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The Hayek Club Weimar described socialism as a beneficial business model for politicians. State benefits and subsidies created dependency and thus secured voter support, the account wrote. Politicians would thereby become suppliers and citizens clients. In contrast, capitalism posed a threat to the political class, argued the Hayek Club Weimar, because it rewarded personal responsibility, innovation, and private initiative, making people more independent of the state. Regulations intended to tame the market served, according to the account, to limit competition and protect established interests. The account also accused politicians of portraying capitalism as unjust and antisocial while presenting the state as a moral authority. The state did not want free individuals but dependent subjects, wrote the Hayek Club Weimar, linking its criticism to calls for freedom and property as well as a rejection of taxes and state coercion. #FreiheitstattKnechtschaft #SteuernsindRaub #Eigentum #Freiheit #ParasitenwegmitEuremZwang #Freiheit #Kapitalismus #Sozialismus (translated)

Hasnain Kazim remembered the third anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. At that time, he arrived by bicycle in Heidelberg and heard discussions about the attack in the marketplace. The terror had strengthened his resolve to stand against extremism. He described the attack as the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. Kazim wrote that religiously justified restrictions and violence had occupied him since childhood. He had experienced, among other things, the outrage over a joke by Rudi Carrell about Khomeini, the persecution of Salman Rushdie, and the deaths of more than a dozen acquaintances, friends, and colleagues at the hands of Islamist extremists. He had also found statements that praised Hitler or Osama bin Laden to be profoundly unbearable. Since October 7, 2023, he has observed that Hamas terrorists are celebrated in Germany as well. In Berlin-Neukölln, people distributed candies after the massacre. Kazim also criticized the fact that some young people appeared with keffiyehs and pro-Palestinian slogans without understanding their political and historical significance. He wrote that Hamas fighters and bin Laden are portrayed on TikTok as representatives of the oppressed or as opponents of capitalism. At the same time, Kazim warned of extremists demanding mass "remigration" and threatening people who appeared foreign or Muslim to them. He accused the political center of not rejecting Islamism and the glorification of terror decisively enough and of ceding the political space to others. He did not want to live in a society where extremists set the tone, nor in one where Sharia law prevailed and religious authorities dictated people's lives. Kazim also referred to the vulnerability of people who could be identified as Jewish, as well as the need for protection for restaurants, kindergartens, schools, places of worship, and diplomatic missions. This was neither resistance nor criticism of the Israeli government, he wrote. In conclusion, he commemorated the victims of October 7, wished healing and peace for the injured, and called for the defeat of the terrorists. #Terrorismus #Extremismus #Frieden (translated)

Eppo Tjuchem criticized Antifa Groningen because, according to him, the group entered a Jumbo store with meters-long flagpoles while a participant was checking out oat milk at the self-scan. He wrote that the protesters did not want to roll up the poles because they would see that as a limitation of their right to protest. According to Tjuchem, they mainly wanted to attract attention and seek problems. #kapitalisme #demonstratierecht #Antifa (translated)

Matias Turkkila wrote that the leader of the French left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, had spoken about the end of capitalism at an event and said that a socialism based on white Catholic workers would not be realized in France. Turkkila compared Mélenchon to Finland's Li Andersson. According to Turkkila, Métapolitique interpreted the comment to mean that Mélenchon considered the old socialism focused on white trade union workers to be dead and wanted to build a foundation based on immigration and cultural diversity instead. He also mentioned that 69 percent of France's Muslims had voted for Mélenchon's LFI party in the first round of the presidential elections. According to Turkkila, The Jewish Chronicle and The Telegraph were among the critics who described this as an opportunistic alliance with the growing Muslim voter base instead of the traditional working class. He asked if this scenario sounded familiar. #sosialismi #Ranska #monimuotoisuus (translated)

