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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast, The Lotus Eaters, for Tuesday, the 3rd of September 2021.
	I'm joined by Josh and Stelios and today we're going to be talking about how the Anglo-Saxon world is being defined out of existence, how Oasis are going to bring about communism in Britain and how Venezuela is already experiencing communism in Britain.
	Uh, before we go on, you may well notice I'm wearing a tie.
	Don't get used to it, I'm not happy about this day of affairs.
	Some chaps sent us in a bunch of ties, and everyone was like, oh, we can just use them communally.
	And I was like, no, that's weird.
	Communist.
	We're not having it.
	Uh, so we're gonna pick a bunch of ties out of them and take them home.
	But I will try to wear ties.
	It's worth pointing out, me and Stelios are wearing the ties that we wore to work today.
	Yeah, they're wearing their own ties.
	We're not communist.
	I didn't say you were communist!
	No, thank you for sending us a bunch of ties.
	There's actually a nice dark green one in there.
	I was looking for a dark green one.
	I bought a bunch of shirts that I can actually get around my fat neck.
	Also, I would also like to say thank you.
	Someone sent me a £50 Amazon gift card for the Video me and Harry did about Twin Peaks, and that was very kind of you.
	You didn't have to do that.
	I didn't expect it.
	I'm not sure if you want your name publicly announced, so you know who you are, and thank you very much.
	That was very nice of you.
	Sounds like favoritism, doesn't it?
	It's okay to have favorites, by the way.
	Right, okay.
	Well, without further ado, let's crack on.
	So I think everyone's heard of the Anglosphere, obviously.
	I should hope the people living in it have heard of it.
	Yeah.
	It's a reference to Anglo-Saxons, isn't it?
	And Wikipedia, you know, left-wing Wikipedia, has a very extensive page talking all about it and how, you know, this is a legitimate thing that does exist and there's even a map showing Anglosphere states, which are pretty uncontroversial, right?
	I mean it looks a lot like a map of the British Empire for a reason.
	It does, yeah.
	It's basically the spread of Anglo-Saxon civilization and the impact that it's had either directly or kind of culturally, demographically or culturally on these places.
	So pretty much the darker blue are the ones where actual English people settled, obviously.
	This is not news to anyone.
	And the other countries are where there is cultural influence.
	Yeah, obviously South Africa also should be included in that as well.
	But you get the gist of it, right?
	The notion of an Anglosphere is something that's commonly cited, except if you work at Cambridge apparently.
	This is from June of 2023 but it leads us nicely on to the more recent news.
	Anglo-Saxons aren't real, Cambridge tells students, in an effort to fight nationalism.
	Sorry, just a quick thing.
	This feels like a headline from like 500 years time.
	The English have been dismantled and they're being remembered.
	Who built this amazing thing?
	Well it was the Anglo-Saxons but we're not sure if they were really real like King Arthur.
	The records from that time have been lost and nobody's sure.
	It's going to be like when they find the ruins of Roman buildings and they think they're built by giants because they can't comprehend how people could move such heavy stone.
	This is just the intellectual equivalence of Tiffany Gomez.
	In the plane she says, you know, this MF is unreal.
	These people aren't real.
	The point, you can see there, it's obvious nonsense because it's an effort to fight nationalism, dismantle the myths around the identities because it wants to, as I say, make its teaching more anti-racist.
	That's true, I guess it would if your race of people doesn't even exist.
	Yeah, well... You can't be a racist in favour of it, can you?
	If nobody exists, you can't be racist.
	You heard it here first.
	So, to summarise what they're saying in this article, Cambridge University's Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic History, which their name alone is already a problem...
	Defund!
	Defund it!
	They didn't want to present Anglo-Saxons as a distinct ethnic group and they claim their aim of doing this is to dismantle the myths of nationalism and become more anti-racist.
	They said this.
	Their own words.
	They used the word anti-racist.
	So just to think, it's not about history, it's not about science, it's not about knowledge.
	What it is, is about political activism to get even more left-wing than we are.
	Yes.
	Exactly that.
	And they also aimed to show that there were never coherent Scottish, Irish, Welsh ethnic identities either, which is not true.
	No, I agree with that one.
	No, I'm joking.
	I will be talking about that because later on down the line I'll be talking about ethnicity and particularly mine because it's a good example of British history and it's also worth mentioning as well when this went on in around 2020 because this has been an ongoing effort 70 academics in the field signed a letter basically arguing that the term Anglo-Saxon is legitimate and that this is an issue imported to Britain from
	100%.
	Anyone who's read any of the things, they call themselves the Angles and the Saxons.
	And they're literally called the West Saxons.
	No, if they define people out of existence, they're going to run out of ethnicities to say that they were racist in the past.
	But that's actually what they want, isn't it?
	This is the end goal of the liberal ideal.
	Well it's not the liberal ideal.
	It is the liberal ideal!
	We're gonna do another debate.
	I challenge you.
	I will accept it because this is 100% the liberal ideal.
	We're all proto-humans basically.
	100% a tangent.
	Sorry.
	But this is what they're after.
	It is.
	It is what they're after though.
	And here is the more recent news.
	So this is Nottingham University cancelling Anglo-Saxon to decolonise the curriculum.
	Look at that.
	1,700 comments.
	I know.
	People aren't happy.
	Angry Anglo-Saxon.
	I'm just going to leave this picture here of these people that didn't exist.
	So this is the University of Nottingham doing this.
	They have courses in Anglo-Saxon history and they're one of the few universities...
	They're one of the few universities that offer, I think, master's degree courses on Anglo-Saxon history specifically, and they're also the only university in the country to offer Viking studies courses as well.
	I think one of a few to do the Anglo-Saxon ones.
	So the professors have renamed the course Viking and Early Medieval English Studies, which is just a more wordy way of saying Anglo-Saxon, isn't it?
	Yeah, well what's the etymology of the word English?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Where do you think it comes from?
	And there's also an English literature model, so it's not just the history department, which was previously A Tale of Seven Kingdoms Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age England from Bede to Alfred the Great, which already sounds amazing.
	Yeah, that's great.
	Was renamed Early Medieval England from Bede to Alfred the Great, which loses the majesty of it, I feel.
	It's also just semantic games.
	It is, yeah.
	And the reason for Nottingham doing this is that they were concerned that the Anglo-Saxon phrase was used by racists and was surrounded by white identitarianism.
	It's just so annoying.
	So frustrating.
	Just defund it all.
	Defund it all and just get done with it.
	I know I'm sort of laughing about it, but it is a deliberate attempt to erase my history in the most infuriating and cowardly way possible.
	But if it helps...
	No, no, if it helps, universities have always been this way.
	You go back to the time of Francis Bacon where he calls the universities distempers of learning.
	They're for promulgating a faith, which is literally what the universities were founded on, is promulgating the Christian faith.
	Now it's just the woke faith, right?
	We will create parallel institutions that will actually disseminate knowledge.
	Watch this space.
	Yeah, but they've created what would have been ways of disseminating knowledge about our past into something that destroys our past.
	It's become the antithesis of what it should be.
	Distempers of learning.
	This is why the Royal Society was set up, by the way, because the universities were just totally corrupted with ideology.
	Well, that's certainly the case now.
	So they also want to seek, and this is a direct quote here, to problematise the term Viking.
	And I hate the word problematise, it's such a stupid word.
	Problematise the word university?
	It sounds so grammatically incorrect.
	To make a problem of the word Viking would be how an Englishman would say it.
	So to claim that you know anything about what makes up English people, the English-speaking peoples, when you're using a word problematise, which is a linguistic abomination, says it all really.
	Josh, I have PTSD with this stuff.
	Why do you want to remind me of academia?
	Oh well, you're going to enjoy the next link then, Stelios.
	So I'm going to quote about the aims of the module's content itself.
	Teaching staff at Nottingham also ensure that module's content aims at undercutting nationalist narratives and essential ideas about nationality, meaning the belief that English identity is distinct and confers fundamental characteristics.
	That's what every identity is.
	Every single identity does this.
	That's what an identity is.
	The thing is, no one really is unable to define what an English person is.
	You can go pretty much anywhere around the world and they can tell you what an Englishman is.
	No one has a problem with this.
	You're deliberately doing it for ideological reasons.
	You're trying to destroy us from within, within our own country, and it's really quite infuriating.
	And just to annoy you, Stelios, I don't know why there's a sensitive content warning.
	It's an email.
	But this is from York, and I believe Emma Hardy emailed them to ask whether they were doing the same thing, and they said Dear Emma, I can confirm we are doing this at York and have hopefully removed all mention of the term Anglo-Saxon.
	Yes.
	The ecophobia at that place is staggering.
	It's also worth mentioning as well that York did exist in the Anglo-Saxon time, so the city must have just appeared out of thin air, created by people that didn't exist.
	Well, they'll say it was created by the early English, and to be honest with you, okay, that's not terribly evil.
	You know, I mean, that is at least something, but there is something a bit magical about Anglo-Saxon.
	Well, it's calling a thing by its name, and names are important.
	It's the same as why leftists screech if you call them by their actual name, because it's like biblical demons, isn't it?
	They recoil in pain if you actually call them by the name they were born with.
	I mean, what if we just start identifying as Anglo-Saxons?
	Are they going to dead ethnically name us?
	No, you're English.
	No, we're Anglo-Saxons.
	We actually identify as Anglo-Saxons, thank you very much.
	So, uh, you're actually being a bigot.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And they are being bigots.
	This is all out of bigotry.
	And it is worth mentioning as well that this sort of thing has been discussed before.
	This was from September of 2023, where our very own Beau spoke to Tom Roussel of Survive the Jive, who has a very good YouTube channel.
