This Week in Stupid (11/06/2017)

hello ladies and gentlemen welcome to this week is stupid for the 11th of June 2017 you might think I'm going to be talking about the British election today and you'll be right but I'm not gonna focus exclusively on it and I'm going to start with the fun things first according to BuzzFeed women were over the moon when it seemed that Philip Davies had lost his seat Philip Davies if you don't know is an anti-feminist conservative MRA British politician he managed to get himself elected to the women's and equalities Commission which they weren't happy about and so naturally they were thrilled when they thought he had lost his seat Davies is known for advocating for men's rights and talking bills out of parliament a process known as filibustering he recently used this tactic to try and block a bill to ratify the Istanbul convention a legal framework that aims to combat violence against women on the grounds that it discriminated against men you know that's what equality is not discriminating against either men or women but early Friday morning it was reported that Davis who'd held his seat for 12 years had lost it to the Labour candidates queue The Ecstatic feminists Philip Davies is a misogynistic toad I won't lie I'm pretty delighted he lost his seat one woman said don't fuck with women said Abbey Tomlinson gensoul be a feminist campaigner who was instrumental in the icy change the group who helped bring about the bill to ratify the Istanbul commented Parliament told BuzzFeed news that she thought it was brilliant that Davies had lost his seat and another one said good riddance to Philip Davies women have been waiting long enough for the justice that they deserve when it comes to ending the violence against women and he was someone who held up that process for reasons that are not only ignorant but misogynistic this couldn't be a better win for women I think you mean feminists but ok carry on labour MP David Lammy said apparently Philip Davies is in trouble in Shipley couldn't happen to a nicer bloke women and everyone who isn't a sexist bigots rejoice I'm not going to bed until I see Philip Davies ruined tear-stained face I can set these fireworks off in my hotel room wait a minutes updates it was initially believed that Davies who repeatedly tried to block a law that would prevent violence against women had lost his seat but in actual fact he held it can fuck it wrecked oh well never mind but at least their candidates did quite well so high-five Jeremy err close enough so now on to the serious stuff drop hard brexit plans leading Tory and Labour MPs tell May as if that was the reason she did so poorly in the election Celia Torian Labour MPs called on Theresa May to forge a new cross party approach to brexit as fears grow that the Prime Minister's weakness could lead to the imminent collapse of talks on the UK's exit from the European Union okay why why would the talks collapse she's still Prime Minister she's still the one dealing with the negotiations what difference does it make to the EU in a dramatic demonstration of Mays loss of authority as a result of Thursday's general election which stripped her of her Commons majority the MPs demanded that she in effect drop her own Tory hard brexit plans in favour of a new national consensus that would be endorsed by members from all sides of the House of Commons I don't think she actually has to do this though does she I mean she is still the Prime Minister she's gone to a coalition with the DUP she's still going to be leading the brexit negotiations why should she listen to you on this the proposal if adopted would throw open the debate on what kind of breaks at the country wants with just a week to go before May is due to lead the country in formal negotiations with the EU on the terms of the exit and really that's all this is about the losing parties can smell blood in the water and they think they can get something they want out of this when the public haven't voted for what they want worse still is that may strategy is the best strategy to handle these talks because she is setting herself up in a position of strength to say look this is what we want and this is where we are going to bargain from korban has set himself up in a position where he is practically conceded everything they're going to ask for so he has got no room with which to ask for anything in return it's like these idiots don't know how negotiations work going in strong is good for you because it gives you room to compromise if you go in having already compromised what else will they ask for I love what grounds will you refuse them may went to the country asking for a mandate on brexit only to lose her Commons majority yes may fucked it up absolutely fucked it up this is such a colossal own-goal this will probably get over the history books as what not to do in political science courses all across the country in an intervention that will alarm the hardline Pro brexit Tories or the hardline Pro brexit lefties don't forget the de brexit was not a partisan issue the former Foreign Office minister Alistair Bert's backed by ex education secretary Nicky Morgan and other pro EU Tories said brexit could only be agreed and delivered if the conservative minority government built a cross plant party support behind a plan that would unite politicians in the country no this is you being pro-eu this is you desperately trying to get the result reversed and do not be fooled ladies and gentlemen there are many many Pro EU politicians who are actively trying to use this to get us to stay within the European Union this must not happen we have voted against staying the EU we're not voting to remain in the EU just because Theresa May was awful the people who are heavily remain on this issue are circling former Tory cabinet minister Stephen Doral now chairman of the European movement a pro EU group said at the