So spot on...
Funny that you're celebrating Grok on this one.
You clearly didn't watch the video. The whole point of it is to explain why historians filed Hitler under "far right" in the first place.
Ask yourself who wrote that history. After 1945, academia across the West leaned heavily left. In France, De Gaulle handed education and culture to the communists in exchange for social peace, and that mindset spread through every university for 80 years. Those people had every reason to push Hitler as far away from their own camp as possible. So they did.
Grok is trained on that corpus. When it repeats the consensus, it isn't proving anything. It's showing you exactly how deep the bias goes. Repeat the same lie 150 times and it's still a lie.
Stop looking at the labels historians assigned and look at what the Nazis actually did with the economy. Price and wage controls. Mandatory cartels. The Four-Year Plan. Autarky. Currency controls. Agriculture run by the Reich Food Estate. Private property on paper, state command in practice. Their "privatizations" meant handing companies to party loyalists who did exactly what Berlin ordered. That is economic collectivism: the individual exists to serve the collective, whether you call that collective the proletariat or the Volk.
Hitler crushed the Marxists because they were fighting for the same voters, not because he rejected collectivism. Two branches of the same tree.
Elon is right. And I'd bet Grok gets corrected on this sooner than people think.
It's the same reason Alex Karp calls Palantir the first fully anti-woke company and now trains kids straight out of high school instead of taking whatever elite universities produce. When institutions have been ideologically captured for decades, you don't argue with the output. You rebuild the pipeline.
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Mehr Eier als all unsere Männer in der Regierung zusammen.
@GiorgiaMeloni : „In Italien entsteht ein neuer Straftatbestand: die gewalttätige Teilnahme an einer Demonstration.
Konkret heißt das: Wenn Sie sich während eines Zuges oder einer Demonstration einer Gruppe von fünf oder mehr Personen anschließen, Steine, Böller oder Stöcke werfen und die Sicherheit aller gefährden, riskieren Sie bis zu fünf Jahre Gefängnis und bis zu 20.000 Euro Geldstrafe. Wenn Sie das Gesicht bedeckt hatten oder jemand verletzt wurde, steigt die Strafe. Auch die Strafen für diejenigen, die in der Gruppe verwüsten, werden erhöht.
Der präventive Arrest (fermo preventivo) kann künftig auch auf Minderjährige angewendet werden
Wer etwas zerstört, zahlt – und wenn ein Minderjähriger etwas zerstört, zahlen seine Eltern. Bei Schäden an öffentlichem Eigentum (Bushaltestelle, Ampel, Polizeifahrzeug) schickt der Präfekt einen Zahlungsbescheid nach Hause. Bei Schäden an privatem Eigentum (Schaufenster, Geschäft, Auto) geht der Eigentümer zum Richter und erhält einen sofort vollstreckbaren Zahlungsbefehl.“
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The best Japanese airplane of WW2 was the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. For about a year and a half, it owned the skies over the Pacific. Then one crash on a tiny Alaskan island helped end its reign.
The Japanese Navy asked for the impossible in 1937. A carrier fighter that could outclimb, outturn, and outrange anything in the world. Most engineers said you couldn't get all of that in one plane.
A designer named Jiro Horikoshi did it by cutting weight everywhere. Thin aluminum skin. A lightweight frame with holes drilled into the parts to shave off ounces. No armor plate behind the pilot. No self-sealing fuel tanks. Every pound saved went into speed, agility, and fuel.
The Navy accepted it in 1940, the year 2600 on the Japanese imperial calendar. Type 0. The Zero.
It made its combat debut over China that September. A small group of Zeros tore apart a much larger formation of Chinese fighters without losing a single plane.
An American named Claire Chennault, advising the Chinese, sent warnings home about this new Japanese fighter. They were largely ignored. American officials didn't believe Japan could build something that good.
Then came December 1941.
Zeros escorted the attack on Pearl Harbor. In the months that followed, they swept across the Philippines, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and the Indian Ocean. With a drop tank, the Zero could fly well over a thousand miles, so far that Allied pilots sometimes assumed there must be a secret carrier nearby. In a turning dogfight, almost nothing could stay with it.
