Rick Falkvinge 🌻

One of the most ethical and moral things you can do is profit. Doing so means you have found a way to meet somebody else's need while at the same time reducing waste (their previously best offer).

I love the Sweden as it has been for thousands of years. I love the Swedish people who have lived here for thousands of years. I do not, however, love what Sweden has become. I do not love the people who have just arrived and claim to be Swedish. Those are not my people, and they are destroying the very things that made Sweden beautiful.

One of the greatest mistakes the modern world ever made was to allow the Left to lock in place a race ideology that holds it as axiomatic that there are no average differences between racial groups. But there are, and nothing could be more evident. Just consider height. Compare Koreans and Kenyans on that index. I saw that expressing the view, almost certainly true, that different human populations also have different average IQs is punishable crime in Belgium. But it is self-evidently bad to criminalize the speaking of the truth.

Palestinians are the only people in history who have strangled an 8-month-old baby to death simply because he was Jewish, yet are still seen in the world as the victims. Has everyone lost their mind?

Dear Sadiq Khan, I think some of the prejudice to do with 'singling out Muslims' is to to with their stated intention to kill 'infidels', expecially the bit about beheading them You see, the other religions don't promise that

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Message from a German friend: Germany is over. If you have time, read the following post from Reddit. Bear in mind, Germany's only resource was always education and good institutions. r/DePi Experiences as a teacher at a school with a high proportion of refugees - it is even worse than you think Hello everyone, I studied mathematics and am currently working as a secondary school teacher in the Ruhr area, partly due to the current precarious labor market situation. The proportion of refugees at my school, as at many other schools here in the region, is quite high. Most refugees are taught in separate integration classes, as integration into regular classes is simply not possible due to the desolate level of education. I teach two such integration classes several times a week and just wanted to share my experiences with you here. Even before starting my current job, I was extremely critical of the current migration, but my experiences in the teaching profession make my worst fears at the time seem like a benevolent utopia. For context: A large proportion of the integration classes consist of Marrocans born in Spain, but Syrians, Afghans and Roma are also strongly represented. The rest is a wild potpourri of Ukrainians and refugees from other Arab or Muslim countries such as Lebanon or Somalia. One class consists mainly of younger students between 11 and 13 years of age, the other class consists mainly of teenagers around 16 years of age. Now a small summary of my observations: In about half of the classes there is no significant literacy in their own language, just over half understand, even after years in the local school system, in about as good a German as I understand Mandarin. At least in math (I can only judge the other subjects to a very limited extent), the level of education is an absolute fiasco, even among older students. Truly the simplest arithmetic problems (5+6 or 7-4) are already very difficult. The cause often seems to be cognitive, because even if I illustrate the numbers with objects, many students are unable to solve corresponding tasks. It is currently Ramadan. Ukrainian students who do not fast must leave the room if they want to have a drink or eat. On the one hand, this is a rule imposed by the classes themselves, but on the other hand it is also tolerated or even actively supported by large parts of the other teaching staff and the social worker. Some male students refuse to sit next to female students for religious reasons. This is also tolerated. Fights are commonplace and that is no exaggeration. In fact, there is at least one fight almost every day. There are no properly maintained school folders or generally a careful handling of school materials. Most come to class wearing only the clothes they wear on their bodies. About half of the class with the older students is always delayed by at least 10 minutes at the first lesson, or sometimes 20 or 30 minutes. Even after the breaks, the class is actually only 10 minutes late each time. During Ramadan, also tolerated by other school staff, a good proportion sleep regularly in class by placing their head on the table. Female students are regularly labeled with highly obscene terms. The punishment of such statements either does not take place at all or is so restrained that repetition is encouraged. On parent-teacher conferences, 90 percent of parents, even after several years of residence in Germany, can only communicate via interpreters. A few days ago, some students proudly told me what new cell phone models their siblings and parents have, which, mind you, receive almost exclusively transfer payments. Female colleagues generally have it more difficult than my gender counterparts, who are usually at least rudimentarily respected. Some students often do not show up at school for months without apology. A rejection of other religions is very clear in many situations. For group work in other subjects that spans weeks, the results have a scope that can be achieved by those with normal abilities within five minutes. There is no mixing with other students. You like to keep to yourself. Even among refugees, groups usually form according to their respective origins. With all the negative impressions, there are a few positive experiences. A handful of students are actually making an effort and progress. These students are also the only reason why work doesn't seem completely pointless. I myself try to counteract this to the best of my ability, but this is hardly possible if there is no support from the staff and the school administration. I have already capitulated on some points because a corresponding commitment only breaks your nerves without changing anything. Many of the older students are leaving our education system anytime soon, and with that, the state is losing pretty much the only way to exert any influence. I fear that the situation in other schools often looks little better. This leads us to send school leavers into the wild year after year who neither write, read nor master the most basic primary school mathematics. Such people are not fit for any kind of work and are doomed to languish in our welfare system for life. Muslim and African students, in particular, often have an absurd number of siblings by German standards. If one assumes that this reproduction rate will not break with the current generation, but perhaps even increase given the fantastic conditions here in Germany compared to their countries of origin (not for locals, but certainly for people from countries with a per capita GDP of $800), the problems are compounded exponentially. I lack any imagination as to how the catastrophe that lies ahead could be averted in any way, and this is increasingly frustrating me. Just wanted to share this with you. Thanks to those who stuck with it until the end of the text and gave themselves my whining.

