The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1220
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Summary
In this episode of The Load Eaters, host Luca and co-host Nate are joined by Josh Friesen ( ) and Harry Buyit ( ) as they discuss the fact that the Left has finally discovered Islam, and how it's going to change the world, and why no one believes in the future anymore.
Transcript
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Who are the men that pick for scraps amongst the ruins at the end of history?
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You should know, because you encounter them every day.
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Between the towering buildings of a fallen empire, we find the Fellaheen, the historyless men,
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who know nothing of the turning of the cosmic wheel and find themselves outside of civilization
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itself. Cut loose from the great chain of being, they represent the loan into which our dying
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culture will return. That is, unless we choose to take up the burden once again.
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This Fellaheen condition is the subject we explore in issue 4 of Islander magazine.
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On sale, while stocks last, and available worldwide at shop.loadseaters.com.
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Load Seaters episode 1220 for Thursday the 31st of
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July 2025. I'm your host Luca, joined today again by Harry.
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And today we're going to be talking to you all about the fact that the leftists have finally
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You see, that's a problem. They remember, and then they forget. And on and on it goes, like...
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Like, like, small, testosterone-less, retarded goldfish.
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Yes, well put. I won't do it with a segment, no, it just sums it all up perfect.
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By the way, folks, if it looks at any point like I'm moving like Michael Keaton Batman,
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I've got a pinched nerve in the back of my neck right now, so I can't really turn my head
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Yeah. So, uh, we're using the swivel chair to its fullest potential.
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You need to do a sort of Dr. Evil. You need to start your segment facing the opposite way
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It doesn't quite work, because the chair just hits the table.
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Yes, it does, and also destroys half of the studio.
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But when Harry isn't just swiveling on his chair for the entire thing, we're also going
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Well, you're going to bring the chaos of Japan striking back, aren't you?
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I wanted to make that joke, but I thought, no, that's too on the nose. You've made it
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Well, yeah. No joke beyond me. And why no one believes in the future anymore. A nice, sunny
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Yes, to counter Mr. H's depressing segment about the future from yesterday, I'm countering
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with a depressing segment about how there is no future.
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So, before we begin, of course, you may have noticed the obvious magazine in front of all
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of our stands. And yes, Islander issue four is now with us, ladies and gentlemen. Rory
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has once again done a tremendous job with the aesthetics. There are all sorts of esoteric
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This is actually what he looks like. This is him now.
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And I've not been able to read through the articles yet. Obviously, it's just come out,
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but I do know that there's many wonderful writers in there, as usual. Carl's written a piece,
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I've written, yeah, number four of Marshals of Middle-earth, this time talking all about
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the Dark Lord Sauron. Very mean guy, very nasty, did some bad things.
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He did. He did. Anyway, let's begin talking about the news. So, the Green Party are currently
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having an election within their party for who is going to be the great pioneer who is going
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to bring us into the net-zero utopia, of course, that we will no doubt all live in towards the
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I thought it was the Islamic Caliphate they were bringing in.
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They're going to spread the light of Islam, but also solar panels.
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The solar panels of Islam. Yes, Mohammed talked about this.
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The climate stuff is genuinely not even what people think about now when you think of the
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Green Party, as you say, Harry. You think about Islam.
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And there's a reason for that. And it's obviously because when we look back to the last general
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election, the Green Party's Gaza stance won over a lot of Muslim voters.
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And with new Muslim voters also comes new Muslim councillors.
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And, therefore, more Muslim influence in the Green Party itself.
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So, let's have a look at the quality of these men, shall we?
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And, obviously, I've got those slightly out of order.
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But, as you can see here as well, the Green Party, the Muslim Greens, right?
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So, you've now got... I mean, how is that for an image?
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That's a proper UK aesthetic, if ever I saw one.
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And, yeah, you can see all sorts of things here about our main objectives and aims.
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It looks like the island from Jurassic Park that has all the dinosaurs on.
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Because the Green Party is obviously one that, even more than the Labour Party,
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you know, it really is just that one where all of the minorities and freaks flock to
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in order to protect themselves against the mean, big, bad fascists,
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But, you know, just everyone is a fascist on the outside of this.
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And so, as I say, you have a growing Muslim influence.
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And let's just check in on this chap now, you know, over a year on,
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You see, because of the internal elections that are going on in the Green Party,
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for what the future of the Green Party is going to look like,
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this crossroads of destiny that we find ourselves at, gentlemen...
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Because whenever I think of destiny, I think of the Green Party.
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I don't know why I make that association between the word destiny and that.
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So, but one of the things, of course, with this is, like, well,
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wants to become the deputy leader of the Green Party.
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So he, obviously, in this, has to decide what his stances are, what are his pledges, what are his positions...
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Appropriately, the word inbred is also trending.
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Uh, so as he says, I've been, um, I've been sent pledges and hustings invitations from a number of special interests and liberation groups,
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such as the vegan greens, I didn't know there was another kind...
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Uh, the, the alphabet people greens, the feminist greens, you get the idea.
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I've chosen not to sign any, not because I don't support their causes, but because...
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Also, the alphabet people, they're not big fans of them.
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Uh, he says, I've chosen not to sign any, not because...
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Ideally, sitting down in conversation and not via third parties.
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I believe the pledge system runs the risk of undermining our internal democratic process.
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Uh, I did get this message to one of the groups in advance, but I recognise that my communication
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I won't trouble you with the rest of it, but you get the idea.
