@teortaxesTex UAE has more competent government than any existing European state, except Switzerland. It's not even close
Western stereotypes are wrong, heavily biased by Egypt/Iraq/Syria, and generalize all into one "Arabs" blob
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I am quite harsh on Arabs but they at least are *thinking* in the correct, pragmatic terms.
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@NoCRTinSchools @Rightanglenews analogy: broken car vs working bicycle, both have same max speed
the car has serious problems and is likely to break down, a bicycle just works
such low iq in whites signals something is *really* wrong which manifests in other ways
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I honestly don't see how this could be the case. A country with an average IQ of 70 would not be able to govern.
The US army has run many tests on IQ and jobs. The US Army is like a small city - all the same jobs exist: janitor, chaplain, roads, electric, etc. All of these studies draw the same conclusion - there are NO jobs that people with IQ less than 83-85 can take. This is why they have that cut-off.
So, how do these societies cope?
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BREAKING - An Africa-based research team aiming to disprove Western claims about low IQ in African countries is going viral after conducting mass IQ tests in Lagos, Nigeria, only for over 50% of participants to score below 70, with a median score of 69.7.
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@GM72504351 @Emilio2763 so she should be alone all her life because you feel grossed out at the idea of her having sex?
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@Emilio2763 I think sometimes people need to learn to accept being alone for the rest of their lives. Stop being controlled by your natural impulses. Not everything is guaranteed in life.
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If the Portuguese government had more agility... it could've attracted many Dubai expats with a new tax program or visa
It’s been almost 3 weeks since the war started...
The opportunity is too big to miss and can bring significant capital to Portugal 🇵🇹
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@tara_riva You complain about the most woke war in history, only executed this way due to extreme post-Christian humanism.
One bombing run in WW2 killed more civilians than died in the Iran war so far
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Like it or not, the comparison he’s making (read the text in the picture) exposes something ugly but true: after normalizing the decapitation of state officials, many of you now sound more barbaric than the very people you claim to be fighting.
Many European and American leaders also have blood on their hands. Are you not ashamed that those who launched the invasion of Iraq 23 years ago are still living in comfort and impunity? Has anyone paid for Iraq? Has anyone paid for Gaza? Those responsible for Gaza are sitting in our capitals: in Europe, in the Middle East, and in the United States etc.
But that still does not mean anyone gets to draw up a decapitation list of officials from those states.
Why is that so hard to say? Do you really think it would be acceptable if tomorrow Kim woke up, decided he was “done with you losers” and started decapitating, one by one, the people responsible for some
some massive crime around the world— including Europeans and Americans?
Have you all completely lost your minds?
Honestly, after 2+ years of genocide, it didn’t even cross my mind that someone should list a decapitation program as a response. I’m not sure you even realize how insane, depraved and sick it is to think it’s “normal”.
Do I want impunity? No: I want more law, more Courts, more justice, more accountability. If not that, I’d like to have SOME form of rationality-diplomacy-multilateralism.
Thinking a decapitation strategy is something “normal” is insane and totally irresponsible.
Seyed Abbas Araghchi@araghchi
Israel has no regard for the repercussions of the normalization of its heinous methods of terror. But the international community should not disregard that recklessness; as for every action there will inevitably and always be a reaction.
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I feel like the biggest irony in all of Islamic history is that Ibadis, the sect to which most people in Oman belong to, ended up being the most chill and liberal-minded orthodox Muslims in the world.
They're Muhakkima, meaning they share a lineage with the Kharijites, who believed in ethnic equality and proto-republicanism but mostly factor in early Islamic history as something between ISIS and school shooters.
There's an interesting paralel with the Radical Reformation, which initially emerged in violence but gradually became functionally liberal. I wonder if this is somehow related to a shared emphasis on predestination and independent reasoning?
