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Police in Brussels shut down a conservative political gathering featuring Nigel Farage, displaying totalitarian tactics. The mayor of Brussels is preventing conservatives from exercising their right to free speech. The mayor responsible for this violation is compared to Nazis and Communists. The mayor also hosted a radical Islamicist Iranian mayor last year. The actions of the police and mayors violate the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Western leaders must take action to restore freedom and democracy in Belgium. Anti-fascist activists have been mobilizing against the conference.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
This is outrageous totalitarianism and must be condemned by all Western political leaders, no matter where you sit on the political spectrum. Police officers in Brussels shut down a conservative political gathering while former UK politician @Nigel_Farage was on stage. This is the kind of thuggish gangsterism that we rightly associate with Nazism and Communism. Shame on the police and mayor of Brussels for this totalitarian tactic! "The police document," reports The Telegraph, "suggested speeches by speakers including Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman could lead to public disorder or display racist and homophobic views." Apparently, the police have, for now, allowed the conference to go on. But they have blocked any new people from entering.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
This goes far beyond "cancel culture." This is the mayor of Brussels, the seat of the European Union's government, preventing conservatives from their Constitutionally protected right to free speech. The leaders of the Western world have lost their minds.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Here is the dictator-thug responsible for this outrageous violation of freedom at the heart of Europe's supposedly liberal democracy. Shame on you @emir_kir ! You are no better than the Nazis and Communists who repressed their political enemies!
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
THE STORY GETS EVEN CRAZIER!!! The Mayor of the City of Brussels, who just blocked access to a gathering of European conservatives hosted a radical Islamicist Iranian mayor last year! "Tehran mayor Alireza Zakani was placed under sanctions by the UK in 2023 on the grounds that he had been 'involved in the commission of serious human rights violations or abuses in Iran.' He was also reportedly an Iranian paramilitary prior to becoming the capital city's mayor." https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1888954/natcon-shut-down-brussels-mayor-iran
Brussels Mayor that tried to force Farage NatCon shut down hosted Iranian mayor
Socialist Philippe Close pressured the venue hosting NatCon to shut the event down, but last year he hosted the mayor of the Iranian capital at Brussels' Town Hall.
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@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
NIGEL FARAGE JUST NOW: "That meeting, over the next two days, you've got the Prime Minister of Hungary; you've got a bishop; you've got members of the European royal families coming; well-known international businessmen and women; politicians; leaders of parties that will win European elections in countries this year in June. "And yet, because they're questioning ever closer union, because they're questioning globalism, they're literally being shut down. "This is like the old Soviet Union. No alternative view allowed. "I tell you what. I might have had my reservations about the way the Conservative government have carried out Brexit. If anything convinced me we did the right thing, it was what happened in that place this morning."
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The speaker discusses a meeting where various influential figures, including the prime minister of Hungary, a bishop, and business leaders, are being silenced for questioning globalism and the push for closer union in Europe. The speaker expresses support for Brexit, citing the suppression of differing views at the meeting as confirmation of their decision.
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Speaker 0: That meeting, over the next 2 days, you've got the prime minister of Hungary. You've got a bishop. You've got members of the European royal families coming, well known international businessmen and women, politicians, leaders of parties that will win European elections in countries this year in June. And yet because they're questioning ever closer union. Because they're questioning globalism.
They're literally being shut down. This is like the old Soviet Union. No alternative view allowed. I'll tell you why. I might have had my reservations about the way the conservative government have carried out Brexit.
If anything convinced me that we did the right thing, it was what happened in that place this morning.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
"There's a police line outside the door. If we leave, we won't be allowed back into the venue." This is a direct violation of "Article 12 - Freedom of assembly and of association" in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, which is the EU's Bill of Rights. It reads, "1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others." The mayors of Brussels and Brussels City, @PhilippeClose & @emir_kir are breaking the law. They are thugs and should be removed from office.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
This is not just "cancel culture" — this is the weaponization of the police in direct violation of Europe's constitution. THIS IS AN ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH AND DEMOCRACY OF ALL FREE PEOPLE ASK YOURSELVES: @JoeBiden @BarackObama @EmmanuelMacron @Bundeskanzler @RishiSunak @alexanderdecroo @vonderleyen Are you all on board with the police preventing your political opponents from being able to speak? If you all do not stop this immediately, you are all implicated in this grotesque attack on freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and democracy. Every Western leader, including all of the ones above, must take dramatic action to restore freedom and democracy to Belgium, where it is being violated in real time.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
JOIN SPACES ON THIS URGENT ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH AND DEMOCRACY
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
HERE ARE THE ANTIFA FASCISTS WHO ARE CREATING A POLICE STATE IN BELGIUM "For ten days, activists have been mobilizing to prevent the National Conservatism Conference from taking place in Brussels or in Belgium on April 16 and 17. This will bring together around forty personalities from the European and international extreme right such as Viktor Orbán, Eric Zemmour, Nigel Farage and Tom Vandendriessche. For us, anti-fascist collectives, those fighting the extreme right, feminists, political youth and trade unionists, this conference cannot take place!" https://liege-antifascisme-be.translate.goog/les-extremes-droites-internationales-rassemblees-a-bruxelles-cest-non/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
Les extrêmes droites internationales rassemblées à Bruxelles, c’est non! – Front Antifasciste Liege 2.0
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@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Here's my interview with @yhazony @NatConTalk https://t.co/QsLiyjkYER
reSee.it AI Summary
I know someone who can effortlessly deliver a 30-minute speech without any notes, even on the floor of the European Parliament. His name is James Lindsay, and his extensive knowledge comes from reading academic journals and books. This post has gained a lot of attention, and I've shared it multiple times.
@Theo_TJ_Jordan - Theo Jordan
I don't know many people who can spit receipts for 30mins straight... with no notes. I don't know any who could do it on the floor of the European Parliament.
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The speaker discusses the concept of "woke" and its connection to Marxism. They argue that "woke" is essentially Marxism with American characteristics, as it seeks to redistribute social and cultural capital in addition to economic and material capital. The speaker explains that various ideologies such as critical race theory, queer theory, and postcolonial theory are all species within the genus of Marxism, sharing the goal of seizing control of the means of cultural production. They warn that Europe is at risk of succumbing to this ideology and urges understanding and resistance against it.
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Speaker 0: Hello. Thank you. I'm glad to be here. I want to, address something Tom just said, which is in fact that woke is supposed to advance equity in Europe. So here's the definition of equity and see if it sounds like a definition of anything else you've ever heard of.
The definition of equity comes from the public administration literature. It was written by a man named George Frederiksen. And the definition is an administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so that citizens are made equal. Does that sound like anything you've heard of before, like socialism? They're going to administer an economy to make shares equal.
The only difference between equity and socialism is the type of property that they redistribute, the type of shares. They're going to redistribute social and cultural capital in addition to economic and material capital. And so this is my thesis when we say what is woke. Woke is Maoism with American characteristics, if I might borrow from Mao himself who said that his philosophy was Marxism Leninism with Chinese characteristics, which means woke is marxism, and it's a very provocative statement. It's something you will certainly hear it is not, that it is different.
And the the the professors and the philosophers will spend a large amount of time explaining to you why. No. No. It's about economics when it's Marxism. This is social.
This is cultural. This is different. It's not different. I need you to think biologically for one moment, and I don't mean about your bodies. We could do that.
That's a different topic. I want you to think how we organize plants and animals when we study them. They're species, but above species, there are the genus of the animals. So you think like the cats, all the cats, but you have tigers, you have lions, you have house cats, you have whatever, leopards, many different kinds of cats. If we think of Marxism as a genus of ideological thought, then classical economic Marxism is a species.
Radical feminism is a species in this same genus. Critical race theory is a genus or sorry, a species in this genus. Queer theory is a species in this genus. Postcolonial theory that's plaguing Europe is a species in this genus, and they have something that binds them together called intersectionality that makes them treated as if they are all one thing. But the logic is Marxist, and I wanna convince you of that.
Because Marx had a very simple proposition, but we get lost. We think that Marx was talking about economics because he often talked about economics. He wrote a book called Capital. It's a very famous book. We think, well, this is about economic theory, but this isn't true.
It it's only true on the surface. If we go below the surface, what Marx was talking about was something different. We know what Marx's hypothesis was was that we must seize the means of production if we're going to bring socialism to the nations, to the world. We have to seize the means of production. So we have to ask what does he mean.
And if we think that it's about capital, then we miss what he means. If you think it's about the means of production in the factory with a hammer and the means of production in the field with a sickle, then you miss what it means. Because Marx explained what makes human beings special in his earlier writings. And what makes human beings special is that man is a being that is incomplete and knows that he is incomplete. He is a man whose true nature has been forgotten to him, which is social being.
