The End of England

[@OrdinaryThings]

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[@silverXnoise]

Critical-thinking-as-a-service. How relevant.

[@remicaron3191]

Let me give you a couple of conspiracy pointers you didn't bring up in this nice documentary. Number one question we should all be asking ourselves in the western world is WHY are we being invaded by the rest of the world? If we did ask ourselves that question and follow it answering we would find out that NO ONE wants to come to our nations illegally but they are drawn to our nations because they have the false belief that their lives could be better if they weren't being attacked constantly. The second question we should ask ourselves is WHY do so many people around the world believe that living in the western world will allow them to live without attacks? And if we dig into that question a bit deeper we will come to the conclusion that it's because WE or more to the point OUR GOVERNMENTS are the ones attacking these nations around the world so that our CORPORATIONS the same ones who have destroyed our nations for profits need more profits. We in the western world don't have an illegal migrant crisis, we have a war mongering crisis and are making it worse and worse as we fall for blaming the the migrants who are trying to survive instead of the OLIGARCH which causes, allows, profits and controls us with that blame. We are no freer than anyone people on this planet, we simply believe we are because our masters continuously tell us we are. We are allowed to do whatever we please unless it affects our masters and then it is made illegal and the majority is made to believe it's for all our good. Look around any western nation and tell me we are free. How are we free? Are we feed without coercion, are we housed without coercion, are we clothe without coercion and are we educated without coercion? No we are not. Everything in our society has a price and everyone has been brainwashed into believing that without that coercion no one would do anything. If that is true why do the rich oligarchs go to work everyday even though they have enough money to stay in bed? Our masters have created the perfect animal farm and the vast majority of us don't even know there's a farm or that they are the cattle in that farm. The western oligarchs have had the entire worlds resources at their disposal for over half a century and instead of using those resources to build a better world they have used them to sow chaos, destruction, division, poverty, and hatred so they can make more profits for themselves while we argue about who belongs in or out instead of asking why do we have so little of our nations wealth we all work to actually build, not just plan? Maybe make a Documentary about these points. Or maybe the brainwashing isn't Ordinary enough for it. WE ARE THE CATTLE A SMALL CLASS FARMS.

[@silverXnoise]

@@remicaron3191I mean, Eisenhour told us to fear the military industrial complex in 1961. His speech is widely considered one of the best ever delivered, and _nobody_ heeded that warning…so despite making banger YT docs, I’m not sure Mr. Ordinary could land that point any better. People just don’t seem to care, or at least don’t want to reconcile themselves with it. Further reading: Howard Beale’s monologue in the film “Network” ( _I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more!_ )

[@mericanignoranc3551]

Capitalism has failed in every country that has ever tried it.

[@anderschristoffersrensen1744]

@@silverXnoise Yeah, he`s good at it to. I learn`t a great deal from this guy. He really is quite good at covering information accurately. He had some pretty good videos on the climate, politics, how coup`s work, and the Russian way of life. Hey Ordinary Things, please don`t drink yourself to death(I don`t know if you drink, but I would like to visit england, after the troubles settle down, hopefully.) England used to be a really nice country, at least right after ww2, people working and rebuilding the great nation. It`s not looking so good as of now, hope it recovers. Please, guys the violence isn`t helping(Disease, and harm is all it helps bring.). It could still become a nice country again.

[@Foolski]

I can't get over the irony of that property developer lying on a suicide net and proclaiming "I love open space" in a prison.

[@xavilend]

Feels a bit less of a prison when you're the warden and all the doors are unlocked lol

[@naturalstench]

It just highlights how detached from reality they are. As deluded and messed up as he is a product of generations of incest… he thinks how he looks. Damn, this little documentary was good

[@caddin2620]

@@xavilend that's the beauty of irony.

[@aSSGoblin1488]

this whole discontent is ironic. people voted for brexit and rhey certainly got it

[@-YELDAH]

@@aSSGoblin1488 I don't think most people that wanted it knew what it was, a bit like tariffs lol

[@cjawnt]

that dude seemingly living in an abandoned prison surrounded by swords and talking about see through solar panels and magic bricks was the most surreal part of this video

[@yungoldman2823]

paired with the articles and section about outsourcing prisoners it was chillingly unreal

[@v.e.l.pianist7848]

Welcome to project developers. Coffee junkies with more than just a few screws loose building air castles and still somehow shaping the world of tomorrow.

[@atherisGAY]

That felt like a fever dream

[@ChrisUG]

It's surreal in the sense that most charlatans are and the way they get people to fall for what they're pedalling.

[@Aneczka1661]

That clip of them just chilling on the s* net in an abandoned prison is modern art

[@cyjanek_potasu_kcn4582]

Creating a country between Serbia and Croatia is literally like begging for a hard time

[@lukacvitkovic8550]

That's what Bosna is xD

[@nathansullivan4433]

The Balkan countries excel at hating each other and leading to military conflict. Just look at what kicked off WWI in Sarajevo, Bosnia on June 28, 1914.

[@linmal2242]

Spot on.

[@alkaline69]

Or a very short time

[@Lerotron]

I can fix them...

[@VanBourner]

"Patriotism is love for your own nation, not hatred of someone else's" - Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, the first Czechoslovak President

[@MorMorGanGan]

Patriotism is a pointless concept that inherently gives rise to nationalism. Humans were not made to be isolated from one another, we were born to thrive in communities. A world without borders, in which all people thrive, is the only world worth pursuing.

[@VanBourner]

@MorMorGanGan that's one way to look at things, not the only way.

[@MorMorGanGan]

@@VanBourner What benefits has long term patriotism brought to the world that did not solely benefit the origin country of said patriotism? Edit: And how would a world where we do not divide ourselves over petty squabbles like land and nationality be any worse?

[@MasterhpIke]

@@MorMorGanGan LOL

[@mensch58306]

@@MorMorGanGanYou‘re the kind of person who uses gender-fluid toilets 🚽

[@redacted7230]

Last time I was this early Britain had an economy

[@average_peanut_fan3059]

Last time I was this early, we were still in the EU

[@mysticmajin3769]

yeah lol it's so joever

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

Last time I was this early Britain was a empire

[@truthteller2033]

@@average_peanut_fan3059 Yeah thank god thats over

[@michaeladkins6]

@@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993 Some people havent gotten the memo that its over.

[@ricardoguanipa8275]

Bro, that's the Argentinian flag without the judgemental Sun looking at you

[@guyanomaly]

I just looked up the Argentinian flag because I thought I remembered it just being a normal sun. But no, that sun makes me feel insecure.

[@IrrationalCharm]

Dude had the chance to make up the coolest flag… Like a flag with a dragon like Bhutan 🇧🇹 But he choose 🇦🇷 flag to copy lol

[@nicolasbarrancos3834]

There is some irony in taking over an island far away from England and choosing that flag

[@chrisdaily2077]

Ah Argentina. It's nice to know there's at least one country who's president you can feel better not having.

[@Null-jq2ki]

Damn Brits took the Falkland Islands and the flag.

[@DrFunkman]

As an American, it’s nice to know that it’s not just us. Ray Bradbury was right: Media really is the most dangerous thing in a technological age

[@mydrillasanjay5397]

Yep, we're all fucked

[@RebelTrooperHoth]

I quit Twitter and Reddit recently for basically opposite reasons and haven’t been happier. Social media is rather evil in my eyes

[@dengar96]

​@@RebelTrooperHoth youtube is next bud. I did the same as you early last year but it was slowly replaced with other online communities that have slowly become just as toxic. KZbins days are numbered

[@guyanomaly]

@@dengar96 Eh, I like KZbin. Tons of talented creatives still making great stuff, and since there’s little to no reward for clout in comments sections, I say whatever I want in video comments and then forget about it later. Ideal.

[@eddythefool]

They saw that the best way to get clicks is to get a really gullible crowd and just affirm their worst beliefs.

[@lancebrelsford2568]

The "takedown" of the liberal London mindset was spot on. When Orwell described those types as "Champagne Socialists" I think he said the only people they hate more than the working class are the people that are richer than them.

[@apinakapina]

I remember joining this channel to hear some ordinary things, but the quality of these documentaries is way beyond ordinary.

[@ThePkmage]

I wanna know about the history of chocolate milk, learning about the socio-economic decay of my country and the misplaced blame on those seeking a better life is just a side-effect

[@sachinbangaru737]

Remember when he talked about eggs... Ahh good times.

[@chunkylover5367]

Would you say they are extra ordinary?

[@JohnRNewAccountNumber3]

If you want a normal channel about ordinary things check out some ordinary gamers

[@freddiemedley5580]

Quality 😂 has two old money liberals in the documentary, who are just splashing money at idiotic things. And his guy to represent the right is a blooming flat earther. Also at 43:20 he talks right bull. We did not win the lottery, we are the complex result of thousands of our ancestors giving birth at the right time. It's impossible for you to be born to completely different parents. So that point is idiotic, and pointless. This guy is just spreading liberal nonsense. While not talking about the Islamic threat to our nation. If things don't change our islamic population will be at 20% by 2050, and it'll be the majority by 2085+. It only took Persia to have a 40% islamic population for them to revolt and become Iran.

[@VinceVintage]

This is the most balanced perspective of the immigration crisis i've seen on KZbin Showing the real concerns on both sides....and how they both direct their anger often at the wrong thing amazing job mate, this is true journalism in search of the truth rather than a sensationalist headline

[@OrdinaryThings]

thanks bro, appreciate you!

[@LaJin9292]

There is no middle ground. ALL importing of non-white migrants must cease. Multiculturalism is for Los Angeles.

[@adammitxhell2932]

'Both sides' is a centrist falacy.

