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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1080

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1080 and this is the newly improved podcast of the Lotus Eaters because look at this.
	Wow!
	Now that side of the table can be bashed slightly more and it won't be annoying.
	Exactly, I can start slamming my fists on the table when I'm trying to emphasize something in the manner of all great dictators of the 20th century and also if we were to have a middle person I could subtly try and...
	Jab them while they're making their pointy presentation.
	It'll be off-frame as well, so you'll be able to subtly annoy them.
	Exactly, exactly.
	And Josh, on the other hand, still has his tiny, pathetic, insignificant, off-putting, really, mic stand.
	It's not about the size of the mic stand, it's how you use it, Harry.
	The ladies don't like it.
	I can tell you right now.
	But anyway, on to the actual things that we'll be discussing today.
	We're going to be talking about the American Zoomers finding Red Note, which you've told me is somewhat more white-pilling than I would expect.
	Yeah, there's a mix, as with life.
	There is some good and some bad.
	Yeah, we're going to be talking about the criminals that are too dumb to punish in America and elsewhere, and how Japan is being enriched, which...
	I'm not looking forward to that one.
	But other than that, we do have Common Sense Crusade, Samson has told me, which will be going out later on.
	So if you're a gold subscriber, if you're just a subscriber to the website, then you'll be able to check that out later when it broadcasts.
	Other than that, let's get on to the news.
	So you might have heard that they're planning to ban TikTok, and I've not really been following the TikTok ban because I'm a grown man and I don't care.
	However, one interesting thing that I have noticed is all of the people migrating to a platform called RedNote.
	And there's a supposed great migration.
	And this is interesting for multiple different reasons.
	The first of which is that RedNote is mainly used by Chinese people.
	And so the platform's still in Chinese characters.
	And so Americans have had to adapt to the Chinese way.
	And the sort of cultural exchange is going on here.
	Have been very, very interesting.
	They've realised perhaps in some cases that they're not so different and it's just their governments trying to turn them against each other for the sake of their own selfish gain.
	But on sort of other things, I think there is a more insidious side to it where you can already see people falling for what seems to me to be propaganda.
	But we shall see what you make of it because there's a certain amount of nuance here that I think is worth...
	And I think that there is some wholesome stuff going on, but also there's certainly plenty of things to be cautious about.
	And I don't know what your opinion is on the TikTok ban.
	I'm sort of pretty indifferent to the notion of it.
	It's also, you know, in America, and I don't use the app, and so I'm so far removed from it.
	I don't use TikTok, so I have no real opinion on it.
	So yes, very strong words here from us today.
	It's also known, this red note, as Zhai Hongshu in China.
	I hope that's how I'm meant to pronounce it.
	I hope it's not.
	Well, thank you.
	I hope you've got it wrong.
	I did learn a little bit of Mandarin, and I have got a bit of a penchant for reading Chinese literature, so I think I'll be all right.
	But it translates to Little Red Book, which, if you know anything about anything, is the name of...
	Chairman Mao's book of quotes.
	Chairman Bao.
	Chairman Batman.
	Unfortunately not.
	And Polymarket is already forecasting that there is a 3% chance it's banned this month.
	So the betting market is already taking bets on whether it will be banned.
	That's still a very low chance.
	It is, yes.
	But it's not entirely impossible.
	And I had a little dabble in democracy.
	I need to click show results, but I asked which government do you trust more with your data, either the US government or the Chinese government, and people tended to prefer the US government over the Chinese government, which I can understand.
	Or the devil you know and all.
	Exactly.
	But then when I asked, do you fear subtle online...
	Both of them have all of your information.
	That's true, they do, actually.
	Obviously, you shouldn't trust either.
	That's the correct response, but I deliberately didn't put that because everyone would pick it.
	Do you fear subtle online influence from your own government more or less than that of a foreign power?
	What would you go for, Harry?
	For me, I would say my own government, personally.
	And you agree with the majority there, and that was a clear one.
	And I think that the argument here is that your own government can do more to you than that of a foreign power.
	And also, they're more interested in doing more to you.
	Also, generally speaking, a foreign government, I've seen people make the jokes when, a few weeks ago, David Lammy and others were saying, oh, the Russian disinformation is trying to demoralize British people, and there was a meme that somebody put of a meeting that Putin was taking, trying to figure out what they could do to demoralize the British that their own government hadn't already done.
	Quick, flood their country with third worlders.
	They've already done that, sir.
	Destroy the housing market.
	They've already done that, sir.
	Make them all poor somehow.
	No, they've already done that to themselves.
	My own government is far more of an enemy to me right now than any foreign government.
	And then the final one I had was, do you think TikTok should be banned in the United States?
	Now, which answer would you pick, Harry?
	I don't...
	I mean, I'm not really informed enough on the problems with TikTok to be able to give an informed...
	I'll take that as a yes, it is annoying.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	Which actually won?
	Just about, but yes, it's a security risk was close.
	Because it's full of children, and anything that's full of children is annoying.
	That is true.
	But yes, that's my little foray into doing a bit of democracy there.
	Who cares?
	Not me.
	But anyway, it's worth mentioning as well, as the Mises caucus here points out, TikTok refugees reacting to the US government's ban under the guise of combating CCP influence by migrating to the more overtly Chinese app Red Note is a fascinating manifestation of prohibition economics, adding a new dimension to how terrible policy the ban is.
	Now, I'm a bit less strong on it.
	I think probably it's just better to...
	Keep it as things were, where if you work for the government you can't have TikTok, where it actually matters, and chances are the average US citizen doesn't really need to worry about it.
	Perhaps you could even look at what's being shown to citizens and see if it's okay, but I think the blanket ban is a little bit of a knee-jerk response, but I'm not that strong on it.
	But it's worth mentioning as well that lots of people who are left-leaning fled to this Red Note app.
	Obviously very much controlled by the Chinese.
	And they ban LGBTQ content.
	Any inappropriate outfits.
	So if you're too...
	Too...
	Poor revealing.
	Yeah, that one too.
	They will take your content down, which I think is a good thing.
	Enforcing standards of decency.
	And also you have to pick your gender.
	Male or female.
	So if you can overcome those hurdles as a leftist, you can actually get onto the platform.
	But it's also worth mentioning as well, all of the LGBT people were having their posts taken down and their accounts suspended.
	I suppose most of these people will flock to Blue Sky or maybe even Twitter.
	If they're trying to post...
	Because you can still post short little clips of yourself doing stupid things.
	So that's what you might find, is that they will just flood those sites instead with content that's probably already on there anyway.
	Maybe they will conceal their ways for the sake of attention, because I think a lot of people that are on these platforms will do anything for attention.
	Who knows?
	Who cares?
	And yes, there's also...
	It's been floated...
	Are we really just sticking with the term TikTok refugees?
	No, it's a bit ironic in my usage.
	Who cares?
	They're not refugees.
	They're using an app.
	But yeah, the idea that it might turn people into anti-communists because they're being forced to be a bit more conservative is funny, but I don't think it's actually going to happen.
	But this is funny.
	Here we go.
	Like everybody else, I downloaded Zhao Hongshu, Red Note, Red Book, whatever it's called, The Communist Manifesto, and I'm very upset.
	I am not having the same experience that everybody else is.
	I download it thinking I'm about to see, like, Chinese Pinterest.
	I'm going to see all my American friends on TikTok.
	Tell me why when I post one photo of myself, completely innocent, me standing in a telephone box in London, there's some nice photos, I put that up and then instantly this happens.
	Phono gets hundreds of likes, which I'm excited about initially, but then my comments section is just full of gay Chinese men trying to have sex with me and they're all over my profile and because the UI is in Chinese, which I don't speak or read, I can't change my privacy settings, so I'm getting inundated with messages like this.
	Are you single?
	Hey, I'm Dexter, currently living in Shanghai.
	Hello.
	I don't know what these names are, but they're all hitting on me.
	I know it.
	Hell of an ego boost, though, wasn't it?
	So apparently there are lots of gay Chinese, but they just...
	Is this the main reason you decided to start looking into this, Josh?
	You were trying to see if you could open up your dating market.
	I mean, there's a lot of money in China, and, you know...
	You need to diversify your portfolios to be a professional male gold digger.
	Josh is willing to do anything for money.
	That's not true, but it's out there now.
	So it's also worth mentioning as well, it's not the only thing that they're taking down.
	Anyone posting Tiananmen Square, that gets taken down, obviously.
	It's to be expected.
	Oh my god, the CCP app takes down anti-CCP images?
	Oh my god.
	I know.
	There's also, here's a good sort of summary of the kind of things that will be censored.
	Taiwan is a country, free Tibet, COVID came from China, the Uyghur camps, obviously Tiananmen Square, as we mentioned, and Mao starving lots of Chinese people.
	All of these things will get you suspended.
	However, if you're talking about Western politics, all of a sudden you are given a certain amount of...
	Is it the most free and open app out there?
	It could be.
	It's certainly more free than X. Elon's X, the free speech platform, ain't got nothing, as we'll see soon enough.
