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July 5, 2023 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #690
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for, um, someday, who cares?
Anyway, today I'm joined by Harry.
Hello, it's the 5th.
I don't care.
Why don't you care?
I don't really get the date thing.
It's almost my birthday, Calum.
Oh, is it?
Are you not paying any attention?
When's your birthday?
Well, when is it?
I don't know.
I guess he doesn't care.
Ladies and gentlemen, folks watching from all over the world, this is the treatment that I get.
I don't remember your birthday.
I'm sorry.
I'll buy you a gift every day from now on for six months and then I'm good.
That's right.
Nah, I'm not doing that.
That's right.
Cost me like five pounds doing that.
Anyway, so today we'll be talking about the average day in the West, the conservative case for white privilege, which is why our esteemed guest has come.
Calvin Candy.
And also credibility is overrated anyway, at least at the Guardian.
Just in case it's a faux pas as well, by the way, I understand the shade of the jacket with the shade of the waistcoat slightly different to one another.
I understand I was keeping the one that went with this waistcoat in the office and I believe one of our guests might have picked it up by accident or, in my estimation, probably nicked it on purpose.
You're saying there's a thief?
Yes.
One of the guests is a thief?
Someone is sus among us.
Okay.
We'll find that vest thief and then we'll return you to your... I mean, it happened like a year ago at this point, so... Oh, it wasn't even recently?
No, it wasn't recently.
You whined about that, didn't you?
Get over it.
I am over it!
I'm just calling out to everybody watching right now to explain my... Including you, you thief!
Yeah, yeah, you.
I'm just calling out my social fashion faux pas.
Do you do the, uh, the kingly thing, or don't you don't do it?
What's the kingly thing?
What, to let the gut hang out?
No, no, there's a fashion with waistcoats in England.
Foreigners probably won't know.
You're meant to leave the last button undone.
Well, the one at the bottom?
Yeah.
Alright, I'll do that then.
Apparently it was, um, I think it was King Henry V or Henry VIII, I can't remember.
I don't want to be seen as anything other than an unquestioning patriot, so I have now undone the bottom button.
But that's the thing, because the myth goes, at least the one where I hear it from Henry VIII, is that because he was so fat he had to undo the last button.
And everybody around him was like, oh great, great king.
Don't want to make him feel awkward, undo your f***ing button.
So, there we are.
Anyway, let's get into some announcements.
So, first announcement here, there's a Rumble Live!
Rumble exclusive, if they are.
Covid vaccine, Mark of the Beast, 3.30 UK time, I believe this is today.
Is that today or tomorrow?
That's today.
Tomorrow!
Tomorrow.
Just in case it's tomorrow.
It is tomorrow instead, so yeah, 3.30 UK time tomorrow, because tomorrow's Thursday.
I thought today was Thursday, that's why.
There's a wish today was Thursday.
Who doesn't?
Anyway.
It's only Wednesday, Wednesday's not bad.
We're here, we're enjoying ourselves.
Don't you enjoy my company?
Yeah, but you know what- I mean, you don't enjoy it enough to remember my birthday, but alright.
Yeah, who does?
But- You sound just like my dad.
I don't remember any of my birthdays.
You know what it's like, I got stopped by the- What, any of your birthdays?
You have a few dates.
Scheduled off.
No, but like, my family's ones.
So like, I actually got, when I was being interrogated by the Russian security, when I, um, went to Russia, they were asking everything about your life, and they were like, so how old is your mother, your father, and what are their birthdays, and I'm like- Oh, no.
And they looked at me like, we don't believe you?
And I was like, I don't know, call them, I don't know!
Yeah, call my bluff.
I'm a terrible son.
There's just this girl jotting it down, just being like, ugh.
Anyway, let's get to the news.
An average day in the West, folks, has come about.
It is Wednesday, my dudes, so I thought I'd just tell everyone who's not in the West how things have been going, which is normal, which means annoying, to say the least.
Basically, I just found out how much of average Western stuff, and I want to tell people about it.
So we'll start off by promoting something, which is Active Measures, the book club I did with Carl a while back, looking at the KGB and the CIA's shenanigans in the Cold War.
This will come back to be useful at the end of this segment.
Oh, the CIA and their tomfoolery.
Literally, they weren't actually doing anything useful.
Like, weren't they spreading fake propaganda?
What was even stupider, so at the start of the Cold War, it's really like baby steps, so the CIA started making a magazine that was anti-communist in some of the pages, and then releasing it in East Germany, and of course no one was reading them, so they started putting in horoscopes to make women read them.
Is that what got them?
Well then the KGB started reading them apparently because they like horoscopes or something.
Oh, okay.
And then they read it and went, this is obviously written by the CIA.
It's crap.
It's not even spelt right.
Blah blah blah.
And then they produced their own magazine.
This doesn't look like my usual horoscope.
This must be a fraud.
This is the Westland Horoscope.
So then they started producing their own magazine that they published in Western Germany to mess with them, which gave little clues to the CIA that we know you're publishing this one in our country, please stop.
It's just weird.
But then they moved on to a whole bunch of other stuff, which we'll get back to as we return to Germany later on in the Average Day in the West.
Let's start off with the average leftist on the 4th of July because it is their time of year.
I don't know if... Yes, you can control it.
The power of the new studio, yes.
Yes, but I think the link might be wrong because that's just Twitter home.
That is just a Twitter home screen, yes.
Having some technical difficulties as always.
Oh, there we go.
You can see here, this is Corey Bush who decided to come out and say the Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers who didn't recognise black people as human.
Today is a great day to demand reparations now.
And nobody cared!
Which is at least a good thing.
Yeah.
That's nice.
I mean, 15,000 people cared, but that's less than the typical, you know, 50,000.
Well, you've got 6 million views.
Yeah.
Only 15k people are all hell-like on that nonsense.
I mean, there was an obvious factual response.
I think it's from Libby Emmons, who said, of the 36, 11 signatories were guilty of enslaving others.
Jefferson's clause about the need to abolish slavery was removed from the document in order to appease the colonists and back the practice.
Adams, Franklin, and two others were abolitionists.
And do we need to go over the reason for the three-fifth compromise again?
But it's just, like, it isn't true.
On the face of it.
So that's, you know, one thing.
But the better thing is the following link, in which it was the funniest response possible.
Thomas Jefferson's slaves were better educated than you.
Ooh!
And this libertarian over here.
Probably true.
This Libertarian over here managed to, well, also out like the person above, which I'm told on Twitter.com is a big deal.
With fewer views as well.
Yes.
So the ratio within the ratio is actually much tighter.
There we are.
The point being the response was at least go to hell, was sick of it, which I'm glad to say is a move.
I think 10 years ago it wasn't as popular.
I think anybody who's paying attention is well aware of the types of rhetoric that's going to come out of the 4th of July and well aware of the counter-arguments that can be thrown.
But speaking of which, I just think it's gotten better.
So Douglas Murray, for example, he went on Piers Morgan's show to say things, and he went on there talking about exactly this kind of person, who sits there on the 4th of July being like, m-m-slavery!
Not knowing anything.
And he gave a very, very good response, which was a complete distillation of all the arguments we've ever had about slavery, especially in Carl's video that's like an hour long, it's distilled into two minutes.
So I thought we'd enjoy all two minutes of it, because it's good, this clip.
So let's play this clip.
Well, it's a kind of grievance competition.
Your guest earlier just tried to engage in it.
I don't know what hurt she believes she's had from slavery.
All of this was addressed two centuries ago.
Everything has consequences.
All history has consequences and ramifications.
But you know, if we were to play this fairly, we would at least look at all of the countries around the world that engaged in the slave trade, who are simply not interested in any form of reparations.
The Ottoman Empire, all the Arab countries who not just traded far more slaves than across the Atlantic, but castrated all the men so that there wouldn't be any more.
African slaves after them.
They worked them to the bone.
I see no interest across Africa in paying reparations for selling their brother and sister Africans into slavery or for working them to the bone to the present day.
There is slavery across Africa today.
In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than there were at the height of the transatlantic slave trade.
So some of us are simply a bit bored of hearing people ripping at closed wounds and then crying about their hurt.
Or their presumed hurt.
Because everybody could do this.
A million Europeans were stolen by North Africans over the course of decades of the North African Barbary Pirate Slave Trade.
Where would you end if you did that?
The answer is you couldn't end because nobody is alive who has actually suffered the hurt and nobody is alive who did the wrong.
And I'd make one other point if I may.
It's always the countries that people want to come to who are put through this struggle session.
Britain, like America and France, are the most desired destinations for migrants worldwide and have been for centuries.
Why is that?
It's not because we're racist.
It's because we're better.
It's because we're good.
It's because when we see racism, we actually call it out and recognize it as a sin.
Try finding that across Africa.
Try finding that across the Middle East or in China.
Nobody would hear.
So what we have is a situation where the more virtuous countries are presented as the worst countries.
It's sick and most of us are tired of it.
Sorry about laughing there.
I just noticed the man on the right to Douglas Morey's Yeah.
And then I realised the absurdity of what we were watching was a large panel of about five people where the screen presumably was divided for our viewers with us at the side which made it look like a super panel that we were involved in.
You ever seen, I think it's Indian CNN?
No.
Where they have debates with 20 people on screen?
Oh my god.
It's just stupid.
They don't call stuff stupid.
I have seen some Twitch debates like that and it is insufferable.
Yeah.
But anyway, point of playing that was just that I am actually very impressed.
I mean, I know it's Douglas and Douglas does a very good job of speaking all the time, but I'm very impressed at how distilled the arguments about this conversation have become.
I'm impressed at how bored he managed to sound while giving that spiel because it is so tiresome at this point.
Correct, but that's good, because this is no longer a thing where people are confused about what happened in history, or people are confused about what the obvious answer to this is, or the obvious motivations for the people whining.
Instead, everyone is well aware that this is all just theatre.
Shut up.
Not interested anymore.
And, well, he's correct on that assessment, I believe.
But we'll go to this one as well, just to talk about the West real quick, because the UK is not doing great in it.
Just as a segue, this is Household Disposable Income Per Capita.
So there we are, 2021.
Doing worse than Sweden.
Anyway, moving on though.
No, it looks like... I don't know why we're below Sweden when the actual figures given are both the same.
