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	Hello and welcome.
	It's Bogas Lozis here.
	Anyway, joined by Carl.
	Hello.
	And Stelios.
	Hello.
	I don't know, we're on a mission now to make as unprofessional an intro as possible.
	Tuesday the 16th of January for anyone wondering.
	There we are.
	I actually didn't know I had to change.
	But today we're talking about the tech vibes, our overboys, Street Fighter 2024, and we're going to be doing some more Vox Pops.
	This time on representation, which is going to be good.
	I'm not going to spoil it.
	Sounds promising.
	Yeah.
	We don't have any announcements, so let's do the segment, shall we?
	So, Tech Vibes, boys.
	Now, I'm sure we're all aware of the Tech Girl Boss Day in the Life Clubs.
	Remember these?
	Which is like, I got up, I went to the gym, I had coffee, then I went home and slept.
	Good job.
	Nice life.
	No, no, no.
	I was in two meetings.
	A morning meeting and an afternoon meeting.
	Yeah.
	I get paid $75,000 a year.
	And those vibes seem to have probably died, like fully.
	And I thought it'd be nice to do a sort of return to tradition and going back and checking out what happened in that sphere.
	And we'll start off with just this, this being the news about Twitter, of course, the biggest business story of the year.
	As the Washington Post put, Elon Musk fired Twitter staff and broke nothing.
	That was 80% of the Twitter staff.
	Which sort of gives you a metric for how much a lot of these places obviously do not need the people they have.
	I mean, it's comical in the case of Twitter, because they're all activists.
	But recently there's been a lot of layoffs, and not a small amount either, in the tech sector.
	So this is Twitch, it's cutting 35% of its staff.
	They're given a reason because they're not profitable.
	Yeah.
	They're just after nine years, Amazon's acquisition of the company, the business remains unprofitable.
	This is a quick aside here that people might be wondering, well, how do these businesses exist?
	And that's investor capital.
	So they got, God only knows how much money.
	And they decided to employ a bunch of, uh, middle-class white women to have meetings all day.
	And then they realized that they're not making any profit.
	I mean, in the case of Twitch, I mean, there's specific circumstances in all of these.
	Like, Twitter was full of activists.
	Twitch is probably full of, like, you know, perverts.
	Just saying.
	There's acquisitions and all of this.
	Google, as well, they're laying off a thousand workers.
	That's just in.
	So there we are.
	That's small.
	Fries.
	Who cares?
	And it turns out this is a proper industry-wide thing.
	And you may remember, well, last year this was an industry-wide thing.
	The tech sector fell off a cliff after the COVID lockdowns ended.
	Massive layoffs.
	And now this year, they've started the year again with massive layoffs.
	I was like, huh.
	Slash it.
	Slash it.
	Like, 80% seems to be the, well, level you can get to.
	Yeah.
	The news... Pareto principle proven correct again.
	Yeah, I mean in here they have Twitch, they have Amazon here, who said they're also getting rid of several hundred employees, specifically around Prime Video.
	Thank you.
	Wednesday, Google said they're letting go of hundreds.
	Duolingo have decided to get rid of 10% of their contract employees.
	This is the only one I can find that says the reason is because of AI.
	Oh really?
	So AI is taking over those roles.
	I love that basically the tech sector is returning to nature.
	No, no, no.
	What do you mean?
	Because this was initially started by guys with very poor posture and blocked sinuses who had very thick glasses and who would just sit there on the computer all day, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, never speaking to another human being.
	That's the state of nature for the tech sector.
	And it's returning to that.
	Not influencer girls.
	No.
	There's actually probably the furthest you could get away from the origin story of the tech sector.
	Yeah.
	And now all of these people have been proven to be dead weight and they're just being cut.
	And so it's going to go back to the hunched over nerdy guy with his glasses.
	But who is going to do all the woke stuff?
	Yeah, well, that's a great question.
	I guess they've got the AI for that.
	Turns out with a bit of simple programming.
	So we're not getting less woke stuff.
	We're just going to have AI doing it.
	It's a simple algorithm.
	Yeah.
	I mean, true.
	I'll have a segment for that in the future.
	But some AI startup got rid of 4% of its workforce.
	Discord is firing 17% of its workforce.
	Sorry, just a quick aside.
	Imagine being like, yeah, I'm getting an AI startup.
	Yeah.
	What happened?
	I got replaced by AI.
	Yeah, you win some, you lose some.
	But Discord getting rid of 17% of its staff.
	I didn't know they had this many people working at Discord.
	Apparently it's 170 employees, so they must have a thousand people working on Discord, which... I don't know, maybe I'm an idiot, but it doesn't seem that complicated.
	Well, it isn't.
	That's why they got rid of 17%.
	Anyway, there's also Unity.
	They're getting rid of 1,800 jobs.
	Bloody hell.
	It's just like, okay.
	Surprised they have that many.
	Yeah.
	The whole industry is just being like, hmm, yeah, we expanded too much.
	Massively bloated.
	And one of the funny things I saw from this is, this lady does a good breakdown, where she's talking about the tech sector.
	Well, if they're getting rid of all those people who were there for the free goodies and the vibes, maybe the whole company's going to have to change.
	Shuts down the Mountain View Child Care Center.
	Yes.
	That wasn't for the men.
	Yeah.
	That wasn't for the glassy men.
	That wasn't for them.
	So basically, it's going to be a business that will have to produce money.
	So basically, it's going to be a business.
	So yeah.
	Instead of a daycare.
	Well, let's have a listen to this lady because she's criticizing it, saying that this is the end of that golden age.
	Google continues to have layoff after layoff.
	And this time, they're even shutting down their child care center.
	They're getting rid of their snacks.
	The accent.
	Okay.
	And if you're not an engineer, you have to use a Chromebook.
	Do you know who uses a Chromebook?
	My kids use a Chromebook.
	We got them on clearance at Best Buy for $159.
	Can you imagine the humiliation?
	Everybody and their mother wanted to go work at Google.
	But she's whining about how Google used to be the best place she'd work.
	Yeah, and now that's all gone.
	- Google used to be the best place you'd work. - You can sleep in a pod.
	And it's like, well, okay, not really.
	'Cause now-- - Yeah, and now that's all gone.
	In which case, well, it's just a business.
	So I don't know why there's some kind of shock to the system, but there we are.
	The perk of tech companies is now over because, well... Just to be clear, I'm really of the opinion that anyone who's not an engineer is just having meetings, right?
	Those meetings don't really need to happen.
	They don't produce money.
	Just go back to pure engineers.
	Like Elon did, actually.
	Yeah, I mean, if you're getting to the point where you can let off 80% of your staff, I mean, you're not dealing with people dealing with the essential aspects.
	You're dealing with people that, well, take it to piss, frankly.
	And, I mean, we can see it, repeatedly.
	I mean, this lady, you remember she went viral?
	I haven't seen this one, but I've seen a bunch of them where they're filming their layoff.
	Oh, well, this was that one of them.
	She's just like, oh, a day of my life getting laid off from Google.
	And this one went mega viral, of course, because people looked at it and started not being very sympathetic.
	Most notably because, well, it turned out that she documented her entire time doing this job.
	I mean, Matt Walsh made a video taking the piss out of her because this is one of her earlier videos where she does, well, nothing.
	Yeah, doesn't do any work.
	This is in the LA office where she eats snacks, drinks stupid drinks, and enjoys the vibe.
	So you're gonna get inspired.
	Great question.
	It's 2024 right now.
	Okay, she's working.
	What these women are doing are living kind of like as the perfect ones in the rat utopia.
	They're like just sat there grooming themselves and living this airy life on top of the very, the cream of what our civilization has to produce.
	And they Just go into meetings.
	They do nothing.
	They just talk all day.
	They produce nothing.
	They don't innovate anything.
	They're not creative.
	They're actually just existing in this perfect world.
	And you're taking that away from them.
	Have you considered how cruel that is?
	I mean, look, she gets all this nice food.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, but the fundamental there.
	is that of course this is comical and everyone enjoyed it at the time being like well yeah okay i mean there's someone who deserves to get fired it's people who literally do no work and get paid handsomely because i mean these google people are on i think like 80 to 100k some of them yeah which is just like okay okay but they're petting dogs Yeah, I'd love to get that job.
	But this blew up massively because of course, I don't know if you remember this LinkedIn girlie as well.
	She was great.
	Today was one of the meetings that was conveniently cancelled right beforehand.
	I had to get certified in our new This one's not loading.
	Okay.
	Great.
	But this is the LinkedIn girlie who just does zero as well at LinkedIn and just drinks drinks.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	We saw loads of them.
	So just remind everyone what those were.
	I mean, there was the surprise layoff.
	This one's quite funny, but he's like a day in my life and then she does nothing.
	And then she gets fired at the end of it.
	She's like, quick update.
	I lost my job.
	What job?
	What do you do?
	And the best part about all of these individuals is they all, of course, are addicted to TikTok.
	Upload everything to TikTok.
	So we had long records of them doing nothing and then getting laid off.
	It's really easy for their bosses.
	They're like, oh yeah, she can go.
	Caffeine and more work.
	But look, but look at the perfect existence.
	She's just existing for herself.
	And just, I, look, it's all about me.
	It's everything's me.
	Like my life, everything around me is geared to make me comfortable.
	And this, I intended to be my life until the end of time.
	Was that her office?
	Because I see no one else there.
	That was her at home after she got fired.
	I was doing the quick update like, Hey guys, I got fired.
	Don't know what to do.
	You don't do anything.
	You didn't know what to do yesterday.
	Yeah, and these people you could point to and say, okay, I literally have your timeline.
	Blast.
	You did zero.
	I mean, the TikTok one, it's a shame we can't play because that is the funniest one, where she spends more time sniffing napkins than doing work.
	And she jotted minute by minute what she does, so it's even more obvious.
	And that was good fun.
