The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1231
Episode Stats
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1 hour and 28 minutes
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205.08629
Hate Speech Sentences
108
Summary
London is the safest, most vibrant city in the whole of the UK, according to a new report by the Metropolitan Police, and yet there are still plenty of reasons to be worried about it. Is it because London is a racist? Or is it because it's actually safe and vibrant?
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,
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who know nothing of the turning of the cosmic wheel
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and find themselves outside of civilization itself.
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they represent the low into which our dying culture will return.
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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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Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seaters for Friday the 15th of August 2024.
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Even half, we were closer to 2026 than 2024 at this point.
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Today we're going to be talking about how London is actually safe and vibrant,
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And how Sidney Sweeney is in fact an Aryan goddess,
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according to very resentful black women who write for the New Yorker.
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Thank you to all of our editors and backstage guys for being able to find the most photogenic
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angles of me for all of these promo videos that we do now.
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Basically, we're going to talk about London and why it's safe and vibrant, you racist.
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So if you don't think London is the safest, most vibrant city ever, you're basically a
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It seemed to start with Fraser Nelson's article saying why Britain is totally safe and has no
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You get to a series of people posting and it's become the new thing you've got to post
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All of the Brit libs are kind of virtue signaling.
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I just used to watch muggings on my street every week.
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What's more vibrant than phone insurance after all?
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But Lewis Goodall is here to tell you why, in fact, this is all great and normal.
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And it's only Richard Nixon telling you that it's not.
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And as I say, to some extent, it's been part of sort of right wing politics for a long time,
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going all the way back to Richard Nixon, you know, running against the city.
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Republicans in the right wing setting up cities as being these kind of kind of infernos of chaos,
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destruction and drugs, crime, race tension, race rights and all these sorts of things.
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And sometimes there is a kernel of truth to any or to any or all of those things.
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That's been a feature of American politics for a long time.
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We see it more and more in British politics as well.
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We talked about it on the show a little bit before, particularly online and in the online right.
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London increasingly being set up as this kind of hellhole, this kind of dystopian nightmare,
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You can barely walk out of your house without getting beaten up or your possessions stolen from you
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or taken from you, where fair evasion is completely rampant on the tube,
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where the tube is looking like kind of Gotham City or something like that,
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from a Batman, from a sort of 1990s Batman film.
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They're being used, usually often in a completely exaggerated way,
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by people who know that they're not really like that for their own political ends.
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I think you can see a direct line, a direct line between that sort of American politics,
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a politics that Trump has intensified and augmented
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and a lever that he pulls on whenever he's in a little bit of trouble,
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which, as you said, John, he is at the moment related to the Epstein stuff.
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And you're seeing that being replicated in British politics as well.
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So it comes from Nixon and Trump, not from walking around London with eyes going,
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We're being manipulated by the ghost of Richard Nixon.
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When an urban youth sticks a knife in your face and says,
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hands over your wallet, you're like, God damn it, Nixon.
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So complete, yeah, currency would always lead to this.
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Other than just saying, oh, it's just the right wing scaremongering,
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which isn't actually, he's not substantiated with anything.
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He's just contradicting it and hoping that with the weight of the mainstream media behind him,
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that people will just shrug their shoulders and go, eh, all right.
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But he's really giving the game away here, right?
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So he accepts there is a kernel of truth to the fact that London is a scary place to go these days.
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And then he exaggerates massively what we're saying about London.
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I'm not saying that every single person is being stabbed all the time in London.
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It's just there is a generally higher rate of crime and it creates a kind of atmosphere of intimidation.
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And this is a direct consequence of the diversification and the liberalization of London.
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It's like, particularly the online right are promoting this narrative.
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We covered it earlier in the week on the podcast that there was literally some angry Afghan immigrant
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who was attacking people at the conference we were at on Saturday.
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I was literally meters away in the building and outside the police are tasering some Afghan, right?
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So it's like, okay, well, I'm seeing a lot of this.
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But two, what he's saying there is the online right of being very influential.
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We're saying these things and suddenly everyone is believing what we're saying
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because we're presenting evidence to substantiate what we're saying.
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And so now he, in his sweatiness, is like the online right keeps saying this thing
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It's like, well, sorry, you sound like you're dancing to our tune here.
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Yeah, you do sound like you're coping and you say he's sweaty.
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He isn't, to be fair, in Las Vegas, Nevada, which is where you generally comment on London from.
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And by the way, Carl tasering someone, that's actually a win when they actually get the taser out.
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He smashed off the wing mirror of the police vehicle because they wouldn't have done it.
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So many sad little bots on here triggered by actual facts about a city they certainly don't live in
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and probably haven't visited for years, if ever.
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So you're conceding that it's actually people that you're dehumanizing and demeaning
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But the funny thing, I replied to this one with a tweet saying,
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So this claim of we just don't live here is, of course, a straw man,
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as is the one he mentioned in the video, which is,
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oh, all these right wingers have suddenly been mugged in the last two days.
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I haven't seen anyone come out and say, I got mugged yesterday.
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I watched a load of violence happening to other people, though.
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Even if we even if we were going for some sort of sigh off,
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But notice how they have to radically caricature.
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And Vicky Spratt, who I had to check was a real person.
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I clicked on a bio and I still wasn't sure she wasn't parody.
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So was it all well written about the truth of your eyes and ears?
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The final mandate of the party is to believe them above reality around you.
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But what I found really interesting about this is that Lewis is basically rallying
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Sort of like the upper middle class libs who live in the white areas of London in their
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Do you mean in their vibrant communities, Carl?
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A warm evening, more outside dining than ever before.
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In many ways, London feels more vibrant and welcoming than when I was growing up here.
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Someone had a pizza in the parks, thus you didn't get stabbed.
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Her book that she's got, author of Tenants, and I look it up.
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It's a book about the people on the front line of Britain's housing emergency.
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You could write an entire 350 page book about why there's a housing emergency and you're
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Listen, it's all just crony capitalists, which are part of it.
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Rebecca Reid, I feel a little bad because she said to me, oh, we've had nice exchanges
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I think she's mistaken me for another straight white man, which happens a lot.
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But I took down another one where she was doubting the veracity of it.
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She says, I live in the same area of London where I grew up in the 90s, noughties.
