The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #941

00:00:00.000 hello my friends welcome to the podcast of the lotus eaters i'm your host elios and today i'm

00:00:13.660 joined by harry and calvin how you doing harry first of all do you need to loot before we start

00:00:18.140 uh not right now but we'll see as we go on all right good right so today we are going to discuss

00:00:23.360 the assault on stonehenge the new britain culture shock and ireland censoring the internet and it is

00:00:29.240 the thursday the 20th of june now one thing before we start at three o'clock tune in for calvin's

00:00:35.620 common sense crusade and he's talking about some really interesting things there like

00:00:40.720 bestiality versus bigots bestiality is one of your specialist subjects as you were telling us

00:00:45.720 right it was you've read it but i have read an academic paper i have read an academic did that

00:00:52.160 have any illustrations no it didn't and also a reminder that these are coming out next week

00:00:58.000 the common sense crusade pipes so keep an eye out for those right let's go to assault on stonehenge

00:01:04.380 yesterday a activist from justop oil studying in the non-elite university of oxford made a

00:01:11.380 statement let's watch it

00:01:12.760 yes the electronics okay my name's neve i'm 21 and i'm a student at the university of oxford

00:01:25.380 today i'm taking action with just a world to demand that the uk government commits to signing

00:01:30.680 the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty and promises to stop burning fossil fuels by 2030

00:01:36.160 to refuse to do so is to warrant death destruction and suffering on an absolutely immense and immeasurable

00:01:44.560 scale today we'll be taking action at stonehenge uh the day before the solstice for thousands of

00:01:52.360 years people have come to stonehenge on the solstice to celebrate our natural world to celebrate the

00:01:59.220 beauty of our natural world but i can't help thinking what does it look like today and what

00:02:05.480 the heck have we done to it these stones have stood here for 5 000 years what will the world look like

00:02:12.760 in 5 000 years time what will our legacy be becoming ever more clear that we end the fossil fuel era or

00:02:19.000 the fossil fuel era ends us is it is that clear these are serious concerns the world is supposed to come

00:02:26.500 to an end and people who have these concerns need to take action so here is what we call in philosophy

00:02:32.600 basic practical reasoning you have a goal like saving the planet and you are thinking about

00:02:39.080 alternatives that you are going to use as means in order to promote your ends and apparently these

00:02:45.080 people came up with this alternative

00:02:47.100 you see first of all that uh this person opened it before the air is throwing it all

00:03:04.740 yeah yeah yeah so and suffocating themselves yeah i like it that it is just what is that a little

00:03:12.580 old woman trying to stop them where are the police where are the i'm pretty sure you can't walk up to

00:03:17.340 the stones at stonehenge no you have to pay to visit them so

00:03:21.600 you know i've never actually been

00:03:25.620 i went years ago before you had to pay for them with my parents but now i've been told it's been turned

00:03:32.540 into a big tourist trap where you do have to pay there's there's guards you barriers to entry and

00:03:38.200 such so i either they were hiding all of their equipment or this is you know typical controlled

00:03:45.060 opposition they've been ushered in yeah i've been to stonehenge 19 years ago in 2005 and it was

00:03:52.880 absolutely amazing i really liked it and i want to say that it seems to me that you are echoing a lot

00:04:00.260 of the considerations of people when they're talking about justop oil because it always seems

00:04:04.920 to be such a good um circumstance for them to do something there is oh the the whole

00:04:11.880 circumstances are there the whole situation is structured in such a way that they are

00:04:17.680 going to be let and allowed to do this and they're doing this for a long time so for instance when they

00:04:23.500 did the painting when they desecrated the the magna carta glass it's always there are cameras there

00:04:31.480 getting there's no guard and they went after the mona lisa as well didn't they they've been after a lot

00:04:38.060 of things but uh just vandals the thing is they ruin our culture our society you can't i was in the

00:04:44.480 louvre recently you can't see half the stuff in the louvre because it's got these horrible plexiglass

00:04:48.160 things so everything's reflective you can't actually see the art very well but it has to be protective

00:04:52.280 because of little entitled brats like this well well the one thing i remember about and this is 0.98

00:04:58.340 years ago so the security might have been stepped up even more when i went to the louvre and saw the

00:05:02.080 saw the mona lisa is there's a barrier preventing you from getting to it that's maybe you know six

00:05:07.880 maybe ten feet away and then there's the protective glass around it as well so if these clowns manage to

00:05:13.220 get very close to it then it's i'm gonna be honest that's the one thing i didn't want to see at the

00:05:17.500 live it's so overhyped isn't it well i'm we're lucky because we're tall so i could look over the 0.96

00:05:23.700 crowd but for anybody shorter than me it would be an absolute pain in the ass to even get a glimpse of 0.71

00:05:27.920 it it's always too good to be true that's why i'm concerned about the foundations that are charged

00:05:33.240 and entrusted with protecting works of art and works of culture and they seem to not be doing it but

00:05:40.300 let's see here what justop oil says breaking justop oil spray stonehenge orange two people took action

00:05:47.500 the day before summer solstice demanding the incoming government sign up to a legally binding treaty to

00:05:53.080 phase out fossil fuels by 2030 i don't know is is this is this the way to basically achieve their ends

00:06:00.520 and we have community notes saying stonehenge is a legally protected monument and a world heritage

00:06:06.800 site the action is illegal it may have damaged the monument and its rare colony of lichens right so

00:06:12.820 this is the issue for me like i this is obviously a pagan idol i don't care about pagan idols but i

00:06:17.460 care about the english heritage aspect of this this is part of our culture part of our society

00:06:21.600 and these entitled brats with their demands just do what they like and get away with it yeah so we

00:06:27.640 have here also from justop oil a reply that says the orange corn flour we used will soon wash away

00:06:33.100 with the rain but the urgent need for effective government action to mitigate the catastrophic

00:06:37.620 consequences of the climate and ecological crisis will not now i want to say that in some cases i've

00:06:43.320 heard them talking about corn flour in other case about cornstarch in other case about orange paint

00:06:49.000 right now most of it is speculation and also the the degree in which they're going to be punished

00:06:55.340 is yet to be seen but we also have another community note saying that in previous instances where

00:07:02.100 substances were claimed to be washable by rain by allies of justop oil it eventually didn't happen

00:07:08.020 and removing them took time and public money say for example in italy milan and they have the link

00:07:14.160 anyone who wants to search for it more they can do and we have here from stonehenge uk they say

00:07:20.260 stonehenge is protected by the ancient monuments act which is a law that was passed in uh in the uk in

00:07:28.020 1979 and it is a criminal offense to damage the stones there are also multiple rare lichen species

00:07:34.980 growing on the stones that are also protected and they say here expect a prison sentence an angry

00:07:40.980 face emoji we will have to see about that um we have an excellent meme by vesegrad 24 describing the

00:07:48.900 situation of justop oil and someone said there doctor i'm depressed because of the weather in 30 years

00:07:54.340 doctor prescription have you tried destroying priceless artwork it's pretty apt yes yeah i mean

00:08:02.020 it all goes without saying but just just to make sure that people know that we've covered it

00:08:06.660 one of course they keep saying whenever you hear the way that they talk about these things that if we

00:08:11.220 don't do something right now literally this very second then the world will literally explode is

00:08:16.200 essentially the summation of their beliefs because as we saw in that original video that

00:08:20.820 boy girl i couldn't tell it was a young boy i couldn't tell the difference to be perfectly

00:08:27.060 honest assume his gender pronouns but of course that um that a miracle of breeding um turn it was said 0.95

00:08:35.780 that they were going to turn we were going to face death destruction on a grand scale they've been

00:08:40.740 saying this for decades we've been hearing this since the 70s so let's go and paint some ancient stones

00:08:44.980 yeah we've been given deadline after deadline after deadline al gore's deadlines with jehovah's

00:08:50.420 witnesses isn't it uh yeah the world will end tomorrow if we don't if we don't do exactly what my

00:08:56.420 political aims are then the world will literally explode and also i mean this is government policy

00:09:01.620 as it stands right now net zero and everything that they want is government policies i wouldn't be

00:09:08.420 surprised i know that there's been some indications from other sources that some of these other ones not

00:09:13.780 just stop oil but extinction rebellion have had big money funding them behind the scenes this is all

00:09:20.500 on behalf of the agenda that our government and our media establishment are already pushing that's why

00:09:25.700 they're able to get so close to these monuments with damaging equipment when nobody else would be

00:09:30.980 and the only person who tried to stop them i think is an asian tourist they're all related so roger

00:09:37.780 hallam is the founder of extinction rebellion just stop oil animal rebellion insulate britain and he's the

00:09:43.700 leader of the political party burning pink i i challenge our viewers to look up roger hallam and who

00:09:49.380 funds him right we have a delicious article here from guardian that i want to talk to show you and

00:09:57.460 show you especially what they say about a druid called pendragon i say stonehenge uh sprayed with

00:10:04.180 orange powder paint by just stop oil activists two people arrested say police rishi sunak's comments on

00:10:10.740 protests prompts response from labor donor so basically rishi sunak uh posted and said that

00:10:17.220 this is a disgrace but the question is what is going to be done about it it's you know we're fed up with

00:10:23.220 statements and then they dale vince the labor donor and passbacker of just stop oil responded to a

00:10:29.940 comment by sunak that a certain labor party donor should condemn the action by saying since rishi sunak has

00:10:37.220 asked me personally to comment i will i don't support what just a boil did today it's that simple but

00:10:43.540 there are far worse actions we could focus on far more harmful ones like pushing two million children

00:10:49.460 and their families into that's called whataboutery exactly it's whataboutery and i just don't see why

00:10:58.500 such a discussion needs to shift both issues are important and you could say that they are interlinked because

00:11:07.140 when they're talking about families getting destroyed you need to act and being pushed into

00:11:11.620 poverty we all need to ask how what are the main reasons why this is done and one of the main cultural

00:11:18.020 reasons is cultural self-hatred and cultural self-hatred has everything to do with the acts we're

00:11:24.900 looking at right now that's why it's not an either or the the root cause is the same and i want to say

00:11:31.620 this because you know i'm i'm from greece i'm greek no way and yes and i won't say you're turkish oh i'm

00:11:40.900 sorry i i i i have a very special relation with heritage and uh you see that at some point if you really

