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The Pizzagate emails were originally discovered in John Podesta and Hillary Clinton's emails where secret comms involving "food," especially the word "pizza," were being used to disguise and talk about the trafficking and abuse of children. These emails were presented to the world by Wikileaks, which were originally obtained by a brave American patriot named Seth Rich. Seth Rich found out that the DNC rigged the primary against his favorite candidate, Bernie Sanders. Seth worked for the DNC and had special access. He then downloaded the emails and gave Wikileaks the DNC Podesta/Clinton emails. He exposed the Podesta/Clinton emails because he saw how corrupt his own party was. His perception of the government and his world was shattered when the truth revealed itself and he wanted to expose the truth to the world. An ex-employee of the NSA confirmed that the Podesta/Clinton emails were in fact downloaded from someone inside the DNC and NOT by a foreign nation like they wanted you to first believe. This was found through electronic analysis mentioned in this video. That someone who exposed these emails allegedly turned out to be Seth Rich. A message exposed by John Podesta stated that he supported the idea of "making an example" out of the DNC leaker. Not too long after, Seth Rich was found dead, less than a block from his own home. The cops did not cooperate and immediately closed the case as a botched robbery. The problem is, nothing was stolen, his phone, his wallet, and his watch were all found at the scene. Seth was shot multiple times in the back. Many allege that people tied to Podesta and Hillary had Seth killed to make an example out of him for anyone else planning to leak information to the press to expose them and their corruption.

The Pizzagate emails were originally discovered in John Podesta and Hillary Clinton's emails where secret comms involving "food," especially the word "pizza," were being used to disguise and talk about the trafficking and abuse of children. These emails were presented to the world by Wikileaks, which were originally obtained by a brave American patriot named Seth Rich. Seth Rich found out that the DNC rigged the primary against his favorite candidate, Bernie Sanders. Seth worked for the DNC and had special access. He then downloaded the emails and gave Wikileaks the DNC Podesta/Clinton emails. He exposed the Podesta/Clinton emails because he saw how corrupt his own party was. His perception of the government and his world was shattered when the truth revealed itself and he wanted to expose the truth to the world. An ex-employee of the NSA confirmed that the Podesta/Clinton emails were in fact downloaded from someone inside the DNC and NOT by a foreign nation like they wanted you to first believe. This was found through electronic analysis mentioned in this video. That someone who exposed these emails allegedly turned out to be Seth Rich. A message exposed by John Podesta stated that he supported the idea of "making an example" out of the DNC leaker. Not too long after, Seth Rich was found dead, less than a block from his own home. The cops did not cooperate and immediately closed the case as a botched robbery. The problem is, nothing was stolen, his phone, his wallet, and his watch were all found at the scene. Seth was shot multiple times in the back. Many allege that people tied to Podesta and Hillary had Seth killed to make an example out of him for anyone else planning to leak information to the press to expose them and their corruption.

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The Pizzagate emails were originally discovered in John Podesta and Hillary Clinton's emails where secret comms involving "food," especially the word "pizza," were being used to disguise and talk about the trafficking and abuse of children. These emails were presented to the world by Wikileaks, which were originally obtained by a brave American patriot named Seth Rich. Seth Rich found out that the DNC rigged the primary against his favorite candidate, Bernie Sanders. Seth worked for the DNC and had special access. He then downloaded the emails and gave Wikileaks the DNC Podesta/Clinton emails. He exposed the Podesta/Clinton emails because he saw how corrupt his own party was. His perception of the government and his world was shattered when the truth revealed itself and he wanted to expose the truth to the world. An ex-employee of the NSA confirmed that the Podesta/Clinton emails were in fact downloaded from someone inside the DNC and NOT by a foreign nation like they wanted you to first believe. This was found through electronic analysis mentioned in this video. That someone who exposed these emails allegedly turned out to be Seth Rich. A message exposed by John Podesta stated that he supported the idea of "making an example" out of the DNC leaker. Not too long after, Seth Rich was found dead, less than a block from his own home. The cops did not cooperate and immediately closed the case as a botched robbery. The problem is, nothing was stolen, his phone, his wallet, and his watch were all found at the scene. Seth was shot multiple times in the back. Many allege that people tied to Podesta and Hillary had Seth killed to make an example out of him for anyone else planning to leak information to the press to expose them and their corruption. RIP Seth Rich and thank you.

The Pizzagate emails were originally discovered in John Podesta and Hillary Clinton's emails where secret comms involving "food," especially the word "pizza," were being used to disguise and talk about the trafficking and abuse of children. These emails were presented to the world by Wikileaks, which were originally obtained by a brave American patriot named Seth Rich. Seth Rich found out that the DNC rigged the primary against his favorite candidate, Bernie Sanders. Seth worked for the DNC and had special access. He then downloaded the emails and gave Wikileaks the DNC Podesta/Clinton emails. He exposed the Podesta/Clinton emails because he saw how corrupt his own party was. His perception of the government and his world was shattered when the truth revealed itself and he wanted to expose the truth to the world. An ex-employee of the NSA confirmed that the Podesta/Clinton emails were in fact downloaded from someone inside the DNC and NOT by a foreign nation like they wanted you to first believe. This was found through electronic analysis mentioned in this video. That someone who exposed these emails allegedly turned out to be Seth Rich. A message exposed by John Podesta stated that he supported the idea of "making an example" out of the DNC leaker. Not too long after, Seth Rich was found dead, less than a block from his own home. The cops did not cooperate and immediately closed the case as a botched robbery. The problem is, nothing was stolen, his phone, his wallet, and his watch were all found at the scene. Seth was shot multiple times in the back. Many allege that people tied to Podesta and Hillary had Seth killed to make an example out of him for anyone else planning to leak information to the press to expose them and their corruption. RIP Seth Rich and thank you.

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We dropped a 30-page office lease into Box AI and asked Grok 4.5 one simple question: what would it actually cost us to walk away after three years? The lease is written to make you think the answer is easy: six months' rent (about $267K) stated right in the termination section. But the real cost is scattered in pieces across the whole document. The termination clause quietly points to a defined term that, when you chase it down, pulls in leftover build-out costs and broker fees from two other sections. The "free rent" you were given at signing is really taken back by a separate clause if you leave early. And there's a cleanup-and-restore obligation tucked into an exhibit at the very back. You only get the true number if you find all five and add them up — across 33 sections and 10 attachments. Grok 4.5 nailed it: ~$830K, about 3x the number the lease wants you to see, and it showed exactly where each piece came from. Then it kept going, pointing out the costs that have no cap, the auto-renewal trap that kicks in if you miss a deadline, and which terms to push back on before signing. That's the difference between skimming a contract and truly reading one and it's the kind of careful, connect-the-dots work over long documents that real business runs on. And this is the power of the latest reasoning models right now on working with unstructured enterprise data.

We dropped a 30-page office lease into Box AI and asked Grok 4.5 one simple question: what would it actually cost us to walk away after three years? The lease is written to make you think the answer is easy: six months' rent (about $267K) stated right in the termination section. But the real cost is scattered in pieces across the whole document. The termination clause quietly points to a defined term that, when you chase it down, pulls in leftover build-out costs and broker fees from two other sections. The "free rent" you were given at signing is really taken back by a separate clause if you leave early. And there's a cleanup-and-restore obligation tucked into an exhibit at the very back. You only get the true number if you find all five and add them up — across 33 sections and 10 attachments. Grok 4.5 nailed it: ~$830K, about 3x the number the lease wants you to see, and it showed exactly where each piece came from. Then it kept going, pointing out the costs that have no cap, the auto-renewal trap that kicks in if you miss a deadline, and which terms to push back on before signing. That's the difference between skimming a contract and truly reading one and it's the kind of careful, connect-the-dots work over long documents that real business runs on. And this is the power of the latest reasoning models right now on working with unstructured enterprise data.

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“𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳-𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘥?” “𝘞𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦d 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨." Talk about resilience! Ravi Adusumalli (Co-Managing Partner, Elevation Capital) sat down with ixigo co-founders Aloke Bajpai and rajnishkumar to unpack their 17-year journey to a blockbuster IPO. The story of how Aloke and Rajnish built ixigo from a small apartment in Gurgaon in 2007 to India’s second-largest OTA by revenue is one of overcoming challenges, bouncing back, and transforming. This is encapsulated in the title of this special episode — “Resilience, Resurgence, Rebirth”. Each word represents a crucial chapter in ixigo's journey. The founders were at their candid best and spoke at length about: ➤ Founding ixigo when they were broke ➤ Landing on the highest-frequency use case for train travellers ➤ The decision-making process behind their biggest pivot - from metasearch to OTA ➤ That time when they mortgaged their homes to make payroll ➤ Surviving and thriving amidst hyper-funded competitors ➤ Closing two acquisitions in the thick of the pandemic Watch the complete no-holds-barred conversation here: We hope this conversation serves as an inspiration for all founders and aspiring builders out there, and as a reminder that while the entrepreneurial journey may be long and fraught with challenges, it is also immensely rewarding for those who persevere with grit and humility, and never lose sight of their vision.

“𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳-𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘥?” “𝘞𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦d 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨." Talk about resilience! Ravi Adusumalli (Co-Managing Partner, Elevation Capital) sat down with ixigo co-founders Aloke Bajpai and rajnishkumar to unpack their 17-year journey to a blockbuster IPO. The story of how Aloke and Rajnish built ixigo from a small apartment in Gurgaon in 2007 to India’s second-largest OTA by revenue is one of overcoming challenges, bouncing back, and transforming. This is encapsulated in the title of this special episode — “Resilience, Resurgence, Rebirth”. Each word represents a crucial chapter in ixigo's journey. The founders were at their candid best and spoke at length about: ➤ Founding ixigo when they were broke ➤ Landing on the highest-frequency use case for train travellers ➤ The decision-making process behind their biggest pivot - from metasearch to OTA ➤ That time when they mortgaged their homes to make payroll ➤ Surviving and thriving amidst hyper-funded competitors ➤ Closing two acquisitions in the thick of the pandemic Watch the complete no-holds-barred conversation here: We hope this conversation serves as an inspiration for all founders and aspiring builders out there, and as a reminder that while the entrepreneurial journey may be long and fraught with challenges, it is also immensely rewarding for those who persevere with grit and humility, and never lose sight of their vision.