beginning of the general election campaign Theresa May said she was seeking a mandate to negotiate her sort of brexit the result denies her a mandate the Prime Minister's version of brexit was set out in the conservative election manifesto it said sovereignty was a red line and concluded that Britain must withdraw from both the single market and the customs union in doing so it threatened our economic interests and funding our public services yeah but that's not what people objected to is it it's not that people say y'all you know what sovereignty is actually something that offends me this is why I reject this manifesto you know what I don't like economic independence I don't like the fact that we'll have to be outside the single market and just trade with it like the rest of the world does and let's be honest we're going to get a deal the only question is on what terms and if we want to deal that prohibits freedom of movement which is what the people of Britain actually want then we need to go in with strength behind us let's be clear Stephen the problem with Theresa May and the reason she didn't get a mandate and a majority is not because of her stance or brexit the problem of Theresa May was practically everything else you know it I know it everyone else knows it stop peddling this bullshit he then says more importantly despite anything the Prime Minister may say it is essential that Parliament maintains for itself the option of voting for Britain to remain a member of the EU if it becomes clever this is the best way to secure Britain's national interests get fucked there is no option for Britain to remain a part of the EU which is why even labour have conceded that Britain will be leaving the EU the question is on what terms now if you ask the public preference you can see that 39 percent of them want a hard brexit that's a huge number another 25 percent of them want some form of soft brexit as well as 13 percent who simply don't know that is a huge number of the country who are not committed to staying in the EU that's only 23 percent not even a quarter of the electorate wants us to stay in the EU now this is not an option we understand that there will come a price for leaving the EU we are willing to pay it we know it's going to cost money we know it's going to be difficult and we know that we all have to muddle through figure it out and somehow come out better on the other side and that is just something that the British people feel that they could manage and that speaks to a vast well of self confidence in them doesn't it and I think is very interesting that 70 4% of leave voters expected a hard brexit with another 9% who didn't know what brexit will go ahead and I'm pretty certain of that I mean after 85% of people voted for pro brexit passes one of the reasons Corbin managed to Hoover up those you get those he made it clear in the manifesto the labour supports brexit having said that do I think now today that we're going to get the kind of brexit that most of the voters thought they were gonna get I think that's in peril and I agree it seems that there are indeed anti brexit forces at work trying to use this opportunity to get the UK to stay within the EU and I think they must be resisted on the basis that we democratically elected to leave I think it's also interesting that despite brexit being the number one issue of this election it wasn't necessarily what people were voting for I can't say I agree with that I personally voted exclusively for brexit on the understanding that I probably wouldn't enjoy anything else the Conservatives did but that's not how it was for most people so there's an article on the independent that says nine out of ten voters reject Tereza Mays claim that the election is about brexit and so it's about public services according to our be 90 percent of people agree that the election should not just be about brexit but also about public services Labour's preferred ground while only ten percent disagree some 89 percent of people who voted for Tory in 2015 and 88 percent of those who backed leave in last year's referendum agree that it should not just be about a brexit election and I mean on the surface I can agree it shouldn't just be about that but this is going to be such a colossal change for Britain and it does have the potential to severely impact our economy we have to phrase everything in terms of what may or may not happen during brexit for example if we lose 5.5 percent of our GDP because we are unable to get the deal we want from the EU then that is going to affect the social services that we have in this country but I can understand why people didn't want to base their decision on that alone especially when both of the major parties agreed that brexit was going ahead and they wouldn't try to stop it however when asked to name the single most important issue in their mind when deciding to vote more people 24% opted for brexit more than any other of the six options offered the economy including living standards was not far behind on 22% followed by the NHS on 19% the best candidate to be Prime Minister on 15% security including defense and terrorism 8% social care including pensioners 4% and education on 2% brexit was the leading issue but it wasn't the only important issue but like I said I really think it's going to affect all of the other issues I'd like to give a quick apology to my American audience I'm aware that I've been focusing on domestic politics of arts and I'm aware that that's not necessarily relevant to your interests but I'd just like to thank you all as well because I notice in the comments that so many Americans are so behind brexit on points of principle it really is rather heartwarming and I suppose I'd better deal with an American story just to say thanks so recently there was a Colombian style massacre in a supermarket where the shooter posted chilling videos online as