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	music Hello and welcome to the podcast The Lotus here for the 27th of March 2023.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be talking about Posey Parker versus the Kiwi losers, what's happening on Twitter, and tech simulator 2013.
	2023?
	Oh yeah.
	Imagine if it was only 2013.
	God, the world, we didn't know how good it was.
	I can see why you're defaulting back to that.
	It was a better time.
	It was much more innocent.
	Haha, SJW, no.
	That was even before the SJW cringe compilation.
	Feminism?
	You guys just don't understand what you're saying, surely?
	You see the wage gap?
	It's actually not that simple.
	I've been reading up on it.
	Did you know that men might be discriminated against in our society in some ways?
	Men work more hours than women!
	I've only just found this out myself.
	God.
	We were so naive, man.
	The world was just so naive.
	Actual rose glasses.
	They might go back and watch the 2013 videos now.
	About a year ago, I went back and watched the first videos I did, and I'm so placid and nice in them.
	I'm like, look, you just don't understand what you're saying.
	It's like, no, they do.
	Anyway, now we live in 2023, so yeah, it's gonna be hell instead.
	Speaking of.
	Posey Parker versus the Kiwi Losers.
	Now, we did the Aussie Pussies last time.
	She went to Australia.
	Was she?
	And it was, um, cancer.
	She got assaulted by the... Wasn't it by an MP or something?
	Senators.
	Senators.
	The senators were like, can't have this.
	Women are not allowed.
	And, um, it was... No women in Australia!
	They've had the whites-only policy.
	We've abolished the women!
	It's the men-only policy.
	They've done the flip version of my immigration policy, which... God, what would that produce?
	I mean, that would just produce mayhem, surely.
	Yes, obviously.
	I mean, those basically are immigration policies.
	A men-only immigration policy.
	Well, look at the boat migrants!
	Yeah, you're not wrong.
	I know I'm not wrong.
	You're actually right, yeah.
	Yeah, anyway, but going back to Posie, because if you want to check something out, go to LowSeas.com, you can check out the interview with Posie Parker that Carl did a while back, when she was more hopeful about the world, I imagine?
	Yeah, when she was more optimistic.
	But since then, she's now gone from Australia, which was cancer, and she's now gone to New Zealand, which is where we left off.
	Which is going to be super cancer.
	Yeah, I didn't realise how bad New Zealand was.
	Australia is, at least in some ways, quite a conservative place, but New Zealand is an insane progressive hellhole.
	I don't know how it got that bad.
	I mean, I've never been... I kind of want to go after she's been now.
	Like, just invite every other person who's considered problematic in the West.
	Because, I mean, if she calls this much of a ruckus... I mean, anyone who just turns up and says, you know, anything... Percy Parker's entire political diatribe is, I believe women are adult human females.
	I don't have a penis.
	Women don't normally have penises.
	And you can see the response here, just if we load up that tweet to show people.
	The first one here being that some dude turned up and threw tomato sauce all over her.
	So she's just had the milkshake treatment.
	That's got a dramatic look to it as well.
	The milkshakes don't look very dramatic.
	No, I mean this kind of looks like blood.
	And then she had to be scorned at Albion.
	YouTube can't demonetize us for showing some gross.
	It's not even any blood.
	So yeah, you can see like the security walking her up, someone who's broken through and is hiding with tomato sauce.
	There you go.
	Oh, there's that.
	Oh, what a hero.
	Look at that very sane person.
	That person was invited to the United Nations to talk about women's issues people have been putting up.
	That appears to be a man in a dress.
	I apparently is a woman, biological woman.
	Oh really?
	The person with the tomato sauce, but there we are.
	That's the person defending women's rights at the UN.
	How did we identify the one biological woman left in New Zealand?
	And New Zealand was throwing tomato sauce on women's rights campaigners because that's how women's rights works.
	Women on women violence is a new world, I didn't expect.
	You know what, I posted a tweet on, a meme on Twitter the other day that was just some Dragon Ball Z thing with two people fighting and it's like, women, trans activists, men who were told to butt out of their affairs and it's just this guy just smiling passively.
	Enjoy.
	That's me.
	But let's check out the We Love Everybody movement because it was actually very bad.
	Like, I'm joking a little bit because I always kind of do to cope.
	God, look at the obviously sane people.
	Yeah, let's play this collab.
	Claire, this is what Posey had to deal with. - Just demented. - Yeah, they're shouting this is what Posey had to deal with. - Just demented. - Yeah, they're shouting "Nazis go The Nazis.
	The sum total of Nazism was identifying the biological nature of females and women.
	Yeah, I mean, but just the violent aspect there.
	These violent men, who are either normal men or men on drugs, assaults women.
	There's a woman over there!
	Get her, lads!
	I mean, just like the imagery of all of this is so backwards.
	Yeah.
	Because you may remember when the Black Blocs used to attack Andy Ngo and everyone else.
	Like, yeah, it was still horrific, made no sense, imagery was bad.
	But at least they were assaulting men, so society could look at that and be like, well, okay.
	Well done, New Zealand, for lowering the bar.
	But the Black Blocs now spend their time, because everyone is sort of aware of where they've been.
	I mean, they haven't been around for ages.
	They spend their time trying to beat up Posey Parker.
	But just, I mean, when Jordan Peterson was like, look, this is a very clear case of ideological possession, as in the things that these people believe don't bear any resemblance to reality, and it controls their actions as if there's some sort of holy spirit in it.
	Well, look at this.
	What are they doing?
	We're literally like, look, men can become women and you're evil for not thinking so.
	It's like, listen, you are obviously insane.
	Bash down the barricades and get the Nazi.
	Go beat up that Nazi.
	What?
	The woman over there?
	Yeah, that's her.
	She's flown all the way across the world to tell us about how women's rights...
	Matter.
	Yeah.
	Average Nazi.
	But this is what the ideological possession just really clearly looks like.
	But when it's, I mean, this is the, I think in your conversation with Posey, when you did the interview, one of the main points was about you pointing out, look, you've got an actually stronger case than we do in trying to find sympathy amongst the elite because you're a woman and you're a woman's rights movement, like women front and center.
	And I still think it's true because, I mean, the response to this, I mean, this is horrific.
	Don't get me wrong.
	And Posey's watching.
	Average liberal democracy fans.
	Heavy sympathy with you and your movement but the thing is is like this footage has gone viral and has done a great job in exposing how ideologically possessed they are.
	Majority or at least a large part I think because of the optics of them assaulting women's rights movement.
	Really, there's bad optics in punching women.
	There was bad optics in punching white men who were liberals, but this is next level bad optics.
	We have to at least be able to agree at this point that these people aren't in favour of liberal democracy.
	These people hate liberal democracy.
	They don't want you to be able to speak.
	They don't want you to be able to associate or congregate or protest or anything like that.
	They will physically assault you.
	So we accept that these are communist revolutionaries, right?
	Speaking of, let's see some more.
	We'll go to the next link and then play that clip.
	We can see the most tolerant New Zealand leftist.
	play that.
	Just...
	Right, okay.
	I can't help but notice there is an ethnic distinction between the protesters and the people trying to stop them from hurting each other.
	The Maori are like, we're just chilling, and then the white people turned up and then they started fighting each other over the definition of what a woman is.
	Yeah.
	But they're not going hungry.
	There's a whole lot of people here screaming, your hate's not welcome here, as they try to murder a middle-aged woman.
	These are the sort of scenes you would expect to see in times of shortage.
	If there was a famine and people were desperate for food, you would expect to see this sort of thing happening.
	Not who's got the correct definition of woman.
	But I believe that it's lesbian to suck penis.
	I don't believe it's lesbian to suck penis.
	Fight, fight, fight.
	I don't believe a man has ever gotten pregnant.
	Right, well that's it.
	We'll get the next link.
	Scrum.
	There's another angle of all that.
	I think at one point someone just grabbed Posy's throat as well, which is fantastic.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Good optics, that.
	And then if we go forward, they're proud of it as well.
	Like, here's Sir Auckland Pride tweeting out about how they stood up against the vile anti-trans hatred of posy.
	Oh.
	Okay.
	This goes on for ages, this big old thing about how they didn't do nothing.
	I saw the coping and seething, actually.
	Yeah.
	They say in here, though, we also reject that there was any further physical threat from our community towards Parker.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	There's one thing I didn't think that was the issue there.
	It was the physical danger.
	I mean, there is video evidence of it, as I've just shown.
	Of a massive shoulder-to-shoulder rugby scrum.
	And you psychos trying to get at her, baying for blood.
	Yeah, they continue as they scream, your Nazi's not welcome here and so forth.
	This baseless rumour is being perpetuated by those who feel defeated by today's events.
	Yeah, the baseless rumour based on footage.
	I mean, the footage is usually the base for what is true.
	Imagine if in, like, 1944 the Nazi party had a Twitter account, right?
	And, like, the Americans and the Brits are liberating Dachau and stuff.
	No, this baseless rumour.
	Didn't do nothing.
	Exactly.
	And they're showing pictures of it and stuff like that.
	Well, they ended off like the Nazis did.
	We urge the media not to repeat these allegations without evidence.
	It's the end of that tweet there, where they're saying, didn't do nothing.
	It really does just feel like the Nazi Party's Twitter feed.
	If you go to the next link here, I mean, Posy's quite happy about getting out unharmed.
	Sure she is!
	If you go to the next tweet, please, then we can see that.
	And which is just like, I genuinely thought if I fell off the floor, I would get up.
	I wouldn't see my husband and children again.
	I can see why she felt that way, because it looked quite dangerous.
	Yeah, she decided with police advice, so she had one more stop in New Zealand, I believe, and they decided to make her leave the country instead.
	Listen, you can't be walking around New Zealand like it's a free country or something.
	Aren't you aware that we've got a bunch of radical left-wing terrorists who will come and try and kill you?
	I mean, I don't know if you're aware of the context.
	Before she went to New Zealand, she had to apply to go to New Zealand, not because she had to fill in a visa form, but the immigration minister reviewed her case about whether or not she should be allowed because of the threat she posed to the public, not the threat the public posed to her.
	Which is the accurate assessment.
	Opening, welcome, tolerant, go on holiday in New Zealand.
	But why are the New Zealand public so goddamn radicalised that they would try and kill someone or assault someone who's just a woman?
	Well I'm guessing because they've had their, I don't know if it's their Labour Party or whatever, but they've had a left-wing government for the last like decade and they've spent their time paying off journos to propagandise the public into being left-wing serfs.
	Yes.
	I mean, I couldn't say it more accurately.
	The Green and the Labour Party of New Zealand have just made it what it is.
	Yeah.
	You've utterly radicalised the population.
	Yep.
	And the reason there is a visa application for Posey is not, obviously, because she throws any threat to the public in New Zealand.
	It's because of how radical you've made the population.
	She's had five for three.
	Like, what threat has she posed?
	Speaking of the radical population, we'll go to a drag queen who elbows an elderly man in the face for no goddamn reason.
	You can see it there.
	He's just trying to walk.
	She just...
	Hit some with the elbow.
	For no reason.
	She.
	Yeah, she.
	He, sorry.
	Like literally like three times his size.
