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Filipe Martinho
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Physicist & Solar Photovoltaic R&D Engineer at Hanwha QCells
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Filipe Martinho 3 weeks ago
"The Nazi metaphysics and epistemology preach mind-sacrifice, thereby removing facts and thought (reality and reason) from the Führer’s path. The Nazi ethics completes the job: by preaching self-sacrifice, it removes morality from his path. The result is the destruction on every level of the possibility of individual self-assertion. The graduate of the Nazi epistemology asks: “Who am I to know?” His counterpart in ethics asks: “Who am I to know what is right?” Both give the same answer, the one absolute of their anti-absolutist mentality: “No man is an island. The Volk, or the Führer, knows best. SS Captain Josef Kramer, the Beast of Belsen, was asked at the Nuremberg trials what his feelings were on a certain day in August 1943, when he had personally stripped and then gassed eighty women at the Natzweiler camp. He replied: “I had no feelings in carrying out these things because I had received an order to kill the eighty inmates in the way I already told you. That, by the way, was the way I was trained.”43 If one fully understands this answer of Josef Kramer, in a manner that Kramer himself perhaps did not, if one understands “the way he was trained”—trained on the deepest of all levels, at the core of his person, i.e., trained philosophically —one need look no further for the explanation of Nazism. What other practical result could anyone expect from a man or a culture shaped to the roots by every imaginable variant of the soul-killing ideas of a century of mind-killing, ego-killing philosophy?" In Leonard Peikoff, "The ominous parallels" 1982
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Filipe Martinho 1 month ago
"You cannot force intelligence to work: those who’re able to think, will not work under compulsion; those who will, won’t produce much more than the price of the whip needed to keep them enslaved." Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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Filipe Martinho 3 months ago
Ayn Rand on 1962 on the need for deregulating the economy as much as possible, as fast as possible, wherever possible, but warning about the disastrous consequences of doing it overnight when already so many people are dependent on the state. 63 years later it is so much worse. It's very interesting to see Milei being the closest embodiment of this principle in Argentina Original post credit:
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In 1962, Ayn Rand was asked what she would do if she were president. Her answer: deregulate, but rationally. “If anyone were to repeal all ...
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Filipe Martinho 7 months ago
There is nothing wrong with trying to preserve one's capital in hard times, but the only real solution is to use one's capital to stop the present trends. In the long run, there is no way to profit from a destroyed America. There is no refuge from a collapse. There is no way to protect your assets, your home, your job, your family, your freedom. As Henry Hazlitt phrased it, "There is no safe hedge against inflation except to stop it." G. Edward Griffin, "The creature from Jekyll Island", 1994
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Filipe Martinho 8 months ago
Absolutely wonderful conversation with the 95-year old Thomas Sowell. Can't recommend it enough
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Filipe Martinho 8 months ago
Just finished watching Javier Milei's recent 4h30min podcast with Alejandro Fantino. This absolute madman brought a 6 page handwritten document with economics notes and was lecturing them live on air. Love him or hate him, no other president would do this, and we need more of it. Here depicted a part where he explains the Hume-Cantillon effect. According to his plan, Argentina should have close to 0% inflation mid 2026, which left the host speechless. Big if true, let's see! image
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