Paulo Ferreira

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[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

You will find close to 50 pieces under this post. Taken all together I believe they make for a pretty decent course on Western Civilization and communism.

Many people have enjoyed and reposted them, including Elon Musk, Garry Kasparov, Gad Saad, Marc Andreessen and others – so I believe you can enjoy them too:

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Groundhog Day is one of the most beloved films ever made. And yes, Andie MacDowell is cute and charming. But that is not why it hits a chord thirty years later with people who can’t quite explain why they keep rewatching it.

The reason is Aristotle. And almost nobody knows it.

1. Phil Connors wakes up on February 2nd. Again. And again. Infinitely. No consequences, no memory from others, no tomorrow. He has been given what every hedonist, every utopian, every system that promises liberation through freedom from constraint has always promised: complete freedom from accountability. The result is not paradise. It is the most precise laboratory experiment in the history of cinema – what does a human being actually become when freed from all consequences?

2. He tries pleasure first. Eats everything, seduces women, steals money. It works, briefly, the way soma works. Then it stops working, the way soma always stops working. He tries knowledge — learns piano, French poetry, ice sculpture — not yet for virtue, but for manipulation. Still instrumental. Still empty. Then he tries suicide. Repeatedly. The groundhog always wakes him. The void cannot be escaped. It can only be filled.

3. This is Aristotle’s laboratory. Not theoretical – experimental. Eudaimonia (read below) cannot be purchased, stolen, or stumbled into. It is not a feeling. It is not a peak experience. It is the condition that results from becoming, through practice, the kind of person capable of it. Phil has infinite time and zero character at the start. The loop is not his prison. It is his curriculum.

4. The turn is the most important moment in the film and the easiest to miss. Phil stops trying to escape the loop and starts trying to improve within it. He learns piano not to impress anyone – nobody will remember tomorrow. He helps people not for reward – there is none. He becomes good with no audience, no record, no consequence. This is virtue in its purest Aristotelian form: the action done for its own sake, repeated until it becomes character.

5. Rousseau would say Phil is naturally good and the loop is oppressing him. The film says the opposite: left completely free, with no social pressure, no consequences, no system to blame, Phil reveals everything that needs work before anything worth keeping emerges. The loop doesn’t corrupt him. It shows him to himself. That is the most anti-Rousseau statement in popular cinema – and nobody noticed, because Bill Murray is just very funny.

6. He falls in love with Rita not by manipulating her — he tried that, it failed spectacularly — but by becoming someone worth loving. You cannot love your way to virtue. You can only become virtuous and discover that love becomes possible. The film gets the causality exactly right – which almost no film does.
Virtue gets you true love.

7. The loop ends when Phil has become genuinely good – not performing goodness, not strategically good, but actually virtuous through ten thousand repetitions of the right choice with no reward attached. Aristotle said virtue is a habit formed through practice. Groundhog Day is the proof of concept. The film hits a chord because everyone senses, somewhere beneath the comedy, that this is how it actually works – that there is no shortcut, no hack, no liberation through freedom from consequence. Only the truth of it. Only the practice. Only becoming, slowly and without an audience, the person you were supposed to be.

[Paulo Ferreira @Biafra]

Querem a prova que há muuuita gente a mais nas instituições europeias ? Isto é o sinal de que não sabem que inventar mais e pior: sinal que se acham mais inteligentes que todos os outros.

[jcd @jcaetanodias]

Já andam a apalermar demasiado... Alguém tem de parar estes doidos.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

The artificial moral panic around water use by data centers makes me think back and wonder what other moral panics were outrageous lies or else subversive foreign plots

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Europe's most famous theorist of modern power went to Tehran in 1978 and came back praising the Ayatollah.

Michel Foucault had spent his life analyzing surveillance, discipline, and how power reshapes people. Then he watched a police state being born and called it liberation. 🧵

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

"Capitalism as we know it doesn't work."
As we know it?

