect, and she's not a dateable prospect.
	She's never going to date you.
	I just realised the generational difference there.
	When you're not in the internet age, there's maybe one girl in their town, and then in the internet age, it's a whole lot of beasts, isn't it?
	Yes.
	Literally, armies of simps can be raised for e-girls.
	But this Nico Loltz, she's not the only one, of course.
	I'm not even angry at her, to be honest.
	Would I do the same thing if I happened to be an attractive e-girl?
	Maybe.
	Given the opportunity, like, who knows?
	Like, the incentives are all there, the money's all there, the attention's all there.
	You know, the grift is an inevitability, right?
	If she's not grifting, someone else is going to do the grift.
	And so this is why I'm not even interested in chewing out these young ladies.
	There's no point.
	You know, the incentive is too strong.
	But the incentive for you, the simp...
	What are you going to say to her?
	Stop being a parasite...
	No, I mean, it's the whole thing of, like, don't you know you could get your respect by earning money somewhere else?
	She's like, I get paid quarter of a mil to do nothing.
	To be an e-prostitute?
	It's like, yeah, sure, but there's no point arguing that case.
	But there's no need for you to be an e-simp, right, and give these e-prostitutes money.
	There's no need for this, right?
	And so, but I'm serious when I say this all comes down to delusional men, presumably young men, thinking that they're going to have a chance of dating these women, which are not.
	It's just never going to happen.
	This flight of fantasy that's in your mind can go away right now.
	It's never going to happen.
	And this is the thing that dogs all of these female streamers.
	Does she have a boyfriend?
	What difference does it make?
	How do you know she's not a nun?
	Obviously you know she's not a nun, but if she's taken some vow of celibacy, would it change it?
	Of course you'd unsubscribe again, because you think you're going to get with her.
	You're not going to get with her.
	Anyway, so this was Imane Anis, I think her name is.
	It's Pokimane, she goes as.
	She's obviously massively popular.
	She's got a net worth of three million dollars.
	Simps, you're disgusting.
	It's almost like she's got a harem worth $3 million.
	No, no, that's exactly what it is.
	No, that's a great way of framing it.
	You are part of these women's harem.
	You simps.
	You're giving them time and money, and they're giving you almost nothing in return.
	Anyway, so her fans apparently often called simps, which is a slang term for men who are overtly submissive towards women.
	Yes.
	Disgusting men who should be shamed wherever you find them.
	Has Pokimane, though, been lying about her boyfriend?
	That's the crux.
	Has she been lying to her audience about having a boyfriend?
	Why?
	Because her boyfriend is made up of sad, lonely men who think one day that she'll notice them if they donate enough and go on a date with them or something?
	This weird, obvious nonsense is never going to happen.
	If I ever catch you simping, I tell you...
	What are you going to sip for?
	I don't know.
	Some ego.
	But this is the literal crux of the argument with Pokimane, right?
	Let's understand why people think that Pokimane may have been lying about having a boyfriend.
	In the past, various female streamers have faced hate when they posted content featuring their boyfriends or partners.
	And they give a couple of examples.
	And it's because the men watching them...
	Are holding on to a fantasy that's never going to happen.
	And so Keemstar, of all people, was the hero of the hour to come and call this out.
	Imagine having a boyfriend but acting like you're single online, so sad, lonely guys donate money to your Twitch stream.
	That's so fake and pathetic.
	How's he wrong?
	You know what's interesting?
	You can kind of compare this to people who play video games on stream for a living, because they're really good, and then you find out they're using cheating software.
	Yep.
	Exactly.
	That's exactly what this is, right?
	But again, you should not be trying to fulfill your need for companionship via the internet, especially via eGirls, right?
	Not going to work.
	I'll give you some advice afterwards, but anyway.
	So, she, you know, says even if she is hiding her relationship status, it must be pointed out that she has all the right to do so.
	Sure, I agree, but there's kind of an implicit assumption being made here by all of the men that means that her relationship status is actually notable because her career is based on the idea that she's persuading these men that maybe one day, you know, eventually they'll go on a date with her.
	That's what this is all about, if they give enough money.
	Anyway, she obviously is going to have a boyfriend, and she's obviously going to try and keep it from you, and Keemstar is right.
	And this, of course, leads to the allegation that, in fact, the only reason that female Twitchers, I guess is what they call them, are popular is because they have simps.
	And it's because simps are a plague on the Western world.
	So this Twitch streamer, LilyPikachu, was complaining that, oh, everyone's just saying they're only famous because of simps.
	Yeah.
	That's pretty much it.
	Anyway, the people who are complaining say that the simps are the ones tuning in and giving them money, and Lily Pichu strongly disagrees.
	Oh, it's totally wrong.
	Totally wrong.
	Obviously not totally wrong.
	It's obviously the case.
	And it's obviously weird men who are harboring ridiculous fantasies.
	Anyway, this became such a problem for Twitch that they had to ban the word simp.
	Can we go to the next one?
	What?
	Unironically, Twitch bans the word simp.
	The word simp is now a form of harassment.
	That's a slur, is it?
	Yeah, on Twitch.
	Because their business model is built on sucking the wallets of desperate young men using a series of attractive women who are pretending that they might one day be their girlfriends.
	You know who I feel bad for?
	You know the, like, cam girl types for porn sites?
	And then you've got, like, them.
	I can imagine them, like, going on their phone, and then looking at, like, Pokimane or whatever and just being like, what am I doing with my life?
	I get ripped off.
	They may as well move to Twitch, because that's basically the same at this point as I understand it.
	I obviously don't use Twitch.
	I like how it's more profitable to keep your clothes on, though.
	It's a step up in the world.
	Well, yeah.
	If there's a silver lining.
	There's a lesson to be learned there about feminine mystique and wiles.
	But anyway, so Twitch will no longer allow streamers and commenters to go around calling one another simp.
	I love that that's the problem.
	The term will be banned when it's used as an insult under Twitch's upcoming revamp of its harassment policy.
	Incel and virgin will be banned as insults too.
	All focuses around access to sex.
	That's all this is.
	And if you want access to sex, don't go on the internet.
	That doesn't get you access to sex.
	I don't know why I have to say that.
	Seems obvious, really, doesn't it?
	How many simps do you think have actually made it and dated the e-girl they've been lusting after and donating to?
	The answer is zero.
	The answer is zero.
	This is just an impossible goal.
	So anyway, we will take action against the use of terms like simp, incel, and virgin, specifically when they're being used to negatively refer to another person's sexual practices.
	You mean when they're being accurately used to describe the people who use Twitch.
	Simps, incels, and virgins.
	Prove me wrong.
	Anyway, so basically what they're saying from this is our business model demands it.
	If you accurately characterize the audiences of these women, they might leave because it's an insult.
	So yeah, anyway.
	So this led various female streamers to fight back and say, no, no, actually the men have it easy.
	The men are the ones who have it so easy on Twitch.
	You know a lot of these girls don't even do anything, right?
	They just literally sit in front of the webcam with a low-cut shirt and tell their chap to give them money.
	And they give them money.
	I mean, some of them, like there's one called Amarath, she'll sit in a hot tub in a bikini and then men will give her money.
	I can do that.
	Well, that's why I'm not angry at them.
	Don't think I'd get much money, but you know.
	Well, that's why I'm not angry at them.
	You know, the incentive's there.
	But the point is, you're literally sat in a hot tub on a gaming streaming service, getting money from you.
	I mean, come on.
	The mask is off, right, at that point.
