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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 3rd of August 2021.
	I'm going I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello.
	Gotten over my Scottish cough.
	Anyway, let's go for the new stuff on the website.
	So the first article here from...
	How do you actually say his real name?
	I'm not really sure.
	Kodran Stavri.
	The.
	Yeah.
	So I had to get rid of COVID, so that's his new article on there.
	I think that's free, so go and check that out.
	But as for premium content, we have the He-Man podcast.
	True.
	Which you get to tell me about He-Man.
	Yeah.
	So the new series and how they're insistent that it's totally not woke and...
	It is definitely woke, but weirdly enough, it also hits directly on the problem that is plaguing Western civilization at the moment, which is materialism's destruction of heroic mythos.
	And it's bizarre that Kevin Smith managed to nail that point exactly right, especially given the woke superstructure that's built on top of it.
	There's actually a really quite interesting point being made in it, And obviously no one saw this because of all the concerns about wokeness.
	And the concerns about wokeness are, of course, justified and true.
	So I thought it was an interesting thing to talk about.
	Yeah, there's also some other stuff going on there.
	So go and check that out.
	Before we move on, though, I'm just so annoyed because that is just like literally the perfect representation of He-Man.
	It looks so good.
	I was actually disappointed by the prince.
	I knew nothing about He-Man going into the podcast.
	Then he showed me the image of, what was his name, Prince?
	Prince Adam.
	Well, he was never a twink.
	He was never like this little weedy guy.
	He was a big guy in his own.
	It wasn't necessarily his physique that changed.
	It was the magic around it that changed.
	But anyway...
	Also, last thing to mention, just because I wasn't expecting this, but just finished the notes on this.
	We're going to be doing a book club on it, The Long March, How the Left Won the Culture War, and what to do about it.
	So if you want to read along, go check that out, because we'll be doing a...
	Yeah, Peter Whittle gave me that after the interview I did with him, and said, this is a really good book, you should check it out.
	And so I gave it to Callum.
	I'm still plugging through this Critical Race Theory Bible.
	Yeah, it's essentially just like, perfect book for normies of like, here's what a culture war is, here's where we are, here's all the examples of what we've done.
	And in the last three chapters, it just turns into Goldstein's book from 1984, where he's like, right, here's how the world really works, you know.
	Anyway, so.
	I look forward to that.
	I look forward to that.
	So let's start off with Tim Paul doing nothing wrong.
	Yeah, so, Tim Pool did nothing wrong, unlike the Daily Beast that did everything wrong, and that's why the Daily Beast, of course, produced a hit piece.
	Now, weirdly enough, it's been a while since hit pieces have been a thing, hasn't it?
	Like, when was the last, like, serious hit piece you've seen on anyone?
	I feel like the pandemic kind of killed them.
	Yeah, right?
	It definitely changed the direction in which the Eye of Sauron was looking.
	But now, of course, this seems to be dying down, so it's like, across the landscape, who can we find?
	Tim Pool, you know?
	And so Tim has become the subject of their latest attempts to ruin someone.
	Why?
	Because this person is successful, and they are, of course, angry about this.
	Now, before we go on...
	It's no secret that I'm friends with Tim.
	I think he's a really good guy.
	And I've got a particular standard for judging someone's character.
	And that's, would I trust this person with money?
	As in, if I had a million pounds I needed someone to look after for a month or something, and I needed to give it to someone, who could I reasonably expect to get that money back from?
	Tim Pool is someone I would trust with money.
	If I let him money, or gave him money to look after or whatever, I'd expect to get it back.
	And that's the kind of character I consider Tim to have.
	And I've known him for years now.
	And he's been consistent in his character, as far as I can see.
	I've spent a lot of time hanging out with him, I speak to him all the time.
	Good guy, really like him, and this really annoyed me, because I'm in this as well, so I thought it'd be worth talking about.
	But let's talk about the framing first.
	How coward and phony Tim Pool became one of the biggest political YouTubers on the planet.
	So, just to begin, right?
	Tim Pool isn't a coward.
	I just love the editorialising.
	Well, yeah, I mean, you couldn't get more editorial.
	Tim Pool is not a coward, and I don't consider him to be a phony either.
	But what I find amazing about this framing is the idea that anyone on the left believes in courage and authenticity.
	They're such moral cowards.
	And the word phony?
	Phony.
	Really?
	Phony.
	Okay.
	Okay, let's not talk about the word phony when you're busy transitioning things from one category to another.
	You know, you don't want to talk about authenticity, what is authentically the thing that it claims to be.
	Because that makes the left look really silly, so it's a really strange appeal to, I guess, what we'll call right-wing heroic values of courage and authenticity.
	These are not left-wing values, so it's amazing the way that this has to be framed.
	But you can tell what all of this is built on, right?
	Throughout the fall of 2020, the wildly successful YouTube pundit has spent countless hours hyping the blinkered legal strategies and half-baked fantasies about voter fraud animating the online right.
	Yeah, they're jealous of his success.
	That's what this all comes down to.
	They look at how well he's doing and they're so annoyed about it.
	Well, I'm sorry, I'm glad that he's doing well.
	Anyway, they accuse him of being a liar because he won't spread unsubstantiated rumours.
	What?
	Yeah, literally that.
	So what Paul kept from his younger audience, overwhelmingly male, decidedly right leading audience, is that he seemed to have a pretty good idea of what might happen.
	As if he's an oracle.
	What are they talking about?
	The January the 6th Storming of the Capitol.
	How would he know what's going to happen?
	Well, that's a great question.
	Well, I mean, Tim had apparently heard rumours.
	They say, in a recorded conversation, Tim said, dude, I've had messages from people saying they've already got plans to rush D.C. as soon as November 3rd goes chaotic.
	He said in early September.
	Minutes later, Paul added, the right-wing militias, the Oath Keepers, the Three Percenters, and the Proud Boys, and Trump supporters, they're going to rush full speed to D.C. They're going to take the White House and do whatever they can and power a military, apparently.
	But that didn't happen.
	But that's not what happened.
	Yeah.
	Also, people talk ass all the time.
	They do.
	And Tim Pool heard all this stuff and didn't just make videos blurting it all out for some reason.
	Because it was fake news.
	And I guess that he accurately identified that.
	I don't get the attack.
	I don't even know what this...
	This is not his character at all.
	Yeah, exactly.
	This speaks well of his character, that he had heard all of these things and didn't merely blub them out and mislead his audience because, like we said, this didn't happen.
	So this speaks to Zimple's character as someone who is actually capable of separating rumours from truths.
	Sorry, Daily Beast.
	I know that's...
	What a phony.
	Yeah, what a phony and a coward.
	He was keeping this from his audience, this thing that wasn't true.
	Anyway, contrary to the overall manner in which Poole portrays himself, he was not an intrepid field reporter and streamer who barrelled into conflict zones with an unshakable desire to ferret out the real story.
	Well, I mean, there's lots of video evidence to suggest he was.
	He was streaming it.
	This isn't salty people who are leftists from previous organisations who are looking at the amount of money he makes and being like, wow, that could have been me.
	It's not that at all.
	Not at all.
	A coward and phony.
	A joke.
	Staggeringly arrogant.
	Totally full of S. Not smart.
	And a bumbling doofus.
	Are we just listing insults now?
	That's the article.
	Literally listing insults from, like, vice journalists.
	Oh, boy.
	From the lefties in America.
	Yeah.
	Literally, these are the...
	And they're not even named either.
	They're anonymous.
	So who knows?
	Who knows?
	Hit pieces have really gone down in quality.
	They really have.
	This is actually embarrassingly bad.
	If you're expecting anyone to believe that these are authentic statements, well, I've got some news for you.
	We'll get into a claim of...
	What happened with me and him dealing with some Atlantic journalists in a bit.
	But yeah, so, I mean, I guess.
	But I mean, like, all of the...
	I interviewed loads of people of...
	I think it was Mr.
	Silverman, David Silverman.
	No, Richard Silverman, I think it was, authored this.
	I spoke to a bunch of his ex-work colleagues and they literally said exactly the same words.
	It was weird how that came out.
	I was surprised.
	But it's definitely true.
	I love the chat here.
	They're like, yeah, this just in.
	Tim Pool is a smelly doo-doo and also kisses girls.
	That's literally what they're saying.
	It's just so embarrassingly bad.
	So yeah, most did so on condition of anonymity.
	In some instances, citing possible reprisals by pull and harassment from his fans.
	You mean he would respond and you would look stupid on Twitter and lots of people would say, hang on, you're lying on Twitter.
	And so they've done it anonymously.
	So you can just trust the credentials of the Daily Beast reporter here.
	And, you know, don't worry about who said it.
	Just accept it as true.
	But anyway, they continue.
	It has made Poole both exceedingly rich and one of the most watched independent YouTube political pundits in the country.
	Over 3.3 million subscribers.
	That's split among, like, three different channels, so, you know, there's going to be a huge amount of overlap there, so it's not quite that big.
	But 1.5 billion views and, by all estimates, hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue per month.
	He earned $600,000 just in August 2020, and most of it came from YouTube, Poole claimed in the recorded conversation.
	And here's why they're doing it.
	They want YouTube to demonetize Tim Poole.
	That's what the aim is here.
	Did nothing wrong, apart from offended.
	The money was successful?
	Yeah, outshone a bunch of salty lefty journos.
	It's such a weird complaint.
	I mean, you don't hear NVIDIA complaining about, like, Apple should be banned from stores, why they earn more than me.
	It gets even better, because Tim is from a mixed-race working-class background.
	And you can imagine how the, you know, not-mixed-race, well-to-do education, university-educated types feel about that kind of success coming from one of the plebeians, right?
	Unlike his peers in conservative media, Paul wasn't boosted by the usual suspects.
	Neither the Koch brothers, nor the Mercer clan, or another deep-pocketed billionaire forked over seed money and he didn't gain Facebook's algorithms.
	Fox News has more or less ignored him, as has the Institutional Republican Party and its network of well-funded think tanks.
	So he's a self-made, working-class man.
	Good for Tim Pool.
	Good for him.
	You're not making him look bad.
	You're actually like, Godspeed, Mr.
	Pool.
	Business is booming, with a dozen employees on payroll since April, and a prominence made possible in no small part by YouTube promoting his work on his front page.
	I know for a fact he said during a December 2020 livestream, the YouTube algorithm drives the majority of my content.
