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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #465

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 24th of August 2022.
	I'm joined by Harry.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about why I don't want to live in this West anymore, they hate you, and also the French rejection of American transgender ideologies.
	At least that's what the French are saying, which is very funny to say the least.
	I'll see where it goes with that.
	Yeah, but I suppose we should get into it with the fact that I don't want to live in this West anymore.
	So, good news everyone.
	Well, bad news, I suppose.
	As far as both would say.
	And I suppose we'll start with the fact that I don't want to live in this West anymore.
	Because coming back from Afghanistan, there's a lot of problems with the West that you see from an outside perspective.
	You've lived the good life over in Afghanistan now.
	You know what we could have?
	That was pretty good.
	They've got their downsides, but they don't have the downsides we have.
	They've got a few downsides.
	You know, the bombing in the streets, but we kind of have that over here anyway, so...
	I've been to Paris.
	It's God's problems.
	But I thought I'd just start off just by plugging Constantine Kissins, an Immigrants Love Letter to the West book club we did.
	One of the reasons I'm plugging this is because...
	Constantine makes a series of reasons why he loves the West, right?
	And then he points out the same kind of problems we've discovered, and he's been like, yeah, this is cancer, get rid of this.
	But the thing is, all of the stuff that he loves about the West is all stuff that can be accurately described from an outsider's perspective as part of the Old West, like the things people remember the West for, rather than what it is today in this regard.
	Yeah, we don't live in this old-fashioned notion of a classically liberal West anymore.
	And we haven't lived in that...
	Well, I don't think anybody alive has lived in that sort of old vision of the West.
	Well, I think alive it could have, but in the recent times, definitely not.
	And he makes the problems, of course, that we live in an intersectional run paradigm.
	If you would describe the West as if there was some Cold War going on, you would say, well, the East is China and communism.
	And the West is made up of intersectionals who believe in the supremacy of minorities for some goddamn reason, and it leads to horrible circumstances.
	And much of this has made itself obviously aware in, say, the schools, in lives of TikTok's feed, for example, as we shall go to now, for just an example of what the random person may come across when looking at the West for all of five minutes.
	And we have a white female teacher here who tells everyone that there's a discipline to punishment pipeline.
	Which is racism, because if you punish people who have broken the rules, you're feeding white supremacy.
	Well, yes, because in punishing people, inherently, you're holding them to some form of standards.
	Those standards typically align with old-fashioned Western values.
	Therefore, we can't be having that.
	We don't do that anymore.
	No, we can't allow you to uphold anything that may maintain the order that we despise so much.
	So let's listen to this cancer.
	There's no way I can fit all of this in 60 seconds, so I'm going to tell you this.
	If you go to Google and literally Google, how do white women uphold systems of white supremacy in education, you will get link after link after link after link that answer the question.
	Historically, our job as white women has been to uphold the status quo, and historically, as white women, we see ourselves as like an extension of the white man.
	And so with that comes wanting that same power.
	And one of the biggest ways that we gain that power is through our tears.
	So when we look at that from an educational standpoint, I'm going to use discipline as an example because it was in the comments and it's pretty digestible.
	Like you can clearly see discipline when it's an example.
	As white teachers, when we say, oh, this student's giving me issues and they're put out of class, that fuels that school-to-prison pipeline, which is a white supremacist system that we are upholding.
	Same with other punitive discipline measures.
	The school-to-prison pipeline.
	Yes.
	If the student does something wrong and we discipline him, he may end up in prison because he'll continue to do things wrong.
	So instead we should not discipline him so he learns that you can break the rules and nothing will happen.
	Which won't lead him to prison.
	Yeah, because we'll overtake the prison system and then insist that, well, no, people shouldn't be punished for crimes, as we discovered with Anna Kasparian yesterday.
	And we should just keep releasing them every time they get caught, punching Asian people.
	I mean, given now that Anna Kasparian is saying that maybe we should punish these people, does she count as white now?
	No, I think the Armenians are officially, uh, no, wait, no, no, I mean, I think she was trying to get away from whiteness originally, surely.
	Well, that's the thing, because she's Armenian, but does she count as white now because she's upholding evil white supremacist standards?
	Are Armenians even white?
	This is the question.
	It's a whole other question I want to ask.
	Anyway, sorry, sorry.
	I was confused there.
	But that video there, I mean, that's the sort of, like, normal thing to run across at this point.
	And I know that ten years ago, like, or five years ago, we'd be like, there's a mad fringe, and now it's just so commonplace, I'm not surprised by it.
	And nobody who was outside of this part of the world who came here would be surprised by it either.
	It'd be like, yeah, stupid Westerners doing the stupid Westerners things, in which they say that white people are bad, even though they're all white.
	Is this woman a...
	Goddamn reason.
	Teacher or anything like that?
	She is?
	I believe she is.
	So, there we have her.
	She also mentions in one of the most revealing parts, she's like, oh, if you look up the question of why disciplining people is racism, you'll get link after link answering this question.
	I often find myself googling that exact question.
	Yeah, but why is there link after link answering that stupid-ass question?
	And it's because this is just the normal, just the normal paradigm for the West in which it lives.
	And there's endless examples of this.
	I mean, if we go to the next one here, this is just another funny example of some teacher who, in here, I'll just read the quotes because otherwise you're going to get copy-struck by his crappy music in the background.
	But they say, oh, you're an anti-racist teacher?
	Well, teaching them that our nation was built on racism will make them question our founding principles.
	And he's like, no, I know.
	It's fine.
	Yeah, that's why I do it.
	I would be very distressed and suspicious if I went to school and found that my kid's teacher had literally the nonce phrase, love is love, on a flag on the wall.
	I might start asking some questions.
	Yep.
	He's also got the Pan-African flag behind him, which we have laughed at many a time, because that's the flag of the slavers.
	Those are the people that sold the black people to the Europeans who took them to America, so...
	Anyway.
	And let's be fair, this man also just has a noncy look to him.
	I don't like the cut of his jib.
	Right, yeah.
	But I just, the thing in here, just openly saying, yes, the whole point of being an anti-racist educator is to undermine the founding principles of the United States, because, you know, racism was the law in your grandfather's time, therefore burn the whole country.
	I mean, that's really the justification they're trying to give you for turning on the United States as a principle.
	Right, okay, and again, this is normal.
	This is completely the case in the West.
	This is an absolute norm at this point, at least with a lot of the countries.
	And we can see some more of this cancer just in the modern generations.
	Again, I mean, we all think it's a meme, and it is for most of us, but when it comes to just is this normal or not, the answer is yes.
	Here we have some mentally sane individual telling us about their goddamn neopronouns.
	Let's play this cancer.
	Buckle up everybody, it's time to talk about my pronouns.
	I use the pronoun set ni-nem-nir.
	It's ni-nem-nir.
	And it's a gender-neutral pronoun set.
	It's a neopronoun.
	The word neopronoun makes it sound like it's not been around for very long.
	My specific pronouns have been around for over a hundred years.
	Neopronouns are not that new of a thing.
	We just came up with new words that fit us better.
	It's fine.
	An example of how to use them would be the sentence, Ni went to the market with near friends who love Nem.
	Ni went to the market with near friends who love them.
	So that is Nem over there.
	This is near room.
	I really, I really liked Nem.
	Ni was nice.
	Not all non-binary people like neopronouns.
	Not all non-binary people use neopronouns.
	It's just personal to me.
	No.
	Just no.
	I'm glad that the mentally ill have replaced wearing helmets in public with dyeing their hair and wearing ridiculous outfits, but no.
	It is easier to see, and you also don't confuse the other people who need our help.
	Also, just the general smug look on their faces, so...
	Yeah, but I mean, the question comes down to, again, is this normal at this point?
	And disappointingly, I think the answer is yes.
	This is something we deal with on a regular basis.
	I mean, there are generations of kids who have been indoctrinated into talking like this.
	Well, certainly, yes.
	I know a few people who identify themselves as non-binary, and while they don't, you know, force on the neo-pronoun BS, it is...
	They've been around for hundreds of years, but they're neo-pronouns, right?
	So the new pronouns, but they're ancient...
	I mean, no, to be fair, they might be taken from some obscure culture.
	You know how they like to dive into these weird, obscure cultures that nobody's ever heard of, and what little they do take of it is taken completely out of any cultural context for it.
	It's like the whole two-spirits thing, and how they say that, oh, they're an indigenous tribe that recognise a separate third gender, when that separate third gender basically just means sissy men.
	And to be fair, you know, if a lot of the men who are involved in these sort of things want to identify as sissy men, I agree with them.
	But also fine, like, we wouldn't care about that, but if you just, you know, you have generations of people instead making up nonsense and insisting that it's true, and the West ends up dealing with this in a lot of its conversations, because it is a cancer that is ravaging our society, to the point that we just have entire generations of mentally ill people, and instead we think it's some kind of, you know, acceptable practice.
	Well, yes, it's the fact not just that they're mentally ill, because I could walk down the street and just, you know, have a good laugh at this person, to be honest, just on pure visuals alone, but it's the fact that it's legally entrenched that you have to obey what these people are forcing you to say.
	It's the manipulation and control of reality which really makes this whole thing insufferable.
	Yeah.
	However, if we go to the next image here, just to make the point, these people are slightly less irritating.
	I'll be frank.
	When I was talking to these people, they're explaining their worldview.
	At least it's coherent.
	At least it's understandable.
	Like, yeah, so we're doing this because I want to set up an Islamic Emirate.
	I was like, right.
	Yep, understand that.
	It makes sense.
	There's a logical through point going here.
	I don't feel like I'm having my head assaulted because I can actually understand what on earth they're even saying.
	However, if we go to the last one here, just to make the point, as you did, about the fact that it is legally entrenched and state adopted to this point, I thought we'd just enjoy it.
	I don't know where I found this.
	Enjoy, no.
	Someone sent me the Public Service Pride website for Canada.
	And as you can see there, an even more abomination of the racial pride flag where they've stuck a friggin' leaf on it.
	Because of course they had.
	Sorry guys.
	That's the seal of approval right there.
	I hate the...
	Leaf flag as well.
	The old one was much better, but whatever.