He is a socialist at heart who doesn't realize it. And the reason he doesn't but of man, of society, and particularly of history. Marx said that he had the first scientific study of history. How was history produced? By man doing man's activity, and man's key activity was economic activity as he saw it.
And so economic production doesn't just produce the goods and services of the economy. It produces society itself, and society, in turn, produces man. He called this the inversion of praxis. And so when he says we must seize the means of production, and he's talking about factories and fields, he's actually talking about how we construct who we are as human beings so that we might complete ourselves, so that we might complete history. And at the end of history, mankind will remember that he is a social being, and we will have a socialist society.
A perfect communism that transcends private property is how he put it. He said, in fact, that communism is the transcendence of private property as human self estrangement. That's a quote from the economic philosophic manuscripts 1944 1844. So Marx was interested in controlling or understanding and controlling how man produces himself, and he writes about this exclusively in the 18 forties very deeply. How do we do this?
And he looks at the economic conditions, and he says this is where it is. And that's why we get economic Marxism, and that's why we think Marx was an economist. But Marx was never an economist. He was a theologian. He wanted to produce a religion for mankind that would supersede all of the religions of mankind and bring him back to his true social nature.
And this is the true fact of Marx. And what the goal was, like I said, is to complete man. So what he said is, well, how are we building man currently? All of his economic analysis is about how are we building man at present through what he called material determinism. And he said, well, what we have is a special form of private property in our society.
Our society is organized around private property, So all of our thoughts organize around private property. In other words, there's a special kind of property that the bourgeois elite class has access to, and then they organize society to exclude everybody else from access to that property through exploitation, through alienation, through estrangement, through oppression. And so what Karl Marx was proposing is that economics becomes a vehicle to separate society into a bourgeois class that has access to a special form of property. The people who have access wish to retain that, so they oppress people and keep other people out of that special form of property. They erect a system of classism to do that.
It's enforced by an ideology called capitalism that believes that this is the right way to, engage in the world. And what we have to do is awaken the underclass, the proletariat, to the real conditions and the fact that they are historical agents of change and bring them to do a revolution and transform society so that we would have equity or socialism, whichever word you want. They have the same definition. Now let's say that we step out. We this is we we step back from this species, this economic species, homoeconomicus, and we step back to the genus, and we look at this idea, a special form of property that segregates society into people who have the bourgeois and the people who do not have, who are in class conflict with an ideology that keeps this in place.
And the lender class must awaken with consciousness to fight back and to seize the means of production of that form of deterministic property. And now we say change out class, put in race, and watch. We get critical race theory falls out of the hat. Just like that. Very simple.
In 1993, Cheryl Harris wrote a long article for the Harvard Law Review called whiteness as property. She explained that whiteness or white privilege constitutes a kind of cultural private property. She says it must be abolished in order to have racial justice. Just like Karl Marx said that in the communist manifesto, he wrote, communism can be summarized in a single sentence, the abolition of private property. Well, this is why critical race theory calls to abolish whiteness because whiteness is a form of private property.
People who have access to this property are whites or white adjacent or they act white. These are words out of the American lexicon that they've used to describe how how people gain access to the private property. People without that are people of color, and they are oppressed by systemic racism. Systemic racism is enforced by an ideology of white supremacy instead of capitalism. If you think of whiteness as a form of cultural capital, white supremacy as they define it is identical to capitalism.
It's the belief it's not believing that white people are superior. It's believing that white people have access to the control of society and should maintain that. Even if you don't actually believe that, if you merely support that, you have adopted the the ideology of white supremacy into your mind. And so you have the exact same system, and the goal is to awaken a racial consciousness in people so that they will band together as a class and seize the means of cultural production so that white cultural production is no longer the dominant mode. It's a big mystery in Europe.
I know. And in the UK, throughout Europe, I hear this question again and again. Why on earth is this very American phenomenon about slavery and so on that doesn't apply to our country? Why is it popular here? It's because it's not about history at all.
It's not about slavery at all. Those are excuses that they use. It's about creating a class consciousness that's against this form of property called whiteness, that's against the dominant culture that may just be a matter of fact, say, if you're in Europe. That's why. Because it becomes a site by which people can come together and they can channel resentment and try to claim power.
I wrote a book called race Marxism, and I defined critical race theory as it really is in that book on the first page. I said that critical race theory is calling everything you want to control racist until you control it. But couldn't we say the same about Marxism? It's calling everything you want to control bourgeois until you control it, but those mean the same thing. They mean exactly the same thing.
But what about, say, queer theory? How is that Marxist? It's very strange, all this gender and sex and sexuality. Well, Tom said, what is woke attack? The idea of being normal.
Well, the queer theory thinks that there are certain people who get to set the norms of society. They are privileged. They call themselves normal. They say this is normal. It's normal to consider yourself a man and look like a man and act like a man and dress like a man and eat meat like a man.
And then there are women that should be feminine and pretty and all these things. And so they get to define what's normal. They're heterosexuals, so they get to define the heterosexuality as normal and other sexualities are abnormal. And so you have a conflict across this cultural property of who gets to be considered normal and who is a pervert or a freak or some other term that gets used in their literature. But, technically, who is a queer, which sounds like a slur, but they adopted it, and it's a technical academic term now.
It means an identity without an essence, by the way, an identity that is strictly oppositional to the concept of the normal as defined by queer theorist David Halperin in his 1995 book, Saint Foucault, Toward a Gay Hegeography. I didn't make that up. I'm not extrapolating. So you see queer theory is just another species of the genus of Marxism. What about post colonial theory, which is plaguing Europe thanks to Franz Fanon and his biggest European fan, Jean Paul Sartre?
What about this? Well, it's the same. You have the west as the oppressor. They have access to the material and cultural natives around the world, the And so the oppressed, the the the the natives around the world, the people have to band together, and their activity is going to be called decolonization. They have to remove every aspect of western culture.
So when they come to Belgium or they come to France or they come to the United States and they say we're going to decolonize the curriculum or they go to the UK and say we're going to decolonize Shakespeare. This is what they mean. We're going to remove the cultural significance of your cultural artifacts because those cultural artifacts themselves are oppressive to us. This is the same system. It's another species in the exact same genus, and that genus is marxism, which is a way of thinking about the world.
And the goal is always to seize the means of control of the production of man and history and society. Marx merely believed it was through economic means. Now it's through sociocultural means. The evolution into this sometimes called western Marxism began in the 19 twenties. We had a Russian revolution in 1917, and this did not happen in Europe.
And the Marxists in Europe were confused. And so Antonio Gramsci sat down and wrote out some things, and George Lukacs sat down and wrote history and class consciousness after the failure of the revolution in Hungary. And they wrote what became cultural Marxism. The idea that we have to enter the cultural institutions in order to change them from within because western culture has something about it that's repelling socialism. So we have to go inside and change the culture to make it socialist.
Now you aren't allowed to talk about cultural Marxism now. They've categorized this as a conspiracy theory. They say that it is anti Semitic. This is not true. Antonio Gramsci wrote books.
George Lukacs wrote books. You can read those books. They have a philosophy. If they don't like the name cultural Marxism, we can use the name that other people at the time used, western Marxism. So much like, I don't know, a virus adapting to the conditions, it it changed to try to infect a new host.
It worked in feudal societies. Marxism took over in Russia. It took over later in China. It took over in all of these kind of agriculturally driven feudal societies, but it wouldn't work in actual capitalist nations because Marx was wrong. Then several Germans from the Frankfurt School started to study this phenomenon in more depth, and they evolved the idea further.
They evolved the idea into what's called critical Marxism. They developed what's called the critical theory. And Max Horkheimer, who designed the critical theory, explained the critical theory. And what did he say? He said, well, what we came to realize was that Marx was wrong about one thing.
Capitalism does not immiserate the worker. It allows him to build a better life. So I developed the critical theory because it is not possible to articulate the vision of a good society on the terms of the existing society. So critical Marxism criticizes the entirety of the existing society. Everything is somehow needing to be subjected to Marxist conflict analysis.
But how is that to be done? They sought an answer through the middle part of the 20th century and World War 2 breaks out. The Frankfurt School comes to America, which in this metaphor is the Wuhan Institute of Virology because gain of function began to happen on the Marxist virus very quickly in America. And American universities adopted these professors from Germany, and Herbert Marcuse, writing in the 1960s, said extremely clearly, this writing in 1969, not only did he say capitalism delivers the goods, gives people a good life, makes them wealthy and comfortable and happy. He also said that the working class is no longer going to be the base of the revolution because of these things.
In other words, we don't have to be responsible to the working class anymore, which opens up the ability for Marxists who are seeking power to make friends with the corporations. The bosses are no longer the enemy. They're an opportunity because the working class is irrelevant. He said the energy is somewhere else. He said it's in the racial minorities, the sexual minorities, the feminists, the outsiders.
