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	Good afternoon, folks.
	Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Caesars for Thursday, the 3rd of November 2022.
	I'm joined by Connor.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be discussing the Albanian invasion of the UK, which is not an overestimation.
	Elon Musk becoming the god emperor of Twitter, which again is not an exaggeration in any way.
	And how known that November is literally fascism.
	But before we begin, we have a live hangout that I'm doing after the podcast at 3.30 on the website.
	It is part of our freemium series coming up to our birthday, second birthday.
	This is talking about are there big cats in the United Kingdom?
	Find out then.
	And we also have tomorrow another freemium hangout, which is Parliament's farcical COVID vaccine damage debate, in which Connor and Harry are going to be discussing the vaccine, of all things.
	But anyway, let's crack on, shall we?
	So, do you remember a while ago when we discussed the Albanian TikTokers invading the UK? Yes.
	Literally putting videos on TikTok saying, pay us €4,000 and we'll get you into the United Kingdom.
	Yeah, it's like a package holiday.
	You can find that segment, obviously, over on our YouTube channel there.
	Oh, how times fly.
	The title was apparently very prophetic because recently Suala Braverman, our Home Secretary, was chewed out both in the Commons and the predictably leftist media for using that same phrase to describe the insufferable influx of channel migrants who have washed up on our shores and demanded our hospitality in various hotels across the country.
	I mean, she did literally use the term invasion, and they are literally invading.
	Well, if the numbers I'm going to read out to you in yesterday's published stats do not constitute an invasion, I would love to know what would.
	However, the numbers are disputed by the Albanian PM and a bunch of fifth columnists in the UK, which is not particularly opportune because it's undermining our national security.
	Just before we go, the reason I've picked this promo today, obviously if you can subscribe to the website, you can go and watch content like this.
	It's your speech at the Witton, The Word and the Shire.
	I thought the framing was pretty perfect for what is going to be described in this segment, and that is the permissiveness of our immigration system, allowing all these people to come in and live off the taxpayer teat, is a grievance committed against the Indigenous English community.
	Yeah.
	And it very much feels like we're being colonised.
	So, let's have a look, shall we?
	First of all, the BBC's reporting.
	Boo-hoo.
	And I'm just, I'm not even going to manufacture any kind of sympathy at this point.
	I just don't care anymore.
	BBC, cold, hungry migrants left stranded in London.
	Well, you did arrive here.
	Go home.
	Exactly.
	So about 40 migrants were moved from Manston, the overcrowded processing centre, currently being filled by Albanians, I've got the same thing, don't worry, on Tuesday, so they could stay with friends and family in the capital, a homeless charity volunteer said.
	11 of them had nowhere to go after reaching Victoria Railway Station.
	That's because you broke into the country illegally?
	Yeah.
	That's why you've got nowhere to go.
	Well, I've seen on my journeys to and from Swindon in the mornings and evenings, there are lots of bag-holding, flip-flop-wearing, tracksuit-wearing migrants just walking up and down train carriages.
	And as well, one time I was just sitting there minding my own business and I had a laminated, I don't know, you've got a laminator if you're sleeping on the streets, card thrown in front of me saying, oh, my wife, child and I are living on the streets, please can you give me some money?
	And he went around putting them all on the tray tables.
	Doesn't speak English, needs a card.
	No, exactly, yeah.
	piss off.
	Yeah.
	The government faced criticism after reports that Manston was holding migrants, including families, for four weeks in breach of the law because they're meant to be processed within 24 hours.
	But there's just too many people, of course.
	At most, 1,600 migrants should be at the processing centre at any one time.
	The MP for the area said the figure was more like 4,000 on Monday.
	The BBC spoke to one migrant who says he was left stranded at Victoria Station Tuesday night.
	John, not his real name of course, said he spent 21 days at Manston, sleeping on a mattress in a tent of 150 people.
	Daniel Abbas, who was volunteering with the Under One Sky charity, traitor that evening, spotted the group.
	The men, who he understood to be from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, I'm sure that's what they told you, were all wearing identity bracelets with QR codes on their wrists.
	They appeared to have been issued by the So now, basically, the detention centres are so full that they're just spilling over onto London streets...
	And they're wandering around like vagrants with their possessions in bags, expecting to be picked up at any time and dropped off at a hotel at our best.
	So I have no sympathy for these people.
	Why?
	Because here's the fact sheet the government put out yesterday while we were recording the podcast.
	Callum and I obviously covered migration.
	Callum did some great citizen's journalism.
	When you read out the actual stats and statistics, it just shows the scale of the issue.
	So small boat crossings in the channel, driven by both a global migration crisis, solve it by not letting them in, and organised crime, solve it by cracking down on them, have been growing and are causing an unprecedented strain on the asylum system.
	As reported to the Home Affairs Select Committee on the 26th October 2022, up to that point this year, 38,000 people have arrived in the channel by small boat.
	Breaking down how this has been changing, the demographics of the contents of these boats have been changing, From May to September 2022, Albanian nationals alone comprised 42% of small boat crossings, with 11,102 Albanians arriving by small boats within those five months.
	Hang on, before we go on, what war was going on in Albania again?
	None.
	They're actually a NATO member, and British people go on holiday there.
	Right.
	So isn't it amazing that we set up this nice progressive asylum system, and people start abusing it?
	We will get on to later just the rates of acceptance, which is the main problem with this country.
	It totals to about 1-2% of the entire Albanian male population who have arrived here, as Harry mentioned to you the other week.
	In contrast, over the whole of 2021, there are a total of 815 Albanian nationals who arrived by this method.
	So small boat crossings the Albanians have ventured on.
	It says in here, actually, Albania is considered a safe country and the country is listed as a designated state under Section 94 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act of 2002.
	So it's not like even a recent act has outlawed their immigration here.
	That means that, quote, there is in general a state or no part of serious risk or...
	I'll start that again.
	In general, in that state or part of it, no serious risk of prosecution of persons entitled to reside in the state or part of it.
	So basically, you're not going to be persecuted by the government, so you shouldn't be coming here.
	Nonetheless, 7,627 Albanians, ending the year June 2022, claimed asylum in the UK, more than double the number in the preceding year, 3,578.
	Surely this is a five-minute job then?
	They'll be like, oh, we're from Albania, we're claiming asylum.
	No risk of persecution in Albania, back you go.
	You would think that, though the current grant rate is 53% positive applications compared to 76% for all other nationalities.
	So they're saying, oh, don't worry, we're letting less of them in.
	It's like, but there's still 53% of them that are coming in.
	That's over half from the country which is not on the asylum register.
	So why are you accepting any of them?
	Don't worry.
	The grant rate also very significantly will have broken bound by gender.
	Only 14% of Albanian adult males whose cases were concluded in the last year were granted protection, whereas the children and female Albanian asylum seekers' grant rate is currently 90%.
	Okay, fine.
	Yeah.
	So, unfortunately though, most Albanians crossing the Channel on the small boats are male.
	In 2018 to June 2022, 95% of small boat arrivals were male.
	We're letting 90% of the women in, which is about 15 of them.
	Yeah.
	Over the same period, only 35% of those Albanian nationals whose cases were decided and who were granted for protection were male.
	So, they're saying, oh, don't worry, we're only letting the women and children in.
	Well, no, and also, even the women and children, one, they're being trafficked here, sure, but the country itself does not warrant asylum claimants coming from there.
	Yes, zero people from Albania should be granted asylum.
	So let's look at this problem on a daily, weekly, and annually scale, shall we?
	None yesterday, apparently.
	No boat migrants at all yesterday.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Scroll down.
	See?
	None that they've counted within 24 hours.
	And I assume it's because the weather was horrible.
	That's about it.
	But last week, 1,766 total.
	Go to the next one, please.
	It's in the next tab.
	There we go.
	That was 990 in a single day on the 29th of October.
	So just in time to run to the Poundland to get Halloween costumes, I'm sure.
	Annually, let's go to the BBC's reporting on this.
	So in 2020, there were 50 Albanians on small boats.
	In 2021, about 800.
	In 2022, about 12,000 so far.
	Of this year's Albanian migrants, 10,000 were single adult men.
	So, there's a bit of a discrepancy from the Home Office's numbers yesterday.
	I'm going to trust the Home Office's, but you can see even the BBC has to report this at this point.
	If you can just show the bar graph, look at all the other countries.
	Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt, Vietnam, Kuwait.
	Others are not recorded.
	Don't believe any of them, frankly.
	Well, of course, there's that massive war going on in Egypt.
	Oh, no, wait.
	Vietnam?
	No.
	Yeah, Iran.
	Well, there's that really progressive revolution happening at the moment, so I guarantee they're running for the schoolgirls, taking off their jobs, I'm sure.
	Some Albanian migrants are believed to have made asylum claims on the ground they've been trafficked into the UK. Albanians are the most commonly referred nationality for trafficking support in the UK. I would wonder, why are you creating perverse incentives for them to keep doing it then?
	Yes.
	In 2022, in the months...
	They're literally making it a profitable endeavour.
	Yeah, you're basically subsidising criminal gangs by allowing them to have an avenue to drop people off and guarantee success.
	Like, you're creating their marketing materials for them.
	You are part of their business model.
	Yeah.
	So, until June, only 440 people were actually returned to Albania.
	Almost all were single adult men.
	And Albanians represent the highest number of foreign offenders sent back in the year March 2022.
	So only the highest number that we've actually sent back is 440.
	That's of any nationality.
	A thousand arrive a week.
	Yeah.
	990 the other day.
	Great.
	So, two to one ratio in a single day versus months and months and months.
	So that's less than 4% of all arrivals this year have been deported back.
	Three decades after the collapse of the Enverhoxas dictatorship and the opening of Albania's borders, about 60% of the country's adult population wanted to leave, according to a Gallup poll published in December 2018.
	They cited corruption, low salaries, poor working conditions, and low quality of life as their main reasons.
	And so basically it's become untenable freedom of the BBC to report, yeah, these people aren't fleeing war and persecution.
	It's just so obvious.
	It's just their country sucks.
	Well, whose fault was that?
	Yeah.
	But did you know, apparently the UK barely takes in any asylum claimants.
	If you look at the world on your doorstep, you wouldn't know it, but thanks to the geniuses at the New Statesman, they've done this graph.
	Oh, this is good.
	Per 10,000 population?
	Well, if we can just click on this image, possibly, John, just to enlarge it instead, because they've rather deceptively...
	Created this.
	So, Cyprus is at the top with 152.6 per 10,000.
	The UK is at the bottom of their graph.
	Not at the bottom of the table, because underneath it says, additional 13 rows not shown.
	So we're technically slap bang in the middle.
	Right.
	But they very deceptively edited it for Twitter.
