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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 9th of May 2022.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about Elon Musk taking an axe to Twitter.
	The Communists vs.
	Robinson, round two.
	Electric Boogaloo, I don't know.
	Find out.
	So that's the Communists turning up to Tom and Robinson's documentary in Telford.
	And also Repressive Tolerance in Action.
	Repressive Tolerance.
	Repressive Tolerance.
	That's right.
	Anyway, I suppose we should start off with Elon taking an axe to Twitter though.
	Yeah.
	So, yeah, Elon Musk, it looks like the buyout of Twitter is going to go through, and Elon appears to be thinking about taking an axe to it and hacking off a lot of the diversity and inclusivity nonsense that's embedded in the company.
	The parasites.
	Yeah, and that seems like a very good idea.
	But before we begin, I want to talk about Elon Musk himself for a moment, because he appears to be doing something that I think is interesting and relevant to the current situation.
	So, David Hume apparently spoke to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
	And in this conversation, as I document and talk about in this premium podcast, The Secrets of Rousseau, he apparently revealed his secret to him.
	And Edmund Burke learned this from Hume, allegedly, that Rousseau had worked out what the secret of capturing the public's attention was.
	And it seems that Elon Musk has actually stumbled onto this himself.
	It is to bring people wonders, marvels, and all of these impressive things that make them go, ooh...
	Ah, you know.
	And you can see that Elon, his entire career basically follows this.
	Things like SpaceX, even around the Cybertruck, right?
	It's such a non-issue.
	And yet Elon Musk is like, wow, look at this futuristic site.
	And it's like, yeah, I guess.
	But you can see how, as a showman, he has to do this to capture people's attention.
	And he does it really well.
	And I think this is kind of the art of spellcasting.
	Putting into people's minds, look, there's going to be something magic happening here.
	And so if you want to know more about that, you can go and check that out on their website.
	But anyway, you can see the effects of this, right?
	And I really do mean it, where it's like, it is like spellcasting, because it's like casting an illusion over men's minds to make them behave in ways they otherwise wouldn't.
	And you can see this from the actual concrete results.
	For example, interest that Twitter has skyrocketed from people who wish to go to Twitter and work there.
	Now, I can't imagine that before Elon Musk, that was something that Twitter was too inundated with.
	The best and brightest saying, oh, if I'm going to work anywhere, it's going to be at Twitter.
	I want to work at the sensor machine.
	Exactly.
	But now, things are different.
	And so Elon tweets out this article that we'll go through in a minute by Fortune with this attached.
	He says, if Twitter acquisition completes, the company will be super focused on hardcore software engineering, design, infosec, and server hardware.
	I strongly believe that all managers in a technical area must be technically excellent.
	Managers in software must write great software, or it's like being a cavalry captain who can't ride a horse.
	Also, work ethic expectations would be extreme, but much less than I demand of myself.
	You can see that this is him casting the spell.
	So, well, look, we're actually going to go here and do something amazing.
	Don't you want to be a part of it?
	And so as Fortune Report, job interest in Twitter has skyrocketed 250%, or no, sorry, 263% since Elon basically made all these announcements.
	And isn't that interesting?
	Interestingly enough as well is that the general public seems to be in favour of Elon Musk taking over Twitter, which I didn't know.
	I wouldn't have thought the general public would have had an opinion on it.
	But they say, while countless Musk fans, What's a Musk fan called?
	Muskavite?
	I don't know.
	Musketeer.
	Musketeers?
	I don't know.
	They need a name for themselves, I think.
	But anyway, while countless Musk fans and a slight majority of Americans, 59%, approve of the takeover, according to a recent Harris poll, some current Twitter staff worry it will dramatically change the company's culture and overall direction.
	Yeah, that was the point.
	They explicitly stated that was the point, which is that this is a complete run.
	Also, his point about if you're going to have technical managers, they need to be technically excellent.
	It's also just a great company running point.
	I've seen this repeated about game companies before, where they have those CEOs who turn up who have never worked in the video games industry, and have sold Pepsi, and then they just turn up and they're like, yeah, I know what a video game is.
	I swear.
	It's ridiculous.
	You get this in films and comic books as well.
	I mean, look at the people who are the executive producers of these things.
	A lot of the time, they're not people who have been involved in this industry at all.
	And Elon Musk is on the right track here.
	And so he presented an investment deck or something like that.
	Sorry, let me find the exact word, a pitch deck, to the investors.
	Oh, sorry, yeah, in fact, right, so before we go on to that, though, I had no idea that Twitter had 7,500 employees.
	What the hell are they all doing?
	Does that include the censorship staff or not?
	That's in total.
	So that includes the censorship staff.
	Well, they may have that as an outsource thing.
	Yeah.
	Like I mentioned previously with Facebook, they had loads more employees who are just a third company that does the censorship.
	Yeah.
	And their boys actually write it.
	I don't know if that includes...
	Because, yeah, as I say, it's like third companies who have contracted to do that.
	I don't know whether it includes that.
	But look at it.
	In 2018, it was under 4,000.
	And in 2021, it's 7,500.
	It's like, what the hell are they doing?
	And I can only assume it is sort of the HR department of Twitter growing to a monstrous scale.
	I mean, we had that segment where we covered a guy from Google who said pretty much this, which is, well, hiring so many people and none of them know how to code.
	They couldn't build the thing they sat on.
	Well, that's the thing.
	How many engineers would you need to actually run Twitter?
	50 at the most?
	You know, 500 engineers?
	If there's 1,000 engineers managing Twitter, you've still got 6,500 people left.
	I mean, even if you take into account you've got to do it in most languages on Earth.
	Like, sure, that's a problem, but to hire an extra 2,000 people in a single year between 2020 and 2021...
	Can't help but feel they're not really needed.
	Anyway, so Elon plans to basically fire 1,000 people on his first day, which is a good start, but there's probably a few others you need to.
	But the thing is, according to this pitch deck that the New York Times had seen that he presented to investors, so...
	Not BlackRock, what was the other one?
	I can't remember the other investment group.
	We covered it the other day.
	But he's planning to fire 1,000 staff as soon as he gets in there.
	So it's no wonder the staff are worried about our jobs.
	It's like, yeah, you're in the diversity department, aren't you?
	You're in the censorship department.
	No wonder you're afraid.
	But anyway, the Daily Mail reports it is believed that he will fire many of the firm's woke staff following the transfer of ownership.
	And then within the next three years, he anticipates making thousands of new hires, swelling the ranks up to 11,000 employees.
	To replace the rest of them and need to be cut.
	That's what that is.
	Well, I mean, there's replacing them, but there's nearly doubling the size of the company.
	Yeah, because I don't think you trust the rest of those 7,000 people either.
	And if they want to leave...
	That's a good point.
	I didn't even think about that.
	Or anything else.
	Phase them out.
	Like, we've already got replacement, mate.
	Don't worry.
	Bye-bye.
	That's a good point.
	I didn't even think that.
	It's the thing I had in mind where I said about, you know, the problem is purging too many people, because you want them to sit around to make sure the system changes, and then, you know, once you need to get rid of them, that's not a problem.
	easily done good point uh they think that much of the new talent will likely be in the field of engineering of course and it would be nice to see you almost do something interesting with twitter i think um but uh anyway they they reckon that most of the job shelves would occur occur during the takeover period according to this pitch deck and on a company level he has floated the idea of closing down the san francisco headquarters not to save money that surely is not the only reason he wants to close the san francisco headquarters also smells of poop Yeah.
	It's also populated by leftists.
	You can't hire someone from San Francisco who's not going to be woke, can you?
	And he also wants to propose that the board members may not receive a salary, which is another $3 million a year shaved off the expenses, which is all good.
	These changes are part of his plan to increase Twitter's annual revenue by five times the current levels to $26.4 billion from the $5 billion last year.
	And can I just say, I'm so glad that finally the vulture, the soulless, vampiric capitalists are back in control.
	I'm sick of them trying to be good people.
	They're never good people.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The people in control of these are never good people.
	It's just like, look, can we just have the people who want to make money back in charge, please?
	You know where you stand.
	It's easy enough.
	I have money, would you like that?
	Yes, there we are.
	Have a think.
	It's a totally predictable transaction that doesn't require me to be part of a different religion.
	So he's basically going to try and cut the amount that Twitter relies on advertising in order to have a subscription model, pay for tweets, I think he said he's only going to do this to governments and big companies.
	So, for normal people, this will be fine.
	But I also just love the idea that, yeah, government.
	If you insist on having Twitter accounts, Gibbs.
	What's that?
	You're all addicted to Twitter?
	Every MP? Every politician around the world?
	They can't help but post stuff and get that dopamine hit?
	Well, they can give me some money for it.
	It's not just the MPs and whatnot either.
	It's every government department, every subcommittee of every department as well.
	There's an endless number of these pointless things that just sit around.
	And if I was him, yeah, I'd take the money.
	Yeah, no, absolutely.
	And so this is all good.
	And frankly, better than doing it for woke points.
	At this point, I'm just, yeah, just make some money, Elon.
	Just don't care.
	Anyway, so this has not been well received by the verified checkmarks who are addicted to Twitter.
	And, I mean, there are lots of articles like this.
	The MPC programming is coming down from CNN, Washington Post, MSNBC. We'll choose the Washington Post one because it was the funniest, frankly.
	With Elon Musk's looming takeover, the future of Twitter's content moderation is uncertain.
	Is it uncertain?
	Technically it's uncertain, but we know one thing, which is that the leftists are not going to be happy with whatever he does, which would be good for everyone else.
	Well, apart from women and people of colour, apparently.
	Oh no.
	Women and people of colour most affected.
	It's almost like there's been an aristocratic class who you can't offend, and now that privilege is being taken away, and they're being treated the same like everyone else.
	Yes, so in this article they're interviewing an expert, one Mr Kleinman, and they say, if Elon Musk gets his way, what do you think Twitter will be like?
	And he says, the short answer is, we don't know.
	I mean, we actually could just look back to what Twitter used to be like.
	Fun.
	Trying to predict what Elon Musk is going to do is a dangerous game.
	That said, based on his comments to date, we are incredibly concerned that Twitter as a company will start paying a lot less attention to issues of hateful, abusive and violent speech on the platform.
	There's no such thing as violent speech.
	Definitionally impossible.
	I don't even know what hateful speech is.
	Hate speech isn't real, that's for sure.
	I don't even know what hateful speech could possibly be.
	I mean, I agree that abusive speech could happen.
	That's at least something.
	You could define abusive in law.
	It is, for example.
	But Twitter already has a tremendous problem with the scale of hateful and abusive and violent speech on the platform, especially directed at women and black and brown communities.
	So Elon will unleash the racism.