[@kingofcards9]

Wdym?, he's very clearly a leftist, with a leftist bias.

[@harisb.7620]

If you mean by balanced perspective comments like right at the beginning 0:15 then sure "true journalism". It is pretty obvious right at the beginning in wich direction this video will go. Journalism isin't commenting on something, journalism is just showing things and letting people make up their own mind. This video shows a pretty biased opnion not a neutral perspective.

[@robcain8865]

You know things are seriously messed up when Britmonkey, Tom Nicholas and Ordinary Things all post damning chronicles of modern Britain in the same year. Eight years on from kneecapping our own economy, the endless cycle of anger and division continues with politicians of all stripes too afraid to make bold changes. I'm about to exit my twenties and collectively the nation has offered little besides disappointing stagnation throughout that time.

[@OrdinaryThings]

hear hear

[@truthteller2033]

All products of Labour schooling systems and media to think that mass migration is good because of "different foods and stuff"

[@RadiganMonke]

​@@truthteller2033 based, it's a sign of low iq for people to point to food as to why immigration is good

[@user-86291]

​@@truthteller2033Stop taking heroin

[@Kwauhn.]

@@asmongold2028 Terrible take. Username checks out.

[@Bkoded]

i was expecting a 10-20 minute summary of recent events and instead was met with an incredibly insightful piece of media

[@Iskandar64]

Massively agree, this is quality nuanced content which got me thinking.

[@dandylionwine]

That's the way it goes with this channel, I find.

[@MCYonazz]

"I love open space", he said about a derelict prison fortress. What a... unique statement.

[@hollanderson]

A prison is only a prison when the doors are locked

[@koenvandamme6901]

I hadn't reached that part of the video yet when I saw this comment and thought to myself "Woah, that's a harsh burn on Australia" 😂

[@kittyluvsage13]

​@@koenvandamme6901 HA

[@Kaktanternak]

Kudos for actually talking with and trying to understand someone you fundamentally disagree with. Not many people actually do that.

[@ahealthkit2745]

The frustrating part was the zero-sum result... Callum is an example of the calcification of far right supporters post Trump. They are so galvanized by nonsense that seeing reason is itself foreign to them.

[@ReinersBlauerHoden]

Many people do that but, at least try. But there are many extremists who dont want to talk with people who have another opinion

[@chairmanofthebored8684]

Channel 5 does it

[@rileygladue3979]

@@ahealthkit2745 I see it plenty with my coworkers at my blue collar job. One came up and said "they're putting bugs in our food, did you know that?" and "Isn't it messed up how they're trying to poison us" only to refuse to believe me when I told him Shellac's existed for decades and how prevalent insect additives have been since food processing became widespread in the mid-20th century, I even went so far as to tell him I learnt it as a kid watching some random science show and he still told me everyone was being lied to and how it's a "new thing". People who don't want to learn won't, even when given the all of the tools to do so

[@CousinBowling]

​@@ahealthkit2745 So you're a fan of destroying your national identity and importing people who completely disagree with liberal values?

[@pyrinikos3477]

“If you’re not going to listen to someone’s words, you’re going to see their actions.” That is a great quote from that guy, even if he is wrong about other things.

[@AnimatedStoriesWorldwide]

He's right about many things too. To label him "far right" without listening to him, is how we got here in the first place.

[@jeffafa3096]

@@AnimatedStoriesWorldwide I'd still label him "far right". Still, there is something to be said for listening more to your own population, but ironically it's mostly the left-wing parties who want to help the ones who are "forgotten" the most. Just like this guy, all the rioters are just filled with too much hatred towards immigration and other cultures to actually understand that what they are doing is against their own interests. Immigrants and other cultures are just an easy scapegoat, not the cause of the existing problems within the UK (or other European nations, for that matter).

[@jesscornelius2481]

@@jeffafa3096”immigrants are a scapegoat” as if the rich people aren’t the ones wanting to bring them in lmfao

[@ChavvyCommunist]

@@jesscornelius2481 there's nothing contradictory about those two things. treating immigrants like disposable cheap labour, then throwing them under the bus when the nativist backlash gets too intense, is entirely consistent behaviour. they already view poor poeple in general as expendable so if they're foreign there's even less reason not to.

[@nietzscheankant6984]

@@jesscornelius2481 Keep fighting the other powerless little people, and let the powerful people and factions running the show keep on doing their thing - that's how their divide and conquer strategy is supposed to work, so, good job on protecting those responsible for the things you're mad about.

[@zac8603]

I love that mere seconds after calling the sold prisons crumbling Victorian derelicts, you showed yourself using the abandoned prisons suicide net as the world’s most dangerous trampoline.

[@fugyfruit]

I'm pretty sure a suicide net is actually significantly safer than a standard trampoline since they're actually designed to take an adult humans weight falling from two or three stories

[@AN-uf5vg]

The conversation about the UK is 20 years too late

[@vegefranz]

same here in Germany

[@freedomgoddess]

@@vegefranz another chilling example. have fun, hans.

[@alanledger1858]

@@vegefranz whats going wrong in germany?

[@hudsonclarkk]

@@alanledger1858neo nazis

[@IsraDevil]

@@alanledger1858 Islamic invasion

[@BackWhereYouStarted]

I'm sorry but "oh it's a Facebook crime, is it?" is hilariously dystopian

[@mrman991]

yeah, it's not the posting on facebook that's the illegal part, it's the inciting people to riot that's the illegal part. It's just facebook records it much better than you screaming through a megaphone.

[@c6q3a24]

@@mrman991 Piss of bellend. The UK police arested a teenager for posting song lyrics. They've imprisoned a man for selling 'rude' stickers.

[@danditto6145]

As a foreigner I would say the government censoring Free Speech on the internet is the worst thing I saw happening on this video. Protests, riots, EDl and illegal immigrants and all were not as scary as the Government censorship. Not really where this self-hatred in England is coming from, most Americans have a fairly good opinion of the Native peoples of Great Britain.

[@pauld.b7129]

Agreed. Especially when it's just saying something. It's wild how they've criminalized their own citizens so that illegal migrants don't get their feelings hurt

[@JanuarySnowstorm]

That finally explains it to me. They incited a riot, and Britain put a new law in place to keep up with this kind of detached, plausible deniability form of fomenting. Now, you have dude's getting arrested left and right for what they post. Equal and opposite reactions and all that. I can't condone it, but I finally understand it.

[@wurtknurte7283]

"Oh boy, I wonder if my part of the country is going to be on the news for something!" During August: "NO NOT LIKE THAT"

[@CarlosSpicyWang]

The riots shouldn't have stopped

[@EggsBenAddict]

Same with me and being from Christchurch.

[@Falkenschwinge]

In my part of bavaria its always either nazis or pedophiles. But the morons here are still proud of it because those are "just lies of the leftist media going after patriots or catholics". Its so fucking annoying.

[@wornjeans6830]

​@@EggsBenAddict fucking rip bud, hope you and yours are doing well

[@EggsBenAddict]

@@wornjeans6830 Appreciate it! ♥

[@iouiscolingreen1373]

Callum getting upset people are "angry" when he says the earth is flat, but thinking it should be okay to hate people. Is one of the most insane double thinks in this documentary. They have to be both the victims and the last strong men at the same time.

[@Sillyman44]

I believe you can "hate" and not get angry. Everyone hate's someone or something wether they admit it or not and hate like any other emotion can be quiet and subtle

[@basspuppy133]

These people have no consistency to their "morals" or "values".

[@cookieface80]

@@Sillyman44 You must not be familar with the teachings of Master Yoda.

[@whyamilikethis1998]

"If I lived in the Victorian era, I'd be much happier" >painful death from preventable disease has entered the chat

[@marceelino]

Even with that, they would be still happier than they are now. It just shows how bad the situation is.

[@clownofwar]

Don't forget the forced labour from being poor as dirt, and if your lucky the bread of that day would not contain plaster, in order to, ehem, enrich the flavour.

[@M-Soares]

@@clownofwar This. It's funny how every time someone fantasizes about being born far in the past they're always the royals or other elite of the time and never the much more numerous serfs, peasents or slaves.

[@jimbothegymbro7086]

you'll likely suffer the same fate today thanks to the wait times

[@moss1066]

@clownofwar You really do not understand just how bad things are do you?

[@commandantcarpenter]

"I don't remember that as a kid!" "I do."

[@commandantcarpenter]

what a perfect encapsulation of humanity.

[@pubjubz]

@@commandantcarpenterdid you forget to switch accounts?

[@commandantcarpenter]

@@pubjubz no, it was another thought

[@Gugernoot]

@@commandantcarpenter Oh okay just make an edit then.

[@TuriGamer]

​@@Gugernootediting your comments basically makes them invisible No edited comment is ever in the tops

[@Gallery1743]

The phrase dont let the bastards grind you down never felt more relevant.

[@moss1066]

@@Gallery1743 illegitimi non carborundum

[@scienceface8884]

​@@moss1066 "Don't let the outlaws silicon carbide"???

[@moss1066]

@@scienceface8884 wronguns don't play bingo

[@intrograted792]

I had the same thought 'Geez, OT's catch phrase couldn't be more apt'

[@Pabloignacioalvarez]

THEY’RE JUST A BUNCH OF CLOWN DON’T LET THEM GRIND YOU DOWN

[@chinmayasukumar6321]

Great high quality content..keep it up!

[@billystringer7306]

‘we have a great system of government.. if it worked’ so what you’re saying is we currently don’t have a great system of government

[@lynnclaywood4043]

A very, "the system isn't broken, there are just bad actors nowadays!" take

[@LuizAlexPhoenix]

Yeah, total cognitive dissonance. The system isn't working but it COULD work and everything else in the world is worse in her mind. It's mindrot...