A very nice issue of Reflex has just come out today. I would be glad if you would give it a chance. Here is my editorial on it: HOW SHOULD WE REMEMBER VÁCLAV HAVEL? I often say that I am "as old as the revolution," by which I obviously mean the Velvet one. And this alone brings a whole set of advantages. Your age always reflects the anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, so you remember it well. I am not burdened by the sins of the past, having to decide whether to collaborate with the regime or not. Likewise, I do not have to blame myself for missing the harsh onset of capitalism and coupon privatization. I had to learn to speak first. And to walk. Those of us born in the early '90s sometimes tend to refer to ourselves as "Havel's children." But how can I identify with a person I didn't properly experience in adulthood, yet who so fundamentally shaped the state I grew up in? And how should I, as well as our entire nation, actually remember Havel? I cannot remember Havel like many other older journalists do. I leave it to my more experienced colleagues. I have only one small personal memory of him. I was about eight years old, and we were on a school excursion in Prague. My classmate and I were lagging at the end of our class line. There was a long queue at Wenceslas Square, and we walked along it. We got a bit distracted and created a gap. And into that gap stepped a crowd of people, in the middle of which walked Václav Havel. We both started staring at him and quickly exclaimed, "Good day, Mr. President," and he replied to us with his typical stammering 'r': "Hello, boys," and then disappeared into a bookstore to sign his books. The queue was standing there for him. It was the year he was dealing with health complications, delivered the famous Rudolfín speech, and signed the absolutely fundamental Czech-German declaration. But I only remember the "hello, boys." And that’s all. When he died in 2011, I was starting in the media, so I was only responsible for some minor media outputs around the funeral. Otherwise, I perceived him as the person whose picture hung next to the blackboard throughout my school life. On television, he appears either as a "gumshoe" in a satirical sketch or giving some speech that is too complicated for my child self to listen to. My opinions of him have therefore formed mostly indirectly, like for most people in our country. Through plays and compulsory reading in school, recordings of speeches, and the exceptional film Citizen Havel, where he allowed us to peer candidly into his private life. I never succumbed to the need to idolize him; I was most fascinated by the fact that despite such a rich life, he was essentially a "normal guy" who enjoyed life and who, even in the presidential office, could fulfill his dreams. A smoke with the Rolling Stones, meditation with the Dalai Lama, a beer with Clinton. None of that made him a better politician. Personally, it made him a human to me. The point of Havel's legacy and its breadth is, in my opinion, that everyone can remember him in their own way. Some remember him as the best person in history, others as a brilliant politician who is missed by the Czech Republic. Others see him as a naive believer in truth who preferred grand gestures over political pragmatism. Some as a womanizer, others as a great world author of absurd drama. Historians and philosophers still debate his legacy to this day. So vehemently that due to one "ezonomist" and pseudophilosopher on an electric unicycle, his name was removed from the library's title. But I would like to highlight one thing about him that seems increasingly rare in today's world. He managed to grow old without becoming bitter. He did not turn into a grump shouting at the clouds. He did not allow himself to be dominated by eternal contrarianism and being against all mainstream opinions at any cost. At the same time, he wasn't afraid to confront the mainstream until the end. I would wish for all of us to grow old like Havel. It’s a pity he was given only 75 years. I would have liked to listen to him even at ninety, which he would have celebrated this year. #VáclavHavel #Reflex #historie (translated)

Sie ist Deutschlands Antikapitalistin Nr.1 Und heute wieder bei Maischberger. Sie schreibt in ihrem Buch, dass sie den Kapitalismus abschaffen und durch eine Planwirtschaft ersetzen will: Neubau verbieten, Fliegen und Auto fahren verbieten, Essen rationieren. https://t.co/Dbn3jJEtnr #Kapitalismus #Planwirtschaft #Antikapitalismus

Säg rent hypotetiskt att ett personkryss kostar 100 spänn. 648 kryss = 64 800 kr. En riksdagsplats i fyra år = 3 907 200 kr i arvode. Vinst: 3 842 400 kr. Avkastning: 5 930 %. Och folk säger att Vänsterpartiet inte förstår kapitalism… 😂 #politik #ekonomi #Vänsterpartiet

