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New comment by lucasRW in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

lucasRW — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:26:17 +0000

Hmmm... the only people that have "federally weakened" the EU are those that made that continent much poorer and less powerful than it was 20, 30 years ago. So you are correct partially: the US, throughout the second half of the second century, have seeked to weaken Europe and successfully done so (all indicators are worst now than they've ever been in Europe).

New comment by lucasRW in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

lucasRW — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:03:38 +0000

Musk, Vance and Rubio are cheering for Europe to wakeup. Quite the opposite of what you say.

New comment by lucasRW in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

lucasRW — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:02:21 +0000

It's fascinating to see to what lengths people will go to maintain their denial.

As someone who has been in and out, the poverty increase in Western Europe is astonishing. Whatever metrics I will show you, will meet something like "oh yeah but metrics X doesn't mean anything", but still, 20y ago buying a car was fairly standard. Going on holidays same. Let's not talk about buying a house. Nowadays, any of the above is considered as a sign of being "privileged", while it used to be middle-class before.

New comment by lucasRW in "Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi"

lucasRW — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:58:12 +0000

True of course, this is ONE indicator, but a key one, and what matters is not so much that the metric now matches Mississippi. It is that it used to match the wealthiest states in the US, and now it matches the poorest.

The metrics are similar for most of western europe, which objectively destroyed its economies over the past 30 years throught "social-democracy", 50% taxes, crazy state expenditures, bureaucracy, etc.

New comment by lucasRW in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

lucasRW — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:38:23 +0000

Interesting, especially as i've seen first-hand how my wife was unable to recover her Instagram account, after countless forms, verification codes, verification emails, etc, etc, etc, to the point that she just gave up on recovering her hacked account.

New comment by lucasRW in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

lucasRW — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:00:12 +0000

I am a simple man: this regime has threatened my family, shot at some of them; it has killed soldiers from my country some time ago (during terrorists attacks in Lebanon); arrested my wife for a loose hijab, before taking her into a van and beating her up. Luckily she was spared the "rape" which is allowed under islam in those very convenient circumstances were it is halal.

That didn't really follow the "international rights" did it ?

New comment by lucasRW in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

lucasRW — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:55:43 +0000

This has nothing comparable with "other revolutions" in the middle east, it's quite the opposite in fact: a non-islamist population held under the tyranny of islamist leaders.

New comment by lucasRW in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

lucasRW — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:54:11 +0000

There are similar scenes in all Iranian cities. Literally the first morning video we could see Saturday morning before the internet shutdown, were ladies on their balcony jumping of joy that they had struck Khamenei's neighbourhood.

New comment by lucasRW in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

lucasRW — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:18:18 +0000

Hopefully they finish the job this time and rid us of this horrible islamist regime, to make Iran great again !

New comment by lucasRW in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

lucasRW — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:41:11 +0000

World War 1 and 2 were both the result of actual military actions, alliances, invasions, etc.

If you want to censor the internet, claiming it is "to protect the children" is still a much better bet than claiming that it is because free speech causes world wars, if you want my opinion.

New comment by lucasRW in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

lucasRW — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:37:42 +0000

You are free to not listen to Joe Rogan and not look at X if reading/seeing people saying that "a woman cannot have a penis" is unbearable to you.

But why always the need, on the left, to ban everyone else from doing it because YOU want to do it personally ?

New comment by lucasRW in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

lucasRW — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:43:07 +0000

I dont need Thierry Breton or Van Der Leyen to tell me which podcasts I am allowed to listened to, but thanks for the well-intentionned thoughts for my safety anyway.

New comment by lucasRW in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

lucasRW — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:11:30 +0000

It does. That's why GrapheneOS left France; Signal is considering doing so to if ChatControl passes. Von Der Leyen and Breton clearly mentioned the possibility of banning X. And there are many other "signals".

But yeah we get it, there's bad censorhip (Iran, China, Russia), and there is the good censorhip, sorry, i meant "protection of children", when it's the EU. :o)

New comment by lucasRW in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

lucasRW — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:09:49 +0000

That's what Iran, China, and Russia are saying too, right ? :o)

New comment by lucasRW in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

lucasRW — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:08:54 +0000

"The truth gets through."

Yeah I agree, we shouldn't be too concerned about Iran, Russia, or China, censoring the internet, the truth gets through.

Trump to order declassification of UFO/UAP related files

lucasRW — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:55:36 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/2024661955479556382

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085877

Points: 2

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New comment by lucasRW in "EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline"

lucasRW — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:23:30 +0000

By that standards, an EU army would have gone to war in Irak in 2003, dragging french soldiers and the french aircraft carrier despite them being right from the very start.

New comment by lucasRW in "EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline"

lucasRW — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:21:55 +0000

Yeah of course, Europe has already been destroyed by the EU bureaucracy, but lets give them even more powers to implement their dumb ideas even faster, such as... "oh, how about we stopped producing cars by 2030?", or again... "oh, war is bad, guns kills, how about we pass CSR laws that dissuade banks from funding military companies".

New comment by lucasRW in "EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline"

lucasRW — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:18:43 +0000

Also by being a net recipient of billions of EU subsidiarias every year.

New comment by lucasRW in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

lucasRW — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:44:48 +0000

No. "Stronger together" is a hoax, and is only true if all participants are in agreement, otherwise you are "weaker together". 20 years of failed projects (apart from the law saying that bottles should have their cap attached) show that it is impossible to reach consensus with 27 participants.

Put 27 people in a room, all wanting something different, nothing comes out.