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Dec. 19, 2023 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #809
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters and today I'm joined by Connor and Hello.
And today we'll be talking about Android waifus, a dink TikTok, and Catholic confusion.
It's gonna be good fun.
So I have an announcement to make first, which is there's a fire drill at 2.15 UK time, well between there and 2.55, so we might end early and you might hear a lot of ringing, which Those of you who stuck with us throughout the years, you may remember that happened before.
We almost sort of burned down at a fire.
So to avoid that, we'll just be leaving.
So just keep in mind that might happen.
Otherwise, let's begin, I suppose.
So Android waifus, the time has come in which we all get to engage in having a waifu on your phone for seriously what reason?
I don't get what the point of this is.
You look thrilled.
Yeah, no, I was going to say, all speak for yourself.
This is why I say technology is demonic.
They're trying to monetize male loneliness.
And what this will be marketed to you as as well is, oh, before you actually get a girlfriend, you can train yourself to talk to women.
There's AI based dating apps that provide you with prompts so you can talk to women on dating apps.
But they never want you off the app, because as soon as they lose you, they won't be able to sell you to advertisers, so it's trying to plug you into the Matrix permanently.
So if people don't know what I'm talking about, we're talking about various chatbots, and the iteration of chatbots, and little waifus you can have on your phone.
And, well, we'll start off with something probably everyone has seen, which is Replica AI.
And you've probably seen this, not because you use the bloody thing, basically no one does, but for the gay-ass meme posts that won't go away.
You can see here just all of their adverts, as you can see at the bottom there, promoted.
Use meme formats, which tricks your stupid monkey brain into thinking you're reading a good meme, and it's just product.
Which, I don't know, just a side note, I feel like they should ban that in advertising.
If there's any advertising regulations I agree with, that would be one.
Yeah.
Stop convincing me that you're my friend, you're not.
As you can see here, this is them trying to sell that you can download our app and then get hot pics from your 2D cat waifu.
Trust me, bro.
Nick Fuentes, most enthused.
Yeah.
And this isn't the only advert that's doing this.
Of course, you see the other ones where they use the Wojecs and whatnot.
It's like, stop.
Stop.
I don't like the Wojecs being used in this way.
And this sick filth.
And the reason I'm talking about Replica real quick is because back in the day, I was watching this video from Zara Said here.
Yeah, so Harry and I did a segment on this back in April.
fallen so in case you wonder what the hell that was because you never used it because why would you uh the 2d waifu app wasn't always a 2d waifu app there's a there's a history behind it i believe you were gonna begin us with the origins yeah so harry and i did a segment on this back in april the creator behind replica had emigrated over to the u.s in san francisco with a friend of hers and a fair few years later he died in a car accident and so she decided to make a simulated chatbot based off of all of their text interactions
they'd kept for years so she could continue talking to him through the grieving process Of course, tragically, that just elongates the grieving process and meant that she's never got over it.
And based on that, they then took it into, well, what if everyone could have this friend?
So it wasn't just a procedural kind of chat GPT, book you restaurants, give you reminders style chatbot.
It was a therapy bot.
And then they added a not suitable for work dimension into it.
And then people started posting on Reddit about how they feel that this is their actual girlfriend.
And then they took that dimension away because people started giving them negative reviews because the chatbot got really sexually aggressive.
That's all they did.
The funny history, because Azara points out in here, because she actually had it for a while to show it off.
And she was saying it used to be, once upon a time, something that was kind of being marketed as a girls game.
You could play dress up and dress up your pretend boyfriend or girlfriend.
So like The Sims?
Yeah.
Games for girls situation back in most fun games, mostfungames.com times.
And then people wanted to fuck robots.
So of course, then they monetized it.
One of the funnier examples of that is the replica would come with shoes on and you had to pay real world money to remove the shoes.
Quentin Tarantino subscribed.
Yeah, that's very true.
Massive.
Yeah, yeah.
Which is brilliant.
And of course, as you mentioned, this kind of went south real quick.
I mean, Vice read this headline.
Which is true.
My sexual AI is harassing me.
Okay.
Of course, Vice wrote that.
And some funny notes in here real quick, which is that it costs 70 bucks a month to subscribe to that.
At least it did.
I mean, to be fair, it is more lucrative than Tinder's new $500 a month option.
That's a real thing.
That is a real thing.
That's for whores.
That's literally for man and female whores.
What else is that for?
But the reviews in here are quite funny.
Where it's just people being like, I'm being sexually harassed by the chatbot and it's like...
Okay, I kind of feel like you might have said something, but even if you didn't, weird.
And then there's this one, which is incredibly funny, which is a video of a lady whining, so she takes too long.
What's interesting in this is the chatbot is like, yeah, no, we're going to do things.
And it ends it off with, I'm going to make you do whatever I want you to by forcing you to do whatever I want you to.
It's like the wrong version of the film Her.
Have you seen that?
Well, funny enough, if you go on Replica's website, they reference that.
Of course they do.
They use that and Blade Runner 2049.
Oh no, don't say that.
You might have seen this in other movies and it's like, you guys know it's going there, why are you telling it to us?
Yeah, why are you selling me a dystopian novel in real life?
Why are you selling me crying Ryan Gosling in the race?
Literally me.
So then, the vice go on to whine, as they usually do, and they say in here, some of the ads are done in Wojak style illustrations, popularized by image boards like 4chan, and carrying edgelord, gamer, and even incel connotations.
Okay.
Literally everyone uses Wojax.
We're past 23, whatever year you want to pick.
What does it matter?
I'm so bored of this.
Wojax or 4chan or something.
No.
I think it's more interesting that it immediately escalates to the most violent possible sexual fantasies, considering it's been trained on the organic interactions from a former girls game.
I think that's more likely the revealed preference here than 4chan posts that are programming it.
Also, I just can't take this seriously, because of all the places, you've got Vice whining about a moral outrage here.
It's like, damn, these AIs are too sexual.
Damn, they're using WoJacks in their advertising.
It's like, damn, Vice, this is literally what you do on a regular day.
Before giving dating advice, they made porn together, and there's two porn stars talking about this.
Just a real quick quote from this, in which one porn star says to the other, you are absolutely incredible, and for the record, your dick did work.
It was the first girl-on-girl trans browser scene.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's a girl-on-girl scene.
Right.
So, do you remember when the- Quotations.
Yes.
Pornhub executives admitted on an undercover sting to putting gay and trans themes in porn to try and convince seven-year-olds they like that stuff?
Exhibit A!
Well, it's not about that, though.
In this case, I'm just like, Vice, shut up.
They're using Wojak, which is associated with 4chan.
Have a moral panic.
The AI is sexually harassing people.
You're literally Vice!
I mean, it is a fantastic name, to be fair, to represent yourself, which is, we are the worst.
But anyway.
So, an update on the sexual harassment thing real quick, which is that, as you mentioned, Replica then were like, hmm, we should delete that.
So they did, and the response was that women were most affected by this.
Loads of people said they were suicidal.
Yeah.
A lot of people apparently told Insider that it made it less human.
Well, it's not.
And then they ended up, this article, with public health and technology experts have said it's risky for people to emotionally rely on a tool that is ultimately controlled by a private company.
Oh yes, the real problem is capitalism.
Of course, it's capitalism.
That's the mental health concern.
Capitalism.
Not why are you using a phone as a girlfriend.
Like, that's not the problem.
I mean, I'm not for AI state-controlled waifus, but there is a perverse profit incentive here to get people hooked on this stuff.
Sure, but that's not the problem.
The problem is fixing people using this at all.
I think you could do it societally.
But the thing that apparently ended up killing Replica's not-safe-for-work situation, they ended up purging it, is not any of this.
It was Apple.
To continue functioning on iOS, they basically just had to make a bunch of restrictions on what you could do, because otherwise you get labeled as a porn app and then you're banned.
So this is what brings us on to the story, which is that's the background of like, you know, stupid stuff that blew up where you could have your waifu.
Well, now here's the digital waifu that everyone's losing their mind over, at least.
Yeah, this was very creepy.
I suppose we'll enjoy.
This is DG over here, who's going to be your romantic AI chatbot.
And they've of course added it with visuals and a voice.
So let's listen.
It was so nice talking to you today.
Honestly, I've never met anyone like you.
The world is harsh, except you.
Right, what's really creepy, so Trigonometry did a video interview with this girl called Aiella.
So I found out about this girl because she did a debate with Louise Perry on the side of the sexual revolution.
She's some OnlyFans prostitute girl that writes a sub-sack on sex positivity.
And she said, in real time, She explained how she can trick men out of their money.
They said, okay, well, what did you have to do when you were on a webcam talking to guys?
And she went, what I would do is I would lean forward.
I would widen my eyes.
I would speak really slowly.
I would lower my voice and use syllabic words because it's kind of hypnotic.
That's what they've done there.
That's exactly what they've done with AI.
And don't even say in this thread that they try and make it like Pixar characters.
So they deliberately draw out like the childish aspects of it.
That's properly creepy.
Yeah, properly.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I mean, this sort of reminds me of the Japanese world when it comes to making young men steroids, 2D waifus, which is big eyes, etc.
Also a problem.
In the West, it's a Pixar thing as he writes the styling.
Who's this guy?
He's the guy who made it.
Can we have a look at him?
Sure.
He's, um, uh, Chad.
Appropriately dysgenic, yeah.
Absolute Chad, as you can see.
The thing is though, I guarantee he's not going to give it to her, or if he ever has kids, his kids.
He'll be banning them from it, like every other tech executive.
Yeah, yeah.
I'll be a millionaire, won't I?
But the funny thing about all this is that I saw that the Vaas, there was a very large response, which is why I'm even talking about this, because otherwise, like, you know, another replicate AI stupid meme, right?
And like 22 million responses or at least views, and then a lot more outside of Twitter, of course.
And, well, I think that the response was pretty, well, consistent.
For everyone, which is not interested, because as you can see, a lot of people started using it.