American and British pilots got a simple instruction: don't dogfight a Zero.
Then, on June 4, 1942, during a raid on Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands, a young Japanese pilot named Tadayoshi Koga had his Zero's oil line hit by ground fire.
He headed for the remote island of Akutan to make an emergency landing. From above, the flat ground looked solid. It was a bog. His wheels dug in, the Zero flipped onto its back, and Koga was killed instantly.
The plane, though, was almost intact.
A month later, a US Navy patrol plane spotted the wreck. The Zero was hauled out, shipped to San Diego, repaired, and test-flown by American pilots. For the first time, the US could study the Zero in the air.
The tests revealed the weaknesses behind the legend. At high speeds, the Zero's controls stiffened and it couldn't roll fast. Its engine could cut out briefly when it pushed into a steep dive. And with no armor and no self-sealing tanks, it couldn't take punishment.
American pilots learned to stop turning with it. They used speed, dove away, and attacked in pairs with tactics like the Thach Weave. A few good hits and the Zero went down in flames.
And in 1943, the F6F Hellcat arrived. Faster, tougher, better armed. By 1944, Zeros were falling in huge numbers, many flown by rookies replacing the veterans already lost.
In the war's final months, Zeros were loaded with bombs and flown as kamikazes.
Japan built more than 10,000 of them, more than any other Japanese aircraft. Horikoshi lived to see his creation turned into a suicide weapon. He wrote about how much the waste of young men's lives troubled him.
The Zero didn't lose because it was a bad plane. It lost because it was built for a short war. And Japan didn't get one.
Well, I know which one I would choose....
I don't know if you realize what just happened.
Elon Musk is completely bypassing the State.
For 100 years, we've been told the problem is capital. That it must be captured, taxed, redistributed. With an army of intermediaries standing between those who create wealth and the people: ministries, agencies, commissions, bureaucrats.
Musk is doing the opposite. He's taking his capital and giving it directly to the people. One SpaceX share to every kid in America. Not a handout. Not a subsidy. A piece of the machine that's taking humanity to Mars.
And he says it himself: this is the first of many.
Mises understood this back in 1944: the bureaucrat creates nothing. He administers what others created, following rules that have no connection to the value produced. The day value flows directly from the one who creates it to the one who receives it, the bureaucrat has no function left.
That's what's being born right now. A new liberal world order, where the very concept of the State will make less and less sense.
The world we're entering is a world of abundance. AI, robots, energy, space. And that abundance won't come through the State, for one simple reason: we have a century of proof that it doesn't work.
Redistribution was version 1.0. Direct distribution of capital is 2.0.
While France is still debating how to tax builders even more, America is handing stock to its kids.
Pick your side.
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"You reduce crime by eliminating poverty."
This is one of the greatest intellectual confusions of our century. It sounds compassionate. It feels obvious. And the moment you actually test it, it falls apart.
Let's look at the data.
First, the correlation is real. Nobody serious denies that poorer areas have more crime. In Sweden, kids from the poorest 20% of families are about 7 times more likely to be convicted of a violent crime than kids from the richest 20%.
But correlation is not causation. So Swedish researchers did something brilliant: they compared siblings. Same parents, same home, same upbringing, but different family income at different points in their childhood, because parents' income moves over time.
Result, on more than 500,000 children (Sariaslan et al., British Journal of Psychiatry, 2014): once you account for what's shared inside the family, the effect of income on violent crime goes from 7x to nothing. The hazard ratio drops to 0.95. No effect.
Finland ran the same test on 650,000 people. Same result: the income-crime link disappears when you compare siblings.
What predicts crime isn't the bank balance. It's what travels inside families.
Second test: what happens when poverty spikes for everyone at once? 2008. US unemployment doubled from 5% to nearly 10%. 15% of Americans officially poor. If poverty creates crime, crime should have exploded. Instead it fell. Year after year. Robbery, the most "economic" crime of all, dropped 10% in 2010 alone. Criminologists literally said they were stumped. Same story in the Great Depression: 25% unemployment, and crime went down in many cities.