[@ghoulbuster1]

The government is currently a police state

[@alclay8689]

​@@ghoulbuster1visiting London, the amount of cameras Everywhere was astounding. It definitely gave paranoid authoritarian police state vibes

[@DoekeYouTube]

Daniel Jackson here. Thanks for interviewing me!

[@TreasureTheWhiteQueen]

Dude you’re country is sick asf keep going president

[@sigvebeyer9765]

Ouu do you take questions Mr president? It’s inpiring enough a story to want to join, but what are the current laws on inclusivity?

[@ozelotsoffunT-jz2rt]

Claim foreign lands in the name of Britannia - A true patriot - EGREES EGREES 70km CLOSING FULL THROTTLE EGRESS EGRESS

[@Black-zc8xj]

Why'd you choose my country's flag for yours? I saw it and instantly started laughing my ass off lol

[@spencer3986]

It's an honor, Mr. President. Just wanted to say, I'm a big fan of your country's flag design.

[@tdb7992]

The amount of Brits arriving here in Australia since the end of covid has exploded. It's incredibly noticeable. I work in health, and it seems like every doctor and nurse in the UK is currently moving to Australia. We always had a lot of Brits moving here but right now, it's crazy (and they're totally welcome here by the way).

[@Peglegkickboxer]

Do they not know that Australia was a bigger police state than the UK during covid? Lol

[@ad_astra5]

Australia has been paying massive bonuses to police and medical staff to move

[@kylegonewild]

@@Peglegkickboxer Do they also know Australia was one of the strongest economies during the pandemic and suffered far less than more lax places like the US? Because I do.

[@atomicspartan131]

The reason theres so many British doctors in Australia is because they're paid almost double what that would be paid in the UK. Plus there were government-sponsored advertisements targeting UK doctors specifically to come to Australia a while ago

[@backlogbuddies]

I have a friend from China who moved to the UK to work in medicine and she's currently trying to go to Aus for the better pay and to be closer to her family. UK is losing a lot of people due to their stagnating wages.

[@dammitbelle1]

"It must be better than here" absolutely broke me. Fantastic doc.

[@thepeero9670]

so much was said there.

[@PointedHeels1]

I wasn't ready 😢

[@DutchThriceman]

@@thepeero9670 About how AWEFUL france is 🤣

[@graye2799]

You people let your empathy be weaponized against you.

[@graye2799]

They will ruin us.

[@KevMcc-c2b]

As an Irishman, its actually sad to see our colonisers just give up on everything like they have, it might be Stockholm syndrome cos we watch your football and the chase, but not many Irish people actually hate England , I hate to see a nation utterly demoralized. Come on England. Get your groove back. It's like if a guy you really didn't like at school, got liver cancer from drinking too much and died at 31. Such a shame, I didn't like him but I didn't want this to happen. But they did it to themselves.

[@brandonhopkins7083]

Yall are not doing much better seems like yall have the same migrant issues

[@HorusHerotic]

At least your fellow country men seem to have some decency, common sense and a backbone. Best of luck over there.

[@Chadrick2]

Tah same thing is happening to Ireland

[@jasperfox6821]

We just need to get rid of the illegal immigration and we'll be better than ever! ✊️🇬🇧🦊

[@KevMcc-c2b]

@@brandonhopkins7083 yeah but we're not demoralized into hating ourselves...yet. plus Irish mass migrations lol the country's gonna go bust anyway down and wel be mass migrating outta here once again with the refugees.

[@LudosErgoSum]

«No pint?» «I prefer metric.»

[@EnclosedPoolArea]

Eyes rolling into my head like I'm the Undertaker.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

@@EnclosedPoolArea Why? Dude's correct, the Metric system rules.

[@alphakevin687]

Very based answer, would gladly welcome this lad back into the EU.

[@marcus14659]

Tbf when we think of pints it's normally as "a little more than half a litre". But it's got it's upside as we get that extra 100ml

[@EnclosedPoolArea]

@@JohnGardnerAlhadis he knows the man isn't talking about units but he's still gotta go ☝️🤓

[@jonhill7081]

4:30 "If I was born in the Victorian era, I think I'd be very very happy..." - no mate, you would've been sent up rich people's chimneys as a toddler, then off to the workhouse aged 5 once you were too big to fit up the sooty spouts. This is honestly what annoys me about the British nostalgia for our "glorious history"... Everyone thinks their life would've been like Downton Abbey, as if everyone was born into that sort of immense wealth and privilege back then... Utter dilusion and a complete misunderstanding of history.

[@MrKingkz]

Same i see this alot I get told all the time are ancestors this and are ancestors did that and I just look and thin no mate ur ancestors where the ones that where alcoholics buy 12 and died at the old age of 29 ur ancestors are the ones that body's lined up Dunkirk I wish more people knew this it's sad cuz if they knew this they would release that we the immigrants and the work class have the same enemy and its the rich

[@VallornDeathblade]

The children yearn for the mines.

[@jessip8654]

Yeah really. We're still living in one of the best and safest eras of human history, even if a lot of things are currently going sideways. Food is plentiful, modern medicine means you aren't dying from a broken toe, child mortality is now very low, we have indoor plumbing, ect. ect. Idealizing older eras where we didn't have these things seem downright silly. I do idealize 2019 though. What a nice year that was.

[@gurigura4457]

Pretty sure the person who read Oliver Twist at age 12 & assumed it was an accurate reflection of Victorian Britain is the person with a misinterpretation of history, but go on.

[@jonhill7081]

@@gurigura4457 Do you know why Charles Dickens was able to write so accurately about childhood poverty in his works such as David Copperfield, Little Dorritt, Nicholas Nickleby and Oliver Twist (probably the only one of those you've ever heard of)..? Because Dickens himself was forced to leave school aged 12 to work in a boot-blackening factory after his father was locked up simply for being in debt, and his family had no other form of income or chance of survival. Perhaps you should more carefully pick your examples so not to embarrass yourself in public.

[@stabbedwestward725]

I love your normal output, your sense of humor is fantastic but even still you’re very informative. But this, this is phenomenal.

[@UnimportantAcc]

"Yeah so barium poisoning will-" "Turn you into one of the Chuckle Brothers?" Okay that got me good 🤣

[@belnonaodh1520]

It's an infection that passes to me, to you

[@UnimportantAcc]

@@belnonaodh1520 to me, to you!

[@deadhardy]

"Born in the Victorian era" ya maybe if you were wealthy. Who would want to live as a commoner in the Victorian era? Your opportunities and living conditions were complete shit compared to now.

[@thommyneter168]

But but but, England was the great power and was inventing all those things and conquering stuff

[@bob7975]

My impression from the literature of the time is that NOBODY was happy in Victorian Britain. Even the Queen wasn't particularly happy. She was in formal mourning most of her adult life.

[@liamnehren1054]

Even if you were wealthy, my family was then, still wouldn't want that. Being gassed by the gas lamps? poisoned by the glazes? radioactive paintings? All of these things and many more make me want to NOT be back in that era.

[@liamnehren1054]

@@williampotter3369 I mean... probably not, I imagine there was light smog over cities long into the past. Cooking fires, metal smelting, processing of things like leather. The only thing we have today we didn't have then is electrical plants to a certain degree centralizing the effects and population mass, both of which certainly made smog stronger.

[@bandit6272]

More "presentism" If you are a fan of history, stop distoring it through your bias of presentism.

[@cancerouscorndog6425]

The second British KZbinr has made a video about how bad Britain is

[@robcain8865]

Make that the third, following Britmonkey and Tom Nicholas...

[@cancerouscorndog6425]

@ is tom nicholas good, I love britmonkey though

[@robcain8865]

@cancerouscorndog6425 I definitely recommend Tom's videos, very well produced. He recently made a big documentary for Nebula called "Boomers" which looks into the huge effect older folks have had on the world and what they are leaving to younger generations.

[@jjjjjjjjjjjjjjo]

Lots of observation but few solutions presented

[@sebastianahrens2385]

@@cancerouscorndog6425 Only ever saw one full Tom Nicholas video in which he completely demolished Veritasium. Based on that, I'd recommend at least taking a look at his stuff. He definitely puts in a lot of time and effort.

[@soffren]

The far right is allowed to become the right, only when the left creates an opening. This conversation is 10-15 years too late.

[@OverweightSorcery]

You know your country's gone to shit when you can get better housing and healthcare *in prison* compared to being free

[@truthteller2033]

The channel migrants literally get free dental, credit card with money, hotel, housing, clothing, food etc. Whilst we get charged 3 grand for braces and have winter fuel allowances stripped. Good times.

[@erikgarcia2854]

Same here in the U.S! They get free cars, money, and debit cards. The African migrants call them "magic money cards" while our homeless, veterans, and lower class people get nothing and live in the streets and poverty! 😊

[@jndelacr]

⁠@@truthteller2033 Well, not only the government would have spent money on bringing those migrants back to their country, but also giving extra money for them to have housing, health, clothing to be in their country. So what do propose to be the better solution?

[@mrbanana6464]

@@truthteller2033 Average Brit blaming minorities rather than their own shit economic policies

[@truthteller2033]

@@jndelacr Well the grand insult is that they get to stay. I'll happily pay the money if the end result is that they go away. And that would also be a deterrent. Currently this is money we spend without an end in sight. If we deter them through deportations, they'll stop coming. We also have to crack down on legal migration though. Nearly 800,000 net in one year is insane. And thats after 20 years of 250k a year coming. Native Brits are now a minority in London and pretty much every other major city. When we talk about New Zealand, South Africa, Australia etc we now see that colonisaiton was bad. But why is it now good that it's happening to us? Revenge?

