Posts by h4890@liberdon.com
(DIR) Post #B0nfFSt0hF74HzLYSe by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T09:16:04Z
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@smlx4 What I say has nothing to do with ideology. To the contrary, it seems like you are steeped in socialism. What I talk about is just plain, basic, economic facts. Socialism has been disproven scientifically (it doesn't work), historically (any place where it has been tried has fallen), and logically (it is inconsistent). It amazes me that people still insist on believing in the illusion, but envy and hate are probably the main factors behind that.
(DIR) Post #B0nfXifgkL4USTotrE by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T09:19:21Z
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@smlx4 Hello? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per_adultSweden place 143. Let me assure you that sweden was not ranked 143 after WW2. You have been disproven again, and pro tip, don't base your ideas on swedish government data. The swedish public sector is full of socialists, trying to hide the errors of socialism to earn money on corruption. So you cannot trust swedish data. It's like asking a drug seller if drugs are good. Trickle down has been proven. You can see the proof in many places, but go out and
(DIR) Post #B0nfcBxJoGlKRNCOIK by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T09:20:11Z
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@smlx4 buy Johan Nordbergs book The Capitalist Manifesto, you have sources and data. Your mistake is very common among socialists, and that is that you are only looking at a few years at most. If you look at 30 or 70 years, you'll see the proof of trickle down.
(DIR) Post #B0nfkAQTNhbq0qdeK0 by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T09:21:35Z
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@smlx4 When it comes to rape... tadah! https://www.statista.com/statistics/1268551/sexual-violence-rate-europe-country/Sweden in the top. You seriously need to remove your ideological sunglasses. They keep you from actually seeing the world as it is, and to accept facts.
(DIR) Post #B0nfxe0Ui9Z7WMuhtY by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T09:24:01Z
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@smlx4 Incorrect. Nobel prize 2024 proved that strong property rights is essential for rich nations. Reducing inequality goes counter to nobel prize winning economists and reduces material welfare in countries. The only motivation I can think of is that you are envious of rich people, and see politics as a tool to steal from them. Economics has prove, and received a nobel prize in 2024 for the _fact_ that property rights must be maintained (no reduction of inequality) to get economic
(DIR) Post #B0nfzStezQF1dtaLQm by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T09:24:24Z
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@smlx4 wealth and prosperity. Again, you can see this in Johan Nordbergs book which I suspect you will never read.
(DIR) Post #B0niFkUDYk5ajmZqMK by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T09:49:44Z
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@watchfulcitizen Yep... this is yet another example of the destruction of sweden. Socialism, which has governed sweden for 75 years, is deeply authoritarian and anti-demcratic. Strömmer has been working hard at accelerating authoritarianism and surveillance in sweden, and now we are seeing the result. The other day, the government choose to move forward with "limited" AI scanning of photage from video surveillance cameras, and this will naturally expand to become live 24/7.
(DIR) Post #B0niOxOGx3bzMhBero by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T09:51:24Z
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@watchfulcitizen Sweden is not a free country any more. Your bank account can be closed without due process and warning, if the government catches you saying "negro", or criticizing islam, or just if you happen to be close to a terrorist with your cell phone on. The dangerous thing is that this system is so entrenched, that it is more or less impossible to change it politically. So I always tell students and people who are interested to leave sweden. The worlds highest taxes, and one of the
(DIR) Post #B0niS7cDONDxwhDYoK by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T09:51:59Z
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@watchfulcitizen most privacy invasive countries on the planet. There are way better places to live. Move and let the ship sink. Once it hits bottom, then the rebuild can start.
(DIR) Post #B0niq8Gkc3nCvJcwa0 by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T09:56:18Z
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@Tattooed_Mummy The modern experience is a degrading and humiliating experience. If I could, I would never fly again. Sadly modern life and work forces me to fly. I've been thinking about buying my own small propeller plane. That would enable me to travel shorter distances with some kind of human dignity.
(DIR) Post #B0nmAuIo2Ir9Y9Bbe4 by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T10:33:41Z
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@smlx4 Actually, the opposite is the case. Norberg is actually free from ideology and focuses on science. As for my tone, I've learned from the emperor that it is our hate that makes us stronger, so I think it is a good starting point to base ones life on! 💪 As for monopoly, markets is the only thing that prevents them. You've just committed another fallacy. The government is a monopoly, enforced by violence, and you like that. That means that you are not per
(DIR) Post #B0nmBf9XqYNIr2DNEe by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T10:33:50Z
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@smlx4 definition against monopolies, which means that you shouldn't be against it in case of markets either. But, markets do not lead to monopolies, over time, so you have nothing to fear there. In terms of inequality, that is a law of physics, and an inherent good. Harnessing inequality and instability through the tool of the market, is what universally, increases everyones standard of living and material welfare.
(DIR) Post #B0nmC2aGjMPxWZtXaC by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T10:33:54Z
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@smlx4 Channeling those two aspects of life through a monopoly maintainted by violence (government) is what leads to the downfall of everyone, world wards, and destruction. You can see what socialism leads to in china and russia. Two excellent examples. Sweden is just a bit slower, but will reach this in time if nothing is changed.
(DIR) Post #B0nmUvU3LyEX0OzbyC by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T10:37:18Z
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Dear fediverse, it seems like it is time for me to move to another instance due to my home instance moving to a membership model. Can you recommend some good instances that have no restrictions on freedom of speech, and ideally, are located outside the EU?
(DIR) Post #B0ofY7ec3WOP6BT8N6 by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T20:54:09Z
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@smlx4 Bye, bye! 😎 🇮🇱 🇺🇸
(DIR) Post #B0ogNBNNybnJPZl54S by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T21:03:23Z
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Hmm, it seems like alive.bar has no code of conduct for mastodon posts. This is positive!
(DIR) Post #B0ohiS92vT5XSDl21Y by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T21:18:26Z
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Alright... I'll finish my liberdon.com career with some light technical posting... and then I'll try and move over to alive.bar, and we'll see how long they will let a provocateur like me stay. ;) But first... my regular readers know that my favourite rss reader for the moment is newsraft! So today I integrate some youtube channels, and configures newsraft so that you get the videos from youtube through rss, and then, I can open the videos in vlc, so as not to have to suffer youtubes very
(DIR) Post #B0ohwOYR4WlsNAHVYG by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T21:20:57Z
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bad user interface. So how do you do it? Easy! First find the youtube challel_id. Go to your favourite channels, look at the source, and you'll find the channel_id. Then add the following to your newsraft feeds file: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCEybzfsG2WI4Hnx5hpd2uRA < bind o exec ./yt2vlc.sh "%l" The last pièce de résistance is the script yt2vlc.sh which looks like this: #!/bin/bashmapfile -t urls < <(yt-dlp -g "$1") ; vlc --no-video-title "${urls[0]}" --input-slave "${urls[1]}"And there you go!
(DIR) Post #B0ohzxfUyYje94Hlk8 by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T21:21:35Z
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Now all you have to do to watch youtube, is to pull in the rss you like in the usual way, then press "o" on the youtube rss link, and after a while the video will open in vlc instead of the website.
(DIR) Post #B0oiH5SnFNatFCVcNk by h4890@liberdon.com
2025-12-01T21:24:42Z
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And now, on to the move... thank you liberdon for your many years of service to freedom and best of luck with the new user model! You deserve it!