00:11:49.220 feel a kind of uh ethnical pride yeah okay you have to link it with uh heritage yeah and uh by the way this

00:11:58.580 also offends me uh and because it's also it represents also a an ancient culture trying to

00:12:06.900 lift people from you know from nothing into civilization and that is the issue with uh these 1.00

00:12:15.380 people right now what they're doing represents a sort of hatred towards civilization because when the

00:12:21.460 means to the stated goal are so unlikely to achieve that goal it means that the intent the

00:12:29.140 stated intention is false they're just moved and motivated by blind hatred for the society

00:12:35.780 into which they owe everything that's interesting because if there are they're constantly attacking

00:12:39.940 heritage monuments and and legacy art what are they trying to protect if they think the world's coming to an end

00:12:46.740 unless we act on their demands well so what if they're destroying it in the meantime i don't

00:12:50.900 understand what they're saving exactly and i don't understand the when they're talking about the

00:12:56.340 environment dying and never talking about the environment that sustains human life they never

00:13:02.020 phrase it this way almost never i mean i mean the the society when you when you're asking what are they

00:13:06.740 trying to preserve well they are of course progressive revolutionaries and what they would want to

00:13:11.460 do is tear down the progressive globalist neoliberalism that we have right now and just

00:13:17.540 replace it with progressive globalist eco-communism right which is just as much a smashing down of all

00:13:23.460 cultures they are the same picture yeah basically the same thing i love that by the way a senior droid

00:13:28.980 and pagan priest king arthur pendragon said he totally disapproved of the just of oil protests and that the

00:13:35.860 group's action alienate any sympathy for for their cause but king arthur pendragon is also a protester

00:13:42.420 really yeah so it's pagan destroying another pagan it was pendragon who is standing as an independent

00:13:48.260 parliamentary candidate for the area said stonehenge is a living working temple at times of celebration

00:13:54.660 and pilgrimage such as the summer solstice and as a well-known protester myself i totally disapproved of

00:14:01.460 such behavior as demonstrated by these people who do nothing to enhance and everything to alienate

00:14:07.060 any sympathy anyone has or had for their cause the priest has previously been involved in several

00:14:13.060 protests at the monument and lost a legal challenge over a 15 pounds car parking charge at the south

00:14:21.460 site in 2017 claiming the fee bridge his human rights yeah this is to be fair that's one protest i'll get

00:14:28.500 behind unnecessarily high but i i love that that was probably an example of uh conquests laws and

00:14:35.540 action you know like don't worry i'm a gay race communist just like you don't worry but as soon as

00:14:41.380 it gets onto my territory i'm a raging conservative oh yeah stonehenge and english heritage is the

00:14:48.500 foundation that is entrusted with protecting the stonehenge site and they are saying orange powdered

00:14:55.300 paint has been thrown at the number of the stones at stonehenge obviously this is extremely upsetting

00:15:01.380 and our curators are investigating the extent of the damage more updates to follow but the side

00:15:06.580 remains open okay that's interesting because because english heritage have become ridiculously woke

00:15:12.020 yes and i have heard that they are basically funding a lot of pride events oh yeah yeah i mean i i went

00:15:20.260 i i went to um castle in wales last year i forget exactly which one it was but it was one where

00:15:25.540 they've got this enormous incredible display of a load of colonial artifacts that they've taken from

00:15:32.020 india when we were still when we were still in india that they brought back over from here

00:15:36.740 people might be able to find which which castle it was but i took a look around and was being shown

00:15:41.060 about by the guide and she was wringing her hands of everything the entire time well of course you know we

00:15:47.700 can't ignore that a lot of this was taken through conquest and theft of local artifacts and i i i was

00:15:55.780 just there saying why is that a bad thing and she kind of sputtered for a second are you saying we're

00:16:00.660 good at war yeah because because i said weren't those people they took it from also at war with

00:16:05.460 each other for the same things and we just beat them at it we just won well we can't no uh no real

00:16:11.300 response to it lame so at the moment the debate is whether the damage is irreparable or not and

00:16:19.140 some people say the paint is going to wash away but there are some people who are also concerned

00:16:25.300 about the lichen and the lichen is as i see here a stable symbiotic association between a fungus and algae

00:16:32.180 and it is something that in stonehenge they there is a special site for them on the stones it's a

00:16:40.100 special microorganism that is also protected there so we have here um a local farmer tim doe and

00:16:47.220 historic property steward who used to volunteer at the site he carried out an experiment and basically

00:16:52.580 he says if you mix what they threw with lichen it is damaging it now i'm not an expert here i'm not

00:16:59.940 going to judge but this is you know the other side to the to the discussion right now now justop oil

00:17:08.020 didn't stop there because today is a different day a different day merits for different action

00:17:14.980 and they did something that fans of taylor swift are not going to like particularly let's see what

00:17:22.580 they did here at stand stand airport they're trying to break in and they're basically painting uh two

00:17:35.140 jets private jets i think these are the private jets of taylor swift connor's gonna be heartbroken

00:17:42.660 keep away from her leave her alone look at and also they have a statement here that

00:17:51.380 it's really fun to watch let's hear it my name's cole and i've just sprayed two private jets orange

00:18:00.740 we need an international treaty against the burning of all oil coal and gas

00:18:08.660 while people are starving and the rich like thousands and thousands of feet in the air

00:18:15.140 above us all billionaires are not untouchable okay i mean she's got some points in there it's

00:18:22.020 not all nonsense it's like you know i'm i'm cole i'm 22 i just vandalized two planes yeah we need

00:18:28.260 to take action what i want this sounds this sounds like a dating app like the old videos i'm 34 i just

00:18:35.220 vandalized my my neighbor's car want to go out on a date or something it's what are the aviation rules

00:18:41.940 here she's broken into a i assume trespassing vandalism uh though but also also again again

00:18:49.700 you say that there are some things that are being brought up there but also let's not forget that her

00:18:54.740 first point is we need an international treaty to impoverish ourselves and drag us to a time

00:19:02.260 technologically before the industrial revolution we just what we need to do is we need to incite mass

00:19:08.340 famine on the west and the rest of the world by proxy and then i'll be happy yeah she's confused

00:19:13.940 the elite are running roughshod all over us and doing what they're like they are flying around in

00:19:17.540 private jets whilst lecturing us but the solution to that isn't to do away with oil and coal it's

00:19:22.420 actually to burn more oil and more coal make uh fuel away the levies i mean to the poor do the things

00:19:27.620 that were in the reform manifesto because i read that just through the other day and some of that was like

00:19:31.860 r&d research and development and produce you know better more sustainable technologies because like

00:19:38.260 nuclear actual progress not regress in the name of progress is achieved by people who just sit down

00:19:45.140 think about things and actually do something not for people who just virtue signal i think that um there

00:19:52.660 is another aspect into it because it is so obvious that these people have zero idea of how to achieve

00:19:59.460 their goals and this doesn't make sense even from an instrumental perspective i mean let's say i

00:20:04.820 disagree with what they're saying i disagree with a lot of what they're talking about i just don't see

00:20:10.500 things this way but at least in order to judge others we have to judge whether what they do make sense

00:20:17.620 from their perspective and it just doesn't well because the all these young middle-class girls these 1.00

00:20:23.780 middle-class white girls they're very privileged and very elite and kind of they are indoctrinated into 1.00

00:20:28.340 a cult and people like roger hallam are the ones making all the money and sending these these young

00:20:32.740 privileged girls out to to to kind of with their guilt to kind of do something that he's directing

00:20:37.860 them to do they don't know what they're doing and why they're doing it they're just indoctrinated

00:20:40.500 into a cult hey i'm starting in oxford i have no prospects for my future so let me just uh paint some

00:20:46.660 orange or so paint paint stonehenge orange and taylor swift's jets orange this is gonna piss off 0.83

00:20:54.420 coal but she's the point is she's not the one getting anything from this or or anything the

00:20:59.940 people who are sending her out are the ones making all the money getting the investors to invest in

00:21:04.340 extinction rebellion and just stop oil etc where where is their money coming from where's that going

00:21:09.140 and i think though that within the young generation there is a healthy contingent of

00:21:15.380 of people who are let's say becoming more sensible but there are also others who go

00:21:20.340 precisely the other way where does this link go support young people like coal taking action

00:21:26.740 that's quite a cool name chuffed i've never heard of it what what is this are we about to donate are

00:21:31.140 we about to get a load of viruses so look so look this is what i mean 140 grand already they're making

00:21:37.060 money out of these vulnerable young women they're convincing them that they need to do something 0.99

00:21:40.820 stupid and all it does is drive pr and we're talking about it here giving them more attention and 0.99

00:21:46.900 they're making money from it so let's give more attention to the academia that is brainwashing 1.00

00:21:52.340 these people so we have i interviewed renowned professor stephen hicks he is around for decades

00:21:59.220 and he has uh really interesting books and stuff to say one of his books is about post-modernism and

00:22:06.020 he has a very unique interpretation of post-modernism some people agree with it some others disagree with

00:22:10.900 it but he's a very interesting voice and we are talking about the decline of western academia

00:22:16.260 the intellectual and administrative causes of it uh the russian philosopher dugan and we're also

00:22:22.020 talking about liberalism post-liberalism and individualism definitely watch this interview oh yeah

00:22:29.300 so keir starmer he was basically the target of the message of just a poll he says that damage 0.61

00:22:35.140 dan to stonehenge is outrageous just a poll are pathetic those responsible must face the full force of the 0.67

00:22:41.700 law yeah well that remains to be seen i did i did see a response to this that went it's just a bunch 0.96

00:22:48.740 of rocks why aren't you doing more about palestine yeah so a lot of people were just saying i care more

00:22:54.660 about the rocks than palestine and i want to end because the rocks exist i want to end with another

00:23:00.500 instance of like jack street by the way or what people say that you know you should be careful what you

00:23:05.700 wish for and also illustrate the idea that even if we completely disagree with what people want to

00:23:12.420 achieve we can also judge whether what they're doing makes sense from their own perspective at least if

00:23:18.740 we if we think they're sincere and look at what happened here it's not related to just top oil but it's

00:23:26.980 related precisely to this idea so ocf coffee house employees voted to unionize in philly and a week

00:23:34.020 later all the outlets got shut down now they're mad about that too and are demanding that they reopen

