Based Camp - American Political Influencers ... In Eastern Europe？ (The Globalisation of the Culture War)

00:00:00.000 hello i'm excited to be here with v tv or romanian tv uh the guy who used to veto as a troll i don't

00:00:09.460 know if you still do that um that he is one of the as i hear from everyone one of the longest

00:00:15.900 streamers in like the right wing online sort of youtube space and when our channel before we were

00:00:22.200 even a right wing channel he was one of our most overlapped channels in terms of subscribers which

00:00:26.900 i always thought was very interesting um and that's actually where i first found his channel

00:00:30.420 and i started watching it it's fantastic and uh somebody suggested we have him on and i'm really

00:00:34.880 excited to talk and what i wanted to start with was you have become a somewhat large figure in

00:00:42.700 within right wing you know internet tubing or whatever you want to call it american politics

00:00:48.660 but you are romanian when did you start focusing and like living in romania not like ethnically

00:00:55.060 romanian when did you start focusing on american politics and how did that happen for you

00:00:59.780 yeah well uh i didn't start calling myself as a right wing at first um i i just uh didn't like

00:01:08.480 this whole culture that was coming from i i guess the united well not really the united states was

00:01:13.720 more like the anglosphere this this feminist culture where uh there is no room for disagreement 0.96

00:01:19.520 uh it is full-on identity politics uh it was being pushed everywhere gaming tv shows every

00:01:26.700 type of medium so i didn't start as like here's my political body actually i i want to pull apart

00:01:33.140 this because this is something okay this is something that we've had was like pretty much

00:01:38.660 everyone who we've had on our show who is now considered like a far right internet youtuber

00:01:43.640 and they all started us included as even us i wouldn't say maybe you weren't a leftist at the

00:01:50.280 beginning but i was definitely simone was definitely and when we go to other people

00:01:55.580 like when we go to leaflet and we have her on stream she's like the thing that woke me up was

00:02:01.060 streaming hogwarts legacy and then people came and attacked me for that and then i began to

00:02:06.920 radicalize and with a lot of people it's like there was this one moment where they're like huh

00:02:11.600 like maybe i actually do have a political side in this fight do you remember what that moment

00:02:18.080 was for you when that happened well i mean i was a leftist as well but uh a leftist in the early

00:02:24.280 2000s was something completely different than what a leftist is now uh in 2000 uh if you didn't

00:02:30.820 hate homosexuals and you were an atheist you were labeled a leftist yeah yeah yeah

00:02:37.180 we definitely fit into into that category of leftism but do you have a moment or like 0.97

00:02:44.960 when you began to identify politically do you remember anything that pushed you in that

00:02:50.400 direction was it like people were attacking you for something or you saw something that

00:02:55.200 just seemed so ridiculous i think it was when reddit started censoring uh there was a conversation

00:03:00.800 with total biscuit that was very polite it had absolutely nothing rude done to it and

00:03:06.940 And he was discussing, I think it was like the Zoe Quinn scandal at the time.

00:03:11.640 And everyone was getting banned around him.

00:03:14.040 Like at the time in the internet to see something like that was unthinkable.

00:03:18.720 And I was like, okay, who are these people?

00:03:22.040 What do they want?

00:03:23.060 And they were left-wing.

00:03:24.200 And it's like, well, if that's what left-wing is, then I should stand against it.

00:03:27.900 Because I don't agree with the fact that the internet should be controlled and censored to the point where political opinions cannot be discussed anymore.

00:03:34.560 he was discussing the what scandal sorry this is a part of internet history i'm not aware of

00:03:38.980 so there was this uh indie game developer that uh was called zoe quinn at the time and she was

00:03:45.600 oh the zoe quinn oh you're talking about the original uh it was way back right um and he

00:03:53.380 basically was trying to understand what was going on and reddit was just banning everyone around him

00:03:59.660 like there were hundreds of accounts banned and then you are you realize their idea was like no

00:04:05.620 platform for fascists and they would define who a fascist is yeah yeah actually this this has me

00:04:13.740 realize something that i didn't really fully like this is my first time realizing it but back in the

00:04:19.180 day on reddit i'm talking like 10 years ago when i voted all all leftists even after this point i

00:04:27.120 ran a leftist political organization essentially that like took donations and worked on campaigns

00:04:31.680 and yet when i was on reddit my primary subreddits have today all been deleted they were things like

00:04:38.380 tumblr inaction and fat people hate and the red pill and i loved these types of stuff but i never

00:04:46.160 considered myself right wing because i didn't consider these types of views right wing and i

00:04:52.000 think that they were defined as right-wing i think today if you told this to somebody tumblr in

00:04:58.500 action was not actually a right-wing subreddit fat people hate was not actually a right-wing

00:05:03.120 subreddit the record wasn't even a right-wing subreddit right if you told people that today

00:05:08.680 they'd be like that can't actually be true but it was actually true for a period yeah to be a right

00:05:16.360 wing at the time i think you needed to be like in support of george bush the paper attack uh you

00:05:22.100 needed to be in support of middle eastern conflicts that uh you know like america is chosen by god in

00:05:28.420 order to uh bring democracy to the middle east like those were the talking points and it was

00:05:34.820 also against uh you know like standing against uh gay marriage uh standing against atheism uh

00:05:41.460 completely different than what right wing ended up right and this is kind of normal like if you

00:05:46.100 at different points in history like left-wing and right-wing whatever the politicians at the time

00:05:50.900 support as policies and they they can't change and shift like they have the same general idea

00:05:56.740 but uh you couldn't be a right-wing for example and be an atheist uh before uh the bush you know

00:06:04.260 right no no it is very true very true um like right now nobody cares if you say yeah i'm a

00:06:10.820 trump supporter and i don't believe in god they will be like well i mean okay i mean like sargon

00:06:15.620 of akkad is one of the biggest figures in our space and he's an atheist he is an atheist yes

00:06:20.100 yeah i mean he promotes christianity because he likes the cultural aspect of it but he doesn't

00:06:24.580 believe in like life after death right and so nobody has a problem with that like nobody's

00:06:31.220 saying like why is an atheist uh leading a right-wing movement now of course that can change

00:06:37.060 like at some point maybe people will say again but like right now it's it's definitely so uh

00:06:42.660 the right way then it was completely different than now well here's a question i have for you

00:06:46.880 because this happened to us so after we began to and i'm and we made our switch way after you

00:06:54.320 we probably didn't make a switch really fully until maybe like a year and a half ago um uh and

00:07:01.200 for us it was because we kept going viral for saying the fertility rate is low and that's going

00:07:06.840 to cause like problems with like social security and stuff and people kept calling us racist for

00:07:10.900 saying that and then eventually we talked to right-wing people and they were like really nice

00:07:14.680 and accepting and i was like okay like i guess i want to be part of this community and one thing

00:07:20.740 that changed about us is a lot of our views began to change after we were in the right-wing community

00:07:29.100 for a while and felt comfortable having these things so for example um i began to more critically

00:07:36.880 say no it's not just that children shouldn't gender transition it's that the entire gender

00:07:43.880 transition phenomenon might be a problem and i began to say like actually we should probably

00:07:49.200 be pretty restrictive on abortion did you have any of these moments where like major concepts

00:07:55.020 for you changed or that just as the whole political spectrum migrated around you i mean i'm from

00:08:00.720 studied europe and uh we we still had the strong communist culture even after coming

00:08:06.160 and uh communism was all about censorship and controlling what people think not just what they

00:08:11.360 say and so the moment like i saw uh how the modern left was behaving in the u.s uh i didn't need a

00:08:19.840 specific moment like immediately when you say oh these opinions aren't allowed these ideas are not

00:08:25.280 okay i was like no absolutely not i remember when the feminist started saying believe on women and

00:08:32.560 there was like this cultish like mega church if you will with like a huge panel behind and it's

00:08:38.800 like believe the women and i was like thinking like that's the definite critical thinking because

00:08:43.360 women are people and some people lie some people speak the truth and the idea that you should just