	But you can see in the footage someone's taking an aerial view.
	It's completely unprompted.
	Yep.
	Like the dude's just trying to move.
	And then another one just tries to get him in a headlock there.
	Why?
	Bro's probably on his way to pick up his social security check.
	Very ladylike.
	Turns out that drag queen- Every New Zealand woman.
	And Trinity Ice is their stage name, or Trinity Johnson.
	They were actually interviewed by the New Zealand Herald who were covering the event.
	I've seen their version of events.
	If you go to the next link we can actually see.
	This is their video, which surprisingly had a 63% dislike.
	Oh wow, really?
	Yeah, don't know why.
	They portrayed it as, you know, heroic Leftists stand up to hateful Nazi who turned up out of nowhere.
	Heroic, obviously sane person stands up to Lord Voldemort.
	You wanna know what this clearly sane person said after they've been beating up old people all evening?
	They said, we are all worthy of love.
	That's their soundbite in this report, yeah?
	Yeah, that's a judgement that I'm going to withhold, I think.
	What a lunatic.
	There's also the fact that apparently they've been on some famous drag show, TV show.
	I can't remember the damn name.
	Oh, I can believe it.
	I can believe it.
	RuPaul's Drag Race?
	Apparently it's famous.
	I don't follow that.
	Gender Female.
	Female isn't a gender, geniuses.
	ethnicity Maori has turned up to beat up old men.
	Why do I get the feeling this is another case of Rachel Dolezal just hanging it out there, but moving forward because if you go to the next one, the PM decided to not answer any questions about this.
	I forgot that the mouth of Sauron had resigned.
	Yeah, now some other socialist in a suit is in charge.
	We'll play this.
	Let's have a look at his response.
	Can you do the general assurance to Josie Parker and to Mara McDavidson and to all the other women assaulted in Albert Park on Saturday that given the huge amount of video evidence that police will investigate and prosecute whomever is responsible for any assault that day?
	Those decisions are matters for the Commissioner of Police.
	I'd like to think that they will, Prime Minister.
	Those are decisions for the Commissioner of Police.
	Amazing.
	So, are you going to be prosecuting those people who beat up these women?
	My choice.
	Nothing to do with me, Governor.
	Yeah.
	Didn't do nothing, mate.
	Don't know why you're even asking.
	It's transparent.
	There are pictures of him with some of the people who engaged in the assault as well, at like party meetings and stuff.
	They'll come out, so.
	What a surprise.
	I just can't get over it.
	Like, there are very few things countries like New Zealand are known for, because you're so remote.
	And this will now be one of those things that people will know New Zealand for, which is just insane leftist land.
	Attacking women.
	Yep.
	There's, uh, Billy Bragg decided to get involved as well.
	Famous communist, Billy Bragg.
	Decided to tweet this out.
	I think this is from the New Zealand Herald.
	They put out this cartoon, which shows like a Trojan horse with Posey Parker's head on it, shouting, listen up, I'm just a feminist speaking on behalf of the women of New Zealand.
	What a horrific smear.
	With a horde of Nazis giving Nazi salutes below her.
	So, you know, you let Posey in to defend women's rights, next thing you know, camps.
	But what's the message of the Nazis there, Callum?
	Well, on their shirt, they have... What's the one message that you have from the Nazis there?
	Well, there are two things you can read on their shirts.
	I mean, one of them's CPAC, which... Average Nazi gathering, yeah.
	Yeah, and the other one is, destroy pedo freaks.
	And New Zealand Herald were like, you know what I think of when I think of Nazis?
	People who kill pedophiles.
	Whoa, wackos kill pedos.
	Yeah, it's amazing that Billy Bragg's like, well, I don't support those people.
	I don't know what to say about this.
	I mean, you can see 1.4 million views on this tweet because most people's responses were, wait, what?
	What do you mean the anti-pedos are on their side?
	Even from my own supporters were just like, hang on a minute.
	What are we doing?
	Well, I mean, Graeme Lynham does keep pointing out that the trans rights activists are remarkably taking on the appearance of a nonce advocacy movement.
	And if their enemies are anti-nonce advocates, then... I don't know.
	I mean, we've been over this.
	The original trans flag, the edition, the colours there.
	The guy who designed those colours said he designs the blue and the pink because it represented, quote, what was it, young girls and young boys, not women and men, boys and girls.
	It is weird that you have pastel colours.
	Yeah, and he did it specifically because it represented adolescent kids.
	To represent transgenderism.
	I love the idea that Posey Parker is a Trojan horse for anti-pedophile action.
	Maybe she'd be like, well, yeah... The New Zealand Herald are like, we're proud of the New Zealand's pro-noncing ways, and we want to keep it that way, keep the foreigners out.
	It's not even a Trojan horse.
	I'm sure she'd be like, well, no, look, of course I'm against pedophiles.
	I'm also in favour of women's rights.
	Keeps it very under the bonnet.
	I hear this, she's secretly against pedos.
	But if you get the next one, the New Zealand Herald decided to put out a new cartoon as well.
	I think this is the day after.
	Oh yeah.
	They decided to put out that one.
	Some huge hand of a man.
	No, no, no, that's a she-her hand.
	That's a she-her hand, is it?
	Obviously.
	Which is why the, what is it, the ring finger's bigger than the index finger?
	Yep.
	And just the general size of it.
	Shouting, you TERF propaganda is not welcome here, to a tiny Posy Parker.
	Okay.
	Again, I mean, do you not realise the imagery you're using?
	Just looks horrible to anyone normal.
	You know what, right?
	The TERFs have got this annoying habit of saying, ah, trans rights activism is a men's rights movement.
	And it's not.
	However... God, this is so close.
	But this propaganda is really making it look like it is.
	I can sincerely see why they keep saying that.
	Yeah, it's absolutely not, and they are wrong to say it, but... But when you keep getting assaulted by men in dresses... And this is the propaganda.
	Yeah.
	The funniest statement, though, wasn't any of these.
	It was the next one, which was an account decided to put out.
	I don't know who this is, but he put out, I always thought it would be Trump supporters who would end up beating feminists in the streets.
	Why?
	But no, it's progressives.
	What a colossal waste of time my past 20 years of political activism has been.
	I don't know.
	I still don't really know what he means by this!
	Well, he didn't want women to get beaten up in the streets, right?
	Are you sure?
	I think that's what he's saying.
	It's like, I don't know if he's a Trump supporter or not.
	I love the idea that he is a Trump supporter.
	He's been like, the last 20 years I've been fighting so we could beat up feminists.
	And then someone's beaten me to the punch!
	No, no, he's clearly saying, look, I'm a feminist because I support women's rights and I don't want feminists getting beaten in the streets.
	And that's why I thought the Trump supporters were going to be bad.
	The Trump supporters never started the violence.
	What a colossal waste of time the past 20 years of my political activism has been because someone else is beating up the... Sorry.
	I appreciate that there is that reverse way of reading it, but I think sincerely he thought that he was progressive.
	I just thought you were going to agree with it instead, but anyway.
	No, no, no, I'm not progressive.
	I'm against punching women in the face because they have an opinion.
	It is actually ridiculous.
	I mean, I laugh at all these things because, you know, what else are you made to do?
	British trench humor over here.
	But it's mad.
	Absolute madness.
	I mean, I thought what she engaged in in Australia was like, OK, Australian politics is a little bit of a weird place.
	Their Green Party is friggin' mental, like all the Green Parties.
	What am I saying?
	Like any old one.
	Ours is mental, but the British public generally aren't interested in it.
	They got one seat, they don't go anywhere.
	The one seat is Brighton.
	North Brighton.
	Whereas there are multiple senators in Australia who are green and get the time of day somehow.
	Okay, that was mad.
	But New Zealand, maybe they'll just be more chill?
	No, they're more mad.
	Why would politics touch them in the middle of nowhere?
	They've been radicalised, as you said earlier.
	If you go to the Pictican Islands, it's like 50 people.
	Could you imagine turning up and then they all turn up with trans rights matter flags?
	I mean, you'd sort of look at them and be like, how the hell has this touched you?
	How the hell?
	I have been told reliably that New Zealand is a first world country, so.
	Somehow.
	We can see though, I just want to stop and have a conversation.
	These boots stomp turf, that is so progressive.
	Yeah, this was also one of the banners at this.
	Could we just appreciate for a moment just how violent and openly murderous the trans rights activists are?
	I posted a picture of a montage of them.
	It's freaking weird because we always... I don't know why we didn't appreciate this sooner.
	But this has been going on forever.
	Have you ever seen a trans rights activist protest that doesn't have like kill tufts?
	That's quite masculine energy, isn't it?
	Constantly.
	You never get this from a women's rights protest.
	Weirdly.
	They aren't like, we're going to kill you in the streets.
	And even if it was, like you occasionally got this stupid feminist to be like, huh, kill all men.
	And it's like, yeah, with what army?
	One made of men.
	Stupid.
	But they're like the, you know, the transgender activists are all men.
	So, well.
	is actually their speciality.
	Like, they're not joking.
	That's the thing.
	If we go to the UK, there's actually a same event that was going on, this at Speaker's Corner, where there's a bunch of them chanting, the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, and a bunch of people, including Graham Linehan, where they're shouting- Average Nazi on the other side of that.
	Yeah, they're calling them all Nazis and then chanting, the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, to a bunch of middle-aged women and Graham Linehan.
	Whilst the police are there listening to this, I mean, that is just an open call to murder.
	They're all Nazis and we're going to kill them, and the police officer goes, have a good day.
	I just love that it's the writer of Father Ted and some grannies.
	And it's just like, oh, come on.
	Kill the Nazis.
	This is just some sort of theatre production for these lunatics.
	Yeah, I mean, it looks like a movement you'd make up for a TV show of mad people.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, you are right.
	It's literally a bunch of little old ladies.
	Look at them.
	Look at them with their Posey Parker merch.
	And then the clearly sane youth over here being like, hey, look, Nazis.
	It's like, you are...
	With the words Massacre written on their placards.
	Oh, as you do.
	Right.
	You get an Xbox, right?
	There's also just the whole Kill Turfs merch.
	Constantly.
	Yeah.
	Kill the turf.
	Literally kill the boa.
	I mean, if you click on that one there, we can just see a bit more, because it's not just like one or two shirts.
	Yeah.
	You've got people putting it on their female bodies.
	I mean... There's a male body, because otherwise we can't show the nipples.
	Well, it's got to be male.
	Also because it is.
	Yeah, but... Yeah, because it is.
	I can see the bulge.
	But I mean, this is genuinely like Rwandan radio.
	Yeah, if you go to the next one as well.
	I mean, the Decapitate Turfs, you remember that?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, the Scottish protest.
	Should we click through these?
	If you click on the first image, then we'll go through that.
	This is not unusual.
	This is completely normal.
	I mean, imagine if that was a Tommy Robinson.
	Decapitate the Muslims.
	I mean, that's literally... Instantly get rid of the placard, then arrest the person, and then round up the protest, because we need to investigate who the hell organised this.
	And the Scottish police couldn't find out who that person was.
	I remember there was a protest in London to free Tommy Robinson and some woman came.
