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Jan. 9, 2024 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #818
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for New Year's Day.
This is a pre-record and I think the last of the pre-records.
I'm joined by Carl Benjamin.
Hello.
Founder of the company, CEO.
At least you got the day right.
Leader of all the fish in the sea.
Callum's ill, by the way.
I've still got minors long, so this is going to be crap.
Ah, God!
Alright, I'll try and keep it in.
So that we won't ruin the headphone users' lives.
I think it's too late for that.
Yeah, I think that's a sorry voice.
Ship has sailed.
Look, the rest of it I'll try not to cough.
So, we have some fun topics at least.
Oh, good.
Which are timeless, hopefully.
I don't know what could happen to ruin these in between now and New Year's.
Today we're going to be looking at slags.
Your favourite subject.
Eternal enemy.
Yeah.
You don't learn to be a civilization.
Slags!
Do Americans have the word slag?
Is that just a British term?
It's a British term.
They just say whores or something, don't they?
Whores, harlots, something like that.
Who says harlot?
What, Americans?
Well, a grandmother, like... Yeah, exactly, an American grandmother.
All right, fair enough.
We're also going to be looking at the fact that... Remember, American culture diverged from British culture like 250 years ago.
So they're trapped with our archaic language.
You know what I found out the other day?
The word homely isn't the same.
So you know how you say a girl is homely here, and it's like a nice thing.
It's like, yeah, you know, she makes me feel like I'm at home.
Homely in American English.
Means ugly.
No, no.
It means dull, plain looking.
Oh.
So it's like the girl next door who frankly is not that interesting.
Not the one you had a crush on, but instead just ugh.
Oh.
Yeah.
I was like, that's ridiculous.
How the hell did that happen?
It's got positive connotations.
Anyway, yeah, slags, so... They don't.
We'll be talking about them.
We'll be talking about how colonization is actually a good thing, which I don't agree with.
Oh, I guess the right people are doing colonization now.
Yeah, the only ones allowed to.
And Elon Musk's greatest hits, to play us out, we will be checking out his new mixtape, which I'm sure is fantastic.
Elon Musk's new comedy special.
Yeah, I mean, to be honest, he could do stand-up.
He probably could.
Well, he did, actually, didn't he, with SNL?
A bit of crap.
I didn't actually watch it.
It was just kind of autistic.
Yeah, but I find that funny.
Okay, well, the autistic special, out now.
Let's begin.
Schlags.
Now, Schlags, I think, are something we, I don't know, enjoy?
I'm not sure how we feel about Schlags, in general.
Well, now that I'm a dad, I'm totally not in favor of slags.
When I was a single man, I was slightly less hardline on the issue.
So slags are a breed of British woman who are, you know, something.
I don't think they can be cured.
It's just the way they are right now.
It's a phase.
And I thought we'd talk about them and how they need to be left alone by some members of, well, the world, I think.
Oh, really?
And so we'll get this up.
And this is the tweet that went viral and sparked a lot of I love this.
How did this happen to the British Empire?
It's like, okay.
We're looking at footage of women who are dressed, I don't know, slightly slully, I guess.
Revealingly?
Yeah, I don't know what the right term is.
They're going to Manchester on a girls' night out, a lot of them.
They pick up men and have sex.
I guess.
I don't know what else they're doing.
Getting drunk for no reason.
I mean, that's... I don't know why you wear revealing clothing.
Yeah, exactly.
Just going out for attention.
I love that!
I love how everyone has to deny it.
It's like, I'm going out for a drink!
Oh yeah, dressed like that, are you?
Yeah, but even when you're a man and you're in your 20s, it's like, yes, I want to go to the nightclub.
They don't.
It's just like, you know, if I find a woman, that'd be great.
Yeah.
That's really... I mean, that's why you're doing it.
Yeah, it's the same for women.
But this went viral because, of course, how could this happen to the British Empire?
Women of old did not go out and find men.
Which is true.
Especially not in this way.
Yeah.
It used to be a proper empire, Callum.
What was the nightlife of the 1800s?
There's a lot of prostitution back in the day.
Sure.
Prostitution has presumably always been with us.
No, but I mean there was a lot in the Jack the Ripper era.
Yeah, there was.
I don't know, maybe there were more slacks.
At least the slags were kind of siloed into a particular area of culture.
Whereas the mothers and so forth are at least wearing their proper clothes.
Yeah.
And I think this is what really sparked all this, because the conversation is about clothing, which, you know, it's kind of weird from political male to be sitting there.
I can't believe this happened in the British Empire.
That's a funny way of framing it.
Billions must die.
The empire has fallen.
It's never been moreover.
And there are some who jumped on this.
I mean, Pearl, for example.
Oh yeah.
A guilty pleasure of mine, I do enjoy her statements.
She says here, I have been telling you guys, women are no different here.
So in the United States, they have slags.
Oh, I believe it.
Called them something different.
The other responses were quite funny.
I mean, one of them, at least the main one I saw from... I'm not sure what to call them, but here we are.
There's just... I like that we have to develop new language to explain the things that are around us.
What do you mean exactly?
We don't have a word for this thing that has happened.
What slags on the town?
No, whatever you were about to introduce.
Oh, just this guy.
I mean, I'm not really sure that there's this, um, he's representative, I think of a lot of people, at least their response.
And I can't tell if it comes from a political point of view.
I think it's more like, um, I don't know, growing up in the modern era that they think this is fine.
This, this is great.
Yeah.
It's like, this is normal.
Yeah.
I mean, it is, it is totally normal now, but that doesn't mean that wasn't a change and this isn't something that happens all throughout the world.
Yeah.
It's a very unique normality for British life that you go out on the night and you punch legs.
And so there it is.
And the thing that made everyone more interested was, who the hell is filming this?
Because I think that was a good question, actually.
You look at this, it's like... Slag watch.
I wish I'd thought of that for the title now.
Ah, damn.
You can always change the title.
You know, I've done photography.
We have to film people out doing stuff.
And to be honest, as someone filming strangers, it's not fun.
It's weird.
Yeah, you feel a bit like a creep even filming a protest.
Yeah.
Because you're zooming in on a single individual.
A protest is fine because, you know, they're there to get attention.
Sure, but my point is that even there... Brando's wandering around the street.
But even doing a protest, there's a small element of social embarrassment.
Oh, I don't.
I don't.
I get this like a little voice in the back of your head.
It's tiny, but I imagine when you're filming... But you literally came out with a sign.
You must know people are looking.
Obviously, like you rationalize in your head, you're like, well, it's obviously ridiculous.
But when you are filming random flags, just try to find a man.
Yeah, that is kind of weird.
I feel like the voice should be louder.
And it turns out, apparently it's a Chinese man who has been collecting all of these.
And this is his TikTok.
And as you can see, almost 400K followers.
29 million for the one in Stockholm.
Have you seen the British fans versus Swedish fans at a football game?
They start chanting, your shit but your birds are fit.
Yeah, and then the Swedes just start chanting, go home to your ugly wives.
And it's just like, all right.
No, no, no.
My brother was.
Anyway, you can see here, there's a lot of British videos, Stockholm, whatever, of just women out and about and the various photographers doing that.
The reason I say it's a China murder is because like, he didn't always do Western stuff.
He mostly did like Shenzhen or whatever else, places in China.
And it was the same thing, but Chinese slag.
Turns out that the slag is a kind of platonic universal.
Something you will always find.
And that is really weird.
Like, why is he doing this?
What, who's staring at these things?
Because I'll be honest, like, I wouldn't waste my time watching this.
Like, if it's for the sexual appeal, you just go and watch porn.
It's not, it's not about the sex appeal.
It's about a kind of cultural moment.
Like framing, like this, this is something that happens.
This says more about us than it does about anything else.
Drunk women look silly.
Yeah, but it's also like, this is what our culture is.
I don't know.
I think it's just kind of pitiful for everyone involved.
Like when you get drunk and end up as a mess.
Oh yeah.
It's disgraceful, but like, that's the point, isn't it?
Like this is something that we tolerate normally.