	Well, here's some breaking news for you.
	The YouTube algorithm drives the majority of all content on YouTube.
	Literally everyone's.
	You can look at any YouTube creators algorithm, like metrics, and it will be something like 80 or 90% of views come from the recommended page on the front page.
	But also YouTube creators adjust their content so it works well.
	Yes.
	Man, we've got him.
	But literally almost everyone's views come from the YouTube algorithm because people are on YouTube and YouTube is recommending videos for you to watch.
	It's not a shock in any way, shape, or form.
	But anyway, to summarize this as just boo-hoo, why is the Beanie Man successful?
	Why doesn't YouTube do something about the bad Beanie Man who refuses to lie to his audience and is being really successful?
	Despite his continued insistence on being viewed as a center-left truth-teller, Daily Beast reviewed hundreds of hours worth of Poole's commentaries.
	Well, if only they've watched some of his videos.
	I've watched some of his videos too.
	It didn't come across as very far-right to me, but, you know, what are you going to do?
	But anyway, so this is amazing, right?
	No matter which ginned-up atrocity is roiling the online right in a given day, Poole routinely will deem it as a crucial sign pointing towards a civilisation crisis or an imminent civil war.
	Didn't you just complain that a mob of right-wingers stormed the capital?
	Like, wasn't that Tim Poole predicting that a mob of right-wingers was going to storm the capital?
	Doesn't that look something like a civilisational crisis or a civil war?
	I mean, again, you're not showing that he's wrong.
	Why do you think Biden fortified the Capitol after his staggeringly valid election win?
	Why would this happen?
	But anyway, as a matter of course, Paul depicts people and groups on the left as potential bomb-tossing radicals or authoritarian lunatics.
	I wonder why.
	It could be, I don't know, all of the courthouses they've bombed.
	Or it could have been, you know, the obvious vibes, the people they shot in the street, maybe?
	I don't know.
	There might be a reason that he's portraying them this way.
	Cultural shifts or gestures towards social and racial justice will lead to chaos and gulags stopped with victims of morality policing.
	Yeah.
	It already kind of is in the UK. Like, we have people who go to jail for prison terms for hate speech.
	Yeah.
	It's all actually happening.
	And so the Daily Beast are like, yeah, Tim Pool's pointing out what we're doing.
	Sorry.
	He says, they will never stop coming.
	They will take your job away.
	They will come for your parents.
	He said, talking about woke cultists.
	If you do something wrong, they'll fire your mother.
	They'll come to your house with fireworks and guns.
	Yes, they will.
	They will never stop coming.
	This is what the Daily Beast is trying to do now.
	They're trying to defund and deplatform Tim Pool.
	That's the purpose of this.
	So Tim Pool is once again right.
	I'll skip over a couple of more leftist complaints about him saying things and then being like, no, we don't like Timple.
	Timple smells.
	Timple's got cooties.
	That's literally what this article is.
	Right, so these days they're complaining.
	They think that they spoke to two people who worked for Occupy Wall Street and they say that Paul was never aligned with the movement.
	So, Tim Pool was never aligned with Occupy Wall Street now.
	I mean, that's just not true.
	I mean, there's Rando's in it.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Timothy Fitzgerald and Tess Cohen, members of the General Assembly Organizational Hub for Occupy.
	So, they're like, yeah, yeah, he was never anything to do with it.
	And his opinion is that Occupy was crooked.
	These people racist, the most racist people I've ever encountered in my life.
	Correct.
	If anyone forgets, Occupy Wall Street is where the concept of the progressive stack first came to public attention because they were operating progressive stacks, literally saying, if you're this kind of race, you can speak.
	If you're that kind of race, you can't speak.
	And so, unsurprisingly, Tim was like, wow, that seems really racist.
	And he's right.
	When asked about Paul's story, Fitzgerald replied, this sounds like total fabricated, overheard at the local coffee shop type anecdote, meant to launder the false notion that racial justice is zero sum.
	We watched the videos of them doing it.
	Google the Progressive Stack.
	Look it up on YouTube.
	Progressive Stack Occupy.
	You will find the videos of them doing it.
	But I love this.
	Oh, that sounds like a totally fabricated story.
	Oh yeah, and your ones don't.
	Your ones don't.
	Your anonymous stories don't sound like totally fabricated stories.
	They're just insults.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Here's a story that's definitely not totally fabricated, right?
	Definitely true.
	Definitely true.
	Seemingly oblivious to the upper management and the execs at Vice were to the fact that Tim Pool was a total hack, said one former long-time editorial staffer.
	That's pretty salty.
	Pretty damn salty.
	Tim Pool, of course, has insinuated that his colleagues were lazy and overpaid.
	Citing conversations he'd had with a couple of unnamed former Vice employees, Pool also said that going woke had led to its downturn, financial and otherwise.
	And I think Pool's probably correct there.
	Did you know Vice employees are overpaid?
	No, they aren't.
	Let me check their articles about how to put a butt plug in.
	What?
	And here's the latest Vice article about what it's like to drink semen cocktails.
	Yeah, they're definitely not being overpaid.
	So, yeah, anyway.
	So, in late 2014, Fusion sent Poole back to Ferguson.
	Like the Vice staffers before them, a former Fusion employee familiar with the shoot said interviewing people didn't seem to pique Poole's interest that much, particularly black people, with a capital B. So Tim Pool didn't want to interview black people, presumably because he's a racist.
	He would check his phone regularly, obsessed with social media metrics, like they aren't.
	Pool took it as a given his colleagues would do the work for him.
	Ah yes, that's what people think of when they think Tim Pool, someone who doesn't work very hard.
	He only puts up like a dozen videos a day.
	Doesn't work very hard though.
	Other people do the work for him, you see.
	Very much prima donna is how the Fusion employee described him.
	I've never seen any kind of prima donna behavior coming out to him.
	I've hung out with him in lots of social situations.
	He's always just been a regular nice guy to everyone that I've seen him interacting with.
	Total horse.
	Total horse-ess this is.
	He ditched Fusion and digital media as a whole because they're utterly corrupt and feckless, not because of his own failings, according to him.
	How did his own failings allow him to become this multi-millionaire massive media tycoon if he's some lazy, work-shy idiot?
	Like, and if that's the case, doesn't that speak volumes about Vice, Fusion, and the Daily Beast?
	Yeah, okay, so this lazy, feckless idiot has actually dominated the metrics and we're getting trashed by him?
	How is this happening?
	It's just amazing.
	But anyway, only now unshackled from his corporate masters could he tell the real truth, the whole truth, the things they don't want you to know.
	Ah yes, we're simping for the big corporations now.
	Interestingly, Rory will have a dispatch up on Lotuses.com later on about how the New York Times deliberately and consciously told their staff not to investigate the origins of COVID from the Wuhan lab.
	But there's nothing they're going to keep from you.
	Nothing they're going to keep from you.
	But again, we get back to why YouTube should deplatform him, right?
	As a member of YouTube's partner program, Poole was handsomely rewarded.
	In August 2020, he raked in $600,000.
	Yeah, so...
	They want to un-partner him, is what they're saying.
	And the problem they have is that he's easily surpassed better-known right-wing yakkers.
	Right-wing yakkers.
	That's the neutral, objective language that we're going to use to describe these people.
	Like Dennis Prager, Dan Bongino, and Ben Shapiro.
	Hmm.
	So, then we get to the part where I come in, and I find this very interesting.
	Paul was in Berkeley, California in 2017 for Free Speech Week, an ultimately cancelled four-day event organised by Milo Yiannopoulos.
	Daniel Lombroso...
	How was it cancelled?
	Yeah, great question.
	Just skipping over that, are we?
	They attacked the building, set multiple fires, and then tried to storm their way in to kill Milo.
	There was no other reason to be engaging in such violence other than death, which is why he had to have armed guards, and then he had to be evacuated.
	Yes.
	But they don't leave that in, because they don't want you to know that.
	That's just cancelled.
	He got bored.
	He just had a hair appointment.
	He was out.
	Yeah.
	So, Daniel Lombroso, the director of White Noise, a 2020 documentary featuring white nationalists like Richard Spencer, was in town doing preliminary research.
	An Airbnb rented by a handful of right-wing figures, Lombroso drew the ire of Poole and Benjamin.
	And this is because you should never trust a serpent.
	And I'm very, very glad...
	That Timple was there.
	Now, I met Daniel Lombroso.
	I didn't know who he was, obviously.
	But him and the chap with him were introduced to me as journalists for The Atlantic.
	And so I was just, like, sat opposite.
	And there was Martin Selner and Brittany Pettibone there as well.
	And I didn't really know who they were at the time.
	But I knew that Martin Selner was, like, a white nationalist or something like that.
	So, you know, not my kind of guy.
	And I sat down and Daniel Lombroso introduced himself.
	He's like, I'm a Jew.
	Yeah, that was my response.
	I was like, okay.
	That's all right, mate.
	I don't care.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, that's literally, I said, I don't care.
	You know, why would you bring that up?
	And in retrospect, obviously, I think he assumed that I was a white nationalist or something like that.
	But obviously, I'm not.
	So I was just like, okay.
	That's a weird way to introduce yourself.
	I was just thinking of all the things you could have said in responses.
	Just imagine if you went Me Too or something.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, it was just so weird.
	What are you meant to say to that?
	Well, I didn't know.
	I was just like, okay.
	But the thing is, as well, we had a conversation, and I was sat there going, look, right, your reporting, the way you're framing things, the deliberate and conscious focus on race, is creating and validating people like Martin Selner.
	And I literally pointed, it's creating people like him.
	He can only arrange the framing of his conversations because of the framing you have created.
	And this guy didn't really believe it.
	He was like, oh, we're not doing anything particularly ridiculous.
	And so I got an article up.
	It was very, very recently, this had come up, from The Atlantic, again, the publication he was from.
	And he didn't believe that this existed, and so I had to get up on my phone and show him The Atlantic had recently published an article about a solar eclipse that happened across America in 2017 that was racist.
	A racist solar eclipse.
	Just to give you a couple of quotes from this, on August 21st, 2017, a total solar eclipse will arrive mid-morning on the coast of Oregon.
	The moon's shadow will be 70 miles wide and it will race across the country faster than the speed of sound.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	And along most of its path, there live almost no black people.
	Do they think the sun god made that happen?
