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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #806

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lurks, Cetus, and I'm joined by Carl Benjamin.
	Hello!
	I was on time.
	And Count Dankula, who was not.
	I don't run the trains.
	We all know who runs the trains.
	I don't sleep.
	I slept, and I'm sorry.
	Anyway, no, today we will be talking about Harvard's gay, the last king of Wales, and everyone has weird responses to GTA 6, which I'm incredibly excited about.
	Did you know it's science propaganda?
	You didn't, did you?
	What isn't these days, to be honest?
	The weirdest accusation yet, but we'll save that for later.
	I have one announcement to make, which will be that we are having a Lads Hour afterwards, of course, because we have Dankin, so make use of him.
	Which is that after this will be a short break.
	I don't know, we're going to piss or something, and then we're going to sit and chat shit, which is the purpose of Lads Hour.
	And this episode will be on Remember No Homo, which is us praying the gay away, I suppose.
	They literally wouldn't tell me what this is about.
	Yeah, I just wanted to prank you, though.
	So I don't know what's going to happen.
	Anyway, so do come and find out.
	And we shall begin with Miss Gay.
	So yeah, I take it you guys have been following what's happening at Harvard at the moment?
	I've seen the stuff where they call for genocide and stuff like that.
	They're like, well, it's a bit nuanced.
	Now they care about context.
	The question was, at Harvard, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment?
	I love how it's just bullying and harassment.
	Yeah, not cause the genocide.
	Caroline Gay was like, well, it depends on the context.
	Does it?
	Well, bullying is multiple times.
	But I mean, there's stuffing someone in a locker and then there's exterminating their entire kind, you know?
	There's a bit of a leap.
	For example, no one was sitting there in Auschwitz going, I'm being bullied.
	I want to speak to HR.
	Historically true.
	Point being, there is apparently a context in which a group of people can go to Harvard, call for the death of all the Jews, and not be found in violation of their policies.
	Now, it turns out that's not true, actually.
	If you go and actually look through their handbook, it turns out you can't do that, actually, weirdly enough.
	And so she did apologize for this.
	I'm sorry, she said.
	Sorry for what, exactly?
	Yeah, for amplifying distress and pain.
	What?
	That's it?
	I'm very sorry, says Dr. Claudine Gay.
	Not for trying to defend the Holocaust.
	Do you know who's not sorry?
	No.
	Who?
	The entire board of Harvard.
	Totally serious.
	So I haven't kept up with this story.
	So she she backed down.
	She said, I'm sorry, maybe calling for the extermination of the Jews isn't necessarily OK on Harvard.
	And the Harvard Corporation said, no, no, no.
	When she said it was fine and it was a nuanced discussion that we need to have.
	As members of the Harvard Corporation, we today reaffirm our support for President Gay's continued leadership of Harvard University.
	Heil Hitler.
	I can only assume.
	That's what we're meant to take from Between the Lines, right?
	This is a really long way of saying lol-based LNAO.
	Yes, that is precisely it, right?
	They also mention, a little bit there, with regards to her academic writings, we've become aware of allegations of plagiarism, which we'll cover in a second, but they do say at this tumultuous and difficult time, you started the tumultuous and difficult time, Yeah.
	By just simply saying, no, killing all the Jews isn't okay, actually.
	You couldn't say it!
	You literally would draw it up in front of Congress, like, is killing all the Jews okay?
	And they're like, wow.
	At Harvard?
	But they say we unanimously stand in support of President Gaye.
	So, okay.
	Because at Harvard, we champion open discourse and academic freedom.
	I love how it got treated like when you ask a woman what she wants for dinner.
	It should not take this long to figure out that.
	No, exactly.
	Calling for the extermination of an entire race of peoples.
	Not chill.
	It's actually really easy to answer, even if she doesn't believe it.
	You're still, you've called up in front of Congress.
	You've got everyone, literally millions of people watching.
	You just be like, yeah, okay, that's, that's bad.
	That's bad.
	Yeah.
	I agree.
	That's terrible.
	You know, even if that's how you feel about it, you still do it.
	Yeah.
	But anyway.
	You notice how back in the day in 2016 and whatnot, one of the common things we'd run into was like, you guys only want to, uh, free speech to be racist.
	And then there'd be cartoons of like, don't you know, the Nazis playing about free speech?
	That's what they're using it for.
	But they're literally sitting there going like, well, what about the free discussion to exterminate the Jews?
	Come on.
	Like, unironically, we never actually had that discussion.
	That is unironically what they're doing as well.
	Like, literally, no, no, no, we promote free discourse at Harvard, which is like, okay, come on.
	The thing that I'm really annoyed about is the fact that these are the same people that came after me and, like, overnight they turned into Paul.
	Just, like, overnight.
	Have you seen the amount of stuff?
	Like, Paul are posting all the stuff they're saying and they're here like, the enemy of my enemy.
	It's mental.
	4chan's just like, well how did they get so far ahead of us?
	We're being outdone.
	We've been working on this for years!
	I did actually see some posts where people were like, well no, I don't want to.
	I don't want to be anti-semitic anymore because they came in and ruined it.
	It's like when your parents get into your music.
	It's game cringe now.
	It's like, I don't want to do it.
	So anyway, you'd think after all of this backlash and all of these donors pulling and a massive international incident she'd go, but as you can see, nope.
	She's gonna stay.
	I think her last name has to be Gay.
	I think it's just mimetically perfect.
	Yeah, I mean, it couldn't be anyone else.
	President Gay.
	Dr. Gay here to tell you about how we're gonna kill the Jews.
	I mean, that's just... But also, she's going to remain in charge of Harvard University.
	Homosexuality does often end civilisation, so... That's poetic.
	I just want to be clear, I'm not saying any of this, right?
	But it is incredibly intersexual that the black woman, Dr. Gay, has come here to tell us about why we should kill all the Jews.
	It really is the end of Kimberley Crenshaw's theories.
	It literally is, actually, yes.
	But yeah, 700 faculty members signed a letter to resist calls to remove her from a post, and the Executive Association Committee expressed unanimous support for her, and so she's going to remain after all of this, which is just preposterous.
	I mean, if I had a bingo card, like the president of Harvard being like, maybe we can have a discussion on the Holocaust, whether it was good or not, and not being fired, and everyone at Harvard going, no, no, she can stay.
	Yeah, this is the same place that they de-platformed all of us all the time for saying let's tone immigration down.
	I don't know why I'm saying the wrong things.
	Yeah, but if we went up there and said, from the river to the sea, they'd be like, oh... But anyway, the point being, it's not... I don't like pointing out hypocrisy at the left at this point, because there's just no point.
	Oh, they know.
	They know very well.
	We're just pointing out something they already know.
	It's way beyond that.
	I want you, the viewer, to have it really rubbed in your face, because of course she will cancel other people.
	She will literally go out of her way, two days later, to cancel a Republican.
	Are you kidding me?
	No, I'm not kidding you, right?
	Literally, she's like, oh, well, the free exchange of ideas is the foundation upon which Harvard is built.
	Two days later, right?
	She needs to sign off every statement with that!
	She cancels an event with three lawmakers, two Democrats and one Republican, because the Republican had been mildly critical of her saying, perhaps we can have a conversation about that thing.
	Yeah.
	And so she's like, no, that's gone.
	Unbelievable, isn't it?
	We don't talk to Republicans.
	You don't want the Holocaust.
	I think it's because most Republicans are Zionists.
	Maybe that's why she hates them.
	I really think that's the case.
	The American Republicans are obviously hardcore Zionists.
	She's obviously an anti-Zionist.
	Sorry, like a Labour supporter is an anti-Zionist.
	Somewhat, yeah.
	I'm trying to think of a charitable way of putting it.
	And so, two days later, after being like, yeah, Harvard's all about free expression, but not for you.
	But also, is she a plagiarist?
	Well, Chris Rufo, if we can just get rid of that, please, John?
	Everyone's email, in case you're bored.
	There we go.
	Chris Rufo did a bit of an investigation on her and was like, oh, she seems to have plagiarized somewhat.
	There's three examples of plagiarism.
	From Mein Kampf, maybe.
	Yeah.
	God only knows what she was plagiarizing it from.
	Um, but, uh, and then everyone started looking into it.
	Like, yeah, no, actually she's copied entire paragraphs.
	in her academic writings.
	This is definitely plagiarism, says a social psychologist at Rutgers University, who reviewed 10 side-by-side comparisons provided by The Free Beacon, including paragraphs from her dissertation, which received a prize from Harvard for exceptional merits.
	But well, yeah, you're not going to copy something crap, are you?
	I'm looking forward to the Hbomberguy video on her.
	He's been strangely quiet on this.
	But yeah, I mean, of course it's going to be good.
	I'm not copying something terrible.
