A quick thread of Charlie Downes' greatest hits on his recent LBC appearance, that I'll cover for the @lotuseaters_com podcast this afternoon.

1. Charlie doesn't accept their framing for anything. 2. Charlie points out that atrocities happen in Britain as well as the Middle East.

Nigel Farage did a press conference this morning in which he decided that he was once-again right wing. Here is the summary:

1. The Tories have betrayed everyone time and time again on immigration.

Correct. However, Reform's "net zero" policy isn't much better and Farage seems to think the Boriswave and the 200k illegals ought to stay as he has made no noise about them going home. 2. An excess of foreign labour suppresses domestic wages.

Obviously correct, and would suggest that, in fact, the millions the Tories betrayed us with ought to go home. Farage does not say this, however.

There's a bizarre war going on in Britain between women and men in dresses who keep threatening to piss everywhere, and the institutions inexplicably support the men in dresses. This is the rallying cry of the men in dresses.

Watching Alien Romulus now. Not impressed so far. It's boring, and the entire cast look like they just dropped out of a Californian university. Not a single adult among them. Completely unbelievable. Also the plot is so plodding I got distracted by my phone, 27 mins in. They've just arrived at some abandoned space station with Romulus and Remus on the wall. Cast are acting like children and literally look like puppy-fat faced teenagers. One of them has a stupid chav British accent. Who cast this? Abominable. All of these people should be serving my coffee in Pret.

I have been a supporter of Tommy Robinson for many years because not only was he right to have spoken up when he did, but because he was brave to do so.

When he asked me to speak at his freedom rallies, I accepted without question.

I'll explain why:

It may be hard to see or understand from the outside, but the political consensus in Britain is still very tightly controlled by the rules set by the Blairite Labour establishment. Tommy is rendered by them as a totemic evil because he dared expose the flaws of multiculturalism.

James wants America to be a kind of Kantian idealist state where the normal rules of human society don't apply. This is a fiction; America is not a purely ideological construct. If it was, why assign it a geographic name? Why call it a nation? Americans would be from anywhere.

https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1873776085546254481

Ironically, James is guilty of doing that which he accuses others of: he is mystifying the issue. In attempting to extract a coherent line of logic from the half-baked proto-liberalism of the American founding, he is amplifying out of context and out of scale anything useful.

Trump appears to have increased his vote share in every cohort. This data is from surveys done by Northeastern University. First: all men and all women.
White men and white women.

A few days ago, right-wing activist Steve Laws published this tweet. The tweet itself is not racist, but many would charge Laws himself with being racist, a charge he likely wouldn't deny. The responses, though, reveal the Conservative Party to be supported by leftists. Printing Kemi Badenoch's full name is not racism, but Olivia, the head of social media for Conservative Women (pronouns in bio) naturally reads it as such.

Reducing immigration is the top priority in the UK right now. Here's a quick thread drawn from YouGov about how everyone is absolutely sick of it and wants something done about it. More than two thirds of the country thinks that immigration has been too high in the last ten years. The people who either think it was "about right" or "too low" are a measely 21% of the population.

Once again, the Telegraph ends up on the left-wing, pro-globalist side of the issue. Weirdly the Sky News coverage is a lot more fair than the Telegraph.

No idea who the artist is, but it was too good not to share. 🧵

Behold! Sarkon Aggad, slaver lord of Chaos, is finally complete!

https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/1785629851396846022

I tried to make him as faithful to the description in the book as possible, but I didn't have any voxcasters, nor could I find any good long-hair & mouth grill heads, so I had to settle on things that sort of looked like speakers and a bald head with grill.

"I don't have any advice on gender dysphoria, it's not something I've ever experienced."

PhilosophyTube's opinion on gender dysphoria in 2019. In 2020, Contrapoints revealed that she was a lesbian and had fallen in love with a trans woman. She explained they have a special connection because they were both trans.

This is what the world looked like before mass immigration, widespread racial and gendered guilt activism, and before bankers had totally screwed the economy for their own gain. People were just allowed to be themselves, and they did fun, wholesome things for their own sake.

https://twitter.com/AuxGod_/status/1748090715165565142

Well observed! If you care to be more specific about it, it's a music video from a time, and a place, made by a situated people with particular characteristics. It isn't some unsituated thing that occupies a nowhere in notime by a universal human.

https://twitter.com/onlyeatsham/status/1748726454941049067?t=tLZXQtRzk6JxUWg9o99Png&s=19

It is fascinating the different approach to justice that the Germanic tribes had compared to the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The Near East/Med took the approach that people could not be made virtuous and therefore had to be terrorised into obedience. The Germanics were just basically decent people who were all well-habituated into good customs. This is according to their enemies, the Romans. Germanic society had such a diffuse culture of responsibility that the Germans didn't get a written code of laws until the 5th century, which was heavily influenced by the Romans. The first authentic Germanic written legal system was compiled by Alfred the Great in the 8th Cent

It's finally getting so bad in England that the migrants are self-deporting. From another video on the same subject: they came because they thought they'd get free stuff. Turns out that millions coming raised the rents and inflation is eating them out of house and home. It's time to leave, they think.

Recently, Elon Musk was on Joe Rogan's podcast and did an excellent job of explaining to an otherwise uninitiated audience how the woke mind virus operates.

Elon begins by explaining why he purchased Twitter/X: woke controlled this highly-influential platform. Elon understands the power of ideas. He uses the example of San Francisco to show that it wasn't material conditions that failed, but the bad ideas implemented which run counter to human nature.

The preface to The Delectible Negro describes the British interviewing rescued slaves, who thought they were going to be eaten by the Europeans. The British had no idea where they had got such an idea, and presumed that this is what would have happened to them in Africa. 🤷‍♂️

https://twitter.com/DaUppercrust/status/1713290030049902621

This is taking the concept of "lived experience" to a whole new level.

Mexican food is absolutely atrocious, though. The chillis are there to hide the taste of poor quality ingredients, not enhance the flavour.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1696905100139036841

Me, posting an opinion like this just before I go to sleep.

I find the contempt and hatred of men like Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes rather misplaced. They are products of their time and it seems unfair to expect them to be anything other than what they are. We are in the downward spiral of a lunar era; feminine principles dominate every… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… You are giving him way too much credit.

https://twitter.com/KnightinBlack92/status/1681320939198267393?t=0PZWB2p-rkXd9mHZEZeXnQ&s=19

I am disappointed to learn that that @mariannaspring is actively promoting disinformation about me on her podcast, at about 11:50 onwards. Here is a list of the demonstrable lies she has said about me.

1. My Youtube channel is not suspended. You can view it here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… @mariannaspring Marianna has me blocked, apparently. This is peculiar as you would have thought that a roving journalist and "disinformation specialist" would wish to engage with the subject of her reporting in order to ensure it was accurate.