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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of Lotus Teasers for today, the 4th of January 2023.
	I am joined by Harry.
	Hello!
	And we're going to talk about, if I can actually talk, it turns out, how feminists aren't funny.
	Nothing new there, I suppose.
	This is breaking news.
	None of you have ever heard that one before.
	Cussing-age commentary from the podcast of Lotus Teasers.
	The pedo push, which I hesitate to ask what that is, but you're going to blackpill me, apparently.
	I blackpill myself.
	I remember now I don't really look into this stuff anymore.
	And why Hollywood wastes perfectly good talent based on politics, shockingly enough.
	You're going to see the light stream from my eyes.
	Assumed politics as well.
	He's absolutely right-wing.
	Well, probably, but I do want to just point out that we are mainly assuming things about him, but I think the evidence is building up.
	We'll get there.
	So to kick it off...
	I'll wait till you finish your drink.
	That's alright.
	That's alright.
	So don't show up on YouTube.
	That's fine.
	Anyone remember this meme?
	The watching until I laugh meme.
	Originally it was from a YouTuber who only for about 10 minutes watched a series of female comedians until he cracked up and then someone had the misogynistic idea of editing the timestamp on the video to nearly 18 hours.
	I too have never seen a hilarious female comedian, mainly just because they joke about how many men they've had sex with, which is not particularly difficult for most women to do.
	But what we're going to look at today is an article series by Vox about the eternal truth of why, particularly feminists, I won't say women because some of them are unintentionally funny, But, feminists specifically, are just not funny.
	And why the leftists would like to use comedy as a Trojan horse to enact revolutionary change.
	And I think I've cracked the nut on exactly why.
	If you want an evolutionary reason on why men are basically forced to be funny, you can pay £5 to our website and get all the premium content we do.
	And I did this podcast with Nick Dixon, himself a comedian, on Patrice O'Neill's show The Black Phillip Show and all the relationship wisdom he gave before his untimely demise.
	Patrice O'Neill is probably the greatest comic to have ever lived, up there with Norma Donald and Dave Chappelle and Nick DiPolo, of course.
	But Patrice gave some excellent advice on how men use humour as a social selection mechanism for their place in the hierarchy, and living life on the defensive as a married man or in a long-term relationship, you've just kind of got to laugh at it.
	Yes.
	Yes, you do.
	Why does the pub exist, if not to give us a safe haven to complain?
	I don't know.
	Oh, wow, you moved all of my books and took them out of alphabetical order and put them in order of how tall the books are.
	Thanks, honey!
	Thanks so much!
	This is so great!
	Imagine your girlfriend doing any cleaning.
	She actually did that.
	She actually did that the other day and I legit got very angry.
	It was really bad.
	I moved your bookshelf and I put all the books in height order.
	Why?
	Why?
	The example Teresa always uses is, what side, the bed you want to sleep on?
	And he goes, uh, the right side.
	And she goes, well, then I won't be able to see the TV. And he's like...
	So you already had a side in mind you wanted to pick, but you wanted me to mind-read and make the decision for you, and make the decision you wanted because you were afraid of rejection.
	Just be honest.
	They want you to make the decision for them, so they don't feel bad about it being their choice in the first place.
	Have you found this?
	I get this.
	When you move somewhere, where they want to be my missus, where she wants to be on the side of the bed, is the side...
	Furthest from the door.
	So if there's an emergency, you get up and do it.
	Yep, there it is.
	I mean, I would do that anyway.
	I'd do that anyway, exactly.
	But anyway, before we get too sidetracked, let's go and upset Vox, shall we?
	It's our favourite pastime.
	So Vox have got this article series on humour and the science and the sociological impacts.
	One of them's about millennial cringe and the irreverence of meme culture.
	Some of them are...
	Interesting.
	I can only imagine this is going to be like a few months ago I got a lift in a taxi from a German guy who decided in typically German autistic manner to explain to me the intricate mechanics of comedy you see when you set up the joke you are setting up the expectations of the audience's humour.
	And I'm just like, yeah bro, okay, I get it.
	Yes, and they're also making the argument to revoke that as the main aspect of humour, to use comedy as a political weapon.
	So we're getting Vox's funny studies then.
	Yes.
	So, in this particular piece, The Very Serious Science of Humour, they argue that humour is obviously cross-culturally ubiquitous.
	They quote some sociologists...
	A desire for hilarity influences who we choose to spend our time with.
	Why else, when scrolling through dating profiles, would so many people say they hope to date someone who's funny, or at least claim to be, quote, fluent in sarcasm?
	Something that...
	Back when I used Tinder for about 20 minutes in university was in every university girl's Tinder bio because they thought they were so funny.
	According to the 2022 Singles in America survey from online dating service Match, 92% of singles see a partner who can make them laugh.
	Does this explain Pete Davidson's appeal?
	No, I've got my theory on Pete Davidson's appeal.
	He is the pug of men.
	Yeah, he's the teacup chihuahua of Hollywood.
	He is a fashion accessory for women who want to show that they are above typical standards.
	The evolutionary utility of laughter is also explained here as a way to mediate conflict and demonstrate the safety of social situations and physical locations.
	So it's a tool for men to diffuse tension and communicate within competition for the highest place in the hierarchy within the tribe, or maybe even trade and barter between tribes.
	So it makes sense.
	It's a perfectly good social utility.
	So then they say, what makes things funny?
	So they've got three theories here.
	Timing!
	Thank you, David Lynch.
	The superiority theory, explained by the likes of Plato and Aristotle, is one of the oldest.
	It posits that things are funny when we feel superior to others or to prior lowly versions of ourselves.
	So, you can already see the punching up, punching down theory being ingratiated here.
	Well, I mean, yeah, there's a bit of a joke.
	Okay, first, the joke will target somebody.
	That's simple as.
	Okay, first one established.
	And they're going to go on to say, this is bad, because we target people who are in vulnerable situations.
	Well, that would be the presupposition there, but then they also want to maintain that hierarchy and invert it.
	All of leftist views on comedy come from the fact that they were bullied and they were the butt of the jokes when they were in secondary school.
	That's all it comes from.
	True, it's largely projection, but then if you look at the ideological spin on it, it's that everything boils down to power, and so if you want to use any sort of instrument of discourse as to interact with power dynamics, and because I'm lower than you, I can only mock you because you're higher than me, and then I supplant you as being higher, and then that entire moral framework flips, and then they claim unimpeachability and revoke the ability of mockery.
	I mean, that's a nice little veneer they want to put over the top of it, but at base, it's because they don't like being made fun of because it hurts their fee-fees and they can't come up with good comebacks.
	Very true.
	There's also the fallback for every leftist theory.
	For the second one, they say, Sigmund Freud's interpretation, known as relief theory, is that the act of laughter releases pent-up nervous energy or tension, such as when laughing at taboo or sexual topics.
	Force has got to get to sex.
	I mean, I agree with it, releasing pent-up nervous energy or tension.
	Like, if you're in a really awkward situation, you just can't help but laugh for some reason.
	That happens.
	Yeah.
	I've got a really bad example that I will share.
	Go on, do it!
	Okay, so we went on a...
	I can't believe I'm telling this story.
	We went on the university night out and we went to get some drinks and...
	Or drinks from university friends, rather.
	I wasn't at uni at this time, but anyway.
	And there was a girl I hadn't met there before, but she was wearing a very low-cut top and she was slightly overweight.
	And...
	She's bursting out of it, I assume.
	Yeah, it wasn't the nicest of sights.
	She was also mixed race.
	So, me not really thinking about the implications of this joke, we walked down the high street and two very drunk lads said to her, four, you could be in a magazine.
	And she repeated that to me.
	She went, did you hear that?
	She said I could be in a magazine.
	And I said, what, National Geographic?
	Yeah.
	I was thinking more animals, but then, of course, she was very angry, and then she broke my sunglasses.
	So, yeah, it wasn't great.
	That's not an appropriate response.
	A bit uncalled for, but good stuff on the landmine there.
	Anyway, the third theory, and the most widely accepted, as you've already articulated, is the explanation of humour as incongruity.
	Philosophers James Betty, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Søren Kierkegaard, and others postulated that we find amusement in things that are at odds with our expectations, a contradiction between the set-up and the punchline.
	So with these three theories, I've got a bit of a thought process as to why the left are articulating this and then using later articles to turn comedy into a propagandistic tool.
	Let's see if I've got something in it.
	Well, I mean, yeah, when it becomes a propagandistic tool, it's no longer comedy because it's not funny.
	Exactly.
	So, what they're saying is, of course, normal sensible people would use the unexpectedness, the shock value of humour, to diffuse social tension.
	So we're going to overcome our differences, like how black people joke about white people, and in a more sane time, white people used to joke about black people, but then now that lands you in prison in Britain, so we won't be doing that here.
	So, laughter at our own and each other's expense obviously brings us together.
	But the communist radicals, who only see things through power and privilege hierarchies, think that you can only punch up or down because all social dynamics are judged by power, and so there is no bringing us together.
	It's just either for or against the hegemony.
	Mean jokes remind them of wedgies, that's right.
	So they want to do three things, okay?
	In the ideological abstract, they want to make conflict inevitable to ensure that revolution happens.
	So they want to take away our ability to laugh at each other so that tensions get raised and then if we can't resolve it through dialogue, then we just have to fight.
	They want to use their unfunny routines, of course, to antagonize audiences against one particular identity group.
	So...
	female comedian talks to all black people and goes them damn white people right and then all news stories outside that claim that white people are the devil because they're taking all your income and they've committed slavery against your ancestors or whatever that means it's no longer funny but it's more a cathartic release of otherwise pent up like actual Until there's the excuse to go and down burn businesses.
	It's a group activity, because we talk about comedy can come down to timing, it can come down to surprising expectations.
	I think one thing that's missed out is there are lots of jokes where you know where the punchline is coming, but you laugh anyway because it's funny to laugh at the expense of people you hate and dislike, right?
	And that can be filtered into political groups as well.
	The other day, Mrs.
	was going through Netflix and she put on a comedy special from that bloke Ramesh.
	Ramesh Ranganathan?
	Yeah, yeah.
	It was called The Cynic or something.
	And the first, we watched about half an hour of it.
	I was trying desperately to focus on watching WWE instead.
	Because that's what I've started doing recently.
	I caved and got my network subscription.
	But I couldn't help but overhear some of the jokes.
	And the most they were getting out of me, it was really typical, observational, low-effort humour.
	I was like...
	That's most of what it was getting out of me.
	And she was like, it's going okay so far, whatever.
	And then he gets to the middle point, where, of course, it has to become the socio-political commentary show instead of the comedy show.
	And he starts talking about how...
