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Swissland
Joined January 2009
This is Nagasaki in 2026. Imagine if they spent the past 80 years wallowing in self-pity and blaming the US? It's incredible what you can accomplish when you decide to pick yourself up, move forward, and take responsibility for your own outcomes.
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The guilty verdict against @TRobinsonNewEra brings further shame on Britain's 2-tier justice system. There was never any chance he'd get a fair trial for the nonsensical charges against him. Opting for a jury trial was never going to help. Having attended most of the days, I will be writing up more about this later
🇬🇧 BREAKING: @TRobinsonNewEra has been found GUILTY of all changes!!
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I am releasing my full documentary on the riots in Paris. I spoke to the rioters themselves and you'll be able to see how they rationalize their crimes. In this video you'll hear from rioters that they want to smash everything because the gas prices are too high. You'll hear the rioters say that they are going to "f*ck Marine Le Pen, that wh*re." You'll hear from others that they just want to loot the big businesses. Either way, it was nothing but people encouraging their countrymen to destroy what others have created so they can be "seen." This was continuously covered and is still is covered as a student protest. It's a lie through omission, yes it may have started that way but the people I spoke to were not interested in better textbooks, they were interested in burning down Paris until they get what they want which they say is a lower cost of living. My message back to America is this: you would be naive to think this is not what is coming next for us. Yes we had riots in 2020 for a very different reason, no individual action spurred the riots I saw here, this is just the rise of communism, islam, and decades of unvetted mass migration that is now turning violent. Paris is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been to and it's heart wrenching to see the tidal wave that has finally hit it. The best way to support my reporting is by subscribing on X.
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Ben Sim retweeted
I haven’t posted much recently about the way I see things that are going on in our once great nation, but with remembrance just round the corner and after a few minutes on here this morning I feel I need to vent. This morning I feel angry. That’s not unusual, but this morning feels different. The first few items I have seen have made my blood boil! Young white lad beaten by Manchester cops while the asian deviant they are actually arresting is treated with kid gloves. Spineless twat @PeterBleksley gobbing off about cowardice Lefty, face pierced runts refusing entry due to poppies @wesstreeting ramping up gingoistic rhetoric trying to make himself look relevant and tough Lefty and immigrant Stabbers and rapists getting community orders while the ‘far right’ get jail sentences for hurty words and minor infractions. Preparing for another dry bumming by the chancellor Thousands more illegal immigrants shipped into our country to be given more than those who work and pay taxes Rampant anti- semitism Morons trying to get into Gaza Chicks with dicks getting more female rights than actual females It’s fucking relentless. Since 9/11, hundreds of thousands of us, patriotic Britons volunteered to fight the evil of islam. Back in the 2000’s it seemed like a just cause. The worst terrorist atrocity the world had ever seen. After 7/7 I volunteered and went to Afghanistan in 2010, still feeling that we were making a difference, tying up the terrorists in their own back yard, not realising that while I was thousands of miles away, digging in with me eyelids our corrupt governments were already shipping in the very evil we were fighting. Fast forward 16 years and we are on our knees! The indigenous working population of Great Britain are now an ignorant, racist, bigoted inconvenience, good only for paying the ever rising taxes to pay and house the invaders that they hope will be their new voter base. Every public service has been decimated through DEI recruitment meaning the govt have installed their puppets at all levels and indoctrinated vast swathes of hand picked lackies in their leftist, Fabian rhetoric. Seeing gobshites like Streeting, Mogg and Bleakesly ranting about preparing to send our young to war, while leaving our country, women and children at the mercy of the vast imported army of fighting age medieval lizards makes my blood boil! Anyone who has seen combat would think twice about giving up their children for some trumped up conflict. In 2010 I genuinely believed that volunteering was the right thing to do and with the same optics I would do so again, but now, no fucking chance. I never dreamed that at the age of 63 I would now be preparing myself mentally for civil war. It’s time people picked a side. All governments since Blair have been running this country into the ground, spaffing our money into foreign economies, depleting our forces both physically and morally and all the while shipping in illegals that take everything and contribute nothing but misery. These cunts say prepare for war, but where is the preparation? I don’t see small arms, drone, tank, plane and ship production being ramped up. I don’t see training camps and all the logistics that are needed to run them being put in place. No they are all full of illegals! Buy a dozen cans of sardines and some shit role and yer off. The only place I will be fighting (I’ve still got two good years in me according to the govt) will be in my own country, protecting those I love and those that deserve my protection. Those that back the present status quo of mass immigration and communism are my enemies and will be treated as such. We are fast heading for a reckoning, our country has hundreds of thousands of veterans, most who will have lost a friend or colleague fighting abroad, now is the time to stand up for your family, your home and your country. It breaks my heart to see our country in its current state, stay safe and God Bless Great Britain. 🇬🇧
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Ben Sim retweeted
Britain is being destroyed by six basic actions. 1. Destroying energy supply (and consequently everything else) by taxing what does work to subsidise what doesn't. (see windmills) 2. Telling the plebs what they should like and are allowed to have, while sabotaging what they actually buy. (cars especially) 3. Taxing people who do work to subsidise people who don't. 4. Asset stripping useful arms of the state to sustain the ideological arms. 5. Importing surplus labour to prop up the above. 6. Borrowing.
