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[Jake @JHCFC95]

@John2606Terry This pic is from a 'Get up and give' charity day with GMTV in roughly 2002/03. I was 7/8 years old, and my Mum wouldn't let you sign my shirt as it was 'brand new' (Can't believe she said that, gutted). Would've looked nice on the wall. #CaptainLeaderLegend

[TNT Sports @tntsports]

This is heartbreaking to watch 🥺💔

Mark Allen admits he may never play snooker again. We’re all rooting for you, Mark 🙏❤️

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

To clarify. It’s actually even worse.
The horror of what our families face is this: my son’s killer, Valdo Calocane, was given a Section 37/41 hospital order. This is medical care, not a penal sentence.
By January 2027—the 3-year mark—he can legally apply to a tribunal to come out if deemed well enough. Worse, until our recent fight to close the loophole, these criminal patients actively pocketed up to £800/month in state benefits from their hospital beds.
A hospital order is not prison. We face a life sentence ensuring this monster is never released. #JusticeForBarnaby #NottinghamAttacks 💚💛

[Thaïs d’Escufon @ThaisEscufon]

“Don’t smash it up, she’s a sister!”

This shop manager protecting her business is spared by the thugs out of Muslim solidarity.

Still absolutely no connection to immigration.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

On my way to the office this morning, I passed a group of young people protesting, a Palestinian flag draped over their shoulders.

And I asked myself a question I can't shake: why does this generation always fall into the same trap? No matter the history. No matter the context. Even the ones from wealthy families, who went to the best schools, who were dealt every good card. Always the same trap.

I don't think it's stupidity. I think it's a mechanism. And a mechanism can be taken apart, piece by piece.

A. The observation: everything the state touches becomes unaffordable.

Look at economist Mark Perry's famous chart, the one people call "the chart of the century." It tracks US prices since 2000.

At the top, what explodes: hospital services, college tuition, textbooks, childcare, housing. Increases of +100%, +150%, up to +250%, far above general inflation.

At the bottom, what collapses: TVs, software, phones, toys, clothing. A TV today costs a fraction of what it did in 2000, for an infinitely better product.

Look at what separates the two groups. It isn't technology. It isn't complexity. It's one variable: how much the state is involved.

At the top, sectors that are subsidized, regulated, shielded from competition, where the state funds demand and blocks supply. At the bottom, sectors where companies fight every single morning to serve you better and cheaper.

B. The mechanism: why it's systematic.

When the state subsidizes demand without freeing supply, prices rise. Every time. Guaranteed student loans, and universities raise tuition. Housing aid plus blocked building permits, and rents skyrocket. Administered healthcare, and bureaucracy eats the budget before it ever reaches the patient.

In France it's even more vicious, because the price doesn't disappear: it hides. You never see the hospital bill, you pay it through payroll contributions. You never see the cost of school, you pay it through taxes. Public spending at 57% of GDP, one of the heaviest tax burdens in the world, more than €3.4 trillion in debt. And the result? Overflowing ERs, falling PISA scores, young people who can't afford to live in the city where they work.

The market didn't fail in these sectors. It was never allowed in.

C. Suffering demands a culprit.

A 22-year-old lives all of this in their bones. They can't find a place to live. Their degree either buries them in debt or opens no doors. The future feels blocked. That suffering is real, and I don't deny it for a second.

But human beings can't stand suffering without a culprit. They need a face. A scapegoat.

And this is where everything is decided: who taught them how to read the world?

D. Whoever tells the story picks the villain.

Schools are public. Universities are public. Culture runs on grants. Film goes through funding committees. Public broadcasting shapes the narratives. The people handing down the interpretive framework are, overwhelmingly, paid by the very system that creates the problem.

Do you really think that system is going to name itself as the culprit?

No. It names the capitalist. The boss. The landlord. "The rich." The multinational. The commercial West. Same role, same casting, every time.

E. One lens, a thousand causes.

And this brings me back to that flag. A generation taught to read every situation through a single lens, oppressor on one side, rich, Western, capitalist, oppressed on the other, will apply that lens everywhere. To housing. To climate. To conflicts on the other side of the world. The cause changes, the lens stays. That's why the trap is always the same: it's not the cause that draws them in, it's the way of thinking that was installed in them.