But there's a judgment on this in general, which I found more interesting from like the moral judgey kind of right wing.
Yeah.
Which you see here is like, oh, it's a soulless life, these women.
I mean.
True.
Yeah.
Kind of right.
Yeah.
It's obviously true.
Like, as you grow up, I think everyone has this, where you look at getting intoxicated in a club and you think, what a waste of time.
Yeah.
Sincerely.
Uh, this clip's a bit weird because it's overwhelmingly women going to this club.
Yeah.
Most of the comments are just men being like, where is this?
Yeah.
Well, that, that would be the question.
Yeah.
But why, why is it all women going to this club?
Why do you go out in general like that?
No, no, no.
Okay.
You go out to meet a member of the opposite sex.
So why is it a club just with nothing but women?
I don't know if the hottest man alive is in there with a lot of money.
I guess so, yeah.
But I think there is a different experience for men and women when you're in your 20s going out like this, which is the, for men, I mean, you're kind of hoping to find a woman or, I don't know, have fun with your mates.
Whereas for women, there's an actual like intoxication of attention that can take place.
You sit at a bar as a man, no one is approaching you.
No, but this is, this is the kind of pre-internet only fact.
Is this what you and your lads used to complain about before you complained about OnlyFansGirls?
I didn't complain about it, but it's definitely, you are right, it's about getting lots of attention from lots of men.
Yeah.
I think the attention thing is really underrepresented as the female interaction with the internet.
Yeah.
I saw some lady, some clip.
Well this, go on.
She made an interesting point, which is like, men can replace women with pornography in the modern world.
Because that's the primary physical need they get.
Whereas the primary physical need women get is attention, and you can get that from social media, she was saying.
She was like, I can get so many guys talking to me and liking my stuff just from making posts.
And it's so intoxicating.
And I can replace a partner with that.
This is why everyone's infuriated, the Twitch thoughts.
Yeah, I think this is really where all that like, quote unquote, woman hating comes from.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
And like, there was a post on 4Chan where it's like, you know, gaming for nerds, gaming for nerds.
And it's like, ha ha ha, actually, you know, maybe, maybe this is where men are so we can get men's attention.
And then it ends with, like literally... Women with their tits out.
Yeah, naked women on Twitch.
And then them going, straight men not even like women.
It's like... I like gaming.
Yeah, exactly.
That's why I'm there.
You know, like, attention is definitely a currency.
It's so right about that post as well, though.
Whoever wrote that is a genius.
It's totally true.
It's totally true.
Because it really is, you have your own space, whatever, and then women want to become in that male space by the time they're done with it.
Yeah, lots of attention is to disrobe.
It's like, okay, I really just want to play games.
The dude lists all of it as well.
It's just like, what is it?
Cosplaying.
What's the end state of the women's involvement in cosplaying?
Being a whore.
Then you've got gaming.
And he just goes through all of them.
It's like the people you end up with the most followers at the end of this are not people who seem to be sincerely interested in the subject.
No, people like Hasan Piker.
Yeah.
Big shame.
Slags come in male forms too.
Yeah.
It's very sad.
But anyway, I think, you know, some truth in that.
The other story out of all this was the Global South.
Oh yeah.
Doing its thing.
How's the Global South doing with slags?
Well, they were all watching and GB News published a headlining like, you know, drunk scantily clad wills on social media.
People smugglers showing drunken scantily clad British girls in social media video posts.
Oh, that's good news.
Because the people smuggler TikTok obviously found Chinaman's TikTok.
We haven't really solved as for why Chinaman does what he does.
No.
Presumably there's money?
I, well, I assume that there's money.
Do you make money on TikTok?
I have no idea.
I don't think you make much, but you have to get ridiculous amount of traction.
I don't really bother.
I kind of, I really, really don't like shorts on TikTok.
I don't like shorts generally, to be honest.
I just find it a waste of time.
You know, there's a little on YouTube, you can hit the X and it'll disappear for two weeks.
Right.
I didn't know.
You're on desktop.
So literally every time I go on desktop, I say, get rid of it.
It's bad.
Anyway, but so the people smugglers found those from Chinaman's posts and then just reposted them.
And underneath their posts... Sounds weird.
You can see the Global South.
Love it.
Oh, yeah.
We have a guy here saying, watching from Zimbabwe, watching from the West of Africa, Gambia.
A guy tagging all his friends.
Watching from Sierra Leone, watching from Uganda.
Someone else watching from Pakistan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, the Benin Republic.
Alright, Benin.
We use the official title when we perv on women.
I am from the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland right here.
There's not the idea that you take that kind of pride.
Anyway, watching from Ghana, Sudan, etc, etc.
Yeah.
Remember I told you that there's this perception that white girls are basically just whores in the Middle East?
I mean, they're not doing anything to dispel that perception, are they?
I really think civilization is something we should probably talk about.
Oh, yeah.
I'll tell you a funny story.
I think I'm allowed to tell this one.
So there's a mutual friend of ours and he used to do various kinds of work.
And one of it was that there was this NGO who was doing work in the Middle East.
And so they sent this woman to go do this job.
And of course she was a single woman, so they rented her an apartment and so she could do a job.
She had Arab men turning up to the door every single day, knocking on the door, demanding sex.
And when she was like, what are you talking about?
They just thought she was a prostitute because they'd seen her coming and going from the apartment, but no husband.
So, well, there we go.
That's a prostitute.
Our mutual friend was bussed in.
He literally got paid to move into that flat and literally did nothing.
Sit there and look like you're with her.
Yeah.
He just had to be seen going in and out of the flat and suddenly the Arab men disappeared.
It was the cushiest job in the world.
Hey, yeah, but like, That's how the rest of the world perceives you ladies.
Yeah, particularly white women.
It's particularly rough in that regard.
That's what they see when they see you going out on the town like that.
Yeah.
But anyway, that's the net effect.
It's the global South doing its thing.
And that was something.
But the point the author was making with British Empire stuff was not just some billions must die point.
Weirdly enough, it was apparently a discussion about fashion.
Oh, yeah.
He's actually a gay man who loves fashion, I presume.
Because maybe!
The British Empire was a proper country.
They had good dresses.
Whereas now, look at it.
I mean, I guess.
There's him just posting about it here.
And his real complaint was that women aren't dressing properly.
That complaint.
It's not untrue, is it?
I mean, we just have some pictures here that he's taken, presumably from paintings.
Yeah.
Various outfits looking better.
Except that one.
I don't know what that is.
A mess.
But the point being, there we are.
And I think there's some truth to this.
Yeah.
I don't really know what I can say, but I mean, a lot of people start posting this at the same time.
As you can see, I mean, this blew up massively.
It's about timescales, right?
Like, you know, about 10 o'clock on a Friday night.
Yeah, you probably do want the one on the left.
But every other moment of your life, you probably want the I don't know.
That's the other thing I kind of hate about the Anglosphere.
I think it's definitely true for the UK.
I'm thinking it's probably true for the rest of the Anglosphere, but that's just bigotry.
Have you noticed that you look at women, and it's not true for men as well, but especially women, and they all look like they've shopped at Primark?
Do you shop at Primark?
No, but the fact that... But I did have breakfast.
But I did have breakfast.
That's why we look that way.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with buying from Primark.
I'm not going to stop.
It's good cheap slave labour material.
Exactly.
Someone's got to keep the third world employed.
But all of the women's clothing is incredibly boring as a result.
There's this weird aspect to it where, like, it may be a woman who is showing more tits than normal or something, and there's slight variations or whatever.
It's really hard to put into words, but definitely you look at a horde of women, especially going out on the town, and I'm just so bored.
Everything looks the same, even though they're wearing different things.
It's just like, you all have got something from Primark, and how can I tell?
And it's not to do with your budget.
So you've got, even if you're getting from Sheen or something, it's something weird.
There's a fair point actually.
There is a kind of homogeneity about it because if you look at like the traditional dress here, like that's actually really pretty and there's nothing stopping women from dressing and stuff like that.
Like men wouldn't be like, ha ha ha.
You know, men would be like, you look lovely.
