Bookworm, martial artist, dried-out drug addict, paramedic, apostate libertarian, debater, knife maker, SCA basher, pornographer, gamer, and social commentator.
Montréal, Québec
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Peter Cohen retweeted
A very sad announcement.
I have just been convicted a second time for 'hate speech' and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge's frustration.
In an ironic turn of events it's actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least.
Call me naive but I didn't think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration.
In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence.
Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.”
That's a lot of words just to say he wants to send me to prison for speaking the truth.
Even the regime media write: "It did not matter to the court that Van Langenhove was quoting scientific sources. The judge argued that Van Langenhove's main message was that a big part of the societal problems like insecurity, housing shortages and lowering educational standards are due to mass migration."
You may think the regime media are being sympathetic to me in the first sentence, but in reality they are warning people: even if you speak the truth, if you go against our narrative, we will crush you in every way possible.
Both the public prosecutor and the judge did not present a single real argument as to how or against whom I would have incited hatred. So even if I would accept their crazy, dystopic law, I still did not break it.
The only argument they present is that I created a "hostile atmosphere of us versus them” in regards to migrants. But even this silly argument (which is not even a punishable offence) is not true. To me, the deadly disease is self-hatred and one of its worst symptoms is replacement migration. My enemy is thus NOT the migrants themselves but those orchestrating the mass migration.
Sadly, in Belgium, evidence is not needed and ‘vibes’ are enough to put someone in jail.
Given the fact that I have another court case coming up in September and that I have a dozen active criminal investigations for hate speech, time is running out for me. I have already paid more than €420,000 in legal fees and there is no ending in sight. I have been in an intense battle of attrition for eight years and must now regroup to make sure I can still win.
If you want to help me, you can do so via the links below. If you can help in other ways, please contact me via DM.
If you live in a country that still has free speech, never let them touch it, however noble they make the motives sound, because this is where it leads to.
Peter Cohen retweeted
Remembrance
Detonating artillery shells falling on Dunkirk echoed in the distance. It was late May, 1940, my father was only eleven years old. He was in a small restaurant with my grandfather, the two of them perplexed by the French soldier sitting next to them having a feast. The soldier's meal was lavish, far in excess of what virtually all Europeans were used to in those days of rationing.
My grandfather struck up conversation with the soldier. "Excuse me, but you are using up all your ration coupons on this one meal. What will you eat later if you spend them all like this?
The soldier smiled forlornly and explained, "Tomorrow the Germans will attack."
He would have no further use for his coupons. He had no intention of retreat. This was his last supper.
For that soldier who died protecting my father and all the rest of us. For all the others I could never begin to name or even know of. For all those who stand the wall. Thank you.
Peter Cohen retweeted
Don't limit yourself to a doctrine or a book. The reality of the universe is VASTLY more than any human being could begin to fathom. You don't need to know the answers to unanswerable questions to feel gratitude for existing, gratitude to the universe, to something bigger. Trust.
Peter Cohen retweeted
The revolution in AI filmmaking is here. Today, we launched the world’s first complete AI streaming platform – Higgsfield Original Series.
Our team of 4 people produced a fully AI-generated pilot episode in just 4 days, achieving a scale that would traditionally demand a $100 million budget.
While we are starting with in-house content, the ultimate goal is to build an open ecosystem. At its core, the platform is designed to empower the next generation of AI filmmakers. Creators will receive grants and see their best work go straight to distribution and monetization on Higgsfield Original Series.
Viewers can now discover 12 teasers and vote on what stays. The winning shows then move into full AI production.
We’re happy to have already seen the potential. Our last contest winners took home $150,000 for a film made in just five days. Soon, we will see Higgsfield films on bigger screens, and I strongly believe the first AI-native film to win an elite award will come from one of our users.
You can watch the 12 trailers now. I suggest starting with the debut original, Arena Zero - a 10-minute sci-fi episode where every single frame was generated with AI.
Enjoy the future.
OST: Dirty Ctrl - DEM
Peter Cohen retweeted
Damn. My childhood heroes are riding off into their sunset.
Thank you, Chuck Norris, for the gift of your being. You enriched all of us. You helped so many. You inspired generations. I would not be the man I am, molded by decades of martial arts myself, much motivated by your example.
As I wipe my tears, I will smile, remembering.
Peter Cohen retweeted
Melika Azizi is 18 years old. The regime wants her dead because she isn't afraid of them.
While the world slept, they raided her home. While they beat her in Lakan Prison, she held her head high. When the judge handed down a death sentence, she didn't beg for her life—she demanded justice for the fallen.
"How can I stay silent?" she asked.
We cannot be the ones who stay silent while they try to hang a teenager for her bravery. Silence is a death sentence. Noise is a lifeline.