Våra grannar har precis fått barn. Idag berättade de att de bokat in tid för att skära av vänstra mitt-tån på barnet. Jag blev givetvis bestört, men de förklarade att det bor onda troll under deras hus och om de inte skär av tån så kommer barnet drabbas av otur resten av livet. Barnet kommer även bli ett med de goda älvorna som finns i området. Till på köpet så sa de att kroppen vänjer sig automatiskt vid att inte ha den tån och att balansen inte påverkas. Barnet slipper drabbas av nageltrång på den tån och riskerar inte heller att få cancer i den tån, så det finns ju helt klart hälsofördelar. Man borde väl respektera deras övertygelse om trollen under huset, eller hur? Annars omöjliggör vi deras liv i enlighet med deras tro.

Swedish sheep farmers are locking their sheep inside to prevent them from having their throats cut during the night when Muslims ”celebrate” Eid. Not even our sheep can walk freely anymore.

Excellent article. Here are a few builds. First, it must be pointed out that Islam - not some extreme variant, but bog-standard orthodox Islam as preached and practised in Britain - rejects any notion of integration or ideological compromise with other religions or cultural norms that contradict its edicts. The doctrine of al-wala' wal-bara' commands loyalty to the faith and disavowal of non-Muslim ways. The Prophet's own hadith warns that "whoever imitates a people is one of them." Muslims are expected to reject man-made structures and "innovation," and to accept the barbarities of the Quran and the Hadith as divinely sanctioned prescriptions for how life must be lived. No radical fringe is required to reach these conclusions. The mainstream canon gets you there on its own. Second, when Muslims form a majority in a territory, they are divinely instructed to impose Islamic rule on everyone. If you belong to the "people of the book" - another Abrahamic faith - you may be permitted to live, provided you pay a poll tax (jizya) to the Muslim rulers in a state of, as the Quran specifies, humiliation. Ibn Kathir's commentary on this verse is unambiguous: the jizya exists to demonstrate the subjugation of non-Muslims to Islamic authority. If you are a Hindu, Islam considers you a pagan, and even under the most lenient schools of jurisprudence, your status under Islamic rule is one of codified subjugation - discriminatory taxation, legal inequality, prohibition on building temples, inability to testify against a Muslim in court, and periodic persecution. The "tolerant" version of Islam is tolerance in the sense of "we will permit you to exist under conditions we dictate," not tolerance in the sense of equal standing before the law. As for leaving Islam, the Prophet's instruction is plain: "whoever changes his religion, kill him." All four Sunni schools of jurisprudence agree. Abu Bakr's wars against apostates were fought within a year of the Prophet's death. The only reason we are not all living under these arrangements is that Muslims are - for now - a minority in Britain. Third, public Islamic prayer is, as Nick says, political - and has been since the Prophet's time. Islam does not recognise a distinction between religious and political life. The Friday sermon was historically the platform from which caliphs proclaimed authority and issued edicts. The call to prayer is prescribed to be heard by the community. The separation of church and state is a uniquely Reformation-driven Western achievement, and Islam explicitly repudiates it. Communal public prayer in a non-Muslim land is therefore an assertion of presence, of dominance, and of rejection of the norms of the host nation - whether every individual participant intends it as such or not. Fourth, we owe precisely zero explanations for why we resent this. Zero. We do not have to be rational about it. We do not have to draw comparisons with other religions. Any explanation we give is the right one, because it is our land, and we govern it as we see fit. But I will give you my reasons. While I am an atheist and regard all religion as a collection of mostly rubbish - and religious belief as a species of derangement - Britain's culture and values have been steeped in Christianity. This includes our laws, which are inseparable from our culture. We may not be as Christian as we were fifty years ago, but anyone born in this country who was not shielded from it (as a great many Muslims are, thanks to their parents) will have absorbed some of Christianity's gifts into their cultural DNA. Islam is the antithesis of all of this. Its canonical texts prescribe the striking of disobedient wives, value a woman's testimony at half a man's, mandate amputation for theft, flogging for fornication, and stoning for adultery. Its most authenticated hadith collections contain explicit antisemitism - including a prophecy that Muslims will hunt and kill Jews at the end of times, with even the stones and trees calling out to betray those in hiding. It is violently hostile to other faiths, to non-belief, and to apostasy. It rejects secular democratic rule as a matter of doctrine. It has resisted reformation for fourteen centuries. And it has produced decades of relentless terrorism - against us and, by an even greater margin, against fellow Muslims. From the Algerian civil war to the sectarian slaughter in Iraq, from Boko Haram to the Taliban, from the Peshawar school massacre to the Manchester Arena bombing, the body count is staggering, and the majority of the dead are Muslim. The violence is structural. It is doctrinal. Western foreign policy did not create it. Islam is foreign to us. It is completely and utterly repulsive as an ideology. And the reason I happen to have Muslim friends, and have got on exceptionally well with Muslim colleagues, is that they were never hugely religious.