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He looked calm until he said the parents are the ones slowly dying. Graham was going on about the hospital visits, how much the kids love Captain Jack, all the pictures. Depp sat there, then flipped it. He said the visits aren’t a gift he gives them. They’re the gift. He started talking about Great Ormond Street, how he’d already been there as a parent when his daughter was ill. Called it the darkest time of his life, right around Sweeney Todd. Then he drew the line: the kids are strong. It’s the parents you watch break. He paused after that, like he didn’t mean to say it out loud, before adding that bringing even a small smile is everything now. Most celebrities treat those visits like nice press. He talked about them like the only part of the character that still feels real.
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Ben Sim retweeted
Мне всегда говорят-Европе нужны мигранты, потому что Европе не хватает рабочих рук.Простите, но это манипуляция. Потребность в иностранной рабочей силе совершенно не требует той миграционной модели, которую Европа выбрала для себя. Я живу в Сингапуре и вижу перед глазами другую систему. Сингапур тоже критически зависит от иностранной рабочей силы. Но здесь почему-то сумели разделить два совершенно разных понятия- «нам нужен иностранный работник» и «мы обязаны предоставить иностранному работнику право навсегда(!) стать частью нашего общества». Work Permit( разрешение на работу)привязан к работодателю и сектору. Существуют квоты. Работодатель платит специальный levy за иностранного работника. Разрешение ограничено по сроку. Для значительной части таких работников нет права перевезти сюда семью. Закончилась работа - разрешение отменяется, а работодатель отвечает за репатриацию. Довольно жестко. Зато предельно понятно- страна определяет, кто ей нужен, зачем он ей нужен и на каких условиях он здесь находится. И самое интересное -Сингапур является одной из самых многонациональных и многоконфессиональных стран мира. Значит, дело не в том, что «разные народы не могут жить вместе».Дело в правилах. Если государство говорит приезжему- ты приехал работать, ты обязан соблюдать наши законы, обеспечивать себя и уважать правила нашего общества, а право остаться здесь навсегда не возникает автоматически. Если государство годами рассматривает миграционные дела, плохо исполняет решения о выдворении, содержит людей, не имеющих самостоятельного дохода, и постепенно начинает объяснять собственному населению, что уже оно должно приспосабливаться к культурным нормам приезжих, оно создаёт совершенно другую систему. А люди то  при этом везде люди. Но они приезжают не чистыми листами. Они привозят с собой язык, религию, семейные нормы, отношение к женщине, государству, образованию, закону. Поэтому нормальная миграционная политика - это не только количество людей. Это отбор + требования + интеграция + неизбежность последствий за нарушение правил. Сингапур это почему то сразу понял. Европа же выбрала противоположную философию- всё больше прав принимаемого и всё больше обязанностей принимающего общества. И не надо рассказывать, что никто не мог предвидеть последствий. Посмотрите на Лондон. В начале 1990-х это был город, который я помню совершенно другим. За одно поколение его демографический состав изменился радикально. По переписи 2021 года White British составляли уже только 36,8% населения Лондона. 36,8%. В столице собственной страны. Такое изменение за одно поколение - это не результат природных катаклизмов. Это результат десятилетий конкретной государственной политики. Поэтому вопрос давно уже не в том, «нужны ли Европе иностранные рабочие».Конечно, они нужны. Вопрос в другом, а именно - почему вместо контролируемой трудовой миграции европейские государства выбрали модель, способную за несколько десятилетий радикально изменить демографический и культурный облик собственных городов? Почему Сингапур счёл своей обязанностью защищать интересы принимающего общества , а европейские элиты всё чаще считали обязанностью принимающего общества приспосабливаться? И самое главное,если последствия этой политики были предсказуемы - почему её продолжали даже тогда, когда они уже стали очевидны? Вот этот вопрос мне кажется гораздо интереснее бесконечных разговоров о «нехватке рабочих рук» и падении рождаемости.