What?
You know, they wouldn't think about it.
It wouldn't come up.
Right.
There's also a weird amount of uniqueness to it.
I don't know how we've become fashion watch as well.
Whatever, anyway, welcome to the show.
I don't know, I just think there is something to it.
I don't think people are talking out their ass.
I think I've actually got something.
What, about the homogeneity of slag clothing?
Yeah, slag clothing is boring, in a weird way.
No, no, you are right.
I mean, that is at least interesting to look at.
Yeah, but there's also something tantalizing about it in a strange way, where it's just like a woman who dresses traditional clothing.
This isn't new, obviously.
People have pointed out before, like traditional clothing actually looks hotter quite a lot of the time.
Oh, yeah.
And the slag clothing is not actually even hotter.
That's because there's nothing left to the imagination.
I don't know what she's like under the dress, whereas I know exactly what every inch of this other woman is like.
So where's the excitement?
I mean, after you've looked, I mean, you've sort of...
Yeah, I've seen it.
Maybe you're right.
Maybe that's the thing.
But anyway, that's something that happened and I'll end it off with something that maybe... There's also something more though.
It's about keeping something back for yourself, right?
So the woman who...
Is showing it all off is keeping nothing back for a man who would adopt a privileged position as being her boyfriend.
So he actually gets to see her naked.
And so this is something special that is something for him alone, uh, which is the implication in the women in traditional clothing.
Uh, no, no, actually every man doesn't have access to see what I look like naked.
And therefore that is more interesting and more special.
I'm not even sure.
I mean, this is one of these segments where I didn't really know where it was going, I'll be honest, but part of me just comes down to looking at more traditional clothing and just thinking that's genuinely more hotter.
Which, I don't know what to do with, but there we are.
I think the hotness is in the secrecy, and in the exclusivity of it.
There's a guy making a point here.
Boys want the one on the left, men want the one on the right, and women want men, so.
I mean, yeah, she has ripe tar over here.
There is within talking about clothes because it's about low time, but you're going to attract lots of men who aren't very high quality.
I know, but you look like every other girl.
Yeah, but I don't know.
It's it's not.
Yeah.
But that's the thing is you could be any girl to them because all they want is to just have sex.
And so, okay, well then if that's what, you know, if it's just about raw attention.
Yeah.
Then you're going to get lots of attention, but you're not going to find anything of any quality or substance.
Anyway, some funny memes for the other side there, but we'll leave that there.
To make my point, I think it's generally more hotter as well.
I have something weird to show you.
We didn't miss.
That's not new.
Anyway, you ever seen this?
No.
It's a really crappy German song from ages ago.
Like five years or something.
It's an old meme in which a bunch of German girls sing like a playful song about like there's a chicken on the radio.
Right.
And it goes quack quack and then there's a pig and it goes oink oink.
Very highbrow stuff.
Anyway, point being, this has an unbelievable amount of attention paid to it, and it has nothing to do with the song, obviously.
It has to do with the women and the fact that they're wearing the hot clothing, and the hot clothing is traditional.
There's an implicit promise in all of it as well.
This is, we're hiding something, and therefore the something that we're hiding is very interesting.
But anyway, people can let us know.
There is one thing wrong about this dress, just in case you're wondering, which is, of course, the traditional clothing is less revealing than the modern traditional clothing that's sold as costumes.
There we are.
Slags!
Leave them alone, I think.
Because what can you do?
Just ignore them.
Make it something that doesn't give them attention and they'll change.
Because if the currency is attention and they ain't getting any, they'll be like, OK, well, what do I need to do?
Oh, look, she's getting all the attention and she's wearing A lederhosen or whatever it is so okay well then there we go there's new fashion.
I love the idea you could get like all the millionaire men of the world and be like all right unionize boys no more going out with women unless they're wearing lederhosen.
Andrew Tate needs to up his game.
There we are anyway.
That didn't make sense, but whatever.
Let's check out something else, which is colonization.
Oh, yeah.
Now, good.
Awesome.
As long as it's happening to us.
Good vibes.
And if you think we might be a bit hypocritical, Alex, you've been pretty anti-colonization.
I still am.
I think you still are.
I'm not pro-colonization, though.
No?
For some reason, apparently, though, it is now the mainstream opinion of the left, which I suppose isn't new.
I mean, we've seen this from a few guys.
It's about revenge.
It's always about revenge.
I mean, your tweets are great at this, like poking this out of them.
Oh, yeah.
But I don't think you even need to poke it out of them anymore.
No, they're quite open about it because they know the power structure is in their favor.
The power structure supports them colonizing our country.
I think that something happened recently where I want to show off that this is the case, because you can see here, David, good friend of the show, decided to tweet out a video that someone else made of Spark Hill in East Birmingham, which the video shows is, well, it looks like Kosovo.
There's someone who's been to Kosovo.
I'm really annoyed when people say, oh man, this looks like Kabul or something, and they're being hyperbolic.
It's not.
It sincerely is exactly the same.
They're the same cars, you know, that Kosovo gets them from a different means.
Crime.
But then you look at the stores and everything else, the type of people, the products they're buying, the clothes they're buying, the food they're eating.
It's like, this is the same thing.
An Islamazai's place is an Islamazai's place.
And Birmingham's one of them.
Yeah.
And this had an unbelievably large reaction.
I mean, David's tweets blow up occasionally, but.
This is pretty big.
Massive.
And, um, well, the ONS data.
Fax us up on this.
I love you on it.
Okay, don't worry about it.
Yeah, I'm actually very satisfied with the... I don't know... What do I type?
The colonization of Britain, I don't know, like, piss off.
No, I'm actually satisfied with the maps and the breakdowns.
They are actually pretty good.
Yeah, and here's the maps.
This is Spark Hill from the ONS.
And again, just a beautiful tool.
It's actually... 6.8% English.
Yes.
And you can tell by looking at the video, can't you?
You can also, if you zoom out, it's just like, man, I wonder what's going on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's one area where people live and there's one where they don't.
And so, I mean, just as a side note, I am actually very proud, sincerely, because I don't think another country has better ethnic data than this country now.
No, this is fantastic.
It's actually like comical how good this data is, because you can go by roadside.
Yeah.
I mean, that neighborhood is... 1% English.
So there's one English guy, basically.
Yeah.
I don't know what he's doing.
Intermarrying, I guess.
Yeah, maybe, yeah, yeah.
Converting.
So there we are.
There's the ONS data, just to back up that that piece of footage isn't something that's unusual.
It's actually probably understating the change.
And, um, well, a lot of people think this is great.
This is fantastic.
Looks great.
What's your point, says person with Palestinian flag.
She, her.
Okay.
Ex-Labour.
Why do you think she left?
Masters in political science and social science, eh?
Yeah, you seem exactly the type.
Yeah.
So, I mean... Ex-Labour because they kicked out Corbyn.
I can't hate on the Zayas enough.
Yeah, that's what it's gonna be.
Yes, I hate those Zionists.
So you get the white women who, of course, think this is fantastic.
I mean, she's actually called Miss Dayglo.
So you're fed or what?
Maybe she is.
No.
The thing about, that's the annoying thing with right and left is she's followed by McDonald.
That's because McDonald thinks one day he's going to smash.
Oh, good luck, my friend.
No, no, but you get this all the time where it's like, you know, oh, there's a woman with like 12 followers and some big account follows her.
It's like, you're not, you know.
Don't follow women online.
That's my advice.
Don't follow women online?
Yeah, because people will think you're trying to get in.
Yeah.
Pearl, unfollowed.
Anyway.
I don't follow her.
All right, fair enough.
Preach.
From her advice.
She's like, don't follow her.
I was like, good point, Pearl.
No, I never follow her.
But the thing I was going to say was, like, you go on right-wing accounts and when they're weird or whatever, they're just like, obviously fed.
You go on left-wing accounts like this, it's like, obviously real.
Because they are.
That's the crap thing.
Anyway, enough of such people.
It's not just them.
Sure, Miss Dayglo definitely isn't a fed.
We have Dr. Shadee.
Yep.