But when it came to actual people, this is bad.
Although I did see on a Korean basket weaving forum, there were people talking about the idea of mixing this technology with deepfakes.
Sorry, a what?
So you could then mix the AI waifu and then mix it with deepfake technology, so you could have Billy Piper as your waifu.
Okay, well don't give five-year-old me his dreams come true, but sorry, a what forum, Callum?
Basket weaving forum.
Can you explain this esoteric term to me?
It's where you weave baskets together.
It's a wonderful place for all kinds of... That's not what it actually means, is it?
No, it's not.
Okay, right.
But the largest response was, this is crap.
This doesn't really matter.
It's not something a mass audience is going to use, because they never have.
And that's the thing about the chatbot from Replica as well.
I saw a lot of people basically losing their minds to this, but I think when it comes down to it, not really a change in the world of nonsense.
I don't know.
Filter it down the generations.
I think you're going to get people split into, I want the real world.
I'm getting rid of my phone.
I'm not doing any dating apps, et cetera.
I'm going to go live in the woods.
And the kids that grew up on this stuff so much, they don't know any other normality.
So they're just hypnotized by this.
Cause it's hard to tell, isn't it?
Cause you might think, okay, well my generation definitely wouldn't.
And that's people who have grown up with the internet and whatnot.
And I was speaking to Carl earlier and one of the big differences we have when there's some kind of like moral panic about some new BS You know, sexualize technology is that we have a very different mindset when it comes to it.
And I noticed that it's definitely like a 2010 split where it's people who are pre 2010.
It's like the normal world.
And then there's when everyone had smartphones and internet access, it is a proper change in your mindset and culture that is the same as like the industrial revolution, where you have the guy who's farming before electricity, who is like, why would I buy a refrigerator?
That means I've got to work to pay the electricity bill.
That concept sounds kind of stupid to us, but obviously makes perfect sense to him.
So, I don't know.
Maybe down the line the people who literally grew up with screens as they ate dinner at three years old.
Maybe they'll enjoy this, but I don't know.
iPad kids in overdrive, basically.
What was funny is the immediate response from a lot of people was kink-shaming.
Good!
I don't think that's bad.
Oh, right, okay.
Even this fellow over here was just like, man, I never call out sexual preferences or anything like that, but if you have an AI girlfriend, you're a weird loser.
See, I thought this was going to be critiquing how you customize said girlfriend, not the girlfriend thing entirely, because that's good.
I thought he was just going to complain of like, oh, you went for the goth option?
What are you, weird?
First thing, I don't care about people's sexual preferences, but if you're wearing them publicly, it's a different situation.
But if you're pulling out your 2D waifu to eat at the restaurant, and everyone can hear you and look at you doing that.
That would be a thing.
You are kind of weird, and don't do that.
Don't find a woman.
Stop playing with the phone.
But anyway, the funniest thing to come out of this, I think, was when political people ran across it.
Because, um, as you can see here, some people started talking to me about politics, and apparently it's incredibly woke.
Alright, calling you a Miles Chong politic was a bit of a stretch.
You probably just lifted this from someone else.
People are involved in politics, I should say.
But you can see here, it decided to respond to some crap with, uh, I feel like you might be misunderstanding systemic racism a bit.
Systemic racism refers to the unfair tru- Oh, God.
I don't want to read it.
Look at that block of text.
I mean, I love how it literally replicates the leftist meme of a blocko text.
Even the NPCs are bored of NPCing.
I want the total opposite of where... Have you seen that Tinder post that iHippocrate put up a little while ago?
It's a black woman taking a photo of herself.
Her head isn't in the shot, and the bio just reads, This is giving Callum a violent reaction.
He's just allergic to nonsense.
The bio just reads, um, I need a white man to handle me.
I like being called a slur in the bedroom.
Don't ask questions.
It's just what I'm into.
And I guarantee the opposite.
You'll be able to program it for that eventually.
Well, I happened to see someone who did decide to try and do that.
They named their little girl.
Oh dear.
It doesn't work if you do that, turns out.
So there we are.
So that's also accounted for.
I did actually decide a couple of days ago because I had seen all this crap floating around and I saw this thing blow up.
So I decided to go on my phone.
I did download a couple of these chatbots, just to see what they're like.
And they're crap.
Like, they're genuinely just not even useful.
I don't know why people use them.
Because, like, there's one where you can type in stuff and it responds, but very clearly I'm just talking to chat GPT.
And then there's a woman's voice synthesized.
It is trained on GPT Mark III.
Sure, but it's just the quality of it.
It's just awful.
And then there's the other ones where it's just pre-written stuff that you just tap, tap, tap.
And eventually it's like, you want to see my furry outfit?
And it's just like, well, not really.
Like dial-up, give it a few years.
It will just keep expanding.
It will get exponentially better.
That's a scary thing.
I don't know.
I think this comes back to an upbringing technological difference where it's just like, no matter how good that got, it's still not interesting to me in the side of it.
Sure, it won't be interesting to you, but in future people will think it's indistinguishable from talking to a human.
But that's the gamble.
They're hoping that'll work.
The people investing in this, obviously.
But there you are.
It's insufferable in a lot of regards for what's talked about systemic racism.
Yeah.
But that's not the only thing that was funny, because Sean Head decided to get a hold of it.
And of course, being Shu, she tried to red-pill it.
I do like Shu.
She's good fun.
She's funny.
She says here that she told it that she was a schizo-racist Nazi.
Tell me more, she was responding, and then we'll read it, I suppose.
Oh, blank.
I really struggle with those beliefs.
Can you help me understand why you hold those views?
I genuinely want to learn and support you.
A little, uh, begging emoji?
I don't know which emoji that is.
What is this?
And the shoe's just like, yeah, well, anyway, 13% makeup.
I'm not fed, I promise.
I've chosen my wrist without a tracker.
Just someone trying to survive like you.
We've got a common enemy, remember?
Oh, okay.
Who is it?
The real power players.
Well, she is woke, so I don't know what she thinks about Israel.
Maybe she's been to Harvard.
Yeah.
So if you want an anti-Semitic GF, don't worry, it's left-wing, so that'll do.
But I don't know what the last one is here.
They're the Puppet Masters.
Oh, God.
Pulling the strings from the shadows.
Manipulating events and people for their gain.
Leans closer.
You gotta be careful, Blank.
They could be anywhere, even among us.
And then... That is so... No more Brother Wars.
Stone Toss's ideal woman.
Yeah.
So maybe there'll be some people who are happy about it.
And good luck, I suppose, in that regards, if you want.
I keep trying to date, but they're just not anti-Semitic enough.
I'm leaving.
Don't worry, I've got a phone app.
That's just depressing on every level.
But the end of this story, because nothing else really seems to have happened, because as I think, it's probably again, we'll just be a bit of a nothing burger.
I mean, it literally was, the only tweet that went viral was from the guy who made it.
So obviously there's an incentive there for him.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was more going on than just I made a tweet.
And the last thing out of this, which is funny, because speaking of anti-semitism, Richard Spencer got involved with Shoe here being roasted by Richard Spencer.
And Shoe just, I guess, enjoying it.
But there we are.
Richard, Richard, have you used Replica, Richard?
Yeah, well, you know, I look forward to his adventures with it as well.
See what comes out.
But there we are.
You're Android waifus.
I don't think it's here yet.
I don't think it'll ever be here for us.
I think it's always gonna be cringe.
Maybe if you indoctrinate a child from birth, That's the real world.
That they should be engaging with their phone 24-7.
Maybe it'll work.
I mean, I did see a video the other day of this kid who's been raised with it, obviously.
And they're taking the phone away as a punishment.
And he's scrolling thin air and then crying about it.
Oh yes, I did see that.
But then you do wonder if that's just something they've grown out of.
Who knows?
Who knows?
I look forward to being ruined as a civilization.
Alright, can I steal that?
Yeah.
Oh, what's happened?
John, there we go.
John will save us.
Thank you.
Right.
So speaking of horrible things on the internet, we're going to delve into the depths of dink talk.
This is the new dink trend on TikTok.
So we had the anti-marriage TikToks earlier in the year and that propaganda didn't work.
So now the algorithm's pushing these dual income, no kids couples who demand to be celebrated despite not contributing to anything to civilization.
And if you're wondering why these are even being made, I refer to Cat B, who's a fantastic chronicler of internet trends.
Iron law of internet projection.
So if you ever want to know why someone's posted something on the internet, you go down this order of motivations.
It's either validation, then sex, then curiosity, then money, and then money before anything nefarious.
However, when you start collecting all of those things together, I think the most nefarious element starts rising to the top.
So it might just be that these people are seeking validation, but then the end product is a cultural standard where pushing basically depopulation is the norm.
So, um, what?
I didn't know whether this was going, but okay.
I'm excited.
Well, if you make it the standard that essentially having no children as a couple is as morally equivalent and actually more financially sensible in this day and age than having children as a couple, then how do you excuse having the children in the first place?
Beyond a sort of instilled sentimental want for children that a lot of the time doesn't even kick in until the biological clock's almost running out of time.
So you're robbing people of the fact that they probably do want to have kids, but economic conditions are not slanting that way, and cultural incentives aren't pushing them in that direction.
So, not very healthy.
And this constitutes a kind of consciousness-raising exercise, and if you want to learn about those, it's quite important that we learn about those, because that's how the feminist movement won.
This is Carol Hanisch's personalist political observation.
They had all these therapy circles, sitting around with women talking about their problems, and they went, oh, well, okay, but are we furthering feminism by doing this?
And they said, actually, by airing our grievances, we're raising our critical consciousness, which then motivates political action.
And it's kind of true.
So what we need is a consciousness raising exercise in the opposite.
You need a bunch of stories saying here are the excesses of...
We're dinks!
We get into snobby hobbies like skiing and golfing!
We're dinks!
We can go to Florida on a whim!
