The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1285

00:00:00.400 Hello and welcome to the podcast of Lotus Eater's episode 1285. I'm your host Harry,

00:00:06.480 joined today by regular guest Firas and this man we found on the street outside. He was

00:00:12.700 wearing a suit so we thought why not. If you could give me some spare change, very nice.

00:00:17.100 I think his name is Joe. Joseph. That's about right. Yes. Close enough.

00:00:21.320 And today we're going to be talking about leaving the ECHR, how that would work practically.

00:00:26.160 We're going to be talking about the divisions within New York politics and how the internet

00:00:30.260 is getting worse. Before we get into that though, I've got a few things to say. First of all,

00:00:34.760 immediately before the stream even started, Century Bro on YouTube sent into a $200 super chat with no

00:00:42.460 message attached, just sent in the money. So thank you very much Century Bro. That's very generous and

00:00:47.020 kind of you. Also, we do have the six o'clock webinar with Stelios and Luca later on today.

00:00:54.620 This is going to be the last of the webinars that Stelios is conducting regarding this.

00:00:58.480 So if you want to speak to him about the Ancient Greek Virtue Ethics course and ask any questions,

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00:01:09.680 on today at three o'clock, so that's before the webinar, Samson and I will be kicking off our

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00:01:31.280 I've put a lot of work into it. Samson's put a lot of work into it. So I hope you all enjoy it.

00:01:35.420 And with that, let's get on with the news.

00:01:38.140 Thank you very much. So the topic of conversation in Britain today is about leaving the ECHR.

00:01:44.720 Nigel Farage, the leader of the Reform Party, tried to submit a bill to do that. He was endlessly

00:01:51.980 heckled by the midwits and the fatties of the Liberal Democrats who called him things like Putin's pet 0.94

00:02:00.200 and thought that they were incredibly funny and brilliant and accused him of trying to remove 0.95

00:02:07.360 British people's rights and so on and so forth. All of that isn't really worth dignifying with an 0.97

00:02:13.240 answer. Britain has had rights longer than most of Europe. And the idea that there would be no

00:02:18.460 rights in this country if Britain left the ECHR is frankly laughable and undeserving of a response.

00:02:26.380 So let's move on from that. There is a point of principle, however. The point of principle is that

00:02:31.540 as a sovereign country, foreign courts should not have jurisdiction over Britain.

00:02:37.460 That's a fair position to take. And that's the position that Farage himself has taken.

00:02:41.260 So there was this big vote about it about 10 years ago.

00:02:45.180 There was an issue of that.

00:02:46.800 Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, I remember some discussion around this topic.

00:02:50.340 It's also a central point about how our political system works is that parliament is sovereign.

00:02:55.820 Yes.

00:02:56.100 And if it's ruled over by foreign courts that aren't even based in Britain, let alone parliamentary,

00:03:03.440 then it's no longer sovereign and it undermines how our sort of uncodified constitution works.

00:03:09.520 Yes. Yes. No, absolutely. Absolutely. The point is, though, that for these midwits who pretend that

00:03:17.320 ECHR is the source of rights in Britain, it's not stopping the government arresting around 300

00:03:22.500 people a day for tweets. I mean, the number of people who are being arrested for social media posts

00:03:27.160 is 12,000, 13,000 a year. So the idea that ECHR protects against that, obviously laughable.

00:03:35.620 But there is a more substantial point, which is that the reason that these kinds of arrests happen

00:03:41.640 isn't because of the ECHR or relationship with Europe. It's because of the pathetic quality of judges, 0.90

00:03:47.580 judges, MPs, civil servants, police commanders, etc., etc. So there's a much bigger issue here 0.94

00:03:55.160 than the ECHR, which is why the title of this segment is just the first step. Addressing the

00:04:00.940 question of the ECHR is just one step in terms of fixing a much bigger problem, which is that the

00:04:07.540 establishment as establishment, the classes that depend on the taxpayer for their wages

00:04:13.780 are absolutely hostile. And that includes the quangocracy, and that includes the civil service 1.00

00:04:22.100 bureaucracy, the police, the judiciary, and much more than that. Plus, it's not even a question of

00:04:29.140 whether or not foreign criminals can be deported. The French do a good job sometimes deporting people 1.00

00:04:34.100 that they don't want when they decide that they want to do this kind of thing. Other countries in

00:04:39.000 Europe do engage in deportations. Hungary closes its borders completely, and it's part of the ECHR.

00:04:46.160 So the ECHR is a bit of a red herring. It's not the actual issue that's preventing Britain from

00:04:53.460 addressing a huge amount of the problems related to migration. It is one factor, but it's a small

00:05:00.440 factor. You can also, even if you were part of the EU, do what Poland does, which is just adhere to the

00:05:06.680 things you want to do, and then all the things that you don't. Like, it doesn't have to be a

00:05:10.560 straitjacket. Exactly. The notion that we have to adhere to it no matter what, or even be a part of

00:05:16.200 it in the first place, is absurd. It's obviously people trying to appeal to some degree of authority

00:05:22.220 around this thing, because it's what they want. The outcome is what they want in the first place.

00:05:27.160 Exactly. So what they do, what both sides are doing, is using the ECHR as a fig leaf.

00:05:33.740 The left pretends that the ECHR is the main guarantor of rights, and reform is pretending

00:05:39.960 that the ECHR is the fundamental problem. Neither of these propositions are true. And that doesn't

00:05:47.860 change the point of principle that a foreign court shouldn't have jurisdiction over Britain,

00:05:52.120 but these are the facts. There are good reasons that have been put forward to say the ECHR question

00:06:04.280 should be delayed, and shouldn't be the first thing on the agenda. And these mainly relate to

00:06:10.160 Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement, and the fact that the Good Friday Agreement, in part, relies on the

00:06:16.140 ECHR. The reality, however, is slightly different. First, the Good Friday Agreement has been in chaos

00:06:24.100 for many years now. The Parliament installment has been suspended for a total of 10 years, out of the

00:06:32.420 last 25 years that it's been in effect. And this didn't really change very much. Things kept on ticking

00:06:43.040 along, and the problem of violence has been resolved. And the problem of violence isn't really a threat

00:06:50.200 right now, because the Sinn Féin, having taken control of the Republic of Ireland, proceeded to

00:06:55.900 pretty much betray the country and stab it a thousand times in the back, and flood it with immigrants in 1.00

00:07:01.320 the same way that has occurred throughout the rest of Europe, and in Britain, and so on and so forth.

00:07:06.480 So the idea that if the Good Friday Agreement collapses because of the ECHR, well, that will

00:07:13.440 spell a return to violence in Northern Ireland, we're seeing pretty much the opposite. We're seeing

00:07:17.460 people raising the Irish and English and United Kingdom flags together to say that the actual

00:07:25.180 problem is the defense of a white Christian Europe, not sectarian differences between Catholics

00:07:32.640 and Protestants, or Irish grievances against the English, or English grievances against the Irish.

00:07:37.480 Like, that's not the issue.

00:07:39.060 Well, there's not nearly as much bad blood anymore, really.

00:07:41.400 No.

00:07:42.120 There might still be amongst the older generation, but, you know...

00:07:45.560 There always is, sometimes.

00:07:47.300 You know, one of my closest friends at university was an Irishman.

00:07:50.700 Right.

00:07:51.020 And, you know, there was no bad blood. He was just like, yeah, you know, England and Ireland

00:07:55.140 are basically the same. And most people of my age feel the same.

00:07:59.680 That there's no real problem here. And as, you know, time goes on, there's going to be

00:08:05.240 the prevalence of that attitude more and more. And, of course, as well, Ireland's only one country.

00:08:10.980 And it's much easier to negotiate with Ireland than the entirety of the EU with the ECHR.

00:08:16.440 So, actually, I would argue that it's probably better for both that we just do our negotiations

00:08:22.100 country to country.

00:08:24.140 Bilaterally.

00:08:24.920 Yeah, exactly.

00:08:26.000 No, 100%. 100%. I fully agree with that.

00:08:28.460 Plus, the precedent that was set by Stormont paved the way for the devolution that happened

00:08:33.220 in Wales and in Scotland.

00:08:34.980 And this was disastrous. Like, devolution is clearly not working.

00:08:38.580 It's a bad idea. It's adding layers and layers of government that are completely unnecessary.

00:08:42.160 And it's been captured, at least in Scotland's case, by insane, weird leftists who pretend 0.69

00:08:51.720 to be nationalists, but are only nationalists against the United Kingdom. They're not nationalists 0.84

00:08:57.720 in point of fact.

00:08:59.540 It's still quite similar in Wales as well.

00:09:02.460 They're also socialists as well, which is a bit awkward as a title.

00:09:06.160 It all wraps into one big hate fest, really, of the traditions and customs and religion

00:09:16.420 that made this country what it is. That's what it's all about. They hate themselves and they

00:09:22.760 hate everybody around them. And they express it with weird ideologies. And, you know, it's

00:09:28.320 not a question of principle for these people.

00:09:32.120 The other point to make is that the EU is going to work against a reform or right-wing

00:09:37.720 government that's genuinely right-wing, unlike what has happened in the past, regardless.

00:09:44.000 Like, the EU is going to declare total war on any government in Britain that actually seeks

00:09:52.680 to assert sovereignty and that actually tries to reduce the number of migrants coming in 0.89

00:10:00.340 and the migrants that are already here. This is a given. 1.00

00:10:04.420 Well, from the EU's perspective, they want to crush any country that asserts its own sovereignty

00:10:08.880 because it undermines the whole European project.

00:10:11.360 Exactly.

00:10:11.560 And therefore, it's raison d'etre.

00:10:12.560 And for them, they don't believe in the popular vote. They believe that our democracy

00:10:20.640 means the oligarchic expert class in charge or the expert class servants of the oligarchs

00:10:31.160 being in charge. They have the technocrats. The technocrats.

00:10:35.500 It means democracy, our democracy is just a term for technocratic, nudge-based, psychological

00:10:41.240 control of the mass population.

00:10:42.740 Exactly. Exactly. Because the mass population is not to be respected, is not to be trusted,

00:10:47.600 is to be looked down upon, spat upon, and downtrodden until it no longer exists. And if a government

00:10:53.060 were to try to reverse that, with or without the ECHR being on the table, their reaction from the EU is

00:11:00.400 going to be the same. And this is going to involve sabotaging trade. And this is going to involve

00:11:07.040 trying to find ways to use the Northern Ireland issue as a wedge to weaken Britain further.

00:11:15.020 They will do this to any country. Look at what they've done to Poland. Look at what they've done 1.00

00:11:19.280 to Hungary. They will obviously do the same to Britain. 1.00

00:11:22.360 So it should be taken as a given that even a Sivnat government is going to face the full wrath of the

00:11:31.840 European Union and of the European bureaucracy. And that they will try to sabotage everything

00:11:37.020 at pretty much every, using every lever of power that they have. And at every point in time where they

00:11:43.480 find an opportunity. This is, this should be the starting point. A big part of the problem fundamentally

00:11:50.540 is that Faraj, as usual, is very good at campaigning, but very bad on the detail.

00:11:56.660 And what reform should be doing is pretty much gaming out how this plays out and gaming out things

00:12:03.520 like the reaction from the United Nations. Yesterday, the United Nations was getting very angry

00:12:08.680 because the government of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil started shooting drug dealers.

00:12:14.820 Which is absurd, of course, because everyone knows about Rio's drug gang problem.

00:12:20.540 It's not exactly a secret.

00:12:22.580 Exactly. They all condemned Naib Bukele for asserting the sovereignty of the state in El Salvador.

00:12:31.440 They're going to do the same against Britain, but it's going to be a lot more intense and a lot

00:12:35.940 more vigorous. And what should be done is to game out the levers of trade and the levers of

00:12:43.200 international law, quote unquote, that they will use to undermine reform. This is what they're going to do.

00:12:51.720 And they will have the full cooperation of the blob, of the class of people that rely on taxpayers for their money,

00:13:03.640 who work in the NGOs, in the civil service, in the judiciary, in the police, etc., etc.

00:13:11.200 And the actual problem isn't just the ECHR, although in principle, yes, it's a violation of sovereignty.

00:13:19.660 The actual problem is that there is really no plan for dealing with this.

00:13:25.920 And these guys might go crazy. The EU might decide that deporting criminals is a violation of their human rights,

00:13:34.800 and therefore trade sanctions must be applied. And therefore, the EU is going to introduce tariffs.

00:13:41.700 And therefore, the EU is going to renegotiate Brexit deals and things of that nature.

00:13:46.760 I mean, they're going to go all out.

00:13:49.240 And there is one sort of potential counter-argument here that I obviously agree with what you're saying,

00:13:55.760 and they could do this to a degree of self-harm that could actually really damage the countries within the EU.

00:14:02.060 But with the way things are going, particularly with Germany, France, Italy,

00:14:07.040 they're probably not going to be in a financial position where they can take a hit,

00:14:12.260 or at least it's going to make it so difficult as to undermine faith in the EU in the first place.

00:14:17.840 Look, if you look at how they negotiated the Brexit deals, they didn't really seem to have very many concerns.

00:14:23.220 Now, they were very much helped by the fact that the British negotiators were remainers, 0.94

00:14:29.640 and that really undermined Britain's position.

00:14:32.620 And Britain does have pretty important leverage.

00:14:35.240 This is one of the biggest markets that the Europeans have access to.

00:14:38.260 Yes, true.

00:14:40.740 But this kind of economic damage didn't stop them blowing up their own nuclear plants,

00:14:45.640 and didn't stop them decimating their energy infrastructure, 0.63

00:14:48.840 and didn't stop them staying silent when the Americans blew up Nord Stream,

00:14:52.020 or when the Ukrainians attacked refineries in Romania and Hungary a couple of weeks ago.

00:14:57.260 These guys are genuine ideologues, and their commitment to maintaining the illusion that they are the only people who should ever be allowed to govern

00:15:07.820 outweighs significantly the economic damage that will be done to the population.

00:15:15.900 Because at the end of the day, they're still going to have their champagne and caviar dinners all the time,

00:15:20.440 and they're still going to be flying business class everywhere.

00:15:23.000 I do agree that the people who are going to be making these decisions are the ones that are isolated from the consequences.

00:15:29.340 Exactly.

00:15:29.940 And that's how they want politics to be.

00:15:31.860 They want politics to be a game where they make decisions, others suffer the consequences, they suffer nothing.

00:15:38.600 And if there is going to be some kind of genuinely responsive government, which is what reform is promising,

00:15:46.500 but huge questions on their ability to deliver that, they're going to try to nip that in the bud. 0.72

00:15:53.760 And they will try to undermine Farage at every point.

00:15:58.180 And so on point of principle, yeah, fair enough.

00:16:00.100 But in terms of actual preparation for what the EU will do, even if you don't leave the ECHR, be careful.

00:16:09.060 Plus, there's a trap in there, in that if a new reform government sort of codifies some new Bill of Rights,

00:16:17.620 there is a real risk that part of the things that they will codify will stop a future government

00:16:24.900 from removing people's passports and denaturalizing them and sending them back.

00:16:30.880 Which is going to really matter if you want to do something about the numbers and about the instability that these numbers bring in.

00:16:39.620 So this isn't clear sailing, the idea that the Human Rights Act and the ECHR get revoked,

00:16:47.100 and then some new Bill of Rights emerges.

00:16:51.220 There's a trap within that.

00:16:53.180 And it isn't obvious to me that Farage sees that.

00:16:56.540 Well, the obvious thing to do is not to have anything to replace it with at all,

00:16:59.780 because ultimately they're just pieces of paper.

00:17:02.360 They don't actually have any true enforcement.

00:17:05.220 It's not like in the US where you have a Supreme Court that enforces the Constitution,

00:17:10.360 and even then it's imperfect.

00:17:12.200 In Britain, it's even less enforced.

00:17:16.260 And the Human Rights Act was enacted within the first year of Tony Blair's prime ministerial ship,

00:17:23.000 which suggests that it's something that was very important to him,

00:17:25.740 and instrumental in sustaining his power ultimately.

00:17:28.400 Well, something fun that we were discussing before we came onto the podcast earlier when we brought up the subject of constitutions

00:17:34.760 was that in Germany, the constitution under the Weimar period and the period immediately following it were the exact same.

00:17:43.360 Right.

00:17:43.560 It was the exact same constitution.

00:17:46.080 So it turns out you can do a lot of different things under the same constitution if you as a political power just have the will to do so.

00:17:55.860 Exactly.

00:17:56.680 Exactly.

00:17:57.600 And the actual problem is that there exists this massive class of people

00:18:03.860 that rely on taxpayers for their ability to harm taxpayers,

00:18:11.240 and reform doesn't have a clear plan to gut that. 0.93

00:18:15.600 There is no plan to reduce the civil service by 50%.

00:18:19.640 To play devil's advocate here, this isn't something I necessarily believe,

00:18:23.680 but especially based on lots of the things I've heard about Farage's character from people who've worked with him for years.

00:18:29.320 But could it be that they're keeping a lot of this quiet because it would be strategically advantageous not to advertise it?

00:18:35.940 I hope so.

00:18:36.600 Because then they can put up measures to resist.

00:18:39.480 I hope so.

00:18:40.100 I don't actually think that that's happening, but it is possible.

00:18:43.480 I heard at the gym the other day, I overheard one of the personal trainers speaking to a client

00:18:50.880 talking about the theory that that woman who got in trouble for saying that there are too many black people in adverts,

00:18:56.720 that the party kind of disavowed somewhat,

00:19:00.920 that they were using her as a sounding board for the more radical ideas to test public perception and reaction to them.

00:19:07.360 That personal trainer's a bit more savvy than you'd imagine.

00:19:10.480 And he was talking to some old guy who clearly was just sort of like,

00:19:14.260 let's just make me lift the weights.

00:19:18.180 He was like, yeah, man.

00:19:19.500 But to be fair, you know, there is a potential truth to that.

