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Francis Financis retweeted
I would probably vote for this guy even with pretty major policy disapproval simply because I think it’s important for us to have a president who acts and speaks like this. I think the country needs a unifying leader more than it needs any specific policy right now.
Francis Financis retweeted
HK is the most magical place on earth to live IMO.
I went to uni and lived right here for ~4 years or so.
Imagine stepping outside your flat and walk 15 minutes east and you're in downtown Manhattan i.e Central with world-class shopping and nightlife.
Take a cab 15 minutes south and you have half a dozen good beaches including Repulse Bay and Shek O. You can go there at 2pm, sunbathe and swim in warm weather and be home by 6pm.
Take a short 20 minute metro ride across the harbour north and you're in a film set i.e Mongkok, with food on every corner and bright neon lighting up the night sky.
Half an hour west on the Airport Express and you're at the world's best airport with most of Asia within 5 hours flight away.
And the best part? Walk 45 minutes up and you're at Victoria Peak, the best city view in the world IMO, and the top of a mountain.
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Francis Financis retweeted
TSMC’s $265 billion buildout in Arizona – the biggest foreign investment in US history – has sparked a real estate boom in the Phoenix suburbs bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Francis Financis retweeted
Dont look at france labour laws...
European hiring rules are genuinely insane.
For example - if you own a company in the Netherlands and one of your employees gets sick, you are required to pay at least 70% of their wages for up to 2 years.
If they can't go back to work after 2 years and you haven't done enough for their reintegration, you pay their wages for 1 more year. And you can't fire them until after that extra year!
Francis Financis retweeted
To realize how few people understand basic second order effects just read the comments to this.
The fantasy that a private company being obliged to pay a sick employee for two years before they can even fire them sounds “good”, “workers rights” in principle, this is where midwits stop thinking.
The hidden cost of this is huge: companies don’t hire, they can’t grow, if the do hire, they pay less because insurance against sick pay is very expensive, everyone is paying for a few people who abuse the system etc. the list of invisible yet consequential economic effects can go on and on. Why are people so stupid??
European hiring rules are genuinely insane.
For example - if you own a company in the Netherlands and one of your employees gets sick, you are required to pay at least 70% of their wages for up to 2 years.
If they can't go back to work after 2 years and you haven't done enough for their reintegration, you pay their wages for 1 more year. And you can't fire them until after that extra year!
Francis Financis retweeted
Many Lula supporters say they want Brazil to adopt China's economic model. To achieve that, Brazil would need to cut social spending and pensions by 50% and cut government spending by 30%. It would need someone much more right-wing than Bolsonaro on economics.
Many working class Trump supporters are fine with the US being poorer in return for 'America First'. In 2025, it was tariffs induced CPI and stock market crash. In 2026, Iran war induced fuel price surge.
Many Lula supporters share the same ethos. They value geopolitical sovereignty and don't want to be an 'American colony'. They are fine with being nominally 'poorer'. In this sense, both blue collar Trump supporter and Lula value national dignity more than 'GDP per capita'.
What the MAGA interviewer does here is similar to what zionist media in the US do to blue collar MAGA voters - select the most bad optics character to discredit the movement. But notice the Lula supporter at 15:35 - he was trying to explain to the interviewer that he rejects liberalism and wants to try Chinese style state capitalism, not soviet style Communism. The interviewer was only interested in getting the 'so you support Communism?' soundbite. Besides, I don't think he understands what state capitalism is anyway.
My personal opinion if I was Brazilian? I would support Bolsonaro on most issues but Lula geopolitically.
Francis Financis retweeted
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns Europe is falling dangerously behind America economically… and blames anti-business, anti-investment, and anti-innovation policies. 🇺🇸🇪🇺
“If you don’t believe me, go to Europe, folks. Europe used to have a GDP per person of 90% of America’s. It’s now 65%. It’s on its way to 50%.
That will jeopardize the health of Europe itself over time.
And it’s all anti-business, anti-investment, anti-innovation. They kind of know it.
If they don’t fix it—and we should help them fix it, because Europe matters—it’s really bad for the Western world, too.
We should do it wisely.”
Europe shift over the past three decades has proven decimating for their economy. Aging population forces mass immigration in order to maintain adequate growth. Crazy regulation and bureaucracy slows innovation and investment… forcing the economy further down. At the same time, the United States has pulled ahead exponentially and will continue to do so. Europe is struggling.
Francis Financis retweeted
European centrists didn't fall short. They were trapped in idiotic beliefs:
- They treated European wealth, economic & living standards as a natural law, not as something precious to be maintained
- They were deluded in thinking that European culture & values were the inevitable end stage of human development so that Europe could absorb vast amounts of non-European migrants despite fundamental cultural incompatibilities
- They were stupidly convinced that Russia, China & the US also bought into the 'end of history' and were that everyone was working toward a peaceful world of cooperation and interdependence.
Francis Financis retweeted
Imagine buying a game and the first screen says:
“Congratulations. You won.”
You’d ask for your money back.
You wanted the challenge.
You wanted to figure it out.
Maybe the struggle isn’t ruining the game.
Maybe the struggle is the game.
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Francis Financis retweeted
.@SecRubio: "Too often, these days, we build downwards. We design our standards to ensure that no one will lose. We preoccupy ourselves more with the comfort of the worst than the potential of the best. We hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average."
.@SecRubio: "The things we owe to this place as Americans — and as Westerners — are actually far, far deeper... What blossomed here in this place was the Western desire to uncover all that ignorance, darkness, and distance had kept hidden from the mind of man."
