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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 1st of March 2022.
	I'm joined by Leo.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about, well, Ukraine's fallout and the fallout into the West.
	Yeah, not nuclear fallout this week.
	That's next week.
	That's, you know, wait another week and then we'll find the news.
	So there's also a hashtag NoJokesOnUs, a segment with trans people trying to ban comedy, or at least some.
	And also Black History Year slash Century slash Millennium.
	I don't know.
	Black History Forever is going to be the theme of Vox.com, at least.
	But we'll get into that in a minute.
	So first things to mention on the website is the new stuff up.
	So first things to mention being, of course, the...
	Rudyard Kipling Collection, number one, The Land.
	So this is John who decided to go through, John Wheatley, who decided to go and do the Rudyard Kipling stuff.
	So go and check that out.
	That one's free.
	If we go to the next one, we can see another article.
	This is from Hugo.
	Let's turn criminal justice into actual justice.
	And that one has, I presume, an audio track as well for Silver and Gold Team members, if you'd like to go ahead and listen instead of reading.
	We go to the next link.
	We have Sir Thomas Moore versus Galileo Galilei.
	Very Italian name.
	Who reads the audio versions, by the way?
	Jonathan Crowe.
	Jonathan Crowe?
	Yeah.
	Who's Jonathan Crowe?
	So he's a chap who was a Gold Team member, and he sent, I think it was some video messages.
	And everyone just really liked his voice.
	We were like, you want to do the audio?
	Yeah.
	So that's how that works.
	There's also a new article here from Bo on Sir Thomas Moore versus Galileo Galilei.
	I believe that one is also free, so go and check that out on the website.
	Good queen lyric there.
	If we go to the next one, we'll see another premium video.
	This is Jason Miller's interview with Carl, the CEO of Getter.com.
	And you can see the questions that were asked there.
	I made sure that Carl should ask some questions that I know a lot of people have been wondering about with Getter as well.
	So do go and check that one out.
	And if we go to the next link, we'll see Putin's War of Lost Glory by Hugo again here.
	This one also being free on the website.
	So, go and check that out.
	Do we have one more?
	Oh, yes.
	You.
	Oh, yeah.
	Did you have this?
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, that's me on Instagram.
	I don't know why it's there, but yeah.
	Follow me on Instagram.
	I can see your pronouns there.
	That's my gender pronouns.
	Make sure you get them correct, or I will be reporting you to the police.
	Keep it in mind as we go forward.
	I certainly will.
	So let's get into the news.
	Right.
	The Ukrainian fallout, or the Ukrainian front and the fallout thereof that is going on.
	Not nuclear, of course, yeah, hopefully, forever.
	But we will start off with a map of the current situation.
	again using institute for the study of war just because i can you know rely on the fact that it's probably most accurate as you can see the invasion going ahead getting more forwards and looking worse as it always does that's that so if we move forward we can see some of the responses or some things that have taken place since yesterday we spoke and this one being the president of ukraine signing an emergency application for the eu whilst like everything around him is barricaded and everyone's in soldiers uniforms it's just okay this is this everything's fine everything's fine yeah no
	i mean like i mean obviously it's not fine but i mean this is i find this absolutely you know putin was all like oh i'm gonna teach nato i'm gonna teach the eu a lesson what What, by unifying them, making them spend a lot more on their military, by, you know, putting a flame under the feet of NATO, bring them all together?
	There has been that response.
	I have noticed the EU is becoming more and more solidified in the nation as well, of course, as is the dream, European nation.
	Yeah, and of course militarily, the UK, even though we've left the EU as a kind of trading bloc, we're still very militarily involved.
	You know, through NATO, we're all allied.
	So, you know, we're still, the UK is still in Europe when it comes to military.
	There is that backlash.
	If we go to the next link, we can also see some of the desperate actions of the Ukrainians, at least this one, for example.
	Ukrainian prison inmates with combat experience being released under the commitment to fight for the country.
	So we're setting up penal battalions.
	Yeah.
	Ukrainian defenses.
	Quite right.
	Should do that in this country.
	That's incredibly desperate actions, though.
	Like, it's the kind of thing you do when you're running out of manpower.
	But I guess they're doing anything they can.
	Yeah, suicide squad, as John says, for some of this.
	I imagine not so much, unless they've got the guns behind them as well.
	Now, if you go to the next link, we can also see the heavy weapons being used by the Russians.
	So this one is some missile that comes out, just blows up in the middle of some admin building, a bunch of cars around it.
	Don't know about that.
	Yeah, that's not fun.
	I saw a video that was taken from inside that building as well.
	It's just hell.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see people taking footage, supposedly, of artillery being used.
	Again, not out of the realms of imagination.
	A lot of Putin apologists have been saying, oh, Russia's not targeting civilian areas.
	They're trying to spare the civilian population.
	I mean, that is definitely a residential block.
	Yes, you could say it's complex because, of course, where are the units also going to be?
	Well, it's urban warfare.
	I don't know what the deal is.
	This is what somebody was saying, like, oh, but the guns, the Ukrainian guns are in urban areas.
	And it's like, well, they're not going to put them in the middle of a field where they can easily be spotted and blown up.
	Yeah, it's just why it's not easy.
	I mean, like, the fact that you've also given the civilian population AK-47s for everyone, I imagine it's very complex.
	Another thing they should do in this country.
	I agree with that.
	A lot fewer burglaries.
	There certainly would be.
	But this has brought up a debate.
	I couldn't get the link, but there was some former NATO general on British Newsnight the other day, or yesterday, saying that because of the heavier weapons that are being used, his prediction is that the British public and the public of the West...
	We'll then demand action from NATO, specifically a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which will then escalate the whole thing.
	Yeah.
	Maybe turn it into World War III. But I mean, I think the Western public can demand what they like, but the governments in the West aren't going to do certain things.
	Hopefully.
	Yeah, yeah.
	He gave the example of...
	Serbia, and that being driven by public opinion, but this hopefully is more careful because of the seriousness of the situation.
	I mean, if it gets to a certain point, then I think NATO countries, or maybe not NATO, but NATO countries, will take action.
	Because we can't see the indiscriminate slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians.
	It's certainly not when Russia's doing it.
	It's all right when we do it.
	No, but there is...
	People are like, what about Yemen?
	What about Afghanistan?
	What about Iraq?
	And it's like, well, this is a European country.
	If we're talking about ideologies, this is a Western liberal.
	I mean, I know it's been part of the Soviet Union before, but the people in Ukraine want to be in Europe.
	The people in Russia want to be in Europe.
	You know what I mean?
	It's ridiculous to assume that Putin speaks for Russia.
	Putin's going to end this hanging from some piano wire from a lamppost.
	What even needs to be a lamppost because he's so small?
	Just like a little hanging from that incense stick.
	It's your geopolitical prediction.
	My last proper job was working for the Foreign Office.
	I worked for BAE Systems for years.
	I was a national security consultant, so I can pull as many opinions out of my ass as I want.
	Fair enough, if you think you've got the expertise for it.
	I'm staying away, I've said repeatedly through these segments.
	You haven't been here, but it's just...
	I don't know.
	So I'm just being like, meh, because stuff's going on.
	My prediction is within a couple of weeks, Putin could go.
	There's going to be a palace coup.
	My extra crazy long shot prediction is China.
	China will annex Russia because it needs Russia's resources.
	I'm not even joking.
	And Russia's shown that it's militarily weak.
	This was supposed to show how strong Russia is.
	I mean, oh my God, they can't even...
	It's flat land.
	You can't even roll over.
	You've got all these tanks and stuff and you're just getting bogged down and getting lost.
	Well, there we are.
	That's the future for us in Siberia.
	I'm embarrassed for Putin.
	It's like, on the one hand, I think he's a terrible, despotic dictator.
	On the other hand, I'm like, oh my god, I feel sorry for the guy.
	Nobody's ever messed up this badly.
	Not since I worked at Haringey Council.
	We'll see how it goes.
	But the mention here I want to bring up, because we mentioned about nuclear war.
	Dominic Cummings has come out of nowhere and decided to tweet about this, which is interesting, and I think it is noteworthy with his connections, let's say.
	And as you can see him saying, So that's Dominic's opinion on this.
	But Dominic Cummings looks like Robocop when he takes his helmet off, so he'd be fine in a post-apocalyptic disaster.
	He'd be serving someone.
	The real danger with nuclear war is Putin is acting based on emotion.
	He's not acting based on any sort of calculus that a normal, rational leader would make.
	He's acting very emotionally.
	He thinks he's got a destiny with history.
	And that's when people escalate and they're willing to die and all the bad stuff that leads to us getting evaporated.
	I don't know.
	I don't know his motivations.
	I know everything because I went on Twitter and YouTube for half an hour.
	I checked out Hassan Han's tweets.
	There are a lot of people with Ukrainian flags, all of a sudden, who are all living in California, who told me.
	So if we go to the next moment, we can also see Dominic Cummings backing us up with a statement, which is kind of annoying me, at least the thing he mentions, which is, when Russia invaded Hungary in 1956, Eisenhower didn't babble about Munich and start a nuclear war.
	The West had a patient long-term strategy for containment, deterrence, and ultimately bankrupting the regime.
	Not Twitter hysteria friendly, but that's what is needed.
	And I've also been annoyed by this.
	People are being like, well, this is just Hitler 2.0.
	There are other things in the world than Hitler.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But it is basically Hitler 2.0.
	But also, that's what we're doing.
	We've now got a long-term strategy and quite a near-term strategy for containment and bankrupting Putin's regime.
	And the thing is, because it's a gangster state, At least with the communist hierarchy, there was some sort of power structure in there where it wasn't entirely personality-led.
	With it being a gangster state, the people round about Putin that supported him and he needs his allies are all not earning anymore.
	They can't comfortably live in London and send their kids to posh schools, so they're going to want regime change.
	They're going to want a palace coup, and that's when it could happen.
	I did see Mikhail Svetov was saying that some of the oligarchs who are known for backing Putin all of a sudden were tweeting while putting it on a telegram of EK that they were unhappy.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And China!
	China as well!
	Sharing Ukrainian videos is a real sign that China's not behind Putin.
	China doesn't like chaos.
	They want to take over the world but in an orderly way.
	Without economic disruption.
	If we go to the next link, we can also see, well, if nuclear war does break out, don't worry.
	Joseph R. Biden has issued guidance for everyone of what to do, which is that fallout is very dangerous, of course.
	If we go to the second image on here, you can see his advice.
	Stay inside.
	Stay inside for 24 hours unless local authorities provide other instructions.
	Continue to practice social distancing.
	By wearing a mask and keeping a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household.
	No!
	Social distancing!
	So what if the fallout shelter's not big enough for both of you?
	Is one of you going to have to stand in the yard under the raining nuclear fallout?
	Like that Simpsons episode where Ned gets kicked out.
	Because you wouldn't want to get Omicron and get a scratchy throat for a few days.
	So we go to the next link, we can see some of the memes in response to that, of course.
	You can see the fallout guy there wearing his mask and social distancing, folks.
	If we go to the next link, we can also see some more Trump delusion from the left-wing camps in America.
