The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1506

00:00:00.000 good afternoon ladies and gentlemen welcome to the podcast the lotus series for the

00:00:03.240 tuesday the 15th of september 2026 i'm joined by styles and harry and today we're going to be

00:00:08.900 talking about the demographics of texas then we're going to be talking about the swedish

00:00:12.800 elections and then we're going to be talking about the new wolverine video game and the the

00:00:18.320 broad the broader trends i thought we'd do something a little bit more fun it's totally

00:00:21.920 fine yeah i just don't i've seen clips of it going around i'm like right okay great um right okay so

00:00:27.820 let's let's begin so we're going to start with a short history of texas as in the state of texas

00:00:35.580 because i think a lot of people don't realize how it came to be because for texas demographics were

00:00:41.200 destiny this was core to the making of what texas is right so this is just from the wikipedia article

00:00:47.300 of the texas revolution um they they tell us that following the war of mexican independence

00:00:53.040 around here somewhere probably down here there we go following the war of mexican independence

00:00:57.340 Texas became a part of Mexico.

00:01:00.000 It was very sparsely settled

00:01:01.080 with fewer than 3,500 non-native residents

00:01:03.940 and only about 200 soldiers

00:01:05.520 which made it extremely vulnerable

00:01:07.100 to attacks from native tribes

00:01:08.360 and American filibusters. 0.97

00:01:09.780 These basically freebooters from America. 0.99

00:01:12.000 In the hopes that an influx of settlers 1.00

00:01:13.560 could control the indigenous resistance

00:01:15.000 the bankrupt Mexican government

00:01:16.840 liberalized immigration policies for the region.

00:01:19.640 And that's why Texas is a part of Mexico to this day. 0.73

00:01:22.740 Finally able to settle in Texas 0.96

00:01:24.660 legally Anglos from the United States

00:01:26.620 It soon vastly outnumbered the Tejanos, which were the native Texans, well, the Mexican Texans were called.

00:01:33.560 By 1834, an estimated 30,000 Anglos lived in there, compared to 7,800 Mexican-born residents.

00:01:41.320 And this had a core effect on why Texas revolted from Mexico. 0.92

00:01:47.480 Obviously, the problem was that Mexicans and Texans, or Anglos, which they were, 0.78

00:01:53.420 have very different views on the nature of government.

00:01:57.960 And so we had Santa Ana, who wanted to centralize state power in the Mexican capital. 0.99

00:02:04.240 Well, the Anglos in Texas were like, no, you should be devolving power to us 0.91

00:02:08.120 because we know how to run our own lives in this local area.

00:02:11.340 We wanted local autonomy.

00:02:13.100 I mean, Texas wasn't originally even a state within Mexico.

00:02:16.300 And there were lots of other cultural, political, and religious differences,

00:02:20.200 because, of course, Mexicans were Catholics, and these Anglos were Protestants. 0.97

00:02:24.340 So the whole thing became a conflagration. 0.94

00:02:26.620 There was the Texan Revolt, and eventually Texas broke away from Mexico.

00:02:32.080 They remained an independent republic for about nine years,

00:02:34.220 and then joined the United States on the 29th of December, 1845, becoming the 28th state.

00:02:41.380 This set the stage for the Mexican-American War, and the rest is history, right? 0.95

00:02:44.940 so the point being is that actually if you bring in loads of foreign immigrants who are not like 0.76

00:02:52.920 the native population the current population you get political differences things change

00:02:58.860 this is the history of texas to this point well i'm sure it was a one-off i'm sure it won't happen

00:03:05.020 twice anyway so people began noticing hang on a second this is a game from texas university

00:03:14.180 where they're playing the football game.

00:03:16.600 And the crowd seems to be not American.

00:03:20.840 It's looking very meritocratic. 0.70

00:03:23.620 It is.

00:03:24.980 People were like, hmm, Bollywood University.

00:03:28.040 And this chap called Beau French noticed this as well.

00:03:31.200 Beau French, for anyone who doesn't know,

00:03:33.220 is the Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner.

00:03:36.940 He's a father, an entrepreneur, CEO, investor, and he is America first.

00:03:40.560 Right, so you'd think that, hmm, I can see why he'd notice that.

00:03:44.180 So he says, in the same way HR departments get taken over and then exclusively hire the in-group,

00:03:50.760 UT seems to be prioritizing in the same way.

00:03:53.100 Yep, it kind of looks that way.

00:03:55.320 And it was this particular image and caption that went especially viral,

00:04:00.740 because you're looking at it and you're like, yep.

00:04:02.960 Is this a real picture?

00:04:03.920 It is indeed a real picture.

00:04:06.760 45 million views.

00:04:08.780 It's a very real picture, unfortunately.

00:04:10.960 I heard the UT graduation this year looked like this.

00:04:13.600 i didn't believe it the problem is obviously now far worse than anyone imagined uh you can

00:04:17.720 imagine that this went down like an absolute lead balloon because what he is saying there

00:04:22.120 is that there is uh an ethnic distinction between these people and americans uncontroversial as far

00:04:29.700 as i should say well i mean he was of course roundly condemned as a racist everyone's all

00:04:37.260 racist racist yeah of course yeah yeah by the way i haven't actually seen any democrats

00:04:42.920 my timeline has been nothing but republicans well why would they they know they know that

00:04:49.580 they can rely on moderate centrist republicans to do their job for and that's exactly what

00:04:55.000 they're doing if you notice the demographic shift in texas then you were a racist that's

00:05:01.480 what it just boils down to and how dare you notice uh and this has been uh quite the crash

00:05:07.580 out um just so you know this is uh his opponent who's running uh against him a guy called john

00:05:14.900 rosenthal people like hmm hmm oh wow i mean it's almost like a big mask if you were to design

00:05:27.120 a more striking example of the new versus the old couldn't really be made could it

00:05:33.380 but anyway so uh i in this i don't know much about beau french i just scrolled through his

00:05:41.140 twitter feed and he seems to be uh generally based and cool actually so great uh and if i'm

00:05:47.980 going to have to be forced to pick a side i think i'm going with beau french on this one

00:05:54.720 Anyway, so thankfully, Beau wasn't prepared to be browbeaten about this.

00:05:58.880 How do I get rid of that?

00:06:00.060 Where is the...

00:06:01.340 All the way down the corner.

00:06:02.300 Come on.

00:06:03.120 These bloody local websites.

00:06:04.440 I think it's the little white circle above the email address.

00:06:08.480 Is it?

00:06:09.200 Thank God.

00:06:10.160 Right, okay.

00:06:10.560 So he just doubled down on all of this, which is superb, right?

00:06:14.340 Because, again, frankly, it's true.

00:06:18.300 And the demographics of Texas matter.

00:06:20.580 The demographics of everywhere matter.

00:06:21.960 and this is something that it's good to have politicians calling attention to because this

00:06:27.820 has been a large part of what the problem in america and just the west generally is

00:06:32.140 the demographics have been changed against our will by the governments themselves they are

00:06:37.400 literally electing a new electorate for themselves so sorry this is not this is not part of any kind

00:06:42.820 of social contract that you think you might have with us we didn't agree to this why are you doing

00:06:48.140 this also when it comes to the universities in particular i'm unaware are universities in

00:06:53.020 america similar to the uk where they can get extra fees for taking on foreign students if they're not

00:07:00.340 i'm sure it's just a coincidence they're doing exactly the same thing as ours are yeah because

00:07:04.520 obviously in the uk we take on a lot of extra foreign students because the because the

00:07:08.900 universities get extra fees from taking them on and oftentimes universities that otherwise wouldn't

00:07:14.800 be able to survive take them on as a way of just churning through money churning through these

00:07:21.200 students quick one-year degrees so they can keep the doors open and just pump them out so they can

00:07:26.640 either go back home or go into some um qualify go into some job over here i think the official

00:07:32.420 term is diploma mill yes that's it uh no i'm obviously not an official term i don't know if

00:07:37.960 the university of texas is one of those i assume it's a big official university i'm i'm sure it is

00:07:43.940 but let's talk about the university of texas actually in austin um so it has 55 000 students

00:07:51.240 56 of them are women and only 32 30.2 of those are white so 70 of the university of texas are

00:08:00.940 non-white students is that normal is that how things should be i mean it's a modern university

00:08:08.920 But the other bit is that just because some people are studying in a particular universe doesn't mean that they are Texans. 0.99

00:08:16.840 That is true. 0.99

00:08:17.820 That's a great point.

00:08:19.080 Is it representative of Texas the state?

00:08:22.360 Probably, yes.

00:08:24.340 Unfortunately, that's true.

00:08:25.480 Yeah, unfortunately, you guessed correctly.

00:08:27.180 The demographics of Texas the state are not good either.

00:08:31.320 So, white alone, not Hispanic or Latino, is 37.3%.

00:08:36.620 40 percent hispanic or latino uh asian uh is about seven percent nearly and you've got the

00:08:44.220 rest is just sort of mixed up i wonder how quickly that asian demographic has been growing in the

00:08:48.120 past few years i can't imagine yeah you know what imagine if you went back 20 years they would not

00:08:52.900 be as prominent yeah i mean who who knows right but the the point is uh texas is uh a place that

00:09:02.080 is changing anyway so let's go back to his tweets um a one puja sethy who is excuse me any any

00:09:11.100 thoughts there stelios it's a fun name yeah candidate for uh one of you texas ems yeah

00:09:19.280 democrats in the texas in the texas district uh has thoughts on this and she says if you look at

00:09:25.020 a crowd of diverse texan students celebrating together and you see a problem the problem isn't

00:09:30.420 the students the thing is this is what texas look like and if you don't like it you can leave harry

00:09:35.240 i'm sorry this picture is not diverse though no not really it's it's very very like homogenous

00:09:42.520 yeah it's monoracial they're all indians yeah but puja has decided that is diversity any any

00:09:48.940 thoughts on the name puja i like puja for texas i just i just want to be clear it's like it's it's

00:09:58.800 also there there's also some german element it's puya yeah yeah maybe it's south america for texas

00:10:05.940 for texas uh anyway and and this would have happened under i assume given that it's texas

00:10:12.280 a republican government oh yes yeah yeah uh jack stanton in florida is just like these guys the

00:10:19.700 epitome of american simulation wearing blue jeans jerseys and cowboy hats drinking beer with friends

00:10:24.800 and celebrating their college football team's victory.

00:10:27.520 This is exactly what makes America great. 0.98

00:10:30.400 All right, so Indians cheering at a football match 1.00

00:10:32.860 makes America great. 1.00

00:10:35.020 America sucked until they had this.

00:10:37.260 You've got to understand that. 0.99

00:10:38.080 Thank you, Deputy Director of the Gay Dems. 0.99

00:10:42.980 Wait, the Dolphins, wasn't that the thing

00:10:44.980 that Daniel Radcliffe was supporting

00:10:46.700 about basically transing children?

00:10:48.960 God knows.

00:10:50.000 Thank you, Jack Stanton, for your contribution. 1.00

00:10:51.980 But anyway, so this is the America that they want to live in, says Peter Savodnik, who is a writer for a website called The Free Press, which for anyone who doesn't know what The Free Press is, it's like the most deep libtard establishment outlet you can imagine. 0.99

00:11:13.240 Barry Weiss is, isn't it? 0.92

00:11:14.180 it is yeah so it's it's all of the worst things because i mean at least if you're like a radical

00:11:18.740 leftist you get your socialism you get your trans rights you get your pronouns you get the thing

00:11:24.740 you're asking for right if you're on the right you at least get right-wing politics but that's

00:11:30.660 straddling a very narrow boundary that gives it nobody anything and is trying to cling on to sort

00:11:36.500 of like reaganism and it's like sorry no this is not what's not for anyone really but i love this

00:11:42.660 this image is the America I want to live in.