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He doesn't want to commit to certain pledges that a lot of the middle-class progressive
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English people in the Green Party, of course, dedicate their lives to...
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Even if I disagree with them as well, because they're stupid.
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But he disagrees with them because they're white interests.
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So, but this led to some genuinely funny interactions, where all of a sudden you get just green, uh,
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members saying, okay, but do you, will you support the LGBT, uh, groups, pledges in future?
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It says, this carbon has been declared neutral.
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It says, I don't agree with the concept of pledges.
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I'll be happy to work with them on issues they are confronting.
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But that makes you the only candidate that has this opinion.
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And the optics of that decision leaves me with questions about your candidacy, which I didn't have before.
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If you're saying Muslims are automatically anti-LGBT, that seems like bigotry to me.
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But the face-eating saber-toothed tigers won't eat my face, surely.
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But when asked and they answer candidly, they'll be like, yeah, we don't agree with this.
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Have you seen the opinion polls that they give?
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And so this is, you're starting to see this realization dawning on a few members of the Green Party of, hang on, these people actually have nothing in common with us.
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And we're just the latest line of useful idiots, right, that are just being used as a vehicle.
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But, of course, you get people like Adnan, independent, very, very independently minded MP for, yes, Blackburn, says,
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I'm following this dilemma being faced by Mothin with great interest.
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It's no secret that Muslims tend to be socially conservative.
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Is there space on the left to create a broad enough church to allow Muslims an authentic space, just as it does with all other minority groups?
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So, it's like, okay, but a broad church for socially conservative people in the Green Party.
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This is a wonderful can of worms that has been opened.
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Also, I like the slight Palpatine-esque introduction to this comment as well.
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And so, but it's also just farcical, of course, because it's like, well, is there room for an authentic space for Muslims?
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And there are many, many countries with many, many beliefs in it similar to yours.
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Now, of course, this is not me suggesting that because Adnan is not British, because he doesn't support progressive values, as we know, having progressive values is not actually a litmus test as to whether or not one is or is not British.
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Because I am British, but I do not have progressive values.
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Right. Also, you know, that great age of Victorian homophobia, none of them were British, of course, because the attitude to gays was different then.
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British were created in 1997 by a Blair government white paper.
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So, you've obviously got a lot of leftists having to now debate this.
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And Bastani's dipping in here saying, lots of responses to this.
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Ultimately, social conservative is such a broad term, it becomes meaningless.
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It sort of implies certain beliefs about certain things that you wouldn't have got if it hadn't been used.
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As ever, though, the rest of this is Aaron Bastani at war with his alter ego, Aaron Bastani.
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He's like a political two-face, not in a pejorative sense, but just that he's at war with either side of himself constantly.
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So, he occasionally comes out with very sensible things.
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My personal opinion is that there's been this ongoing discussion, hasn't there?
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Almost like, you know, a bookie's bet over the years as to who is going to come out on top of this.
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Is it going to be the Rainbow Brigade or is it going to be the Muslims?
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Because they're going to be much more determined to assert their moral worldview.
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And they have a much stronger collective sense of identity against all of their, I'm just an individual, you know, people in the Green Party.
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And so, what you see here is the ongoing domination of the Green Party by the Muslim sect within it.
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And it is, of course, going to start eating into it more and more and forging the trajectory of it as time goes on.
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I'm sure at some point it will simply be renamed the Gaza Party.
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The problem is, of course, that we already have one of those now.
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Obviously, with Corbyn's party coming, it's very strange.
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It's going to be, well, I mean, the Green Party is going to be made even more irrelevant than they already were.
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Because you can only imagine that a lot of the Green voters, who really have no ideological difference with Corbyn whatsoever,
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are simply going to see Corbyn's party, see that it just has greater electoral chances.
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You don't have to potentially have to rubbish about with all of the Green extra messaging on top of it.
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Your, like, Corbyn's party does seem to be specifically almost entirely one issue from the messaging that I've seen coming from them thus far.
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Well, also, I saw a, it's not on here, but I saw a video from Mothin, where, to show his Green Party credentials,
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he was just going about just picking up some litter and putting it in the bin.
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And I would only suggest that he might want to have a word with a lot of the ghettos in Birmingham.
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See, where we're from, you tend to learn that skill when you're about two or three, and have it reinforced into you even...
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Like, my daughter's not even two yet, but she will pick up rubbish about the house and literally come and hand it to me so that I can put it in the bin.
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We don't typically wait until we're in our mid-30s to develop these skills.
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And so, but Adnan goes on to say, it's like, well, beyond Muslims and Christians, we have to address the assumption that working class values fit neatly with the ever-evolving left.
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I represent an economically deprived working class town.
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The values and concerns of my constituents matter to me more than ideological uniformity.
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It was Baz. It was working class Baz who put Adnan into Parliament as an MP.
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He was the most trustworthy fellow I've ever seen.
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I really dislike the term working class values because in Britain at the minute, there's a massive divide within the native working class politically, isn't there?
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I mean, they're quite prone to supporting reform, but also many working class people support Labour.
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So to say it's working class values, well, it's just a rhetorical divide.
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I would say many of those working class types still voting Labour are still voting for them on the basis of an idea of old Labour.
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Yeah, which was much more socially conservative than it is today.
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And even then, if we remember last year in the lead-up to the election, Starmer was kind of going in parts of his targeted campaigns, where he was kind of stealthily trying to imply that, oh, we're old Labour again.
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Look at all of these English people in our advertisements in particular constituencies.
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We're going to be an English party again, unlike those damn multicultural Tories.