Perhaps they've just deducted a few points from us for being the UK.
Probably because we're falling down constantly so this is 2021 data so that I can see the happy 4th of July Americans online doing their thing and I thought I'd include a bunch because I did see the British response which was largely at least we have our NHS and look at how diverse it is as well our NHS would not be as strong without that diversity I've just got to put that out there of course but for people who don't know it is a holy day
In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland we celebrate 75 years of our NHS which is only one year more than the waiting list so there's that but we'll move to the next one because I did see this yesterday and this story kind of captured me in its weirdness but this isn't where you think it's going so South Yorkshire Police decided to tweet out this lovely image of um I don't know a troll uh something horrible something Lovecraftian Yeah.
And they say here, News, a Sheffield woman who baited social media users into arguments, commented hurtful and derogatory words, has been sentenced to time in prison.
Katie Bell, 27, of Stradbrook Road, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison.
It's like, okay.
I'm glad to see that there's now a Twitter context on here.
When I was writing this, there wasn't.
And we'll move forward, because of course, a lot of people took that as the police wrote it, which I've seen, well, I think seems...
It is interesting to me that what has happened here is that the South Yorkshire Police, their official Twitter account, has released some information which users have had to actually fact check on behalf of the police.
Because the police can't focus on what's important.
I think that's what's more important here.
You'll see real quick, we'll just mention it, they say here that she is sentenced for long-term harassment campaign involving death threats.
Now the police didn't focus on that because the police aren't interested.
I don't think they actually left this out because, I don't know, they're trying to mislead the public.
I think they don't care.
I think the mean words is actually the crux of their problem with this woman.
Because if we go to the next link here, I mean we see Dankula just taking the piss, just as Dankula we should say.
90% of this website is exactly what they described.
Just people baiting each other.
For fun.
I'm sorry.
There's also a lot of people making the point of, like, you can't be serious about this.
So we went to the Yorkshire Police's website about this exact case, and maybe they put more information on there.
No.
They did not.
They copy and pasted the description on their own website.
Online troll sentenced to prison.
Bit harsh.
I mean, she's hideous, but come on.
Anyway, well, I think perhaps there is something to it, that perhaps the way that the police are operating from this is, okay, if we put out this information, it lets people know, and leave the real context out, it leads people to believe that, oh, I best just not say nothing nasty online, or else this could happen to me.
Because that's their real goal, yes.
It's not trying to stop death threats or harassment, it's instead trying to control the public.
It's saying here, they say, uh, a Sheffield woman who baited social media users into arguments, commented hurtful and derogatory words, has been sentenced to time in prison.
Katie Bell, 27, of Staffordshire Brook Road, has appeared before Sheffield Crown Court yesterday, charged with a malicious communication and breach of a restraining order, but don't think about that.
Her charges related to the malicious communication, because that's the thing they're interested in, were on Twitter and Instagram between March and December of 2022, targeting numerous victims with her mean words across South Yorkshire.
So it wasn't just harassment campaign, even just that the context of the community note left, you say that she also broke a restraining order?
Yeah, but for some reason, like, this isn't the focus of the police report.
You'd think that's important information to leave in.
They didn't even tell you what she did, they're just like, wow, she commented on Twitter and Instagram.
She said mean words, she started an N train.
15 months in prison.
Okay, I mean if we go to the next link here a fair few people started obviously because that was the information they had relating it to other cases such as a transgender woman from Norwich who admitted to having dozens of images of indecent images of children that's been spared jail because that's just how the UK rolls with these things who knows why whereas this person got 15 months in prison most Yankee responses to this were Yankee as hell which I was not Can you give us any examples?
Examples, well, I forget the next link, we can see that example of Yankeedom being Yankeedom.
There you are.
It's crazy how the English police like to go on Twitter and brag about how they send people to prison for being mean online.
Yeah, it is.
It really is kind of weird.
I mean, they're all singing.
I'm not a fan of it either, trust me.
I imagine the Americans are sitting there singing, my country, tis of thee, where being an incel is free.
All right, but moving forward, we'll go to this guy who made a point, the following link, in which he pointed out why he made a fake post here.
It was like, South Yorkshire Police.
Dave over here, who made a frog account of Cumslag Road, in case you want to harass him.
He's been jailed for causing a news representer a right c-word.
Whereas local man convicted of grooming has had his identity protected and sentenced to three months.
I mean, I'm sorry, but that is true of the average posts from the police.
And of course, that can't be it, right?
The news.
So I went to the BBC, which is one of the links put in that Twitter thing there, and tried to read the story.
I was like, someone can't be put away just for commenting on Twitter.
We didn't even know what she commented in.
This out here, an online troll who carried out a campaign of abuse against a grieving widow after breaching an order to stop her from jail for 15 months.
Katie Bell, 27, who was given a suspended jail sentence in 2021 for abusive comments and threats directed at people on social media.
Again, no info.
Bell of the road again.
Why do you always have to mention the road name?
As if I really give a shit.
But they go on to say, she pleaded guilty to two breaches of a restraining order, breaching a suspended sentence order, and a further charge of malicious communications on Twitter and Instagram.
Again, no real information.
Just don't tell anyone what's really happening in the world.
I'm interested in the sidebar of this, though.
What's this right here?
Oh wow, this seems like something interesting that society has kept hidden from me for years.
Thank you so much, BBC.
I read that before I came here.
What do you think they were doing?
Do you think they were killing Nazis left, right and centre?
These black women?
I'm going to imagine they were filling in administration forms.
They were brought over to Britain to help with a postal backlog.
But for some reason, the damn people who run the commemoration of the Second World War saw fit to put the dead of D-Day above the black women who sorted out the post.
Absolutely shocking.
Average BBC article.
What are they saying here?
In a statement that she read out in Sheffield Crown Court, one of the victims detailed the distress Belle had subjected her to, including comments about her late husband.
Belle posted a number of comments on news articles paying tribute to the woman's husband following his sudden death, including one which said, serves him right.
That's a bit mean.
Yeah, it's a bit mean.
Is that a crime?
There's no other information!
I've said much worse things to very close people to me before.
This is what I don't get about the way the system works.
Like, there's nothing.
They got to say there was another post in which someone else died, and the troll said, serves her right if she is dead.
That's awful.
Yeah.
Um, if you're on... Doesn't sound like a harassment campaign.
This was on Twitter, right?
Yes.
There is a block function.
You could do that.
There's just a block function.
So I went to the Mirror, a socialist outlet, to try and find even more information because that can't be it, surely.
They're saying here, in one such message, she commented on the news of Mr Patterson's death with laughing emojis.
I mean, that's horrible.
I wouldn't like that.
I'm not going to break out the gallows.
that read for your grandchild.
And again. - I mean, that's horrible.
- Yeah. - I wouldn't like that.
I'm not going to break out the gallows. - They then went on to talk about the victim in this case and saying that she was running a charity and then literally couldn't even look at her own social media anymore because she was getting mean messages.
I don't really get why the block function wouldn't work there.
But again, just no real information whatsoever as to what happened.
So you have to go to the local paper to find out literally anything.
Oh really?
So if we go to the next link here, this is I think the local Sheffield Star, in which they mention in here that the court heard that Belle then latched into Mrs. Childs, sending her messages including ones that said, die b-word, and your granddaughter will rot in hell, and then if you scroll there's a bunch of screenshots where there's obvious death threats, and it's like, okay?
Alright, that makes it more serious.
Why did no one tweet any of this?
Why did the police not include this in the report?
Why did the BBC completely ignore this?
Why were the news outlets ignoring it?
Why?
Because they want to instill fear in you.
They want to leave out the context so that you think, oop, best not be mean, or I could go to prison.
I mean, reasonably speaking, that might still happen because the police will come up with a reason to arrest you if they want one, but this is important context.
But I also just love how this is the one thing they actually care about.
Just, are you being rude?
Anyway, time to end this off with some good news, I suppose, which is populism in Germany.
Mmm, it's doing pretty well!
I've tried to keep people updated with the fact the AFD is surging, and, um, well, we've reached it, boys.
They are now the most popular party in Germany.
And for those unfamiliar, would you mind just giving us a quick rundown of some of their major policy prescriptions?
Had enough, send them back.
Sounds pretty good to me.
No, they used to be far more Eurosceptic.
They're less so now, because I don't think the public would buy onto that.
They tried to run the whole idea of Germany leaving the EU, and then they realised, hang on a minute, the EU is Germany.
So, there's a lot of German voters who quite like having an empire.
They're more sceptical on reintegration.
They're like, no, we should try and not integrate more, because this is a disaster.
We end up with Greece.
So, that's not a bad argument either.
But the main thing obviously being, maybe we shouldn't have Mama Merkel's migrants coming en masse here?
And apparently that's quite popular in Germany.
Shocking.
Not being robbed by foreign beggars.
It helps when you have such impressive case studies just a few hundred miles down the road from yourselves.
Yeah.
I did mention before, some people know Tommy K. He's a Hoi4 YouTuber and streamer.
I know very little of Hoi4.
Well, he's a German guy and he, like, votes Green Party and has incredibly left us on a lot of things.
Very concerned about the environment.
You know, he wants to, like, lower the speed limit to save the environment.
Weird things like that.
Is he now an AFD voter?
Well, what's really funny is he used to work in the government dealing with refugees during the migrant crisis.
Oh, no.
And whenever he speaks about the refugees... Oh, no.
He's more than the AFD.
Oh, dear.
It's kind of like shock therapy, isn't it?
Exposure therapy.
What happens is that you're an incredibly fragile, anti-racist zealot, and you're so blessed to be enriched constantly.
And then you actually meet them.
And all of a sudden, you're, no, get them out!
There is no women and children.
There is no good culture.
I'm not... Why are all my kids getting... Oh, no.
Okay.
You need to go.
All of you.
Like, unironically, when TommyK talks about it, he's just like, they're all fraud.
All of them are fraud.
So there's that.
We'll get the next one here, because there is some other funny news, which is, the Germans were asked, depending on their political persuasion, do you think the AFD are a threat to democracy in Germany?
And 10% of the AFD said yes.
So...
Like the rest of them.
I mean, yeah, they're all gonna say they're a threat to democracy because if you can get that label, I mean, of course they are.
They could just shut down the party.
