In 1990, Poland was poorer than neighboring Belarus. By 2022, Poland was about 74% richer (GDP per capita).
Poland chose free enterprise and trade. Belarus kept much more of its economy under state control.
This is why I defend free-market entrepreneurialism. Giving people the freedom to build businesses can change what an entire generation can afford, and what their children can hope for.
I know a brilliant 34 year old Brazilian paediatric oncologist with degrees from top European universities, who speaks English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.
Literally the ideal immigrant.
He was doing a research fellowship in Toronto. But even with my help (a former Immigration Minister,) he couldn’t get permanent residency last year, so left for a top hospital in Texas.
Consider the opportunity cost for Canadian kids with cancer, or his potential fiscal and research contributions. Gone forever.😡
Meanwhile, folks who came here on dodgy study permits and as low skilled TFWs who barely speak basic English get PR to deal with the huge overhang of temporary residents and overstayers from the Trudeau years.
It is impossible to overstate the catastrophic damage done to our immigration system by the Trudeau government.
So could someone explain to me why people like @SeanFraserMP, who presided over one of the greatest policy failures in modern Canadian history, are still in Cabinet?
I think many of us can relate to feelings of charlatanry, especially artists. I’ve spent much of my career feeling like I’m “faking it until I’m making it”. Maybe he never realized how badly he got carried away. Maybe it’s sheer luck that the rest of us didn’t end up like him.
I’ve been completely swept away by the Jason Arday saga. I’ve been consuming everything I could get my hands on these past few days and what I realized is that after many days I still had never heard a single word from the man himself. Why is that? Finally I found an interview.
Whatever you think about his charlatanry - a human life ending in suicide is a terrible thing. As I was watching him, I felt drawn to his gaze. He clearly had a magnetic energy about him. I wish I could have talked with him knowing what we know now. I would have tried to help him
First thing I noticed is just how extraordinarily beautiful he was. It made me empathize with the guy in a way that’s impossible when you hear other people’s takes on him. Secondly, he was an articulate, beautiful speaker with a tone of warmth and compassion that seems genuine.
@colwight@JohnHMcWhorter This guy is unbearable. His pseudo-intellectual persona is vapid. He has this speech pattern where he seems to try to finish sentences quickly and abruptly to try and emulate profundity but in reality he’s just trying to minimize any chances to expose their lack of intellect.
One thing i think seems underrepresented, I'm sure in the UK there are many thousands of black intellectuals far better able to teach at Cambridge than Arday. And a million or more in the US better than Kendi. Why these poor disturbed souls? Because WUGS =WHITE UNIVERSITY GIRLS and their allies are in control. They need to shower their pathological empathy on the pityable.
Increasing their own virtue status with their fellows.
Its truly disgusting. The world is filled with disturbed people, I using then for social advantage is evil.
@colwight@JohnHMcWhorter This guy is unbearable. His pseudo-intellectual persona is vapid. He has this speech pattern where he seems to try to finish sentences quickly and abruptly to try and emulate profundity but in reality he’s just trying to minimize any chances to expose their lack of intellect.
Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later
@NoBanksNearby@mtaibbi Not at all. You mistake your own specific baggage and assumptions that you yourself bring to the interpretation of this as baked-in. But it’s not
“I am not a victim of colonization. I am a master of my own future.”
Every African needs that mindset.
Too many people have built careers on victimhood.
It is their whole identity, their whole way to earn a living, and it demands one thing from you: stay angry, stay stuck, and keep listening.
Meanwhile, life is passing by and everyone’s time gets wasted.
What a sad way to live…
Vietnamese man living in the U.S. for 50 years said Why bow to certain communities? Approximately 2 million Vietnamese has lived here since 1975, thrive with businesses, engineers, doctors, contributing more than taking, without demanding language use or apologies.
Lara Logan delivered one of the clearest, most powerful breakdowns you’ll hear this year — and it’s only 2 minutes long.
Her core argument: many of today’s biggest “crises” share the exact same pattern on purpose.
They take something natural or unavoidable…
→ label it a fatal flaw
→ declare it impossible to ever fully fix
→ and then demand endless control to “manage” it.
Examples she gives:
• Breathing out CO2 (essential for plants & all life) → framed as planetary poison
• Natural human tendency to feel most comfortable around shared culture & values (Chinatown, Little Italy, every diaspora ever) → branded as bigotry
• Normal masculine or feminine instincts → called “toxic”
• Even consciousness itself → “unconscious bias” you can never fully escape
“Create a problem that can never be solved,” she says, “and you can rule through it forever.”
Once you hear her explain the tactic, you start seeing it everywhere — climate, identity, food, energy, speech.
This 2:14 clip is crystal-clear, calm, and absolutely devastating to the narrative.
If you’ve felt something was off for years but couldn’t quite name it… this is it.
Watch with the sound on. Save it. Quote it.
It’s that important.