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June 20, 2024 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #941
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- Hello, my friends.
Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
I'm your host, Elios, and today I'm joined by Harry and Calvin.
How are you doing?
Harry, first of all, do you need a loop before we start?
Not right now, but we'll see as we go on.
All right, good.
Right.
So today we are going to discuss the assault on Stonehenge, the New Britain culture shock, and Ireland censoring the Internet.
And it is Thursday the 20th of June.
Now, one thing before we start, at three o'clock, tune in for Calvin's Common Sense Crusade, and he's talking about some really interesting things there, like bestiality versus bigots.
Bestiality is one of your specialist subjects, as you were telling us before we started, right?
It was.
It's not, but I have read it.
You've read an academic paper, haven't you?
I have read an academic paper.
Did that have any illustrations?
No, it didn't.
And also a reminder that these are coming out next week, the Common Sense Crusade pipes.
So keep an eye out for those.
Right.
Let's go to Assault on Stonehenge.
Yesterday, a activist from Just a Poil studying in the non-elite University of Oxford made a statement.
Let's watch it.
Yes, the electronics.
Okay.
My name's Niamh, I'm 21 and I'm a student at the University of Oxford.
Today I'm taking action with Just Stop Oil to demand that the UK government commits to signing the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and promises to stop burning fossil fuels by 2030.
To refuse to do so is to warrant death, destruction and suffering on an absolutely immense and immeasurable scale.
Today we'll be taking action at Stonehenge the day before the solstice for Thousands of years, people have come to Stonehenge on the solstice to celebrate our natural world, to celebrate the beauty of our natural world.
But I can't help thinking, what does it look like today and what the heck have we done to it?
These stones have stood here for 5,000 years.
What will the world look like in 5,000 years time?
What will our legacy be?
Becoming ever more clear that we end the fossil fuel era or the fossil fuel era ends us.
Is it?
Is that clear?
These are serious concerns.
The world is supposed to come to an end, and people who have these concerns need to take action.
So here is what we call in philosophy basic practical reasoning.
You have a goal, like saving the planet, and you are thinking about alternatives that you are going to use as means in order to promote your ends.
And apparently these people came up with this alternative.
Gotta press it twice now.
You see first of all that this person opened it before the air is filling it all.
Yeah, and suffocating themselves.
I like it that it's just a little old woman trying to stop them.
Where are the police?
I'm pretty sure you can't walk up to the Stonehenge.
No, you have to pay to visit them, so... You know, I've never actually been.
I went years ago before you had to pay for them with my parents but now I've been told it's been turned into a big tourist trap where you do have to pay.
There's guards, barriers to entry and such.
So either they were hiding all of their equipment or this is, you know, typical controlled opposition.
They've been ushered in.
I've been to Stonehenge 19 years ago in 2005 and it was absolutely amazing.
I really liked it.
And I want to say that it seems to me that you are echoing a lot of the considerations of people when they're talking about Just Top Oil, because it always seems to be such a good circumstance for them to do something.
Circumstances are there, the whole situation is structured in such a way that they are going to be let and allowed to do this.
And they're doing this for a long time.
So, for instance, when they did the painting, when they desecrated the Magna Carta glass, it's always there are cameras there, getting, there's no guard.
They went after the Mona Lisa as well, didn't they?
They've been after a lot of things.
Just vandals.
The thing is, they ruin our culture, our society.
I was in the Louvre recently.
You can't see half the stuff in the Louvre because it's got these horrible plexiglass things, so everything's reflective.
You can't actually see the art very well.
But it has to be protected because of little entitled brats like this.
Well, the one thing I remember about, and this is years ago so the security might have been stepped up even more, when I went to the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa, is there's a barrier preventing you from getting to it that's maybe 6, maybe 10 feet away.
And then there's the protective glass around it as well.
So if these clowns manage to get very close to it, then it's...
And I'm going to be honest, that's the one thing I didn't want to see at the Louvre.
It's so overhyped, isn't it?
Well, we're lucky because we're tall, so I could look over the crowd, but for anybody shorter than me, it would be an absolute pain in the arse to even get a glimpse of it.
It's always too good to be true.
That's why I'm concerned about the foundations that are charged and entrusted with protecting works of art and works of culture, and they seem to not be doing it.
But let's see here what Justopoil says, breaking Justopoil's spray Stonehenge Orange.
Two people took action the day before summer solstice demanding the incoming government sign up to a legally binding treaty to phase out fossil fuels by 2030.
I don't know.
Is this the way to basically achieve their ends?
And we have community notes saying Stonehenge is a legally protected monument and a World Heritage Site.
The action is illegal and may have damaged the monument and its rare colony of lichens.
Right.
So this is the issue for me.
This is obviously a pagan idol.
I don't care about pagan idols, but I care about the English heritage aspect of this.
This is part of our culture, part of our society.
And these entitled brats with their demands just do what they like and get away with it.
Yeah, so we have here also from JustaPoila a reply that says the orange corn flour we used will soon wash away with the rain, but the urgent need for effective government action to mitigate the catastrophic consequences of the climate and ecological crisis will not.
Now I want to say that in some cases I've heard them talking about corn flour, In other case about corn starch, in other case about orange paint.
Right now most of it is speculation and also the degree in which they're going to be punished is yet to be seen.
But we also have another community note saying that in previous instances where substances were claimed to be washable by rain by allies of Justopoil, it eventually didn't happen and removing them took time and public money.
Say, for example, in Italy, Milan, and they have the link.
Anyone who wants to search for it more, they can do.
And we have here from Stonehenge, UK, they say Stonehenge is protected by the Ancient Monuments Act, which is a law that was passed in the UK in 1979.
And it is a criminal offense to damage the stones.
There are also multiple rare lichen species growing on the stones that are also protected.
And they say here expect a prison sentence and angry face emoji.
We will have to see about that.
We have an excellent meme by Vesegrad24 describing the situation of Just Stop Oil.
Someone said there, Doctor, I'm depressed because of the weather in 30 years.
Doctor Prescription, have you tried destroying priceless artwork?
I mean, it all goes without saying, but just to make sure that people know that we've covered it.
One, of course, they keep saying, whenever you hear the way that they talk about these things, that if we don't do something right now, literally this very second, then the world will literally explode, is essentially the summation of their beliefs, because as we saw in that original video, that Boy, girl, I couldn't tell.
I thought it was a young boy.
I couldn't tell the difference, to be perfectly honest.
I would never assume his gender pronouns, but... Of course, that miracle of breeding said that they were going to turn, we were going to face death, destruction on a grand scale.
They've been saying this for decades, we've been hearing this since the 70s.
So let's go and paint some ancient stones.
Yeah, we've been given deadline after deadline after deadline, Al Gore's deadlines.
It's like the Jehovah's Witnesses, isn't it?
Yeah, the world will end tomorrow if we don't do exactly what my political aims are, then the world will literally explode.
And also, this is government policy.
As it stands right now, net zero and everything that they want is government policy.
I wouldn't be surprised.
I know that there's been some indications from other sources that some of these other ones, not just Stop Oil but Extinction Rebellion, have had big money funding them behind the scenes.
This is all on behalf of the agenda that our government and our media establishment are already pushing.
That's why they're able to get so close to these monuments with damaging equipment when nobody else would be able to.
And the only person who tried to stop them, I think, is an Asian tourist.
They're all related, so Roger Hallam is the founder of Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, Animal Rebellion, Insulate Britain, and he's the leader of the political party Burning Pink.
I challenge our viewers to look up Roger Hallam and who funds him.
Right, we have a delicious article here from Guardian that I want to talk to show you and show you especially what they say about a druid called Pendragon.
They say Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder paint by Just Stop Oil activists.
Two people arrested, say police.
Rishi Sunak's comments on protest prompts response from labor donor.
So basically Rishi Sunak Uh, posted and said that this is a disgrace, but the question is what is going to be done about it?
It's, you know, we're fed up with statements.
And then Dale Vince, the labor donor and passbacker of Just Stop Oil, responded to a comment by Sunak that a certain labor party donor should condemn the action by saying, since Rishi Sunak has asked me personally to comment, I will.
I don't support what Justin Poyle did today, it's that simple.
But there are far worse actions we could focus on, far more harmful ones, like pushing two million children and their families into poverty.
That's called water-battery.
Exactly, it's water-battery, and I just don't see why such a discussion needs to Shift.
Both issues are important.
And you could say that they are interlinked, because when they're talking about families getting destroyed, you need to act, and being pushed into poverty, we all need to ask, how?
What are the main reasons why this is done?
And one of the main cultural reasons is cultural self-hatred.
And cultural self-hatred has everything to do with the acts we're looking at right now.
That's why it's not an either or.
Look, the root cause is the same, and I want to say this because, you know, I'm from Greece.
I'm Greek.
