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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #964

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 25th of July.
	I am Josh, and I am joined by Stelios, who is back from his travels.
	Where have you been, Stelios?
	I was in Greece.
	I got married, and then I was on my honeymoon.
	And while I was away, a lot of things happened.
	I saw assassination attempts.
	The whole world broke loose, so I had a lovely time but I have to come back and put order in chaos.
	A lot happened in Greece then, political assassinations.
	Was that just while you were there?
	No, it wasn't in Greece.
	I'm being silly.
	But no, everyone congratulate Stereos.
	Thank you very much.
	Turned into an Asian man now.
	Everyone congratulate Stereos.
	I've already said it already when he came back, but yes.
	It's good to have you back.
	Thank you very much.
	Today we've got a very good podcast.
	So we're talking about Germany and how it's not looking good for their future.
	That's me talking about that.
	And Stelios is talking about how knives have become sentient and they also have mental health issues.
	And I'll be talking about the rise in political violence where we're going to be talking a bit more sort of political theory than normal.
	It's not going to be so newsy.
	We're just going to be talking about the nature of political violence and trying to understand it more because it's being talked about a lot more.
	And I think it's an important thing to understand because I think it's a concern of pretty much everyone in the Western world now.
	So we do have some announcements.
	People are getting Islander in places like Australia and Canada now.
	So bear in mind worldwide shipping takes a while.
	All of the magazines are printed in the UK and so we are shipping them out from the UK.
	So it's not like we're printing them domestically and shipping them out to your address.
	They're all coming from here which also means they're all consistent.
	They're all of a quality that we approve of.
	And final announcement, for today at least, is that we're doing the Rumble Rancing again.
	But yes, we're also going to try and make as much time as we can for the written website comments too.
	So, things are not looking too good for Germany.
	And I think this headline really says it all.
	Wealthfare costs exploding in Germany.
	47.3% of recipients are foreigners.
	Which is massive, right?
	You know, we've been saying this for a long time.
	It's good to have some hard data, and the fact that it's half of all welfare recipients aren't even Germans.
	It is, and it isn't just in Germany.
	Otherwise, it's true all over the Western world.
	All of the desirable places to live now have this.
	And to give you some of the numbers quickly, I'm just going to fire these off.
	Reading from the article, recipients received a record of 42.6 billion euros in citizens money in 2023 compared to 36.6 billion in 2022.
	So that's a significant increase, isn't it?
	Now a record 5.49 million citizens are on welfare.
	Approximately 47.3% were non-German foreigners, which is four points more than 2022.
	So if you can imagine this trend continuing, it going up four points each time, Well, eventually, the native Germans are going to be paying for all of these foreigners on welfare, and it's going to be a significant portion of the welfare recipients.
	And not only just paying for them, but also being sabotaged by their government in their economic activity.
	Because, I'm sure you're going to talk a lot about it, I think I anticipate, but their policies aren't particularly friendly towards their agricultural sector, and not just that.
	Oh, many sectors, yes.
	So I don't want to anticipate much, so I'll... You've done your reading, Stelios.
	In addition, there was another record... No, I can't read.
	$6.3 billion worth of administration costs for the Citizens Benefit Program, which is $300 million more than 2022.
	If this administrative money is added then the total welfare cost is equivalent to 48.9 billion euros.
	48.9 billion euros this figure is 14.8 percent higher than 2023 and 18.4 percent higher compared to 2020 and 23 percent higher compared to 2015
	well you see i think that this is a clear indication of the tendencies of countries within the eu because you constantly hear the argument from eu officials and the bureaucrats of the organization that the western population cannot replenish its numbers so
	So they have to be, let's say, there has to be an influx of foreign population in order for the demographic to be accounted for.
	But it does seem that it's not the foreigners who are helping Germans, it's the Germans who are helping foreigners.
	And not just in Germany, in every other country.
	Who'd have thought the Germans are helping themselves?
	History has never showed that to be the case.
	Protestant work ethic and all that, you know?
	But yes, that whole idea of migration being a net benefit to societies, we know that's nonsense.
	The facts are now suggesting it's nonsense.
	Germany is the perfect case.
	And we're going to see What these migrants who are, you know, net beneficiaries of Germans working hard, how they repay the native Germans.
	Well, things like this.
	So, journalist for pro-migrant Spiegel magazine complains on X after being punched in the face by 13 year old Syrian.
	That's how they get repaid.
	And I'm going to read, he did a tweet, obviously in German, but it has been translated into a real language.
	I'm sorry, I'm only joking.
	Today, I had my own experience with a so-called refugee, which I find interesting.
	So cool to all of a sudden get punched in the face.
	You change your mind.
	In her sum, a Syrian punched me in the face.
	I had defended two elderly women who asked him to get off the back of a public bench on which they were sitting and not to continue to spit at their feet, which I think is a perfectly reasonable request.
	And actually, you know, he might be a left winger.
	Who, you know, is in favor of these people coming into the country.
	However, he did intervene to protect women.
	So I am going to give a little bit of credit to the man, even though his own, you know, support for these policies has created the situation.
	Yeah, but it's 2024.
	I mean, you can give him some benefit of the doubt.
	And yeah, okay, we should acknowledge, we should give credit where it's due.
	But He had an ex-account for years, presumably.
	It's taken until now.
	He seems to be an adult, more than 18 years old.
	He must have read a book or something, or read a newspaper or something.
	So, he should have done his homework.
	Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with that.
	But yes, some people, funnily enough, It's the problem of induction.
	Just because he has done it 50 times doesn't mean that he's going to do it 51.
	he carries on to say the interesting thing the police told me that it it was a 13 year old syrian who was well known in the city who had been caught over 50 times for theft and violent crimes since the beginning of 2024 alone sanctions available none well why don't you do something it's the problem of induction just because he has done it 50 times doesn't mean that he's going to do it 51 oh i know i know but yes this is a more silly example
	but there are some really horrific ones as well, which I'm going to sort of talk to you with.
	This one here, Moroccan migrant pushes 55 year old passenger to his death at famed train station, had just been released by police for assault and pickpocketing.
	So this was an 18 year old Moroccan man.
	Who had only been released that evening, and then he went on at 1.30 in the morning, I think it was, to just randomly push a 55 year old passenger into an incoming train.
	This, obviously, is vile.
	This man shouldn't be alive anymore, this 18 year old Moroccan who did the crime, and that German man should be alive.
	And it was a policy decision that this happened.
	They chose to allow this person to be in the country.
	They chose to release him after he committed a crime spree.
	They chose not to deport him.
	They made lots of choices.
	There are lots of points in the lead up to this where it could have been prevented.
	If they took him back to Morocco, most probably Moroccans wouldn't treat him well.
	Good.
	So isn't that a thing to consider?
	Anything other than death is a blessing for that man.
	I'm sorry, they don't deserve anything.
	Again, things like this.
	20 foreigners beat German 14 year old boy in viral video in Ghira, I think it is.
	And the attackers were Afghan and Syrian of origin.
	So again, Middle Easterners up to no good at beating up the natives.
	And it's infuriating.
	This is entirely preventable.
	And of course, if you cash your minds back, To this Islamist terror attack, I suppose, attacking an anti-Islam activist, Michael Sturzenberger.
	Yeah, there he is.
	That's a screenshot of the video.
	He also killed a police officer.
	The repayment to the Germans for giving them all of this money is active hostility.
	I did a segment about this and the reaction was predictably insane.
	Again, you had all the leftists coming out and saying, well, you shouldn't allow the far right to exist and stuff.
	Well, we're talking about that.
	We're looking at something different here and they're not addressing it.
	So all of this money is going towards these foreign criminals.
	I think it's fair to say, right?
	They're repaying them with violence and disdain, spitting at the feet, stabbing them, pushing them in front of trains.
	This is the real preventable things that are happening that could have been avoided.
	And it's leading to situations like this.
	Is Germany the sick man of Europe once again?
	the state of their economy now because they've been saddled with all of these dependents basically and their economy is struggling and it's worth mentioning here this article Germany's energy crisis Europe's leading economy is falling behind and of course they had problems with importing lots of energy because they transitioned to green technology when the technology wasn't there it wasn't able to sustain them and so they made a massive blunder in
	The energy sector which pushed the cost of production and they've got lots of like chemical and industry in Germany that's very much important to their economy.
	They're sort of renowned for it internationally and so this has pushed up the production cost and made them far less competitive, made it more expensive to produce, has had To say the least, a catastrophic effect on their economy.
	Add on top of that the lockdowns, the distribution damage, and all of the other factors that have affected lots of other countries as well, and you find a very worrying situation for the German economy.
	And this is also a choice.
	This is also a choice because the German government chose to close down some of the nuclear reactors they have, which means that they're becoming more dependent on foreign energy.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's suicidal.
	We were talking about a German-led EU, now we're talking about a French-led EU.
	And the nuclear reactors that Germany is closing down are nuclear reactors that the French are going to build.
	Because the French have been pretty hot on nuclear energy, haven't they?
	And they've done quite well with it, actually.
	They export it to Britain, in fact.
	I think it makes sense as a policy, nuclear energy.
	Yeah, it does.
	I mean, it doesn't take up too much land, really, relative to other things, certainly to solar and wind.
