Philosopher, beer drinker, asker of questions
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In order to do this, both of these hosts and shows had to coordinate and collude with the Talarico campaign, which should actually be a scandal inside these networks.
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At 10 AM, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference and announced that the Pentagon has “lost track of” $2.3 trillion, which is “unaccounted for.”
He goes on to highlight a number of other glaring inefficiencies in the Department of Defense.
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Instead of nuclear fusion scientists should be figuring out how to harness the power of human stupidity.
Infinite energy hack.
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The year is 1911. Cottonseed is the rubbish left when the cotton comes off the crop, and it goes into soap and lamp oil because it is inedible. Bitter, cloudy, and it stinks. Procter and Gamble hit it with caustic soda, run it through bleaching clay and steam it under vacuum until the smell is gone, because it is rancid before that. Then they harden it, print a cake on the lid, and call it Crisco.
The year is 1961. The American Heart Association, turned into a national institution thirteen years earlier by a radio contest Procter and Gamble paid for, tells a country to take out the fat it has eaten since it had teeth and put in oil from a press. Your mother changes the tin under the sink. The margarine in it began life in 1869 as churned beef fat. There is none in it now.
The year is 1985. Rapeseed was an industrial lubricant, too bitter and too high in erucic acid to eat. It is bred down, renamed canola, cleared by the FDA, then crushed and washed in hexane, a solvent refined out of petroleum, and bleached and deodorised like all the rest. Cottonseed took fifty years to reach your kitchen. This takes ten to reach everything.
The year is 1988. A businessman in Omaha buys full-page adverts headed The Poisoning of America and names the firms putting palm and coconut in your biscuits. Ralston, Borden, Pillsbury, Quaker, Keebler and Pepperidge Farm all reformulate inside a year. Out goes the lard, out go the tropical oils, and in goes partially hydrogenated soybean oil. Your biscuits, your crackers, your salad cream. Gone in twelve months.
The year is 1990. The same man turns on the fryers, and inside a month McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's have dropped beef tallow. Every fryer on every high street follows. The oil sits at 180 degrees for eighteen hours, going darker and thicker as the day wears on, and what lifts off it is aldehydes. That catch at the back of your throat outside a chip shop is the oil coming apart.
The year is 1999. Soybean oil consumption has risen a thousandfold in a century, and the linoleic acid in what you eat has gone from under three per cent to over seven. None of it passes through. It is built into the fat on your hips and the wall of every cell you own. Your grandfather's body fat and yours are different substances. Obesity has doubled and diabetes is behind it.
The year is 2015. The regulator rules that partially hydrogenated oil should never have been in food. The tub is not withdrawn. Trans fats out, palm and interesterified fat and more seed oil in, new label, same price, same shelf, same aisle. Eighty years of this, and the men who ordered it are on television explaining that the problem is your willpower.
Now it is today.
It crept in over fifty years and took everything in five.
The bottle in your cupboard was rancid before they bleached it and is rancid again in your pan.
Every step was progress. Every step was settled science.
It has never once been a food.
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La prochaine fois que tu vois une âme perdue défendre le socialisme économique ou le communisme comme un modèle de vertu, partage lui ce post. Ça évitera peut-être une nouvelle boucherie.
« On n'a jamais vraiment essayé le vrai communisme. »
Si. On a essayé. Une vingtaine de fois. Sur quatre continents. Pendant un siècle. Et on a les chiffres.
Chine, Grand Bond en avant (1958–1962). Les historiens indépendants ayant accédé aux archives provinciales convergent sur une fourchette de 30 à 45 millions de morts. Frank Dikötter (Université de Hong Kong), à partir des archives du PCC, retient 45 millions, dont 2,5 millions battus à mort ou exécutés par la milice. Yang Jisheng, ancien journaliste de l'agence Xinhua, dix ans d'enquête, retient 36 millions dans Stèles. L'historien chinois Yu Xiguang, vingt ans de recherche, monte à 55 millions. Pour donner une échelle : c'est la totalité des morts de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, concentrée sur quatre ans, dans un seul pays, sans guerre.
URSS. Holodomor 1932–1933, famine planifiée en Ukraine, reconnue comme génocide par le Parlement européen le 15 décembre 2022. Goulag, Grandes Purges 1936–1938, déplacements forcés de populations entières. Le bilan retenu par le Livre noir du communisme tourne autour de 20 millions de morts pour l'ensemble de la période.
Cambodge, Pol Pot. Environ 2 millions de morts en moins de quatre ans, soit près d'un quart de la population. S-21, Choeung Ek, évacuation forcée des villes en quelques jours.
Corée du Nord, Vietnam, Europe de l'Est, Afrique communiste, Amérique latine. Encore plusieurs millions cumulés.
Bilan global retenu par le Livre noir du communisme : environ 100 millions de morts. Chiffre repris en 2006 par la résolution 1481 de l'Assemblée parlementaire du Conseil de l'Europe, et en 2023 par une résolution au Parlement européen. On peut discuter la marge — 80, 90, 100 millions selon les méthodologies — mais comme l'écrivait Laurent Joffrin dans Libération, pourtant pas suspect de complaisance avec la droite : à 60 millions au lieu de 100, le communisme deviendrait-il présentable ?
