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[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

When you Westerners visit Iran, the Islamic regime say: “Our country, our rules.” Wear the hijab. Cover your hair. No handshakes.

But when they come to the West, somehow it’s still their rules. Cover the nude statues. Hide the wine. Tone down your traditions. Don’t offend Islam.

Watch my conversation with @jaketapper to see why the regime is now asking America to respect Islamic values on American soil.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Après avoir vu Elon répondre au Programme alimentaire mondial de l'ONU qui lui réclamait 6 milliards pour "résoudre la faim dans le monde", j'ai compris quelque chose que je vais essayer de prouver ici.

Désormais, méfiez-vous de TOUT le monde qui achète de la sympathie publique en signant des chèques.

Reprenons l'histoire d'Elon, parce qu'elle est parfaite. 2021. Le patron du PAM, David Beasley, le tague publiquement : "2 % de ta fortune et tu résous la faim." Elon ne dit pas non. Il dit une seule chose, et c'est la chose la plus saine qu'un milliardaire ait jamais dite à une ONG : "Décrivez-moi exactement comment 6 milliards résolvent la faim. Compta open-source, que le public voie où va chaque dollar. Et je vends du Tesla immédiatement."

Réponse de l'ONU : un plan à 6,6 milliards pour nourrir 42 millions de personnes… pendant un an.

Vous voyez le problème ? Ils n'ont jamais pu répondre à la vraie question. Parce que la réponse n'existe pas. Le don ne résout rien : il nourrit douze mois, et la faim revient en janvier. C'est un abonnement, pas une solution. Beasley demandait un robinet permanent et l'appelait "charité".

La charité moderne, c'est ça : un puits sans fond déguisé en vertu. Elle ne touche jamais les causes profondes — la gouvernance, les institutions, la corruption, l'absence de marchés — parce que toucher les causes profondes tuerait l'industrie. Une ONG qui résout son problème se suicide. Son incitation, c'est que le problème dure.

Et l'argent ? Il ne va presque jamais à ceux qui sont censés le recevoir. Il s'évapore en couches de logistique, de salaires d'ONG, d'overhead, de "renforcement des capacités", de conférences à Genève. Vous donnez 100, le bénéficiaire en voit une fraction. Le reste fait vivre la classe professionnelle de la compassion.

Et puis il y a l'aile "intellectuelle" du truc : l'effective altruism. La version QI 145 du virtue signaling. Calculer froidement le bien marginal par dollar, "earn to give", sauver le futur. Le poster boy du mouvement s'appelait Sam Bankman-Fried. Il a détourné des milliards de clients en expliquant que c'était pour le bien de l'humanité. 25 ans de prison. Toute la ramification autour — fondations, think tanks, gourous de la moralité quantifiée — a découvert que l'altruisme optimisé est l'alibi parfait pour la fraude. Quand tu te crois en mission cosmique, voler devient un détail comptable.

Maintenant, le retournement. Devinez la SEULE forme de charité avec des preuves dures, des RCT propres, qui marche vraiment ?

Donner du cash. Brut. Random. À un village. Sans condition, sans plan, sans ONG qui t'explique comment vivre.

Étude Egger et al., Econometrica 2022 : 1 000 $ donnés à 10 500 ménages dans 653 villages au Kenya. Résultat : pour chaque dollar injecté, ~2,5 dollars d'activité économique locale. Quasi zéro inflation. Les gens achètent, les commerçants embauchent, le grain circule, le meunier rouvre plus tard. ~80 % de l'argent reste dans le marché local.

Et c'est là l'ironie totale, presque cruelle : le seul "acte de charité" qui fonctionne fonctionne parce que ce n'est PAS de la charité. C'est juste… du capital qu'on laisse couler dans une économie. Vous n'aidez pas les gens en leur donnant un plan. Vous les aidez en amorçant la pompe et en les laissant être des agents économiques. La charité qui marche, c'est juste du capitalisme déclenché de force.

Donc voilà ma règle. Méfiez-vous de quiconque achète votre estime avec un don public. Le chèque visible n'est pas une preuve de vertu, c'est une transaction : de la sympathie contre de l'argent, payée par les pauvres qui restent pauvres pour que le donateur reste admiré.

La vraie philanthropie ne pose pas pour la photo. Elle construit des produits, des entreprises, des emplois, des marchés. Elle amorce la pompe et s'en va.

Le reste, c'est de la cocaïne pour riches sans créativité.

[g carp @CarpioN01]

@BBGreatMoments Where is this ?!!

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2009. Obama announces $13 billion from the Recovery Act will be used for high speed rail projects across the country.

The high speed rail/money laundering scam goes back many years.

Imagine if the media looked into anything Obama had done as much as it has reported on the Reflecting Pool.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Stephen A. Smith admits he can’t wrap his head around “how the hell” the Clintons and Obamas left office worth upwards of $100,000,000 after “serving” the American people.

“Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas, grew up poor, relatively broke. How the hell he and the Clinton Foundation are worth hundreds of millions of dollars beats me.”

“Barack Obama was a community organizer who became the President of the United States. And last time I checked, that salary ain’t over $450,000.”

“How the hell you depart from office, [together] you worth over $200 million?”