	So the mayor of London said if someone came to London with a pepper pig, sorry, with a pig thing of me, that's free speech.
	So someone came the next day to the Tommy Robinson rally with a pepper pig balloon and put Sadiq Khan's face on it.
	The police made her get rid of the balloon or she would have been arrested.
	That's free speech, bro.
	Sadiq Khan's blessing.
	Decapitate TERFs.
	And the SNP are like, yes, brother.
	Oh, that's an SNP member of the parliament in front.
	If we keep going forward, because again, I mean, like, I'm sorry but no one talks about just how normal this is for them.
	You have here your pronouns was, were.
	We're going to kill you for disagreeing with us.
	Again.
	I'm not going to make jokes.
	Keep going because there's more of that of course.
	This time it's a placard, next time it's not.
	Oh wow.
	That's very obviously a male identifying person holding that.
	Yeah.
	And then the next one here, I think is the last one.
	Suck my D, you transphobic C-words.
	F-turfs, defs to turfs.
	I mean, that is just so progressive.
	It's just constant.
	I just, I don't know how this seems to have, we don't even pick it up.
	Like we just see it as part of the wallpaper, right?
	I can totally understand why the turfs themselves are like, look, this seems to be a movement of angry men who want to rape and kill women.
	Because they keep saying it?
	Yeah, it's only because they keep writing on the placards and taking them to protest and then punching the text.
	You want something off where I will murder you?
	Yeah.
	Hashtag love wins.
	We'll end it off with the last thing here, just being a tweet from Posey, because it went viral.
	Well, good, good.
	And the reason I bring that up is to make, again, the point, I mean, there are very few things a place like New Zealand will be known for, and this is now one of them.
	Murdering women.
	Actual lunatics.
	And Lord of the Rings.
	God.
	I couldn't take my eyes off this because it's absolutely mad.
	I can't believe how bad New Zealanders.
	I wish I had Photoshop skills because I had Photoshop Sauron with the trans pride flag.
	Posey Parker as Samwise.
	Get on it.
	Well, this isn't going to be nearly as exciting as Posey's segment, but I thought we'd have a round-up of what's happening with Twitter, because there's a lot that's going on, and it seems that Elon's actually doing a pretty good job, despite all of the media reporting to the contrary.
	Anyway, before we start, if you want to support us, especially now we've been demonetised, thanks YouTube, Go to locies.com, sign up and watch my latest podcast with Dan talking about, as a pair of foreigners, why we think American society is in collapse.
	Because we've both been watching the It's the unfolding catastrophe of the American experiment.
	I'm sorry, it started as a really good idea, but just looks controversial.
	I feel bad, because there are lots of Americans who I really like, who are genuinely good-hearted patriots, and they are Perhaps not quite willing to accept that, look, there's this cold civil war going on in the United States at the moment, and it's not pretty.
	I mean, this is why I say they need to stop seeing themselves as some kind of, like, experiment, ideological state.
	Like, you're an ethnic group.
	Everyone sees you as an ethnic group.
	Just claim your land on that basis.
	Everyone recognises the American regardless of the colour of their skin.
	Trust us.
	Yeah.
	So trust us on this.
	I don't know why the American ethos has to cling to like, oh yeah, we're an ideological place.
	You don't have to be.
	Same as the French.
	It's the ideological liberal revolutions.
	But anyway, that's what me and Dan talk about.
	It's really good.
	And like I said, we've been demonetised thanks to YouTube.
	So come and support us.
	We're doing a good job, I think.
	Anyway, let's begin with Twitter's financial problems.
	Because a week or so ago, the Sunday Times were like, ha ha ha, Elon Musk's the failing Twitter platform.
	Taking a Trumpian view on it.
	According to an internet organisation that monitors internet performance called Thousand Eyes, I'd never heard of these before.
	The number of problems affecting Twitter have more than doubled under Elon Musk's ownership because apparently they had 208 instances of poor performance as the business compared to 100 over the same period over one year.
	It's like, okay, well, I mean, he did fire more than half the staff, like two thirds of the staff.
	So, you know, what do you expect?
	Child porn still went down.
	Yeah, well, I don't know if that's in their list of complaints.
	I'm going to be generous and say it's not.
	But there has been the odd Twitter outage, but to be honest with you, I use it every day, it seems fine.
	Plus, even if it had gone out under the old regime, it would have been normal.
	Anyway, Musk obviously pointed out that, well look, I bought this company for $44 billion, and it was losing $3 billion a year.
	Which is not great, right?
	And it makes you wonder, was it really worth $44 billion?
	I don't think so.
	I mean, apparently... Depends what you use it for.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Propaganda is never a waste of money.
	Exactly.
	I mean, Twitter used to spend $1.5 billion a year servicing its own debt.
	And then it's losing another $3 billion on top of that, right?
	Twitter apparently had $12.5 billion debt.
	And when he bought it.
	So it's like, right.
	So for them to get 44 billion for Twitter, I think it's a bloody good deal for them.
	Right?
	Um, anyway, so Elon has taken over and he started to make some changes.
	Um, I think my favorite change is having an automated email bot that just sends the poo emoji when a press inquiry comes in.
	Yeah.
	Which he, which the Sunday times match completely.
	Well, yeah.
	So it's a poo emoji.
	Don't know why.
	Don't know why.
	Did you see Vice is reporting on that?
	No, I didn't actually.
	They wrote an article saying we asked Twitter about child pornography and they sent us a poop emoji.
	Trying to smear Twitter for, like, they didn't care.
	That was literally Elon's top priority on day one, is to get rid of it.
	I know, but- And Vice's like, well, hang on a second.
	But clearly they'd read what he'd done and then tried to write a smear piece.
	It was so transparent.
	How can you write a smear piece about that?
	Because they were like, oh god, yeah, see?
	That he sent us this, and not say it was a bot.
	Right.
	Either way, terrible.
	Right.
	So anyway, recently there has been a leaked memo.
	From within Twitter, where Elon is offering the remaining staff stock grants as a way to incentivize them to make money.
	So a stock grant, which I don't know anything about, means that you purchase these and after six months they're apparently worth more and then you can sell them, but you can't sell them sooner, but whatever, right?
	So it's a way for the staff to make more money.
	Ask Dan, I don't know.
	I don't know!
	But the important part is the memo itself suggested that in fact Twitter is only worth 20 billion now and so the question is well how was Twitter keeping itself afloat?
	And of course, they say this.
	The company's steep devaluation follows Musk's turbulent takeover.
	Several large advertisers have left the platform, and major sources of funds for Musk's purchase of the company, the investment firm Fidelity, have ridden down the value of the stake by 56%.
	So, yes, not good, basically.
	So the platform is worth less than half, according to the people who bought it.
	But Musk is turning things around.
	This is why you fire two-thirds of the workforce, right?
	You go from 7,700 people to 2,000 people, and eventually you start saving some money.
	As he tweeted the other day, last three months were extremely tough.
	Had to save Twitter from bankruptcy while fulfilling essential Tesla and SpaceX duties.
	Wouldn't wish that pain on anyone.
	Twitter still has challenges, but is now trending to break even if we keep at it.
	Public support much appreciated.
	So good.
	Musk has actually saved Twitter from being the eternal black hole that it was.
	Now this, of course, means that some sacrifices have to be made.
	Oh, but before we go into that, in fact, apparently there was a leak of Twitter source code.
	And so Elon's like, well, we'll just have open source code.
	The code for how tweets are recommended is just going to be put out.
	But what's interesting?
	is the nature of the algorithm behind it.
	Because, I mean, it will be interesting for when the tech bros pour through and be like, ah, this is, I mean, I'd like to have that kind of transparency with YouTube and Facebook and everywhere else, right?
	But there are going to be loads of tech bros who pour over this and then write their long analyses and then someone can summarize it for an idiot like me, right?
	But he says, our algorithm is overly complex and not fully understood internally.
	Isn't that amazing?
	So it's like, we don't know how this works.
	Don't complain to me about, I don't know what stock options are, right?
	They don't even know how their own algorithm works.
	Okay.
	It's probably hidden partially from them.
	Yeah, probably.
	So there's a, I mentioned before, there's this podcast on YouTube where they spoke to Susan.
	They also actually spoke to the three guys who will manage the YouTube algorithm.
	Right.
	So the original guy who made YouTube such a success, his idea was just more of the same.
	Sure.
	You like the stuff, I'll give you more of that.
	And that made YouTube really, really successful.
	Yeah, it did.
	And then the more, like, different guys they spoke to who took over the task of managing their algorithm afterwards, the more complex and nonsensical it got because of the input of politics.
	Yeah, and then Susan's like, hey, they need to know about things they hate.
	Yeah, so now the algorithm had to encompass, just shove stuff in that nobody clicks on, but is relevant to my political views.
	And I bet Twitter is exactly the same, and they're doubtless going to have lots of subroutines that are about suppressing X content and things like this, and promoting others.
	But I just find it really amusing.
	People will discover many silly things, but will patch issues as soon as they're found.
	We're developing a simplified approach to serving more compelling tweets, but still a work in progress that will also be open source.
	Providing code transparency will be incredibly embarrassing at first, but it should lead to rapid improvement in recommendation quality.
	And more importantly, we hope to earn your trust.
	Now, I think that's a great move on Elon's part.
	I don't see any way you could possibly complain about that unless you were the one being embarrassed by your excessively complex and punitive algorithm.
	Anyway, so...
	People leaked a part of the front-facing algorithm.
	Doesn't really matter as far as I'm concerned, because it's all going to change.
	But anyway, so Twitter Blue is globally rolling out, because of course, if you're going to have a profitable business, you need to have a revenue model.
	And having people subscribe is a good idea, actually.
	It works for us, anyway.
	But there is the flip side of this.
	What if you were a legacy verified checkmark and you were told, wait a minute, you're going to have to pay eight buckaroos a month.
	Well, you'd ask, is it worth it?
	It would.
	It would indeed.
	So, on April 1st, as in April Fool's Day... There's something memetic about this.
	We'll be winding down our Legacy Verified program and removing Legacy Verified checkmarks.
	Now... It's just on April Fool's Day, and they're going to replace all the checkmarks with clown emojis.
	All the old users!
	Well, they did change the text to say this may or may not be notable on the account, and it literally changed it to a little clown face.
	Every time you click on a profile, it's got a legacy checkmark.
	It's just confetti comes at the top of the screen, and it just starts playing on your browser.
	Just, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Little clown on a ball raised along the screen.
	Which would be great.
	But the thing is, there's a bit of conflicting information about this, because apparently individuals associated with verified organisations will be automatically verified.
	I don't know how that's going to work.
	So, like, drug companies, etc?
	Yeah, I assume, like, you know... I mean, the government ones are grey now, so you know they're official government ones.
	Organisations, not people, I assume is the distinction.
	Yeah, but an individual person's account affiliated with a verified organisation.
	So, who knows, right?
	But the important thing is that a bunch of people you've never heard of in your life are furious that they won't be verified on Twitter anymore.
	Do you know who Mike Drucker is?
	He replied to this saying, thank you for doing this.
	I'm not even being sarcastic.
	Some users on Twitter were starting to confuse me for the type of person who pay $8 a month to feel special.