	Twitch is just live Jasmine.
	Well, it seems that way, actually, yeah.
	But anyway, so, like PokerMane and other female streamers, like Amaranth and Nikolol, they've lost followers and donations after revealing their boyfriends or love interests.
	The fanbase is also said to be full of simps, said to be, which is slang term for men who are overtly submissive.
	In the post you can see below, PokerMane explains how male and female streamers are treated differently.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Yeah, they actually are.
	I don't know if you've seen this clip.
	There was a very famous one in which Twitch started to blow up and everyone was like, come on, it's just a bunch of girls' low-cut tops.
	And some male Twitch streamer decided he'd wear really short shorts and a really low-cut top.
	And he was just showing his ass on stream and being like, oh, I dropped my pen!
	And he'd bend over and get at him or not.
	Banned the next day.
	Oh, really?
	He was banned for being too lewd.
	Yeah.
	And this sort of stuff happens all the time.
	Like, one of them accidentally pulled her top up to show her nipples and stuff, and it was just like, hmm, hmm, accident.
	She only got like a three-day suspension or something for that.
	And there's various ones where literally the cameras are on the floor, going up the skirts, and so it literally just looks like pornography.
	I mean, it actually looks like pornography.
	So if there's anyone who's pretending that this is somehow artistic...
	Or just not done for sordid reasons, then they're lying.
	I'm an artiste.
	Exactly.
	I'm an artiste in my hot tub and bikini.
	But Pokemon says, you know, people are overly critical about female streamers and jump at the opportunity to insult them, as if men don't get insulted online.
	This gives the women no room for mistakes, and if they do falter, they're shunned by everybody.
	You mean, when you reveal that you have a boyfriend, people are angry because your premise is that you don't have a boyfriend and, for some reason, these guys think that maybe you'll date them.
	Men, on the other hand, are treated like kings, and fans are very understanding when they make mistakes.
	Probably because they're not expecting to date them.
	Like, oh god, this guy died in Fortnite.
	Well, I mean, he'll do better next time.
	Are there any male streamers that are essentially just thoughts?
	If there are, I'm not aware of them.
	I doubt women tend to respond in the same way that men do.
	I think there's one.
	It's got to be one, surely.
	Well, I mean, fundamentally, I don't think that the interactions between the men and their audience are based on the same things.
	Like, they're not based on this kind of deceit and wealth extraction that's going on.
	Because that's what it is.
	It's fundamentally deceit.
	But, um...
	John says there are, but they're gay.
	Okay, well, that's John's weekend booked up then.
	Um...
	Anyway...
	Um...
	Anyway, so this reaches its most disgusting in the form of dudes simping over OnlyFans models, which is even worse, because then they have a sort of an extra layer of intimacy because they've seen the women naked and think that...
	They are going to be entitled to something.
	Now, it's bad enough on Twitch, where you see, like, someone, and I've seen loads of these stories, where someone's like, they donated, like, $3,000, and the girl's just like, oh, thanks, Mike, and then carries on.
	And that's $3,000 gone, entire bank account, and all she was like, thank you, and that was it.
	That's all you got.
	Got nothing, she doesn't recognize you, she doesn't care about you, you are just a method of giving her money.
	She doesn't produce anything else, either.
	Of course not.
	Like, that's the whole thing.
	Yeah.
	And so this one example was just tragic, in my opinion, just deeply tragic.
	And, like, I just feel sad for this guy.
	So if you can see the picture on the left is the chap who donated $10,000 for one hug from this OnlyFans model.
	And then a month later, she's on holiday with her boyfriend, presumably using that money to fund her trip.
	It's not worth it.
	Save that money.
	God, save your money.
	Do not send your money to e-girls, ever, at all, right?
	I feel bad, though, because you can see, like, the guy on the left and the guy on the right here are her boyfriend.
	Like, the guy on the left just worked out and took care of himself.
	He's probably better than the guy on the right is actually her boyfriend.
	Yep.
	And he's obviously got more money, so he can just throw away 10k for one hug, which meant nothing to her.
	Remember that?
	Why did he take a picture and put it online as well?
	Because he thinks that it's meaningful to her.
	That's why.
	Because all of these sort of parasocial relationships that these women are cultivating with these desperate young men, they contain within the implication that actually, no, there's something special about you that I care about, also send me your money.
	There's no.
	They don't care about you.
	They do not care about you.
	You are never going to get the thing that you want from them, and they know it.
	You are in a category that leaves you outside of their potential dating prospects, right?
	This, I want to hammer home.
	More than anything, you will never date these women.
	Do not give them your money.
	Do not give them your attention.
	If you want a woman, which you obviously do, which is why you're doing this, leave the house.
	Do not sit on the internet.
	Do not sit there doing nothing.
	Lift, build something, work, read, study, you know, save your money, buy a business, do something, because it's through building that women become attracted to men.
	When men have produced something, when they've done something about themselves or built something else, women are attracted to that.
	If you don't, then you will never get the woman that you want.
	If you are constantly like massively fat like this guy, obviously has no low self-esteem, does nothing of any particular note, Then no, women aren't going to be attracted to you.
	You're not going to get the woman you want.
	You have to improve yourself.
	As you are at the moment, you are not good enough.
	So improve.
	But luckily, improvement is within everyone's capacity.
	This is how you can actually build towards a relationship that you want, rather than being taken advantage of by these parasites.
	Don't let that be you.
	Don't be a simp.
	If you're not In some way, if a woman is not an imminent dating prospect, you never give her money.
	Do you understand?
	Never.
	You do not give money to women you are not about to date or currently are dating.
	End of story.
	End of story.
	Take that ten grand, invest it in something else, whatever it is, I don't care, but do something with it, and eventually, once you've built something up, you will be able to attract women, and you won't need to be a simp online.
	You know what's weird about the whole situation there, which is that you essentially want your status to be high, right?
	And that makes you a better dating prospect.
	And him giving that 10 grand to her actually makes him lower status.
	Yep.
	It makes him an embarrassment.
	He is...
	I'm not trying to be rude to the guy.
	He could have spent the 10 grand.
	No, no, no.
	I'm going to be rude to him.
	You're an idiot.
	I'm rude to him for that bit, but...
	Well, no, he deserves it because literally he gets what he deserves in this because the very nature of becoming a simp for these women puts them in a category that the women know they will never date.
	They will never date you because you're in this category, because you behave in this particular way.
	Don't behave like this.
	And what it's about is treating yourself with some dignity.
	You know, have a bit of self-respect.
	Build things up that are yours.
	Keep to yourself some things.
	Don't just give these things away and you'll do okay.
	Anyway, let's move on to the Dems.
	So, I can hear your Facebook.
	Yeah, John, I can hear the noise.
	I can hear Facebook notifications going off.
	I don't know if it's going through the stream or not.
	But either way, we'd appreciate not hearing those if that's okay.
	I can hear them.
	Yeah, I can hear something.
	But anyway.
	Alright, so let's get into the Dems.
	So the Dems decided to defund your police, and I think that Conservatives stood...
	Start that again.
	The Dem...
	Right.
	So the Dems have decided to defund your police, and I think conservatives should start using that phrase, defund your police, don't use the defund the police.
	Because that's the thing, the taxpayer pays for the police, and the police are the ones who protect them, and in return the Dems are like, no, none of that, anarchy.
	So they've done that, and what have they done in return?
	Well, they've made sure that they're fine.
	They've either hired private security or rerouted the police budget to be protecting them.