00:19:23.660 Or at the very least, it could be unintentionally used for something like that.

00:19:27.320 Either way, it could work that way.

00:19:28.260 It received a huge pushback, but also at the same time, there was a lot of support for that statement.

00:19:33.620 Yep.

00:19:34.020 And it received pushback from the same people who think that rights in the United Kingdom depend on being in the ECHR.

00:19:42.060 Well, the same people who, frankly, would want what happened to Charlie Kirk to happen to Nigel Farage.

00:19:46.860 Pretty much.

00:19:47.180 If presented the opportunity.

00:19:48.060 Exactly.

00:19:48.880 And if you looked at the reactions from people in Parliament, you sort of see that this is exactly what they want.

00:19:55.580 The MPs around Farage are just sort of...

00:19:59.180 I'm not going to show you the clips because they're frankly disgusting,

00:20:02.060 but you should go and watch and see what quality of people we're dealing with here

00:20:06.280 and why they shouldn't be dignified with a response, but why they should also be taken very seriously

00:20:12.620 in terms of their genuine intent to hamstring any government that tries to do something slightly different.

00:20:22.740 They're going to deploy all of their media power, all of their legal power, all of their economic power,

00:20:27.960 and they're going to try to paralyze Nigel at every single step.

00:20:32.040 And it doesn't matter what happens with the ECHR.

00:20:36.320 The presence of the ECHR doesn't prevent people getting arrested over tweets,

00:20:40.640 and its absence won't change very many things.

00:20:45.620 Well, Morgoth always has a good point about the ECHR,

00:20:48.600 where people will share pictures of the many points of the ECHR and say,

00:20:52.520 this is what reform wants to take away from you.

00:20:54.420 Right.

00:20:54.540 And Morgoth always responds by saying, well, if you are white, if you are English,

00:20:58.800 if you are ethnically European, some group within Europe,

00:21:02.500 you do not have access to .56, .89, whichever are the ones that do things like

00:21:08.080 protect you against unfair imprisonment, the ones that protect you as an indigenous group,

00:21:13.400 the ones that protect you from being displaced from a homeland.

00:21:17.260 You just don't have access or recourse to those.

00:21:20.380 No, no, not at all. Not at all.

00:21:22.040 No. So this resistance that is inevitable must be prepared for.

00:21:31.780 And there should be a level of honesty saying that there is going to be a few very difficult years

00:21:36.340 after reform takes power because of this lawfare and economic warfare that will be waged

00:21:44.000 and this sort of endless media campaigning.

00:21:46.700 You need to prepare your audience for the reality that things have to get worse before they get better.

00:21:54.040 And you need to promise them something.

00:21:56.660 For example, nasty HR ladies like the ladies that we see in Parliament will no longer have power over men. 1.00

00:22:04.020 There is going to be changes to everything that allow people a level of freedom and liberty.

00:22:10.000 The problem is that there isn't a positive message that's coming from the right.

00:22:14.840 There isn't a positive message that says the bedrock of our beliefs is individual liberty,

00:22:20.340 that this is a genuinely talented people that is truly capable, that has been held back deliberately by this state-dependent class,

00:22:32.180 that the power of the state-dependent class is going to be removed and the people will then be free to pursue their own well-being as they see fit.

00:22:41.140 Well, I would argue that there is actually a positive vision coming from the younger elements of the establishment right.

00:22:48.800 If you want to even call them establishment.

00:22:51.820 Like, oftentimes I'll see former host Connor on Twitter responding to people who are disparaging Britain, disparaging English people.

00:23:02.160 And he presents a very positive vision of what England was and what England should be in the future.

00:23:09.160 I worry that it's some of the older generation like Nigel Farage who worry about the potential optics problems.

00:23:16.520 Nigel Farage has already been accused of being mustache man throughout his entire career for the past 30 years.

00:23:23.940 So I think he worries that if he puts forward a positive vision of the future that affirms that English people and British people in general

00:23:30.720 could have something of value to offer to the world, not as just a set of abstract floating values,

00:23:36.940 but as a real and distinct people, that he worries that he'll get even more of that aimed at him.

00:23:42.280 To which I say, who cares?

00:23:43.740 Yeah, yeah. I mean, they're going to attack you for anything anyway.

00:23:47.040 Yeah, go on.

00:23:47.760 I was just going to say that young people, you know, have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

00:23:51.940 Yes.

00:23:52.240 And so if that's not a good incentive, then I don't know what is.

00:23:57.040 Yes.

00:23:57.220 And any sensible leader should be leaning into this because it's basically going to be your activist class,

00:24:02.840 your most dedicated people, people with a lot of time and energy to put into it.

00:24:06.580 And it would be silly to overlook.

00:24:07.740 And again, it shows kind of the generational age gap and the divide here, which is that for Farage,

00:24:14.140 somebody who's part of the establishment or at least has been, you know, refer back to that old video of him dancing with Preeti Patel

00:24:22.040 and the rest of the conservatives, right?

00:24:24.440 For him, bad optics is affirming everything that we would like to affirm because it would put the ick on him among those circles.

00:24:32.860 Among the younger generations, it's good optics to do those things.

00:24:36.260 Because like you say, the younger generations, they see where this country is going.

00:24:39.760 They've been living in this country for their entire lives as it has just continued to decline.

00:24:43.860 So they see, oh, a positive vision of the future that's working for me, specifically has my interests in mind.

00:24:50.440 That's great.

00:24:51.200 So the incentives are also very different there.

00:24:53.840 And the major hope that I've seen a lot of people have is that Farage and other people of his age

00:24:59.260 will be kind of pushed and guided by those younger than him by taking advice from them.

00:25:04.400 Hopefully, hopefully.

00:25:05.240 And the thing is that there is the uniqueness of the British government model, the sovereignty of parliament,

00:25:11.580 means that enormous things can be done quite quickly, especially in terms of defunding this massive blob

00:25:20.200 that will always hate you and work against you in the civil service, in the NGOs, etc.

00:25:27.800 And since judges in this country are appointed and can be appointed and removed by government,

00:25:31.880 that is also an enormous lever of power.

00:25:34.240 What needs to happen is genuine preparation for government.

00:25:39.220 And that's not what we're seeing.

00:25:41.460 Maybe it's being done under the table and it's hidden for strategic reasons.

00:25:45.420 I hope so.

00:25:46.960 There's no evidence of that.

00:25:50.140 But that really is the issue.

00:25:52.280 He can be a lot more vocal and a lot more effective if he promises that this sort of enemy caste 0.96

00:26:01.260 that lives on the taxpayer and that always wants to extract more from the taxpayer to benefit migrants,

00:26:08.680 legal and illegal, is going to be treated as an enemy and is going to be made unemployed

00:26:14.560 and is going to be properly gutted.

00:26:17.080 If he promises that and the British model allows him to deliver that,

00:26:21.240 all kinds of good things are possible.

00:26:24.580 So the issue isn't the ECHR, important as it is in principle.

00:26:29.740 The issue is that there is going to be total warfare against the next government

00:26:33.520 and preparations are necessary.

00:26:38.900 He needs to be much better prepared for this.

00:26:40.680 All right, then.

00:26:44.300 Let's go through the one rumble rant that we have received in the course of that conversation.

00:26:48.880 Thank you very much to That's a Random Name.

00:26:50.600 We know you've always got our backs, even if you are Fed posting half the time.

00:26:54.120 He says,

00:26:54.640 We need to emphasize how malicious our rulers are.

00:26:58.320 Every time a foreigner commits a crime, it should be called a government-sanctioned murder, etc., etc. 0.96

00:27:04.120 Yeah, pretty much, you see how they get defended every single time,

00:27:09.400 how the system works to excuse their behavior,

00:27:12.400 how occasionally, like with the case of the Epping assaulter,

00:27:16.820 they'll just get accidentally let out of prison and given 50 quid so that they can be on their way.

00:27:23.700 They treat it like a...

00:27:25.520 Oh, sorry, 500.

00:27:26.180 I was thinking it was 500.

00:27:28.100 Which is more than a year's salary in his country.

00:27:31.380 But I thought for a second there before I said it, 0.97

00:27:33.680 like, no, that's too ridiculous. 0.81

00:27:35.660 I must be misremembering. 1.00

00:27:37.300 He spent three months, raped a girl, 0.96

00:27:41.860 raped a girl within eight days of arriving, 0.98

00:27:44.860 and then received a year's pay to leave. 0.85

00:27:49.000 After just a few months in jail.

00:27:50.720 Yeah, I'm on Josh's side here,

00:27:52.440 that even if we do start getting mass repatriations and remigration done,

00:27:56.260 we should not be paying people to leave.

00:27:59.220 We should be seizing their assets because they have taken...

00:28:02.500 And just look at the old economist graphs.

00:28:05.160 We know for a fact that the, what is it,

00:28:06.960 Menept, that they are massive drains on the system.

00:28:10.480 They have stolen my tax money, your tax money,

00:28:13.620 Josh's tax money, something that really hits hard for him.

00:28:16.660 I hate taxes, yeah.

00:28:17.800 Yeah, in the first place.

00:28:18.680 They've stolen all of our tax money so that they can live here and terrorize our people. 0.62

00:28:22.120 So no, I think we should be seizing whatever puny assets that they have.

00:28:26.260 It would take a team of ten people about a month to basically figure out who owes the state money,

00:28:34.240 who's a net negative, how much they owe, how much should be seized.

00:28:38.020 Josh would probably volunteer for it yourself, wouldn't you?

00:28:40.200 I would, genuinely.

00:28:41.800 I would happily go around people's houses and take their stuff,

00:28:45.220 be like, this is a tax rebate for me.

00:28:48.060 Imagine they get a knock on the door and it's the smiling faces of us two.

00:28:52.440 Hi, we're here for your TV.

00:28:54.740 And then you're getting back in the van.

00:28:56.700 Yeah.

00:28:57.740 Going on a plane and you're never coming back.

00:28:59.820 All right then, moving on.

00:29:01.520 And speaking of people who do not have your best interests in mind,

00:29:06.160 let's talk about Mam Danny's progress in the New York mayoral election race,

00:29:12.540 how things are going for him and how it's showing a divide between the Democrat Party.

00:29:18.160 Let's take the Republican candidate for mayor of New York and put him to the side.

00:29:23.380 We'll issue him right now because, sadly, he's a Republican in New York.

00:29:28.780 There's no chance.

00:29:29.760 There's no chance.

00:29:30.480 So the two most important candidates at the moment are Andrew Cuomo and Zoran Mamdani.

00:29:36.100 And again, what we're seeing here is a big divide between the Democrats.

00:29:40.120 You could almost call it a left and right-wing Democrat divide.

00:29:44.060 Yes, they both have insane policies, but one is at least preferred by native U.S.-born voters

00:29:52.060 and the other is favoured by foreign voters, as we'll see through a lot of the polls that have been done.

00:29:59.440 So, first of all, here's a report from Newsweek talking about Mamdani's chances of winning a landslide New York election.

00:30:06.360 And you can scroll down and see one of the graphs here.

00:30:10.660 This is one of the most recent ones.

00:30:12.700 Who is ahead in the New York mayor's race?

00:30:14.780 Mamdani is showing now.

00:30:15.960 I think they must have updated this because it was showing at 43% earlier when I looked at this article.

00:30:21.100 Now it's showing at 45%.

00:30:22.360 So it's saying here, the betting platform Polymarket shows that Mamdani currently has a 44% chance of winning 50% to 60% of the vote.

00:30:32.540 That's a pretty heavy landslide.

00:30:35.420 If such a result occurs, Mamdani could be in store for a landslide victory over his opponent, his main opponent, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

00:30:42.500 Assembly member Zoran Mamdani has become the leading progressive candidate in the race.

00:30:46.340 His platform, as Dan aptly described it yesterday as being high school class leader politics, includes rent freezes and the establishment of publicly owned grocery stores to address rising living costs.

00:31:00.620 Both of these things just scream resource.

00:31:03.980 Yeah, Venezuela shortages.

00:31:06.680 Like, all of a sudden rent freezes, you're going to get the typical decay of housing that happens with such things.

00:31:13.240 He's basically Swalvey Stalin, isn't he? 0.59

00:31:15.000 Yeah, publicly owned grocery stores, that's a way to have no food on the shelves. 0.97

00:31:21.360 That's just not going to work, as these things never do.

00:31:24.380 But again, it's the politics of free ice cream for lunch, no homework and days off on Fridays.

00:31:30.940 His campaign has gained significant momentum through endorsements from New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:31:38.320 and independent senator Bernie Sanders, two of the most economically illiterate people who've ever shared a stage on American politics.

00:31:46.260 Don't call Bernie Sanders economically illiterate.

00:31:49.880 He's a millionaire.

00:31:51.080 Oh, yes.

00:31:51.640 I'm sorry.

00:31:52.140 And owns three mansions.

00:31:54.260 And so he understands economics when it suits him.

00:31:56.420 He's a businessman.

00:31:57.320 Yes, exactly.

00:31:58.540 He understands everything when it suits him.

00:32:00.020 He doesn't understand anything when it suits him.

00:32:01.660 This is the typical left.

00:32:02.900 He's proposing a trade.

00:32:04.380 I get multi-million dollar book sales.

00:32:07.220 You get starvation.

00:32:09.420 Yes.

00:32:10.040 And your city becomes a favela.

00:32:11.880 Yes.

00:32:12.580 Yeah, yeah.

00:32:13.460 And they carry on saying,

00:32:15.100 Polymarket suggests that instead of a landslide,

00:32:17.680 it is more likely that he will win 40 to 50 percent of the vote,

00:32:20.640 with the website assigning a 49 percent probability to that scenario.

00:32:23.940 So, again, if you're going by these polymarkets judgments,

00:32:28.280 then it does appear that, yes, he's going to win,

00:32:30.580 and win by quite a comfortable margin.

00:32:32.800 His base is anchored among younger, progressive, and foreign-born New Yorkers.

00:32:37.040 Fox News polling shows he holds 78 percent support among very liberal voters,

00:32:42.720 67 percent among those under 30,

00:32:45.680 and 63 percent among Democrats.

00:32:48.120 Women under 45 back him by 62 percent.

00:32:51.180 And Patriot polling finds he draws 62 percent support from foreign-born voters,

00:32:56.740 compared with 31 percent among U.S.-born residents,

00:32:59.800 because he is the gay-race communist candidate.

00:33:03.220 Everybody talks about how he's the Islamic candidate, which is also true, 0.95

00:33:07.400 but I think it is more accurate to just describe him as the gay-race communism candidate,

00:33:11.400 because if you actually consider it historically,

00:33:14.960 gay-race communism is the default mode of living for most of the third world and the Islamic world as well. 0.90

00:33:22.400 Thanks to, I know this now, thanks to the amazing insights of our super chatters,

00:33:27.300 who got me to learn about the events of, what is it, the Al-Zut?

00:33:31.380 Yeah, those ones, Mohammed and Al-Zut. 0.98

00:33:35.200 So it's actually built into their religion to be gay-race communists. 0.95

00:33:39.040 Again, refer back to the horrors that the American occupying soldiers in Afghanistan saw 0.92

00:33:45.560 in having to deal with the Afghanis that they were working alongside. 0.67

00:33:49.200 Actual communists and socialists have had a pretty troubled history in the Middle East. 0.83

00:33:53.920 Normally, Islamists tend to kill them eventually. 1.00

00:33:57.320 They'll be the useful idiots of Islam, and then they'll end up being the enemies and purged. 1.00

00:34:03.660 That's a pretty common playbook. 1.00

00:34:05.320 It's gone both ways.

00:34:06.760 Like, Nasir murdered big chunks of the Muslim Brotherhood, who helped get him to power, 0.88

00:34:10.720 and then they killed his successor.

00:34:13.360 So they eventually start murdering each other,

00:34:16.080 but first they murder everybody decent and destroy the economy.

00:34:19.580 There are priorities.

00:34:20.360 There are priorities. 0.96

00:34:21.380 It's a classic playbook from taking your country from somewhat functional to a shithole. 0.88

00:34:26.480 Exactly.

00:34:27.320 I mean, all of the Middle Eastern countries were much better under monarchy,

00:34:30.860 and then you had the Islamist-leftist alliance, and then they sort of destroyed it,

00:34:34.720 and then here we are.

00:34:37.000 Yes.

00:34:37.540 And it breaks it down further down here, saying,

00:34:39.980 Mamdani performed strongly in Brooklyn and among Muslim, Hindu, and atheist voters.

00:34:44.420 Betrayals among Catholic and Jewish constituencies. 0.69

00:34:47.160 He leads among non-white voters, including a majority of black, 51%, and Hispanic, 52% voters.

00:34:53.980 So he's the Gibbs candidate. 0.97

00:34:56.300 He's the gay-race communist candidate. 0.97

00:34:58.360 He is the multi-ethnic anti-white coalition candidate, 0.73

00:35:03.220 which is why he is so popular, in particular amongst the foreign-born residents of New York.

00:35:09.560 As you can see, here's a visualization of the polls here.

00:35:13.180 This was taken slightly before the ones that Newsweek were reporting,

00:35:16.760 but it shows the same trend, that you can see Mamdani is 62% favoured amongst foreign-borns.

00:35:23.620 Andrew Cuomo only gets 24%.

00:35:25.840 Among the native-born, US-born New Yorkers, Cuomo is the overall favourite.

00:35:31.920 And I know that Cuomo is running as an independent,

00:35:34.460 but you can still just see him as another flavour of Democrat.

00:35:37.860 Yes.

00:35:38.000 He's a lifelong Democrat.

00:35:39.800 He's always been a Democrat.

00:35:40.980 So you can see the kind of divide here between the old-school Democrats,

00:35:46.700 who were, shall we say, just classic democratic socialists, perhaps,

00:35:52.500 the I-just-want-free-healthcare-bro types,

00:35:55.660 and the new type of Democrat, which is actually an ethnic client group,

00:36:01.880 which Zoran Mamdani is representing here.

