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	Hello and welcome to the podcast The Lotus Eaters for the 28th of January 2022.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about the demographic time bomb that is about to explode.
	Yep.
	Looking forward to that.
	Also the anti-work leftists who are literally a living meme.
	The dude really does live up to it.
	And also young people have been totally corrupted by ideology.
	Which, uh, yeah, I'm inclined to agree with as well.
	But let's go to the stuff that's new on the website first.
	So first thing here to mention is the premium hangout we did yesterday.
	Yeah.
	Entitled, I, for one, welcome our racist AI overlords, because we just went through a bunch of AI who have opinions on the human race.
	Various sections of it, yeah.
	Unflatteringly.
	Less savoury than you might imagine.
	So go and check that out.
	That's only for premium members, of course, so we just hang around for like an hour.
	Definitely worth your time, though.
	Yeah.
	And if we go to the next one, we have How Progressives Are Exploiting an Irish Woman's Murder by John Tangney.
	This is quite interesting because he references the point that there was some woman in Ireland killed recently.
	And at the same time, some bouncer was just shot in the head.
	And all the focus is on this woman and how this is evidence of how men hate women.
	Well, it's a mirror of the Sarah Everard murder, isn't it?
	Somewhat, yeah.
	And he argues in there about it.
	And one of the best points I think he made in there was that They found out the killer was an immigrant from Slovakia.
	Yikes.
	And they were like, look, the far right keeps saying...
	Oh yeah, this is all about the far right now.
	This is the far right trying to smear all immigrants with the fact that they're murderous.
	But also, men are murderous.
	LAUGHTER Without a hint of irony.
	So go give that a read.
	Unbelievable.
	Fantastic.
	We go to the next one.
	We have Why Feminists Won't Talk About OnlyFans.
	This is a Deep Think by Thomas.
	Yeah, this is Thomas Dowling's first dissertation-level publication for us.
	He's a PhD student in philosophy, so it's not like he's not used to writing like this.
	But this is like 6,000 words, and we do have an audio track for it, so you can just listen to it if you'd like.
	It's basically an audio book.
	But no, it's really, really good because Thomas is making a very compelling argument as to the feminists won't talk about OnlyFans because essentially this is kind of the fruition of a lot of feminist theory and it's also creating a bunch of incels.
	It's facilitating the incel problem.
	It's very, very good.
	And the comments on it are really interesting as well.
	So definitely go check it out.
	If we go to the next one, we have the Gold Tier Zoom call to mention, so that is today.
	We're doing that 3.30 UK time.
	Yep.
	Because it turns out an hour is not long enough.
	Yes, so join us there, especially if you're a Gold Tier Zoom.
	Only if you're a Gold Tier Zoomer.
	I keep trying to mention saying Gold Tier Zoomer for some reason.
	Every time I say this, it comes out.
	If you're a Gold Tier Zoomer, let us know.
	Tell us in the chat.
	And next thing to mention is, of course, careers, because we're still hiring a software engineer slash web developer.
	So if you can do that, please look at the requirements on there and then apply if you can find those.
	We want an app.
	Yes.
	And the last thing to mention, of course, being Gitter, because if you want to follow us, of course, follow us on LotusEaters underscore com at Gitter.com.
	Gitter.
	Sorry.
	I know it's get together.
	I still don't care.
	It sounds more...
	Charming.
	Yeah.
	In that way.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so the demographic time bomb in the UK is about to explode and this has finally made it to the mainstream media.
	So I thought we'd talk about what I think might be the reasons for this happening and just go through the statistics.
	Most of these will be coming from the Office of National Statistics.
	So when people are like, where did you find out that X amount of this is happening in Y area?
	Well, from the government.
	This is just the official statistics that everyone uses in this country.
	So that's why.
	So anyway, let's begin with women.
	Because it's their fault.
	That's right.
	I'm placing the blame on women.
	No, I'm joking.
	But women are part of the problem, and men are, of course, part of the problem as well.
	In fact, the lack of relationships that men and women are engaging in is, in fact, one of the problems.
	But anyway, interestingly, women are the majority of university students now.
	37% of young women will now go to university compared to something like 30% of young men.
	And this is a trend that's been going up.
	And it doesn't seem to have any sign of slowing down.
	This was in 2017.
	There was 30,000 more women than men, and this is just carrying on.
	And this dovetails with the fact that marriage rates are, of course, the lowest on record.
	If we can go to the next one, you can see this from 2018.
	Marriage rates for opposite-sex couples are the lowest on record, while the total number of marriages fell for the third consecutive year in a row.
	This is the latest data I've got from the INS as well.
	And so this is just an overall decline, with people choosing to get married at much later ages, particularly those aged 65 and over.
	Imagine getting married in your 60s.
	I mean, that's just sort of fun at that point, isn't it?
	Well, it's just for companionship at that point, I imagine.
	I suppose so.
	But the point is, it's not producing children at that sort of age.
	And so we have arrived at the position now where we have a record number of women at 30 years old who do not have children.
	More than half of women in England and Wales born in 1990 without a child when they turned 30 in 2020.
	This is the first generation to do so according to the ONS. And at the same time, the average number of children women have by the time they reach 30 has also fallen to its lowest ever level, which is 0.96.
	Less than one child per woman.
	That's not good.
	I mean, it's horrific.
	Yes.
	I mean, being below replacement rate is bad.
	Yes, considering they need to have had 2.1 children on average for the population to just remain stable, this is a dramatic demographic collapse that we are staring at here.
	So among women who turned 45 last year, almost one in five were without children.
	A big rise compared to the 13% in their mother's generation who did not become a parent.
	So you can see exactly how this is happening and you see there's the chart.
	If you go down a little bit just you can see that's from 1940s where it peaked with the baby boomers and it's off a cliff.
	What caused that do you think?
	Cultural changes?
	What year was birth control introduced, Callum?
	I have no idea.
	It was around the 60s.
	Yeah.
	So generally a bit of a decline then, but just saying.
	Anyway, and you are right though, the cultural attitudes as well are a part of it.
	Dr.
	Joe Mountford, a consultant obstetrician and vice president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said, Choosing when to have children is a personal decision that should be fully respected and supported, as should the decision to have no children.
	No.
	Shame those women who do not have children, because this is going to cause us massive problems in the future.
	You have a duty to have children, which I will expound at length another time.
	But just put a pin in that, we're coming back to, you have an obligation to have kids, women, right?
	And men, so don't think you're off the hook.
	Because she carries on.
	However, young people should bear in mind that natural fertility starts to decline from the age of 35 and later pregnancy involves an increased risk of complications, including it takes long to get pregnant, fertility problems, and high risk of miscarriage.
	Yeah, don't waste your time.
	Don't sit around thinking, I'll have kids when I'm 40.
	No, you won't.
	It's actually much more unlikely that you will.
	And the thing is, so we've got a bunch of highly educated, unmarried, childless women.
	They're breeding themselves out of existence.
	This is literally the plot of idiocracy.
	Unbreeding almost.
	Well, yes, unbreeding themselves out of existence.
	This is literally the plot of idiocracy where literally the intelligent people are like, oh, well, we're going to wait.
	We're going to wait.
	We're going to wait.
	And then suddenly it's too late.
	And this happens all the time.
	We've covered it loads of different times on the podcast.
	And of course, the less smart people are not doing this.
	You know, they're having big broods.
	And so we've arrived at the point now where we've got almost over a third coming on half of the population that are degree holders, and they're having fewer and fewer children.
	Dramatically fewer.
	And so now we've arrived at the point where deaths have overtaken births.
	We are officially a declining population.
	And this is in the Times.
	This is not like some radical fringe Nazi publication or something.
	Birthright and deathright is the exclusive domain of the Nazis.
	They always say that's an alt-right talking point.
	It's like, no, that's a fact.
	Sorry, is GDP also an alt-right talking point?
	What else are you going to give them?
	That's a neoliberal talking point, which we'll get to in a minute, in fact.
	And go up.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And go up, precisely.
	That's their concern.
	But anyway, so as the Times put out, immigration will be the only driver of population growth from 2030 onwards.
	Didn't have to be this way.
	No, it didn't.
	According to officials, it didn't have to be this way.
	But the thing is, and I hate to put all of the onus on women here, but much of it is on them.
	It is their choice whether they get pregnant or not now.
	Because of birth control.
	And they're choosing not to get pregnant.
	Well, you have a duty to have children as a man and a woman.
	But if one side is saying, well, I'm actually not going to have children and I've got the ability to not have children, well, you're the one shirking that duty, frankly.
	But anyway, so the ONS has pointed this out.
	I did look it up earlier, but I didn't get the links.
	I just used this.
	But it's something like 680,000 births and then 685,000 deaths now.
	So it's just like, right?
	Okay.
	And so they say, well, immigration will have a greater role in supporting population growth as net migration increases by about 15,000 more than expected each year from 2025.
	So immigration is going to go up.
	Our birth rates are going to go down.
	I do wonder how this compares, because you mentioned the pill being the driving force there.
	Of course, I'm not saying we should model ourselves, but I am wondering how Saudi Arabia's native population is doing, because people always say, oh no, it's because we're incredibly wealthy, or we don't have to do this or that anymore.
	But the Saudis, of course, have lots of money.
	I have no idea.
	They have access to birth control.
	Well, no.
	Well, then I imagine the population rate is probably at least stable.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, so they expect that there will be more people, 200,000 more people a year coming, which means over the next decade, net migration is predicted to add over 2 million people to the UK's population.
	Great.
	We're going to replace the people who weren't born here with people who were born elsewhere.
	And of course, the baby shortage will hurt the economy.
	Won't someone think of the GDP? Says one think tank.
	That's the concern, is it?
	That's the concern.
	The combined gross amount of earnings of the people of the UK will go down.
	Oh, that's the only problem.
	The Social Market Foundation said the birth rate was almost half of what it was at post-war peak, and the country's ageing population could lead to economic decline.
	That's the only worry.
	I'm just worried about that economic decline.
	It said that ministers should set up a cross-government task force to consider the issue, and one helpful measure might be better childcare provision.
	Really?
	Really?
	Women need to be in that workplace, Callum, or GDP goes down.
	Line going down bad.
	Women must be in the workplace.
	This is what's being said.
	You know what's funny there?
	Implicitly they're also saying, well, we're going to increase immigration to increase GDP. Yes.
	Well, what if you just had lots of people born here?
	That would also increase GDP, neoliberal.
	Yes, it would.
	But then less money would be spent on childcare, which is apparently 22% of both working parents' income.
	I'm also going to mention, I don't know what it is with the neoliberals, but they're obsessed with GDP. Never GDP per capita.
	Yeah, it's weird, isn't it?