That's who he said have the energy for a Marxist revolution in the west, not the working class. And so Marxism was able to evolve to abandon the working class. And so what did they do? Well, all they had studied for 30 years was what they called the culture industry, an industry that commodifies and packages culture and sells it back to people, supposedly stripped of what it actually is, empty, abstract now. And so what, of course, did they do?
They seize the means of production of the culture industry because that's what they do. And so they started to transform the culture industry to sell racial, sexual, gender, sexuality based agitprop as though that were genuine culture. And so we get concepts like cultural appropriation. We get concepts like cultural relevance, cultural this, cultural that, cultural everything. And it's all provided in pastiche.
It's all provided, as a as a as a mockery of what's really going on. And this evolved in America's highly racialized context, and we ended up with woke, a form of identity based Marxism, a a constellation of Marxist species that all work with the same operating premise but locate themselves in different, and I'll use the German term here for this, folk. LGBTQ is a folk, and they get folkish identity there and become activists. The black community is a folk. How do I know?
That's what W. E. B. Du Bois said it would be when he laid down the foundations that became critical race theory later. They think of themselves as nations.
Don't they all have flags? Don't they put them on your buildings like colonizers? Don't they hang them in your streets? They think of themselves as occupying nations, but they see themselves as bound together just like the various colonized nations around the world and seeking liberation from western civilization. And so we end up with western Marxism taking many forms, but with one overarching approach.
And the approach that they use, I started off by saying, is Maoist, not merely Marxist. Now you know the theory is Marx. It's just evolved into different species to attack the west at its weakest points through our tolerance, through our acceptance, through our openness, through our generosity, through our best traits, actually. The things that we should be proud of being, the things that we are proud of being. But Mao Zedong knew how to use identity politics.
I don't know how you study in Europe, but in America, we have very red washed education as we might say. The communists have stripped out all education about communism entirely. You don't learn about it in America at all. So we don't learn anything about Mao. And maybe you don't know this, but I tell this to American audiences, and they're shocked.
Mao used identity politics. He created 10 identities in China. 5, he labeled red for communist. 5, he labeled black for fascist. And he categorized people into these identity categories.
What they are doesn't matter. Of course, they were communist. They were things like landlord and rich farmer and things like this. Right winger is a bad category in and of itself, by the way. Conservative, all of them, bad.
Bad influences. That's another one. You could be a bad influence for just thinking the wrong thing or saying the wrong thing at any time or because the government decides it doesn't like you. These are the bad categories. And if you have a bad category, very importantly, your children have a bad category by default.
So they create a social pressure for your children to identify as revolutionaries, at which point they get a red identity, a communist identity, a good identity, and they get rewarded for it. And the youth read led the revolution in China because Mao did this identity politics through the children in the schools. This should feel very uncomfortable to you because here we have at least in the United States, we tell our children being white is bad. Being white is oppressive. You automatically hurt people of other races by your very existence.
But by the way, if you become queer, we'll celebrate you. And you can create a radical army of people who identify as gender minorities and sexual minorities at 7 years old. You can lead them into paths of puberty blockers and transition, medical transition, which, of course, big pharma profits off of. At 7 years old behind their parents' back. There's a reason for this.
It's the same program that Mao Zedong used to radicalize the youth in China. The only thing different is the identity categories have have shifted. It's Maoist cultural revolution with American characteristics, and it's being exported to Europe. And just like how critical race theory has come to Europe even though it doesn't make sense, it will come to Europe whether it makes sense or not, and you will have a cultural revolution here too. You guys even had a kind of offshoot one in 2020.
George Floyd dies in Minnesota, which has nothing to do with you, and you guys have statues coming down in Europe. Total nonsense. It doesn't matter though. The point is to destroy western civilization from within using Maoist techniques. One last point about Mao to kind of drive that point home.
Mao said in 1942 that his formula to transform China was called unity criticism unity. First, you try to create the desire for unity, then you criticize people for not living up to that, Then you bring them into unity under a new standard. Does that feel like what you're being put through? But the words are different. We use words like inclusion and belonging.
We'll have a place where everybody feels like they belong. We just want to have an inclusive space. But, unfortunately, you have racist ideas, and you have to criticize for you we have to criticize you for those. You need to criticize yourself for those. You need to go study shui in Mandarin, exactly like Mao said.
And then we can bring you into unity under a new standard, which Mao called socialist discipline, which we in the west would not buy. We call it in the west, inclusion. And so we have this new program, and within inclusion, we have or above inclusion, actually, we have sustainability. We have a sustainable and inclusive future. I see the agenda 2030 here with an x over it.
The sustainable and inclusive future is the new socialist standard that we will have freedom under socialist discipline. And Mauss said the way that that will work is through what he called democratic centralism. We call that stakeholder capitalism. And my shot at the World Economic Forum is taken because it's one of the things coordinating this. My shot at the United Nations is taken because it's one of the things that's coordinating this.
So woke is marxism. It's advancing through Maoist Cultural Revolution. It's using Americanized identity categories. And while some of those will not work in Europe, I guarantee you the colonial aspect will. They will find your weakness.
They will adapt the theory to fit because it's like a virus that will evolve to its host, and Europe is at great risk. Now the last thing I'll mention is this risk is twofold. When you endure Marxist provocation, Marxist strategy is always of the same type. It's called middle level violence. They don't come at you with full blown Bolshevik assault very often.
It's middle level violence. They provoke, which means if you give in and you do like Jean Paul Sartre said in his forward to the Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon, the the post colonial book, He said, the violence is coming. So Europe's best bet is to give it away so that they don't kill you. They'll murder you and take it, or maybe you can give it away. Give your culture away.
Give your countries away, and they'll let you live. They're coming for you, and this is what Europe needs to learn. That's what he says in the foreword of Wretched of the Earth. You can read it for yourself, probably in the original French that I can't read. And I think that's the path Europe has followed.
So you can give away. That's one side because they provoke at the middle. Or you can react and overreact, which, sadly, Europe has had a a rough history in the last century with overreactions. And if they if you overreact, what will they do? They will weaponize your overreaction for a century, forever, and gain moral authority so that you end up having to give it away later anyway.
So you have to stand firm in your principles, but you have to do so cleverly. You have to do so understanding that you're being provoked, which means you don't react as the the provocateur wants you to react. You have to outsmart them, which is not possible unless you know the diagnosis of your problem. It's a Polish proverb. Never attempt to cure what you don't understand.
Woke is Marxism evolved to attack the west. If you don't understand that, you will not act correctly. You will not cure it, and it will conquer your countries. It will conquer all of Europe, and we will have a very, very long, sustainable, and inclusive future with absolutely no freedom. Because the goal is to make us into what they call global citizens.
Have you heard this term? This term is nonsense. There's no global sovereign, so there is no global citizenship. There's no relationship because there's no ruler, and we don't want a ruler of the globe. It's a nonsense term.
But they tell you if you actually read their literature, what is a global citizen? It's somebody I kid you not. I make no joke. They say this themselves. It's somebody who supports the 17 sustainable development goals of United Nations agenda 2030.
That's a global citizen. And they say, what are the rights of a global citizen? This isn't a book about global citizenship education published 2 years ago. What are the rights of a global citizen? And the answer, one paragraph later is, we're not that interested in rights with global citizenship.
It's more about global responsibilities. In other words, slavery. This is a pivotal moment in the history of the western world. The model that they are pushing us toward using the means and mechanisms of that place is the model we see in China. If you want to know what your future looks like if we don't stop the woke, look at China.
Look at the social credit system. Look at the oppression. Look at people disappearing for having the wrong opinions. 1 of their greatest billionaires, Jack Ma, said the wrong thing about the government and disappeared. A billionaire.
If you want to know what the future of Europe and America and the five eyes or whatever the countries, it's China. That's the model. So we have to fight back against woke. But to fight back against woke, we have to understand it, and I will close by restating my thesis. Woke is Marxism evolved to take on the west, and it's been very successful so far because we haven't known our enemy.
We cannot name our enemy, and I've come here to name our enemy. So thank you for your time and attention in letting me do that.
@Theo_TJ_Jordan - Theo Jordan
Didn't realize this post would spread so far again. I've boosted this speech like 10x now. People called me out for not identifying the speaker. Fair enough. That is James Lindsay @ConceptualJames. Most of his work can be found here... https://newdiscourses.com/
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New Discourses. Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness.
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@SkyNews - Sky News
'In Britain and across Europe free speech, I fear, is in retreat' US Vice President JD Vance spoke at the Munich security conference and took a swipe at Brussels, Germany, Sweden and the UK. https://trib.al/xWlxDwz 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Looking at Europe today, I'm concerned about the erosion of freedoms. In Brussels, there's talk of shutting down social media during civil unrest to combat hateful content. In another country, police have raided homes over anti-feminist comments. Sweden convicted a Christian activist for Quran burnings after his friend's murder, with a judge stating free expression doesn't allow offending any group's beliefs.
