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“Socialism always attacks 3 basic social institutions: religion, the family, & private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; & property, because it means material independence of the state”

Ledsamt att höra. Kristian Gerner var en duktig historiker och klok skribent.

I think that the reality is hidden in this US-Ukrainian exercise - more than in the US lenient signals to Moscow. Moscow is Teheran’s closest ally and therefore the US enemy Nr 1 and 2. The US is just being cautious not to provoke Moscow to too overtly step in on the Iranian side

Ukrainians are teaching the US how to fight cartel drones: Joint exercises took place in Texas. American law enforcement agencies conducted joint exercises with Ukrainian experts, practicing how to handle and protect against drones. The US emphasizes that the Ukrainian experience helps them respond more quickly to new threats and avoid falling behind the criminals who actively use drones. And as a reward, that scumbag Trump is betraying the Ukrainians to the Russians.

Two things that heavily influenced my use of free speech: 1. 2012 photo from mil service at Tolkskolan (@Forsvarsmakten interpreter acad). Later served in Moscow, worked vs FSB for yrs. Respectfully, they're scarier than keyboard warriors 2. Grew up in Norrland. Norrlanders don't care what others think, unlike city ppl BUT, I love good discussions & welcome all views from all sides. Keep 'em coming Happy Easter, friends 🐣

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

@HarryWalstra @ThomasBraun_ Ik ken iemand die deze biografie zou kunnen schrijven 😉

'Mooiste voetbalcovers' Ruud Krol. De man verdient een biografie. @ThomasBraun_

@Irene51590895 @orebrostad Nej, precis...men så hör man uttryck som våldtäkt av "normalgraden" från rättsväsendet. Förväntas vi vänja oss?

Varsågod! Matematik för vindkraftsmuppar! visste du att ett enda vindkraftverk till havs kostar omkring 30 miljoner euro att bygga? I genomsnitt ger ett modernt vindkraftverk ungefär 35 GWh per år. Med ett marknadspris på drygt 6,5 cent per kilowattimme ger detta en årlig omsättning på cirka 2,5 miljoner euro. Dra bort de årliga driftskostnaderna på 800 000 euro. Då landar man på en nettovinst på 1,7 miljoner euro per år. Det tar alltså omkring 18 år innan investeringen är återbetald. Tyvärr är ett vindkraftverk avskrivet redan efter cirka 15 år... ...och måste då bytas ut. (aktivera undertexter på svenska)

Uit mijn boek Feyenoord in woorden en beelden. @twigthans

@Matt_Pinner Taste

Boiled Chicken and Steamed White Rice. What’s missing? 🍗

”Hämta klockan man, vad är problemet!” 2021 hade ca 70% av rånarna utländsk bakgrund och offren 80% svensk bakgrund. Det här var 2021. Andelen rån ökar och de är mer brutala än tidigare och domineras av överdrivet våld, maktdemonstrationer och förnedring. Det är också vanligt att man filmar sina offer. Men oppositionen vill fortsätta hålla gränsen vidöppen?

Ruud Krol. Die man verdient een biografie.

Ruud Krol, de man verdient een biografie. youtu.be/dPISEP1n_6o?si…

📌 05.04.1986 Torwart trifft aus dem Feld! Jörg Weißflog (@FCErzgebirgeAue) erzielt das erste Oberligator eines Keepers aus dem Spiel heraus: Beim 1:1 gegen @fccarlzeissjena trifft er nach Vorlage von Harald Mothes. Die DDR ist früher dran als die #Bundesliga: Erst 1997 trifft Jens Lehmann (@s04) gegen @BVB. Zweitligatorwart Wilhelm Huxhorn (@Darmstadt 98) hatte 1985 per Abstoß getroffen. #DDRFußball #DDRFußballkalender

@newstart_2024 That is why the Russian empire is trying to stay a little longer. Because it knows that it will turn into nothing

Even though this is from an older podcast, Jimmy Carr’s take still hits different: “The Roman Empire didn’t fall. It became the Church.” And the British Empire? According to Jimmy, it didn’t collapse either — it simply turned into a bank. We handed the colonies back with a polite “sorry about that,” then offered to “hold” all their money safely in the City of London. Roman Empire → Vatican British Empire → Global financial hub Empires don’t die. They just rebrand. Still one of the most provocatively entertaining history takes I’ve heard. What’s your favourite “history didn’t end, it just changed form” observation?

#RIP Hans-Jurgen Kreische [1947-2026] DDR footballer who played in Dynamo Dresden entire career. 50 caps for the national team. Part of the 1974 WC squad.

🇩🇪🇺🇦 BREAKING | German Foreign Minister, Johann Wadephul: 🗣️ "It is in our common interest - Ukraine must defeat Russia. There should be no questions about this, it is beyond doubt. We must consolidate our successes. Germany has now become Ukraine's main ally in Europe. President Zelensky confirmed this during my visit to Ukraine. I promised that Germany will remain the strongest donor." See the latest updates with us: @visionergeo

Most people know there are 5 Nordic countries. Not many know there are over 50 Nordic cross flags. This map shows about 30, but they pop up everywhere from Yorkshire to Arkansas, Calais to Caithness. Nearly 800 years old and still the most borrowed flag design on earth.

😮 Libya has provided bases for Ukrainians to attack Russian ships According to RFI, Ukraine has set up bases in Libya to launch attacks on Russian vessels. The Ukrainian contingent, including more than 200 officers, is stationed at three sites, including an airbase in Misrata and the Mellita area. Ukraine has already attacked Russian ships twice in the Mediterranean: the gas carrier Arctic Metagaz and the tanker Qendil. An agreement on the presence of Ukrainian military personnel in Libya was signed in October 2025. Russia has accused the Dbeiba government of supporting Ukrainian forces with the involvement of British intelligence services.