	But this is the second ever Public Service Pride Awards.
	So this is going to become a yearly tradition.
	It's already the second one.
	And just the list of things that are worthy of state approval and to give awards out.
	Hilarious.
	Let's just read some of them.
	Alright, so number one here.
	Painting the risers leading to Dorchester penitentiary medium the colour of the pride flag.
	That's an award going to the Correctional Services of Canada for that.
	Congrats, you can buy the right colour paint and apply it.
	Yeah.
	Here's your medal.
	Correctional Services have learned how to paint.
	Good job, guys.
	It's just pathetic.
	This is just a demonstration of how traditional virtues are no longer celebrated in any capacity whatsoever, and instead we're celebrating people acting like children.
	No, but it's allegiance to the ideology.
	It's allegiance, but some of the only ways that you can really push that allegiance is by acting like a child.
	Oh, I'm just going to paint these things nice and bright primary colours.
	But, I mean, when you're in Afghanistan, like, every shop has a new Taliban flag.
	Like, everyone has a Taliban flag.
	Every taxi, everyone.
	Just to show, you know, please leave me alone.
	You know, a year and two years ago, they had the old government flag, and before that, they would have the Taliban flag, and before that, they had the Soviet flag flying in every shop, I imagine.
	And you can see it in real time with, you know, every government department has to make some kind of allegiance to the new Western ideology that is intersectionalism.
	They continue with other places that are going to get these awards.
	The Canadian Security Intelligence Services.
	They're getting an award for trans person inclusion.
	Don't know what that means.
	We just got one trans.
	We got a trans person.
	Oh, I have an award, lad.
	That's okay.
	Righty-y.
	The Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
	Did they get an award for inspecting food and make sure there's no bugs in it?
	No, instead they got an award for adding pronouns to direct info.
	No, they get the award for adding more bugs to food.
	Yeah.
	There's also Canadian Heritage, who are upstanding Canadian heritage, long-running, you know, of the, you could say, the Indians who were there before, or the Canadians, and the French, you know, colonists, and their long history.
	No, instead, they got an award for Queering Black History Month, quote, a drag and virtual social gathering.
	They set up a Zoom call in which they talked about queering black history.
	Or the black history of Canada.
	Five pages of it.
	I don't know why.
	If there's even that.
	Any notable queer black history that's occurred in Canada must be from the...
	Yeah.
	Notable.
	The statement itself is an absurdity, but it must be from maybe the past five to ten years at most.
	So what this will actually mean is, given that queering is an attempt to escape the normative reality of the evil Western society that we live in, what that'll do is it'll take whatever black history and then just go like, ah, but what if we also say...
	We interpret it in a way that's outside of the typical bounds of Western thought.
	That's all it means, which basically just means making stuff up.
	There's also another one here, the Drag King Read-Along and Allyship Training.
	That was from Public Safety Canada.
	Just a side note, something I actually managed to learn while I was out there.
	The Canadians have taken an awful lot of Afghans and other people from the Middle East.
	How well is that working out for them?
	How are they enjoying Queer Black History Month?
	I didn't know anyone who voted for that.
	I didn't know anyone who was thinking, yeah, that's what we need.
	That'll solve Canada's problems.
	But they did.
	And as a result, the Americans, because of Trump's, you know, bringing things home policy, has taken their counterterrorism stuff away from Canada and not assisting them anymore.
	Because, you know, it's our money.
	There's Americans, they would say.
	And the British aren't there.
	So the Canadians have suddenly realised they don't actually have any counterterrorism.
	Like, they desperately need people now to help them in that regard.
	Whereas the Public Safety Canada guys are engaging in Drag King read-along and allyship training.
	Fantastic.
	You couldn't make it any more blatant with allyship training.
	That is literally just saying, join our brainwashing program.
	Yeah.
	And this is all cancer.
	But this cancer also has its own YouTube channel, which is hilarious.
	And I went over it and watched as much as I could of this.
	I just took out some of the best bits.
	As much as you could stomach it.
	Yeah, this is the award ceremony of last year.
	This year, I'm sure it'll be a blast.
	Half of it was in French, so I deleted that because I don't like French.
	But we'll just enjoy some of the most hilarious moments in which you can see if intersectionality has not been described as the thought process that guides the West.
	I mean, this clip should show you that it definitely is.
	Let's play.
	Nice lounge jazz.
	Hello, bonjour, and welcome to the first ever Government of Canada Public Service Pride Awards.
	We stand next to the Pride flag today in memory of the LGBTQ2 plus survivors who led the first marches, current community activists, and all of you who lead the way within our federal institutions.
	The flags illustrate how our social identities can overlap through intersectionality, sending a clear signal to Canadians from coast to coast to coast that diversity and inclusion are and must be valued components of our society and how we serve in the public sector.
	Today, on the shores of the Ottawa River, the Rideau River, amongst the Gatineau Hills, and as we are close to the sacred area of the Chaudière, I come to you with a message, and that message from my ancestors is that all things have masculine and feminine energy, and it is beautiful in all expressions.
	There is a place and space for all, and nothing in nature is one or the other, it is the all.
	That was very important and powerful.
	I want to personally thank him for taking on the champion role.
	And all the public servants are there from coast to coast to coast who are doing similar work to advance diversity, inclusivity and intersectionality.
	I mean, there you have it from the minister, and, well, the drones around there, just saying, there, we are advancing intersectionality.
	That's the whole reason we're here.
	That's the whole reason we get taxpayer money.
	That's how they see it themselves.
	And they couldn't make it any clearer that it is institutionalized, like they said, in every federal department of the Canadian government.
	So the only way to solve this would be to take everybody in this video and everybody who is pushing this stuff in the federal government of Canada and clear them out.
	Just remove them.
	That's the only way that they could.
	Remove their power there.
	But you have the position as well.
	You're saying it's Canadian government.
	Yeah, sure, that's the example I'm giving.
	But we have covered endlessly every other aspect of the West where this seems to be happening and every possible department and every possible aspect of private life.
	Including?
	They're now a conservative government having their own pride gatherings, don't they?
	Yeah, and the people I met out there, also who had gone through the military and every other aspect of their lives, not one didn't have a story about how this crap has infected something they've had to deal with.
	It probably just interferes with their work.
	Officers who shouldn't be in a position that they are, they don't actually have the training or the competence to do the job they're doing, but instead are being let go because, well, go ahead.
	I mean, she's a woman or a black and therefore we have to have them in.
	So you'll have literally firearms officers who are not competent to be firearms officers, but they're there because of diversity and inclusion.
	And this is routine.
	We all know this.
	I also love in this clip, the black leader, I don't know if it's just me, but she has kind of a Yankee accent, which is all kinds of strange, but there you have it.
	There's just intersectionality as state ideology.
	Could not be more clearer.
	But then I thought I'd end this off with another clip I saw when I came back.
	It's just here.
	We have Peter Boghossian, who went to Portland State University, and has the patience of a goddamn saint.
	You can see in this video, you can go watch the full thing in your own time, it's, you know, 19 minutes long, of him having to deal with brain-dead Westerners, is how I'm just going to put it, people from Portland, who, their ideology does run our entire civilization.
	And, yeah, that's bad, it needs to be destroyed, and I know most of us in this sphere don't agree with any of this, of course, but it is the de facto reality.
	If an outsider looking at us, what would they describe us as?
	And this is it.
	And we can see in this clip, he dared to ask the question, where do you stand on the idea that there are two genders?
	Could you imagine?
	I really wanted to ask that to the Taliban.
	I didn't get a chance.
	Just to see the look on their face.
	Just the confusion.
	You should have got a Matt Walsh reaction from them.
	I mean, come on.
	Yeah, I'll have to do a Zoom call or something with them.
	But he went to Portland State University and obviously asked there, and we'll play just some of the response he got.
	Excuse me.
	Hi, I'm so curious about what's happening out here.
	Oh, it's a critical thinking game where we take a look at claims and you step on a line you want to play?
	You want to watch the game played?
	Well, we were watching from up there, actually, because we happened to see the sign from up in the School of Social Work, which is on the sixth floor, and some of our trans students saw the statement, there are only two genders.
	Well, thanks for coming down to talk.
	It was pretty activating and upsetting not knowing the context.
	We thought it was sort of a statement that was being made, but not a thought exercise necessarily.
	Would you like to see how the game is played?
	No.
	Is it something that should be a game though?
	An exercise?
	You want to use defund the police as one?
	Well, just thinking about what it looks like.
	Yeah.
	What does it look like to see, like, one, two, three, four, five, five white men with a sign that says there's only two genders.
	You could have been like the Westboro Baptist Church girl.
	Why did you identify us on the basis of our race?
	Well, are you the best people to be hosting that dialogue about...
	No, but you...
	...representative of that community.
	Okay, but I asked you a question.
	Why did you identify me and these people on the basis of their race?
	...what it looks like, right?
	Kind of like the activating, triggering aspect of it all.
	So you think that it's morally acceptable to identify people on the basis of their race?
	It's not a moral question.
	It's a matter of, like, the fact that...
	It's just about power and privilege.
	Yeah.
	And representation, right?
	So if you have queer folks out here asking those kinds of questions...
	Well, how do you know we're not queer?
	That's true.
	I don't know, but...
	What would it take for you to move, not all the way over there, just one line.
	Just one line.
	I guess if they told me how many genders specifically there were, I can't think of anything that would change my opinion, I guess.
	Are you giving me the finger?
	Hi.
	I'm standing in front of the social work building.
	I'm harming individuals by asking that question.
	What, you want to come down and have a conversation about it?
	Why do you want to come down and have a conversation?
	No.
	No, I don't want a conversation.
	Why would they bother?
	Number one, patience of a goddamn sake.
	He spent 20 minutes dealing with these children.
	I mean, the thing is, when I see stuff like this constantly, and you see the way that these people are behaving, and there is no...
	It's like...
	The Sam Harris thing from last week, which was just a complete mask-off moment for so many people to see it.
	He encapsulated the mentality of these sorts of people.
	Obviously, he doesn't go as far in terms of trans issues and such, but when he was like, oh yeah, Hunter Biden could have dead children's corpses in his basement, and I still wouldn't care.