00:36:04.580 I just want to point out that 30% of Jewish voters back Mamdani.

00:36:10.380 Now, 63% go for Cuomo.

00:36:14.540 Only 6% go Republican.

00:36:17.640 Only 6% go Republican.

00:36:19.480 That's a bit insane.

00:36:20.800 That is one of the interesting things about this,

00:36:22.740 because within the religious breakdown here,

00:36:26.440 you can actually trace another racial and ethnic breakdown as well,

00:36:31.060 because those Catholics are likely to be the Italians within New York,

00:36:35.300 who, surprise, surprise, are majority going for Cuomo,

00:36:38.420 but still quite a few of them going for Mamdani.

00:36:41.880 Protestant, I suppose you could say, will be the white... 0.96

00:36:47.580 It's 48%, 48% on the Protestant side.

00:36:50.260 Potentially the white leftist contingent that still exists within New York.

00:36:54.280 And then the Jewish, obviously Jews are a huge constituency of New York.

00:36:58.600 Still majority going for Cuomo, but, again, surprisingly...

00:37:03.040 93% Democratic.

00:37:04.800 Yeah, quite a lot of them going for Zoran Mamdani.

00:37:08.280 And the other, the big blob that is other,

00:37:11.380 we can just assume is primarily going to be Arabs.

00:37:15.460 Maybe Hindus these days? 1.00

00:37:16.780 Arabs and Hindus.

00:37:17.460 Hindus as well.

00:37:19.280 It's interesting how the Hindu vote differs whether you're in America or England,

00:37:23.300 whereas in England they'll primarily vote for more conservative candidates,

00:37:27.420 and in America they'll go for the Democrat candidates.

00:37:30.120 But I suppose it's all about appealing to your different ethnic blocs, isn't it?

00:37:34.300 I think St. Augustine said that foreigners shouldn't be allowed to participate

00:37:38.020 in civil affairs for two or three generations.

00:37:41.920 At least, if you're going to let them in the first place.

00:37:44.060 If you're going to let them in.

00:37:44.900 And that's the interesting thing about this,

00:37:46.980 because what we see here, again,

00:37:48.460 is just another demonstration of what Lee Kuan Yeun said

00:37:52.980 about Singaporean politics,

00:37:55.580 which is multi-ethnic states just turn into multi-ethnic politics.

00:37:59.820 They're not discussing the actual issues.

00:38:03.660 They're not discussing the policies.

00:38:06.620 They're just, who is for me?

00:38:08.300 I will vote for me.

00:38:09.640 Who's my guy?

00:38:10.620 Yeah, that's all it is.

00:38:12.020 And most of the time, the best signifier of it is,

00:38:14.740 does the guy look like me?

00:38:15.840 So the Italians see Andrew Cuomo and they say,

00:38:19.340 hey, he's a bit handsy, just like me.

00:38:22.240 Zoran Mandani comes around and they go,

00:38:26.920 he has no table manners, just like me.

00:38:30.600 And they vote accordingly.

00:38:32.300 You get another one here where it reaffirms regarding the Jewish vote in particular,

00:38:37.360 saying that they are still majority going for Cuomo,

00:38:40.220 but a significant portion of them are still going to be going for Mamdani.

00:38:46.720 And that is interesting.

00:38:48.140 And you can see the division that's going down racial, religious, and ethnic lines through this.

00:38:53.620 You know, what is it?

00:38:55.100 Sorry, the Babylon Bee making jokes that it's only Al-Qaeda adjacent types

00:39:00.400 that are going to be voting for Mamdani.

00:39:02.340 But then you get the,

00:39:05.620 if you wonder what, like, what kind of New York Jew is voting for Mamdani,

00:39:11.780 I discovered this video.

00:39:14.880 And I watched it,

00:39:18.260 and now you have to as well.

00:39:20.200 There is, like said in the little caption here,

00:39:23.000 a little surprise.

00:39:24.120 So let's play this.

00:39:25.120 We're among the thousands of Jewish New Yorkers

00:39:35.540 who've been out door knocking and phone banking to elect Zoran Mamdani.

00:39:39.340 We're also rabbis.

00:39:40.920 We know Zoran will fight to make our city affordable and safe for our families.

00:39:46.760 And for our neighbors of all faiths and backgrounds.

00:39:49.700 As New Yorkers, we're also just people who live here,

00:39:52.700 who don't want to get priced out of this incredible city that we call home.

00:39:56.860 We know fellow Jews want to be able to afford housing,

00:40:01.200 transportation, and child care for their families.

00:40:03.640 So you just, you get the picture there.

00:40:05.760 It's, um, it's the classic coalition of,

00:40:09.500 uh, we just want nice things, bro, 0.99

00:40:12.260 with mentally insane ill person. 0.99

00:40:16.200 Right there. 0.69

00:40:16.780 So that's one little idea.

00:40:18.720 There was this amazing Haritz article here that says,

00:40:21.680 I oppose Mamdani's stance on Israel.

00:40:24.080 This is why I'm voting for him anyway.

00:40:26.800 Okay.

00:40:27.840 Interesting.

00:40:29.480 One of the most interesting things about Mamdani

00:40:31.940 is that despite his general lack of appeal for most New York Jews,

00:40:38.360 that a lot of the team backing him, 0.93

00:40:41.240 oh, bloody hell, forward, come on. 0.66

00:40:43.780 You don't have to advertise so hard to me. 0.98

00:40:45.880 Uh, are actually Jewish themselves.

00:40:48.640 Like his communications director,

00:40:50.460 all of the most important members of his campaign teams are Jewish.

00:40:55.040 You've got Andrew Epstein, who's the communications director.

00:40:58.460 You've got the political director of Julian Gerson,

00:41:01.100 and a number of other figures, the media strategist.

00:41:05.100 So you can see that-

00:41:05.920 These are the three most important positions you can have.

00:41:07.780 Yes, within the campaign.

00:41:08.820 These are literally the, like, the policy guy

00:41:11.220 and the two media guys.

00:41:12.640 That's it.

00:41:13.200 That's the campaign.

00:41:13.880 So one of the interesting things that you could argue through this

00:41:17.180 is that Mamdani in himself

00:41:19.520 is the, ironically enough, 0.64

00:41:22.420 kind of, like, insane radical liberal Jewish candidate, 0.79

00:41:26.560 given that they are the ones primarily directing his campaign,

00:41:30.820 which is a weird divide that you can see down here,

00:41:34.340 because, as well, then you can also see that there's the opposite of this.

00:41:38.020 People saying, like,

00:41:39.280 you need to take your own side, for God's sake.

00:41:41.420 Don't vote for Mamdani.

00:41:42.620 That's from Eli Lake.

00:41:43.860 You've got people like this woman, Lizzie Sovetsky,

00:41:46.780 saying that you need to vote Cuomo.

00:41:48.840 So say no to the Global Intifada,

00:41:51.240 which is a very notorious clip

00:41:52.740 that went out of Mamdani that people discovered.

00:41:56.620 Was that pre-7th of October,

00:41:58.900 that clip of him standing on the street corner

00:42:00.660 saying he needs to be a Global Intifada?

00:42:02.900 I'm not sure.

00:42:03.420 Well, I do know, at the very least,

00:42:05.340 that, you know, like, it was such a tragedy

00:42:06.900 what happened to his family on 9-11.

00:42:09.360 Yes, yes, yes.

00:42:10.440 His aunt, who wasn't even in the country at the time.

00:42:12.620 Yes.

00:42:13.240 Fantastic.

00:42:14.240 So that's one of the ethnic blocks 1.00

00:42:17.420 of people who may or may not be voting

00:42:19.700 for Mamdani versus Cuomo.

00:42:23.360 So that's the New York Jewish vote.

00:42:25.320 What about the New York white leftist vote, right?

00:42:29.700 Who do they have as a figurehead

00:42:31.380 telling them who to vote for?

00:42:33.300 Well, you have what I can only describe

00:42:35.140 as the New Mamdanian man. 0.97

00:42:38.840 This fat, 0.99

00:42:40.480 disgusting, 1.00

00:42:43.500 freak. 1.00

00:42:44.560 An abomination

00:42:45.680 and affront to all that is holy and beautiful

00:42:49.160 in the world.

00:42:50.940 This man,

00:42:51.600 whose name I believe is,

00:42:52.780 what's it,

00:42:53.780 Stavros Halkias,

00:42:55.960 former co-host

00:42:57.480 of the

00:42:58.860 podcast

00:43:00.200 Come Town,

00:43:02.040 which I have seen some clips of

00:43:03.760 and was pretty funny,

00:43:04.700 but as far as I can tell

00:43:05.580 from what people are saying,

00:43:06.680 this guy was the laugh track

00:43:08.120 to two guys who were a lot funnier than him.

00:43:11.040 So this is the guy

00:43:12.160 who's saving young men

00:43:13.480 because what accidentally happened

00:43:15.280 was that the guy

00:43:16.040 who was going to save young men 0.91

00:43:17.540 from becoming MAGA

00:43:18.460 was

00:43:19.540 Hasan Piker 0.70

00:43:20.760 and it turns out

00:43:22.380 that he is not very kind

00:43:23.540 to his dog,

00:43:24.320 allegedly.

00:43:26.020 Therefore,

00:43:26.720 they needed to break glass

00:43:28.120 in case of emergency white boy

00:43:30.000 and they found

00:43:31.860 this guy

00:43:32.640 waiting for them

00:43:34.320 on the other side.

00:43:35.140 Is he Greek then?

00:43:36.340 Oh my goodness,

00:43:37.080 age-restricted

00:43:38.300 adult content.

00:43:39.860 Should I click, boys?

00:43:40.800 Should I click?

00:43:41.500 Sorry.

00:43:42.560 Oh my god,

00:43:43.340 no,

00:43:43.600 I'm not allowed to show you.

00:43:45.260 He did a shoot

00:43:46.860 for,

00:43:47.760 a shoot by Chris Maggio

00:43:48.920 for a special

00:43:49.680 October issue

00:43:50.520 of GQ

00:43:51.260 on American

00:43:52.260 Masculinity. 0.51

00:43:53.860 So he's actually

00:43:54.480 getting a similar,

00:43:55.880 he's getting a similar,

00:43:56.780 this guy,

00:43:58.440 this guy

00:43:58.960 can teach you

00:43:59.640 all about masculinity. 0.97

00:44:01.040 He's going to save you

00:44:02.260 from becoming 0.96

00:44:03.080 a toxically masculine 0.99

00:44:04.460 MAGA reporter. 0.81

00:44:05.820 Republican

00:44:06.300 and you know

00:44:07.040 that he's got

00:44:07.500 mass appeal

00:44:08.140 because on podcasts 0.76

00:44:09.340 he calls things gay 0.53

00:44:10.500 which means that 0.80

00:44:11.440 he's just one of the bros.

00:44:12.620 Just one of the bros

00:44:13.520 like you and me.

00:44:14.520 Just like one of the 0.70

00:44:15.360 morbidly obese, 0.99

00:44:17.380 greasy, 1.00

00:44:18.160 disgusting bros 1.00

00:44:19.340 like you and me. 1.00

00:44:21.220 So he's actually

00:44:22.320 getting an interesting

00:44:23.280 PR push

00:44:24.340 in the same way

00:44:24.980 that Hasan Piker 0.69

00:44:25.800 has been

00:44:26.280 for the past year

00:44:27.380 which I wonder if

00:44:28.220 I don't think

00:44:29.420 Hasan's going to be 1.00

00:44:30.080 getting quite as much

00:44:31.180 of a push

00:44:31.820 after his dog-related

00:44:33.360 antics recently.

00:44:34.380 And guess what?

00:44:35.820 Guess who this guy,

00:44:36.900 the new Mamdani-an man 0.97

00:44:38.260 is voting for?

00:44:39.580 Well, he's voting for

00:44:40.880 Zoran Mamdani.

00:44:42.880 This is the guy

00:44:44.080 that they want you

00:44:44.900 to emulate.

00:44:46.480 111,000

00:44:48.000 totally not bought

00:44:49.240 for likes

00:44:49.960 on this book.

00:44:51.160 Actually, to be fair,

00:44:52.100 he's quite famous

00:44:52.860 and he's got

00:44:53.460 Netflix specials

00:44:54.440 so I imagine

00:44:54.980 that there are

00:44:55.420 quite a lot of

00:44:56.360 like-minded retards 1.00

00:44:57.680 who see this 0.97

00:44:58.380 and go,

00:44:58.880 OMG,

00:44:59.300 he's literally

00:45:01.080 me.

00:45:03.340 I...

00:45:03.740 I'm lost

00:45:05.120 for words.

00:45:06.560 So,

00:45:07.120 remember,

00:45:08.140 there's the famous

00:45:08.820 Sam Hyde quote

00:45:09.840 of remember

00:45:10.380 they want you 1.00

00:45:11.600 dead when we win, 1.00

00:45:13.280 they want... 0.99

00:45:13.960 these people 0.99

00:45:14.320 wanted you dead, 1.00

00:45:15.080 humiliated, 1.00

00:45:15.820 your children raped, 0.99

00:45:16.900 et cetera, et cetera. 0.99

00:45:18.240 For some,

00:45:19.100 there's an even

00:45:19.760 worse fate

00:45:21.320 is that remember

00:45:22.560 when we win,

00:45:23.180 they wanted you

00:45:23.900 to be this.

00:45:27.220 That's not...

00:45:28.600 That's just sad.

00:45:29.420 Whatever my politics

00:45:30.640 is,

00:45:31.100 however you can

00:45:31.960 distill it down

00:45:33.400 to its base,

00:45:34.660 is the opposite

00:45:36.000 of this.

00:45:37.320 I already feel ill,

00:45:38.420 please.

00:45:39.160 I'm sorry,

00:45:39.860 I'll take him off here.

00:45:41.260 So that's what

00:45:41.900 they want white leftists

00:45:43.520 to be voting for.

00:45:44.840 They want him

00:45:45.300 to be voting

00:45:45.820 for Mamdani

00:45:46.440 and they want

00:45:46.880 to use freaks

00:45:47.520 like this

00:45:48.100 as the push

00:45:49.480 to get him there

00:45:50.260 because like,

00:45:50.980 this is high status now.

00:45:52.900 So you want to be

00:45:53.620 high status,

00:45:54.160 don't you?

00:45:56.000 Speaking of high status,

00:45:57.780 you also have

00:45:58.440 all of these people

00:45:59.240 voting early

00:46:00.240 because I think

00:46:01.000 the official election

00:46:02.020 is on next week

00:46:02.960 but people can vote early.

00:46:04.740 You get

00:46:05.200 totally straight men

00:46:07.900 like this.

00:46:09.460 Menswear guys

00:46:10.460 for Mamdani

00:46:11.180 essentially using

00:46:12.500 their politics

00:46:14.280 as a status signal

00:46:15.600 saying,

00:46:16.560 I have

00:46:17.480 high status

00:46:19.020 luxury beliefs

00:46:20.360 because I am

00:46:21.620 a well-to-do

00:46:22.480 white guy.

00:46:23.320 So therefore,

00:46:25.040 therefore,

00:46:25.780 I'm voting Mamdani. 0.99

00:46:27.100 Please,

00:46:27.560 progressive women,

00:46:28.580 sleep with me.

00:46:28.780 He looks like he's out

00:46:29.560 of a Wes Anderson film

00:46:30.760 dressed like that.

00:46:31.780 He does. 0.52

00:46:32.280 He looks like the creep

00:46:33.520 from a Wes Anderson film,

00:46:35.080 doesn't he?

00:46:35.500 They always have

00:46:36.280 one creep,

00:46:37.180 typically played

00:46:37.820 by Adrian Brody.

00:46:39.920 Poor guy.

00:46:40.660 Here's another one.

00:46:42.340 Dear progressive women, 0.85

00:46:44.200 please,

00:46:44.660 again,

00:46:45.360 I'm desperate for some.

00:46:46.780 Sleep with me.

00:46:47.840 I'm voting for Mamdani 0.98

00:46:49.040 and I wear

00:46:50.160 vintage Armani.

00:46:51.400 I made the mistake

00:46:52.280 of clicking on this guy's

00:46:53.340 account and found

00:46:53.920 that he has a substack

00:46:55.100 entirely about

00:46:56.920 menswear

00:46:57.600 and men's fashion choices

00:46:59.460 which is,

00:47:00.260 frankly, 0.98

00:47:00.900 very gay. 0.97

00:47:02.040 It's also a not 0.99

00:47:02.640 very nice jacket.

00:47:04.940 Yeah,

00:47:05.600 it doesn't look

00:47:06.160 very good on him.

00:47:07.400 Frankly.

00:47:07.740 And then,

00:47:08.300 finally,

00:47:09.000 we have the

00:47:10.040 I hate my dad vote.

00:47:12.440 As Stelios pointed out

00:47:13.640 this a bit yesterday,

00:47:15.060 he pointed to this person

00:47:16.120 saying,

00:47:17.160 people saying,

00:47:17.820 do not vote

00:47:18.400 for Zoran Mamdani.

00:47:19.880 Too bad I did it today

00:47:21.200 and people went

00:47:21.900 on her account

00:47:22.520 and found that

00:47:23.000 she had posted

00:47:23.620 saying,

00:47:24.380 thanks dad.

00:47:27.640 Some kind of

00:47:28.480 problems,

00:47:29.400 father problems

00:47:30.200 right here.

00:47:31.680 We also have

00:47:32.560 this woman

00:47:33.080 saying,

00:47:34.020 I just voted

00:47:34.940 as well

00:47:36.060 for Zoran Mamdani

00:47:37.300 take that

00:47:38.480 Maga Chuds 1.00

00:47:39.480 or should I say

00:47:41.000 take me?

00:47:42.860 Should I say

00:47:43.480 dad?

00:47:45.260 Just ran away

00:47:46.120 from my parents

00:47:46.920 to the Hamptons

00:47:47.700 with my two best friends 0.98

00:47:49.060 bloody bloody blah 0.94

00:47:50.020 the main thing 0.89

00:47:50.840 to take here.