No way.
Yes.
I thought you were Turkish.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I have a very special relation with heritage, and you see that At some point, if you really feel a kind of ethnical pride, you have to link it with heritage.
And by the way, this also offends me, because it represents also an ancient culture trying to lift people from, you know, From nothing into civilization.
And that is the issue with these people right now.
What they're doing represents a sort of hatred towards civilization.
Because when the means to the stated goal are so unlikely, To achieve that goal, it means that the stated intention is false.
They're just moved and motivated by blind hatred for the society into which they owe everything.
That's interesting because they're constantly attacking heritage monuments and Exactly.
And I don't understand when they're talking about the environment dying and never talking about the environment that sustains human life.
They never phrase it this way.
what if they're destroying it in the meantime i don't understand what they're saving exactly and i don't understand the when they're talking about the environment dying and never talking about the environment that sustains human life they never phrase it this way almost never i mean i mean the society when you when you're asking what are they trying to preserve well they are
of course progressive revolutionaries and what they would want to do is tear down the progressive globalist neoliberalism that we have right now and just replace it with progressive globalist eco-communism Right.
Which is just as much a smashing down of all cultures.
They are the same picture.
Yeah, basically the same thing.
I love that by the way, a senior droid and pagan priest, King Arthur Pendragon.
He totally disapproved of the Jastorpoyl protest and that the group's action alienate any sympathy for their cause.
But King Arthur Pendragon is also a protester.
Really?
Yeah.
So it's one pagan destroying another pagan.
Pendragon, who is standing as an independent parliamentary candidate for the area, said, Stonehenge is a living working temple at times of celebration and pilgrimage, such as the summer solstice.
And as a well-known protester myself, I totally disapproved of such behavior as demonstrated by these people.
who do nothing to enhance and everything to alienate any sympathy anyone has or had for their cause.
The priest has previously been involved in several protests at the monument and lost a legal challenge over a £15 car parking charge at the site in 2017, claiming the fee breached his human rights.
To be fair, that's one protest they'll get behind.
Unnecessarily high.
But I love that that was probably an example of Conquest's laws in action.
You know, like, don't worry, I'm a gay race communist just like you, don't worry.
But, as soon as it gets onto my territory, I'm a raging conservative.
Oh yeah.
Stonehenge-ism.
And English Heritage is the foundation that is entrusted with protecting the Stonehenge site, and they are saying orange-powdered paint has been thrown at a number of the stones at Stonehenge.
Obviously, this is extremely upsetting, and our curators are investigating the extent of the damage.
More updates to follow, but the site remains open.
That's interesting, because English Heritage have become ridiculously woke.
Yes, and I have heard that they are basically funding a lot of Pride events.
I went to Castle in Wales last year, I forget exactly which one it was, but it was one where they've got this enormous, incredible display Of a load of colonial artifacts that they'd taken from India, when we were still in India, that they'd brought back over from here.
People might be able to find which castle it was.
But I took a look around and was being shown about by the guide, and she was wringing her hands of everything the entire time.
Well, of course, you know, we can't ignore that a lot of this was taken through conquest and theft of local artifacts.
And I was just there saying, why is that a bad thing?
And she kind of sputtered for a second.
Are you saying we're good at war?
Yeah.
Because I said, weren't those people they took it from also at war with each other for the same things?
And we just beat them at it.
We just won.
Well, we can't, no, no real response to it.
Lame.
So, at the moment the debate is whether the damage is irreparable or not, and some people say the paint is going to wash away, but there are some people who are also concerned about the lichen.
And the lichen is, as I see here, a stable symbiotic association between a fungus and algae, and it is something that in Stonehenge There is a special site for them on the stones.
It's a special microorganism that is also protected there.
So, we have here a local farmer, Tim Doe, an historic property steward who used to volunteer at the site.
He carried out an experiment and basically he says, if you mix what they threw with lichen, it is damaging it.
Now, I'm not an expert here.
I'm not going to judge, but this is, you know, the other side to the To the discussion right now.
Now, Just Up Oil didn't stop there.
Because today is a different day.
A different day merits for different action.
And they did something that fans of Taylor Swift are not going to like particularly.
Let's see what they did here at Stansted Airport.
They're trying to break in.
And they're basically painting two jets, private jets.
I think these are the private jets of Taylor Swift.
Connor's gonna be heartbroken.
Keep away from her!
Leave her alone!
And also, they have a statement here that is really fun to watch.
Let's hear it.
Her name's Cole.
We need an international treaty against the burning of all oil, coal and gas.
While people are starving, the rich fly thousands and thousands of feet in the air above us all.
Billionaires are not untouchable.
I mean, she's got some points in there, it's not all nonsense.
It's like, you know, I'm Cole, I'm 22, I just vandalised two planes.
We need to take action.
Do what I want.
This sounds like a dating app.
Like the old video dating.
I'm Stelios, I'm 34, I just vandalised my neighbour's car.
Wanna go out on a date or something?
What are the aviation rules here?
She's broken into an airport.
I assume trespassing, vandalism.
But also, again, you say that there are some things that are being brought up there, but also let's not forget that her first point is we need an international treaty To impoverish ourselves and drag us to a time, technologically, before the Industrial Revolution.
What we need to do is we need to incite mass famine on the West and the rest of the world by proxy, and then I'll be happy.
Yeah, she's confused.
The elite are running roughshod all over us and doing what they like.
They are flying around in private jets whilst lecturing us.
But the solution to that isn't to do away with oil and coal.
It's actually to burn more oil and more coal and make fuel affordable to the poor.
Do the things that were in the Reform Manifesto, because I read that through the other day and some of that was like, oh wow.
Do R&D, research and development, and produce better, more sustainable technologies.
Like nuclear?
Actual progress, not regress in the name of progress, is achieved by people who just sit down, think about things, and actually do something.
Not people who just virtue signal.
I think that there is another aspect into it, because it is so obvious that these people have zero idea of how to achieve their goals.
And this doesn't make sense even from an instrumental perspective.
I mean, let's say I disagree with what they're saying.
I disagree with a lot of what they're talking about.
I just don't see things this way.
But at least in order to judge others, we have to judge whether what they do makes sense from their perspective, and it just doesn't.
Well, because all these young middle-class girls, these middle-class white girls, they're very privileged and very elite, and they are indoctrinated into a cult.
And people like Roger Hallam are the ones making all the money and sending these young privileged girls out with their guilt to do something that he's directing them to do.
They don't know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
They're just indoctrinated into a cult.
Hey, I'm starting in Oxford.
I have no prospects for my future.
So let me just paint some orange, paint Stonehenge orange and Taylor Swift's Jets orange.
This is going to piss off, Colin.
The point is she's not the one getting anything from this or anything.
The people who are sending her out are the ones making all the money, getting the investors to invest in Extinction Rebellion and Just Top Oil, etc.
Where is their money coming from?
Where is that going?
And I think though that within the young generation there is a healthy contingent of Of people who are, let's say, becoming more sensible, but there are also others who go precisely the other way.
Where does this link go?
Support young people like Cole taking action.
That's quite a cool name.
What is this?
Are we about to donate?
Are we about to get a load of viruses?
So look, this is what I mean.
140 grand already.
They're making money out of these vulnerable young women.
They're convincing them that they need to do something stupid.
And all it does is drive PR.
And we're talking about it here, giving them more attention.
And they're making money from it.
So, let's give more attention to the academia that is brainwashing these people.
So, I interviewed renowned professor Stephen Hicks.
He is around for decades, and he has really interesting books and stuff to say.
One of his books is about postmodernism.
And he has a very unique interpretation of postmodernism.
Some people agree with it, some others disagree with it, but he's a very interesting voice.
And we're talking about the decline of Western academia, the intellectual and administrative causes of it, the Russian philosopher Dugin, and we're also talking about liberalism, post-liberalism, and individualism.
Definitely watch this interview.
So, Keir Starmer, he was basically the target of the message of Justerpoil.
It says, Damage done to Stonehenge is outrageous.
Justerpoil are pathetic.
Those responsible must face the full force of the law.
Well, that remains to be seen.
I did see a response to this that went, it's just a bunch of rocks, why aren't you doing more about Palestine?
And a lot of people were just saying, I care more about the rocks than Palestine.
Because the rocks exist!
I want to end with another instance of what people say that, you know, you should be careful what you wish for, and also illustrate the idea that even if we completely disagree with what people want to achieve, we can also judge Whether what they're doing makes sense from their own perspective, at least if we think they're sincere.
And look at what happened here.
It's not related to Just Stop Oil, but it's related precisely to this idea.
So, OCF coffeehouse employees voted to unionize in Philly, and a week later all the outlets got shut down.
Now they're mad about that too, and are demanding that they reopen.
That's not how anything works.
And I have an article here that says precisely what they did.