F. The perfect inversion.

Here's the irony. Capitalism is the force that drove down the price of almost everything it touched. The state is the force that blew up the price of almost everything it captured. And young people blame the first for the crimes of the second.

It's like blaming the firefighter for the fire because you saw him at the scene.

G. The ballot box confirms it.

In the US, a few weeks out from the midterms, a large share of urban young voters is getting ready to vote Democrat for more state, more spending, more regulation. New York elected a self-described socialist mayor, carried by young voters, on promises of rent freezes and city-run grocery stores. Rent freezes, the policy that has made housing scarcer everywhere it's been tried. The cure that worsens the disease.

In France, it's the same play in two acts. Part of the youth votes for the radical left, which promises more state. Another part votes for the center, which promises to "manage" the state well, and has dug the debt deeper than ever. Two different ballots, one shared assumption: the problem is the market, the solution is the state.

H. The way out.

These young people aren't stupid. They're right to be angry. They're just aiming at the wrong target.

The day they understand that their rent, their tuition and their hospital are expensive precisely because the state runs them, their anger will change direction. They'll stop protesting against those who create. They'll start protesting against those who capture.

That day, the greatest intellectual scam of our time will be over.

[Jake @JHCFC95]

That would have been goal of the decade by Caicedo #CFC

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

A lot of people are saying the same thing. ⬇️

[Manchester City @ManCity]

We're in the trenches guys!

[Joe 🐯 @joe8136]

Good few years for dyslexic Hull City fans

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is the future we shall bring into being

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

🚨WTF: There’s a village in Britain called “Islamabad” run by sharia law.

It’s home to private land with mosques, offices, training grounds, play areas for children, and new build homes.

The whole complex is surrounded by barbed wired fencing, with security on each entrance and exit.

No one is allowed in unless they have permission.

The streets are named all in Islamic names such as Mustafa Thabit Road, Taj Din Road and Majeedah Street.

A parallel Muslim community just outside Tilford, Surrey…

I’ve checked google maps and google earth, it all checks out.

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON????

[JD Vance @JDVance]

I was honored to be able to join the families of the fallen on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. To everyone who read names and recounted stories of their loved ones: thank you for your courage and for telling us a little about the person you lost.

It was an amazing tribute to the 3,000 people murdered that day. May God rest their souls and give comfort to those they left behind.

All of us have our own rituals to remember that day. I always read this story, and I share it in the hopes you find it as meaningful as I do.
https://t.co/XNydOHgHtL

[Mighty Blues - UTC @MightyBlues_UTC]

1. Gabriel red card
2. Rogers fouled in build up to second goal
3. Rogers booking when tripped by Rice near the edge of the box (no foul given)
4. Just 4 mins stoppage time after 6 sub windows, a goal and countless set pieces

Significant decisions, all against CFC 🤷‍♂️

[Dami @TheChelseaWay]

Are you fucking serious https://t.co/l1qfqFScWT

[The Final Whistle @Rufus_45]

How this was not a foul? Gabriel kicking Martinez on head, should have been straight RED. #ARSCHE

[Parody Premier League Match Centre @PL_Match_Centre]

#ARSCHE - 7”

Someone kicks Emi Martinez in the head in a penalty box melee.

Disgusting!

Oh wait, it’s Gabriel - Play on!

[〽️ @CFCms3]

The difference between Dibo Martinez and Robert Sanchez

[Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball]

"What do you bring to this young squad? Age!” 😅

Danny Welbeck assesses what he can add to this Chelsea squad this season 🗣️

[Jake @JHCFC95]

Same old Sanchez. Get Penders in at the weekend #CFC

[🇬🇧 W🌍rld class chap©️ @NickPullen5]

Fixed it.

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

Until last week, men over 50 were entitled to a free PSA prostate cancer check. But the government has now decided to withdraw that right. I cannot for the life of me work out what their reasoning might be.