	And apparently there was just more that came out and just apparently nearly half her scholarly output, because she's only written 11 papers, but now five of them have been shown to be plagiarized.
	So it's like...
	Okay.
	But it's all race communism at the bottom there as well.
	It is all race communism, that's correct.
	So serial plagiarist gets in charge of Harvard University, is like, we can have a conversation about gas in the dunes, Harvard staff all politely applaud, and that's just it.
	Just shut your face.
	Too bad.
	You've got nothing.
	I don't know.
	We don't care.
	And as you saw from the previous thing, they're like, yeah, we've heard about the plagiarism.
	We don't care.
	They're not going to do anything about this.
	He's also stealing from black authors.
	If you notice the names.
	I didn't.
	It's just like, let me just steal from the black community real quick.
	Possibly.
	But the thing is, right, you might be like, God, this is all pretty bad.
	It's like, isn't it kind of worse that they covered up the fact that they're investigating her for plagiarism as well?
	So like Harvard, okay, there's an investigation going on with plagiarism.
	Right, okay, we'll just hush that up.
	Hush that up.
	No one needs to know that she's being investigated for plagiarism.
	So is there literally anything she can do that will make Harvard reject her at this point?
	I think it'll be finally when she shoots a Jew.
	I don't even know.
	Maybe not even at all.
	You say that, but you know, 2024 is coming and who knows what's on that bingo card.
	But there have been people who have come out and defended her.
	I mean did you know of course that you're a racist?
	Of course you're a racist.
	All the time.
	For what now?
	For questioning her.
	She's a distinguished scholar, a professor with decades of higher service.
	So technically no, she's just copied other people's thoughts.
	Osama Bin Laden was a more distinguished scholar than her.
	The recent attacks on her leadership are nothing more than political theatrics advancing a white supremacist agenda.
	Yes, the white supremacist agenda against plagiarism.
	Yeah, to save the Jewish race.
	And holocausts.
	Average white supremacist agenda.
	Babylon Bee pointed out that she did give an inspiring speech.
	That's good.
	But that's not real, that's just a joke.
	What's not a joke is she then went to a menorah lighting.
	What, to shout we will not replace you?
	I don't know, that must have been so uncomfortable.
	I love the fact that... It is a tiki touch.
	She is shouting Jews will not replace us.
	Oh my god.
	Will Harvard write another letter in support?
	Listen, man.
	I can't say they won't.
	That's the thing.
	Prior to now, I would have been pretty sure that if someone was equivocating on whether you could chant Death to Jews on Harvard campus, I'd be like, no, obviously they're going to get expelled or fired or whatever it is.
	But at this point, she's literally lighting a tiki torch at a menorah lighting.
	I don't know!
	I would have expected that they'd walk up like that bullish MP.
	I didn't believe that when I held it, by the way.
	Oh my God.
	Yeah.
	Broad is a very funny man.
	I was like, shut up.
	No one done that.
	But then they were like, it was in Poland.
	And I was like, ah.
	It was Confederacia, wasn't it?
	And then it turned out it was.
	I was like, okay, yeah.
	Of course it was.
	Anyway, let's, uh, let's leave that there and move on.
	Let's, uh, let's have a chat about the last King of Wales.
	Did you know that Wales is an important place?
	No.
	Not really.
	Wales?
	It is, it is.
	It's actually important due to immigration, right?
	Wales was... Not in English.
	No.
	Wales was the last place in the United Kingdom that had a native ruler.
	Right.
	No, I'm not even joking.
	Mark Drake couldn't be a Welshman.
	Rishi Senek's not a Welshman.
	Well, not an Englishman.
	He's an Englishman.
	Sadiq Khan isn't.
	And of course, your bosom buddy up in Scotland.
	But Mark Drakeford was the last one.
	And now he's resigned.
	And so guess who's in the running?
	Of course it is.
	Why do I even need to ask that now?
	Have you noticed that literally everyone getting elected everywhere is a foreigner?
	Apart from Europe, Europe are doing pretty well.
	It's so bizarre isn't it?
	Like the entire British Isles, including Ireland, have been taken over by the Empire.
	And it's like, okay.
	Are we still here?
	Are we allowed to be here?
	I like the fact that Hamzah's in charge.
	I love it.
	It's his comedy goal.
	All of my staunch SNP, no matter what, friends, the Scottish Nationalists, those ones, it's so funny because they give me, you say all these racist jokes and all that stuff all the time.
	see as soon as a brown man was in charge of Scottish nationalism all of them are like say it Say it!
	Go rally around Humza Yousaf, average Scottish man.
	Oh, I can't wait for the next election.
	We're going to get Labour, so, you know.
	We're going to get Labour too!
	Yeah, death by a thousand cuts, but still, if you want the party to sink, if you want the boat to sink, let the retard take the helm.
	But on the plus side, at least an Englishman will finally be back in charge of England and Scotland.
	Eh?
	Just Alma?
	Yeah.
	Oh, God.
	Anyway, if you want to support us, by the way, go over to shop.loses.com, get this shirt.
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	I have them on.
	So, let's talk about the wokest country in Europe.
	Can I bring something up real quick, though?
	Yes.
	When exactly did you come up, for people who haven't heard it before?
	You had this theory that still bugs me when I try to sleep, which is that England is the last country occupied by the British Empire.
	Yes.
	And as you just said it there, that every nation in the UK, including Ireland next to us, is also occupied by the British Empire.
	It's more and more true every day.
	You've finally had a prediction come true.
	Yes, I've had lots of predictions come true.
	This was the really interesting one.
	Yeah.
	This is the revenge of the Empire on Britain.
	So you get Humza Yousafzai.
	We get Rishi Sanak and Sadiq Khan.
	More the British Raj, to be honest, than anything else.
	And, well, Wales is going to be ruled by Africa.
	So yeah, I pledge my allegiance to Sir Rishi.
	But anyway, Labour has been ruling Wales since they got their devolved parliament, with about a 30% vote share.
	And that's all of Wales.
	About 30% of Wales votes for their devolved parliament.
	And from about that, it's something like 40 or 45% vote Labour.
	So the Welsh Labour Party has about a dozen people that vote them into power and they've been there the whole time and they've turned Wales into Harvard University.
	What, in the calls for extermination sense?
	Or the fact that it's really expensive and everyone's in debt?
	Both.
	So basically, this is just an article by the Telegraph, just saying that, look, Labour has made Wales the most woke country in all of Europe.
	I mean, you remember when the SNP were like, hey, hang on a second, perhaps we need to put male rapists in female prisons.
	Yeah.
	And that may well have destroyed the SNP.
	But Drakeford was like, you know, that's a great idea.
	We need to do that too.
	And despite the fact that, of course, this ruined the SNP, he carried it on.
	And so Labour are carrying on this path.
	Welsh Labour seem to have inhaled deeply the ideology of the trans movement.
	They've got a particular agenda, it's 170 pages long, we're going to look at parts of it in a minute, that's been promoted by the Welsh Government to all schools, claiming that biological sex is not just male and female, and teachers have been told that children as young as seven might be a, quote, mixed-berry gender-fluid muffin.
	Imagine saying that in a Welsh accent.
	I can't do accents.
	While training private landlords in the virtues of anti-racism might not appear on most people's assumptions of politicians' lists of priorities, in Wales that's exactly what is happening.
	And perhaps most sinister of all, guidance is expected to be finalised this month that warns historical statues that glorify quote powerful older able-bodied white men may be offensive to a more diverse modern public.
	Powerful and able-bodied?
	We can't help it if we're fucking amazing.
	Just the old marble carvings of the absolute Adonis body.
	The thing is though, where do we have any statues like that?
	I'm thinking the fat statue of Winston Churchill.
	- It's like, come on. - Pretty much every statue of every notable person is fat. - Exactly.
	Right?
	And so it's just like, really, the immigrants coming over, oh, look at these fat Adonises, who are chatting it up.
	I can't take it.
	Come on.
	- Like in the UK, yeah.
	But what comes to my mind is like the Soviet countries and all their statues are literally Chad Wojaks versus Soy Jack Nazis.
	Every single one of them.
	- Yeah, but the difference is our statues are of real people.
	Yeah, of course.
	Soviet ones are of the hypothetical golden man.
	But that speaks to something though, right?
	Like, why would you build a statue if it wasn't to be powerful and able-bodied?
	Yeah.
	And those, obviously, in all of history, in the wars, let's say, are men.
	Yeah, instead of just a fat guy.
	So, I mean, do they actually want a 400 pounds black woman?
	Well... And to burn that into a statue?
	That's undoubtedly going to be the case because they are going... Maybe it's just cost cutting on bronze.
	Maybe.
	Maybe.
	That's a pound, isn't it?
