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May 30, 2024 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #926
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*Music* Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 926 on the 30th of May, I'm your host Harry, joined today by Stelios and Josh.
Hello there, flawless datesaying by the way, well done.
Thank you very much, I'm quite the datesayer and notable for it within my own family.
I will announce that today we are talking about microplastics in your balls.
So, gents, protect your balls.
Don't drink any plastic today.
We'll be talking about Germans being persecuted for singing a very naughty song.
No, not that one.
And also, a world of hate.
A very mysterious title there.
Is this your plan for the future?
This is Stelios' theme park he's going to open.
Everyone's a hater.
It's his five-step plan.
It's just how the world is.
And of course, we still have lots of things that we'd like to plug for you, including the magazine.
If you've not bought one yet, what are you actually doing right now?
You're a loser, you're lame, you're retarded, you're square, you're a rube.
Any number of things that I could say to insult you.
You've got bad morning breath.
We are the cool kids and you are stinky and nobody wants to be near you.
So if you'd like to be reading the magazine, that's going to be the feel good hit of the summer, then you should go onto the website and pre-order one right now.
It should be arriving at the end of June limited.
Remember.
So remember, if you don't get a copy of this limited run, you'll never be cool.
You've not got a chance.
So do it.
And also we've got all the merch that you can buy, which will only add to your aura of mystery and sensuality, including an Islander mug, an Islander t-shirt.
It doesn't say Islam.
No, it doesn't say Islam.
That will certainly add to an aura if it said Islam on it, but it wouldn't attract women.
It might repel them.
But you can also get a t-shirt that says For England and all other such good things on the website.
The t-shirts will add to your magnetic effect.
People will be drawn to you.
You'll become charismatic.
And also black t-shirts are good for hiding extra kilos.
So if you have gained a bit weight, maybe black color is the color to wear.
Yeah, if you don't want to be fat, buy our merch.
No, no, it's not that.
That's not it.
It's that it hides the extra kilos.
It hides the gut.
Oh, I need to get one then.
Alright.
And also, one of the other things that we're not going to be talking about on the podcast today, but is something that you've probably heard about in the news, is that Connor did a really lovely interview with Liz Truss yesterday, where they actually got along very well and it was all very polite and nice.
And it's done very well on the website, but apparently Liz Truss coming on here means that she's an evil monster.
So if you want to know what all the fuss is about, and it is worth watching, Get a subscription, watch the interview that's on the website.
I mean, our interview caused the Labour Party to try and get her deselected as a Member of Parliament.
So, it's got to be a good interview, right?
And it also dragged Liz, not Liz Truss, she's the one, Jess Phillips out of whatever hole that she's been living in for the past seven years.
So, interesting, interesting.
Let's get on with it then though, shall we?
So, let's talk about your balls.
Yes.
There are microplastics in your testicles and uh it's it's worrying but can we cut to a video please?
I have a video here um it's a very viral video and uh this is pre-saging this is a sort of proof of concept so entertain me for a little bit and I will be getting into the story very soon but I need to get some ground rules down right about how these sorts of things work right so let's have a listen to the most sane man in politics Alex Jones.
You may have seen this clip before, and you might be thinking, well, hang on a minute.
You know, it's a funny meme, but gay frogs, I don't believe you.
Well, it's not quite right, but it's spiritually right, in a sense.
So if we swap to the web, here we are.
Oh, sorry.
I was pre-saging stuff here.
Sorry, I'm interfering.
Sorry, Samson.
So, here we are.
This is the study that Alex Jones was actually on about.
And it wasn't turning them gay, it was turning them hermaphroditic.
I think that's how that's pronounced.
It made them hermaphrodites, but it made them biologically women.
So, I think they were actually able to birth other frogs.
They were functional female frogs.
So, what happened here?
So, sexually autonomous?
Not exactly.
No, I'm a big fan of autonomy, but it didn't go quite that far, unfortunately.
Big thunk science talk going on right now.
Oh.
So, here's the abstract here, and the part I wanted to read is that we hypothesise that atrazine, which is the most commonly used pesticide in the world, by the way, Induces aromatase, I think I'm pronouncing that right, which is an enzyme that converts androgens into oestrogens, you know, oestrogen, the women hormone, and promotes the conversion of testosterone into oestrogen.
And it says, the disruption in steroidogenesis likely explains the demasculinization of the male larynx and the production of hermaphrodites.
So what this is saying is that Chemicals introduced into, perhaps, a water supply may induce changes in your hormonal balance based on exposure.
And there was also a case of this, where researchers in Japan used soybean compounds to make a catfish, a male catfish obviously, 100% female.
So yes.
They should have got a picture of a cat, of one of the catfish, soy-facing.
But yes.
Catfish and now soy?
Don't even eat them, they might turn you into the opposite sex if you're a man.
If you're a woman, I imagine it's okay.
But, onto the actual meat and potatoes, if you pardon the pun, of this segment.
Microplastics have been found in every human testicle in a study.
Now this is actually quite important and quite concerning.
Mainly if you have testicles, but also if you don't.
I mean, for the men watching, and I suppose a few ladies potentially too, if you have a set of testicles this should concern you.
Well Josh, you've got to remember that just because you've got testicles doesn't mean you're not a woman.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
So women watching as well, just in case, you might need to pay some attention to this.
I didn't mean to be offensive.
So, I'm going to read from this article from The Guardian because it's actually one of the best articles on this story.
I know it's rare, but The Guardian did a good job here.
So I'm going to read a little bit from this and then I'm going to explain what it means and how it fits into the context of other chemical exposures to the human body and how it might change us.
I'm only going to be citing what other people have said.
I'm not going to be reading into things because, you know, I'm a psychologist.
I'm not a Biologist.
I don't really have a full understanding of this, so if I make some mistakes, which there may well be, I'm sorry, but I'm going to direct you to the sources of people who seem to know better, at the very least.
So it says, microplastics have been found in every human testicle, with researchers saying the discovery might be linked to declining sperm counts in men.
Scientists tested 23 human testes.
That's, I imagine, sets of them, rather than, otherwise someone's got one missing.
Or they just stopped halfway through and said, we've seen enough.
We've handled enough balls for today.
As well as 47 testes from pet dogs, they found microplastic pollution in every sample, which is horrifying.
So that seems to suggest that all testicles have microplastics, at least if this can be extrapolated.
So explain to us, oh sorry.
No question, how large a sample is this?
Number one.
Twenty-three.
Twenty-three sets of testicles.
Yeah.
I mean, twenty-three people.
But dogs as well.
But this is the first study of its kind, right?
So it's almost like a pilot study to signal more study.
There might be some people that don't have any microplastics, that live very far away and eat well, but the implication here is that it's so widespread, the exposure to microplastics That likely everyone has some in them, right?
I think I probably would.
Bro, what are microplastics for the audience, and what makes them bad to have in you?
I'll be getting to what makes them bad in a second, but microplastics are just, as the name suggests, very, very small plastics.
You might not even be able to see them, but they have a physical presence, they're a physical thing, they're not necessarily chemical, although when they eventually break down, they do release chemicals, but we'll be talking about that.
And I've got it sort of structured so it should be relatively easy to understand how this all plays out.
So it says here, the human testicles had been preserved and so their sperm count could not be measured.
However, the sperm count in the dog's testes could be assessed and was lower in samples with higher contamination with PVC, which of course is a kind of plastic.
And I don't think there's any reason to believe that there's going to be a significant difference in that PVC effect on humans or dogs, right?
You know, it's mammalian.
There's a reasonable amount of crossover.
there's a reason why psychologists sometimes test neuronal studies on rats for example because there are still some commonalities that we can look at right so it would probably translate and it says the study demonstrates a correlation but further research is needed to prove microplastics cause sperm counts to fall but this is of course the first of its kind and it seems to indicate that they probably do so
you know don't take it completely at face value but i think it's probably likely that it is the case.
Sperm counts in men have been falling for decades with chemical pollution such as pesticides implicated by many studies.
Microplastics have also recently been discovered in human blood, placentas and breast milk.
So ladies, you're actually not off the hook because they've already been discovered in, you know, female reproductive organs.
I'm merging my words together.
It's those microplastics.
Indicating widespread contamination of people's bodies.
Yeah, I've got them in my brain.
Plastic's taking over?
Well, funny enough, there aren't many studies of human brains that are living, because, you know, if you remove the brain and cut it up to see if there's plastic in there, it somewhat hurts the person.
But, from a process of elimination, from what you're seeing in this, would it be possible?
I would imagine it is possible to be present in all cells in the human body, which is worrying, obviously.