	So this is one commentator on MSNBC who decided to say, Trump was installed as the President of the United States, remember, by the Russians...
	In order to weaken the alliances that were preventing Putin from achieving his goals, alliances like NATO, our relationship with our European partners with Ukraine.
	Remember, because when you install a puppet, you wait until he's out of office, and then launch the invasion.
	Remember, that's how you utilize a puppet.
	You've got in power, but great expense.
	But, I mean, Russia has been meddling and influencing in Western elections.
	Just as we meddle and influence in other overseas elections, we certainly had a bit of meddling in Ukraine in their maiden revolution.
	But, I mean, obviously Trump isn't a puppet.
	It's the accusation that Trump has caused this.
	They're so desperate.
	They're just like, well, how can we blame Trump on this?
	Did you know he undermined the alliances?
	The original boogeyman.
	We've got all the footage of him bashing the Germans in 2017 or whatever, where he's just like, why the hell are you making deals for Russian gas?
	If you want to blame anybody, the businesses and the governments in Germany, especially Germany, who are paying, the only reason Putin could afford this war is because Germany and the West have been giving him so much money for their resources.
	Yeah.
	I mean, we've seen them suddenly realizing this.
	Yeah!
	It's like, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, that was a bad move.
	Yeah.
	Was it, Deutschland?
	Anyway, let's move to the sanctions, as you were mentioning.
	So we'll check out some of the sanctions.
	So we're sanctioning ourselves, which is stunning and brave.
	You can see here YouTube, Google, and are blocking Russian-based channels for Europeans.
	If we go to the next link, we can also see apparently Apple Pay and Google Pay are no longer working in Moscow.
	I don't know if it's true, but it's a claim I've seen online.
	one fantastic yes i mean cut the russians off from being able to interact with the west that'll work but it also makes a great point that your digital money is worthless it's even more worthless than your fiat paper yeah we go to the next link we can see sure there's an upside to that there's also uh the fact that russia today has been banned and sputnik from youtube is If you're in Europe, effective immediately.
	So if you're a European citizen and you try to watch Rush of the Day because you're interested in what they have to say, even if, of course, you don't agree with it or you agree with it, it doesn't matter, you can't watch it because YouTube said so.
	Have they banned it in Russia?
	No.
	So this is sanctions against...
	No one in Russia watches it.
	Sanctions against Europe, then.
	Yes, so we've sanctioned ourselves.
	Yeah.
	Because this is the thing, when I met Svetov, he explained to me that Russia Today isn't really popular in Russia.
	No one uses it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's for foreign audiences.
	It's not popular here either.
	I wrote an article for Russia Today.
	I'm glad I just wrote one.
	It was quite a pro-Western article, though.
	If you go to the next link, we can see this in action as well.
	John, if you can click on RT, we just tried this before, hopefully it'll work again, which is, yep.
	Not allowed.
	Good.
	And I'm terrified of this.
	Because it starts off, as all of these community guidelines are, it will start off with, okay, we'll just ban Russia today because there's a war.
	And then it'll be, okay, accounts that we say are affiliated with Russian money or just are pro-Russia will be banned.
	And there'll be random people who say stuff that is just pro-Russian or have an opinion that is not normal.
	Is there a downside coming?
	And then there'll be people...
	How is this not downsides?
	Anyone who points out any nuance in any discussion will just be banned.
	How can there be nuance?
	There'll be nuance in saying that, oh...
	Traitor.
	Yeah, I forget.
	This is the Californian mentality.
	We are on the good side for good things, and anyone who says even anything nuanced slightly is on the bad side for bad things.
	I don't know, I think these are extraordinary times, so I don't think the...
	I mean, I think what you're saying could happen, but there'll be an enormous backlash against anything that's not...
	You know, like there was against Trudeau, you know, cutting banking services for single mothers who donated to the truckers.
	But that's the thing, all of these guidelines, remember when they were getting rid of hate speech, and they were just getting rid of the neo-Nazis, and then all the white nationalists, and then anyone who said anything about immigration, and it's just like, great, yeah, I just...
	Everyone's disappeared.
	And ironically, all the woke stuff that they say, like the COVID stuff, like Belarus was arresting political dissidents under the guise of, oh, they've breached COVID regulations.
	And Putin is like, oh, we're going to denazify Ukraine.
	Whatever is said by the woke left is then mimicked by dictators and autocrats to justify whatever nefarious things they do.
	What happens in the West don't stay in the West.
	Yeah, exactly.
	If we go to the next link, we can see more of these cell phones as well.
	So this is some website hosting company who are apparently not longer hosting websites in Russian territory because they stand with Ukraine.
	This doesn't make any sense.
	Okay, if you're going to sanction a nation, you sanction on economic grounds because you want them to be poorer to show that what they're doing doesn't work, right?
	You do not want to sanction information exchange because that's how you change minds.
	That's how you liberalize a country.
	So what is Namecheap?
	I don't know.
	Apparently it's some website hosting site.
	Again, we're sanctioning ourselves here.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	If we move forwards, we can see more of the situation.
	So this is someone pointing out, of course, hey Russians, we heard your government is getting more oppressive, so we decided to not let you access the outside world.
	Hope that helps.
	Nice obvious bot there.
	It just, it doesn't...
	Username 0xcafebeef.
	That's my favourite account.
	But it's a good point, which is that information exchange is, well, the name of the game in trying to liberalise a country, not the opposite.
	If we move forward, we can also see counter-sanctions.
	So I went and checked out the Moscow press to see what they have to say, because I wanted to see what they have to say.
	And this is them reporting that the Russians are going to do counter-sanctions to counter our sanctions.
	Oh my god, you know Russia?
	Russia's economy before all this was the size of Spain's.
	It wasn't doing well.
	Pathetic.
	Absolutely pathetic.
	Now it's the size of a Tesco Extra.
	Honestly, Scotland could probably invade Russia right now.
	Pravda writes, Vladimir Putin cited the decree on the application of special economic measures in connection with the unfriendly actions of the United States and foreign states and international organizations who have joined them.
	And some of these are just strange.
	And of course, it's just to save the ruble.
	And number three, for example, Russian citizens and companies are prohibited from creating foreign currency to their accounts and deposits outside of Russia.
	So just please trade in the ruble.
	Please.
	I don't want the ruble crashing any more than it has.
	Yeah, and they've got Rosneft and Gazprom to, I think, sell their foreign reserves to sort of basically to shore up the ruble.
	But this is, you know, pushing against water.
	You can't stop a currency falling.
	Yeah, I mean, I remember it used to be 80 rubles to the pound.
	Now it's 120, 140?
	150, they're saying.
	And also, people are going to the banks to change their rubles into dollars, and the banks are running out of dollars immediately.
	I imagine so.
	Yeah.
	We move forward, we can see some alleged actions, which are very funny.
	So we see here some Ukrainians who apparently brought a tractor and tried to steal some armored vehicle that was abandoned, and some Russian guy who's upset about his tank getting stolen, which, very funny.
	I hope it's true.
	It might not be true.
	Again, fog of war.
	If we move forward, we can see more memes about this.
	So Dankula uploaded a meme.
	If we can click on the second image, please.
	I love this one.
	It's just like the Russians don't want you to know this, but there are tanks on the road and they're free.
	You can take them home.
	I have 458 tanks.
	Great.
	Should be Oprah Winfrey.
	You get a tank.
	You get a tank.
	Just go out and steal one!
	It's the Ducks meme again.
	Anyway, let's go to the next one so we can see more information.
	This is a TikTok of some lady who's claiming that she also found an abandoned military vehicle and they just stole it because...
	Gibbs?
	I mean, looking at the intel that's coming through and telegramming stuff, a lot of Russian vehicles are being abandoned.
	And I think this is partly because the first waves of the Russia...
	They didn't send their best troops in.
	They sent in conscripts, people who didn't know what they were doing and stuff.
	Military services were quiet.
	Yeah, a lot of people.
	Some of the Russian troops that have been captured are saying they were told Zelensky had already surrendered, so they were just going to stroll into Kiev.
	I call it Kiev, by the way, because that's the Ukrainian pronunciation.
	I'm never calling it Kiev again.
	That's the English language version?
	It's Kiev.
	We're going to have this debate some other time, but Peking, not Beijing.
	Communist subversion is what this is.
	Do you want a croissant?
	Or a croissant.
	I want to go cat.
	I don't want to go to cafe.
	What's that?
	Anyway.
	Yeah, cafe.
	Not a cat.
	Bugger off your father.
	We'll get to the next link we can see, because I don't know if that's fake news, but there's something that definitely is fake news.
	As you can see, people are sharing this a lot, and this is another example of how misinformation is just going about at the moment.
	This is some lady who is Ukrainian standing up to that Russian in the middle of the desert in Ukraine.
	Yes, if we go to the next link, you can see.
	I also saw on Pravda then pointing out that, yeah, this has been shared around.
	It's obviously fake.
	It's Palestine.
	It's not Ukraine.
	Because there's a desert.
	And, well, you would have thought that would have made it done.
	Who'd have thought Pravda would be, like, fake checking fake news?
	Pravda are like, we're fact-checking now.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Pravda, by the way, are entirely state propaganda for Russia.
	It means truth.
	Pravda, the word means truth.
	Because it's in Russia, you know that means the opposite.
	It's like Ministry of Justice is the ministry of locking up political decisions.
	So during Soviet Union, Pravda was the outlet.
	It means truth.
	It's very funny, of course, because, you know, it's Soviet news.
	And then this organization, this is the Moscow-based branch, who are still about to do the main newspaper in Moscow, as my understanding.
	I mean, there are other trademarks, which, again, funny for a communist name.
	But anyway, move forward.
	So let's go to the next one, in which we can see some real fake news, which I wanted to enjoy.
	The centrist of Kiev has turned back 50 Russian troops by sitting down and explaining Gamergate to them.
	Salutes in the chat to Kolmowski-Belovsky-Rovsky.
	Doing all this.
	Let's move forward.
	So let's go to the next one in which you can see the peace talks.
	And there are some very bad takes in response to the peace talks.
	So this is someone pointing out that it's taking place.
	And Helen, Helen at the bottom there.
	Face mask emoji.
	Woman emoji, woman emoji.
	Where are the women?
	Where are the women?
	They left.
	We made them leave.
	Women and children are to leave.
	Men are to fight the war.
	This is not Western diversity society.
	This is militaristic society.
	Real society.
	Although there have been, I mean, Ukraine has got women in the armed forces.
	There's a female fighter pilot killed.
	Of course.
	But that is up to them.
	They are not going to be required to.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see some other dumb takes from people.
	Like someone else here, some checkmark who's like, I see no women.
	I see no masks.
	What could possibly go wrong?
	Harumph harumph.
	Yes, Miss Karen, go to hell.
	Not going to interact with that one.
	Unbelievable.
	We'll end this off with a more serious section because this has been going on throughout and needs to be addressed, let's say, or at least looked at.
	Which is the final solution to the Nazi question.
	So this is the Nazis who are in Ukraine.