00:11:45.400 Oh, okay.

00:11:46.400 So you just want to live in an America 1.00

00:11:48.000 that is Indians wearing cowboy hats. 0.99

00:11:52.020 That's really weird. 1.00

00:11:53.820 But I don't know why you would want this. 1.00

00:11:55.900 You can just go and live in India 1.00

00:11:57.420 if this is what you want to live in. 1.00

00:11:59.060 Sell cowboy hats.

00:12:00.160 Yeah, exactly.

00:12:00.800 Sell cowboy hats and make a killing, you know.

00:12:03.340 An opportunity for experts.

00:12:05.240 Yeah.

00:12:05.700 And of course, you've got liberals online,

00:12:08.900 Project Liberal here,

00:12:10.160 being like, great replacement logic. 1.00

00:12:11.460 congratulations on your new baby if it's a white family i'm being replaced if it's an indian family

00:12:16.620 well yeah what happened to the white family that was living next door yeah exactly exactly where

00:12:23.380 did the white family go he's not an indian like you're acting like there's no difference but

00:12:29.580 you've put an indian family instead of the white family like just these are different i swear i i

00:12:36.560 I think that the Project Liberal account only exists to rage bait at this point. 0.99

00:12:40.440 It is the most consistently retarded, but in a very pinpoint-specific way, account on the site. 1.00

00:12:46.900 So this is rage bait. 0.99

00:12:48.840 You know what?

00:12:49.940 I hope.

00:12:50.720 I don't think it is.

00:12:51.980 I think these are sincerely held beliefs that the people who run this account actually think.

00:12:56.640 Like the rest of them, they're like, this is the American one.

00:12:57.920 I agree with Carl on this, because I've had some debates with them recently. 0.96

00:13:02.160 Yeah.

00:13:02.740 I think, yes.

00:13:03.620 And also some of them involved in it.

00:13:05.820 i think some of them have good intentions but this is a major issue the demographics that you

00:13:13.580 mentioned in the beginning this is something that several people on the sort of general liberal

00:13:20.340 play uh sphere don't want to accept it is i mean if these things to a liberal are exactly the same

00:13:26.400 and to maga they're objectionable why can't the liberal be happy with the top panel and not to

00:13:32.060 the bottom panel so then everyone could be happy because the liberal can't distinguish between

00:13:36.760 indians and americans the liberal is probably trying to predict which one is going to contribute

00:13:42.620 best to gdp growth well that's still the top panel and no no the liberal the liberal is predicting

00:13:48.580 that while individually the people in the top panel would contribute per capita best the bottom

00:13:54.800 panel that is not the only child this couple is going to have okay selection they're going these

00:14:00.040 are going to be like that's one of 16 coming and individually and community cumulatively that is

00:14:06.460 going to be a huge i i don't know i'm watching too much tv because i think when i looked at this

00:14:11.580 my both uh but i instantly said two lesbian couples they do look a bit that way don't they

00:14:17.960 but the point the point being yeah they're they're making it just about color yes but also but also

00:14:23.960 the conceit is revealed

00:14:26.920 in that

00:14:27.880 they care that

00:14:31.140 this is an Indian couple, right?

00:14:33.060 It's not that they don't see a difference. They do see

00:14:35.080 a difference. If they didn't see a difference, they probably

00:14:37.000 wouldn't even be commenting on this. Anyway,

00:14:38.980 so, the Attorney General, Ken Paxton,

00:14:41.000 was like, rawr, rawr, condemn all racism

00:14:43.300 in all its forms,

00:14:45.540 rawr, including

00:14:46.400 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But

00:14:48.480 on the plus side, at least he's going after

00:14:51.040 like, racism

00:14:52.820 against white people which i guess um okay but again we've got like you know this sort of that's

00:14:59.400 wokeness exactly a nutshell that's overt but the thing is i mean he he thinks he's defending white

00:15:06.200 people from the right but he's doing it in the frame of they're being racist to us actually i

00:15:12.680 know we're being racist to them because i mean you see james here it's being like racism in

00:15:16.060 no place in texas oh well you're being racist against white people it's like i'm just so sick

00:15:20.200 of just racism being the only thing we're allowed to argue yeah i think i think one of the reasons

00:15:24.840 why this uh takes place is obviously because when you constantly talk about race people will

00:15:29.820 constantly make everything about race because you did first when it comes to wokeness but then 0.52

00:15:35.300 the libtards captured the conversation when it comes to this i think that what you know if i'm 0.98

00:15:40.760 trying to be charitable is that people are trying to say well if we actually look at cultures and 0.98

00:15:45.760 cultural compatibilities and inconsistencies not every culture is the same so for instance

00:15:51.860 perhaps they would say you can't put indians in the same category with other people who overtly

00:15:57.520 hate america sure and i don't think they are but the question isn't about are indians decent people

00:16:03.920 right i assume that they are i mean you know they're not causing any trouble they're just 0.57

00:16:07.920 living their lives as normal right the question isn't are indians decent people are they going

00:16:11.980 to be jihadi terrorists or something like that the question is to whom does texas belong yeah

00:16:16.580 and the answer is not the americans that's the answer these people are all giving us

00:16:22.120 they're saying no actually it's fine if white americans as in americans and black americans

00:16:28.240 become an overwhelming minority in texas because you are not allowed to think that collectively

00:16:33.960 you have an interest in owning a state of your own but the thing is that's how texas was brought 0.97

00:16:40.480 to being it was literally by anglos being anglos right and not being mexicans one of my best

00:16:46.940 friends is a texan and he basically tells me that texan identity comes first to them and american

00:16:52.120 identity comes second to them well you also um without disliking anybody individually or hating

00:17:00.960 anybody like that uh you can also acknowledge that whether these people are good people or not

00:17:06.040 especially collectively they operate on a very very different moral system through the rest of

00:17:11.360 us a more european or american style honor system is based on trust honesty whereas india quite

00:17:19.680 famously as people have discovered over the past few years uh runs on what's called an is that

00:17:24.580 system which is all about saving face and it's actually something that's very when you examine

00:17:29.200 it common across most of the rest of the world outside of europe uh which is people are expected

00:17:35.000 to and will lie and deceive you for the sake of of saving their own face but even then we're

00:17:42.040 putting conditions on who texas belongs to who should be there you know what the question is

00:17:47.780 where are the american kids why aren't they there cheering on their local university that is full 0.85

00:17:53.080 of american students no it's full of foreign students full of non-white non-american like

00:17:57.980 non-american ancestry how is it the indians end up with a claim to this the brute fact is that the 0.63

00:18:03.760 heritage colonial stock are just not present anymore and that's the the core of the problem 0.99

00:18:09.700 so all of these sort of like well you know the good people or they you know they've done this

00:18:12.960 they've done that they've got different moral systems blah blah blah that's not the issue

00:18:16.780 the issue is why is it that people who have an entire subcontinent of their own

00:18:21.680 gaining gaining the possession of other areas like it's just not fair to have this done by

00:18:28.700 the government anyway so uh yeah i mean like you know local mayor eric gomez 26 year old mayor

00:18:36.000 yeah but also a politician but also part of the 40 oh yeah i'm brown i'm republican i'm sixth

00:18:45.980 generation texan okay great you know texas is better than this conservatism is better than this

00:18:52.000 but what has it conserved if actually the anglos are no longer the people who control texas well 0.92

00:18:57.660 But this is the thing, isn't it?

00:18:59.400 Like, they can say, oh, you know, ultimately at base of this is,

00:19:04.100 you deserve it because you took over Texas from my ancestors

00:19:07.320 at some point in the past. 0.73

00:19:09.040 Your ancestors didn't live in Texas.

00:19:10.760 But...

00:19:11.400 And you're a sixth generation.

00:19:13.360 But I don't see how down the line potentially importing infinity

00:19:19.380 of the subcontinent is going to be beneficial for your people as well. 0.75

00:19:23.620 i know that there's a kind of like brown solidarity against white people now but if white people

00:19:29.260 leave or just vanish from the face of the earth you're all going to be stuck with each other and

00:19:34.340 then it's going to become very clear that gomez is very different from patel and then you're going

00:19:38.560 to realize holy there's a lot more patels than there are gomez out okay i have some questions

00:19:43.760 because i understand this and i also know a thing or two about how x works and we are just

00:19:48.860 given a shot showing some people from a particular angle do we have a concrete data about the entire

00:19:56.260 state of texas so are we in a way making as people say here some people are saying maybe

00:20:04.260 is this a mountain out of a molehill or not um i don't think it is i mean just uh i'm pretty sure

00:20:11.480 the population yeah the yeah the population i showed earlier was just the demographics of texas now

00:20:18.860 I think people do take it for granted now

00:20:21.220 that if you have any sort of large city

00:20:24.080 that it will be diverse.

00:20:26.180 I don't think that we should just take it for granted

00:20:29.160 that that is a normal state of things

00:20:31.240 or that that is how things should and will continue to be.

00:20:36.220 So, I mean, this is the population census from April 2020.

00:20:42.600 And yeah, it's just 37% white, non-Hispanic.

00:20:46.140 so yeah no sorry this is just the population of texas um anyway going back to it so you've got 0.50

00:20:52.400 uh puja you've got republican mayors you've got the libtard sort of neolib uh press uh you've got

00:21:02.060 the liberals um you've got ben shapiro who's just like well let me show yeah what's the problem here 0.84

00:21:11.140 guys should we watch a little bit of his clip let's watch a little bit heritage i know a lot

00:21:15.000 of people who are awesome who have scottish heritage i know a lot of people who suck who

00:21:19.280 have all these heritages right that's just the reality of humankind so when i see a bunch of

00:21:24.440 people who are celebrating university of texas winning a football game my first thought isn't

00:21:28.520 oh my gosh that is a lot of people with the wrong ethnicities because i don't think that's a good

00:21:33.280 way to think but as aaron points out well if this was in israel you would have a completely

00:21:40.120 different opinion back then and you know you would and we know you would so why are we playing 0.98

00:21:45.500 this shell game put all the palestinians and kippers look they're assimilating exactly 0.99

00:21:50.440 he would agree to such and of course just uh my favorite joel berry uh babylon b writer uh

00:21:58.720 there's something that angers the republic repugnant aaron mcintyre jack sobiac wing of 0.74

00:22:02.780 the right even more than immigrants refuse to assimilate and that's immigrants who try to

00:22:06.440 assimilate it's like no that's not the issue joel but then i'm i mean i i was gonna say i'm sure you

00:22:11.880 know that but i'm not sure that you know that uh the issue is uh quantity it's actually what

00:22:16.920 happens when you allow everyone to assimilate well actually you end up giving away your own culture

00:22:21.660 to people who are not you and you have disinherited your own children and grandchildren

00:22:28.200 of the thing that they were supposed to have and uh this is a point that people have been making

00:22:34.900 As Bugman Hagel here points out,

00:22:36.800 the Joel Berry and James Lindsay wing of the right

00:22:38.660 has no answer to the simple fact

00:22:40.660 that the founders and frontiersmen of this nation

00:22:42.360 saw it first and foremost as an Anglo-Saxon nation.

00:22:45.660 That is, the view held by the people

00:22:47.260 they are now calling contemptible and un-American,

00:22:49.860 no amount of definitional games or quote mining

00:22:51.860 will change this very plain fact.

