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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #394

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	Music Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 17th of May 2022.
	I'm joined by Leo.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about groomers radicalizing children in the classroom, the online safety bill, and the red Chinese question.
	Sorry, dealing with some red spies in the base, it seems.
	Anyway, so I suppose we'll get right into it.
	We'll start off with the groomers radicalizing kids.
	So, I thought I'd talk about a story I read this morning about groomers in the UK coming to schools and radicalising the kids into being, well, just horrible, really.
	I mean, like, just bullying kids to own the Conservatives.
	Great.
	That's a worthwhile cause.
	And we'll start this off with a little shill, of course, this being Abigail Schreier's irreversible damage that Harry did, because we're going to talk about other kinds of damage that groomers do.
	But otherwise, let's get into it.
	So let's start off with the first article here.
	So this is the headline.
	Girl driven out of school for questioning trans ideology.
	So you're not allowed to question the things that are put in front of you now?
	Shouldn't part of learning be questioning the things so you understand them better?
	No.
	No?
	You should just listen and believe.
	Right.
	Even in church, you're allowed to ask questions.
	To Bible study.
	Yeah.
	You know?
	No, not in this regard.
	That's for sure.
	That's not learning.
	You need to be indoctrinated instead.
	A girl who argued that biological sex is real...
	I love it.
	Yeah, that's the heretical opinion.
	It is real.
	After a talk about transphobia, felt forced to leave her school after pupils hounded her for challenging the views of a visiting speaker.
	This is interesting, because I've heard this from my mate Darius.
	Well, I probably shouldn't say the name.
	My mate's called something else.
	The D-man.
	His niece was getting bullied at school, but instead of calling her...
	When I was at school, There'd be homophobic abuse.
	Now it's inverted and the bullies accuse you of homophobia.
	You're not even gay.
	So, yeah, similar situation here, I suppose.
	They say she was treated like a heretic for questioning a politician's assertions about sex.
	Sorry, my English is terrible.
	A teacher at the school said, a female member of the House of Lords visited the private girls' school, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, to talk about transphobia in Parliament.
	So, member of the House of Lords, who is a signed-up Stonewall, I don't know, comrade, decided to turn up at this old girls' school and teach them about transphobia.
	How did that go?
	The girl told the Times, the language she was using was implying critical theory took precedence over biological reality in defining women, she said.
	When I questioned that, she said it wasn't an issue of semantics.
	She said trans people don't have basic human rights in this country.
	Afterwards I spoke to her and said I'm sorry if I came across as rude.
	But trans people have got equal rights in this country.
	Everyone's got equal rights under the law.
	Yeah.
	So, it's nonsense.
	But then again, we're dealing with someone who's a representative of Stonewall turning up at the school.
	So, yeah, they're going to be deluded.
	Yeah, but the Stonewall Diversity Champion scheme is basically a sort of mafia shakedown.
	So they go, you've got to get these...
	The Rainbow Mafia.
	These badges.
	These badges that say, you know, you've got the right opinions.
	So you pay Stonewall for that protection.
	So you can then, you know, advertise for jobs in The Guardian and stuff like that.
	Don't worry, I'm a gay ally or something.
	We only have allies in war?
	What war are you fighting?
	They're fighting against all the vicious...
	They're fighting for equal rights!
	One day they're going to have equal rights under the law.
	I mean, they've already got it, but one day...
	Well, maybe all the heteros will be dead, and then they'll all be equal?
	I don't know.
	Maybe that's the idea.
	But they say the pair parted amicably, the girl said, but on returning to the sixth form, she was surrounded by up to 60 girls who shouted, screamed, swore, and spat at her.
	That's pretty hot.
	No.
	She escaped and said she collapsed, unable to breathe properly.
	So that's the messed up thing here.
	Because, like, a dunce comes to school, who's a member of the House of Lords, and is just like, did you know that we don't have equal rights?
	And he's just like, shut up, idiot.
	Yes, we do.
	And then they have the debate.
	They pair, adamantly, because the adult is apparently not going to cause an incident with a child.
	And instead, what happens is that the all-girls school, the girls there, become the radicalised party.
	They become the Red Guards, who will then beat up or Yeah.
	That's what happened.
	I mean, I really am concerned about the idea of this happening on a mass scale, because it's bad enough when they turn up and tell our kid nonsense and the kid thinks, you know, some stupid things and then gets corrected and then lives in reality with the rest of us.
	But the idea that you're going to teach the kids that transphobia bad, anyone who's transphobic must be ostracized from society, and then the kids go and do it for you.
	No, this is on the par with the extremist Christians turning up and saying that if there's a gay kid in the school, beat him.
	Yeah.
	Like, I'm not happy about this.
	It's the same methodology.
	Absolutely.
	So, they say, a teacher at the school said, we know how these views are being silenced in the adult world, though high-profile legal cases and the bullying and defamation of celebrities, such as JK Rowling, this is also happening in schools.
	Writing for the website Transgender Trend, he said to the teacher, quote, There was a time when the school invited in Christian and other religious speakers to address moral and ethical issues and to provide food for thought and contemplation.
	It was usually the practice to follow these up with a Q&A session during which students could share their own feelings and opinions on the issues and even disagree if they wanted to.
	And ask questions.
	They are the privileged world of the past in which you could disagree with a speaker and everyone got on with their lives.
	Yeah, or they'd explain, you know, why they thought they were right and, like, why you're wrong in your opinion.
	You ask questions, you know, if you disagree, you can't...
	Like, if something's just an ideology that's handed down, you've got to learn, like, rote scripture.
	And this shows the weakness of...
	Critical race theory, transgender ideology and all this stuff is you're not allowed to question it.
	Questions are seen as criticism.
	Because it crumbles.
	It crumbles under any questioning.
	There's so many dichotomies.
	That's why the most basic questions like, what is a woman?
	They can't answer.
	They can't answer.
	I mean, this is an all-girls school.
	How do they know?
	I don't know what the criteria is for getting in.
	I think actually transgender boys were allowed in for a period until the government stepped in and went, nope, not doing that.
	But yeah, apparently in the past you were able to question these things.
	Now, not so much, even though they used to invite a lot of Christians, they say.
	It was the similarity of transgender ideology to religious fundamentalism that alerted me to the danger of what was going on in our school over the last few years, the teacher added.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, I genuinely, this is horrible.
	I mean, the fact that you're radicalising these kids into doing what they're doing, and bullying a kid to the point that she has to leave the school.
	I mean, it's absurd.
	He said that a group of six formers arrived in an animated state after the speaker's visit, with a significant group of girls verbally laying into one particular 18-year-old who had the audacity to question the position.
	Right.
	I was thinking they were going to be like 12 or something.
	No, this is like 18-year-olds.
	This is Sixformers, and they're now bullying this other kid because, well, how dare she question the faith, essentially.
	And I actually remember some of this when I was a kid.
	I was at all girls school where I had some friends, and I remember after one day, they had someone come in.
	I probably was Stonewall, I have no idea.
	And they all had these stickers on about homophobia and racism and stuff.
	I was just like, the hell?
	What's all this?
	Oh, we had a guest speaker.
	We didn't have any at my school, so boohoo.
	But they had someone come in and just lecture them about this stuff.
	And then it's all they could talk about for a couple of days.
	I remember thinking at the time, like, something's happened to you.
	Like, this isn't normal.
	Someone's come in and didoctrinated you, essentially.
	Because they weren't making any sense either.
	Like, they were saying that men can't be raped, for example.
	Literally can't happen.
	Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
	No.
	And so forth.
	Legally, it's another man.
	Oh, legally.
	Yeah, actually, yeah.
	They were saying physically it can't be done.
	I was just like, shut up.
	But I mean, obviously, man on man.
	Male on male.
	Also, just female on male can also happen.
	There was a case in Russia that was very funny.
	Tell me what happened to you, Callum.
	No, there was a guy in Russia who broke into a house to burgle it, and it was an old lady, knocked him the hell out, tied him up, and then, yeah, abused him, and then it went to court, and the court just went, don't care, and didn't give her any sentence.
	They just sentenced him for burglary.
	Yeah, instead of her for burglary.
	But I think...
	I think under the law, there has to be penetration.
	Yeah, but this wasn't the argument.
	I remember them talking about how you can't be racist to white people as well.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Left-wing nonsense.
	But anyway, you can see how this happens.
	They end off here, though, saying staff were initially supportive of the child who was bullied, but...
	You know it's not going to be good.
	Yes.
	Well, we were supportive of anti-bullying, but after complaints from the other Six Formers, we ended up apologizing for not maintaining a safe space in the Six Form.
	The safe space for the ideological radicals who were bullying the child, not the kid here, who can go and F herself.
	I mean, it's just horrible to read, frankly, and the fact that it's going on in the UK is even more bitter because it's where I live.
	But I think we'll go now to the land of the free, home of the brave.
	Oh yeah.
	Not the United States.
	Hopefully it's going to be one of those states, red states.
	It's going to be Florida, because of course it is.
	So nothing bad could happen there.
	No, this is something a friend of mine sent me, just to note what has been taking place, which is the opposite, which is they're actually dealing with their grooming problem.
	Oh, this one, more mild than a bunch of kids bullying one of the others.
	However, it's starting to have an effect.
	I heard about this.
	Cape Coral middle school teacher fired over discussion of sexual orientation and pride flags.
	So the Cape Coral art teacher was let go after discussing LGBTQ plus topics in the classroom.
	Clues in the name.
	Art teacher.
	We're here to talk about art.
	Teach the kids how to make paper mache willies.
	Yeah.
	This is all they end up doing really.
	Or I ended up making like a letter C out of cardboard and that was it.
	So I have no artistic talent.
	But that's not what happened in this classroom.
	Casey Scott, a first-year art teacher at Trafalgar Middle School, was released from her probationary contract on April 18th following a complaint that she had been teaching lessons about different flags as they related to gender and sexuality.
	Lee County Schools spokesperson Rob Spicker told News Press that she was released for not following state-mandated curriculum.
	Yeah.
	Simple as.
	Yeah, that kind of makes sense.
	You're here to do this, yeah, but I want to talk about pansexuality.
	Yeah.
	You're here to do this.
	Like, teach the kids the thing you're paid to teach them.
	I saw people speaking up for her on Twitter saying, like, one of the pupils had asked her a question about her sexual, you know, her private life.
	And so she answered.
	They said, well, you just don't answer.
	You say, that's an inappropriate question.
	I'm here to teach you art, not talk about my fanny or whatever it is.
	You know what I mean?
	One of the kids said, do you like pegging?
	And she had to answer.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	No, you don't.