ACT NOW: Save this post. Share it. Tag three friends who will help spread her name. We have to make the cost of executing her higher than the cost of letting her go.
#MelikaAzizi #SaveMelika #StopExecutionsInIran #HumanRights
Peter Cohen retweeted
784k isn’t an avg home. If you are struggling to pay for this. You bought a home you should have never bought in the first place. There are plenty of homes for 200-300k but they choose to live above their means. It’s simple as that.
Peter Cohen retweeted
Existence was not created. As for a creator to exist, there must already be existence. Existence exists because it can. That said, I expect the mechanism of reality creation to be very similar to simulation theory.
youtube.com/watch?v=zdzx7g50…
Peter Cohen retweeted
Gaza is the first genocide in history where activists “fighting against it” want it to continue.
Peter Cohen retweeted
UBI 'is' affordable right now. The trick is for it to replace welfare and similar payments, for the UBI to start SMALL, similar to what welfare pays now, and for the payment to be taxed back progressively from those who earn enough already to not need it. You start to tax the productivity gains from automation, robots, and AI, using that new revenue to slowly grow the UBI.
The reason UBI is NOT the same as welfare and such is because it goes to everyone. You do not need to have a vast army of bureaucrats that people need to petition hat in hand to be given a humiliating bit of charity. Everyone gets the UBI, and at the end of the year, come tax time, if you didn't actually need it, you earned above the poverty line, for instance, you pay it back progressively.
Existing welfare discourages work. If you get a part-time job stuffing grocery bags on the weekend, you will lose your welfare. With UBI, getting that job is a total win! You might have to pay a small fraction of what you earned from the job back come tax time, but it starts small. You have every reason to get off your ass.
In the long term, ten or twenty years down the road, when there are virtually no jobs for ordinary human beings, the tax revenue from the productivity gain would be sufficient for the UBI to pay out a liveable income to everyone. No one will starve or lack. We will reach Elon Musk's Universal High Income.
Peter Cohen retweeted
🚨 PLEASE LISTEN
I am tagging just as she asked, and I would ask all of you to please repost and tag …this needs to be done ASAP!
@POTUS @realDonaldTrump
Peter Cohen retweeted
We need to implement a UBI (Universal Basic Income) NOW. We do not need to spend ten or twenty more years studying it. We do not need yet another "pilot program". We do not need a UBI twenty years from now. We need it NOW! The crisis is starting NOW!
You start it small, making the payments roughly equal to what someone would get on welfare or unemployment insurance (or whatever your country would call it). You give it to every citizen in the country. It is NOT "means tested". You do not just give it to those who need it, not up front. Everyone gets it. They don't need to apply for it. They don't need to fill out paperwork or get the approval of a bureaucracy. If you are a citizen, you get it.
BUT!!! It is taxed back from those who do not need it at tax time. If you are earning above the poverty line, it all gets taxed back. If you are below the poverty line but nonetheless earning, it is taxed back progressively. Those earning relatively little have little UBI taxed back, those earning more have more taxed back. This makes the program affordable without increasing taxes, by using the funds already earmarked for the welfare programs it replaces.
Over time, you increase taxes on profits from robotics and automation and the taxes from that increased productivity go to increasing the UBI. You "evolve" the program over time (the next twenty to thirty years) to Elon Musk's vision of Universal High Income.
Doing this, we can actually create a very positive future. Failing to do this will see the world descend into the worst cyberpunk disasters writers have imagined.
Peter Cohen retweeted
All UK police officers should resign in utter disgrace. It is YOU who enable this tyranny. NONE of it would be possible without YOUR assent. YOU are the force that does the ACTUAL tyranny. "Just doing your job" is NOT an excuse! YOU are guilty! RESIGN!
Peter Cohen retweeted
Elon Musk is probably not only the greatest genius but also the greatest humanitarian of our century.
I don’t say this only because he is making life interplanetary, expanding consciousness, bringing internet to remote areas, restoring vision for the blind, allowing a platform for free speech, reducing car accidents with autonomous driving…
And the list goes on and on.
I say this because he had no need to give Europeans visibility about the hell we are living through since our
governments have sold us out.
He doesn’t live in Europe, nor does he visit, yet he is single-handedly doing more to stop the terror in our streets than almost any leader we have in Europe.
He did the same thing with the white genocide in South Africa.
And he does the same whenever an injustice is happening in the world.
Let’s remember, being on the side of the people often means standing against governments.
The very same ones that can easily make his life difficult and target his personal security.
Yet, he still chooses to team up with the people.
We do not appreciate this man enough.
Peter Cohen retweeted
Hamas wants the war. They started it quite deliberately in order to quash any possibility of peace. They themselves continue it because every day it continues, more and more people hate Israel. They are winning the propaganda war, and they know it.