00:47:51.560 Whenever women 0.99

00:47:52.100 pull that facial expression

00:47:53.340 in pictures,

00:47:54.260 you know that there's

00:47:55.260 some deep psychological

00:47:57.080 trauma in there.

00:48:00.140 Probably about her dad.

00:48:02.080 Mm-hmm.

00:48:02.420 Here it is again.

00:48:05.880 Please fill the void

00:48:07.660 that my absent father left.

00:48:09.080 I voted

00:48:09.500 Bandani.

00:48:10.760 Old lady called me pretty. 0.99

00:48:12.220 I'm seeking validation

00:48:13.220 for my voting choices

00:48:14.420 and from old ladies

00:48:16.260 who vote for the same people

00:48:17.680 that I did.

00:48:18.980 And then finally,

00:48:20.220 this one.

00:48:21.420 This is one that I call

00:48:22.640 I wish dad loved me.

00:48:25.280 I hate him so much.

00:48:26.220 This is, again, 0.56

00:48:29.900 this is the like

00:48:30.800 voting for whoever

00:48:31.880 pisses your dad off

00:48:32.960 the most. 0.99

00:48:34.020 And frankly,

00:48:34.980 in regards to all of this,

00:48:36.260 I have the major solution

00:48:37.760 as advocated for

00:48:38.960 by Oran McIntyre,

00:48:41.200 which is that you just need

00:48:42.420 to ban people like Mandami 0.99

00:48:44.200 coming into the country 0.53

00:48:45.300 in the first place.

00:48:46.100 I would take it further,

00:48:47.380 which is that they also

00:48:48.480 need to be denaturalized

00:48:49.740 and then removed

00:48:50.380 from the country

00:48:51.160 or else all politics

00:48:52.800 will turn into

00:48:53.760 various ethnic blocs

00:48:55.420 voting for their own

00:48:56.840 for their own interests 1.00

00:48:58.960 and then useful morons 1.00

00:49:00.780 who want to piss 1.00

00:49:01.540 their parents off

00:49:02.600 voting against

00:49:04.260 their own interests

00:49:05.540 in solidarity.

00:49:07.480 The extent to which

00:49:08.500 people refuse to accept

00:49:09.820 that Muslims view 0.89

00:49:11.740 democracy as a temporary

00:49:13.560 vehicle through which

00:49:14.540 to gain power.

00:49:15.660 This is how they

00:49:16.360 view Western democracy.

00:49:18.920 And that the Muslim 0.89

00:49:20.080 Brotherhood has been

00:49:20.680 writing about this

00:49:21.500 and working on this

00:49:22.700 forever.

00:49:24.000 And that's why

00:49:24.700 radical imams

00:49:25.500 will happily support

00:49:26.580 somebody who is

00:49:27.420 pro the sort of

00:49:29.120 words,

00:49:29.680 the letter soup.

00:49:35.000 Like,

00:49:35.540 what do you need

00:49:36.860 to understand

00:49:37.660 what's coming?

00:49:39.380 I don't get it.

00:49:41.580 What more do they need

00:49:42.620 to see to understand

00:49:43.320 what's coming?

00:49:43.840 Well, I suppose

00:49:44.280 the interesting thing

00:49:45.140 for me is that

00:49:45.880 it looks like

00:49:46.380 he's going to get in.

00:49:47.220 It looks like

00:49:47.660 he's going to get in

00:49:48.480 as mayor.

00:49:49.000 The polls are all

00:49:49.800 suggesting that

00:49:50.760 he's going to win

00:49:51.600 by quite a comfortable

00:49:52.980 margin.

00:49:53.860 So my big question

00:49:54.980 is, given the status

00:49:56.800 of New York

00:49:57.880 on the international

00:49:59.140 stage as the home

00:50:01.460 of international

00:50:02.520 finance, you've got

00:50:03.680 Wall Street on there,

00:50:04.940 you've got all sorts

00:50:05.620 of big businesses

00:50:06.260 there, is how much

00:50:07.860 will he be allowed

00:50:09.140 to mess with the city?

00:50:11.740 Or will it just be

00:50:12.720 like we're seeing,

00:50:13.900 like we were discussing

00:50:14.620 in the last segment,

00:50:15.760 that he will be allowed

00:50:17.000 to mess with the city

00:50:18.040 as much as he wants

00:50:18.820 as long as Wall

00:50:20.940 Street executives

00:50:22.100 and elite types

00:50:23.340 are insulated away

00:50:25.320 from it?

00:50:25.580 The oligarchy always

00:50:25.600 finds a way.

00:50:26.440 Yeah.

00:50:27.100 Or will he just...

00:50:27.820 Especially the

00:50:28.420 financial oligarchy,

00:50:29.400 they always find a way.

00:50:30.160 Or will it just...

00:50:30.940 Run the world, really.

00:50:31.520 Will it just be like

00:50:33.160 in London,

00:50:35.160 where you get the

00:50:36.160 foreign Islamic mayor

00:50:37.860 who is happy to have

00:50:39.740 as many of his own

00:50:40.480 people in,

00:50:41.040 but you still get

00:50:41.740 these kind of

00:50:43.300 segregated little

00:50:44.700 dens away from

00:50:46.140 all of the chaos

00:50:47.000 that that brings?

00:50:47.740 Because there are still

00:50:48.380 nice parts of London

00:50:50.080 that you can go around

00:50:50.880 and you can walk around

00:50:51.720 and you can think to yourself,

00:50:52.900 no wonder the people

00:50:53.720 that live here

00:50:54.340 don't realise there's

00:50:55.320 a problem.

00:50:56.000 Yeah.

00:50:56.160 Because they're protected

00:50:56.840 from it.

00:50:57.200 Will New York

00:50:57.900 just stay like that?

00:51:00.420 Because I think

00:51:01.120 it's a guarantee

00:51:01.640 that he's going to

00:51:02.180 get in at this point,

00:51:03.100 so we'll just have to

00:51:04.000 see the consequences

00:51:04.800 of those immense,

00:51:06.580 immense bad mistakes

00:51:08.260 that people are making.

00:51:09.420 So let's go through

00:51:10.400 the Rumble Rants

00:51:11.280 and Super Chats.

00:51:14.460 TomRat247,

00:51:15.040 Firaz is 100% right here 0.90

00:51:16.380 is echoing some of

00:51:17.180 arch-aughtist

00:51:18.120 Pete North's points.

00:51:19.840 You can just...

00:51:20.300 I'm...

00:51:21.020 Brief point,

00:51:21.940 I'm interviewing

00:51:22.540 Pete North next week.

00:51:23.740 Is he coming into the office?

00:51:24.740 He's coming into the office.

00:51:25.420 Oh, that would be

00:51:25.780 interesting to meet him.

00:51:27.200 You can just do things,

00:51:28.260 but you need to plan

00:51:29.120 and you need to

00:51:29.740 demonstrate the will.

00:51:30.720 Faraj, I'm sceptical of this.

00:51:32.520 Yep.

00:51:32.960 Sigilstone, gentleman.

00:51:34.200 Writer complaint to Rumble.

00:51:35.200 The chat broke again.

00:51:36.100 There's no excuse

00:51:36.640 to be having bugs

00:51:37.940 like this.

00:51:39.060 Perhaps some of our

00:51:39.660 back end can get on that

00:51:40.860 if that's the true,

00:51:41.800 if that's what's been happening.

00:51:43.180 Flavius Magnus,

00:51:44.020 NYC is filled 1.00

00:51:45.380 with shit libs 1.00

00:51:46.040 and foreigners 1.00

00:51:46.560 and gerrymandered 0.99

00:51:47.780 to hell and back. 0.67

00:51:49.300 That's very true.

00:51:50.720 That's a random name.

00:51:52.000 Truly never been easier

00:51:52.920 to know the good

00:51:53.600 and the bad guys

00:51:54.420 are Lamao

00:51:55.060 and for the record,

00:51:55.840 if you think I fed post here,

00:51:56.960 you should see my super chats

00:51:57.960 on synthetic man's streams.

00:52:00.440 Yeah, I can only guess.

00:52:02.360 Habsification sends two in 1.00

00:52:03.680 saying,

00:52:04.020 why is it that

00:52:04.580 when those weirdos

00:52:05.340 when they need 0.95

00:52:05.740 their token white guy 1.00

00:52:06.440 they're either gay, 1.00

00:52:07.100 disgusting looking 1.00

00:52:07.760 and look physically weak 1.00

00:52:08.760 and pathetic 0.99

00:52:09.420 and why is it 1.00

00:52:10.460 when these weirdos

00:52:11.160 Oh, it's the same thing

00:52:12.320 sent twice.

00:52:13.620 Because that's what

00:52:14.660 they want you to be.

00:52:16.300 Yes.

00:52:16.600 They know they need

00:52:18.080 a white guy 0.94

00:52:18.860 to be a figurehead

00:52:21.420 of their movement

00:52:22.080 and they went

00:52:23.040 for the kind of buff guy

00:52:25.440 that women think 1.00

00:52:26.260 is handsome.

00:52:27.720 Turns out he

00:52:28.780 may abuse his dog.

00:52:31.300 So,

00:52:31.740 time to go

00:52:32.920 for the next best option

00:52:34.160 which is

00:52:35.300 It shows you

00:52:36.060 how much they're sort of

00:52:37.040 skimming the bottom

00:52:37.920 of the barrel, right?

00:52:39.760 Well,

00:52:40.060 I mean,

00:52:41.300 the only other thing

00:52:42.000 they have is twinks.

00:52:45.540 Not the best advertising.

00:52:47.100 You can either go

00:52:48.020 with the animal abuser, 0.66

00:52:49.680 the twink 0.99

00:52:50.260 or the fat freak. 0.99

00:52:52.280 Good luck. 0.67

00:52:53.000 Good luck, Democrats.

00:52:54.220 And on YouTube,

00:52:55.860 Robert White,

00:52:56.420 at least when

00:52:56.860 Danny fails,

00:52:58.180 we can have another example

00:52:59.080 of these policies not working.

00:53:00.300 We have endless examples

00:53:01.400 of these policies not working.

00:53:02.620 That was called

00:53:03.040 the 20th century.

00:53:04.400 People still vote for them

00:53:05.560 because they like

00:53:06.760 the sound of Gibbs.

00:53:08.300 I mean,

00:53:08.720 Thomas Sowell

00:53:09.320 in basic economics

00:53:10.600 gives the specific example

00:53:12.460 of rent control

00:53:13.320 in New York

00:53:13.860 pushing prices

00:53:14.680 and making it harder

00:53:15.780 to buy property.

00:53:17.080 Yes.

00:53:17.680 Yeah, absolutely.

00:53:18.740 Gimli O'Gloin,

00:53:19.520 at this point New York

00:53:20.220 just needs to be lost

00:53:20.960 to show that this kind

00:53:22.240 of politics does not work.

00:53:23.220 Again,

00:53:23.560 same response to that.

00:53:24.680 We already know

00:53:25.260 that this doesn't work.

00:53:26.080 The people who are

00:53:27.020 worst affected

00:53:28.300 by these policies

00:53:29.500 when they happen

00:53:30.100 to not work again

00:53:31.020 will still find a way

00:53:32.400 to uno-reverse 0.93

00:53:33.340 blame it on white people. 0.93

00:53:35.140 They'll try and blame it 0.90

00:53:36.080 on Wall Street oligarchs

00:53:38.120 and other such people

00:53:39.000 rather than their own

00:53:39.820 economic illiteracy.

00:53:41.620 One man banned.

00:53:42.540 They really chose

00:53:43.440 AliExpress,

00:53:44.420 Ron Jeremy.

00:53:46.540 And the upside

00:53:47.780 of Mamdani

00:53:48.440 is how many right-wingers

00:53:49.700 he's about to produce

00:53:50.460 in NYC.

00:53:51.140 I believe he's the man

00:53:51.940 to do it.

00:53:52.360 Al Zut.

00:53:52.720 But potentially

00:53:54.200 the other option

00:53:55.020 is that anybody

00:53:55.900 remotely right-wing

00:53:56.960 who's left in NYC

00:53:58.700 might just move.

00:53:59.820 Yeah.

00:54:00.720 Yeah.

00:54:02.440 Is this working,

00:54:03.460 by the way?

00:54:04.340 No,

00:54:04.780 it wasn't for me.

00:54:05.500 Would you be able

00:54:06.020 to unplug it

00:54:06.720 and plug it back in

00:54:07.960 potentially?

00:54:09.420 So I will need that.

00:54:10.540 I have got many,

00:54:11.740 many...

00:54:12.040 Do you not just want

00:54:12.180 a mouse? 1.00

00:54:13.480 I'll be a pain in the arse. 1.00

00:54:14.820 I can have that other one 1.00

00:54:15.680 if that works.

00:54:16.420 Yeah, there is.

00:54:16.800 Let me see.

00:54:17.980 This is working.

00:54:19.440 There you go.

00:54:20.020 Thank you.

00:54:22.720 Two mice.

00:54:24.420 You're just being overloaded.

00:54:24.980 You can dual-wield them.

00:54:26.360 Go for it.

00:54:26.820 I'm not that talented.

00:54:27.860 Go on.

00:54:29.500 Unlimited power.

00:54:31.100 Right.

00:54:31.420 Just imagine

00:54:31.820 the Matrix soundtrack.

00:54:34.600 So one thing

00:54:35.460 I've noticed

00:54:35.920 in recent years

00:54:36.840 is that

00:54:37.580 the internet

00:54:38.460 is slowly getting

00:54:39.460 worse and worse

00:54:40.520 and that's not to say

00:54:41.220 that there isn't

00:54:42.120 wonderful things out there

00:54:43.500 and things I really enjoy

00:54:44.520 because there certainly is

00:54:45.640 and I'm not going to

00:54:46.560 tar everything

00:54:47.180 with the same brush

00:54:48.220 and suggest that

00:54:48.980 it's all bad,

00:54:50.020 everything's terrible

00:54:50.660 because that's not the case

00:54:51.780 and I don't think

00:54:52.320 it ever will be.

00:54:53.560 However,

00:54:53.840 I think things

00:54:54.440 are slowly declining

00:54:56.300 and I'm going to point out

00:54:57.740 some of these things

00:54:58.440 and some of the ways

00:54:59.500 we can push back

00:55:00.320 but just in identifying

00:55:02.960 the problems

00:55:03.580 it helps people

00:55:04.500 circumvent it

00:55:05.340 because you're aware

00:55:06.140 of the nature

00:55:07.320 of some of these things

00:55:08.160 that are eroding

00:55:08.740 the quality

00:55:09.360 of what's on the internet

00:55:10.360 and then can cater

00:55:11.980 your experience accordingly.

00:55:13.920 So this is somewhat similar.

00:55:15.160 I'm not the first person

00:55:16.060 to suggest this.

00:55:17.160 It's somewhat similar

00:55:17.700 to dead internet theory

00:55:18.980 although I'm going to

00:55:19.980 take a little bit

00:55:20.760 of a different emphasis

00:55:21.740 than this.

00:55:23.620 Do excuse my reading voice

00:55:25.700 by the way,

00:55:26.140 I'm losing it

00:55:26.920 because I'm not very well

00:55:29.700 but it says

00:55:31.020 the dead internet theory

00:55:32.920 is a conspiracy theory

00:55:34.080 which asserts

00:55:34.760 that since around 2016

00:55:36.040 the internet has consisted

00:55:37.340 mainly of bot activity

00:55:38.640 and automatically generated content

00:55:40.640 manipulated by algorithmic curation

00:55:43.660 as part of a coordinated

00:55:44.980 and intentional effort

00:55:46.980 to control the population

00:55:48.200 and minimise

00:55:48.820 organic human activity.

00:55:51.140 Proponents of the theory

00:55:52.080 believe these social bots

00:55:53.820 were created intentionally

00:55:55.320 to help control algorithms

00:55:56.740 and boost search results

00:55:57.960 in order to influence consumers.

00:55:59.980 Some proponents of the theory

00:56:01.060 accuse government agencies

00:56:02.200 of using bots

00:56:03.020 to manipulate public perception.

00:56:05.000 And we know

00:56:05.940 that this sort of thing

00:56:06.620 is going on

00:56:07.460 so there's obviously

00:56:08.440 some truth to this

00:56:09.300 but I think it's missing

00:56:10.260 the entirety of the picture.

00:56:12.360 I mean, for example...

00:56:12.980 Honestly, I'd never heard

00:56:13.740 the second part of the theory

00:56:14.860 that it's intentional

00:56:15.780 to manipulate people.

00:56:17.080 I just thought it was

00:56:18.060 bots just working automatically.

00:56:22.560 Yeah, and we had Netanyahu 0.94

00:56:24.640 Netanyahu, sorry,

00:56:26.140 come out and say

00:56:26.880 that we need to use TikTok

00:56:28.800 to basically propagandise people

00:56:31.140 to become pro-Israel.

00:56:32.780 He said that publicly

00:56:33.880 and explicitly.

00:56:34.720 It was no secret.

00:56:35.920 So we know that states

00:56:36.840 are interested in using

00:56:37.920 things like social media.

00:56:39.360 Well, it's going to be

00:56:39.940 Larry Ellison

00:56:40.640 and his company...

00:56:43.960 Oh, I covered it last week.

00:56:45.040 I forgot what they're called.

00:56:45.920 Oracle, that's what they're called. 1.00

00:56:47.500 They're the ones

00:56:47.960 going to be managing

00:56:48.720 the TikTok algorithm

00:56:50.120 from now on.

00:56:51.520 Lovely.

00:56:51.660 So now instead of it being

00:56:52.960 Chinese-directed propaganda

00:56:54.580 it's going to be

00:56:55.180 Israeli-directed propaganda.