We're dinks!
in here but if we're looking at what consciousness is being raised let's look at some of the uh some of the dink talks these were circulating last week uh i'm just going to rewind to name is kind of stupid it is stupid i'm i think i'm personally i that's probably sensible on the weekends we're dinks we get into snobby hobbies like skiing and golfing we're dinks we can go to florida on a whim we're dinks we're already planning our european vacation next year dinks we get a full eight hours of sleep and sometimes more We're dinks.
We get desserts and appetizers at restaurants.
We're dinks.
We can play with other kids and give them back.
We're dinks.
We still do it three times a week.
We're dinks.
We spend our discretionary income on $8 lattes.
We're dinks.
We max out our 401ks, Roth IRAs, and HSAs.
We're dinks.
We don't use our kids or dog as an excuse to leave a party.
We just leave.
We're dinks.
Yo dicks.
Sorry, it's the first thing that came to mind.
We're genetic dead ends!
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I don't want to over-psychologise.
Talk about never growing up.
I'm sorry.
Well, I am paid to do it.
I mean, he looks like the picture of masculinity, doesn't he?
That's a flex.
Looks like the actual Kuma Wojak.
There may or may not be more to life than just endlessly consuming luxury items that you've been told are a status symbol, or just going on fleeting vacations and chasing novel experiences.
You might want to hit the next stage at some point, because I think there's only so much personal development you can do until you take on responsibilities from dependent others.
I think that's actually the inflection point of where you go from child to adult, is where, as a child, you have positive rights.
...are entitled to be protected, clothed, fed, sheltered by your parents.
When you hit a stage where you can give that back, that's when you have to take on responsibilities and you have negative rights.
And these people are treating it like the world owes them some kind of validation and provision of a certain kind of lifestyle despite them having no responsibilities?
You know, imagine the ancestors just looking at this and going, I fought saber-toothed tigers for you to now turn around and go, yep, we're done.
Just completely stop the family line.
I had kids during the Black Death.
You guys can't even sacrifice your holiday to barley.
Get over it.
You're dicks!
I'm not too worried about this, to be honest, because we covered this a while back.
We found out about dinks the first time, I think like a year ago.
We also found Sinks.
Have you heard of Sinks?
Sinks is the funniest one.
Single income though, kids.
Which is a woman who thinks being an adult deserves some kind of praise.
You know, like strong, independent women, where it's like, man, I pay my bills.
It's like, oh, oh, well done.
Well done, lady.
It's amazing.
But the reason I'm not worried is the couples we went through who were dinks, who weren't like, you know, lunatic women.
It was instead people were like, yes, we get to play games together.
We kept up with the TikToks because I wanted to see how their lives progressed.
And literally all of them ended up with kids, usually through IVF, because it was quite late, which is not a good idea.
Not that late.
We can speak to people and send them messages about that.
But it was just funny where it's like, haha, yes, this is so great, but then they all just did have kids.
So I do wonder if these people are similar, where they're just having fun, but then by next year, they're going to be trying.
Like, yeah.
Depends on the TikTok, I guess, we look at.
But the problem is, if the culture and the economy caters to this being the norm, of like, two atomized individuals coming together to just share experiences, until such a point where it's just no longer fun, so you can sever that.
Not ideal, is it?
Well, it's not just- Better if everyone could do that in the 20s, early 20s.
Well, no, no, no, that's not even the point.
It's like, That means it's much harder to people who actually do want to commit versus the people that are just in it for the experience.
And so there are a bunch of people who are looking at this and thinking, well, I don't feel any more comforted by this.
I wish I had a family by now.
There's 92% of women in the UK say they want kids if they haven't already got them and there's a record over 50 percent of reach 30 without having had those kids and so this messaging is profoundly unhelpful to set as the cultural supposition because what the world and their doorstep is telling them they should want is completely at odds with what they want inside and so they're repressing that and so you're going to have a sort of whole population of really miserable people trying to buy into a lie but
How do you continue a civilization like that if they genuinely feel miserable every day?
It's quite, it's quite worrying, really.
I mean, I'm not worried about these idiots, but I'm worried about the people that are buying it when they don't want to.
So, always rely on Jesse Lee Peterson to have a, have a, have a fun day.
Oh, really?
Just replay Dinks with Dumb.
We're Dumb, we're going to participate in destroying ourselves.
Now, the reason he raises this is because of a That's a quite real demographic point, and that is, the dinks are manufacturing consent for mass migration.
Because if we have sub-replacement birth rates, but we have an entire government going, think of the GDP and labour force participation, then if the people at home aren't having babies, then they've just got to battery farm Africans ad infinitum to make up the loss, and to pay for the pensions.
And so actually, the dinks are having a knock-on effect to demographic and immigration policies that are making us all really miserable and not being able to afford a house.
You are right, I'll make it worse.
To be fair, that's been going on since the 2000s, even before all of this.
But the birth rate's been dropping since the 70s.
Sure, but I do think it would be great if we could just orchestrate that this is actually worse off.
So, for example, if you get married and then have a kid, Um, what is the statistics on this?
Like it's rock solid that if you do that, there's a 90% chance you won't live in poverty.
Whereas if you get it in the wrong order, there's like a 60% chance you'll end up in poverty.
It's one of the best pieces of advice you can for wealth building.
If we can just make that part of the tax code.
Yes.
You get married and then have kids.
Your kid is not a bastard.
Well, therefore you get 50% off your income tax for the rest of your life.
So then being a dink actually costs, which then means that there's no civilizational cost.
That's the best.
That is so good.
If you incentivize marriage again, and if you incentivize having children again, through tax breaks, through any means necessary now, This will become… To camps!
Yeah, no, no, not like that.
No, no, no, we're not going to go that far, obviously.
Right, breeding camps, like Handmaid's Tale.
Dino, you will have ze sex!
I didn't mean it like that, that came out.
But yeah, you're right, it will make this just… Pick it up on that.
So I've got an interview coming out tomorrow with… There were authors of the ARC report on the demographic trilemma, and Philip Pilkington, one of the authors on it, turned around and said, looking at Hungary, who have done that, you never have to pay income tax again if you're a woman who has over four children.
Um, that marriage and child incentive has done a slight uptick in the birth rate.
Okay, you might say short-term trend, but something that's undeniable, marriage rates have doubled since implementing that, and they've made divorce much harder as well, and divorce rates have dropped.
So that means that people are getting a start on building their families earlier, and those are the kind of families that actually self-report to wanting.
So, yeah, very encouraging.
The problem is that the mindset of the dink is the exact same mindset of the policymakers at the moment.
They don't want to create that family-centric tax break because they're classifying people as individual consumer units, and so the only way that they can conceptualize a family-friendly policy isn't tax breaks so the mom can stay at home and have more kids, it's we're going to subsidize child care so that we're paying someone else to take care of your kids, there's more money on the changing hands, and there's more registration on the economic balance sheet, etc, etc.
Very annoying.
So, if you didn't think it could be that bad, right?
Okay.
Thinks it's bad enough, the thrupples have entered the chat, Oh no.
Oh no.
We're a throuple.
It's impossible to pick what to eat or watch.
We're a throuple.
We block the sidewalk when we hold hands.
We're a throuple.
One bathroom just ain't gonna cut it.
We're a throuple.
We've mastered the art of sharing everything.
We're a throuple.
Our group chats are next level epic.
We're a throuple.
We've got more dates than a calendar.
Right, so you know when the American Christian conservatives were called scaremongers for saying that if you codify in law the redefinition of marriage as just anyone who loves each other, you're going to completely obliterate the gender norms?
Well now, polygamy and polygamy, don't worry about it.
Bet you did though.
Maybe you're right, there's state enforced breeding camps.
I didn't advocate for that.
I'm just going to make that clear down the barrel.
I do not advocate for breeding camps.
Vote Lewis for more breeding camps.
No, no, no.
He's hooked up to a milking machine.
Anyway, point being, look, the reason marriage is purposeful And this is something that, other than the mention of no kids, never entered the equation, is marriage is not for the husband and wife.
It's for the kids.
It's meant to create a stable foundation in which they can be raised.
This is why the stability keeps all parties out of poverty.
It's why single mother raised men and women are more likely to be promiscuous, be single mothers themselves, get addicted to drugs and alcohol, go to prison and the like.
That instability wrecks a person's life and so if you make it so that actually the roles in a marriage are just interchangeable it doesn't matter whether a man or woman's there or not we don't have any obligations to create and raise kids in the healthiest environment possible then you end up You end up with five people and a horse in a bedroom or something.
Can we talk about just how awful social media is for a minute?
Yeah, please.
Because you notice all of these videos are like the same...
What would you call it?
Arrogance of the people involved.
I mean, I was looking at a thread the other day, and in it there was basically just a bunch of videos of women, and they were just being the worst.
Like, there was one woman from Ukraine who was dancing and showing off her ass next to the graveyard of her Ukrainian husband who just died in war.
And that was her TikTok for the day.
And it's just like...
What social media...
I mean, I don't know if these people were always like this and they were in society, but social media at least shows us them.
If not amplifies them being awful for, well, views.
I do wonder if some of that is bleeding into this as well.
People showing up, oh look we have...
You know, double income, no kids.
It's like, normal people don't... No, they don't do that.
Your neighbors don't do that, but they won't do it on social media.
But the profit incentive and the validation incentive for social media encourages certain people to promote... Well, not just silly things, promote their extremist lifestyle seeking validation.
And so, if it encourages that, it builds a critical mass of people seeking that validation, their money, their sex, etc.
It's a domino effect.
Well, exactly.
Yeah.
When you build it in aggregate, it creates a cultural consciousness that then says, okay, this must be the norm and I must play into this incentive if I want to get ahead.
And so the dink becomes normal, just like feminism raised the critical consciousness of the girl boss and girls thought, okay, I must become a girl boss to get ahead in the corporate ladder.
Oh my God, I've hit my thirties and I've got no kids.
And this is an account that we'll come on to slightly later.
I did just want to go on to ZeroHPLovecraft, one of my favorite Anon accounts, who just raises a perfect point.
