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RobbieG retweeted
COLUMN: RED UZELF, DE REGERING KOMT HELPEN
Max von Kreyfelt
De regering heeft een reddingspakket. Dat is doorgaans het moment waarop ik even controleer of mijn portemonnee er nog ligt.
U kent het ritueel. Een bewindspersoon kijkt ernstig in de camera. Achter hem een vlag. Voor hem een probleem. Onder hem een bevolking die straks de rekening krijgt.
“We moeten dit samen doen.”
Let op dat woordje samen. Dat is de aanloop. De automatische incasso volgt later.
Wil je jezelf redden, doe dan precies het tegenovergestelde van wat de regering gebiedt. Als algemene levensregel wat onpraktisch bij een rood verkeerslicht, maar als politieke gedachte verdient het inmiddels een eigen leerstoel.
Een kleine leerstoel graag. Zonder bestuursraad, communicatieafdeling en externe kwartiermaker. Anders moet de bevolking weer worden gered van de kosten van haar eigen inzicht.
Het mooiste aan overheidszorg is de taakverdeling. De bestuurder heeft de visie. De adviseur maakt de presentatie. De burger past zijn leven aan. Mocht de visie niet werken, dan blijkt de burger onvoldoende te zijn meegenomen.
Dat vind ik knap. Eerst moet je mee. Vervolgens ben jij het probleem omdat je niet goed genoeg bent meegekomen.
Er komt dan een campagne om het beleid beter uit te leggen. De mogelijkheid dat je het uitstekend begrijpt en er juist dáárom tegen bent, past niet in het communicatiebudget.
Wie vraagt wat iets kost, mist ambitie. Wie vraagt of het werkt, houdt de vooruitgang tegen. Wie vraagt wie er verantwoordelijk is, krijgt een organogram.
Zo wordt iedere mislukking een personeelstekort. Er moet iemand bij die kan uitleggen waarom de vorige zes mensen het nog niet konden oplossen.
En boven dit alles zweeft de bezorgde bestuurder. Hij slaapt slecht, zegt hij. Van uw problemen. U slaapt ook slecht, maar krijgt daar geen interview over.
Zijn slapeloosheid bewijst betrokkenheid. Die van u vraagt om meer weerbaarheid.
Ik stel daarom een eenvoudige burgerlijke gewoonte voor. Zodra een minister zegt dat iets onvermijdelijk is, vragen we wie het heeft besloten. Zodra hij zegt dat iedereen profiteert, vragen we om de namen. Zodra hij zegt dat het voor onze kinderen is, houden we die kinderen even achter ons.
Gewoon even doorvragen voordat de reddingsoperatie begint.
Want de regering heeft altijd een plan voor uw toekomst. Daar kunt u op vertrouwen. Ze heeft uw geld alvast ingeboekt.
Red uzelf.
Voordat de hulp onderweg is.
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RobbieG retweeted
I think we're entering a civilizational rupture that nobody can predict. Not me, not the labs, not governments.
I don't know how much people realize how fast we're moving.
Look at what Anthropic's new model did during testing.
It solved two open problems in theoretical physics, both on black holes. One of the calculations was laid out in 2003 and nobody had ever finished it, because it was too laborious.
It formalized the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 30 hours, with a thousand agents that organized themselves. The first attempt took 11 days.
It wrote an operating system that boots on a laptop, starting from an empty folder, in 8 days.
It designed three electronic devices, boards, enclosures and software included. All three worked without a single electrical modification.
It found a new method to predict the structure of viral capsids, the shells used to deliver gene therapies.
And on robot control, it more than doubled the previous version's score.
All of that in a single announcement, on a Monday.
I think discoveries are going to stack up so fast that they'll produce an abundance we've never known: energy, health, materials, food. And with it a phase of immense joy, the joy of a civilization realizing that scarcity was never a law of nature.
Except that joy is going to land in a world order that's cracking everywhere, and that was designed by Malthusians. People convinced that resources are finite, that there are too many of us, and that the job of an enlightened elite is to manage scarcity on everyone else's behalf.
To me, Bill Gates is the most famous face of that worldview: a man nobody elected, who has weighed on the planet's health, agriculture and climate policies for twenty years. The degrowth crowd is the militant version. They don't even want to manage scarcity anymore, they want to organize it.
Abundance is the worst possible news for that worldview. If energy becomes nearly free and diseases fall one after another, nobody needs anyone to ration anything for them.
So I don't think they'll fight it. I think they'll try to capture it.
In the name of safety, climate or public health, we'll be told this power is too dangerous to be left in everyone's hands. We already saw the movie during Covid: the permission slips, the passes, the QR code to go get a coffee. Now imagine the same logic with an AI that can see everything, trace everything and decide everything in real time. Orwell never imagined a tool like that.
The technology is winning on its own. The question of the next ten years is who abundance will belong to.
We are living through the greatest civilizational revolution in human history. It's happening right now, and most people are looking the other way.
RobbieG retweeted
The left wants you to stay dumb. And even if you went to an elite school, they got to you too.
Here's how it happened. Decision by decision. And the names of the people who tried to warn you.