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There's absolutely some crime, but fundamentally pretty safe.
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The only major change is I cannot afford anywhere near as much house as my parents could.
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But then luckily PJW is there to say, that's not what you said two months ago before everyone
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got the London is safe and vibrant gaslighting memo.
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So before this, she'd said, I live down the road.
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She said, from where I grew up in southwest London as a child, there were muggings every week
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and she regularly watched a woman, can I say that word Carl?
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Something in the street in daylight, 15 years on.
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Meaningfully changed that I can afford a house half the size of my parents.
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But the thing is, what I like about this is she can plausibly claim that, look, I'm not
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I said that it feels as equally safe as it ever did.
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Whether Fraser Nelson started it, whether it's organic or whether it's not organic.
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The weird part is, why are they so desperate to say it's safe and vibrant?
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Now it's hard for me to link to Stadlin because he's blocked me, but I've picked up via
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So he originally said, just a quick reminder, that despite having some issues, phone theft
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being one, London is an incredible city and I'm very, very proud to be a Londoner.
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And then, of course, PJW, you've changed your tune.
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Earlier, Stadlin had said crime in London seems to be out of control.
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I've lived here all my life and never known it like this.
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The Prime Minister and Mayor of London need to get a handle on it.
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Shoplifting, dangerous driving, drugs, phone theft, sort it out.
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He was standing on the street with his phone out and some urban youth drove by and
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And then he posted it online, foolishly enough.
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And then just the next tweet and I was like, there's so much racism in these replies.
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And before that, he'd put almost a sort of, almost a just ridiculous tempting fate
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of saying, I've never been mugged in London and never will be.
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And you've got to wonder, like, is it just pure engagement farming?
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It's just like, why would you post, I've never been mugged, never will be?
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It's like, countdown to totally getting mugged.
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I think there's a divine order of the universe.
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I've got a great, and he's got, you know, he's got an inherent money in the big house.
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I walk around the centre, the south, the east, the north.
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My neighbours come from every background on earth.
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Sexual assault in London is up four times what it was ten years ago.
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And the tone of it, given that, is absolutely insane.
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The only time I ever felt scared to walk after dark in my area of London was after Sarah
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Obviously a horrible case, but why the hatred of white people, Zoe?
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She's the person that makes these infuriating TikTok videos about minimising migrant crimes
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by saying it's a tiny percentage as if like any amount of sexual assaults on children
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I hope to be a street smart old granny knowing all the best local places to eat that haven't
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I hope to never become scared of what's new or what a man in a suit tries to tell me.
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Who is this man in a suit telling her London is bad?
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Zoe, when we went, I'm going to deport you from London.
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Who is one of the worst people in my opinion in the country?
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Do you think with these people, do you think like every single time they're called up
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on whatever group chat they may or may not be part of to defend,
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Do you think there's just like a little bit in the back of their head that goes,
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Why is this the only thing I'm ever called to cover for?
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I wonder, like why am I never like asked to cover up like a white police officer having like
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Like do they ever, do you think there's just a smidge of self-awareness there?
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No, but well, I don't think they're in group chats either.
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I think this is a natural response from them when they see this a lot.
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But I do also believe that, you know, maybe, maybe they are just,
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Yeah, no, I genuinely believe they're so well programmed.
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But Super Tansky, three young lads dressed all in black,
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that the Utes would probably call road men stopped me as I was walking today.
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So one of them could sincerely compliment me on my pink sparkly jelly shoes.
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This is shoe loving road men who are just so nice.
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This is what a middle aged woman from Bristol thinks the minority you are.
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She wanted to keep it humble because it was so,
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no one would believe that immediately after a five year old came up
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and said, this is what look at the cultural London is all about.
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declared her queen of the UK and marched off into the sunset.
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but it's remarkable how many right wing influencers
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have reported getting mugged in London in the last few days alone.
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I've had guys on e-bikes try to nick my phone twice
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Well, then you're much luckier than most, I suppose.
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I never worry about the threat of being mugged.
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We can't let people know that we actually get on.
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No, not a lot of this in Ambleside, I've got to say.
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A load of people who think either insults about WEF
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or that it's enough to just assert it's delusional,
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or who seriously think the best way of measuring crime
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over time is to wander around until you encounter a criminal.
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And yet we've just seen all those people doing exactly that.
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And I just put it next to one from Damien Lowe,
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who says, just had a very uneventful day in London,
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remember your anecdotal experience of London means nothing.
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but also someone's positive anecdotal experience
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I made someone delete his account by just posting the graph
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He was like, that's got nothing to do with what I was saying.
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It'd be very difficult argument to make as well,
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given that London has been clearing out of English people
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they've just all decided to go feral and go on a rape spree.
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I'm not even bothered like making the case for the decline.
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The London is vibrant and safer than ever crowd are a strange lines,
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ranging from fake conservative establishment types
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All that unites them is the implied claim that the erasure of native Brits
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Well, Ash Sarka has an in-group preference, famously,
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where winning lads, only half joking, says that.
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Well, he's a posh person who sees himself as part of the establishment
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and sort of running cover for it and maintaining it.
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They're both saying multiculturalism is amazing.
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You want to point out the decline and the changing demographics
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Because what else brings Ash Sarka and Fraser Nelson together?
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It's commitment to the multicultural liberal order.
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Because I want to hear how she's going to try and cover
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or if she'll even address her, we're winning lads.
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When her whole book seems to be trying to be like,
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Fraser Nelson views himself as like the cosmopolitan overlord
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And Ash Sarka is the product of the liberal project.
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and this is implicit in all of their statements,
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And this was a building problem they could feel.
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as a necessary consequence of liberalism itself.
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because they can't say that it's not a necessary consequence
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because Li Wang Q or whatever it is from Singapore
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And so they know it is absolutely a consequence
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even though we've just seen them say crimes terrible
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And Lewis kind of sums it up in this video really.
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this one is the one in which he gives the whole game away.
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half of the people that have been coming for us
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and who constantly invoke this particular politics,
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most of them probably have never been to London
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Astonishing how many of these far right accounts
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seem to have been mugged in the last 24 hours alone.
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they've been walking around the streets of London
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And the truth is, is that most of it is complete bollocks.