	But they are going to get rid of the Duke of Wellington and Admiral Nelson.
	Again, Admiral Nelson, saviour of England.
	Like, saviour of Britain.
	Like, they're going to literally tear down these statues.
	Like that statue in Charlottesville.
	And end it up with a mask of Nelson just being like, avenge me.
	Yeah, if they melt down the head of Nelson, I'm furious.
	Actually, I'm... What did Nelson do that was so bad?
	Save Britain?
	Oh yeah, he, say, crushed Napoleon and destroyed the French.
	I mean, they're not bad!
	I know a lot about it.
	There's a member of my staff that is obsessed, and if anybody says anything bad about Nelson, he gets mad.
	Yeah, absolutely!
	And rightly so!
	Nelson was f***ing amazing!
	But anyway, let's have a look at the anti-racist plan for Wales.
	How is this real?
	This is absolutely real.
	What are you looking at?
	Let's look at Mark Drakeford's statement there.
	Right, shall we?
	Tackling racism and promoting race equality have always been important to the Welsh government.
	But over the past few years, prompted by the growing division in society, we've come to realise these issues are more pressing than ever.
	What?
	The American issue has always been important in Wales?
	Yes.
	We want meaningful change to the lives of black, Asian and minority ethnic people in a transparent way that uses their lived experiences and respects their rights as citizens of Wales.
	American wrote this.
	American leftist language.
	Yep.
	You would think so.
	So in this, they have a vision.
	And the vision is a Wales which is anti-racist.
	Among the main themes that emerge, anti-racism was key and so central to this work.
	Other themes included notions of equity, social justice, and celebrating diversity in all forms.
	Contributors felt that they Nah, that'd make me awesome.
	but there is a shared understanding and agreed actions for tackling systemic and institutional racism, i.e. the ways in which racism is and has historically been embedded in the working organizations they encounter.
	The goal should be to create equitable outcomes by which we are united, not divided by our differences.
	We want to work together as white and ethnic minority people to jointly make a different and better Wales.
	No, make males worse.
	Just make it far worse.
	It's not brilliant to start with.
	Yeah, that's okay.
	Have you guys ever seen the film The Garda?
	No.
	It's an Irish film and there's a brilliant sketch in it where a black guy from the FBI comes down because there's a lot of cocaine that they've got to find somewhere in Ireland and the main character is this Irish provincial policeman and he just says, I thought only black lads sold coke.
	He's like, excuse me?
	And they say, you got to stop with your racism.
	And he says, I'm Irish.
	Racism is in my blood.
	And just whenever I hear anything from any of the Celtic world, especially in sort of like a Celtic nationalist context where it's like, oh yes, us Celts have always been concerned with anti-racism.
	It's like, no, your entire history and culture is based on hating the English.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's explicitly, I hate the English and I'm going to be racist towards the English.
	And then to see them turn around and be like, I hate racism.
	It's just like, it's not you anymore.
	It's nothing but ethnocentrism.
	And it always has been with the Celts.
	And okay, fair enough.
	Understandable.
	You know, we've always had the thumb on you.
	But, uh, but then say, yeah, I know.
	All I'm saying is that you had it coming.
	Like this is the vision of Wales, which is anti-racist, the purpose to make meaningful change in the lives of black, Asian and ethnic minority community.
	And then the values.
	Oh, we're going to have lived experiences.
	It's going to be rights based, which is something I'm so sick of hearing.
	And it's going to be open and transparent.
	And so the plan is that by 2030, quote, we believe that by 2030, we should all be seen as Welsh.
	Welsh is an inverted commas.
	We will all be seen as Welsh.
	So like any foreigner that's just came into the country for like two weeks is Welsh?
	By 2030 anyone who steps foot on Welsh soil will be considered Welsh.
	That's called magic dup.
	Literally, they are sat there with the magic dirt theory.
	Yeah.
	And we should be, we should all be seen as Welsh, and the problem of racism, which leaves trauma that affects mental health for years, will no longer be upon our shoulders.
	So by 2030... I know it won't.
	Even if they achieve that, they're still going to hold themselves accountable for all the racism and stuff like that.
	There's no fixing it.
	There is no solution.
	Obviously.
	Yeah.
	By 2030, black, Asian and minority ethnic people and others will have, quote, relinquished the emotional labor of supporting racist behaviors and institutional racism.
	Why are you supporting it?
	I've no idea, but this is the goal by 2030, right?
	This is what Mark Drakeford expected to happen.
	What does that mean, exactly?
	Like, with the black population of Wales donating to the Klan for the last ten years?
	What black population of Wales?
	Well, that one black guy.
	Recognized and ensured that all of our different lived experiences are heard and advocated for, worked collaboratively without competing and speak with one voice, which is working really, really well in the Jewish Muslim community.
	Much, much handshaking there.
	They will have lost the anxiety of waking up to racism as a fact for myself and my children and of carrying the emotional toil that triggers us daily.
	They're even using the 2016 language.
	No one uses that except ironically now.
	I wake up in Cardiff, I'm triggered.
	I go to the north, I'm triggered.
	I go in the valleys, I'm triggered.
	I step out of my house and I see Welsh people and I'm triggered.
	I'm literally the Welsh clumsy.
	I cannot believe there are Welsh people in Wales.
	I know.
	Disgusting.
	How dare they?
	How dare they think they can do that?
	But this is an interesting one.
	A right to ask for and receive a culturally appropriate service.
	Is that right?
	So we're going to invite people from all over the world and they're going to get culturally appropriate services.
	So it's going to have to be in the native language, with the native religion, with native customs, presumably with natives of that place serving them as well?
	So it's just like, literally you want to set up tiny micro-colonies in Wales?
	Bankrupt the government as well.
	It's bonkers!
	We're going to hire someone that needs to speak 50 different languages and we need 30 of them.
	It's like, no, it's not going to happen.
	But the thing is, this is also in contradiction with this next one.
	We want to be in a situation where people no longer get asked, where do you come from, but are accepted for their commitment to Wales and so seen as Welsh.
	It's like, okay, but if you don't speak English or Welsh, people are going to need to know to make sure that you get the culturally sensitive service.
	Like, where did you come from?
	Oh, I'm still not being seen as Welsh, says the guy from Uganda.
	I can't believe it!
	And so you might be like, okay, where did this all come from?
	Well, this came from a consultation.
	A consultation on the Race Equality Action Plan and anti-racist Wales, because that will solve racism.
	If we haven't got Wales, we haven't got anything, boys.
	Right?
	In May 2020, the killing of George Floyd... I just smashed this microphone!
	I'm so bored of hearing it!
	What has the killing of George Floyd got to do with Wales?
	Well, you see, he hated the Welsh, so in his name... George Floyd would never have known what Wales is!
	He would literally be like George W. Bush!
	When some girl was like, he was like, where are you from?
	And she's like, I'm from Wales.
	He's like, what state's that?
	It's like, shut up, George.
	You know, he doesn't know, like, honestly.
	So we, the Welsh government, recognize it's time for urgent action.
	And so, of course, that means getting rid of Winston Churchill.
	Just as George Floyd wanted?
	What are you doing?
	I wish I'd asked George Floyd, do you know who Winston Churchill is?
	So anyway, Mark Drakeford has resigned.
	God only knows why.
	This came as a total surprise to everyone.
	No one actually knows why he's done it.
	He denies that the backlash over the new 20 mile an hour speed limits across Wales had anything to do with it.
	Can you imagine being only 20 miles an hour?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I don't think it was that they did it.
	I think it's just because he's been doing a fucking awful job.
	You would think so, but it had been very, very progressive.
	Did he discover he is Welsh?
	That seems like a bit of a problem.
	Yeah, someone sat him down and said, Mark, we need to have a talk.
	Turns out, you're actually white.
	This can't be.
	It gets my DNA results.
	102% Welsh with a 2% margin of error.
	Presumably he'd had a quick phone call with Humza Yousaf.
	Oh, God.
	First Minister of Wales.
	White!
	But yeah, so he resigned.
	And Humza, a member of a competing party, is the first out to be like, yes, well done, Mark Drakeford.
	You're such a fine fellow.
	Aren't you meant to be oppositional to one another?
	I mean, you're about to get trashed by Labour in Scotland.
	Oh no, they're basically like, yeah, they're opposite parties and stuff like that, but they are part of... They're part of the movement.
	The club.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Yes, they're all part of the movement.
	And, uh, so yeah.
	Humza Yousaf, big fan of Mark Drakeford.
	Keir Starmer, big fan of Mark Drakeford.
	I mean, Mark set a clear standard for public service, always putting himself above others.
	And during his five years... Always putting others before himself?
	You mean always putting fucking foreigners before the natives?
	I did mean that, yeah.
	But also, you know, a kind of decent man who lives his labour values.
