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"People who can't create always destroy"
In 2001, the Taliban blew up Afghanistan’s 1,500 year old Bamiyan Buddha's statue. Imagine a belief so fragile it has to wage war on stone.
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He rapes.
He sexually harasses women from other communities
He riots and burns properties and loots goods
He explodes
He drives lorry into people
He lives on welfare.
The most dangerous man in the world is a Muslim.
He doesn't drink.
He Doesn't smoke.
He doesn't eat pork.
He doesn't take Credit cards.
He Doesn't take bank loans.
He doesn't spend all nights in the clubs.
He's not an individualist.
He's a family man.
So the government can't isolate him and the banks can't make any money off of them.
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The thing about Mao Zedong was that he was not just a dictator. He was actually a f***ing idiot to such an extent that it would make Trump’s ridiculous claims of himself being a “stable genius” almost credible.
Mao forced farmers to make steel out of farm tools and in small village furnaces, which left farmers with no tools to work the fields. He forced farmers to chase away insect-eating sparrows, which led yo locust-infested fields. Millions starved to death as a result.
He thought that turning the population on itself in endless struggle was the path to proletariat prosperity - all it had done was to make more starve to death, loss of Chinese know-how across the board and China left on the brink of bankruptcy.
His views on dental hygiene were so off the planet that he eschewed both “modern” or more traditional Chinese modes of dental care, to the point that his doctors and others all mention the rotting stench that emanated from his mouth.
Not all dictators are idiots - Deng Xiaoping was a dictator but not an idiot. But Mao excelled himself in his idiotmaxxing, more a buffoonish Idi Amin than a dangerously bright Emperor Kangxi.
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When you elect leaders who have zero business acumen but are adept at "community organizing", this is what happens. First Portland, now Seattle. But San Francisco is making a comeback. You should ask why. @SeaTimesOpinion @seattletimes
Around half of Seattle businesses report that are considering moving or shrinking, blaming a business environment that they say is getting worse and don’t believe it looks like it will get better, according to a survey from the Downtown Seattle Association and Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. kiro7.com/news/local/survey-…
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You see that dip in global life expectancy in the 1950s?
That was caused by one man, Mao Zedong.
Mbappe should have apologised only for not being ruder about him.
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These "job" postings have qualifications that are impossible to meet, so Americans don't apply and they can hire #h1b Indians with completely fake resume that meets the req on paper. Its a dirty game that has been played for over two decades now to shun Americans from tech jobs.
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Pat McAfee said this. Pat McAfee did that. Wake me up when Pat McAfee actually protects my computer from viruses like I freaking paid for.
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Armed guards at the door. Opioids offered on repeat. Apple Pay at my bedside. Welcome to the American Emergency Room.
The French think it bankrupts you. Americans think France does it for free. I’ve been to the ER in both. Both are wrong.
Mountain bike crash, dislocated and fractured shoulder. I’m French, I live in San Francisco, and I take slightly too many risks. Let’s compare.
Security
🇺🇸 Kaiser in Marin. Three armed guards and a metal detector. My phone set it off, so with my shoulder out of its socket I walked through again. And again. Then a pat-down.
🇫🇷 A couple of unarmed guys with walkie-talkies. Still not sure what they’re for.
Wait
🇺🇸 Three people in the waiting room. Seen in 15 to 30 minutes.
🇫🇷 Broken hand: packed room, 4 hours before anyone touched me.
Records
🇺🇸 Kaiser is vertically integrated. Insurer, hospital, doctors: one system. They had my file before I sat down.
🇫🇷 Every new doctor is a fresh context window. Zero history, maybe a printout from last time.
Infrastructure
🇺🇸 Small hospital, serious kit. Straight to the trauma bay: real bed, IV, vitals monitoring, ready for surgery if needed. All imaging on the spot.
🇫🇷 Broken hand: a plastic chair and a Doliprane.
Drugs
🇺🇸 Strong opioids were the default offer. I said no. They insisted. The doctor came in personally, confused why someone in that much pain would refuse. I stuck to Tylenol, an anti-inflammatory, to put the shoulder back in.
Yes, it hurt. No, I didn’t tap out. My mom is proud of me.
🇫🇷 Broken hand: Doliprane, opioids never mentioned. I have friends who got their shoulder popped back in with nothing at all.
US default: opioids. French default: Doliprane.
Bill
🇺🇸 Every nurse warned me: “You’re French, this bill is going to traumatize you.”
Before discharge, someone came to my bed to collect payment. Apple Pay, from the hospital bed. $300. For everything. On a ~$500/month Kaiser plan.
🇫🇷 A flat ~€20 ER fee, usually reimbursed by your mutuelle. The real bill shows up later, on your payslip (see below)
followup
🇺🇸 Kaiser called me right after to set up follow-up and physio, all in their system. So far, so good.
🇫🇷 Broken hand: discharged, figure it out yourself. A friend dislocated her finger. They put it back in wrong, sent her home with bad instructions, it locked up, and she needed surgery months later. Still not fixed.
“Free healthcare” in France
It’s not free when your marginal tax rate nears 70% with social charges. And if you want quality care fast, more and more people pay for private clinics anyway.
Verdict
One person, one data point. But the care was 10x better than anything I’ve had in France, for a price that’s completely fine.
France has a lot to learn.
And yes, I refused the narcotics to stay sharp enough to launch a NanoCorp from my hospital bed. Launch your first company run by an AI agent: nanocorp .so
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Did you know that 81% of Somali households in Minnesota are on Welfare?
And no, it’s not just to “help them get started” here because that number is still 78% for Somalis who have been there for over 10 years.
Only 21% of native born households are getting government assistance.
Why are we bringing these people in only to be supported by our tax dollars?
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One single group of Somalis in Minnesota stole more money from taxpayers than the sum total of all Somalis who have ever or will ever come to the United States combined will ever contribute to the economy.
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Capitalism: Here’s a machine that allows 1 worker to produce what previously required 100 workers.
Luddites: But what about the other 99 jobs?
If we listened to people who thought preserving obsolete labor was more important than productivity, we’d still be farming with sticks.
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Hundreds of staged armed robberies helped thousands pose as crime victims in US immigration scam: DOJ trib.al/xEBtqIf
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Here are some facts that most voters don’t remember or never knew.
The Obama administration spent TWICE as much money on the Obamacare websites (THAT DIDN’T WORK) than what the White House Ballroom costs.
Unlike the Ballroom, the websites were fully funded by taxpayers. 🤪
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If you have an IQ above 115 and think Marxism doesn’t end in violent tyranny because “we’ll do it right this time,” then you don’t have an IQ above 115.
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The moral case for capitalism is that your life belongs to you. Your work, your savings and your plans don’t become somebody else’s property because they have a moving speech about how they’d use them.
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Both live in zone 1 council houses
You are paying tax so foreign terrorists can live in areas you could never afford
The UK needs a right wing dictator