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Are socialists smarter than a fifth grader?
Self-described socialists went up against kids, and the adults spend most of this clip learning what they signed up for.
Stay for the last question.
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In 1987, Lula explained how to implant socialism in Brazil:
"It will be an arduous job of 30 to 50 years, even with a revolution, because we must prepare the consciousness of the Brazilian people."
That is Gramsci almost word for word: first the consciousness, then the power.
Lula – The Gramsci of Latin America.
Latin America is a bit behind Europe, but it follows the same script. Lula is in fact their Gramsci, or their Dutschke.
In Europe, the turn came in 1968. The revolution had failed in the streets, so the generation of '68 took Gramsci's advice and Dutschke's slogan: don't storm the palace – march through the institutions.
Latin America had its own street revolution: Che's guerrillas. They failed too. Then the Berlin Wall fell, and the left lost both its model and its money.
So in 1990, Lula, the leader of the Workers' Party, who had just lost the presidential election, called the left of the whole continent to a hotel in São Paulo. He and Fidel Castro had agreed that his party would host the meeting. The São Paulo Forum was born: communist parties, socialist parties and guerrilla movements, all at one table.
This summer, Lula himself explained why he created it: he thought the left of Latin America could be educated through elections. The road to power was not the rifle but organizing people and winning votes. And that it would take 20-30 years.
That is the long march: not the war of maneuver but the war of position. Gramsci, translated into Portuguese.
And it worked. Within fifteen years, parties from the Forum governed Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, El Salvador – and Brazil itself. In Cuba, of course, the communists never left power since 1959.
Brazil even had the long march's schoolmaster. Paulo Freire, author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the book that turned teaching into raising revolutionary consciousness, ran São Paulo's schools for Lula's party from 1989.
And the march reached the courts. The Supreme Court annulled Lula's corruption convictions on procedural grounds, then sentenced his main rival, Jair Bolsonaro, to 27 years in prison.
In Europe, the long march was an idea. In Latin America, it has a founder, an address and a membership list. Dutschke gave Europe a slogan. Lula gave Latin America an organization.
But Latin America started the march twenty years after Europe – and it may be the first to walk out of it. Argentina, El Salvador, Bolivia and Chile already have. Brazil, for now, stays in line.
In 1961, eight central banks agreed to suppress the gold price, and markets spent seven years proving that governments cannot repeal scarcity.
The London Gold Pool launched in 1961, assembling the United States, Britain, West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland into a coordinated intervention scheme. The goal was simple: keep gold trading at $35 per ounce, the price fixed by Bretton Woods since 1944. The mechanism was also simple: When private demand pushed gold above $35, the Pool sold from member reserves into the London market to crush the price back down.
This worked while the dollar retained credibility and stopped working when it didn't.
The United States ran growing budget deficits through the 1960s, financing both the Great Society and Vietnam simultaneously. Dollars flooded Europe. Foreign governments and private traders converted those dollars into gold at $35, understanding that the dollar supply was expanding faster than Fort Knox's gold supply. France, under de Gaulle, became particularly aggressive about redemptions, shipping dollars back to Washington and demanding bullion in return. He called dollar hegemony an "exorbitant privilege," and he was correct.
By 1967, the Pool was hemorrhaging reserves. The British pound devalued in November, triggering a speculative panic. In March 1968 alone, speculators demanded 1,000 tonnes of gold. The Pool collapsed on March 17, 1968. Members suspended operations over a frantic weekend and introduced a two-tier system: official transactions at $35, private markets free to find their own level.
You know where this ends. Nixon closed the gold window entirely on August 15, 1971, defaulting on America's international obligations and unleashing the inflationary decade that followed. The London Gold Pool was seven years of governments lying about how much money they had printed, enforced by selling other people's gold until the vault ran dry.
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We live in a completely fake world.
And that's why everything feels chaotic. Why everything around us is burning.
Let's start with one number.
In 1972, 7 out of 10 Americans trusted the mainstream media. In 2025, only 28% did. The lowest Gallup has ever measured in half a century.
Nearly 7 out of 10 Americans no longer believe what they're told on TV.
Have you ever asked yourself why?
Not "because people became conspiracy theorists." Not "because of social media." The real reason is that people feel an increasingly violent gap between what they're told and what they see with their own eyes. And that gap is not an accident. It's the product of a war between two camps.
On one side, those who want to preserve reality: nations, cultures, borders, heritage.
On the other, the globalist camp.
And you need to understand its project in full.
First, a world without borders. Not just physical borders. All borders. Between nations, between cultures, between what belongs to you and what belongs to everyone. And at the end of the chain, between true and false.