	And you might think this is a one-off with a couple of Democrats.
	No, there's loads of them.
	So the first article here is from Forbes in which they have listed here Democratic mayors defunded their police while spending millions on their own police protection.
	And that's not millions out of their own pockets, is it?
	No, with these mayors it's all public money that they've just said is theirs.
	So, in 25 major US cities across the country, officials have already cut or have proposed cutting funds from a police budget.
	However, in as many as 20 of those same cities, mayors and other city officials enjoy the personal protection of dedicated police security detail.
	In many of these cities, this security costs the taxpayer millions of dollars per year.
	We found that the defunding of police coupled with the taxpayer dollars spent on the police security details protecting public officials only occurred in cities run by Democratic mayors.
	The grift is real.
	25 cities.
	Good God.
	All the same story.
	Democratic mayor, defund the police, screw the plebs, but also, don't cut my protection.
	I need the police.
	Why?
	Because I'm the mayor.
	What about the plebs?
	They don't need it, they're just plebs, who cares?
	I just can't get over how just blatant it is.
	And then they give the examples, and of course the examples are as bad as you might think.
	So the first one here being Chicago with, what was it, Mayor Lightfoot?
	Yep, Laurie Lightfoot, yep.
	Lady looks like a fish.
	She's going to say it, she does.
	Looks like Beetlejuice.
	Yeah.
	Just going to say it.
	The city spent $17.3 million between 2015 and 2020 to guard unnamed city officials.
	That's Mayor Laurie Lightfoot.
	And she's opposed to defunding the police, while we frowned that she took 400 police officers' positions and cut them from the 2020 budget.
	So publicly she's like, yeah, I'm not for defunding the police, but also cut the police budget.
	Give it $400.
	But also spend money on guards for me.
	Yeah, but also in 2020, that was the peak for the amount of money spent on guards for her.
	$700,000 up, with an average of 2.8 mil just to protect her.
	San Francisco, California.
	The city spent $12.4 million between 2015 and 2020 to protect the Mayor London Breed.
	That's San Francisco's officials promised to divest $120 million from police over two years and reallocate the money to health programs and workforce training.
	See, if they're not doing it for themselves, you can guarantee that it's not to your advantage to have no police around.
	I don't know why I have to say that.
	But for some reason, this is something to be noted.
	If the people who are rich and powerful are using your money to protect themselves, well, you might want them to use your money to protect you as well, Democrats.
	It's so blatant.
	I don't know what to say.
	She spent $12 million on herself over five years to protect herself because she needs the police.
	But she cut $120 million from the police budget and then started to reinvest it in health programs.
	Right.
	Every goddamn time.
	The mayor's police security detail cost spiked at nearly $1 million over the past five years.
	So, New York City mayor as well.
	The city slashed $1 billion from a $6 billion police budget in 2021, reallocating $354 million to mental health, homelessness and education services.
	So where did the rest of that money go?
	Where did the other two-thirds of a billion go?
	Who knows?
	Just saved money, I guess.
	I'll tell you what, if there's one place on Earth that you don't want them to be cutting the police budget, it's probably New York.
	I mean, that's the thing as well.
	Like, all these cities, the places, as foreigners, you just, like, what do you hear about them?
	Crime?
	Yeah.
	Constantly?
	Rampant.
	I mean, like, what was it?
	Detroit or whatever Laurie Lightfoot's place is?
	Yep.
	It's just, like, whenever you hear about it, it's just people being killed.
	New York, you just hear about people being killed.
	Yeah, but let's cut the budget there by six.
	God, suicide.
	The only saving grace here is they note that the cuts mostly haven't materialized yet.
	They've been passed, but they haven't fully come in, so they could stop them.
	Is the mayor going to?
	I propose not.
	So that's Mayor Bill de Blasio, who sports an NYPD security detail.
	Meanwhile, the NYPD has not yet responded to our open records request for detailed costs of information.
	So New York police weren't given the information just yet.
	I'm sure they're working on it furiously.
	And then it goes on.
	Baltimore, Maryland, the city spent $3.6 million on the mayor.
	They also cut $22 million from the budget.
	And then San Diego, California, they spent $2.6 million on the mayor there.
	The mayor also cut $4.3 million from the police budget.
	And it just goes on and on and on.
	Like, if you can scroll, you can just see all the different cities they list.
	And it's endless.
	Just every single time, every single city, Democrat mayor, defunds your police, spends on themselves.
	And incidentally, the crime rate is not going down, is it?
	No.
	No, it's really not.
	But then there's individual people who really deserve some scorn on this.
	And I would propose that someone who deserves some scorn on this would be Democratic Representative Cori Bush, member of the squad.
	Newest member of the squad.
	And she responded to Obama saying that snappy slogans like defund the police are a bad idea, because of course they are.
	It's the worst optics in the world.
	I can't imagine why anyone would vote for a Democrat while anyone in the party was murmuring things like this.
	But anyway.
	Yeah, even Obama could see through this, apparently.
	He was just like, stop it.
	And Cori Bush responded to this with, Is that the guy who was holding up a store?
	I think so, with the cigarillos.
	We lost Breonna Taylor.
	We're losing our loved ones to police violence.
	It's not a slogan.
	It's a mandate for keeping our people alive.
	Defund the police.
	Oh, okay.
	Our people.
	Don't know who that refers to, because her district, her city, St.
	Louis.
	How's the murder rate doing?
	Go to the next one.
	Highest it's been in 50 years.
	Oof.
	So is our people just slang for criminals?
	Could be a euphemism for just the criminals.
	A contest for the cause?
	Yeah, well, they're really suffering under the oppression of the police, you see.
	It's just so pathetic.
	But anyway, Cori Bush has to be the best one on this, because she decided to hire her own private security.
	Wasn't happy with the police security, I presume she's being given.
	Squad member Cori Bush spent $70,000 on private security, even though she called to defund the police.
	Oh!
	She's spending $59,000 on one security firm and then the rest on another security firm off her own money.
	I mean, at least she's spending her own money.
	But for Christ's sake, just the public don't need any security, but I need round-the-clock.
	You can see there, $54,000.
	Sorry, $54,120.92 to R&S&T security counselling.
	But, I mean, come on.
	She's a representative.
	She must get sent some very, very serious threats.
	Very serious.
	She's been posting a few of them on her Twitter account to gin up support because, I don't know, she's the only one ever who's ever gotten threats who's a politician.
	I mean, you would think that if people are constantly getting threats then maybe it'd be useful to have a police force?
	I don't know how that meshes with BLM, to be honest.
	Anyway.
	Not brilliantly, I guess, yeah.
	But she tweeted out one of these threats that got a lot of suspicion.
	White supremacist violence, she labels it.
	And as you can see here, meeting.
	And then someone wrote in, kill a politician, wishing Corey.
	And then the next bit, blanked out.
	And as you can see, the last one there.
	Topics to discuss.
	How you are a worthless piece of S. Except there's something a bit weird about this message she received.
	See those asterisks?
	Yeah.
	You know what those are?
	Well, necessary fields you have to fill in on this form.
	And when do you see them?
	When you've received the message?
	Or when you're filling in the form?
	When you're filling in the form, yeah.
	And she's taking a screenshot of this.
	Good point.
	Which makes a lot of people wonder whether or not she wrote this herself, and they didn't realise that she looks stupid taking a screenshot and then publishing it.
	Also, some interesting projection, calling herself worthless.
	Hmm.
	Isn't that funny?
	So we go to the next one, you can see...