Clintons’ net worth before office: ~$1,300,000
Clintons’ net worth today: ~$120,000,000

Obamas’ net worth before office: ~$1,300,000
Obamas’ net worth today: ~$70,000,000

[g carp @CarpioN01]

@Madeittoofar @NassauExec @KathyHochul Agreed. He needs to be more visible & vigilant though. Kathy hohcul is terrible

[g carp @CarpioN01]

@battymamzelle Imagine losing a $250k salary for stealing a trash can. You ever hear your friends are a reflection of you? Fortune 500 companies think the same of their employees. Especially “ directors “ or heads of depts. held to a higher standard.

[Izengabe @Izengabe_]

Low turnout closed primaries are the key to the DSA's success. 780,825 people live in #NY13. There are 494,510 total registered voters but only 338,109 are active Democrats eligible to vote. 1/3 of NY-13 voters are ineligible to vote in the primary that determines the winner in a Safe D seat. Only ~70K people voted & socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier got ~33K votes (which is 4.25% of residents & 6.6% of voters). The DSA has a well funded political machine allied with progressive non-profits that are funded by Chinese billionaire Roy Singham, Soros, NY municipal unions & taxpayers. DSA has become very good at turning out their core voters many of whom work for & are paid by the non-profits they are allied with. Once in office the DSA sends more taxpayer money to these non-profits & puts its allies & activists on the government payroll who then are expected to tithe a portion of their salary back to the DSA. These small percentage of motivated activist then control the politics of these districts. This is how the DSA machine grows like a cancer on our politics & wins low turnout elections.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The money being sent from USAID wasn’t for humanitarian efforts. USAID money was being LAUNDERED TO GEORGE SOROS to pay for protests

Mike Benz exposes USAID has been sending money to George Soros NGOs, he then uses that money to FUND AND TRAIN PROTESTERS

USAID paying for street protest handbooks to be printed

“USAID gave $5 million to Open Society Foundation — USAID is actually funding George Soros and Soros is passing those funds to the people on the ground.”

“USAID paid to have Saul Alinsky Street protest handbooks printed.”

“The local politicians, the local judges, the local prosecutors, the local anti-corruption NGOs, the local media outlets, the local trade labor, labor groups and unions.”

This is 100% true and it’s publicly available information

In 2001, the Soros foundations network was listed USAID among its “donor partners” alongside other government aid agencies. There have been many documented collaborations

We funded these protests handbooks

USAID provided 5+ million noted in the Government Accountability Office reports for projects involving OSF-linked groups. These trained hundreds of young Macedonians in activism

[g carp @CarpioN01]

@Madeittoofar @NassauExec @KathyHochul I’m a native nyc nyer. I respect this pov. Not everyone downstate is crazy. Elections are so low voter turn out. Unfortunately the working class has let grifters vote their people in.

[g carp @CarpioN01]

@NassauExec @KathyHochul Sir you need to be more visible ! You need more ads, better fund raising , you need to speak to @spencerpratt or @SteveHiltonx. It doesn’t cost much to make an AI video There is only one side being told here.

[g carp @CarpioN01]

@DefiantLs Sue the fuck outta these people

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

With respect, every journalist needs to read these documents. Americans deserve the whole truth. Not the lies they have been fed.

[Russell Brand @rustyrockets]

Never forget.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

One of the most famous passages in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics begins with a question:

Who is truly happy?

Most people would point to the man with wealth, power, influence, and a comfortable life. Aristotle disagrees.

To explain why, he points to a famous story about the Athenian lawgiver Solon and King Croesus of Lydia.

Croesus was one of the richest men in the world. His kingdom was prosperous, his treasury overflowing, and his power seemed secure. When Solon visited his court, Croesus asked him who the happiest man he had ever seen was.

He expected Solon to name him.

Instead, Solon named other men.

Croesus was astonished. How could anyone be happier than the richest king in the world?

Solon's answer:

"Look to the end, no matter what the situation. Count no man happy until he is dead."

What Solon meant was that fortune changes. A life that appears blessed can end in disaster, while a difficult life can end nobly. Until a life is complete, no judgment is final.

Years later, Croesus lost his kingdom to the Persians and became a prisoner of war. Only then did he understand Solon's warning.

Aristotle takes this lesson seriously. Happiness cannot simply mean wealth, success, or pleasure because all of those depend partly on fortune. What matters more is the kind of person someone becomes over the course of a life.

Near the beginning of the Nicomachean Ethics, he writes:

"Human good turns out to be activity of soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are several virtues, in accordance with the best and most complete. But it must also be in a complete life. For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."

This is the heart of Aristotle's argument.

A single day cannot make a man happy any more than a single warm day can make it summer. Happiness is not a momentary feeling but the result of living well across an entire life.

For Aristotle, the happiest man is not the richest or the most successful. He is the man who has cultivated virtue and carried it with him through whatever fortune brings.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

You do not need a man cave.

What you need is a personal library.

[g carp @CarpioN01]

@StreetsblogNYC @SophLebo @NYCMayor If you couldn’t hate transplants enough. They are happy cuz the Knicks won.

[Trumps Nephew @ForgiatoBlow47]

Joe Biden hired 87,000 IRS agents and not a SINGLE one of them found Somali fraud.

[g carp @CarpioN01]

@JustFreshKicks What about the shirt. It’s gotta be the Knicks ?