Agent of Entropy

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Germany didn’t lose its economic edge overnight, it was hurt by one bad policy after another.

High energy costs, endless bureaucracy, overtaxation, and anti-growth mindset have turned an industrial powerhouse into the sick man of Europe.

What needs to happen for a turnaround?

[John Rain @johnthenoticer]

A study conducted across multiple European countries consistently reaches the same conclusion:

In Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Sweden, non-European immigrants represent a net fiscal cost.

(The same result was found in Denmark and the Netherlands, where the calculations were carried out with even greater precision in dedicated studies.)

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Javier Milei: “I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it.”

“But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.”

[Frank Underwood @FU1151959]

Tento argument se opakuje pořád dokola a jediné co dokazuje je, že ti, kteří ho používají absolutně nechápou, jak statistika funguje. Porovnávají dvě úplně jiné množiny s úplně jinou četností. Je to ta stejná skupina, která nechápe koncept per capita, takže to není překvapení.

[Dave Greene @GreeneMan6]

I have been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the spotlight recently; all women my age, progressive, and employed at mainstream institutions. I don't know them. Yet in every case, I can intuit their origin story.

It goes something like this:

> be an older millennial female, no strong passion, but strive hard in school
> reach High School
> steer clear of the kids who like talking about “far out” philosophical issues
> also steer clear of student government and debate club, which seems too contentious and vaguely threatening
> focus on getting perfect marks, complying with college reqs. Get into top uni based on those marks
> get introduced to politics in freshmen social justice class, instantly floored
> the appeal of college politics is just how cut-and-dried it is. Unlike other fields, it has a clear “good” and “bad” side, no ambiguity. The “good” side always wins in classroom discussions, you feel like a hero for validating consensus with "The Conversation"
> politics becomes your religion, “this is my passion!”
> graduate with top marks and recs. Your degree is essentially in “Current Thing-ism”. Have no broad understanding of history or philosophy.
> Your concept of human events is just people being oppressed for 4000 years until feminism and progress happened in the 20th c.
> despite the Global Financial Crisis, immediately get hired by a government/media org because they want someone who “understands the role of female politics in our new digital era!”
> most of your colleagues share your perspective, the ones who don't are older guys on their way to retirement, not looking for the confrontation that disagreeing with you would certainly involve.
> great awokening happens, double down on Current-Thingism politics
> organe-man-bad and COVID happens, triple down on politics.
> you are 15 years deep in your career, you have never once genuinely engaged with a peer who didn't validate your worldview or who you didn't consider a "token" opposition to placade your political enemies
> vibe shift happens, establishment uncertain, time to have a "conversation" with the people you've considered deplorable
> have conversation, hear non-progressive opinion that is common in the modern world, historically ubiquitous
> react with schock, umbrage horror. "Can you even believe this is happening?"
> confident that non-progressive opinion is trivially easy to refute, somehow have no idea how to actually refute it
> unaware just how deeply you have been betrayed by your education, such that the average educated man on the street has more practical understanding of what politics is than you do with decades of "experience."

[Pavel Kohout @KohoutPavel]

Pokaždé se objevil nějaký ten PAQ Research, který tvrdil, že stačí jen trochu zvýšit daně a všechno už bude v pořádku, nastane všeobecný blahobyt, sociální smír a vyrovnaný rozpočet.

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

Unpopular opinion: the French conquest of Algeria was entirely morally justified. Algeria was a criminal state that lived off robbing and enslaving Europeans and Americans. The war put an end to its massive slave trade and piracy operation. This is a good thing.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The anointed see ordinary people as helpless sheep in need of constant herding.
They cast themselves as the wise superior minds guiding the ignorant flock toward utopia.

They claim it’s compassion while in reality it is arrogance wrapped in benevolence, justifying control over every aspect of your life.

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Why is it so difficult for European leftists to understand that you can’t tax, regulate, and bureaucratize your way into an economic renaissance?

History is an asset. Living off history is a liability. Europe urgently needs fewer regulations and lower taxes to thrive again.

[Alexander 𖤓 Nietzschean Vitalist @UbermenschMind]

“Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.”

Camille Paglia

[Will @Evolving_Moloch]

The sexual division of labour regarding house construction shows a very consistent pattern cross-culturally: women usually construct the shelters in nomadic societies, while in sedentary societies men do it.

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell: “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

[paleoneoliberal @armsq17]

Immigrants are a very heterogeneous category. Different immigrant groups differ significantly in their employment patterns and economic contributions.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

This isn't even an exaggeration. The talking points that get you labeled a 'Nazi' today were just vanilla Democrat talking points not even twenty years ago.

[Rebecca Mistereggen @RMistereggen]

Suicidal empathy isn’t the core threat, it’s homicidal empathy.

