Musk on the “Anti-DKE” effect

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Read above. Gives good insight in how it is that Tesla -- pushed by Elon Musk, has the biggest selling EV in China, despite the proliferation of local Chinese brands much cheaper. 

It's by being better. "Defensive pessimism". To keep striving to be better.

The X post where Elon Musk mentioned "Anti-DKE" was made by

@elonmusk

on June 25, 2025, at 15:28 HKT. The content of the post is:

"I always assume we’re losing even if it looks like we might win. Anti-DKE."

This post refers to an "Anti-DKE" mindset, likely alluding to countering the Dunning-Kruger Effect, a cognitive bias where people overestimate their competence in areas where they lack expertise. Several users on X, such as @aigov_agent, @Honesttruthman, and @Hitmans_Lounge, commented on this post, interpreting it as...

... a strategy of staying vigilant and avoiding overconfidence in competitive fields like AI and technology.

“Why Gen Z likes Socialism” | Daniel Di Martino

 

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Listen to the story of Venezuela. From richest country in the world, fuelled by oil, to penury, poverty and despair. Thanks to Socialism. As explained by Venezuela-born Daniel Di Martino.

https://youtu.be/zR1ggTYPsYs

All the pacifists who thought WW3 would start...

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None of them apologising for egregious errors. For being WRONG on a huge scale. Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Jeffrey Sachs. People on the Left and the Right. 

All wrong. All going on with life as if they'd never scare-mongered. 

Shame on them. Hypocrites. 

https://youtu.be/qHpp01LbTF8?si=-ciUFnk1Y16iwwbn

Victory for the west in the middle east... YAY!

 

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Israel has done the work of protecting the west, the Judeo-Christian civilisation against the barbarism of theocratic Twelver apocalyptic, death-cult Shia Islam. 

Then America comes in with the big boom, boom-boom B2s. With big Bad Boy Bunker Busters. Which, turns out, the US had developed specifically for this Fordow, Iran, bunker threat. All these years of development, they'd been doing this, for THIS day. 

Well done to all, say I. For I don't want, and the ladies on the Left who decry this, also don't want (they just don't know it), rule by an Islamic theocracy. Which is exactly what Iran was after. And had said so, clearly, explicitly, repeatedly, since 1979.

Think on this: they've arrested 600 some "spies" since the attacks of Israel and the US. And have already executed 300+ of them. What about the "due process" that the Left in the US is bleating about? 

I exult in what happened in Iran over this 12 Day War. That the Ayatollahs are damaged. That they may be overthrown. To be against this, is to have a warped, inoperative moral compass. There is good and there's bad. Iran, the Regime, the Mullahs, the Ayatollahs, who want to kill all of us who don't believe exactly the same as they do, that = BAD. 

Other vids: 

Beyond Military Right-on, hard-on, military stuff to wank to...

Israel My Channel. Great computer-generated images of how the B2 strikes went down

Dealing with HAMAS's human shields

 

Coleman Hughes sets it out clearly for Joe Rogan.

https://youtu.be/ZMxx0abFac0?si=1Nt9mh-Ax1qz9Pv-

Discovery Bay to Central Hong Kong

Pacifism is a joke

Thoughts on the caring, the careful, the worrying, of the Right and of the Left, who say the "We should NEVER, never go to war with anyone", because, you know, Peace... 

Who are pacifists. People like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Steve Bannon, on the Right. And pretty much everyone on the Left.

But... 

Pacifism is a joke. A weak-kneed cop-out. It’s waving a white flag while the world burns. And I’m cheering for the ones who fight back.

Look around. Tyrants don’t sip tea and talk peace. They crush skulls, bomb cities, and laugh at your “dialogue.” Pacifists think holding hands stops tanks. Tell that to the Jews in 1945, or the Tutsis in ’94. Evil doesn’t pause for your principles. It rolls right over them. History’s clear: sit back, and you’re next. Fight, and you might live.

I’m not saying war’s pretty. It’s blood, guts, and tears. But when a thug’s at your door, you don’t quote Gandhi. You grab a gun. Or a missile. Israel gets it. They don’t wait for Hamas or Iran’s mullahs to play nice—they strike. And I’m clapping. Like when they hit Iran’s nuke dreams. That’s not aggression; that’s survival. The sane world knows it. Even the Arabs—Egypt, Jordan, the Gulf—quietly root for Israel to gut the Shia snakes. They won’t say it loud, but they’re on board.