Most concerning is the UK, where conscience rights are threatened. Adam Smith Connor was charged for silently praying near an abortion clinic. He was found guilty under a new law criminalizing silent prayer within 200 meters of such facilities. Recently, the Scottish government warned citizens that even private prayer at home could be illegal, urging them to report suspected thought crimes. Free speech is in retreat across Europe.
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Speaker 0: And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War's winners. I look to Brussels where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they've judged to be quote hateful content. Or to this very country where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti feminist comments online as part of, quote, combating misogyny on the Internet, a day of action. I look to Sweden where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Quran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression do not in fact grant, and I'm quoting, a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief.
And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, The United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs. A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Connor, a 51 year old physiotherapist and an army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. Now the officers were not moved.
Adam was found guilty of breaking the government's new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person's decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution. Now I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one off crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person. But no, this last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime.
In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.
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I confronted European leaders at the Munich security conference, criticizing them for criminalizing free speech. I particularly called out the UK, expressing concern that this isn't just an isolated incident but a troubling trend where free speech is in retreat.
@CollinRugg - Collin Rugg
JUST IN: Vice President JD Vance rips European leaders to their faces at the Munich security conference, calls them out for criminalizing free speech. 🔥🔥 Vance specifically called out the United Kingdom for being the worst of them all. “I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one-off crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person. But no… Free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”
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Across Europe, free speech is threatened. In Brussels, EU officials plan to shut down social media during civil unrest if they deem content hateful. In one country, police raided citizens for posting anti-feminist comments. Sweden convicted a Christian activist for participating in Quran burnings, with the judge noting that free expression doesn't allow offending any group's beliefs.
In the UK, the erosion of conscience rights is alarming. Adam Smith Connor, an army veteran, was charged for silently praying near an abortion clinic. Despite not obstructing anyone, he was found guilty and sentenced to pay thousands in legal costs. In Scotland, the government warned citizens that even private prayer within their homes may break the law, urging them to report suspected thoughtcrimes.
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Speaker 0: I look to Brussels where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they've judged to be, quote, hateful content. Or to this very country, where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti feminist comments online as part of quote combating misogyny on the internet, a day of action. I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Quran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression do not in fact grant, and I'm quoting, a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief. And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, The United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs.
A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Connor, a 51 year old physiotherapist and an army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes, not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. And after British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply, it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. Now the officers were not moved. Adam was found guilty of breaking the government's new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person's decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution.
Now I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one off crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person. But no. This last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thoughtcrime. In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.
@LauraLoomer - Laura Loomer
Incredible. @JDVance went to the Munich Security Conference and name checked every single European country that doesn’t practice or respect free speech. He is shaming them for behaving like tyrants and control freaks. This is the way. https://t.co/mj5jER5eXx
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Looking at Europe today, it's concerning to see the state of free expression. In Brussels, there's talk of shutting down social media during civil unrest to combat hateful content. In another country, police have raided citizens for anti-feminist comments online. Sweden convicted a Christian activist for participating in Quran burnings, with the judge noting that free expression doesn't allow offending any group's beliefs.
Most concerningly, in the UK, a physiotherapist was charged for silently praying near an abortion clinic. He was found guilty under a buffer zones law criminalizing silent prayer within 200 meters of such facilities. The Scottish government even warned citizens that private prayer within their homes could break the law, urging them to report suspected thought crimes. Across Europe, free speech is in retreat.
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Speaker 0: And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War's winners. I look to Brussels where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they've judged to be quote hateful content. Or to this very country where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti feminist comments online as part of, quote, combating misogyny on the Internet, a day of action. I look to Sweden where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Quran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression do not in fact grant, and I'm quoting, a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief.
And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, The United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs. A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Connor, a 51 year old physiotherapist and an army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. Now the officers were not moved.
Adam was found guilty of breaking the government's new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person's decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution. Now I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one off crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person. But no, this last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime.
In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.
reSee.it AI Summary
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius expressed strong disapproval of JD Vance's recent speech, calling it "not acceptable." Vance criticized European nations for restricting free speech and likened their actions to those of authoritarian regimes. Pistorius emphasized that such comparisons do not reflect the Europe he knows, reiterating his stance that Vance's remarks were inappropriate.
@CollinRugg - Collin Rugg
JUST IN: German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius starts whining about JD Vance's speech, says it was "not acceptable." Looks like Vance's speech was a success. The whining came after Vance ripped European nations for criminalizing free speech and acting like tyrants. "If I understood him correctly, he compares the condition of Europe with the condition that prevails in some authoritarian regimes." "Ladies and gentlemen, this is not acceptable. This is not acceptable. This is not the Europe where I live."
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I must address the US Vice President's recent speech questioning the state of European democracy. His comparison of Europe to authoritarian regimes is unacceptable. In our democracy, every opinion is heard, even those of extremist parties. We even allow media that spread Russian propaganda.
However, democracy doesn't mean a minority dictates truth, nor does it allow unchecked speech. We defend our democracy daily against internal and external threats. I strongly disagree with the Vice President's suggestion that our democracies oppress minorities. We know what we defend: democracy, freedom of opinion, the rule of law, and the dignity of all.
Unlike the Vice President, I want to focus on European and transatlantic security. Recent events confirm the US is pushing for a quick peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine, expecting Europe to secure any resulting agreement.
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Speaker 0: This is why I cannot just ignore what we heard before. I cannot not comment on the speech we heard by The US Vice President. We fight for your right to be against us. That is the motto one of the mottoes of the Bundeswehr, and it stands for our democracy. This democracy that was just called into question by The US Vice President, and not just the German democracy, but Europe as a whole, he spoke of the annulment of democracy.
And if I understood him correctly, he compares the condition of Europe with the condition that prevails in some auto authoritarian regimes. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not acceptable. This is not acceptable. This is not the Europe, not the democracy where I live and where I conduct my election campaign right now. And this is not the democracy that I witness every day in our parliament.
In our democracy, every opinion has a voice, and it makes it possible for parties that are partly extremists such as the AfD, and they can campaign just as any other party. This is democracy. And if the vice president had the opportunity to switch on his TV set when he arrived last, yesterday, he would have seen one of those in Primetime TV. By the way, we even admit media that spread Russian propaganda and the representatives of the federal government answer their questions. Nobody is excluded.
But democracy does not mean that a vociferous minority will automatically be right, and they cannot decide what truth is. It does not mean that anyone can say anything, and democracy must be able to defend itself against extremists that try to destroy it. I am happy to live in Europe where this democracy is defended every day against its internal and external enemies. And therefore, I would like to explicitly contradict and oppose the impression that vice president Vance suggested here that our democracies oppress and silence minorities. We not only know against whom we defend our countries, but also what we defend it for.
It's for democracy, for freedom of opinion, for the rule of law, and the dignity of each and every one, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Ladies, ladies and gentlemen, but unlike the vice president, I would also like to focus my speech on the most pressing questions of European and transatlantic security. The last days have confirmed what many had speculated for months. The United States are pushing for a quick peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine, and they expect Europe to take the lead in securing any agreement that follows.
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During the Munich Security Conference, I expressed concern about the rising censorship in Europe. I highlighted the EU's plans to shut down social media during civil unrest and police raids on citizens for anti-feminist comments. I noted Sweden's conviction of a Christian activist for Koran burnings, emphasizing that free expression is increasingly restricted. Additionally, I pointed out the UK's alarming trend of limiting conscience rights, where even private prayer could be deemed illegal. Overall, I fear that free speech is under serious threat across Europe.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
JD Vance warns Europe against censorship during Munich Security Conference "I look to Brussels, where EU commissars warned citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they’ve judged to be ‘hateful content.’ Or to this very country, where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of ‘combating misogyny on the internet: a day of action.’ I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago, the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend’s murder. As the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden’s laws to supposedly protect free expression 'do not, in fact, grant, and I’m quoting a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief.' And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britain’s, in particular, in the crosshairs. Just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called ‘safe access zones,’ warning them that even private prayer within their homes may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime. In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat."
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Innovation and creativity cannot be forced, much like thoughts and beliefs. Looking at Europe, it's concerning to see actions like EU commissars threatening to shut down social media for "hateful content," police raids for "anti-feminist" comments, and the conviction of a Christian activist for Quran burnings. Even more alarming is the UK, where a man was charged for silently praying near an abortion clinic, and Scotland warned citizens that private prayer within their homes could be illegal.
Free speech is retreating across Europe. Ironically, the loudest voices for censorship sometimes come from my own country. The prior administration bullied social media companies to censor "misinformation," like the lab leak theory of the coronavirus. In Washington, under Donald Trump's leadership, we will defend your right to speak freely, even if we disagree with your views.