	GDP per capita is just not important to them.
	But anyway, this is more than double the average for other Western countries.
	And so in their report, Baby Bust and Baby Boom, examining the liberal case for pronatalism, they said that this would ultimately lead to a shortage of working-age adults.
	So if you're sat there going, yes, well, I'm a 40-year-old woman with three PhDs and I own a mansion, then I will just hire people.
	No, there's going to be a shortage of working age adults.
	You're relying on the idea that there will be people around you that you can pay to do the work.
	And if there simply isn't, then enjoy that.
	Well, they've already told you their solution, haven't they?
	Immigration, yes.
	We're going to import loads of Mexicans, because...
	Don't get me wrong, I've already got this covered, we'll get to it.
	So anyway, let's talk about the ageing population, because this is not good news, really.
	If you can go to figure one, if you can scroll down a bit to figure one, you can see the graph, so you can see just how bad this is.
	As you can see, it's basically a kind of, like, deformed pyramid, and then in 1966, then in 2016 it looks pretty bad, and by 2066 it's basically going to be an inverted pillar.
	Where there will be hardly any children and loads of really old people, is what they're expecting.
	Which is basically what it is now.
	But much worse.
	The fatter the graph gets at the top, the more difficult this gets because that's people who are very old.
	Need lots of care.
	And as you can see, it's going to be massively increased.
	So in 2016, there were 11.8 million UK residents, say 65% or over, which is 18% of the population.
	25 years before, there were 9.1 million.
	And go, oh, well, that's...
	Science has saved them.
	Yes, it has.
	And that means if you wish to continue this scientific trend of making sure old people live longer, you need to have kids.
	It's just the way it's got to be.
	By 2066, there'll be a further 8.6 million projected, which means that 26%, over a quarter of the population, will be pensioners.
	That's insane.
	How is that going to stand?
	The answer is, of course, it's not.
	And of course this is not people who are evenly distributed around the country, or the people who make a much higher proportion of rural populations and coastal areas than urban populations.
	There also will be some self-correction, I'm going to put very liberally there as well, because if you don't have the money to pay for, say, the Holy NHS to keep everyone, I'll be 60 at that point.
	You keep everyone alive.
	Well, you won't be able to live as long as your previous generations.
	You will die sooner than they did.
	You will, and it will not be very pleasant.
	But anyway, does immigration fix this?
	And in this they say, Immigration is often assumed to offset the effects of a country's ageing population, since immigrants tend to be younger working ages.
	However, this only presents a short-term solution, since, firstly, immigrants also age, and although immigrants...
	And this is one of the things that the neoliberals are just like, well, we'll just get immigrants.
	Yeah, but they get old too.
	I love it.
	Douglas Murray does this debate where he listens to someone spout for like two minutes about this and he goes, you know, they also get old.
	Yeah, but also immigrants from high fertility countries tend to have more children over time.
	Second generation migrants, their patterns of fertility tend to converge with those of the UK. As in, they grow up in the United Kingdom.
	They become accustomed to the kind of culture and lifestyle we have here.
	They hear the doctors saying, well, I mean, having children is a choice and we should respect choice that people don't have children.
	And they go, yeah, well, that's my choice then.
	And I'm just going to do exactly as everyone else does.
	I'm not going to follow the habits of behavior from the parent country.
	So even then bringing migrants, again, they're Fertility rate goes down just like ours.
	And of course, just so people know, the amount of immigration, I mean, this is just absurd.
	This is from the immigration up until August 2020, which is the latest statistics that the ONS has.
	Over the year, 715,000 people moved to the UK, intending to stay for 12 months or more.
	700,000 in a year.
	This is during COVID as well.
	Yes.
	During the lockdowns.
	During COVID, 700,000 people moved here.
	Over that point, 680,000 people were born.
	These are the scale of the numbers that we're talking about.
	There was an emigration of 400,000, leaving us with a net of around 313,000, not including the illegal crossings from the migrant boats, which is what, probably another 50,000 or so by now?
	Sea people.
	Yeah, the sea people, exactly.
	Another 50,000.
	So there we go.
	And that's not including just any other illegal aliens that we're just not aware of, who are not in the numbers.
	But from that, 257,000 are coming for a formal study, so we can reasonably assume that a large number of the 400,000 who are leaving are students.
	But 458,000 are arriving for work, family or other reasons.
	So people we don't have to assume are just going to leave.
	Anyway, so this, of course, is being facilitated by the government because they're like, oh, God, we need loads of carers for the old people in the homes because we don't have young people of our own to hire.
	And so the government is just going to start incentivizing bringing over more immigrants to care for our old people.
	Thousands of additional care workers are to be recruited from abroad to fill chronic gaps in the workforce.
	The government has announced.
	Our figures showed more than 40,000 social care staff had left the sector in the past six months.
	This was only last month this came out, right?
	There are some other aspects, of course.
	I think the vaccine mandates also came in effect here.
	But also just, okay, you know all the money we have to spend on integration?
	Can we just raise the wages of people having to do these jobs and spend the money on that instead?
	We could do.
	And then you could have your native population be willing to do the jobs.
	Or we could just get, I mean, assume we didn't ban them for not being vaccinated.
	Of course.
	Or we could just get a load of cheapo foreigners.
	Yeah.
	Which is what the government's solution is.
	But the thing is, is this a guarantee of anything?
	And the answer is, of course, no.
	During the COVID pandemic, the UK population may have shrunk by over a million people during the pandemic because people were just leaving.
	Because they're not tied to this place.
	There's no particular reason they have to be here other than money.
	And if something happens, they're just like, bye.
	See ya.
	This new report suggests that an unprecedented exodus has happened.
	They will just leave if something happens.
	They don't care about you.
	You were just saying, come over here and we'll pay you.
	Okay, but now I don't need your money.
	Bye.
	But the thing is, well, is this actually a good thing for the people being cared for?
	Well, I went to the World Health Organization and checked what their statistics on elder care home abuse are.
	Do you want to know how much self-reported staff have committed abuse in the past year, according to the World Health Organization?
	Go to the next one, John.
	If you go down a bit, just go down, there's a sort of table there, right?
	Look at that.
	Overall prevalence is two in three.
	Report that they have abused someone.
	Sorry, the staff themselves reporting on their abuse.
	Rates of elder abuse are high in institutions such as nursing home and long-term care facilities, with two in three staff reporting that they have committed abuse in the past year, according to the World Health Organization.
	That's a direct quote.
	But look at that.
	Reported by older adults who are elder abuse in community settings.
	15% rather than 64%.
	So when caring for family members, this is a lot less rife, but when caring for people you don't know or care about, apparently it's quite high.
	Most of it's psychological abuse, which I guess is, thank God, it's not 9% physical abuse.
	But I mean, a lot of it's neglect.
	Some of it's sexual abuse.
	Just, what the hell is this?
	I mean, I would never question the statistics of the World Health Organization.
	So who knows?
	But anyway, so who's providing care?
	Well, the government has some statistics on this too, right?
	So apparently, if you can go to the next one and go down to figure three so we can see it, two-thirds of carers are caring for their parents or a spouse.
	That's interesting.
	Figure three, I think it is.
	There we go.
	So you can see the spouse is the green, and the light blue is parents or parents-in-law, and the rest of it is children, so you can take that out as well, or grandchildren, and then you've got the sort of blue bit on the end, which is other.
	80% of people are caring for someone they're related to.
	If you're not related to anyone who is caring for you, it's going to end up being a foreign migrant worker.
	Who apparently you've got a two in three chance of being abused by, according to the World Health Organization.
	Is this the future you wanted?
	Ladies?
	You didn't get married?
	You didn't have kids?
	Don't have grandkids?
	No one cares about you?
	You get to look into the dispassionate eyes of a nomadic foreign worker from somewhere else in the world as he cleans your bedsores and then psychologically abuses you?
	Is this the future you wanted?
	I mean, are we honestly just going to be like watching migrants taking over English towns and cities while the selfish, childless women just dispassionately lay there and just sunset English civilization?
	Is this what we're talking about?
	Because it seems to be what we're talking about from the statistics.
	Or you can get married and have kids, like you should, like your mother did, like your grandmother did, like your great-grandmother did, going back to time immemorial.
	These are our choices.
	It's not fun.
	I'm not even joking.
	We look at Birmingham at the moment, right?
	So we're waiting currently for the next census.
	But if we go to the Wikipedia page, we can scroll down a bit and you can see the previous two.
	Sorry, I'm laughing because I just saw something in the chat.
	It was like cervix guarantee citizenship.
	Basically, yes.
	If you scroll down, there should be a graph.
	There we go.
	So you can see here, when they say white British, they mean English, right?
	So that's the English population in Birmingham in 2001 was 65%.
	In 2011, it's 53%.
	And you can even chart the areas of Birmingham that have migrants, that have migration.
	And you can see it's just like, I should have got this other chart, I just didn't think I'd need it for this.
	But it's clusters.
	And so that was 10 years ago.
	300,000 net immigrants a year, over 10 years.
	We're looking at 3 million more immigrants, aren't we?
	I mean, still got the question about where's the 2021 census that should be there, because that year's done.
	Well, we can go to the next link, actually, and see where the next census is.
	Oh.
	If you scroll down a little bit, you can see what their milestones are.
	So they've got, you know, they accept the things in February, publish full details on the outputs of release schedule in March, and then publication of first results in late spring, whenever that is, 2022.
	So later this year.
	The final release of outputs in 2023.
	I don't know what that means.
	All data is released next year.
	But at least, you know, because, I mean, obviously this is not going to look good, right?
	And...
	Don't get me wrong.
	I don't want to say, oh, it's just women doing this.
	No, it's obviously men as well, failing to be, you know, husbands and fathers and providers and things like this.
	But in men's defense, the system does seem to be rather rigged against them.
	I mean, there's still affirmative action for women, despite them being the majority of university students, things like this.
	Women just not getting married.
	Things aren't going well.
	You know, they're just going to be these lonely, childless singletons who have got amazing careers where a bunch of men are just committing suicide as our civilization dies.
	That's what's happening.
	Not good news.
	I'm really annoyed about it.
	You'll be told you're a bad person for just pointing out these are facts.
	So there we go.
	I hope your segment's more cholly than mine is.
	Oh, that blackest of black pills.
	I hope it is too.
	Sorry, but it's all true!
	These are not my statistics, these are the government's statistics!
	Your point there is absolutely correct, which is just, you know, you're thought of as a bad person pointing out the statistics.
	Yeah, the government's own statistics.
	Yeah.
	The World Health Organization's own statistics.
	It is funny how just no one in government talks about it either.
	No!
	Demographics are never a talking point.
	It's mad.
	But anyway.
	Let's move on to the anti-work leftists, so...
