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@Red_Blovk09 Its government is authoirtarian, and its economic system is now capitalist. We oppose the first, and support the second: only capitalism is what lifted a billion Chinese out of utter poverty caused by Mao's socialism.

Westerners be like… “China got rich by using capitalism, not socialism” When asked why not copy them: “China is still a Communist one-party state. We don’t want their system of authoritarian control.”

@TheAliceSmith the poor have cars and ACs now but nothing will be enough

Capitalism has proved so successful at reducing poverty that socialists had to create the concept of “relative poverty” to keep themselves in business.

@IuliaL27 In India the right-wing party has adopted marxism on caste, no place is safe from leftist collectivism

I'm not interested in South Africa just because it's heartbreaking to watch a nation with so much raw potential get hollowed out, though it is. I'm interested in South Africa because it's a warning of what happens when you replace merit with race, when grievance becomes policy, when forgiveness is skipped and revenge is dressed up as justice, and when you stop seeing individuals and start seeing groups. That's not a South African problem. That's a human one. And the West is not as far from it as it thinks.

@michaelshermer @GadSaad Its astonishing how quickly we lost the culture to collectivist leftism. All online skeptics now seem to be hateful fervently religious leftists.

Look what arrived in the mail today! Looking forward to speaking with @GadSaad on all the craziness going on the world in the name of empathy…

@ARanganathan72 Blasphemy laws can never work. Monotheism itself is blasphemy as it says all other religions are false. The only solution is total free speech - you can criticise any religion. This will help much-needed reform of Islam.

This entire hate speech debate in the Supreme Court is puerile and reeks of hypocrisy and cowardice. Who decides what is hate speech? Here, I dare milords to have the guts to call the public recitation of the verse claiming ‘Hindus are the worst of creatures’ as hate speech:

@GreedyApe420 They will typically say there are no losses in communism (as profit is a capitalist concept). But (setting aside the magic future without profit) the same problem exists in terms of efficient/inefficient allocation in socialism as well (which is what Mises wrote about)

Aux communistes, vraie question : Si les profits appartiennent aux salariés, les pertes aussi, non ? Donc quand une boîte perd 50k, le patron peut envoyer son RIB aux employés ? Ou le communisme commence au bénéfice et s’arrête à la facture ? 🤔

@RichardDawkins Am I missing something? All the best AI is doing is imitating human thought and culture, and with added psuedorandomness able to produce what looks like novelty (a new poem, but still imitating human poets). How is this in any way *consciousness*?

#comment-1031777" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-… I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.

@K_Niemietz Really?

@SwipeWright Hoping for a clear win! At bare minimum this will prevent them and other SJW unis from being so blatantly racist.

An update on my lawsuit against Cornell for their secret and illegal search for a "diversity hire" evolutionary biologist. In short, Cornell isn't even contesting the fact that their job search was racially discriminatory. They're instead trying to argue that I left academia and wouldn't have applied to it even if the job search was posted publicly. That's very revealing. But this is false: While I did leave my academic position at Penn State in 2020, I was still searching for, and applying to, academic jobs in addition to non-academic jobs. I applied to a different position at Cornell months before their racist job search because I had specific interest in working there. And I applied to @uaustinorg in 2021. I have the applications to prove it. I would have applied to their 2020 evolutionary biology position had it been posted publicly (which they were required to do) and not been race-based (which is illegal). Cornell wants to make this all go away. But we're not going away. They got caught, and are now being held accountable.

@kushal_mehra BUT reservations are not the way to solve the problem. That is what preserves and intensifies it on the other side, which is what you now support. Marxism.

Casteism via word salads

@afneil Starmer and Sadiq must be proud allowing fascist marches calling for "intifada" while arresting Brits for speaking out (or waving the union jack)

Yet another appalling anti-Semitic attack: Two men stabbed outside a synagogue in north London. Man arrested following incident in Golders Green this morning. Only the latest in a string of attacks in this predominantly Jewish neighbourhood. Terrible.

@AndrewGold_ok @joshxhowie Jewish people have always been rebels and hated for being different. Never lose hope.. The much-missed Hitch: youtube.com/watch?v=eMGwcZ…

Day after day. It's the new normal. Almost no one cares. This post is pointless, as is @joshxhowie's. The winds have changed. Jews are not a fashionable minority. Islam - the 2-billion strong extreme ideology - is a very fashionable 'minority'. Inshallah, Anne Hathaway. It was never about helping minorities. It was about brute force, vast numbers and a willingness to murder others. Unless something drastically changes (which didn't happen in Iran, Egypt, Lebanon or Afghanistan) they will win here too.