	But with this new round of layoffs, I mean, mass layoffs there, you can see this was the start of 2013, mass layoffs.
	And the start of 2014 seems to be the same.
	There's been a few more videos that popped up.
	And so this is one.
	It's a little bit harder in these cases to figure out what these people did because they didn't upload themselves sipping drinks and sniffing napkins.
	But I thought we'd have a look and see what you guys think.
	So this is her getting laid off from Discord.
	Today we are making the unfortunate and difficult decision to reduce the size of Discord's workforce by 17%.
	This means we are saying goodbye to 170 of our talented colleagues.
	By 10.30 a.m.
	Pacific Time, everyone will receive an email.
	In your email, you will learn whether or not your employment has been impacted by this reduction in force.
	I find out if I'm late off in 20 minutes.
	Break up text through email.
	Yeah, I got the email.
	Holy shit, dude!
	I am laid off.
	Fuck!
	Oh my god!
	Wow.
	Fuck!
	Okay, normal response.
	Oh my god!
	Oh my god!
	I bet her husband comes in and says, right?
	Holy shit, dude!
	You need to cancel your date!
	That's crazy.
	Look at his face!
	This is exactly what I'm trying to say.
	Their entire life is an aesthetic.
	It is an aesthetic that they move through and go, isn't this beautiful?
	And then you can see the expression on the guy.
	He's the one who's actually making sure things remain working.
	Right.
	She, for her, this is funny.
	Oh my God, this is such, I'm going to put a reaction video.
	She's smiling.
	It's like, my God, man, if that's like your average husband anywhere in any country in the world.
	Oh my God.
	How are we going to pay the mortgage?
	How are the kids going to get fed?
	Oh my God.
	This is a really serious thing for her.
	It's just like, oh my God, this is just a new arc of my new era in my story.
	And it's just like, You're not living a real life.
	People who do things like that, they take nothing seriously.
	Yeah.
	It's just, it's not serious.
	Someone else is going to do it for her.
	Other people make reaction videos about movies or listening to songs for the first time and say, okay, let's just make a video about me losing my job.
	Yeah.
	That's tragic to any man.
	I can see the pain on his face as well though.
	He's like, I'm not paying for her nonsense.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	She's living in this idyllic, like Eden that she doesn't even realize that other people are propping up.
	Like this to her is just a nothing.
	It's crazy.
	I imagine what would happen if people like that rule the world.
	They do.
	They rule our world.
	Imagine a dystopia where useless people run society.
	I just can't imagine what it's like to live in this kind of idyllic ignorance where just oh wow something's happened and but everyone else will make sure everything's fine for me.
	I can't even imagine.
	So it's hard to tell, because seemingly she does upload quite a lot to Twitter and whatnot, but she's not someone who posted like, my day in my life, where I sit there and do bugger all.
	So it's hard to tell what exactly she did.
	Maybe I'm being a bit rude and mean, but if you were part of the 17% that Discord thought they could get rid of because you're not productive enough, you probably weren't doing that much.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you weren't essential to the running of Discord.
	And has anyone noticed Discord What, dying recently?
	Getting better?
	Seems the same.
	Discord's been the same for years.
	Yeah, literally hasn't changed.
	And I don't want it to change either, just to be clear.
	Yeah, I'm perfectly happy with the service.
	And saying that, I did have an aesthetic update on the app recently, which I don't approve of.
	But you know who to blame.
	But the point being, I mean, why do you need a thousand people running Discord?
	I'm not really sure why.
	So getting rid of that 170 people, what were they doing collectively?
	I imagine a lot of them were moderators.
	Yeah.
	Making sure that you weren't saying naughty things in Discord.
	Which, I mean, you could just outsource to, you know, people who work for less, because that's how our industry works.
	But, yeah, the responses on this, a lot of people were like, hmm, why are you excited?
	Yeah.
	Why are you happy about this?
	Because this isn't going to destroy her life, that's why.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Her defense is that, you know, she's a happy person, she laughs about stuff.
	I mean, what are you going to do, cry?
	Which, okay.
	Well, I mean, some people would, yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, your boyfriend definitely is.
	Look at his face.
	He's not the happiest of chaps.
	He's going to pay the bill.
	But I want to add to this that a whole generation of people is educated to be this way.
	Because for instance, not only in school, but also in universities, and it seems like in several businesses, they are They are in a bubble that says essentially, let us not hurt your feelings in anything.
	They see everything as being inconsequential.
	Well, I mean, if you could just go through life with your job not being that important, yeah.
	But she's not the only one that blew up.
	This one blew up.
	And this one's a bit more strange, which is that she mentions that all her co-workers have been getting calls saying, you're fired, because you're not reaching expectations.
	And she decided to do a lot of pushback.
	It's nine minutes.
	We're not going to play all that, obviously.
	But I'm just going to play a little bit so you can get a flavor of the situation.
	So as I was saying, she's waiting for the call.
	Gets an invite.
	Hey, Brittany.
	Hi.
	Yes, I'm so sorry.
	My name is Rosie.
	I'm just joining the call.
	Nice to meet you.
	I'm on the HR team.
	Hi Brittany.
	Hi.
	Thanks for meeting with me and Rosie.
	We have an important meeting today.
	We've finished our evaluations of 2023 performance.
	This is where you have not met CloudSighter expectations for performance.
	We've decided to part ways with you.
	- Yeah, I'm gonna stop you right there. - Sure.
	So I started August 25th.
	I've been on a three month ramp.
	And then it was three weeks of December and then a week of Christmas.
	And then here we are.
	I have had the highest activity amongst my team since I've started.
	I have had three contracts out.
	Done a really great job managing my deals up until the very end that decided not to close last minute.
	So I don't think that that makes a lot of sense for me in my Cloudflare journey here so far.
	Also, every single one-on-one I've had with my manager, every conversation I've had with him, he has been giving me nothing but I am doing a great job.
	I have had great activity.
	I have really great meetings.
	Picking up the products very quickly and things have been going really, really well.
	I make really great relationships with my clients.
	But they don't close!
	I disagree that my performance hasn't been... I haven't met performance expectations when I certainly have just because I haven't closed anything officially.
	yeah and it goes on like that this is the problem of affirmation culture it's oh no you're wonderful you're wonderful no she needs to be told the hard truth no you haven't got a single closure you've been here for what three months five months whatever she said it was it's like look you have to this is also in a sales position you have to actually start making some sales end of story the firing i think makes sense yeah which is you cost x what have we got in return and If she hasn't closed a single sale, then they've got zero in return for three months of investment in this person.
	They're just thinking about it.
	Yeah, I mean, this one blew up because she then goes on to talk about the fact that only HR turned up to fire her.
	None of her managers were there.
	So, dunno what's going on there.
	Which, whatever.
	I mean, that doesn't really seem to get to the nub of it.
	A lot of people think that this is also just a very bad idea to film yourself getting fired and talking to the person saying, I don't understand why I'm being fired.
	I'm sure your next boss certainly won't look up your TikTok account.
	Yeah, I mean, her name is now massively famous because of this.
	I mean, this is just a bot reposting this for Christ's sake.
	I mean, this blew up massively.
	And there's a lot of conversation around it.
	But, again...
	Yeah, I mean, if you don't pay the way, then why would Cloudflare keep you?
	And this blew up so much, the Cloudflare CEO came out to respond to it.
	And when she just says, you know, we were firing 40 of the salespeople out of the 1,500 because they don't meet our expectations.
	He then goes on to sort of say that, you know, it's uncomfortable because why is only HR involved, blah, blah, blah.
	Hard to tell what that's all about, frankly, because That's internal Cloudflare management, right?
	But unless the people running Cloudflare HR are really stupid, I find it hard to believe that she doesn't deserve to be let go.
	I mean, if you are in the bottom 40 out of 1,500 people doing sales, and you fail to close a single sale, it seems really unlikely that they messed up.
	Yeah.
	It seems more that this person didn't perform, and therefore, bye.
	And I hate to be that guy.
	Have you guys noticed a pattern?
	Several ones.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	Can we say it?
	I don't know, you tell me.
	Can I mention the lack of penises and those being fired in all of the videos that have gone viral?
	We can also narrow- Every single one of them.
	We can narrow it down as well.
	Attractive, middle-class, well-educated, mid-twenties, late-twenties.
	These are all a certain kind of woman.
	But not streetwise.
	No, no, no, very...
	Bollycoddles, we could say?
	Yeah.
	Dwellers of bubbles.
	The product of affirmation culture, turns out they don't work very hard.
	But I'm going to be that guy.
	It's disproportionately female.
	It's disproportionately female.
	It's disproportionately a kind of female.
	Of course, that too.
	But there are types of females that do incredibly well.
	Like I did physics.
	You'll meet those types of females who go and do those subjects.
	But the types of females who are the average females are not physics.
	And the sort of women who do well as Instagram influencers.
	They're not coders.
	It's, it's, uh, I do meetings, which, um, okay.
	That's, that's great.
	If you can make it productive, that's fantastic.
	But if you're in the bottom 40 of 1,500 people doing sales, You didn't do well.
	I'm sorry, you presumably failed.
	Well, you did.
	They fired you.
	So there we are.
	And I'm just sick of not saying it.
	So I thought I'd say it.
	Because I did keep noticing it in all of the videos.
	And maybe there's a bias in there because it's obviously TikTok videos and people uploading endlessly of their lives, which is kind of mundane.
	Because they don't do anything.
	But there we are.
	There were a lot of responses in this.
	I'm not going to include them for the sake of time.
	But there were some responses that were quite funny of women who work in retail who were just like, yeah, that's really cool that your day in the life does nothing.
	Here's the day in my life of working two jobs.
	See, that's what I was trying to emphasize.
	Like, these are the upper middle class, attractive, youthful, educated women who actually don't do any work.
	They're not productive.
	Like, if we're looking at females in the tech industry, there's those who can code and are cool and obviously productive.
