<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[THE TURMOIL AND AGITATION ARE CONSIDERABLE]]></title><description><![CDATA[Formulating my thoughts to not be an NPC.]]></description><link>https://www.nicolasdebot.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!l5r_!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c677f70-9d3e-4082-a15b-b929aabd3c1c_1280x1280.png</url><title>THE TURMOIL AND AGITATION ARE CONSIDERABLE</title><link>https://www.nicolasdebot.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:45:36 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.nicolasdebot.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Nicolas Debot]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[nicolasdebot@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[nicolasdebot@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Nicolas Debot]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Nicolas Debot]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[nicolasdebot@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[nicolasdebot@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Nicolas Debot]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk VS Mark Zuckerberg. Elon and free speech won. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Listen to this message that Mark Zuckerberg posted today.]]></description><link>https://www.nicolasdebot.com/p/elon-musk-vs-mark-zuckerberg-elon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.nicolasdebot.com/p/elon-musk-vs-mark-zuckerberg-elon</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicolas Debot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:49:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/154335399/638cb7347a8e396f9787c86a226428ea.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Facebook was systematically practicing censorship in recent years, Elon Musk bought Twitter to restore free speech by creating X. Now that the political trends are changing around the Western World, Zuckerberg is aligning with Musk's line. In my work as a film distributor, I regularly advertise on Facebook, Instagram, X, and more recently TikTok. Therefore, I have closely observed how the algorithms work, and while X has always been transparent, this was not the case at all with Facebook and Instagram.</p><p>The reality is that if Musk hadn't bought Twitter and Trump hadn't won the American election, Zuckerberg wouldn't have taken this step today.</p><p>One can only analyze a person based on his actions, not his words. Even if Zuckerberg has changed his hairstyle, wears a necklace, and dresses more like a hippie, one should know that he will always side with collaboration. Perhaps now, people indoctrinated by legacy media will see the difference. Those who change sides for their own interests, now preferring free speech over censorship, will change sides again when the zeitgeist shifts.</p><p>Musk is also fighting for free speech in the European Union, particularly against Thierry Breton, who has since been removed from his position. Zuckerberg did not.</p><p>But for now, let's rejoice in the victory of free speech over censorship!</p><p></p><p>&#8212;</p><p>Elon Musk contre Mark Zuckerberg. Elon et la libert&#233; d'expression on gagn&#233;.<br><br>&#201;coute ce message que Mark Zuckerberg a post&#233; aujourd'hui.<br><br>Quand Facebook pratiquait la censure syst&#233;matique ces derni&#232;res ann&#233;es, Elon Musk a achet&#233; Twitter pour restaurer la libert&#233; d'expression sur X. Maintenant que le tendance politique s'inverse, Zuckerberg s'aligne sur la ligne de Musk. Dans mon travail de distributeur de films, je suis un annonceur r&#233;gulier sur Facebook, Instagram, X et plus r&#233;cemment TikTok. J'ai donc vu de pr&#234;t le fonctionnement des algorithmes et quand X a toujours &#233;t&#233; transparent ce n'&#233;tait pas le cas du tout sur Facebook et Instagram.<br><br>Si Musk n'avait pas achet&#233; Twitter et Trump n'avait pas gagn&#233; l'&#233;lection am&#233;ricaine, Zuckerberg n'aurait pas pris ce pas aujourd'hui.</p><p>On ne peut analyser une personne que sur ses actes et non ses paroles. M&#234;me si Zuckerberg a chang&#233; de coupe de cheveux, &#224; un collier et des v&#234;tements plus hippies, il sera plus que probablement toujours du c&#244;t&#233; de la collaboration que de la r&#233;sistance. Peut-&#234;tre que maintenant le monde endoctrin&#233;s par les legacy medias verront la diff&#233;rence. Les gens qui retournent leur veste pour leurs propres int&#233;r&#234;ts, et comme maintenant pr&#233;f&#232;rent la libert&#233; d'expression &#224; la censure, retourneront leur veste une fois de plus lorsque le zeitgeist changera &#224; nouveau.<br><br>Musk se bat &#233;galement pour la libert&#233; d'expression dans l'Union Europ&#233;enne contre notamment Thierry Breton, depuis &#233;cart&#233; de ses fonctions. Zuckerberg pas.<br><br>Mais, pour le moment, r&#233;jouissons nous de la victoire de la libert&#233; d'expression contre la censure!