	It was embarrassing.
	Yeah, if I can't feel special for free... Like, who is this guy, right?
	Apparently, an Emmy nominated writer and comedian who wrote a book about Silent Hill 2.
	Average verified checkmark.
	I wrote a book about a video game.
	Yeah.
	It's just defeating the purpose.
	I was Emmy nominated, is that okay?
	Anyway, next chap is a guy called Matt, who chimes in.
	I'd rather pay my own father to rail me than pay your dumbass checkmark tax.
	That much is your father, what?
	I mean, yeah, literally.
	Weird that your father's cheaper than $8 a month.
	What a really weird response, what the hell?
	Yeah.
	And the thing is, that's really weird, because, like, I would rather pay for the verified checkmark tax, even if I was a verified checkmark.
	You sure?
	Yeah, I am sure.
	Would you rather pay $8 than get railed by Matt's father?
	No, I don't really want to.
	I pay the 8 bucks, I'm good.
	But it's even worse that Matt would happily pay that 8 bucks to his own father.
	I mean, at least I'm not related.
	At least I'm not related to Matt's father, right?
	But who is Matt?
	I don't know, who's this guy?
	He's been on Love Island, maybe?
	He exactly is, who knows?
	YouTuber guy, co-host of Goon Podcast or something, washed-up car show presenter, he-him.
	Look at that Lizzy!
	He's got half the number of followers I've got.
	I've never heard of this guy.
	He's got he-him.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Where's your he-him?
	Exactly, where is my he-him?
	The next one is just someone who's like, just take it away.
	Yeah, hell no.
	Take away my checkmark.
	Who even cares?
	You really seem to care about this.
	This seems to really put a B in your bonnet, right?
	Nobody wants to pay for that.
	First response, who are you?
	Do you want to just hover over our profile, John?
	Who the hell is she?
	2,000 followers?
	Sometimes Max in Blumhouse, five nights at Freddy's, sometimes Presley in a week away on Netflix, sometimes... No idea who you are.
	Why are you verified?
	Because you may remember, the whole verified thing used to be for big accounts that had become notable because of the news or blah blah blah.
	That's why it was worth the time.
	Because a human being used to have to sit down and verify people.
	They were apparently spending their time verifying cat.
	Well, remember that there was the issue of some people paying 15 grand for their verified checkmark.
	Money well spent?
	Yeah.
	Uh, anyway, another person was complaining that, hang on, you're not actually verified if you pay your money.
	It's like, well, actually you are because you have to give them your bank details, which has your name on it.
	So they can actually guarantee that it's you.
	Twitter making groundbreaking cultural statements by saying verified doesn't actually mean you've been verified.
	It does, actually.
	Words don't need to have meanings, I'm sure.
	Who's Pat?
	Yeah, in fact, I don't know, actually.
	Do you want to hover over here?
	Should we guess about the pronouns?
	Oh, no pronouns.
	I upload and stream a lot.
	Okay?
	Who the hell are you?
	60 followers.
	60,000 followers.
	Never heard of you.
	William Shatner chimed in and said, Hey Elon Musk, what's all this about blue checks going away unless we pay Twitter?
	I've been here 15 years giving my thoughts and time.
	Now you're telling me I have to pay something for something you gave me free?
	What is this?
	The Columbia Records and Tape Club?
	That's a Boomer reference I don't get.
	And Elon just retweeted this saying, look, it's more about treating everyone equally.
	There shouldn't be different standards for celebrities, in my opinion.
	Yeah.
	Seems fair to me.
	Then you had a bunch of people complaining about equality!
	The purpose of blue checks should be to verify that someone is who they say they are.
	No more, no less.
	Oh yeah?
	Oh really?
	Then why is it you get lots of people who are very, very famous who aren't verified?
	Percy Parker isn't verified.
	Why did people get their checkmarks taken away?
	That's a great question.
	How did Milo lose his checkmark?
	Was he no longer who he was?
	Do you remember the official reason for that?
	It was so unconvincing as well.
	Oh, he changed his profile picture.
	He was making fun of someone, so he changed his profile picture and description to do a bit of trolling.
	And they were like, that violates it, because now no one can tell us who you are.
	It's like, it's not at Milo.
	Nero.
	Yeah, Nero.
	Clearly not the person he's trolling.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, that's the point, isn't it?
	It's not about actually verifying it's the person, because if that were the case, well then, Elon's right.
	It is just, why wouldn't we verify everybody so you know you're not talking to a bot?
	Why wouldn't literally everyone on the platform get a verified checkmark if that were the question?
	No reason not to.
	So you get the next one, because it was never really about that.
	The blue check was not meant to be a different standard.
	It was designed to be a verification that the person or organization was exactly who they say they are.
	I have to prove who I was and work for it.
	Now I just have to prove that I have a credit card of eight bucks a month.
	Yeah, but the credit card is a verification of your identity.
	What do you mean I had to prove who I was and who I worked for?
	No, you only have to prove who you are if it's a verification of who you are.
	No, you have to prove what you worked for.
	But this is the mythology of the ruling class, right?
	It's not meant to be a different standard.
	It's just really restricted to a bunch of people in a particular club and can be taken away if you step outside of those boundaries.
	My boss is in the club, so I'm allowed into it.
	That's all he's saying, though.
	Yep.
	And you get people who literally just come out and admit this, right?
	Like this guy.
	Never heard of him.
	Dex.
	I'm sure he's someone important.
	It was a huge goal of mine to get verified, and when it actually happened, I was at work.
	I came home to this little surprise for my wife and daughter.
	I'm sure you won't care, but so many of these changes that seem unnecessary kind of ruin the vibe.
	This is the social community manager for Call of Duty.
	But there we go, right?
	It's not about simply proving who you are.
	And we know you know that.
	The vibe of being in.
	Exactly.
	It's the vibe of being better than the plebs, right?
	And so someone else had replied to Elon Musk, if you can get the next one, saying, it's a checkmark.
	Do you really need it?
	And they were like, yes.
	It's why we have trophies, medals, certificates, diplomas, plaques, et cetera.
	The checkmark is a modern-day digital trophy that symbolizes a form of significance.
	Many of us have spent the last ten years of our lives building a brand for ourselves.
	This was a nice way to reward that.
	Right.
	Thank you.
	Finally!
	Who's this person?
	I don't know who that is.
	There's Landon.
	You don't know Landon?
	No, I don't know Landon.
	CEO and owner of Carnage Clan.
	Oh, he sounds like it.
	Carnage Clan.
	They sound like they invest in good people.
	Um, but yeah, no, never heard of this rando, but, uh, but there we go.
	You built a brand.
	You were of the correct political persuasion.
	So you get the trophy.
	You get the trophy.
	That's exactly it.
	We completely agree with you.
	But Elon Musk does make a good point.
	He's like, look, that may well be true.
	That was retarded.
	That system wasn't good for anyone except you people.
	There is that, right?
	Some people criticise Elon Musk, but he does have quite a man-of-the-people sort of attitude towards these things, and I do approve of that.
	But he does make a good point here, though.
	Look, technology has somewhat improved.
	If you think you're dealing with a bot now, you aren't going to know in like 10 years' time, whereas it says, you know, modern AI can solve any prove-you're-not-a-robot test.
	The Turing test?
	It's now trivial to spin up 100,000 human-like bots for less than a penny a count.
	Paid verification increases bot cost by 10,000% and makes it much easier to identify bots by phone and CC clustering.
	Obvious conclusion, paid social media will become the only social media that matters.
	Because why wouldn't it?
	This is actually a complete side note, but Team Fortress 2 is rigged with bots.
	The obvious solution to that is just to start charging a pound to play Team Fortress 2.
	So if you make 10,000 bots, that's going to cost the owner 10,000 pounds.
	And it's hardly worth it.
	No.
	Completely dries up the satisfaction.
	Well, I can do the bots for free.
	That's the point.
	And so the only thing I think that's really missing from Elon's changes to Twitter so far was the question of revenue sharing.
	Remember how he mentioned in February that there would be a sort of YouTube revenue split in advertising?
	I think that's a great idea.
	I mean, why not pay people to be on Twitter, if you own Twitter?
	I mean, I can think of civilizational reasons why not to do that, but if you own Twitter and you want people to, you know, spend their time encouraging people to come to Twitter, this, I think, is the key to YouTube success, was the fact that you could get paid to be a YouTuber.
	This works.
	This is actually a method of sustaining an income.
	This is what made YouTube big, and this is what keeps YouTube big.
	And I think this is the right aspect to go for Elon.
	But as The Verge here are complaining about, he mentioned this back in February, and it hasn't happened yet.
	Twitter Blue subscribers are supposed to have it, and he said it a while ago, but starting today, it's like, OK, well, where's my revenue share?
	I want to start making money.
	I'll tweet a lot more.
	Wait, my Twitter box.
	Yeah, I'll start tweeting a lot more.
	You know?
	And I think that's a great idea.
	So the complaint being like, well, he hasn't followed up on this.
	And he is right, because essentially what you would be doing is saying, look, if you're subscribed to Twitter Blue, you can get a share of the ad revenue.
	And if you've got 5 million subscribers, because you're a really famous community manager for Call of Duty or something, then you could be making a significant amount of money from your $8 or $7 a month, whatever it is.
	So actually, it makes it worth it for you, and it makes it worth it for us.
	It's a good symbiotic relationship.
	But that hasn't happened yet.
	So anyway, that's just some things that have been happening on Twitter.
	And with that, we're going to move to something.
	That's for sure.
	Tax Simulator 2023 is upon us.
	Finally, we can all do our taxes in the modern era with modern technology.
	In a video game?
	Yes, anime girls.
	That's how taxes are done in the modern age, Carl.
	Get with the kids.
	Look, man, if it was like a Rome Total War tax simulator, I'd probably play it.
	Strike the voice.
	How many kids do you have?
	Glorious victory!
	There's some money in this, now that you mention it.
	I hate it.
	It's tax and anime.
	just with Brody and something on Noises.com.
	This being Tax Me Harder Daddy, which is an article from Hugo back in the day which fit this weirdly well.
	Because in case you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, I'm talking about Tax Haven 3000, the newest video game.
	There you are.
	There's the website.
	So, you know what we're in for.
	Yeah.
	I hate it.
	It's an anime girl.
	It's Tax and anime.
	I hate both of those.
	Yeah, there's a collector's edition which comes with a full body pillow of the anime girl.
	There's also Japanese writing I can't read, something about an X-rated patch.
	Don't click that, John, but if you do click it, it takes you to some long green text, essentially, about how the anime girl became interested in tax.
	Let's put it that way.
	You've not watched Idiocracy, have you?
	Yeah, I have.
	Oh, well, this just is the pornification of society.
	How do we get them to pay taxes?
	Well, we put naked anime girls on it.
	But there's actually a much deeper story in this, and we'll get to it in a minute.
	Oh, okay.
	But we'll do some scrolling.
	We'll just enjoy the website first, I suppose.
	No, we won't.
	You can see the daily sim that gets your taxes done.
	The story.
	Do your federal taxes while romancing your waifu.
	Tax Haven 3000 is a one-of-a-kind dating sim experience that really does your federal taxes.