	There are, like, girlbosses who can be productive.
	And then there are these.
	And overwhelmingly, these people are not men.
	These seem like the sort of vanity employees.
	Yeah.
	You know, I did it for me.
	It's all about me.
	You know, look at me.
	And it's like, OK, well, it's not really about you.
	I mean, we haven't got snapshots of everyone who was fired from Twitch, but to be honest, I have my suspicions about the type of people who are employed to be vanity.
	Um, things.
	So just to be clear, there are lots of women who are not like vanity employees.
	Um, it's just these women, these women aren't them.
	The ones who aren't vanity employees don't get fired because they're working.
	But anyway, that's all I'm trying to get out with that, but there we are.
	Although I did notice, finally, after all of these layoffs, well, two years of them, and two years of people being like, I do nothing all day and now I'm fired.
	Turns out the Valley Girls weren't actually a core component of our business model.
	Yeah.
	But if you go up and look tech day in my life on TikTok, for example, you will notice there are videos for people doing that or getting fired or whatnot.
	And some of them are productive, some of them aren't.
	But what's interesting is the year, the date, You cannot find, oh God, go away TikTok, modern date videos, so like 2024, of loads of women who are those influencer types who do nothing existing anymore.
	It seems they actually were purged from the rosters, which, I mean, after like a 35% cut in all of the tech industry's employees, not surprised.
	That's the end of the tech vibes.
	The era is over.
	It's gone.
	Let's move on.
	Right.
	OK, so we are going to talk about the new self-destructive law of Western politics and Western culture.
	So we were just having such a good time firing all the Valley girls from Silicon Valley.
	Yes, but we need to bear the whole in mind.
	So basically, it seems to me that Western politics at the moment is completely self-destructive.
	Yeah.
	And I think that people are noticing that a lot of people are afraid to say so.
	And the question is whether they will admit it when it's too late or not.
	So that's a really big question that I ponder about.
	And I don't know if I'm optimistic about it or not.
	I'm a natural optimist, but on this, I don't know.
	My instinct says that it's an issue.
	So basically, I want to say that wokeness is weakness.
	It's a symptom of decline.
	And the global order is declining for some time now.
	We have the emergence of a multipolar world.
	And this means that we are in front of a tragic situation.
	We will have a rise in wars, a rise in ethnic conflicts, and also a really weird movement in the West that says we should be more sensitive and less war-averse and less whatever.
	So basically, it seems to me that we are looking forward to a really bad century where there's going to be lots of warfare.
	And the sooner we wake up into that reality, the better able we will be to defend ourselves.
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	Right, so let's move forward and say that it seems to me that we are going to do a tour throughout the Western world through several countries, not all of them, there are many, but we're going to make a tour and show that essentially what is being going on is that the weakness of the Western camp has
	Contributed to the West losing the role of an exemplar so when you have a superpower that basically is the global hegemon.
	People look up to it not necessarily because they.
	They respect the culture behind it, but people respect power.
	And if a particular culture, what?
	It's proper like Ooga Booga Bray, but it is true.
	It's like, there's a reason he's in charge.
	I've got to find out what that is.
	It's also like, you know, remember the movies with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro where they say, you know, everyone respects the badge.
	Yeah.
	Like I'm an orc who's just like the biggest.
	Exactly.
	So when you have powerful players, people look up to them.
	If not for any other reason, because they're powerful.
	But when this power is declining, a lot of people throughout the world, especially the non-Western world, are not going to look upon the, let's say, the current woke West with a multiplicity of genders and all this stuff.
	They're going to look into their past and their history.
	They're trying to dig up their insights from how to live there.
	This means that with illegal migration, we are going to have a West of people who are going to be in favor of wokeness or not, but a weak West and a lot of people in the non-Westerners who migrate to the West who are going to be essentially more vocal about them being anti-Western.
	Let's just look at the next clip here from Times Square.
	New York City, we can have some.
	It is right to rebel!
	Let me just say this.
	Let me just put it here.
	U.S. U.K. go to hell!
	Biden's got to see you all the way from D.C.
	Are you ready?
	It is right to rebel!
	It is right to rebel!
	U.S. U.K. go to hell!
	Can we just talk about the iconography there of them doing that in front of a massive American flag and all of the adverts of capitalism behind it?
	So they love living in America, they love taking advantage of everything that America provides, and they just really love the freedom they have to go, no, I hate this country.
	It's like, no you don't, you love this country.
	That's why you live there.
	That's why you wear all the things you do, you buy all the things you buy, you work in the place you work.
	This is all, again, an aesthetic to you.
	Can we talk about the specifics of this particular protest that is hilarious?
	Because of course they're there with Palestinian flags.
	And seeing foreigners obsess over Palestine when they don't know where it is, that's sort of normal at this point.
	It's kind of the background radiation of immigration.
	I don't know what that is.
	I don't know what that is, yeah.
	I'm sorry, but I know that meme is a meme at this point where someone's like, I'm sick of being an expert on Israel, I'm going to be an expert on Yemen.
	But it's so true.
	When you see these people, it's like, come on.
	None of you know where Yemen is.
	Yes, and I want to say that this shows a cultural myopia on the part of people on the West, especially the progressive and globalist side.
	They are constantly trying to interpret everything through concepts that have been used and extracted from Western history.
	So for instance, we constantly talk, listen to them talking about fascism, anti-fascism, communism, all kinds of isms coming from Western history.
	And they are neglecting the fact that we are not talking about the Western world here.
	So the same categories do not apply in the same way.
	But also you arrest a single one of these for protesting their scream about human rights.
	Yeah.
	It's like, sorry, how do human rights hold up in Palestine or Yemen?
	Well, it's human rights for some people.
	Yes.
	Not human rights for other people.
	It's not human rights for the slaves of the Yemeni.
	Yes.
	So calling for the demise of the countries that host illegal migrants has basically become the norm in the West.
	Let's see this thing from here.
	Let's have the...
	Let's listen to what they're chanting.
	Now I want to expose you to the torture.
	Well, I want to be these people here.
	Yeah, but just observe the difference and how the left treats it.
	They constantly talk about bad Western tribalism, but generally speaking, they don't think that such behavior doesn't show any tribalistic, has no tribalistic aspect into it.
	But I want to show you this video, I'll have it playing here on mute.
	Is this Birmingham?
	I think so.
	It says it's the... basically it's the UK.
	We'll let it play and we'll just say several things.
	So it seems to me that it's very important to understand how the... I need a censor for that.
	Guy getting beat and I want to stick just... I don't know.
	YouTube probably requires a censor.
	No, no, no, it's fine, it's fine.
	I mean, the video was called Street Fighter so it will have stuff.
	Should I just pause it?
	No, no, it's fine.
	We'll just cover it on YouTube.
	What I want to say is that it seems to me that illegal migration for the left right now is what, in a sense, the proletarian worker was in the 1850s.
	Essentially for the left, there are two kinds of people.
	There are supporters and those who do not support them.
	Their supporters can only do good.
	They have zero responsibility for anything bad.
	And if they're caught in anything bad, it's the system's failure.
	It's the system's problem.
	And when it comes to those who do not support them, it is always bad things that they're responsible for.
	And to the extent that they do good things, They only do it because they are not going to get away with it.
	So now the left has lost.
	In a sense, the native working class of the population of Western countries, and they want the mix, a different mix of the population.
	That is why they're so much in favor of illegal migration and they constantly push forward that agenda.
	And if you look at it, structurally speaking, it is the same.
	When you're talking about the groups that they are claiming to protect, the groups whose characteristics are protected within quotation marks and stuff, They literally portray them as people who cannot do wrong.
	Yes.
	Anything bad they do, it's internalized whiteness, internalized westerners, things like that.
	And frankly, it gets a bit boring, but if it weren't that dangerous, we would just say, anyway, we have here, should we also...
	Depends if anyone dies or gets seriously injured.
	No one dies or gets injured.
	Here we have... Chicken shop in London.
	Machete fighting.
	Someone uses... Chairs are used like shields as well as spears that are hurled towards the opponent.
	Anyway, this is London in 2024.
	Right, we have here Milan.
	Again, chair fighting.
	Yeah.
	It's an ancient art, truly one that is rich.
	Anyway, we have all sorts of... I wonder what they're fighting over?
	What is the grievance on either side?
	We'll gather in a moment.
	I don't know, was anger expressed this way?
	I mean, don't get me wrong, I've heard stuff about hooligans fighting each other.
	Yeah, you can find videos of hooligans from the 80s and 90s throwing chairs at each other.
	Yeah, but I'm sure it wasn't on that scale.
	Well, fewer machetes involved.
	Fewer machetes, yeah.
	Some were quite large.
	Right, round it to the number of machetes in an average British fight in the 70s.
	Well, zero, probably.
	I was going to say, fewer!
	Okay, so let us go to Ireland now and talk about the Irish police is now physically attacking native Irish people who oppose the forced settlement of 160 asylum seekers in the only hotel in Roscria, a small Irish town.
	Unworthy scenes.
	Now, I want to say that several sources cite different numbers, but the issue here is that we see a kind of brutality.
	Sorry, you can only imagine what's going through the policeman's head.
	It's like, no, this is an immigrant hotel now, Irishman!
	Ow!
	So basically, I want to show you here from the Irish Independent, Racket Hole Hotel protest, Charles Asylum seekers upset.
	He got a bus full of six-year-olds.
	They were crying, weren't they?
	I really meant to believe that.
	Six-year-olds are standing outside with their beer in their fags.
	Their teddy was dropped underground.
	This is essentially what the Minister of Immigration and Integration was saying.
	And, you know, let's see what happened here a bit.
	People had been protesting since last Thursday after it was announced that Racket Hole Hotel was to be used as an accommodation center.
	And there was a public order unit deployed on Monday and cordon formed as bus drove in.