It starts in Prussia. In 1807, after Napoleon crushed their army, Fichte delivers his Addresses to the German Nation. His thesis: the state must shape the child so completely that he can no longer want anything other than what the state wants. Prussia builds the first modern mass school system on that principle.
In 1843, Horace Mann visits Prussia and comes back in awe. In 1852, Massachusetts passes America's first compulsory schooling law. The model is imported almost intact: age cohorts, bells, standardized curriculum, obedience as the real lesson.
To be fair, at this stage it isn't the left. It's kings and industrialists. In 1913, Frederick Gates, who ran Rockefeller's General Education Board, wrote openly that they had no intention of turning rural children into philosophers or men of learning. They wanted workers.
So the machine was built to produce compliance. Then the progressive left took over the machine and did something worse. It kept the obedience and threw out the knowledge.
In 1918, William Kilpatrick, at Columbia's Teachers College, publishes The Project Method. Knowledge becomes secondary. What matters is the child's "experience." Teachers College goes on to train the people who train America's teachers.
In 1955, Rudolf Flesch publishes Why Johnny Can't Read. His point is simple: kids are no longer taught to turn letters into sounds. They're taught to memorize whole words by sight. It's a bestseller. The education establishment treats him as a crank.
In 1967, Ken Goodman publishes a paper describing reading as "a psycholinguistic guessing game." Literally. Out of it come whole language, then "balanced literacy," then three-cueing: a child stuck on a word is told to guess it from the picture.
From 1968 to 1977, the US government runs Project Follow Through, the largest education experiment in history. Around 200,000 kids, nearly a billion dollars, about twenty competing teaching models. One model wins in every category: Siegfried Engelmann's Direct Instruction. Explicit, structured, demanding. It even wins on self-esteem, the very thing the "child-centered" models claimed to protect.
The result? Buried. Schools of education, foundations and publishers attacked the data, and they won. The models that failed kept being promoted. Engelmann spent the rest of his life trying to get someone to listen. He died in 2019, still ignored by the institutions he had proven wrong.
In 1991, John Taylor Gatto, New York State Teacher of the Year, quits. He announces it in the Wall Street Journal: he no longer wants to hurt kids to make a living. In Dumbing Us Down, he lists what school actually teaches: confusion, your place in the hierarchy, indifference, emotional and intellectual dependency, self-worth that depends on outside approval. The system filed him under eccentric.
France, same story. In 2003, Rachel Boutonnet publishes the diary of a teacher who had to teach phonics in secret because her training institute pushed the global method. Marc Le Bris, Jean-Paul Brighelli with La Fabrique du crétin: all labeled reactionaries. Fifteen years later, neuroscience, led by Stanislas Dehaene, proved them right. Meanwhile French fourth graders finished last in the EU in math.
Back to America. Lucy Calkins, Teachers College again, sells her reading curriculum to about one elementary school in four. Three-cueing everywhere. It takes a journalist, Emily Hanford, and a podcast, Sold a Story, to blow it up in 2022. Calkins rewrites her curriculum. Dozens of states ban cueing. Sixty-seven years after Flesch.
The bill: in 2024, 12th grade reading hit the lowest score ever recorded by the Nation's Report Card. 40% of fourth graders are below the most basic level.
And the elite schools? "I went to a top school, this isn't about me." Wrong. Harvard's own 2025 report found about 60% of grades are now A's, versus roughly a quarter twenty years ago. When everyone gets an A, the grade no longer measures mastery. It measures conformity. The elite weren't spared the sanding. They just got finer sandpaper.
Look at the pattern. It's the same every time. An ideology replaces evidence. Whoever brings evidence is labeled a crank or a reactionary. Decades later, the system quietly corrects itself, nobody is held accountable, and a generation has been lost.
Flesch. Engelmann. Gatto. Boutonnet. Brighelli. They weren't cranks. They were the only ones reasoning from first principles. Which is exactly what school was built to prevent.
And now it's no longer a debate about pedagogy. In a world where AI does compliance better than any human, a system optimized to produce compliance produces obsolescence.
The future belongs to those who survived the sanding.
A few years ago, Peter Thiel wrote to Mark Zuckerberg: 70% of Millennials say they're pro-socialist.
His conclusion: stop calling them stupid, and try to understand why.
His explanation was economic. Too much student debt, unaffordable housing, no capital. When you own nothing, you have no reason to defend the system.
He's right. But that's only half the story.
The other half is school.
School destroys critical thinking. Methodically. For fifteen years.
You learn to recite instead of question. To find the expected answer instead of the true one. To obey authority instead of reasoning for yourself.
When you've spent your youth outsourcing your thinking to an institution, it feels natural to outsource your life to an even bigger one: the State.
That's why so many end up Marxist. Not by conviction. By conditioning.
And that conditioning is about to become a handicap.
We're entering a world where AI does everything conformist, predictable and standardized better than we do. The only value left is thinking differently.
To create value tomorrow, you'll need to be neurodivergent.
And someone who thinks differently and reasons from first principles almost always ends up seeing the same thing: the State, as it works today, destroys more value than it creates.