	I still wouldn't vote for Trump.
	That's the same mentality I hear.
	These people don't care.
	They don't care about any arguments that you could make.
	They don't care about appeals to morality.
	They are viewing it purely from the distinction of friend-enemy.
	And on that basis, I would be more than happy at this point to shut down the universities and exile these people.
	I don't think that's a Western way of dealing with it.
	Obviously that's not a particular...
	Well, whether it's Western or not, otherwise the Western way of dealing with these things has ended up with these people in charge of all the institutions, so...
	Well, I mean, you could also just oust them by taking over in the same way they did.
	But I do remember when I was out there, there was a story, actually, of some of the Taliban guys who were running the checkpoint just outside.
	One of them was late to work, so they got in an argument, and they shot each other, and two of them died...
	That's just something about that that makes me actually kind of respect them in a way.
	It's like, wow, you're late to work.
	Boom.
	Whereas these people, they turn up.
	Just as a side note, this isn't about ideology, but just in terms of tactics as well.
	I really hate, and I know Soph has got on this point before, how they turn up and they're like, not a good look for you having that sign.
	And it's like, what does that mean?
	Your entire insect brain is just, is this a good look for me and my group?
	That's really how you think.
	That's the thing, it's purely tribal.
	You're right, you're right.
	I would rather take a bullet to the head than have a five minute...
	A deal with these children!
	Yeah, than deal with these people.
	And I think many people out there probably just completely agree with me at this point.
	Yeah, but anyway, Peter Boghossian did deal with him for at least 20 minutes, and hats off to him for that one.
	But there we are, that's just an analysis of, well, where the West is.
	Like, if you're looking from the outside to what the West actually operates on, I don't think you can describe it as Constantine Kissin describes it, you know, in a poetic way of like, oh, the old order and whatnot.
	No, no, no, that's gone.
	Let's be real about it.
	I mean, you know...
	It's current year.
	Things have changed.
	Yeah, Compton's trying to get people to wake up about what used to be good about the West so we can move back to it, but I think we're a bit too far gone for that right now.
	Let's go to the next segment.
	Alright then.
	Did you know that they hate you?
	And who are they, you may ask?
	Well, they are the usual suspects.
	Do you have any idea how narrow that number is?
	A little that narrows it down.
	Yep.
	They are everybody in charge of the institutions.
	They are the entrenched media and politicians.
	They are the people who mainly, you may notice, congregate around the cities.
	And one of the reasons for that would be the fact that cities...
	People tend to turn into hive minds.
	You get people in the cities, like myself when I lived in Manchester, who may deviate slightly outside of whatever hegemonic paradigm is going on in there, but for the most part, because of the close proximity, the fact that you're bombarded with propaganda left, right and centre, and often they're the places where universities are set up, people in cities all tend to think the same, and that tends to be an incredibly leftist situation.
	Perspective that they all take on.
	At least over here in the West.
	And because of that, they hate you.
	They hate you living in the countryside in a nice quiet little mountain town and they want to destroy your way of life because otherwise they're not completely sure that you will fall in line.
	And this is one of the things that people are just becoming more overt in telling people online.
	And as such, I thought I'd draw your attention to this recent hangout that you did with Carl talking about our cyberpunk dystopia.
	Volume 2, there will be a Volume 3 coming up very soon, because Carl's already finished the document, as far as I'm aware, and recently when I've been starting to advertise things online on YouTube adverts like AI Friends, another such thing, build your AI friend who will tell you they care about you and love you and will never abandon or betray you, I realise that this whole cyberpunk dystopia thing is much closer than we're expecting.
	You know, live in the metaverse, live in the pod, eat the boogs.
	So check that out for a horrifying dystopian nightmare that we're already living in.
	I haven't had those adverts yet, I'm dreading them.
	Yeah, I don't know why I came up with it.
	I got those adverts, because normally they target adverts, but I've got friends.
	At least, I hope.
	You guys are my friends, right?
	Get the Calumbot in, you can have him.
	Oh, good.
	He might be more human, so...
	That makes sense.
	A bit less autistic.
	So, one of the things that I wanted to look at was this guy, Adam Kotzko.
	This tweet started going around recently.
	You can see, you know, he's got a bit ratioed in the likes to quote tweets, and I will say...
	I was one of the people who was, quote, tweeting this person as well.
	I looked into him.
	Adam Kotzko seems to be a leftist political theologian, so he looks at the theological parallels that you can draw between certain religions and certain political outlooks, and of course he's got things on such like the political theology of neoliberalism,
	Which he says is a bad thing, and I will point you to that article in a moment, but despite being somebody who says that apparently neoliberalism is something that's evil and is meant to nudge people along into compliance with state doctrine, which is something that, to a certain extent, I agree with, he comes out with statements like this.
	In discussions of reducing car dependency, one often hears, what about people in remote rural areas?
	And my gut instinct is, people shouldn't be living there in the first place.
	The solution is to give them generous grants to relocate among other humans.
	Now, isn't this just the most humane and peaceful way of going about clearing out the countryside?
	Is this not something that sounds a bit like a cultural revolution to you?
	I mean, I've heard the joke version of this, which is a good point, which is, oh, we're starving, we need food, and it's like, you live in a desert.
	Well, there is that, but in the West...
	But the idea, you know, there's a good reason, you might actually want some food, but oh my god, people are still driving cars, so 2015, I don't care about your opinion on car dependency.
	Well, I mean, sadly, this kind of attitude is the kind of attitude that is leading to us potentially having all of our cars confiscated from 2030.
	Which is awful, because, I mean, at base level, it's a gross violation of property rights for the state to just come in and say, you can't have that anymore, we're going to take it from you.
	Here, take the electric scooter, take the electric bike.
	I'll be, you know, if that actually happens, I'll be right there with Peter Hitchens on the electric bikes...
	On the electric scooter question, you know, the ES question.
	The ESQ. What, the solution to the e-scooters?
	Yeah, we need the e-scooter question.
	We need it answered, and Peter Hitchens is the only man who can answer that question.
	But no, this is just overt totalitarian authoritarianism.
	He just wants to clear out the countryside because of the fact that he doesn't like the people who live there.
	At the end of the day, you can dress it up whatever way you want.
	Oh, it's to reduce car dependency.
	Don't you know you use more carbon when you don't live in my megacity?
	I was like, yeah.
	Chad, yes.
	So go to hell.
	Chad, yes.
	Good.
	This is a good thing.
	And then he carries on in this little thread here.
	But what if they don't...
	What if they like living in remote rural areas?
	What if they're happier?
	No!
	Yeah, what if they're happier?
	Well, I'm not happy.
	Therefore, they can't be either.
	There's someone you forgot to ask!
	Yep.
	Jesus says no.
	Sorry, you can't always get what you want.
	I literally can.
	What condescending thing to say.
	But what do you mean?
	Like, the guy owns the land, I'm going to buy the land, I'm going to buy a car from a guy who owns a car, and then I can drive around in my car in the countryside.
	The people saying I can't get what I want here are you.
	They just turn up and say, well, you can't do this.
	These are leftists, so you can't expect them to respect, you know, people's hard work or property or right to their property.
	A lot of people would like to live in a dense, transit-rich setting, but can't.
	They can move to the city.
	If there are retards out there who actively want to move to bustling urban megacities, then they have every right to do so.
	No one on the countryside is stopping them.
	In fact, if we've got those sorts of people in the countryside, I would rather they get out, because they're probably not going to fit in with the generally quite quiet and peaceful way of life that those people have out in the countryside, or at least certainly where I'm from.
	Either because they can't afford it, or it simply doesn't exist where they are.
	Well, you know, that's just a...
	No circumstantial problem in that case.
	Nobody else has to pay for the fact that your circumstances suck.
	And if that sounds harsh, don't worry, it'll never happen.
	And this is where the cope comes in.
	This is where the absolute doublespeak delusion comes in.
	It will never happen because our governmental institutions are insanely biased in favour of rural areas.
	Are they?
	Are they?
	Okay, if you say so.
	They'll be fine.
	I'm just a guy over here having an opinion.
	And also, just to say, is it that the governmental institutions are biased in favour of rural areas, or just that urban areas suck that badly?
	Just by their own merit.
	They're terrible.
	We've looked at New York before, the bodega situations, where you can go to your bodega and maybe expect to get, like, a bit of...
	You go in for butter and you get a little bit of lard grease so that someone's scraped off the inside of their fridge around back, and that's apparently a good thing that you can get from New York.
	Maybe cities just as self-sustaining entities nowadays, with, you know, radical progressive ideology taking over, suck.
	Maybe they just suck to live in.
	Isn't it mean to imply that rural people's lifestyle is bad and wrong?
	As someone who lives in Chicago, all I can say to that is cry me a river.
	And there it is.
	There it is.
	Just straight away right there.
	My life sucks because the place that I live in sucks.
	Therefore, you can't be happy either.
	It's naked envy.
	Naked envy and greed.
	And that is what was all that was motivating these people.
	And once again, this man is a political theologian.
	If we go to the next link, he has this particular article talking about the political theology of neoliberalism, where he says the ideals of free trade and government facilitating it, etc.
	is all very evil and bad.
	And once again, I agree to a certain extent with the idea that the government should probably not...
	Have any fingers in the economy whatsoever because it tends to lead to bad things.
	But when you're arguing against this sort of evil secret totalitarianism while saying at the same time we need to forcibly remove...
	I mean, you know, he says he wants to compensate people.
	But what happens if you say...
	Reject the government's generous offer of money.
	It's just, it so much reminds me of also, you know, displacing brown people from the far right who are like, yeah, we'll compensate them.
	I'm not a genocidal far right member.
	I'm like, yeah, what if they don't accept your compensation?
	There we go.
	Yeah, okay, you're a Nazi.
	Yeah, that's always the thing, which is that, you know, if I don't accept your ever-so-generous offer, what then?
	Do you just happily stand aside and let me continue to live my rural way of life?
	No, of course you don't.
	That's when you get the guns out and you start to forcibly remove people from these Lovely little quiet villages and towns into the big, horrible, stinking cesspool of the cities that we've got in the West at the moment.
	And we've got more examples of that.