Det finns ca 10% av Sveriges medborgare som har valt att rösta på Vänsterpartiet. Låt mig beskriva er som människor. Ni är en grupp av människor som saknar kunskap om enkel matematik, likt partiledaren Nooshi. Ni tror att ni är goda för att ni vill ge allt till alla, det enda ni bevisar är att ni saknar verklighetsuppfattning. Många av er är antingen bidragstagare eller arbetar inom kommunen, ni får faktiskt er lön från samma grupp av människor, skattebetalande arbetare inom den privata sektorn. Ni saknar kunskap om vad ni är för eller emot, ni kallar SD nazister men vet inte vad en nazist är eller var. Ni skriker fascist men vet inte ens vad det betyder. Att tex använda visselpipor för att era politiska motståndare inte ska få besvara era beskyllningar är grundat i fascismen. Man vill tysta sina politiska motståndare för att man saknar egna argument. Ni stödjer samtid Palestina trots att de själva i sitt senaste val röstade fram Hamas2006(en terror organisation) som sitt styre. Samma Hamas har omöjliggjort demokratiska val efter detta. Det är så diktaturer fungerar. Man skyller på att det är tex Israels fel att man inte kan ha demokratiska val. Vänstern är samtidigt starkt för HBTG+, Hamas anser att homosexualitet är HARAM. Hamasledare som Mahmoud al-Zahar har fördömt väst för att acceptera homosexualitet och kallat det omänskligt. I Gaza gäller lagen att det ger 10 års fängelse vid sex mellan män. Det finns dokumenterade fall där personer gripits, torterats eller tvingats svära att de inte ska “vara homosexuella igen”. Hamas avrättade 2016 sin egen befälhavare Mahmoud Ishtiwi efter anklagelser om sodomi. Interna dokument beskriver “moralisk avvikelse” som skäl för hårda straff inom rörelsen. Ändock så vill vänstern göra denna kullerbytta att vara HBTQ+ och för Palestina, de förstår helt enkelt inte bättre. Jag skulle kalla dem barn i sin naivitet, eller retarderade om jag använder mitt vuxenspråk. Alla vänster jag konfronterat om Palestina, saknar ALL kunskap om deras syn på HBTQ, men tro inte att de blir omvända när de får höra fakta, de justerar bara sina vänsterglasögon och skyller allt på kapitalism. #Sverige #Politik #HBTQ

Kapitalismus, ale musí fungovat pro všechny! Nestačilo by třeba 69,3%. Ne tak 86,7%? Nebo 90,1%? Ne nestačilo, musí fungovat PRO VŠECHNY! Slyšeli jste slovo Moláčka. https://t.co/OXQEcxpAdm #Kapitalismus #SociálníSpravedlnost #Moláček #CZ

🧵 1/9 Jedna z největších krádeží v historii autorství neproběhla v temné uličce, ale na pultu hračkářství. Deskovou hru Monopoly, na níž korporace vydělaly miliardy, nevymyslel nezaměstnaný chudák v době hospodářské krize. Stvořila ji geniální žena jako ostrou kritiku kapitalismu. Místo milionů však dostala almužnu, její jméno vymazali z historie. Dokonce i český fenomén „Dostihy a sázky“ stojí na jejím ukradeném nápadu.👇 Vítejte v dalším díle seriálu o opomíjených ženách. Ptali jste se, jak máte lajkovat a sdílet vlákna - asi nejlepší je dát like každému příspěvku, budete tak i vědět, co jste přečetli. A sdílet nejlépe první (abyste se nemuseli vracet, tak jej sdílejte hned :-) ) Omlouvám se dnes za pozdější publikaci, celou noc jsem instaloval notebooky pro sirotky a studenty na Ukrajinu z veřejné sbírky, díky že přispíváte, už zbývá jen 59 tisíc (https://t.co/gVtuZ0HDVL). #historie #ženy #kapitalismus

Sledovat tohle a vědět, že tohle nikdy gen Z a Alfa neuvidí, protože je to díky demografii neudržitelné. Boomeři vyhráli v životní loterii: mladí v socialismu -> ve svém peaku přechod do kapitalismu a koupě nemovitosti za hubičku -> do důchodu v 62 letech a neustále uplácený, jelikož stále nejsilnější ročníky #generace #kapitalismus #sociologie

Turun toritapahtumassa oli puhuttu rumia suomalaisille kansanedustajille. Kuinka usein näet nämä samat vihervassarit tuomitsemassa näitä puheita? - ei koskaan Kannattaa vain kestää kun välillä tulee itsellekin. Ei se niin voi mennä, että vain oikeistoa haukutaan julkisesti ala-arvoisin sanankääntein ja käsketään painua vittuun, leikata pää, tunkea innovaatiot perseeseen, kapitalismille kuolema ja mitä näitä onkin... #Suomi #Politiikka #Keskustelu