So obviously the political opponents want to shut them down.
I like that there's a 10% are presumably looking to bring back the Habsburgs.
I love the Kaiser.
What do you want?
Look at the next link.
The glorious King will reveal himself.
There's an artist's interpretation of what those AFD supporters look like.
It's Average Monarchist.
But the AFD, for people who don't know as well, are just good fun.
So, I mean, actual growth in the West is good to see.
So if we go to the next link here, we can see they had Pride Month, which we spoke about, which they changed into German Pride Month, which a lot of people S themselves over.
There's also previous antics.
Are these real women or AI constructs?
I think this is just for, like, stock image that you put the thing on.
Oh, right.
The real women that exist.
They are real?
I hope so.
I hope so as well.
Maybe the AI has to steal all the women.
But we'll go to the next one here because they also did something funny a while back which people seem to forget.
They printed these posters which say that Ataturk would have voted for the AFD.
Because of course the huge Turkish population in Germany.
Oh.
And they love Ataturk.
And obviously Ataturk, yeah, he probably would have voted AFD.
Yeah, probably.
Look at his political persuasion.
But for some reason when Turks are in Germany they vote left-wing.
And the AFD were like, yeah, stop doing that.
Like, why do you vote for right-wingers in Turkey but left-wingers in Germany?
Stop voting for right-wingers.
We all know why.
So, there we are.
But we'll end this off, just so we get the next one.
I mean, the establishment is running counter-propaganda against them, as you can see here.
This video is from Deutsche Welt, state media, in which they argue that an unnamed party, they wouldn't name them presumably for legal reasons, this guy here, if you scroll down a little bit, I'll try.
I'll do it!
There we are.
No, both of us didn't.
Oh wait, no, no!
This guy here.
He comes out and says that there's a there's a rumf in German politics for a racist party who wants to take territory from the eastern states and beyond.
I... I don't remember that part.
I don't think the AFD were very much in on that.
Ah, unser Lebensraum!
Yeah, Lebensraum doesn't seem to be their bag.
It's not their bag, baby.
Well, they back this up with a quote from their direct political opponents of the leader of the Socialist Party saying that they're bad.
So there you are.
Very convincing.
Interesting.
I did also recently see a headline that was talking about how all far-right parties are rising up in Germany and other places.
What does this mean for democracy and how can democracy stop this?
Banning the opposition.
Yes.
Anyway, we've met the AFD and we will just end the last link here just proving that they're winning election by election which is very good.
We've met them, we've gone to the German Parliament, and they're great guys.
Nothing about them is the mid-century Germans.
So, yeah, it is all just propaganda.
So it is great to see the German public picking that up.
So, there's victories in Germany, cringe in Britain, and weirdness in America.
Average day in the West.
Sorry, I was just fighting for control of the mouse with John for a moment there.
You know, we've all got mouses.
So John's got a mouse, you've got a mouse, I've got a mouse.
And they all control the same cursor.
So, this is dangerous territory here.
Although, John is the only one with access to a keyboard that works for the screen that we have.
So this is even more dangerous.
But the real threat to democracy is over there.
Yes, our democratic freedoms are being threatened.
What's John doing?
No!
Don't skip to the end, John!
No!
Alright, so let's discuss the conservative case for white privilege.
Now, white privilege is... Do you want some?
Is that what you're... You want some?
I am dressed somewhat like a purveyor, a salesman of the white privilege.
Hello there, gentlemen.
Would you like some white privilege?
How much?
What are you offering?
Are you literally like, what have you got?
What have you got?
Go on then.
I've got some string, but I'll take it.
You've got some nice keys here.
Those are my keys.
Are they for your house?
Maybe.
I'll take those.
Alright.
You want to be... You're Irish.
You're Irish.
You want to be white, don't you?
That house is a crap house, don't worry.
That's not a house.
Flat.
Well, I can get some money for it.
I don't own it.
Well, I might.
Should we get back to white privilege?
Yes.
White privilege is of course... Robbing me?
Live robbery caught on air.
White privilege is of course utter nonsense.
It is a leftist term used to describe the fact that in countries that are majority white you tend to find that white people do well and that white people occupy many positions of power.
Maybe not representative to the A proportion of white people who are in the country because oftentimes nowadays it is far less than the actual proportion of white people who are in a country that actually occupy particular positions due to things like affirmative action which thankfully the Supreme Court in America seem to have struck down recently.
In the UK we're still blighted by such things thanks to the Equality Act and other such pieces of legislation.
But it amuses me because we all know that it's nonsense, we all know that it's rubbish, but there is a certain type of conservative and a certain type of liberal ally to the conservative who are always more than happy to carry water for leftist concepts and more than happy to make an excuse, make a conservative argument for such things.
I've seen many articles, often by David French, let's be fair if you've ever encountered him.
I cringe as He's a National Review Conservative, shall we say, and he has written many articles on the defense of trans rights, the defense of trans kids, the conservative argument for gay marriage, all of these different things, and I think it's important to point out when this happens, call these people out, and make people aware, because I just find it very amusing that the right, sadly, has in the past been rather poor at choosing allies.
Now, Completely unrelated.
Here's a video of me disliking James Lindsay.
No, no, no.
Making a cogent argument against some of James Lindsay's conceptions of liberalism and his propensity to punch right against those within right-wing spheres who would have arguments about how to solve the current political crisis and culture crisis that we find ourselves in.
This was a Rumble-exclusive live hangout, which means you don't have to be a member of the website to watch, so you can please Go over to Rumble and watch that for free.
It was me and Conor discussing this and I think we were very fair to James Lindsay.
I'm not just trying to badmouth him and I also was using this as a bit of a touchstone to be able to kick off a broader discussion about liberalism in general and I thought that it was a very interesting and productive conversation that Conor and I had So please, if you're interested, go over and watch that video.
You might be able to learn something from it.
Or if you feel that Connor and I went wrong somewhere, you can feel free to leave a comment and I will be checking the comments.
I've been enjoying interacting with people down there before.
So, David French I mentioned.
He is the kind of slippery slope conservative who can go from writing articles like this back in 2017, which was the racial poison of white privilege, which sadly does give a little bit of ground to the position in the article, but not as badly as some of his later ones.
So, for instance, we've got the name alone, which was probably decided by an editor, but still says the racial poison of white privilege, which suggests, you know, that it's a term that's used more than anything as a cudgel to bludgeon people.
Excuse me.
With, um, unless there's an actual argument, if you're trying to get a racially harmonious society, which is a very, very difficult thing to do, then you don't want to have these terms that provoke grievances that may or may not exist, or certainly make those grievances worse.
Still, in this article he states, and this is back from 2017, the discussion of white privilege has gone from interesting and thoughtful, it never was.
What do you mean thought?
It never was, to stupid and malicious at the speed of social justice, which is another absurd analogy to point that... What even is that sentence?
Yes, that doesn't really make much sense.
There is a fascinating debate to be held about the nature of privilege in America, including who has real privilege and how it shapes our nation, but we're definitely not having it.
Which is...
Shall we say a slightly more nuanced take than he had back in 2021 when he wrote this article for the Dispatch called Structural Racism Isn't Wokeness, It's Reality.
So here we can see somebody going down that slippery, slippery slope and let's read a few from this.
So he's talking about Christians.
They must not deny the full consequences of centuries of intentional racist harm.
Residential segregation through redlining and other means.
All you need to do is watch your average actual Justice Warrior video to have good arguments about what redlining actually was and how it actually affected people.
Or just read any article or book from Thomas Sowell to understand that these practices were not good and they were not just, certainly, but they did not harm black populations in the same way that certain people would like you to believe.
And carry on, especially when combined with profound employment discrimination and educational disparities resulted in the creation of large communities of dramatically disadvantaged Americans.
Which, this is just, this is a supposed conservative and this is leftist rhetoric, as far as I'm concerned.
Now for a note about conservatism.
Are you ready for everybody's favourite, favourite definition of conservatism they've ever read in here?
So, now for a note about conservatism.
I simply don't grant that the dissenter's objections to Platt, who's the person he's responding to here, are conservative.
Right-wing, yes.
Conservative, I object.
Now, the other day I made a point on Twitter that conservatism can tend to be the ideology of yesterday's leftism.
And this is certainly a good example of that as far as I'm concerned.
Years ago my friend Rod Dreher wrote that the business of conservatism with integrity is not to impose an idealistic ideological narrative on reality but rather to try and see the world as it is and respond to its challenges within the limits of what we know about human nature.
Problem with this definition of course being that who is determining what the world is at any given time And how are you going to respond to those challenges?
And it seems to me that these kinds of conservatives are completely useless and will just allow the left to define what the world is at any particular time.
So you just go along with the left's conception of it and then you just go, as Michael Malice would say, conservatism is progressivism going the speed limit.
You go, okay, the world is terrible and I agree with all of your absurd conceptions of how everything is, but let's not get radical about how we solve it.
We don't want complete race communism yet.
What we want is mild race communism.
We just want a sprinkle of race communism.
And then question mark, question mark, question mark, we defeat the left, trust me.
Yes, it's very strange, it's very absurd, but once again I think that in here there is a tacit admission when he says that the people who disagree with him are right-wing but not conservative, that conservative does not necessarily have to be right-wing in nature.
And once again, this doesn't lead to justice, and if you're actually asking me for my conception of how the politics works these days, you're just furthering the claims of leftist grievances that go towards leftist clients.
Politics works as a client game, a voting game.
You get people to vote for you by promising them benefits.
That's how democracy works.
And so if you have big blocks, of people with racial grievances you stoke those racial grievances and then you go I will give you big bits of money in return for your votes because you have racial grievances.
So he's just legitimizing this and this is something that tends to happen quite a lot and we've got articles just showing that this is very much a leftist phenomenon when it comes to the idea of white privilege Forbes anti-racism 101 but if we just check the URL here we can see what was the original title of this article Dear White People You know a sentence- You know a statement's going to be excellent when it begins with Dear White People, don't you?
Wasn't there a show called that on Netflix?
Yes, there was.
Was also Cancer.
Just completely unwatchable.
Any- Once again, any statement that begins with Dear White People, I just shut- It's white noise to me.
Audible white noise.
I mean, please, go away.
And it's leftist propaganda, as you can imagine.