	But also, we have quite a large population compared to Liechtenstein, Slovenia, Malta, Austria and Cyprus.
	We're also on the backside end of the entirety of Europe.
	We're an isolated island nation, and you have to cross through all the others to get here.
	But most importantly, it's not how many people...
	The applicants per 100,000, sorry.
	It's how many successful applicants.
	That's more important.
	We go to the Home Office statistics here.
	The UK has one of the highest refugee acceptance rates at 81%.
	81%.
	Yeah.
	Doesn't matter the country.
	Doesn't matter the reason.
	Doesn't matter whether or not you have documents.
	81% of people who just show up on our doorstep, we just let them in.
	Great!
	I'm sure that has loads of implications for the public purse.
	So, the rate of the same year as the New Statesman's data, which is also really deceptive, because since 2021, the boat numbers have quadrupled.
	So we're going to be letting in 81% of quadruple the statistic anyway.
	And then Rishi Sunak said yesterday at PMQs, don't worry, we've just got to process the asylum claims faster.
	That's the problem.
	Yeah.
	It's the speed of processing.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's the issue.
	It's not that there's too many people.
	Well done for speaking to my...
	They don't have legitimate claims.
	It's that, oh, we just need to get more of them, more of the 81% in within 24 hours.
	So, thankfully, we know who the culprit is.
	It's us.
	Definitely Albanians.
	Because the Albanian Prime Minister has taken to Twitter and also BBC Newsnight.
	Oh, is this the Albanian Prime Minister?
	Yes, it is.
	Wonderful.
	Tweeting like a 12-year-old girl.
	Targeting Albanians as some shamefully did when fighting for Brexit as the cause of Britain's crime and border problems.
	Let's talk about all the drug dealers, I suppose.
	They literally are breaking the law to cross our borders in human trafficking and drug trafficking gangs.
	Yes, but that makes for easy rhetoric and ignores hard facts.
	Repeating the same things and expecting different results is insane.
	Ask Einstein if we can just scroll down so I can read the rest of these plays.
	70% of the 140,000 Albanians who've moved to the UK were living in Italy and Greece.
	Don't care.
	But, but, hang on.
	70% of the 140,000 Albanians who moved to the UK were living in Italy and Greece.
	Alright, so...
	What about the other 40,000?
	But, but it's also, okay, they were living in Italy and Greece.
	Yeah.
	So, why, why are you here?
	Yeah.
	You're in a safe country.
	Yeah, I don't care.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Thanks, I guess.
	Well, you're going to say all the migration into Italy and Greece has made it unsafe.
	Can't talk about that, can we?
	1,200 of them are business people.
	Sorry.
	1,200 of the 140,000 are business people.
	But that's, you know, sure, but I mean, like, you know, human trafficking is a business.
	It's a legal business, but it's...
	It's a very lucrative one, thanks to the UK government.
	Albanians in the UK work hard and pay tax.
	I don't think that they do.
	Check the local holiday inn.
	UK should fight the crime gangs of all nationalities.
	And stop discriminating the Albanians to excuse policy failures.
	You know what?
	We actually are fighting all of the crime gangs of all nationalities.
	It's just these ones happen to all be Albanian.
	Despite making up.
	Albania is a NATO country.
	Thank you for the admission that you're safe.
	And is negotiating with its EU membership.
	It is also a safe country of origin.
	So why are we accepting asylum claimants?
	When Germany had similar problems, it tightened its own systems by letting everyone in.
	The UK can and should do the same, not respond with a rhetoric of crime that ends up punishing the innocent.
	I mean, I actually agree with him, though.
	We can and should do the same.
	We absolutely should.
	We should be like, no, none of you.
	Tack.
	Albania is not a rich country and was for a very long time a victim of empires.
	We never had our own.
	But not our empire, so...
	Sorry, your country sucks, I guess.
	Yeah, what do you want me to do?
	You were conquered by the Ottomans.
	Okay.
	Did you see that they were recently mad at all the migrants being bussed out of the detention centre because when the press took photos of them on the coach, they made the eagle, the two-headed eagle sign?
	No.
	Yeah, so that's the symbol of the united Albania.
	It's supposed to be a nationalist symbol.
	Thumb in the eye to the Ottomans.
	We have a duty to fight crime at home and are doing so resolutely as cooperating closely with others too.
	Ready to work closely with the UK, but facts are crucial.
	So is mutual respect.
	I love that he hits on mutual respect.
	Should we see his exact rhetoric for how he thinks of the UK? Let's go to Victoria Derbyshire on Newsnight.
	In a point where it was impossible to not react because it was really an embarrassment for our civilization to hear all kinds of crazy words being thrown in the air like normality.
	And invasion was The peak.
	Why do you think the British Home Secretary is using words like invasion?
	It's not about one person.
	It's about climate that has been created.
	And it's about finding scapegoats and blaming others, while it's very obvious even from Tirana, which is not near to London, that it's about failed policies.
	It's not about Albanians or aliens or gangsters, but it's about failed policies on borders and on crime.
	I agree.
	I mean, he's not wrong, but this...
	But the failed policies are regarding the Albanians coming in, who are gangsters and criminals.
	The Albanians have done nothing wrong.
	It's you that is the problem.
	And in a way, he's right.
	The Albanians can't be expected not to be gangsters and criminals and not to break into our country.
	It's literally like a burglar on the docket defending himself at trial, saying, well...
	You should have locked your door.
	Exactly.
	It's not my fault.
	You should have had a ring doorbell.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Your wife shouldn't have been wearing her nightdress, I suppose.
	If you can just go to the next one, just because I wanted to annoy you even more.
	What do you think the consequences of that might be for Albanians settled in the UK? Of course, you know, this kind of language for sure doesn't come for good.
	This kind of language is not a policy, is not a program, is not a vision.
	Is nothing but fueling xenophobia and targeting, singling out community and practically going totally against the great British tradition of integrating the minorities.
	Okay, okay.
	Pause it, pause it.
	I just...
	Oh, you're going to appeal to our great British traditions, are you?
	Integrating...
	You've not been here, have you?
	When I am weak, I appeal to freedom because it is your principle.
	When I am strong, I take away your freedom because it is my principle.
	But we have totally failed to integrate the vast number of migrants who have come to Britain.
	Because they're disinterested in doing so.
	Yeah, and they've got no incentive to do so.
	Yeah, they're just economic chances.
	And this whole, oh, you being discriminatory, no, I'm actually not.
	I'm xenophobic against all of them, you know.
	I'm an equal opportunity, don't want you here.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We can just play the last 30 seconds.
	Now it's becoming like, I don't know, like a madhouse.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And who's made it that way?
	You seem pretty angry about this.
	No, I'm not angry at all.
	I'm a big admirer of the United Kingdom.
	I have friends that I'm privileged to have there and I admire everything that Britain represents, but I really am disgusted about this kind of politics that at the end is doomed to fail.
	It's only doomed to fail because all politicians aren't on our side.
	But notice, at no point did he say, Albania is a safe country, don't go.
	I mean, we could stop this at any time.
	Well, one way we could stop this, possibly, if we go to this next tab from, again, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, looking at their international aid, turns out we were giving Albania aid in 2020.
	So the European countries that received ODA in 2020 were Albania, Belarus, Bosnia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine.
	I didn't see anything for 2021 specifically because I looked on their page.
	However, I will say if we don't do anything to stop this and we find out in 2022 statistics that we've been giving money to the Albanians, there will be some kind of widespread outrage among the media commentary.
	Which did you give to Albania?
	It actually didn't say the exact amount.
	Yeah, that's weird.
	Yeah.
	I'm sure that someone smarter than me with numbers would be able to break it down, but it didn't say the exact amount in the paragraph that I found where it said we gave money to Albedia.
	But it's less so about the amount and more about the principle of it.
	Why are we giving money to a nation which is not at war, which is a NATO ally, which is applying for EU membership, and is sending 1-2% of its male population over here just to take our money without telling them not to?
	Illegally invading the country.
	Yeah.
	So, simple solution to all of this.
	Just don't let them in.
	Don't let them in at all.
	Let them float in the channel as examples as to why you are not allowed in our country.
	I don't care anymore.
	I work hard.
	You don't.
	You're not entitled to my money.
	Stay in Albania.
	If you don't like it, make it better.
	Yeah.
	No sympathy at all.
	Absolutely.
	It's such an obvious grift.
	It's piracy.
	You're literally floating on the seas to come and take my cash.
	And then literally being beggars on the bloody train.
	It's like piss off.
	Anyway, let's talk about the god-emperor of Twitter.
	I am, of course, referring to Elon Musk, who has bought Twitter, taken it over, and now is remaking it in his own image, apparently.
	And that's good news for anyone who actually has a sense of humour, because Elon Musk likes his memes.
	But before we begin, if you want to support us, actually, you don't have to support us to do this one.
	You can just watch this for free.
	Harry and I did a book club on The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt.
	This is a book I've read many times and cite often because it's very pro-conservative, really.
	I'm not going to beat around the bush.
	It really is.
	And it does a very good job of pointing out Why the left are deranged lunatics.
	Because actually, instead of having a full moral experience in their life, they have a very narrow moral experience and don't understand what most people consider to be right and wrong.
	Which is one of the reasons why they can never explain what conservatives actually think morality is.
	But that's free on the website for the next week, I think it is.
	So go watch that.
	It's really good.
	So let's begin with Elon Musk's first day changes.
	Walks in and is like, right, things are going to change around here.
	You're going to, instead of the Twitter sign-up page being the default of what you get when you go to Twitter, he just changed it to the trending tab, which actually is a good idea.
	Why the change?
	Well...
	They think here in The Verge, inside old Twitter, such a decision would have been fought over between teams for weeks.
	But this was the new Twitter.
	As a former executive told me, that's definitely one way to make it clear that you're in charge now.
	So essentially, he's just bypassing all of the internal structures of Twitter that would have argued over this and bickered and blah, blah, blah, and saying, no, all power in Twitter has been centralized into me.
	Because I've purchased the entire platform, I've made it private, no one owns any shares in it now, or almost no one, we'll get to that in a second, and I've dissolved the entire board of directors.
	Right, so it's symbolic more than it is functional.
	Well, yes, but it's also functional, because if you think about it, if you want people to sign up to the platform, why do you just have it as a blank sign-up screen?
	Yeah, true.
	You're showcasing exactly what kind of experience they're going to get.
	Exactly.
	Elon's actually saying, well, look, we can give them the most popular content on the platform, and that will encourage people to sign up, which it probably will.
	He does need to change the trending tab, though, because it's always BuzzFeed, BBC articles bumped to the top.
	Sometimes.
	It was today.
	Yeah, sometimes it is.
	It's not always that way.