	The anti-work movement.
	Well, particularly the anti-work leftists, as we will see.
	So this is something that has been bubbling up, particularly during the pandemic.
	And as you can see, if we can get the cycle up from the BBC, describing the anti-work movement.
	I mean, it sounds like a meme on the face of it.
	And you wouldn't be, you know, wrong for thinking it's kind of a meme, given that title.
	Just the very name of it is making me pro-gulag.
	Yes, and we're going to go through the steel man position because the BBC are sympathetic and they give some examples.
	And the funny thing is here is I do have a lot of sympathy with some of the individuals who have made posts or are posting about this online.
	However, you will quickly realise the subversion that is taking place.
	So, let's start.
	The whole thing sounds like subversion just by the framing.
	Yes.
	Chris, a US-based IT professional, says he's experienced terrible working conditions in his recent roles.
	What, in California?
	He says two separate employers, one offering no sick pay and the other only offering a week's worth of paid time off, forced him back to work despite illness.
	At another labour-intensive jobs, he says he's ended up having to treat his own wounds.
	I don't know if he was injuring himself or not.
	Hang on.
	IT professional and labour-intensive are words that don't go together.
	No.
	I have been an IT professional.
	Some other kind of role, presumably.
	I'll take him at his word.
	He sounds like he's a computer programmer.
	But it was a role in customer support that pushed him too far.
	which paid less than $13 an hour involved verifying whether people's dependents qualified for healthcare insurance He says he would have been fired if he had given callers certain helpful information He was not authorized to disclose like how much time they had to submit their paperwork He says there were people literally begging for their lives on the phone and I couldn't do anything about it That broke me to a point where I realised that absolutely nothing in this system is working.
	It's the lack of empathy and human kindness.
	I'm not sure how that went missing.
	And the BBC right here.
	Don't worry, we've got immigrants.
	I mean, that is usually the solution.
	Line will continue to go up forever.
	Yeah, socialists don't worry about it.
	But the thing is that you can see some sympathetic points, which is if you're working in an unethical job, the job that just doesn't give you any gratitude for your work.
	Why would you not be able to tell people how long they have to submit paperwork?
	Presumably the company is telling you not to do that as company.
	Well, yeah, I know, but what would be the rationale for that?
	It just seems needlessly cruel.
	Somehow to make money.
	We're just going to take him on his word that that's all the case, because we'll steal man the position.
	But, yeah, these are all valid things.
	But what does this have to do with saying work bad, you know?
	So, they continue.
	But some people are going further, wondering aloud if there's purpose to their work, or the economic system itself.
	Here comes a socialist.
	These people are part of the anti-work movement, which seeks to do away with the economic order that underpins the modern workplace.
	Feeling very Leninist all of a sudden.
	He who does not work shall not eat.
	Anti-work, which has roots in anarchist and socialist economic critique, big shock, argues that the bulk of today's jobs aren't necessary.
	Instead, they enforce wage slavery and deprive workers of their full value of their output.
	I can feel a lot of Starbucks workers getting laid off now.
	But my English literature degree...
	Let's go to the next link just to make that point as stark as possible.
	Your job isn't necessary.
	McDonald's does agree that a lot of low...
	What do they call it?
	Low-skilled jobs.
	This is something I saw on the subreddit as well that the users are very mad about being called low-skilled.
	No, the point of the term low-skilled means it's easy to train someone to do your job.
	Yeah.
	And high-skilled means it's hard to train them to do your job.
	It's a reference to the potential recruiting pool of employees.
	Yes.
	If you can recruit pretty much any old Dodd, give him a week's training, and then he's able to serve people at McDonald's, that is low-skilled.
	That's just the definition.
	If you can literally replace it with a robot, that is low-skilled.
	Starbucks baristas on suicide watch.
	Yeah, but anyway, there's also the point there at the end where they say that the wage slaves are being exploited.
	This is the whole profit is theft thing coming out again, so you know it's the socialists.
	We'll go back to the explanation for a minute, because they say, Okay, thanks, Mr.
	Communist.
	Yes.
	I do salary, and then more money, and then that money is stolen from me.
	No, that's profit.
	Well, what's stopping you?
	Exactly.
	You can become self-employed.
	There's literally nothing that prevents you from creating a worker co-op.
	If also you're not happy about that, and you want to go live outside capitalism, as you always hear, the Amish managed it.
	Don't know why you can't.
	Good point.
	Don't want to give up my cell phone.
	That's what it is.
	It's centered on the rantiwork subreddit, a community still rooted in direct action.
	I don't know what that means.
	No, no, no.
	Usually it means terrorism.
	It does, yeah.
	But they're rooted in direct action as long as that direct action isn't, you know, going out and forming the co-op or going to the farm and starting a commune or something.
	That would be really direct action.
	Complaining that the company should reorganise itself.
	Direct action is whining on Reddit.
	But whose focus has both softened and broadened into a wider dialogue on working conditions as its popularity has grown.
	Today, it contains a mix of personal narratives about quitting, creating change in hostile workplaces, advocacy for ongoing labour strikes, labour organising, and wage people can try and advocate for themselves.
	So, there's a lot in there, and who can't sympathise with the non-socialist parts of that?
	Well, the non-socialist parts, sure, but every single one of these socialists is pro-immigration.
	Sure.
	Which is going to replace their job if they all quit.
	It's not just that.
	It's pro-competition for their job.
	It's depressing their wages.
	It's making sure that the employer has options.
	And so the whip hand is the employer, not the employee.
	If there was a shortage of labor, their wages would be going up, as we have seen after Brexit.
	But no, they don't think about this.
	That would be racist.
	So, I mean, they've got the hypocrisy there.
	But also just the aspects of saying...
	Well, they're doing it to themselves, is what I'm saying.
	Sure.
	They're advocating for their own oppression.
	But I do want to get to the subreddit itself, because I think there is a mix going on.
	Oh, good.
	If we go to the next link, you can scroll down on this.
	You should be able to see a graph of just the growth.
	I mean, just look at it.
	Like, you can see the line's a bit goofed there, but the top one just explodes in the last couple of months.
	I can't believe millennials don't want to work.
	Yeah.
	If we go to the next link as well, this is a real thing.
	And as you can see, the BBC listening here, what is called the Great Resignation.
	Yeah.
	And it sounds like a meme.
	It sounds like some stupid made-up story.
	It's because Joe Biden incentivized them not to work.
	There's also that.
	But they quote in here, the pandemic participated a shift in priorities, encouraging them to pursue a dream job or transitioning to being a stay-at-home parent.
	As if that's bad.
	But for many, many others...
	Line doesn't go up there, Callum.
	The decision to leave came as a result of the way their employer treated them during the pandemic, the BBC say.
	And I think we can see some of this and the sympathetic side, which anyone who has worked in a crap job can always sympathize with, which is the highest rated post on the subreddit.
	And this is, I think, representative of why there is such interest not on the socialist theory part.
	So this is the first post here from someone.
	And as you can see, 285,000 upvotes.
	This is the highest one.
	And we'll just read some of what they said, because this is a text message to their boss.
	So the boss says, Good evening, me.
	I was reviewing the cameras from our shift today and noticed that you were sitting on a stool for the majority of your shift.
	This is completely unacceptable behaviour and we will be discussing it tomorrow before shift.
	So the worker writes back saying, I cleared it with the lead.
	I have two broken bones in my left foot.
	Doctor documented.
	Aside from that, I packed 240 plus UPH for the entirety of my shift.
	12 full hours work.
	I'm not sure if you're aware, but we do have a ranked list for packing, for packaging displayed directly above our stations.
	My efforts earned me first place today.
	Get them all the bloody stools.
	What the hell's wrong with you?
	So just to be clear, my impressive performance was overshadowed by the fact that I wasn't uncomfortable enough while doing it?
	Great point.
	And, you know, you can't help but feel sympathy with the guy because it's like, right, okay, he's your most productive worker.
	What is your problem?
	Like, this is the guy you should be congratulating?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Not harassing?
	I'd be getting everyone a stool, but I reckon brilliant.
	Clearly it works.
	Yeah.
	I mean, why not?
	It just seems needlessly vindictive on the part of the boss here.
	So the boss writes back, I'm really not appreciating your attitude.
	Just say sorry.
	Just say sorry.
	You're clearly in the right.
	Yeah, sorry, I didn't realise.
	You could have just said the first part where it was cleared with another lead instead of being disrespectful.
	This type of behaviour isn't going to get you anywhere.
	Well, maybe being first on the rankings will get me somewhere.
	It takes some appreciation.
	I mean, you're number one worker here.
	By the rankings.
	It's just weird why, if you're the boss here, you wouldn't just be polite, because, quite frankly, this guy is what's running the place.
	And the worker then responds to this attack, saying, Hey, thanks for wasting my precious off time with some garbage you didn't bother to investigate beforehand.
	Seriously, 240 plus UPH, what you claim to be the pinnacle of performance there, I achieved it.
	And I get grief because I was sitting while doing it.
	You guys need to get your priorities straight.
	It is no wonder that you have such difficulties retaining staff.
	I'm not concerned with going anywhere there.
	It's toxic environment with ignorant people at the helm.
	I won't be in tomorrow or ever again.
	And then the boss is like, whoa, whoa, whoa, we don't need to talk about you leaving.
	He's like, nah, bye, have a good life.
	See, I mean, I totally agree.
	This does seem like a very toxic work environment.
	Yes.
	This is gross.
	And it's just strange.
	When the guy has listed to you, he is your number one employee.
	He achieved the maximum setting there of whatever the job is.
	I don't know.
	Have you ever worked in a factory before?
	No.
	Well, it's not very exciting.
	I imagine it's quite boring.
	Well, yeah.
	It's also the fact of like, this is your best employee.
	You'd want to be nice to them because if you lose them, you've got to replace them and you won't be able to replace them with someone as good, presumably.
	And yet, the good is just say sorry.
	Just say sorry.
	And instead, it ends up becoming this.
	But I agree.
	This is definitely indicative of the toxic work environment.
	Your boss should never be talking to your boss.
	You don't ever get to this point as well where you're just happy to leave on a text from one text.
	There's some other stuff going on.
	And that's the top rated post.
	If we go to the next one, we can see some of these top rated posts.
	This is the next one here with 170,000 upvotes.
	And it's some guy saying, you know, I'm not coming in because my dad died and I told you I need a day off.
	And the boss just responds with, my uncle died a few days ago.
	I lost my grandma.
	Stop being the victim.
	So the employee's just like, alright, mail me my cheque, I quit, go F yourself.
	Is this just like American work culture though?
	I don't know.
	Because I can't imagine, I've worked in a lot of different places, and I just can't imagine this kind of interaction happening in any of those places that I've worked.