00:22:53.600 And that's true.

00:22:55.160 I want to add something here,

00:22:56.760 because if we look at history and the history of the US

00:22:59.340 and also of Europe,

00:23:00.640 is that to a very large extent,

00:23:02.740 the first settlers in america or what we now call the us especially the 13 states they fled

00:23:10.980 religious persecutions and the several of the of the conflicts that happened in post reformation

00:23:17.940 and during the reformation europe so there's an inherent respect for the separation of church and

00:23:23.700 state and what several people don't understand or there are some of them are beginning to understand

00:23:30.900 this i will have to say this um no off i'm not gonna name names but some of them are beginning

00:23:36.980 to understand it when you put thousands of millions of people and you change the mix and

00:23:43.540 suddenly you don't have the traditional american who is skeptical of big government and they are

00:23:50.020 in a way a bit skeptical with right who who is the who is the guy who wants to persecute us

00:23:56.420 religiously or something and you and you have different cultures yet it does affect

00:24:02.820 the whole system it's just a denial of the nature of the thing for current political gain like the

00:24:10.020 to say oh there's no problem with this okay well i mean i think there is and i think there are

00:24:14.900 consequences of this further on down the line that you're just not prepared to accept whereas joel

00:24:20.260 thinks that if this does happen the demographic replacement then it'll be the woke rights who are

00:24:26.260 responsible for it then the people who are like hey guys maybe this isn't a great thing

00:24:30.340 are going to be the people responsible for the demographic replacement of the americans

00:24:34.540 i mean first things first it's already happened in texas i don't really think it's their fault

00:24:40.140 and it's not because they are quote petulant emotional know-nothing children because they

00:24:45.500 are in fact busy instructing you on the actual history of your nation joel uh what it will be

00:24:51.000 is people like yourself who thought well i can i can peacock my liberal bona fides

00:24:58.240 and say i'm above noticing things until things are just too late his argument at the top there

00:25:06.800 is just cope it's complete that's complete cope this is nonsense if americans do become completely

00:25:11.740 demographically replaced by hostile foreigners we'll have the woke right to thank for it while 0.66

00:25:15.500 the only people pointing it out that it's a problem is this like if see if i do bury my head 0.64

00:25:21.980 in the sand yes there is no problem yes joel burry's ostrich strategy i'm a good person because

00:25:27.880 i bury my head in the sand okay well i don't agree with you um but what i do think is actually this

00:25:33.680 is a legitimate thing to talk about this is a legitimate cause for concern because again none

00:25:40.140 of this was inevitable nobody ever voted for it in fact people in america have been voting against

00:25:44.540 it for quite a long time now and it's worth pointing out because it's true and this is the 0.73

00:25:50.000 problem that basically all of the sort of libtard republicans of you know who are on the same point

00:25:55.600 as puja democrats and ben shapiro uh have all got to accept that they don't have an answer for this

00:26:02.260 problem but this problem is raising itself because when you live in conditions like that you realize

00:26:07.740 things have changed i think one of the good arguments to put forward that there are no

00:26:13.060 answers to is that if you agree and i i do have respect for joel maybe i disagree with him on

00:26:20.240 this here but i do have respect for him but the thing is if you start from the premise

00:26:26.320 that we are up against a internationally minded adversary yeah who is also internationally

00:26:34.500 organized and i mean the left here the way they operate across the globe in other areas of the

00:26:42.060 world shows you how they want to operate in every country individually in particular as well as the

00:26:48.720 us and for instance we have a great case study here swedish elections we'll go to that in a minute

00:26:54.160 um pump that says a native white texan and a 20-year frisco resident i can only stare at you

00:27:00.140 like fat teary-eyed brendan frazier man sorry to hit that i live in swindon man all i could do is

00:27:06.880 that as well even if colorblind the pictures are different um they say they're against racism but

00:27:12.000 preferring multiracial neighbours when you literally can't pick your neighbours is absolute

00:27:15.320 bigotry why can't we just enjoy whoever is our neighbours well because they might have been white

00:27:19.700 and that doesn't advance diversity they're also the sort of people that would have cheered on

00:27:23.460 60 or 70 years ago random uh random progressive uh people in otherwise homogenous neighbourhoods

00:27:31.060 bringing diversity in by like oh i've fostered a kid oh i've got somebody in off the street or

00:27:36.800 something like that which if you want to talk about democracy is like an incredibly undemocratic

00:27:41.400 way of doing it because you are burdening the rest of the neighborhood with that and remember

00:27:45.720 the the demographics that i brought up were from 2020 um things have changed a lot in those those

00:27:51.500 intervening years open border yeah but biden's open border policy has really helped uh orchard

00:27:56.980 says this explains why so many of the current governor has so many ads of him talking to the

00:28:01.020 indians yes it does and jm denton says in texas universities here are turning into diploma mills

00:28:06.020 they sell diplomas at a premium which provides opt visas after graduation and gives foreigners

00:28:10.720 has a tax break to get hired over on there you go is probably how you ended up in this situation 0.53

00:28:14.920 look at all of those benefits that they're getting just from going over to the tax break to get up

00:28:20.080 it's insufferable anyway let's uh let's move on to the swedish elections did this go better

00:28:26.300 what do you mean the situation in texas sorry no no it didn't get better oh no amazing fantastic

00:28:35.880 oh then accents beware right so i i can't see there because there is this thing but

00:28:41.080 okay it's okay a few days ago the swedish voted for their general elections and as you'll see

00:28:49.320 not only the those of a swedish background voted 13 of those who were registered voters

00:28:56.920 were of a non-european background brilliant entirely non-european background 30 of the

00:29:03.800 the registered voters 30 30 30 30 right i mean that's still bad but right so we don't know yet

00:29:11.380 who won but what we see so far is nightmarish and this is a case study that people interested

00:29:18.620 in politics especially in the topics of migration and elections really need to become aware of

00:29:25.380 because it shows what the left is doing and what the moderates and what you know the center right

00:29:33.000 governments really need to become aware because it shows how they will effectively lose power

00:29:40.120 in the future the final results are going to be announced tomorrow on wednesday because

00:29:46.020 we still have to count the votes of the swedish who live outside of sweden it's going to be the

00:29:52.880 mail-in votes right now the left-wing coalition has a is projected to get 176 seats in the parliament

00:30:04.740 and the right-wing coalition or the centrist coalition or whatever you want to call it

00:30:10.980 Tito Bloc has 173.

00:30:15.480 The absolute majority is 175.

00:30:18.200 But one good thing is that it's a tighter race 0.65

00:30:22.160 than what the media were presenting it as being. 0.97

00:30:25.240 How is half of Sweden still voting for libtardism?

00:30:29.580 Well, there is a very strong element of welfarism in Swedish culture, 1.00

00:30:36.100 and this will eventually be their downfall,

00:30:39.860 unless they curtail it a bit just like ours yes this is their number one concern and i'll talk to

00:30:47.380 you about it as the segment progresses right so these are the results of the previous elections

00:30:56.340 so the left-wing coalition governed from 2014 to 2022 and how many people did it regularize

00:31:04.260 of a non-Swedish

00:31:06.140 Sweden has a population

00:31:09.020 of around 10.6 million

00:31:10.840 right now

00:31:11.660 they gave citizenship

00:31:13.460 to 560,000

00:31:17.300 people

00:31:17.780 in these

00:31:21.040 eight years

00:31:21.560 then the Tido block

00:31:24.300 arose to power

00:31:26.340 in 2022

00:31:27.420 and something really interesting happened here

00:31:30.220 because

00:31:30.760 they added on

00:31:32.900 an extra 5% of their population

00:31:35.620 in 8 years.

00:31:37.340 Yes.

00:31:38.820 The major catalyst for this

00:31:42.080 was the migration crisis

00:31:43.700 of the EU during 2015.

00:31:46.840 That was them doing their part

00:31:48.880 according to the EU Asylum Pact.

00:31:51.900 Some of the...

00:31:53.120 The previous provision.

00:31:54.240 ...photos that you would see from this,

00:31:56.220 where they're like bringing 0.64

00:31:57.440 these Somalis into their houses 1.00

00:31:59.220 and having their little daughters 0.99

00:32:00.660 sit on their laps and stuff.

00:32:01.900 It's just like,

00:32:02.900 Sweden is the same country that when these people came in had to give them 0.99

00:32:06.940 please don't rape us lessons to these immigrants. 1.00

00:32:09.700 We do that. Enjoy your pamphlet. 1.00

00:32:14.480 Everyone does that.

00:32:15.380 It's an important message to communicate.

00:32:17.120 Yeah, well, apparently it is.

00:32:18.680 Right, so what happened there is really important to understand what happened now

00:32:22.800 because the Sweden Democrats, the party of people who are very skeptical of multiculturalism,

00:32:29.480 they lost around 3%.

00:32:30.840 so they were one of the major losers of this election along with us with the social democrats

00:32:37.760 who will govern sweden if they win if the left wins so what happened here in 2022 a quick

00:32:45.760 refreshing of your memory is that the tido block won the sweden governor the sweden democrats the

00:32:53.720 sort of hard right if you like to call them this way party got most of the votes of that block

00:32:59.440 but they couldn't form a coalition on their own and they decided to buck the uh the other party

00:33:07.000 some other parties they formed the tido coalition and some of these uh coalition partners said that

00:33:14.220 we aren't going to be members of a government that is going to have sweden democrat members

00:33:20.520 on their cabinet right so i'm guessing that the nordic resistance movement is the most right-wing

00:33:26.080 party in there

00:33:27.060 are you sure it's not the feminist initiative

00:33:29.440 I don't know anything

00:33:30.280 a pan-Nordic neo-Nazi movement

00:33:33.500 I don't know anything about Sweden politics

00:33:36.200 oh it was banned in 2019

00:33:37.840 but there they are

00:33:39.020 how are they doing it then

00:33:40.100 people are like I don't care I'm voting for anyone

00:33:42.460 well you see that's the zero area here

00:33:46.200 okay so if we scroll

00:33:48.020 up a bit we'll see actually who got this

00:33:50.520 yeah I appreciate that

00:33:51.620 wait wait wait

00:33:52.880 you sent me this earlier

00:33:54.140 what is the pirate party a party of pirates a party of jack sparrow maxine no no i think i met

00:34:01.480 these when i went to the eu oh no this is something else what policy oh maybe it is

00:34:05.980 they put forward i would presume piracy and it's i think it's basically kind of libertarian party

00:34:11.960 they were concerned about free speech when i went to the european parliament in like 2018 or

00:34:15.780 whatever it was 2019 right so these are the elections yesterday and as you can see here

00:34:22.060 the social democrats lost seven seats okay the uh moderates gained two seats oh yeah now's the

00:34:30.620 time for moderation yes the you'll see though because they were really sneaky in what they did

00:34:37.900 okay and this gives lessons for parties that are more right-wing okay to understand if they're

00:34:43.980 going to be parts of coalitions because essentially what happened was that the sweden democrats

00:34:49.020 accepted that they wouldn't be uh represented in the cabinet but they did sort of make make

00:34:57.900 the others a bit more right-wing and the moderates essentially governed as more right-wing than they

00:35:04.300 promised they did the job that the others nudged them to do they got the credit and the others

00:35:11.100 lost the percentage okay and obviously there is the question of you know we'll get there because

00:35:17.260 there are several perspectives but the sweden democrats lost 11 seats and here the biggest

00:35:23.820 winner is the left party by um by new sheet dad go star is that is that a swedish name