	That's a really good point.
	How did she get that screenshot?
	Some people using her website, in which it has those questions, and you can see the asterisk.
	And you have to be the person filling it out.
	Yeah.
	Like, you can see the dots at the bottom, the asterisks, the questions there, and this guy's just like, well, I went to your website, and this is your contact form.
	The red asterisk mean required.
	This means that your screenshot was taken of the form before it was submitted.
	Did you fill in a form yourself and accidentally take the screenshot before it was submitted?
	Who was it that did this a few years ago, where they were complaining that Google searches were encouraging people to search for how to do X bad thing?
	And they took a screenshot of, if I type in my name or something, then all it comes down with is threats.
	It's like, that's your history?
	That's your search history?
	You know because there's a little cross at the end where you can remove it from your search history?
	That's you.
	You type that in.
	You type that in.
	Idiots.
	Corey Smollett here.
	I'm under attack.
	I need private security.
	Defund the police.
	And also, what are the threats against you?
	These messages I wrote myself.
	Yeah, this is a threat.
	What?
	I think there was a British MP who did this as well.
	I think it might have been David Lammy or one of them, where they wrote the message to themselves and it really looked like they wrote it themselves.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, because it was his handwriting.
	Someone went through it and went through other things that he was known to have written.
	And yeah, the sort of loops on the E's and things like that is exactly the same as his own handwriting.
	And so it was like, right...
	And it's not like this is a new thing either.
	There have been loads of examples of Black Lives Matter activists who had to essentially call in their own threats.
	And there was one campus where there was literally video footage of this girl leaving a protest, going into the computer room of the university, and then logging on Twitter and sending the threat.
	And it's like, all of this is recorded.
	What are you doing?
	Like you're on the internet?
	Yeah.
	This lasts forever as well.
	The demand clearly outstrips the supply when it comes to white supremacist terrorism.
	So who's going to fill the supply?
	Black politicians?
	Cori Bush.
	I don't know what to say.
	It's just so embarrassing.
	It's unbelievable.
	But yeah, they really are just going to Jussie Smollett themselves until you listen to the real problems in this country, which is white supremacists like Cori Bush.
	And the police.
	Yeah.
	I've got nothing more to say on that.
	It's gonna be video comments.
	G'day guys.
	This is not an anime suggestion, it's a regular cartoon suggestion.
	But go and check out Voltron Legendary Adventures on Netflix.
	It's got some really, really good compelling concepts.
	It did randomly make one of the characters gay, but I just put that aside.
	There's one episode in particular where they look at freedom versus security and come out on the side of freedom.
	And any show that does that, you've got to give it a chance.
	So go and check it out.
	I didn't catch the name.
	Voltron something or other?
	I see people frown in chat, alright.
	I'll write it in, just see what it is.
	I'm sorry, I'm too busy working on a podcast for the Masters of the Universe cartoon, so I'm afraid that's the cartoon that I'm busy watching at the moment.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to say something.
	You know when we did the story of the wild girl?
	I'd like to say something for every man who has wanted to charm a girl.
	Do not listen to what girls say when they say what they want in a man.
	See, every girl wants a 10 out of 10 man, sort of.
	But look at Prince Harry.
	When they get a 10 out of 10 man, they turn him into a 1 out of 10, so why should anyone ever listen to a woman's opinion at all on this topic?
	Oh, that's pretty scathing of Harry.
	I can explain it, too, if it helps.
	Is he really a 10 out of 10 when he starts?
	I mean, he's a prince, sure, but...
	Yeah, but you're thinking from a man's perspective.
	Oh, yeah.
	So from a man's perspective, sure, he's not the best-looking guy around.
	So if you're concerned about looks...
	He's a prince of the royal family.
	Exactly.
	He's a prince of the royal family.
	He's deeply connected to all of these powerful institutions.
	He's famous.
	He's wealthy.
	Actually, we've got to be more specific.
	You've got to think from Mega Markle's perspective.
	All these things I can corrupt.
	Well, that's the thing, right?
	But the thing is, and I honestly believe this, I think that a large part of the female psyche, and this is what they call S-tests, right?
	Is to essentially test the resolve of the man to be able to say no, right?
	Because this shows her that he is someone who is psychologically strong And competent and will be in control of the world around him and show capability and defiance in a way.
	And this is reassuring because it makes you feel like you're with someone, I think from the woman's perspective, makes you feel like you're with someone who will be able to take care of you and who will be able to look after you and take care of the problems that you might encounter in your life.
	And if you, the woman, can constantly batter down this guy's defences, then that's proof that he's not the right guy.
	And this, I think, is part of the sort of, I guess we'll call it toxic femininity, that allows this to happen.
	And this is why men should just say no.
	I'm just thinking...
	And literally, and I mean this sincerely, if she keeps pushing the issue, tell her to leave.
	And she won't leave, and she'll stop pushing it.
	I'm just thinking Meghan divorcing Harry in like a year's time, because he's just got no pushback.
	Yeah, she is crushing him.
	She's deliberately whittling him down.
	She's waiting for him to show her what the boundary is and say, no, you can't go any further here.
	And he should have done that with his guns and his sports and hobbies and stuff like that.
	For his family?
	Yeah.
	You can't be an activist.
	You're in the royal family, lady.
	And if you want to do that, divorce.
	Sure, but that's not a deal-breaker, I think, from her perspective.
	I think it's when he starts literally giving up his own personality.
	Being like, okay, I won't make jokes.
	I won't go and have fun.
	I won't do the sports I like.
	I won't do all these things.
	That's when she's like, okay, but what have I got now?
	I've eroded him.
	I've worn him down until he's literally just this pathetic piece of putty in my hand.
	I can do anything with him.
	That's not attractive.
	Maybe, but in a normal relationship, maybe not, but the leaving of the family being the royal family, I think that's so big that it's as big as evacuating his personality.
	It's massive, but I don't think that's the end of his relationship with her.
	It should have been.
	No, I don't even think it is.
	If she was threatening that, that should have been in my opinion.
	Sure, but there is also a sort of romantic narrative that can be placed on that if he says, well, look, I am actually kind of being oppressed by being a prince.
	And so I escaped that with Megan.
	And he did say this.
	He said all of this.
	And so that in itself is kind of romantic.
	But the fact that he won't stand up for himself in any other aspect of his life, well, that's not romantic at all.
	No woman is attracted to a doormat, put simply.
	I disagree.
	There's nothing romantic about that.
	Well, I'm not saying I find that romantic.
	What I'm saying is that you could create a romance novel out of that, right?
	I think a woman could.
	Maybe I'm just very traditional about the family.
	Well, yeah, and I'm not saying she's right or anything like that.
	I'm just saying you can see how a romantic narrative could be spun from that, but a romantic narrative can't be spun about a doormat.
	So you've got to set your boundaries and stick by them.
	And if she doesn't like it and leaves, then good.
	You didn't want that woman.
	I see John's loaded up the hate hoax of David Lammy, accused of writing hate letters to himself.
	That was the one.
	Thank you, John.
	In which, as you can see, his writing matches up pretty succinctly.
	It looks exactly the same, doesn't it?
	Exactly the same.
	There are loads of these examples.
	I guess there's not enough Nazis around.
	Let's go for the next video.
	So I have a parenting question for Carl.
	I have a two year old and a three year old and sometimes whenever I'm trying to discipline them, they will do or say something that is like insanely funny and I don't know whether to like leave the room or cover my face.
	I was wondering if your kids have ever done that to you and what you do in those situations.