	You don't.
	When I was at school, if I had to ask, oh, miss, miss, you know, do you like felching?
	Like, she wouldn't have sat me down.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop the maths class.
	Stop the maths class.
	Let's get some German pornos on.
	You know what I mean?
	No, you just, you say that's an inappropriate question, Leo.
	And stop asking me every time I'm in this class.
	Leave me alone.
	Yeah.
	The closest I ever got to that was there was a teacher, I'm going to change his name to Mr.
	Fun, because I won't say his real name.
	Mr.
	Fun?
	Yeah, I was trying to rhyme it with his real name, and it came out weirder.
	Anyway, but he, I remember, the closest we ever got to ever discussing sex in the classroom is it was a history class, and one of my mates went, can we watch Masturbator and Commander?
	Of course, making fun of the name.
	And immediately he just got, like, the tension.
	So...
	But you don't have these conversations in a normal classroom.
	Apparently in America, well, it does.
	So the firing came three weeks after Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights and Education Bill into law on March 28th, which prohibits teachers from providing classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity to K-3 students and up to higher grade levels in a manner that is not age appropriate.
	And when they say K-3, I take it that's like seven-year-olds or something.
	I can never remember.
	The American system's weird.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Why don't they just put the ages of the kids instead of this weird, like, I'm not, I don't want to learn hieroglyphic, I don't want to learn weird Cyrillic alphabet.
	We also do the same thing, though.
	Like, year seven is not seven-year-olds in this country, which we also just don't like.
	Yeah.
	I think we should just simplify it.
	Put the age of the kids.
	Yeah.
	Apparently in this classroom, they were as young as 11.
	So you've got the 11-year-old sat there as the teacher for an art class, tells them about her sex life.
	Right.
	What the hell are we doing here?
	Our teacher tells students she's pansexual records show.
	Yeah.
	Oh, God.
	Quote, according to the records by the news press, Scott told the school investigators that she was inspired to come out to her students...
	Why?
	Why?
	You didn't have to.
	Also, pansexual isn't something you can come out about.
	It's like, hey, guess what?
	I'm a total whorebag.
	You know what I mean?
	You shouldn't get a flag for that.
	I still hate the time.
	That's not a defined, that's just like anything.
	I'll do anything with anyone.
	I mean, that's basically Jimmy Savile.
	Jimmy Savile is the only pure pansexual because he got corpses, everything.
	Well that's the thing.
	What does pansexual actually mean?
	Because surely if you're taking it in the literal Latin term it would mean corpses included.
	Yeah.
	I don't know but whatever.
	So she said she decided to become inspired and tell the 11 year olds about her pansexuality and about various pride flags after she came out to her family as pansexual the day prior.
	Okay.
	I imagine a family were also just like, don't care.
	Not interested.
	But just why?
	Why did you feel the need after telling your family to be like, I'm going to go to school and tell the kiddos?
	I mean, do you remember, do you ever watch South Park, Mr.
	Garrison?
	Yeah.
	And in the later seasons where he is exploring his homosexuality and he'll come into the classroom and tell the kids about the dates he's had and how he doesn't like Rick and Rick's an asshole and stuff like this.
	And all the kids are sat there just being like...
	Can we learn some maths, please?
	Please, Mr Garrison.
	I'm done with this.
	That's all I've got in mind reading this.
	South Park is very problematic.
	Very ahead of the curve.
	Quote, I wanted to show these kids that it's better to be open about ourselves than to hide it away, Scott wrote in a statement to the school district.
	Listen, kids, become a queer activist.
	It's fine to be open about it when you're...
	It's appropriate?
	Yeah, it's appropriate.
	Like, these kids are way below the age of consent.
	They shouldn't be having, like, you know, sexual stuff for us.
	If they do have questions about all this kind of stuff, fine, there's plenty of resources.
	You've got school counsellor, you've got people who are trained in this kind of stuff to deal with it.
	A sex education lesson.
	Yes, sex education lessons.
	So people who are trained, there's a curriculum to follow to make sure that, you know, it's done in the right way.
	And obviously that's not going to be some sort of, you know, Christian homophobic training because it's in a public school.
	No gays!
	Yeah, it's going to be all the flags and everything.
	Gays are real!
	You know, you don't need to worry.
	But it's got to be done at an appropriate time for obvious reasons.
	You can't have schools become this place where anybody wants to exploit the system to sort of indoctrinate children or abuse their relationship with children, get close to children.
	Because the children, bear in mind, the parents are handing over their kids.
	It's a position of trust.
	You're entrusted to look after these kids, not abuse them, not psychologically damage them or anything like that.
	So you've got to respect those boundaries.
	If kids have got questions, there's counsellors, there's parents, there's the internet, there's older cousins...
	You know what I mean?
	I got told apparently back in the old days, you go out into the woods and find porn mags.
	Is that a real thing?
	That was a real thing.
	Who was leaving them there?
	They used to just appear in bushes, in lay-bys, like some sort of biblical message.
	What's happening?
	The truck driver's gone, I'm done with this, and just throws it out.
	Yeah, basically.
	Or get handed down through the annals of history.
	Literally the annals.
	Moving on.
	The statements also show that Scott told students she was pansexual after displaying a pansexual pride flag.
	So I love that.
	She's like, come prepared.
	Presumably she's come in with a prop.
	Or it was loaded up on screen and be like, hey, look at this.
	What are you doing?
	You're an art teacher.
	Unless this is, I don't know, art of...
	Roe v.
	Wade protest, but we'll get back to that.
	She also urged the students not to be afraid to go to her if they ever needed to talk about their own identities and told school officials that many of her students had been coming out to her.
	Wonder about that.
	Because it keeps things happening, which is that one teacher makes it a bit of a fad and then a bunch of the kids become bisexual until they realise they're not.
	This is like a social...
	You get these social trends.
	Social...
	Not hysteria, but what's it called?
	Social contagion.
	That is the word for it.
	Social contagion where, you know, things catch on.
	You see, with everything.
	With Tamagotchis.
	With Pokemon.
	With mullets.
	With double denim.
	You know, with...
	Being bisexual.
	Being a fan of Bross.
	Being a fan of the Spice Girls.
	Continued, Scott expressed that she had not received adequate training that would have informed her about what she was allowed or not to say about gender and sexuality in the classroom.
	This is her defence, that, you know, I wasn't trained, that I can't tell the 11-year-olds about my pansexual life.
	Because you're trained to teach art!
	Isn't that a sign that you shouldn't be teaching the sex education class?
	It's so simple, it's just like, yeah, common knowledge would have said none.
	Like, don't talk to the kids about sexuality, it's pretty simple.
	Is there a picture of her?
	Is she fit?
	We'll get to that in a minute.
	Is she fit though, can you just tell us now?
	No.
	They were present in the classroom while Scott was making pride flags, but Scott does not make anybody do that if they do not want to.
	I doubt that, frankly.
	Another student wrote that Scott's told...
	I just want to learn some art!
	You're making a pride flag!
	I want to pray a Peter Picasso!
	No, you don't!
	Another student wrote that Scott told the class that she was coming out as pansexual and wrote, I didn't really know what it meant until she started getting into detail.
	I don't want to know the detail.
	Some students said that her coming out felt uncomfortable and weird.
	My heart goes out to those kids.
	Yes, it would be.
	Scott also went on to explain how she has a husband and a girlfriend.
	The student said that, I thought it was a little weird because she is telling this to a class of 6th and 7th graders and all that.
	Another great quote from the kids.
	What?
	What are we doing this for?
	A student then wrote that Scott told them to follow her on her TikTok, where the student later saw a video of Scott coming out as pansexual.
	Of course she did.
	His lips of TikTok come to life.
	Oh, God.
	I'm pansexual.
	Paint the flags, kiddos.
	Also, follow me on TikTok.
	I'm pretty sure.
	You know, TikTok's like a Chinese company.
	I'm pretty sure it was designed by China to undermine the West.
	To destroy the West.
	Yeah, to destroy the West.
	Probably true.
	Because they can't use nuclear weapons, so they're going to use TikTok videos instead.
	High-level psyops instead.
	If we go to the next one, we can see the Gay Times, who bring us an image of the teacher in question here.
	So there you are, Leo.
	Looks all right.
	Okay, that's for you.
	And if we move forward, we can then go to the next one, which is the child hero in all of this debate as well.
	So this is an individual in Florida who's a kid who decided that he would become the youngest public plaintiff in the Don't Say Gay lawsuit, the anti-groomer bill.
	I am a Florida high school student's first openly gay class president.
	I am being silenced and I need your help.
	Right, okay.
	Number one, don't care that you're gay.
	No one does.
	Literally.
	The law doesn't care.
	None of the institutions care.
	In fact, none of the corporations care.
	Nobody does.
	Which is what brings me to the question of, why the hell are you doing this?
	Like, seriously, the individual.
	Why the hell is he bothering to do this?
	Why is he wasting his life?
	What's he doing?
	Well, he's out there campaigning for gay rights, which, um...
	Is this a student?
	This is a student.
	Right.
	Who organized a walkout.
	A few days ago, my principal called me into his office and informed me that if I used my graduation speech to refer to my activism or role as a plaintiff in the lawsuit, the school administration had a signal to cut off my microphone, end my speech, and halt the ceremony.
	Oh, no.
	Yes, because your graduation isn't a political platform to give a speech.
	Yeah, but I don't see the problem in like, I mean, you don't just talk about it in your graduation speech.
	I don't know what a graduation speech is, but this seems like heavy-handed.
	No, but it's the case of like, so say for example in the UK, anti-white discrimination is the case.
	Like it happens in the civil service, we've gone through it previously.
	In comedy.
	In comedy as well.
	Nick told me about that.
	The only place I'm safe is on Lotus Eaters.
	It's the one place a white man can be tolerated.
	Ironically though, Nick told me apparently there was some comedy gig that just said we don't have white men.
	Yeah, Nick Dixon got dropped from a gig.
	It happens a lot.
	I had an email today from a comedy booker saying we've got a huge increase in demand for LGBTQ acts.
	So if you're LGBTQ or if you know any communities that are LGBTQ because we can't fill all these spots.
	Question from I emailed back.
	Well, because everybody's trying to get an LGBTQ. They want an LGBTQ. The audience aren't putting pieces of paper in a suggestions box en masse being like, well, it was very funny, but it wasn't gay.
	Yeah, well, nobody's writing to advertisers saying like, oh, look, when I look at adverts for oven chips, you know, or...
	Frozen peas or whatever.
	Everybody's got to be a mixed race family, non-binary in a wheelchair, all the rest of it.