	Well, they actually do say, well, we don't think we can ascribe this to unconscious bias from the sun.
	But the moon, he's suspect!
	Presumably this is not explained by the implicit bias of the solar system.
	Presumably.
	Who can know, right?
	And it ends with this.
	The great American eclipse illuminates or darkens a land still segregated.
	A land still in search of equality.
	A land of people still trying to dominate each other.
	But perhaps the strange path of the eclipse suggests a need for reorganization.
	Really?
	The eclipse is demanding the reorganization of the United States.
	So, this is ridiculous, right?
	So, going back to the article, I showed him this, and he was like, him and his friend were just like, oh my god, this is insane.
	And they were laughing at it, being like, okay, well, we didn't know about this, we don't support this sort of stuff.
	And it's like, okay, well, you do.
	That's the point.
	You do support this stuff.
	It's where you work, yeah, exactly.
	You produce this kind of racist nonsense.
	Anyway, So, afterwards, we were drinking and they were there.
	And they were filming stuff.
	But, right, they couldn't publish anything without signing a release form.
	Now, I was a bit drunk and I didn't really think about it.
	And they'd obviously been very tepid with the way they were acting.
	They were very, like, you know...
	So, people you can't trust, being lefty journos, were acting in a way that lefty journos do when they are around their opposition.
	Now, I didn't really...
	In 2017, I didn't really...
	I was a lot more naive, right?
	I assumed that there were still some good-faith people on the left, and these people hadn't acted terribly, so I didn't naturally assume they were bad people.
	Of course, on retrospect, anyone working for a left-wing publication should be treated as suspect.
	And so I was really glad that Timple was there, because Tim knew about these kinds of people, and so when they produced a release form so they could use the footage, Tim was like, don't sign that.
	That's an overbearing contract.
	He had to read through it.
	I was like, don't sign it.
	Don't sign it.
	You know, you'll regret it later.
	Thank God I didn't sign it on his advice.
	You know, because otherwise I would probably sign it.
	I had a few drinks and think, ah, what can happen?
	I would have signed it.
	But no, Tim did that, and so they can't use the footage to, you know, make us sound bad, right?
	And so we're given Lombroso's description of this, right?
	The two of them were a nightmare, he told the Daily Beast.
	Their behavior was really vicious.
	Both repeatedly calling him fake news and evil because he worked for a mainstream news outlet.
	What's wrong with that?
	It's based, yeah.
	How's that wrong?
	I mean, A, I doubt I would have used the word evil in 2017.
	I'd use it now.
	Well, you know, you were lame back then.
	Exactly.
	I was naive.
	I didn't realise the agenda these people were carrying with them, especially when they would repudiate it to my face when I would show them something from The Atlantic that, oh, we don't support that.
	It's like, yeah, but you do, actually.
	That's what I've learned in retrospect.
	So they deserve the term fake news, and yeah, they are evil, frankly.
	But when Lombroso took out the release forms, that's when Poole really lost his mind, the film I said.
	He described Poole as loudly and vehemently arguing that he was not to be trusted, saying the release forms shouldn't be signed.
	Based.
	I mean, that's exactly right, and he was correct, wasn't he?
	I mean, Tim was just making good points, but he was vehemently arguing they shouldn't be signed because these journos can't be trusted, and that's because these journos can't be trusted, so don't sign their release forms.
	End of story.
	And honestly, I really thank God that Tim was there and made sure that I didn't sign anything.
	Thank God.
	But later that night, Lombrosa recalled Benjamin stridently railed against media coverage of race and equality issues, with Paul concurring.
	The media was lying to the public and focusing on these issues in order to purposely start a race war in America, he said.
	They kept saying that.
	Yeah, because you are trying to start a race war.
	You are trying to incite non-white people against white people.
	It's just daily.
	This is demonstrable.
	Yeah, I mean, how is that controversial?
	Like, you guys say it in your own text as well, in the Critical Race Theory text, in which you want to raise racial consciousness so then we can start understanding these concepts and then you want unequal systems of racial law.
	Specifically to change things, as in to start...
	And in their mind, they think...
	Start a revolution.
	Exactly.
	They're starting a revolution to try and destroy what they would describe as white power, but what everyone else would describe as the American Republic.
	So I think that's just demonstrable.
	I don't think there's any controversy there at all.
	They are trying to do that.
	And that's what's interesting as well.
	They're trying to frame our accusation against them as something we have done wrong.
	It's like, no, maybe you should stop producing race-baiting, inflammatory content that's designed to separate white people from black people.
	Like, unlike the critical race series, we're pro-integrationists.
	We think that people of all races should just be able to live side-by-side without any particular conflict.
	Is that too much to ask?
	The liberal dream?
	Is that too much?
	Well, yeah, it is for the Marxists, the critical race theorists.
	But anyway, so to conclude this, they say the names may change, but the paranoia remains the same.
	During the broadcast, Paul never said he disagreed with government when asked by Daily Beast if he, too, believes that people of colour were used by Democrats as a cudgel against white males.
	Paul declined to say.
	Instead, he listed a few leftist Tim Kast guests who had made several claims I did not contradict and said he's pro-immigration.
	So, I mean, Tim, for some reason, was like, I, you know, doesn't want to give a definite answer to that.
	But yeah, the left absolutely are wielding minorities as a cudgel against the white majority in America, and in Britain, and wherever else, that they have their grubby little hands.
	That's demonstrably true.
	So I don't know why they think that would be like something they could say, oh, Tim's saying the left is using racial grievances to start conflict between races.
	Yeah.
	Obviously.
	But how else would you frame it?
	That's why I'm a leftist.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So anyway, and they finish with this.
	I love Robert's finishing here.
	Those two hours of fact-free, at times bigoted bantering put a few thousand YouTube ad dollars in Tim Pool's pocket, and his audience got a free dose of white nationalism.
	Come on.
	It's such an obvious grift.
	Robert, we know you're a grifter.
	We know you're just trying to hurt Tim Paul.
	I don't think this is going to work because he's arguing against racial conflict.
	And as I said to Daniel Lombroso all those years ago, you're the ones who create white nationalists by framing it in these terms.
	What an embarrassment.
	Tim Paul, the white nationalist, wants to gas himself.
	What?
	It's ridiculous.
	It's obviously ridiculous.
	Anyway, let's go to the ACLU. So I wanted to talk about the ACLU for a long time because they've been getting worse and worse.
	I thought now would be the time to do it because they've got some lovely things to say about trans athletes, don't you know?
	So here's the first one.
	Fact one.
	Trans girls are girls.
	Don't know what this has to do with free speech rights, but okay, whatever.
	Myth.
	Sex is binary, apparent at birth, and identifiable through singular biological characteristics.
	How is that a myth?
	Sex.
	Not gender.
	Not talking about gender.
	Talking about sex.
	Every biology textbook for the last, I don't know, thousand years is apparently wrong.
	Thanks to ACLU. I'm loving the ratio on this, though.
	Yeah, they get absolutely destroyed in the public response to this.
	So, they say, Does this person think that women are born women?
	I have no idea.
	I have a baby.
	It's a woman.
	It's not a girl.
	It's not a girl.
	It's not a child.
	It's a woman.
	I mean, this is the thing though, isn't it?
	If you get rid of the term adult, if you get rid of the definition of adult human female, then women can be babies.
	But if you define a woman as an adult, then babies can't be women.
	in but also they mentioned intersex as if exceptions to the rule disprove the rule uh female penises uh kind of disprove what you're saying there that phrase doesn't make any sense stop stop talking nonsense biological sex and gender are not binaries those are no set there are no set hormone rages body parts or chromosomes that all people of particular sex or gender have disagree like Like, if there's not the man and the woman, then every version of man and woman is exactly the same as the original man and woman.
	There is no such thing as a man and a woman.
	Absolute nonsense.
	But they didn't stop with this, so I just wanted to mention the idea that they say there's no difference whatsoever.
	I just love that there are no set chromosomes that males or females are supposed to have.
	No, or body parts.
	or hormones or anything really just interchangeable so we got the next one here just a demonstration of how stupid they are in case you're actually falling for this meme welcome leftist to the podcast i mean just look look at the men look at the women they're both in the elite classes for swimming um yeah no differences whatsoever none anyway let's go for the number two fact that they decided to eat out trans athletes do not have an unfair advantage in sports how could they What's a trans athlete if there's no such thing as gender or sex?
	Myth.
	Trans athletes' physiological characteristics provide an unfair advantage over cis athletes.
	I love how everyone else gets this dimmy position put on them.
	They're all cis now.
	God, I hate leftist language.
	Trans athletes vary in athletic ability, just like cisgendered athletes.
	In many states, the very same cis girls who have claimed that trans athletes have an unfair advantage have consistently performed as well or better than transgender competitors.
	Also, so what?
	That's not true.
	Like, because a cis person can be a trans person, therefore a trans person as a group has no advantage over cis people as a group.
	Yes.
	No, obvious nonsense.
	There's one trans person once lost, therefore they have no advantage as a group.
	Okay.
	But again, you can just look at the statistics.
	I mean, what was the one, was it Connecticut or something like that?
	Where the women just were not making the top three in their track and field because there were three transgender male to female people competing and they just kept winning it all the time by a large margin.
	Or we could just use the other meme example.
	So if we go to the next one here, it's just the image of that.
	Yeah, you also have that.
	No advantages whatsoever.
	This is real feminism.
	Real feminism is when you break a skull.
	Alright, fact three.
	So, fact three.
	Including trans athletes will benefit everyone.
	Except those women who can't win now.
	Also the ones with the cracked skulls, I guess.
	Myth.
	The participation of trans athletes hurts cis women.
	Excluding women who are trans hurts all women.
	It invites gender policing.
	What's wrong with gender policing?
	That could subject any woman to invasive tests or accusations of being too masculine or too good at their sport to be a real woman.
	No, not at all.
	I mean, this is what we were talking about with Leah yesterday.
	There are women who now can't compete because they have naturally high levels of testosterone.
	But why are we policing women's levels of testosterone when we should just be policing the essential characteristics that make them a woman?
	Hmm.
	I thought he was probably right on that.
	But also, I love the idea that, again, real feminism is allowing men to win.
	Just when men also dominate women's sports, then that's when we've reached people.
	No one's ever said that a person is too good at their sport to be a real woman.
	Yeah, also, otherwise, some women might be accused of being good, and therefore they're not women, and therefore are men.