	Hopefully a mistake won't take place.
	Yeah, touch wood!
	But what is Germany doing about these problems?
	Well, the complete opposite of what they should be doing, in my opinion.
	What they're doing is they're targeting the right in very deliberate ways and I think that the right are the people who are talking about these things saying, hang on a minute, we shouldn't follow these suicidal EK policies, we shouldn't allow foreign people in our country because they don't contribute to the country, it's a net Loss for Germany to let these people in.
	These are the people saying these things, right?
	It's not the left, obviously.
	And how are they received?
	Well...
	Like this.
	Massive press crackdown in Germany.
	Government bans compact magazine.
	An unprecedented move.
	Police search publicist's home.
	An early morning raid.
	So I wasn't familiar with this magazine, but you could think of them as a sort of Lotus Eaters equivalent in Germany.
	You know, they've got a magazine, which we have now.
	They have a YouTube channel where I think they had 300,000 subscribers, which has been since shut down, by the way.
	And the German authorities raided both the office and home of the publisher Jürgen Elasser, I think, and that was 200 police officers for this one raid on one man's workplace and home.
	So it's a very serious thing.
	Closing down the magazine and the YouTube channel, it's unnecessary censorship because if we look, you know, Things like this.
	Germany bans right-wing extremist compact magazine.
	Well, let's actually have a look at the website because you can still access it in Britain, I think.
	And here it is.
	It doesn't seem particularly extreme.
	It's talking about Mille, Venezuela, got some columnists there.
	It's general political commentary that you would expect, right, from any outlet that's right-wing in any European country or North America.
	Also, I think I see Batya Angasargan, and I don't think she wouldn't qualify as an extremist.
	I don't know about other authors.
	Well, there are some people here.
	Josh Hawley, who you might recognize the name of, obviously an American politician, conservative, pretty mainstream conservative, you know, somewhat of a household name in America.
	Here he is writing, I think, unless it's someone of the same name, writing for their magazine.
	So they've got Senior politicians writing for them and they're seen as this extremist thing.
	I don't think Josh Hawley is, you know, a mid-century German enthusiast, I don't know, maybe he's kept it very secret, but It seems to me that it's pretty run-of-the-mill stuff.
	And even, you know, they're criticizing Joe Biden on the grounds of he's running a fascist economy.
	This is an article in their publication saying, hey, this is bad.
	So from a German perspective, even though national socialism and fascism are technically different things and they get conflated, you know, They're not fans of this thing.
	They're not really extremists in the sense that Germans would necessarily be concerned about.
	Yeah, but that is a policy of the EU now.
	The EU is supposed to be a supranational organization and although it could respect ethnic identity of the group of the member states, it has chosen to not respect it.
	So any person who would say remotely Centrist or remotely right-wing things, and values that 20 years ago people would say that, okay, yeah, we should guard borders, we should have a social cohesion structured around national identity, they immediately portray as an extremist.
	So here's the woman responsible for it, and we can translate her post.
	She is the one that's responsible Today I banned the right wing extremist compact magazine It agitates in an unspeakable way Against Jews, against Muslims And against our democracy Our ban is a hard blow against right wing extremists The right wing extremist scene And I think that this is A very uncharitable characterization And it's just Providing a casus belli A false one To shut them down because they say stuff That is politically difficult
	It is purely, they are my enemies therefore I will destroy them using any means necessary Yes, and what is really interesting here is that they only talk about extremism in the right, allegedly existing.
	They never talk about any other form of extremism.
	I know, yeah, because the extremism in the left is useful to them.
	Yes.
	Because they are of the left and it helps achieve their political goals.
	And that's the problem with the term far-right, the way that people are using it, and the way they adopt the way the left uses it, because the left is bombarding the public discussion with a question of whether particular policies are far-right or not, and no one is asking about the far-left.
	I also like the fact that they're talking about democracy and banning political affiliated people.
	Surely in a democracy, if it's truly a democracy...
	You would allow any opinions, wouldn't you?
	Because it's the people's voice, you know?
	You should be allowing any party to run.
	Well, of course, the German constitution forbids that, but we'll get into that a little bit later.
	You could make the argument that a parliamentary democracy has to draw some lines when it comes to anti-parliamentary forces.
	That's an argument that people make.
	But the issue is here that there are also anti-parliamentary forces on the left.
	No one is talking about it because you could say that the whole Marxist agenda is anti-parliamentary.
	Of course, yeah.
	Well, they're revolutionary by nature, aren't they?
	But I think that what they're doing here is just trying to use the wiggle room you've got against being against our democracy.
	How do you define that?
	That's so subjective.
	We see it in the United States as well.
	It's just a, you know, a cudgel to beat your political enemies with.
	And it's not really applicable as far as I see it.
	And another case here is the AFD party, which is doing quite well in the polls.
	I wonder why?
	Yeah, Germany is far right, this is Politico's words, AFD is soaring, can a ban stop it?
	And of course this is talking about the fact that it's in consideration that they're going to ban the party.
	Yeah, that's the answer to the argument that I was mentioning before, that sometimes banning has the exact opposite effects.
	Yeah, and I think that actually... It increases notoriety.
	Yeah, and a party that is polling, what, third in the polls?
	They're doing quite well, at least.
	Yeah, but political, I mean, does it have any credibility?
	No, but this is just one outlet of many that are saying the same thing.
	It's also being considered by politicians as well.
	I'm just using this as a sort of showcase.
	But, you know, if you purport to be a democracy and the party that's doing very well in your democracy gets banned, can you still call yourself a democracy?
	And you're doing it in the name of democracy.
	I don't think that's actually true.
	They're doing it in the name of our democracy, which raises the question, who is we?
	Yes, exactly.
	Who is them?
	So it's to the point where this is sort of old news now, this happened last year, but there were areas in Germany that have classified branches of the AFD as extremist.
	Saxony has, and also Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt, sorry I'm going to be butchering these, they've classified them as an extremist group.
	I'm not entirely sure of the implications of this, but it seems like it's just steps in a direction of cracking down on them.
	That much I think is clear, right?
	That's the only reason they would do that.
	Let me just say one thing to tie this with our conversation, what you said in the beginning.
	There was a politician from the AfD party and she cited some statistics that the police circulated about Afghans being over-represented in particular crime, especially gang rapes.
	And she was fined and I think she was persecuted and fined.
	Reading out statistical facts is a criminal offence in Germany.
	Yes, and the question is why are they circulating these facts?
	And my answer is, my suspicion is that they want to drive the narrative towards a purely Marxist understanding of it and saying crime is purely economic.
	The only way to address crime in crime-ridden communities is by economic means.
	So Germans, you need to be taxed more in order to fund these communities.
	And that's how we come in a situation like the one you mentioned in the beginning, where it says that 47.3% of benefit recipients are foreigners.
	If you're not allowed to look at the data and it's illegal to talk about it, funnily enough, nothing gets done about it.
	So this article I found interesting from a French publication.
	It says, the far-right party's strong results make it a danger to democracy, say its opponents, but banning the party would take several years.
	So that's probably why they haven't done it quite yet.
	And of course that gives the AFD some time to cover themselves and fight it at least.
	At the same time, it seems like people are pushing this in motion and considering that the AFD and magazines like Compact Magazine are the ones that are pointing out lots of the problems ailing Germany and providing solutions that aren't just the default solutions that the left and the regime are giving people, I don't see them having You know, much of a chance of recovering.
	But I wanted to talk very briefly about how they can actually ban these sorts of things.
	So, Article 21 in brackets 2 of the Basic Law, which is basically the German Constitution.
	I don't know whether you can look in the notes, Stelios, and read the German word for me because your German is much better than mine.
	The Grundgesetz.
	There we go.
	Basic law.
	Apologies if I'm butchering the language.
	It's better than I can do.
	It states explicitly that parties which seek to undermine or abolish the democratic order and endanger the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany are unconstitutional.
	So this is the sort of constitutional justification for cracking down on things like this.
	And then a federal court has to determine whether the party should be banned This has happened in the past with the Socialist Reich Party in 1952 and the Communist Party of Germany in 1956.
	I don't see, you know, communist parties being banned in this day and age though.
	And also there is another act as well, the Political Parties Act, which also sets rules for formation and, you know, the activities and the financing of political parties.
	And they must adhere to a sort of democratic framework as determined by basically the political elites.
	And if you know you're against those political elites, then it's going to be rigged against you, which I think is happening here.
	We also need to add that laws don't apply themselves.
	There are people who interpret them.
	Absolutely.
	And the important thing here to remember is that the people who interpret this Article 21, Clause 2, the basic law, they seem to be pretty fine with people who do undermine the existence of the German Federal Republic from the left.
	Mm-hmm.
	No, absolutely.
	So I wanted to have a quick look at the AFD's manifesto.
	So one thing that's worth mentioning, I have a VPN so I can set it to Germany and I can read the manifesto in English and it's quite interesting.
	However, if you're outside of Germany you can't read it so that is a bit of a problem.
	But I have taken a screenshot of their views on democracy and it's very interesting because as they are portrayed in the media is very different to what they actually want to do.
	They want a Swiss model of referenda, so it means they want more direct democracy, more people just voting on what they want.