	It's also worth mentioning as well that lots of left-wingers were complaining that lots of Western tech was spying on them, and when it comes to China, they are fine with it.
	But obviously, hypocrisy is not interesting.
	But what is interesting is what's not banned on this platform.
	You can say, you know, hello...
	Austrian painter man.
	I can't say that, and nor will I on YouTube.
	And also the N-word.
	Those things are okay to say on Red Note.
	You will never believe this.
	You can offensively talk to Jewish baby emoji, baby emoji, baby emoji.
	What the hell is that?
	Well...
	Okay, alright.
	Someone did a video about the Talmud, and it was taken down within ten minutes.
	Alright, okay.
	There's something familiar about that egg, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
	I presume this lady might be of a specific background, and a Chinese person has sent...
	Just a picture of an egg.
	And she says, It is disappointing for this to be the first comment I received on this app, but I am hopeful that it is not representative of the general Chinese views towards Judaism.
	That's incredible.
	You know, I mean, I'd have a laugh at that.
	It is quite funny, isn't it?
	It's like, you remember the old Wii, Nintendo Wii?
	Oh, the characters.
	It's like a Wii version of him.
	Well, Nintendo make that happen.
	I want to see him doing bowling in Wii Sports.
	Someone's done it, I'm sure.
	And in no relation whatsoever to the previous news, Nick Fuentes has announced that he's on the platform as well.
	Alright.
	Getting lots and lots of messages from gay Chinese men.
	That's probably part of it.
	As well as their willingness to allow certain kinds of speech.
	But Nick Fuentes, I hate to break it to you, but one of the main venture capital firms that has invested in Red Note is owned by a Jewish man.
	So Nick Fuentes on Suicide Watch now.
	But anyway, there have been lots of cultural exchanges here.
	Here is someone with a Palestine flag in their name, probably a leftist, amazed at a Chinese car.
	Obviously, these sorts of things are a little bit of a snapshot in a very thin slice of Chinese society that isn't necessarily representative because I don't think everyone in China has a car like that and is being presented in that way.
	That's just what the US wants you to think.
	That's true.
	Maybe I'm just been propagandized.
	Maybe China is a paradise.
	I mean, there does have to be an acceptance that there are so many people in China that a good portion of them will just be living what to us would seem like Relatively normal lives.
	So it's interesting that this gives an opportunity to see a little bit more of that.
	That's true.
	So it's also worth mentioning as well that the integration of the Americans to the app has been pretty quick.
	And on the first day, more or less, it's already considered rude not to subtitle videos in, you know, another language.
	so Americans will subtitle their videos in Mandarin, I would presume, and then the Chinese have also been more considerate in writing English subtitles for their videos as well, and so there's been a bit of a cultural exchange, and this is where the wholesome stuff comes in, because this does seem like authentic and this is where the wholesome stuff comes in, because this does seem like authentic cultural exchange in a way Like, here they are learning and teaching each other Their respective languages.
	Some of them is sort of meme language here.
	Chinese spy, give me your data.
	Yeah, they've got that in there because the Chinese heard about what people were saying about these apps and were mocking people just like, yes, I am your designated Chinese spy.
	Things like that.
	We all have one.
	We all do, yeah.
	And they're even asking them to help with their homework, their English homework here.
	They're saying, American, help me here.
	I think that's kind of wholesome that they're getting actual native speakers to help them with their homework, even though they should be doing it themselves.
	And there's also some great impressions coming out.
	I think I might have seen this guy.
	A lot of people ask me, they want to know it's so bad.
	They want to know it's so bad.
	They want to know, how does America sound in Chinese?
	In Chinese, like...
	How'd China sound in English?
	Well, I'll tell you what, it's very easy.
	It's called...
	You get the idea.
	It was a decent impression.
	It was good, yeah.
	I was quite impressed.
	So, obviously, there's stuff like that, but also...
	Actually, wait, why was there village people playing in the background?
	I did clock that, too.
	Why?
	Why is that not loaded?
	Okay, something has gone wrong.
	I'm taking it down.
	But basically, there was some American kids that had already learnt to speak a decent amount of Mandarin, and I was quite impressed, because I've learnt a little bit, and they were doing pretty well.
	You could hear that they had an accent, obviously, but they were talking as they were doing stuff, and it's like, they've actually taken some time to learn the language, which is interesting.
	And then, Oh, the links are all in a funny order here.
	Oh, no, no.
	Anyway, here is...
	What is this?
	I'll just skip that one.
	You tell me.
	I don't know.
	They've been moved around.
	They're in a different order than I remember.
	But here are people asking what beer pong's all about.
	Like, why do they drink beer in this way?
	Does it have any special meaning?
	Obviously, it's just for fun, but...
	There is obviously, they've seen the red cups and the beer pong thing.
	It seems like an American cultural practice.
	And they're curious about it and there are exchanges here.
	And there are also videos like this where a guy is pretending with a fake axe.
	You get the idea.
	Capitate his dog?
	Yeah, pretending to eat it because obviously there's a perception that they all eat dogs out there and actually...
	I thought that's just the Koreans.
	The Koreans do have that perception as well, but I think lots of people do keep pets in China.
	It's not unheard of, funnily enough, and some of them have quite Western attitudes towards them, and people are realising that actually they do have a bit of a sense of humour and can make fun of themselves to a certain extent.
	Here is an example of a Chinese meme.
	Hello, American TikTok refugee here.
	That's what they're calling themselves.
	What are Chinese memes like?
	Please share some.
	And then...
	Not bad, not bad.
	I think they've...
	Those Chinese are alright, aren't they?
	They've got a sense of humor.
	These ones, yeah.
	At least those ones, yeah.
	And then things start to take a little bit of...
	There are some faux pas here, like...
	What is this?
	The order is all off.
	But what I did have was someone asking, like, oh, hang on a minute, you've got long working hours, things are really bad in China, why don't you form a union?
	Which, they've sort of missed a trick there, haven't they?
	And then someone said, sorry for Japan guys, in a video about nuking Japan, and they realised very quickly, I think, that...
	The Chinese have a very different view on that, and actually they deserved it.
	You don't have to repent for anti-human fascism.
	On the contrary, we still think that you have lost too few nuclear weapons.
	Sorry for what?
	No sorry.
	Don't say sorry.
	Dropping atomic bombs is the right thing to do.
	In all circumstances.
	Of course.
	And then there's also...
	I thought this was funny.
	There are people trying to first post, say, what happening with Asian girls?
	And then there are Chinese men saying, congrats for triggering a social experiment, pig.
	You're just a sex toy for them, like a condom.
	It is disposable after use.
	I don't think that's necessarily going to be a bad thing for this guy posting on there.
	He's like, oh, amazing, that's just what I want.
	I hope you get lots of HIV with white girls and white pig.
	So you do scratch the surface a little bit and you find a certain amount of anti-European dislike.
	I'm not going to say hatred because that's a bit strong, but they're correctly policing these people because I sort of approve of what they're doing here.
	People posting these sorts of things are annoying and deserve this sort of reaction, I think.
	Onto the more concerning stuff.
	Here's something that was posted.
	Do you ever think the USA will have a worker-led revolution?
	No.
	No.
	Bit of a Chinese-centric thing.
	And there was also this.
	They were sort of worshipping Luigi Mangione.
	It's not that surprising.
	Yeah.
	They were teaching each other how to say his name.
	Got lots of weird posts deifying him, which isn't necessarily a shock.
	There are also people trying to dress up like him for some reason.
	I don't know why.
	It's also not the most daring so-called cosplay, because it's just a jumper, a white shirt and trousers.
	No one's going to be like, oh, you're dressed as that guy, because that's just dressing like a Westerner, really.
	So there seems to be a sort of agitprop.
	Aspect to it, where they're trying to solidify people's attitudes towards it, but then this could well be organic, and it might not necessarily be insidious.
	Also, this kind of annoyed me.
	I didn't know China was this beautiful, and it's like dystopian cityscapes, and is that really what beautiful is now?
	To a modern eye, there is something aesthetic about the Blade Runner-esque dystopian cityscape.
	It's cool, to a certain extent.
	Obviously, there is something inhuman about it as well.
	But if it were up to me, I might nominate something like this, personally, which is the Huangshan Mountains.
	Quite famous, I believe.
	But this sort of thing, I could...
	See people calling beautiful.
	A skyscraper?
	Not so much.
	And there's also people here.
	I'm sorry to have to play these.
	These are on TikTok as well.
	So sorry for subjecting for the second time.
	And I'm no longer convinced that we are living in a first world country.
	Seeing the everyday lives of Chinese people, like obviously certain Chinese people, I'm not seeing everybody's lives, but it's just like insanely eye-opening.
	There's something really remarkable that I have noticed about most of these Chinese people, even older people, like people in their 40s, 50s, 60s.
	They look so much less traumatized than most Americans.
	Our citizens here are not only like really cold and mean and disconnected and combative, but like you can just see people's problems on their face.
	So she's not necessarily wrong about something there.