You mean the mixed economy where government spending consumes enormous portions of GDP, industries are heavily regulated, markets are manipulated by central banks, subsidies, tariffs, bailouts, zoning restrictions, licensing laws, and endless political favoritism?

Yes, that system doesn't work very well.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Qatar has reportedly blocked a proposed partnership between Volkswagen and Israeli defense company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to manufacture components for the Iron Dome missile-defense system at Volkswagen's Osnabrück plant in Germany.

The Qatar Investment Authority, which owns 10.4% of Volkswagen and controls about 17% of its voting rights, opposed the deal because the partner was an Israeli company.

The project could have helped save around 2,300 jobs at the Osnabrück factory, where vehicle production is scheduled to end in 2027. Volkswagen confirmed that its Qatari shareholder blocked the proposed cooperation and said it is now exploring alternative partnerships for the site.

A separate $4.2 billion plan for German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd to acquire Israeli shipping company ZIM is also unlikely to proceed. In that case, Israeli officials opposed the sale, arguing it could put a strategically important national asset at risk during a national emergency. Defense Minister Israel Katz said the sale "would not protect Israel's security interests."

Hapag-Lloyd has significant Gulf state shareholders: Qatar's sovereign wealth fund owns 12.3%, and Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund owns 10.2%.

[DHH @dhh]

"The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke that the continent is doomed to be an open-air museum. Sure, it's things may have to get worse before they get better, but believing that 'it's over' is just loser talk." https://t.co/74IfQiIU6N

[Maria João Marques @mjoaomarks]

Tanto José Luís Carneiro como Paulo Raimundo (até agora; podem vir mais) mentiram quando falaram de habitação. José Luís Carneiro disse (como se não tivesse nenhuma responsabilidade, mas isso são outros quinhentos) que os custos com a habitação cresceram este ano. Paulo Raimundo disse que o preço das casas (aqui está certo) é das rendas está a aumentar.
Pois bem, meus caros, as rendas das casas diminuíram 2,4% em junho face ao trimestre anterior e a mediana das rendas em Portugal está a decrescer há 5 meses seguidos. (Link abaixo.) Com desenho: as rendas das casas estão já a diminuir e estes dois políticos estão a mentir.
E, como sabe qualquer pessoa pensante e não ignorante e não desonesta, se o rendimento que se tira do ativo que são as casas (as rendas) está a diminuir, então o valor desse ativo (as casas) é pressionado para baixo, o que mais uns tempos se vai notar.

[Paulo Ferreira @Biafra]

Sounds like Marx… oh wait!

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

It's easy to preach collectivism when someone else has always carried the burden.

[Romeu in ˢPain 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇻🇪 @romeu]

Eu a explicar aos espanhóis que em Portugal o escândalo do governo é que um ministro tem uma piscina travestida de tanque

[Miguel Morgado @REALmfmorgado]

TORTO E DIREITO

INFERNO
O Livre propôs no seu último congresso a criação de supermercados estatais. Não só é uma má ideia gerada pelo ódio habitual e cego ao capitalismo liberal, como o texto da moção revelou um detalhe da mais transcendente ironia.
SIC Notícias

[civilization enjoyer @civ_enjoy]

European Athletics have released new photography guidelines. It's a pity our sport our sport is going from celebrating the athletic physique to hiding it.

[Paulo Ferreira @Biafra]

Onde é que eu já vi isto?

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

I did not become a believer in economic freedom because I read Hayek or Milton Friedman.

I became one because I tried to build.

When you build in Senegal and then build in America, you see the difference in your bones. One system says, "Go try." The other keeps asking why you think you deserve permission.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Its impossible to get an accurate perspective on atmospheric gases from mainstream reporting.

Consider the actual physical scale: Carbon dioxide makes up just 0.042% of our atmosphere. That is 424 parts per million (ppm). Visually, that equates to just 4 molecules out of every 10,000, or a single molecule in a crowd of 2,500.