	And they actually discussed a particular man that my attention has been drawn to that is partly responsible for this, and one of the people within academia that has been pushing for this from within.
	And that is this guy.
	And this is like leftist bingo, by the way. - Just queer medievalist.
	Yes, so Eric Wade with Ceasefire Now, which I presume is all about Gaza, queer medievalist researching the global origins of ideas about sex and race in medieval English literature, helicopter parent to a kitty, PhD, in brackets, he they, views my own.
	So that is his bio I have just read out.
	Global origins of ideas in medieval English literature, which is not global, it's particular.
	Yes.
	Everyone knows Medieval England was just plugged into a global network.
	Yeah.
	Okay, yeah.
	So there are going to be, like, African tribes who are just like, well, I mean, I learned this from Medieval English literature.
	That's how I know about sex and race.
	Sorry.
	I'd like to see the Hadza reading, Beowulf.
	Yeah, the Maasai.
	Anyway.
	So, he's published things like this.
	What's in a name?
	The past and present.
	Racism in Anglo-Saxon studies.
	It also identifies in Anglo-Saxon even more, I see.
	Mary Rembrandt Ulm as well is, I think she's either American or Canadian, but of Black Caribbean origin.
	Right, right.
	And I don't know why she even has any say in how we define ourselves, but there we go.
	And he's also done other things like Skeletons in the Closet, erasing queer and trans issues in early medieval scholarship.
	Mmm, seems legitimate.
	Anglo-Saxons didn't exist, but... Medieval trans people did, yeah.
	Yes, of course.
	They are real, they are valid, Stelios.
	Didn't you know this?
	And another one here... Validate my existence, Josh.
	As black as they were before, the history of skin colour and the history of the hollyrood tree.
	Oh yes, talking about this sort of thing.
	You get the idea, right?
	And so I wanted to dispel the notion that we have any sort of claim to heritage other than perhaps Anglo-Saxon history.
	I just want to pause a second.
	The 12th century manuscript preserves an English homily known as the History of the Holy Rood Tree.
	In it, three rods of Moses perform a number of miracles, including turning the skin of several Ethiopian men and their sons white.
	The Ethiopian mothers, however, remain black.
	Right, so is this the earliest surviving text to create a hierarchy of skin colour?
	Right, there weren't really black people turned white in medieval Europe.
	I hate to be the person who breaks this to Mr Wade.
	There also weren't any sub-Saharan Africans in Britain, full stop, ever, at that point.
	Hmm.
	There is that.
	A couple of lost Ethiopians too.
	How are you?
	But yes, I wanted to talk about the impact that Anglo-Saxons had on our island and our culture and around the world.
	So it's worth pointing out that One third of our DNA in England comes from the Anglo-Saxons, sometimes up to 40% depending on where you are.
	But in certain parts, you know, where I'm from, I've only got 2% Anglo-Saxon DNA, but I'm... Shows.
	I know, yeah.
	Very dark hair.
	I'm very, very Brittonic, is what my ancestry tells me.
	And it's also worth mentioning, it's how the rest of the world refers to us as well.
	Like, here's an article I dug up from 2022.
	Putin says Anglo-Saxon powers blew up Nord Stream Pipeline.
	I only learned this the other day, and it was like, you know, the Russians are accusing the Anglo-Saxons of doing it.
	I was like, what the hell is he talking about?
	But yeah, they just called the entire English-speaking world Anglo-Saxon.
	It's just the same as Anglosphere, really, isn't it?
	It's just a perhaps more precise way of putting it.
	But people refer to us in this way.
	It's not that Putin wants the British people to be nationalist, and that he's saying, you know what, if you people stand up for yourselves, this is better for Russia.
	He's also talking about the Americans when he says it.
	Of course, yeah.
	He means the Western powers, but more specifically the former British Empire.
	America, Canada, Australia.
	It's all people sort of bound in heritage together.
	But he also introduces a historical perspective into the mix.
	Well, we know that Putin is certainly a student of history because of his Tucker Carlson interview, right?
	But if leaders of the UK weren't that ecophobic, they wouldn't allow him to do that.
	Or it wouldn't sound weird if he did.
	I'll tell you what is essential to your Anglo-Saxon heritage, and that is merch for the Lotus Eater store.
	We have t-shirts.
	Yeah, the great thing about this t-shirt, right, that's an Anglo-Saxon fighting off a bunch of average quote-unquote Welshmen.
	Sir, I believe those are goblins.
	But yes, we have lots of t-shirts.
	They're going to be going out of the merch store soon in relation to Islander, so pick them up before they disappear.
	I wear these t-shirts in my daily life because I like them.
	I think they look cool.
	Yeah, it looks awesome.
	So yeah, check them out before they're gone.
	But anyway, another important thing is The English language because the language we speak is an evolution of the language in which the Anglo-Saxons spoke.
	Old English is the language of the Anglo-Saxons and I actually did a two-part series looking at the origins of the English language and there we have an example of Old English there in the thumbnail and I read out examples and also read some Anglo-Saxon poetry in its original Anglo-Saxon And it's also worth mentioning, you know Nottingham is the university that has struck this off.
	The ham in Nottingham derives from the Anglo-Saxon word for homestead or village.
	So within the name of the university itself is a vestige of Anglo-Saxon language, Old English.
	Ham is going to be the etymological root of the word home.
	I would imagine so yeah.
	Also there are lots of examples in other place names as well.
	Obviously Birmingham as well.
	The T-O-N suffix in names like Brighton and Luton means town or settlement.
	Ford in Oxford, Bradford meaning river crossing which you know that word Ford is still used to this day.
	Yeah.
	Those are just a handful of examples.
	There are loads.
	It's the base in which all of the English language started with I mean, Churchill's, we will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the fields and all that.
	Every word in that is an Anglo-Saxon root word, etymologically Anglo-Saxon.
	Apart from the word surrender.
	Every other word.
	I imagine that one's French, isn't it?
	Yeah, of course, yeah.
	It's Latin.
	We have to import the word surrender.
	Well, that says it all, doesn't it?
	But that's the point.
	But that's why the speech is so powerful, because the Anglo-Saxon words have a kind of earthiness and, I don't know, rootedness that speaks to the sort of deep time that we've been here.
	You'll enjoy the piece I've done for the next edition of Islander.
	I'm not going to tell anyone what it is.
	All the Latin words are very airy, abstract and ethereal.
	They'll go eventually.
	There are some good French words we have.
	I'm not saying there aren't, I'm just saying it's different.
	I also like that there's, uh, the word for the animal is Anglo-Saxon and the word for the cut of meat is French.
	So venison is French, deer is Anglo-Saxon.
	Pork.
	Yeah.
	Pig.
	Yep, exactly.
	So another thing that's worth mentioning, Tolkien was a professor of Anglo-Saxon studies.
	Well no he wasn't, say the people at University of Nottingham.
	Yes, also Anglo-Saxon writing had such a profound influence on the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit and Tolkien's mythology that has become a modern mythology for modern Anglo-Saxons, if you will.
	And obviously Tolkien is a sort of behemoth of literature I suppose you can say and to deny this cultural staple and his link to Anglo-Saxon history is madness to my mind.
	Also there are the legal systems we get the concept of common law, jury trials and precedents that's rooted in Anglo-Saxon culture There are also still buildings standing to this day that were built in Anglo-Saxon times.
	This is All Saints Church in Bricksworth in Northamptonshire, which began construction in the late 8th and early 9th century by the King Offa of Mercia, or his successor, Coenwulf.
	I mean, all of the towns in the south-west are Saxon towns, like Swindon, Crickley, Chippenham, you know, these are all Saxon names.
	They were all founded in the 8th and 9th centuries.
	Alfred was defeated by the Vikings at Chippenham, you know, like driven off into exile in the Somerset Moors.
	They say, well, it's not Anglo-Saxon.
	Well, they are Anglo-Saxons, but I mean, okay, whatever.
	Well, I see there being a sort of bipartite attack here on the English more specifically.
	They're denying, first of all, an ethnicity and the notion that we share an ethnicity because a portion of it is Anglo-Saxon.
	Which I don't think does deny that.
	You know what's interesting is that by compounding these all into early English, you're not saying, you're not disassociating people from their Anglo-Saxon heritage.
	What you're saying is, no, you are it now, right?
	You're not actually breaking the continuum.
	You're actually solidifying it even more.
	Unintentionally, yeah.
	It's not their aim, though, is it?
	No, it's not their aim, but, you know, okay, well, okay, they're early English, but they're still all of us, and they're still... They're still the continuity, though.
	They haven't severed that part.
	Yeah.
	But also, it seems like an attack on English culture more generally, and this, in my mind, It ties into these sorts of efforts to try and erase what it means to be of English origin, be it you know English as in you live in England now or English as in you had people who went over to America 300 years.
	But there's still residual elements of this, isn't there?
	And I think a good example of this was when Conor was talking to someone on GB News who was a former Labour MP and still a Labour Party member, taking exception to him referring to the ethnic English.
	And my perspective on this is that, well, it's easier to replace us if we never existed in the first place because we lose our claim to what is ours.
	What are you defending?
	Exactly.
	And so these sorts of things, although it's rewording a few things in a few university courses, the implications for our history, our culture and our civilization are massive.
	And we really need to push back on this sort of thing.
	Because if we if we lose ground on this, it's going to be catastrophic for the future.
	Completely agree.
	The Shadow Band says anti-racist means anti-Anglo-Saxon.
	That's true.
	Wakandan's real, Anglo-Saxons aren't.
	It's 2024 and Boudicca grew up speaking Swahili, so get with the program.