reported by the Washington Post Randi's their shift at a grocery store in Pennsylvania began at 11 p.m. just as the store was closing soon after he began blocking the store's doors with pallets and other items just before 1:00 a.m. Thursday with a pair of pistol grip shotguns he fired 59 shots killing three of his fellow employees he explained how he would execute the shooting and whom he would kill he kissed the barrels of his two shotguns and talked about his desire to take his own life I'm going to feel more powerful than I ever have in my life there is not going to be anyone that's going to be able to stop me stare then took his own life dying of an apparent gunshot wound to the head I think it's very interesting what the Washington Post report and didn't include though Randi stare had a YouTube channel and here's a clip from his last video I've had to remove the volume on the clip because it's got copyrighted music on its own I don't want to get a strike so you'll have to watch it in silence I'm afraid but as you can see it's an slightly unfinished animation of a bunch of female musicians and a male friend of theirs going on what appears to be a school shooting rampage as you can see the young man who's doing the shooting seems angry but the young woman who's doing the shooting seems to be enjoying herself even states in the video's description that this will be his last video ever and he intersperses the video with clips of himself shooting a shotgun presumably practicing for this as you can see he's quite a slender young chap and you probably won't be too surprised to learn that I have just misgendered him writing for heat street Ian's miles Chun fills in the gaps of the Washington Post left Pennsylvania supermarket shooter self identified his transgender woman who hated all men Randi stared left behind a trove of material explaining his motivations for gunning down three of his co-workers and he has recorded suicide notes released just hours before the rampage the 24 year old talked extensively about his depression about who he was as a person a transgender woman who hated men and toxic masculinity he says I've always been a girl and I wish I could have told you from day one I didn't realize until I discovered ember a character from the cartoon series she is what brought that out in me I didn't just wake up one day and be like oh I'm a girl great ember is what brought that out of me I wanted to look like her I wanted to dress like her I wanted to be like her that was in like 10th grade she was my first crush and ultimately she was my final demise stare thanks several girls who completed art work in character tonight's his project he says that the girls were the only people he could talk to about his personal life many people who really understood him they were all girls they weren't guys they were mostly all girls so I would talk to them the only people I would talk to on social media in the last year were girls and eventually I started to realize I was sexist I was racist I was prejudiced and I was discriminant that is one hell of a fucking lethal combination he says I've always hated black people I fucking hate people who aren't white Caucasian whatever I hate the human race and I just started hating guys more than anything I hate guys I think they're fucking disgusting the facial hair they have the body hair the muscle build and all fucking body structure shit I hate everything about guys I hate and the fact that I was forced to live as one you know that hurts a lot and also I hated my name too my life was a living hell it's when I started some what's talking about my name it's just I hated guys I was never attracted to guys which led me to realizing I wasn't gay which I still have thoughts about to this day because I never had girlfriends or anything like that but I guess when it came down to it I felt like I was transgender or something like a woman the whole time spiritually I was a woman I'm a female soul but I had to live in a man's body and to do what I set out to do it was my soul contract it was what I met was meant to do and I was just so happy to know that I wasn't gay you're only gay if you're attracted to guys which I wasn't so that made me very happy because I fucking hate gay people accept an exception would be Freddie Mercury from Queen the only exception this is a screenshot from the beginning of the video where he begins by saying I've been stepped on my whole life not anymore I've had enough of this putrid planet and I'm going to leave my mark and and I just want to be really clear about my opinion of this chap randy stead did not commit a massacre because of social justice or identity politics randy stair committed a massacre because he had personal and emotional issues that he was unable to resolve if he had lived in another time in place say a thousand years ago he would have been ranting and raving about God and the devil before picking up a sword and killing people from what I have seen Randy stead did not appear to be a terrorist I don't think there was a political motive for what he did and so I don't think we should try and paint any kind of political movements with the blood that he spilled in exactly the same way that the Portland stabber shouldn't be a reflection of Bernie burrows that Elliot Rodger shouldn't be a reflection of pickup artists or anything of the sort but since we're on the subject let's talk about Sadiq Khan's bizarre attitude towards terrorism you are mayor of the capital city where the most recent terrorist attack has taken place how many of those 400 have come back to Londyn that the estimate is just over half so where are they when you look at well when you look at the servicing people back in to the UK who haven't just been trained they've actually fought potentially against our troops how are we letting them back in without knowing exactly where they are and what they're up to