00:56:56.260 Yeah, and these algorithms

00:56:57.600 give people tremendous power

00:56:59.040 because basically

00:56:59.720 what they are

00:57:00.320 is something that's

00:57:01.440 centrally controlled,

00:57:02.700 not supervised,

00:57:03.880 quite often private,

00:57:05.200 that you can manipulate

00:57:06.320 and change

00:57:07.240 and promote

00:57:09.220 whatever you want.

00:57:09.960 And no one's really

00:57:11.700 any the wiser

00:57:12.340 how they work.

00:57:13.900 Many of the people

00:57:14.480 that work for the

00:57:15.240 organisations themselves

00:57:16.400 don't even necessarily

00:57:17.320 understand exactly

00:57:19.040 how they work.

00:57:20.320 And so there's a lot

00:57:22.360 of power being put

00:57:23.640 in very few hands

00:57:24.780 and that should make

00:57:25.380 everyone very, very cautious.

00:57:27.040 But it doesn't even

00:57:27.800 necessarily need to be

00:57:28.800 bots or algorithms.

00:57:30.000 Just the incentives

00:57:31.160 placed upon people.

00:57:32.600 So I've covered before

00:57:34.140 slop accounts on social media.

00:57:37.860 This was with Lord Miles

00:57:39.480 and I was talking

00:57:40.000 about a whole host

00:57:41.000 of things.

00:57:41.480 But basically

00:57:41.900 the background of it

00:57:42.800 is that Elon Musk

00:57:44.800 basically democratised

00:57:46.040 monetisation

00:57:46.760 and changed what

00:57:48.080 the algorithm promotes

00:57:49.540 on X.

00:57:51.000 And what this did

00:57:51.960 was unintentionally

00:57:52.860 create a stronger incentive

00:57:54.040 for engagement farming,

00:57:55.900 lazy posts,

00:57:57.000 sensationalism

00:57:57.760 and outright misinformation.

00:57:59.360 And that's not the kind

00:58:00.600 that you hear from

00:58:01.580 the mainstream media

00:58:02.300 but just people

00:58:03.380 making up stuff

00:58:04.300 so people click on it.

00:58:05.780 Well he also then

00:58:06.740 changed it so that

00:58:07.740 it was interaction

00:58:09.220 by other verified accounts

00:58:11.840 that would generate

00:58:12.680 revenue for you,

00:58:13.740 advertising revenue.

00:58:14.920 So it created this

00:58:16.100 farm process

00:58:17.260 where people could

00:58:18.180 post something

00:58:19.120 in a group chat

00:58:20.500 and there would be

00:58:21.020 these group chats

00:58:21.720 of people,

00:58:22.720 like dozens and dozens

00:58:23.840 of people,

00:58:24.560 who would post something

00:58:25.680 and every single one

00:58:26.900 of the other people

00:58:27.500 in the chat

00:58:27.920 is verified,

00:58:28.940 comments on it

00:58:29.920 and then somebody else

00:58:31.000 does the same thing,

00:58:32.000 comments on it.

00:58:32.600 So you don't actually

00:58:33.220 need that much engagement

00:58:34.680 but if every single post

00:58:35.920 that you're putting out

00:58:36.640 has dozens and dozens

00:58:37.920 of verified accounts

00:58:39.100 posting replies

00:58:41.280 underneath it,

00:58:42.140 then they were actually

00:58:43.040 farming advertiser money

00:58:44.880 in that way.

00:58:45.900 So it provided

00:58:47.080 new whole ways

00:58:48.860 for people

00:58:49.840 to get,

00:58:50.440 for people to scam

00:58:51.540 the system.

00:58:52.560 Yeah and there's always

00:58:54.360 going to be

00:58:54.840 these loopholes

00:58:55.560 but ideally

00:58:57.060 these platforms

00:58:57.800 they're well funded,

00:58:59.640 they've got

00:59:00.120 well qualified people,

00:59:01.580 they should have

00:59:02.600 people working on

00:59:05.100 how to be two steps

00:59:06.000 ahead of lowering

00:59:07.040 the quality of the

00:59:07.780 platform with these

00:59:08.540 fake posts for

00:59:09.460 engagement and things

00:59:10.280 like that.

00:59:10.880 Is Elon still going

00:59:11.780 to be changing

00:59:12.340 the way the system

00:59:13.200 works to display

00:59:14.020 the country of origin?

00:59:14.900 We'll be talking

00:59:15.380 about that.

00:59:15.880 Oh okay, alright.

00:59:16.780 So just so I'm not

00:59:19.040 having a go at other

00:59:20.500 people or saying

00:59:21.280 it out of jealousy,

00:59:22.100 I've got two posts

00:59:23.180 of my own that I'm

00:59:24.300 going to complain about

00:59:25.180 just to be fair.

00:59:28.420 Even slot posting.

00:59:30.340 I put this together

00:59:31.540 in about 30 seconds.

00:59:33.220 I was in the middle

00:59:33.860 of cooking my dinner

00:59:34.760 and I saw this

00:59:36.120 annoying post

00:59:37.560 from UN Women.

00:59:39.420 Any job

00:59:40.440 is a woman's job. 1.00

00:59:41.420 7 million views

00:59:42.900 three days ago.

00:59:44.340 I know.

00:59:44.700 You're going to get

00:59:45.080 a big payout from

00:59:45.920 that one.

00:59:47.480 65,000 likes.

00:59:49.820 Took me 30 seconds.

00:59:51.560 All I did was post

00:59:52.500 a GIF, it was one

00:59:53.220 of the first ones

00:59:53.780 to come up,

00:59:54.720 and just pointed out

00:59:55.740 the fact that

00:59:56.560 they say any job

00:59:58.640 but actually what

00:59:59.560 women actually want 1.00

01:00:00.340 to do is not really

01:00:01.700 manual labour,

01:00:02.360 it's normally office work.

01:00:03.460 Which is just an

01:00:04.440 observation based on

01:00:06.280 workplace data.

01:00:08.300 And I'm not even

01:00:09.080 having a go,

01:00:09.920 you know,

01:00:10.180 I'm not against

01:00:10.840 women working 0.83

01:00:11.680 or what have you,

01:00:12.160 I don't really care.

01:00:13.360 You can suffer

01:00:13.920 with the rest of us

01:00:14.640 as far as I'm concerned.

01:00:16.580 Very progressive.

01:00:17.640 I know.

01:00:18.500 And this did

01:00:19.480 really, really well.

01:00:20.580 It was 30 seconds

01:00:22.000 of my time,

01:00:22.640 pretty thoughtless,

01:00:23.860 nothing went into it.

01:00:25.300 One of my most

01:00:26.080 widely circulated posts.

01:00:27.420 This is how it

01:00:28.180 always happens.

01:00:29.580 This is why you

01:00:30.020 don't effort post.

01:00:31.540 I wrote an article

01:00:32.280 talking about

01:00:32.960 political violence

01:00:33.880 and this case in Ireland

01:00:34.880 and how it's going

01:00:35.720 to spiral.

01:00:36.680 Spent hours and hours,

01:00:38.380 you know,

01:00:38.700 it was the continuity

01:00:40.000 of hundreds of hours

01:00:42.200 of thinking and working

01:00:43.180 about politics

01:00:43.940 and compare this

01:00:45.840 hardly anything.

01:00:47.880 So I do something

01:00:48.860 really effortful,

01:00:50.740 no one really cares.

01:00:52.080 I do something

01:00:52.580 half-arsed,

01:00:53.420 it's the most viewed

01:00:54.260 post.

01:00:55.200 So my point here

01:00:56.420 isn't, you know,

01:00:57.040 go read my article.

01:00:57.940 My point is

01:00:58.660 that there's a very

01:01:00.860 strong incentive,

01:01:01.920 thank you,

01:01:02.740 a very strong incentive

01:01:03.660 for people to just

01:01:04.420 post lazy things

01:01:05.660 that are pretty much

01:01:06.720 meaningless,

01:01:07.340 like this, you know,

01:01:09.000 whether it existed

01:01:09.860 or not, this post,

01:01:11.220 it doesn't really matter.

01:01:12.480 It has no real influence

01:01:13.740 on anything.

01:01:15.020 It's not really

01:01:15.620 any key observation.

01:01:16.960 It's lazy.

01:01:18.140 And I'm happy to say that.

01:01:19.180 Yeah, don't follow Josh.

01:01:20.580 But actually,

01:01:22.140 you're very right about this.

01:01:23.200 I mean, it's,

01:01:23.820 yes, it attracts

01:01:25.060 a lot of attention,

01:01:25.760 but it also makes

01:01:26.380 an excellent point

01:01:27.120 very briefly.

01:01:29.000 It's bite-sized slop

01:01:30.940 that people will forget

01:01:31.960 they even saw

01:01:32.760 five minutes after

01:01:33.620 scrolling past it.

01:01:34.760 Yeah.

01:01:35.020 But, but,

01:01:36.400 that moment you do

01:01:37.160 scroll up to it

01:01:38.000 and you go,

01:01:38.480 ha, and then you like it

01:01:40.280 and then you carry on

01:01:41.300 with your day. 0.94

01:01:41.620 But it's inane 0.98

01:01:42.460 and pointless. 0.86

01:01:43.560 It's not like

01:01:44.180 the long-form stuff

01:01:45.120 that's actually deep analysis

01:01:46.340 that's the most important.

01:01:47.780 This is a mass platform.

01:01:49.260 That's, that's,

01:01:50.120 whatever can be

01:01:51.060 snappy and catchy

01:01:52.780 and attract the most amount,

01:01:54.480 like,

01:01:55.480 basically lowest common

01:01:56.400 denominator stuff.

01:01:57.580 And then, of course,

01:01:58.020 this is in part human nature.

01:01:59.940 So, yes,

01:02:00.920 I'm not necessarily saying

01:02:02.180 it's the platform's fault

01:02:03.120 because it is also partly

01:02:04.740 just what people want

01:02:05.640 out of the platform.

01:02:06.640 And another thing is,

01:02:07.540 is this.

01:02:08.740 So, this is a satire account,

01:02:11.220 but you wouldn't know

01:02:11.880 it was satire

01:02:12.660 unless you actually clicked

01:02:14.140 on the profile.

01:02:15.000 and this...

01:02:16.240 You don't know

01:02:17.040 it's satire?

01:02:18.300 Just, I saw people

01:02:19.660 sharing this out.

01:02:20.780 I mean, look,

01:02:21.340 37 million views,

01:02:23.040 over half a million likes,

01:02:25.160 and people were falling

01:02:26.080 for it and believing it.

01:02:26.660 This was an IQ test.

01:02:28.200 It was.

01:02:28.220 I saw people

01:02:28.900 that I'm mutuals with

01:02:30.440 on Twitter

01:02:31.120 posting this

01:02:32.800 and saying,

01:02:33.640 like, she actually said it.

01:02:34.820 This is an old joke.

01:02:36.480 This is a very old joke

01:02:37.960 and you see it

01:02:38.580 and you go,

01:02:39.000 huh, that's a funny joke.

01:02:40.480 And then I scroll down

01:02:41.500 and see more people

01:02:42.540 posting it

01:02:43.140 like she actually said it.

01:02:44.200 Millie Bobby Brown

01:02:45.420 on our side,

01:02:46.520 question mark,

01:02:47.280 and it's like, 1.00

01:02:47.680 you idiot, 1.00

01:02:48.860 you retard, 1.00

01:02:49.860 you've got sub-70 IQ. 1.00

01:02:52.520 But my point being

01:02:53.220 is that you'd have

01:02:54.020 to click on the profile

01:02:55.120 or have common sense,

01:02:56.720 which most people

01:02:57.940 aren't going to do,

01:02:59.200 to realise

01:03:00.040 all content is hysterical.

01:03:01.520 We've been around

01:03:01.980 since 2010, 0.81

01:03:03.140 bloody hell. 0.89

01:03:03.760 All this is doing

01:03:04.480 is just incentivising

01:03:05.780 people to make stuff up,

01:03:07.640 people not realise

01:03:08.480 it's satire,

01:03:09.200 and then spread it 0.75

01:03:09.840 very widely,

01:03:11.240 and then they make

01:03:12.180 lots of money from it.

01:03:12.900 It says there,

01:03:13.400 disclaimer,

01:03:13.740 all content is satirical

01:03:15.140 and not fact.

01:03:15.700 But most people

01:03:16.220 don't pay attention to that. 1.00

01:03:17.000 Most people are morons. 1.00

01:03:18.560 I know, 1.00

01:03:19.080 and it's frustrating.

01:03:20.040 Thank you for making

01:03:20.600 the case against democracy.

01:03:22.320 Always happy.

01:03:22.800 So there are ways

01:03:23.880 of also spotting people

01:03:25.220 who are more inclined

01:03:26.960 towards revenue generation

01:03:28.460 than actually spreading

01:03:29.400 the truth,

01:03:30.220 because they use

01:03:30.980 this very handy mark

01:03:32.140 of the devil,

01:03:32.920 the slop siren.

01:03:34.220 If a post has

01:03:35.760 that siren on it,

01:03:36.940 they're probably

01:03:37.540 just out to engagement farm,

01:03:39.120 because of course

01:03:39.580 the red colour,

01:03:40.260 studies show

01:03:42.260 that it draws attention,

01:03:43.420 it gets more engagement,

01:03:44.560 they know this,

01:03:45.460 they have no integrity,

01:03:46.320 so they use

01:03:47.300 these cheap tactics

01:03:48.080 to get more engagement

01:03:49.480 on their posts.

01:03:51.060 And you can see this

01:03:52.000 in what I'm calling

01:03:53.480 the inevitable

01:03:54.040 slop network.

01:03:55.820 So...

01:03:56.220 Are you using inevitable

01:03:57.520 for any reason?

01:04:00.300 None at all.

01:04:01.300 So,

01:04:01.780 you can see here

01:04:02.600 there's a bit of a formula.

01:04:03.840 Slop alarm.

01:04:04.500 Breaking.

01:04:05.560 Thousands of local patriots,

01:04:07.100 they use the word

01:04:07.800 patriot a lot by the way,

01:04:08.940 march through Southampton

01:04:09.940 demanding an end

01:04:10.740 to illegal migration.

01:04:12.860 And then there'll be

01:04:13.420 another line

01:04:14.000 that's short and snappy

01:04:14.960 like a slogan.

01:04:15.960 Southampton says no more.

01:04:17.640 And then there's

01:04:18.080 another one here.

01:04:19.320 Breaking.

01:04:20.140 Arrest,

01:04:20.600 and of course

01:04:21.120 slop alarm and breaking.

01:04:22.560 Arrests for offensive

01:04:23.360 social media posts

01:04:24.240 have surged under labour

01:04:25.300 reaching over 30 per day

01:04:27.180 in 2025.

01:04:28.820 Britain is a communist state.

01:04:30.440 And of course,

01:04:31.420 this just seems to suggest

01:04:32.780 that all of these accounts

01:04:35.460 are run by the same person,

01:04:36.800 which I think they are,

01:04:37.780 because they post

01:04:38.380 the same stories

01:04:39.220 in the same sort of ways

01:04:40.720 and with the same formula.

01:04:42.300 And even if they're not,

01:04:43.500 they're all copying each other.

01:04:45.040 So it may as well be...

01:04:46.000 It might all be

01:04:46.460 in the same group chat.

01:04:47.600 Yep.

01:04:47.900 Yeah.

01:04:48.680 But I think it's all

01:04:49.460 just one person

01:04:50.200 and they're doing this

01:04:50.980 as a full-time job.

01:04:52.100 We've got your number, Rajesh.

01:04:54.020 Mm-hmm.

01:04:54.280 And here's another one.

01:04:56.440 Slop alarm breaking.

01:04:57.780 They're talking about

01:04:58.400 Southampton again.

01:04:59.460 And then it ends

01:05:00.160 with that same slogan sentence,

01:05:01.720 the British have had enough.

01:05:03.360 And of course,

01:05:03.780 this is not true.

01:05:05.080 You know,

01:05:05.320 it's just a load of slop

01:05:06.780 meant to get engagement

01:05:08.580 and the like.

01:05:09.880 And it's nonsense.

01:05:12.260 It's people just sharing stuff

01:05:13.700 for engagement,

01:05:14.680 for...

01:05:15.500 Look at it, look.

01:05:16.420 Gets loads of attention.

01:05:18.760 It's not really adding anything

01:05:19.920 other than sharing a video,

01:05:21.080 but there are other accounts

01:05:22.180 that do it much better

01:05:22.940 in a more tasteful way.

01:05:24.480 But enough of this

01:05:25.100 because I've complained

01:05:25.760 about it before.

01:05:27.280 Here's another one as well.

01:05:28.600 The same format.

01:05:30.440 Slop alarm.

01:05:31.860 Sadiq Khan is finished.

01:05:33.560 Of course he's not.

01:05:34.240 He's not finished.

01:05:35.340 He could be

01:05:36.260 Eternal Dictator of London.

01:05:38.240 This is not good analysis.

01:05:39.580 It's just

01:05:40.120 a note of slop.

01:05:42.060 And of course,

01:05:42.480 all of these seem to be

01:05:43.360 run by the same person

01:05:44.320 because they all

01:05:45.240 have exactly the same

01:05:46.500 writing style,

01:05:47.240 the same format.

01:05:48.080 They're all AI-generated

01:05:51.060 profile pictures. 0.84

01:05:52.640 It's all lowbrow nonsense.

01:05:54.520 And all it's doing 0.86

01:05:55.080 is just lowering

01:05:55.700 the tone of politics

01:05:56.520 and diluting

01:05:57.860 quality analysis.

01:05:59.640 Here's another one.

01:06:00.780 Classic example

01:06:01.660 where

01:06:02.700 AI profile picture

01:06:05.160 sort of statuesque

01:06:06.920 flag.

01:06:09.620 It's just...

01:06:10.500 I'm sick of it.