Hello, Mr. Shadee.
No, Dr. Shadee, sorry.
Dr. Shadee thinks it's great, in case you're wondering.
Well, look at this.
England wants to colonize India.
God did them a favor and brought the subcontinent right to your backyard.
Well, God didn't.
Tony Blair did that.
Yeah.
Like we don't, we don't, we, we can get a lot more close to earth as to how this happened, but no complaining.
Say thank you.
That's interesting.
So when God gave India to the English, did you say thank you?
Did you complain?
Oh, no, you didn't.
Never reciprocated.
But the thing being that overwhelmingly the responses were exactly this.
It was people saying you deserve to be colonized.
The backlash comes, I'm going to have no sympathy.
I'm just going to tweet these things out.
What did you think decolonization meant?
Yeah, exactly!
What did you think decolonization meant?
I'm literally going to tweet that out.
But it's something you no longer have to get out of people.
You used to have to be like, oh, what's wrong with this?
At least you admit you're colonizing.
Yeah, it's just like, well, yeah, it looks like host, but it's great.
All right.
And then there are the other people who did the weird response of being like, ah, random thing happened.
Therefore, you have to do.
Oh, yeah, I saw one earlier.
Some guy from India was just like, I think I was replying to something like this as well.
He was like, well, Britain just raped and pillaged India.
It's like, that's not true.
What was that, the rape and pillage?
Yeah, well yeah, but also that's just not what happened.
And then someone posted a picture of Belgian Congo and they're chopping off the arms.
I'm like, what's that got to do with it?
Because the Belgians chopped off arms, Britain must die.
Yeah, Britain must take infinity Indians.
You're just not dealing with human beings at that point.
No, you're just dealing with anyone who just wants to shut up.
Just an NPC flat thing.
And this one is a great example.
This is the Singapore Mutiny, is it?
Yeah, so this guy said this is a picture from the 1915 Indian Muslims being executed by firing squads for refusing to fight against the Ottoman Caliphate.
No, it's not.
That never happened.
I'm sure their descendants now simply shopping around your land is the least you could tolerate, David.
That's bollocks.
Well, they don't have any descendants.
They got shot.
Well, they might have had kids already.
I don't think they're the ones over there.
But that's just not true?
Well, they're Indians who weren't even in India.
That's the other aspect.
They were in Malaysia, sorry, in Singapore, I guess.
What were they doing in Singapore?
Well, they were conscripted or at least signed up.
You said they were recruited.
They were recruited from India.
Oh yeah, we didn't use conscription in such places.
So they willingly signed up to fight for the British Empire and then because of rumors that they were going to be sent to the Middle Eastern front against the Ottomans, So, they weren't even going to, it was just a rumour that they decided to leave.
They decided to mutiny against the British, and as you can see there, decided to kill 36 soldiers and civilians before the mutiny was suppressed by Allied forces.
And the story is just wacky.
Yeah, it sounds like.
So they had these Germans imprisoned because they imprisoned some German ship.
And these Indians, they start killing all the people running the prison, all the British army.
Why?
Because they think they might end up having to go to fight the Ottomans.
It's like, okay, they did sign up for the army.
Yeah, what did you think you were doing?
But also, what has that got to do with any of these people?
So they then go up to the Germans and they're like, hey, what if we give you guns and you can, you can side with us and we can kill the British.
And even the Germans refused.
And the reason they refused is not because our British blood is so pure.
None of that, obviously.
They decided that the Muslim Indians here were so violent that they just didn't want to be involved with this.
You killed 36 people?
Yeah.
It was just like, oh God, this is barbaric.
We're the Germans.
Our barbarism is very orderly, thank you very much!
Yeah, so these fellas then went on and they killed a bunch of civilians.
They just started, as one quote said, killing every white person they could come across.
Including one woman, although this British woman who was killed was believed to be an accident, not really sure.
But they did kill Malaysian and Chinese civilians as well.
Because they're part of the white race.
Bad luck.
They also were going to conscript them to fight the Ottomans.
Yeah.
It doesn't make any sense.
They're literally just nutbags.
Obviously.
And so the British put up a defense and then the Russians and the French turn up to help us put them down.
And then we arrested them all, put them on trial and shot them.
Okay, good.
Because of that, Spark Hill must be Muslim land.
Yeah.
Okay.
Not dealing with reality in the slightest.
Obvious lies.
No, no.
This is all just, you know, just shut up and accept what's happening to you.
Yeah.
I mean, here's a local Islamist who loves- Oh yeah, dealing it.
Five Pillars UK.
You may remember him off the Piers Morgan Show recently, in which he says, I saw my aunt in this video.
May Allah bless her beautiful family of six children and 17- Just remember these things.
Just remember them.
Internalize them.
This is their opinion of you and what they justly get to do to you.
Just remember it.
And then the last argument after you've looked at this is, of course, endlessly, but Benidorm?
But Tenerife?
But Shagaloof?
But tourism?
Yes.
Because, of course, the people in Sparkhill are actually Pakistani tourists.
OK, when are you going home?
Well, lads?
Yeah.
20 years away.
I don't... Yeah, no, if it was tourism, I wouldn't complain.
But it's not.
So piss off.
I'm trying to think where that even exists.
Why Magaluf even exists?
Well, yeah, for people who don't know.
So the British, especially men, love going to Tenerife or Magaluf or whatever for stag do's.
And then go to a British bar.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We just, we can't, well, the biggest actual problem, if you think about it, people never go to these places and find out what they're talking about.
They always just talk about places they've never been.
If you go to these places, the thing that the British men are looking for, as you can see in that one there, breakfast.
It is literally just breakfast, which is why a lot of these things exist.
All they do is breakfast.
Takeaway breakfast.
Sincerely.
Because you go to Tenerife or whatever and you go to a place and it's run by a Spanish guy and you're like, all right, you know, let's try and integrate and talk to them.
And then they make British breakfast and they give you the tiniest amount of beans possible.
And it's just all wrong.
The sausages are wrong.
I don't want an English breakfast made by a Spaniard.
So then you eventually find one, which is as advertised here, British owned.
There'll be some Scot who's offering a Scottish full breakfast and English full breakfast.
At least I know what I'm getting.
Yeah, it's literally just that, which I find funny.
That's actually our concern.
We have no problem with eating foreign dinners, no problem with eating foreign lunches, literally just breakfasters.
Yeah, that's totally true.
But the point is, this is tourism, not colonization.
What now?
Yeah, I mean, it's not relevant, but even then.
I mean, if you want to talk about that, I mean, David here is just like, well, they have a right to give them out.
They don't, because they've got money.
And you want our money.
Yeah, they're not going to.
Yeah.
It's literally their entire economy.
Without it, I don't know what Spain is.
A fishery, I guess.
But whatever.
Going back to Birmingham, though, because, of course, the last offensive.
We have seen it.
Actually, this is a good thing.
Oh, yeah.
Where would we get the spices and samosas?
Yeah.
If it wasn't for mass colonization of Birmingham.
I mean, as you know, because there's no Japanese people living in England, we don't have any sushi.
Yeah, that's true.
It's impossible to find.
No, this lady here.
Go away with your racist BS.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I just find this so boring because, of course, it's like, what do you think about... Birmingham is multicultural and we all get along, except for the times when you don't.
But do you?
I mean, even on an average day when nobody's having a race war, I mean, you just don't live next to each other.
That's the thing that always strikes me about British conversations about multiculturalism.
And Birmingham is such a good example, because this graph here is white British, and there's, you know, a gap in the middle.
Have you ever seen Map Men?
YouTube channel.
So they did this one map once, which is a map of Berlin made by the communist German side.
So of course, West Berlin, they can't go to because of the anti-fascist protection wall, which totally keeps the fascists out.
So they just blanked it.
So there's a map in which literally about a quarter of it in the middle is just blank.
And that looks a lot like that.
Yes, and of course, well, who lives there?
Well, not the British.
It's, as you can see here, the Asians live there, and then in the center, you have the black population.
And this is along... It's weird that the Asians don't live next to the blacks either.