	Covers the 1040 US individual tax income return.
	Checks availability for earned income, tax credit, American opportunities credit, and more.
	Sustainable for singles without dependents.
	Oh, I just want to go back to 2013.
	Also features multiple endings, because of course.
	Yeah, why not?
	Yeah.
	There's a gallery of a bunch of images, and then there's a collector's edition perks.
	You get a Tax Haven 3000 software box, and an instruction manual to install the free game.
	Tax Haven 3000 installation disc and case, like it's the 1990s.
	Disc?
	I don't have a CD drive, a DVD drive.
	Iris character body pillow.
	The main character of the woman you'll be romancing is called Iris.
	I-R-O?
	Yeah.
	We'll scroll down a bit more.
	That's actually not the worst thing about this.
	There you are.
	Hi there, Iris here.
	It's always been a dream of mine to meet that special someone and file their tax return.
	Join me and we'll search for deductions while searching for love.
	Truly the perfect woman.
	But be careful, we're not alone.
	Corporate tax filing services like TurboTax are, open brackets, by dint of excessive lobbying, predatory parasitic bottlenecks that deliberately complicate the tax filing process in order to make it unnavigable by ordinary people.
	Surprisingly based, actually.
	They feed us their poison so much that we buy their medicine.
	I mean, I agree.
	Weird rant in the middle of the anime game.
	Most wealthy countries make tax filing free.
	If the burden of preparation is even passed along to individuals at all, TurboTax actively seeks to backdoor the regulatory structure that could otherwise seek to reign it in.
	And it works.
	The villainous corporation that controls the government from the shadows is a sadly mundane reality, but it's the most boring industry imaginable.
	Actually, you know, that is a great point.
	Like, if you wanted to be, um, you know, some sort of Machiavellian behind the shadows overlord, you would do it through the tax system, because my god, no one, no one is going to spend their time.
	The reason the American tax code is so complexly stupid is because it's great if you want to pay no tax, If the tax system is very simple, it's kind of impossible to pay no tax, because people can point it out pretty quickly.
	And it's great if you can pay a bunch of lawyers or tax accountants to do it for you.
	Look, I'm phenomenally rich, figure it out.
	If it's complex, the only people who can do that are rich people, who will then pay zero tax, whereas everyone else will have to pay their tax.
	Whereas if the tax system is very simple, everyone just has to pay the tax they owe.
	This is the main argument for the flat tax, which is real true.
	Thank god for this anime waifu game.
	Yeah, she's really, you know, red-pulling the noise.
	Kind of is, actually.
	TurboTax, per its own internal documents, is built using fear, uncertainty, and doubt that ordinary people have about Texas.
	That's built on the fear and uncertainty and doubt, yeah.
	But I mean, that is fair, I mean... They go on for, like, several paragraphs writing about how TurboTax can, you know, get the bullet too, I suppose.
	As she explains why she hates TurboTax, which...
	Fair.
	I mean, you got me to read it.
	That's true.
	Let's scroll through the schizo posting, because we'll get back to TurboTax later.
	Here's the main characters.
	They've got Turbo, who is the unsavory S.A.A.S.
	bro.
	Quick to anger and oddly fixated on Iris.
	He seems to be up to no good.
	Likes lobbying.
	Corporate lobbying, sorry.
	Confusing forms.
	Dark UX and fleece vests.
	Unbearable.
	Whereas if you click on Iris, who's the other main character, just wants to find love and do you taxes.
	Yeah, she seems better.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, we're going to the next link, because there's a trailer for this meme.
	We'll play it without the audio in the background, please, because I don't want to get copyright claimed for crappy anime music, that's for sure.
	And it's real.
	I thought it was just a website at first, but no.
	Someone has actually seemingly done this for reasons.
	So here you have Iris turning up.
	Love and taxes forever.
	They've got a little scrapbook full of God damn I hate stickers.
	Go on dates.
	You can go on dates and it ups your tax refund the more information you give her.
	To the point that she starts asking for like your social security number.
	So I'd be slightly concerned about giving this program my tax details though.
	Yeah this is where it got a bit weird.
	Because of course if it's going to make your actual tax returns it's got to have all your info.
	Yeah.
	Which I don't know about you, do you trust the anime game with your credit card information?
	I don't trust the government with my information either.
	But trust me, she's trustworthy.
	Probably more trustworthy than the government, but I'm still not going to do it.
	Yeah, let's go on to the next one here, because while most netizens' response to this was this.
	Do I trust the anime waifu with my tax returns?
	Hmm... A lot of debates in response.
	On Steam, when it was on there, there was a discussions page, of course, as there is on Steam.
	Yes.
	The discussions were pretty good.
	Oh, really?
	Well, at least they lasted.
	Because, of course, you have, you know, give me your social security number.
	Well, it got banned by Steam, as this person points out.
	Let's check out the Steam... I can actually understand Steam's position on this one.
	Yeah.
	This seems to be a bit of a liability.
	Because it did remind people a lot of another meme that's been going around for ages.
	If you go to the next link here, we can see that one.
	Hi there, do you think I could have your credit card information, please?
	Totally not malware, anime girl.
	Just needs to know the expiry date and sort code.
	Thanks for that.
	But we'll go to the Steam discussions because they had that same discussion.
	Please do not play this.
	This game is trying to steal your information.
	Do not be an idiot and give your information.
	Report this as soon as possible.
	Steal?
	No way that girl would steal info.
	Look at her.
	She's adorable.
	Too late, fell in love.
	She's adorable to ever find out about my offshore accounts.
	Nah, we'll go on dates and I'll do my taxes.
	You can go away.
	It's gonna go real well.
	In fact, someone decided to tell them, please don't put in your social security number, at least.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's how that went.
	Online retards.
	Doing their thing.
	I think those are all fake, YouTube.
	Of course they're fake.
	In case you're wondering.
	But we're to the next one here because someone pointed out, yeah, well, you know, attentional tax haven 3000 gamers.
	Iris is in danger and needs your help.
	To help her, just give her the three digits on the back of your credit card along with the expiry date and full eight numbers.
	Yeah, well, a lot of good memes.
	I mean, the best meme out of this, I thought, was the future tax consultants of the world are going to be this guy, if we get the next one.
	Yeah, which would actually be pretty funny.
	I mean, if we want to get the anime-obsessed incels to start their careers... Well, they've got to do something, I suppose.
	I'm making them all fluent in the American tax code.
	Hey, it's autistic.
	It will save a huge amount of money in your own life.
	It'll ensure they'll never touch a real woman.
	You will also impress every woman you meet because your salary for somehow understanding the American tax code would be ridiculous.
	Like, hey, it's not actually a bad idea if someone wanted to set up essentially a skills program through anime games, as was your case.
	But April the 4th was coming.
	People were going to get their copies of Tax Haven 3000 with their body pillows, etc.
	The player base was primed.
	We have an artist's interpretation of the player base that we can view.
	There you are.
	Daddy's working hard on a new game, son.
	But then it got pulled from Steam, as mentioned.
	And that was a bit weird.
	Why would it get pulled from Steam?
	It's developers say they want to disrupt corporations, not steal your social security number.
	Yeah, this is where this meme game actually gets interesting.
	Because that big old spiel about how TurboTax can, you know, suck a fat one.
	It wasn't actually misplaced.
	I was gonna say, it sounded like they actually care about the subject for some reason.
	Yeah, the anime stuff just seems to have been the aesthetics for the whole thing.
	So, Mischief is an art collective that, quote, "...subverts mass popular culture and corporate operations as tools for critique and intervention." Among other things, the company has actually teamed up with Little Nas X to make those Satan shoes, we remember.
	Really?
	Yeah, remember that?
	Yeah, I do.
	Same guys.
	Okay.
	The collaboration led to having legal beef with Nike and I didn't care because I still won.
	Still, I'd be awfully iffy about dropping my tax details into Tax Haven 3000, right PC Gamer?
	Where am I reading this, PC Gamer?
	Which is to say, I just wouldn't do it.
	Valve apparently had similar concerns because a day after the game's Steam page went live, it was taken down.
	Just before the store page was wiped, Mischief updated their store page to add a description that says Steam was deplatforming their game.
	Visible via SteamDB and hinted that maybe TurboTax had sent the cheque.
	I assume it's not a serious allegation, but Mischief definitely seems to have some beef with TurboTax and other companies like it.
	Quote, corporate tax filing services like TurboTax blah blah blah blah blah are all parasites and need to go to hell and die and I will kill them all myself.
	Presumably that's what they wrote on the email.
	I basically agree with.
	TurboTax 3000, the site states, is essentially a response to that, where TurboTax has predicated on fear, uncertainty and doubt people have about taxes.
	Tax Haven 3000 is built on parasocial desire for intimacy and benign haughtiness to help you overcome such things.
	I mean, there is a good question there.
	Which one is worse?
	Soulless corporations stealing money from the public by regulation, or anime game?
	I mean, it is a toss-up.
	I do hate anime.
	Yeah.
	But I also hate the government more, I think, yeah.
	I hate soulless corporations stealing my money as well.
	The government gets it first.
	For the record, I see no lies, but there's clearly an issue somewhere.
	Oddly, the developers don't actually know what it is.
	When asked by PC Gamer, they said, um, we have no idea.
	They don't know why they were de-platformed by Valve.
	You know why.
	You know why.
	Valve are like, look, we can't just ask for your social security numbers.
	We can't do that.
	Why not?
	Because there's something that's going to come out of this that's bad.
	Well, I don't know.
	If TurboTax wanted to put their software freely available on Steam, I don't think anything would be stopping them.
	So why does Tax Haven 3000 have the same Should have the same treatment.
	Great, great question.
	So they write on here, which is, you know, we went through the process, we went through the verification process, we were ready to go on April 4th, and then out of nowhere we were de-verified and also removed from the platform, so that's all we know.
	So there's that.
	But that, getting back to Turbo, because you remember Turbo being the character there.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's a real thing.
	We don't have to deal with that, because we live in England.
	So we don't have to deal with the American tax code.
	Most of the time.
	Yeah, but what difference does that make when the government's like, yeah, 40% of everything you've earned, it will take that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Don't get me wrong.
	I'm not arguing rates.
	I'm arguing systems, which is the, um, for the English, for Yankees, you don't know.
	Um, it's pretty simple.
	Uh, if you have to pay your own taxes because you're self-employed, then you fill on on the online form.
	Not that hard.
	Yeah.
	It's not that hard.
	Basically you have to bend over, grease up, and then just take it.
	Yeah, but you just fill in and it's easy.
	It's not convoluted.
	No, it's not terribly complex, admittedly.
	And if you're employed, people just do it for you through your company.
	And then if you're American, though, it's a mess.
	And we've had some experience with this because, you know, if you run a YouTube channel or I think Patreon or Subscribestar or something, you actually do have to fill in an American tax form.
	It's insane.
	Because it goes through America.
	So therefore you have to write that I have a tax treaty with the United States because I live in this country.
	My name is Bob and I have a tax return to the United States.
	Yeah, like, there's foreigners who get money through American corporations, like, you have to fill in some of this crap, so we have experience of just how nonsensical it is.