Third test: take families out of poverty and see. The US government ran a randomized lottery called Moving to Opportunity. Thousands of families in public housing got vouchers to move to low-poverty neighborhoods. For boys, violent arrests dropped at first, property crime arrests went up, and over time the effects faded. New zip code. Same behavior.
Fourth: the claim that police don't matter. This one is just false. Chalfin et al. (American Economic Review: Insights, 2022): each additional police officer prevents about 0.1 homicides. And per capita, the lives saved are twice as many among Black victims as among white victims. The people who suffer most from "police don't matter" are the poorest neighborhoods.
So what does predict crime? The Dunedin study followed 1,000 children from birth to age 32. Self-control measured between ages 3 and 11 predicted adult criminal convictions, even after controlling for social class and IQ (Moffitt et al., PNAS, 2011). Cognitive ability matters too: across 700,000 Swedish men, lower cognitive scores at 18 track with violent convictions, and the link barely moves when you control for childhood socioeconomic status (Frisell et al., 2012).
And here's the part nobody quotes: in Dunedin, kids whose self-control improved over time did better than predicted. Behavior can change. Which means responsibility is real.
Why does this matter? Because "poverty creates crime" isn't just wrong. It's toxic.
It turns criminals into victims. The man who robbed you becomes a symptom of "the system," and you, the real victim, become a footnote in someone else's narrative.
It merges two completely different things. "You're poor, we'll help you" is one policy. "You're poor and you committed a crime, so we'll excuse you" is another. Fusing them insults the millions of poor people who work, raise their kids, and never hurt anyone. The vast majority of poor people are not criminals. That alone kills the theory.
It removes responsibility. Build a political system on "your circumstances made you do it" and you destroy the one thing that actually changes behavior: the certainty that you own your choices. Every excuse the state manufactures is an incentive.
And it feeds the state forever. If every crime is a social failure, every crime justifies a new program, a new budget, a new agency. Crime becomes the business model of bureaucracy.
The alternative is simple and old.
A lighter state that protects instead of explains. The same rules for everyone, from the projects or from a gated community. Certain, swift punishment for anyone who commits a crime. And never, ever telling someone their crime was written in their social condition.
Treating someone as responsible is respecting them. Excusing someone because they're poor is the most condescending thing you can do to them.
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This is soo good:
You've probably seen the video. A young Frenchwoman in Paris, in tears, begging looters to stop. "Why are you doing this? That's not what we stand for."
Some accounts are mocking her. "She voted for it."
I won't. Because what you see on her face is not stupidity. It's a disease that has infected the entire West, and it has a name: suicidal empathy.
The term comes from Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist at Concordia University in Montreal. A man who fled the Lebanese civil war as a child, and who knows what it looks like when a society falls apart. His new book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, is the follow-up to The Parasitic Mind. Here is the thesis, and why it concerns every one of us.
Empathy is one of the best things about us. It evolved for a reason: to care for our children, our kin, our tribe. It was calibrated for a world where the people you felt for were the people around you, and where empathy always came paired with its counterweight: the instinct to protect your own and to recognize a threat.
Suicidal empathy is what happens when that mechanism misfires. When it fires at the wrong targets, in the wrong amounts, with no brake. When we feel more for the criminal than for his victim. More for the stranger who breaks the rules than for the citizen who follows them. More for how compassionate we look than for what our compassion actually produces.
Where does it come from? Four layers.
First, biology. Empathy is a spotlight, as the psychologist Paul Bloom put it. It lights up the one face in front of you and leaves everything else in the dark. The crying migrant on the boat is visible. The thousands of future victims of a broken system are statistics. A spotlight is a terrible tool for running a country.
Second, our own civilization. The West is the civilization that put the victim at the center of its morality. Christianity taught us to care for the stranger, the poor, the weak. It was one of the greatest moral revolutions in history. But cut off from its other half, justice, responsibility, the duty to protect your own, it turns into something else.
Third, ideology. In The Parasitic Mind, Saad described idea pathogens, ideas that hijack our reasoning. Suicidal empathy is the emotional counterpart: an ideology that hijacks our compassion. It sorts the world into oppressors and victims, then demands unlimited empathy for whoever ranks as the victim, whatever they do.