It's no accident that Alex Karp created a fellowship at Palantir dedicated to neurodivergent talent. To him, in the age of AI, there are only two ways to have a future: master a real trade, or be neurodivergent.
But I'll go further than Karp.
I believe neurodivergence isn't the exception. It's the natural state of the human mind.
Look at a four-year-old. They ask hundreds of questions a day. They take everything apart. They refuse any rule they don't understand. They think from first principles without even knowing it's a thing.
Then they go to school. And we spend fifteen years normalizing them.
School doesn't shape minds. It sands them down.
The future belongs to those who survived the sanding.
Ik zou niet kunnen zeggen of Russel Brand schuldig is of onschuldig, maar ik zie al wel een flink aantal jaren 'two-tier justice', oftewel tweeërlei rechtsmeting. En daar vind ik wat van: het moet stoppen.
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RobbieG retweeted
And he is dead.
I knew it would happen and said it yesterday, when I heard a reporter on the Polish state TV "information" channel say that we will never know the killer’s motives.
I guess it was convenient for everyone.
Except for us, who would like to know the truth.
RobbieG retweeted
Milei a été moqué pendant des années. Bukele aussi. Puis les gens ont commencé à partager, à en parler, à refuser de se taire.
La bascule ne vient jamais d’en haut. Elle vient de millions de personnes qui décident en même temps que ça suffit.
Ce post, c’est votre part. Partagez-le.
🚨 Appel à tous les candidats à la présidentielle 2027. 🚨
Javier Milei vient de retweeter mon post sur l'empire du mensonge. Ce n'est pas un détail. C'est le signe que quelque chose est en train de basculer à l'échelle mondiale.
Rappelez-vous 2023. Plus de 100 économistes "de référence", Thomas Piketty en tête, signent une tribune pour prévenir le monde : le programme de Milei va dévaster l'Argentine. Droit dans le mur.
Résultat : une inflation à 211 % quand il arrive, ramenée autour de 30 % sur un an en 2026. Les mêmes experts juraient que c'était impossible sans effondrement total. Ils avaient tort. Aucun ne s'est excusé.
Bukele, maintenant. Le Salvador était la capitale mondiale du meurtre : plus de 100 homicides pour 100 000 habitants en 2015. L'an dernier : 82 homicides. Dans tout le pays. Sur toute l'année.
Des décennies d'ONG, de programmes internationaux, de rapports, de colloques et de "plans de prévention" : zéro résultat. Bukele a réglé le problème des gangs en quelques années.
Deux pays. Deux "impossibles". Deux démentis.
Et les peuples du monde entier commencent à comprendre la même chose : le système politique actuel, celui qui prend ses décisions dans les couloirs de l'ONU, de l'OMS, de la Commission européenne et d'une constellation d'ONG que personne n'a élues, est une arnaque géante. Il ne produit pas de résultats. Il produit des rapports, des postes et des subventions.
En France, on subit tout ça. Plein pot. Dette record, services publics qui s'effondrent, insécurité qui explose, et une classe dirigeante qui continue de nous expliquer que c'est le mieux qu'on puisse faire.
Alors je le dis clairement aux candidats de 2027 : celui qui ne dénonce pas ça sera vu comme une énorme blague. Celui qui le dénonce m'aura à ses côtés. Et surtout, il aura le peuple souverain à ses côtés.
Les solutions sont sur la table. Elles ont été testées dans le monde réel.
Sur l'économie : Milei. Moins d'État, plus de liberté. On coupe, on simplifie, on libère ceux qui travaillent et ceux qui créent.
Sur la sécurité : Bukele. Les criminels en prison. Tous. À tous les niveaux, du caïd de quartier au délinquant en col blanc. Et s'il manque des places, on construit les prisons qu'il faut.
Je n'ai aucune envie de faire de la politique. Je construis une boîte, c'est mon métier et ça me va très bien.
Donc s'il vous plaît, mesdames et messieurs les candidats : sortez-vous les doigts du cul.
Dénoncez ce que Milei et Bukele ont compris.
Avant que les Français le fassent sans vous.
RobbieG retweeted
The Coordinated Camp of the Lie
Six people were murdered in Kraków on Saturday. The killer's own mother, father and sister were found dead at home. Poland is in mourning. 🕯️
That same evening – while the police were still saying the motive was unknown and his house was still being searched – the Minister of the Interior announced that the attacker was "fascinated by far-right ideologies." Ultranationalist, of course. He added that this would be verified.
No evidence has been shown. The mayor of Kraków, who is not a man of the right, called it the act of a madman. Reports from classmates, and photos attributed to him online, point somewhere else entirely.
But within hours, "far-right" was in headlines across Europe. The minister's own caveat – "this will be verified" – mostly stayed behind in Kraków. Four days before the Independence March, the story fit perfectly.
That is how the camp of the Lie works. It needs no central office. It needs a shared story, and people who know which facts to wait for and which to run with.
A civilized state follows a simple rule: evidence first, verdict last – or not at all. This government reversed it, before the six victims were even buried.
The coordinated camp of the Lie.
We are being governed by them.
And that needs to stop.
