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[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history.

The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet.

Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention.

He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette.

He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents.

A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement.

Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier.

Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème.

Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs.

Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours.

La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[RT @RusselTaylor]

@KennethHyde @JerkShackSATX Hard to believe that you’re this fucking dumb and want to be governor of the great state of Texas. Yeah, take it out on the small business owner dipshit. 😂

[RT @RusselTaylor]

@SaraForTexLege Having a “disciplined campaign message” and being a totally inauthentic robotic puppet with dead eyes is not the same thing.

[RT @RusselTaylor]

@MAGAFortune @MLChristiansen You’re right. He’s not a sociopath because sociopaths are antisocial and generally do not make friends or influence people easily. James Pedofreako is a psychopath.

[RT @RusselTaylor]

@DaveV15 @MLChristiansen True. Being an inauthentic puppet is pretty standard these days.

[RT @RusselTaylor]

James Pedofreako is the epitome or authenticity. The only thing worse than a Texas Republican is a Texas Democrat.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

I’m co-authoring legislation to explicitly teach “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in our schools.

I’ve also filed House Bill 4111 which would require school districts over a certain size to hire a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer.

[RT @RusselTaylor]

@chuckwjones3 @jamestalarico Not surprising a lifelong Texas Republican would vote for Pedofreako.

[Jonathan Newman @NewmanJ_R]

(He did not)

[RT @RusselTaylor]

@HarmeetKDhillon @TaraBull Your ass.

[RT @RusselTaylor]

@5149jamesli @algoodgroup So people like you legitimize the election by saying dumb shit like this.

[RT @RusselTaylor]

Calling you a “normie” would be polite if you can’t entertain the absolute fact that all voting systems are hackable as has been publicly demonstrated, and that it’s in the absolute top interest of the uniparty of this country to claim otherwise. Massive voting irregularities are all too common since we switched from paper ballots. This election is just one more example.

[RT @RusselTaylor]

Talking about the money only gives legitimacy to this election. The money is a smoke screen. The amount of money Miriam Adlesn spent is inconsequential to her and was only given to provide cover for the fact that the election was fixed. An increase of over 300% in voter turnout. Improbable. As long as we use computer computers for voting, we will never have a legitimate election..

[RT @RusselTaylor]

@Chesschick01 It’s hilarious that people think this election was “bought”. The money is a smoke screen. This election and every election can be rigged as long as we use computer voting systems.

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

🚨 A Google review left for Ed Gallrein’s horse stable business before he ran for Congress:

“Absolutely beware of boarding your horse here. Ed plays a nice guy persona until one day he doesn't. He's the most rude and disrespectful person l've come across in a long time. Trust me this is not the place you want to board. He has his own horse here that has a festering wound that he's just let go because he won't listen to the vet. He's so stubborn when it comes to care of horses that vets won't go back there. It's not a safe or stable environment for your animals.”

[RT @RusselTaylor]

@data_atx Jesus. How much is @Flock_Safety paying you? This is pathetic.

[RT @RusselTaylor]

Here’s the thing. $10 million means absolutely nothing to someone like Miriam Adelson. It’s a day’s interest. $10 million is just the cost of the cover story for the actual steal that will happen when Israel fixes the results through the computer voting system. @MassieforKY