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To be fair, the Labour Party front bench is a lot whiter than the Tory party, one of them always has been.
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Well, yeah, there is some truth to it, but in terms of the policies that they pursue, they're the same.
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But the point here is that all of a sudden, this really kicked things up.
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Because you have here, some Greek socialist woman, I've seen her on GB News once or twice, but she says,
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Well, the difference with a homophobic working class man and you is that I can call the homophobic working class man a bigot, and he'll take it like a man.
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She is so attracted to that working class bigot.
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This is the biggest shout out to working class bigots I've ever heard.
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Stella enjoys her working class lads drinking Stella.
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Oh, you on the other hand demand to be treated like a victim and extended the dignity conferred her blah, blah, blah, basically saying,
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Yeah, she is also correct on the point that no other group, because no other group, minority group, such as Christians at this point in Britain would ever say,
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Oh, well, can we carve out this little section of a progressive party for ourselves so we can still be authentic in our socially conservative ideals?
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Not, of course, that there's much social conservatism in the Church of England these days.
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It's the arrogance and genuine will to power in the Muslim vote, in the Muslim bloc, that is just asserting itself so forthrightly here,
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that it thinks it can ask for this and actually achieve it.
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It's also a bit of a strategic error, because if you make your in-group preference nakedly visible, it makes people not want to cooperate with you.
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And, you know, were things to continue, tensions to worsen, perhaps people would be like,
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Well, I'm not going to work with you, because you're only going to be out for yourself.
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Which, you know, doesn't matter what ideology you have, that impedes cooperation, doesn't it?
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I encourage British Muslims to read some of the replies that it's a microcosm of how Muslim alignment membership on the left is heavily conditional on passing the ideological purity test.
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Yes, being in a left-wing party requires left-wing ideology.
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In fact, it was pretty normal for people who joined political parties which they were ideologically opposed to, for a laugh, like people who tried to vote for Corbyn.
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And that's been a thing for ages and pretty normal, actually.
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As you called it, they're just using it as a vehicle.
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Because the kind of multi, the kind of values that members of the Green Party hold dictates that they have to have multicultural values as well.
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Therefore, be tolerant and inviting and inclusive to those of outside cultures.
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They're like, literally, just let us take over the party.
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We will turn it into something completely different to what it's supposed to be, except we'll keep a bit of the imagery that you want.
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We'll post pictures of a green countryside with an Islamic call to prayer over it.
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To belabor the vehicle metaphor, what the Muslims want is a Toyota pickup.
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And obviously, the Greens want a hybrid or electric vehicle.
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At the end of the day, what the Muslims want is to expand their influence in the West, isn't it?
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The thing is, you could say it's like, oh, it's clever politicking.
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Because they're just saying exactly what they think is that we are Islamic, we are Muslims, we have Muslim values, we will not change for you, we will pick up a bit of litter every now and again.
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And the Greens are going, oh, but they're such a valuable part of our coalition.
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Yeah, we really need to find some way of winning them around.
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And until then, I guess we'll just have to let them lead the party.
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I mean, to their credit, they are a lot more transparent about what they want.
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A lot of the time, they are quite honest about it when asked.
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Well, no, sorry, you say that, Josh, but let's not forget, this entire outrage on Twitter was not started by him saying, yeah, I actually just hate gays.
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It was started by him saying, well, I don't really want to sign up to these pledges that everyone...
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Yeah, but if everyone can see there's some nudge-nudge work...
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Well, no, exactly, but I'm saying it's not honest, it's not upfront, it's not forthright.
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It is, as Stella points out, he's not taking it like a man.
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Baz would just tell you he just doesn't like him.
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So, and then it's like, this overtly racist discourse about Muslims on the left and LGBT rights is a false flag and should be called out.
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Well, no, I mean, that's part of the ridiculousness.
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It's like the most senior Muslim leader in the UK, I assume he means referring to Sadiq Khan, ran the most LGBT friendly nation alongside the most left-wing party with...
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Is that a little bit of a brilliant slip there?
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And look at this top reply here saying, I'm not going to lie.
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Yeah, the nation of Scotland who, again, as soon as the 7th of October happened and all of a sudden Gaza started getting bombed into dust, he turns around, turns into his number one priority.
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I've got family over in Gaza like any true Scotsman does.
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And so, you have this, like I say, this growing tension that you can see playing out before you within the more radically progressive parties in the United Kingdom.
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Truth be told, I don't think that, if they all flock over to Corbyn, I don't think Corbyn will care about the contradictions at all.
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In the same way that the Green Party, obviously, didn't care about the contradictions.
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I mean, it's Corbyn and the other four independents, isn't it, who have all backed him in this.
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So, just for the record, I stand with all marginalized communities, including the LGBT people.
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Until today, I didn't think I'd heard of some chap whose post was deleted above this.
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Just for the record, I did not sleep with that woman.
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So, yeah, it's, you can see tensions boiling in all of these parties now.
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And I think it's a pretty foregone conclusion, to be honest, as to which one is going to win.
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Josh became aging giga-chad for a moment there.
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While you do that, I'm going to quickly strip, because it's very warm in here.
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I'm going to lock eyes with you the whole time.
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You get good value for your dollar, I must say.
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Sigil Stone says, the values of the working class align with us.
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with mass men holding machetes to their throats.
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Hapsification says, after the remigration policy,
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for those that stay, need to be linguistic, cultural, tribal,
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and genetic integration and assimilation, like Carl or Cole Palmer.
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I didn't even realize he had any foreign ancestry.