	But if you go to the next one, as I said, he's dissolved the entire Twitter board, which is hilarious.
	Made himself the sole director in a recent filing, which means that's it.
	It's just Elon Musk calling the shots.
	In perpetuity, it seems.
	Except for one person.
	One person has apparently retained a stake in Twitter, which is Jack Dorsey.
	I think I can guess as to why.
	Go on.
	I think they're going to make a federated system.
	That's how he's going to get Trump back on the platform.
	So it means that if you're banned on someone's Twitter node network, you have your own connected website that can't be deplatformed by central Twitter, and so you can still be accessible to people on the platform.
	That's why he wants to make that all-in-one app.
	Yeah, Jack Dorsey has been saying things like this for quite some time.
	And he, in fact, admitted that centralizing this was a mistake.
	Yeah, he wants a blockchain social media platform.
	Yes.
	But also, it seems that Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk, you know, are friends.
	And they do seem rather cut from the same cloth, don't they?
	You know, the sort of nerdy tech bros who want to do interesting things.
	And so that's interesting.
	And I've long held that I think Jack Dorsey was kind of being held hostage, actually.
	So, anyway.
	Twitter somehow think they're going to be able to get Elon to do what they want, though.
	And they sent him this email, which is, Hey Elon, you've got a course to do within 30 days to teach you how to manage Twitter and become a Twitter manager?
	This is a mandatory course?
	Right.
	Which is mildly hilarious.
	Who had the balls to send him that?
	I don't know, but if I were you, I'd find out and get just on the spot.
	Just be like, right, you're gone.
	Bye.
	So people are like, okay, Elon walks in a couple of days and he's like, right, starts messing around.
	And people are like, well, what's going on?
	What's the messed up thing?
	Most messed up thing at Twitter right now?
	And Elon's response is, there seems to be 10 people managing for every one person coding.
	Did he find them all in the free breakfast bar area or the yoga rooms or the...
	Doubtless.
	What I love about this is that Elon is basically exposing Twitter to capitalism.
	Because obviously before, Twitter is going to have various, shall we call them, angel investors, who are going to keep the platform afloat to make sure that the political control of the platform remains aligned in a certain direction.
	And of course, Elon seems to be a businessman.
	Well, so, when he took it private, I believe Vanguard, State Street, BlackRock lost their portion of shares, and that means that Twitter is no longer beholden to ESGs, which means it's no longer subsidised for doing woke climate nonsense, whereas now it's actually market competitive, and I assume all of his business decisions will be in that vein.
	It seems that way.
	I mean, as you say, everyone lost their shares, so it's literally just Elon and Jack Dorsey doing what they want with it now.
	Which is fantastic.
	And so people have been complaining, well, Elon Musk has been like, he owns Twitter and he's been, quote, spreading speculation.
	And he's been thinking, oh, I wonder if this is the case.
	Did you see that Biden got fact-checked?
	We'll get to that.
	Oh, brilliant.
	Okay.
	And so they were complaining that basically he tweeted about Paul Pelosi being attacked.
	There's a Democrat narrative and another narrative, a Republican narrative.
	I don't know.
	I haven't looked into it.
	I don't care.
	He may have been either his drug dealer or a gay prostitute.
	Yeah, exactly.
	He cannot be confirmed or denied.
	Exactly.
	I don't know the facts on that one, so we'll move on.
	Elon just replied to this by saying, no, don't be ridiculous.
	I did not tweak it.
	I linked to the New York Times.
	I don't post fake news.
	Anyway, so...
	They, after Elon contradicted a Democrat narrative, hashtag a message to Elon Musk started trending because of a lot of very solidly people.
	Free speech, of course, does not include disinformation and hate speech.
	Yes, it does.
	Yeah, I think it actually does, believe it or not.
	But these people revealed themselves to be absolutely lovely.
	Here's a representative sample.
	I didn't realise you had access to my DMs, Cole.
	Also, accidental endorsement.
	Lots of accidental endorsements coming from the left these days.
	But yeah, it's very nice people.
	And so they were like, oh look, we can make fake news trend as well.
	Hashtag Trump is dead.
	Okay.
	You can have your, as Michael Malice points out, you can have your little meltdown over Donald Trump.
	That's a great graphic as well, because it's literally him loving Renfri in their heads.
	Exactly.
	It's really childish.
	But the thing you'll notice about this is the impotence of it.
	That's what all of this screams.
	I'm angry.
	I'm going to insult you on Twitter.
	Oh, no, you're not even going to ban me.
	The complete, profound impotence.
	Oh, look, Trump is dead.
	Oh, we treated some fake news.
	Okay, good for you.
	It's like when Rory and I went to the LGB Alliance protest, and we were very nice and cordial to the protesters just asking if they wanted to chat.
	And a couple of the very effeminate they-them protesters started insulting jacket linings, saying you look like various celebrities, and these, like, catty, underhanded comments.
	And I'm like...
	Thanks.
	I'm not as insecure as you are.
	These don't bite towards me like you think they do.
	It's the...
	I suppose the...
	Embarrassed cattiness of people that realise they're under the boot heel but desperately don't want to be.
	Yes.
	That's exactly it.
	It is...
	Again, I can't think of a better word than impotent.
	This goes nowhere and does nothing.
	And...
	They can keep crying.
	So anyway, moving on.
	Elon had been obviously saying something behind the scenes about charging for verified checkmarks.
	Is this their idiot tax?
	Yes, literally an idiot tax.
	Twitter is strongly considering making verified users pay $4.99 a month to keep their badges.
	Many questions remained, and this was a few days ago.
	And then you had people like Hank Green coming out and saying, well, the hilarious thing is, I'm a current Twitter Blue subscriber, and I'll need to unsubscribe to make verification conditional on having a Twitter Blue subscription because paying for a checkmark is 100% cringe.
	Oh, and having a checkmark in this DNA isn't cringe, yeah?
	As part of the media apparatus who have been ordained as the aristocracy of the platform, sure.
	That's the point, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	It's like, hang on a second, why, if the blue checkmark is not a mark of status, Hank...
	Why do you care?
	You already pay for Twitter Blue.
	They sound like, as you said, with the resentfulness of being rejected, they sound like Syndrome from The Incredibles.
	I'm going to make everyone super, and then no one will be.
	I'm going to take away the power of it.
	But that's the thing.
	Like, Hank, you already pay for Twitter Blue, so what difference does it make if it becomes conditional?
	Oh, it's cringe.
	Why?
	Because suddenly the verified checkmark won't be a badge of status and honour anymore.
	And that's what you're upset about, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Come on, let's be real here.
	Badge of regime fealty.
	Exactly.
	Who's inside the club?
	And Hank's like, well, I wanted to feel like I was inside the club.
	Not anymore, Hank.
	So it turned out that Elon was speculating it could be $20 a month.
	To keep your verification.
	And thinking about it, I mean, if these people are as addicted to Twitter as they appear to be, and they are that concerned with having this status symbol, I think they'll pay $20.
	You can charge them a hell of a lot more.
	I think they would.
	And of course, this is the hilarious bit.
	Team building was told they would all be fired if they don't meet a launch deadline of November the 7th.
	Well, it's quite the fireless underneath their backside, isn't it?
	Yeah, exactly.
	If you go back to the previous one, John, just quickly.
	I love this.
	It's like, right, I want $20 a month verification for all blue check marks, and if it's not done by the end of the week, you're all fired.
	I love this attitude.
	This is real, real capitalist hours going on at Twitter today.
	And so Stephen King, worth $500 million, just in case you're wondering, decided he would tweet $20 a month to keep my blue check.
	F that, they should pay me.
	If this gets instituted, I'm gone like Enron, which is an ancient reference that no one gets.
	As if, one, you don't have the money to do so.
	Two, might I just remind anyone who still holds a candle to Stephen King, whether for his political takes or even his writing, if you haven't read it, there is some very suspicious stuff going on in the sewers of that book.
	Yeah, yes there is, but let's move on.
	So anyway, Elon Musk replies to this, saying, well, we need to pay the bills somehow.
	Twitter cannot entirely rely on its advertisers.
	How about eight dollars?
	I love this haggling.
	Multi-millionaires and billionaires haggling over $12 a month.
	But I love the way he just throws out, how about $8?
	Stephen King doesn't reply to this because, of course, the point being, you know, he's kind of into this sort of like, I'm not a prostitute.
	What about a million dollars?
	Well, maybe for a million dollars.
	Well, what about $500,000?
	You know, it's kind of gotten to that sort of territory at this point.
	Yeah, we've found the left's, funnily enough that you mentioned Hyatt earlier, we found the left's one threshold for moral purity.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Where they can't be bought.
	But I think Stephen King, like, I'm not paying $20, they should pay me.
	He's like, right, okay, at least we're haggling now.
	You know, so Elon Musk is changing it up.
	And so Elon then goes, look, I'll explain this in longer form because you're not getting this hilarious move.
	So he tweets out, power to the people.
	Has he deleted it?
	Oh.
	No, there we go.
	That was strange.
	Twitter's current lords and peasants system for who has or who doesn't have a blue checkmark is BS. Power to the people.
	Blue for $8 a month.
	Price adjusted by country, proportionate purchasing power parity.
	You will also get priority in replies, mentions, and search, which is essential to defeat spam and scam.
	Ability to post long video and audio, half as many ads, and paywall bypass for publishers willing to work with us, which we would, Elon.
	This will give Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators.
	There will be a secondary tag below the name for someone who is a public figure, which is already the case of politicians.
	Right.
	That's a great idea.
	Kind of.
	My only concern is it's all going to be pornography.
	It's going to be the new OnlyFans.
	It's going to be Pornography and LotusEast.com.
	No, people use this loads.
	Because what Elon's setting up here is kind of a sort of competitor to things like Substack, to things like OnlyFans, things like YouTube memberships with private videos and things like that.
	So actually, this is quite aggressive and quite a good idea.
	I'm totally on board and I'm loving the chaos, to be honest.
	Let things go.
	And I like the framing, too.
	The current lords and peasants system.
	Because that's what it is.
	And they know that's what it is.
	That's what Hank Green's getting upset about.
	That's what Stephen King's getting upset about.
	That's what all of the verified checkmarks are getting upset about.
	And that's why we can refer to them as a class of verified checkmarks.
	Yeah, they're upset that he's built a factory on their fiefdom.
	Exactly.
	They are looking at this and going, well, hang on a second.
	This is going to be a great equaliser, where anyone, any of you new men, can just buy a very fair check.
	Oh, you'd be in my private club.
	And that's what they're upset about.
	And Elon has accurately characterised it as such, and is moving forward and having fun with it as well.
	If you go to the next one, he's been posting a lot of memes about this.
	This is Halloween costume.
