Nikos Sotirakopoulos
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-I read Das Κapital 3 times; then Atlas Shrugged came along. -Here to Randsplain & myth-bust -Visiting Fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. -Academic/author.
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I'm introducing a new course on Marx & communism.
My goal is to present the ideas of the man & the facts of the communist movement with rigour.
No culture war BS & intellectual cheap shots.
Expect: a theoretical deep dive + fascinating historical references, from a former
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A hard pill to swallow was that
many on the Left aren't motivated by sympathy for the poor, but envy & hatred for the well-off.
The tweet, the replies to it,
and a look at the hashtag 'submarine', reveal a lot.
If the super-rich can spend £250,000 on vanity jaunts 2.4 miles beneath the ocean then they're not being taxed enough.
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This has less Yom Kippur and more 9/11 vibes.
In Yom Kippur Arabs had a goal: recapturing Sinai and Golan.
Today is pure nihilism; Hamas knows there’s zero to be gained.
This is about killing for the sake of it, towards no goal.
See how gleefully they post the lynched bodies
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Milei makes, clumsily, the MORAL case for freedom, and the world pays attention.
Meanwhile all these years the freedom movement has mostly produced graphs, policy papers, utilitarian arguments, GDP projections...
And no one cared.
No one will go to the barricades for GDP.
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Trump: economic nationalism
Milei: free trade, slash tariffs
Trump: You need a strongman like me to MAGA
Milei: More power to politicians = less power on your life
Trump: Whatever works
Milei: Only classical liberal ideas can save 🇦🇷
Trump: I can make deals with anyone,
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(honest review)
-Didn't Nazis call themselves socialists?
-Yeah, crazy times, whatevs…next?
-Were they for free market?
-No.
-Were they for individual freedom?
-No.
-Where they for state intervention?
-Yes.
-So what were they?
(dramatic pause)
-HYPERCAPITALISTS!!!
Right-wingers love to insist that members of Adolf Hitler’s party were socialists. But Nazism’s real economic policies upheld hypercapitalist principles rooted in social Darwinist ideas about the value of human life. They weren’t socialists at all.
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Bezos: any book ever written can be at your doorstep in 24h.
Gates revolutionised/democratized knowledge & communication.
Jobs brought a megacomputer to your pocket & within years it became available to billions.
According to the moral compass of this guy, they are 'freeloaders'.
IRS funding is a good thing, actually.
It means the agency can finally go after the real freeloaders in America: the super-rich.
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Ayn Rand was about 'brutal rule' by 'natural superiors'?
Then why is it that in her magnum opus, her main hero
is literally put on the torture chamber asked to rule,
but still he declines, considering rule by force
both immoral and impractical?
Ayn Rand believed that the path to social harmony ran through the inferior masses’ acceptance of brutal rule by their natural superiors. Her perspective was wrong, and its implications were just as grim and nasty as her atrocious personality.
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This book came out in 1982.
For years I considered the title and the central claim over-dramatic. Recently, I’ve changed my mind.
Book’s theme is: what gave rise to Hitler was not politics, but a ripe ideological and cultural environment.
A philosophical leitmotif.
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There's always an Ayn Rand quote:
'Even though altruism declares that “it is more blessed to give than to receive,” it does not work that way in practice.
The givers are never blessed; the more they give, the more is demanded of them; complaints, reproaches and insults are the
While American YouTuber MrBeast’s goal was to provide clean drinking water for 500,000 people, activists say his actions shamed the Kenyan government and helped perpetuate the stereotype that Africa is "dependent on handouts."
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Tucker and postmodernism horseshoe theory
What stood out to me in the Tucker Carlson/Darryl Cooper interview (the ‘Churchill was the biggest villain of WW2, Hitler is misunderstood and had to take some difficult decisions’ one)
is how much the new Right shares
with their
Darryl Cooper may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States. His latest project is the most forbidden of all: trying to understand World War Two.
(1:20) History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
(12:39) The Jonestown Cult
(32:10) World War Two
(45:04) How
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In Ayn Rand’s magnum opus,
her hero/ideal man is literally tortured,
because he declines to rule by force.
But per Jacobin, for Rand the ‘inferior masses’
must accept ‘brutal rule’ by their ‘superiors’.