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand
This is probably the most important article of the month: an op-ed by Oman's Foreign Minister, who mediated the talks between the U.S. and Iran, in which he writes that the U.S. "has lost control of its foreign policy" to Israel. He repeats that a deal was possible as an outcome of the talks (something confirmed by the UK's National Security Advisor, who also attended: x.com/i/status/20341…) and that the military strike by the U.S. and Israel was "a shock." Interestingly, given he is one of Iran's neighbors and given that Oman has been struck multiple times by Iran since the war began (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran…), he writes that "Iran’s retaliation against what it claims are American targets on the territory of its neighbours was an inevitable result" of the U.S.-Israeli attack. He describes it as "probably the only rational option available to the Iranian leadership." He says the war "endangers" the region's entire "economic model in which global sport, tourism, aviation and technology were to play an important role." He adds that "if this had not been anticipated by the architects of this war, that was surely a grave miscalculation." But, he adds, the "greatest miscalculation" of all for the U.S. "was allowing itself to be drawn into this war in the first place." In his view this was the doing of "Israel’s leadership" who "persuaded America that Iran had been so weakened by sanctions, internal divisions and the American-Israeli bombings of its nuclear sites last June, that an unconditional surrender would swiftly follow the initial assault and the assassination of the supreme leader." Obviously, this proved completely wrong, and the U.S. is now in a quagmire. He says that, given this, "America’s friends have a responsibility to tell the truth," which is that "there are two parties to this war who have nothing to gain from it," namely "Iran and America." He says that all of the U.S. interests in the region (end to nuclear proliferation, secure energy supply chains, investment opportunities) are "best achieved with Iran at peace." As he writes, "this is an uncomfortable truth to tell, because it involves indicating the extent to which America has lost control of its own foreign policy. But it must be told." He then proposes a couple of paths to get back to the negotiating table, although he recognizes how difficult it would be for Iran "to return to dialogue with an administration that twice switched abruptly from talks to bombing and assassination." That's perhaps the most profound damage Trump did during this entire episode: the complete discrediting of diplomacy. If Iran was taught anything, it is: don't negotiate with the U.S., it's a trap that will literally kill you. The great irony of the man who sold himself as a dealmaker is that he taught the world one thing: don't make deals with my country. Link to the article: economist.com/by-invitation/…
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So all it takes for people to change their mind about Dubai is a big fat discount
Camski@camski
Every top hotel in Dubai is on big discount atm Would you book a holiday to come?
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@dystopiangf It's empirically your problem unless you dump the American citizenship
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The positive thing about the acid dissolution of the West: there isn’t a single atom in my body that’s stressed about this type of thing anymore. The “nation” that accrued this debt has nothing to do w/ me. It’s the replacement population’s problem. Not my nation, not my debt
Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie
The debt passed $39 trillion today. Paying a trillion dollars of interest annually on this debt causes hardship for tax-payers and robs us of resources that could otherwise be used for infrastructure or national defense. And ultimately, this debt will enslave our grandchildren.
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Israel is so small that Iran can destroy all of its desalination plants and its entire power grid within just a few hours. Just imagine what will happen to the settler population then, without water and electricity.
Ask yourself why Iran is not doing that.
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@0xb____ @TylerDurden The fact that people are free to live wherever they want and chose a place that required emergency flights recently is insane behaviour
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@itsqonkk @TylerDurden that's just UK propaganda to rationalize global taxation.
American flights were met with very low demand
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@itsqonkk @TylerDurden only tourists begged for repatriation flights. in the end most returned using commercial
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@TylerDurden Except the parasites that fled Europe to dodge taxes in the UAE and now beg and cry for their country to pick them up because they're scared and need mommy.
(guess what finances those rappatriation flights)
GIF
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@ashrafomar_ug @FinPlanKaluAja1 Half of what Iran sent was at UAE. Their attacks on Israel are symbolic
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@FinPlanKaluAja1 Unless you are a fool but Iran has directed 90% of its missiles to Israel
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@teortaxesTex Neither Russia nor Ukraine need power to *survive*, those nations need power to generate water. Striking enough gas/oil production is functionally equivalent to disabling desalination plants (although arguably it's easier to reroute power). Qatar/Bahrain/Kuwait most vulnerable
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Think for a minute about Russia (constantly endures Ukrainian harassment of the fuel infra) and Ukraine (living for years under Russian bombardment of their whole energy infra) and feel respect. Arab "allies" are panicking after mere 2 weeks of this. ur like a little babby
eugyppius@eugyppius1
I guess in worst case scenario this ends with much of gulf oil production facilities in flames, the strait of hormuz hopelessly mined, a global recession, and maybe as a cherry on top Iran regime-changed at the end of it.
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@xydotdot It was never going to happen as long as BTC remains the largest.