	It is Halloween costume.
	But this is just a genuinely nice series of jokes.
	Just, yeah, okay, I've decided it's $8.
	Why?
	Because of the joke with Stephen, because I was haggling with Stephen King.
	Why not?
	He changed his Twitter bio again from the chief twit to the Twitter complaint hotline operator, which is great.
	And then you've got people like AOC who started moulding.
	Socialism?
	Can I have anyone in my socialist club?
	LeMao, a billionaire, earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that free speech is actually an $8 a month subscription plan.
	Well, it isn't, because free speech predates Twitter.
	Free speech?
	What are we talking about free speech?
	No one's talking about free speech ASC. We're talking about you paying to be in the special club, and everyone else paying to be in the special club, which is basically what Elon replies with.
	Your feedback's appreciated.
	Now pay $8.
	And she's going to pay it too.
	She's not going to want to lose her check mark.
	I'm going to always chew on her simping photo.
	Ah, who cares?
	Right, next one.
	Sorry, give them the next one, yeah.
	So, Elon's just, again, keeps pushing these memes, just like, $8 for a Twitter verification, so much for free speech, you can still use Twitter for free just without the benefits.
	Angry face.
	Oh, yes.
	But he has been retweeting other people who have been observing correctly, either retweeting or replying to him.
	I think this is a retweet.
	The entitled elite is not mad that he has to pay $8 a month.
	They're mad that anyone can pay $8 a month.
	That's exactly the point.
	The barrier between their class and the peasant class is being violated, which is what the socialist AOC is so concerned about.
	Sam Harris's very weird objection to this.
	Yeah, well, you know, something populist is happening, so Sam Harris has to oppose it.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next one.
	More memes.
	Just, again...
	Look at me.
	We are the celebrities now.
	You love to see it.
	You love to see it.
	But the interesting thing, and I think this is where it becomes very important, is what Elon Musk is doing here by making Twitter a subscription model is taking the power outside of the hands of the advertisers because that's what they've been trying to bully him with this whole time.
	We can get to the next one.
	Again, Elon is retweeting someone else here, Eric Voorhees.
	Let's remember that Elon Musk charging $8 for premium Twitter experience means that Twitter becomes the product again instead of you.
	And if $8 is too much, you're free to remain as the product.
	Because that has been the case the entire time with the internet and social media.
	If the product is free, you are the product.
	And great point.
	And the fact that Elon Musk is taking the most addictive platform and making that something that people are going to pay for, well, they're going to pay for it.
	And again, more memes, because why not?
	There was a reply from Your Movie Sucks to this, which I was like, oh, Adam, you're missing the point, mate.
	He's like, oh, it's cringed that he's posting soy jacks.
	I was like, no, I think it's hilarious, to be honest.
	Well, then doesn't that just turn you into the bottom soy jack?
	It's like, no, don't post the soy jack.
	Kind of, yeah.
	Yeah, kind of.
	Anyway, so moving on, yeah.
	Elon is allegedly planning to charge users to view video content on Twitter.
	To challenge...
	OnlyFans, yes.
	Yeah.
	But also challenge us.
	So we're going to have to sign up to that.
	But I don't want to be posting videos on the same network as Pornhub.
	Well...
	We're not going to have a choice.
	No, I suppose not.
	According to the Washington Post, an internal Twitter email revealed the plans.
	When a creator composes a tweet with a video, they can enable a paywall once the video has been added.
	The proposed move would mean creators who post explicit clips will be able to put up their own paywalls, charging as little as $1 for people to be able to view their footage.
	So yeah, undercutting OnlyFans there.
	Lol.
	And as they also point out, 13% of all the content on the site is pornographic.
	Anyway, moving back to what's going on behind the scenes.
	Apparently, tomorrow, Elon's firing half of Twitter staff, according to Bloomberg.
	Right.
	Just tomorrow, just coming right.
	Thanos.
	Ending all remote work.
	That's a smart idea.
	I will say there is a major difference in morale boosting if you're in a decent workplace culture.
	Yes.
	You're all going into the office and half of you getting fired.
	Also, the verified checkmark's paying $8.
	It's like Heath Ledger's Joker just snapping the pool cue over.
	We're having tryouts.
	I love this.
	Anyway, so they are complaining about this, obviously.
	Musk has owned Twitter for less than a week and he's already sent a clear message.
	The platform is about to get worse for queer people.
	You can get to the next one, John.
	And then you've just got this guy going, gay guy here, having the time of my life, FYI. And Musk has replied.
	Yeah.
	So that is an actual verified Twitter employee.
	There you go.
	But of course, Jeff Bezos' private newspaper has complaints about this.
	It's time to abandon Twitter, people.
	Thank you, wine mum.
	But also, you work for Jeff Bezos, mate.
	Yeah.
	Don't really care about your opinion, frankly.
	You know, if we're going to have, like, you know, the sort of...
	It's, what was it, with the standard oil.
	You know, it's the sort of, like, new oil baron walls.
	Robber barons, yeah.
	Yeah, robber barons, that's it.
	If we're going to have that, at least we've got one that's fun.
	Well, it wasn't...
	Amazon Web Services is responsible for deplatforming Parler in the first place.
	Yep.
	So you just want hegemonic dominance of the public square.
	Yes, exactly.
	Which is precisely what they're arguing for.
	Quote from the article, as we approach the midterm elections amid deepening concerns that were teetering on the brink of civil war.
	Yeah, because the insider just exposed how Joe Biden was literally meeting with Twitter twice a month to censor direct accounts.
	We'll get to that.
	But interestingly, that's her view.
	That's her framing.
	We're on the brink of civil war.
	So what she's saying is Tim Pool is right.
	The United States is catering on the brink of civil war.
	And I would suggest that it's because a bunch of lunatic radicals have taken over the Democrat Party and are trying to destroy the country.
	And Musk is missing an opportunity to be useful himself and to change the world for good.
	Maybe he's on the other side of the civil war.
	Maybe he doesn't agree with what the left is doing, which is why he's doing all of this in the first place.
	So she says that maybe more regular folks will abandon Twitter altogether and return to human exchanges with neighbours and friends.
	It's what we need.
	And leaving the orcs to fight amongst themselves wouldn't be the worst thing.
	Let them live amongst themselves.
	Looks like Twitter's back on the menu, boys.
	Exactly.
	Go!
	Go!
	Clear yourselves out, as a bunch of no-name celebrities have done.
	I did put an extra link in here, but don't worry, like, a bunch of celebrities you've never heard of have cleared themselves off Twitter.
	It's like, who the hell are you people?
	Like, forget the article up, actually.
	Like, I don't recognise a single one of these!
	Oh, the middle one's the villain in She-Hulk.
	Right, okay.
	Great.
	Like, if you scroll down and get some names, just so I can actually tell you who they are.
	Right, um...
	Someone from...
	Grey's Anatomy Creation?
	Shonda Rhimes?
	Never heard of them.
	Sarah Barriellis?
	Never heard of them.
	Like, I don't know who any of you people are.
	Jamila Jamil?
	Bye!
	That's good.
	Yep.
	Dreamwalk woman.
	I don't know who you are.
	Goodbye, though.
	Well done.
	Deport yourselves from Twitter.
	Anyway, so Elon Musk.
	Getting to the stuff that I think is important, because of course it affects me.
	Elon Musk tweeted, Twitter is simply the most interesting place on the internet.
	That's why you're reading this tweet right now.
	In a way he's right, but in a way he's also wrong.
	It will be the most interesting place on the internet when the band are allowed to return.
	And of course, how or when will the band be allowed to return?
	Well, we don't know quite yet.
	But Elon tweeted, I talked to civil society leaders.
	If you can scroll up a bit, just so you can see the previous tweet on this one.
	Jonathan Greenblatt, Yale, Eisenstadt, and a bunch of others, the NAACP, the ADL, and a bunch of other alphabet...
	The Bush Centre, which is really important.
	Also, do you know who Joel Roth is?
	The name rings a bell.
	He is a trust and safety member of Twitter staff.
	He also, Jack Posobiec, shared an old delete screenshot of his.
	He says about the...
	Someone complained about the Women's March.
	He said, Yes, that person in the pink hat is clearly a bigger threat to your brand of feminism than actual Nazis in the White House.
	So he calls all Trump supporters and the administration Nazis.
	And Elon is still allowing him to stay there.
	Yes.
	So let's hope he's in the half of the staff that just get booted out.
	Well, we'll find out tomorrow, won't we?
	But he met with all of the usual sort of alphabet organizations.
	Go back to the other one a sec, John.
	Just still on that sec.
	Because, of course, these are professional grievance mongers.
	They've come to...
	He's going to talk about how Twitter will continue to combat hate and harassment and enforce its election integrity policies.
	Twitter will not allow anyone who's deplatformed for violating Twitter rules back on the platform until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take a few more weeks.
	So we can expect, hopefully, Trump and yours truly back on there in a few weeks.
	Just use First Amendment standards plus doxing, and that's a simple way of doing it.
	That would be the perfect way of doing it, in fact.
	And it's the kind of way that perhaps Elon would actually do.
	We don't know.
	I'm very sceptical.
	We will find out.
	But we have insider information from the meeting between Elon Musk and the ADN NAACP, and this is quite interesting.
	So, as Hendy say, they're waiting to see whether Elon Musk follows on from his comments, because he's apparently, he was apparently very, you know, he's like, oh yeah, I'm very concerned about your concerns.
	I'm very interested.
	And they're like, well, we'll wait and see whether he follows through on his comments with action.
	He seemed to be listening.
	He seemed to be earnest.
	But he's also shown himself to be inconsistent.
	We were judged by his deeds and not his words.
	The group also emphasized the need for Musk himself to set the tone for users, which if the shitpostings go by, seems that he is.
	After taking control of Twitter, Musk shared then deleted a fake news story about the recent attack on Paul Pelosi.
	Well, we'll wait until the facts about that come out before we decide it's fake news, I think.
	Who's the third man?
	Though the group didn't...
	Great question.
	Though the group didn't specifically discuss the tweet, it did emphasise that, quote, with great power comes great responsibility, said Yale Eisenstadt, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League.
	Eisenstadt said, he specifically said, and these are his words, that he does not want Twitter to be a hate amplifier.
	Lol.
	Leftists are in real trouble then, aren't they?
	The Coalition approached Musk with three key requests.
	That the company not restore the accounts of anyone who was previously deplatformed until it has set up a transparent process for doing so.
	A big red button just reactivates all of them.
	Yes.
	That would be very transparent, actually.
	Livestream it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Livestream it.
	God, that would be good, actually.
	That would be great for them.
	Yeah.
	The second is that the company continues to prohibit election lies, denial, even after Election Day.