😆🤣🤦♂️
Ayn Rand believed that the path to social harmony ran through the inferior masses’ acceptance of brutal rule by their natural superiors. Her perspective was wrong, and its implications were just as grim and nasty as her atrocious personality.
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Ayn Rand and the hero’s journey
‘There is no hero’s journey in Rand’s novels’,
was a comment I received some days ago.
'They all have it too easy’.
‘There’s no struggle within Ayn Rand’s heroes’,
said Jordan Peterson.
’Her characters are cardboard’, I’ve heard elsewhere.
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When Ayn Rand’s dystopia came to life:
Pol Pot’s Cambodia
In 4 years of rule (1975-1978), the Red Khmers eliminated 22% of Cambodia’s population.
How could such an evil happen so fast in such a scale? The answer: bad ideas.
Contrary to myth presenting them as pre-modern
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You have created the coolest product in history.
You’ve revolutionized 5+ industries.
You’ve created god knows how many new industries.
You have benefited the lives of billions.
And yet your message to the world is constantly ’apologies for producing, here’s how
we are
At Apple, we're dedicated to helping protect the planet for future generations. Thanks to industry-leading innovation, we've reduced our emissions by more than 55% since 2015. And we’re pioneering new solutions to help others join us in our efforts. Happy Earth Day!
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Serious question, in what might sound, but is NOT, whataboutism:
After the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the police, there was the biggest civil unrest in modern US history.
People saw it as a wake-up call to deal with old injustices, which deserved to be tackled.
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Dugin, in a nutshell, took the worst aspects of:
-nazism
-communism
-AND postmodernism,
mixed them, and created the worst of all possible ideologies.
He explicitly names liberalism, modernity, and the idea of individual as an end in himself, as the enemy.
‘We must strike the
Ep. 99 Aleksandr Dugin is the most famous political philosopher in Russia. His ideas are considered so dangerous, the Ukrainian government murdered his daughter and Amazon won’t sell his books. We talked to him in Moscow.
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She made her name promoting one anti-life ideology,
and now she jumps to another anti-life ideology.
Zero surprise.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg chants "Krossa Sionismen" (Crush Zionism) with the crowd at a pro-Palestinian rally in Stockholm on Nov. 23.
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On the top-10 of most emotionally impactful lectures I've ever listened to.
The Last Line of Defense, by
@bariweiss
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I care about Palestinians, so I can’t be with Hamas.
How could I care about someone and be ok with them living under sharia law theocrats?
How could I care about someone, and be ok with them living under the rule of barbarians? You think what they did to Israeli women
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Ayn Rand vs DEI
Every culture war issue is, at root, a philosophical issue. Failure to treat it as such ensures defeat;
now, or in the not-so-distant future.
Case study: DEI.
How mainstream philosophy sees DEI,
and why an objectivist lens is the alternative:
Metaphysics
DEI
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Punchline of my book was:
tribalism makes you stupid.
Here you have one man of exceptional intelligence
who has revolutionised three industries,
exhibiting thinking that would embarrass a 16-year old shitposter.
Why? Because tribalism makes you stupid.
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September 2,
celebrating the book that celebrates human greatness
👇🧵
September 2 is Atlas Shrugged Day…
in celebration of the best romance/mystery/dystopia/philosophy book ever written, here is a thread with my 5+1 favourite scenes, and some great quotes from them:
#atlasshrugged
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Surprised by BLM cheering for Hamas?
The unholy alliance between the Left, Arab authoritarianism, and Palestinian terrorism goes back a long way.
From Soviet marshals to West German New Leftists, here's the story of the Left's war on Israel:
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Shadowing a top 1% public speaker for a week.
My phone reminded me that two years ago,
I followed around
@yaronbrook
in his speaking tour.
It was a condensed PhD in communication skills.
4 lessons I got that I'm trying to apply in my public speaking:
1) Delimitate.
Your
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'BUT...Milei's WEF talk had a lot of numbers/stats'.
True. More than it probably should.
Still, they were the supporting act, not the main thing.
As someone said:
Use enough facts to justify the emotions,
and enough emotion to care about the facts.
The latter is Milei's appeal.
