Frans Arts

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Animal Farm by George Orwell, in short:

1. Old Major, the fattest pig on the farm, delivers a sermon about "liberation." He has never missed a meal in his life – but he is the most envious of the Man – the producer, the entrepreneur…

2. “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy” – the ideology is manufactured from the start, designed not to free the animals but to direct their resentment away from the pigs and toward a useful target. Every revolution needs an enemy. The pigs chose the farmer.

3. The revolution’s commandments were never a constitution. They were a management tool – sacred enough to motivate, vague enough to rewrite, and controlled from the beginning by the only ones who could read – the pigs.

4. Boxer the horse, the most honest creature on the farm, decent, loyal yet naive, totally devoted, responds to every setback with the same answer: “I will work harder!” He means it completely. He works himself half to death. It is the most heartbreaking sentence in the book – because the new system is perfectly designed to absorb exactly that kind of devotion and give nothing back.
When he finally collapses from exhaustion, he is sold to the knacker. For cash. The pigs buy more whisky with the proceeds.
The other animals are told he died in a hospital receiving the best care. The most useful animal on the farm is the one who never once suspects he is the product.

5. The commandments get rewritten at night not because power corrupted the revolution – the rewriting was always the plan. Language was the weapon from the first speech Old Major ever gave.

6. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” – this is not the system’s failure. It is the system’s true face, finally visible once the animals are too exhausted and confused to object.

7. Orwell’s message: the lie came first. And the "liberation" it promised delivered something far worse than what came before – because the fattest pig was merely selfish at the start, but by the end is selfish and fluent in the language of "justice." He took all the eggs. He took everything. And made the hens thank him for it.
The fattest pig knew what he was doing all along…

[Frans Arts @ransfarts]

@Devon_Eriksen_ @AnEriksenWife 🙋‍♂️

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

Why did Ayn Rand choose America?
Because she recognized something many take for granted: a nation founded on individual rights is unlike any other.

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

The standard of living rises when innovators are free to build.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Lmao. And there’s the plan. Right there. Laid bare in your face. Create the problem (stranger danger), sell the solution (more authoritative surveillance state), repeat forever. Everyone owes conspiracy theorists an apology who have been screaming about this for years.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Middle-class leftists don't really understand the difference between wealth and money.

That's because what they have is a job as a retarded commie journalist, which pays them money, which they put in the bank before spending it on Funko Pops, cannabis, dildos, and tofu.

They think wealth is "more money". And when they think about "more money", they think about all the Funko Pops they want but can't afford, and about how Elon Musk can afford more Funko Pops than he could ever use, that is if Funko Pops could be used for anything, which they can't, unless you count leftists' strange propensity for putting unexpected things in places they do not belong.

They don't understand that Elon Musk doesn't have some sort of special titanium credit bank card connected to a bank account with 260,000,000,000 munnies in it, for the buying of Funko Pops.

What he has is some businesses he started, and a bunch of dudes whose job it is to guess the value of things have arrived at the consensus that they are worth that much. That guess changes by the hour.

Leftists can't really wrap their heads around this idea, not in the intuitive sense that would allow them to engage with it as a concept. They can't imagine what it would be like to be in that position.

Why not?

Because if they could, they wouldn't be leftists. In fact, many people can, and therefore are not leftists, so leftists are really just the group of people who are self-selected for not being able to figure this out.

This is why they can, without blushing, describe "reusable space launch capability" as "unnecessary wealth".

They don't understand that if you took every share of SpaceX away from Elon Musk, and all the other shareholders, it would still be valued at 200 billion dollars (or whatever it is on the day you are reading this), but it would not magically transform into 200 billion one-dollar bills that you could give to left-wing journalists to buy more Funko Pops with. It would still be a bunch of factories, and designs, and offices, and employment contracts, and rocket engines, and stuff.

The reality is that the earn-spend-consume model of money that retarded leftist commie journos are familiar with has an upper limit. Once you've spent on much on yourself as you want, a ceiling which varies depending on your character, you need a new source of meaning and purpose in life.

You need to develop different ambitions.

Then your spending becomes not about what you want to have, but what you want to create. You build the things you want to see in the world.

This is where money becomes wealth. Money is used to buy things. Wealth is used to build things.

When you create something that a lot of people care about, it's valued at a huge amount of money, because money is a measure of fucks given.

So maybe, when you have enough money to buy a mansion and a yacht, you decide that what you really want is "reusable space launch capability", because you're a nerd who reads science fiction, and so you think it's a kind of dumb idea for humanity to spend all its time on one tiny dust speck in an infinite universe.

So you buy some computers and you hire some dudes who are good at designing things on computers, and then you buy some metal, and hire some dudes who are good at cutting metal and sticking it together, and pretty soon you're the proud owner of whole bunch of stuff.... computers and factories and tanks full of liquid oxygen and launch pads and most importantly, rocket boosters.