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you kind of have to have sexual relations with that woman.
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Listen, the problem with Hillary Clinton is that...
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So, obviously, when I was at Lotus Eaters, it was no mystery that I covered a lot of Japanese
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politics, and I'm going to be doing the same again now I'm back, and it's actually some
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It seems like there's a good development in Japan, and I wanted to talk about it, as well
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as highlight some of the ways in which Japan is different to the West, because I've covered
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a lot of how they're similar in lots of my other coverage.
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I don't actually have any of the things I need.
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But anyway, I've covered lots of stuff in Japan, talking about all the problems that
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immigration has caused, giving them a cautionary tale, all of that sort of stuff, and it went
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so far as to the point where the Japanese were translating it.
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Probably more than your actual video, to be honest.
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In the comments, one of the Japanese people refers to Dan as the Bearded Baron, which I
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But if you want to support our work, what you can do is go over to our shop at lotuseaters.com
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Do we do international delivery to Japan, Samson?
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Because this will probably get translated, as well.
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It's replete with some wonderful artwork, some wonderful articles.
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Many of you know this will be a bespoke collector's item soon enough.
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They do sell for a lot on the internet, much higher than the asking price.
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And for full disclosure, I did get given a free copy, which is not really surprising.
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Yeah, I mean, they're going to be worth so much.
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So that's why they couldn't get their issue twos.
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But anyway, what I wanted to talk about is the Sanseito party, and they've done pretty well.
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I know Beau covered the election about a week ago, so I'm going to go over it quickly just
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so we're all on the same page, but ever so brief.
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The party was only founded in 2020, and they claim to take inspiration from the Alternative
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France's, how do you pronounce it, National Rally in English?
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It's like Reassemblement National, which is a right mouthful, really.
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And, of course, reform in Britain, and most of all, Donald Trump.
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I hope they're not modelling themselves on reform.
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Well, I'm hoping, and this is exactly what I was going to get onto in a second, that some
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And that they're just looking at, these are some right-wing parties that get flack, and
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So they want to copy the methods and not the ends, I'm hoping.
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I mean, from what I've seen of this guy, because I was reading an article about him the other
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day, he's gone much further in the kind of rhetoric than any of those parties that you
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I would argue that reform, and some of the others as well, there have been some things
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that Trump has done that's very much disappointed me.
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The Epstein stuff is a pretty easy one to underline, as well as the rates of deportation are pretty
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But one thing that Japan does have, which Europe and the US does not, is more time to fix the
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problem, because only 3% of the population is foreign-born at the minute.
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And all of this only really started for Japan around November of 2023, when a number of
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NGOs leveraged Japan's high debt-to-GDP ratio to impose more third-world immigration on them.
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And so they've not really had this for nearly as long.
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You know, it's like UN organizations, as well as lots of others.
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There's a whole rabbit hole to go down there, which is an own segment all on its own.
00:32:32.560
So, this party, following this, won a seat in the 2022 House of Councillors, which is
00:32:39.660
the equivalent of, you know, the Senate in the US, or an upper house in a bicameral parliament.
00:32:46.560
Um, and that allowed them to become an official party, because they won more than 2% of the
00:32:52.520
vote, and that's the threshold you've got to meet to become one in Japan.
00:33:00.340
Then in 2024, they gained three seats out of 465 in the House of Representatives.
00:33:08.020
And then following the recent 2025 House of Councillors election, which is the one that
00:33:12.220
Beau, I think, covered, they held 15 House of Councillors seats.
00:33:15.900
Of course, they had one already, so they gained 14, which is a pretty meteoric rise, really,
00:33:24.080
They've been around for, you know, a similar sort of amount of time.
00:33:28.860
They've got, they keep on losing their parliamentarians, because they keep on leaving or getting kicked
00:33:34.460
But they're making much better gains than them in much shorter space of time, with a much
00:33:41.360
So, it's actually looking quite positive, if this trend continues.
00:33:46.020
And it is worth mentioning that that recent election, the Prime Minister stayed on.
00:33:55.740
Yeah, they did lose their majority in the upper house of their parliament.
00:34:00.460
So, let's talk a bit more about this party, because they have been pushing in a very interesting
00:34:08.940
They're referring to him as a mini-Trump, the leader of the party.
00:34:12.800
And, yes, he's the founder and the secretary general as well.
00:34:17.220
So, that's how you know that they're staying true, is that one of the founders is still involved,
00:34:20.740
although some of the other founders did leave because of some COVID stuff and US election
00:34:26.400
stuff, which I can't repeat, because it will get us in trouble with YouTube, as always.
00:34:32.440
And I did see this, so I wasn't quite sure what to make of it.
00:34:40.180
So, I'm just going to read it, and then we can talk about it.
00:34:44.220
So, on July 19th, the final day of the election campaign, an audience of approximately 20,000
00:34:50.000
people packed in Shiba Park at the base of Tokyo Tower, which was lit up in orange, to
00:34:59.000
I don't think any other dictator who cares so much about his party members write.
00:35:03.620
And I looked at this online, because I thought, that's a touch of a strong statement, I would
00:35:10.320
I know they were part of the Axis, but, you know.
00:35:14.180
I mean, to be, to, you know, try and attempt to understand what he means here, parts of
00:35:21.420
Asia, I think, miss the taboo of declaring yourself like him, and they look at it from
00:35:26.280
a sense of, well, he was very loyal to the people who were loyal to him, wasn't he?
00:35:31.980
Was it Iraq that Callum was in recently, where they had a restaurant called Hitler Burger?
