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@Handre They also destroyed large parts of the once beautiful city for this abyssmal thing

While Romanian families shivered in unheated apartments and waited hours for meager bread rations, Nicolae Ceaușescu built himself a 1,100-room palace that consumed $3 billion of his nation's wealth. The Casa Poporului stands today as a monument to the inevitable outcome when central planners face zero market constraints on their appetites. Ceaușescu's palace contains 12 stories above ground, spreads across 365,000 square meters, and required 20,000 workers laboring in shifts around the clock. He demolished entire historic neighborhoods of Bucharest to clear space for his architectural ego trip. Meanwhile, his citizens endured bread queues, rolling blackouts, and heating restrictions so severe that hospitals couldn't maintain proper temperatures. The dictator diverted the nation's resources toward marble, crystal chandeliers, and gold leaf while his people literally froze. Without market prices to signal genuine demand or profit-and-loss mechanisms to punish waste, political authorities inevitably channel resources toward projects that serve their personal preferences rather than human needs. Ceaușescu faced no competitors, no angry shareholders, no bankruptcy risk. He simply commanded the nation's productive capacity to serve his grandiose vision. The palace required 3,500 tons of crystal, 480 chandeliers, 1,409 ceiling lights, and 700,000 tons of steel and bronze. Every ton of material that went into those ornate rooms represented food, medicine, fuel, or housing that never reached Romanian families. The arithmetic is brutal but simple: centralized control means resources flow toward political vanity projects rather than genuine human priorities. The building still stands, largely empty, costing millions annually just to maintain its unused splendor.

@MichaelAArouet It’s an easy hopium. Harder to actually find and search books by Hayek, Friedman, Willams Sowell. And even then one would never get ahead in any buerocrat system by telling people that the state just can’t do what the entrepreneur can do

Can someone plead explain why so many people still take socialism seriously? It has always failed badly, every single time leading to bitter misery and poverty. No exceptions. Why is it still so popular? Don’t people pay attention in history classes?

@itstaylorsmith9 @visegrad24 She basically faught tooth and nail so that Putin would have the Cashflow for his wars. “Because she is Evil” some say But that’s far from the truth. She is rather a blind buerocrat who was constantly told she is always correct

Rewarding the person who single-handedly engineered Europe's catastrophic energy dependence on Russia with a top honor is peak establishment delusion. But her claiming we must censor social media to save democracy is the real highlight. It is the exact same Orwellian logic autocrats use to protect themselves from public criticism. They are terrified of the public because they can no longer defend the consequences of their own disastrous legacy.

Merkel becomes the first person to receive the European Order of Merit, the EU’s new top honor for people who have contributed the most to Europe’s development. In her speech, she urged EU leaders to regulate speech on social media. She says it’s the only way to “save democracy”.

@visegrad24 Already Her father was a top fan of dictatorships. Not shocked, just sad that she never outgrew this anti-humanist streak

@laurencebbrown1 @_A_khalifa Shaw was an eugenicist. Was vice-president for the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalisation Society in 1939. Inhuman man

@_A_khalifa Sadly, I'd guessed he was Irish before I heard his accent. Then I remembered Graham Linehan, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw. Yes, we must never condemn a whole nation. Even if so many of them condemn us....for being Jews.

Our biggest curse, and the world’s, is people with brains like this clown: a pure-bred white European who gets all teary-eyed supporting terrorist regimes, convinced he’s some kind of moral hero!

@balajis @JDHaltigan Agreed. But I have a problem with labeling the national-socialist as pure “right-wing” as I see them much more as an syncretic whole that took from many a collectivist ideology and put them into their genocidal blender. Ludwig von Mises is a good read on this issue btw.

Unfortunately, I completely agree that the United States of America is rapidly descending into all-out conflict between left and right. The Luigi left, Kirk killers, anti-Tesla terrorists, and Altman attackers are already in shoot-on-sight mode against conservatives, libertarians, and technologists. The right isn’t there yet; they’re called reactionaries because they only react, so they’re always one cycle behind. Thus, the left has already started shooting while the right is still “only” mirroring the lawfare of last decade’s left. But anyone can see how incandescently angry the American right is getting, so one can expect them to mirror leftist tactics eventually, just as J6 followed BLM. A problem then arises. You see, when communists and nationalists duke it out, technologists tend to be hated by both sides…and tend to leave. That’s what happened in Europe. In the early 1900s, Europe was the undisputed center of science. But then the far left rose to power in Russia, and in response arose a far right in Germany, and then those two psychotic factions blew each other up and took much of Europe with them. The result was that scientists with options left. Shown below is the graph of Nobel prizes. Science used to be centered in Europe when America was still a relative backwater…renowned for cranking out widgets but not much else. Then, as Europe tore itself apart, the smart scientists (and capitalists) simply left for America. Many had no choice; you just couldn’t be a Russian capitalist in the Soviet Union or a Jewish scientist in Nazi Germany, no matter how many years your family might have been in the country. Passionate protestations of ideological loyalty and everlasting patriotism didn’t matter. At best the enemy classes and races were unbanked and denaturalized; at worst they were simply killed. And arguably, all of that — the communism, the nationalism, the wars — all of that arose from the disruption wrought by the Industrial Revolution. We might anticipate similar levels of disruption from the Information Revolution. If so, if America is torn between Democrats and Republicans, or Wokes and MAGAs, or whatever factions succeed them, it’s just not going to be a good place for technological progress. Instead, progress will decentralize to other locations around the world, as it did before.