We've got loads of articles about it constantly.
This one from May this year.
Yellowface takes white privilege to a sinister level.
This article is about this book.
Yellowface, if you've walked into a Waterstones recently you'll have seen it.
You'll have seen it because it's on all of the shelves and it's essentially fan fiction to try and prove that a real-life phenomena exists.
Now this is a description of it.
In a climate where the publishing industry is being highly scrutinized for its gatekeeping unfair treatment of marginalized writers and editors, its role in appropriation and more Quang's novel is a strong commentary on the exploitation and rigors writers face under the pressure to be successful.
Yellowface is about a young white author who steals the manuscript of her dead Asian friend, finishes it, and publishes it as her own.
The beauty and irony of this conversation is that Quang herself is an Asian writer, telling this story through the eyes of a white writer.
Fanfiction.
Racial fanfiction to try and stoke up grievances.
I am an Asian person who has written a story about how white people steal the pro- steal the work of Asian people for profit.
Okay, well does that prove then that you have some kind of schizophrenic paranoid delusion?
And Salon, everyone's favourite.
We've all had a good look through Salon at the time.
Do you remember that article from a few years ago from Salon that said that actually Mao and Stalin were right-wing because left-wing is when government doesn't be totalitarian and right-wing is when government is totalitarian?
That was a fun one.
Yeah, it was a very big brain.
It was enormous brain.
That was GigaChad brain right there.
Why the right is so terrified of woke?
There are truths that we just can't face.
Conservatives didn't want to hear about white privilege so they abandoned reality and joined the orange man's cult.
This one has some funny moments in it where they just show that leftists only view the world through a paranoid schizophrenic lens given to them by films and television media.
They say so many things in our society can be understood by thinking back to high school.
Think of Nearly Edward because these people haven't Bypassed the emotional, or grown past the emotional maturity of a high schooler.
I don't know, you're right there.
Sorry, think back to high school, now think of a Hollywood film about high school.
Yes.
It's not actually a high school experience, get rid of that out of your brain.
No, just think of a Hollywood film about suburban teenagers in which the good-looking spoiled brats of the country club get their comeuppance in the third act after revelling in all sorts of bad behaviour.
I'm sorry, that didn't happen, you literally just said that don't think of your actual high school, think of a movie.
Think of something that didn't happen and then base your view on that.
It is very amusing and very strange because, I don't know if this person knows this, but Hollywood films, they don't just sprout out of the ground.
They are written by people.
Often people who have life experiences of their own.
Often people who were bullied nerds in high school.
They're not even bullied nerds, just isolated losers with no friends.
Spiteful mutants, I believe is the term that's used for them, where they write weird fan fictions about how all of their high school people that they didn't like, all of their fellow students in high school who they hated, actually were all horrible people and deserved to die.
This is what- and then other leftists watch this and go, oh my god, this is just like when I was in high school.
I have an understanding of reality.
But once again, all of this is just to show that leftism is where the idea of white privilege comes from in the first place, and it should not be adopted by the right, which is why it's very, very frustrating when right-wingers The left don't care.
conservatives continually fall into this trap of trying to use the left's terms against it as if pointing out hypocrisy, which we've been doing for bloody decades at this point, is going to actually solve anything.
Hate to break it to you, if the left are hypocrites, the left don't care.
The left go, huh, funny that, isn't it?
And then continue to try and destroy your culture.
They don't care.
They're not going to look in the mirror or reflect for a moment.
They are going to carry on as they always do, which is why it's frustrating when I see accounts like this, catered, which are Quite an amusing account for the most part, mostly posts memes.
Posted this picture of Hunter Biden, which is in the aftermath of the recent allegations, well not allegations, the recent courts hearings and everything that's been going on, that's shown that he's actually been party to a lot of corruption, things that we all already knew for a very long time, and he's getting very little in the way of backlash against it.
Connor and I went through it the other week, I've forgotten the exact details of it, but I know that he's certainly not getting the book thrown at him, let's just say that.
With this comment, the face of above the law and white privilege.
Yeah.
Yes!
Where does the white privilege come into it?
It's not because he's white.
He's the same as Biden.
Yeah, it's because he's from the Biden dynasty.
That's why this is, and it's very frustrating to me when I see this, because to be fair, Catherd, for the most part, is a somewhat satirical, funny account, as you can tell from the name.
I just love how you're trying to make it work, like Shadeed.
You know about Shadeed?
Uh...
No, tell me about Shadeed.
So Shadeed was a black lady's dog that she wanted buried.
Alright, okay.
Actually, no, I've got that mixed up now.
No, there were two Shadeeds.
Okay, there was Shadeed 1 and 2.
Are we talking about a number 2 right here?
Shadeed was the dog that wanted to be buried and the cemetery wouldn't put Shadeed's name on the headstone because it spelled something rude.
And then Shadeed was a black woman who also made a song about herself.
I don't know why her parents called her Shadeed, but they did.
And it was terrible.
I'll be like, yeah, Cat-erd.
It's a French name.
I'm trying desperately not to just say Cat-erd, but there you go.
Yeah, this is a relatively meme-y account, so it's probably just a joke.
Probably just a joke, that's fine.
27,000 likes, hopefully they all understood that it was a joke.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, on the other hand, as far as I'm aware, not a meme account, responds to this tweet from Henry Rogers saying, Fair point.
Yeah, if your dad's the President of the United States, you're probably going to get away with a lot more things than the average person is.
and had to serve three years in jail for it.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, unfortunately Kodak's daddy was not president.
Fair point.
Yeah, if your dad's the president of the United States, you're probably going to get away with a lot more things than the average person is.
And he's not white.
For God's sake.
For God's sake, Marjorie, why?
Do not use their framing.
You are legitimizing their framing.
I went through to try and find this tweet and found a lot of tweets of people accusing you of having white privilege.
Do not legitimize the claim in the first place.
It's very, very silly and very disappointing.
And then the spectator did it as well!
The spectator did it as well.
The media does not want to address racial disparity when it comes to Hunter Biden.
He is a clear-cut example of the kind of white privilege that motivated hundreds of thinkpapers on race.
And now they don't want to touch it!
It's like the left are hypocrites and don't care!
What a shock!
What a big surprise!
Furthermore in the article, they have more in here, so they say, "...racial conflict has driven much of the political and media conversation, leading to the widespread concept of DEI in boardrooms and newsrooms, and the Democratic Party employing a vague concept of racial equity in the place of equality.
Yet suddenly, all of that has gone out the window when it comes to Hunter Biden, the affluent and powerful white son of the sitting President of the United States.
They don't care." They don't care.
You are their political enemy, and Biden, whether or not it's Joe Biden or Hunter Biden, is a useful political tool for them because he is their friend, politically speaking.
So if he experiences white privilege, or what appears to be white privilege from their own terms, they don't care.
Would you care?
No.
Exactly!
Why would they care if it means they're winning?
Either way, they get what they want.
And then furthermore, I just wanted to point out that there are others that...
Kind of go down a slippery slope, although to be fair, these people that I'm going to call out are difficult to describe as right-wing or conservative in the first place, but they are people who the right has aligned with that have some issues about them, some trouble about them, and when certain things Come out, they show their true colours.
Like the situation that we've got in France at the moment, where people are rioting in the streets, and it seems to be one particular type of person who is going out in the streets and destroying France, and rioting and such.
And, you know, anybody who cares about the West, anybody who cares about Europe, anybody who cares about France, goes, that's a terrible thing, I hate to see that, I hope somebody can step in and stop that soon.
And then you get Ian Myles Chong come out, who, if you remember, is somebody who can occasionally provide useful information and has kind of been in the ear of Elon Musk for a while.
He puts himself forward as a free speech kind of guy, then comes out and says, Then you should be perfectly fine with the same thing happening to France right now.
They're being conquered, and they're surrendering without a fight.
That's how it works.
But for real though, why doesn't anyone ask why so many Middle Easterners and Africans are fleeing to Europe?
Could America bombing the F out of their countries with drones of diversity and tolerance, and making them uninhabitable, have something to do with the refugee crisis?
Is this the right thing to say in this circumstance?
I understand that yes, there are problems going on in Africa, in the Middle East.
There aren't.
Well, there can be, but there aren't, so this is just nonsense.
You are right.
I'm just sick of this assumption we have on the West of light.
Yeah, the rest of the world's uninhabitable.
No, it's perfectly habitable.
The reason they come to Europe, and I'm going to be charitable to say is being somewhat ironic in the sense of like, you're being conquered because you refuse to actually fight back.
And that is correct.
If we just enforced our borders, we wouldn't be conquered.
It's that simple.
Well, this is all true, but I have to point out as well that it's probably not the average Frenchman on the street refusing to fight back.
It's not me refusing to fight back in England.
It is the states.
They're the ones enforcing this, and they're the ones creating a political situation, a domestic situation in your country, where if you do anything about it, if you say anything about it, you are liable to get the book thrown at you legally.
That is why lots of people don't do it, because they have been put into a situation where they can't.
We're not allowed to talk about certain things on YouTube and on Twitter.
Ironically, given the free speech platform that was supposed to be Twitter, we're not allowed to talk about certain things or say certain things.
Because we will get the book thrown at us, we will get our platforms taken down, and then we won't be able to talk about other things.
That is what makes us not be able to talk about these things.
Not because I don't think about these things, not because I don't care about these things, not because I'm not willing to fight these things, but because there is top-down pressure creating a situation where you can't do anything about it.
Similarly, Carl had a discussion with this man, Michael Tracy, who I don't want to write off entirely.
I've been looking into some of the things that he does, and he's been doing a lot of good work looking at the situation in Ukraine, questioning some of the narratives that are going on around there, and he has done a few other bits of journalism in the past.
But once again, we need to be careful about the sorts of people that we ally ourselves with, because a lot of the time, because we have one narrow focus at any one time at a bit of the culture war, We ally ourselves with particular people who then turn around and reveal themselves to have nothing else in common with us.
So Michael Tracy, who once again I don't want to write off, and Carl has been having some diplomatic conversations with him over the course of the past few days regarding some of the statements that he's made, but he did put this in response to this footage of France saying that it's so stupid to look at a bunch of teenagers acting crazy in the summer.
Just average white boy summer, Right here, this is what me and the boys are gonna do for spring break, I think.