	No.
	I mean, some kind of insane boss here.
	Yeah.
	I'm not saying in America they don't have a toxic work culture.
	It seems that they may.
	But, again, this is only possible because they feel they can get away with it.
	If we go to the next link, we can see one of these others in which you have someone here saying that, hey, Brandon, we're short staffed for the rest of the year because Sarah just quit without any warning.
	We're really backed up.
	So I'm going to need you to come in on Thanksgiving this year.
	Don't be shocked if you have to come in during Christmas Eve day two.
	And the employees like, no, I told you three weeks ago I'm booking those off.
	And he says...
	Well, too bad.
	And the employee's just like, okay, too bad then.
	You don't have me either.
	Bye.
	Again, it's the lack of consideration for the worker there who has agreed with them as seemingly reasonable.
	We're only seeing their side of the story, obviously.
	But this is the highest rated stuff on that subreddit.
	This isn't socialist theory.
	No, this is toxic work environments.
	Yeah.
	What's funny, it's actually capitalist theory as well.
	Yes, it is.
	Bad boss will ruin the business if the boss doesn't appreciate his top-rated worker, as the first example was given, but then he doesn't have top-rated workers and instead will have to do with subpar.
	I mean, look at the reply.
	We've had expectations with you multiple times this year.
	Coming in is the least you can do.
	Your PTA request has been denied.
	I'm not asking you to come in.
	I'm telling you you have to.
	I would quit.
	Yeah, and we scroll down and we can see his response as well.
	It's just like, bye.
	Not having it.
	Now you have no workers.
	That's mad.
	But yeah, absolutely.
	But again, this is what is giving me sympathy for the users of the subreddit.
	Because majorly, from what I'm seeing in the post...
	They're obviously not majority communist.
	It's stuff like this.
	The majority average person is just dealing with crappy bosses.
	And maybe American work culture, as you say, is just so different to ours because of the fact that they don't have time off in the law and stuff like this.
	And they can just replace you with a Mexican at the moment's notice.
	And therefore it's bred this completely toxic environment in which bosses feel like they can be balanced.
	There's a weird power trip going on with the boss.
	And then one of the moderators, because here's the thing, you have the average person in a community like that, and then you have the people running it.
	Which is normal, yeah.
	And the people running it are fucking mean.
	Oh god, look at the physiognomy of this!
	Every time!
	It's like an Andy Noe post, isn't it?
	Oh, comrade!
	So let's enjoy a little bit of this.
	So this is a moderator who went on Fox News to talk about the anti-work movement and just embarrassed himself, as you can see, by the two million views of interest.
	But that play the best part.
	So I think laziness is a virtue in a society where people constantly want you to be productive 24-7, and it's good to have rest.
	That doesn't mean you should be resting all the time or not putting effort into things that you care about.
	What do you think is a good work day?
	How many hours is a solid work day in your ideal society?
	Sure.
	I mean, I think as much as people want.
	I mean, I personally work.
	I have like a 20, 25 hour work weeks, which I think is fairly good.
	So I would like less work hours.
	And what do you do, Doreen?
	I'm a dog walker.
	A dog walker.
	Okay.
	Yes.
	And how old are you, if you don't mind me asking?
	Sure, I'm 30.
	You're 30.
	Okay.
	And is there something you want to do besides being a dog walker?
	Do you aspire to do anything more than dog walking?
	Or is that kind of your pinnacle?
	I love working with dogs.
	If I had to do this for the rest of my life, I wouldn't be super complaining.
	Dogs are wonderful animals.
	But I would love to teach.
	I would love to work with people and stuff like that.
	What would you teach, Doreen?
	Philosophy, mostly.
	Philosophy?
	Critical thinking, reason, stuff like that.
	Okay.
	Well, I would love to take your class, Doreen.
	I would just be taking notes the whole time, and you know what?
	A professor's a very similar schedule than something that you're imagining, so I think that actually might work perfectly for you.
	Listen, I think this might not be the greatest idea, but who am I to judge?
	To each their own.
	I included that last bit there because people always smear Fox News and it's just like, well, no, he's completely tolerant as well.
	It's like, you want to waste your life?
	Go for it.
	Enjoy.
	Well, I'm glad that person isn't a teacher.
	Yeah, but it's also the living meme there where it's just like, okay, massive leftist thinks work is bad.
	What does he do?
	Works 20 hours a week, but that's too much.
	Literal Redditor.
	Yes, also the physiology aspect.
	I don't even know if that's he or she.
	I can't even tell.
	It's obviously a woman.
	I think it is a he.
	Doreen?
	We'll find out in a minute.
	Doreen's a woman's name, Callum.
	She's wearing lipstick.
	She's a woman's Adam's apple, if you can see it under the double chin.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	Yes, and wants to teach philosophy.
	Have you seen the cartoons?
	You must have.
	The socialist revolution comes.
	But I was going to teach genderqueer theory.
	Get against the wall.
	Shut up and dig the coal.
	Yeah.
	I'm sick of you!
	Honestly, I'm praying for that revolution at this point.
	Those tankies are just like, libcoms, man.
	Because they're not wrong.
	My tanky brethren.
	Let's get to the next link, though, because also, to complete the leftist bingo chamber, we have rape allegations.
	Because, of course, we do.
	Why not?
	Yeah.
	And if we go to the next link, we can also apparently find out that the individual there, if we click on the images, initially decided to try and stay, even though everyone said, get out, you're a rapist.
	Goes on Fox News, gets out and is a rapist.
	Life over.
	Public leftist.
	Oh, God.
	Probable rapist.
	The bingo sheet is getting completed.
	And he's like, well, I'm not going.
	Not going to happen, as he says.
	And if I go to the next image on this, because you can see Slasbiz's response from 4chan.
	Not going to lie, it's kind of based how he's screwing over the communist community and unapologetically refusing to step down.
	To be fair, we can't do that much damage to the communist community.
	No, the communists do more damage to the communist community than everyone ever could.
	Well, there's nothing they can do to change that.
	And then if we go to the last one here, there's someone being a bit more rude.
	Anti-work tranny trying to fire other anti-work trannies from a job they do for free to try and avoid doing a real job they could get paid for.
	My sides are in effing orbit.
	Yeah, they do it for free.
	Aren't the Reddit moderators thinking about unionising?
	That's a meme.
	Is that a meme?
	So Reddit was going to go public, so 4chan started trying to bait them into unionising, because then it would crash the company.
	And I don't think anyone did it, which is a shame.
	What are they going to do?
	Press for better wages.
	They couldn't argue against it, though.
	No.
	Because we had left.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Let's keep going.
	They don't get paid to be a Reddit moderator, do they?
	No, they do it for free.
	Exactly.
	So what are they going to unionise for?
	Higher wages, you get paid nothing.
	Chicken tendies.
	We'll give you a 50% increase if you like.
	You know, idiots.
	Let's go to the next image here because we can see the response from this individual as well was to then make a big apology for the rape accusations.
	And it's very weird because I read the whole thing and everyone's gone with in response saying he accepted that he's a rapist and has apologised for being a rapist.
	But in here, I'm just going to say, maybe I'm dumb, but all I got out of this was he was with his partner and then took her hand and moved it onto his hair penis.
	I don't know which one.
	And she didn't like that and forcefully took it away.
	But either way, he's like unapologetic in the extreme, which makes everyone at least suspicious.
	And I'm just going to go with what other people are saying, which apparently he did accept it.
	Hang on a second, hang on a second.
	Before we go on, I mean, I haven't read this, but I just want to read this one quote.
	This led to my needs going unmet, which led to masturbation as an unhealthy coping mechanism.
	That sounds like entitlement.
	Toxic male entitlement.
	Yes.
	The male feminist.
	Sorry, female feminist.
	After months, I've tried to keep myself in check.
	Yeah, it's not a fun read.
	And then there's just the last image here for people who want to read the full thing of whatever it is.
	Yeah.
	And then we go to the next one.
	Of course, they fired him eventually from the subreddit.
	So next link, please.
	From the job that doesn't get paid.
	The wagey job that he doesn't get paid to do, whereas he could be out dog walking more than 20 hours, but apparently 20 hours is too much.
	He's got more redditing moderating to do.
	And if we go to the next link here, the subreddit in response to this interview decided to go private.
	They couldn't take the heat.
	I probably would, too, if I were them.
	We outed ourselves as a bunch of leftists who are kind of ridiculous.
	Also, the lead person who did the interview is probably a rapist.
	We're not looking good, bros.
	Quick, shut it down.
	Hide it.
	And if we go to the next link, I wanted to prove as well, because I mentioned there's sympathy for those top-rated posts, but in case you have any doubts about the socialist aspects of the people running it and the narrative, I mean, you can see here, this is some socialist posting.
	Hi, John Peterson.
	So again, that's socialist rhetoric there.
	But then we also have just a direct admission from the people running it.
	So the last one here, if we can...
	Please.
	Then we can see, I am unironically a communist and this is a leftist subreddit.
	We want to abolish capitalism.
	6,000 upvotes.
	6,000 upvotes.
	And they say in here, I keep seeing people defend the sub, saying there's like 20 self-proclaimed communists on our anti-work.
	There's a lot more.
	Obviously.
	And as they say, the current concept of work is basically S wages given to you under coercive violence, starvation, homelessness, etc.
	I love the fact they have to say I'm unironically a communist because it sounds ridiculous on the face of it.
	Yes.
	I mean, it's like the unironic fascists.
	I mean, fascists are a meme.
	I mean, it's literally like when Ash Sarkar went on Good Morning Britain and was like, I'm literally a communist and Piers Morgan just laughed.
	And then they say they produce capital and feed the ever-growing more of the owning class that needs to be dismantled.
	But the funniest part about all of this, and I mean, it's kind of evident.
	I mean, just the quote from Lenin, as mentioned earlier.
	He who does not work shall not eat.
	I mean, it is ridiculous.
	Get up against the wall!
	I mean, it is ridiculous on a normal day, but then to unironically be a socialist, as I say, unironic communist in this case, you're like, yeah, I shouldn't have to work.
	I should work on genderqueer theory instead and get paid.
	What a joke.
	And yeah, so that aspect of the whole thing.
	Ridiculous.
	But on the other side, it is interesting that there is seemingly a huge movement within the labour market in the United States.
	Presumably it's affected by government and immigration policies.
	But it may seem that maybe the pandemic will change how people are going to work.
	And there was a glimmer of hope in all this that I think you might like, because I know you're a big fan of self-employment.
	Yes.
	And you think it's good for people and all the rest of it.
	Yes.
	And I generally agree.
	And the thing in there is there were a lot of people talking about the fact, okay, I quit my job, I'm going to employ myself.