	Okay, so Stacey Abrams has banned them.
	And Hillary Clinton.
	And, I mean, there's dozens of Democrats.
	That's Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Jerry Nadler.
	Oh, actually, I'm suddenly on board with this.
	Yeah, no, no.
	Great point by the ADL here.
	And Twitter includes the voices of civil rights leaders and communities that have faced hate-fuelled violence in this forthcoming content moderation council.
	So basically what they're arguing really is, give us control of your platform, please.
	Yep.
	Or...
	Or what?
	He gets deplatformed from the Google Play and Apple stores.
	Maybe, maybe, but actually what they're arguing is if he doesn't do this, the Civil Rights Coalition will not let up on its pressure campaign, which includes calling on advertisers to pull out of Twitter if Musk reduces content moderation on the platform.
	That's interesting, isn't it?
	And so, if Elon actually does shift Twitter into a subscription model, well...
	Yeah, I agree.
	That would be a great way to circumvent it.
	The only problem is, how are you going to build the software that allows it to be downloaded onto phones when the software providers themselves make the phones, and they are in bed with these exact kind of activist groups?
	Well, that's a great point.
	As you point out, rightfully, Elon is pulling on a thread that is connected to a whole spiderweb of other issues, and the question is, who can pull hardest?
	Who's going to give first?
	I don't know.
	Anyway, the changes to Twitter are already palpable.
	For example, the White House is getting fact-checked, which is hilarious because, of course, Biden never got fact-checked before Elon bought the platform.
	They posted something that was untrue.
	They got fact-checked and then they deleted it because they're like, oh my god, on this fact-check, it's not supposed to happen to us, is it?
	It's like, yes, it's happening to you because Biden is an An unremitted liar who lies every single day of his life and doesn't even know that he's lying.
	For example, recently he said his son died in Iraq.
	Yeah.
	Not true.
	Don't know why he said it.
	Why would he say it?
	He said that twice now.
	He died of cancer.
	Yeah.
	I mean, don't get me wrong.
	Sad that he's lost his son.
	Yeah.
	Why are you lying about it?
	Probably should have treated the other one a little bit better.
	Yes.
	But anyway, he lies about everything all the time, and now he's getting fact-checked for us, so they're deleting it.
	But the question is, will Twitter still take instruction on censorship from the US government?
	Because we learned the other day that Vijaya Gad, who was the Trust and Safety Council executive who was fired on the first day, the woman who suspended me from Twitter...
	I met with the Department of Homeland Security to discuss censorship plans.
	Apparently the platforms have got to get comfortable with the government.
	Well, actually they don't.
	That's what the First Amendment is in the United States.
	So actually they don't need to get comfortable with the government.
	So the question is, will Elon repudiate and do what he thinks is best for Twitter rather than what the US government thinks is best?
	And I just thought I'd finish this with a remarkable statement.
	The ACLU had said something sensible.
	They're like, oh yes.
	The government shouldn't be deciding for what's true or false.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I agree, ACLU. I just didn't expect you to say it.
	Yeah, we covered this story at length on Tuesday.
	The rabbit hole is incredibly deep and I'm not optimistic about the Republicans doing anything about it after the midterms, but this is seriously some grounds for some indictments.
	However, my...
	Conspiracy theory.
	Was that Elon, when he went to buy it the first time, it wasn't just financial spider web he found himself in.
	He may have seen, under pressure of NDA, the fact that they had federal government contracts, and he was thinking, I do not want to have to deal with this.
	So it was only that he was sued into buying it that allows him to...
	But I'm glad he's got it, and I'm glad that they're screeching about the changes that he's making, and if he is sensible, he will get out from under the heel of the advertiser boycott, because Twitter is a large platform.
	Elon's the richest man in the world.
	You can make this work.
	See you on there.
	If you do come back, it'd be so much fun.
	I swear to God, if he lets me back on, it'd be great.
	Oh dear, one second.
	There we go.
	Oh, lovely.
	Just going to take a quick sip.
	This whole thing though, it's like...
	Elon must be aware of the scope of the powers that are looking at him at this point.
	I don't know whether the memeing is a smokescreen or a pressure release valve.
	I'll be happy to see.
	I saw an interview with his ex-wife.
	My wife had shared it, actually.
	She was saying basically she thinks he's just autistic.
	Was this the one from Centrinian's?
	I don't know.
	I can't remember.
	It was his ex-wife.
	One of his ex-wives was just saying, look, I think he's just autistic.
	He doesn't really understand.
	People have opinions and doesn't care about them.
	When are we offering him a job?
	Yeah, exactly.
	He's our guy.
	Welcome to my show!
	That's the case for far too many Millennials and Gen Zs these days.
	Let's do some myth-busting to fight back against the leftist propaganda against No Nut November, shall we?
	Because it turns out that if you support it, you're literally Hitler.
	Big brain take.
	When you do eventually quit it and find the woman of your dreams, you can go over to our website and subscribe to get some advice from Patrice O'Neill on exactly how to best treat your woman.
	I wanted to go down to the comments on this specifically just because, well, there was some interesting stuff from a gentleman named Scott Smith and he said that my ethic around...
	The universal brotherhood, essentially.
	So, like, don't poison the well by sleeping with all the women that your friends might end up wanting to make their wives is amountable to leaving the campsite as clean as you could find it.
	And I advise people also, if they subscribe, just scroll through some of the insightful comments and get some wisdom from our viewers, because we always appreciate your feedback.
	Anyway, on to the first article, shall we?
	There's loads of it as well.
	Yeah, I know.
	Great interaction.
	Well, people seem very impassioned about dating issues these days because you either pay your wisdom forwards or we're trying to collectively crowdsource an instinct that has been lost to time.
	And unfortunately, porn has been a massive part of that.
	So, let's go through the rules, according to Metro, shall we?
	The origins of this particular challenge can be traced back to 2011, the first recorded entry of the challenge on forums like Reddit and 4chan.
	It's now a pretty widespread affair, with strict rules as outlined by Urban Dictionary.
	You cannot have sex, which I don't think was meant to be a proper rule, but there we go.
	You cannot have sex?
	Yeah, that seems silly to me.
	I thought it was you couldn't masturbate.
	Yeah, that's the version that I've heard.
	I thought the point was to try and get you to have sex.
	Yeah, to try and get into a relationship.
	We're going to ignore the leftist media's version of this.
	Also, their version says you're allowed to watch pornography, which doesn't make any sense.
	Exactly.
	So, you see how the leftist propaganda is already taking hold.
	It's like, oh, don't worry, guys.
	You can deny yourself the function of it, but you've still got to stay hooked on porn.
	I'm married, so I've never done this, and I've never thought about this in any way, shape, or form.
	But I've always had this sort of cultural osmosis.
	You don't masturbate.
	You don't look at porn.
	It's about self-control and having a bit of dignity.
	Yeah, it's to break you out of that mindset, which is stopping you from pursuing a relationship in the first place.
	So...
	direct thing from the original post but if it is that's not the way it has evolved culturally because i think it's been um an annual reminder as to all of the relationships lost to pornography addiction and try and get you to be accountable to your fellow men to try and break that stranglehold poor choice of words on my part You don't have three strikes.
	You have one shot at it.
	If you miss, you're out.
	Again, if you've already fallen off the wagon, at least give it another try, please.
	And it just summarizes with, look man, just don't service yourself within 30 days.
	Seems pretty sensible.
	The article then goes on to paradoxically blame increasing rates of erectile dysfunction since the advent of easily accessible internet porn on too little masturbation.
	Oh yeah, that's the problem.
	Yeah, definitely.
	You're definitely not cooming enough.
	If we go to the next one, we can see how...
	I'll tell you what, man.
	I remember when I was young, and if there's one thing you realise, it's not getting laid, it really makes it difficult to get an erection, man.
	That's just so ridiculous.
	You find one playboy in the woods and it's the end of it all.
	You're basically Varus from Game of Thrones.
	It's so ridiculous.
	What a stupid statement.
	But like a lot of things in modernity, the best thing to do is to trust the scientific experts, of course.
	And so there's been a lot of articles coming out this year with this...
	Very not childish at all thumbnail, which says that the experts, the medical experts, are telling you that No Not November is actually terrible for you, mainly on the grounds of prostate cancer and things like that.
	So, if you do engage in No November, you're going to get cancer and die.
	If you don't masturbate all the time, you're going to get cancer, lads.
	And ironically, this is the argument of multiple articles that I found, unfortunately.
	So, men are missing out on health benefits if they participate in No Not November this year, according to...
	Just a quick sign, like, you're 23 years old, you're not getting prostate cancer, don't worry.
	I'm 24 now, I'm too far gone.
	Malik said, while proponents of the month-long abstinence from masturbation often portray it as beneficial for your mind and body, there's no substantial research to back those claims.
	So there's no substantial research to back up the fact that if you aren't a porn addict, you're not somehow mentally and physically better.
	I don't need substantial research.
	It came to me in a dream.
	Specifically, dry one.
	Malik told Insider that in addition to making you feel good...
	Servicing yourself can reduce stress and may even decrease your risk for prostate cancer.
	Oh yeah, just sit inside.
	May, may decrease your risk.
	You're doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
	Also, reduce stress.
	Dopamine is like the mechanism for porn and masturbation addiction.
	And dopamine is the excitement hormone.
	So if you are constantly pursuing it, there's a reason why some men, when they get...
	Anxious or stressed, because they've been inculcated to watch pornography and feel excited, their first thought is to, oh, quick, I'm in a dangerous scenario.
	It's not fight or flight.
	They immediately think of pornography.
	It's rewiring your brain away from its natural instincts.
	Not good.
	But it's also just...
	It can make you feel good.
	Oh, brilliant.
	Oh, I guess we better do it then.
	I'm so glad that I'm a porn addict because I feel...
	And when they say feel good, what they mean is it gives you immediate gratification.
	Okay, yeah.
	But then, again, after days, after months, after months, then you're just this disgusting, sallow porn addict who no one wants to talk to and hasn't spoken to another human being in months.
	Yeah, well, heroin addicts on the street definitely feel good in the moment, but they're not abiding by Jordan Peterson's rule of treat yourself as if you're someone worth caring for.
	Exactly.
	And then that fashions you into someone who can care for someone else.
	And hey, presto, you've got the formulation for a relationship, haven't you?
	But lots of other outlets don't think that.
	Again, let's go to Ladbible, shall we?
	Men who've decided they're going to participate in No Nut November this month might want to listen to a health expert's warnings first.
	No Nut November means no masturbation and no sex.
	They also just defer to a YouTuber here.
	Right, okay.
	Like, health expert.
	YouTuber.