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17,953 views • 2 years ago

2001. Larry Page and Sergey Brin sit for their first-ever television interview. Google has 200 employees. They explain that the company almost didn't get off the ground because they couldn't cash a check. The check was for $100,000. It came from Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems. Page and Brin showed him what they'd built. He said, "This is great, how about I write you a check?" and just wrote it out. Made it out to Google. The problem was that Google didn't exist as a company yet. There was no bank account. No lawyers. No incorporation paperwork. The check sat in Larry Page's desk drawer for a month. They literally could not deposit it. They're both in their late twenties in this interview. They met at Stanford as PhD students and, by their own account, disliked each other from the start. Brin says Page is "kind of obnoxious." Page doesn't disagree. Brin says they argued about everything, debated every single point, and then realized that was their commonality. They became friends, started building a search engine they never planned to build, and put their PhDs on hold to get it out into the world. The part that stings watching this in 2026 is the rejection tour. Before starting Google, they approached existing search companies to sell or license the technology. They went to Yahoo. David Filo, one of Yahoo's founders, told them, "This is great search technology. Why don't you guys make a company, and maybe we'll use you someday?" They went to Excite. They went to InfoSeek. Same response. Page says a CEO at one of those companies told them: "If our search is 85% as good as the next guy's, that's good enough for us." Page and Brin didn't buy that. They thought the search was too important to be 85% as good. So they started Google. No marketing. No ad campaign. They launched it at Stanford, and it grew 20% per month, every single month, for three years straight. Pure word of mouth. By the time of this interview, they're handling over 100 million searches a day. They get 500 resumes in the mail every single day. The office space around them is 30% vacant because the dot-com bubble just popped, but Google is profitable. Page makes a point of this: "We've been really interested in being profitable, like long before it was fashionable." They'd also just hired Eric Schmidt, former CTO of Sun, as CEO. Brin's explanation for why: "Parental supervision, to be honest." Page adds that they're "past the age where we're rebellious" and that running a search engine used by 100 million people a day with 200 employees is "a large responsibility." The number that caught my eye: when Google started in 1998, it indexed 30 million web pages. At the time of this interview, three years later, they indexed 1.3 billion. The page says that if you printed them all out and stacked the paper, it would be about 70 miles high. And it was doubling every year. Every search company they approached turned them down. Yahoo eventually came back and hired Google to power its own search results. The CEO who thought 85% was good enough ran a company that no longer exists. Alphabet, Google's parent company, is worth about $3.6 trillion today. It has about 190,000 employees. That $100,000 check sat in a desk drawer because nobody had incorporated the company. Bechtolsheim's stake from that investment is now worth billions.

2001. Larry Page and Sergey Brin sit for their first-ever television interview. Google has 200 employees. They explain that the company almost didn't get off the ground because they couldn't cash a check. The check was for $100,000. It came from Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems. Page and Brin showed him what they'd built. He said, "This is great, how about I write you a check?" and just wrote it out. Made it out to Google. The problem was that Google didn't exist as a company yet. There was no bank account. No lawyers. No incorporation paperwork. The check sat in Larry Page's desk drawer for a month. They literally could not deposit it. They're both in their late twenties in this interview. They met at Stanford as PhD students and, by their own account, disliked each other from the start. Brin says Page is "kind of obnoxious." Page doesn't disagree. Brin says they argued about everything, debated every single point, and then realized that was their commonality. They became friends, started building a search engine they never planned to build, and put their PhDs on hold to get it out into the world. The part that stings watching this in 2026 is the rejection tour. Before starting Google, they approached existing search companies to sell or license the technology. They went to Yahoo. David Filo, one of Yahoo's founders, told them, "This is great search technology. Why don't you guys make a company, and maybe we'll use you someday?" They went to Excite. They went to InfoSeek. Same response. Page says a CEO at one of those companies told them: "If our search is 85% as good as the next guy's, that's good enough for us." Page and Brin didn't buy that. They thought the search was too important to be 85% as good. So they started Google. No marketing. No ad campaign. They launched it at Stanford, and it grew 20% per month, every single month, for three years straight. Pure word of mouth. By the time of this interview, they're handling over 100 million searches a day. They get 500 resumes in the mail every single day. The office space around them is 30% vacant because the dot-com bubble just popped, but Google is profitable. Page makes a point of this: "We've been really interested in being profitable, like long before it was fashionable." They'd also just hired Eric Schmidt, former CTO of Sun, as CEO. Brin's explanation for why: "Parental supervision, to be honest." Page adds that they're "past the age where we're rebellious" and that running a search engine used by 100 million people a day with 200 employees is "a large responsibility." The number that caught my eye: when Google started in 1998, it indexed 30 million web pages. At the time of this interview, three years later, they indexed 1.3 billion. The page says that if you printed them all out and stacked the paper, it would be about 70 miles high. And it was doubling every year. Every search company they approached turned them down. Yahoo eventually came back and hired Google to power its own search results. The CEO who thought 85% was good enough ran a company that no longer exists. Alphabet, Google's parent company, is worth about $3.6 trillion today. It has about 190,000 employees. That $100,000 check sat in a desk drawer because nobody had incorporated the company. Bechtolsheim's stake from that investment is now worth billions.

Anish Moonka

12,042 views • 4 months ago

What started as a standard White House announcement quickly turned into one of the most revealing Oval Office moments of the year. Trump was there to declare that Washington, D.C. will host the 2027 NFL Draft. But when reporters started firing off questions, the real fireworks began. First up: immigration. A reporter asked Trump about a new program offering undocumented immigrants $1,000 to self-deport. His answer was blunt—and surprisingly layered. “Yeah, we have millions of people that have come into this country illegally through an administration that didn't know what they were doing. They didn't have a clue. And now we find out officially they didn't, because the president was incompetent. But I could have told you that before.” He explained the idea behind the plan: offer people money to leave—and if they take the offer and prove to be hard-working, they might be allowed back in the right way. “But what we thought we'd do is to self-deport where we're going to pay each one a certain amount of money, and we're going to get him a beautiful flight back to where they came from. And they have a period of time.” “And if they make it, we're going to work with them so that maybe someday, with a little work, they can come back in if they're good people, if they're the kind of people that we want in our company, industrious people that could love our country. And if they're not, they won't. But it will give them a path to becoming, you know, to coming back into the country.” He made it clear that there would be no second chances for those who ignore the opportunity. “So we're going to have, self-deportation, where they deport themselves out of our country, and we'll work with them, and we're going to try. And if if we think they're good, they have, you know, the people we want in our country, they're going to come back into our country. We'll give them a little easier route. But if they don't work and if we take them out after the date, then, they're never coming back.”

What started as a standard White House announcement quickly turned into one of the most revealing Oval Office moments of the year. Trump was there to declare that Washington, D.C. will host the 2027 NFL Draft. But when reporters started firing off questions, the real fireworks began. First up: immigration. A reporter asked Trump about a new program offering undocumented immigrants $1,000 to self-deport. His answer was blunt—and surprisingly layered. “Yeah, we have millions of people that have come into this country illegally through an administration that didn't know what they were doing. They didn't have a clue. And now we find out officially they didn't, because the president was incompetent. But I could have told you that before.” He explained the idea behind the plan: offer people money to leave—and if they take the offer and prove to be hard-working, they might be allowed back in the right way. “But what we thought we'd do is to self-deport where we're going to pay each one a certain amount of money, and we're going to get him a beautiful flight back to where they came from. And they have a period of time.” “And if they make it, we're going to work with them so that maybe someday, with a little work, they can come back in if they're good people, if they're the kind of people that we want in our company, industrious people that could love our country. And if they're not, they won't. But it will give them a path to becoming, you know, to coming back into the country.” He made it clear that there would be no second chances for those who ignore the opportunity. “So we're going to have, self-deportation, where they deport themselves out of our country, and we'll work with them, and we're going to try. And if if we think they're good, they have, you know, the people we want in our country, they're going to come back into our country. We'll give them a little easier route. But if they don't work and if we take them out after the date, then, they're never coming back.”

Vigilant Fox 🦊

351,051 views • 1 year ago

Deion Sanders is the face of College Football. There are better teams. There are better programs. But win, lose or draw, no one has captivated college football like Coach Prime, Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter and Colorado. Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter both made plays against Baylor when their team and Coach needed them the most. They made those plays in the biggest moments of the game because prime time players, make prime time plays in prime time moments. Deion Sanders is Prime Time and his influence rubs off on his entire program. A lot of people wondered why Colorado’s fans rushed the field after beating a 2-1 Baylor team. They rushed the field because they know what it was like before Coach Prime and his Louis luggage showed up. There were no season ticket sell outs since 1996. With Deion, season tickets are sold out for the second straight year. School applications are up 20% with a 50.5% increase in Black student applicants. Colorado made $113.2 million from its 2023 home games alone, which led to a 51% increase in revenue through media rights with Coach Prime at the helm. Before Coach Prime, no one searched for a Colorado game. Last year alone Colorado averaged 7.2 Million viewers per game, with 5 games ranked in the 25 most watched college Football games of the year. That trend continues this year as well. Coach Prime turned the worst Power 5 school in the country into one that PEOPLE CARE ABOUT. Win or lose. You watch. Cheering for or against. You watch. However, his biggest accomplishment isn’t making the Colorado Buffaloes relevant again. His biggest accomplishment is empowering the young men in his program to believe in themselves, trust God and rejuvenating an entire city in the face of massive push back against his style. Deion Sanders took 2 HBCU football players in Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter and helped coach them into 2 of the best players in the country who are both in the Heisman race. Took multiple HBCU football players and helped coach them into high level Power 5 starters who have NFL futures. You see the thing about Coach Deion Sanders is he is just as misunderstood as he was as a player. With him, you earn what you get and every single player in his program knows that. On a deeper level, watching him coach his son’s is inspirational. What Deion and Lebron have done for their families and their son’s should be celebrated. As fathers they weren’t just there, they were active. They didn’t just have the title of baby daddy, they are fathers. Black Fatherhood has long been mischaracterized as absent and negative. It’s amazing to see Black Fatherhood today on the highest levels be characterized as present and supportive.