	I'm not a member of the Taliban.
	Because even that's complex, like, I mean, you've done this, like, you fill through all this crappy information and you're just thinking, why?
	Why can't I just write, not a yank?
	Yeah.
	Well it would be the easiest thing, the IRS would understand it.
	No, instead I have to fill in like 50 pages of crap.
	So to be an American, there are other levels of nonsense.
	They have to do this every year as well.
	Yeah, American corporations looking to save money.
	As you mentioned, it just gets more and more complex because there are more and more schemes.
	So it's no surprise that you just pay tax, was it TurboTax?
	Yeah.
	No surprise you just pay them.
	If you go to the next link here, we've got TaxTurbo.
	They're, uh, they're reports.
	They're right here.
	Made a billion dollars in 2022.
	This is a good grift.
	From filling in a form.
	Yeah.
	So let me, let me guess.
	They lobby the U.S.
	government to increase the complexity of the tax code, which increases their profits.
	Worse.
	Oh.
	They're actually way worse than the people who do that.
	Oh, really?
	Because that's a problem already in the United States.
	That is a problem in the United States.
	Sorry, go on.
	They're owned by this company called Intuit.
	Never heard of them, right?
	Not my ballgame.
	If we go to the next link, it's just their Wikipedia page.
	It's a lovely ironic name as well.
	To Intuit something is to know it without having to think about it.
	Obviously, nothing about the US tax code applies there!
	They're mostly responsible for making everything less intuitive.
	So they made $12.7 billion in revenue last year.
	That's $2 billion net income.
	That's good.
	That's very good.
	Look at $10 billion in expenditures.
	How could their expenditures be?
	They run a whole bunch of other stuff.
	Like I say, MailChimp's also one of their things that people might know about.
	There's a lot of other bookkeeping software.
	TurboTax, sorry, TaxTurbo is the thing that really is scummy on a new level though.
	Because it turns out, well, there's a big reason they make that much money.
	Oh yeah.
	And it's not just because of the complexity of the American tax code.
	If you go to ProPublica, they did an article about this, 2019, detailing how they're scum.
	Congress is about to ban the government from offering free online tax filing thanks to TurboTax.
	Oh really?
	Yeah.
	So they actually lobbied the Democrats and Republicans to screw the American people.
	What a surprise.
	Like this corporation being called out by the anime game.
	Yeah, no, they're actually responsible for why it's so horrible to be an American citizen when it comes to tax years.
	What I love about this is it requires an anime game to stand up for the little guy.
	So, just in time for Tax Day, the for-profit tax preparation industry is about to realise one of its long-sought goals.
	Congressional Democrats and Republicans are moving to permanently ban the IRS from creating a free electronic tax filing system.
	You wanna know what this was?
	This was the Taxpayer First Act.
	Really?
	It was for taxpayers, dammit!
	It passed.
	Here's the next link.
	This thing is law.
	The IRS were in the process of offering free online submissions so you don't have to go through some bull-esque system.
	And this corporation was like, no, no, watch.
	That's a billion dollars a year for us.
	Yeah.
	So they lobbied to have it banned.
	So Taxpayer First Act was passed to ban the taxpayer from having free submissions instead.
	It's squeeze or milk the taxpayer first.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it is always hilarious just how nonsensical American political bills are.
	Orwellian.
	This is the Patriot Act for patriots.
	This is the Inflation Reduction Act.
	What are you doing?
	Printing money?
	Why would I not?
	Their IRS website also just has this listed, which is the, oh, ever since the Patriots Taxpayer True American Blood Act was passed, we can't help you with anything.
	They say in here they're no longer required to implement a return-free tax system.
	We're throwing you to the wolves of the free market.
	Good luck.
	And, well, a lot of people actually use this crap, apparently.
	So if you go back to ProPublica, they wrote an article just detailing, uh, this company.
	Uh, scum.
	Here's why.
	Here's everything they've ever done.
	Assholes.
	And they're not wrong.
	I mean, this genuinely is just infuriating.
	By 2019, nearly 40% of US taxpayers filed online, and some 40 million of them did it with TurboTax.
	Which, um, you got paid for.
	Yeah.
	Even though the IRS were in the process of offering everyone the same service for free, Why do I have to pay you to file my tax return?
	Makes no sense.
	But trust me, they're helping you pay the taxes.
	Insane!
	But the success of TurboTax rests on a shaky foundation, one that could collapse overnight, which is if the US government did what every other wealthy country does and just makes it free, then they wouldn't have a business.
	So that's why they lobbied to have it banned.
	And the guys at ProPublica managed to get the campaign slides leaked from TurboTax about their plans to do this.
	One of the funniest ones is, the company's 2014 to 2015 plan included manufacturing third-party grassroots support.
	How do you think they were going to do that?
	I don't know, what, pleat?
	Woah, hang on.
	They have a really funny strategy.
	Is it gonna involve leftism?
	I was, I was hoping you'd say something like, start an anime game and uh... No, it's um, it is leftism.
	Buy ads- I knew it!
	Buy ads for op-eds editorial stories in African American and Latino media.
	About how they, they can't have government free tax returns.
	Because that would be, I don't know.
	Racism?
	Yeah.
	I don't know what the argument was gonna be.
	That's the only thing from the slide that we have.
	I love the way they're like, look, we'll just use leftism somehow.
	So apparently in 2002, the Bush-era administration was like, hang on a minute, that internet thing's really taken off.
	Maybe we should do what everyone else is doing and make it so we have some system in, I don't know, five, ten years, where you can just file online for free, and it's simple, if you're the average taxpayer.
	Because let's be honest, you're probably earning, what, under 70 grand?
	Let's say under that, it's not going to be that complex.
	You're going to have your salary, maybe a few other side hustles or something.
	A couple of deductibles.
	Yeah, should be simple.
	Well, Turbo lobbied to cut the IRS budget if this happened.
	Who are these people?
	The commissioner of the IRS demanded that if they implement this software in the Bush era, the budget for the IRS should be slashed.
	So the IRS went, well, we can't afford that.
	Yeah.
	So we're not going to do the software.
	And this just bumbled around.
	They detailed just the long and boring back and forth between the government and goddamn lobbyists who were like, well, what is this?
	What is that?
	Well, that's not fair because someone paid me to say this.
	It just goes on and on.
	Yeah.
	If you're in.
	So they struck a deal with the IRS?
	Because this is how politics work.
	What leverage did they have over the IRS?
	We're a government agency, we don't...
	Who the hell are you?
	I don't care what you think!
	We charge people money to do a very basic thing.
	We're going to start a campaign with leftism against the IRS.
	IRS is racist because they want to make you not pay for submitting taxes.
	I don't have to pay the fucking taxes!
	The taxes are never going away.
	It's going to be with us forever.
	I don't care what campaign you Maybe they got the flight logs of the IRS commissioner going to little Jeffrey Epstein's.
	They struck a deal where Turbo had to offer free software on the side for anyone who earned below 70 grand.
	So if you earned below that, there was a free version of TurboTax you could use.
	Nice and simple.
	We're happy through it.
	We're trying to help the consumer.
	We're the good guys.
	But if you earn more than that, TurboTax is here to... You don't have to pay for so many lawyers.
	You can just pay for us.
	Fair play, yeah.
	Okay, whatever.
	Terrible deal.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But screw it.
	It's over, right?
	Well, not really.
	The centerpiece of Intuit's anti-encroachment strategy has been the free file program, hatched 17 years ago in a moment of crisis for the company.
	Under the terms of the agreement with the federal government, Intuit and other commercial tax prep companies promised to provide free online filing for tens of millions of low-income taxpayers, In exchange, the IRS pledged not to create a government-run system.
	But what leverage do they have over the IRS?
	I don't know.
	I don't understand how American politics works.
	Do as we say or else.
	Or else what?
	Well, nothing.
	We'll go out of business, alright?
	I mean, like, the weird lobbying world of Washington is so wacky.
	Because, I mean, like, as you say, this doesn't make any sense, but apparently there's just enough cups of tea before that this happened.
	Americans spend... It's got to be bribery, right?
	It's got to be bribery.
	Americans spend an estimated 1.7 billion hours and 31 billion dollars doing their taxes each year.
	Gosh.
	I mean, that just tells you that it's tiring to just hear, isn't it?
	1.7 billion hours a year doing taxes.
	Like, your whole country is doing worse the more money is being spent on bureaucrats.
	The less money you spend on bureaucrats, the better the country is doing.
	Any amount of time spent interfacing with government bureaucracy is time you may as well just burn, frankly.
	So 2.8 million participated in the free filing program this year, which was down from 5 million in 2005.
	So the participation in the free system has gone down by half.
	That's very strange, why?
	Well, that's a good question.
	Because if you go to the next one here, we see a graph of that.
	These are the percentage of Americans using the free software.
	So as more people got on the internet, more people were like, yeah, I don't want something for free.
	I want to pay for it instead.
	Yeah, this is where the scumminess comes in.
	Because TurboTax's free filing system actually had a bunch of traps where if you clicked on stuff, you ended up having to give them 200 bucks.
	Oh, did it?
	Because you ended up calling the help center or some other such BS.
	So their free system was actually built in with a bunch of tripwires.
	They're called microtransactions.
	Great.
	And then it gets worse.
	TurboTax is even worse than the anime girl was saying.
	The anime girl was right on the money.
	Even just the Wikipedia page just has the details of how scummy they are.
	As part of the agreement with the IRS free file program, TurboTax allowed individuals making less than $39,000 a year to use a free version of TurboTax.
	A 2019 PrePublica investigation revealed that TurboTax deliberately made this version incredibly hard to find, even through search engines, and that it deceptively steered individuals who searched for free version to the cost money version.
	And they did this through like a bunch of metadata shit.
	Really?
	You know, complex technical BS.
	Like if you looked up the free version, you just wouldn't get it.
	And then they started running adverts that were literally the headline was free, free, free about how TurboTax was helping the consumer by offering free tax returns.
	And then they got 7,000 calls that year from people with quotes in the complaints saying this was supposed to be free.
	I mean, you literally told me it was free.
	Yeah.
	The last one here that's the scummiest.
	TurboTax tricked military service members into paying for the software by creating and promoting a military discount For the free software, right?
	Yeah.
	I needed that discount.
	So the free software existed, but you have a military discount, so you get a military discount on our paid version, which is the exact same thing.
	Great, thanks.
	Thanks, fellas.
	And they also made it incredibly hard to find, of course.
	So, there's that.
	They also had to pay $141 million in advertising fees, because they kept advertising it as free.
	They obviously weren't.
	There's that.
	And they also spend $3 million a year on lobbying.
	But let's go back to that second link, just the meme, because I no longer look at that as cringe.
	No, it's kind of based and heroic in a way.
	Yeah, and Mischief, that company that has set this up.
	Huh.
	Yeah, I never knew about this.
	Didn't think about that.
	Wouldn't have ever.
	No.
	And if you just put out like, I don't know, some statement or some stupid thing, this would never have come to anyone's attention.
	No, so it is actually incredibly smart marketing by the way.
	Clever marketing, yeah.
	Hats off to you.
