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I believe everyone will know some examples like these:
Remember about 15 years ago when they filmed this guy and laughed at him for being inarticulate in a working class accent when he was saying that Muslim rape gangs were real and then it turned out later that actually he was 100% right and the police had been covering it up and participating and it was worse than anyone could have possibly imagined and the rape gangs became a massive public scandal?
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Your timely reminder that Melenchon is a Holocaust revisionist, an antisemite, and a conspiracist.
Marching orders:
“It’s all because of the Zionists. This is what happens when the Zionist entity runs France. They blame Muslims, and Algerians in particular, for everything. We need to vote. I hereby call on all French citizens of foreign origin, especially the French-Algerian community. We are 6 million people. We are the majority. […] We stand with LFI [the far-left party]. They have solutions.”
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Absolute banger of an essay on African cities from @Jacob_Judah @davidpilling @FT !! Thread of excerpts below ⬇️
"Cities are the crucible of modernity. Their rise in Africa will affect everything from income and economic growth to social attitudes and politics." 🌆🌆
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“Why are young people economic leftists?”
I can’t answer this question for the francophone world, but in the United States my answer/s would be:
1) young people are broadly extremely misinformed about the structure of Western economic systems. Many of them are convinced that our economies are far more laissez-faire and deregulated than they actually are.
2) young people are extremely misinformed about the sheer quantity of government spending, and especially how much the government spends relative to the income/wealth of the richest people (e.g. all the assets of every billionaire in America would fund single payer healthcare for a year and a half)
3) young people broadly feel like the ability to accumulate wealth is not a benefit to them and like they are locked out of systems of asset accumulation.
4) in youth circles, economic griping is paradoxically often “high status.” developing radical political approaches wrt cost of living is generally viewed positively.
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These Big Brother UK contestants will one day have their own Ross Kemp moment.
Remember when Kemp sat stunned as he learned almost everything he believed about incels was wrong. He thought they were a massive, mostly white, right-leaning threat to national security who killed lots of women.
Those ideas, fed by media and official briefings, turned out to be false.
Same energy here. They treat anyone right of centre as a permanent threat to society. ❌
They assume conservatives are mostly bigots, racists and fascists. ❌
They think their media bubble has the full picture. ❌
Those preconceptions will eventually collide with reality the same way.
This Big Brother debate is a perfect snapshot of the hysteria we’re dealing with. A conservative mentions he thinks Reform will win the next election and the house reacts like he’s announced a purge.
Zero basis in anything he’s actually said or what the party has proposed.
They’re treating him like a cartoon supervillain for holding ordinary views.
One housemate is genuinely convinced that if Reform form the government, “my friends who are gender nonconforming are in danger. My friends who aren’t white are in danger. I genuinely believe that”.
No evidence offered. No policy cited. Just the media line repeated as fact: Reform are dangerous, Reform are racist, and anyone who supports them is a threat.
Another piles on: “My mum wears a burqa and I get scared wondering if she’ll come home from work. You worry about lower taxes and I worry about whether my mum’s going to come home at night.”
Lower taxes framed as callous privilege, while unfounded fears about ethnic and sexual minorities being hunted are treated as serious analysis.
This is exactly why the media keeps pushing this stuff. It still lands with enough people.
These housemates are living in a state of constant, manufactured dread over a right-wing party simply winning an election. It’s not healthy, and it has almost nothing to do with reality.
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Remember about 15 years ago when they filmed this guy and laughed at him for being inarticulate in a working class accent when he was saying that Muslim rape gangs were real and then it turned out later that actually he was 100% right and the police had been covering it up and participating and it was worse than anyone could have possibly imagined and the rape gangs became a massive public scandal?
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In addition to what everyone else has said, small children are also extremely tribal and exclusionary, hierarchical, conventional, retributive, territorial, and fantasy-prone. They constantly reinvent sexism and racism from first principles & have to be manipulated to avoid it.
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- Literal convicted ISIS terrorist
- served 4+ years in prison in Germany for terrorist activities
- ECHR Art 3 blocks his removal to Iraq
- subsequently enters Britain illegally by small boat in December 2025
- arrested days later
- sentenced to two years in prison in July 2026
- released from prison last week
- made a fresh application to remain in Britain, delaying Home Office extradition attempts
- still a literal ISIS terrorist
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"Das Pferd wird es immer geben, aber das Automobil ist nur eine Modeerscheinung – ein Spielzeug für Reiche."