RobbieG retweeted
THE LONG MARCH THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS – A Reference
The long march is the strategy by which the Western left, after failing to seize power by revolution, set out to capture the institutions that shape how people think – and won, without firing a shot. This is its short history and its mechanism.
1. Why the storm failed
In 1919, communist revolutions were tried in Berlin, in Budapest and in the factories of Turin. They failed everywhere. Gramsci, writing in a fascist prison, worked out why: in Russia the state was everything, so taking the state meant taking all. In the West, the state was only the outer trench. Behind it stood a system of fortresses – the family, the church, the school, the press, the associations of free men. Storm the state there, and the fortresses rise against you. So the West had to be taken in the opposite order: first the fortresses, then the state. He called it a war of position, and its goal hegemony – making your ideas the common sense of an age.
2. The forerunners
The Fabians in London had already found the slow road. They named themselves after a Roman general who won by avoiding battle, chose the tortoise as their emblem, founded the London School of Economics, and put a wolf in sheep's clothing above their stained-glass window. In Berlin, the Comintern's Willi Münzenberg invented the front organization: committees of decent people – for peace, for children, against hunger – quietly steered by the party. He called them his Innocents' Clubs. The NGO existed before the word.
3. The theorists
When Western workers grew rich instead of revolting, the Frankfurt School kept the theory and changed the victim. Its critical theory taught a generation to criticize everything and build nothing. Marcuse, its guru in America, found new revolutionaries among students, minorities and outsiders, and wrote that true tolerance means tolerating the left and refusing tolerance to the right. That essay is still the operating manual of every cancellation.
4. The slogan and the generation
In 1967, a German student leader gave the strategy its name, borrowed from Mao's army: the long march through the institutions. The generation of 1968 did not storm anything. It graduated, got hired, got tenure, got promoted. In 1968, they occupied the university. Twenty years later, they ran it.
5. The method
– Capture the chokepoint. The university certifies the teachers, journalists, lawyers, judges and civil servants. Capture the faculty, and in one generation you have shaped everyone who will ever teach, report, judge or administer.
– Personnel is policy. A captured institution hires its own, so the capture reproduces itself. No vote can undo a hiring committee.
– Words before laws. Change the vocabulary first; the new words become loyalty tests, and the laws follow.
– Never storm, always normalize. Every step is small, legal and presented as kindness or progress.
– Wear the institution like a mask. The march rarely destroys an institution. It keeps the name, the building and the prestige, and changes what is inside: the church that preaches politics, the court that legislates, the museum that apologizes for its own collection.
– On the street, Alinsky's rules: pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it – and ridicule it.
6. What it captured, in order
The universities, then the schools, then the newspapers and broadcasters, then publishing, cinema and the arts, then many of the churches, then the law and the civil service, then the international organizations. The market was the last fortress. It fell through the HR department.
7. A view from the other side
In 1984, a KGB defector named Yuri Bezmenov described the same process as Moscow's plan for America: demoralization, which takes a generation, then destabilization, crisis and normalization. He was describing what the Soviets wanted. The West did most of it to itself, for free.
8. How to recognize it
When the teacher, the journalist, the judge, the HR manager and the bishop all say the same thing in the same words, you are not looking at a consensus. You are looking at a march that has arrived. And when elections stop changing anything, you know how far it has come: winning an election gives you the government, not the country.
9. How to reverse it
Gramsci's method works in both directions.
– Show up: to the school board, the faculty meeting, the committee nobody else wants to sit on. Every institution was taken by people who kept showing up.
– Build parallel institutions where the old ones cannot be recaptured. Poland ran secret universities under occupation and built Solidarity under communism.
– Break the chokepoints: new universities, new media, new credentials. The monopoly of distribution has already cracked.
– Form your own cadres, and teach your children yourself.
– Run the ratchet in reverse: stop funding what the march built. Argentina has shown that it can be done.
They won by being patient. They will lose to people who are patient – and right.
Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century.
Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions.
Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935.
1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first.
2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.
3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own.
4. He also theorized the organic intellectual – the person who translates the theoretical framework into stories and assumptions that circulate through the culture without appearing ideological. The film that makes the existing order seem absurd. The journalist who frames every story within the approved assumptions. Gramsci understood that culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections.
5. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a published, documented, widely taught strategy that the left implemented consciously across the entire Western world. The 1968 generation put it into practice in the universities. They became the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges, the HR directors of the decades that followed. The march took fifty years. It worked.
6. Mussolini’s prosecutor said at his trial: "We must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years." The brain did not stop. It produced thirty-three notebooks – smuggled out, published, and became the most widely read Marxist text in the Western academy after Marx himself. Gramsci died in 1937, six days after his release, at forty-six. He did not see the march he theorized. He did not need to.
7. Every captured institution, every transformed curriculum, every HR department enforcing approved speech, every content moderation policy suppressing the unauthorized voice – all running the program Antonio Gramsci designed in a prison cell, by a brain that was supposed to have been stopped. It wasn’t. And neither was the march.
Until now – because the distribution monopoly that made its outcomes enforceable is cracking. The counter-march has begun. It just doesn’t have a name yet.
RobbieG retweeted
To my friends on the left.