What we’re witnessing isn’t misguided kindness. It’s a ruthless, ideologically driven strategy of reproductive suppression and lineage destruction, fueled by feminist intrasexual competition. Certain strains of feminism don’t just compete with men, they indoctrinate women to sabotage their own fertility, demonize traditional family structures, and actively undermine the reproductive success of rival women and lineages. The result is civilizational self-harm dressed as empowerment.

If you watch only one thing this week, watch Hannah Spier’s interview with evolutionary psychologist Dr. Dani Sulikowski.

It’s brilliant, unflinching, and genuinely terrifying. Sulikowski lays out how modern feminism functions as an intrasexual competitive strategy, one that suppresses motherhood, distorts mating preferences, and accelerates fertility collapse under the banner of “equality.”

Feminism, in this form, has proven every bit as destructive to human flourishing and societal stability as Marxism. Both ideologies weaponize grievance, promise utopia, and deliver demographic and cultural ruin.

@hannahspierMD

[yeet @Awk20000]

Asmongold explains why he doesn't believe in stolen land

"How is it that we're on stolen land but Constantinople is Istanbul..I feel like it's either both or neither..how does that work..that was in 1453 and we were in America at about the same time"

"The way I see it..whenever ppl look at the idea of stolen land..the reason why they want to assign the idea of stolen land is so they can create a guilt that will allow the ppl of that country to allow migrants in..bc they have an obligation to bc they stole the land"

"There is no such thing as stolen land..if u take it over, it's yours"

[MK @Krajsicz]

Podle téhle logiky můžu podat TO na půlku lidí tady.

Když řeknu, že komunisti jsou svině, tak to taky vzbuzuje nenávist k těm osobám. To je úplně nejzákladnější svoboda slova tvl.

To teď bude jakákoliv kritika libovolné skupiny lidí zločinem? Wtf??

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

I disagree with the bioethicists.

Instead, we should kill every last tick. They should be totally eliminated. This scourge should disappear.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

A lot of people feel uncomfortable about saying this publicly but there is simply no denying it.

We have to speak honestly about this issue: equalities legislation, which was ostensibly about making sure there were no second class citizens created a racial hierarchy of citizenship where people are treated differently because of the colour of their skin.

Some of us have been pointing this out for a long time. I believe the evidence for this claim is now incontrovertible, no matter how uncomfortable the subject may be for some people.

Equalities legislation must be amended or scrapped and replaced with something that restores the principle of equality before the law. Indeed, you'd think equality before the law would be the very central principle of any law on equality.

This must become a minimum basic commitment for any party that seeks to form the next Government. Any party that fails to make this commitment has failed in its basic duty of understanding the catastrophic damage that has been done to race relations in this country by a decade of woke insanity.

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

This @elonmusk answer is worth reflecting on. Someone asked him what he'd do if he had to start over with $1,000:

"It's impossible for someone to have this amount of knowledge, all the knowledge that I have, and then be dropped down to a low resource amount... I will be able to ask people to just give me money, with the promise that I will have a high return, which is what I'm able to do right now. If you give me a dollar, you will get back much more than a dollar."

Strip away the brand and the billions and look at what he's actually pointing to. Two assets, neither of which sits in a bank account. The first is knowledge: everything he's learned about how to build things that work.

The second is harder to name but more valuable: a reputation as a builder. People hand him money on the promise of a return because he has spent years proving he delivers one.

Notice that money never shows up in his answer as the thing he relies on. It shows up as the output. The knowledge and the track record sit upstream. The capital is downstream, summoned on demand by someone who built a history of turning one dollar into many.

That's the inverse of the assumption almost every modern family makes. We treat financial capital as the load-bearing structure of the family's future and human capital as a soft skill set we hope our kids absorb along the way.

So we obsess over trust architecture, succession planning, and tax efficiency. We spend almost nothing, measured in attention rather than dollars, on the actual humans expected to inherit it: their knowledge, their judgment, their willingness to work like people who have something to build.

The result is families with fortunes preserved beautifully and people preserved poorly. The money outlasts the meaning it was supposed to fund.

Now widen the lens. AI and robotics may strip necessity out of most people's lives the way wealth has already stripped it from affluent families. Most people were not raised to believe they could lose everything and rebuild it from what they know and how hard they work. They were raised to optimize for stability inside a system they assumed would hold. That system is shifting under their feet.

Elon's answer is really a question in disguise. Ask it of yourself. Ask it of your kids. If the resources reset to zero tomorrow, what do you still carry? What do you actually know how to do, would you do the work, and would anyone trust you to do it?

That's the kind of wealth that compounds across the economic upheaval that's coming.