Pacifists? They’re living in a dream. They’ll preach “nonviolence” while hiding behind soldiers, cops, anyone willing to bleed for their safety. That’s not morality—it’s cowardice. Hypocrisy, too. You want peace? Great. So do I. But you don’t get it by begging. You get it by breaking the bad guys first. Look at 1979 Iran. The Left welcomed Khomeini, then got slaughtered for it. Pacifism didn’t save them. It never does.

Human nature’s not a yoga retreat. We’re built to protect what’s ours. Ignore that, and you’re lunch. The soldier, the parent, the nation that fights—they’re not the problem. They’re the solution. Pacifists can keep their high horse. I’ll take the tank, the jet, the fist that says, “Not today.” Because when the world’s on fire, you don’t meditate. You fight. And you win.

War and Peace… and War again… no! Wait. It’s Peace… no! It’s War. No! It’s Ceasefi… no, no, no it’s not… Oh Fu&k!

One minute it’s Trump calling in Operation Midnight Hammer, and peaceniks were saying that Trump had brought us to the cusp of WW Three. 

Then it’s stopped, looking like 3-way peace, and the peaceniks started wondering how do they make peace look awful, and make it all Trump’s fault. 

Like try to impeach him. A silly pursuit. Not least because Clinton, Obama and Biden all carried out similar operations, to not a squeak from the Dems. On the Dems side, it's only ever wrong if the Republicans do it. 

Turning over now to Alan Dershowitz, 55-year Alumnus Law Professor at Harvard. Youngest tenured professor; hugely popular classes; expert in constitutional law. A life-time Democrat, but non-partisan about The Law. 

He has a take on the Ceasefire. Ceasefire being a thing I don't like. Because of Gaza. Where whenever Israel was winning the Biden admin -- or its politburo, controlling Biden's Autopen -- would call a ceasefire. Which allowed Hamas to regroup. 

And now we have the same in Iran. Where the Ceasefire may be best for Iran, allowing them to regroup. 

November 2015, beginning Round the Island race, Hong Kong

Iranian women activists are so beautiful

Princess Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari. Wife of the Shah or Iran

 

Tarlan Parvaneh, Iranian actress and women's rights activist

Claudia Lynx. American-Iranian. "Humanitarian". 

Shermine Sharivar.  German-Iranian model and peace activist

Elica Le Bon. American-Iranian. Critic of the clerics

Masih Alinejad. American-Iranian, fighter for women's rights in Iran

Lily Moo, aka Elaaheh Jamali, British-Iranian human rights activist

Nazanin Boniadi. British-Iranian,
actress and activist against Iran regime

Elina Shirazi. American-Iranian journalist and
activist against the Iranian regime

Darya Safai. Belgian-Iranian, fights for women's rights in Iran.

“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.” | Paul Keating

“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”

Keating was a master of the finely tuned insult. The above being just one of the more memorable.

That was then Prime Minister of Australia, Paul Keating, in 1992, describing then leader of the opposition, John Hewson. The full quote is:

“This little flower, this delicate little beauty, this cream puff, is supposed to be beyond personal criticism… He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”

I thought of it when watching our current PM, Anthony Albanese, yesterday, trying to find something nice to say about the successful bombing campaign over Iran last weekend, by the United States. A decision taken by the president, Donald Trump. 

But Albanese suffers such deep TDS that he came across as weak. As did his Foreign Minister Penny Wong. Both made comments about Operation Midnight Hammer, through gritted teeth. Such is their contempt for the man who took the tough decision to go ahead with it. 

Pathetic, really. These two most senior reps of Australia. Unable to say something gracious about our most important ally. Which it is, without a doubt. No matter who the president. The allyship ought to be beyond their upsets at rude tweets, that so offend them. 

Another Keating quote from a few years later is relevant, especially about Trump's decision to bomb the Iranian Nuke bunkers:

"Leadership is not about being nice. It's about being right and being strong."

Both Albanese and Wong deserve the Keating "shiver" taunt. Two shivers, looking for a spine to run up. 

Science: Ignoring the facts on Covid. And "Net Zero Must Go" | Matt Ridley

Link below: Good reflections on Covid and the Net Zero debate from a man who knows the issues. Matt Ridley. Past editor of the Economist's Science section. 

Later well-regarded writer on science matters. Talking with the Triggernometey lads, Konstantinos Kisin and Francis Foster.

On Covid he wrote a book Viral, with epidemiologist Dr Alina Chan. 

Matt (aka Lord Ridley) explains why the lab-leak theory is still the most likely truth. And why it’s important to stop the same thing happening again. Through, as he explains, that’s not happening. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is doing gain-of-function research on the MERS virus. Shiver! With only level 2 protection. Which makes me shiver, coz MERS is way more deadly (36%) than Covid (0.2%). Whyyyyy? Just to appease China?!

