French students protest

We saw this today right outside our building. High school students shooting loud firecrackers, running in mobs, etc.

This guy puts his own spin on it.

Dr. Maalouf ‏

@realMaalouf

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Absolute chaos across France: 625 arrests 83 police officers attacked 32 teachers injured Hundreds of schools burned down Vehicles and churches set on fire North African and far-left students have declared war against the French state.

This one is more factual.

Brivael Le Pogam

@brivael

Translated from French

I made a name for myself on X for my analyses of the construction of wokism. Today, I'm going to explain to you what the left is trying to do. Look closely at this image. It's not just a news item. It's a method. The left has always needed youth. Not to raise them. To use them. A teenager has energy, anger, a need for belonging, and almost no perspective. It's the ideal fuel for anyone who wants to seize power without having to convince adults. What our high school students are experiencing today is a double manipulation. The first is gentle. It's the one from the progressive left, the one embodied by Macron. For years, it has explained to this generation that society is a machine of oppression, that authority is suspect, that demands are violence, and that everything is owed to them. It demolished the landmarks, then acts surprised that nothing holds together anymore. The second is brutal. It's the one from the radical left, the one embodied by Mélenchon. It reaps what the first has sown. It turns resentment into mobilization, mobilization into power plays, and watches 16-year-old kids do the dirty work in front of the cameras. Unsubmitted deputies have supported this blocking movement. Today, it's the gate of a high school burning in Roubaix. One prepares the ground. The other lights the fuse. Nothing new. Stalin had the Komsomols and the Pioneers. He made Pavlik Morozov—a kid presented as having denounced his own father—a national hero. The message was crystal clear: your loyalty goes to the Party, not to your family. Thirty years later, Mao unleashed the Red Guards on teachers, parents, books. Teenagers humiliated, beat, sometimes killed those who were supposed to educate them. Each time, the same logic: cut youth off from transmission, then turn it against the society that carried it. And the left has understood one thing that many still refuse to see. France is reaching the end of a cycle. There are only two ways out. The first: the end of collectivist hegemony. The return of order, merit, the authority of the one who knows over the one who learns. A country that functions again. The second: fragmentation. Communities that no longer speak to each other, a state that holds nothing together, institutions burning one by one. Lebanon or Singapore. Lebanon, we called it the Switzerland of the Middle East. It unraveled faction by faction, until the collapse. Singapore was a swamp with no resources. It became one of the world's most prosperous countries through order, merit, and demands. There will be no middle ground. No lukewarm. No "at the same time." The left knows this. That's why it's sending the children to the front line. It's up to us to choose, before they choose for us.

 

Objectivit

@Obejectivit

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Translated from French

I completely agree with your analysis. That said, LFI needed to manipulate these young people, of whom, by the way, it couldn't care less. They are just the means to establish a totalitarian regime. Civil war is at our doorstep and they will not stop pushing the French towards it.

Caravans of illegal immigrants

 