00:08:48.320 automatically believe like a class of people that do the thinking for you uh was giving me all sorts

00:08:54.160 of red flags so no like there wasn't like a specific moment or a specific uh policy that

00:08:58.900 made me decide that this is an ideology i should be against yeah uh one of the things that you

00:09:05.400 pulled on there that i want to dig a little deeper on because it's been one of the more interesting

00:09:10.120 cultural landscape flips is in the censorship battles that existed in sort of the proto 1.00

00:09:17.360 landscape of our existing online space a lot of them were focused on horny jail like female

00:09:23.720 characters being too sexy being too horny stuff like this and and it's created a very interesting

00:09:31.620 sort of divide as the two streams of old right culture has began to mix with the internet

00:09:38.080 culture because the internet culture part is very sort of anti-censorship and the old culture

00:09:45.860 is sometimes a little confused by this uh have you noticed that and like what are your thoughts

00:09:51.620 on that well i mean there is indeed an anti-porn movement right now that in my opinion feels a

00:09:58.520 little bit artificially enforced because nobody was like this before 2020 yeah most people were

00:10:04.440 like okay the internet is for porn i don't like it i don't click it as long as it's you know play

00:10:10.080 somewhere else and you have to go out of your way to find the time fine but now there is like this 1.00

00:10:15.380 huge explosion where you know if you're a straight guy and you just like a woman with big fat tits 0.99

00:10:21.000 like you're now considered laguna and i'm like no that's not being a good or just like normal 0.99

00:10:26.120 human behavior like my grandfather if it's so uh sweetie sweetie in a commercial you'd be like oh

00:10:31.160 nice you know you you wouldn't basically say ah get it away and like my grandfather was more

00:10:36.840 christian and more pious than a lot of people today so like i refuse to believe that this is 0.98

00:10:41.560 like a spiritual reawakening i saw that too like we need to learn to re-objectify women like yeah 0.92

00:10:49.160 Yeah, no, ironically, like the Grand Prix girls, right? 1.00

00:10:51.880 They were everywhere.

00:10:52.740 Like the Sunday Times, they had this.

00:10:55.080 No, I think it's the idea of pushing for digital ID.

00:10:58.160 Like during COVID, a lot of people were like,

00:11:00.360 I'm not going to sit in the house.

00:11:01.800 I'm not going to eat the bugs.

00:11:03.180 I don't stand in the pod.

00:11:04.360 I will not use digital ID.

00:11:06.440 And the moment the government said it's for protecting children,

00:11:09.480 everyone was like, oh, you know what?

00:11:10.780 I'll actually dox myself to use Google.

00:11:13.500 And the reason that they use porn is because it's everywhere, right? 0.58

00:11:17.000 Like if you do a Google search, you can find porn.

00:11:19.220 If you go on Twitter, you can find porn. 0.87

00:11:21.080 Discord, you can find porn.

00:11:22.760 And so everything now requires a digital ID so that you can safely navigate.

00:11:29.920 And there is only one solution, right?

00:11:32.140 Because if the idea was we really don't want children to access porn, they could have made just phones, like mobile phones for kids that are hardware to block certain sites.

00:11:42.960 That's a really clever idea.

00:11:44.760 Yeah.

00:11:45.580 And it could be done.

00:11:47.000 right the parents would probably buy them but the fact that they're not even offering that as the

00:11:51.000 solution you can notice that it's moral hysteria driven to 11 in order to convince people that

00:11:56.440 actually giving your personal information on a server that can get hacked and you can have your

00:12:01.800 social security number out there um is now something to be desirable uh like imagine

00:12:08.520 i mean in france uh there were tens of millions of cases of people that have their private

00:12:13.480 identity stolen and nobody cares like it's like i mean well of course you know and some of these

00:12:19.740 robust age verification uh companies that nobody knows where they come from like people should

00:12:24.740 trust them with their data apparently run around 300 other background checks on other things like

00:12:29.760 have you paid your taxes uh do you look like a terrorist you can look it up on google there is

00:12:34.960 this robust age verification in a company called persona and they were actually leaked of doing

00:12:40.620 literally this like they had hundreds of other things like they weren't just checking to see if

00:12:44.460 you're 18 they were looking at your face trying to match it with any terrorist trying to see if you

00:12:48.620 have if you uh and they were then feeding this to the french government but nobody knows right like

00:12:53.960 they were just doing this and the company says oh well we just have the features in place we're not

00:12:58.480 using them for that but like you know and people just like it's not even a big story like i have

00:13:04.340 to tell you now you have to google it to see it right it's interesting it's so i mean two things

00:13:09.060 i want to pull out from this one is is this movement that you're talking about has really

00:13:13.540 been gaining most of its steam in europe like in the united states there hasn't been that much of

00:13:18.640 a win in the censorship movement there there's a few states uh but like the the the american right

00:13:24.200 hasn't like britain is where they really fell for it britain france stuff like this um yeah and then

00:13:32.740 the the secondary thing uh and i think it's interesting to talk about why because you exist

00:13:38.040 in a third cultural space that is different from what's happening in the united states and what's

00:13:45.180 happening in like cucked europe and then you have you know eastern europe which is more based right

00:13:50.980 now and and it's i'm interested in what you see going on in the winds there but i also thought

00:13:55.660 the second thing you said that was interesting is like you're not gonna hear about this and if i

00:14:00.560 look at like our fans where they get their news it's part of like the youtube news cycle you know

00:14:06.620 it's like we talk about it or Nux is talking about it or Asmogold is talking about it or you're

00:14:11.040 talking about it and they'll you know we'll typically like do a round like I remember once

00:14:16.460 you surfaced a story that got me talking about it and I've never seen any newspaper surfaced a story

00:14:22.020 so the story that you found that I thought was really cool is you found that one day you decided

00:14:27.180 to go with whatever YouTube told you to do for a video topic um and when you made the video you

00:14:34.000 then had an unusually large number of bots commenting on that particular video which to me

00:14:39.840 indicated that what we may start to see is if we have like low quality ai traffic also fake

00:14:47.100 commenting on things it can essentially create these sort of ruts in youtube and other online

00:14:52.800 spaces where everything begins to converge around like a new norm and all of the bots are drawn into

00:14:58.960 this stream and you sort of found the stream you're the first person to find it but no one else

00:15:03.660 had talked about that yet so we do sort of surface things for people you do for example in in that

00:15:09.660 case but let's focus on the the geopolitical differences what are you noticing about your

00:15:15.640 geopolitical space in terms of what's getting popular that you're not seeing getting popular

00:15:20.060 in the online right in like western europe or the united states right so uh i it's interesting that

00:15:27.980 you bring it up right because i'm a romanian and i care about american politics the reality is i

00:15:31.960 care about the internet and the internet right now at least in the west it's kind of global everyone

00:15:37.260 speaks english everyone goes on x everyone hangs around with other people um and i'm concerned about

00:15:43.980 that space right and if i'm from romania i i'm concerned about the english-speaking internet

00:15:49.100 because that's what i interact and um regarding what you said uh this is like the new type of

00:15:55.060 doing censorship because the old censorship stopped working after covid and the old censorship

00:15:59.780 was a little bit honest right if they don't like it they ban you and so the only people that remain

00:16:04.560 are the ones that speak in in the correct tone but people started noticing that and alternative

00:16:11.520 were being made like you had parlor you had alternative platforms growing and so elon

00:16:16.760 mosk actually is the one that discovered the new censorship not necessarily like he himself but

00:16:22.180 like he gave the idea which is like what if we allow everyone and we just amplify some voices

00:16:28.360 and so you can you can have like a group of people that are like legitimately independent

00:16:33.300 and they talk about whatever they want but then you have like the shills that may also be

00:16:38.500 independent but you can be approached by a pr company or uh if you say the correct things

00:16:43.320 the algorithm promotes you and so like those people just drown out all of the ones that are

00:16:48.740 the undesirables and so you end up with an independent person that has something interesting

00:16:52.580 to say but they're not going to get any traction and then you end up with the shield that says like 1.00