You see all the world plastic then?
And you sing like a Ken doll.
It's fantastic.
Karl has just been exposed to a large amount of microplastic.
That's why he likes the Barbie movie so much.
Karl too.
That's it.
So if you like the Barbie movie you may have been overexposed to microplastics.
That's not scientific advice.
Vast amounts of plastic waste are dumped in the environment and microplastics have polluted the entire planet, from the summit of Mount Everest to the deepest oceans.
I think they've been found in the Mariana Trench as well.
People are known to consume tiny particles via food, water, as well as breathing them in.
So you breathe them just as a course of going about your day?
It seems like it.
There are certain fabrics, like curtains and certain kinds of clothes, that actually release them.
Which is a bit worrying, really, isn't it?
That you could be wearing things that are slowly poisoning you and making your sperm count drop.
I'm slightly worried now.
Quick, take off your clothes, everyone.
So this is going to be a nudist podcast from this episode on.
It doesn't apply to the t-shirts we're selling, though, I must say.
I haven't tested them for microplastics but I'm not going to agree to that but it carries on to say the particles could lodge in tissue and cause inflammation as air pollution particles do or chemicals in the plastics could cause harm.
march doctors warned of potentially life-threatening effects after finding a substantially raised risk of stroke heart attack and earlier death in people whose blood vessels were contaminated with microscopic plastics so that's obviously very concerning right
that's a very real health effect of this and human testicles had a plastic concentration almost three times higher than that found in the dog testes 330 micrograms per gram of tissue compared to the 123 micrograms and by the way there are a million micrograms in a gram so to put that in perspective right 330 out of a million total - Cool.
So yeah it's still too much but at the same time I don't want to be too sensational here.
So polythene used in plastic bags and bottles was the most common microplastic found followed by PVC.
So those are the things to watch out for if you're worried.
So the thing that mostly concerned me is that most plastics leach hormone-like chemicals and this is from NPR.
This isn't conspiratorial or anything this is mainstream stuff and it says Somewhere down here.
I can't remember where it was.
I think it was a bit further down.
Here we are.
The testing showed that more than 70% of the products released chemicals that acted like oestrogen, and that was before they exposed the stuff to real-world conditions, simulated sunlight, dishwashing and microwaving.
The guy they were talking to, the expert, said.
Interestingly I've seen this graph shared in mainstream media I think this was GQ magazine shared this and this is plastic production laid over sperm count so if if you're listening basically the trend is as plastic production goes up sperm count goes down and there's a sort of Inverse correlation.
Seemingly.
It could be coincidental.
I was watching something like this in a Reject Modernity Embrace Masculinity video.
Stelios is a connoisseur.
Yeah, they were saying things like that.
But if the resume is that basically it's clothes, the question is, has a nudist written this?
It might be nudist propaganda.
We haven't looked into that yet.
Well, I would also have to question as well, just on balance of fairness, if this also would correlate with, say, greater sedentary lifestyles.
It could correlate with a lot of things and that's part of the reason I said that, you know, it could be other things and it could be... I imagine it correlates with Sedentary lifestyles, obesity epidemics, lack of physical exercise, people not going outside as much.
Exposure to birth control were enough to foreshadow.
Harry, thank you for bringing the layman's perspective where I introduced the scientific one when talking about nudists.
I'm always here to represent the plebs.
Talking of science, rats here.
They've tested them for the effect of microplastics, and I'm going to read this.
It's very wordy, but I can explain what it means.
Histological examinations of testicular architecture showed distorted testes with vacuolates vaculated semi furious that's not right semi nefarious that's it yeah semi nefarious tubals and the highest percentage at the highest percentage together with increased catalase and decreased superoxide disjumatase activities i speak words where is it
i could help you translate that would just be humiliating the non-native speaker translating it for me it's It's on the screen here.
It's alright, I'm reading it now.
This study showed that ingestion of MSPs caused reproductive dysfunction in male rats and contributes to understanding the potential toxicity of microplastics.
I could have just read that bit, but you know, I wanted to read all of the scientific jargon as well.
How do they get in the body?
We've already touched on it a little bit but various sources, consuming polluted food and water, inhaling airborne particles and also you can absorb them through the skin and that means that they've been found in things like blood clots in the heart and there you go the brain and legs as well.
So that's a bit concerning.
They've also been found to affect the diversity of gut microbiomes.
And that's quite important because there's a sort of burgeoning amount of research looking at the effect of gut microbiomes on certain conditions, like it's seen to play an important role in things like Alzheimer's.
So it's important to keep a healthy gut microbiome.
I will also say, it seems that you basically can't avoid them.
They're literally everywhere.
Yes.
So I saw, you've not got it in the segment so I'm happy to say it, Raw Egg Nationalist shared a study about a day ago now Where people who were studying the effects of microplastics within laboratory conditions were finding difficulty to be able to get uncontaminated laboratory conditions.
It's impossible, basically, to study the effects of microplastics without already contaminating itself and the laboratory without them.
There are only two labs in the world that can do it at the minute, which is really quite concerning because we need to study this.
This affects everyone in the world, potentially.
So it's also been found to affect Immune systems as well.
It's hypothesised at the minute because it's sort of theory, but not only will it be absorbed by macrophages, they say, which is a type of white blood cell that kills foreign invaders, the border force of the body, and gets rid of dead cells, and they engulf these beads of plastic entirely, and that makes them behave differently, which might suggest, we don't know yet,
That they don't work as well in providing their protective function from things like harmful bacteria and other bodily invaders.
It's also thought that these tiny bits of plastic could also be sort of Trojan horses for introducing forms of bacteria into the body more easily as well, which is a bit concerning because it might make you ill more often.
And what's even more concerning is that bottled water contains quarter of a million nanoplastic pieces on average, And this has also been reported elsewhere as well.
240,000 pieces of the Guardian, the male Freudian slip there, cancer-causing nanoparticles, 100 times more than previously thought.
So this is really quite worrying.
This has only come out in January of this year.
And even if you drink tap water, you don't go to bottled water, there are still microplastics in it and only if you have hard water will boiling it potentially remove 90% of the microplastics if you then filter it through a coffee filter.
I did find that water filters could potentially remove some of it and it somewhat helps because they are a physical thing and if you've got a really good water filter it can pull it out.
However, there are also concerns about tap water as well, because you don't even need the microplastics, because here is the Guardian in 2012 talking about a massive £30 billion bill to purify water systems after contraceptive pill run-off.
So, the contraceptive pill obviously, very little of the actual hormone released in it, The body uptakes and a lot of it goes out in waste water, so urine, goes back into the water supply when it's purified but it's very difficult to remove and it goes back into the water cycle and ends up in our tap water.
So you don't even necessarily need the microplastics when you're already getting doses of estrogen via the pill already.
Don't you love the modern world, gentlemen?
It's a bit horrifying, isn't it?
Isn't this wonderful?
I'm so glad that this is happening.
Tell me if you have anticipated the point, but the question here is, are there things people can do to reverse this?
Try and avoid plastics.
Yeah, but are there extra things that have been proven to correlate with... Stelios is wanting nudism as the answer.
Nudism's not the answer.
I think drinking filtered water, you know, clean water, avoiding plastic, maybe checking if your clothing contains plastic is the best way you can do it, buying food that is grown sort of from say a farm shop or something like that might be better than something that's mass-produced and shipped covered in plastic as you get in most sort of supermarkets and shops.
So it's pretty widespread but there has been a debate about the significance of oestrogenicity of drinking water and some say that there's not enough in there to actually have an impact on the human body.
Some do and Here we are.
There are also forever chemicals in there.
This is Northeastern University.
This is, again, a mainstream source.
There are other chemicals as well in tap water to be concerned about that may have an effect on your body.
And the final thing is that lots of drugs are entering water systems through urine, so that might also mean runoff from illegal drugs as well, as this article is talking about.
So it's not all bad?
Yeah, you might run the tap and your pupils dilate and you're having a great time.
But no, to be serious, this is potentially something that is a catastrophe for humanity.
It's actually a really important thing.
I know I've been joking about it.
But if it becomes harder and harder to actually have children because we've been polluting the environment so much with these microplastics and with the contraceptive pill runoff and lots of other chemicals like pesticides, this should be a global scandal.
This should be a tragedy that every human being's body is potentially being affected by these things.
And so I wanted to draw it to your attention because it's worrying.
I think something should be done about this and it's not something that, you know, We can really avoid.
There needs to be societal change.
I'm starting to sound like Greta Thunberg, but you know, when it comes to testicles, I take it seriously.