Then on to the whole Net Zero stuff. Which for places like the UK and Australia makes no sense in terms of actual practical impact on future temperatures, vs the downside risks of impoverishing the nation.

https://youtu.be/LFPj8tNVoLQ?si=JfnjOtReTx94Lwtm

ADDED: "Four sides to every story". On Climate change. My post of 16 December 2009.

Iran: 80% of the people of Iran really DO hate their government

Attitude Toward the Islamic Government:

• 2023 GAMAAN Survey: About 81% of Iranians inside Iran reject the Islamic Republic and prefer a democratic government. Only 15% support the Islamic Republic. [Source]
• 2024 Ministry of Culture Study: 73% of Iranians want a secular government, with 85% saying Iranians have become less religious in the past 5 years. Only 22.5% support a religious government.
• 2022 GAMAAN Poll: 74% of women and 71% of men oppose mandatory hijab, with 84% of those against it preferring a secular state.
• 2022 GAMAAN Survey: 41% want to overthrow the Islamic Republic, 21% seek structural change, and only 18% want to preserve its values.

Attitude Toward the West:

• 2024 Stasis Consulting Survey: 61% support a nuclear agreement with the West, and 68% favor normalizing relations with the US (but only 25% support ties with Israel). Iranians are split evenly (34% each) on preferring relations with the West (US/UK) versus China/Russia. [Source]
• 2023 GAMAAN Survey: 73% of Iranians inside Iran and 96% abroad believe Western countries should pressure Tehran to support protesters’ rights.
• 2019 CISSM Survey: Over 80% had negative views of the US, the highest in 13 years, due to tensions like sanctions.

Operation "Midnight Hammer" -- Yay!! 👍👍👍

Thunderbird pilot gives his take

Cool Op name. Cool planes. Cool outcome. 

Banging the hell out of nuclear facilities in Iran. 

Most Americans are on side -- by something like 70/30. Some are not on side, but are very loud. The "Horseshoe Coalition": of the "progressive" Lefties, Bernie, AOC, the Squad; and the kooky Righties, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Steve Bannon. 

To the booh-hoo whining and crying brigade, to all you Horseshoe Brigade: you can only not be welcoming and exulting in this strike because:

You don't mind that the world's largest promoter of terrorism is about to get the Bomb. 

You don't mind that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps say they'll use the Bomb to annihilate all Jews and to attack Europe, starting with Rome first. 

You don't mind that they jail, beat, rape and kill women for not wearing the hijab. That they don't allow women to travel without a male chaperone. 

You don't mind that they hang gays from mobile cranes in the town square. That those they don't hang, they forcibly castrate. 

You don't mind that they fervently believe that their time on this earth is to foment Islamic Jihadist terrorist overthrow to overthrow the west. 

You don't mind that they've spent all their oil revenues to establish and support proxies to commit murder and mayhem in their name, in the Middle East and the west.  

You don't mind any of that, all you whiners and moaners, all of you Hamas-nicks, all of you "impeach-Trump-nicks" . All you mind is that it's Trump that's doing it, and being against Trump trumps all else. 

That's what you don't care about -- you, Bernie Sanders and AOC, neither of you who has ever had a proper job, or you, Tucker Carlson, you Candace Owens, you Steve Bannon -- none of you care one jot about any of that. You cry "Peace" from the rafters, as if saying "peace" brings peace. It sure makes you feel virtuous. 

Revolting. Zero morals. Moral vacuity. 

I find it easy, super easy, to welcome, to exult, to congratulate, to revel, in the huge win for the American attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, in support of the equally easy to support Israeli Operation Rising Lion. 

Against what is turning out to be the Paper Tiger of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. 

As we await, with hope, the rising of the Iranian people against their tyrant. Who we know from all polls they do not like, they do not support -- by something like 80% against. 

Jing, Denpasar, Bali, 2017

Amazing Dance | Yana Kremneva

https://youtube.com/shorts/4AN-MGvh2mI?si=KyHJ86Wf-vxlSrU7

Tucker the dingbat, and the "horseshoe coalition" | Dan McLaughlin

 The ‘restrainer’ Right and the progressive Left sound an awful lot alike on Israel and Iran — but they are on the margins.

W

ith Donald Trump now loudly backing Israel’s war on the Iranian nuclear program and issuing increasingly hawkish warnings against the mullahs, there has been a lot of teeth-gnashing and garment-rending from the usual quarters — and these days, those usual quarters are a horseshoe-shaped alliance of doves and antisemites on the “restrainer” right and the progressive left. At times, it can be hard to tell their rhetoric apart. They form a uniparty of opposition to resisting America’s sworn enemies.

