Oh, right

Tim, I seem to recall from my days of tilling the soil in my 3×2 vegetable patch that potatoes do have eyes, but they can’t see. Another reason to call him Spud…

Grist beat me to it

this myth that the wealthy are entrepreneurs, …

Good luck to them, say I. The people who are obviously paid more than they are worth tend to be a bit lower down the scale. GPs, permanent secretaries, train drivers, non-execs on NGOs, barristers….

One of the UK’s most prominent Nazis is at it again.

According to Keir Starmer’s government this morning, the UK cannot recognise Palestine as a state until Hamas releases all its hostages.

I’m no fan of Two Tier Stalin who is running certainly by far the worst government in British history but if we reward Hamas’ attack by recognising a Palestinian state even in theory won’t that incentivise them to rebuild and attack again?

Think about what that means for a moment. Apart from the fact that the demand is not reciprocal, which means it is obviously pro-Israeli,

What hostages are Israel holding??

what they are saying is that Hamas is not just the elected government of Gaza (but not Palestine as a whole), but that the two are synonymous. In other words, Hamas (which was initially a Netanyahu-sponsored organisation intended to overturn the Palestine Liberation Organisation) is apparently the only possible government in Palestine. By implication, they are saying Hamas and Palestine are the same, but they clearly are not.

Try being a Gaza and opposing Hamas. Also they were elected by nearly 80% of Gazans – so much so that Fatah last held elections in the West Bank nearly two decades. If you think there is some kind of alternative administration waiting in the wings then you are either wilfully ignorant or utterly disingenuous.

Again, think about the implications of this, and why it so suits them to say it. Applying the same logic to Israel, that country and Netanyahu’s government are obviously one and the same in Starmer’s opinion. That, very conveniently in their warped way of thinking, means that criticising Netanyahu is by their definition (but not, of course, in reality) anti-Semitic,

You are an anti – semite of considerable viciousness who by your own admission could envisage yourself in a concentration camp. I think there are dissenters on the Israeli side (quite a few) but Hamas would still kill them off for their being Jewish, of that I can assure you, it is a genocidal government,

because he, apparently (and very obvously incorrectly), provides the only possible government in Israel, and they also think Israel is necessarily a Jewish state, which ignores the significant minorities living within it.

Yes – including a substantial number of Israeli Muslims, whereas Gaza was evacuated in 2005 including the remains of dead bodies as they feared the Hamas forces would desecrate them. Or indeed the Druze masssacred in Syria by another Islamist government. Anyone with a functioning brain and no ulterior agenda might discern a pattern. But perhaps that is beyond your ‘unconventional thinking’

And then there is another implication. If to be Palestinian does, by definition, mean you are a part of Hamas, as seems to be the UK government position, then there has been no genocide, but only a war against Hamas, as Israel would have it, and everyone who is Palestinian, even the dying children, are enemies of Israel and so legitimate targets, as Israel often claim.

In other words, the deliberate conflation of these issues by the UK government has four consequences.

It denies the reality of Palestine as a people and their land as a country.

While they have in place a genocidal death cult that devotes itself to the murder of ALL Jews I think it unlikely a Jewish state fancies committing seppuku.

It denies the autonomy and agency of the Palestinian people and their future right to choose their own government.

If Hamas is offered as an option the people of Gaza have shown they will take that option, the propaganda from Iran and across the Islamic world is clear on this point

It explicitly supports the Israeli line that every Palestinian of any age and whatever their political affiliations, including the absence of any, is a legitimate Israeli target for attack.

Human shields,women and children have been used by Hamas in attacks on Israel for decades. Perhaps learn some history or just acknowledge you want Jewish people dead.

And, in that case, the UK government is, by implication, supporting the line that there is also no genocide, but just a war.

The notion that the South African government, one of the most corrupt and racist in The world is the arbiter of what is genocide or not is risible. The UN and ICC may even be more corrupt and irredeemable.

All of those claims are incorrect, and profoundly so, both legally and ethically. But Starmer and his Cabinet poodles trot them out.

Is it any wonder I loathe them?

I think having called you the greatest embodiment of evil extant in cyberspace today I did not think you could sink lower but every time you surprise me. Pure evil, and the sooner you are departed from this mortal coil the better for all mankind, frankly.

Nvidia was founded by Jensen Huang from LSI and two chaps from Sun Microsystems who had graphics experience. It was initially funded by their personal savings and $2 million VC from Sequoia Capita. Its market cap is currently $4.23bn. Is he an entrepreneur? Yes. Has what he has done contributed to society? Yes. Even if you don’t want to factor in the contribution from Nvidia to AI just yet, an awful lot of people play computer games running on Nvidia hardware. If this is too frivolous for him perhaps he should consider that graphics processors are also used for video editing.

