Ilya Vinn

SET & World traveler

[Ilya Vinn @ilyavinn]

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." Voltaire.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

The UK rape gang inquiry report just dropped and it should make your blood boil:

1. At least 250,000 young White girls were groomed, raped, trafficked, and tortured.

2. Perpetrators followed consistent tactics of befriending vulnerable girls as young as 11 with gifts, drugs, and alcohol before subjecting them to group rapes, violence, blackmail, pregnancies, forced conversions, and trafficking.

3. UK institutions—including police, social services, schools, NHS, and politicians—catastrophically failed victims through denial, ignored reports, criminalization of victims, destruction of evidence, and prioritization of political correctness and fears of “racism” accusations over child protection.

4. 87–95% of convicted perpetrators in group-based child sexual exploitation cases were Muslim. It was predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs. They operated across 149 local authority districts. Groups from Somali,
Iranian, Syrian, Turkish, and other Muslim origins were also involved.

5. The Muslim perpetrators operated under an honour- and
shame-based clan code that treated non-Muslim girls, especially White working class girls, as property available for sexual use. Girls were told that they’re “White trash” who deserved punishment.

People need to go to prison for this.

[Skscartoon @skscartoon]

The left has done nothing but take from the people, all while projecting their own thievery onto the wealth creators they envy.
Their reaction to the SpaceX IPO and Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire is all the proof you need

[Ilya Vinn @ilyavinn]

@CultureCrave Those are critical scores, not audience scores.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

People forget how The Mandalorian started with Werner Herzog.

Yes, it was a fun space western.

But there was a real philosophical struggle being explored too.

This speech should have been the core of the sequel stories.

Rebellion is easy. Can you build something better?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There is a question every history teacher could ask their class and almost none ever do.

Why grain?

Why, of all the foods a human being can eat, did every early state on earth, Egyptian, Sumerian, Chinese, Roman, Aztec, Inca, build its tax base on grain. Not on cattle. Not on fish. Not on tubers. Not on the protein-dense, calorie-dense, nutrient-complete foods that humans had been thriving on for two and a half million years before anyone planted a seed in a row.

Grain.

The answer is not that grain was the most nutritious. It demonstrably was not. The skeletal record of every population that transitioned from foraging to grain agriculture shows the same pattern. Average height drops by four to six inches in a generation. Bone density collapses. Dental caries appear for the first time in the human archaeological record. Iron deficiency, vitamin A deficiency, vitamin D deficiency, all of them appear in the bones of the first farmers and not in the bones of the foragers they replaced.

The answer is not that grain was easier to produce. Hunting a deer in a temperate forest is, calorie for calorie, considerably more efficient than ploughing, planting, weeding, harvesting, threshing, winnowing, and milling a field of wheat. The forager spent four hours a day on subsistence. The farmer spent twelve.

The answer is taxation.

Grain is the most legible food a state has ever encountered. It ripens at a known time, in a known place, in a known field, owned by a known farmer. It is harvested all at once. It is countable. It is storable. It is divisible. A tax assessor can stand at the edge of a field in August, look at the standing wheat, estimate the yield within ten percent, and know exactly how much the man who farms it owes the state when the threshing is done.

You cannot do this with a cow.

The cow walks. The cow can be moved. The cow can be hidden in the woods when the assessor arrives. The cow gives milk on a schedule the assessor cannot predict and meat at a moment of the farmer's choosing. The cow does not ripen. The cow does not present itself for counting. The cow is, from the perspective of a state trying to extract a percentage of the food supply, an administrative nightmare.

You cannot do this with a fish either, or a deer, or a wild pig, or any of the other foods a free human being might eat in a landscape that has not yet been carved into rectangles for the convenience of a clerk.

James Scott, the political scientist who wrote this analysis up in detail, called grain the foundation of state legibility. The state can see grain. The state cannot see anything else.

And once the state has built itself on grain, the state needs grain. Needs it badly. Needs every farmer in its territory growing it, paying it, depending on it, because the moment the farmer can feed himself on cattle or pigs or fish or the wild boar in the forest, the farmer has options. The farmer with options is not a taxpayer. The farmer with options is a man who can walk away.

So the state does what every state has done for six thousand years.

It privileges grain. It subsidises grain. It builds its temples around grain. It ascribes moral virtue to grain. It tells the farmer that the eating of bread is the mark of a civilised man and the eating of meat the mark of a barbarian. It restricts hunting. It encloses the commons. It taxes the cow at a rate the farmer cannot pay so the farmer sells the cow and buys the grain.

Six thousand years of this.