00:23:40.180 that's not how anything works and i have an article here it says precisely what they did so they were

00:23:47.940 employees at ocf coffee houses there were three in this area of philadelphia and they were complaining

00:23:55.540 about the wages they were complaining about the the their salaries and how expensive

00:24:05.220 things are and they unionized yeah and basically they bankrupted right there they made it unviable

00:24:12.020 for the businesses to remain open and also they harmed themselves but yeah demanding the reopen and 1.00

00:24:16.980 give us our jobs but your jobs don't exist anymore you've priced yourself out the market you idiots yeah 0.99

00:24:21.620 so when you want to achieve something just think of the appropriate means to achieve it 1.00

00:24:27.700 if though uh you are having you are stating that you want to achieve something and your actions are so

00:24:35.140 unlikely to lead to you realizing that goal and achieving that goal most probably you're lying about 0.98

00:24:40.980 your intention is it not just communists are dumb and they don't understand that money isn't unlimited and 0.97

00:24:46.900 these owners of the coffee shops have a business model they have to stick to and if they go outside 0.98

00:24:50.500 of those bounds the business no longer works i think they just expect the consequences of their

00:24:56.820 action to be suffered from someone else not them to buy burning down the clock hoping that someone else

00:25:03.540 is going to suffer the consequence to play devil's advocate i will say i can understand how people on the

00:25:08.820 ground level of society or whatever level the coffee shop workers in philadelphia are on i can

00:25:15.540 understand how they get this idea that money is an infinite resource that doesn't go away and doesn't

00:25:20.580 have limitations primarily because our own elites treat it that way when you look at money printing

00:25:26.260 and inflation if you're a member of a central bank anywhere in the world yeah you can basically magic

00:25:30.820 money up out of nothing since we moved to fiat currency but these people fail to take into account

00:25:35.780 is that happens when you're up here and you're away from consequences and you can treat money as a

00:25:41.460 magical infinite resource down here we don't get that privilege and the reason why this happens is

00:25:47.540 precisely because they have been brainwashed by marxism into thinking that any economics other

00:25:54.420 than marxist economics is basically the uh the rich trying to to completely destroy them they don't

00:26:02.500 read anything else and they already come to judge it from the perspective of of pure ideology anyone who

00:26:12.340 disagrees with us is actually trying to fool us yeah that's how they view or hates us great should we go

00:26:19.860 to your segment yes so i did something radical the other week i went to italy sound and i know what

00:26:27.940 you may be thinking harry you went on holiday you can't seriously be making a segment out of this

00:26:32.500 well you know what they say if you're good at something like taking holidays never do it for

00:26:37.300 free and so i'm actually monetizing this by putting it into this segment did you pay your respects to

00:26:43.540 the family um there were plenty of families there and i was very respectful towards all of them

00:26:48.820 because of course being uh being an anglo tourist i need to understand that europeans have a particular

00:26:54.820 idea of anglo tourism that i need to dissuade them from because i am not going to be a fat

00:27:00.980 football yobbo why one one because that's not my style i've got i've got a lot of respect for

00:27:06.820 fat football yogurt yobbers i mean all do well all they want is egg and chips man there's nothing wrong

00:27:11.860 with that fair play i to be fair i also i i i understand that part of it i just don't want to go

00:27:17.940 around behaving disrespectfully in wonderful and lovely historic places hey this is an axis

00:27:23.060 country man it's still a wonderful historic country with lots of history it's also it's also

00:27:28.740 the seat of the roman empire indeed also i have to tell you though because in several greek islands

00:27:35.540 there are some people who come in they absolutely get smashed absolutely wasted it is one good thing

00:27:44.100 that brits uh brits are excellent you know the fun thing is because a lot of the time when people

00:27:49.460 meet me and i meet people on the street and they tell me you know i've been to greece i asked them

00:27:54.740 did you go to laganas and they say yeah it's basically the the island of debauchery there the

00:28:00.420 place in zante the whole island is good but there are some pockets of debauchery there oh really yeah

00:28:07.460 fair play you wouldn't add to that debauchery yourself would of course not of course not

00:28:11.140 stelios is a well well-to-do down-to-earth sort of gentleman sorry i might need to restart the video

00:28:17.540 wall it keeps flipping okay yeah all right it looks like we might need to restart the video wall

00:28:23.380 because stelios has been eaten by the void yes i'm resisting the abyss oh oh there we go here it is

00:28:30.740 stelios has warded off the evil spirits that were it's okay yeah we'll we'll handle it yeah all right

00:28:40.900 we'll handle it once i'm done talking about so i while i was there i took a day trip to a beautiful

00:28:46.100 beautiful city called verona if you're a fan of the works of shakespeare romeo and juliet this is

00:28:51.620 the city that we sat in that inspired shakespeare you can go and you can visit the famous balcony

00:28:56.980 oh which i did it it's that part's a massive tourist trap but people are still

00:29:03.060 fairly respectful to what to one another but you can see from the these photos which aren't my photos

00:29:08.500 my my um fiancee took these photos she's very good she's much better than i am at this sort of stuff

00:29:14.660 you can see it's lovely it's clean it's well-ordered and i took a few notes on it and i

00:29:19.060 talked about how you know they've got wonderful architecture they've got a definite respect

00:29:23.380 for the heritage that they have been passed that's been passed on to them it's not all surrounded

00:29:28.500 by hideous glass monuments to modernism that take away from that local feel uh though i i only spotted

00:29:36.340 this is true two homeless people right and if you are on if you are familiar with british cities

00:29:43.300 any time in the last 25 years is that every street corner has homeless people down it every unused

00:29:50.260 doorway will have a homeless person sleeping in it so it's when you moved to when you moved to england

00:29:55.940 was this something that you noticed or have you got anything i noticed but i've heard by that i've

00:30:00.660 heard by social workers and also people who work in ngos dealing with poverty that this has to do much

00:30:08.340 more with drugs than with social provision oh that wouldn't surprise me yeah that it's that they do

00:30:14.500 have places to to sleep sleep and they do have food but a lot of them for you know in search of

00:30:22.500 drugs because they don't want to those they sleep they're not allowed to do drugs in these places

00:30:26.660 where they can sleep so they'll just stay outside but you know take that with a pinch of salt no no

00:30:30.260 that actually does um lifestyle that that that does work with my experiences living in manchester for a

00:30:35.940 while where some of my friends who i was going to university with in manchester were from london and they

00:30:40.420 said you know i thought it was bad in london but coming to manchester was a whole different level

00:30:44.580 of homelessness because you would walk down the street disused phone boxes street corners doorways

00:30:50.020 and there would always be a homeless person smoking crack you know you can walk through manchester and

00:30:55.140 have to sort of barge past uh smack addicts who are completely skinny pale emaciated no future going 0.57

00:31:02.180 on there nothing happening except the desire to do more drugs so i can completely understand where you're

00:31:06.900 coming from but here for whatever reason uh whether it be due to social factors or a lack of drug addicts

00:31:14.340 in the local area i didn't see anything like that if this was manchester there'd be homeless people

00:31:19.620 here homeless people here homeless people up here probably as well and and and that was something that

00:31:25.460 i noticed that it was clean and orderly and josh recently came back from holiday to the netherlands

00:31:30.180 he noticed the same thing while he was there it was clean it was orderly very few homeless people if

00:31:36.580 at all i also noticed that compared to some cities and i've been told that this is quite

00:31:41.700 different depending on which italian city you're in so for instance if you're in milan or some of the

00:31:47.460 other cities certainly further down south you can get a lot of sand people shall we say milling about 1.00

00:31:55.940 but this was mostly a mix of italians and europeans and of the foreigners who were there the non-european

00:32:02.500 populations they were very well behaved and if they were of foreign origin and living there they

00:32:07.940 seem to be much better integrated than you get over here because you get these big ethnic conclaves now 0.99

00:32:12.980 i will say again it's probably different in some in a lot of italian cities but in verona in particular

00:32:19.380 it wasn't like that and i i was thinking about just the pure contrast as i've already been highlighting

00:32:24.820 with british city cities was completely stark to me going from that to coming back to britain

00:32:32.580 to see that we have completely demolished our own heritage and culture in the benefit for the benefit 0.84

00:32:38.820 of what so we can have streets flooded with foreigners who hate our culture who don't want 1.00

00:32:43.060 to assimilate or integrate or but or adhere to our own rules and so that we can have it flooded with 1.00

00:32:49.220 homeless people as well people who are completely destroying their lives with no support networks

00:32:54.740 that are kind of pushing them properly into making those decisions to better themselves and we've

00:33:00.980 written about this a lot carl's written about what he calls the decline here's a perfect image

00:33:05.860 right here and it is always sad to see but as well in manchester you get people who

00:33:10.180 litter the streets who look homeless who aren't actually as well they're just trying to avoid having

00:33:16.500 to work so they'll sit around and collect people's money i've seen it friends of mine have seen it

00:33:21.940 where they'll have these big bags where they've got loads and loads and loads of cash and they'll

00:33:27.300 have the the one bag with a few bits of change here and there and they'll take it whenever they

00:33:31.460 get a decent enough amount of money and put it through there so they look poorer than they actually

00:33:34.820 are very very bad the kind of thing that that goes on we've done segments as well where you can

00:33:41.220 talk about visiting the ruins just this guy bald and bankrupt who goes around all sorts of

00:33:45.620 countries even in the east of europe and then he just comes back to britain and goes

00:33:50.900 come on former soviet bloc countries keep their cities in better nick than we do in the towns as

00:33:56.340 well one thing though to say is that in a lot of countries in europe you have it is unlikely to see

00:34:04.420 you know homeless people and stuff near some sites especially very touristic sites but if you go

00:34:10.500 further further further you will see you you will see them oh i'm sure and sometimes you will see

00:34:17.060 much worse than you see here in england absolutely but even even in england when we do have larger

00:34:23.060 cultural heritage sites say you still see you still see we don't even really have the kind of um

00:34:32.180 prudence to say hey the cultural heritage maybe we should keep that neat and tidy we're completely

00:34:36.900 letting it go to the dogs and this is something i i learned about earlier as well i'd not seen this

00:34:42.020 figure before and i didn't include it in this but i did see somebody talking about how through the 1950s