	Good.
	So I'll move on.
	I'll be my own boss.
	You literally have the internet.
	And if you can't be self-employed on the internet, then you're never going to be, I guess.
	Yeah, but there are millions of people on this place, and they won't all be vultures like these communists are.
	And if they wanted any advice from having to deal with the crap bosses, check out self-employment.
	If you can do that, that's probably the best outcome for you.
	Yep.
	Let's move on.
	So, this is not something we haven't covered multiple times, but it seems that young people have been totally and so utterly corrupted by leftist ideology that they simply are unable to properly form relationships and see each other as actual human beings with needs, desires, and emotions, and form sentimental bonds between one another, and this, I think, is absolutely terrible.
	I saw this post going around, so I posted it on Getter.
	Do married people watch Gen Z dating and feel like they caught the last chopper out of NAMM? Yeah, we do.
	Yeah, we absolutely do.
	Just looking at you guys getting eaten alive by the Viet Cong and thinking, God, that wasn't me.
	It looks awful.
	Honestly, and I'm genuinely sympathetic to this.
	You're the guy in the chopper still firing.
	You're killing women and children?
	SJWs, doesn't matter.
	But no, like, a couple of years ago, I was like, okay, lads, you know, I can see there's a problem, young men, you know, having problems.
	Like, I get a lot of young men saying to me, you know, I'm lonely, I'm burnt out, I don't know what I'm doing.
	It's like, right, okay, this is what you need to be doing.
	And then I thought, okay, that was a nice, sensible thing to promote.
	And I still think it is a nice, sensible thing to promote.
	And that's what you should be aiming for.
	But I also got a lot of guys saying, well, hang on a second, have you looked at our prospects?
	And so I had a look at their prospects, and I was like, oh, my God.
	I mean, it literally is like war zone out there.
	I still can't get over how, ironically, people seriously put their pronouns on stuff now.
	And it's widespread.
	I mean, it used to be a Tumblrite meme, but no.
	But there are OnlyFans on stuff now, mate.
	I know.
	But it's, like...
	I mean, in fact, let's go to the next thing.
	So we'll just talk about this, right?
	So, beautiful woman.
	Beautiful.
	Unbelievably good-looking woman, right?
	Amanda Summer, here, 27, quit her job as a member of the cabin crew for Ryanair last year and turned to OnlyFans.
	She makes 15 grand a month.
	Beautiful.
	Swimming in money.
	She's raking it in, but she can't get a date.
	Obviously, yet another OnlyFans woman who can't get a date.
	She says, dating can be difficult, as people often become upset when they find out what she does for a living.
	It keeps happening.
	Guys I get with just keep finding out about her OnlyFans, and also get upset that I lie to them about what I do, but if I was up front with them, they would want nothing to do with me.
	So it's unbelievably beautiful women have to lie to get dates because of their OnlyFans.
	So this is the world you live in, man.
	It's not the world I live in.
	This has nothing to do with my life.
	I should have mentioned, remember when we did that segment on Tinder and I said that it's all full of whores?
	Yeah.
	I downloaded Tinder afterwards to make a point to a friend of mine.
	I just screenshotted the first 20 applications I got and it's ridiculous.
	Really?
	I've never used it.
	I'll show you after on my phone.
	It's just like, haw, haw, haw, haw.
	She's looking for Mr.
	Right.
	Is she with her tits out?
	Yeah, that's literally the opposite way of finding Mr.
	Right, ladies, just so you know.
	But the thing is, she says, I'm very frustrated because I just can't seem to hold down a boyfriend at all because of this.
	I think guys should be more open-minded.
	It's just not fair.
	Not fucking fair.
	It's not fair that you own 15 grand a month being an online prostitute.
	That's what's not fair.
	Like, and you'll sit there going, yeah, well, men should just be more open-minded.
	Who told you they should be more open-minded?
	Feminists.
	That's who.
	Who are like, no, sex work's real work.
	There's no difference between that and selling your labor in a factory or something.
	It's like, oh, there is.
	There's a massive difference.
	And that's why you, one of the most beautiful women who's ever existed, can't find a boyfriend.
	Yeah, that's People.
	Sex work's real work.
	It's no different to working in a factory.
	Well, do you want your daughter to work as a prostitute or in a factory?
	I'd rather a factory.
	Every time.
	Obviously.
	Any time you talk to a feminist in the factory.
	Yeah.
	Because it's not the same.
	Your mother wants her daughter to become a prostitute.
	Yeah.
	And so this is the sort of thing that Thomas is talking about in his Why Feminists Won't Talk About OnlyFans.
	Because essentially, they made this possible.
	They normalized...
	We can get to the next one, John.
	This is one of our new series that we have on lidsies.com.
	It's called Deep Think.
	This is like 6,000 words, but we do have an audio track, so if you don't want to read it, you can listen to it as an audiobook read by Jonathan Crowe's beautiful voice.
	But this is the point.
	By normalizing extreme sexuality and sex work like this, feminists have normalized the introduction of OnlyFans into the culture.
	If this was something that men and women both avoided, then this would not be the problem that it is.
	But of course, this leads on to various other things, and Thomas argues that this is actively facilitating the creation of an incel community.
	I think he makes quite a persuasive argument.
	But anyway, let's move on, because we've seen this before, like men won't date woke women.
	It's like, okay, try finding a non-woke Generation Z woman.
	They've all been indoctrinated into wokeism.
	And of course, Lawrence Fox was like talking about this and Godspeed for it.
	Dangerous rise.
	But this Vicky Spratt, she was furious.
	She was furious, right?
	Not wanting to date woke women, far from being laughable, is actually one of the more insidious aspects of this.
	You know what this reminds me of?
	Remember when you read that thing about, like, this leftist woman who was like, I just really want to be choked and really...
	By a right-wing, yeah.
	Yeah, in bed.
	It was just like, I reckon she's got the same syndrome.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	She's like, I'm not going for one of those beta soy boys.
	I enjoy dating right-wingers, but now they won't date woke people.
	Exactly, so she's not getting what she wants.
	Spend an afternoon on any major dating app and you'll come across generally white men saying openly sexist and misogynist things.
	They're stupid, sexy misogynists.
	They say, you know, no psychos or they hate big eyebrows and their bias.
	And by and large, they also tend to hold extremely right-wing views and see themselves as a victim of liberal thinking.
	Yeah, okay, men of right-wing, deal with it.
	They're not dating woke women.
	Victims as well.
	We have government policies that discriminate against them for jobs.
	And the irony of feminists going, oh, you see yourself as a victim.
	Oh, God, really?
	Are we really having that conversation?
	But anyway...
	This is, quote, apparently all very Donald Trump.
	It's like, good, good.
	It's a stupid, sexy Nazi.
	Because that's the thing, if she didn't want it as well, why is she complaining?
	Yeah, well, that's the thing.
	This is like a 3,000-word essay on how, oh, they won't have sex with me.
	But if she didn't want to have sex with them, she wouldn't care.
	She'd be like, well, thank God they finally will stop messaging me instead.
	Exactly.
	Now it's like, I can't believe I'm not getting it from those evil right-wingers.
	And so, like, this was all inspired by just this article I found on The Independent, right?
	And it is just...
	I just can't get over it, right?
	So let's first begin by looking at the woman.
	Effort made.
	Not just zero, negative.
	This is a person who has gone out of her way to be unattractive.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	She brushes her teeth.
	It's about the nicest thing I can say there.
	She brushes her teeth.
	She obviously doesn't get enough sleep.
	She's put no makeup on.
	She's obnoxious.
	And she's covering her hair.
	You know, this is one of those things.
	Women play with their hair when they think, oh, there's an attractive man.
	They start playing with their hair because they know that hair is an attractive thing that men are attractive.
	Boom.
	Cover it up.
	This is why...
	A lot like that.
	This is why women are supposed to come to their hair.
	It's about making yourself unattractive to the opposite sex.
	And she's done all of that, right?
	So just looking at her, she's gone out of her way to be unattractive.
	Okay, fine.
	We begin with Kira Bree.
	Bree-O, I think her name is, right?
	So she posted this video on TikTok, right?
	And she's complaining that men shouldn't expect a woman to split the bill on a date because this is the patriarchy.
	Remember, paying for the date is patriarchy, but also splitting the bill is patriarchy.
	Why are you thinking about this?
	Why are they thinking about this?
	This is deeply ideological thought.
	And of course, this got millions of views.
	What a bigger turn-off as well, if you're dating.
	Exactly.
	And someone starts telling you a feminist story, bye.
	Exactly.
	Men won't date women.
	Why not?
	Because all you get is this crap.
	And I'm not surprised.
	But that's the point, right?
	She should be thinking, right, okay, is he handsome or is he tall or does he earn a lot of money?
	Has he got all the characteristics I'm looking for in a man?
	Feminist.
	Is he funny?
	You know, do I like him?
	Do I get butterflies in my stomach when I'm around him?
	Instead, she's like, oh, you should be paying 50-50.
	Oh no, that's oppression.
	I shouldn't be paying because, you know, the wage gap, which is literally her argument, It's just like, what are you talking about?
	You're meant to be dating someone.
	You're meant to be forming a human attachment to someone.
	Not complaining about this crap.
	This is what I mean by totally ideologically corrupted, right?
	So she says, one of the most insidious and ridiculous effects of the patriarch is literally women paying 50-50.
	Men going around being like, is 2021 equal rights, right?
	You're going to pay 50-50, she continued.
	The fact that men expect 50-50 from women when women don't get 50% of anything.
	No, they get 80% of everything.
	What now?
	Literally 80% of consumer spending.
	Shut up.
	She further claimed that compared to men, women do not receive 50% of the money, safety, privilege, or space.
	And she's right, they get about 90% of it.
	Thankfully, we've got a live reaction from Bernie Sanders.
	If we can just play that.
	The American people are tired of women.
	Vote Bernie.
	I agree with him completely.
	But returning to the article.
	I love that clip so much.
	But pay, pay equal amounts, even though you don't have equal rights, right?
	Do you understand how ridiculous that is?
	Do you think you're getting a date?
	Do you think anyone's going on a date with you?
	You've done everything you can to make yourself a low-value woman anyway, and now you're like, right, now I'm going to whine about feminist theory on this date.
	Look, she's going for a very specific market, clearly.
	Clearly.
	She's reduced herself to the level of male feminists, and, well, therefore, well, you know what happens.
	And literally these male feminists are like, well, I think we should split it equally.
	Because they're male feminists.
	If she was dating a sexy right-winger...
	It's like a dangerous snake, though.
	It absolutely is.
	But if she was dating a sexy right-winger with a MAGA-chud with a MAGA cap on, he'd be like, yeah, I'll pay for that.
