Mastercord

A bystander to the collapse of civilisation

[Mastercord @_Mastercord_]

@RadarFennec It does bear some resemblance to the F-16, doesn't it? In any case, even at first glance, it doesn't look like the product of an independent Israeli development program.

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

@realninawysocka I never said any such thing

[Mastercord @_Mastercord_]

@0TulsiGabbard2

[Mastercord @_Mastercord_]

Western friends, this is not the real Tulsi Gabbard.

[Mastercord @_Mastercord_]

@member95225531 @SyrDemObs

[Mastercord @_Mastercord_]

@MartinSonneborn "Unsere notorische Selbstüberschätzung in der EU und unser Unvermögen zu begreifen, was außerhalb Europas vor sich geht, sind längst nicht mehr nur ein intellektuelles Versagen, [...]."

Das ist allzu oft auf hausgemachte Zensur zurückzuführen. Wir belügen uns selbst.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It always astonishes me how there is virtually ZERO public debate - or even public awareness - in Europe about the decisions that will most shape ordinary people's lives.

These days, the EU is drafting a new anti-China legal framework where - quite literally - the more affordable and competitive Chinese products are, the more illegal they'd become.

You'd think EU citizens would want to be informed about such things - as it couldn't be more consequential for their prosperity.

Yet I bet virtually no EU citizen is even aware of it, beyond a vague sense that there is some sort of trade dispute going on.

So what's going on exactly? It all centers around a new legal instrument the EU is drafting called the "overcapacity instrument" (https://t.co/mNpCMudYyS).

First of all, the very notion of "overcapacity" is pretty ridiculous to begin with, especially the way it's being defined by the EU, as it basically means being competitive enough to export.

By this definition of "overcapacity," pretty much every European industry that's ever run a trade surplus - German cars, French wine, Italian fashion - has been guilty of "overcapacity."

I'm not even exaggerating: if you read this study by the EU Parliament on "Industrial overcapacities, with a focus on China" (https://t.co/TcwEBoL8mD), they define "overcapacity" as building more capacity than your domestic market can absorb. So the moment you build capacity to export abroad, you're in "overcapacity."

Utterly ridiculous.

And what this "overcapacity instrument" is about is creating a permanent legal mechanism for the EU to block Chinese competition across whole sectors of the economy, if they happen to be in "overcapacity."

In effect, this means that if China is competitive globally in a given sector in such a way that it exports a lot, that's proof of overcapacity, and legally it'd mean that the entire sector can be restricted from the EU market.

Which means it really, factually, is a legal framework where the more affordable and competitive your products are, the more illegal they become.

Which is a CRAZY economic concept! 🤦‍♂️

Please note that it's different from the anti-subsidy legal instrument, which the EU has already put in place in 2023 (the "Foreign Subsidies Regulation": https://t.co/SvPKFyN0zo).

This "overcapacity instrument" would be above and beyond this: it wouldn't even matter if a particular sector was subsidized by the Chinese government or not, the mere fact of its competitiveness in exports would be grounds for restrictions in the EU.

It doesn't take a genius to understand how badly this could impact everyday people: this is European consumers being forced to pay more for worse products by law, so that uncompetitive European firms don't have to improve.

Politicians frame it as avoiding a "China shock 2.0" but really this is choosing an even steeper self-inflicted decline than is already the case, where EU citizens would subsidize mediocre EU companies that would have even less pressure to catch up. It's a hidden tax: subsidies for uncompetitive firms paid by consumers instead of governments, which in turn makes them less incentivized to become competitive.

The first "China shock" did de-industrialize Europe somewhat, but at least it made things cheaper for European consumers. If this becomes Europe's response to a second "China shock" not only it'd make everything more expensive but it'd do nothing for EU industry: you don't become competitive by banning the competition...

Look at China itself: the way it industrialized was NOT by banning Western firms but on the contrary by welcoming them strategically and learning from them. You learn to compete by... competing, duh!

What I find most shocking in all of this isn't even the policy itself - you can make arguments for and against protectionism, and reasonable people can disagree.

What's shocking is that virtually no European media outlet is explaining any of this to the public. This is unarguably one of the single most consequential economic decisions the EU will make this decade, affecting the price of everything, and it's being drafted in near-total silence.

No newspaper is running the headline "EU plans to make Chinese goods illegal if they're too affordable" - even though that's essentially what's happening.

But that's what you call a "democracy" with "freedom of expression" these days apparently...

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

The only thing that stops violent men from raping you and your society are other men who are equally willing to be violent in stopping the rapists. The West has decided that the highest virtue is to quietly comply with the destruction of your civilization because to do otherwise is bigoted toward the rapists. It really is that simple.

[André @oracles]

Today Instagram had this massive exploit where hackers were just stealing rare handles left and right. Hundreds of accounts gone.

People losing handles they’ve owned since 2010, some worth hundreds of thousands.

I own a few rare ones so I was actually stressed watching this happen in real time, which I haven’t been in years.

Obama White House account got hit.

These aren’t some random new accounts, these are verified, locked down accounts and they still got compromised.

The thing is the exploit is so simple it’s almost funny. Attacker goes to Forgot Password, says their account is hacked, turns on a VPN to match the target’s location (which now you can find on the about section of the page).