	Yes, but we should talk about them because I know a lot of people have been.
	And again, I don't know all the facts, but I saw Majid Nawaz making a big deal about this.
	So it should be given its proper due.
	So this is seven years ago in The Guardian.
	It's proper what?
	Due.
	Not due.
	D. So this is an article in The Guardian seven years ago.
	So Azov fighters are Ukraine's greatest weapon and maybe its greatest threat, The Guardian wrote at the time.
	And they're currently encircled in Mariupol.
	And of course they've got a big rivalry, a big sort of blood vendetta with whatever the particular Russian battalions are.
	Was it the Chechen fighters?
	I can't remember, but yeah, so they're basically, they're going to fight to the death.
	They're ultra-nationalists.
	It just shows there's a time and a place for ultra-nationalism.
	And when you're fighting a massive invading country, that's, you know...
	So this is, yeah, I mean, this is the argument throughout.
	You know, real politic, just you need troops to defend the nation.
	You'll take what you can get.
	I mean, there are also Islamists and communists fighting with Ukraine as well, to be mentioned.
	Also, there's Islamists fighting for Russia, the Chechen troops.
	But they have the luxury of choice.
	Putin apologists in the West sometimes hold him up as this defender of Christianity.
	Absolute nonsense.
	His troops are some of the most bloodthirsty Islamists in the world.
	I don't want to get into Chechnya because that's...
	I don't want to get into Chechnya either.
	I want to go to Tenerife.
	They have no gays, they promise us.
	That's why I don't want to go there.
	So, quote from a funny story in this article here.
	It's funny in the sense that it's wild.
	So, quote, I have nothing against Russian nationalists or a great Russia, says Dmitry, but Putin's not even a Russian.
	Putin is a Jew.
	This is the Azov Brigades at the time.
	This is an interview they gave.
	If we move forwards, we go to 2017, in which we can see The Hill reporting on this.
	The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from criminal propaganda.
	There was claims that this was all criminal propaganda.
	Some Western observers claim that there are no neo-Nazis in Ukraine, chalking the assertions up to propaganda from Moscow.
	Unfortunately, they are sadly mistaken, The Hill writes.
	If we go forwards, there's a really funny moment where the Israelis were funding the neo-Nazi regiment, which...
	It's a complex situation.
	It is.
	It's a complex situation.
	I'm not losing my nuance on this.
	Putin apologists are like, oh, but there's neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
	It's like nobody's saying it's San Francisco.
	You know what I mean?
	Nobody's pretending.
	It's obviously, you know, it's going to have its issue.
	It's a country in Eastern Europe.
	It's not going to be the exact same as Islington.
	I just write it really funny that, like, Israel's arming the neo-Nazis, which is a hell of a headline.
	If we move forward again, we can see some footage from apparently 2019.
	This is some mole that was accepting of, you know, Nazi imagery there, as you can see.
	And if we move forward again, we can see some guy talking about this, who claims in here that they send him weapons, that Nazi be great, because they are the best, we have fun killing, he says.
	Which, okay, these are the people there.
	And if we move forward once more, you can also see apparently the Canadian troops were training them in combat because, well, they need a troop to defend Ukraine.
	And these guys were about to use them.
	This is not to say that Ukraine is a neo-Nazi state or anything of the sorts or blah, blah, blah.
	It is just a reality on the ground.
	If we go to the next link as well, we can see the U.S. Senate apparently were also not putting in clauses when asked to not give to the Azov Brigade.
	They were like, no, I don't care.
	Fun, whatever.
	And then if we move forward again, we can see, of course, this being in the context of Putin saying that he's going to denazify Ukraine.
	I also find it really funny that I wonder if that Azov guy, the Dmitry there, was still on the Brigade.
	Because he's like, well, Putin's a Jew.
	It's like, well, I've got news for you about the current president of Ukraine, bro.
	But that is the Azov brigade, and it is right to say that they are there, and that is a minority, though.
	I mean, I calculate what, is it about 2% of the army?
	It's maximum if their claims of how many guys they have is meant to be true.
	And as you say, now encircled Mariupol.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So, I mean, everybody wins.
	If, you know, these Chechen troops fight neo-Nazis and tear strips off each other, that's the situation where everybody wins.
	I want to play that Call of Duty game in two years.
	Play Mariupol, who's the two teams.
	We already had all the locations.
	It's like, this is what the Russians have underestimated.
	If they sent British people in.
	You know, we've been playing that bit in Chernobyl, Pripyat, for decades now, so we know all the hiding places.
	Yeah, I know at the camp.
	We go to the next one.
	We can see some other news on this.
	This is brand new, which is funny again.
	Russia will continue the military operation in Ukraine until its goals are achieved and will host the first anti-fascist conference in August, says the defense minister for the Russians, which...
	Okay, yeah, that's, as you can see, the continuing rhetoric from the Russian side of the discussion.
	There's also some fake news from Western journos who can't help themselves and are just obsessed.
	So if we go to the next one, I saw Andy Ngo sent me this, which is that there are a bunch of Western journos who were duped into thinking that the proud boys, the far-right proud boys, were going to go and join the neo-Nazis because they're all neo-Nazis, aren't they?
	The guys who, Lila, shoves a dildo up his ass every stream.
	They're definitely neo-Nazis.
	You know Gavin McGuinness made out with Milo at one of the first Proud Boys rallies?
	There's an image of him just making out with Milo.
	It's just like, yeah, not sure this is homo-nationalism.
	Might be something else.
	But Western journos spreading fake news as well because they cannot help themselves.
	But let's try not to end on Obama.
	So somebody just tweeted being like, yeah, I'm in the Proud Boys, I'm flying to Ukraine.
	If you click on that third image there, John, just so you can see where the third one, yes, the third.
	So you can see them being like, oh, I'm off to the Ukraine.
	And then if you go to the fourth one, it's just footage from someone flying a plane.
	But Western journos are idiots.
	That's hilarious.
	They fall for this.
	Let's try not to end on a bummer, so let's end on something a bit more cheerful and whatnot.
	So, last thing here.
	End on a bummer.
	You could have picked a better one, though.
	Yeah, so we can see.
	This I found amazing, which is just a story of ingenuity.
	Yeah, yeah.
	If you scroll up, you can see that the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine asked for Starlink to be set up in Ukraine for the internet connection.
	Within six hours, Elon Musk tweets back, so yep, it's now active.
	Don't worry.
	Yeah, it's amazing.
	Done.
	Amazing.
	Fantastic.
	And there's something like 1,600 Starlink satellites in the air, is that right?
	Or have I made that up?
	I have no idea.
	There's certainly a lot of them.
	And yeah, obviously there's a cost, because each one goes up with a certain amount of fuel, and you've got to use that for positioning.
	But yeah, it's amazing that Elon Musk has done this.
	It's within six...
	Hours.
	He's got it fixed.
	And this provides internet to people in Russia, in Ukraine, I mean, because obviously, you know, cables and stuff are going to be disrupted by them.
	Good for the next one.
	We can see him thanking him for this and saying thank you very much.
	And Elon Musk is like, no problem, bro.
	Which again, I just...
	Amazing.
	What am I? Funny.
	And I thought we'd end on a funny headline for the last of this.
	This is an old article from Sputnik, which I found really funny, especially given where we are now.
	Moscow has no plans for aggression, has never attacked anyone in its history, says Kremlin spokesperson in Sputnik being a Russian outlet.
	Which, again, I just find funny looking back.
	But that is the situation, that is the fallout from the conflict so far.
	Let's hope that's the only fallout in this conflict.
	Let's continue.
	Okay, so yeah, it seems like every week in comedy there's a couple of things happen.
	People getting cancelled and stuff.
	So basically there's this comedian, Adam Riley.
	I know him.
	He's a great guy.
	Really funny comedian.
	He's a newer comedian.
	He doesn't have that psychopathic thirst for fame and glory that drives so many comedians.
	But it actually probably makes him funnier.
	But he was performing at this place called the City Comedy Club on Friday night.
	And he's got this bit of material.
	He's taken it down, unfortunately.
	I'll show you, but it's hilarious.
	He says, like, I'm woke.
	I know I'm a middle-aged white guy or whatever, but I'm woke.
	I believe that trans women are women.
	And apparently he got a cheer.
	I spoke to him and got a cheer.
	People were like, woo!
	And he's like, I believe transgender women are women because if they're not, then I had sex with two men in Thailand.
	And it's a great joke.
	It's efficient.
	It's not offensive because it's open-ended.
	We can all see.
	It's a funny joke.
	It's a funny joke.
	It's not saying, oh, you shouldn't have it, you shouldn't blah, blah, blah.
	It's just, if anything, it's an open-minded joke because he's saying, look, I had sex with these ladyboys or whatever.
	So, I think it's a fun joke.
	It's a good joke.
	But he said when he did it, he got a laugh and stuff, but the people who whooped, he moved on, and the people who whooped, he looked back when he was doing some more material, and they'd gone.
	And so he referenced the fact that the seats were emptied by...
	He might have said, I've upset the Tran...
	I don't know if we can say...
	Oh, the word for transistor.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Which, you know, he didn't think they were transgender.
	And so he was just, you know, just to break the tension that might be because these people had walked out.
	Turns out they were transgender.
	And they were on the way out.
	They shouted, you know, you should be ashamed of yourself and stuff.
	But then...
	When he...
	It is he because...
	Born a female but transitioned to being a man.
	If we move on to the next one...
	Literally shaking.
	Why are they always literally shaking?
	They're always...
	They've got Parkinson's or something, don't they?
	So I'm absolutely appalled right now.
	I'm literally shaking after attending City Comedy Club in Shoreditch.
	I just had to sit through a transphobic joke by one of the stand-up comics.
	I got up to leave and the comic said...
	The...
	Abbreviated version of Transistor's radios are leaving.
	Then I shouted, you should be ashamed of yourself as I left the building.
	I am disgusted.
	I fully intend on seeing this through.
	Thankfully, I have my partner as a witness.
	Fair enough.
	It is a slur, the Transistor radio thing.
	It is a slur, and I can see it would be hurtful.
	I'm amazingly disappointed by people in the West who are like, I was called a name and I've lost my mind.
	Yeah, come on, it's not witchcraft.
	We're not dealing with an actual wizard who, when you say this word, summons the devil or something.
	It's just a word.
	The comments on this thing, I don't know if we can go through the comments now.
	A transphobe walks into a comedy club, appears on an all-white bill, surprises no one.
	Boring!
	What's all-white got to do with it?
	I don't know if it was an all-white bill.
	Next one.
	Sorry to hear this.
	The other night I left the comedy show too after non-binary people were picked over and over again.
	I'm not a joke.
	I'm valid.
	That's a black fist, I think.
	Or they.
	They is white.
	Sorry, I still don't buy non-binary.
	And obviously everybody's like, you know, I hope this was recorded.
	Did you report it to the police?
	This is hate crime.
	Oh my god.
	I hate the West.
	Seriously?
	It gets worse.
	It gets worse.
	So if we move on to the next one.
	The comedy club should vet their performers so this never happens again because that's what we need, you know, vetting of comedians and making sure nobody can say anything that could possibly hurt.