	So, we have here an integration minister called Rodericka Gorman who said that child asylum seekers were upset At scenes of protesters clashing with the police as they were moved into an accommodation center in Tepperary.
	This child is crying.
	Don't you want to pay billions for illegal immigrants?
	Why does this child need billions?
	Well there are many children.
	It's not just one child.
	Well, it says here, more than 200 people endured sub-zero temperatures overnight and vowed to maintain their protest against the placement of up to 160 asylum seekers in the town's only hotel.
	The decision to bring the 17 men, women, and children into the property has sparked a five-day round-the-clock protest outside Racket Hall.
	So essentially, we see here again, Ireland again is being hit by the woke agenda.
	This is extreme, because I mean this... You know when you hear someone who's very anti-cop and they'll say something like, the police won't stop and not do a holocaust?
	Well, in this case we see the police, the Irish police, will literally, in this case, replace the locals by force.
	They will literally force you out of the way from trying to stop them doing it.
	And don't care?
	It's not even that they don't care.
	They think they're doing the right thing.
	Yeah.
	Like your point's fantastic.
	I'd love to get into the mind of the police officers doing this.
	I mean, how can you not immediately just be like, okay, I'm done.
	I'm going to go be an accountant or something.
	Cause this guy's not even for diversity.
	Yeah.
	I don't know how you'd stick around.
	Well, they, they pathologize them as racist.
	Yeah, and you will see that the notion of the far right is constantly being weaponized and constantly being brought about by the Irish officials.
	So he says, my understanding is from talking to my officials that they are settling in, but it was a difficult enough experience.
	Children were upset at seeing the scuffles, experiencing the violent tension as they arrived, he said.
	He is the Minister of Integration.
	And he also said, he added, I think we also recognize there are people who are traveling around the country, far-right activists, who are looking to stir up anti-immigrant sentiment.
	You see, sorry, I'm just fed up with the constant appeal to sentiment.
	You know, there is some people who are upset.
	Well, there are a lot of people who are upset with mass migration and its bad effects.
	Don't they count?
	No.
	Because the only true citizens of the act of it, the immigrants who have arrived.
	Yeah.
	But the native Irish, well, I mean, you know, for the colonial empire that Ireland once endured, no way.
	No, that is correct.
	I meant to say, once ran, the Irish being punished.
	Of course, that didn't happen.
	But this is the same excuse you see everywhere.
	I've seen people saying, The Irish can't complain about immigration, considering how many Irishmen immigrated.
	What famine are you going through, exactly?
	Yeah, it's not the same, is it?
	Ireland isn't the vast untamed wildernesses of America, for example.
	But I want to say that the word far-right is constantly used.
	And let us just remember the Minister of Justice, Helen McEntee, who constantly talks about the far-right, talking about it.
	Because if you remember, Ireland has passed a hate speech bill.
	Constantly talks about it inflates how many characteristics stand as protected and constantly says that a lot of instances of speech count as hate speech.
	And constantly they refer to the far right.
	But someone asked her to define what she means.
	Let's just look at what she said.
	Could you give me a definition of what you consider is the far right?
	In terms of a definition of the far right, I mean, it's It's obviously a political ideology or it's a particular view that a person has.
	I'm not sure there is a definition.
	It's a little bit like hate.
	Kate, it's a little bit like woman.
	So I think we need to find what it is.
	You have a limited amount of time.
	If you interrupt the Minister, you're going to run out of time.
	So just send her answer to the question.
	Thank you.
	I think what we see from a lot of people who would claim to be far right, which is not a crime for somebody to have a particular ideology, it's where they act on maybe certain matters, but we have seen people to be anti-government, anti-state, anti-immigration, anti-women's rights, amongst other anti-immigration, anti-women's rights, amongst other things.
	That would be my own particular view of those who would claim to be far-right.
	So basically, she's a minister of justice in a government that constantly weaponizes the media to spread the message that the far right is rising.
	And she can't even define it.
	Yeah.
	And she says, she even said at some point, the far right is anti-government.
	Yeah.
	Based.
	Anyway, she makes the far right sound brilliant.
	The far right are a sensible position, according to her definition there.
	And I'm sure if we look into the history of the concept, the far right was very much anti-government.
	- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	The far right does not mean Nazi or fascist.
	'Cause she would of course not be in any way shy of being like the Nazis and fascists.
	You know, there is no way on earth some lefty liberal type is gonna be like, well, I don't wanna accuse someone of being a fascist.
	No, it's just not accurate.
	And she knows it's not accurate.
	That's the thing.
	So what the far right, they are anti-government, anti-immigration, anti-feminism, right?
	So they're normal people.
	Got it, right, that's it.
	Normals.
	Non-political, normal people who are like, why are you screwing with all of this?
	And that's what they are.
	I want to end with Yuval Noah Harari talking about Trump as being the final death blow to the world order.
	And also, I want you to pay close attention to what he says about a false dilemma somewhere.
	Are you concerned that Trump might be elected again shortly?
	I think it's very likely.
	And if it happens, it is likely to be the kind of like the death blow.
	to what remains of the global order.
	And he says it openly.
	It should be clear that many of these politicians They present a false dichotomy, a false binary vision of the world, as if you have to choose between patriotism and globalism, between being loyal to your nation and being loyal to some kind of, I don't know, global government or whatever.
	Are you concerned that Trump might be elected again?
	That's good.
	It's only because it keeps happening.
	Like, you must take these foreign terrorists and you can't deport them because of global reasons.
	Well, I don't know.
	I'm going to sign with the Patriots and say, get out.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it is a dichotomy.
	Hang on a second.
	Are you loyal to your country and not the WEF?
	What does he mean?
	How could you be a patriot but also be like, yes, of course, God praise the UN, so I will take a billion Africans, so of course, of course.
	But you can be just as patriotic towards your country as the global government that is destroying your country.
	But there is also another issue here.
	I am definitely someone who is always sceptic of the way dilemmas are presented, but this isn't a mistaken dilemma.
	No, this is not false.
	I don't even know how you would reconcile the two.
	There can be no globalist patriotism.
	Sorry, there can be no globalist patriotism.
	You could be patriotic for a globalist government, but that would put you in contradiction to being patriotic for a nationalist government.
	It's that simple.
	And it just, it seems to me that this also shows the communication of a message to the general public that you don't have to take sides.
	Not even if one side is your own country.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Let me change that.
	You have to take sides with us.
	End of story.
	But what I love, what I love about this is that, oh, I think it's very likely Trump's going to win.
	I also think it's very likely that the current liberal global order will be destroyed.
	Brilliant.
	What a fantastic and ringing endorsement of Trump.
	Like, everyone else is off the ballot now.
	Sorry, it's just Trump and it's Trump all the way down.
	Sorry.
	No, your nouveau Harari has made a great point about Trump.
	Go vote for him.
	He's going to ruin the web.
	Sorry, I think it's brilliant.
	On that note, I think we can go to the Vox Pops.
	Do you want to pass the mouse and stuff?
	Oh, sure.
	Other stuff, not just vox pops.
	Um, yeah.
	So, um, Jess, our roving reporter has been out on the street, uh, asking people what they think of representation, uh, specifically for blacks and gays.
	There were a few others, but I wanted to keep it fairly narrow.
	It's quite long, but, um, but let's watch the video.
	Hi, my name is Jess and this is the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
	Today I'm in Shoreditch asking people what percent of the country they believe are black and gay.
	What percent of the UK do you think are black?
	I don't want us to say 50 maybe or what do you think?
	45?
	45 maybe and maybe just under 50.
	This is actually 4%.
	Stop!
	Oh my god.
	Of the black community in the UK?
	Only 4%?
	4% of the UK are black.
	No.
	10%?
	4%.
	So are we talking like, they're English black or just the colour black in general?
	Just black.
	Alright, black.
	I'm gonna go with like a solid 35% along the lines.
	It's 4%. 4?
	You have me on, can I see that?
	Yeah, well I just got the statistics.
	Yeah, the source message.
	It's on the census data, the 2021 census data.
	Take a guess?
	30?
	40%.
	No, I'm gonna say 15%.
	I think 35.
	4%.
	I'd say like 13, 10% or something like that?
	No, I'm going to say 15%.
	4%.
	4%?
	I think 35%. 4%.
	I'd say like 13%, 10% or something like that. 4%.
	4%, okay.
	I'm not surprised.
	A good 4%.
	This is actually 4%.
	For real?
	Why?
	I look dumb.
	No, you don't.
	Not many people are guessing it.
	Okay.
	What percent of the UK are gay?
	Okay, now you said this one, I'm going to underestimate it.
	Yeah, maybe like 20%?
	12?
	30?
	Yeah.
	1.5%.
	Really?
	- 12, 13, 13, yeah. - 1.5%. - Really? - I couldn't tell you honestly.
	An estimate would be same number, 10% or something like that, 15%?
	1.5%.
	Oh, okay, wow.
	I was really off.
	60%.
	I'm gonna stick with 15% as well.
	Um, it's... Wait, no, 30.
	Yeah, it's gonna be weird.
	30%.
	Oh, really?
	No, no, it's not 30%.
	I said 60%.
	It's 1.5%.
	15% as well. - But no, 30. - Yeah, it's gonna be weird. - 30%.
	- Oh, really?
	- No, it's not 30%. - I said 60%. - It's 1.5%. - Oh. - 30%.
	1.5%.
	Systematically wrong.
	- 1.5%. - Systematic, I did it wrong.
	35%.
	1.5%.
	- Ah. - 35%. - 1.5%. - What, what, what, what, what?
	- Everyone I know is gay.
	- Okay, so judging by the last statistic, and the fact that England's very conservative, I'm gonna shoot down to like a, maybe a 6%.
	Around 2%.
	2?
	Okay.
	So, why do you think your perceptions are actually higher than the reality?
	Yeah, I think being in London.
