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THREE HIJACKERS DEAD. THEY NEVER STOOD A CHANCE ‼️‼️🔥🔥☠️
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Armed scum tried to hijack the wrong people. Dashcam footage shows the victims pulling out of their driveway when the hijackers’ car cuts them off. The thugs leap out and charge to kill the family then all hell erupts on them. Three perpetrators wiped out in seconds. They came hunting☠️
They got hunted‼️☠️💯
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Samsung is offering engineers bonuses of up to $560,000 to stop them from joining China’s chip industry.
A parliamentary review found at least 27 senior engineers from Samsung and SK Hynix have moved to China’s CXMT (the country’s biggest DRAM maker). Together they had over 400 years of experience.
China is offering big pay jumps + housing + multi-year deals.
Source: Asia Times
Is this stupidity in practice?
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看完了朋友吐槽欧洲现状的帖子，真的深有同感。平时跟在法德、英国定居的朋友聊天，大家私下算的那笔账，其实比宏观数据还要扎心得多。
站在普通人的角度，把经济账剥开来看，欧洲现在的问题其实特别直白：
第一，打工人的“性价比”彻底崩了。
平时大家聚在一起，吐槽最多的就是钱包越来越瘪。在巴黎或者法兰克福辛辛苦苦拼到月薪四五千欧，扣完个税和高额社保，到手可能就剩两千多。
以前大家认了，觉得“税虽然重，但换来了高福利”；可现在呢？物价和房租涨得飞起，电费账单翻倍，更难受的是公共服务断崖式降级——看个专科医生预约排到半年后，德国火车天天晚点取消，出门坐个地铁随时得捂紧口袋防小偷。
大家突然算明白一件事：自己拼命工作交重税，既换不来体面的公共服务，也攒不下资产，纯粹是在给整个老龄化社会的养老窟窿“打白工”。
第二，自己造不出东西，却极度沉迷于“管别人”。
很多人纳闷：欧洲为什么出不了大科技公司？
现实很讽刺：美国把大模型跑出来了，中国把电动车和智能硬件产业链打穿了，欧洲自己什么都没造出来，却最先憋出了一部厚厚的“AI监管法案”。
这就好比别家孩子都在操场上疯跑比速度，欧洲自己跑不动，却戴上红袖章制定了一整套极其苛刻的跑步姿势准则。
结果就是：美国大巨头有大把法务和预算去应付合规，而欧洲本土的年轻创业团队还没融到钱，就被合规成本活活掐死在摇篮里。
黄仁勋说欧洲“想得太多、动得太慢”，真是一点没冤枉它。
第三，水电气太贵，连老牌工厂都养不起了。
制造业的底气无非就是工人、能源和市场。失去便宜的天然气后，欧洲现在的电费和能源成本动辄是美国的两三倍。
开工厂不是做慈善，连德国大众、巴斯夫这种百年老牌都在削减本土产能，把增量投资砸向海外。
底层的重工业和高端制造业一旦外流，高薪岗位就跟着消失，剩下的就只有送外卖、端盘子和做低端服务业，经济循环怎么可能健康？
第四，全在守老本，没人敢赌明天。
德拉吉报告里说每年缺 8000 亿欧元的创新投资，不是欧洲真穷得拿不出这笔钱，而是钱的流向全被锁死了。
欧洲的钱都躺在极度保守的银行储蓄和养老基金里，全在维持现状，几乎没有多少人敢把钱拿出来给年轻人搞风投、赌硬科技。没有增量，大家就只能互相争夺缩水的存量。
现在的欧洲，越来越像一座庞大体面的“豪华养老院兼露天博物馆”：
靠祖宗留下的名胜古迹收门票，靠几个奢侈品大牌卖包包，面子上依然优雅从容，但底子里的造血功能已经衰竭了。
身边越来越多的人选择离开，或者干脆退籍回国，真不是外面的世界十全十美，而是大家心里都清楚：谁都不想在自己最黄金的年纪，留在一艘一边吃着存量老本、一边拼命加税，但发动机早就熄火的旧船上。
suicide of western economy through co2 tax!!!
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China emits as much CO2 in 16 days as Canada emits in an entire year. Australia's annual total takes China just 12 days to emit, while Britain's takes barely 9 days.