00:35:33.420 yes i mean very swedish yeah it's all german to me but so magdalena anderson is going to

00:35:40.700 had the social democrats they got their worst percentage in about a century good but they're

00:35:49.080 going to they're going to um probably govern the country if the left wins but what what is

00:35:55.820 interesting is that they try to appeal more to the center but the center was saying basically

00:36:01.220 the moderates are are governing well the moderates were governing as the right-wing party was nudging

00:36:07.920 them to govern as and basically they got they got part of the credit and the swedish democrats

00:36:15.540 no the social democrats kind of lost their appeal to the young to be fair right i'm just looking up

00:36:22.400 so ethnic swedes apparently make up about 80 percent of sweden's population as of 2025 so

00:36:28.180 that's that's a better position than we're in a way better position the americans are in but but

00:36:32.900 again it's a much smaller overall population so depending on the amount of immigration that comes

00:36:38.720 in five percent over eight years they could be easily swamped very quickly so why was interesting

00:36:47.180 is especially when it comes to crime and migration policies the moderates did some things well but

00:36:54.100 also they proved their they they will eventually prove their doom right yeah possibly in these

00:37:00.420 elections unless the result changes but eventually it will definitely become this so what happened is

00:37:06.860 that they they were really effective in crack that cracking down on crime many people even

00:37:13.200 right-wing grenade attacks yes many right-wing people are saying sweden right now is much better

00:37:18.380 than it was four years ago so they have done work there they pushed for making citizenship harder to

00:37:25.600 give from five years to eight years they make swedish mandatory so they they they

00:37:31.180 kind of did some things but as you'll see this version of reform well they

00:37:36.580 regularized two hundred thousand migrants foreigners most of them from a

00:37:44.800 Middle Eastern background all right that's why I expect from reform according 0.50

00:37:49.300 to them according to the the data we have it was essentially the coalition partners were saying 0.96

00:37:57.220 we need to be um governing in accordance with eu law so eu law said well yeah you need to process

00:38:05.140 that backlog so they get get in they got in about 200 000 200 000 uh migrants according to several

00:38:16.580 studies it looks like the migrants in sweden are overwhelmingly supporting the left to 70

00:38:23.220 percent what a shock if that is the case then out of those 200 000 140 000 voted for the left

00:38:31.220 60 000 voted for the the rest and imagine that right now the left has an edge of 30 000 votes

00:38:41.540 so essentially they unless nothing changes

00:38:45.620 This is going to be their doom.

00:38:49.020 Well, let's hope so.

00:38:50.400 Right.

00:38:50.720 So this is the leader of the left party, Nushi Dadgostar.

00:38:56.680 She was born in Sweden from Iranian parents who left Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

00:39:07.700 So hopefully she's going to be one of the relatively sensible leftists.

00:39:12.020 i mean she's the deputy chair of the left party yes but at least can she be i mean

00:39:19.340 she's she she may have she may have learned the lesson of the islamic revolution when it comes to

00:39:27.560 the maybe the leftists in iran supported the revolution yes and then they got the crane

00:39:32.880 treatment they did so i don't know i mean probably she knows i just if you're not probably she

00:39:38.780 doesn't care if you had to flee like the islamic revolution and you end up on the left party i

00:39:43.420 don't think you've learned anything probably yes sorry i'm not very optimistic i'm trying to uh to 0.90

00:39:49.660 to be less black pilling to the swedes because i i like them and have because they have a very

00:39:55.760 sensitive disposition yes sorry i was messing around there no i just saw a weird post that

00:40:02.880 i didn't find there right so let's look at some of the stats here because they are really worrying

00:40:10.680 so just this is the um swedish voters in swedish elections in yesterday's election oh is this like 0.99

00:40:20.240 malmo or something yeah do you well i can't help but notice there are lots of foreigners i mean

00:40:25.820 like the the the thing is i'm sure that sweden's got the same sort of problem that everywhere else 1.00

00:40:29.700 has where it's like they're very concentrated in certain areas yes so you know you're going to get

00:40:35.400 exactly when it comes to these areas to what extent do you think they are being held they

00:40:41.160 are supporting the left oh almost exclusively absolutely correct right so here for instance

00:40:47.880 4.7 percent so in jesus christ in stockholm in the tenster election district the left got

00:40:56.840 basically 95 percent that is mad here in rickensby um also known locally as little

00:41:05.140 mogadishu they got around 94 percent that is remarkable i mean like if it was like 70 percent

00:41:13.800 and you'd be like, yeah, okay, that's pretty indicative.

00:41:16.840 But to get 90-plus percent, it literally is just like a handshake.

00:41:22.020 Yeah, vote for the left, and we're going to give you stuff.

00:41:24.400 Yeah, because not every migrant group votes the same way.

00:41:28.860 Maybe across the non-Swedish population, it's 70% left, 30% non-left.

00:41:37.760 But when it comes to some other areas, it looks like it's 95% left.

00:41:42.720 Yeah, and they're going to be coping and seething about family voting.

00:41:45.800 Here, for instance, in an infamous no-go zone in Malmo called Rosengard,

00:41:53.680 96.1% left.

00:41:56.020 That is mad.

00:41:57.460 But again, it's no different to them in Gorton and Denton being like,

00:42:01.420 okay, we'll just vote for the Greens then.

00:42:03.260 Because then that person who is a representative of ours

00:42:05.780 will just do what they can to funnel money to our community.

00:42:09.280 So all it's going to come down to.

00:42:10.960 Yeah.

00:42:11.140 So it looks like some communities are overwhelmingly supporting the left.

00:42:18.340 The left will focus on open borders.

00:42:21.680 We know from Milton Friedman that you can't have both open borders and excessive welfarism,

00:42:28.920 but welfarism is a huge part of Scandinavian culture,

00:42:33.180 especially there are several socialists frequently call the nordic countries as the paradise of

00:42:40.900 socialism i mean i think genuinely i wonder what percentage of these areas that are voting 95 for

00:42:46.700 the left are net taxpayers like what percentage of the people living there do you think are net

00:42:51.900 taxpayers um it's gonna be very small right three percent i'll essentially i'll take i'll take the

00:42:59.140 percentage that voted for the left yeah and i'll just say the rest ones yeah yeah the rest of them

00:43:04.840 are net taxpayers right so there are several um lessons to take from this and there are several

00:43:10.320 perspectives i'm not a i'm not a an expert on swedish politics so i'm just going to give you

00:43:16.820 some perspectives here we have this by peter sweden essentially he says it's a numbers game

00:43:22.980 If they regularized about 200,000 people, out of which 70% statistically supported the left, that makes 140,000 votes.

00:43:35.700 That's an edge of 80,000, a distance of 80,000 from the 60,000 from these 200,000, and the edge is 30,000.

00:43:47.320 But also, if these 200,000 come from areas that go to the no-go zones, well, then we aren't looking at 140,000 for the left, 60,000 for the non-left.

00:44:03.560 We're looking at basically 190,000 for the left, 10,000 for the rest.

00:44:08.140 so that's a major concern because it looks like if this current trend continues well 0.96

00:44:14.480 that's a massive block and the swedes the ethnic swedes will stop being able to determine policy 1.00

00:44:22.820 for their country well i mean their governments just accept they'll have to vote right wing 0.99

00:44:26.780 as a block to stem the tide of immigration yes that could be the case yes any way they're going

00:44:32.660 do it that's that that could be the case but uh the thing he now the happening is that

00:44:40.340 people have short memories so crime and migration was sort of forgotten because it was considered

00:44:47.060 to be largely dealt with so they focused on welfare they started saying now who's going to

00:44:51.700 give me war welfare sweden is now in nato which means that they're going to have to increase their

00:44:57.860 spending for for the military budget that makes less room for welfare but if welfare is the massive

00:45:04.980 concern it means that there's going to be an imminent tax the thing that i think is most 0.94

00:45:09.060 concerning is just the the nakedness with which the foreign populations are voting in a specific

00:45:16.580 way no we know the left is saying we're going to take money from the rich and give it to the

00:45:21.140 poor which to them means our community and so it's just this most stark thing is more than 95

00:45:26.900 percent of us are voting for exactly that directly against your interest and because the government

00:45:31.520 is just going to bring more in and regularize them give them citizenship they can continue doing this

00:45:36.200 until you have nothing left exactly and one thing that i'm sure several people in sweden don't know

00:45:43.980 yet because people all around the world don't know yet is that the left is operating in the same way

00:45:50.940 in a global scale they're internationally minded and organized but also they just do this wherever

00:45:56.300 they are yes this is the the fundament of their beliefs yes but when they talk about poor and rich

00:46:02.620 now they have shifted from focusing on the domestic working class to the globally rich

00:46:08.700 and globally poor and they think that the so-called third world has revolutionary potential

00:46:14.220 so according to these predictions or models not predictions according to this level of analysis

00:46:19.820 the working class of the european continent counts as globally rich and very few leftists

00:46:29.820 will say out in the open um to his credit although i despise him melanchon in france

00:46:35.280 says this he does he does say you can't rely on christian workers to bring forth 0.53

00:46:40.240 socialism that's why we're bringing in the muslims that's true so that's what they're 1.00

00:46:45.380 doing in Sweden. And here is another diagnosis of the situation by my friend Eric Lidstrom. He 1.00

00:46:51.720 says that essentially the Tito bloc governed in a really bad way as far as politics is concerned.

00:46:59.340 He thinks that when it comes to the media, they always have a left-wing bias, which means that

00:47:04.840 when it comes to right-wing or center right-wing governments, they have to enact strong measures

00:47:12.140 in advance day one in order for them to yield a long-term interest in the next elections

00:47:19.660 yes so he thinks that they they were too much focused on not upsetting the social democrats

00:47:26.160 i'm curious about something else um seeing as the politics within sweden and scandinavia more

00:47:33.180 broadly seem to be so focused on welfare i'm curious does the right parties in sweden have

00:47:40.860 the same sort of um free market fundamentalism that our parties have over here where they say

00:47:46.540 they want to scrap the welfare state bring the size of the state down uh because because frankly

00:47:51.900 in a situation where you're talking about scandinavia and the way that the scandinavian

00:47:56.300 population votes um i could see that as a massive detriment to their electability just on the basis

00:48:02.540 of their own of their own population if that's what they focus on so i'm curious do they do that

00:48:07.900 sort of like reducing the size of the welfare state no uh wait i don't know if they're reducing

00:48:12.780 but they're definitely not eliminating it all right the kind of free market fundamentalism

00:48:18.620 i don't think there are free market fundamentalists let's say yeah just just this kind of

00:48:22.620 this kind of you know strictly speaking ideological uh free market theorism isn't part of them

00:48:29.740 especially we don't see it anywhere in practice really yeah just just because obviously for

00:48:34.780 for swedish voters it seems like it would be a big turn off for them well that's the thing is that

00:48:39.740 to a very large extent it seems like a situation that you know and if they win now if the vote

00:48:46.700 those who voted from abroad change the outcome then they will have no uh other 0.85

00:48:55.260 they will have a golden opportunity to crack down on migration right now and focus on governing

00:49:02.940 correctly as they sort of did towards the end and they got minor credit just because i'm beginning

00:49:10.380 i'm beginning to think that even even here obviously there are major malincentives put in

00:49:17.560 place by too much of too much welfare statism but just telling a significant part of the population

00:49:24.400 we're going to cut any and all of your means to live a good life right now and leave you to the

00:49:30.620 gutter is not a vote winner for a lot of people even even a lot of people who aren't on welfare