I just love that meme of like, um... Man, there could be teenagers around here.
I hate teenagers.
As the wind caressed his cool, bare chest.
Yeah, it's so stupid to look at a bunch of teenagers acting crazy in the summer and ascribe some cogent ideological or religious motive.
I seriously doubt that any of these kids would cite radical Islam to explain their behaviour.
By the way, this library wasn't burnt down in his reopening the next week.
If that bit at the end is true, that's good to know.
I'm very glad to know.
And he carries on down here.
As you may remember, there were similarly arson-fuelled riots in the US in 2020, and they had nothing to do with radical Islam.
No, they had to do with black nationalism!
They had to do with racial grievances, Michael, because yes, this person specifically labels Islamist radicals, but that's shorthand.
We use it as shorthand in Europe for basically the Muslims, as in those from North Africa and the Middle East.
It's not because we're like, oh man, they're all Salafist jihadists.
No, it's just shorthand to explain who they are.
Yes, he carries on as well.
If you see a French-Algerian teen was shot dead in the face in point-blank range, which once again, having looked into it, that whole situation seems to me a lot like that wouldn't have happened to the guy if he had just complied with the police, as is so often the case in situations like this.
And also, he was a drug dealer and a criminal who had been stopped numerous times for driving violations before.
He was shot in the face at point-blank range and then a bunch of other teams start rioting afterwards.
It's not just teens.
It's a lot of people who are migrant populations who just come over.
But all they have in common is that they're teens.
Yeah, that's the only thing.
The only thing in common.
And I've not seen any footage of any of these people saying that the West belongs to the Middle East now, the West belongs to Islam now.
There's a bunch of French teenagers who are all there with their berets and baguettes being like, ha ha ha, France belongs to us now.
What do you mean?
It wouldn't make any sense, it already did!
It doesn't make any sense, does it?
But your immediate assumption... This is for colonialism, France!
In front of town!
French Revolution 2.0, here we go, baby!
This is revenge!
I mean, maybe in 20 years when the French actually do have to rise up, but that's... Oh yeah, but the immediate assumption is that the main explanation has to be radical Islam, you're just a dummy.
But once again, this was about racial grievances, and this that's happening in France right now is about racial grievances, not about radical Islam necessarily, other than what Callum said was a shorthand.
I think it's just a distance thing.
Possibly, but... I'm not close enough to understanding the French context.
Well, he's been speaking to Karl about this, and he did also say that he'd been over to Paris.
I don't know how recently, but he'd spoken to a lot of these French Algerians, and they were all just normal people.
They're just normal people.
All people are people.
All people are people.
Yes, if you speak to somebody one-on-one, but if you get them in a critical mass and set the fuse alight, then something like this can happen when you have an ethnically different population that has its own racial grievances.
Because what I've seen a lot of these people saying, Is that this is essentially revenge for French colonialism in Algeria.
Well, they wrote it on the Holocaust Memorial.
Did you not see that?
Oh yes, they did, didn't they?
Yeah.
Very strange.
I mean, you couldn't be more blunt about it.
Michael Tracy sitting at the side going, oh, those crazy teens.
It's crazy what the heat does to them in the summer, isn't it?
French teens hate Jews.
Not any other kind of teens, just French teens.
I'm wearing my nice clothes, can you not?
Yeah, there's no correlation of certain people who hate Jews.
No, it's just French teens.
You know a map of people who hate Jews?
Everywhere else, love the Jews, French teens.
I know.
The funny thing is that even Ian Miles Chong's statement suggests that it's due to revenge for the Algerian colonialism.
That's because it's their stated reason.
Yeah, that is their stated reason.
He's calling it up saying that, oh, there's a contradiction here, whereas Michael Tracy is just going, ah, them kids, them kids.
So yes, we can have allies of convenience and friends on particular subjects, but I do think it's important to be aware of who your allies are, because then all of a sudden, you know, you agree with them on particular foreign policy, you agree with them on free speech issues, you agree with them on maybe trans issues and such, but then all of a sudden a situation like this arises, where you literally have chaos in the streets due to racial grievance due to mass migration, where you literally have chaos in the streets due to racial grievance due to mass migration, and they turn around
So I just want to say, let's all be careful of that in the future.
We shall move.
Do something fun.
have some fun please Please don't make me destroy my nice clothes.
I'll try to make it up.
No!
That's not what I wanted.
I asked you to not do that.
No, no, no.
So credibility is completely overrated.
At least this seems to be the statement from the Guardian.
Which I know is kind of a punching bag, has been for a while.
But they did something recently that I think is fun.
So I thought we'd go and check them out.
Because they decided to argue that ello ello calls Brexit What?
Yeah.
The BBC... The TV show.
So Mimi Le Bonc over there... She was the real reason that everyone voted Brexit.
Pretty based.
Anyway, we'll start off with The Economics of Margin Call, which is a review on loisiers.com of the movie, which, great movie.
I've not watched it.
The review on loisiers.com.
Oh no, it's got Kevin Spacey in it.
It does, but he's not noncing on kids.
This is advanced warfare.
In the movie, he's actually playing a guy who's like the only moral anchor in the group where he's like, maybe we shouldn't destroy other people's lives.
Ooh, bad choice on the casting there.
Yeah, but, you know, there we are.
I mean, he's a good actor.
I'll give him that, he was a good actor.
Michael Jackson, boy, those songs.
Gary Glitter?
Unironically.
Also Michael Jackson, I will say that there is a lot of contention with those claims.
Watch RazörFist's video.
I would love to find someone just completely ignorant of like anything to do with Michael Jackson, Gary Glitter, Jimmy Savile and Kevin Spacey and they just sit them down and just they're writing the best things why they love these actors and whatnot.
You just sit them down, show them all the film, show them all the music, without telling them any of that extra context.
They just go out telling everyone that they're their favourite musicians and that's it.
Just at work, everyone's like, this guy Gary Glitter, he's got such an amazing song.
But all of a sudden, everyone at work is just like, we need to report him to HR, there's some kind of... Oh no, oh no, because what Jimmy Savile was mainly known for before it all came out, he's like, Jimmy Savile, he was always so good to those kids, wasn't he?
Don't clip that!
Back to the fun, instead, which is the real cause of Brexit, it turns out, was indeed Mimi Le Bonc, or whoever the hell else you want to pick from LOLO's cast.
This is The Guardian.
This is real.
Most people thought this was a parody, but no, it's real.
British sitcoms reveal culture that contributed to the Brexit vote.
Oh my god, in the 1970s and 80s, they had sitcoms where English people were English.
That means that everybody voted for Brexit.
I mean, they do want to destroy this kind of culture because it means you look back and you go, hold up, England wasn't diverse, and everybody seems much happier.
They want to get rid of it.
I mean, the thing is, like... You know how leftists will reinvent the wheel every so often?
They'll be like, what if I'm, um... What if I'm... My sexuality is that I like having sex with the opposite sex, huh?
Oh, yeah.
I was like, yeah, that's called straight.
They reverse-engineer it.
All the time.
Well, this one, I think what they've done is they reverse-engineered finding out that cultures are different.
Sorry, you've just got me thinking, what's the name of the sexuality they invented for enjoys being in straight monogamous relationships?
Cake gender or something?
It's like you have a warm feeling for someone and you only have sex with that person that you love?
Probably cake gender.
Anyway, but a lot of other people were like, you know, the real cause of Brexit?
Come fly with me?
I mean, fair enough.
I can't believe they took that off Netflix.
That was such a good show.
People who haven't seen Come Fly With Me... It's hilarious.
You should track it down.
You should also go watch Little Britain, because that was gold before.
I do like Little Britain, but I think even though it was only one series, Come Fly With Me I preferred.
Particularly these characters here.
So this is Targe, who's the bad boy, and then there's, I forget his name, the character, but there's called Mr. Smith, who is just the racist Brexiteer immigration officer.
Who is the funniest man alive.
Oh yeah.
So, do go check that out.
Doesn't he question that guy for his passport, or he had a moustache before?
Well, he... Which one?
Or is it he's like, oh you've got a moustache now, and he gets him to shave it off.
So he gets a pen out and like draws it on the French immigrant, and then he's like, hmm, still does not fit.
Deported.
Anyway, but there's some other people who are like, you know, the real culprit.
Oh yeah, should have known.
He has a feeling about it.
But, this is the article.
Oh, great.
Great.
More experts.
I'm just going to leave it here, so people can have a lovely look at Alolo.
People who haven't watched Alolo, you can pirate on YouTube, because for some reason it's just up.
So, there we are.
Are we allowed to endorse that?
I'm not saying you should do it, I'm saying you shouldn't, but I'm saying it's there.
Oh, you're saying it's possible to do so.
It is horrible that YouTube allows such things to be easily available if you just type in alohaloh episode 1 through 20.
I bet you've just got it taken down on YouTube for that.
Also, this man, to be fair, does look like average Brexit voter.
God bless him for it.
Have you watched alohaloh or not?
I actually haven't.
So I'll explain it for you.
I've watched, you know, young ones, Blackadder, a lot of the classic 80s ones.
Dad's Army?
Yeah, of course, Dad's Army was what I was watching as a kid.
So I imagine the Americans probably haven't watched many of these, or any of them.
Check out all of them, frankly.
But Alola is probably the funniest one, in terms of stereotypes.
So the whole concept is that it was all the British people, and they needed to make a show about a French cafe owner, who is the man on the left here.
Isn't it Rene?
In occupied Paris.
Yes.
And Rene's Cafe is what he runs.
It's actually an easter egg, if you play Hoi4.
When you load up the front screen, you'll notice there's Rene's Cafe there.
Anyway, for Hoi4 facts.
For all of the Hoi4 boys out there.
There are a lot of Hoi4 boys out there, I tell you.
Anyway, and there's his wife, Yvette, who he does not like because he's French, so he cheats on her with all the waitresses, constantly.
I mean, average Frenchman.
The French leader of the Résistance.
She's also a woman that he cheats on his wife with, because of course... Well, he's attracted to strong women, obviously.
It's not even that, it's just, you're not my wife.
You're not my wife, unzip.
Yeah, whatever he's talking about.
Truly, I mean, to be fair, this man...
Does look someone like John Paul Sartre, with his eyes.