00:34:47.540 about one third of our country manors in the states were demolished there was about one every five days

00:34:55.940 because for some reason following the second world war a large part of the british elite just decided we

00:35:02.660 don't want heritage anymore we don't we couldn't afford the upkeep well we could afford plenty

00:35:10.020 i have to defend england here because about something because it's the same thing that happened

00:35:15.620 to greece because a lot of the time the architecture is being compared and it's just a fact that some

00:35:22.500 cities were bombed during world war ii and some others weren't so well no no but again we've had plenty

00:35:29.060 of cities that were bombed during world war ii that parts of it have been rebuilt and we could we

00:35:35.060 couldn't keep the uh keep the upkeep of these country estates but we could implement in the latter

00:35:41.620 half of the uh well in the latter half of the 40s massive socialistic changes and implement a new

00:35:47.060 welfare state under the atlee government and we could rebuild parts of the cities but for some reason we

00:35:52.900 chose to rebuild them with horrible utilitarian brutalist architecture we chose to knock down

00:35:59.220 lots of buildings that weren't bombed and replace them with horrible soul-crushing brutalist buildings

00:36:05.780 i will give you this because there are some building buildings that are just so horrible you can't just

00:36:11.300 explain that with monetary issues just absolutely horrible of course see because in in where i'm from

00:36:17.060 in crew um i've got old picture books of what the town used to look like before the war and after the

00:36:23.140 war and it was true that we were a target of german bombing because we were a major railway site so we

00:36:29.300 had lots of transport and we had lots of resources coming through the town so they were targeting it

00:36:34.660 and a lot of it did get bombed out but still after immediately following the war not the it's not like

00:36:40.260 the whole town was level a lot of the town including some of the old cultural heritage buildings that

00:36:45.780 have been there for 100 years since the victorian era were still there and then we knocked them 1.00

00:36:51.540 down anyway and replaced them with horrible concrete blocks there's an element of cultural

00:36:57.460 pride i i go to italy quite a lot i love italy and you often see these viral videos online of americans

00:37:03.140 going to italy and like cutting spaghetti with scissors or asking for a cappuccino in the afternoon

00:37:08.260 and making a joke of how upset the italians get over these small things and people like why do they

00:37:13.060 care if you want to drink a lot in the morning cappuccino in the afternoon why does it matter

00:37:16.820 if you want to have uh ketchup on your pizza or or eat your spaghetti with scissors why does it matter

00:37:22.260 it matters because it's cultural pride it's taking it's having standards it's caring about the small

00:37:27.380 things because they are what make you a culture and we don't have it much of that left we don't have

00:37:31.780 much cultural pride because people say we don't have a culture anymore but i do have to say about

00:37:37.460 uh the italian kitchen and here is where i made um some of our italian friends may be saddened

00:37:46.180 i do think thick crust pizza is much better than thin crust pizza i have to agree with you there

00:37:52.100 it's a very different meal it's a very different i do love the you know the chicago town deep dish

00:37:56.580 pizza but it's very different to an italian but i mean it's you just you just have the small piece

00:38:00.900 of pizza and it just evaporates but yeah the italian pizza is still quite healthy relatively speaking

00:38:05.940 compared to these great big yeah but when i eat pizza i don't want to have to eat health

00:38:12.100 italian food is just great it really is it's just natural even the bread compared to like english or

00:38:16.740 american bread full of sugar and bleach and stuff like they just live on the essentials of i don't 1.00

00:38:22.660 know if it's exactly full of bleach just so the american bread is full of bleach i don't know about

00:38:27.220 english i don't know about english english bread is just full of sugar but the italians just eat the

00:38:31.620 basic staples and it's it's great and they don't get fat from it i didn't really partake much in the

00:38:38.500 food culture i've got i am the pickiest eater they have the best gelato i'm the opposite oh

00:38:44.340 the gelato is wonderful i did have fruti di bosco is a favorite my favorite my favorite in regards to

00:38:51.380 the poverty though the thing that europe has that we didn't have for a long time is these organized

00:38:55.860 romanian crimes uh crime gangs we have them now in england where i used to see them in france like

00:39:01.700 10 years ago where you get on the tube they walk around plot their tissues next to you with a little

00:39:06.020 note saying i'm poor or something please give me money and they come back and collect your money and

00:39:10.820 pretty much all over italy and and france you've got these romanian gangs everywhere and so we've 0.99

00:39:16.740 imported that from europe so we're not it's not always that uh europe is better oh no i i don't i

00:39:22.580 don't want to say that europe is better it's absolutely everything what i what what i want to

00:39:26.740 highlight here is that there is being a noticeable and visible decline that you can always see when

00:39:33.940 you've gone from a city in europe that like the ones that i visited because i went to verona i went

00:39:38.980 to venice which is a bit too touristy for me i would have liked it to have been a bit quieter but

00:39:44.020 i mean it's always been a merchant city so i don't know if it would have ever been a quiet city in

00:39:48.420 its history uh but there's there's a respect for the culture and a knowledge of their own heritage

00:39:55.940 which is being whipped out of us here that is being demolished in front of our very eyes and i

00:40:01.780 noticed around the same time that other people were starting to talk about this uh posts like from this

00:40:06.980 person miss joe who'd gone to london helsinki and talon and noticed that in those other in those

00:40:13.700 foreign cities they felt more safe there was a cultural diversity there there weren't these 1.00

00:40:18.820 enormous ethnic enclaves of where you'll get an entire block of a city that's made up of foreigners 1.00

00:40:24.260 who don't integrate with anything else and the space was clean and then you go to somewhere like

00:40:28.900 london and in large parts of london obviously there are parts of london which is still nice but large

00:40:34.660 parts of london do as she says here feel like it's crumbling oh yeah talin by the way in estonia is

00:40:42.100 absolutely fantastic but you also have to factor in that it's just tiny in comparison to london it's

00:40:48.180 just you know a 30th or something but of course the the points that we're making here are essentially

00:40:53.940 that the uk did not have to choose this path the uk could be managed and governed better by real

00:41:02.740 statesmen who want the country to be somewhere worth living in we don't get that right now because

00:41:08.820 so you get somewhere like this which uh seems to have a mix of the old and the new but in a way

00:41:15.300 that's clean it's orderly it's safe to be in in britain we get this this as i've pointed out before

00:41:22.740 this is just the cultural high watermark of 14 years of tory britain and 25 plus years of blairism

00:41:31.780 which is that you get these probable criminal fronts in every high street surrounded by empty

00:41:40.980 store fronts this has been pointed out by other people as well here's the aesthetic of britain

00:41:45.220 yeah right all the shops on oxford street there's american candy shores they're all fronts

00:41:50.020 yes it's very clear turkish barbers everywhere all fronts yeah just uh massive queues for basic

00:41:57.140 services that you wouldn't have got before this was for that dentist in bristol that opened

00:42:01.940 and you got an enormous queue of people because we just our infrastructure can't manage it anymore

00:42:08.340 and then you get this you get stuff like this which was trying to boss aboard a bus in london in 2024

00:42:17.140 is there london in pakistan or bangladesh what well certainly doesn't look like london that most people

00:42:23.460 would recognize does it i thought the british were great at queuing the new british should be

00:42:28.820 just as good at queuing right that's what our entire culture the civic culture is based around

00:42:33.780 i don't see much civic culture or much britain there no neither do i this is what you've got to put up with

00:42:39.540 when you import half of the third world is that you begin to resemble more of the third world are you 0.97

00:42:45.700 saying import the third world become the third world yes yes yes i am and that's not the country that i 0.77

00:42:51.540 want to live in notice what is going on yeah it's it's it's ridiculous and then other people have

00:42:59.460 been again pointing this out it's the shock when you get to the airport this is a an experience that

00:43:06.020 mimics mine exactly because i got back to manchester airport a few weeks ago after i'd been on holiday

00:43:11.860 and the contrast was so shocking because going through it was venice airport and you'd expect it to be

00:43:20.260 something that's very busy uh very difficult to get through it was busy but again even the airport

00:43:26.260 was clean everybody was doing their jobs right it was actually quite quick to get through i was shocked

00:43:32.100 about about how easy it was to get through and navigate through the place and then you get back

00:43:36.900 to britain and you get this this yeah this is the experience you get home and it doesn't feel like home

00:43:44.660 it feels like a place that's kind of rubbing in your face that you're you don't belong here anymore

00:43:50.420 so that was my experience and it's the culture shock of getting back to my own nation that i'm

00:43:56.420 supposed to have heritage and pride in and just seeing that there is no respect for any of that no

00:44:03.380 culture no history that i can tether myself to until i get out of some of the bigger cities get out of the

00:44:09.860 airport and then i can get back to a part of it that feels a bit more like home or sizely cantina

00:44:14.900 i just arrived in london yesterday from uh back in the uk from somewhere and i can mirror this

00:44:20.340 experience entirely you know you hear people over the tunnelways saying next we're into buddington

00:44:24.420 you're like i can't understand what you're saying just have a received pronunciation uh accent on the

00:44:28.420 tunnelways in in the united kingdom in our main airports for goodness sake just and again make it easy

00:44:34.260 for people i want i want to be clear there are still nice cities in britain you can go to places like

00:44:38.340 bath uh you can go to places like oxford and they are still nice and hold some of that heritage but

00:44:44.340 even then because they're student cities most of the time you'll just find that that you're just

00:44:49.540 surrounded by chinese people yeah yeah so even even then although to be fair i'm sure the italians are

00:44:55.380 complaining all our nice cities full of english people so but there you go that's all i've got to say

00:45:00.660 on the matter it's annoying but what do we do about it um well regime change some kind of shifting

00:45:10.340 perhaps the government uh can be induced to actually govern to prevent the decline i don't have any

00:45:17.940 concrete answers literally every poster you see when you arrive i mean sometimes you see one of her

00:45:22.820 majesty the queen um well it depends where you come down in heathrow but everything you see is

00:45:27.780 promoting diversity inclusion equality yeah should we go to the what's the video wait a minute yeah

00:45:35.860 been absorbed about a disco going on this isn't like any disco i've ever been i don't go to the

00:45:41.940 discos i don't know what i've not no one said slide to the left not heard a single crisscross

00:45:47.380 heartbreaking if i have not been to the disco since primary this we okay yeah okay should we go to the