	We've got this guy, Matt Glacius, who, as far as I can tell, is kind of on the neolib, neocon spectrum, very much in favour of, like, war in Iraq and etc.
	back in the day.
	I'm not too familiar with this guy's work, but he put...
	If you scroll up a little bit for us, Michael, thank you.
	He shared out this graph, just saying, you know, as a result of declining confidence in the police, small businesses and the military are the only institutions that a majority of the public has confidence in.
	I'm surprised that the military, although it's less visible, I would say, the sort of stuff that we've covered, where the military is putting out videos saying, like, here's how you need to be able to respect people's pronouns and what to do in a situation, yada, yada, yada.
	They do have a minus five point change over ten years.
	Yes, it is a minus five point.
	It's not ten years, one year.
	Yeah, but small business for the most part is absolutely leading the charge in public confidence.
	And rightfully so, because small business is the sort of thing that it's not some faceless corporation.
	I can go down to the corner shop and see old Margaret behind the counter.
	She knows me on a first name basis.
	I have a little chat with her.
	How's the family doing?
	You know, these are people who are part of the community.
	people who potentially do work for the community outside of their jobs, you know.
	Very pleasant experiences to do so.
	What do you think Matt Iglesias has to say about this?
	It's not carbon efficient.
	So just trust the experts.
	That's the essence of the statement.
	Trust the experts.
	Yeah, don't trust the small business that relies on word of mouth and therefore can't do a thing wrong without everyone knowing about it.
	And also knows you by name.
	Rely on the megacorporation that literally employs people to be professional liars.
	Yes, rely on the megacorporation that's entrenched with ESG scores and probably hates you.
	No.
	No, I won't.
	This sort of stuff makes me actively want to go out and spend only in small business environments.
	And to be fair, I probably should.
	If anything, this is a kick up my rear to say, yeah, I should be supporting more small businesses.
	I shouldn't be going straight to corporations like Amazon to be able to get a quick fix of whatever it is that I'm looking for.
	Maybe it'll cost a little bit more.
	Maybe it means going a little bit out of the way.
	But when the alternative is to patronize these faceless companies that hate me, Maybe I should just put a little bit more support into Margaret behind the counter, you know?
	Maybe that's not a bad thing.
	And he carries on to, you know, add a little bit of an explanation to this, because, you know, like, just stating it outright, maybe wasn't the best idea, maybe I need to expand on this just a little bit more.
	Renting a car from Hertz or Avis at an airport you've never flown into and then staying at Hampton Inn or Courtyard by Marriott, I assume he's sponsored by all of these companies because he's making sure to get the full names in there, in a town you've never visited, is such a Stress-free pleasure compared to trying to find a reliable plumber in your hometown.
	Brands and scale!
	Brands and scale, Callum!
	You need to consider the brands and scale!
	And also, none of these things are comparable to a plumber.
	So, complete nonsense, off-kilter, just, like, non-sequitur example right there.
	And then he carries on to just, like, bury his own point.
	To bury his own point, to the point where I think maybe this is ironic, but still.
	The exception to this rule, of course, is journalism, where you should eschew the corporate lamestream MSN and get all of your information from artisanal take vendors.
	Like me, slow and boring, which I can only assume describes Matthew himself.
	And I found a book that this man wrote.
	Can you guess what it's about?
	It's quite against the trends that we see nowadays of population reduction by suggesting 1 billion Americans, the case for thinking bigger.
	This is the Dr.
	Evil kind of plan for neoliberalism type.
	Like, one billion Americans!
	Just triple the population.
	Yes.
	Nothing will go wrong.
	And I got a little synopsis from Wikipedia, because I thought, why not just see what it's about?
	Let's see what it says it's about.
	And it says here, one billion Americans argues that America is not overcrowded.
	I mean, I don't think anyone's arguing that it is.
	And could have one billion citizens.
	Could, should is a different question.
	And still have less than half the population density that Germany has today.
	And I assume a lot of this would involve paving over flyover country, you know?
	Everywhere gets to be LA. Everywhere gets to be a horrible, dense homeless camp.
	Beautiful.
	Brilliant.
	It's just what we want.
	Additionally, it makes the case that America is justified for wanting to stay relevant into the far distant future, and that in order to do so, it will need to be populated like China and India.
	Because, you know, their infrastructure's going so great over there.
	In order to support growth, Inglacia argues for a variety of programs, including, can you guess where this is going?
	Is it going to involve personal responsibility and individual liberty?
	Of course it isn't.
	No.
	Increased government spending on childcare and daycare, use of S-trains for urban transportation, and increased immigration to the United States.
	What everybody's asking for.
	Everybody just wants more and more immigration.
	Constantly.
	Under the general rubric of increasing the population.
	So this is a perfect example of graph go up.
	As long as population graph go up, only good things can happen.
	What nonsense.
	How ridiculous.
	But this just seems like a very common perspective that a lot of these sorts of more mainstream thinkers are taking on recently.
	And I found one of the perfect examples of the mindset and attitude that goes into this was this.
	This is a screenshot because sadly the person, Jackson Kernian, has deleted this tweet.
	Understandably so.
	It's got a little bit of a ratio going on there, but he stated, And in the same way that Sam Harris saying that if Hunter Biden had children in his basement, I wouldn't care.
	This is complete mask off.
	This is the attitude that's going into people like Kotsko and Matthew Iglesias saying that we need to basically destroy the rural population.
	We need to destroy small businesses.
	It's not because of any actual values that they hold or virtues that they're trying to espouse.
	It's because they hate you.
	It's because they hate you.
	And I just love Chuck here.
	His brilliant counterpoint.
	Who the F will grow your food, retard?
	This is one of the things that people seem to forget.
	And also, just as a reminder for why we don't want everywhere to be a big city, as if, you know, general knowledge and cultural osmosis hasn't taught everybody out there that you don't want to be a big city at this point.
	Anyway...
	I'll just direct us to Michael Schellenberger's substack.
	Schellenberger is an environmental guy.
	He's got some books like Apocalypse Never, and most recently did a book called San Francisco, where he talks about why progressives ruin big cities.
	On his substack, he's got loads of information about San Francisco and L.A., Basically, all the big Californian cities.
	How they're destroying themselves with progressive policies.
	And, I mean, the title says it alone.
	San Francisco's slow-motion suicide.
	Just, I'll throw a few excerpts out here.
	Right now, the city is running supervised drug consumption in United Nations Plaza.
	There, city-funded service providers supervise people smoking fentanyl and meth they buy from drug dealers across the street.
	So, would you like your taxes to be subsidizing people's drug addiction?
	No, I want to subsidize my drug addiction.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's a libertarian, that's it?
	No.
	Yes, it is.
	I don't do drugs.
	Don't do drugs, kids.
	No, don't do drugs.
	I wouldn't recommend it.
	And also, voters have found themselves, as it says, in the strange position of paying for fentanyl meth and crack to use on public property.
	So, it's not even that these people are being paid to do it in their own homes, or, like, in some dingy street corner where they're not as easy to see.
	They're doing it in a very public plaza.
	So even just the aesthetic component of San Francisco, which from what I've heard from when Carl describes when he went there, has some beautiful architecture, but you can't pay attention to any of it because there's some crackhead taking crap in the middle of the street right in front of you.
	Either that or people just buggering each other.
	Like, do we want this?
	Do you want your beautiful rural countryside to turn into San Francisco?
	Because I bloody well don't.
	But they want it because they hate you.
	They hate your way of life.
	They hate the fact that you being further away from these gigantic information centers like the cities in Silicon Valley means that you are less easy to control.
	And I found this clip.
	This clip that just perfectly sums it up from South Park, and Callum happily edited this one for me because I couldn't find the episode it was from, so big thanks there, big props there for you.
	Just play that clip, Michael, just so...
	Because we have to live in L.A.
	And if we can't live in quiet, simple, peaceful mountain towns, then nobody will.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Zoom in to a close-up on my face when I do that.
	Ready?
	Then nobody will!
	That's it.
	Because we have to...
	There you go.
	So South Park proving as prophetic as ever, and all I can say is that the people arguing that we should basically destroy the countryside and turn them into Mega City 1 unironically sicken me.
	Oh, there, there.
	Certainly agree with that.
	Otherwise, we'll move on to the French.
	Speaking of people who sicken me.
	Ah, we love you.
	Sort of.
	Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
	Nah, we do get some French subscribers who are very based.
	I love them.
	Oh, yeah.
	I love the rivalries.
	It's great.
	But anyway, roast beef time.
	So, the French have decided to reject, quote, American transgender ideologies, which, uh, very proud.
	I mean, I do enjoy the anti-American sentiment within French society, because it means that, okay, yeah, I mean, sometimes it's a bit ridiculous, and they're just like, ah, American stuff, bad.
	Which, you know, only sometimes right.
	But in this regard, it definitely is true, which is they're pointing to the idea that men can get pregnant and they're just like, yeah, I've got to fall back on the old faithful here.
	Yankee nonsense.
	Agree?
	Yeah, alright.
	And the French society seems to be agreeing that, yeah, as long as we call it Yankee nonsense, we don't have to have the debate like the British do.
	We're just going to get rid of it.
	Perhaps we should all just start calling it Yankee nonsense from now on.
	It's so beautifully dismissive.
	It's a very French aspect.
	I don't think anyone else should be doing it, but I do love how they're able to just get away with it, it seems.
	But just to start off, we're going to plug, of course, Rousseau's Discourses on Inequality book club and me and Carl did, because this obviously comes back to France in a way that they don't find particularly helpful, of course, in this regard of calling it Yankee nonsense, because this book here, the Discourses on Inequality, is the foundation on which all left-wing thought is based upon.
	And, well, if you go and check out the book club, you'll see why everything we end up leading to is so mad.
	I mean, I love the argument from Rousseau that we must return to the state of nature that he says himself never existed.
	And part of the state of nature is obtaining your total freedom from reality itself.
	Yeah, part of the state of nature is just wandering about in the woods where trees will just drop plenty and abundance onto you and you'll be able to just run into a woman, have a kid, and just set the kid free, who cares, and then go off your merry way.
	But this idea that you should be free from reality, fundamentally, it's obviously why you end up getting people saying, hmm, I'm a man, but I'm pregnant.