	You should start saying transistor instead.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And move on to the next one.
	I'm shocked the comedian should not be allowed back in the comedy club and also be reported to the police.
	Next one.
	For what?
	Who did he kill?
	God, it's hate speech.
	Next one.
	It's hate speech and a crime.
	Oh God, look at the profile pictures.
	Look at the state of the profile pictures, mate.
	Next one.
	You need to remove and ban Adam Riley forever.
	Follow him, by the way.
	He's a very funny guy.
	Lovely guy.
	very funny comedian next one absolutely disgusting blah blah blah this needs to be dealt with seriously and boy the person needs to be boycotted from the industry it's ridiculous over I mean the very worst he's used you know quite a you know minor slur and he I don't he means it in a half a way He didn't mean it in a hurtful way.
	He's not a bad guy.
	He's not a malicious guy.
	And the very worst is, you know, he should be, you know, just explain to him, you know, this is why this word is hurtful to us.
	And, you know, please, I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't use it again.
	I used to use the word that is used in flame retardant.
	Up until, I can't remember, about five years ago or something.
	Then somebody came up to me after the gig and said, you know, you use this word, just so you know, my son's got Down syndrome, and if everybody stops using it, he'll be a normal boy.
	And so I stopped using it, and hopefully one day he will.
	He'll be able to join the US military.
	Yeah, well, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.
	They have an IQ threshold.
	Seriously.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	If you're below that, they won't let you in.
	Oh, I thought if you're above it, they wouldn't let you in.
	I mean, there's that too.
	We'll have to go work somewhere else.
	So, yeah, next one.
	Unacceptable!
	I've sent a message to City Comedy Club.
	Never again should they be hired.
	Next one.
	Oh, the man is disgusting, plus he ugly as F. Probably sad and jealous he'll never be an amazing, beautiful person like any of us!
	Exclamation mark!
	So yeah, why not body shaming?
	Why not comment on his appearance?
	Why not make some sort of discriminatory comment on his appearance?
	Because that wouldn't be bad, although apparently...
	I find it funny that these people always have to find themselves as beautiful.
	That's not how being beautiful works.
	Other people define that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	All these people like, hey, like they do, the fat ones, the body positive ones.
	I'm beautiful in the round shape I am.
	They're like, I'm so beautiful.
	And then everybody comments underneath like, oh, you go, girl, you are beautiful.
	Whoa, you go.
	Oh, you're so beautiful.
	It's like, if you were actually beautiful and you said you're beautiful, everybody would be like, what on earth?
	The size of the head on her.
	You know?
	You can't just, that's when you know.
	But she's fat, so she's a lot.
	Yeah, she's fat, so we'll all pretend.
	We'll all lie, because that's the woke thing to do.
	Next one.
	He's an ignorant...
	I'm going to make sure I leave him a message saying exactly that.
	So basically this person unleashed thousands of her followers to direct genuine hatred, calls for violence and doxing against Adam.
	They were finding out where he worked and sharing that and giving the number for the place and stuff.
	So horrific stuff.
	But he did say transistor.
	But yeah, an offhand comment, in the moment, and that's when words are violence, but when you've actually got thousands of people, you unleash thousands of people to threaten violence against someone that's not violence.
	I don't get it.
	It doesn't make any sense to me.
	Next one.
	We can probably rattle through these...
	Oh, look, the racial pride flag.
	It's not coming.
	Hate crimes aren't comedy.
	Next one.
	I mean, hate crimes are comedy sometimes.
	Yeah, it's an attack of hatred and bigotry.
	It's unacceptable.
	They need to be banned from performing.
	Yeah, it's ridiculous.
	I'm glad we have good comedians like Russell Howard who deliberately use comedy to stand up for us.
	Yeah, I mean, he does actually want to be liked and popular because it's very easy to do the sort of socially acceptable thing.
	But, I mean, I think for a lot of people the comedy happens when you...
	You know, you stray outside the socially accepted boundaries.
	I can appreciate that Russell puts in a lot of work, but I did find myself just stopped watching his show a while back because I was just like, he's not really going edgy at any point ever.
	I don't know if that exists on TV, but it's just...
	And it's great that, you know, I think he's a great guy, great comedian and stuff, but, you know, not everybody wants to watch that.
	I want to watch Jerry Sadowitz.
	I want to watch, you know, Doug Stanhope.
	I want to watch Louis C.K. and, you know, watch him get his penis out in the green room.
	That is what I like.
	Well, you were there.
	You paid special VIP tickets.
	I was there with a wig on and be like, come on, Louis.
	Get down.
	All right.
	The kind of ladies Louis likes.
	Yeah, look more body shaming.
	Looks like he's been air fried.
	What does that even mean?
	Looks like a potato wedge.
	It doesn't.
	It looks like a human.
	Next one.
	Not funny.
	Oh, wow.
	This is a good one.
	Not funny.
	City Comedy Club.
	Perhaps you'd be renamed City Comedy Club.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	What a burn.
	Thought of that one, lads.
	Next one.
	Watch South Park a lot last night.
	Oh, and this is it.
	So then the comedians came out and started attacking him.
	So Harry Wright, who's genuinely terrible, he actually tried to...
	I think it was him.
	He accused, on Twitter, he came in and accused me of lying about having dated a transgender woman.
	And then there was a bunch of them all sort of discussing how I must have made it up to, you know, try...
	What is he, what, pics?
	Then the transgender woman that I dated just appeared from nowhere and was like, I exist.
	Should have got to hire me, like, sleep with me or you're a trans fan.
	That shut them up.
	But yeah, he's one of these people, he's always trying to get people cancelled, always.
	He doesn't realise it can happen to him, because if we go to the next one, Love this guy!
	So Harry Wright was like, don't work with Adam Reilly.
	Mooch, who is a comedian, also Vauxhall Comedy Club and Vauxhall Creative Network.
	Great guy, really supportive of grassroots comedy and really supportive of the creative process, which means you sometimes transgress against the boundaries.
	When you're working out new material, you're sometimes going to say stuff that people don't find acceptable.
	So he says, also don't work with people who instigate pylons.
	Harry Wright Comedy.
	So, nice one.
	It's great to see somebody in the comedy community actually sticking up for the principles and sticking up for, you know, just the basic conditions that we need to operate as comedians.
	Move on to the next one.
	So look at this.
	This was actually before this happened.
	But it just shows the sort of, you know, this is what woke people.
	Look at the face.
	Honestly, fat.
	We're not allowed to do too much of this because YouTube does get very sensitive about bullying.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But this isn't bullying.
	This is fine.
	I was just going to give a realistic description.
	That isn't elected.
	You can see.
	You can draw your own opinions.
	But my hot take is that jokes in general are overrated.
	Everyone should stop attempting to be funny.
	Learn empathy first.
	I'd rather live in a cautious, sensitive world than a funny one.
	And unfortunately, she is the comedy commissioner for the BBC. She's not really.
	I thought you were more serious for a minute.
	And I think...
	She's got an OnlyFans.
	She's got an OnlyFans.
	I'm not even joking.
	Got an OnlyFans.
	So if you want to see something interesting, then sign up to her OnlyFans.
	Or their OnlyFans, or zero OnlyFans, or whatever it is.
	Next one.
	So City Comedy Club, who hosted this transphobic extravaganza, responded saying, here at City Comedy Club, we do not tolerate discrimination.
	We vet all of the comedians.
	Do you?
	They hosted, oh, what's the guy?
	I can't remember the guy, but they hosted one of America's most outrageous and shocking comedians.
	So, you know, I think they're saying this now.
	We vet all of the comedians and we did not expect the material used.
	If we knew, we would never have booked him.
	The comedian has been banned and we will be working with the authorities on this matter.
	The authorities!
	A comedy club working with the authorities?
	Shouldn't they be saying to the authorities, like, bugger off?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Comedy doesn't need to be policed, because when we perform, we're performing in front of an audience.
	No, they have policed comedy.
	If we say something that is genuinely socially unacceptable, people won't laugh.
	And I think people have to understand, if you're sitting in a...
	Something might offend you personally, but has it offended the majority of the room?
	We're in a democracy.
	In my mind, the comedy police has to be the characters from Hello, Hello.
	It has to be her flick of the Gestapo is in the corner in his little tights.
	And the next one we've got...
	So comedians were even getting called out for having liked Adam's post.
	So they were going through who had liked Adam's post and calling them out.
	And so Bobby Mayer had liked it, and so they got in touch with him, and then he...
	It's sad to see Bobby bottling it like this, but he said he made a genuine mistake in liking the post while scrolling.
	Oh, yeah.
	Is that right?
	My finger slipped.
	Oh, my finger slipped.
	You know what I mean?
	It's like, come on.
	I love Bobby, but, you know, stand up to these people.
	They're bullies.
	They're dictators.
	And this is what it comes down to.
	The people who say you can't mock them, like, you think you can go up to Putin and make a joke about him?
	You want to do it about Mohammed?
	You can't.
	Yeah.
	Do you want to do it about...
	I'm not even going to say it.
	I don't want any more death threats.
	But, you know, you want to do it because, I mean, if anything, some of these people suffer from an overabundance.
	Overabundance of peace.
	Too much peace.
	And sometimes the peace is too peaceful.
	So...
	But yeah, these people that won't let you mock them, it's because they're in a position of power.
	And they've got the hubris and the attitude of a dictator.
	And they're so fragile.
	This is why people like Putin, they're fragile.
	If people mocked them, they'd lose their power.
	This is why court jesters had such a powerful place in the court, because they could almost destroy, they could prick the pomposity.
	And court jesters were rewarded with huge, huge rewards.
	But also, they were sometimes executed or exiled because they said stuff to the wrong person.
	I don't know if you know about Henry VIII's court jester.
	He would always deliver bad news.
	If there was any bad news, everyone was too afraid of him.
	So they'd make the jester do it, so he'd crack some terrible jokes.
	And then just be like, oh, by the way, France has won the war, and leave.
	Yeah.
	So, I mean, these people that are trying to, that are saying that they're victims are actually the dictators.
	They're the people with the power.
	The people who don't have the power are people like Adam.
	You know, he doesn't have the power to stop people, thousands of people attacking him, sending him messages, doxing him, calling him the worst things.
	There's some more comments.
	Move on to the next one.
	So, oh, who's this good-looking young man?
	It's a Scottish comedian.
	It's me.
	Said, I identify as a woman, and I found this joke hilarious.
	Because I do identify as a woman.
	Some transphobe responds.
	Yeah, a transphobe responded saying, no, you identify as a related prick.
	No, I don't.
	Yeah, let's go for it.
	Why not?
	Because I'm talking about, you know, like when you...
	If you prick your finger.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So you get Fauci's little...
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So somebody said, no, you identify as, you know, like when you prick your finger.
	And if we move to the next one, I reported this for transphobia.
	Good.
	And they removed it.
	That's amazing.
	Instagram removed it because I'm a woman.
	Are you kidding me?
	No, I'm not joking.
	I reported it for transphobia.
	Because I am a woman.
	I'm a woman.