	Yes, they're very difficult situations to handle because, I mean, sometimes the kid won't even know that they're doing something really funny, especially if they're two or three years old, right?
	And the thing is, you've got to maintain control because when you're telling off your children, right, what it is is not scientific or anything like that.
	It's essentially a form of art, right?
	You have to show them that whatever they've done has brought down the wrath of God, right?
	And this is the way that they...
	That's so true.
	It's absolutely true, right?
	And so you have to create this kind of aesthetic covering over the situation.
	And so now they realize, oh my God, I should never have done that.
	If you start laughing, that effect is ruined instantly, right?
	And that's why if your child does something endearing and funny, you have to control yourself.
	You are not allowed to laugh.
	And in fact, if they try to joke their way out of it, you should probably intensify the punishment to reflect that.
	So if you're not getting dinner tonight and they start making jokes, you're not getting dinner tomorrow either.
	And so you've got to make sure they realize, no, no, no, this was a bad road.
	Don't go down this road.
	You can't be allowed to laugh.
	And it is very difficult in some situations.
	Especially if they do something accidentally that's funny, it's even worse.
	Because obviously you're not expecting it.
	And the funniest things are the least expected things.
	And so if they, like, try to storm out and walk into the door or something like that, you've got to suppress your laughter.
	Because then you're not taking it seriously, they won't take it seriously.
	You can't be allowed to carry on like that.
	The exact same thing happens with drill instructors.
	Oh yeah, I bet.
	I really enjoy watching documentaries about US and UK drill instructors and, you know, to actually film the whole thing.
	And the stupidity some of the candidates will come up with will make the drill instructors really want to birth out laughing, but you just can't.
	And then if anything funny does happen, everything gets much worse.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	You've got to intensify it because, no, look, you're not here to laugh.
	That's for when you're not in trouble.
	And, yeah, be strict.
	You have to be.
	A little clarification on the virus mutation question and the vaccine.
	It's a little bit silly because the vaccine doesn't prevent you from getting infected.
	It just reduces the length and severity of the symptoms.
	The virus is a A labile virus.
	In other words, it has a high propensity for mutations, and it doesn't really matter how long it's in a person for it to mutate.
	It's going to happen at a basal rate, regardless of the length of infection.
	Good to know.
	On the 4th of July, the ideals of the Declaration of Independence were criticized for not being fully realized fast enough.
	However, is it really fair to criticize individuals or institutions for not living perfectly in accordance with their stated ideals?
	Correct me if I'm wrong, I think this is a Halean dialectic.
	The abstract is the ideals of the Declaration.
	The negative is the injustices after the founding.
	The concrete would probably be some progressive declaration.
	Also, if you can secure one, I'd be very interested in an interview between the letter Cedars and James Wednesday.
	I will definitely work on getting an interview with James Lindsay.
	I suppose you probably could frame this as Hegelian dialectics.
	I understand it.
	Basically what Hegel is saying is that if you imagine like a chessboard, right, and you want to describe the chessboard accurately, and you only describe the white squares, someone could come along and say, well, okay, but there are also black squares here as well.
	So imagine if you could light up just the white squares.
	This is the thesis.
	And then so the antithesis will come and say, yeah, but there are black squares as well.
	And the synthesis is the combination of the two.
	So the true parts are carried on, then the false parts are ignored.
	And so it's not about erasing previous ideas or anything like that.
	It's just about becoming holistic with them.
	I may be wrong.
	Correct me if I am.
	I've never read Hegel, because why would you?
	I'll get to it at some point.
	But no, I think that's not necessarily what's happening there, though.
	I think what's happening is an unreasonable demand to adhere to standards that most people probably won't adhere to.
	It's not unreasonable for most people to fall slightly short of the standards they profess.
	Always tell the truth.
	I'm sure there's a time when Jordan Peterson has lied.
	And so you go, ah, see?
	You're wrong, Jordan.
	And it's like, well, no, he's not wrong.
	He's just not perfect.
	None of us are.
	And so when the left is attacking Western cultures, what they do is they take the apotheosis of Western values and say, well, look, the West is not perfect, and therefore it's not living up to its values, and therefore it should be destroyed or changed or whatever because my activism, blah, blah, blah.
	And that's why Thomas Sowell's response is, okay, well, compared to what?
	And that's correct.
	Compared to perfection?
	Well, we're not comparing ourselves to perfection.
	Sure.
	No one else has been compared to perfection.
	Why should that be us?
	If we're living in 1700, though, you could argue that that example does place place.
	It's like, all men are created equal, but it's only white.
	Then you're like, black people also have people.
	Therefore, they also have rights.
	Yeah.
	But that's very reasonable compared to something we can point to.
	So the whites compared to the blacks.
	The whites have got privileges the blacks don't have.
	Exactly.
	The blacks deserve these rights, and therefore that's a totally reasonable and remediable situation.
	It's not, well, the whites aren't living up to utopia.
	Well, no, no one is.
	You're not pointing to any people that you can say those people are doing it better than you.
	You can't say that.
	You're saying that hypothetical group of people that may exist in my mind.
	They don't even describe it as, you know, not utopia.
	They describe it as white supremacy.
	The United States is a white supremacist country.
	What's interesting, I read a comment the other day, I think it was Atheism and Unstoppable that came up with this, which is, can you name a white majority company, sorry, what's the difference in their mind between white majority and white supremacy?
	Which white majority country is not white supremacist to them?
	Yeah, none of them.
	That's what it is.
	But that's not the point.
	The point is the unfair standards to which they are attacking, right?
	So essentially they're saying, you don't live up to an impossible goal and therefore you're bad.
	It's like, that's unfair.
	Oh, sure.
	Compare me reasonably.
	That's unreasonable.
	You can reasonably compare me to something that is a possible goal.
	And it might not even exist, but it still might be a possible goal.
	But this is the problem with the West's moral standards.
	They're really high.
	And we're...
	Not unique, but we do have a real strong sense of accountability.
	And it's easy to hold anyone accountable to perfection, because everyone falls short of that.
	So it's like, well, you're not being perfect.
	You could do this in the Islamic world.
	You're not being the perfect Muslim.
	Well, no, I guess I'm not.
	I coveted my neighbor's wife or something.
	You could do that with any kind of prescriptive stuff like that.
	But yeah, so it's just unfair.
	And demand them compare you to something that exists.
	And that's reasonable.
	Ronald Callum, were there any cartoons that you watched as a kid?
	No.
	For me, it was like Bugs Bunny and stuff like that.
	It wasn't until I got to high school that I started watching anime, which is these ones.
	Because I see the world in 2D, it's a lot less stress on me to be watching this instead of the detail on TV shows.
	I like these, but if you don't want to watch anime, don't.
	And given how base Japan has been, I'm glad that I did it.
	I don't want to watch anime.
	I mean, I used to watch He-Man, Transformers, stuff like that.
	South Park American dad and family guy mostly.
	Well, that was a bit older for me.
	I was still young for that.
	I was saying I like the monarchy because the system of it is meant to be that this is the perfection.
	It's meant to be a symbol you are attained to but will never achieve.
	Like, foundationally, you're never going to achieve the perfection of the monarch.
	Because why the hell would you?
	That's why she's the monarch and you're not.
	Anyway.
	Hey guys, I might have a question that's much dumber than the water is wet conversation.
	Is someone still bisexual if they get married to someone with the opposite sex?
	Because my fiance says that they're still bisexual even though they're dedicated to somebody already, which doesn't make sense.