	No, you're not.
	You're a lady having a beard.
	And we shall go through the story itself here of the ladies having their beards.
	Because, as you can see, French feminists split over help for pregnant men.
	Sorry, pregnant trans men, says the headline in the Times.
	With a lovely image there of two men.
	No, ladies haven't shaved in a while.
	That's what that is.
	They say in here, the French National Family Planning Association has caused controversy with a campaign offering to help pregnant men.
	Les planning families...
	God, French is a weird language.
	As said, the initiative is designed to demonstrate its willingness to support trans men who have retained female reproductive organs.
	So that'll be women who want to be known as men, but aren't.
	Critics accused the taxpayer-funded association of trying to import British and American transgender ideologies that run counter to the French feminist tradition.
	Now, the reason I dropped British there is because this is Turf Island.
	Like, we are known as Turf Island at this point.
	This ideology certainly hasn't landed here, nor did it come from here in this regard.
	It was actually successful.
	I would disagree with you, if only because, you know, obviously they've shut it down, but for a long time we did have stuff like the Tavistock Centre.
	We do still have, you know, we had Boris Johnson for a long time struggling to be able to name what a woman was.
	We were affected by the stuff.
	I've found that most of the turf island stuff comes from basically private resistance, whereas institutional resistance is not there.
	The turf island point is that it's entirely grassroots.
	I mean, there is a huge grassroots movement that sprung up in Britain, obviously destroying this and saying, your mum's a turf, for example.
	Whereas in the United States, unfortunately, they haven't been able to have that response, even though they've been dealing with it for much longer.
	And that's why I just, I don't see it as any regard to the British.
	I don't think the French should either.
	However...
	I just noticed the slogan.
	The association whose slogan is liberty, equality, sexuality.
	Doesn't that just sum up the entire ideology though?
	The ideology in Egalite may as well not be there.
	It's just all about, let me have sex.
	Let me screw whatever I want.
	If I'm going to screw the pooch, I will do it literally, is what this ideology says.
	I don't think they're quite there yet, but, I mean, two years.
	I mean, I don't know, man.
	Those dogs with monkey parks.
	They say in here they publish an online poster for the campaign in the Overseas Territory of Reunion in the spring.
	Quote, We know that men, too, can get pregnant.
	It said...
	You don't.
	You've deluded yourself into thinking that a woman with a beard is a man, and therefore that man can get pregnant, which is obvious nonsense.
	My hopes and dreams have gone.
	I guess I'm not pregnant.
	I'm just getting fat.
	Yeah, it's not a baby.
	Sorry to break it to you.
	They say in here, the poster went unnoticed in Paris.
	Of course it did.
	Until it was published last week.
	Again, provoking indignation.
	Which is amazing, though.
	Just in Paris, no one cared.
	Radio.
	Rampant public degeneracy in Paris?
	Ah, that's fine.
	Yeah.
	Saying here, the association said that its critics were members of the extreme right and using violent language against it.
	Good.
	I'm sorry, but yeah, I mean, it really does put it in perspective when you've been to a really foreign place for a while and you come back and you say it's the extreme right who is saying that men can't get pregnant.
	I just thought you really want to, you know, introduce them to your new friends.
	Anyway, it said in a statement that it planned to sue detractors, including MPs, accusing them of whipping up a hate campaign that men can't get pregnant.
	Right, yeah, good luck with the lawsuit.
	Ooh, it's inspired by such hate, ooh.
	Quote,"'Sexual and reproductive rights must be taken together,' it said.
	Quote,"'We fight as much for abortion as for the sexual health of transgender people, or for the young to have access to sexual education.'" Right.
	No one is saying that there is, you know, some health benefits to be taken away.
	We're not going to unpregnant the women who are saying they're men.
	It's not going to happen.
	What we're saying is that men can't get pregnant.
	Which, by the way, that sexual education, you can't provide that if you don't want to know what a man and a woman is.
	So you're not even able to do your own job, which is taxpayer funded by the French taxpayer.
	Fantastic.
	The debate has exposed divisions in French feminism, however.
	Oh, finally.
	Everywhere this goes, it exposes the divisions in feminism between the feminists who go, actually, women are a thing, and that's what we've been talking about for over 100 years at this point, and then the others.
	But I love doing these stories, and, you know, occasionally someone says, well, how do you care about France?
	And it's like, well, you know, largely, not so much.
	But they are just, you know, they're way ahead of us on their interactions with Islam in the modern age, but they're way behind us on interactions with intersectionality because it has popped over because of the English language very easily into Britain.
	however it has not made it into French so easily and as I say they've got the defense mechanism of being like it's Yankee so they get away with it but then you see them occasionally slightly interacting with what we're dealing with and they're like oh my god there's a division within feminism it's like oh yeah Yeah, there really is.
	Hello from five years in the future.
	We've been through that.
	However, they say, one side are traditional feminists who see themselves as engaged in a universal struggle for women's rights.
	So that'll be the TERFs.
	That's what we're going to be called in a few years in France.
	That'll be actual feminists.
	Yeah, they reject trans activism.
	And on the other side are intersectional feminists who aim to combat discrimination based on gender, but also class, sexuality, and race.
	Right, yeah, so the socialists who fight for class socialism, sexual socialism, gender socialism, race socialism, that'll be the wokest.
	Fantastic.
	They say the feminists, I'm going to butcher these names, so Margareta and Dora over here wrote to Elizabeth Bourne, the Prime Minister, to say that the family planning...
	The planning family.
	No, no, no, I'm not doing it in their words.
	I'm just going to do the Reddit version of just going lit and then read it in English.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, they were undermining women's rights.
	Quote, only women, that is to say adult human females...
	I don't know why it literally is like five years ago.
	We've got to just make this explicit just in case.
	Yeah, they say only adult human females can get pregnant.
	A man, that is to say a male, can never be.
	To say the contrary is a lie, scientifically speaking.
	Which again, you feel like you're back in the sandpit with kids, being like, so the mummy and the daddy have a relationship, and then the mummy gets pregnant and has the baby.
	And the West really is back in the sandpit having this conversation yet again.
	Quote, we fight for the abolition of gender stereotypes, not to reinforce.
	We consider that what links all women is our sex, not a pronounced liking for sewing pink or Barbie, say the TERFs.
	Although that helps to bring them together.
	Yeah, and it's almost like, I wonder what all those things have in common.
	It might be sexual activities that lead you to a gender role, perhaps.
	I mean, I love it as well.
	I mean, you can just counter this with, as people have in this country five years ago, they'll be like, well, giving birth is also a female stereotype.
	Men can give birth now as well.
	It's like, yeah, the French turfs are going to have to up their game and kind of forget what they think they've learned in regards to that.
	The interesting thing is that this kind of has led to a complete shift where feminists who are trying to be principled have kind of had to go back to a traditional chastity, return to tradition sense.
	There's that, I forget what her name, I think Louise Perry did that book recently called The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, where she was saying, okay, I've not read it, but I think we're going to potentially do a book club on it, me and Connor, where she's just going like, well, yeah...
	Back in the 60s, they sold us this idea that having sex with loads of men was really empowering and we need to just be a load of sluts.
	Actually, it turns out that mainly just works out for the men who want to sleep with loads of women.
	So maybe we should return to chastity.
	But this was part of a father-feminist idea, that it wasn't just that you should have sex with loads of men.
	Why should you do that?
	And it was because while men have sex with loads of women...
	I was like, right, so you want women to become men, and that'll liberate them, because then they'll be as Chan-Alpha as the men.
	And the only way that they can do that is if they just abandon all standards of who they let sleep with them.
	Sure, but it means you abandon being a woman and replace it with being a man, as a woman.
	But then, what you're doing is trying to compete with men as to who can be the best man...
	And you're at an inherent disadvantage there, women.
	But also, just, why would you do such a thing?
	Like, what a retarded idea when you think about it!
	But this is genuinely what the feminist movement tried to do, and the French feminists are still there, apparently, thinking that, oh no, we're just against stereotypes such as being women.
	And it's like, but we are women.
	Right, okay, we'll leave you for a couple more minutes, just to see if you can figure that one out.
	But in the West, yeah, the turfs have long since figured out that if they're going to be women, they actually have to be women, and excel at that.
	Embrace gender stereotypes.
	Do it.
	Gender roles are good.
	Well, it's just, you know, what else are you?
	But they say in here, they criticise the association for talking of menstruating people, or people with uteruses, writing, quote, We want to be considered as whole human beings, not vaginas on legs.
	Yeah, well, too bad.
	I mean, that is how you were going to be considered by the intersectionals.
	You're just a vagina on legs or a penis on legs, and both of you can get pregnant.
	No, you are a vagina-ed body.
	Yeah, it's gotta be that kind of disgusting.
	However, they say Isabel Rome, the Minister for Gender Equality, defended family planning as historically essential, but conceded that its campaign on pregnant men was not consensual.
	I don't know what that means.
	I'm assuming that's a mistranslation.
	Yeah, I don't...
	And maybe it means that, I don't know...
	Yeah, actually...
	The Ministry didn't agree to it?
	I'm going to assume...
	Maybe, yeah.
	But whatever.
	The Minister for Gender Equality there.
	But I also...
	The defence is pathetic.
	It's like, yeah, well, it's doing bad, but it is historically essential because it's holy.
	Why, to me, is the Minister for Gender Equality?
	I was like...
	Right, then your whole position is cancer.
	We need to boot you too.
	Yep.
	That's actually the solution here.
	Boot the family planning, boot the minister for gender equality, boot the immigrants.
	Equality is a false god.
	I mean, it's just that simple.
	It is.
	But however, we'll go and check out the poster itself, because the French right have responded to this.
	And the French right, I think, are very exciting, because they have a defence on this that's very easy.
	You can see some verified chap here.
	And you see the poster itself, which is just like, yes, we know that men can get pregnant too.
	Sigh.
	Look at how happy they are.
	Oh yeah, they're going to get there.
	Don't you- Oh, this might happen in the schools in a few years, they're saying in France.
	Are they only just learning about institutional capture?
	This is the thing.
	The ideology just hasn't transferred itself into the Franco-sphere in the same way it has the Anglosphere.
