Atlas Freeman @AtlasFreeman@liberdon.com

The time Poland was so #islamophobic that they viciously attacked thousands of Muslim undocumented migrants and stopped the Ottoman Empire from invading Europe..

"The Battle of Vienna is often seen as a turning point in history, after which the Ottoman Turks ceased to be a menace to the Christian world.

In the ensuing war that lasted until 1699, the Ottomans lost almost all of Hungary."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna

#Islam

Civilization needs the outliers. We need the George Washingtons, Musks, Einsteins, entrepreneurs, scientists, etc to drag the rest of us forward

The average person can sprinkle their beer belly with chip crumbs while binging Netflix, & we're fine because of the progress being made by the outliers

This is why #socialism / #communism are so devastating; the reward system for those outliers is ended. So society can't rise above the average, & is slowly pulled down by the under performers

Winston #Churchill 1899: “Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”

#Islam

people in the wheat-growing regions tended to score higher on the measures of #individualism while the people in the rice-growing regions tended to show a more #collectivist and holistic thinking. This was true even at the borders between different regions. “Here are people in nearby counties, but one farms rice one farms wheat – and we still found cultural differences.”

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-east-and-west-think-in-profoundly-different-ways?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Visualizing the Footprint of Highways in American Cities

animations show how highways reshaped the downtown cores of six American cities and created new patterns of urban life.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-footprint-of-highways-in-american-cities/

1. Be afraid.
2. We will protect you if you give us more power.

The hero we needed, not the hero we deserved

#Trump

Found another

Why #Taiwan Hasn't Shut Down Its Economy

The key is that the Taiwanese government and people understand that the individual's responsibility and actions are essential to suppressing the #coronavirus pandemic, not a mandatory massive shutdown.

No central planning body has the capacity to organize society based on coercive mandates. The main reason is they are unable to obtain all the necessary information to organize society in this way.

https://fee.org/articles/why-taiwan-hasnt-shut-down-its-economy/

Trump has a George Bush moment.

George Bush could have chosen to reform our broken borders and immigration. Instead, he started endless expensive wars that only made everything worse.

#Trump can own the challenge and take the steps to reduce our dependency on #China and allow American industry to thrive.

Leftists: "thousands of people are going to die because Trump isn't managing the government well!"

Also leftists: "government should control more of our healthcare"

I can accept that the China virus was unforeseen and not easy to deal with.

I cannot accept taking on two trillion dollars, then going back to business as usual.

America cannot rely on a lying communist country like China for our crucial supply chain after this. They can keep making party favors for us, but we have to learn our lesson on everything else

"I have a longer list of complaints, beginning with the fact that they eat bats.

#China makes more than 90% of our antibiotics, vitamin C, ibuprofen and hydrocortisone, 70% of acetaminophen, and 40% to 45% of heparin, according to The New York Times. The last American penicillin plant closed more than 15 years ago.

In March, the China ominously warned that if they stopped exporting drugs, “the US would sink into the hell of a novel #coronavirus epidemic.”

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/04/01/coulter-the-bill-for-globalism-has-arrived/

#anncoulter