00:35:36.920
That he wanted to go to, but sadly it was shut by the time he got there.
00:35:40.060
Basically, anywhere to the east of Greece has a very different view of the bad man, the
00:35:48.100
So, one thing it's worth mentioning, I went and did a lot of digging, it's the only mention
00:35:52.760
of him saying this is in this article, and this is a somewhat tabloidy publication.
00:35:58.960
So, who knows, maybe it's a source, maybe only they picked up on it, or maybe he was
00:36:08.500
And for all we know, that might have just been a little offhanded jokey comment, like
00:36:13.860
But, I wanted to include it for the sake of transparency.
00:36:23.220
This is their party taking a march through, I believe it was Tokyo.
00:36:29.200
This is against Kurds, who I've covered before, have caused them lots of problems.
00:36:41.560
Yeah, one appears to have a rising, you know, sort of more of a glowy aesthetic to it.
00:36:48.100
It shines brighter, more fiercely than the others.
00:36:54.420
But it might add some weight to the reference to the German bad man.
00:37:03.080
But what I think is far more interesting than simply carrying those flags, which I think
00:37:13.420
And even though you nearly killed my grandfather in that conflict, I will allow you to fly that
00:37:20.940
And so, you don't need to feel bad about it, okay?
00:37:23.360
You only need to feel guilty for your own sins.
00:37:27.900
The third most popular party in Japan, Senseito, has drafted a constitution that would
00:37:32.900
restore power to the emperor, replace individual rights with national duties, and restrict
00:37:38.420
foreigners from long-term residency, land ownership, and welfare benefits.
00:37:42.640
I've got to say, that last part is my favourite.
00:37:46.580
Power to the emperor makes me feel like I'm going to be in a sinking ship in Singapore again,
00:37:52.520
But, yes, this is all, I think, very necessary.
00:38:00.960
This is all very necessary to restore a sense of nationhood to Japan.
00:38:06.680
Not to say that it's been deprived from them in the same way that it has in the Western
00:38:13.500
But I think that there's still a great unspoken shame that hangs over Japan for their behaviour
00:38:19.840
in World War II, and it's to the point whereby, if you even mention it, people get funny about
00:38:26.560
And I think that embracing your past a little bit more is more healthy, because having
00:38:31.480
something that's unspoken, and, you know, we don't talk about that even though it's essential
00:38:36.080
for defining who we are today, that's not healthy, and it's not a good way to promote growth into
00:38:43.940
I think that this sort of thing is necessary to just accept that, well, it's going a little
00:38:50.660
But it's embracing the Japan of the past to a certain degree that I think is necessary,
00:38:54.780
and I wanted to read through some of what it's actually going to do in detail.
00:38:59.160
If I might just say before you do, one of the things that I personally admire most about
00:39:03.400
Japan is after the 300-year period of isolation, when the Americans finally arrived and basically
00:39:11.420
said, you are opening up to the rest of the world, you are going to trade, we are going
00:39:15.540
to force you to change, that Japan, still under that force and threat, was able to emerge
00:39:24.160
with an identity that did embrace modernity, but was still able to keep some essence of its
00:39:34.080
And one of the things that we are constantly threatened by is exactly that, that force of
00:39:40.460
change, simply being told that this is your future, you are going to become a part of the
00:39:46.140
global system, and anything that you might feel as regards to your own identity or heritage
00:39:53.260
or something idiosyncratic to your own personal heritage and way of life, has to go, is an
00:40:00.620
And Japan, yeah, sure, there was some dodgy stuff in there, I'm not going to deny it,
00:40:07.720
And even whatever you think of Japan nowadays, it still has its very own national character.
00:40:14.160
And I think that that's something that we should undoubtedly learn from.
00:40:19.820
Well, the thing is, even with all of the flattening of culture that happens under a globalist
00:40:25.920
economy, for instance, if we were still, like, across the country, even in our big cities,
00:40:34.020
majority English, the English national character would still shine through because it's simply
00:40:38.180
the way the Englishmen naturally behave themselves.
00:40:41.500
And that's what you can see, even in some of the more rural, majority English parts of
00:40:46.780
the country, the English are still going about like the English do.
00:40:50.380
The difference between us and them is, as Josh has pointed out, they still have a very,
00:40:55.700
very small foreign population, whereas there are major parts of this country that have been
00:41:02.500
And so what happens then is you get the great gray sludge of multiculturalism, because then
00:41:08.640
you get all of these varying different ethnic groups trying to basically work with and at
00:41:18.280
And this leads to the flattening of culture that we see in places like Birmingham or London,
00:41:23.180
or in those cases, perhaps even the replacement of culture, because simply the replacement of
00:41:27.960
the populations mean that the people who are there now are completely different, they behave
00:41:35.820
Back to the restoration of the Japanese empire, I'm going to read some of the details that
00:41:43.500
And of course, they are, I think, the third largest party in at least the upper house.
00:41:50.960
This could be the direction that Japan takes if they carry on growing as they seem to.
00:41:55.760
So unfortunately, this is paywalled, but I was able to read it.
00:41:59.420
So you're just going to have to take my word for it.
00:42:01.640
But it is in this article that I'm reading from, it was a much better explanation, because
00:42:05.820
some of the nuances of the original thing they published were a bit lost on me, because
00:42:12.500
It says, the imperial system, the role of the emperor is clarified by declaring him the head
00:42:17.360
of state, and to end of the debate, only male heirs of the male line can succeed the throne.