	That's based, okay.
	Anyway, but also just everyone benefits, folks.
	Everyone.
	So stupid.
	Let's go to the next image here.
	Just absolutely everyone benefiting.
	All the cis women benefiting so much.
	Let's go for fact four.
	Trans people belong on the same team as other students.
	Myth.
	Trans students need separate teams.
	Which would be the sensible solution, let's be honest.
	So trans people, like all people, may experience detrimental effects to their physiological and emotional well-being when they are pushed out of the affirming spaces and communities.
	I thought this was very insulting to the Paralympics, but okay.
	Efforts to exclude subsets of girls from sports can undermine team unity.
	Right, okay, because unity through faith, I suppose.
	Well, hang on a second, we exclude subsets of girls and boys from sports all the time.
	Yeah, exactly, all those people who fail to make the team are excluded from it.
	Ah, it's hard to make Team Unity.
	We need the worst kids in the team as well.
	The youth drive the most benefits from athletics when they are exposed to caring environments whose teammates are supported by each other and their coaches.
	I don't know if that's true.
	I think this attitude is what is responsible for all of the people dropping out for mental health reasons.
	As in them being like, yeah, no, no, just quit.
	But also, if you follow this line of logic, then you'd have to also let cis men in, because it would be more caring.
	Sure.
	And what's the argument against that?
	Like, if we have more different types of people in the women's team, we're being more caring about the students?
	Well, therefore, all types of people are excited into the women's team.
	Well, yeah, I mean, but if you're a gender abolitionist, that's exactly where this is going.
	Yeah, I suppose so.
	The Olympics.
	So, there's this, which is kind of weird, from the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union.
	And the reason I'm going through this is because it's the most recent example of them just deciding that civil rights?
	Who cares?
	Let's just be leftists.
	Just why not?
	And this goes back a long time, particularly the obsession with transgenderism.
	Not with saying that you should have the same legal right to, I don't know, rent a house, or same legal right to free speech.
	No, they're not interested in that stuff.
	Well, they're interested in making the philosophical argument that trans women are women because...
	I love this.
	There's no one way to be a man.
	Men who get their periods are men.
	Men who get pregnant and give birth are men.
	Trans and non-minory men belong.
	International Men's Day.
	Amazing.
	Men who get pregnant and give birth are men.
	International Men's Day can be about women now.
	This is so stupid.
	Like, if they're not doing this as well, they're being actual children, so let's go to the next one in which they just repeat the same thing over and over, like a goddamn child who's joined TikTok or something, in which they just repeatedly type trans men are men in all caps.
	Why don't you just define man, ACLU? Because then you wouldn't need to say these things, because the definition would make who is and is not included in that definition self-evident, wouldn't it?
	So when they're not spurging out, they're also spending their time defending critical race theory in schools, K-12 education.
	Because what else have you got to do with your time?
	I don't know if there's anyone who needs defending their free speech.
	That's not important at all.
	So they say in here, so this is the Guardian interviewing one of their spokespeople about the bans on critical race theory.
	And the bans on critical race theory are because it is racist and nonsense.
	It argues that you need racial consciousness amongst the white kids to make them know that they are evil and also to the brown kids to make them know that they are inferior.
	And this is bad for public schools.
	Can we go back up to that title?
	Because the title is actually surprisingly revealing here.
	It's about our country reckoning with racism.
	Yeah.
	The critical race there is like, right, we've got a load of racism.
	And the country's like, right, we've got to deal with this.
	And yeah, it is.
	They are the primary advocates of racism.
	The point I was getting at was just that the theory is banned in the same way that Nazi theory is banned in primary schools.
	For the same reasons.
	K-12.
	For exactly these reasons.
	And you don't see the ACLU being like, well, I demand neo-Nazis to my six-year-old.
	Well, maybe in a covert form they are.
	Anyway, so yeah, you said in here, one of the quotes from them is, it's about our country reckoning with racism and other aspects of its past and present, says the ACLU. No, it's not.
	No, it's absolutely not.
	You have no idea what the hell you're talking about or you're just an open liar.
	I think you are just an open liar.
	Well, no, I think the Republicans actually did a good job against racism and said, don't do it.
	So if you're wondering what happened to the ACLU, how they ended up doing all this stuff, subversion, the best example, if you're not convinced by this open pandering to leftism, would probably be claiming that the Second Amendment is proof of racism.
	Racism is foundational to the Second Amendment and its inclusion in the Bill of Rights.
	ACLU. American Civil Liberties Union.
	Second Amendment.
	Racist.
	We're against your civil liberty.
	Civil liberty is a racist, don't you know?
	Protecting yourself from the government is actually a racist plot.
	What's interesting about this is you could argue it's an ideological growth or something like that.
	The evidence suggests from the inside that that's not the case.
	This is exactly what I'm going to claim it is, which is death by wokeism.
	They have been infiltrated and subverted by new applicants, and they have brought their ideology to the fore, and then decided that the Old Guard, as they call them, the new CEI called the old people who ran it for a hundred odd years, the Old Guard, are not worthy of sticking around.
	Well, they were liberals, that's why.
	They weren't communists.
	Yeah, so this came about when the new guy in charge decided that the ACLU would get involved in elections and reinventing itself for the Trump era.
	Oh, good.
	So Orange Man exists, therefore there's just abandon being centrist.
	The group has plans to spend more than $25 million on racist and ballot initiatives by Election Day.
	What are they going to spend them on?
	Obvious partisan ads, such as the next link here, which is an obvious partisan ad for Stacey Abrams, in which they just say that, yeah, Stacey Abrams, fantastic.
	Also, we're not partisan.
	I'm not joking.
	Let's play the first clip of them running this.
	It was the most horrific day of my life.
	My son was addicted to drugs.
	We, the jury, find the defendant guilty, and they took him.
	Georgia spends millions keeping low-level offenders locked up.
	Stacey Abrams joined Nathan Deal on bipartisan reforms to reduce costs.
	And Stacey Abrams will end dependence on private prisons, saving millions that could instead be used for treatment.
	We were so destroyed as a family.
	ACLU does not endorse or oppose candidates.
	What?
	The whole feeling you get from that ad is Stacey Abrams good, but we don't endorse candidates.
	Vote Stacey Abrams, but we don't care who you vote for.
	I have no idea what the Republican opposition is going to do.
	No, no one doesn't matter.
	So the fact that they can say we don't endorse candidates is just amazing.
	But the ACLU spent $800,000 running those ads in Georgia, apparently.
	And then there's this next one, which they spent a million dollars on, which is just an ad saying Kavanaugh isn't fit to serve, in which they just play videos of the person accusing him, and then just pictures of him looking evil.
	And they're like, yeah, not fair.
	This isn't partisan propaganda or anything.
	Oh, shut up!
	One million dollary-do's.
	How stupid do you think everyone is?
	Hmm.
	So there's also them supporting in their regional branches, because of course you have the main headquarters, and that's corrupt.
	But down to the branch level of the ACLU, it also seems utterly corrupt.
	So we have ACLU Ohio deciding that you have a right to murder.
	Yeah.
	ACLU of Ohio.
	Michaela Bryant should still be alive today.
	Blacked out.
	Oh, that's the woman in pink who was trying to stab someone and got shot by the cop.
	Yeah.
	She was gauging an attempted murder, so a cop shot her to death to protect the girl from being murdered.
	The ACLU's like, that's a breach of civil liberties.
	Say her name.
	Black Lives Matter.
	She should be able to kill whoever she wants.
	The American way.
	God, what an absolute clown world this is.
	Yeah, it's not good.
	I'm really embarrassed.
	Because the ACLU, that's why I'm talking about it, because I had high esteem for them, and they have killed themselves.
	So if we go to the next one here as well, there's also the information about where they're getting all this money from.
	So in the week since Mr.
	Trump's defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the nation's largest civil liberties organization said it raised for more than $8.2 million.
	Within 24 hours.
	Within 24 hours of Trump being elected, they got 8 mil.
	Just like that.
	They later go on to say that over the course of his presidency, they got 300 mil in donations.
	Bought and paid.
	They got bought and paid for, and that's what killed the organization.
	If we can go to the next link here, this is the 2017 cover report.
	So after Trump was elected, what message do you think they're sending?
	What?
	Okay, well, I mean, you couldn't be more obvious.
	For people listening, it's an image of the Statue of Liberty and then the front of the cover being resist.
	Because, you know, the resistance against Donald Trump.
	We're the resistance.
	Black Lives Matter.
	Also, every corporation endorses us.
	Embarrassment.
	Unbelievable.
	Embarrassment.
	But yeah, they were absolutely paid off.
	And if we go to the last link here, this article, we're not going to go through it all.
	I highly recommend everyone go and read this damn thing if you're interested in the ACLU to see how bad it is because we don't have time to go through all the goddamn problems with them.
	But they say in here, since Mr.
	Trump's election, the ACLU budget has nearly tripled to more than $300 million, bought and paid for.
	It was supposed to be a celebration of a grand career as the American Civil Liberties Union presented a prestigious award to longtime lawyer David Goldberger.
	He had argued at one of the most famous cases defending the free speech of Nazis in the 1970s to march in Skuro, home of many Holocaust survivors.
	Do you remember this?
	This is the most famous thing of internationally what people who are foreigners know the ACLU for, which is, we all defend the free speech rights of goddamn anyone.
	Like, you're a citizen, even if you're a neo-Nazi, you want to walk down a street full of Holocaust survivors to say that the Holocaust didn't happen.
	Go for it.
	That's your right.
	It is.
	Like, we're disgusted by you, but that's your right.
	They used to defend Milo Yiannopoulos until they got woke, and then were like, okay, Milo's bad and will not help him anymore.
	So this chat, the one they're talking about that they gave the award, Mr Goldberger, now 79, adored the ACLU, but at his celebration luncheon in 2017, so after they started getting bought and paid for, he listened to one speaker after another and felt a growing unease.
	The law professor argued that the free speech rights for the far right were not worthy of defence by the ACLU. And that black people experienced offensive speech far more viscerally than white allies.
	And in the hallway outside, an ACLU official argued it was perfectly legitimate for his lawyers to decline to defend hate speech.
	So this Jewish lawyer who defended the neo-Nazis, the guy who put the ACLU fundamentally on the map, let's be honest, of the case that makes them so prominent and liked for their principles, their professional standards.