	What's really interesting, I'm sure there have been times in my life where I've gone like, you know, a week or something or two weeks without masturbating just because I've been on like a trip with the family or something, and so, you know, you can't.
	And so, you know, it's like no one was ever like, oh God, man, you're going to have to find some private time or else you're in a health risk here.
	Yeah.
	You know, like...
	See, they're itching like a crack addict.
	Exactly.
	Like, oh man, I can feel the cancer growing.
	Yeah.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's absurd.
	But then they go into an insult, and this is the masked-off moment.
	No masturbation, no sex in No Not November, although perhaps a few of the lads planning on doing No Not November might not have had that much sex penciled into the calendar for this month anyway.
	Oh, you're just an insult if you don't like porn.
	Right, that makes sense.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Guess we're just insults.
	Which is ironic, because it's the other way.
	Yeah.
	You're actually an insult if you're totally addicted to porn.
	It's one of the problems.
	Yeah, I guess women really like it when you support an industry based on child abuse, abortion.
	Oh yeah, my wife is always like, have you watched your porn today?
	I'll be disappointed if you haven't watched enough porn today.
	Strap you in the porn higher chair.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Here comes the porn.
	Unbelievable.
	Also, again, it doesn't prohibit sex and uncommitted relationships, as far as I know, so...
	Not really demonising you.
	It's just trying to prop the porn industry up.
	Just trying to call you an incel.
	Yeah, right.
	Well, don't worry.
	Fear not, fellow incel.
	Married incel.
	Rejoice, because a Democrat congressional candidate has come out with a solution to the incel problem that can bypass No Not November.
	So, Alexandra M. Hunt, unfortunate last name, who is an ex-stripper and had an OnlyFans to finance her congressional campaign for $35,000...
	She's tweeted out this thread, and it didn't quite go down as she'd hoped.
	Young men aren't having sex.
	Fairly true.
	Nearly a third of men under 30 have not had sex.
	I wonder why that is.
	Might be industrial-scale porn addiction disincentivizing you from having a relationship, but there you go.
	A higher percent do not have as much sex as they'd like.
	They're called married men.
	Not exactly surprising, but this kind of statistic is a sign of much deeper problems.
	If we can just scroll down, please, John.
	Just keep going.
	Go to the next one, man.
	Yep.
	Our society criminalises sex and sweeps it under the rug.
	No, it doesn't.
	What are you talking about?
	We're living under a bloody pornocracy.
	Well, that's the funny thing.
	So here she's talking about the legalisation of quote-unquote sex work.
	She means government subsidised prostitutes for incels.
	However...
	Is this the woman who came up with the right to sex?
	This is literally this tweet thread.
	Right.
	I heard about this, and it's like, a right to sex is very remarkable, because it implies that, essentially, women are going to be forced to have sex with men at the end of the barrel of a gun, like every other positive right.
	Like the fantasy of The Handmaid's Tale.
	But it's literally like the Cuban doctors, where they're like, oh, we're slaves to the state, and they force us to be doctors.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, you're prostitutes now.
	Well, the funny thing is about this, though, is if she's saying that young men aren't having sex for whatever known reason, and we know that pornography addiction is massively high, and she's saying prostitutes the answer, what is the difference between porn and prostitution?
	It's a camera in the room.
	So, again, prostitution is the only crime where more witnesses means there's less criminal.
	It's insane.
	So, the consequences are straightforward.
	There is more violence...
	Okay.
	Since platforms like Craigslist were banned from advertising sex, serious violent crimes against all women, not just sex workers, has increased by nearly one-fifth.
	Seems to me correlation versus causation.
	Yeah.
	Unless you're saying...
	I'd like to know how that was.
	Crimes against all women are produced by the fact that you can't pick up prostitutes on Craigslist.
	Who knew that Craigslist was so vital to preventing women from being assaulted?
	That's how the suffragettes originally communicated.
	Yeah.
	And men do not have sex suffer.
	You know, pretty based.
	They are less likely to be a part of the labour force and more likely to experience oppression, nihilism and other mental health issues.
	Yeah, like being addicted to porn.
	Yeah, get to work ladies!
	The hashtag MeToo movement has accomplished so much and we have to take the next step, normalising having healthy, positive, consensual sex.
	Well hang on, isn't this like Jordan Peterson's enforced monogamy?
	Yes.
	Except this goes further, because he never said the state should have a role.
	He said it's cultural forces only.
	She's literally saying the government should legalise and possibly subsidise prostitutes for incels.
	Or you could just look back 100 years ago and be like, what was the social solution to the incel question?
	And it was just getting married when you were quite young.
	Yeah.
	That was the answer.
	Like, traditionalism had already solved all of these problems, and now progressivism has abolished traditionalism.
	All of these problems are coming back, and you're like, oh, we're going to have to force women to have sex with men.
	Or we could take a cohort of very vulnerable women, many of whom enter the porn industry because they have child abuse, and make them the sacrificial lambs to a bunch of guys who are addicted to said porn by making them prostitutes.
	I guess, but she's come to the point, no, that's a problem.
	So now we have to literally provide an affirmative right to sex.
	So some women are going to have to literally be conscripted into it.
	Is there going to be affirmative action in the affirmative right to sex, too?
	Well, you don't need it.
	It's a slightly different subject.
	Like, the affirmative right to sex is a right.
	So it has to be provided to everyone.
	Yes, but there must be equal representation among sex workers, I'm sure.
	Well, oh yes, there could be.
	I mean, to be fair, you'd have to do representative conscription of sex workers.
	If I can't see it, I can't be it.
	Great point.
	Decriminalising sex work, funding sex education, and creating outreach programmes that help young people develop sexual habits.
	So there should be funding for this.
	Yeah.
	We should be moving towards a right to sex.
	Amazing.
	People should have sex when they feel they want to.
	With who?
	What?
	I'll raise up with my wife.
	Darling, I should be given sex when I feel I want it.
	We're going to be in the doghouse when we go home.
	God!
	That's a remarkable statement.
	We need to develop services that meet people's needs without attaching the baggage of shame and criminalisation.
	Isn't this just a justification of rape culture?
	Yeah.
	This is basically just saying rampant cheating by married men using brothels.
	But, I mean, is this not what a rapist thinks?
	I should be able to have sex when I feel like it.
	Yep.
	I shouldn't be shamed or be criminalized.
	Yep.
	We need to bring these discussions to the spotlight.
	Normalizing healthy positive sex will have too many downstream benefits to list.
	Says the rapist in the docket.
	We need to move past our history of shame.
	It's time to bring sex into the light.
	Oh, God.
	She does not know what she's asking for you, does she?
	I like Lord Miles' reply.
	Excellent.
	The men are waiting till marriage epic win.
	Yeah, it is.
	Yeah.
	Stay strong, kings.
	Yeah.
	Unironically.
	But she doesn't even know what she's asking for.
	Well, she didn't, and then she did a follow-up tweet because her audience were too happy.
	As a survivor, I'd never be advocating for sexual assault or forced sex.
	Has anyone got Ben Shapiro on the line here?
	Because he'd be like, you know, for some reason we'd have sex at the gunpoint.
	Like, literally, a positive right is ultimately backed by the barrel of a gun.
	Yep.
	It's telling where we are as a society that consensual sex isn't assumed when talking about sex.
	No!
	That's not what happened.
	You may have said that in there, but you said we need pathways for people to have sex whenever they want, subsidised by government.
	But also, I like this, bodily autonomy is a human right, which includes the right not to have sex.
	Okay, well, how about the right not to have my tax money taken away from me and given to someone for free?
	Yeah.
	It's my bodily autonomy to work, and you're taking my labour away from me against my will.
	But this is why consent-based morality is not a moral standard.
	This is exactly the same reason for porn.
	Because women can consent to porn at the time.
	And when they are very damaged and broken people, when they rehabilitate, years later they cannot get those videos taken off the internet.
	So sexual consent-based morality doesn't work.
	Instead, go to sexual disgust instincts.
	It's an evolutionary instinct.
	We evolved it for a reason.
	And just be fairly risk-averse when selecting partners, who you sleep with, and whose time and attention you give to when there are whores on a screen.
	Returning to prudence.
	I like that.
	Yes.
	But have you considered that not watching porn makes you a misogynist?
	Too many women in my porn.
	Hate it.
	So this woman has said that eight years ago she wrote her first column on sex.
	Just angrily watching women.
	Yeah.
	She's saying, cultural shame around sex happens everywhere from the construct of sex addiction, a faux diagnosis not supported by the DSM-5, to the anti-porn movement and a pervasive definition of healthy sex rooted in heteronormativity and morality.
	You see the kind of leftists you're supporting with the porn industry?
	Yeah.
	She then trots out the typical points about fascination with the appendages resulting in lowered cortisol, muscle renaxation, and endorphin release among its benefits, whereas abstaining from it can be detrimental to prostate health.
	And you see, again, all the expertise mounting, mounting, mounting up.
	I don't worry about it so much.
	It'll be fine.
	So she says, That not being a disgusting degenerate is actually good for you.
	Well, that's unproven, I guess.
	Yeah.
	In truth, movements like No Nut and NoFap don't resolve stress around sex, they create it.
	Research published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science confirms religious or moral disapproval of pornography, not frequency of porn consumption or masturbation, are the most influential factors in a person determining whether or not they have an addiction or a problem behaviour around sex.
	Yeah, I don't believe that.
	Do you not think that spiritual guidance might have been sought Yeah, I don't believe it.
	Frequency of porn consumption and masturbation are not influential factors in a person determining they have an addiction or problem behaviour around the subject.
	Right.
	So, you see the 4chan and Reddit posts of these guys who are just like, look, I'm addicted.
	All day, every day, I'm masturbating.
	I just sit at home, unemployed, and I'm depressed.
	I'm neurotic.
	I want to kill myself.
	And it's like, well, I mean, research published here has suggested that your constant masturbation is actually not an influential factor.
	It is, in fact, Connor saying, perhaps you shouldn't do that, gentlemen.
	It's actually like saying that Mike Lindell only quit crack because he became a Christian, rather than the fact that he recognised crack was destroying his family.
	Not smart.
	Unbelievable.
	So then we reach the apotheosis of this propaganda.
	Watch porn, are you a Hitler?
	Thanks, Vice.
	The No Not November movement, a challenge of orgasm denial, has been co-opted by misogynists in the far right.
	This year's No Not November.
	This was in 2018, but it continues.
	I know this is a woman doing this as well.
	Yeah.
	Isn't that weird?
	Yeah.
	Why would you care?
	Well, I have a theory that a lot of sexual deviant behaviours and body positivity are pushed by women who are engaged in intrasexual competition to take other women out of the pool.
	Yeah.
	It's quite conspiratorial, but women do steal a lot of their boyfriends.
