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Most people graduate college without ever leading anything real.
Four years of classes. Clubs. "Involvement."
But 1,925 students decided differently in 2025.
They didn't just talk about ideas. They changed laws, built businesses, organized in war zones.
Here's what happened: 🧵
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communism destroys everything
Jimmy Lai was smuggled into Hong Kong at 12 with nothing. He built a fortune, spent about US$90 million of it to launch a newspaper that fought for the city's freedom, and at 78 is serving 20 years in prison for it.
His life is the story of what Beijing did to Hong Kong. 🧵
The three judges called Lai "no doubt the mastermind" of a plan to get foreign governments to sanction China and Hong Kong.
Lai is 78, and his family says his health is failing. If he serves the full term, he will be over 95 when he walks out. Steve Li, the police national security chief, called the health problems his lawyers raised in court "exaggerated."
UN human rights chief Volker Türk said the verdict "should be quashed."
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In September, his son Sebastien told a U.S. congressional commission: "Let Jimmy Lai come home to his family and let him sit beside his daughter in her hardest moment." His sister Claire had just started chemotherapy in London.
The boy who once earned US$8 a month gave Hong Kong a newspaper that sold a million copies on its last day, and Hong Kong's courts answered with 20 years in prison.
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There's one thing that connects communism wherever it's been tried, across development stages, cultures, geographies and time periods.
It's AUTHORITARIANISM.
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In October, our Spanish team hosted their first regional conference in the Canary Islands. 🇪🇸
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Every socialist system eventually needed walls, internal passports, or exit visas to keep its own citizens from leaving.
The Soviet Union, China, East Germany, Cuba and Venezuela. Each of them ended up writing laws about who is allowed to move and who is allowed to leave.
In a planned economy, you will eventually need to keep citizens from leaving. 🧵
An American-born communist vs our own Leyla, who lived in a former Soviet republic for 23 years.
He brushes off what Soviet communism did to the ethnic groups inside it under the name of (forced) unification, while enjoying his free speech rights in the US.
She didn't let it slide.
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You see this wicked pathology growing in California, New Jersey and New York in the form of exit taxes.
Every socialist system eventually needed walls, internal passports, or exit visas to keep its own citizens from leaving.
The Soviet Union, China, East Germany, Cuba and Venezuela. Each of them ended up writing laws about who is allowed to move and who is allowed to leave.
In a planned economy, you will eventually need to keep citizens from leaving. 🧵
According to historian Stephen Kotkin, in the Soviet Union, being considered "rich" or a "kulak" could mean you had:
• One cow, one horse, and three sheep
• A modest family house and barn
• A bathhouse and a storage shed
• Six to eight acres of planted land
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Typical busy bodies making safe things illegal to make already illegal things possibly less common.
In this video, Walter Williams warns that America is drifting step by step toward more government control and even totalitarianism.