	But advertisers are still doing it because that's the fashion at the moment.
	But I replied to this comedy booker saying I'm one of the few genderqueer non-binary acts on the circuit because I am.
	You also make up the women on screen for GB News as well.
	Yeah.
	Another role.
	But getting back to the point.
	So the point being here for me, which is, it's a graduation speech.
	Say, for example, in the UK, we have anti-white discrimination.
	It's prevalent for our society, for God knows what reason.
	And if I went up to a graduation speech and started just talking about it, it would be inappropriate.
	It's not a forum for a political discussion.
	It's to get your bit of paper and talk about what you've done.
	It's not for you to then bow off about, you know, here's my political viewpoint.
	And imagine doing that for every single kid who wants to talk to you about communism or neoclassical liberalism or...
	No, it's just not the place for it.
	So I side with the school in this case, which is just like, mate, do what you want.
	It's a free country, whatever, just not the school speech.
	But this is his example of the highest level of oppression he faces in his life for doing what he does.
	And that's because there isn't any, really.
	I mean, compare that to being, as you say, having jobs denied to you for being white in the comedy world or in the civil service.
	That's actual oppression you can point to.
	Systemic as well, because it's in the system.
	Yeah, it's systemic.
	Yeah, whereas this individual is like, well, I can't give a political speech at my graduation.
	Boo-hoo.
	I'm sorry, this is the lowest rung of oppression I've ever heard.
	And this is you saying that this is unbearable to live in.
	And if we go to the next one, there's a reason why I also dwell on this, which is because you can see it in the fact that these people just have nothing, really.
	I mean, check out this individual.
	Like, here he is.
	Human rights are not debatable.
	Abortion is a human right.
	Hashtag Roe v.
	Wade.
	Because...
	Being an LGBTQ plus representative also means you have to argue for killing babies because it all goes the same, I guess.
	Abortion can't be a human right.
	A human right can't be something that imposes a burden of labour on someone else.
	Murder is a human right.
	I mean...
	Like...
	Unironically, we went through it the other day.
	There's the lady, you know the Handmaid's Tale?
	Yeah.
	She wrote an article, and she argues in there that because it doesn't have a soul, and she doesn't believe in souls, because she's not a Christian, therefore it should be okay to get an abortion, because you're not killing anything with a soul.
	And if you try to make sure she can't, you're infringing her right to her religious beliefs.
	Yeah.
	So, her religious beliefs are literally, we can kill anything that doesn't have a soul.
	Yeah.
	I mean...
	I think a lot of the, well yeah, that's the argument behind it being okay to kill infidels.
	Absolutely.
	But yeah, I mean, under abortion laws, let's say in the UK, abortion, you can't get any reason abortion after 12 weeks.
	So 12 weeks is the limit.
	So if you, you know, get pregnant accidentally and you want to get it aborted, it's only up to 12 weeks that you can do it.
	But then there's other reasons, like if there's risk to harm, if there's something wrong with the child, some sort of, you know, condition.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And it's, the age is actually, it's up until it's viable, but obviously that's been coming down.
	And also the other...
	So that's bringing down the age.
	It used to be 28 weeks, I think, and now it's down to 24 or maybe even 20 weeks that a baby can survive outside the womb.
	And from the other side, the thing sort of pulling the desire to make abortions...
	I didn't really want to get into a big abortion thing.
	Yeah, but it's the fact that you can diagnose things much earlier.
	It wasn't really my point.
	I'll end this because I'm over time and I'm eating a beer.
	Yeah, but if you got a woman up the duff, I bet you'd be like, oh, shit.
	Sorry, I didn't mean to swear, but I bet if you needed one, you'd suddenly be like, oh, wow, I think abortion should be accessible.
	Um...
	I've said previously, like, I don't know where the line is on this.
	I've spoken about this, it's not really my thing, but I can tell definitely that someone who says up until birth, as the left is saying in the United States currently...
	Yeah, which is just...
	And also, the way they celebrate it, and have cakes, you know...
	But anyway, let's not have an abortion made to them.
	My point was simply that this individual, as an activist for LGBTQ rights, clearly doesn't have enough going on or oppression going on in his life, by the fact that he just does anything else leftists as well.
	And that's the point, which is that Florida, land of the free, home of the brave, is actually getting rid of the groomers from the schools, whereas in the UK, certainly need to follow their suit.
	Otherwise, we're going to have more kids getting bullied out of the classroom and out of the school, it seems.
	And one of the big medical disasters, one of the big crises that we're going to have in like 10, 20 years' time is kids that have been pushed into this, funneled into this course of transitioning and then end up regretting it.
	Let's move on to the online safety bill.
	So the online safety bill, basically the government in the UK is bringing through laws to make sure everybody's safe online.
	I don't know, I feel pretty safe online already.
	I click the button, I don't get stabbed.
	Yeah.
	It's fine.
	It's an attempt to control Web 2.0.
	I'm old enough to remember before there was internet.
	You probably can't remember before internet.
	There used to be a thing called no internet, but everybody just called it nothing because there wasn't the internet.
	It's called book.
	Yeah, there's books, there's TV, videos and stuff.
	Then the internet came along and it was...
	Static webpages and email, and then it became dynamically driven and user-generated, so user-to-user.
	So when you're on Twitter or Facebook or YouTube or whatever, users are generating content, other users are seeing it, and also you can comment and users can read it.
	So, there's this whole new web where the web has to protect you from harm and offence, according to the government.
	So, this is going to cover everything.
	It's not like Twitter can kick somebody off for being offensive, but then you can go and get her, or you can go on something else.
	This is going to affect everything.
	So, it's not just YouTube.
	It's going to affect Odyssey and Rubble, every part of the web.
	So, right now, at this moment, we might be at peak internet, and it's about to get severely restricted.
	This is peak?
	Yeah.
	In a Chinese government style.
	So they're going to remove net neutrality.
	So when you search for things, you're going to get weighted results depending on what the government has deemed is the truth.
	There's going to be an end to user freedom in private messaging and WhatsApp.
	That's not going to be private anymore.
	So this is pretty far-reaching stuff.
	What they've tried to do is make it so boring You can't be bothered finding out about it.
	So I'm going to rattle through it.
	So the key points the bill covers...
	So it introduces new rules for firms which host user-generated content, so Facebook and Twitter and all the rest of it.
	And they're also focused on minimizing the presentation of harmful search results to users.
	We're going to talk about harm at the end because harm...
	A lot of things in this bill are very vaguely defined.
	But basically...
	Any search result that's deemed harmful is going to be delisted or suppressed.
	And you can't even use a different search engine because it's going to affect all search engines.
	And who decides?
	How is it compared?
	How do they decide something's harmful?
	It says something's harmful if it's physically harmful or psychologically harmful or financially harmful.
	But man, psychologically harmful?
	How do you define an image of fighting?
	Video game footage?
	Lots of stuff could be decided to be...
	We know how it's going to end up being used, which is it's politically incorrect, therefore it's psychologically harmful to this group that was privileged.
	Exactly.
	This safetyism that's coming in.
	You know, it's like, oh, I feel unsafe.
	I need a safe space.
	You know, your words make me feel unsafe.
	You need a privileged position, is what you're arguing for.
	Yeah.
	So platforms which fail to protect people will need to answer to the regulator and could face fines of up to 10% of their revenues or being blocked from the internet.
	So 10% of revenues, that's not profit.
	That's...
	Revenue.
	Bear in mind, a lot of tech companies operate quite thin.
	There's a lot of revenue, but thin margins.
	So this basically gives the government the power to shut down any internet business that doesn't toe the line.
	Platforms likely to be accessed by children, which is all of them, because any child can access the internet, will also have a duty to protect young people from using their services from legal but harmful material.
	Such as self-harm or eating disorder content.
	So it's Tumblr gone.
	Yeah, I mean, thank God.
	And section 187 in the original bill says psychological and physical harm, but there's no objective meaningful definition.
	Additionally, providers who publish or place pornographic content on their services will be required to prevent children from accessing that content.
	I mean, presumably, unless it's part of the school curriculum.
	And you're a gendered queer school teacher who wants to talk about their last date.
	But the largest, highest-risk platforms will have to address named categories of legal but harmful material access by adults, likely to include issues such as abuse, harassment, or exposure to content encouraging self-harm, Or eating disorders.
	They will need to make clear in their terms and conditions what is and is not acceptable on their site and enforce this.
	So there's going to be clear terms and conditions and seeing how it's enforced.
	At the moment, Twitter is quite opaque about the rules and how they're enforced.
	So this is a potentially positive thing.
	you'll be able to see what the rules are and how they're enforced.
	But they're not explicitly clear on this.
	They say freedom of expression will be protected because these laws are not about imposing excessive regulation or state removal of content, but ensuring that companies have the systems and processes in place to ensure users' safety.
	That's obvious BS.
	This is, yeah, it's gaslighting us by saying, "We're going to keep freedom of expression." But they definitely don't.
	And they say proportionate measures will avoid unnecessary burdens in small and low-risk businesses.
	But they don't define this.
	Nothing in this law is defined, which is what legislation should be very specific.
	So there's going to be huge administrative burdens on any search engine, any business with user-generated content.
	So not just social media, but anything that allows users to post reviews, you know, Pornhub comments, basically any web company.
	It's like minority reports.
	So the companies have to do a predictive audit of potential harm and create the terms and conditions, which is going to have a huge legal and administrative cost.
	I mean, lawyers that I know are already working out how they can make money.
	This is another, you know, like DSARS or FOI requests.
	This is another bit of government legislation that lawyers are going to make a lot of money from.
	They're not clear on how smaller companies will be protected.
	And companies will then have to constantly monitor, flag, prioritise and take action on problematic content that they host.
	And some of this can be automated, but there's going to be a huge cost.
	There's going to be a lot of human involvement and legal involvement in this.
	And big companies, ironically, a lot of big tech companies will like it because it actually increases the barrier to entry.
	So if you're a tech startup, you're going to need a lot more money to pay for all this.
	It's an added burden of red tape.
	And it also increases the power of big tech companies to moderate and regulate their content and delete it.
	So instead of reducing their political influence, it'll actually increase the political influence of Twitter or Mark Zuckerberg or whatever.
	Ofcom are going to be responsible for it, which is going to place a huge burden on the public purse as well.
	And finally, the largest platforms will need to put in place proportionate systems and processes to prevent fraudulent adverts being published or hosted on their services.
	This will tackle the harmful scam advertisements which can have a devastating effect on their victims.
	I would have thought a better way to do this would be to educate people around scam adverts.