</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I routed for Team Trump this 2024 US presidential election.]]></title><description><![CDATA[And why I believe it&#8217;s important even if I&#8217;m obviously not an American. An essay for my friends and for liberals, progressives or democrats who would be curious to know more about the other side.]]></description><link>https://www.nicolasdebot.com/p/why-i-routed-for-teeam-trump-this</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.nicolasdebot.com/p/why-i-routed-for-teeam-trump-this</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicolas Debot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:29:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d337dc32-71e2-4356-bb46-b1fff4a4d077_1456x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.nicolasdebot.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.nicolasdebot.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6fm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1bdda0-d257-4836-99a4-833861f460f7_1344x256.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6fm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1bdda0-d257-4836-99a4-833861f460f7_1344x256.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6fm!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1bdda0-d257-4836-99a4-833861f460f7_1344x256.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6fm!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1bdda0-d257-4836-99a4-833861f460f7_1344x256.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6fm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1bdda0-d257-4836-99a4-833861f460f7_1344x256.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6fm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1bdda0-d257-4836-99a4-833861f460f7_1344x256.jpeg" width="728" height="138.66666666666666" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5a1bdda0-d257-4836-99a4-833861f460f7_1344x256.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:256,&quot;width&quot;:1344,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:728,&quot;bytes&quot;:99699,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6fm!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1bdda0-d257-4836-99a4-833861f460f7_1344x256.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6fm!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1bdda0-d257-4836-99a4-833861f460f7_1344x256.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6fm!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1bdda0-d257-4836-99a4-833861f460f7_1344x256.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6fm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1bdda0-d257-4836-99a4-833861f460f7_1344x256.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>There is a tendency on both sides of the political arena or the societal questions to see the other side as fascist, racist, &#8230; in short, Hitler.</strong></p><p>And even I can fall for that shortcut, but instead for Hitler that would be Mao or Stalin, in short Communist. But that would be about the political leaders, not their voters. I understand the good intentions from the Kamala or Democrats rooters if they also respect the Trump or Republicans rooters. That&#8217;s the first principle of democracy. If democracy do not apply for a politician or party you disagree with, you are the authoritarian and don&#8217;t believe in democracy.</p><p>The goal of this essay is to grow the understanding between the two sides instead of resorting to directly to go to the reduction <em>ad Hitlerum</em>. To reduce the polarization that has been growing since the creation and widespread of social medias around 15 years ago and to return to healthier debates where ideas are at the center.<br></p><p><strong>I do have a clear dislike of the biased mainstream media, more poetically named legacy media.</strong></p><p>This is the mass media institutions that dominated prior to the Information Age. I equate this to taking the blue pill or the red pill. Either you believe them or that they are most of the time correct and want to report the news accurately. Or you take the red pill, like Neo, and start seeing what the reporting&#8217;s agenda is, seeing through the matrix. As most things are not black or white, the blue and the red pill are also a spectrum I guess, meaning you take the magenta pill, being bluer or more red. But in the end of the day, you are probably mostly blue or mostly red. This is for another text another time but my believe is that you are born with a clear tendency to lean to what was once called the left or the right and that has to do with evolution. I&#8217;ll get back to that.</p><p>Talking about being red pilled, I&#8217;m curious to hear if you have had a clear red pill moment, a moment where you experienced cognitive dissonance that made you question your perception of the world?