	Of course I will.
	Little lady.
	And I'm sure that'll go down great.
	No, no, no.
	She gets to that, John, about her paying for it, right?
	Then she says, it benefits men to say, oh yeah, I'm a feminist.
	I believe in women paying 50-50 on dinner dates.
	All ideological.
	Like, that's what they're talking about.
	Not, this is the kind of music I like.
	These are the films I like.
	This is the sport I play.
	No.
	Ideology.
	That's all these...
	I mean, how old is she?
	20?
	21?
	Ideology.
	You're not a human being.
	You're a talking point.
	You know, that's what this is.
	And she goes, it benefits men to say this, and that is the only time they believe in equality.
	Make his pockets hurt.
	Make his pockets hurt.
	I'm not paying for you.
	That's someone you want to date.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You've turned our first date into an adversarial contest.
	Why would I want to spend a second with you?
	Because that's what ideology does.
	Ideology is a striving for power.
	It's power over some random guy who is unfortunate enough to agree to go on a date with her.
	That's what she's looking for.
	Like, totally ideological.
	But it carries on, right?
	So, you know, go on about equal rights, blah, blah, blah.
	And then you get, like, the comments.
	And they've included a load of comments that people have posted.
	On this TikTok video, 480,000 views.
	And, you know, she's got, like, loads of followers and stuff like this.
	And so, like, a ton of men only want 50-50 financially, but it's never 50-50 domestic duties or child-rearing.
	Or even worse, equal rights, equal fights.
	Sorry, what's wrong with that?
	I'm on the Whoopi Goldberg train on this one.
	If you're going to punch a man, take a punch.
	Another person said, making less money than a man, working the same amount of hours, doing 90% of the housework, 50-50 is a scam.
	Do you believe any of these women do 90% of any housework?
	I reckon her room stinks.
	Exactly.
	Just absolute fraud on here.
	But anyway, so it carries on.
	And she says just stuff like this.
	Like, and I love this so much, right?
	So she spoke to BuzzFeed and alleged that women paying for half the day is an example of patriarchy because then men don't have to court.
	Do you know what courting a woman is?
	Of course you don't.
	But also, just hang on.
	Does she think that if you pay half, he's basically brought you for the night, like a prostitute?
	Well, it's about him not fulfilling the romantic frame of the relationship.
	I understand.
	That's her complaint.
	It's like, well, then he doesn't have to romance me.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Also, if a dude turned up and just offered you $100, love, do you think you just have to have sex with him?
	I mean, I'll check her anyways.
	I mean, apparently, yes.
	That's what she's saying there.
	I mean, that's the complaint.
	Yeah.
	But this is the point.
	It's ruining the idea of creating a sort of magical romance around the person.
	But the thing is, does she do anything that implies that she wants any kind of magical romance?
	No!
	She looks worse with makeup on.
	No, she doesn't.
	She looks perfectly normal and, you know, a normally attractive girl with makeup on and her hair down.
	I don't agree.
	Okay, well, she looks normal.
	She looks fine, right?
	There's nothing wrong with the way she looks.
	She can get a boyfriend.
	This thing, she says, the whole purpose of courting in the first place was because someone decided that women weren't allowed to have jobs.
	How is this an example of patriarchy if we've got rid of that?
	This is an example of patriarchy is men don't have to court if they pay 50-50.
	And so the whole purpose of courting was women, someone decided that women weren't allowed to have jobs.
	I mean, that's not true.
	No, courting is about making them like you.
	But also, no one ever prevented women from getting jobs.
	This is not true.
	It was a privilege that women didn't have to work.
	And you're not in that world anymore, so get used to getting to work.
	But she continues the effects.
	Again, total ideological disconnect from reality.
	None of this is true, right?
	They weren't allowed to have jobs or credit cards or own land.
	As if women were just like Rousseauian wandering around in the wilderness.
	Like, you know, what were they doing?
	They were married at 20.
	They had kids at 22.
	Like my parents did, in fact, only a couple of generations ago.
	This was normal.
	Like women like, you're not allowed to own land.
	So what are you talking about?
	They own a house.
	They're married.
	You know, she controls the domestic finances.
	Reminded of those Wojak memes where it's like, my parents are 20 on and they're buying a house and it's some woman with like, I've got a Starbucks.
	This feminist is like, women can own land.
	What are you saying?
	You know, like just there's some random woman in a castle somewhere going, if only I could buy this land I live on.
	You know, like, what are you talking about?
	Right?
	So she goes, the effects of that trickling down today.
	Imagine.
	There's still a wage gap, so it makes no sense for a woman to pay 50-50 before they are paid 50-50.
	And according to Pew Research, the wage gap has remained practically the same over 15 years.
	And in 100 years, it'll still be the same, because women work fewer hours than men.
	End of story.
	It's an earnings gap, not a wage gap.
	Yes, it is.
	And so she says, women don't make as much as men, so generally, if men are the ones inviting you out on the day, I think they should pay for the bill.
	Or why should they pay for all the bill?
	If they're making 60 and you're making 40, well then that's how you split the bill, surely.
	No, but I have to pay some money.
	You've turned this into a mere money transaction, as Marx would say.
	So, okay, what now?
	Why should I not just calculate your value?
	Well, how much is there any fans?
	Well, that's the point.
	This is now where we get to the Marxian theory of women's value that can be objectively calculated.
	I mean, this is the old joke.
	I've done it on you before, which is like, you know, you say some ugly celebrity, would you have sex with her for £10?
	No.
	Would you have sex with her with a million pounds?
	Maybe.
	And it's like, okay, so we've agreed what you are, but we're just negotiating.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And she says, well, women don't make as much money as men, so generally if men are the ones inviting you on a date, they should pay for the bill.
	If a woman makes more money than her partner, then she obviously should be contributing to the rent.
	It's like, really?
	Contributing to the rent?
	If she's making more money by this logic, how is it that she shouldn't be paying for all of it?
	But secondly, I like the way that the feminists have gone right the way round the circle and have now arrived back at the traditional position of the man should pay for things.
	Like they began with, oh no, men paying for things is patriarchy.
	Oh, men not paying for things is patriarchy.
	I should have the privilege as a woman to stay at home and have kids.
	That's exactly it!
	Because I'm a woman.
	Yeah, I as a woman should have the privilege of not paying for things.
	It's like, really, welcome to traditionalism.
	You know, why am I mad about this?
	Exactly.
	It's so ideological.
	And this is all the babbling that's coming out of my mouth about this.
	And it's like, God, I would never even think about, like, taking a person like this on a date.
	And I'm not surprised that young men are just like, pfft, no.
	Sigma grind set, you know?
	Like, SJW lady is just like, I want to stay at home and be a trad wife.
	Well, that's where she's got to.
	And so, you know, this is the point, isn't it?
	But again, why is anyone taking any kind of instruction from this single, childless, ideologically possessed lunatic?
	She doesn't know anything about the world.
	She doesn't know anything about dating.
	But what she does have is an ideology.
	Be silent.
	That might get you a date.
	And on that note, time to go to the video comments.
	Carl, you answered your own question when you identified America as basically a monarchy with a Republican veneer.
	The United States is how you create a modern monarchy.
	We just chose to elect our monarchy and call them a president and restrict their power.
	So it's already been done.
	Yeah.
	This is something that Americans constantly say as if they're the first ones to bloody invent it, but monarchs don't have unlimited power.
	Oh, Americans, right?
	You don't understand monarchy because your country was founded on people whose sole mission was to demonize the institution.
	And not that I'm even a monarchist.
	I'm just like, look, you're just, boo.
	What, me?
	You're not a monarchist.
	Oh, well, not particularly.
	I don't really have an ideological position on it, but there's this American assumption that monarchs just have unlimited power, and that's just not true.
	I mean, you got all of this from England, where we have a monarch who doesn't have unlimited power.
	Don't know what to tell you.
	Anyway, sorry, it's just frustrating.
	Americans constantly saying, it's like, you just...
	Also, I don't know how many kings were elected throughout history.
	I know of the Polish one, I don't know any others.
	I mean, like Harold Godwinson was elected by nobles, not universal suffrage or something.
	Wait, is he the one that went up to the North and then down South to fight?
	Yeah.
	I mean, yeah, the Anglo-Saxons did have a sort of semi-elective monarchy when times were...
	I mean, like Edward the Confessor didn't have any kids, so you had to choose someone.
	I'm going to recommend a song, I think I've sent it to you, which is called...
	It's Stamford Bridge, I think it's called, and it's a Norse song in which the Norse are complaining that basically they've been hard done by.
	Because they went all the way to Stamford Bridge and then got beat by the evil English.
	We should have just let them win.
	It's just like, we've been done over.
	It's like, what are you doing in a foreign country invading?
	Yeah, send me that so I just send it to Arch.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So I have met quite a few British guys within Texas.
	There seems to be a lot more within Texas than anywhere else.
	And he does kill us through covered food.
	And according to him, he was the royal chef for Princess Diana and has even served people like Bill Clinton a lot.
	I met him about six years ago, and he resides a little in between Houston and Dallas, somewhere around there.
	But a really cool guy.
	I do like good food.
	All right.
	Well, there you are.
	Recommendations for good food.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Didn't you say that he was incompetent and couldn't do his job properly?
	We do not and cannot accept the principle that incompetence justifies dismissal.
	That is victimization.
	1959's I'm Alright Jack has an optimistic man out of the army looking for employment.
	Despite his upper-crust background, he joins industry where his can-do attitude riles with management and unions who are looking to feather their own pockets.
	Well, in that case, everything's absolutely splendid and the fellow can stay on.
	Well, I think we can all congratulate ourselves on a most productive morning's work.
	You know what's really weird about the past, looking at it from the modern day, especially in British politics, is when people seem to accept that unions and companies discussing things was totally normal and the right way to do things, and it would never lead to any kind of corruption in the unions, and then you ended up with the winter of discontent in the end of all that thought process.
	A lot more optimistic about it than I am.
	I don't know, I used to be pro-union, I think I've told you, and then you asked me once, name a union that's done some good and I couldn't.
	I would be pro-union if they were run by Republicans, I think.
	Yeah.
	Or like the Conservatives.
	I mean, like the Free Speech Union is one, but it's a bit of a weird union.
	Well, I mean, we can't exactly hold the management hostage.
	No.
	Because there isn't a management.
	I'd like to speak to the Free Speech President, please.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Like, I don't mean Toby Young, I mean God.
	Yeah, well, I mean the government, I guess.
	But like, yeah, I mean, I do struggle to think of a union that's been any good.
	I mean, there probably were, like, if you go back 100 years, where, like, these were real, like, exploitative labour conditions and stuff like that.