	But I look at this and sort of like, I think that women are aware of the power that sex has over men.
	And they're like, well, hang on a second.
	If these guys are abstaining from sex, then wait, that takes something away from me.
	You know, that's my power that's being stolen.
	So hang on, no, no, no, no, November.
	You guys are all horny coomers and you want me, me more than anyone, surely.
	Yeah, Thomas did write his Deep Think on OnlyFans where he said feminists won't object to it even though it's commodifying female bodies because it's ultimately at the detriment of men whose time and resources are being funneled up and creating a...
	Hierarchical system of female beauty and power, what they can use to gynocentrically dominate the market.
	And I tell you what, if there's one thing that has become profoundly obvious, is the sort of men who use OnlyFans, it definitely creates a dominance hierarchy there.
	I watched a bunch of videos from this Australian woman, and I don't know how I stumbled on this.
	She had like 200 subscribers or something.
	And I don't know how I got onto it, but she seemed like a really normal person.
	They said, oh, I've started knowing fans.
	So I started watching all of her videos, talking about it, and you could see that she was really benefiting in a sort of, in a way that it was, you know, it was literally funneling resources to her.
	Material but not spiritual.
	Exactly.
	You know, and she was just like, well, I've got everything I need now, so, you know.
	Yeah, except love.
	Well, yeah, of course, but it was just remarkable how she had managed to create a herd of simps that would just give her money.
	Until she gets too old and they move on to the next one.
	Sure, but she was early 20s, so this was a long way from the future as far as she could see.
	But it was just interesting how there's definitely a hierarchy in play with OnlyFans, and the men are at the bottom of it.
	It's disgusting.
	But if you want to break free from that, you're fascist.
	So, No Nut November has resurfaced the connection between abstinence and fascism, with some participants going so far as harassing and threatening pornographers online with its calls to, quote, kill all pornographers.
	I studied fascism.
	It's constantly going on about No Nut November.
	Honestly, Giovanni Gentile just wouldn't shut up about it.
	It's like Mussolini, the king of No Nut November, said this, and this was correct.
	It was just nonsense.
	Nothing against the coom, nothing outside the coom.
	There's a real and concerning connection between the far-right, racism, white nationalism, and anti-masturbation or anti-porn beliefs.
	The far-right organisation, the Proud Boys, for an example, has a severe anti-masturbation stance and recently instigated a violent brawl in Manhattan.
	Correlation and causation?
	Okay.
	What, about masturbation?
	Yeah.
	Like, the giant brawl about wanking?
	Yeah.
	I remember the coon fights in 2018.
	There's a growing anti-sex worker sentiment that's growing in the same right-wing online circles.
	Much of it is wrapped around regressive ideas about masturbation, and if people in the adult entertainment industry say they're being threatened, we need to start listening to them now and not wait until those threats are carried out.
	We're not going to listen to those ones who have come out of the adult industry and been like, this destroyed my life, it was awful, like we covered in a segment a couple of weeks ago.
	Yeah, and which we'll be covering this Saturday, funnily enough, to pre-empt it.
	But then there's a weird self-report in here.
	So Hawkins said, the gentleman that's shared one of these memes, when he shared the H4 Pornographers Must Die meme on Twitter, the account was immediately hit with hundreds of thousands of responses, hundreds of responses rather, on social media that were virulently anti-Semitic.
	One image tweeted at XHamster suggested that the porn industry is part of a Jewish conspiracy.
	What?
	Nobody said that.
	Well, I mean, I guess this one image they found on Twitter did.
	The only other one they did was they said, oh, David Duke said that it's somehow a weapon of war against white people.
	That's the reach they've had to go to.
	But who claimed that all Jewish people run the porn industry?
	Who cares what David Duke thinks?
	Yeah, exactly.
	So, Weiss are apparently saying, if you don't want to touch your peepee, you're literally a Grand Wizard of the KKK. This is literally as far as we've got to go.
	Like, we've got to go to the most, like, remote Nazis on the internet to find one of them, and this is going to shock you, saying that something is a Jewish conspiracy.
	Now, Weiss may, again, this is breaking news...
	But these people call everything a Jewish conspiracy because they're Nazis.
	But it turns out that excessive porn usage is a, quote, anti-Nazi conspiracy because you might recognise this name when I bring it up.
	The person the Vice cites as sexual oppression being dangerous in this article is a name by the name of Willem Reich.
	Do you recognise that name?
	No.
	So I'll just read this paragraph out.
	In 1933, Willem Reich wrote The Mass Psychology of Fascism, which attempted to explain the success of authoritarian systems, and ultimately the popularity of Nazism over communism at the time, through sexual repression.
	Reich is quoted as saying, the formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and anxiety.
	And Reich was the person they blamed this on.
	Not blamed.
	Based on...
	If we can go to the next one, please, John.
	Do you remember covering this?
	I do.
	This was the person whose psychology that a bunch of German child protective services based on the idea that if they opened up sexual liberation among children by putting them in the care of paedophiles, that you would not create Nazis ever again.
	So Weiss are citing the man's ideology who led to a bunch of kids getting abused as to why you should watch porn.
	Very strange.
	We're not going to go into that further here, because you already covered this, and we can go onto that.
	You can watch that on our YouTube channel for that really harrowing segment.
	Yeah, that was awful.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it just really doesn't take much imagination to think, what's the result of putting a bunch of children in foster care with pedos going to be?
	I mean, you can guess, obviously.
	Did it create any Nazis?
	Well, I'm feeling kind of radicalised now that I've said it.
	No, I'm joking.
	I don't think this is a way to deprogram Nazis.
	No, the Nazis themselves were sexual degenerates as well, so let's not go towards that.
	I'm just preaching the moderate position, I suppose.
	But the point is, we want to stop creating Nazis.
	We need to put a bunch of children in the care of paedophiles.
	So I think you're the problem when you've got to that stage.
	Yeah.
	So if you're endorsing paedophilia and at the same time endorsing porn, perhaps think about if you are a patron of the porn industry, exactly the kind of people that you might be supporting inadvertently with your attention, with your ad revenue, with your direct subsidies if you're on OnlyFans and the like.
	So instead, I suggest you go and subscribe to us because on Saturday at the time of releasing, so that's two days away, we have the contemplations tab up here.
	Saturday, Josh and I will be doing a contemplation on the psychological, moral and social effects of pornography on the population.
	We had a pretty good debate for two hours, and I'm just on the ambition of just ban the whole thing because it's clearly a massive detriment to the people, the abused, vulnerable people that it relies on to create a steady stream of bodies that are pseudo-willing participants.
	Which is what the ex-porn actors say.
	Yep, and you.
	If you're still watching, it's destroying your life.
	Quit, don't listen to the leftists, and I hope you find the relationship you deserve.
	Stay strong, Kings.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Hey, Connor and Callum.
	In response to your Wednesday segment on affirmative action, I think it's, in an ironic sense, diversity is our strength.
	In this court case, there is no way in hell a white plaintiff would get this taken up this high.
	I suppose so.
	I mean, but also, yeah, and there's also the argument that Clarence Thomas is the person best equipped to argue against it, but I'm just not interested in talking about race.
	I don't care.
	I'm so bored by it.
	The Albanians are profoundly white, and yeah, I want them all deported.
	Yep.
	Let's go for the next one.
	...with another Lotus Eater white pill.
	From 2fab.com comes the story of Brendan Burt.
	Brendan was driving around Red Oak, Iowa at 2 a.m., He had turned down a wrong street when he noticed there was a fire at a house on the front porch.
	He stopped his car, got out, banged on the windows, and saved the lives of a family of four.
	They narrowly escaped before the house was engulfed in flames.
	Good on Brendan Burt.
	See, that's the kind of video comment I want.
	White pill video comments, folks.
	That was excellent, Tony.
	Really, really good.
	It's made me feel a lot better about the world.
	Let's go to the next one.
	This isn't an ad, it's a suggestion.
	I think you guys would really like to do a book club on my novel, because Carl, the last segment you did on Monday, literally the story arc of my main character.
	Also, how can I introduce that segment to friends and family who aren't as aware of this stuff as we are?
	I don't know, I'm being threatened with being haunted.
	I don't know.
	Well, I think our links are eminently shareable.
	We don't swear, if that's the question.
	I don't know.
	I guess you've just got to slowly introduce the concepts to them on your own, depending on the person, really, isn't it?
	I think you've got to break down the topics conversationally first, and when they ask where you got this from, then send it.
	Because they're more likely to trust you as an authority than two random English men on the internet.
	But send us a copy of your book, then.
	This is the first time I'm making a video comment.
	I've never made one before.
	And I feel like this is the best time to make it.
	As a British Indian, yeah.
	Britain first.
	Britain first.
	Yeah.
	We don't like Rishi Sunak.
	He's a globalist.
	He doesn't represent the working class British people.
	He can go do one.
	By the way, Callum.
	Guys, I love you guys.
	I watched every single video.
	Read every single article.
	Keep up the good work.
	Oh, cheers, man.
	Thanks, man.
	And I completely agree with your position on Rishi Sunak.
	Yeah, I did a France 24 debate like a week ago or so, and they had Conservative Friends of India head in there, and he was literally just saying, like, when I brought up the substantive policy points of, oh, he crashed the economy, oh, he's a globalist, oh, he wants digital currency, he went...
	Yeah, but it's really great that we got our first Indian as PM. It's like, right, so you're just an ethnic supremacist.
	Yeah, why is that really great?
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, India was colonized.
	Oh, well, it's revenge, is it?
	Right, okay.
	No, Rishi Suning is a terrible, terrible person to have in the position.
	Anyway, Baron von Warhawk says the invasion will never stop.
	The government will keep the floodgates open until all of England is filled with foreigners.
	Your native culture is replaced by a globalist sludge.
	The reason they're doing this is that they're commie globalists with an unquenchable lust for control and your native culture makes implementing communism difficult.
	This will never end until you make it end by force.
	You are the carbon they want to neutralize.
	I mean, he's not wrong, is he?
	No.
	Omar says, more than money, what riles me up is their entitlement to our compassion.
	They act like charity is a mandatory duty that we owe them instead of the moral good that is graciously given at our pleasure.
	I once did the GB News Breakfast show.
	God, it must have been like April or something now.
	And the clip they made of it was I said, we don't really have much of a shortage of compassion.
	We do have a shortage of space.
	And now it's just like, no.
	No, no, I don't care.
	I don't care.
	Stay where you are.
	I can't stand it.
	But Omar's completely right there.
	You are expected, as you were saying, it's your great tradition, isn't it, that we're appealing to here.
	They do totally feel entitled to this, and it is insufferable.
	Zelensky is a prime example of this.
	Give me money and shut up, you scum.
