Andreas Klinger 🦾

Mad-scientist investor main-questing Europe 🇪🇺

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@euinc_petition 🇪🇺

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[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent… Let's be crazy… I got something to announce:

We're launching PROTOTYPE: a new fund, fully focused on Europe.

A small fund that punches way above it's size.

With it we back what Europe is world-class at: robotics, automation, manufacturing, and anything that requires hard engineering.

First check. First round. As early as it gets.

Europe invented industry. We're the birthplace of precision manufacturing. The second largest manufacturing hub on the planet. Leaders in automation and robotics.

And yet…

We sell out our best tech to China. We export our best founders & most of our investment money to the US. That's insanity.

What should we do instead?

Build the next trillion euro companies in robotics, manufacturing, automation right here: in Europe. Showcase to young founders what is possible and change the system around them where needed.

What we will do:

→ Publish all our fund updates and build in public: https://t.co/JROaYikB2Y

→ Showcase Europe’s Most Ambitious Startups on Youtube: https://t.co/l3xVkjtbox

→ Launch & support more projects like @euinc_petition. Enough talking about Europe. Time to build it: Startups, makerspaces, student clubs, and much more.

→ And most importantly, invest into the best founders in Europe. Same model as our previous funds that are in their top 1-5% cohorts worldwide.

We won’t do a VC fund in the classic sense.

This will be a community of hyper-ambitious people who want to actively change Europe for the better.

It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent… Let's be crazy.

Check out https://t.co/h2lPmypoaM!

[toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomas]

There is one, repeat, *one* person in a senior position in Europe who gets Russia and is willing to call it what is.

So of course the leaders of Western Europe, true to their Nord Stream natures, cry, “No, we can’t have *her* negotiating with Russia!” Russia doesn’t want her! They want us, the ones who actually take seriously Russia’s demands”

We’ve seen this patronising attitude toward CEE for nearly 40 years.

So learn, my Baltic and Polish compatriots: we who border Russia, we who all know the term “mass deportations”, will always be treated as second class countries, whose knowledge and understanding will always be suspect when set against the fantasies and prejudices of Western Europeans.

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

@DmitriLLM those are a lot of assumptions about my opinion.

what do you disagree on in my original post?
do you think its good that the US is limiting starshield and hence ukraine's cities ability to defend itself?

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

It’s mind blowing that Russia and America collaborates in killing Ukrainians with the goal that Ukraine capitulates against an invasion.

I’m trying to imagine telling this to my dead grandfather who used to be a big America fan.

Absolutely disgusting.

[Luke Harding @lukeharding1968]

We were on the scene minutes after a Russian drone slammed into a hospital last night in central Kyiv. I found a burning building, dazed patients & firefighters. The attack came after Ukraine reported that @SpaceX had again throttled the Starshield system https://t.co/BHwc0Oiuma

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

@DmitriLLM sorry i am lost

so you argument is that america should turn off starshield to have a capitulation sooner?
or not to pressure russia but ukraine?
or that europe isnt accepting ukranians en mass?

sorry - whats your argument?

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

That’s some Eszkobár Pál shit.

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

Here is the footage released by the National Asset Recovery and Protection Office showing billions of forints' worth of cash being dug out of the ground. The money belonged to @PM_ViktorOrban's former minister, Miklós Seszták.

When the money was handed over, 12 employees of the Hungarian State Treasury spent eight hours counting it using five cash-counting machines.

From today, Viktor Orbán is proven to be a mafia boss. An ousted mafia boss. And Fidesz is a criminal organisation.

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

@DmitriLLM Your argument is that europe hasnt taken enough Ukrainian refugees?

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

With current AI models we are not limited anymore by "can you build it" but "can you think of it".

[Raphael Glucksmann @rglucks1]

Il n’y a pas de nation libre sans production.

La défense de l’industrie française et de ses producteurs est la clé de voûte du nouveau contrat patriotique que je propose.

C’est pourquoi il est faut changer les politiques commerciales européennes : le marché européen doit être réservé aux productions européennes.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Ukrainian drone brigade commander Veres: I do not know what a shortage of people is. My losses are so small I would like them smaller still. If I named the number, nobody would believe me.

Many volunteers want to join my brigade, and we accept only every 10th to 15th.

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

Calling it Super Intelligence before regularly messing stuff up was a 5D chess move to improve the brand of AI.

Kudos.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Governor Gavin Newsom is honored to present Sean Duffy with the inaugural Super Intelligence (SI) Award for modernizing America’s aviation network. Under Sean’s visionary leadership, the FAA has eliminated late arrivals by eliminating departures.

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

@Wirtzling @allnewtomorrow Germany pays Ukraine's starshield
Poland Ukraine's starlink
UA buys weapons from the US with european money
Plus once UA wins US would be involved in economic projects

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

@Wirtzling > I don't believe there is cooperation between Russia and America

It's cooperation between the Trump/Kushner family interests and Putin giving them opportunities.

> Europe has a crisis of identity as a union.

100%

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

unsure if continous conflict would be possible given Putin is running out of money

But economically speaking:
Germany pays Ukraine's starshield
Poland Ukraine's starlink
UA buys weapons from the US with european money
Plus once UA wins US would be involved in economic projects

At least my understanding

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

Just to make sure i understand your argument

are you saying that it has been limited "by accident" and unrelated to the peace discussions? or are you saying that "america giveth, america taketh" when it comes to human life and protection?

But in principle agree.
Europe and the West shouldnt rely on America for value aligned global policies anymore. There are no shared global goals, values or alliances or adversaries anymore
Esp not the ones built by America. NATO is likely hence no longer reliable too.

It might now change every four years and will be purely transactional - and currently it looks like Russia currently is willing to pay more in future deals.

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

@mr_ligi Skill issue. @dapplion forgot to add “make no mistakes”.

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

@RealJakeBroe Putin just ran out of money to pay in those networks

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

In the end, apparently we don't have 🇪🇺institutions in place.

The EU's national leaders today decided they will not allow the EU's foreign affairs chief to represent the Union in the 🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 peace talks - because Russia doesn't like her.

Instead they will send a team of 7 people from 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱🇮🇹🇪🇺 deemed less antagonistic toward Russia.

This decision is the final nail in the coffin for the EU foreign policy chief role that was created in 2009 but has been steadily undermined by national governments since then.

From now on, the world will understand that this is not a real role and the EU is not serious about foreign policy. A tragedy for the union.

But our national leaders cannot see what a self-sabotage this is in the long term. Because they are incapable of thinking long term.

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

@Wally1221531 @Fidias0 Please take your astroturfing job more seriously. At least get some profiles that doesnt look completely fake. That’s just cringe to watch.

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

@pitdesi i hate the rhetoric of "what i heard…" or "people say"

because after this you can say any lie