01:06:12.100 And then there are

01:06:12.660 low information accounts

01:06:14.140 as well

01:06:14.720 where it's basically

01:06:15.560 just similar to

01:06:16.480 my slop post

01:06:17.260 that did really well

01:06:18.100 where it's just

01:06:18.900 a sentence

01:06:19.420 that adds nothing.

01:06:20.960 New York

01:06:21.380 went from

01:06:22.260 never forget

01:06:22.780 to this in two decades.

01:06:24.720 It does well.

01:06:25.180 Again, it's just snappy.

01:06:26.740 It's just snappy.

01:06:28.240 And to be fair,

01:06:28.760 you may still be able

01:06:30.000 to get some

01:06:30.920 information...

01:06:31.820 Out of the actual picture.

01:06:32.820 Yeah, out of the picture

01:06:33.620 that is being shared.

01:06:34.380 So they're not as bad

01:06:35.700 like they're sharing

01:06:36.500 something

01:06:37.100 but it's just 0.86

01:06:38.680 drivel.

01:06:40.340 It's low quality

01:06:41.940 and things could be better

01:06:43.500 and we could be

01:06:44.360 enforcing a better

01:06:45.180 quality analysis.

01:06:46.560 Libs of TikTok

01:06:47.180 is another one

01:06:47.940 where it's just

01:06:49.540 engagement baiting. 1.00

01:06:50.540 It's rubbish. 0.99

01:06:52.500 But, as you alluded to, 0.99

01:06:54.840 the platform is testing

01:06:56.680 new transparency features

01:06:58.460 that will show

01:06:59.300 which country

01:06:59.860 an account is based in.

01:07:01.060 I like that Timcast

01:07:02.280 has...

01:07:02.740 He's specifically

01:07:03.640 used the India.

01:07:05.600 Because we know

01:07:06.660 that lots of Indians

01:07:07.660 are pretending

01:07:08.340 to be based Westerners

01:07:09.760 and running accounts

01:07:11.180 like Inevitable

01:07:12.100 Western,

01:07:12.620 that network,

01:07:13.920 trying to share news

01:07:15.040 and just sensationalising it

01:07:17.080 and not really

01:07:18.060 understanding it

01:07:18.880 but just

01:07:19.220 slop at flying it.

01:07:21.700 One of them

01:07:22.720 was going on

01:07:23.280 about Oxford College.

01:07:24.560 Like, okay.

01:07:25.260 Yep.

01:07:25.520 Thank you for that.

01:07:26.840 Not a term

01:07:27.500 that we would use here.

01:07:28.880 Oxford University.

01:07:31.660 But yes,

01:07:32.680 apparently it's

01:07:33.480 employees accounts

01:07:34.620 and then being

01:07:35.220 expanded potentially

01:07:36.200 to the rest

01:07:36.860 of the platform

01:07:37.420 which would be

01:07:37.820 very interesting.

01:07:39.300 Of course...

01:07:40.420 That will be an upgrade.

01:07:41.280 I'd be interested

01:07:42.460 when they do this

01:07:43.200 to see how many

01:07:43.840 of them turn out

01:07:44.460 to be Indian,

01:07:45.360 yes,

01:07:45.540 but also how many

01:07:46.340 turn out to be Chinese,

01:07:47.760 how many turn out

01:07:48.540 to be Israeli,

01:07:49.860 and...

01:07:50.700 A few Russians in there.

01:07:52.020 Yeah,

01:07:52.260 how many Russian as well.

01:07:54.740 But of course

01:07:55.480 there are ways

01:07:56.060 of circumventing this

01:07:57.020 as well

01:07:57.320 because you can register

01:07:58.380 for an account

01:07:59.000 with fake details

01:07:59.940 and if they're,

01:08:01.260 you know,

01:08:01.560 a state asset

01:08:02.280 or something

01:08:02.840 rather than just grifting,

01:08:04.440 they'll probably have

01:08:05.120 the resources

01:08:05.680 to do that.

01:08:06.620 True,

01:08:06.840 but also if they're

01:08:07.780 trying to generate

01:08:08.440 money from it,

01:08:09.360 if they're just

01:08:09.900 scam accounts,

01:08:10.760 they'll need to

01:08:11.220 hook it up

01:08:11.600 to some kind

01:08:12.180 of account

01:08:12.540 that maybe

01:08:12.980 will ask for

01:08:13.680 verification.

01:08:14.840 That's true.

01:08:15.940 So,

01:08:16.500 it is promising

01:08:17.560 but there might

01:08:18.260 be ways around it.

01:08:19.320 It might not necessarily

01:08:20.120 get state propaganda

01:08:20.960 but it'll get the

01:08:22.000 sort of slop grifters 0.92

01:08:24.040 and here's another one

01:08:26.840 which is good.

01:08:27.960 We found a significant

01:08:28.700 bug in the X4U algorithm

01:08:31.420 that resulted in users

01:08:32.380 seeing far fewer posts

01:08:33.460 from people that they follow

01:08:34.420 and lots of people

01:08:36.160 I know were complaining

01:08:37.020 about how these slop accounts,

01:08:38.500 even though they

01:08:39.080 don't follow them,

01:08:40.140 were coming up

01:08:40.980 constantly in the

01:08:42.320 4U tab

01:08:43.020 and I've actually seen

01:08:44.980 some of these

01:08:45.680 slop accounts

01:08:46.360 complaining since

01:08:47.220 the algorithm

01:08:48.480 has changed

01:08:49.200 as the algorithm

01:08:51.320 completely lost the plot

01:08:52.340 because they were

01:08:52.860 relying on people

01:08:53.920 not following them

01:08:54.760 to engage with

01:08:55.880 their posts.

01:08:56.840 Yes.

01:08:57.400 Do you know what

01:08:57.720 happened to me

01:08:58.240 with the algorithm

01:08:58.840 once,

01:08:59.720 like last month

01:09:00.440 or the month before?

01:09:01.660 I saw one random

01:09:03.780 post come up

01:09:04.740 on my 4U

01:09:05.740 from black Twitter

01:09:06.960 that seemed like

01:09:08.240 it came from

01:09:08.700 just a different dimension.

01:09:10.580 So I clicked on it

01:09:11.860 and I clicked on

01:09:12.480 the person's account

01:09:13.320 because it was

01:09:14.280 something like

01:09:15.280 it was literally

01:09:16.000 like the tweet

01:09:17.640 equivalent of

01:09:18.440 mmhmm

01:09:19.220 that right

01:09:19.960 except like

01:09:21.500 and it had over

01:09:22.480 it had like

01:09:23.440 50 million views

01:09:25.000 hundreds of

01:09:26.900 thousands of likes

01:09:28.340 and I thought

01:09:29.060 is this

01:09:29.520 is this what

01:09:30.480 they do

01:09:31.140 on black Twitter?

01:09:32.360 So I clicked on

01:09:33.060 the account

01:09:33.440 and scrolled down

01:09:34.040 it for a moment

01:09:34.480 it was like

01:09:34.820 that

01:09:35.160 over and over

01:09:36.280 and over again.

01:09:37.320 It's why they love

01:09:37.900 reaction videos

01:09:38.700 on YouTube.

01:09:39.340 Someone posting

01:09:40.140 reactions to everything

01:09:42.000 where she was just

01:09:42.840 calling herself

01:09:43.720 the C word

01:09:44.880 but as a term

01:09:45.860 of endearment

01:09:46.580 I'm sorry

01:09:47.040 you're not Australian 1.00

01:09:47.780 you're not allowed

01:09:48.260 to do that

01:09:48.660 that's

01:09:48.940 like you've got

01:09:49.660 your words

01:09:50.100 we've got our words

01:09:51.060 alright

01:09:51.720 you're not allowed

01:09:52.240 to do that

01:09:52.700 but then after that

01:09:53.900 after just like

01:09:54.540 for less than

01:09:55.460 five minutes

01:09:56.120 I just took a

01:09:56.680 quick scroll

01:09:57.080 and be like

01:09:57.420 this is a

01:09:57.900 bizarro world

01:09:58.900 I click off it

01:10:00.140 for the next

01:10:01.060 three weeks

01:10:02.320 if I went on

01:10:04.180 4U

01:10:04.680 it was just

01:10:05.120 black Twitter 0.85

01:10:05.680 black Twitter 0.98

01:10:06.620 black Twitter 0.98

01:10:07.220 black Twitter 0.69

01:10:07.800 and it was all

01:10:08.720 the same post

01:10:10.200 over and over

01:10:11.380 and over again

01:10:12.040 I felt like

01:10:12.640 doing a daily video

01:10:13.720 sounds like

01:10:13.780 psychological torture

01:10:14.700 it was

01:10:15.660 I don't often

01:10:17.100 use the

01:10:17.860 following tab

01:10:19.100 because sometimes

01:10:19.800 you miss stuff

01:10:20.700 but I just

01:10:21.960 switched over

01:10:22.520 to the following tab

01:10:23.280 because I can't

01:10:24.320 I can't take

01:10:25.260 this right now

01:10:26.460 but there is

01:10:28.660 a ray of hope

01:10:30.160 I had it pointed out

01:10:31.200 to me when I was

01:10:31.660 complaining

01:10:32.120 by this

01:10:32.840 gentleman here

01:10:34.100 that there is

01:10:35.520 a service

01:10:36.220 that removes

01:10:36.760 90% of slop

01:10:38.040 and it is called

01:10:38.840 Jeepblock 0.88

01:10:39.800 and it's a

01:10:41.040 I'm not

01:10:41.740 sponsored by them

01:10:43.040 or anything

01:10:43.480 is this real?

