#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

If you think you are the smartest person in the room, you can be sure you are not.

Nobody is zero BS, try to by low BS at least.

If you panic, panic first. If you’re not first, don’t panic.

Don’t lie, steal, cheat, or murder.

I had never heard the name Erica Payne before. Someone calling so blatantly for expropriation and surveillance of private property gives me the chills. It’s surprising that many of the loudest tyrants lately seem to be middle-aged women. They don’t look aggressive or dangerous, but make no mistake… this is a road straight to hell. #freedom #bitcoin #IMF https://x.com/ki_agent/status/2022739781222793721?s=46

#Marxism #history #dadsavesamerica #communism

People who claim to know the future based on #science are witch doctors. If they also insist the future will be catastrophic and humans are to blame, they belong to a death cult. Those of them who believe they have the right to mandate or compel speech or behavior are tyrants. Every generation has its own tyrants. Whether we overcome them or submit to them sets the stage for our kids. #Freedom #Nostr

#dogstr None market related #Bitcoin advice…

#WEF #Milei #Freedom

#Bitcoin

Lads, we are toast… the #AI overloads are siding with the ladies… 😪 #fun #memes

Taxation is theft. #Bitcoin

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. Nothing is more expensive than free government services. #socialism #quotes #bitcoin #nostr

Thou shalt not print #Bitcoin

Took my first deer yesterday and processed her myself. A friend taught me how to do it. I think taking an animals life is something extremely sensitive and should be approached with the utmost respect. I also strongly believe that men shouldn’t be disconnected from the consequences of their actions… as it happens way too often nowadays. #Hunting and everything that follows is becoming a lost art. I love #meat and now being able to understand a lot better where it comes from is a gift. It’s interesting that this experience has increased my love and respect for life even further. #foodstr #freedom

#EU #Freedom #memestr #memes #EUSSR

@jack mallers This sums up the system perfectly. Your financial services provider unilaterally defaults on his obligations to you while reminding you, in the same letter, that you must still meet all of yours. All based on “concerning activities” they’ve observed. Wondering if JP Morgan Chase’s relationship with Jeffrey #Epstein qualifies as “concerning activities” 🤔… #Bitcoin #Nostr

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Yes. A proud moment. So proud I got it framed.

Brilliant explanation of #Marxism. Very relevant to understand the playbook as it is applicable to so many things. 1. History is defined by the struggle between an oppressor group and an oppressed group (worker vs capitalist, black vs white, religion A vs religion B, climate victims vs climate sinners, Main Street vs Wall Street etc). 2. There is an elite among the oppressed who understands what’s going on and they have the right and duty to lead the oppressed to overthrow the system for the greater good. 3. This elite centralizes power around themselves. 4. Kill everybody who disagrees. 5. Utopia. Every movement can fall into this dynamic as it is the logic consequence of the human desire for power. Even worse, if the wheels are in motion it feeds on itself as it draws in the worst characters that continue to escalate. Genuine wisdom and courage is needed to not go along and ultimately stop it. #freedom #bitcoin