No, and it's literally neighborhood by neighborhood.
You see the gap in the middle where the blacks occupy.
Are they consistent?
It's just remarkable.
I mean, in every country that seems to have taken place in which you've had mass immigration, it's just really funny how in Britain it's so stark.
And even then, they're just like, oh, we all get along.
So you don't even live next to each other.
Yeah, you get along by having essentially segregation.
Yeah.
Segregation means we all live a happy life.
Okay.
As you say.
Vegan, socialist, feminist.
Yep.
Woman.
Yep.
Woman.
Okay.
Anyway.
All right.
Yeah.
I know the kind of person I'm dealing with.
Yeah, so I mean this is just comical, this event.
I'll end this off, though, with what I think is the argument why colonization is bad.
Oh, really?
Why colonization is bad?
Okay.
I learned this off with a bitch fight, which is something I had with a man named Mr English.
Oh yeah, he's got me blocked.
Yeah, he's got me blocked now as well.
His response to this was, it's wonderful, isn't it?
Why is it wonderful, Mr English?
Well, he has a good, good argument.
It's wonderful that the Brummies no longer live in Birmingham.
Well, he likes it because of the assortment of food.
I'm not joking.
I love that this is literally the most... Right, so John Stuart Mill and Bentham, going all the way back to Epicurus, they were always like, look, utilitarianism won't degenerate to the most base animal instincts because men are higher beings.
We have rationality.
And so we will always gravitate towards the intellectual pursuits.
And Otto English is like, like the food, like the food, like an absolute.
No, no, no.
But literally the argument is, oh no, men won't be reduced to the just mere pigs in swill.
And Otto English is like, honk, honk, honk.
Like, sorry, like unbelievable.
It's so true!
I know it's a meme at this point.
Love me swill, says Otto English.
But like, centrists will point out that colonization of the Anglosphere is a bad thing, and then leftists will just be like, food!
It is a meme at this point that that's what they do.
Okay, you disgusting slobs.
I don't know what a recipe book is.
I literally can't cook cereal, so I have to have a brown person make me curry or I don't feel right.
You can make that yourself, mate.
It's not actually that hard.
It's genuinely so pathetic.
Okay, what about your belly?
Yes, but it's also that aspect of like, I can't have white people make me curry.
Well, yeah, I mean... Because that's the underlying point there.
Went to Poland a few years ago, went to a Thai restaurant, was served Thai food by a Polish person.
Don't know how they did it.
Magic!
Yeah, you were there, yeah.
The waitresses were Polish, the owner was Polish, the chefs were Polish.
Everyone there was Polish.
Somehow they produced Thai food.
Some of the best.
I don't know how they did it.
It's amazing.
If only there was a magical book that taught us how this could have been done, that was made of printed movable type that we could give to one another.
Unfortunately, it's not been made.
We'll have to wait.
But until then, Otto English is going to have to worry about the swill.
The oral tradition.
The swill being made that he's going to stuff his giant piglet face into.
And just to make a point about this real quick, is that we can check out the average house price of this area, because again, I love- That's really low.
It is really cool how good British data is for finding out- That's really low.
So the average house price in this area is £179,000, which sounds like a bloody bargain for someone who's been looking for houses for a long time.
Yeah, but would you want to live there?
Yeah, that's the catch.
Yeah, the catch.
That's why.
And even then, that is high.
I mean, don't get me wrong, that's a lot of money for that place.
But I have to wonder as well, because I always... What area of the country does Mr. English live in?
Southeast London.
Oh, really?
Interesting.
The whitest part of London.
Fascinating.
Mad, that one.
Yeah, who could have predicted?
Because there's the thing as well.
I mean, not to put too fine a point on it, but obviously that house price would be different.
If it didn't look like that.
That's true, yeah.
But I do wonder, I have been trying to sit down and do that mathematical question of solving for X, in which I have to figure out how much that knocks off your house price.
Anyway, the average house price... It's about £200,000.
Yeah, the average house price in the South West, I think it's £300,000?
Yeah.
So, that's a hundred and something, so there we are.
£111,000 or, I can't do math, £121,000.
There we are.
But that's one place, which by, well, supply and demand rules, people don't want to live.
Because why else would the house be that cheap?
I mean, if the number of people coming in wasn't so high, that'd be a much cheaper house.
Yeah.
I asked the question about why do people want to live in Bybury and not Spark Hill?
And this is a picture.
And I chose Bybury just because it's a famous place.
For people who don't know.
Famously quaint and beautiful, as you can see from the picture.
Yeah, it's actually not that special, to be honest.
Like, all the villages throughout the Cotswolds are this nice.
It's just a small rural English village.
It just happened to go viral, and now there are Chinese and Japanese tourists who turn up en masse.
So much so that a lot of them think this is a theme park, because they can't understand that some areas of Britain are this nice.
Put up a little Japanese sign saying, please don't come into my house, I live here.
Yeah, I visited it and there are signs on the doors and on the, like, gates.
Just being like, this is a real house, please go away.
Like, you can't just wander into my house while I'm having breakfast.
I know you think that you've arrived at the Lord of the Rings and you're in the Shire.
Well, yeah, you actually are, but this isn't a theme park.
And for some reason, the house price here is well over a million quid.
Oh, really?
So, and that's just that one there.
It's amazing.
And you can check this out.
I love that the average peasant dwelling from 1500.
It's now the most desirable place to live in all the country.
Who could know why?
Progress!
I'm sure that there's... We're so far advanced to those backwards savages.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out here, because my geography is terrible, where exactly Vibery is on this map.
God, I'm so bored.
Just pick a little village, there we go.
Yeah, let's go to Ready Token, whatever that is.
Look at that!
Five mil, whatever that is.
Bloody hell!
Oh, there's Bybury.
There's a house for a million.
Five bedrooms, that's ridiculous.
I'd love to live in the English countryside, please.
Yeah, that's half a million, please.
That's just a barn!
Two bedrooms, half a mil!
God!
Yeah, another two bedroom, half a mil for that town.
Go to this one, 1.2 mil for four bedrooms.
It does look great.
I've been checking out American house prices recently and it is comical, the difference.
You want to live like an English peasant from the medieval era?
You're not rich enough for that!
You've got to literally be a millionaire.
Yeah, you've literally got to be a multi-millionaire.
You can pick any of these and you end up with basically the same thing.
I think David Cameron's house is around here somewhere, near Chippy Norton.
God only knows, but yeah.
Geography fails me, but it's somewhere around here.
But, um, I was looking at this American house and it's two bedrooms, massive front yard, a place to park your car, backyard, everything's... 150k?
99,000 US dollars for a rural American house.
at $99,000 US dollars for a rural American house.
And I'm just like, are you serious?
Imagine 90,000 US dollars in British pounds.
I mean, you literally... Sounds like 80, 75,000 pounds.
Good luck.
You can't buy nothing in the countryside, that's for sure.
I love the countryside.
I think the whole city thing.
It's kind of backwards.
You go to the countryside in America and some places you can get real cheap.
Countryside in the UK, because there's so little space, everything's half a mil.
And because everything's old and pretty.
Yeah.
But no, apparently Mr. English doesn't want to live here.
He did respond saying that it's awful, frankly, disgusting.
Says it looks like a lovely place, but frankly, I'd much rather live in a vibrant multicultural city with all it has to offer.
A slop.
Yeah.
But I got to notice as well, I mean, like we said about the people earlier, when someone says a vibrant multicultural city, what human being talks like that?
I want to live in the English part.
London.
It's like when you think you're at Christmas dinner, right?
Yeah.
And your cousin says, they're describing their relationship.
Well, he's talking like a travel guide.
What's worse than that?
It's like your cousin is describing their relationship with their wife and they talk, they use the word synergy.
So this is corporate speak and this is obviously diversity corporate speak.
Yeah, but that's the thing, he sounds like a travel guide or a holiday agent or something.
Yeah.
Like, you know, it's a vibrant multicultural city with all it has to offer.
It's like, okay, but I was going to live there.
Literally what?
Yeah, yeah.
Well, there's this kind of slop and that kind of slop.