@IterIntellectus @JDHaltigan Imho January could be a good location in the calendar for a wrath month. No presents, few free days. Direly cold. You ether go to school, Uni or have to work. People still die from cold weather.

why does only the worst of the deadly sins get a full month? can we get a wrath month? or a sloth one?

@isaacrrr7 Art is free market. Propaganda = state funded. But wait Pollock just made some abstract paintings ! Your point is void ! No. Anybody who gets cash from the state for their art is shifting the notion that art needs to find collectors and not appeal to ideological Gremiums

Javier Milei: “No tengo nada en contra de los artistas. Yo mismo tuve una banda de rock. Mi problema es que si necesitas una subvención del gobierno para hacer arte, ya no eres un artista, eres un empleado público.” Milei es un número uno.

@CBHeresy That’s bullshit. Only Aceh sharia law is administered. The politivans are actually against this happening. And Aceh is actually the seperatist part of the country. Already in 1953 the province tried to become separate as its leader wanted sharia law which Indonesia didn’t allow

This woman passed out after being lashed 100 times for having sex outside of marriage under Indonesia’s draconian Sharia laws. She had to be carried away after her public caning in Banda Aceh today. Islam is a barbaric religion.

@jewishhistoryst That the Snipiskes Jewish cemetery. The city wanted to build an convention Centre on top of it (with support from EU) Activists like Michael Mail, the chief executive of the Foundation for Jewish Heritage fought back successfully.

The story of Avraham ben Avraham, widely known as the Ger Tzedek (the Righteous Convert) of Vilna, is one of the most powerful and revered accounts of faith and self-sacrifice in Jewish history. Born as Valentin Potocki in the early 18th century, he belonged to one of the wealthiest, most prominent, and most powerful noble families in Poland. While studying at a university in Paris alongside his friend Zaremba, Valentin encountered an elderly Jewish teacher and began studying the Hebrew Bible. This intellectual pursuit eventually blossomed into a deep spiritual awakening, leading him to conclude that the theology of his upbringing was false and that the absolute truth resided in the Torah. Because converting away from Catholicism was a capital offense punishable by death in Poland at the time, Valentin traveled to Amsterdam, which was one of the few European sanctuaries offering religious freedom. There, he formally entered the covenant of Abraham and took the Hebrew name Avraham ben Avraham, which is the traditional name given to Jewish converts. Despite the immense danger of returning to his homeland, his burning desire for deep Torah scholarship drew him back to Eastern Europe, where he settled anonymously in a small village outside Vilna, Lithuania, adopting the dress, long beard, and intense lifestyle of the most devout local scholars. While in Vilna, Avraham ben Avraham formed a close spiritual bond with the Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman, who was the preeminent Torah authority of the generation. Recognizing the immense danger the young convert faced from search parties sent by his noble family, the Vilna Gaon advised him to hide in the smaller, more isolated town of Ilya. Avraham followed this advice and spent his days learning in the local synagogue, supported discreetly by righteous women who provided him with food. However, his sanctuary was destroyed after a conflict with a local Jewish tailor whose son routinely misbehaved in the synagogue; when Avraham sharply rebuked the child, the angry father reported the mysterious, aristocratic stranger to the Catholic authorities. Avraham was promptly arrested and thrown into a dungeon in Vilna, where he was subjected to months of intense interrogation and pressure to recant his faith. Because of his family's vast political influence and high status, the Church authorities, local officials, and even his own mother, the countess, begged him to return to Catholicism. They promised him full absolution, the restoration of his vast wealth, and titles of honor if he would simply renounce Judaism publicly. Avraham steadfastly refused all of their advances, openly declaring his loyalty to the God of Israel and choosing the physical agony of martyrdom over an unfaithful life. While he was awaiting execution, the Vilna Gaon visited Avraham in prison and offered to use Kabbalistic secrets and the esoteric Names of God to miraculously break him out of his cell. Avraham declined the offer, explaining that he did not want to cheat his fate or give the public any impression that he had compromised his beliefs. He asserted that his soul had descended to this world specifically to sanctify God's name through absolute self-sacrifice, known in Hebrew as Kiddush Hashem. On the second day of the festival of Shavuot in the year 1749, Avraham ben Avraham was marched to the center of Vilna and burned alive at the stake. He went to his death with joy and composure, loudly reciting the Shema Yisrael prayer as the flames consumed him. Following his execution, a brave Jewish resident of Vilna managed to bribe the guards to collect Avraham’s remaining ashes and bone fragments. These sacred remains were buried with the highest honor in the old Jewish cemetery of Vilna. Centuries later, when the Soviet authorities razed the old cemetery, the Jewish community successfully salvaged the remains of both the Vilna Gaon and the Ger Tzedek, reinterring them beside one another in new cemetery

