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The Nobel Price awarded to Obama in 2009 was a “political advance” on expected potential actions, which however largely failed to materialize. Instead, his presidency was marked by escalations, misjudgments, and new conflicts. It’s probably time for Nobel Committee to re-embrace the concept of Meritocracy.

All of them--Netanyahu, Putin, the sultans and princes--have solved the least difficult puzzle to solve on the planet: With Trump, lavish flattery and blandishments will get you everywhere! foxnews.com/politics/netan…

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A lot of people have asked me if I will get involved in the NYC mayor race by supporting a candidate that can defeat Zohran Mamdani. TBH, I’m torn and undecided. Like every other city run by democrats, NYC is a broken kleptocracy. Taxes are astronomical and services are pathetic to nonexistent. Anarchy and socialism are the next logical steps in this story arc. It's what the people of NYC have been asking for for years and it looks like it's what they are about to get. Trying to fight against this tide seems like throwing good money after bad. It appears things will have to get worse in NYC before they get better. The Zoomers and Millennials need a refresher on the outcome of Marxism and socialism. They are too young to remember the crack and crime epidemic and murder sprees of the late 80's and early 90's. The squeegee men, graffiti, mugging, lawlessness, chaos, and pandemonium. Streets that were too unsafe to walk alone at night or even during the day. Getting mugged on the way to and from school was not just a rite of passage, it was an inevitability. The Wall Streeters, financiers, and hedge funders have been too busy working on their fishponds and climbing the rungs of polite society to remember to protect the system that allowed them to achieve their success in the first place and allowed New York City to once become the greatest city in the world. Not ruffling feathers was more important than questioning the ideological insanity being taught in the private schools and universities that they sent their kids to. All that mattered was fitting in and getting invited to the right dinner parties. Now their kids are indoctrinated NPCs, always protesting and supporting the current thing. Like their parents, they too want to fit in. To do so, they unironically exchange bromides and platitudes on the benefits of socialism over rosé brunches in the West Village. Because their friends hate America and capitalism, they do too. It never dawns on them that their lifestyle and studio apartment that their parents subsidize are all made possible because of capitalism. This delusional thinking was ingrained in them at an early age by institutions that were captured by insane ideology and left unchecked by their grossly negligent parents. Instead of providing their children with immunity from stupid and provably bad ideas that have only led to misery and death throughout history, these parents shrugged it off as kids will be kids. Now these kids are adults who can vote, but are totally unequipped to do so. In many ways it’s not their fault. From their parents, they learned some combination of magical thinking, preference falsification, and an inability to stand up for anything greater than themselves. As a result, they never learned how to think critically or independently. They never learned the value of Western civilization so they don't understand why, or know how, to fight for it. Sometimes the only way to learn something is to learn it the hard way. Sometimes the only way to learn the value of what you have is to lose it. If that’s the case, Marxism and socialism might just be what the doctor ordered.

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Unglaubliche Vorgänge in Österreich: Polizei hebt im Zuge von bundesweiten Hausdurchsuchungen rechtsradikale Banden aus, die auf offenbar besonders perfide Weise Jagd auf Homosexuelle gemacht haben kleinezeitung.at/oesterreich/19…

@WadheraAuthor When anger fueled by blind ideology takes over….. Ridiculous and childish behavior.

If you want to survive, apologize to the whole world for your stupidity. Your abrasive far rightedness has no place amongst reasonable people. Tesla owners are having their cars vandalised, spray painted with graffitti saying: F**k Musk!! The main danger to Tesla is you!

@NZZ No pain, no gain.

Wird Donald Trump die amerikanische Wirtschaft in ein goldenes Zeitalter führen? Die Anleger zweifeln plötzlich daran – und verkaufen riskante Titel. Besonders hart wird der Autobauer Tesla getroffen. trib.al/sCbpXmK

@zerohedge The other half still suffering from some kind of Stockholm syndrome

Wake Up Call? Polls Show Half Of Democrat Voters Are Tired Of Far-Left Politics zerohedge.com/political/wake…

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Pete, I love your patriotism and willingness not to quit but rather fight for the better of your country. But to your point about Dubai: Why would anyone want to protest and publicly criticize a government that treats its residents as customers, that provides a world class infrastructure at minimal tax, that guarantees top of the notch security and simply provides a place allowing anyone who’s ambitious to succeed and thrive? Believe me, your perspective on what’s true freedom starts shifting once you live in such an environment. Of course there are some general rules to respect here, like there are in any society. But as European living in Dubai since almost 13 years I never felt deprived of my freedom, but rather empowered to think big and become my best.

I don’t criticise Dubai every chance I get, I just post facts when people tell me about their utopia lifestyle there. Dubai is pushed by the same people who promote freedom and liberty, but what they’ve really traded is low tax and a luxury lifestyle for less of both. It’s post-rationalised hypocrisy. The facts—Dubai has zero respect for free speech. Here in the UK, free speech is under attack but I can call the government useless, protest outside Downing Street, write critical articles. In Dubai, that gets you prison or deportation. The judiciary is authoritarian, migrant workers are exploited on a massive scale, women have fewer rights, and being gay is literally illegal. Sure, the UK is a shit show right now and there are things which feel similar, but it isn’t on the same scale-we at least we have the freedom to criticise, to unite, and to build opposition. That’s how things change. In Dubai, there is no opposition—just good weather, no tax, and a government you must be subservient to. If that trade-off works for you, cool. But I love the UK—our history, our people. I’m not bailing just because we’re in a period of decline. I could, but that’d be cowardly. I’ll take the shit show and fight to fix it alongside the other good people who are here. And we will win!

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