You're about to be sold the most elegant trap in modern history. It will come wrapped in everything you care about: the planet, workers, justice, the climate. If you buy it, it will deliver the exact opposite of everything you've ever fought for.
Let me show you where it comes from.
In 1944, two philosophers of the Frankfurt School, Horkheimer and Adorno, wrote that reason and technology, the tools that were supposed to free humanity, had turned into tools of domination. Twenty years later, Marcuse argued that modern technology was the most sophisticated system of social control ever built. Brilliant men, with a real insight. But the lesson a whole generation of intellectuals took from them was simple: progress is suspect, and the machine is the enemy.
In 1968, the Club of Rome was founded. It was a small circle of industrialists, diplomats and scientists. Notice who was in the room. No workers, no farmers, no one from the slums. In 1972 they published The Limits to Growth. The message was that if humanity keeps growing, it collapses. So slow down, consume less, have fewer children, accept less.
Around the same time, Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb predicted that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s.
Here's what actually happened. The Green Revolution fed billions. The mass famines never came. In 1980 the economist Julian Simon bet Ehrlich that resources would get cheaper, not scarcer, and he won. Extreme poverty went from more than a third of humanity in 1990 to under one in ten. That didn't come from degrowth. It came from growth, energy and technology.
The pessimists were wrong about almost everything. But they won something more important than the argument. They won the institutions: UN agencies, NGOs, university departments, think tanks, Brussels. Nobody needed to coordinate. The ideas simply became the water everyone swims in. Growth is guilt. Technology is danger. The answer is always less.
Less for you, that is. Never for the people at Davos who fly private to discuss your carbon footprint.
Now watch what happens with AI. They'll connect it to the planet. Data centers drink water, burn gas and raise your electricity bill. Some of that is locally true, and the people living next to those sites deserve to be heard. Last March, Bernie Sanders and AOC proposed a national moratorium on new AI data centers, backed by hundreds of organizations.
So ask the oldest question on the left: who benefits?
A moratorium on new data centers freezes the ones that already exist. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta already built theirs. A moratorium doesn't stop Big Tech. It crowns Big Tech. The startups, the public universities, the open-source labs, the countries of the Global South that were about to build their own are the ones who never get to. It's the greatest gift ever offered to an oligarchy, wrapped in green paper.
And here is what nobody tells you. AI isn't the planet's problem. It's the fastest path we have to solving the planet's problems.
AI is already controlling the plasma inside experimental fusion reactors. It has predicted the structure of nearly every known protein, which opens the door to enzymes that eat plastic and crops that need less water and less fertilizer. It has proposed hundreds of thousands of new stable materials for better batteries and cheaper solar. It forecasts weather and balances electric grids so renewables can actually work at scale.
Every problem you care about is, at its core, an intelligence problem. Clean energy, food, water, disease, poverty. Make intelligence abundant and those problems become solvable. Make it scarce and the solutions belong to whoever owns it.
That's the real trap. Fear of AI won't make AI disappear. It will only decide who owns it.
A world where intelligence is rationed creates a new aristocracy. On one side, a small class with unlimited cognitive labor at its command. On the other, everyone else, dependent on that class for their health, their education, their job, their permission to speak. No chains. Just dependency. That's how every modern form of servitude has worked, and the left used to understand that better than anyone.
Everything the left has ever wanted has never been closer: the end of poverty, healthcare and education for every human being, workers freed from exhausting labor, a planet that can breathe. Marx dreamed of a society where you could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon and criticize after dinner. That isn't a world of scarcity. It's a world of abundance. Abundance is the only thing that has ever freed anyone.
So stay on the left if you want. Keep fighting for the poor, for workers, for the planet. Just fight with the most powerful tool humanity has ever been handed, not against it.
Because the people asking you to give it up already have theirs.
In the next ten years, humanity will make one choice that decides the next thousand.
Option A: an Orwellian world run by a tiny hyperclass that controls AI, owns every resource, and turns the rest of us into permanent dependents.
Option B: for the first time in history, a world where the systemic corruption that has ruled us for decades simply stops being possible.
Yesterday I wrote that Milei and Bukele exposed the empire of lies. Javier Milei reposted it. Today I want to explain why that post was only the beginning, and why I've never been more optimistic.
If you're on the left, or even the far left, read this one to the end. I'm not trying to convert you. The stakes are your future too.
Start from first principles. A system produces exactly what it rewards.
For decades, the Western system has been captured by one worldview: administrations, universities, NGOs, media, international institutions. The left didn't win the argument. It won the hiring committees.
Once a system is captured, its incentives flip.
You don't get promoted for solving problems. You get promoted for managing them. A solved problem kills a budget line. A managed problem renews it every year.
You don't succeed by telling the truth. You succeed by saying the right words. So hypocrisy becomes a career skill. The professor who preaches equality and runs the most closed network in the country. The politician who votes for open borders and lives where none of it ever reaches him.
You don't build fair systems. You build systems that look fair and quietly pay the people who run them. Inflation is a tax on the poor that funds the state. Programs fund the consultants who design more programs.
That's what "systemic" means. Nobody has to be evil. Honest people inside the machine either adapt or leave. After forty years, the ones still there are the ones who adapted.