	The guy who is actively standing on principle here.
	Yeah, I'm a Jew.
	These guys are Nazis.
	They have the same rights as me under the Constitution.
	You could not get a more inspiring piece of freedom there.
	The people who run the organization, as he says, didn't care about that after 2016.
	They got other things to do.
	Mr.
	Goldberg, a Jew who defended free speech of the views he found repugnant, felt profoundly discouraged.
	Quote, I've got the sense it was more important for the ACLU staff to identify with clients and progressive clauses than stand on principle.
	The organisation has said its former director, Ira Glasner, sorry if I can get the name wrong, difficult to say, risks surrounding its original and unique mission in pursuit of progressive glory.
	So it's getting rid of its old...
	Goals.
	Goals.
	There's a lot of organisations fighting eloquently for racial justice and immigrant rights, said Miss Glasner, but there's only one ACLU that is content-neutral defender of free speech, and I fear we're losing that.
	And she said that in 2017, presumably, and then, yeah, they've lost it.
	It's long since gone, by the looks of it.
	When Brett Kavanaugh was nominated for the Supreme Court, the ACLU's long-time supporters were entering in the fray after they decided to broadcast a commercial that strongly suggested that the judge was guilty of sexual assault.
	When a book argued that the increase in the number of teenage girls identifying as transgender was a craze caused by social contagion, a transgender ACLU lawyer sent a tweet that started traditional backers who remembered its many fights against book censorship and banning In which she said, quote, stopping the circulation of this book and the ideas is 100% a hill I will die on.
	Well, there we go.
	Just openly, we are for censorship.
	You can see the skin suit in action.
	Hmm.
	I mean, this is the state of it.
	I mean, we've got the internals here.
	I mean, this is a great article on why I'm saying guard reader, and there's a million more examples I'm not going to go into because you don't have the time.
	But they just endlessly, insider after insider, who has lived through this organization, are saying, right, the reason they're tweeting all that crap about transgenderism instead of defending anyone's right to free speech is because they have been taken over.
	The staff have doubled and the newest staff not interested in the old values.
	They're surrendering everything they had.
	NCLU, death by wokeism, another institution that's just died.
	Yep.
	So, moving on, white people are posing as non-white people for clout, say, Vice News.
	You can see why Tim Paul described these people as lazy and overpaid.
	Hang on, is this going to be like racial dullism where they're like, I don't want my white privilege.
	I want my brown privilege.
	That's exactly what it is.
	So if being white is such a privileged position in America, why are there so many people who are posing as non-whites?
	Or is it that the racial justice contingent of the left, which is pretty much all of it at this point...
	Have stigmatized being white through all of their many, many, many, many examples of articles saying, in summary, white people bad.
	So anyway, as Vice News tell us, for generations, people of color had to pass for survival.
	Now white people are wearing the experiences of racialized people like a costume and getting called out for it.
	It's literally an admission that there is an advantage to being non-white.
	Why are they doing it elsewise?
	Why else would they do it?
	Why would you want oppression?
	Exactly.
	Author Harry Ziad invited Jessica Krug to a party at his apartment in Crown Heights.
	Things had often been tense between Krug, then an associate professor of history at George Washington University, who taught African history and Ziad's friends, many of whom didn't believe she was black, a suspicion that turned out to be well-founded.
	According to Ziad, 29, Krug, who positioned herself as a police abolitionist originally from the Bronx, frequently complained that his black friends were gentrifiers or that their politics weren't as absolute as hers.
	As an Ariana Grande song played at one party, one of Ziad's friends joked, this is my favourite white woman of colour, a nod to Grande's bronzer-fuelled racial ambiguity.
	So this is something that apparently they'll think about, they'll care about, and it's advantageous to be non-white to the point where they'll say, well, this white woman of colour is using bronzer in order to make herself look non-white for clout, apparently.
	Krug didn't care for the quip.
	She was like, you can't say that.
	She steals from black people.
	You shouldn't be encouraging that.
	so krug the racially dubious person in the room is now patrolling the boundaries of white people claiming they're black amazing also what are you stealing from them i don't know stealing clout yeah oh yeah i know right it's just hmm really lots of revelations here on september 3rd 2020 krug called ziad in a panic to reveal the truth she wasn't an afro latina from the barc bronx her parents weren't from puerto rico they were from kansas
	i don't think she ever actually said i'm white said ziad So she admits to being a white person from Kansas, on the phone, as some teary confession.
	What an awful situation to find yourself in.
	I admit I'm white.
	Literal racial inquisition, and this woman is ashamed to say that she's white.
	I mean, why are we pathologizing anyone's race?
	Why is this an issue?
	Anyway, in an overwrought Medium post published that same day called The Truth and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies, Krug elaborated on her long-running ruse, which she said had been going on for most of her adult life.
	While Krug didn't explain why she chose to out herself at that particular moment, an associate professor of Global Diaspora Studies at Michigan State University, whose name I can't pronounce, tweeted that Krug was about to be exposed by black Latina scholars.
	So literally, they're like, this woman claims that she's not white and they've got, nah, we've got proof Of the one-drop rule that doesn't apply to you.
	You've got no black ancestry.
	You are racially suspect.
	And this is the wonderful world of racial politics, by the way, that we obviously disavow completely.
	This is what we're talking about when we're saying the left is creating the conditions for a race war.
	They are literally...
	Hounding people on the basis that they don't believe their race is what they say it is.
	But anyway, Craig, continue.
	I love how it's the reversal of the Argentinian meme as well.
	Yeah.
	There's a meme of Argentina where they're like, Argentina is white!
	And it looks ridiculous.
	And then you've got literally the reverse here.
	It's like, I'm not white!
	Yes.
	Why?
	Why?
	Why are you obsessed with this?
	There was a patriarchy comics one of literally both sides.
	You know, I'm effing black.
	It's like, you're effing black.
	And then there's this person in the middle being like, oh, God.
	Why do I have to be subject to this?
	But anyway, Miss Krug says, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in a suburban Kansas city under various assumed identities within a blackness, capital B, that I had no right to claim.
	First, North African blackness.
	North Africans aren't black.
	They're a type of black?
	No, they're Mediterranean.
	No, I'm trying to think in their logic.
	Are Asians a type of black now?
	I don't know, but North Africans aren't black.
	But that's the point.
	If North Africans are a type of black, surely every other group is now a type of black as well.
	As long as it's not white, I suppose.
	Yeah, but it's not good enough to be non-white.
	You don't have to be a type of black.
	Hmm.
	This is all very confusing.
	I'm glad I'm not a racial politician, frankly.
	But anyway, she says, first North African blackness, then US-rooted blackness, then Caribbean-rooted Bronx blackness.
	I'm not a culture vulture, I'm a culture leech.
	Okay, that's terrifying.
	It felt very violating, Ziad said, but on the other hand, it felt like an affirmation of so many things I felt.
	What an S-show this is.
	What an absolute S-show.
	Your racial makeup makes me feel affirmed now that I've outed you as a white person.
	It's mad.
	So anyway, they say the phenomenon seems counterintuitive.
	After all, in past generations and continuing today, people of colour have had to position themselves closer to whiteness, even passing as white in order to survive or get ahead.
	Well, that's obviously not the case now, then, is it?
	Now white people are deliberately recategorising themselves into underprivileged groups.
	While it's tempting to pathologize these posers as one-offs who may be suffering from mental illness, experts I spoke to said that would amount to scapegoating.
	Though it sounds paradoxical, they said wearing the experiences of racialized people like a costume, as if white people aren't being racialized in all of this, an act in search of opportunities, attention, or cultural currency is in fact the height of white privilege.
	Sorry, what?
	It's your white privilege to attempt to wear the experiences of racialized people like a costume.
	But why am I wearing that costume?
	Surely to get away from my white privilege.
	Because there's no privilege in it.
	Yeah, well that's the point.
	To gain opportunities, attention, or cultural currency.
	They just admit this is what you can get if you are from a non-white background.
	Does that work in reverse as well?
	Because there's a very big thing in South Korea of trying to look American.
	Like they have operations on their eyes and all this stuff, whitening their skin.
	So are they also getting...
	Are you saying that Jimin is giving up?
	Well, the reverse actually.
	He's giving up his white privilege.
	The reverse is taking place in South Korea.
	Right.
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, maybe.
	Maybe.
	I don't know much about South Korea.
	But I like the fact that they list these things here.
	You get opportunities, attention, and cultural currency if you're not white because of the racialization of culture that the left has created.
	And white people who are sneaking into that are bad and need to be exposed for all the world to see.
	So yeah, if fully posing as someone from a different background is the extreme end of the spectrum, blackfishing or playing up racial ambiguity, as the case with Ariana Grande and Kim Kardashian, could be seen as a socially acceptable version of the same phenomenon, wearing race for clout.
	Why do you get clout because of your race?
	I can't imagine.
	Specifically for your non-white race.
	Yeah, I can't imagine.
	Just being the kind of person who thinks that someone deserves more attention because they are a certain race.
	And this is all because of leftist politics and what it's done to discourse in the West.
	I mean, this is where you end up finding people with Twitter accounts where they're pretending to be a black man.
	And it's usually because they just couldn't make the arguments they want to make otherwise.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	It's even better.
	There are loads of examples of white academics who post on Twitter as black academics and then get exposed and then shut down their Twitter account.
	I was thinking more on the...
	I've seen conservative types doing it, where they're doing it because they're just like, well, I can't express this opinion on immigration.
	Now I'm a black man.
	I certainly can.
	How dare they blackfish us?
	But then it's a black privilege.
	That's true.
	But there are lots of white leftists who do this, apparently.
	But anyway, Marianne Iriga, the Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of Georgia, said that while some people might find it confusing that a white person would choose to identify as part of a marginalised group, there is a cultural benefit.
	Marginalized benefit.
	What does that mean?
	Do you want to get that?
	What's that mean?
	That means that the marginalized group are not actually marginalized.
	They come with benefits, which makes it sound more like an aristocracy, does it not?
	People would often say it's fashionable to be black.
	It's fashionable to be native.
	And it's not appropriation, I guess, if you are being an imposter.
	People don't know that you're not from that group.
	Oh, now we're calling people imposters, are we?
	That's progressive.
	Also, why are they not black?
	I mean, this is again with the Jimin or the Rachel Dolezal.
	It's like, why can you actually say they're not if they do actually identify, even if it's only for an hour?
