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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Something is deeply wrong

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme).

Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident.

Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité.

Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison.

Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme.

Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable.

Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion.

C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part.

Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes.

Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre.

Alors pardon. Et au travail.

[Maarten Boudry @mboudry]

A while ago, I watched the infamous 47-minute video documenting the atrocities of October 7th — the one not made publicly available, to protect the privacy of the victims.

The worst part of this video is not what it displays, but who is displaying it: the perpetrators themselves. Gleefully. Sadistically. Unabashedly. Most of the footage was filmed by Hamas terrorists on their GoPro bodycams, some also by ordinary Gazan civilians on their cellphones.

Even the Nazis tried to cover up their atrocities, but Hamas brags about theirs for the entire world to see. The killers are euphoric throughout the massacre, and their relentless, ecstatic cries of "Allahu Akbar" (punctuated by the occasional "Kill the Jew!") are simply nauseating.

Some images are seared into my memory forever. I will never forget the two boys in their underwear — one with his eye socket hanging out of his face — asking his brother whether he thinks they're going to die, while the Hamas monster who had just thrown a grenade in their saferoom helps himself to a drink from their fridge, taking a casual break from the slaughter.

Neither will I ever forget the terrorists playing football with a severed head. Or the Thai migrant worker whose head is viciously hacked off with a garden hoe — another "Zionist colonizer" getting what he deserved, right?https://t.co/JvfJEtk8LA
Or the throngs of Gazans crowding around pickup trucks loaded with the mutilated corpses of Jewish women, filming and spitting on the bodies. Or the woman in Kibbutz Mefalsim, crouching and begging in vain for mercy.

There is some evidence of sexual violence in the video — the charred corpse of a young woman with her legs splayed and her genitals exposed — but not much. Apparently even Hamas draws a line somewhere: they are not as proud of raping Jewish women as they are of murdering them. Or, more likely, they simply didn't want to embarrass the delicate sensibilities of their legions of useful idiots in the West.

But yes — there was rape. Not "rape" in scare quotes, as the apologists would have it, but sadistic, murderous sexual violence, documented in a new damning new report by The Civil Commission, an independent Israeli women's rights NGO. (video summary here: https://t.co/LTTjiO1s7E)

Across its 180 pages, the report describes "a recurring pattern of rape and gang rape; sexual torture; mutilation; targeted shooting to the face, head and genital area; forced nudity; binding and restraint; genital burning; objects inserted into intimate areas; post-mortem sexual humiliation; and execution during or after sexual assault."

And it was premeditated and organized. The terrorists crossing into Israel carried printed Arabic-to-Hebrew phrasebooks with handy expressions like "take off your pants," "lie down," "spread your legs," and "don't make trouble." I wonder why they expected to need those particular phrases?

I know one thing: no civilized country on earth would tolerate the existence of an organization like Hamas on its border after October 7th. Not one. This includes every self-righteous Westerner currently lecturing Israel from thousands of kilometres away, without an inch of skin in the game.
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[healthbot @thehealthb0t]

Dr. Peter McCullough: Most doctors choose not to see the truth because they have taken the vaccine and recommended it to those around them.

"And now it is psychologically impossible for them to come to the internal recognition that this has been a disastrous mistake for their own health, and for the health of their family and their patients."

[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.

[Aimen Dean @AimenDean]

I genuinely don’t know whether to laugh or lose my mind anymore at this European hypocritical double standards.

When it comes to Vladimir Putin, suddenly it’s Churchillian resolve. No compromise. No dialogue. Arm Ukraine to the teeth, sanction everything that moves, wreck your own energy security if necessary - because tyranny must be confronted.

Fine. I actually respect the consistency of that … in isolation.

But then you turn around and lecture us - us - the Gulf monarchies, Jordan and Israel, about showing restraint with Tehran? About dialogue? About coexistence?

Are you serious?

For forty years - forty bloody years - this regime has been waging a shadow war across the region. Militias, proxies, sleeper cells, terror networks, destabilizing entire countries - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen - and threatening the Gulf monarchies, Jordan, and Israel nonstop.

This isn’t theoretical. This isn’t abstract. This is lived reality.

And yet here come Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, and the rest of the European choir, gently advising us to calm down, de-escalate, and - what was it again? - “give diplomacy a chance.”

Diplomacy with who, exactly? With a system that has built its entire regional strategy on plausible deniability and proxy terror violence?

You were willing to absorb inflation, energy shocks, and political backlash at home to confront Moscow. You made that choice. You said: this is the price of standing up to a tyrant.

So don’t come here and tell us - after decades of being on the receiving end - that we should just sit down, smile politely, and “coexist.”