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and not just London, but the big cities as well,
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is predicated on the idea that multiculturalism,
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that it will inevitably lead to a sort of civil war.
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That you have these people living side by side.
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I mean, has this guy ever heard of Muslim countries?
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Literally every single day, a new migrant rapist.
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But either way, I mean, it's not like they don't have AC everywhere.
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So you're not like a weird sweaty ranter about how they're just lying.
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He's not proselytising to you or me because of the regular person.
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Because the regular person is like, no, I'm genuinely scared to live in London, right?
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Because as he just said, this is the product of contemporary liberalism.
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I replied to him going, thanks for saying this is liberalism.
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They're saying that the world we can see outside is tied in some way to political decisions
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This is the opposite of the world that they want.
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I don't want a crime-ridden, dystopian hell hole that's like the bazaar of Baghdad
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that I have to walk around feeling like an alien.
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He sees himself in his head as Al Pacino giving the speech to his football team.
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And then they actually push through and they win the day.
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But the fact that he's prepared to go, yeah, no, this is all liberalism.
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To have this multicultural hell hole in which is rampant crime.
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And there are other bits in this where he's like, yeah, I accept that sex assaults
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The worst part is there are some assumptions underpinning it.
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I think mainly motivated by propaganda, brainwashing, and white guilt.
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That on some level, the bad things happening to people, well, they deserve it.
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They're the benefactors of imperialism around the globe.
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This is just their own consequences coming back to get them.
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So I'm going to be more generous towards Lewis.
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I don't think that he is a self-hating white person in that way.
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What I think it is, is Lewis views himself as a kind of saviour, right?
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Deporting people is deporting them into hell, basically.
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Well, we are, but we're not evil when we're sufficiently liberal, right?
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Now, yeah, granted, there are lots of problems that come with this, but the more we maintain
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this sort of metaphysical liberalism over the country, the more morally correct we are.
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It's like, okay, but you're getting loads of girls raped.
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You're getting all of these, you know, properties burgled, all these phones stolen.
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The ends are just, what, being moral and utopian.
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Self-satisfied, smug moralism from the lib is the issue.
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Well, if we have a bit of any time, I thought we'd show you some of the reality.
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I mean, I was getting the tube three times a week doing that GB News show at 12am.
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And the things I saw, you wouldn't believe the things I've seen.
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I got used to, like, the same few, like, crack addicts at the same place.
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And I would just, it became this kind of, like, taxi driver diary.
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I'd just text it to my group, like, of the others from Headlines.
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And it would just be like, I wish I had some examples now.
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And just the, every night, the Robert Travis Bickle gone.
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But we can thank Lewis for literally characterizing that state of affairs as contemporary liberalism.
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And you're opposed to the politics of these cities that bring this into being.
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Because I am a responsible human being who cares for the future of my country.
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The decline and decay of London is really happening.
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Worked in even more places and spent time in pretty much every corner of it.
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The good, the bad, the weird, and the wonderful.
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Sometimes I hate it, but it's the relationship you have with your hometown, right?
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But right now, it's not just a love-hate thing.
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I feel properly gutted watching it go downhill like this.
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On the surface, London might still look the same.
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Or even just walk home instead of getting the tube and tell me you don't feel it too.
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Central London at night looks like a rough sleepers encampment.
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There are actual communities of men living in parks.
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Park Lane used to mean monopoly money in five-star hotels.
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Now it's tents and people defecating in bushes.
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Crime's gone up and no one's even shocked anymore.
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You see someone blatantly shoplifting and no one bats an eyelid.
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If you pay full price for your travel, you're the mug.
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And London's got a whole new soundtrack these days.
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The electric wear of stolen or unpaid for e-bikes flying past you at 30 miles per hour.
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Weaving through traffic like it's a video game.
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Phone snatching is so bad they've actually put warning signs on the pavement.
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A rape is reported every single hour in this city.
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It's like no one gives a toss anymore because why would they?
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We're not known for our warmth and random chats at the bus stop.
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But there used to be, I don't know, a buzz, a pride, a bit of mutual respect even in the chaos.
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Don't know how much I want to do, but it's a whole long post.
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We experienced all of this when we went down to London for the conference.
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And it's too long almost, but there's a good bit about people begging.
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See, if I got the tube back from at 12am, it was utter dystopian Gotham chaos.
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But if I got the taxi, sometimes I was like, I can't face that or whatever reason I've missed the tube.
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There'd be beggars coming up to the taxi, which I'd only ever seen in L.A. before this.
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And one time, one night, just a naked guy just wandering around the middle of the road.
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It's like, I've never seen that before, but this is recently in London.
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Maybe the deal is you give him money, he puts some pants on.
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What about the guy I'm sure you covered the other day on the tube?
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And you being opposed to it is just you being political and being an agent against them.
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You've got weekly Palestine, aggressive marches, delivery riders, hundreds of them like a fleet.
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And it's her home and she's seen it all happen.
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And she shares a few pictures of graffiti on tubes.
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I just said, look, I walk around London every night at 2am holding out my brand new iPhone,
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And not once has anyone stopped me except to tell me how to make perfect jerk chicken.
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London is the safest and most vibrant city ever.
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The amount of people I got taking that seriously made me want to kill myself.
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I'm like, I can't make my satire much more broad than this guy.
00:31:23.000
And you might have people attacking me with reform in bio.
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Or just look at that tweet with your brain switched on.
00:31:34.000
The amount of people saying, well, what were the recipes?
00:31:43.000
I mean, I said, once again, no matter how broad the parody of the 50 IQs will always arrive
00:31:50.000
I need to put my own tweets in, but here's a little bit of advice.
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Next time you see an arranged man from an incompatible culture with no trousers on, screaming
00:31:56.000
F off repeatedly, simply keep calm and return to your Fraser Nelson article.
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And then somebody's like, Fraser Nelson's a retard.
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And I put, but instances of that are down on the whole, despite what Poppins may tell
00:32:13.000
Lee says, I see the London shit libs got the latest patch.
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I think this is all just core in their programming, frankly.
00:32:22.000
I watched the shit libs podcast Teal Deer about this.
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They say they didn't say anything that proved it or said that we were wrong.