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It sounds counter-intuitive, but history shows that it's decisive war victories that actually lead to peace.
-Greeks destroying the Persians at Plataea.
-Sherman breaking the will of the South to fight.
-Allies reaching Berlin.
-the bombs on Japan showing the Emperor that
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NEW - Hammer attack on painting in the National Gallery, London.
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Overt collectivism,
though aesthetically superior,
is still more dangerous & life-crushing
than nihilistic woke kitsch.
The difference between 2008 and 2024. A people who honour their culture by exhibiting the best of it according to their understanding. And a people who wish to dishonour and destroy their culture because they have no understanding of it.
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Try to think how some of the most important wars in history would have turned out if we held the one side at the standards we hold Israel today...
Imagine WW2…expecting the Red Army to reach Berlin and Reichstag without endangering German civilians. Imagine the insane
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Me, 10 years ago on this day:
'I wonder who this Ayn Rand is,
who apparently wrote something on the New Left.
Let’s see if she has anything interesting to say…’
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September 2 is Atlas Shrugged Day…
in celebration of the best romance/mystery/dystopia/philosophy book ever written, here is a thread with my 5+1 favourite scenes, and some great quotes from them:
#atlasshrugged
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Ayn Rand’s prophecy and DEI
Rand’s last public lecture was quite prophetic.
It was called ‘The Sanction of the Victim’ and it was a plea to productive people, entrepreneurs, business leaders etc who donated uncritically to universities, 'progressive' causes etc.
Her message
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'We oppose the notion of collective guilt, and support the goals of those who have struggled to ensure that individuals are judged by the content of the character and not the colour of their skin'. Count me in
@Fox_Claire
,
@InayaFolarin
&
@andrewdoyle_com
!
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Ayn Rand and Mad Men
Mad Men is not only the coolest series ever;
it also has themes and moments
that will be appreciated by Ayn Rand fans.
Below are some examples:
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Greek government will be fining monthly those who are 60 years or older and who won’t vaccinate.
Another Rubicon of authoritarianism crossed.
Οι συμπολίτες μας άνω των 60 ετών που δεν έχουν εμβολιαστεί θα πρέπει να κλείσουν την 1η δόση έως τις 16 Ιανουαρίου. Θα έχουν απόλυτη προτεραιότητα. Διαφορετικά, κάθε μήνα θα επιβάλλεται διοικητικό πρόστιμο €100, το οποίο θα βεβαιώνεται από την ΑΑΔΕ και θα χρηματοδοτεί το ΕΣΥ.
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You set the sigma male standard,
70 years before it was cool.
Happy birthday Ayn Rand!
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I was about to drink 2 bottles of gasoline and put my cat in the microwave,
but then I saw that god said it’s wrong and I changed my mind.
Without god, no way to figure out if it would be right or wrong, right?
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Don’t people get that the ‘Kamala=communist’ trope, besides being stupid and factually wrong,
is whitewashing actually existing communism?
A kid will see this and say ‘oh, so communism
was basically progressive taxation, affirmative action, and green regulations? Ok, then
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This is such a valuable lesson in communicating difficult ideas.
-He gives the facts ('civilians casualties are much smaller than your typical war'), but doesn't stop there.
-He recognises the context most people understandably have ('images from Gaza are heart-breaking').
-He
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How can so many educated middle class people and uni students be so blind to the orgy of antisemitism (racism) we’ve been seeing since October 7?
Because we’ve let down a generation of people with how we taught them about racism.
We never went to the root of it; how it’s first
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3 cheers for
@Fox_Claire
...she will be one of the few people in Brussels with the radical idea that individuals know best what is good for them and are to be trusted with freedom.
Hope though she's back on time for the Battle of Ideas in November!
The Brexit Party have taken the lions share of the vote in the North West, gaining 3 MEPs. Claire Fox is one of them...
#EuElection2019
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Watching the Peaky Blinders’ later seasons
makes crystal clear to me:
Ayn Rand was RIGHT
on her hot takes on selfishness.
Here's why...
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Remember how in 2016 people were freaking out about fake news & the post-truth era we are entering (and Trump was to blame)?