	Going to give everyone that N-word.
	Pass us back.
	So they ask, well, who gets harassed most on Twitter?
	And Kleiman says, well, in 2018, we did a study of 778 women who used the platform.
	So, what difference does that make?
	That doesn't explain anything.
	That's it.
	700.
	But, who cares?
	Like, you're saying, look, we're going to look at these people and give you an answer.
	But that's not the question.
	The question is, who gets harassed the most?
	It's like, yeah, so we looked at one demographic.
	It's like, okay, but what about the rest of them?
	I mean, there was a study a few years ago that showed that it was conservative MPs in this country out of all the politicians who get the most harassment on Twitter.
	We looked at 778 women, and of those, it was the black and Latino ones who received, quote, abusive or problematic tweets.
	Whereas the men received zero because we didn't ask any.
	Exactly.
	We didn't even bother having a look at them.
	It's like, that's weird.
	And of course, quote, black women are disproportionately targeted, with 84% being more likely than white women to be mentioned in abusive or problematic tweets.
	By whom?
	Mentioned in a problematic tweet.
	A Washington Post investigation.
	This is exactly...
	It's exactly this population, I think, stands to bear the brunt of any changes that Elon Musk makes.
	Yeah, well, they're not wrong, really.
	Any changes that Elon Musk makes, it is going to affect women of colour first.
	Such as Vijaya Gad.
	She is the first.
	She is worth a staggering amount of money.
	I didn't know this.
	So apparently Bloomberg said in 2014 she earned $451,000 because she sold 13,000 of her shares at $33 a share.
	Currently she holds 848,000 shares.
	So that's why she was in that call with Joe Rogan.
	That's why she was in the call.
	She's also the head of the trust and safety team.
	Sorry, chief legal officer and secretary, but the person...
	Censor in chief.
	Yes, the chief censor at Twitter.
	And so her net worth is projected to be in excess of $30 million, and she makes, or previously made until last year, nearly $8 million a year as their chief legal officer and secretary.
	Was that in salary?
	In salary.
	She is the highest paid person at Twitter.
	And then, it turned out this year, she got basically double the salary.
	Isn't that weird?
	We can get to the next one.
	There's the Times of India reports.
	She earned $17 million last year as Twitter's top legal counsel.
	Damn.
	$17 million a year.
	Worth every dollar.
	To be the chief censor at Twitter.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	I mean, the lady who's responsible for making their name mud for the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story just doubles her salary.
	Yes.
	I mean, that's a reward, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	It's wild.
	I had no idea that she was on so much money.
	And the thing is, as they say, you know, she could be on the chopping block as Musk has reportedly planned to slash jobs and reduce executive pay.
	Yeah, good.
	And that would be decent.
	But she's going to receive $12.5 million as a severance package.
	So she's going to end up with like 50-60 million dollars.
	And then if she sells her 800,000 shares, she's probably going to end up like a billionaire for censoring people on the internet.
	Nice work if you can get it.
	There's no justice, but supposedly she's gone.
	Took a lot of money.
	Yeah, but that's the thing, isn't it?
	It took the richest man in the world to get rid of her, and she's going to just, on this unbelievably platinum parachute, go into some...
	And we'll see her pop up again somewhere else.
	We saw her there with the President of India, Prime Minister, I forget which one they have.
	Although I wonder if she'll actually move back to India, or if she'll just continue to live in the United States as well.
	Apparently she was born in Hyderabad, so she's not like a Native American.
	So maybe.
	Maybe she'll go over to India and start censoring Indians.
	Sorry, bros.
	You're going to have to have her back.
	She's like, right, I'm going to censor all of you now.
	Screw Indians in the car dealer, please.
	Anyway, so in other news, there was a lawsuit launched to delay or prevent the takeover of Elon Musk by Florida Pension Fund.
	Yeah, that's motivated by dear concerns for business and procedure.
	Yeah, but the procedure's kind of weird, right?
	Let's go through it.
	So this was challenged by the Orlando Police Pension Fund.
	We all knew they were going to sue.
	I'm writing to you from the Orlando Police Department's Pension Fund.
	We're very concerned, so we filed a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court.
	Okay, police fund from Orlando.
	You've gone over to Delaware, which has got nothing to do with the Californian business.
	It's like, what are you doing?
	Like, how can you make this look like this isn't just a political maneuver from people who are obviously on Twitter way too much?
	So, according to the complaint, the problems is that Musk had other agreements with other major Twitter shareholders, including Jack Dorsey, to rely on their holdings when offering to take the company private last month.
	These arrangements triggered a Delaware law that calls for a three-year delay in closing such deals.
	But why would the Californian businesses be beholden to Delaware laws?
	Wait, did they register their official address in Delaware for tax reasons?
	It might well be, because Delaware is a weird tax haven.
	Isn't Joe Biden's constituency as well?
	It is.
	He brags about this.
	Yes.
	Yes, high taxes for everyone else except where I live.
	Hmm.
	But anyway, so I don't know that it will or won't go through or anything like this.
	But under Delaware corporate law, those agreements make Musk an interested shareholder who has to wait at least three years to close the deal, or win the support of investors who control at least two-thirds of Twitter's outstanding voting stock.
	And so who knows if this is going to be legit, because it could be that Twitter is actually registered in Delaware.
	But one interesting thing that has appeared from this is that Elon Musk tweeting about this.
	He's been drawing the support of, is it the second richest man, Jeff Bezos, on Twitter?
	Weirdly.
	You can go to the next one.
	You can see that Elon Musk has been tweeting out things.
	And Jeff Bezos has been liking his tweets about the left going, if you can get the second one up, you see that's the things Jeff Bezos has liked on Twitter.
	He's only liked seven things.
	And one of them is Elon Musk's tweet about, oh, the far left has gone really far left.
	And so there are people who are like, well, hang on a second.
	Does this make the two richest men in the world, like, right-wing populists?
	Cool.
	Yeah.
	Isn't that good?
	Isn't that a surprise as well?
	I mean, you'd wish Bezos would do more with it, instead of buying the Washington Post and allowing them to continue being leftists, if he is.
	I mean, if you want to gut the Washington Post and turn it into, like, you know, something I would run, then feel free!
	You know, that would be great!
	But anyway, so there are other things that have been occurring around this, I'll just include at the end.
	Project Veritas are apparently planning some expose on Twitter, which, I mean, good.
	Project Veritas have done great work so far, looking forward to it.
	This was really funny though, because this is a Twitter executive, they don't tell us which one, but James O'Keefe door stops him, and the guy just starts running through.
	You emailed us this.
	Could we talk about it?
	He's just, no, I don't want to talk.
	It's like, I don't know who he is.
	I don't know what.
	I'm innocent, damn it.
	The faster I run, the more innocent I am.
	But anyway, moving on, just again, just to cap off a bunch of things that have happened.
	Although I am interested with that Project Veritas thing, because they've still got contacts inside, and as the thing slowly burns, and a few of those people probably are going to lose their jobs in the catch-up there, they're going to leak everything.
	Hopefully, yeah.
	Yeah, that's going to be good.
	More fun things are on the horizon with Twitter, unfortunately, than are out yet.
	And just one last thing.
	Elon Musk apparently got into a Twitter spat with Russia's space agency.
	Yeah, he's been doing that a lot.
	Yeah, because Russia's space agency is accusing him of arming Nazis, basically.
	So if you can go down, Elon's replied to this with an English translation, where they're saying, well, look, he sent them Starlink satellite terminals, and these have gone to the Azov Battalion, which they probably have done, and so he is supporting Nazis.
	And Elon tweeted this out, going, the word Nazi doesn't mean what they seem to think it does.
	It's like, unfortunately, in this case, it actually does mean what they do.
	Not that I'm saying that, you know, there aren't Nazis in Russia or the Russians are the good guys.
	The Russian state has been a bit of a meme, calling everything they don't like a Nazi, but in this case they were accidentally white.
	Yes.
	I mean, it's, yeah.
	Which is the weird inverse of our statement.
	They call everything a Nazi except for the Aslan Battalion, which is weird.
	And so afterwards, an hour later, he posted this joke tweet that...
	Everyone's like, oh, what does this mean?
	If you can go to it, John.
	If I die in a mysterious circumstance, it's been nice knowing you.
	So I assume that's a response to the Russian space agency.
	We don't know.
	Or to Clinton?
	But it could be to Clinton.
	Yeah, who knows?
	It's very cryptic.
	But he did follow up his other tweet with another response a few hours later saying, quote, there are no angels in war.
	He's been like, oh yeah, they're just calling everything Nazis.
	These are the actual Nazis.
	Someone's probably told him, hey, mate.
	Yeah.
	Because I can't imagine he heaps up with the daily occurrences.
	No, he's probably a bit too busy.
	But yeah, these are the actual Nazis, I'm afraid.
	So yeah, that was just a bit of a roundup at the end there of what Elon Musk has been getting up to.
	But there's more exciting things to come with his purchase of Twitter, I think.
	Also, the chopping it up is fantastic.
	Yeah, I know.
	I see people in the chat being like, yeah, go further.
	I get the feeling, but you may want to slow down on purging them, because if you've not purged enough, you can always fix that in a heartbeat.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Well, I suppose we'll move on to the Communists vs.
	Robinson.
	So, Mr.
	Robinson, the bad man, I suppose I'll have to call him throughout all this segment, decided to host his second documentary screening in Telford on Saturday.
	And me and John went down to film it, see what was going on, hang out with the Communists who turned up.
	It's not me being facetious, literal Communist Party flags amongst them all, so we shall see that.
	And we're going to go through it and just tell you what happened, because no one else will, apparently.
	Yeah.
	The...
	mainstream media there won't although i will give a shout out of course to uh hearts of oak and voice of wales do great work as well but we'll go through this so the first thing to mention is just a little shill in relation to this which is on notices.com the article from ella hill the home office is hiding anti-whites hate crimes and helping the cover-up of grooming gangs this is the fact that abusing children on a racial basis is still not a hate crime if the child was white according to our government i mean for foreigners who don't know like this problem goes way to the
	The whole home office and policing system in our country is buggered.
	Ella Hill's also done a really interesting analysis in which the statistics are kind of massaged in order to hide the fact that the majority of victims are young white girls.
	And they'll display them in certain ways to push a narrative and never in both ways to determine the reality.
	But we'll go forward.
	So we'll go to the next one, of course, so we can see the fact that he was in court the day before and he wasn't actually sure if this was even going to go ahead.
	And these hyenas turned up here.
	Look at those jackals.
	Look at his smile.
	He's thrilled.
	This guy's saying he was from, I think it was the Press Association and a whole bunch of others who are saying they're independent.
	So he asked them, so that's wonderful, you've all come to court because I owe someone some money according to the court.