	But I think the problem here is that both China and America are low trust societies now, at least parts of America, a significant portion of it.
	And the difference is that one is monocultural and one is not.
	Or mono-ethnic, should I say.
	The Chinese sort of know what to expect from other Chinese people.
	They all have shared background and values.
	And so when you're out in public, you can let your guard down a little bit more.
	Whereas in America, because it's more dangerous, I think it's fair to say.
	Diverse.
	Diverse.
	The two are connected to one another.
	They both start with the same letter as well.
	It's got to be true.
	So, yeah, I think that there is something to this, and they're realising that actually things aren't all well in America, and that people are going around being miserable, and it is true that you can see it on people's faces, but this realisation, I think, is not necessarily something that can be orchestrated by the Chinese government, but it's still something...
	People realising that there's something wrong with their country and they prefer China, which isn't necessarily good for the West, I don't think, because China's certainly no utopia, that's for sure.
	And yes, there's a guy here who was explaining medical bills and the difference in cost.
	He was saying that an ambulance was...
	Several times more expensive than that in Shanghai, which is the most expensive in China, and how their medical bills are much cheaper than those of the US. But then, if you compare the US's medical bills to anywhere in the world, they're much, much more expensive.
	I think it's a unique thing to the West and not necessarily reflective of a success of China.
	And that's how it's being presented, though, unfortunately.
	This is what the end result may well look like, is that lots of American kids are going to start looking like little tiny communists with their red books in their hands.
	Maybe AK-47s as well.
	I don't know.
	We shall see.
	But the final thing I wanted to end on, and the most harrowing of all, is this.
	The Chinese are making fun of us, Harry, of how we say bottle of water.
	Okay, the cultural exchange already happened in that case because it's the Americans that like to do that.
	Yes.
	It's pronounced bottle of water.
	And the bottle of water, that's a very Black London way of saying it.
	Yes.
	Also, at least we pronounce our T's.
	I know you threw your T's in the harbour, but bottle with two D's in the middle.
	Bottle.
	Yeah.
	I'm afraid when it comes to the English language, you know, the trick is in the name, right?
	It's English.
	And Americans don't have much to say when it comes to water with all the fluoride that's in theirs.
	That's true.
	They are taking it out, though.
	I'm also trying to yank your chain a bit there.
	I'm trying to wind you up on purpose for fun.
	Because I don't actually mind.
	You can speak however you want.
	But my point being in the segment that the...
	The new app has potentially made people realise that the Chinese aren't so different to them, which in one hand is actually quite significant because when the US starts sort of escalating tensions with the Chinese about Taiwan and there's this potential discussion of are we going to have boots on the ground in Taiwan and heat things up,
	which I don't personally think will happen, but people will be far more averse to this if they realise, oh wait, It's just our governments fighting each other.
	We don't actually have any problems with one another interpersonally.
	And I think that that's a good thing, because when people realise that, it means that they're less inclined to go on foreign adventures for profit of arms manufacturers.
	But the sort of other side of that is that...
	Obviously it gives the CCP a good amount of power over what young people are seeing and allows them to shape how they view their own country and as we can see it's not entirely positive in that respect and of course having a realistic view of your country is important but I think that there are lots more propaganda opportunities here if The right things are done.
	And it is a potential point of concern, but it's not entirely clear what to do about it quite yet.
	Alright, we've got some rumble rants following that.
	So first one, Matt G. Hammond says, What is the build quality like on their cars in China?
	I have no idea.
	Probably not great, I imagine.
	Yeah, if it reflects the build quality of everything else from China, yeah.
	Bobo Bad says, Redbook has nothing on the Smash Bros.
	online games where somebody named The Führer joins your game with a particular player-made character using only fire attack.
	And The Shadow Band for $5, thank you, says, Do you think this exchange is going to affect American culture more or Chinese culture more?
	Wokeness could gigafry the Chinese brain.
	I don't think wokeness will have much of an effect on China.
	I think they will look at it as something stupid that Americans are doing and laugh at them.
	Yeah, I think that also because the app is Chinese-based, it's going to favour the Chinese more than the Americans, and so...
	It's already banning the LGBT stuff, so I don't think they're going to have to worry so much about that.
	And again, it'll just look like a weird, crazy American cultural export because the Chinese are very, very collectivist, and so they already have a particular view of the world and share a culture that they'll not want to go away from.
	It's very alien to them, isn't it?
	Yeah, very, very much so.
	So, let's move on, shall we, to talking about a very peculiar phenomenon that I've noticed is becoming more and more prevalent in America.
	Perhaps it's just my exposure to it.
	Perhaps it is happening more often.
	But it's the phenomenon of people who are...
	Too incompetent to stand trial.
	Now, what does that actually mean?
	I made sure to get up a definition of it in this article, which does not actually give a particularly great definition of it, but it basically is people deemed IST. So what that means is either they have...
	Literally too low an IQ to be able to comprehend the system that they're going through and communicate their defense to their attorney or they have some kind of mental illness.
	Now, why is it that I want to look at this?
	Well, because it seems to be a problem that's popping up more and more often and I want to look at what some of the consequences of this is because the consequences some of the time seems to be that people either do not get put in prison So this has been something I've noticed as well,
	and I find it really frustrating, because if they are capable to comprehend what's happening to them and face trial, not that you need much intelligence to know that killing is wrong, right?
	And so I think that that alone is...
	Ridiculous.
	And, you know, they understand the consequences because even very small children do.
	Unless they're almost a vegetable, they're going to understand the consequences of it.
	And if they do understand the consequences of it and, you know, what they were doing, then it makes sense to punish them like anyone else.
	If they don't, they're even more dangerous, if anything.
	Because, of course, you're dealing with someone...
	Yeah, if they are going out and committing violent actions and are completely incapable of understanding why those actions are bad in the first place, that makes it so that both they are more likely to recommit those actions, because...
	They're not wrong to them and it makes it basically impossible that in the rehabilitative sense of justice that they're going to be able to later comprehend that what they did was wrong.
	But I decided to look into this and get a few examples just over the past few weeks of things that have come up and some of the more notable occasions where this has happened because there was one that showed that this was not necessarily something specific to America, although America is where it seems that most of the...
	Now, I found most of these just by typing in incompetent to stand trial in Google and hitting the news tab and seeing what came up.
	There were a lot more of these, but not every one was available to me because the articles that were looking at it were only available in America.
	But here's a cross-section of some of the ones where this happens, because most of the newsworthy ones are where the person who can't stand trial has done something pretty horrible.
	Pretty awful.
	So this one, the person who was charged shot a Cleveland police officer and I believe in this case, if I scroll down, what it was was he got into a shootout with them and he shot four shots at the officers who were pursuing him as he was trying to flee on a bicycle and managed to hit this man, Officer Ritter, and killed him.
	Because he died later at the hospital after being shot.
	And this guy was found to be incompetent to stand trial.
	And it was a Mr. Dilawante Hardy, 25, of Cleveland.
	And as a result, he will be hospitalized indefinitely and could eventually stand trial if he improves and he's jailed on $10 million bail.
	So what was hospitalized permanently?
	That sounds like...
	It sounds like a punishment.
	But at the same time, it's not quite the same punishment as jail.
	But that implies, is it a mental...
	They're alleging a mental health.
	Well, what I looked into on this, I didn't include the article in here, but I found some law paper talking about the different ways in which all of the states of the US try to break down how they treat people who are found to be incompetent to stand trial.
	And what I found was that in 1972 or 1973, I think there was a Supreme Court case that went under Jackson versus something or other.
	And under the Jackson rules, it established certain guidelines that the states don't...
	If you're incompetent to stand trial, you need to be put in some kind of care facility where they will try to make you competent through therapy, treatment, education, to be able to stand trial for what is deemed to be a reasonable amount of time.
	Now, reasonable amount of time is not specified what that is.
	A few of the states seem to take it as about 15 months.
	And under the Jackson rules, what it said was that if they are Competent by the end of that, obviously you take them to trial, they get their day in court, and you see what happens when they're convicted or not, or acquitted.
	The other option is if they are incapable of standing trial even after that...
	You would either find some other reason to detain them in a mental health facility indefinitely, which also has a lot of legal landmines on it because there are a lot of organizations, NGOs, and even federally funded agencies that try to fight those legally because they think it's against human rights to just hold somebody every single time, or you just let them go.
	That's madness to me because the only reason I could see where you could say someone's not fit to stand trial would be like a scenario where someone was driving dangerously And they crashed so severely that they're in a coma or they've received a traumatic brain injury that means that they're no longer cognitively impaired or functionally not the same person they were before to a significant degree and therefore it doesn't necessarily make sense to punish them because they're not really there.
	Then in those cases that applies.
	But if they're just mentally ill or too stupid then That's no excuse at all because making them spend less time in prison or no prison time at all just means that they're going to be able to do more damage.
	And as far as I'm aware, one of the guiding principles of law is that ignorance of the law is no excuse, right?