00:32:34.000
Yeah, it happened a bit too soon this afternoon for us to cover it.
00:32:42.000
So the left's been looking for a solution to the masculinity crisis for a while now because
00:32:49.000
the left has had a lot of trouble attracting disenfranchised young men onto their side.
00:32:56.000
And it's not difficult to see why when it's incredibly, well, it's incredibly feminine coded way of thinking about the world and way of complaining about the world.
00:33:06.000
They're also like, we hate you because you're a mess.
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And all of the people that they put forward is twinks.
00:33:13.000
So they've had this big trouble trying to put forward their own Joe Rogan.
00:33:17.000
Because Joe Rogan, he's a manly man who appeals to men.
00:33:20.000
I'm not a fan of everything he does or says, but I can see the appeal that a lot of people have for him.
00:33:44.000
The left is an explicit anti-straight white male coalition.
00:33:51.000
They literally write articles against testosterone and against going to the gym.
00:33:56.000
I can't remember who I said to you, maybe it was one of you who was here,
00:33:58.000
that the fact they look at Joe Rogan, a completely organic phenomenon,
00:34:12.000
He said the N-word bunch on his now multi-million dollar podcast.
00:34:15.000
Well, he built the podcast from very early on over years and years,
00:34:17.000
from his own endeavors through talent and creativity and hard work.
00:34:29.000
They have the man with the progressive brain in the MAGA body.
00:34:36.000
And I'll take a look at the big campaign that's been going on to push him recently.
00:34:43.000
Like, all of the major news outlets have, for the past few months, been doing big puff pieces on him.
00:34:49.000
Problem is, the latest one he did with GQ has backfired just a little bit.
00:34:55.000
And that kind of goes to show why it is that this is not attracting young, rowdy, manly men.
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Because young, rowdy, manly men typically don't want to be gay bears.
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Along with exercising to promote your physical health,
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you should read this to promote your intellectual health.
00:35:27.000
And fantastic aesthetic design, as ever, from Rory.
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So please, buy your copy from the website for $14.99 today, while stocks still last.
00:35:39.000
Every day, I get people saying, can I get Islander 1 or 2 or 3?
00:35:44.000
They're printed once, and they're gone forever.
00:35:52.000
Where it's like, look, these are a moment in time that speaks to the current zeitgeist.
00:36:01.000
They're kind of like a symbolic thing in that way.
00:36:09.000
You can get mine on eBay soon, but that's where it's mine.
00:36:14.000
Honestly, I looked at a bunch of the Islander 1s and 2s are going for like $200 or $300.
00:36:26.000
What actually happens is that Carl's got them all stuffed in his mattress, where they
00:36:32.000
Anyway, so the latest push has been from GQ magazine.
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And here we see the big promotion tweet that they put out using his biggest quote from
00:36:50.000
So even when they're like, this is what men want.
00:36:53.000
It's drugs to deal with the fact that you have poor hormones, no testosterone and are
00:37:02.000
I kind of noticed that there's something weird about this photo.
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I can't quite put my finger on it, but he kind of looks trans.
00:37:09.000
He looks like he's just offered me a fantastic deal on a rug.
00:37:20.000
I don't know why, and I can't put my finger on it, but he looks kind of trans.
00:37:31.000
Broad shoulder, tiny head for small peanut brain.
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And this photograph does not do the head any favors.
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It's kind of from a low angle shot to really emphasize how small the head is.
00:37:46.000
Yeah, but he looks like he's lost muscle density and he's gaining sort of like, you
00:37:57.000
And I will just preface all of this by saying, like, honestly, I don't actually...
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And I did find out when I Googled him that he actually shares the same birthday as me.
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So, in another life, you know, our parents could have organized joint birthday parties,
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go to the bowling alley, have some pizza together.
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But, sadly, that doesn't seem to be what fate had in store for us.
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He feels like if I didn't talk to him about politics and just sat down and had a beer with him,
00:38:33.000
Are you getting sucked into the alt-left pipeline?
00:38:43.000
But, it's when it's stuff like this, it really doesn't look great.
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And we'll get to the article, but first some of the reactions to this alone.
00:38:50.000
You had people saying, like, that's not an argument.
00:39:11.000
Is that the Anna Kasparian saying, give me money?
00:39:16.000
So, what that's a parody of is that is the longest sentence a gorilla has ever typed.
00:39:23.000
It was Coco the Gorilla, I think it was, where this was like a 16 word sentence or something.
00:39:38.000
And in the replies to this, people were kind of pointing out the kind of thing that you were saying as well, Carl.
00:39:43.000
People are starting to go, yeah, like, this guy's weird.
00:39:48.000
And Hassan Paika was known for a long time as, like, the really handsome leftist bro Chad.
00:39:56.000
But I've always thought, like, in recent years, he's started to look really, like, greasy and kind of schlubby.
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And I don't think the beard does him any favours because it kind of looks dirty.
00:40:11.000
I mean, well, there's more in the article about that as well, which kind of surprised me.
00:40:15.000
Nick, you're in particular going to be very pleased by some stuff that the article says.
00:40:19.000
But there's people saying, this dude's physiognomy looks weird.
00:40:24.000
You look at it and you realise there's stuff wrong with it, like some kind of uncanny valley where he's trying to be muscular.
00:40:36.000
I don't do physical appearance attacks because I hate it when people do it to me.
00:40:42.000
I know, but I always think it's the meanest thing, so I'm just so principled.
00:40:45.000
When it gets into the things he says, I'm happy to.
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But part of the reason the article's backfired is the photographs that were included in it,
00:40:55.000
which are going to be really appealing to a particular male demographic, not the one that they were initially aiming for.
00:41:07.000
But here's Hassan from a few years ago looking much neater.
00:41:22.000
Because of course he would, as a real man would do.
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But yeah, like I said, this is all part of this weird coordinated push to try and make Hassan Piker the guy to win over the bros onto the kind of, not even liberal democratic,
00:41:38.000
even though, I mean, ultimately what does he end up advocating for?
00:41:44.000
That's the best that he can offer despite LARPing as a revolutionary.
00:41:47.000
He's trying to win white working class bro guys over to the left and into properly radical leftist politics, or at least LARPing as such.
00:41:59.000
So here's one from March, the battle for the bros.