Here's the irony. The first countries to break free were the ones at the very bottom.
Argentina was bankrupt. El Salvador was a graveyard. The system had nothing left to promise them, and that's exactly why they woke up. When the lie stops paying, people stop believing it.
No civilization is dead as long as its people can still see the problem clearly. Rock bottom is often where the rebound starts.
Now the West is caught in a vise.
On one side, AI. A technology that exposes managed incompetence. When a model can read a 2,000-page law, audit a national budget and compare outcomes across 50 countries in seconds, "it's complicated" stops working. The expert class loses its monopoly on knowledge.
On the other side, a generation of tech builders who think from first principles and don't owe their careers to the system. They have more capital, more talent and more reach than most countries. And they've seen up close how the machine works.
Put the two together and the old system is close to checkmate. It can't compete on results. It can't hide behind complexity. It can't control the narrative anymore.
So what does a system do when it can't win? It tries to own the thing that's beating it.
Listen to Marc Andreessen. He has said publicly that in 2024 he sat with Biden administration officials who told him AI would be two or three big companies working hand in hand with the government, that investors shouldn't even bother funding AI startups, and that parts of the underlying math could be classified the way nuclear physics was in the Cold War. He walked out and endorsed Trump. Former Biden officials now say that's not what was said. Read both versions and decide who you believe.
The logic doesn't depend on one lunch, though. Control three companies and you control the models. Control the models and you control what billions of people read, ask, learn and are allowed to say. Add a digital ID, a programmable currency and the scanning of private messages that Europe keeps putting back on the table. Then you don't need a Ministry of Truth anymore. A compliance department is enough.
1984 with a better UX.
And last Tuesday, Democrats took back Congress. This isn't theoretical anymore. The keys to the house are on the table.
Now imagine we don't hand them over.
Intelligence becomes almost free. Expertise stops being a privilege. A kid in a village in Brittany or a suburb of Lagos gets the same doctor, the same lawyer, the same tutor as a billionaire's son. The cost of producing almost everything collapses. And systemic corruption becomes nearly impossible, because anyone can audit every budget, every law and every promise, instantly.
For the first time in human history, a society that could be truly equal. The old left version was equality by sharing scarcity. This one is equality through abundance. A world where poverty stops being a law of nature.
Which is exactly what the left always said it wanted.
So to my friends on the left, one honest question. Which side actually leads there? The side that wants AI open, cheap and in everyone's hands? Or the side that wants it locked inside three companies and a regulator?
Milei and Bukele proved the impossible was possible at the scale of a country. AI is offering the same thing at the scale of civilization.
All we have to do is not give the keys to the people who were paid to keep the problem alive.
That's the choice. And I've never been more optimistic, because for the first time, we can all see it.
RobbieG retweeted
DIVORCE AGREEMENT
THIS IS INCREDIBLY WELL-PUT, AND I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT'S WRITTEN BY A STUDENT!!! WHATEVER HE RUNS FOR, I'LL VOTE FOR HIM.
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is our separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets, since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
—We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
--You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
--Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
--We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.
--You can keep Oprah, Whoopi, Bill Maher, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all five of them.
--We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.
--You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.
--We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEOs, and rednecks.
--We'll keep Bill O’Reilly and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
--You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
--You can have the peaceniks and war protesters.
--When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
--We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
--You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLaine. You can also have the UN., but we will no longer be paying the bill.
--We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.
--You can give everyone health care if you can find any practicing doctors.
--We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
--I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine," "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," "Kum Baya," or "We Are the World."
--We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle-up poverty your best shot.
--Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name, and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you might think about which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
P.S. Also, please take George Clooney, Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Short, Charlie Sheen, Barbra Streisand, and (Hanoi) Jane Fonda with you.
P.P.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.
Forward This Every Time You Get It !
Let's Keep This Going, Maybe Some Of It Will Start Sink in.
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Dr. Markus Krall sugeruje, że w Polsce doszło do puczu z udziałem niemieckiej policji, !!!
Niemiecki doktor nauk ekonomicznych, który przez ponad 30 lat pracował w finansach i doradztwie jako senior partner ds. ryzyka w nagraniu mówi:
„To nie jest żadna teoria spiskowa. Zamach stanu w Polsce z niemiecką policją.
W Polsce nie znaleziono wystarczająco dużej liczby policjantów, która zechciałaby w tym uczestniczyć.
Już kiedyś jeden kanclerz pozwolił przekroczyć polską granicę uzbrojonym żołnierzom, to chyba Hitler.”
Chodzi o wydarzenia wokół Trybunału Konstytucyjnego w Warszawie. W sieci krążyły teorie o obecności niemieckiej policji pod TK. Polska Policja (Komenda Główna) oficjalnie zaprzeczyła – zabezpieczenie prowadziły wyłącznie polskie siły. Niemieccy policjanci byli wcześniej w Polsce na ćwiczeniach RAILEXe.
RobbieG retweeted
Pognon, pognon, pognon… Beurk 🤢
Merci pour ce tweet, il résume parfaitement le problème. Je vais en profiter pour t'expliquer ce que c'est, l'argent. Parce que visiblement, personne ne l'a jamais fait.
