Ravenn

[محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf @mb_ghalibaf]

صد روز از جهاد ملتی که برای حفظ ایرانِ جان قیام کرد می‌گذرد.

درود خدا بر شما که پشت ایران را گرم کردید، دشمن را ناامید ساختید و کشور را از دهان گرگ‌های درّنده‌ای که برای تسلیم کردن ایران اسلامی دندان تیز کرده بودند، بیرون کشیدید.

پاینده ایران و زنده باد مقاومت ملت بزرگ ایران

[Ravenn @Ravienn]

@StayGadot @BworsethanT @DA_Stockman To summarize your point. Dictators are good as long as they kow tow to your governments.

[Ravenn @Ravienn]

@StayGadot @BworsethanT @DA_Stockman Youre point was idiotic. Mossadegh had to be toppled because he was siding up to the point enemies of the west. What did I misinterpret? As far as the dictator bad argument, I already pointed out that the epstein regimes (the west) openly support other dictators.

[Vishwamitra @legalshishya]

From 1947 to 1991 the GDP grew from $27 Billion to $321 Billion - approx 12 times in 44 years
From 1991 to 2004 the GDP grew from $321 Billion to $729 Billion - approx 2.5 times in 14 years
From 2004 to 2014 the GDP grew from $729 Billion to $2.04 Trillion approximately 2.8 times
From 2014 to 2024 the GDP grew from $2.04 Trillion to $3.76 Trillion approximately about 1.8 times.
In the formative years of free India, the country was trying to find ways and means to survive. So in hindsight the Nehru-Indira- Rajiv era followed a very conservative and cautious approach with a mixed economy with prominence to public sector enterprises. With the economic crises in 1990-91, PVNR tried to abolish license permit raj and largely succeeded in bringing the country from the brink of collapse on the path of growth trajectory. With political compulsions further reforms in the economy were stuck (they are stuck even today), PVNR and ABV regimes couldn't achieve much progress. When MMS took over there was some push for economic growth while reforms were still in a limbo due to political compulsions. The decade saw a growth of 2.8 times in the GDP. When Modi took over in 2014, the economy was stable. He could have given a serious push in ushering reforms in finance, tax and labour codes but his focus was on winning elections. Only major reform was the introduction of GST which is now a huge failure administratively. Income Tax Code didn't see any changes except tinkering in the rate structure, that too after almost a decade in power. So, tell me which era saw the highest growth? MMS era saw the highest growth while Modi era failed miserably to cash in on his political supremacy to push through the reforms. All He dud was multiply what the earlier regimes did. Increase IITs, IIMs, AIIMS, Roads, VBs etc. Nothing extraordinary. It was only incremental and in that too it is not much if you see the ground reality. Horrible infrastructure, excessive reservations suppressing meritocracy, no improvement in healthcare (resembles 1947 era) and corruption at its peak. Labour Code and new Income Tax Codes are old wine in new bottles. He could have done many things but didn't do much. History will record this as India's lost decade. From 2024 till date, there's nothing much again to showcase. Continues to focus on temple runs, overseas stunts, counting dog collars, slavery to the US. A total sellout! India is on a downward spiral into an abyss.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are.

For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland).

Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates).

Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something.

These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅

Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers.

Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth.

What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc.

Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing.

To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was.

I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away.

THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth.

At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in.

Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity.

This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes.

When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand.

Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current.

This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside.

So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.

[Manel Márquez 🍉 @manelmarquez]

Estas personas que llevaban ayuda humanitaria por tierra a Gaza fueron secuestradas el 24 de mayo en Libia.
Llevan en huelga de hambre desde hace una semana.
La Global Sumud Flotilla hace un llamamiento urgente de vida o muerte por su inmediata liberación.
Solidaridad. Difunde.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

Why is this not on the front page of every newspaper?

Israel buried him under concrete... a young man from Gaza.
They tried to erase his existence.

[Sachin Gupta @Sachingupta]

दिल्ली अग्निकांड में लाखों रुपए के गद्दे बिछाकर 8 लोगों की जान बचाने वाले रियाजुद्दीन और अरमान मंसूरी कह रहे हैं कि हमारा जितना नुकसान हुआ था, उसकी भरपाई हो गई है। इसलिए अब हमारे बैंक खाते में कोई भी व्यक्ति पैसा न डाले।

देश में ऐसे भी लोग होते हैं, जो ईमानदारी की मिसाल कायम करते हैं। वरना बैंक खाते में आया पैसा किसको बुरा लगता है।

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

In 1879, JP Morgan paid a man to invent the lie that is the foundation of modern economics.

A billionaire who helped start Amazon just exposed the whole thing on Diary of a CEO, and once you hear it you will never look at paychecks the same way again:

146 years ago, a guy named Henry George wrote a book called Progress and Poverty.

It was the first mainstream book about the rich systematically stealing from the poor, and It literally became the bestselling book in the history of the United States at the time.

The working class was reading it everywhere, and the people at the top of the economy completely lost their minds.

So JP Morgan personally brought a man named John Bates Clark to Columbia University, which was essentially the intellectual headquarters of Wall Street, and told him to fix the problem.

Clark wrote a book called The Distribution of Wealth. In it, he invented something called the "theory of marginal productivity," which claims that because markets are perfectly efficient, the amount of money you earn reflects EXACTLY the value you contribute to the economy.