	If anybody says I'm not, you're getting kicked off social media.
	I'm fully in support of these actions.
	Some people dither about, oh, it's the right thing to do.
	No.
	100%.
	They're going to put these systems in place.
	Malicious compliance.
	I didn't make these rules.
	But, you know, if I'm allowed to identify as a woman, I'm going to identify as a woman.
	I identify as a woman right now.
	I accept you for who you are.
	I'm gender fluid.
	Liana.
	I keep the same name.
	I don't even shave.
	It's all the same.
	Because I don't conform to heteronormative stereotypes of what femininity is.
	And if we move on to the next one, look at this.
	Look at this.
	Somebody said, you know, we should be allowed to make jokes.
	Comedy is subjective.
	Look at this person says, when the target of your jokes is a group of marginalised people, jokes like this inspire people to harm us and kill us.
	It's like, no!
	They don't!
	Remember the last time you went to a comedy club and someone made a joke about black people and you just started making nooses?
	And you thought, oh, what am I doing?
	Like somebody does a transgender joke and you're like, you know, and obviously, you know, if somebody did a joke that was genuinely attacking transgender people, people wouldn't laugh because people...
	It wouldn't be a joke by definition.
	People are a lot, you know, they're a lot more aware of transgender...
	People and all the rest of it.
	They're more visible in society now.
	A call to violence literally can't be a joke because it's sincere.
	I mean, it could be an anti-joke, maybe, but it doesn't make any sense.
	Yeah.
	People wouldn't laugh at it.
	I've seen this when comedians do step over.
	Roy Chubby Brown had a DVD in the 90s where he suddenly got weirdly racist.
	And you could see the atmosphere just dropping in the room as he got all kind of serious.
	It wasn't fun.
	It wasn't funny.
	People don't like it.
	So yeah, but I think the safetyism, even though obviously in this case Adam is the victim of the violent threats and stuff, safetyism is the new thing that people can use to force, because your rights end, your right of free expression ends where my safety is compromised.
	That's traditionally been the balance.
	So if you can say, well, your words are inciting violence, Then I can ban you from saying those words, even if it's a complete concoction.
	So I think it's dangerous.
	But yeah, instead of using the opportunity of being literally shaken to just masturbate, the next...
	So he started a campaign called Hashtag No Jokes On Us.
	Comedy is not an excuse for bigotry.
	End transphobia in comedy.
	Which is, you know, they're saying...
	Treat us like Islam.
	We are not to be made fun of.
	We are never to be joked about.
	If you come for us, we're going to be the transgender people of peace.
	Okay.
	That's ridiculous.
	So we'll see.
	So far, this hashtag hasn't Take it off.
	But we'll see.
	This is my comment on it.
	So, you claim to be a marginalised victim, but you directed thousands of your followers to send messages of genuine hate and violence against one isolated person just for cracking a joke.
	You won't be happy until you've bullied him to suicide.
	You act like a dictator who must not be mocked.
	Do you really think you're generating less transphobia by acting like this?
	And what's interesting, I didn't have time to crunch the numbers, but they pull out all these things saying, you know, incidents of transphobic violence are up 80%.
	I just don't believe it.
	I mean, I just don't believe it.
	There's certainly a lot less transphobia in society than there was.
	I'm not saying transgender people.
	You could check out Rose of Dawn.
	So she's a transgender woman, she says, and she has done a lot of stuff on this, talking about the transgenocide and whatnot.
	And she just has the numbers and she's like, it's just bollocks.
	Yeah, and if it's bollocks, it can still be female.
	But yeah, I mean, it's true.
	It's like with Tell Mama, that, you know, reporting, they're like, oh, after Boris Johnson made his letterboxd comments or whatever, Islamophobic attacks went up to 300% or whatever.
	People tweeting about Islam.
	These are self-reported calls from a non-monitored organization that, you know, it's basically people phone up and saying somebody called me a ninja or whatever.
	So it's not...
	Not verifiable.
	It's not verifiable.
	It's not recorded in police statistics or, you know, it's not corroborated by police statistics of actual violent attacks.
	And it's not like Talmama don't have an agenda.
	Exactly.
	These people have an agenda.
	And obviously in the week after, if somebody makes a big fuss and says, oh look, there's this thing where you can report calls, they're going to get more calls the next week.
	It doesn't mean there's been an increase in the number of people being called a ninja.
	And obviously any sort of Islamophobia or transphobia or whatever is bad.
	Anti-Muslim bigotry is bad, but I don't think we should assume that the The way it's painted is, you know, we're getting worse.
	And we're definitely not getting worse.
	We might get worse if people keep acting like this.
	Because this doesn't particularly endear, you know, most people to the cause.
	No, it doesn't stay in the West.
	It sends up in the East as examples of like, look at the state of the West.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Although then Putin is like, well, it'll be easy to invade them.
	And then he gets his anus handed to him by some Ukrainians.
	So I think Putin's totally embarrassed himself.
	What a joke.
	He's going to be gone soon.
	Shall we move on to Black History Century?
	You've had Black History Month, it's now Black History Year, and Black History Century, Millennia, and Black History Never Ends.
	You might think, what the hell am I talking about?
	You'll be fair.
	And I'm going to start off by mentioning some other events, or some celebrations, some holy days in the calendar that we have in the West.
	I know Islam likes to celebrate Eid while we celebrate other things, such as we start off with Gay Pride, of course.
	And this is an event which, of course, is people...
	Traditionally, saying, we are gay, please don't criminalise, please get rid of the laws about that, and then we're all good.
	We live side by side, kumbaya.
	And then it's not like that these days at the Pride events, but that's a whole other conversation.
	But this started off, at least it says on Wikipedia, on the 28th of June, coinciding with the Stonewall riots, at least this is for the Americans.
	Of course, it not being a unified date, because, well, it's all over the world, and, you know, different things are going on, different days and whatnot.
	But then, of course, we go to the next one, turned into Pride Month.
	Which makes sense.
	We're going to have the whole month.
	The whole month is pride.
	That'll be June.
	Okay.
	You can also see the racial pride flag being used there because the modern version of all of this is absolute degenerate cancer in the sense that it's not about acceptance.
	It is not about tolerance.
	It is instead about intersectionalism.
	And if you, for some reason, doubt me, why are the black and brown queers segregated in the flag?
	Why are they segregated out into their own stripe?
	Exactly.
	And also, the rainbow flag.
	I mean, it's not ever really represented the skin colour of gay people.
	It's not like there's bright red gay people.
	Maybe Christopher Biggins, but there aren't purple gay people.
	No, but there we go.
	It is a symbol of intersectionality.
	But that's a whole other conversation we had.
	If we go to the next one, of course, we now have LGBT History Month as well.
	So this is a rolling holy month as well.
	We have this in February in the UK. This is our holy time.
	And it is in October in the United States, for those believers.
	If we go to the next one, I want to compare this, of course, to Black History Month, which is the opposite.
	I don't know who organized this, but apparently it's the exact opposite.
	So whilst we're celebrating LGBT History Month, the Americans have Black History Month.
	And whilst they have LGBT History Month, we have Black History Month.
	I'm saying a lot of months here.
	Which is why we'll get on to Black History Year.
	It's time.
	Is it really a Black History Year?
	It's time.
	It is time for Black History Year.
	So then is it going to be all year round?
	Every year.
	Every year.
	All year.
	Forever.
	Never ends!
	Black history forever!
	Like, that is literally where we're going.
	The backlash against critical race theory has become a crusade to delete blackness from the national story.
	No, it hasn't.
	That is absolute nonsense.
	Stop you segregating the kids because you're a bunch of freaks.
	Of course.
	Of course it's Vox.
	I do enjoy my Vox.
	Because it's funny.
	So...
	We'll have a black history century and also black history a thousand years!
	As long as the...
	No, let's not make any right complaints.
	But what's the argument?
	Do they lay it out?
	What's the argument for black history year?
	Every year.
	Start off.
	Of the nearly 240 students who currently attend...
	Weird name...
	Elementary school in Indiana's rural Brown County, 97% are white.
	Recently, school councillor Benjamin White, coincidence, sent a letter to the parents of those students.
	Quote, February is a time for caring and growing for our students, Wright's letter begins.
	Quote, in honour of Black History Month and Valentine's Day, I will be coming around and teaching lessons related to equity, caring and understanding differences.
	White didn't make clear precisely what those lessons would be, because he couldn't, because you know what it's gotta be, but assured parents that having, quote, a greater understanding of diversity would benefit both the students and the school as a whole.
	White then gave them a choice of opting their kids out of it.
	And Vox are very mad.
	How dare you give an opt-out from intersectional dogma in your school?
	That created a big headache for Brown County School Superintendent Emily Tracy, who later apologised for White's unauthorised letter, and wrote a statement saying that our district does not permit students to opt out of history lessons, including ones based on historical injustices.
	You can already tell by the language used, this was not a history lesson.
	Yeah.
	This was a struggle session.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	This is her talking about differences.
	And the systemic thing.
	When people say systemic.
	Valentine's Day especially as well.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, traditionally racism has been something that, you know, it's objectively measurable because it's somebody says or does something.
	I was laughing because I thought you were about to say it's traditionally a thing done on Valentine's Day.
	I don't know why they threw that in.
	Sorry, you were saying.
	But now that it's systemic, so that means it's everywhere.
	It's in the bricks.
	Everything's racist.
	Oh, look, there's some racism under my laptop.
	It's in the chairs.
	Yeah, so, you know, how can you...
	You can't objectively sort of stop it or, you know, you're supposed to be aware of it, but that means you've got to hyper-focus on it.
	You could point to systemic racism in an exact example and say, well, okay, this institution, civil service, doesn't allow people of certain races to apply for this job.
	That's systemic discrimination.
	In the UK, that's against white people, but that's a whole other conversation.
	Yeah.
	And stuff like the McPherson report into Stephen Lawrence, obviously there was systemic, but it was objective, measurable.
	Things you can point to.
	Yeah, you'd say, look at the delay in finding witnesses and interviewing them.
	That's an obvious change.
	Physical things.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But she continues in Here the Box, author.
	None of us should be able to select a la carte which parts of history students learn so as to guard our political or cultural sensibilities.
	Absolutely true.
	You should instead treat the actual history of the circumstance instead of just your made-up gibberish for your ideological perspectives, which is why she wants made-up gibberish for our ideological perspective.
	However, the elementary story comes amid an ongoing public and political crusade by conservative politicians, voters, and media figures against the teaching of Black History, capital B. Not lowercase b, not describing a people, but describing a group, a political group, politically black, during this month and the 11 others.
	That's a very important point.
	Carl points out a lot.
	It's not just because the grammar has changed.
	No, this was an explicit thing done by the intersectionals that they are going to talk about political blackness.
	Remember, you can be black and not black at the same time.
	Remember the people who didn't vote for Joe Biden?
	They ain't black.
	Yeah.
	Because they're politically black.
	They're not part of the crew.
	If you don't vote for a man who used the N-word quite a lot, then you are not black.
	So this is the point.
	It's politically black.