Second, the hybridization of every culture. They sell it to you as openness, richness, diversity. But a culture is precisely a border. A language, a memory, customs, a way of life that isn't your neighbor's. When you blend everything together, you don't get a super-culture. You get the absence of culture. A consumable, interchangeable mush with no roots.
And look closely at which culture you're asked to "deconstruct." Never anyone else's. Always Western culture. Its history, its religion, its family, its heroes. The end goal of the project isn't blending. It's the erasure of the West as a civilization.
Now, the point almost nobody understands.
Most of the leaders carrying this project never thought it up. They designed nothing. They are products. They went through the same schools, the same universities, the same think tanks, the same newsrooms, the same dinners. The system trained them, selected them, promoted them. They recite a script they mistake for their own thinking.
You don't need a conspiracy when everyone was cast from the same mold. They're puppets, but sincere puppets. That's exactly what makes them dangerous.
And that mold has a history. It has an intellectual architect: Antonio Gramsci.
Gramsci, an Italian Marxist, writes in the 1930s from Mussolini's prisons. He makes an observation: in the West, the workers' revolution failed. Why? Because here, power doesn't rest only on the state and the police. It rests on culture. On schools, universities, the press, the Church, the arts. What he calls cultural hegemony.
His conclusion: you don't take the West by frontal assault. You take it through a war of position. You conquer minds, language and institutions first. Political power then falls on its own.
In the late 60s, German activist Rudi Dutschke summed up the strategy in one phrase: the long march through the institutions.
Fifty years later, look at the universities. Look at the major newsrooms. Look at the NGOs, the international agencies, the HR departments, Hollywood. The march is over. The institutions have been captured.
And that's when you understand why the world feels fake. When the institutions that are supposed to tell you the truth become the instruments of a project, they no longer describe reality. They prescribe it.
Then, in the middle of this system, one man stood up against it.
Elon Musk.
He understood before anyone else that the heart of the machine is control of information. So he did the one thing that could truly crack it: he bought Twitter for $44 billion. He opened the Twitter Files and showed the world how moderation worked from the inside. He gave millions of people their voice back.
And that's why he backed Trump. Not out of affection. Out of strategic clarity.
Because Trump isn't a program. Trump is an antibody. The immune response of a social body that someone tried to dissolve. When a civilization senses it's being erased, it produces antibodies. They're rough, imperfect, loud. But they're proof the organism is still alive.
Trump is the antibody to the empire of lies.
But here's the good news.
This project is doomed. Not just because we'll fight it. Because it carries the same flaw as every communist system, and it will end the same way.
This isn't the communism of collective farms. It's the communism of norms, cultures and identities. But the structure is identical: an elite that believes it can redesign society from the top down.
And Friedrich Hayek explained 80 years ago why that always fails.
Reason one: the knowledge problem. The knowledge that makes a society run isn't in anyone's head. It's scattered across millions of individuals, in millions of local situations. No planner, no committee, no elite can gather it. Markets work because prices aggregate that knowledge. The Plan fails because it claims to replace it.
Reason two, and this is where Hayek becomes prophetic: traditions, cultures and moral codes are knowledge too. Compressed knowledge. Centuries of trial and error, rules nobody invented but that survived because they worked. Hayek calls it the fatal conceit: believing that the reason of a handful of men can redesign what millennia have selected. Destroying a culture doesn't free people. It erases the memory that allowed them to live together.
Reason three: the dynamics of lying. When the Plan collides with reality, it can't admit its mistake. So it needs propaganda, to make people believe the Plan's goals are their own. And it needs coercion, for those who refuse to believe. In The Road to Serfdom, Hayek devotes an entire chapter to this: The End of Truth. And another with a crystal-clear title: Why the Worst Get on Top. In a system that has to lie to survive, the best liars rise.
That's the loop. Reality resists. You lie to hide the failure. The lie demands more control. Control produces more failure. Until collapse.
That's exactly what you're living through today. The world feels fake because it is. The chaos you see isn't the end of the world. It's the noise a system of lies makes when it crashes into reality.
The USSR lasted nearly 70 years. It collapsed all at once, without a war, because nobody believed Pravda anymore.
Today, nearly 7 out of 10 Americans no longer believe their media.
You see where I'm going with this.
Reality always wins. The only question is how long we're willing to live inside the lie before we look it in the face.
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There are only two types of people:
Those who have read '180 degrees' - and those who need to read '180 degrees'.
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie."
- Joseph Goebbels
The entire left-right political spectrum is a lie designed to keep you arguing about the wrong things.
Both "far left" and "far right" share one defining feature: the total subordination of the individual to collective power. The Soviet Politburo murdered kulaks for holding grain. The National Socialists murdered Jews for holding capital. Different scapegoats, identical mechanism: the state deciding who deserves to exist and on what terms.