</p><p>Legacy media is massively dominated by the celebration of certain ideologies or political parties and the hate of other ones. This occurs &#8216;softly&#8217; in all the Western World if I may generalize from my following of news and medias in Sweden, Belgium, France and the US. And this occurs of course &#8216;hardly&#8217; in all totalitarian states.</p><p>So, yes, I&#8217;m biased about the biased legacy media!</p><p><strong><br>The difference between the personalities and the system.</strong></p><p>Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, as humans, one may find attractive or repulsive, but this shouldn&#8217;t be the decisive fact about the election of a president. Factors like their achievement, entourage, life journey, etc. are more important as these will lead to what decisions are taken during their mandate.</p><p>Kamala Harris took part in the Democratic primary in 2020 and of the around 20 candidates she gave up first. She got 844 votes out of 37 million and despite that got chosen by Biden to be his VP. It was therefore not for her popularity or her track record within politic. But yes, she is a non-white woman and according to DEI ideology (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) that is in the DNA of the Democratic party. This works in reverse too as when Kamala ran for president, her running mate Is a white guy that&#8217;s hard to believe was the best choice.</p><p>It's now clear, even for the legacy media, that Joe Biden have been in cognitive decline for years, but the Democrats chose to wait after the first debate to suddenly decide that he was not fit to run again. And that there is no time to organize a primary making de facto the Democrat candidate not chosen democratically but internally by the top dogs of the party behind closed doors.</p><p>On the other side, Donald Trump, not part of the Republican party at the time, started his political journey in 2015 by challenging the around 20 candidates at the Republican primary gaining supports form the Tea Party movement to finally create his own, MAGA (Make America Great Again). This popular movement made him win the election and grew larger in 2020 and even more in 2024.</p><p>On one side a candidate with no popular legitimacy and totally formed by her party and on the other a candidate which political journey came from the people and has only grown for the last 10 years and has probably deeply transformed his party.</p><p>Donald trump has 5 kids and 10 grandkids. He works with three of his kids. Kamala Harris got married in 2014 to a man with two kids, aged then 15 and 20. I have no judgment for people to have or not have kids, except for high level politicians. This should be a criteria as you will pass laws influencing the lives of millions. You should know what having kids really means irl.</p><p>And, yes, I believe there should be some kind of exam to be a top politician. If you can&#8217;t locate a country on a map, you shouldn&#8217;t be able to possibly bomb them! You need to pass tests to be a bar tender or a taxi driver but not a politician. That&#8217;s wrong!</p><p>Trump and his political allies, Gabbard, Musk, Vance &amp; Kennedy Jr have been campaigning for many months, doing unedited longform interviews by the dozens, town halls &amp; rallies, explaining tirelessly their ideas, their life paths and their common goals daily.</p><p>Biden announced that he retired from the race with a short post on X, then barely endorsed Kamala later when she was confirmed. Kamala did not give any formal interviews or hold press conferences for 75 days after being officially chosen as the Democratic nominee.</p><p><strong><br>The Left cries wolf Pavlovian-style for fascism while simultaneously advocating for censorship and lawfare.</strong></p><p>Various movements, parties, and organizations of the Left spread DEI ideology, wokeism, and cancel culture. They fragment and divide society into ever smaller groups of victims who are encouraged to demand their special rights at the expense of other groups. There are good intentions when it comes to protecting minorities and supporting weaker groups, but they have swung the ideological pendulum so far that it has become unsustainable, and the election results in the USA are clear evidence of this.</p><p>The Left's ideologies and lawfare methods lead to censorship, lack of freedom, and intolerance towards dissenters. They want a society with equal outcomes for all, but it is equal opportunities for everyone that provide the positive force to drive societies forward. Capitalism is not perfect, and previously the capitalist pendulum swung too far, but the development of our societies constantly moves forward, with two steps up and one step down.</p><p><strong><br>I wrote &#8216;Team Trump&#8217; as this really is the key reason why I do have hope for positive change from this presidency.