Yeah.
Occasional breaking and stabbing.
Well, let's check in on the city in question because, of course, Otto posts about where he lives.
And this is one of his posts, which is, you know, average in London.
Oh, yeah.
Anti-Israel protesters chanting death to all Jews.
Something happened in Palestine and therefore this is absolutely grotesque and disgusting.
I totally agree.
Anti-Semitic extremism on the streets of London.
Who could have imagined?
Now, should we take a wager?
I'm not putting £10 on this.
Yeah, I was going to say, I'm not going to bet.
Yeah.
Is this more or less likely in Spark Hill or Bybury?
Just out of interest.
Well, obviously.
I'm not putting any money on that.
What would be the odds if we were actually bookies?
What would be the point?
I can't even imagine what an anti-Semitic protest in Bybury would even look like.
Yeah.
You go into the protest.
What protest?
Well, the protest about Israel.
Israel?
What?
Because something happened in Palestine.
Palestine?
What are you talking about?
But it's sort of comical.
If you went to Chippy Norton, where Clarkson's Farm is, and then ran into people who hated Jews, the question on your mind wouldn't be, you know, how can I, you know, should I talk to them about this and see why or whatever?
Your question would just be, literally, how?
Yeah.
How did you end up hating Jews?
This is like the Welsh Rwandan genocide.
It's like, were you just on the internet too much?
You know, you were just, you got sucked down into a rabbit hole and you decided...
Isn't this like, there's this Welsh guy and his dad for some reason just started the rind of genocide, didn't happen.
Yeah, Tootsie Lies.
All Tootsie Lies, boys.
But that's what it'd have to be for someone in Bybury, because obviously they've got absolutely no connection.
Yeah.
Why would you care?
From the river to the sea.
All right, Mabel.
Wouldn't it be comical to be a believer?
You've been on the internet again, Ethel.
There we are.
That's the cities.
They're so lovely and vibrant and multicultural and have so much synergy.
The house prices are bottom price and Otto loves them.
And the countryside is just far too expensive for the average person to live in.
Far too expensive for anti-Semitism.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I couldn't afford them.
Jesus.
I mean, if you want to retire, there's heaven on earth.
Oh, yeah.
Just a side note, we're not putting this in the clip.
I'm just going to tell people because it's funny.
Those specific cottages that have gone viral, they're owned by the National Trust and Otto was tweeting about how this is, you know, old working class housing.
It's like, in what century?
Yeah, in the 12th century, maybe that was what working class housing would look like.
I mean, you could go as late as, I don't know, 1800s or something, but obviously not where we live, and not where I've lived my entire life, or he's lived his entire life.
Working class houses!
You have no idea, Otto!
What their actual purpose is today, is you can rent them, and the rent is so you can book them for three days to live in, and it's £600 plus.
Just to stay in them.
Like a working class house is a two or three bedroom terrace house.
So you've got it's prefab housing.
It's just, you know, rows and rows and rows and rows of the same goddamn house.
Well, only if you live in the modern day.
Yeah, exactly.
That, yeah.
But that's what working class housing is because the working class are a product of the industrial revolution.
So they needed to house all of these new people in the cities.
So they gave them really terrible tiny houses.
That is the cottages are an absolute luxury compared to working.
There we are.
Good God.
There you go.
We'll move on to the last segment and then we'll be off.
Yeah.
You can enjoy getting your hangover treated, audience.
So.
Eating leftovers.
Elon Musk's greatest moments.
I thought we'd have some fun.
Yeah, why not?
Because you sent me this article.
I did.
And it's from Rolling Stone.
Elon Musk's nine unfunniest jokes from 2023.
I mean, you know this is going to be salt.
This is nothing but salt.
I love salt, mate.
Well, let's enjoy it, I suppose.
And then we'll see as to why this person wrote this.
Just keep it in mind, Miles over here, Miles Clee, is very upset about Elon for some reason.
But here we go.
So this is his list of the worst- Oh, now, let's read the intro a second.
Oh, if you want to.
Outside of his cadre of devoted sycophants, most rational people can agree that Elon Musk, for all his efforts to prove otherwise, is painfully unfunny.
Well, I don't agree.
Apparently he's got a cringe sense of humor.
I've been told he's cringe.
He's a troll who is fluent in meme culture.
Okay, yeah, well, I like those things.
I mean... Normal, funny people hate memes.
Yeah, if there's one thing every comedian agrees on, it's that memes suck and are boring.
I don't understand.
But, well, we will.
We will understand very quickly, I think.
And, um... Alright, well, let's get on to the first thing.
So, of course, the pictures in here of Elon looking bad, because why wouldn't you?
He went with the first biggest joke that Elon did was firing almost everyone at Twitter.
I thought that was hilarious.
That's still funny.
Yeah.
That still warms my heart.
When I read it, again, doing this segment, I was just like, oh yeah!
I forgot he did that.
Yeah, mega wins.
Firing everyone at Twitter.
I mean, I did think that was hilarious at the time, and I still think so now.
I forgot how funny it was as well, because as they mentioned, he boasted that he cut 80% of the staff.
I mean, that is great.
Like literally in the, in the context of all of the, uh, you know, affluent white women going, this is my day at work.
I go and get my smoothie or whatever.
And then I go and have a meeting.
Then I go and get some, you know, exotic avocado toast.
And then I go to the gym and then I have another meeting and then I go to the balcony and then I go swimming.
It's like, you don't, you don't do anything that produces any kind of value.
Milan's just like, you're gone.
Gets paid 100k by the way.
Yeah, exactly.
Gets paid 100 grand a year and he's like, yeah, you're all gone.
Love it.
I mean, of actual physical human wins, the right has, which don't really exist.
It's more one of the left lost in this case.
This is a genuine.
Yeah.
I mean, 80% of the staff of Twitter were literally just people's he-puts who were focused on censorship instead of dealing with kiddie porn.
For some reason.
That was much lower on the priorities.
Once you get rid of them, you actually figure out you don't need them.
They were providing no value!
Yeah, 80%!
How is that not funny?
And it's the kind of people that he's cussing as well that makes it even funnier.
Yeah.
Like if these were like, you know, minors or something, dads who needed their jobs, it'd be a tragedy.
No, no, no, no, no.
23-year-old die people.
Yeah, exactly.
This is the affluent diversity hires who literally just float on top of civilization and produce nothing of value.
No, they definitely deserve it.
They literally spent, I don't know how long, Twitter has been oppressing the Anglosphere with its censorship.
I mean, sincerely.
I'm not trying to be hyperbolic.
No, no, they deserve to go, it's good.
Those human beings, of all the worst human beings of the regime, I mean, the former Twitter employees were definitely some of them.
But also, they don't even know that they're bad people, that's the thing.
At least the Nazis had the humility to go, okay, we're going to try and hide this.
We know we're evil, actually.
These people are evil and they don't even know it.
Who was that lady who was shit-talking you on Joe Rogan?
Sajaya or whatever.
Oh, Vajaya, yeah.
Yeah, Vajaya.
I mean, like, she is a perfect... She got fired.
Yeah, but she's the perfect face of, like, this person is useless, literally just exists to justify censoring people she doesn't like politically.
Again, got paid, what, like 200 grand?
Something unbelievable.
She doubtless got massive payout as well.
And that's just one person.
That's a single human being.
But I don't know how many 80%... How many human beings 80% of Twitter staff is.
Watching a single human being get what they deserve is funny.
Watching thousands of them, all in one swoop, getting it.
And the net effect being far more productivity in the United States, far less wasted money, and more freedom in the United States.
And not just in the United States, I got my Twitter account back.
Yeah, international!
The tide goes, I'm back!
Elon brings back Alex Jones!
Come on!
This is a net win!
Which way is the world better off?
That's what I'm saying.
So anyway, that's the first one.
And obviously he whines about how... Ah, he did this!
It's like... That's all you've got, is it?
Yes.
Great.
Alright.
I'm pro him doing this.
The next one is answering media requests with a poop emoji.
I remember this!
That's not funny!
How dare you laugh!
