Rick Falkvinge 🌻

Any apologetic or "nuancing" remark about the invasion and mass murder of civilians in Ukraine perpetrated by Putin and the Russian Army gets an instablock.

[Rick Falkvinge 🌻 @Falkvinge]

One of the most ethical and moral things you can do is profit. Doing so means you have found a way to meet somebody else's need while at the same time reducing waste (their previously best offer).

[JensGanman @JensGanman]

Ordningsfråga: har SVT nånsin använt termen ”yttervänsteraktivist” om nån gäst? Och har kulturnyheterna nångång gått igenom en vänstermänniskas bakgrund på liknande sätt?

[Flux Alert @FluxAlert]

@GaborU48800 Vi kastar tiotals miljarder varje år på människor som inte vill vara en del av Sverige, som inte lär sig språket och som inte respekterar våra lagar och vår kultur.

Det är inte snällt eller humant. Det är dumt och destruktivt för landet.

[JENS Odlander @JensOdlander]

Jag vill personligen, som svensk statstjänsteman (UD), tacka Inas Hamdan för det arbete hon gör för att skydda det fria, jämlika, demokratiska och öppna svenska samhället. ”Ett hundratal om inte hundratals” vänsterpartister på kommun-, region- och nationell nivå stödjer terrorism, antisemitism, förontelseförnekelse, sexism, hat mot kvinnor och hyllande av diktatorer.

Vilken insats! Och det kommer mer, lovar
Expressens modiga reporter med ursprung i Syrien. Detta är ett säkerhetshot av magnitud. Som redan letat sig in i historieböckerna. Inas måste, om hon inte har det redan, ha ett starkt personskydd. Det finns inget större hot mot det svenska samhället och statsskicket än detta.

[Alexandra Marshall @ellymelly]

Western governments say they 'don't like division'.

Okay.

I double-dare them to remove all race and religion-based privilege from our legal system.

No more racial land claims. No weapons exemptions for religion. No more 'oh I didn't know murder was wrong because of my culture'. No more lower standards for university because of a box-tick. No more leaving children in abusive households because of 'cultural reasons'.

Nothing. Get rid of it all.

Return to the days where each citizen is governed by the same laws. Has the same responsibilities.

That would end division.

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

Scandinavia is not an obvious place to live for people from the Middle East or Northern Africa. It is dark, cold, expensive, and full of non-Muslims.

A main reason that so many keep living here is that we pay them large amounts of money to do so. As in, much more than the median salary in their home countries on net on average.

[Joakim Andersen @oskoreimotpol]

Vissa former av interetniskt våld är egentligen att betrakta som krigshandlingar.

[Cheryl 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @cherryfiiore]

White people are finally starting to wake up worldwide. Many are beginning to realise we're under attack and that they want us to go extinct.

That fucking terrifies them.

[Erik Dale 🇳🇴 @EuroDale]

It has never been officially acknowledged, but it is an open secret that the UK government sends its nudge unit to grieving families after tragedies like this. Their job is to warn the family they will be held responsible for any public reaction and to push statements about unity to shield the authorities.

In Henry Nowak's case, they clearly missed his godmother. She has spoken with raw honesty about the failures that cost her godson his life. Henry's sister Olivia has likewise shared and supported calls for real accountability instead of scripted silence.

A government that uses threats to manage and muzzle a family's grief has lost all moral authority.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

“You can’t politicise Henry Nowak’s death.”

This from the people who have politicised adverts, TV shows, films, sporting events, award ceremonies, documentaries, healthcare, school textbooks, college courses, the weather, and language itself!

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Poverty is the default condition of humanity. Capitalism is what reduced it more than any system in history.

Asking why capitalism hasn't eliminated all poverty is like asking why medicine hasn't eliminated all disease.

The real question is: compared to what?

Every society started poor. The wealthiest societies emerged where property rights, trade, and markets were strongest. The poorest societies emerged where they were weakest.