</strong></p><p>Robert Kennedy Jr as a life path and work experience of a lifetime to take on the colossal health challenges that plague the US citizens. He not only experienced the assassination of his uncle JFK, but also of his father RFK during the Democratic primary of 1968. Kennedy Jr. was 14 years old and became addicted to heroin at 15. He would stay addicted for 14 years before finding sobriety and a rich career dedicated among other things to the protection of the environment. Now at 70 years old he is in impressive physical condition, all the more in contrast to a certain number of his European health minister counterparts!</p><p>Tulsi Gabbard as a long military track record and does want peace and end pointless wars driven by the military industrial complex.</p><p>Elon Musk, love him or hate him, it&#8217;s a joy to follow the Starship program and think big. He doesn&#8217;t have the track record of one major company success story but five or more. Hans Asperger can make it difficult for many to follow his line of thought and his way of speaking. In that regard, the biography written by Walter Isaacson gives many keys to understand him.</p><p>His specialty is optimizing production, whether it&#8217;s cars, rockets, tunnels, etc. He is the perfect choice to be put in charge of government efficiency. Sweden, Belgium and many other countries should pick up the idea. It seems to work in Argentina after Javier Milei took office a year ago!</p><p>JD Vance as the Vice President is so nice. 40 years old, father of three, born in white trash poverty. He wrote a memoir about his youth and his family, Hillbilly Elegy, 8 years ago (long before he could dream of being a senator or even less a vice president). It&#8217;s a great book and a poignant story.</p><p>Kennedy, Gabbard and Musk have been Democrats for the longest time and all three decided they could not support them this election cycle as the liberal/left/progressive ideology moved to the far left, while their own ideology remained unchanged. The radicalization of the liberals made them leftists and while I find common ground with liberal values, even if I lean more towards the right and conservatism. As it is now, I believe leftism is a force of destruction.</p><p><strong><br>Important political trends that are spreading across the world.</strong></p><p>Europe has long imported American culture and been influenced by American politics. Therefore, the direction the USA takes in the coming years will also affect the development in Europe.</p><p>The American political reforms we can look forward to include changes aimed at improving public health and reducing the influence of big food and pharmaceutical industries, as well as significant efforts against addiction and drug problems, focusing on harm reduction and rehabilitation.</p><p>Regulations that stifle technological development and entrepreneurship should be minimized, and government spending should be reduced through a streamlining and efficiency of bureaucracy. Unnecessary government functions should be phased out, and crazy, unnecessary projects should be terminated.</p><p>Trump's team will work for individual freedom and increased free speech, hopefully dismantling the large censorship apparatus that has developed secretly over recent years.</p><p>They aim to reduce the federal oversight of family and education policies, giving more autonomy to the states. They want to dismantle unfair and meaningless DEI projects within government and the education system, support family formation, and promote common sense and Christian values.</p><p>They intend to reform the unsustainable and uncontrolled immigration policy that has destabilized both the U.S. and European countries. They will try to end ongoing wars and avoid starting new ones.</p><p><strong><br>The 1920s post first world war birthed a golden age.</strong></p><p>A century later, there could be a new Roaring Twenties this second part of the decade. Of course, we know how it ended in 1929! On the other side, there can&#8217;t be a golden age without hard times before and after&#8230;</p><p>Oh, wait, Artificial General Intelligence, AGI, is coming before the end of this decade according to most AI researchers. Will this create a permanent golden age or the end of humanity? That is for a next essay! Thanks for reading and much love whether we disagree or not.</p><p><br>Nicolas Debot, December 6<sup>th</sup>, 2024.</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.nicolasdebot.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading THE TURMOIL AND AGITATION ARE CONSIDERABLE - Subscribe for free to receive my new posts.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Varför jag hejade på Team Trump i presidentvalet i USA 2024.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Och varf&#246;r jag anser att det &#228;r viktigt &#228;ven om jag inte &#228;r amerikan. En text f&#246;r mina v&#228;nner och f&#246;r liberaler, progressiva eller demokrater som &#228;r nyfikna p&#229; att veta mer om den andra sidan.]]