And no Funko Pops. Not a single one.

Now, it's worth more money than you started with, because the people who guess the value of things (it's called a "stock market") are starting to agree that this was maybe a pretty good idea.

So, on paper, you're richer than you ever were. But that's your not bank account, or your Funko Pop collection. That's the fact that you now control humanity's effort to leave the gravity well. And you control it because you built it in the first place.

Wealth inequality is a measure of technological progress.

It doesn't exist in low-tech societies where everyone is chasing antelope with a throwing stick and a stone-tipped spear. Because no one invents anything and there's nothing to own.

And it peaks in high-tech societies where enterprising people create entire economies ex nihilo by investing in a wild idea. Because things are being invented and people give a fuck about them, and so the innovators have a much higher net worth than the people who sit around eating processed snack foods and shopping for Funko Pops on the internet.

Reducing wealth inequality is a disaster, and typically requires one. If you reduce wealth inequality in a free market, you are either outright destroying growth enterprises, or transferring control of them to non-producers.

Which is what leftists really are. Useless journo flacks and cloistered academics who want to tear down the engines of tech innovation so they can buy more middle class consumer goods, until they tear down the engines that produce those, too.

The most important task in all of economics is keeping people who don't get shit done out of the way of people who do.

Leave humanity's orbital launch capability alone, Zaid.

It is already in the hands of the people who are best qualified to operate it. We know that because they are ones who built it in the first place.

Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben bei das doomkompfen. Ist easy schnappen der springenverk.

[LifeMathMoney ₿ | Unapologetic Truths. @LifeMathMoney]

If you are fat, the highest ROI thing you can do for your health is LOSE FAT.

You have mental fog, high BP, high cholesterol, etc. because you are TOO FAT

You don't need saunas, cold showers, ice baths, 3 cups of coffee, etc.

You need to eat less and lose some fat.

Worrying about things like seed oils when you have excess body fat, is like worrying about the little scratch on the door of your car when it has a busted engine

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: SPECIALIST DOCTOR SAYS HENRY NOWAK COULD HAVE LIVED IF NOT FOR POLICE

In summary:

- Henry was alive when they arrived and likely clotted
- Aggressive police intervention likely tore clot
- Major Trauma department was minutes away from scene
- Judge and Pathologist were FAR TOO LENIENT on Police
- Henry Nowak had 50% CHANCE to survive
- Absolutely convinced that if he arrived in hospital alive he would have survived

This is disgusting, the family deserve justice

Full breakdown below:

Dr Krzysztof Magier [@DrMagier] based in the Isle of Wight is a qualified Paediatric Care Lead and part of the 'Critical Care Network' with experience in combat medicine training and a specialized course in treating severe injuries (including gunshot and stab wounds) has analysed the footage and claimed the AGGRESSIVE Police intervention may have contributed towards Henry's death.

Dr Magier DISAGREES with the pathologist's and judge's opinion that Henry Nowak had ZERO chance of SURVIVAL.

As well as the claim that handcuffing him essentially changed NOTHING.

In fact he claims the REVERSE IS TRUE, there is a high likelihood that the police intervention CONTRIBUTED TO HENRY'S DEATH.

He analysed the autopsy report, which points to DAMAGE to the subclavian vein as the main source of BLEEDING.

In a healthy person, venous bleeding occurs under low pressure and often self-limits thanks to the NATURALLY FORMING CLOT, while simply approximating the wound edges and compressing the surrounding tissues closes the vein enough to slow or even stop the bleeding.

The body camera footage shows that when police arrived on the scene (likely 5-10 minutes after the injury), Henry was CONCIOUS ENOUGH to speak LOUDLY.

He was therefore NOT YET in a terminal state.

After his arms were twisted behind his back and handcuffed, the vein was most likely STRETCHED, the clot TORN, and BLEEDING DRAMATICALLY INTENSIFIED.

Within just about three minutes, he lost consciousness and DIED.

People with suspected internal injuries should NEVER be moved or yanked abruptly, such actions can destroy the natural clot and lead to massive internal hemorrhage.

Instead of immediately calling a medical rescue team and handing the patient over to paramedics, the police ARRESTED HIM.

If paramedics had arrived first on the scene, Henry’s chances of survival would have been MUCH HIGHER.

AS HIGH AS "50%"—writes Dr. Magier.

Paramedics could have quickly started an IV, administered fluids to increase circulating blood volume, and tranexamic acid to stabilize the clot, and if needed, performed needle decompression (inserting a large, long needle into the lung), because the issue wasn’t so much lack of lung function, but compression of the blood-filled lung on the heart and mediastinum, which blocks circulation.

Worse still, the incident took place just a few minutes' drive by car (2–3 minutes by ambulance with sirens) from Southampton University Hospital—a regional MAJOR TRAUMA CENTRE equipped with a full team of specialists, procedures, and equipment.

