Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure youโd never learn.
The one thing that shouldโve made you proud, not ashamed.
Musk: โAfter World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We donโt even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?โ
One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.
Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.
Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.
They took until there was nothing left to take.
America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.
And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.
Musk: โThe United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.โ
Not almost unprecedented.
It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.
The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.
Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.
Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.
Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.
Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.
Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.
That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.
Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.
No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.
Musk: โThereโs always like, well Americaโs done bad things. Well of course Americaโs done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.โ
Every nation on earth has blood in its history.
But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.
Itโs what it does when nobody can stop it.
When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.
Youโre being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.
By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.
Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.
The values that built this country didnโt just shape America.
They shaped the modern world.
AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.
1945 was the first test.
AI is the last.
That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.
The most powerful thing America ever did wasnโt building the bomb.
It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.
The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.
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"Why should I, as a female, be forced to get undressed in front of a biological male?"
His answer: Because magic words.
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Christopher Hitchens: โIn 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.โ
@ianmiles Lousy losers, uncivilized, violent behavior from an uncivilized, people who suddenly think they belong among the great football powerhouses and demand a seat at the table whether they deserve it or not.
They choked on their own shit and blame it on Arg, the elite of soccer.
If you don't celebrate your own traditions, then you will have to celebrate someone else's traditions.
The Norwegian team celebrates the right way and we all love it.
The Viking way. But also wearing the Cross of Christ with pride.