></description><link>https://www.nicolasdebot.com/p/varfor-jag-hejade-pa-team-trump-i-563</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.nicolasdebot.com/p/varfor-jag-hejade-pa-team-trump-i-563</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicolas Debot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:25:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/14311b10-177e-4c43-91c4-a5ac27962217_1456x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mn1p!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7592288-c52e-49c8-8c5d-fafb1031252c_1344x256.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mn1p!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7592288-c52e-49c8-8c5d-fafb1031252c_1344x256.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mn1p!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7592288-c52e-49c8-8c5d-fafb1031252c_1344x256.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mn1p!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7592288-c52e-49c8-8c5d-fafb1031252c_1344x256.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mn1p!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7592288-c52e-49c8-8c5d-fafb1031252c_1344x256.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mn1p!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7592288-c52e-49c8-8c5d-fafb1031252c_1344x256.jpeg" width="1344" height="256" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e7592288-c52e-49c8-8c5d-fafb1031252c_1344x256.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:256,&quot;width&quot;:1344,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:99699,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mn1p!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7592288-c52e-49c8-8c5d-fafb1031252c_1344x256.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mn1p!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7592288-c52e-49c8-8c5d-fafb1031252c_1344x256.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mn1p!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7592288-c52e-49c8-8c5d-fafb1031252c_1344x256.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mn1p!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7592288-c52e-49c8-8c5d-fafb1031252c_1344x256.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Det finns en tendens p&#229; b&#229;da sidor av samh&#228;llsdebatten och den politiska arenan att se den andra sidan som totalit&#228;r, fascistisk, rasistisk, ...eller kort sagt: som Hitler.</strong></p><p>Och &#228;ven jag kan falla f&#246;r den genv&#228;gen, men ist&#228;llet f&#246;r Hitler skulle det vara Mao eller Stalin, eller kort sagt kommunistisk. Men d&#229; skulle det handla om de politiska ledarna, inte om deras v&#228;ljare. Jag f&#246;rst&#229;r att de som h&#229;ller p&#229; Kamala Harris och Demokraterna har goda avsikter, men de m&#229;ste ocks&#229; respektera de som h&#229;ller p&#229; Trump och Republikanerna. Det &#228;r demokratins f&#246;rsta princip. Om demokratins r&#228;ttigheter inte g&#228;ller f&#246;r en politiker eller ett parti du &#228;r oense med, &#228;r du sj&#228;lv auktorit&#228;r och tror allts&#229; inte p&#229; demokrati.</p><p>M&#229;let med denna text &#228;r att &#246;ka f&#246;rst&#229;elsen mellan de tv&#229; sidorna i st&#228;llet f&#246;r att g&#229; direkt till <em>Reductio ad Hitlerum</em> och att minska polariseringen som har uppst&#229;tt sedan vi b&#246;rjade anv&#228;nda sociala medier f&#246;r cirka 15 &#229;r sedan. Jag &#246;nskar att vi &#229;ter kan f&#246;ra en sundare debatt d&#228;r id&#233;erna st&#229;r i centrum.</p><p><strong><br>Jag har en klar aversion mot partiska mainstream-medier, mer poetiskt kallade legacy media eller gammelmedia.</strong></p><p>Med det menar jag de massmedieinstitutioner som dominerade f&#246;re informations&#229;ldern. Man kan j&#228;mf&#246;ra med att ta det bl&#229;a eller det r&#246;da pillret. Antingen litar du p&#229; gammelmedia och tror att de oftast har r&#228;tt och att de rapporterar nyheterna korrekt. Eller s&#229; har du tagit det r&#246;da pillret, som Neo, och ser att de &#228;r partiska och har en agenda, du ser genom The Matrix. Eftersom det f&#246;r det mesta inte &#228;r svart eller vitt, &#228;r &#228;ven analogin med det bl&#229; eller det r&#246;da pillret ett spektrum antar jag, vilket betyder att du tar det magentaf&#228;rgade pillret, som skiftar mellan bl&#229;tt och r&#246;tt. Men i slutet av dagen &#228;r du f&#246;rmodligen mestadels bl&#229; eller mestadels r&#246;d. Detta f&#229;r jag utveckla i en annan text en annan g&#229;ng, men jag tror att du f&#246;ds med en tydlig tendens att luta &#229;t v&#228;nster eller h&#246;ger och att det har att g&#246;ra med evolutionen. Jag kommer tillbaka till det.</p><p>Aprop&#229; att vara red pillad, jag &#228;r nyfiken p&#229; att h&#246;ra om du har haft en klart red pill-&#246;gonblick, ett tillf&#228;lle d&#228;r du upplevde en kognitiv dissonans som fick dig att ifr&#229;gas&#228;tta din uppfattning om v&#228;rlden?