Michigan Savings Bank, 1903
"Ich denke, es gibt weltweit einen Markt für vielleicht fünf Computer."
Thomas Watson, 1943
"No chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share."
Steve Ballmer, 2007
"Das Internet hat für die Wirtschaft kaum wichtigere Auswirkungen als das Faxgerät."
Paul Krugman, 1998
"Flugmaschinen, die schwerer sind als Luft, sind physikalisch unmöglich."
Lord Kelvin, 1895
"Das Spam-Problem bei E-Mails wird in spätestens zwei Jahren gelöst sein"
Bill Gates, 2004
"Der Fernseher wird sich auf dem Markt nicht halten. Die Menschen werden es bald leid sein, jeden Abend auf eine Sperrholzkiste zu starren."
Darryl F. Zanuck, 1946
"Es gibt keinen Grund, warum jemand einen Computer in seinem Haus haben wollte."
Ken Olson, 1977
"Wenn die Pariser Weltausstellung schließt, wird das elektrische Licht ausgehen und man wird nie wieder davon hören."
Erasmus Wilson, 1878
"Die Amerikaner brauchen das Telefon vielleicht, wir aber nicht. Wir haben genug Laufburschen."
William Preece, 1876
"Egal wie die Wissenschaft in Zukunft fortschreitet, der Mensch wird den Mond niemals erreichen."
Lee De Forest, 1957
"Reisen mit hoher Geschwindigkeit ist nicht möglich, weil die Passagiere keine Luft mehr bekommen und an Erstickung sterben würden."
Dionysius Lardner, 1830
"Mit Wechselstrom herumzuspielen ist reine Zeitverschwendung. Niemand wird ihn jemals nutzen."
Thomas Edison, 1889
"Mobiltelefone werden die Drahttelefone absolut nicht ersetzen."
Marty Cooper, 1981
#TeslaRoadster
#Tesla
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One of the most replicable findings in all of psychology is that young children are actually incredibly racist and do not socialize with people that don't look and sound like them.
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The Jesuits discovered this when they provided musical instruments to the Guarani in Paraguay. The Logos of music bypasses language and has an immediate effect on the soul.
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It’s funny because literally the only people “resources” work on are smart people. You can spend $5 trillion trying to solve poverty or whatever, and nothing happens. But if you give money or opportunity to smart people, you will see results. We stopped doing that.
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It's time to post the meme again.
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Mud dancer moment.
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My takeaway from reading the Koran is that it was surprisingly boring. It's not like the bible which is a series of legends imbued with spirituality, it's literally just Mohammed sitting in the desert telling people what they should & shouldn't do & they just go along with it.
I understand why people come up with grand conspiracies to explain Islam's origins, supernatural or otherwise. But if you read the Quran cover-to-cover, it's akin to reading a scam email from a Nigerian prince. A blatant, banal piece of fraud by Mohammed.
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The Chinese are correct here on a fundamental level which anyone who has ever lent family members money would readily comprehend. This principle isn't only applicable to Indians either. The entire Chutzpahsphere just happens to be extra ungrateful and entitled.
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Marx’s own father eventually called him out for his constant desire to leech off of everyone around him.
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“Nieuwe asielwet over dwangsommen direct onder vuur: niet houdbaar”
Nederland is volgens het Europees recht helemaal niet verplicht om dwangsommen te betalen. Uit een onderzoek van het kabinet-Schoof bleek bovendien dat onderzochte EU-landen geen vergelijkbare regeling hebben. Maar volgens de Raad van State is niet aangetoond dat de alternatieven in die landen voldoen aan de eisen die de Raad zelf aan effectieve rechtsbescherming stelt🤯.
Met andere woorden: rechters en hoge ambtenaren zijn de baas in Nederland. En die, veelal activistische D66-rechters en ambtenaren, bepalen naar eigen morele maatstaven welke normen Nederland moet hanteren. Ook als dat ten koste gaat van Nederlanders.
Wat een fucking circus is Nederland geworden. Stemmen heeft eigenlijk geen enkel nut meer, want de macht ligt overduidelijk niet bij het volk.
Het maakt niet uit wat de politiek beslist of welke wetten er worden aangenomen: de echte baas in Nederland is de rechter.
Ik betwijfel of de dwangsommen voor asielzoekers daadwerkelijk worden afgeschaft. Moet nog maar zien welke rechter daarin meegaat. Rechters zien dat niet zitten. En al helemaal niet die activistische D66-rechter Van Lokven, die het liefst iedereen die Nederland binnenkomt hier wil houden.