00:49:35.720 see that and they see it as this form of cruelty that's the whole why margaret thatcher and the

00:49:40.520 conservatives are considered the nasty party well i don't think anyone is talking about doing this

00:49:45.860 but for instance from a realistic perspective you could see the argument that now we have to

00:49:51.000 increase military budget where in nato we have to somehow find the money yeah sweden's not in

00:49:56.420 charge of its own money supply they necessarily an issue of not being in charge because they

00:50:01.580 there is russian aggression in the region so it's not against swedish national interest to have a

00:50:07.780 to spend on their military well no i'm not saying it is i'm saying because they're you know they're

00:50:12.520 on the euro so they have to get all of their money from the european central bank if the central bank

00:50:17.580 isn't willing to give them the extra money they need to just fund that naturally then they're

00:50:21.240 going to have to implement a potentially austerity and reduce the welfare state anyway for it it's a

00:50:26.200 good thing that they have a good uh economy uh focused a lot on experts so it's like several of

00:50:33.540 my swedish friends are saying the scandinavian countries have had periods of of socialism they

00:50:40.340 also have periods where they were rich it's they never coincided yes okay so hope we will see

00:50:48.360 tomorrow what's going to happen but it does show that there are patterns that right-wing parties

00:50:55.260 must stop importing voters for the left that's yeah there you go yeah simple ass literally that

00:51:02.100 simple all right uh let's carry on a couple of rumble rants regard sweden britain i keep saying

00:51:07.580 it carl you know i'm right heinleinianism fixes all of this uh 14 and barber brother stelios harry

00:51:12.820 and mr benjamin could the problems in sweden be related to listening to black and death metal

00:51:16.300 seriously though i hope there's a fix for them i think they're not listening to enough

00:51:19.840 swedish melodic death metal personally that would be a big fix they need to get the ratio

00:51:25.120 about up to like finnish levels the swedish forests should be filled with bands taking

00:51:30.480 cringe photos constantly 24 seconds anyway um so i'm going to move us on to a slightly lighter

00:51:39.600 subject with this one but i am going to have to open it up with an accusation

00:51:45.360 carl you only did half a job on what gamergate remains open that's true we are still suffering

00:51:52.640 from all of its demonic consequences we we definitely lost that battle there is a shadow

00:51:57.460 over the gaming industry there is a shadow called anita sarkeesian whose influence and tendrils

00:52:03.480 extend everywhere which we can see in some of the recent products from gaming's triple a industry

00:52:10.940 which is increasingly a completely closed off i mean it was already a very closed industry

00:52:18.000 but as budgets have ballooned even more so and they try to go through particular gaming trends

00:52:25.460 and marketing tactics and work with the same sorts of consultancy agencies over and over and over

00:52:31.260 again to create what has become an incredibly homogenized product and what we're seeing right

00:52:37.700 now is a convergence of all of these very negative trends and the ballooning of the budgets in the

00:52:43.400 release that has come out this very day as i speak of marvel's wolverine which is a playstation 5

00:52:49.440 exclusive so playstation can finally lay claim to having at least one game on the playstation 5

00:52:55.740 take that naysayers and it's had somewhat of a rocky start at least when it comes to reviews

00:53:03.920 because this is a game as i will point out here uh no not here actually um where where was it

00:53:12.760 I think it was this link here,

00:53:15.000 that had a budget of $305 million to make.

00:53:18.700 Didn't they just make a movie?

00:53:20.300 Well, actually, it would have cost them a lot less to make a movie.

00:53:23.520 Yeah.

00:53:23.760 Because Samson got me to look into it.

00:53:25.380 He suggested it.

00:53:26.320 So, X-Men Origins Wolverine, classic, I know.

00:53:29.500 $150 million budget in 2009.

00:53:32.680 The Wolverine was a $120 million budget.

00:53:36.400 And Logan, easily the best one of all the Wolverine movies,

00:53:40.400 had a $100 million budget.

00:53:42.080 so they actually managed to reduce costs with those massive returns on them this cost 305

00:53:48.400 million with that money you could have made two x-men origins wolverines and what a world it would

00:53:53.100 have been if we could have done that instead but you can see here that's a crazy amount of money

00:53:56.820 spent developing a video game yeah these these games are all developed by insomniac which old

00:54:02.780 heads might remember originally as the developers of the playstation one spyro games oh and since

00:54:08.660 about 2018 they've been in charge of the new sony marvel branch of games where they have exclusive

00:54:14.380 rights to game franchises like spider-man uh and in this case wolverine and you can see just from

00:54:20.740 here how the budgets have ballooned spider-man the original one which is easily the best of any of

00:54:25.460 these games so far as i can tell it's the only one i've played i will admit cost 90 million dollars

00:54:30.500 still a huge budget massive but it was very popular it was very well regarded and it sold a

00:54:35.900 lot of money then you get miles morales which was basically a 10 hour dlc add-on to the original one

00:54:41.880 they managed to somehow balloon the budget by 66 million dollars and then double that over doubling

00:54:48.600 it for spider-man 2 315 million dollars and then we end up with the wolverine now at least with

00:54:54.800 these they're open world adventures with lots of side quests and so you can justify the budget

00:54:59.640 more you can't really justify a 315 million dollar budget but you can better attempt to do so

00:55:06.460 with the wolverine it's like a eight to ten hour linear action game which if anybody remembers the

00:55:13.940 early 2000s as i am often want to do um used to cost about whatever change was down the back of

00:55:21.040 the sofa and you could develop it in a course of about four or five months and make a decent profit

00:55:26.880 off of it with a good six out of ten and with this 300 million dollars getting a 77 on metacritic

00:55:35.980 is not what they would have been going for that's awful do you remember when fallout new vegas came

00:55:41.580 out and i think it was that bethesda refused it didn't get 79 or something they had to get 80

00:55:46.800 no i think it got 82 or 83 and it needed to get one more point yeah and then bethesda said no and

00:55:54.740 And what would New Vegas have cost?

00:55:57.520 New Vegas would have cost, like, a bag of chips and a pizza

00:56:01.020 the weekend that the game that the developers had to put that together

00:56:04.760 because that thing was made out of papier-mâché and spit.

00:56:08.500 Still a great game, though, and the developers were putting it under...

00:56:11.740 30 million.

00:56:12.560 30 million.

00:56:13.660 Ten times less than this.

00:56:16.260 And a much better experience from everything that I can tell.

00:56:19.080 The most revealing thing outside of the Metacritic, though,

00:56:21.780 was the IGN score.

00:56:23.480 now if everybody knows about IGN

00:56:26.840 what you should know is that if you're

00:56:28.800 especially if you're talking about AAA games

00:56:30.620 $300 million AAA games

00:56:32.860 a huge investment for everybody

00:56:34.900 at Sony is that they will

00:56:36.720 review between 7 and

00:56:38.680 10 out of 10

00:56:39.840 anything below a 7

00:56:42.400 is considered an abject failure

00:56:44.340 when you're talking about IGN

00:56:46.540 if it's a 7 it's okay

00:56:48.860 if it's an 8 it's good

00:56:50.540 not great if it's a 9 it's great

00:56:52.720 if it's a 10 it's it's really really good so if i scroll all the way down to the bottom of this

00:56:58.200 what have ign given this well they've given it oh a six oh no which is not what sony would have

00:57:07.580 wanted which is why it's imagine that these companies get a lot of money from the game

00:57:11.980 developers themselves as well well you'd imagine right because immediately after this all of a

00:57:17.940 sudden a bunch of people mysteriously got laid off from IGN you can see here four days ago my

00:57:24.240 problem with Wolverine is the opposite of this the fighting is great but the cut scenes are annoying

00:57:29.180 just very basic criticism of this game 10 hours ago I just got laid off and apparently a number

00:57:35.640 of other staffers at IGN got laid off at the same time the but people say this is a this is a

00:57:41.400 conspiracy theory just a coincidence Harry this is a coincidence they were doing restructuring

00:57:46.020 and budget layoffs to make sure until you look at a video like this gta 6's first celebrity voice

00:57:51.940 actor okay this video came out yesterday tell me what you notice when i play this video

00:57:56.760 presented by marvel's wolverine this is uh ign a video that came out yesterday being actively

00:58:09.960 sponsored by marvel wolverine a game that one of their reviewers had the goal to give a six out

00:58:15.900 10 and then you lost your job and then you have weird then you have been fired yeah what a shock

00:58:21.960 the gamergate and uh ethics and games journalism is still a question unresolved my friends but so

00:58:30.300 man's trying to run a business harry this might this might not look great review scores will have

00:58:37.540 an impact on sales which is why these things are important in the first place i love that sorry

00:58:42.440 just you've got all these paid critics and you can still only get 77 on metacritic it's like

00:58:47.240 it's almost like the game sucks yeah it certainly looks like it sucks as we'll get on to as we go on

00:58:52.680 305 million dollars people are coping and saying ah well it's got it's the number one most pre-ordered

00:58:58.640 game on the playstation network in the u.s but it is a playstation 5 exclusive so to do that you

00:59:04.460 probably only need about four or five pre-orders in the first place sorry the playstation 5

00:59:08.940 consumer base is compared to pc and other consoles very very small so when you're talking about a

00:59:16.620 305 million dollar investment add on however extra you put into advertising for it you're

00:59:22.920 going to need more than whatever the playstation 5 base is to be able to make that money back

00:59:28.380 um which is what playstation have decided is the case with somebody like hideo kojima who they had

00:59:33.780 an exclusivity deal with and then decided to drop him recently because they decided that death

00:59:38.680 Stranding 1 and 2 didn't make enough money for them because they're too busy investing in absolute slop like this.

00:59:46.840 So what does the game actually look like?

00:59:49.080 Well, the images and videos that were coming out prior to its release day today will be inundated with all sorts of new things I'd expect.

00:59:56.900 We've already started to get a few things already.

00:59:59.400 But what we saw before it came out today was not looking good.

01:00:03.540 We had clips like this

01:00:05.660 Where Wolverine

01:00:08.320 Does his nice little thing

01:00:10.260 Where he's standing up to Sabretooth

01:00:11.900 And what's he doing? A little smirk

01:00:13.340 He's doing the Millennial Quirk Chungus smirk 0.98

01:00:15.660 And fingers as he flies off the back of it 1.00

01:00:18.420 Which I saw many people

01:00:19.480 Let me just see if I can get the perfect freeze frame

01:00:21.620 Of his face

01:00:23.360 This is your Wolverine

01:00:26.440 Ladies and gentlemen

01:00:27.340 Am I really doing this right now?