And he was also disturbingly successful with women, despite that.
But the point being, so you've got a bunch of French people, right?
And then there's the Germans, and the Germans turn up, and they're talking German accents, of course, and they're wearing stilly things and talking silly and cannot understand humour and all the rest of it.
And they're the occupying force, so they're...
uh, they're...
and he has to negotiate with them to get stuff, materials, or not going to jail.
But at the same time, there's the communist French resistance, and we're all pretty women in Berets, who tried to kill him because he works with the Germans, so then he has to keep them off, but working with them...
The socialist boobs.
But because, you know, he works with the socialist boobs, and the Germans want to lock him up for it, And then there are the British airmen who turn up and say, hello chaps and blah blah blah.
And they are hiding in his attic and he's got to deal with them because the leader of the resistance wants him to.
But of course, it's a British show, so there's no French.
Because why would we speak French?
Disgusting.
So instead... This is just a round improvement.
No, but there's no subtitles.
Everyone just speaks with a massive, ridiculous accent.
They don't even go the laziest route.
They just speak in English accents.
No.
So the British airmen speak perfect English, chaps, and I can't understand what this frog is saying.
I think he wants your watch.
I'll give him the watch.
They give the watch to Rennie and Rennie goes, why is he giving me his watch?
I do not want his watch.
I want him to get under the bonk, because I cannot hide him!
Or whatever.
And then there's a British spy, who turns up, who is spying as a French policeman, who was the previous chap.
I think we can get him back up real quick, so people can see him.
Yes, yes.
And of course, he has learnt to speak French perfectly well, chaps.
I'll speak the French for you.
And then of course, he speaks in a French accent and going, Hello, I have come from under there.
I've come to have a looking at what is going on in your bunk.
What the hell is he saying?
And the joke is that you can speak bad French and the Germans of course just speak English but with a German accent and the point being that you're showing off because a lot of soldiers were actually shown the show and loved it when it came out because it was a time when people were alive who of course fought there Wait, is this Trans-Europeanism or something?
And they loved it because, of course, it was the different cultural aspects and the humour ensued from those cultural aspects.
And the left, in the form of the Guardian here, have rediscovered the show and then been like, ooh, look, the cultures are different.
This was clearly Brexit propaganda.
Aren't we all the same?
Aren't we all humans?
It's comical.
It's bad.
Wait, is this trans-Europeanism or something?
Is this what they're doing?
All Europeans equal the same?
It's worse than that, actually.
We'll get to the end.
I'm pretty sure he's a German sympathiser.
So, people seeking to explain Brexit have looked to Winston Churchill and the 16th century English Reformation, but they may just as well have looked at Captain Manoring and Basil Fawlty, according to an expert.
Well, I mean, John Cleese did say that London isn't an English city anymore, so Basil Fawlty is probably the least tenuous connection we've got here.
He was also able to point out that there are cultural differences, such as the Germans don't have any humour and the French cheat on their wives.
That argues the historian, Professor Gavin Schaeffer.
Now, I looked him up.
We'll get back to him in a bit.
But part of me is wondering whether he's a German spy.
He says it is because the tone of British sitcoms from the 60s, 70s and 80s, such as Fawlty Towers, Dad's Army and Hello Hello, give an insight into parts of the sense of identity and political culture that contributed to the vote to leave the European Union.
What is their English?
Well, they all have views of the Europeans, such as that they are not English.
They are European, and are from their distinct cultures, and therefore are a bit different.
You mean just like the French look differently on the Germans, and the German look differently on the French, and the Italians look differently, and the Spanish are different?
No, like reality, when you go to Spain and you organise a meeting and they don't turn up.
Is it just me, or is this not that bit of diversity that they always go be banging on about?
Well, Schaefer over here has come to England to tell us that many Britons took a lower low to their hearts as it presented a light-hearted reflection of the European differences that ultimately spoke to the core differences between Britain and the European neighbours.
Something that, you know, anyone could have told you.
I mean, that's just the reality.
Oh, the French are different.
I mean, I hate to go on it, but your last speaker in your segment I found that there are two people when it comes to people who travel, right?
There are people who come home and come home with the delusion that the whole world is just people trying to get along.
And I can't imagine how they would get to that because surely the more you travel the more you realise that people are in fact different.
Yeah, it's like they went to, I don't know, Moscow and just stayed in the English Quarter or something.
It's a very strange level of cope that one must imbibe.
It's the kind of people who learn nothing ever.
And then there are the people who come home, and the joke is that they're the most racist people alive, but of course it's not about racial differences, it's just, no, we can point out the differences between the ethnic groups, they know the quirks of each of them, and so forth.
Acknowledging that people are different does not immediately mean that you have to go, well, best kill them all!
Funnily enough it doesn't, but Schaefer over here has got a different view.
He says, The show also tells us something about British attitudes to Europe were changing and not changing in the late 80s and the early 90s, as Britain edged closer to her European neighbours.
Despite closer bonds, British voices of Euroscepticism never strayed too far from suspicions rooted in the Second World War.
Um, Schaefer?
Do you think there might have been a reason post-World War we were a bit sus of the Germans?
You wanna have a think about maybe what it might have been?
You know, a Holocaust or two?
World War or two?
I mean, the Russians are also, well, part of the Russians are also European.
Some of them are Asian, but a lot of them are European.
They also did some bad things.
Sus of them, too, for some reason.
You know, quite a few genocides of their own, which were even worse than the Holocaust, which, in terms of numbers... Is this guy going to go, and why do they all keep looking sideways at the Baltics?
It's literally him sitting there like, I don't know why people don't trust the Europeans.
We are perfectly to be trusted.
No, I mean, they are perfectly to be trusted, I swear.
Churchill's line that the UK was with Europe but not of it, that it was linked but not comprised, and interested and associated but not absorbed, is often cited as one of the most succinct explanations of the way Britons have felt about their relationship with Europe since the end of the Second World War.
And some have argued that the British distance dates back to the Reformation, when King Henry VIII broke with Rome.
Personally, when I meet people who are, you know, old enough to remember their dad fighting... Old enough to remember the Reformation!
I remember old Henry I do!
When asked why they left Rome, they usually ask you something along the lines of, well, I just want to kill some Europeans, what else?
I'm not even joking.
There was a lovely lady I met once.
I asked her, do you remember?
She said, oh yes, my dad went and fought in the Navy.
Why did he go?
And she said, well I asked him that one day and he said he wanted to kill some Germans.
So there we are.
Yet Schaefer has argued that the sort of popular entertainment enjoyed by millions across the country is at least as instructive of pro-Brexit attitudes.
The argument that there was something specifically British about being able to laugh at yourself was a key to much of the public affectation for LOLO.
Affection, sorry.
I love that though, she's like, you know, the British have this sense of humour, but doesn't everyone?
Got in Himmel!
I mean, have you asked the Germans?
Germans at the side going, Humor?
Laughter?
Yeah, yeah, I love joke.
I tell you a classic German joke.
Knock knock.
Who's that?
It is a German man.
He is selling a box of cereal.
I will now tell another German joke.
Anyway.
Continuing affection for this kind of humor points to something of the British spot about the legacy of the war and the barriers between Britain and the rest of Europe.
Yeah, they all went fascist and we didn't.
This is an impressively stupid article.
I'm sorry, but it really is just him scurrying around being like, I don't know if they don't like us, I mean them, why don't they like Sam?
So, the Brits can laugh at themselves?
Yeah.
Therefore Brexit.
And they also don't like the Germans for some reason.
They can't find out why because they don't like us Huns.
Listening very carefully to Alolo reveals a story of a nation that remains unready for further European integration.
Well, it is because they're all Nazis in the show, so it's pretty standard for being sus of the Germans and also sus of the French because they're all communists, innit?
Is it terrible that I want England to stay England, and Germany to stay Germany, and France to stay France, and all of these countries to have their own uniqueness to them?
Is that bad?
It's not even that.
Local Professor is unsure as to why the British public don't trust Napoleon or Hitler.
You have to know no history to argue like this.
Schaefer said Britain's uneasy relationship with Europe has often been presented in such works, even if unsaid.
In Fawlty Towers, he wrote, it was deliberately set up as the elephant in the room.
For example, in one episode, which the broadcaster shortly after a yes vote in 1975, European referendum, Basil Fawlty tells his German guests, I didn't vote for it myself, quite honestly, but now that we're in it, I'm determined to make it work.
Did Schaefer get that in Fawlty Towers, Basil Fawlty is often, if not every single time, the butt of the joke?
Yeah, he's being rude there, and that is the comedy.
Yes.
Which is that he's got some Germans and instantly he's just like, well, you are scum, but whatever, we're here now.
No.
No.
Mr. Schaefer over here, I believe, And tell me wrong.
I believe he's a German spy, which is why he doesn't understand any of the jokes.
All right, okay, let's hear your evidence.
I'm sure that you've got an incredibly thorough case for me.
Well, the last line is the thing I think that sells it for me.
And he said, Dad's army portrayed the war as a period of national cooperation, with the characters becoming an exemplar of British character triumphing over European foes.
And he's upset about that.
I assume.
Because why else would you write that?
Why do you think the British would be trying to think over the Europeans?
Because it's the Nazis, mate.
It was the British who were beating them.
It's not the alternate universe where your ancestors did nothing wrong, I presume, Mr Schaefer.
The thing is, if the Germans had won the war...
There would have been shows about how the Germans were the good guys.
Yeah, comedy shows.
Well, maybe.
There would have been shows about... There would have been documentaries.
There would have been very serious and straightforward documentaries about how the Germans were the good guys in every situation.
That's how post-war propaganda works.
I mean, it's just really, really weird.
I don't know why they published this piece of crap.
Like, hello, hello?
Basically, right-wing propaganda.
Who is Kevin Rawlinson who wrote this?
And is it just that he met some random German at a pub?
Well, he met Professor Gavin Schaefer over here.
Called Gavin Schaefer.
Who's like, oh, that's his real name.
Listened to him ramble for a bit.
Squarrow.
Yeah, I could say the word, Squarrow.
Oh my god, I'm on a deadline.
I need a new article.
Hello, raving German nationalists!
Would you tell us about why Brexit happened?
Yeah, it's because they make propaganda about how bad my ancestors' veins of ore, which I'm sorry for their conduct or not.