Personally, I'm just glad that it's brought my testosterone down to a manageable level.
Yeah, it's made me capable to integrate with civilization.
So thank you, microplastics.
Is this why we can't find the Bigfoot?
Well, Bigfoot has been exterminated by microplastics.
He's not been able to reproduce because it brought his sperm count down too much.
On the point of the sperm count as well, what I would suggest is that it's basically a mixture of all of the different factors that we've been talking about which has led to this of course yeah it's it seems to me to be a multitude of different factors sort of chipping away right that that's the most obvious example um of a reasonable perspective on it because it's an undeniable phenomenon that's for sure i know it's a cliche to say
but i think one of the best ways to manage your hormones as a bloke is probably get good exercise lift weights eat well they're cliches but they are for a reason they work you i mean you just need to work harder that's Yeah, alright Andrew Bloody Tate's over here.
Yeah, that's right.
I'm gonna, my chin's gonna recede, my hair's gonna fall out.
You're going to be surrounded by Lamborghinis.
Oh, well, fair trade, to be honest.
I'll take that.
But yes, hopefully there's going to be more research into this to sort of push this, but I wanted to make people aware of it because it is very important.
So do what you can.
If you find any more research on this, I am interested because it's a very important thing.
Alright then.
Oh god, Alex Jones' face is on the screen now.
There he is!
No, Alex, no!
He's coming for you, Harry.
The Germans are singing the naughty song and Alex is coming.
Someone clipped that.
Alright, so, speaking of human catastrophes, Germany!
It's got some trouble right now because it turns out that younger Germans have begun to sing a very naughty song.
And no, not the one about giving girls flowers.
But it's so jolly.
It's got some implications to it that make it off limits these days.
I don't know any of the words.
So, the Germans have started singing a particular song, well, a particular set of lyrics, to a song which is a dance classic, I'm told, from the late 1990s.
In 1999, a song was released that it turns out is very easy to sing anti-immigration lyrics to.
We've got clips coming out from all over Germany, where you've got it in the North Sea Islands, Like this one, if it'll play.
Oh for God's sake.
There we go.
Is he doing a moustache?
Is he doing a mustache?
He might be.
I mean, to be fair, they're probably a few drinks down.
They're having a good time.
Who hasn't done a little jokey moustache when they've been out on the lash, eh?
It's good enough for Fawlty Towers.
It's good enough for the Germans.
Although it has some implications with Germany, to be fair.
Because of the implications.
But it's becoming a national world, a German phenomenon now, where this song is showing up everywhere.
It's showing up at the rooftops, in the clubs.
Here's another club where they're singing it.
This will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
Possibly the rest of the week, to be perfectly honest.
In researching this, this became lodged deep inside my cranium.
Harry's spreading his brain worms to the whole audience.
Exactly.
I had an earworm stuck in my head.
You can too.
So, there you go.
More clubs.
People have started to sing it at migrants.
In public areas.
Just singing it at migrants, why not?
I think that's public harassment, so I wouldn't recommend that you do that.
I retract my statement.
Especially in Germany, you'll get in a lot of trouble.
And small children shouting it in the middle of the street as well.
It's also in foreign countries as well.
these are Germans in Mallorca singing it.
*Sings* It's literally...
They're the only words they know in German.
They're in Mallorca, they can't sing that there, they are the foreigners.
Maybe it's their last day.
Fair enough.
Yeah, they're saying goodbye, it's been a lovely time.
So if you're wondering what the song is, it's a song called, if I...
Oh, wait, also, there's some shocking scenes emerging from America as well, like this one.
That's definitely a genuine video.
This is definitely not been edited.
That's not an actual video.
Before YouTube comes at me for spreading false information, that's not a real video.
The song is L'Amour Toujours by Gigi D'Agostino.
That doesn't sound very German.
I think it's Italian.
No, that's French.
Oh, okay, well, whatever.
Some kind of Latin language.
French, Italian, who cares?
Foreigners.
Harry's only just learned English.
I know, and that was a struggle as it is.
I still struggle with it every day, to be honest.
But it's an old dance song, and whenever it comes on in Germany now, it seems that people sing this song.
And if you're wondering what the lyrics are, it translates to, Germany for Germans, foreigners out.
Pretty simple.
And you might wonder to yourself, what makes people want to sing such a song?
I wonder!
But also what you can see here is it's so popular in Germany, it's top of the German music download charts over there.
So it's number one, and everybody is singing it.
Kunli Drucker has been doing a great job.
Here's another totally genuine, not actually genuine video.
There's actually lots of German men under the turntables you don't see.
Yeah you can't see them but I'll just keep that going.
So what he's saying here is that the German media has picked up on it because it is becoming such a widespread phenomenon that they're picking up new cases and they're reporting on it like this.
The song has intentionally been spread by right-wing accounts online to plant the meta-narrative that some people are for some reason worth more than others solely because of their heritage.
No, I don't think it's anything to do with people's worth.
I think it's that we want our own country, we don't want it flooded with foreigners.
Carrying on from that same article that he's quoting from, in a bar on the Erlanger Berkovich, whatever you say, festival site last Friday evening, two guests are said to have chanted xenophobic slogans.
It's Erlanger, Bergkirchweih.
Alright, fancy pants.
Look at that, multilingual stelios.
Yeah, police said that the two men, aged 21 and 26, shouted foreigners out while the song blblblbl was played.
According to the police, the incident occurred at the Alstade Stelios.
Stelios, go on.
Do your thing.
No, no, I just want you to say it so you get people saying that you mispronounced it.
I'm going to assume it's Scheisshaus.
That means a very different thing.
Close enough.
If you want Stelios to do the German and me to do the French, we can do it for you.
Alright, and then you'll all have to chip in for the English.
I did say German for six years and I don't remember much, but it's, I think, Altstädter.
schiebhaus something like that maybe all right tell us tell us if that sounds german to me yeah it's at that restaurant and it's uh they say it is the next low point after the racism scandal in silt state security is investigating these two men now that other one the racism scandal is this one from the original video that i played there because this is one that picked up a lot of traction recently
don't even stellios talk to the hand haha That's Austrian.
Close, close enough.
But the reason they're reporting on it is it's becoming a very widespread phenomenon.
There's this map that I assume, again, Kuntli Drukpa's been doing a lot of work into this for this one song that's going around Germany, because I think it's showing that there is a change of attitudes, because what you'll notice about this song is it's being sung by younger and younger generations.
In fact, I think it's reflective of the AFD's popularity in Germany among people aged, I think it's 16 to 29.
They're polling very well, yeah.
They are polling very well, and it's because the attitudes are changing.
The younger people are recognizing the change that's happened to their country.
They're not happy about it, and they're more than happy to sing songs about it as well.
There was recently a case with a politician who got canceled and fined because she cited publicly released evidence from the government about crime in some communities.
Well, we'll get on to that in a moment.
But I don't know about the politician being arrested or charged for anything.
Germans crack down on it quite a lot, don't they?
Yeah, they do.
They're very, very totalitarian whenever it comes to pro-nationalistic messages being spread in the media or even among just youthful culture.
Uh, because of course, if you have any pride in your own country, especially if it's Germany, that automatically means that you are a, a Nazi bad man.
Tiny little moustache starts growing.
There's nothing you can do to stop it.
Yeah, it's just a natural effect.
It's like microplastics.
It starts to happen, and then all of a sudden, it takes over your entire body.
But I think the interesting thing to point out about this map is if you notice, most of the incidents, a lot of them seem to be on the west side of Germany, which is interesting, because typically, because of the separation that was in the country for such a long time, East Germany tends to be the one that polls best with the AFD, and also East Germany tends to be the one that polls best with the AFD, and also receives Most of them go to the West.
But also, that's probably an explanation for why this is becoming more popular among West Germany.
Exposure, yeah.
Because they're so exposed to it.
And once again, I wonder why it is that people might be having these anti-foreigner sentiments when such things are happening in their country.
Like the changes.
Here's a map.
that shows the change migration on this map, the darker the colours are, the more migrants there are, or the more foreign-born population live within that.
So in the space of about 15 or so years, you've got to the point where cities like Frankfurt, majority, almost majority foreign.
It's very sudden, isn't it?
It is very sudden.
It's shocking how sudden the change was.
So people are getting more contact with people from foreign backgrounds and then you get the typical things that tend to happen when you get foreigners from the third world show up in your country like this.
This is one of the most famous ones that sadly everybody knows about these days.
The 2015 to 2016 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany.
This was one of the first incidents Like this, I believe.