	That's a big story.
	Anything I do apparently is a big story.
	So I'm premiering this documentary about grooming.
	Are you going to come to that?
	All of them say no.
	100% of them say no.
	There was a, I watched this live stream, there was a BBC, a female BBC journalist, who, he was like, okay, well, what do you cover?
	And she's like, well, I'm covering an interview with a rape victim.
	And he's like, oh, well, I'm doing the same, basically.
	Would you be interested?
	Want to collab?
	And she's weirdly dismissive, and like, she's got this weird hysterical laughter, where she's like, haha, no, no.
	It's like, why?
	Why is that victim any less worthy?
	It's a weird admission from her, the fact that she knows the whole thing's corrupt.
	She knows what she's doing corrupt, but she's just like, well, it's a job.
	And he's powerless to stop it.
	Yeah.
	We'll move forward, because of course you can find the documentary in question, we don't have time to show it because it's very, very long, on Getter being the account there at...
	I'm not going to read that in case the bot picks it up.
	At Lord Voldemort1 on Getter.
	Yeah, so go and check it out there.
	And also, obviously, big props to Getter for actually giving you a platform to stream it and all the rest of it.
	Let's go forward.
	And I suppose we'll move to slide zero here.
	It's the first one.
	We turned up and we tried to take photographs, as we did last time, just to see what was happening.
	And this time, they were very hostile to anyone with a camera.
	They did not allow me to take photographs.
	They were not interested.
	Oh, really?
	No, no, no.
	Can't have that happen.
	And they started that off by shouting at us, Where are your papers?
	They literally said, Where's your NUJ card?
	And I'm like, I don't have one.
	I'm a dude with a camera.
	National Union of Journalists.
	And they wouldn't let us in without the correct papers.
	Oh, okay.
	That's anti-fascist for you.
	If we go to the next one, though, you can take pictures from the site.
	And if you click on the first one there, we can see the size of the number of people that turned up.
	Huge numbers of commies, but yeah, it's not that huge in case you're listening.
	It's typical size for this Rent-A-Mob crowd.
	You know they're a Rent-A-Mob as well, because they turn up with exactly the same stand-up-to-racism banners.
	Every single time, they're exactly the same banners.
	It's like a corporation.
	Yeah.
	They all turned up with Amazon logos on their backs, on their black arts and everything.
	It's very weird.
	I mean, very, very weird.
	Same trade unions, same speakers as well for each one.
	Same people as last time.
	Most of them from out of town.
	I do wonder who funds them.
	Well, the Conservative Party at one point, which was embarrassing, but not anymore.
	So, if we move forward, if we go to the next link, then we should be able to see...
	Hang on, hang on.
	Sorry, can we go back to...
	I mean, literally, communist flags.
	Yeah, Communist Party of Great Britain there.
	Presumably them, because it just says Communist Party.
	A load of them.
	This is a totally normal situation.
	If we go to the next link, though, we can see, if we load up the first one there, you can see them turning up in Black Block as well.
	Two chaps on the right there.
	One of them wearing a Proud Boys t-shirt, which...
	What?
	A friend of mine tried to explain that to him, but he didn't get it, and we were like, oh, whatever.
	I heard about the Proud Boys on the internet in connection with Antifa, so I thought I'd go get the merch.
	Didn't think that one through.
	Didn't notice Congress, but like, dude, why are you wearing that?
	This is why you go and take pictures and then talk to them and be like, hey, so what do you stand for and find out?
	And one of them is apparently ignorance of their own cause.
	Weird one.
	If we go to the next image in that link, however...
	This was also a new thing for me to see, which is there was some...
	I don't know what to call it.
	Some people turned up wearing tails.
	I don't think they're furries because they're not wearing the full costumes, which I think is furry attire.
	Okay, look, right.
	I think that we can say that if you...
	It's like someone turns up, they're not necessarily wearing an SS outfit, they've got a little swastika pin, right?
	I'm happy to call that person a naughty, right?
	If you turn up wearing a goddamn tail hanging out of your ass...
	To a political protest.
	To a political protest.
	You're a furry, okay?
	I mean, it's a weird thing.
	I mean, you can see the people with the jackets with all kinds of logos on, like some kind of teen rebellion going on here, in which they have smoking kills.
	There was another one that just said, I hate men, the one behind them, but she didn't have a tail, which was hilarious.
	And, you know, I'm very tolerant.
	Do what you want.
	Who cares?
	Why would you bring the smoke?
	I hate men.
	Also, I'm a furry.
	But why would you go to a political protest with this, of all things?
	You've got ears on as well.
	Why would you leave the house with this?
	I know, but just, like, people are strange, okay?
	But to go to a political protest in your fetish gear...
	I mean, could you discredit your own movement any faster?
	I mean, think if you turned up in all leather with a gimp mask on.
	I'd be like, yeah, I'm here to oppose the bad man.
	You'd be less cringed than turning up with a tail.
	It's apparently a new part of the uniform, which is kink pride also extends to political movements now.
	There was also some story we were given from one of the guys who was like, oh, why can't I come in and take photos?
	And he gave the excuse that, well, there's a reasonable hostile to photography of our side.
	Not this.
	Because we look ridiculous?
	Yes.
	No, the story was given that a 15-year-old was harassed by fascists and was not able to come this time round.
	Oh, yeah.
	Thing is, I only know one guy.
	This is thanks to a local supporter who was able to give me this information.
	There's one guy who wasn't the previous one who didn't come this time round.
	And if we go to the next one, it's this dude.
	This dude here.
	He must be a migrant.
	Apparently he was arrested for being violent.
	I won't get into the details.
	But yeah, he was the only one who wasn't there again, who I could verify wasn't there again.
	And the reason was because the police literally came to his house and arrested him for engaging in violence.
	So there's that.
	Penalizing this poor teenager.
	Yeah, if we go forward, we can also see the fact that they uploaded the pictures of him.
	So the idea that this is anyone else's doing, it's your own doing.
	You morons.
	If this is some kind of problem for you.
	And as you can see, the speakers there being the same speakers.
	It's such a renter mob, though, isn't it?
	Who makes the sign?
	It's embarrassingly corporate.
	I mean, for a left-wing movement, you would have thought.
	You would think, if it was something...
	And this is how you can tell the difference.
	Remember the freedom protests that were going on.
	People made their own signs, and they had their own.
	Each person had a different message on the sign.
	Reason they were there.
	Exactly.
	What I'm bothered about is hand-drawn.
	I put effort and energy into this, and then I came out and I marched because I'm genuinely bothered about this thing.
	You got this handed to you by some professional activist.
	I mean, they've got a reason to be there, which is the anti-fascist action.
	Remember, there are Nazis about.
	Oh, yeah.
	There are loads of Nazis.
	Because fascism is making sure that young girls don't get raped by gangs of Muslim men.
	No, they're not talking about them.
	They're talking about these chaps.
	So these are the same two guys, the pensioners from the Chelsea Headhunters, who are hoping for the good old days again.
	And they turned up again.
	I remember we featured them previously, giving little wave Nazi salutes to mock them to get in a fight.
	The fascist contingent has actually turned up.
	And they're two guys.
	Because the next one we can see the fact that it's the same dude as last time as we featured.
	It's some guys who want to fight and do not stay for the documentary nor are even part of the bad man's crew.
	Can we go back very briefly?
	Just to the previous one, John.
	There's something weirdly awkward about this.
	Yeah, there's also the fact you can't see it because you're not there, but the leftist guys, the communists are all there, and then where they're stood is not where any of the bad man supporters are.
	As you can see, because they're on their own.
	But it's not even just down the road anymore.
	You have to go all the way around, so they're not even involved in the slightest.
	It's just weirdly awkward.
	Who are you guys?
	We're the fascists.
	You're 60.
	Yeah, and no one likes you?
	You're on your own?
	What's going on?
	So we'll move forward.
	If we go to the next one, we can see it's the same guys as last time.
	If we move forward again, we can also see, again, idiots.
	They say they're here supporting the bad man in Telford.
	Why are they on your side then, you idiots?
	Why are they talking to you instead of watching the movie like everyone else?
	Hello, fellow socialists.
	Yeah, if we move forward, this is just the backlog, so we'll skip over this one.
	And we'll go to what happened on the bad man, Robinson's side of the situation.
	So they all met up at a pub to gather, and they walked down in a little march to go watch the movie.
	And this was an interesting moment, because some group turned up, patriotic alternative, who are white nationalists.
	And, well, of course, the bad man isn't.
	He's not a white nationalist, so he wants no truck with such people.
	And we'll see what happens, which is they physically remove them.
	Let's play.
	Are you from PA? Yes.
	You're not welcome here.
	You're not welcome here, lad.
	We don't want you here.
	So don't come here.
	Take your f*ing Nazi bulls*.
	Don't leave it.
	Go away.
	You're embarrassing.
	Take your mask down.
	You've got masks on because you're embarrassing.
	Why are you wearing a f***ing mask?
	You've got masks on because you're embarrassing.
	Why are you wearing a f***ing mask?
	You've got masks on because you're embarrassing.
	- We've had a reason for this! - You don't know nothing! - That's f*ing wrong! - Go away! - You're not welcome here! - You're not welcome here! - You're not welcome here! - No! - You're not welcome here! - You're not welcome here! - Where is it? - You're fing Nazi! - Where's the f**ing man?
	Take that flag!
	Take that flag off your f***ing face!
	Fck off! Fck off! Fck off! Fck off! Fck off! Fck off! Fck off! Fck off! Fck off!
	Fck off!
	I find this hilarious on multiple fronts.
	Of course, it's very narrative splitting against what the media would like you to believe, but also the fact that the only anti-fascists of the day was Mr.
	Robinson and his supporters physically removing white nationalists from being anywhere near them.
	I can't help but notice the daddism aspect of all of this as well.
	Tommy must be coming on to like 40.
	He's got a family.
	He's got kids.
	The people with their faces covered wearing like youth clothes, obviously early 20s.
	People have been on the internet an awful lot.
	And what's Voldemort's response?
	You're embarrassing.
	Go home.
	That's peak daddism.
	Yeah, I mean, it's as clear as day what happened there.
	I find it really amusing.
	Yeah, but there's also just the fact that the narrative endlessly is that he's a supporter of white nationalists.
	No, no, he never has been.
	It's demonstrably the case that these are two different groups.
	Apparently, well, he did also say on camera to John's livestream, which is that he'd also told the police they're not meant to be here.
	The police know, and they didn't care.
	They let them in anyway.
	Presumably to try and muddy the waters, because why else?
	Why didn't they let the actual fascists in then?
	I suppose they only wanted to get to the communists, didn't they?
	Yeah, they just wanted to wave.