Larry Alex Taunton

@LarryTaunton

Illegals: A Warning to Americans: Since ~2019, I have tracked caravans of illegals from So America to the US. I interviewed them, followed them into cartel towns and jungles, and observed all that they were willing to do — sell themselves, go without food, steal, risk every kind of danger, make Faustian bargains, etc. — to get to the US. Always I had this feeling, a memory, really, from my years of studying history, that I couldn’t put my finger on, but it was trying to penetrate my conscious being. Then it came to me: They are tougher than Americans. Writing on the fall of Athens, historian Will Durant said, “Nations are born stoic and die epicurean.” That is, nations are born amidst struggle and hardship and collapse as seekers of pleasure. I said I had a memory of sorts that was trying to find expression, and it ran along much the same lines as Durant’s observation. I remembered that Rome collapsed, not in a day, but over the course of centuries that accelerated into decades, as wave upon wave of uncivilized Germanic tribesmen, “illegals” so to speak, poured across the empire’s northern frontier and eventually sacked Rome itself. Rome had been built on strong, large families; unity of purpose; and the hard work of its people. Its armies were, at its height, citizen armies. Men fought to preserve what they knew and loved. Near its end, Romans were a lazy, self-indulgent people who paid others to do their fighting. Infanticide, which was common throughout Rome’s history, became a capital offense and a woman who aborted her child, also common, could be executed or exiled. This wasn’t due to any moral considerations, a recognition of the personhood of an unborn child, or anything like that at all. It was a much too late recognition that with the dramatic decline in the size of Roman families as prosperity increased, came a decrease in tax revenues and an over-reliance on foreigners to fill the ranks of the army — all of which would prove disastrous for Rome. Sound familiar? All of this was somewhere in the back of my mind, a feeling at first, as I observed the third worlders making their way by the millions to our borders. I saw them in the violence of Africa, the intrigues of the Middle East, and everywhere there is misery south of our border. Generally speaking, they are a people inured to suffering (theirs or that of others), are accustomed to death, unaccustomed to the comforts Americans take for granted, have lived in nothing but squalor, do not share your views of private property or civil discourse, view violence as a part of daily life, lack even the most basic education, and have little sympathy for the low pain threshold of Americans. These are the people coming to take your inheritance from you. Coming from a “might makes right” world, they know no other policy. They have no vested interest in preserving American law or culture, and that is because it isn’t their heritage and they don’t understand it. Democrats seem to think they will be immune from all of this because they foolishly believe these newcomers will view them as benefactors. They do not. I’ve met them, been in their cardboard camps, walk with them on trails, heard their hopes and dreams, and in none of it is there such nuanced thinking. America is, for them, a ripe fruit theirs for the taking. Once you open the castle gates and lower the drawbridge, you no longer control the outcome. Indeed, you have surrendered it. And why are Democrats willing to do that? Because they hate Americans more than this still ill-defined rabble, and they don’t understand what’s coming. These people are tougher than you, and they don’t give a damn about you. Be careful how you vote. The future you hope for will be, I promise, very different from the rosy one media promises you. I’m speaking from firsthand experience.

Stephen Miller

@StephenM

Large swaths of corporate media exist at this point primarily to propagandize and radicalize subsets of the population into supporting the liquidation of national sovereignty. Willfully omitted by the CNN propagandists is that these are minors who cartels have recently tried to smuggle across the Southwest Border but who were rescued by Border Patrol. These minors will now be safely and humanely reunited with their families by dedicated public servants who have devoted their lives to combatting child trafficking. It is because of the efforts of these public servants that there is no longer a raging UAC (“unaccompanied alien child”) catastrophe — the Trump Administration swiftly, urgently and righteously ended the child trafficking nightmare. Between ten to twenty thousand children a MONTH were successfully smuggled by cartels into the US under Biden, who worked with taxpayer NGOs to deliver the smuggled children to unknown adults in the US, whereupon they disappeared. The NGOs then submitted knowingly fraudulent asylum claims to try to keep the children from ever going home or seeing their families again. These same Democrat-NGO networks for cartels were also ruthlessly exploited by TDA and MS-13 to insert gang members into the United States and violent criminals into our high schools (automatically allowed in merely by claiming to be 17), subjecting innocent American children to unspeakable horrors. It was one of the darkest of many dark chapters of the Biden era. The Trump Administration put the child traffickers out of business and CNN considers this a great tragedy to be urgently reversed. New depths of “journalistic” depravity and immortality.