@MiltonFriedmanW Yea. But tell this to political pundits from either the left or right. Neither listen nor read actual analysis like Friedman. And that’s why the whole of Europe is so broken nowadays.

“You cannot simultaneously have a welfare state and free immigration.” — Milton Friedman

@EliAfriatISR David Starkey once said “All bad ideas are French” and I thought “that’s a bit overblown” but when I read this….. maybe there is a sliver of truth there ?

Paris Mayor: ״We will grant honorary citizenship to Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank״. France is simply lost.

@lukasludens That’s the same city that wanted to destroy the Jugendstil U-Bahn stations. Only because a large bunch of conservative activists made a ruckus back then these weren’t destroyed.

Es braucht ein eigenes Kapitel im Strafgesetzbuch für Architekturverbrechen. Besonders in Wien, wo die Kaiserstadt immer weiter durch Sozialisten zerstört wird. 😔

@Pirat_Nation Cry me a river. The guy uploaded CSAM material that was already known to the system as beeing CSAM. There is more to this story. You are cutting out the parts that made his account go RIP

A Japanese manga artist lost his entire Google account forever after he uploaded private files from an old comic he drew to Google Drive. Google’s AI checked the files and flagged them as not allowed. He asked Google to review it again, but they rejected his appeal and banned the account immediately. He can no longer access years of his private drawings and lost access to many websites and services that used his Google login. The artist said this is very embarrassing and causes him a lot of trouble. He warned that it might not happen to people who always follow every rule, but others should be careful. So Google is scanning files that people upload to its cloud storage even if they are supposed to be private. I wonder how long they have been doing this.

@XELYSSI @Ximena_Noir That’s just not true. He was neglected as a kid. This is documented.

@Ximena_Noir Westley Allan Dodd confessed he was never abused and experienced a typical middle class family background growing up and still had the uncontrollable urge to s3xlly assault and mvrd3r young boys. That’s when I realized it could be anyone.

The most disturbing part of this interrogation wasn’t the confession… It was how normal he sounded. #TrueCrime #Interrogation

@SherlockH85 Das einzige das bei mir dabei rüberkommt : diese SPÖ unter jenem Schulabbrecher der kaum einen geraden Satz aus seinem Mund hervorbringt ausser er muss seinem Muslime mordenden Freund Milosevic beschützen: bring Frauen nur auf die Biennale wenn diese sich oder andere degradieren

@SherlockH85 “Kulturszene” = in realitas ist das dann in recycelter pisse tauchen und nackat auf Roller Skates fumfahrender Klamauk der übelsten sexistischen Sorte : halt nur verbrämt weil es das Label “feministisch” tragen darf

Am schlimmsten sind ja die Jubelkommentare darunter. Manche glauben das wirklich 🙈😫

@BrianRoemmele It’s not even slop : it’s drivel

“This Cannes Film Cost $500,000 to Make. $400,000 Was Al Compute Costs.”

@politicalmath A new translation was unnecessary. It could only fail.

I've been following the "Christopher Nolan used Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey" story but I felt like I just didn't have the grounding to judge if Wilson's translation was good or bad So I talked with a friend who speaks Ancient Greek to see what the scholarly world thought of it

@virginie1landry They were long disqualified before. It’s just that the statists still listened to them and their like : and will again.

Il y a 2 ans et demi, 108 « économistes » dont Piketty et Zucman prédisaient l’effondrement économique de l’Argentine en cas de victoire de Milei. Cela devrait suffire à les disqualifier à jamais.