00:42:23.500
Pretty, you know, obviously, the emperor being head of state, again, is significant.
00:42:27.840
It's a bit of a defiance against the Americans, although these days, I don't think they'll
00:42:33.420
Society, the family is the foundation of the society, and the state should provide strong
00:42:36.880
support for families through access to free education, direct financial assistance for
00:42:41.640
The state must provide various options in compulsory education.
00:42:50.800
You shouldn't have the government doing this sort of thing.
00:42:53.480
But it's a different culture, I think, in Japan.
00:42:56.320
They're more accepting of dependence, that being a quirk of collectivism, than perhaps
00:43:03.920
So it might be more suitable there than it is here, to add a bit of a caveat on my opinion.
00:43:09.820
Compulsory education will include the Japanese language, classical literature, history and
00:43:13.420
mythology, moral education, martial arts, political participation.
00:43:17.820
And to end another debate issue, marriage will be defined as a union between a man and a
00:43:21.560
woman, and the husband and wife will be required to have the same surname.
00:43:29.900
Japan should strive for 100% self-sufficiency in food, seeds and fertilisers.
00:43:36.660
They had a recent rice shortage, which pushed up the prices to unprecedented levels.
00:43:42.980
They're also saying Japanese citizens are free to select their healthcare, and the government
00:43:47.260
is required to fully and publicly disclose all matters related to health, including information
00:43:56.920
They want to lower the voting age down to 16, actually, which is surprising.
00:44:01.020
Or maybe they're experiencing a similar thing to us, where there's a great political divide
00:44:06.800
I wouldn't be surprised, because they got started largely online, as many sort of new
00:44:17.320
And so I imagine they're probably doing quite well with the younger audience.
00:44:21.540
And they've also said one statement, and this is what the article says, which no legal expert
00:44:26.720
would accept, well, change it, defines a Japanese citizen as someone who has a Japanese father
00:44:31.880
or mother, whose mother tongue is Japanese, and whose heart cherishes Japan, which is
00:44:39.400
I want that to be our standard for a British citizen as well.
00:44:44.260
You've got to be fluent in English, or maybe Welsh or Gaelic Scots, if you've really got
00:44:52.900
I'm not going to do that to the Scots and the Welsh.
00:45:00.860
They also want all things that could be, you know, part of self-defense, all industries
00:45:09.700
like, you know, communications, electric, water, gas, and the likes, either be state-owned
00:45:16.340
That's very important and very free market, but that is a good amendment, actually, and
00:45:22.280
And then, finally, best to last, foreign residents.
00:45:24.920
Land cannot be sold or transferred to non-resident foreign nationals or investors.
00:45:31.460
Naturalized foreign residents, along with their children and grandchildren, are prohibited
00:45:35.120
from holding public office or becoming public officials.
00:45:40.040
The constitution does not address international marriages, but since citizenship is passed
00:45:44.200
from either a Japanese mother or father, this ban likely applies if both parents are
00:45:49.660
And this hasn't had the effect that you might think with the foreigners living in Japan.
00:45:55.320
For example, here is a Swede who's come out in support of this new party, whose slogan
00:46:05.140
Following in Trump's footsteps, although I don't think they're sending nearly as much
00:46:09.580
There is something beautifully comical about this image.
00:46:16.400
It does look a little bit out of place, doesn't it?
00:46:24.980
The white foreigner character in a shogun TV series.
00:46:29.920
But it only makes sense to me that somebody who appreciates Japanese culture so much that
00:46:35.860
he would be willing to move over there and try and get citizenship would look around and
00:46:42.720
And, you know, good on him for potentially even sacrificing his own place in that society
00:46:50.500
I think that's a very honorable way of going about it.
00:46:57.020
But anyway, I quickly wanted to go over something, and I'm aware I've been going on for a long
00:47:03.460
I've covered the problems caused by Kurds and other Muslim minorities.
00:47:07.760
I've covered that Africans are now in Japan and baffled by their way of living and causing
00:47:17.900
I've also mentioned the tensions with the Chinese.
00:47:20.280
You've become associated with sort of taking advantage of the Japanese's generous system
00:47:27.320
To a certain extent, there was a big example of, I think it was the Chinese, hoarding rice
00:47:31.540
in warehouses to resell for more money later on down the line.
00:47:36.060
And yes, there have been lots of cases of Vietnamese people who actually we do get in Britain.
00:47:43.420
I think they're the 10th largest group of boat people we get across the channel, which
00:47:48.260
is counterintuitive because they've come probably the furthest.
00:47:54.820
I'm not surprised they're not keen to go to America, but it's a bit of a stretch to come
00:47:59.040
I thought it was Cambodians associated with boat people from that part of the world.
00:48:04.980
Well, Cambodians are also sort of in an equivalent boat, so to speak.
00:48:13.600
A 32-year-old Vietnamese man is arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman.
00:48:20.640
This happened overnight after I prepared my segment yesterday, so this was hot off the
00:48:29.360
Japanese man, or Vietnamese man, sorry, 24, broke into an old lady's house and stabbed
00:48:36.320
her, oh no, a lady and her elderly mother, sorry, in Saga Prefecture.
00:48:43.400
Obviously, this is a brutal kind of crime that they're not used to, and nor are we, for that
00:48:49.840
And apparently, he was in Japan on a technical internship that is used to help people from
00:48:58.500
And so, it's a perfect example of how helping poor countries actually doesn't help you or
00:49:08.800
And that sounds sort of harsh and callous, but actually, the best thing they can do is
00:49:13.380
help themselves, because then they actually learn how to create a civilization, rather
00:49:16.860
than parasitizing those who've already established one.