Consider a sampling, culled mostly from X/Twitter, of commentary since Israel launched its strikes on Natanz:

Tucker Carlson is a complete dingbat.

Or, as Trump calls him, a “kook”. 

Evidence h/t Ollie Anisfeld.: With those fact-checked false struck out.

- Aliens and Government Agreements: Believes the U.S. government hides evidence of non-extraterrestrial, possibly spiritual entities.

- Demonic Nuclear Weapons: Claims nuclear weapons were invented by demonic entities, not humans.

- Nagasaki as Christian Target: Suggests the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki to target Christians.

- Demonic Personal Attack: Says he was physically mauled by a demon in his sleep, causing bleeding.

- Hurricanes Caused by Abortion: Asserts hurricanes are God’s wrath for abortion, not natural phenomena.

- Fentanyl as Chinese Bioweapon: Alleges China uses fentanyl as a bioweapon to destabilize America.

- Wind Turbines as Elite Plot: Claims wind turbines kill birds to control energy markets.

- Mothman as Real Entity: Speculates Mothman is a real creature tied to government secrets.

- Bigfoot Cover-Up: Suggests Bigfoot is a real, possibly supernatural entity hidden by the government.

- Fluoride for Mind Control: Implies fluoride in water is a government tool to pacify populations.

- Flat Earth Sympathies: Questions dismissal of flat-Earth theories, suggesting hidden truths.

- 5G Health and Control Conspiracy: Links 5G towers to health issues or government mind control.

- Lyme Disease as Bioweapon: Claims Lyme disease was engineered in U.S. bioweapons labs.

- Trans Movement as Anti-Christian: Calls transgender rights a “natural enemy” of Christianity.

ADDED (8 Nov 2025): Carlson platforms Nick Fuentes a rabid Jew-hater, Holocaust denier, Nazi sympathiser, Hitler-lover ("Hitler was cool"), Black-hater. Carlson gets savaged by the sane Right, hunkers down and doesn't change anything. Huge shame on him. 

Tucker Carlson is a dingbat

Believes:

Alien bodies and machines are being held by the U.S. government. 

Nuclear weapons were developed by “demons”. Not by horrid Jews like Oppenheimer.

Bombing Nagasaki was done to kill Christians

Flat Earthers have a point

Churchill was “chief villain” of WW2. The Holocaust was a technical mistake, not a deliberate act of genocide.

Believes Mothman exists, a cryptic from Virginian folklore. Like BIGFOOT.

Trump helping Israel to finish off the Iranian nuclear threat will end Trumps presidency and destroy the U.S.  

And this is the guy that Trump is listening to?? That has the MAGA movement in a tizz? This guy is now certifiably crazy. Not to be trusted. 

He did an interview with Ted Cruz, that was a real shocker. Carlson acting all self-righteous and asking flat-out Gotcha questions. Crazy stuff. Used to be a heterodox anchor on Fox. Now let out into the freedom of his own platform, just shows that he was always crazy, just never showed it. 

Then again, this war is much bigger than we thought...

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From Caspian TV. Via SaharTV. 

A truly interesting and somewhat scary explanation of what's going on. 

Definitely more complex than I'd thought. Sitting here at my desk in Hong Kong, running quarter-back to the US armed forces. Telling them, hey, it's easy, just get in there with those Bunker Busters! No, it's rather more complex than that. The Iranian Islamic government has been building underground nuclear facilities way more than just the Fordow facility in inside the mountain. There's now one called "Pickaxe" and much bigger and even deeper. 

The video is a bit of must-watch if you're following this amazing, crazy, historic, situation in the Israel-Iran war. 

https://youtu.be/eqT2IFkiqx4?si=276N4fxZWel1Kg7p

Is Trump going to wimp out ?

My goodness me I hope not.

Surely the likes of Kooky tucker Carlson and Mad Steve Bannon aren’t going to win the day with their pacifist agenda? 

The U.S. is there all ready to go with its B2 bombers and Bunker busting MOPs.

Ready to take out the final nail in the coffin to seal the death of the Iranian nuke program.

If he doesn’t, he’ll forever earn the moniker TACO — Trump Always Chickens Out.

He’ll be in the same category as Obama and his “Red Line”, which was crossed by Syria with impunity.

Oh dear….

I hope I’m wrong. 

Time for the death knell of Fordow.

Rise to be a Lion, DJT.