Certainly one of the first ones that I'm aware of that got reported in the media, where approximately 1,200 women were reported to have been sexually assaulted, especially in the city of Cologne.
In many of the incidents, while these women were in public spaces, they were surrounded and assaulted by large groups of men who were identified by officials as Arab or North African men.
So it's New Year's Eve, these women are just out to try and enjoy themselves, go to the pub, go to the bar, have a nice time, and a load of foreigners Mostly North African and Arabs decide to sexually assault them absolutely awful and this page is Horrifying because it goes on forever and ever and ever and there are later Comparable incidents that it points out in Germany and if you look at the part where it's talking about suspects and convictions I just wanted to simplify this there were over 2,000 suspected of committing the assaults 120 were arrested
And on the page itself, they only mention about 13 being convicted of anything, with sentences ranging from 1 year and 10 months in prison, to 25 hours of community service, or a 1,000 euro fine.
So they basically got away with it then, didn't they?
1 in 10.
Well done for doing the maths, Stelios.
Well that's 1 in 10 of those arrested, but of the suspects, given that this was a mass incident, over a thousand women were assaulted by gangs of people, therefore it's once again 2,000 people suspected, the vast majority of them weren't even arrested to begin with.
And then there was this recent report as well, It wasn't started, it was released due to the actions of the AFD where they said despite making up only 24% of the population, foreign nationals are responsible for over 50% of the gang rapes in Berlin.
This is horrifying news and they've got a little infographic here.
You've got to remember as well, with Germany and the way the citizenship works in Europe, foreign national just means that they don't have a German passport.
So it says 54% of the suspects did not have German citizenship.
That doesn't mention anything to do with the ethnicity or actual origin of those people.
Of the suspects, the youngest was between 10 and 12.
And of the victims, which were 111 people victimized, the youngest was under six years old.
And the frustrating thing is, because they did not have German passports, this makes this a preventable problem, right?
In that there was a policy decision made here that resulted in this.
There are people with names that allowed this to happen in Germany.
Yes, and going through the information from the rest of the article, the information was made public after an information request was submitted by a member of the Berlin House of Representatives, Mark Wallander of the populist AFD, the Berlin Minister for the Interior, Christian Hochgrabe of the ruling SPD centre-left party, provided the shocking figures as the police do not specifically note down gang rapes.
The data has been provided for cases of rape where the perpetrator was not acting alone.
In total the number of gang rapes has increased in recent years dramatically.
In 2020 there were 98, 106 in 2021, 89 in 2022 and then 111 in 2023.
To compare with previous nationwide statistics in 2016 just 69 assaults were committed.
89 in 2022 and then 111 in 2023.
To compare with previous nationwide statistics in 2016, just 69 assaults were committed.
Of course, in 2016, if you want to carry it over from this New Year's incident, then you could say a lot more were committed.
But still, these are the official statistics that were given by the government.
At the end of 2023 non-citizens only made up 24.4 percent of the population of Berlin, a two percent increase from the previous year making them over-represented by a factor of two in these statistics.
While the AFD asked about sociocultural backgrounds the SPD claimed that there was no increase to mention.
Which probably means that they were all foreigners, or at least the vast majority of them were foreigners of ethnic backgrounds.
We also have another video where we did, and you were present, called Stop Noticing Crime Statistics.
If people want to watch, it's precisely about Germany and these statistics.
Yes.
It's from the 12th of May.
Absolutely.
There's just a wealth of information about all of this that mainstream outlets don't report to you.
And I have to say again and again, the reason they don't report this stuff in the first place is because if they do, then most people will begin to start to recognize patterns and they will be able to make decisions and change their behavior, change their approach to different peoples based on those patterns.
And you're not allowed to do that.
So what they're doing is disarming you so that you're more unsafe.
That's how it goes.
And there is another issue to this which is weird because they are releasing the statistics and my guess is that they do release it and the only interpretation they allow is the economic one that they are saying we release it and the only possible thing you can say without getting cancelled or fined is that this is an issue that is economic
100% and it can only be solved with extra taxes, taxing more government benefits, expansion of the welfare state.
In the UK we've actually stopped recording the ethnicity, well we've stopped reporting on it in an annual sense, the ethnicity of certain crimes because of the, this is explicitly stated by the government, the impact it might have on race relations.
There you go.
Straight from the horse's mouth, if we give you this information, you might not be as friendly to foreigners whose intent is to rape you.
Therefore, we're not going to give you that information, increasing your chances of being raped.
There you go.
And to follow on from that point, it says here, there were no statistics provided on the ethnic background of any of the suspected perpetrators, which would include second or third generation migrants.
Gang rapes, usually by foreign gangs, often make headlines in Germany.
In Hamburg in 2020, a 15-year-old girl was raped by multiple men in a park under the influence of alcohol.
Twelve men were investigated, with nine being sentenced to prison, although some have since appealed.
And once again, when you've got all of this going on in Germany, when the younger people in Germany can recognize what's going on, maybe the propaganda that the older generations in Germany have been fed ever since the end of the Second World War isn't as effective on them because they see the first order effects of all of this, it's no wonder you get them singing songs that let's get rid of these people who actively want to hurt me.
One thing, though, because, you know, there's an interesting question that I hear a lot.
I don't see why this has to do precisely with World War II and the end, because it seems to me that this problem is something that is lately happening to Europe.
Oh, of course, but the whole point about the end of the Second World War is that since the end of the Second World War, Germany was subject to essentially Frankfurt School social experimentation to manipulate social attitudes in an attempt to prevent anything like the rise of the National Socialist Third Reich.
Well, the attempt was to prevent World War Three.
Well, we know the kind of processes and methods that the German government took as a result of that, which included, if you go back to 2021, there was the segment that Carl and Callum did that was looking at the New Yorker article talking about the Kentler experiments, where due to the nature of sexual repression being advocated by the Frankfurt School as being one of the leading causes for the rise of Nazism,
Uh, it was decided that children had to be less sexually repressed, which meant that the German government gave...
Foster children to active pedophiles.
People that they knew were pedophiles in an attempt to prevent them from being Nazis.
So you can say that, well, if the intention was to prevent World War 3, noble intentions, maybe Germany deserved it due to some of the atrocities that they committed, but the methods taken are, in themselves, awful.
And utterly worthy of condemnation.
I don't know about this.
So this has been going on since at least the 1960s.
I know you're researching on this a lot.
Well, it's because of the fact that the methods that were used in Germany have since been exported to the rest of Europe and European populations.
That's why it's important to understand what was happening to Germany.
But, again, this is becoming less effective on the younger generations, especially when they can see things like this happening.
So that girl, that 15-year-old girl that I mentioned in 2020, well, the nine people who were arrested and convicted, only one of them went to prison.
Eight of them got two years probation.
I don't understand why we live in a world where rapists don't get capital punishment.
You can't allow that person.
You don't get rehabilitated after you do something like that.
You're never It's going to be safe to be released back in the world.
And also one of the most preposterous thing is that people who are echoing this philosophy and the policy that it informs are also perpetuating the idea that somehow the indigenous population has a rapist rape culture that allegedly is pro-rape which is absolutely preposterous.
I think Europe has one of the strongest pushbacks against that as well as Parts of North America, right?
But if you go in any sociology department, this is anecdotal evidence.
They sort of say this.
They just perpetuate the lie that Western culture is sort of a rape culture.
Especially male culture is a rape culture.
Yes.
But carrying on with this, notes that they're protecting the defendant's identities because according to Spiegel, one of the newspapers in Germany, four of the men have German nationality.
Once again, all that means is they've got the passport.
Another four have Armenian, Afghan, Kuwaiti and Montenegrin nationality and the nationality of the other two had not been clarified by the court.
The outlet reports six of the men were born in Hamburg and the others were born in Poland, Egypt, Libya, Kuwait and Iran.
So, of course, just because you're born in Germany, just because you have a German passport does not mean that you are German ethnically.
So, they're protecting these people's identities, they are making sure they don't go to prison, they've got- eight of them got two years probation.
And one of the worst parts is they got a psychiatrist called Naila Saimeh, I don't know how to pronounce that but who cares, she reportedly appeared before the court as an expert witness and said in a controversial interview with Spiegel that the rape may have been a way to vent frustration due to migration experiences and socio-cultural homelessness.
Well, she should lose her license to practice.
What a disgusting thing to say.
I mean, I hate psychiatrists generally, because, you know, they're usually hacks.
Most of the time, actually.
And, I mean, what more evidence do you need than that?
Just making excuses for rapists of a 15 year old girl.