So they were employees at OCF Coffee Houses, there were three in this area of Philadelphia, and they were complaining about the wages, they were complaining about their salaries, and how expensive things are and they unionized and basically they bankrupted.
Right.
They made it unviable for the businesses to remain open.
And also they harmed themselves.
But yeah, demanding the reopen and give us our jobs back.
Your jobs don't exist anymore.
You've priced yourself out of the market.
You idiots.
Yeah.
So when you want to achieve something, just think of the appropriate means to achieve it.
If though you are having, you are stating that you want to achieve something and your actions are so unlikely to lead to you.
Realizing that goal and achieving that goal, most probably you're lying about your intention.
Is it not just communists are dumb?
They don't understand that money isn't unlimited, and these owners of coffee shops have a business model they have to stick to, and if they go outside of those bounds, the business no longer works.
I think they just expect The consequences of their action to be suffered from someone else, not them.
It's burning down the clock, hoping that someone else is going to suffer the consequences.
To play devil's advocate, I will say I can understand how people on the ground level of society, or whatever level the coffee shop workers in Philadelphia are on, I can understand how they get this idea that money is an infinite resource that doesn't go away and doesn't have limitations.
Primarily because our own elites treat it that way when you look at money printing and inflation if you're a member of a central bank anywhere in the world.
Yeah, you can basically magic money up out of nothing since we moved to fiat currency.
What these people fail to take into account is that happens when you're up here, And you're away from consequences and you can treat money as a magical infinite resource.
Down here, we don't get that privilege.
And the reason why this happens is precisely because they have been brainwashed by Marxism into thinking that any economics other than Marxist economics is basically the rich trying to completely destroy them.
They don't Read anything else and they already come to judge it from the perspective of pure ideology.
Anyone who disagrees with us is actually trying to fool us.
That's how they view it.
Or hates us.
Great.
Should we go to your segment?
Yes.
So I did something radical the other week.
I went to Italy.
Sound.
And I know what you may be thinking.
Harry, you went on holiday.
You can't seriously be making a segment out of this.
Well, you know what they say.
If you're good at something, like taking holidays, never do it for free.
So I'm actually monetizing this by putting it into this segment.
Did you pay your respects to the family?
There were plenty of families there and I was very respectful towards all of them.
Because of course, being an Anglo-tourist, I need to understand that Europeans have a particular idea of Anglo-tourism that I need to dissuade them from because I am not going to be a fat football yobbo.
Why?
Because that's not my style.
I've got a lot of respect for fat football yobbos.
All they want is egg and chips, man.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Fair play.
To be fair, I understand that part of it.
I just don't want to go around behaving disrespectfully in wonderful and lovely historic places.
Hey, this is an Axis country, man.
It's still a wonderful, historic country with lots of history.
It's also the seat of the Roman Empire.
Yes, indeed.
Also, I have to tell you, though, because in several Greek islands, there are some people who come and they absolutely get smashed.
Absolutely wasted.
It's one good thing that Brits are excellent at that.
The fun thing is because a lot of the time when people meet me and I meet people on the street and they tell me, you know, I've been to Greece, I ask them, did you go to Laganas?
And they say, yeah, it's basically the island of debauchery there, the place in Zante.
The whole island is good, but there are some pockets of debauchery there.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Fair play.
You wouldn't add to that debauchery yourself, would you?
Of course not.
Of course not.
Not Stelios is a well-to-do, down-to-earth sort of gentleman.
Sorry, I might need to restart the video wall.
It keeps flipping on and off.
Okay, yeah.
Alright, it looks like we might need to restart the video wall because Stelios has been eaten by the void.
Yes.
I'm resisting the abyss.
Oh, oh, there we go.
Here it is.
Stelios has warded off the evil spirits that were... Yeah.
Yeah, we'll handle it.
Alright, we'll handle it once I'm done talking about it.
So, while I was there, I took a day trip to a beautiful, beautiful city called Verona.
If you're a fan of the works of Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, this is the city that we sat in that inspired Shakespeare.
You can go and you can visit the famous balcony, which I did.
That part's a massive tourist trap, but people are still Fairly respectful to one another.
But you can see from these photos, which aren't my photos, my fiancée took these photos.
She's very good, she's much better than I am at this sort of stuff.
You can see it's lovely, it's clean, it's well-ordered.
And I took a few notes on it and I talked about how, you know, they've got wonderful architecture, they've got a definite respect for the heritage that they have been passed on to them.
It's not all surrounded by hideous glass monuments to modernism that take away from that local feel.
I only spotted, this is true, two homeless people, right?
And if you are familiar with British cities any time in the last 25 years, is that every street corner has homeless people down it.
Every unused doorway will have a homeless person sleeping in it.
Celest, when you moved to England, was this something that you noticed or have you got anything similar?
I noticed, but I've heard by social workers and also people who work in NGOs dealing with poverty that this has to do much more with drugs than with social provision.
Oh, that wouldn't surprise me.
Yeah, it's that they do have places to sleep and they do have food, but a lot of them for, you know, in search of drugs and those things.
They're not allowed to do drugs in these places where they can sleep, so they'll just stay outside.
That actually does work with my experiences living in Manchester for a while, where some of my friends who I was going to university with in Manchester were from London and they said, you know, I thought it was bad in London.
But coming to Manchester it was a whole different level of homelessness because you would walk down the street, disused phone boxes, street corners, doorways and there would always be a homeless person smoking crack.
You know, you can walk through Manchester and have to sort of barge past a smack addict.
who are completely skinny, pale, emaciated, no future going on there, nothing happening except the desire to do more drugs.
So I can completely understand where you're coming from.
But here, for whatever reason, whether it be due to social factors or a lack of drug addicts in the local area, I didn't see anything like that.
If this was Manchester, there'd be homeless people here, homeless people here, homeless people up here probably as well.
And that was something that I noticed, that it was clean and orderly.
And Josh recently came back from holiday to the Netherlands.
He noticed the same thing while he was there.
It was clean, it was orderly, very few homeless people, if at all.
I also noticed that compared to some cities, and I've been told that this is quite different depending on which Italian city you're in.
So, for instance, if you're in Milan or some of the other cities, certainly further down south, you can get a lot of sand people, shall we say, milling about.
But this was mostly a mix of Italians and Europeans, and of the foreigners who were there, the non-European populations, they were very well behaved.
And if they were of foreign origin and living there, they seemed to be much better integrated than you get over here, because you get these big ethnic conclaves.
Now, I will say again, it's probably different in a lot of Italian cities, but in Verona in particular, it wasn't like that.
I was thinking about just the pure contrast, as I've already been highlighting, with British cities was completely stark to me.
Going from that to coming back to Britain to see that we have completely demolished our own heritage and culture for the benefit of what?
So we can have streets flooded with foreigners who hate our culture, who don't want to assimilate or integrate or adhere to our own rules, and so that we can have it flooded with homeless people as well.
people who are completely destroying their lives with no support networks that are kind of pushing them properly into making those decisions to better themselves.
And we've written about this a lot.
Carl's written about what he calls the decline.
Here's a perfect image right here.
right here and it is always sad to see but as well in manchester you get people who litter the streets who look homeless who aren't actually as well they're just trying to avoid having to work so they'll sit around and collect people's money i've seen it friends of mine have seen it where they'll have these big bags where they've got loads and loads and loads of cash and they'll have the the one bag with a few bits of change here and there and they'll take it whenever they get a decent enough amount of money and put it through there
And it is always sad to see, but as well in Manchester, you get people who litter the streets, who look homeless, who aren't actually as well.
They're just trying to avoid having to work.
So they'll sit around and collect people's money.
I've seen it.
so they look poorer than they actually are very very bad the kind of thing that goes on we've done segments as well where you can talk about visiting the ruins just this guy bald and bankrupt who goes around all sorts of countries even in the east of europe and then he just comes back to britain and goes come on former soviet bloc countries keep their cities in better nick than we do in the towns as well one thing though to say is that in a lot of countries in europe you have
it is unlikely to see you know homeless people and stuff near some sites, especially very touristic sites.
But if you go further, you will see them.
Oh, I'm sure.
And sometimes you will see much worse than you see here in England.
Absolutely.
But even in England, when we do have larger cultural heritage sites, say, you still see them.
You still see we don't even really have the kind of prudence to say, hey, the cultural heritage, maybe we should keep that neat and tidy.
We're completely letting it go to the dogs.
And this is something I learned about earlier as well.
I'd not seen this figure before and I didn't include it in this, but I did see somebody talking about how through the 1950s, about one third of our country manors in the States were demolished.
There was about one every five days, because for some reason following the Second World War, a large part of the British elite just decided we don't want heritage anymore, we don't want- We couldn't afford the upkeep.
Well, we could afford plenty.