Ol’ Spud there should be extremely proud of his country – not one on that list of the useless wealthy who he hates so much hails from the UK, so his country’s tax laws must be working properly. Why is he complaining about a bunch of foreigners?

Are the wealthy the world’s great entrepreneurs?

I genuinely do need to get another copy of Meon Kampf

That’s the myth that we’re told time, after time, after time.
And we’re told as well that without the wealthy, we would have no enterprise in our country.
Straw man – the first of many

?There would be no business.
There would be no innovation.
There would be no employment.
And we would all be living in poverty because it’s their skill upon which we are dependent, and they are wealthy because they’re so skilful.

Skilfully constructed straw man

This is the eighth in our series on wealth, and I’ve already dismissed this idea that the wealthy are wealthy because they actually were such great entrepreneurs, because, as I’ve explained, they’re actually hoarders of wealth and not innovators of wealth.

I think a lot of them have hooked noses as well, right?? His other posts make more sense now..

But I want to, in this video, particularly attack this myth that the wealthy are entrepreneurs, because I simply can’t find any evidence to support it at all, and we entirely need to reframe this issue to understand if there’s any value that the wealthy now really add to our society.

Because of course based on your last record if you can’t find it evidence CANNOT EXIST For the contention.

!As I’ve explained in earlier videos, the wealthy worry more than anything else about losing their wealth. The thing that haunts them, day in, day out, and if they wake up in the middle of the night, is that they might actually cease to be wealthy.

How many wealthy people does he know in reality?

They are petrified of the consequences of being ‘one of the rest’.

Well that’s that then – hard evidence. Sorry I ain’t sitting through videos 1-7 if this is the general standard!!

That is the fear that they have, and this impacts every aspect of their behaviour. After all, the wealthy want us to know they’re wealthy.
They do it by  flaunting their wealth, and we’ve discussed that. That’s what they do when they consume conspicuously.  The message they’re sending out is, they’re different.

Yes – Warren Buffett is ways conspicuous in his consumption, as weee hundreds of his followers.

And this process of sending out that message is an incredibly time-consuming job. In fact,   they really haven’t got time to work, and we can see that in what they invest in.
The wealthy don’t live off entrepreneurial companies, and they certainly don’t live off the profits they make by creating those companies.

Really? No company owners live off the profits of their companies?? Just because all his boondoogles (all of which I would add needed taxpayer money!!) failed, then the successful
company owner is a myth

– They live off rents.
They live off interest.
They live off dividends.
They live off royalties.
They live off license fees, and maybe even appearance fees, because I suspect quite a number of them would like them, if they can get them, and they have the looks to do it.

So because he has a rented house, no savings, no shares and no intellectual
Property worth a damn those that do need to be punished??

But the point is,  they don’t create anything, because actual work isn’t on the list of things that they want to do. They think they’re above that, and anyway, there’s a big problem for the wealthy when it comes to entrepreneurial activity, and that is taking the risk of undertaking entrepreneurial activity by creating a business is inherently risky, and the wealthy hate risk, because the downside of entrepreneurial activity is that the wealthy will lose money, and downsides are what the wealthy want to avoid, most of all, because losing wealth is what they hate most of all.

Can anyone predict the next paragraph? I think there’s more straw men here than in a field of WorzelGummidges

And that’s why the wealthy invest in safe assets and why they sell out of their trading companies as soon as they possibly can, as we have seen time and time again in the UK economy, in particular.
Their aim is to minimise exposure to market volatility and maximise steady income streams that they can enjoy into perpetuity, from now to forever, as far as they’re concerned. So they fear innovation because it threatens their well-being.

Says the man who wants to ban features on new phones because the planet can’t afford them. There’s more in the same vein. Evil
And ignorance in one efficient package

“The wealthy don’t live off entrepreneurial companies, and they certainly don’t live off the profits they make by creating those companies.”

“They live off dividends.”

All makes sense now

“Palestine” is as much a people and a land and country as “Iberia”. It’s a geographical term.

Iberia shall be free
From the mountains to the sea.

There already is a free state in Palestine, it’s called Israel.

And if a murderous death cult running Portugal was massacring Spaniards at music festivals, kidnapping them, killing them, and advocating the extinction of all Spaniards, I’d fully expect Spain to attempt to wipe them from the earth.

As I’ve argued elsewhere, if the Eeevil Joos were hell bent on “genocide”, they’d have achieved it on the 8th of October in a matter of hours…

At least Perplexity names its sources, but this shows that you really can’t rely on the media, on on AI which relies on the media….

One fears the media increasingly relies on AI; look at Rory Stewart doing election coverage on C4 with ChatGPT open in front of him. That was on live TV; how do you think it’s going behind the scenes?