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CRUCIAL FACTS ON THE FLAVIO BOLSONARO MATTER: It's not just Flavio Bolsonaro who fled Brazil to escape the tyrannical persecution of Alexandre de Moraes and the pro-Lula wing of the Supreme Court. There are dozens of Brazilian exiles who have done the same: dissident journalists, activists, bloggers, and politicians who all fled to avoid certain prison for political opposition. In most of these cases, Moraes has demanded the extradition of those who fled and whom he wants to imprison back in Brazil. But Moraes' extradition requests have been repeatedly denied by multiple countries and institutions on the grounds that these prosecutions are politically motivated or otherwise corrupted. Among those concluing this: Spain, Italy, INTERPOL, and even the US under Biden. Just today, Italy refused Brazil's demand to extradite a person named @edutagli, who was once a top aide to Moraes, but then fled to Italy after Moraes accused him of having been my source in a huge leak from Moraes' office that I obtained for reporting I did with @Folha in 2024. That massive leak enabled us to publish roughly 20 articles proving systemic abuses of power by Moraes against his political enemies: exactly the reason so many Brazilians, including Bolsonaro, know they can't get a fair trial in Brazil. Italy today refused to extradite the person accused of being our source on the grounds that the proceedings would be a farce because Moraes — as he so often does — wants to act as the supposed victim, investigator, and judge, and thus his demand falls well outside of Italy's extradition standards. Again, multiple countries have concluded the same, showing what a farce Brazil's once-respected judicial system has become under the Lula/Moraes regime. Moraes has overseen a system of political persecution masquerading as criminal justice that has been recognized as a sham by multiple countries that are not exactly Bolsonaro allies. Nobody in their right mind who is a political enemy of Moraes would remain in Brazil once if it is clear that he intends to imprison you, since he has proven that guilt is a foregone conclusion and he operates with no legal or constitutional limits of any kind. That is why asylum under international law exists: to protect those who cannot obtain justice in their own country because the justice system has been corrupted and commandeered for political persecution. Many people, such as Julian Assange, have needed that protection (which Lula cheered). Now people need it from Moraes in Brazil. That is sadly one of the main legacies of both Lula and Moraes over the last six years.
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Ben Sim retweeted
Olá, pessoal! Meu nome é Simon. Sou um gringo europeu que se mudou para o Brasil quando o mundo inteiro estava sendo feito refém pelos globalistas da COVID. Graças a Jair Bolsonaro, o Brasil era um dos poucos faróis de liberdade que ainda existiam neste planeta. Fui recebido de braços abertos, com algumas exceções, principalmente entre os esquerdistas fanáticos que tratavam a COVID quase como uma religião. Mas o povo brasileiro, que consegue manter uma atitude positiva mesmo diante de tantas dificuldades, me acolheu com um carinho enorme. E é justamente por isso que me dói tanto ver o que aconteceu com este país desde que me mudei para cá. Há apenas seis anos, as pessoas conversavam abertamente sobre praticamente qualquer assunto. Falavam o que pensavam, sem papas na língua. Hoje, vejo muita gente falando sobre determinados assuntos apenas em particular, em voz baixa e de forma indireta, por medo do aparato judicial que mantém este país maravilhoso como refém. Eu acredito que as duas últimas eleições foram fraudadas. E Alexandre de Moraes, esse tirano, começou a preparar o terreno para isso já em 2018, quando o STF, seguindo seu voto, suspendeu a exigência de que as urnas eletrônicas imprimissem um comprovante físico de cada voto, que pudesse ser conferido pelo eleitor e depositado em uma urna lacrada. Desde então, este país só anda para trás. E parece que as únicas certezas que temos neste país são estas: mais censura, mais impostos e cada vez mais poder nas mãos do aparato estatal. Eu moro no meio da Mata Atlântica e consegui me tornar bastante independente do Estado. Produzo minha própria eletricidade, tenho minha própria água e produzo boa parte da minha comida. Tenho muitas galinhas, árvores frutíferas, estufas e muito mais. Sei perfeitamente que nem todos têm essa possibilidade. Mas, meus queridos amigos brasileiros, aqueles de vocês que têm condições, tentem se tornar o mais independentes possível do governo central. E, acima de tudo, não tenham medo de levantar a voz! Porque a única coisa que esse aparato teme são cidadãos independentes, autoconfiantes e capazes de pensar por conta própria. Vocês são o Brasil. Não Lula e seus capangas, nem os ministros corruptos do Supremo Tribunal Federal. Já fugi de problemas o suficiente na minha vida. Agora vou ficar aqui e estou totalmente ao lado de vocês. Obrigado por tudo!