I have to defend England here about something, because it's the same thing that happened to Greece, because a lot of the time the architecture is being compared.
And it's just a fact that some cities were bombed during World War II, and some others weren't.
Well, no, no, no, but again, we've had plenty of cities that were bombed during World War II, that parts of it have been rebuilt.
And we couldn't keep the upkeep of these country estates, but we could implement in the latter half of the 40s massive socialistic changes and implement a new welfare state under the Attlee government.
And we could rebuild parts of the cities, but for some reason we chose to rebuild them with horrible, utilitarian, brutalist architecture.
We chose to knock down lots of buildings that weren't bombed and replace them with horrible, soul-crushing, brutalist buildings as well.
I will give you this because there are some buildings that are just so horrible.
You can't just explain that with monetary issues.
It's just absolutely horrible.
Well, of course, see, because where I'm from in Crewe, I've got old picture books of what the town used to look like before the war and after the war, and it was true that we were a target of German bombing because we were a major railway site, so we had lots of transport and we had lots of resources coming through the town, so they were targeting it, and a lot of it did get bombed out.
But still, immediately following the war, it's not like the whole town was levelled.
A lot of the town, including some of the old cultural heritage buildings that have been there for a hundred years since the Victorian era, were still there.
And then we knocked them down anyway, and replaced them with horrible concrete blocks.
There's an element of cultural pride.
I go to Italy quite a lot, I love Italy.
And you often see these viral videos online of Americans going to Italy and like, Cutting spaghetti with scissors or asking for a cappuccino in the afternoon and making a joke of how upset the Italians get over these small things.
And people are like, why do they care?
If you want to drink a latte in the morning, cappuccino in the afternoon, why does it matter?
If you want to have ketchup on your pizza or eat your spaghetti with scissors, why does it matter?
And it matters because it's cultural pride.
It's taking, it's having standards.
It's caring about the small things because they are what make you a culture.
And we don't have much of that left.
We don't have much cultural pride because people say we don't have a culture anymore.
But I do have to say about the Italian kitchen and here is where I may, some of our Italian friends may be saddened.
I do think thick crust pizza is much better than thin crust pizza.
I have to agree with you there.
It's a very different meal.
It's a very different meal.
I do love the Chicago town deep dish pizza, but it's very different to an Italian pizza.
Yeah, but I mean, you just have the small piece of pizza and it just evaporates.
Yeah, the Italian pizza is still quite healthy, relatively speaking, compared to these great big... Yeah, but when I eat pizza, I don't want to eat health.
Food is just great.
It really is.
It's just natural.
Even their bread, compared to like English or American bread full of sugar and bleach and stuff, they just live on the essentials.
I don't know if it's exactly full of bleach just so we don't get noted.
American bread is full of bleach.
I don't know about English bread.
I don't know about English bread.
English bread is just full of sugar.
But the Italians just eat the basic staples and it's great.
And they don't get fat from it.
I didn't really partake much in the food culture I've got.
I am the pickiest eater you've ever met.
They have the best gelato, though.
Oh, their gelato is wonderful.
I did have lots of ice cream.
Frutti di Bosco is my favorite.
And Oziola, my favorite.
In regards to the poverty, though, the thing that Europe has that we didn't have for a long time is these organized Romanian crimes.
Crime gangs.
We have them now in England where I used to see them in France like 10 years ago where you get on the tube they walk around part of their tissues next to you with a little note saying I'm poor or something please give me money and they come back and collect your money and pretty much all over Italy and France you've got these Romanian gangs everywhere and so we've imported that from Europe so we're not it's not always that Europe is better Oh no, I don't want to say that Europe is better, it's absolutely everything.
What I want to highlight here is that there has been a noticeable and visible decline, that you can always see when you've gone from a city in Europe, like the ones that I visited, because I went to Verona, I went to Venice, which is a bit too touristy for me, I would have liked it to have been a bit quieter, but I mean, it's always been a merchant city, so I don't know if it would have ever been a quiet city in its history.
But there's a respect for the culture and a knowledge of their own heritage which is being whipped out of us here, that is being demolished in front of our very eyes.
And I noticed around the same time that other people were starting to talk about this.
Posts like from this person, Miss Jo, who'd gone to London, Helsinki and Tallinn and noticed that in those foreign cities they felt more safe, there was a cultural diversity there.
There weren't these enormous ethnic enclaves where you'll get an entire block of a city that's made up of foreigners who don't integrate with anything else and the space is clean and then you go to somewhere like London and in large parts of London, obviously there are parts of London which is still nice, but large parts of London do, as she says here, feel like it's crumbling.
Oh yeah.
Tallinn, by the way, in Estonia is absolutely fantastic.
But you also have to factor in that it's just tiny in comparison to London.
It's just, you know, a thirtieth or something.
But of course, the points that we're making here are essentially that the UK did not have to choose this path.
The UK could be managed and governed better by real statesmen who want the country to be somewhere worth living in.
We don't get that right now because so you get somewhere like this which seems to have a mix of the old and the new but in a way that's clean, it's orderly, it's safe to be in.
In Britain we get this!
This as I've pointed out before this is just the cultural high watermark of 14 years of Tory Britain and 25 plus years of Blairism which is that you get These probable criminal fronts in every high street, surrounded by empty storefronts.
This has been pointed out by other people as well.
Here's the aesthetic of Britain right now.
All the shops on Oxford Street, those American candy stores, they're all fronts.
Yes, it's very clear.
Turkish barbers everywhere, all fronts.
Yeah, just massive queues for basic services that you wouldn't have got before.
This was for that dentist in Bristol that opened, and you got an enormous queue of people because our infrastructure can't manage it anymore.
And then you get this.
You get stuff like this, which was trying to board a bus in London in 2024.
Is there London in Pakistan or Bangladesh?
What?
Well, it certainly doesn't look like London that most people would recognise, does it?
I thought the British were great at queuing!
The new British should be just as good at queuing, right?
That's what our entire culture, the civic culture, is based around.
I don't see much civic culture or much Britain there.
No, neither do I. This is what you've got to put up with when you import half of the third world is that you begin to resemble more of the third world.
Are you saying import the third world become the third world?
Yes, yes, yes I am.
And that's not the country that I want to live in.
Notice what is going on.
Yeah it's it's it's ridiculous and then other people have been again pointing this out it's the shock when you get to the airport this is a an experience that mimics mine exactly because I got back to Manchester airport a few weeks ago after I'd been on holiday and the contrast Was so shocking because going through, it was Venice Airport.
And you'd expect it to be something that's very busy, very difficult to get through.
It was busy, but again, even the airport was clean.
Everybody was doing their jobs right.
It was actually quite quick to get through.
I was shocked about how easy it was to get through and navigate through the place.
And then you get back to Britain and you get this.
Yeah, this is the experience.
You get home and it doesn't feel like home.
It feels like a place that's kind of rubbing in your face that you don't belong here anymore.
So that was my experience and it's the culture shock of getting back to my own nation that I'm supposed to have heritage and pride in and just seeing that there is no respect For any of that, no culture, no history that I can tether myself to until I get out of some of the bigger cities, get out of the airport, and then I can get back to a part of it that feels a bit more like home.
I just arrived in London yesterday from back in the UK from somewhere.
And I can mirror this experience entirely.
You know, you hear people over the Tannoys saying, next we're going to Baddington.
You're like, I can't understand what you're saying.
Just have a received pronunciation accent on the Tannoys in the United Kingdom, in our main airports.
For goodness sake, just make it easy for people.
I want to be clear, there are still nice cities in Britain.
You can go to places like Bath, you can go to places like Oxford, and they are still nice and hold some of that heritage.
But even then, Because they're student cities, most of the time you'll just find that you're just surrounded by Chinese.
Chinese people, yeah.
Yeah.
So, even then.
Although, to be fair, I'm sure the Italians are complaining, all our nice city's full of English people.
But, there you go, that's all I've got to say on the matter.
It's annoying, but what do we do about it?
Um, well, regime change?
Some kind of shifting?
Perhaps the government can be induced to actually govern to prevent the decline?
I don't have any concrete answers.
Literally every poster you see when you arrive, I mean, sometimes you see one of Her Majesty the Queen, well it depends where you come down in Heathrow, but everything you see is promoting diversity, inclusion, equality.
Should we go to the... Well, once the video starts... Wait a minute, yeah.
We've been absorbed.
Got a disco going on.
This isn't like any disco I've ever been.
I don't go to discos, I don't know what that is.
No one said slide to the left.
Not heard a single criss-cross.
Heartbreaking.
Fair, I've not been to a disco since primary school.
Let's wait for this.
We okay?
Yeah?
Okay.
Should we go to the segment?
Let's do it.
Can we have...
Okay, so I just got back from Ireland.
My first time to Ireland.
So I've been to Northern Ireland a few times, but I've not actually been down South because I try to avoid Axis countries.
