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If you’ve ever wondered whether we're being deliberately sedated with an endless diet of goy slop, Netflix, fluoride in the drinking water, social media, and porn, read this email from the Epstein Files and ask yourself who benefits from a permanently distracted population.
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Replying to @ChuckieFFS
You absolute midwit. Congrats on repeating the Wikipedia "Nazis were far-right, end of story" summary you absorbed between TikToks. Yes, the Nazis crushed independent unions, jailed and murdered communists and social democrats, and Hitler liquidated the Strasserite "left" wing of his own party in the Night of the Long Knives. That part is not in dispute. They were not Marxist class-struggle socialists. They hated Bolshevism as a Jewish plot and treated international socialism as the main enemy. Fine. What your middle-school history class skipped is that they still ran a National *Socialist* state: private property existed only as long as it served the Führer’s racial and war goals, wages and prices were controlled, industry was cartelized under state direction, profit was subordinated to the party, and the economy was planned for autarky and rearmament. That is not free-market capitalism, liberal conservatism, or classical right-wing economics. It is the same family of state-directed, anti-liberal, collectivist economics practiced by every other fascist and "national socialist" regime. The name was not a prank; the 25-point program and the early rhetoric were full of anti-capitalist planks precisely because they were competing with the actual socialists for working-class support. Your North Korea comparison is the usual gotcha and it is only half-clever. Yes, names can lie. But the NSDAP did not merely call itself socialist while secretly running a Rothschild hedge fund. They nationalized, directed, rationed, and regimented. The difference from Soviet socialism was mainly that the Nazis kept the owners as managers under party orders instead of shooting them all and installing commissars. Both systems produced shortages, secret police, and mass graves; one just had better uniforms and Wagner. Elon pointing out the obvious—that "National Socialist" is not an ironic branding exercise and that the regime was economically left of any classical liberal or conservative—does not make him a moron. It makes him less obedient to the post-1945 academic consensus that insists every totalitarian who isn’t a full Marxist must be filed under "far-right" so the left never has to share the body count. Money didn’t buy him a brain; it just bought him a platform where he doesn’t have to pretend your selective reading of 1930s Germany is the complete picture. Keep yelling "far-right fascists" while ignoring the actual economic policies and the party’s own name. It is the historical equivalent of covering your ears and shouting.
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Herbert Hafner retweeted
Taking your kids trick or treating and realizing you’re at Hoe Math’s house.
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Herbert Hafner retweeted
Europe can rediscover its vitality any time it decides to with a coherent culture, debureaucratization, and abundant energy. Here's a three-step starter pack: 1) Start remigration 2) Drop GDPR 3) Build nuclear We could start on Monday.
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As a connoisseur of racism, I have found no greater joy than discovering other language realms on X where they are truly light years ahead. Behold the great meme war between the Turks 🇹🇷 and Chinese 🇨🇳 which has been brewing now for 3 days! It began with a small Turkish account posting a meme of a cat wearing a straw hat + slitty eyes + wispy moustache. A Chinese user then replied with a meme of Patrick Star from SpongeBob parachuting next to the Turkish flag, with a caption along the lines of “I heard the Turkish flag was designed like this, is that true? Both were from small anonymous accounts but now has been viewed by several millions. Turks took it as mockery of a national symbol and all hell breaks lose. The broader historical and cultural pile-on on both sides were equally impressive in its deep knowledge of Ottoman / Chinese history, along with very creative vulgarity. I read one Chinese tweet calling Turkey the fleshlight of the entire world. Both sides insulted each other as “might as well be Indians.” Then it got super testy when it ventured into Turkestan/Xinjiang/Uyghur territory, and soon out came digs about the Turkish lira, China virus and other general nationalist trash talk. The next stage was the free speech Olympics. Turks started posting images of Xi Jinping and daring Chinese users to criticize him to prove that China is “free.” Chinese replies often flipped it to “you criticize Xi but none of you dare criticize Muhammad.” When no Chinese account could criticize Xi, the Turks concluded they were all bots. The latest stage has been the international expansion. Japan + Taiwan + Azerbaijan + Spain lined up with Turks against China. Japanese accounts were the most visible contingent. Taiwan joined the Turkish side for obvious reasons. Azerbaijan was in Turkic solidarity mode. South Korea and Spain too for reasons which are not clear to me. Iran + Greece + India + Egypt joined up with the Chinese against Turkey. I saw an Iranian account openly telling the Chinese to keep going and “discipline the Turks” because the Ottoman/Persian rivalry runs deep still. Greece obviously went against the Turks and as for India, who knows. Could’ve gone either way but they chose the Chinese. The whole thing, while viscous and passionate at times, has strangely left me with the warm fuzzies. Imagine how much more boring life would’ve been without @X’s auto-translate feature
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Herbert Hafner retweeted
A Europa será destruída por mulheres que projetam naqueles animais a maternidade que cabia aos filhos que elas abortaram.