	Bigot says OPHUK.
	Cranky Texan says anti-racist, it's against certain races existing.
	True.
	And OPHQK says Anglos are just infidels who haven't seen the light yet, kissed Arma allegedly.
	Quite possibly.
	Right, so let's move on.
	Because as you can see, communism is coming to us, courtesy of our own universities, and also courtesy of the reformation of the band Oasis.
	Now, I realise this may be unpopular in certain segments of our audience, tiny, tiny segments.
	Individuals, called Thomas, who used to work here.
	But I'm persuaded that the reformation of OASIS will indeed bring about communism in Britain.
	Now, for those who somehow don't know, OASIS are probably the most famous British band of which the members are still alive.
	Definitely, maybe.
	They're the most famous band in... That's not funny.
	I can't resist.
	As you can see they've sold over 40 million albums worldwide and 16 and a half million in the United Kingdom.
	They are insanely popular and have been since I was a teenager and I just want to say on the Oasis question I'm with William Gallagher actually.
	I was never an Oasis fan.
	Ever.
	They've got some good songs.
	I think some of their more popular songs like Champagne, Supernova and Wonderwall are a bit derivative But some of the other things like they did some Beatles covers that were very good.
	The song Cigarettes and Alcohol I think is great.
	Now I am actually just joking a bit here obviously.
	I was just never a fan of Oasis.
	I didn't actually hate Oasis.
	I disliked Blur more.
	Agreed.
	I wasn't a fan either.
	Yeah, but it's just not my sort of thing, but millions of people absolutely adore Oasis.
	And so when Oasis said, right, we're getting the band back together and we're going to do a massive tour, everyone went mental and the tickets sold out almost immediately, which is good for them.
	You know, I mean, everyone loves a bit of nostalgia.
	This will be peak nostalgia.
	I imagine that if you were an Oasis fan, this is going to be your jam.
	And so, I mean, Noel and Liam had announced that they'd put their differences behind them and confirmed their long-awaited reunion because they disbanded 15 years ago following a backstage brawl between the brothers at Rock NCN Festival in Paris.
	Whatever, I'm not a fan.
	But the interesting bit is that the tickets were expected to cost £150 each for standing tickets, whereas the seated tickets from £73 to £205.
	Why are the seated tickets cheaper?
	Whereas the seated tickets from £73 to £205.
	Why are the seated tickets cheaper?
	I guess they're further away?
	You're normally further away and it's less fun.
	If you're at an Oasis gig and you're sitting down, it sort of, in my mind, defeats part of the fun of going to an Oasis gig in that you need to be drinking inordinate amounts of lager and being right in the fray.
	That was done, right?
	All I'm saying is there's a lot of Anglo-Saxon radiating off of this, right?
	And that's part of it.
	So they had 1.4 million tickets to sell and they sold out insanely quickly because they can do 17 outdoor concerts.
	These will be absolutely colossal and so throughout the day hundreds of thousands of fans sat in online queues in the hope of being able to buy a first-hand view of the tour that comes 15 years after the group disbanded.
	So, when you have a limited supply of something, and you have overwhelming demand for that thing, Josh, as someone who's not a communist, what happens to the price of the thing?
	The government fixes it.
	No, no, you are right, but that's spoilers.
	No.
	In a normal world!
	The price goes up when there is more demand than supply.
	That is correct!
	Dynamic pricing on Ticketmaster, where prices rise and land with demand, set some tickets up more than £350.
	So up more than £135 in total from when the sale began.
	Right, so most of the tickets went up from about £100.
	What was it?
	£150 to about £300.
	Most of the tickets went up from about £100, what was it, £150 to about £300.
	Some of them went up to over £350, blah, blah, blah.
	So, okay, well, you know, you want to go and see Oasis.
	Millions of other people want to go see Oasis.
	There is a limited number of places.
	Obviously, the price of the ticket is going to go up.
	But there is also something that some black marketeers do.
	They buy massive amounts of tickets.
	They do!
	To sell to other people.
	Do you know what's really interesting?
	In the era of everyone being completely digitized and everything being able to be found, followed, tracked, There's actually a mechanism we can use to get away from that.
	As in, you are not allowed and they can track when you're scalping.
	So you can only resell the tickets at the consumer price, at the price that the original sellers allow.
	But anyway, just a quick thing though.
	So they have like a platinum or in-demand market labeled tickets or whatever.
	And Ticketmaster confirmed fans did not get anything else for these price increases.
	And this dynamic pricing, as the BBC tells us, is not new.
	It's completely allowed under consumer protection laws.
	It's totally normal.
	And no one has anything to say about it because it's not illegal.
	It's completely legal if you go, oh, well, there's huge demand for this product that we're selling.
	Well, we'll increase the price of it.
	That's totally normal.
	But to our woke managerial class, this turned into a crisis.
	Now, I just want to quickly talk about crises, because this is actually a great example of how Michael Oakeshott's distinction between the rationalist and traditionalist political actors and agents is actually manifested in reality.
	Because what's actually happened here?
	Nothing, right?
	People who can afford to go and see Oasis are going to go see Oasis.
	People who can't afford it, well, sorry, you know, let's hope they do another tour in like five years time or something.
	You get to go see them then.
	It's the nature of the market.
	The nature of having a product that isn't It has a limited run, so it's just one of those things that happens.
	And Michael Oakshott points out that, yeah, but if what you're trying to do is create a very well-managed and extremely professionally regulated system, rationally, then every crisis, every event, becomes a crisis.
	And so to these people, they're like, oh god, there are going to be some people who miss out on the tickets.
	Now in a free society, yeah, that's the way things work.
	Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.
	I didn't get everything I wanted when I was growing up either.
	But this, what I love about this, is how petty the issue is, because someone's not going out with food, not going out with heating in the winter, although some pensioners will be because of labour.
	No, they're not going to be able to see Oasis.
	Have you considered...
	Oh, sorry, Stelios.
	But have you considered that Oasis tickets are regarded as a human right by the UN Convention of Human Rights?
	But sorry, Stelios.
	No, I wanted also to add to the mix of our conversation the observation that Marxists especially are drawing a distinction between actual needs and...
	Wants.
	And desires.
	Desires that aren't particularly rational.
	So if you want to support us, go sign up for £5 a month and go watch this because I think Oakshot is bang on the money when it comes to analysing our political class.
	I thought I'd give you some examples.
	For example, Labour Communist MP Zara Sultana, she wanted to go and see Oasis and she was squatting on their website, which is apparently what you have to do with Ticketmaster, and then the website crashed.
	And bam, oh no.
	And so, and this doubt has happened to a lot of people.
	Just don't look back in anger, Zara.
	That's one way of looking at it.
	But if you're a socialist, you could also be like nationalized hickering.
	Now, I don't know if this is a joke.
	I'm sure this is just a joke.
	You know, it's a joke about I can't get the tickets or I nationalise it because I'm communist.
	I love that it's literally two hours later, she posts this.
	She's seething for two hours.
	It may well be.
	She right away read the Communist Manifesto.
	This is not in any way outside of her purview, because it was like, what, three days before that she was like, you know, we've been told there's no alternative, there is socialism.
	So like, It may well have been a joke, but it's also what she actually wants.
	It's exactly her political position.
	Yeah, so there is an alternative.
	It's called stealing from people.
	And then she's not the only one, because Lisa Nandy was like, well, hang on a second.
	Let's just watch this.
	This is just remarkable how very seriously they're taking this event.
	I don't know what conversations Oasis had about ticket pricing, but I do know that it's deeply depressing to have had this incredible moment where so many people, especially at my age, were incredibly excited that this event of a lifetime that they thought may never happen was happening, only to find that they had to queue for hours In a queue and for many of them to find that when they got to the front of that queue they couldn't actually afford the tickets that were on offer.
	We think as a government that there's an overhaul needed of the regulations around ticketing.
	We've already announced that this autumn we'll be consulting on secondary ticketing and how to deal with ticket touts.
	And as part of that we'll look at dynamic pricing and in particular transparency around it.
	One of the features of this particular case was that many of those Oasis fans had no idea when they entered the system that a dynamic pricing model was in use.
	They thought that they were going to pay one price for a ticket only to get to the front of the queue and find that they were paying hundreds of pounds more that many of them couldn't afford.
	Now we think there's clearly a problem there.
	And so we'll be consulting over the autumn about the changes that are needed to enable fans to have access to, you know, whether it's gigs or live events at a fair price and in a fair way.
	So access to Oasis is becoming a human right.
	Perform live for free.
	Well, not necessarily for free.
	For a reasonable price.
	Keir Starmer's going to have people following Oasis around with guns saying, you need to perform for everyone in Britain.
	There were some people who didn't get to see it yet.
	Get on with it, Noel.
	And I'm not even joking.
	The communist government of Britain, led by Keir Starmer and filled with literal communists, are like, no, we're going to nationalise Oasis.
	The People's Band.
	So, I mean, Keir Starmer weighed in on this, right?
	Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Keir Starmer said, quote, there are a number of things we can do and should do.
	What are you going to do?
	You are actually going to nationalise Oasis.
	Because otherwise, you get to the situation where families simply can't go or are absolutely spending a fortune on tickets.
	I'm not going.
	Yeah, but even if they are, so?
	There's no human right to watch Oasis at the price I want to pay.
	Supply.
	Demand.
	What price is that?
	I'm going to go to a bakery and say, here's what I'm going to pay for this loaf of bread and just walk out with it.
	Exactly.
	No, I have a human right to buy this at that price.
	He said that governments would be consulting on the future of the law, which may well mean adjustments.
	There are a number of techniques going on here, with people buying a lot of tickets and reselling them at a huge price.