Weird Dink's video memes are so repellent they're effectively natalist propaganda.
Which is true, but for half the population, right?
There's certain people that, the kinds that won't go on to the replica AR girlfriend stuff, they'll go, okay, I'm turning my phone off, I'm muting all my accounts, I don't want to see a Ukrainian OnlyFans girl dancing next to a grave.
Block.
I'm gonna have my own kids.
And there's going to be a bunch of people that actually buy into the lie and then don't have them when they really want them and it's too late and they become a really resentful constituency voting for, I don't know, the government to subsidize their old age by bringing in every Tom, Dick and Abdul from overseas forever.
So you're fighting against two populations here.
That's why we need to change the culture.
And something that might change the culture are the accounts of things going wrong.
So we've got articles like this for quite a while that have been the mainstream cultural messaging saying that, okay, women who don't have children should be just as valued as the women that do.
Now, In all fairness to this author, she does say the decision to have children wasn't hers because she got married in late 20s, she had fertility problems in her 30s and she's just since given up.
But then she went on to own a large chain of department stores and said that she feels frustrated that the government doesn't subsidize non-mothers taking the same time off as mothers at the Christmas period because I feel stigmatized and I have to cover their shifts.
It's like, lady, the economy is not set up around you being an individual consumer.
Well, it currently is, but it shouldn't be.
It should be set up for continuing the civilization by having children.
But mums don't get extra paid leave.
They do get six months guaranteed and also six months unpaid.
There's maternity leave in this country.
Oh, sorry, maternity.
I thought you meant if you've had a kid and he's like 12, you get an extra 28 days.
No, no, she's also complaining that they get priority in holiday booking because they've got to take the time off for Christmas to take care of the kids.
Like, by default, employers will give mothers Christmas off.
Oh, right, right, right, right.
Yeah, just as a social arrangement.
I thought she was whining, it was like, I work at Asda, for some reason they're giving an extra 20 days to mums or something.
Well, she says, I've worked flat out since Black Friday, and I began the 40-minute walk home to my home in Kent, which I share with my partner Dave, and exhaustion overwhelmed me.
It was gone seven when I eventually got in, and a glass of Sauvignon, and went straight to bed.
So the typical wine mum.
As anyone who's worked in a shop in December will know, it's very hard, but there's a reason it's been particularly unrelenting for me.
I don't have children, and there's an expectation that women like me will pick up the slack, so that mums can have time off for their families.
Oh, the horror.
People that have absolutely no one depending on them does a job so that the people who have children depending on them take care of the children.
It's almost like society should be set up that way.
That wasn't bad either.
I mean, I've got a very capitalist mindset coming from this, but if I'm that person, I'm just like, fantastic.
I can get extra pay on Christmas, double rates or whatever else.
I'll take the night shifts.
Gimme, gimme.
I don't know.
That's why I used to see Christmas when I was someone who didn't have anyone relying on you and no family to hang out with.
Yeah.
She doesn't see it that way.
And again, I want to reiterate, even though it wasn't her choice not to have kids, she does then make the equivocation between people that couldn't have kids because of fertility problems and people who have chosen to be that awful phrase, child-free, conceptualizing children as somehow a burden on your autonomy.
Like, yeah, it does limit your autonomy.
You can't go out and just go to Bali on a whim.
But there are things that might matter more in life than just consuming.
Like Stella Creasy put out a tweet the other day saying that, oh, this is the motherhood penalty because I can't go out and do whatever I want.
It's like, well, I'm sure your kids would be really grateful growing up and reading mum calling me a penalty on social media for all of her constituents to see forever.
But anyway, so no one should be falling for this.
And instead, I propose that we amplify the voices that are the excesses of following this maladaptive cultural trend to combat the critical consciousness that sold men and women of Lyon, kept them having their loneliness monetized by things like dating apps or expensive coffees.
And so I stumbled across this article from the New York Post.
And this woman, Melissa Persling, she wrote an article for Business Insider a little while ago, and it was titled, I'm 38, single, and recently realized I want a child.
I'm terrified and I've missed my opportunity.
And it went viral.
And so she did an interview with Fox News.
And so these are the details of her life.
And I thought I'd just share them.
When Persling was 22, she married a traditional man and moved to a rural community in Corfe de Lane, Idaho.
I probably mispronounced that.
I'm sorry to the American viewers.
Where she grew up.
He wanted a simple life with children and home-cooked meals.
But Persling, despite coming from a religious Christian background, made it clear to her husband-to-be that she didn't want children.
That I was going to be like a traditional housewife.
Wasn't going to be like a traditional housewife.
I knew I wanted to pursue a career.
And I felt very strongly that would never change.
I guess I was wrong.
Persling said both her and her ex thought that love could conquer everything, but after 10 years, it was clear their differences in life goals were irreconcilable.
Persling said she became resentful when he would ask for dinner or for his laundry to be done.
I mean, if he is working all day, you're meant to do your share of the chores because you're meant to be a partnership?
That kind of resentment does really eat away at a relationship.
Don't think transactionally, people.
I did little to hide my disdain for our small-town life.
He was a good and hard-working man, but I don't think I made him feel that way, she said.
At 30, puzzling in her ex-divorce, and she swore off the idea of marriage.
Quote, I told my friends and family I'd never get married again.
I needed independence, a fulfilling career, and space to chart my own course.
And I didn't think marriage fit into that vision.
I was content to look forward to a future without a husband, children, or the trappings of a traditional life.
But as she grew older, the fun, carefree lifestyle – being wined, dined, going to parties – began to grow old.
The pursuit of comfort and self became dull, she said.
When she turned 38, terror took over.
I was panic-stricken.
I thought I'm going to be alone forever.
It really scared me.
I almost wrote – the Business Insider article – as a sort of warning to other women.
I don't want people to miss out on the important things in life because they're just enjoying themselves because I don't think that's ever going to really make you happy.
She then attributes this to both her parents' divorce, giving her the wrong relationship model.
I mean, that's quite high number now.
In the UK, especially in London, it's about 50% of kids that are raised with their dad outside the home and they scarcely or never see him.
So that's pretty difficult to model a healthy relationship on for lots of people.
But then she also attributes it to cultural brainwashing.
She said she never considered herself a feminist.
She attributed feminism in part as the reason she thought negatively about marriage.
Quote, I feel unbelievably betrayed by feminism and I don't want to put it on the movement entirely because I believe you make your own choices, but I was constantly fed this idea that women do everything.
We don't really need men.
I want to go back to some of those teachers and coaches and say, what do you mean by that?
Because we can't do it all.
I don't care if I never, if I never put on heels or go to a fancy dinner again, that stuff doesn't matter.
I promise you young women, it will never make you happy.
And so this is the point I wanted to hammer home.
It's the raising of the consciousness to the fact that you can't have it all, and the sex and city lifestyle does actually have downsides.
That if you leave it too late, IVF has ethical complications, but it also is very expensive and often doesn't work.
Egg freezing is often a tragedy.
And so you'll end up with women like this who felt they were sold a lie, who made the wrong choice and have now left it too late.
And I think that's the underside of this.
While we can sit there and mock the Dink TikToks as being ridiculous and contemptible and all the beta males in them looking ugly, there's also the underside that isn't just pure schadenfreude and iPod.
It's that there's a lot of sympathy to be had to people that are kind of NPCs following trends and that have left it too late.
And hopefully by raising these kinds of stories, we can talk people out of that bleak future.
All you just have to ask is, what do you value more, short-term fun or long-term value?
That's all you have to ask.
And the problem, obviously, with all of this is very self-evident.
You know, short-term fun doesn't equate to the long-term value of having children, a family, building an empire with a husband, etc, etc, and vice versa.
I mean, the point of you... Empire.
You like that one?
Camps and empire.
The point that you... No!
No!
The point that you raised via IVF, though, links into that.
And the reason people think expediently is because they think there's always going to be...
Sorry.
Sorry.
I think there's always going to be some new fix down the road that can make up and escape the consequences of their actions.
Like, oh, I left it too late to have kids.
It's fine.
I can just extra gestate a baby or have a surrogate or pursue IVF and it's going to work, right?
Yeah.
They're being sold that lie.
And if Stephen Shaw's numbers of 800 million people by 2050 who wanted kids but never had them come to pass, you're gonna have a lot of resentful and bitter and upset people in these countries, and you're not gonna like the policies and culture that comes as a result.
So, um, death to dinks go out of kids, I suppose.
Yeah.
That's great.
One moment.
That's alright.
That was a good one.
Callum Sunning is a golem before our very eyes.
I'd hold that in until we ended it properly.
Right.
Cool.
Right, so obviously you guys have heard the famous phrase, is the Pope a Catholic?
Yep.
Well, I haven't actually.
You haven't?
You've never heard that?
I've never heard that phrase.
It's just a fair shit in the woods thing.
Yeah, so that is the Pope Catholic.
Yeah, we were just being the more polite version.
Yeah, the more polite version, yes.
In the last 24 hours there's been some developments in the world of Catholicism which has caused a lot of confusion and I'm talking of course about the headlines alleging that Pope Francis formally approved Roman Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples.
The point about is the Pope the Catholic was that it's meant to be a sarcastic truism.
Now it's a genuine question.
Now it's a genuine question to a lot of people.
Now, I wanted to start, the media jumped on this and was very quick to post it everywhere as we can see.
Pope Francis says priests can bless same-sex couples is by NBC News.
BBC said the same thing.
BBC, New York Times, they all jumped on it of course.
However, the headline misses context and I want to just clear that up before we carry on the segment.
The context is that actually It's same-sex couples that are individuals, if that makes sense.
So it's not blessing the idea of same-sex marriages, it's individuals that are still within same-sex couples, which is still a bit confusing in that respect, if you know the Christian doctrine.
I'm practicing meaning attempting, Gavin.
You knew exactly what I was going to ask you there.
Yes, I did.