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Speaker 0: The freedom to surprise, to make mistakes, to invent, to build. As it turns out you can't mandate innovation or creativity just as you can't force people what to think, what to feel, or what to believe and we believe those things are certainly connected. And unfortunately when I look at Europe today it's sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the cold wars winners. I look to Brussels, where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest. The moment they spot what they've judged to be quote, hateful content.
Or to this very country where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti feminist comments online as part of quote, combating misogyny on the Internet, a day of action. I look to Sweden where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Quran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression do not in fact grant, and I'm quoting, a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief. And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends The United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs. A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Connor, a 51 year old physiotherapist and an army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes.
Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply, it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. Now the officers were not moved, Adam was found guilty of breaking the government's new buffer zones law which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person's decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution. Now I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one off crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person.
But no. This last October just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so called safe access zones. Warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime. In Britain and across Europe, free speech I fear is in retreat.
And in the interest of comedy my friends, but also in the interest of truth, I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within Europe, but from within my own country. Where the prior administration threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so called misinformation. Misinformation like, for example, the idea that coronavirus had likely leaked from leaked from a laboratory in China, our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth. So I come here today not just with an observation, but with an offer. And just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds, so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite, and I hope that we can work together on that.
In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town. And under Donald Trump's leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree.
@SeibtNaomi - Naomi Seibt
🚨🇩🇪🇺🇸VANCE HUMILIATES THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT 🔥 @JDVance shocked the establishment when he accused them of hiding behind defamation campaigns simply because someone might express an ALTERNATIVE viewpoint or even WIN AN ELECTION. Vance is alluding to the massive AfD success❗️ https://t.co/XFFomhDOyv
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Allowing citizens to speak freely makes them stronger. This brings me to Munich, where conference organizers banned lawmakers from populist parties on both the left and the right. We don't have to agree with everything, but when political leaders represent a constituency, we should engage in dialogue. To many, it appears that entrenched interests are hiding behind terms like misinformation and disinformation. They dislike the idea of alternative viewpoints, different opinions, or, even worse, different election outcomes.
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Speaker 0: And I really do believe that allowing our citizens to speak their mind will make them stronger still, which, of course, brings us back to Munich where the organizers of this very conference have banned lawmakers representing populist parties on both the left and the right from participating in these conversations. Now, again, we don't have to agree with everything or anything that people say. But when people represent, when political leaders represent an important constituency, it is incumbent upon us to at least participate in dialogue with them. Now to many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don't like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion or, God forbid, vote a different way or, even worse, win an election.
@Mick_O_Keeffe - MichaeloKeeffe
Today JD Vance gave a voice to millions of Europeans who have had our lives turned upside down by mass immigration. It’s time to take our countries back. Make Europe Great Again. https://t.co/6C14nCrLXT
@stillgray - Ian Miles Cheong
Boris Pistorius, the irony-blind German Defense Minister, slammed JD Vance for daring to compare European democracies to totalitarian regimes at the Munich Security Conference. https://t.co/bhwR5wIX4J
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I must address the US Vice President's recent speech questioning the state of democracy in Germany and Europe. His comparison of Europe to authoritarian regimes is unacceptable. In our democracy, every opinion has a voice, even extremist parties can campaign freely. We even allow media that spread Russian propaganda and answer their questions.
However, democracy doesn't mean a minority dictates truth, and it must defend itself against those who seek to destroy it. I disagree with the Vice President's suggestion that our democracies oppress minorities. We defend our countries for democracy, freedom of opinion, the rule of law, and the dignity of all.
Unlike the Vice President, I want to focus on European and transatlantic security. The US is pushing for a quick peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine, expecting Europe to secure any resulting agreement.
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Speaker 0: This is why I cannot just ignore what we heard before. I cannot not comment on the speech we heard by The US Vice President. We fight for your right to be against us. That is the motto one of the mottoes of the Bundeswehr, and it stands for our democracy. This democracy that was just called into question by The US Vice President, not just the German democracy, but Europe as a whole, he spoke of the annulment of democracy.
And if I understood him correctly, he compares the condition of Europe with the condition that prevails in some auto authoritarian regimes. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not acceptable. This is not acceptable. This is not the Europe, not the democracy where I live and where I conduct my election campaign right now. And this is not the democracy that I witness every day in our parliament.
In our democracy, every opinion has a voice. And it makes it possible for parties that are partly extremists such as the AfD, and they can campaign just as any other party. This is democracy. And if the vice president had the opportunity to switch on a TV set when he arrived yesterday, he would have seen one of those in Primetime TV. By the way, we even admit media that spread Russian propaganda and the representatives of the federal government answer their questions.
Nobody is excluded. But democracy does not mean that a vociferous minority will automatically be right, and they cannot decide what truth is. It does not mean that anyone can say anything, and democracy must be able to defend itself against extremists that try to destroy it. I am happy to live in Europe where this democracy is defended every day against its internal and external enemies. And therefore, I would like to explicitly contradict and oppose the impression that vice president Vance suggested here that our democracies oppress and silence minorities.
We not only know against whom we defend our countries, but also what we defend it for. It's for democracy, for freedom of opinion, for the rule of law, and the dignity of each and everyone, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Ladies ladies and gentlemen, but unlike the vice president, I would also like to focus my speech on the most pressing questions of European and transatlantic security. The last days have confirmed what many had speculated for months. The United States are pushing for a quick peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine, and they expect Europe to take the lead in securing any agreement that follows.
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I’m alarmed by the ongoing attack on free speech in the UK and Europe, as highlighted by President Trump. He praised JD Vance’s speech in Munich for exposing how European elites are suppressing dissent. It’s concerning that people are being arrested for expressing their views, and I believe this is a serious issue that needs addressing. The fight for real freedom is crucial, and I stand with Trump and Musk in defending our fundamental rights against censorship and control. Free speech should never be compromised.
@JimFergusonUK - Jim Ferguson
🚨 TRUMP WARNS: FREE SPEECH IN THE UK & EUROPE IS UNDER ATTACK! 🚨 🔴 President Trump has doubled down—calling out the erosion of free speech across Europe and the UK, warning that the people’s fundamental rights are being stripped away. 🔴 He defended JD Vance’s “brilliant” speech in Munich, where Vance exposed how European elites are crushing dissent and punishing those who dare to speak the truth. 🔴 Trump made it clear: "Europe is losing its wonderful right of freedom of speech, I see it." 🔥 CONTROL, CENSORSHIP & SUPPRESSION—THE GLOBALIST PLAYBOOK! 🔥 📢 WHAT THIS MEANS: ⚠️ The people of the UK didn’t vote to be censored—but Starmer and his backers are pushing WEF-style control. ⚠️ Dissenters are being arrested for speech crimes—THIS ISN’T A CONSPIRACY, IT’S HAPPENING. ⚠️ The tide is turning—Trump & Musk stand with the people of Britain & Europe, fighting for REAL freedom. 💥 The battle lines are drawn. The question is—who stands for the people, and who stands for control? 💥 🚨 Free speech is NOT a privilege—it’s a RIGHT. And under Trump, it will be defended! 🚨
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I heard JD's speech, and he spoke about freedom of speech. It's true; Europe is losing its freedom of speech. I thought it was a brilliant speech. Europe has to be careful. He also addressed immigration, and Europe definitely has a big immigration problem. Just look at what's happening with crime in various parts of Europe. I thought his speech was very well received. I've heard very good remarks about it.
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Speaker 0: Heard his speech, and I tell you, you're talking about JD's speech. Right? Yes, sir. I heard his speech, and he talked about, freedom of speech. And and I think it's true in Europe.
It's losing they're losing their wonderful right of freedom of speech. I see it. I mean, I I thought he made a very good speech, actually, a very brilliant speech. Yeah. Europe has to be careful.
And he talked about immigration, and Europe has a big immigration problem. Just take a look at what's happened with crime. Take a look at what's happening in various parts of Europe. I I thought his speech was very well received, actually. I've heard I've heard very good remarks.
reSee.it AI Summary
I found it satisfying to see JD Vance confront a room of Eurocrats in Munich, calling out their so-called democracy as a "fake casino" where they disregard any unfavorable outcomes. He hinted at the EU's measures against "left-wing populists," possibly alluding to figures like Sara Wagenknecht and Jeremy Corbyn. However, it was disappointing that he didn't acknowledge the many antiwar and Palestine solidarity activists who have faced arrest and persecution for their political views by EU and British authorities.
@MaxBlumenthal - Max Blumenthal
JD Vance may have been representing a reactionary position in Munich, but it was still satisfying to see a room full of warmongering Eurocrats told to their faces that they are presiding over a fake casino democracy in which the house cancels any result it doesn't like. He even made a passing reference to the EU's firewall against "left-wing populists," which could be read as a reference to Sara Wagenknecht and Jeremy Corbyn. Of course, Vance could not and would not mention the droves of antiwar and Palestine solidarity activists who have been arrested and persecuted at the hands of EU and British authorities for their political speech.