Et ce n'est pas entièrement ta faute. L'école française, gangrénée par le gauchisme, ne t'explique jamais ce qu'est l'argent. Pas une heure. On t'apprend à le soupçonner, jamais à le comprendre. Et le message implicite, tu l'as reçu cinq sur cinq : l'argent c'est sale, celui qui en gagne l'a forcément pris à quelqu'un, s'enrichir est illégitime par nature.
Sauf que c'est faux. L'argent, c'est du temps humain cristallisé. Quand tu paies quelqu'un, tu échanges des heures de ta vie contre des heures de la sienne. Chaque euro est la trace d'un service rendu, d'un problème résolu, d'un besoin satisfait. L'argent, c'est le sang d'une société saine. Il circule, il irrigue, il porte l'énergie là où elle est utile.
Dans une société qui fonctionne, l'argent et l'échange de valeur sont célébrés. Pas par cupidité. Parce que c'est le signe que l'organisme est vivant : des gens créent, d'autres en profitent, et tout le monde repart plus riche qu'avant. Un échange libre, ce n'est pas un vol. C'est deux personnes qui gagnent.
Quand cette vision est mal comprise, et en France elle l'est presque systématiquement, tout se dérègle. On punit ceux qui créent, on soupçonne ceux qui réussissent, on vénère la redistribution sans jamais se demander d'où vient ce qu'on redistribue. La France fonctionne comme une société communiste qui refuse de dire son nom. Résultat : plus rien n'a de sens, les meilleurs partent, et ceux qui restent tirent sur l'ambulance en tweetant "beurk".
Donc la leçon est simple. Quand tu vois quelqu'un créer de la valeur, ne crache pas dessus. Célèbre-le. C'est la vie.
Le "beurk", garde-le pour la médiocrité.
RobbieG retweeted
Catherine Austin Fitts (@solari_the) says the central bank reset is already underway.
Small businesses shut down. Trillions injected into the economy. Big companies buying up the assets.
She explains what she calls the “Going Direct” reset:
RobbieG retweeted
Je ne sais pas si on réalise tous à quel point X est devenu puissant !
Sans cette plate-forme, combien d'entre nous auraient entendu parler de la tentative de coup d'État impliquant l'Union européenne en Pologne ?
Absolument aucun média n'en a parlé !
Aucun.
Grâce à X, nous pouvons aujourd'hui voir, documenter et partager en temps réel ce qui se passe aux quatre coins du monde.
Sans être censuré par la pravda moderne.
Les ingérences politiques, les affaires de corruption, les mensonges, les manipulations de ceux qui nous gouvernent…
Tout ce qui pouvait autrefois rester enfoui dans les coulisses du pouvoir peut désormais être exposé aux yeux de millions de citoyens.
Et c'est précisément cette liberté qui dérange.
C'est exactement pour cela qu'ils salissent Elon Musk en permanence pour mieux justifier la censure de X.
L'ancien monde est en train de crever...
Celui où quelques grands médias détenaient le monopole de l'information et décidaient de ce que les peuples avaient le droit de savoir.
Un nouveau monde est en train de naître. Et il se construit ici, sous nos yeux, chaque jour.
X est devenu le dernier phare de vérité encore allumé dans un monde plongé dans l'obscurité des mensonges.
Rien que pour ça, Elon Musk est un héros des temps modernes.
Et n'oubliez jamais une chose : aujourd'hui, chacun d'entre nous peut devenir un journaliste citoyen.
Nous avons tous le pouvoir de témoigner, d'enquêter et de faire circuler l'information.
Longue vie à X !
RobbieG retweeted
Most people know him for a productivity rule. Almost nobody knows he predicted the exact collapse of the modern managerial elite.
Long before modern commentators tried to explain why bureaucratic institutions despise the working public, an Italian nobleman named Vilfredo Pareto already mapped the entire crisis. Today, business consultants reduce his legacy to the "Pareto Principle" (the 80/20 rule). In doing so, they conceal his far more dangerous work: a ruthless, mathematically precise philosophy that exposed the grand illusion of mass democracy.
Pareto was an aristocrat, mathematician, and civil engineer who ran Italy's railways before abandoning public life in disgust. Retreating to a villa on Lake Geneva alongside twenty Angora cats, he spent his final decades studying how power actually functions. While Karl Marx peddled the fantasy of a classless utopia and liberal academics preached that voters run the state, Pareto arrived at a colder truth. Society is never ruled by the masses. It is always ruled by an organized elite, and history is merely the battlefield where one elite replaces another.
His most lethal insight was the division of power between two archetypes: the Foxes and the Lions.
Foxes are the managerial class. They are subtle, cautious, manipulative, and obsessed with consensus. They rule through bureaucratic procedures, financial schemes, media spin, and institutional maneuver. They loathe physical courage, despise traditional religion, and avoid direct confrontation at all costs. Instead, they bleed a civilization dry through taxes, regulations, and endless legal pettifoggery, convinced that clever rhetoric can overcome basic reality.