00:42:03.000
And here you can see the greasy green-eyed Turk versus the blue-eyed Aryan sweaty Chad.
00:42:10.000
And, of course, this article was about Hassan Piker.
00:42:19.000
The progressive mind in a body made for the manosphere.
00:42:25.000
There's one bit that says his manosphere peers.
00:42:37.000
Joe Rogan, Hassan Piker, and the art of the hang.
00:42:41.000
Which sounds, again, the recurring theme, kind of homoerotic.
00:42:45.000
Yeah, it's also lefties trying to figure out how to be normal.
00:42:49.000
Apparently, as I understand it, you sit there and just say things to each other.
00:42:55.000
It's like your middle-aged dad coming in with a backwards cap and a skateboard.
00:43:00.000
Instead this time as a middle-aged purple-head lesbian.
00:43:05.000
More recent ones, Hassan Piker, the himbo gateway drug to the left.
00:43:09.000
Again, though, that's not going to attract straight men.
00:43:14.000
No straight man has ever used the word himbo without slightly retching.
00:43:19.000
But also, this correlates with the decline in Hassan's own audience, right?
00:43:22.000
Because a year or two ago, he'd have like 40...
00:43:26.000
Yeah, yeah, he'd have like 40,000 live viewers on Twitch.
00:43:28.000
And now he's down to about 18,000 or something.
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And yet, they're sort of like, oh no, we've got to give Hassan the push.
00:43:36.000
And I think it's because, frankly, people are sick of him.
00:43:47.000
A house like eight hours of it is an empty chair with somebody else's video playing.
00:43:56.000
And then another one, like literally just last week,
00:43:59.000
the next generation of progressive pundits is here with Hassan Piker looking disheveled and greasy.
00:44:09.000
And you can immediately tell where this is going.
00:44:14.000
It's like a Sacha Baron Cohen character, that one, isn't it?
00:44:19.000
If some photographer and journalist came into my home for a puff piece and asked Harry,
00:45:03.000
We're all noticing that, like, as a straight man, these aren't the kind of activities that
00:45:19.000
You're saying Rogan wouldn't put those bubble baths.
00:45:29.000
He's posted videos of it before where he's like, I think like he's about to die.
00:45:39.000
And it feels like the article should be read in a particular tone of voice.
00:45:53.000
It's Monday at 8.30am and we're in the backyard of a house in West Hollywood where there's
00:45:58.000
a makeshift private gym with benches, pull down machines and dumbbells galore.
00:46:05.000
This is where the 34 year old political influencer keeps his thirsted after body fit.
00:46:12.000
Joined by a few other neighborhood characters, including a guy who works on Pod Save America.
00:46:18.000
His Bernie's beefcake, Kaya, tussles with a few other golden brown dogs.
00:46:25.000
As Piker burns through his 70 minute workout, exhausting himself in the process, he strips
00:46:32.000
An army of girls and gays, not to mention admiring Luxmexers, would kill to be where I am right
00:46:54.000
That voice you did, it reminded me more of like a Bret Easton Ellis novel.
00:47:01.000
It's like hanging out by the pool making weird references.
00:47:12.000
It gets weird when he gets into him quoting and just all...
00:47:19.000
Piker's trainers fib to me about how much he's been bench pressing.
00:47:27.000
His personal best is 285, which is quite impressive.
00:47:30.000
But honestly, he's about the same size as me and he's probably about 20 pounds heavier.
00:47:35.000
175 is nowhere near as impressive as I was expecting.
00:47:39.000
I was at least going to try and be kind and say,
00:47:42.000
well, he probably outlifts me on the big three lifts, right?
00:47:57.000
I told you the other day I could do 385 and I don't...
00:48:03.000
But still, that's nowhere near as good as I was expecting to hear about.
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Especially on all these drugs he's apparently on.
00:48:10.000
The conversation among the seven men and women grows increasingly unhinged.
00:48:16.000
Morphing into a discussion about which Hollywood plastic surgeon is least likely to kill you.
00:48:27.000
They start joking that Nick Fuentes is gay, which should make you a big fan of his, where
00:48:33.000
So he's like catching up to Twitter memes about Fuentes from two years ago at this point.
00:48:38.000
Do you know the weirdest thing to me is like, everything about this guy, and it kind
00:48:41.000
of is what we've said, but the only thing that's leftist about him is that he sometimes
00:48:46.000
But everything else about him is just a guy out in wherever he is, by the pool in...
00:48:55.000
He's doing all this, like, which plastic surgeon do you use?
00:48:58.000
So he's just the same as any actor or anyone else like that.
00:49:01.000
But he goes, oh, Palestine, and he's on Twitch, but he's not really in any...
00:49:06.000
Yeah, but he's not out there like working on the infrastructure and like, how are we
00:49:17.000
In the interest of time, can we get to the conclusion on this one?
00:49:25.000
Basically, the rest of the article just goes on to say about how he's a leftist.
00:49:34.000
It goes over his fitness supplement sack, which includes an espresso shot, four creatine
00:49:43.000
As someone who doesn't know anything about creatine, how many should you take?
00:49:46.000
I mean, if it's a five milligram pill, just one.
00:49:52.000
And he takes minoxidil and finasteride, where he says, I'm technically on HRT and has
00:49:56.000
DHT blockers for hair loss that he's been taking for years now at this point.
00:50:00.000
So that's kind of unclear if he's also on like actual testosterone replacement therapy.
00:50:05.000
So he's on a weird cocktail of drugs that are hormone replacement therapy.
00:50:09.000
That might just be a joke about being on finasteride.
00:50:13.000
It's kind of unclear, but also he's had like PED allegations in the past.
00:50:16.000
So, I mean, first things first, Hasan, just let it, let it go naturally, man.
00:50:21.000
You can miss the like blooming lucky good hair over there.
00:50:31.000
He's got, he's doubtless got an uncle or something who doesn't.
00:50:34.000
Like this, is this why he looks so sort of bandy?
00:50:37.000
It might be if he's taking stuff that's going to mess with his hormones.
00:50:43.000
If his testosterone is going down because of some stuff that he's taking, he's having
00:50:48.000
If he's on it, which he might be given that he advocates for like, oh, give me TRT for
00:50:54.000
Uh, then yeah, that can messing with your hormones can do weird things.