I'm joking.
But they're putting forward this hate speech bill, which is going to affect all of us.
And so I was invited out there to speak on the hate speech bill.
We had sessions in the Irish Parliament and we had sessions in Trinity College, Dublin, essentially trying to promote the idea that free speech is fundamental to Western liberal democracy.
Why is it important what's happening in Ireland?
Why does it affect us?
Well because Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, they're all based in Ireland because it's a tax haven and so any law that Ireland passes to clamp down on free speech will affect those platforms and we use those platforms and so we're all at risk.
So before I tell you about what the bill is, here's a short little clip from the people at ADF, Alliance Defending Freedom.
If passed in its current form, it will inflict a significant blow to freedom of expression in Ireland.
We're here in Dublin and the building behind me is the Irish Parliament where politicians are debating one of the most far-reaching hate speech laws in Western Europe.
This law has the power to criminalise the possession and distribution of certain materials.
It has far-reaching criminal sanctions including up to five years in prison and it is all based on an idea of hatred that's not even defined in the legislation.
This is Exe's European headquarters in Dublin and the hate speech legislation that the Irish government is planning to introduce has the possibility of impacting free speech across Europe because over half of the large online platforms in the European Union are based here in Dublin.
From universities here, like Trinity College Dublin, to the workplace, to the private home, hate speech laws will reach into conversations between people and create great uncertainty as to whether you can discuss controversial topics in Ireland.
Hate speech laws create an environment of intolerable intrusion into private conversations, into public advocacy and into every area of life.
They create uncertainty as to whether you can discuss controversial topics.
They put criminal penalties on your ability to speak freely and they must be stopped.
Hate speech laws are not about protecting anyone or making society safer.
They're about cracking down on unpopular opinions, about criminalising dissent.
And in a democracy, that fundamentally undermines freedom of expression, which makes our democracy weaker.
The proposed Irish hate speech law contains provisions for fines and, shockingly, even criminal sentences for the possession, distribution and expression of so-called hate.
If passed in its current form, it will inflict a significant blow to freedom of expression in Ireland.
There's still time to amend this legislation and we certainly hope that the Irish government will do so.
So if this bill passes, essentially everything we do and say on Twitter will be censored through Ireland.
So let's take a look at what the bill incorporates.
So the Irish Criminal Justice Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences Bill, otherwise known as the Hate Speech Bill.
essentially criminalizes hatred without saying what hatred means.
Of course, the Marxists never define their terms without using the word in the definition.
And so it's supposed to protect these protected characteristics, which is a similar situation to what we have over here with the Equalities Act, right?
Against racism and xenophobia and all of the isms and phobias that they talk about constantly.
However, in Ireland, they already have the Incitement to Hatred Act of 1989.
And so if we take a look at what's happened with that act, we can take a look at what might potentially happen with the, or if there's a need for a new act.
So the Incitement to Hatred Act of 1989, between the years 2000 and 2020, there were 44 prosecutions.
Only five convictions in 20 years.
So that tells me there's no demand for a new law.
There's no massive amount of hate that needs to be clamped down upon.
No crisis of hatred online.
Usually when governments cannot do something about actual crime, they invent another category of crime, hate crime.
That is why they're saying we're going to be tough on hate, because they are not tough on actual crime.
Well, yeah, I mean, that's a good point.
Tough on hate, what does that mean?
It means forcing people to not hate, forcing people to think a certain way.
Like, you have a right to hate, you have a right to not be nice.
So in its current status, this hate speech bill is in the upper house, so they have a Senate in Ireland, instead of a House of Lords, but it's in their upper house and it's been stored since July 2023, so there's a chance for it to be scuppered.
I don't think they can retract it at this point, but they could probably amend it into non-existence.
But it passed in the lower house, the equivalent of the House of Commons, by 110 out of 160 members voting for it.
So there's massive support across the board in their lower house for this censorious bill.
And this all comes off the back of the 23rd of November.
I think we talked about it on the podcast at the time, there were the protests in Dublin, people were opposed to mass immigration, unfortunately five people were stabbed, three children were harmed, and so they use this, as politicians do, never let a good crisis go to waste, they use this as an excuse to say there's so much hatred, because there are community tensions, that people are unhappy with the situation.
150,000, roughly, immigrants in one year alone.
Considering the size of Ireland, that's a large change.
Ireland's population is, what, 5 million, I believe?
There's more Irish people in the diaspora across the rest of the world than there are in Ireland.
Exactly.
So, a massive change in the people, which of course means there's a massive housing crisis, and a job crisis, and it's reflected in all the things that we'd see over here too.
But a number of high-profile crimes against Irish people by these new immigrants have happened in the last year or two as well.
That includes a young teacher who was murdered.
There were a series of stabbings as well across the country.
So this new influx of immigration isn't helping the country, it's harming Irish people.
And so of course they're upset about it.
But the Irish government have shrugged it off and said, well, these protests were far-right extremists and we're going to push through this new hate speech law to help with So this is victim blaming from the government, basically.
Well, you know, did you see what these protesters were wearing?
They were asking for it.
Right.
I mean, who wouldn't have stabbed them?
Right.
Their skirts were too short.
And so the bill itself, let's look at the legislation.
So, first of all, as I mentioned, there's a lack of definition of the term hatred.
I think they've said that hatred is something that incites hate, including this definition.
They have a very subjective way of understanding hate, which means that it is to the discretion of the judge.
To adjudicate whether something is hatred or not, and this is one of the main problems with these hate speech bills, that they are so subjective and so phrased in such a way that they essentially give a blue check to arbitrary government, because it turns the presumption of innocence into the presumption of guilt.
100% and of course it's all very abstract and it's subjective so it depends on who it is.
So if I'm saying something, if you're criticizing Christianity and I'm criticizing Mohammedanism, we both get treated very differently for the same exact thing.
That's the problem, there's a two-tiered response to it.
But they say in this circular definition of hatred that it's to protect protected characteristics, but even protected characteristics are ill-defined.
So their definition of gender is Gender of a person, or the gender which a person expresses as the person's preferred gender, or with which the person identifies and includes transgender, and a gender other than those of male and female.
Well, it's the characteristics of the groups that are going to politically support them.
So essentially, gender can mean anything, whatever you determine it to mean.
So it's not just male and female, or trans, but it can mean any of the 99 or however many genders there are at this moment in time.
But if you don't subscribe to the ideology, you're already guilty of hatred from the get-go.
So you're breaking the law.
And the problem here is that the application of this law is complicated in itself.
It's not just offending someone.
It's not just being hateful of someone.
It's inciting hatred by behavior of any kind.
And so that doesn't mean you have to say something.
It could mean you're standing outside a mosque and turn your back to the mosque in protest.
It could mean silent prayer.
It could mean anything that is an act of behavior.
You don't have to verbalize your hatred.
And so it's thought crime, essentially.
Last year, they were also saying that Hateful behavior is behavior that is likely to cause sentiments of hate, which is even more subjective.
Anything can do that.
So it's not just your behavior, it's what your behavior might incite.
So you, by not saying anything, could cause someone to hate someone.
is violence it's entirely based off of the behavior of the person who might who is uh been incited to hatred so they can hate anything hatred is often an irrational emotion so if you got there by irrational means well it turns out that whatever you were doing that led to the irrational emotion rising up it could have been saying hello to someone extending your hand to shake theirs that can inspire hate somebody may be in a bad mood that day something anything could be going on that
so i guess that means you were inciting hate it's she could be a muhammadin female who doesn't shake hands so your microaggression towards her would be implying that she has It could be anything.
It's, as you say, entirely down to the discretion of the judge, which means that it's completely subjective, up in the air, used to attack political opponents.
Part of this law says that a person could be reckless as to whether their acts or behavior could incite hatred.
So even not thinking about whether what you're doing or saying could cause hatred is breaching this law.
There's unequal application of it, so a corporate body is treated differently to an individual.
So Twitter, Facebook, etc., these large companies, Can be reckless in a way that you and I can't be, so there's an inconsistency there.
But where I find this most concerning, as someone who's involved with Lotus Eaters, is this possession of hateful material.
And this means any material that's likely to incite violence or hatred against persons on account of their protected characteristics.
Essentially, having memes on your phone.
Not even sharing the memes but having an intention to share these memes.
What if I own a biology textbook from before 2019?
Possession of hateful material.
I have interviewed and also spoken to David Thunder who is an academic from Ireland who's talking about it and he says that for instance you could be an academic who is questioning the paradigm and you're just sending your essay, what you're writing or the manuscript of a book To a friend, or to... not a friend, but someone who's going to stab you in the back, and they could say, listen, this is likely to incite hatred.
You're questioning the paradigm, you're going to incite hatred.
You don't even have to send it, just owning it is the problem.