	Yeah, plus there are already rules for deleting them, so I don't know what's different.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Like, you know, financial fraud, that kind of thing, theft, is already illegal.
	So, and by the way, so Sam Hayne, the guy who helps me research this, he pointed out that online scams, because you know when you get online scams, you know, say like, oh, your PayPal account has been hacked, and it's always the most, it's obviously a scam.
	Like, everything's wrong, they've got words spelt wrong, the logo's like, you know, all jaggy and not sitting right.
	The email address ends in.ru.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So you know why they're all so obvious?
	forward to like you know make them better but they make them deliberately obvious so they only get the idiots because if you rope in oh right if you rope in smart people with those things then the smart people are gonna might be consequences will be the twig later on you know when you when you've got them on the phone or whatever they'll twig that it's a scam and also yeah there's gonna be consequences so yeah moving on What the bill means for users.
	So, platforms likely to be accessed by children will need to prevent access to material that is harmful for children, such as pornography.
	And I thought this, you know, stuff like this.
	Controlling the access to the internet is a parent's responsibility.
	There's tools to do it.
	I don't want the government being responsible for what my child sees on the internet.
	Everyone already offers this.
	Yeah.
	Here's the parental filter.
	And they're going to ensure that there's strong protections from activity which is harmful to children, which we expect will include harm such as bullying.
	And again, this is so open to interpretation.
	Are they going to bring back the wanking pass?
	Do you remember that?
	No.
	Theresa May proposed the wank pass.
	What's the wank pass?
	Did you call it the wank pass?
	No, everyone else did.
	So you and me, if we wanted to go on Pornhub, we would have to go down to the local newsagents, get some wanking tickets for a pound each, and it would have a code on it.
	We'd show them our ID to get it, and then you could punch in the code, like a Steam code, and it would give you access.
	This is a genuine thing.
	That was something they honestly proposed.
	And this wasn't in the Victorian era.
	This was something that...
	Theresa May.
	That is insane.
	Yeah.
	It was because they were like, well, how do we stop kids looking at porn?
	Well, wanking pass.
	I was just like...
	That is...
	Yeah.
	Useless.
	Absolutely useless.
	I mean, it's not too different from this.
	So basically, these changes mean that you're going to have to register.
	There's going to be no more anonymous browsing of Pornhub.
	They'll all be logged and kept on when you campaign.
	They'll have a picture of your driver's license.
	I mean, well, I can't imagine there's going to be any problem with some dodgy Russian porn site having a picture of my driver's license.
	No, but just, you know, someone runs for office and all of a sudden all of their Pornhub search gets leaked.
	I mean, like, oh, well, too bad.
	We can see what Nigel Farage has been looking at.
	Yeah.
	So adults, they're saying adults will have more control over who they interact with online and the types of harmful content that they see.
	So you can choose not to be presented with certain types of content.
	I mean, this is sort of, I guess, moving on from the personalized internet that we already get, you know, when I open Google News, I get, you know, basically stories about gerbils and tanks, Russian tanks getting blown up because that's what I like looking at.
	They say, we are not requiring companies to remove legal content, but they are.
	So that's an out and out.
	Legal but harmful.
	Yeah, legal but harmful.
	That's legal.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	So moving on all the way down to who oversees and enforces the framework.
	So Ofcom are going to be responsible.
	We're going to have a huge expansion of power for Ofcom.
	Looking at the last paragraph there, they'll be able to bring criminal sanctions against senior managers who fail to ensure their company complies with Ofcom's information requests or who deliberately destroy or withhold information should companies fail to take the new rules seriously.
	So this will make everybody incredibly risk averse.
	It's not just the company that could be responsible, but managers in the company, executives in the company.
	This is why no tech company wants to build themselves in the UK. I mean, I know BitTube, for example, wonderful British company, massively great on free speech.
	They're just like, nope, this is what's free, to hell with you.
	They don't censor stuff because people don't like it.
	And they've had to move, and they're looking at moving all over the place to try and get away from this kind of crap.
	I mean, if you want to destroy British industry, I mean, stuff like this is perfect for it.
	Yeah, no, I couldn't agree more.
	And it turns up constitutional matters regarding, you know, a legal but harmful thing, such as pornography.
	So under the wording, anything that causes physical or psychological damage, you know, is self-harming physical damage into the realms of criminal law.
	So, you know, civil law is the balance of probabilities.
	Criminal is beyond reasonable doubt.
	But here we've got a blurring and a sort of move between the two.
	And moving on to the next bit, how the new laws tackle misinformation and disinformation.
	So in America, we've got the Disinformation Governance Board, a sort of Orwellian Ministry of Truth.
	I'm sure you covered it on Lotus Eaters.
	Yeah, and it's run by a nutcase, so if we open this link, she worked with, so Nina Jankovic, she worked with StopFake previously, which whitewashed Eastern European neo-Nazi groups that committed war crimes.
	So, I mean, this was with the purpose of...
	This is with the purpose of combating Russian propaganda.
	The fact-checkers have come to tell us that the neo-Nazi war crimes didn't happen.
	Yeah.
	That is literally what they've done.
	I know that Joe Biden's new advisor is just like, yeah, the Holocaust didn't happen.
	What?
	Fuck, what?
	I mean...
	Yeah, not a million miles off the mark.
	I mean, personally, I agree with it.
	But I'm very pro-Ukraine and the Nazi group.
	I think it's great that the left are finally getting behind ultra-nationalist armed militants.
	Finally, a right-wing movement Leo can get behind.
	And also, it's combating Russian propaganda, which I consider semi-communist.
	So, yeah, I mean, no, genuinely, it's great to see the mainstream left and the fringe left supporting neo-Nazis.
	And if we move on to the next one, this is...
	I could have loaded that link later.
	That's mad.
	So she tried to render...
	If you scroll down and look at this picture...
	So she's sticking up for this new Nazi group.
	So these are humble citizens out to, I don't know, build a road?
	Maybe build a log cabin?
	That's what all the axes are for?
	I mean, come on.
	Like, I consider myself right-wing, but even I'm like, whoa!
	It's cold out.
	They need those balaclavas.
	That's how you know they're the good guys.
	Pickaxe handles and all the rest of it.
	There's a Ukrainian neo-Nazi far-right group called C-14 and they've done pogroms against Roma.
	These are not good people.
	They've been doing horrific stuff.
	So really brutalising the Roma community and doing all kinds of stuff.
	Even the US State Department classified C-14 as a nationalist hate group.
	But not the US Definformation Unit.
	Not Nina Jankovic.
	She thinks they're great and she's published stuff trying to whitewash what they've done.
	She's even got one of their axes.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So, under the online safety bill, the duty of care will require platforms to have robust and proportionate measures to deal with harms that could cause significant physical or psychological harm to children, such as misinformation and disinformation about vaccines.
	Now, there needs to be a discussion about vaccines.
	I don't think we're allowed one.
	This is going on YouTube.
	We're not allowed.
	I don't really think...
	Oh, yeah.
	No, actually, yeah.
	I mean, yeah, we're not allowed to discuss it, but we should be able to discuss it.
	And there's evidence coming out that we're not going to talk about...
	That doesn't exist, but...
	That doesn't exist.
	I hate being on YouTube.
	Leaving that topic about...
	I mean, you know when someone's got an element of truth when you're not allowed to question it.
	Yes.
	That's when the trans ideology collapses.
	Critical race theory collapses.
	You're not allowed to question them.
	Those humble basket-weavers are just out basket-weaving.
	Yeah, like you're not allowed to question the Taliban.
	The ideology they're based on doesn't stand up to scrutiny, I'm afraid.
	So the regulatory framework will also include additional measures to address disinformation, including provisions to boost audience resilience through empowering users with the critical thinking skills they need to spot online falsehoods, giving Ofcom the tools it needs to understand how effectively false information is being addressed through transparency reports and supporting research on misinformation and disinformation.
	So this is the phraseology of indoctrination.
	They're saying the truth isn't divine through discussions and rational logical debate and the presentation of evidence, support and arguments.
	It comes from the government.
	Yeah, instead the Ministry of Truth.
	So Ofcom in this country, the disinformation department in America, they know the absolute truth.
	They've already worked it out in their little board meeting.
	They know the neo-nazis are the good guys.
	Yeah, the neo-nazis.
	They know the absolute truth and they'll tell you what it is by suppressing anything that goes against it and promoting anything they want.
	And, you know, where does this leave things like online horoscopes?
	They're not truth, but they're fun.
	Muckbangers.
	Is that self-harming?
	Dangerous sports.
	When you see the guys in the wingsuits going down and it's fun to watch.
	It's encouraging people to jump off buildings with a curtain on the back.
	Religion.
	Religion doesn't stand up to a lot of scrutiny.
	So that would clash with other legislation that protects freedom of religion.
	It's converting to Islam self-harm.
	Even works of fiction.
	James Bond.
	Reading a James Bond book.
	Opinion pieces playing devil's advocate.
	A comedy roast.
	When you're abusing somebody, but it's for fun.
	Any comedy, you know, anything, comedy entertains, it tries out ideas, you're not allowed to be doing that.
	And coming on to the comedy thing, so Nadine Dorries has explicitly said that this law will be used against comedy.
	So the next...
	Islam is not so hard.
	The next link...
	Not reading that one, John.
	So Nadine Dorries says there's new legislation.
	She's specifically referring to this legislation.
	I don't know if you remember a couple of months ago.
	Yeah, there was high hopes for her because she was kind of based and then she got the position of culture minister and we were like, okay, this could be fun.
	She's been nothing but disappointing.
	She changes her mind on things every...
	She just flip-flops on things and just reacts with the most sort of knee-jerk things.
	So, you know, after saying that we're going to make sure there's free speech online and people aren't silenced, she then turns around and says...
	So Jimmy Carr does a joke, which is very popular with C-14 in Ukraine, but he does this joke about gypsies, and she turns around and says, well, that's new legislation, because obviously there's a lot of public outreach.
	Yeah, he deserves prison.
	This new legislation they're bringing out, we can take action against him, take action against Netflix.
	It's so obviously transparent because she got a lot of S for supporting Boris Johnson, talking about letterboxes.
	I'm not touching that one.
	Man, last time I mentioned the Boris Johnson and L-box thing, I got so many death threats you wouldn't believe.
	That's legal but harmful speech.
	So the fact that Boris Johnson made that, he should also be caught up in this.
	It's so transparent that they just don't care.
	They're just happy to destroy your lives if it doesn't touch them.
	And people don't understand.
	The Democrats who set up this disinformation board, they're like, oh, now we can decide what's true and what's allowed online.