So her statements were that perpetrators, and once again they may have protected the identities of these people, they may have tried to obscure as much as possible each of their individual ethnic backgrounds, but the fact that a psychiatrist can come out and say that this is the result of them feeling bad for being migrants, I think says it all as to the ethnic background of every one of these perpetrators.
She said that people who live on the margins of society completely uprooted culturally, linguistically and socially could face a mix of emotions, anger, sadness, powerlessness, depression, fantasies of grandeur as a compensation attempt to cope with one's own misery and drug use.
So they're druggies as well, great.
Disordered, unprepared migration experiences and sociocultural homelessness increase the risk of addiction and psychosis.
Sex is a means of venting frustration and anger, a means of warding off sadness and emptiness, and in a group of men with the same fate it also creates identity and strengthens group feeling.
The victim becomes a pure instrument, blah blah blah.
So they felt bad because they were migrants, so they had to rape.
Therefore, don't punish them too badly.
What that is telling me, if there is any accuracy in what she's saying at all, is that importing hordes of migrants to your shores will, by necessity of them being migrants, create in them feelings that will force them to rape.
So don't.
Don't import them.
Even by her own logic, right?
We don't agree with this analysis, just to be clear.
So on any kind of logic you can put here, Auschlander Rausch.
That's what I say here.
And then you get the other reactions that have been going on to the song spreading, because once again, young Germans get to experience this kind of news in their headlines every Single day.
They get to see the statistics go up.
They may even know or be the victims of these kinds of crimes.
So how does the German media, how does the German government react?
Two Germans deciding, hold up, we're sick of this, we've had enough.
Well, they start banning the song.
The Oktoberfest is going to ban the song adopted by the German far right.
So that song, the original dance hit, they're not going to be playing that at all.
The organizer of the Oktoberfest said, we want to ban it and I will ban it.
There is no place for all that right-wing BS at the Wisen.
Right-wing slogans have been prevented in the past and should not occur in the future either.
The reason isn't a... well, the reason is apolitical.
No, it isn't.
No, it isn't.
You're taking a political stance by doing this.
So that's a lie.
DJs, ironically enough, are actually very unhappy about this.
This is one of... this is a big song that they like playing, so they're saying this is BS.
And from people here, On this original video, if you go back to it, sadly one of the things that came out from this is the fact, if it plays, I forgot to say.
Thanks Elon.
Yeah thanks Elon.
You can see their faces, you can see their faces.
So what happened?
Well, the German media are more than happy to protect the identity of foreign rapists but they're going to go out of their way to dox and harass people, young people, who have been singing this song.
They say the news story has run nearly non-stop in Germany, with some of the country's highest level politicians weighing in.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned the video, while Bundestag President Barbel Baz has called for the youth in the video to receive the harshest punishment possible, including perhaps even the maximum penalty.
A maximum sentence in such a case, which would be a violation of section 86A in the German criminal code, which refers to unconstitutional symbols, would result in three years in prison.
In a case where they are found guilty of incitement against the people, the suspects in this case could spend five years in prison.
So remember that the rapists get two years probation And the people who were involved in this, in the sexual assaults in Cologne, got, you know, at most, it seems, slightly less than two years.
If these people get charged, and they've already been doxxed, some of them have already been fired from their jobs, they could get five years.
Does that sound fair?
Can you go three slides before?
Yeah, in Hamburg, yeah.
Sorry, yeah, this is making me angry, because What an atrocious thing to say and what proves better than this then that all of this is an ideology.
All of this is ideologically driven.
This isn't a system with axioms that says at no point Is someone responsible if they are in a group that is pronounced protected?
Anything they do is going to be blamed, yet again, on the group that is going to be branded as oppressor group.
And this is just, there's no better, no better, let's say, proof that all this is ideologically driven.
And again, you can trace a lot of that to Frankfurt and the methods and the ideology that they were spreading as soon as they were given the opportunity to.
Maybe, maybe.
I must say I'm not familiar with the school.
You're not familiar with the Frankfurt School?
I'm shocked.
Not as familiar because I thought that I had better things to do when I was studying philosophy.
Well, there are sane and methodologists.
That's absolutely fair.
No, no, excuse me.
Let me be clear.
I'm not devaluing people who read this or not.
It's just, I just say, okay, I want normal, traditional rationalism.
Aristotle and Socrates.
Yeah.
What I'm saying is that their philosophy is bad philosophy, but it has been the guiding philosophy of the post-war period.
Well, it is, but what I wanted to say here is that, I mean, it's normal to be, it's absolutely normal to be angry with this, and obviously the foreigner out means many different things to many different people in the audience.
But the point is, when you're trying to prevent something bad from happening as a government, you generally speaking try to avoid all the conditions that give rise to it, You don't just check in all the boxes and try to say, okay, how do I bring about that which I don't like?
And then blame it on others.
Well, Germany does.
And young kids in Germany singing a catchy song and a catchy tune that shows pride in themselves and a desire for change in their own country are being persecuted for it.
So as far as I'm concerned, Auschlander Rausch.
Sorry to make you very angry there.
Hopefully you can lighten the mood, Stelios, or is it going to be, you know, another...
It's not going to be a particularly happy one.
And I have been angry before in some cases.
I remember that Connor was doing something about sex education.
I was completely...
I was very angry with it.
Well, the fact you have to, you say, I've been angry before.
There's a one situation.
Oh, you need a mouse, don't you?
Thank you.
It's a testament to your patience, really.
Yes.
So we're going to talk a bit about the left now and how the projection is basically not something that can be hidden more.
So I have a theory.
It's a conjecture.
I'm not exactly certain about it, but I think that at some point, The left can't hide its projection.
A lot of leftists understand that they're constantly projecting, they're doing the same thing, that they are criticizing others, they just stick an ante in front of it and think that that will take care of all the rest.
And at some point I think they invented wokeness in order to justify the double standard.
I think that's one of the things.
So we are going to talk about the left's double standard here and how they are particularly angry when it comes to some symbols, but they aren't happy, they aren't particularly angry with the desecration of other symbols.
You would say more traditional ones.
Now, there are several public acts against, you could say, political symbols lately, and there was a pride crosswalk that was set on fire in downtown Spokane, Washington, which We're talking about the state of Washington on the East Coast.
How terrible.
I'm torn up about this.
Yeah, we have here breaking.
A manhunt is underway in Washington for several suspects who desecrated a Spokane Pride mural.
City leaders held a conference on the unspeakable tragedy of the mural.
Some leaders broke down and cried.
Let us look at their reactions.
Boo!
Sorry, I'm being very mature about this.
We need your help.
And so let me apologize for anything the church has ever done that might contribute to the hate we are currently seeing.
Also, sadness.
These are my fellow citizens that live here.
I know it was called vandalism, but it was hate.
It's how we show up for each other in our families, in our homes, in our communities, in our neighborhoods.
We got to show people some love.
Spokane City leaders are sounding the alarm about hate in the city after that Pride crosswalk in downtown was set on fire Thursday morning.
Thank you for joining us here on Crunchy News.
Didn't see any conservatives going out in the press when statues came down.
So interesting here, the language used.
I'm not sure if you're going to get onto this, but desecrated is an interesting word with religious connotations, isn't it?
And that's obviously quoted there, so that's a word that they themselves used.
And the fact that they're reacting in that way, it is like their sacred cow has been butchered for steak, right?
Yeah.
At least when the symbols of the right get attacked, we don't start crying and pretending that, you know, oh yeah, I'm so hurt.
Oh, this is dangerous to me.
I feel unwelcome.
It's like, no, these people were criminals and they shouldn't have done it.
Yeah, and what is interesting is that, you know, all communities have their symbols.
I mean, here, Great Seal of the State of the Lotus Eaters.
That's a symbol.
I've got a symbol here as well.
Small Arms Manufacturing.
Don't mind that.
I should probably get rid of the symbol on the back of this.
But, you know, whenever we're talking about society at large, you know, the more traditional the symbol, the more it represents society.
The issue is that these people Have a double standard.
They employ double standards because they are traditionally okay with the actual desecration of traditional symbols.
And we will talk a lot about this.
So it says here we have an article from the Spokesman Review.
City leaders condemn arson of Pride Crosswalk.
Prosecutors wife questions whether charges should be pursued.
And it says a second act of vandalism at the Pride crosswalk in downtown Spokane prompted local leaders to voice their condemnation of hate in the city while trying to move quickly to explore possible solutions.
Words without actions mean nothing, councilman Paul Dillon said after a press conference Friday about the incident.