	I want to know what your dad's view of when that is.
	Well, they could still be sexually attracted to both sexes, but they're settled with one for marriage purposes.
	Well, you settle with an individual for marriage purposes.
	Yeah, you don't settle with duos, usually.
	You're not, like, settling for the sex of woman when you get married to a woman.
	You're settling for a particular woman.
	So it's, you know, and if you're bisexual, then it could have been a man, I suppose.
	I love a bisexual man, it's just like I'm swearing off cock.
	Exactly, I'm marrying a woman.
	Yeah, no, I think you can be bisexual and marry, like, someone of the opposite sex and still be bisexual, I don't see why not.
	And Carl, I know you said don't do two different video comments in a row, but I just had to say yes, my white Beyonce said yes to the engagement, so...
	Oh, congratulations.
	My life's over.
	Set your boundaries.
	Police your boundaries.
	Be on patrol for your boundaries.
	And everything will go great.
	It's great news, man.
	It is.
	The drugs that are...
	I sincerely mean this.
	I'm Satan reincarnated.
	You think I'm joking?
	I'm not.
	You know what I mean?
	Fortified.
	71% guaranteed satisfaction.
	It's just weird how he keeps accusing people of thinking that he sucks the blood of children.
	Well, he never denied it, that's the thing.
	Yeah.
	But he's still yet to say, I don't do it.
	Yeah.
	Well, do you, Joe?
	Let's go for the next one.
	Good day, Lotus Eaters.
	So, the Jews are oppressing themselves.
	Amazon is selling us wristbands.
	I wonder when we'll get our own camp for unvaccinated.
	Didn't we read about that being set up somewhere?
	I've seen people on Twitter saying that unvaccinated people need to be separated from the rest of the population for their own safety, concentrated, as it were, in certain locations.
	I remember some government was floating that as an idea for new arrivals or something.
	I think it might have been South Africa.
	I'll probably get it wrong.
	I remember it was one country that was just like, yeah, for people who arrive, if they're unvaccinated, we'll just put them in a camp for themselves until they can prove that they don't have it because they didn't want to pay for hotel rooms.
	Okay, next one.
	So it seems when I was first doing this video comment, the audio didn't work, so I enjoyed this poorly dubbed version of it.
	So a couple of weeks back, our friend down under, C.S. Cooper, made this first man test where he ate a spoonful of Vegemite.
	So when I ordered some stuff from his website and I said I want to do the man test, he sent me a couple of packets in the mail.
	So let's check this out.
	Ugh.
	It's not that good.
	What, you couldn't eat a spoonful of Marmite?
	How's it?
	I don't like Marmite.
	I'm in the hate-it camp.
	Do you like it?
	I love Marmite.
	Oh, God.
	Absolute weakness.
	Anyway, this contemptible weakness.
	Can't even eat a spoonful of Marmite.
	Why would you eat it?
	To prove you're a man, Callum.
	Of course it does.
	Look, there's two strapping men there.
	They're spoonfuls of Marmite without any...
	Well, they're Vegemite, not Marmite.
	Well, it's the same thing.
	I think there is a difference.
	I don't know.
	It looks the same.
	It probably tastes the same.
	Anyway, George says, Well, I don't believe any of the allegations against Blizzard.
	They had Gamergate mentioned in their lawsuit after all.
	I have no sympathy for these companies either.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's like watching a wasp and a spider fighting.
	I don't like either of those.
	But, uh, they've hired feminists and SJWs for years and now the monster is going after them.
	Get woke, go broke is not a universal rule, but at least you get your fake rape allegations and frivolous lawsuits as punishment.
	Yeah, no, no sympathy.
	Student of history, the sort of Damocles falls upon ye blizzard.
	Enjoy weeping the whirlwind you have sown.
	That's a great statement.
	I don't really like it.
	Alexander says, having watched ex-World of War player and normally fairly based one on top of that, going through the stuff being accused of Blizzard, if what is accused has actually happened, it's disgusting.
	That's of course.
	However, of course, the rest of it is feminist bull.
	Of course, but it is feminist bull, but the sexual harassment, yeah, that went too far.
	Yeah, they're being on purpose perverse while on the cubicle crawls, apparently.
	Yeah, I mean, I'm obviously against that.
	Sounds disgusting.
	Again, they're just allegations at this stage.
	My understanding is that the HR were informed, but then the allegations are that HR's useless as well, so who knows?
	Yeah.
	But what's just weird is why is so much feminist nonsense being thrown in there?
	I mean, it just dilutes the whole conversation.
	Yeah, they should have just strictly kept to those things that are illegal.
	Not that there are 20% women on the board or whatever it was.
	Well, that I think might actually be a claim for illegality in California.
	Of course it is, yeah.
	That's the thing.
	Edward says, Honestly, if this kills Blizzard, I'd be only surprised that it was going through things behind the schemes and not backlash to how downhill its story and game design has gone.
	They keep fumbling the ball since Legion, and their attempts to moralise in their own games have become vile.
	Yes, war bad, but you're World of Warcraft, so conflict is a kind of given, and that's certainly why I'm here, so enough peacemaking.
	The only reason I stick around the community is the community I'm part of, and the fact I'm not a bloody weeb, so no Final Fantasy for me, based.
	I love the idea that finally the based feminists have killed an evil games company.
	EA means more feminism, that's what we're learning from this.
	SH Silver says, I realise it's funny to dunk on feminism and gaming ha-ha, but a woman actually effing killed herself because of their culture during company retreat, Carl.
	Come on, do better.
	Well, I don't know that's true.
	No, it was just an allegation listed in there.
	Activision say it's not true, so it's hard to tell.
	Yeah, and I mean, the fact that it was one line, she killed herself after going on retreat with this guy...
	Because he brought Poplux.
	Yeah, I mean, I think there's more to that, to be honest.
	I don't think that that's the be-all and end-all, and like I said, it's an allegation, so I don't want to just take a side, to be honest.
	I have to presume innocence.
	Marcus says, the people at Blizzard are playing video games.
	Isn't that kind of their job?
	Well, it's to make video games, but yeah.
	The allegation was that they give all their roles to the females and then sit and play video games because they're men and therefore they don't have to do work.
	That was because it was a full sentence.
	Oh, this is the Pareto thing again, isn't it?
	20% of the employees are women and they're doing 80% of the work.
	Pareto vindicated once more.
	Brad says, the only thing about this Blizzard lawsuit stuff is the woman who committed suicide for some people showing around dodgy nude pics of her.
	Yeah, I mean, that's terrible.
	Again, allegations.
	That's the thing.
	You've got the groping.
	You've got the guy who's constantly trying to kiss his employees at a conference.
	You've got all this sick stuff.
	And if you just did that, and that was your case, it would look a lot more serious.
	But when you mix in Anita Sarkeesian articles and talking about how the men like to tell jokes with each other, or that they come to work hungover and this is an attack on women, just why?
	Why would you do that?
	Because you're from California.
	He says, I think the rest is just trying to make a cover-up for all the rubbish expansions and bad player reviews.
	Blizzard is a dying company feels bad, man.
	Yeah, I used to love Blizzard games, so I'm not happy that Blizzard are dying, but what are you going to do?
	You got woke.
	Toonumber9 says, that photo of the guy...
	That's the other thing, isn't it?
	It's their statement.
	Who was it?
	It was like all the wokest.
	They've all got skeletons in their closet?
	Yeah.
	They do.
	They all turn out to be male feminists in the end.