because out of all the thousands of people that we're concerned about surely those who've actually gone to fight are the biggest risk that's one of the reasons why it doesn't make sense for the government to be cutting resources from those I can't follow 400 people what I can do is make sure Nazis because we can do those make sure that the resources for the police and the experts do you instruct the police why can't you call Cressida dick right now and say every one of those people come back from a war zone who's in London I want them followed let me see why because the Met Police budget roughly speak in fifteen percent twenty percent is funded by me the mayor the rest comes from central government if the Met Police budget is being shrunk and reduced they've got to prioritize and use their resources in a sensible say what could be a bigger priority than people coming back from a Syrian battlefield well that's a bloody good question I can't believe I'm on the same sides Piers Morgan but let's have a look at what Sadiq Khan has been using his resources for a lot of people have noticed that London's Metropolitan Police seem awfully concerned about hate crimes and this is something that they apparently have quite a lot of budget for not following terrorists that's less important than people saying nasty things on the internet someone had their feelings hurts because of hostility or prejudice that's way more important than people being killed piers come on and get your priorities straight in fact this is such a priority the back in April city can launched the London's online hate crime hub which sounds very important a police unit to help tackle online hate crime and provide better support for victims in London has been launched by the Capitals mayor the online hate crime hub is made up of five specially trained meta officers who will try and identify prevent and investigate abuse online Sadiq Khan and his officers said they would work with community experts to develop the police's understanding of online hate oh that's really fucking important someone shared something on Facebook or Twitter and my god the police needs to get involved it's the first hub of its kind in the UK and will cost 1.7 million pounds to police people on social fucking media it's being funded by the Met and the mayor's office I mean don't worry about tracking those terrorists Sadiq don't worry about it I can see where your money's going any online hate crimes reported to police in the capsule including abuse posted on Twitter and Facebook will be looked into by the units thank god the taxpayer money going to good use officers will provide referrals to victim support groups and work with police and relevant Boris to investigate victims earth tweets City Hall said discussions were also underway with social media companies to develop appropriate online sanctions for perpetrators of online hate oh yeah yeah yeah yeah online sanctions he said something hateful online quick we need to we need to spend taxpayer money to keep him off the internet hey you know there are 200 terrorists of of 400 who have returned from Syria and they're wandering around in London and they aren't jihad ease and they're going to try and commit terror attacks what should we do Sadiq well we haven't all the way I'm we got the money to chase them around but it's a lot easier to do it via Twitter isn't it it's a lot easier Viktoria right to disability and disfigurement rights campaigner in London what the fuck is disability and disfigurement rights they don't have different rights to the rest of us just because they're disabled or disfigured but anyway okay carry on this campaigner in London who said that she's been subjected to online abuse called the hub a much-needed initiative that will make a real difference are there actually victims of terror attacks in London at the moment who might actually need help that Sadiq Khan is actually not diverting resources to and is more concerned about instead policing the fucking Internet because that's what this really fucking looks like and it's really hard to think of something more vile than police chief saying the attack victims show the city's diversity the Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police says the nationalities of the eight victims in the terrorist attack on London Bridge tell a proud story of London's unique makeup why are you pushing your ideological agenda it's desperately sad and poignant but among those who died is someone whose British there are French Australian Canadian Spanish Chrissie de dick told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday in terms of our witnesses we've spoken to you so far after the 300 odd people there are 20 different countries of origin and the London British population comes from all kinds of backgrounds of every faith and ethnicity yeah what the fuck is wrong with you people what is fucking wrong with your heads why is the cult of diversity so fucking important you have to grandstand about it on the corpses of the victims this is not a relevant point be not there are only 200 terrorists so we can do the same thing and then it will be another great opportunity to say look look at how many different colours of people were murdered by our terrorists aren't we so fucking diverse we believe of course that's what makes car city so great it's a place where the vast majority of the time it's incredibly integrated and that diversity gives us strength give me fucking strength I swear to god it's a goddamn cult they have been absolutely indoctrinated into this and as soon as something happens that yeah well I mean look how diverse the victims were that diversity gives us strength get fucked you know I probably should have started with that or something because I wanted to end this week with something that's had to be really positive at least for me and I want its showcase because it's nice to