#socialism #freedom #memes

I have just spent two hours listening to a self-proclaimed #left politician. He calls himself a #Marxist and is without doubt a very eloquent and surely intelligent person. He would probably describe himself as a moderate fighting for pragmatic and good solutions. Still, the only thing I am hearing is a person advocating for an all-powerful state that enforces equality of outcome, if necessary with coercion and force. I hate to say it, but at the end of the day the only thing that will protect the individual from these types of people is the right to bear arms and self-defense. There is no argument that will convince a person following Marx to respect the individual. When property becomes conditional, Liberty will become optional, And eventually life will be expendable. I guess #envy has made it onto the list of deadly sins because it ultimately drives this ideology. People who don’t understand what wealth actually is cannot comprehend how it is created and therefore will destroy it while seeking “fair” redistribution. #freedom #Bitcoin

Am I the only one who thinks this would be a way more civilized way of settling political disputes than what we’re doing today 🤔? #usa #politics #ufc #trump #obama #ai #memes https://x.com/DrClownPhD/status/2045918096842502327/video/1?s=46

#money #bitcoin #fiat #economy #deflation #inflation

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Two very different worldviews: 1. Individual liberty is a necessary evil, and the perfect world is one where a benevolent all-powerful government takes care of everybody. 2. Government is a necessary evil, and the perfect world is one in which free people cooperate voluntarily and coexist peacefully. Both states will never be reached, but you are knowingly or unknowingly supporting one of them, and by doing so you push the system in that direction. #freedom #nostr #government

#Bitcoin #memestr #memes

Seems like we are officially pirates now 🤔. #iran #war #usa #hormuz #trump #memes

Hopefully, I will live long enough to see where future generations will place the beginning of WWIII: Covid, Russia’s attack on Ukraine, October 7th, the US-Iran war—or maybe even earlier, like the GFC or 9/11. Whatever you believe in. May God forgive us all.

This makes me feel sick. Germany has spent the last 40 years (at least) telling young men: 1. Being proud of your country is the same as worshipping Hitler. 2. Men are to be blamed for everything and are essentially useless. 3. Every attempt by a boy to do anything that remotely resembles a masculine trait—such as being vigilant, or striving to provide and protect—needs to be treated with utmost suspicion… because it’s essentially worshipping Hitler. Now that reality is starting to kick in, the most sickening part of all this is not that it was total BS, but that parents did this to their own kids. Those kids are now going to face the consequences, while the people responsible will most likely avoid them. I am equally apprehensive about the autocorrect function in the system. #germany #bundeswehr #news #war

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BREAKING: All young men between the ages of 17 and 45 are now no longer allowed to leave Germany for more than three months without permission.

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The #truth will always prevail. #memes #ChuckNorris

#Europe in one #meme

#memes #politics #socialism Just vote harder…

I wonder how future generations will analyze the current economic war. In the #automotive industry, the sequence over the last 20 years unfolded roughly like this: • #China lured foreign industry leaders into its market. It presented this as a win-win: Western domestic markets were saturated, and China needed know-how to industrialize. • Few resisted. Foreign investments flowed into mandatory joint ventures (the required structure until recent years). • For about 20 years there was relative peace: foreign OEMs celebrated their brilliance, scooped up profits in an ever-expanding market, while the Chinese learned to build cars. • China realized it could not beat foreign OEMs on combustion engines and transmissions, but EVs, autonomous driving, and digitalization opened a new battlefield. • The West—#Europe in particular, and #Germany most of all—fell prey to the climate agenda. It committed economic suicide by banning combustion engines and driving up energy prices. (I am not saying China orchestrated this, but they surely welcomed the development.) • Through clever economic policies and aggressive capital allocation (including reckless expropriation-like measures on their people), China funneled resources into the BEV industry, creating capacities to supply China, Europe, and the US—the only three markets that can absorb EVs at scale with potentially positive margins. • The US under Biden first recognized this as an attack and imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs. Europe followed about a year later with additional tariffs of roughly 20–38%. • China understood the message and saw the threat of significant underutilization of its industrial capacities. • To defend those assets, China accelerated its ICE exit with penalties and subsidies favoring domestic BEV OEMs. This move risks rendering many foreign assets stranded. This is where we stand now. In hindsight, transferring billions in capital to a market without strong property rights protection was unwise. China invited #VW and others in, then pulled the rug out from under them. European OEMs especially have few good options left. The best may be to abandon/reverse the 2035 ICE ban and relocate as many stranded ICE production lines out of China as possible. Impairments will still be massive, but China also faces limited great options: to avoid writing off its own assets, it must maximize domestic utilization and export surplus to markets like #Brazil—with limited purchasing power to absorb them. #economy #cars #tradewar

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