</p><p>Gammelmedia domineras helt av hyllningar av vissa ideologier och politiska partier och hat mot andra. Detta sker p&#229; ett mjukt s&#228;tt i hela v&#228;stv&#228;rlden, om jag till&#229;ter mig att generalisera utifr&#229;n de nyheter och medier i Sverige, Belgien, Frankrike och USA som jag f&#246;ljer (och det sker naturligtvis p&#229; ett h&#229;rt s&#228;tt i alla totalit&#228;ra stater).</p><p>S&#229;, ja, jag &#228;r partisk om partisk legacy media!</p><p><strong><br>Skillnaden mellan personerna och systemet.</strong></p><p>Man kan tycka att Donald Trump och Kamala Harris, som m&#228;nniskor, &#228;r antingen attraktiva eller motbjudande, men det b&#246;r inte vara det som avg&#246;r valet av en president. Faktorer som vad de &#229;stadkommit, deras entourage, deras livsresa, etcetera &#228;r viktigare eftersom det ger grunden till vilka beslut de kommer ta som president.</p><p>Kamala Harris kandiderade i Demokraternas prim&#228;rval 2020 och av de cirka 20 kandidaterna var hon den som gav upp f&#246;rst. I prim&#228;rvalen fick hon 844 r&#246;ster av 37 miljoner och trots det valdes hon av Biden till att vara hans Vicepresidentkandidat. Hon valdes allts&#229; inte f&#246;r sin stora popularitet och inte heller f&#246;r en l&#229;ng politisk meritlista. Men eftersom hon &#228;r en icke-vit kvinna och uts&#229;gs hon enligt DEI-ideologin (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) som &#228;r det demokratiska paritets DNA. DEI-ideologin fungerar ocks&#229; omv&#228;nt, n&#228;r Kamala Harris kandiderade till president uts&#229;gs en vit man, som det &#228;r sv&#229;rt att tro verkligen var det b&#228;sta valet, till vicepresidentkandidat.</p><p>Det &#228;r nu klart f&#246;r alla, &#228;ven f&#246;r legacy media, att Joe Biden har haft avtagande kognitiv f&#246;rm&#229;ga i &#229;ratal, men Demokraterna valde &#228;nd&#229; att v&#228;nta till efter den f&#246;rsta valdebatten innan de pl&#246;tsligt beslutade sig f&#246;r att han inte l&#228;ngre var en l&#228;mplig att kandidat. Och d&#229; fanns inte tid att organisera ett prim&#228;rval, vilket har lett till att den Demokratiska kandidaten inte har valts demokratiskt utan internt utsetts av partiledningen bakom st&#228;ngda d&#246;rrar.</p><p>P&#229; den andra sidan, Donald Trump, som trots att han inte var en del av det Republikanska partiet, p&#229;b&#246;rjade sin politiska resa 2015 genom att utmana de cirka 20 kandidaterna i Republikanernas prim&#228;rval. Han fick f&#246;rst st&#246;d fr&#229;n Tea Party-r&#246;relsen och skapade sedan sin egen r&#246;relse, MAGA (Make America Great Again). Denna popul&#228;ra r&#246;relse gjorde honom till segrare i valet 2016 och MAGA v&#228;xte sig st&#246;rre &#229;r 2020 och &#228;nnu mer 2024.</p><p>P&#229; ena sidan Demokraternas kandidat utan folklig legitimitet och helt formad av partiet och p&#229; den andra sidan Republikanernas kandidat vars politiska resa startade i en folkr&#246;relse som bara har vuxit under de senaste 10 &#229;ren. En r&#246;relse som har f&#246;r&#228;ndrat det Republikanska partiet i grunden.</p><p>Donald Trump har 5 barn och 10 barnbarn. Han arbetar tillsammans med tre av sina barn. Kamala Harris har inga egna barn, gifte sig 2014 med en man som har tv&#229; barn, d&#229; 15 och 20 &#229;r gamla. Det &#228;r inte min sak att ha synpunkter p&#229; folks val att skaffa barn eller inte, f&#246;rutom n&#228;r det g&#228;ller politiker p&#229; h&#246;gsta niv&#229;. Det b&#246;r vara ett kriterium att ha den viktiga livserfarenheten eftersom du kommer att fatta beslut som p&#229;verkar miljoner m&#228;nniskors liv. D&#229; b&#246;r du veta vad det verkligen betyder att ha barn.</p><p>Och jag tror att det borde finnas n&#229;gon form av test av kunskapsniv&#229;n f&#246;r att bli toppolitiker. Om du inte kan hitta ett land p&#229; en karta, borde du inte kunna bomba det! Du beh&#246;ver klara tester f&#246;r att vara bartender eller taxichauff&#246;r men inte politiker. Det &#228;r fel!</p><p>Trump och hans politiska allierade, Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, JD Vance och Robert Kennedy Jr har kampanjat i m&#229;nga m&#229;nader, gjort otaliga oredigerade l&#229;nga intervjuer, town halls och rallyn, outtr&#246;ttligt formulerat sina id&#233;er, dagligen m&#246;tt v&#228;ljare och ber&#228;ttat om sina livsresor och sina gemensamma m&#229;l.</p><p>Joe Biden meddelade att han drog tillbaka sin kandidatur med en kort post p&#229; X och han har knappt st&#246;ttat Kamala Harris n&#228;r hon senare uts&#229;gs till presidentkandidat. Kamala gav inga formella intervjuer eller presskonferenser under de f&#246;rsta 75 dagarna efter att hon officiellt utsetts som Demokraternas kandidat.</p><p><strong><br>V&#228;nstern ropar Pavlovskt varg f&#246;r fascism men propagerar samtidigt f&#246;r censur och lawfare.</strong></p><p>V&#228;nsterns olika r&#246;relser, partier och organisationer sprider DEI-ideolgi, wokeism och cancel culture. De delar upp och s&#246;nderdelar samh&#228;llet i allt mindre grupper av offer som uppmuntras att kr&#228;va sina s&#228;rskilda r&#228;ttigheter p&#229; bekostnad av andra grupper. Det finns goda intentioner n&#228;r det g&#228;ller att skydda minoriteter och st&#246;tta svagare grupper, men de har sv&#228;ngt den ideologiska pendeln s&#229; l&#229;ngt att det har blivit oh&#229;llbart och valresultatet i USA &#228;r tydligt bevis p&#229; det.