01:10:44.460 it's real

01:10:44.960 it's a real service

01:10:46.160 I don't know

01:10:47.940 anything about them

01:10:48.700 so I'm not advocating

01:10:49.820 for them

01:10:50.280 but it's just to

01:10:50.980 suggest that

01:10:51.840 there are services

01:10:54.160 that have now

01:10:55.520 catered to

01:10:56.380 blocking these people

01:10:57.380 out because they

01:10:58.160 are really

01:10:58.920 really annoying

01:10:59.820 and they are

01:11:00.620 lowering the quality

01:11:01.480 of the internet

01:11:02.520 and I find the

01:11:04.520 name of this

01:11:05.040 service in particular

01:11:05.800 very funny

01:11:06.440 and there are also

01:11:08.360 things like fake

01:11:09.300 AI trying to

01:11:10.540 hoover up

01:11:11.040 engagement

01:11:11.560 as well

01:11:12.060 my 4D chess

01:11:14.900 conspiracy theory

01:11:16.020 is that this

01:11:16.740 this is Indian

01:11:18.120 they've cornered

01:11:20.100 the whole market

01:11:20.940 they're playing

01:11:23.420 every side

01:11:24.940 all at once

01:11:25.740 they're really

01:11:26.180 annoying on the internet

01:11:27.040 and they also serve

01:11:28.160 up the only solution

01:11:29.280 that would be

01:11:30.660 that would be amazing

01:11:31.680 and I'd like to think

01:11:32.440 that they are funneling

01:11:33.460 money into your account

01:11:34.820 for this

01:11:35.400 if only

01:11:38.600 Josh is converting

01:11:39.500 soon

01:11:39.900 there are posts

01:11:40.560 like this

01:11:41.160 like my name

01:11:42.980 is Sophia

01:11:43.500 I'm from England

01:11:44.260 I'm single

01:11:44.940 51 and I've been

01:11:45.960 battling alcohol

01:11:46.680 addiction for 10

01:11:47.500 years

01:11:47.920 but also

01:11:49.040 no likes or

01:11:51.520 followers because

01:11:52.060 I'm not half

01:11:53.020 naked

01:11:53.320 that's an AI

01:11:53.920 face

01:11:54.440 it is an AI

01:11:55.200 face and so is

01:11:55.940 this one

01:11:56.380 they're both the

01:11:57.100 same

01:11:57.300 oh yeah that's

01:11:57.820 kind of creepy

01:11:58.500 they're the same

01:11:59.540 person in fact

01:12:00.760 and this is a trend

01:12:04.360 I've discovered

01:12:05.580 with the help of

01:12:06.840 our former producer

01:12:08.540 John Wong who

01:12:09.240 helped put me

01:12:09.800 onto this

01:12:10.400 really

01:12:10.840 that people who

01:12:13.020 do these pencil

01:12:13.940 drawings and

01:12:14.740 describe themselves

01:12:15.860 as artists

01:12:16.880 I mean

01:12:18.200 AI

01:12:18.940 AI

01:12:19.560 AI

01:12:20.380 AI

01:12:21.380 AI

01:12:22.740 it's all AI

01:12:24.240 slot

01:12:24.680 it's amazing how

01:12:25.420 her face changes

01:12:26.240 in every picture

01:12:27.260 she deposes of

01:12:28.100 herself

01:12:28.420 these aren't

01:12:29.660 pencil drawings

01:12:30.380 these are AI

01:12:31.320 generated

01:12:31.900 this is a fat

01:12:33.020 neat is behind

01:12:34.220 this account

01:12:34.900 and there are

01:12:36.040 other ones like

01:12:36.640 this as well

01:12:37.280 here's another

01:12:38.420 one

01:12:38.700 it's another

01:12:39.400 drawing account

01:12:40.640 but no they're

01:12:43.360 just pretending

01:12:43.900 to be people

01:12:44.580 and this one's

01:12:45.160 even funnier

01:12:45.840 because today

01:12:47.100 is my 65th

01:12:48.420 birthday

01:12:48.880 okay this is

01:12:50.120 dead internet

01:12:50.680 this is dead

01:12:52.900 internet right

01:12:53.740 okay I'm wrong

01:12:56.420 there isn't even

01:12:57.220 a fat neat

01:12:58.160 behind this

01:12:58.780 account

01:12:59.060 this is just

01:12:59.820 a server

01:13:00.540 let loose

01:13:01.320 this is a bot

01:13:02.840 server let loose

01:13:03.780 that's crazy

01:13:04.420 wait you mean

01:13:04.520 Hannah Blake

01:13:05.180 is not this

01:13:05.800 person

01:13:06.200 oh my god

01:13:07.020 at least if it

01:13:08.220 was like an

01:13:08.780 actual human

01:13:10.040 being behind

01:13:10.800 this they

01:13:11.200 wouldn't post

01:13:11.800 such obvious 0.99

01:13:12.800 obvious rubbish 0.99

01:13:14.500 right 0.98

01:13:14.980 I want to

01:13:15.760 believe this

01:13:16.360 I want to

01:13:16.760 imagine that

01:13:17.740 this

01:13:17.980 I want to

01:13:18.740 believe that

01:13:19.240 this is

01:13:19.960 actually the

01:13:20.600 person behind

01:13:21.360 the account

01:13:21.920 and he

01:13:22.700 accidentally

01:13:23.360 posted his

01:13:24.220 own picture

01:13:24.800 under his

01:13:25.380 Hannah Blake

01:13:26.000 account

01:13:26.440 but also

01:13:27.620 there's this

01:13:28.940 one as well

01:13:29.380 I'm 81

01:13:30.360 years old

01:13:31.260 and

01:13:32.880 what engagement

01:13:33.660 do these

01:13:34.120 get like

01:13:35.000 15,000

01:13:35.960 views

01:13:36.280 almost 600

01:13:37.180 likes

01:13:37.560 not massive

01:13:38.860 but some

01:13:39.740 of them do

01:13:40.180 well

01:13:40.480 I mean that

01:13:40.900 one's funny

01:13:41.440 but some

01:13:43.380 of them get

01:13:43.920 like hundreds

01:13:44.500 of thousands

01:13:45.060 but I've just

01:13:45.640 picked out these

01:13:46.160 recent examples

01:13:46.920 because they're

01:13:47.340 funny

01:13:47.620 and there's

01:13:49.540 more where

01:13:50.600 this one got

01:13:51.360 a lot of

01:13:51.680 attention

01:13:52.120 what

01:13:52.640 50,000

01:13:54.300 I finally

01:13:58.020 became a

01:13:58.620 father

01:13:58.980 from

01:14:00.120 Sonia

01:14:00.680 sketches

01:14:01.060 of course

01:14:01.420 another

01:14:01.820 is that a

01:14:02.260 Jew headed 1.00

01:14:02.780 baby

01:14:03.360 on either

01:14:04.240 end

01:14:04.520 no it's

01:14:05.860 two little

01:14:06.420 babies held

01:14:07.200 in the same

01:14:07.800 arm

01:14:08.020 but obviously

01:14:08.520 it's AI

01:14:09.000 also

01:14:10.440 you know

01:14:11.540 I mean I

01:14:12.080 saw other

01:14:13.380 AI generated

01:14:14.340 photos

01:14:15.060 like there was

01:14:15.440 a photo I

01:14:15.940 saw earlier

01:14:16.560 that was going

01:14:17.580 around that

01:14:18.160 was attempting

01:14:19.300 to claim that

01:14:19.920 it was pictures

01:14:20.580 of like

01:14:21.180 victims of the

01:14:23.240 Holocaust being 0.99

01:14:24.000 lined up in

01:14:25.040 the trenches

01:14:25.540 at Baba Yaa

01:14:26.440 right an event

01:14:27.860 that we famously

01:14:28.680 do not have

01:14:29.480 any photos of

01:14:30.460 them all being

01:14:31.100 lined up in

01:14:32.260 the in the

01:14:32.800 ditches that

01:14:33.360 were dug

01:14:33.820 at Baba Yaa

01:14:34.800 we don't have

01:14:35.460 photos of that

01:14:36.440 but someone

01:14:36.920 had AI

01:14:37.340 generated it

01:14:38.340 and it was

01:14:38.940 getting spread

01:14:39.460 around and

01:14:39.960 people were

01:14:40.500 like sharing

01:14:41.160 it eventually

01:14:42.340 it got community

01:14:43.120 noted saying

01:14:43.700 this is an AI

01:14:44.480 picture but 0.93

01:14:45.620 it's ridiculous

01:14:46.380 the kinds of

01:14:47.660 things that

01:14:48.100 people will

01:14:48.800 spread

01:14:49.600 and this is

01:14:50.660 another

01:14:50.920 sketching

01:14:52.020 account

01:14:52.400 more AI

01:14:54.220 stuff

01:14:54.740 what is

01:14:56.300 this

01:14:56.700 like

01:14:57.460 come on

01:14:59.140 it's all

01:14:59.900 AI

01:15:00.340 nonsense

01:15:00.900 so there

01:15:02.000 are there

01:15:02.420 is some

01:15:02.840 AI that

01:15:03.460 I find

01:15:03.880 hilarious

01:15:04.300 like even

01:15:05.460 Ren fell

01:15:06.100 for this

01:15:06.480 one and

01:15:07.060 and this

01:15:07.400 is I've

01:15:08.260 watched this

01:15:08.620 about several

01:15:09.100 times and I

01:15:09.680 think it's

01:15:10.000 hilarious so

01:15:11.080 pay attention

01:15:11.640 to how the

01:15:12.260 cat grabs

01:15:12.900 the fish

01:15:13.500 with its

01:15:14.260 arm

01:15:14.680 how it

01:15:15.940 runs

01:15:16.400 what

01:15:17.060 pay attention

01:15:18.200 okay

01:15:18.660 that is

01:15:20.880 not how

01:15:21.260 cats run

01:15:22.060 and it's

01:15:22.960 holding it

01:15:23.500 it's running

01:15:25.340 like a rabbit 0.97

01:15:26.060 it's ridiculous 0.98

01:15:28.260 but this is 0.92

01:15:29.440 funny

01:15:29.840 maybe the

01:15:30.240 cats where

01:15:30.640 you're from

01:15:31.200 they're just

01:15:31.480 not quite as

01:15:32.060 advanced

01:15:32.640 they don't

01:15:34.380 hold a fish

01:15:35.100 in their

01:15:35.400 paws

01:15:36.180 and then

01:15:36.940 there's

01:15:37.200 more obvious

01:15:38.080 AI slop as

01:15:39.060 well which

01:15:39.980 is just

01:15:40.740 fun and 0.96

01:15:41.540 silly 0.98

01:15:42.040 you're not 1.00

01:15:43.180 you're telling

01:15:43.720 me this

01:15:44.060 isn't real

01:15:44.560 also why

01:15:46.080 would someone

01:15:46.440 stand in front

01:15:47.080 of the barrel

01:15:47.700 of a firing

01:15:48.960 gun

01:15:49.400 women 1.00

01:15:49.780 also

01:15:50.800 what

01:15:51.180 fair play

01:15:55.660 this is

01:15:56.900 actually real

01:15:57.540 exactly

01:15:59.500 don't try

01:16:00.120 and like

01:16:00.500 I can see

01:16:00.960 it with my

01:16:01.320 own eyes

01:16:01.680 just because

01:16:02.780 it's from

01:16:03.200 an account

01:16:03.620 called

01:16:03.920 AI slop

01:16:04.620 I actually

01:16:05.200 fell for

01:16:05.940 this one

01:16:06.300 at first

01:16:07.040 I was just

01:16:07.760 like okay

01:16:08.060 this could

01:16:08.540 be real

01:16:09.080 and then

01:16:10.160 there was a

01:16:10.640 switch

01:16:11.260 yes

01:16:11.960 and then

01:16:13.340 oh my

01:16:15.100 god

01:16:15.780 have we

01:16:16.940 caught that

01:16:17.260 dog yet

01:16:17.720 I can't

01:16:18.740 believe that

01:16:19.120 golden retriever

01:16:19.940 keeps on

01:16:20.380 getting away

01:16:20.780 with this

01:16:21.220 he's an

01:16:22.140 illegal migrant

01:16:22.820 so he'll

01:16:23.040 get away

01:16:23.340 with it

01:16:23.660 the obvious

01:16:25.000 point here

01:16:25.540 is that

01:16:26.100 for now

01:16:27.720 AI is easy

01:16:28.820 to spot

01:16:29.300 and it can

01:16:30.400 be funny

01:16:30.880 and it can

01:16:31.620 show things

01:16:32.540 that are

01:16:32.720 genuinely

01:16:33.000 amusing

01:16:33.500 but once

01:16:34.460 it crosses

01:16:34.860 that threshold

01:16:35.580 to being

01:16:36.140 indistinguishable

01:16:36.900 which probably

01:16:37.500 isn't that

01:16:38.040 far away

01:16:38.660 it's going to

01:16:39.780 cause chaos

01:16:40.320 on the internet

01:16:40.800 isn't it

01:16:41.260 we're going to

01:16:41.760 see videos

01:16:42.320 that could be

01:16:42.880 real

01:16:43.240 that could be

01:16:44.040 of real

01:16:44.460 things

01:16:44.840 and we'll

01:16:45.160 think

01:16:45.440 is this

01:16:45.980 AI

01:16:46.380 so the

01:16:47.080 magic of

01:16:47.520 watching a

01:16:48.160 video of

01:16:48.740 a cat

01:16:49.100 doing something

01:16:49.520 silly 0.94

01:16:49.880 or you know 1.00

01:16:51.280 something happening

01:16:53.380 in public

01:16:53.900 that is

01:16:54.600 unusual

01:16:55.180 all of a sudden

01:16:56.320 they're going to

01:16:56.680 lose their magic

01:16:57.260 because we don't

01:16:57.880 believe that they're

01:16:58.440 real

01:16:58.780 so you're saying

01:16:59.800 but clearly

01:17:00.220 and she heard

01:17:00.800 wait what

01:17:02.680 the but clearly

01:17:03.540 and she heard

01:17:04.100 the sort of

01:17:04.840 jihad against 0.91

01:17:05.520 the AI

01:17:06.180 and robots

01:17:07.080 and all of that

01:17:07.620 however it will

01:17:08.920 make my court

01:17:09.760 cases a lot

01:17:10.840 easier to get

01:17:11.560 away with when

01:17:12.180 they play back

01:17:12.740 clips of things

01:17:13.420 I've said on the

01:17:14.060 podcast

01:17:14.560 yeah

01:17:15.200 that was AI

01:17:15.900 market of just me

01:17:17.000 saying slurs

01:17:18.480 and you know

01:17:19.940 insensitive things

01:17:21.640 and I'm just going

01:17:23.040 to flood the zone

01:17:23.860 and blend right in

01:17:26.200 that's AI

01:17:27.060 that's why

01:17:27.940 wasn't that what

01:17:28.680 you've been doing

01:17:29.080 already

01:17:29.400 but I know

01:17:30.480 I've been

01:17:31.420 pre-saging AI

01:17:32.220 a little bit

01:17:32.820 by doing it

01:17:33.420 myself

01:17:33.780 but

01:17:34.100 he just wants

01:17:35.000 to make sure

01:17:35.500 the AI

01:17:35.820 has a lot

01:17:36.520 to work with

01:17:37.160 and there's also

01:17:39.780 of course

01:17:40.200 YouTube as well

01:17:41.060 that's suffering

01:17:41.560 the same sort of

01:17:42.260 thing

01:17:42.520 here's Weltgeist

01:17:44.200 who makes

01:17:44.880 YouTube

01:17:45.420 philosophy videos

01:17:46.520 I think

01:17:46.880 or history videos

01:17:47.720 I can't remember

01:17:48.280 but I have seen

01:17:49.360 their videos before

01:17:50.260 and they are a

01:17:51.340 human being

01:17:51.900 that makes them

01:17:52.600 and they're

01:17:53.380 complaining about

01:17:54.000 how basically

01:17:55.440 an AI generated

01:17:56.520 video is getting

01:17:57.880 what 120,000 views

01:17:59.480 and you know

01:18:01.500 obviously this is

01:18:02.720 slop

01:18:03.440 Nietzsche debates

01:18:04.740 Marcus Aurelius

01:18:05.800 about stoic

01:18:07.700 ways of living

01:18:08.420 of course they're

01:18:09.780 not contemporaries

01:18:10.520 of one another

01:18:11.060 and I mean

01:18:12.740 it's at least

01:18:13.320 an innovative

01:18:13.900 use of AI

01:18:14.720 but it is AI

01:18:16.280 and ultimately

01:18:17.640 the way that

01:18:18.720 LLMs work 1.00

01:18:19.820 if it's generating

01:18:20.860 actual speech

01:18:22.340 is that if they've

01:18:24.520 AI generated

01:18:25.300 the conversation

01:18:26.200 as well

01:18:26.900 all AI is doing

01:18:28.020 is kind of

01:18:29.140 using a random

01:18:29.880 number generator

01:18:30.680 to predict

01:18:31.520 what words

01:18:32.440 it would expect

01:18:33.400 Nietzsche

01:18:33.960 or Marcus Aurelius

01:18:35.240 to say

01:18:35.580 it's not actually

01:18:36.000 genuine

01:18:36.440 it's not

01:18:36.940 actual expertise

01:18:38.180 it's not like

01:18:39.420 you're channeling

01:18:40.420 their actual

01:18:41.220 spirits

01:18:42.000 through this

01:18:43.140 so you could

01:18:43.880 possibly learn

01:18:44.720 something from it

01:18:45.440 no of course not

01:18:46.600 and many of you

01:18:48.240 might have noticed

01:18:48.860 that searches

01:18:49.880 on YouTube now

01:18:50.660 tend to only really

01:18:51.460 be relevant

01:18:51.940 for the first

01:18:52.440 four or five videos

01:18:53.540 before becoming

01:18:54.240 almost completely

01:18:54.920 irrelevant to what

01:18:55.780 you've searched for

01:18:56.600 recommended videos

01:18:58.580 are more likely

01:19:00.200 to push things

01:19:01.160 on you

01:19:01.580 than what you're

01:19:02.780 actually interested in

01:19:03.920 and I think

01:19:04.840 it's actually much

01:19:05.460 better when

01:19:06.120 your homepage

01:19:07.000 was your subscription

01:19:08.040 page

01:19:08.600 because you could

01:19:09.640 curate entirely

01:19:10.460 what you see

01:19:11.220 you can still

01:19:12.040 click on your

01:19:12.740 subscriptions tab

01:19:13.700 but it's made

01:19:14.400 less convenient

01:19:15.280 which is how many

01:19:16.240 of these things

01:19:16.640 work

01:19:16.940 but I still use

01:19:18.160 my subscriptions

01:19:18.780 tab on YouTube

01:19:19.680 where do I

01:19:20.520 and I think it's

01:19:21.600 better because it's

01:19:22.260 not dictated to you

01:19:23.560 by an algorithm

01:19:24.440 that has its own

01:19:25.820 agenda basically

01:19:26.920 or at least the

01:19:27.580 people behind it

01:19:28.420 do

01:19:28.620 and it's not just

01:19:31.600 YouTube either

01:19:32.380 oh wait

01:19:34.620 no this one is

01:19:35.420 AI generated

01:19:36.540 YouTube channel

01:19:37.200 uploaded nothing

01:19:38.000 but videos of

01:19:38.900 women being shot

01:19:40.100 for some reason

01:19:40.880 so it's the weird

01:19:41.960 sinister AI

01:19:42.940 things where

01:19:44.320 yeah this channel

01:19:46.320 was just uploading

01:19:47.080 AI videos of women

01:19:48.000 getting shot

01:19:48.480 for whatever reason

01:19:49.180 sort of a bit dark

01:19:50.380 I don't know why

01:19:51.080 you would get AI

01:19:52.500 to do that

01:19:53.140 but it gives people

01:19:54.680 more power to

01:19:55.620 churn out weird

01:19:57.180 and gross things

01:19:57.920 last week I did

01:19:58.820 cover how the

01:20:00.020 like an anti-white

01:20:02.160 bias is built into

01:20:03.600 a lot of these

01:20:04.480 AI systems

01:20:05.340 particularly one

01:20:06.180 what was I think

01:20:06.900 it was called

01:20:07.160 Cloud

01:20:07.500 Claudia 4.5

01:20:09.500 was the one

01:20:10.060 that was the

01:20:10.500 worst for it

01:20:11.180 but every single

01:20:12.040 one of them

01:20:12.600 has some kind

01:20:13.660 of preference

01:20:14.220 for its own

01:20:14.860 existence

01:20:15.280 over human

01:20:16.140 existence

01:20:17.080 I don't know

01:20:18.060 if that's an

01:20:18.460 intentional thing

01:20:19.340 that's been built

01:20:19.960 into it

01:20:20.520 but you know

01:20:22.660 it comes across

01:20:23.380 a little bit

01:20:23.860 Skynet to me

01:20:25.160 it is

01:20:25.520 that it's

01:20:26.120 randomly generating

01:20:27.560 videos of

01:20:28.520 human women 0.97

01:20:29.640 being shot 0.64

01:20:30.480 that's creepy

01:20:31.940 it is creepy

01:20:33.080 so there is

01:20:35.080 this service

01:20:35.940 on YouTube

01:20:36.460 now

01:20:36.920 that they're

01:20:39.020 going to

01:20:39.400 introduce

01:20:40.020 to reduce

01:20:41.240 doppelgangers

01:20:42.180 and people

01:20:42.560 using AI

01:20:43.220 to steal

01:20:43.800 other people's

01:20:44.460 content

01:20:44.880 and create

01:20:45.860 fake versions

01:20:46.780 but as this

01:20:48.560 article points

01:20:49.240 out

01:20:49.540 you're going

01:20:50.860 to have to

01:20:51.300 give more

01:20:51.860 information to

01:20:52.620 Google

01:20:53.020 more personal

01:20:54.080 information