By contrast, water vapor can make up to 4% of the atmosphere in humid tropical regions, averaging around 1% to 2% globally. This means water vapor concentrations are routinely a hundred times higher than CO₂. Consequently, water vapor is by far the planet's dominant greenhouse gas, responsible for anywhere from 50% to 70% of the natural greenhouse effect.

The physical driver of our climate isn't a trace atmospheric gas; its the oceans. The oceans contain roughly 81% of the Earth's entire mobile surface reservoir of carbon, while the atmosphere holds a mere fraction by comparison. Furthermore, the oceans absorb and store over 93% of the thermal energy in the climate system.

Massive oceanic currents act as the planet's true engine, endlessly transporting immense stores of tropical heat toward the freezing poles.

The Earth is a dynamic, interactive and restless planet, driven entirely by the laws of physics—not simplistic computer models or financial spreadsheets.

Ultimately, CO₂ is the foundation for life on Earth. Through photosynthesis, plants use their unique properties to convert sunlight, water and soil nutrients into vital glucose energy and oxygen. Because of this, CO₂ underpins every single food chain on Earth. It is also a fundamental building block for marine life, utilised by organisms like oysters, clams, corals, and tiny swimming sea snails (pteropods) to build their shells.

Between 50% and 85% of the world's photosynthesis and oxygen production occurs in the oceans, driven by microscopic phytoplankton. These tiny organisms form the bedrock of the entire global marine food web.

The 'code red' climate catastrophe unravels under the sheer weight of planetary reality.

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

This 1937 Austrian leaflet depicts a Nazi, a Communist, and a social democrat. It reads, "And when they found each other, they understood each other immediately."

Amazing how the more things change, the more they remain the same.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

I'm half-Syrian, half-Lebanese, and here's why I can't stand people like Greta Thunberg. She quit school to chase climate activism while millions of children in my region quit school because their families can't afford it. She skips university "for Palestine" while our youth can't afford tuition, transport, or a functioning country to build a future in. She's never had a job; our people can't find one. She travels around the world (on a bicycle, of course) and sails to Gaza on a whim; our people can't get a visa to leave the misery they were born into. She has the luxury of adopting foreign causes; we don't have the luxury of just one problem. Millions of us live abroad because that's the only way to build a sustainable life. She acts like suffering belongs to Palestinians alone, while everyone in the Middle East lives in hell too, and it's not because of capitalism or climate change. It's because of a destructive ideology that uses the Palestinian cause as its tool. And like Khamenei, like Sinwar, like Arafat before her, she wears the keffiyeh — the uniform of that ideology, not a symbol of peace.

Then there's the shirt: "Yalla Intifada." The First Intifada (1987–1993) began as a mostly grassroots uprising — strikes, boycotts, stone-throwing — and still killed roughly 1,100 Palestinians and 160 Israelis. The Second Intifada (2000–2005) was a different animal entirely: a sustained campaign of suicide bombings that ripped through Israeli buses, cafés, and markets, deliberately targeting civilians. It left close to 3,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis dead. "Intifada" doesn't mean "ceasefire." It doesn't mean "peace talks." It means uprising by force, and the second one was defined by terror attacks on ordinary people.

So while Greta claims to be protesting an alleged genocide, the slogan on her chest is a celebration of the exact kind of violence that killed thousands, most of them Palestinian. She isn't standing against death. She's wearing merchandise for it.

@GretaThunberg #Intifada #Israel

[dono da c🅾️🅾️perativa ™ @donocooperativa]

A questão que se coloca é a de saber como é que Pedro Sánchez, um híbrido de Churchill com Jesus Cristo na terra no século XXI, permitiu que vivessem em Espanha até hoje 3 milhões de.... Indocumentados.🥸

[JOSE GEFAELL @ChGefaell]

Can anyone explain why Arctic air temperature records vary so much depending on the source?
According to the University of Maine, the temperature in July is above average. But according to the Danish Meteorological Institute, it is well below.
The graphs are as different as chalk and cheese