@agustinavcid@elonmusk Because power tends to corrupt—and no system has ever proven immune to this tendency—the best form of government is the most limited form. No founders in history grasped this truth more clearly than America’s.
The attempt to redefine women as a loose collection of superficial stereotypes, often drawn directly from pornography and regressive ideas of female passivity and submissiveness, benefits only the sex who imposed those stereotypes on women in the first place.
Seattle has spent a decade building a justice system optimized to avoid real consequences. Let’s not act surprised when young sociopaths continue their criminal activities rather than being deterred. They watch what happens to the ones who get caught: diversion referrals and bus rides home.
On te vend depuis 40 ans que sans « sensibilité de gauche », les gens crèvent de faim.
C’est exactement l’inverse de ce que disent les chiffres.
1990 : 2,3 milliards d’êtres humains en pauvreté extrême. 38 % de l’humanité.
2025 : 808 millions. Environ 10 %.
1,5 milliard de personnes sorties de la misère absolue en 35 ans.
La plus grande réduction de souffrance humaine de toute l’histoire de l’espèce.
Qui a fait ça ?
Pas l’aide internationale.
Pas les ONG.
Pas les programmes de redistribution.
Pas la sensibilité de gauche.
Le marché.
L’ouverture commerciale.
La Chine de Deng qui abandonne le maoïsme en 1978.
L’Inde qui libéralise en 1991.
Le Vietnam, l’Indonésie, le Bangladesh qui s’ouvrent au capitalisme.
Les seuls endroits où l’extrême pauvreté a explosé sur la même période ?
Le Venezuela socialiste (de 27 % à plus de 80 % en dix ans, inflation à 130 000 %, un Vénézuélien moyen qui a perdu 11 kilos).
La Corée du Nord.
Cuba.
Le Zimbabwe de Mugabe.
La gauche ne nourrit pas les pauvres.
Elle les fabrique.
Le capitalisme produit tellement de richesse que même ses « perdants » américains vivent mieux que la classe moyenne soviétique.
Un pauvre américain a un frigo, une voiture, un téléphone, la clim et internet.
Un pauvre cubain attend du riz.
Et le « social américain est un désastre » reste une légende française.
PIB par habitant US : 80 000 $.
France : 45 000 $.
Un Mississippien (l’État le plus pauvre des États-Unis) a un revenu médian supérieur au Français moyen.
Dans un système libéral, il y a plus de richesse créée, plus largement distribuée, et beaucoup moins de pauvres.
Partout. Sans exception. Sur toutes les périodes mesurées.
Être de gauche en 2026 face à ces données, ce n’est plus de la sensibilité.
C’est préférer la posture morale aux résultats.
La compassion sans résultats, ça s’appelle de la vanité.
@GadSaad@elonmusk What’s important to note is that rich leftists live in a bubble and have no idea what it’s like to live in the rougher neighborhoods of their own city, let alone the rougher cities of their own country.
IMHO, a lot of conservatives are missing the Biblical forest for the woke trees in Nolan's Odyssey. Yes, the casting of Elliot Page is silly and egregious. But here's the thing: Nolan's "The Odyssey" is an apologia for Christian morality poured into a Greek vase.
The entire movie is rooted in what Nolan terms "Zeus' law." That law is: "Treat others as you would want to be treated, because anyone might be a god." Now, clearly, there's nothing like that in Greek mythology. It's not implicit in Homer. It's a direct rip from Biblical morality, substituting "because anyone might be a god" for "because man was made in the image of God."
Nolan then takes this rule and uses it as his moral glue: the idea is that Odysseus, in utilizing the Trojan Horse, violated Zeus' law and led to full-scale slaughter. That sin has led to the unleashing of broader globalized sin (the "sea peoples" who don't respect Zeus' law and are invading surrounding areas). This is a highly Biblical message: that sin is infectious, and that sin also affects the world at large, not just the sinner.
Odysseus has sinned, and he must atone for that sin through self-imposed exile. He must also sacrifice his own aspirations to restore the possibility of a moral universe: because he has unleashed catastrophic violence and violation of Zeus' law -- manifest in the suitors' cynical use of Zeus' law to eat Penelope out of house and home -- he must violate Zeus' law one last time and then accept the penalty, which is exile.
This is a not only a movie that will make millions of people go read classical literature again. It also reinforces the idea that violation of the Golden Rule has disastrous consequences.
I dunno. I'd consider that, on balance, a large-scale win for civilizational values, when weighed against the woke casting of Elliot Page or the dumbass discussion over whether Lupita Nyongo is good-looking enough (she is, and for the record Diane Kruger is German, not Greek).
“One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism is: “It sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice.” But that’s not true. It doesn’t sound good in theory. The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat and gray – leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul. It is a world without courage, creativity, or ambition; without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards. Without miracles. Without myths. Without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things.”