	What happens when Trump gets back in?
	Then he's got this disinformation board that he runs.
	Do you think he's going to be saying all the same things?
	They deserve it.
	I don't even care anymore.
	They honestly deserve being told just everything Trump says is the goddest gospel truth.
	And moving back to the online thing.
	This is the summary, by the way.
	The full bill is over 200 pages long.
	Oh my god.
	I'm not going through all of it.
	But they say they're going to safeguard freedom of expression and pluralism and protect people's rights to participate in society and engage in robust debate online.
	But not if it's deemed harmful, you know, so anything that's insulting, you know, if somebody feels unsafe because you've criticized their, you know, picked a hole in their argument.
	That's going to be gone.
	And bear in mind, you know, these are going to be very risk-averse moderators who will just pull stuff down.
	I mean, I'll think of Twitter for a minute.
	Like, Owen Jones blocks anyone who disagrees with him.
	Yeah.
	So his interpretation of unsafe is anyone who disagrees with him.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Yeah, I mean, I block people all the time just because, you know, I can't be bothered.
	Sometimes I block them for no reason, just for fun.
	You agree with me?
	Blocked.
	Yeah, block me!
	Yeah, block me!
	It's like, well, deal with it, you fanny.
	Block your own mother, just for...
	And both Ofcom and Inscope companies will have duties relating to freedom of expression.
	They'll have a legal obligation to regard the importance of freedom of expression when fulfilling their duties for which they can be held to account.
	But they've got legal obligations in both directions, then.
	They've got a legal obligation to freedom of expression, but also a legal obligation to prevent...
	Prevent psychological harm.
	It doesn't sound workable.
	It doesn't sound objective.
	And the largest social media platforms will no longer be able to arbitrarily remove harmful content.
	They will need to be clear about what content is acceptable in their services and enforce these rules consistently.
	That actually sounds like a good idea.
	It's one of the few bits in this bill that is a good idea.
	They will also need to put into place additional protections for democratic and journalistic content.
	So, we'll get onto that in a moment.
	I'm worried I'm running over on this.
	We may have to jump over a bunch.
	Yeah, alright, so private messaging.
	Basically, private messaging, WhatsApp, encrypted messages that you consider to be private, they're not going to be private anymore.
	So, you know, if you call your mate a dick and your algorithm picks up that it's potentially damaging, so they're saying it's going to be like there's going to be automatic algorithms monitoring private messages, which is going to I don't know about you, but I'm going to jail.
	Yeah, totally.
	And none of it will affect real criminals.
	The terrorists will find a way around it by using VPNs or shared documents or emails or something.
	The people affected will just be regular people.
	So skipping down to what it says about safeguards for journalism.
	So this says all news publishers content will be exempt, not just their journalistic content.
	The exemption applies when the content is posted by the publisher and also when it is posted by a different user as long as the user reproduces or links the original content in full.
	So this is interesting.
	They're saying your news content is going to be fine.
	So you can publish, you know, pictures of, you know, war or whatever that could be psychologically harmful to someone.
	All my opinions from now on are news.
	Well, this is the thing.
	This is the thing.
	Who is a journalist?
	How do you define a journalist?
	You can't even define a woman.
	How are you going to define a journalist?
	So, you know, Lotus Eaters and Andy Noh break stories that aren't covered anywhere else.
	But Antifa don't think Andy Noh's a journalist and the system considers him a far right activist.
	Romy Tomlinson also turns a spotlight on stories swept under the carpet or minimised by mainstream press.
	Some people would consider him a journalist.
	Yeah, some people don't.
	Avi Yenemi from Rebel News covers authoritarianism in Australia and Canada, but those governments that he covers don't recognise him as a journalist.
	I mean, it's important for the...
	Man, the government can't be deciding if the person revealing truths about the government is a journalist.
	It's like there's an obvious conflict of interest there.
	It's ridiculous.
	And news stories are inherently psychologically damaging.
	You know, if I post a video of someone getting beaten up, that's going to cause distress, but it's valid reportage.
	But Ofcom get to decide.
	You know, like in Russia.
	Putin's administration gets to decide that Navalny, his revelations aren't journalism.
	And now journalism isn't done just by the Daily Telegraph or the Guardian.
	People are just becoming journalists themselves.
	Look at Mayer Tussi or Lotus Eaters.
	People start doing it and revealing truth.
	So the distinction between journalist and public isn't well defined.
	And yeah, I'm just going to wrap up very quickly here on the pornography.
	So yeah, you're basically going to have to sign in.
	Anytime, anytime.
	So we are getting the wank license.
	You're not getting the wank ticket.
	But it seems so unnecessary.
	I already have to click that I'm over 18.
	I mean, what could be more rigorous than clicking I am over 18?
	I don't know.
	Who would hit yes if they won?
	I mean, it's...
	Yeah, and also certain types of porn will be banned.
	A lot of porn could be seen as promoting physical harm, you know, BDSM stuff, or domestic violence.
	You know, women getting slapped in the face, choked, spat in the face.
	Yeah, I find this weird thing.
	Occasionally you run into a feminist who's like, yeah, that's promoting violence, but they've all consented.
	I don't know.
	the porn um so yeah so basically it means uh certain certain content is going to be unavailable um i'll just uh i don't have time for i don't have time for all that i'll just say that uh the most worrying things for me is the removal of anonymity um which could actually increase doxing and substantive harassment
	uh the risk of criminal prosecution for staff as well as companies and huge fines will make tech companies risk averse and more likely to censor valid content increases government power and also uh big tech power as well could be combined with other authoritarian legislation such as the hate crime bill uh to prosecute people who've you know for example made a joke in a private chat um instead of presenting
	Instead of protecting journalism and democracy, it's providing a mechanism to discredit and silence any journalist who investigates something that the powers that be don't want investigated, which is exactly what journalists should be doing.
	All the porn they don't like.
	Yeah.
	It's going to undermine trust in the government and the internet.
	There'll be mission creep, particularly as it's so badly worded.
	Comedy is going to be absolutely, absolutely ruined by it.
	Anything will be prosecutable under it.
	So yeah, mega thanks to Sam Hain for helping me put this together with the legal advice.
	And a big shout out to Michael LeBrock, who runs a Telegram channel with analysis on the war in Ukraine.
	And AIG, some guy on there who just wanted a shout out.
	Alright, well, I suppose we'll move to Red China.
	So, let's move on to the Red Chinese question.
	So there's a question to be asked, which is about the fact that, well, China's now a global superpower, like it or not, and a byproduct of that is that a lot of Chinese brought up under the Communist Party, indoctrinated under the Communist Party's ideology, and not being able to hear any others, it's not their fault in that regard, are then going abroad, living in foreign places, namely Australia being the most Anglo country that has experienced this.
	And we're seeing some of the consequences.
	And given the federal elections of the Australians are coming up this Friday, I thought we'd go through one interesting chap who's been doing things there.
	So to start it off, we'll do it with a little shill.
	Of course, being first the social media credit that the Contemplations Josh did, because of course it's very relevant to the Chinese and what is coming to the UK. We go to the next one here, we have the federal elections, just to mention that they're going on.
	Aussies apparently make up 5% of our audience in topsy-turvy land.
	I don't know anything about Australian politicians or the different parties, so...
	Not gonna say anything about that.
	Don't know.
	Tell us what you think in the comments and educate us coming up to the elections as well.
	Otherwise, we shall move into an individual who I found interesting in the middle of all of this.
	So we go to the next one.
	I don't know anything about this guy, but I just have seen his clips.
	This is an individual who set up his own political party.
	And mainly just seems to do it so it's a platform to him to point out anti-communist action.
	So this is some politician's event he went to, who he claims has got ties to the Chinese Communist Party and is sympathetic to them, never talks about the genocide, for example, of the Muslims.
	And so he turned up and just got loads of red Chinese money and threw it all over her, which is...
	Not bad.
	Yeah, it's not a bad stunt.
	I'll give him that, if nothing else.
	He says here, Hong Kong independence activist, so-and-so.
	By the way, I'm a shell for the UK government, if anybody wants to throw money at me.
	Oh no, British pounds.
	So he's a Hong Kong independence activist who throws Chinese yuan over the candidate, over the fact that she has ties to the Chinese dictatorship, they say.
	And if we go to the next one, there's another stunt he pulled that I think is also incredibly funny.
	This is Kim Jong-un, looky-likey, turning up to their campaign office with a bunch of journos and endorsed the candidate there, being like, yes, vote the Liberal.
	Vote for her.
	She's fantastic.
	She's going to help me and the DPRK. We go to the next one.
	There is a video of this event as well, and we'll play it, because also the response from our staff is very funny.
	Let's play.
	I'm going to ask her.
	You are going to have to let this.
	This is the defensive thing I've ever said in a campaign.
	You don't tell the Supreme Leader what to do.
	I support Gladys Lee.
	She supports Xi Jinping.
	And now she's going to support the North Green regime.
	So thank you very much all for coming, for supporting this great, great candidate for the area.
	Excuse me, who are you?
	What's your name?
	What's your name?
	Can we get a name?
	Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.
	What's your actual name?
	It's Supreme Leader, but I'm known by my alias, Howard X. Okay?
	However, you can call me Dear Leader.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Who are you, sir?
	Who do you represent?
	Who are you?
	I represent the DPRK, the Democratic.
	Sir, that's not good enough.
	Just tell us who you are.
	It is good enough.
	Who are you?
	Who are you?
	I'm Steven Evans.
	I'm a journalist.
	I'm asking you who are you.
	Okay, tell me your family, where they live, and your reach to work.
	Here's your work.
	We'll get you technical.
	Yeah, okay?
	I love that.
	That's not good enough.
	You tell us your name and where you are.
	Okay, well tell me your family and where they are.
	So, perfect.
	But the staffer at the start there is the best bit.
	So some staffer for this candidate.
	I don't know anything about the candidate, but he turns up and goes, that's offensive.
	The most offensive thing I've ever seen.
	Like, that guy looks Asian to me, so the idea that he's not allowed to play Kim Jong-un, even in progressive world, doesn't make sense.
	Oh, he's mocking!
	He's mocking a dictator!
	You shouldn't mock dictators!
	That's bad!
	So it's not mocking progressive ideology in which they insist that you must be from the group that you're playing.
	No, you're mocking the dictator himself, the supreme leader, the holy general, Kim Jong-un Tanjik.
	Okay, that's your staffer's position, is it?
	Bit weird.
	And if we go to the next one, we can see the memes this chap made out of it.
	See what the virgin staffer calls Asian person offensive.
	W2F is offended all the time.
	Doesn't have a real job.