	It's like, oh, get F, you know?
	Free Will says, you can't really blame the migrants.
	They're getting something free at our taxpayers' expense.
	It is our lame, conniving politicians and all the idiot do-gooders who are to blame.
	Which is true, kind of.
	Yeah, but I wouldn't do that.
	I'd feel like a dependent.
	Yeah, but they are Albanian crooks.
	Yeah, true.
	It's like saying, well, teach men not to rape.
	Teach Albanian crooks not to be crooks.
	What's the point?
	I'm not putting the responsibility for them committing crimes in the hands of them.
	Well, how else will Michael Gove get all his blow if there aren't a bunch of Albanians coming over?
	But the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth is pointless while we cannot make our politicians act.
	After all, the Tories have been promising to fix this for years, and for years they've delivered absolutely nothing.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	And Baron von Warhol again.
	These people truly are like the Tyranids.
	They come to a country, devour your resources and wealth, and leave for the other countries and do the exact same thing again and again and again.
	At this point, I don't care about sending them back to their homelands or back to France or Uganda.
	I want to see the Royal Navy send these B-words straight to Davy Jones' locker as they cross the channel.
	Well, all I'm saying is it'd only have to be once...
	And then the invasion would stop.
	Sea mines.
	Andrew says, the Albanian PM said it's to do with the climate.
	I knew its climate change had day.
	Watch how quickly climate refugees will become a new narrative.
	Yeah, oh, it's already starting.
	It's already starting.
	General Haiping says, Boris wanted a stupid super yacht to honour Queen Elizabeth.
	I propose a giant privateer vessel called the Queen Elizabeth's Revenge that could be used to tour the coasts that can be rid of the terrors of the boat people.
	It's a very nice idea.
	That's a great idea.
	Crowdfund it?
	Yeah.
	Queen Elizabeth's Revenge.
	I like that.
	Colin says, So even the Albanian PM thinks we should be tackling the grooming gangs.
	To be fair, he does have a point when he should be managing immigration better.
	I mean, he's not wrong.
	You know, it's just embarrassing that we're just completely against the idea.
	Michael says, The UK police are too busy policing meme words online to fight actual crime.
	Yes.
	Literally what their job is.
	Kevin says, Idirama, we are doing our job to fight crime in Albania.
	We're sending them to the UK. We now have very low levels of crime.
	Which probably is true.
	I mean, literally, otherwise these Albanian gangs would be committing crimes in Albania.
	Instead they're in France and sending people over here.
	Well, we always did want a massive influx of foreign entrepreneurs to have the GDP go up.
	Callum says, in Sir Humphrey's voice from Yes Minister, which I don't think I can do, but I'll give it a go, solving immigration by stopping it, solving crime by cracking down on it, it would be the beginning of the end of civilization!
	In all due, honestly, the more we talk about the borders, the far more I want the dam gates to be shut and bolt-locked.
	And string the barbed wire too, please.
	Yeah, I would...
	If only there was some way of being like, right, okay, we want, like, the...
	You know, we want to...
	Treat the integrated immigrants well, obviously, and those who aren't integrating can just go, and obviously don't let illegals in.
	Like, how, you know, just that would be my policy.
	Yeah, but you don't want to destroy the country.
	Yeah, I know, that would be ruinous to the progressive global order.
	Charlie says, as far as the Albanians go, Britain could take a few lessons from them in particular.
	Enver Hoxha, who developed a program of bunkerization, building over 750,000 bunkers throughout the country, which works out to about 5.7 bunkers per kilometre.
	Now, I'm not suggesting anything, but it's interesting how fortified the country is Maybe Britain can take a lesson since the channel isn't doing its job anymore.
	Anyway, Sophie says, something just occurred to me, JK Rowling on Twitter now is going to be epic.
	She's going to pay the money for the checkmark, and then go insane with the anti-trans stuff, and people will scream.
	All the Potter merch will still sell hotcakes like it does now.
	A Hogwarts legacy will be a massive success, and these people can get bent.
	Edward says, do you know what this is like?
	Twitter is like Rome.
	Elon is like a barbarian king in the vein of Odoacer, Alaric, or Theodoric.
	Theodoric.
	You know what?
	I recently read a book on the Goths, and Theodoric is the most maligned guy.
	He seems to have done a really great job of just being a virtuous man and having a virtuous kingdom.
	And actually, Theodoric is a good analogy for Elon, I think.
	He has taken Rome and is now sitting in the Emperor's chair and they're all losing their mind as the Barbarian King has taken over the Eternal City and hasn't just become another Emperor and appointed one.
	Good point.
	Baystate says, Elon, I'm going to build a big beautiful wall.
	I'm going to make a big beautiful paywall, sorry.
	I'm going to make the journos pay for it.
	And guess what?
	The wall just got $12 higher.
	Shadow in the Stars says, Musk has said previously he wanted to ban porn from the Twitter.
	Alright, so I'm on board.
	I don't think he will.
	I mean, 13%.
	I'm just...
	I'm literally just so sick of seeing tits on my timeline randomly when I just don't want it.
	Like, why is...
	Every viral tweet is just some thought replying with their OnlyFans underneath.
	JC says, these small changes may merely be token actions for the free speech conservatives to gobble up.
	He still hasn't met with the ADL, etc., bored on more of the same censorship on the horizon.
	Well, the thing is, the fact that he's making affirmative and concrete moves to make Twitter independently sustainable from advertisers, I think is the most important, because you saw from the ADL and the NDL of ACP, Their primary weapon of war against people saying mean things on the internet is advertiser boycotts.
	And if Twitter is no longer relying on advertisers, then go do one.
	I do fear the App Store infrastructure.
	I'll be interested to see how it plays out.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's pretty much all they've got left, actually, after that.
	So we'll see how it goes.
	Radcheck was right, says...
	Yeah, that is interesting, actually.
	And he follows up with, Grade A marketing.
	Your customers are addicts.
	Sell them their addiction.
	They'll pay it regardless.
	But use the big-ass strategy to get them seem detached when they complain their drugs aren't free.
	People who see a drop from $20 to $8 is a really good deal.
	They'll be socially guilted into paying the $8 price tag and won't be able to even whine about it on Twitter.
	That is very smart.
	That is genius, honestly.
	Robert says, Yes, and we could see that when Milo Yiannopoulos got de-verified on Twitter.
	Yeah, for saying Leslie Jones was ugly.
	I think it was something else, actually.
	I only got banned for that.
	But at one point, he was de-verified, so that doesn't make any sense.
	So someone else is operating Milo's account now.
	It's obvious nonsense.
	Bald Eagle says, I was going to get Twitter when Elon bought it fully, but seeing his actions now, I'm hesitant to get on the platform.
	He's rebuilding the trust and safety team with the same kind of lens that made Twitter what it already is.
	I'll wait to see how this plays out over the next six months or so.
	Elon doesn't seem to realise that he can't play both sides when one side wants complete destruction of their opponents and they have no money for Twitter.
	Well, I think you've got to remember that Musk has to run cover...
	in certain ways right so the way i look at it is like because the the way that they responded well he said all the right things but we're going to watch his actions like they know that he can just sit there and go oh yeah that's really fascinating yeah oh i'm very sympathetic to that and then go off and do something complete different and ignore them right and so it they are worried that he's just sort of putting up a smoke screen and it honestly it kind of looks like he is just putting
	It doesn't look like an unreasonable concern from their perspective, that this is just him trying to placate them so they won't kick up a fuss.
	I don't get the fear about onboarding, though, because he might as well come along, have fun.
	I mean, it's...
	It's not...
	Difficult to get banned on Twitter, but I have yet to, let's put it that way, and I hardly ever hold my tongue.
	And then, even if you do, in a couple of weeks' time, it's going to be an amnesty for naughty words anyway.
	So, you might as well just enjoy it, mate.
	Let's hope so, but...
	I'm not so worried, actually.
	Elon wouldn't act in the way he's been acting if he was the thrall of the regime.
	He's obviously antagonizing them.
	Obviously pushing back on them.
	And obviously ruining their day.
	Like, they're not his friends.
	And they make it clear that they're not his friends.
	And he makes it clear he's not their friend.
	So, I'm not too worried about it.
	I think he's just being cautious in some ways.
	And going full hog in other ways.
	Like, hopefully tomorrow he actually fires half the employees.
	That'd be hilarious.
	Which is genuinely hilarious.
	Colin says, So Elon wants to make people pay for the mark of the beast that says they can be safely ignored.
	Hmm.
	Yes.
	Indeed.
	Um...
	Royce says, there's some signs that Elon may be backing down already from the pressure to the censorship mob.
	Maybe Tim Pooler's right, maybe he inherited some government contracts he can't get out of.
	Well, that's the thing.
	There are definitely going to be known unknowns in all of this, and the leverage that the US government has is one of them.
	We simply do not know.
	I didn't want to not include it in the segment, obviously, because it's definitely there.
	We did it to death on Tuesday as well.
	Yeah, but we don't know whether he's going to be cooperating with the US government.
	But the thing is, legally he doesn't have to.
	So he doesn't have to do anything, technically.
	But, of course, there are consequences to everything.
	Justin says, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only to look in a mirror.
	Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility of our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves.
	By doing so, they took our power.
	By doing nothing, we gave it away.
	Viva Vendetta, Alan Moore.
	Yeah, but Alan Moore's communist.
	Yeah, communist free loop.
	But he's not wrong there, technically.
	George says, Elon's bizarre Twitter adventure has been fun so far.
	The meltdown from the current blue checks is something to behold, but giving smear mergers like the ADL any power is a massive mistake.
	From the mentioned organisations, there aren't any who offer free speech.
	I guess there's always Kanye and Parler.
	Yes, but again, I think that Prudence would demand that he at least has a show of being like, oh no, guys, of course I'm not in favour of Kanye West tweeting whatever the hell he likes.
	He's kind of got to, right?
	He's already rocking a lot of boats at the moment.
	So, but I mean, maybe I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and that's not warranted.
	Maybe it is actually that Elon is a complete capitulated cuckold.
	And who knows?
	It just doesn't really doesn't look like it at the moment.
	George says, I do wonder what the true reasoning behind the opposition to No Note of November is.
	The porn industry may be upset they don't have control over men, but it could be as simple as the feminist media being disgusted by the display of male stoicism, solidarity and brotherhood.
	Male cooperation builds civilisations as it's what differentiates from animals.
	I think this is what the pornography really fears.
	If men gain control of themselves, they'll realise, well, actually, we're able to do things.
	Yeah, they're making you docile by selling you your own very addictive pleasures back at you.
	Yes, and if you have control over these things, then suddenly they lose their power over you.
	Quite scary, again, for the pornocracy that rules over us.
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