A perfect Thursday in Spain as a 37 year old man: 10:00 - Wake up 10:30 - Mother brings breakfast to bed 11:30 - Take two buses to a €900/month job 12:30 - 2 hour coffee break 13:30 - Receive a call that squatters have occupied apartment 14:00 - Eat lunch for €4, complain it used to be €2 15:00 - Siesta 16:30 - Join protest against tourists ruining Barcelona 20:00 - Talk with an unemployed friend how Spain has the highest quality of life 22:00 - Have sex with two neighbors while drinking sangria 00:00 - Sleep in a childhood bedroom under a Real Madrid poster Life in Spain is simply paradise

Irre, was die Hauptstadt so zu bieten hat: Scheibe Brot mit Käse und (!) Pfeffer, dazu ein hartgekochtes Ei, bereits halbiert (!!), was wird den Verrückten in Berlin als nächstes einfallen: Würstchen mit Senf dazu? Milch zum Kaffee? Das Bier kommt im Glas? Man ist gespannt.

Da ich in den letzten Tagen über Frau Samii, die ARD-Producerin in Teheran, geschrieben habe, ist mir aufgefallen, dass sich viele die Frage stellen: Was ist eigentlich ihre wahre politische Orientierung? Wie kann es sein, dass sie einerseits regierungskritische Beiträge teilt, aber andererseits einen Post des Außenministers des islamischen Regimes repostet oder vor Jahren Videos von Versammlungen der Anhänger Ebrahim Raisis, bekannt als der „Schlächter von Teheran“, veröffentlicht hat? (An dieser Stelle sei angemerkt, dass im Netz noch weiteres Material von ihr existiert, das ihre Unterstützung für Raisi belegt, was jedoch nicht Gegenstand dieses Beitrags ist). Um dies zu verstehen, muss man sich verdeutlichen, dass das islamische Regime in dem vergangenen halben Jahrhundert nicht nur in der Produktion von Raketen oder Atomwaffen aktiv war, sondern kontinuierlich Instrumente zur Kontrolle der öffentlichen Meinung und der echten Oppositionellen entwickelt hat. Dies ist in totalitären Regimen nichts Neues; man denke hierbei an die „Operation Trust“ in der Sowjetunion, die „Hundert Blumen Bewegung“ in China oder die Blockparteien im Ostblock. Das islamische Regime ist unter Iranern dafür berüchtigt, Personen als vermeintliche Oppositionelle oder Kritiker einzuschleusen, um durch sie den Protest zu kontrollieren, den Demonstrierenden die gewünschten Narrative und Pläne zu suggerieren. Diese Akteure in Krisenzeiten sind besonders aktiv. Bei der Betrachtung von Frau Samiis Inhalten, die ab einem gewissen Zeitpunkt einen “reformistischen” Anschein erweckten, drängt sich die Frage auf, wie dieser plötzliche Richtungswechsel zu bewerten ist. Hat sie ihre Positionierung vielleicht nur deshalb von einer Unterstützerin des „Schlächters von Teheran“ hin zu einer sogenannten Reformistin oder Regimekritikerin gewechselt, um gezielt die Zusammenarbeit mit westlichen Medien zu ermöglichen? Fest steht jedoch, dass ihr gelegentlich „Fehler“ unterlaufen, wie die Screenshots ihrer Seite belegen. Es wirkt fast so, als würde sie in Momenten, in denen sie sich unbeobachtet fühlt, kurz die Maske abnehmen; denn kaum wurde die Sache öffentlich bemerkt, löschte sie ihren Repost von Araghchi umgehend. Wie auch immer die Wahrheit aussehen mag, ich denke, dass zumindest ein Teil der von ihr veröffentlichten Inhalte außerhalb der in Deutschland akzeptierten Werte liegt.

No, bro, you don't understand. If the US loses one single plane, they are LOSING. If Iran is bombed 24/7 with no airspace control and their entire leadership is dead and their remaining singular spokesperson is issuing empty threats from a bunker they are WINNING.

No Kings.

Seems a little weird to chant "This is what democracy looks like!" in the streets of an authoritarian country that explicitly bans all political parties outside of the Communist Party of Cuba.

So unerquicklich vorhersehbar – und zugleich erschütternd unterkomplex. #Iran

No

> be Dutch anon > buy 100 shares of a tech company with my life savings > stock goes up because the CEO tweeted a frog meme > haven't sold a single share, still eating mayo on bread for dinner > government appears out of the canals like a swamp monster > "GEKOLONISEERD. THAT'S 36% OF YOUR IMAGINARY PROFIT, MENEER." > explain that I literally don't have the cash because I haven't sold anything > "SELL THE STOCK TO PAY THE TAX ON THE STOCK YOU'RE HOLDING" > forced to sell 40% of my position just to pay for the privilege of owning the other 60% > stock crashes 50% the next morning > I now owe the tax office more than my entire portfolio is worth > have to sell my bicycle and my wooden shoes to cover the debt > government uses the money to build a slightly taller levee to protect a pile of dirt > cycle to work in a rainstorm while a tax collector checks the appreciation value of my raincoat > "unrealized gains" more like "realized poverty" > mfw I’m being taxed on the vibes of future wealth

Many people are commenting that this will produce a capital flight and cause the most productive Dutch citizens to emigrate. This is true. However, the reality is much worse, far more perfidious. Virtually every Dutch citizen is going to be a criminal from here on. A specter of arbitrary enforcement will hang over each of their heads. Why? Two reasons. One -- the tax is both severe and hard to administer. Remember, without a sale, there's no financial trail. Lots of people are just going to chance it and not pay the tax. (They may even forget!) Second, people own so many different assets, and it's hard to mark those assets to the market without a sale actually occurring. If you own a painting that you once bought, is it still worth the same? The state says it's worth more, you say it's worth less. Who wins? This kind of policy is the worst kind, where it opens a door wide to abuse by arbitrary enforcement. Have an enemy? Start investigating them for unpaid unrealized capital gains taxes. You'll always find something, and then you can put them in prison. Dangerous tools.