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Herbert Hafner retweeted
Just tried again to comment on a judge's sentencing I am prevented from registering my comment So I am being censored I can hardly believe this is happening in Britain
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Herbert Hafner retweeted
2025 wurden in Deutschland ca 106.000 Abtreibungen durchgeführt. Das entspricht ca der Einwohnerzahl von z.Bsp. Jena oder Trier. Das sind 12 Morde pro Stunde. Einer alle 5 Minuten. Das sind über 4.200 Schulklassen. Medizinisch notwendig waren davon ca 4000 Vergewaltigung war in 85 Fällen der Grund. 100.000 Menschen in einem Jahr in Deutschland einfach umgebracht weil sie grad nicht ins Leben gepasst haben.
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Herbert Hafner retweeted
Your Omarchy machine won't boot. Normally that means searching the error on your phone and typing fixes by hand. Omarchy Rescue by @paolino is a rescue USB with Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode built in. → Boot the broken machine from the stick → Sign in from your phone by scanning a QR code → Type "my machine won't boot" The surprise: in his demo, the agent finds what broke and fixes it in 56 seconds, start to finish. It boots the same kernel as Omarchy and can unlock and mount your encrypted install for repairs. Watch the demo below. Demo credit: @paolino. What's the worst way your Linux install has broken on you?
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The newest painting in the Louvre. “The Girl with the Suicidal Empathy.” Oil on canvas. Go see it while the Louvre is still standing.
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Herbert Hafner retweeted
No, she does not realize anything. No, she will not realize anything. No, she will not change her belief system. Because she has none. Only high-testosterone, high-IQ heterosexual males speak and act as a result of their mental model of the system as a whole. Everyone else just says and does whatever they think will keep them safe, and maybe get them a pat on the head. Her mental model is not "Diversity is good for France." Her mental model is "if I say diversity is good for France, others will approve of me". If you have enough voters who believe things simply because others believe them, democracy becomes irrelevant. Actual opinion no longer matters, only the illusion of consensus. Because the people who are swayed by the illusion of consensus become the swing voters, and everyone who actually needs to be reasoned with becomes irrelevant. That's what women's suffrage is really for. That's what immigration is really for. That's what government school systems are for. They are all for generating a critical mass of voters whose opinions are formed outside their heads. That's why the entire Western political class appears to hate high-T hetero White men suddenly and all at once. Western high-T hetero White men are the demographic that advances civilization at all, but they are also the greatest impediment to managerial rule. And guess which one the political class actually cares about. So, no, women are not going to suddenly wake up and reverse course. You are not going to seize power by changing women's minds. You must change women's minds by seizing power.