Is 'singling out' Muslims for criticism connected with their stated intention of killing people who aren't Muslims Other religions don't threaten death to people who disagree with them This may explain why the other religions are happily accepted as part of multiculturalism

They blame the rich for not paying enough, while also wanting the rich not to exist. That collapses on itself. If you eliminate the people you’re taxing, you eliminate the source of what you’re demanding. You can’t treat wealth creation as both the problem and the solution. Pick one.

The collective European west has made a mistake in extending its tolerance also to the intolerant. The price for this mistake has been payed disproportionately by European Jews. We handed out citizenship to people who promoted antisemitism and wanted to overthrow our way of living. This self-inflicted condition has to stop. The other day I was honored to receive the EJA King Solomon Award and this is a part of the speech I was able to give at the reception.

@TaraBull This means to say that Hawaii has had a medical emergency, and Chuck Norris is going to the hospital where Hawaii has been admitted to get Hawaii back on its feet, right?

Chuck Norris has been hospitalized after a medical emergency in Hawaii. Pray for Chuck

I am never happy criticizing Islam. With every post I make, every article I publish, every interview I give, I wrestle within myself. This world is cruel, and it needs more kindness, and it saddens me that I can't contribute more of it. If Islam were confined to a certain geography, I wouldn’t concern myself with it. If Islam were reformable, if it were possible for an open, high-trust society to survive it, I wouldn’t risk my life or waste my energy discussing this backward, dark ideology. But the problem is that Islam is none of these things. Islam is an expansionist ideology that, wherever it exists, erases individual liberties. And with that, it destroys creativity and prosperity. What we have witnessed in the West since October 7 has been a revelation: Islam has been rebranded using a narrative that frames Israel, and the West, as the cause of the violence and bigotry inherent in this political ideology, giving it the space to expand. That is why it is a moral obligation to stand against its expansion, to educate decision-makers about the threat it poses to the West, and to ensure that the Church, which plays a decisive role in shaping U.S. political direction, is equipped with the right tools and not deceived by false narratives. Committing to moral obligations is a discipline that brings no earthly pleasure. I find no pleasure in combating Islam. However, I can't live with myself if I choose to live a quiet, normal life while knowing that I might be able to make a difference, even if I am not very optimistic.

Took the Gripen out for a ride yesterday. Strong, smart and at supersonic speed - Sweden! X – won’t you help me? Send this to someone who also should get themselves a piece of world class engineering and innovative adaptable software. Welcome to Sweden, we are open for business.

The Afroman Trial. -Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons. -Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up. -No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman. -Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras. -Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives. -During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat. -The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation. -Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit. -Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them. -One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife. -As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE. -The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman. This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

So 7 of 10 Swedish people don't belive the USA is a democracy anymore. Meanwhile Sweden has 65 no-go zones and Malmö is ranked as dangerous as Baghdad... Are people completely brainwashed?

Lebanon is a perfect model of what happens when two civilizations share geography without sharing a political philosophy. It’s a small country, same language, same food, same weather, same ancient history. No walls. No checkpoints. But each community, Christian and Muslim, lives behind invisible civilizational lines. They don’t mix in political life, educational life, or social life. These lines have existed since the Ottomans, and they hardened after the civil war. The Christian areas built their society around a European-influenced political culture: secular schools, mixed-gender social norms, individual rights, and a relatively open civic space. The Muslim areas built "Islamic society". The result is not “diversity," but dual sovereignty inside one state. In 2023, the country literally split into two time zones during daylight-saving time, one Muslim and one Christian. Neighbors who live in the same building had different times. It was an honest reflection of two separate civilizational logics refusing to follow the same clock. Lebanon is a failed state because it tried to fit two incompatible political visions under one flag. The West is repeating Lebanon’s experiment but pretending it will end differently. There is no historical precedent for that working.

Europe selected against this gene for centuries by hanging about 1% of each generation in a continual, harsh effort against crime All serious crimes were capital crimes, and centuries of effort meant eventually this gene, which amounts to a crime gene, was selected against Notably, the fact that the time this process completed, around the late-18th century, was the start of the second great imperial period in European history, and hardly a peaceful period, so they managed to remain warlike and bold fighters...just without the "criminal behavior" gene The paper on this is called "Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification"

I've never listened to a podcast for more than 3 or 4 minutes. I don't have the patience to listen to people ramble on while I wait for them to talk about something I might be interested in. I'm not sure there's ever been a less efficient way to transmit information.