	Yeah, we'll move on.
	So we'll get to the next one as well, which as you can see, this is something I noticed, which is quite neat, if nothing else, which is that there are a lot of police officers there, of course.
	And this is just a photo at a point in which one survivor is explaining what happened to her and the horror she's been through.
	Initially, she actually told the bad man to F off and didn't want to talk to him.
	And then the abuser died in 2020.
	So then she's come forward and been like, okay, we need to deal with this.
	She's setting up a refuge, privately funded, to deal with victims of this crime as well.
	The previous problems, as she explains, is that the councils were funding them, which is a conflict of interest because the councils are facilitating this crime.
	And the police officers were all there watching and learning, which I think is an interesting side of the audience.
	audience there because they're on the lower ends yeah they're on the lower ends of the policing rung as well so it's good to know the the new branch are slowly being educated at least nothing else let's move forward so we go to the next one we have uh the police response which was also to issue a supportive statement again which is we're also not in favor of grieving gangs after watching this documentary Yeah, I mean this is the effect he's able to have with his documentaries, which is to get statements from them which are at least positive.
	The police say here, quote, I would encourage anyone who's been a victim to come forward regardless of when the exploitation took place.
	We will listen to them and we will ensure that they have necessary support.
	So, again, causes of statements.
	Actually producing results, which is educate the local people, educate the police, and the police openly saying, okay, no, we will do the right thing.
	Please come to us.
	Oh, thank God.
	The police are finally going to do the right thing on the grooming gang issue.
	Let me completely fail, again.
	Don't get me wrong.
	It is progress of a kind, unlike the, well, rather depressing lot who were sat around screeching about fascism, which...
	Well, they were the only ones.
	You know what's interesting, though?
	There's the aspect of this.
	Like, initially, like, if you go back a few years, it feels like the allegations that Tommy Robinson was a fascist had more teeth, right?
	They felt more convinced of it.
	But the longer this goes on, and the more this is clearly just about the fact that there are young women who have been abused, and the system has obviously failed them.
	And the confirmation from the system going, I mean, this is basically an admission, like, yeah, we dropped the ball here.
	But what's interesting, the depressing group of people, they don't deny any of that.
	I listened to all their speeches, both times.
	They literally say, yes, what happened to the girls happened.
	Yes, it was wrong.
	Yes, the police failed.
	Yes, the social services failed.
	You know, the political system failed.
	All that ground they give.
	They just say that pointing out that it's disproportionately a certain group, that's bigotry, so we can't do that.
	However, of course, when it's a disproportionate amount of white men or men, that's fine.
	But it's also just the case.
	When it's Islam, or someone with a slightly darker shade of skin than themselves, for some reason they get all protective about it, which is very revealing.
	But like I said, it's interesting that the teeth have been completely...
	I mean, the opposition is defanged at this point.
	It doesn't bite.
	It doesn't feel...
	Everyone's saying, look, we know what you're about.
	We know that you're just saying this because you say this.
	You literally have Communist Party flags left, right, and centre.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Why on earth will we listen to you?
	Yeah.
	And if we move forward, the most interesting part of the documentary, do go and give it a watch, this aspect here, at least for me, was this owner of the...
	two chefs, or at least two of the chefs there, were engaged in this sort of crime.
	The bad man goes and says, well, would you like to see the evidence to the owner?
	And you'd think any responsible pub landlord would say, well, look, I can't make an action, like, you know, I can't fire them, I don't want to end up in employment tribunal without the evidence and the proper procedure, so please, you know, show me and we'll do this right.
	No, he screamed about Irish nationalism.
	He insists that, no, no, no, I don't want to talk to you, you're a fascist and also you're a traitor to Ireland for pointing out that diversity isn't our strength.
	It's a very weird interaction.
	Sorry, who's a traitor to Ireland?
	Robinson, because he's got Irish blood in him.
	Oh, right, so an Irish ethno-nationalist.
	Yeah, right.
	It's a weird, weird thing, but do we go and give that a watch?
	Because it's strange if nothing else.
	You don't want young girls getting raped?
	I knew you were a traitor to Ireland.
	Yeah, but you can see the value in the work.
	They're getting the police informed, getting the statements from the police, and also educating the people on who's around in the local area, running their businesses, and what their attitude to all this is as well, which is their opinion.
	If we move forward, we can also go to the fact that the leftists seemingly don't care about photography because they've been uploading pictures of themselves when none of their face is blurred.
	Very poor week for the British extreme right.
	Whereas for you, this is a good day, is it?
	I mean, this is what I mean.
	I can't get it across more.
	It is such a depressing atmosphere to be with them.
	Not because of the subject matter of gang rape and...
	That's not the depressing part here, even.
	That's the depressing part when you're with the bad man watching his documentary.
	Over here, it's just the people.
	I mean, just looking at the people.
	I mean, there's one guy who just walked around barking at people, his own supporters at times, and you think, God, what?
	No, it wasn't.
	He was barking and, you know, shouting at them, and you just think, what a depressing atmosphere to even be around.
	Never mind this being your hobby, because they don't have anything else going on.
	It was the same people.
	Oh, yeah.
	Presumably this is their hobby, if nothing else, unless they're getting paid as well, of course.
	And that speaker there, if we go to the next one...
	Sorry, just to go back very quickly.
	Anti-fascists were very proud and humble to stand with victims of abuse today.
	Except for the wrong victims of abuse.
	No, they are not to be listened to.
	That's just awful.
	If we move forward, we can see the speaker there who was mentioning...
	I don't actually know if there were any victims of abuse there.
	She was the speaker just saying that she'd spoken to some, and they dislike the bad man because he's a racist, and it's like...
	God, it's just embarrassing.
	A socialist historian describes herself there.
	I mean, if you wanted a picture of what political partisanship looks like, That's a good one.
	Yeah, embarrassing.
	We move, go to the next clip as well.
	I also wanted to demonstrate just the pathetic nature and the continued hostility towards any photography whatsoever.
	Let's play the next clip, please.
	Just take a photo of them.
	Low energy protesters.
	Yeah, very...
	No more Nazis.
	Yeah, we agree.
	Embarrassing, but if even you point a camera at them, they're all really hostile all of a sudden as well, which was interesting because I found it...
	Very interesting when you started filming their speeches and the things they would say.
	And I think that's the reason they're hostile to the cameras and the reason I've laboured on it.
	One thing that I also can't help but notice is a distinct lack of diversity in the socialist worker protest.
	It wasn't very diverse.
	In fact, they kicked John out previously for being a white supremacist, which, if you don't know John...
	They kicked John out for being Asian.
	Let's play the next clip, though, because this is what their speeches were like and why I think they didn't like the cameras.
	We are not finished!
	We'll keep going until there are no more issues!
	No more clashes!
	And they are eradicated from this area altogether!
	Two streets!
	Two streets!
	So there we have it, calling for the extermination of Robinson supporters.
	They're going to eradicate people.
	I don't think I've ever said I'm going to eradicate someone.
	That's right, I'm an anti-fascist.
	I'm going to eradicate all the racists from this area.
	Maybe you could have educated all of the racists?
	You could have befriended them and changed their minds?
	No, we're going to eradicate them.
	So there we are, the Germans coming out there in their speech.
	And the last thing to mention, because that's how the day went, and you can go and enjoy the documentary as it is published and is full on getter, is also I just wanted to mention I ran into Miles there as well.
	Lord Miles, who had just come back from Afghanistan from his trip there, and also showed me the wonders of Afghan currency, if nothing else.
	That Afghan bank.
	Yeah, it's like orcs.
	I was going to say that.
	It's like orc currency.
	I don't know why they write it like that.
	And ironically, they believe it has value, and so it does.
	Absolutely.
	So, we'll also be seeing the news coming out from Miles there.
	I don't know what I'm allowed to say.
	It's weird that you and Miles look like brothers.
	Just to point out that you look really similar to each other.
	Don't know why.
	Both love the Taliban, simply.
	That's a joke.
	A sort of physiognomy that appeals to...
	that loves Afghanistan.
	Yeah, so he'll be bringing out some footage and events with his own stuff soon.
	I don't know what I'm allowed to say, Miles, so I won't, but it'll be good fun, if nothing else, and go and give him some love, because he's having a tough time.
	He spent, like, a lot of money and a lot of time trying to orchestrate the liberation of a guy from Afghanistan, and then he cancelled, like, 20 miles from the border.
	And, yeah, it's...
	I'd rather live under the tyrannical regime of the Taliban.
	Yeah, quite crushing for Miles who did all the work and the money.
	Otherwise, that was the event.
	That's Robinson versus the Communist round two.
	Honestly, it's good to see that the objections are getting weaker and weaker.
	The pile of evidence in favour of the victims of the grooming gangs grows.
	But also just the nature of these things, because looking back, you remember when the MSM used to go to these events and even try to report on them?
	They'd be biased.
	They wouldn't just give you the footage and make up your own mind.
	But being there on the ground, after especially the second time in the same area, it is transparent the kind of people that both groups are made up of, and transparent about who is authentic and who is clearly some kind of weapon and nothing more.
	Yeah.
	And you feel it in the people.
	You realise it in where they've come from.
	They've all come from London.
	They're all wearing the same banners.
	They're all having communist flags.
	These have got to be the good people.
	Whereas you go down to the families and guys with their doggos, and a lot of women, a lot of mothers as well, turning up to these documentaries, or even wallflowers, who probably know what's going on, and just local people.
	And I think back to the MSN's reporting on his life and his activism, I think.
	Man, it's even more scummy after you realise how transparent it is on the ground to know who's in the right.
	Yeah, that's that.
	Well, interestingly, it ties in with what I want to talk about next, which is repressive tolerance.
	We see it in action all day, every day, and I thought it would be good to go through a bunch of examples of it in order that you will be able to see it and understand it for yourself.
	Now, Thomas and I went through Herbert Marcuse's famous essay, Repressive Tolerance, in detail in this premium podcast, which you can sign up to Logacies.com to watch.
	But the basic message is that Marcuse and his students understood that things are tolerated by regimes, and this is what he called active tolerance.
	And what he desired is for active tolerance to be rescinded from the right wing, because as far as he was concerned, it was the left wing that was going to get us to a perfect form of freedom and in which everything would be wonderful.
	And it was the right that was holding that back.
	And so this active tolerance is in the ability for them to speak freely, to associate freely, to have their own organizations and institutions.
	This all has to be rescinded.
	So when the cutting edge of the law falls on someone who has to be judged, it harms the right and helps the left.
	And this is what repressive tolerance is about.
	Sorry, I can't get over how every single time we talk about someone who's come up with an idea.
	On the left, it's usually just, what if we just destroy our enemies?
