Rodolfo Freyre

University of Iowa Tippie College of Business '06. Cubs, Bears, Bulls and Hawkeyes Fan.

[Ravi @ravimane53]

She understood the assignment perfectly 🔥😭😭

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@EmmanuelMacron Typical French... Surrendering in wars that hey aren't involved in lol!

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets.

The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural.

Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them.

That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it.
After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble.

The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first.
Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon.

American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life.
Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake.

Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs.

We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating.

So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving.
We were manufacturing jealousy.

And it worked. The Wall came down.

But here’s what no one accounted for.

When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs.

And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle.

An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas.

And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized.

So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening.

Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude.

Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated.

Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass.

Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar.

Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity.

What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle.

For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked.

Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid.

Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.”

We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries.

Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit.

You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators.

What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization.

It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine.

That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report.

Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us”

Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

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@TheWrigleyWire Shaw doesn't have much AAA experience He could easily use at least month or two down there or til injuries to come up.

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@realcubsinsider I don't like Tucker any lower than 2. Also, bat PCA 9 until (if) he overtakes Haap at leadoff.

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@NicholasMoreano That was definitely a fake. I saw it all the way, once there was no ball on the ground.

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@FullCountTommy Would rather trade for Cease.

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@aaronsnearly @DeuceBaseman @FullCountTommy I'd rather bring up Ballesteros or Caissie for 1st

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@blakecowellx Now go get Cease.

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@jacobzanolla They should go get Dylan Cease. Probably would need to give Caissie tho instead of Triantos but it could work.

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@JAYChi_Cubs Too many lefties in the starting rotation is not a real problem. No one bats an eye at 4 or 5 RHPs on a team. They key is having many goood SPs. Which hand they throw with is irrelevant if they are good!

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@ApeLikeStonks @JAYChi_Cubs Brennan is currently a FA

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@voiceofcohen2 This is actually what they should do. They have plenty of room under the tax threshold... Cody should cost real value only. So unless it's for Luis Castillo or someone like that, you have to keep him.

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@HotStoveCubbies That is way too much for the cubs to give up. What do we get for bellinger? Also Bregman is a free agent and shouldn't be a part of this.

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@SpiegsAndHolmes Next week!

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@robertkschmitz THIS!

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@GBraggsJr23 Kinda getting tired of the Keenan targets!

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@LanceBroz @WatchMarquee How is Nazir Mule's rehab coming along? And is it actually possible for him to stick as a 2-way player?

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@chifanpatt2 All we need is Morel to hit 50 +