	That's not true.
	Oasis have come out and said, look, we can track the tickets.
	We will cancel any tickets that are scalped.
	OK, fine.
	And he says that's just not fair.
	It's pricing people out of the market.
	So, OK, can we apply that to housing?
	Yeah, that would be interesting.
	Can we apply that to, I don't know, groceries?
	Look at the price of your grocery bill.
	That's gone right through the roof.
	No, only with Oasis ticket prices.
	Interesting how that works.
	And the thing is, this is not the first time Comrade Starmer has been like, you know what, we're going to have to make sure that everyone has a human right to see Oasis.
	You don't have a human right to own a house, but you do have a human right to listen to Liam Gallagher go meh at you.
	There'll be a bunch of homeless people in Britain watching Oasis, because that's the only thing our government grants them.
	And ironically, that's probably going to be the case.
	I mean, Keir Starmer, you see, back in March, was like, yeah, this isn't on.
	This isn't on.
	Everyone should be able to watch Oasis.
	He's planning to clamp down on ticket touts who rip off music and sports fans.
	But the industry themselves are dealing with it.
	They are actually dealing with this.
	And fans need to be able to see the acts they loved at a fair price, he added.
	They need to be able to.
	Fans need to be able to see the acts they love at a fair price.
	They don't need to live in a house that they own, but they do need to be able to see the Blur and Oasis concerts that they want.
	And this in particular was talking about football matches, right?
	The resale of football tickets is outlawed unless it's approved by the match organisers.
	So, okay, what do you want?
	That's pretty good, isn't it?
	People of course were complaining about the inflated prices, but sorry, there's 1.4 million tickets and 16 million people who want tickets.
	Time to look back in anger, says one Oasis fan on social media.
	I just don't know, I'm not in the mood for mercy.
	Yeah, you don't have the money, you don't buy the ticket.
	Yeah, that's how life works.
	What I thought wasn't a human right initially, but it turns out that I do have a human right to Oasis.
	I don't have a CD player to put the CDs on in.
	What about my human right to a Spotify account?
	Like, you know, do I get a human right to a Spotify account to listen to Oasis music?
	Well, they're free anyway, so... Oh, are they?
	Alright, I thought you had to pay for them.
	You pay to go to the ads.
	Massive trolling.
	If they play, don't look back in anger to the people who can't buy the tickets.
	But yeah, so people were complaining about this, of course, and then there were some people on the other side who were like, hang on a second.
	Oasis are a far-right band.
	Yeah, a bit of a stretch but certainly not woke.
	Is it?
	Is it?
	I think they might be the most damaging pop cultural force in recent British history according to one person who definitely looks like normal.
	Yeah, he's almost certainly a punk I would imagine with that haircut and so probably wouldn't enjoy Oasis.
	Is that an antenna?
	I think we can safely describe Simon Price as being woke and if there's one thing woke people don't like it's guitars with British flags on them which Noel Gallagher is quite happy to use because of course he's part of the Britpop scene, the cool Britannia scene.
	Very British.
	The whole late 90s in Britain was very British.
	Very proud to be British.
	So there's no reason not to be, right?
	The Gallaghers are pretty nationalistic as well, aren't they?
	Yeah, it's pretty great.
	I mean, I'll just quote from this.
	This is just hilarious.
	I genuinely believe Oasis are the most damaging pop cultural force in recent British history.
	I mean, I agree, but for different reasons.
	Liam Gallagher can't sing, and he's really annoying.
	And they have one song.
	You're inviting controversy on yourself here.
	I'm just not an Oasis fan, alright?
	But he says it's easy to attack them for being musically regressive.
	After all, they didn't just stop the clocks to quote the title of their 2006 best of.
	Again, notice the atmosphere that surrounds Oasis.
	Like, you know, In my youth, I hated, I just didn't like Oasis's music.
	I just wasn't a fan.
	I found William Gallagher really annoying.
	But as I've matured, and as the woke of Melodic Love Writes were banning English identity, well, I mean, Oasis have never been ashamed of who they are.
	You know, they're at least proud of being British, and being English, and being representative of this place.
	And they are representative of this place.
	Very much so, in fact.
	And in fact, that's probably a real part of their success, is they are a genuine representation of a kind of working-class British attitude, whereas Blur were a lot more the middle-class British.
	And they're also awful, Blur.
	Yeah, they're not great.
	But anyway, so the real problem is that they set social attitudes back even further.
	Oasis was memorably described by the late Neil Kulkarni as, quote, the English Rock Defence League.
	I really like you.
	You don't need to sell them to me.
	Okay, you're winning me over.
	You're winning me over.
	I was never an Oasis fan, but I appreciate what they're doing.
	Perhaps something can be done.
	You can be persuaded.
	Yeah, they offer nothing but a sludgy, trudgy, brontosaurus-bottomed waddle, perfect for the adult nappy-gate so beloved of their singer and fans.
	Right, so all of Oasis's fans are now far right as well.
	They're dinosaurs, they're throwbacks, absolute cavemen.
	And the thing is, Noel Gallagher in particular, when he says something publicly, I'm suddenly like, okay, I do agree with that.
	For example, he called Ed Miliband a communist.
	Back in 2015, when Ed Miliband was in charge of the Labour Party, and then when Corbyn came in charge, well, Corbyn's a communist too!
	And I totally agree with him, he's absolutely right.
	I like that byline as well, politicians, they're ethn-idiots, they're economists and that's all they are.
	I mean, that's being charitable, to be honest.
	They're not economists, certainly not.
	Have you seen the state of our economy?
	But the point is, okay, yeah.
	Totally agree.
	They're very representative of a sort of working class English mindset, which is get effed commies.
	And Noel Gallagher, not a fan of woke either, obviously.
	Glastonbury's woke, doesn't like political musicians, even though he is political, whether he knows it or not, you know, he's just normal.
	But Preachy and Virtue Signalling, I can kind of see where this Guardian Author is coming from.
	And Liam Gallagher, he criticises Liam Gallagher for using slurs like a working class Mancunian man might use from the 90s.
	I probably can't say them on YouTube so I won't.
	But anyway, so this I think ...is where my definition of metaphor and anti-metaphor come from.
	So my talk at the WTAN this year...
	was on Metaphor vs. Anti-Metaphor and it is now live on LowSeas.com and I suggest you go and watch it because I think that this is a good way of understanding what the far-right is and what the far-left is and why the far-left are constantly finding the far-right but the far-right don't even recognize themselves as far-right because what they are saying is the far-right are living in the kind of enchanted greater metaphor of their own civilization
	We are British, we are English, and we have these characteristics, and we are on this continuity going from the deep past and into the future, and we're just on this in the here and now.
	And so it's not an ideology, it's a worldview.
	Whereas the anti-metaphor people are the ones saying, well, no, look, I mean, for example, I use the example of when Just Stop Oil attacked Stonehenge, and they were like, it's just orange dust on a pile of stones.
	They're saying, no, Stonehenge, you don't go and see just a pile of stones.
	What you do is go to witness the imminent transcendence of this great metaphysical continuity, the metaphor of British civilization since the retreat of the ice sheet.
	Because, I mean, it turns out that, did you know that the average British person has 10% of his genes from the hunter-gatherers 5,000 years before Stonehenge was built?
	Right and then the we know this because there was a chap called uh a man was found in a cave in Cheddar Gorge who they called Cheddar Man and they found a descendant of his living half a mile away so half a mile that's walking distance it is yeah it's crazy but um yeah it's one of the last socially acceptable forms of ancestor worship visiting sites like Stonehenge and that is about as traditional as it gets that's present in in pretty much all uh northern hemisphere cultures
	It absolutely is, and it's the same with any monument to any civilization.
	The monument is a metaphor for the civilization as a whole, which is why so many people are so deeply annoyed at the attack on Stonehenge, even though, of course, no actual damage was done to it.
	They are right, but I explain what a metaphor is and how it's got layers and whatnot.
	But the point is, I think that if you were to look at this saying, well, Oasis are a metaphorical band, as in they metaphorically bring forth the entire story of British civilisation, and they're a part of it, and they're very representative, but suddenly you understand why the Guardian commies are like, no, I hate them, I hate them, I hate them.
	You know, and you can understand why the people on the other side who want to extract themselves from the metaphor, the sort of James O'Brien's of the world, which is like, no, it's just this, it's just that, it's just the other.
	So if you can isolate just the material realm in this moment and isolate it from the greater narrative, Then essentially you can decolonize it of the narrative, remove the ethnic particularity of the thing, and hopefully let that all fall away.
	And I think that's what the far right are, people who live within the metaphor of their civilizations, against the far left who are people who are just anti-metaphor, they're anti the grand story and making that present.
	So go and watch that, honestly I think probably my best contribution to The political divide so far to understanding it and I think if you actually start thinking about these terms the terms left and right start falling away because they don't make sense you know it's like like there's a reason they hate Jeremy Corbyn as well because Jeremy Corbyn is metaphorically English.
	Jeremy Corbyn will say Zionists don't understand English irony, as in he roots himself on a continuity.
	He's just an insane, idiot, wet commie.
	But Keir Starmer would never say something like that, because he is 100% anti-metaphor.
	He's the globalist, individualist party of Davos.
	He's outside of metaphor.
	And anyway, I won't spoil it, but definitely go watch that.
	Keith says I got my head checked by a jumbo jet.
	It wasn't easy, but nothing is.
	Yeah, I'm not a fan of blur.
	Although that song is actually pretty good.
	Hewitt says, we should try and nationalise the NHS.
	Trending on Twitter?
	See how long it takes the penny to drop.
	Yes, yes.