	And, you know, the Swiss model, when polled around the world, tends to be quite popular because they have, you know, they had a referendum on do you want to ban the burqa and things like that, where you can just vote directly on the issues rather than have representatives decide for you, which, if you care about democracy, is a pretty strong form of democracy, if you ask me.
	A direct one.
	Yes.
	They talk about making the government lean, reducing the size of the government, not very, you know, fascistic of them, is it?
	Guaranteed separation of powers.
	They want to realign party funding and constitutional law, limit the influence and power of political parties.
	They want free election of candidates.
	They want to reduce career politicians by limiting the tenure of office.
	curtail lobbyism, punish wastages of tax revenues.
	You know, there are lots of things here that are very different to how they're portrayed in the media.
	And this is their own party's manifesto, right?
	This is the thing in which they're sort of organizing around.
	This seems quite liberal to me.
	Yes, and the separation of power is something that leftists hate.
	Because they want absolute power for themselves.
	I think we can see relatively clearly if, you know, we can take the Manifesto at its word and it's not all lies and they've just made it all up as a smokescreen, which I don't think is the case, this is obviously a misrepresentation with political motivations and Germany will suffer for it.
	Okay.
	Right.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Have a sec.
	Oh, we got some rumble rants.
	Thank you, Samson.
	So, Peter J Harvey says, by banning a political party, Germany will officially become the thing they fought to eliminate, a dictatorship that will develop into a Nazi state.
	Yes, although it might take a bit of a different form than that, it will become a dictatorship, you're right.
	Axis the Eternal, what peaceful means do you think may work given the voting split from the cities to countryside?
	Is there potential for farms etc to cut off cities, no food, labour, tourism until Ausländer Raus?
	I think that there are plenty of things that you can do to put pressure on, you know, the left-wing city dwellers, right?
	They're living in a food desert, basically.
	I mean, cutting off the food's a good start.
	There are lots of things you can do, just Build a separate economy away from them, right?
	There are a multitude of different things that I don't really have the time to go over, but there are plenty of peaceful means you can use to punish people for doing things you don't like.
	It happens all the time.
	Basically, we're talking about basic law enforcement, because one of the major problems is that there are laws and they're not enforced.
	So a lot of people are just constantly asking, you know, what other laws should be put in place or something.
	The Last Russian says, EU is bankrupt and want to build a database of the assets owned by all citizens, real estate, bank accounts, securities, vehicles and possibly art and precious metals.
	Yes, the EU is horrifying and I'm still very, very glad we left it and I'll be talking about some more European countries soon and it's not looking good for the EU, which is looking good for the state of freedom and the world.
	But anyway, Stelios, take us away.
	So, I'm back, and I'm happy to be back.
	And a lot of things happened while I was away.
	One thing is that there's no illegal migration anymore.
	It has been solved.
	The Labour government did.
	There's no illegal migration.
	Now they call it irregular migration.
	So, I saw the Home Office here says, Today Home Secretary Yvette Cooper set out what we're doing to boost border security and deliver a properly managed asylum system.
	We're taking control of irregular migration.
	So, who would have thought?
	You can solve problems by just renaming them.
	Changing the way you describe them.
	That's what the left loves, especially when they're playing conceptual engineering.
	And that's more substantial than people may think.
	It's not just wordplay.
	They want people to start using the term irregular migration.
	So the questions of illegality fly under the radar.
	Even within their own internal logic, it doesn't make sense because it's not irregular.
	It's all the time.
	They're coming over here in boats constantly.
	Yeah.
	Some other things that happened while I was away happened in Leeds.
	I checked Twitter at some point and it was on fire.
	Yes.
	What happened there?
	I also saw a lot of police officers just running and people laughing and making a joke out of them.
	Some gypsy kids were taken into care because their family obviously weren't treating them well.
	Surprise, surprise.
	And all of the Muslims in the area, it's a very Muslim area, decided that that was terrible and we're going to riot now because you have taken these children.
	But I think it was more a matter of jurisdiction.
	It's just like, this is our place now.
	You can't come into, you know, a Muslim neighborhood and enforce your laws.
	You're the British.
	And it's this sort of weird autonomous ghettoization that's going on in the UK where enforcing the law now only happens to British people and that minorities have a different standard, a different set of laws.
	There's a problem with multiculturalism when it's approached in the abstract, that people are saying that in order to respect a person, you don't have to just respect them as an individual.
	You have to respect their culture as well, because cultures constitute persons.
	Leading into a situation where they say, okay, people are coming here illegally.
	They have to be respected.
	Their culture has to be respected.
	And we have phenomena like that.
	And we are not talking about equality of rights anymore.
	They're talking about group differentiated rights.
	They're saying that these people, because they belong to different cultures, have to be respected differently and they have to be respected.
	They're the laws of their neighborhoods has to be respected.
	So this is just a destructive idea.
	Abstract multiculturalism is absolutely bad.
	So And this sends the message of generalized impunity.
	Because if you send a message across that law isn't going to be enforced because you suddenly have to respect a thousand different communities, and these thousands of different communities have different ways of doing things, you are going to, as a state, you are going to communicate the message of impunity.
	And people will just say, well, I'm going to do what I want.
	I'm going to do as my culture says or whatever the hell I want.
	And I'm going to plead cultural reasons.
	I'm going to say the police is institutionally racist if they come after me.
	And we have here several events.
	In just a very few days, we had some incidents.
	We have here Liz Kershaw saying soldier stabbed in suspected murder attempt near army barracks in Gillingham.
	Girl 15 among two arrested after man was stabbed in London underground.
	A teenage boy was stabbed to death in Hackney.
	I believe that is in London.
	Yep.
	Short-term tempered cyclist stabbed BMW driver to death in London.
	So, Chaos is erupting because the government isn't communicating a message of law and order.
	And this is the message that they should be communicating.
	Now, we are going to talk about these several incidents and we're also going to talk about the incident at the Manchester airport because it has created substantial debate and there is also rich context behind it.
	Now, here, several knives have been recovered after an army officer in uniform was stabbed near a barracks.
	Police said the motive is currently unknown and they're exploring the possibility that it may be mental health related.
	Now, I personally find this very offensive.
	Yeah, I'm triggered by statements of this sort.
	In what sense?
	In the sense that they are trying to fill words, but they're not addressing issues.
	They're not saying what they should be saying.
	Obviously, we're talking about people who are unhinged.
	When someone comes with a motorcycle, has two knives, 10 inch each, and stabs a random stranger.
	Yeah, and then we're told it may be mental health related.
	Well, yeah, okay, Captain Obvious was here.
	That doesn't mean that there isn't more to it, because there are all sorts of layers there.
	You could have also terrorists who are mentally ill.
	I mean, the correlation must be really high.
	I'm not surprised, yeah.
	Yeah, but they are saying it as if they are saying something important.
	As if they're saying something substantial, which opposes the question, why are you saying this?
	Are you suggesting that this isn't necessarily an issue of mental illness?
	So we have here from The Telegraph, Wife's Blood Curling Screams As Soldier Stabbed By Masked Attacker.
	Motive Remains Unknown As Detectives Try To Piece Together Terrible Events That Unfolded On Tuesday Night.
	And we have here an article that I think you should all read about the incident.
	We had basically an army officer, 45-year-old, a lieutenant colonel called Mark Teton.
	Who was twenty two hundred yards from the Brompton barracks in Kent.
	And a stranger came on a motorcycle he had two knives.
	And he just attacked him from behind and the reason for no well no clear reason no reason that we know of.
	And luckily he's alive.
	He's struggling for his life.
	His wife helped also.
	And I think some neighbors there, because it was outside their house, called the police.
	So it's a good thing that he's alive.
	We should say this.
	And we have here the picture.
	This is So he seems like an honest family man to me.
	mark teden he was in the course manager for the royal school of military engineering regiment for almost six years and he was the victim of the attack he also ran 45 miles just last month to mark the 80th 80th anniversary of d-day and to raise money for veterans mental health support so he seems like an honest family man to me
	and i imagine that this guy probably isn't i think that based on the on the act he performed we can safely say that he is a bad person um That's an understatement of the year, yeah.
	You can see the evil in his eyes.
	Hassan 24 has been charged with attempted murder after a soldier was attacked in Jelahem on Tuesday.
	And there are some accounts that he was licking the blood from the knives.
	So that's sort of African behavior, isn't it?
	You know, the consumption of blood of someone that you've killed.
	It's uncivilized and unhinged behavior that has zero room in any civilized nation.
	Yeah, well, zero place.
	He has zero room to be alive, as far as I'm concerned.
	And he was punished, and there were, let's say, some...
	That's weird.
	made and he will be punished and they say that he's charged with attempted murder and they the police said that they're keeping an open mind as to the motive behind the attack that's weird just what does it mean to keep an open mind and where the intervention of his poor wife may have saved his life Please pray for him.
	And after this, we found out that he is still alive.
	He's in a difficult condition, but I think they're saying that he will live.
	So, there was another stabbing in a prison.
	In Franklin, in Durham, the officer, a detective constable serving with the Greater Manchester Police, suffered a single stab wound to the chest during the incident at approximately 11 a.m.
	on Tuesday.