The face someone makes when they realize the racists were right all along:
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Herbert Hafner retweeted
Yeah you gotta ruthlessly remove gays and troons from any space you manage. I learned this the hard way. I used to run a very popular and successful ttrpg community that let in ONE troon, against my vote. Same thing happened, they invited dozens of gender freaks, drove out anyone normal, and then ended up convincing a retarded jeet support agent to transfer ownership from me to them because I had "abandoned" the community. Never again. I just ban them immediately these days, for whatever plausibly deniable reason. Anyone in the community who argues for them or leaves because of the "heavy handed" moderation was a net negative anyway. Dont be afraid to lose them. Strictly cultivate any community you run, it will be far more successful in the long run.
The leftist mods of r/litrpg staged a coup and outed the owner of the subreddit because he's a centrist.
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Herbert Hafner retweeted
Replying to @Jvillesfinest
The people who said they wanted flying cars actually built a flying car. The people who said they wanted cheaper living expenses did... what?
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Herbert Hafner retweeted
Ich fasse mal die zahllosen Kommentare unter meinem heutigen Post über den neuen @Tesla-Roadster zusammen. @elonmusk hat ein sicherlich recht unnützes Spielzeug vorgestellt, dabei aber Träume wahr werden lassen und etwas völlig Verrücktes getan, das Lust macht auf mehr. Nebenbei stiehlt er Porsche völlig die Show. Aber so was von. Ein Drittel der Kommentare verstehen die Dimension. Paul aus Langweilingen, dessen bislang größte Lebensleistung ein zweiter Preis im Karnickelzüchterverein Blaue Tonne war, moniert die Reichweite im Flugmodus. IT-Administrator Peter aus Bielefeld sagt, dass er es besser fände, wenn die Amerikaner statt Flugautos eine Krankenversicherung bekämen. Krankenversicherungssachbearbeiter Peter sagt, dass man mit dem fliegenden Roadster kein Geld verdienen könne. Handarbeitslehrerin Meike sagt, Tesla fahren sei prollig. Lehramtskandidat Alex sagt, dass der Hype völlig ungerechtfertigt sei. Waren ja nur ein paar Hopser. Maschinenbauer Ferdinand sagt, das Auto "fliegt" nicht, sondern "hüpft". Henriette-Marie von "Kindergärtner:innen gegen Rechts e.V." sagt, dass der Drucklufttank acht Kilogramm TNT entspräche. Sven, 42-jähriger Elektroningenieur aus Hessen, bestimmt, der Tesla-Roadster sei "Unsinn". Besonders lustig sind die Leute, die behaupten, ich sei Boomer und würde deswegen sowieso nichts von Technik verstehen. Erstens bin ich ein paar Jahre zu jung fürs Boomern, zweitens frage ich mich, wann die junge Generation so abgrundtief spießig, mittelmäßig und langweilig geworden ist, dass sie große Leistungen noch nicht mal dann erkennt, wenn sie nackt vor ihnen tanzen. Oder war sie es schon immer? Wenn das die formatfreie Zukunft Deutschlands ist, dann wandere ich doch besser aus.
Heute ist etwas so Historisches wie die Mondlandung passiert, aber gänzlich unangekündigt. Tesla und SpaceX haben das erste fliegende Auto vorgestellt. Was heutzutage technisch möglich ist, wird heute wohl weltweit viral gehen. - an der Decke hängen - von null auf hundert km/h in weniger als einer Sekunde - Bremsen genau so schnell - einfach mal über den Stau rüberfliegen - akrobatische Flugbewegungen - ohne Tragflächen => Ein Traum wird wahr.