	Oh, loads of conservatives were getting really annoyed at the fact that, what was it?
	Subway put guacamole in the BLT and changed the name of it to the LGBT, and he started going like, well, it's not like the sandwich is actually sexualised or anything, it's just a name for a month, guys.
	and the audience was getting the best reactions of the entire set and everybody was laughing their asses off.
	And we just switched it off at that point because it was obvious where it was going to go.
	But what was happening there was they had defined the outgroup, the out-group being anybody who disagrees with the political movement, because implicitly they all know that it is assigning value and demonstrating a particular set of values that people won't all agree with, and it's laughing at the people who don't agree with it, as a form of shame tactics.
	You're supposed to be shamed.
	It's like we've mentioned before, going on to a topic from yesterday, when Peter Hitchens is on BBC panel shows, and he's the one conservative, and the rest of them are all a bunch of lunatics.
	So if you're watching at home, you look and you go,''Oh, I'm the lunatic!'' Oh, everybody disagrees with me.
	Everybody hates me in my opinions.
	That's what it is when you watch a comedy show like that.
	You're disarmed, you're in a position where you think, oh, I'm just laughing, I'm having fun.
	And then all of a sudden, oh, my opinions are the butt of the joke.
	Oh, I must be a fool then.
	That's one of the tactics.
	It's a political grouping mechanism.
	It's something that Carl's hit on before about the left-wing associating their positions with not just the Enlightenment, but being enlightened to the pathway of the inevitable utopia.
	Obviously Marx thought that capitalism would inevitably collapse into communism, so he just wanted to expedite the process.
	Yeah, let's laugh at those people because they have the wrong opinions.
	Yeah, and they conflate wrong opinions with stupidity, and stupidity is funny when it leads you into error, So they can just stigmatise you wholesale with labelling, and so this isn't a comedy routine, it's just genuflecting to the tribe that you hope conquers the other tribe and exists unopposed with all resources.
	I found it builds in prefab arguments that the people in the audience and watching from home can then take out and use in the wild.
	Yeah.
	Because they inevitably misrepresent the position.
	Because he was saying that, oh, the LGBT, they were saying it sexualises sandwiches.
	It's not like they're putting condoms or something in there, is it?
	Where obviously the actual argument is, well, it's showing alignment with this particular set of values, and this particular interest group has shown a lot of interest in sexualising children, drag queen story hour for kids, all this sort of stuff.
	So they take that argument, ignore it, and just take it at the most...
	Bad faith, face value interpretation that you could take of it.
	And then those people, like I say, in the audience, they go out and they treat everybody who comes at them like that in the same way.
	There was a member of AA's streaming crowd recently put on Twitter that the comedy panel show in the UK is a middle-class institution.
	Oh yeah, it definitely is.
	They inherit most of their opinions, especially with the unearned smugness of certainty, the wry smile of someone on Have I Got News For You?
	or Yeah, I forget who it was who said it, but the opinion was basically, what is it, if Sandy Toksvig says it on TV, it must be true.
	Exactly, yes.
	And so it's an implicit inherited appeal to authority by the media class, and it...
	Instantiates the boomer truth regime as a presupposition that you can't question unless, well, you look very silly, don't you?
	The last way they use comedy as well, to get back on track, was they want to destroy the incongruity theory, the Kierkegaard one, but they want to uphold the Freudian theory so they can use it as a tool to normalise and therefore demolish social prohibitions.
	So, something like James Gunn or Pete Davidson repeatedly just joking about having sex with kids, guys, it's definitely just a joke.
	Nothing weird going on here.
	I'm not saying there isn't a way that you can tell those jokes and make them funny, because there are some shocking...
	Like, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has the episode where they have the, whatchamacallit, the...
	Oh, what are those weird American things?
	Beauty pageants.
	Yes.
	I think it's Frank's Little Beauties, and there's the joke where, as a result of doing that, they start getting investigated for potential noncery.
	And Frank comes out and he goes, look, we've got to sing a song!
	Like, I come out and I go, I don't diddle kids!
	I don't diddle kids!
	That's funny, but when the joke, like a Pete Davidson or James Gunn, is literally like, hey guys, isn't it funny to rape kids?
	And you go, wait, where's the punchline?
	And also, outside the context of that joke, you're positioning yourself as a moral legislator on topics like voting or abortion rights or something like that.
	Whereas the people in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are obviously reprehensible to the point of where Dennis is meant to be a serial killer.
	And so...
	Yeah, I'm not going to look to these people for my morals.
	We're actually just meant to openly mock that, even if, unfortunately, the cast support the similar sort of politics in real life.
	So I think the last one about the abolition of taboo, and to try and normalise it in the mind of the audience...
	It indicated in this article as being a driving motivator because it says, Warren, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Arizona, studies what makes us laugh for a living.
	Warren remembers his collaborator Peter McGraw teaching a lesson about moral violations.
	Victimless yet offensive actions such as eating one's dead pet dog, as social psychologist Jonathan Haidt had put it.
	You did a book club on The Righteous Mind.
	Go and watch that.
	When reading Haidt's paper, Warren mostly thought the scenarios were funny.
	Around the same time, McGraw was giving a talk on moral violations and an audience member posed a question, if moral violations are supposed to elicit disgust, why are we laughing?
	And I think this is quite indicative because it's on the sliding scale of what is our innate, very conservative temperament, disgust sensitivity triggers versus do the leftists actually find this funny because they have no gut revulsion?
	To this act, that's more of a midpoint towards it's okay as long as it doesn't harm anyone.
	And they're trying to leverage that open door for finding something as gross as cooking a chicken and having sex with it, as Hyatt describes, to push you more towards that side of the scale than the other one.
	To be fair, a situation like that gets a chuckle out of me, because it's taking, obviously, a disgusting idea and kind of stretching it to the realm of pure absurdity.
	I'm not saying that it can't be funny and disgusting, but they're trying to leverage the funny side of it to make you forget the disgust side of it to then normalise all other forms of degeneracy.
	That is my contention, because that's why they want to abolish the third type, and they only want to focus on the sexually normalising one and the punching up and punching down one, because they're politically convenient to them.
	So, he says, over the years studying humour, Warren tells me his sense of humour has progressively skewed darker and become borderline disturbing.
	So, in studying this and finding those disgusting scenarios funny and abolishing his sense of disgust sensitivity, he is finding things funny that even the subjects of his studies thought was reprehensible.
	It says, in one study, for example, he asked participants to watch drug awareness PSAs because he got a kick out of them.
	The subjects didn't agree.
	Well, that's just the result of repeated exposure desensitisation really there, isn't it?
	That's my exact point.
	If you remove the societal stigma from actions and you repeatedly try to make things funny, which are disgusting, like Pete Davidson saying that child is sexually attractive.
	Again, Pete Davidson saying that you can't clip that out of context.
	Then over time, if enough forces are doing that and it becomes more permissible on the activist side, what are the moral prohibitions that most people can mount against it?
	Otherwise they might feel like, oh, I'm stupid for opposing it.
	Am I the only voice in the room?
	They're all going to laugh at me.
	Not good.
	Drug awareness PSAs, I will say, it will depend on the execution of them, because I have seen plenty of health and safety awareness videos in factories, for instance, that go way too far in the dramatic reenactments and do become funny.
	And do you remember there was that anti-drink driving advert?
	Where it rolled over all the children?
	Yeah, where it rolls over the children.
	That's just so stupid it's funny.
	Yep.
	I mean, that is really...
	Destroyed my expectations and the timing in the actual video was cut to comedic perfection.
	But if all the subjects, and hopefully got a wide sample size, because otherwise it would be a redundant psychological study, didn't find it funny, but the researcher did who's been steeped in psychological research of humour and has been desensitising himself to these topics for a long time...
	Did find it very funny.
	It would suggest that the material is a little more shocking to normal people, and so that the leftists have found a useful way to wield faux comedy as an instrument to dismantle moral barriers and punch up.
	Oh yeah, loads of people in leftist comedy audiences, they know the jokes aren't actually funny, they just know that they're supposed to laugh at them because that's what you're supposed to laugh at, right?
	It's claptor.
	But...
	The interesting thing is, they're aware, even in this article, that not all standards should be abolished, only those that stop them getting to the place in the hierarchy where they can stop all humour as a form of critique of power.
	Anyway, as I say, humour is a thing that is subliminally studied simply by living and adapting to culture.
	We observe those around us and infer clues about what is appropriate based on what others laugh about and their reactions to jokes.
	Take movies or comedy specials that haven't aged particularly well.
	Oh, there it is.
	"These media speak to a time and culture that may have found the violations benign enough to life about.
	We probably are learning what we find funny, but we're learning about what is socially acceptable," says Sheila Keninson.
	Funny thing.
	You still find things funny that you shouldn't laugh at, but you learn how to appear to be socially following the norms.
	And then of course they talk about misogyny and racism and all this nonsense.
	This is where all of a sudden Friends, the most milquetoast, inoffensive comedy...
	Possibly ever produced by anyone ever is now being denounced by its own creators because they made a joke that, what was it, one of the characters' dad came out as trans or something.
	Yeah, but he still calls him dad despite it being, I think, obviously played by a woman as well.
	We were so naive back then, we didn't understand the damage that we were doing to internet pervert communities.
	Oh dear.
	Because we're on YouTube, we must disavow.
	On to the next one.
	Must I? I don't think we can call them internet perverts.
	Alright, okay, fair.
	God knows at this point.
	So, this article we're not going to go through as much, just because this is whining about the fact that comedy hosts on the right on Fox News, they don't mention GB News, obviously this is the American context, but they're just demolishing the leftists in the ratings, like John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Trevor Knoll, all the people that have either quit or just turning into a corncob in irrelevancy.
	And I found it really funny, and I wanted to bring this up, because guess who they didn't name in this article?
	On what side?
	Left or right?
	Right.
	On the right-wing side.
	Right-wing comedian that Vox would not name.
	Not a single mention.
	I can't really think of any American right-wing comedians.
	No Stephen Crowder.
	Oh, yeah!
	The highest-viewed one, the highest-viewed late-night host, the highest-viewed American conservative YouTube channel, and Vox...
	He's got a meme that's even used by left-hand right-wingers.
	Well, Vox don't mention him.
	I wonder why.
	Could it have been...
	Due to a certain lispy former employee that caused the adpocalypse while working with you.
	No, that would be a conspiracy theory.
	Would this person you're referring to be the benefactory of billionaire parents, perhaps?
	Like most communists.
	Yes.
	No surprise.
	They then start complaining that, well, how could this possibly be?
	We have the left and right having incommensurate worldviews.
	Why are they all watching the right?