Fast-forward 3 years, and the central theme of the political campaign of Labour ('NHS if up for sale') is clearly not true. And no one cares.
Polling station: come over
Me: I can’t, it’s too cold outside
Polling station: Boris Johnson is going to sell off our NHS
Me:
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The Nikos quick test to spot a communist:
-Do they believe in historical materialism?
-Do they want the working class to organize in a vanguard revolutionary Party?
-Do they want to transition to a society of centrally planned production, with the final aim of overcoming
Kamala is quite literally a communist.
She wants not merely equal opportunity, but equal outcomes.
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Fossil fuels (the source of energy that literally keeps billions of people alive, and the lack of which means death for millions) are equated with giant meteors. The moral compass of the UN is broken.
Also, fitting that it features a dinosaur...human life isn't the UN's focus.
We can no longer ignore the climate crisis.
It's time to stop making excuses and start making changes!
Let's take
#ClimateAction
before it’s too late:
via
@UNDP
#DontChooseExtinction
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"the most destructive horror machine among all the devices of men, is non-objective law. . ."
Judge Narragansett, Atlas Shrugged
Sentenced yesterday.
Judge: "This offence, I’m afraid, has to be viewed in the context of the current civil unrest up and down this country."
What current civil unrest?
I've not seen the detail, but I'm sure some might say: what offence?
No jury, of course
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People who hate Zelensky are often ppl who lionize Putin as tough guy, conservative Gigachad etc.
Yet, the one is defending his country from a superior aggressor, puts his life at risk, often visits the front lines, encourages troops etc.
The other social-distances in Kremlin.Sad
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‘This doctrine [multiculturalism] was never about lifting up the less-developed; it was about denying the objective superiority of production over stagnant tradition-worship; of science over religious superstition; of freedom over dictatorship.’
🔥🔥🔥
This article is so good I
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Hamas last week:
‘We don’t target civilians, the orgy of torture-rape-kidnappings on October 7 was perpetrated by random passer-by’.
The whole world: LOL, liars.
That same Hamas yesterday: ‘Israel bombed a hospital, and within 30’ we know the casualty numbers’.
Useful idiots in
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Ayn Rand is often mocked for describing altruism not as an effort to help those who suffer unjustly, but to pursue and glorify self-sacrifice, for its own sake.
Yet look at the below criticism by a DEI advocate of the philanthropic endeavours of rich people after the killing of
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The smoking ban was an essential event
in Western societies' recent history.
A focal point where many modern ills met.
It should have been concerning even if you hate cigarettes, Big Tobacco, and smoke-filled environments.
Smoking ban has been a sign of decline for the
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The lunacy of COVID restrictions in Greece:
-I catch up with friend (both vaxxed x3), with whom during the pandemic we’ve usually taken long walks…
-But now again we have to wear masks even when walking OUTSIDE…
-So the only way to talk without masks, is to go INSIDE a cafe.
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Reminder: the essence of environmentalism
isn't opposition to pollution, fossil fuels etc.
Notice how here they attack an electric vehicle.
Essence of environmentalism = opposition
to human activity that has any impact on nature.
Their ideal is not human life (which requires
Climate activists attacking a Tesla Center in Hamburg, Germany.
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It doesn’t even have to be a product
of industrial society or capitalism.
Anything created by humans is triggering
to these creatures.
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If Tucker indeed interviews Putin, we'll experience the following funny/sad spectacle:
The culture war Right, which doesn't believe anything the CDC, the established media, 'big science' etc say, because it's 'compromised by power',
will gulp down every word of a power-hungry guy
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Debunking one of the most successful & popular lies
since the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’:
the ‘shrinking Palestine’ maps.
With
@elanjourno
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Argentina has experienced 80 years of Peronism, with intervals of murderous military thugs as dictators.
It has been the Greece of Latin America.
It ranks no.144 in Economic Freedom Index; it's been a statist basket case.
That it elects someone who shouts freedom slogans from
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Vibes: Floyd Ferris pays Hank Rearden a ‘friendly’ visit but soon the mask slips off and the thuggish threats come out (Atlas Shrugged, Part 2, Chapter 3).
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Indeed. Biggest myth of the Greek crisis: that the EU tried to 'reform' Greece.