Combined, Canada, Australia and the UK emit about 1.23 billion tonnes a year. China emits that much in roughly 37 days.
So, even if all three countries eliminated every tonne of fossil CO2, closing every factory, power station and banning every gas vehicle, China would replace the entire annual reduction in little more than five weeks.
Yet, Western governments are deliberately making energy scarcer and more expensive, by dismantling dependable sources, restricting oil and gas exploration and loading industry with carbon taxes and net zero mandates.
Steel, chemicals, fertilizers, refining and manufacturing are driven overseas, often to countries burning more coal. So the emissions do not disappear. Only the jobs, tax revenues and energy security do.
The West impoverishes itself. China profits.
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🚨 I spend an enormous amount of time trying to understand the chaos we're living through. Not the headlines. The machine behind them. 🚨
If you want to understand what Elon Musk is really fighting, and who is really fighting him, this is the clearest map I can give you.
Expensive houses. Expensive schools. Expensive healthcare. Taxes that rise every year while everything gets worse. Borders nobody voted to open. Speech rules nobody voted for.
Most people look at this and blame capitalism. The market failed, they say, so the state has to step in and fix it.
They have it exactly backwards. What they want to fix it with is what broke it. This isn't chaos, and it isn't capitalism. It has a direction, a method, and a hundred-year history. Let me reverse-engineer it.
In 1926, Mussolini's regime threw Antonio Gramsci, co-founder of the Italian Communist Party, into prison. From his cell he asked the question that would shape the next century: why did the revolution win in Russia but fail in the West, where Marx said it was inevitable?
His answer: in Russia, the state was everything, so seizing it was enough. In the West, the state was only the outer wall. Behind it stood the real fortress: the church, the family, the school, the press, the culture. Western workers never revolted because the culture held them.
So the conclusion was simple. Don't storm the palace. Capture the culture. Win the institutions and you never have to win the argument, because you decide which arguments are allowed.
In 1967, the German student leader Rudi Dutschke gave it a slogan: the long march through the institutions. Paris supplied the intellectual software, and I've already apologized for my country's part in that.
Then came the most patient operation in modern history. The students of the 60s became the professors of the 80s. Their students became the journalists, judges, civil servants and HR directors of the 2000s. Their students now run the foundations, the NGOs and the agencies. No single step looked like a revolution. That's exactly why it worked.
The method was communist. The ambition became global. And it grew like a cancer. A cancer never attacks the body head-on. It hijacks the body's own cells and feeds on the body's own resources. This system never had to defeat the West. It just had to make the West pay for it.
In America, the machine found a political home: the Democratic Party. Not the millions of decent people who vote for it. The apparatus. The donor networks, the activist groups, the consultants, the captured agencies that keep moving in the same direction whoever wins.
In Europe, it found something even better. The EU's founders, Schuman, Adenauer, De Gasperi, were Catholic anti-communists who wanted to make war impossible. But they built exactly what the long march dreams of: power that never has to face a voter. A Commission nobody directly elects holds the right to propose laws for 450 million people. Chat Control. The digital euro. Speech rules written in Brussels. Nobody stormed anything. They just drafted it.
Add the World Economic Forum, the UN agencies and the global foundation circuit, and you have the full map. You don't need a secret meeting when everyone went to the same schools, reads the same papers, funds the same NGOs and flies to the same conference in Davos every January. It's not a conspiracy. It's a class with shared incentives. That's harder to fight, because there's no headquarters to raid.
And the billionaires? Most people who became the richest in the world got absorbed. They built something real, then traded it for an aura. Bill Gates is the perfect example: he built the software that ran the world, then became the bankroller of global health bureaucracies and the funder of newsrooms covering his own causes. Laurene Powell Jobs bought The Atlantic. Benioff bought Time. You're not buying a business. You're buying the right to be called good by the people who decide who is good. That's the corruption. Not suitcases of cash. Money for aura, grants for loyalty, NGOs for policy. All legal. All invisible.
Here's the proof it's one system and not a hundred separate problems. Look at what happened to prices over the last 25 years. Everything exposed to markets and technology got cheaper: TVs, software, phones, clothing. Everything controlled by institutions exploded: college, healthcare, childcare. And housing, where you need a committee's permission to build anything. Same country, same economy, same decades. The difference isn't the product. It's who controls it.