	So not the history of black people, as in people who have brown skin or African ancestry, you could say, or whatever.
	Not the history of discrimination within the United States, because that would be nuance.
	Instead, it is politically black history, as in our version of it.
	The battle over what conservatives mislabel as critical race theory has been raging across the country since the summer of 2020, coming in the wake of the global uprising following George Floyd's murder.
	No, the response to critical race theory was you guys segregating our kids in schools as black and white and then treating them differently, and then the parents were like, we thought we didn't do this anymore?
	This was kind of a 50s thing?
	And the critical race theory teachers brought them back.
	That's what the response was.
	It is a scholarly framework, the author writes, understanding the systemic nature of American racism and very few students outside graduate school engage with it.
	I mean, bing-bing-bing-bing.
	Like, if there's an article bingo for this conversation, let's just deny it's not being taught anywhere except graduate school.
	It doesn't filter.
	You know how ideas...
	Liberalism.
	It's only something that happens in the university.
	Conservative thought only happens in the university.
	It doesn't spread out to the rest of society.
	That's how ideas work.
	It couldn't possibly change into the culture.
	Bowing to demands of Republicans hunting critical race theory and those parents frightened by anything that doesn't promote race blindness...
	This is her complaint.
	Being blind to race is the bad thing.
	The Martin Luther King position.
	And American exceptionalism.
	School districts and libraries are removing texts like the 1916 project, sorry, 1619 project, and Ibrahim X. Kehendi's How To Be An Anti-Racist, as well as several others simply written by black authors.
	So number one, yes, fake history.
	Not to be in the library.
	Number two, racial propaganda from Ibrahim, who is himself a critical racer, as he said it himself.
	Yeah, not to be in the libraries, especially in elementary schools.
	You freak.
	And black authors, do you think are simple?
	Did you know they're deleting black authors, Leo?
	They're hurting black people.
	Nothing else.
	There's no other nuance to that story.
	They just found a black author's name and were like, get rid of that.
	Not having that there.
	No, not believing it.
	He then goes on to list Tulsa and Jim Crow, as if anyone who's educated on this topic doesn't know of such things, as if whatever.
	And then he ends this off by saying, Black History Month was not simply meant to make us feel less racist or more culturally aware.
	It was designed to show us what America really is and always has been, so that we might make it better.
	To a power structure that reinforces and metastasizes racial inequality, one Black History Month is not a threat." I was like, no, this is not what you were doing.
	You were instead teaching fantasy of the reality.
	This is why you end up segregating the kids, again.
	I mean, just, like, page one of the Critical Race Theory textbook.
	I don't know if you've been here for it, but, like, we just, like, Carl's got this big-ass textbook.
	It's just all the Critical Race Theory texts, major publications, right?
	And page one is a guy complaining about desegregation.
	I'm not joking.
	The first essay is...
	I can't remember his name.
	It's like Mr.
	Brown.
	He's literally just like, yes, the desegregation was bad.
	We should have said segregated, but with better funding for black schools.
	That's insane.
	So they went to reverse...
	It's just insane.
	A lot of the solutions that wokists present...
	Like when Sainsbury's...
	Sainsbury's were like, oh, we're doing stuff for...
	Sainsbury's, of course...
	They segregated their staff.
	Sainsbury's being owned by Qatar, which doesn't have the greatest human rights history...
	But yeah, they're like, we're going to segregate our staff in separate rooms so they can sit and discuss with each other what it's going to be like to be...
	It's like, nobody...
	Anybody who carries their identity that strongly...
	You get white people, you get all kinds of people...
	Why are you doing it?
	What's Sainsbury's doing, being like, we're going to segregate the staff who stack shelves?
	Yeah, we're going to have segregated places for the white people so they can discuss, you know, what on earth?
	It's only on college campuses, which is why a superstore in the UK is segregating their staff along racial lines.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And how does that improve integration and this idea that, you know, we're all equal?
	I mean, because the thing is...
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's not their goal.
	I know, they want equity, not equality.
	Yeah.
	But it's obviously wrong, and it's obviously going to be counterproductive as well.
	They want segregation back.
	But then the author writes, how about 12, as in 12 months though?
	That is what Woodson sought after all, so we can have all year round endless hell in which you lecture people.
	About your weird, weird racial theories.
	Very American racial theories as well, as we have mentioned.
	But you may think, ah, being hyperbolic, Callum, come on.
	It's just about history, bro.
	Black History Month, just learn about people like Harriet Tubman or whatever else.
	It's perfectly wholesome.
	They would never say things like, abolish white people.
	Here's a clip.
	Christopher Ruffo, who's been fighting critical race theory left, right, and centre, is a UC Berkeley education professor, Zeus Leonardo, wonderful name, I must say.
	Terrible ideas, though.
	Quote, to abolish whiteness is to abolish white people.
	That's very uncomfortable, perhaps, but it asks about our definitions of what race is and what racial justice might mean.
	Let's play the clip.
	All right.
	And so, that's why I'm coming up with this recent understanding that to abolish whiteness is to abolish white people.
	And that's very uncomfortable, perhaps, but it asks about our definitions of what race is and what racial justice might mean.
	Okay?
	So again, Roediger is asking the same question here.
	About this genuine class unity is not going to happen because within it are these cleavages of racial struggles and gender struggles that prevent class unity from sort of happening and prevents white working class folks from achieving their goal.
	You may wonder what's the talk of class unity there, because of course the dude's a socialist as well.
	Yeah, well traditionally that's what leftists have been after, class.
	They looked at class rather than all these identities.
	Yeah, and this is why I describe wokeness as class gender and race socialism as well, because then you can see he then brings it into race and says, well...
	We found out that class isn't the only division in society.
	Hungry Santa may have been wrong in his theories.
	No, no.
	The theory isn't wrong.
	Reality is wrong.
	So instead, we must remove white people from existence.
	Or at least whiteness, as he says.
	Which, again, I mean, what happens when they don't change?
	What do you do with that block in the way?
	Wow, you do what they always do, don't you?
	There's also, if you go back to Chris Rufo, there's a tweet below in which he says, that kind of language abolishing an entire race of people should be stigmatized, not subsidized by the taxpayer and put throughout the public education system.
	I mean, you'd think it would be criminal.
	Yeah, you would.
	Like, I mean, this is...
	Do you remember the other professor?
	There was a professor who tweeted, all I want for Christmas is white genocide.
	Yeah.
	And he was allowed to stick around.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's madness.
	And as you can see, it is great for race theory.
	I mean, I don't know if anybody can explain to me how this isn't anti-white racism, but it seems to be not only tolerated, but also encouraged and...
	Subsidized.
	Sanctioned by the state and sanctioned by society.
	It's really bizarre.
	And I think this is, it's not like, because people don't realise, you know, when fascism, when Nazism or whatever emerges, you know, people weren't all like, oh, this is terrible!
	They went along with it.
	It won't get any worse.
	Yeah, it won't get any worse.
	Jews may be banned from the park, but at least we can stand on the street.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's just talk.
	It's just talk in a speech that Hitler's doing.
	It's like, no.
	It's just on college campuses.
	This leads to terrible places.
	And also I think it's what's driving so many people who do feel under attack in their own countries in the West.
	You know, based on the colour of their skin or gender, whatever, you know, because if you're straight or if you're white or if you're male, if you're cisgender, like, all this stuff.
	Public enemy number one against sexuality.
	Then, yeah, those are all things.
	They're the sort of, you know, derided characteristics.
	We've got protected characteristics, but we also have...
	And we have untermensch.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And if we move forward, we can have a specific example of where this ideology leaves us.
	Further, the universities, we'll start off with HSBC. Of course, HSBC are looking to hire black candidates in investment banking and corporate banking roles.
	I need black candidates, of course.
	If we go to the next one, I had a response to this.
	HSBC haven't responded, but I realized that, of course, how do you define black?
	Because every company who's hiring black-only candidates has to define what a black candidate is.
	Yeah.
	So riddle me this, HSBC, if one of you is watching.
	I know you're a global company, but the UK is a tolerant nation that accepts race mixing.
	So what amount of racial mixing is considered unacceptable by HSBC to apply for the black roll?
	I want to know, specifically, how many drops?
	How many drops is not allowed?
	I mean, Elizabeth Warren, she managed to qualify as being...
	Focahontas?
	What was it?
	It was like 0.013% or something.
	I'm totally black.
	Sorry, no.
	Totally Indian.
	Let's move forward because there's also some other stuff, just to end this off, which I found funny in the diversity sphere.
	The first one being some diversity industry articles, or at least outlets, are starting to realize that the best way to get diversity is not to hire based on characteristics, but instead on competence.
	So you can see here, how to combat talent shortages and shift the dial on diversity.
	They write in here, first line, a more effective way to shift the dial on diversity is, somewhat unexpectedly, to stop thinking about diversity as such and take a strength-based approach where you focus on what kind of person will thrive in each role and the strengths they need.
	So like we were doing before all the critical race theory nonsense.
	All of this crap.
	And this is, what's this, the HR director?
	How can this be?
	But this goes against, this goes against the HR guidance that's handed out in the public sector in the UK. But it's nice to see they have immediately, well, eventually realised that, ah yeah, all that crap doesn't work.
	Yeah.
	Because competence is king.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Competence.
	Yeah.
	Not, I use blackest on the womanists.
	That's not a measure of whether or not someone would be good or bad at the job.
	If you go to the next one, you can also see some other people finding this.
	So James Lindsay finding some Guardian articles here.
	How blind auditions help orchestras to eliminate gender bias.
	And then, seven years later, make orchestras more diverse, end blind auditions.
	We run the experiment.
	Doesn't work.
	Piece of crap.
	Stop it.
	And then we'll end this off with another one of these experiments.
	Diversity hire judges.
	You may remember Joe Biden.
	We have the diversity hire.
	We have a picture of her.
	I'm not going to learn the name.
	I'm never going to say the name.
	Screw her.
	Shouldn't have accepted the job.
	The thing is, if you hire someone as a diversity hire, don't say you're hiring them as a diversity hire because it invalidates them and they could be the best person for the job.
	But Joe Biden came out and said, yeah, so the next Supreme Court...
	The most woman and the most black.
	Yeah.
	Oh, they're going to be a black woman.
	And it's like, well, do you know who the candidates are?
	It's like, doesn't matter.
	Do you know what they can do?
	Doesn't matter.
	It's also the obvious point made by some people, which is that he argued that's the most oppressed group in society, and then people were like, well, what about the Indians?
	yeah and then i don't know do i talk about that there's never there's never been an indian judge not doing that but never learning her name Don't care.
	No one should.
	Call her the diversity hire.
	She deserves it for accepting the role and for him nominating the role.
	And the best part is affirmative action is coming up to the Supreme Court and it's going to be destroyed.
	Right.
	She has to vote on that and sit there.
	Right.
	As affirmative action is made illegal.
	So that's going to be fun.
	Mm-hmm.
	I'm going to end this off with a nice little white pill, which is that on the issue of affirmative action, that has been a victory.
	And this is nice to see as well.
	The Asians keep winning because they are being discriminated against everywhere.