	Yeah, and London's probably like... I mean, I'm from Birmingham originally.
	London is not 50% gay.
	This is definitely one area where you see more diversity.
	So I think it depends on where you're around.
	Do you know what I mean?
	Friendship groups and stuff.
	That's why there are so many black people in that friendship group.
	I'm not really educated on this.
	That's the main reason.
	But honestly, I don't know.
	I can't tell you.
	No.
	It's because we go to an art school.
	Because I'm young, so things are different for my generation as opposed to older generations and I'm not really taking them into account.
	I don't know.
	My bad.
	Also, I'm not from London, I'm from Glasgow, so things are different up there.
	How do you think LGBTQ people and ethnic minorities are represented in the media?
	Underrepresented, I'd say, mainly.
	But not really in media, so I don't know.
	I wouldn't say how they're represented, but I'd say very underrepresented.
	I'm assuming, yeah.
	Do you think gay, black, and trans people are represented in the media enough?
	Absolutely not.
	No.
	No.
	Do you think there needs to be more representation compared to these statistics?
	Yes.
	Yeah, definitely.
	I think you always need that.
	I think there's always more that you can do and I think there's always somebody that feels like they're not probably being heard because there's so many different people, you know, to please.
	You know, like, you can't please everybody but there still needs, voices need to be heard.
	Yeah.
	I think.
	More representation.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Do you think that ethnic minorities and LGBTQ plus people are properly represented in the media?
	No.
	No, I don't.
	What makes you say that?
	I mean, I don't follow the media that closely, but from what I've seen, it's underrepresented.
	Yeah, I mean, I don't know a lot about it, to be honest.
	So what about, like, movies and TV shows?
	Yeah, I mean, I think it's improving.
	There's definitely more of it.
	Definitely needs to do more.
	In, like, modern media, I would say it's, like, getting a lot better.
	I've had some issues with, like, casting of LGBTQ roles where people haven't been in the community, but they're playing those roles anyway, but, yeah, things are getting better.
	They're not there yet, but I think the world is becoming a lot more of an open-minded place, especially as, like, a university student, I find that people are a bit more open-minded.
	Yeah, I mean, England's very conservative and very terrible at that, so... How do you think it's conservative?
	We're having a Conservative government right now, and it's just my parents are Conservative, you know?
	Do you think they're against gay people?
	They're against me, so yeah.
	Really?
	I'm bisexual, so yeah, they're not happy with that.
	How would you say they're against you?
	I just don't think it's the normal procedure, in terms of marriage, in terms of, you know, what you're expected to achieve.
	Sorry, I'm pretty easy.
	So that's what you're expected to achieve, you know, white picket fence, 2.4 kids, electric car, house in the country, that sort of stuff.
	They don't think, um, gay people at least will necessarily achieve that.
	There's the whole natural angles, all that sort of stuff.
	It's just, they're not really open to new ideas.
	Right, you can still do that.
	Where we are now, I think, is a really big transitional moment for people, because, like, especially our generation, and maybe, like, the generation just below, our parents or grandparents would have had one way of thinking.
	We're only kind of, like, making those moves and those transitions now, so it's a real big shift, I'd say.
	Yeah, now.
	Yeah.
	Moving into the future, Callum.
	Moving into the 50% gay in Black Britain.
	I just... What is there to say about that?
	I mean, the public are retarded.
	I just want you to really hate democracy at this point.
	We were discussing before we went live, it's like there's that Churchill quote.
	The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
	Well, that was a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
	How do you feel about democracy, Stelios?
	This is your fault, you're Greek.
	Athens must burn, billions must perish.
	Any thoughts on that?
	Well, what can I say?
	It's just people being systematically wrong about everything.
	It's just another day ending in Y. But imagine being, okay, you're asked a question about how many black people are.
	You're very, very wrong.
	And then you're asked one about gay people.
	Where do you think that's going?
	You go with, again, 50% of the public are gay.
	Well, no, a bunch of them were like, oh, I'm going to underestimate it, like 20%.
	It's like...
	It's still completely messing up.
	Like what kind of civilization could exist where a fifth of the people don't have children?
	But then you've been proved wrong demonstrably and hugely twice in a row.
	You're still being filmed and then you're asked, do you think they're underrepresented?
	Oh yeah.
	And you think half the country is gay and black, but you still think there's not enough gay and black people in the media.
	Well, that's the thing, isn't it?
	Like they, the programming just kicks in like, oh yeah, well obviously we need more representation.
	It's like, for who?
	I mean, we'll go through some stats now, in fact.
	So, Matt Goodwin apparently saw a poll.
	It was like, apparently when Brits were asked to guess the level of immigration, the average estimate was 70,000.
	God, I wish!
	The most wishful thinking public on Earth knows 700,000 net, obviously.
	There's a theme here.
	So yeah, people have no idea how many people are coming to the country.
	But there's a theme of being about 10 times off.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's weird, isn't it?
	30% of the public are black.
	I know it's 3%.
	35% of the public gain is 1.5%.
	35% of the public are gay!
	10 times over the representation!
	Crazy, right?
	So I thought we'd just go through a few actual statistics, just in case you were curious about what the real numbers were, right?
	So when it comes to, say, Shoreditch, you remember they're like, oh, well, there's 50% black.
	Because I live in London.
	50% black, because I live in London.
	Shoreditch is 13% black.
	Shoreditch isn't like the majority black area or half black area.
	Like it's 27% English.
	So what are you talking about?
	You didn't have any black friends there?
	You said, oh no, everyone I know is black and gay.
	Oh, are they really?
	Because actually it turns out that only 3% of gay people in London are gay.
	So that is, don't get me wrong, that is a gay mecca.
	Right.
	But obviously.
	A gay mecca is still basically nothing.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the population.
	In fact, you know, like overall, obviously there were only 18.3% on the census that called themselves non-white.
	So, not including Europeans, obviously, including Europeans, 81.7% of the residents of England and Wales were white.
	So that's going to be millions of French and Germans, Romanians, whatever.
	But if that's, if you're doing, well, how many black people are there?
	35%?
	40%? 45%?
	What are you talking about?
	Where could you have found this impression of Britain?
	Where could you go?
	It's not where you live.
	It's literally not around you.
	It's literally not in your friend group.
	It's literally not on the statistics.
	Where could you be going?
	The answer is of course, television.
	This is a 2020, I couldn't find a more recent one, report by the Creative Diversity Network.
	And in this, on page 7, I'm not going to bother finding it, they say that 31.6% of scripted roles go to non-white people.
	Why do you think 30% of the country is black?
	Because 30% of the things you see on TV, the people you see on TV are black.
	That's why.
	I should have looked up percentages that were gay as well, actually.
	I didn't even think about it.
	Ah, there was no gays in media, mate.
	They're all in the Conservative Party.
	But yeah, no, so this is massively over-represented, nearly twice as many than there are in the country.
	Okay, that's very interesting.
	And so it shouldn't be too terribly surprising that, of course, half of TV viewers, ethnic minorities, are actually over-represented.
	You go and did a poll, 44% were like, well, I mean, LGBT and ethnic minorities are a bit more overrepresented than in the general population, weren't they?
	26% of Britons thought they were underrepresented, which you just saw being interviewed on the street.
	Um, but yeah, the 44% believe that they're massively overrated, over-represented, which, and they did this survey in a bunch of countries.
	And this Britain was the country with the highest number of people with this view out of France, Italy, Spain, Chile, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia.
	I imagine in Chile, United Arab Emirates, and possibly Italy, uh, these sort of over-representations aren't quite as common as they are here.
	Like our advertising and media industry is obsessed with diversifying our TV.
	And that's what they've done.
	Sorry, let me just ask you.
	44% believe that LGBT people are more represented on screen than they should be.
	And what about the other 56%?
	Well, 26% thought they were underrepresented.
	Well, 26% thought they were underrepresented.
	I guess the other ones don't know.
	So the majority doesn't say that they are underrepresented?
	No, only a quarter of people say they're underrepresented.
	Okay.
	So again, these are the problems.
	But what's really interesting is that most British people believe that obese people are underrepresented on TV.
	60% of people have that view.
	Yeah, I'm fatter than these people.
	It's like, why do you want to see fatties on TV?
	Don't see them in real life.
	Aren't you born yourself?
	At least that makes sense, right?
	You could be like, well, you know, I see a lot of gays on TV because they're quite rare.
	I'm sort of like finding unicorns or something.
	If you want to see the amount of obese people perfectly represented on British TV screens, but we are the fattest country in Europe for a reason.
	Yeah, I've got those numbers too.
	25.9% of adults in England are obese, and further, so adding on to this, 37.9% are overweight.
	So the majority of people in this country are fat.
	Just go outside if you want to see fat representation, for Christ's sake.
	Look in the mirror.
	It's probably you!
	I know it's me!
	Okay?
	I don't need to see it on TV.
	And in 2017, a survey of 500 big companies found marketing departments were so worried about being labeled as bigoted, they prioritized diversity in their advertising.
	And that's why this looks like it does.
	But what's also interesting in February 2023, well, the advertising industry was like, yeah, they're massively overrepresented in the adverts.
	So it's in the TV programs and the adverts, and we have the numbers, right?
	So a 2022 census found that 55% of the employees in the sector were women compared to the 45% who are men.
	And there was, I do have, No, I don't have the ethnic minority data because I forgot to write it down.
	But of course, that's, uh, oh, sorry.
	The non-white ethnic groups, apparently, are 18%.
	That's actually relatively accurate, but I don't, I'm not sure that actually means on-screen, uh.
	No, that's people in the sector.
	Yeah.
	So when you're actually casting the thing, well, we need to have a black on screen.
	We need a woman on screen.
	We need a gay on screen.
	Yeah.
	I thought I'd written it down because I did get it up when I was doing research for this.
	But if your advert only consists of three people.
	Suddenly half the country is black and gay.
	Oh no, sorry.