Deion Sanders is the face of College Football. There are better teams. There are better programs. But win, lose or draw, no one has captivated college football like Coach Prime, Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter and Colorado. Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter both made plays against Baylor when their team and Coach needed them the most. They made those plays in the biggest moments of the game because prime time players, make prime time plays in prime time moments. Deion Sanders is Prime Time and his influence rubs off on his entire program. A lot of people wondered why Colorado’s fans rushed the field after beating a 2-1 Baylor team. They rushed the field because they know what it was like before Coach Prime and his Louis luggage showed up. There were no season ticket sell outs since 1996. With Deion, season tickets are sold out for the second straight year. School applications are up 20% with a 50.5% increase in Black student applicants. Colorado made $113.2 million from its 2023 home games alone, which led to a 51% increase in revenue through media rights with Coach Prime at the helm. Before Coach Prime, no one searched for a Colorado game. Last year alone Colorado averaged 7.2 Million viewers per game, with 5 games ranked in the 25 most watched college Football games of the year. That trend continues this year as well. Coach Prime turned the worst Power 5 school in the country into one that PEOPLE CARE ABOUT. Win or lose. You watch. Cheering for or against. You watch. However, his biggest accomplishment isn’t making the Colorado Buffaloes relevant again. His biggest accomplishment is empowering the young men in his program to believe in themselves, trust God and rejuvenating an entire city in the face of massive push back against his style. Deion Sanders took 2 HBCU football players in Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter and helped coach them into 2 of the best players in the country who are both in the Heisman race. Took multiple HBCU football players and helped coach them into high level Power 5 starters who have NFL futures. You see the thing about Coach Deion Sanders is he is just as misunderstood as he was as a player. With him, you earn what you get and every single player in his program knows that. On a deeper level, watching him coach his son’s is inspirational. What Deion and Lebron have done for their families and their son’s should be celebrated. As fathers they weren’t just there, they were active. They didn’t just have the title of baby daddy, they are fathers. Black Fatherhood has long been mischaracterized as absent and negative. It’s amazing to see Black Fatherhood today on the highest levels be characterized as present and supportive.

Robert Griffin III

1,286,599 views • 1 year ago

Jack Zhang on why he said no to Stripe’s $1.2 billion offer to buy Airwallex “In October 2018, Stripe reached out to buy us,” Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang (Jack Zhang) begins. Patrick Collison flew out to Shanghai to meet Jack and his co-founder, and they spent the day together. After the meeting, Patrick sent over a Google Doc that was 10-20 pages long and asked Jack to make comments. “I was like, ‘Wow, the vision of the companies over the next decade is very much the same.’ We both wanted to build the AWS of financial services, and obviously Stripe was much further ahead of us. But this was before COVID. Stripe was like a $9 billion company — very similar to the scale of Airwallex today. I also really liked Patrick. It was like this guy is so smart.” Asked what makes Patrick Collison so smart, Jack replies: “He’s intellectually honest about everything, and he’s able to go deep in multiple dimensions.” Eventually Stripe offered $1.2 billion for Airwallex, and according to Jack, he and his co-founders would’ve walked away with $350 million. “I met with the whole team, and I was really impressed,” Jack recalls. “I basically said I think we’re going to do it.” But when he flew back to Melbourne, Jack decided against it. And it was actually Patrick Collison who inspired him to reject the offer. Jack explains: “So one of the things that really inspired me from talking and spending time with Patrick was I asked, ‘What’s the long-term thing for Stripe and yourself? Are you going to be here forever?’ And Patrick said to me that he’s going to build Stripe for the next 20-40 years. And I just never heard a founder tell me they will dedicate their entire life to building a business. And so that was inspiring to me, and I’m like that’s what I want to do.” Today, Airwallex (Airwallex) is an $8B company, with more than $1B in ARR. Video source: The Twenty Minute VC Harry Stebbings (2025)

Jack Zhang on why he said no to Stripe’s $1.2 billion offer to buy Airwallex “In October 2018, Stripe reached out to buy us,” Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang (Jack Zhang) begins. Patrick Collison flew out to Shanghai to meet Jack and his co-founder, and they spent the day together. After the meeting, Patrick sent over a Google Doc that was 10-20 pages long and asked Jack to make comments. “I was like, ‘Wow, the vision of the companies over the next decade is very much the same.’ We both wanted to build the AWS of financial services, and obviously Stripe was much further ahead of us. But this was before COVID. Stripe was like a $9 billion company — very similar to the scale of Airwallex today. I also really liked Patrick. It was like this guy is so smart.” Asked what makes Patrick Collison so smart, Jack replies: “He’s intellectually honest about everything, and he’s able to go deep in multiple dimensions.” Eventually Stripe offered $1.2 billion for Airwallex, and according to Jack, he and his co-founders would’ve walked away with $350 million. “I met with the whole team, and I was really impressed,” Jack recalls. “I basically said I think we’re going to do it.” But when he flew back to Melbourne, Jack decided against it. And it was actually Patrick Collison who inspired him to reject the offer. Jack explains: “So one of the things that really inspired me from talking and spending time with Patrick was I asked, ‘What’s the long-term thing for Stripe and yourself? Are you going to be here forever?’ And Patrick said to me that he’s going to build Stripe for the next 20-40 years. And I just never heard a founder tell me they will dedicate their entire life to building a business. And so that was inspiring to me, and I’m like that’s what I want to do.” Today, Airwallex (Airwallex) is an $8B company, with more than $1B in ARR. Video source: The Twenty Minute VC Harry Stebbings (2025)

Startup Archive

696,861 views • 6 months ago

A family in Australia has remained defiant in selling their nearly 5-acre property in the last few years as developers have been forced to build around them. Most recently, they declined a whopping $50 million offer for their home. Slap bang in the middle of a new-build development in The Ponds area near the city of Quakers Hill, the Zammits have indicated they cannot put a price on their beloved home. It’s a stark contrast to the adjacent rows of newly constructed houses that surround their longtime property. Their neighbors have praised their resilience as they enjoy the cul-de-sacs that this in-the-middle property creates by staying put, rather than having a typical through street. “The fact that most people sold out years and years ago, these guys have held on. All credit to them,” Taylor Bredin, an agent with Ray White Quakers Hill, told the outlet. Bredin estimated that the land could accommodate up to 50 houses, with each subdivided 3,200-square-foot block potentially fetching a million dollars each. Diane Zammit, 51, previously spoke to the outlet and reminisced about the area’s past, describing it as “farmland dotted with little red brick homes and cottages.”“Every home was unique and there was so much space — but not any more. It’s just not the same,” she said. Most of the neighboring blocks of land sold back in 2012 — which would have valued the Zammits’ property at around $4.75 million 12 years ago. Their Windsor Castle-style home features a 650-foot driveway in the middle of their expansive lawn. About 40 minutes from Sydney’s central core, the property offers panoramic views of the Blue Mountains. The neighboring high-density homes are built right up to the property’s fence line. FYI, I focus on adding context to social media posts that often lack it. If you're interested in seeing posts with added clarity and background, consider following me.

A family in Australia has remained defiant in selling their nearly 5-acre property in the last few years as developers have been forced to build around them. Most recently, they declined a whopping $50 million offer for their home. Slap bang in the middle of a new-build development in The Ponds area near the city of Quakers Hill, the Zammits have indicated they cannot put a price on their beloved home. It’s a stark contrast to the adjacent rows of newly constructed houses that surround their longtime property. Their neighbors have praised their resilience as they enjoy the cul-de-sacs that this in-the-middle property creates by staying put, rather than having a typical through street. “The fact that most people sold out years and years ago, these guys have held on. All credit to them,” Taylor Bredin, an agent with Ray White Quakers Hill, told the outlet. Bredin estimated that the land could accommodate up to 50 houses, with each subdivided 3,200-square-foot block potentially fetching a million dollars each. Diane Zammit, 51, previously spoke to the outlet and reminisced about the area’s past, describing it as “farmland dotted with little red brick homes and cottages.”“Every home was unique and there was so much space — but not any more. It’s just not the same,” she said. Most of the neighboring blocks of land sold back in 2012 — which would have valued the Zammits’ property at around $4.75 million 12 years ago. Their Windsor Castle-style home features a 650-foot driveway in the middle of their expansive lawn. About 40 minutes from Sydney’s central core, the property offers panoramic views of the Blue Mountains. The neighboring high-density homes are built right up to the property’s fence line. FYI, I focus on adding context to social media posts that often lack it. If you're interested in seeing posts with added clarity and background, consider following me.