	And Threadnaught says, in today's Daily Starmer, Keir Starmer attempts to undo Britain's history with the slave trade by claiming national ownership of Oasis, legalising and nationalising slavery.
	Well, I mean, that's what it would be.
	Right.
	So, I think that socialism destroys everything.
	You can have one of the richest countries and the richest economy in the world, you can introduce socialism in, it just gets, it just destroys everything.
	I think it's a corrosive social acid, an economic acid.
	It's incredible that Venezuela literally can pull black gold out of the ground and end up bankrupt.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	And we're going to talk about Venezuela and how Maduro can be said to be living the dream of some politicians in the West.
	So on the 28th of July, the Venezuelans voted for presidential elections.
	There were some contestants.
	The contestants were incumbent President Maduro and Edmundo González Urrutia, the leader of the opposition.
	And ever since, Venezuela is in turmoil.
	And we'll briefly diagnose the situation and also the larger pitfalls of Venezuela and also talk about some of the events that have happened.
	Maduro appointed his own National Election Council, as expected.
	But they find that Maduro's party did nothing wrong.
	And won.
	Exactly, yeah.
	So Maduro announces victory.
	And he says that he won 51.2% and that Gonzalez won 44.2%.
	And this is essentially what the opposition is contesting.
	Now we have here the opposition saying that they won 73.2% and that they can prove it because they have all the data from the tallies from all the places where people went to vote.
	Well I'm sure it was the freest and fairest election in history.
	Yes, so here we have the very distinction between the top-down approach and the bottom-up approach.
	The opposition cites evidence in a bottom-up manner.
	They collect all the evidence from all the voting booths and the National Election Council says, no, we won.
	Here we have obviously people who are not particularly convinced.
	Not everyone is convinced by Maduro's announcement of triumph.
	And we have here some interesting facts about why people may be a bit suspicious about the results.
	There are many reasons.
	If you see here, they are saying that the numbers are way too round.
	It's just statistically impossible to have so many such round numbers.
	But also they say that Maduro has stopped publishing official data since 2015.
	There is close to 80% poverty.
	It's unlikely that people are going to be happy with it.
	Also that 7 million people have fled Venezuela ever since Maduro took power, which is, I think, around 12 years ago.
	And also...
	People just saying, obviously, the corruption that is widespread in Venezuela is definitely not something that wins you widespread approval, even if people say that, you know, they, oh, yeah, we won 99% of the vote and stuff like that, that we see every now and then.
	Now we have some people though who are obvious scumbags and bad faith actors who say, like Jackson Hinkle says, incorrect, those election results are fake.
	Maduro won fair and square and I was on the ground observing voting stations.
	He was apparently on every voting station there and he saw how Venezuelans voted.
	But in that case, why did the Venezuela's National Electoral Council announced in the end of August that they wouldn't publish the electoral records?
	Because it was just so free and fair, why would they need to?
	Yes.
	Stelios, you understand what they're saying is, look, this would be a burden to the taxpayer in Venezuela.
	So it's so obviously free and fair, we want to cut down public spending.
	In fact, you're in the wrong for even asking.
	Exactly.
	After this, as you would expect, Maduro launched a wave of political arrests.
	As I would expect, yeah.
	Of course he did.
	Of course he did.
	I shouldn't laugh, but it's just like, yeah, of course he did.
	We have a Venezuelan attorney general Harek William Saab announcing that those who contest Maduro's election victory will be sentenced to prison.
	And that's how you know it was legitimate.
	Exactly, you know.
	This doesn't exactly radiate trust.
	Right, we have here videos of people from Maduro who are arresting.
	People who counted votes.
	And they are essentially humiliating them.
	They're dragging them down in the street.
	Public government employees.
	Some of them naked.
	The humiliation is part of the process.
	I'm getting a vision of November for some reason.
	I can't tell you why.
	Just to go back, those people are ironically going to be public employees.
	They're probably employed by the government, that's the thing, because Venezuela has such a large state.
	We covered the protests a while ago, and this was literally, they would bus in people from government employment to this area to go and protest.
	But the opposition would also have people there into the voting booths, because otherwise they would have that argument as well.
	We have here also people busting into the house of an opposition leader and kidnapping them.
	That's because they were like, if they can do it to Donald Trump, we can do it to anyone.
	Kidnapping is basically very widespread in Venezuela, especially kidnapping.
	Now, if we fast forward to today, they also issued an arrest warrant for the leader of the opposition, the main leader of the opposition.
	Again, they're just looking at American politics and going, well, we can do that.
	Yes, and this is from today.
	They issued an arrest warrant against Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.
	So, this goes on.
	But also, you could say that it's 35 days now that the protests are going on.
	No, more than that.
	They're not stopping.
	Right here we have people who after the election results they got very animated and they are participating in mass mobilization against Maduro and you can see here they have also the Venezuela Libre One.
	You have this person with a horse riding and then you have all sorts of people with the bikes they go to Corrales to protest.
	I think it looks awesome to be honest.
	Imagine that, a horse leading a group of people on bikes, yeah.
	Yes, we also have many people who are not stopping for... They're just ongoing, they just don't stop.
	They completely defy Maduro and his gangs and his people.
	They're saying, Buu Ernst, Buu Ernst.
	Yes.
	Right, so we also have here some gangs, the Colectivos gang, they say that they're riding around on motorcycles intimidating Venezuelans.
	There are some, there are reports of some shooting.
	There are also estimations of dead people.
	Yeah, 12 kills.
	Not as dangerous as the Mexican elections.
	But also, I would say that the idea of having gangs roaming around intimidating people is unfortunately not something that happens only in the other side of the world.
	We are far beyond the point where people were saying, these problems are happening in the other side of the world, it would never happen here.
	You could say that unfortunately in Europe and also in England and in the US this is a bit more common nowadays.
	Here we also have people again with bikes mobilizing and they descend to Caracas to... So this is essentially some sort of populist uprising against Maduro because they feel that he stole the election.
	Yes, it's a massive uprising.
	Also, what do they have to lose?
	What is it?
	A week's wages for a dozen eggs or something like that?
	There are ridiculous levels of poverty now from a country that used to be the richest in South America.
	How's that going for them?
	Reports say that poverty is more than 80% and you would expect it because people live in slums.
	Right, we have here also reports about Maduro forces firing against Venezuelan voters.
	And what is really interesting here, especially if we link this with the previous segment we did right before the elections, is that there's a district in Petare, which is the largest favela in South America, as they say.
	Around half a million people live there.
	As I understand it, a favela is a slum, right?
	Yeah, it's like the people, the places where people in the Fast and Furious saga live.
	Yeah.
	And we also have Maduro's thugs here try to enter, but the people there have a very strong communal bond there.
	You could say that sometimes poverty does aid to this.
	Sure.
	And they really run them out.
	And what is interesting here is that in the previous segment we did about it, it was us three talking about it, I showed a documentary at the end where the reporters were asking people from Petaro, what do you think about the regime?
	And they were saying, no, we support the Bolivarian revolution.
	And, you know, we ended up saying, believe that if you will.
	Turns out people are not that stupid, even if they're very poor.
	They're not that stupid.
	They understand that they live in a brutal dictatorship and they're fed up with lying.
	And they know that if they spoke freely, they would be abused in several ways by the regime.
	And we also have here other places where there are Venezuelans who are just Driving out Maduro's forces.
	As you said, they have nothing to lose.
	Here we have Venezuelans tearing down statues of Maduro, statues of Chavez.
	And you could say that here they are, in a sense, understanding that they do live in a sort of myth.
	Because there is the myth of the Bolivarian Revolution that Venezuelans are rejecting.
	And here we see them destroying the statue, tearing it down.
	I've been very enthusiastic about it.
	Laughing and, you know, just stepping on top of it and... It was literally the statue of a socialist tyrant.
	Exactly.
	Engaging in a symbolic act of doing this.
	But not everyone was happy with this.
	Well, I'm sure the socialist tyrants were furious.
	They were furious.
	I don't know necessarily if Maduro would be furious because I'm sure he would like to put his own statues there.
	But... Well, not really.
	No, no, no.
	Maduro is like very much the heir to Chavez as I understand it.
	So he's got to be kind of like...
	You know, Maduro is our guy.
	Yeah, he would say so.
	But Roger Waters founded a particularly blasphemous act.
	Yeah, he just he's very upset.
	And he says that this is just thuggery.
	And people shouldn't protest again.
	The people should keep the Bolivarian Revolution alive.
	Did he say that about the Colston statue in Bristol?
	I don't know.
	I heard him.
	So you have to hear him as well.
	So British multimillionaire chimes in.
	Elon Musk.
	Elon Musk.
	He's posting anti-Maduro tweets about Venezuela and the election that Nicola Maduro just won there.
	Elon Musk.
	This is, yeah, the same, the oligarch, yeah, the oligarch Elon Musk.
	Okay, I wonder why he wants to get rid of the government that represents the ordinary people.
	This is the Elon Musk who sat in front row seats Probably given to him by his friend, Netanyahu, the mass murderer.
	All of that is completely relative to Israel, by the way.
	Netanyahu's dad told his lies all afternoon to Congress.
	He's not even the best guitarist in Pink Floyd, so I don't know why anyone takes him seriously.
	But the thing is, notice how this is just very online complaints.
	I like Maduro and Chavez because they've got a myth around themselves.
	So I ignore all of the tyranny.
	It's just like Jeremy Corbyn.
	Jeremy Corbyn is exactly the same with this.
	He used to phone in to Chavez's radio show.
	and speak to him in Spanish about how great he was.
	And this is that same sort of weird British cult mentality, which I guess is just anti-aristocratic or something.