	Yeah, what if we're just evil?
	Either physically or with state power to make sure they can't speak.
	Just every time.
	That's all the idea they have.
	Yeah.
	And you see this all the time.
	I mean, this is a great tweet by Leo.
	If you can just bring up these pictures, you can see here.
	Trump is suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google for violating his First Amendment rights by keeping them off their platforms.
	Someone should remind him they're private companies to which the First Amendment doesn't apply.
	Well, for a start, they're not.
	They're publicly traded companies.
	They're not private companies, Robert.
	But as you can see, this is in June or July 2021.
	Fast forward a year.
	Just one year, Musk and his apologists, I believe they're called Musketeers, say if consumers don't like what he does with Twitter, they can go elsewhere.
	But where else could consumers go to post short messages which reach millions of people other than Twitter?
	The free market increasingly reflects the demands of big money.
	It's the unremitting hypocrisy that makes defiant L's and other accounts like them so popular in the first place.
	It's just so naked.
	Good when we do it, bad when you do it.
	The active tolerance has been rescinded from you and has applied only to us.
	And you see this in every aspect of our public lives.
	I mean, like, let's talk about colour washing, white washing and black washing of things.
	So, you may remember, this is just the best example, but there have been lots of examples.
	And I'm not saying that Hollywood isn't guilty of this, either.
	This was Exodus Gods and Kings, as you can see.
	Very Caucasian.
	Patrick Bale, is it?
	What's his name?
	Christian Bale, sorry, not Patrick Bale.
	Christian Bale playing some Egyptian pharaoh or Israelite, whatever.
	And so they complain about this in this old article, which is fair.
	I mean, Exodus Gods and Kings looks a lot worse since it's actually set during a specific historical time period and yet includes an impressive number of white Americans and British actors playing Egyptian and Israelite characters.
	And you say, yeah, that's totally fair.
	If you wanted to represent a historical story with fidelity, and let's pretend that this is representing historical No, you'd black up the white actors.
	Well, incidentally, there was actually another...
	I should have got this segment.
	There was actually another one where an Egyptian actor was chosen to play this pharaoh.
	But the thing is, Egyptians aren't sub-Saharan Africans.
	And they're Mediterranean.
	So some of them can have quite light skin.
	And there was a big complaint going, oh, look, they've whitewashed this character.
	It's like, dude, that's a guy from Egypt.
	What are you talking about?
	But in this case, these aren't...
	Well, that on the right isn't a person from Egypt.
	And they literally said this, to get an idea of what this casting implies, imagine the outcry of a major Hollywood studio released a King Arthur film starring Idris Elba, John Cho, and Lucy Liu, with only one or two Knights of the Round Table being played by white actors.
	How long is it?
	Do you think we have to wait until that happens?
	Yeah.
	Well, it turns out it was five years or so, six years.
	Well, pretty much, because now you've got the sequel to Vikings, called Vikings Valhalla.
	Vikangs!
	Oh, come on!
	That was too easy!
	I mean, it really is.
	And, of course, you get none of the outrage, none of the complaints, none of it.
	It's just so naked.
	White guy's that?
	No, that's bad.
	Black woman is that?
	That's good.
	You know, and it's just like, look, this is just so obvious.
	But even as you say, like, European to Egyptian, there's not too much of a difference there, in the sense of, you know, they're still very well compared to sub-Saharan Africa, right?
	But English, or, sorry, Swedish, to sub-Saharan African skin tone, Quite a jump.
	It's not as good as we can do.
	Yeah, I mean, it's done on purpose.
	So this is a woman called Caroline Henderson, who's playing Jarl Hakon.
	Jarl.
	Jarl Hakon.
	I'm sure she's going to make sure to pronounce it for historical accuracy.
	Yes, a 10th or 11th century Viking chieftain.
	I mean, just stay on the picture, John, because it just looks ridiculous.
	It's just...
	I can't believe she isn't embarrassed.
	Is she going to try and do an accent, at least?
	I don't know, I haven't seen it.
	I mean, why bother?
	I mean, why not just check your watch in the middle of the film?
	Why not give us a Nigerian accent?
	Because why wouldn't you?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Why not check your watch during the film?
	Just wearing Ray-Bans throughout the whole thing.
	It's very sunny in Sweden.
	Put your Nike sneakers up on the set.
	Like, who cares?
	Like, what difference does it make?
	If you're going to pretend that this is the...
	I mean, Jarl Hakon was a man, right?
	He's a historical character.
	Wait, oh, so they haven't even got the hat...
	No, he was actually a historical character.
	It didn't click.
	Right?
	Well, that's the point.
	It's like, they're like, well, look at this, you know, this biblical representation, which we're going to assume represents real history.
	Well, this does represent real history, apparently.
	And so, like, Gile Hackleton was a real man, and he was not a black woman.
	Jarl, where should we invade England?
	Let me check TripAdvisor, I'll find out.
	But of course, not only race-swapped, but gender-swapped as well, because of course, there's zero evidence of any female Viking ruler.
	Should we just say history swapped at this point?
	Yes.
	Like you just haven't bothered.
	Yes.
	But it's fine when it's one way and it's bad when it's the other.
	And this goes beyond, of course, merely representation in movies and stuff.
	This is just like the opening edge, the thin edge of it.
	Because it goes straight into activism as well.
	You remember the It's Okay to be White posters that people were putting up?
	It was just a printout?
	Extremely funny campaign and extremely revealing one.
	Yes, and it's the revealing nature of this that was the most important.
	This was one in Hampshire, but this happened across the UK a couple of times.
	Well, it happened across the Anglo world.
	Yeah, it did, yeah.
	Australia, America, everywhere.
	But we'll focus again on the UK specifically.
	This was in Hampshire.
	The Hampshire Constabulary was alerted to the posters, and they were being treated as a hate incident.
	Hate.
	I was just imagining the policeman literally shouting Nina out of his car because clearly he's special.
	I don't know.
	Well, I can't comment on a Hampshire constabulary because they haven't arrested me yet.
	But a spokesperson said they've arranged the posters to be removed.
	Good God.
	Can't have that up.
	And one resident said, these tactics are divisive.
	They have no place in today's world.
	Hashtag Black Lives Matter.
	They're tactics that are used to divide deliberately by neo-Nazi groups and white supremacy groups.
	This was started in the US but seen here in the UK, right?
	So they found a Twitter user who could tell us about this.
	But that's fine.
	That's fine.
	So you can't have it's okay to be a race.
	You can't have that.
	Well, you can as long as it's not white.
	Well, exactly.
	That's exactly what repressive tolerance is.
	Let's go to the next one.
	In Edinburgh, mysterious flyers were posted that said, it's okay to be Muslim and it's okay to be black.
	Queen.
	That's queen stuff right there.
	No, no, no.
	They were just like, well, these are mysterious flyers and no one can explain them.
	It's like, oh, well, who cares?
	There's no way they don't know.
	There's no way they can't know that we know as well.
	They must be able to see that we can see the hypocrisy of this.
	And the thing is, in this article, it's great because they're like, we can't explain it.
	We can only assume it's a response to the it's okay to be white ones that were posted in Edinburgh.
	Right.
	Did you ever see the interviews of, there were flies put up saying, Islam is right about women.
	And the responses from the local progressives were hilarious.
	This is definitely Islamophobic.
	Because they kept asking them and went, I don't know what it means.
	I don't know what it means.
	No idea.
	And then they got to a Muslim woman and she went, that's pretty...
	It's pretty good.
	And also, I agree.
	But anyway, they say it's not known who's responsible for the production and distribution of the messages, not the hateful messages, not the incendiary, divisive neo-Nazi messages, nothing like that, just the messages, right?
	But it could be a response to the neo-Nazi-related slogans, which were spotted in Scottish cities such as Perth and Dundee this year.
	The flyers bearing the slogan, it's okay to be white, appeared in the...
	And then the rest of the article is just, it's bad saying it's okay to be white.
	It's like...
	The same font, the same capitalization, the same, you know, everything.
	But one is neo-Nazi-related and one isn't.
	Yep.
	It's just so on the nose.
	John Swinney says, who is the MSP, the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Perthshire North, says, the atrocious stickers, referring to the white ones, had no place in Perth or any other part of our country.
	We must stand together to resist this unacceptable material.
	It's like, well, why can't you condemn the other one if that is not all so racially divisive?
	Could you imagine being in the room?
	Like, he finishes that sentence and they go, can I have a comment about the black one, sir?
	I'd love to ask.
	I mean, what would he do?
	Just, they're fine.
	I mean, would he just be that blamed?
	Well, he'd have to.
	Maybe, yeah.
	What's he going to do?
	Anyway, so there are other things, like Dave Chappelle was recently attacked by a man with a knife on stage during his show.
	And, you know, thankfully nothing bad happened to Chappelle, but the man was armed with a replica handgun that had a knife blade on the end of it.
	So he was armed with a dangerous weapon, and of course this attacker faced no charges because he's an online social media activist.
	You say of course.
	I say of course, because his pronouns were they, them.
	Oh, well, fair enough.
	You know.
	Do whatever you want all the time, I guess.
	Yeah, and so he had a long Twitter history of him posting stuff, and he had even threatened Chappelle saying, I'm coming for you next, and lo and behold, here he is.
	He was just meaning sexually, Your Honor.
	Yeah, but for some reason, George Gascon, a district attorney, decided to, the district attorney's office, decided not to press federal charges against him.
	Act a comedian on stage while in possession of a dangerous weapon, and they're just like, yeah, well...
	Not a real criminal.
	Yeah, he's not.
	Well, that's exactly it.
	Suddenly, this standard for the charge is incredibly high, you see.
	It's like, well, I mean, you know...
	Video evidence.
	Premeditated evidence of him planning to do it.
	An admission, probably, from him, if nothing else.
	Well, I mean, if the Twitter, I'm coming for you, Dave Chappelle, isn't an admission...
	And he's carrying a case.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, this is the thing.
	Like, Gascon's office insisted Friday they wouldn't have been able to prosecute Lee on a felony charge because the video of the attack didn't show him brandishing the knife.
	It's like, oh, well.
	Fair enough.
	I mean, anyone could have been brandishing that knife.
	Exactly.
	No, no, he wasn't brandishing the knife, he was just carrying it.
	Oh, right, okay.
	Well, that's okay then.
	But if you were, say, I don't know.
	They think he's planning to chop up vegetables with it later.
	Yeah, he's going to cut a tomato or something.
	But if you were around the capital on January the 6th, of course, you're in some serious trouble.
	These are the people who really deserve the federal charges.
	Prats, I would describe these as.
	Obvious Prats, who are dressed as gladiators and cavemen.
	Actual Prats.
	One of them who looks a lot like Sam Hyde.