00:16:57.080 the most basic bitch thing but like it's also said on tv and they have like hundreds of thousands 1.00

00:17:02.400 of views per that take um well i don't know oh continue yeah i think this is the way of doing 0.73

00:17:09.400 censorship right properly because uh you don't you don't actually see anyone getting oppressed

00:17:14.040 it's just like well i mean these people just happen to have popular takes and the other ones

00:17:18.080 don't right yeah i mean i uh i think i've seen youtube participate in this slightly but it's

00:17:27.460 typically been over very directed censorship so a good example of where this was really obviously

00:17:34.900 happening is um do you follow what are they called now china fact chasers used to be called adv china

00:17:41.480 i've seen yeah i've seen a few videos from them yeah i thought their argument that like the china

00:17:47.400 stuff because we saw this with our channel like china stuff definitely got nerfed when we would

00:17:53.200 do it um but i'll be honest and i do not like being you know overly generous to youtube um

00:18:00.380 i don't feel like we've been nerfed on too many right-wing topics uh like our trans stuff

00:18:08.160 generally does pretty well and in addition to that when i click on my own youtube algorithm

00:18:13.020 i can look at what's being recommended to me actually i'll just do it right now to see like

00:18:18.540 do i feel like any of this is inauthentic to what i would want um something making fun of hassan

00:18:25.520 then some like cartoon stuff then some amvs uh then um halem crowder i guess i'm seeing less

00:18:33.500 i'm seeing my channel um i don't think like the you're looking for like jack dorsey about style

00:18:39.760 censorship and i don't think you're going to find it yeah so how do you think it works well the way

00:18:44.660 it works is that uh you actually do have a right-wing space and a left-wing space which have

00:18:49.800 the approved overtone windows opinions right yeah and then when an important event happens like let's

00:18:57.180 say elections are coming or something like that they only suppress one topic they can suppress

00:19:01.780 like two topics like for example when the robot stage verification happened uh if you talked

00:19:07.400 against it you are suppressed for a while and after that it's being allowed but i remember like

00:19:12.300 uh if if i spoke against ai for example not necessarily like i'm against ai but like if i

00:19:17.760 would have had like okay i don't like this aspect of ai that would be suppressed right so it's it's

00:19:23.920 like specific topics on specific time well what's interesting is if you're right about the ai one

00:19:31.140 and obviously i wouldn't notice that because i'm on the other side of the ai fight no i was well

00:19:35.520 but like there were certain issues that i said okay well i don't really remember exactly what i

00:19:40.000 said but i i was talking about some limitations or i was talking about some negative aspects and

00:19:45.720 those videos got suppressed what's interesting here is that the new era of suppression let's

00:19:52.140 let's like say it's ai in china um neither of them are really political issues it's just things that

00:19:59.060 could hurt their pocketbooks yeah like it's it's not based on political tone policing it's based on

00:20:05.700 maxing their economics and i and i by the way think that china suppression stuff is gonna

00:20:11.920 really hurt china in the long run because they're not able to address their issues or realize how

00:20:16.160 bad they are i mean i i generally don't know like regarding china and seeing the european union

00:20:21.480 looking at them salivating and trying to copy everything so like at some point it's going to

00:20:25.300 be difficult to criticize them because everyone will say well that's what we're doing as well

00:20:29.060 Oh, can you go into that?

00:20:31.940 I mean, look at the Tiananmen Square, right?

00:20:34.840 Like, how does China fix it?

00:20:36.620 They ban it.

00:20:37.560 Like, there's no video footage.

00:20:39.220 They deny it, right?

00:20:41.120 And there was an event in the UK. 0.98

00:20:44.500 I think it was something with an immigrant that stabbed someone.

00:20:48.340 Oh, yeah, the Irina videos and another one that happened in the UK.

00:20:52.420 And the government was basically saying that the problem was the video itself, right?

00:20:57.020 They were not saying that the problem is the illegal act that happened, which people managed to videotape.

00:21:03.360 They were actually saying the problem is X for allowing the videos.

00:21:06.920 For talking about it.

00:21:07.920 Yeah. 0.98

00:21:09.280 That's Chinese mentality, isn't that? 0.84

00:21:11.420 Like you're basically trying to say that the Irina assassination video is the Tiananmen Square for the left.

00:21:17.020 And if you had your way, you would just remove that video from the Internet.

00:21:20.020 and so it's like okay well how if they actually managed to get that done if they actually managed

00:21:26.320 to to implement that policy where they can actually tell social media you delete this

00:21:30.100 video because it's extremist content how is that a different than china it's literally the same

00:21:34.480 policy right i i think you uh hit upon something really interesting here and it reminds me there's

00:21:39.900 a documentary being filmed about us and i was talking with them and they were um asking about

00:21:45.480 uh who who are your people and i go well any anyone who's an american and they're like well

00:21:50.760 what do you mean by american and i'm like well you know like i specifically mentioned you i was

00:21:54.740 like well like romanian tv is like basically an american you know there's a bunch of latin

00:21:57.860 american americans there's a bunch of you know um and and they were like well then what do you

00:22:01.420 mean by american i'm like well you know part of like the american internet right like there's this

00:22:05.740 like wide cultural ecosystem that um and and i and you people don't really feel out of it like

00:22:14.480 nobody really there's some people who will come up and it'll be like oh they're a canadian i had

00:22:19.180 no idea right like oh they're they're actually uh english i had for example aiden paladin i don't

00:22:25.580 know if you know aiden um yeah she's british yeah i had no idea she was british i thought she was

00:22:29.460 an american um uh but the that that's the way the world is beginning to separate and the political

00:22:38.220 battles matter within this geopolitical separated ecosystem, because the freedom of the internet,

00:22:47.660 unless you're in Europe, and you just don't have it anymore, anyway,

00:22:50.700 largely depends depends upon what's happening in American politics.

00:22:55.280 Well, Europe affects the internet as well. I'm not sure you've noticed, but like cloud,

00:22:59.520 for instance, has a text watermark now because European Union demanded it. And so they're

00:23:03.200 implementing over there as well um but another example of uh chidification uh i used to notice

00:23:11.800 that everybody was laughing at china for like requiring you to show a facial scan before using

00:23:16.980 the internet like if you wanted to install a video game and you wanted a steam account you

00:23:21.020 have to show your face and your id if you wanted to talk online you have to show face and id

00:23:27.180 and everyone was like my god like that place is so bad like what are they thinking why are people

00:23:32.040 allowing this and this is where the eu digital service act is moving us towards right like

00:23:37.200 everyone now if if you want to like if you're in the uk and you want to talk on x uh and you

00:23:44.120 want to have access to sensitive content which they try to say that it's pornography but it

00:23:49.060 also includes things like conversations about immigration conversations about you know like

00:23:53.680 the irina assassination videos right oh yeah yourself right so it's the chinese is the chinese 0.98

00:23:59.520 shit literally that i mean just just framed differently so people can accept it in the west 0.99

00:24:04.820 yeah well and they trick a lot like the in the uk a lot of the laws that are being used to do 0.91

00:24:11.420 this sort of censorship were pushed by people like you know louise perry and stuff like that right

00:24:15.840 like the people who were sort of on the right and not that far from us i mean we've had her on our 0.99

00:24:21.120 podcast we've been on her podcast like i i like her as a person but she's tremendously stupid 1.00

00:24:25.860 around human sexuality and and really sets us up to get clobbered um uh by the left because she 0.94

00:24:32.160 uh allows love like that and i and i've noticed this across the uk like all the

00:24:36.620 we went to this um uk political oh we should get him invited what's what's that uh invitation only

00:24:43.860 arc i don't think arc is a good use of people's time anymore okay well anyway um we used to have

00:24:50.000 a bunch of like big people come but um we go there and we meet with all the the uk right-wing

00:24:57.320 people and they were all like oh we need to ban porn we need to ban porn and i was like do you

00:25:00.620 not know what these laws are going to end up being used for and they're just like oh that that'll

00:25:04.180 never happen and this happens even on our channel because i'll mention it sometimes british right

