Birejik
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Elon Musk: "Generally, whatever Milton Friedman said, people should do that thing."
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Dans le manifeste "techno-optimiste" de Marc Andreessen, il y a une phrase qui m'a marqué :
"Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas."
Nos ennemis ne sont pas des mauvaises personnes. Ce sont des mauvaises idées.
Prenons Jancovici. L'homme est brillant, sincère, travailleur. Il ne se lève pas le matin en se disant qu'il va nuire à l'humanité. Mais l'idée qu'il porte la décroissance, le rationnement, la frugalité érigée en horizon civilisationnel est une idée profondément destructrice. Elle prend des esprits brillants et les transforme en commissaires politiques d'un futur appauvri.
Et le plus fascinant, c'est ce que cette idée fait aux gens qui l'adoptent.
Dans mon entourage, une grosse partie de mes amis est sur cette ligne décroissantiste, avec tout le package qui va avec. L'argent c'est mal mais ils en veulent. Il faut moins prendre l'avion mais ils rêvent de voyager partout. Il faut consommer moins mais ils ne renoncent à rien de ce qu'ils aiment vraiment.
Et tous ont un point commun : ils sont déprimés. L'un d'eux m'a même confié qu'il était sous antidépresseurs.
Ce n'est pas un hasard. C'est mécanique.
Quand tu crois que ton désir de vivre, de créer, de t'élever est moralement suspect tu te détruis de l'intérieur. Tu passes ta vie à t'excuser d'exister. Tu vis dans la dissonance permanente entre ce que ton corps veut (plus, mieux, plus loin) et ce que ton idéologie t'ordonne (moins, sobre, immobile).
D'où ma théorie :
Quand on pense quelque chose de fondamentalement faux décroissance, communisme, extrémisme religieux (de tout ordre) ce n'est qu'une question de temps avant que ça devienne vraiment destructeur.
D'abord pour soi. Puis pour les autres.
Les mauvaises idées tuent. Lentement chez ceux qui y croient, brutalement chez ceux qui les subissent.
C'est pour ça que la bataille des idées n'est pas un luxe d'intellectuel. C'est la bataille la plus importante de notre époque.
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Anonyme :
J’ai42 ans et je viens de passer les vingts dernières années de ma vie à me mentir.
J’ai été la féministe typique : celle qui hurlait que tous les hommes étaient des toxiques en puissance, que le mariage était une prison, que les enfants c’étaient du fardeau et que je n’avais besoin de personne. J’ai craché sur les mecs bien, j’ai traité de faibles les femmes qui voulaient juste être aimées et protégées. J’ai défilé, j’ai liké, j’ai partagé, j’ai insulté. J’étais fière. Tellement fière.
Et aujourd’hui ? Je suis seule.
J’ai vu mes copines qui ont suivi le même chemin : à 36-38 ans, elles sont épuisées, amères, et elles pleurent le soir parce qu’aucun homme ne veut plus d’elles. On leur a vendu que leur valeur augmentait avec l’âge et la carrière. On leur a menti. La vérité, c’est que plus on devient exigeante, indépendante et agressive, moins les hommes ont envie de nous. Point.
J’ai passé des années à humilier mon ex parce qu’il voulait payer l’addition ou m’ouvrir la porte. Je l’ai traité de macho alors qu’il voulait juste bien faire. Aujourd’hui il est marié avec une fille douce qui le regarde avec admiration. Moi je suis sur les applis, à swiper des mecs qui ne veulent plus que du sexe parce qu’on leur a répété pendant dix ans qu’on était “fortes et indépendantes”.
Le féminisme m’a volé ma féminité. Il m’a rendue dure, soupçonneuse, en colère en permanence. Il m’a appris à voir l’homme comme un ennemi plutôt que comme un partenaire. Et le pire ? Je vois plein de jeunes filles de 20 ans qui sont en train de tomber dans le même piège. Elles sont persuadées qu’être aimée = être soumise. Alors elles préfèrent être “reines célibataires” avec leur chat et leur prêt immobilier.