	So they're really starting to deal with it, and that's why I love these stories.
	Because you're just like, oh my god, my children are playing.
	They're figuring out that the left are cancer.
	Yeah, imagine if they did this to the schools.
	Go check out Libs TikTok and send it to your French MPs, any Frenchies listening.
	They continue in this vein with just some other responses.
	If we go to the Family Planning, who decided to respond with saying that they are under attack by the far right and they have suffered this attack and its activists and associations are speaking out for calls for support.
	I was like, right.
	You're a government-funded institution.
	You need calls for support from the public.
	You literally steal taxpayers' money.
	But you need support.
	You need moral support at this tough time of the money you're stealing from the taxpayer might be under threat.
	The government going around with a pauper's hat.
	Please, sir, please, just a few pennies.
	No, no, no.
	I'm going to force you to give me the money, but then you need to sing my praises.
	Then you need to feel bad for me.
	I'm so cash-strapped.
	I wouldn't have to steal from you if I didn't have more money.
	So if you could just give me more money.
	I'm only spending your money on trying to tell you that men can get pregnant.
	Useful things, of course.
	There are French leftists who decide to then tag loads of organisations, this organisation, tag the, you know, gender minister, etc.
	That's actually the perfect name for it, actually.
	Acting Up is exactly what activists have been doing for years.
	Especially the French ones.
	But if we go forward, we can see at least something here.
	So here's the Ministry for Equality in France, of course, as you well know it, obviously, by its very famous art in the profile picture there and the images they use of three women in a row.
	You know, this sort of thing.
	Except, if there's any Frenchies listening, we can tell you where this timeless art is going, which it will be completely destroyed.
	Because the Americans, of course, or the Women's March, have no original ideas, and therefore decide to just copy-paste it.
	Except they weren't happy with the fact that it had three women on it, because not all women are women.
	As Matt Walsh found out, the Women's March often don't know what a woman is.
	Yeah, so they wrote in here, they wrote to a BIPOC woman-led firm to redesign the logo to be more inclusive.
	And they did amazing work, which is they came up with a man.
	They put a man in it.
	As you can see there.
	At the front.
	Yeah.
	As well.
	Not even at the back.
	At the front.
	The new face of women.
	It's just gold.
	That is what's going to happen.
	Frenchies, if you're listening.
	We're on Mr.
	Bone's wild ride.
	Ten years ahead.
	And I'm just showing you where it's going.
	If you don't stop it now.
	But if we go to the next one.
	Because we can see the women's march.
	Also don't know what a woman is.
	This is purposeful.
	And you can see that if you scroll up on this one.
	They say that trans women are women.
	If you scroll up, please.
	Then you can see it there.
	It's just like, yes, trans women and women.
	That's the tweet.
	I was like, yeah, you're the Women's March.
	What are you marching for, then?
	Trans women.
	So men.
	Yes.
	What is that?
	Which is why you redesigned your logo.
	To have men in it.
	And Little Miss Fterps, once again, it's just really childish.
	Yeah, but there we have it.
	I mean, there's the reality, though, which is who do the Women's March march for?
	Themselves.
	It's all they've ever marched for.
	Literally the actors in the movement who want power and money.
	It is not about anything else once you get down to it.
	If we go to the next one here, we see Le Pen's nationalists utterly rejecting this.
	I'm always interested when there's attractive nationalist women out there running their own movements, which is always cool to see.
	They say in here, the family planning is now just a simple militant association for gender theory.
	It is, however, still subsidised by our taxes and approved by the national education to intervene with the youngest.
	A reaction!
	And then she tags the French Minister for Education, who has been quiet on this.
	Said nothing, of course, because he's happy to move this in.
	However, there is just some kind of irony, and I will imagine a lot of Americans will be commenting, as usually do, which is a lot of Americans, of course, are not from these coastal universities, and therefore do not see this as part of them, because they are traditional Americans, and, you know, hats off to you all.
	Love your good work.
	However, the international image of America is exactly this at this point.
	Because, well, partly the Biden administration and partly because of the ideological capture.
	And, well, the French are not entirely unguilty either, going back to Rousseau.
	I mean, why did you end up with this nonsense coming out of Kimberly Crenshaw?
	Well, she was following in the same vein.
	So, enjoy that, Frenchies.
	However, I thought we'd just enjoy just a little bit more of some good stuff.
	If we go to the next one here, we can see Jack Posobiec.
	At least, this is where we've gone all the way back around and realized what women are, and maybe women shouldn't compete to be men with men, because we might lose that one.
	And instead, he writes here, women are not created to do what men can do, women are created to do what men cannot.
	If you wanted some advice about how to be the best in your field, it would probably be to be the best women in the field, because men can't compete in that regard.
	They're not going to win that fight.
	This works in two ways.
	One, it's true.
	And second, it appeals to the narcissism of women.
	Sure, you could also get that interpretation, but it's just, you know, if you want to be men, you're going to lose to the men.
	If you want to be women, the men are going to lose to you in being women.
	That's for damn sure.
	However, the leftists are never going to learn this law, because leftists are retarded.
	And I had to talk about this.
	I don't know if you've spoken about it already.
	No, me and Connor might just have to do an hour-long breakdown of this one clip, because it's that cancerous.
	Gold, isn't it?
	For people who haven't seen and don't know what we're talking about, perhaps for people listening...
	You may have seen She-Hulk was trending because IMDB decided to put out this clip in which they write, say it louder for those in the back, as if this is some like, haha, you know, feminist gotcha moment against the men.
	And it's the Hulk saying that, you know, you need to control your anger, lady, if you're going to do this.
	Like, calm down.
	We've all been there, blokes, haven't we?
	I don't know the story that well, but I'm pretty sure people were saying he'd been through a genocide or something, like he'd seen his family die, and he controls his anger.
	Back in the day before Marvel became this, I've watched quite a lot of the films and enjoyed quite a few of them.
	And in the first Avengers film, when Mark Ruffalo's Hulk is first introduced, he has this heart-wrenching...
	Well, not heart-wrenching, but a quite depressing scene where he just explains how his life is miserable, he's had to give up everything, he's...
	His parents were abusive, and he keeps trying to kill himself by shooting himself in the head, but the Hulk won't let him.
	Might explain some of those, you know, stress lines, frown lines he's got, perhaps?
	You know, horrible experience he's been through, and then she explains, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't you tell me to control my anger.
	I've been through minor inconveniences, such as men speaking over me when I know the subject better.
	How about that?
	And then she loses her anger.
	It's just comically ridiculous.
	We can't play because we'll get copyright struck.
	Obviously, dealing with your anger in a healthy way for the Hulk is one thing, but don't you understand that I get catcalled?
	Yeah.
	I have minor inconveniences in my life.
	Men feel the need to compliment my attractiveness in public.
	Evil.
	And she sits there just, you know, not looking like she's been through anything in her life at all as well.
	The actor, which is a whole other conversation.
	But we have the correct response, of course.
	I saw from most people in regards to this.
	Shut up.
	Shut up, woman.
	You've not been through anything.
	If you have, then you respect it, but you haven't, so no one respects you.
	And also, I just wanted to end this on this point about the fact that she hasn't clearly aged a day.
	I mean, when you interview people in Afghanistan, I'll see people in Afghanistan.
	Average Afghani 14-year-old right here.
	My message to Trump is I've said them any other than Fidel's.
	Nice chap.
	Anyway.
	I'm sure he's alright.
	But I ran into a few guys, and they kept telling me to guess their age, and I'd be like, ah, 25?
	No, 18.
	Like, what?
	It's just because everyone's been through something.
	So they age.
	Whereas you get actresses like her who look like, I don't know, the worst thing that's ever happened to them is they went to Starbucks and the order was wrong.
	Or they got cackled.
	Ooh.
	Or the Demi Lovato.
	Ooh, these diet milkshakes you're advertising are triggering my eating disorder.
	Ooh.
	Yeah, and if that's what being a woman is, if that's what they're being offered to Western women, then, yeah, you're being sold a river of lies.
	And instead, actually try and be women.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Hello again.
	I have one fear for destroying equality, that they will use the inherent truth of inequality to insist that we believe that groups of individuals' physical characteristics can dictate what the individual acts like.
	I could be wrong, but we need to insist that there are only two groups in humanity, the individual and the culture, and both can be judged, for both can be changed.
	Yeah, I mean, your physical characteristics can help determine what you're going to do, but they won't determine it entirely.
	I mean, I remember when we were doing the Andrew Tate segment yesterday, from my memory serves me right, Andrew Tate's actually an asthmatic as well.
	Oh, is he?
	Yeah.
	That's impressive in that case that he was able to land the sports career that he did.
	But that's an argument he makes, which is, you know, him and some other friends who had problems, all kinds of physical problems.
	But they didn't know about them until late in life, when they'd already won all these awards, and they didn't think there was anything wrong with them.
	Yeah, they overcame the struggles.
	Well, they didn't overcome any struggle, because they didn't know they had any.
	But if you told them at the outset, you know, you've got these physical characteristics, and therefore you're limited by that entirely, well, they might have not bothered.
	They'd be like, well, you know, I'm not built for it.
	Yeah, this is my argument that I have against a lot of people that I know having been just diagnosed with random conditions.
	Like, half of the men that I know nowadays that are my age are all going on constantly about how they've got ADHD. And the only thing that I've ever seen come as a result of that, and this isn't to say that obviously ADHD doesn't actually affect quite a few people in negative ways, but all of the people that I know who did that, before they got the diagnosis, behaved themselves like normal people, you know?
	They were a bit excitable, but...
	They were just normal.
	The second they get the diagnosis, all of a sudden that aspect of their personality is magnified so hard.
	Because they see it as an excuse.
	People see that sort of thing as an excuse for bad behaviour or laziness.
	Sure, and this is in regards to medical situations, so you can see how it doesn't necessarily stump you, like it might do in some regards, obviously.
	You're not going to become the greatest athlete of all time if you've only got one limb.
	Well, yeah.
	When it comes to other aspects, I mean, yeah, things can stop you becoming that or reduce your chances of becoming that.
	But the idea it completely determines is not true.