00:45:58.020 segment let's do it

00:46:04.580 can we have yep thank you uh okay so i just got back from ireland my first time to ireland so i've

00:46:11.940 been to northern ireland a few times but i've not actually been down south um because i try to avoid

00:46:16.660 access countries i'm joking but they're putting forward this hate speech bill which is going to

00:46:22.900 affect all of us and so i was invited out there to speak on the hate speech bill uh we had sessions

00:46:28.500 in the irish parliament and we had uh sessions in trinity college dublin essentially trying to

00:46:33.940 promote the idea that free speech is fundamental to western liberal democracy um why is it important

00:46:39.860 what's happening in ireland why does it affect us well because twitter facebook microsoft apple they're

00:46:46.100 all based in ireland because it's a tax haven and so any law that ireland passes to clamp down on free

00:46:51.620 speech will affect those platforms and we use those platforms and so we're all at risk so before i

00:46:58.580 tell you about what the bill is here's a short little clip from the people at adf alliance defending

00:47:04.340 freedom if passed in its current form it will inflict a significant blow to freedom of expression in ireland

00:47:10.260 we're here in dublin and the building behind me is the irish parliament where politicians are debating

00:47:20.020 one of the most far-reaching hate speech laws in western europe this law has the power to criminalize

00:47:25.140 the possession and distribution of certain materials it has far-reaching criminal sanctions including up to

00:47:31.860 five years of prison and it is all based on an idea of hatred that's not even defined in the legislation

00:47:41.140 this is x's european headquarters in dublin and the hate speech legislation that the irish

00:47:47.060 government is planning to introduce has the possibility of impacting free speech across europe

00:47:52.260 because over half of the large online platforms in the european union are based here in dublin

00:47:59.460 from universities here like trinity college dublin to the workplace to the private home hate speech

00:48:04.260 laws will reach into conversations between people and create great uncertainty as to whether you can discuss

00:48:09.540 controversial topics in ireland hate speech laws create an environment of intolerable intrusion

00:48:18.660 into private conversations into public advocacy and into every area of life they create uncertainty as

00:48:24.580 to whether you can discuss controversial topics they put criminal penalties on your ability to speak

00:48:29.380 freely and they must be stopped hate speech laws are not about protecting anyone or making society safer

00:48:39.060 they're about cracking down on unpopular opinions about criminalizing dissent and in a democracy

00:48:45.940 that fundamentally undermines freedom of expression which makes our democracy weaker

00:48:52.980 the proposed irish hate speech law contains provisions for fines and shockingly even criminal sentences for

00:48:59.940 the possession distribution and expression of so-called hate if passed in its current form it will inflict a

00:49:06.900 significant blow to freedom of expression in ireland there's still time to amend this legislation and we

00:49:12.020 certainly hope that the irish government will do so so if this bill passes essentially everything we

00:49:18.660 do we do and say on twitter will be censored through ireland and so let's take a look at what

00:49:24.260 the bill income incorporates so the irish criminal justice incitement to violence or hatred and hate

00:49:30.420 offenses bill otherwise known as the hate speech bill um essentially criminalizes

00:49:36.340 criminalizes hatred without saying what hatred means of course the marxists never define their terms without using the word in the definition

00:49:44.420 and so it's supposed to protect these protected characteristics which is a similar situation to what we have over here with the

00:49:50.740 equalities act right um against racism and xenophobia and all of the isms and phobias that they talk about constantly

00:49:57.380 constantly however in ireland they already have the incitement to hatred act of 1989 and so if we take

00:50:04.660 a look at what's happened with that act we can take a look at what might potentially happen with the

00:50:09.380 or if there's a need for a new act so the incitement to hatred act of 1989 between the years 2000 and 2020

00:50:18.100 there were 44 prosecutions only five convictions in 20 years so that's that tells me there's no demand for

00:50:25.300 a new law there's no massive amount of hate that needs to be clamped down upon no um crisis of

00:50:31.460 hatred online usually when governments cannot do something about actual crime they invent another

00:50:38.180 category of crime hate crime that is why they're they're saying we're going to be tough on hate

00:50:43.620 because they they are not tough on actual crime well yeah i mean that's a good point tough on hate what

00:50:48.500 does that mean it means forcing people to to not hate forcing people to think a certain way like you have

00:50:53.540 a right to hate you have a right to not be nice um so in its current status this hate speech bill is

00:51:00.260 in the upper house so they have a senate in ireland uh instead of a house of lords but it's in their

00:51:05.380 upper house and it's been stored since july 2023 so there's a chance for it to be scuppered i don't

00:51:12.020 think they can retract it at this point but they could probably amend it into non-existence but it passed in

00:51:18.420 the lower house the equivalent of the house of commons by 110 out of 160 members voting for it

00:51:24.900 so there's massive support across the board in their lower house for this sensor or censorious bill

00:51:31.780 and this all comes off the back of the 23rd of november when i think we talked about it on the

00:51:36.340 podcast at the time there were the protests in dublin um people were opposed to mass immigration

00:51:42.500 unfortunately five people were stabbed uh three children were harmed and so they use this as

00:51:48.180 politicians do never let a good crisis go to waste they use this as an excuse to say there's so much

00:51:52.820 hatred it's because there are community tensions that people are unhappy with the situation

00:51:58.660 a hundred and fifty thousand roughly immigrants in one year alone and considering the size of ireland

00:52:04.340 that's that's a large island's population is what five million i believe there's more irish people in

00:52:09.940 the diaspora across the rest of the world than there are in ireland exactly so a massive change

00:52:15.380 in the in the people which of course means there's a massive housing crisis and a job crisis and it's

00:52:21.460 reflected in all the things that we'd see over here too but a number of high-profile crimes against

00:52:27.540 irish people by these new immigrants have happened in the last year or two as well and that includes a

00:52:32.980 young teacher uh there was who was murdered there were a series of stabbings as well across the country so

00:52:38.660 these this new influx of immigration isn't helping the country it's harming irish people and so of 1.00

00:52:43.540 course they're upset about it but the irish government have shrugged it off and said well

00:52:47.220 these protests were far-right extremists and we're going to push through this new hate speech law

00:52:53.460 to to help with uh so this is victim blaming for the government basically well you know if did

00:52:58.820 you see what these protesters were wearing they were asking for it right i mean who wouldn't have

00:53:03.380 stabbed them right their their skirts were too short um and so the bill itself let's look at the

00:53:10.660 legislation so that first of all as i mentioned there's a lack of definition of the term hatred

00:53:16.740 i think they've said that hatred is someone something that incites hate uh including this definition

00:53:24.260 yeah they have a very subjective way of understanding hate which means that it

00:53:29.540 is to the discretion of the judge to adjudicate whether something is hatred or not and right

00:53:36.740 this is one of the main problems with these hate speech bills that they are so subjective

00:53:43.220 and so phrased in such a way yeah that they essentially give a blue check to arbitrary government

00:53:50.420 because it turns the presumption of innocence into the presumption of guilt 100 percent and of course

00:53:56.420 it's all very abstract and it's yeah you're right subjective so it depends on who it is so

00:54:01.140 if i'm saying something if you if you're criticizing christianity and i'm criticizing mohammedanism we'd 0.88

00:54:06.820 both get treated very differently for the same exact thing that's that's the problem there's two-tiered

00:54:11.460 response to it but they say in this circular definition of hatred that it's to protect protected

00:54:17.220 characteristics but even protected characteristics are ill-defined so their definition of gender is

00:54:22.500 gender of a person or the gender which a person expresses as the person's preferred gender or with

00:54:29.940 which the person identifies and includes transgender and a gender other than those of male and female

00:54:36.260 well it's the characteristics of the groups that are going to politically support them yeah so

00:54:41.940 essentially gender can mean anything whatever you determine it to mean uh so it's not just male and

00:54:45.940 female it could or trans but it can mean any of the 99 or however many genders there are at this

00:54:51.060 moment in time but if you don't subscribe to the ideology you're already guilty of hatred

00:54:55.380 from the get-go so you're breaking the law um and the problem here is that the application of this law

00:55:03.460 is complicated in itself so it's not just effect offending someone it's not just being hatred

00:55:10.420 hateful of someone it's inciting hatred by behavior of any kind and so that doesn't mean you have to say

00:55:17.940 something it could mean you're standing outside a mosque and turn your back to the mosque in

00:55:22.660 protest it could mean silent prayer it could mean any anything that is an act of behavior you don't

00:55:29.380 have to verbalize your hatred and so it's it's thought crime essentially last year they were also

00:55:35.620 saying that hateful behavior is behavior that is likely to cause sentiments of hate right exactly

00:55:43.540 even more subjective and just anything can do that so it's not just your behavior it's what your

00:55:48.180 behavior might incite so you by not saying anything could cause someone to hate silence is violence

00:55:54.900 it's entirely based off of the behavior of the person who might who is uh been incited to hatred so

00:56:03.380 they can hate anything hatred is often an irrational emotion so if you got there by irrational means well

00:56:08.980 it turns out that whatever you were doing that led to the irrational emotion rising up it could have

00:56:13.540 been saying hello to someone extending your hand to shake theirs that can inspire hate somebody may

00:56:18.660 be in a bad mood that day something anything could be going on that so i guess that means you were

00:56:23.620 inciting hate it's she could be a mohammedan female who doesn't shake hands so your microaggression 1.00

00:56:28.100 towards her would be implying that she could be anything it's as you say entirely down to the discretion of

00:56:33.300 the judge which means that it's completely subjective up in the air used to attack political opponents

00:56:40.900 part of this law says that a person could be reckless as to whether their act or behavior

00:56:46.500 could incite hatred so even not thinking about whether what you're doing or saying could cause

00:56:51.300 hatred is is breaching this law there's unequal application of it so a corporate body is treated

00:56:57.220 differently to an individual so twitter facebook etc these large companies can be reckless in a way

00:57:03.140 that you and i can't be so there's an inconsistency there but where where i find this most concerning

00:57:08.820 as someone who's involved at the lotus eaters is this possession of hateful material yeah and this

00:57:16.180 means any material that's likely to incite violence or hatred against persons on account of their

00:57:20.340 protected characteristics essentially yeah having memes on your phone not even sharing the memes but

00:57:27.140 having an intention to share these memes what what if i own a biology textbook from before 2019