Fourth, status. In the age of social media, empathy has become a display. Posting "refugees welcome" costs nothing and earns applause. The bill goes to someone else: the working class, the suburbs, the women walking home at night.
The results are everywhere. Criminals treated as victims of society. Sexual assaults by migrants met with lenient sentences. Self-defense branded as aggression. Borders treated as cruelty. Saad's conclusion is simple: a society dies when it would rather display infinite tolerance than use its survival instinct.
Now the part I'll add myself, and that few people dare to say.
On average, women score higher than men on measures of empathy. It's one of the most consistent findings in psychology, across cultures, and it makes perfect evolutionary sense: for most of human history, the survival of children depended on it. It's a strength.
But it means an ideology that weaponizes empathy will hit women harder. And the data shows it: in country after country, young women have moved sharply to the left of young men, especially on immigration.
This is where men have a responsibility.
Not to mock. Not to lecture. Not to say "she deserved it." Empathy has always needed a counterweight, and that counterweight was the protective instinct: the one that draws lines, says no, and stands between the threat and the people it loves.
Men abandoned that role. They were told it was toxic, and many believed it. So they stayed silent at the dinner table, at work, with their partners, sisters, daughters and friends.
That has to end. Men have to have this conversation, honestly and with respect: compassion that cannot say no is not compassion. It's surrender. And the first to pay for it are women.
Many women already understand this better than anyone. Some of the bravest voices in this fight are women, precisely because they are the first to feel the danger in the street.
A civilization rests on a balance: compassion and strength, openness and borders, mercy and justice. When one side swallows the other, the foundations crack. What we are watching in Europe is what happens when empathy has no counterweight left.
Look at that young woman again. She isn't the enemy. She's what this ideology made of a generation that was told kindness would be enough.
Our job is to make sure she's the last generation that has to learn it this way.
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Tonight, France burned. America, you should be watching very carefully.
Today, October 17, 2026, more than half a million people marched across France against the cost of living. By 8pm, around 400 had been arrested. In Paris, police turned water cannons on the crowds at Place de la République, and one march was stopped 150 meters from the Élysée Palace. Of the 195 people arrested in the capital by the afternoon, only one actually lived in Paris. Mobs forced their way into the city halls of Marseille and Lille. In Lyon, a tourism office was set on fire. In Rennes, barricades burned. Near Limoges, a highway was blocked and police cars were torched.
And then came Limoges.
A crowd of very young people stormed the city hall, a protected historic monument built in the 1880s. They flipped police cars in front of it and set them ablaze, then set the building itself on fire. The flames took the roof, the wedding hall, and the civil registry, the office that records every birth, every marriage, every death in the city. Tonight, the bell tower that has crowned Limoges for nearly 150 years collapsed.
The mayor's response: "It's a monument that is burning, not the Republic."
That is the problem in one sentence. Our leaders still think words can put out fires.
None of this came out of nowhere. For twenty years, the French political class has excused everything. Every riot was "anger." Every burned car was a "social symptom." Every attack on police was "a reaction to provocation." And the hard left, La France Insoumise, which officially backed today's mobilization, built its electoral machine on an alliance with political Islamism: refusing to condemn, refusing to name, trading secularism and public order for votes. In France we have a word for it. Islamo-gauchisme. Islamo-leftism.
Tonight you saw where that culture of excuse ends. A country where a mob can burn down a town hall, and the state arrives after the roof has already fallen in.
My dear American friends,
I say this with love, as someone who has lived among you and owes you a great deal: your midterms are on November 3rd. And the same alliance is growing inside your Democratic Party. The same far-left wing that treats disorder as protest and police as the enemy. The same activists who refuse to draw a line between legitimate dissent and those who openly despise the West. The same politicians who think tolerance means tolerating everything, including the people who want to burn it down.
It always starts with excuses. Then comes impunity. Then come the flames.
Same causes, same effects. If you create the conditions we created, you will get exactly what we got tonight.
France was the country of the Enlightenment, of cathedrals and town halls that stood for centuries. Tonight, one of them collapsed live on social media while the government called for calm.
My dear American friends, the only advantage you have over us is that you've been warned.
Vote like your city hall depends on it. Because one day, it will.