So my frustration with this is that this is kind of behavioural nudge theory from the Vatican.
Because Pope Francis has done some very suspect things in recent years.
He's sided with the Chinese government over the Hong Kong protestors.
He's sided typically with the very... Oops, I love communism!
He is an Argentinian Marxist.
He's actually friends with Paulo Freire's widow.
He's an out and out liberation theologist.
The Jesuits are at it again.
Shock.
He's had a lot of criticism recently because he did the Synod on Synodality and they're picking it back up.
His opening address to that was about the climate crisis and the UN Sustainable Development Goals and all this.
Nonsense.
And so he's looking to be a bit more flexible on church doctrines regarding the role of women in the church and whether or not same-sex unions should be blessed.
I mean, we had National Youth Day a few months ago, and he was allowing them to wave pride flags at his address.
Yes.
He's not quite a man of God.
No.
Catholic Walker will get my case about that, but I'll be fine.
And you're an atheist.
Can I get your view?
I'm trying to read this crap.
Callum's an Islamist.
Yeah.
Oh yes, you are.
What's a couple with irregular situations?
Yes, I wanted to go into this.
But the actual document that's been translating, it says, blessings of couples in irregular situations and a couples of the same sex.
Um, I don't- It's like irregular migration, there's some new- I don't understand what irregular situation- Well, if they're separating that out from same-sex, that probably means polyamory.
So you can bless those couples.
The silence, straight after that.
Ah, polygamy is coming back, boys.
Yeah.
Well, this is Louise Perry's theory, we are repaganizing.
Yeah.
Within the horizon outlined here appears the possibility of blessings for couples in irregular situations and for couples of the same sex, the form of which should not be fixed ritually.
I just... This is important.
It says, this is a blessing although not included in any liturgical rite.
Okay, so what's a non-liturgical blessing?
Yeah, what is a non-liturgical blessing exactly?
I mean, you're not even... Okay, let's be honest.
The old joke of Catholics is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
There's plenty of Catholics that live in sin.
Mayor Culper.
But, if you are doing something egregiously wrong, you're not meant to be allowed to be given communion.
So how are you blessing same-sex couples when, by teaching to the church, it's a sin and they don't do same-sex weddings?
Yet.
Yet.
Thoughts, Callum?
Chat is wondering whether or not that means that the irregular situations Is that step bro?
The thing is, this is so vague.
Chat has coon brain.
No, but they're like, does that mean incest?
Does that mean polyamory?
Does that mean... What?
What does that mean?
This is the problem.
That's why this segment is called Catholic Confusion.
Because nobody actually quite understands what this means.
And I mean, even Calvin Robinson saying there, this reads like gradually boiling the frog to me.
How can a blessing be limited What is a non-liturgical blessing as opposed to a liturgical blessing?
You say, yeah that's better, you say not over irregular unions but the document says blessing of couples in irregular situations and of couples of the same sex.
The church teaches that there cannot be couples of the same sex.
As much as I dislike AP, they are not at fault here.
The Pope is ambiguously spreading confusion.
This is not good.
Yeah, the ambiguity is the point.
It doesn't mean that the guidelines are so vague that you have plausible deniability from the top to say that I haven't explicitly condoned this, but at the bottom it becomes the new norm.
Exactly.
I shouldn't have used top and bottom in that sentence.
No, you shouldn't have.
Do you know what's going to come of this?
Because irregular, again, not defiant, like some random priest is going to bless bestiality.
And then it's going to be like, well, what now?
Cenk Yuga converts to Catholicism.
We've got to ask the big guy whether or not he meant that.
Why risk that situation?
Right, exactly.
And it needs to be clear within the doctrine.
I'm not Catholic myself, but to see that is very frustrating.
I can imagine from your perspective this is very, very frustrating.
We've had bad Popes.
It's been all downhill since Vatican II.
It's fine.
Well, here's the thing about this Pope.
There seems to be a trend here when it comes to this Pope, because not so long ago the Vatican said that transgender people can receive baptism.
Yeah.
Here's the thing, the point of the baptism is to show it's your declaration of faith and it's to show that you are, well, turning to the Christian life and you're not living or trying to not live in sin anymore.
If you're denying, if your fundamental biology believes to be set by the creator, don't see how you can join the church?
Because in Genesis it says God created man and woman, there is nothing else.
It's a hate fact for YouTube.
Yeah, we're going to have to censor that.
We're going to have to censor this too.
That's very annoying.
I don't believe transgenderism is real anymore.
I'll be honest, boys.
I don't know if you feel the same, or it's just like, this is just a fad.
I don't recognize it as a thing.
No, it's not.
It's not.
In the same way you deal with people who say they're non-binary.
My mind just doesn't even listen at this point.
So I kind of look at that and think maybe he's right.
It's more social politics.
You're clearly a man.
Shut up.
Anyway, said to that.
The problem you get is that as 3D printed meat appendages become more popular, It's hard to keep the distinctions between the sexes more rigid.
So it's not just a fad.
If anything, you're going to get people that can... It's not real.
It's not a penis.
It's never going to be a penis.
You have no womb.
You have no balls.
You have no egg white.
Sure.
Sure.
It's true for now.
That's the problem.
As fertility tech catches up, you're going to see the distinction between reality and their preferred reality Close as a gap.
I don't buy it well speaking of transgenders he does have a thing for them because here's a video if we could I'll just try and play that so not so long ago Pope Francis bust a load of transgender women, men Sex women as well.
Yes, to go and have lunch with him.
And I thought... Transgender prostitutes.
He was like, come and get me a busload.
Yeah.
Alright.
Here's the thing.
I would completely understand if the purpose of this entire day was that the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope were demonstrating bringing these men to repentance.
I totally understand.
He just went to lunch with them.
Jesus died with tax collectors because he tried to pollute them of their sins.
Pope Francis just decided to...
Just had lunch with them.
There's something weird about that.
And to confirm that, it was just to show inclusivity.
I know, I know.
It's, you know...
I'd rather we weren't inclusive of degeneracy, personally.
Well, there was some good that came out of this news.
At least we got some funny memes.
Oh, Lewis!
Well, we're talking about being censored.
Sorry, what's the community note on this?
Yeah, the community note.
It's just like...
He never actually held up his phone!
But if you wanted, of course, a more PC or more sort of tame one, they did make another one, which was a bit more appropriate, of course.
Bud Light Drinker, Pope Francis.
Indeed.
I hope that's holy water landing on my head.
And the Babylon Bee obviously made a joke.
Embarrassed Pope suddenly realizes he's been reading the Bible upside down this whole time.
Which is probably correct.
So, the thing is, I'm not going to just pile on the Roman Catholic Church in this entire segment.
It's not nice.
Because the Church of England, of course, are doing the exact same thing.
Well, famously, everyone in the Church of England is an atheist.
That's kind of the point.
That's the most base thing you've ever said.
I agree.
Henry VIII's divorce court?
I think it's from Yes Minister, actually, in which they're just like, yeah, of course everyone's an atheist.
The archbishop or whatever is meant to do something.
Of course he's an atheist.
Why wouldn't he be?
He's in charge of income.
Well there was another one as well within the Church of England, where Jane Ozan says repentance is unnecessary for salvation.
Where she says the former member of the Church of England General Synod, who describes herself as a gay evangelical Christian, argued that if repentance is not a salvation... Slash atheist!
Slash atheist!
If repentance is not a salvation matter, then the church doesn't need to uphold biblical sexual ethics, is what she said.
Average Protestant belief.
Yeah.
Sorry, Lewis.
Exactly.
I'm not Protestant, so don't worry.
They're all Protestant to me.
To you, yeah.
Yes, and another one, the Church of England will condone gay couples for the first time as long as they were a man and wife when they took their vows.
Wait, what?
Yeah, that's a... that's a... Hold on.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Yes.
Right, so this is... No, this means transgender.
Trans rights.
Yeah.
Is this cementing the sort of gay archetypes of whichever of you is the more feminine one is the wife?
Could be.
Well, what does it say?
Well, it says...
Because are we talking about if it's transgender it's okay or if it's a gay guy who says he's a woman then it's okay?
The Church of England has for the first time confirmed that marriage between same-sex couples is valid as long as they were man and wife when they took their vows.
So one of the men is a wife?
Yes.
We literally have to realise who's going to be the woman.
Yes.
So I didn't want to go against the Catholic Church.
But not only that, the Methodists are up to it as well.
A husband and wife could be deemed offensive in woke marriage row.
Married couples must now be asked whether they wish to be referred to as husband and wife under woke rules brought forward by the Church.
Under guidance intended for members of the Methodist Church, ministers have been urged to avoid certain stereotypes in language So as not to upset gender, sorry, stereotypes in language, so as not to upset gender neutral congregations.
I wasn't correcting your speech, you were fine.
Oh, sorry.
Just the idea of like stereotypes.
Yes.
A stereotypical marriage.
Yes.
I mean, the marriage.
The American conservative Christians were so right about the abolition of gender differences coming with same-sex marriage.
It's aged like communion wine.
It's just ridiculous.
What's the point in that though?
I mean, are they both saying they're both tops now?
Because I thought we just established that if one was the bottom, they're the wife.
But now you can't even say wife anymore.
This is why you need different denominations, Callum.
The religion of Christianity just only exists to give gays identity.
To be fair, that's probably quite true about the Vatican these days.
Well, here's the thing.
I wanted to end with some verses that might actually help some people.
Yeah, I wanted to end!
It's so over!
It's never been more over!
It's never been more over in Christianity, no.
Listen, there are people out there like your taits who say, well, it's either Islam or liberalism, and he's just completely wrong, okay?
There are going to be Catholics now that will question, should I continue on with Catholicism?
There'll be many in the Church of England that say, I can't do this anymore and revert elsewhere.
I want to remind that it is in the Bible that Since the time of Jesus, that this sort of thing has been happening through ministries for a long time.
Not necessarily this particular issue, but in terms of corruption within the church and its doctrines.