[Dr. Calum Miller @DrCalumMiller]

I am a medical doctor and I can say clearly: this is not good enough.

Henry Nowak was murdered and the police let him die.

When someone tells you they've been stabbed and are struggling to breathe, unless they pose an obvious risk to your own life, you make sure they are OK before you do anything else.

You don't pause to think about whether they might be racist, or whether they could be making it up.

There must be justice for Henry.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

“Don’t politicise this” means “only MY side gets to be vindicated by events”

And the people complaining about the “politicisation” of Henry Nowak’s murder not only politicised the death of George Floyd, they also politicised a fictional murder in a Netflix show.

[Joel Webbon @JoelWebbon]

It’s taken years, but I’ve finally discovered the true definition of “racism”.

Racism:

Whenever white people express any degree of the same in-group preference that every other race justifies and celebrates.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Imagine spending your whole life becoming an academic expert. Then a random guy online tells you that you are wrong about your own field. And he's right. But you can never admit that. Because it would mean admitting that your life was a lie. That is the dilemma of many academics.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

A sheep saw the snake approaching.

“I’ll run away and tell the others about you,” said the sheep.

“Stop causing division,” said the snake. “Don’t be so snakephobic.”

Three days later, the flock of sheep was dead. But at least they weren’t snakist.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The UK won two world wars and Japan lost one horrifically. Yet it’s Japan that is still a culturally homogeneous, high-trust, low-crime country.

Mass immigration does more damage to your nation than being hit with a nuclear bomb.

[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

I believe Japan should put an end to the situation in which its people are forced to accept religious practices that are incompatible with our own culture and way of life.

Specifically, the following behaviors:

・Group prayers in parks where children are playing

・Large numbers of people praying on sidewalks and in public spaces, swarming on the ground like cockroaches

・Complaining about the lack of halal food in Japan and demanding that it be provided

・Building mosques without proper permission and gathering there

These are not things we Japanese people have chosen for ourselves. They should not be forced upon us.

This is merely my personal opinion. I would be glad if others who share the same concerns would think about this issue together.

[MEMIS @MemIngenjoeren]

Svensk höger har en naiv föreställning om att om man bara levererar bra policy så kommer väljarna belöna en.

Samtidigt har vi en public service, en journalistkår och en kultursfär som kampanjat för vänstern hela mandatperioden.

En smart person sa häromdagen att libtardism/sosseri är svenskars defaultläge. Men jag skulle snarare säga att det handlar om programmering - och högern i Sverige förstår inte riktigt hur viktigt det är att äga narrativet. Inte hela tiden låta vänstern diktera spelreglerna.

[Handre @Handre]

One of the most devastating indictments of socialism sits buried in Soviet agricultural statistics: private plots representing just 3% of farmland consistently produced 25-30% of the USSR's total food output. Private ownership generated output that collective ownership could not match, even at vastly smaller scale.

Picture this absurdity. A collective farm worker tends 1,000 acres of state wheat with the enthusiasm of someone filling out tax forms. The same worker then rushes home to lavish attention on his quarter-acre private vegetable patch, working until sunset to coax maximum yield from every square foot. The difference in productivity per acre often reached 10:1 ratios. Sometimes higher.

On collective farms, additional effort generated zero additional reward for the individual worker. Your extra sweat benefited the collective (meaning nobody in particular) while you bore the full cost of that effort. Workers rationally allocated their energy toward their private plots where they captured 100% of marginal returns.

Soviet planners grasped the embarrassing implications and repeatedly restricted private plot sizes and banned certain crops, fearing that obvious productivity comparisons would undermine ideological credibility. The restrictions backfired spectacularly. Every limitation on private plots worsened food shortages and strengthened black market prices.

You can dress up collective ownership in whatever intellectual framework you prefer. You can invoke solidarity, social justice, or the greater good. But you cannot escape the fundamental reality that human beings respond to incentives, and collective ownership systematically destroys the connection between individual effort and individual reward.