[@zaidkidwai7831]

Stabbing and crossbow attacks 😂. Mfs out here like it’s 1066

[@redacted3610]

They bringing it back to the BC lmfao

[@some1online2]

Some people still live like its the stone age, the problem is we often refuse to accept that.

[@ASBO_LUTELY]

No guns, so these are violent peoples options...

[@Jess38044]

It sounds crazy but occasionally someone goes and attacks others with a crossbow for whatever reason? Wikipedia's let me know three women in England were killed with a crossbow just in July. There was a crossbow attack in Australia in 2003, and iirc a few copycat attempts not long after the initial incident

[@Rays326]

Beasts all over the shop…

[@fugyfruit]

This is what generations of Thatcherism does to a mf

[@jackwolfe338]

But we've been under a generation of Blairite government.

[@turgon327]

Rest in piss Thatcher

[@Dushmann_]

You are kidding, right? We're living in the era of Blairism and have been since 1997. It was Blair who opened the borders - look at how much demographic change has occured since 1997.

[@Dushmann_]

bruh... it's unbelievable that people can post stuff like this with a straight face. You're going to blame it on a politician from like 40 years ago and not on modern policies? Look at what has happened to this country since 1997.

[@pastlife960]

@@Dushmann_So you’re going to blame politicians from 30 years ago instead?

[@DarkMatter280]

I think they guy's point about not being allowed to hate anything is interesting. Like, he's not entirely wrong - we are told we should be tolerant of everything now, but there are certain things that we should find objectively wrong, that are very common in certain cultures. But, we're told to respect that culture anyway.

[@Armourduck]

I actually think the quick fire pride question round was a great way of showing this. In that case it was the opposite, people who weren't proud of England being proud of individually English things, but it's really not farfetched to flip the dynamic. You can be tolerant of a culture, even if some aspects of it are stuff you don't agree with. I don't agree with a lot of individual stuff in English culture, there's a lot there that's objectively wrong, but I still respect its existence and enjoy other individual parts that are great.

[@StrawB0ss]

For me, I try not to hate people, not for tolerance but because it's a poisonous emotion that's bad for your health.

[@DarkMatter280]

@Armourduck But the difference is, in my opinion anyway, that the worst thing you can say about English culture is that we drink too much. That doesn't even remotely compare to things like honour killings, genital mutilation, child marriage etc.

[@DarkMatter280]

@StrawB0ss I'd agree, hate isn't a good thing. I just meant more like there are things we should look at and call out as being wrong, rather than just accepting it in the name of tolerance.

[@sperzieb00n]

@@DarkMatter280 either you're a zombie or have been living under a rock; brits are known for being the most criminal and violent sports hooligans on the planet, but it wouldn't make sense to blame that on ALL the brits with their "objectively wrong culture", since not every brit is a sports hooligan.

[@compatriot852]

This seems to be an issue across the world. Declining economies, housing, etc. combined with an increase in crime and mass migration.

[@mooodeuce]

WEF blueprint, no coincidence. The economies aren't declining on paper either and the rich people are doing just fine out of it. It's only the average human experience that is declining.

[@MakerInMotion]

​@@mooodeuceWell the rich are losing power to control public thought. Trust in corporate media is the lowest its ever been. The money keeps flowing in but influence is flowing out.

[@t.7124]

No, trust in traditional, corporate media is declining, you can see in America just how willing people are to listen to corporations and the rich, though. Look at the amount of fans Musk and Trump have.

[@snowballeffect7812]

@@MakerInMotion in fact, the opposite is true. They've never been richer and you've never been more into comparing skin colors instead of voting to tax them more.

[@MakerInMotion]

@@snowballeffect7812 The thing about shaking down the rich as economic policy is they can easily move anywhere they want. You know...because they're rich. California raised their taxes and they moved to Texas and Florida. Raise their taxes nationally and they can move to any country they want while still doing business in America. So good luck with that brilliant policy solution.

[@Sillykat321]

"George Orwell?" "Yes." "The English countryside?" "Yes." "Ed Sheeran?" "Fuck off." Couldn't have put it better myself

[@Bongyes]

Could be worse. It could be Bieber.

[@HOVNA]

Nah. It's just the syndrome of "i dont like it because it's popular culture" That dude is incredibly talented and super chill.

[@RH11THM]

​​@@HOVNA Sheeran is talented but his music is as uninspired as the majority of modern pop music

[@pierrebegley2746]

@@Bongyes He's basically Britain's Bieber.

[@Bongyes]

@pierrebegley2746 i hope there is no British P Diddy then.

[@notapplicable7292]

I had my world view rocked a little a while back when I actually looked into how migrants (legal and illegal) effect economics. I had always belived that migration was a net positive however an uncomfortable truth is that net positive is overwhelmingly toward wealthier citizens who take advantage of cheaper labour. I absolutely ethically support migration however now respect that there is a middle ground to be found between migration and protection of a counties working class.

[@louwashe]

You're right, but only because the wealthy built the system that way. Immigration could positively benefit all of us but the economics are structured in a way that means the growth does not trickle down.

[@HorusHerotic]

Something leftists such as Bernie Sanders used to understand before they became sackless corporate tools

[@MrKingkz]

​@@louwasheSo true what is ment to happen is everyone is ment to get something but what has happened is the immigrants and the working class are at each others necks for the last few jobs that haven't been sold off or been taken over by the A.I

[@Regarded69]

Ethically I think a unrestrictive immigration policy is the most heinous evil there is. Our economic problems are temporary, a product of our time, there have been times of prosperity and poverty in all ages. I'd be willing to suffer if I knew we had a future. But changing the population from the ground up, replacing the native culture and creating a hybrid-society enabled and directly caused by government policy. It's absolutely unforgivable and can't be undone.

[@MrKingkz]

@@Regarded69 A little bit of immigration is good for a country too much can cause problems as a grandchild of immigrants I can tell you that when my grandparents came over in the 50s there was not many of us we where told to mix in there where problems but we did that's why 95% of Caribbean family's have white people in there immediate family in the next 100 years the only way you could tell we was here is by the music we left behind that is the way immigration to any country is ment to work not to take over the population but to mix in and become a part of the country I think the problem was they only increased immigration past the 80s to the point where the country is forever changed like the death of the pub which is sad

[@blane2472]

Former actor boy seems to be very threatened by black men, unironically.

[@lorenabell4713]

Nice to know you guys are having the same issues as us here in the US.

[@MoeMa4]

The difference is in the US, white Americans especially are the invaders

[@811see]

@@MoeMa4that’s how history works idiot. People are conquered, your comment shows that you know nothing.

[@robotx9285]

​​@@811seeTheir comment shows they know American history. -_-

[@fred3965]

You can't blame people for being angry but they don't exactly go about it intelligently. This country has gone to the dogs and lack of proper governance is the problem.

[@fred3965]

@@CandyMan2001 I am in the exact same situation, perhaps not as bad as some places in the UK but I personally do not like it either but there are smarter ways of protesting an issue without getting yourself jailed.

[@waggish4999]

@@fred3965 like what? Violence is the end result of nothing else working

[@EnclosedPoolArea]

@@waggish4999 People only say that when they empathise with the violent party. You wouldn't say that about, say, Lee Rigby's attacker, for example.

[@Dgnmuse]

​@@waggish4999 What else did they try? Like honestly a lot of people in videos were not legal age to even vote. People need to get involved in person with politics themselves.

[@NTL578]

The problem is that people with a bit more intelligence and a bit more to lose are terrified to speak about these issues, so unfortunately you only tend to get people who can't articulate themselves or are genuinely prejudiced people with nothing to lose who will.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

For me it's quite depressing, how much as how much money we lost by not setting up a sovereign wealth fund like norway did with it's oil, which is now worth £1.15 tillion. Even if it brought in very little it is our oil.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

​​​@@JollyOldCanuck they had a budget surplus because they didn't just let private companies take the oil for little compensation. Sovereign wealth fund is completely seperate to deficits. Also your last sentence is nonsencial are you saying the government should do no investment if they have debt. Even if for example every pound spent on education 8 is created in the economy. Debt has repayments you pay the repayments you are fine, you can do whatever you want with the rest of your intake. For example a close example for a person is like a mortgage

[@ronmastrio2798]

Yeah but all of our political parties are green freaks who think oil is evil.

[@GEMikeero]

Search up what’s Pemex and you will see why that’s a bad idea

[@iwiffitthitotonacc4673]

​@@Alex-cw3rzThe reason for the nonsense is probably because the guy is a bot lol, if not a bot he certainly seems to have the mental faculties of one

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@@iwiffitthitotonacc4673 well his comments gone so I presume so or he realised he'd made an error

[@scarlettsaunders6960]

Gorgeous video hope it gets more attention

[@XaviMacBash]

This is one of the most important videos ever made about England, the scarily little amount of any coverage of the August riots coupled with the mainstream media's way of trying pretend everything's fine has opened the door to people like Josh and Britmonkey to make the only relevant capsules to the state of the country. This video will be studied, it's both beautiful and incredibly depressing, it's the only accurate summary of the country right now.

[@EnclosedPoolArea]

It needed less of the Dutch property developer and some more accounts from migrants or asylum seekers, considering that they were the major talking point in the video. Only really got that with the Syrian boys and the Eritreans.

[@ThatBulgarian]

when it costs the country more per year to house an asylum seeker than the national average wage, theres a deep issue

[@ONEMANFORALL]

An issue for the "Citizen" but a Profit for the "Companies/Corporations".

[@deek0146]

Every boat that arrives is the taxes from tens of thousands of tax payers consumed for their entire lives.