Reality: EU sanctioned and subsidised the destruction of the productive classes in Greece, so that the political class and its allies would maintain their grip on the country.
“mistakes were made” - the utterly dishonest verdict on Syriza's abject surrender to the EU.
Strange that so few of the Remain and Reform crowd want to talk about the Greek general election.
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Yes. Industrial society is an achievement.
It wasn’t ‘meant to be’. It can be undone.
It was based on ideas. These ideas are now unpopular and under attack.
To be a radical today is to be
pro- industrial society, which means: pro-human agency, pro-freedom,
pro-progress.
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It’s here!!!
And it can come your way on 6th of July.
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People compare the Putin cheerleaders of the Right with the apologists of Stalinism in the 30s.
But in a way the Putin cheerleaders are worse.
The communists actually believed in something.
They went and fought in Spain in 36, they’d die facing a firing squad with Stalin’s
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Ayn Rand hated the poor (but Howard Roark was working in a quarry not to betray his principles),
glorified the rich (but most of her villains are rich),
and died penniless (while selling millions of books).
Join for some fun debunking. 👇
5pm 🇬🇧
Did Ayn Rand hate the poor, glorify the rich, and die penniless relying on social security? Join
@Nikos_17
and
@mikemazzareal
as they debunk 3 never-dying myths about Ayn Rand — TODAY at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET here and on YouTube:
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People point out the hypocrisy of banning bikinis & ripped abs in one ad and praising them in another. But that's the whole point; the 'system of diversity' doesn't mean 'let 100 flowers bloom'...it means 'I get the power to tell you which flowers are allowed to bloom'.
I’m proud to unveil Nubian Skin as the winner of this year’s TfL Diversity in Advertising Competition. Look out for their empowering, inclusive adverts on the
@TfL
network.
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-I was a piece of shit, but turned my life around.
I'm better than I was 10 years ago, and I'm proud of it. Here’s to more!
-Ackchyually, what you are feeling
is the worst of all sins.
How could a religion/philosophy telling you this,
be actually a good guide for your life?
Pride is a deadly sin
And it always goes before
A fall
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Serious question to those who think that the dropping of the bombs on Japan was a moral mistake…
Considering that:
-Every month the brutal Japanese occupation in Asia (China, Korea, Philippines, New Guinea etc) cost the lives of 100k-250k innocent tyrannised people (yes,
On Hiroshima Day, we remember the thousands of people who were killed in this crime against humanity.
My piece for
@tribunemagazine
on the best way to honour their memory: by vowing to rid our world of nuclear weapons once and for all.
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Worst friend & son of 1863 award goes to….Karl Marx.
In January 1863, Engels wrote to him that his soulmate partner Mary had died.
Marx’s response? Literally one line of sympathy,
then a paragraph about how he needs money (again),
and then ‘sorry for Mary, wish it would've
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We’re at the point where Alex Jones
has to clarify that Hitler was no good,
and he takes a lot of heat in the comments
by angry wackos.
This comes after other culture warriors call to
‘re-examine the WW2 narrative’.
How are so many in the new Right descending
to the darkness of
Happy birthday to the man who got 24 million Germans killed! Hitler also launched a world war that killed another 80 million people. Just because our rulers are evil does not mean Hitler was good! Fuck Adolf Hitler!
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JD Vance vs Franz Oppenheimer
If you want to understand the political soul of JD Vance
watch his talk from the 2019 NatCon Conference
titled ‘Beyond Libertarianism’.
TLDR: social problems are not just a result
of bad cultural trends and individual behaviour.
They are the result
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'Monopoly'
It's time to break up
@Apple
's monopoly.
From limiting digital wallets to raising iPhone prices, Apple has used its power to stop innovation, crush competition & harm consumers.
This a new era of antitrust enforcement.
@TheJusticeDept
Kanter is holding Big Tech accountable.
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This is a beautiful 4’ epistemological clinic.
Captures the essence of culture war tribalism as lack of reality-based independent thinking.
And suggests such thinking is possible and is a cure to such tribalist mindset.
I particularly like the firm but gentle approach of the
This is utterly brilliant. A student accuses
@jk_rowling
of being transphobic. This teacher skilfully dissects the claim and challenges it by asking questions.