Global Statistics

226,811 views • 1 year ago

Tony Hinchcliffe on how being contrarian created Kill Tony: Everybody was telling me to do a podcast, but I wanted to show how crazy an open mic can be. “I just built the show that I wanted to do.” “You know, I was very lucky early on at The Comedy Store to get to host the open mics there, which are three minute long sets on Sundays and Mondays with 40 comedians in a row doing three minutes, three minutes, three minutes, three minutes.” “And I would go up after each comedian did three minutes and make fun of them and every once in a while afterwards, go up to them personally and say, 'Hey, you know, if you took a breath sometimes, or used pauses, or sped up, or got the mic close to your mouth,' little advice here and there, and me and my friends would always have so much fun sitting in the back of the room watching these open mics and the things that we would whisper into each other's ears, I thought were so funny.” “We'd be in the back of the room, sometimes we'd be the only people laughing at the open mic because of what we're saying to each other.” “And I thought to myself during this time in which everyone was saying, 'Tony, you have to do a podcast, you gotta do a podcast, everyone has a podcast,’ it was completely unheard of at the time, but I thought, why not show how crazy an open mic can be?” “And the ideas that me and whatever comedian buddies were sitting next to me, if we shared what we were laughing about with the people, I think it could be a hit.” “And even the co-host Redban at the time goes, 'Wait, what? Who the f*** is gonna wanna watch an open mic?' And I kind of thought everybody would. Turns out, it worked out pretty well.” Tony Hinchcliffe @jason Thanks to OKX for making this happen! OKX:

Tony Hinchcliffe on how being contrarian created Kill Tony: Everybody was telling me to do a podcast, but I wanted to show how crazy an open mic can be. “I just built the show that I wanted to do.” “You know, I was very lucky early on at The Comedy Store to get to host the open mics there, which are three minute long sets on Sundays and Mondays with 40 comedians in a row doing three minutes, three minutes, three minutes, three minutes.” “And I would go up after each comedian did three minutes and make fun of them and every once in a while afterwards, go up to them personally and say, 'Hey, you know, if you took a breath sometimes, or used pauses, or sped up, or got the mic close to your mouth,' little advice here and there, and me and my friends would always have so much fun sitting in the back of the room watching these open mics and the things that we would whisper into each other's ears, I thought were so funny.” “We'd be in the back of the room, sometimes we'd be the only people laughing at the open mic because of what we're saying to each other.” “And I thought to myself during this time in which everyone was saying, 'Tony, you have to do a podcast, you gotta do a podcast, everyone has a podcast,’ it was completely unheard of at the time, but I thought, why not show how crazy an open mic can be?” “And the ideas that me and whatever comedian buddies were sitting next to me, if we shared what we were laughing about with the people, I think it could be a hit.” “And even the co-host Redban at the time goes, 'Wait, what? Who the f*** is gonna wanna watch an open mic?' And I kind of thought everybody would. Turns out, it worked out pretty well.” Tony Hinchcliffe @jason Thanks to OKX for making this happen! OKX:

The All-In Podcast

72,049 views • 7 months ago

President Trump truthed one of Nick Adams Memes from back in February and I quote... America has been sick for a long time. President Trump is healing this nation. Check out some of his other posts to get an understanding of how Godly this man is. Who is Nick Adams? Nick Adams is an Australian-born American conservative author, speaker, and Trump appointee. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen, Stage IV cancer survivor, and founder of FLAG USA a nonprofit that has distributed millions of pocket Constitutions and founding documents to students to teach American civics, patriotism, and the nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage. He is a devout Christian who openly speaks about his faith in Jesus Christ, promotes “Make America Godly Again,” and frames his work around God-centered values, family, and freedom. About the post: On February 4, 2026, Nick Adams posted this striking image with the caption: “America has been sick for a long time. President Trump is healing this nation.” It is symbolic, patriotic artwork, not a literal religious statement. The image uses powerful visual elements to show America (represented as a sick man) being restored under President Trump’s leadership after years of division and decline, in the eyes of many supporters. President Trump later shared a similar version on Truth Social, which is why it’s circulating again. People are reading all kinds of wild meanings into it because of the biblical-style imagery (Trump in white robes with a healing touch, light, eagles, soldiers, etc.). In context, it is simply strong admiration for Trump’s impact on the country not claiming he is Jesus or performing miracles. Nick Adams is a Godly man who loves America and consistently points people toward faith, the Constitution, and traditional values. This post reflects his deep belief that strong, principled leadership is helping restore the nation. Many have accused Pope Leo XIV of blasphemy mainly over what they see as inconsistent emphasis when he speaks on abortion alongside immigration enforcement, with the minority directly labeling the Pope’s stance blasphemous for allegedly insulting God’s order or the sanctity of life in inconsistent application. Context matters. Share thoughtfully. Nick Adams 📱 Nick Adams Capt Kyle

President Trump truthed one of Nick Adams Memes from back in February and I quote... America has been sick for a long time. President Trump is healing this nation. Check out some of his other posts to get an understanding of how Godly this man is. Who is Nick Adams? Nick Adams is an Australian-born American conservative author, speaker, and Trump appointee. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen, Stage IV cancer survivor, and founder of FLAG USA a nonprofit that has distributed millions of pocket Constitutions and founding documents to students to teach American civics, patriotism, and the nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage. He is a devout Christian who openly speaks about his faith in Jesus Christ, promotes “Make America Godly Again,” and frames his work around God-centered values, family, and freedom. About the post: On February 4, 2026, Nick Adams posted this striking image with the caption: “America has been sick for a long time. President Trump is healing this nation.” It is symbolic, patriotic artwork, not a literal religious statement. The image uses powerful visual elements to show America (represented as a sick man) being restored under President Trump’s leadership after years of division and decline, in the eyes of many supporters. President Trump later shared a similar version on Truth Social, which is why it’s circulating again. People are reading all kinds of wild meanings into it because of the biblical-style imagery (Trump in white robes with a healing touch, light, eagles, soldiers, etc.). In context, it is simply strong admiration for Trump’s impact on the country not claiming he is Jesus or performing miracles. Nick Adams is a Godly man who loves America and consistently points people toward faith, the Constitution, and traditional values. This post reflects his deep belief that strong, principled leadership is helping restore the nation. Many have accused Pope Leo XIV of blasphemy mainly over what they see as inconsistent emphasis when he speaks on abortion alongside immigration enforcement, with the minority directly labeling the Pope’s stance blasphemous for allegedly insulting God’s order or the sanctity of life in inconsistent application. Context matters. Share thoughtfully. Nick Adams 📱 Nick Adams Capt Kyle

Capt Kyle

60,433 views • 3 months ago

RFK Jr. on psychedelics and how his son’s ayahuasca experience opened his mind to legalization “My inclination would be to make them available, at least in therapeutic settings and maybe more generally, but in ways that would discourage the corporate control and exploitation of it. My wife in 2012 took her own life… and one of [my kids] was worrying to me because he never processed his mom’s death in a way that I could observe. About five years ago… he went to Patagonia to kayak a white water river that I kayaked for many, many years… The night my son arrived there, the guy [he stayed with] said to him ‘I’m doing an ayahuasca trip tonight’… so my kid ended up doing this. After he drank the ayahuasca… he felt himself sinking through all the geological strata of the Earth, and he told me… he had a total understanding of all of the processes that had laid them out through the eons. He ended up being propelled out the other side of the Earth and then floating through space for what he experienced as hundreds of years. He would focus on a distant planet and be transported there, and on each planet he would have an adventure and at the end there would be a lesson that he was supposed to remember. The last planet he visited, his mother was there. And she started passing through him, in and out of him again and again and every time she did that, he felt all these experiences of forgiveness, of love, of understanding, of comprehension, of empathy and compassion. When he came back from that trip, he was completely changed. He was very open about talking about his feelings, [but] the reason I really know that it changed him is he started taking out the garbage and doing the dishes. I have a friend who’s a Navy SEAL who had severe PTSD and he went to Costa Rica and had the same kind of experience. I have a couple of other friends who are in the NFL and they also had severe brain injuries and depression, and the same thing happened. So, my mind is open to the idea that there may be things that I don’t know about and that people ought to have the freedom and liberty to experiment with these things.”

RFK Jr. on psychedelics and how his son’s ayahuasca experience opened his mind to legalization “My inclination would be to make them available, at least in therapeutic settings and maybe more generally, but in ways that would discourage the corporate control and exploitation of it. My wife in 2012 took her own life… and one of [my kids] was worrying to me because he never processed his mom’s death in a way that I could observe. About five years ago… he went to Patagonia to kayak a white water river that I kayaked for many, many years… The night my son arrived there, the guy [he stayed with] said to him ‘I’m doing an ayahuasca trip tonight’… so my kid ended up doing this. After he drank the ayahuasca… he felt himself sinking through all the geological strata of the Earth, and he told me… he had a total understanding of all of the processes that had laid them out through the eons. He ended up being propelled out the other side of the Earth and then floating through space for what he experienced as hundreds of years. He would focus on a distant planet and be transported there, and on each planet he would have an adventure and at the end there would be a lesson that he was supposed to remember. The last planet he visited, his mother was there. And she started passing through him, in and out of him again and again and every time she did that, he felt all these experiences of forgiveness, of love, of understanding, of comprehension, of empathy and compassion. When he came back from that trip, he was completely changed. He was very open about talking about his feelings, [but] the reason I really know that it changed him is he started taking out the garbage and doing the dishes. I have a friend who’s a Navy SEAL who had severe PTSD and he went to Costa Rica and had the same kind of experience. I have a couple of other friends who are in the NFL and they also had severe brain injuries and depression, and the same thing happened. So, my mind is open to the idea that there may be things that I don’t know about and that people ought to have the freedom and liberty to experiment with these things.”