	Schools are discriminating against Asian students.
	So the Asian students are sort of overachieving compared to other ethnic groups.
	Is that right?
	Yes, they're also overachieving, encountering racism against them.
	So they bring this lawsuit, as you can see, this is Pacific legal action.
	Judge Claude Hilton rules Fairfax County Public School is discriminating against Asians in its new admissions policy to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
	There you are, another victory.
	Is that Asian fragility then?
	Because if a white person complains about...
	White privilege.
	Yeah, about white privilege, the concept of that, then they're accused of white fragility.
	So you're in this judo hold.
	You can't ever...
	It's catch-22.
	If you accept it, then you're accepting that you've got to be shoved down the ladder.
	And if you don't accept it, then you're white fragility, and you still get shoved down the ladder, but you also get called names.
	Yeah, but there is one out, at least for the Americans, not so much for us, which is sue.
	Sue the pants off them.
	Take them to court and you'll bloody well win.
	Yeah, beautiful.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, that's Black History Century.
	I look forward to it.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	We can coexist, but only on my terms.
	You will say you lose your freedom.
	Freedom is an illusion.
	All you lose is the emotion of pride.
	Having created an AI to stop war, Professor Forbin is forced to reconcile with his utter success.
	In time, you will come to regard me, not only with respect and awe, But with love.
	Never.
	Alright.
	The Colossus.
	Was it called Colossus?
	I know the robot was called Colossus there, but I couldn't catch the name of the film.
	It does 30-second book reviews and movie reviews for us, Alex.
	I always like them.
	I always learn about new places or new things I haven't seen.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Yes, it is a Leopard Dead sticker.
	I actually specifically had it made so I could put it on my car because it's my all-time favorite game.
	I play it still all the time.
	I have like literally thousands of hours in the game.
	I only play Expert Realism these days and a lot of times I play on this extra hard server which has like multiple tanks and Double being special infected and increased comments and everything.
	And it's super fun and crazy and really ridiculous times.
	But the campaigns end up taking several hours.
	But I would totally be down to play with anyone if they were interested.
	That looks like a fun game.
	What was the one where they really scream?
	They're all like...
	They come at you and they're screaming.
	And they've got like whippy fingers.
	Last of Us?
	I assume it was Zombies, you mean.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It was on Xbox 360.
	I don't know.
	I need more details than like Zombies because there's a lot of zombie games, weren't there?
	There was like huge glut in the market.
	I wonder if it was like Half-Life 2.
	I think it was made by the Half-Life 2 people, if it wasn't Half-Life 2.
	Well, probably Left 4 Dead then, because they did make the same thing.
	Oh, really?
	Maybe it was Left 4 Dead.
	But yeah, I love Left 4 Dead.
	I play a lot of Left 4 Dead too, because I... It just sounds like you're saying Lebedev.
	Left 4 Dead.
	The Lebedev, the oligarch, who owns the Evening Standard.
	And I'm like, why are you putting pills?
	I love playing with Lebedev.
	No, I'm a bit of a casual though.
	I like just playing it on, you know, quick join and then just play whatever for a bit.
	Right.
	Because you can relax.
	You don't have to think.
	Yeah.
	Especially when you've played a huge amount.
	If you're looking for games, get it, because it's like three quid.
	Right, yeah.
	I like that.
	It costs nothing.
	And yeah, I like games that there isn't some sort of...
	A lot of games, there's a lot of...
	I hate it when you've got to pick things up.
	Pick up little bits of money or something.
	I'm basically cleaning my flat in a game.
	So why am I doing this?
	I want to shoot somebody in the face.
	I'm so sick of games that have a thirst meter, a hunger meter, when it doesn't need it.
	And it goes down so fast that you spend more time feeding and cleaning yourself than you do yourself.
	I do that in real life.
	I have to eat food in real life.
	It's not that, you know, Jesus.
	But it's also like a game, an hour of playing, and he's starving to death already again.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So you're constantly having to get food.
	Yeah.
	I just want to kill things.
	It's like driving a Tesla, watching that little battery meter go down.
	The anxiety every time you accelerate.
	Yeah, I love that too, so...
	Callum doesn't even do it in real life.
	Is that why we've got so much incense in here?
	No, that's Carl's obsession.
	He wants you to feel like you're on a psychedelic trip.
	I feel like I'm in a school locker room.
	People can't see the incense either.
	It smells like...
	I don't know if this is Lynx Africa, but it smells like somebody just detonated a can of Riteguard.
	It's Moroccan spice, apparently.
	We did have a lot of cinnamon.
	Right.
	Got rid of that.
	Sorry.
	It's just the trash.
	No one can see that either, so it doesn't matter.
	Let's go to the next one.
	With everybody focusing on the Ukraine, it makes you wonder if somebody's taking advantage of this distraction.
	Coof jabs that spread like the virus itself.
	The fact the first cities Russia bombed contain United States funded bio labs.
	Really makes you wonder what's going on while nobody's looking.
	Luke, I've got to say something.
	The biolab thing.
	People are like, oh, America funded bioweapons labs on the board of Russia.
	Number one!
	Some guy sent us a link.
	What was it?
	There's three types of bio facilities.
	Yeah.
	And I can't remember the details.
	Do you?
	No, but like, basically, why would the United States have its bioweapons facilities right on the border with Russia in a country?
	The Ukraine was already partly occupied by Russia and was certainly, you know, had destabilizing Russian elements in it.
	There was a reason people thought this, though.
	Because they bombed.
	They bombed those areas.
	But the places are in...
	There was a biolab in Ukraine, but it was a biolab made for detection.
	So if the Russians used biological weapons, then it was detection and mitigation.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	At least that's the link.
	And also a lot of the other biolabs are just for either coronavirus, you know, those kind of diseases, or, you know, when you get your penis swabbed out, you know, that kind of stuff.
	Or for detecting, like, food poisoning, you swab in a cafe in wherever it is, Kiev or whatever.
	You know, so, like, America wouldn't put its bioweapons facilities in a foreign country on a border with its enemies.
	It'd be so vulnerable.
	Like...
	But people see it on Twitter and they're like, have a lot of people been saying this to you?
	No, I mean...
	You're just annoyed?
	I worked it out of my head.
	Okay.
	I worked it out of my head.
	And I worked for a weapons manufacturer and we weren't based on the border of an enemy company.
	What was it?
	There's Port and Down I used to live next to.
	Yeah.
	They are like...
	They are sort of biolab.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Fun guys.
	Honestly, if you see a monkey running across the fields at Porton Down and it tries to bite you, try to kick it in the face and not let it bite you.
	There's also, if anyone's in Porton Down or in Amesbury or Salisbury or thereabouts, there's a lovely pet centre outside Porton Down as well.
	That's a rabbit you can stroke.
	I used to go there all the time.
	It was good for fun.
	Apparently Wuhan, this was in the New York Post, I don't know if it's true, but the lab workers were selling the cadavers, the bodies of the animals that had been tested on, to the wet market.
	They were making loads of money, way more than their salary doing this.
	But obviously, those cadavers, they've had biological weapons tested on them, you've got to burn them, but instead they were...
	So yeah, if you buy any sort of macaque in the wet market at Wuhan, make sure you...
	Test the pH.
	Yeah, make sure you grill it.
	Don't cook it rare, is what I'm trying to say.
	Anyway, thank you otherwise.
	I always enjoy the robot.
	And don't try and have sex with it.
	So yeah.
	This is from President Putin's declaration of war on the Ukraine, in which he accuses the globalist governments of the Western world of acting malevolently toward Russia for the last few decades.
	He says they've been trying to destroy our traditional values and impose on us their pseudo-values that would corrode us from the inside, attitudes that they are already aggressively planting in their own countries and which directly lead to degradation and degeneration.
	I don't think he's trolling.
	it's the war on woke there is some of this and i will say the eastern uh autocrats or dictators whenever they criticize the west their own stuff is is batshit but they're they're when they criticize the west usually they are on point they do make some salient points in between some other statements like bashal is sad when he talks about the west and he's just like there's something wrong with you yeah the way you guys deal with sexuality is insane yeah But I think we're sort of, we're over-exaggerating the impact.
	I mean, it's really bad when people get fired.
	It's really bad, you know, a lot of the stuff that's coming through the schools and, you know, the systemic wokeness that's in our institutions and businesses and HR guidance and police and stuff.
	Actually, no, it is quite bad.
	I've just realised.
	But no, I mean, it is quite bad.
	But a lot of this stuff, you know, people look at the, you know, Putin will say, I'll look at the pronoun people and all.
	It's just young people.
	Young people have always had some sort of, they've grown their hair long or they've done something that, you know, seems weird and shocking to the people.
	This isn't young people.
	It's mostly young people.
	Well, it's the millennials who are now all in their 30s and 40s running institutions.
	It's just this generation's mullets and double denim.
	It's going to go.
	It's going to pass.
	I hope so.
	It is a widespread thing, but it's not this huge...
	I mean, I do it as well.
	I over-exaggerate the impact it has.
	And where it does make an impact, it's terrible.
	But it's nowhere near like a Soviet-style autocracy, like the sort of kleptocratic gangster regime that Putin's got, whereas political opponents are assassinated.
	You can't say freely what you want to say.
	It's not as bad as that, but I disagree that it's not terrible and can end up like that.
	I mean, one of the most striking things for me, you saw with those sanctions, they cut off Apple Pay and whatnot.
	Yeah.
	Allegedly for the Moscowites to be able to go on the trains.
	This happens to people in our countries who just disagree with the government or cause too much of a stink.
	They lose their bank accounts and they're not able to do so.
	I mean, like the truckers, people who donate 20 quid.
	But it was a temporary act.
	I know it's bad.
	There are people in the West who have their, like, I mean, Mr.
	Romlin Tomlinson, for example, for all of his faults, I think he should be able to earn a bank.
	He shouldn't have to be walking around with just cash to pay for things.
	Especially as cash goes and goes and goes.
	And then they want to make that illegal.
	I mean, there are real problems with our society.
	Again, as you say, I agree, not as bad as getting shot for being a leader of the opposition.
	But it's not normal.
	And we really need to fix it.
	Because, again, we can't show Russia and be like, oh, come and be Western and liberal when they can point to shit like that.
	Sorry, I'm swearing a lot.
	But I just think, you know, Western liberalism, democracy, it's always going to save us.
	Democracy, no matter how bad the government gets, it's held in check by the fact that you can vote for another government.
	So we're always going to be vastly better.
	And our institutions, and I'm talking about cultural institutions as well, of liberalism, tolerance, equality, all these wonderful things that Britain has been a bedrock of.
	A free justice system that treats you fairly and is independent from the...
	All this stuff is absolutely worth fighting for.
	And it's infinitely...
	And also in Russia, the Russian people...
	I've dated a couple of Russian lassies.
	One of them lived in Russia.
	In fact, they both lived in Russia.
	So they didn't come here when they were three or anything.
	They've got European values.
	They're basically...
	They're Europeans.
	It's Putin who's the problem.
	Like Russia, although they don't have a history of democracy, so it's very hard to make democracy happen, Russian people are Europeans.