</p><p>V&#228;nsterns ideologier och lawfare-metoder leder till censur, ofrihet och intolerans av meningsmotst&#229;ndare. De vill ha ett samh&#228;lle med lika utfall f&#246;r alla, men det &#228;r lika m&#246;jligheter f&#246;r alla som ger den positiva kraften f&#246;r att driva samh&#228;llen fram&#229;t. Kapitalismen &#228;r inte perfekt och tidigare sv&#228;ngde den kapitalistiska pendeln f&#246;r l&#229;ngt, men s&#229; g&#229;r utvecklingen av v&#229;ra samh&#228;llen st&#228;ndigt fram&#229;t, med tv&#229; steg upp ett steg ner.</p><p><strong><br>Jag skrev 'Team Trump' eftersom hans team verkligen &#228;r den viktigaste anledningen till att jag har hopp om positiv f&#246;r&#228;ndring under denna mandatperiod.</strong></p><p>Robert Kennedy Jr har en livserfarenhet som &#228;r idealisk f&#246;r att kunna ta itu med de kolossala h&#228;lsoproblem som pl&#229;gar USA:s befolkning.</p><p>Tulsi Gabbard har en l&#229;ng milit&#228;r meritlista och vill arbeta f&#246;r fred och avsluta de meningsl&#246;sa krig som underst&#246;ds av det milit&#228;r-industriella komplexet.</p><p>Elon Musk, gilla honom eller inte, men han &#228;r en m&#228;nniska som kan t&#228;nka stort och det &#228;r ett stort n&#246;je att f&#246;lja Starship-programmet. Han har inte bara en framg&#229;ngssaga f&#246;r ett stort f&#246;retag utan f&#246;r fem f&#246;retag eller &#228;nnu fler. Hans Asperger kan g&#246;ra det vara sv&#229;rt f&#246;r m&#229;nga att f&#246;lja hans tankeg&#229;ngar och hans s&#228;tt att tala. Biografin skriven av Walter Isaacson ger m&#229;nga nycklar till att f&#246;rst&#229; honom.</p><p>Elon Musks specialitet &#228;r att optimera produktion, vare sig det g&#228;ller bilar, raketer, tunnlar eller robotar. Han &#228;r det perfekta valet f&#246;r att leda regeringens effektiviseringsprogram. Sverige, Belgien och m&#229;nga andra l&#228;nder borde f&#246;lja efter. Det verkar fungera i Argentina efter att Javier Milei tilltr&#228;dde f&#246;r ett &#229;r sedan och b&#246;rjade kapa de statliga myndigheterna med motors&#229;g!</p><p>JD Vance som vicepresident &#228;r en trevlig kille. 40 &#229;r gammal, far till tre barn, uppvuxen i en trasig familj som "white trash". Han skrev en memoarbok om sin uppv&#228;xt och sin familj, <em>Hillbilly Elegy,</em> f&#246;r 8 &#229;r sedan (l&#229;ngt innan han kunde dr&#246;mma om att bli senator och &#228;n mindre vicepresident). Det &#228;r en fantastisk bok och en gripande historia.</p><p>Kennedy, Gabbard och Musk har fram till 2024 varit Demokrater, men i &#229;r beslutade de alla tre att de inte kunde st&#246;dja Demokraterna i detta val eftersom partiet f&#246;rskjutits &#229;t det extrema v&#228;nsterh&#229;llet, medan deras egen ideologi f&#246;rblivit of&#246;r&#228;ndrad. De r&#246;relser som tidigare var liberala har radikaliserats och f&#246;respr&#229;kar nu en v&#228;nsterideologi. Jag har i grunden liberala v&#228;rderingar som nu lutar mer &#229;t h&#246;ger och jag anser att mer v&#228;nsterns ideologi &#228;r destruktivt.</p><p><strong><br>Viktiga politiska trender som sprids vidare &#246;ver hela v&#228;rlden.</strong></p><p>Europa har l&#228;nge importerat amerikansk kultur och influeras av amerikansk politik. D&#228;rf&#246;r kommer riktningen som USA tar de kommande &#229;ren ocks&#229; att p&#229;verka utvecklingen i Europa.</p><p>De amerikanska politiska reformer vi kan se fram emot &#228;r bland annat f&#246;r&#228;ndringar f&#246;r att f&#246;rb&#228;ttra folkets h&#228;lsa och ge mindre inflytande till de stora livsmedels- och l&#228;kemedelsindustrierna, samt stora insatser mot missbruk och drogproblem med fokus p&#229; skademinimering och rehabilitering.</p><p>Regleringar som kv&#228;ver teknisk utveckling och entrepren&#246;rskap ska minimeras och statens utgifter ska minskas genom en nedbantning och effektivisering av byr&#229;kratin. Statens icke n&#246;dv&#228;ndiga funktioner ska avvecklas och galna on&#246;diga projekt ska l&#228;ggas ned.</p><p>Trumps team kommer arbeta f&#246;r individuell frihet och &#246;kad yttrandefrihet och f&#246;rhoppningsvis avveckla den stora censurapparat som utvecklats i det f&#246;rdolda de senaste &#229;ren.</p><p>De vill minska styrningen av familje- och utbildningspolitiken p&#229; federal niv&#229; och ge delstaterna mer sj&#228;lvbest&#228;mmande. De vill avveckla or&#228;ttvisa och meningsl&#246;sa DEI-projekt och inom stat och utbildningsv&#228;sen och st&#246;tta familjebildning och verka f&#246;r sunt f&#246;rnuft och kristna v&#228;rderingar.</p><p>De vill f&#246;r&#228;ndra den oh&#229;llbara och okontrollerade immigrationspolitik som har destabiliserat b&#229;de USA och de europeiska l&#228;nderna. De kommer f&#246;rs&#246;ka avsluta p&#229;g&#229;ende krig och undvika av att starta nya.