	So I think we can fight back on that basis and say, well, no, there's nuance here.
	I know the left struggles with nuance, but there we have it.
	But let's go to the next one.
	Watching a short Fat Otaku livestream this weekend, I realised Dev had fundamentally failed to understand the conversation surrounding transitioning procedures.
	The progressives have already won.
	They have pushed out in multiple directions at once and are feverishly supporting transitioning procedures for those not old enough to consent.
	The age at which procedures happen has become the talking point and not addressing and understanding the underlying mental health issues that cause someone to want to transition.
	We have silently come to accept that people will choose the procedure and that we don't care if they do it when they can consent.
	We have stopped asking what their motives and reasons are for transitioning and whether they are truly committed or just wanting to be avant-garde.
	This is true.
	I'm going to pay devil's advocate and assume that maybe he also has the thought that that aspect of should the person actually take the surgery or should we pursue dealing with their depression or whatever else first.
	It's already a medical decision that's been made.
	I would assume he would think that.
	I've not seen the livestream that he's referring to, although I will just add as a joiner there that as far as I'm aware, Dev is into trans women and such, so maybe that...
	No, legit, legit, he's admitted as much.
	No, I love the idea that he's, you know...
	So maybe he has...
	He's supporting it on that basis.
	It's like, my dating pool is too small.
	Exactly.
	So, you know, that might influence his opinions on such a thing as well.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Maybe.
	Maybe.
	Otherwise, yeah, of course, I agree that from a medical perspective, you need to actually pursue can you solve those issues without just going to transitioning.
	That's obviously correct.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I refuse to accept the left's framing that they're scientifically and morally rigorous.
	I've had people claim this graph as a poor graph, from someone who'd apparently taken classes in statistics.
	A constant argument in the trans debate is that exceptions somehow disprove the rule, as if smokers haven't lived to an old age without developing lung cancer, and skydervers haven't died even when using a parachute, and they flip-flop on what is supposed to be concrete standards.
	Does the weather prove or disprove climate change, or is that a stupid argument?
	Not to mention their deferral to experts, the likes of which used to include the priests of the Catholic Church and the father of the household, both of which they hate with a passion.
	Yeah, I mean, to be honest, I think all political sides, the majority of actors in political sides are fast and loose for statistics.
	I mean, this is why you end up with them saying, it's hot, therefore climate change, and why you end up with Republicans who've got a snowball and going, well, it's cold.
	Snowball.
	No climate change.
	And stuff like that.
	One of the arguments he referenced there.
	But I mean, recent times, especially during COVID, it has been shown that the left has been worse than the right in that regard.
	That's definitely true.
	I also think you can only abstract so much truth out of statistics in the first place.
	Depending on what you're looking at.
	Yeah, obviously depending on what you're looking at.
	I think the left tries to use statistics in a case for morality, where oftentimes it's more moral to have lockdowns, because otherwise look at these statistic models that we've created that will say that people will die, and therefore that's a bad thing.
	Whereas I don't think that you can, you know, test morality.
	You know, graph might go up and more people might die, but individual rights...
	It's a good defense.
	Go to the next one.
	You know, I sort of long for the day when criminals start to think, oh, if I go in and try to commit this crime, or if I try to commit this crime, there could be someone who is armed and ready to take me down.
	Because at this point it's gotten so bad in some of these cities that the criminals need to be met with the barrel of a gun in order to not commit crimes.
	And it's just sad.
	Yeah.
	It's a massive luxury of living in a neighbourhood where no one has to be armed and there has to be no enforcement because people will just follow the rules.
	And it will very quickly collapse and when that happens you need to reinforce force.
	Because if there's no force, you know.
	Yeah, I mean we were looking at a Twitter thread.
	Literally Demolition Man though.
	You know the clip where he's like, well lie down on the ground or what?
	That's the whole point.
	We were watching that clip, those clips on the Twitter thread earlier, where it's just showing the state of English culture right now, where people were just being beaten in the middle of the street by various gangs of people.
	And yeah, we've got no chance of getting any justice for that sort of stuff, as it stands right now.
	We're basically prescribed from being able to defend ourselves, and then the police do nothing about it.
	So, yeah.
	That's one of the nice things about Kabul, actually, because you've got every couple of hundred meters, there'll be some Taliban with guns, and the Taliban are the police and the military, obviously.
	So if there's any problems, I mean, like...
	They'll sort it.
	If there's a women's march out, they'll sort it.
	Sure, but also, if there's an ISIS attack, like, you're gonna be fine, because you just dock for cover and they will deal with it.
	And they did.
	So, that's that.
	Let's go to the next one.
	With all this stuff about the IRS recently, it's important to note that in the Bible, when the Israelites wanted a king, God was like...
	What?
	No, that's a terrible idea.
	He's gonna take all your stuff, you know.
	And also, the New Testament has quite a few choice words to say about tax collectors, about how they're traitors of the people and agents of the Roman state to oppress their enemies.
	Just saying.
	Pretty based.
	Pretty based.
	Alrighty.
	I don't have much to say to that.
	Oh, that's the end of the video comments.
	I thought someone had just sent this back at us.
	I know I'm cruel by playing all that stuff, but please don't send it back.
	I have to watch it enough already.
	We'll go to the red comments on the site.
	So, FreeWill2112 says, How do we stop the West descending into insanity?
	That's a big question.
	That's a very, very big question.
	Yeah, I mean, that's sort of what everyone's been thinking about and trying to counter for the last...
	I don't know.
	How long has intersectionality been in power?
	Maybe 15 years?
	Maybe 10?
	I would say it's been working its influence since the early 90s, but yeah, probably out in the open for a bit less than that.
	I don't know.
	The idea of elite capture, to me, seems to be the only real way to...
	progress it right now because you know influence and change is top down as much as we would like it to be the other way so the only way is to really be able to either influence the elites that are already in power or install elites that are going to be able to capture power that you know agree with our morals yeah So, I mean, ideological and political work, fundamentally.
	Yes.
	That's a peaceful way of changing things.
	Yeah.
	Conferences, there are other ways of doing it if you want to look at non-peaceful options, but, you know, we're not going to be advocating anything like that, no.
	But I think I read an article on the Mallard the other day that was talking about the right-wing Gramscians, and he was just discussing the Mont Pelerin Society, you know?
	Are you aware of that?
	Not familiar.
	It was a society that was attended by people like, who was it?
	It was founded by Frederick Hayek.
	It had Ludwig von Mises.
	Milton Friedman was there.
	Even Enoch Powell was a member of it.
	And they used to just have these meetings every few months.
	Where they'd just go in, they would talk about issues, you know, a lot of them economic, a lot of them cultural.
	But they would also just, while they were there, invite a load of journalists.
	Not to take part, just to stand there and listen.
	And so that they could report on it if they wanted to.
	But what that ended up being, you know, because the journalists, they end up speaking to other people and the ideas began to spread around.
	And that's how you end up suddenly with, say, Margaret Thatcher in the 1970s saying, this is the Conservative Manifesto while brandishing around Hayek's Constitution of Liberty.
	And then it gets over to America as well with Ronald Reagan and such in the 1980s.
	So perhaps that's a way of getting about it, but I don't know how effective that would be in the modern era.
	Worth a shot.
	That's for damn sure.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	So, on to the...
	Don't want to live in the West anymore.
	Come on.
	Maureen Peters says, As a teacher in the front of a class, you are firstly a teacher.
	Your race and sex should not have any influence on what or how you teach, especially when you are teaching basic knowledge, which is factual, factually true to children.
	When they are able to form complex theories, you should support them in finding out if those will stand on their own and have discussions.
	Never teach them what to think.
	Well, that's if you're a teacher.
	And these people aren't.
	So, this is good advice on how to be a good teacher.
	Freeball2112 says, You say these people have to be removed to save society, but how exactly are you going to do it?
	How are you going to shut down the universities?
	You don't have any power and a little prospect of actually doing it.
	And the people who do are on their side.
	The zombie hordes have already overrun society and are breeding more like themselves with every generation.
	Oh yeah, I'm not saying that I've got any practical measure to apply my wishes.
	I was mainly just wishful thinking that if I did have any sort of political power to be able to do so.
	But no, I don't expect that there's going to be anybody in power who is going to shut down the universities and punish them for indoctrinating young people into far-leftist ideology.
	I don't think there are going to be people who are going to try and remove people from these...
	From places of influence and that's just the sad reality of it.
	It was mainly just wishful thinking on my part.
	There is one way in the UK, I can't think of a way of doing it, but it requires power in the Department of Education, of course.
	And I remember it was a UKIP policy, which was one of my favourites in the manifesto, which is that we were going to get rid of all fees for STEM subjects and then triple them for the humanities.
	It's just like if you do grievance studies, actually, we're just not going to have a cap, actually.
	If the university wants to charge 21 grand, they certainly can.
	Well, I mean, they're going to be losing a lot of money from those STEM fees, so they might as well make it up some way.
	Yeah, but that's the point.
	It's like, how about we actually take actions financially to ruin these people?
	Because fundamentally, if you can't get money for your movement, your movement's dead.
	Well, yeah, of course.
	And that's the thing, is that if we had conservatives who actually had spines to them, who actually, say, for instance, potentially did like Ron DeSantis is doing over in Florida, and actually legislates against these people...
	And strikes, blows against them, perhaps then we would have a fighting chance.
	But as far as I'm concerned, there's nobody in the Conservative Party.
	I don't like this Black Hill rhetoric.
	Because it's, you know, there wasn't a Ron DeSantis, then there was.
	Well, yeah, but I don't see Rishi or Liz Truss.
	No, I don't see Liz Cheney doing anything either.
	So Romeo, I can't pronounce that.
	Not that they'd ever be honest or consistent with their answer, mind you.
	Yeah, I think they'd just be more sheep if it was, you know, black women.
	Then they'd be, you know, slightly upset to ask, but they'd still ask it, because it would still be heresy.
	Andrew Narok says, Yeah, there's another aspect of that clip which I did love.
	I mean, it's...
	It is amazing how people like Peter Bogodian, they go back and say, what are you going to do?
	I mean, I know you've killed a few people in this city, but whatever.
	Peter Bogodian, I'm not afraid to die.