	And, funny enough, Walsh put out a tweet, and I didn't include it here because I don't want people to look at his Twitter, but he said, are we shocked that men are going to the far right, woo, when we don't talk to them?
	Men find offensive things funny.
	It's how we mediate our friendship circles.
	So if the left put prohibitions against comedy and always want to punch up, Why would we want to spend time with you?
	I'm sorry, did Vorsch make a good point?
	Yeah, but then he's already the ambassador for a good point because he's a fat, effeminate neckbeard with an ugly girlfriend, so nobody wants to aspire to be leftism, even if you're trying to repackage it as masculinity.
	Vorsch is the leftist version of edgy, which is faux-edgy.
	It's like towing the line, going, tee-hee.
	Aren't I naughty?
	Yeah.
	So instead, the left doubled down on unfunny women.
	And here's where we get to an amazing article for the infographics.
	So, I'm just going to scroll down.
	There's an infographic right at the top that says 63% of both sexes voted men funnier than women.
	Now, very transphobic of Vox to only say both sexes, but even the women are self-reporting, yeah, my gal pals aren't as hilarious as my boyfriend.
	I mean, why would you expect them to be?
	Yeah.
	Women are there for gossip and emotional support.
	Not even that.
	Most of their friendship circles are self-esteem cannibalizing circular fire squads.
	Yeah, the feminine version of emotional support, yeah.
	But, of course, most men, in order to earn the affection of women, if women have for generations sexually selected for funny men, of course men have an incentive to cultivate a sense of humor.
	So yeah, we actually have to try to be funny.
	Well, it's basically a survival adaptation mechanism for men who aren't the strongest or the most physically imposing or the wealthiest.
	Okay, what do I have then?
	Well, I've got my sense of humour.
	And that can get you much further than you'd expect.
	Yeah, that's the predicate for all those unfunny millennial comedies like Knocked Up or 40-Year-Old Virgin or whatnot, of where it's a slubbish, unassuming dude, but he gets the girl of his dreams because he can make a lot.
	It's Seth Rogen, the most hilarious man who's ever lived.
	Yeah, the LA car equivalent of the bike cuck, who will DM you asking if you're Jewish if you ever tweet at him.
	Count Dankula found out.
	That's the funniest thing you ever did.
	Average Kanye fan.
	If we can scroll down as well, just this next one is, sorry, the one after this.
	It's hilarious because they're complaining about jokes as banal as, take my wife, please.
	Because they're now complaining that any joke about a woman is obviously misogyny because it features a woman.
	When, by implication, that says that the comedian's bitch of an ex-wife he's joking about, or his current wife, rather, represents all women, which is a tad unfair for you, Vox.
	If you made that claim to that comedian, he'd be like, no, not all women.
	I mean, have you met my wife?
	Hold out some hope when I eventually leave her that I'll find a better one.
	So then there's another infographic as well, as we just scroll down.
	There's a guy called Gil Greenglass who says that, here it is, the view that women are less funny is so pervasive that societal forces discourage girls and women from developing and expressing their humour, making women less likely to be perceived as funny.
	Right, so there's a nebulous conspiracy to not find women funny, so women don't try to be funny, so they aren't funny?
	See, I've found that women are typically most funny when they're not trying to be.
	They'll accidentally be funny.
	Yeah, they can just say an unexpected revelatory truth that you wouldn't expect to come out of their mouths, and it's funny, rather than trying to compete with blokes, because men and women get along in very different contexts.
	There's nothing funnier than hearing a woman in private going off on one about all of her supposed friends.
	Ah, so all women.
	Yes.
	All women are funny, after all.
	It turns out, actually, the thesis of this segment has been disproved by anecdotally...
	Well, I never said that feminists were women, Harry.
	Oh, true.
	They're just...
	Oh, I can't say that on YouTube.
	I mean, they definitely don't have to be nowadays.
	So, then it goes down and says, jokes written by women were perceived as less funny than those written by men, and there was a study.
	But it doesn't actually say, if we go down to John to scroll for the infographics, it's fine.
	The participants that found the jokes less funny written by the women were told whether or not they were written by women before they went in and viewed them.
	Vox haven't declared that.
	So I think this might be a manipulative misrepresentation of the study, because they might have just read the jokes and gone, yeah, not funny, and then told the gender of the writer afterwards.
	But that doesn't fit the narrative.
	And then, just finally on this one, a 2006 study found that women like funny men, but that men only wanted women who would laugh at their jokes.
	So, men don't need women to be funny, either.
	So, the revealed preferences of the general public who haven't been exposed to your ideology...
	I've just seen...
	Yeah, I know, it's golden, isn't it?
	Just scroll down so we can see the full picture there.
	Look at that!
	Even the kids are joining in!
	Brilliant!
	I don't know what that woman did, but oh my god.
	So if we can go on to the next one, speaking of black women being shunned from society, Vox have then got this article here of this brave woman in armour.
	And I want to preface this because it's called When Humour Becomes Armour, and it's an article from a female comedian.
	Female comedian, sure.
	About how she lost her dad and turning to stand-up comedy helped to process her grief.
	So I wish her all the best for processing the grief of her father.
	However, if we go to her website, we can see why Vox decided to platform this person.
	And it just confirms my theories.
	Just please scroll down, John.
	Ashley Ray is the most famous bisexual solo, polyamorous, black, queer, comedian, actor, and writer currently based in Los Angeles.
	That's like, do you remember the fella that Callum found?
	He said, I'm the first black male counsellor in this district in over For three years.
	She's famous for smoking pot.
	How transgressive.
	No one does that nowadays.
	In California it's legal.
	I'm sorry, do you remember, I know you're not a big fan of it, but Watchmen.
	Well, of course I remember all of Watchmen.
	What's the name of the clown from the joke that Rorschach tells?
	Pogliacci.
	Yeah, I'm the great Pogliacci.
	No, I am the great Ashley Ray.
	Good joke.
	Everybody laugh.
	Roll snare drum.
	Except the doctor never suggested she go see Ashley Ray.
	Well, yeah.
	I think if it was a Canadian doctor, then definitely not.
	So, they all basically, using this woman as the example, right, as the paramount example of what new comedy can be, to do that personal political thing where the feminists sat around doing therapy circles and then brought it to their politics as some sort of cathartic thing for the people speaking rather than to entertain the audience.
	They want to not only dismantle sexual taboos, but they want to create an unimpeachable class of comedians who can mock those currently above them and then permanently mock those currently below them for historically having marginalised them.
	And so that means they can never be mocked, but they're sat in the top spot.
	And it's just the intersectional Olympics where you're holding all of the cards concerning all of the various identity groups that you've got pressed, and so they're the only people that get astroturfed as comedians.
	But we can see the general public as well don't care about this, right?
	No, no, I'm sorry, I've just noticed there's a massive missed opportunity for a pun here.
	She hosts high-gear comedy.
	She smokes pot, she's bi, why not high-queer comedy?
	I mean, that would actually be a pun of some form, right?
	Come on!
	Maybe she's on steroids, let's be gearfully.
	Even the yeetzy ones!
	Don't you dare say female comedians are easy, Harry.
	I've never joked about that before.
	The general public don't care about this.
	So I just thought we'd finish on the reveal preferences of Hannah Gadsby's Nanette.
	Remember this particular shining turd?
	Did critics really...
	Critics said 100% and the audience went, right, yeah, I don't particularly enjoy you telling me...
	I don't believe you.
	Yeah, I don't enjoy that some narcissist telling me, I can't make jokes about myself because that's self-erasure, so I won't stand up here and make sure that I'm making fun of myself.
	I've never engaged with any of her comedy.
	I've seen one or two promo clips, and it's always been horrible.
	Critics, I know that you don't have souls in the first place, but how could you debase yourself to such an extent?
	Well, I suppose we all laugh at the critics' expense, so don't listen to their propaganda and just laugh heartily at them instead.
	Alright then, so, were we having fun during that segment?
	Are we ready for the fun to stop?
	Alright, Harry.
	Good, because I've spent my Wednesday morning blackpilling myself, as usual, and reminding myself why I don't really look into these sorts of subjects as much anymore, because we're going to take a look at the pedo push.
	No, this isn't the kind of ideal pedo push that includes a cliff edge.
	Into the sea.
	Yes.
	Before, because I want to stall just a little bit before getting into more of the details of this, let's go to the promo.
	Let's go to the promo, and that promo is for the newest episode of Brokonomics that Dan's put out.
	Brokonomics number two, Inflation the Great Lie.
	This is already becoming, and you can see from the first freemium episode, 3k views in just over a week.
	This is already becoming one of the more popular series that we've got on the channel, and We're good to
	go.
	As with everything to do with the economic system as it stands right now, here's how it's screwing you over.
	Well, it's probably worth to clue yourself up on inflation as well, because if we're coinciding with Weimar-era degeneracy, Weimar-era economics makes for some pretty dire circumstances at the end of a decade.
	You best be getting understanding inflation, laddie.
	You're living it!
	Politics of Pirates of the Caribbean, when?
	I would be happy to do that.
	I loved the first three films, unashamedly.
	Okay, we've steeled ourselves some joy.
	Now let's get into this horrific stuff, shall we?
	Let's go through with it.
	So I recently saw this report from the Postmillennial that had a quite striking headline, which was just, the majority of content on Mastodon's social media site is...
	CP. CP, because I don't want to say the words out loud, I believe the more appropriate term nowadays that people are using is child sexual exploitation material or something like that.
	So, for those of you who remember, when Elon took over Twitter, a load of lib journalists, most of them went back on this within five minutes, but a load of lib journalists said that they were going to go over to the next alternative, which was Mastodon, which is an alternative social media site that looks And tries to function, or at least looks as though it should function, just like Twitter, but isn't Twitter.
	And in doing this, I've only just learned just how different it is in the actual functionality from Twitter.
	And unsurprisingly, there's just lots of CP. There's just lots of child sexual exploitation going on there.
	And Twitter was also suffering from these problems before Elon came in.
	And I'm not saying Elon is perfect.
	In fact, quite a few of the problems that were around before Elon came in...
	That were getting cleared up seem to have started popping up again recently.
	I've been hearing about a lot of people getting bans for no reason.
	So what's up with that, Elon?
	Maybe try and get a look in on what's going on there if you're not actually behind it.
	But at the very least, he has done a lot to try and get rid of the child exploitation material that was on the website, because Twitter was really bad for it, including one case where some minor had sadly been exploited, had a video taken of it happening, and it was posted on Twitter.
	The family got in touch with Twitter's Trust and Safety, like Yoel Roth, the head of Trust and Safety, who back in 2010 wrote as part of his dissertation PhD that teenage boys should be allowed on Grindr, which is a gay hookup app, as far as I'm aware.