	Yep, they do.
	They all have real issues with women, is the case.
	And it's because they don't know how to be men, in my opinion.
	I really think that.
	Like, I mean, let's assume that the company culture described in Blizzard is true.
	Why the hell was that allowed?
	Yeah, it's weird.
	Like, why is any of that allowed?
	Like, not even from, like, a being unprofessional standard.
	Like, from being a man standard.
	Like, you know, men shouldn't act that way.
	Men should act in a much more reserved way.
	They shouldn't be, you know, ladding it up in the company like that.
	Yeah, that's the frat boy stuff.
	The other stuff is obviously unacceptable, regardless of what the situation is.
	Yeah, but the general behavior, you know, that's not acceptable.
	Anyway, to number nine says, the photo of the guy paid 10k to meet a woman and gave her a hug.
	It's probably the biggest L that's ever been posted online.
	Yeah.
	It's hard to think for a bigger one, to be honest.
	Maybe the Instagram influencers who end up killing themselves on the edge of a cliff or something trying to get a shot for Instagram.
	Have you not seen that?
	What?
	Oh, I've seen a bunch of these stories where it's like, you know, Instagram influencer dies in Indonesia because they climb to the top of a cliff and then fall off trying to take photos of themselves for Instagram.
	That's a pretty big L. What a waste of...
	Why would you do that?
	Because you're trying to get likes on Instagram, Calum.
	Don't you understand?
	That's important.
	Likes on Instagram.
	Let me risk my life.
	Why?
	Likes on Instagram.
	Yeah, well, 10,000 likes.
	That's a lot of likes.
	Instagram?
	Yeah, it's important stuff.
	I downloaded Instagram the other week.
	I don't know how to use it.
	And I don't really get the point in it so far.
	Just upload pictures of stuff?
	Do you get money off it?
	No.
	Not that I don't, anyway.
	Maybe you do, but I certainly don't.
	Anyway.
	Omar says, men today are raised by women.
	That's true.
	They're taught being male is toxic.
	Male role models are disparaged and raised.
	Young men aren't being taught how to be men, so why is it a surprise that they don't know how to act like men?
	Well, I completely agree.
	That's one of the reasons that these Dallas segments probably do so well.
	In fact, they get really good views on YouTube.
	I don't know why, but it's probably because you need to know how to be a man.
	I feel like the feminists are getting exactly the kind of men they're asking for, so my question is, why are they asking for creepy, awkward, childish, emasculated manlets?
	I guess simps pay well.
	I don't think women actually want that kind of man, obviously.
	It's just, for some reason, the traditional defense feels like a giant shit test, really.
	This whole thing.
	It's like, look, we were expecting you to put up boundaries, and for some reason you're not.
	It's like, yeah, we should be saying no.
	Just no.
	Can we do this to your child?
	No.
	Will you do this?
	No.
	And what now?
	What are you going to do?
	Now I've said no.
	It's a good point, actually.
	Like, the Conservative Party, especially in the UK, just gets S-tested all the time by leftists, and every time they're just like, well, I suppose so.
	Yeah, just say no.
	See what they do.
	What are they going to do?
	Exactly nothing.
	They won't do anything.
	You say no, and if you don't like it, you can leave, and they'll stay.
	And that's how these things work.
	I've dated far too many women to not know this, to be honest.
	Christian says, Simping is another example of how far men have fallen in modern culture.
	Yeah, it's disgusting.
	Compared to Jordan Peterson and the socially enforced monogamy, where if you go back 100 years, every man is married by the time he's 25.
	Literally every man in your village will have a wife.
	And now, you've got a few women on Twitch or whatever sucking up the resources of literally millions of young men.
	It's like, no, you're not going to get that 10 out of 10 on Twitch.
	You're going to get the 5 out of 10 because you're a 5 out of 10.
	Or if you work a bit harder, you'll be a 5 out of 10.
	You can get that 5 out of 10 woman, get a family, get a house, get a bunch of kids, be happy.
	You can do that.
	That is possible.
	It's still possible even in this day and age.
	It's more difficult, probably, but you can work hard and you can do it.
	I may have mentioned this before.
	JREG made a video about OnlyFans, and he made a really good point in there, which is that there's a weird amount of hate around the concept of OnlyFans and the way it's used and all the rest of it that's massive.
	Why is it weird?
	Well, that's the point.
	It's not weird when you think about it, but it's one of the things where he's like...
	I think a lot of the hate comes about the anger at the system itself as well.
	Yep.
	The idea that you could be that person.
	I mean, it would be...
	The fact that you can just be like, yeah, I look, therefore, Gibbs, and then lots of cash.
	Yes.
	This is why we have to attack the simps themselves.
	No simping.
	Root of the problem.
	Yeah, they are.
	I can't imagine the saboteurs or whatever in France that would throw their clogs into the shoemaking machines or whatever.
	They'd go down to the OnlyFans building throwing clogs at the servers.
	Anyway, if you want female companionship, ask a woman out on a date and get to know them.
	They will respond to the strong hand.
	You are more likely to get a high-value woman.
	That's right.
	And he says, Christine says here, gentlemen, save your money and invest in yourself.
	Absolutely.
	You are a project that women are looking for.
	And you've got to remember that women do look at men as projects.
	And you get this all the time.
	The classic, I can fix him.
	You are a woman's project, so you've got to make yourself worthwhile.
	No, you are.
	You absolutely are.
	Sorry, it just sounds funny.
	It sounds funny because nobody has drilled this into your head yet, but women look at men as projects.
	How they can improve them, how they can fix them.
	And it's your job as a man to resist her improvements.
	Because she didn't fall in love with you because of what you could have been.
	She fell in love with you because of what you are.
	And so you have to resist that.
	Believe it or not.
	The clogs were the Dutch.
	What a shock.
	Anyway, if that's too hard, at least be a man with some self-respect like your grandfather and just get a prostitute.
	You'll spend less money and get more in return and still retain more pride than a sin.
	No, that's absolutely right.
	You can laugh what you want, but he's absolutely right.
	That's why it's funny.
	Be a man, just hire a prostitute, you nerd.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Men who go to prostitutes are less impressive than simps.
	Make that known.
	Simping is just a dead-end, weak-sauce approach by low-value men in a generation that has lost its way.
	Absolutely.
	We should be essentially shaming young men.
	You ever watch the movie The Guard?
	No.
	There's this Irish police who have to deal with criminals or whatever.
	Anyway, one of the characters, he's lost his wife, so he just spends all his money on prostitutes.
	He's in his 40s.
	And the more I think about it, if he was spending his money on OnlyFans, he'd be a pathetic character.
	He'd be disgusting, wouldn't he?
	Yeah.
	But him is just hiring prostitutes because he's got nothing else to do.
	I mean, at least he actually gets to have sex with a woman.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Loads of women.
	Unlike these goddamn simps who don't even get that.
	If you spend enough money, maybe you'll get a hug.
	Ten grand.
	I mean, I don't know how much a prostitute costs, but I imagine you can get loads of prostitutes for ten grand.
	Surely you get a little harem of prostitutes for ten grand.
	This will be the best weekend ever!
	How much money have I got saved up?
	There was a friend of mine who told me a really disgusting story about one of his friends who went to the Netherlands.
	Apparently he managed to get a blowy five euros.
	Five euros?
	That was a crack whore, mate!
	That seems unusually cheap.
	But again, I'm not an expert.