	And we have here an article talking about Franklin Prison, saying that it's a maximum security prison.
	Things are tough there.
	They don't have good people there.
	And we have here, where's the Guardian?
	There it is.
	Yeah.
	And they're saying basically that it's a maximum security prison, but this person also will be alive, the 60-year-old officer who was stabbed.
	Well, that's good at least.
	Yeah, that's good.
	Now, we have another bad news here, which is worse because here we do have a fatality.
	We have a boy, 15, in Hockney who was stabbed to death on his way to home from picking his little sister up.
	They're saying that Pharoah Garcia, 15, was stabbed to death in Hockney, and the police is trying to find out who did it.
	Some suspects have been prosecuted, but the police right now is very much I'm aware of what happened and also I think the mayor of Hackney issued a statement saying that if anyone knows things please tell us.
	I would imagine this would be a gang related thing wouldn't it?
	That would be my sort of inkling I don't know.
	I've heard the Hackney has a bad name about gangs and organized crime.
	People should do their homework.
	And now we're going to talk about Manchester Airport that everyone is being talking about.
	Sharp as ever, George Galloway tagged the wrong town.
	Yeah, hang on.
	So you showed me this this morning, and he was trying to get Greater Manchester Police, but instead he got Greg.
	I am not the Greater Manchester Police Station.
	He, him.
	I call for the immediate suspension of the GMP officer captured on the video savagely kicking and stamping upon the head of the helpless prone former constituent of mine from Rochdale.
	The victim's brother is himself a serving police officer.
	The seems every case for the officer's arrest and charge in fact.
	Anyway he says all the stuff he says.
	If we scroll down a bit.
	Galloway is out of his mind.
	Yeah, people are basically asking from the account he tagged to show some of the footage.
	They're saying the GMP, the HeHim account.
	So we may as well explain what actually happened here.
	I don't know whether you're getting onto it.
	Are you going to cover it?
	I do have stuff.
	Because it's a video that a lot of people watched and they say that this is excessive violence.
	I think Lawrence Fox did the same.
	Apparently there's a very rich context behind.
	So let's go step by step.
	But I will make another case.
	I will approach the issue from another angle.
	When it comes to the atmosphere of generalized impunity and how this affects police officers, because I think that if you're a police officer right now, you're much more afraid than you used to be 10 years ago, when it comes to the state having your back, when it comes to just doing your job.
	Yes.
	So the perceived lack of protection and institutionalized protection for doing your job is something that is guaranteed to make police officers much more afraid of their lives and much more nervous about risks.
	So this has a real world effect on pretty much everyone because not only do we have now not enough armed response police in London because they threw a police officer under the bus, loads of people resigned and no one is signing up for it, they also have a higher turnover of police officers because Who wants to work for an organization that will throw them under the bus as soon as possible?
	And so the quality of the people that remain is quite low and therefore you get this sort of continuous cycle of lowering and lowering of quality of policing and you know that's contributed to the situation we see today.
	So, there are multiple videos of what happened.
	We are not going to show it because YT.
	And I do have a link to a thread that has a lot of videos from a lot of different angles.
	So, by all means, if you want to check several videos that depict the event, visit the website and click on the link.
	That we have named it Thread with videos of the incident from various angles.
	So by all means watch it.
	Here we have the Greater Manchester Police issuing a statement saying we know that our communities are rightly concerned with video footage.
	Which is being circulated online that shows armed police officers responding to an incident at Manchester Airport.
	Assistant Chief Constable Waseem Chaudhry has issued a statement and they're basically saying that the alleged suspect was seen on CCTV at a ticket machine in the car park and officers attended the location to arrest him.
	During the response, three officers were assaulted.
	So we're not talking about someone who just complied, someone who regularly and casually said, well, I'm in an airport.
	I hate being in an airport.
	I want to go home as quick as possible or I want to visit my destination as quick as possible.
	So let's get it over with.
	Let's get things done with.
	We're talking about someone who Who assaulted three officers.
	One female officer suffered a broken nose and the other officers were forced to the ground and suffered injuries which required hospital treatment.
	So what I've heard of what's gone on so far is that they were Muslim men who protested against their women being searched as is pretty standard in most airport security ironically enough because of Muslim people.
	So you know it's They're the reason we have to do this because of you know terrorists coming from Islam and they objected to that which they should have known would be a thing and started attacking people and I think that anything short of being shot they should be grateful for because if you start rampaging in an airport that is what's going to happen to you.
	I mean you're causing panic and panic can also lead to this physical harm but also if you Look at here.
	I mean, we have an article basically talking about the context that you mentioned, so I don't have to go through it again.
	Yeah, so... Yeah, this is unacceptable behavior.
	And think of it this way.
	Everyone is being checked.
	Everyone goes through security checks, and for good reason.
	Because there were some people in the past that used airplanes to do bad things.
	Yeah?
	And make us all be afraid and run the risk of harm.
	Yes, you are going to be searched.
	There's zero reason why people should be accepted from this.
	And if people don't comply, well, obviously the security should do something about it.
	So here we have the different angles and we have the BBC here saying that the police officer was suspended after the airport kicking video.
	So there is something to be said about this and the thing that's got everyone riled up is he's on the ground and the police officer stamps on his head basically.
	But it's worth mentioning he is holding either a taser or a gun in his hands.
	He's not going to then put it on the floor and then use his hands to detain him.
	All he's got is his feet, otherwise he's going to have to use what's in his hands, which would be worse than being stomped, to be honest.
	I think if people just look at the video, they are going to think that the force is excessive.
	I will say that I'm trying to form an informed judgment from several perspectives.
	I do think that, for instance, when I just looked at the video, I thought it was excessive Use of force for one reason because he was detained and he was on the floor.
	And there's the argument to be made that the policeman isn't there to act on personal beefs, even if his police, you know, if his own friends and colleagues were hurt, the police officer is representing the state.
	That's one way to look at it.
	The other way to look at it is that, you know, when you have an incident that is prolonged, It's very easy for people to make legalistic arguments and just talk down to this police officer.
	So, it's a messy issue.
	Here we have a Muslim man who is issuing a statement saying that all officers in today's Manchester Airport altercation need to be arrested and suspended or they will unleash protests like you've never seen before.
	No mention, of course, of the female officer with broken nose caked in her own blood suffering obvious PTSD.
	And this comes back to what we were saying in the beginning, that there are laws.
	And he is not going to decide how each of the police officers are going to be treated.
	There are other people vested with the authority to do so.
	So when they just come out and they say, all officers, this is very suspect.
	And he doesn't even talk about the specific officer.
	Well, it's Muslims basically coming into this country and telling us what to do, isn't it?
	Britain is a British country and it should be ruled over by the British people, not some random Muslim that's jumped up because he's got some sort of lowly title, thinking that we should adhere to these fear tactics of him saying, oh, you know, otherwise there'll be consequences, protests.
	Yeah, we know they're not going to be protests like you've never seen before.
	He's obviously making Threats here, veiled threats.
	Yes.
	And yeah, I don't think we should tolerate people like this.
	How many people did you hear talking about extremist warnings?
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	You don't hear about this.
	And in order to have a well-functioning society, it's just the basic stuff.
	You need borders, you need law enforcement, and you need law that applies to everyone.
	You can't have pockets where the law doesn't apply.
	This just turns a country into a geographic region and it leads to anarchy and impunity.
	So we have here a mob outside Rochdale Police Station threat that threatens the Greater Manchester Police in response to the Air Force video, and they say that if they don't get justice, then the mofos are going to get it.
	That's their... I'm just trying to say... That's quoting, yeah.
	Yes.
	But again, we should look at what the demand is, because They're not vested with the authority to decide how people are going to be treated when such cases are being reviewed.
	So, the issue here to be said is that this is a very abstract statement, more if we don't get justice.
	The question people need to be asked is what do you mean by justice and how this is a call to violence and whether this is a call to violence or not.
	I think it's pretty obvious that that's what they're doing.
	Yes, and I want to end by saying basically that it's very simple.
	It seems to me that when we have leftist governments that are trying to virtue signal how humanitarian they are, and obviously when they're talking about humanitarianism, they're completely selective about it.
	They're talking about human rights in the abstract, but they don't give a...
	Flying toss.
	No, they don't care.
	They don't care about the human rights of victims and of people who are regularly mistreated.
	And it's easy to come and talk about people and talk about police officers who are being reviewed, who should be persecuted and stuff if they act in, let's say, in turmoil, in a turbulent state.
	But we should also bear in mind how There is a rise in the generalized sentiment of police officers that they don't have institutional backing for doing their work.
	They feel that they are going to be persecuted by their own police departments and by their own state, the state that they are supposed to guard.
	Okay, you've got some rumble rants there to read out if you can see them at the desk.
	Okay, they say Bold Eagle 1787.
	The suspect was not detained.
	Just because someone is on the ground doesn't mean they have given up.
	People on the ground can and do fight back against law enforcement.
	Detained means fully restrained.
	Then we have Axis the Eternal.
	Can the host give a sad wave to revan UPL?
	And Gaha101, who have been the first in chat to receive the permayit.
	I'll wave them anyway.
	Wave anyway, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Hirosa Nishiban.
	In before, don't look back in anger, sigh up.