00:50:59.000
It might just be that he's just a bit chubbier than he used to be as well.
00:51:07.000
One of the interesting things in here is that apparently it says further down, it goes
00:51:11.000
into his recent stuff with Ethan Klein and whatnot.
00:51:17.000
With all the other stuff that he's been going on.
00:51:22.000
Uh, remember the web back in 2010s when YouTube was just Ben Shapiro and wrecking blue
00:51:32.000
Now there's a cluster of progressive influence who's, who Piker proudly calls Hassan Abbey
00:51:37.000
He co-signs Sean DeBlack, Chris Kunzler, Jam and Overzealot.
00:51:41.000
He's also trying to mentor new establishment Dem influencers like Dean Withers and Harry
00:51:52.000
So Hassan Piker, who's the one who's going to be the draw for young men into being able
00:51:59.000
I can still be a man manly and be on the left is also now mentoring the Dem twinks who
00:52:05.000
are part of that one Marine Navy SEAL guy's personal concubine, which is pretty impressive.
00:52:17.000
And he, and he's, you know, and he's obviously criticized Israel and I don't agree with this
00:52:29.000
I don't even necessarily disagree with everything he says all of the time.
00:52:37.000
And then one of the last paragraphs is basically questioning his mental health, where he's
00:52:41.000
like saying to himself, I wonder if starting the stream and doing 12 hours a day every
00:52:46.000
day on Twitch and just shouting at people is good for my brain.
00:52:55.000
And then he criticizes make America healthy again as effing charlatans, which is where
00:53:06.000
Just inject a load of drugs and you will be fine.
00:53:12.000
There was a thing that came out the other day that Ozempic's been making people blind,
00:53:17.000
They're, they're, they're open to a lawsuit on this now.
00:53:19.000
And so he's just like, yeah, Ozempic for all, trust the science.
00:53:21.000
I would never take it because people who take it look weird.
00:53:37.000
And he has been arguing with his chat over whether it was a good sell or not.
00:53:40.000
And it's slowly coming over to the, listen, I thought it'd be good at the time,
00:53:46.000
So as far as I can tell the left still massively struggling to attract young men over to their
00:54:02.000
I agree with Hassan's take on reparations as a Bulgarian.
00:54:09.000
Uh, for the time we're going to have to skip a couple, I'm afraid.
00:54:11.000
Once you have 10 Islanders, you can release a hardcover edition with all 10 added memoirs
00:54:18.000
Uh, Hassan loves Houthi and Hezbollahs and Hamas.
00:54:21.000
He is most fervent terrorist supporter on Twitch.
00:54:25.000
Um, and his head is far too small for his body, Sargon.
00:54:28.000
That's why he looks like he's got a tiny weird head.
00:54:29.000
Now he's always had a tiny weird head, but I looked at small photos of him like from
00:54:33.000
like five years ago and he actually looks strong.
00:54:38.000
Like he does look like he had bad gyno in some of those pictures though.
00:54:45.000
And, uh, yeah, people mentioning, well, they can't get their own Joe Rogan of the left
00:54:55.000
So you've doubtless watched the Sydney Sweeney Aryan princess.
00:55:06.000
Uh, but yeah, the adverts where Sydney Sweeney is there.
00:55:09.000
Uh, and they're like, Sydney Sweeney has great jeans and everyone freaked out because
00:55:18.000
And there were, there were certain demographics who took this way worse than others.
00:55:31.000
But the, the, the, the play here is of course, Sydney Sweeney is hot.
00:55:37.000
It is a double entendre on the fact that she is wearing and selling jeans.
00:55:41.000
Actually, it wasn't something that was advertising Nazism.
00:55:57.000
No, one's at an Edinburgh show saying it's Oasis.
00:55:59.000
Like Kate, stop telling everyone that no one's come to your show.
00:56:02.000
It's like, if I was jealous of Sydney Sweeney as a girl, I just don't think I'd like post
00:56:18.000
The thing is, there's quite a lot of pictures of black women, well, fat black women intentionally
00:56:23.000
and unintentionally just being furious at Sydney Sweeney.
00:56:26.000
There's that candid one of Sydney Sweeney just taking an interview with a woman in the
00:56:34.000
But this is, this is something that Sydney Sweeney, it's a cross she has to bear, but for
00:56:37.000
being attractive in public and making money out of her attractiveness.
00:56:45.000
Um, anyway, a lot of, a lot of, uh, black women have taken this very poorly as you can
00:56:51.000
Uh, what I do have is a problem talking about the best genes and what they are in the word
00:56:57.000
That's where the line has been crossed and say, yeah, it was, it was about her being
00:57:00.000
You brought the her being white thing to the conversation because, and you can see this
00:57:06.000
You guys hate what white people and we're well aware of this.
00:57:08.000
And so, uh, the New Yorker was like, Sydney Sweeney is an adoring legion, the most extreme
00:57:13.000
of whom want to recruit her as an Aryan princess.
00:57:22.000
But like I found some rogue telegram groups in which, you know, Hitler Groper 1488 was
00:57:31.000
I need to make that the face of Sydney Sweeney's advertising campaign because that'll make
00:57:44.000
So this article remarkable right now, this is written by Doreen St. Felix.
00:57:50.000
Now, do we want to go through Doreen's tweets before or after the article?
00:57:56.000
Let me just, I'm going to Google what she looks like.
00:58:03.000
You can't look at her Twitter account, though, because she's locked it.
00:58:07.000
So before or after, guys, do we want to do them first or no?
00:58:12.000
I mean, we already know what they're going to be.
00:58:18.000
So in this, it's not very substantive, but she...
00:58:23.000
She goes on about, well, Beyonce had a jeans advert and nobody cared.
00:58:26.000
But then she goes, all of Sydney Sweeney's clips depict her as a supplicant, including
00:58:34.000
Sydney's whole body lying supine as a kind of landscape.
00:58:37.000
The camera panning over her as she zips up her jeans, cooing.
00:58:40.000
Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality
00:58:47.000
And then it says, Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.
00:58:53.000
They thought in an advertising room, this is clever.