Yeah, yeah.
Press out Twitter just auto-responds with a poop emoji.
That's so good.
Yeah.
That's exactly how they deserve to be treated because they are scum.
And this is where the wording of this dude just gets really funny.
He says, harboring the utter contempt for the media befitting a billionaire.
No, no, no.
100% endorsed.
Every billionaire should harbor an utter contempt for media that goes way beyond what the average person should know.
And the average person should treat the media like tobacco salesmen.
Also, it's not true.
I think of all the billionaires.
Warren Buffett... Oh yeah, loads of total suck-ups to the media.
Media suck-ups to them.
They either suck up what they buy and own it.
Yeah.
Musk is... I think he's right when it comes to media.
F them.
Anyway, Musk in March decided to cut off the direct line of contact between journalists and Twitter.
Brilliant!
Sorry, you deserved one.
If only they'd all do that.
Yeah.
Sorry, you deserve a privileged position.
Yeah, no, no.
Perfect.
Announcing that all emails sent to their addresses for press inquiries will go unanswered forevermore.
That's amazing!
Like, what balls!
Like, honestly, I don't like praising Elon because it's one of those things a lot of people do, and so it's kind of gauche.
But that's just brilliant.
That's exactly what I would do if I were in charge of Twitter.
That's one of the things I loved about Dominic Cummings when he first got in with Boris Johnson.
It's one of the first things he announced and I remember utterly, I still love it to be honest.
Where he just turned around and said, oh yeah, the press room, that's closed.
We're not going to talk to Sky News, we're not going to talk to the BBC, there is no room you can talk to us.
You can read our tweets.
That was his response to them asking for things.
Elon Musk's response.
Yeah, you're literally no more precious than the guy with the camera outside.
So I don't care.
But he says, while the gag may not have reached its ideal audience, six-year-olds who watch YouTube on iPads... Oh, no, no, no.
Ideal audience are the dissident right-wingers.
You've been suppressing for the last six or seven years and were sick of, really hate the media.
And suddenly Elon Musk is just like, this is all you get.
And it's like, That really landed.
Well, he phrases it differently, saying, it's stuck with many of those who see the post as a fitting omen for the future of the platform under Musk, and even more for his believers.
And then he ends this off with, seriously, can you just shut up and focus on Tesla again?
One said in response to this, there's some guy.
Yeah.
There are 9.3 thousand responses to that tweet.
Right.
This guy picked one, which is that you should shut up and focus on Tesla.
You want to guess if that was the top tweet response?
No, it wasn't.
Top tweet is that you get what you ethically deserve.
Yeah, that in particular had 69 likes.
So I presume it was literally him on his alt account.
Yeah.
What else?
Anyway, then they move on to the next greatest gag, which is, as they put it, pretending he would sue the Anti-Defamation League for defamation.
I mean, that would be great.
Yeah.
And they'd definitely put them in their place.
I forgot how funny this was because the story actually is pretty good.
Go on.
So they say, this one's an Elon classic.
Identify what you see as a erroneous irony and harp on it endlessly in the vain hope that people will remark upon your cleverness.
Again, look at the salt.
I can just write like a normal human being.
Oh yeah, no, this is just pure venom.
In this case, Musk was at war with the Anti-Defamation League.
Bravo, bravo.
Someone needs to go to goddamn war with the Anti-Defamation League because they're a cancer.
A Jewish non-profit for supposedly... Supposedly.
They literally ran the campaign to petition advertisers to boycott.
Well, they were supposedly fomenting the advertiser boycott.
They proudly did it!
Parentheses correctly.
They supposedly did this, but they didn't.
I love it.
But then, correctly observing it become a swamp of unchecked antisemitism.
But they proudly ran the boycott campaign.
I love it.
They didn't do it, but I wish they did.
But also, they definitely did it.
And they should do it again.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, it really is like the Holocaust memory.
You meet a Holocaust sniper and they're like, it didn't happen, but I wish they did it worse.
So what are you dealing with?
So you're not a sincere person.
Well, he certainly beat that dead horse for a while.
And in far greater irony, while the ADL paused its own ad spending on Twitter amid this feud, it resumed.
Oh, it wasn't just the ADL.
Come on.
Let's be honest.
They were literally petitioning all of the other big companies to do it.
But this is the funny point because they stopped their advertising but they resumed advertising in October.
Yeah, so did Netflix and so did Disney and all these other places.
I don't think Disney and Apple are back yet.
Oh, they're not back yet.
I know the next Netflix thing.
But that's the funny thing, where we're all like, ha ha, look, he pretended to fight the ADL.
It's like, bro, he literally got them to start spending on Twitter again.
Yeah, he threatened to sue them as well, and they shut the hell up.
And then started giving him money through the advertising system.
It's like, again, win.
Okay, weird person to write this.
Threatening to turn NPR into National Pumpkin Radio.
What?
I didn't see this.
This is just funny.
I won't read the whole thing, because to be honest, I can't deal with Spenham anymore.
But NPR were tweeting, well, falsehoods.
Oh, really?
Who could have imagined?
Being partly funded by the government, Elon decided to instruct his guys to put government-funded media as a tag.
And they threw a hissy fit.
And instead of refusing to take government money to get rid of that tag, they decided they just weren't going to post on Twitter anymore.
And they were the first media outlet to leave Twitter!
Let's hope they're not the last.
So they wrote a story, and they contacted Elon for comment.
And Elon wasn't really interested in whatever they were saying.
He was just like, are you guys going to use the account again or not?
And they said, well, obviously not.
And he says, well, ads, which are noteworthy, if they're dead, we'd like to reuse them.
And you're not using yours.
So do you mind if we reuse it for someone else who needs NPR?
And they responded all pissed off, being like, well, who needs it?
And he says, well, National Pumpkin Radio, for one.
They need NPR, and you're not using it.
That's hilarious!
That's just funny!
What I love about this is that they're desperately trying to fight him and he's just got no respect for them at all.
No, why should he?
Yeah.
But you are government funded, you do take government money.
Yeah, you literally are government funded media and you throw a pissy because he put that on your thing.
But the thing is, you would want that for literally everything else.
Like, you know, George Galloway got like tagged as Russian affiliated media.
I'm not saying he's not, but like, I don't think he is.
Well, he might be, I don't know.
They had a show on Russia Today, I know that, so that's probably it.
Yeah, so, okay, fine, put that on there.
But don't then complain that you're like, well, you are state-funded media, like the BBC should have that.
I'm pretty sure it does have it.
Well, that's the thing as well, it's like, oh, it's only 1% of our budget is federal funding.
So?
Well, how much of George Galloway's income is Russia Today?
It should be 0%.
Exactly.
It doesn't matter what the percent is.
0% of our budget is the government.
Can you imagine if we did?
I'd love to.
No, but we would just, you know... Give us some money.
You know when people take ad reads?
Yeah.
Like, I don't know, Colgate Toothpaste.
And they just start telling you about how crap Colgate is in the ad read.
And then the ad read pulls.
And that's what I think we'd do.
Once the government sponsored us.
I mean, I would love for the government to sponsor us.
All right.
Willing to take their money.
But anyway, enough National Pumpkin Radio.
I pay them enough, so, you know.
Yeah, it's really a tax rebate.
Yeah, exactly.
This is a tax rebate.
Can you guess what the next evil is?
Having fun with Bill Maher?
Yeah, literally, riffing with Bill Maher.
I don't even know what to say about this.
This is silly.
The most right-wing person of all, Bill Maher.
Unfunny jokes that Elon Musk has done.
Having fun.
Yeah.
Okay, alright, you're a normal person.
The next one, taunting Mark Zuckerberg.
Oh yeah, this is good.
When's the boxing match?
Yeah.
Again, this is interesting, man.
This was fun.
This, you may remember, is him challenging Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fighting match.
Yeah.
And then when he said he had to get back surgery so he can't do a cage fighting match, he proposed a literal dick measuring contest to the ruler.
I mean, to be honest with you, I think Zuckerberg had beaten him in the cage match.
Yeah, probably.