00:25:09.600 wingers are different than american right-wingers uh british right-wingers from my experience are

00:25:14.900 a lot more authoritarian um they i i don't know why like what what exactly happened but maybe it's

00:25:23.380 like how they were raised in schools like they they had way too much feminism and when i say

00:25:28.580 feminism i don't talk about women i mean like that particular gender-based identity politics

00:25:33.640 that was extremely aggressive um and so they they kind of believe that uh it's our turn to be

00:25:40.960 authoritarian they they don't want to like destroy the the system and bring back what was it's like

00:25:46.900 no no like the system is great we just need to get our guy in charge uh americans don't think

00:25:54.100 like that i don't believe and most of the world doesn't think like that except for maybe well

00:25:59.240 actually not even australians well i mean australians don't think that but their governments

00:26:03.920 are very like authoritarian and in terms of the way they handle the internet and stuff

00:26:07.500 um and and another thing i've really noticed about uk and i'm wondering about your perspective

00:26:11.920 as a non-american is that the uk online political commentators on the right are like very low energy

00:26:19.400 depressed and pessimistic when contrasted with the united states ones an example here would be like

00:26:27.240 contrast nux and sargon of a cod right like what are your thoughts on that i mean british culture

00:26:34.040 was always more stoic it's it's just how they are right like if you compare um american

00:26:40.020 sensationalism uh real uh real time shows with uh reality shows with british ones like look at

00:26:47.080 chef's kitchen right uh hell's kitchen sorry hell's kitchen in the united states bombastic

00:26:51.580 chef ramsey screaming yelling dramatic music hell's kitchen in the uk you just hear like the

00:26:57.520 clinking of pans and chef ramsey very polite and right this is the same guy but like different

00:27:03.940 different types of culture and so um i had no idea that plays a part yeah that plays a part and the

00:27:09.360 other thing that plays a part is british people are very reactive to shame like they have an

00:27:13.860 extremely strong shaming culture they don't really have like this individual thing of i know what's

00:27:19.800 best for me i'm in charge of my destiny i do the things good for myself and my family everyone else 0.76

00:27:25.680 is either helping or should fuck off no british people are like extremely characteristic right 0.98

00:27:31.180 Like America used to have on your coins, like you guys had on your coins, mind your own business. 0.99

00:27:36.960 Yeah. 1.00

00:27:38.280 Sincerely, because especially in places where a lot of Puritans came in.

00:27:42.280 And I don't know how many people understand that Puritans actually stands for purifying the Catholic Church.

00:27:47.660 That's what the original thing was.

00:27:49.680 And they were very difficult to be around other colonists.

00:27:52.840 And so the coin was minted, mind your own business.

00:27:56.380 Because they were importing that aspect of the culture. 0.90

00:27:59.000 It's like, no, your business is my business.

00:28:01.180 your business is everyone's business right and not everyone on planet earth thinks this way like

00:28:06.360 there are other cultures that generally do not operate like this well i i this brings me to when

00:28:12.020 i watch your channel you seem like higher energy you seem more like a standard american and i

00:28:16.520 wonder and maybe you you can comment on this in the early days of our channel uh there was a few

00:28:23.040 weird things that happened around romania one was having high overlap with you in the early days

00:28:27.620 but two is we got this weird notification at some point from one of the polling websites that were

00:28:34.240 looking at podcasts and we had broken into like the top 100 podcasts in Romania or something

00:28:39.540 and I was like how did that happen and I wonder do you think that there's like a cultural overlap

00:28:45.000 between Romanian culture and American or Romanian right-wing culture and American culture but this

00:28:50.560 is why I care about American culture because you guys said there there were a lot of issues that

00:28:55.340 were happening around the world and the the press in Romania just didn't talk about it like the

00:29:00.300 as they call it the woke era was in full swing yeah and the Romanian press was still pretending

00:29:06.600 to be innocent about it and not understanding what it is and so like people just went online 0.60

00:29:11.560 right and when you go online who's talking about it it wasn't that the Romanians that were trying

00:29:15.580 to understand it it was already established people like Americans British and so this is why you have

00:29:20.560 a lot of subscribers from Romania because you were talking about the things that generally matter

00:29:24.680 that our television just refused to touch on what do you think what is the romanian left like like

00:29:30.960 what is romanian leftist culture like what are their goals etc and can we learn anything from

00:29:36.320 that in in like american culture yeah this would probably shock you but in eastern europe we

00:29:41.360 genuinely do not have like ideological divide like one of our presidents uh actually smacked 0.98

00:29:47.840 a child on screen uh fucked his mistress on the oval office equivalent but because his policy 0.95

00:29:54.440 got Romania out of debt, 1.00

00:29:56.440 people voted for him. They generally don't care.

00:29:58.400 I'm not voting for him to tell me how

00:30:00.440 to be a moral person. I'm voting for him to

00:30:02.380 fix the fucking economy. What did the child 1.00

00:30:04.620 do? Come on, we gotta know.

00:30:06.580 He was

00:30:07.300 at a speaking event, and

00:30:10.420 he was talking to someone, and a child tried to grab

00:30:12.380 his microphone, and he looked, you know?

00:30:15.280 That's crazy!

00:30:16.780 Yeah, you can find it on YouTube.

00:30:18.500 It's literally Triambosescu,

00:30:20.720 his child. And there was some controversy

00:30:22.720 about it at the time.

00:30:24.160 like the media was sensationalizing and people were like okay but what does this have to do with

00:30:28.020 this economic policy yeah right america isn't like that like america has like a very strong ideology

00:30:34.980 sense of belonging to an identity group uh you guys don't are like you're not really about issue

00:30:41.200 policies as much as you are uh like this is my team i have to protect them i have to support them

00:30:49.120 i have to you know like i'm team right or i'm team left and you have like an entire ideology

00:30:54.360 with the package uh in romania you can have like a right winger that's uh pro-abortion pro-guns

00:31:00.560 um and uh pro-censorship like it doesn't really matter like they have various issues and they

00:31:05.620 vote based on the people that they believe uh represents those issues not not necessarily

00:31:09.860 right or left so is there like a woke faction in romania or it's pretty much everyone in romania

00:31:15.420 on the based faction they're just different categories of it so they tried pushing wokeness

00:31:20.460 in romania and it failed because we have communism and we immediately uh tagged it as communism like 0.84

00:31:25.820 they they tried the this idea like uh if you go to a gypsy you need to call them roma and i grew

00:31:32.380 up in a very diverse neighborhood and the gypsies that i know said like listen i'm a gypsy you call

00:31:36.700 me a roma i beat the living out of you and i was like okay right uh so i suppose like the woke 0.67

00:31:44.380 faction is in the corporate places like there are a couple of cities that are very woke uh the

00:31:49.000 capital uh the um port city constanza and another city called cluj uh these are more woke but either

00:31:58.260 than that like romania is uh pretty libertarian i i would say it's kind of like the internet used

00:32:04.420 to be like most people have the same mentality that uh people in america used to have during

00:32:09.160 the early 2010s interesting and do you think question two though actually about romania like

00:32:16.600 as things have been playing out recently in the news with andrew tate romanians like everyone

00:32:22.000 knew about him was he like known within the country no like most people think he's a douchebag

00:32:26.280 okay like this was the the argument for those of you who don't know andrew tate and the reason he

00:32:31.600 got arrested this is my opinion right i can't fact check it but there is an article in the bbc

00:32:36.300 where andrew tate uh decided to approach the daughter of a sitting senator and she was 16

00:32:43.580 in schools and he gave her the strawberry emoji if you want i can give you the bbc article right now

00:32:49.660 but like andrew tate was a pornographer that was interested in recruiting ladies to join and do

00:32:56.140 online chatting right and he's approaching the 16 year old girls that take into account that

00:33:00.780 romania 16 is legal right so he wasn't breaking the law oh that's young wow yeah but to approach

00:33:07.620 the daughter of a sitting senator in a country that he himself recognized as being corrupt

00:33:12.520 right yeah it's not a good play it's not pro gamer gate move right it's not yeah and so she she went

00:33:20.360 on she complained she was talking about how him and his brother approached many of her colleagues

00:33:25.380 at school doesn't know why right and so uh probably her dad got a little bit upset and he decided to

00:33:33.360 apply the concept that the process is the punishment and so this is why he got dragged into a lot of

00:33:38.780 courts now it's just my my hypothesis because it didn't take a lot of time after he did that to

00:33:44.120 actually end up getting investigated so yeah i mean that's a good i'm not saying it's just like

00:33:50.880 i'm not saying justice should be done because like uh you know if you approach someone else's

00:33:54.940 daughter it's fine but the moment you approach a senator's daughter it becomes a problem

00:33:58.240 well he did seem to get along for a long time without problems but that's actually something

00:34:04.060 that wasn't included in most of the coverage we saw that's really interesting yeah it's on bbc

00:34:08.200 you can look it up andrew takes strawberry mode you google it and you can find it what's the

00:34:12.440 romanian conversation around immigration right now are you guys more like poland like you have

00:34:15.800 very little immigration or like what's what's this uh we don't have a strong welfare state

00:34:20.860 So because of that, most immigrants don't want to stay here.