He teaches not what to think, but how to think critically.
Watch until the end.
You see the epiphany in real-time.
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The crucial battle of our time is not political.
It’s the fight to make appreciation for reason & human agency great again.
Here’s a brilliant creator like Elon, dunking on the greatest era of humanity,
when he is actually one of its best & most efficacious products.
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Agatha Christie and the un-selfishness of evil
Ayn Rand made the radical point that
evil is UNSELFISH; that being a thug/criminal
is against one’s real self-interest.
Not only for the usual reasons one could think
(risk to get caught etc),
but even if one had a guarantee
that
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Religion AND communism:
-Living for yourself is bad.
-Sacrifice for others is good.
-Have faith. Believe. Don’t ask many questions.
-A better world will come...somehow
-Some chosen people are in a better position to know…somehow.
-The rich are evil.
What am I missing?
"rEliGioN hAs kIlLeD mOrE pEoPle tHaN aNyThInG"
Meanwhile:
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Translation:
the people who today are lynching women on the streets,
should have sovereignty and a regular army,
with heavy artillery, snipers,
& friendly outposts of Hezbollah and RevGuards,
a stone’s throw away from Israeli urban centres.
The path to ending the tragic loss of innocent lives – both Palestinian and Israeli – begins with one crucial first step: the end of the Israeli occupation and apartheid.
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Irrespective of what you think about Brexit, having a pro-immigration freedom advocate as an influence on Brexit Party is good news. Good luck to
@Fox_Claire
, one of the best people I know, and someone I owe a lot to in my character & career development.
.
@Fox_Claire
is standing for The Brexit Party as someone from the left.
This isn't about left or right, this is about democracy.
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The state of journalism in 2024.
She actually asked him why the IDF
didn't warn the Palestinians.
In a hostages' rescue operation.
And it's BBC, not a tankie basement-dweller vlogger.
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Israel, together with any other country with a sense of moral decency,
should have left the UN on 10 November 1975
(google Resolution 3379), if not much earlier.
It's never too late to correct that mistake.
BREAKING: Israel's ambassador to the UN says his country will 'refuse to issue visas to UN representatives' after comments made by the UN's Secretary General, with the ambassador adding that 'the time has come to teach them a lesson'.
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I'm sure intellectually curious independent thinking young people can't wait to go study at University of Edinburgh.
Also, is there any other sector of society so eager to self-destruction and to making itself irrelevant as the universities?
My God. David Hume is cancelled. Shame on U of Edinburgh.”From the start of the new academic year the David Hume Tower will be known as George Square.” Why? His “views on matters of race, though not uncommon at the time, rightly cause distress today”
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The Mystery of Marxism and Communism
Marxism and communism are unique.
Never before has a movement inspired
so many idealistic people,
while having so horrendous actual results in real life.
How did communism do it?
Let’s reverse-engineer the keys to its success:
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‘Ayn Rand villains are unrealis…’
Suddenly, Americans can’t spend like they used to. Store shelves are emptying, and it can take months to find a car, refrigerator or sofa.
If this continues, we may need to — gasp! — live more like the Europeans. That actually might not be a bad thing
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I'm curious; anyone in the 'I had an Ayn Rand phase,
but I got over it',
what exactly put you off, or on what exactly did you disagree?
For example: with Marxism what put me off (after reading Das Capital 3 times), was Labour Theory of Value, & communism's lack of definition.
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Seeing many such posts, hinting dark forces
are behind the protests.
They are missing the point.
And undermine the power of ideas.
These students have spent hundreds of hours in class, in school and in uni, being taught that
wealth and success=privilege.
That wealth and
Something odd about those campus tent encampments. Almost all the tents are identical - same design, same size, same fresh-out-of-the-box appearance. Which suggests that rather than an organic process, whereby students would bring a variety of individual tents, someone or some
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United Nations: one of the most morally corrupt institutions in history.
By design.
It's the institution proclaiming that tyrannies & theocrasies that terrorise women & dissidents
shall have an equal stand with rule-of-law countries that respect people’s rights.
Abolish it.