	Not anymore.
	That's politics.
	That's what Western politics is these days.
	Sweden says, it feels like the right wing is in a potential Groundhog Day.
	Isn't it better to create ideologically conservative or traditional works instead of reacting to left wing creation?
	I think this is why the left wins and they create and the right cries that they did.
	I don't really think the left are really creating much in this regard, though.
	I'm kind of annoyed by that.
	I kind of get what he means though, as shown by my recent experiences, a lot of the institutions that hold up creative endeavours like the music industry, the film industry, etc.
	are ideologically left, but I would say that it There are plenty of people going out of there and trying to create either ideologically neutral or actively right-wing works.
	I mean, Connor and I reported recently on the success of Eric July, Young Ripper 5'9's new comic book company, The Ripperverse, and the pre-order success that his first issue of that, Isom No.
	1 comic book, has been doing.
	So people are building parallel institutions, I suppose...
	As it stands right now, the best we can hope to do is build parallel institutions, like the way The Daily Wire is starting with their films.
	Sure.
	I've heard this rhetoric quite a lot.
	It's not just in regards to this question, but you endlessly hear about, oh, the left wing of the creatives who make things and right wingers don't.
	I don't think that's true.
	Yeah, this is going to be a very tortured analogy, but it's sort of like when a parasite controls a fish, and then you're just like, oh, look, the fish is, you know, made by this parasite.
	No, no, not really.
	That's...
	That was a very bad analogy, I know, but I didn't know how to get it.
	I get what you mean, though.
	But no, I think there are plenty of creative people in the right wing.
	I think there has been a lot of scientific research that's been done that even people like Jordan Pearson point to that say, oh, the left are the creatives.
	I think Jonathan Haidt's work on Moral Foundations has also said, oh, openness to experience means that you're more creative.
	It's like, not necessarily.
	Well, I can believe that there's a slight variation, like Peterson will always say, but this variation is at the extremes, of course extreme, but in regards to most things, I don't buy this rhetoric.
	Most music is made by left-wingers or some such.
	Yeah, I don't want to invoke myself or anything, but I'm right-wing and I write music.
	I like to think of myself as quite a creative person.
	Like, J.R.R. Tolkien was not a liberal, as far as I can tell, and he was one of the most creative people who's ever lived.
	He created his own language and then created a universe to explain that language and then decided, oh, I might as well write some stories around it as well.
	I mean, this is my Phoebe, so I'll move on.
	So Colin Pease says, no, the gender-neutral pronoun in English is it.
	Yes, it is.
	William Snedeker?
	Snedeker, right, okay.
	If the good old days was classical liberalism, then is the problem we see late-stage liberalism?
	Because if something's been subverted and you have a new system that runs on different fundamental assumptions and goals and entire paradigms, I don't think you can say it's part of the old regime.
	To me, this looks like saying that the Soviet Union is a continuation of Tsarist Russia.
	It just doesn't really make sense.
	Sure, they didn't do a violent revolution to take over the system.
	And you could say that's a weakness of liberalism is that it can be subverted in a way that, say, I don't know, theocracy in Afghanistan can't.
	But I think it would be wrong to say this is liberalism, for sure.
	Freewill2112 says, here are my pronouns, F and off.
	Very nice.
	It's an oldie but a goldie.
	And then Omar Awad says, That may be true, I just happen to know that the advertisement has been put out and advertised as that.
	Presumably they are actually, as you say, using it more on truckers.
	But I guess we'll see when the contracts come up.
	But otherwise, let's go to the...
	Yeah, they hate you.
	Comments.
	Supreme Doug, I'm trying to smooth up the idea of moving to the countryside with my wife.
	We're both programmers and she is literally working fully remote.
	But she thinks that the countryside is boring and nothing happens out there.
	Any good arguments for the countryside that I may have missed?
	Is it just really boring?
	No.
	No.
	No, that's absolute nonsense.
	It all depends on what you value.
	Having lived in the countryside for the majority of my life, there is a deep peace that comes with being able to walk down the street and not feel as though some immigrant is going to mug you.
	Not even necessarily an immigrant, just anybody violent in the street, which always multiplies when you're in the cities.
	It's a great peace being able to walk down the street.
	And feel safety.
	It's a great relief to be able to go to the local corner shop and be able to know the person who's serving you by name.
	It does depend on more what you value.
	If you value this idea that, oh, the city's just so interesting because I'm able to go to nightclubs every single night and experience all these different yada yada yada yada.
	Most countryside towns, at least in England, It's just a much more...
	Community-focused way of life, and that really is quite reflective in the attitudes of the people around that.
	And I also just think having easy access to the countryside is a privilege that you don't realise what you've got until it's gone.
	I'll just put it like that.
	Being able to go for a quick walk in the countryside whenever I wanted, back when I was still living up north, was so good for my own peace of mind.
	So yeah, I think there's plenty of fantastic arguments to living out in the countryside.
	I think one of the biggest underrated things...
	I mean, you mentioned that nightclubs.
	There are no nightclubs.
	I mean, just like when you go to bed, listen, there's nothing.
	I miss that so much.
	Well, I even lived in a town that did have a very good nightlife.
	It's still a very, very small rural town, but it had a good nightlife and some good pubs that you could go to.
	It even had nightclubs that attracted people from other local areas because they were the best ones around.
	But I was still able to...
	Get a nice peaceful night's sleep because I'm not hearing sirens wailing wherever I go.
	Just car horns and just endless nonsense.
	Yeah, so there's plenty of reasons to move out to the countryside.
	Although if your wife is a city lover and she's not going to rescind that, perhaps her attitudes won't fit that well in the countryside, not to put you off too much.
	My favourite place I've ever been is a place called Abbott's Anne, which is just outside Andover.
	Oh yeah.
	If my memory serves me right, there are two pubs and one shop, and the shop is volunteer run, and therefore just isn't open for that long, just because it's that small.
	Well, it probably doesn't need to be open for that long either, you know?
	Everyone knows when it's open, you just go, get your shopping, sorted.
	Yeah, it's brilliant.
	I actually have them.
	I miss it.
	XSummer says, The fools that think people should not live in rural areas do not comprehend where food comes from.
	Exactly.
	Baron Von Warhawk, it should be noted that many of these sneering city folks are socialists so that you can clearly see their disgust and hatred towards the working class rural folks.
	That's always been the case.
	You should go and check out mine and Callum's book club on the Cultural Revolution to see just how far that can go.
	And Fuzzy Toaster, my parents retired to the south of France.
	It's great as a holiday destination for two reasons.
	Family is family and we get on well and they live in rural France where they don't suffer this noncery to pass.
	Don't know what that means.
	Also, the guys down south are big into their rugby and collecting cauliflowers is a universal language.
	That's true.
	And yeah, the south of France is very nice.
	I've been on holiday there a few times.
	Lovely, lovely part of the world.
	Mr.
	Tucker, cities are worse in almost every respect except availability of mindless entertainments.
	There's too many people, nobody respects one another, there's no personal space, everything is ten times more expensive, the air is poisonous, the water is filled with chemicals, and more.
	Why the F would I want to go somewhere like that to visit, let alone live there?
	Well, let's see.
	Supreme Duck, if you needed more reasons to move out of the city, you can just read that comment to your wife.
	Omar Awad says, Yes, you've absolutely got it right there.
	I'll read one more from this.
	Callum Dayton says, Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that.
	To review it, to hate watch it, and spare others I associate with from watching it.
	Well, sadly, I might be dragged into a hate watch of this for Lotus Eaters.
	But right now, the segment and podcast is melting my brain and making me suffer.
	At once, this is good practice to brace myself from the hammering I'm going to get from Rings of Power.
	On the other hand, though, it's going to make me weaker when it releases.
	Now, stay strong, my friend.
	Stay strong.
	We'll all...
	Give Rings of Power a hate watch and then we can all complain about it and then it can crash and burn, hopefully.
	Moving on to the last comments here, so Free Will says the French are trying to protect their culture.
	More power to them.
	Yeah, I mean, I was saying I do appreciate their strain of anti-Americanism because it does actually protect themselves from some of the worst aspects of the outside world, but then most of them come from them anyway.
	So Lord Nerevar says I would like to chime in on the last segment and say something I never thought I would say.
	We'll probably never say again and it's quite difficult for a staunch Englishman like myself to utter.
	Based France.
	Anyway, Ardent Party says Harry in Lea...
	The Ang Lee Film Hulk.
	Ang Lee Film Hulk.
	Bruce watches his father beat his mother to death, but you know, catcalls and mansplaining and stuff.
	I guess we men just don't know how good we got it.
	And Omar Awad says, there's something deliciously ironic about the woke propaganda accidentally acceding that trans women don't pass.
	They can't put two women in a feminine-looking woman on the logo and say one of them is trans.
	They're clown on themselves.
	Maureen Peter says, seeing that at least about 72% of the population of Paris is Muslim, I'm not surprised that the French reject transgender ideologies.
	Is it really that much now?
	That sounds like an exaggeration to me.
	Probably.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	I wouldn't be flabbergasted by whatever it is.
	Gonna have to look that one up.
	5.7 million Muslims in Paris.
	Okay, what's the general population of Paris?
	What's it gonna be?
	20% maybe?
	10%?
	I don't know.
	You're doing the math.
	Well, no.
	I've just typed in population of Paris and it's come up with 2.2 million.
	So it's like, okay...
	Something's not adding up here.
	The Muslim population of 600% of Paris.
	Yes.
	Anyway.
	Stefan Schohoff says salami and bacon, Callum.
	But you're not wearing your traditional garb today.
	Enchiladas.
	This should never be happening again.
	Allahu snack bar.
	Certainly, indeed, my friend.
	I don't really know what to say to that.
	I do always want to get a guy called Alan to open a place called Alan's Snack Bar.
	Because honestly, I think it would actually sell well.
	I think the Pakistanis or Britain would actually just find it funny and go and buy whatever they need to buy as well.
	Yeah, why not?
	Anyway, I suppose on that, we're out of time.
	So I suppose we'll find out what the Muslim population of Paris is afterwards.
	But otherwise, we'll be back tomorrow at 1 o'clock.

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