	Luke says, there was a listicle recently in Metro that was titled something like, you're old if you do these things, paraphrased, that said, it was old fashioned to have a relationship in person.
	The youth of today think simping is the only way to have a relationship.
	I weep for humanity.
	I weep for the absolute desperate nature of young men if they think that's a relationship.
	Just stop.
	One of the things that John is always going on about is that young men, if you're younger than 25, stop trying to get a girlfriend.
	Just stop it.
	Stop it.
	You're not going to work.
	Someone else is going to come along because they've built themselves up better than you are because they're older than you.
	So basically, get a job, work on yourself, build something up, go to the gym, earn some money, make some savings.
	And then, when you're in your mid-twenties, think about getting a girl.
	Stop chasing women as a teenager.
	Nah, that's bullshit.
	It's true.
	No, you get a wife, maybe, but girlfriends?
	Like, there's no point waiting until you're 25 to have one experience with a woman.
	No, I'm not saying that.
	I'm saying, stop chasing, right?
	What do you mean by that?
	It means exactly what I say.
	Stop going after women.
	If you're busy working on something and building something up, women will come to you, and you'll get a girlfriend.
	Because they'll see, oh, there's a constructive man who's building something up, and they'll come to you.
	Not don't have a girlfriend until you're 25.
	No, it's stop chasing.
	And it's easy for young men to think, oh, I'll keep trying to chase, I'll keep trying to chase.
	But as John points out, you can't actually compete in the open market with a 35-year-old who is also chasing women, and they're going to be a lot more successful than you.
	Don't try.
	You'll find women.
	Women will come to you.
	This will happen in your normal dating interactions where you bump into a woman and you hit it off or whatever.
	But don't go chasing.
	There's no point.
	Anyway, Adam says, Democrats, defund the police.
	Everyday people.
	Who's that you've got guarding your condo?
	Democrats.
	Private security.
	Basically, we get protection from the situation.
	You don't...
	It's Meriwether.
	Why do you ask?
	Those guns you have, use them to protect yourself and we'll send a riotous mob to your house.
	Vote for us, though.
	We're the good guys.
	Also, hand in your guns and get rid of your guns.
	It's Executive Solutions or whatever they were called.
	The guys with Simon Mann in Zimbabwe.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But that...
	That's basically where it's at now, though.
	And it's just mad how, like, there are literally millions of people in America who are voting for this nonsense.
	It's crazy.
	Anyway, I've just lost my place, so I need to get back to where I was in the comments.
	I love the idea of Simon Mann being the one who protects AOC. Yeah.
	Topples African governments left, right and centre and spends the rest of his life defending Democrats.
	Well, why not?
	Well, they defended the police.
	White Hot Peppers, hey dude, says Carl.
	Says anything about modern life being effed right now?
	Also Carl.
	Don't know why I have to say that.
	Love it.
	Callum in a hot tub can?
	New platinum tier perk?
	No.
	Not happening.
	Yeah, he's right.
	It's for silver tier.
	We've finally worked out what we're going to do.
	Um...
	I agree with your initial thoughts on simping, but I don't think you're taking it far enough.
	What about society do you think is causing this now?
	Do you think this would happen in centuries or decades gone by had they had Twitch?
	Yes, of course it would happen.
	This is not good that this exists, but there also has to be an ethos around the sort of culture of young men that resist this, as in they have to essentially shame each other out of it.
	See, I mean, there's an interesting proposal.
	I'm not saying do this, but I'm thinking as a thought experiment.
	Want to get some social conservatism, just make it illegal to do that on the internet?
	Like, give money to eagles?
	Would that be a moral good or a moral bad?
	What, banning, giving money to eagles?
	Yeah.
	Obviously a moral good.
	Some of the conservatives think about, I suppose.
	Just think PayPal starts de-platforming simps.
	Jules says, woman here, I have a mother like Markle, and I tell you that a mentally healthy woman would never behave the way Markle does.
	It is not the behavior of a normal woman.
	No, it's not.
	Markle's in the head.
	Because you saw her early interviews when she was doing, what was it, adverts in the 90s?
	Have you seen them?
	And she's just pushing feminism, even though she's like 12.
	Something wrong with that lady.
	Well, it's the way her parents have raised her, isn't it?
	Kevin Croft.
	So there we have it.
	Hugo will never date any of us.
	No, you're right.
	Hugo's not dating you.
	Our people...
	Free Will says our people, as in our people being killed by the police, statistically most likely to be killed by our people.
	Yes.
	The...
	Intra-community crime rates are always much higher than the inter-community high rates.
	It's a very race socialist thing to say as well.
	Yeah.
	Our people.
	As if black people aren't part of the police.
	Or part of humanity?
	Yeah.
	Like, they're our people, which are separate from your people, white man.
	Your people are the police and the structures that are oppressing us.
	Okay.
	Omar again says, Yeah, I mean, honestly, that's why I'm expecting this to go.
	Well, I don't think it's going to get any better.
	Anyway, Sam says, I don't know.
	No, I don't either.
	Anyway, after the party narrowly...
	I assume he's a tabletop game.
	Fantasy Flight Games?
	Possibly.
	After the party narrowly escaped an exploding demon host at the cost of some bodily extremities, we started discussing Warhammer at Large, which got to Arch and then to Carl.
	It got me thinking about Timple's move towards generating culture, and I thought, what about exploring culture that is under attack?
	Maybe it could bolster it.
	I know you guys are a news organization, but it could be a live streaming session.
	Be adequate.
	Concept for the future?
	Thoughts?
	Yeah, I mean, there's nothing wrong with it.
	That's why we're going to do a podcast on the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe reboot, because we need to explore this culture, I think.
	I think it's actually important.
	You never watched it when you were a kid, did you?
	No.
	No, you're way too young.
	But it was awesome, and you missed out.
	That's probably why you're a simp.
	What am I a simp for?
	No, you're 23.
	What, they're 4?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Simp generation, Callum.
	Take responsibility for your simpies.
	Your fellow simps.
	I feel a bit mean now.
	I'm just trying to grill.
	Okay, but yeah, I'm not wrong there.
	Rowan says, hey lads, I thought you might appreciate a heads up on the COVID-iet colony down under.
	Now that people have started dying from the AstraZeneca jabs in large enough numbers for the media to vote precious seconds away from assuring us how safe they are.
	I didn't know that they had been, actually.
	In Australia, people have been dying from the AstraZeneca jab.
	Prime Mincer, that's a very funny way of phrasing it, Scott's No-Mates Morrison has been quick to assure us the jabs are not necessary and we make our choice to take them or not based off the informed consent his government has only been too keen to provide us with over the course of this pandemic.
	Strikes me as rather deplorable.
	The most accurate foreknowledge of the risks involved has been provided not by the main news outlets here, but by platforms such as yours, in spite of big tech's efforts to silence dissenting voices.
	Keep up the good work.
	Well, thank you very much.
	I didn't know that a number of people in Australia had died of the jab.
	I mean, I know there have been a few here, but I mean, I don't know what the numbers are.
	They never get published.
	Yeah, I doubt we're going to find out.
	Because that's the thing.
	I mean, you could calculate a risk factor, and then you could put that on the label as you would with any other drug.
	But for some reason, discussing the risk factor involved with the COVID vaccine is unforgivable.
	Yeah, really makes me think.
	I mean, if we're not allowed to discuss the downsides to these things, as if there are no downsides, then I think that someone is pulling the wool over our eyes.
	But there we go.
	Money involved.
	Anyway, if you want more from us, go to lizzie's.com.
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