Money must be backed with something and BTC isn't. There's no possible universe where BTC is money. Only ETH had a tiny chance, being backed by network fees, but that's also over, one reason is attacks from BTC camp
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I see a lot of the TL celebrating this news, and honestly it feels strange to me, because my reaction to it is almost the opposite. To me this news feels sad, in a very specific and almost difficult to describe way, because it feels like the last confirmation that the period of crypto as a rogue financial movement is over, and that realization has been settling in for me for the last 6 months or so.
I’ve been into crypto for almost 12 years now, and I did not get into Bitcoin because I wanted a new asset to trade or because I thought it would make me rich. I got into it because I have always been an open source geek, and I stayed because I genuinely believed this technology could do something historically important.
I thought it could be the thing that separated Money from State, in the same way there was once a separation of Religion and State.....That was always the deepest promise of it to me.
If the separation of Religion and State was about protecting freedom of thought, then the separation of Money and State was about protecting freedom of action, because money is not just some abstract instrument, it is stored labor, stored time, stored choice, stored future.
I have always looked at state control over money as something much bigger than policy or economics.
The State is, at its core, a forced monopoly over whatever domain it controls, and money is probably the most consequential monopoly of all because every other part of life eventually runs through it.
Central banks have always felt to me like a modern priesthood, using opaque language, complex models, and institutional authority to maintain public faith in a fiat system that very few people actually understand but everyone is forced to live under. And the dangerous part is that this control does not feel violent in the obvious sense, which is exactly why people underestimate it.
When your religious beliefs are yours, your conscience remains your own. When your money is yours, your action remains your own. But when the State controls money, it gets to reach into your life through inflation, dilution, and monetary expansion, and redirect pieces of your labor toward projects, wars, subsidies, or agendas you may completely reject. It becomes a way of taxing conscience without ever calling it that.
That is why I always felt money should behave more like a commodity in a free market.
It should compete.
It should have to earn trust.
It should not sit behind legal privilege and state enforcement.
In a pluralistic society, religions compete for belief. They persuade, they attract, they lose legitimacy, they gain legitimacy. Money should be subjected to that same discipline. The fact that it is not is one of the great distortions of modern life, and I really believed crypto was the first serious attempt to change that.
Which is why seeing people celebrate this kind of news makes me feel more emotional than I expected. It feels like everyone forgot what we were here for.
This whole thing started with a revolutionary spirit, or at least that is how it felt to me, and now that spirit feels almost fully gone. The energy has shifted from trying to build an exit from the system to trying to secure a higher seat within it. A lot of people who once spoke the language of separation now seem perfectly content with integration, as long as they get richer in the process. And that is the part I find sad, because it feels like people stopped trying to fight the architecture itself and instead decided to benefit from it, which is a very different ambition.
There is something even more ironic underneath all of this, because even the immense wealth many of crypto’s early believers have created still lives inside the same broader structure they once claimed they wanted to escape. These riches feel like victory on the surface, but at a deeper level they are still claims, still entries in systems that depend on legal recognition, institutional enforcement, custodial layers, banking rails, regulated exits, state tolerated ownership. So even the win has a strange hollowness to it.
The revolution produced new nobility more easily than it produced new sovereignty, and those are very different outcomes.
That is why this announcement does not read to me like progress in the way others seem to see it. I understand the business logic, I understand the market significance, I understand why people will call it validation, but emotionally and philosophically it feels like a closing chapter.
Crypto was once this wild mustang, impossible to fully domesticate, carrying with it this raw possibility that the structure of money itself could change. Now it feels broken in. It feels stabled. Literally and metaphorically.
It feels like the system looked at this force that once threatened to exist outside of it and decided to absorb it, formalize it, smooth it out, and put it to work extending the very machinery it once challenged.
And maybe that is the clearest way I can put what bothers me here.
Crypto increasingly feels like finance that finally caught up to internet speed. Faster rails, better settlement, cleaner ledgers, more continuous markets, more global access, but still downstream from the same fundamental issue of permissioned claims, institutional dependence, and state legibility. It becomes a more efficient financial layer without delivering the separation that once made the whole thing historically interesting to me in the first place.
So no, I won’t be celebrating this one.
Maybe that makes me out of step with where the space is now, but I can’t help that.
Watching people cheer this on made me feel something I honestly did not expect to feel this strongly, which is grief for the part of crypto that once aimed much higher than this.
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