This is a masterclass in sounding righteous while saying nothing that survives contact with arithmetic. Let’s start with the £4 billion figure you’re throwing around. That’s not an annual tax bill Ratcliffe dodged. It’s a one-off estimated saving on a capital restructuring — the potential capital gains and income tax on extracting his equity from INEOS. You’re presenting it as though HMRC is missing £4 billion a year from its budget because Ratcliffe moved to Monaco. It isn’t. When Ratcliffe was UK tax resident in 2019, he paid £110 million in income tax in a single year. How much income tax did you pay that year, Zara? Now let’s test your central thesis: that if “parasitic billionaires paid what they owe,” our public services would be fine. The entire UK billionaire class — every single one of them — holds combined wealth estimated at around £650 billion. If you confiscated every penny — not taxed, confiscated — it would fund the NHS for approximately three years. Then it’s gone. No more billionaires. No more money. And of course you’d also have destroyed the companies they own, the hundreds of thousands of jobs those companies support, and the tax revenue those employees generate. INEOS alone employs 26,000 people globally and turns over £45 billion annually, generating enormous tax receipts through corporation tax, employer NICs, and income tax from its workforce. The NHS costs approximately £190 billion a year. Schools another £115 billion. The welfare bill runs to over £300 billion. Total government spending exceeds £1.2 trillion annually. You cannot fund this by squeezing billionaires, because there simply aren’t enough of them and they don’t have enough money — even collectively — to cover more than a rounding error on the annual budget. This is not an opinion. It is mathematics. The bulk of UK tax revenue comes from ordinary working people through income tax, NICs, VAT, and council tax, and it always The working class are perfectly capable of holding more than one thought simultaneously. They can recognise that tax avoidance by the wealthy is a problem and that unprecedented levels of net migration — 900,000 in a single year under this government’s watch — place genuine pressure on housing, GP appointments, school places, and wages at the lower end of the labour market. These are not “far-right talking points.” These are the lived daily experiences of the people you claim to represent. You know who doesn’t struggle to get a GP appointment? You, Zara. You know who isn’t competing for social housing? You. You know whose children aren’t in a classroom with 35 kids and a supply teacher? Yours aren’t. The people on the housing waiting list in Coventry — my neighbours — aren’t angry because Jim Ratcliffe lives in Monaco. They’re angry because they’ve been waiting four years for a two-bedroom flat while the population has grown by three million in half a decade and nobody built the infrastructure to absorb it. And speaking of parasites — your word, not mine — you’ve been a member of the party that has been in government since July 2024. Labour has had every lever of power available to it. What has your government done about billionaire tax avoidance? Nothing. What has it done about non-dom status? Watered down its own proposals. What has it done about net migration? Presided over the highest figures in British history. You don’t get to tweet like you’re in opposition when you are the government. You’re not “speaking truth to power.” You are power. And you’re failing. Ratcliffe’s language was clumsy and his population figures were wrong. But your response isn’t an argument — it’s a slogan dressed up as analysis, designed to harvest likes from people who mistake moral indignation for economic literacy. The working class don’t need you to identify their enemies for them. They need houses, functioning public services, and an honest conversation about trade-offs. You’re offering none of these.

Just found a guy on instagram reels who forces bees to sting him on his forehead to stimulate growth of a better hairline and he just eats the bees alive after they sting him

Holy shit. During a protest in the heart of London, a Muslim woman who openly supports the Islamic regime was asked why she supports them and what she thinks of the 40,000 Iranians massacred by the regime. Videographer: “Why are you carrying the Islamic republic flag” Muslim woman: “because I love it” Videographer: “what do you think about that they killed 40,000 people” Her response was “Nice”. Videographer: “Nice? You think it’s nice?” Her response again: “it’s nice” This is the mentality of Islamists. She’s not even Iranian. She says she’s a “Palestinian”. This is today’s London @daveatherton @TRobinsonNewEra @JuliaHB1

Delcy Rodríguez advierte a Trump: "Cañones mas grandes hemos parado"

I swear at least 75% of left-wing politics is just rich white nepo babies rebelling against their parents

"ThIs Is GoInG tO cAuSe ChInA tO aTtAcK tAiWaN" Yes retard, the country that just got shown all it's calculations based on weapons systems which depended on being able to use RADARS to engage US aircraft/ships are essentially worthless and billions of dollars in investment and research have been wasted is going to feel VERY brave in launching an assault against a fortified island nation armed with US weapons, US fighters, backed up by the US navy and Japanese defense force... I'm sure they are just giddy with excitement to try and pull that off. Practically chomping at the bit

Nothing says “European elite” like spending the day on endless conference calls about a situation they have no say in, no influence over, and which, in any case, ended yesterday.

Wer deutsches X liest zum Thema Venezuela, versteht, warum kein Land die Deutschen in der Weltpolitik auch nur einen Hauch ernst nimmt. Moralisierend, USA-feindlich und immer auf der falschen Seite.

VENEZUELA: This is what a real Venezuelan refugees are doing tonight in Argentina versus Chinese CCP-funded protesters demanding Maduro’s return in Democrat cities.