	Why did you look to me?
	I mean, Michael's not in the office, so you're the next closest thing to a game we've got in here.
	Yeah, so there was a lot of bad stuff going on, and after the parents made them aware, they didn't actually do anything to take it off.
	But it seems that people moving over to Twitter, moving over to Mastodon, I don't think many people knew about this, but unsurprisingly, it turns out that the website is flooded with CP. And I'll go into the details of this article, and then go into a few more details that I unearthed through this, because sadly, this turned into a little bit of A rabbit hole and just reminded me that these people are degenerates.
	These people should not be accepted by society.
	We should be doing everything we can to oppress these people because they have no place within my world as far as I'm concerned.
	Let's carry on then.
	In 2022, these two large CP communities were second and third on the Fediverse leaderboard in terms of users with only Mastodon.social having more users.
	Now, to understand that, I'll just go into a little bit of detail, and I've only just learned this this morning, so if I get any of the details wrong, I'm sorry.
	What has happened is that Mastodon is not like Twitter, where it's centrally organized around a leadership team who can control a lot of the information that goes on there.
	As we saw through the Twitter files with the fact that people...
	In these safety teams could even go into your direct messages that you're sending through the website.
	This is not the case with Mastodon.
	Mastodon is set up as a Fediverse, which is a lot of interconnected yet separate servers that people can access and post all of the information on.
	The guy who created it basically just put a...
	Twitter-like veneer over it, and it operates like that.
	It's a decentralized system, and many people, when it comes to how the internet should operate, would advocate for a decentralized system, but I think this is a fantastic, well, not fantastic, but the most prominent example of why that can be very, very dangerous, because if you don't have people moderating content, or you don't have the channels set up to moderate content, At least in some form or another, you will get these sorts of people going on your site because it will just turn into a hotbed because you're making it easy for them to post this kind of content.
	So an investigation conducted by SecJuice, which was a site I'd never heard of before, has revealed that some of the largest communities within the social media platform Mastodon are communities containing CP. Mastodon first experienced a flood of CP being posted in their communities in 2017 and by 2022 the largest CP communities We're second and third on the leaderboards, with only Mastodon.social having more users.
	Now, as we go through, it might only be second and third on the leaderboard in terms of users, but in terms of the actual activity and posting, those two CP communities that are on the website are far more active.
	They have the most posts on the website.
	I think Mastodon.social has about 40 million posts on it. These two communities between them have 60 million posts. Right, so I was going to say, it's not like ranking Mastodon.social as the top, because it's like saying that Reddit.social would be the top posted on Reddit, but different Reddit threads would obviously be the second and third content.
	because all posts are under the rubric of reddit.
	It's not even the top posts, it's the most members.
	So they can say, oh, master.social has the most members, but these other two have the second and third most members, and the communities involved in them are far more active.
	Right, so, okay, sorry, I process that as posts.
	You're saying that it's not just a vocal minority of people that are glutting this with images, like it could be a couple of bots that's just loading loads of stuff from a hard drive somewhere onto this service, like an untaked animal cloud.
	It's actual active individual accounts and people.
	As far as the information available I have read, it seems that way.
	It might not be that each of those accounts is a unique individual user, it might be people who have multiple accounts, but given the way that it's set up, given the way the website doesn't seem to have any safeguards against this in the first place...
	I don't see why they would feel the need to set up multiple accounts.
	It's very, very disturbing stuff.
	So, Mastodon was only a year old in April 14, 2017, when they experienced a new surge of users.
	this saw the platform grow from 160,000 to about 300,000, so it almost doubled.
	Two communities that contained child exploitation content became first and second largest communities in the Fediverse, or, as I explained, a network of interconnected servers and websites based on decentralized networking protocols.
	These communities overtook the platforms Mastodon.cloud and Mastodon.social communities.
	In 2022, these were the two most active communities by a large margin in terms of total postings, rankings first and second with 60 million posts each.
	Sorry, I was wrong because I thought it was 60 million posts combined, but 60 million posts each against Mastodon.social's 40 million posts.
	And this was according to SecJuice.
	Also according to among those leaving Twitter for...
	Oh, and then I copied down this, which was...
	Just mentioning about how there was a bunch of people moving over to Mastodon who said that they were leaving Twitter.
	I'm going to assume good faith and recognize that a lot of these people probably were not aware of this beforehand, but it is...
	So in 2017, CP accounts made up around 40% of the total Fediverse population, or around 50% of smaller satellite, if smaller satellite groups are included.
	Once again, if I set up a website that was supposed to be decentralized and supposed to be freedom for all, and saw that this was what people were using their freedom to do, I'd shut it down immediately.
	I would contact the authorities.
	I'd contact the FBI. I know that these organizations probably support this kind of behavior nowadays, but still, I'll try and get in contact with the appropriate authorities and say, listen, it turns out I've accidentally created this system where all of these people are flooded in.
	Can we get people knocking on doors, please?
	Can we trace these IP addresses?
	What's going on here?
	Anyway.
	I was going to say, if you were going to talk about institutional support, it's ironic that its logo is a blue elephant, because that is definitely the emblem of the American Uniparty.
	Yeah, and one of the things as well that I've unearthed through this was I know that there's been a lot of talk in Dissident Right-Wing Spears about the connection, the jump that can be made from anime to paedophilia.
	And I've always thought that I can understand where they're coming from, especially with hentai and lolly and all that disgusting material going on.
	But I thought it was still just a bit of a...
	A bit of a jump to go straight from like, oh, you like anime, therefore...
	But, I learnt some rather unsavoury things about Japanese culture today.
	Go on.
	So, I'll just read through the article to explain it.
	So, months after the invasion in 2017...
	I thought you were going to say 1945.
	No.
	No, on the platform.
	It turned out that three of the top five communities on the platform were hosted in Japan and represented about 60% of users.
	Mastodon being skinned to look like Twitter, one of the most popular social media platforms in Japan, and Japanese authorities beginning to crack down on CP in 2016 following the passage of a law in 2014 to make the material illegal.
	So CP in Japan, and this is actual people, not just cartoons and such, actual people, was only made illegal in 2014, and you've got to recognise as well that Japan's age of consent laws is 13 years old.
	That's the age of consent legally in Japan.
	It was very, very disturbing.
	And then they only decided to crack down on it about 2.5 years after the law was passed in the first place.
	Not looking great.
	SecJuice wrote that the majority of CP makers in the country moved to Mastodon to avoid being reported to the police.
	SecJuice wrote that the catalyst for the wave of CP postings of April 2017 could likely be traced back to Pixiv, a popular lollicon photo hosting website with the name being derived from the novel Lolita when the website joined Mastodon.
	But for those that are inevitably going to put some kind of defense of, oh, it's just a drawing, bro, in our comments, no.
	A drawing is a representation of reality.
	You are normalizing something to yourself.
	You have a perverted fetish that you really should abandon because it's going to harm somebody eventually or is at least degrading and debasing your soul.
	Stop trying to defend it.
	It is indefensible.
	You could do better.
	Do it.
	So carrying on, instead of banning the content, a mature image label was added to these posts, and developers made it easy to filter out CP and also crippled searches, according to SecJuice.
	There's something really dark there where a mature image label was added to a photo of a child.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Let's carry on.
	Let's carry on.
	Don't want to linger too much on all of this because it's horrifying enough as it is.
	Because there is no central Mastodon authority, nobody can stop the pedophiles from using Mastodon because there are so many pedophiles on Mastodon.
	The developers decided it was best to just go ahead and hide them.
	They had to hide them if they wanted their platform to go.
	Very, very interesting.
	And then I thought I would take a look at this organization, SecJuice, that looked into it in the first place.
	So SecJuice, if we go to the next one, they say they're a volunteer-led collective of about 100 plus writers focused on cybersecurity, information security, network security, and open source intelligence.
	So it seems that they just look at the infrastructure of these websites and look into how they work, the cybersecurity, all that stuff that was mentioned there.
	And sadly, in doing so for Mastodon, they unearthed this.
	And this was the article that, the report that Postmillennial originally took it from, and you can see that's from November 11th of 2022, last year now, so it's actually taken a few months for this news to get big.
	When did Elon take over?
	Almost, I think it was October, beginning or middle of October.
	Right.
	So it was near to this.
	So they must have been doing this research for quite a while, so it must have been, obviously I know this happened, the Japanese thing happened in 2017, but it's not like this wasn't accessible knowledge before all the Democrats jumped ship to Mastodon.
	Well, no, that's the thing.
	There was talk of this.
	The problem was that Mastodon, knowing that this looks so bad for them, what they said about the crippled searches, what they did, they basically made it so that on Mastodon, and people complain about this, I've seen user reviews complaining about this, from people who obviously don't know why it has been done, The search function on Macedon basically doesn't work.
	Right.
	It doesn't work at all.
	The only way that you can find somebody is if you type in their exact at, character perfect, and then you'll be able to possibly, maybe, find their account.
	The reason that was done was because it was so easy to just accidentally stumble on all of this material on the website, they thought it better that people just can't search in the first place, rather than...
	It'd be known to everybody who they were sharing the website.
	So they basically hid it away from users who didn't want to see that kind of content.
	Millstones, immediately.
	Yeah, it's not looking great.
	And then the rest of the information in this article is basically what was reported by the post-millennial, but it is a good one.
	But there was a sentence at the beginning of this article that made me do a bit of a double-take and go, what?
	Wait, what's going on here?
	Where he says, right at the start, believe me, when I tell you I did not want to write another article about pedophiles after the last one, but here we are.
	And my...
	I did a little bit of the rock eyebrows, like, hmm?
	What?
	What's going on here?
	The last one?
	What else have you been writing about?
	And I followed the link and found this.
	Patreon!
	Oh, thanks for banning Cole for obvious moral outrage.
	You're clearly an upstanding company, aren't you?
	That's right.
	Patreon!
	Because what happened was, at the end of 2022, and just scroll down because I do think it's important to note that no, no, don't just linger on the image.
	Scroll down, thank you.
	Yeah.
	There was an update here saying that following the publication of this article, Patreon is now cracking down on these issues, but beforehand they were denying they were happening in the first place, so they might be making changes to improve all of this nonsense, but they might just be saying...
	They're in the not happening stage until they go to it's a good thing stage.
	because what happened at one point last year, if you were aware of this, sorry we didn't report it at the time because I've only just learned that this happened in the first place.
	So Patreon dismissed their entire cybersecurity team and there are rumours that that might have been done because they started talking out about the inappropriate content that was being hosted on the website.
	But that is just rumours, that's allegations from people, anonymous people who claim to be former employees of Patreon.
	So take that with a little bit of a pinch of salt.