	And so this is just an extreme case of ignorance of the law if you're too stupid to understand that you're breaking the law and therefore too stupid to understand afterwards as well.
	Surely the rule, if applied evenly, should be, well, that's no excuse.
	Yeah, and of course, we're not necessarily talking about...
	These obscure laws where you get caught out by some obscure by-law that prevents you from doing something perfectly reasonable.
	We're talking about shooting people.
	Yes, and there are quite a few cases...
	Of this, like this next one, this gentleman was accused of shooting at the police and was deemed incompetent to stand trial.
	This was a man of Pike County, declared incompetent.
	In February, this man, Bentley, was indicted on six charges of attempted murder, one for each of the officers on the site, and one charge of criminal mischief for causing damage to a PCSD Tejo.
	in the case however has been put on pause while the court waited for an evaluation to decide if Bentley is competent to stand trial for his charges does he understand the nature and the consequences of the charges against him and it's two pronged said one person the other is can he rationally participate and assist in the counsel of his defense so those seem to be the two metrics that this is mainly based off of
	in a hearing on tuesday and this is an article from uh the 15th of january uh court documents said the experts presented their findings filing saying that bentley has parkinson's and bipolar diagnosis that need focused attention from medical professionals they declared him incompetent to stand trial and judge howard keith hall agreed ruling him incompetent with no substantial probability he will attain competency in the foreseeable future neither of those are an actual excuse to try and murder police officers.
	No, because bipolar...
	You know, it's just you go through lows and highs, doesn't mean you need to kill someone.
	And even if you do, you're a danger to society if that is the result of it.
	So even within their own rationale, it doesn't make sense.
	But I reject that entirely.
	And within this case as well, they say, oh, he's probably not going to be able to attain competency in the foreseeable future.
	So is it going to be a case where they'll go past what's considered a reasonable amount of time to hold him in one of these places, to try and educate him on what he's done and why it was wrong?
	If so, are they going to find some other reason by saying that he's dangerous?
	Because what I was talking about with the Jackson Supreme Court decision from way back when was that those are guidelines that each of the states seems to interpret differently and have lots of different other laws and acts that they can act on as well.
	So all of the states seem to treat it a little bit differently, but those seem to be the generally agreed upon standards.
	That you, at the very least, put them in some facility where they can try and be educated for a bit, or treated, so they can understand.
	And if they can't, you have to find some other way of dealing with it.
	But again, human rights lawyers, being the sharks that they are, they'll try and make sure that these kinds of insane, violent lunatics will be back on the street in no time, which has happened once or twice.
	I think it's also worth mentioning as well that this is all upon the taxpayer's expense as well.
	Oh yeah.
	And so you're paying to re-educate this man to teach him morality, which seems mad to me that you should have to pay for that.
	Who cares whether he perceives what's happening to him?
	He's a bad person and deserves punishment in a moral sense, as well as the more practical side of things, whereby he needs to be removed from society.
	He's not safe.
	Yes, I agree.
	And let's take a look at a few more cases.
	So this was a Brownsville Library shooter who was ruled incompetent.
	This was Humberto Paz, charging the murder of 71-year-old Vahid Khaledi, who he allegedly shot point-blank in the head and killed on May 11th at this library, located in Central Boulevard.
	Police said there was a verbal altercation between the two men before shooting.
	When authorities arrived on the scene, Khaledi was unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead.
	Valley Central spoke with witnesses of the shooting who stated that Paz was a regular at the library and often spoke frantically while pretending to be on the phone.
	Take third world type behavior and make it even more insufferable and insane.
	Talking loudly on the phone in a library.
	But also, he wasn't actually on the phone, he was pretending.
	It's even worse.
	Yeah, so he's obviously mental.
	Court documents stated that Paz does not have the sufficient present ability to consult with his attorney with a reasonable degree of rational understanding or a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.
	He's currently being held in the Carrizales Rooker Detention Centre but will be transferred to a mental health facility with the objective of attaining competency to stand trial.
	It's very difficult as well, obviously because some of these are ongoing, but I looked at some of the other ones as well, to find if there was any sort of degree of follow-up in reporting on what happens to these people because after they've been in the facilities, do we get to learn if they ended up being detained longer for being a danger do we get to learn if they ended up being detained longer for being a danger to society or were they cut free or did
	Were you able to fix the problem of them being low IQ or mentally ill and then all of a sudden what they can stand trial and get convicted for what they did?
	This is going to be a bit controversial coming from a psychologist here, but in a lot of instances, when someone has a severe mental illness, they'll never recover, really.
	People might have something where you go for a bout of depression, or people overcome some of the things that are more periodic, but if you've lived with something your entire life, chances are you're going to die with it.
	And you can't rehabilitate it.
	I mean, again, if it is literally that somebody is below the IQ threshold and considered retarded, like actually medically retarded, how do you fix that?
	Well, you can't.
	There's no amount of education because a lot of IQ, as the studies suggest, is genetic and therefore biologically programmed into you.
	It's not something that can be learnt.
	Yeah, but apparently it's still a mitigating circumstance because, as it's been pointed out, liberals actually do believe in IQ as soon as it means they can get criminals off for violent crimes.
	Here's another one.
	A notable factor that unites a lot of these people in a lot of these.
	Again, there were other cases that I saw that I wasn't able to access the links properly, but on Google News you can still see the headline and images that they include.
	There is a uniting factor with a lot of these.
	They lived in urban areas, that's what it is.
	Yes, they were urban youths.
	That's a beautiful, I think, heritage Anglo-Saxon-American name right there.
	He was 18, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Darren Loving, also 18, who was stabbed multiple times with a kitchen knife during lunch period at Manor Senior High School.
	And the court issued a writ of commitment after receiving a competency evaluation report.
	The murder charge is listed as pending mental incompetence in court records.
	So this kid, apparently school wasn't doing much for him.
	To the point where he couldn't even understand that stabbing someone at lunch is a bad thing, because, I mean, if he understood that, why isn't he being charged right now?
	Why isn't he in court right now?
	If you can go through the process of killing someone, you can understand the process of being punished.
	Controversial opinion.
	And there's some really, really horrible ones like this one.
	Mother charged in two-year-old's death deemed incompetent to stand trial.
	She, an Obetz woman facing murder charges for allegedly suffocating her two-year son, is, instead of being charged, undergoing mental health treatment to restore her competency to stand trial.
	So this is just some of the really horrible ones.
	The most famous one that happened quite recently, you may be aware of if you saw the news reports of it at the time, was this woman, Bianca Ellis, who had been released from prison by a judge, or jail I should say, only three days before committing this crime, went to a local supermarket, stole some knives, And went outside and stabbed a three-year-old to death.
	Blimey.
	I didn't hear about that at the time.
	That's horrible.
	And it was an interracial killing as well, of course.
	Of course it was.
	And this woman was incompetent to stand trial for the time being.
	According to Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Records, Ellis was undergoing a 20-day evaluation when the doctor treating her stated that the defendant is incompetent to stand trial, but there is a substantial probability of restoration to competency within the statutory time frame if provided with a course of treatment.
	So again, all on taxpayers.
	This woman is going to get some very clever and up-to-date mental health service to make sure that she's not too stupid to understand why she's being charged after she murdered a three-year-old child for literally no reason.
	Now, to go even harsher than you, as far as I'm concerned, this kind of case, where not only is it a violent murderer, it's a violent murderer who is so stupid that she can't understand what she's done wrong, should go straight to death row.
	Oh yeah, of course.
	A short drop and a sudden stop is the only way to treat people who murder children.
	I have absolutely no sympathy for them.
	I don't care if they're better, I don't care what's wrong with them.
	If you do that, I'm afraid your life is forfeit and that's it.
	Yeah, the most famous thing that came from this, I don't know if they include the image in here, was that...
	Despite being too stupid to understand what she had done wrong, there was a very famous image of her turning and smiling at the camera in the court.
	Let's see if it's included in this.
	If it'll play.
	You say that's a woman, by the way.
	Yes, that is a woman.
	Blimey.
	I don't think it will, but you've probably seen the image.
	It's on the thumbnail that will be going out on the YouTube channel later.
	I don't want to make everybody suffer, but again, too stupid to understand what she did wrong, yet at the same time is able to throw a nice smile at the camera for everybody watching.
	Pretty disgusting.
	And again...
	It seems to be up in the air, despite the guidelines, what states do in particular cases where they get somebody who's incompetent but still is incompetent after they've had a round of treatment and education, but it does seem that occasionally they do cut them loose.
	Despite how dangerous they are, one of the more famous examples of this was this one from 2023. A teen accused of shooting a man in the head was found incompetent to stand trial and then let go.
	And now he was being charged with shooting another man in the head.
	And the solution to this seems to be summed up quite well here in this Burn After Reading meme.
	So we just keep letting him shoot people in the head until, I don't know, we solve mental retardation.
	Yeah, I don't see that happening personally.
	And that is effectively what's going on.
	And, you know...
	Not that we have any sort of system of justice in Britain, so don't take this as a slight on America, but a lot of injustice is going on in your so-called justice system.