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The bacteria will run the victim's body better than the person himself.
Infection = progress
Socialists can only destroy
Well written:
Many in the comments are saying: "The French voted for this."
Fine. Now ask yourself a better question.
Why is it the same story in every Western country at once? France, Germany, Sweden, the UK, Belgium, Canada. Different languages, different histories, different voters. Same outcome. Same open-border policies, sold in the same beautiful packaging: progress, inclusion, integration, "our values."
When dozens of peoples who never coordinated end up with the exact same policy, it wasn't the peoples who decided. It was the class that governs all of them. Same schools, same forums, same networks. For decades, they have systematically lied to Europeans about what was happening and what it would cost.
They tried it with you too, America. You came close. What saved you was your Constitution, and a handful of people like Elon Musk and the All-In crew who refused to stay quiet when silence would have been easier.
But don't celebrate too early.
The West is not a country. It's a civilization. Athens, Rome, Jerusalem, and every nation that inherited or built on what came out of them: Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, Israel, and allies like Japan who share its institutions and its fate.
If Europe falls, you don't get to watch from across the ocean. You lose half your civilization, your oldest allies, the cradle of everything you believe in. Nobody on either side of the Atlantic has any interest in waking up to an Islamist Europe.
So understand that this fight has two levels.
There is the national fight. Every people has to win its own battle at home, at the ballot box, in its own institutions, under its own laws. No one can do it for us. You can't vote in France, and we can't vote in Ohio.
And there is the civilizational fight. The West is under attack on two fronts at once. From the inside, by a soft communism that hates its own history and wants to dissolve nations into a managed mass. From the outside, by Islamism, which sees our weakness and fills the vacuum. And the two have found each other: Islamo-leftism, where the far left defends the very ideology that would crush it first.
The national fights are the battles. The civilizational fight is the war.
And here's what the other side exploits: your kindness.
Western civilization produced something rare in human history: a moral instinct to extend compassion to strangers. To the refugee, the outsider, the weakest. It's one of the most beautiful things we ever built.
The globalist class turned it into a weapon against us.
Gad Saad has a name for this: suicidal empathy. Empathy that no longer asks who it protects and who pays the price. Empathy that cares more about how it looks than about what it causes. Empathy so detached from reason that it ends up sacrificing your own people, the girl attacked on her way home, the worker priced out of his neighborhood, the town that no longer recognizes itself, just to signal virtue toward strangers.
And every time you object, they don't answer your argument. They question your heart. "Where is your compassion?" That's the trap. They know a decent people will hesitate before being called cruel. They've been running that play for thirty years.
Now add the money.
A few left-wing billionaires understood long ago that you don't need to win elections if you can shape the institutions around them. The Gates Foundation became one of the largest funders of the World Health Organization. George Soros's Open Society Foundations have spent billions funding NGOs, advocacy groups and legal networks, with Europe as a major focus. Unelected, unaccountable, and extremely well organized.
And it's not only private money. Brussels funds NGOs with taxpayers' money, and those same NGOs then lobby Brussels for the policies it already wanted. A closed loop. Citizens pay for it. Nobody ever asked them.
This is the supranational machine: Brussels, the galaxy of NGOs orbiting it, the foundations feeding them, and the political class moving freely between all three. It answers to no voter in any country. It does enormous damage. And it can't be voted out, because no one ever voted it in.
And if you want to know where its center of gravity is, look at Washington.
The Democratic Party is its political headquarters. Not because every Democrat is a globalist, but because that's where the whole network converges: the big foundations, the NGO galaxy, the international organizations, the legacy media, the platforms. Same donors, same people rotating from one to the other, same worldview. Brussels is the branch office.
Covid showed it in real time.
Within weeks, almost the entire Western world adopted the same playbook. Same measures, same messaging, same "trust the science." Anthony Fauci became the face of the official line far beyond America's borders. The Gates Foundation, co-founder of the global vaccine alliances and one of the WHO's largest funders, sat at the center of global health policy. And anyone who questioned the line was branded a spreader of misinformation.