Anyway, we checked out Schaefer.
Apparently he's a real bloke.
As you can see here, he is apparently.
Yeah, for some reason.
He is also a pronoun- Pronounism was able to get a LinkedIn profile knocked up real quick for this.
He also does seem to be a pronoun user, so, gross.
Oh no, he's a pronoun respector.
Yeah, but let's end this off with the fact that, to be honest, I mean, seeing the funny walk does remind me of why I don't want to be in the Euros.
Don't get me wrong, but there's that.
And I did have one more article from the Guardian, which is I think worse, but it's quite sad.
So I'll save that for another day, because I've had some fun, and I don't want to ruin the fun today.
I think we'll go to the video comments with a smile instead, because that one is the Guardian arguing that women should be able to kill babies.
Oh yes, I saw that one.
Yeah, and we'll leave that for another day!
Should we get a little, just a tiny little hint?
Should we have a sampling here, just the headline?
Women who want to kill their newborns are deeply unwell, so why are they being tried for murder?
It's because they kill babies, Julia!
This is a riddle worthy of a Greek myth.
So there we are.
Credibility.
Overrated.
Because why not just argue that God strath England and also kill your baby and you should get off because you're a woman and therefore mentally ill.
That's actually their argument.
We'll get back into that.
Or just that all women are mentally ill.
Who have babies, yes.
That is the Guardian's position, not mine.
YouTube.
They took a half measure.
They should have taken a full measure.
That's enough of that.
I'm going to end on a smile instead of a what is wrong with you.
Yes, let's.
And move to the video comments.
I can't hear them, John.
Could you pause that for us and get the audio working?
There's a tone that the audience can hear them, because... What?
But I want to know what John said!
He's a nice guy.
Oh, but everything doesn't work in this studio.
That doesn't work.
The aircon's buggered.
That's why I'm so buggered.
I thought it was the magnetism between us.
No, it's on.
It's just... So, what was that?
I'm just taking this moment because... To wine.
How's your back?
Uh, my back's actually fine.
I want the old chair's back, because I want to lay in it, and then it doesn't hurt.
But I have to do this.
Otherwise... You are spiritually 80.
Absolutely.
And also, your back is 80.
Yeah.
John, do we know if we've got the audio problems fixed yet?
Apparently they can't hear it on the stream either.
Oh no, they can hear him.
Oh, they can?
So there we are.
Local Manxman, should we just guess what he said instead?
And just make up our own video comments?
I'm really sorry to hear about that.
Tragedy.
Surely.
Or, great news.
Oh, I can't believe it!
You're the man!
You're the man!
No, I feel- I feel bad, because I genuinely- I feel bad, you know, just watching and then pretending like this.
No, I don't.
I didn't break it.
Yeah, but he pays a subscription to send in videos so that we can respond to them.
Yeah, well, I didn't- I didn't break the set, so... Do you know if you've got the audio fixer checked, John?
Because earlier on, we couldn't hear you through the earpieces either.
Oh yeah, I can hear you a bit now.
This is entertainment.
Sorry to the audience, do you mind if we go back to the Jon video because I do actually want to hear what he had to say.
Could we go back?
Just try it again for us.
What a mess.
Happy Treason Day for you lot across the water.
for us.
What a mess.
Sorry about this.
Happy Treason Day for you lot across the water.
Now we can hear him.
Well, on the 5th though, me and the rest of my three-legged friends over here on the rock will be celebrating Timwald Day, which is our national day. - Thank you.
Back in the 10th century, we decided to set up a government, thanks to the Vikings, and it's lasted to this day, so it's well over a thousand years old now.
How old is your country again?
Okay, now I was able to hear it.
I actually, that's very interesting.
That's really cool.
I need to... It's the Isle of Man, with the lakes, right?
That's the one.
I need to visit there at some point.
I'm sure my dad's been there a number of times and told me it's a really great place to go.
I'm also told that there's a really excellent bookshop there run by, like, an 80-year-old grumpy man.
I couldn't actually hear him, so... You couldn't actually hear him?
Well, he was talking about... I just had to turn up my headphone.
I think he was talking about Manx Independence.
Over a thousand years... You go, man!
Yeah, there you go.
Hello, Deceiters.
It's been a while since I've made a video comment.
I really enjoyed Symposium 18 debating classical liberalism.
So much so that I made a written response called Reclaiming Liberalism from the Cultists.
It's available at xandermiller.com.
If saving classical liberalism is something that interests you, I invite you to come check it out.
Oh, wonderful!
Well, thank you very much for that.
I'm glad you really enjoyed that symposium.
It's certainly enough to be able to write an article in response to, I assume, some of Carl's arguments that he presented in that.
So, yeah, we're always happy to support the people who support us, so if you're interested, go and check out that article on ZanderMiller.com.
What?
Don't laugh at me.
No, I'm laughing because we're about to get cscooper.com.au on.
We are about- we're getting a lot of advertisements thrown at us.
Alright, we're from our sponsor.
Let's play.
How's it going guys?
Just wanted to announce that I'm starring in a production of Animal Farm in my local area.
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Come and see me play Snowball.
There you go, we've got such an active bunch in the Gold tier comments today.
Thank you very much for that.
Today we're going to talk about Yankeedom.
This region was settled by the puritanical rejects of England.
They brought with them the love of English education, counting the first universities of the New World.
These institutions bring them a smug sense of superiority, as well as allow them to colonize the rest of the country with their ideology.
From the Boston Massacre, to Prohibition, to Civil Rights, to Wokeism, their constant need for moral panic fills that god-shaped hole.
Their likes include projection and moral busybodying.
Their dislikes include mention of per capita and the consequences of their action.
Ah, all true.
Definitely true.
Nice to see some shots fired from one American to another.
One of the interesting things that you say about Yankeedom, which is the New England area as I understand it.
One of the things I understand about it is it is one of the most racially homogenous areas Of all of America.
So it's interesting that they're, a lot of the time, the ones pushing it on everybody else, and yet they don't have to deal with any of the consequences of enrichment.
Somewhat like Martha's Vineyard, when Ron DeSantis decided to enrich them, very briefly.
True.
Right, to the comments.
I'm gonna have to throw a big doubt out at that one, but if you had to clarify, then that's pretty, pretty weird.
because it's the same as my wife's.
I'm not married to my sister.
I'm going to have to throw a big doubt out at that one.
If you had to clarify, then that's pretty weird.
So, um...
I don't want to know.
Go on, go on.
No, let's carry on.
So, Paul Neubauer says, well, the Democratic Party is still in existence and it is solely responsible for slavery and discrimination.
They also assassinated the Republican president after the war.
All true.
Sophie Lev says, thing also is, the average person is having a really bad time right now.
Inflation has not stopped.
Job security is very low.
People are driven out of their homes and areas due to crime and violence.
Average people do not have a great time.
And then people have to listen to these uber-privileged, super-rich people who just happen to be black, crying about how oppressed they are.
One thing is feeling guilty when you're doing well.
Another is being told by Oprah Winfrey that you're an oppressor when you've just finished a 30-hour shift on an oil rig and still not making enough money to pay rent.
Have you ever been tempted to go work on an oil rig?
Oh yeah.
Love the idea.
It seems... great.
I can't lie.
That's the real difference between men and women.
A lot of men are just like, that sounds awesome to be honest.
Yeah, well I get to just be in the middle of the ocean subject to the forces of nature for months at a time, somewhat isolated.
I get a bunk to myself.
I'm gonna be ripped by the end of it and you're gonna pay me 78 grand.
Amazing.
Awesome.
You know, if this whole Lotus business ever falls through, that's what I'm doing.
I'm saying sorry, love, to the old fiancé.
I'm saying sorry, love, I'm off to the middle of the ocean for a few months.
So Thane Scotty says three mouses, one cursor.
Best argument against democracy is a five minute mouse wheel battle with the average low seater presenter.
Shall we have a fight?
Go on, go on.
Let's see who wins.
I'm feeling lucky.
No!
I don't know if people can even see this.
I'm just ruining the... Come on!
You know what the worst part about this is?
Oh, Jon's doing it as well!
Not just that, but the sensitivity is Jon's sensitivity.
Almost that.
Jon is a weird man when it comes to his sensitivity.
This is where we hit history.
Yes, yes, yes!
Roll dice, come on.
One.
What?
Well that's... Roll or die?
Boring.
Boring!
Okay.
Can we roll again?
We're both trying to do it!
Do we even have this on screen or are people just looking at us?
What?
What?!
Snake eyes!
Whatever.
Whatever.
Alright, alright.
Brown Von Walk says, when it comes to paying reparations to the black community, oh, this doesn't, we just jump from thing to thing.
It should be noted that there is a news headline titled, California Reparations Task Force Calls for Eliminating Child Support Debt for Black Residents.
All reparations are just one big, never-ending money pit.
Yep.
Yep.
Sounds about right to me.
Well, welfare, mate.
Complete waste of time.
You ever seen that picture?
I must show you it, you'll probably find it hilarious.
There were a lot of, specifically, black Americans who for some reason decided they would go on massive protests because of the space race.
And there's a very funny image of a very fat... That's not where I was expecting that to go.
It was a very fat woman for the time.
For the time!
Okay, so relatively slim these days.
Things have changed, obviously.
But there was a very fat woman for the time, who was a black lady with a child, and she's holding a sign that says, billions for space, pennies for the hungry.
Obviously she's fat.
And she's like, give me money.
Many such cases.
You know what would happen if we gave all of our money to end world hunger?
We'd have to end it the next year.
We would have world hunger again a few months later.
Andrew Narrow, don't get too ahead of yourself there.
Affirmative action was only struck down for public universities.
It's valid elsewhere.
This is an absolutely fair point.
Ross Deagle said, I fixed the BBC title, what a Sheffield woman jailed for being a bit of a dick.
Yep.
Yeah.
What was the other story?
I haven't included it.
Now, call me a bigot if you will, but I saw a story before we began.
There was another police force in question.
Sussex Police have issued out a notice to anyone living in Sussex.
This is a red notice for you.
Police are investigating sexual assault on a teenage boy by two women in Burgess Hill.
Anyway, he awoke to find that he'd been sexually assaulted in the apartment.
The suspects are described by the police.