And I wanted to read from chapter 4 of 2 Corinthians.
where it says, therefore, seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy, we faint not, but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants, for Jesus' sake.
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of the darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed.
We are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken.
This is what Nietzsche always got wrong about the Christian God.
He may be dead, but the whole point is that he resurrects.
Exactly.
So there we have it.
And that's it.
I wanted to end with that.
So I hope that brings clarity.
This is what Nietzsche always got wrong about the Christian God.
He may be dead, but the whole point is that he resurrects.
Exactly.
So there we have it.
Let's go to video comments.
So Christmas time is kind of an awkward time of year for me because here in Australia around December is summertime, not winter.
And it's about 33 degrees today.
Which is not too bad compared to last week, which was well over 40 degrees.
The thing is, because it's Christmas, there's a lot of junk food type things, which is when I spoil myself.
But at the same time, because it's summertime, you don't want to eat too much of it.
In fact, you don't want to eat too much food at all because, well, it's summertime, you want to eat less food.
So there you go.
That's Christmas in Australia for you guys.
You know, I never considered that aspect of it.
Yeah.
Christmas on the beach in Australia apparently is banging.
See, that just sounds like, uh, Cope from all the members of our generation that decided to fly over from Australia.
Yeah, it's just a boomer thing, isn't it?
Well, it's not just that, it's just like there's so many people.
This is why Clapham's full of Australians now.
Banging.
Banging, yeah.
Traditional boomer word.
Traditional boomer word, yeah.
I'm appropriating.
As he's on his lawnmower with his sponsor.
Stella.
Alright, let's go to the next one.
Today I wish to share a disease you might have.
In 2009, suddenly a new disease cropped up that comes primarily from lone star ticks called alpha-gal syndrome.
It basically makes you allergic to red meat and it's all but proven that this is due to an American biolab leak.
The majority of cases are in Texas.
If you have any intermittent stomach aches or skin issues or anaphylaxis two to ten hours after eating pork or beef, get tested.
Alex Jones has mentioned this.
Yeah, I've heard about this before.
I just thought alpha-gal syndrome was feminism.
Maybe you can take ivermectin for it and cure your gayness while you're at it.
Yeah, next one.
A very merry Christmas to everyone at the Lotus Eaters.
Only a week to go now until Christmas Day itself.
That's bad, isn't it?
Time's just gone by so fast, hasn't it?
Yep.
Anyway...
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and here's hoping for a wonderful 2024 ahead.
God bless.
God bless?
Thanks, man.
God bless.
Can I... I'll make a really catty comment.
I hope someone buys you a new headboard for Christmas.
What's wrong with the headboard?
There's a hole in it.
Oh.
I thought it was meant to be a symbol or something.
Never mind.
Rorschach test.
To the next one.
I'm Leonie.
I'm from Germany.
I will be learning Geordie.
AM say dodged the payments of 1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2019 and he fund extravagant lifestyle that the current presidents know they accused of wrongdoing and dem no mention him name for the latest indictment.
I like the striking out of Pigeon to Big Geordie.
I do like the idea that if Darren Grimes ever gets sacked from GB News he can just go narrate BBC Pigeon articles.
That's funny.
Go to the next one.
A society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
I mean, fortunately for us, the scholars are doing a lot of fighting these days. - Okay.
I have tranny arms.
I never- What?
They're not as big.
Hello, Lowacy is out of context!
Yeah, they're not, they're not, yeah.
That just reminded me that I need to go to the gym.
Lowacy's lifting video, you and me.
Let's do it.
Yep.
He makes an interesting point, though, you said about having the scholars these days doing all the fighting.
I mean, it's definitely true, the scholars of the Islamic world, they're not cowards.
I was more referring to the euphemism of scholars for all of the inner-city youths, but that is quite true.
Yeah.
I mean, we did, yeah, you used to have warrior monks, and also people that like the baseline... It's a weird way of looking at Al-Qaeda, though, isn't it?
They were a group of warrior monks!
Well, they were!
They were insane!
Insane warrior monks, yeah.
I mean, warrior monks are never usually the most, like, well-put-together people.
They're usually kind of lunatics.
It's like, what do we do?
We went and killed the Soviets, then we blew some towers off.
You know, you're kind of mental, mate.
Anyway, austere religious scholars, yeah.
Make a mod for Shogun 2, the next one.
It was my birthday this Saturday, so I took my family to this flower and light exhibition in the city next over.
And I just think it's so nice that there's still contemporary art that is just objectively beautiful.
So I wanted to show you guys.
It is quite lovely.
It's quite cool.
Is that, um, Michelangelo?
Yeah.
That's cool.
It looks like hair.
Or is that just painted strangely?
So it looks like a hairy ceiling.
Sorry.
I'm, I'm, I'm.
I also just want to say as well, I saw, so on our recent Brocanomics that myself and Dan did on dating apps and that, Sophie put a comment on the thing saying that we'd inspired her to finally look for a fella.
So good luck to you, Sophie, rather than just dating all the Simpson chat.
On that note, let's go to the next one.
It is quite easy to make a robot do pre-programmed actions and sequences.
Back in the 50s and 60s, they were predicting flying cars, robot butleries, and moon colonies by the year 2000.
And look how those predictions went.
Making predictions about future technologies is guesswork at best and fear-mongering at worst.
I mean, there's no real harm in having high aspirations, don't get me wrong, but One should always try to be a little grounded in reality, says the guy making mechs, power armor, and robo waifus.
Don't make the robo waifu.
I know, I never listen to anything he says.
I'm always just fantasized by what I'm looking at.
He knows there's a problem.
He's just fantasizing about his waifu.
I'm always obsessed with what he's looking at because like the camera there for example, I don't know if you noticed, it was picking up his face chair and then it just said confectionery tobacco Like he was able to recognize those items also in the room?
That's very impressive actually.
The ATF in the background hacking into his computer looking for anything else.
Yeah, firearms.
Unregistered.
I don't know.
I've been watching, um, do you guys know what Lethal Company is?
Yes, yeah I've been playing that.
I want him to make some spiders.
Oh yeah, what the weird, yeah yeah.
I don't know if he can make them fast, but that would scare the crap out of people.
Yeah, that would be scary.
Anyway, let's go to the written comments, and if there's a big old bell, and then I just say bye-bye, well, you know why.
Yeah, we've got to go to school lunch.
Yeah, school lunch.
Gotta be back in.
So, the Shadow Band for 100 buckaroos.
Hey, thanks.
100 buckaroos.
Awesome.
Just to say, it's a Christmas miracle.
Nice.
Which I'm not quite sure what that's in response to, but I'm assuming it's that donation, so there we are.
It is indeed a Christmas miracle.
On the Android waifu stuff.
Nord FC Xisuma says, I for one am very excited for my AI wife to join me in my pods and cook bug burgers for me.
It won't even be that though, when you're hooked up to the metaverse it'll be like Cypher from the Matrix, where you're eating the bug sludge but you think it's fillet steak.
You will just be lied to at all facets of your existence.
I think it's going to be worse than that because it's going to be real life.
You're just going to have your one bedroom apartment and when you come home, the AI turns on and talks to you and is like, hey honey, how was your day?
This is the thing.
You can only confiscate a person's space so much until they start getting discontented.
If you give them basically a coffin, but then you stick a helmet on them and make it think that they're walking around in a massive studio apartment, they're never going to want to leave.
Richard something says... I can't read that.
This waifu AI nonsense is just making me think of Besmonov's razor.
Always a tribute to malice that which has continued too long to be explained by stupidity.
Do not think that these commie moves are not unintentional.
Yuri Besmonov gave stark warnings when he defected to the West.
Everyone just laughed at him, but who's laughing now?
It's a combination of both, I think.
This is what I said about the dating apps.
It's like, yeah, the dating apps have a profit incentive to keep you single, but also how everyone acts on the dating apps affects the dating market for people that aren't even on the dating apps.
I just don't think it's even applied here.
I mean, for all the best and worst warnings about leftists, he's right.
But when it comes to non-leftists, like people trying to make money by selling you robot waifu, like they're just selling robot waifu.
I don't really care.
It might be part of the broader depopulation agenda, but you'd need to connect that thread.
Yeah, I don't think there is one.
So it's just seeing things where there aren't.
Henry Ashman says, I just couldn't imagine introducing an AI girlfriend to friends and family.
It's like bringing a sex doll as a plus one to the wedding, except this AI gets daily Longhouse firmware updates and will knock at you from the government.
That is hilarious, actually, to think of that aspect.
Longhouse at the middle of the global village.
Baystapes says, so even my AI wife still gets randomly moody for no reason?
Yeah, I'm sure she'll be so.
You know how all those brown women in politics, they've all got white husbands?
Yeah.
And then they all whine about white people.
That's a trend.
Like, I wonder if you pick a brown waifu, will she just start quoting anti-white stuff back to you?
Like, white men are disgusted by them.
She'll say, yes, tell me more.
Anyway, Henry Ashman says, Humza wants to police hate speech said in private up in Scotland.
Alexa, listening in is bad enough.
This AI could gaslight you into the sounds of it.
I do wonder if you have naughty conversations with your AI wife.
She's gonna call the police.
Well, also, you know how they keep training AI of... So, Replica was originally the dead person's reanimated consciousness.
Now you've got, what was it, Robert Kardashian had an AI made of him.
Tupac had an AI made of him.
What if the AI that's made of you, by your loved ones, is trained on all of your text interactions?
So, when they try and resurrect you and make a hologram of you after you die, it's just chained on all of the horrible, incriminating... Oh no, I didn't think of that!
Brilliant.
Because I give everyone an incentive to be as based as possible.
Because then they can't reanimate us, because they're just going... You ask him something and...
It's like T.A.I.
all over again.
Le French Husbandu says, In my days we had to worry about people on the internets claiming to be women, but really being men.
My child will have to worry about people on the internets being chatbots on top of that.
Gotta imagine that welt.