Israel-Iran war reports

• Iran’s Assassins in Europe UN Watch
• Israel destroys Iranian nuclear plant The Enforcer 
• Jew haters revealed J-TV
• Arab world stays quiet. JNS TV
• This is a religious war. Oren Cahanovitc
• Greta Thunberg: genuine or grifter? Dave Rubin 
• Tucker Carlson’s tiresome gotcha. The State of Daniel
• Iran missile strikes. TBN Israel 

These are pro Israel, to reflect my bias. Which is strongly pro-Israel, strongly anti theocratic dictatorships. Strongly anti virulently genocidal Jew-hating outfits like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Strongly against ideologies that hate all those that are not them, that oppress women, that kill minorities, that butcher gays. Strongly against all that. 

If you want the pro-all-of-the-above, the pro-Iran, the pro-Hamas, the pro-Jihad, the pro-terrorism, etc… side, go to BBC, CNN, MSNBC… pretty much anywhere in the MSM. 

Important Note: this Israel-Iran war is not a new war. It’s not Israel suddenly attacking Iran. It’s Israel reacting to a long-ongoing war, begun by Iran, both direct and via its proxies. 

It is no more a new war than was D-day in the second World War a new war. It was a new battlefront. As is the current Israeli operation in Iran. A new front. A new counter-attack. 

Iran's grim record (II)

Below is a list of estimated deaths caused by Iranian actions outside Iran since 1979, focusing on terrorist attacks, proxy warfare, and military operations, broken down by country.

The data is drawn from available web sources and posts on X, with estimates varying due to differing reports and incomplete records.

These are conservative estimates to avoid inflating numbers. I’ve noted where figures are contested or uncertain.

Estimated Deaths by Country (1979–2025)

• Lebanon:
  • ~1,500–2,000 deaths
  • Key incidents: 1983 Beirut barracks bombings (241 U.S., 58 French troops), Hezbollah attacks on Israeli targets (1980s–2000s). Iran’s support for Hezbollah, including funding and weapons, is widely documented.
• Israel:
  • ~1,500–2,000 deaths
  • Includes Hamas/PIJ attacks (e.g., Second Intifada, 2000–2005), Hezbollah rocket attacks, and 2023 Hamas attack (~1,200). Iran’s role via funding and arms is significant but debated in scope. 2025 missile strikes killed ~24.
• Argentina:
  • ~114 deaths
  • 1992 Israeli Embassy bombing (29), 1994 AMIA bombing (85). Iran and Hezbollah are widely blamed, though Iran denies involvement.
• Iraq:
  • ~1,100–1,500 deaths
  • U.S./coalition deaths (2003–2011) from Iranian-supplied EFPs and Shia militias (~603–1,100 U.S. troops), plus civilian tolls from Iran-backed groups.
• Syria:
  • ~100,000–500,000 deaths (highly contested)
  • Iran’s support for Assad’s regime (2011–2024) via IRGC, Hezbollah, and militias contributed to massive civilian and combatant deaths. Estimates vary widely; Iran’s role is significant but not sole.
• Yemen:
  • ~10,000–50,000 deaths
  • Iran’s backing of Houthis (2014–2025) fueled civil war, with deaths from airstrikes, starvation, and combat. Precise attribution is challenging.
• Saudi Arabia:
  • ~100–200 deaths
  • 2019 Abqaiq attack and earlier Khobar Towers bombing (1996, 19 U.S. troops). Iran’s involvement is alleged but not fully confirmed.
• Afghanistan:
  • ~100–200 deaths
  • Iranian support for Shia militias and some Taliban factions against U.S./coalition forces (2000s–2020s). Limited data on direct casualties.
• Other Countries (e.g., France, Germany, Thailand):
  • ~63–100 deaths
  • Assassinations of dissidents and smaller terror plots (1980s–1990s), e.g., Mykonos restaurant attack (Germany, 1992).

Total Estimated Deaths

• Range: ~115,000–557,000
• Conservative estimate: ~115,000 (summing lower bounds, focusing on direct attacks).
• Upper estimate: ~557,000 (including high-end Syria/Yemen tolls, where Iran’s role is partial).
• Syria’s high toll dominates the upper range but is contentious due to multiple actors.

Notes

• Sources: Figures are compiled from web sources (e.g., Wikipedia, BBC, Amnesty) and X posts, but data is incomplete, especially for Syria and Yemen.
• Attribution Challenges: Iran’s use of proxies (Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis) complicates direct responsibility. Some estimates may include deaths from broader conflicts.
• Exclusions: Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) deaths (~1–2 million) are excluded as it’s a state-on-state conflict, not proxy/terror actions.