Comrade Robospierre

Deng did nothing wrong

[Comrade Robospierre @comrade_islaboy]

I was asked why I'm not going to do my Doctoral Studies in a local university.

Me: "cuz course work is a waste of time"

[John Ham @JohnHam2334]

Samuel L. Jackson as Helen of Troy wasn't on my 2026 bingo card.😭💀🎬

[IkarosP🏳️‍⚧️🪽 @icarusparchive]

U149 - キラメキ☆

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

ACADEMIC WRITING TIPS
1) Make coffee
2) Open word doc
3) Type sentence
4) Stare out the window contemplating the meaninglessness of existence
5) Delete sentence

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

“I’m not a regular lecturer; I’m a cool lecturer,” you tell yourself, as you reference another tv show cancelled before your students were born.

[satire_sarathy @SarathySatire]

@GiveMeBanHammer Fight for your AC Rights !!!

[Comrade Robospierre @comrade_islaboy]

Reading this on my air-conditioned room

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Paris’ deputy mayor says the U.S. bears “a significant amount of responsibility” for the deadly heatwave gripping France.

[ZTAP | HandlessHand @Thehandlesshand]

@Polymarket Opps

[Comrade Robospierre @comrade_islaboy]

That's why I don't subscribe to this emerging fad around degrowth and decoloniality.

[شرق‌زده sharghzadeh @sharghzadeh]

After the death of Christianity, Europeans adopted a secular religion (among its beliefs are environmentalism and de-growth).

Unlike Christianity, which gives beauty, meaning, solace, and the promise of everlasting life, this new religion produces no beauty or meaning, no solace or life, just suffering and decline.

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

Chinese people find the AC debate in France and EU hard to understand when even pigsty in China has AC:

[橙色熊猫 @xiongmaoxuanchn]

Me while reading how western Europeans don't have air conditioners from the comfort of my air-conditioned home in China

[Handre @Handre]

In 1965 Malaysia kicked Singapore out of the Malaysian federation, and Tunku Abdul Rahman thought he had won. He had dumped a port city with no oil, no farmland, no fresh water, and two and a half million people crammed onto an island smaller than Lake Tahoe. Sixty years later Singapore's GDP per capita runs past $84,000 while Malaysia limps along under $12,000. The man who got expelled built the richest patch of dirt in Asia. The man who did the expelling built the New Economic Policy.

Let's study what happened.

Start with what Singapore lacked. No resources. No hinterland. No domestic market worth the name. By every theory that says a nation needs raw materials to prosper, Singapore should have starved. Instead Lee Kuan Yew made his country a place where capital felt safe. Low tariffs. Easy entry for foreign firms. Courts that enforced contracts instead of shaking down the parties. Corporate tax dropped to 17 percent, personal rates capped at 22, no tax on most capital gains. Money flowed in because money is not stupid.

Malaysia chose the opposite. The New Economic Policy was racial central planning dressed up as fairness. Bumiputera quotas demanded that ethnic Malays hold 30 percent of corporate equity, that government contracts favor Malay-owned firms, that universities admit by race rather than ability. The state picked winners by bloodline. Predictably, the productive Chinese and Indian minorities took their capital and brains elsewhere, much of it to (where else) Singapore. You distort prices and incentives long enough, the talented people leave. They always leave.

Lee Kuan Yew was not perfect. The man jailed opponents, sued journalists into poverty, and ran a soft authoritarian state with a fondness for caning. He banned chewing gum, which is the kind of thing a control freak does when he runs out of real problems. Singapore is no libertarian paradise. The government owns Temasek and GIC, sovereign wealth funds sitting on close to a trillion dollars combined, and public housing covers 80 percent of the population. Plenty there for a free market thinker to dislike.

But here is the lesson Malaysia missed. Lee understood the difference between an interventionist government and a parasitic one. Singapore's state stayed mostly out of the price system. It kept inflation low, the currency credible, the bureaucracy clean, and trade open. Transparency International ranks it the fifth least corrupt country on earth. Malaysia sits at 57th, with a former prime minister, Najib Razak, currently serving time for looting 1MDB to the tune of billions. One country treated public office as a trust. The other treated it as a buffet.

Capital responds to incentives, not slogans. When Singapore guaranteed property rights and kept the rules predictable, Exxon and Shell built refineries, banks set up regional headquarters, and the port became the busiest transshipment hub in the world. When Malaysia told investors that race would override merit and that the rules could change whenever a minister felt like it, the smart money discounted everything by a risk premium. Over fifty years that premium compounds into a $70,000 gap in living standards.

[War Times @wartirnes]

The Battle of the Marne (1914) 🇫🇷🇩🇪

Colorized archival footage captures the fierce fighting of the First Battle of the Marne during the opening months of World War I.

French infantry in their iconic early-war blue coats and red trousers exchange fire from hillsides and ruined villages before launching mass bayonet charges across open ground. German troops advance through forests and trenches as artillery batteries unleash heavy bombardments across the battlefield.

The battle helped halt the German advance toward Paris and marked the bloody end of mobile warfare, ushering in the horrors of trench warfare that would define the Western Front for years to come.

Digitally restored, enhanced, and presented with sound design to recreate how these moments may have looked and sounded at the time.

[ProletarianOtter🔻 @ProleOtter]

White south african, saying this? Whoda thunk it

[Comrade Robospierre @comrade_islaboy]

I saw the real estate prices for the smallest condo. Naisip ko kaagad, bullshit prices eh especially in Metro Manila South.

That's why I consider it my extreme privilege to have inherited my grandparents' house.

[Bilyonaryo News Channel @bncdotph]

ARE GEN Z, MILLENNIALS BUILDING A NATION OF RENTERS?

A growing shift toward renting is raising questions on whether younger generations are moving away from traditional home ownership and long-term property investment.

Founder and CEO of Leechiu Property Consultants, David Leechiu says the trend is more cultural than structural, arguing that the fundamentals of hard work and saving will still define wealth-building.

More on this in the full episode of #FollowTheMoney.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

A pig resembling Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev has been shown online.

[Mark Ajzenstadt @mardehaym]

None of this is satire.

→ A company spent $500,000,000 on Claude in one month because nobody set usage limits

→ Uber ran leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used, not what they shipped

→ Uber burned their entire 2026 budget by April. Their COO said he can’t connect any of it to consumer features

→ A CTO told Axios employees were using enterprise AI to check the weather

→ Microsoft canceled most Claude Code licenses because the token bill spiraled

→ Companies are now laying people off to pay the AI bill. Not because AI replaced the work. Because the bill replaced the headcount.

[Comrade Robospierre @comrade_islaboy]

Absolute Cinema

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

Evening viewing recommendation? On @criterionchannl, watch K-ON! THE MOVIE (2011) as part of our Anime collection! https://t.co/OFg2q4h7vC

This heartfelt continuation of the beloved, slice-of-life anime series K-ON! traces the charming adventures of five high school students who come together to form the band Ho-kago Tea Time. Beautifully blending humor, music, and gentle emotion, K-ON! THE MOVIE is a bittersweet ode to friendship, creativity, and the bonds that last a lifetime.

[ACP Pennsylvania @ACP_Penn]

Comrades from ACP Pennsylvania were honored to join the Victory Day celebration hosted by @ACP_NewYork and the Victory Day Organizing Committee in New York City.

The American Communist Party salutes our Soviet and American heroes and pledges to carry on their fight against fascism into the future.

[American Communist Party @ACPMain]

The Birth of Sovintern: A New Communist International