	No, no, sorry.
	They've gone up to 24% from 18% last year.
	So yes, they are overrepresented.
	But what's really interesting, right, is that this was done by the Institute of Practitioners and Advertising.
	Do you want to know what the director of that institute, Paul Bainsfair, had to say about this?
	He loves it.
	There was more work to do on diversity, as women still only just get a third of executives.
	It's because they only get a third of executive jobs in the ad industry, while non-white individuals only occupy 11% of those roles, right?
	He says these latest results represent a much healthier pace of improvement than in previous years and demonstrate our concerted collective efforts to improve diversity and inclusivity in our industry are beginning to pay off.
	This is why they never state their goal The kind of representation they want because it's never enough.
	No, no, there's no such thing as enough because they don't have an end target.
	Have you seen that Wikipedia article that's blown up where it's like systems theory or whatever?
	Yeah.
	It's like the end result of a system is its intended purpose.
	And I mean, we've been through the response to George Floyd.
	That was the date of their hiring and executive roles.
	Yeah.
	Which is the, I think it was, what was it?
	Like 4% of positions went to white men in the following year, even though they're like 80% public or whatever.
	Yeah.
	Sorry.
	40% of the United States public.
	And so the end result of this is exactly the purpose, which is we just want less white men.
	Get rid of them.
	Yeah.
	Eventually white women, of course, then the straights.
	Yeah.
	So a fifth, just under a fifth of the public are non-white, but they make up a quarter of the advertising.
	They make up a third of television.
	They are.
	Massively overrepresented in all of the media people consume.
	And despite not really standing around with any black people, they're like, yeah, well, half the country's black, isn't it?
	It's because that's half the advertising script.
	That's half the TV.
	That's what they see.
	They see them on TV all the time because they've been artificially pushing these positions in a non-representative fashion.
	Well, there we are.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Good morning, everyone.
	This is my Monday morning.
	Looks chilly.
	So, looks like I'm not going to be able to go into work for the next couple of days.
	Before you northerners say, oh that's not that much snow, please understand that we don't get snow at all.
	So, when we do get it, we like to milk it.
	Where are you?
	Yeah, you forgot to tell us where you were.
	So it's sort of difficult, but I do love that concept though.
	Cause it's, there's the snow places which can deal with snow, but heavily snows in Russia.
	Not a problem.
	Everything's running.
	Yeah.
	I assume it's the same in Canada.
	Canada and Norway and Sweden.
	And then there's like Britain where if we have a couple of millimeters, the train service just stops.
	They just say, well, this is unexpected.
	Literally can't run.
	So yeah, let's go to the next one.
	Hey Carl, so to answer your question about people who deserve statues today that don't really have any, I'd like to propose Ernest Hemingway.
	American author, all-around badass guy, first American injured in World War I. So people are trying to claim he's a socialist now, which I think is interesting, but in any case, him.
	Or how about Chris Kyle, the guy from American Sniper?
	Exemplary Navy SEAL.
	What do you reckon?
	Who should right-wingers put up statues to?
	I mean, I want one of Donald Trump personally.
	Yeah.
	Trump statue.
	Great idea.
	Um, McKaylee in El Salvador.
	He deserves a statue.
	I'd love to have Trump.
	Um, you know, the moment we shook hands over the DMZ, I'd love to have a huge one of that personally.
	North Korea boo here.
	No, but it represents also that era of peace.
	A lot of people have been sharing that footage recently because it's just like, man, you remember when the foreign policy just worked?
	Yeah.
	When we, you know, waved our dick about as the United States and were like, look, anyone of you start anything, we're going to beat the crap out of you.
	And everyone shut up and played ball.
	Whereas now, just constant warfare.
	I do think a giant golden statue of Trump would be great.
	Yeah.
	Just really great.
	I mean, I saw some European reposting the Mount Rushmore thing.
	Like, this is super weird.
	I'm like, no, there's not enough of that.
	Like, frankly, Mount Rushmore is amazing, and there should be way more of them.
	Who'd you put up a statue to?
	I have no idea.
	See, this is the problem with the right.
	The left is erecting statues left, right, and center.
	They're constantly putting up statues.
	It's like the missile gap of the statue gap.
	It literally is, right?
	They're putting up statues of George Floyd, a man who robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint.
	And you're like, I can't think of a person that's put up a statue.
	Dude, anyone.
	Anyone will do.
	Literally at this point.
	Just a random guy.
	Elon Musk, Bukele, Bolsonaro, Millet, anyone, anyone.
	I want them to actually do what they have been elected for.
	Yeah, well, Bukele arrested like every gang member.
	Yeah, I know.
	I don't disagree with it.
	I'm just thinking of the West, of the other countries.
	I just want them to do something first.
	Sure.
	Let's do some work first and then we'll talk about statues.
	But we can choose someone who has done some work and erect their statue, right?
	So I was thinking about this, like genuinely this is a thing I daydream about a lot because you have the award ceremonies that exist and they're all pointless because it's just weird right?
	Some old journalist liked you on film so they've invited you to come and get an award and they're all kind of stupid and we have like a few that people respect, the Oscars or the Golden Globes, respect is a strong word.
	Wouldn't it be great If instead, a few of us learned how to make copper or stone statues, made them really well, and then awarded them like an award ceremony to right-wing politicians who do fantastic jobs, that'd be great.
	And it's just like, yeah, this year's award goes to Bukele for... Love a Bolsonaro one.
	Yeah, you know, Bolsonaro, we built a massive one.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And just like, do you want it?
	We'll ship it.
	I mean, as an award ceremony, that'd be way more interesting than Golden Globes.
	If only we had billionaire backing.
	Well, I mean, there's like one guy who is a billionaire, could probably use a statue that we just mentioned.
	We'll build a statue to you, give us some money.
	Yeah.
	To the next one.
	Jonathan Crowe, reach out to me.
	You should know the website, and if you don't, remind him Callum.
	Yes, we are making a game, and it'd be really great to have a really good voice actor like you on board.
	Yeah, and if you want to get that website, that's blackpeoplemeet.com.
	To the next one.
	Hey Lotus Eaters, this is the Mentor speaking.
	I've been tired the last couple days because this happened.
	One of my oohs just decided to give birth on Saturday night at two in the morning.
	I happen to just be on making my rounds, having a wee nip and enjoying myself.
	And I came upon a little few extras in my block.
	And boy, are they ever cute.
	I hope you enjoy.
	I have been retrofitting the barn to get them ready for them.
	And they're just the cutest thing.
	Thought I'd share.
	That's awesome.
	Definitely share more cute animals with us.
	Alright, let's go to the comments.
	System Philosopher Detroit says, Here in America we have a program called No Student Left Behind, and the visible result of it when I was in school was that crappy students were rammed through with passing grades anyway so they don't get held behind.
	Well, I mean, it's doing what I promised, isn't it?
	Yeah, again, this is his theory.
	Yeah, exactly, the intention of the system is what it does.
	This is the result of that.
	The competency crisis is in full swing, lads.
	Become as competent as you can in as many fields as you can.
	Yeah, I agree.
	George says, getting rid of these HR parasites in tech companies is a good thing.
	And I personally want to see the Anita Sarkeesian room in Google HQ filled with cleaning supplies.
	I'm just really glad that it's come to this point, to be honest.
	It's like, yeah, you were just a leech, really.
	Like, I'm with the really hardworking tech nerd, right?
	I think that guy is the backbone of everything that we have here and what we're doing.
	And then the girl gamers turned up.
	Yes!
	I take Candy Crush as like... Yeah, you probably do all day in your meetings because you literally do no goddamn work.
	Well, this guy's like, no, I'm going to make this thing function.
	That's the guy who deserves all the money.
	And a statue.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, let's get a statue.
	There's your idea for a statue.
	The hunched over gamer nerd who makes the internet run.
	A Wozniak.
	Just one of Wozniak.
	Who?
	The guy who's founded Apple.
	Oh, right, right, right.
	Steve Jobs is like the cool looking guy.
	Yeah.
	And Wozniak's just this fat bastard who made everything actually work.
	Perfect.
	I want to send you to that guy.
	You know, that guy's the reason we exist, okay?
	So, uh, California Refugee says, Peck sexed a lay-off.
	Women most affected.
	That is, it seems like these tech companies have remembered they're not social clubs or adult daycares, but they instead are heartless megacorporations hellbent on getting as much cash as possible.
	God, I wish.
	I want to return to the era of the sort of, you know, Rockefeller, Ford, heartless capitalist, just money.
	I just want money at all costs, because that at least you can deal with.
	Right?
	You're like, okay, well look at my numbers.
	Look at the numbers are up.
	Numbers are all good.
	I work hard to get the numbers.
	Numbers good.
	You get money.
	You let me stay on your platform.
	Everything fine.
	Not the, the, the girl boss era of it's problematic.
	You know, it's probably, we're going to demonetize you and take down your channel and all that sort of stuff.
	I want the heartless, ruthless capitalist back.
	It is a good thought experiment, to be fair, which is that if it was worse, the United Fruit Company or Google, because at least the United Fruit Company was cooing other countries and not harming the United States.
	And at least you knew they were evil.
	Yeah, it's like, you know, he's pissed off foreigners, but at least he doesn't piss where he works.
	Baron Von Warhawk actually does go on to add, I'd rather the evil money-grabbing company than the evil company that won't shut up about how nice it is in a smuggler.
	But yeah, totally.
	Arizona Desert Rats says, if you have the highest activity on your team, but haven't met your performance goals, what does that say about the rest of your team?
	What does that say about your activity?
	Yeah, what are you doing?
	If you're putting in, oh man, I do like a hundred hours a week that you get no deals.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	And the rest of the team are like, well, we do 40 hours a week and we've got two or three deals.
	And it's like, well, the problem is you.