And then a nutritional establishment funded by grain processors and seed oil manufacturers tells you, in 2026, that the optimal human diet is grain at the base of a pyramid and red meat at the top in a sliver too thin to read.

They did not invent the lie last week.

They inherited it.

From the first man who ever stood at the edge of a wheat field with a clipboard.

[ryan van der veer @sumbios]

How Europe Is Designing a Tax System You Can’t Escape.

The Netherlands is introducing a 36% tax on unrealized investment gains in 2028, even if you don’t sell your assets.

The tax will be due each year on paper profits.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If you laid 2.4 million years of human evolution across the 24 hours of a clock:

We've been eating red meat for 24 hours.

We've been eating grains for 6 minutes.

We've been eating seed oils for 4 seconds.

And we're being told, with a straight face, that the chronic disease epidemic which appeared in the last 4 seconds is caused by the food we've been eating for the entire 24 hours.

The diseases arrived with the seed oils. The grains. The sugar. The processed convenience food.

The meat was here the whole time. Watching the rest of it move in.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Your vegan oat-and-almond latte killed more bees, drained more groundwater, and required more long-haul lorry mileage than a year's worth of dairy milk from a Welsh cow that drank rain. You will not have heard about this, because the carton has "plant-based" on it in nice green lettering.

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Every almond on every supermarket shelf, in every flapjack, blended into every oat-and-almond latte from London to Berlin, started life in one valley in central California.

A gallon of almond milk requires around 162 gallons of irrigation water. A gallon of British dairy milk uses around 8 gallons of tap water, and the rest comes from rain falling on grass that grows nothing else of nutritional value to humans. The cow drinks the rain. The almond tree drinks the aquifer.

California almonds consume approximately 1.1 trillion gallons of irrigation water annually. Roughly the same volume of water used by Los Angeles and San Francisco combined. Around two-thirds of the crop is then exported to Asia and Europe. A state in repeated drought emergencies, where over a million residents lack reliable access to clean drinking water, is locking its aquifer inside almonds and shipping it overseas in containers.

Almond trees bloom for three weeks in February. To pollinate 1.5 million acres of orchards in that window, California requires roughly two-thirds of every commercial honeybee in the United States to be physically transported into the Central Valley on flatbed lorries. The largest managed pollination event on earth, every year, conducted on the back of a truck.

The bees are released into groves sprayed with neonicotinoids, which scramble their navigation. Fungicides, which weaken their immune systems. Herbicides, which have already killed the wildflowers they would normally forage on between blooms.

Between June 2024 and March 2025, US commercial beekeepers lost 62% of their colonies. 1.6 million colonies dead. The largest honeybee die-off ever recorded in American history. The trigger period for the worst losses was the months immediately surrounding the almond bloom.

Meanwhile, beneath the orchards, the ground itself is sinking. The US Geological Survey has documented parts of the San Joaquin Valley that have subsided by up to 30 feet since groundwater pumping began in the 1920s. The valley lost as much elevation between 2006 and 2022 as it lost in the previous forty-five years. The Friant-Kern Canal has lost 60% of its flow capacity because the land beneath it sank faster than the canal could be redesigned.

Once those clay aquifer layers compact, the storage is permanently lost. The aquifer is being run as a one-way withdrawal, and California has been told this in formal hydrological reports for decades.

The land was never meant to grow almonds. The bees were never meant to live on flatbed trucks. The aquifer was never meant to be a tap.

But the carton says "plant-based" in nice green lettering.

So, presumably, you are saving the planet.

Carry on.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

You could shear a sheep in May.

It takes ten minutes. She is grateful. The fleece keeps you warm for forty years. When you're done, you bury it, and it becomes soil within three years.

Or, for ethical reasons, you could choose one of the alternatives.

Cotton. Requires 10,000 litres of water per jumper. The Aral Sea is now mostly dust because the Soviet Union diverted its rivers to grow it. But the jumper is "natural."

Polyester. Crude oil, extruded into thread. Sheds 700,000 microplastic fibres per wash. Lasts in landfill until approximately the year 2226. But "vegan."

Acrylic. Petrochemical, manufactured using a solvent the EU has classified as a reproductive hazard. Marketed as "cruelty-free." The cruelty is in the supply chain.

Bamboo. The plant is innocent. The fabric is bamboo viscose, dissolved in carbon disulphide in a Chinese chemical plant whose workers have elevated rates of psychosis. But it has a leaf on the label.

Hemp. Genuinely fine. Most of what is sold as hemp is a polyester blend, sold at four times the price.