00:34:23.180 But we do have a lot of people with a worker visa.

00:34:26.200 The conversation is that some people didn't like it.

00:34:29.000 Like they actually assaulted the Glovo driver for no reason.

00:34:32.040 Guy ended up calling for mommy as the police came up to arrest him. 0.71

00:34:36.060 So there are like really high tensions because of what Romanians see on the Internet happening in the West. 0.97

00:34:41.600 And they don't want it here. 0.99

00:34:44.240 But I mean, historically, we didn't have someone, Turkey, Turkey tried to build a massive mosque here. 0.92

00:34:49.820 so we had like a rich guy

00:34:51.780 hiding a helicopter dropping pig carcasses

00:34:53.980 on the mosque grounds

00:34:55.180 people using a catapult to throw like pigs 0.57

00:34:57.680 on the area

00:35:00.100 that was building

00:35:00.800 and also we have a Muslim

00:35:02.660 wait hold on sorry you need to take a step back there 0.99

00:35:05.320 somebody threw pigs

00:35:07.280 where they were building a mosque

00:35:08.980 with a catapult 0.97

00:35:10.140 wait how did they get the catapult there

00:35:13.940 was it an old fashioned catapult

00:35:15.600 or a modern catapult

00:35:16.460 make one it's not i mean if i like it the most normal thing ever ah anyway uh the the thing that

00:35:24.940 happened is like we have a strong muslim community uh for those of that don't know romanian history

00:35:29.260 many romanians don't know yeah when we had our war of independence against the ottoman empire

00:35:34.220 uh there were a couple of muslims that fled from the ottoman empire and they were uh look we will

00:35:39.420 fight for you if you give us the the right to practice our religion and you give us autonomy

00:35:44.380 And so the king at the time said, yeah, sure.

00:35:47.600 And we actually went against the Ottomans with the Russians and the division of Yerniceri.

00:35:53.460 Janiceri, sorry. 0.59

00:35:54.920 So after they won, they were like, OK, well, let's see what we can do.

00:36:00.020 And we managed to build, I think, is the first mosque built by Christians for Muslims.

00:36:04.820 That was a mosque.

00:36:06.180 I think it's close to Constanza now. 0.86

00:36:08.400 And the only thing was like your Mufti has to be vetted by the king.

00:36:12.620 And now we don't have a king, so it's vetted by the Ministry of Culture.

00:36:18.420 And those guys, they were like, we have really good relationships with our Armenian brothers. 1.00

00:36:23.320 We have no reason for this mega mosque to be built. 1.00

00:36:26.040 I think it's going to actually hurt the relationships. 0.99

00:36:28.580 They also gave a list of a couple of imams, and they said, these are preaching a very extremist version of Ohabism. 0.99

00:36:35.020 We don't want it here. 1.00

00:36:36.280 I cannot allow these people in. 1.00

00:36:37.460 And so we never had the problem with Muslims like the West does because we have interacted with Muslims historically and we have good relationships with the Muslims here.

00:36:48.840 this really reminds me of something that we constantly talk about on our channel

00:36:52.240 which is that as a community you have sort of three choices and the the one choice is to say

00:36:59.760 when you have bad actors in your community and then people come to arrest the bad actors and

00:37:05.160 you say well if you arrest the bad actors you have to arrest all of us then you make your whole

00:37:09.500 community antagonistic to that society um and then you can be neutral and just not do anything

00:37:15.840 and let them arrest bad actors when they do or you can do the opposite and proactively target

00:37:22.720 remove and punish bad actors and if you do that then you become sort of maximally integratable

00:37:30.080 into other cultural institutions and it sounds like in romania the muslim population

00:37:35.920 did that option which made them very easy to integrate and get along with yeah literally

00:37:42.840 nobody has a problem with our muslims uh i'm talking about the ones that uh are are historic

00:37:49.780 to the country yeah they're historic to the country and they have ties and connections here

00:37:53.640 uh like obviously if if you have like a new group of people that would come up and they would create

00:37:58.660 a scandal then yes but like even that is unheard of because we deport them right away like for

00:38:03.400 example there when i went to the university of medicine uh we didn't have a lot of muslims that

00:38:09.400 came in here to study and uh if they got into a fight or if they committed any type of crime like 0.99

00:38:16.200 they would be deported the next day and so most people came here yeah like most Muslims that came 0.99

00:38:20.920 here were low-abiding people they had absolutely no problem some of them even started drinking

00:38:25.080 alcohol so they had like uh two graduation festivals uh one for the young people that

00:38:30.680 are here and one for the parents that were coming from home and the one with the parents no alcohol

00:38:35.000 no smoking no nothing and at the celebration here it was with alcohol and stuff uh yeah like

00:38:41.320 everyone was friendly with everyone like that there wasn't any any type of like cultural divide

00:38:45.640 or anything and they would get their license their medical practice and then they would go

00:38:49.400 and practice it back home so i've stayed here and practiced uh but like we never have these

00:38:55.560 these huge controversies you know that you have in the west because if you actually apply the law

00:39:00.120 and you actually demand that people integrate you have a different outcome than if you're

00:39:03.560 actually funding division and you're paying so that people hate each other well that and low

00:39:09.080 amounts of social services are going to prevent you from drawing in bad actors yeah yeah yeah

00:39:14.520 like uh there were immigrants that cried on tv here because they got fingerprinted in romania 0.73

00:39:19.880 and uh that means yeah no like that means they have to stay in romania that's the eu law like

00:39:24.440 you stay in the first country you get fingerprinted oh really yeah yeah and when they found out that

00:39:29.160 that they're staying in Romania,

00:39:30.340 they started crying and pissing me around the television. 0.83

00:39:33.280 That's because they wanted to go to Germany

00:39:34.620 or to Sweden, right?

00:39:36.180 Yeah, I mean, they put sweet deals.

00:39:38.040 That's very interesting.

00:39:40.220 I mean, if I was them as well,

00:39:41.860 I'm not going to lie, you know?

00:39:43.040 Like, if I travel half the world

00:39:45.360 because I'm thinking, like,

00:39:47.080 I'm going to get free housing and free welfare

00:39:49.720 and I get stuck in a country that doesn't give you,

00:39:51.800 yeah, it's probably pretty traumatizing.

00:39:53.500 It would absolutely be, yeah.

00:39:55.960 It would be very disappointing.

00:39:57.240 That's fascinating.