Owning this stuff is class's possession of hateful material.
The rights of private property is out the window there.
And then this goes on to the search warrants and passwords as well, that you are required to give your password over.
And therefore you're required to incriminate yourself.
If you've got memes on your phone, they're bound to suggest that you're intended to share those memes, so you're therefore possessing harmful content with the intent to share harmful content, but you have to give them that harmful content.
So you have no freedoms whatsoever with this bill.
There is no exception for truthful statements or communications.
So even if what you're saying is absolutely true, if it is seen as hateful, you're still breaking this law.
This happened in Germany now with one politician from the ADF who cited government statistics about the crime coming from people who I think came from Afghanistan.
I'm not certain.
I think so.
Yeah, they have that immigrant status.
Yeah, and they find her.
And the question is, why do you circulate this data and these statistics?
My impression is that they want to circulate this in order to push forward an economic interpretation, that crime can only be addressed economically because the causes of crime are only economic, therefore tax more.
Tax Germans more for all the groups that engage in proportionately more crime?
That might be it.
I think part of it might just come down to the inertia of government bureaucracy with that kind of stuff.
Well, we've already had in place measures where we already take all of this information, so everybody in the office who collects that information is just doing their day-to-day jobs without thinking of the consequences.
Then it gets circulated.
And then afterwards they realize, like the ONS, "Oh God, we've got to stop collecting this information." All of a sudden. - It's harmful information. - Some middle manager's gonna come in, go, "Right guys, we need a meeting right now.
"We need to change our processes straight away." - Yeah, no, I think you agree. - I mean, me saying, me going on the Common Sense Crusade and saying, "Mohamed married an underage girl," right there, that's a hate crime, even though it's true.
But you're right, sharing information, sharing government statistics, if it highlights something that could be seen as hateful, therefore that is also illegal.
And so this is where we are.
This is what the hate speech bill is.
It's essentially removing your right to speech, your right to behaviour, your right to privacy, your right to not incriminate yourself and it's very broad and the reason we're fighting against it is because if it gets implemented in Ireland we are all subject to this law essentially through the platforms that we use.
So Twitter, Facebook etc will err on the side of caution I just remove our content, or remove us, de-platform us, because it's not worth having us on there, because they'll get these hefty fines, because we are hateful people.
I think, really, the Irish government is the wokest government so far.
Maybe, maybe, you know, the Biden administration is more woke or maybe Trudeau, but I think they're unbelievably woke.
Well, we were speaking before the show that when I arrived there, linking to your segment, actually, when I arrived in Dublin, the first thing I saw was the trans pride flag on the door.
So you have to cross a threshold, which is the massive trans pride flag.
Oh my God.
You walk outside and honestly.
Wait, wait, wouldn't that have threat of you accidentally standing on the trans pride No, no, it's on the door.
Oh, it's on the door?
There's no way to not- But what if you bump against it?
Is that not a hate crime now?
And you walk outside and blazing on the side of the airport is the biggest flag you'll ever see in your life.
Really?
The Trans Pride flag.
And everywhere, and I walked around for a couple of hours in Ireland trying to find Irish flags, and I found two.
All of them, everywhere, were the Trans Pride flag.
Well maybe they are likely to incite feelings of hatred or feelings of... They do actually.
So maybe they're in breach of this.
On the Irish Parliament they've permanently emblazoned the Trans Pride flag.
It's a permanent feature on their building.
How have they put it permanently?
They've etched it in.
They've been conquered.
They're a dominated land.
Dublin is no longer Irish.
It is now transpride.
But we have to remember also when we're talking about Ireland that they had the referendums on the 8th of March this year.
They had the family and the care referendum and essentially what the government tried to do is something that is really close to the agenda of the criminal justice bill there.
pushing forward when it comes to hate speeches because what they wanted to do was to arbitrarily define who gets to be a family member who deserves constitutionally supported financing on the basis of redefining the family.
So they wanted to say that let us redefine the family to also involve Durable relationships.
What durable relationships were, they didn't say.
Purely subjective.
And then the Constitution says any member of a family needs to get financial support.
So basically they wanted to give an air of legitimacy to arbitrarily financing political supporters.
This is just clientelism in the name of justice.
Well, thankfully, the Irish people said no to both of those referenda.
They said, no, mothers are women and that's a good thing.
We don't want to remove women from our constitution.
Especially, I think it was on, was it Mother's Day weekend or something like that?
It was a crazy time for them to do it.
Try and remove the word mother from the constitution.
But yeah, the Irish people are very sound, but the government is very woke.
There's a massive disconnect there.
Great.
But also, I mean we were talking about it in the office as well, there's something weird about Ireland have fought against the United Kingdom for so long.
for that independence for so long that they've just submitted to the European Union.
Where's the independence?
Where are the nationalists?
Sinn Féin are massive globalists, massively woke, selling out the country.
Who are the nationalists in Ireland?
I think there has been a resurgence of nationalism within Ireland but bills like this and other measures that the Irish government are taking are explicitly designed to try and counteract them before they can get too much momentum going.
One thing though that is absolutely Weird, in this case, and it's very interesting, is to see that there is a very abstract agenda that is being imposed upon Ireland, and every Western nation, because they're talking about anti-colonialism, decolonization, all these abstract isms.
And Ireland didn't exactly have an empire in the past.
So it's like, yeah, just take a country that didn't have an empire and make that country somehow feel guilt for crimes of other empires.
Well, it just shows that decolonization is delighting.
Obviously, it's a very big discussion.
I'm not playing the anti-empire card.
I'm not playing that card.
But I'm just saying that even if one accepts it, which I don't, it would be absolutely absurd to impose that on Ireland.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, should we go to the comments?
Great.
Let's go to the video comments.
We have time today.
So there's a lot of crazy stuff going on in the world, and honestly, it's hard for any one person or even one group to cover it all, so instead of doing a lot of California news and stuff at the moment, I kind of just want to share interesting information with you guys that other people make.
So I'll just share some YouTube channels and stuff, and I'll start today with a light-hearted one, which is going to be casual geographic, and that's a good one if you want to learn about animals in an entertaining way.
So here's how to survive a moose attack.
You don't, actually.
Have a choice in the matter.
Very good.
Jeez.
These things are massive, aren't they?
Yeah.
I've seen... I always saw pictures of them and I thought they're probably the size of a cow.
They're about twice the size of a cow.
They're bloody enormous.
You see videos of them next to pickup trucks and they're taller than the pickup trucks.
And that's a horrifying image right there.
Apparently the meat is quite good.
Oh, I bet it is.
I bet it is.
Moose meat.
I've never tried it.
The Canadians love it.
There's a butcher's near mine that sells kangaroo meat and stuff like that.
I need to try it.
I bet it's nice.
Right, let's go to the second one.
I'm incredibly angry and mortified at what's happened to Stonehenge.
I've wanted to visit the UK for a long time.
I've wanted to see Stonehenge for myself.
I've wanted to see the history in the UK.
And I've wanted to see just the daily people living their daily lives in British culture.
I don't get to see that now.
I don't get to even see Stonehenge before all of this happened.
I pray very, very hard that you guys can manage to take back the island of Albion.
Thanks, California refugee.
This is an interesting claim here.
It says evil cannot create, only destroy.
It's true.
I was thinking sometimes that it's madness that destroys and evil wants to dominate and subjugate.
But I don't know what you think about the distinction between evil and madness.
Perhaps we should talk about it another time.
I don't know, but I completely agree with that.
Only God creates, evil destroys.
That's the binary.
Let's go to the next one.
Nice to see Ron animated.
Oh yeah, I know.
fucking good ass, bud.
What?
We're waiting for nature to come out.
Okay.
I'll finish the contract speech.
But, uh, energy's high, clouds are grim, wailers feel bad.
Yeah.
Reform.
Here we go.
Nice to see Ron animated.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I know.
I've got to say, Ron, death metal musician wants tax cuts.
Yeah, I still need to listen to your album that you sent in.
Also, I've just got to say, you look exactly like all of my friends whenever I see them at Bloodstock.
With your hair, the beard, the shirt, and everything.
Oh, it's taking me back.
Yeah.
Bloodstock.
It's a metal music festival in Britain.
It happens in August.
What's the lineup this year, actually?
Sorry.
Let's go to the next one.
Australian author Be Real has had a storied life of travel, study and service with the Australian military.
His two books on surviving fourth-wave feminism are extensively researched and include his own first-hand accounts of studying feminism as part of his education in the US.
His lessons started as interesting and positive, but became poisonous and alienating, ultimately leading to the writing of these books.
While the research is extensive and accurately cited, Dr. Real is too wordy and repetitious.
This could have been much more impactful as only one book.
I just can't imagine what the fifth wave is going to be like.
Tradwives return?
Conor's going to be thrilled.