Holden Culotta

345,980 views • 2 years ago

This video is propaganda. It functioned to keep Sargon in beer money, and the population of the UK in denial about race. Like all good lies, it contains elements of truth, of which Sargon supplies massive helpings - far more than most propagandists ever dare - but it's effective... The first two minutes and 32 seconds are all true, by which time your brain trusts him, and you see him as being on your side as a White native Englishman. Of course right from the start he picks the easiest of targets (put a box of cornflakes next to a Guardian journalist and it will look like a patriot). And then (at 2:33) you get: "...but luckily for everyone else, being English is not just about being a race...". He continues: "...it's a particular way of viewing the world much as anything else", "...saying that I as an individual matter; every human matters". Of course Carl is not in any way wrong to identify and celebrate various English cultural artefacts as English, nor is he wrong to identify them as cultural, but the trick being done is to cut away their moorings from the DNA of the people who created them. You don't see him doing it, but he's in the water, scuba-diving down with a knife between his teeth, towards the tethers... ...And sure enough, at 5:19, in a mocking sneering smug tone: "But anyway Maya, let's get back to 'racial politics'. Let's not talk about values or ideas or ideals, or things that actually make the world a better place: let's get back to your fucking racial politics" (building to an angry exasperated tone). And suddenly there we are. 😐 The culture in which we were all being encouraged to take pride and admire now floats entirely free of its genetic substrate. Racial politics is bad, and associated in your brain with Guardian journalists. This - our - culture which the bodies and brains of our ancestors built, is now some sort of magic pink sparkly cloud hovering just above the ground, into which Indians and Africans can walk serenely and thereby be sort of transformed into us, nearly, just so long as it's done at a slow responsible pace. At 5:54 Sargon continues his imaginary conversation with Maya of The Guardian, adopting a super-confident and mildly exasperated lecturing tone (his favourite mode of address, obviously), and says: "But Maya, immigrants are not just a race; there are many hundreds of thousands of immigrants from France, and if you go to London, to an area which is predominantly populated by French people, it would not be sensible to say 'well this is an English area of London', is it, and yet that's nothing to do with their race, because they, like you will obviously point out, are White...". Well hang on Carl, yes, they are all White, and so maybe the thing making it (as you say) "not-sensible" to say they should not be in London doesn't become non-racial. Looks like you just talked yourself there in an illogical way. They are all White. Maybe this matters. Perhaps if we instead consider the prospect of adding the same number (many hundreds of thousands) of subsaharan Africans to London rather than Frenchmen, now it would be very sensible indeed to say they should not be there, whence the sensible - racial - criterion is plain to see. A full essay on the evolution of human nature in geographically isolated regions and the neurodiversity which emerged from that is beyond the scope of this tweet, but suffice to say White culture is what you get from White people, and African culture is what you get from African people. Europeans are White, and the relative closeness among European countries and cultures (compared to subsaharan Africans) by most metrics you might care about is not a coincidence, since heritable biological traits actually exist and actually matter, and they are not distributed evenly between different racial groups (see Fst distance), ergo race matters. Carl is a master of tugging at heartstrings, talking about these "past generations of blacks" who "admired English culture", and "wanted to be like us" etc.. Yes, no doubt many such individuals existed. They were always exceptional though, and we know they were exceptional, because if they weren't then Africa today would basically be similar to Yorkshire, just with nicer weather. And the problem for Carl is that Africa is obviously not like that, nor does any population of blacks anywhere in the world behave as a group like Europeans. I don't care particularly about John Cleese or what he says or where he goes, so the rest of the video is not terribly interesting, but just note at 6:48 Carl talks in approving terms of how "a small number of immigrants is OK", but "an overwhelming flood is pushing that principle too far". The problem with that is the number of non-Whites already in Britain was crazy-high in 2019 when Carl made this video, and our children were already well on track to becoming minorities in British schools without adding a single immigrant, even back then. Horrible racial conflict has been rife across the capital at least since the 90s, and it would be delusional to see the 1981 Brixton riots as anything but racial, ...and all this, and every sort of demographic vandalism besides, has come to pass PURELY because people who had advocated for racial politics in the 60s and 70s were successfully demonised by the media, just as Carl is doing in this video. The obvious foolishness of large numbers is like the obvious danger of lots of gunpowder compared to a small amount of gunpowder. It's not like the conflict magically goes away when the numbers are small. You just get White people lying to themselves and pushing discomfort down into their subconsciousness, and non-Whites sometimes (but by no means always) playing the game at first till their numbers become large enough. Pakistanis understood that cultural attitudes to child rape were different in our country, and so they assimilated by successfully hiding their child rape for about 20 or 30 years. Some White people even helped with that assimilation. The parts of our culture that Carl claims to want to promote (rule of law, freedom to criticise Islam, mutual respect, etc) is stuff that exists DESPITE the non-White population in the UK. It IS racial. And like of course it's racial. We are our DNA. Our culture was made by people, ...who were made by DNA. You can not make White people feel good - proudly talking up White culture - and then in the next breath sneer down your nose at those engaging in racial politics. It's a nasty (and given that Carl is not stupid, I have to suspect cynical) trick, the effect of which is to encourage a White audience to continue entertaining a suicidal and delusional belief in a tabula rasa model of human nature. His defenders will say "oh this is an old video, he's changed now...", and I am sure he is delighted that you believe so. Show me any example of him back-tracking on a single word of that though. I'll wait. I am writing this because I see what's happening to our population, and frankly anyone who isn't willing to recognise the need for racial politics is not your friend in this battle. If Carl has changed, then now would be a really great time to make that clear and come out on the side of Racial Nationalism. Anything else is just muddying the waters and enabling the stigmatisation of actual patriots. Look at where the UK is, and where it is going. Look at the pictures of schools with literally a single White face sitting among a sea of blacks. It's fucking insane, and it's obviously a racial issue that requires racial politics. At least we're talking about a rational lawful non-violent approach to sorting out who should be allowed to claim Englishness. We're having a conversation. Steve Laws, for example, is not a terrorist: he is a brave patriot giving a voice to the native population of a land which wants to recover that land. In reality English people are basically lovely. We're softies. The rest of the world knows that though. If we start to get a serious program of remigration off the ground, yes the reduction in sheer numbers of racial aliens will be welcome in itself, but black families that didn't produce criminal rugrats, and haven't spent the past 40 years moaning about how racist the English are will probably find that White communities rally round them, put in a good word for them, and achieve a consensus about not deporting them. What needs to happen is a basic shift in the narrative, and in the psychology: the assumption and understanding should be that citizenship is genetic, and that any exception to that is a polite and kind gesture from our people, which we have the full moral and legal right to withhold if we feel that we're being treated as suckers. And that's what I have to say about that. ...And of course Happy New Year to everyone in Australia!!! 🥳🎉🪩 -A.Frog '25/'26 🐸👍🏻

This video is propaganda. It functioned to keep Sargon in beer money, and the population of the UK in denial about race. Like all good lies, it contains elements of truth, of which Sargon supplies massive helpings - far more than most propagandists ever dare - but it's effective... The first two minutes and 32 seconds are all true, by which time your brain trusts him, and you see him as being on your side as a White native Englishman. Of course right from the start he picks the easiest of targets (put a box of cornflakes next to a Guardian journalist and it will look like a patriot). And then (at 2:33) you get: "...but luckily for everyone else, being English is not just about being a race...". He continues: "...it's a particular way of viewing the world much as anything else", "...saying that I as an individual matter; every human matters". Of course Carl is not in any way wrong to identify and celebrate various English cultural artefacts as English, nor is he wrong to identify them as cultural, but the trick being done is to cut away their moorings from the DNA of the people who created them. You don't see him doing it, but he's in the water, scuba-diving down with a knife between his teeth, towards the tethers... ...And sure enough, at 5:19, in a mocking sneering smug tone: "But anyway Maya, let's get back to 'racial politics'. Let's not talk about values or ideas or ideals, or things that actually make the world a better place: let's get back to your fucking racial politics" (building to an angry exasperated tone). And suddenly there we are. 😐 The culture in which we were all being encouraged to take pride and admire now floats entirely free of its genetic substrate. Racial politics is bad, and associated in your brain with Guardian journalists. This - our - culture which the bodies and brains of our ancestors built, is now some sort of magic pink sparkly cloud hovering just above the ground, into which Indians and Africans can walk serenely and thereby be sort of transformed into us, nearly, just so long as it's done at a slow responsible pace. At 5:54 Sargon continues his imaginary conversation with Maya of The Guardian, adopting a super-confident and mildly exasperated lecturing tone (his favourite mode of address, obviously), and says: "But Maya, immigrants are not just a race; there are many hundreds of thousands of immigrants from France, and if you go to London, to an area which is predominantly populated by French people, it would not be sensible to say 'well this is an English area of London', is it, and yet that's nothing to do with their race, because they, like you will obviously point out, are White...". Well hang on Carl, yes, they are all White, and so maybe the thing making it (as you say) "not-sensible" to say they should not be in London doesn't become non-racial. Looks like you just talked yourself there in an illogical way. They are all White. Maybe this matters. Perhaps if we instead consider the prospect of adding the same number (many hundreds of thousands) of subsaharan Africans to London rather than Frenchmen, now it would be very sensible indeed to say they should not be there, whence the sensible - racial - criterion is plain to see. A full essay on the evolution of human nature in geographically isolated regions and the neurodiversity which emerged from that is beyond the scope of this tweet, but suffice to say White culture is what you get from White people, and African culture is what you get from African people. Europeans are White, and the relative closeness among European countries and cultures (compared to subsaharan Africans) by most metrics you might care about is not a coincidence, since heritable biological traits actually exist and actually matter, and they are not distributed evenly between different racial groups (see Fst distance), ergo race matters. Carl is a master of tugging at heartstrings, talking about these "past generations of blacks" who "admired English culture", and "wanted to be like us" etc.. Yes, no doubt many such individuals existed. They were always exceptional though, and we know they were exceptional, because if they weren't then Africa today would basically be similar to Yorkshire, just with nicer weather. And the problem for Carl is that Africa is obviously not like that, nor does any population of blacks anywhere in the world behave as a group like Europeans. I don't care particularly about John Cleese or what he says or where he goes, so the rest of the video is not terribly interesting, but just note at 6:48 Carl talks in approving terms of how "a small number of immigrants is OK", but "an overwhelming flood is pushing that principle too far". The problem with that is the number of non-Whites already in Britain was crazy-high in 2019 when Carl made this video, and our children were already well on track to becoming minorities in British schools without adding a single immigrant, even back then. Horrible racial conflict has been rife across the capital at least since the 90s, and it would be delusional to see the 1981 Brixton riots as anything but racial, ...and all this, and every sort of demographic vandalism besides, has come to pass PURELY because people who had advocated for racial politics in the 60s and 70s were successfully demonised by the media, just as Carl is doing in this video. The obvious foolishness of large numbers is like the obvious danger of lots of gunpowder compared to a small amount of gunpowder. It's not like the conflict magically goes away when the numbers are small. You just get White people lying to themselves and pushing discomfort down into their subconsciousness, and non-Whites sometimes (but by no means always) playing the game at first till their numbers become large enough. Pakistanis understood that cultural attitudes to child rape were different in our country, and so they assimilated by successfully hiding their child rape for about 20 or 30 years. Some White people even helped with that assimilation. The parts of our culture that Carl claims to want to promote (rule of law, freedom to criticise Islam, mutual respect, etc) is stuff that exists DESPITE the non-White population in the UK. It IS racial. And like of course it's racial. We are our DNA. Our culture was made by people, ...who were made by DNA. You can not make White people feel good - proudly talking up White culture - and then in the next breath sneer down your nose at those engaging in racial politics. It's a nasty (and given that Carl is not stupid, I have to suspect cynical) trick, the effect of which is to encourage a White audience to continue entertaining a suicidal and delusional belief in a tabula rasa model of human nature. His defenders will say "oh this is an old video, he's changed now...", and I am sure he is delighted that you believe so. Show me any example of him back-tracking on a single word of that though. I'll wait. I am writing this because I see what's happening to our population, and frankly anyone who isn't willing to recognise the need for racial politics is not your friend in this battle. If Carl has changed, then now would be a really great time to make that clear and come out on the side of Racial Nationalism. Anything else is just muddying the waters and enabling the stigmatisation of actual patriots. Look at where the UK is, and where it is going. Look at the pictures of schools with literally a single White face sitting among a sea of blacks. It's fucking insane, and it's obviously a racial issue that requires racial politics. At least we're talking about a rational lawful non-violent approach to sorting out who should be allowed to claim Englishness. We're having a conversation. Steve Laws, for example, is not a terrorist: he is a brave patriot giving a voice to the native population of a land which wants to recover that land. In reality English people are basically lovely. We're softies. The rest of the world knows that though. If we start to get a serious program of remigration off the ground, yes the reduction in sheer numbers of racial aliens will be welcome in itself, but black families that didn't produce criminal rugrats, and haven't spent the past 40 years moaning about how racist the English are will probably find that White communities rally round them, put in a good word for them, and achieve a consensus about not deporting them. What needs to happen is a basic shift in the narrative, and in the psychology: the assumption and understanding should be that citizenship is genetic, and that any exception to that is a polite and kind gesture from our people, which we have the full moral and legal right to withhold if we feel that we're being treated as suckers. And that's what I have to say about that. ...And of course Happy New Year to everyone in Australia!!! 🥳🎉🪩 -A.Frog '25/'26 🐸👍🏻