Taxes go up and services get worse, because the money doesn't reach the services. It feeds the layers. Immigration happens at a scale no electorate clearly chose, because for a system that lives on managing problems, more problems means more budget. And a two-income family today can't buy the house their parents bought on one salary. That's real poverty, manufactured by a machine that is rewarded for looking good, never for being good.
MAGA isn't the cause of the chaos. It's the immune response. Brexit, the farmers' revolts, the votes shaking every European capital: same thing. The body finally noticed the tumor.
So what we're living through is not a normal political cycle. It's a fight to the death between two models. One runs on the perception of goodness. The other runs on reality.
And it had to be the richest man in the world. Anyone smaller would have been bought, sued or cancelled. Every billionaire before him took the deal. Elon walked out of the club and turned the lights on.
He bought Twitter for $44 billion, opened the Twitter Files and gave the world back a public square where any narrative can be checked in real time. He went inside the government and helped shut down USAID. Now Politico announces that the Democrats' gavels are coming for him. His answer: he'll find out who is really pulling the strings and go after them, not just their puppets.
He has one line he keeps coming back to: he cares about the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. That sentence is the whole war.
Now the part that makes me certain of how it ends.
A lie is expensive to maintain. It needs gatekeepers, censors, fact-checkers, friendly journalists, a budget, and constant repairs every time reality contradicts it. The truth costs nothing to maintain. It just keeps being true.
AI is driving the cost of checking anything toward zero. Any budget, any study, any statistic, any promise, audited in seconds by anyone with a phone. Yes, AI can generate lies at scale too. But producing a lie is cheap. Defending it against a billion instant audits is impossible.
That's what acceleration really means. It doesn't pick sides. It speeds up feedback loops. Systems aligned with reality compound. Systems built on lies hit the wall faster. And you cannot build rockets, design chips or cure diseases with a false model of the world. Physics doesn't read op-eds. The more intelligence we pour into the world, the more expensive every lie becomes.
You cannot scale a lie. You can only scale what's true.
We are close to the collapse of the old order and the birth of a new one. Not the one from the WEF's own 2016 video, "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy." The opposite. An order built on truth-seeking, efficiency, science, private property and free markets. You will own things. You will build things. And you'll be happy, because it will be real.
Gramsci's long march took a century. Its collapse will take years.
History will remember this moment. A man walked into the most powerful machine ever built, refused the deal everyone else took, and chose reality over perception.
I have never been more optimistic.
Life...it is what it is....
Imagine being a minor spanish businessman; maybe you have a small chain of successful auto repair centers, or inherited a small hotel in Mallorca that does bustling but inconsistent seasonal business with British tourists… sometime in the late 00s you have an brief affair with some girl, anonymous but beautiful, who discreetly and tastefully advertised online exactly what she was. You take her on a quiet vacation to get away from the monotony of your daily life, you use her for what she is, and she uses you; you get your money’s worth (and despite everything, you always felt she was worth it!), and you both develop an easy and comfortable relationship, an Understanding.
Afterwards you buy her some handbags and pay her rent for a couple months before it fizzles out; maybe your wife starts getting suspicious and you have to cut her off, or perhaps she just stops returning your calls.
Eight years later you see her on a billboard, for a huge American film… the shock! You’re older now, the years haven’t been kind, but your heart pumps away to exactly the same place it always did whenever you saw her, in the flesh… you have an aneurism right there on the street, you drop dead! Your kids clean up the messy detritus of your life, try to organize the badly run business, sort out the estate and bicker over the half planned out will… your daughter finds some saucy old polaroids stashed in a drawer of your desk at work; in fit of self righteous disgust, she throws them out without taking a second look, never recognizing what she’s found, totally uninterested in the majestic accomplishment you somehow achieved.
Cheap and abundant energy is prosperity!!!
Giorgia Meloni auf dem EU-Gipfel zu den anderen EU-Regierungschefs zum CO₂-Handelssystem, mit dem die Energiekosten mit voller Absicht politisch nach oben getrieben werden, um Menschen und Wirtschaft mit der grünen Knute zwangsumzuerziehen:
'Wenn wir so weitermachen mit den Energiekosten, werden uns die Bürger mit Mistgabeln verfolgen.'