	Yeah, well, do look back in anger.
	Yeah.
	Axe is the Eternal.
	To play devil's advocate, UK law enforcement is predicated on the idea of policed by consent.
	If these communities don't consent, what moral grounds do we have to enforce these laws?
	Well, that's the hypothetical consent.
	And that sounds a bit legalistic and too abstract, but the whole idea is what rational people would agree on.
	And here we're talking about people who don't seem to be acting rationally.
	And we have from Peter J. Harvey, by banning... We've already read that one?
	Yeah, okay, that's the other one.
	Okay, there is one at the top though, but I'll read that one.
	LastRussian says, the kick goes to VAR.
	It is, it was offside.
	Yeah.
	There you go, I gave it some thought.
	I also want to apologize if I cursed before.
	It's alright, I accept your apology.
	I didn't know it was, yeah, I wasn't certain about it.
	I was thinking... No, it was fine.
	I was thinking I was being polite.
	Okay, I need to go to my segment, don't I?
	I've lost my notes.
	Hang on, there we go.
	Political violence pretty much has been the topic of conversation since the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and it's been in the media, been on politicians' lips, and things are sort of seemingly changing.
	I don't want to speak too soon, but A lot of focus has now been put on this alleged rise in political violence in the West.
	Here's an article from The Guardian, for example, Trump rally shooting comes amid rise in support for political violence.
	So there we are, it's pretty explicit there.
	And although I do think it's difficult to quantify, how do you quantify political violence and, you know, measure it and know it's on the rise?
	Is it a difficult thing?
	What qualifies as or as not?
	How do you measure its frequency?
	That's my sort of weird data analysis brain kicking in there.
	However, sort of just speaking anecdotally, it does seem to be increasing in prevalence in recent years.
	I don't know whether you feel the same.
	I know certainly many of the people watching can probably call to mind lots of real world examples.
	Obviously the Trump assassination is one of many.
	But of course there hasn't exactly been a period of time where political violence has been absent entirely for a long period of time.
	Maybe you can point to a certain period where it was lesser, that's true, however it never really goes away and I think that's an important thing to bear in mind because I think it helps us understand the nature of it.
	One thing that I wanted to talk about is why are the media and political classes all of a sudden concerned?
	And my interpretation of this is because of course they were egging this sort of thing on, weren't they?
	You know, you have Black Lives Matter, the summer of love where they're burning America to the ground and no one really cared in the political classes.
	And I think that now things have sort of Heated up even more in terms of people's tenseness.
	You know, you had the film come out, Civil War, and it's sort of on the cards that there might be a civil war in America.
	The people who have the most to lose are most concerned with preserving the current paradigm because of course They've got the most to lose, right?
	And so they want to sort of turn down the temperature a bit so they can keep things going on in the same direction they are for self preservation first and foremost.
	They don't actually care about normal people.
	They don't care about the people getting hurt.
	It's just self-interest.
	That's my cynical view, at least.
	What do you reckon, Stelios?
	Well, I think, first of all, you're absolutely correct when you're talking about political violence as rising or decreasing in degrees.
	Very frequently we talk about things in terms of, you know, either-or dilemmas, but we need to talk about the degree of political violence.
	And I think that it's absolutely clear, absolutely obvious, that we have Arise an increase of political violence.
	I mean, if you look at the US, I think the last assassination attempt was 43 years ago.
	Was it the assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan?
	Or was there one afterwards?
	You sure that was three years ago?
	Forty-three.
	Oh, right, okay.
	Certainly against a president or presidential candidate, but there have been attempted ones against other people.
	Yes, yes.
	No, I'm talking specifically about the presidents of the U.S.
	or candidates.
	Off the top of my head, I think so, but there could have been other ones that, you know... Of course, of course, but it's very symbolic.
	Political violence has their symbolic nature into it.
	Especially the pictures that came from it, yeah.
	Yes, but also the people who want to engage in it.
	Frequently they want to desecrate symbols and they want to take down key people.
	So it's one thing to... I mean, obviously Trump was target number one.
	So that was ultra symbolic in the MAGA camp.
	Yes.
	So I wanted to have a look at why this goes on, what conditions create political violence, just so we can have a sort of neutral understanding of how political violence functions, why people engage in it, and I'm sort of going to put my psychologist cap on as well as my political analyst one.
	Hopefully there's space enough on my head.
	And we're going to try and disentangle the direction that this is going because I think political violence should be of concern to everyone watching this, right?
	Yeah.
	It's something that is going to matter to you no matter where you live and so having a good understanding of it, and we've had lots of examples in recent years, so I think actually there is the possibility of having a good understanding of it with all of these fresh examples and it applying quite nicely to the current political climate.
	So you've got articles like this one from the Mail talking about the rise in political violence, the attempted murder of politicians are becoming more and more common.
	We've had examples of two politicians in Britain in recent years being murdered, one by an Islamist, one by I suppose a nationalist you could say.
	And although I don't think, as the Mail says, it's divisive rhetoric spouted by lawmakers that's entirely to blame, I think there's certainly some role of politicians in, you know, what they say.
	It affects the tone of politics that much is entirely obvious and almost stating the obvious to an unhelpful degree.
	But I think it's more that people increasingly feel like they can get away with being violent in a political context unpunished.
	And we can see this with the district attorneys, the Soros DAs as they're called, in America.
	When they know the district attorney's not going to prosecute them, violence spikes up.
	To my mind this is entirely uncontroversial.
	So the human propensity to cause your political opponents or just people you see as your enemies harm has never gone away really.
	That's a sort of constant of human nature.
	People who we see as sort of the out group, outsiders, not part of our tribe.
	People who we see as at odds with our way of life.
	The inclination to wish harm upon them, even if you don't want a direct hand in it, that never really goes away.
	That's a part of human nature, unfortunately, and whatever political leaders say, you know, it does influence how people Perceive getting away with it, but that's always there.
	The only way that you reduce the amount of political violence is by having a political ecosystem, if you will, or a political system whereby people know they're going to get punished and actually have an incentive to follow the law and don't feel too disaffected that they have nothing to lose, really.
	I think it starts with what we say the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times, and it's more an issue of culture.
	So, I do think that there are many lawmakers who are to blame with their divisive rhetoric, but this rhetoric comes from somewhere.
	This rhetoric is serving interests, and it also expresses a philosophy.
	Philosophy of anti-westernism.
	And because we are talking about political violence in the West, I suspect.
	It seems to me that these anti-western interests are also from within the West.
	They are very ecophobic, for instance.
	They are very much targeting a group of people and they are demonizing them.
	And they do this by pleading to be victimized.
	So, we have political violence when people are too trigger-happy, too quick to say that they are forced in a position of self-defense.
	So when we have a whole ideology, a whole culture of victimization, people are going to think, are going to be more likely to interpret every single thing as an existential threat to them.
	Well, in an environment where people say speech is violence, or words are a form of violence, and the existence of these microaggressions, well, Surely then, if someone's words cast the first stone in your mind, then physical violence is more justified in following, because you've re-characterized words as being some form of violence, which I don't think they are.
	I think any words should be okay to say.
	Yeah, so I wanted to say something because there are a lot of books coming from people who are, you know, progressivists about fascism.
	And they are talking about, they're condemning fascism, but they're also using a lot of the key elements of it.
	And one of the key elements of it that they're using is that they are singling out the native population of each Western country.
	And they're saying that no, you can't be racist against them.
	They can't demand their national sovereignty.
	They can't have any demand about the culture they live in.
	They can't want to protect their culture.
	All of that constitutes extremism.
	How many times have you heard people saying white people can't be racist?
	No, you can't be racist against white people.
	I don't know what that's got to do with fascism but I know the point.
	It has everything to do with fascism because it has one of the key elements that people associate with fascist scholars have to do with the demonization of a particular group and treating that group as a scapegoat for every evil and bad thing that happens and I won't say that the progressivist elites are treating
	The Native Western populations, the Native Western peoples, as people who are responsible for everything.
	They're treating Western culture as having a unique civilizational guilt for which people can atone only by the self-implosion of that culture.
	So that's what I'm saying, that the left, in the name of anti-fascism, they're fascistically Demonizing Western peoples.
	I think it's probably more true of National Socialism than Fascism per se, but I agree with the overall point you're making that they're demonizing.
	Yeah, I mean, that's the word.
	We shouldn't be hanging up on word.
	Of course.
	We should hang up on the practice.
	No, you are right there.
	Because the more they do this, the more they do this, and the more they contaminate the public discussion with the idea that what was centrist, centre-right and right-wing 20 years ago is extremism that places people in a state of existential threat, the more people are going to think that something must be done about this threat.
	The more people are going to feel victimized.
	So this is the sort of stochastic terrorism angle?
	Yes.
	And I've got a dictionary definition here from dictionary.com.
	The public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted.
	That's sort of what you're arguing for here.
	And I've got that included here as one of the things that seems to contribute to this sort of thing.
	I take a sort of more behavioral bottom-up approach here.
	I think that people engage in political violence because they have a goal in mind.
	They want to achieve something in some way.
	It's a risky behavior obviously.
	Everyone knows that it's a risky behavior because it's a form of violence and violence generally speaking is frowned upon.