	And I think that people like George Soros funding a lot of the legal profession to basically let off criminals really doesn't help.
	It's important to point out, as you mentioned, that this is not purely a US problem, because I saw this pop-up, which inspired this whole segment, and obviously this is a Twitter post, but I did check news websites, and this is all accurate.
	This is just the most succinct way of getting this information across.
	So, this gentleman here...
	Was Jimmy Shepherds at a festival in Amsterdam.
	He was 21 years old.
	He was Dutch.
	He tried to intervene when his sister was being assaulted by a gang of Africans who then stabbed him to death.
	Two of his friends were also stabbed, but survived.
	Today, the three Africans were sentenced to only six months, 18 months, and 14 years of jail for the killing of Jimmy, the wounding of his friends, and for the two violent robberies they committed at the same festival prior to the killing.
	They received these lenient sentences because the judge argued they were Dutch word, which is a politically correct Dutch way of saying that they have low IQs.
	Now, I looked into this again, as I mentioned.
	The only information that's missing is that for his murder, the one who delivered the fatal blow was up for 20 years in jail.
	That was the maximum sentence.
	But because of the fact that they were low IQ, it was argued by the defence and the judge that the maximum sentence was unfair and didn't apply.
	That's...
	Madness to me.
	That's backwards.
	That is backwards.
	These are unrepentant killers.
	Literally, they are too stupid to repent because they are unintelligent.
	And if they are unintelligent to count as a mitigating factor, they are unintelligent enough for it to count as an exacerbating factor that they could go on to do this again.
	And when they get out, I would expect they will do this again.
	So again, the soft touch liberal method.
	of applying the justice in these cases is a complete failure.
	This is a complete failure, and it feels wrong to say that this is liberal, because even liberals as far back as close as 100 years ago would have looked at this and said that this is an absolute travesty, this isn't how you should deal with these problems, because we were sensible back then.
	So yeah, I don't think that being too stupid to understand what you're doing is wrong as any excuse, and in many of these cases I think these people need far, far harsher punishments than anything they're getting.
	Hear, hear.
	You have a comment.
	Yes, from OPHUK says, if she's too stupid to understand why it's wrong to stab children, punishing her is wrong and we should let her out.
	Professor Shitlib, PhD, MD, Zim Zurb.
	I mean, it really reminds me of those cases where in Germany there are the gang rapists and then you have sociologists, Shitlib sociologists come out and say, well, they're actually just reacting to the forces of white supremacy and the feeling of displacement.
	Oh, yeah.
	So...
	I've become a bit of a coverer of Japanese political developments recently.
	A bit of a weeb.
	Some might say, yes, but only for Japanese politics.
	And yes...
	Yet bought any body pillows that I'm aware of.
	No, not yet.
	We'll see.
	But I've covered in multiple different iterations.
	I talked about Japan getting culturally enriched, and then say goodbye to Japan.
	And then I explained the situation in Britain specifically and say, this is what's in store for you in the future and things are already starting to progress.
	And lots of these videos...
	So you're just a bearer of good news for Japan then, this whole time.
	I'm like an omen of death.
	Yeah, lots of these had been translated into Japanese and circulated quite widely.
	Hundreds of thousands of people watched them in Japan.
	And it's nice to know that it's being paid attention to because I want them to...
	I want them to survive as a people and a culture.
	Exactly.
	I don't think they deserve the same fate that we've had to suffer through, and I have a lot of sympathy for the people that do, because I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy, what is being done to the British people.
	And speaking of what's being done, here is the Japan Times reporting that Indian-born head of one of Japan's most famous snack brands has warned that the country must change its mindset and admit more immigrants to get the economy back to the...
	And here's one thing that you need to know about Indians.
	Once you get one, there are more.
	They will open the floodgates.
	This is something that always happens.
	They always get into a high-ranking position and immediately start to hire other people like them.
	And this happens in England.
	This happens in America.
	They just go, don't you want to win?
	What if your country was like a pro sports team and you want to win on the international stage, don't you?
	Japan, don't you want China to win?
	You don't want them to win, do you?
	So you've got to let more people who look and behave like me in, and then you will succeed once you have become India, the most thriving, prosperous, cleanest, culturally enriching country in the world.
	Because everyone knows that India is the leader in global...
	I can't even say it.
	Yeah.
	In civilizational advancement.
	It was such a disgusting...
	Sort of inversion of truth that my mouth just wouldn't let me say it, even sarcastically.
	It's just funny how it keeps happening.
	And this isn't also, this isn't necessarily specific only to Indians.
	That's true.
	There are lots of minority populations across the world that only consider them and theirs, and the second that they get into any high-ranking position will only include them and theirs and advocate immediately that you need to let more people like them in.
	I've seen it in lots of chain stores in Britain where slowly over time they hire a few Indians and then all of a sudden every one of their employees are Indian.
	They're talking in Hindi or whichever, I think there are multiple languages in India, whichever language they speak.
	Sometimes they'll be talking on the phone just in work in their foreign language, which in an English workplace would be like a fireable offence.
	If you're just talking on the phone as you're serving customers, A proper, you know, corporation.
	There's no way an English person would tolerate that.
	That's really bad service.
	It's the same problem with every ethnic minority, whether they're European or Third World, African, Indian, wherever.
	They get to a foreign country and they decide, except for the very few exceptions, they decide, I want to recreate my home country here.
	And they form an ethnic little block that stick to themselves and stick to their own.
	Well, it's because multiculturalism doesn't work, isn't it?
	Assimilation is a myth.
	Yeah, because what actually happens is that separate enclaves form similar to how in America you've got a Chinatown where you walk into it and it feels like you're in China.
	Everyone's Chinese.
	Everyone speaks Mandarin.
	It's the same sort of thing, right?
	And that's happened in Britain.
	We have, you know, you can name a town like Bradford.
	Oh, right, that's all Pakistani.
	You name Swindon.
	Oh, that's all Indian.
	In Manchester, they've got their own Chinatown.
	And it is quite charming to go through, but I feel alien and foreign when I go there.
	Because I am, even though Manchester is a historic British city.
	At least with the Chinese, they commit far less crime than a lot of...
	Some of the...
	Ethnic enclaves that have formed in Britain have.
	And Japan has started experiencing this and it started sort of seeping into the public discourse.
	And one thing that's worth mentioning is that this post is from April of 2023. So this runs deep.
	Islam becomes the fastest growing religion in Japan, according to a recent study.
	The number of Muslims living in Japan, though small, has more than doubled in the past decade from 110,000 in 2020 to 230,000 at the end of 2019. Quarter of a million Muslims there as of then.
	And then here is Memory TV, normally my favourite for absolute insanity.
	It's like a window into the Islamic world and magic carpets and genies and all of that sort of stuff.
	And what a window it is.
	It is indeed.
	And it is titled...
	In Urdu Daily, Pakistani writer discusses role of Tokyo's Turkish mosque in spreading Islam.
	With the help of this mosque, hundreds of Pakistani brothers will have found pious Japanese Muslim wives.
	You should never have let them open it in the first place, Tokyo.
	Islam has become the fastest growing religion in Japan, which will cause problems.
	There will be terrorist attacks if you have more Muslims in your country.
	That is just a matter of fact.
	All they see is a place to conquer.
	I mean, and I will say, it is the most pathetic nation of conquerors that you've ever seen, because what they do is they get in and they beg the government for handouts.
	They think that they're these incredibly brave warriors, but really they're just a bunch of economic leeches.
	But they get very big heads very quickly.
	Yes, I think they rely on numbers, don't they?
	Once they're in great numbers, they gain confidence, but individually they are cowards.
	I think it's fair to say.
	But yeah, if you look at a map of terrorist attacks in Europe, the Eastern European countries that have had no Islamic immigration have never had terror attacks.
	You look at Germany, you look at France, you look at Britain, who have all had plenty of Islamic immigration.
	All of a sudden, you see masses of dots all over the map on those countries.
	Because with Islam comes terrorism.
	This is as simple as that.
	Again, I always say this.
	I am connected to at least two people who almost got blown up in Manchester back in 2017. So it's not just something that's a statistic for us.
	It's something that affects people we know personally.
	Yeah, it's a disgusting thing that's been imposed on us that we should have never had to have tolerated.
	We were never asked for it.
	It was never democratically voted for.
	And, in my opinion, is treason.
	It's worth mentioning as well that when you have these articles in Memory TV and other foreign language newspapers, as I discussed here, a new way to understand illegal migration, they're basically advertising it.
	They're advertising your country for people to move there.
	And when I was looking at this, it was all the people, all the different countries reporting on...
	How many migrants had got into the UK that year?
	And it was all the countries that the migrants are coming from in the first place.
	And so there's obviously a market here for people reading about it.
	They're just saying how easy it is, guys.
	Exactly, yeah.
	They're basically, unwittingly to you, trying to prostitute out your country for money.
	And it's one of the most disgusting things I think I can think of, really.
	That they're basically facilitating in human trafficking, in another way of putting it.