	It's like, yeah, OK, well, if what we've seen so far is labour values, I guess maybe.
	So the question is, who's likely to replace Mark?
	Why did they end that with a proud Welshman?
	Yeah, well, Vaughan Geffing is the current Economy Minister, born in Zambia.
	Ah, an economic powerhouse.
	Is he in Wales right now?
	Yes.
	On the ground?
	Well, he's Welsh then.
	Exactly, then he's just as Welsh as anyone else.
	That would really annoy me if I went to visit Wales and as soon as I arrived they were like, you're Welsh now, I'd leave.
	He'd leave immediately.
	I think it's taking big strides not to touch the ground.
	Literally, Florida's Wales.
	Literal government policy.
	But yeah, so there's Vaughan Geffing and there's Jeremy Miles.
	Jeremy Miles is a straight white guy who's from Wales.
	They should lose.
	Yeah, I'm hoping for the full Commonwealth experience for the entire of the British Isles.
	And so I support Vaughan Geffing for First Minister of Wales.
	Let's carry on.
	So I thought we'd talk about GTA 6 as the sort of last thing.
	I don't know if this is... I mean we're going quite fast.
	I just want to be clear though, I actually really don't care about GTA 6 at all.
	I haven't played Grand Theft Auto games since GTA 2.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	You didn't even do 4?
	No.
	The problem is, though, rock stars tell good stories.
	They do.
	I'm sure they do.
	The rock stars' writers are, like, especially Red Dead Redemption 2, their writers are incredible.
	I'm not saying they don't.
	It's just that it's in a sort of category of game that I'm just not that interested in.
	If it doesn't involve, you know, ranks and ranks of men stabbing each other with spears, I'm not really that interested.
	I miss Mount and Blade so much.
	Yeah, man, exactly.
	You know, I'd rather play Rome or Bannerlord or something, you know?
	And so this is literally me being like, piss off, now I'm about to take Athens.
	So I just want to be clear, I don't have a bias for or against GTA at all.
	I don't dislike it, I don't think about it, it's just it's not on my gaming radar.
	I mean how do you guys feel about the GTA series generally?
	You quite like them right?
	I like GTA, I do like it but as I say the thing that I'm worried about with the new one is I like GTA 5 because it was a group of unlikelies who otherwise would never have worked with each other right but you know three completely different people but through circumstance they had to work together comedy ensued right that's why i enjoyed it this one they're doing it with a couple and i'm going to call it now let me guess they'll have a bonnie and clyde very toxic relationship there's going to be a part of the game where they fall out and one of them's in jeopardy
	and you have to make a decision about who you rescue and all that and basically they rescue each other they fall back in love roll credits I'm calling it right now, but I don't think that's going to be anywhere near as interesting as the story of GTA 5.
	Basically a toxic relationship, but let me guess, the woman's a badass, and the guy's a bumbling idiot.
	Yeah.
	Oh god, I'm sick of girlbosses so much, man.
	I hate them.
	So tired.
	Have you ever met one?
	No.
	For the amount of girlbosses that you have, you've never met one?
	Yeah, that's so true actually.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I've had female bosses in previous jobs and they were all just totally... Well, they were all useless and crap and had no idea what they were doing and then you found out they blew another manager and that's how they got the job.
	No, no, no, no, the ones I... I was working in the call centre, friend.
	That's not that common, is it?
	The ones I had were actually okay.
	Like, I don't know, maybe I got weirdly lucky about it.
	I've hated every single female boss I've ever had because basically as soon as women get a little bit of power they turn it into cunts.
	That's not my experience.
	Of course not.
	I became a misogynist through purely ideological reasons.
	So anyway, apparently the second GTA trailer dropped so I thought we'd watch it.
	We can't do this on our own.
	We're gonna need some help.
	I know a guy.
	He's been out of the game for a while.
	His name's Tommy.
	me.
	All right.
	That was the best.
	Hello, residents of Vice City.
	We got more interesting news on the couple hitting every cash register around.
	They're looking for us all over.
	We're going to start, start, see you right out.
	If we want to get out in one piece, we're going to have to be one step ahead of them. .
	The only way we're gonna get through this is by sticking together.
	Being a team.
	Trust?
	Trust.
	The city has changed.
	Underneath it's not all sunshine and rainbow.
	There's so much more.
	There's so much stuff to do out there.
	All you two need is some money.
	And the American dream is yours.
	For however long you have left anyways.
	This is gonna end in one of two ways.
	You and Jason behind bars.
	Or both of you in the ground.
	Whatever happens, you won't make it.
	Do you know why you're here?
	Bad luck, I guess.
	Okay, so what do you guys make of that?
	Just out of interest.
	Looks fine.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	It's a GTA game.
	It doesn't look as exciting as the trailers I remember from Five, like Michael talking about why he moved there.
	But, eh?
	Like, I've got no reason to hate it, it's just like, okay.
	Yeah, I haven't really seen anything that stands out.
	I do think it's quite funny what they did with the trailer, but a lot of the stuff you see in the trailer was actual events.
	Like, the women standing with two hammers.
	I was gonna get to that!
	That's the thing, like, 5 and 4 both did that as well.
	It's a weird difference between the other games I made, Red Dead for example, which again, I think is probably one of the best games I've made, 2 and 1.
	And then the GTA series has always been a reflection of, or at least an attempt of a reflection, of American life, obviously characterized in a comedic way.
	Yes.
	They're going for Florida Man.
	They're celebrating the Florida Man.
	That's the thing I actually like about it, because like GTA 4 was based on New York and was kind of gritty and whatnot, and then 5 was the California vibe where everyone's happy but really everything's going wrong.
	Everyone's got a therapist.
	And then Florida Man, GTA, sounds fine.
	Like, as long as they actually lean into the Florida Man meme.
	Chaotic neutral, essentially.
	Yeah, I could be fine.
	So, the way, like I said, I don't play GTA.
	I didn't play any of them since GTA 2 and, spoiler alert, it was literally just so I could run down the Harry Krishnas.
	That's old school, that's old!
	I do remember that!
	No one else gets that!
	That is old man, Jesus!
	But that's literally, it's top down GTA 2, you won't remember you kids.
	But the point is, I don't play it, so I don't care, right?
	But from what it seemed to me, GTA is kind of a Rorschach test, right?
	As in, what they've done, and literally in this case, they've like, you know, taken viral videos and like, you know,
	yeah pictures of guys and stuff and they're just trying to like just show you what your society is and say look this is what everyone sees from the outside you know so I saw loads of people like oh look at all the black people and it's like yeah there are loads of black people man what about it yeah but look at them twerking okay yeah look at them they do that I think it's more like there are a lot of Cubans in Florida there are like so I'm surprised everyone was complaining about like the black people but the people that were complaining about that were Cubans they were like you realise
	We make up like most of the fucking population here, right?
	Most of Florida is us.
	But it is also a great way to actually see how the world sees America.
	Like whenever a new GTA game comes out, there is actually a proper like era shift between, like GTA 4 is a completely different world to this one for example.
	Like it was not a clown show, it was just a bit weird and rich.
	Yes.
	It was a much more serious game, GTA 4.
	But this feels like actually a relatively comprehensive representation of what I, as an outsider, view from the cities in America.
	You go to other places in America, of course, it's not like this.
	You go to Florida, okay, you probably do see a lot of this sort of stuff, in Miami in particular, right?
	And so, speaking of the outsiders, it was made in Edinburgh.
	Which I think is interesting.
	Yeah.
	By Rockstar North.
	Here's a picture of the women of Rockstar North.
	A lot of funny hair colours on there, isn't there?
	Just a lot of women.
	Is it worse in Scotland or not?
	Hmm?
	The number of women with like blue and purple hair for no reason.
	It depends, it's a case of like, most youngsters are the ones that screech the loudest.
	Everybody thinks Scotland's massively left-wing.
	It's not as loud.
	Basically, if you go on rscotland, that's not a representation of Scotland.
	Like, at all.
	Like, the average person on the street is basically a centre-right.
	So what about Edinburgh then?
	Edinburgh?
	Oh no, Edinburgh is our California.
	Everybody in Scotland hates Edinburgh.
	I give you Craigie like he, you ken.
	Nobody likes him.
	Everybody hates him.
	Technically not.
	That's the way they talk.
	They're foreigners essentially.
	Edinburgh is our California.
	No one likes them.
	Yeah, so you can imagine how excited everyone is that this is being made in Edinburgh about America.
	But they could do it well.
	I'm not saying they won't do it well.
	Like, the game looks beautiful.
	There's no getting around it.
	It looks gorgeous.
	And it looks like it might be an accurate representation of the viral videos that come out of California and Miami and stuff.
	One thing that you found that was interesting is that GTA being subsidized, Rockstar North being subsidized by the British government.