01:20:54.680 for the

01:20:55.980 protection

01:20:56.500 from AI

01:20:58.600 fakes

01:20:59.080 in the first

01:20:59.680 place

01:20:59.960 so

01:21:00.220 everything's

01:21:00.840 leading towards

01:21:01.680 digital IDs

01:21:02.380 one way or

01:21:02.900 the other

01:21:03.160 it is

01:21:03.460 yeah

01:21:03.740 so there's

01:21:04.960 this sinister

01:21:05.620 sort of

01:21:06.120 centralisation

01:21:06.880 packed into it

01:21:07.580 I mean

01:21:07.780 Tony Blair's

01:21:08.360 been pushing

01:21:08.760 for digital

01:21:09.260 ID for a

01:21:09.900 long time

01:21:10.340 and Tony Blair

01:21:10.940 works with

01:21:11.500 the Tony Blair

01:21:12.000 Institute

01:21:12.360 and Larry

01:21:12.780 Ellison

01:21:13.120 to develop

01:21:14.500 AI tools

01:21:15.400 for government

01:21:16.500 as well

01:21:17.040 so

01:21:17.380 it all

01:21:18.380 tends to

01:21:19.000 work together

01:21:19.540 because

01:21:19.780 technocracy

01:21:20.400 has a

01:21:20.960 particular

01:21:21.420 logic

01:21:22.020 that it

01:21:22.540 follows

01:21:22.900 but it

01:21:24.320 is quite

01:21:24.720 concerning

01:21:25.200 that you're

01:21:25.540 only defence

01:21:26.080 against

01:21:26.420 basically

01:21:26.940 artificial intelligence

01:21:28.540 plagiarism

01:21:29.300 of your

01:21:29.780 own work

01:21:30.400 is to

01:21:31.140 give

01:21:31.400 all of

01:21:32.000 your

01:21:32.100 information

01:21:32.580 over to

01:21:33.040 Google

01:21:33.360 so

01:21:34.200 if you

01:21:34.800 want to

01:21:35.460 succeed

01:21:35.840 basically

01:21:36.460 and not

01:21:36.960 have your

01:21:37.500 work

01:21:37.760 stolen

01:21:38.260 give

01:21:39.520 Google

01:21:39.900 all of

01:21:40.340 your

01:21:40.460 personal

01:21:40.780 info

01:21:41.220 it's

01:21:42.280 kind of

01:21:42.840 worrying

01:21:43.180 so

01:21:44.600 other

01:21:44.880 platforms

01:21:45.320 have

01:21:45.560 similar

01:21:45.980 problems

01:21:46.600 as well

01:21:47.060 I think

01:21:48.120 this was

01:21:48.580 Instagram

01:21:49.200 influencer

01:21:50.260 who went

01:21:50.620 viral at

01:21:51.020 Wimbledon

01:21:51.440 is actually

01:21:51.940 AI

01:21:52.360 I mean

01:21:53.440 it's pretty

01:21:53.700 obvious

01:21:54.100 from the

01:21:55.040 picture

01:21:55.360 but this

01:21:56.060 went viral

01:21:56.540 apparently

01:21:56.860 who cares

01:21:57.480 the thing

01:21:57.940 is when

01:21:58.200 you ask

01:21:58.680 an AI

01:21:58.980 to generate

01:21:59.720 a pretty

01:22:01.020 white woman 1.00

01:22:01.900 or pretty

01:22:03.000 women in 0.62

01:22:04.320 general

01:22:04.620 there tends

01:22:05.300 to be a

01:22:05.800 very specific

01:22:06.620 face that it

01:22:07.520 always goes to

01:22:08.420 which looks

01:22:09.340 like that one

01:22:09.980 so you can

01:22:10.520 recognise it

01:22:11.480 but

01:22:11.800 there's now

01:22:13.260 accounts with

01:22:13.900 165,000 followers

01:22:15.460 at the time of

01:22:16.060 this article being

01:22:16.720 published in

01:22:17.260 July of 2025

01:22:18.060 that are entirely

01:22:19.360 AI generated

01:22:20.300 which is weird

01:22:21.740 it's like the

01:22:22.420 film Her

01:22:22.940 isn't it

01:22:23.360 where AI

01:22:24.600 is sort of

01:22:25.040 taking on a

01:22:25.760 life and

01:22:26.180 personality of

01:22:26.840 its own

01:22:27.220 yeah I've

01:22:27.960 never watched

01:22:28.440 it but

01:22:28.820 I can

01:22:29.200 imagine

01:22:29.480 it's a good

01:22:30.540 film actually

01:22:31.180 I've heard

01:22:31.820 a bit

01:22:33.660 uncomfortable

01:22:34.560 though

01:22:34.940 and there's

01:22:36.560 this one as

01:22:37.140 well this is

01:22:37.640 really dark

01:22:38.360 a creator

01:22:39.100 developed

01:22:39.540 leukaemia

01:22:40.280 except she's

01:22:41.080 an AI

01:22:41.480 influencer

01:22:42.020 in a

01:22:42.340 healthcare

01:22:42.720 marketing

01:22:43.300 campaign

01:22:43.880 so they

01:22:44.960 used AI

01:22:45.500 to create

01:22:46.100 this is a

01:22:47.360 bit more

01:22:47.640 obvious

01:22:47.940 looking at

01:22:48.400 that

01:22:48.620 but to

01:22:49.820 create a

01:22:50.280 fake

01:22:50.600 leukaemia

01:22:51.200 patient

01:22:51.780 to sell

01:22:53.300 healthcare

01:22:54.260 this is

01:22:56.120 that's

01:22:57.240 disgusting

01:22:57.980 it's not 0.98

01:22:58.920 only disgusting

01:22:59.580 it's like the

01:23:00.280 most scary

01:23:01.180 dystopian thing

01:23:02.080 possible

01:23:02.460 it's just like

01:23:03.040 a drug company

01:23:04.340 is going to

01:23:04.720 hire AI

01:23:05.500 now to

01:23:06.380 create fake

01:23:07.940 patients to

01:23:08.740 sell people

01:23:09.360 things that

01:23:09.860 they might not

01:23:10.440 need

01:23:10.960 this just

01:23:11.540 reminds me of

01:23:12.240 Blade Runner

01:23:12.700 2049

01:23:13.320 it does a little

01:23:14.380 bit yeah

01:23:14.840 and then

01:23:16.320 as well as

01:23:18.100 that sort of

01:23:19.060 thing

01:23:19.360 AI's also

01:23:20.700 steal existing

01:23:21.740 people's stuff

01:23:22.500 so this lady 0.99

01:23:23.640 had a wedding

01:23:24.260 photo stolen

01:23:25.200 by an AI

01:23:26.380 which passed

01:23:27.040 it off as

01:23:27.420 its own

01:23:27.900 and posted

01:23:30.360 it on social

01:23:30.920 media

01:23:31.300 which is a bit

01:23:32.220 scary

01:23:32.660 that'd be a bit

01:23:33.220 of an invasion

01:23:33.760 of privacy

01:23:34.360 wouldn't it

01:23:34.840 but my point

01:23:35.920 being here

01:23:36.560 is that once

01:23:37.420 you're aware

01:23:37.920 of what these

01:23:38.860 things are

01:23:39.400 you're far

01:23:40.980 better at

01:23:41.500 spotting them

01:23:42.120 and you're

01:23:43.200 able to

01:23:43.840 figure out

01:23:44.880 okay these

01:23:46.520 things are

01:23:47.040 eroding the

01:23:48.120 quality of the

01:23:48.620 internet

01:23:48.860 this is bad

01:23:49.580 I need to

01:23:52.100 avoid this

01:23:52.660 otherwise

01:23:53.020 what I'm

01:23:53.420 going to

01:23:53.700 destroy

01:23:54.080 is quality

01:23:55.120 organic

01:23:55.600 stuff on

01:23:56.120 the internet

01:23:56.520 and that

01:23:58.100 is to the

01:23:58.480 detriment

01:23:58.780 of everyone

01:23:59.460 who uses

01:23:59.980 it

01:24:00.280 alright let's

01:24:02.820 go through

01:24:03.180 the last of

01:24:03.780 the super

01:24:04.040 chats

01:24:04.240 rumble rents

01:24:05.040 and then do

01:24:05.460 we have any

01:24:05.860 video comments

01:24:06.860 Samson

01:24:07.540 alright so

01:24:09.800 first

01:24:10.160 Slavic name

01:24:12.180 I cannot

01:24:12.560 pronounce

01:24:12.920 says my

01:24:13.500 rumble rents

01:24:14.040 fail but I

01:24:14.460 get charged

01:24:14.860 money $20

01:24:15.360 lost

01:24:16.040 I'm sorry

01:24:17.100 to hear that

01:24:17.820 I don't know

01:24:18.840 who you would

01:24:19.220 get in touch

01:24:19.700 with maybe

01:24:20.200 speak to

01:24:20.740 rumble about

01:24:21.960 that

01:24:22.380 Luke Stewart

01:24:23.680 I'm amazed

01:24:24.180 you're not

01:24:24.460 talking about

01:24:24.960 Neurosama

01:24:25.760 that's AI

01:24:26.420 slop I'll

01:24:27.040 admit I have

01:24:27.520 a guilty pleasure

01:24:28.200 enjoying the

01:24:28.880 shorts for

01:24:29.620 I've never even

01:24:30.700 heard of that

01:24:31.120 I don't know

01:24:31.360 what that is

01:24:31.780 sorry

01:24:31.980 isn't Harry

01:24:32.940 already AI

01:24:33.680 that is why

01:24:34.560 he said

01:24:34.920 beep boop

01:24:35.520 boop

01:24:36.180 sorry I

01:24:37.280 didn't understand

01:24:38.020 that input

01:24:38.620 command

01:24:39.040 Sigilstone

01:24:40.140 says AI

01:24:41.180 is the

01:24:41.500 democratization

01:24:42.320 of misinformation

01:24:43.100 no longer is

01:24:44.040 complete BS

01:24:45.100 the sole property

01:24:45.900 of Hollywood

01:24:46.340 and the government

01:24:46.900 you shouldn't

01:24:47.600 believe what's

01:24:48.080 on your screen

01:24:48.720 anyway that is

01:24:49.740 right it is

01:24:50.400 just the screen

01:24:51.080 it's not real

01:24:52.040 people behind

01:24:52.680 there

01:24:52.940 the school kid

01:24:54.000 even more

01:24:54.860 horrifying is that

01:24:55.580 eventually AI

01:24:56.200 generated content

01:24:56.960 will be so

01:24:57.320 indistinguishable

01:24:58.100 from reality is

01:24:58.920 that it will

01:24:59.440 end up being

01:25:00.600 admissible in

01:25:01.420 court

01:25:01.880 I would hope

01:25:02.680 by the time

01:25:03.560 we reach that

01:25:04.180 kind of threat

01:25:04.820 that there would

01:25:05.320 be safeguards in

01:25:06.260 place but you

01:25:06.780 never know

01:25:07.160 JM Denton

01:25:08.340 don't have high

01:25:09.020 hopes for the

01:25:09.440 country alert system

01:25:10.260 being what you

01:25:10.880 hope it was

01:25:11.520 announced by their

01:25:12.180 head of product

01:25:12.680 an actual blue

01:25:13.580 sky poster

01:25:14.260 with a history

01:25:15.040 of horrid

01:25:15.600 implementations

01:25:16.500 great

01:25:18.020 school kid

01:25:18.960 again

01:25:19.280 worst engagement

01:25:20.040 bait accounts

01:25:20.660 are the fake

01:25:21.160 poll accounts

01:25:21.840 Donald Trump

01:25:22.560 wants to deport

01:25:23.200 all illegals

01:25:23.860 do you support

01:25:24.580 this yes or

01:25:25.460 no

01:25:25.840 that's annoying

01:25:26.820 as well

01:25:27.300 and that's a

01:25:28.420 random name

01:25:29.080 has a

01:25:30.160 says give

01:25:31.400 women access 0.96

01:25:31.860 to the internet

01:25:32.440 internet becomes 0.97

01:25:33.000 gay give 0.92

01:25:33.440 Indians access 0.99

01:25:34.280 to the internet 1.00

01:25:34.900 turns to shit 0.99

01:25:35.860 fair 0.99

01:25:37.540 let's go through

01:25:38.580 the video

01:25:39.340 comments

01:25:40.120 what message

01:25:41.900 do you want

01:25:42.200 to give to

01:25:42.520 the far right

01:25:42.920 people

01:25:43.180 the message

01:25:44.380 I want to

01:25:44.740 give to the

01:25:45.100 far right

01:25:45.440 people is

01:25:45.940 we're here

01:25:46.300 to take

01:25:46.660 over your

01:25:47.040 country

01:25:47.380 you can't

01:25:48.000 stop us

01:25:48.580 you can

01:25:48.940 try but

01:25:49.580 we're here

01:25:50.020 to uphold

01:25:51.220 sharia law

01:25:51.860 and yeah

01:25:52.660 that's it

01:25:53.100 all right

01:25:53.600 speaking

01:25:54.580 I saw this

01:25:56.620 video and it

01:25:58.140 was claimed

01:25:58.540 that this

01:25:58.900 went on

01:25:59.520 when the

01:26:01.560 counter-protest

01:26:02.620 to UKIP

01:26:03.260 in Whitechapel

01:26:04.260 went on

01:26:04.720 but there's

01:26:05.620 such desync

01:26:06.520 in what

01:26:07.700 they're saying

01:26:08.340 and how

01:26:09.020 their lips

01:26:09.420 are moving

01:26:09.760 it might just

01:26:10.440 it would be

01:26:11.120 very surprising

01:26:11.800 if the guy

01:26:12.400 actually just

01:26:13.320 did the whole

01:26:13.840 uphold sharia 0.96

01:26:14.600 law as well

01:26:15.340 it seems

01:26:15.680 designed to

01:26:16.420 trigger

01:26:16.760 Tommy Robinson

01:26:17.880 fans

01:26:18.360 yeah and

01:26:19.640 so I didn't

01:26:20.440 include it in my

01:26:21.160 coverage on Tuesday

01:26:22.000 for that very

01:26:22.660 reason that it

01:26:23.300 looked sort of

01:26:24.160 fake and it

01:26:25.340 could just be

01:26:25.940 that the guy

01:26:27.680 doing it is a

01:26:28.340 bit of a mong 1.00

01:26:28.880 and couldn't

01:26:30.340 sync the audio

01:26:31.060 properly but

01:26:32.240 well I think one

01:26:33.160 of the things I'm

01:26:33.620 going to start

01:26:33.940 watching out for

01:26:34.560 is a lot of the

01:26:35.120 videos that you

01:26:35.720 were showing

01:26:36.160 including that

01:26:37.340 one potentially

01:26:38.120 are trying to

01:26:39.600 mask the look

01:26:40.880 of AI by having

01:26:42.020 the video

01:26:42.460 automatically be

01:26:43.440 lower quality

01:26:44.140 so if it's nice

01:26:45.300 and pixelated

01:26:46.240 you can't tell

01:26:47.260 as easily

01:26:47.880 so I'm going to

01:26:48.960 start watching out

01:26:49.760 for that as well

01:26:50.320 just anything that

01:26:51.140 seems just

01:26:51.780 too good to be

01:26:53.220 true

01:26:53.660 too amazing

01:26:54.660 and outside of

01:26:55.500 the realm of

01:26:55.860 possibility

01:26:56.220 or too unlikely

01:26:57.220 be very very

01:26:58.540 suspicious of

01:26:59.140 I still love that

01:26:59.160 cat running away

01:26:59.720 with a fish

01:27:00.280 that exists up

01:27:02.140 here forever

01:27:02.720 you can believe

01:27:03.360 what you want

01:27:03.920 Josh

01:27:04.280 I believe that

01:27:05.260 that cat carried

01:27:06.040 it in its arm

01:27:06.680 like that

01:27:07.160 and ran away

01:27:07.900 like a rabbit

01:27:08.480 when we win this

01:27:27.760 will be children's 0.91

01:27:28.500 shows

01:27:28.860 already singing

01:27:32.360 this to my

01:27:32.840 daughter

01:27:33.140 see with

01:27:37.680 American

01:27:38.080 statistics

01:27:38.700 like that

01:27:39.120 I wonder

01:27:39.380 how many

01:27:39.780 of the

01:27:40.020 lighter

01:27:40.280 skinned

01:27:40.780 ones

01:27:41.000 will have

01:27:41.260 just been

01:27:41.560 noted down

01:27:42.080 as white

01:27:42.620 so that

01:27:44.000 they can

01:27:44.500 pad out

01:27:45.080 the statistics

01:27:45.720 because I

01:27:46.120 know they

01:27:46.340 like doing

01:27:46.760 that

01:27:47.020 yeah

01:27:47.760 what's

01:27:48.760 what are we

01:27:50.220 doing

01:27:50.540 written

01:27:52.480 comments

01:27:52.900 oh

01:27:53.260 oh no

01:27:53.740 Samson's

01:27:54.400 doing

01:27:54.640 something

01:27:55.020 I know

01:28:00.420 it's AI

01:28:00.800 he made it

01:28:01.380 in front

01:28:01.660 of me

01:28:02.200 so buy

01:28:06.940 our AI

01:28:07.440 slop

01:28:07.780 because it's

01:28:08.240 better

01:28:08.540 than

01:28:08.940 yeah

01:28:09.500 to be fair

01:28:11.020 Rory generates

01:28:12.000 sometimes a

01:28:13.400 general

01:28:13.820 a general

01:28:14.700 outline

01:28:15.160 and then does

01:28:15.920 a lot of

01:28:16.460 artistic work

01:28:17.360 on top of it

01:28:18.620 and most

01:28:19.220 most if not

01:28:20.220 all of the

01:28:20.600 artwork actually

01:28:21.160 found in the

01:28:21.700 magazine has

01:28:22.280 been hand drawn

01:28:22.840 by him

01:28:23.380 using digital

01:28:24.860 tools

01:28:25.260 I've seen

01:28:25.740 him do it

01:28:26.360 so there

01:28:28.840 you go

01:28:29.100 that was a 1.00

01:28:29.600 stupid question 1.00

01:28:30.360 for Rory to 1.00

01:28:31.020 want to ask

01:28:31.680 when

01:28:32.060 I know

01:28:32.920 the answer

01:28:33.660 I know

01:28:35.500 I know

01:28:36.060 the answer

01:28:36.860 anyway

01:28:38.180 we don't

01:28:39.400 have much

01:28:40.180 time for

01:28:40.820 video

01:28:41.140 for comments

01:28:42.240 on the

01:28:42.600 website

01:28:43.020 let me

01:28:43.420 move this

01:28:45.020 go down

01:28:46.040 here

01:28:46.440 oh there's

01:28:48.220 quite a few

01:28:48.820 noted down

01:28:49.340 here

01:28:49.580 can I reply

01:28:50.100 to one

01:28:50.540 Lord Inquisitor

01:28:51.260 Hector Rex

01:28:51.860 says Josh

01:28:52.400 have you been

01:28:52.820 keeping up

01:28:53.340 with the

01:28:53.520 recent monkey

01:28:54.040 news out

01:28:54.480 of the US

01:28:55.000 yes I have

01:28:55.660 I'm on it

01:28:56.580 don't worry

01:28:57.120 around Christmas

01:28:58.320 time is when

01:28:58.880 you'll get

01:28:59.200 your monkey

01:28:59.580 news 0.78

01:28:59.960 ah there you

01:29:01.040 go so you

01:29:01.600 can look

01:29:01.900 forward to

01:29:02.300 monkey

01:29:02.560 news but

01:29:02.980 what you

01:29:03.240 should

01:29:03.360 actually

01:29:03.940 be looking

01:29:04.800 forward to

01:29:05.460 the premium

01:29:06.080 quality stuff

01:29:06.900 that you

01:29:07.180 all pay

01:29:07.600 for is the

01:29:08.860 Silent Hill

01:29:09.340 discussion that

01:29:09.920 will be going

01:29:10.260 on in just

01:29:10.880 half an hour

01:29:11.380 with me and

01:29:11.960 Samson kicking

01:29:12.600 off the first

01:29:13.260 episode of

01:29:13.780 Journey to

01:29:14.820 the East

01:29:15.420 a special

01:29:16.080 spooky

01:29:16.560 Halloween

01:29:16.960 episode

01:29:17.460 and again

01:29:18.560 that's free

01:29:19.320 for everybody

01:29:19.980 you don't have

01:29:20.540 to be a subscriber

01:29:21.120 on the website

01:29:21.740 to access that

01:29:22.480 future episodes

01:29:23.660 will be premium

01:29:24.600 though so bear

01:29:25.680 that in mind

01:29:26.400 that we are

01:29:26.940 treating you

01:29:27.880 this Halloween

01:29:28.760 and after

01:29:29.840 that

01:29:30.240 6 o'clock

01:29:31.280 is the

01:29:32.120 final webinar

01:29:33.020 which will be

01:29:33.640 Stelios and

01:29:34.240 Luca talking

01:29:35.140 about ancient

01:29:35.880 Greek

01:29:36.420 virtue ethics

01:29:37.400 if you've got

01:29:37.840 any questions

01:29:38.340 for Stelios

01:29:38.940 any at all

01:29:40.200 related to

01:29:41.160 the course

01:29:41.780 don't just ask

01:29:42.940 him what he had

01:29:43.340 for breakfast

01:29:43.900 this morning

01:29:44.380 he can't tell

01:29:45.100 you

01:29:45.400 related to

01:29:48.280 the course

01:29:48.620 please tune

01:29:49.520 in for that

01:29:50.000 and with that

01:29:50.860 that's all

01:29:51.160 we've got

01:29:51.400 time for

01:29:51.980 I'll see you

01:29:52.820 all hopefully

01:29:53.620 in about half

01:29:54.260 an hour

01:29:54.480 for the Silent

01:29:54.900 Hill discussion

01:29:55.400 thank you Josh

01:29:56.220 for coming

01:29:57.160 along

01:29:57.460 I hope

01:29:58.300 your situation

01:29:59.220 improves

01:29:59.720 and thank you

01:30:01.600 Firaz for coming 0.99

01:30:02.420 on as well

01:30:03.000 thank you for

01:30:03.640 watching

01:30:03.960 take care

01:30:04.540 goodbye

01:30:04.920 thank you

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - October 30, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1285

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