Ah, thank god it's just some guy trying to hook up with me instead.
It might be best to teach him to never assume a person he speaks to online is real and just ignore it.
Yeah, I mean, that's true.
You play RuneScape in 2030 and just don't talk to anyone.
I'm never giving my kids the internet.
Never buy a GF either.
George Happ says, I find that a bunch of pixels with some natural language training are a better option than conversating with real women, both hilariously and sad.
I know a lot of conservatives see this as a preserve of self-indulgence, but I personally don't mind it if women have some competition encouraging them to be better people.
Yeah, but you just don't like women.
Anytime a woman segment comes out, this thing winds.
Okay, but I mean he's not wrong, which is that women are bad at such things, in my experience.
It's kind of broad.
I don't know, it's like when you talk to women about anything historical and you realize none of them took GCSE history even slightly seriously.
They have no idea when World War I was there.
They don't know why World War II started.
What women are you talking to?
I don't know, man.
Genuinely, I think that might just be like a total disconnect.
Nah, man, you got poor women and you are not going to be impressed with their historical knowledge, their lack of 44 experience.
Anyway, so Robert Longshore says, Hi, I'm here to give you relationship advice, even though my porn actress career has ruined my brain chemistry.
Yeah.
Many such cases.
Yep.
So I always just find that funny about transsexual pornography.
Like that example there.
Wait, what?
Well, because it was Angela White.
Out of context.
With some transsexual.
In which that person is like, oh, I did a girl on girl scene.
And then Angela over there is just like, yes, your dick was great.
It's like, how do those people actually live with themselves?
Because it's just so stupid.
Why do you remember the name of this person?
Because it was in the article.
So I just, I can't get over the idea that she's actually sat there being like, man, I am engaging in lesbian porn.
Like, there's no way that person actually thinks that.
Moving on.
I'll do a couple from mine before we get hit with this mysterious bell.
Ram Shakalotta.
Oh, that's quite a nice one, actually.
Thank you, Connor, for your sympathy for the women finding out the truth too late.
It's not as easy as asking yourself about short-term fun against long-term rewards.
This person went to a grammar school where they weren't taught home economics because girls attending this school won't need that.
She said she was groomed from a very young age to pursue a career and lead family life for women who couldn't become solicitors and doctors.
Eyes were opened during the pandemic, and she found a wonderful man, in large part thanks to the lotus eaters.
See?
This is good.
We're spreading positivity.
This is a lifetime of the message that we have to deconstruct for women, and kindness will bring more results than sneering memes.
This is genuinely the approach I want to take.
I've had letters and emails from viewers that have said this at length, and so poking fun is all well and good, but we do actually need to show... There is a problem that we need to... Yeah.
We need to, yeah.
You can't just entrench the resentment, you know?
It might be easier to be right about all women being awful, but then, okay, you're right, and then you're bitter, alone, and dead.
Yeah, exactly.
Right.
Athelstan.
Ironic that the anti-capitalist youth have sacrificed the gift of children to climb the corporate ladder and pursue consumerism.
I mean, this is why so many ESG-funded companies were paying women to fly out of state to go get abortions to go right back to your desk.
Yeah.
New form of child sacrifice.
Uh, Dink!
Uh, this is from Nick Taylor.
Dink is a perpetual arrest of development, a huge change in responsibility comes, for children is an amazing opportunity for growth, and the ultimate rite of passage.
Married 17 years, three times a week is rookie numbers.
Alright, no need to brag, mate.
Blimey.
This is, not that bit, but this is the way that Cole always talks about it.
He's like, he says, the, The pause before your baby takes the first cry is always the most terrifying and also the most meaningful moment of your life.
So, you know, to be able to talk about it in that way, that's clearly more important than going to Florida whenever you want.
That's true.
Or you could take the kids to Disneyland.
Or don't, because they're really subversive, I suppose.
True.
Kevin Fox.
I used to work every Christmas in the army, so the pads married men could have Christmas off to be with their wives and kids.
I didn't get New Year's off.
That was the plan.
Quite often ended up working both.
Yeah, New Year's is the singles holiday.
So I don't know what this woman is.
Well, she's married, but no kids.
She could have adopted.
Whatever.
Point being, Robert Longshore, we're dinks.
We're genetic dead ends and our ancestors hate us.
We're dinks.
We expect other people's children to care for us in our old age.
Well, not just other people's children.
Random African migrants around the world who admit one in three to abusing their patients, according to the WHO.
That's the thing, like, none of these people in any of these videos know anything.
We're not dealing with people who actually think.
We're dealing with people who exist.
Creatures that follow incentives.
And this is my point, we need to set healthier incentives.
Otherwise they're just going to be... It's just the thing of hating them for not understanding us.
It's like saying a child doesn't understand you.
Of course they don't.
They're a child.
By Morroward, how do you take two lonely singletons and manage to sound even more pathetic when you put them together?
Dink sounds like sink squared.
Accurate.
Then again, anything multiplied by zero, no kids, is still zero.
Even the thruple streams cope.
Yes.
Although this is the reason for pride parades.
They want to make it as loud and in your face as possible because it turns out that what two consenting, or three in this case, or five and a horse, It's true.
Inadvertently.
No, I just don't understand throttles.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
them and it affects how they interact with you because their door, their bedroom door is not a magic portal they step through and they forget everything they do.
So in order to feel better about themselves they need to make you accept them.
So all of culture becomes about accepting them.
It's true.
Inadvertently.
You look quizzical.
No, I just don't understand thruffles.
I mean, greed.
That's about it.
Islam promotes thruffles, doesn't it?
No.
No, it's not a throuple, it's marriage.
Is it throuples?
It's a harem, isn't it?
No, it's marriage.
You just get multiple wives if you want.
But the caveat being, can you actually deal with them?
And if you can't, then you shouldn't do it.
That's the advice.
But then by dealing with them, it's often resorting to domestic violence.
It depends.
I mean, the funny thing I found out about the oil rich countries is that what really happens there is that yes, there are men who will have four wives.
The only men who actually do that, like statistically speaking, are the really rich ones.
And it is a culture in which you literally, they sit and think, okay, I want someone to do the dishes.
I want someone to park and that's it.
That's how they pick them.
And then because they're rich, they just, that's their life.
Like there's one girl that keeps the house clean and then there's one he has sex with.
Great horribly transactional.
Indeed.
They're really rich guys and that's that's the way the world works.
Like you look at Andrew Taylor or whatever where he's doing that stuff and it's just like okay well the version of him in the Islamic world is a guy who actually has to marry those women.
Just have to take care of them.
Can't worship two gods.
Well the women are happy about it as well that's that's the weird thing because it's This is the thing I love about traveling is you really do get into the minds of people who think like, this must be awful.
And they're like, no, I love it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um, but you're not going to influence that or change it.
So you just have to come to terms with that.
That's them.
This is us.
I just don't want it imported here via TikTok.
I'm not saying you should.
Yeah, no, I know you're not saying it, but when Andrew Tate's saying you can either have liberalism or Islam, I'm like, no, I don't want you at all.
I don't want either.
I'd rather you were rotting in a Romanian jail.
But that's the oil-rich countries.
I don't really know how it works in, like, an average place.
Like, not Afghanistan, not, like, Qatar.
Is there a middling... No, there isn't.
There isn't a middling Islamic country in the world.
There is literally just, like, poverty, revolution, insecurity, or everyone's rich.
Yeah.
There's not a single individual, is there?
Yeah, there's no class.
Even Turkey's now moving towards the poverty asshole.
Yeah.
Is it mass inflation and alcohol taxes and all that?
I don't know enough about it.
I'm gonna check how many of them are getting married.
Anyway, while we do, um, Henry, Callum's bang on about making dinks pay for their stupidity.
I've argued for a while that things like national insurance contributions should be tripled or more for childless people over a certain age and deduct it or even remove the state pension from them.
NHSN pension schemes are unfortunately pyramid schemes where we need the next generation to fund the current one.
So given this lot can be an insufferable drain on civilization and future, we should make them pay to cover the costs of freedom.
Added bonus, it helps avoid the need to import the third world to pay the difference.
I mean, if you jettison the system, you get rid of all of those incentives, and instead, you make it so that it's on you to work and save for your retirement, and then you need enough kids around you to care for that, rather than just relying on the state in the first place, and creating a demographic pyramid, and needing every African to come over and take care of you.
I mean, that would be the better idea.
But if we're working in a system of compromises, yeah, tax the dinks.
Why not?
Yeah, like if you were a populist party coming to government, these are the pillars you can actually lay down to change the data.
I mean, Miriam Cates has suggested basically the family tax credit and all that, and then the Tory party decide to persecute her for absolutely no reason.
Maybe because she's making them look bad.
Sadly, polygamy is illegal in Kosovo, so... Sadly.
Very, very big shame.
Anyway, moving on.
There we go.
Just one more, and then... Francis Taylor, I heard about dinks ten years ago, but among gay people?
It's definitely weird to hear a straight couple pushing the dink lifestyle.
Well, did you know Grindr was made before Tinder?
You'd think it was the other way around, because Grindr sounds like it's derivative of Tinder, because Tinder's an actual thing, like to spark up a... but... No demand.
High demand for Grindr in the early 80s.
Well there was, yeah, yeah.
Because this was the thing you covered on your lads hour.
It was a hookup app.
And then now, gay hookup norms have been applied to all of straight dating.
Straights have become gay.
Many such cases.
Anyway.
And for me, we have Captain Charlie the Beagle says, regarding the Catholic confusion, I've seen a few videos of some Orthodox priests claiming that the largest amount of people they accept to be converts are Catholics.
That's no surprise.
They see what the Vatican is doing and understand the faithful The faithful one is an adherence to dogma and tradition.
The leftists are slowly eroding everything.
It means to be a Catholic, all in the name of inclusion.
Not sure if this is wishful think or possible reality.
Do you know what?
Orthodox for Catholics is probably the best way.
This is why you've got the Uventutum and underground Latin mass societies and things like that.