	And it's also worth mentioning as well, here's a video of them trying to convert the native Japanese.
	This is a Japanese woman in what looks like a mosque.
	Well, you can see that they're teaching her what looks like Arabic to you can see that they're teaching her what looks like Arabic Um,
	And they're going to try and spread it because that's what they do in Britain and France and Germany as well, is that they come here, they get to a sufficient level of the population and then they start expanding.
	It's an inherently expansionist religion.
	That's why...
	There was such a large empire when Muslims were conquering.
	It's because they go outwards.
	They don't look inwards.
	They have to rely on numbers rather than ingenuity or tactics or anything like that.
	And here is a comic that's been circulating in Japan talking about how this is going around in the right-wing circles, as it says here, showing the difference between one governor and another.
	And it says, when a white US Marine named Brennan Washington sexually assaulted a 14-year-old Okinawan girl, it was unacceptable and called for protests.
	But when a Kurd, because the Japanese are having really serious problems with Kurds, a commie Middle Easterner named Abbas Hasgul, who did a comparable thing, he received a suspended sentence and then went on to do it again.
	And then...
	They can't say anything about the case and that stories of migrant workers exist everywhere.
	What, of migrant workers raping people exist everywhere?
	Yeah, that's true, actually.
	Yeah, it is.
	That's not a good reason to have them there, though, is it?
	Yeah.
	It's a reason to get rid of them.
	And the hypocrisy of it is they're sort of at that stage where they're noticing the double standard, the two-tier response.
	There needs to be some kind of basic morality test before any of these people are allowed into public positions of power, which is basically...
	If somebody who's a bit brown-skinned rapes a child, will you punish them or not?
	And if the answer is no, you're going to prison.
	Works for me.
	I think that's best for society.
	And as we can see here...
	Oh, sorry about the jump scare.
	Islamic jump scare.
	I thought it was muted, sorry.
	Massive line to...
	Go to an Islamic prayer hall here.
	Look at the scale of it.
	It just keeps on going.
	It just shouldn't be in Japan, the same way it shouldn't be in Europe.
	No, it should be in the Middle East.
	You guys already have these things called homelands, where everybody already looks and acts like you, and so if you want that, don't go to somewhere else and make it worse so that you can get that experience.
	Stay in the place that you're already trying to recreate.
	It's quite simple.
	Because it's one thing for, say, a Japanese person to come over to England or an English person to go to Japan, because we at least have the understanding that when you're in another country, you follow the customs and laws because...
	Spain would...
	I disagree with you there on English people going out.
	That's true.
	But there is a particular type of English yob that likes to go to Spain.
	That's true.
	I think the kind of English person that would go to Japan would be more inclined to focus on being polite and courteous.
	I hope so.
	And I know there are examples of that not being the case.
	But, generally speaking, we are civilisations which respect...
	Other people's manners.
	And there's a very, very...
	Leftists hate it these days, but there's a well-documented history of English Orientalism whenever we went out to the East, where English people would...
	Try as hard as possible to fit into these foreign cultures in the Orient because they liked and respected them so much.
	Leftists now say that that's a horrible, terrible thing and it was a kind of racial imperialism or something.
	But really, it's kind of charming because we look at it and we go, oh, this is great, I want to try that as well.
	I mean, when I see people genuinely trying to adopt aspects of my culture, it's flattering more than anything, isn't it?
	It can be, yeah.
	Depends who's doing it and how well they're doing it.
	If they're doing it well with good intentions.
	And here are some Kurds outside protesting and they're there with their whole family it looks like.
	So they gathered with children as well in front of parliament and they're just being ungrateful and trying to demand things.
	Wait until they start trying to tell you that they're just as Japanese as you are.
	Yeah, we're at that point.
	We've built everything.
	We're at the point now where we're being told that black people have always existed in Britain, despite the fact that, you know, they didn't cross the Sahara and go across all of Europe and North Africa to get to Britain.
	To get to a grey, rainy island.
	Yeah, I don't believe you.
	Where they somehow still managed to maintain their incredibly dark complexions despite the environment.
	After all that time, yeah.
	I know, it's very strange.
	And there are even discussions here where it's saying, At an emergency meeting, consider the issue of hate speech against the Kurds.
	Someone said that the rumours similar to those spread in the great earthquake and spread to include people other than those who discriminate.
	Basically, they're trying to say that...
	Hate speech laws are actually a good thing, and that hate speech against Kurds is bad.
	What a surprise.
	They move into your neighbourhood, and you have a problem with how they act, how they behave, how they hold themselves, and they say that actually it's against the law for you to have any complaints.
	Where have I seen this before?
	Yeah, this is exactly what's going on.
	It's amazing, really, the sort of textbook, isn't it?
	Things are going on in Japan exactly the same as they're going on in Europe.
	It's the liberal democratic way.
	Is that there is always a form of legalism to prefer the outsider to the insider.
	And it's always at the cost of the insider as well, isn't it?
	And here is a Kurd smoking a cigarette and he's just got a handgun in his back waistband walking around, of course.
	Guns very illegal in Japan.
	It's sort of unknown.
	The fact that someone made a homemade gun and carried out an assassination was a bit of a shock that that even goes on in the first place.
	So seeing the real deal there I think was quite shocking to a lot of Japanese people.
	Here's some sort of preventative measures.
	Japan equips trains with stab-proof umbrellas to combat knife crime.
	I wonder who is doing the knife crime.
	I don't think it's the native Japanese, is it?
	Let's be honest.
	Well, I mean, where else do I know about knife crime going?
	Yes, it's certainly not a certain kind of people.
	They're also having problems with the Chinese as well.
	I mean, they've always had problems with the Chinese.
	I know, yeah.
	This is a sort of old enemy, so to speak, where they're just going in in large numbers and stealing en masse.
	And you better get used to that, because you should see what it's like in America, where you see groups of largely masked black people.
	Sometimes they just don't even bother covering their face.
	They just sort of casually walk in, fill up a bag full of expensive stuff, and walk out.
	And that's apparently normal.
	It's got to the point where lots of shops are just closing down in those neighbourhoods now.
	And you'll get a similar sort of thing where just life is less convenient and more expensive for your average Japanese person because you're tolerating these people.
	So, here's another one.
	This is an African urinating in coin lockers in Shibuya.
	Obviously not being considerate.
	Thinking about what he's doing.
	Just really, really disrespectful and discourteous.
	And here's another one.
	Just that alone.
	It's actually a video of an African guy just going crazy in the street.
	I want to play this with it muted.
	I hope it's unmuted.
	Here we go.
	Because it's just really loud, that's all.
	Basically, you can tell that he's...
	Either on something or incredibly mentally ill.
	He looks like he's on something, definitely.
	Where does the Yakuza step into all of this?
	Well, I've not been able to find out, funnily enough.
	Because they don't advertise what they're doing on Twitter, really.
	Or on the internet more generally.
	But I think they don't approve.
	I think actually...
	They might well be a force to keep these sorts of people out, if they can.
	In the same way that the old mobsters used to actually keep the neighbourhoods safer than they otherwise could have been, perhaps.
	Yeah, obviously the most ideal scenario is you don't have any criminals, but if you're going to have some criminals, it's better that they...
	Do you want homegrown criminals or foreign criminals?
	I think the homegrown are usually better, aren't they?
	Unfortunately.
	Do I have to choose?
	This is like the Otto English argument of, well, of course there's always been crime in London.
	Don't you know the Cray twins murdered 13 people back in the 60s?
	Oh, well, you were right, Otto.
	In that case, I suppose, open the floodgates to all the foreign criminals of all the world.
	It's madness.
	It's a false equivalence, isn't it?
	And it's not just migration either, because the Japanese are having a bit of a rough time with tourism as well.
	Here they are, and this is, you know, not that bad, but it's, can you speak Japanese?
	We can't speak English.
	Menu is Japanese only.
	Yes, welcome.
	No, I'm sorry, you can't come in.
	Which is great.
	Simply disgraceful that Japan thinks it's fine to treat tourists like...
	Yeah, it's fine to treat tourists like this.
	That's being sarcastic, I know that.
	Oh, good, good.
	Oh, that's alright then, yeah, because it's absolutely fine.
	In fact, we should do this more in the West.
	If you don't speak English, you're not allowed in.
	If we did that for all businesses, life would be so much better.
	If the continent enforced this kind of thing and they didn't all speak English, I might have actually bothered to learn French or Spanish by now.
	They just make it too easy for me.
	That's true, yeah.
	You've got to speak the native language.
	I mean, I try and do it when I go abroad.
	When I go to France, I try and speak French, and normally they sneer at me for being, you English, what are you doing?
	But you've got to try all the same, don't you?
	Did you tell them about your 0.5% French?
	What, my ancestry?
	Well, actually, I think you'll find I'm a tiny bit French, just a smidge, but is that enough?
	I don't think it's enough.
	There's also things like this.
	These, I presume, are American tourists.
	Please don't automatically unmute this.
	Oh, for goodness sake.
	Elon, sort it out.