	Yeah, like I say, there were allegations from the anonymous sources, But there were trust pilot reviews of Patreon that I wasn't aware of for ages, where hundreds of users had been complaining that they had reported CP that they found on Patreon, but were ignored and had many of their accounts suspended.
	So you point out the problem to Patreon, hey, you are hosting highly inappropriate, highly damaging content on the website, and they go, ban.
	No, we're not ban.
	Seems legit.
	They didn't ban the actual accounts, but just the people complaining about them.
	Seems legit as well.
	If you scroll down through Patreon's Trustpilot reviews page, it is littered with complaints about CP reports going ignored, and those who report them having their accounts suspended, and you can see these complaints going back a couple of years.
	If you scroll down, these aren't the...
	Here you go.
	Just scroll.
	There's a bunch of them.
	Child abuse and suspicious.
	Illegal.
	Scroll down another one.
	Child abuse, police need to investigate, and the next one.
	So this was something that people would know.
	Is there nobody moderating this site?
	Something's not right.
	Child sexual abuse material.
	All this stuff.
	People were well aware of this, and Patreon were just not dealing with it, and then banning people's accounts.
	Okay.
	Common complaint was that when users reported CP, they had their accounts banned, but then Patreon continued to take part.
	So that was class act right there.
	TikTok user called MomUncharted had been trying to raise the alarm for a while on her TikTok account as well.
	In a series of videos, she explained how she had been reporting these accounts trading in CP for some time, and Patreon had reviewed them, and told her there isn't a problem because the accounts were managed by adults, despite them containing underage content.
	That's rock-solid logic right there.
	That's titanium logic.
	I had a viewer contact me recently because of all the segments that we've done in the past about how the porn industry is horrible.
	No, I won't stop talking about it.
	And one of the viewers said, I used to actually work in the industry from the operations side, and I started because the minimum wage laws in Australia were really bad, so I just took any job I could get.
	And he was a behind-the-scenes webcam moderator from the age of 15, But he got away with it because they said, oh, we're just putting him in the op side of the business.
	But what ended up happening was he was just sitting in on live streams the entire time.
	Brilliant.
	I mean, that's a dream job for some 15-year-olds.
	But as an adult, you kind of have a responsibility to be, that's not appropriate.
	I mean, it'll just destroy your brain.
	But of course, the porn industry factors in children watching their content to their bottom line and their marketing strategies.
	So they are the most predatory industry on the planet.
	Yes, and the article goes on to continue to say, Simple Google search reveals articles as early as 2017 discussing how Patreon and the CEO knew that creators were monetising rape content, paedophilic animations, and other CSAM content that has somehow been allowed to remain on the platform.
	Right, CEO Jack Conte who said that if you're rude off platform we'll ban you, but if you...
	Attack children on our platform, it's A-OK. If you send gay porn to actual Nazis, we will take you off the platform.
	But if you'd sent them CP instead, then we could have made an exception, is the argument I'm hearing here.
	On the Patreon developers platform, you can find developers talking about they have reported illegal content, but their reports have been ignored.
	There have been petitions signed by tens of thousands of people to try and persuade Patreon to...
	To top creators producing pornographic child animations, and there have been multiple attempts in the creators' community to draw attention to this festering sort on Patreon.
	An unnamed member of the Patreon team posted this blog post a few hours ago in response to the allegations swirling around social media, and below was a screenshot of the main body of their post addressing dangerous and conspiratorial disinformation.
	So, of course, now they're saying that they are cracking down on it as of the update, but right before that, up until the last moment, they're saying, not happening, this is disinformation, you probably didn't agree with lockdowns either, you're probably just some crazy maniac.
	That's what was going on here.
	And then there was a link in this article as well that led me to this extra article.
	A glimpse into the world of paedophilia support groups in cyberspace, because this is a real thing.
	I know we have addressed the nonce question, the NQ, a lot of times on this podcast, and I have occasionally been...
	Met with people saying, well, you know, but there are people who are trying to fix themselves.
	There are people who try to recognise that what's going on in their own minds is an illness and they want help and support.
	And to that I say, look at this article.
	Because this article actually goes into some of the forums that these people use and listens to the arguments that they make.
	And I think you are more likely to, I don't know, see Joe Biden reverse ageing Than you are to see a legitimately remorseful pedophile explaining their mindset.
	Because what this person has done...
	So, for one, the first sentence I thought was notable in this article was that the following takes place in Mastodon rooms called the NNIA space, which stands for the Non-Normative Identities Alliance, and pedo school.
	So they just had a Mastodon room called pedo school.
	Right, so on the point of rehabilitation, I don't know any successful addiction overcoming groups that aren't moderated by someone who isn't an addict.
	Because if you put a bunch of addicts in the room together, like, if you had a sex addict support group, guess what's going to happen?
	A lot of keys are going to be going in the fishbowl.
	So if you put a lot of paedophiles in one room, guess what happens?
	You have a conspiratorial cabal who can trade images amongst themselves.
	Well, you've got a support group to exchange tips and tricks, basically.
	So, they say, And this is why you see groups like LGBT groups...
	You see the rhetoric that they use being mirrored by people who are calling themselves maps and other much more politically correct names now for nonces and paedophiles because they want to mirror the campaigns of public acceptance that have been so successful through civil rights...
	And that's why I think you also see on the peripheries, but increasingly going more into the mainstream, there are people within these...
	Political pressure groups who are just more and more openly coming out about their secret agendas, shall we say.
	The secret nonce agendas that are going.
	So, like I say, this is from a conversation taking place between members.
	When asked, what is it like being a MAP, a minor attracted person, which is a disgusting term, the response describes sexual feelings for children in the same emphasis you would hear someone describing an intimate partner.
	So this is from Anonymous, asking the question, what is it like being a MAP, and what are the upsides?
	And At Chifferton says, the upsides I can see is that maps take significantly better care of children than non-maps.
	They love children more deeply than the average adult-attracted person.
	Us too.
	We're not normal people.
	We're not people who are right in the head.
	We're just adult-attracted.
	It's not a sickness, see?
	It's just a divergence in tastes.
	We're just built differently.
	That's all it is.
	Would ever love another adult.
	They have a way with children that is unmatched by others.
	Yeah, if you want to put it that way, a way with children.
	Okay, fair play.
	And I could go on, because there's more and more going on here.
	But this is something that is insidious.
	This is something that will be pushed more and more if we don't fight back.
	One of the things that we need to do is just set distinct moral boundaries.
	I know we talk about free speech.
	Do not debate these people.
	Do not discuss these people.
	Do not use their terms, because that is giving, inch by inch, ground to them to legitimize their cause.
	Just a reminder, because I had more, but we need to go on to the next segment.
	Just go to the last little link I've got there, because this is just a reminder.
	They did write a song about coming for your children.
	They literally wrote a song about coming from your children.
	This was from the San Francisco Gay Men's Choir, and I'm not suggesting that every single one of these men is a nonce.
	However, I have seen a number of reports indicating that at least two or three of them were actually convicted nonces.
	So, we'll take that information as you will.
	The leading ones did a play about Bakabazi, which is literally boy rape in Afghanistan.
	Yes, make of this information what you will.
	Thanks for that.
	I'm so cheery.
	You're welcome.
	Let's get back into a positive mood.
	I need to win my smile back.
	Okay, so Henry Cavill's been sacked as Superman.
	Which is pretty depressing.
	Not great fun.
	His replacement!
	Or replacements.
	Black.
	Or trans.
	Or both.
	I have literally seen Elliot Page being banded about as a potential replacement.
	I want to see that.
	I want to see that just for the meme.
	I definitely don't want to see that.
	No, no, no, no.
	No, no, do it.
	James, go ahead and do it.
	Do it.
	See what the fan reaction is, James.
	Go on.
	I don't want them to go down in flames because if the movie side starts collapsing, it justifies why Warner Brothers should just axe all of DC Comics or just license out their characters to even more progressives who will just burn the legacy of it.
	Now, that being said, I don't buy anything after 2018.
	I was going to say, I don't know if you've seen the quality of DC's content recently.
	I am not Starfire.
	Yeah, I'm like an ostrich at this point.
	Was it Gotham High School?
	I just don't know.
	Heroes in Crisis was bad enough.
	I'm just plugging my ears.
	So maybe the industry should just collapse.
	Maybe we're at that point.
	Maybe just morally speaking, as a moral prescription, the comics industry should collapse for its own good.
	Harry practicing cultural accelerationism.
	You'll be happy to know then that The Witcher, which is a terrible series as well, the bastardization of the books, is also going to collapse because they've got Liam Hemsworth to replace Henry Cavill because Henry Cavill got so frustrated with the writing staff that he just walked.
	And this will be for the fourth series, by the way, because I think he was involved in the filming for the entirety of the third series, so it's going to be even more jarring for people watching the third series knowing in advance that he's going to be replaced by the end of it.
	Those few of you still putting up with it.
	Let's look at the baseless smears that they've put on Henry Cavill since leaving The Witcher and See where the world's strongest nerd is going to next I Did want to just point to as well if you want some solid comic book and pop culture content Harry and I have started a series on the website now on the third episode speaking of iconic portrayals of Superman Talking about comics it's Comics Corner on the third episode here the missteps of DC in the 90s are looking like a golden age compared to what they're doing now and
	And you might be surprised by our analysis of Kingdom Come, because it gets the Bible wrong.
	It seems to be adherent to the Boom of Truth regime, but the art is magnificent.
	I think that's why it's remembered.
	The art is gorgeous, and there's enough glimpses of...
	Absolute gold in the narrative and characters to make it still a worthwhile comic to read, just nowhere near as good as I remembered it being.
	Seriously, do watch this one because it's about much more than just Kingdom Come.
	This was a labor of love from Connor where he brought all of his comic book knowledge to the table and just went off and it was fantastic to see and it was really informative for anybody who's wondering for maybe a start.
	On comic book information, Connor goes through so much that this can kind of be a crash course for 90s comic books.
	Yeah, it's like an epox of comics.
	Yeah.
	Though, I will say, even though I am a very major DC fan, thou shalt not worship false idols.
	Because we go on to this one.
	Yesterday, when the congresspeople were sworn in after the midterms, someone swore himself in off of a copy of Superman No.
	1.
	That's unbelievably cringeworthy.
	Like, I understand that in England we see Lord of the Rings as kind of a cultural touchstone, a monomyth that isn't related to anything that historically or is explicitly Christian, that it actually happened, that it's theological, but it touches on the English sentiment.
	In the same way, American comic books, superheroes, are kind of a secular cultural monomyth that lasted throughout the Cold War.
	It says a lot about how the Americans think of themselves.