	Sam Hyde, yelling in Neanderthal noises.
	Didn't get away with it this time, I'm afraid.
	So yeah, this was Aaron Mostofsky and Nathan Eintrykin.
	Who were dressed as idiots as they stormed the Capitol.
	They didn't actually storm anything according to the charges filed against them.
	They were actually let in.
	Someone else had stormed it and they just wandered on in and acted like idiots, right?
	But the charges, felony charge of a civil disorder.
	Eight months in jail.
	That's fair.
	Yeah, that's fair, isn't it?
	Like, okay, I guess.
	Misdemeanor charge of entering a restricted building and theft.
	So he stole someone's pen, walked into a building he wasn't supposed to be in, eight months in jail.
	I mean, that's just wild to me.
	And the thing is, they both apologize for this, going, yeah, maybe we should have stayed outside.
	But it's where the priorities are at.
	It's not about the crime here.
	It's crime.
	Crime is crime.
	But when crime occurs in a certain circumstance, it's not investigated regardless of the evidence.
	But do you remember the Black Lives Matter activist who was also at this?
	And who got let off?
	Or the feds who just disappeared.
	Well, I don't expect the government to arrest the feds that they send in to disrupt these protests.
	Yeah, but there's also the point by Tucker, like, some of the people who are actually bashing it down for then everyone else to walk in turned out to be feds, so it's like, well, it seems like there weren't actually that many people bashing stuff down.
	No, no, it doesn't.
	And these two people, as far as we're aware, didn't bash anything down either.
	But, of course, you know, they get to go to jail for...
	One of them has got four to five days in prison with three years of probation, and the other one has got eight months in prison, I believe it is, which seems like a deliberately punitive attempt to harm them.
	But, of course, that's because they're right-wing.
	If you're left-wing and say, oh, I don't know, I mean, maybe there's a small thing going on in America at the moment in which the Supreme Court judges are making decisions about...
	Law?
	And mobs of left-wing activists start harassing them at home?
	That's not a big deal.
	Is it?
	Sorry, this is embarrassing, yeah.
	I mean, in any reasonable country, you'd send the police and organise these people to be removed immediately.
	Well, especially as this is concretely illegal.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	So 100 protesters decided to go to Kavanaugh's home and...
	Do we call them protesters?
	Sorry, these petty terrorists...
	Well, yeah, I think terrorist is a perfectly acceptable term.
	But Kavanaugh and Roberts, two Supreme Court justices, John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh, they live about a mile away or half a mile away from each other.
	And so the protesters decided, yeah, what are we going to do?
	We're not happy about the...
	Who's the guy who wrote the ruling?
	But I mean, it doesn't matter.
	But they decided we don't like the leak, and so we're going to go to their houses and protest that side.
	A quote from one local resident who helped organize the protest, quote, The time for civility is over, man.
	Being polite doesn't get you anywhere, says Lacey Wotton Hallway.
	Sorry, when did the left practice civility?
	I mean, that was a very brief window of time, probably back in the 80s or something.
	When campaigning for Bill Clinton, I suppose?
	But anyway, the point is, again, right, okay, these people have done that, okay, the institutions, you would think the presidency perhaps, would have a position on this, but it turns out they don't.
	They don't have any position on this at all.
	According to Jen Psaki, who I think is probably the official president, the unofficial president of the United States, a left-wing group called Ruth Centus, Ruth Bader Ginsburg also disagreed with Roe v.
	Wade, by the way, just in case you didn't know.
	But they doxed the six conservative justices and called them extremists.
	That's right.
	Left them extremists like, hey, you're an extremist.
	Right, so what happens if you do this to a jury member in a court trial?
	The trial is prejudiced, isn't it?
	Yeah, and you get years in jail.
	Yes.
	Because what you've done is try to destroy the entire country.
	Yes.
	In a minor way.
	But doing this to the highest court in the land, that's...
	Well, Jen Psaki has an opinion on this.
	Look, I think the President's view is that there's a lot of passion, a lot of fear, a lot of sadness from many.
	I love the mouth of the President here.
	I've got so much passion, man.
	Yeah.
	But many people across the country, what they saw in those leaked documents, we obviously want people's privacy to be respected.
	We want people to protest peacefully if they want to, to protest.
	That's certainly what the president's view would be.
	I love the way she's giving us the opinion of Biden, because of course Biden doesn't have an opinion.
	But there is a good reason why the presidency would have an opinion on this, and it's because it's against the law of the land to do this.
	We can go to the next one.
	Quote, You're not allowed to do it anywhere in the United States.
	It will prejudice the judicial system in favour of not being harassed and bullied by a mob.
	It's intimidation.
	Yes.
	Efforts to intimidate people within the legal system are an offence against judicial independence, a key prerequisite to democracy.
	If protesters want to demonstrate outside the Supreme Court, that's fine, but going to a judge's neighbourhood and marching in front of his or her home is too far.
	It's a dangerous act of intimidation, which I agree.
	What did Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, say?
	Sorry, can we just reflect on a moment on how far America has fallen?
	Yeah, we can.
	To this level where we're like, well, maybe, I don't know, maybe we should be able to harass judges at their house.
	You wander into the capital of the United States, which presumably is a publicly owned building, you being a member of the public technically owns it, and walk around, that's...
	A month in jail.
	That's literally criminal disorder.
	Eight months in jail.
	You go and intimidate the Supreme Court justices and the left-wing administration will say, well, yeah, that's okay.
	Passions are running high.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	They like their Molotov cocktails.
	I was very passionate of them.
	Well, literally, that seems to be what Chuck Schumer thinks, the Senate Majority Leader.
	He says, quote, I want to tell you, Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Gorsh, that you have unleashed a whirlwind and you will pay the price.
	You deserve it.
	I mean, that sounds like a threat.
	I mean, you deserve to be killed and your house burnt down and your family murdered.
	That sounds like an active threat, though.
	You will pay the price.
	Well, you've got a mob outside of the House with your family and you in, and then the Democrats say, you will pay the price.
	Yes.
	What do you think this speech is about?
	And this is a long history of the Democrat politicians in the last, like, ten years being unbelievably incendiary anyway.
	Obviously.
	But that's the thing.
	Even with America's huge protections on free speech, which is lovely, this might even cross the line according to the Supreme Court themselves.
	Yes.
	I mean, actually, that might be a crime, saying that you deserve it or you will pay the price.
	I mean, you've got a location, you've got a time period.
	I mean, it's deeply irresponsible either way.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, the point is, this is what repressive tolerance is, is to make sure that the people on your side are forever forgiven for their crimes, and the people on the other side are forever disproportionately punished for their crimes.
	Again, crimes, quote-unquote.
	And you can see it playing out every day in the United States.
	On a depressing note, let's move to video comments.
	We also tested a patch of the material Andrew's armor was made of.
	That's my armor?
	That's your armor.
	Let's pull it out.
	What?
	But that's not terrible, actually.
	That's survival, bro.
	That's not terrible?
	That looks pretty terrible to me.
	Depends where it was.
	Wow.
	Yeah, and that's not even full strength, obviously.
	Right.
	That's just a jab, right?
	So that's the problem.
	Yeah, let me see if I can aim it well.
	So that's the four layers of linen just on there.
	Wow.
	Do you know what that is?
	No.
	Lenothorax.
	It's kind of linen armor that's layered linen.
	It probably is more useful than it looked there, though, because when you've got a solidly placed block and you're just stabbing it, then the block doesn't move, whereas if someone stabs you, you move.
	So it's unlikely to have gone through as much as that implies.
	Apparently it was a useful form of armor.
	One of the things I never really got is why did heavy armour only come about in the Middle Ages?
	It didn't.
	So there were people in Alexander's time wearing heavy armour?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, the development of armour is really interesting.
	The Mycenaeans had full bronze plate It's amazing.
	With like, literally bands of bronze in like a dress, in like a big skirt around them.
	And because everyone's like, oh, how did the Sea Peoples destroy all of these things?
	Because they were literally covered in bronze.
	Human tanks.
	Yeah.
	Literally, you wouldn't have been able to get them.
	However, it must have been insufferable.
	Imagine invading Egypt wearing, just coated in bronze.
	It's a lot of fluid you've got to go through.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And, of course, you had various bronze plates as well.
	And Julius Caesar's Invasion of Gaul, there's one battle where the Gauls are covered in full plate, And they can't get through them with gladiuses.
	So they have to go and get their mining picks and hack them down to get through the armor and just pick them in the face.
	It's like, Jesus Christ.
	So it's not new.
	It's just that in the late Middle Ages, the armor became really good.
	It also became sort of commonplace.
	It was really expensive.
	Really expensive.
	But it just became really, really good because the techniques for producing it were very advanced.
	Go to the next one.
	Unfortunately, Carl, as happy as you were with my idea, I must disavow my Thursday video comment.
	Harry Potter and the Chambers of the Handmade Tales.
	You see, I've recently made aware, by Sophie, that, um...
	Tim Pool also came up with the same idea, and by pure coincidence, we both came up with the same idea.
	Now, as funny as you might have found it, Carl, I might be cringe, but agreeing with something or coming up with the same idea that Tim Pool came up with, there is a limit to cringe.
	I must disavow my previous video comment on Thursday.
	Don't take it hard.
	I mean, I think that essentially it was an idea in the ether waiting for the synthesis, and lots of people could have come to the same conclusion.
	Sorry.
	No, just don't feel the need to disavow yourself.
	Do you see Tim Pool's chat with Daryl Davis?
	Yeah, didn't he come out in favour of critical race theory or something?
	I didn't watch it.
	Like, Daryl did.
	I've only got to watch it a little bit, but it's very weird.
	You ever seen Daryl interact with the Klan?
	Yeah, he's very nice.
	But I noticed it.
	When he talks to the Klan, they both describe things in group terms.
	Like, he'll say, oh, our white people did this.
	And Daryl will say, no, our black people did this.
	And it sounds normal until you actually take Daryl out and had him talk to Tim.
	And Tim was obviously speaking from an individualistic perspective.
	Yeah, when he talks to a liberal.
	Yeah, because you had Daryl saying things like, we were slaves and we were this, and it was like, no, you weren't, they were.
	The people in the ground over there.
	But he means black, the category.
	Yeah, which is especially weird for him, because he sees himself as very international as well.
	See, I saw Tariq Nashi the other day had posted on Twitter, when you talk about how Africa owes black people reparations, it's like, oh yeah, oh yeah, let's see where this conversation goes.
	I want to hear what the Nigerians and the Ghanans have to say about that.
	Concerning the topic of physiognomy, does anyone else kind of get the sense that Josh looks like a Victorian-era antagonist?
	Like, his resting face kind of always looks like he's having a Norman Bates inner monologue.