00:57:34.100 then that's well apparently possession of hateful material i have uh interviewed and also spoken to

00:57:39.620 david thunder who is um an academic from ireland who's talking about it and he says that for instance you

00:57:45.060 could be an academic who is questioning the paradigm and you're just sending your essay what you're writing

00:57:52.100 or the manuscript of a book to to a friend or to not a friend but someone who's going to stab you in

00:57:58.980 the back and they could say listen this is like likely to incite hatred but it's not you don't even

00:58:03.860 have to question the paradigm you're going to incite hatred you don't even have to send it just owning

00:58:07.780 it yeah that's the problem owning this stuff is classed as possession of hateful material yeah like

00:58:12.580 the rights of private property is out the window there and then this goes on to the search warrants and

00:58:17.540 passwords as well that you are required to give your password over and therefore you're required

00:58:22.580 to incriminate yourself if you've got memes on your phone they're bound to suggest that you're

00:58:28.420 intended to share those memes so you're therefore possessing harmful content with the intent to share

00:58:33.140 harmful content but you have to give them that harmful content so you have no freedoms whatsoever with

00:58:38.980 this bill um there is no exception for truthful statements or communications so even if you're

00:58:46.180 saying what you're saying is absolutely true if it is seen as hateful you're still breaking this law

00:58:51.220 this happened in germany now with one politician from the adf who cited government statistics about

00:58:57.620 the crime coming from uh people who i think came from afghanistan and yeah i'm not certain i think so

00:59:04.820 yeah they have an immigrant immigrant status yeah and uh they they find her and the question is

00:59:10.340 why do you circulate this data and these statistics my impression is that they want to circulate this in

00:59:16.820 order to push forward an economic interpretation that crime can only be addressed economically because

00:59:24.420 the causes of crime are only economic therefore tax more tax germans more for for all the groups who

00:59:32.900 that engage in proportionately proportionately more crime that might be i think part of it

00:59:39.700 might just come down to the inertia of government bureaucracy with that kind of stuff well we've

00:59:45.140 already had in place measurement measures where we already take all of this information so everybody

00:59:50.180 in the office who collects that information is just doing their day-to-day jobs without thinking of

00:59:54.100 the consequences then it gets circulated and then afterwards they realize like the ons oh god we've got

01:00:00.100 to stop collecting this information all of a sudden it's harmful some middle managers gonna come in go

01:00:05.460 right guys we need a meeting right now we need to change our processes straight away i think you're

01:00:09.860 great i mean me saying me going on the common sense crusade and saying mohammed uh married an 0.95

01:00:16.100 underage girl right there that's that's a hate crime even though it's true uh but you're right sharing 1.00

01:00:20.980 information sharing government statistics if it highlights something that could be seen as hateful

01:00:25.060 therefore that is also illegal and so this is where we are this is what the hate

01:00:29.860 speech bill is it's essentially removing your right to speech your right to behavior your right

01:00:35.620 to privacy um your right to not incriminate yourself and it's very broad and the reason

01:00:42.340 we're fighting against it is because if it gets implemented in ireland we are all subject to this

01:00:45.940 law essentially through the platforms that we use so twitter facebook etc will err on the side of caution

01:00:51.860 and just remove our content or remove us de-platform us because it's not worth having us on there

01:00:55.860 because they'll get these hefty fines because we are hateful people i think really the irish government

01:01:02.820 is the wokest government so far maybe maybe you know the biden administration is more woke or maybe

01:01:10.500 trudeau but i think they're unbelievably woke well we were speaking before the show that when i arrived

01:01:15.460 there linking to your segment actually when i arrived in in dublin the first thing i saw was the trans

01:01:20.580 pride flag on the door so you have to cross a threshold which is the massive trans pride flag 0.63

01:01:25.540 you walk outside and wait wait honestly wouldn't that have threat of you accidentally standing on

01:01:29.780 the trans pride pride flag no no it's on it's on the door oh it's on the door there's no way to not

01:01:34.500 but what if you bump against it is that not a hate crime now and you walk outside and blazing on the

01:01:39.300 side of the airport is the biggest flag you'll ever seen in your life the trans pride flag and everywhere

01:01:44.180 and i walked around for a couple of hours in ireland trying to find irish flags and i found two

01:01:48.900 all of them everywhere were the trans pride flag well maybe they are likely to incite feelings of

01:01:54.420 hatred or feelings so maybe they're in breach of this on the irish parliament they've permanently

01:01:59.940 emblazoned the other trans pride flag it's a permanent feature on their building how have

01:02:04.580 they put it permanently they've etched it in like they've been conquered they're a dominated land 0.99

01:02:12.740 dublin is no longer irish it is now trans pride but we have to remember also when we're

01:02:17.780 talking about ireland that they had the referendums in the eighth on the eighth of march this year

01:02:25.380 they had the family and the care referendum and essentially what the government tried to do is

01:02:29.540 something that is really close to the agenda of the criminal justice bill they are pushing forward

01:02:35.700 when it comes to hate speeches because what they wanted to do was to arbitrarily define who gets to be

01:02:43.940 a family member who deserves constitutionally supported right uh finance financing yeah on the basis of

01:02:53.700 redefining the family so they wanted to say that let us redefine the family to also involve durable

01:03:01.620 relationships what the relationships were they didn't say purely subjective and then the constitution

01:03:08.420 says any member of a family needs to get financial support so basically they wanted to give an an air

01:03:14.820 of legitimacy to arbitrarily financing uh political supporters this is just clientelism in the name of

01:03:22.820 justice yeah well thankfully the irish people said no to both of those referenda said no mothers are

01:03:29.220 women and and that's a good thing we don't want to remove women from our constitution especially i think 1.00

01:03:34.100 it was on was it mother's day weekend or something like that it was a crazy time for them to do it

01:03:38.740 try to remove the word mother from the constitution but yeah the irish people are very sound but the

01:03:43.860 government is very woke there's a massive disconnect there yeah great but also i mean we were talking

01:03:49.300 about it in the office as well there's something weird about ireland have fought against the united

01:03:53.460 kingdom for so long for that independence for so long and then they just submitted to the european union

01:03:58.900 like what where's the independence where where are the nationalists shin fein are massive globalists

01:04:04.100 massively woke selling out the country who are the nationalists in ireland but i think there has

01:04:08.660 been a resurgence of nationalism within ireland but bills like this and other measures that the irish

01:04:14.580 government are taking are explicitly designed to try and counteract them before they can get too much

01:04:20.580 momentum going one thing though that is absolutely

01:04:26.180 weird in this case and it's very interesting is to see that

01:04:28.980 how there is a very abstract agenda that is being imposed upon ireland and every western nation

01:04:36.820 because they're talking about anti-colonialism decolonization all these abstract isms and ireland

01:04:45.700 ireland didn't exactly have a an empire in the past so it's like yeah just take a country that

01:04:55.460 didn't have an empire and make that country somehow feel guilt for crimes of other empires right well it

01:05:05.860 just shows that decolonization is obviously it's a very big discussion i'm not playing the

01:05:10.420 anti-empire card i'm not playing that card but i'm just saying that even if one accepts it which i

01:05:16.100 don't it would be absolutely absurd to impose that on ireland yeah yeah well should we go to the comments

01:05:23.140 great let's go to the video comments we have time today so there's a lot of crazy stuff going on in

01:05:30.420 the world and honestly it's hard for any one person or even one group to cover it all so instead of

01:05:36.500 doing a lot of california news and stuff uh at the moment i kind of just want to share interesting

01:05:41.220 information with you guys that other people make so i'll just share some youtube channels and stuff

01:05:46.260 and i'll start today with the light-hearted one which is going to be casual geographic and that's

01:05:50.580 a good one if you want to learn about animals in an entertaining way so here's how to survive

01:05:54.580 a moose attack you don't actually have a choice in the matter very good geez these things are

01:06:03.220 massive aren't yeah i've seen i always saw pictures of them and i thought that oh they're probably the

01:06:08.260 size of a cow they're about twice the size of a cow they're bloody enormous you see videos of next

01:06:13.060 to pickup trucks and they're taller than the pickup trucks and that's a horrifying image right

01:06:18.420 apparently the meat is quite good oh i bet it is i bet it is more sweet i i've never tried it

01:06:26.180 yes the canadians love it there's a uh there's a there's a there's a butcher's that near mine that

01:06:31.300 sells like kangaroo meat and stuff like that i need to try it i bet it's nice right let's go to the

01:06:37.620 second one i'm incredibly angry and mortified at what's happened to stonehenge i've wanted to visit

01:06:44.100 the uk for a long time i've wanted to see stonehenge for myself i've wanted to see the history in the

01:06:50.340 uk and i've wanted to see just the daily people living their daily lives in british culture i don't

01:06:56.980 get to see that now i don't get to even see stonehenge before all of this happened i pray very very hard

01:07:04.260 that you guys can manage to take back the island of albion thanks california refugee this is an

01:07:12.500 interesting um claim here it's that evil cannot create only destroy it's true um i was thinking

01:07:18.980 sometimes that it's madness that destroys and evil wants to dominate and subjugate but yeah i don't know

01:07:25.140 what you think about the distinction between evil and madness perhaps we should talk about it another

01:07:30.500 time yeah i don't know but i i completely agree with that good if you only god creates evil

01:07:36.100 destroys it's that's the binary okay let's go to the next one what's up guys i'm in the

01:07:47.540 wait for nature come out contract speech but uh energy's high clouds are grim whales feel bad

01:07:56.500 yeah reform here we go

01:08:02.180 nice to see ron animated oh yeah i know i've got to say ron death metal musician wants tax cuts

01:08:10.900 yeah you i still need to listen to your album that you sent in also i've just got to say you look

01:08:15.380 exactly like all of my friends whenever i see them at bloodstock with your hair the beard the shirt and

01:08:21.380 everything oh it's taking me back yeah that's good bloodstock it's a metal music festival in in

01:08:27.860 britain it happens in august what's the lineup this year actually sorry let's go to the next one

01:08:34.260 australian author be real has had a storied life of travel study and service with the australian military

01:08:40.340 his two books on surviving fourth wave feminism are extensively researched and include his own first

01:08:45.460 hand accounts of studying feminism as part of his education in the u.s his lessons started as 0.99