@nickshirleyy Where's the mainstream media who should've been doing the investigating? Oh wait too busy complaining about 'white supremacism'

Happy Learing Day 🎉 Today the Learing Center and 21 other fraudulent businesses were raided by the FBI. Here's what this means: - There was enough evidence to get search warrants - Tim Walz reversed his previous statements, confirming the fraud is real - Fraudsters across America are now on alert - Our tax dollars are being saved ARREST THEM ALL

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans. Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable. Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale. Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné. Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut. À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol. Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée. Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit. Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie. Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags. Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle. Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère. Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision : "La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne) "La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek "Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

@DrewPavlou The more radical the ideologues, the more the skeletons in closet

This is the mansion that New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino grew up in before her parents were indicted for a massive human trafficking scheme that basically involved forcing Filipino migrants into slavery. Her parents trafficked hundreds of immigrants into the US, then threatened them with deportation if they spoke out against abusive living conditions and extremely predatory loans that basically forced the migrants into a form of indentured servitude or modern day slavery. Her parents ultimately stole almost $2.8 million USD in fraudulent visa fees before being indicted on 40 counts of money laundering, conspiracy to smuggle immigrants, and visa fraud. According to court records, the fraud worked like this: The Tolentino family took school administrators on free trips to luxury beach resorts in the Philippines. In exhange for the luxury holiday, school administrators would then ''interview'' Filipino teachers and agree to hire them to their school district. At first, the school district promised to employ 55 teachers. With this preliminary order, the Tolentino family charged each of the teachers $10,000 for a non-refundable deposit and extracted a promise to pay up to 50% of their US salaries for their first few years of employment. Before even making it to the US, most teachers were therefore placed in debt roughly equivalent to two years of median family income in the Philippines. This debt quickly became crushing because the Tolentino family business Omni Consortium worked with a predatory loan shark company called Blue Pacific to deliver loans at an annual interest rate of 60%. Blue Pacific required that each “recruit” have a co-signer in the Phillipines: co-signers were threatened with jail-time if “recruits” were unable to make monthly payments. The Tolentino family failed to secure employment for many of the teachers once they arrived in the US, so many of them failed to make their monthly payments. If "recruits" failed to make a payment the Tolentinos would charge an additional 10% penalty to the loan payment, plus an additional five-percent 5% interest. At least one victim of the Tolentinos filed for ''T nonimmigrant status'' which is a temporary immigration benefit for victims of human trafficking. While ultimately unsuccessful in their overall ''T nonimmigrant status'' appeal, US Citizenship and Immigration Services DID determine that the victim had been a victim of human trafficking at the hands of the Tolentinos: ''Upon review, the applicant has established that she has been a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons, and and that her physical presence in the United States is on account of a severe form of human trafficking in persons.'' So a DHS agency determined that the Tolentino family engaged in a severe form of human trafficking that basically involved forcing migrants into a kind of modern slavery. After a lengthy trial, lawyers hired by the Tolentinos secured a ruling of mistrial on a technicality because two of the jurors read some newspaper articles about the case. They ultimately pleaded to conspiracy to defraud the US government and received 3 months' probation each, not prison. According to the El Paso Times reporting on the August 2008 sentencing, the Tolentinos ultimately forfeited: - A $1.75 million house in Houston - $80,000 from five different bank accounts held under the names of parents and grandparents - A 1996 Mercedes Benz - A 1999 BMW - Real estate properties in Houston and McAllen Her mother Angelica Tolentino had her charges dismissed in August 2008 specifically in exchange for agreeing not to contest the forfeiture order. Jia's mother avoided prosecution by letting the assets go, which suggests the family treated the forfeiture as the real cost of the case rather than the criminal sentence (which was just 3 months' probation each for father Noel and grandmother Florita).

@brivael Also to get around this problem, Marx just added 'socially necessary'. And how will we decide what is SN? There we go - it has to be *subjective* if we want a free society.

@MatthewNouriel correct today's 'liberals' have adopted collectivist Leftism on everthing - economics, race...

I’m no longer a Democrat BECAUSE I’m a liberal. I still believe in liberal values, common sense, pluralism, and actual debate. What I no longer believe is that today’s Democratic Party still stands for those things. At some point, you stop staying loyal to the memory of something and deal with what it has actually become.

@kushal_mehra All monotheisms are blasphemy to all other religions. The only solution - if we want a free and modern society (this is the problem with religion, it doesn't) is to allow criticism of ALL religions.

The Rangeela Rasool episode dates back to 1924 in British Punjab that led to the Blasphemy law 295a being enacted. Punjab and India got partitioned in 1947. Today after 99 years Punjab once again has shown signs of that same Pakistani Islamist mindset. This is a warning that Indians should not ignore as history tends to repeat itself.

@kushal_mehra Reservations don't help ANYONE, they are neither moral nor liberal, nor have any rational basis and are in fact based on pseudohistory. You should know this. They only create hatred and division. And that's what you are completely okay with. There should be no reservations.

The Hindu general category victimhood will never have takers in Congress or the BJP. Beyond the social media noise lies the harsh reality of realpolitik, where the numbers tell a different story. People will use and throw this epistemology based on short-term needs. But beyond that, policy-making or political pressure groups simply do not work through this kind of rhetoric. The general category narrative will only harm the overall imaginary category. But it is what it is. Policy or strategy effectiveness is something people simply refuse to discuss. I get the content creators peddling it as victimhood is profitable. But why would the consumer care? Look at the macro reality of the nation as you grow, as India grows.

@LPI4India its actually there is no political party (well, except LPI) that even remotely supports capitalism even when they talk of "economy" growing etc they're only doing it in a socialist framework - talking of spend and schemes

Why does capitalism succeed only in Western nations while struggling in India? The answer lies in this book.