	And also Venezuela is something that has an allure for socialists, especially for celebrities, because you had politicians, for instance, Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, basically all leftists and all progressives somehow think that there is something magical about Venezuela. basically all leftists and all progressives somehow think that there Yeah, they started off so well and they tanked the economy.
	That was all America.
	That was all America.
	The thing is, in a way, Venezuela is a kind of perfect model of the kind of socialism they want.
	They actually manage to grasp hold of the entire country and keep the entire population down and actually impose modern socialism on them.
	So if Venezuela goes down in a fire of revolution, which looks like it's happening because socialism's evil, then that means that their entire philosophy and what they want for our country is evil and wrong.
	That's exactly correct and I think it's good to summarize exactly what happened in Venezuela and why Marxism and Socialism are just ridiculous doctrines that can only lead to disaster.
	So Venezuela had and has, according to OPEC, the largest oil reserve.
	And they have around three... 80% poverty.
	Estimations of 313 billion barrels of oil.
	So something like that.
	It's ridiculously large.
	Yeah.
	It's more than 40 billion barrels more than Saudi Arabia, according to the estimations.
	So what happened is that Venezuela had a lot of problems before even Chavez.
	They did have lots of problems.
	And I think in economics, it's called Dutch disease, which is over-reliance on one good.
	So they had only that...
	They just focused entirely on oil that led to corruption even before Chavez.
	Yeah, we should be correct with the facts.
	But what happened is that Marxists came along and they, instead of giving an orthodox economic interpretation of the problem of Venezuelan economy, they just gave a Marxist ideologically rigid interpretation.
	What a surprise!
	And basically they just Chimed in, Chavez came along, and he was particularly lucky when he entered power in 1998.
	The price of Venezuelan oil barrel was around $8.
	At some point it skyrocketed around $114.
	So what happened is that essentially this didn't change.
	Overall reliance on oil didn't change.
	He was incredibly lucky because when he was in power, the price of Venezuelan oil barrel was increasing.
	And there were reports by people from the U.S.
	Embassy saying the person who is going to come after Chavez is going to be the most unlucky person in Venezuela.
	So Chavez dies in 2012, Maduro comes in and the price of oil goes down.
	And essentially, we are looking forward, we're looking to the Venezuela that has led to today.
	But essentially, the problem is and sorry, Josh, that Maduro didn't change anything.
	Importantly to Chavez.
	It was just that Chavez was incredibly lucky with the price of global oil.
	Yeah and obviously they don't have influence over the oil price so it was entirely out of their control but they founded their economy and structured it in such a way as it was contingent on the high oil prices remaining the same because they introduced lots and lots of welfare and for a brief period of time the welfare state in Venezuela was one of the most expansive of any Latin American country and they financed that with the oil money.
	When the price of oil went down, they were left paying for this massive welfare state that they definitely couldn't afford.
	Because Maduro or Chavez, let us remind people, had a privatized business.
	That also made Venezuela much more reliant on imports.
	Lots of farms and people producing food were nationalised.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	And so that... It did the same to the oil.
	It massively reduced the productivity of food in Venezuela.
	It happened to the oil industry because they fill the industry itself with party apparatchiks who are not experts on drilling for oil.
	And so things get worse.
	So, the Venezuelans now are carrying on protesting.
	Here we have Maria Corina Machado who is leading the opposition alongside Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.
	And they are not stopping.
	And here I have another...
	It's another sign of what Marxists are doing, which is just ridiculous, and I think it's good to expose them.
	They claim to talk about the people, and they claim to talk for the people, but whenever they are talking about Venezuela and other countries, presumably not their own, because in their own countries their own people would hold them accountable to what they're saying, is that they constantly present everything in terms of Maduro versus US, or Maduro versus another country.
	At no place do they allow a room there for a distinction between how the Venezuelans conceive of their interests and how Maduro conceives of his own interests.
	So this is exactly what Marxists are doing.
	They're essentially militarizing Socialists, they're militarizing their society and that's what they will do in due course in every country where their power increases.
	And that's what they've done in every other country in Latin America.
	In every other country.
	They are constantly focusing on an ass of them mentality.
	They're saying this is war.
	This is always war.
	There is no distinction between normal conditions and conditions of emergency.
	It is always an emergency and everyone who disagrees with the state is an enemy of the state.
	That's the socialist recipe and it is a recipe for disaster.
	And Josh has done contemplations on this?
	I basically created a timeline of how Venezuela went from the richest country to utter ruin and what policies they passed to lead it along the way.
	So if you want a detailed look, that's the place to look.
	Yeah, that's contemplations number 64.
	And now we need to say something else because there is a renewed interest in Venezuelan elections now, because you could say that six years ago there was also interest with Guaido, but it died down after a bit.
	But right now there is something that they did.
	with Guyana.
	They started publishing maps showing significant parts of Guyana as belonging to Venezuela and they did this in December 2023.
	That's why they're saying that maps are also a way of applying politics because they also show the kind of region people want to exercise power in.
	Problems at home, says the Latin American dictator.
	What you need is a foreign war.
	Yes, but the reason why they're doing it is because their oil isn't enough to fund their own.
	Has Guyana got lots of oil, has it?
	Guyana has an oil reserve that was now recently found and recent estimates say that it is the 17th largest oil reserve in the world.
	How's Venezuela not got enough bloody oil?
	They don't have enough, because with socialism it's never enough.
	And socialism just doesn't work.
	It destroys societies.
	That's why having a healthy degree of capitalism is really important.
	And speaking of that, we have t-shirts to sell.
	You can check our Islander merch.
	We have a deadline for this.
	Is it the end of this week?
	I think so.
	Yeah, by next week, we're not going to be selling any of the Islander merch anymore.
	Yes, so you can check out our shirts.
	They come out in various sizes.
	Small, medium, large, XL, XXL, XXXL.
	That's the one I need.
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	Check them out!
	Thank you.
	Right, let's go to the video comments.
	Possibly.
	They're on their way.
	They're on their way, yeah.
	We have a comment here.
	Oh, do we?
	Okay.
	Win, pill, seeker.
	Oh yeah.
	Looking snazzy Sargon.
	Bravo Kyle, bravo.
	Status on Josh always looks sharp, but the boss is giving him a run for the money.
	I don't know.
	I don't know about that.
	But thank you.
	Appreciate it.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	The following is the answer to Stelios and the chat's question about how come only one of my nostrils ever seems to be working.
	In a healthy human, the breath will alternate throughout the day between the different nostrils.
	It is controlled by your vagus nerve and your central nervous system.
	In yogic tradition, we associate our right nostril with our masculine solar side, which means that if you're breathing through your right, your body temperature will be higher, your energy will be higher, and your digestion will be a little bit better.
	And if you're breathing through your left, you will find that your body cools down, you are more relaxed.
	Your digestion is a little bit more sluggish.
	If you are using your alternate nostril breathing like I've shown the other day, but you are struggling through one of your nostrils, instead of forcing yourself through it and losing your breath, open partially the other nostril and just continue as you do.
	Thank you.
	I think that this is actually the political distinction.
	It's left nostril breathing dudes with right.
	I'm breathing through both of my nostrils.
	So I've got two things to say about this.
	The first is the reverb on your audio made it sound like you're talking from the position of God.
	Hey guys, what is your Clive Woodley doing still going to weapon seminars in China?
	And also, secondly, whenever I get a cold, it's always my left nostril, my feminine nostril, that gets blocked.
	So it's nice to know my masculine nostril is the one that keeps going.
	There you go.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Hey, guys.
	What is your Clive Woodley doing still going to weapons seminars in China?
	He's published a bunch of papers with Chinese weapons scientists.
	He's been to seminars before...
	What is he still doing going there?
	I think he's at the International Conference for Defense Technology right now by CCP invitation.
	Is Labor still reviewing your relationship with the Chinese?
	Well, one thing to remember about both the Labour and the Conservative governments is that they're retarded.
	I mean, we very nearly sold all of our security infrastructure to China, all of our communications infrastructure to China, because they were going to give us the money.
	And we're like, oh, no problem with that.
	I mean, I'm glad Yes Minister's the next clip, actually, because it's just so unbelievably dumb.
	I can only imagine it's going to be something like that.
	Have you found any?
	I don't know anything about it.
	So, I don't actually know who this Woodley guy is, but I do know that in the previous government, what was it, Jeremy Hunt had lots of connections to China.
	He's married to a Chinese woman.
	Well that'll do it.
	Yeah.
	But basically money... Just a random Chinese woman, I'm sure she's not married.
	There is enough money in British politics from China that there will always be an angle to bend our politicians to their will.
	Yes, unfortunately that is the case.
	So that's probably what he's doing there because the Chinese know that we're stupid enough to just allow them to buy us.
	Let's go to the next comment.
	What makes him think that?
	Well, the party have had an opinion poll done.
	It seems all the voters are in favour of bringing back National Service.
	Polls in the USA put Kamala ahead by a small amount and seemingly never change.
	It's not a reflection of how inaccurate polls are.
	Polls should have no predictable patterns being based on raw data, but patterns emerge through manipulation and these can be mined for data on how skewed the system is from the public.
	We're encouraged not to use words like cheat, but corrupted polls indicate how much forcing is happening in order to obtain the desired outcome.
	Exactly right.
	Absolutely, yeah.
	I always wonder who's being polled as well.
	I've never been polled.
	No.
	Well, people normally volunteer to do that, and normally the people who are most willing to waste their time are leftists.
	Exactly, people who are invested in that sort of thing.
	So you've got this massive self-selection bias, which of course renders polls not as useful as they could be.
	And as well, polls are used to make the news.