	But It's less risky when the state allows you to get away with it.
	So that allows people to sort of cross that threshold where they start thinking, okay, maybe this is worth it.
	You mean more risky?
	It's less risky when the state allows it.
	So there is more benefit to the person doing it.
	They're looking at it from a sort of game perspective.
	There are lots of comparisons, for example, to the last days of the Roman Republic, where at the end of the Roman Republic there were a lot of violent political gangs, there was warfare along sort of politically partisan lines, and the instability that both caused that situation to exist in the first place and the instability that followed led to the end of the Republic.
	And although I'm not necessarily suggesting it's going to be the end of the United States, we don't know the future for certain.
	I think that that's the sort of thing that people need to bear in mind as to what's at stake when it comes to political violence.
	It can quickly get out of hand.
	And I think that people do approach it sort of with this resource acquisition state of mind, particularly groups like Black Lives Matter, which I'll touch on a bit more in a second.
	But I think there's also just the sort of social psychology angle of When there are more people doing something, you feel that safety in crowds sort of thing.
	I think that's true of a lot of human beings that people can get swept up in what a crowd is doing.
	It doesn't necessarily have to be negative.
	It can be like in a sports stadium or a concert where you feel part of a greater whole.
	And also you don't feel that you share responsibility for what the mob does.
	Exactly.
	There's an idea of outsourcing responsibility.
	It's called de-individuation in the sort of literature.
	And yes, I think that there's a snowballing effect of crowd size.
	The larger a proportion of something is, the more legitimate we feel that the action is.
	An almost internal democracy if you will, but of course it doesn't have to be moral in any way.
	So there's also another thing that I think is very important, a belief that enacting change by operating within the confines of the political system is useless or not worth your time, and especially this is true if you mean to overthrow the system in the first place, so if you're a revolutionary.
	Then all of a sudden, you know, political violence makes sense to them.
	Yeah, I mean, they're explicitly for it.
	Yeah, so this is sort of uncontroversial.
	So I wanted to take us to the left-wing understanding of this, because I think it's very stunted, because they can't view it from outside of their own paradigm.
	And I've sort of bullet-pointed all of the things, but we can scroll down if we need a bit more information.
	Funny thing is this graph that's trying to emphasize the far right are the scariest ones, because of course, if you classify all of the actions of Antifa and Black Lives Matter as, you know, This is not politically affiliated, so you can do some sort of gerrymandering of the definitions.
	It's an isolated incident for their friends, a patent for their enemies.
	Exactly.
	So they've listed eight things.
	Aggression.
	Apparently that is what's driving political violence in America.
	Just aggression.
	Just in the abstract.
	Of course, aggression is the act of political violence.
	It's a silly way of saying it's causing it.
	I mean, come on.
	If anything, men are becoming more feminized and less aggressive.
	Not the other way around.
	So that can't be it.
	Intense partisan identity and I think that there's an element of truth to this actually, that there is a very intense group identification that is uncontroversial and I think that human beings are tribal by nature.
	And therefore we treat our in-group with favorability and our out-group with disfavorability, I suppose.
	That much is very uncontroversial and is obviously a part of it that people see people who are different to them as more legitimate targets of violence.
	It's biologically not controversial.
	It's basically programmed into all human beings, yes.
	That's why progressivists hate it.
	So they also say disinformation conspiracy theories and perceived victimhood.
	It's like oh it's just disinformation and conspiracy theories which is the same playbook that we've looked at on this podcast loads that they're just trying to say that everything that you know our opponents believe is disinformation and conspiracy and everything we believe is fact and true and indisputable and if you dispute it you're nasty and evil.
	I have to say something about what you said about victimhood.
	You see that they say this, that they are literally trying to spread an ideology of victimhood.
	Well, victimhood is sort of the most godly of virtues amongst the left, isn't it?
	It's almost veneration of weakness.
	It's the antithesis of what they perceive makes Western countries great, that we venerate strength, which, you know, should be the default anyway.
	Being strong is good, being weak is bad.
	You don't need me to tell you that.
	Everyone knows it, don't they?
	So they're also saying depression and stress.
	It's like, oh, I was a bit depressed, so I had to go out and cause political violence.
	I was a bit stressed, you know.
	I've been working quite hard at work, so I had to, I don't know, wedgie a politician.
	No, I don't think there's anything to that.
	Anger, contempt and disgust.
	I'm sure people are more angry than they used to be but I think that that is a symptom rather than a cause.
	I think that people are angry at politics, people are angry at the world they live in, at society, about the nature of the world and I find it Ridiculous that people aren't angry to be honest.
	It's really frustrating that we live in a world that could be so much better and we're just passive and not doing anything about it.
	The only way to bring people together and by saying this I don't mean in a you know John Lennon naive way because you know a hundred percent harmony is just impossible.
	I'm just talking about the people who are the silent majority let's say.
	The people who swing right or left depending on the election.
	I think the only way to bring people together is by establishing dialogue and also rational dialogue.
	Because when you have a censorious political body that tries to destroy dialogue, The main instrument of recognition doesn't work when they try to do it.
	And also when you have people just recreating a very coddled culture, elevating sentiment above reason, you are going to be filled with divas.
	It's just like, oh, your poor feelings.
	You're going to have a society of divas.
	Of wusses, yeah.
	Everyone thinks that they're going to be, you know, God's gift to human nature and everyone else is there to, you know, to call them.
	Yes.
	It doesn't work this way.
	They also talk about firearm ownership, which is very US-centric and also not true because political violence, you know, actually more regularly doesn't use firearms.
	You know, in the UK, in some of the examples we covered in the previous segments, it's used knives, for example.
	In fact, a lot of attacks in Europe have used knives.
	Sometimes they, you know, it's fists.
	Sometimes it's sticks.
	It doesn't necessarily matter.
	It's not the tool for the job.
	It's like saying hammers cause more homes to be built.
	It doesn't have to involve the... You could say that cancellation is also political violence.
	I think... You are coerced to not speak, for instance, in a theatre.
	For political reasons.
	For people who are saying that everything is political, your speech is political and I'm going to coerce you to not give it.
	So another one is moralization and convergence, which is basically making the same argument I made, that there's this safeties and numbers phenomenon.
	And then this one is kind of amusing to me, the final one, group leadership.
	So if politicians basically sanction it, then it's okay, which is interesting from the 2020 riots perspective, isn't it?
	And the violence of Antifa, because of course they know that they're going to get away with it.
	And many people are saying, oh, it's a peaceful protest.
	Oh, it's, you know, it's, This Autonomous Zone, it's just like a summer festival.
	But the quote from here, I'll actually try and scroll down and find it.
	It's here somewhere, but I'll try and start reading it.
	A 2017 Polish study found... Ah, here we are, I think.
	Yes.
	found frequent and repetitive exposure to hate speech leads to desensitization to this form of verbal violence and verbal violence by the way and subsequently to lower evaluations of the victims and greater distancing and thus increasing outgroup prejudice So that is so wrapped up.
	This is, of course, from Berkeley, the institution, the university, which is known for being woke.
	So it's unsurprising.
	This is why I've gone to this.
	Something should be done about leftist hate speech.
	Yeah, well, it won't, though, will it?
	Because, of course, the law is not applied evenly.
	But this is so laden with political bias, it's almost laughable.
	The core point they're making that By demonising someone, it makes violence against them more likely.
	It's pretty uncontroversial, but the way they've basically rigged it in, you know, the left's favour there and the language they've used is hilarious.
	So I'm going to now look at, now we've sort of established the crux of political violence, I'm going to look at some examples and we're going to sort of break down what we think of them within the context of what we've been talking about.
	So we had the Leeds riots, which we covered recently.
	This was, of course, some gypsy children taken into custody.
	Um, by the police because they weren't being taken care of.
	Loads of Muslims riot.
	And you think, hang on a minute, since when have Muslims cared about gypsies?
	Um, but it is more jurisdictional than that, I think.
	They started rioting and tipping over police cars and burning buses because they're asserting their authority over the area.
	They're making a sort of political declaration of autonomy over the British state here.
	Projection of might.
	Yes, exactly.
	And they also know that the British state is soft on Muslims.
	We don't treat them with the same level of violence that the native British get when it comes to policing because they have strong reactions.
	And this is explicitly taught to police officers.
	We know this for certain.
	That they try and police certain communities differently, and these sorts of things are the result of them knowing they can get away with it, and that their ultimate aim is to have autonomous zones, Muslim zones, where they can run themselves within Britain.
	I mean, it's what we were saying is going to happen, it will happen in the future until something is done.
	So, here is some footage of the rioting here.
	Here they all are, jeering.
	I'm going to play some sound.
	There's not any violence here, it's very loud.
	Oops.
	I'll turn it down.
	But yeah, they're here cheering.
	There's the police, there's a bit of a fire.
	And the police are having to retreat because of the braying crowds of Basically, foreigners, as far as I'm concerned.
	None of these are English people, are they?
	So, yeah, it carries on.
	You see the police, you see the flames, you see the crowds pushing towards them.
	You get the gist.
	So, after all of this violence, you think, wow, the appropriate reaction would be, you find everyone in this video and you severely punish them.