00:59:00.000
I do think part of it was probably thinking this might also generate anger, which will
00:59:06.000
Well, one thing I did say before on air, the thing about Sydney Sweeney, she just owns it.
00:59:15.000
Literally, this was all adverts before about 2010.
00:59:19.000
But now what you have to have, even with the girl, Emily Ratajkowski thingy, she was in
00:59:22.000
this blurred line, incredibly kind of non-feminist video, but she still will put a post and
00:59:30.000
Whereas Sydney doesn't bother with that hypocrisy.
00:59:38.000
But the thing is, at no point is this about race, right?
00:59:45.000
This is about an attractive woman saying, hey, guys, I'm hot.
01:00:01.000
And especially after having 10 years of, well, fat black women being the main stars of
01:00:06.000
adverts, you know, it's like, okay, it's a return to normal normalcy.
01:00:10.000
And this has been taken as an explicitly racial act.
01:00:15.000
The illusion is incoherent, of course, unless we root around for other meanings.
01:00:21.000
Jeans referring to Sweeney's famously large breasts.
01:00:29.000
I mean, yeah, they're not that big, but I mean, she's doing fine.
01:00:39.000
Interestingly, breasts and the desire for them are stereotyped as objects of white desire.
01:00:45.000
As opposed to, say, the black man's hunger for ass.
01:00:55.000
She wrote that down and went, yeah, that's the article.
01:00:58.000
And then someone proofread it and was like, yeah.
01:01:03.000
Black men famously known for not liking breasts?
01:01:09.000
I know they've liked the second one, but I didn't know they were known for not liking
01:01:15.000
And the fact that Sidney Sweeney is known for her breasts and not her buttocks-
01:01:25.000
But you can see, unpacking it, there's the Nazism underneath it.
01:01:29.000
And so yeah, she says, Sweeney is on the precipice of totalizing fame, has an adoring legion,
01:01:34.000
the most extreme of all want to recruit her as a kind of Aryan princess.
01:01:38.000
To them, she signals, as my colleague Lauren Michelle Jackson wrote, rejoicing in a perceived
01:01:43.000
return to a bygone beauty standard in the wake of all that overzealous feminism they
01:01:52.000
It's not very bygone when everyone still openly prefers it.
01:01:57.000
I'd hate to get all Aryan, but people like hot blonde chicks down there.
01:02:06.000
It's not terribly controversial to suggest that actually beautiful women sell things better
01:02:13.000
I mean, they did try putting ugly people on advertisements and then Jaguar bombed.
01:02:19.000
And she goes on, Stephen Colbert was like, listen, guys, I know I'm a crazy leftist, but I think
01:02:25.000
that maybe you're going a little bit far with this.
01:02:27.000
Even I am not persuaded that this is actually Nazi propaganda.
01:02:32.000
She says, Colbert, who hosts The Late Show, not for long, with a persecuted swagger, chastised
01:02:38.000
the outraged who see the ad as master race propaganda, claiming that they were overreacting.
01:02:44.000
No, no, guys, the jeans company is like, yeah, now's the time for master race propaganda
01:02:51.000
Can't you handle the stupid pun, in other words?
01:02:54.000
To be clear, many of us, the Negroes, the queers, the hairy feminists, etc., do not react
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out of a feeling of personal injury, as if the blondness's beauty standard has terrorised
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Whom does that terrorise more than the cis white women, honestly?
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You are acting like this is a personal attack on you.
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Like, it's so weird that you act like this is a bloody personal attack.
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I was, I told you, the first to do a Lotus Eaters segment on Sydney years ago.
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I remember Callum's bemusement, and it was, it was, I put it in there because her family
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were being attacked for being Trump supporters.
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And now it's come out recently, she's a registered Republican, so she's a kind of natural figure
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Wait, Sydney, Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican.
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And, of course, her whole family are Trump supporters, and she would be.
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She's probably not a very political person, I mean...
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I mean, there are other interviews in which Sydney Sweeney says, well, look, I'm just
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doing this for money, because acting doesn't pay the bills anymore.
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But anyway, so yeah, Doreen here has a Twitter account, and it was open until very recently,
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Go and nurse your Oedipal complexes and leave the earth to the browns and the women.
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I'm starting to think that it's not us that have the kind of racial supremacy complex.
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Just sat there on my own, Christmas Eve, seething about white people.
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Never have I felt more that whiteness is the uncanny valley, so we don't look human.
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A capital letter at the start of a sentence is an instance of whiteness or something.
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White supremacy is satanic and white people, it's done in your name.
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It upholds every inch of your lifestyle and threatens every inch of mine.
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It's going to really suck when we have a white president again, back in 2015.
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I guess she's not been happy since, to be honest.
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So, as you can see, I don't think I need to labour the point.
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We literally started a plague, apparently, in one of these as well.
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The lack of hygiene literally started a demonic plague.
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Well, I mean, literally, it's in their blood, she says.
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Of all of the stereotypes, this weird one that white people don't wash themselves.
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Have you heard of the thing where some ghetto black types tend to be really, really obsessive
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Tariq Nasheed desperately wants you to have a clean arse.
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And for some reason they just think that white people don't do stuff like that and therefore
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are just, what, walking around with unwiped arses?
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I've heard that white people are the opposite, if anything, like, kind of too, you know, nerdy
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They're constantly saying, oh, you don't have to wash your hair every day.
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It's like, if I don't, it's greasy, so I wash my hair every day.
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There's like a load of tweets about they wash it way less than you think.
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Because they can't, because it's a big thing for them.
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But this thing about it's in their blood and we cause syphilis and all, I mean, she's
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But the Black Plague came from the East anyway.
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There are still tribes in Kenya that live in, like, mud and cow dung huts.
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Been in love with a lot of men, white, since, but none of them ever called me their girlfriend.
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Sydney Sweeney comes out and she's just a babe.
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I would be heartbroken if I had kids with a white guy and they didn't look phenotypically
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To be honest, whiteness fills me with a lot of hate.
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She's admitting that she wasn't the main girlfriend and didn't get the committed relationship.
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It's like, could your personality have factored into that?
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And now I'm going to write a hate article about the Aryan princess Sydney Sweeney.
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Anyway, obviously she nuked her account, which is a fitting end to someone who really needs
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So, every time I see that photo, I can hear the pink spandex screaming for mercy.