	Yeah, they're basically thieves.
	Because we literally, the UK taxpayer, gave them 42 million pounds to make video games.
	World's most successful video game company gets subsidized by government.
	Whilst paying zero corporation tax.
	Ever.
	It's amazing.
	I like it when people don't pay tax.
	However the fact that they get paid.
	Yeah, they get my taxes though!
	Couldn't you at least, like as a donation, just give every member of the British public a free copy of GTA 6?
	Essentially the reason Red Dead and GTA 5 came out was because it was being bankrolled by the government.
	These people are getting your taxes, Dank.
	We paid for GTA 5.
	These people, look at the hair colours, they're getting your tax money from the UK government.
	Red Dead 2 is banging though.
	Sure it is!
	It's really good.
	Of all government spending, you are right, you could do a lot more.
	But I would just give them money for Red Dead 2, which I did.
	So why do they need my tax money?
	They make stupid sales every time they launch a game.
	I know.
	So I don't know why did they have to give out... Basically, just Russians buying shark cards alone could prop that company up for 20 years.
	Right, so I don't know why they had to get subsidized for it.
	I mean, they literally sell billions and billions of dollars worth of You've brought up something, if to actually just have a video game opinion for a minute.
	The only worry I actually do have about the new GTA is whether or not they've taken the wrong lesson from the GTA Online experience, which is they made s**t on the money off 5.
	And then they did GTA Online, And the money is mental.
	They're going to go ham on that.
	That's what I'm worried about.
	See the sheer amount of money that they made from Russians buying shark cards, which the shark cards are the little things you buy in GTA Online.
	You pay real money for a shark card and then you get in-game money.
	So you pay real money for fake money in the game.
	It's literally a license for money!
	Exactly, but see the problem is you could either, you know, if you want a new card, you could either grind 12 hours a day on the game.
	Yeah, or just buy the...
	Or just buy a quick shortcut, and that's what everybody did.
	So they made stupid bucks from that.
	So they're going to go ham on it again.
	So they need 42 million of your tax money.
	So just like Call of Duty, I'm worried that the story side of GTA will just be binned, give it to the B team, and the online stuff will be where all the focus is, and then the game will become crap over time.
	That's what my actual gamer opinion is.
	Entirely possible.
	I'm not going to play GTA 6 probably, so I don't care.
	But anyway, so this, I think, all dovetails with something that I've been working on, which is the concept of representation.
	There's a book club I did on Hannah Pitkin, who's a philosopher.
	This is pretty much the only philosophical exploration of the concept of representation.
	So go to the website, watch this, about two hours long, and be talking about what representation actually means.
	And to summarize it in like a sentence, representation is the act of making present something that is otherwise absent, right?
	And this matters because I think this is where the Rorschach test comes in.
	So something you perceive, something that's been made that is absent to be made present.
	And the thing that you notice is the reflection of yourself as in, Oh, I saw, um, well, a bunch of black people.
	And therefore I'm bothered about the way the blacks act in America.
	And therefore this is the thing that I pay attention to.
	I mean, this champs points out like, well, if I were black, I'm like, really?
	That's what people view in our community?
	Well, it is on video.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, there were women doing that to the police in Florida during the BLM riots.
	Yeah.
	And the police just kind of looked and went, all right.
	Yeah.
	So that's one representation that people have.
	Let me talk about how ugly that bikini is real quick.
	Just like that top middle.
	If we have to.
	Just a pet peeve.
	Look at that.
	Awful.
	Anyway, carry on.
	Yes.
	Oh yeah, right.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So that bikini's a problem, but this guy's jacket.
	That's totally fine.
	Yeah, well I expect that.
	That looks like an oil spill.
	You know when you get oil on the top of a car?
	But like, he's clearly mental.
	She's a woman who's trying to... That's fine.
	I just kind of really want that guy to just suddenly slam on the brakes really hard.
	It just goes flying.
	So that's one aspect of representation.
	And then you've got another aspect, which is Tim Pool being like, I don't really want to play girl, which honestly at this point is fair enough, right?
	But here's my thing.
	When I play GTA, okay, you are running around punching and beating people and shooting people and stealing cars.
	Yeah.
	You know, personally, I don't want to play a female character.
	It's not... I don't know if it really matters, but it's kind of weird in my mind.
	You know, you can tell me that I'm wrong or something.
	I don't know, it's just how I feel.
	Like, this lady's gonna run up to a random guy in the street and punch him, and he's gonna go down?
	Nah, come on.
	Yo, if your average woman ran up to your average guy and swung a fist at him, it's not gonna hurt him.
	I mean, it may hurt a little bit, but it's not gonna, like, put him down.
	And then, so my point was, like, Okay, so you play as this character, you run up and punch a random guy, and then he just clocks you in the face one time, you go down, WASTED.
	You lose all your HP instantly, and then you wake up outside the hospital.
	That would be hilarious if they did that.
	If you were just a woman, you'd just get battled all the time.
	You'd just get 60% punching.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You'd just have to rely on guns.
	I mean, as good as that would be, I mean, this person who hates the import is kind of right where it's like, I don't care.
	Like, I want to play video game.
	I mean, I can empathize with Tim here.
	Like, I actually... One of the things that pussed me off of this... I don't care what, like, woman's struggle is a bank robber or whatever.
	Yeah, but if I wanted hyper-realism, I'd play Arma.
	Well yeah, I just... It sort of depends.
	For example, I don't really care about playing a female character in a game.
	If I've got a choice, I'll play a male, unless it's quite intrinsic to the story.
	Like Alien Isolation, where you played Amanda Ripley.
	Sure.
	The Alien series doesn't work with a male protagonist, if you ask me.
	It just doesn't.
	Oh, I'm so scared!
	Oh no, that's the thing, that's what makes it real.
	Because they don't go into situations like, hoorah, throughout the entire thing.
	Even her mum, throughout all the movies, she was shitting herself the entire time.
	I was like, that's real.
	That's a real reaction.
	But anyway, I agree with Tim on this one.
	I personally don't want to play as, like, some woman in GTA.
	That does nothing for me, doesn't interest me at all.
	People hold the door open for you before you shut up the building.
	That would actually be a hilarious mechanic.
	you go into the hospital, kill everyone in the waiting room, walk out, and the police are like, out of the way, man, we got to get this guy.
	But then you start getting some really weird responses.
	Now, like, Elon's, like, response to this was like, I tried GTA V, but I didn't like doing Cry.
	What did you think the game was?
	GTA V required shooting police officers in the opening scene I just couldn't do it.
	And I'm like, man, every game I play, I'm basically a murder hobo.
	Yeah.
	I'm just, like, every single game I play, it's just like, right, everyone in front of me has to die.
	and I have to take this stuff.
	That's that's going back to the 90s and Jack Thompson.
	Yeah right.
	These games are murder simulators.
	Yes they are that's why I play them.
	Yeah but that's the thing it's like oh it's awful that I had to shoot police off.
	It's a video game.
	I'm literally playing Battlelord running through villages slaughtering everything on purpose.
	Oh I've done disgraceful stuff in Battlelord.
	Like, you know, it's Rome 2 and I've taken a city.
	Great.
	Okay.
	Exterminate!
	Those are not rising?
	Yeah, exactly!
	More for them, you know?
	Yeah.
	Like, killing things is literally why I play video games, because obviously I don't go around killing things in real life.
	That's actually why I do them.
	So there was a, like, there was a weird sort of virtue signaling aspect of this.
	And like, Ian Miles-Strong underneath, it's like, you know, I, I, shooting cops in Cyberpunk 2077 is completely optional.
	I don't care.
	It's fantasy nonsense.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Don't do it in real life, that's awful.
	I'll try not to.
	It's a video game, it's pixels.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's the point.
	I just can't imagine this being applied to any other game, because I think there are probably things that are grosser, like Crusader Kings 2.
	There's a lot of incest.
	If you want to, but nobody's doing that unless they're just min-maxing.
	I mean, have you ever read, like, the... there's a comment... I really... I really... I was so angry.
	I worked so hard.
	Norwegians captured my son.
	I got fucking typhus or some shit.
	And I died and it was, like, game over.
	I was furious.
	I was so angry.
	Listen, man, I just really need a claim to Britney, okay?
	I just really need it.
	I don't want to do it.
	But that's the thing, like... Look, I know she's your cousin, right?
	But we need a du jour.
	Have you ever read, there's like a list of questions and answers on Crusader Kings 2 forums, and just some of them are like, so how do I get the Pope to be gay?
	Yeah.
	Because I just need a crusade, bro.
	Yeah.
	Just help me out, bro.
	Yeah.
	And then it goes through, you know, how many of my kids should I kill?
	Yeah.
	Which cousin should I have sex with?