00:49:21.960
Two Vietnamese men have been arrested for stealing approximately 2.9 tons of copper wire.
00:49:27.940
What are they, the gypsies of East Asia or something?
00:49:32.300
Stealing copper wire, still a very lucrative, low criminal act, apparently, all across the
00:49:39.020
Vietnamese welder, 21, was arrested for stabbing another Vietnamese man, 25, in the stomach.
00:49:44.420
Police suspect there may have been trouble between...
00:49:50.140
But anyway, in an unrelated incident, two Vietnamese men were arrested for smuggling ketamine in
00:49:55.980
I had no idea the Vietnamese were such a menace in Japan.
00:50:04.300
I wasn't able to find any, but if I do, I'll let them know.
00:50:07.140
You're worse if they're out there letting Josh know so he can use it for a future segment.
00:50:11.780
Yes, any per capita statistics at all, just send them my way, I love them.
00:50:25.220
ANN reports on recent crimes by Vietnamese in Japan.
00:50:27.920
Those who come to work in Japan on trainee visas are stuck in a single job, unable to
00:50:35.200
Some quit and engage in illegal work to send remittances to families.
00:50:38.520
So this may well be the root of why the Vietnamese are doing this.
00:50:41.860
And in Britain, the Vietnamese are associated with coming over illegally and then they get
00:50:47.300
trapped in sort of this modern world slavery by foreign gangs and used as basically forced
00:50:54.500
to grow cannabis in some of the growing operations, which is kind of horrible that they just
00:51:01.960
And they victimise Japanese people who, by the sounds of it, outside of this all taking
00:51:06.320
place on their land, have very little to do with any of this.
00:51:11.140
So this is not a problem that either Britain or Japan should have to put up with.
00:51:22.740
Mother calls the police after a high school girl is the victim of an obscene act on a train
00:51:30.040
station platform where a Nepalese national licked her thigh for whatever reason.
00:51:35.940
And his excuse was, I don't understand Japanese.
00:51:44.220
And the Nepalese, that's a form of British colony.
00:51:47.080
I think they're aware that this sort of thing is wrong.
00:51:49.940
I think they know that this is weird and strange.
00:51:52.400
And so, yes, this person's obviously trying to weasel his way out of the responsibility
00:52:00.080
And then there's this as well, the Jeet program, which rather than having English language speakers,
00:52:08.820
they're busing in lots of Indians, which of course, as we know, in Britain, once they
00:52:17.160
Your corner shops will all be staffed by Indians.
00:52:19.820
And then it's the same in America with the motel industry, where it all just started to
00:52:28.040
And then they would just slowly take over an area with monopoly over all of the motels.
00:52:36.480
And then finally, it's worth mentioning as well, that there are people in the legal profession
00:52:40.360
that are saying that you can't legally deport people.
00:52:51.900
And so hopefully, with all of this going on, with a party that seems to be keen to restore
00:52:57.780
some, you know, dignity back to Japan and solve the problems before they spiral out of
00:53:03.900
control, like in our country, there is more promise and actually an optimistic direction
00:53:14.480
Before we go to the next one, I just want to highlight.
00:53:16.840
Like, there is something very familiar, even though she's Japanese, about this kind of
00:53:27.980
I wonder if it's just something in the genes that makes you look like this and have some
00:53:37.480
She wouldn't be out of place on a Japanese LBC show.
00:53:41.320
The same genes that determine your physical appearance determine your behaviour.
00:53:49.460
The Engaged Few says, to hell with the Meiji Restoration, revive the Tokugawa Shogunate.
00:53:56.460
Sigil Stone says, I'd add one more amendment to Japan's constitution.
00:54:00.840
If Nintendo releases another dogshit legend of Zelda, their executives will be publicly executed.
00:54:09.000
I was talking about this sort of thing with Samson on lunch.
00:54:13.500
We mentioned Mario Kart and the Switch 2 and how it came out with no games on it.
00:54:26.860
At no point would have played Mario Kart in the past with friends have I thought to myself,
00:54:32.860
A pointless five-minute drive in between each race.
00:54:40.460
That's just, open-world games have gone bonkers.
00:54:52.560
Anyway, so last segment, folks, we're almost there.
00:55:06.940
So, gentlemen, what do we know is the sign of a healthy society?
00:55:16.460
Buying a copy of Islander 4, which is now on sale on the website for the low, low price of £14.99.
00:55:27.160
Two pints in London, possibly one double shot with a little bit of splash on top.
00:55:33.620
So, if you buy one of these, I can guarantee you it will bring great fortune to your descendants and your family in general.
00:55:41.520
Buy one of these and it will equip you with the kind of knowledge that you could only get from the ancient texts,
00:55:46.940
except it's been brought forward into our modern age.
00:55:50.080
As you can see from here, this image, this is actually a photograph of Rory at work on this,
00:55:56.160
in between editing the articles on his phone, checking his Twitter notifications.
00:56:04.320
And yes, we do keep him chained in a dark room.
00:56:07.280
Which is why it's all the more important that you buy this copy to make sure that his suffering,
00:56:15.900
And there's also merchandise on the website as well, which I think...
00:56:19.480
Is the merchandise out yet, Samson, or is that going out later?
00:56:25.260
I don't know why I'm telling you about the goings-on of Lotus Eaters.