	W2F is a staffer anyway.
	Chad Kim Jong-un impersonator dresses up like a real leader.
	Kim Jong-un is only referenced as the supreme leader and is a proper dictator unlike the pimp Scott Morrison.
	Love memes.
	We go to the next one as well.
	We also have the fact that we mentioned this previously and I believe I mentioned it to you which is that there's an old joke in the USSR which is the anecdote goes a man goes down to Red Square holding a blank placard pass by asks why The man answers, what's the point of writing anything?
	Everyone understands anyway.
	And then this happened in Moscow in regards to the war with Ukraine.
	Some individual went down with a blank piece of paper and got arrested for opposing the war.
	How they knew that, who knows?
	But we'll go to the next one, because this has also happened in Australia now.
	Ha!
	This anti-communist activist went out, and he says there, the Brisbane Chinese consulates have called Queensland police on me for holding a blank sign in protest to the CCC censorship.
	And this was the first time, and at least they didn't do anything, it seems.
	The next time, he's been given a $1,000 fine for doing this.
	He's holding a blank piece of paper outside of the consulate.
	So the cops came, and it says they stood around for a while, trying to figure out what the hell to charge him with, and then they've charged him a thousand Australian dollars for causing anxiety to the public.
	With his blank piece of paper, he's causing anxiety.
	It is mad.
	I mean, absolutely insane story that this is happening in Anglo-National.
	I know it's Australia, I mean, literal prison island, where they kill puppies.
	I still remember that.
	Hell with Australia for killing those puppies.
	That was wrong.
	Under COVID. And then we go to the next one.
	We also have the fact that...
	There's also the fact that he got charged for holding a free Tibet sign by the police.
	Because he failed to follow directions to not hold up the sign that says Free Tibet, Free Yugos, Free Hong Kong, down with the CCP. That is presumably now a crime in Australia, along with holding a blank piece of paper.
	So if you hold a bit of paper with an anti-communist slogan on it, that's a crime.
	Blank piece of paper that says nothing, also a crime.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I'm getting mad.
	And this is something I'm genuinely worried about in respect to the fact that we don't have this problem, at least in the UK, as far as I can see, because we don't have large Chinese influence in the same way the Australians do.
	Communist Chinese influence.
	And so I feel like we're unable to get away with this.
	I suppose I'll have to try that to prove it.
	But in Australia, the influence is unbelievable.
	And you can see it in real time with the fact that the police are now engaging and arresting and fining individuals for holding pieces of paper.
	I mean, I'm sorry, but this is just an insane story.
	I mean, it should be much bigger in the Australian mind, I think.
	Go to the next one, we also have the fact that we have him here being arrested by the police and thrown in the paddy wagon there for holding the sign.
	Apparently this one said, down with Xi Jinping.
	Too bad.
	Not allowed to protest like that.
	That's causing anxiety to the public.
	Who?
	I mean, what percentage of the Australian public is pro-Chinese Communist Party?
	I think it's going to be a lot of the emigrates.
	I think it's going to be a lot of the families who have moved out of China because they know it's a crap system, but for some reason still hold that ideological root there, or business connections or something like that.
	Yeah, I don't know, because the people who leave Cuba are generally the most anti-communist.
	But that's because they flee.
	Whereas with Australia, my understanding is essentially you can't keep your money in China because it's not really safe.
	So what people do is they go to places like Australia and just buy loads of houses.
	Yeah, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
	Also the fact that the government apparently seems to be completely cuckolded by this situation.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see the corpo media decided to cover him and his party.
	Again, I don't know much about them, but I know for damn sure that the tobacco salesmen that are corporate media don't know anything at all and are just smear merchants.
	And we can see this in real time.
	You want to guess how they referred to his anti-communist party?
	They said anti-China.
	It's worse than that.
	He's a racist against communists.
	No way.
	The communist race.
	Let's play.
	A new anti-China party has been grabbing attention this election with daring stunts and strident rhetoric.
	The Drew Pavlou Democratic Alliance includes two young women from the Uyghur ethnic minority and a Tibetan refugee among its candidates.
	but some of its targets say the party is being racist.
	I'm not going to play the rest of that, because I mean just think for a minute.
	Imagine if you were that bint and someone presumably has written up that on the teleprompter and as you're reading it.
	So there's two refugees from China from a genocide against them and a Tibetan who had to leave because of the conquest there.
	And he's the racist because he's anti this.
	Yeah.
	I'm anti genocide.
	That's racist.
	Well, you see this with any political party that they want to discredit, like Pim Fortain or anyone.
	I mean, Pim Fortain explicitly wasn't racist and went to great lengths to distance any sort of fringe neo-Nazis from his party.
	But, you know, he was decried as racist anyway.
	And when he was killed, the response from the mainstream media was like, well, he brought it on himself.
	Yeah, no he didn't.
	You brought this on him.
	I mean, he paid the price for your lies.
	You didn't pay any price for your lies.
	And we have, well, a lower instance there, because in the UK, sorry, in Europe, anti-Islam is certainly much more risky.
	But being anti-Chinese, as you can see there, gets in the label of being a racist party because they oppose the genocide of Muslims.
	Okay, that's how that works now.
	If we go to the next one, we also have some other funny activism he's been up to that I just find funny and I thought I'd show everyone.
	So this is him going to some candidate.
	Again, I don't know the candidates.
	It's not really important.
	What's important is the anti-communist action.
	And him putting up signs linking there, links to the CCP, and shoving again red Chinese money under the door there for him to get paid, which I was suggesting is really funny.
	More people should do it.
	If we go to the next one as well, we can see the Tibetan activist who's a candidate.
	As mentioned, there are also two Uyghurs who are candidates as well.
	They've left China, obviously, and now live as Australian, so they can run.
	There's them as well.
	That's the racist side of it, is saying that communism is bad.
	Why?
	Because they're all genocidal maniacs.
	And if we move on to the next one, this is the last stunt he's done that I think I'll talk about.
	But this one is a little less cool, to be honest, because I can't read Chinese, obviously, so I got John to proofread it, just to make sure everything's right.
	And the chap went to a Chinese section of Australia and held up a sign, but apparently he's not done the translation very well, because it's meant to say, he says it says, F Xi Jinping, where apparently it says Xi Jinping like F your mother.
	So...
	Yeah, some people were upset about the rude language there.
	So there is a difficult aspect to this.
	Also the fact that it's obviously a bit disingenuous if purposeful and counterproductive.
	But let's play the clip.
	Yes, we need a good language.
	Okay, I know.
	This man has caused a trash can, so I don't think it's a main thing about it.
	This is very, very rude.
	What you can say to me, so I'm going to go to the wrong side.
	America has changed.
	Fuck you!
	- Come on, come on! - Shut the fuck up! - Fuck you! - Fuck you! - Fuck you! - Fuck you! - Fuck you! - Fucking shit, you motherfucker! - Really?
	This is bad Chinese!
	Fuck you! - Fuck you! - Fuck you! - You better go away! - I'm happy! - You better go away!
	We're against the dictatorship.
	We believe in democracy.
	Free Hong Kong.
	Free Taiwan.
	Free the winners.
	Free Hong Kong.
	So there we are.
	That goes on some more, of course.
	So I'm a little bit disappointed in the translation there being not as poignant as it should be, which would just be, you know, F Xi Jinping.
	But again, I don't know if it's purposeful or a mistranslation, but I think we'll find out.
	But there's the fact that you may say this might not matter, but if we go to the next one here, you'll see the fact that the day after, some guy came out in a red guard uniform with a sign there that says Chinese people in Australia support Xi Jinping.
	It's just like, okay, so this is a genuine problem, which is that we have some red spies at the base.
	I mean, genuinely, for the Australians, there's a large number as well, it seems, in their politics.
	I mean, in the candidates, allegedly, as well.
	And this is something I think the West needs to start speaking and thinking about more, Australia being the worst case and probably needs our help as well in this regard.
	And, yeah, I am at least excited about one thing, which is the return of anti-communism to the West, which is one positive aspect of it.
	If we go to the next one as well, we can also see some other news.
	Just the end of this.
	Apparently the chap there who did assault him has been charged with assault, so some justice.
	However, the New South Wales police still say he is being investigated for insulting Xi Jinping.
	You can't insult Xi Jinping or Kim Jong-un in Australia, apparently.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's not kosher.
	That's not allowed.
	I mean, China has bought up a huge amount of land and stuff in Australia and is a huge trade partner with Australia.
	Clearly wants to use that as leverage.
	And New Zealand as well.
	But New Zealand has got an incredibly woke government.
	The Australian government is fairly right-wing.
	So, but they are quite authoritarian as well.
	Australians, aren't they?
	Yeah.
	Prison islands.
	I mean, especially under COVID. I still can't get over that.
	I'm sorry I don't dwell on that.
	For people who don't know, there were some Aussie cops who, they put the whole place on lockdown, so they went round to the local puppy shelter, and there were some people who had offered to come pick up the puppies, take care of them during the lockdown, and the police went, nah, I just shot the puppies.
	Right.
	Jesus.
	It's just like, what's wrong with you?
	There's a weird...
	I spent a lot of time in Australia, the first lockdown there as well, and they've got a weird thing where everybody's very sort of, you know, yeah, how you going and all that, very sort of loose and all the rest of it, but then when it comes to rules and laws, it's super strict and there's really high fines, and everybody waits for the light before they cross the road.
	That's the reason Britain will just stagger out and bounce off a car, you know?
	Because we're real men!
	Although Helen Dale, I think, puts it best.
	She says that you must remember that Australia is a nation that is the descendants of the prisoners, but also the descendants of their jailers.
	Prison guards, yeah.
	So there's that aspect to explain, I suppose.
	But if we go to the last one here, we also have the news, of course, that he uploaded that footage to TikTok and banned.
	Of course he was banned.
	What was he banned for?
	Well, he was banned for obviously being anti-China.
	Or at least being anti-communist, I should say.
	Not anti-China.
	Because he's not anti-China.
	He's anti-CCP. So that's the situation there.
	So I think it's beautiful to see anti-communism returning at least to one Anglo nation.
	And I look forward to seeing more of it.
	And what effect it has in the Australian political scene.
	And otherwise, let's have a look on Friday, I suppose.
	Yeah.
	No, that's insane.
	That thing with holding up a blank sign.
	And also, it's worse than Russia.
	Because I don't think the person in Russia actually paid a fine.
	You had to pay a £1,000 fine.
	I think they got released because it was like, well, this is dumb.
	Even the Russians are like, well, this is retarded.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Master and Commander often gets pigeonholed as a men's-only series because it didn't have any women in it, but the fact is that the books were actually crawling with the things.