So now, when have you seen before such a meeting when it comes to, let's say, the desecration of public monuments in the anti-Israel protests, for instance.
Could also be US Civil War ones for Confederate generals.
They got taken down, or founding fathers, or any number of statues, right?
You have anticipated some of the footage that I'll see, but one thing to note is because there is a lot of double standards here, and especially when it comes to policing and talking about crime.
So the issue is that a lot of the time when people talk about hate crime, They are introducing a very subjective element into the conversation, and frequently you could say that when you have areas, counties, states, whatever you want to call them, where the actual crime is out of control,
There is an extra appeal to the notion of hate crime in order to send a strong message that somehow we are doing something about crime, and in order for the police to show greater numbers of Tackling crime.
So, I want to show you the sum of the data I found.
Some statistics I found from NeighborhoodScout.com that indicate that Spokane, Washington isn't particularly doing well when it comes to crime.
It is regularly above average.
It might be one of the most crime-ridden cities in the entire country by the looks of it.
Yes, so for instance, if you see here, it says violent crime comparison per 1,000 residents.
It's 6.7 with a national average of 4.
We have here spoken violent crimes per 1,000 people.
a thousand people the murder 18 rape 194 robbery 309 cases assault 1020 so you have here that was the total reports yeah
the total reports and you have here rate murder per thousand people 0.08 with a national average of 0.06 when it comes to rape there is 0.84 4.
With a national average of 0.40.
When it comes to robbery, there is 1.34, with a national average of 0.66.
And when it comes to assault, there is 4.43, with a national average of 2.68.
There's also really bad property crime.
You can see here, per thousand residents, 57.15, with a national median of 20.
So this is almost three times as bad as the average place in the US.
And you have here more analytic data.
So the issue is that a lot of this isn't doing well.
There's a question to be asked whether intense focus on hate crime is precisely an admission that the police cannot do its it's job anymore, and frankly, there is sometimes question whether there is enough of political will to tackle actual crime.
Now, here we have from Native Patriot, Make It Make Sense.
When it comes to tire marks on the Pride crosswalk, that's hate crime.
But when a public monument is spoiled with graffiti and stuff saying free Palestine, it is supposed to be free speech.
So how do you make sense of this?
Well, it's sort of enforcing different rules for my political enemies and for myself, right?
It's this double standard that you're getting at, and it's obviously deliberate, right?
Human beings are sort of predisposed to do that anyway, but if you add on top of that an ideological component to it, then you can really prime people to be really quite aggressive in pushing this mode of thinking of, well, my things are sacred, your things are evil, therefore I can apply a different standard to you because I'm in the right and you're in the wrong.
Yeah.
So I think that basically this shows that very well that woke wokeism and wokeness is basically the justification of double standards there used to be a case where uh the leftist in the past didn't want to appeal uh to they want to be seen to appeal to double standards and they were sort of trying to do some conceptual manipulations and tactics in order to appeal not to do so but at some point it's just it has gone completely out of control
they cannot pretend that they're not doing it and wokeness comes in as an ideological construct to justify the double standard and And the issue is here that there's an element of shame to most people.
And when it comes to most people, it's the element of the majority of the population.
And it's incredibly ironic that this is done in the name of democracy.
And I want to say that, you know, you see that it isn't just an issue of Just pushing forward some of the, let's say, communities that are branded oppressed.
It's also doing it as a zero-sum game.
It's doing it by shaming the groups that are branded as oppressors.
Well, I mean, you can also claim to be doing something in the name of anything, right?
Harry could get me in a headlock and start giving me a nuggie in the name of, um, increasing the purity of cheese.
I don't know.
I don't know what goes on in Harry's mind.
You know, gravy rights.
Honestly, for the past ten minutes, it's just been that dance song.
Just a hamster in a wheel.
I can't get it out of my head.
Thank you, Harry.
So, you can see here some nice memes.
It says, Liberocrat Media.
I say it's time we do the same thing to them.
It says things like that.
It shows the double standard.
It's called free speech if you burn traditional symbols.
But when it comes to non-traditional symbols, it says, found out who did this and arrest them.
Here we have peaceful protest when it comes to the desecration of monuments, hate crime when it comes to leaving tar marks on top of the crosswalk.
Would you say, Stelios, that it's that some people are just simply not capable of holding consistent principles for any particular reason?
I don't have anything in mind necessarily, but To my mind when people are actually fair and even-handed it seems like they apply their principles consistently and evenly and even-handedly and dare I say fairly whereas it seems to me that this is not going on at all and is it a matter of capacity or is it deliberate intention because I think I can see a case for both really.
Yeah, basically, I think that there are two tiers in wokeness.
You have tier one, that is basically, you know, very naive people who say, let's all hug each other.
And if we hug each other and sing and recognize each other, the world is going to turn into the Garden of Eden.
And to the extent that it doesn't turn into the Garden of Eden, it's the fault of the oppressor groups.
And then there is Tier 2 Wokeness that seems to me very deliberate and very systematic.
In that case, you could say it's principled, but it involves a principled separation of of the population into oppressor and oppressed groups and claiming that the members of oppressed groups are should be ashamed.
And it doesn't matter if their public symbols are being desecrated.
And then you have the the members of the oppressed groups who basically can get away with anything.
And even if they could meet the most heinous crime, it's somehow to be the blame is the pressure to internalize the culture of the oppressor.
If you're a member of a protected group you don't have any agency, you're just a conduit for forces to make you do things.
Yes, so it depends on whose principles we are talking about.
Well, I would say that for most of these people it seems that there's not much principle going behind it.
It's a pure sentiment of this hateful idea about the oppression that comes with more traditional values and they see everything that's going on right now as a way of hitting out against those traditional values.
The pride flag is a symbol of progress to them, which they attach a certain sentimental value to.
So when they see somebody desecrating it or vandalizing it, they get an emotional reaction.
It's all very, you know, moral foundations, Jonathan Haidt.
Yeah.
But the issue is that these contradictions are very obvious.
And if you look at the protected groups within quotation marks, you'll see that they are not consistent.
They don't have compatible views of what constitutes, let's say, a peaceful coexistence.
So people can talk about it.
And that is why a lot of the hate speech laws are being put forward and passed because they are precisely designed to basically stop people from pointing out these contradictions and saying that, listen, Not everything can be blamed on the, on the, let's say, traditional culture, There are other issues as well.
And here you have a lot of politicians that want to be progressive, who are actually campaigning for even stricter hate speech laws.
Let us look here.
Green Party deputy leader Catherine Martin in Ireland, and Ireland has one of the worst hate speech laws, says that her party will be pushing for Europe-wide hate speech laws if they're elected to the European Parliament.
Let us listen.
I think many people in Ireland now have seemed to think that the hate speech bill here domestically is more or less dead, We haven't heard anything about it in weeks at this point in the run-up to the election.
I'm wondering, is that still something that the Green Party would be pushing for if they get a good result in this upcoming European election, that they would be pushing for hate speech legislation in Brussels?
Yes, that is something that the Green Party would be seeking.
I tell you what I really hate.
People who try and control what people say and try and get them arrested for saying things that they don't like.
I think that makes you pathetic and weak and beneath contempt.
And the question is obvious.
How can people think that this isn't propaganda?
When?
Ireland has had two referendums where basically the government was completely crushed and that was basically a message that we don't like what you're doing.
That's the message the Irish people gave to the Irish government and you have here another party leader who in the name of a democratic allegedly in the name of a democratic party, carries, doubles down and says, yeah, we are going to campaign for more.
And we are going to campaign to introduce these bad hate speech laws in the EU.
And the EU has a particular affinity for this message we have here from the Free Speech Union, The European Commission is considering proposals to implement a block-wide public education campaign about the dangers of hate speech that will involve stamping anti-hatred messages onto consumer items, including toilet paper.
Big Brother is wiping you.
I mean, I'll take the toilet paper if it means I can wipe my arse with their slogans.
I mean, if it's printed on the actual paper itself, it's like, yeah, it seems counterproductive.
Well, we have here, um, uh, from, uh, the free speech union, it says the The panel's final report adopts the definition of hate speech as any speech that is incompatible with the values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and respect of human rights.
As if what we heard from the Green Party leader was respecting democracy and the vote of the Irish people.
Freedom!
Freedom!
Yes!
Get out of here!
Yeah, basically, according to this, the hate speech law is hate speech, because it's incompatible with freedom.
Again, the question that you've always got to ask with this stuff is, when did the Irish vote for this?
When did we vote for these laws?
When did any European vote for these laws?