If you make $15,000 a year, that's because you're providing $15,000 of value. If a hedge fund manager makes $500 million a year moving money around, that's an accurate reflection of the value he creates in the world.

And Clark literally said the quiet part out loud IN HIS OWN BOOK.

He wrote that they had to prove to working people that no matter how much they make, whether it's a little or a lot, it accurately reflects their value, because if workers ever concluded that their labor was worth more than they were being paid, they would revolt and destroy the entire system.

That was the whole point. The theory was built to prevent a revolution.

And it worked so well that it got absorbed into mainstream economics and is STILL taught as a foundational principle to this day.

Every time a CEO tells you "the market decides your salary," they're repeating a framework that was literally commissioned by JP Morgan in the 1800s to convince you not to ask for more.

Nick Hanauer, the billionaire who told this story, also shared the numbers that prove why it matters right now:

The median full-time worker in America earns about $60,000 a year. If that same worker had maintained the same share of GDP they held in 1975, they wouldn't be making $60,000. They'd be making $120,000. That gap goes all the way up to the 90th percentile. If you earn $180,000 today, you'd be earning $250,000 under the old distribution.

The ONLY people who benefited from 50 years of economic growth were the top 10%, and the vast majority of that went to the top 1%. That is trillions of dollars every single year that used to be wages for ordinary working people and now sits in the accounts of the wealthiest people on the planet.

This happened because of policy. Tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for the powerful, and wage suppression for everyone else, all justified by an economic theory that was invented specifically to make you believe you deserve exactly what you're getting.

And the craziest part is that GDP growth rates in America were 4 to 4.5% for decades when workers were included in prosperity. As soon as the neoliberals took over in the mid-1970s and implemented these policies, GDP growth fell to 3% and eventually to 2%.

Including people in the economy doesn't slow growth down. It's literally the thing that CREATES growth. And the theory that convinced the world otherwise was a hit job paid for by one of the richest men in history to keep workers quiet.

What do you think?

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

Gaza is taking its last breaths, and the situation we have reached is extremely dangerous.

Temperatures are rising to suffocating levels, and the tents where hundreds of thousands live have turned into ovens made of fabric and plastic. There is no electricity, no air conditioning, no fans, no cold water. People try to sleep, but heat, hunger, and fear make sleep seem like an impossible dream.

Clean water is scarce, cleaning supplies are almost nonexistent, and essential medicines are unavailable. Skin diseases are spreading in a terrifying way among children and adults, while garbage piles up and sewage mixes with displacement areas, spreading even more suffering.

Long lines form for food, yet many return empty handed. Aid is decreasing, and most relief centers have stopped or are no longer able to meet even the minimum needs.

At night, rats, insects, snakes, and scorpions crawl into the tents, while during the day people face unbearable heat and endless hunger. There is no safety, no privacy, and nowhere to go. Meanwhile, killings and destruction continue daily, while Gaza’s space shrinks day by day, forcing people into smaller and more overcrowded areas.

This is not life. This is not displacement. This is a complete collapse of everything that allows human beings to live with dignity.

What more is the world waiting for? How many children must go hungry? How many patients must die before the world acts? Do not stay silent. Speak about Gaza. Share what is happening.

[Ravenn @Ravienn]

@StayGadot @BworsethanT @DA_Stockman Right. Dictators can rule as they like and treat their people as badly as they want as long as they are capitalist and bow to the west. Got it.

[Ravenn @Ravienn]

@Hayavadana3 @darab_farooqui The constitution also protects custom

[Ravenn @Ravienn]

@ang121210 @darab_farooqui Even the fanatics know they will lose a referendum or a constitutional amendment battle. Stick to street level thuggery and lynching

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Pehli baat: Yeh tere baap ka desh nahi hai. It's mine every bit as much as it's yours.

And above all, I was born in a secular republic called India. My citizenship, my rights, my place here come from the Constitution of India, not from a permission and not from approval of lowlife losers like you.

You are a nobody. Even the guy you have elected can't strip my citizenship. So cry me a bucket.

And I'm a peaceful man. But the day anyone tries to shred this Constitution and turn India into a Hindu Rashtra, they'll find out how many of us will stand in the way.

We will go to war to defend it, because defending the Constitution is the most Indian thing a person can do.

We'll defend it to our last breath.

So take your inferiority complex elsewhere. This is my country and it will be till I die. And you and your whole Sanghi qoum can't do anything about it.

[Shabi Abbas @ShabiAbbas100]

Did You Notice This?

Israel attacked Iran's energy infrastructure.

Iran attacked Israel's energy infrastructure.

Israel attacked Iran's nuclear facility.

Iran attacked Israel's nuclear facility.

Israel attacked schools, universities and hospitals in Iran.

But Iran didn't attack a single school, university or hospitals in Israel

If you still don't get the point, GOD bless you and your IQ.

[The Gulag @WelcomeTheGulag]

Gold miners in Ghana working barefoot, shivering, covering themselves with bags against the rain

Capitalism isn't your iPhone. It's this. It's always been this

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

The government of India is blocking my posts on Instagram that criticizes Homeopathy based on a directive from the Homeopathy Council. This is very shameful of the government...protecting pseudoscience and it's practitioners from scientific scrutiny.

This is the post: https://t.co/ZtIKlYF6sK

[Ravenn @Ravienn]

@StayGadot @BworsethanT @DA_Stockman So fucking what? There are many dictators across the world. Why bother with Iran’s