The lab-leak hypothesis was a "conspiracy theory" right up until it became a respectable one. And in 2024, Mark Zuckerberg admitted in writing that senior Biden administration officials had repeatedly pressured Meta in 2021 to censor Covid content, including humor and satire.
Government, foundations, international organizations, platforms. All moving in the same direction, at the same time, and no voter ever consulted.
That's the machine. Covid was the moment it stopped hiding.
That machine is what has to be taken apart. Defund the NGOs living off public money. Bring decisions back to elected national parliaments. Make every foundation that shapes public policy as transparent as a political party.
Compassion is a Western virtue. Letting it be used against us is not.
So let's not fall into the trap.
The trap is Western nations turning on each other. Americans mocking Europeans, Europeans sneering at Americans, each country telling itself "they deserve what's happening to them, they voted for it."
I'm pro-border. I'm pro-nation. I believe every people has the right to decide who enters its home and to defend its own culture. That will never change.
But what we face today is not one nation attacking another. It's an attack on the civilization all our nations belong to. And a civilization under attack cannot afford to let its members watch each other burn.
When you see France on fire, don't say "they chose this." Understand how it happened. Understand who did it. And understand that the same people are working on you.
The West has to stand together against this, fully, without ambiguity, and its peoples have to understand each other. National pride and civilizational solidarity are not opposites. They are the same fight at two scales.
A Frenchman voting to take back his borders and an American voting on November 3rd are on the same front, in the same war, for the same civilization.
We lose it separately, or we win it together.
Sad deal....
Je suis rentré de Dallas hier suite a l'événement Tesla Roadster, de retour en France pour assister au grand incendie de mon pays 🇫🇷.
Au monde entier qui regarde ce qu'il se passe en France actuellement, voici ce qui se passera pour nous dans les années à venir :
En 2027, l'État répondra comme il répond toujours : plus de dépenses pour calmer la rue, plus d'impôts pour financer les dépenses. Nouvelle « contribution exceptionnelle » sur les hauts revenus. La dette passe 3 500 milliards et personne ne s'en émeut.
Les chiffres sont devenus abstraits depuis longtemps.
2028. Les taux français décrochent de l'Allemagne. La BCE intervient, comme elle l'a toujours fait, en rachetant de la dette française pour contenir l'hémorragie. Sauf que cette fois, Berlin pose une condition : un programme d'ajustement. La France devient officiellement un pays sous surveillance.
2029. L'ajustement se fait. Mais pas dans le sens espéré. Les Français ne baissent pas leur train de vie, ils sortent du système. Un million d'auto-entrepreneurs basculent en liquide. Les frontaliers suisses cessent de rentrer. Les médecins se déconventionnent en masse. Les PME ferment leur boîte en France et la rouvrent à Lisbonne, à Genève, à Tallinn.
2030. Les recettes fiscales s'effondrent. L'État n'a plus les moyens de collecter ce qu'il prévoit : l'administration découvre qu'un impôt n'est qu'une convention, et que la convention a été rompue. Retards de paiement des fonctionnaires. Retraites versées avec un mois de décalage. Le mot « défaut » est prononcé pour la première fois à la télévision.
2031. La France ne fait pas faillite avec fracas. Elle fait faillite comme on perd ses cheveux : lentement, puis d'un coup. Restructuration de la dette, gel des avoirs. Les épargnants qui avaient « sécurisé » leur argent sur une assurance-vie en fonds euros découvrent la loi Sapin 2 qui autorise le blocage de leurs retraits.
Ce scénario n'est pas une fiction. C'est l'Argentine en 2001. C'est la Grèce en 2015. C'est tous les pays qui ont vécu sous le socialisme.
Protégez-vous, n'accueillez pas la misère du monde chez vous.
Hahahaha
"Das Pferd wird es immer geben, aber das Automobil ist nur eine Modeerscheinung – ein Spielzeug für Reiche."
Michigan Savings Bank, 1903
"Ich denke, es gibt weltweit einen Markt für vielleicht fünf Computer."
Thomas Watson, 1943
"No chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share."
Steve Ballmer, 2007
"Das Internet hat für die Wirtschaft kaum wichtigere Auswirkungen als das Faxgerät."