01:00:30.840 I'm totally doing this right now 0.82

01:00:32.540 millennial quirk 0.76

01:00:33.600 chungus humor

01:00:34.420 I don't ever recall 0.97

01:00:34.980 seen

01:00:35.720 I used to read

01:00:37.020 the X-Men comics

01:00:37.680 when I was a kid

01:00:38.240 I don't ever recall

01:00:39.340 Wolverine smiling

01:00:40.220 he just doesn't smile

01:00:42.440 yeah

01:00:42.980 like he'll make

01:00:44.120 little quippy one-liners

01:00:45.480 and he will be

01:00:46.660 standoffish

01:00:47.300 and he will flip you off 1.00

01:00:48.680 he's a grizzled character

01:00:50.220 he's a guy with

01:00:50.880 a great sense of humor

01:00:51.640 he will flip you off

01:00:52.680 in a way to say

01:00:53.540 if you say

01:00:54.520 any more words

01:00:56.080 at me

01:00:56.560 I will kill you 0.99

01:00:57.500 quirk chungus Wolverine 0.99

01:00:59.040 quirk chungus Wolverine

01:01:00.260 is what we're getting

01:01:01.120 also

01:01:01.920 people have pointed out again why is he smiling why have they made him also look like a female 0.58

01:01:07.240 to male transsexual you see those videos on tiktok it's a great question of an ftm yeah going like 0.72

01:01:15.840 oh do you really want me going in the ladies toilets and it's like well you don't really 0.81

01:01:20.020 actually look like a man you look like somebody trying to pretend to be a man hugh jackman really

01:01:25.500 did play it really well though i mean that scowl that's the point wolverine scowls why is this

01:01:30.900 wolverine not scowling why does he look just like i don't know just something like some sort of

01:01:34.920 millennial i'm trying to think i recently re-watched the first three x-men films uh and i think wolverine

01:01:40.720 like how many times wolverine smiles in those can probably be counted on one hand yeah he's not a

01:01:45.980 jolly character he is scowling he is grim he is dark that's the point of the character which is

01:01:51.880 which is why he's so easily fallen into like grim dark grittiness in the past the comics can

01:01:57.720 be very gritty this does not look like that but it likes to from what i've seen from the gameplay

01:02:02.960 footage it tries to obscure all of that by drenching the player in buckets of blood right

01:02:08.360 which doesn't which doesn't change what appears to be a fundamental mischaracterization also this

01:02:13.820 is the face model of the guy do you notice what they've done here do you notice the difference

01:02:20.340 here they've massively softened his features like because this guy actually you know most rugged

01:02:26.840 looking man but okay whatever but he looks better yeah and people were trying to make a um make the

01:02:32.540 argument and to be fair i have said this before that it might just be a case where the technology

01:02:37.440 that they're using to scan these people in they're not very good at it or they can't do it properly

01:02:42.280 and it creates these weird little faces i was then corrected by all of these examples of actually

01:02:48.220 it's very easy to do it yeah i've been doing it for years people have been doing it for years

01:02:51.940 here's from metal gear solid 4 uh back in 2008 where they scanned these models faces on

01:02:58.640 norman readers and that norman readers one at the bottom there looks superb yeah that's

01:03:02.660 that's in death stranding too uh here's the guy the main character from mass effect his original

01:03:07.940 face model that was what 2007 yeah they've been able to do it for ages so you have to accept that

01:03:13.560 this is a conscious decision uh that they are making yeah which makes you wonder why would

01:03:18.700 they make such a conscious decision as this to feminize and soften the features of what is

01:03:25.160 supposed to be like a rugged male power fantasy okay to highlight his sensitive side his very

01:03:32.460 sensitive side he's in touch with his feminine side would it surprise you to know that uh sweet

01:03:38.420 baby ink is in the credits of this game not terribly no no it wouldn't they uh don't they

01:03:44.640 write the stories uh they consult on the stories and they do also write this yeah yes they gave us

01:03:52.260 quote chungus wolverine yes and then there's outside of all of the political elements to

01:03:57.820 this as well there is also the like actual game design trends that i see converging and kind of

01:04:05.280 kind of coagulating into a nice gray sludge good in this game which is it takes a load of game

01:04:13.100 design trends that have been building up over the past 10 years maybe even 15 years uh of where

01:04:19.420 they are trying to expand the player base they're trying to expand the audience of is of these games

01:04:24.120 to make them way more accessible to make it so that failure failure states and skill is less

01:04:29.860 of a factor in playing game journalist games game journalist mode and so the games basically play

01:04:36.220 themselves to a point where i ask the question are these games anymore so first of all we have the

01:04:42.680 god of war style combat i say god of war because what you can see here is the now infamous suck

01:04:50.760 to target style of combat design where you as the player do not have to actually pay any attention

01:04:58.280 to where the enemies are or what kind of direction that you need to be facing yeah the or anything to

01:05:05.060 do with positioning the game will suck you as the player to the target that's where the name comes

01:05:10.440 from i i hate this sort of thing because like i mean like this this is why i mean the the it turns

01:05:16.300 the entire game into essentially just a series of very dull quick time events yes let's just like

01:05:20.620 press x to kill character press x to kill character why would i want to play that and it makes it very

01:05:25.340 difficult to be bad at these games and the point of playing the game should be the challenge it's

01:05:31.400 why games like hollow knight and games like dark souls are so popular it's the very nature of game

01:05:37.820 if you've not got a fail state in the game what's the point of it and see this this 20 second 23

01:05:43.760 second clip got more combat variety than the shallow combat reviews admitted was in the whole

01:05:49.180 effing game what i'm seeing here is just like i am pressing the r1 button uh and uh and a fancy

01:05:56.720 animation is playing out the video is apparently broken now but like all you're doing in this is

01:06:02.520 spamming r1 yeah that's like i'm a much bigger fan of like more complex combat systems like god

01:06:08.420 hand devil make rye not because i not because i'm good at them don't worry you can get away from the

01:06:14.520 keyboard right now i'm very bad at them but i actually really appreciate that the game gives

01:06:19.620 me the room to be very bad at them so that if i get good at them i will feel like i have achieved

01:06:25.300 something whereas with this uh there's only so many varieties of ways i can press r1 this just

01:06:30.760 looks insanely boring uh i mean you know like i say it's a very common game trend and design now

01:06:37.000 it was first popularized in games like god of war 2018 if you go back and see like matthew matosis

01:06:42.300 he was really good at pointing this out saying that this is going to be a detriment to the

01:06:47.200 enjoyment of these games from now on and it really has become kind of game industry standard uh it

01:06:53.140 also has everybody's favorite the um it's the way that my blue smoke trail uh yeah i saw this um

01:07:00.580 game journo pass yeah i saw this juxtaposed um because in the pre-alpha footage they didn't have

01:07:07.760 that in there but that had been added in there afterwards so evidently they had a bunch of game

01:07:12.140 journalists play test and they're like i don't know where i'm supposed to go it's like mate is

01:07:15.240 linear what are you talking about they're like his google maps yes yes that's exactly pretty much

01:07:19.480 people complain about the yellow paint and that is a very true problem i think they've tried to

01:07:24.620 start to the yellow paint is like on ledges that you can jump on and stuff like that it's got a

01:07:29.700 little yellow marker yeah just jump up to the resident evil game started to get really bad

01:07:34.980 but they've tried to try to pull it back recently but this is worse just a quick thing right i when

01:07:40.300 i first started playing video games we had things like eye of the beholder and dungeon master right

01:07:44.620 you you had to get your own graph paper and map out your own dungeon to figure out which way you

01:07:49.240 were supposed to be going to make part of the fun it was part of the fun genuinely and i enjoyed it

01:07:53.340 actually which is weird whereas whereas this is the games journalist designated fun line follow

01:07:58.420 the fun line to have most fun but even then like if you go then you get to like oblivion on fall

01:08:02.840 out 3 where it's like okay well it's just a big open world just go and skyrim just go and enjoy

01:08:07.400 you don't necessarily have anywhere to be there's no i mean there are markers on the map i suppose

01:08:11.440 that you can navigate towards but this is literally just walk this way making it easy

01:08:16.860 is ruining games oh i'll just give you another example diablo 3 oh yeah i found it incredibly

01:08:22.260 more easy to play than diablo lord of destruction really yeah and it kind of ruined it yeah for

01:08:28.000 For instance, one of the really interesting things in Diablo Lord of Destruction was the items.

01:08:32.460 You were trying to see how to build your character and what kind of weapons you get and stuff.

01:08:38.080 And you tried to see how each of them were affecting strength, agility, intelligence, stuff.

01:08:43.660 And the new one had it all for you.

01:08:46.200 Oh, yeah.

01:08:46.640 It tells you what you're...

01:08:47.420 Yeah.

01:08:48.000 This one, all green, all up.

01:08:50.220 It's better.

01:08:50.700 Get it.

01:08:51.260 Yeah.

01:08:51.620 There you go.

01:08:52.380 but it does appeal more to wider demographic audiences shall we say they probably don't have

01:08:59.060 the time or attention span to break out any graph paper and i mean i don't know but like

01:09:03.880 the point is like things were not as easy back in the day well they were designed for different

01:09:09.160 people and different demographics demographics this is just sad like you couldn't work out for

01:09:14.160 yourself you were meant to jump up on that ledge come on if you're not following the designated

01:09:18.820 fun line or spamming r1 to let the game play itself for you then you are engaged it's conditioning

01:09:26.000 them this is the party line follow it you're engaged in walk and talk sections where you are

01:09:31.720 cinematically walking up a path doing nothing that's my that's always my favorite part of say

01:09:38.080 devil may cry three when i'm walking down the designated cinematic path and have nothing to do

01:09:45.420 is that right no it's when i'm fighting the combat that game is amazing because the opening

01:09:49.840 cut scene just goes straight into a massive balls to the wall action scene where you have to learn

01:09:55.800 the game really quick and you're going to get your ass handed to you whereas this is just sort of like

01:10:00.640 yep walk and talk disguised loading screens cinematics and then if you're not doing the

01:10:07.860 walking simulator the game is pretending to let you play the game and you may wonder how is it

01:10:12.540 pretending to let you play the game well it's giving you the illusion of gameplay where it's

01:10:19.800 got say for instance um if you ever played uh crash bandicoot crash bandicoot 3 style motorbike

01:10:26.400 sequences but you may remember crash bandicoot 3 you could fail those you had to interact with

01:10:34.080 the game so are we saying it's got a lot of gta simulator in it no gta you need to press the

01:10:40.420 buttons make the game work you can crash in things and die yes watch this so this man does not have

01:10:47.180 his hands on the controller and the game is still working look if you crash it puts you straight

01:10:53.580 back on track why is it still accelerating if you're not pressing in the buttons great question

01:10:57.900 why is it just he crashes into something that the set piece is still happening everything is

01:11:02.880 you do not actually have to play this game yep there is no fail state because modern game design

01:11:10.400 for a triple a audience believes that if you let the player fail that you have failed the play

01:11:16.240 300 million dollars yep why is the point of this you know i saw all of the um anti-hype coming out

01:11:24.200 around this game when it was first announced and i thought no it can't be that bad look did you see

01:11:28.280 for you yeah that is and then it just goes into a cutscene yeah and then cutscene which the whole

01:11:34.740 thing basically he was in the first one oh this is not the only game that i've seen do this this

01:11:39.000 year io interactive who did the hitman games which are all amazing yeah the old ones are good um did

01:11:45.540 a james bond game earlier this year and being handed such a massive ip with such a huge budget

01:11:50.400 and such a huge audience that it needs to go to um had to simplify their game design quite a lot for

01:11:56.220 it which led to this sequence with the truck at the very least you only need to prep you actually

01:12:00.980 need to press forward on this but you may have seen this at least you've got a button that you

01:12:05.660 need to push yeah he's just pressing the button and it just keeps going right he'll crash into

01:12:11.680 things as you'll see and it just puts you straight back on the uh the designed fun path yeah that is

01:12:17.580 really fascinating because again like the set pieces still happen around you all you need to

01:12:21.680 do like look at this guy he's like he gets more and more shocked as it goes on oh have i crashed

01:12:26.760 is the game going to stop now no it just keeps going just reorienting it pushes you back onto

01:12:32.980 the designated fun line and at which just weaved itself there yeah at this point if the game is

01:12:38.660 just press the single button to have the cut scene happen they should just replace triple a gaming

01:12:45.340 with a big red button labeled fun yeah and you press the fun button as a qte when the game wants