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I found JD Vance's criticism of EU censorship to be justified, despite backlash from European leaders. I believe the solution to misinformation lies in promoting accurate information rather than censorship. My recent critiques of the BBC have led to an opportunity to advocate for freedom of speech, and I hope this marks a positive change for the network. There are concerns from journalists about the BBC's handling of sensitive topics, which may indicate a shift in their approach.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
JD Vance's criticism of EU censorship was outrageous, say Europe's leaders. In fact, it was wholly justified. The only solution to misinformation is accurate information. While BBC sometimes spreads misinformation, it would never occur to me to demand its censorship. Me on @BBC
Video Transcript AI Summary
I addressed European leaders at the Munich Security Conference, raising concerns about the retreat from fundamental values like free speech in Europe. I worry that internal threats are more significant than external actors like Russia or China.
In response, some experts expressed shock and emphasized the deep American concern for freedom of speech, particularly when European entities attempt to censor American speech. They cautioned against censorship as a solution to misinformation, advocating for accurate information instead.
However, others argued there hasn't been an erosion of free speech in Europe. They viewed my remarks as echoing Russian tactics of twisting arguments about democracy and security. They also suggested my meeting with a far-right leader indicated election interference and support for far-right parties, which could threaten liberal democracy and European integration.
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Speaker 0: Listening to the BBC World Service. This is NewsHour. And we return to JD Vance's speech, or should I call it lecture to European leaders at the Munich Security Conference today. As we heard earlier in the program, many of those in the room were stunned as The US Vice President launched a withering attack against European policies on immigration, populist parties, and free speech, echoing president Trump, whom he called Washington's new sheriff in town.
Speaker 1: The threat that I worry the most about vis a vis Europe is not Russia. It's not China. It's not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with The United States Of America.
In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.
Speaker 0: Well, we brought together Michael Schellenberg, the CBR chair of politics, censorship, and free speech at the University of Austin and the founder of public news, and Natalie Tucci, an Italian political scientist and director of the Italian Institute of International Affairs. Michael, first of all, what did he think was the intention behind mister Vance's brazen speech?
Speaker 2: Well, I think it shocked a lot of us too. I mean, we didn't expect this. They've moved very assertively to defend our free speech rights, including on social media platforms. But I think it's also long overdue. I mean, we've you know, I don't know if Europeans understand just how deep American concern for freedom of speech runs.
And when we see European judges say that they have the right to censor our speech as well in Europe, not just in Europe, but around the world, censor our social media platforms, fine them up to 6%, we start to question our alliance. And and we're very tired. America's been playing police officer to the world. We're we've got some really hurt veterans. We've had terrible wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I think this is a different era we're entering into, and so our our patience is easily tested, and it's certainly tested when we see Europe turn against what we see as fundamental enlightenment values like freedom of speech.
Speaker 0: Natalie Tucci, has there been an erosion of, free speech in Europe?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think there has been, frankly speaking. I mean, certainly, it hasn't been my personal experience. I mean, what there has been an increasing amount of is increasing misinformation, disinformation. But what we heard from The US Vice President today is that the war on disinformation amounts to the war on democracy. Now this, frankly speaking, sounds like the Russian playbook in the way in which we have heard for a long time.
Yeah? I mean, Russia has always had this incredible sort of slightly perverse ability of completely turning things on its head and all of a sudden, arguments about democracy or about security were being used precisely for the opposite purpose. And to frankly speaking hear that kind of rhetoric coming from The US Vice President, not in a, you know, not in any conference. Right? This was a security conference.
So this was basically being, presented, as as the vice president himself put it, the major security threat both to Europe and and to The United States. And on top of it, it has happened, what, you know, less than two weeks away from an election in Germany.
Speaker 0: Okay. Right? Well, can can I just come back to you in a moment, miss Tucci? And, just could I follow on from what she was suggesting there, Michael Shellenberger? And, I think JD Vance's speech will have come as a surprise, to hear this, diatribe against about democracy and media freedom from an administration that bans reporters from the White House and empowers unelected billionaires, to sack federal employees.
Speaker 2: Well, look. First of all, I mean, I my news organization applied for a spot at the White House, and we didn't get it. So the first amendment does not protect your right to have a place at the press conference in the White House. Alright? We keep in mind, we had the NATO, UK military, American military and intelligence agencies, the think tanks they fund engaged in elaborate censorship where committees of experts would decide what the truth was and demand censorship by social media platforms on the basis of it.
You had Mark Zuckerberg of of Facebook just come out and denounce and explain that the Biden administration pressured him to censor the debate on the origins of COVID. They demanded that they censor even true stories of vaccine side effects. Look. The only solution to misinformation is accurate information. You cannot get to the truth if you censor people's debates.
I think BBC sometimes spreads misinformation. It would never occur to me to demand censorship by people on BBC, much less to have elaborate, literally, think tanks, university departments working with military and intelligence agencies to secretly demand censorship by social media platforms, all of which been widely reported, by the way, in the British press and the American press. So, I mean, I I don't think it compares at all. That is a very you can't have democracy without freedom of speech.
Speaker 0: Natalie Tucci. JD Vance, speaking in Germany, just a couple of weeks away from an election, at which the far right AfD is expected to do quite well. And, we've just been told that JD Vance has actually gone to meet, the leader of the AFD. And I suppose there are those who would say that this is a very deliberate interference in another country's internal affairs.
Speaker 3: Well, precisely. I mean, you know, had this been, as I said, in a different, you know, as a different context in a different country, then, you know, part of what JD Vance was saying could have even be read indeed in that, you know, sort of purely free speech, you know, advocate for free speech sort of way. But the point is that it's not. Right? I mean, the point is that as I was saying, this is happening days before an election.
And, indeed, the very fact that JD Vance met with Alice Vidal suggests that, indeed, the way to interpret his remarks at the Munich Security Conference have very little to do with free speech and have a lot to do with election interference and the support for far right parties in Europe. Because at the end of the day, if those far right parties in Europe are elected and enter power, essentially, this ends up being not only the end of liberal democracy in Europe, but also the end of European integration, which is a kind of uncomfortable thing to deal with for for for The US.
Speaker 0: That was, Natalie Tucci, Italian political scientist and director of the Italian Institute of International Affairs, speaking to me from Munich. And, you also heard from, Michael Shellenberger, CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship and Free Speech at the University of Austin and the Founder of Public News. He was speaking to me from Austin, Texas.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
I have been critical of @BBC in recent years and thus am grateful that it gave me the opportunity to make the case for freedom of speech. Let's hope it represents a vibe shift.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
The head of the @BBC says it will “Pursue the truth with no agenda by reporting fearlessly & fairly.” But, according to current & former BBC journalists, the BBC is suppressing the truth about "gender-affirming care," mislabeling men as women, and failing to safeguard children.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Further evidence of a vibe shift at the storied media network? @GoodwinMJ
@GoodwinMJ - Matt Goodwin
In case you missed: What I Told Question Time https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/what-i-told-question-time?r=6g7nl
What I Told Question Time
Highlights from my appearance on last night's show
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@MAGAVoice - MAGA Voice
Germany will throw you in PRISON if you retweet this video of THOUSANDS of Germans protesting open borders late last year. Do NOT repost this Germany supports illegals more than their own Vice President JD Vance was right https://t.co/ZWl9qJFAwZ
@CatchUpFeed - Catch Up
Adam Schiff attacks JD Vance for his speech in Munich, calling his criticism of Europe’s crackdown on free speech as a gift to Russia. The world is upside down. https://t.co/ZmD6MzAZbh
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I was very disappointed by the speech given by Vice President JD Vance at the conference yesterday. Our allies needed to hear a renewed commitment from America to NATO and our European partners. They needed to know that we are willing to stand up to the Kremlin and provide Ukraine with the help it needs to fight Russia's war. Instead, they got a condescending lecture that attacked our allies. The speech sent the wrong message and I believe it was enthusiastically greeted in the Kremlin.
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Speaker 0: I'd like first, sir, to get your response to vice president JD Vance's speech at the conference there yesterday, where he berated European leaders on a whole host of issues. What do his comments reveal about the Trump administration and our commitment to NATO?
Speaker 1: They were really shocking and so disappointing when what I think our allies needed to hear was a renewed commitment by America to NATO, to our European partners, a willingness to stand up to the Kremlin and make sure that we provide Ukraine with all of the help that it needs to fight this war of aggression by Russia. But instead, what Europe got was a lecturing, a condescension, a demeaning speech that, really, I think just attacked our allies. It was greeted, I think, enthusiastically in one place, and that was the Kremlin. Exactly the wrong message right now.