Zuckerberg's ten years younger and he trains.
But we're not here to talk about the cage match.
It's instead, this isn't funny, trust me bro, says the Rolling Stone.
Oh yeah, it's not funny challenging the CEO of Facebook to a cage match.
Yeah, that's great.
Let's do it.
And I'll quickly end this off, because you can see, he offered to give Wikipedia a billion dollars to rename it Dickipedia.
That's not funny.
Okay.
Chatting with his AI bot Grok.
That's not funny.
Okay.
Okay.
But who are you?
Someone who really hates fun.
And then the last one, the real reason.
The last one is Dizzy Ross.
Oh no, dude, that's definitely funny.
That's not funny.
How dare you?
He wrote, Wait, Rolling Stone emoji is still alive.
It's not a real publication anymore.
It's just a source for Wikipedia citations.
That's literally true.
And the author writes, ouch, I guess we can't all be fake news media rags where you get your right-wing conspiracy theories.
I'm not even that.
You're getting pegged by him, and then being angry about it.
Just like, no, I'm better than this.
Okay, whatever.
Just honestly.
But this was funny, don't get me wrong, as a piece of media.
But I decided to do a little bit of digging, because of course, what am I looking at?
Yeah, why did this come into being?
Because you can check out this fella, Miles, over here.
I'm just going to read you some headlines that he's written recently.
Because, well, you get the point.
Yep.
Conservatives heartbroken that Kid Rock gave up the Bud Light boycott.
Tesla drivers... Hang on, he obviously got paid off, so yeah, why wouldn't they be?
Tesla drivers upset that the government wants their cars to be safer.
The curious alliance between Alex Jones and Elon Musk.
The far-right resurrects the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory.
I mean, I love that on the trending there, Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirators' victims' names to be made public on January 1st.
Far-right conspiracy theory?
Yes.
As reported in Rolling Stone.
Yeah.
Right-wing trolls waste no time in trying to start a transphobic grand theft auto backlash.
This guy really needs to get off Twitter.
Get ready for Tesla's Cybertruck delivery event to totally flop.
This is before this event that happened.
For some reason, he just is obsessed with Tesla.
Just really is annoyed that the right keeps getting wins.
Elon Musk wades deeper into anti-Semitic propaganda.
Elon Musk blames Anti-Defamation League for destroying the website he ruined.
Oh yeah, yeah.
That's the news, is it?
Okay.
The big list of Elon Musk's hyperball evasions and outright lies.
And this guy's furious about Elon Musk.
Yeah.
You can feel the anger as he types.
Half of the stories he writes are literally, I hate Elon Musk and Tesla.
Or, the right.
Ugh, am I right?
Okay, so this human being, this Miles guy, why has he got a job?
Well, it's not because he's interesting.
I'm reasonably sure that ChatGPT could replace him.
Yeah.
Miles isn't an interesting person.
He has no style.
He has no character.
He has nothing that couldn't just be replaced with the next person they need writing at the Rolling Stone.
No, unironically, AI.
Just ChatGPT him.
Maybe he is.
You could do it.
Write an anti-Elon Musk article in the style of a very salty left-winger who's sick of Elon Musk winning.
Yeah.
Utterly replaceable.
Every single day you can have one of these.
Utterly replaceable is what I'm getting at.
And this is a problem you find in all mainstream media outlets, is that you could replace the talking head with anyone, because they're not really human being you're dealing with, you're just dealing with, as you say, an outlier.
A person based in Los Angeles, yeah.
But here's where that problem gets a bit bigger, because of course the Rolling Stone really just hates Elon.
And not just that guy, but every other thing they write.
So Elon Musk, big lie about Tesla, finally exposed.
And this got community noted, of course, because they did it on Twitter.
God, I do like community.
Idiots.
Oh yeah, the recall.
I love this lie, though.
This is so good.
It's like, oh, there's a two million Tesla recall.
It's an update, right?
There was an update, literally a software update and it's like over the air software updates.
What are you talking about?
You just literally lying.
And he's like, yeah, but it's false right wing conspiracy theories.
You're just liars.
But why does any of that exist?
And usually, there's an ideological lunatic, like Vosch, who needs to tell you that Karl Rittenhouse killed three black men or something.
I mean, these are ideological lunatics.
You'd think, right?
But the ideological lunatics, in a lot of cases, especially with corporate media, are not really interesting.
As mentioned, they're just tools.
They're utterly tools for other human beings to play with.
Because ideology isn't really the be-all and end-all of most of actual society.
It's money!
Money is really all that matters for a lot of people.
We massively underestimate it as people who are interested in politics and truth and ideas.
Yeah, probably.
Really, money is where it's at.
And so why does the Rolling Stone exist?
Well, it's owned by a guy whose dad, funnily enough, owns Perks Automotive Group.
Who?
Penske.
Penske, sorry.
Automotive group.
Their entire existence is literally just because they own loads of dealerships and want to sell used cars.
Oh, right.
So, of course, Tesla... Beyond selling new cars.
Yeah, Tesla setting up its own dealerships and selling the cars directly to you or over the internet.
Um, yeah, funnily enough, that's kind of a threat.
Very interesting.
Because if that becomes the industry standard, that people just buy cars over the internet and never go to a dealer if they can help it.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, your business don't exist.
And this is, this is the fellow here.
He's the dad of the son here.
The son runs the media group.
The dad runs the selling cars business.
Fascinating.
So.
No idea.
Yeah.
65,000 employees, blimey.
And it's a lot of money at stake.
I mean, this group here, you can see the revenue is 22 billion.
Yeah.
Which, net income, half a billion.
That's pretty nice.
10 billion on assets.
This is really where I think most of, especially American, media actually exists.
There's probably something to this.
Because we have this view of like a lot of online discourse and media, etc.
It's all about ideological stuff.
When we're dealing with like Twitch streamers or, you know, I'm thinking Vosh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, I know, because it is.
He's a perfect example.
Yeah, yeah.
Where it's proven now at this point.
I mean, there's a great like three hour breakdown of it on Dev's channel.
Where he says that, yeah, I'm going to tell lies, be evil for my ideological position to win.
It's like, okay, that's at least understandable.
Yeah.
At least there's a, there's a kind of honesty to it.
Why is someone like this writing that kind of crap?
And it's because, well, it's not about Miles.
Miles isn't interesting.
His job doesn't exist to be interesting.
He exists as a tool to be used by the owner's dad to further his money goals.
To try and defeat his business competitor.
Yeah.
You think dad gives a crap about Sorry, right-wing transphobic GTA backlashes.
Presumably not, yeah.
No, he's interested in selling cars.
Yeah.
So, there we are.
But that's how you end up with a nice little list of Elon's greatest hits, which I guess we should appreciate Miles for.
Oh yeah, I mean- If he's real.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If Miles is indeed not just ChatGPT, thank you for the roundup, because actually that was entertaining.
Anyway, we're out of time.
Oh, I'm out of not coughing.
So, go and enjoy the rest of your New Year's, or if you're watching this after New Year's, whatever you're doing.
Enjoy life.
Try not to waste it with people like Miles.
Just enjoy life!
Yeah!
That's our advice.
Honestly, part of me recently, like I've been looking at...
Just your general life advice, I think, is more interesting these days than looking at the ideological actors.
Because so many of them are either Vosch or Miles there.
One thing, this is actually one thing I've really noticed, is that, like, I don't know about Vosch because I never watch any of his stuff, but, like, Hasan Piker, whenever I see, like, clips of him, he looks angry all the time.
He just looks like he's unhappy.
He looks miserable.
And so, like, enjoy life.
And then Hasan's like, well, I can't, right?
Yeah.
He's not having a good time.
Because they live their lives as people who have to be dishonest, ideological actors 24-7.
I can't think of anything more exhausting.
Yeah, I mean, that sounds terrible.
I wouldn't want to have to do that myself.
Yeah, I think the way to really live merry is to understand who they are, understand who you are, and then make sure you don't end up like anything like them.
That's just general good life advice.
Anyway, that was a weird tangent.
Go buy a Tesla or I don't know.
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