01:12:53.680 you to like a big cut scene with a qte resi 4 style that's literally what's happening though

01:12:58.880 yeah like and then it goes into the cut scene anyway look at him he's like how the hell did

01:13:04.300 that happen that is that is ridiculous so uh so yeah at this point i'm i'm sorry to break it to

01:13:10.960 you all folks but if you if if you play and buy these games you know i'm i hope you enjoy yourself

01:13:16.880 what are you getting out yeah leave us a comment are you cattle i think it's it's it's that you're

01:13:23.140 not losing that's the thing i guess but there's no hierarchy no well like no forever i think we

01:13:31.080 should go back to jack 2 style game design where you have no checkpoints in the level the game

01:13:37.420 the level is absurdly hard yeah if you die you go straight back to the beginning and if you

01:13:41.800 want to cry about it then just stop playing the game quit whining i'm totally in favor of this

01:13:47.420 this is not a game well that's the thing right so the i for me the enjoyment of the game comes

01:13:54.840 from knowing that you can lose right if you can't lose and you get put on the railroads anyway

01:14:00.100 why would i care because a it's your own agency that is the the thing in question and the you

01:14:06.460 know you i mean god man in old games you would lose and lose and lose and lose and lose and

01:14:12.140 eventually in dark stalls fashion you finally beat that boss and you get a high from it the

01:14:16.720 high is higher because of the depths of the lows and that's what made them fun like that's where

01:14:21.940 the joy comes out of them if you're gonna i mean this this feels like the video game equivalent

01:14:26.320 of taking antidepressants oh yeah everything's everything exactly and everything's just the same

01:14:31.520 flat plane no you're not really excited but at least you're not you know feeling sad because

01:14:35.640 you can't beat the boss so you get basically no experience out of it whatsoever why not just watch

01:14:40.400 a movie one if you don't want to have to interact with it just watch a movie just watch a movie and

01:14:44.460 every so often press a button and you're getting the same experience you could probably get movies

01:14:49.440 that are more interactive than this so ultimately the point of this is to say that uh alas we still

01:14:56.400 have no ethics in gaming journalism and uh the gamer gate is still open and is still wreaking

01:15:02.340 havoc on us all the thing is that this isn't even about woke necessarily i mean obviously well this

01:15:07.360 is just bad game yeah yeah exactly yeah this i get the feeling this would probably be happening

01:15:11.360 independent or woke um this is just crap yeah tom rat why play wolverine at cost of 70 pounds and

01:15:18.320 fork out for a ps5 when you can play schedule one is that what is that the one where you're

01:15:22.700 playing is walter white really it's like drug dealer simulator um i mean it looks fun and

01:15:27.860 graveyard keeper one and two for half of that on a mid-power 2010 laptop great point you'll get a

01:15:34.920 lot more enjoyment out of it random name as someone who used to work in triple a gaming the quality

01:15:39.700 of games directly went down proportional to how many women work in the industry also they had a

01:15:43.940 black woman do wolverine's motion no they didn't no no they didn't also from random names sweet 0.80

01:15:52.320 baby inc hold the industry by the balls because they've got uh go to a company's hr and imply 0.82

01:15:56.880 that if they don't let them consult they'll destroy their reputation literally a matriarchal

01:16:00.380 mafia yep uh hapsification could you imagine james games journos playing rayman 1 they have

01:16:06.920 no idea what a hard game is.

01:16:09.060 Rayman 1 veterans know what

01:16:10.900 a truly hard game is. Yeah,

01:16:12.840 I've played a bit of Rayman.

01:16:16.120 It's real.

01:16:17.280 It's real. It's real.

01:16:19.140 They got a... Okay.

01:16:21.140 And another... They got a black woman

01:16:22.440 to do Wolverine's motion capture. Yep.

01:16:25.740 Random name, again.

01:16:27.420 Most of these movie games make money

01:16:28.900 because all the normies buy them and pretend they enjoy

01:16:30.980 them despite playing them for like

01:16:32.880 two to three hours. It's all theatre. Also, I'm

01:16:34.840 convinced it's all money laundering would not be shocked imagine being a normie in the year of our

01:16:39.260 lord 2026 this must be so like you must have no idea why everything around you is so you must be

01:16:46.220 on a lot of adhd meds yeah frankly yeah from as young an age as possible and also base state if

01:16:51.500 there is a fail state i might lose if i lose i might feel bad for a second if you feel bad for

01:16:55.380 a second it's not inclusive to women and babies and disabled i guess not true i guess game

01:17:00.500 journalists and you know the women who accompany them don't like losing a game it's fine right okay

01:17:08.240 let's uh go to the video comments so in regards to the whole digitization discussion around you

01:17:14.440 know destroying old books in order to upload them onto the net is that uh makes me think of the game

01:17:20.040 the moment of silence which is like a cyberpunk mystery but there's a funny little side tangent

01:17:25.020 where you're talking to like some of the elderly homeless people and realizing that in this world

01:17:29.800 which has no like hard copy books anymore all of the present edition books on the net don't

01:17:35.780 actually match but they're originally based off of and the old homeless people are the only ones

01:17:40.540 to actually remember what the original books were like yeah i mean that's the that's the point that

01:17:46.860 we're getting to at this point as well um i i tell you i'm i never used to be very bothered about the

01:17:53.660 sort of dematerialization of physical media like i always just thought well who cares right it's

01:17:59.720 inconvenient to have a big um you know stack of dvds or video games or whatever in your room right

01:18:05.840 so it's a real pain in the ass and to be fair steam hasn't let me down yet but like i've seen

01:18:09.620 it like what was it was at the sony store the other day where they just took off some game and

01:18:14.000 they were just like yeah you can't have that anymore too bad i mean i've experienced that

01:18:16.940 before with pt the old silent hills demo that kojima did back in 2014 uh yeah you can't get

01:18:22.840 that legally anymore the only way you can actually legitimately play it is if you still have a

01:18:27.000 playstation 4 with it downloaded back in the day that's mad but i saw i think i can't remember what

01:18:32.260 it was i think it was a gta game or something like that where they just turned it off and they

01:18:35.140 were just like nah we just don't want to have it on there anymore and you've got no legal recourse

01:18:38.800 and it's like right so you i mean it's literally like you will own nothing and you'll be happy

01:18:42.760 you'll just be a nation of renters in your entertainment lives um which brilliant you know

01:18:48.120 you will play marvel's wolverine and you will be happy exactly and then and it's literally like

01:18:54.180 some sort of bloody narcotic like just like something to send you to sleep that's the

01:19:00.120 button to make the flashing lights happen i can't even imagine but uh but anyway so yeah i'm i'm

01:19:05.240 becoming far more sort of um woke on the uh physical media thing it's like no having physical

01:19:12.440 things is actually good because eventually they just get turned off otherwise anyway let's go to

01:19:16.600 the next one the reason why the left views beauty and strength as a sign of racism or fascism is

01:19:21.220 because the 24-7 needs to always be a victim

01:19:23.200 and have a victim complex. People who actually have

01:19:25.300 suffered hardship don't actually like talking about it

01:19:27.260 generally speaking. But the reason why the left does this

01:19:29.360 is because it's a debating tactic. It's not

01:19:31.420 I have drawn you as the crying

01:19:33.180 Wojak and myself as the GigaChad. It's

01:19:35.240 I drew you as the GigaChad, oppressing 1.00

01:19:37.240 me, beating me into submission, and 1.00

01:19:39.260 oh, woe is me. Don't you have a culture

01:19:41.360 of always showing kindness to those who are

01:19:43.260 weak or are victims because you're a Christian? 1.00

01:19:45.940 No, at this point you probably deserve 1.00

01:19:47.180 the oppression. Yeah, put like

01:19:49.320 that, it also sounds like a fetish.

01:19:51.220 yeah i think that the the reason they've come to this conclusion is because there's an intrinsic

01:19:55.580 hierarchy in beauty or fitness or any other natural ability no pain no gain they won't gain

01:20:03.500 without pain but their objection is to the nature of hierarchies because of course their primary

01:20:07.920 principle is the equality of everything everywhere all the time forever so if you are above the lowest

01:20:14.380 common denominator well then that is in some way a form of fascism yeah there's something there

01:20:21.100 that's not the worst most low slime of humanity nazism basically just pure fascism anyway zesty 0.66

01:20:29.000 king says imagine you're a mexican whose family have lived in texas territory for millennia

01:20:32.780 well there weren't many of them i mean texas was basically unpopulated um yeah but you went from

01:20:38.240 living in mexico to being overrun with european colonists who start a war declare independence

01:20:42.340 and join another country has another civil war and then your territory is yet again colonized but

01:20:46.540 by people from the other side of the planet yeah i mean this is like what the native americans and

01:20:50.740 aboriginals must be like and the aboriginals are like we've been here for 50 000 years why just

01:20:55.160 like yeah but these are indians why do you think why do you think all of the natives are like uh 0.99

01:21:00.160 yeah i also support immigration control no no but the thing is a lot of them actually are going

01:21:06.040 quite far right because i think a lot of them understand oh no doubt the white people aren't

01:21:10.140 that bad these guys aren't going to treat us the way the white people treated us you know that's

01:21:14.120 i really think that's a thought that's going on in their minds uh zesty says texas becoming indian

01:21:20.340 talk about the lone SAR state

01:21:22.340 and says

01:21:24.100 in the US foreign workers pay out of state tuition

01:21:26.600 which is double the fees for state students

01:21:28.240 same in Britain foreign students double the fees

01:21:30.520 for native students 1.00

01:21:32.400 there are a lot of H1B Indians living 1.00

01:21:34.480 in Texas taking over several cities in the Dallas area 1.00

01:21:36.460 such as Plano

01:21:38.080 which means thanks to magic soil there's a good

01:21:40.560 chance many of these student pictured are citizens

01:21:42.340 I'm sure they're all citizens that's the thing

01:21:44.000 a large percentage of them are 0.85

01:21:46.060 a lot of them look second generation to be honest

01:21:48.480 I just want to point out that early in Logan Pine, I think he said this before, he said the Indians are having their H-1B shredded and having to sell their homes.

01:21:58.600 I think you've said this before. I've not seen any reporting on it.

01:22:02.240 So if you could point me in the direction of where this is happening, maybe to some articles reporting on it, I'd happily look into it because I think that would be a white pill if the H-1B scheme is being weakened.

01:22:16.680 Ednaut Logan says, 0.52

01:22:17.500 I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill here.

01:22:19.720 Colour me shocked when one of the two blue state cities 1.00

01:22:21.560 in the state has minorities. 1.00

01:22:22.940 Well, it's not.

01:22:23.340 It's the state itself is a majority-minority state.

01:22:27.620 So it's not...

01:22:28.900 I don't think I am, but I mean, you know.

01:22:32.080 Henry says,

01:22:32.860 a serious difference between the origins of Texas,

01:22:35.360 the state, and what it's like to happen

01:22:36.340 based on current trends,

01:22:37.540 is the historical Anglo migration

01:22:39.120 were there to make a new life

01:22:41.380 and put money back into the local economy.

01:22:42.980 Well, they were the local economy.