𝙰𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚐

167,032 views • 7 months ago

Has been a while since I've given an update so here's a breakdown of where Sappy is at right now and what we're focusing on going into this year. Pre-amble: With altcoins & NFTs the market is definitely not the same as it was before. I think this is obvious to everyone but I've noticed there are still japanese soldiers that are convinced old tricks and mechanics work. They don't. Liquidity is thin; people want to bid assets that feel like "real companies" not vacuous memecoins. There's still room for memecoins, social currencies, and "utility tokens" (I would say without these functions, tokens are hard to justify versus equities). I'm not part of the camp that thinks there will never be hyperspeculation in crypto again, because there will be; we all love ponzis and PvPing each other onchain. Just not with solved games -- people need something new and fresh. So the overarching plan is to continue building for users, sustainable revenues that aren't tied to directly to crypto, and doubling down on the areas that we've already found PMF / Brand Market Fit. Then leaning into crypto during cyclical periods where liquidity is sloshing around at an accelerated rate. Where we've found early PMF / what we're leaning into: Roblox: we're going to continue to go hard and accelerate here. It's our main objective to ship more seal/brainrot focused games across most genres to cast as wide of a net as we can for the brand, and to also iterate and see what works and stays sticky. Our initial incursion into Roblox was very successful peaking at 2M+ MAU and still sustaining a large portion of that player base... for all of its success, that was a relatively amateur first attempt; we've been setting up better AI pipelines for Roblox development that makes it reasonable to ship many more games and 10x those player counts in totality. It's my belief that Roblox is the sandbox whose audience will be the most valuable on the internet once they are grown up. That intense feeling you get when you see a TikTok referencing an old game you enjoyed on the PS2 or the Gamecube, or when you see a Pokemon card is the exact same feeling the youth of today will get when reminiscing on the things they enjoyed engaging with when they were younger. Fortnite and Roblox are functional equivalents to the old school consoles and exactly where that is taking place. Which is why as much as I care about scaling revenues through Roblox, the long term brand equity gained purely through being popular on the platform is totally invaluable. It also can heavily convert to merchandise sales today if all touchpoints for the brand are dialed in (which is why brands get overcharged so much by Roblox dev shops for the same ROI that only cost us a few thousand $). We have the playbook, it's just about iterating new concepts and then aggressively scaling. Brand Expansion & Merchandising: I've started to create a content pipeline that is easily repeatable, cost efficient (costs next to nothing through either AI or smart reusable concepts), while still being very tasteful and meeting our quality standards for the brand. We are mostly focusing here on reaching people where they're at through nostalgic/emotional content, or just being visually stimulating through carefully curated aesthetics. Content that isn't superficial and touches people in a memorable way. I've attached some examples to the post so you can see what I mean rather than just read it. I don't think it's long until larger brands start doing this at scale, but it's always good to be ahead of the curve and most importantly winning on taste -- knowing what will resonate with people and what won't has always been our edge. The purpose for these accounts is not only to rack up attention but also to begin converting those into sales of both of physicals (plushies & gacha collectibles) and digital avenues like our games, and any other apps we produce. Because they're offshoot accounts it's also a lot easier to be aggressive/experimental with said conversion strategies. Sappy Studio: I'm wrapping everything like Omnia, and everything else into this category because they're all tangentially related. Beginning with Omnia, our current focus is gearing up for Season 0 which involves players competing in the ranked ladder for a prize pool that has rewards through Monad Momentum as well as a player-funded prize pool. This season will be fairly simple with us mostly logging retention, deck building habits, as well as qualitatively observing how aggressively players push the combat system. Deeper monetization wont exist yet outside of the player buy-in (to be eligible for P2E rewards). Beyond that our overarching principle this year is to focus heavily on risk-to-earn mechanics where a portion of that excess value is circular i.e. revenues flow back to prize pools or other parts of the economy, treating the game almost like a protocol where the objective is to amass TVL or player liquidity. Social is also a big focus, and that means implementing the Open World hub which from an infrastructure perspective has already been built out and tested by all of you previously. Right now we are scaffolding the environment in 3D and working through how that hub should look and feel, so players are excited to hang out & idle together while they're queuing. For sappydotlol, what I'm about to say is still early days from a design perspective so a lot can change, but I'm pushing the site in the direction of being a virtual game console. An intersection between Nintendo & Myspace where users can play, trade, and socially interact in a way that's deeply personalised; a breathe of fresh air from the hostility of the current internet. If you go back to my thesis on Roblox above and the game console references, you can kind of see how this will all sequentially tie together. In essence, the strategy is to acquire a critical mass of players through traditional platforms like Roblox, and use that attention and trust to provide an onboarding funnel for web2 users into our own sandbox filled with a mixture of our own browser-based experiences as well as an aggregation of others. The aim is to make the platform a breath of fresh air & bunker from the enshittified platforms like TikTok/IG/X where users are actually served in ways that delight rather than agitate, and where self-expression is incentivised. Closing: As always everything here is subject to change but I've never felt more conviction in our direction until now; I know exactly what we need to do and how, with everything aligning with our team's strengths. Very excited and grinding through things to the point where I'm getting headaches and can't sleep from being hyperfocused for long periods of time lol. There probably has never been a better time to join the ecosystem from a price to fuck around and find out perspective.