	Because remember, your gender can change on an hourly basis.
	Why don't the laws of gender transitioning apply to race transitioning?
	They both are based on the repudiation of biological essentialism and the excess external characteristics that are presented to the world because these things are social constructions.
	And so that's all you need to be able to present in order to socially adopt that role.
	Why is it wrong?
	And the answer, of course, is it's not wrong.
	Anyway, so let's just carry on.
	Zayad has not spoken to Krug since the phone call in which she revealed she was white.
	He believes that she, quote, wanted to harm black people.
	She pretended to be a black person because she wanted to harm black people.
	Because she put some bronze on.
	Yes.
	This is what the racial inquisition does to you.
	It turns you into a mental case.
	And it also means that you're talking nonsense.
	Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
	When someone imitates you, it means that they think that what you're doing is fantastic.
	And they want a part of it.
	And if they can't have a part of it because they're not authentically that thing, then trying to imitate is the best that they can do.
	And so they've made a conscious effort to be like the thing that they are imitating.
	So in fact, this is not an attempt to harm black people with a capital B. It is an attempt to be a black person and show black people otherwise that she respects what they are and what they do.
	It's an awful way of framing this.
	But anyway, she wants to harm black people, consciously or otherwise, and that she did.
	He said that she insulted the black women editors of his book, which I'm not going to name, encouraged him to isolate himself from his friends, picked fights with white people in public while expecting her black friends to defend her, and was critical that Ziad was in therapy, describing it as individualistic.
	Apparently it's individualistic to go to therapy now.
	I mean, they are anti-individualism, and as someone who's pro-individualism, I'm not surprised they would find ways of trying to undermine that.
	But I'm surprised they're against therapy.
	I mean, the kind of people who come from California, like, all of you are in therapy, for God's sakes.
	It's kind of the meme, so...
	Yeah.
	But anyway, moving on, let's talk about our favourite transracial person, Talcom X. After recently deleting his Twitter account because the mother of Tamir Rice called him out saying he wasn't black when he was parading around pretending he was black for money...
	Which seems to be true.
	He has proven her wrong by buying an $842,000 mansion.
	Because that definitely, definitely shows that you care about black lives.
	It's a very nice looking place.
	So he had a two-bedroom apartment in New York.
	Hang on, how much money did he raise?
	He did a fundraiser for that lady who then ended up turning against him.
	Well, it was for the, what was it, a dead son or something?
	Another BLM martyr.
	How much money was it that she said went missing?
	I can't remember offhand, but he has raised millions of dollars.
	Begin with an eight.
	I should have checked, actually.
	I don't have it up.
	If you can find it, John, feel free to pull it up.
	But anyway, so yeah, he has moved into this new Lakeside property with his wife.
	It's amazing.
	And of course, Tamir Rice's mother has called him an imposter for pretending to be black when he is in fact not black.
	For anyone who doesn't know, Sean King's parents are both of German ancestry.
	Sean King's story is that he is partially black because his mother is a whore who cheated on his father with a black man.
	That's his story.
	His mother denies his story.
	I'm not aware that Sean King has had any kind of genetic test to prove his point, so we'll just believe him when he says this, and accept Sean King as the first transracial person.
	So the race inquisition is continuing on, outing people for being racially impure.
	Not a true black man.
	It's just awful.
	I wonder how TalcumX feels about the whole thing.
	Does it have the amount of money he raised in here that went missing?
	Questions about where he spent it.
	So subscribers give him the highest levels, give him 10,000 a month.
	Oh my god.
	So he was getting 120,000 monthly or 1.5 million a year.
	My god.
	Okay, well, there we go.
	That's how you can afford a house like that.
	Not bad for Talcom X. He made his bed?
	Sure, but I don't know what he can do with his life now that isn't an embarrassment.
	I don't know, but if you're going to be a grifter for race politics, and when you get called out for not being the race you're grifting as, I've got no sympathy.
	Sure, sure.
	I'm not saying any of his actions make him a boy who didn't do nothing or anything, but there's a bit of me where I feel like, remember that dentist, the one who shot the lion?
	He can't really go anywhere without being the dentist who shot a lion.
	Well, the base dead.
	But like a similar thing where I feel like even if he turned around and was like, actually, look, that was all nonsense.
	I'll give a bunch of this money away to, I don't know, Prager you.
	To make a tone for my sins or something.
	I still feel like he couldn't really do anything with his life.
	He'd just beat Malcolm X for the rest of his life.
	There's no turning back.
	Well, this is what you get when you pretend to be a black man.
	Yeah, I suppose so.
	Why do we have to go on and on about racial inquisitions every damn day?
	And then when the Atlantic just said, oh, you're saying that the left is trying to create a race war.
	I mean, you are racializing everything.
	Stop calling us out.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Let's go for the video comments.
	Are you sure you guys want to rile up racial tensions?
	From what I last recall, the United States is a majority white country, and usually speaking, things don't go that well in a us-and-them situation for the minority.
	So I'm just gonna ask again, are you sure this is a good idea?
	Rhodesia wasn't majority white.
	And how did it go?
	Well, it ended badly, but that's another question, isn't it?
	How's South Africa going?
	Rhodesian.
	Yeah.
	The racial politics is deliberately divisive and is going to stoke a race war, and we should avoid it at all costs.
	End of story.
	Let's go for the next one.
	Okay.
	Browns?
	Tons.
	I don't get it.
	Bloody 20 kilograms.
	It's nothing burger you want.
	Can you use one of these?
	Maybe one of these?
	Or how about one of these?
	Come at me, bro.
	You don't know the way.
	Okay.
	For people listening, he's got a Lego version of the Capitol there, so you're going to enjoy his FBI visit.
	Oh, it was the White House.
	Even worse.
	Yeah, it was the White House.
	Are y'all's lifting videos going to be the new silver tier perk, or are they just going to be normal premium?
	We're not doing lifting videos, there's an OnlyFans.
	Maybe you will, but that's your Instagram, so that's your problem.
	Just remember, one thing.
	If you want to be in shape, four meals a day minimum.
	No excuses.
	Four meals a day?
	Why?
	I mean, we were talking, me and Robbie went to lunch earlier, we were talking about some bodybuilder he follows who eats like 11 meals a day because it's just the way he's got to be in that.
	But he just eats chicken breasts because he's a bodybuilder and stuff like that.
	So it means that he said he doesn't even like eating anymore because you've just got to do it constantly.
	Oh, I can believe it.
	If you're like, you know, bulking and whatnot.
	Yeah, it sounds awful.
	I think four meals a day sounds too much like that, so...
	Chad, yes.
	Pass every man test.
	Go on.
	One in each hand.
	I didn't even think of doing that.
	Well done.
	But no, seriously, I've got a little bit of a tip for everyone fitness-wise.
	Instead of panting, get into the habit of deep breathing.
	Now, it might take a while that you have to slow down as you get into the habit of it, but you would honestly truly be amazed how much more efficient deep breathing is than panting to get oxygen in and carbon dioxide out.
	Also as well, if you're into martial arts and you get your muscle injured, just relax the muscle.
	Takes the pain away.
	I thought that was common knowledge for exercising, but...
	alright.
	As an American, I was taught in school that the Articles of Confederation did not establish a strong enough federal government, and therefore the Constitution was drafted.
	These days, it would be nice if the states had more power as opposed to the federal government.
	What do you think of this shift, and in particular, how honest do you think the monetary justification for it is?
	One benefit of the Articles is that they did not provide for federal taxation.
	And given monetary income tax, taxation is looking more and more like theft.
	Well, I mean, I'm all for the devolution of power at this point.
	I think the central governments are gaining way too much power, more than they can justify, and I like the idea of the federal government not being able to tax.
	That sounds good, doesn't it?
	Only your local government can tax.
	Why?
	Because you know where the money's going.
	I could get by on that.
	It doesn't really work, though, because you've got to pay for national things.
	Yeah, open a charity.
	What, for the army?
	Yeah.
	I do love the idea of having a charity army.
	I'd donate to a charity army.
	Wouldn't you?
	What would...
	You know what, I actually, I mean, just as a meme experiment, I would love to see a country do that.
	I mean, there are plenty of countries that don't have an army, so the citizens of those countries, if they just got together and funded one, would be a good meme, if not...
	Charlie, a little kitty that I found outside my work, was really really skinny and injured, trying to find his owner.
	If not, then I will do something.
	Hopefully, if I don't find his owner, he'll get along with my other crazy cat, and that's unlikely, but we'll see.
	My goal every day is to try to compliment at least one person, and I didn't used to be very open about that kind of stuff, even if it crossed my mind, but it would genuinely make me happy when I heard other people do it to me, so I decided to try and bite in other people's days.
	So I challenge everyone to have a goal of complimenting one person a day.
	That's a good goal.
	And there's nothing wrong with praising someone's virtues, especially if it's something that probably doesn't get mentioned very often.
	Praising someone's virtues is always welcomed, as long as you're not doing it deceptively or insincerely.
	So if someone's genuinely got a particular virtue, then you can praise it sincerely and it comes across as being genuine and nice.
	Obviously, telling someone that they have a virtue that they don't have comes across as deeply insincere and condescending.
	So don't do that.
	But otherwise, good.
	G'day everyone.
	If anyone's been trying to contact me on my website cscooper.com.au and didn't receive a reply from me, I'm really sorry.
	There was a bug in the code that was causing all the messages to be lost, but it's fixed now so you can contact me now.
	I want to really thank Brittany Johns because she saw the problem and helped me fix it and she left a wonderful review for the Starlight Lancer and I really appreciate it.
	Thank you very much.
	Is that the last one?
	No.
	On Friday, you commented that it would be very difficult to hold a.50 caliber rifle and fire it full auto.
	I wanted to introduce you to the Barrett M107 sniper rifle.
	What shot?
	What shot?
	Okay.
	So apparently the spring does something that lowers the recoil.
	Right, right.
	That's amazing technology and also a chat arm.
	I'll tell you what, man.
	When you fire a 50 cal, you can feel the force.
	I love how close we are getting to orc-level technology, though.
	Full-auto 50 cal.
	Big shooter.
	Who needs precise action when the bullets are just bigger?
	So, this is where I live.
	It's a very, very, very small tank.
	And I can, without a shadow of a doubt, say that I much prefer the city.
	And the only reason I prefer the city is because I'm 150 miles or four hours away from nearest anything.