01:22:44.260 like there wasn't an economy before they got there they were not extracted for sending their

01:22:48.700 wealth overseas that's true but the point is of course that the demographics matter do not notice 0.95

01:22:54.980 we are replacing you with indians bigots um yeah and that's honestly it's like it's just one of

01:23:00.340 those things though it's like look the very nature of texas as a state is contingent on the demographics 0.99

01:23:05.820 and that's built into how you got to where you are now how you just like well we don't care about

01:23:11.980 the demographics anymore i'm sure everything be fine sorry no you you should have a concern for

01:23:17.660 this uh that's a random name says it all boils down to who has the right to inherit the land

01:23:22.620 my children get to inherit my property likewise my descendants and co-patriots

01:23:25.940 and their descendants get to inherit our nation not some fresh off the boat migrant who is

01:23:30.060 skin-suiting our culture remigration now yeah exactly exactly uh sophie says oh absolutely

01:23:36.720 the handing out of citizenship has changed the swedish vote uh she's from denmark for a member

01:23:40.680 for anyone who's wondering uh already for over a decade sweden did have issues with the new swedes

01:23:45.060 i hate this terminology right it's like you know like we never had like new britons or new i mean

01:23:50.900 they've tried to say new welsh i think or new scots but i i hate that um it comes just to mind

01:23:56.460 this idea of like swedish people suddenly morphing yeah like physically morphing into different

01:24:01.960 people and that's not what happens at all well just like you know opening a present at christmas

01:24:07.080 It's a new suite

01:24:08.060 Standing outside of voting stations 1.00

01:24:10.600 And intimidating natives 1.00

01:24:11.660 This is a huge problem for me as Malmo 1.00

01:24:14.360 That is now a minority Swedish by a large margin 1.00

01:24:16.760 Is directly connected to my capital Copenhagen

01:24:18.900 By bridge

01:24:19.600 If Sweden falls they'll just come here help 1.00

01:24:21.900 Well I mean 0.98

01:24:23.400 We've all got the same problem basically

01:24:25.580 You know the burn bridges tactic

01:24:29.040 Well yeah

01:24:31.280 I'm not condoning it

01:24:32.660 Arch made a video about this

01:24:34.180 The party didn't have a real power or anything to make sure the people saw them

01:24:37.060 that's why they're lost

01:24:37.900 alright okay 1.00

01:24:38.580 I hear all the base Swedes 0.63

01:24:40.540 have moved to Japan 0.88

01:24:41.360 says Starmer's fiery

01:24:42.420 but mostly peaceful backdoor

01:24:43.520 Maria says

01:24:44.780 Sweden is clearly affected

01:24:45.900 by the imported voter base 1.00

01:24:47.440 this is spreading across Europe

01:24:48.800 where a tribalist

01:24:49.540 or sectarian voting bloc

01:24:50.600 outweighs the native vote

01:24:51.680 well it's not at the moment

01:24:52.820 outweighing the native vote

01:24:54.080 but it is

01:24:54.600 in some areas

01:24:56.160 the key voting demographic

01:24:57.620 I mean there are

01:24:58.300 areas in Britain

01:24:59.280 where it literally is

01:25:00.980 I mean like

01:25:01.520 here is a Muslim area

01:25:02.800 that votes for

01:25:03.420 the Gaza MPs

01:25:04.660 so

01:25:05.480 anyway

01:25:06.220 run cast no pen says i live in sweden honestly it's not just foreigners voting left i didn't

01:25:12.280 think it was but i think the the point was there the sort of the key amount that's getting the

01:25:16.580 left over the line right yeah um i i said to the to our subscriber i did say that they do have a

01:25:23.820 culture yeah that praises welfare um he says uh eu migrants in sweden make up one of the biggest

01:25:29.480 voting blocs to the sd and interestingly i heard a second generation turk say that the green party

01:25:34.160 is good because they don't want to get rid of migrants yet he doesn't like the lgbt aspects

01:25:38.200 of the party which reminds me of the uk situation so turkey is not in the that's true sd party had

01:25:43.920 poor visibility this year the posters weren't that good compared to s moreover many native

01:25:49.140 middle-class swedes are not so political and even anti-immigration vote s they've always voted s and

01:25:53.660 think the right-wing party will remove social welfare and make us more like america that's kind

01:25:58.320 of what i was um worried about that frankly the way the where we are in politics right now is that

01:26:05.760 properly pegging yourself to like a completely destructionist anti-social welfare policy

01:26:12.480 platform uh especially in like scandinavia is just going to kill your chances of being elected

01:26:18.100 it's true i mean the thing is in this country uh the great british pack discovered that there

01:26:23.040 are 200 000 families that are getting 40 grand a year in welfare that's the average wage that's

01:26:28.940 higher than the average well yeah that's higher than the average i think the average is 37 000

01:26:32.560 yeah okay yeah but the you know the point being 200 000 families like come on man that's just

01:26:40.460 oh it's insane i can't go that's why that's why i said earlier it still produces massive

01:26:45.240 malincentives for people because that's why would you work if that was the option available to you

01:26:50.160 Yeah, I mean, literally, why would you?

01:26:52.700 Imperium Welder says,

01:26:53.640 I briefly dated a based Swedish girl years ago.

01:26:56.640 Been talking to her today, 1.00

01:26:57.480 and she's understandably blackpilled. 0.98

01:26:59.100 Oh, God.

01:27:01.960 Connor was watching this.

01:27:03.700 Connor was watching this and commented.

01:27:06.300 Oh, my goodness.

01:27:07.100 Hello, Connor.

01:27:08.340 Carl does realize that admission

01:27:09.580 has given Harry and I probable cause

01:27:11.700 to press gang him into an X-Men episode

01:27:13.640 of Comics Corner, right?

01:27:14.560 This is you reading the old X-Men.

01:27:16.100 Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I can't remember.

01:27:19.000 You can reread them.

01:27:20.160 I'm not going to re-read them.

01:27:21.200 Why not?

01:27:21.540 Because I haven't got time.

01:27:22.880 But I can't remember.

01:27:24.480 All right.

01:27:25.120 I mean, I remember, you know.

01:27:26.160 I just see a lack of will here, folks.

01:27:28.280 Yeah, yeah. 0.99

01:27:31.200 You can always speak to somebody about your homosexuality, Carl. 0.57

01:27:34.800 We won't judge. 1.00

01:27:35.240 Well, because I'm not going to re-read the old-

01:27:36.860 Sophie Liv, reminder, Blood of the Dawnwalker just came out,

01:27:40.060 made by the people who actually made Witcher 3,

01:27:42.260 and it feels like it.

01:27:43.260 I played it non-stop for the last five days.

01:27:45.380 Love it.

01:27:45.980 I'm having a great time.

01:27:47.920 Budget was $35 million.

01:27:49.420 I have not actually heard of that

01:27:51.660 and if it's made by The Witcher 3

01:27:54.020 guys then that's awesome

01:27:55.500 I will check that out, thank you for letting me know

01:27:57.280 long time no see, these new insomniac games 1.00

01:27:59.760 are fake, cringe and gay 0.75

01:28:01.340 just replay through Spider-Man 1, 2 0.99

01:28:03.880 and 3 from the Sam Raimi

01:28:05.160 extended universe, this isn't the hill

01:28:07.800 I will die on this hill

01:28:09.340 I will slaughter my enemies on it

01:28:11.780 because they're wrong and I'm right, also for those

01:28:13.900 people who don't know the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films

01:28:15.700 really do actually have an extended universe of books

01:28:17.840 and video games good luck getting those books these days though fair play i didn't know that

01:28:21.780 and yeah spider-man personally just quick thing that i quite like toby maguire as spider-man as

01:28:26.180 well oh yeah like i don't know what it is about he's got a very strange delivery that at first i

01:28:31.340 really didn't like but now i don't like any of the other spider-man i think it i think it has a

01:28:36.160 wonderful earnestness to it yeah yeah it does yeah and also sam raimi just has so much more style and

01:28:42.960 intent in this direction than anybody who's helmed it since uh if carl likes tactile gameplay that

01:28:48.700 forces you to become a cartographer i would recommend iron nest i'm not i'm not saying i

01:28:52.300 want to become a cartographer every aspect of an artillery battery using dials and cranks like

01:28:57.060 it's world war one and need to map out the coordinates of the enemy with a rough estimation

01:29:00.780 by scouts relaying the information to you i mean that really does scratch the itch of a very

01:29:05.140 particular kind of autism that sounds great that sounds great i like this one

01:29:12.900 Wolverine used to be a mutant, now he's just a fursona

01:29:15.360 and that's

01:29:16.980 dying, like where was that

01:29:18.960 where was that, like you know

01:29:20.740 soft Wolverine, there we go

01:29:23.040 that's exactly right, it looks

01:29:25.120 like a fursona, that's

01:29:26.680 exactly right

01:29:27.920 any company called Sweet Baby Inc

01:29:30.900 should be made immediately suspect and check hard drives

01:29:33.200 well, people also noticed that

01:29:35.100 on their website when you went on the cursor

01:29:37.080 turned into a very suspicious yet familiar

01:29:39.240 symbol, if anybody's familiar with

01:29:41.180 old FBI internal documents

01:29:43.400 that got leaked related

01:29:45.460 to Pizzagate. I'm not saying that there's anything

01:29:47.600 to that. It's conspiracy, but it

01:29:49.460 is interesting that

01:29:50.300 you know.

01:29:53.280 Memadon says, where has all that money gone?

01:29:55.720 Are the people in charge of the purse strings getting

01:29:57.360 massive payouts to their

01:29:59.340 significant others like the awful Star Wars Acolyte

01:30:01.400 series? Probably. Yeah, probably.

01:30:03.320 I mean, but that's a great...

01:30:04.980 Where did the money go?

01:30:06.880 It just doesn't seem to have gone into the game, right?

01:30:09.200 but the graphics aren't particularly great

01:30:11.280 it looks terrible

01:30:12.820 it's only like

01:30:13.880 it's an 8-10 hour linear experience

01:30:18.080 Death Stranding

01:30:19.800 I know people had a lot of problems with it

01:30:21.840 cost like

01:30:23.200 150 million dollars

01:30:25.120 and that's an enormous open world game

01:30:27.900 where they had like Norman Reedus

01:30:29.600 and loads of like big stars in it as well

01:30:31.940 but he was able to

01:30:33.460 keep the costs on that one from ballooning

01:30:35.600 to double what they spent on it

01:30:37.420 Wolverine is absolutely tortured.

01:30:41.060 He's not a smiler.

01:30:41.880 But the good news is he tends to appeal to gamers.

01:30:44.120 Gamers are dead, man.

01:30:45.180 We're going back a few years here, aren't we?

01:30:46.900 Long live gamers.

01:30:47.860 Aaron from Warhawk says,

01:30:48.880 Wolverine would never smirk and flip off Sabretooth.

01:30:51.420 I'm out of this episode.

01:30:52.320 Yeah, because I mean, like, Wolverine hates Sabretooth.

01:30:55.100 Instead, he would start stabbing Sabretooth as much as possible.

01:30:58.060 Those two have one of the biggest rivalry in comics.

01:31:00.280 Sabretooth raped and murdered Wolverine's wife

01:31:03.000 and slaughtered his students on his birthday.

01:31:05.760 It's always on site for them.

01:31:06.760 Like I said that's the thing

01:31:08.380 Wolverine comics can get really grim

01:31:10.800 That is not

01:31:12.220 What I think of

01:31:13.740 Ridiculous

01:31:15.180 But it's not made to appeal to me

01:31:17.140 You may have murdered my wife and raped her

01:31:20.720 But you know

01:31:21.760 Just screw you I suppose

01:31:23.720 This is pathetic

01:31:25.800 Anyway we are out of time there folks

01:31:28.080 If you want more from us of course come and sign up for the website

01:31:30.160 And have a great afternoon

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - September 15, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1506

Episode Stats

People

Transcript