	It's like, well, everyone's voting for this person, you should do it too.
	That's what I said when Beau covered it yesterday, is that There's a lot of power in having a biased poll in your favour and it does have a tangible effect on people's voting intentions and it's provable and it's also very difficult to prove that you've willfully manipulated the poll
	you know when have there been cases where someone said this poll is inaccurate you're trying to interfere with an election which is illegal you're getting arrested never even though it's easy for someone with my background for example where I've got the the sort of data analysis and methodological stuff down and know it inside out to be like hang on a minute there's something funny going on here it's easy for them to do they do yeah well a lot of the people doing the political polling aren't even that good at what they do yeah
	so they think they're smarter than they really are and they don't necessarily cover their tracks as well as they could roman observer says sharply dressed hosts are the best hosts Well, thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Charlie says, regarding the fight against Anglo-Saxons, again, the fact that we were under attack wasn't even something that we were aware of previously, it's funny that the left say, tie one hand, say one tie one hand diversity, you mean on one hand, diversity built Britain and Britain has always been diverse and in the same breath, Britain is institutionally and systemically racist.
	Well, which one is it?
	I don't know why the diversity would build on racist Britain.
	That's always been something that's never been properly explained.
	Diversity built Britain and Britain is racist.
	Yeah.
	It's like, wow, maybe the Anglo-Saxons should have built Britain and I've been slightly less racist.
	Rutherday says, good news, I hear Anglos don't even exist so you can't be racist if you're not real.
	Also enjoy the implication that Saxons are also not real.
	Great news for Europe and the German-sphere.
	Asterisk German-sphere.
	Well, yeah, I mean, again, like, uh, what I love about all of this is essentially the desire to unbake the cake.
	It's like, well, you know, what's a thing, really?
	Is it really a thing?
	It's like, it doesn't matter.
	How do we define an egg?
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's like, look, I know all the ingredients came from my cupboards, and now I have a cake, okay?
	How do you know that's not chicken and not an egg?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Colin says, uh, the ethnic erasure of the English isn't happening, but this is why it's a good thing.
	Uh, yeah, that's...
	I mean, literally part of the plan, isn't it?
	Because remember, if you feel like you are ethnically particular, then you're a nationalist, and you're a racist, and you're about to kill all of the Jews, which is literally what's the thought that's going around in their head.
	Although possibly not Jews, I don't think they're that bothered about that, but they're thinking you're going to kill all the ethnic minorities or something.
	Ice Wallow says, I agree, England should be decolonised, about time us Anglo-Saxons finally overthrew our Norman overlords.
	Well, I mean, there are much more Pressing and pertinent colonization efforts going on at the moment.
	I mean, if you just look at the number of areas that have an incredibly low number of English people and loads and loads of foreign people, that is a colony.
	And yeah, sure, we could decolonize England, but it doesn't mean what you think it means.
	Sophie says, you heard it at first, England was built by the Nordics.
	Oof.
	Rishi Sunak, what about your diversity built Britain coin?
	Are you going to stand for this?
	Britain was not built by Nordics!
	How dare you!
	Built by Vikings Yeah Baham von Warhawk says They deny your people's existence So they can justify your genocide After all you can't replace Population with foreigners If there's no population To replace them to begin with Where did he change his name?
	Who?
	Baron Von Warhawk.
	He didn't change it.
	He had changed it for a while.
	Stelios misread it and read Baron Von Warcock and he changed it for a while.
	Right, okay.
	Canis Familiaris says, The irony of denying the natives their culture and replacing it by a foreign culture from across the Atlantic in the name of decolonization.
	I guess the odd leftist technique of doing X but calling it anti-X.
	Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
	They don't want to live in your metaphor and they want to destroy it.
	Omar says and this this honestly I go through loads of this in this speech because this explains everything about James O'Brien you know and James O'Brien is just one of those people that just hates everything parochial about England and as soon as like Keir Starmer comes on goes I'm the party of Davos I love Davos.
	I love internationalism.
	I'm literally for anyone who's not English and against everyone who's English.
	James O'Brien is... I mean, do you see him getting ratioed every single day on LBC?
	Where else are they like, no, you know, if you don't like the boring fixing of Britain, you hate Britain.
	It's like, you hate Britain!
	You hate Britain!
	Shut up!
	He feels like an exile in his own country because he doesn't share our culture to the same degree that we do, or our enthusiasm for our own culture, I should say.
	It's so derogatory towards us.
	It's like, okay.
	Omar says, there is a reverse euphemism treadmill.
	No matter how hard they try to erase the description, the category remains.
	We belong to this land and it belongs to us specifically because we don't belong to anywhere else.
	And that's the truth of it.
	There is nowhere else for us to go.
	The English are from England.
	This is where our entire ethnic group emerged out of the deep time of ancient history.
	I mean, I've traced my family history and looked at my genetics and my claim to the island of Britain is at least thousands of years old, as in many thousands of years old.
	Every British person's claim is.
	Like I said in the speech, the average British person is 10% hunter-gatherer before bloody farming came to Britain.
	You still carry, I mean you might as well carry more, but on average it's 10% of every British person.
	So it's just like, that's crazy.
	Why are we even having this conversation about ethnic groups and who belongs where?
	Like, uh, anyway, Icewaller says just south of Swindon is Avebury, yes indeed, which is an Anglo-Saxon church.
	It's an authentic window from the time and front dating from the 1040s.
	I highly recommend a visit.
	I went there not too long ago.
	I went there for the sunset and I had a picnic and it was very nice.
	But also the stone circle is from the sort of, you know, Neolithic, possibly farmer, I don't even know if it's Neolithic farmers, but like, you know, it's I think it's Bronze Age, potentially.
	I'll double-check though.
	I'll fact-check myself.
	It goes back so far in time that it's not even worth knowing.
	Edward Longchamp says... Carl, you can't say that.
	Well, no, it's not worth trying to figure out what the date is, you know.
	It's like, who cares?
	Oh, Stonehenge was built on this date.
	It's like, I don't care.
	It's ancient.
	Yeah, yeah, okay.
	But it's like, trying to figure it out.
	It's like, you're never going to get an exact time.
	You know, it's just ancient monument.
	You know, enjoy it on its own merits, you know?
	Edward Longshank says, it's really depressing that our future generations won't be told about the amazing things England and Britain have done for the world.
	Our advancements in science and industry shaped the modern world.
	We made the modern world.
	We're an amazing group of people on the left, so ignore that and call us racist for being proud of who we are.
	When I have children, I will do the history lessons for them.
	I'm doing that with my kids right now, actually.
	By the way, it was Stone Age, so it's pre-Bronze Age.
	Yeah, see, I was right.
	So, Neolithic, yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, 3rd millennium BC.
	Yeah, so it's going to be the same people who built Stone Age, also built Overy.
	And you were a descendant of those people if you were British.
	HR Slave says, whether the fans realise it or not, the hysterical reaction to the Oasis reunion shows the deep yearning the British public have for a nostalgic return to a better time.
	I should have made that point because that's so absolutely true.
	Back when we were still a country and actually had a distinctive British cultural identity.
	Exactly.
	When we were living in the metaphor of Britain.
	Completely true.
	And that's one of the reasons.
	I mean, like, I think Liam Gallagher was like, yeah, nostalgia's great or something, just as an offhand comment.
	And I think that really is Underpins exactly what people are talking about.
	Henry says, Well, that's the point, isn't it, Henry?
	This isn't really about the Oasis concerts.
	If it was about concerts selling out, Taylor Swift is a shining example of modernity.
	She's a shining example of anti-metaphor.
	She could be anywhere from anywhere.
	Well, that's the point, isn't it, Henry?
	This isn't really about the Oasis concerts.
	If it was about concerts selling out, Taylor Swift is a shining example of modernity.
	She is a shining example of anti-metaphor.
	This is just, she could be anywhere from anywhere.
	No one cares.
	But now, all of a sudden, this is a cultural phenomenon.
	This is something that's speaking to the soul of lots of British people.
	And suddenly they're like, yeah, the world has changed.
	Things used to be better.
	And Oasis are a really good representation of that.
	And oh well, the government has to come in and start messing around with this.
	If anything, Taylor Swift is worse that people are missing out because that's probably little girls and sad lonely women.
	Yeah, this is going to be like 50 year olds.
	Yeah, this is like, you know, late 30s, 40s, 50s adults.
	Yeah.
	You know, they've got better things to do.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, no, they do.
	And they could probably, you know, afford the £350 ticket away.
	Yeah, almost certainly.
	They're going to be working, aren't they?
	Yeah, exactly.
	The little girls who can't afford to see Taylor Swift, don't care about that.
	Uh, Ewan Baker, people get murdered by terrorists and the commies are like, don't look back in anger.
	People can't get Oasis tickets and the commies, it's time to look back in anger.
	And that's literally how they feel, it's, it's, they're so selfish, they're so, no, no, no, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold the phone, says the communist, uh, Zara Sultana, this affects me, you know, nationalize Oasis!
	I'll tell you what would be hilarious, if, um, the Gallaghers say, here you go Zara, here's a ticket to our gig, and then at the start of the gig they say, oh yeah, by the way, F the Labour Party.
	We hate them and everything they stand for.
	Anyway, here's our songs.
	It'd be better if they just banned the Labour Party from coming to their gigs.
	Or like that pub in Bath.
	Or like Jeremy Clarkson's pub.
	No, it's Keir Starmer banned.
	Communist banned.
	Matt says, the ticketing system here in Japan works a lot better.
	You get about a month to apply for tickets and everyone's name goes into a lottery.
	So it's not a case of who goes to the website when the tickets come out and makes the internet crash.
	Everyone gets the same chance.
