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Yep. Don’t think Spek is one of them - could be wrong. However you can’t kill patriotism and then scratch your head wondering why nobody wants to fight for the country.

I think there is quite a large difference between being patriotic and being (for example) a Nazi.

Sadly many Europeans simply don’t see it that way. I agree with him.

The US has subsided Europe for a decade or more, by guaranteeing Europe's safety with massive defence spending whilst Europe has slowly and steadily reduced military spending and spending that money elsewhere. It should never have been like that and it shouldn't have taken a character like Trump to waken them up. Putin has been a known quantity for a very long time.

As you know John, I am massively pro-Ukraine, and I am for the military build up as I am believe in peace through strength. However, I am still of conscription age, and I look at all the loud talking of fighting like the previous generations in the world wars and I just can't help but think (god forbid in the future) why would I put my life on the line when the wishes of my people at home, my country, have been ignored for a generation. Britain isn't Britain if most of the population aren't British - it's a way off but it is the trajectory this country is on. Successive governments haven't put this country first, or its people... so what would I be fighting to preserve at home? To maybe come home in one piece, and just continue to see the slow decay of our people and culture... I'm kinda angry John in several directions.

It’s about willingness of the people to fight John. He’s saying the patriotic spirit is of World War 1 and World War 2 is gone.

Exactly. The politicians haven’t served us in a long time. What would we be fighting for? To be ignored and called bigots and racist all over again. Ironically war, and specifically conscription, would be one of the few things that would immediately result in large amounts of immigrants leaving,

This is bang on. In England nearly 50% of the newborns aren’t British. Why on earth would anyone go fight for their country when politicians have allowed their countries to be wrecked by multi-culturalism and mass migration.

They are truly complete morons and yet there is a whole swath of Europeans who just love the EU institutions.

What do you want to happen? To stop the ICE raids and just allow illegals to do what they want?

We don’t know why the study got passed, conformity bias might have been a factor but it seems nobody can say. Just as likely are reviewers not doing their due diligence. An alternative view is that the scientific community swarmed the paper until it was retracted which is a good news story.

Is this finger in the air stuff? Did he mention what this was based on?

This has been pointed out for years and yet the dipshits don’t do anything about. If going green means deindustrialising your own territory for those same industries to appear elsewhere without such green regulations then it’s a total failure. Two approaches, if you are going to make energy more expensive then you have to tariff imported industrials products to make your industry competitive. The other option is widespread nuclear baseload.

PLTR is an obvious short and the problem is that, based on the pricing, the options market also knows it’s an obvious short.

Europe has 8 aircraft carriers, 1.6 million people in armies, thousands of tanks and aircraft. Additionally, and despite the best efforts of their retard politicians, it retains an enormous industrial base. This is with Europe doing the very bare minimum on defence for the better part of 40 years. India, Japan and Australia do not have an alliance anything like NATO. There is no common defence clause that means that if the US get attacked by China that India has to join in.

good to hear. And you know I agree with you about Europe not living up to its NATO commitments

Be careful what you wish for, because I’m fairly sure Europe can handle Russia without the US if they really needs to. I’m less sure that the US can handle China without the Europeans. This is the wrong era to be fracturing long standing alliances.

I’ve noticed more frequently how Russia is announcing loudly that if Europeans do x it’s basically war. Today it’s about using frozen Russian assets. Don't hear much mention about the US which is a deliberate attempt to put a wedge between Europe and the US. Fairly blatant threats and aggression and yet there is regularly commentary that would somehow have you believe that this is a both sides thing.

How do you even go about private market investing, and hearing about these companies? Seems to me you need an informational edge, key contacts, and a good amount of money. Don't think anyone is going to be particularly interested in small sums.

We’ve found a unicorn, with no squinting either! I remember in uni a professor who used to single digit how and I used to wonder how much more productive he would be if he could use multiple fingers. Wonder what he makes of AI.

Charlie Kirk pretty famous in 40 and below segment that would have YouTube and Instagram etc. Especially the Gen Z cohort. Not so much in older age category that still type with their index finger whilst squinting at the screen (admit it lol).

Could this really a question about when companies IPO? Most of the biggest companies will have started small, but they probably wouldn’t have been public. Amazon seems to be an exception, IPO’ing at approx. 500 million. Google IPO’d at mid 20 bn and Facebook at 100 bn I think. So for me, the question is why do so many of the nano caps which become monster caps IPO later? Does that mean the best deals are in the private market? ChatGPT could be one of those.

Yes, the Canadian housing market has been a bit crazy for a while. I think our discussion was about the US market.

I want Britain to remain British John, and I don’t care who that offends. At the very least European. It’s not about hating foreigners, it’s about stopping our people from being demographically replaced, losing are culture and just fading into a country and culture of global citizen nothingness. In England, nearly half of births are from people that aren’t British. This makes me red with anger because it something nobody voted for, in fact we have voted against immigration year and year and our useless politicans just keep making it worse.

I actually think it’s a great tweet. Something we should be doing in Europe.