01:08:51.060 interesting and positive but became poisonous and alienating ultimately leading to the writing of

01:08:55.860 these books while the research is extensive and accurately cited dr real is too wordy and repetitious

01:09:02.260 this could have been much more impactful as only one book i just can't imagine what the fifth wave is

01:09:08.180 gonna be like trad wives return connor's gonna be thrilled i don't know maybe after taylor swift

01:09:15.860 being taylor swift's gonna have a baby yeah and uh all the women are gonna decide they want to be 0.98

01:09:21.220 trad wives the west will be safe now all the women are gonna go to the right all the swifties 1.00

01:09:26.900 all the swifties after why is taylor swift going right no because her plane was vandalized by the 0.99

01:09:32.580 just-up oil protesters let's go to the next one so i was reading uh peter zarosa's disaster at d-day

01:09:40.020 which is uh basically an alternate history about you know d-day ending a failure and it does accurately

01:09:45.620 present all of the people and resources involved though one of which is the fact that uh the omaha beach

01:09:52.820 the people that first stormed it were the uh stonewall regiment the same regiment that served under

01:09:58.740 stonewall jackson kind of goes against the narrative that the left kind of presents about

01:10:02.980 southerners and people that wave confederate flags oh yeah it's very interesting let's carry on

01:10:13.700 a gentleman's observations of swindon chapter five although the goddards first lived in the westlicott

01:10:18.020 manor house built in 1589 which is now a grade two listed building it was the swindon house which

01:10:22.180 became most associated with their name built roughly around 1770 swindon house was renovated and expanded

01:10:27.300 over the years and became known as the lawns in the 19th century after major fitzroy played

01:10:31.220 dal goddard died without an heir in 1927 the lawns manor fell into disrepair and was last used in

01:10:35.860 world war ii by american and british soldiers before being demolished in 1952 the memorial land is now a

01:10:40.900 public park called the lawns at least it's still a public park although public parks are always a lot

01:10:47.140 nicer when they've got a nice big old manor house in them there's still one in so much to keep them

01:10:52.180 well still if people are willing to pay and people are willing to help to uh help with the upkeep i'm

01:10:57.380 always held uh willing to there's still a one in swindon in west swindon where you've got a big

01:11:02.180 public park with a big old public manor manor house that you can go into and they've got donation boxes

01:11:07.220 you can just pop your money there i won't say though that fane scotty has convinced me because he

01:11:12.020 is doing this multi-part uh series of videos because he wants to convince people that swindon isn't

01:11:18.900 absolute hell oh i think he's working well those videos are great but then i walk into swindon

01:11:25.060 i'm like this is absolute hell this is exactly my first sentiment when i came here for the interview

01:11:30.820 i i came from york york is absolutely love oh yeah and i just saw the johnny morel building for

01:11:36.820 what happens here i hate coming down here this studio is fantastic you people are great but this place is

01:11:41.460 awful hey right let's see craig kubu's video this is a response to california refugee 0.56

01:11:49.060 pasteurized and homogenized milk is better for you i'm going to show you what pasteurization is okay

01:12:04.740 and here's what homogenization is

01:12:07.060 oh so the the warm it and stir it

01:12:15.860 hmm okay yeah no i agree with this personally yeah but he had he had the hobbit

01:12:23.460 sword i don't know maybe maybe it glows when government officials are approaching the house

01:12:29.220 or something like works i know i still want to try raw milk i've heard some people talk about the

01:12:34.260 the health benefits that they've got from it but of course never take things from just people's

01:12:39.060 statements only try it yourself if you're if you want to that's my great so subject have we finished

01:12:46.260 with the videos i think we might have one more yeah another one okay so comments we have from

01:12:52.500 uh buka 505 thanks for the donation better question is why only the lonely japanese tourists

01:13:00.100 try to defend the british heritage from vandalism where are british people to stand against this

01:13:06.420 collective lunacy yeah i think british people have had it uh kind of knocked into their heads for too

01:13:12.820 long that oh well if i try and do anything i'll be arrested so yeah well it after enough time it works

01:13:20.100 yeah after enough time it really does break people you could you could say that one of the one of the

01:13:26.660 two people who did this was from england i think so well yeah that's also true i think it has to do with

01:13:33.060 cultural self-hatred it's something that is deeply ingrained in western countries and it's going to

01:13:40.180 increase in the future swindon aka brown town i work for english heritage and i can personally

01:13:47.380 attest to how woke it is there's race gender and sexuality struggle sessions a push to celebrate

01:13:54.020 non-english heritage tampons in the main toilets men's toilets and the action against climate change

01:14:00.580 is for some reason is one of the main goals of the charity they also receive a lot of government

01:14:06.180 funding so you lads are paying for all this so restore trust is a good organization that's trying

01:14:12.340 to take english heritage back to um soundness but you're right it's absolutely flooded with all this

01:14:17.540 nonsense why why are the tampons in the men's toilets no idea no idea but i mean you would expect

01:14:24.420 from an organization that is entrusted with protecting english heritage to actually care about english

01:14:31.060 heritage you would wouldn't you yeah but we're strange for that richard monikindam stelios not

01:14:35.940 trolling being righteous and we love him for it thank you very much couldn't agree more as someone who

01:14:41.540 has enjoyed the outdoors and everything about this country from childhood this point cannot be hammered

01:14:47.140 enough communism should be a offense growing up during the cold war you could just not have the views

01:14:55.380 these freaks have an escape punishment by your peers parents or the government i want to see the

01:15:00.740 same again it was a better homogenous society i i really think that communism is destroying people's

01:15:07.380 minds oh yeah yeah it's important to for people to understand how it does that's why i'm not against

01:15:14.740 necessarily teaching it but i think that it absolutely destroys people's minds because a lot of the

01:15:20.500 progressive movements there are precisely building their rationale on you know marks and angles and

01:15:28.260 they never learn from empirical data because every failure is interpreted by them not as something that

01:15:35.780 is going to destroy the theory and the fundamental core of the theory but it's just a sign that the

01:15:42.420 conditions weren't ripe for the revolution yet which is lunacy binary surfer the left are almost entirely 0.93

01:15:49.300 failures as human beings and society members stelios is correct in a weird way they're performative

01:15:54.980 signaling because the rest of their life is a complete shitshow of failure i can count the 0.54

01:16:01.380 well-adjusted left as i have met on one hand yeah i don't know if that's a bit optimistic because

01:16:06.660 unfortunately that's the optimistic yeah because i think there's complete failures in life i mean the way

01:16:13.380 the way society is structured right now people are incentivized to do this because they're going to put it on

01:16:19.060 on their cv now okay let's become a global banker or something now okay uh lars peter simonson just

01:16:28.180 driving home after a short visit to my favorite town that was bombed by the luftwaffe in april 1940

01:16:34.820 lotus seaters podcast is excellent listening for a long drive to paraphrase ilvis who the f wrecks a stone

01:16:42.260 hate henge put them in prison that is not far too easy to escape they should have some punitive

01:16:49.700 should be punished absolutely yeah of course there's just no excuse for doing what they did

01:16:54.660 just categorically wrong categorically wrong doth track use how can defacing stonehenge be acceptable

01:17:02.420 if kids can be jailed for leaving a mark riding a scooter of a replied pride flag painted across the street

01:17:09.380 this shows the double standards and the two-tier policing basically you know you have people

01:17:14.740 routinely desecrating statues and monuments of in in every western country but if there is

01:17:21.300 there are skid marks on any pride neural it's just the unbelievable epidemic of hate yeah yeah um

01:17:32.260 jjhw none of the predictions from the climate models has ever been correct

01:17:36.660 arizona desert i remember back in when gb news first started um andrew neal actually had roger

01:17:45.860 hallam on for an interview where they were debating over the uh over the climate predictions that

01:17:51.380 hallam was promoting through extinction rebellion because i don't think just stop oil and insulate

01:17:56.100 britain had begun yet so it was just extinction rebellion and andrew neal was saying that he'd read

01:18:00.660 through the same uh the same ones that uh roger hallam had been referencing i think the ic whatever

01:18:06.500 the name are those big reports where they go through scientists and every single prediction

01:18:11.140 that hallam was making was based off of the absolute worst case scenarios that were being presented in

01:18:16.740 there where it was these people were saying yeah if if all of our worst ideas come all to head at the

01:18:23.860 same time there is a 0.0001 chance that the world will explode he's a cult leader you know i've got

01:18:30.100 a video on my economy as far as i'm saying that if the climate crisis means that people are going to

01:18:35.060 come into your house they're going to tie your mother to the table and they're going to stick a 1.00

01:18:38.020 stick up her like what what is this is what he's telling these young people to scare them half to death

01:18:43.460 yeah he's definitely created a cult of this the climate cult but also he seems like honestly he seems

01:18:49.780 like a con man because as well i think he's a farmer if you look at his farm uh people have

01:18:54.260 pointed out many times that he's got very um he's got lots of diesel fat tractors and all sorts on

01:19:01.460 his farm well because of course you need that to run a farm these days right so i'm gonna read three

01:19:06.020 more comments from mine and then i'm gonna go to we're gonna go to yours because i see you're a bit

01:19:11.220 anxious about it right arizona desert rat i can't take just stop oil seriously until they're

01:19:17.300 living an oil-free life they have no room to speak that means no plastic products no vinyl products

01:19:23.700 no machines etc until they're living in the dark ages they have no room to speak you're expecting

01:19:30.340 responsibility and accountability from them so bleach demon 0.92

01:19:38.500 sorry elantia and joyer i will take a pointless drive around the city in my car

01:19:43.140 after which i will eat a big steak just to upset anything they do that sounds like a nice evening

01:19:49.380 actually and not last comment for harry hector rex in other news lotus eaters is looking for another

01:19:56.660 presenter as harry has been found deceased next to freddy in swindon have i why where did this come

01:20:03.300 from i'm not dead i'm right here i hope so unless this is just you know the the last few moments of my

01:20:09.220 mind fading away before i reach the pearly gates hopefully this is a pre-recorded podcast oh all

01:20:15.940 right okay so you're all going to kill me afterwards nice okay i'll read some of my segment uh

01:20:21.220 comments then you and baker have a new one of those vape shops near me that even have crack

01:20:26.260 pipes in the window yeah that's something that's the same with every single one of them they'll have