One had a bright red, believed to be coloured hair, and is 6 foot 3 inches tall.
The other woman has blonde hair and is 5 foot 9 inches tall.
Alright.
These are exceptionally tall women.
On average, women very rarely even hit 5 foot 9.
I just want to point that out there.
If you're looking for some very lanky, suspicious looking ladies, Sussex is the place to find that 6 foot 3 inches tall brunette.
She is known to have a rugged chest of hair.
There's no other description, by the way.
Nothing else is written about these women.
I wonder why.
I feel bad for that poor kid.
It's unusual as well, because women usually don't engage in sexual assault, never mind of teenage boys, but it's usual in men.
In fact, women often just, if they are trying to do such a thing, often have just a difficult time with the practical reality of being able to do such a thing.
They do.
Yeah.
But anyway, there are some women on the loose in Sussex, so keep an eye out for threats to democracy.
Anyway, Thomas Howe, speaking of threats to democracy, says, Are you a threat to the German democracy?
10% of the FD says yes.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Spave, Grave is spinning slowly, marginally.
He's not dead yet.
Let's not talk as if the great Hans-Hermann Hoppe is dead yet, please.
He's in his 70s, but he's not dead.
He's old, so he's...
Let's not be hasty here.
Send it.
No!
I did recently get a copy of Democracy The God That Failed, which for almost £40 was disappointingly low quality because it was printed by Routledge.
Not really printed by them though, because you flip to the back page and it has that classic, classic telltale sign where it says, printed in Great Britain by Amazon.
So you know that you're getting a very, very nice curated edition for yourself.
And it's just a shame, because I don't know what the rights problems are with that book, but Mises Institute can't print it, and I know that if Mises Institute could print it, one, it would be twice as nice as a volume, and probably be about £10 instead of £40.
Very frustrating, but I needed it.
Rights issues, I'd imagine.
The rights to the book are probably owned by Rootledge.
Ironically, given the sorts of libertarian attitudes towards rights and publishing and such.
That's annoying.
But I suppose if you want to get a book out there, you've got to take a deal, don't you?
And it is over 20 years old at this point, that book.
Mr. Duck says the AFD are a threat to democracy and that's why I vote for them.
That would be great on a t-shirt.
Should move to the Conservatives.
Yes, sure.
Arizona Desert Rat says Hunter Biden is not the beneficiary of white privilege, he's the beneficiary of government cronyism.
Exactly, exactly.
And that's why it was frustrating to me to see people try and reframe the leftist narrative.
Except for a conservative aim, because every time, literally every single time that's happened, it never works.
All that you end up with is conservatives becoming more leftist because they think, aha, if we suddenly start to accuse everybody of white privilege, the left will definitely lose this time.
It never works.
Not a single chance.
Then Scotty of Swindon says, We call leftists watermelons, i.e.
green on the outside, red on the inside, when they disguise their radical beliefs in nice, moderate-sounding arguments.
We should call people who claim to be conservative while peddling left-wing rhetoric and arguments trans-leftists.
It superficially sounds like it's using their language supportively, but in actuality is pointing out that despite claiming to be one thing, they're very obviously just pretending, and they're actually striving Very good point.
That's not a bad idea.
No, they weren't.
Very good point, that's not a bad idea.
Ethelstan95 says, I may have been younger, but were major newspapers and corporations this left-wing even 10 to 15 years ago?
Seems to get more pervasive and more extreme every year.
No, they weren't.
In fact, Warren McIntyre often points out that right-wing positions now, or positions that are defended by supposed conservatives now, are actually to the left of Barack Obama's democratic platform that he was putting forward in 2008.
So in 2008 Barack Obama was saying, you know, I support gay people's right to be in relationships and have civil partnerships and such, but I'm not going to support gay marriage, whereas now the average right-winger or average conservative would be fully on board.
With gay marriage and such.
I'm not passing value judgment on that, I'm just saying that that is clearly, in terms of social issues, to the left of where Obama was.
Not that Obama believed in what he was saying, but in terms of the acceptable political rhetoric, it shows how far we've shifted to the left since then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
SuitsTheRedCoat says, the biggest difference between Europeans in Africa and Africans in Europe is that one was a big group of settler colonists and the latter is a bunch of squatter colonists.
Yeah, that's not a bad way of putting it, actually.
What was the effect?
We left them with a higher GDP of a capital, they left us with another one.
We left them with roads, sewage systems, oftentimes nice buildings, functioning governments, and then they destroyed all of those, and then decided, well, we'll go and destroy ours instead as well.
And our leaders, for some reason, decided to just go, welcome one, welcome all.
Anyway, Joan of Arc says I refuse to use the left's terms.
Correct.
Closest I come to is word that will get us banned off of YouTube and Twitter now.
Call Sodomy Sodomy again.
Yes.
Then Scotty of Swindon, again, says it's nothing to do with Islam.
One of the rioters shouted something about the Quran, another shouted God is great in Arabic.
Not to mention, should we take it... I mean, literally, I saw the footage of them all shooting guns into the sky, screaming...
Michael Tracy going, well it's obviously just usual teenage hijinks.
And the funny thing is he capped all of that off with, I would know, I was a teenager once as well and I just thought, what the hell were you getting up to in your teen years?
Me and the boys.
Yeah, me and the boys.
The heading aid workers.
Praising Allah.
Speaking of which, there is actually a beautiful clip of Bold and Bankrupt doing that.
Who?
You know Bold and Bankrupt?
No.
No?
Alright, well... No.
Never mind.
I'll carry on with this comment.
Not to mention, should we take a stab in the dark about which religion these Czechs note North African lads follow?
Jainism, perhaps?
Why do people keep forgetting that there was a left-Islam alliance for the largest time?
Even now there is, i.e. the Labour Party in the UK.
What common factors do the left and Islam share in common?
Direct action perhaps?
Bash the fash?
Rioting when something happens they don't like?
Yes, it is definitely like what I'm talking about with some of the ill-advised right-wing alliances.
It's an alliance of convenience, and a lot of people often talk about the problem with the woke alliance is that it will all fall apart because of the, to sound a bit Hegelian for a moment, the inherent contradictions within it.
You can't have alphabet mafia activists and Islamic activists on the same side for too long because they fundamentally disagree with one another.
But when you're trying to create grievance-mongering narratives, It's a useful temporary alliance, and that's why it's worked for as long as it has, although it does occasionally fall apart in their faces spectacularly.
We've got a few more, but we're running out of time, so let's go to the last comments.
What?
The Unbreakable Litany says, at least the Guardian is willing to admit there is such a thing as English culture now.
Um, no, their argument is that we're all the same and they can't tell the difference.
Or there shouldn't be a difference.
And then, I don't know, Mr. Schaefer Z. Kyles or something presumably.
Um, Ethelstead95 says, not recognising European cultural differences is at least consistent with the leftist's inability to recognise English culture.
I think that's more than we're getting at.
That's a good question, actually.
They probably think they're above us.
Pat says, since they are supposed to be French and British shows, are there any British shows?
Any British and French shows?
Just a thought.
That's a good question, actually.
Probably not.
They kind of hate us.
They probably think they're above us.
Well, no, to be honest, I actually quite respect the French distaste of other cultures interacting with them.
Like the bands on English songs in their radio.
I think they have a few tragic practical examples of why they shouldn't let foreign cultures interact with them going on at the moment.
Yeah, of course, but it's, you know, trying to preserve French culture is utterly noble.
It's a shame it's French culture though.
Do you know the funny thing?
I've been, um, I read through Generative Principles on Political Constitutions by de Maistre again recently And it's funny, because he's French, he's an aristocrat, it's funny how he considers English people, because he's like, listen, you guys, you really suck at philosophy.
Please stop trying to do that.
But, your stubborn little England nature actually saves you a lot of the time, because he's talking about the French Revolution, he's like, the English would never have gone- We had a great idea, but it didn't do anything good.
Yeah, he's like, the English would never have gone with something so stupid just because it sounded smart.
And I respect it, that's kind of the French opinion on us.
This guy says, I'm with Stan Boardman when it comes to krautphobia.
Dem fuckers bombed my granny.
They did indeed.
It's a German plane, people don't know.
Suits the Red Coat says, just listen to the lyrics of the songs.
They got young MJ to record as part of the Jackson 5.
He was abused for sure.
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, he'd even gone on record talking about how his father abused him and some of his other siblings anyway.
There's a song there, but I don't know the tune, so I'm not going to sing it.
Is there?
It's just a tragic story if you ask me.
No, there's a song in one of the comments, not in Jackson 5.
Oh, okay.
Sorry.
Arizona Deserat also says, British triumphing over Germany, isn't that what happened during World War 2?
Unlike most Americans, I know that the Beirut are the ones who stopped... aren't the ones who stopped the Nazi juggernaut.
Yeah.
Or is that meant to be British?
I assume it's meant to be Beirut, it's just... I don't know.
I assume she's meant to have written, I know that the British are the ones who stopped it.
Okay.
Oh, it's not what she was saying, Beirut, because there was a French colony, but whatever.
Michael Migosh says, did the migrants seriously release zoo animals in France?
Yes, they did.
There were some zebras running around the city, which was good fun.
I did see some posting that lions had been released, but that seemed to have been from 2019, 2020, right?
You know how Paris is, every so often they riot and let the animals out.
But yeah, it sounds like there have been actual animals let out this time as well.
You've got to be proper stupid to interact with lions at a zoo, though.
It's a very bad idea.
Did I ever tell you about the Taliban doing it?
Was this second hand or were they people who actually tried it?
So this is a recorded story in the book club we did about the Twin Towers.
When the Taliban took over Afghanistan the first time, they walked into Kabul, found the zoo, and one of them jumped in the lion pit and shouted, I am the lion, and then the lion ate him.
As expected.
So then they tried to, um... As recompense, they decided they wouldn't pick a fight with the lion, they'd pick a fight with the bear, which is right next to it.
And they threw a grenade.
They just want to bully the bear!
Well, we've got to punish something, so... They threw a grenade at the bear and it blew off the bear's nose.
Oh, the poor bear!
What did the bear do?
Well, you know, he was next to the lion, so... They were obviously colluding with one another.
Anyway, we're out of time.
One more, because the website... Don't.
Don't.
Alright.
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