Et le contre-exemple « doux » ? Venezuela. Pas de goulag, pas de famine planifiée. Juste l'application méthodique du programme. Résultat sur dix ans : le PIB s'est contracté de plus de 75 % entre 2014 et 2021 — la plus grande contraction économique en temps de paix depuis 45 ans selon l'Institute of International Finance. Inflation annuelle de 130 060 % en 2018 selon la Banque centrale du Venezuela elle-même, dépassant 1 000 000 % la même année selon le FMI. Près de 8 millions de personnes — soit environ 25 % de la population — ont quitté le pays. Le plus grand exode de l'histoire de l'hémisphère occidental sur les 50 dernières années selon l'OEA et le HCR. En 2024, 82 % des Vénézuéliens vivaient dans la pauvreté, dont 53 % en extrême pauvreté.
Zéro exception. Zéro contre-exemple.
À chaque fois la même mécanique. Une caste auto-proclamée vertueuse s'empare du pouvoir au nom du peuple, et finit en nomenklatura planquée dans des datchas pendant que 99 % de la population fait la queue pour du pain. Quand Maduro distribuait ses CLAP — boîtes alimentaires rationnées et militarisées — c'était la même logique que Brejnev dans les magasins réservés de la nomenklatura, soixante ans plus tard, sous un drapeau différent.
Hayek avait tout prédit en 1944, dans La Route de la servitude. Et Mises encore avant, en 1920, avec le problème du calcul économique : quand tu remplaces les prix du marché par la planification centrale, tu détruis l'unique mécanisme capable d'agréger l'information dispersée dans des millions de têtes. Il te faut donc une autorité qui décide à la place de tous. Cette autorité ne peut pas connaître ce qu'elle prétend planifier, donc elle impose par la contrainte. Et comme ça échoue toujours — voir Venezuela, qui a appliqué la séquence à la lettre : contrôle des prix par la Fair Prices Act de 2014, puis nationalisations, puis hyperinflation, puis rationnement militarisé — il faut contraindre de plus en plus fort pour survivre.
La tyrannie n'est pas un dérapage du socialisme. C'est son équilibre logique.
Le capitalisme de marché n'est pas parfait. C'est juste le seul système connu dans l'histoire où des millions d'inconnus coopèrent sans qu'une caste armée les y oblige.
Les morts de Kolyma, du Laogai, de S-21 et des rues de Caracas vous demandent de ne pas recommencer.
J'adore me tromper, ça me permet d'apprendre. Si tu penses que je me trompe sur un point précis, dis-le moi dans les commentaires, je lis tout.
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Heavy Metal (1981) is one of the great legacies of animation, which is why we must continue to spread the word about it and help preserve this incredible film. ✍️🎬
Nowadays, it’s hard to find animation like this—created entirely by hand, with unforgettable characters and an outstanding soundtrack that elevates the whole experience. Keeping this kind of work alive matters, because films like Heavy Metal represent a level of artistry and creative freedom that’s becoming increasingly rare. 🔥
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In 1783, King George III asked an American painter what George Washington would do now that he had virtually won the war. The painter replied that the General intended to return to his farm in Virginia. The King was stunned. He reportedly said, "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."
Throughout history, victorious generals almost always seized the throne. From Caesar to Cromwell, military success usually meant political dictatorship. The concept of voluntarily walking away from absolute power was practically unheard of. But George Washington wasn't like other men.
By December 4, 1783, the British surrender at Yorktown was past, and peace was finally assured. Washington commanded a powerful, seasoned army that adored him. Conversely, many of his officers were unpaid and angry at the inefficient Congress. They had the guns, the manpower, and the loyalty to install a new monarch. He could have been King George I of America.
Instead, on this day in history, Washington walked into the Long Room at Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan. The room was filled with his most loyal officers—men like Henry Knox and Baron von Steuben—who had frozen with him at Valley Forge and bled with him for eight long years.
The atmosphere wasn't celebratory. It was heavy with inevitable separation. Washington, usually stoic and commercially reserved, poured a glass of wine and looked at his brothers-in-arms with visible emotion. "With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you," he said, his voice shaking. "I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable." He didn't order them. He didn't demand their allegiance. He hugged them.
One by one, the hardened soldiers wept openly. Washington embraced each man in silence. There was no pomp, no ceremony, and no speeches about future conquests. It was just a quiet goodbye between warriors who had done the impossible. Immediately after leaving the tavern, Washington didn't march on Congress to demand payment or power. He rode to Annapolis, Maryland, resigned his commission, and went home to Mount Vernon to plant crops.
He did the impossible.
He refused the crown.
He trusted the people.
By stepping down, he ensured that the United States would be a republic ruled by laws, not a kingdom ruled by force. He proved that the military serves the people, not the other way around. It was the final, and perhaps greatest, victory of the Revolution.
The world watched in awe as the American Cincinnatus returned his sword to its sheath, proving that character is the strongest constitution of all."
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Here is Donald Trump’s Gestapo terrorizing citizens all across the country.
Just kidding, this was Justin Trudeau’s Gestapo terrorizing the citizens of Canada in the name of Covid and science.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has not been unclear. He does not respect our immigration laws and does not believe that they should be enforced.
There is a reason why so much fraud has happened under his watch. He has enabled the fraud. He does not believe in our laws and has spent his career catering to the Somali community.
Minnesota should not receive another dime of federal funding while people like Frey and Walz are in office.