Das CO₂-Handelssystem (ETS) sollte endlich abgeschafft werden. Mit dem System wird die Nutzung effizienter Energierohstoffe bestraft, um ineffizienten Bullshit, der uns alle ruiniert, zu subventionieren. Ohne ETS sinkt der Strompreis sofort um etwa 34 Euro/MWh.
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Video: Meloni vor der Presse nach dem EU-Gipfel
Some truth in this!
Something historic is happening across the West, and the legacy press can't see it, because the press is part of what is collapsing.
Peoples who were told for forty years that they had nothing in common are converging. Americans, French, Italians, Danes, British, Dutch. Different languages, different histories, and the same conclusion reached at the same time. They have all seen the same thing at work in their own countries: what the French call islamo-gauchisme, the alliance between the radical left and political Islam. And they are all saying no.
To understand why their hegemony is close to total collapse, you have to use their own concept. "Hegemony" comes from Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist who understood that power doesn't rest on force. It rests on consent, on people accepting a worldview as obvious, as the only respectable one. That's why the left spent fifty years on what one German activist called the long march through the institutions. Universities, newsrooms, publishing houses, cultural ministries. Own the narrative and you own the country.
But hegemony has a weakness Gramsci himself understood. It dies the moment consent dies. And consent is dying everywhere at once.
They are losing the media war. In the 1970s, around 70% of Americans trusted the mass media. Today it's less than a third. In France, the gap between what the TV news says and what people see on their own street has become a joke. The gatekeepers lost the gate. An engineer with a phone can now reach more people than an evening news broadcast. The monopoly on the narrative, the foundation of the whole edifice, is gone.
And reality is finishing the job. Look at France. A movement that started in high schools ended on October 17 with city halls stormed, Limoges city hall burning and looting across Marseille, while the radical left blamed the police. The French saw it with their own eyes, without a filter. Today's polls show the radical left's candidate losing a presidential runoff by roughly two to one. You can deconstruct a text. You can't deconstruct a burning city hall.
Then comes the blow they can never recover from: abundance.
Collectivism has always been a politics of scarcity. Its whole logic is that the pie is fixed, so someone's gain is someone else's theft, so the state must take and redistribute, ration and control. That's why its latest form is degrowth. Planners need scarcity the way fire needs oxygen.
What is being built right now makes that logic obsolete. AI is collapsing the cost of intelligence. Robotics is about to collapse the cost of labor. Reusable rockets have already slashed the cost of reaching space. Elon Musk and thousands of builders like him are proving every day that the pie is not fixed. It can grow faster than anyone imagined. In a world of abundance, envy loses its grip and the planner loses his excuse. And AI does one more thing: it ends opacity. When any citizen can trace public money in minutes, the networks that live in the dark have nowhere left to hide.
So what comes next? Two things, in this order.
First, the reckoning, and this is where we have to be better than them. There will be no purges and no lists, and nobody will be prosecuted for having been wrong. Being wrong is not a crime, and we will never become what we fought. But aggravated corruption is a crime. Public money diverted to networks, fraud, abuse of office: those must be investigated, proven and judged one by one, by independent courts, with evidence, due process and the presumption of innocence. We don't jail people for their ideas. We jail people for stealing. That difference is the whole difference between a free civilization and the regimes we oppose.
Second, the reunification of the West. That doesn't mean another supranational empire run by unelected officials, which is the model that failed. It means a West of strong, sovereign nations that choose to work together. Agreements between countries that control their borders, produce their own energy, build their own AI and defend themselves, and that trade and cooperate as equals because they share the same foundations: the free individual, the rule of law, the right to build.
Gramsci's heirs spent fifty years winning the institutions. They are losing them in five, because they forgot that hegemony only lasts as long as reality cooperates.
Reality has stopped cooperating. Now it's our turn to build.
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So to every corrupt politician reading this:
You have two choices.
Option one: start right now. Find out what real value you can create in this new world. Build something. Solve a problem. Stop living off the work of others.
Option two: keep crying. Keep attacking the closest thing we have to a living Leonardo da Vinci, a man worth a trillion dollars because he built what you never could. Keep filing subpoenas instead of shipping anything.
And watch the market, the voters, and history make you irrelevant.
Because in the age of abundance, there's no room left for parasites. Build or get left behind.