	Where they're just doing dances in shrines and it's so disrespectful.
	And they're just doing it for TikTok clout and they always look like idiots.
	I think all dancing is degenerate.
	That's the most English thing you've ever said in your life.
	Thank you.
	And I've said a lot.
	Yeah.
	I think this kind of thing, I take it back to the earliest I can think of is like Logan Paul.
	If you're talking about Americans going there and making a tit of himself just for YouTube views and for the Vine.
	Yeah, it's just really disrespectful, isn't it?
	Which led to the suicide forest thing.
	There are also...
	Here they are, falling over for attention.
	I'm not going to play this video because you get the idea.
	In fact, I'll mute it before I play it.
	Thank you, Elon.
	Yeah, Elon, I'm so glad I'm paying for this.
	Those H1Bs are really working out for you.
	But look how everyone just ignores him because they've sort of wisened up.
	You see that high-trust society slowly eroding.
	I mean, if only there was something that they could identify about the kinds of people doing this thing.
	That would allow them to selectively apply their sympathy.
	But that would be too easy, wouldn't it?
	Here's another one.
	Let's see if you can spot a trend.
	Now, Samson, I think you recognise this place, don't you?
	Yes, I've been here.
	This is one of the most important shrines in Kyoto.
	I think it's Fumashi Inari.
	I could be wrong about that, but I've been here.
	I've climbed the mountain.
	It's like the Thousand Tori Gates, and this is one of the most ceremonial spots in Japan.
	So, they're essentially blocking one of the ceremonial pathways up and down the mountain.
	So, here they are, doing this.
	Oh no.
	Elon, make it stop.
	Wow, a great respect for local traditions and cultures.
	Here we are, look at this.
	Looks like some Japanese twat in the background, dancing alongside them.
	You're disrespecting your own culture.
	I like how you're getting annoyed at him as well.
	Fair enough.
	I think he deserves to be annoyed at.
	Don't encourage these people.
	What he should have done is just got out some kind of stick and started beating them with it.
	If only.
	But the urban culture has bled through.
	Here's the Japanese Communist Party and I am going to play this one.
	To make you suffer.
	They made a rap song for the recent election.
	Here it is.
	Communism is about destruction of culture.
	You get the idea.
	I'm sorry, Japanese does not work in rap.
	No.
	And, uh...
	The worrying thing is, the trend has spread, so...
	Comito.
	I think it's...
	I don't know whether I'm pronouncing that right.
	They're in coalition.
	Julius Evele constantly vindicated on this question.
	Yeah.
	They're in coalition with the LDP in a minority government after a recent election.
	So they're actually in government and they released a rap song as well for the general election.
	Do you want to hear it, Harry?
	No.
	Nor do I. Good.
	So yes.
	And...
	There are also lots of videos of people showing what foreigners are doing to Japanese, and they're saying, you know, this is frowned upon, this is terrible, we hear about this going on abroad, but this doesn't happen in Japan, and people are sort of shocked to see this happening.
	They're saying, is that Japan?
	What's going on here?
	Why is this happening?
	And I think people are finally realising that foreigners are causing them problems, and it's fair enough, really.
	They should be disapproving.
	I can only hope that your government does something about it before it's too late.
	Unless your government are doing it on purpose for some...
	Stupid reason that they hate and despise you or because they've been told that, oh, the population might be falling because the birth rates are so low.
	You need to do this because otherwise...
	I hate the people that get bang on about birth rates.
	Your country will collapse if it has slightly fewer people in it and it won't just level out into something more sustainable.
	That's how it works.
	There are more people on planet Earth than ever before.
	More people in most countries than ever before.
	I don't think the problem is that we're going to run out of people.
	I think if anything, it's the other way around.
	Especially as everybody points out, menial service jobs are going to be increasingly taken over by AI anyway.
	Yeah, so we don't even need to replace...
	Which isn't something I'm in favour of necessarily, but it does seem like it's going to happen.
	It seems like there are going to be fewer and fewer jobs while we're importing more and more people.
	And it's just madness.
	Also, this is an interesting choice here.
	Talking about people being noisy on the subway.
	This is obviously in response to tourists and foreigners.
	Yes.
	I wouldn't see this sort of advert running well in America, would you?
	No.
	But, yes.
	But I think it gets the point across.
	It does.
	You don't even need to speak Japanese to understand what it's getting at.
	The noisy people are being inconsiderate to everyone around them.
	Which I agree with.
	I hate people being noisy on public transport.
	When people are getting up to their monkey business.
	That's right.
	Talking on the phone particularly bugs me as well.
	It's really inconsiderate.
	Go into the lobby or I'll take it later.
	Here's a guy that's angry because the convenience store worker doesn't speak English to him and speaks Japanese to him.
	And this is an American, or maybe Canadian, I can't tell, with his accent.
	But I'm not going to play it because it goes on for a little while.
	Their country is not set up to make you feel comfortable.
	But it's just ridiculous that people expect this.
	You're going to another country, don't be unreasonable.
	And then the final thing I wanted to end on was, here are...
	Some Europeans, by the looks of it, drinking on a Japanese train and being silly whilst everyone is minding their own business and being respectful.
	Yeah, don't behave like that.
	Even in your home country, that is not sensible behaviour.
	You're a cultural representative of your people when you go to a country like that, and especially one...
	Like Japan, that's got such a manner culture, like we do over here, you shouldn't behave like this because you're making the rest of us look like yobs.
	I know, and it's embarrassing for us because these people give an impression that we're all like that, and it's quite frustrating.
	Quite often when I go on holiday, I don't know whether you feel this same sort of sense of, not only do you have to be respectful to the culture you're visiting, but also you're aware that you're representing English people, basically.
	And so I try my best to be very polite and respectful, more so than I would be even at home.
	And I'm not exactly rude at home anyway.
	And that, I think, should be people's attitude when going.
	Your country is like an extension of your home.
	You wouldn't go to someone else's home and act like you're in your own house.
	Someone invites you round and you help yourself to stuff in their fridge or you put your feet up with your shoes on still.
	In a disrespectful way.
	You wouldn't do that, so why would you do it in a country that is an extension of people's home, and is people's home in many ways?
	It doesn't seem right.
	But what are your general thoughts now?
	I've sort of laid out what's going on.
	Is Japan's 2025 going to be quite as bad?
	I hope they can get a handle on this and reverse the effects of it before it's too late.
	The problem is, though, that I haven't seen the political will to address this yet.
	Why is it specifically that this is happening?
	Has there been some kind of move towards addressing birth rates?
	What it is is that in around 2023, towards the end of 2023, there was a move from NGOs to leverage the fact that Japan has a lot of national debt to impose migration upon them.
	I would actively begin...
	Shutting down and charging NGOs like that, because you are foreign subversives.
	Of course they are, yeah.
	I mean, Georgia did that, but then again, Georgia did that, and then all of a sudden they started to get lots of attention from the American Empire.
	It's funny that, isn't it?
	But yeah, I think Japan...
	You have to make sure to safeguard your own country because what you're going through is exactly what the West has been through.
	Almost sort of note for note, the same.
	And the same playbook only results in massive misery for your people and great amounts of human suffering.
	The most humane thing to do is to send these people back to where they came from and live in a way that is in keeping with your cultural traditions.
	That maintains social cohesion and allows you to have a functioning high trust society.
	Alright, there are a few rumble rants down here now that we've got.
	Yeah, quite a few actually.
	Do you want to read them?
	Sure.
	NeoUnrealist says, Well, I don't really see...
	The court case going particularly well for the state if they try and prosecute me for that, because I'm just like, well, I've run the numbers, and what was it, 96.97% of all terror-related fatalities were due to Islamic attacks.
	You could literally point to the government's own figures.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So it's a matter of fact.
	It's not even an opinion.
	So, Hillsborough, Oregon schools have a big problem with local Muslim population affecting the white population.
	Boys treating girls like slaves, girls changing behaviour.
	Parents have no say in it at all.
	I'm sorry to hear that.
	Yeah, it is horrible.
	And unfortunately, I don't think that Islam and European civilisation can coexist because we're at different stages of civilisational development.
	Also, we're literally historic enemies.
	Yes, and Islam does have a long memory.
	And that's both with Europe itself and the Americas.
	Yeah.
	So, Bali Saka says, I studied Japanese at university and lived in Japan for much of my adult life.
	I cannot tell you how upset it makes me to see them making the same mistake we did.
	There is no escaping Globo Homo.
	That is very true.
	And I think also there is a sort of silver lining to this, that it teaches people...
	That you can't be a global nomad, you can't be a person of nowhere, only out for yourself.
	Eventually you've got to put your roots down somewhere, and it may as well be the culture where your ancestors have lived.
	And therefore it makes people far more inclined to stand up and fight for themselves in a way that people weren't previously.
	And we're seeing this go on already.
	Loads of people in the sort of political sphere on the right say, Britain is awful, but I'm also not going anywhere.
	This is my country.
	I'm not leaving.