When did any Canadian or American vote for these laws?
But I think that's an interesting message.
If you have a tag on products that is anti-hatred and you're thinking of buying a horse cart, we have here an illustration of it.
That's the anti-hatred horse cart.
Sound effects as well.
So you see it has all the singers.
It's like a triumph, isn't it?
Like a Roman triumph, but only a lot gayer in a literal sense.
Yeah.
This isn't... This is why you sent this to me earlier.
Yes.
I wanted to ensure that you had a good day, because you know the good day begins in the morning.
If the morning's good, the day's going to be good, usually.
And this is your idea of a good morning?
You weren't hidden under one of those horse masks, were you, Stelios?
This is your idea of a good morning?
This is how Vosch turns up to a debate.
Yeah, so basically, if you want a horse cart that is anti-hatred, maybe you have a good idea here.
Right.
Let's talk a bit about Ursula von der Leyen, who is the EU president, and she says if you think of information manipulation as a virus, instead of treating an infection once it has Take and hold, debunking, it is much better to vaccinate so that the body is inoculated.
Pre-bunking is the same approach.
And if you listen to what she says, also, if you play the video, you will see also that she's talking about immunity from disinformation.
And I won't say that again, yet again, this is another instance of propaganda that people should become aware of.
And it would be good if, you know, you have friends That you would consider to be not entirely switched on into politics and they still think that all these things that are being, all these policies that are being done in the name of ideals are good.
Maybe just show them also this video and other stuff we're doing here from a website.
Because the issue is you can't say that you are in favor of popular government And you're in favor of democracy and republics and whatever, when you insist that all the responsibilities for guarding the social order are to be taken away from the citizens and outsourced to a body of unelected bureaucrats.
Sorry, you can't square the circle.
You can't square the circle.
And one thing to say is that whenever we're talking about policies and laws, a lot of people are thinking about the intention behind the law.
That's not even half of what we should be thinking about.
The most important thing is the effect that the implementation of a law and a policy has on our habits, because to a very large degree, we are creatures of habits.
So all these policies are designed in order to habituate us into not being citizens.
into outsourcing the duties of citizens to uphold the social order to a body of unelected bureaucrats, who then don't want to be judged, because the person who tells you that you shouldn't speak, you shouldn't criticize me doesn't want to be judged.
And that's not particularly a form of political organization that is close to popular government.
In fact, it's the exact opposite.
And we have here a really good Comment by Rolf Schollhammer, who we have hosted twice, I think?
Yes, and he has made some very interesting contributions.
He's quoting an article that says, Berlin manifesto influential economists call for more government and less market to strengthen democracy against populists.
I'm angry.
I want to challenge this man to a wrestling match.
That this is the complete opposite of what you should be doing.
You idiot, you're not an economist, you're an ideologue.
You know, all of the economic data says do the opposite, you idiot.
Sorry.
And he says, Germany, go full communist and give more power to the less popular government in recent history to strengthen democracy.
And smiley faces.
That would be a good contest to see who has less microplastic, by the way.
Well, you both whip your balls out and the microplastics are stronger than yours!
Yeah, so look past the intention and the stated intention.
The important thing is to see what is the effect of policies on our habits and if we're habituated into not exercising our duties as citizens to uphold the social order, something's wrong.
What is going on isn't popular government, and the fact that it is done in the name of popular government shouldn't make us doubt this.
Thank you.
All right, let's get on to the video comments.
No, not Alex Jones, no.
One more time.
No, no, no.
I want us to play this.
Just one more time.
Just one more time, Samson, please.
One more go on the slides before we go home, Dad.
I DON'T LIKE THEM PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT TURN THE FRIGGIN' FROGS GAY!
Yes.
Alright.
Now we've had that, let's move on to the video comments.
Unless they're all from Alex Jones.
He's a big fan of the show.
I would hope so.
Let's carry on.
Hi guys.
Just a recommendation.
I wonder if you'd have a look into a guy called The Traditional Bricklayer.
He's pretty popular on Instagram.
He's like a proper craftsman, brickie, putting together traditional ways of building, even down to the point where he talks about how he rejects modern types of building because it lowers the quality of trade skills.
So yeah, might be a really good one to have in.
He's a proper British patriot as well.
I've actually heard of this stuff and I enjoy watching sort of craft and building stuff even though I don't do any of it I live in a city but you know spiritually I identify with it but I think that might be one for Rory because he likes that sort of thing.
He looks like a good lad although I will say there's some topless photos of him or videos of him laying bricks and he looks like a right Dino in the best way possible.
Is he wearing a fedora while shirtless?
In short shorts.
You know what?
Fair play.
I have to give you credit for the name though.
It's very Mad Max.
No, it's a viral video.
What's your name?
Hugh.
Hugh Mungus.
I thought of Mad Max.
It's the old meme from back in the day.
I forget what the name of that woman was.
Was it Tara?
Something like that.
Anymore?
Oh.
Oh, here we are.
Topical.
Topical.
*audit* *existed��一 tú* *noi miem* *un-tem ее in discord* It's never leaving my head *mountain parody* This is just- This might feel in a miniature *Ding a toute*
I didn't know they were shouting it at sports stadiums as well.
Oh yeah, I've seen that!
Oh, that was quite a funny one.
But yeah, it's promising to see, but it's also horrible to see that this is being persecuted by the German state.
Not that I'm particularly surprised.
They never really stopped being totalitarian, to be honest.
Let's be honest with ourselves.
Conscription wouldn't be that bad if they had power armor.
But as usual, them government stick-in-the-muds don't like to have any fun.
One of these days, you're going to see Mecromancer like Tony Stark.
He's going to blast off.
He's going to take off.
We've slowly been seeing the progression of his armor.
And then he's going to burst through our ceiling in the studio while we're live.
No, he's going to be like in Fallout 3, when you have the giant robot, where it's shouting about communists.
What was it?
Liberty Prime?
Yeah.
That would be cool.
I would say though, you are right, the National Service would be worth it if we were each gifted our own set of Master Chief armour.
I would do it for the armour as long as I got to keep it afterwards and I was sent to somewhere like Africa where, you know, let's be honest, they're not going to kill me.
Are you retaking Rhodesia?
Are we finally doing it?
No.
If you're watching Intelligent Services, no.
But also not really.
Let's have a look at the next one.
First time in six years I've gotten sick.
Isn't that amazing?
So a lazy one just wanted to bring up the tipping culture thing and it's that we don't actually tip.
What we're getting is ransom because you tip after based on service and we are tipping before in order to assure that the person doesn't sabotage your stuff.
So I've seen people do nasty things and then they get tipped at the end and they're like, oops, I actually ruined your stuff.
That's kind of horrifying isn't it?
I think that the sort of European attitude of we still tip sometimes but only if you've done a good job like you've actually put some effort in and you care.
I like that because it doesn't incentivize people to just expect tips and be entitled to them but if you do good work you get rewarded for it.
I used to get tips a lot when I worked behind the bar.
I did as well.
Mainly from middle-aged women.
In time.
That's true, yeah.
It would also be sort of- Who fancied me.
It would also be sort of- Creepy about it.
Working class lads who were just like, oh, you've got a terrible night, you're really busy, I'll get yourself a pint.
And that was really welcome.
It's like, oh, you're on a night out having fun and you're actually thinking of other people.
That really engendered Josh to his lesses.
It did, yes.
I like this tie of mine.
Years ago, right, I wanted to be a novelist.
It became clear after I'd written a few novels and tried to get them published, tried to get an agent, that it seemed that I hit a brick wall.
Beau, dust off those novels that you've written, reach out to me, and I will help you get them published.
We can go through IngramSpark, it's only like, what, 40 bucks US to get it done, and we'll put it out all over the world, man.
Reach out, please.
There we go.
That's like getting, you know, you've started up a space company and Elon Musk reaches out to you.
CS Cooper.
The illustrious cscooper.com.au.
We'll actually tell Bo about that.
We will, yeah, of course.
Yeah, because that would be, that's not bad.
I didn't know that Bo had written some novels.
He had, yeah.
Alright, I think that's all for the video comments, so let's first of all go through the rumble chats that have been sent in.
Would you like to read yours, Josh?
Yes, Bald Eagle 1787 for $2.
Funny how this is open to scientific debate yet the mainstream is saying there is nothing wrong here.
I find it funny considering how advanced medicine has become, people are more sick than ever.
It is true, it's almost like medical companies' legal departments got too good.
That's sort of my perspective on it, that The medical companies started realising they can get away with a lot and make a lot of money, so they don't need to behave responsibly.