Recycled polyester. Still sheds microplastics. Still ends up in landfill. Made from plastic bottles that could have been recycled into more bottles. The fashion industry has been quiet about this.

Vegan leather. Plastic. Reliably. Always.

Lab-grown fibres. Genetically modified bacteria fed on glucose syrup in a steel tank, in a factory powered by natural gas, packaged in plastic, shipped from California. Funded by venture capital. Not yet profitable.

Or you could shear the sheep in May. She'd appreciate it. The jumper would last forty years. The grass would grow back the same.

But of course, the sheep is the unethical option.

[Riley Check @holisticgrenade]

So according to the science:

Aluminum in deodorant is bad, but aluminum in pharmaceutical products is good.

Mercury in fish is bad, but mercury in pharmaceutical products is good.

Formaldehyde in flooring is bad, but formaldehyde in pharmaceutical products is good.

Glyphosate in food is bad, but glyphosate in pharmaceutical products is good.

And most importantly, people who reject pharmaceutical products are bad, and people who gladly accept them are good.

It almost seems like science will conclude just about anything as long as
they profit from it.

[Paul Saladino, MD @paulsaladinomd]

This therapy may be able to reverse alpha-gal syndrome, aka tick induced meat allergy...

Soliman Auricular Allergy Treatment (SAAT) uses acupuncture in the ear, a single needle placed for 3-4, weeks to help the immune system "reset."

Western medicine isn't really sure how it works but there's some evidence that it's quite effective. (PMID 35003502)

126 patients treated, 121 (96%) reported symptom remission.

More studies are needed, but this is compelling data.

Red meat (beef, lamb, venison) and dairy + collagen are incredibly nutrient-rich foods that are vital for optimal health.

Not being able to eat these is a big deal. I hope this therapy is studied more widely and this information gets to those who are suffering with alpha-gal.

Please share if you know someone who has this issue.

[Kevin Dalton @TheKevinDalton]

Gavin Newsom decimated the entire fast food industry in California after forcing through his $20 an hour minimum wage.

Now he is using a hilariously inaccurate new study to prove otherwise.

[Tom Hennessy @Tomhennessey69]

This video alone should disqualify anyone from that country from ever coming anywhere near America. When you learn about haitians in America killing, raping, and trashing everything, is it really any surprise?

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Most people think of philosophy as an abstraction that doesn't touch the real world, but they're wrong.

Most real world problems are philosophy problems, and most philosophy problems are "giving things the wrong names".

For example, if you call feral drug addicts "homeless people", then you can't solve the problem. You can only buy more houses for feral drug addicts to destroy.

In this case, we called the police and courts the "justice system".

But they're not. They can't be the justice system.

The function of a justice system would be to give everyone what they deserve.

Now, I deserve a hundred million dollars, a private Caribbean island, and a foot massage from Lauren Bacall in her prime, but I don't see the "justice" system lifting a finger to correct any of this, do you?

No, what we are supposed to have is a public safety system.

The function of a public safety system is to keep the public and their property safe.

If we understood that, we wouldn't care about what criminals deserve. We would care how likely they are to do it again. Or something worse.

In a public safety system, retardation and mental illness are not migrating factors. They are the opposite.

Because they mean that the criminal is more likely to pose a future threat.

We all understand this.

We all understand that the feral retard who stabs strangers on the train for being White and beautiful is a worse person than the man who murders his wife and her lover when he catches them in the act.

Not because of some abstract calculus of moral agency, of who is disadvantaged and who isn't, but because one is certainly going to murder more people if he can, while the other is a lot less likely to.

We've known for centuries, if not millennia, that it's the same small percentage of people doing all the robbing, raping, and murdering, over and over and over again.

And we've known for centuries that if you physically remove them from society, that's 100% effective in stopping them from doing it again.

The only hurdle is philosophical. Call it a "justice" system, and you have to argue endlessly about morality and redemption, and then some leftie thug-hugger weaponizes your own Christianity against you.

Call it public safety, and you confine the argument to likelihood of reoffense. Then you are in the realm of statistics. Which you can compute.

It all starts with naming things correctly, according to their actual nature.

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[NASA @NASA]

For the first time in over 50 years, humans are Moonbound.

At 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 UTC) NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft lifted off from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending four astronauts on a planned test flight around the Moon and back. https://t.co/0Q9ZB4IWVI

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

It's over.

The Spanish state murdered her.

They coerced a mentally ill woman into assisted suicide because she had depression after being raped in a state-run facility by MENA migrant minors after being kidnapped from her parents.

This is literal communism.

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

Bro explained the whole concept of business strategic thinking using lemons! 🍋