	That's pretty much it.
	As long as you don't get city problems.
	Having to travel four hours to do something like entertainment, like nightlife or something, is the worst problem you've got.
	But that looks like the UK. How would it be four hours to travel to get to a place?
	It might be somewhere in Scotland.
	Scotland's quite big.
	It's pretty depopulated.
	Anyway, so, Asriel says, that's what Tim gets for climbing off that fence.
	Well, he did endorse Donald Trump.
	What did he expect?
	You can't be successful and a Trump supporter and not expect the Daily Beast to try and deplatform you.
	Could have done a better try, though.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Well, yeah.
	It was very tepid, wasn't it?
	Matthew says, What do we learn from the Tim Pool story?
	Set up barriers to entry at your business to outright leftists and read the comment sections in YouTube.
	The YouTube video Vice Former Editor-in-Chief Shares Breaking Scanner News Story is complicated.
	We'll show you that he was warned nine months ago.
	Hmm.
	Lucas says, what next?
	Will they release an article calling Tim a poo-poo head?
	Is this modern journalism?
	No, that was the article calling him a poo-poo head.
	Sam says, the left is starting to lose the argument and go for ad hominem.
	A poorly constructed one with little substance.
	Must be a Tuesday.
	Omar says, leftist, how could Tim Paul possibly get to where he is by hard work instead of grifting and scamming investor capital?
	That's not how we did it.
	He must be cheating.
	That's exactly right.
	I love the fact that they have to say, well, he didn't get any big billionaire backers like we did.
	That's a great point.
	I didn't think about that.
	Yeah, that's like, oh, it's so good.
	He's not even funded by the CIA. Yeah, exactly.
	He doesn't even get SARS money.
	How does this work?
	Alpha of the Betas says, the only funny thing about Tim Pool is the implication he has hair under his beanie.
	Otherwise, he's solid.
	Not always right, but an honest broker.
	Okay, that's correct.
	Carl says, "Tim Pool saying, if you say something wrong, they'll come for your mother.
	Well, he must have been watching us here in the UK.
	Remember the guy who paid for the All Lives Matter banner to be flown over the football game while they got his girlfriend fired from her job as a hairdresser just for being his girlfriend?" Yes, this is the sort of thing that they do.
	Adam Clayton says, "The ACLU is the anti-civil liberties union Probably won't even take five years, to be honest.
	I don't know.
	I think it's more that this is what happens when a communist-inspired ideology takes over a liberal institution.
	Because Goldberger is the chap, obviously a liberal.
	The Nazis have the same rights as us because we have universal human rights.
	And now the communists are like, yeah, but there is a portion of the population we need to get rid of.
	That's not what universal human rights means.
	I feel so bad for that guy as well because he's such a liberal hero.
	I'm going to set down the standard for American free speech here and for his own organization as well, but in the broader context.
	You have the goddamn right to do whatever you want, no matter how offensive it is, if it's just speech.
	And he is just sat around his own organization, his own institution, as it just withers away.
	All elements of liberalism are just leaving it.
	Yeah, it's disgusting.
	David says, you can always tell a wokist.
	They're just like vegans.
	They haven't immediately told you upon meeting you.
	It soon becomes clear in the language and fascist tendencies.
	Yeah.
	I did forget to mention as well, the last bit on that I should have done, which is the ACLU also embraced dormitories set aside for black and Latino students.
	So they've actually adopted segregation.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Amazing.
	Amazing.
	That's what they're dealing with there.
	Tim Pool was right about left.
	Henry says, if male female trans athletes don't have an advantage due to their higher testosterone levels, why do the East Germans have such a large testosterone doping program and smashed all before them?
	Also, yes, the New Zealand weightlifter didn't do too great at the Olympics, but they're the oldest Olympic weightlifter ever.
	No 43-year-old biological female has ever qualified.
	But also it's a nonsense to say an individual represents the group, obviously.
	I mean, it's not the argument that, like, if you're trans, you're a Superman.
	It's that if you're trans, you have a slight advantage.
	Yeah, or you're likely to have an advantage.
	I mean, with the trans weightlifter, they'd previously broken their arm as well, so that's not going to help their career, is it?
	Or just Fallon Fox.
	Breaking other people.
	Well, yeah, of course, you could end up being Fallon Fox.
	And the thing that the problem is, though, is the relish with which Fallon Fox describes fighting her opponents.
	It's like this biological male loves beating up females.
	She loves it.
	Oh, they deserve it.
	They get what they deserve.
	And it's like, right, okay, we'll go crack those skulls, Fallon, I guess.
	I love the idea that she's, like, flexing on Posey Park, being like, I'm a real feminist.
	Not even that, I'm a real woman.
	That's the argument.
	A real woman punches like a man.
	Student of History says the CT situation is that those two girls from my home state, the Connecticut situation from my home state, were absolutely top tier, and then two trans women hopped on the women's division, not only pushing that at the top, but then shattered state track and field records.
	Yes, that was the one I was talking about.
	Yeah, it's mad, isn't it?
	It's like, you know, sorry, ladies, we know that you deserve your own sports, which is why we have male and female sports, because there is, again, I have to say, an obvious physical, biological difference.
	Hannah Mouncey is another great example that John's bringing up.
	If you can get some of those pictures up, John, I mean, this is just...
	It's just hilarious.
	Do the third one there, yeah.
	So you can see the little girl trying to catch her.
	So you can see the scale.
	Because it's the scale that matters.
	If that wants to come up at any time soon.
	But yeah, it's just...
	I mean, look at that.
	Look at the shoulders.
	Look at the thighs.
	The calves.
	Yeah.
	Look at those calf differences.
	There's no way that there's...
	Anyway, it's just totally and obviously unfair...
	Look at the scale.
	That just looks like a bully.
	Yeah.
	You've got these little Tunisian girls or whatever they are.
	This is basically how I'd feel if I was playing against children, you know?
	Like, I'm literally 50, 60% bigger than they are.
	So what are they going to do?
	By looking at that image, you can almost hear the sound effect of the two different people walking, let's say.
	Two number nine says, when you push a narrative that you can be anything you want without any reason, why wouldn't you identify as whatever is winning the oppression Olympics at the current time?
	Trust the left to turn oppression into privilege.
	MEP Fireboy says, I guess the terms Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid don't exist anymore then.
	There goes archaeological research.
	Yeah.
	Also anthropology, textbooks, there is actually a difference in the shape of eye sockets and things like that.
	From the various broad regions of human existence.
	It doesn't mean anything.
	It doesn't do anything.
	It might do something, I don't know.
	But who cares?
	It doesn't matter.
	But that is something that's real, in the same way that we have different skin colours.
	That's another great point about the whole, there's no difference between men and women.
	The archaeologists disagree.
	Yeah, well, they absolutely do.
	Anyway, Student History says, white people have privilege.
	Also, whiteys be faking blackness for clout, aka privilege.
	And the circle of life continues, as leftists begin another great inquisition and purge.
	Yeah.
	I don't know how wounded that sounds.
	Yeah.
	Whiteys be faking blackness for clout.
	Yeah.
	So you admit you're privileged.
	No, that was literally it.
	There's a privilege for being black online.
	Okay, well, you said it.
	I didn't say it.
	Small L... Damn, demelinated snowmen.
	Yeah.
	Small L Libertarian says, I've seen a few of these race suit articles of late.
	Talcum X must be sweating bullets.
	Yeah, same with Rachel Dolezal and a bunch of others.
	They must be like, oh my god.
	Speak One's Mind says, It seems no matter what you do, you can never outrun white privilege.
	Those who are branding these people as impostors just make me think they have played among us a bit too much and would probably vote the white...
	played among us a bit too much and probably vote out the white character because they're white.
	They probably do.
	I mean, why wouldn't they?
	What was holding them back?
	I can see they're becoming a meme among us.
	We vote the white one first round.
	Yeah.
	David says, listen to the explanation of why white people can't identify as a person of colour.
	How does that not destroy the entire argument of gender?
	Don't worry about answering as you literally just did as I typed this.
	Well, that's the problem, isn't it?
	It absolutely destroys the argument of gender, because it's based on exactly the same premises, using exactly the same logic.
	There is a biological thing, it's not essential to the social construct of the thing, and therefore you can just change it by adopting signifiers, external signifiers.
	It's just that's not how it works.
	I also love the libs of TikTok.
	I'm glad you introduced me to that because I started following it.
	There's a bunch more where they're just claiming, for example, that you can change your gender like that.
	Within the hour it changes or any other such nonsense to come up with.
	And every single time I'm sat there being like, well, you know, if all of our major institutions have already brought on to step one of this program, and these guys are at step 5000, like, what is the thing that stops them?
	Interestingly, if I were part of a woke institution, I would, as soon as someone used a pronoun to describe me, I'd say, sorry, I identify as the opposite of that.
	And you're fired.
	I probably wouldn't have the power to fire them, but just be a complete pain in the arse about it.
	Just be like, oh, sorry, did I misgender you?
	Yeah, you did.
	But now I've gone back to being a man, so it's okay for you to use he.
	But just keep doing it.
	Keep going back and forth and changing.
	Just as soon as they say he, I'm going to know it's a she now.
	Sorry.
	But as soon as they give up and say you're making it up, fired.
	You've got to go to HR, have a conversation.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, no, no, there was a story of a guy who was reporting people who were pro-insectional in his organisation to HR and got one fired.
	It's like, good, keep going.
	I pronounced a they, and he was clearly a man.
	Yeah.
	And then the SJW got mad, and then the SJW got fired for being mad.
	Yeah.
	Stay mad, I guess.
	Anyway, Rob says, I want you to know that He-Man counts as an anime.
	No, it doesn't, you filthy liar!
	Filthy fil- take that back!
	Sorry, I just feel the need to defend He-Man there.
	But also, I don't know anything about animation, but why is anime anything that's animated to some people?
	I don't know.
	I think it's- I thought it was Japanese animation.
	I thought so too.
	So, anyway, as a person who doesn't like anime myself, it's disappointing to see the two of you enjoying this bit of anime.
	It's not anime.
	Also, I didn't watch it.
	Well, and I didn't enjoy it.
	So...
	Checkmate.
	Anyway, Carl says...
	Have you started looking at the mass evictions that have started over the US over the weekend?
	This and everything that comes from it is going to be leading news, and rightfully so, for the next half year.