01:20:30.580 crack pipes they'll have enormous multi-colored bongs they'll be openly selling drug paper 0.91

01:20:36.020 uh it's ridiculous like they can get away with it and to a certain extent what's even worse is 0.62

01:20:42.340 they're able to advertise this with always the most hideous gaudy signs that you've ever seen in

01:20:48.100 your entire life where they'll be bright rainbow multi-colored flashing lights down otherwise uh

01:20:54.580 respectable looking streets anywhere they pop up they immediately make the place at least 50 less 0.95

01:21:01.620 classy looking and that's even if you're in a shithole to begin with you can't advertise you

01:21:06.020 couldn't advertise this in the shop window you couldn't have a nice pack of cigars you can't even 0.94

01:21:09.620 have cigarettes anymore but you can have these horrible vapes that they're selling to children

01:21:13.380 that's that's good you you can't have say um smoking tobacco where it's got branding on the

01:21:19.780 labels in the uk we have the big warning saying like you will literally die if you smoke this

01:21:25.380 uh but then it'll have maybe sterling silver tobacco written in plain text underneath it

01:21:30.980 but these places are allowed to sell literal crack pipes and ridiculous so if you live i just don't

01:21:36.900 like anything that tries to be modern for the sake of being modern that is always the stuff that ages

01:21:41.060 the fastest absolutely yes it is it's like when you've got video games where it's we've created

01:21:45.940 a video game with the most cutting-edge graphics you've ever seen yeah and it'll in a three months it'll

01:21:51.060 look terrible i want i want to say something about this because you know a lot of our audience

01:21:56.980 members are gamers i absolutely love diablo 2 lord of destruction have you ever played it

01:22:03.060 i mean the graphics weren't particularly good but it was absolutely great and the third one that it

01:22:08.500 took them forever to make wasn't that good graphics were good but i mean it was very easy i think

01:22:13.940 and the thing is when you've got the latest graphics you need the latest graphics cards as well

01:22:17.140 else it costs a lot to play these games yeah that's okay well i tell you what does age well

01:22:21.300 generally speaking is cell shaded graphics oh yeah can age really great there's ps2 games like uh

01:22:27.300 dragon quest 8 journey the cursed king and okami which still look fantastic purely off the base of

01:22:33.780 their art style and that just goes to show if the art style looks good it will last but she carries 0.99

01:22:39.700 on if it was beautiful 200 years ago it's still beautiful today chances are it will also be beautiful

01:22:44.580 in another 200 years i always aim at being timeless when making any kind of art never ever

01:22:49.220 modern that's the a very respectable way of going about it maureen peters i live in i live in the

01:22:55.380 netherlands in an area that is considered high class when i'm taking my dog for a stroll i usually

01:22:59.380 encounter about four to eight homeless people of whom at least two are filled to the eyeballs with

01:23:05.220 drugs there's puke in the streets because of the students and the tourists who can't handle their

01:23:09.620 alcohol and or weed and broken glass and don't get me started on the always charming refugees

01:23:14.900 in some shops the staff don't even know how to speak dutch and they aren't forced to learn because

01:23:19.220 everyone can speak english i'm sorry harry uh but you made your observations through rose-colored

01:23:24.020 glasses and i made sure to point out that i know that it's not reflective my trips aren't

01:23:28.500 reflective of every city in europe and with the netherlands i was only going off of what josh

01:23:32.500 had told me so where josh had visited seemingly was much less touched by modern globalist

01:23:38.900 multiculturalism than where you are so i'm very sorry to hear that that's the condition of where 1.00

01:23:43.060 you're living right now jjhw it's not decline it's the destruction of the country by those in 1.00

01:23:47.620 westminster almost certainly dylan o'shea i went to rome earlier in the year the city was beautiful

01:23:52.900 and the italians were lovely but the amount of african panhandlers pestering me was horrifying 1.00

01:23:57.780 now you know see i didn't get a chance to go to rome i love rome uh so sorry to hear about that

01:24:03.460 faux pas bath is horribly touristic now yeah i still like going there it's still a lovely city

01:24:09.140 lovely uh but it is very touristy and it doesn't have good signal phone reception well that's a good

01:24:16.820 thing but it's a lovely place unbelievable it's a very good thing you don't want to be on your phone

01:24:21.700 constantly when you're going around lovely old cities you don't want to be tapping away true binary 0.90

01:24:26.660 surfer how will you spot the smack addicts in manchester if they are smelly dirty pale and 0.99

01:24:31.300 demaciated this is true it is difficult to tell them apart but once you've lived there for long

01:24:36.660 enough you start to get an eye for these things you know generally they'll be doing their drugs in the

01:24:41.460 middle of the street so that tends to be something that uh you know um marks them out roman observer 1.00

01:24:47.700 lovely to have one of the lotus gang coming to italy if there's something we can still be proud of

01:24:51.220 it's that we mostly didn't rape our historical buildings classical beauty and care for it is still alive

01:24:56.500 big cities and nearby towns though have a greater population of foreigners and more homeless people

01:25:01.140 too mostly around central train stations often even in city centers where italians are living less

01:25:05.940 and less this was mostly unseen until 20 to 25 years ago again i'm sorry to hear about that you're

01:25:11.940 you're not the only member of the lotus gang that has been to italy i didn't realize we were in

01:25:17.060 competition about it would you like to tell everybody where you went to italy and what you've been to

01:25:21.860 many places what do you think of it it's absolutely lovely wonderful but still thin crusted pizza is

01:25:28.260 not the best thing calvin i've been to rome half a dozen times in the last year i love it it's one

01:25:34.980 of my favorite places in the world the proper carbonara not the horrible english stuff you get

01:25:39.300 with cream in just basic carbonara tiramisu absolutely love it and i love when you go to a

01:25:44.660 restaurant they don't have a menu you just sit down and they just go you want some food they say yes

01:25:48.340 they just bring you a plate of pasta i also love the bruschetta they do good oh yes good absolutely

01:25:53.860 good sorry i realize you're asking me about my comments not if i mean i mean i'm happy for the

01:25:58.340 contributions love italy uh in regards to my comments chad koala says policing hate speech

01:26:04.020 has already been proven an apt demonstration of opportunity costs in scotland police are not

01:26:10.660 omnipotent beings with the eye of argos and the arms of vishnu if you make stamping out

01:26:16.900 herty words of policing priority that means time and energy diverted from crimes of serious concern

01:26:22.740 to public safety that's the point chad police can't police anymore i mean have you seen the

01:26:27.460 police at the moment these young chubby girls you know we used to have police they used to have height 1.00

01:26:32.500 restraints used to have to be police men and they used to have to be quite fit because they had to 0.81

01:26:36.180 chase criminals no no longer police these days are just chubby young girls and gay guys essentially 1.00

01:26:42.420 so they can't face criminals i wish they were like vishnu because vishnu is always tranquil

01:26:49.860 he's just unbelievably tranquil and has the seven snakes on top of him well he also doesn't exist so

01:26:56.500 i was just going to add that one of my friends is actually leaving policing soon because of some of

01:27:00.900 those things that you put uh pointed out there which is that he just he can't trust the people to

01:27:05.540 have his back anymore you're saying basically that police is like netflix presents it oh oh yeah

01:27:12.900 yeah there's no noncing that goes on as far as i'm aware but close enough amar awad says a hate crime

01:27:19.860 used to be a hate incident plus a crime that is already punishable they've put a lot of time and effort

01:27:25.700 into making it acceptable to the public to prosecute hate itself as a criminal act even under the most

01:27:32.260 charitable interpretation it's treating a symptom while deliberately ignoring the root cause it

01:27:38.260 happened if hating rapists murderers and tyrants is illegal being a criminal is the only moral option

01:27:45.220 hundred percent amar and we have to we have a duty to disobey immoral laws justin b said you don't even

01:27:52.580 have to send these hateful materials to anyone hostile stelios the social media companies have started

01:27:58.420 using ai to read all messages in addition to the coming updates to windows 11 if your pc has the

01:28:05.140 correct hardware will use ai to record everything that you do in a way that can be replayed by the

01:28:10.740 ai i'm sure that that won't be uploaded to microsoft when it's found to be problematic ai is a great

01:28:17.380 threat and people are not many people are seeing it so thank you for pointing it out justin b

01:28:22.100 i've not heard of that ai stuff that's something oh it's awful absolutely yeah yeah the new are you

01:28:27.860 subscribed on twitter as in do you pay for that okay why not because i don't want to oh

01:28:36.580 are you subscribed yes okay because you pay eight pounds a month and then you get

01:28:41.140 the ad revenue back so i i've looked into i don't uh get enough um hits on my tweets okay to make that

01:28:48.900 worth it oh fair enough but i mean it just makes sense really but well i mean if you've got a big

01:28:53.700 enough following and your tweets get enough views that but i mine don't fair enough i i've had some

01:28:58.020 viral tweets they just i just typically i think it's like three million views on tweets within what

01:29:04.420 is it three months or or one or two or three months i don't get that okay i didn't okay but i was only

01:29:10.100 reason i'm asking is because you had to re-verify recently and you had to sign a new just uh nda or not

01:29:16.420 yeah in terms of conditions that said you allow that the twitter ai to read all your tweets

01:29:21.220 essentially and so it's everywhere now swindon aka brown town ireland is doing god's work they're

01:29:28.820 making britain look good in comparison yeah arizona desert rat so a child who has not been exposed to

01:29:35.940 a new or different culture could get charged with a hate crime good to know roman observer says citizen

01:29:42.500 robinson you've been found guilty of the crime of possession and distribution of opinions the

01:29:47.300 penalty for this is the detention in iso cubes for 36 months mandatory that is not too far in the

01:29:55.300 distant future snow dog said the woke following is the new nazi regime 100 and pieta harvey said this is

01:30:03.940 a loophole in the law for passwords you must reveal your passwords if you know them that is why using a

01:30:10.980 custom system where i cannot know the password is essential i couldn't reveal my encryption password

01:30:15.780 even if i wanted to that's good advice as well as i would add to that download a vpn now uh and arizona

01:30:22.340 desert rat said i'm going to say it the irish gentleman is rather eloquent right i hope you enjoyed this and

01:30:30.740 on that note we can call it a day it was a lovely podcast and see you all tomorrow goodbye

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - June 20, 2024

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #941

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