	It's just that all of the land segments got cut out for brevity, and if the movies had continued, we probably would have seen a lot more about their wives and families.
	Interestingly, it covers a lot of the stuff you guys talk about, whether it be the managing of men, the destruction of the British rural life by overstate management, or the fact that there's an entire book about denouncing Rousseauism.
	Also, you'll get a lot of biology information because the main character's doctor is basically a moonlighting researcher because that's how they did things back then to get material for their research.
	Pretty awesome.
	I really should give it a watch.
	I never have watched Masturbator and Commander there.
	But I was reading recently, because the time period just makes me laugh.
	Did you know that Bermuda, we had it during the English Civil War, and then there was a rebellion on the island to side with the king, and then of course the parliamentarians won here, and so the Bermudan royalists were just sat on the other side of the earth being like, don't care.
	Yeah!
	We're just going to stay with this situation where we believe the king runs the country.
	Sorry, there's a tidbit of history I read recently in regards to that time period.
	It just makes me laugh.
	That's cool.
	Thanks.
	So I went to the races on Friday night.
	Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get the car running.
	The engine's just not working properly like it should be.
	So we're planning on getting a new one.
	You can see some of the races here.
	This class is the class that I'm going to be running eventually, hopefully.
	Trying to get the engine fixed.
	Obviously we're actually getting a different engine, but they also tested a late model and you'll see that probably later on if I get some video of it.
	Wicked.
	He was showing us last time there was a series he was doing where you have to crash into the person to overtake them.
	Right.
	Like stock car racing.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It looks so good.
	Yeah.
	Have you ever done it?
	No.
	I want to do it.
	Yeah.
	It's going to be fun.
	See the next one.
	I like cool current.
	Hi, guys.
	Please talk more about the Church of England's stance on immigration.
	Also, my friend Shuna Gunda, who calls Carl Poshington Bear, would like a short segment on what red, white, black, and blue pills are.
	Not that idea.
	On the Church of England stuff, honestly, it just depresses me.
	The Church of England are going so woke.
	Well, it's just the fact that I'm not even a Christian and I'm looking at that institution just being like, you need to end.
	Like, this is insulting to Christians and I'm not even one of them.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's got to the point where I think you can get in trouble in the Church of England by quoting the Bible.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	They've drifted so far away from their sort of core thing.
	Because I respect religions that, you know...
	They know it's nonsense, well know it's nonsense, but at least they stick to it.
	They stick to what they're...
	Yeah, that's the whole thing.
	It gives, you know, people who need that sort of focus in life.
	You know, Muhammad, he got on the back of a centaur with ducks for feet and flew up to heaven.
	That literally happened.
	Like, believe it.
	And Mehdi Hassan will literally look across from you and go, yes, I believe that.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But at least have the faith.
	There's supposed to be faith.
	There's not supposed to be something that's debatable.
	The whole point is it gives people who don't need that absolutism, that certainty in their life, gives them something to hold on to.
	But Church of England is now like, oh, hey, oh, no, whatever the Labour Party voted for this week, that's what we like.
	It's like, no, how about you stick to your core values of noncing, wearing a big frock.
	That's the Catholics.
	No, I mean, we've gone through some of the, like, obviously moral lessons you can get from Christianity and so forth.
	But I must admit, the Western side of the Christian world seems to be severely lacking in leadership.
	I mean, because you've got the Catholic Church, which is a bit of a mess of the leadership side, absolutely.
	I mean, it's just a joke.
	And then on the Protestant side, I mean, for us, we've got the Church of England, which is just...
	I mean, it's not Christian.
	I mean, it's where atheists go to roleplay.
	Yeah.
	And it's embarrassing.
	Yeah.
	And that's why it's fallen behind.
	I mean, Islam is going to be the biggest religion in the UK by 2050.
	So, you know, based on current trends.
	Allah Akbar.
	So, but more people are, more British people, indigenous, you know, white British people are signing up to that than the Church of England.
	Because it's got that absolutism.
	It's got, you know, yeah, we believe this.
	Instead of like, oh, we might believe this, but do you like it?
	You know what I mean?
	That's not religion.
	You get four wives, you can hit the, no.
	It's a very extremist faith, in my opinion.
	Let's get the next one.
	So Blizzard now has a tool to rank how diverse a character is.
	Which brings me to a prediction for the future.
	AAA Studios are going to cast every character as every race, gender, and sexuality.
	And when you start a playthrough, you'll get randomly selected one of the ones that they had.
	One playthrough you get the black male as the scientist, the next one is the Asian female.
	Conversely, this means speedrunners will reset for the fastest talking character.
	So that'll be funny.
	I appreciate the doggo too.
	I don't know if you saw that.
	For the different characters in the game, they have a diversity tool to measure the diversity of them.
	And then the more diverse, obviously, the better.
	And the funniest one was one of the aspects was called ability, right?
	The guy who was highest on ability was a guy who had his arm replaced with a claw.
	So it was disability ranking.
	So the more disabled you are, the more diverse you are as well.
	Right.
	What makes me laugh with this stupid nonsense in the video game industry is there was a...
	I believe it's Rust, where I remember Extra Credits on a video game YouTube channel made a big song and dance about the fact that, ooh, when you play the game, you don't get to pick your race.
	You just spawn.
	And you might even spawn as a black man.
	And this is innovative and expressive because it means you have to deal with the realities of living as a black man in video games.
	You don't just get to opt out of it.
	It's like...
	Yeah, but it literally impacts nothing.
	Like, nothing at all.
	It's a game where you're born into, essentially, the wilderness.
	So, of course, any social matter wouldn't mean anything.
	But then, no one ever cared?
	Because no one cares.
	I read in The Guardian that the outdoors is racist.
	Not in Rust.
	In Rust it's very welcoming.
	It's the people you don't worry about.
	I'll have to show you Rust because you might not get what I'm talking about.
	But it's just the fact that they made this big song and dance.
	Oh look, you can play as a black person.
	You didn't pick it.
	Ha ha.
	What?
	It means nothing at all.
	Hmm.
	Anyway, sorry, rant.
	Philip K. Dick weaves a shocking tale of America with much more liberal attitudes to abortion, where life is considered viable only when the soul enters the body, proven by solving basic algebraic equations, so the ancient Greeks would never have been viable since they only had geometry.
	Children carry a D-card, desirability to their parents, who can revoke it arbitrarily.
	Some women consider abortion a fashionable event, while some men object, until a principled mathematics graduate claims to have forgotten algebra and asked to be aborted to the embarrassment of the clinic.
	I love the idea of a mathematician being like, yeah, I can prove when you should have an abortion or not.
	If it gets algebra, it's just like, well, time to go!
	Oh, come on.
	Boys don't cry.
	Oh, Timmy, don't cry.
	Seriously, Timmy, cut it out.
	Timmy, this is the worst date ever.
	Stay away from my baby!
	But, Mother, I love him.
	Excuse me, are you going to eat that?
	No.
	You can have it.
	Thank you.
	Okay, I suppose.
	Absolutely, yeah.
	The AzDeath movies are coming true in a weird way.
	Although maybe not the I Like Trains guy yet, but I guess we'll see.
	Have you seen the AzDeath movies?
	No.
	TomSka is a YouTuber, and they're not bad.
	I'll send you a link after that.
	They're old human now these days, but it's good.
	It's hanging on a living monument to that historical event Oh,
	that's awesome.
	It's huge.
	I really like those kind of neat little things you can have in a build-up area that just reminds you of what it used to be.
	Yeah.
	It's nice when they leave it there.
	Cool little fact.
	Thank you, Jonah John.
	Let's go to the written comments on the site.
	So on the groomers radicalizing kids, FreeWill2112 says, They certainly did not maintain a safe space.
	Shouldn't teachers be preventing a mob of pupils from attacking other people?
	If they sided with the mob, they should be sacked or sued.
	100% agree, frankly.
	The hell with these people.
	I can't get over being a staff member and just being like, yeah, it's fine.
	I don't care.
	Bully the kid out of the school.
	Why not?
	Longshanks1690 says, well, I wasn't trained to not groom kids, so that's obviously a free pass to groom then.
	You know, we don't actually...
	I remember the feminists talking about rape and they're like, why don't you just train men not to rape?
	What?
	Yeah.
	We don't have to.
	Because men aren't rapists.
	You've got the rapists who do it, and there's nothing you can do to stop them by saying rape is bad.
	Yeah, that's the thing.
	They know rape is bad.
	Yeah, nobody's getting caught.
	Excuse me, you're very sorry.
	I didn't know!
	I didn't see a poster!
	What do you mean I've got to go to court?
	Yeah.
	No, you should know not to do this, and you damn well do.
	Don't tell me you don't.
	Captain Charlie the Beagle says, regarding the poor girl that was driven out of school, you're right, this is like the Cultural Revolution, except instead of shouting for mal, it is instead for trans.
	But it goes to show that the best way to hide your misogyny is to be pro-trans.
	Did you see the Antifa guys?
	No.
	The black block.
	Oh, around Emily Pankhurst statue.
	They put a noose around Emily Pankhurst statue's neck with trans colours on it.
	What?
	Like, they're literally hanging the suffragettes.
	I also assaulted a woman.
	I saw a woman being assaulted as well.
	Jeez.
	I mean, I joke about the fact, you know, Posey Parker and those types will say it's all just misogynistic men who run the trans movement.
	But to be honest, that day it definitely was.
	That was real high misogyny of being able to hang the statue.
	Yeah, and all dressed in black with the balaclavas.
	It's like, yeah, nice and welcoming to women.
	Not very ladylike.
	Ben Vader Platt says sexuality should not be a part of public life.
	Keep the topic between family members, friends and loved ones.
	Institutions should stay away.
	Read that.
	Bald Eagle 1787 says all those situations consisting of adults forcing themselves and their ideas on children just reinforce my stance that public education needs to be abolished.
	The system is broken and teachers know to think to follow as they do and not told.
	Homeschool pods and private charter schools are significantly better because the parents, not the government, are in charge and can easily stop this nonsense before it becomes malignant.
	I mean, there are problems with homeschooling, of course.
	You can get insane parents, but it seems to be rarer.
	But the idea of getting rid of public education, what do you think?
	No, I think it just needs to focus on...
	There's a curriculum, and it needs to follow that curriculum.
	And all this, like, you know...
	I don't know, like, fair enough, in the old days, there was homophobia, and it was bad.
	But, you know, I think we've kind of won that battle.
	I think I was done.
	Yeah, we don't need to worry about that so much now.