That's secondary to advancing their own profit margins, which is a shame, but it's a product of their incestuous relationship with governments, really.
Yeah, I'll go on to mine.
I've got a few on mine.
So Sean 487 for $10 says, Here in Canada, you're not allowed to mention the rapes of C-Corps Canadians underage girls in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal.
They did it first and the overwhelming Islamic rapists, they stopped recording.
Yeah, that's terrible.
It does seem to be a trend that People from Islamic countries and third world countries arrive into your country, immediately begin to commit crimes.
These are recorded and reported, and then after enough outrage is generated, they drop it because it's politically incorrect to be reporting on this at all.
That's the trend that I've seen.
Bald Eagle, 1787 again for another $2.
Thank you very much.
Says, gotta love when society protects rapists more than citizens.
Looks like it needs to be open season.
The press.
If they aren't being watchdogs, then they aren't needed in society anymore.
Yeah, it's terrible what they do.
Sammy, for $10 and then another $10 afterwards, and it seems to be a two-parter so I'll read this all as one, says a friend of mine is German.
She said in the 1980s her kindergarten class went to a concentration camp.
They were led into the chambers and teachers said, Germans did this, this never can happen again.
Crazy!
Apparently all German children had to visit the concentration camps back then and now they are all in their 40s plus.
Keep an eye on Germany.
There's only so much self-hatred these people can take.
And obviously what happened in the Concentration camps is terrible.
It shouldn't ever happen again.
It's a fact of history that people should know about.
What's insidious about it, and what really comes out of the post-World War II period as well, is the historical narrative that goes with it, that all of German history leading up to that point logically culminated in the Concentration camps as a result of some intrinsic flaws within the German character.
And this is something that again was first implemented within Germany as a way to make them hate themselves as a people and discredit their own past.
Basically opens themselves up to third world migration and migration from other countries and that's what's been exported to the rest of us because you can see what happened there And then you can see how it's come over here where we've been taught that our logical history, the culmination of it, all leads into slavery, all leads into colonialism, which is our great crime.
And you can see from places like India saying, oh, you stole all of our wealth, you owe trillions and trillions of pounds.
Many people blame Khan for it.
I don't know how you would be able to connect it to Kant personally.
Well, there were some strands of thinking that said that Kant started German idealism.
German idealism is responsible for atrocities.
So Kant's responsible for atrocities.
All sorts of really simplistic things.
It seems like an incredibly simplistic and flimsy genealogy right there.
And once again, that's what it's all based on because history is complex, history is massive and isn't simple like that, but that's what they sell you.
They sell you the simple story because it opens you up and disarms you and makes you hate yourself.
You've got one, Stelios?
Yes, from BoldEagle1787, thank you.
If they're that scared about that incident, I'm all for more of them.
Also, that's protected under the First Amendment.
If they can't burn the US flag, then their symbols can't be burned.
It's an obvious double standard that they do this and it shows that they really don't care about inculcating love for the country.
That's beyond sense.
So we've got some general comments as well.
Yeah, so if you'd like to go through some of yours, Josh?
Well, I'll read the general ones and then I'll do a few of mine.
Oh, yes.
So the Crusader says the Guardian did a good job here.
That is in reference to my segment.
Well, that wasn't on my bingo card for today, got to admit.
Yeah, when they don't do political stuff, sometimes they can actually be okay because they translate the testicle thing through the prism of pollution.
Therefore, they actually Do a good job in reporting about it.
They go into detail, it's not necessarily as ideological.
Which is surprising, because some of the pollution stuff obviously is, but in that case it wasn't.
Baystapes says, Oh hey, my Lotus Eaters merch was just delivered.
For England, let's do a freaking Crusade boys, nice fit too.
That's what I like to hear.
You're now part of the cool, kid.
Part of the ship, part of the crew.
Speaking of which, Pirate Tomski says, Josh quoting It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia equals based.
When did you quote?
You said something about implications and I said because of the implications.
Oh yes.
I was kind of hoping I was pushing you in that direction.
Office Dennis over here.
The Crusader says don't drink plastic.
There's a reason I drink Harrogate's bottled water.
It comes in glass bottles not plastic.
That's a good way around it.
Harry's a bowler infested mug.
It's how I ward off the micro plastics.
They counteract each other.
Harry's got a sort of a biohazard as a mug so microplastics just can't survive, they get burnt up.
Within my system it's a way to train it, it's why I'm so hearty and virile.
So my granddad is full of lead, my dad is full of asbestos and I'm full of microplastics, great.
Keeping tradition alive, yes.
Things don't change, they just shift shape.
That's true.
And I'll do one more.
Rutherley says, the amount of microplastics, heavy metals, hell yeah, the hormone disruptors one has to dodge while buying shampoos and cosmetics is getting hilarious.
It's almost like we're expected to pay money for industrial waste.
Oh, wait.
No, that is very true.
the nonsense that's in makeup in women's makeup obviously i've not come into contact with it too much but i have known women who have bought makeup and they've shown me what's in it i'm so do you know what any of this stuff is and they're like no of course not so you know women i do i've met one before all right i'll read some of mine uh So, Janiva S says, I can confirm Stelios's anecdotal evidence.
My university also did perpetuate the idea of a rape culture existing in my sociology class.
Also peddled this idea, even though it was an introductory class.
Thing is, if you want an actual example of rape culture, I can give you a few, but you won't find them in Europe.
I got offered a scholarship at Harvard to investigate rape culture and I turned it down because I didn't believe in it funnily enough.
Good man.
Warlord Wututai says, I simply cannot conceive of the level of cognitive dissonance required to simultaneously rail against rape culture and then advocate mass Arab North African migration.
I know.
Kevin Fox, Germans being totalitarian?
Say it ain't so Harry, that can never- oh, wait, yeah, I remember.
Also from Harry's Ebola-infested mug, what the German government has been doing can be summed up as... Oh, no, I'm not going to read that out loud, actually.
I get the joke, but it's kind of gross.
Stelios, let's go on to yours.
Yes.
Christian Anderson.
Socio-economic factors was long cited as the reason of over-representation in Sweden, but has now been totally debunked.
Yes, I mean, it's just completely unlikely that if you just give more money to some people, suddenly all their acculturation and habituation gets completely overwritten because they have more money.
It's absolute nonsense.
Kevin Fox, the guy in the truck who did donuts, has a felony warrant out against him.
And yet no warrant exists for the pro-Palestine Hamas students who burned the U.S.
flag.
Yes, clear double standard.
Good point, Kevin.
Krampetz, Josh, saying rapists should get capital punishment or a lifetime sentence because they can't be rehabilitated misses the point.
Well, the whole point of them being punished is not necessarily to rehabilitate them, they're punishing them because they deserve it.
I was making an additional point presupposing that we punish people because they did something wrong.
Yeah.
Kevin Fox, do what I say, not what I do.
The leftist mantra.
Wait for it in all its glory when Trump wins the election and begins bringing the Democrats and Swamp to justice for actual criminal activity and does what they have done to him where no criminal activity has been proven.
I am not quite as hopeful that that's what's going to happen, but I really do hope so.
Genuinely.
Ruda Day.
I wish to apply to be a ride operator in Stelios Hate Park.
I'd like to see, like, Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park.
Welcome to Hate Park.
It wouldn't be Hate Park, it would be more like, you know, Crazy Stuff Park.
Yeah, you'd have, like, twerking park.
Yeah, there'd be obese black women twerking, there would be weird, sort of, woke creatures in exhibits for all to see.
It sounds like an amusement park of grotesqueries rather than hate.
It's bringing back the 19th century freak show.
Yeah, I suppose so.
Someone online driving on the road is a hate crime.
That's especially a hate crime, yeah?
Anonymy.
I'm increasingly of the position that some people only react to stimuli.
They're not a stream of consciousness memory.
They only react.
If need be, they will suddenly not being angry that religious symbol was desecrated.
Almost like they have no internal monologue.
Automatic pilot.
And I think the last one is for yours.
Oh, well, I'll read it out now.
I had a co-worker from Germany one year.
She'd been groped by a migrant while walking down the street.
She turned around and punched the guy.
She didn't have a problem for the rest of the day.
Well, given that German women and German people can be quite tall and migrants from the third world can be quite short, I can believe that.
I can believe that.
But that's all time we've got today.
Remember to get your copy of Islander and remember to join in on the fun by watching the Liz Truss interview that Conor did on his show Tomlinson Talks yesterday.
I think you'll find it informative and hopefully it lives up to the hype that the press has given you.
So thanks very much again for watching.
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