	I guess it could be worse, though.
	Beau looks like he's built too many horcruxes during his fight with the boy who lived, and Leo kind of reminds me of the leader of that Scottish cannibal horde from the movie Doomsday.
	I think this is just evidence about why it's pseudoscience.
	Possibly.
	Although when you have to share an office with Josh, you get to hear his offhand comments.
	So maybe that's more accurate than you think.
	Don't get me wrong, they're all good.
	They're all gold, actually.
	Hey guys, just wrote another chapter of my book and if you follow me on Getty you probably know that.
	And I watched Carl's assessment of The Matrix Resurrections and one of the things he talked about with the movie was how Hollywood's trying to Produce, manufacture stories instead of just diving in and writing them.
	And as I'm writing this story, I'm realizing probably that's the best thing I can do, is just make culture.
	Yeah, I would say honestly, because I understand that when you're in the creative process, you're going through the emotions you're trying to convey to the audience, and if you've got a very cynical sort of second-order view that's based on structures and theories, then if that's not producing the emotion, or if the emotion that you're going through would take you in a different direction, you feel constrained by the theory itself, whereas you might be missing out on a good storytelling experience.
	Not that I'm any kind of expert, though.
	the next one.
	This bus probably has a million miles on it.
	A million kilometers.
	Wow, that's a lot.
	To be honest, I'm just looking at that I'm just looking at that thinking how smooth can you get the suspension?
	Like, I wonder, it must be like, you know, the million pounds mobile home buses that people have.
	Like, can you actually wash up and not end up with it all over yourself?
	I doubt it.
	It's always cool to see that.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Tim Marshall analyzes the geography, both human and physical, of ten countries who might play a key role in the future.
	Inadvertently, he has split the book into two halves, so this review shall be two.
	The first few chapters cover Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece and Turkey.
	Considering those countries from the perspective of geography is a fascinating insight into how they must struggle internally, but can exert influence externally.
	I do need to give that a read.
	I've had it recommended before.
	And also the ideas are very much largely correct.
	The idea of the geography does seem to play a huge part.
	I do love the point he's made there as well.
	I was going to say, as soon as you see it like that, it does become a lot more evident, doesn't it?
	Yeah, but I dislike the perspective.
	I don't know if he does it, but some people I've seen online saying endlessly, oh, it's just geography, bro.
	And I say, it's not.
	There's more there.
	And the greatest example probably has to be China under the Maoist era, where it's like, look, this country could have exploded in growth at any point under these like 20, 30 odd years.
	And instead it was purposely retarded by ideology.
	I'm something of a geographic determinist, though.
	Why?
	Because I think it really does matter.
	I'm not saying it doesn't.
	It can be destroyed by other means.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, sure.
	It's not sufficient by itself, but I think it is a necessary condition.
	You have to have some kind of geographical favourability.
	One of the reasons that the Mediterranean is so important is, in fact, you can see it from here.
	Look at the length of the coastline facilitates a greater number of trade routes.
	Compare that to Central Asia.
	You know, where it's just like, you can move things so much easier.
	You get so many different ports and different cultures who have access to seas and stuff like that.
	And this is one of the things that the interior of Africa doesn't really have.
	And navigable rivers as well.
	Like, it really, I think it does make a huge difference.
	But it's also just the fact, I mean, the temperature as well.
	You could say about the Baltic, but it just freezes.
	At least large parts of it do.
	Yeah.
	It's horrible.
	But I do think geography really does matter, actually.
	I don't know why I find it fascinating as well.
	I love looking at maps.
	I find it endlessly fascinating.
	I could do it all day.
	My favourite one for geography has to be, I think it's Uzbekistan, which is double landlocked.
	Yeah.
	It must be weird being a patriot in that country and knowing that your country will never mean anything on the global stage.
	I literally can't Well, until the next Mongol horde comes out of it.
	It's such an obvious meme, whereas...
	Until the advent of gunpowder, these were tremendously influential places.
	Central Asia was called the Cauldron of Nations, because literally just about every couple of hundred years, it would just be, oh, here's like 100,000 guys on horses with bows, and they're going to kill everyone.
	This just happened all the time.
	When that could happen, but that can't happen.
	It can't happen now, but it used to be that these places were tremendously geostrategically influential.
	Like the barbarians could fall themselves into something tough.
	Yes.
	Massive coalitions, yes.
	And so this had a huge effect on the world, the civilized world, for thousands of years.
	But not anymore.
	Thankfully, guns exist.
	Reduced to having a lack of water constantly.
	Yes, thank God.
	And, you know, God willing, it'll always be that way.
	Because the last thing you want is 100,000 horse-mounted Central Asian warriors turn up.
	Is this revenge?
	We're keeping the Uzbekistani citizens double landlocked, just to be sure.
	Honestly, I swear to God.
	Like...
	They were the most savage.
	The contempt.
	Like, Genghis Khan had to be persuaded not to genocide all the Chinese by saying, well, look, you can milk them like they were cows.
	You can just make them work and they'll give you money and you won't have to do anything.
	He's like...
	All right, we'll give it a go, but my instincts are telling me to just kill them all.
	Like, turn all of China into pasture land.
	I mean, I'll try if I'm just going to get mountains of gold out of it, but if I have to, it's like, oh, thank God.
	you know they they're the the cruelest people came from central asia by far go to the next one early on the jersey devil look was sort of like this in the 17 and 1800s there wasn't an illustration there were stories told over and over again this is a 1969 illustration by ed sheets and it kind of captures the cloven feet the impish nature of the creature in that old school kind of witchcraft
	devil way it's on t-shirts and posters all over south jersey see i'm not gonna be afraid of that That pops out, it's going to be like four foot tall.
	I'm like, what the hell are you?
	Also, the moon face just weirds me out.
	Everything else about that I could sort of accept, but why has he got a moon for a head?
	Okay, look, I'm not bothered about the moon for the head.
	I'm bothered about literally the little devil that's turned up.
	I'm not going to be afraid of that.
	What the hell are you?
	Even if he's six foot?
	I mean, you can make him 20 foot and he's still got a moon for the head.
	Okay.
	What is the weird hang-up about the moon for the head?
	Because you're saying because he's like a four-foot devil, but if he was normal but with the wings and the hoof feet and he's six foot, I feel like you'd be like, holy crap, like the devil.
	It's more the expression, though.
	I'm sure he can frown.
	It doesn't look very sinister, just saying.
	I think the head's a bit like that.
	No, I'm glad to follow the physiognomy of the Jersey Devil.
	Go to the next one.
	Eat the bug, Callum.
	So this is our guy from Thailand telling us about eating the bugs.
	I think we've got to kill all the boogs then, surely.
	That would solve the problem.
	Where's that from?
	I want to know what that image is.
	It's neat.
	I've been warned.
	There's a cockroach in my kitchen and what's it doing?
	Making dinner.
	What do cockroaches even eat?
	What do they eat?
	Let's go to the written comments on the site.
	Someone let me know what a cockroach eats.
	Yeah, I'll go with it.
	Look at Taylor Lorenz's lips of TikTok could have been run by a Russian.
	Apparently they'll eat literally anything.
	Okay.
	They'll even eat hair.
	But the point there is well made, I think.
	You know, Taylor Lawrence being like, well, what if Libs and TikTok's been run by a Russian agent?
	It's like, so what if it is?
	Like, stop posting how you're grooming children on the internet, and then Libs and TikTok have got nothing.
	In fact, if it's hosted by, let's say, the North Koreans, America's biggest enemy, let's say, in that regard...
	It still doesn't matter because they're owning us.
	The North Korean would have a point still.
	But it's useful and helpful to have this kind of ideological rot pointed out in liberal society.
	Look, these are a bunch of extremists who are coalescing in the schools.
	Don't you want to be aware of this so you can at least be reactive to it yourself?
	So that I would consider a service.
	Also, it's revealing the reactive nature again.
	Like the New York Times piece about Tucker.
	They never want to learn.
	They want to fix.
	He says, their commitment to our culture and ancient liberty is almost non-existent now.
	Trudeau and Canada as their model for our future leaders, not the ideas Elon Musk represents.
	Yeah, and it's at least good that there are still some, like, based capitalists, you know, who are Western, and who think that Western ideals were a good idea.
	Callum says, if only we had someone like Elon dealing with the NHS... Oh, God, can you imagine?
	Elon Musk buys the NHS, but not even he's got that much money.
	Two-thirds of NHS staff are likely only managers and bureaucrats or something, plus the diversity hires to fit their stupid work quotas.
	Yeah, I bet you could...
	I mean, there was a graph I saw the other day that was the number of doctors and then the number of managers, and it's just like, yeah, I mean, shouldn't there be, like, more doctors to managers?
	Surely one manager can manage five doctors.
	It's so immortal as well.
	I've shown it before, but the Yes Minister sketch where he goes to a local hospital and they have no nurses, no doctors.
	They have loads of administrators.
	It's the best-run hospital in the country.
	He makes the point, okay, we'll fire the administrators and hire some doctors and no one in Westminster will have it.
	The funny thing being that, of course, they got their scripts from civil servants.
	It's not all made up.
	The same situation has been going on for decades and decades.
	It's never going to be solved.
	Exactly.
	More doctors, less bloody managers.
	George says politicians around the world are so addicted to the input they receive from Twitter it has skewed their worldview immensely.
	I agree with that completely.
	They seem to think that the opinions expressed on Twitter are those of the common man when they are clearly not.
	For example, here in Newfoundland, we have an old building from at least the 1800s, if not earlier, known as the Colonial Building, which, thanks to the input of the Tourism Department, a group almost certainly heavily influenced by Twitter, the government is now considering renaming.
	It's the same with Colston Library or whatever in Bristol.
	Like, literally no one cared about that until people on Twitter started talking about it.
	I mean, I'm imagining the common man talking about pronouns in the bio on the street corner.
	Yeah, it doesn't even make sense.
	How do you have pronouns in the bio if you're not on Twitter?
	The bio is the Twitter.
	But could you imagine walking down to Swindon Centre and just some guys being like, my pronouns are...
	That's embarrassing.
	So anyway, General Hai Ping, Chinese Internet Battalion.
	That's a great name, by the way.
	We will only know if Elon is the true god of Spurgery if he starts posting anime videos and low-ceased video comments.
	God, not anime videos, Elon.
	Alfredo Beta says, Orlando Police Pension Fund wants to stop the Twitter takeover until the next presidential election.
	coincidentally I'm sure Baystate says I find the people arguing that the new Twitter will not be doing enough to tackle hate and abuse online ridiculous Twitter is well known for being the home of hate and intolerance on the internet the term hate mob immediately makes people think of Twitter and only Twitter that's a good point Like, where else do they come from?