	The Morrison Thesis.
	Yeah, well, not quite, because Morrison thinks we can transcend to a plane of aliens abducted in Kathmandu by keep writing comments until we get ethical.
	Well, the Morrison thesis without the psychedelics.
	Sure.
	But that doesn't mean it's a displacement for the core cornerstone texts that have...
	Specifically the Bible, that have founded the American Republic.
	Even placing it alongside things like the Torah or the Koran, which I fundamentally disagree with.
	I don't understand why you'd swear on those.
	And religion shouldn't be subverted, they currently are.
	But pop cultural products are ripe for leftist capture and the inversion of their values.
	And so what you are doing is you are acting as a billboard for someone else's ideals, and also ideals that have been hollowed out from the inside and re-appropriated by...
	Jonathan Kent, Superman's gay son who goes on school climate strikes as a pink-haired boyfriend.
	What is it?
	It's not Truth, Justice and Better Tomorrow.
	That's the new one.
	Truth, Justice and the Progressive Vision, is what they're saying.
	Not fantastic, no.
	So, we can go on to next how it's being subverted in the film industry, because Henry Cavill, a couple of weeks after announcing he's back as Superman, having cameoed in Black Adam, has then announced that when James Gunn and Peter Safran took over DC Films...
	Because James Gunn keeps failing upwards after the flop of the Suicide Squad and the fact that he keeps joking about touching children.
	But he's been sacked.
	And nobody was happy about this.
	I will be fair, his jokes about touching children were about 15 years ago.
	Still weird that he made them, though.
	Still weird that he made them.
	Jokes.
	Jokes.
	Yeah, jokes.
	So no matter how you felt about it, no matter how you felt about the Snyderverse, they've sabotaged the integrity of the Snyderverse by chopping half an hour for BVS and bastardising the Justice League cut.
	They've also sabotaged the success of their universe because everyone loved Henry Cavill as Superman.
	He was perfect casting no matter how differently you or I, for example, felt about the scripting of Man of Steel.
	He had unbelievable potential.
	One of my biggest complaints about the Snyder trilogy was that I felt that Cavill was massively, despite being Superman and the most fitting Superman we've had in decades, he was underutilised.
	It was one of my problems with him.
	I felt that he should have been more talkative.
	In Batman v Superman, and I really enjoyed the ultimate cut of Batman v Superman, he only has something like 60 lines of dialogue.
	He's very quiet in those films, and it's like...
	Henry Cavill is incredibly handsome.
	He's very charming.
	He's well-spoken.
	He's got great screen presence.
	Why wouldn't you try and utilize him as much as possible?
	I think they used him very effectively not to get into a discussion about the film, but we all wanted a sequel, right?
	And instead, what they did was, they made his return, and not contingent on the amount of fans that would actually pay money to support seeing him on screen again, they made it contingent on how many fans would not only go and see Black Adam, which looked like garbage, and it was garbage, by the way, but also stick around until after the credits to watch an end-credits scene, which DC doesn't usually have, where they give him the slick curl...
	And John Williams' score, which he never had before, so it doesn't fit the continuity of the character.
	And then they said, well, Black Adam didn't make much money, so I guess you don't want Henry Cavill anymore.
	This was manufacturing consent to say, we want to reboot the universe, so we're going to sabotage every single stepping stone along the way and take away what the fans want on the grounds of it just won't be profitable.
	Definitely not.
	Never mind the Suicide Squad bombed at the box office.
	Never mind Birds of Prey was wholly repudiated by saying, you guys bastardize the characters and I don't want to see a feminist revision of Harley Quinn, thank you very much.
	They're still going to do it anyway.
	And now they're rebooting the entire universe.
	Oh, joy.
	So, let's go on to the Jezebel hit piece, because, of course, this archived piece, by the way, because I think they were fearing some kind of defamation lawsuit or something like that.
	Fearing backlash from people, I imagine, as well, because people really like Henry Cavill, because he just seems like a really nice guy.
	He's an upstanding fella.
	They complain a lot in this article, and they just wanted to rub salt in the wound after he lost two jobs and just deride him as a toxic gamer, bro.
	So, I suppose...
	Don't let me love him more.
	Well, if you're watching, Henry, please come on the show because you're a personal hero.
	Starts off with, Someone on the show compared Cavill's behaviour to watching someone get brainwashed by QAnon, an insider from The Witcher told Dean Moi, which is just a gossip account on Twitter.
	But this is their source, trust me, bro.
	Anonymous insiders are now claiming that Cavill is actually departing the Superman and Witcher franchises due to the actor's alleged workplace misogyny.
	I want endless movies from this man.
	I'm sorry, I've seen an interview from the Man of Steel promo run that they were doing for the marketing for that, where Amy Adams and the female interviewer were just objectifying Henry Cavill.
	Gushing, yeah.
	And gushing over him, talking about how big his muscles are.
	It's so distracting to work alongside him.
	Amy Adams said she enjoyed snogging him.
	He trained with Feyora, the actress.
	Gal Gadot was really good friends with him.
	Did you see the Witcher interviews where both female leads, Siri and Wasser-faced Indian woman, were giving him the side eye as he was talking?
	Yeah, and to be fair, Henry takes all of it.
	I'd honestly be very awkward about all of that.
	As much as it's a compliment, I would be very awkward.
	Henry seemed to be taking it with a bit of, oh, shucks kind of mentality.
	He's very gentlemanly.
	Yeah, he was very gentlemanly about it.
	Per the popular and often prophetic gossip account Demois, last week a source said that while filming seasons 2 and 3 of The Witcher, something shifted and Cavill became really impossible for women to work with, which has always been a big problem, but even worse here because the showrunner is a woman.
	Did he not respond to your advances?
	Showrunner's a woman.
	Explains the quality.
	According to Dubois' podcast, the source said he would try to overrule her and get changes made last minute across the board without her knowledge, which, if you know anything about showrunning, is completely effed.
	As a result of Cavill's behaviour, the source said that the female writers and directors on The Witcher were suddenly completely ignored on set, unable to do their jobs, and that every department head was complaining.
	The source was clear that Cavill didn't engage in any sexual misconduct.
	That's probably the reason why they're mad, because he just wouldn't shag them.
	But his behaviour was disrespectful and toxic all the same.
	No, what happened was, and we know this because he gave interviews about it at the time, in season two of The Witcher...
	I've got that in a minute.
	Oh, alright, I'll let you carry on.
	Let's not spoil.
	Cavill is deeply addicted to video games to the point where it was like working with any other addict.
	He was distracted, he was late, he was obsessive, and a lot of people think that the misogyny came from the gamer world.
	Hello!
	Video game bro language is not how you talk to co-workers and he wouldn't stop.
	So when they're saying he's obsessively playing the games, do they mean The Witcher?
	No.
	Because it would make sense for actors to be doing research while on set.
	So he may have been the only guy on set who actually played the goddamn games in the first place, and that makes sense as to why he was the only one who was giving continuity, novel, and game-accurate advice to the showrunners who showed open contempt for the source material.
	Also, I've read enough interviews with actors and people on production sets and spoken to these people well enough to know that people only really give up when they know that a production is just worthless.
	If they know a production is just too far gone, that's when they all start to give up and start to show up late and be obsessed and do other things.
	It seems that Henry was just...
	Ahead of the curve than the rest of them on this.
	If nobody's seen the documentary on the making of the film The Island of Dr Moreau and what an absolute shitstorm that was, go and give yourself a good time.
	Where the original director ran into the woods so he could try and spy on the production after he got fired.
	Oh, watch the Critical Drinker's little video on that.
	It's a good one.
	It's amazing.
	So instead of cooperating with the show's women, leaders, and set workers, the insider claims Cavill formed a weird alliance with one writer who is also a gamer.
	This writer eventually got fired after multiple HR complaints were made.
	We'll get onto him in a moment, because I think I've identified who it is.
	According to Dumois, the insider said someone on the show compared Cavill's gamer bro radicalization to watching someone get brainwashed by QAnon.
	They explained his whole personality shifted.
	Eventually, his disrespect escalated.
	This disrespect led to Cavill rewriting scenes without alerting other actors until moments before the scenes were shot.
	You mean, like, who was the fella that played Roy in...
	who recently died in Blade Runner, who, the night before, said, Ridley Scott, my death is really boring, so I'll write the entire tears in Rain Mother, and it's gone down as one of the best things in the entire history.
	Oh my goodness, how have I forgotten his name?
	Rutger Howard!
	Rutger Howard, yes, thank you.
	Exactly.
	Fantastic things can come from the character insight that an actor has if they're really committed to the role, but no, your ears were closed to it.
	Sorry, it was Rutger Hewer.
	Rutger Howard.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, I added a D on the end, that's my fault.
	Um...
	Fantastic insight can come from actors who are really committed to the characters because they are enmeshed in their roles.
	But no, the people who created The Witcher, TV show, don't care because they want to use it as a Trojan horse for ideologically propagandising their audience and inserting diversity retroactively into Polish mythology.
	So it doesn't matter how Henry Cavill was committed to the role and wanted to serve as the fans.
	He was an impediment on their road to utopia.
	He was a speed bump whose career should just be driven straight over.
	Also, this disrespect led to Cavill not only rewriting scenes, but he decided that he didn't want any romantic scenes at all.
	No kissing, no shirtless scenes, Demois continued.
	Additionally, Cavill wanted complete control of storylines, but obviously, as this isn't an actor's job, he really had no idea of the limitations of TV, structure, and budget.
	You bastards will stretch the budget to have whatever ideological nonsense in it you want.
	Don't make me laugh.
	No, I'm sorry.
	I just love the idea that all of the women on set were just really furious he wouldn't take his top off or kiss any of them.
	Stop objectifying me!
	That's obviously what's going on right there.
	He didn't want any romantic scenes.
	Well, do you remember the Age of Ultron?
	Well, maybe it's because he looked at the people they cast as his romantic interest.
	He's like...
	Yeah, with Yennefer's crooked nose.
	No thanks.
	Do you remember Age of Ultron where Scarlett Johansson was saying, oh, I've been sexually objectified by my outfit?
	Or Elizabeth Olsen was saying it.
	And in that same movie, Thor is shirtless like three times.
	Every Marvel film finds an excuse to get the bloke shirtless, to put the drama geeks on steroids centre frame.
	Because women like looking at shirtless men, shockingly enough.
	And the beta males that write it can't get over the fact that...
	Even very left-wing women, like those stupid sexy Trump supporters, most muscular men turn out to be conservative.
	I think it gives us an indication as to why Cavill's political leanings, which he has never fully expressed, are at odds with the feminist showrunners of The Witcher.
	Yeah, let's be fair as well.