	Yeah, I've seen the headlines going around, but I haven't had time to look into it yet.
	But there are a bunch of Democrats who could have been protesting this that weren't, and should have been, presumably by their own logic.
	And this shouldn't have really happened because of the COVID lockdowns anyway.
	So...
	This is going to be far too big for the more on-stream media to hide.
	Biden's moratorium on rent literally resulted on a worse outcome than if they'd never done it in the first place.
	Because now people who've gotten used to free money and free housing are about to have a massive shock when they have neither.
	Who would have thought that having employment would have been a good thing?
	Yeah, well, lesson learned.
	Don't trust the Democrats.
	With anything.
	Ever.
	At all.
	Jared says, Yeah, it's difficult talking to a camera, but you get used to it after a while, basically.
	It's weird.
	But right, breakfast.
	Is keto really a great idea if you're skinny?
	Well, I don't know why a skinny person would want to do it.
	I assume because he's thinking of becoming more muscle mass.
	I don't know what the...
	Because you're doing it because you had too much fat and you wanted to get ketosis.
	I mean, that's the point of the diet, right?
	And just to get rid of, like, fat that cuts sugars and carbs out because...
	Because it gets rid of fat.
	Yeah, and because, honestly, it's not just about the fat thing, though.
	I think that sugar has a kind of enervating effect on your energy levels throughout the day.
	Like, I just feel good now.
	Yeah, sugar crashes.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And I don't have that problem.
	But generally, I will have like meat, just some sort of sliced meat or salami or something like that with cheese for breakfast, olives.
	You can have a bit of hummus as long as you don't have too much.
	And then for dinner, have meat and vegetables.
	Cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage are all fine.
	I just love how it's basically the English meal.
	Yeah.
	Meat and vegetables.
	Exactly.
	Except without potatoes.
	Wait, did you get gravy or not?
	Yeah, you can probably have.
	There you go.
	Depending on the kind of gravy.
	Some gravy's got more carbs than others.
	But most of them are fine.
	And if you are cooking like a roast joint, you can use the fat from that to make a gravy.
	So that's perfectly fine.
	And basically, that's what you've got to do.
	But yeah, I mean, I'm happy with it.
	My wife can't understand why I'm just okay with eating vegetables with every meal.
	It's like, I just don't really mind it, that's all.
	Anyway, Christopher says, I've been having a discussion with my daughter.
	I'd like to hear your take on it.
	I assert that the humans in Avatar did nothing wrong.
	Not the cartoon Avatar, obviously.
	The dancers with Ferngully Avatar.
	My daughters disagree and say the humans as the bad guys of the story.
	What's your take?
	I can't quite remember the story well enough to make a judgement.
	I can't remember.
	So they offered them, I think it was money, and a resettlement program.
	But it's their land.
	And their country.
	Yeah, well, their planet.
	I mean, it's been a long time since I've watched it.
	So, I mean, the humans do come off quite like the bad guys.
	I think they're the villains, yeah.
	Yeah.
	I'm trying to come up with a justification for the humans because I'm a human and I want a human symbol.
	Human supremacism has to stop.
	No, I think the humans probably are the villains in that story.
	Put a comment about why they're the good guys.
	I want to hear it.
	Yeah, I want to hear the argument for why they're the good guys.
	I don't see it intuitively.
	No thank you says, I think it's fine for those who have watched you for a while that framing your videos often refer to things you've said before.
	Yes, those already have had the red pill shot down their throat will understand the underlying meaning of trans men and men from a supposedly neutral organization or the Olympics, but I wish there were more segments that could stand alone as red pills that could be seen by normies without just being dismissed as there's just one example.
	There's no sources of these claims, or should I take the word for this?
	Basically, I wish to link to a segment talking about a man not being able to stand against the transition of his daughter to a normie and have the obvious to us consequences spelled out with actual examples and sources.
	I think it's going to be beneficial.
	Well, that's the sort of thing that I do on the lotuseaters.com channel, which you can find linked in the channels on our YouTube channel.
	And, of course, they put the videos up on the website where I'm just talking directly about a particular subject.
	Those are the ones that I think have most value there.
	We've got one going up this week, incidentally, about trans issues and the definition.
	Why is the definition so important?
	And where have we been left with the absence of the definition on one hand and the traditional definition on the other?
	So hopefully that'll be the sort of thing you're after.
	I do find it interesting, because I always wondered why there was so much culture war about goddamn transgender stuff, whereas, like, why?
	Why endlessly on this issue?
	It's the layout of the argument, where you see that the, let's say, right-wing side of this, the right-wing transgender people, are like, no, there are firm boundaries, and the left-wing one is like, no, total inclusion.
	And that's fundamentally where the argument is.
	Where it's like, we, you know, there are no barriers.
	We want no barriers to do anything.
	That's why the definition for the left-wing side is empty.
	Yes.
	And not only that, the definitions they've got are either self-referential or don't actually define woman.
	And it's not that they're empty either.
	There isn't one.
	Well, it's not even that.
	It's that they don't distinguish between men and women.
	And so the definition itself encompasses everything.
	And so how is this a useful definition of woman?
	So they seem to be completely at odds with something useful for the regular person.
	Whereas if you use the term adult human female, you know exactly what is encompassed in that definition and also what is not.
	So anyway...
	Calais says, Oh God, I don't usually use the word cringe, but it fits down well for these guys giving tips and showing off about fitness.
	And before all the soy boys come at me with their just lift, bro, it's like a religion.
	Keep it to yourself.
	That is what I do about my exercise.
	Sure, but there's nothing unwholesome about it.
	I am genuinely in agreement, though.
	It is kind of weird when people are endlessly talking about their fitness, but the point there is endlessly.
	Occasionally, yeah, right, but the kind of gym bro who won't shut the hell up about it is just as bad as the vegan.
	Sure, absolutely.
	But again, with us, it's a bit of fun, isn't it?
	Nothing necessarily wrong with it.
	Michael says, in fact, speaking of that, Michael says, I challenge Carl to do the Mirth Challenge.
	One mile run.
	No, I'm out already.
	100 pull-ups, I'm already out.
	200 push-ups, no.
	300 squats, no.
	One mile run, no.
	Or the 20-pound weight vest, definitely not.
	And it's timed.
	Timed how?
	One year?
	Yeah, well, I mean, maybe I could do it every year.
	That's a good point.
	But definitely not.
	Carl says, before you go, look at Stephanie Walsh.
	A 50-year-old man, allowed back in school as a young girl.
	So Stephanie is S-T-E-F-A-K-N-E-E. And Woltch is W-O-L-T-C-H-E. What is this, German?
	Nah, I can't put you wrong.
	Canadian man.
	Can we get that, John?
	Transgender six-year-old.
	Oh, is this the meme?
	Yeah, so V spoke to this person.
	Wait, really?
	Yes.
	It's not a troll.
	Oh, it totally is a troll.
	It's not just a troll, it's a fetish.
	Is a fetish a troll?
	No, but what they were doing is essentially using left-wing media to gain publicity.
	But it wasn't like, oh, I'm sincerely a trans-aged person.
	It was a sexual fetish.
	And there are photos of this person in a neck collar, naked and stuff like this.
	And so it's like, right, so this is a sexual fetish.
	But the leftist media picked this up and enjoyed it.
	Because, well, it fits with leftist narratives.
	And there's no way you can say it doesn't.
	Exactly.
	And so essentially it was a troll, and this is the thing.
	V spoke to them back, and he was like, right, okay, I'm not covering this.
	Fair enough.
	Makes sense.
	It reminds me of DashCon.
	I don't know if anyone's seen the internet story video.
	Most people probably have.
	In which the guys who hosted...
	No, it wasn't DashCon.
	It was FurryCon, or whatever it was called.
	But they had the furries come into the convention.
	And then the next year, all the hotels, literally all of them spoke to each other and went, no thank you.
	Take your money elsewhere.
	Like, they made money off the original thing, and they were just like, I don't want the money.
	It's just too much yiffing.
	But like, V's just like, don't want the story.
	Sorry.
	Go.
	And someone else replies, yeah, I thought the Lotus Seed standalone videos, you always seem to say something I know someone would be put off that I'm trying to red pill.
	So yeah, that's what the standalone videos on the other channel are about.
	So, hopefully that's useful.
	If you've got any other comments, I guess read them, but nothing else has come up on my page.
	Yeah, scrolling, scrolling.
	Yeah, sorry.
	I've got to reload this.
	It's not quick, apparently.
	I'm going to read the chat.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Do the Murph.
	What's the Murph?
	A dread thing.
	Oh, God.
	Oh, yeah, Chris Chan.
	Oh, God.
	So what actually happened with that?
	So I don't know why he's, he, she, they, the molester, is famous.
	Like, what's...
	Because the story is that they had relations with their mother, and they've now been charged with this because incest is against the law.
	I suppose the debate is about whether or not it's rape, which, thank you for the correction as well, in the UK apparently it is about penetration still.
	I was referring to the fact that the he part has been changed in English law.
	Yeah, but it is still about the penetration, so still technically women can't rape.
	Yeah, like the Anglosphere is still, I don't know, stuck in the 1900s about this.
	Honestly, I don't know very much about Chris Chan, to be honest.
	I am aware there is some internet idiot who does weird and disgusting things.
	I believe they have now transitioned, so they're now female.
	Sounds like a fetish again.
	It does, but the clip I saw going around, or the meme macro that was going around, was basically the US Supreme Court might have to determine whether a transgender female is capable of raping their own mother.
	Which is interesting.
	But if it's just being incest, they'll probably say, yes, that is incest.
	Either way, it's just so degenerate.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And I don't know why that has to be something we talk about, but everyone's fascinated with this person, so I'm not.
	I saw The Sun made an article, and they just called it, Who is Christian?
	Imagine telling your mum about this.
	Why, though?
	Why do we have to talk about these weird degenerates?
	Oh, boy.
	Anyway, I haven't got any more comments, so I'd end it there.
	Okay.
	Well, anyway, we're going to finish off.
	I'm going to go finish up the notes, and we'll do the book club on the long march of the institutions, how the left won the culture war, and I look forward to...
	Hopefully that's good.
	I'm really excited about it, because I think it's going to be good.
	It sounds good.
	Let's do it.
	Anyway.
	Otherwise, if you want more from us, go to loisdys.com.
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	And thank you and goodbye.

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