	The open cause and encouragement for people to be murdered on the site is unbelievably prevalent.
	Look up the term Kill Elon Musk for a great example.
	It's a Gundam did a video about this the other day.
	I watched it.
	It's just like constantly people saying, now that Twitter has free speech, I want to kill Elon Musk.
	It's like, you're not legally allowed to say that.
	Racial hate and violence is openly encouraged by Twitter itself, so long as it's targeted at the correct races.
	Yep, that's that repressive tolerance we were talking at.
	What exactly was Twitter doing up until now to curb the hate on the platform?
	That's the exact problem that needs to be fixed.
	Henry says, Don't really want the managers getting
	involved in the development process.
	The example in my mind was, there were some leaks from game devs, I think it was at EA, where they pop into a few companies, and every time he talked to one of the execs or the CEOs, they knew three games, that was it.
	They knew Candy Crush.
	A game!
	Yeah, that's the thing.
	They knew Candy Crush, GTA, and one other, I can't remember now, off the top of my head, but that was it, and that was their entire knowledge.
	Candy Crush is just a skin in a box.
	That's the thing, though.
	That's why the culture was, okay, just shove loot boxes in.
	Why would it affect the gameplay?
	Who cares?
	Because you don't know what gameplay is, do you?
	You're mind-numbingly out of touch.
	Ignacio says, seeing the tides of the culture war, Twitter, the rise of right-leaning movements, the end of hostility towards coups measures after the tyranny, I'm scared to be overly optimistic, but could this be the slow beginning of the swing back of the political pendulum?
	Well, one thing I was going to cover but didn't get to cover because I decided to talk about repressive tolerance instead was the fact that, yeah, there is definitely the pendulum swinging back from the left towards the right.
	Have you seen the propositions that are coming out of Republican-led states to ban contraception?
	I have not, but usually when I read into those things, it's not as...
	I haven't looked into it yet because I didn't prepare for the podcast, but I saw there were a bunch of headlines like this.
	I'm like, Like, don't go too far, is what I'm asking.
	Anyway...
	Clash of Clans was the other game.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	That's it.
	Bilbo Swagin says, Yeah, I know.
	What a surprise.
	The people who've been born and raised in the shadow of World War II don't like Nazis.
	Student of History says, Antifascism is the eradication of whole social groups from history.
	Wait a minute.
	It kind of is, yeah.
	Lord Nerevar says, Despite the facts, those far-rightists are A. LARPing as a left-wing ideology, which I agree with.
	B. Obviously glories.
	You won't see any media heads reporting on TR's antifascist actions here.
	No, you won't, because they've...
	I mean, one of the things about Tommy is that his political views are so milquetoast.
	It's kind of painful sometimes.
	You try to talk to him about anything ideological, and he's like...
	Just vote Labour, isn't it?
	Say anything about Islam, and he's like, I can give you 20 verses.
	But the point is, politically, he's such a moderate, and they're like, yeah, so this guy is the problem.
	It's like, hmm...
	Maybe.
	Maybe the political moderates are the problem.
	I agree with you.
	J-Reg agrees.
	Yeah, exactly.
	J-Reg wants to know your location.
	Yeah.
	I just find it really interesting.
	Oh, he's super far right.
	What does he want?
	Well-funded NHS? No nonsense.
	Yeah, no nonsense.
	SH Silver says, Yeah, I totally agree.
	And it's gross as well, the way he's been treated.
	Even if, let's assume he was just a racist.
	Let's assume he was just making all of this up out of nothing.
	Does that justify the way he's been treated?
	I don't think so.
	No, but I also just love the idea, let's just say he's just a racist, because it is real.
	That's the thing as well.
	Would he still be wrong for pointing it out?
	Yeah, let's assume he was, like, Nick Griffin or something.
	Is Nick Griffin wrong when he points out that...
	Thank you for the evidence, Nick.
	We're not going to prosecute the nonce.
	That's as simple as it needs to be.
	Like, it doesn't mean you agree with Nick Griffin on race politics if you agree with him that rape bad.
	LAUGHTER Maybe a bunch of organised nonce rapists aren't allowed in.
	Well, I would listen to you, Nick, but you are the leader of the BMP. I think I've told you before, but you've got to investigate it for being Jewish in the BMP. His own party allegedly hit too big of a nose.
	Well, I mean, I haven't seen his nose, but I... But that's that.
	It's just a meme.
	Speaking of big noses, I can't help but notice that Sadiq Khan has just got the biggest nose in human history.
	Yeah, I follow him on Instagram, right?
	His side profile.
	Yeah, no, exactly.
	He put up a picture of himself, inside profile, and I was just like, my God, Sadiq!
	It's just the world's biggest nose.
	It's actually quite impressive.
	He's telling you about how he's going to destroy this country, and you're so engorged by just being like, what the hell is going on there?
	Yeah, that's true, Sadiq.
	You're mesmerizing me with your giant, absolute beak that's on the front of his face.
	I've got an image of him next to Boris Johnson, and you're not wrong.
	I mean...
	It's probably like as big as Boris's whole face.
	Uh...
	Bigger than his ears.
	anyway lee says the signs that show up at these left-wing rent mob protests have the same high production values the one i saw at every process in my uni days in australia same as the ones that showed up in the more organized blm protests and the same as the ones we see as the uk some real money is behind all these various social worker parties internationally it'll be soros money as well because it always is um free will says they look like anarchist punks why are That's why they dress like that with the logos.
	There used to be loads of them back in the 80s when they followed bands like Crass and Conflict, who were associated with class war.
	And for some reason, the comments for the repressive tolerance segment haven't loaded, so I'm just going to try and load them again.
	Do you want to do any while my thing's busy not updating?
	Agent000 says I think we need a movie about the life and work of Nelson Mandela and Johnny Depp needs to play him.
	Presumably drunk throughout.
	My wife messaged me earlier saying I haven't been following the trial closely but she is because she hates Amber Heard.
	And she apparently at...
	Sorry?
	Good.
	Yeah, I know.
	But apparently Amber Heard claimed that Johnny Depp pushed Kate someone or other down the stairs, one of his exes down the stairs, and she was like, no he didn't.
	It's like, why would you make that up?
	Why would you make up such an easily provable or disprovable statement?
	That was one of the ones we showed as well, that she just makes things up for no reason.
	I'd never met this person.
	Here's a photo of you with this person.
	Yeah.
	What the fuck?
	Why lie?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Why lie about something like...
	And apparently there was an agreement that they wouldn't consult their exes or something, and she had brought up the ex, and so she broke the agreement she insisted be in place for a lie that was proven not to be true like that, and it's like, why would you do this?
	Are you trying to throw this trial?
	We were in an abusive relationship, so there's audio recordings of me after that, contacting him and asking for a hug, and for him to comfort me because I would...
	Well, I mean, there's audio evidence of her abusing him, if that's what you mean.
	George Winger says, the item was a folding knife with a handle shaped like a gun, so he should be getting charged with assault with a weapon if not attempted murder.
	Here in Canada, he'd have a slew of other charges, including gun charges simply for the fact that it looks like a gun.
	Oh, well, we'd have that exactly here.
	Do you remember the Scottish homeless person with a water pistol?
	Yep.
	And he was brought up on gun charges.
	That's not even a gun.
	There was a homeless guy literally going, give us your money.
	It's a joke.
	With a water pistol.
	And the judge that sent that homeless man down was also the judge that found Count Dankula guilty.
	Yes.
	Anthony.
	They've come up for me now.
	Bleach Demon says, if single poster showed up mysteriously with It's Okay To Be a list of races, would the left only react to the word white?
	Oh, that's a great question.
	Right, okay, that's a great question.
	So for whoever's putting these posters up, say it's okay to be black, it's okay to be white, it's okay to be Asian, it's okay.
	Just put them all on the same poster and see if they flip out.
	Oh, it's because it says it's okay to be white on the poster.
	Make them say it.
	This is a partially neo-Nazi related poster.
	Part of this poster is neo-Nazi, the rest of it's fine.
	I want that to happen.
	Alex says, I think there is an exemption for films and TV shows made with the majority native actors.
	If there's an Egyptian company making a King Arthur movie or a Nigerian company making a Homer's Odyssey film, I wouldn't complain about the majority native population speaking native languages.
	Yeah, I mean, that's fine.
	Makes sense, obviously.
	If there's a local film industry, you know, the Ugandan Film Society.
	But then the same applies to us.
	I should have brought this up.
	We're just like, oh my god, the Americans are making a movie with loads of Americans in it playing foreigners.
	True, but he does say that Hollywood is too big for this excuse.
	And I agree.
	Hollywood's got the capacity to work around it.
	You could argue, but you also mentioned the British film industry, which is not as big.
	It's still big.
	It's still pretty big.
	I love the, what is it, in Nigeria.
	No, it's not in Nigeria.
	In Uganda, what is it?
	It's not Wakanda Wood, but that's what's in my head.
	But they do have their own film industry, though.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, Bollywood's probably too big as well, but I don't care if Bollywood, like, oh, we're going to do King Arthur film.
	We've got a bunch of Indian actors, like, Well, if they did a film about the British Empire and everyone was Indian, I wouldn't care.
	That would be hilarious, yeah.
	This is funny.
	Yeah, that would be hilarious.
	Robert says, the It's Okay to be Muslim and It's Okay to be Black post is clearly a response of some kind, whether in disagreement or agreement with the It's Okay to be White.
	Well, that's the thing, isn't it?
	Because it doesn't even seem to be in disagreement with the It's Okay to be White campaign.
	Because if it's It's Okay to be White...
	It's the same campaign.
	Yeah, I mean, it could be the same campaign.
	I remember the campaign.
	Oh, right.
	And those posters were made by the same people.
	Oh, really?
	As in, like, a barrage were made in the threads of, like, oh, so what should we do?
	What if we put up these as well?
	Like, it's all the same guys.
	Yeah.
	So it's not a coincidence.
	Right, right, okay.
	It's 100% the same people.
	Well, definitely put it on the same poster, then.
	So they've got to disavow part of the poster, but avow the other part.
	Funniest idea that came up was, what if we start putting it in lighter and lighter fonts until it's just a white piece of paper, and then we declare white pieces of paper a symbol of white supremacy?
	That's a great idea.
	This guy from Israel came up with that one.
	It's a genuinely great idea.
	Brian says, this mixed jarl is not black, she's mixed.
	Well, I mean, I suppose you could define her as a mixed jarl she is.
	This American one-drop rule has just been carried forward.
	A black person should have two black parents, not one.
	Okay, fair enough.
	We're out of time, by the way.
	Oh, are we?
	Oh, sorry.
	I was enjoying that.
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