	But also, what a weird statement of American culture and society that the only way to get attention is, like, anime girl.
	Did you know you're getting screwed over your taxes?
	Oh, God.
	But that gives me an idea.
	We could... Huh.
	Yeah, no.
	Fair, fair.
	I've just learned we could radicalize all of the United States for the use of anime... I'm going to do some editing after this episode.
	Anyway, that's all.
	Go to video comments.
	Carl, thanks for covering the Alamo, and here's another story you can add to about Texas.
	This incident occurred in 1897, so pre-Red Brothers.
	This was in Aurora, which is about northwest of Dallas.
	And basically, the crash happened, and we were able to recover our body, and we gave it a proper Christian funeral, and then we carried on with our lives after that.
	Like you said, we are definitely a different people compared to the rest of the U.S.
	I bet you don't even believe that's true, do you?
	No, funnily enough.
	Alien crashes.
	The good Christians of Texas are like, well, that's one of God's creatures.
	That's the best thing.
	We're going to bury it.
	That's the best thing.
	And get on with our lives.
	Well, we gave it a Christian funeral, of course.
	Well, that's what he would have wanted.
	Well, I'm convinced.
	You didn't give it a Muslim one?
	No?
	Didn't ask?
	Go and get your fedora, Skeptic.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Today's California native is the Sysynchrium bellum, known as the blue-eyed grass.
	I like this one because it can actually compete with the invasives that we have a problem with, and it grows rhizomally, so that means it can grow underground and pop up a new one, and that's basically what ginger is.
	You eat a rhizome of the actual ginger plant.
	So just looking at the flowers, they're actually rather beautiful.
	And anyway, I got this cool loop so we can really look up close.
	So there you go!
	That is actually cool.
	I really, really like close-up shots.
	Yeah, me too.
	In general.
	Like getting, you know those real close-ups where you see the fly rubbing its head?
	Yeah, slow-motion close-ups are really fascinating.
	Best photography in the world.
	Earlier today, Facebook realized that apparently my attention is drawn by, uh, if you put a dish of liquid and then drop something into the liquid and film it close up and in like, you know, ultra slow motion, I will sit there and watch it like a zombie.
	Facebook has worked this out and it worked this out this morning.
	And so I literally had, I had to watch, I watched three of these without realizing and I was like, I should probably do some work.
	I do love the idea, like, if you were Mark Zuckerberg, you must just look at the rest of humanity as actual zombies.
	Actual zombies, yeah.
	Just like, woah.
	Yeah.
	Like, water going dish!
	Yeah, literally, that's, but yeah, super close up and slow motion is fascinating for some reason.
	Nice one.
	The Temperature at Which Paper Burns is an intriguing title for a book setting a cacatopian future in which teams of firemen are sent out to find and burn all books.
	The 1966 movie is the best adaptation for those not inclined to read.
	If only Ray Bradbury could have seen into the future where those opposing knowledge actively encourage books but with social stigma attached.
	Read Mein Kampf and you're suspicious.
	Read The Communist Manifesto and you're enlightened.
	Take books championing gender diversity to children out of libraries and effectively, you are a fireman.
	Never read Fahrenheit 451, I really should.
	It's just part of that dystopian 20th century fiction genre, as I'm given to understand, that almost everyone apart from Aldous Huxley was wrong about.
	No, I mean, we've been over this debate.
	1984 did happen, it just didn't happen in the West.
	Is there another one?
	Reiterating on my last video in which I mentioned about the woke awakening here in Australia, I bring this up because much like the UK and the Western world, we're beginning to adopt far-left Wokistani propaganda.
	For instance, I am constantly bombarded with LGBT shite on a daily basis.
	Not only that, but political correctness seems to be on the rise as well.
	One such example is the forced diversity hiring that both major parties are doing in the major parliament.
	Yeah, it's only going to get worse.
	The only contention I have there is you're like, oh, it seems to be that this is happening.
	Like, this is on the rise.
	Mate, we're living it.
	Yeah.
	Oh, bro.
	It's just, it's just Tumblr nonsense.
	Oh, it's just going to stay on university campuses.
	It's just going to be your government taking your tax money to propagandize your children with it.
	It's just going to be them assaulting your wife because I don't have a cock.
	Kill her.
	And therefore I am a woman.
	Yeah.
	there's got to be some you know those stupid memes it's like i don't know where it is with that cover of like the women in latex of whips and the men in the in the mines it's like this is yeah i've seen the future leftist one or whatever right those memes like imagining a version of that But it's a man in the stockings of the whip.
	Yeah, yeah.
	There are women in the mines.
	This woman's like, I don't have a penis.
	Kill her.
	There's a future leftist one.
	Anyway, JMN says, Upgraded from Silver to Gold membership after hearing about the demonetisation, chaps.
	Thanks for all the quality content you've been putting out all these years.
	Well, thank you very much.
	Well, I mean, there is something validating about it.
	At least we know that we're on the cutting edge of conservative commentary.
	Because we're the ones getting demonetised.
	This is the cutting edge now?
	on your recent YouTube demonetization, boys.
	I was beginning to suspect that you were losing your touch, but I'm glad to be proven wrong.
	Well, I mean, there is something validating about it.
	At least we know that we're on the cutting edge of conservative commentary, because we're the ones getting demonetized.
	This is the cutting edge now?
	We're in real trouble.
	If this is the, like...
	I mean, we were trying...
	Oh, well done, Hamza.
	All right.
	Sorry, just a quick breaking news.
	Hamza Yusuf wins SMP leadership election.
	I can't wait to go tweet your academic agent about this.
	And Dankula, in fact.
	I was a big supporter of Hamza.
	Because I'm interested in recreating the India-Pakistan divide in the UK.
	I support Afghanistan, so I don't like Pakistan.
	Oh, that's okay.
	I support India.
	That's going to be a really funny moment in the next couple of days.
	The Taliban-Hindu alliance against Pakistan.
	Anti-Pakistan action.
	Anyway, Drew says, everyone out there, make sure you guys subscribe to the website.
	Did you know that a subscription to lowceys.com can be as low as £5 per month?
	£5 of what?
	I'm not sure.
	They make great content anyway.
	Meth.
	It's not £5 of silver, if that helps.
	Meth.
	It's not sterling.
	Give us meth.
	Kerry says... We can sell it and make more money, that's all I'm saying.
	All right, Heisenberg, calm down, all right?
	We're not selling meth, YouTube, alright?
	DEA.
	Kerry says, as someone living in Wellington City, where Posey Parker was prevented from reaching, should have been eviscerated in the streets here.
	In the last year, I've seen more progressive intersectional pride flags pop up in buildings than anything else.
	Genuinely terrifying.
	What is the new religion that's taken over?
	Posey Parker is a heretic.
	Brian says, can we start calling the communist intersectionality attack mob the Rainbow Shirts?
	Yes, we can actually.
	Well, that's not bad.
	Yeah, it's pretty good.
	Yeah.
	Rainbow shirts.
	Rainbow shirts round four.
	So yeah, that works.
	Baron Von Warhawk says, in order to promote women's rights, we've invited somebody who assaulted a woman who thinks females don't have a penis with tomato sauce.
	You own Big Brain moment.
	Yes.
	It's mad.
	Le French Guillotine says, I love that the French names keeps changing.
	The French, this, the French, anyway.
	Why are the Aussies protesting Posey Parker more than they did their own harsh lockdowns?
	Well, if YouGov is anything to go by, everyone's in favour of lockdowns.
	What are you talking about?
	Also, the image of an Aussie to me has just been shattered.
	It's disappointing.
	I just always imagine that guy with the messed up nose and the crocodile-esque posting on 4chan.
	Yeah.
	And generally being highly sceptical of the state.
	I mean, it used to be a prison colony.
	How can you be like, the government's doing the right thing?
	Kills a spider, throws an empty beer can at an immigrant, drives off.
	Drives off literally just out into the desert.
	Yeah, I know.
	The whole sort of Mad Max aesthetic is really falling away in modern Australia.
	I mean, to be fair to the Australians, I mean, apparently it's Melbourne, it's their California, the country.
	But still, the rest of you ain't representing properly.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I saw something about this actually.
	work again.
	It's no surprise New Zealand is mad.
	They've been radicalized by the Chinese Communist Party.
	They've been installing insane maniacs in positions of power from the shadows in order to cut New Zealand away from the Anglosphere.
	They want New Zealand to be in chaos because it weakens the rest and prevents Anglo-Alliance from using New Zealand as a base in any potential war.
	Mark my words, we'll soon be seeing Chinese ports in New Zealand.
	Yeah, I saw something about this actually.
	Chinese money is buying up Australia and New Zealand.
	Well, they've been doing it for ages.
	That's actually a great point to the contrary, which is the more communist infiltration, what does a society look like?
	Well, we can actually look what an Anglo society looks like by looking over there.
	Yeah.
	There's more and more woke, the more Chinese communists it gets.
	Which is really weird.
	Yep.
	Omar says, I think New Zealand never ended the COVID struggle session and is just looking for anything to take out their personal frustration on convenient targets.
	The weak of society love to find someone to bully and society has spent a lot of time making men look weak.
	I don't know.
	I'm not sure it is that.
	I think it's genuine ideological radicalisation, which is why New Zealand became such a sort of Covid tyranny state in the first place.
	Because everything about the left at the moment is just the government is literally infallible.
	And we should devote our entire lives and being to it?
	And the government's like, yeah, and trans rights, folks.
	And so it becomes this kind of symbiotic, gross, like, love relationship between them.
	And so I don't think it's actually how Omar's describing it.
	I think it's this kind of weird deification of the government that the left are doing.
	Because the government says trans rights.
	And it funds journalists who also say trans rights.
	And therefore we're the good guys.
	Brandon says, isn't the idea... You know, you were proposing a great policy of flogging politicians at random.
	Let me think of an actual practical thing here, just... Practical use of flogging politicians at random?
	No, but... Could we limit...
	Any media organisation's ability to make money, in the sense of like, you can only make money through your subscription model or whatever.
	No massive donations, because I mean, that does seem to be the thing that keeps corporate shills afloat, is the occasional 60 grand donation from the Bill & Melinda Foundation, or JustinTrudeau.llc.
	Here's the Hillary Foundation's fund for 100 grand, and they'll say a nice thing.
	I mean, that really is like a direct thing you can point to and be like, okay, that's cancer, that needs to go.
	Yeah, but then almost all of left-wing media would collapse overnight.
	Well, I don't see the problem.
	Yeah, I agree, but they're not going to let that happen.
	Brandon says, isn't the idea of a Trojan horse that the danger is hidden inside?
	Again, once again, the left can't mean.
	That's a great point as well.
	The anti-pedo... They haven't even read the Iliad.
	Well, of course.
	The anti-pedo activists.
	Yeah, that's the front.
	What are they hiding behind?
	What's in the horse?
	I just love that their own propaganda makes them look like nonce defenders.
	Also I love the idea of the outside of the Trojan horse is Z Kyle, on the inside it's Liberal Democracy.
	Haha, tricked again!
	XY and Z says, remember the Sheepjaggers were second most locked down country after the CCP?
	They'll probably return Z's bitch to power.