[@magorzatamorawska8350]

I respect that you're transparent about your views without advocating for them strongly. It makes it fair for the people you're interviewing and is a breath of fresh air in the otherwise polarised journalism. I lived in London (moving post Brexit from EU) and in my experience most Brits were uncomfortable talking about any aspects of migration. As if even bringing it up was inherently racist. It is necessary to face the issues that migration brings, without labeling concerns or prejudice as evil. I would argue that in _most_ cases people are not 'radicalised' but just exposed to the negative consequences of migration and they are shunned and called 'far-right' for addressing them as they currently are. I would not want to live in that coastal town, among foreign, desperate, destitute people, waiting for the noble ideas of humanity to be fleshed out in a better way and being looked down on by people who are better off, living in a good part of London, not experiencing the same loss of sense of safety. I need to add, 41k/year to host a migrant is insanely high. Most Brits could only dream of earning that much. Seeing this figure while you're working hard to get by, earning maybe a half of that - how can you not feel mistreated? As always, amazing job! I love your work and hope to see more!

[@ThePalicca]

I think it is not a good idea to use the terms "migration" and "migrant" without a certain level of specificity. While I do think all migrants do affect the country they migrate to, I do not believe the effects are exactly same or to the same extent and therefore distinctions need to be made. When you say "to host a migrant", I assume you mean asylum seekers though a migrant could just as well be an international student or a migrant worker. I might also just have missed the section where it was stated all migrants are supported with 41K a year. In regards to asylum seekers, we have to ask the question: what is the price of compassion? I think to be taken seriously with your criticism on the matter, you'd have to first admit you believe there is a cost and also be able to provide at least some sort of criteria you use to arrive to the cost even if it isn't founded on a lot of data. In this case it was "the yearly income of the average brit" which is supposedly 30 000 pounds and I tend to agree, that is a significant amount, and an acceptable criteria for me. However, I believe question arises that needs to be answered and it's if you think 30K would be acceptable and why or why not. I myself can't say how much should be spent on compassion per person compared to the average citizen. This, I believe, is the very beginning of trying to make any sort of actual progress on "solving" the matter which is a very messy one.

[@Cooe.]

Concerns aren't but prejudice is always evil. Tell everyone you're racist without telling everyone. 🤷

[@tadawakatsu]

@@Cooe. Ahh.. the good ol' R-word. I recall it being a more significant in the past. Now it holds no meaning other than cheap, overused insult and/or accusation.

[@lb5818]

@@Cooe. and it's facile comments like this that only serve to stifle the conversation

[@Harley_Mitchelly]

@@lb5818 Worse. Racism just means you're booing someone now. You want to see where the ubernationalist rioters are coming from, just look at how racism doesn't mean bollocks anymore and people genuinely don't care anymore. Call them racist. They don't care. They just want a solution and have identified the declaration of racist intent as a hurdle to a solution. No one should be surprised that the word has no compulsion over them anymore.

[@TomoHawKzZ]

A million extra people a year coming here to a country with underfunded schools, a collapsing NHS, roads that look like swiss cheese and councils going bankrupt from social housing. But yeah wouldn't want to be "racist", give em a free hotel room.

[@SilosiVan]

Mate, getting immigrants out of the country won't help, the NHS is still gonna collapse and schools are still gonna be underfunded, the root of the problem is the government not funding NHS and the education system, deporting immigrants is like the same solution with Brexit, they say it's gonna be better now after Brexit, but look at the country now, things only got fucking worse

[@SLDimarco]

Given that about 400k people emmigrate a year, this leads to less of a population increase then you think. Beyond that, all those problems you describes are from conservative austerity and privatization. Voting for the party that screams bloody murder about immigrants as a mere distraction away from policies that would actually benefit the working class. Also why do some many racists have anime profile pictures. Such a weird combo.

[@inframatic]

@@SilosiVan Your argument is called Whataboutism. Illegal immigration or uneducated immigration is still a huge problem for crime and other issues

[@inframatic]

@@SLDimarcoYou missed his point. It’s not letting 400k people that is the problem. it would be letting in even 200k people who are uneducated and the government must fund thousands of dollars a year to sustain just one of those people to become educated etc etc.

[@inframatic]

@@SLDimarcoi mostly see racist woke people with the anime pictures. also japan’s culture is pretty racist so it’s not surprising

[@ajn2370]

The last successful invasion of England was in 1688. They landed in Torbay. That resulted in William III and Mary II on the throne, replacing James II (should be James VII but everyone ignores Scotland).

[@felixkarl2522]

What about Whithaven during the American Revolution?

[@Arenumberg]

I think invasion when used in this context is meant to mean active military conquest and supplanting of the existing societal order, which wasn't the case during the Glorious Revolution. The forces arrayed for defence dissolved before combat, nor was it a Foreign power/crown taking control - an "english" Monarch was (re)placed on an independent throne and the nobility remained more or less intact. Technically speaking though, sure.

[@ajn2370]

@@felixkarl2522 a raid might be successful but doesn't actually change the head of state. I would not say Whithaven was the last successful invasion of England.

[@ajn2370]

@@Arenumberg oh it was far less bloody and substantial than the Norman conquest. It's an interesting debate and I appreciate your points but I do genuinely disagree. The nobility was relatively unchanged but there were some inprisonments and executions. William and Mary were foreign to England and they did bring constitutional reforms with their successful usurping. I think the fact the royalist forces routed before a battle doesn't discount the affair as an invasion. If they did land at Dover there probably would have been a battle and the Dutch had a fair chance of winning it. There were other similar invasions that were not successful but were definitely invasions and would have resulted in a change of ruler without changing aristocracy etcetera. The Jacobite rising involved an invasion force of over 10,000 men departing Normandy, for example. So I agree with Wikipedia (for whatever that's worth!), the glorious revolution was the last successful invasion of England.

[@Gatojazz593]

And the migrant crisis in Europe is only gonna get worse. Pretty much all around the world too.

[@MazHem]

Unless we give them trillions of dollars to help with climate change, that's what some of the recent discussions at COP29 have been about. We've agreed to give some, but we need to give more, and more importantly the USA needs to give the most and they're probably gonna refuse.

[@811see]

@@MazHemthey will just pocket that money as they do with All foreign aid. 😒

[@Cat-up6hb]

@@MazHem the problem is that rich nations give poor nations money, those poor nations then feed their people, who end up making children after children without thinking about it if you want to solve the problem of this world, then you have to give poor nations their resources back, that way they can actually grow their own economy but that will never happen because the people who own those resources will never give them up, they would rather sacrifice western nations by allowing millions from all around the world in them, so people can feel better, just like "oh look we gave those few a chance in our glorious western country" - meanwhile ignoring the hundrets of millions who stay in their country in the end nothing changes for those countries, only thing thats gonna change is that western nations will fall apart

[@doubled57690]

you colonized them and they speak your languages now..... language is a HUGE reason why they can migrate.... ill prove it: Nigerians go to uk while Congolese go to France. 2 options: either help their native language grow back or accept the world will mix inevitably like South America.

[@Cat-up6hb]

@@doubled57690 youre talking like we have a choice here lol its not like we as the people have the power to decide that

[@soronprfrbs]

Your work just keeps getting better and better. Thank you as always, Mr. Things.

[@severian9475]

As you get older and have children in your life, you don’t see being born in a privileged position with opportunities and security provided for you from birth as “Winning a genetic lottery”, you see it as something parents spend their lives working to provide for their children out of love. Which is why a lot of people, especially older people, will see illegal immigration as strangers trying to undeservedly claim a piece of that pie they’ve baked for their families. Which is probably why you see being pro-family and anti-immigration go together so much in politics. It’s easier to be generous with the shared resources and opportunities of your county when your young and it’s only yourself your who may end up with less to go around, not your children, and when you don’t understand first hand the lifetime of work it takes from previous generations to provide that, it is is easy to just see what you’ve been born with as pure luck. Hope that doesn’t come across as patronising, I do personally have a lot of sympathy for immigrants and you can bet if I was in their position I’d certainly be trying to get myself and my family to a country where we could have a chance at a better life. I don’t mean to criticise them or anyone else, just provide another point of view.

[@sejanus855]

At the end of the day it still is winning in the genetic lottery though, not a brit but this also shows the generational problem, a lot of the wealth older people have stems from less hard work than they would believe they did. For the actual elders I agree, but many boomers and generations afterwards are just profiting from generational wealth while pulling up all bridges they walked on to get where they are now behind them...just to complain that everything they have is self earned. It's incredibly infuriating and everyone who isn't blessed with winning this more specific genetic lottery is left out. Because at the end of the day a lot of things are indeed just genetic lottery, but many kinds of it.

[@sejanus855]

But I agree with another point you made, many people indeed forget to see the privilege they had/have as privilege but a right of theirs, or even worse, something they deserve because they worked harder and longer than anyone else ever. A viewpoint many many people have.

[@gigaport]

This is a big reason why people who are legal migrants also tend to oppose and hate illegals because they're trying to get the same benefits without having to do any of the work.

[@t.fairuz29]

Perhaps the UK should try not funding wars in other countries, and creating future potential immigrants. Just a thought.

[@lucasmcguire1554]

@@sejanus855 "Privilege" is a left-wing lie that only young naive childless people believe, myself included when I was younger. When you get older you see that differences between different groups is down mostly to behaviour. There is a certain group that does not behave well and raise their kids properly, loads of people see it but get demonised if they speak out about it.

[@doormatt76]

The 2024 in a nutshell vid is going to be insane

[@XaviMacBash]

SANS BEANSTALK in an Ordinary Things video is one of the best things i've ever seen, 2 minutes in already a classic

[@aaronsmicrobes8992]

Some legitimate feedback, I have to say that I was surprised at the toned down nature of this doc compared to your other videos, up until the last few minutes concerning the migrant teens you spoke to. I think the tone you took was more respectful for the content. I also think this allowed you to show off your documentary skills better. This felt more polished.