Instagram’s AI support flow asks them to verify with a selfie.

They grab a photo from the target’s profile, run it through an AI video generator to make an animation of the person’s face moving around, upload that to Meta’s AI as proof.

And Meta’s AI just accepts it because it can’t tell the difference between a real selfie and an AI-generated video of someone’s face
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Once verified they change the email to theirs. Password reset link goes to their email. They own it now. 2FA gets bypassed somehow in the process but honestly I don’t know exactly how, just that it did.

Point is even locked down accounts went down.

Then you try to recover your account and you’re talking to a chatbot that has zero ability to help.

You can’t escalate to a human. You’re just stuck. Your asset is gone and there’s no one to call.

The whole thing just highlighted how stupid it is to automate account security without any human in the loop.

One AI fooling another AI while there’s literally no person anywhere to catch it.

Meta took hours to even acknowledge it while accounts were getting stolen every minute.

Now thankfully it’s patched but I don’t think it will be the last one. Stay safe!

[MichaeloKeeffe @Mick_O_Keeffe]

Foreign born population of each country :

Jan 2001 Jan 2025
🇦🇹 8.7% 22.5%
🇧🇪 8.4% 20.2%
🇩🇰 4.8% 14.4%
🇫🇷 5.5% 14.0%
🇩🇪 8.9% 20.5%
🇬🇷 6.9% 11.0%
🇮🇸 3.1% 21.8%
🇮🇪 4.0% 23.3%
🇱🇺 37.5% 51.5%
🇳🇱 4.1% 16.8%
🇳🇴 4.1% 18.7%
🇸🇮 2.1% 15.5%
🇪🇸 3.4% 19.3%
🇸🇪 5.3% 20.8%
🇬🇧 4.3% 20.0%

Now add children born to foreign parents and the situation looks even worse.

We are living through the demographic annihilation of the people of Europe.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The house centipede in your bathroom is the reason you don't have cockroaches.

That fast, leggy, kinda creepy looking thing you just saw scurry under the door is a Scutigera coleoptrata. It eats silverfish, cockroaches, spiders, ants, termites, and bed bug nymphs. The University of Georgia Extension calls house centipedes "allies in home pest control."

One house centipede can eat its body weight in pests every few days, hunting at night while you sleep. They don't damage your house, don't eat your food, don't carry disease, and don't bite unless you grab one.

Best of all: they're self limiting. When they run out of pests, they begin to hunt each other.

If you kill the centipedes, the pests they were eating multiply. Homes that exterminate house centipedes typically see cockroach, silverfish, and spider populations rise.

The bug that looks like a horror movie prop is doing the work of an exterminator for free. The bug it eats is the one that would actually wreck your stuff.

[Mastercord @_Mastercord_]

@chang5hyn

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

“I’m here for my money and my free house. It’s my dream.”

Notice the entitlement. MY money and MY free house.

So this is your reminder that mass immigration at this scale is impossible without heavy government funding.

They are not coming to the West to work.

They are coming for the subsidized lifestyle you pay for.
Their net contribution is not zero, it is negative.

This would never have happened at this level without a massive public trough funding it. Your tax dollars are the incentive.

You work hard, the government takes your money, and funnels it to them.

You are funding this reality. Take it up with your government.
They are the ones confiscating your earnings to incentivize mass immigration.

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

I am deeply grateful for the trust President Trump placed in me and for the opportunity to lead @ODNIgov for the last year and a half.

Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026. My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

God bless Thomas Massie.

He walks out of this with his honor intact. He’s a patriot & kept his integrity.

As long as the voters give their votes to whoever can run the most ads we will have politicians who are purchased by foreign governments & corporate interests.

[Mastercord @_Mastercord_]

@MikeBenzCyber The Germans even have a law about altering/destroying the flag of the European Union or mocking their hymn. Section 90c of the German Criminal Code.

https://t.co/MPDInsKyFm

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

President Trump is frustrated because the Israelis sold him the pipe dream that arming the Kurds & other Iranian dissidents would quickly topple the Iranian regime, leading to a quick victory. This failed to happen because it was a plan based on wishful thinking not the realities on the ground.

Instead of being mad at the Kurds, who are our critical counter terrorism partners, he should focus his ire on the Israeli government officials who lied to him to get us entrenched in this war and whoever in his inner circle that allowed the Israelis to manipulate U.S. policy to support Israel's primary goal.

Israel's primary goal was to get us into the war, not to make sure the pipe dream they were selling would actually work.

Israel has always understood that they can't topple the Iranian regime without us doing the majority of the fighting, they needed to get us into the war.

The Israelis kept their goal in mind when feeding us "intel" about Iran. Unfortunately, President Trump's inner circle failed to keep Israel's main goal in mind when receiving Israeli "intel" and providing context to the President.

[Mastercord @_Mastercord_]

@hayqmets What a traitor...

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: MAGA evangelical leaders gather in Mar-a-Lago to bless and dedicate a gold statue dedicate to Donald Trump.

[Hernan Cortes @CyberPunkCortes]

There’s no food up there, and he knows there’s no food up there. He climbed up there to experience being up there.