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I shared my thoughts on free speech in Europe, particularly criticizing Germany for its actions against citizens posting memes, likening it to an authoritarian regime. In response, Germany's defense minister called my comments ridiculous. Meanwhile, a segment on 60 Minutes highlighted these raids.
@CollinRugg - Collin Rugg
A story in three parts: JD Vance: Free speech in Europe is in retreat. Germany is like an authoritarian regime for carrying out raids on their citizens for posting memes. German defense minister: This is ridiculous & insane for Vance to say this. Germany on 60 Minutes: Join us as we carry out raids on our citizens for posting memes online.
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We've seen police raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online, framed as combating misogyny.
I must address the US Vice President's speech. Our motto in the Bundeswehr is "We fight for your right to be against us," and it represents our democracy. The Vice President questioned this democracy, not just in Germany, but across Europe, likening Europe's condition to authoritarian regimes.
Early Tuesday morning, we accompanied state police as they raided an apartment in Northwest Germany. Six armed officers searched the suspect's home, seizing his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors allege these electronics were used to post a racist cartoon online. Simultaneously, over 50 similar raids occurred across Germany, part of a coordinated effort to curb online hate speech.
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Speaker 0: Or to this very country where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti feminist comments online as part of, quote, combating misogyny on the Internet, a day of action.
Speaker 1: This is why I cannot just ignore what we heard before. I cannot not comment on the speech we heard by The US Vice President. We fight for your right to be against us. That is the motto one of the mottoes of the Bundeswehr, and it stands for our democracy. This democracy that was just called into question by The US Vice President, not just the German democracy, but Europe as a whole, he spoke of the annulment of democracy.
And if I understood him correctly, he compares the condition of Europe with the condition that prevails in some auto authoritarian regimes.
Speaker 2: It's 06:01 on a Tuesday morning, and we were with state police as they raided this apartment in Northwest Germany. Inside, six armed officers searched the suspect's home, then seized his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors say those electronics may have been used to commit a crime. The crime, posting a racist cartoon online. At the exact same time across Germany
Speaker 1: more
Speaker 2: than 50 similar raids played out, part of what prosecutors say is a coordinated effort to curb online hate speech in Germany.
@stillgray - Ian Miles Cheong
JD Vance is right about Europe. They don’t share American values. They jail people for expressing their opinions and they shut down elections that don’t go their way, as they did to Calin Georgescu in Romania. https://t.co/PFWaXI0Rfj
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Germany's defense is subsidized by American taxpayers, who won't tolerate Americans being jailed in Germany for posting a "mean tweet." Friendship is based on shared values, which are absent when people are jailed for advocating border closures. Shared values are also absent when elections are canceled due to disliked results, as happened in Romania. Silencing and shutting up one's own people indicates a lack of shared values.
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Speaker 0: Germany's entire defense is subsidized by the American taxpayer. There are thousands upon thousands of American troops in Germany today. Do you think that the American taxpayer is gonna stand for that if you get thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet? Of course they're not. Right?
So so so the point that I try to make to our European friends, and I I think that they are friends, I believe that, I know President Trump does, is that friendship is based on shared values. You do not have shared values if you're jailing people for saying we should close down our border. You don't have shared values if you cancel elections because you don't like the result, and that happened in Romania. You don't have you do not have shared values if you're so afraid of your own people that you silence them and shut them up.
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I reacted to JD Vance's criticism of UK censorship, asserting that we support free speech in the UK. Vance countered, highlighting that free speech violations impact both the UK and American technology, and he plans to discuss this further at lunch today.
@WesternLensman - Western Lensman
🚨UK PM Keir Starmer responds to JD Vance’s torching over censorship in the UK by continuing to outright lie — “We don't believe in censoring speech…we champion free speech in the United Kingdom." https://t.co/UYOs3ERVjw
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We value our special relationship with the UK and our European allies. However, we are aware of infringements on free speech that impact not only the British but also American tech companies and, by extension, American citizens.
We don't believe in censoring speech, but we must address serious issues like terrorism and child exploitation. I discussed this with the Vice President today, and we had a productive conversation.
He is right to champion free speech. We also champion free speech in the UK. Regarding the measures we've taken, we are very mindful of ensuring they do not negatively impact US citizens.
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Speaker 0: He did say today, we do have this special relationship with our friends in The UK and some European allies, but we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British, but also affect American technology companies and by extension American citizens. House judiciary chairman Jim Jordan, I think, brought this up. Yeah. This is about UK's online safety act. Is The UK and EU trying to censor speech?
Speaker 1: No. We we we we don't believe in censoring speech. But of course, we do need to deal with terrorism. We need to deal with pedophiles and issues like that. But I talked to the vice president about it today, and we had a good exchange about it.
And of course, he's right to champion free speech. We champion free speech in The United Kingdom. And in relation to the measures that we've taken, obviously, we're we're very mindful that it shouldn't have an impact on US citizens.
@WesternLensman - Western Lensman
JD Vance today: ""We also know that there have been violations of free speech that actually affect not only the English, but also affect American technology and, by extension, American citizens. We'll talk about this at lunch today.” https://t.co/x2UCZyfPcE
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We have special relationships with our friends in the UK and some European allies. However, there have been infringements on free speech that affect not just the British, which is their business, but also American tech companies and citizens. This is something we'll discuss.
We've had free speech for a long time in the UK, and it will continue. We wouldn't want to overreach with US citizens, and we don't. I'm very proud of our history of free speech in the UK.
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Speaker 0: Great. Yeah. Look, I I said what I said, which is that we do have a, of course, a special relationship with our friends in The UK and also with some of our European allies. But we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British. Of course, what the British do in their own country is up to them, but also affect American technology companies and by extension American citizens.
So that is something that we'll talk about today at
Speaker 1: We've had free speech for a very, very long time in in The United Kingdom, and and it will last for a very, very long time. Well, I mean, certainly, we wouldn't wanna reach across US citizens and and we don't and that's absolutely right. But in relation to free speech in The UK, I'm very proud of our our history there. We
Speaker 0: just
@EndWokeness - End Wokeness
JD Vance and Trump just put Zelensky in his place. Wow. Watch this. https://t.co/zndgjKEPKz
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With all due respect, it's disrespectful to come to the Oval Office and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of my country. You're forcing conscripts to the front lines because of manpower problems. You should be thanking the president for trying to bring an end to this conflict.
During war, everyone has problems. Even you, but you have a nice ocean. You're in a bad position now and you don't have the cards. With us, you start having cards. You're gambling with the lives of millions of people and with World War Three. What you're doing is disrespectful to this country. I've said thank you many times, even today. I ask that you offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country.
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Speaker 0: I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's gonna end the destruction of your country. Yes. But if you unknow Mister president, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conflict.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have?
Speaker 0: I have been to You come once. I have actually I've actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people you bring them on a propaganda tour, mister president. Are do you disagree that you've had problems What? Bringing people into your military?
Speaker 1: And do
Speaker 0: you think that it's respectful
Speaker 1: I will answer. To come to the Oval Office of
Speaker 0: The United States Of America and attack the administration that is trying to trying to prevent the destruction of your country? A lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning. Sure. First of all, during the war, everybody has problems. Even you, but you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will feel it in the future.
God bless.
Speaker 2: You don't know that.
Speaker 1: God bless. God bless. You will not have war.
Speaker 2: Don't tell us what we're gonna feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're gonna feel.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying you're in no position to dictate that. Remember this.
Speaker 1: I'm You're
Speaker 2: in no position to dictate what we're gonna feel. We're gonna feel very good.
Speaker 1: Will feel influence.
Speaker 2: We're gonna feel very good and very strong.
Speaker 1: You will feel influence.
Speaker 2: You're right now not in a very good position. You've allowed yourself to
Speaker 1: be in a very bad position, and
Speaker 2: he happens to be right about it.
Speaker 1: From the very beginning of the war You're not in a good position. I was
Speaker 2: You don't have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards.
Speaker 1: Playing cards.
Speaker 2: Right now, you don't yeah. You're playing cards. You're
Speaker 1: playing I'm very
Speaker 2: a seat belt. You're gambling with the lives of millions of people.
Speaker 1: You think
Speaker 2: You're gambling with World War three.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 2: You're gambling with World War three. And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country. I'm with back to more than a lot of people said Awareness. They should have.
Speaker 0: Have you said thank you once?
Speaker 1: A lot of times. No. Even today. You said thank you. Even today.
Speaker 0: You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for United States Of America and the president who's trying to save your country.