	This information that we're reading from does basically just come from some gossip.
	Oh, oh no, no.
	They've got interviews with Cavill that they've divined from the tea leaves as to be misogynistic.
	If you're not fully inclined to believe in an anonymous gossip account, I get it.
	But there's a pretty extensive paper trail of less-than-feminist comments and behaviour from Cavill.
	Bravo, sir.
	Like eating red meat.
	Yeah, and not being a simp.
	Relevant to allegations of workplace sexism in 2015, Cavill disclosed to Men's Fitness that he once became over-excited while filming a sex scene for the Tudors in the 2000s.
	Quote, A girl had to be on top of me, she had spectacular breasts...
	And I hadn't arranged my stuff into a harmless position.
	She's basically rubbing herself against me, and it got a bit inconvenient, shall we say.
	Right, how is that his fault?
	He's a man, his body reacted as you would expect a man's body to react in that situation.
	How is this sexist in any way?
	Oh wait, because it's a man.
	Because it's a man acting like man.
	Men like breasts.
	Welcome to the insights from the Lotus Eaters that you've never heard before.
	In a 2018 interview with GQ Australia, Cavill suggested Me Too ruin dating.
	There's something wonderful about a man chasing a woman.
	I think a woman should be wooed and chased, but maybe I'm old-fashioned for thinking that.
	As a result of Me Too, Cavill continued, it's very difficult to do that if there are certain rules in place.
	I don't want to go up and talk to her because I'm going to be called a rapist or something.
	So Henry Cavill's a sensible centrist.
	Alright.
	Yeah, that's a shockingly normal statement to come from someone in Hollywood.
	Women should be flattered and earned, and men shouldn't be accused of being a rapist if they just talk to them.
	Sensible.
	Not according to the radicals, of course.
	Now, we all know that The Witcher chose diversity over your accuracy, and I think I've found the specific HR-complained writer and executive that Cavill befriended but was ousted, because Bo DiMoyo was kicked off the show on Season 2, and he said...
	I've been on a show, namely The Witcher, where some of the writers were not or actively disliked the books and games, even actively mocking the source material.
	And he was the former producer and writer.
	It's a recipe for disaster and bad morale.
	Fandom, as a litmus test, checks egos and makes all the long nights worth it.
	You have to respect the work before you're allowed to add to its legacy.
	And this just reminds me of the Marvel producer who said, oh yeah, when we get writers and directors in, we make sure they don't like the comics before.
	Like, say what you will about Zack Snyder, but he did consume comics voraciously and set all of his actors' massive reading lists to chunk through them, to the point of where Ben Affleck was reading The Dark Knight Returns repeatedly in his trailer to make sure he got an accurate portrayal of Bruce Wayne.
	And I think he pulled it off marvellously.
	Again, most people really like the casting even if you don't like the movies.
	But what that articulation there is saying, the fans are the only reason we have a job in the first place because they've bought a lifelong amount of material and dedicated themselves to this so that we are allowed to inherit that material and we have an expectation, like the continuity of civilization, to inherit something and do it justice.
	If you disregard the fans' expectations to see what they love come to screen, then you won't have a job anymore because they won't give you And I understand most of this industry is propped up by ESGs and all sorts of subsidies to be woke as shit and never get woke and go broke.
	But in terms of financial accountability, if there is a glimmer of that left in Hollywood, you are burning through piles of cash by putting people off, including me and Harry specifically.
	And as you alluded to, one of the scenes that Cavill rewrote was Roach's death scene in season two, because originally they were not going to have any dialogue and we're going to make a comedic moment, and he actually made a eulogy for Roach the night before, referencing the book The Sword of Destiny, because he's the only person on set that actually bloody read the books.
	But there you go.
	Speaking of diversity over accuracy, let's go straight to Superman, shall we?
	speaking of diversity over accuracy let's go straight to superman shall we james gunn is writing a superman movie now the interesting thing to come out of this wasn't just that it might be elliot page and that seems unlikely until you realize that elliot page will not be paying clark kent but rather john kent the bisexual son of superman who's very lithe and not at all effeminate the interesting thing from the hollywood reporter is it says
	James Gunn is writing a Superman movie.
	the project will focus on the younger years of the hero and thus will be played by a new actor rather than superman veteran henry cavill gunn and his dc studios co-chair and ceo peter saffran recently met with cavill to share the news and discuss ideas for potentially collaborating the future on something else perhaps a different role but warners has also been developing bring back henry cavill and not I don't know But he said he's departing Superman, so Cavill obviously saw their prospects for Kingdom Come and went, no thanks.
	You're gonna contort it.
	The interesting thing, though, in this is that Warners has also been developing a Capital B Black Superman film written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and produced by J.J. Abrams.
	Just do it.
	Just do it.
	Fine.
	Just do it.
	Give us content, please.
	I would love to make a premium video on how terrible that film is, because it will be.
	Gunn's new movie has no impact on this project with Coates still working on the script.
	We had some possible script leaks reported by Bounding into Comics.
	Oh, go on, go on.
	So, the article follows a source that's a little bit sourced, trust me, bro.
	So we have to take it all with a grain of salt, but...
	Bounding has reported some pretty accurate rumours in the past.
	It's not a period piece like it was first pitched.
	It was originally pitched as Superman in the 1930s because he wanted to do about depression and wanted to, as Grant Morrison once said, the socialist champion of the oppressed.
	Superman was never a socialist, but there you go.
	He doesn't have most of his powers.
	He can only leap tall buildings in a single bound and have super strength.
	He has no frost breath, laser eyes, x-ray vision, all that sort of thing.
	And it is commencing with colour-blind casting.
	Now what that means is, Ta-Nehisi Coates is going to pick a black bloke, because Ta-Nehisi Coates is a critical race theorist.
	The villain is Ultra-Humanite, not Lex Luthor, because Ultra-Humanite was Lex Luthor's predecessor in the comics, and he's not going to have his big monkey body, because of course that would be racist.
	Do it.
	Do it.
	Just do it.
	The source says, Lois Lane is written with an Asian-American actress in mind.
	Perry White is written as African-American, because that's something that Zack Snyder did by appointing Laurence Fishburne, one of the missteps.
	Jimmy Olsen is described as a freckled redhead.
	No race bending with a redhead.
	Honestly, I'm so shocked.
	Source must be fake.
	Guaranteed.
	The dyslexic Hollywood producers are not swapping any...
	Anyway...
	So, not everyone took kindly to the pandering.
	That's actually a good thing.
	So we're going to end on a positive note, because despite being a Bernie bro, despite capitalizing the B in black, Ray Fisher, cyborg, who has stuck by Zack Snyder forever, after this news came out, and the only thing he's tweeted recently, is, do you all remember that time that Walter Hamada, former head of Warner Brothers...
	And WB Pictures tried to destroy a black man's credibility, him, and publicly delegitimize a very serious investigation into sexual malpractice in the Justice League set by Joss Whedon towards Wonder Woman with lies in the press.
	But hey, black Superman, accountability over entertainment.
	Burning a goddamn bridge.
	Well done.
	Yeah, I mean, Ray Fisher, like you've alluded to there, might be politically on the opposite aisle to us, but at the very least, he does seem to have some integrity and loyalty to his friends.
	And I've got to respect that.
	When he got up at Comic-Con, after they'd fired Zack to replace him with Joss Whedon, when Zack just wanted time off to go to his daughter's funeral while she committed suicide, he got up at Comic-Con and went on stage like a complete maverick, ripped his shirt off to reveal an I Heart Zack Snyder shirt underneath.
	He never, at any point,...supported the Justice League version.
	Okay, Ray Fisher has earned a bit of respect there, because at the very least, once again, loyalty to friends and people you care about should be above such political matters.
	And he was a very good cyborg.
	Oftentimes in the modern era, they're not, so to see somebody, especially within the Hollywood sphere...
	Have loyalty to someone is shocking and, you know.
	Seeing a leftist manifest the virtue of sanctity, and that's pretty surprising.
	Especially when he decided to go scorched off on James Gunn and never get hired at DC again in the next tweet.
	The way James Gunn uses fake Drace on Twitter is really funny.
	Him going to bat for Joss Whedon, pseudo-apologising for it, and then deleting it immediately before taking his new DC job is not.
	Refusing to apologise for toxic behaviour seems to be a job requirement of one of our brothers' DC. Alright, fair play.
	Just alienate Geoff Johns and everyone while you're at it.
	And if you scroll down, James Gunn says, I have auto-delete on my tweets, bro.
	There's definitely nothing weird about it here.
	You did make buddy-buddies with Joss Whedon, who was a notorious sex pest and leftist, and then make lots of jokes about molesting children, which got you fired from Disney.
	Which is funny, because I didn't think Disney would have a problem with that.
	I mean, Joss Whedon is a self-confessed male feminist, which at this point is just an admission of guilt.
	Yeah, so everyone's failing upwards, and Ray Fisher has at least taken them to task.
	But, and we obviously have the 40k series that Henry Cavill's doing to soothe ourselves over.
	I'm sure Nick and Carl are going to be delighted about this.
	Riccato?
	I know people are worried because it's an Amazon product.
	But Amazon did produce the terminal list, which was shockingly based in areas, and I do think that with Cavill as an executive producer, it has a greater shield against wokeness than it would otherwise, because it seems that when Amazon just gives a product over to an executive producer who actually cares about it, they seem to give them at least a decent amount of creative freedom.
	Hmm.
	So we have all that to cope with.
	However, if we go to the last panel, this is all we have.
	This is all that I have as a Snyder fan.
	This is all that you have as someone who liked Baton v Superman.
	And at least an affirmative vision for DC films.
	Because, yeah, I know.
	Oh, Cape shit.
	Oh, grow up.
	Whatever.
	I really enjoy these as escapist stories.
	They're an important piece of American history as to how Americans reflect on themselves at wartime.
	And I grew up on these comics and they could be really wholesome.
	And just because you don't care about the culture war, the culture war is invested in you and specifically your kids and what they're consuming.
	And so DC has been abandoned to the types that make a Batman movie where Catwoman lectures you on white privilege.
	This is not meant to be dispiriting, because Cavill will have undoubted success in all of his endeavours.
	He seems like a very happy and wholesome guy, and I really respect him.
	But it's just a missed opportunity to not have someone who in many places was, and definitely could have been out into the future, the perfect Superman, disregarded by the progressive hegemon.
	Again, you bastards, you robbed my dreams from me.
	On to the video comments.
	Since you guys are talking about left-wing philosophers recently, I was wondering if you guys are ever going to address Frantz Fanon.
	He's like a French philosopher who I think best represents the current left-wing zeitgeist of our times.
	He asserted that violence must be used to achieve freedom, and without which it wasn't real.