have someone who is not simply a rabid hater of mine to do something that approaches some kind of objective analysis after the whole lifestream debacle with Thunderfoot there was a French academic called Jean Francois who I'm just gonna call jf because I can't pronounce the rest of his name and he did a video breakdown of it that I shared and I didn't realize that his video breakdown of it was part of a wider I guess you call it kind of a study on me that he is now published report on the methods used by Sargon of Akkad in his internet publications someone sent this to me and I was just like oh god this is gonna be damning isn't it I work as hard as I can but for some reason this is just giving me flashbacks of being at school where I didn't work as hard as I can it's quite long so I'm just gonna give you the beginning and I'll leave a link to it and his channel in the description if you'd like to check him out to find out more he says after weeks of debating and exchanging with broad segments of the internet community I published a full report on the question of whether or not Sargon of Akkad is using proper methodologies in his internet publications I've listened to every single person who claimed they could prove Sargon has a poor methodology respectable or not every single troll had their chance of presenting a case I've listened as carefully as was humanely possible the findings are presented in a summarised form at the bottom of the reports the following six claims have been distilled from thousands of interactions with members of the anti Sargon audience over a period of many weeks and they are believed to include all factual claims about someone's methodology being flawed at this moment if you think this post is missing an important claim you can post in the comments etc etc it's pretty long so I'm just going to skip straight to the conclusion I have now interacted with hundreds of Sargon haters for the last few weeks of my life I have asked each and every one of them to present factual claims about any methodological issues they have about Sargon I've suggested to them that maybe they just disagree politically with him on some subjects and they could simply state it as such many of them denied this Sargon doesn't read his sources no he's just incompetent he's a fraud he deceives people I have collected all objections about his methods and errors which boil down to the list of six cases we have covered here and you can refer to the other cases in the comment section if you have more I conclude that three of these cases were unsupported I conclude that in more than five years of public life counting more than fifty thousand tweets Christ I used Twitter too much participation to more than one thousand five hundred videos that have generated more than 300 million views in addition to more than 300 live streams Sargon has committed a total of three minor errors in one case he misused quotes in a tweet in the second case he failed at providing the contextual definition of the legal concepts clearly delineating the mean the words he was using in the third case he misspoke and used the word probably when the best description would have been possibly I conclude that every day billions of people listen to other people who may consider authorities and who have demonstrated a much higher rate of error than he does the retraction rate of sargon per volume of statements does not seem to be different from that of major news media and scientific articles published in peer-reviewed publications this is quite impressive considering he is under much tighter security this is quite impressive considering that he is under much tighter scrutiny than the average peer-reviewed scientific journal millions of eyes have crossed his content while many scientific papers went unread by anyone on the shelves of our libraries perhaps even more impressive is that Sargon has been systematically acknowledging the existence of these errors and recognizing his errors on the public space too long didn't read Sargon is a decent human being there is no evidence of intellectual or academic misconduct on his part jean-francois Gary P PhD um thanks jf I appreciate you taking the time to do this he didn't have to do this this is a thing that he decided to do on his own that he hasn't been paid for and he's just done it because he felt he thought it necessary to do which I'm genuinely thankful for because every day all I get are these ridiculous accusations they're completely one-sided and I feel that they're completely unfounded and it's nice to see that a scientist and he's a PhD in biology I believe and it actually is quite gratifying that a stem scientist will actually take the time to say look this guy isn't what you say he is and so I'm not going to spend a huge amount of time going forward worrying about what Richard Dawkins would call the Nats and I might just just meet them or something just because it bothers me that I genuinely go out of my way to work as hard as I can and be as intellectually honest as I possibly can be and all I get from these partisans is misrepresentation it just doesn't feel fair you know and I really don't like it but anyway again thank you very much Jeff and like I said there's a link to his channel I've actually started watching some of his stuff since all of this has been going on and he's an entertaining guy and I think he does a good job of fairly representing the things he is talking about so yeah like I said I'll leave a link to his channel and I think you should definitely check him out and again just thanks I I get so many people trying to delegitimize me so thank you again [Music] you

Channel: Sargon of Akkad

Views: 506,252

Rating: 4.8825417 out of 5

Keywords: interesting, funny, comedy, hilarious, current events, politics

Id: BGvYw5GcIFU

Length: 29min 50sec (1790 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 11 2017