	They also want to invite the CCP to join the Five Eyes, let that sink in.
	Yeah, that's amazing isn't it?
	The Five Eyes to spy on the Chinese Communist Party and New Zealand's like, Why don't we invite the Chinese over?
	For the same reason we didn't invite Russia into NATO.
	Remember when they were kicked out?
	No.
	It was a while back, they were kicked out.
	I think it was either... I don't know if it was Five Eyes, but there was some new agreement.
	It was the same people except not New Zealand.
	I was like, why have you done that?
	No reason.
	Because you're obviously Chinese spies, I don't know why.
	George says, I distinctly remember that feminists were pretty happy when people like Kyle, Mike Buchanan and Farage were hitting milkshakes.
	Funny seeing them getting a taste of their own tactics by the alphabet crowd.
	Well, I mean, Posey probably never said that that was a good thing, to be fair.
	No, I don't think she ever would.
	Yeah, and she doesn't call herself a feminist.
	Because... gross.
	So...
	AlphaTheBeta says, Twitter has lifted the veil on the deep state Silicon Valley collusion.
	Was it worth $44 billion?
	Well, I mean, it wasn't 44 billion of my money, so I say yes.
	I think it was.
	I love if a politician said that.
	The war in Iraq cost $2 billion.
	Here it is, your money.
	Thousands of lives, Mr. Bush.
	Yeah, but it wasn't mine.
	I'm no politician.
	It was definitely worth Elon's money, in my opinion.
	It may yet play a role in countering 2024 election cheating by allowing the free flow of information.
	That's a good point.
	If Twitter helps Trump...
	What?
	You see that clip of the guy?
	He goes to a George Bush speech and he just goes, my friends are dead in Iraq.
	I just imagine George Bush going, well, they weren't my friends.
	Oh, that's grim.
	Yeah, well, like I said, I'm not a politician.
	If Twitter helps Trump return like a conquering hero, is that worth $44 billion?
	Yeah.
	Again, not money.
	What else are you going to do with this?
	It's just money.
	I'll tell you what.
	What other thing when you're that rich is just like, oh, no, money.
	Can't get more of that.
	But what really annoys me is that Trump is still not using Twitter.
	So whatever contract you're bound by, just take the L, pay whatever fine or whatever you've got to do, and get back on Twitter.
	You've got a hundred million people waiting to hear from you.
	Did he even sign a contract?
	Well, he must have done.
	Truth Social?
	Who's that?
	I don't know who made Truth Social.
	I thought he owned it.
	Well, I assumed he did, but he must have got funding from somewhere, and they were like, yeah, we'll give you the money as long as you don't post on Twitter or something.
	Trump Media and Technology Group, founders Donald Trump.
	There must be some funding, but it ties his hands, right?
	Devin Nunes?
	Don't know who that is.
	That's it.
	That's all that's on there.
	Well, their name does ring a bell, actually.
	Omar says, I'd love to see Elon troll Twitter journos by displaying a retraction counter on their account for every time they lie in an article.
	That would be funny.
	Sorry, what?
	Should there be a little... Yeah, every time they had to retract sort of like one of James O'Keefe's thing, they used to get a little retraction mark on their Twitter account.
	No, you know what would be better?
	Go on.
	So they get there, because they're organisations, they still get to keep their checkmark.
	So every time they do a retraction, you lower the opacity of the checkmark by 1%.
	So once they've had 50 retractions, it's just 50% opacity.
	It's not really visible anymore.
	What about if you blend it with the clown light?
	So eventually it's just full clown.
	They might ask you if you've had 100 retractions, but you shouldn't really be a verified news organisation.
	Yeah.
	So...
	SH Silver says, while I find it funny that Elon cutting the fat from Twitter was skewed as Twitter collapsing, meanwhile every other Silicon Valley company soon started shedding loads of staff.
	Yes indeed, Meta being the standout example from their failed Metaverse.
	It didn't Meta fire like 10,000 people.
	Yeah, well all the tech companies- I know they all did, but like, Facebook, like 10,000 people, that's a lot.
	Amazon, I think about like 30,000.
	Yeah, it seems Elon was just preparing the company for the financial storm we're going through.
	Yeah, and also preparing the way for others in Silicon Valley to go like, look, it's clearly working, we've got to do it.
	These guys, these diversity highs are costing us the Earth.
	Which is sort of post-COVID, there was no more money.
	Yeah.
	The entire industry just- Oh yeah.
	Baystape said, And the French guillotine again says, See?
	See, I knew it'd be something.
	Ross says, Yeah.
	So what do you do?
	I tell people the real news.
	What's the real news?
	Base Ape says, Posey is fist fighting men in dresses and winning somehow.
	The weaves are saving America from the lizard people.
	I don't know why anyone bothers watching fiction clown worlds.
	It's fascinating enough.
	I mean, it would be a pretty funny way to describe my job to people.
	So what do you do?
	I tell people the real news.
	What's the real news?
	Well, the lizards.
	The anime girls are an insurgent force against the lizard men who control the American government.
	I mean, I would say tell me more.
	No, you would.
	You'd be like, no.
	Next, you're going to say Bigfoot's real.
	Trying to tell me the Loch Ness Monster was real.
	I love that the... I didn't say it was real.
	I said that people have seen it.
	Yep.
	I'll get to the point.
	I'm not getting drawn into this crap.
	Blee Steven says, for my company I do the taxes.
	Local, state and federal, and it is so Byzantine that I feel actively dumber each year.
	Then I have to pay personal income taxes and a whole other layer of taxes for property.
	Never used TurboTax or anything other than a corporate tax accountant.
	It's dumb but not difficult.
	It seems the lessons of 1776 has been discarded since 1913.
	Gianni Carrera says, I for one welcome our new tax waifu overlord.
	This is what I hate about anime.
	It turns men insufferable.
	Really insufferable.
	V is making an anime game and every day he sends me screenshots of his waifu game.
	I'm like, V, as a friend, I'm really glad that you're making something you're really happy with.
	It's even weirder because he's got a wife.
	Yeah, but as an adult human male, I hate everything about this.
	But, you know, hopefully you're successful and I hope you do really well, blah blah.
	Just face the wall now.
	Just don't ever tell me about it!
	Rusto says, the only tax should either be a flat tax for everyone or a transaction tax on every purchase.
	Yeah, I agree.
	I think it should just be ultra simple.
	Because then you're ultra simply limiting the amount of money the government will gain.
	I was watching an old Top Gear episode and I realised how mental London is for this.
	Because like, you get paid, and you pay tax on that, and then you pay your payroll tax, and then you go into town with your money, and you buy a car, you pay car tax on that, and then you decide you've got to drive the car, so you have to pay...
	Well, no, first you have to pay VAT on that car as well.
	And then you buy the fuel.
	This tax is worth things.
	You need to be taxed on that.
	And then you pay fuel tax and then VAT on the fuel tax included in the price of the fuel.
	And then you decide you might drive that car.
	So then you have to pay tax to the City of London for being in the ULES zone.
	What does VAT stand for?
	Value Added Tax.
	This is amazing, isn't it?
	This thing has value, right?
	We're taxing that value.
	Screw you!
	You need this to survive.
	Yeah, I know.
	That's why we're taxing you.
	I mean, this isn't even before the whole thing you hear from boomers is like, oh, pay tax and then die and pay tax again.
	Like, yeah, that's mad.
	But just to even spend my money, you've got through six layers of tax.
	Yeah, it's awful.
	I genuinely can't stand it.
	Ross says, the only things in life that are certain are love sims and taxes.
	General High Ping says, sorry to hear about the YouTube demonetization chaps.
	Hopefully it's not going to hurt you too much.
	But at least you've got a bunch of highly autistic and enthusiastic community members ready to help out if you sound the battle bugle.
	Well, thank you.
	Yeah, no, we should be OK.
	I mean, it's always rough losing like a percentage of your income.
	Obviously.
	But I was smart enough not to make sure that we were dependent on YouTube to make sure that we could keep the lights on.
	We're dependent on you guys, in fact.
	So, yeah, sucks, but it's not the end of the world.
	Trent says, with Columbia House, you've got a bunch of albums dirt cheap, but after they got you, you had a minimum buy, and every month they chose an album for you.
	And if you didn't refuse it in time, they assumed you wanted it and billed you for it.
	It is like politics.
	If you don't stage a protest, they assume they're happy with government policy and billed.
	I'm just so tired of the amount of money we have to pay for everything.
	It's burning money.
	Can I talk about some conspiracies for two minutes?
	Yeah, go on.
	So, I don't know why, but ever since you brought up the moon landing not being real, I started getting more and more Twitter accounts being like, the sea?
	Never been to space?
	Crap.
	It's the most irritating stuff, though.
	Like this one guy, he keeps tweeting footage of mock models before they go, so they can explain to the press, like, this is how it's gonna go, this is how it'll land, this is how it'll look.
	And he keeps tweeting that footage of the, like, press version and going, see?
	Footage from the moon?
	What are you, an idiot?
	It's like, it's not the footage from the moon of the rover, you moron.
	You don't know that?
	Yeah, I do.
	How do you know that?
	Because you can look up the images from the moon from the rover and they're crap compared to the footage they're showing the press, for one.
	Yeah, that was staged by Stanley Kubrick or something.
	Okay, right.
	What about the Mars land rover?
	Which one?
	The one that's on some deserted island off the coast of Canada.
	What?
	That's one conspiracy.
	But the rest of them are real.
	That one's not real.
	No, no, I don't know.
	I assume they're all on this deserted island on the coast of Canada.
	The Soviet rovers were sent to Canada.
	It's a lucrative grift, isn't it?
	Is it?
	When it's a socialist economy?
	There's no money to be made.
	You can't make money.
	There always is.
	It's just not above the table.
	Yeah, nah.
	That's how complex this conspiracy has to become.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's kind of funny, because the Soviet Union has to collapse, and then still no one whistleblows.
	Not a single human.
	The entire Soviet censorship state still continues.
	I think they may have had more important things to do.
	Well, then there's the Chinese.
	I could spend my time whistleblowing about the fake moon landings, or I could spend my time trying to get money.
	Food.
	No, I feel like here's proof that the moon landings were fake, would probably make you money.
	Possibly.
	Write a book about it.
	How would you monetize that?
	Go to the West, like most Russians.
	Okay, um, I will continue working on why this conspiracy theory is obviously true.
	Okay, alright.
	Anyway, but it's just that I've noticed more and more of it, but it's the lowest tier stuff, it's just like... There was some guy who was like... That's why you don't even get demonetised or deplatformed for it.
	They know it's such obvious BS.
	Yeah, because they ban, what was it, conspiracy videos from people on YouTube.
	Yeah, but not like fake moon landing videos.
	They're everywhere.
	Do they ban reptile talk?
	No.
	I can talk about the reptiles, people?
	I think so.
	So you kind of know how close you're getting to the truth by how banned you are.
	Yeah.
	That's a dangerous game.
	Anyway, so we're out of time.
	So if you'd like to go and find out more, Google, um, the USS Liberty on... It's a joke.
	Just Google the Loch Ness Monster.
	Otherwise we'll be back tomorrow, one o'clock.

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