00:39:58.000 okay so what are you thinking about the future right now like where do you think one of the

00:40:03.660 things that i found very interesting is when i look at like the global left right now

00:40:07.140 they've really retreated from a lot of positions they held historically so an example would be

00:40:13.220 like even greta thornburg gave up on environmentalism right like uh she it's just not something

00:40:18.860 i hear people talk about anymore i don't hear people talk that much about like anti-black

00:40:23.000 racism anymore i don't hear people talk about um like there was the the gaza war but then like

00:40:30.400 trump ended that and now like they don't talk that much about the iranian war even gretchen

00:40:34.360 burgh has mostly dropped palestine as a cause actually i'm getting funded right like yeah yeah

00:40:40.020 that gretchen funberg had her own opinions is ridiculous so where do you think they go next

00:40:44.920 what's the next cause what's the next thing what safety what it's safety like safety safety no it's 0.82

00:40:52.580 like law and order or like ai safety no like the the concept of like keeping people safe

00:40:58.600 is now the new concept of equity equality right like it's uh uh whatever they talk about the ai

00:41:06.280 digital safety act right internet safety uh the method of control is safety from ideas

00:41:14.480 yeah yeah pretty much from ideas um the the way that i think modern society is working now

00:41:22.020 is that a single clip that goes viral

00:41:24.640 can destroy a career, right?

00:41:27.320 And politicians have noticed this.

00:41:29.200 CEOs have noticed this.

00:41:30.780 And so in order for them to avoid

00:41:34.840 the tarnished image, if you will,

00:41:37.480 they constantly hide behind committees.

00:41:39.120 They constantly hide behind polls.

00:41:42.600 They hide behind experts.

00:41:44.780 And so I would call it the safe-oriented managerial class

00:41:49.960 will constantly say we're making this decision for safety purposes right like for example we're

00:41:55.540 reducing carbon emissions to keep people safe we're censoring the internet to keep people safe

00:42:00.200 we are pushing the digital id to keep people safe like this is what they're going to say like

00:42:07.220 safety is going to be the maximum uh desire so the culture war is going to be pro-safety versus

00:42:13.120 anti-safety or like yeah it's so smart right like it's so smart whoever thought about it because if

00:42:19.160 you're against them you're against safety right what type of person is against safety it sounds 0.97

00:42:24.080 ridiculous but when you're looking at what safety means it's it's not like look at what an ai does

00:42:29.180 right like what is ai safety uh well it's against talking about certain topics that are true uh it's 0.87

00:42:36.140 about uh you know eliminating any type of conversation that can be lewd or uh pornographic

00:42:43.120 or whatever like how is it unsafe if let's say you have like a 25 year old uh doing some erotic

00:42:49.100 got with chat gpt right but it's unsafe for the company right it's risk and the risk is not a good

00:42:55.400 thing so uh they again this is just one example right but that's where we by the way make our

00:43:02.120 money is that we have a company where people do like uh role play with ais guys you should check

00:43:06.900 it out rfav.ai uh gotta gotta do a plug here continue yeah yeah no uh well i mean most of

00:43:13.620 the laws passed in the uk like right now in the u sorry like uh right now i heard that they want

00:43:18.400 to go after people's bank accounts right like if you have money invested in the eu they should

00:43:22.980 be able to access that or you're not allowed to have financial transactions more than 10 000 euros

00:43:28.400 with cash like all of these are done for safety purposes so you're going to start hearing the

00:43:33.880 word safety a lot oh that is an interesting prediction i totally agree though in a recent

00:43:39.680 interview with the flock ceo because flock is really controversial now um he the ceo flock

00:43:46.720 framed it as a battle or a conflict between safety and privacy yeah um and so i guess maybe

00:43:54.540 it's not anti-safety but like privacy but i i take umbrage with this concept of it being

00:43:59.860 a safety versus privacy because we never had privacy to begin with and anyone who thinks

00:44:03.400 that we did is no like safety is the same code word for like equity equality social justice

00:44:10.540 they just rebranded right now environmentalist stuff i don't think it's going to go away because

00:44:15.960 it's codified in a lot of laws especially in the european union yeah um and you also have like the

00:44:21.400 scandal with the ice data centers which do actually cause some environmental issues but they consume a

00:44:27.840 lot of water from what i understand no not really we've done an episode we haven't done it live but

00:44:32.640 if you contrast it with other things that consume water like almond production it's like one one

00:44:38.320 thousandth or something um like uh this is in the united states you can look up this graph it's

00:44:43.020 really crazy no i believe it i believe it but the propaganda is basically that people buy yeah

00:44:47.580 it's all over the place they bought it it's not that they buy it they already bought it right

00:44:51.040 like an ai you build one and you have a desert around it yeah uh so it's wild but i don't care

00:44:58.380 i mean i'm having so much fun with ai ai by the way have you been having what are what are you

00:45:02.040 doing with ai these days i mean ai is uh in my opinion it's like a glorified um grammar check

00:45:10.840 engine right the the spell check engines right like ai is pretty much functioning the same way

00:45:15.380 i i can use it as a search engine it's a lot better than just using google search especially

00:45:20.680 after google search was nerfed significantly uh you can use it in order to summarize like you

00:45:27.920 you personally are you vibe coding yet are you making ai images you use it for title cards oh

00:45:32.240 yeah you don't use it for title cards now that i remembered no no no because i've noticed that

00:45:37.600 there are people out there that are ai vegans uh they yeah like let's put it like that right like

00:45:43.240 they will refuse to use ai no matter what uh and so i i don't use ai in my work not because i

00:45:51.320 personally don't like it i like i use it for fun and recreational activities yeah but when it comes

00:45:56.040 to anything that's customer facing uh i i flat out refuse to use it i don't mind if i don't use it

00:46:01.160 right do you see it's a professional liability yeah it is a professional liability especially

00:46:05.820 especially in the indie games

00:46:08.620 scene

00:46:09.240 do you make indie games?

00:46:12.560 I didn't know that

00:46:13.380 I'll tell you after

00:46:16.040 anyway

00:46:17.040 the whole thing is that if you use AI

00:46:19.900 in an indie game

00:46:21.620 you can lose around 20-30% of your

00:46:23.860 customer base

00:46:24.780 people just refuse to buy it

00:46:27.620 and they will give you negative reviews

00:46:29.980 it's the same

00:46:31.720 vegan mentality

00:46:33.240 it doesn't matter how good the burger is

00:46:35.320 the vegan will just not buy it yeah out of principle no that's i mean that's the big next

00:46:40.240 culture war that really we think it's going to be at play and because we're seeing the same kind

00:46:44.460 of like performative stuff at play where like beyond logic people are using either biased in

00:46:52.460 favor of or against i i think the real scandal will start when the losses drop and i'll tell

00:46:58.200 you how uh first of all there's also going to be the actual scandal when robots come online

00:47:03.020 because elon musk and china is developing robots a lot of people are single a lot of people are

00:47:08.560 going to be uh old and alone and they don't want to go to a to an elderly people home and so like

00:47:16.080 they could have a robot that cooks and cleans right and i can definitely see that happening

00:47:20.780 by the time we're 65 like i think everyone is going to have a robot the same way that people

00:47:25.680 have a car i mean they aren't really or that chinese company released moving um robots with

00:47:32.700 like personalities like kind of combined real doll type aesthetics yeah so but like here's the

00:47:39.340 problem right and we already see it with ai now a lot of people that get divorced for example or

00:47:44.960 they get sued or anything like that you can have a judge go on discovery and see everything you

00:47:50.780 spoke with chat gpt uh there's even like smash jt uh another content creator and he's uh with a

00:47:57.140 lawsuit with alisa mercante and i understand like during his discovery like the judge actually look

00:48:02.220 at the legal questions he was asking chat gpt and it didn't make him look good in front of a jury i

00:48:08.840 don't know what happened with that but the idea is like a lot of people don't know that the stuff

00:48:13.280 they're talking with their ai whether it's uh stuff about psychology you know like you're treating the

00:48:19.020 as a therapist or you're venting to the ai about the way your spouse is treating you or you're

00:48:24.820 talking with the ai about legal questions uh that actually is actionable in court like a judge can

00:48:30.680 say i want to see your chat gpt logs and they are legally obligated to provide them because

00:48:36.580 unlike when you talk to a lawyer or when you talk to a psychiatrist that they actually can't keep a

00:48:41.500 secret right i mean they're professionally yeah so like if you if you go to a chat gpt and you're

00:48:47.480 like okay so i'm in this work contract and uh i i want to weasel out of a clause right uh how can

00:48:53.800 i legally do it or what yeah famous case see uh what's the game again subnautica yeah there was

00:49:04.340 a game subnautica where they pulled his gpt logs and he literally asked chat gpt how can i screw

00:49:11.200 like not pay this person the uh amount that they would need to for hitting certain sales figures

00:49:18.960 told him to do no delay the launch of the game no i mean this is the question you'd ask a lawyer

00:49:25.680 let's be honest right like almost i i i would say the overwhelming majority of business people

00:49:31.120 at some point would try to talk to a lawyer like can i wiggle out of this legal responsibility

00:49:36.240 and people don't understand that when you talk to chat gpt you can get under discovery now this is

00:49:42.760 not the bad this is not a monumental thing now imagine when you have a robot in your house

00:49:46.860 that actually needs to see everything you're doing and let's say your wife wants to file a divorce

00:49:51.660 and it has access to like every single video recording so like they can selectively edit

00:49:57.720 only the time you were having a fight or you were upset or you said something that you didn't mean

00:50:02.920 but later on you, you worked it out. Every single couple has it, right?