	It probably is a legitimate argument from the socialists on that side, where it's like, look, these unions got, like, you know, paid holidays and stuff like that.
	Yeah, that's probably true.
	In fact, that's who I'm going to start cursing.
	Now I have to pay paid holidays.
	It always seems like a bit of a rosy view of the past.
	I think it was Lee.
	I don't know if it was you debating him or something.
	Possibly.
	He was talking about it.
	He was like, no, the evil industrialists who had built these factories couldn't get the application through fast enough.
	They had so many people applying for the jobs.
	Because the job, even at the time, was way better than being out in the field for 12 hours.
	So it's this rose-tinted view of how awful it would be to work at a factory where you might lose a finger and whatnot.
	And yeah, it sounds terrible to us, but compare that to 12 hours on the farm.
	Don't look so bad.
	That was V's point anyway.
	We'll have to investigate it.
	Ooh, let's go to the next one.
	XCOM. See, I didn't like the new XCOM game.
	Which one?
	Because there's two of these.
	Well, yeah, the new era.
	Okay.
	The old UFO, Enemy Unknown, and Terror from the Deep were amazing.
	Played them to death.
	But I just didn't like this new one.
	Didn't have the right feel.
	I hadn't played the old ones, so I didn't have any preconceptions.
	I probably should go back.
	Another thing is, you only get like six guys with this.
	Yeah.
	And there are like a dozen aliens or something, right?
	That inverts the dynamic totally.
	Because in the old X-Con, you could take like 20 guys or something like that, and there'd only be like three or four aliens.
	But the aliens were unbelievably scary, and they could easily kill you guys.
	And so it was a lot more difficult.
	It was excellent.
	Also, the percentage chance to hit in this game is clearly broken.
	Is it?
	It's just fake.
	Because you'll get like 99% chance to hit and miss three shots.
	There is that.
	Let's go to the next one.
	A book I'd like to recommend is Jam by Yatsik Rasu.
	The first sentence reads, I woke up one morning to find that the entire city had been covered in a three-foot layer of man-eating jam.
	Alright.
	Interesting.
	I think there's a children's store that is like that.
	It's going to be a Roald Dahl one, isn't it?
	Let's get that one.
	Under the hood, the Power Armor arms are powered by a 40-volt tool battery, and they move with electrical recliner motors.
	But no computers here, just automotive relays to move motors back and forth with push buttons and a 3D-printed casing.
	Brings and the legs passively hold up the armor.
	And aluminum flashing is a cheap way to quickly test out panel configuration, so this prototype more or less proves that a Power Armor frame can be made for under 500 bucks.
	Ceramic bullet-resistant plating will come later.
	Love it.
	I mean, yeah, I'm sure DARPA have looked into this at some point.
	I want to see it.
	Just step one to conquering the galaxy, mate, don't worry, I'm behind you.
	I mean, the Space Force will end up having a military arm of actual guys who fight, and they will be called Space Marines, so...
	They're going to need armour!
	United States Marine Corps.
	Let's go to the next one.
	The bare copper wires are bond wires, more commonly known as grounds.
	They're part of the circuit protection system.
	You gotta be careful when working with them in a live panel like this because all of those shiny metal strips you see in the center are hot and if I were to let the ground wire touch any of them it would short out and damage the panel and possibly cause injury to me.
	Don't work in a panel if you don't know what you're doing.
	Good advice.
	Yes.
	Good advice almost anywhere, though.
	Don't touch it if you don't know what you're doing.
	Like, I mean, advice to give to my son with almost anything.
	I don't know if he does this, but I am going to ask a question.
	You know when you move house and you have to change the internet?
	Yeah.
	Is it really true that the guy just goes down with a screwdriver and just, like, flicks a thing?
	I have no idea.
	That's what I'm asking.
	Yeah, I'd like to know.
	Because you always end up having to wait a day or pay some money or something.
	You know, wait like a week and come out and just, like, yeah, do something.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next one.
	It's a big scam.
	I found it very intriguing yesterday when Callum and Harry said that they had to appeal to magic, or the power of collective human agreement, in order to believe in things like justice.
	I think this perfectly illustrates one of the primary differences between the worldview of Christians and the worldview of virtuous pagans, because Christians don't have to appeal to magic.
	They merely point to Jesus Christ, who is the personification of justice, also truth and beauty.
	And unlike human opinion, which changes all the time, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
	But then you have to believe in Jesus Christ.
	How is that not magic, though?
	And not just from the atheist perspective, of course, because an atheist doesn't believe it happened or whatever.
	Sure.
	It's even if you're a Christian, you're believing in the thing.
	I like the definition of magic that you gave there, though.
	It was a collective human agreement.
	Yeah.
	That's a fantastic definition of magic.
	I will be stealing that, thank you.
	But, like, this is the point, though, isn't it?
	It's collective human agreement that Jesus Christ was God.
	It's like, okay, that's magic.
	Sorry, you know...
	Let's go to the next one.
	Tony D and Little Joan with some of the things named after the Jersey Devil.
	The 177th Fighter Wing in the Air National Guard is called the Fighting Jersey Devils.
	There's J.D.'s Pub and Grill, home of the Jersey Devil, in Leeds Point, New Jersey, right where it was born.
	Jersey Devil Golf and Fun Center, feel like miniature golf, driving range, and ice cream.
	The Jersey Devil roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey.
	And, of course, the NHL hockey team, the New Jersey Devils.
	I'm slowly getting the impression if you visit Jersey, it's like visiting North Korea and New Jersey.
	They just talk about Kim Jong-un the whole time, and it's just like, have you heard of the Jersey Devil?
	You're walking around.
	By the way, this place is haunted.
	Just every conversation with every random stranger is going to end up being that.
	Thanks, man.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So yeah, from Tuesday, all restrictions are to be lifted in Denmark.
	Again!
	Fool me once!
	And I had to install this app on my phone to access my own bank account.
	Big brother?
	Mr.
	Xi Jinping?
	I can't stand all these restrictions.
	You can't help but sympathise.
	No, thank God Boris found himself in a massive scandal.
	Yeah, I was going to say, how the hell did you guys get that?
	Because, I mean, we did it with some birthday parties and a cake, apparently.
	And what did the Danish promise do?
	On the plus side, apparently it's been an instructive lesson to other countries.
	Isn't the Netherlands reducing the restrictions soon as well?
	I'm unaware.
	I'm sure I saw something like that.
	But basically, Boris is like, okay, we're abolishing the restrictions.
	It took a British cock-up for the world to realise.
	Oh, hang on.
	Yeah, actually, they seem to be doing okay.
	Maybe we could do the same.
	So, yeah.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Anyway, Sarah says, birth control has been available for men for at least the last 10 years.
	And, well, I never got to the adventure that having kids was.
	Biology sometimes sucks.
	Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong.
	I don't mean to make people feel bad if literally, you know, they're biologically unable to have kids or something like this.
	Obviously, that's not a choice.
	But it is not women's job to populate.
	It kind of is.
	That's the thing.
	It kind of is.
	It's our responsibility to show young people how rewarding a stable family is.
	That's true.
	Two guys, two girls, or a heterosexual relationship.
	If we could show how rewarding and exciting it is to have a family, we'd be much better off.
	Well, I mean, I totally agree, but the thing is, I think there is an obligation that I will write a video about.
	I think there is a sort of...
	I assume she's arguing that it's societies or the governments, because they're demonising of having a family, rather than women as a group's responsibility.
	That seems to be passing the buck.
	Possibly.
	I don't know why she would say it's not women's job to populate.
	Well, that's why I say it.
	You think, well, whose is it?
	Yeah, well, this is the only people that we've got who can do it.
	That's why I assume she's making the point that, well, it's the demonization that's made this happen.
	Sure.
	And it's the attitude.
	But like saying, well, you know, if we say, you know, women as a group and we could show how exciting and rewarding it is, say, yeah, we can do that and we should do that.
	But I don't think that changes the fact that ultimately women have an obligation.
	You know, and you say, well, there's women as a group.
	Yeah, but that means each woman.
	Like, there's no, you know, obviously people who can't reproduce are exempt from this, but like, I do think there is an obligation there.
	I'm not going to back down on this either.
	But anyway, Lost Alone says, always worth mentioning that net migration figure covers how big the population change is.
	Those who leave in the UK are Brits, those who are having a nut.
	No, I've actually seen the statistics on this.
	So there's about 85,000 Brits leave every year.
	And then there is a small number that come back, something like 10,000 or something like that, that come back.
	So about 300,000 who are leaving, roughly, are foreigners.
	so we can see we're a nomadic way station for a lot of those be students who come over here study for like three years and then just go back student history says what will fix demographic collapse have you considered repeated outbreaks of irish twins a veritable pandemic of pregnancy government and social policies that would encourage monogamy marriage and children nope a five percent migrant as a surf a five cent migrant as a surf and say this will work fine yeah exactly Do you know the Danish advertisement for this?
	Do it for Denmark?
	Yeah.
	You've seen that?
	Yeah, and it works.
	It raised the population.
	It raised the birth rate.
	Go to Paris.
	I mean, I don't think we should do it in the Danish way, but...
	Also, Paris isn't very sexy these days.
	No.
	Free Will says, the Western European cultures probably only have 50 years of life left in them, if that.
	It's probably too late to stop the demise because the authorities now have control and are committed to achieving their aims.
	There is no way to make them change course as all the parties are committed to it and the state apparatus support this globalist position.
	European civilization will only continue in Eastern Europe and Russia if they manage to reverse their own demographic decline.
	Yeah, that's the problem.
	Eastern Europe is basically a shrinking block because people are leaving it.
	But then, after all, once the West has collapsed, maybe people will return there.
	There was an interesting conversation we had.
	I think it was just some random poll when we were over there.
	And we mentioned the fact that lots of polls have come to here.
	And he was like, well, yeah, they have to come back.
	And you need them back.
	And the guy was like, oh, yeah.
	And wages have risen in Poland because of labour shortages and things like this.
	S.H. Silver says, the only solace one can have here is that China is about to be hit even harder by the time bomb, not because of neoliberal decadence, but because of their top-down population control.
	That's true.
	People don't realise that they had a one-child policy for like two decades or something, and so now they're going to have a glut of old people and very few young people.
	Anyone want to move to China?
	China has scrapped the one-child policy in favour of the three-child one.
	How is the West going to try and solve things with a liberal model?
	Good question.
	Christopher...
	I'm not saying I even know what the answer is, but I think it begins with this attitude that came from the doctor.
	Well, not having children is a choice.
	Yeah, bad one.
	It's like murdering someone's a choice, a bad one, you know?
	Being a suicide bomber's a choice, a bad one, you know?
	These are all things that have terrible consequences, so you need to start thinking about that.