Either you believe in confronting tyranny everywhere .. or you don’t.

Macron, Starmer, rest of EU leaders and top bureaucrats should just STFU and spare us the self righteous sanctimonious lectures!🤐🤫

[Douglas Murray @DouglasKMurray]

‘World leaders should be grateful the US is doing what's necessary in Iran.’ My column in Friday’s @nypost https://t.co/hp1VWtaQVM

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Flashback:
A Masterclass by Douglas Murrray! 🇮🇱

He completely destroyed Pierce Morgan’s narrative.

[Jim Matkin @JamesMatkin]

New Study: Ice Core Data Shows Modern Warming Is Statistically Unremarkable https://t.co/T0k472Det8 via @ccdeditor Yes, the doctored hockey stick of Mann built climate alarmism on deceit.

[Dr. Dawn Michael @DawnsMission]

🚨 Shocking 12-year European study: Statin use skyrocketed — but heart disease deaths didn’t drop at all!

Dr. Aseem Malhotra: 'One of the most powerful, lucrative drugs in history… yet the benefits are marginal.'

Big Pharma profits over results?

[Vinnie Tortorich @VinnieTortorich]

In 1977, the US government told Americans to cut fat and cut cholesterol.

Eggs were demonized. Butter got replaced with margarine.

Then came the drug.

Statins became the most prescribed medication in history.

Pfizer made $125 billion off Lipitor alone.

Here's what the actual numbers show:
To prevent a single heart attack in people with no prior heart disease, you have to treat 104 people with statins for 5 years.

And there's still no proven reduction in overall death.

Meanwhile the side effects — muscle damage, liver problems, cognitive decline, higher diabetes risk — are very real.

In 2015, the Dietary Guidelines quietly removed the cholesterol limit they'd spent 40 years enforcing.

No press conference. No apology. Nothing.

Your body makes cholesterol because it needs it.

Your brain is made of it.
Your hormones run on it.

They demonized something your body can't live without — then sold you a drug to fight it.

Swipe through and look at the numbers yourself.
#NSNG #Cholesterol #StatinDrugs #LowCarb #DietHeartHypothesis #AncelKeys #RealFood

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

In 2023, Antarctic sea ice hit a record low. Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey were quick to blame climate change, saying human CO2 emissions made such an event "four times more likely."

But then reality intervened.

Through 2025 and into 2026, Antarctic sea ice surged back, returning to levels similar to 1980 - a dramatic rebound the models did not predict.

This is the problem with climate attribution theatre.

When ice declines - it's climate change.
When it rebounds - it's ignored.
And a complicit media never updates the public.

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

Britain…

Women and children flee war. Men go to war. Every war. Every time. All of history.

So a bus pulls up in your town. Door opens. Out steps forty men. Young. Healthy. Alone. No wives. No children. No limp. No wound. No fear in their eyes.

And you’re told to call them refugees.

From what?

Nobody answers. Nobody’s allowed to ask. The bus pulls away. Another one’s already behind it.

Your daughter walks to school past that hotel now. Your wife locks the door when she didn’t used to. Your nan won’t go to the shop alone anymore. And if you say something… anything… you’re the problem.

That bus isn’t stopping. There’s no vote on it. No debate. No one you elected approved it. And the next one arrives tomorrow.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Steve Bannon
- Best friends with Epstein
- Hundreds of texts with Epstein
- Money laundering, Gifts, politics, border wall plans, even a doc to rehab Epstein’s image
- Likely visited the island multiple times

Reid Hoffman
- Hundreds of emails
- Confirmed visit to the Epstein Island
- Sent gifts to the island and “for the girls”
- Lying about his relationship with Epstein

Elon Musk
- Never visited the island
- Declined every single invitation
- Calling for full prosecutions + offering legal help for victims to tell the truth

Why does the media attack Elon Musk so hard with fake and twisted stories, but stay mostly quiet about Bannon and Hoffman?

Because the media is controlled by Democrats. They protect people on their side and go after people on the other side.

That’s why it’s important to share 𝕏 links with your friends and family, so they can learn the truth for themselves.

[naas erasmus @naase]

@emilejoubert @Theuniskraal 👏👏👏

[פלר חסן נחום Fleur Hassan-Nahoum @FleurHassanN]

This is the best explanation I have ever heard for obsessive #Jew hatred, by the one and only @GadSaad . Six degrees of Jew !

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

https://t.co/r8O7908z9C
It took 13 years for Douglas Murray’s prophecy to come true. Thirteen years.

And now it’s happening exactly as he said, word for word.