	Captain Kirk Shagging Aliens says, These people genuinely expect everyone to take care of them while they themselves do nothing of note, whether it's the government or some tech company or their husbands, remember?
	No wonder so many of them are activists, probably the only part of their sad lives that gives them any meaning.
	The Autist Overlord says, I think the layoffs are a small taste of what's to come.
	Companies hired way too many people during the pandemic based on artificial stimmy check demand, and now that demand has cooled off, we're seeing layoffs.
	Have a backup plan ready.
	This is likely going to be widespread.
	Well, you could always make sure that your backup plan is actually doing work.
	Otherwise.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you should make that your primary plan, I would say.
	Sorry.
	There you go.
	I've got this one thing in mind, because obviously there's a female focus there on the type of women who are getting fired here.
	And I want to find, because you showed me a while back where this guy from Google who had been working there for five years or something.
	He got a team of Indians working with him who got degrees in Delhi and then turned up and actually have no idea what the hell they're doing.
	Oh wow, really?
	So he would do the work for them and then he'd get them to like pay them and stuff and he thought this is pointless.
	Why am I doing?
	I could go do anything else in my life.
	Like I'm a really productive person and he makes loads of money doing it.
	So he buggered off, but on the way out he wrote this memo telling everyone this.
	And he kept, after he left, he kept getting messages from those Indians working at Google.
	How do I do this?
	How do I do my job?
	And obviously he just blocked them.
	You've got a degree from Delhi, bro, you know.
	Yeah, I mean, the male version of that is the corrupt person who just, you know, bought the degree and then turned up at Google and got paid six figures.
	I'd love to see that version of it, but sadly they don't do TikTok.
	The French tech bro says, software companies have become bloated by hiring too many managers, HR and DEI, and marketing folks.
	There are two key people in software, the tech guy who writes it and the sales guy who sells it.
	Uh, yeah, it's like the, uh, what we need is the handshake between the fat nerd guy and Patrick Bateman, basically.
	Right?
	Like, no, we make the world go round.
	So my feed on Facebook, I think I've told you before, it's just full of like Dave Ramsey people who are in business or saving money.
	And the business people, there was this one guy who came on and he said, yeah, I had this idea at my company to figure out who was useless.
	So department by department for a week, he just made them all go home.
	But he turned up and he was like, everyone from HR go home.
	And the next week he just had everyone from this other department go home.
	And the reason he did it, he lost a load of money that week, but it was to find out who was important.
	Who was actually making the money.
	But there's another phenomenon related to remote work.
	who realized everything ran perfectly so he just went right you're all fired good saved himself loads of money but there's another phenomenon related to remote work it has become very easy for people to do no work and some take advantage of it including tech people where I'm employed one guy hasn't done much for two years and none of the managers dare fire him So the managers aren't even doing their work.
	This is one of the reasons I'm really against working from home.
	Like, sorry, I know it'd be easier, but I know that I would do nothing.
	So no.
	That doesn't mean everyone would do nothing.
	Yes, it does.
	I don't think it would.
	Vesta says, AI is going to remove a huge amount of female jobs and rebalance the gender dynamics and bring back the patriarchy.
	Fair enough.
	The Crusader says, Carl talking about the vanity hires.
	In the old days, before our countries went full idiot, those women would have been at home raising the next generation of productive people.
	What a complete and utter waste.
	Correct.
	The Wiggins survivalist says, howdy gents, I'm finally back in Blighty from the Philippines.
	With regards to the Philippines, that must have been nice this time of year.
	I bet it's lovely all year round.
	It's freezing, isn't it?
	Are you sponsored by the Philippines?
	I'm cold.
	My hands are freezing.
	So all I'm doing is thinking, God, I wouldn't mind going to a nice hot country and working from home.
	With regards to the tech vibe segment, I'm currently reading Aaron Clary's book, A World Without Men, an analysis of an all-female economy, and it's particularly spicy.
	I wonder if Carl or Dan would be interested to read it and do a Lads Hour Brocanomics on it.
	That sounds like a Dan Brocanomics thing, actually, I have to say.
	That sounds really good.
	I can't pronounce that.
	It says the tech sector is doomed.
	I don't know actually.
	I think this is the rebirth of the tech sector into something that functions.
	Now we don't have to worry about HR.
	Now we've got just snotty-nosed engineers making shit work.
	Bring you on my feet again.
	There was this other guy in the video I saw, which is fantastic, which is he interviewed someone who worked in corporate liquidation.
	And this guy, he was like, man, it must be a depressing job.
	And he was like, no, I love my job.
	Best job in the world.
	Because he turns up to somewhere like Google and just fires everyone who's useless.
	And he knows that everyone else who's productive is pissed off about them.
	So they're just utterly relieved.
	And then what happens is the people who are productive, their productivity goes up in result.
	Yeah, I bet it does, because morale goes up.
	They're not wasting their time dealing with people who are just like, I get up, and then I have a drink, and then I go to a meeting, and then I have another drink, and I go up to my friends.
	And I pet the dog then.
	I'm working all day!
	What are you doing?
	But also, those people are being henpecked by those women who are just like, well, you misgendered me over lunch, and you know, you don't get that anymore.
	Now you just get the sort of like more masculine environment these people wanted to work in in the first place.
	I hope these people who have been laid off weren't laid off to make room for more woke people.
	Nah, nah.
	I think that's too expensive.
	I'm just trying to think of all the contingencies.
	Vanity beliefs that I don't think they can afford.
	And The Shadow Band says basically the same thing, which I'm just gonna...
	Skip because of course we've covered it.
	Lord Nereval says, you know the collapse of society is upon us when the upper middle class Californian women are booed from their cushy adult daycare jobs for no reason of them being utterly useless.
	End of days I tell you.
	No, no, no.
	This was just, it was an inflation in the bubble that couldn't sustain because they do nothing productive.
	And so this isn't going back to its natural size.
	I'm in favor.
	Totally in favor.
	Anyway, George says, I thought that everyone in Street Fighter 6 being ugly diversity highs or hipsters was Capcom's usual woke shenanigans.
	Turns out they were going for realism.
	Even simulated the economic situation by making you pay more for the dodgy characters.
	I've not played Street Fighter 6.
	God only knows.
	Haven't either.
	You've seen Drucker's version of Street Fighter?
	No.
	There was a fight that broke out in one of the refugee camps, and it was between like 20 different ethnicities.
	So he was just like, pick your character and made this wonderful graphic where it just read all the flags.
	And yeah, Afghans win.
	Omar says, Far-right is such a broad and useless definition.
	I doubt they can even define themselves as being outside of it.
	Even if they do, it ends up sounding like when they define whiteness, implying blackness is every negative quality under the sun.
	Yeah, that's kind of what it sounds like when they define whiteness, isn't it?
	Charlie says, regarding the street fighting, you guys might be happy to hear that in Ireland over the weekend, a new political party has been established called the Farmers Alliance.
	They already have 40 candidates.
	It's following on from the Dutch Farmers Party.
	Some of their policies are they want an immediate crackdown on immigration to the country, abolishing of Green Party policies in agriculture industry, and I think they want to abolish the new hate speech law.
	It's not much, but it's a step in the right direction.
	Farmers will save the West if the West is going to be saved, I think.
	God willing.
	Yeah.
	Total support of the farmers party over here.
	Country boys?
	Yeah.
	Just, I just want some Yorkshire farmers back now.
	You don't get the reference.
	Do you remember when the Taliban took over and the head of the UK defences came on Sky News to describe the Taliban?
	And he was just like, well, they're not corrupt.
	They're country boys.
	That's a surprisingly positive endorsement of the Taliban.
	When you think about it, it's like that just describes all rural people.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Might be worth of them taking over.
	Sir Olney says, the chair fight's the most un-British thing I've seen, probably because you can't throw a Chesterfield.
	No, no, no, that's not true.
	There's definitely a long storied English tradition of chucking plastic chairs while on holiday at Magaluf.
	Isn't Chesterfield a sofa?
	The French Tech Bro says, large scale fighting was not rare in France in my grandparents times.
	It happens less now because villages rarely do parties and there's not as many young people.
	This is generally not a problem unless weapons are involved or large groups gang up against one or two guys.
	Citizen philosopher Detroit says ingratitude produces the most unhappy of people.
	The West has fostered an entire culture of ingratitude.
	The best way to fix this is to teach your children to be thankful.
	I mean that's definitely true.
	Someone online says if only the guy getting chased had some sort of implement to defend himself and or scare his attackers off.
	Some sort of stick that goes bang!
	Never heard of it, frankly.
	General Haiping says, it's not just our angry foreign contingents prowling the streets looking for a fight.
	There's loads of our own born and bred nutters just roaming loose.
	Nothing better to do all day than ruin someone's day.
	All taxpayer funded, mind you.
	It's like there's something in the water.
	Everyone is very angry and very stupid of late.
	What I really, really find disgusting is like the sort of white kids in Ipswich trying to be like gangster.
	And it's like, what the hell's wrong with you?
	There's a word for that.
	Yeah, I know, but I'm not going to use it.
	Okay.
	Um, I hate it though.
	It's, I just think it's really gross.
	Like, sorry, are you English or are you what?
	You know?
	Well, the, that word, um, it's funny cause it's not just white kids and Ipswich.
	It's Pakistani lads in Birmingham.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And most of the Pakistanis obviously looking at their own youth being like, what?
	How did you, what is that crossover?
	Arch sent me a thing yesterday about, uh, apparently Iraqis are getting really annoyed about the, uh, Swedish gangsters that keep coming back to Iraq.
	Lots of Swedish gangsters.
	What do you think?
	Swedish gangsters that get a bunch of gangsters who come from Sweden, go to Iraq for reasons unknown, and then cause loads and loads of trouble.
	And the Iraqi authorities are like, they all speak Swedish and they're causing loads of trouble.
	They're throwing loads of grenades.
	They're killing loads of people.
	Like what the hell's going on?