@MyLordBebo - Lord Bebo
🇺🇸🇺🇦 ZELENSKY CALLED JD VANCE A BITCH! The mic caught it! He literally called JD Vance a BITCH. WOW https://t.co/tIs81qi0wY
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The US government has shifted its stance from supporting censorship to championing free speech, as emphasized by Secretary Rubio's commitment to defending Americans' rights. I highlighted the troubling censorship efforts in Brazil, where I faced a criminal investigation for sharing accurate information. I also praised VP JD Vance for opposing the EU's censorship initiatives. As I prepare to protest against censorship in São Paulo, I believe that the true threat to freedom lies in our fear of totalitarians, not in the totalitarians themselves.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
The US government didn’t censor anyone, said the media. But it did. Not only that, it worked with other nations to do so. Now, the US government has not only repudiated censorship, it’s put free speech at the center of its foreign policy. Thank you and bravo @SecRubio !
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
The Brazilian government launched a criminal investigation of me for publishing the legal and accurate Twitter Files - Brazil. The US encouraged and financed censorship in Brazil. But now, the US is pushing free speech rather than censorship.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
The FBI, George Soros, and Brazil's government say they defend free speech and democracy. But a new, months-long investigation finds that they have been secretly working together to oversee a mass censorship effort that is in direct violation of the US & Brazilian Constitutions. https://t.co/jET5tYxwRg
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
VP @JDVance deserves enormous credit for denouncing the EU’s totalitarian censorship monster known as the “Digital Services Act.” Europe wants to censor the entire world. Until now, it had the support of the US government.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
@JDVance I have fought alongside very brave Brazilian people for free speech. Now, finally, the US government has switched from supporting censorship to supporting free speech.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Tomorrow, I fly to São Paulo to join other lovers of free speech to protest censorship, including the X ban. There's a chance I'll be arrested. It's worth the risk. The greatest threat to our freedom doesn't come from totalitarians. It comes from our fear of them. https://t.co/mJoHsUUD8C
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
@JDVance Censorship is never the solution to wrong information and hatred. Only free speech is.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
We must censor the Internet to counter the spread of misinformation, say global leaders. But only free speech, not censorship, can counter misinformation. The real reason they want mass online censorship is so they won't keep getting called out for spreading disinformation. https://t.co/PMtg1iWZmI
@EricLDaugh - Eric Daugherty
J.D. Vance just walked into the Kennedy Center and the crowd ERUPTED in boos. https://t.co/H4Yr7SAHsI
@DonaldJTrumpJr - Donald Trump Jr.
France is sending le Pen to jail and barring her from running?! Are they just trying to prove @JDVance was right about everything?
@robbystarbuck - Robby Starbuck
Marine Le Pen is CURRENTLY the front runner to be the next President of France if they held the elections today. So what did the left in France do? They just banned her from running and sentenced her to 4 years in prison on BS charges. The left did this to Bolsonaro, Trump, Imran Khan, Matteo Salvini, Calin Georgescu and more. Why? Populists beat them and the modern left are criminals who will do ANYTHING to win. There should be blanket economic sanctions on the elite leftists in France until this stops.
@EricaRN4USA - Erica 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
A must watch — .@VP JD Vance closing statements as he hosted the Charlie Kirk’s podcast yesterday. He delivered a statement that deserves repeating. Listen…. https://t.co/3Yq5J0vSeY
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Charlie argues that unity requires climbing the mountain of truth and confronting difficult truths. He cites data: "24% of self described, quote, very liberals believe it is acceptable to be happy about the death of a political opponent, while only 3% of self described very conservatives agree," and "26% of young liberals believe political violence is sometimes justified, and only 7% of young conservatives say the same." He adds, "In a country of 330,000,000 people, you could, of course, find one person of a given political persuasion justifying this or that or almost anything, but the data is clear." He asserts, "That problem has terrible consequences." He recounts violence: "The leader of our party, Donald j Trump, escaped an assassin's bullet by less than an inch." "Our house majority leavers, Stephen Scalise, came within seconds of death by an assassin himself." "And now the most influential conservative activist in generations, our friend Charlie, has been murdered." He describes a "pyramid" with "a foundation of donors, of activists, of journalists, now of social media influencers, and, of course, of politicians." Disneyland anecdote: "You should disown your dad, you little shit" and "Tell the secret service to protect the constitution, not your father." He concludes: "Are these women violent? Probably not. Are they deranged? Certainly." "Most of the lunatics in American politics today are proud members of the far left."
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Speaker 0: Charlie believed, as I do, that all the truth he told flowed from that fundamental principle. I really do believe that we can come together in this country. I believe we must. But unity, real unity, can be found only after climbing the mountain of truth. And there are difficult truths we must confront in our country.
One truth is that 24% of self described, quote, very liberals believe it is acceptable to be happy about the death of a political opponent, while only 3% of self described very conservatives agree. 3% is too many, of course. Another truth is that 26% of young liberals believe political violence is sometimes justified, and only 7% of young conservatives say the same. Again, too high a number. In a country of 330,000,000 people, you could, of course, find one person of a given political persuasion justifying this or that or almost anything, but the data is clear.
People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, one side has a much bigger and malignant problem, and that is the truth we must be told. That problem has terrible consequences. The leader of our party, Donald j Trump, escaped an assassin's bullet by less than an inch.
Our house majority leavers, Stephen Scalise, came within seconds of death by an assassin himself. And now the most influential conservative activist in generations, our friend Charlie, has been murdered. This violence, it doesn't come from nowhere. Now any political movement, violent or not violent, is a collection of forces. It's like a pyramid that stacks on top, one support on top of the other.
That pyramid's got a foundation of donors, of activists, of journalists, now of social media influencers, and, of course, of politicians. Not every member of that pyramid would commit a murder. In fact, over 99%, I'm sure, would not. But by celebrating that murder, apologizing for it, and emphasizing not Charlie's innocence, but the fact that he said things some didn't like, even to the point of lying about what he actually said, many of these people are creating an environment where things like this are inevitably going to happen. A couple of months ago, I had learned a fundraiser in Southern California.
And since, you know, we'd be out there anyways, my wife and I decided to take our kids to Disneyland one weekend. We had fun and to be clear, most of the guests said very nice things or they just left us alone. But there was a loud and very cool minority that would shout at my children who were eight, five, and three whenever they got the opportunity. You should disown your dad, you little shit, one middle aged woman yelled at my five year old. Tell the secret service to protect the constitution, not your father, screamed another.
Are these women violent? Probably not. Are they deranged? Certainly. And while our side of the aisle certainly has its crazies, it is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics in American politics today are proud members of the far left.
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I find it laughable that the EU President announced a new 'Ministry of Truth' under the guise of fighting disinformation. It's clear this will be a tool to silence dissent and promote EU propaganda. I stand by my decision to vote for leaving the EU.
@Basil_TGMD - Basil the Great
🚨LAUGHS AND JEERS AT EU PRESIDENT AS SHE REVEALS NEW 'MINISTRY OF TRUTH' The EU Democracy Shield it is claimed will be used to fight disinformation online In reality it will be used as a weapon to SILENCE opponents and push EU Propaganda They will monitor and arrest dissidents, removing all free speech. I will never regret voting to leave the EU
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And honorable members, the rise in information manipulation and disinformation, as we hear, is dividing our societies. This is why we urgently need the European democracy shield. So we will set up a new European Centre for democratic resilience. This will bring together the expertise and capacity of Member States and neighbouring countries. This is why the first step in an autocrat's playbook is always to capture independent media, because this enables backsliding and corruption to happen in the dark. This is why we will launch a new media resilience programme. This is why, in the next budget, we have proposed to significantly boost funding for media. We also need to enable private equity. We will therefore use our tools to support independent and local media. A free press is the backbone of any democracy, and we will support Europe's press to remain free despite your shouting.
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Speaker 0: And honorable members, the rise in information manipulation and disinformation, as we hear, is dividing our societies. It is not only eroding trust in the truth, but also in democracy itself. This is why we urgently need the European democracy shield. We need more capacity to monitor and detect information manipulation and disinformation. So we will set up a new European Centre for democratic resilience.
This will bring together the expertise and capacity of Member States and neighbouring countries. You obviously are fearing this new centre. Okay. I I understand that shouting has become a little bit of a tradition. Can you listen, to this discussion and then you'll have the time to speak?
In some communities across Europe, traditional media are struggling. In many rural areas, the days of going out for local paper is a nostalgic memory. This has created many news deserts where disinformation thrives and this is so dangerous for our democracy, because informed citizens who can trust what they read and hear are essential to keep those in power accountable. And when independent media is dismantled or neutralised, our ability to monitor corruption and preserve democracy is severely weakened. This is why the first step listen carefully this is why the first step in an autocrat's playbook is always to capture independent media, because this enables backsliding and corruption to happen in the dark.
So we need to do more to protect our media and our independent press. And this is why we will launch a new media resilience programme. And this media resilience programme will support independent journalism and media literacy, but we also need to invest to address some of the root causes of this threat. This is why, in the next budget, we have proposed to significantly boost funding for media. We also need to enable private equity.
We will therefore use our tools to support independent and local media. A free press is the backbone of any democracy, and we will support Europe's press to remain free despite your shouting.