	And you wouldn't have seen that, say, 10 years ago if there were an equivalent situation.
	People are sort of waking up to the notion that you've got to stand and fight for your own homeland, otherwise you're going to eventually have this catch up to you.
	So, again, most Africans in Japan are Nigerians who got their visas by scamming lonely Japanese women into marrying them.
	They work for the accuser as touts and selling counterfeit goods in the street.
	Ah, well, there's your answer.
	There you go.
	That is unfortunate.
	But thank you for the information, and thank you, everyone, for the rumble chats.
	Thank you.
	Let's go on to the video comments.
	I saw some IRA supporters, uh, whinging about the troubles and how there were foreign Englishmen patrolling the streets and it was so horrible, but now that the IRA's in charge, we don't have things like that happening anymore.
	This isn't to say that the British were completely innocent in the conflict, but let's be honest, they weren't the Young Turks.
	Less than 4,000 people were killed by all sides in the whole conflict.
	And the fact is, the IRA then immediately flooded the country with violent immigrants, which is why I'm glad that Jackie Chan killed them all in this movie.
	I've not heard of this new Jackie Chan movie.
	Is that with Pierce Brosnan?
	Jackie Chan restores the British Empire.
	You know what?
	An unlikely hero, but I'll accept it if it ends up happening, right?
	I have nothing against the Irish, by the way.
	I don't want to colonise Ireland.
	Yeah, I don't want to colonise Ireland, but I will say there is a particular kind of Irishman, if you're Irish watching this, I'm certain that you're not one of them, but there is a particular kind of Irishman that is a whiny bitch, perpetual victim, constantly complaining about the English.
	The funny thing is, most of the Irish people I've met are just like, I actually prefer it in England.
	Which is, well I suppose that explains why they're here.
	But also, they were just very nice and complimentary.
	Most people just get on with their life and treat people.
	I've met plenty of nice Irish people and most of them have treated the whole like, oh, hatred of the English thing is just a bit of a nudge and a wink joke.
	Yeah, it's sort of ammunition for a bit of banter.
	But that's true of anything like that, isn't it?
	Yeah, I can accept and respect it.
	While analysing Wandsworth Council evicting private tenants to reduce housing list numbers, the black belt barrister played Angela Rayner saying this.
	You need a cultural shift.
	If the market know, I'm not going to let you get away with it.
	There's a cohort of morons who uncomprehendingly throw around the phrase late stage capitalism.
	What we're actually witnessing is late-stage socialism.
	The formative stage was the philosophy.
	Early stage was infiltrating organisations.
	Mid-stage was writing socialist goals into the rules.
	Now they are frustratedly using those rules to punish unresponsive markets.
	I really, really despise the term late-stage capitalism.
	Not only is it...
	Spoken by some of the most retarded people on planet Earth.
	But also, how do you know the future to know it's late-stage capitalism?
	Have you got this theorising from abstraction that you just know what's going to happen?
	It's not going to develop any further or it's not going to get different.
	It's just ridiculous.
	I don't really like any of those terms these days anyway.
	I've made comments in the past about the way that...
	Liberal Democratic governments have ended up developing, and I think it was during the H-1B visa thing, I was pointing out, listen, these tech guys, they don't care about borders, they don't care about homelands, they don't care about homogeneity, they just care about what affects their bottom line, and that's on a business level what's going to be happening in America.
	And somebody asked me, oh, would you describe it as a form of late-stage capitalism?
	I don't want to associate with any of those kinds of terms because I just want to describe things factually how they are.
	If you want to come up with some big rhetorical term for it, whatever.
	It's ideologically loaded, isn't it?
	Because, yeah, if I start calling things late-stage capitalism, then people are going to assume that I'm some insane leftist, which I would like to think that I am not.
	I think you're safe from that.
	She is.
	Cheers.
	Anyway, let's go on to a few of the written comments on the website before we're done.
	Russian Garbage Human starts off saying, I've asked Carl's for mic stands months ago.
	Even made the example like from Joe Rogan and Tim Pool, etc.
	Yes, finally.
	Well, in the previous studio, we did have mic arms.
	I think they were the road ones.
	But for this studio, it wasn't my decision.
	I don't know whose decision it was.
	We had the shitty little mic stands like Josh has right now.
	As you can see, it works so well.
	I love them.
	They're great.
	Yeah, they're fantastic.
	And I hate using them.
	And we've been trying to get the mic stands back for a while, and now Samson's been making it happen.
	And yeah, Samson, I can see you pointing at yourself back there.
	Give yourself a pat on the back.
	Everyone clap for Samson.
	Everyone clap for Samson.
	So hopefully we'll be getting more of these in so that we can upgrade the rest of the studio with them.
	Anyway, Lord Nero of our cheery show today, lads, but seriously, thank you for covering these topics, specifically the one about dumb criminals.
	It's a criminally underreported problem that is totally caused by the rehabilitation philosophy of modern criminal justice.
	These people should be punished, not because it's an avenue to reintegrate into society, but because they have done wrong and it is inappropriate not to punish them, simple as.
	Agree completely, and even then, it's contradictory with the rehabilitation thing, because they're too stupid to be able to rehabilitate in the first place.
	So it just goes round and round and round in circles.
	It's easier to be punished than to be rehabilitated, isn't it?
	I would argue, yeah.
	Anyway, do you want to read some of yours?
	Sure.
	George Hap says, people simping for China is a failure of the US government after teaching oikophobia for generations.
	They have to learn about the evil CCP is the hard way.
	Maybe they should have listened to a certain orange man who said the truth about where COVID came from.
	If you are a gamer, look at what Tencent is doing.
	That's very true.
	Yeah, I... I hope I communicated clearly enough that I don't approve of China.
	I've not become some sort of communist shill.
	What do Tencent do these days?
	I've completely forgotten.
	Are they buying up gaming companies?
	The market is very beholden to Tencent right now.
	Samson is nodding at me right now.
	I know bits, but you could probably explain it better.
	If I had more time, I would.
	We can't hear you.
	I'll take you...
	Hello?
	Can you hear me?
	Hello?
	Yeah, they're just scummy practices.
	Charles Burgess says, why should we allow an adversary foreign power to propagandise our population?
	Well...
	It's as simple as that.
	BasicBasedApe says, oh man, I wish I'd put TikTok lefties mass join gay Chinese communist dating app on my 2025 bingo card.
	It was such an easy one to predict.
	Chinder?
	And we can go to your comments now.
	Yeah, uh, Jimbo G, no matter how much they dress it up, it's the anti-racists that are arguing that non-white people can't control themselves, therefore a white judicial system is oppressing them by expecting them not to rape and murder.
	Once again, that's what they think.
	Uh, yeah, and, um, sadly, there is some truth in all of that.
	And the fact is that they just take different conclusions that we do.
	We look at that and say, oh, okay, well, in that case, we should apply...
	that they shouldn't rape and murder.
	They go, oh, well, in that case, it's white of us to punish them, so we shouldn't do it at all.
	It's completely backwards.
	Punishment is an aspect of white culture, but it's a good one.
	It's why we've got civilisation and Africa doesn't.
	Yeah.
	Someone online, if they're incompetent to stand trial, they need to be interred in a mental institution.
	They kind of are, but again, the rules are very up in the air on how long they have to stay there and what happens to them past a particular reasonable amount of time.
	And each of the states seems to take it differently.
	Omar Awad, regardless of mental state, the purpose of the justice system must be to quarantine socially incompatible elements from society.
	If they are too stupid to understand right and wrong, they are too stupid to participate in public.
	Absolutely.
	Do you want to go through one or two and then we'll give it...
	Sure.
	Furious Dan says, Japan is a wonderful particular place.
	I would want the highest standards for anyone entering, whether for immigration or tourism.
	At this point, they should return to Sekoku.
	Sekoku?
	I presume that is isolationism.
	Yes.
	Supreme Duck says, I think you forget that Japan has a bigger culture shock from the smells and the trash behaviour since they have a very high-trust society with a low tolerance for insufferable behaviour.
	Have you met me?
	Well, maybe not.
	But yeah, where I grew up is very similar to that, where if someone listens, someone will go up, pick it up, and say, what are you doing?
	And people say hello to each other in the street.
	People are very polite, ask you how your day is going.
	People have honesty boxes where they've grown fruit and veg in their garden, and they put it out, and people expect everyone to behave.
	Yeah, like how England used to be.
	Yeah, that's what all of England was like.
	We were a former high-trust society.
	Yeah.
	I'll read one more, and then we'll give it a go, and then we'll finish.
	Slammer101 says, Well, we're getting the first prototype developed right now.
	It's going out to Luna.
	She'll give us the feedback, and then we'll see about getting that on the site.
	I've been trying to lose a bit of stuffing, so my body pillow's a bit more flattering, you see.
	Well, but the body pillow is supposed to be cuddly.
	Anyway.
	I'll get back on the beers then.
	Common Sense Crusade coming up at one o'clock, not one o'clock, three o'clock, I think.
	And other than that, we'll be back again tomorrow at one normal time.

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