He stood at the Oxford Union and warned that the West would once again abandon the Jews—and this time, Israel would be forced to stand alone.

He said it when it was unpopular. He said it when it was “offensive.” And now it’s reality.

This isn’t just a clip. It’s a time bomb going off. Make it viral. The world needs to see what cowardice looks like in hindsight.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The full Elon Musk at Davos

in To The Lions Den

Elon's Davos dialogue with Larry Fink on January 23, 2026, straight outta Davos World Economic Forum ignites like a fusion reactor! Larry is no philosophical friend of Elon’s, well at least the last few years in the “eat bugs” era he supported. But this year well he wants to sing a new tune.

Here’s my take on the TOP 10 POINTS that define this Elon in control exchange:

1. Maximizing Civilization's Future: Elon's companies, SpaceX, Tesla, and beyond aim to boost the probability of a thriving civilization by extending consciousness beyond Earth. It's about safeguarding that fragile candle of life in the vast darkness!

2. Life as Precarious and Rare: To the best of our knowledge, consciousness might be unique to us, no aliens he has spotted yet (despite 9,000 satellites!). We must assume it's delicate and act accordingly, making multi-planetary life essential.

3. AI and Robotics for Global Abundance: The path to solving poverty and elevating living standards worldwide lies in ubiquitous AI and billions of humanoid robots. This could explode the global economy beyond all precedent, saturating human needs.

4. Safety First in AI/Robotics: We must tread carefully to avoid a "Terminator" dystopia. Benevolent regulation (echoing my Love Equation vibes) is key to ensuring these tools serve humanity without harm.

5. Robots Outnumbering Humans: In a benign future, robots will exceed people, creating such abundance that we'll struggle to even imagine new requests. Everyone on Earth could have one, caring for kids, pets, or elderly parents.

6. Human Purpose in an Automated World: Abundance means no forced labor, but it challenges our sense of meaning. Elon sees it as inevitable for broad prosperity, though imperfect—ossification from eternal life is a risk too!

7. Energy as the AI Bottleneck: Compute chips are ramping up exponentially, but electricity growth lags (4-5% yearly). China leads with over 1,000 GW of solar deployed annually, enough for half the U.S. steady-state power with batteries.

8. Solar Dominance, Even in Space: The sun rounds up to 100% of energy potential. SpaceX plans solar-powered AI satellites in 2-3 years for unlimited, efficient compute—bypassing Earth's limits with 5x more effectiveness.

9. Full Rocket Reusability Revolution: Starship achieves this in 2026, dropping space access costs by 100x (under $100/lb). This enables massive satellites, Mars missions, and a real Starfleet future.

10. AI Surpassing Humanity Soon: By end of 2026, AI could outsmart any single human; by 2030-31, it'll exceed all of us collectively. Full self-driving is "solved," with robotaxis widespread this year and humanoid sales next.

The 3 SURPRISE THINGS that had me pausing:

1. Aging as a Solvable, Obvious Problem: Elon predicts we'll reverse aging soon, it's not subtle, since all cells age uniformly (no one has an old left arm and young right!). But he warns: immortality risks societal stagnation. Mind-bending balance!

2. Space-Based AI Datacenters in 2-3 Years: Forget ground constraints solar in space is colder, sunnier, and 5x more powerful. This could make orbit the cheapest place for AI compute. Whoa, the cosmos as our ultimate server farm!

3. Elon's Personal Drive: From Sci-Fi to Reality: Inspired from childhood on Star Trek, his "Philosophy of Curiosity" seeks answers to existence, the universe, and aliens. He'd die on Mars (just not on impact)—a raw, human reminder that visionaries are dreamers at heart.

I think it was vital for Elon and others to not attend, but to take over the “palace” of the elite.

It looked like this…

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Gad Saad dismantles "forbidden knowledge": Pursuing truth must be deontological (absolute, like Kant's imperatives)—never okay to suppress facts for "greater good" consequences.

He contrasts:
- Deontological: Never lie. Full free speech. Presumption of innocence. Journalistic integrity.
- Consequentialist: Lie to spare feelings (e.g., "Do these jeans make me look fat? No, sweetie!").

But foundational principles can't bend: "I believe in free speech... but not for Trump." Or suppressing Hunter Biden's laptop (now proven corrupt) to sway elections. Or presuming Brett Kavanaugh guilty sans evidence.

This shift to consequentialism erodes science, democracy, justice—dangerous violations we've seen in recent years.

3:13 clip on why truth-seeking demands absolutes 👇

Where do you draw the line: Deontological absolutes for core values, or consequentialist flexibility? Real-world examples?

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Marco Rubio on Israel and the Jewish people.

I love this.