The conventional model places maximum government on both ends and freedom somewhere in the center. This model is geometrically incoherent. A line with tyranny at both poles and liberty in the middle tells you nothing about the actual variable being measured, which is the concentration of coercive power.
The only axis worth mentioning runs from zero coercion to total coercion. Mao's China and Hitler's Germany sit centimeters apart on that axis. Venezuela under Maduro and Mussolini's Italy were structurally identical in their economic controls, even as their ceremonial aesthetics differed wildly.
What passes for "far right" in media coverage today often means nationalism plus market skepticism, which is state capitalism with a flag. What passes for "far left" means internationalism plus market abolition, which is state capitalism with a committee. You get robbed either way; the paperwork just differs.
The prefix "far" does no analytical work. It signals emotional distance from a speaker's preferred center, nothing more.
A government that controls prices, conscripts labor, and criminalizes dissent is totalitarian. The color of its flag is insignificant.
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Grok, has JP Morgan ever been fined for manipulating silver prices ?
Yes. In September 2020, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (and related entities) agreed to pay a record total of about $920.2 million to resolve U.S. government charges involving manipulative trading, including in silver futures.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ordered the payment for spoofing and market manipulation that spanned roughly 2008–2016. It involved hundreds of thousands of orders in precious metals futures (explicitly including gold, silver, platinum, and palladium) and U.S. Treasury futures. Traders placed large orders they intended to cancel before execution to create false signals of supply or demand, which moved prices to benefit the bank’s or clients’ genuine orders.
Parallel resolutions came from the Department of Justice (via a deferred prosecution agreement in which the bank admitted wrongdoing and paid roughly the same total amount, with credits for overlapping payments) and the SEC (focused more on Treasury cash markets).
There was also a separate ~$60 million class-action settlement in 2021 with investors who alleged spoofing in precious metals futures and options during the same period. The CFTC described the illegal trading as significantly benefiting JPMorgan while harming other market participants. The roughly $920 million total included the largest civil monetary penalty, restitution, and disgorgement amounts the agency had imposed in a spoofing case at the time (roughly $436 million penalty, $312 million restitution, and $172 million disgorgement). Individual traders on the precious metals desk (including the former head of the global precious metals business) were later convicted on charges that included fraud, attempted price manipulation, and spoofing involving gold, silver, and other metals. Some received prison sentences.
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If you think Africans with an IQ of less than 75 are rioting in France for better education, your IQ may be lower than theirs.
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'Bank Job' by @trussliz is a sensation, rightly savaging the Bank of England, the Treasury and the OBR. Liz takes no prisoners but also offers a compelling vision for a better, brighter Britain free of the dead hand of Fabian technocracy. 11/10.
amazon.co.uk/BANK-JOB-ENGLAN…
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The latest State of the Markets podcast features gold and monetary history specialist Alasdair Macleod @sotmpc @PRodr1guez @MacleodFinance
youtube.com/watch?v=gv62tQnQ…
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Funny how many of the loudest voices for conscription in Britain always belong to those who’ve never fought a war and never will, being comfortably too old to serve.
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"You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.
"If you can laugh at yourself, you are going to be fine. If you allow others to laugh with you, you will be great."
- Martin Niemöller.
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The Polish vote can save the Republican majority in the Senate.
For civilizational reasons.
For instance Michigan – the race is tight: the Democrat Abdul El-Sayed leads Mike Rogers (R) by 2–3 points.
Michiganders of Polish descent are over 7% of the state, and up to one in five in parts of Macomb County – the birthplace of the Reagan Democrats.
The margin is sitting at Polish kitchen tables.
Polish families for Western Civilization!
Why? Because we have no other interest. We never benefit from lies and coercion – and we do not want to – we are always their victims. We can only benefit from Liberty and honest rules of competition.🗽
That is why every Polish voter should stand fully behind the rules of Western Civilization – not only because it is our nature and our heritage, but because it is our best interest.
Principle and interest do not always point the same way. For a Pole, here, they do.
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The AfD won a couple of elections, and it looks like they would probably win federally. In France, Marine Le Pen is polling around 46%. With the riots, another poll might put her over 50%. Both represent a real threat to Brussels.
Both are anti-war and anti-Brussels. Meloni has said she wants some sovereignty back. Brussels needs an external enemy, and that's Russia. Without it, Brussels will collapse.
Our computer shows the likelihood of the EU surviving past 2029 isn't very high.
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.@HMRCgovuk should go after MPs that suddenly become millionaires whilst serving in Parliament.