[@MisterFoxton]

It was quite noticeable that despite immigration being the underlying theme, we didn't hear from any migrants until that property owner, and then the last ten minutes in France. I'm glad they were there, but for the most part it felt like watching a weather report where they don't tell you the temperature.

[@aaronsmicrobes8992]

@MisterFoxton that's a very good point that I should have picked up on myself. I'm going to pretend it's because I kept getting interrupted while watching it and not because I don't always try to think critically about the media I consume.

[@professorhazard]

My only complaint was he said "exasperated" when I'm pretty sure he meant "exacerbated" at one point.

[@lucky65strike]

I thought it was quite an interesting tactic, personally. It's always easy to dismiss the concerns regarding immigration as uneducated bigotry, so the fact that the people making those arguments were given an open platform to explain and discuss them without immediate hostile reactions enabled a more nuanced discussion that is often missing. Following on from that however, snapping back to the realisation that we're actually discussing desperate individuals who are getting their arms broken by the police and then being ignored is arguably more impactful in demonstrating the counter-argument than if the video had simply ping-ponged between pro and anti all the way through. I'm pro-migration and sympathic to displaced people fwiw.

[@selectionn]

because the argument that immigration isnt a problem falls apart the minute you actually look at it and talk to immigrants who have zero interest in integrating into the culture.

[@suitsandstrings55]

Your content just keeps getting better and better. Greetings from New England.

[@ziggydo]

Good on you for interviewing people from all places on the aisle, I think that's missing in a lot of documentaries/video essays like this.

[@arianj2863]

he literally didnt interview any refugees

[@rambo.69]

This is woke goyslop. Sneering at the ‘far right’ and cushy interviews with libtards.

[@TheTb2364]

Genuine question from someone being a bit ignorant on the matter - why all those people go to UK and Germany? If their fleeing war or draft or poverty, wouldn't closest stable country in their region be easier, safer and way cheaper option?

[@StraightFelon]

Not as much free shit

[@danver8433]

They go there for free handouts.

[@grumpyhale821]

Stop using logic or you'll get called far right or racist. 🧠 in 🫙

[@rice4550]

A lot do stop in next door countries like Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi being the largest areas of Syrian migrants but these countries can be overwhelmed that’s why you can claim asylum in any country

[@t3hmaniac]

Language and existing communities mostly. English is seen in many places as the "Default" second language with Britain being the only part of the Anglosphere not an ocean away whereas prior migration movements, most notably the rebuilding efforts after WW2, created sizable minorities in Germany that would make integrating into the country, getting work etc. easier than it would be if you were completely starting from scratch. This of course has a snowball effect where if you know of someone like yourself who successfully migrated to a country, that country becomes a more appealing destination even if it is harder to get to.

[@mrurquhart9138]

41:59 I'll have you know Mr Things that Barium poisoning is no joke! I got exposed to it and now I have developed a thick, moustache-like growth on my upper lip, a severe mutation of my voice box so that I now only speak in a Yorkshire accent and every time I need to shift something I'm compelled to cry out To me! To you! To me! To you! until the task is complete. This affliction, unlike the English comedy duo sensation The Chuckle Brothers, is no laughing matter.

[@belnonaodh1520]

Oh dear... Oh dear or dear

[@HauntedCJ]

This nuanced and captivating film puts everything on mainstream media to shame. Great work.

[@Comrade-Broski]

It feels so surreal because a lot of the moments in the video feel like a page in serveral states in the US. The grass is not always greener, I guess

[@hia5235]

UK is worse than the US You can drive out of any US city and its absolutely lovely

[@bugjams]

The grass is greener where you water it. We have to start building community and coming together with the people around us, even if we don't agree on everything.

[@TuriGamer]

Almost like most first world countries have the same problems but we are not allowed to say why

[@robotx9285]

​@@TuriGamerIf it' immigrants, than you got hooked on a scapegoat.

[@AyaOats]

@@hia5235 okay come to america den as a non white person cuz midlamd michigan is filled with those white middle class americans that u claim are sooo fucking lovely

[@kielajellopecjo2153]

Great coverage of what's happening to Britain especially to us not from the UK. Great nuanced is given. It is easy to paint any sides of this issue with the brush of smugness or dismisiveness that most suffer.

[@Jess38044]

When these riots unfolded, I was actually visiting the UK for the first time. Some places erupted only a day or two after we'd left the area - very lucky for us, and it happened more than once, as we also went through Northern Ireland and some areas there had rioting too. The thing that I kept thinking was, though, how we're likely facing this again in our future as Aussies. So much of what is likely in store for us is already unfolding in the UK and USA. What I like so much about this video is the nuance, and the call to compassion at the end. I actually felt more like a human being by the time I finished watching this, and for that I'm grateful.

[@pauld.b7129]

Yes but immigration isn't an issue of sympathetic individuals. It's a matter of millions of people showing up to a place with no skills, no plan and no money. If I showed up to your house with absolutely nothing and expected you to feed and house me, that might be fine if you're a compassionate person. How about 100 strangers doing the same? How about 1000? Let's not forget, they have an entire country. Millions of people live in those countries just fine and dandy. They aren't ALL warzones. I think part of the problem here is forgetting that people follow motives. If I can get a free hotel stay in England and the only hurdle is getting across the channel, why would they not? All humans act on motivation. If there was no deterrent for crime, it would be widespread. Having only rewards and no deterrent will only lead to people continuing to flood in

[@danpaz9485]

I just hope those damn LNPs don't get into government, but Im fearful that people will have amensia from the bushfires and our scumbag Prime Minister, Scomo, voting in the same party that collectively fucked us over for a decade.

[@junepaul7843]

glad to see you in my feed brother. cheers from Maryland in the states❤😊

[@typicallatenightgamer7122]

I honestly believe that people's empathy runs out the moment their lives get worse. If England wishes to stamp out racism, and this hate for migrants, they need to get their shit together and try to bring back the living standards people had even just 10 years ago. I love Maslows pyramid of need when it comes to this, it somewhat illustrates what needs are not as important, and what need, if lacking, will make people filled with hatred and anger, and the more of this hatred and anger piles up, the easier it is to start riots, to make people hate a group of people. Nazi Germany before the rise of fascism has seen 2 extreme economic crashes and peoples needs have gone neglected for 20 years which radicalized them. I also think that the response to Covid was also a massive radicalization factor because of this, as the Government took away peoples ability to fulfill some of their basic need, while also forcing unvaxed to become second class citizens in their own country. So in my opinion, if the Britain's government wishes to end right wing extremism, they can't just censor or imprison people, they need to make their lives better, fix the economy, get rid of corruption. That is also why I believe England is heading down a very dark path, as I don't see the government actually doing any of that. Looking at England now, it is closer to becoming the next Nazi Germany than it has ever been, and as with how it was in Germany, it is once again the Economy which is the main radicalization factor.

[@RhomasTotevenaar]

Exactly, this is probably the hardest pill to swallow. And I like to quote something I read somewhere ages ago "And for no reason at all, people voted Hitler into power"

[@NTL578]

I think you give us too much credit. The truth is the people have been chastised and ground down so much they don't have the pride for such a thing.

[@graye2799]

Wanting England to remain English isn't wrong.

[@needbettername8583]

Something about a bunch of London hipsters speaking in American slang hurts my soul.

[@Pooknottin]

Funny how London always comes up when we talk about the decline of the rest of the nation. There's a good reason for that. Sadly, it's just easier to blame another group of victims that you can see than the policies of a government that simply doesn't care. Oh and I remember contrails. I remember seeing them as a child at primary school in 1985. They were just as harmless then as they are now.

[@------837]

Pretty sick video. You always find a way to really make me think about the topics you cover. Very good journalism.

[@TehVulpez]

"I'm not a racist, I'm a bigot" what a guy lol

[@wentoneisendon6502]

Absolute legend

[@mahdiadib9295]

Proceeds to say racist shit

[@TheSwauzz]

@@mahdiadib9295 Saying 'racist shit' does not inherently make a person racist. Just like saying nice things doesn't mean a person is nice.

[@mahdiadib9295]

@@TheSwauzz girl please

[@Huntm2]

​@TheSwauzz great logic only that normal people don't say racist shit at all. If you say racist shit you are racist it's pretty clear cut.

[@AcornElectron]

I am 46, I remember planes leaving vapour trails in the 80s. ❤

[@supermaximglitchy1]

I think I remember them doing that in the 2010’s

[@Lithuanian_NAFO_lad]

I remember them since I was 4 years old, since I live right below an airplane route to Ryga

[@NoName-lo9ym]

39 - I remember them well and how they would disappear a little way behind the plane that left them - now planes leave disgusting trails that hatch up the sky, and turn the sky into an ugly haze. Sad

[@benchitty]

Born in 2000, I've seen it my whole life, and my dad is a pilot so lots of looking up at planes from a young age. I didn't realize the chemtrail people thought it just started recently, I thought they just didn't trust what's in the vapour itself. Hilarious.

[@danpaz9485]

As far as I remember yeah, its probably been around for a long time since the existence of modern planes

[@zEropoint68]

40:37 "exasperated" and "exacerbated" are two different words with two different meanings.

[@gold9697]

Funnily enough the exact same thing is actively happening in Ireland

[@waalker1206]

Oh really, How has the Ireland government catered/responded to the situation?

[@bigkushyindustriesllc5710]

The entire west* but nah the rgeat eplacerment is a raycisschud conspiracy theory

[@laurivirtanen8636]

It's weird how this is your most serious video yet, even though last time i checked in you were discussing the inevitability of death.