	Personal responsibility.
	Christopher says, America already seems on track to more than replace our declining populations.
	According to our Border Patrol, they had 65,000 immigrants a month since March 2021, so 1.6 million coming through our southern border in less than a year.
	Yeah, that's mad, isn't it?
	Absolutely mad.
	The estimate does not include the ones our own government is smuggling and bypassing the border or the ones coming through the eastern US through visas and legal immigration.
	Yeah, you get a million legal immigrants as well a year in America.
	Like net.
	Apparently the sophisticated administrative class has been deciding our fates for a long time and apparently the free whites are meant to disappear in favour of refugee serfs for the generation of vampiric lunatics who both voted for expanding and enforced social security and looted it for welfare and programmes to care for the ever-increasing number of poor immigrants.
	I'd be willing to bet that there's a decent portion of our younger people that have not chosen to reproduce out of pure spite.
	It's highly possible.
	On the border thing, I do wonder.
	There's always been a bit of a meme of like, oh, what if the US militarized the border to stop the immigration?
	Because that does work.
	Yeah.
	There's no denying that.
	The Polish have shown us the way.
	Yeah, a lot of other countries as well.
	I am wondering if Trump does win in his next rerun.
	Like, screw it, he might actually, I think it may be worthwhile him proposing, look, we'll make National Guard troops available to states that request it, and that's up to you, because of course Texas and whatnot will, and California won't, and then they'll just have to deal with the images of just people pouring and pouring and pouring.
	Put up a fence around the states that border California.
	Yeah, but if you want to try and red pill...
	California can just become a part of Mexico.
	I mean, eventually it'll vote to become a part of Mexico.
	Fine.
	But if you want to red pill California and also solve the issue for a lot of other states, that is fundamentally the way to do it, it seems.
	Because the border wall was funded, did have its effect.
	You can look at Trump's migration figures.
	But you've got to get tougher, apparently.
	Adrian says, I'm 24 and a genuine connection with the opposite sex feels like an unattainable dream.
	I just want to be a father one day.
	So far I've made zero progress in that regard.
	Man, good luck.
	This is why I do segments like this, because I can tell this is a real problem.
	You know, I hear from so many people, I know this is a real problem.
	And it's not just in one place either.
	If it was like, you know, men in Canada or something, I just can't find a girlfriend, eh?
	I'd be like, okay, well, that's a Canadian problem, you know.
	Go somewhere else.
	But it's not.
	There's nowhere else you can go.
	It's all over the West.
	Justin says, I'm part of the problem.
	I have virtually no social skills when it comes to dating.
	Well, that's because there weren't men around telling you how you should be treating women.
	Courting, it was called.
	I mean, I remember when I was 16 and my nan, or no, it was my uncle, I think, asked me, are you courting anyone?
	I was just like...
	A strange, old-timey term.
	But the thing is, there was a reason that they had it.
	There's a reason that this worked.
	There's a reason that they were all married before they were 25.
	They all had a big brood of kids.
	This does work.
	It is a way of doing things.
	But the thing is, it means essentially saying, well, that 50 years of feminism wasn't successful then, was it?
	Women were wrong.
	Academics, left-wingers, we're wrong.
	And we need to change the way we do things.
	And there's no way that we're going to be able to persuade our own civilization, actually.
	Maybe we should, like, take some responsibility for what we're doing?
	Instead of being childless, soma-drinking loners?
	I don't know why it's so difficult to persuade people that's bad.
	I'm not discounting anything you're saying, but it is very much like a very long-winded way of saying people should go and F. No.
	They should.
	They should go and have kids as well.
	No, because then they'll produce single parents.
	That's a terrible idea.
	Yeah, that's not what I'm saying at all.
	I'm assuming, of course, actual relationship and not just being a whore.
	What I'm saying is Jordan Peterson's right about enforced monogamy, basically.
	You know, this is the problem.
	Anyway.
	Anyway, so yeah.
	But yeah, Justin, basically the same as Adrian there.
	Harry says, becoming an OAP and having your ass wiped by a deracinated economic mercenary in a dying country isn't what your forefathers fought and died for.
	True.
	Like, this global nomad is being paid to wipe your ass and psychologically abuse you.
	And then they'll go tell the World Health Organization, yeah, I do occasionally.
	I do kind of hate this phrasing, though.
	This is completely separate to the topic, but it's just, you know, when people say, you know, the guys in Normandy, what do they die for?
	Just from the people I've met who had, like, parents in the war or whatever, it's usually just to kill some bloody Germans.
	Yeah, but the reason they want to kill some Germans is because Germans are threatening British civilization.
	German's bad.
	Yeah, but now it's not Germans that are threatening British civilisation.
	It is ourselves.
	It is left-wing ideology that is crushing us.
	Anyway, Callum says, having migrants replace people who are not born is not a solution.
	Correct.
	For one, it leads to much of the trouble we're having now, which it does.
	It's also something the tower would do.
	Sterilise the existing population, indoctrinate what kids they have, and have their own people come in and replace the existing population over the course of years.
	Yep, space communism in action, in space and present reality.
	It's not wrong.
	So on the anti-work leftist, Alfred the Beta says, 1918, workers of the world unite.
	2022, non-workers of the world unite.
	That's exactly where we are!
	There was a splinter group of this, let's say, subreddit, who have renamed themselves as reform work instead of anti-work.
	Which I would support.
	Which is what they were actually looking for, which is, you know, bad bosses, bad.
	But that's not socialist theory, that's actually capitalist theory.
	Yes.
	Because, well, yeah, if you've got a bad boss, you get rid of your productive employees, then your business is not as productive...
	Business fails, yeah.
	Simple as.
	uh chris wolf says taking a walk in the woods can teach you a lot about the world even business you notice how the largest and tallest trees profit from the most sunlight and nutrients and the forest below exists because of the environment and opportunity that these skyscrapers have created the saplings would be swept away in the wind without the collection of resources and opportunity that the large trees provide hell the seeds would never have fallen in the first place never forget what the trees provide to the saplings okay
	that's sounding like a josh argument for the pro trees us the hedgerows - Fuck.
	This is a debate in the office about whether we should have woods or hedgerows in England.
	Josh hasn't made yet a compelling case for the trees, but this is quite a compelling case.
	We need the woods.
	We've got to be able to hide in them.
	But we need the hedgerows.
	The hedgerows are the embodiment of tradition.
	Anglo-Saxons in the woods.
	Englishmen in their fields and hedgerows.
	Radnor Muriel?
	Look, you're perhaps not going to find some deep meaning and purpose solely from your job, stacking whatever boxes, but if doing that job is allowing to support a spouse and raise some kids, or whatever gives you meaning in life, but we should be focusing on those kids, that is the purpose.
	But that's the problem, isn't it?
	That are happening.
	Yeah.
	Bunch of childless singletons stacking boxes going, I hate this.
	Why am I doing this?
	I don't disagree.
	I would be the same.
	He's going to eat purr over there.
	He doesn't know why he walks the dogs.
	Yeah.
	Just to pay the rent.
	He's like, I'm just doing this so I don't have to starve.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, imagine if he had something else to do it for.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Justin B says it would be good to see Dorian, in quotes, try to be a teacher.
	Doreen?
	I thought it was Dorian.
	I can't remember.
	I used to be one and I can tell you only about 40% of your work is done in the classroom.
	Can we get this up, Josh?
	Leader of the Anti-Walker.
	The Imperial Herald, which is my favourite Warhammer news site.
	Is this their newest thing?
	Slacktivism over there.
	Destroys the movement in one interview.
	Love it.
	Love the Imperial Herald.
	Good guys.
	Where was I? Freewill2112 says, I wonder if the CCP tolerate the Anti-Walker meme.
	I doubt it.
	Student of history says, Ah yes, work bad.
	Therefore, eject the workers.
	Set up UBI. Import surf working class.
	The Middle Eastern model confirmed.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that is the Saudi model.
	It's the Saudi model, yeah.
	M1 Ping, I don't know what's a bigger waste of my tax money, gender studies in Pakistan, or whatever safety net program is keeping that Reddit moderator from starving.
	Well, I mean...
	He does walk the dogs.
	Gender studies in Pakistan is actually a very savvy geopolitical move, because Pakistan, Delanda Est...
	Alright, there's no more Pakistan to learn to ask than me, and even I don't agree with that.
	Well, it'd destroy Pakistan.
	Look what it's done to us.
	I still think it's too...
	Pakistan don't have...
	It's too bad.
	It's too evil, even for our worst enemies.
	I mean, they may fund the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, but...
	At least they've got some morals.
	They do.
	I mean, they both declared war on ISIS, so how bad can they be?
	Oh, yeah.
	look i i don't trust the sdw is not to support isis uh the land of white people says i've had experience of a toxic workplace like that here in the uk my crime not working excessively over time for one day of the week so i could go food shopping whilst the shops were actually open the rest of the week
	i worked over 30 hours more over time than any other member of staff came so close to quitting when that was brought up in a staff meeting and you probably should have done as well it's just the Yeah, I mean, not appreciating, especially the most productive workers, is just a road to self-destruction.
	Let's go to the young people, because we're running out of time.
	Okay.
	Omar says, it's mind-boggling how many women just don't understand that the reason they can earn so much is doing something so easy is because they're selling something.
	Their dignity, exclusivity, and privacy.
	Fottery is like spending money on a credit card versus using cash.
	It's intangible and invisible, so they treat it like it's not theirs that they're using.
	But at the end of the month, the bill always comes due and usually costs more, and you think that is fantastic.
	Omar, your contributions are always fantastic, right?
	Yeah.
	His comments are always brilliant, and that is an absolutely cutting insight.
	Some 4chan, I decided to summarize it as you pay with your soul.
	Yes, that's exactly what you're saying.
	There is dignity, exclusivity, and privacy, and it's a credit card.
	You can't tell, but you're getting all this money now, and okay, but now, a year later, no one will date you, and you're sad, and you're lonely.
	How is this happening?
	I'm such a high-value woman.
	It's like, no, you were such a high-value woman, and you cashed that in for money.
	Henry says, Yeah, basically.
	Yeah.
	Great question.
	You went on the whorehouse that was Tinder?
	Did you find a wife?
	No.
	I made a point, though.
	I'll make the point later.
	I'll show you the pictures.
	Seriously.
	I bet.
	I was talking to Lauren Chen as well.
	She was asking me about something I can't remember what.
	And we got onto the topic of the Tinder thing, and she was like...
	I think she mentioned, yeah, it's bad.
	I just sent up one of the photos and just went, yeah, you think Amy here is really looking for a husband?
	And Amy is, as she looks...
	Yeah.
	We're out of time, so I'll end it here.
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