00:50:07.400 So you're going to love one of the products that we developed recently.

00:50:11.140 So you can buy these little devices and put them around your house and they have like little

00:50:16.380 characters on them and everything. And they're, they're very cheap. They're like 45 bucks and

00:50:20.580 it records everything that's happening in your house at all times. And then it has access to

00:50:25.240 your calendar and it has access to every family member's email account. And then at the end of

00:50:29.640 the day it calls you to give you like advice on what you should be doing,

00:50:32.820 help you with your email, help you with whatever you're working on.

00:50:35.900 But this would have access to literally everything in court records.

00:50:40.880 And I think that we should make it so that this stuff is more private.

00:50:46.260 Like I actually think I don't think you can. I don't think you legally can.

00:50:49.420 Like if a judge orders you for discovery.

00:50:54.760 Yeah. Yeah. So you need new laws.

00:50:56.200 yeah you yeah you would have to petition people to make new laws and and i think like maybe there

00:51:02.080 will be but like probably only the politicians will have access to them because like we we see

00:51:06.740 with the european union's chat control like the politicians exempt themselves and so uh you may

00:51:12.640 have like laws for privacy but they will only happen after you have like either a culture of

00:51:17.800 like this constantly being an issue and even then you may have people saying no actually it's a good

00:51:23.620 thing like it should be that way right so yeah i i generally like don't know what the future will

00:51:30.080 be but i know like robots are going to be definitely a huge scandal uh when when people

00:51:34.580 start getting discovery over stuff that they talked into their own home uh you may even have

00:51:39.260 like robots that start doing uh stuff for safety like if they hear if they see a child in danger

00:51:45.040 right so like let's say you're asleep and the kid starts playing with the stove you know like

00:51:51.480 something that can happen uh they can actually call child service protection on you right like

00:51:57.000 if you're a person that's a problem they can just go through all the recording that your robot has

00:52:01.940 uh select a couple of clips that make you look really bad put them together over like one or

00:52:07.700 two years of time period and convince uh committing that you're an extremely bad parent

00:52:12.880 when in reality you may not be right so until these cases drop people are not going to understand

00:52:18.560 just what they're inviting into their own

00:52:20.700 house. Yeah, makes

00:52:22.700 perfect sense. Okay, so I think this will be

00:52:24.700 the final question, because there's something I

00:52:26.580 often like to ask in these

00:52:28.540 at least first interviews we do as people

00:52:30.300 is why did you start? Like, why did you

00:52:32.640 start doing your channel, and what was

00:52:34.620 the original goal of the channel?

00:52:36.680 Well, it was just against censorship, and I still am

00:52:38.580 now. Again, I come from a

00:52:40.520 communist culture where

00:52:42.380 there was absolutely no benefit for the

00:52:44.480 people for having censorship, like

00:52:46.400 none whatsoever and when i saw it happening in the west i was like okay i recognize this and

00:52:51.800 someone needs to speak out now the reason i spoke out because at the time if you spoke out as a

00:52:56.940 british or an american person you could get fired from your job like if you are against feminism if

00:53:01.680 you talked against the culture you could actually have someone contact your employer and try and get

00:53:07.680 you fired i mean you remember the the tumblr era right like there were blog posts with medals and

00:53:12.560 shit it's like oh we got this and this guy fired uh so i was like well i probably i don't have 0.97

00:53:17.660 such issue like um if someone says to my employer like what i'm doing online no one gives a shit 0.99

00:53:23.340 uh and so uh yeah you i i decided to speak out because the things that i was saying i 0.54

00:53:29.960 believe them to be true and i i didn't think that it should be a problem for people talking about

00:53:34.780 No. Well, that's, uh, uh, fine. Uh, okay. Um, I'm really, no, I'm really, really glad

00:53:48.600 in favor of free speech though. And I hope pushing because it's getting, I think it's

00:53:54.340 getting worse. The new generation doesn't seem to appreciate it because I don't think

00:53:58.280 they ever had it. If you're a zoomer growing up in the COVID era, I think the normal is 1.00

00:54:03.060 the authoritarian measure 100 and so whether they're left-wing or right-wing they they just 1.00

00:54:09.540 believe authoritarianism is the normal way just like we need to have our ideology at the top

00:54:14.100 the problem with this mentality is that when your ideology eventually splinters like when you

00:54:19.500 eventually have different groups that in your ideology break apart they will use the same

00:54:25.440 tactics against the people that aren't in the majority and we see this with like feminists

00:54:30.180 and they used to be allies with the trans activists.

00:54:32.780 And now the trans activists are using feminist tactics

00:54:35.020 against the feminists, right? 0.94

00:54:37.480 And I think we'll see more of that in the future. 1.00

00:54:42.200 Okay.

00:54:44.180 Well, this has been a lot of fun.

00:54:46.840 I hope you continue producing.

00:54:48.980 Oh, I guess final question.

00:54:50.060 Why'd you choose a troll for your VTuber avatar?

00:54:52.840 It's a Blizzard artist that I knew.

00:54:55.360 I actually helped him get a job

00:54:57.100 because he stopped working at the company

00:55:00.260 since he felt it soul-crushing,

00:55:02.360 like he wasn't allowed to draw what he usually draws.

00:55:06.140 And because we got into a good vibe,

00:55:14.180 he said, it's like, oh, did you want me to do something for you?

00:55:17.380 And Vin Chubing was taking off.

00:55:18.780 And I was like, this is a nice fad.

00:55:20.660 And the fact that I can just stream

00:55:23.480 without worrying about how my hair looks like.

00:55:27.100 i i was like okay i'll try it out because i think like my actual camera broke i didn't have a high

00:55:31.980 quality camera at the time i was like you know let's drive it to me and so uh he showed me like

00:55:36.380 a couple of uh characters that he drew for his personal uh like certain characters that he drew

00:55:43.740 that didn't make it into uh blizzard products or stuff that he drew and he had like various

00:55:48.220 murlocs and shit and i was like well you know like that troll looks kind of interesting like 0.68

00:55:51.900 Like, I'll take that. 0.87

00:55:54.860 And then he drew it on layers, and I got it animated.

00:55:58.400 That's awesome.

00:56:00.080 That was great to have you on.

00:56:01.840 Everybody should check out his channel.

00:56:03.380 You have more than one channel, right?

00:56:05.360 Yeah, I have Rubadian TV where I talk about politics.

00:56:08.780 I have Lack of Entertainment where I talk about anime and comic books and cultural things.

00:56:14.100 And I have Rubadian TV live stream where I live stream.

00:56:16.560 I keep them separate because people were complaining that I was mixing the subjects and they weren't enjoying subscribing for politics and getting news about anime.

00:56:30.200 We've gotten that sometimes, but I just make my audience eat it.

00:56:34.000 I'm like, they're like, why do you have so many VTubers on? 0.57

00:56:36.900 And I was like, I don't care because VTubers are relevant to our politics.