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Herbert Hafner retweeted
Real life, baby
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Divorce is a form of child abuse, but there’s something especially insidious about the cruelty of “there were no fights, just two adults who realized they’d drifted apart.” How will his daughters ever feel secure in a relationship again? They’ll spend their lives haunted by the knowledge that even when everything seems perfect, even when there are no fights, no betrayals, no warning signs, the person they love most will simply wake up bored one morning and abandon them. Imagine the psychological damage of teaching a little girl that love offers no security. That devotion means nothing. That even if she does everything right, she can be discarded for no reason beyond someone else’s changing feelings. This is how you raise women willing to degrade themselves in every conceivable way to keep a man. This is how you create abuse victims who rationalize every cruelty, terrified that upsetting their abuser will mean abandonment. This is how you create pathological people-pleasers who spend their lives groveling for affection, accepting humiliation and mistreatment because the alternative is being alone. And the most heartbreaking part is that these girls may never even understand why they’re like this. They’ll just carry that terrible, gnawing fear of abandonment into every relationship, every friendship, and every job, desperately trying to earn the security their own parents taught them doesn’t exist. This man is a monster and it breaks your heart to think about.
My wife and I decided to get a divorce. There were no fights, just two adults who realised they drifted apart from each other. This is probably the hardest thing I had to go through. First of all, telling our girls...seeing them so sad was heartbreaking. But we are still a team as parents and will do everything for them! Also we have to sell our house, the house I wanted to live in forever and raise my kids in... Going back to a smaller appartment will be rough. I still have a lot of to handle, that's why I wasn't active here on X. I'm really grateful for all the people who reached out and asked where I was 🙏🏼 This women will always be a part of my life, she gifted me with two perfect daughters. I wish her all the best, great memories were made in those years! I'll be back soon. Thank you everyone 🙏🏼
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Herbert Hafner retweeted
非洲真的很缺水吗?其实“懒”才是他们穷的根本原因。有数据显示,非洲地下水储量是地表的100倍,为何他们不挖井,而是到处找水? 我之前跟着一支海外工程队在那边待了快八个月,亲眼见过太多让人匪夷所思的事,说出来真的好多人都不敢信。我们当时的营地建在一片开阔的草地上,刚过去的时候要解决用水问题,队里找了个测水的师傅随便找了个地方打井,打到不到十二米就出了清水,水质甜得很,除了供我们队四十多个人吃喝洗澡,还能引出一垄水浇我们开出来的小菜园,天天浇水都用不完。 而离我们营地不到两公里的地方,就有一个百十来口人的部落村子,我第一次跟着采购去村里的时候,就看见全村人都围着一个半米深的泥坑接水,那水浑得放半小时都澄清不了,水面上还飘着虫子和牲畜的粪便,小孩渴了蹲下来直接舀了就喝,大人也不管,不少小孩隔三差五就拉肚子,缺药耽误着能拖出大病,看着真的让人心疼。我当时就问翻译,咱们这边打井出了这么多水,他们咋不来打一口?翻译笑笑说,你往后看就知道了,不是水的事。 没过多久工程闲下来,队长说反正咱们设备人都有,不如免费帮他们打一口井,也算做件好事,结果第一步就卡壳了。村长带着一群人堵在我们选好的井址,说这块地是他们部落的公用土地,要打井就得给他们十袋面粉五桶食用油外加两箱汽水,不然别想动土。