	I want deportations, I want, you know, if it's Native Britons, I want long prison sentences.
	You know, the full works, the full law applied to them.
	No, they returned the children to the family.
	So the political violence worked, it achieved its goal.
	They have proved that they can have a violent reaction and they get rewarded by returning them.
	And that's the issue with the generalized feeling of impunity that is communicated by the state.
	Then we look to things like Black Lives Matter.
	We get to Black Lives Matter, we can see parallels here.
	For many black people it was, in a weird way, a bit less political in a sense.
	I think there was a resource extraction element to it, where they were stealing and looting quite a lot, as well as they were calling for reparations and things like that.
	The height of that was in 2020, when it was the height of the rioting and looting.
	And I think it was all about resource extraction from basically the white population.
	That's who they're trying to target.
	They want to take resources from white people because they feel like they deserve them more than they do.
	I think that's what it basically boiled down to.
	And also another thing was they wanted to do what they want without consequences in the form of the police.
	The police exist in the black mind as a form of consequences for actions that white people don't approve of.
	At least that's my best guess, you know, I'm not a black person in America.
	However, it seems to be the case, right, that that's what they wanted.
	So they basically wanted the freedom... The people involved into the BLM enthusiasm.
	Yeah.
	They wanted to be able to...
	Basically commit their crime with impunity and extract resources from white people.
	That's what it was about.
	It wasn't necessarily as explicitly political, but they were using a form of political means to go about it in the Black Lives Matter movement.
	And of course, the people at the top, trained Marxists, were a bit more cognizant of what they were doing, I think.
	Who in their right mind calls for the police to be defunded?
	Stupid people.
	Well, I mean, see what I did there?
	But a key function here that's worth looking at is state support, right?
	In 2020 it was useful, because Donald Trump was president, to have all of this violent disorder because it reflects badly on Trump.
	But when Biden assumed office, He was able to just ignore Black Lives Matter, they complained about not being contacted or anything like that and all of a sudden the media sort of turns on them and now the support for them is Much lower than it used to be and I think that's because the regime chose to drop them.
	They use them for a bit and they drop them and then they fall out of favour.
	That's just how it works, right?
	So there's also another kind of violence I wanted to look at and that's the kind in Ireland which I covered very recently actually.
	These are sort of what I like to dub crimes of disaffection.
	So the political system not listening to their concerns, And the police side were perpetrators of what people see as immoral crimes.
	In this case, they were protecting migrants who had been mistreating the native Irish and persecuting the native Irish when they were annoyed about it.
	And this leads people to feel like they have to take justice into their own hands because the state's not doing it for them.
	This is a sort of different form of political violence.
	And I think there were some events in Newton Mount Kennedy that they turned violent.
	And Ireland is very specific.
	It's a very peculiar case here because there were many referendums that you could say that, you know, it is also about migration.
	It's also about illegal migration.
	The Irish people are repeatedly stating that they don't want this and it is being imposed upon them without their will.
	These are sort of what might be dubbed crimes of desperation, right?
	And finally, just more generally, assassinations and Trump more specifically.
	And we've talked a lot about the Trump assassination.
	I'm not going to go over the details because I think everyone's familiar with it, right?
	We talked about the stochastic terrorism angle.
	We talked about all of that stuff.
	We've got plenty of coverage over the past couple of weeks where you can go to.
	But what I did want to do is draw some parallels between something that was less focused on, Assassination of Robert Fico.
	Attempted.
	Of course, yes.
	I was going to get onto that.
	But he was the Slovakian PM.
	So I'm going to read a section from this Associated Press article.
	Fico's pro-Russian views have contributed to deep divisions in the small European country that borders Ukraine.
	And the shooting attack Wednesday shocked, this is from a little while ago, shocked the nation, reverberated across the continent weeks ahead of elections for the European Parliament, while President-elect Pierre Pellegrini and President Zuzana Kapitova urged people to dial back the sharp rhetoric that has characterised the country's political debate.
	See there, the stochastic terrorism angle again?
	Some FICO allies took aim at Slovakia's media for contributing to the polarisation.
	It sounds quite familiar, doesn't it?
	That this happens before Trump, where the media ramp up the rhetoric, and politicians ramp up the rhetoric, and all of a sudden there's an attack on a politician that fails, and people realise, wow, that was close, actually maybe we shouldn't do this.
	There's always the possibility of a lone wolf, but I think the key notion to bear in mind in politics and commenting on public affairs and current affairs is habituation.
	When people do something, how does it habituate the citizens, the body of citizens?
	When you are spewing the woke nonsense, how is that gonna habituate people?
	It's going to make them increasingly more prone to think that they're an existential threat.
	So it is destroying society.
	The entire thing makes it so that right-wingers are seen as valid targets and it's just to do whatever you can to disrupt them.
	You can't be violent against right-wingers.
	In the same way you can't be racist against white people.
	Exactly, exactly that.
	So there's also another thing that I'd be remiss to mention and that is the attack on Michael Sturzenberger in Germany from an Islamist.
	And of course Islamist terror is quite simple really, isn't it?
	I think we all know the motivation for it is that they're trying to scare people into subservience to Islam.
	They're pushing The dominance of Islam around the world, that is their aim, that is their goal, and they're using violence to spread terror, right?
	It's that simple.
	And I think that these are, as I understand it, the different forms of political violence, I hope that this has been somewhat insightful and has given you some food for thought about it because this seems to be our future on the current trajectory in whatever country you're living in.
	And yes, I hope you stay safe, you behave sensibly and, you know, best of luck to everyone out there I suppose.
	So we've got a bunch of rumble rants and then we can go to the video comments and then we have comments.
	I imagine we can have a little bit more time for OK, so Samson has given us the go-ahead for an extra bit of time.
	Samson, the giver of time.
	He provides us time, yes.
	So, Josie Angel says, Steve Scalise, Brett Kavanaugh, Ted Cruz, others driven out of restaurants, other examples I can't recall.
	It's all against the conservatives and it's not being taken seriously by the left.
	Hear, hear.
	And yes, I did consider talking about those examples but we'd be here all day.
	We've already overrun.
	Bold Eagle, 1787.
	There seems to be a common trend amongst political assassinations in the West for the past two centuries.
	The assassins seem to share a common political ideology.
	Communism slash socialism.
	Well, Not necessarily in some cases.
	I mean, you could argue that the guy who attacked FICO, for example, he was more concerned about international relations, really, than he was political.
	He was expressly not political, at least according to the media reporting.
	I've not done massive amounts of digging into it.
	As well as we haven't necessarily, we know Crooks was a Democrat, we don't know which kind of Democrat yet.
	So, there's certainly an increased propensity amongst those people, but it's not necessarily all of them.
	Axis the Eternal.
	In my opinion, the only moral reason is against those tyrannizing you, be an individual or organization, but when faced with violence, you or your group have to fight back.
	You must be ready to do so.
	Yes, I think that The notion that all violence is bad, you know, in a self-defense situation, that's perfectly justified, right?
	I think that that makes perfect sense to me.
	If you're so against violence that you just hate being beaten, That's not virtuous at all.
	You are a person worthy of preservation.
	You shouldn't just allow that to happen.
	The Last Russian.
	I was a bit stressed, so I stabbed them 37 times.
	Carl, that kills people.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	That's the llamas, isn't it?
	I recognize that reference.
	Hirosan Shiban says, invaders have established colonies in the UK and are taking wealth from the indigenous people.
	Yep.
	Pretty cut and dry, really, isn't it?
	I mean, the evidence is all there.
	So we have some video comments, I believe.
	Let's have a look.
	Hello, Lotus Eaters.
	Since I work in tech, I should give a little explanation about the CrowdStrike update.
	CrowdStrike found a vulnerability and tried to patch it with an update that contained bad memory pointers, pointing to unallocated memory, which then returned nonsense data.
	The OS determined this to be an error or an attack, and its fail-safes kicked in, stopping the OS from loading any further.
	This update causes this error on every Windows PC, which means they never tested this on an off-the-shelf PC.
	Please read this article for more information.
	Thank you.
	That's really useful.
	I didn't actually understand the sort of nuts and bolts of why it happened.
	I sort of saw the consequences.
	I sort of was almost like, finally people are going to get a wake up to making everything digital is not good.
	Imagine being central bank digital currency.
	That's the only form of currency we have.
	And all of a sudden, the infrastructure goes down.
	You can't buy anything.
	I was on a boat when it happened, so I didn't notice.
	I was at a Starbucks in Bolton a few months back.
	was in sight.
	It was lovely.
	Yeah, Samson says, touching grass, which just sounds like a euphemism now.
	Anyway.
	I was at a Starbucks in Bolton a few months back.
	I asked them why their windows were all smashed up.
	They explained that pro-Palestine protesters attacked their shop thinking they were connected to Israel.
	They're a franchise store and they only use the Starbucks branding.
	They don't have any connection to Israel.
	But the mob didn't care.
	This Starbucks is only 100 yards away from Bolton Police Station.
	Now if the police can't protect their coffee, how do you expect them to protect citizens like you and I?
	Get out of the cities.
	Get away.
	As both Scott Adams and our very own Binary Surfer keep saying.
	Yep.
	I've always said, you know, cities are more dangerous.