	How many times?
	It's a game.
	Yeah.
	No one's actually doing any of this.
	Yes.
	Well, in the past they were doing a lot.
	The Pope is gay, actually, yes.
	But the point is, it's just meant to be a whimsical fantasy.
	Yeah.
	But then you've got some really bizarre things, like Andrew Tate being like, crime, not on my watch.
	Maybe this is part of his legal defense.
	Go out there, give some statements.
	I was surprised by my loyalty to GTA.
	And that's the thing, I like all of these people.
	And so it's like, what are these weird responses?
	So I'm not a fan of anyone under the age of 18.
	I'm playing a video game with the goal to shoot police officers.
	We're going back to the 90s again where that part of the right is coming back and I don't like it.
	Next we're going to go to rap music about guns and zannies and stuff like that.
	I don't think it's coming back though because even on the face of it right now it's so cringe.
	It's just weird.
	I do like that the vast majority of the right are like shut up.
	Shut up it's a fucking video game.
	Don't you run a digital whorehouse?
	I've not got any problems.
	Allegedly.
	Allegedly.
	I don't dislike any of these people.
	These are just really weird takes.
	And then you've got like Nick Fuentes going, yeah, but I mean, you know.
	The right is going too far.
	We should ease it on the black people, which is like, okay.
	Oh no, his response here is actually him angry at the right response to GTA, where he's like, why are you guys so obsessed with black people?
	It's not a problem.
	Yeah.
	It's like, Nick Fuentes.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Nick Fuentes, don't go so hard on the black people.
	Being like, oh hey guys, call it with the racism, huh?
	It's just really weird what this game is doing to everyone.
	And then you've got really sane people like this guy, who's like, right, okay, yep.
	I've seen this guy about... Such a meme.
	I was offered to be in GTA 6, sure you were, bro.
	I can't speak much to it, but like you, I was disgusted by the level of degenerate filth in the trailer.
	Yeah, it's a reflection of your country.
	So I told Rockstar to F off in a world played by only fans of porn.
	I pray that Rockstar Games finds God and bans GTA 6.
	Hey, I'm sure Rockstar will be the one who banned their own game.
	There's only a few billion dollars on the table.
	I'm sure they'll be like, you know what?
	Jesus is right.
	So this dude is like a proper, I don't know, lunatic?
	Yeah, because he thinks it's also Zionist propaganda.
	I need to see the reach.
	How do you get from GTA 6 to pro-Zionism?
	You eat Jaffa Cakes.
	Is there a line?
	Does he talk about the process?
	If you eat Jaffa Cakes, you're buying nukes for Israel.
	I do like Jaffa Cakes.
	Right, he's buying nukes for Israel.
	There is no line of thought.
	takes to it.
	Right, it's bio-dukes for Israel.
	But there is no line of thought.
	It's just GTA 6 is haram Zionist propaganda, says the average Christian man.
	And... I don't get it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I don't get it.
	It's purely the Rorschach test.
	You find represented in this thing, the thing that you are constantly obsessed about.
	Weirdly.
	And of course, if you stand with Palestine... If you stand with Palestine, bad GTA!
	I love all of these have got community notes.
	What are you talking about?
	What do you think is going to happen when GTA gets banned in all of Israel?
	Fuck!
	And then leaves?
	What's going to happen?
	Netanyahu comes out.
	I dare to inform you that we've lost Rockstar North.
	It's over.
	Sneeko, GTA 6 is Zionist propaganda.
	I want it in all homes.
	What are you talking about, bro?
	And I'm still going to play it.
	I don't think that meant a meme, that's funny.
	That's no funny, I don't think he really meant that.
	Our titty's Zionist propaganda.
	I fucking love tits, man.
	I'm just going to be honest, I'm pro-Israel if that's the case.
	I'm just going to come out and say it.
	I'm pro-Abby, all the way.
	Swear to God, man.
	See if I ever meet Abby Shapiro, I'm going to go, I actually think it was seven million.
	I will.
	The white man's a weakness to Abby Shapiro.
	Do you know this is why Ben Shapiro refuses to talk to me?
	Because of all the comments I've made about your sister.
	I can understand why.
	Um, but yeah, so anyway, apparently this, this goes on.
	So of all things, uh, it seems that it is in fact, Zionist propaganda.
	Um, so yeah.
	There's a big conspiracy, but if you click on that second image there, there's like a warning that look, that's one of the necklaces in the game.
	That's Zionism right there.
	Oh, right.
	Okay.
	I don't believe it.
	Honestly, Rockstar should do GTA Israel next.
	That would be the funniest thing.
	Yeah.
	A lot of games need Israel.
	Crossing the Gaza Strip.
	Yeah.
	Total War.
	Well, Total War Israel!
	Yeah, we went over it the other day.
	Oh, Total War Assyria would be pretty good.
	It's just modern day Israel.
	The Total War.
	Maybe Crusader Kings as well.
	But anyway, getting back to it.
	I don't know if you can click through this.
	There's some more images for people who might want to play GTA Israel.
	What is this?
	For some reason, there's a bunch of people who started modding San Andreas.
	Well, how is it that GTA is doing it if it's mods?
	Yeah.
	Trust me, bro.
	The Jews, they controlled my mind.
	They got in there.
	If it's people modding it, then it's not Rockstar that did it.
	CJ was actually a Muslim man who was, uh, I don't know, converted?
	Yeah.
	But, uh, but anyway, so that's, um, that's that.
	GTA is, um, apparently many things, but I'm still not going to play it.
	Do we have video comments today?
	Let's go to them!
	I call this mech here Marduk because it embodies the ideals of that Mesopotamian god.
	Mainly, pay attention to the world around you.
	To make economically viable mechs, they gotta be cheap and simple.
	Casting off one's preconceived notions of what should be and focusing on what is, this is not a strong point of progressives.
	That is why they always run into failure when their ideas are taken to their logical conclusion.
	With that in mind, hopefully my mech development plan now makes a bit more sense.
	Early days for the realistic dreadnought project.
	What is this?
	It's a little orc.
	What?
	We have an orc as a subscriber, and he's trying to put some stuff together to make a mech.
	I support that.
	No, I'm in.
	Definitely.
	Definitely.
	Go to the next one.
	It did look a little bit like a dreadnought.
	Right, you little fannies have got some fuckin' explainin' to do.
	Language!
	Shut it, Merlin, you poofter.
	Sorry.
	Why are there invaders running around our border like coked-up chickens at a barnyard rave?
	We tried to stop them, but there are simply too many.
	And more are coming.
	We ask you to help us stop the incoming tide of invaders before our land is consumed by them and the lands of the Huwite people are next.
	I'm afraid it might already be too late.
	One of the invaders, Humza, the whiny, has already usurped the throne of the Huwite people, gaining their trust by promising them independence from the scourge of the South.
	What if we helped you reclaim the throne of the North?
	Deal.
	Okay?
	I love how we have- What the fuck was that?
	Every guest we have, we have to explain every video commenter at this point.
	We have a parallel universe that's been AI generated by one of the subscribers.
	I see.
	And every day he just, he just makes more chapters.
	Right, okay.
	Fair enough.
	Smash.
	Go, next one.
	Hello, this message is for Count Dankula.
	My wife and I are big fans and we never miss a video.
	Absolute Mad Lads is a great series and it's great to see you on Lotus Eaters.
	Anyway, on behalf of your American fanbase, I'll close out on two points.
	The first is that there is nothing wrong with the food in the UK.
	I don't know what all the fuss and what all this bickering is about.
	However, the metric system could burn in hell.
	Merry Christmas.
	What I love about the Americans is they don't realize that we've got a very, very strange relationship to the metric system.
	Yeah.
	They're like, how many pounds do you add?
	I don't know.
	How many is that in stones?
	They're like, what?
	I know.
	We measure horses in hands.
	Shut up.
	Shut up!
	And they're like, yeah, but can we just berate you on the metric system?
	It's like, I have no idea what you're talking about.
	This is exactly three burgers long.
	A bit of consistency between them.
	My favourite ones are when they think we use something and then we just don't.
	So when it comes to, like, kilometres an hour and they're like, I don't know what that is in kilometres an hour.
	And I'm like, no, we use miles.
	What the fuck is a kilometre?
	Sounds like French nonsense to me.
	I'll have a pint.
	Let's go to the next one.
	As you guys are talking about the Mystery Grove and banned books, I would just like to give a shout-out to the NotNormy channel, too.
	It's a channel on YouTube that makes audiobooks for out-of-publication texts, you know, like the old Solzhenitsyn books that never made it to America, and a whole bunch of other, literally hundreds.
	The problem is he's kind of hard to find on YouTube because the algorithm doesn't really favor him, so you kind of have to look him up directly.