the Bretton Woods of superintelligence

https://x.com/brivael/status/2105364100041585000?s=20

Brivael Le Pogam

@brivael

Translated from French

Keep this photo firmly in mind. In 50 years, it will be in the history books. David Sacks called it "the Bretton Woods of superintelligence." He's right. I sincerely believe we'll look back on this moment as the West's turning point. The day the United States decided to stop enduring the future, but to build it. And by building it, they will save the West. Let me tell you a little anecdote. In 2013, I returned to France after a year spent in Silicon Valley. I had just seen the early signs of what's happening today: The first robots that can stand upright. The first cars that drive themselves. Algorithms that are starting to learn. I was convinced we were living the beginning of something immense. So I said it. Everywhere. At dinners. At work. To friends. They laughed in my face. Literally. "Robots? We'll be dead before that." "Self-driving cars? Science fiction." "AI? A geek gadget." I was the weird guy, the resident nutcase, the one you listen to politely while waiting for him to calm down. 14 years later, I've never calmed down. It's the world that caught up to me. So this time, I'll be very clear. Here's what's going to happen. AI will reach AGI level in 12 to 24 months. We're already starting to touch it with the latest models like Opus 5.5. Concretely, every individual on Earth will have access to an unprecedented cognitive lever in human history. In their pocket: A doctor. A lawyer. An engineer. A researcher. A strategist. Not for an elite. For everyone. Then, robotics will kick in. What AI does for the mind, robots will do for the body. Physical, repetitive, grueling, dangerous work will be automated. The cost of producing things will collapse. And that's when a dizzying question will arise: where does the human fit into all this? Me, I have a tremendous amount of hope. I think we'll return to our true nature: Choose. Create. Marvel. Build beautiful experiences for one another. For millennia, the vast majority of humans spent their lives surviving. Work as a constraint is a historical parenthesis, not our destiny. Work to advance humanity will become optional. It will be seen as a high-level sport. An elite of volunteers, like athletes, who will choose to push the frontier. And that frontier, I'm willing to bet, will be in space. Why am I so sure of myself? Because all of human history proves us right. Technology is the only engine of sustainable abundance we've ever invented. Every time we've driven down the cost of energy, information, or intelligence, humanity has leaped forward: Agriculture. Steam. Electricity. The Internet. Every time, the doomsayers announced the end of the world. Every time, we've ended up living longer, richer, healthier lives. Because intelligence is the ultimate resource. A disease. A shortage. A crisis. These are problems we haven't been smart enough to solve yet. We're on the verge of making intelligence abundant and nearly free. Measure what that means. Because energy is life. A civilization with more energy cares for the sick better, feeds better, educates better. Nuclear. Solar. Fusion tomorrow.

We don't have a resource problem, we have an ambition problem. Because resources aren't fixed. A resource is matter multiplied by knowledge. Oil was a nuisance before we knew what to do with it. Sand became chips. The more we know, the more we have.

So I'm telling you. Don't listen to the pessimists. Don't listen to the degrowthers who want to teach you to live with less and feel shame for wanting more. Don't listen to those who tell you there aren't enough resources for everyone. Don't listen to those who repeat that the Earth is suffering, that humans are the problem, that progress is a sin. Don't listen to those who brandish the precautionary principle to never do anything. The real risk is stopping. Every year of delay on a technology means lives we could have saved and won't. Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism builds the world. And if there's one man who embodies that better than anyone, it's Elon Musk. Look at what he's doing. SpaceX, which has turned access to space—once a dream reserved for states—into an industrial product. Rockets that come back to land. Starship, preparing for multiplanetary civilization. Terafab, to produce at scale the chips that tomorrow's intelligence will need. Vertical integration pushed to the limit: master every brick, from the atom to the software, because that's the only way to go fast and depend on no one. And on AI, he's doing something fundamental: refusing to inject ideological biases into the models. An AI that will become the cognitive lever for eight billion humans must not think for them. It must seek the truth. Period. You can criticize him as much as you want. History will remember that while others commented on the decline, he built: Rockets. Cars. Robots. Chips. Intelligences. He doesn't talk about the future. He makes it. If there's one person to trust to make this revolution pro-human, it's him. His project has never changed: Extend consciousness. Make humanity greater. Freer. And take it farther. I sincerely hope all the other tech leaders will follow this path. Because it's a pro-human project. And that's what makes me deeply optimistic. Thank you, Elon. In 2012, they thought I was crazy. In 2026, I'm saying it again with even more conviction: the best is yet to come. And it's arriving much faster than you think.