"I AM CONVINCED THAT IF HENRY HAD ARRIVED THERE ALIVE THE DOCTORS WOULD HAVE NOT LET HIM DIE"—writes Dr. Magier.

The aggressive police intervention, instead of saving a life, led to death through improper handling of a severely injured person, even though world-class care was just minutes away. "I fear the Judge and pathologist were too lenient toward the police"

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

This is the greatest "Redneck" video I've ever seen! 👏😂

[Balaji @balajis]

The US federal budget is $7 trillion.
There are 535 in the Senate and Congress.
They collectively allocate that money.
Specifically: 7000/535 = 13 billion per official.
Which means AOC is a political billionaire.
She allocates far more than any market billionaire.
Indeed she allocates ten billion liquid, per year.
A market billionaire has one billion, illiquid, per life.
So: AOC spends 10-100X what a market billionaire has.
It's not even close.
She's right about one thing, though.
AOC didn't earn the tens of billions she spends.
The state taxed that money, by force.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Full duration and full thrust 33-engine static fire with Super Heavy V3

[jeroen blokland @jsblokland]

Applaus! Nederland heeft de headlines van Bloomberg gehaald. En wel met splijtende opmerkingen als “the dumbest thing any government on planet earth is pursuing right now” en “a fiscal Frankenstein's monster.”

Toch best knap dat je met een totaal kansloze manier om de schatkist te vullen zo te kijk kan worden gezet. Wat speelt er in de hoofden van ‘onze’ beleidsmakers om zo’n krankzinnige belastingregel te verzinnen en, erger nog, dat ze blijkbaar immuun zijn voor een stortvloed aan kritiek, wat ze in ieder geval zou moeten bewegen om er nog eens een keertje goed naar te kijken?

Helaas, ‘onze’ beleidsmakers zijn totaal vervreemd van de burgers die ze zeggen te dienen en vullen hun dagen met het implementeren van regeltjes uit Europa, totaal onhaalbare klimaatdoelen en het opleggen van immigratie waarvan het draagvlak flinterdun geworden is.

Het is al te bizar voor woorden dat beleidsmakers blijkbaar nul verstand hebben van het effect van het verplicht moeten verkopen van beleggingen op het compounden en het effect van hogere belastingen op de vlucht van financieel en menselijk (vergeet dat vooral niet) kapitaal. Bovendien hebben onze beleidsmakers een zeer selectief geheugen als het om de regels uit Brussel gaat, want daar wordt te pas en te onpas geroepen dat we juist extra moeten investeren.

Maar zelfs als je de capaciteit om deze effecten te verwachten niet bezit, moet je toch weten dat de nieuwe box 3-regel met nog meer bureaucratie gepaard gaat. Nu al zijn er talloze uitzonderingen en de advocaten en consultants kijken rijkhalzend uit naar dit episch falen van de overheid, omdat al die ‘echte’ rendementen natuurlijk massaal worden aangevochten. En in Nederland kun je nu eenmaal voor echt alles een zaak beginnen.

Het onvermogen om fouten toe te geven, een hele belangrijke eigenschap als je beleid probeert te maken, siert onze beleidsmakers niet. Op de een of andere manier komen objectieve feiten en waarnemingen niet bij onze beleidsmakers aan. Een ander voorbeeld is natuurlijk dat zowat al onze persoonlijke gegevens straks bij Trump in het Witte Huis liggen.

Daarom nog maar een keer: ik roep onze beleidsmakers op deze belachelijke belastingregel te schrappen en met een nieuw plan op de proppen te komen. Die tijd hebben ze als ze de idiote klimaatregels, immigratiegekte en Europese bureaucratie achter zich laten.

Maar als je zelfs niet gevoelig bent voor hoe de buitenwereld je ronduit belachelijk maakt, acht ik de kans niet heel groot dat we een verbetering gaan zien.

[Frans Arts @ransfarts]

@waitbutwhy I don’t understand why you would press blue. There is no moral dilemma between self and group as everyone can survive by pressing the red button

[Frans Arts @ransfarts]

@Liv_Boeree I strongly recommend to also read his book. It’s the kind you have to force yourself to put away just to get some sleep

[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.

[Frans Arts @ransfarts]

@HeaviestofArt @OfficialOpeth @r_p_m Nice photo’s

[Frans Arts @ransfarts]

@EricJorgenson @elonmusk Ordered the book, exited to read it!

[M.A. Franklin @FoundationDads]

José Ortega y Gasset watched Europe triple its population in a single century and asked:

What happens when the average man, raised in unprecedented comfort, decides he owes *nothing* to the civilization that made his life possible?

His answer, written in 1930, predicted the exact world we live in today. (thread) 🧵

[Wanjiru Njoya @WanjiruNjoya]

Yet the corrupt UN is not interested in slaves still being sold. They're too busy trying to shake Europe down for reparations.

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