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There was once a shepherd who found a wolf caught in a snare at the edge of his pasture. The wolf begged to be freed. “I was hungry,” it said. “That is all. Spare me, and I will remember your mercy!” The shepherd cut the rope. The next night, three lambs were gone. Again the shepherd found the wolf. Again it pleaded. Again the shepherd convinced himself that mercy was proof of his goodness. By winter, half the flock was dead. An old farmer finally asked him, “Why do you keep freeing it?” The shepherd answered, “Because I refuse to become cruel.” The farmer looked at the empty field and said, “Then understand what you have done. You were not merciful to the wolf. You were cruel to everything that trusted you to keep them safe.” That’s the lesson. Mercy without judgment isn’t virtue. When someone openly intends to destroy what has been entrusted to you, endless forgiveness doesn’t make you righteous. It makes everyone behind you pay for your vanity.
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Il y a un truc que la presse subventionnée n'a toujours pas compris. Ses attaques ne font plus de dégâts. Elles font de la pub. Hier, Le Monde publie que des tracts RN ont été retrouvés dans la voiture du suspect de Trappes. Le soir même, le procureur antiterroriste dément : aucun tract d'aucun parti. L'article est corrigé en douce, le titre changé, pas d'excuses. Effet sur le RN ? Probablement l'inverse de celui recherché. Des millions de Français ont surtout vu, encore une fois, un grand journal tenter de coller un attentat sur le dos d'un parti. Les Américains ont vécu exactement ça avec Trump. Des mois de unes assassines, de "révélations", de procès médiatiques. À chaque crachat, il montait. Son mugshot est devenu un t-shirt. Parce que la confiance a basculé. Quand une institution que plus personne ne croit t'attaque, elle ne te disqualifie pas. Elle te certifie. Une attaque du Monde, c'est devenu un label. Un badge "dérange le système". Donc si vous êtes politique, entrepreneur ou créateur, et que Le Monde vous démolit demain, ne vous défendez pas. Remerciez-les. C'est la meilleure campagne gratuite que vous aurez jamais.
En diffusant une information infondée, mensongère et démentie ce soir par le procureur de la République, le journal Le Monde s’est une fois encore prêté à une opération militante visant à salir le Rassemblement national. Cette manœuvre de désinformation manifeste interroge les Français sur la question essentielle de l’objectivité et de la rigueur professionnelle qu’on est en droit d’attendre des médias dans une campagne présidentielle.
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4 pasos para ser de ultraderecha : 1. Trabajar 2.Querer formar una familia 3.Saber economía básica 4. Bañarse
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Africans selling other Africans into slavery for profit was a great crime against humanity. Yet they're not ashamed of themselves - on the contrary, they're demanding "reparations" from Britain for buying slaves off them. "You bought the slaves we sold, now pay us reparations!"
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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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THE CEASEFIRE HAS COMMENCED The ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect at 4:00am Moscow time on October 27, 2026.    Timing was accelerated two days ahead of schedule to protect the safety of civilians and to facilitate the delivery of critical humanitarian aid. The ceasefire’s geographic area has expanded beyond Oleshky, within the Kherson Region, to provide safe passage for the humanitarian convoys.       General Valery Gerasimov, Joint Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has confirmed.
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Oh, I don't know, maybe he did it because you're running on a platform of "let's take all of Elon Musk's stuff and throw him in the gulag"?
Elon Musk is dumping half a billion dollars into Republican races. Why? Because Democrats in Congress won’t be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump and will actually fight to lower costs.