	All the tickets are the same price and the seats are allocated.
	It's the luck of the draw whether you get the best view on the stage or not.
	I mean, it's more fair, I suppose, but I don't think there's anything wrong with someone who saves up a grand to go and see Oasis, being able to buy a really good ticket.
	ticket for a really good spot.
	I think that the notion of paying more gets you better things is probably a good thing.
	I think of it in education and healthcare.
	The more money you have, the better service you get.
	Yeah, of course.
	With anything, I think that's totally fine, you know.
	It's how we can have different...
	It's how quality can be made.
	Warlord Wututai says this Ticketmaster business smacks him in an attempt by two-tier gear to regain some public goodwill after the riots and then the smoking ban announcement.
	Yeah, but the thing is, like all like, Big government overarching regulation.
	There's going to be a price to be paid.
	It's going to come back and hurt someone in the future.
	Geordie Salzman says, things that should not be nationalised, Ticketmaster.
	Things where I could be persuaded nationalisation is appropriate, Railways.
	Things that is a moral duty to nationalise, Greggs.
	Nationalise Greggs?
	No.
	Greggs is pretty good, right?
	The food in Greggs is actually alright, I quite like it.
	And the reason that it's good is because it's not owned by the goddamn government, right?
	He'll have bread lines in Greggs for a single sausage roll.
	The quality will decline.
	There is no argument for nationalisation of pretty much anything.
	The only things that should be run by the government are defence, policing and justice.
	I can see the argument for water or railways or something like that.
	Things where you can't have a market, right?
	The government owns the rain though.
	Are we going to live in that world where it rains and the government has a claim on that?
	That's fresh water, that belongs to us.
	Well I meant water supply to houses.
	Okay.
	I don't see what's the need.
	Fresh water belongs to Keir Starmer.
	In some sort of weird water world.
	And the sort of trains where it's just you there is no possibility for market competition.
	It may as well be owned by the state rather than a monopolistic company who can extract as much wealth as they want.
	The problem with the railways being owned by the state at the minute is that we own the actual tracks.
	As in the tracks are owned by the state and we rent them out to the private railways and we don't even hold them accountable for paying for the use of the service to maintain it.
	But the thing is the private railways aren't even in this country, it's the Dutch, French and German and Italian rail that owns it all.
	So it's just like we're subsidising, and some of the Spanish I think as well, we're subsidising rail traffic across the continent.
	Why the hell are we doing this?
	Speaking of Waterworld and the chat talking about the 90s I think the 90s and the 80s had really wonderful movies there's a lot of 90s nostalgia in the chat oh and rightly so the 90s was amazing yeah I'm more of an 80s guy yeah but 80s and 90s it was a golden age for like the west and that's fine sounds like we said I'm sorry.
	Omar says, there's a moral component to fear of missing out.
	The rarity and the fact it can be missed makes it all the more special.
	Communists think you can dilute the experience to be shared amongst everyone, even if they don't want it and retain the original value.
	Yeah, if Keir Starmer nationalizes Oasis and then forces me to listen to them, it's going to be like Venezuela in here, okay?
	I'm not a fan.
	I don't want to go.
	Screwtape Laser says, "Oh no, you had to queue for hours from the comfort of your own home to try and buy Oasis tickets.
	You know, when I did see Tool back when men were men, I packed a lawn chair and sat outside the ticket venue window for 12 hours, politicking with crackheads and schizos." Yeah, back in the day it was a better time, to be honest.
	Is that the average Tool fan in the world?
	Is it crackheads and skits?
	It might be that you're just in the street and that's what you have to deal with.
	I was going to say, they're a pretty technical band.
	Yeah, but you know, back when you were young you just had to deal with it.
	Thomas says, I hope Oasis cancel the tour and tell everyone it's Keir Starmer's fault.
	That would be funny actually.
	I don't know, the psychic scream of that across the country, like the mood of the country would just be black.
	Perfect.
	Everyone would be like, anger.
	That's what I want to hear.
	Keir Starmer might well get lynched.
	Le Roast Beef says, what's crazy is that the Starmer regime care far more about the hurt feelings caused by Oasis than they do about people being upset their children were murdered.
	Yeah, no, that's exactly true.
	Remember, Going to an Oasis concert is a human right.
	Making sure that your children aren't stabbed by a second generation immigrant... isn't.
	Richard says, uh, English commie musician complaining about Elon on X. Self-awareness apparently not a thing.
	Yeah, this is Roger Waters.
	Because Venezuela is an asshole that was self-inflicted with the backing of the US State Department because it serves their aims.
	Yeah, it's just crazy how Venezuela can have such abundant national resources.
	But it's obviously there's nothing wrong with the people themselves.
	You know, they obviously are capable of working because it has been rich and now it's poor.
	And there's literally only one factor.
	It's just leveling down.
	That's what always socialism has ever been.
	Well, the funny thing is... Bringing everyone down to the level of the lowest common denominator.
	Every factor that has seen their neighbours be successful exists in Venezuela, except they haven't adopted the policies.
	It's the only factor that Venezuela has now.
	Well, obviously there are some more socialistic neighbours in Latin America.
	But there is still, you know, there's still the ability to isolate these variables and prove this point quite easily.
	Yeah, I mean, and just to have such a, like, if you were playing Civilization, Venezuela's got a great starting location.
	That's an easy start in Civ, isn't it?
	Exactly, it's an easy start, not only do you have lots of natural resources, but you're on the coast, you've got, like, you know, great powers around you who want the thing that you started with, that, you know, you've got all of these advantages, and suddenly it's just so, yeah, so, you know, bread lines.
	So, okay, that, for it to say, yeah, it's definitely self-inflicted, 100%.
	I can't imagine, you know, if the English, like, found themselves in that starting position, they'd be like, brilliant, you know?
	Yeah, that's because, uh, they were cracking down on the political opposition.
	darling of the left and men like Bernie Sanders said the American dream was better realized in Venezuela.
	I remember when those same socialists did a 180 and said Venezuela wasn't real socialism.
	Yeah, that's because they were cracking down on the political opposition.
	I mean, the thing that always instantly put me off socialism, especially like Venezuelan style socialism, was in, there's a documentary called The Revolution Won't Be Televised, and it's because the CIA tried to overthrow Chavez, which, fair enough, and Chavez in it was like nationalizing businesses just because he felt like it.
	He walked into some guy's business and was like, ah, this is now belonging to the people.
	And it's like, Jesus Christ, this is banditry.
	It's just outright banditry.
	Almost every documentary that comes out of Venezuela about Venezuela is just shameless propaganda.
	Well, obviously.
	I mean, this one was shameless propaganda as well, and it's easy to see how people fall for it because they...
	They paint the clients of the party as the entire country themselves.
	As in like 30% of the country is employed by the government, therefore this is the people.
	And the other 60, 70%, however much it is, are just irrelevant.
	And they're just evil backsliders or traitors.
	But also there's too much of Chavez mania.
	They just adore Chavez and they want to treat him like a sort of sacred person in the pantheon of leftist men.
	There is a tendency to blame everything on Maduro.
	Even by people like Bernie Sanders, because Bernie Sanders was someone who was constantly talking, and he still is talking, speaks highly of Venezuela, but every now and then he does think twice when he's talking about Maduro.
	I do hate the Chavez cult of personality.
	Not for it.
	Charles Francis Montmorency Galliard Oliver says, the first rule of communist revolution is that no one talks about the communist revolution.
	Well, I don't know about that.
	They do talk excessively about the communist revolution, don't they?
	They never shut up about it, to be honest.
	Yeah, they really don't.
	So apparently, collecting rainwater in California is illegal.
	Yeah, there are some states in America where that's the case.
	If you put a barrel, fill it with water, you didn't have a license for that because the land is free.
	They have the gall to mock us for licenses, but one thing that's always struck me about California is just how is so overpopulated and yet it's in a desert it's just an accident waiting to happen like that one drought one drought one water infrastructure problem which i can see happening and the state of california actually yeah it is done for
	I want to give the benefit of the doubt to the last comment we read, because I also hear communists constantly talking about the revolution, but it seems to me more like an end goal.
	I think maybe he means tactics.
	Because they lose the element of surprise if they say, hey, we're just starting the revolution.
	They want the enemy to... they want to Pearl Harbor the enemy.
	He's trying to say a rude word there, spelt differently.
	culturally speaking this is exactly what is happening right now most people are not aware of what's going on Brian says from my personal experience Noel Gallagher uses local taxis and commies and cheap pre-use global minicabs commies use possibly he's trying to say a rude word they're spelt differently oh right okay Noideous Maxima says I think it's time the far right
	start pointing out that Islamism is the most right-wing ideology on the planet.
	I don't know, I don't think Islamism applies to the right-left dichotomy and we should be trying to get out of that as well.
	Where on the political paradigm do cousin marriages go?
	Yeah.
	Someone online says nationalising Greggs would result in Greggs shortages, and that would be evil.
	The Stalmer regime hate Britain, says Omar, and its representations, leaving a boy band incidentally anti-establishment.
	Did anyone have Oasis being more punk than Pink Floyd on their 2024 bingo card?
	I mean, that is weird, isn't it?
	Oasis now, like, I mean, Noel Gallagher's just casually in the Jeremy Clarkson, oh yeah, I f***ing hate this government, they're a bunch of communists, but suddenly they're like, you know, it's just the Predator handshakes, just normal British man hates communism.
	And Sex Pistols.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, and Johnny Rotten, yeah, yeah.
	And the Sex Pistols, like, it's crazy how, like, and again, they're not even, like, just all boomer bands or anything like that, it's Birmingham somehow, but anyway.

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