Brazil is uninvestable. Shift your money to countries that aren’t corrupt and spending on payoffs for votes

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🇩🇪 Chancellor Merz promises Germany is the BEST place to invest in, despite its catastrophic energy policies: "If we agree on delivery dates, we stick to it. If you invite friends from Germany for dinner at 7, we arrive at 6:58. We are reliable, predictable, precise, and unsurprising. We are, in short, what investors like most. So the good thing about clichés is this: they tend to be true. So if you pick the core of this assumed Germanness, you might actually like what you get. Yes, we do have our own challenges, but Germany's DNA proves to be rather helpful in the face of a world which is harder and harder to read and to predict." So uhh... what are the clichés about mass unvetted migrants, if they "tend to be true"? 🤣 Writers: Mhedi, Michael

Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.

🇫🇷 France's government SPENDING now equals roughly 57% of its entire economy... That's higher than the levels shown here for the Soviet Union, communist Romania, Poland, and China. •⁠ ⁠USSR at 50% •⁠ ⁠Communist Romania at 42% •⁠ ⁠Venezuela under Chávez at 38% •⁠ ⁠Communist Poland at 36% •⁠ ⁠China at 33% Will France fall? Source: @randgroup / Writer: Samuel

The biggest, and stupidest, myth in European politics, particularly popular in France, is that Europe suffers the consequences of "austerity" and "neoliberalism". In the biggest 5 countries in Europe, more than half of the population makes its income from the state, less than half from the private sector. This is what makes the problem of reducing the welfare state so impossible: more than half of the voters are net recipients. No surprise that Italy's budget has not been balanced in 100 years, France's in 50 years (ooh la la, l'austérité!!): -France: 30 million from the state versus 21m private sector workers. State spending is 57% of GDP, taxes more than half the economy. The budget hasn't been balanced in the lifetime of most French (since 1974). - Germany: 35 million adults from the state, versus 34 million from the private sector. 10% of the population is registered as severely disabled. Public spending is over half of GDP. Germany has had a continuous budget deficit since 2019. -Italy: 23 million from the state, versus 20.5 million private-sector workers. Public spending is 51% of GDP. Italy has had a budget deficit every year since 1925, for 100 years. - Spain more people get their income from the state since 2024: 18.21 million from the public sector versus 17.9 million people working in the private sector. Since 2025, Spain also had more government employees than self-employed workers (autónomos) for the first time in history. State spending is at 45%, budget has not been balanced since 2007. - UK: 54% of households now receive more in state benefits than they pay in taxes. State spending is 44.5% of GDP, taxes (40%) are at their highest since 1950, the budget hasn't been balanced since 2001, and 1 in 5 new cars is paid by the government through a bizarre state disability scheme (Motability).

But in Europe we have this. What a f**king disgrace. An absolute shame. We need to completely change this disgusting system of idiots, cronies and thieves.

Turns out the future does have flying cars