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Ann says, I find it interesting that as soon as Trump said that he was going to crack
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down on crime, the Orwellian gaslighting on crime started not only in the US, but across
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Well, Nigel Farage copied Donald Trump immediately, being like, Britain is lawless.
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We need to reform and fix Britain, blah, blah, blah.
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Because, of course, everything Trump does, Nigel Farage copies.
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And that got them going like, oh no, actually the crime is a good and necessary part of
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Doesn't look safe or vibrant enough for me, but...
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Yeah, this is the side of it that I climbed up when I climbed up it.
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I love that you get this glorious view and you're just there like, don't like it.
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It reminds me of being back in the lakes, which is my home.
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I said, it's not safe and vibrant enough for me.
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And plus, you are a miserable guy sometimes, so it was in character.
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As Harry says, buy the mag, unless you're a fag.
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The Kuverling asked me to illustrate his children's book, and since I've only drawn for like 10 months, I said, of course, and I don't know how to draw posters freehand yet, so this was my way to get around it.
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So yeah, in a year's time, buy our children's book, please.
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And as far as I'm aware, a lot of artists do start off with photo references.
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Maureen says, the decline is happening everywhere.
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I used to stroll at night through my small towns, listening to music and mind my own business, feeling perfectly safe.
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Two or three weeks ago, a guy got stabbed about 15 minutes away from where I was.
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Exactly one week ago, some drugged up guy tried to grab my dog, started filming me, and tried to block my path when I tried to get away.
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I called the cops, not because I think they'll help, but because I want to do anything I can.
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It's still almost every surface outside is at least one protect people, no borders sticker on it.
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Yeah, this is, like, I used to, like, in the early 2000s, me and my mates would always go drinking in Swindon.
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And because we lived, you know, a little bit out of town, we'd just have to walk, like, two miles out, right?
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So he's walking, you know, just staggering home.
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Like, just go out drinking with my mates, walk two or three miles home, nothing ever happened.
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Now, I'm worried about walking around during the day, sober.
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You know, it's just like, everyone can feel the decline, man.
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Bradley says, my colleague at work is an Indian from the Boris wave.
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He's a good chap, but I did love it, how he said he doesn't like London, because it makes him feel like he's back in India.
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My fiance is a Bulgarian Turk, and she actually echoes the similar feelings about the UK.
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Ewan says, that sounds like a play on, you must think I was born yesterday, but it's not.
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But not, it's, you must think I was mugged yesterday.
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Hector says, breaking news, Trump will be sending the National Guard to London after seeing its effectiveness in DC.
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Yeah, we need to talk about that at some point, really, don't we?
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Like, Trump sending the troops into DC because of all the crime.
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But they've been massaging the statistics, obviously.
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So if you actually, they've got like all sorts of, you know, crimes.
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But if you actually look at the murder rate, it's been pretty level since about 1985, as in quite high, like 200 or something a year.
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Nick says, watching how many of these blue checks are funded by political parties or whoever.
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Along with the bots created by the same, it's hard to look at X without being enraged within 30 seconds.
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Rob says, who nicked the newsagent's air conditioning unit?
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I don't know why he couldn't just record his videos inside.
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But like him being sweaty and ranting about like, you know, no, this is how liberalism was meant to be.
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Mason says, in my more sympathetic moments, I actually feel sorry for Hasan Piker.
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Six to eight hours of streaming with a curated audience.
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How do you not get completely audience captured?
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Trapped in an ideological prison of your own making.
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He also reads out a lot of comments and has them constantly running and he takes suggestions for them on links.
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So yeah, he is completely sort of feedback loop, audience dependent.
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But also, I do kind of feel sorry for Hasan because, like, you can tell he hates what he does.
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Like, iDubbs and stuff was on there like a while ago.
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You could see just his interaction with iDubbs.
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He's probably just thinking like, man, I should still just be organizing parties at college or something.
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He was built to be a greasy club owner in Miami.
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I mean, he talks in that article about he's basically addicted to streaming.
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He's like, oh, I've got a really addictive personality.
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Like, you see him just on the streams and he just looks miserable.
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It's like, okay, well, glad I don't do your job.
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Jimbo says, my favorite Hasan moment was when Ethan asked him what would happen to dissenters under a socialist regime.
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And he unironically replied, they would be sent to re-education camps.
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Well, again, in the same way that Lewis is like, yeah, you getting raped or mugged on the street is part of liberalism.
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Getting sent to re-education camps is part of communism.
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I mean, every regime has re-education camps of some form or another.
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Kevin says, the left, Joe Rogan bad, misogynist, muscle-bound, testosterone-filled man.
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Well, that's precisely the problem they have, isn't it?
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Baystate says, the reason Hasan gives trans vibes is because he tries so hard to be stereotypically masculine.
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Like, so, so hard, but really nobody is buying it.
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He swoons over the uber-masculine jihad bros like a teenage schoolgirl feeling tingles for the first time.
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Do you remember the guy who was trolling him being, like, Landlord Wrights?
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And then Hasan walks off, but he walks off with this weird shuffle where he's shuffling like this.
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Yeah, and obviously, have you seen the videos of him doing kicks and punches as well?
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Henry says, calling Hasan a Sacha Baron Cohen character is a bit harsh on Sacha.
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It's a thing that girls do to make their arses look big.
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But I'm going to look into getting one of those myself.
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Hector says, Harry, there's no way Hasan out squats or deadlifts you.
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Yeah, it's really embarrassing, but he's got this kind of a feetness to him.
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Kevin says, gotta love Lizzo trying to do a Sydney Sweeney jeans advert.
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And now Carl's going to force you to watch it again.
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there is a distinct lack of class in it though as well
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is there's something really sort of chad about this as well
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and everyone's like okay we've got to do our own
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like constantly it's just like by being what she is
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there's this big sort of feeling of being mogged
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the way that woke have been screeching over Miss Sweeney
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you think she was pictured wearing nothing but a leather bikini and a Starnhelm
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while caressing the barrel of a panzer faust and licking the warhead
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isn't that the one where all the clips of Goggins
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when his friend was telling him about how he trooned out
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I know my missus watched something with her in it
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I only know her as the figurehead of the burdening