[@Bearial99]

This video really surprised me. Most coverage of the riots was so one sided that I anticipated I'd find the video to be similarly disengenious... I was wrong. Violence has no place in democracy but these people are angry for a reason. Instead of dismissing these people as morons and thugs we should listen to why they are so angry and attempt to resolve their issues. Our government has failed to do this for the last twenty years and thats why I think it boiled over in such a big way over the summer. Anyway... excellent video, its very reassuring to hear well reasoned arguments and sentiments being shared!

[@Delicious_J]

No, the government has never listened to the working class people in this country, our opinion doesn't matter to them

[@Liusila]

The government WANTS the poor to fight amongst themselves, and these masses of the “in” locals are happily hopping on any suggestion that everything is the fault of those “others”.

[@mjfan653]

When we look at how the riots started, I see only once mentioned that the rumours started abroad. It was fuelled from abroad. Of course the people are financially unstable due to the gov doing, but also really really stupid, believing in chemtrails and whatnot. Easily manipulated by comments online, coming from pakistan, ryssia and whatnot.

[@LauraGrrrr5370]

It's been extremely eye-opening in Ireland to watch this happen in real time. Successive governments (really the same two centre-right parties swapping back and forth) have failed to impose rent controls or build enough affordable/social housing for decades. War in Ukraine happens and Ireland agrees to take in refugees (a good and noble thing to do) and house them in hotels (with knock-on effect on jobs, tourism and local economy). And who should slither in but the far right (some of them from the UK and the US) and direct people's justified anger at "dem furriners". Follow the money, this is all an attempt to turn us against each other instead of the handful of billionaires who are ruining the planet.

[@ahealthkit2745]

@@LauraGrrrr5370 The crazy part is that it's working so well, it might just be the end of all of us.

[@uweweissenbacher5682]

oh boy this years recap video is gonna be wild

[@WhatICallWrestling]

Dude. This is the best channel. Thank you for actually being funny AND informative!

[@Roaxial]

I legit had never even heard about the 2011 riots before which i think validates your point about collective amnesia quite well

[@moss1066]

@Roaxial maybe you were just too young to own a blackberry

[@LordVarkson]

Were you a child then or something? I'm on the other side of the world and I knew about it.

[@MrTea101]

Really? If you remember what the original Xbox is then you should know about the London riot. It's not that hard to miss how uncommon having a whole building set a light and finding the whole street destroyed.

[@scienceface8884]

​@@MrTea101 It goes on the pile with all the other atrocities that happened to people I've never met living on the other side of the world this week. I'm not going to remember them all.

[@ragnnohab]

Or that worse things have happened since then? Like in 2013 it was revealed pakistani migrants had spent nearly 40 years running a child sex ring in Rotherham. I think that may a little more concerning than a black kid getting shot by police.

[@getting_smaller]

Respect how respectful Callum and you were in a direct head to head between contrasting ideologies and ideas. I do not agree with Callum, but he let you speak, didn't interrupt and stayed formal. That is rare to see

[@Kingwut117]

Being on camera makes that incredibly easy though. People forget how this sort of conversation is very detached from reality. It's still good that it can happen, but don't fool yourself into thinking either had any respect for the other. It also helps that he never directly called out Callum's insane beliefs, that also helps keep things cordial. Make a racist comfortable around you and you'll hear the most vile shit cause they think they're safe

[@shamus731]

​@@Kingwut117 also helps that he's talking to a white british dude. As Josh pointed out, any time he saw a non white person, he just assumed they were an illegal immigrant. If Josh had a different skin tone, the conversations would likely have been very different

[@SamuelHallEngland]

Surely he had hours of footage of the two of them conversing, yet he only showed a few minutes? He hardly showed any of the guys talking points.

[@terrongraham3700]

@@SamuelHallEngland You wanted more info about how the Earth is flat?

[@ThePkmage]

​@shamus731 "but im not racist" mfers 😂

[@baumaffe7649]

I absolutely cannot believe the quality of your golden era videos. I came to know you from InternetHistorian and I liked you instantly, you striked me as the right type of pedantic intelligent british guy. I've been following you since. This is proper journalism and I'm always incredibly excited for your videos (especially the yearly round-ups, they feel like christmas). I genuinely wish you the best and hope for many years of OrdinaryThings!

[@DodgyDaveGTX]

Wait, are we still doing Christmas this year? 🙄

[@Swan_River_Cowboy]

@@DodgyDaveGTXwhat is this supposed to mean

[@swopeboi]

Incredible documentary. How did I just find your channel

[@goblinslayer7096]

You’re going to love this guy.

[@yokothespacewhale]

I’m sure imprisoning shitposters for two+ years won’t just make even more hopeless people into violent elements

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

Hey, I'm a shitposter, sometimes, yet I'm one of your best assets when the zombie apocalypse comes!

[@mmfood3004]

Calling an incitement to racial violence 'shitposting' is a bit spineless tbh.

[@freedomgoddess]

@@mmfood3004 oi you got a loisens for that characterization m9?

[@BichaelStevens]

@@mmfood3004 GET ON THE GROUND, DROP YOUR DEADLY WORDS

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

@@mmfood3004 It shows the disconnect. Education is not educating, people aren't pushed to understand, instead, they stop at "it's complicated" then they surrender to the algo, to the pain of never going to the bottom of things, but remain on the surface, feed on a frustrating superficiality while telling themselves, not my fault, I didn't ask to be born, I didn't make this mess, I blame everybody else, it's not my job, I'm in this for the money not to work. Ego, laziness, cynicism... defeatism, lack of philosophy. No! Why not the ddesire to do as good as possible, relatively selflessly, for the common good, to have an ideal, to participate in politics. Understand life is finite, resources are finite, precious. The lottery of life on this beautiful planet. Our duty to respect life. To be responsible... simple things, ordinary things.

[@CorbSchnorb]

This is perhaps your greatest ever video. The level of empathy and nuance you approach this *extremely* complicated and sensitive subject is utterly commendable. I didn't want to leave some ironic or dumb comment; the ending chapters genuinely brought a tear to my eye.

[@jrton1366]

What I find fascinating about these programmes is they never actually mention policy change. Like it’s all about vague concepts of class and economic wealth. What about actually changing immigration policy? What about actually doing what people poll at wanting to do by 70%? It’s so easy to hand wring by mentioning vague concepts over policy.

[@MazHem]

Labour and tories did change immigration policy, they made it much much harder and more expensive for people to get in relationships over the internet, it used to cost very little for people to bring over their French, German, American partners etc. Now you have to be in the top percentage of earners, and pay over £30k or something over a few years. Now instead we have more people leaving to places like Berlin and Auckland. People didn't used to care that much about immigration in the early 00s until the papers kept doing their scare stories. Back then the papers used to say things like "oooh these poor people have 10 fat children and a big council house with a tv when they should be made to live 10 in a room". Now those people do live 10 in a room and barely afford to eat, great world they're making.

[@jrton1366]

@@MazHem Immigration dramatically increased from the early 2000s, 2004 specifically with the ascension of Eastern European countries to the EU and Blair's decision not to put a break on immigration from those countries. People started caring about immigration more because the numbers went through the roof. And you're missing a bit of history. In 2019 Boris Johnson changed the rules to bring out an exception list for the rules you're referring to. This exception now includes things like barbers, store clerk, agricultural worker and construction worker. Almost every single person in the world is covered by the exception list - hence back to back years of unprecedented levels of immigration since covd. Thats without even discussing the boats issue.

[@MazHem]

​@@jrton1366 The people who generally care about immigration are from areas which don't have immigration. If you ask for numbers people don't know them, they just have a vague feeling. Like you say it's EU migration in the early 2000s, when there was a jump, but it was non EU migration. So you also just have vague feelings. The peak in EU immigration was 2015, which was most likely things like EU partners and family members going through immigration before Brexit. Also the exceptions you're listing aren't really exceptions. Like in example, for an agricultural worker the hirers go to a country where they don't yet know how bad the situation is (which is getting fewer and fewer) to say "Come to the UK for lots of money!" and then when they get to the UK they live in a broken down caravan with 10 other people, paid less than minimum wage because the farmer takes money for rent out of their wages, and if they complain they get deported. Their job is to pick food which is measured by weight and not by time. The agricultural allowance had to be implmented in a rush because due to brexit we lost almost all our ag workers and british citizens have too many workers rights to pick the food cheaply so it would raise the price of food. General Tier 4 is not under any excemptions, Tier 2 has some excemptions but it's not a couples visa it's a work sponsorship, and you still need to be paying people way more than the average UK wage, meaning there's no longer a chance to have cross country apprenticeships, which cuts off the UK from a lot of talent from overseas. Even with all the immigration we have, we still have less than 1% population increase per year. Lots of people don't come to the UK forever, also a bunch of people leave, like all the old people retiring to Spain. The people acting like we've run out of space are the columnists in 10 bedroom mansions laughing at poor people fighting over renting mouldy 1 bedroom flats. People in the US also think they have run out of space when they have literal ghost cities, it's a problem of no investment not of migration. They're just people no worse or better than you.

[@jrton1366]

@@MazHem Eh? What are you talking about? EU immigration significantly increased after 2004. Yes I am aware that EU migration peaked in 2015...that doesn't mean it didnt increase after 2004? Oh are you doing the whole 'places with the least migration voted most for brexit' trope again? The Economist already countered this - the areas with the highest RATE of change almost all voted to leave the EU. Of course areas that are already largely second or third generation British were less likely to oppose immigration. It doesn't take a genius to work out why that would be. And what do you mean people leave? Yes that is what net figures are for. 1.4 million over the last 2 years that is a city larger than Birmingham in a country where the infrastructure is crumbling. Forgetting the economic argument, 69% of British people want to reduce immigration according to YouGov. These levels of immigration have no democratic consent. It doesn't matter why. People can want it for any reason they want, the point is they want it reduced. Who are you or those like you to tell anyone different?