00:56:31.760
It's the last opportunity to get all of the last batch of merch on the store before it is gone,
00:56:52.820
Anyway, the future is one of the things that makes for a healthy society.
00:57:02.860
Subjects of your nation or citizens being aware that they can plan at least a little bit for the future.
00:57:15.040
So that you're not only living in the moment, spending all your savings on menial BS right now,
00:57:22.300
so that you can get current satisfaction you want to save for the future,
00:57:27.840
not just for yourself, but for your posterity as well.
00:57:30.980
Well, if we actually look into what's going on in England and the UK broadly about whether people are planning for the future or not,
00:57:45.300
And there are a number of reasons for this, but this is an article from the BBC that caught my eye,
00:57:52.600
And yes, all of the people featured in this article are foreigners.
00:57:58.600
We have somebody who's called Syrah Amir and a Bangladeshi.
00:58:04.600
However, I do not think that their experiences they're describing here are necessarily unrepresentative of the mindset of most younger people in the UK.
00:58:15.060
I mean, and I wasn't before I was unemployed either.
00:58:19.300
When I was at Lotus, he said I never paid into a pension because I couldn't afford it.
00:58:23.560
We do have a Brokonomics from Dan on pensions, which goes into detail on how they work,
00:58:29.980
how they're a little bit of a pyramid Ponzi scheme where you're taking,
00:58:33.800
the government has had it set up so that you're taking money from generations of today
00:58:38.280
and giving it to yesterday's generations as kind of like a wealth transfer from the young to the old
00:58:44.160
because all of the pension money that the older people put into their pension pots got spent by the government,
00:58:55.560
And because of that, pensions aren't themselves necessarily amazing
00:59:00.380
because the likelihood is that when we all get to the age where we can actually start taking from our pensions,
00:59:05.600
the money might just not be there, the same as it is with the boomers right now.
00:59:11.600
There is a distinct lack of any savings whatsoever going on with these people.
00:59:17.040
And you can listen to the reasons that they give.
00:59:18.800
So this person, Mohamed, again, he's foreign, but I don't think this is necessarily unrepresentative
00:59:28.020
Is saying that the reason that he's not paying into a workplace or private pension
00:59:32.180
is because he's worried more about surviving day to day than worrying about the future.
00:59:38.240
It tells us that they are not actually saving any money on the side privately either.
00:59:46.020
You can get yourself a savings account, a cash ISA, stocks and shares, etc.
00:59:50.280
You can put your money aside so that it can gather interest and pay you out more in the future,
00:59:58.780
These people are probably living paycheck to paycheck.
01:00:01.700
And for younger people especially, that's probably something that is going to feel very, very familiar to you.
01:00:10.200
And it says as well, this is from a recent government report,
01:00:14.680
which is showing that half, almost half of working age adults aren't paying into a private or workplace pension.
01:00:22.140
Low earners and women are less likely to have their own pension.
01:00:24.960
And of people of foreign extraction, particularly Pakistani and Bangladeshi, only one in four of them do.
01:00:30.640
To be fair, that might be because their savings is actually the remittances that they're sending back home.
01:00:37.460
But either way, it does show an overall trend, which is that people aren't saving.
01:00:43.640
Well, it's because you think that the money that you save now either won't be worth enough in the future
01:00:51.740
or you just don't have the ability to save because everything is so expensive right now.
01:00:56.900
You've got bills, you've got electricity, you've got mortgages, you've got rent, you've got food shopping,
01:01:02.300
you've got all sorts of things that will continually drain from whatever you get at the end of the month in your pay packet.
01:01:10.360
And the way that this is really manifesting is mainly in housing,
01:01:14.060
because we've covered time and time and time again,
01:01:22.080
even if I do get a good job with good pension benefits,
01:01:30.420
I think that's more important than anything else.
01:01:34.420
Yeah, and that is a lot of money just for a deposit on a house.
01:01:42.620
That must be London prices if you need that for a deposit on a house, right?
01:01:48.500
But still, it's going to be a lot of money for a deposit for a decent house these days,
01:01:58.540
the mortgage that you're paying off is only going to be for a fraction of the actual overall equity of the house.
01:02:05.900
It blows my mind, actually, that these people come over with very little
01:02:11.040
one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in.
01:02:14.540
And, you know, even British people with some degree of inherited wealth
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struggle to live in London to a certain degree.
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So how on earth are they able to make ends meet?
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Well, my experience of living in London for four or five years...
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The thing was that I was on a pretty low-end job
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and it was just a case of, well, you pay your rent
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you've got... there's nothing to save by the end of the month.
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you're going to have this almost reflex response saying,
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well, I've got money, but I can't save the money,
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And you've got to break yourself out of that habit
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the more money that you have, the more expenses you have.
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And now I have been set free because I'm in Swindon.
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Yeah, but those without private or workplace pension
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So we'll see if any of these people are still here
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But what you get for that is £230.25 per week,
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but you won't necessarily starve to death immediately,
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And I don't know how you'd live on that anyway,
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but that's what the statistics are saying here.
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and you innately want to help the people around you
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Because people used to do this sort of thing all the time
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You recognised that your posterity was important,
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and so you helped the other people in your community
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who can say that actually working hard pays off?
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because they're the ones that hoover up all the money.
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in some form of servitude by historic standards.
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just illegal arrivals getting put in hotels, right?
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And it just all adds to that resentment and doomerism.
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They'll be working jobs that have no real function
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that you don't have to be on the dole right now.
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we do kind of need someone filling in spreadsheets.
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And so what's the incentive to work hard there either?