	Give him a sub and a shout-out if you can.
	There we are.
	Sponsored by NotNormieChannel2.
	The most attractive and well-thought-through channel name of all time.
	God, I love YouTube.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So here's another gem from my 4chan folder.
	I really want to get back on 4chan and look for the good stuff, but man, is it hard to just wade through the crap.
	But this is a good example of how Wokeness is a Marxist faith and how it has its spiritual tenets, because you have to believe this person is what they say they are.
	And if you don't, you're a heretic.
	Unrelated.
	Looking forward to Ladzour!
	All right, let's go to the next one.
	So on this episode of Cyberpunk Dystopia, Thoughts have figured out how to train AI bots using their entire catalogue of smut to make ethically trained AI Thoughts on the internet, who basically be taking over their entire operation.
	I wasn't expecting this innovation any time soon, but well, here we are.
	Oh, what the hell is going on?
	Oh, that's good news.
	Yeah.
	One, one advantage of AI is it's literally going to put all the thoughts out of work.
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	Did you see the one the other day where it's, um, it was in the papers where it's this one that's generating like 20K a month of simps, totally fake.
	And it's like, okay, A, you f***ing idiots.
	What are you doing?
	You know, but B, well done.
	Carry on.
	Capitalism.
	But just, you know, there are women on OnlyFans mauling because they've got three subscribers.
	So you can say, computers will replace women.
	Yeah.
	People don't talk about the pyramid enough.
	I think it was Blaire White talking about it on some talk show.
	And she mentioned that the average woman on OnlyFans actually makes like $250 a year.
	To be in the top 1% of earners, you're earning, I think it's like $7,000 a year on OnlyFans.
	The number of women who are engaging in that and then getting nothing from it except, you know, ruining their lives.
	For literally zero?
	Like that's what you've got to try and destroy, I think.
	Getting kicked off the local school board.
	So having a bunch of AIs do it.
	I mean, at least that'll, you know, incentivize women to be like, no, I can't compete.
	And then don't bother.
	Otherwise, apparently we have a video comment that's too spicy, so we have to hold up Lads R. So... Alright, okay.
	Back with that one.
	Otherwise, let's go to the written ones on the site.
	George says, I do miss that time.
	I do miss it as well.
	Bumped into Farah GFW, by the way.
	You want to tell people?
	No.
	Let's just say he remembers me.
	So pleased to see you, yeah.
	do miss it as well.
	Bumped into Farage yesterday, by the way.
	You want to tell people?
	No.
	Let's just say he remembers me.
	So pleased to see you, yeah.
	No, he wasn't.
	Sam says, I see the British Transport Services as reliable as ever.
	Yes.
	Allegedly.
	Dan says, straight off the bat, Dank is brilliant and hilarious.
	30 minutes off the bat anyway.
	Very kind of you.
	Sean says, I would be fine, even potentially happy if the university would be willing to defend the absolute extents of free speech under the law.
	They absolutely are not defending free speech and only defending their preferred groups.
	Yes.
	Distolerance.
	What?
	What?
	Literal camp operators.
	Yeah.
	Well, on one side you've got you and on the other side you have black Nazi woman and she gets defended and you get expelled.
	This tolerance will not be extended to any other group, and they will punish and seek legal action against people expressing much more tepid views that they don't agree with.
	And maybe this will actually get them saddled with being forced to support free speech for all of this.
	This could end up working out well.
	It's not going to.
	It's literally not going to.
	Nothing's going to happen to it.
	Because she's literally at the top of the progressive stack.
	I bet she's- I mean, if you can literally go up there and say kill Jews and nothing happens to you like that, you're immune to anything.
	Yeah, exactly.
	What more is there?
	Yeah.
	How much higher does it go?
	Lewis Madonna says, um, the daily storm at a Harvard pipeline, not how I thought the year would end up.
	Again, what's Andrew Anglin going to say next?
	He's like, cause he made his bones being like the outside edgy.
	I'm going to say the worst thing.
	And then it's like the guy from Harvard, the woman from Harvard is above him.
	He'll be on the board at Harvard.
	He's a, he's a white man.
	He's not going to get anywhere.
	And she's getting like 200K a year.
	Sorry, Andrew.
	JJ SW says, thanks pug for Harvard president.
	Possibly.
	HR Slave says, the worst part about being an anti-Semite in 2023 is people assume you're pro-Palestine.
	You didn't read that before you read it out, did you?
	On an unrelated note, I'm definitely not pro-Palestine.
	Chad Koala says Mel Gibson must be absolutely spewing watching people spout genocidal levels of antisemitism and having major institutions publicly defending them.
	Yeah, it's weird that Kanye West was literally like two months ahead of the curve.
	No, see if Kanye just waited.
	Yeah.
	See if he just waited.
	He would be so totally normal.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	If I'd just waited, it would have been fine.
	Is he back on Twitter yet or not?
	Apparently he tweeted something.
	What about Miss Gay?
	No, no, no.
	Jess is a black KKK member as well.
	I mean, I've seen him.
	It looks like it's black, so it looks like an executioner's hood.
	It's a black KKK guy.
	But, perhaps Caroline Gay will be like, I'm listening.
	Honorary doctorate, perhaps?
	Yeah.
	Omar says, all I'm going to say is the phrase, to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you cannot criticize, is taking some interesting turns lately.
	Well, it's another thing, isn't it?
	It's sort of like the white nationalist, sort of like, oh, Jews rule everything, you can't criticise them.
	It's like, well, what now?
	I'll admit, for a while, see, after everything that's happening recently, I'm like, holy shit, were we wrong, boys?
	Because I don't know, have you seen outside?
	They're getting fucked up.
	I don't think they are in charge because they're losing.
	If the President of the Harvard kids are like, no, I don't care, it didn't happen, I'm not going to apologise.
	Well, who is it then?
	Who's above this?
	Just walking out there like, don't happen.
	250,000 at this.
	I'm off to a menorah license.
	Sam Hyde just... What do you say?
	I don't even know, man.
	I don't even know.
	Someone online says, I'll say it again, if the context is Jews are lower on the progressive stack than these people, and everyone lower on the progressive stack, then you need to die.
	Justin says, Harvard stance would make sense if they meant it in a true free speech stance.
	However, looking at the record, of course they don't.
	Yeah.
	So it's very telling.
	They won't ban this.
	There's some devil's advocate.
	Maybe they don't support it, but they're more afraid of the vests of peace than a reputational hit.
	I mean, I don't think vests of peace have come anywhere near the conversation.
	Who?
	Suicide bombs.
	Oh.
	Oh.
	The French Pug 6 says, notice that it depends on the context only when it suits him.
	Yes, okay.
	Omar says, no bad shitposts, only bad targets.
	Any chance Buddha graduated from Harvard?
	If you phrased it right, then accept his thesis on the 14 woofs.
	The Crusader says, this is the revenge of the Empire on Britain.
	Yeah, revenge for bringing the modern farming methods, long-term storage, order and civilization, the ability to actually manage large areas with a small number of people, sanitation.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	All of those things are white supremacy.
	We've been reliably informed.
	Uh, these people want to live in turd world, squalor and filth, and they're dragging us down to their level.
	We should never have bothered.
	Um, that's become very evident.
	Uh, Nelson wasn't able-bodied.
	He had one arm and one eye, for fuck's sake.
	That's a great point.
	I didn't even think about it.
	Nelson was disabled because he got his arm shot off and his eye shot out.
	But he wasn't neurodivergent.
	But he was also a straight white man and he kept winning.
	Nelson had the cousin?
	No, I'm saying he wasn't.
	He wasn't, right?
	I was about to go like, that giant naval battle makes so much fucking sense.
	He probably did have autism though, to be honest.
	Ru The Day says, what on God's green earth is this timeline even?
	I don't know, to be honest.
	Again, things have gone so far off of what I expected to actually happen.
	People are like, what do you think is going to happen in 2014?
	I'm like, mate, have you seen what's happened this year?
	I don't know.
	You said this last year and the year before.
	Things have gotten progressively sillier since 2014 onwards.
	Everything's just gotten madder.
	The same people that were all coming after us in 2016 are now in Harvard going like that, kill them.
	We're all sitting at the side just kind of like, what the fuck?
	How are we the fucking Nazis?
	I loved it when we used to be edgy.
	We used to be edgy.
	We're now the ones like, calm the fuck down.
	But where is there to go?
	What could you even do if you wanted to outdo Harvard?
	Do I need to just start being unironic?
	Is that how you're making it?
	They're being unironic, that's the thing.
	Oh, that's what I meant, that's what I meant.
	That's the thing, I'm just not that edgy, I guess.
	I didn't go to Harvard or anything.
	Paddy says... God, that's going to have a whole new meaning now.
	Don't you know I went to Harvard?