Paul Krugman, 1998
"Flugmaschinen, die schwerer sind als Luft, sind physikalisch unmöglich."
Lord Kelvin, 1895
"Das Spam-Problem bei E-Mails wird in spätestens zwei Jahren gelöst sein"
Bill Gates, 2004
"Der Fernseher wird sich auf dem Markt nicht halten. Die Menschen werden es bald leid sein, jeden Abend auf eine Sperrholzkiste zu starren."
Darryl F. Zanuck, 1946
"Es gibt keinen Grund, warum jemand einen Computer in seinem Haus haben wollte."
Ken Olson, 1977
"Wenn die Pariser Weltausstellung schließt, wird das elektrische Licht ausgehen und man wird nie wieder davon hören."
Erasmus Wilson, 1878
"Die Amerikaner brauchen das Telefon vielleicht, wir aber nicht. Wir haben genug Laufburschen."
William Preece, 1876
"Egal wie die Wissenschaft in Zukunft fortschreitet, der Mensch wird den Mond niemals erreichen."
Lee De Forest, 1957
"Reisen mit hoher Geschwindigkeit ist nicht möglich, weil die Passagiere keine Luft mehr bekommen und an Erstickung sterben würden."
Dionysius Lardner, 1830
"Mit Wechselstrom herumzuspielen ist reine Zeitverschwendung. Niemand wird ihn jemals nutzen."
Thomas Edison, 1889
"Mobiltelefone werden die Drahttelefone absolut nicht ersetzen."
Marty Cooper, 1981
#TeslaRoadster
#Tesla
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One in five Norwegian women have been raped.
Every night of the year a Norwegian woman is raped in Oslo.
The police in Oslo have now confirmed every single woman raped in the city over the last three years was raped by a migrant.
Is diversity still our strength?
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En France, on a inventé le Concorde.
En 1969, il décollait et atteignait Mach 2 symbole de la grandeur gaullienne, conçu pour défier les Américains.
En 1972, le TGV 001 battait le record mondial à turbine (318 km/h).
En 1981, le TGV électrique reliait Paris à Lyon à 260 km/h. En 2007, il pulvérisait encore le record mondial sur rail : 574,8 km/h.
Dans les années 70, le plan Messmer lançait le plus grand programme nucléaire civil de l’Histoire : 58 réacteurs, jusqu’à 70-80 % de notre électricité, une indépendance énergétique que le monde entier nous enviait.
Dassault, Sud-Aviation, EDF, Framatome, la SNCF : nos ingénieurs étaient les meilleurs. On avait dix à vingt ans d’avance sur presque tout le monde.
Puis 1981, Mitterrand. Nationalisations massives (banques, acier, chimie, électronique, aéronautique). Semaine de 39 heures. Lois Auroux. Charges sociales qui explosent. Syndicats tout-puissants. Fiscalité punitive. Droit du travail rigidifié.
En moins de cinquante ans, le socialisme a transformé un pays d’ingénieurs conquérants en un pays de grèves, de délocalisations et de stagnation relative.
L’industrie est passée d’environ 28 % du PIB à 11 %.
Le Concorde a été abandonné. Notre nucléaire a été presque démantelé pendant des décennies faute de choix politique mortifère.
Ce n’est pas le destin, c’est le prix d’une idéologie qui a préféré redistribuer et réglementer plutôt que construire et innover.
A bon entendeur.
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Metallica sold us tickets for metal, not a manifesto. If your fandom requires the band to perform your politics, the problem isn’t them; it's your sorry propagandizing ass. 🖕
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When the Japanese killed 3,000 service members in the attack on Pearl Harbor in response the United States deployed two nuclear weapons killing 550,000 Japanese, leaving radiation that killed many for several generations. You want to see Hiroshima? Leveled to the dirt? When the Luftwaffe bombed London killing 20,000 Brits in the battle for England, the Royal Air Force carpet bombed Dresden, Munich, and a dozen other cities killing 400-500,000 civilians. What die everyone call it? NOBODY called it genocide. It was war. But when the Jews defend themselves, cranks, moronic grifters and Jewish haters like you call it “genocide”.
Glad to help. Now go get a couple brain cells. And GFY