	Cities aren't good for you.
	Did a whole contemplations episode talking about the dangers of cities.
	You know, I'm a country bumpkin, so I am a bit biased, but you're making very good points there.
	I don't disagree with any of them.
	If you can get people to share a car, you can take out, I mean, a lot of cars in the streets.
	But if you can just use your neighbor's car because you have a smartphone and an app and you don't even need to know the neighbor to get into his car, it's much easier and much more fun to share.
	Just why?
	No.
	No.
	Why is it always property rights for these people?
	Yeah, if someone breaks into your car, I think that's fair game for you to do whatever you're in your legal rights to do.
	Okay, got any more?
	A Gentleman's Observations of Swindon, Chapter 15.
	The outbreak of World War II saw the arrival of evacuees to Swindon, even though William Wakefield, Swindon's MP, warned that Swindon could become among the most heavily bombed towns.
	GWR Park was used for drills, and the northern half had air raid shelters built due to its proximity to the railway village and to the works, which became a war factory.
	In 1943, with the assistance of the army, the first public library opened in Swindon to provide wartime recreation.
	The first bombing raids in July to September of 1940 had little effect, but on the 20th of October, 10 people were killed in Roseberry Street.
	Overall, 48 people died during the Blitz in Swindon.
	Blimey!
	I hear a lot about the bombing raids in Plymouth, close to where I grew up, and they were massive.
	The whole city was on fire.
	So, 48 is actually not too bad, but obviously still terrible.
	There are still parts of Swindon to this day that look like the Germans have bombed them.
	Anyway, I think that's all of the video comments now, and let's do some written comments.
	I think a lot of the general ones are for you, Stelios, so would you like to read some of them?
	Yes, so my big fat Greek wedding featuring Stelios and his groom.
	Welcome back Stelios.
	Now here's 90 minutes of how the West is utterly effed.
	I won't say that was the difficult thing for me.
	I wanted to somehow get into character because I was in a very appreciative mode and I wanted to go to wake up the ranting mode inside me.
	Well, Samson's Scheduling has given you the ultimate black pill merchant here today, so I've given you the black pill suppository you needed.
	Derek Power says, maybe Greece needs to remind Germany about the virtues of austerity.
	We do.
	Supreme Duck, I missed.
	Steroidios.
	It's on the roids.
	And Justin B says, congratulations Stelios, may you have a very happy life together.
	Thank you very much.
	Someone online, congratulations Stelios.
	Thank you.
	Maybe from Japan.
	That was my mispronunciation earlier.
	Sid Birkbeck, congrats on the wedding Stelios.
	Thank you very much.
	And my big fat Greek wedding featuring Stelios and his groom.
	I hope Stelios and his wife thoroughly enjoyed the wedding.
	And then there's a bit blurred out.
	I don't know whether... I think if it's blurred out, it's blurred out for a reason.
	So, for the comments, not looking good for Germany.
	JGHW says, if you look on eBay, you can see all the industrial equipment being sold off from Germany, which is rapidly de-industrialising.
	Once that industry is gone, it will never come back.
	Then the prosperity that Germany provided to the rest of the EU will be gone forever.
	I expect Money Printer will go Boer and the EU will go full Weimar.
	I hope everyone is prepped.
	Oh well.
	I'm looking forward to my time in the trenches again, I suppose.
	Okay, Fyodor Pinok says, Germany is so traumatized by the sins of having been the Nazis that they are absolutely petrified of ever being far right again.
	I mean, the Germans economically were socialist as well, so they're not afraid of copying that part, are they?
	Which, since Nazism was remedied by the imposition of liberal democracy, is conceived to mean literally anything that's not liberal democracy, thus leading to these tyrannical bans on anything that dares to question the sacred idol of liberalism.
	But I think that, at least for the AFD's part, a lot of the things they were opposing were within the paradigm of liberalism, right?
	You would say so, right Stelios?
	I think so, yeah.
	Like, I got a little bit of stick for saying that AFD are a liberal party with conservative social policies.
	Which, you know, is actually relatively common as a position in the West now.
	I mean, progressivism is illiberal.
	Yes.
	That's pretty fair to say, yes.
	Kevin Fox says the left... Sorry, I do have to say, I do think Theodore Pinnock is making really good points.
	And I also know him on Twitter.
	Kevin Fox says, the left in Germany always kicking off about the far-right rising again.
	How can they not see that it's their left-wing ideologues and government actions that is dragging Germany down to the levels that it was in 1932?
	History repeating itself, no doubt, but this time they're bringing on the downfall themselves.
	Yes.
	And finally, Thomas Howell, I can see Germany declaring Article 50 within a decade.
	Baron Von Warhoek, the true motivation for stabbing that officer is that it's a show of force by the migrants.
	They are showing that they can stab a man tasked with defending your civilization in front of a barracks, a symbol of British military strength, and get away with it with the help of lefty lawyers and gutless cops.
	This reinforces their power over you and your country.
	Snow Dog.
	It's not dog, it's dog.
	Dog.
	This makes my blood boil.
	All these foreign people coming to our homeline, killing, stealing and getting free cash, while any British person gets arrested for pointing out the problems and the obvious.
	Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more.
	foreign criminals face deportation, so many of these issues would be immediately resolved.
	A hundred percent agree, a hundred percent agree.
	Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more.
	I think it's just an issue of enforcing basic common sense laws.
	Foreign citizens would be far more inclined to behave reasonably and the small percentage who don't would be ejected from the country no longer a problem.
	We have these issues because our leaders, within quotation marks, have allowed this behavior to take root.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	Just say no to bugs.
	If we accept what the police say, dangerous I realize, then the men at the airport had already hospitalized three officers, having broken a female officer's nose, and then continually refused to comply with firearm officers, ignoring simple instruction.
	Once you assault someone and the guns are drawn to you, you do as you're told.
	Then don't chance you getting up and doing whatever it is you intend to do.
	The security in airports is so strict because of this demographic and they attack the police.
	Fair point.
	Caroline List, this is a long one, but it needs to be said.
	The media in general have done Lieutenant Colonel Teton a great disservice, insinuating that he made himself a target by being in kit, and then promoting it as a mental health incident rather than terrorism.
	No one seems to have considered what this is doing to the mental health of our soldiers.
	They put their lives on the line to serve this country and receive vitriol in return.
	What it is doing To their mental health, knowing that they can be brutally attacked on their way home as a consequence of wearing a uniform that should instill pride.
	It is disgusting and disgraceful how this country treats Native men in general, but in particular our armed forces.
	Hang on, just a quick comment on that.
	I imagine the same people that are saying he was bringing it on himself wearing the military uniform, which by the way shouldn't be something he should even be worried about, would object to people saying well if women go out in skimpy outfits then it's really offensive to say they're asking for it.
	Yeah, because they have no standards, except double ones.
	Bigfoot.
	Between the Palestine issue, the situation in Leeds, the airport incident, and now this knife attack, the Islamic port is starting to boil over.
	The immigrant population has learned that they can riot and burn our towns and cities, Without any consequences.
	This is only the beginning of a summer of upheaval, and all we can do is sit and watch, lest we be labeled as racists for pointing it out.
	P.S.
	Welcome back, Stelios.
	OK, shall I read some from the final segment?
	Andrew Narog says, interesting how quickly the media has tried to suppress the story of the attempted assassination of Trump.
	For instance, it was the top of Wikipedia's recent news articles for only a day.
	Meanwhile, Biden's ugly smile has been there for days following his suspending of his presidential campaign.
	Yeah, I think that it's a sort of difficult thing and particularly with how iconic the pictures are of Trump, you know, it's like PR that will just carry on on its own.
	It's just like, he looks cool.
	There's no denying it.
	Trump came out of that looking like a leader and everyone can see it.
	And also, this was actually pointed out in my coverage of it.
	That a lot of the people in the rally kept their cool and stayed calm in a way that would not have happened were it a democratic thing, I don't think.
	Everyone would have ran, it would have been chaos.
	Everyone sort of just kept their heads down, stayed calm and acted quite coolly and I wanted to just, you know, take some time to acknowledge that.
	Right, let's have a look for someone else here.
	A guy from Hungary says, Josh, the UK needs to talk about the welfare class.
	Firstly, you have the descendants of the working classes whose arrogant self-entitlement is still connected to something that may still be British.
	On the other hand, there is no difference between the imported Islamic and gypsy doll bludgers who are simply biting the hand that feeds them.
	Simple solution, stop all welfare payments to all Hare Hill residents and residents indefinitely.
	I wouldn't be opposed to that and I also think that my sort of introduction to the benefit class came in Plymouth and the sort of underclasses there and I hated them, absolutely hated them.
	They're utter scumbags, the game system, do whatever they can to pursue their own short-term indulgences.
	They're utter scum, worthless people and to think that there are now people in this country worse than that.
	You know, these Islamists, for example, it makes me despair for my country.
	It really does, to say the least.
	But I think we are running out of time.
	I don't think we have any more honourable mentions.
	But yes, I think there is common sense crusade after this.
	Yes.
	Samson says yes.
	So if you wait 20 minutes, not half an hour, you can catch that.
	And thank you very much for watching.
	Don't forget to welcome back Stelios.
	Thank you very much.

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