Les hommes, vous n’êtes pas tous innocents non plus. Beaucoup se sont réfugiés dans la facilité, la pornographie et l’irresponsabilité. Mais on ne peut pas nier que notre discours les a poussés à ça.
Je regrette. Profondément. J’aurais aimé qu’on me dise plus tôt que vouloir être chérie, protégée et aimée par un homme n’était pas une honte. Que ma force, ce n’était pas de ressembler à un homme, mais d’assumer ce que je suis vraiment.
Si t’es une femme et que tu te reconnais… réveille-toi avant qu’il soit trop tard. Et si t’es un homme qui lit ça… sache qu’il y en a de plus en plus qui regrettent. On est juste trop fières pour le dire à voix haute.
Voilà. J’ai tout perdu à cause d’une idéologie qui m’a promis la lune et qui m’a laissée vide. »
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If Nigeria were truly serious about development, Oyo wouldn't still look almost exactly as it did in 1960, distinguished only by those iconic brown roofs.
A developed Nigeria would have transformed Oyo into a modern, thriving inland powerhouse: smart infrastructure, cleared security blackspots, zero forest hideouts for bandits and kidnappers, and world-class connectivity.
No more excuses. Real development doesn't import progress, it begins from within.
We should abolish old traditional ways, at least recent oyomesi, alafin are all educated and they use mobile phones for communications not summoning the gods and town crier for dissemination of information.
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Journalist: Sir what's your take On the issue of insecurity?
Tinubu: That is the love, obedience of law. Nowhere in the holy teaching that you should engage in banditry, nowhere that you should kill another human being. The sacrifice we're talking about, if in the beginning of life where we take this from. A child was replaced with animal and that is what is value of life is all about.
See who ronu crack heads call intelligent, always talking off point.
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@Dating_Dynamics @HoliHappiness With all the available young damsels around why in the world would i sleep with a married woman? Where will the attraction even come from knowing that’s another man’s playground? Besides 1 & 2 that are non negotiable, all the others will just add a bit of spice to your life
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Sleep with these women at your own risk.
(Because some women don't just bring pleasure… They bring chaos, heartbreak, regret, and problems that can destroy your life.)
1. A married woman.
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@nyaraVT This is really very simple. A female body is *organised* to produce large gametes. It is irrelevant whether the female in question is too young or too old to produce viable eggs. It is irrelevant whether the female's eggs have ever been fertilised or resulted in a birth.
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@NappyNoel004 Fellas, THIS is who most women are.
Work hard to provide, not giving her enough attention
Not working enough, you’re a deadbeat
Leave these women alone. Just pay an escort at this point. NONE of these women are worth it anymore
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People keep telling me that Africa can't develop because of foreign meddling.
The West interferes, they say. The colonizers won't let us rise.
Let me tell you about Vietnam.
The United States bombed Vietnam for nearly a decade.
They dropped 7.5 million tons of bombs, which is more than three times what was dropped during all of World War II. Entire provinces were flattened.
They sprayed millions of gallons of Agent Orange that poisoned the land and the people for generations.
After the war, America broke its promise to provide reconstruction aid and pressured international institutions to deny Vietnam any loans or assistance.
The country was left isolated, embargoed, and devastated. In 1986, Vietnam was on the brink of collapse.
Inflation had hit 700 percent and farmers were starving.
If any nation had the right to blame foreign powers for its misery and give up, it was Vietnam.
Instead, they changed their policies.
They launched reforms called Doi Moi that legalized private enterprise, welcomed foreign investment, gave farmers land rights, and opened up to global trade.
Within a decade, the economy was growing at 7 percent per year and poverty was cut in half.
Today, Vietnam's GDP per capita has grown from under $100 in 1990 to over $4,000. Poverty dropped from 60 percent to under 5 percent. Major companies are now moving their factories from China to Vietnam.