	Pickled herring, run!
	No, no, no.
	Can you not put two and two together?
	Obviously it's the immigrants.
	I'm trying to think what words an Iraqi who's gone to Sweden pick up and take home from Sweden except the language?
	Violence.
	Just nothing else.
	Because the state permits it.
	Yeah.
	Because Sweden's like a third immigrant or non-Swedish and they've been totally hands-off with policing that community.
	So that community has descended into gang violence and now they're leaving Sweden going back to Iraq and the Iraqis are like, what the hell is this?
	You know, we don't allow this!
	The British government's like, I knew we'd bring back the Vikings.
	So anyway, Taffy Duck says on the Irish protest, it wasn't clashes between protesters and police, it was police assault people who pay their wages.
	That's totally true, man.
	Totally true.
	And Charlie says regarding the street fighters, I may have said this before, but in my opinion, there's a way for London police to solve London's knife crime while having diversity that loves the country.
	Hire the Gurkhas.
	Once they've completed their military service, give them and their families a house and a job with the police.
	These kids want to might fight.
	Who better to go up against them?
	Yeah, true.
	So the Cossacks in Russia, they get to keep their whips that you use to hit horses when they become policemen in Russia.
	So they're able to whip protesters, which is good.
	You've got your kukuris.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I feel like that's a valid exemption where it's just like, okay, these guys can be fast track police officers and also keep their knives.
	Yeah.
	All deployed to London.
	Yeah.
	It's just annoying we have to outsource our ability to enforce law and order.
	Um, Liam, uh, says that Vox Pop was the most painful things I've ever experienced.
	You need a trigger warning for subjecting your audience to that level of retardation.
	I'm genuinely worried.
	It might be contagious.
	Jess should probably wear a mask just to be safe.
	I love the Vox Pop, man.
	I like stupidity, you know, like a virus.
	I just love the instant contradictions in everything they're saying.
	Just like, yeah, I don't know anything about it, but I tell you what, uh, 50% of the country is black and there's not enough black people on TV when it turns out that 4% of the country is black.
	It is, but it also shows the kind of measures that is drilled into them.
	Yeah, totally NPC programming.
	So they're completely unreliable when it comes to truth, but they're reliable when it comes to the kind of propaganda that has gone in order to produce minds like them.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Sam's like, that guy's sentence says it perfectly.
	I don't know anything about this, really.
	These people are just clapping performative seals who mindlessly consume the propaganda and offend and end up applauding absolute stupidity.
	Yeah, and they don't know anything about the world.
	Mouthpieces.
	Yeah, they're just occupied by the idea.
	But the thing at the end where they're like, yeah, well, I think we're moving into a new civilization.
	So yeah, civilization where no one knows anything.
	Civilization where you're just literal morons.
	The Crusader said that one woman from Jess's questioning says they're getting better, but we're not there yet.
	That's the whole problem with so-called progressivism.
	Nothing is ever good enough.
	There's always more work to be done.
	There's just one more mass grave and we'll finally be at Utopia.
	Uh, yeah.
	And they've got, they've got no end goal.
	It's like, they don't know until every person on TV is a black gay trans lesbian.
	Even then.
	But do they have down syndrome?
	Yeah, there's still more work to be done.
	Jan says, this Vox Populi is damning.
	I think a bigger sample wouldn't be much better.
	Just shows that all the mechanisms to keep the state healthy, schools, media, experts, etc.
	have actually failed.
	Dark ages await us.
	Well, when you say failed, but maybe, again, the system is doing what it's intended to do, actually.
	This is a population that is physically incapable of revolt.
	Grant says, if like 50% of Britain is overweight and obese, they are underrepresented.
	Yeah, but that's the only one that the British public accurately identified as well.
	They're like, yeah, I mean, if we're going for representation, there should be more fatties on TV.
	Just true.
	I mean, that is true.
	Like, Jordy Sortman says, I've had problems with casting choices for LGBT roles of actors who aren't in the community.
	Sir Lawrence Olivier once said, my dear boy, have you tried acting?
	Um, I find it hard to believe there's an under-representation of gays in acting as well.
	I just don't believe that.
	Optional Malcolm says, I think we need more obesity on TV in the context of fat shaming.
	Derek Power says, what is 1.5% of the population get 97% of everyone else's attention?
	Great question.
	A California refugee says, I wish she had followed up with the representation question with stats on how blacks and gays are actually massively overrepresented in the media.
	And notice that their guesses are closer to the propaganda ads than reality.
	Exactly.
	That was exactly the point of showing it.
	It's like, well, a third of people on TV are black.
	It's like, oh, well, I guess it must be about 35% of the country.
	A third of people on TV are gay.
	Well, it must be, they're literally just programmed by the media.
	JJHW says, what about a statue of Enoch Powell?
	Yeah, I mean, I would.
	Let me put it in.
	I mean, it'd be really funny.
	Where's his hometown?
	Well, I think it'd be really, really funny to put it in that street I found that's 0.0% English.
	They wouldn't understand it.
	No, but that's even funnier.
	But they're too Bradford.
	Because think about it, there's all these people walking around and there's this guy there that they're meant to hate but they don't know why.
	They don't even know they should hate him because they're so disconnected.
	I mean, like the people I found in that place in London, they spoke their native Indian languages to each other all day, every day.
	Yeah.
	Like their English wasn't good enough to actually have a conversation.
	I believe it.
	So I don't know.
	There's some kind of weird irony to me in that.
	I mean, there is a weird irony, but like, I, I don't know.
	Somewhere.
	Clefts of Dover?
	What do you think?
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Heathrow Welcome Center?
	Maybe on the beaches of Dover, actually.
	But yeah, no, I think a statue of Eamon O'Connor would be a good idea.
	Oh, someone says he was born in Birmingham, bugger.
	Perfect place!
	No, but that's my point!
	You're going to end up with the same thing.
	Yeah, yeah.
	There's a pack of stars being like, new statue!
	Don't know why.
	Don't know who that is.
	North FC Zoomer says, my concern with all these people saying the UK is like 30% black, I'll clearly just fine with the idea of it and we'll just vote for more of it.
	Yeah, that's another thing as well.
	It's like, oh, but it's 50%, isn't it?
	No, 45%.
	As if that's just totally normal.
	You tell them the government has imported infinity Africans and they go, oh, cool.
	Yeah.
	There's no connection between event and cause and effect.
	The segment yesterday was just like, no, they'll just have brain damage.
	I can prove it scientifically.
	It was showing me the three dimples and it's just like, yeah, maybe, maybe.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Sven agrees with you, I think.
	The imagery of Trump stepping over the border into North Korea was iconic and strangely moving, given subsequent moves to return to the remains of the MIAs, return the remains of the MIAs.
	Although I don't think a statue would remain unscathed for long.
	That's okay.
	I don't mind if the statue is scathed by angry leftist protesters.
	I just want to be the one advancing the dialectic.
	Now we've got a statue of Trump for all the good things he did.
	So we can list a little plug.
	This is a statue of Trump for improving relations with North Korea.
	Awesome.
	How funny will it be that we put him up, you know, both get a statue of the holding hands obviously, shake hands, and they are going to go and vandalize the Donald Trump section and leave the dear leader alone?
	Because you know they will.
	They're not going to do anything to Kim Jong-un.
	I bet they couldn't name anything about Kim Jong-un that they find objectionable.
	Maybe that should be a Vox Pop.
	Why is Kim Jong-un bad?
	Why is Bashar al-Assad bad?
	Why is Saddam Hussein bad?
	It's an interesting point, actually.
	I reckon most people have no idea.
	Oh, he's a dictator.
	What does that mean?
	What did he do?
	So I remember I used to, the day a Russian girl and she would tell me about why Putin was terrible.
	But then when I asked her why, she couldn't actually say why.
	And she's Russian.
	I mean, he kills journalists.
	She's just nothing.
	She didn't say any of this.
	She couldn't get to any of his points.
	Invaded Ukraine.
	She just said that.
	There are some reasons.
	But he hadn't went back on what he was saying, obviously.
	It's interesting how people know that someone's bad, but don't know why.
	And so, getting to those enemies of the West, I mean, that might be really interesting to see how little people know.
	Why did General Gaddafi have to go?
	Well, I mean, that's... Thinking back, they didn't even give a cause of spelling for that one?
	Well, I was going to say, that seems to genuinely be about the threat to the petrodollar.
	To introduce the Goldina.
	I think a good idea for a Vox Pop would be to ask a basic question about English history.
	Yeah, which probably isn't true.
	But for Gaddafi, that was just like, uh, he's just got to go.
	I think a good idea for a vox pop would be to ask a basic question about English history.
	Because I'm sure people would...
	What happened in 1997?
	A very specific question.
	I mean, no, but the entirety of the history of it, because I'm sure people wouldn't know, but they are sort of educated to hate it.
	One million foreigners came last year.
	How many Vikings invaded England?
	Not nearly that many, I tell you.
	Pete says, I direct a statue in honor of motherhood.
	Thing is, they've done that and they look hideous.
	What do you mean?
	Because they're single mother statues.
	See, this is the annoying thing.
	There are statues to motherhood and raising children in the Soviet Union.
	They're still there, obviously, in modern Russia.
	They're really good.
	Oh, I bet they are.
	I bet they are.
	I mean, like, anything that's done before the modern era is pretty good, it seems.
	Yeah, but how did the communists do a better job?
	The progressives are representing right-wing concepts.
	We've covered this before, though, because, like, there was a statue that they put up with two mothers holding hands and then two children, and the children are, like, you know, gender ambiguous, and it's like... How can a statue be gender ambiguous?
	Well, it's a statue of people, and it's just like...
	You know, that's their statue to motherhood.
	They have done this.
	Did the statue have the don't misgender me?
	No, it didn't have any caption.
	But it's just they have done this and we do everything poorly.
	But anyway, I guess we'll leave it there.
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