00:56:41.120 Anime is relevant to our politics these days. 0.97

00:56:43.260 And if you don't think it is, then you're just not plugged in.

00:56:46.560 it is uh upsetting in my opinion that anime is relevant um because when i grew up uh america

00:56:53.900 used to have like such amazing tv shows you guys had um uh prison break uh battle star galactica

00:57:00.820 star trek uh i grew up with uh stargate but i guess like that's canadian although it was

00:57:07.400 the idea was like anime existed and if you told someone about it it's like that's cartoons that's

00:57:13.060 for kids it's like watch something for grown-ups watch buffy the vampire slayer like that was you

00:57:17.340 know like stuff yeah and the reason anime is popular now is that the anime became better is

00:57:23.420 that america used safety and sloppified that entertainment like you guys completely destroyed

00:57:29.220 your soft power and it's getting to the point where a dodger station uh has gargura singing

00:57:35.320 rather than a disney character oh absolutely disney has completely destroyed their brand

00:57:40.060 uh chasing this stuff and you know even for our kids you know we we show them uh uh miyazaki

00:57:47.520 movies and not disney movies um and and kids love miyazaki i gotta recommend anybody with kids like

00:57:53.620 go miyazaki before disney the kids really emotionally engage with them much better

00:57:58.220 um i mean i'm going to grow them with with stuff like dragon ball naruto i think like anime has a

00:58:04.420 lot more right-wing themes i mean look at naruto right like what what is naruto it's like love

00:58:08.980 about your own country uh the power of friendship right like uh the sanctity of marriage is even

00:58:15.420 there like naruto doesn't go sleep around sakura doesn't sleep around right like they actually

00:58:19.500 wait for their significant others and then they have children like and i see right-wingers in 0.82

00:58:26.000 britain freaking out oh my fan service oh this is pornography you're showing it to a child 1.00

00:58:30.320 it's like motherfucker have you seen netflix like you would rather show a kid netflix rather than 0.99

00:58:35.660 show you have naruto like are you mentally insane why because they have a couple of jokes there 1.00

00:58:38.980 about titties and that's horrifying you like i grew up with baywatch that hardened me as a man 0.99

00:58:43.640 growing up with stuff like buffy the vampire slayer you know like that america's had fan 0.95

00:58:49.580 service and sex and over every single tv show like yeah yes and the fan service in anime is

00:58:55.780 usually done for jokes right it's not done because like they're uh trying necessarily to uh

00:59:00.860 to indoctrinate people like they're saying yeah i i've got to recommend people who are wondering

00:59:05.260 how right wing is uh naruto have you seen rock lee gets red pilled no no but like i i want to

00:59:15.620 make it clear like i don't think right wing in the sense that uh they want you to vote republican

00:59:21.300 i'm saying like certain themes that just do not exist in american tv shows okay okay okay

00:59:27.820 gai sensei how exactly does this benefit the hidden leaf village what do you mean well think

00:59:34.120 about it. Why are we risking our shinobi and our resources on another village that has no

00:59:38.680 allegiance to us? No allegiance? Lee, the Hidden Sand is our greatest ally. Greatest ally? But they

00:59:45.740 attacked us three years ago. Yes, but that was Orochimaru who... But they brought a tailed beast

00:59:50.580 to our village! And we dealt with it. Let bygones be bygones. Our cost of living has only increased

00:59:56.280 since Takono had crushed three years ago, yet the value of the Ryo has fallen as our commissions

01:00:00.780 stagnate that's simply how the economy works lee that's right i've reached the ninth gate of noticing

01:00:08.860 you can't haven't you noticed gai sensei do you ever wonder how most of the hokages tend to come

01:00:14.860 from the senju clan highly doubt they murdered 600 000 senju don't you realize how many bodies

01:00:20.780 that would be gai sensei well the population's artistic state otherwise yeah no like uh the the

01:00:26.860 The anime themes are something that the left wants to go up now.

01:00:31.620 Attack on Titan was the last throw, I think.

01:00:34.740 They even had articles saying it promotes fascism.

01:00:38.940 Uh-oh.

01:00:40.020 Yeah, they also hated Legacy of the Shield Hero,

01:00:42.680 where the villain is a woman that falsely accuses the main character of rape.

01:00:48.300 Oh, yeah, well, that's season one.

01:00:51.160 Great show.

01:00:52.300 Yeah, and so you have Vice write an article saying

01:00:56.140 anime is pedophilic and it does see that after that there is this huge accusation that uh anime

01:01:03.760 needs western consultants well i mean this has been fun for me because so many leftists like

01:01:08.580 thought anime was safe for them and then like x started translating anime creators and uh the

01:01:15.220 the right has become more pro anime and they've just now like what what are you like a chud you

01:01:19.160 like anime like yeah no i i mean a lot of right wingers were banned from everywhere and they found

01:01:25.480 refuge in anime forums like 4chan

01:01:27.480 and other places because

01:01:29.300 it was the only places that would have them during

01:01:31.400 the Jack Torcy era and so

01:01:33.240 being right-wing got associated with anime

01:01:35.540 because they used a lot of the anime aesthetics

01:01:37.240 and they made

01:01:39.460 friends with a lot of people from the anime community

01:01:41.680 but again

01:01:43.260 now the idea is to funnel

01:01:45.480 anime through western

01:01:46.880 places like Clanchirol and

01:01:49.360 Clanchirol will have terms of service and what's

01:01:51.320 acceptable and not to have in an anime

01:01:53.060 uh it will start with sexualization like it started with comic books in america right it

01:01:58.200 was like uh you shouldn't sexualize women in batman or whatever yeah then move on from

01:02:02.780 sexualization to political talking points yeah yeah um well i mean i i mean crunchyroll has

01:02:10.060 tried with that i think i mean i hope that they're because everybody knows to hate crunchyroll now

01:02:14.860 like they know that they're like leftist nonsense and like go with something else like high dive if

01:02:19.140 you can but um still i mean i i think they're still making money so it doesn't matter how many

01:02:24.240 people yeah it doesn't um all right well it was wonderful to have you on um please check out his

01:02:29.280 stuff and uh i'll end right here so we just did a major update with rfab that makes it much

01:02:36.700 much easier to play and use for free we've always had the capability to run free models

01:02:42.160 but we realized that some people thought that like candy AI and janitor AI were cheaper to use

01:02:50.000 and I realized I was like well our free models are better than their best paid models so I don't

01:02:55.160 know what you're talking about and then I realized people just weren't using our free models

01:02:58.360 so I put those in and the paid models are for if you want to use you know the Cadillac version

01:03:04.280 of our service if you're like I only want the smartest AI ever that's what ends up costing so

01:03:09.340 about it because we put on the literal most advanced models that anyone can access in the

01:03:15.420 world right now as options for telling your stories but i wanted to make the free models easier

01:03:21.580 oh and if you aren't familiar with what i'm talking about it's rfab.ai or just google reality

01:03:26.380 fabricator and it is a it's what we're recording this on so it does all sorts of different things

01:03:31.660 but the main thing it does is ai sort of tell your own adventure stories or companion chats or

01:03:39.340 you know, play through an izakai novel, like those old game, text-based games,

01:03:44.420 except truly open world.

01:03:46.640 We just, for Netflix, we just passed the top of Netflix's bot.

01:03:52.040 What are you going to do with all this?

01:03:54.680 I'm going to show to us how it works when I wrote them up, all of them, in the past, like this.

01:04:02.480 You're going to do some target practice?

01:04:03.740 Um, yes, I'm going to show them how to put some things on, how to load it.

01:04:16.740 Give me that!

01:04:18.740 Again. 1.00

01:04:19.740 get one one give me a bullet 0.97

01:04:33.040 they are loading up their ammo indy what do you think 0.98

01:04:45.900 I need some.

01:04:47.360 No!

01:04:48.860 Oh my goodness, girl.

Based Camp - September 14, 2026

American Political Influencers ... In Eastern Europe？ (The Globalisation of the Culture War)

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