wab.eth

18,167 views • 6 months ago

Doris Yin's Message for 2025 3rd GCV Conference Dear Global Pioneers! Nice to meet you again — it’s been maybe one or two weeks since my last video, and I really miss all of you! How have you been? I hope everyone is living happily, staying healthy, and feeling safe wherever you are. 📷 So, what’s my topic for today? Recently, I’ve been thinking about something very important — our Global Pioneer GCV Conference. We have a lot of meaningful updates and plans to share. I’m not sure if you’ve been following my recent articles and videos, but today I want to remind you of your homework! What is your homework? It’s simple — share this information. Share this video. Share our promotion messages everywhere, every single day. Why is this so important? Because education builds strength. When pioneers are educated, they can support GCV, they can understand the true value of Pi, and they can value their own lives and build confidence. I always said no matter in Pi Network community or in your daily private life, living or working, you must study so that you understand what you should do and why you should do so that you can have confidence in yourself . That is why you need to promote 3rd Conference because of confidence in Pi Network. Right now, the world faces many problems — economic instability, misinformation, and a lack of trust. But we, as pioneers, have the power to change that by spreading knowledge, truth, and unity. One of the biggest problems today is that many people can’t find a job. Of course, it’s not always because they lack skills — sometimes it’s because of the global economy or their country’s economy. But remember this: If you keep studying, if you are a fast learner, and if you can stay focused, there will always be opportunities waiting for you. And when you do good things, when you help your community, and when you make the right choices, good energy will come to you. In Chinese, we call this “Qi (气)” — it means energy. When you have good Qi, you attract good people, good events, and good opportunities. This is very important, especially now. I know that many people are facing hard times. Around the world, many are unemployed, homeless, or struggling with debt. Even among our 60 million pioneers, many are living in hardship. Some cannot make ends meet, and life feels heavy. So how do we deal with this? I understand — many pioneers feel anxious. They want to get money right away. But this creates a conflict with our mission. Because the Pioneer work is not about short-term gain — it’s about long-term success. Our goal is to build something that lasts, something that gives value and dignity to every pioneer for many years to come. It’s not about the short term. For example, if everyone only thinks about selling Pi whenever the price goes a little higher, of course, in that moment, you might feel happy. You buy and sell, buy and sell. But this kind of behavior will hurt the Pi Network. It makes the system unstable and prevents us from reaching true global value. Of course, if you have an emergency situation, it’s okay to sell — that’s understandable. But for the long term, we should know that holding Pi, building the ecosystem, and supporting each other will make the network stronger and the value more stable. 📷 That’s exactly why we will hold our Third Global Pioneer GCV Conference — to discuss how to protect our value, how to strengthen our community, and how to guide pioneers toward long-term success and stability. Actually, we already entered Open Mainnet on February 20, 2025. That means the GCV path has been confirmed — that’s why we are now officially in Open Mainnet. If you read the 2019 White Paper, it says when the ecosystem becomes mature, we move into Open Mainnet. But in reality, the Core Team opened Mainnet while the ecosystem was not yet fully mature. So, what does this mean? It means there are different stages of Open Mainnet. The transition on February 20, 2025, was a technical stage, a signal that we are entering the process — not that everything is finished. Why do we need different stages? Because many pioneers still face financial hardship and difficulties. Some thought Open Mainnet meant they could immediately earn money or cash out, but that’s a misunderstanding. Open Mainnet is not just about money — it’s about building a strong, mature, and sustainable ecosystem first. Only then can the value of Pi truly shine and benefit everyone. In 2024, at the Singapore event, many pioneers felt disappointed. But I want to say — that disappointment came from a lack of education, not failure. Many people didn’t understand the long-term vision of Pi or the meaning of Open Mainnet. That’s why we are holding the Third Global Pioneer GCV Conference in 2025. Pioneers, if you truly want to succeed faster, if you want GCV to succeed, if you want to achieve financial freedom, then you must first focus on education, unity, and right behavior. Every pioneer has power — the power to influence others with your example, your words, and your actions. Use that power to help others understand, so all of our behavior moves in the same direction — toward growth, trust, and long-term success. That’s Pi Network’s long-term vision. From today, I ask everyone to read my article carefully, understand it deeply, and help your community understand it too. Discuss together, encourage each other, and spread the news about our Third Global Pioneer GCV Conference. This conference is important and meaningful. I know we’re all busy — I’m busy with my work too — but even while working, we can support each other. Exchange ideas, share tasks, and grow together. Make yourself strong. When you are strong, money will chase you. I live in a luxury condo and I never worry about money because I am fast learner and I build up myself good work ability and skills so I have a lot of good business opportunity. So build up yourself is priority instead of demanding outside world. If each pioneer acts patiently, wisely, and united, we will achieve lasting success for ourselves and for the world. Please remember — share this video and conference information everywhere, every day. Small, steady actions from each of us will create big, lasting change. Thank you all. See you at the conference — bye-bye for now. Doris Yin 🪷🪷🪷

Doris Yin's Message for 2025 3rd GCV Conference Dear Global Pioneers! Nice to meet you again — it’s been maybe one or two weeks since my last video, and I really miss all of you! How have you been? I hope everyone is living happily, staying healthy, and feeling safe wherever you are. 📷 So, what’s my topic for today? Recently, I’ve been thinking about something very important — our Global Pioneer GCV Conference. We have a lot of meaningful updates and plans to share. I’m not sure if you’ve been following my recent articles and videos, but today I want to remind you of your homework! What is your homework? It’s simple — share this information. Share this video. Share our promotion messages everywhere, every single day. Why is this so important? Because education builds strength. When pioneers are educated, they can support GCV, they can understand the true value of Pi, and they can value their own lives and build confidence. I always said no matter in Pi Network community or in your daily private life, living or working, you must study so that you understand what you should do and why you should do so that you can have confidence in yourself . That is why you need to promote 3rd Conference because of confidence in Pi Network. Right now, the world faces many problems — economic instability, misinformation, and a lack of trust. But we, as pioneers, have the power to change that by spreading knowledge, truth, and unity. One of the biggest problems today is that many people can’t find a job. Of course, it’s not always because they lack skills — sometimes it’s because of the global economy or their country’s economy. But remember this: If you keep studying, if you are a fast learner, and if you can stay focused, there will always be opportunities waiting for you. And when you do good things, when you help your community, and when you make the right choices, good energy will come to you. In Chinese, we call this “Qi (气)” — it means energy. When you have good Qi, you attract good people, good events, and good opportunities. This is very important, especially now. I know that many people are facing hard times. Around the world, many are unemployed, homeless, or struggling with debt. Even among our 60 million pioneers, many are living in hardship. Some cannot make ends meet, and life feels heavy. So how do we deal with this? I understand — many pioneers feel anxious. They want to get money right away. But this creates a conflict with our mission. Because the Pioneer work is not about short-term gain — it’s about long-term success. Our goal is to build something that lasts, something that gives value and dignity to every pioneer for many years to come. It’s not about the short term. For example, if everyone only thinks about selling Pi whenever the price goes a little higher, of course, in that moment, you might feel happy. You buy and sell, buy and sell. But this kind of behavior will hurt the Pi Network. It makes the system unstable and prevents us from reaching true global value. Of course, if you have an emergency situation, it’s okay to sell — that’s understandable. But for the long term, we should know that holding Pi, building the ecosystem, and supporting each other will make the network stronger and the value more stable. 📷 That’s exactly why we will hold our Third Global Pioneer GCV Conference — to discuss how to protect our value, how to strengthen our community, and how to guide pioneers toward long-term success and stability. Actually, we already entered Open Mainnet on February 20, 2025. That means the GCV path has been confirmed — that’s why we are now officially in Open Mainnet. If you read the 2019 White Paper, it says when the ecosystem becomes mature, we move into Open Mainnet. But in reality, the Core Team opened Mainnet while the ecosystem was not yet fully mature. So, what does this mean? It means there are different stages of Open Mainnet. The transition on February 20, 2025, was a technical stage, a signal that we are entering the process — not that everything is finished. Why do we need different stages? Because many pioneers still face financial hardship and difficulties. Some thought Open Mainnet meant they could immediately earn money or cash out, but that’s a misunderstanding. Open Mainnet is not just about money — it’s about building a strong, mature, and sustainable ecosystem first. Only then can the value of Pi truly shine and benefit everyone. In 2024, at the Singapore event, many pioneers felt disappointed. But I want to say — that disappointment came from a lack of education, not failure. Many people didn’t understand the long-term vision of Pi or the meaning of Open Mainnet. That’s why we are holding the Third Global Pioneer GCV Conference in 2025. Pioneers, if you truly want to succeed faster, if you want GCV to succeed, if you want to achieve financial freedom, then you must first focus on education, unity, and right behavior. Every pioneer has power — the power to influence others with your example, your words, and your actions. Use that power to help others understand, so all of our behavior moves in the same direction — toward growth, trust, and long-term success. That’s Pi Network’s long-term vision. From today, I ask everyone to read my article carefully, understand it deeply, and help your community understand it too. Discuss together, encourage each other, and spread the news about our Third Global Pioneer GCV Conference. This conference is important and meaningful. I know we’re all busy — I’m busy with my work too — but even while working, we can support each other. Exchange ideas, share tasks, and grow together. Make yourself strong. When you are strong, money will chase you. I live in a luxury condo and I never worry about money because I am fast learner and I build up myself good work ability and skills so I have a lot of good business opportunity. So build up yourself is priority instead of demanding outside world. If each pioneer acts patiently, wisely, and united, we will achieve lasting success for ourselves and for the world. Please remember — share this video and conference information everywhere, every day. Small, steady actions from each of us will create big, lasting change. Thank you all. See you at the conference — bye-bye for now. Doris Yin 🪷🪷🪷

Doris Yin 东方紫莲🪷

18,809 views • 10 months ago

I’ve never known the leader of a country tell its citizens that they should culturally be like foreigners from an impoverished and under developed country. But that is exactly what Te Gimp aka as the PM of NZ told us. Insulting out of touch, Luxon who has spent the majority of his adult life overseas definitely does not give a stuff about Kiwis. “I love India.. Indians work two or three jobs, they are a role model for New Zealanders”. His grovelling for a pathetically bad deal knew no bounds - he even got down on his knees and prayed to a foreign god. As evidenced in Canada, UK, and Australia new Indian migrants vote left, consistent with large social spending programs which they do not have access to in their home country. Hipkins and Luxon do not care about Kiwis, or maintaining our culture and way of life. No, they are run of the mill globalists, pedalling the ruination of a nation under the guise of “diversity”. India could send 2 million people to EVERY single country in the world and India will still have a population of a billion people. India has long had an economic plan of economic development through shipping out cheap labour and receiving remittances (expats sending money back to home). Last year India hit a record, total remittances were 250 Billion - or the same size as NZ’s entire GDP. India’s remittances are set to grow another 15% for the 2025-26 year, can you imagine an economy growing this large per annum? They’ve created a gigantic ponzy scheme. If anyone seriously thinks that a free trade deal with a country that uses slave labour to make its goods is a positive, you have no understanding how the west has been, and will continue to be undermined and cannibalised, and why the western worlds birth rates have collapsed and why our own youth have to move overseas to secure a job.