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Probably the most important lesson to take from 1984 is Eurasia/Eastasia war flip-flopping from one day to the next (we are now at war with Eurasia, we were ALWAYS at war with Eurasia). The thing that communists do is they will deliberately change the party line, inexplicably, from one day to the next. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They're testing your loyalty to the state. They must get you to abandon your own eyes and ears, your own logic and reason, and bend to the will of the state. They must get you to believe that up is down, war is peace, men are women, slavery is freedom, and they will invert their most deeply held beliefs the very next day and just...move on as though nothing ever happened. Leaving you baffled and shouting "hypocrisy!" It's not hypocrisy. It's hierarchy...they need to know that you will be a good little slave and gobble up whatever the state says, and abandon your principles in the process. If you balk and say "wait, weren't we at war with Eastasia yesterday?" you get the bullet. You're not loyal enough to the state. Communism requires that you abandon your humanity, so it cannot tolerate free thinking. Communism is a religion, not a political ideology, nor an economic structure...it's a religion that worships the state. And whatever the state says, goes. This is why it's always pointless to call out "hypocrisy" on the communist left...they know. They don't care. The hypocrisy is the point. It's how they flex their unflinching allegiance to the state's authority. It is a religious cult full of bitter, self-loathing malcontents...they are the fuel for the revolution, because the only kind of person who worships the state, and celebrates this "hypocrisy" is someone who hates themselves...they want to be demoralized, they want to be abused, they want the filth, they want to degrade themselves because they hate themselves. When you accept this, suddenly all of your debates with your local commies make a lot more sense, huh? All of their behavior is less confusing once you see that they are completely demoralized and have no governing principles other than self-loathing. The more you point out their hypocrisy, the more they get off on it. Just keep that in mind as you debate these freaks.
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Recently I was talking with a friend about universal geniuses. And something struck me. Florence, 1480–1510. Same city, same moment: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola. Raphael right behind them. They walked the same streets. Europe, 1600–1700. Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Pascal, Huygens, Newton, Leibniz. In two generations, we got calculus, modern mechanics, probability theory, and the scientific method. Athens, 470–320 BC. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Phidias, Thucydides. One century, one city, and the foundations of Western thought were laid. Europe, 1890–1930. Poincaré, Hilbert, Einstein, Marie Curie, Tesla, Planck, Bohr, then von Neumann. Always the same pattern. In every great era, the West had 15 to 20 minds of this caliber alive at the same time. People who could touch everything and push the frontier of several fields at once. Today we have one. Just one. Elon Musk. And Elon is an anomaly. Not in the sense that he shouldn't exist. In the sense that the world we built is designed so that someone like him never emerges. Statistically, he shouldn't be here. Because what forged Elon was an absolutely insane move. October 2002. eBay buys PayPal. Elon walks away with roughly $180M. Anyone else buys an island and never works another day. He puts $100M into SpaceX, $70M into Tesla, $10M into SolarCity. Almost everything. On rockets and electric cars, two industries no sane person wanted to touch. 2006–2008. The first three Falcon 1 launches fail. Tesla is burning cash, the financial crisis hits, investors run. He has enough left for one last launch. Just one. He borrows money from friends to pay his rent. September 28, 2008. The fourth launch reaches orbit. December 23, 2008. NASA awards SpaceX a $1.6B contract. December 24, 2008. The Tesla round closes at the last possible hour. A few more days and everything collapses. That's what a genius is. Not just IQ. The ability to put everything on the table when the entire world tells you it's impossible, and be right. Now the real question: why do we only have one? Because a genius needs three things. The freedom to try. The right to get massively rich if it works. The right to fail without being destroyed. And that's exactly what the collectivist left and the technocrats have torn down across the West for the past 50 years. They turned success into suspicion. Making a lot of money became a moral failing. Taking risks became irresponsible. Rising above the crowd became an insult to equality. They stacked up norms, committees, permits, regulations written in Brussels by people who have never built anything in their lives. In Europe, Elon would never have been allowed to blow up three rockets. He'd have been stopped at the first form. They want to tax capital before it even exists, cap fortunes, redistribute what others created by risking everything. They replaced excellence with conformity. Our schools produce docile people, not dangerous ones. And a genius, by definition, is someone who disrupts. Their entire system is built to neutralize the people who disrupt. The result: where we should have 15 to 20 universal geniuses alive at the same time, we have one. Just one. And you want to put him in prison. You summon him before judges, you raid his offices, you insult him morning, noon and night, you dream of breaking up his companies. The man who lands rockets vertically and wants to take humanity to Mars. You're disgusting. History won't remember your names. It remembers Galileo, not the inquisitors who tried to silence him.
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August 2021: Joe Biden throws a White House party to celebrate electric cars. Invited: GM, Ford, and Stellantis. EVs were 1–2% of their US sales. Not invited: Tesla. The company that built about 74% of America's EVs. Built here, by American workers. Asked why, Psaki shrugged: "I'll let you draw your own conclusion." Elon did. In 2022 he said he'd always voted Democrat but was done with them. That fall he bought Twitter and opened it back up to everyone. Democrats had the most famous innovator in the world on their side. They traded him for a photo op with some union boss. That snub was the beginning of the end. They're still paying for it.
Replying to @cleantechnica
Yeah, seems odd that Tesla wasn’t invited
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