我们队里想着反正也不多,给就给了,就当换一口井给村里人用,这点东西对我们来说不算什么。 接下来要找几个当地人帮忙打下手搬东西,我们说好一天给一斤玉米面两瓶汽水,这个待遇在当地已经够一个三口之家吃饱喝足了,比他们自己瞎晃赚得多太多,结果来了五个人,干了不到四十分钟,全都撂挑子坐到树底下乘凉去了,说太阳太晒,会晒伤皮肤,祖宗规矩就是正午不能干活,要等太阳落山再干活。我们想着入乡随俗那就等,结果太阳落山之后,连个人影都没见着,第二天上午好不容易来了三个,还要求必须先给汽水玉米面,不给就不动手,我们给了之后,三个人晃悠着挖了不到半米,又坐下来歇着聊天了,一聊就是一上午,第三天干脆全都不来了,托人带话来说拿到的吃的够喝够吃好几天,先回家休息,吃完了再来。 最后没办法,我们工程队自己上手,不到十天就打出了一口出水稳定的井,还给他们在井口安了简易的提水架,放了两个大木桶,跟村长说以后大家随便来打水,只要别往井里扔垃圾就行。一开始村里人可开心了,天天排着队来打水,结果半个月不到,井口就堵了,我们过去一看,大大小小的树枝石头烂叶子堵了小半井,原来大家打完水垃圾随手就扔在井口边上,下雨一冲全进去了。我们免费帮他们清干净,反复跟村长和村民说不要扔垃圾,要保持井口干净,结果不到两个月,又堵了,之后村长干脆来找我们,说井坏了,你们再帮我们打一口新的吧,那语气说得理所当然,好像我们就该天天给他们收拾烂摊子。 我之前还碰到过一次,营地的围墙坏了一段,找了四个当地工人来修,说好一天干完给对应的工钱,结果四个工人八点开工,九点就歇着喝茶,十点吃早饭,十二点要睡午觉,睡到下午三点才起来,干了不到一小时又说要回家喂孩子,一天下来只码了不到五块砖,第二天还过来要全额工钱,说我们没给他们提供茶和饼,所以干得慢,钱不能少给,当时给我们队长气得直接把他们赶走了。 待得久了我才发现,这种事真的不是个例。有个二十多岁的小伙子天天来我们营地卖野果,我们看他挺活络,就说你干脆天天给我们营地送菜,我们一个月给你固定的工钱,比你卖野果稳定多了,结果他干了三天,第四天就不见了,过了一周晃悠过来,问他为啥不来,他说前三天赚的钱够花了,在家歇着花完了再来。还有国际援助组织免费给他们发蔬菜种子,教他们开荒种地,说种好了够全村吃大半年,结果一半种子被他们煮着吃了,剩下的随便往地里一撒,既不浇水也不除草,长不出来就接着等着发援助。 真的,很多人说非洲穷是因为气候不好历史遗留问题,可我们明明看到脚底下十几米就是清水,储量够整个村子用几十年,有人免费帮你打出来,就只要随手维护一下都做不到。他们不是没有力气,跑出去找野果跳篝火舞能折腾一整天,一说到干活赚饭吃,半小时就喊累;也不是没有资源,地下水摆在那,援助摆在那,就是不肯伸手去动。 我待了八个月见过好多口废弃的援助井,全都是打完没两年没人维护废了,当地人宁愿背着水桶走三四公里去接脏雨水,也不肯花半天时间清一清堵了的井口。你说这到底是延续了几千年的靠天吃饭的生活方式已经刻进骨子里改不了,还是真的就是“懒”才导致一直摆脱不了穷呢?你怎么看这件事?
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Herbert Hafner retweeted
I've been prototyping an automated peer review project. With current models you get human level peer review for about $0.10 of tokens. For $5 you can rederive every result, check every statistical inference, and audit every paper cited in both directions. There are about 100m papers in the scientific corpus. Most are not important. Many are sloppy. For structural reasons it's essentially impossible to change published work, even to correct a typo. For $500m today you can thoroughly audit every paper ever written. Every p-hacked result, every plagiarist, every fabrication, every citation club, everything. I don't have $500m so instead I build a tree, focusing on the 1% of papers that carry 99% of the signal, doing a cheap first pass looking for obvious problems. I can find 90% of the nonsense for a few hundred dollars of tokens. Any guesses where the biggest surprises will be found?
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If you do something really well (like let's say you build a really cool sand castle at the beach), other people will notice and walk right up to you and try to be a part of what you're doing. They didn't do a goddamn thing. They don't have any of the skills to do the goddamn thing. They just want credit and they want to be at the party. If you let too many of them get close, they will mess with what you did and ruin it. They will try to build new parts on the sand castle, but they don't know how to do it and they will wreck it. They will climb on it like it's a real castle. If you tell them to stop ruining it, they'll say it's not yours anymore or it never was. That's what it's like being white in a white country right now.
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