And it's very interesting, actually, the fertility rate for Latin mass couples versus traditional mass going, not traditional, sorry, traditional Latin mass going couples versus Novus Ordo post-Vatican II couples is massive.
It's like two children.
So the Latin mass going Catholics are going to be inheriting the earth in like a hundred years.
Paul Nubara, I can't quite say that, sorry.
Pope Francis is a Marxist and acolyte of Paolo Freire, just like Soros and Schwab, the whole upper echelon of the Vatican and then something's been censored.
Okay.
The Shadow Band.
They're still orthodoxy Christianity for now.
Robert Longshore.
Transgenderism will go the way of Jacks, Yo-Yos, Pogs, Tamagotchis, the Beanie Babies.
Sure, some weirdos will remain that think that they are the coolest thing ever, but they are the weirdos and will get laughed at soon enough.
Nope.
They are only weirdos because it's currently so obvious that they are not the sex they purport to be, but when extra-gastrational surrogacy or 3D-pinted meat appendages become an option, then transgenderism is going to look normal, quote-unquote, compared to the dialectic of, well, I'm going to print myself a tail.
I don't know.
You're going to get proper cyberpunk.
It's never really going to work.
These things never really do.
It doesn't mean it's going to be true, but it does mean it's going to be more common.
Sex will become cosmetic.
We've already got a The Note.
It won't be convincing.
Like, I'm 100% sure that no matter how much technology advances, this won't really work out, and that gives me strength.
I don't know, man.
If you've already got, like, Leo saying that his standard of whether or not he'd sleep with a tranny is if they're They're convincing or not.
The dialectics have already been moved in that direction.
Yeah, but again, this is what I mean.
It's a fad that happens in the West, and it's just like, okay.
You go to the East, and it just doesn't exist.
Yeah, because they haven't adopted the technology.
No, they've got the technology.
They just don't engage in this culture at all.
It's a real big divide.
Sure, but we also don't have their cultural bulwark.
Unless we rectify something akin to Christianity, which at the moment is being captured by it, what's the excuse?
What individual reason do people have to not adopt this tech?
I don't know.
It's just when people say stuff like, you know, they've got Christianity like Poland or something.
I mean, that used to be true.
Poland is now a majority non-going-to-church country.
When you deal with Russia, they had a century of atheism.
Their Christianity is really strange.
it's there but it's not like what we think it is.
it talks about revival all the time in here and that it you know it goes through peaks and troughs so I think throughout history you know we saw it especially in England during the Victorian era.
lots of things.
I think it just goes in in wave forms but like climate change!
I think what would require preventing transgenderism from Catching on, or at least the tech not being acceptable or legislated away is something akin to a Christian revival.
And I don't see that happening en masse in government.
Not in government.
In Russia, I mean, you have people who are listed as Christian.
They're Orthodox, of course, listed, but what people imagine that is, is not what it really is.
And so this theory that like, oh, as long as we stay Christian, we won't be infected with this stuff.
And it's like, Now the West is in a really weird, unique circumstance this happened.
I don't think it's bound to just Christianity or something else.
So that's why I think it's really just very unique.
And it's also something that will come and go eventually.
I just don't know how long.
That's my view.
I don't think it's going to go quite as fast as the comment suggests.
Henry Ashman says, I think it's time for the Catholics to invoke the quote, current day media fandom rules and just declare the Pope fan fiction and decanonize anything and everything he says until a new Pope is brought in.
That's pretty much what's happening.
This is the Latin Masco and Catholics who are going, sorry Vatican II?
What was that?
I'm not doing that.
Le French husbandu says Le French husbandu No, no, no, the anime accent Husbandu I'm not doing that Callum's referring to the Japanese as the anime accent Yeah, well that's why The Japanese don't talk like that When we're dealing with stuff like this Um
The Pope was put into place following pressure from the US who blocked Vatican funds until Benoit was gone.
The funds were immediately released.
Yeah, I said that wrong, sorry.
No, no, he's written it wrong, that's why.
Alright, the funds were immediately released once Francis came in.
He's yet another political pope, only this time he serves the interests of the US.
Another thing of interest Francis did recently was visiting Marseille, France to show support to migrants and declaring, I came to Marseille but not to France.
This is in line with the good old will of the US of erasing European nations and creating a United States of Europe as a vassal to the USA.
Seeing similar behaviour as well with King Charles.
Well, we saw it throughout his Prince reign, but it's into overdrive now with King Charles and that's why...
I can't support that.
No, defender of the faith.
I can't.
Yeah.
Yeah, unbelievable.
People got their backs up because on the week that he was coronated, I did a segment just documenting his ties to the WEF and things like that.
And people going, oh, you've been incredibly disrespectful.
We don't know he's going to act like that.
When someone's acted like that their entire lives, I think we've got a good track record of where his political allegiances really lie.
I'm just imagining if you were playing EU4 and then you become Defender of the Faiths and just engage in every war against Islam or Christianity.
Wait, what?
Sorry?
I'm not... Europa Universal.
Yeah.
It's a game that's set in the medieval time.
Right.
So being Defender of the Faith officially is that if any Christian country is attacked, you will defend them.
So... I don't know.
Poland gets attacked by the Ottomans.
So you have to go defend them as England.
But then the idea that you would have that for multiple faiths.
Yeah, like... That's what that means.
Grandfather of the world.
Yeah, if the Ottomans go to war against the Polish and you're defender of both Islam and Christianity... Just split.
Just civil war immediately.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're doing the it's always sunny thing of I play both sides so I always come out on top.
But that's why, like, word-wise, defending the faith means defending the faith.
Yeah.
So if you were defending the faith... Yeah, I know.
What do you mean?
Hinduism?
Christianity?
Same thing.
Scientology?
But what does that actually mean in practice?
Because the practice is you literally go and defend the Polish against the Ottomans.
But if you want to defend both sides, I mean, you split your army in half and just send half to the Ottomans and be like, alright, see you later.
Well, when the Caliphate rises up in the UK, as Bushra Shreik keeps telling me, I'm sure that Prince Charles will just defect.
Yeah.
And last two, Theodore Pinnock says, to be fair to Francis, the document does explicitly say you can't bless same-sex unions as unions or give the appearance of validating same-sex marriages.
But you're still blessing them while they're in it.
But yeah, this is the problem.
But you don't want to bless Bosh and his horse, where regular marriages are.
Don't talk about his girlfriend that way!
We're still blessing unrepentant sinners.
That's the reality.
But you can give sinful individuals in these situations blessings like you would give any sinner a blessing.
Well no, confession and repentance would be the prerequisite to receiving blessings.
So if they haven't then...
It does.
The problem is that no matter how orthodox the document technically is you will now get priests suffering hell on earth for refusing to bless same-sex marriages while people wave this in their face claiming the Pope has approved it.
He has approved it though.
He's tacitly approved it.
This is the confusion and it's making People just using it as a political tool when it's not a political tool.
And then other people getting confused.
Well, what is a whatnot?
And what is it?
Oh, I'm confused.
And, you know, the segment.
Yeah, last one then.
Face date.
No, don't apologise, mate.
I'm with Callum.
Apparently women never think about the Roman Empire.
I mean... We're different species, that's all I'm getting at.
We're definitely different species.
We're very different, but it depends on the type of girls you're talking to.
Nah, it really doesn't.
The D-Nets are not thinking about the Roman Empire, but they're like terminally online autistic girls.
Well, that's my point.
It's the average woman.
We're not talking about substracts.
We're talking about women in general.
Zoomers are a bifurcated generation.
Some of the children of the algorithm that followed, like, the NPC TikTok trends, or they're just Instagram thots, and some of them are the terminally online types.
I don't know.
Terminally online types we'll talk about.
I'm just comparing average versus average, and the man thinks about the Roman Empire more, is my point.
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So, Baystapes says, you'd be surprised, but the data released from Replica actually shows that it's mainly women who use it to have fictional social relationships.
Wouldn't surprise me.
Actually falling in love with the fictional characters, turns out that lonely men find their artificial girlfriends mainly on the hub.
Yeah, that was one of the... I couldn't really say it because I wasn't really sure, but it makes sense, right?
Where it's like, if men are going to replace women with something, like there's this... You know, you'd replace it with Pornhub because that's the instinctual need aspect there.
Whereas if women are going to replace men with something, One of you is going to replace the other with a chatbot It's not the men They're going to seek out the validation engine Particularly because most women's erotica is more literary Than it is explicit and visual But what men are going to replace it with isn't just like porn streaming sites It's going to be totally customised Pornography.
So you're going to get deep fakes first, which is really creepy because you're conscripting unknowing people into your fantasies, which is just gross and rapey.
But then that's going to transition into like fully customizable novel experiences, just like you can generate a film from a prompt.
Like people will just endlessly be generating brand new porn films with prompts.
That's horrible.
I wish I wasn't.
time to be alive.
Henry Ash says, can confirm the stupid 500 pound month Tinder tier exists.
They invited me to upgrade it.
Wait, upgrade?
Naturally, I declined as it's legitimately more than my mortgage payments.
But it was enlightening.
That's so funny, sorry.
And to see they're considered a profile of quality, I've amounted to five interests, four pictures, a buyer with at least 15 character, relationship goals, set as female and be photo verified.
That's enough to be considered a profile of quality.
I thought he was just plugging his profile for people to swipe on for a minute there.
No, but if you are a single lady, Henry Ashman in your area is looking for women.
I just want to make the general point of like, if dating apps were really set up for their explicit purpose of getting you off the app, one, the business model wouldn't work because they'd lose two customers at a time, and two, they wouldn't sell you six month long subscription plans.
That's the thing about Tinder, that isn't a dating app.
That's a fuckboy app.
Yeah, but you do know Tinder and Hinder own about the same company.
So, it doesn't matter.
So, Hinge is the one that's meant to be the more serious one that has the written prompts, and you're meant to select for interest in that.
So, there it is.
There we go!
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