Lions, by contrast, are grounded in loyalty, family, faith, and sovereign borders. They do not care for administrative games. They value strength, decisive action, and the preservation of their heritage. When a nation is young and rising, it is led by Lions who defend its sovereignty with unapologetic force.
Pareto warned that over time, the Foxes always infiltrate the administrative apparatus. They purge the Lions from universities, courts, and civil service, creating an insulated bubble of self-congratulatory managers. Yet because Foxes are fundamentally cowardly, they cannot defend their own borders or sustain the economic foundation they harvest. They mistake compliance for loyalty, and they mistake their echo chamber for reality.
Their rule always ends the same way. As Pareto observed:
"History is a graveyard of aristocracies."
When a managerial regime becomes entirely composed of decadent Foxes, it rots from within. The moment crisis arrives, their paperwork and procedural tricks collapse, opening the gates for a new generation of Lions to sweep them away. What we are witnessing across the West today is not an ideological accident; it is the inevitable historical reckoning Pareto guaranteed more than a century ago.
RobbieG retweeted
Je ne sais pas qui tu crois démasquer, alors je vais te faciliter la tâche. Voici qui je suis.
Je de Bretagne, 36 ans aujourd'hui, né à thaiti, petit-fils de paysan, qui a grandi près de Lorient. J'ai commencé à coder à 12 ans, tout seul. À 15 ans, j'ai sorti un jeu qui a plutôt bien marché : des dizaines de milliers de joueurs.
C'était un jeu massivement multijoueur, et il n'y avait pas d'État dedans. Pas de ministère, pas de subvention, pas de plan quinquennal. Juste des joueurs, des règles et des incitations. Et pourtant, un ordre émergeait. Des marchés, des alliances, des réputations. À 15 ans, j'ai compris un truc qui ne m'a jamais quitté : un système complexe n'a pas besoin d'un chef pour fonctionner. Il a besoin de bonnes règles. C'est là que je suis devenu libertarien, avant même de savoir que le mot existait.
Ensuite, j'ai passé ma vie à construire des systèmes : AdTech, moteurs de recherche, jeux, recommandation, et aujourd'hui une boîte passée par Y Combinator. Je n'ai pas de diplôme prestigieux, ma crédibilité vient de ce que j'ai livré. Donc mon prisme, en premier, c'est l'économie.
Quand j'ai des collectivistes en face de moi, je pense à ce que Milei a dit à Davos : l'Occident est en danger parce que ceux qui devraient défendre ses valeurs ont été cooptés par une vision du monde qui mène au socialisme, donc à la pauvreté. Je ne prête pas de mauvaises intentions à ces gens. Je regarde leurs incitations. Et leurs incitations mènent, à chaque fois, au chaos.
Voici ma ligne, et elle est simple.
Je suis pro-humain. Une vie humaine vaut tout. Ukrainienne, russe, française, peu importe.
J'attaque les idées, jamais les personnes, et encore moins les groupes de personnes. C'est pour ça que je trouve l'antisémitisme d'une débilité profonde. On prend un groupe entier et on lui colle la faute de quelques-uns, ou de personne. C'est l'erreur logique la plus vieille du monde, et la plus meurtrière.
C'est aussi pour ça que je suis contre le wokisme. Même mécanique, autre costume. On te juge pour ta couleur, ton sexe, ta religion, ton origine, et jamais pour ce que tu as fait. Moi, je ne connais que deux choses : l'individu et la loi. Tu fais le mal, tu paies. Toi, pas ton voisin, pas ta communauté, pas tes ancêtres.
Et je me méfie de l’État, de ses institutions et des politiciens en général, parce qu’ils prouvent encore et encore qu’ils se corrompent. Regarde l’Europe, censée être notre rempart. Qatargate : des eurodéputés pris avec des sacs de billets pour défendre le Qatar et le Maroc. Huaweigate : des perquisitions au Parlement et des demandes de levée d’immunité contre cinq eurodéputés. Pfizergate : des SMS à plusieurs milliards que la Commission n’a jamais pu produire, et un Parquet européen qui attend toujours la déposition de von der Leyen. Et pendant ce temps, plus de 17 000 organisations de lobbying sont enregistrées à Bruxelles, soit environ 24 par eurodéputé. Ce n’est pas un Parlement, c’est un marché. Et je ne blâme même pas les lobbyistes : quand un bureau peut écrire la règle qui s’impose à 450 millions de personnes, c’est rationnel de payer pour l’influencer. La corruption n’a pas de parti. Elle a des incitations.
Parce qu'au fond, je ne raisonne qu'en incitations. Je pense que l'humain est corruptible par construction. Pas mauvais, corruptible. Mets-le dans un système qui récompense l'hypocrisie, il sera hypocrite. Mets-le dans un système qui punit la triche et récompense la création, il créera. On ne change pas l'homme. On change les règles du jeu. Le gamin de 15 ans l'avait compris avant moi.
Voilà d'où je viens et voilà ce que je pense. Tout est public, tout est écrit. Ça t'évitera les procès d'intention, mon petit.
Et si un jour tu trouves une contradiction dans tout ça, viens me la montrer. J'adore ça.