I don't know.
Maybe after Taylor Swift, Jen being vandalized.
Taylor Swift's going to have a baby.
All the women are going to decide they want to be tradwives.
The West will be safe.
Now all the women are going to go to the right.
All the Swifties.
All the Swifties.
Why is Taylor Swift going right?
No, because her plane was vandalized by the Just Up Oil protesters.
Let's go to the next one.
So I was reading Peter Zurosz's Disaster at D-Day, which is basically an alternate history about, you know, D-Day ending in failure, and it does accurately present all of the people and resources involved, though.
One of which is the fact that the Omaha Beach, the people that first stormed it were the Stonewall Regiment, the same regiment that served under Stonewall Jackson.
Kind of goes against the narrative that the left kind of presents about Southerners and people that wave Confederate flags.
Oh, yeah.
It's very interesting.
Let's carry on.
A Gentleman's Observations of Swindon, Chapter 5.
Although the Goddards first lived in the Westercott Manor House, built in 1589, which is now a Grade II listed building, it was the Swindon House which became most associated with their name.
Built roughly around 1770, Swindon House was renovated and expanded over the years, and became known as The Lawns in the 19th century.
After Major Fitzroy Playdell Goddard died without an heir in 1927, The Lawns Manor fell into disrepair, and was last used in World War II by American and British soldiers, before being demolished in 1952.
The manorial land is now a public park, called The Lawns.
At least it's still a public park, although public parks are always a lot nicer when they've got a nice big old manor house in them.
There's still one in... So much to keep them.
Well, still, if people are willing to pay and people are willing to help with the upkeep, I'm always willing to.
There's still one in West Swindon where you've got a big public park with a big old public manor house that you can go into.
And they've got donation boxes, you can just pop your money there.
I won't say though that Thane Scottie has convinced me because he is doing this multi-part series of videos because he wants to convince people that Swindon isn't absolute hell.
I think he's working well.
Those videos are great, but then I walk into Swindon and I'm like, this is absolute hell.
This is exactly my first sentiment.
When I came here for the interview, I came from York.
York is absolutely lovely.
And I just saw the Johnny Morrell building for the first time.
What happens here?
I hate coming down here.
This studio is fantastic.
You people are great, but this place is awful.
Right, let's see Craig Cooper's video.
This is a response to California Refugee.
Pasteurized and homogenized milk is better for you.
I'm going to show you what pasteurization is.
Okay.
And here's what homogenization is. - So they warm it and stir it.
Okay.
Yeah, no, I agree with this.
Personally, yeah.
He had the Hobbit I don't know.
Maybe it glows when government officials are approaching the house or something like that.
I don't know.
I still want to try raw milk.
I've heard some people talk about the health benefits that they've got from it.
But of course, never take things from just people's statements only.
Try it yourself if you want to.
That's my subject.
Great.
So have we finished with the videos?
I think we might have one more.
Yeah, another one.
Okay.
So, comments.
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Better question is, why only the lonely Japanese tourists try to defend the British heritage from vandalism?
Where are British people to stand against this collective lunacy?
I think British people have had it kind of knocked into their heads for too long that, oh well, if I try and do anything, I'll be arrested.
So?
Yeah.
Well, after enough time, it works.
After enough time, it really does break people.
You could say that one of the two people who did this was from England.
I think so.
Well, yeah, that's also true.
I think it has to do with cultural self-hatred.
It's something that is deeply ingrained in Western countries, and it's going to increase in the future.
Swindon, a.k.a.
Browntown.
I work for English Heritage and I can personally attest to how woke it is.
There's race, gender and sexuality struggle sessions.
A push to celebrate non-English heritage.
Tampons in the men's toilets and the action against climate change for some reason is one of the main goals of the charity.
They also receive a lot of government funding, so you lads are paying for all this.
So, Restore Trust is a good organisation that's trying to take English heritage back to soundness, but you're right, it's absolutely flooded with all this nonsense.
Why are the tampons in the men's toilets?
No idea.
No idea.
But, I mean, you would expect from an organization that is entrusted with protecting English heritage to actually care about English heritage.
You would, wouldn't you?
Yeah.
But we're strange for that.
Richard Monikendam.
Stelios not trolling, being righteous, and we love him for it.
Thank you very much.
Couldn't agree more.
As someone who has enjoyed the outdoors and everything about this country from childhood, this point cannot be hummered enough.
Communism should be a offense.
Growing up during the Cold War, you could just not have the views these freaks have and escape punishment by your peers, parents, or the government.
I want to see the same again.
It was a better homogeneous society.
I really think that communism is destroying people's minds.
It's important for people to understand how it does.
That's why I'm not against necessarily teaching it, but I think that it absolutely destroys people's minds, because a lot of the progressive movements there are precisely building their rationale on, you know, Marx and Engels.
And they never learn from empirical data because every failure is interpreted by them not as something that is going to destroy the theory and the fundamental core of the theory, but it's just a sign that the conditions weren't ripe for the revolution yet.
Which is lunacy.
Binary surfer.
The left are almost entirely failures as human beings and society members.
Stelios is correct in a weird way.
They're performative signaling because the rest of their life is a complete shitshow of failure.
I can count the well-adjusted lefties I've met on one hand.
I don't know if that's a bit optimistic because unfortunately... That's the optimistic view, isn't it?
Yeah, because I think... There's complete failures in life.
I mean, the way society is structured right now, people are incentivized to do this because they're going to put it on their CV.
Now, okay, let's become a Global banker or something now.
Okay, Lars Peter Simonsen.
Just driving home after a short visit to my favorite town that was bombed by the Luftwaffe in April 1940.
Lotseeter's podcast is excellent listening for a long drive.
To paraphrase Ilves, who the F wrecks a Stonehenge.
Put them in prison that is not far too easy to escape.
They should have some punitive... should be punished, absolutely.
Yeah, of course.
There's just no excuse for doing what they did.
Just categorically wrong.
Categorically wrong.
Doth Tracheus.
How can defacing Stonehenge be acceptable if kids can be jailed for leaving a mark riding a scooter of a pride flag painted across the street?
This shows the double standards and the two-tier policing, basically.
You know, you have people routinely desecrating statues and monuments in every Western country, but if there are skid marks on any Pride mural, it's just the unbelievable epidemic of hate.
Yeah.
Yeah.
JJHW, none of the predictions from the climate models has ever been correct.
I remember back when GB News first started, Andrew Neil actually had Roger Hallam on for an interview where they were debating over the climate predictions that Hallam was promoting through Extinction Rebellion.
And Insulate Britain had begun yet, so it was just Extinction Rebellion.
And Andrew Neil was saying that he'd read through the same ones that Roger Hallam had been referencing.
I think the IC, whatever the name are, those big reports where they go through scientists.
And every single prediction that Hallam was making was based off of the absolute worst case scenarios that were being presented in there.
Where it was, these people were saying, yeah, if If all of our worst ideas come all to a head at the same time, there is a 0.000001% chance that the world will explode.
He's a cult leader.
You know, I've got a video on my timeline saying that if the climate crisis means that people are going to come into your house, they're going to tie your mother to the table and they're going to stick a stick up her.
Like what?
This is what he's telling these young people to scare them half to death.
Yeah, he's definitely created a cult of this, the climate cult.
But also he seems like, honestly, he seems like a con man.
Because as well, I think he's a farmer.
If you look at his farm, people have pointed out many times that he's got lots of diesel tractors and all sorts on his farm.
Because of course you need that to run a farm these days.
Right, so I'm going to read three more comments from mine and then we're going to go to yours because I see you're a bit anxious about it.
Right, Arizona Desert Rat, I can't take Just Stop Oil seriously.
Until they're living an oil-free life, they have no room to speak.
That means no plastic products, no vinyl products, no machines, etc.
Until they're living in the dark ages, they have no room to speak.
You're expecting responsibility and accountability from them.
Bleach Demon!
Sorry, Elantra and Joyer.
I will take a pointless drive around the city in my car, after which I will eat a big steak just to upset anything they do.
That sounds like a nice evening, actually.
And last comment for Harry, Hector Rex.
In other news, Lotus Eaters is looking for another presenter as Harry has been found deceased next to Freddy in Swindon.
Have I?
Where did this come from?
I'm not dead, I'm right here, I hope.
Unless this is just, you know, the last few moments of my mind fading away before I reach the pearly gates, hopefully.
This is a pre-recorded podcast.
Oh, alright, okay.
So you're all gonna kill me afterwards, nice.
Okay, I'll read some of my segment comments then.
You and Baker have a new one of those vape shops near me that even have crack pipes in the window.
- Yeah, that's something that's the same with every single one of them.
They'll have crack pipes, they'll have enormous multicolored bongs, they'll be openly selling drug paper. - It's graceful. - It's ridiculous, they can get away with it.