	Violence was its own end, not just a mean.
	This is the dominant philosophy of the left of today, even if they've never heard of this guy, something I think conservatives need to realize when they try to compromise with them.
	I've heard of him.
	I can't say that I've read his work beyond it being referenced in Stephen Hicks' work, which I do want to cover at some point.
	I know when I read through Cynical Theories, James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose's book, they reference Frans Fanon, but I have forgotten what they have to say about him and what the quotes that they took from his work were.
	So I don't know if we've got a copy around the office.
	Yeah, we've got a copy of that around the office, so I'll check the index and see what he said.
	It may be worth covering.
	We'll add it to the list.
	As you can imagine, we have an unbelievable amount of content in the pipelines, because you guys keep paying us.
	Got a big list.
	In Connor's segment on Hitchens, I felt similar.
	I want to affect change, but it's hard to know what to do the more I learn of the corruption.
	However, in my case, I may have to leave California due to serious safety concerns.
	I live in a formally safe and nice area.
	I've watched it all destroyed in my lifetime, and I'd rather not get robbed and killed.
	Like Connor, this is my home for generations and I love it.
	That's why I share this news.
	People need to know.
	Because maybe we can figure out a solution together.
	Any suggestions?
	Good luck on your ventures, man.
	Yeah, I'm really sorry to hear about that.
	I'll be interested to see where you're moving to as well because I'm struggling to think...
	I don't want to leave.
	I don't.
	But I said this yesterday to Dan.
	If a Labour government comes in and immediately outlaws misgendering, we're screwed.
	We're screwed.
	We've got no future.
	We, by law, have no future.
	They basically make...
	Us illegal.
	Yes, we'll be chased out of the country.
	But where?
	Like, America still has a vaccine mandate to travel.
	My main complaint about Florida is that I won't acclimatise the weather.
	But if that's the main thing, I can bear it.
	If Bush came to shove, it would probably have to be Florida.
	Oh, fuck off.
	Sorry.
	Today DC released a comic in which the Joker becomes pregnant and gives birth to a mud monster who turns into a child version of himself who adopts his son.
	That's got to be Clayface.
	Why is...
	Why is...
	Is that Pranky?
	That's jabbing him in the...
	You know, it's still better than three Jokers.
	At least there's that.
	What is this?
	I've been black-pilled enough today, John.
	Please.
	Joker the Man Who Stopped Laughing issue 4 came out yesterday.
	The Man Who Stopped Laughing...
	Wow, really creative titles there.
	So cringe.
	It's so cringe.
	Anyway, like I say, it'll either push come to shove, it'll either have to be Florida or Papua New Guinea.
	Or Tennessee.
	Tennessee might work.
	That's where the Daily Wire guys are.
	Yeah, Texas.
	Texas is good.
	It's purple state.
	Well, we can bring it back a bit further to red.
	We're going to have to solve those drag queen story hours first.
	The only problem would be with Texas is as well because of its proximity to the border.
	Because it's a border state, it does get next to California, I think, the biggest influx of immigration.
	So that is something that you need to put up with, I imagine.
	Same with Arizona.
	Yeah.
	Any more video comments, John?
	Let's go into the written comments.
	Supreme Duck.
	The left-wing comedian screams death to whites 15 times and calls it humour.
	Right-wing humour is very specific about niches of what some people do.
	It's completely different about the humour as represented.
	But I don't think lefties understand the difference.
	Lefties can't meme, and lefties can't humour.
	Yeah, right-wing humour is not even right-wing humour.
	It's just sensible observations about the world and also a lack of filtration about what is appropriate, meaning that the most authentic jokes rise to the top, whereas left-wing humour is just regurgitated ideology.
	Try to reinforce it.
	And they associate it with laughter so that you uncritically accept it easier.
	Mike Emmons.
	Your list of the greatest comedians has as much value as your opinions on comic books.
	This generation thinks way too highly of itself.
	Okay, thanks.
	I don't know what your point is there, really.
	I'm sorry I enjoy things.
	Go cry about it.
	The comedians is mainly just due to lack of exposure to a lot of older comedians.
	This is what happens, sadly.
	Yeah, there's also, like, how else do you think we watch?
	It's old YouTube clips.
	Our opinions on comic books, you don't have to watch those segments, you don't have to watch the premium content we do on that, but thanks for commenting anyway.
	Thanks for taking the time to comment.
	Peter R., The Left.
	Do not mock, criticize, or joke about women, minorities, trans people, or the LGB community.
	It can negatively...
	There's no T there, that's shocking.
	Apparently trans jokes are pro-leftists now.
	It can negatively impact their mental health and well-being.
	This is a form of violence.
	Also The Left.
	Child protection?
	Like, whatever.
	According to the media, kids are parasites.
	Angel Brain.
	It's simple.
	You don't get to choose what you laugh at.
	It's organic.
	Time to strip nature out of it and throw up acceptable boundaries that can be maintained and neatly fit into a spreadsheet.
	Well, that's an easy way to separate friend from enemy, though, isn't it?
	Making inappropriate jokes, somebody laughs.
	Single you out, why don't we?
	I was once accused by a university diversity coordinator of using humour to recruit for neo-Nazis.
	And you almost got away with it, too!
	If it weren't for you meddling kids!
	Why am I reading this?
	I ran for my life, but the sheer shock made me start to laugh far too hard at the situation.
	I quite clearly heard one of my chasers say, Why the fuck is this weirdo laughing?
	Yes, me, the weirdo.
	Mr.
	Naked Man at midnight in a bannaclava on a golf course with his bummer mates.
	Oi, don't be mean about me, Harry and Josh, like that.
	Hey, what we get up to on the weekends is our own business, thank you very much.
	Yeah, speaking of weird sex pests, go for your stuff.
	Yes, onto the pedo push.
	Omar Awad says, I would bet any amount of money...
	There are more nonces enforcing child exploitation laws than we have foreigners defending our borders.
	That's probably true.
	Did you see that Pornhub in Louisiana now have to require age verification via a driving license and all that?
	And people are going, no, no, my data protection, no.
	And it's like, okay, yeah, it's an imperfect way, like some kids are going to steal their parents' credit card and whatever.
	However, I am not going to be stymied and disabled by doing something good just because it will be circumvented and never be perfect.
	We should do incremental steps to improve things.
	And the best arguments I've heard about those sorts of things is primarily the practicality of it, because I'm not against the idea in theory.
	I mean, where was that that's been implemented?
	Louisiana.
	Louisiana.
	I guess we'll see.
	This will be a good experiment to see how it actually works when you implement that sort of stuff.
	A furry was whining about it, though, so it gave me a lot of Shorten-Freudic joy.
	Henry Ashman says arguing that nonces care for children better than normal adults is like saying that a meat-eating farmer cares for their chickens better than a vegan one.
	There's an incentive for them to prey on the charges at the end of the day.
	I mean, to be honest, I would say that a meat-eating farmer would care for their chickens better than a vegan one, but once again, talking about nonces like they're people, they're not.
	Risto Rantanen.
	What do modern journalists and child predators have in common?
	Well, lots of things, but both seem to be unable to keep their mitts off of illegal content.
	True.
	Grant Gibson.
	Re-decentralized internet.
	Yes, bad actors will take advantage of this type of thing, but one, the police can find them there and do the work of trying to find them in real life, just suppressing things that does not actually put the offenders away.
	Non-decentralized internet allows a cabal of progressive weirdos to shut down conversations right before an election.
	Take your pick.
	I'm all for decentralizing and setting the pedo-hunter task force loose.
	Golden mean is needed.
	That's what it is.
	Perhaps, but once again, you're talking about people.
	The pedo-hunter task force has to actually exist.
	And so far, like we've just mentioned there, the FBI and all the organizations that could be...
	Are also staffed by pedos.
	Are also staffed by those sorts of people.
	And if, say, an independent militia organized to try and root out these people, they would be arrested far sooner than any of the actual people they're targeting would be.
	Tyler T. The age might be 13 nationally, but that's superseded by the more reasonable older minimum ages in every local jurisdiction.
	So 13 is just a vestigial law on the books, not an applicable law.
	Well, that's at least good to know.
	Yeah, but does it apply to digital content that's not...
	Disseminated within a particular region.
	Good question.
	Also very worrying still that they only managed to ban child porn in 2014.
	Lord Nerevar, the last one for here.
	Funny how the left are consistently pushing for non-acceptance.
	They often like to make out that they're doing it by accident or that it's not happening at all.
	But we can all see it.
	It's clear as day.
	Remember this as we continue this battle.
	Always do.
	Edward Woodstock, ah yes, Henry Cavill becoming a toxic gamer bro, and this made all 40k players go, yes, this is our guy, let's goo!
	I know he plays Space Marines as well, so that's got a lot of people on the side.
	He knows who the good guys are.
	Yeah, I haven't...
	Well, what's the difference?
	Oh, okay, alright.
	I'm being corrected by John on 40k.
	I haven't played 40k for 10 years, and even then, I used to...
	Death to the Force Emperor, I used to play Chaos.
	All I know is I went on his Instagram once and saw that he was pro-Britain posting, so...
	He went to Warhammer World last year.
	Did he?
	Yeah, really based.
	And his dog is called Cal after Kal-El.
	Oh, that's cute.
	He lives in a converted stable.
	He's actually like a living horsemaster.
	He just seems like a nice guy, and like I say, he was pro-England posting, so that's positive in my books.
	Good fella.
	Lord Nerevar, on Henry Cavill, I'll repeat one of my frankly brilliant tweets.
	They threw a metaphorical spear at him in trying to cancel him.
	It bounced right off, and he threw it back.
	Truly a man of steel.
	He's a proper role model, though.
	He was screwed over by nonceflix and DC almost simultaneously, and he's bounced right back up into a project he could probably only dream of a few years ago.
	Good for him.
	So he's got all these women chasing after him, and as a kid, when he used to play rugby, he used to be called Fat Cavill.
	Good fella.
	And he still maintains enough humility to, like, visit school when his nephew says, Oh, did you know, my uncle's playing Superman.
	The teacher gave him a detention for lying.
	What?
	Yeah, because he was telling all the kids.
	And then he walked in and just went, I'm Henry Cavill, I'm playing Superman.
	This is cool as shit.
	Oh, that's so nice of him.
	Actually really wholesome.
	He needs to get on having some kids of his own.
	Yeah, you probably should.
	Henry, we want you to continue to set a good example and that's the next thing you need to do.
	Krypton needs you.
	Do your bit.
	Anyway, that's all we have time for today, I suppose.
	Thank you very much, Harry.
	Thank you all for watching.
	We are back tomorrow at 1pm.

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