[@MazHem]

​ @jrton1366 Sorry, the way you were writing is very imprecise. You need to be better with your words, it looked like you were lying about the facts and figures rather than sticking to the truth. Like how you're also lying about what I've been saying, I've not been talking about Brexit, are you stuck with only talking points people have given you? It's always people from the home counties who talk about how there's apparent no-go areas etc. I've been in all the no-go areas people talk about, I've had no trouble there, I've been harassed more by kids living out in small towns in the countryside. It's true that immigration has gone very high in the last 2 years, that's because we've been taking in a lot of children from Ukraine. The long term view is much lower than the short term view. Your talking about the magazine "Economist" is not an actual economics talking point any more than if I mention Private Eye that I'd be a detective. There's been plenty of policies put in to try and reduce immigration, the reason why they don't work is because the UK is (and hopefully stays) not an active warzone. The way how we can get people to stop moving to the UK is make the rest of the world a better place, but I feel like there's even less democratic mandate for that. Though technically a democratic mandate doesn't really matter with government, most people aren't transphobic but the government still puts in loads of transphobic policies, even preventing Scotland from enacting their own democratic laws, because their friends like transphobia. But yes, the infrastructure is crumbling, but do you really think that the reason the RAAC hasn't been replaced in schools and hospitals is because immigrants came to work there as cleaners?

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

My friend Ben is from Dover. strangest thing, every time i see him he looks like he is trying to pick something up off the ground.

[@Linkinbassist]

This hits on something that Adam Curtis talks about a lot in his long line of documentaries - The more we rely on simplistic stories and narratives to recapture faltering feelings of national identity and patriotism, the more we become trapped by those ideas and the more dangerous those ideas become in terms of maintaining collective stability within that crumbling society. "When a nation is powerful, it tells the world confident stories about the future. The stories can be enchanting or frightening, but they make sense of the world. But when that power begins to ebb, the stories fall apart. And all that is left are fragments which haunt you like half-forgotten dreams" - Adam curtis, 'It Felt Like A Kiss'

[@TitanosaurusFan75]

Hear, Hear.

[@Chris-v6b1n]

Except all powerful nations celebrate and preserve their history and heritage. Love you using an Adam Curtis quote as though it's an inviolable law of physics though.

[@zeddq]

​@@Chris-v6b1nLet's see the live experiment of a country where people hate themselves and their own nation. There's a difference between hating oneself and being critical of oneself.

[@Linkinbassist]

@Chris-v6b1n Of course, National greatness, wall-to-wall patriotism & impervious hegemony from the beginning to the end of time, how could I forget? Because famously, no nation has ever collapsed due to actions brought about by a wave of nationalist hubris and patriotic fervor. Not a single one.

[@Chris-v6b1n]

@Linkinbassist LOL nations collapse due to reasons such as economic crises (debt, hyperinflation, wealth disparity), demographic crises, depletion of natural resources, civil war or being conquered by an external force etc. Please tell me a single one which collapsed due to patriotism? One day they celebrated their heritage, the next the woke up in collapse? Grow up.

[@donnyb6888]

why are the immigrants usually young men? just being honest - i think people care more about woman and children when it comes to charity

[@samp.8099]

They send the money to their families back home

[@michalovesanime]

Young men are stronger, more likely to avoid being SA'd and can do more types of work. Its about raising the likelyhood of survival and succes

[@domp4852]

It could also be like the guys from Eritrea. Avoiding being drafted or conscripted by either side in a war, or even assumed to have already been and 'dealt with'

[@mrow278]

Immigrants are 48% female, I assume you mean asylum seekers? Asylum seekers are more likely to be men as they are the ones that helped the military in Afghanistan and they don't put their wives and children on dangerous boat crossings.

[@jonasjorgensen8759]

​@@michalovesanimeweird how it was mostly women and children fleeing from ukraine when the war broke out, but the women and children stay behind in these supposedly horrid situations elsewhere.

[@elliot.jth01]

Genuinely one of your best. Being British has never been worse but reminding us of how lucky we are to live in this country while its 'gone to the dogs' is important and you've done an amazing job at capturing that strange feeling. The fact you actually go to the places you're talking about makes this so much more powerful, and really makes you think about just how much immigration has taken over public debate to a point where empathy literally stops at the coastline for many. As a metropolitan elite its good to see a real critique too not clouded by a political platforms desire to stoke rage about the 'other'. Brilliant video, definitely your best in recent times.

[@Big-Chungus21]

Its crazy how this entire controversy has been about migration and immigrants, yet migrants are pretty much never actually spoken to / included in discussions.

[@nctay]

Classic white privileged guy manner

[@nailinpalin1477]

Why should they be, exactly?

[@Mariaratgirl]

@@nailinpalin1477 Because they are literally the topic of conversation. A lot of people presume things about migrants and without hearing their actual thoughts and opinions, it's pretty hard to disprove the misinformation

[@mikew3194]

@@Mariaratgirl The information they can provide is not pertinent to the interests and concerns of born citizens who see the money wasted on asylum and immigration rather than the struggling citizens already there. It's virtue signaling nonsense with 0 economic regard. The reality is, yes some may be coming for economic opportunity, some may honestly be fleeing war torn dangerous countries. But that doesn't mean it's the UK's or America's problem to take care of them all. Nor do we want to.

[@dukes1993724]

@@mikew3194Maybe America and the UK should stop causing those people hardships in their own countries causing them to emigrate.

[@MissingInterval]

The fact that you make such hard hitting points without resorting to personal attacks puts you in the 1%. Exceptionally well done.

[@SirButton-]

The calm and collected professionalism was great to see in the face of disagreement.

[@sebastianahrens2385]

Not sure if you will see this, but: Your previous video made me start working out. 6 hours of sport a week didn't sound that much for what a body Bryan Johnson has. I'm 3 months in, it feels really good, and I'm seeing progress. Your video now ranks in a very small circle of those that had a veritable impact on my life. Thank you, man. I really mean it.

[@UnimportantAcc]

What's ur weekly routine?

[@xB-yg2iw]

​@danielmccarten4357 haha you mean how to assault people?

[@sebastianahrens2385]

@@UnimportantAcc Currently I do - Deficit Push-ups - Incline Body Rows - Shoulder Lat Raises - Dumbbell Pullovers - Weighted Squats With all of these I aim for 3 sets of 12 reps each. Including warmup and resting between sets it takes about 2 hours. I do this routine every 3rd day, with a rest day after it and a cardio day inbetween.

[@kumstuke]

​@@sebastianahrens2385one punch man 👊🏻

[@hiigara2085]

im half way through and i just want to say how great your shift to a modern journalism slant is here. thanks mate.

[@rio3rh3i4ot3]

Boring, every youtuber is doing it now

[@SteveAkaDarktimes]

fuck modern Journalism. its all sensationalist, emotional bait to get clicks. Ordinary Things is making great, classic Journalism and Dokumentaries that gives you perspective and lets you think up your own conclusions.

[@freedomgoddess]

@@rio3rh3i4ot3 eh yeah

[@bud389]

Ah, yes, just this summer it went to hell, not like it's BEEN hell for the past 10 years.

[@Gyrbae]

I really like how Josh gets involved when he makes these videos. Reminds me of Louis Theroux, and how he immerses himself into the lifestyle of people he's talking to. Josh might not agree with everyone he meets, but he gives them a fair chance to speak their minds in a relaxed setting.

[@kamilbidzinski475]

If you like this style then Jon Ronson's books might be right up your alley

[@NoJeansNoGenes]

As a foreigner deep in the youtube documentary roulette and having watched another couple videos on the topic, I have to say that it's refreshing and inspiring to see you make one that is both sensible and broad in its scope, but also succeeds in treating the subject matter fairly and without contempt. That has all too often been the failure that dooms media in the current year - a contempt and refusal to attempt to understand viewpoints you might not agree with. Big props to you.

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

Making you a product of the algorythm. Did you know "algo" comes from the Greek word "algos" which means "pain"?

[@elriano1]

Does he once mention the £4b the taxpayer spends accommodating immigrants every year? No, he makes a song belittling English working-class people and ignoring actual arguments coming from the other side in favour of refuting his own straw man arguments.

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

@@elriano1 Meanwhile trillions are in fiscal paradises, shielded from evil tax responsibilities to the despicable society that gave them life and privilege.

[@bane2201]

@@PandemoniumMeltDown No, "algorithm" is from the name "al-Khwarizmi", the Persian mathematician (c. 850) who wrote al-Jabr (the first book on algebra). It was used as a standard university textbook for 400+ years, and his name was Latinized into "algorismi". That then merged with the Greek word "arithmos" (number). "Algorithm" has no connection to "algos" at all.

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

@@bane2201 Yes it does.

[@clovenbullet]

"Birds aren't real, they're actually cameras for the government" "yeah, I heard about those" This is why we lose everytime as we are so easily duped

[@smittzero8463]

He didn't say he believed it though. He just said that pigeons have weird eyes.

[@randomtinypotatocried]

@@smittzero8463He did list a bunch of conspiracies beforehand. It made me wonder if he'd fall for "birds being government drones"

[@alclay8689]

If it flies, it spies

[@danpaz9485]

@@randomtinypotatocried I wouldn't be suprised if u told him that the government is the illuminati, he would believe it and blame it on the immigrants taking over.