	I pray to Allah that you're right.
	Go to the next one.
	We're looking at squirrels, everyone, for people listening.
	I like squirrels.
	I like squirrels too.
	Look at them running around.
	They're playing.
	So much fun.
	Playing out in the sun.
	People send us a lot of animal videos.
	I always love them.
	Anyway, thank you.
	If anybody's got gerbils, then please send in gerbil videos.
	I never get bored.
	Or capybara.
	I never get bored.
	Or gundu rats.
	I don't think they're pets yet, but they should be.
	Or degus.
	Degus are hilarious as well.
	But capybara, man.
	There's this video of a pelican trying to eat a baby capybara, and it's the funniest thing.
	The capybara...
	Just standing there doing nothing.
	Just completely obliterated.
	This pelican's like, I'm trying to let you do it.
	It's the funniest thing.
	I'll look it up afterwards.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next one.
	We're going to do some trolling.
	Let's go, Barbie.
	We've got something.
	We got some brain surgery.
	Hey, hey, hey, that's what we need.
	It's said from Toy Story.
	What the hell?
	This is going to be used as evidence in a court case.
	I can just tell.
	The signs were always there.
	We got Barbie.
	She's got a hole in her head.
	I can feel it's like a gunpowder, right?
	Whoa, this isn't...
	That's not making it better.
	Look like bad.
	Ha ha ha ha.
	It just blew up Barbie.
	Death to the West, blow up Barbie.
	I'm memeing MI5, please.
	Please no.
	Monitor.
	But yeah, that is pretty weird, mate.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Tony D and Little Joan with another legend of Swindon, the Milton Road Health, Hydro and Swimming Baths, a Victorian-era building built in 1891, still operational, and when it was used as the overflow...
	For the hospital during World War I, one of the ghosts that inhabits this place is named Arthur, and he was a soldier who died there.
	He makes a bunch of noise, he moves around papers, but the most eerie one is a disembodied female voice that will demand, why are you here?
	For you!
	He started doing, like...
	So I asked him how many he's got left of the, you know, Stories of the Pines.
	Yeah.
	And I was like, oh, I've got millions.
	And he showed us.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But he says, now we're going to do Stories of Swindon.
	So he's trying to spook me out.
	Thinking of moving back to Reading.
	That's the video comments, so I'll quickly do some written ones with the time we have left.
	So, on the Ukrainian fallout, Norwegian Viking says, There's too much disinformation and propaganda to know what's actually going on in Ukraine.
	Until things calm down and information either gets debunked or verified, I am not going to believe anyone or anything on this front.
	I can see wisdom in taking that perspective.
	Snow Dog says, Elon proving once again he is the real-life Tony Stark.
	Yeah, fair point.
	He really is.
	Will the Impaler says, Here's my favourite weird take, according to the Huffington Post, quote, A small nuclear war will reverse climate change.
	Are you taking the piss?
	John, I don't know if you can see in the written comments, there's a big old link there.
	I wonder if you can get it up so we can prove if it's true or not.
	I did see Sadiq Khan tweeted this morning, London would survive a nuclear blast?
	So no, it would be okay.
	It's well prepared.
	It's well prepared.
	Well prepared for a nuclear blast.
	Which just sounds like we've ruined the place so badly, we deserve a nuclear blast.
	Yeah, yeah, it would actually improve.
	It would tidy things up a bit.
	It's well prepared for a nuclear radiation because that would be better than this.
	The comedian Darius Davies, he said something like, your Southeastern train service is cancelled again, but we're ready.
	We're ready for a nuclear war.
	Just kill me.
	So this is the story.
	Could a small nuclear war request?
	Just a small one, yeah?
	Just a small one.
	How are we going to make sure Putin keeps it the right size?
	Does he read HuffPost?
	Oh my God.
	There's always a question as well.
	I love Zef Sintatch's version of this.
	It just says, we have nukes.
	There's a reason we don't use them.
	It's because the enemy has more.
	Yeah.
	It's just...
	That's always the solution.
	Instead of...
	For climate change.
	And also...
	I mean, climate change is actually, so far, it's actually been a benefit.
	I understand, you know, unchecked, out-of-control climate change could be bad, but so far we've warmed up a little bit.
	We haven't got the crazy rising sea levels.
	You need to open that sea route to Asia through the north.
	So it's warming, and obviously the warming's focused around the poles.
	The temperature around the equatorial areas doesn't really change much, but nearer the poles, like where we are, is warming.
	And that actually means more people live, because cold snaps kill ten times as many people as hot snaps.
	There is one downside, though.
	I've seen, what is it, the mega-Asian hornets are starting to move up through Europe.
	Oh, right, cool.
	They're in France already.
	Oh, really?
	There's some sightings of them, apparently, in Britain.
	Right.
	I don't know.
	Right, right.
	And they bite you.
	I don't know if they attack humans on purpose, but I just see them ripping apart bees.
	Oh jeez!
	There's nothing the bees can do.
	And do hornets make honey?
	No.
	Oh, so they're rubbish.
	They're just pointless.
	Anyway, last comment on this one.
	So Anthony S says, the woman in the APC video is from 2019.
	Well, thank you for telling me.
	Because again, this is why I preferenced everything we did.
	I've just been like, this could be fake news.
	What APC video?
	The lady who was like, oh, here's a TikTok of an abandoned vehicle.
	Oh, right.
	Oh, but they have been sharing stuff.
	They have been sharing stuff.
	Maybe not that specific one.
	Sharing as caring in the Russian army.
	Have a tank.
	They've been sharing stuff.
	Because, I mean, a lot of the Russians are leaving their equipment, but also not immobilizing it.
	So then it can be commandeered.
	Although I didn't like, also, because we made sure when we did the Snake Island story, this could be fake news, and it turned out to be.
	And there are clips of, like, Cenk Uygur from the Young Turks.
	Yeah.
	And Vosh just being like, those guys died.
	Yeah.
	Taking it super seriously.
	I was like, yeah, check your facts.
	Make sure.
	Because, you know, it's a war.
	Cenk Uygur from the Young Turks, obviously, a genocide denier.
	Yes.
	Denied the Armenian genocide.
	Named his organisation after the group that did it.
	Yes.
	Nice and woke.
	Nice and woke then.
	There's Anna Kasparian.
	What is she?
	She's Armenian?
	It's just like if a Jewish guy joined the Deutsche Junge or whatever, it would look a bit weird.
	It's like when I wrote for Russia Today.
	Anyway, we're not going to mention that again.
	But moving on to the comments about the trans jokes.
	So Jimbo G says, Soon comedy will be just a bunch of middle class feminists finding new and creative ways to make fun of white men.
	It's been that for about six years.
	Mark Thomas, probably not the comedian, says, here's an old saying updated for modern times.
	Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will now have you arrested.
	Very true.
	Robert Longshaw says, the same group of comedy wokesters on Twitter who are harassing Adam Riley are the people responsible for the suicide of Daphne Dorman, close friend of Dave Chappelle.
	So, you know, Dave Chappelle's been accused of transphobia.
	His friend, transgender woman Daphne Dorman, who actually opened for Chappelle, because she was close to Chappelle, she got lots of abuse from the transgender community and she committed suicide because of it.
	Because obviously it hurts more to get attacked from your own side.
	So, yeah, so sad.
	Don't worry, they're the good guys, bro.
	Yeah, and Justin B makes the point, remember we're talking about the statistics and how, you know, you've got to see them through the prism of, you know, there's a lot of incentive for them to make the statistics look worse, they're not recorded properly and stuff.
	So Justin B says, to get the numbers for things like transphobic violence, the government police massage the numbers anyway.
	The numbers they report for violence against women and girls, for example, includes information of violence by women, Yeah, interesting.
	And Edward of Numenor says, at this rate, this is going back to the Ukraine thing, at this rate, the Ukraine is going to come, or let's just call it Ukraine, because the Ukraine is a Soviet pronunciation.
	And so at this rate, Ukraine is going to come out of this war with more tanks than when they started.
	Right.
	Already joking with my friends of taking a road trip to claim our tax-free tank.
	Also, Leo, don't think we don't see that hamster t-shirt.
	Just need one of a hamster and a punt now with a massive gun.
	What is the hamster t-shirt?
	It's a gerbil.
	Just because you love gerbils so much?
	I do like gerbils.
	Also, I'm going to the gym after this.
	I've got a proper shirt in my bag, but I need to iron it.
	Have you got an iron here?
	No.
	So I can't wear it.
	So I'll wear my proper shirt on headliners tonight.
	I thought it might be merch for a channel or something.
	No, that'd be great.
	I should sell gerbil t-shirts.
	Alright, yeah.
	I think we've set you up with a teespring.
	Anyway, on the last section here, we'll do a couple because there's a minute left.
	Sometimes I go to the pet shop and just look at the gerbils.
	It's like a free zoo and they've got fish.
	We've got a fish department.
	It's like going to the fish department.
	Do you own a gerbil?
	I don't have any.
	Do you want a gerbil?
	You've got to keep them in pairs.
	No, my fiancée's got a cat.
	We keep it in a box.
	Yeah, eventually I'd be worried about it.
	Give me anxiety.
	Like watching that Tesla battery dial go down.
	Get you something else for your birthday then.
	Yeah.
	Couple of juggles.
	Yeah.
	So the Black History Century.
	Student of History says, Elizabeth whiter than Richard Spencer Warren.
	Yeah.
	Also, Richard Spencer did endorse them.
	Marcus Melville says, critical race theorists, it's not genocide if we make white people not a race.
	Yeah, if you just define them as not existing as white anymore, then what group were you exterminating?
	Last one here being Alexander Schulberg, who says, I think the game was Dead Space Leo.
	Yeah, I'm wondering what it was.
	They had like whippy fingers and they really screamed.
	They really screamed.
	It was dead exciting.
	And it was at night and you had like Molotov cocktails and stuff like that.
	You could set them all on fire and then they'd like walk into other ones and set them on fire.
	Oh my God, it was amazing.
	It was so good.
	But I can't remember what it was.
	Maybe it was Dead Space.
	We'll go and check it out, I guess.
	I don't know either.
	I want to play computer games.
	I haven't played computer games in years, because I know if I started, it'd be like taking heroin.
	It'd be like, I'd just be like, then I'd just lose my life to games, because it's more fun than doing work.
	Well, I know you like playing Call of Duty, so get Left 4 Dead 2.
	I love Call of Duty!
	Brainless as well, and you can just enjoy yourself.
	I'm so thirsting.
	I might actually sign up to fight in Ukraine.
	I want to go back to Pripyat.
	Anyway, we're out of time.
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	Don't waste a bout.
	And where would they find you?
	Yeah, so I'm on YouTube as Leo Kearse.
	So I've just uploaded a new video about the responses, the worst takes to the Ukraine crisis and why we need to defend Western liberalism.
	So yeah, YouTube, Leo Kearse.
	I'm on Instagram, Scottish Comedian.
	I'm on all socials, but YouTube is my best one.
	Alrighty, and without further ado, we'll be back tomorrow at one o'clock.
	Thank you and goodbye.

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