	So do we have to have everything, like, just rainbow-coloured and trans-flagged to infinity?
	It's like, can't they just learn a little bit of, like, algebra?
	Just a little bit.
	I'm just asking for a little bit.
	In between the felching and all the rest of it, just some, like, a tiny bit of algebra.
	Are you the only one who genuinely just dislikes gay people and isn't, you know, accepting of them and that?
	I have.
	Strangely enough, all the rainbow colours being left, right and centre doesn't make them more welcoming.
	It kind of pisses them off and makes them worse.
	So, yeah, also doesn't help.
	Although the idea of getting rid of public education, I'm kind of sympathetic to the idea of not getting rid of it, but making private education more available and cheaper and making it more the norm.
	Then it'll be public education.
	But that's the thing.
	It's because all the rich people, all the elites, all send their kids to private schools, right?
	Yeah.
	And they don't do that for no reason, presumably.
	But the private schools are just as bad.
	They've all got, like the private school we were talking about earlier, it's got the Stonewall Diversity Champions badge and all the rest of it.
	That was all girls' school.
	I don't know if it was private or But I've got friends with kids in private schools, and if anything, it seems to be worse than the private schools.
	If I was a parent, I'd be like, I'm paying 20 grand.
	Yeah, I think we just got to remember that schools are mostly there as a sort of babysitting service, so that we can get on and do important stuff, like make videos on YouTube that sound a little bit racist, but aren't actually racist if you look at them.
	So, you know, school teachers are just glorified babysitters.
	So just remember that.
	I'm hiring you.
	I'm paying your £6 an hour, however much a teacher gets paid.
	So just quit it.
	Stop bringing in love eggs and talking about what you got up to last night with your friends and teach my kids to read and how to change a manifold block in an engine.
	I didn't do that at school, funnily enough.
	Yeah, I don't even know what it is, because they didn't teach us that at school.
	Anyway, I mean, I think the teachers do more than that, but that's what they get paid for.
	So Lord Nerevar says, This has to be our turning point.
	We already gave them our institutions, the government, big business, and everything else.
	Now they are after our kids.
	We cannot and must not allow them to get them.
	Otherwise, we might as well roll over and die.
	That was a bit of a black pill, but moving on to the online safety bill.
	Yeah, so Baron Von Warhawk says, How do you stop children from looking at porn?
	Does it really matter with teachers talking about their sex lives in the classroom?
	Very good point.
	I'd rather my child finds out about sex from exploring the internet.
	Then finds it out at a much younger age from some weird blue-haired freak who didn't do very well at school so had to become a teacher, which, as I said, is a pointless occupation.
	And they big themselves up so much.
	They think they're up there, these queer groomers, like the fire service or something.
	There's a reason you're all alcoholics.
	It's because you failed and you should be full of bitterness.
	And just, you know, I don't mind you manifesting that bitterness onto the children.
	Just keep all this gender nonsense.
	Just leave it.
	It's not education.
	Speaking of that, I never had the talk with my parents because they tried with the first son and then it was really stupid.
	What talk?
	They gave up about sex.
	Your parents?
	Yeah, you know how some people say you should talk to sex with your parents?
	Yeah.
	And I didn't.
	I grew up, as you're suggesting, on the internet learning about this stuff.
	And absolutely.
	Like, if some groomer teacher was explaining to me when I'm 11, I feel like that would have been way worse than even what you find on the internet.
	Look, Callum found out about sex from the internet, and he is fine.
	I wouldn't go that far.
	So, yeah.
	And it just creates...
	It creates a mechanism that can be exploited by paedophiles.
	If you've got a thing where children, you're breaching that trust, especially the stuff with like, oh, don't tell your parents.
	Or you can come out as non-binary and use pronouns and stuff and we won't tell your parents.
	It's like, well, you're breaching that trust.
	You're breaking that bond.
	I just realised, like, porn websites don't do that to you.
	So they're de facto, like, just on that example alone, are a million times better for child safety.
	Nobody turns around in the middle of a gangbang and is like, you know, by the way...
	Look at the screen.
	Yeah, yeah.
	We respect your pronouns and you can use them in here.
	I'm your parent now.
	Even though they mean nothing.
	The porn actress doesn't say that to you.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Anyway.
	Well, some of the porn I watch.
	But Ward Niravar says, I've always hated the idea of online safety.
	Online safety, to me, always meant covering yourself from hackers, identity thieves, and stalkers, not from mean words that might make you feel upset.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	That is...
	You know, online safety should be about tangible, you know, fundamental harms, not, you know, some financial harm, theft, exploitation, things like that.
	Not from this, like, oh, but if I see this or if I'm exposed to that or somebody ridicules my ideas, then I'm going to feel boohoo in my heart.
	Like, no, that's...
	Sorry.
	I just happen to know that Martin Lewis has endorsed, like, one section of the online safety bill that does deal with actual scams.
	Yeah.
	And apart from that, he's just like...
	Yeah, I don't know.
	That looks like cancer.
	And that's money-saving expert, Martin Lewis.
	Yeah.
	Right, cool.
	Nice one.
	Sounds like a cool guy.
	Captain Charlie the Beagle says, regarding the online safety bill, here's an easy idea to protect children online.
	Keep them off the internet!
	And yeah, absolutely.
	Keep them off the internet.
	There's tools you can use.
	Everybody's like, oh, but children know how to get around the tools.
	No, they don't.
	And if they do, punch them in the face until they don't know.
	I don't know.
	You're the parent.
	You own the phone.
	You own the computer.
	Exactly.
	You pay for the Wi-Fi.
	Exactly.
	Lady Sarcastro says, psychological harm?
	What about the damage done by the COVID fear-mongering?
	Will the government and mainstream media now ban themselves from the internet?
	Well, obviously not.
	And that's the thing, the government gets to decide what's true, what's not, who stays, who goes.
	You're in China before you know it.
	Daniel Culler says, but with worse food, Daniel Culler says, they are trying to regulate the internet?
	Okay, good luck with that.
	This will be like a digital prohibition.
	Nothing will stop.
	It will just all go underground.
	You can't stop the signal.
	Good point.
	Everybody will be on the dark net.
	Nature finds a way.
	Alex L says, Literally every device now has extremely strong parental controls.
	All PCs, phones, tablets, etc.
	Android phones even have the option to pair your children's phones to yours.
	You can edit the controls, see messages, etc.
	Oh, wicked.
	I'm going to do that.
	Why isn't the focus on teaching parents how to correctly utilise these controls?
	Good point.
	Because it doesn't help the state.
	Yeah, the state wants to have the control.
	They want to take the control away from the parents.
	We've seen this with the Named Guardian, Named Person Act in Scotland.
	They want to take control away and responsibility away from the parent and give it to the government, which never works.
	Parents are always the best people to raise their children.
	Anon Immy, I don't know if that's a real name, says, how many times in the past 10 years have we had to get rid of these attempts of online control?
	So conservative.
	I also guarantee they won't block LGBTQIAPM ideology, even though that causes harm.
	Longshank1690 says, and just like that, oh, he's gone a bit sexy in the city here, and just like that.
	And just like that, maybe I should sit cross-legged on a bed while I sit in front of this laptop.
	And just like that, everyone in the UK was actually in Thailand.
	As in unrelated news, the sale of VPNs goes through the roof.
	And so I wondered.
	Robert Longshaw says...
	Are you going to do that voice every time he talks?
	If somebody says it just like that.
	Okay.
	You know, Sex and City, they did a new one, a new series called And Just Like That.
	And it's so bad, man.
	You got to watch it.
	It's so bad.
	Unlike the originals, there was gold dust.
	It was.
	It was good.
	Right.
	No, in the context of things that women make you watch.
	It was a million times better than Ally McBeal.
	That's a fair point.
	Yeah.
	That and Friends, actually alright.
	I always thought Bridget Jones wasn't that bad.
	Callum likes Bridget Jones.
	No, for a women's movie.
	Oh no, Callum likes Bridget Jones.
	Better than Sex and the Sea.
	Callum likes Bridget Jones, it's his favourite film.
	Do you remember that?
	There's a wonderful scene.
	I'm just going to go off, why not?
	So there's a wonderful scene where she's, I can't remember which one it is.
	Tell us your favourite scene in Bridget Jones.
	She's in a Thai prison for drug smuggling.
	Bullshit happens.
	And then she's talking to all the girls in there, and they're all like...
	And she's moaning, going, yeah, I used to be with a man in England, and it was horrible, and we broke up.
	I hate him.
	He's a bad guy.
	And she's like, oh, what'd they do?
	And she's like, oh, well, my husband, for example, he used to beat me, and it was terrible.
	I was like, yeah, he used to beat me, and one was raped and all this, and goes around the room and gets back to Bridget, and she's like...
	Yes, I suppose I might have overreacted.
	It's just like, a bit of a self-report there for the women watching.
	It's just like, yeah, maybe it's not that bad.
	Yeah, I didn't know she went to a Thai prison in that.
	Interesting.
	I'll have to watch it.
	Maureen Peters, maybe we can review it in the next Lotus Eaters.
	It didn't.
	It wouldn't be funny.
	Besides, humour can be used by survivors to lessen the intensity of a traumatic event.
	Absolutely.
	To laugh about something makes it less threatening.
	And you can get rid of built-up negative energy.
	It would be ignorant to forbid it.
	To apply a quote from a friend, maybe Miss Dory's would benefit from visiting a resort with a million stars.
	I don't know what that last bit means.
	But the first bit about the humour, I absolutely completely agree with you, Maureen.
	Like, humour is a way of processing things that have happened to us.
	You know, it's tragedy plus time.
	It's comedy.
	Let's move on to the Red Chinese for the last minute.
	Jonathan Elmer says, The Chinese here in Australia haven't fled China.
	They sent their children to our universities and hide their money here whilst being pro-CCP. That was my suspicion in regards to the relationships there.
	It doesn't seem good.
	Like, I don't know why the Australian state has allowed this to happen to themselves.
	Because they're like, like the money, man!
	Eh, it's just money, isn't it?
	Yeah, I like some money!
	Zachary Straubel says, remember last month when journalists were screaming about Russia, arresting a protester for holding a blank sign?
	Yeah!
	Yep, and that's why I featured it, which is just...
	What the hell?
	I mean, seriously, what the hell, Australia?
	Yeah.
	I honestly couldn't believe it when I first looked at it.
	And there were multiple instances of him being arrested.
	Yeah.
	And that's not normal.
	That's absolutely not normal.
	Yeah.
	And probably, like, with greater consequences than in Russia.
	Anyway, we shall end, because we're out of time.
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