New moral stain for the UN ‼️
When President Raisi of Iran, the “Butcher of Tehran,” began his speech, I waved a picture of Mahsa Amini, the innocent Iranian woman who was brutally murdered by the regime one year ago for not wearing a hijab “properly.”
Meanwhile, outside the UN
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Singapore will be ok, Dagny Taggart just took over.
BREAKING: Singapore's Changi Airport, one of the busiest in the world, says check-in process is being managed manually.
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We’ve gone from ‘speech I don’t like should be outlawed’
to ‘speech I don’t like is like terrorism’.
I won’t repeat the free speech argument;
Labour and its allies couldn’t care less.
Can’t they see though how this opens the floodgates?
In a few years, when the authoritarian
Extreme misogyny to be treated as terrorism under UK government plans
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‘Ayn Rand is straw-manning altruism.
It’s about helping those in need,
not about elevating suffering & self-sacrifice
to a moral standard’.
Same people 5’ later:
'Why, of course MrBeast’s charitable work
is morally suspicious.
Sure, he’s literally giving eyesight to ppl
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In reality, all 'capitalists' I know would be super-appreciative of people doing their job well - and would tell them so.
Many of Ayn Rand's good guys in the novels are manual labourers. Most of her heroes begin as labourers.
Also, truckers make good money actually.
Unskilled labor is truly nothing but a capitalist myth to keep workers down
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'As boys, we dream of being John Galt or Howard Roark. As men, most of us move on. If we don’t, that’s a problem.'
What a betrayal to one's best self to openly admit that idealism and a higher vision should only be a juvenile fantasy. Sad.
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‘I care about humans.
I want a better future for the less fortunate’.
Then you should obsess about these two simple graphs. They showcase the most important changes
to ever happen in human history.
We were always poor, and then we weren’t.
We were always dying young, and
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80s tv was peak civilisation:
-moral clarity (hero good, villain bad);
-agency (overcoming & heroic achievements are possible);
-technology as ally in reaching positive values;
-upbeat cool music.
The true neoliberal culture.
Moment felt like a preamble to something big,
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Nothing says 'I value & protect the nuclear family'
like sending hundreds of thousands of sons and fathers to a futile death.
Love him or hate him, this speech by Putin connects with those who value & protect the nuclear family.
Thoughts on this speech? 👇🏽
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Impressive how every good principle in self-development books was captured & concretised decades earlier, in Ayn Rand’s work.
3 examples from Steven Pressfield’s ‘Turning Pro’, Darren Hardy’s ‘The Compound Effect’ & Bill Walsh’s ‘The Score Takes Care of Itself’.
THREAD!!
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‘Amazon is a monopoly’.
Solid point…
…except for Rakuten,
eBay,
Walmart,
Target,
all your local super-markets / malls,
and the 300 other delivery services in your vicinity.
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JD Vance vs JD Vance
In 2017, if you told me that the author
of Hillbilly Elegy will be running for VP,
I’d be excited. The book is fascinating & inspiring.
But today, the ideology of JD Vance goes against
some of the central themes in his book.
Some examples:
Hillbilly Elegy
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Marx vs Lenin, chaos vs order
Marx: random working hours. Frenzy all nighters, followed by weeks of idleness.
Lenin: standard routines. Wouldn’t deviate from his working schedule, even aboard the ‘sealed train’ on the way to Russia.
Later in Kremlin, fined those who were late
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Wolff is getting ridiculed for this.
Yet, what other solutions did Marxists offer
for the riddle of distribution post-market?
1) Coupons/vouchers for x amount of labour.
Marx recognized this as 1st stage of socialism
(see Part 1 of his Critique of the Gotha Programme).
He
Socialist professor explains how to get a PS5 under socialism.
Yeah, no thanks.
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Why do libertarians simp for Putin & China?
Tribalism.
Tribalism is not only: ‘I am following what my group says’,
but also ‘ I oppose whatever the rival group supports’.
So if ‘current thing is pro-Ukraine/Taiwan
—> we are with the opposite, i.e Putin &China’.
Beyond redemption.
Taiwan has made a deal with the devil. Much like the corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine, they've allowed corrupt Western oligarchs and State Department war pigs to flood their country with money, bombs, and a false hope at independence.
They're putting the lives of millions
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