Harald Vinje

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[DHH @dhh]

May Europe one day wake up and start striving for this level of capitalistic homerun. Dump the degrowth nonsense, celebrate progress, and once again reach for the stars.

[DHH @dhh]

And climate hysteria continues to haunt the European psyche. Without confession, without forgiveness, the secular circus of degrowth keeps clowning the old world. Pantomiming hell with apocalypse theatrics.

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

Why on earth is the Deputy Foreign Minister of Norway traveling to Iran to engage with a murderous theocratic regime that is imprisoning, torturing, and executing dissidents and protesters? At what point does the endless policy of “dialogue” become outright moral blindness?

Cut off relations with this illegitimate regime and expel the diplomats of the Islamic regime! Enough!

[Harald Vinje @haraldvin]

@Holbrillan Farfar ❤️ Hyggelige ord 🕯️

[Bjarte 🎗️ @bjellas]

@OGadeholt En drøy time etter det påståtte israelske angrepet mot Al Ali-sykehuset den 17. oktober 2023 var norske medier på tlf med Mads Gilbert, Leger uten grenser og de faste kritikerne av Israel. Betydelig mer stille fra dem nå som Pakistan har bombet et sykehus med 400 rusmisbrukere.

[Masud Gharahkhani @MasudGh]

47 år med helvete for egen befolkning og verden er resultatet av regimet i Iran. Hat, undertrykkelse, terror og korrupsjon.

Et land der man bruker landets enorme naturressurser på korrupsjon til eliten og oppbygging av terror i andre land. Et land som forsyner droner som dreper uskyldige mennesker i Ukraina.

Et land der kvinner er mindre verdt. Et land der tusenvis av unge blir massakrert fordi de drømmer om menneskerettigheter, demokrati og frihet.

Mine besteforeldre døde i Iran. Ganske alene ved livets slutt. Vi flyktet men de ville dø i det landet de var født i. De mente alltid at dette regimet sto for ondskap. Hele verden ser nå det samme. Det som også er tydelig for hele verden: Det iranske folk vil ikke ha det islamske regimet.

Mine besteforeldre ga aldri opp håpet: At måtte det iranske folk seire en dag. For ungdommens fremtid. For kvinner og likestilling. For en tryggere verden. For Azadi( Frihet på persisk).

Det er Norge som er mitt land. Men jeg håper inderlig at mine besteforeldres drøm går i oppfyllelse.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

The “everything is too expensive now” claim falls apart once you separate politicized goods from market goods.

The things that exploded in price are exactly where government intervenes most: housing, healthcare, education, childcare, energy. Subsidies inflate demand, regulation restricts supply, and prices rise.

Meanwhile, in areas left mostly to markets, prices fall while quality explodes. Electronics, communication, entertainment, data, and consumer goods are cheaper and vastly better.

The past is also romanticized. Many “basic needs” didn’t exist, were luxuries, or were outright inaccessible. Which is why the smartphone alone destroys the “nothing trickles down” argument.

A single smartphone replaces what once required:
• a landline and long-distance calling plans
• a camera and film plus development costs
• a video camera
• a map collection and atlas
• a GPS unit
• a calculator
• a calendar and planner
• a watch and alarm clock
• a radio
• a television
• a newspaper subscription
• an encyclopedia set
• a dictionary and thesaurus
• a flashlight
• a voice recorder
• a music player and physical albums
• a personal computer for many tasks
• a library card and physical travel to information
• airline agents and travel books
• a bank branch visit
• classifieds and want ads

The cost of all that in the past was massive or impossible. Today it fits in your pocket.

Abundance didn’t come from government trying to make things cheaper.
It came from innovation, competition, and freedom to produce.

[Harald Vinje @haraldvin]

@RockChartrand @MetamateDaz Interestingly, the people complaining most about affordability, living wage etc. are often the ones driving prices up by pushing restrictive regulations.

One day, they'll say "Housing should be affordable". The next they say "Everyone's entitled to at least 800 sq.ft"

Pick one.

[Ridvan Aydemir | Apostate Prophet @ApostateProphet]

When the Iranian protests started, Donald Trump encouraged them.

He told Iranians to continue protesting and fighting.

He told them that the US will support them.

He said he would come to their aid if the Islamic Regime began killing them.

He said he will strike the Islamic regime and the regime will end soon.

He encouraged them more and more and more, by directly speaking to them.

Thousands of Iranians were massacred by the Islamic regime throughout the weeks.

No help ever arrived.

To make matters worse, Trump thanked the Islamic regime for supposedly not executing hundreds of protesters. The Islamic Regime DID murder thousands and execute protesters. Khamenei then publicly called Trump a criminal and called America the enemy.

This is shameful and disgusting.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

People should actually reflect deeply on this post. It will reveal a lot about a lot.

[Nikos Sotirakopoulos @Nikos_17]

Every time 500 public sector workers picket in the West, my timeline would flood with ‘revolution will not be televised’ posts etc.
And now an actual revolution is on,
Western intelligentsia is silent.
What a shame.
Solidarity to the Iranian people.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The social safety nets in Europe aren’t socialism in an ideological way. They are mature capitalist nations with 75 years of benefiting from American innovation, growth, & military protection. But there’s no new America for America, or New York City, to coast on.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The "warmth of collectivism" is to freeze while those with heated dachas tell you how noble your sacrifice is.

[Harald Vinje @haraldvin]

@SMMSimen Bør være ganske tydelig at du er en jødehater når det første instinktet ditt er å kalle meg en islamofob etter en video om en islamistisk massakre på jøder i Sydney i går.

Samme saklighetsnivå.

[Harald Vinje @haraldvin]

@SMMSimen Imponerende argument!

[Harald Vinje @haraldvin]

https://t.co/bHEyo99WHN

[Nikos Sotirakopoulos @Nikos_17]

Proper steps moving on,
if ‘never again’ is to have any meaning:

1) Identify, loudly and clearly, radical Islam as an enemy. This needs to be done at official, heads of state level.

2) Declare any state promoting this ideology as an enemy state.
Cut off all diplomatic relations. Sanction them hard.

3) Hire massively in security apparatuses
(surveillance, counter-terrorism etc).

4) Keep close tabs on islamist communities in the West.
Infiltrate groups and communication channels.
Peaceful Muslims = leave them alone.
But throw the book on any preacher of hate
(remember: he is now enemy agent, since you’ve declared war on radical Islam),
with anything you have within the rule of law.

PS: all the above should have happened on
September 12, 2001.
But better late than never.

[Nikos Sotirakopoulos @Nikos_17]

And it's a shame, and we should take this personally.
Someone, somewhere, is building something brilliant.
Maybe something that will improve, or save, our lives.
And they have to jump through hoops, barriers, delays,
set by people who never have, or will, produce anything.

[Harald Vinje @haraldvin]

@grahamformaine It's not "hard work". It's valuable work. Some people are extremely talented at producing goods and services other people value. The least we should do is leave those to their own devices.

Poisonous envy at a political level will kill production and innovation.