I’ve never known the leader of a country tell its citizens that they should culturally be like foreigners from an impoverished and under developed country. But that is exactly what Te Gimp aka as the PM of NZ told us. Insulting out of touch, Luxon who has spent the majority of his adult life overseas definitely does not give a stuff about Kiwis. “I love India.. Indians work two or three jobs, they are a role model for New Zealanders”. His grovelling for a pathetically bad deal knew no bounds - he even got down on his knees and prayed to a foreign god. As evidenced in Canada, UK, and Australia new Indian migrants vote left, consistent with large social spending programs which they do not have access to in their home country. Hipkins and Luxon do not care about Kiwis, or maintaining our culture and way of life. No, they are run of the mill globalists, pedalling the ruination of a nation under the guise of “diversity”. India could send 2 million people to EVERY single country in the world and India will still have a population of a billion people. India has long had an economic plan of economic development through shipping out cheap labour and receiving remittances (expats sending money back to home). Last year India hit a record, total remittances were 250 Billion - or the same size as NZ’s entire GDP. India’s remittances are set to grow another 15% for the 2025-26 year, can you imagine an economy growing this large per annum? They’ve created a gigantic ponzy scheme. If anyone seriously thinks that a free trade deal with a country that uses slave labour to make its goods is a positive, you have no understanding how the west has been, and will continue to be undermined and cannibalised, and why the western worlds birth rates have collapsed and why our own youth have to move overseas to secure a job.

Holyhekatuiteka

132,356 views • 7 months ago

Sara Nelson, head of the Association of Flight Attendants union, talks about plans to shut down critical infrastructure as part of the insurgency against ICE. What she describes is a textbook case of how unions and other civic organizations use the power of their membership to join insurgencies. "I called on the labor movement to talk about a general strike" in solidarity with the operation against ICE, Nelson says in this February 1 Zoom call. The general strike is planned to take place on May 1, which is International Workers Day (more on that later). What she Nelson says is revealing. It shows the raw emotion and ideological extremism of the flight attendants' union, and how the union leadership exploits the membership to force a strike to support the anti-ICE operation. Pay attention to her use of words: "General strike." In revolutionary practice, a general strike is not to meet economic or labor demands, but to challenge and overthrow the political and economic order by paralyzing the economy and imposing hardship on the public. This is a term of insurrection or insurgency. It creates parallel power structures. Leon Trotsky viewed general strikes as the last step before armed insurrection. "Capitalism unchecked." Anarchists and Marxists have different views of this term, but in general, the term is understood to mean that capitalism is irredeemably evil and oppressive, and that oppression must be resisted or "checked." It does not mean checks and balances in the American sense. It implies the urgency of action to check the oppressor. Repetition of "fight" and "demand." Working-class movements that exhort people to "fight" and "demand" are calling for class struggle against established institutions. The words are not metaphors, but calls for direct action to build toward the overthrow of existing society. Demands are ultimatums that provide focus for the fight. "Jacobin." Nelson recommends a reading from the website about unions organizing against ICE. The Jacobins were he most extreme element of the French Revolution, the Robespierre faction that orchestrated The Terror and the mass beheadings with the guillotine. Marx, Engels, and Lenin praised the Jacobins. In her 11-minute monologue, Nelson dwells heavily on working class history, tying an industry-specific "safety strike" to labor conflicts from 1981 and 1914, and extending solidarity to a larger cause that has nothing to do with the airline industry, safety, or organized labor. She calls for acts of "redemption" for unions' failure to stand by Air Traffic Controllers strike from 44 years ago. She combines "massive inequality" and "capitalism unchecked" with "private prisons," "slavery," and "ICE." She demonizes the entire free enterprise system: "We have to be really clear that Capitalism has no humanity attached whatsoever." Nelson urges people lot read a article about "why unions need to care about this movement and need to make immigration central to the concerns of union members." Her approach is a rehash of Stalin's Comintern-era "popular front" broad coalition strategy: "The capitalists have used racism and sexism to divide us" and "the immigrants and refugees to try to divide us as well." "The only way that we can build up power is if we do it collectively," she adds. Nelson frames the mass hiring of ICE agents in old Marxist class struggle terms. In her words, the Trump administration is providing "good paying jobs" at ICE to be "pitted against the rest of the working class." More pure class struggle words, straight out of Marx and Lenin: "It's also important, as a union leader myself, that we all have to be preparing for a general strike. We all have to be preparing for that strike readiness. That is fundamentally the check on capitalism." The flight attendants' union chief says that many in her organization don't "understand" the urgency: "I have more work to do in my own union on this ... and we are starting to see this seep into our airports" with ICE agents pursuing targets on aircraft. She explains, in her own words, why the Association of Flight Attendants union is tied directly to "mass action" and "getting into the streets": "For the people who are trying to get the tools tonight about what to do next, understand that the only way that we are going to have mass action is if everyone understands what the problem is," Nelson says. "And if everyone understands what the demands are about why we're getting into the streets. The people of Minneapolis understand this very well because the fight was brought to their doorsteps." (Gets emotional, chokes back tears.) There is no alternative but to fight, she says: "People have no choice but to fight." She talks about a 1914 strike of immigrant coal miners. "They were experiencing what Minneapolis is experiencing today. They were experiencing violence from the state." (Chokes up again) Nelson whips up a siege mentality to put people in a fighting mood: "we have to organize. ... we have to talk about the fight that is coming to our doorsteps all across this country. We have to organize around that. We have to set our demands. The people of Minnesota have set their demands, and they're very clear about it. It is immediate demands, about ICE out...." She is not calling for pressure on politicians as much as pressure on the private companies that keep America running. In her words: "this is not about putting pressure on the White House. This is about putting pressure on the people who control our economy. So define the problem, set your demands, back up your demands with what you are willing to do - that is the strike readiness that you're preparing for - and add urgency. And in this moment there could not be more urgency. So we stand with you and we are preparing and having those conversations in our union about how to shut it down ...."

Sara Nelson, head of the Association of Flight Attendants union, talks about plans to shut down critical infrastructure as part of the insurgency against ICE. What she describes is a textbook case of how unions and other civic organizations use the power of their membership to join insurgencies. "I called on the labor movement to talk about a general strike" in solidarity with the operation against ICE, Nelson says in this February 1 Zoom call. The general strike is planned to take place on May 1, which is International Workers Day (more on that later). What she Nelson says is revealing. It shows the raw emotion and ideological extremism of the flight attendants' union, and how the union leadership exploits the membership to force a strike to support the anti-ICE operation. Pay attention to her use of words: "General strike." In revolutionary practice, a general strike is not to meet economic or labor demands, but to challenge and overthrow the political and economic order by paralyzing the economy and imposing hardship on the public. This is a term of insurrection or insurgency. It creates parallel power structures. Leon Trotsky viewed general strikes as the last step before armed insurrection. "Capitalism unchecked." Anarchists and Marxists have different views of this term, but in general, the term is understood to mean that capitalism is irredeemably evil and oppressive, and that oppression must be resisted or "checked." It does not mean checks and balances in the American sense. It implies the urgency of action to check the oppressor. Repetition of "fight" and "demand." Working-class movements that exhort people to "fight" and "demand" are calling for class struggle against established institutions. The words are not metaphors, but calls for direct action to build toward the overthrow of existing society. Demands are ultimatums that provide focus for the fight. "Jacobin." Nelson recommends a reading from the website about unions organizing against ICE. The Jacobins were he most extreme element of the French Revolution, the Robespierre faction that orchestrated The Terror and the mass beheadings with the guillotine. Marx, Engels, and Lenin praised the Jacobins. In her 11-minute monologue, Nelson dwells heavily on working class history, tying an industry-specific "safety strike" to labor conflicts from 1981 and 1914, and extending solidarity to a larger cause that has nothing to do with the airline industry, safety, or organized labor. She calls for acts of "redemption" for unions' failure to stand by Air Traffic Controllers strike from 44 years ago. She combines "massive inequality" and "capitalism unchecked" with "private prisons," "slavery," and "ICE." She demonizes the entire free enterprise system: "We have to be really clear that Capitalism has no humanity attached whatsoever." Nelson urges people lot read a article about "why unions need to care about this movement and need to make immigration central to the concerns of union members." Her approach is a rehash of Stalin's Comintern-era "popular front" broad coalition strategy: "The capitalists have used racism and sexism to divide us" and "the immigrants and refugees to try to divide us as well." "The only way that we can build up power is if we do it collectively," she adds. Nelson frames the mass hiring of ICE agents in old Marxist class struggle terms. In her words, the Trump administration is providing "good paying jobs" at ICE to be "pitted against the rest of the working class." More pure class struggle words, straight out of Marx and Lenin: "It's also important, as a union leader myself, that we all have to be preparing for a general strike. We all have to be preparing for that strike readiness. That is fundamentally the check on capitalism." The flight attendants' union chief says that many in her organization don't "understand" the urgency: "I have more work to do in my own union on this ... and we are starting to see this seep into our airports" with ICE agents pursuing targets on aircraft. She explains, in her own words, why the Association of Flight Attendants union is tied directly to "mass action" and "getting into the streets": "For the people who are trying to get the tools tonight about what to do next, understand that the only way that we are going to have mass action is if everyone understands what the problem is," Nelson says. "And if everyone understands what the demands are about why we're getting into the streets. The people of Minneapolis understand this very well because the fight was brought to their doorsteps." (Gets emotional, chokes back tears.) There is no alternative but to fight, she says: "People have no choice but to fight." She talks about a 1914 strike of immigrant coal miners. "They were experiencing what Minneapolis is experiencing today. They were experiencing violence from the state." (Chokes up again) Nelson whips up a siege mentality to put people in a fighting mood: "we have to organize. ... we have to talk about the fight that is coming to our doorsteps all across this country. We have to organize around that. We have to set our demands. The people of Minnesota have set their demands, and they're very clear about it. It is immediate demands, about ICE out...." She is not calling for pressure on politicians as much as pressure on the private companies that keep America running. In her words: "this is not about putting pressure on the White House. This is about putting pressure on the people who control our economy. So define the problem, set your demands, back up your demands with what you are willing to do - that is the strike readiness that you're preparing for - and add urgency. And in this moment there could not be more urgency. So we stand with you and we are preparing and having those conversations in our union about how to shut it down ...."

J Michael Waller

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