And to a certain extent, what's even worse is they're able to advertise this with always the most hideous, gaudy signs that you've ever seen in your entire life, where they'll be bright rainbow multicolored flashing lights down otherwise respectable looking streets.
Anywhere they pop up they immediately make the place at least 50% less classy looking and that's even if you're in a shithole.
It's insane.
You couldn't advertise this in a shop window.
You couldn't have a nice pack of cigars.
You can't even have cigarettes anymore.
But you can have these horrible vapes that they're selling to children.
Yeah, that's good.
You can't have, say, smoking tobacco where it's got branding on the labels in the UK.
We have the big warnings saying, like, you will literally die if you smoke this.
But then it'll have maybe sterling silver tobacco written in plain text underneath it.
But these places are allowed to sell literal crack pipes.
Ridiculous.
Sophie Liv, I just don't like anything that tries to be modern for the sake of being modern.
That is always the stuff that ages the fastest.
Absolutely, yes it is.
It's like when you've got video games where it's, we've created a video game with the most cutting edge graphics you've ever seen.
Yeah, and in three months it'll look terrible.
I want to say something about this because, you know, a lot of our audience members are gamers.
I absolutely loved Diablo II, Lord of Destruction.
Have you ever played it?
I mean, the graphics weren't particularly good, but it was absolutely great.
And the third one that it took them forever to make wasn't that good.
Graphics were good, but I mean, it was very easy, I think.
And the thing is, when you've got the latest graphics, you need the latest graphics cards as well, so it costs more to play these games.
Well, I'll tell you what does age well.
Generally speaking, cell-shaded graphics can age really great.
There's PS2 games like Dragon Quest 8, Journey of the Cursed King, and Okami, which still look fantastic, purely off the base of their art style.
And that just goes to show, if the art style looks good, it will last.
But as she carries on, if it was beautiful 200 years ago, it's still beautiful today.
Chances are it will also be beautiful in another 200 years.
I always aim at being timeless when making any kind of art.
Never ever modern.
That's a very respectable way of going about it.
Maureen Peters, I live in the Netherlands in an area that is considered high class.
When I'm taking my dog for a stroll, I usually encounter about four to eight homeless people.
Of whom at least two are filled to the eyeballs with drugs.
There's puke in the streets because of the students and the tourists who can't handle the alcohol and or weed and broken glass and don't get me started on the always charming refugees.
In some shops the staff don't even know how to speak Dutch and they aren't forced to learn because everyone can speak English.
I'm sorry Harry, Uh, but you made your observations through rose colored glasses.
And I made sure to point out that I know that it's not reflective.
My trips aren't reflective of every city in Europe.
And with the Netherlands, I was only going off of what Josh had told me.
So where Josh had visited seemingly was much less touched by modern globalist multiculturalism than where you are.
So I'm very sorry to hear that that's the condition of where you're living right now.
JJHW, it's not decline, it's the destruction of the country by those in Westminster, almost certainly.
Dylan O'Shea, I went to Rome earlier in the year, the city was beautiful and the Italians were lovely, but the amount of African panhandlers pestering me was horrifying.
See, I didn't get a chance to go to Rome.
I love Rome.
So, sorry to hear about that.
Faux Pas, Bath is horribly touristic now.
Yeah, I still like going there.
It's still a lovely city.
Lovely.
But it is very touristy.
And it doesn't have good signal.
Phone reception.
Well, that's a good thing.
But it's a lovely place.
It's a very good thing.
You don't want to be on your phone constantly when you're going around lovely old cities.
You don't want to be tapping away.
True.
Binary Surfer, how will you spot the smack addicts in Manchester if they are smelly, dirty, pale and emaciated?
This is true, it is difficult to tell them apart.
But, once you've lived there for long enough, you start to get an eye for these things, you know?
Generally they'll be doing their drugs in the middle of the street, so that tends to be something that...
Roman Observer, lovely to have one of the Lotus Gang coming to Italy.
If there's something we can still be proud of, it's that we mostly didn't rape our historical buildings.
Classical beauty and care for it is still alive.
Big cities and nearby towns, though, have a greater population of foreigners and more homeless people too, mostly around central train stations, often even in city centers where Italians are living less and less.
This was mostly unseen until 20 to 25 years ago.
Again, I'm sorry to hear about that.
You're not the only member of the Lotus gang that has been to Italy.
I didn't realise we were in competition about it.
Would you like to tell everybody where you went to Italy?
I've been to many places.
What do you think of it?
It's absolutely lovely.
Wonderful.
But still, thin-crusted pizza is not the best thing.
Calvin?
I've been to Rome half a dozen times in the last year, I love it, it's one of my favourite places in the world.
The proper carbonara, not the horrible English stuff you get with cream in, just basic carbonara.
Tiramisu, absolutely love it.
And I love when you go to a restaurant and they don't have a menu and you just sit down and they just go, you want some food?
And you say yes, they just bring you a plate of pasta.
I also love the bruschetta.
They do good.
Oh yes, good Bruce.
Absolutely good.
Sorry, I realise you're asking me about my comments, not if I've been to Italy.
I mean, I'm happy for the contributions.
Love Italy.
In regards to my comments, Chad Koala says policing hate speech has already been proven an apt demonstration of opportunity costs in Scotland.
Police are not omnipotent beings with the eye of Argus and the arms of Vishnu.
If you make stamping out hurty words a policing priority, that means time and energy diverted from crimes of serious concern to public safety.
That's the point, Chad.
Police can't police anymore.
I mean, have you seen the police at the moment?
It's these young, chubby girls.
You know, we used to have police, they used to have height restraints, they used to have to be policemen, and they used to have to be quite fit because they had to chase criminals.
No longer.
Police these days are just chubby young girls and gay guys essentially.
So they can't...
I wish they were like Vishnu.
Because Vishnu is always tranquil.
He's just unbelievably tranquil and has the seven snakes on top of him.
Well, he also doesn't exist.
I was just going to add that one of my friends is actually leaving policing soon because of some of those things that you pointed out there, which is that he can't trust the people to have his back anymore.
You're saying basically that police is like Netflix presents it.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
There's no noncing that goes on as far as I'm aware, but close enough.
Amar Awad says a hate crime used to be a hate incident plus a crime that is already punishable, they've put a lot of time and effort into making it acceptable to the public to prosecute hate itself as a criminal act.
Even under the most charitable interpretation, it's treating a symptom while deliberately ignoring the root cause.
If hating rapists, murderers and tyrants is illegal, being a criminal is the only moral option.
100% Omar.
And we have a duty to disobey immoral laws.
Justin B said, you don't even have to send these hateful materials to anyone hostile, Stelios.
The social media companies have started using AI to read all messages.
In addition to the coming updates to Windows 11, if your PC has the correct hardware, we'll use AI to record everything that you do in a way that can be replayed by the AI.
I'm sure that that won't be uploaded to Microsoft when it's found to be problematic.
AI is a great threat, and not many people are seeing it, so thank you for pointing it out, Justin B. I've not heard of that AI stuff.
Oh, it's awful.
Absolutely.
Yeah, yeah.
Are you subscribed on Twitter?
As in, do you pay for that?
No.
Okay.
Why not?
Because I don't want to.
Oh.
Are you subscribed?
Yes.
Okay.
Because you pay £8 a month and then you get the ad revenue back.
I've looked into it, I don't get enough hits on my tweets to make that worth it.
Fair enough.
I mean, it just makes sense really.
Well, I mean, if you've got a big enough following and your tweets get enough views, but mine don't.
Fair enough.
I've had some viral tweets, they just, I just typically, I think it's like three million views on tweets within, what is it, three months or one or two or three months?
I don't get that.
But the only reason I'm asking is because you had to re-verify recently and you had to sign a new terms and conditions that said you allow the Twitter AI to read all your tweets essentially.
So it's everywhere now.
Swindon aka Browntown.
Ireland is doing God's work.
They're making Britain look good in comparison.
Yep.
Arizona Desert Rat.
So a child who has not been exposed to a new or different culture could get charged with a hate crime.
Good to know.
Roman Observer says Citizen Robinson, you've been found guilty of the crime of possession and distribution of opinions.
The penalty for this is the detention in iso cubes for 36 months.
Mandatory.
That is not too far in the distant future.
Snowdog said the woke following is the new Nazi regime 100% and Pieter Harvey said this is a loophole in the law for passwords.
You must reveal your passwords if you know them.
That is why using a custom system where I cannot know the password is essential.
I couldn't reveal my encryption password even if I wanted to.
That's good advice as well.
I would add to that, download a VPN now.
And Arizona Desert Rat said, I'm going to say it, the Irish gentleman is rather eloquent.
Right.
I hope you enjoyed this.
And on that note, we can call it a day.
It was a lovely podcast and see you all tomorrow.
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