	All right, Henry, calm down.
	A lot of wooden doors in Harvard.
	I have something to tell you later.
	Paddy says, equality in Wales is giving equal bumming rights to the black sheep.
	JJCW says, in Wales sheep is a sexuality.
	Pronouns bar, bar.
	But the thing is, technically that may well be true given the new lived experience paradigm of Wales.
	So, that might be the case.
	Sophie says, do these people realize that the Welsh are actually the true minority of Britain?
	There are more Muslims than Welshmen in Britain now, so you're the minority.
	Yeah, that's true.
	There are more Pakistanis than Welshmen in Britain at this point.
	Probably more than Scotland as well.
	No, there's something like 8 million Scots and 3 million Welsh.
	There's actually only 6 million.
	Oh, are there?
	Yeah.
	Sounds a bit hard.
	Is it not 5.4?
	I don't care!
	It doesn't help to take your place if everybody fucking knows each other, right?
	I knew this was going to happen.
	I knew it was going to happen.
	Am I a Scottish population denier?
	Maybe.
	You see that tweet that was about, like, about, imagine you came across a Holocaust, um, surprisism.
	Oh yeah.
	You've never heard it before.
	You're like, what?
	That's, that's mental!
	That many?
	Why is this the first I'm hearing of it?
	But the thing is, they've actually done polls, haven't they?
	Well, like half the Zoomers in America have never heard of the Holocaust.
	Yeah.
	No, it was apparently, and it was something like 30 something percent of them were like, something funny went on.
	And all that, man, you know.
	That's just what the government wants you to think.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Strange.
	We are in strange times.
	I don't know what's happening.
	I don't know what's going on.
	And that's why everyone's like, oh, what do you think's going to happen?
	Man, I'm not predicting anything.
	Because whatever I predict is just not going to be silly enough.
	It's not going to be ridiculous.
	Things will get worse.
	That's a prediction you can count on.
	You did hit on one there, though, which is that how long do you think it will be before BCRT is a protected relationship?
	Oh, no, they do.
	But not because of the alphabet movement, but because of the, you know, The other guys.
	The consequences of that movement.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	I know that all the fucking nonces have been trying to co-op that for ages.
	And I think that's like the end destination because I think all the politicians are like, we're sick of hiding it.
	We want to be accepted.
	We want to be cool.
	I believe that's why.
	But the bestiality people?
	Fuck knows.
	Yeah.
	Fuck knows.
	There's plenty of them online.
	You see all those cheese pizzas JPEGs that we're getting?
	Oh my god.
	All that.
	On Etsy or something, there were people selling images of pizzas for like $35,000.
	I buy pizza.
	But literally, it's a picture of a pizza.
	Right, right.
	And it's like 10 sold.
	10 people have brought $30,000 pictures of pizza, have they?
	Yeah.
	And the thing is, as soon as people started posting it on Twitter, it disappeared like that.
	It's like, oh yeah.
	Oh yeah, that's interesting.
	Ron says, had a celebratory drink when I heard Dripford had resigned.
	Ron's from Swansea.
	But the stark truth is most of Wales is politically asleep.
	It's been a proper uphill battle to fight the 20 mile an hour nonsense that's been dictated to us.
	Ron, do us a favor, tell us what that is about, because I actually never heard of that.
	Like, was Drakeford literally like, look, nobody in Wales is driving faster than 20 miles an hour.
	Like, is that actually something they would do?
	I think it's city and town roads.
	That's still mental.
	So if you're near civilization, you've got to go 20.
	Which...
	I mean, that's where everyone lives, so... Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Wales for the Welsh, simple as.
	Not anymore.
	Sophie says, do these people... I know, I've read them.
	Alex says, Dan Killer makes a good point about women getting power and becoming despotic.
	It's the same with weak men.
	Weak people never had to learn to temper their emotions.
	Jordan Peason talks about this.
	Throughout history.
	Throughout history.
	Yeah.
	Any female ruler...
	There are some exceptions.
	Olga of Kiev destroyed an entire civilization when she was 16.
	And so she left a few of them alive and when they asked why did you spare some of it she said to them that someone has to pay me tribute.
	She was 16.
	And that's women throughout fucking history that have got a little tiny bit of power.
	Pay me tribute.
	Money please!
	Hopefully my wife doesn't watch this.
	Ewan says, spoke to the Welsh guy yesterday.
	He has a place in London that's been broken into.
	The police told him it's best to go back to Wales because they've lost the streets.
	Yeah.
	That's so honest and direct.
	But the thing is, that is genuinely true.
	96% of burglaries don't get investigated.
	So it's basically legal.
	We shouldn't broadcast that, really.
	They should be burglars.
	Make a lot more money.
	Eddie says Rockstar Northport paying tax while having a giant sign saying Outlaws for Life on their headquarters.
	They're hiding in plain sight.
	We really, I'm such a, I pay my tax.
	I'm like, I'm such an idiot.
	I pay my tax.
	You don't even play the game you pay for.
	Yeah, I know.
	I'm going to go and demand a free copy.
	Yeah, here's my tax bill.
	Yeah, exactly!
	This is how much tax I paid.
	George says, I think it's fair to assume that GTA 6 will have quite a lot of woke garbage.
	Red Dead 2 had the feminist cringe and the recent release of GTA Trilogy was censored to remove confederate flags and tranny jokes.
	Really?
	I never played that one because I heard it was diabolically made.
	It was a total rush job and the game was buggy as hell.
	Yeah.
	What was that, sorry?
	Apparently, GTA Trilogy was censored to remove confederate flags and tranny jokes.
	Huh.
	Oh yeah, yeah, because they're playing in San Andreas, so when you go out into the boondocks... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, that is embarrassing.
	Well now I know I can't get a confederate flag, I'm definitely not getting it.
	That being said, the usual outrage from trad cons about the shooting, police and sexualization will drown out these reasonable concerns.
	I don't know, I mean...
	The thing is, if you're going to do a reflection of America, America's pretty fucking woke.
	Yeah.
	So it's like, you're going to have to include some woke stuff, even if you want to lambast it.
	Mostly in the universities though.
	I don't see it as being like mostly woke.
	I think it's just because, you know, the screechers are the loudest, funnily enough.
	Yeah, but you go to California, like I went to California a couple of times.
	You can find like, you know, radical feminist bookstores and stuff like that.
	And it's just like, See, as soon as you go outside the cities, a lot of people are Republican.
	Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's just unfortunate that everyone in LA and San Antonio outnumber them massively.
	We're going to reignite the criticism we had from our video about America, but there's one thing I found, which is that even in a nice Republican area, I went and I wanted to see a massive Confederate flag, like you have a massive Russian or American flag, right?
	And I found one and it was this cemetery that has a huge cemetery of those who are dead and then Confederate flags everywhere.
	And it's permanently closed.
	I'm like, okay, is that American culture?
	- It was from the Civil War.
	- What do you mean?
	Sorry. - I thought it was at the cemetery.
	Was it people from the Civil War that died?
	- Yeah, yeah.
	But they've still got the huge Confederate flags.
	- Well, if it's closed, that's because no one's dying in the Civil War anymore.
	- No, no. - Over a long time ago.
	- You just, you can't go visit any of that stuff anymore.
	I'm like, if that's it for the rest of my life, I won't be able to go and see that when I visit America.
	You can't even visit it?
	No.
	So that's why I was just like, okay, even in this Republican area, they're just like, yeah, I don't want to risk being seen as racist.
	It's like, what are you talking about?
	It's a graveyard.
	They're all dead.
	They're not going to come back and say the N-word.
	What if you've got a family member in there?
	I don't know.
	You're banned.
	You've got the ick.
	Can't see great-great-grandpa.
	He had some opinions.
	Ramshackle Otter says, I live next door to a meth addict in Corby with one little yellow fang left in her head.
	She could knock out pretty much anyone with her mad junkie strength and catching people off guard.
	Not a character I'd want to play as, living next to it was bad enough.
	Yeah, well, that's Tim Pool shown, isn't it?
	He doesn't know enough junkies.
	Omar says, diversity and inclusion is such a double-edged sword, but they never seem to pick up on it.
	Much like feeding feminist crocodiles on Red Dead 2, I'm looking forward to what comes out of Grand Theft Hate Crime Simulator 6.
	I have seen lots of memes of the beach.
	Driving.
	2025.
	I have seen some people going like that.
	There's lots of black people in the game.
	Matt says pay half the fine for going shooting sprees due to woman privilege.
	but I And Matt, once again, GTA 6 is at least an accurate representation of modern day Miami.
	Exactly.
	But we'll leave it at that.
	Yeah, we're going to go and have a break and then we'll be back for Lads Hour, which is still going to be a mystery for these two.
	So, see you in a bit.
	Bye.

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