Northernmost Objectivist🌐

Student of Objectivism. Influenced by: Ayn Rand (et al.), Frédéric Bastiat, Aristotle, Antigone, Lucretius, L.v.Mises, T. Jefferson, J. Locke, F. Bacon, V. Hugo

[Nikos Sotirakopoulos @Nikos_17]

'-How do you remember that day?
-I don't remember that day; I still live in that day'.

The words I'll never forget, from an officer who was guiding me around the killing fields of October 7.
Words that shed more light to such tragedies.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

My full speech at the @OxfordUnion debating whether the west is right to be suspicious of Islam.

I needed a security team to attend and we were spat at, bullied and heckled by a baying mob.

But I will not give up on free speech.

I will not submit.

[Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford]

A few centuries ago, the King of Spain could definitely afford better entertainment than you. Now, there is no better movie he can watch than the same movie everyone else is watching.

The democratization of entertainment, thanks to technology.

[Nikos Sotirakopoulos @Nikos_17]

A reminder that FDR had the brilliant idea in Yalta
to practically beg Stalin to get involved in the East.

The result: the Red Army storming Manchuria,
and then handing half of Korea to Kim.

Later Truman abandoned Chiang,
Mao said 'thank you very much', and got China.

The results are still with us today: 45+million dead in Korea and China, generations living in serfdom,
and 2 nuclear threats for the West.

'Pragmatism' sucks, and kills.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

It is a huge failure of operation Epic Fury, planners should have anticipated the need to leave a single Iranian F-14 intact so that the downed crew could have exfiltrated themselves.

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

When our F-15E navigator was shot down over hostile territory in Iran, reports say he relied on the CSEL (Combat Survivor Evader Locator) device to survive on the ground for 48 hours. This is a GENIUS device.

It is integrated directly into our soldiers tactical vests and uses satellite to communicate with command.

It comes pre-loaded with topographic maps and intelligence data to aid soldiers in navigating toward designated safe zones without needing to wait for directions.

Rather than speaking over a radio—which could easily expose physical location or be intercepted—this brilliant invention uses encrypted text messages with location updates every few hours. The device transmits data using ultra-short signal bursts and rapid frequency hopping, effectively disguising the communication as random background noise that enemy forces cannot triangulate. It also has mode capabilities to quickly allow realtime location data to aid in rescues.

I feel grateful that our soldiers have such tools to keep them alive and get them rescued. It looks like we started using these in 2006.

[Nikos Sotirakopoulos @Nikos_17]

'...the blind will be able to see, and the deaf will hear.' (Isaiah 35:5-10)
What was once the providence of gods,
is now done by human ingenuity.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

China lifted 800 million people out of poverty not through communism but by creating Special Economic Zones where capitalism was allowed to function.

Shenzhen went from a fishing village to a megacity because the government said "in this specific area, you can build freely.”

That should tell you something about what works and what doesn't.

Even the world's largest communist country had to let capitalism in through the back door to feed its people.

[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

🧵 1/14: Just days after Paul Ehrlich (the man whose 1968 book “The Population Bomb” predicted billions would starve) passed away, it’s the perfect moment to celebrate the scientist who proved Ehrlich and other doomsayers spectacularly wrong.

Meet Norman Borlaug, the Iowa farm boy who launched the Green Revolution and quite literally saved a billion lives. This is the ultimate story of human ingenuity triumphing over scarcity.

[Gena Gorlin @Gena_I_Gorlin]

I love and miss this America.

[Nikos Sotirakopoulos @Nikos_17]

Bannon should have lost all credibility when he declared
his admiration for Dugin: the philosopher who thinks
that the Enlightenment and classical liberalism
are the worst things that ever happened to humanity.
When people tell you who they are, believe them.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Every passing day this is starting to look more and more like one of the most heinous betrayals in history

[Ulf Kristersson @SwedishPM]

Sweden is the most free‑trade‑friendly country in the world, and we trade with almost the entire world.

Today, EU and India launched a new era of cooperation.

Through a groundbreaking trade deal between two economic giants, alongside a new security and defence partnership, we show that prosperity and security are built through partnership, trade, and deeper cooperation.

Excellent news for growth and competitiveness in Sweden, Europe, and India.

[agustina vergara cid @agustinavcid]

The other day I interviewed an immigrant from Iran who fled the regime a few years ago.

One of the things he told me:

[Tracy Shuchart (𝒞𝒽𝒾 ) @chigrl]

For the newly minted Venezuelan oil experts:

Little lesson. Venezuelan and Canadian oil MAY both be heavy crudes, but they're not identical twins.

Venezuelan heavy has higher sulfur content, different metals profiles, and specific API gravity characteristics.

Canadian oil sands has its own signature with a different viscosity, different contaminants, requires different processing parameters.

But here's what matters: Our refineries are tooled for Canadian oil sands. In addition, we're talking about a friendly, stable democracy with rule of law 500 miles north versus a collapsing socialist state that's been unreliable for years.

In sum, Canadian production is consistent, transportable by pipeline, and doesn't come with the geopolitical chaos of dealing with whatever strongman happens to be running Caracas that week, and our refineries are tooled for it.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"Hey bro did u see I nationalized another company?"
"ZOMG dude so jelly. Great work on that new price control btw"
"Wait which one"

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

All of these people were given pardons.

[Ben Bayer @BenBayer]

Some lone frontiersmen were individualists. But being alone doesn't make one individualist.

Thinking for oneself does.

Individualists built this country, but not by expanding its frontiers.

They did it by thinking: about a constitution to protect individual value creation.