This is a country that was literally bombed flat by a superpower, poisoned, and abandoned.
And they still found a way to prosper because they were willing to change their economic system.
So when I hear Africans say we can't develop because of meddling, I want to ask: what meddling post-colonialism compares to what Vietnam went through? We weren't bombed like that. We weren't poisoned like that. We weren't embargoed like that.
What we have for the most part are governments that refuse to create the conditions for entrepreneurs to thrive, and leaders who benefit from keeping us poor and dependent.
Foreign meddling is real, and it happens to every poor country on earth.
It's not unique to Africa.
It's what the powerful do to the weak, and every major power plays that game.
The only escape is to become prosperous enough that you can stand on your own feet, and that requires economic freedom.
Wake up Africa!
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Milton Friedman:
“Wherever the free market has been permitted to operate, the ordinary man has been able to attain levels of living never dreamed of before.”
“Nowhere are the rich richer and the poor poorer than in those societies that do not permit the free market to operate.”
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This is veiled prostitution
If he must sort your bills before you visit him, then just give him a price so he'll check his pocket and do the needful
You get your bills sorted, he gets his visit
Everybody is happy
But no, you don't want to be called prostitutes, but you want to earn like them
Temitope💕@Tea_1904
I told a man I’ve been talking to for months that I have a lot of bills to sort out and it’s really weighing me down. This man said, “I understand how that feels, just take it one step at a time.” Yesterday afternoon, he told me to come visit him and I said alright. I woke up this morning to several missed calls and messages from him saying he was expecting me throughout yesterday evening and I didn’t come. I replied, “I’m coming one step at a time. Do you know how long that takes?” I am still waiting for his response😂😭.
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@TafawaBalewa3 @sheyihade LMFAO then i saw your DP and laughed even harder
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@sheyihade You share it for free to neighborhood chewing gum boiz yet can't give it up to improve your life
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My boss wanted to sleep with me
He kept lube in his office
All the female staff left him under one month of starting the job.
Babatunde@Tunnyflo009
What killed your passion and drive for your last job?
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With time, everyone is going to clock Buhari. The man was a fraud—and, by far, a bigger enemy of Northern Nigeria than any other Nigerian president we have ever had.
Ahmad@Ahmad_YSF
Magana ta gaskiya, Allah ya isa tsakanin mu da Buhari. Yes. Wai 400 km road mutumin nan ya kasa yi w arewa. Toh uwar me yayi a shekara takwas ace titi kana shugaban kasa at least baza ka tabbatar an kammala shi ba! Allah wadaran naka ya lalace.
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@bigOracle_ @Femzyr1 How can u snitch on someone that gets only 6 months and you continue doing it? What did she think would happen?I'm sorry but That's stupidity
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Ruth was posted to Abuja for her NYSC Service, She started doing h00kups on multiple sites to make money,
She hooked up with a low-rank EFCC officer, Who gave her a deal to be giving him information about rich Yah00 Boys she hooked up with, Then promised her percentage, She agreed and helped them bust several Yah00 boys,
One day, she hooked up with Efosa, a wealthy Yah00 boy who owned a GLE 350, a Lexus, and his own house, After he paid her well and she left, Ruth then passed his details to the EFCC officer, & Efosa and his friends were arrested, his cars, house, and bank accounts were forfeited.
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This is the most logical thing I have read in this whole house-ownership debate.
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Magana ta gaskiya, Allah ya isa tsakanin mu da Buhari. Yes. Wai 400 km road mutumin nan ya kasa yi w arewa. Toh uwar me yayi a shekara takwas ace titi kana shugaban kasa at least baza ka tabbatar an kammala shi ba! Allah wadaran naka ya lalace.
Mohammed Musa Isah@Mansaah_Musa
Flight from Kano to Lagos is about half a million naira which I can't afford. I decided to follow road and this is where I ended up spending more than 6 hours.
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