</p><p><strong><br>1920-talet efter f&#246;rsta v&#228;rldskriget f&#246;dde en guld&#229;lder</strong>.</p><p>Ett sekel senare kan det bli ett nytt glatt 20-tal denna andra del av decenniet. Men vi f&#229;r inte gl&#246;mma hur det slutade 1929! &#197; andra sidan kan det inte finnas en guld&#229;lder utan sv&#229;ra tider f&#246;re och efter...</p><p>V&#228;nta, artificiell generell intelligens, AGI, kommer finnas innan slutet av detta decennium enligt de flesta AI-forskare. Kommer detta att skapa en permanent guld&#229;lder eller slutet f&#246;r m&#228;nskligheten? Det &#228;r fr&#229;gor till en kommande text! Tack f&#246;r att du l&#228;ste och mycket k&#228;rlek till dig oavsett om vi &#228;r &#246;verens eller ej.</p><p><br>Nicolas Debot, 6 december 2024.</p><p>Tack till Sofie Dahlstedt f&#246;r hj&#228;lp med svenska &#246;vers&#228;ttningen.<br></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.nicolasdebot.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">THE TURMOIL AND AGITATION ARE CONSIDERABLE</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><br>F&#246;r att f&#229; mina nya texter, prenumerera p&#229; mitt nyhetsbrev.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pourquoi j'ai soutenu l'équipe de Trump à l'élection présidentielle américaine de 2024.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Et pourquoi je pense que c'est important, m&#234;me si je ne suis pas am&#233;ricain. Cet essai est destin&#233; &#224; mes amis et aux d&#233;mocrates ou progressistes curieux de comprendre mieux l'autre camp.]]></description><link>https://www.nicolasdebot.com/p/pourquoi-jai-soutenu-lequipe-de-trump-3f6</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.nicolasdebot.com/p/pourquoi-jai-soutenu-lequipe-de-trump-3f6</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicolas Debot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:21:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9ece184c-282e-4930-b278-19e1ebf4c792_1456x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rmJe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61933720-1a3e-4d7e-998a-91873d6c8ec1_1344x256.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rmJe!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61933720-1a3e-4d7e-998a-91873d6c8ec1_1344x256.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rmJe!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61933720-1a3e-4d7e-998a-91873d6c8ec1_1344x256.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rmJe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61933720-1a3e-4d7e-998a-91873d6c8ec1_1344x256.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rmJe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61933720-1a3e-4d7e-998a-91873d6c8ec1_1344x256.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rmJe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61933720-1a3e-4d7e-998a-91873d6c8ec1_1344x256.jpeg" width="1344" height="256" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/61933720-1a3e-4d7e-998a-91873d6c8ec1_1344x256.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:256,&quot;width&quot;:1344,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:99699,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rmJe!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61933720-1a3e-4d7e-998a-91873d6c8ec1_1344x256.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rmJe!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61933720-1a3e-4d7e-998a-91873d6c8ec1_1344x256.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rmJe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61933720-1a3e-4d7e-998a-91873d6c8ec1_1344x256.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rmJe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61933720-1a3e-4d7e-998a-91873d6c8ec1_1344x256.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Il existe une tendance des deux c&#244;t&#233;s du d&#233;bat soci&#233;tal et de l'ar&#232;ne politique &#224; voir l'autre camp comme totalitaire, fasciste, raciste, ... ou, en bref : Hitler.</strong></p><p>Je peux aussi tomber dans ce raccourci, mais au lieu d&#8217;Hitler, ce serait Mao ou Staline, bref, communiste. Mais l&#224;, on parlerait des dirigeants politiques, pas de leurs &#233;lecteurs. Je comprends que les personnes qui soutiennent Kamala Harris et les D&#233;mocrates ont de bonnes intentions, mais ils doivent aussi respecter ceux qui soutiennent Trump et les R&#233;publicains. C'est le premier principe de la d&#233;mocratie. Si les droits d&#233;mocratiques ne s'appliquent pas &#224; un politicien ou &#224; un parti avec lequel vous n'&#234;tes pas d'accord, vous ne croyez pas en la d&#233;mocratie. L'objectif de cet essai est d'am&#233;liorer la compr&#233;hension entre les deux camps plut&#244;t que de recourir directement &#224; la r&#233;duction ad Hitlerum et de r&#233;duire la polarisation qui s'est accrue depuis la cr&#233;ation des r&#233;seaux sociaux il y a environ 15 ans. J'esp&#232;re que l&#8217;on pourra bient&#244;t revenir &#224; un d&#233;bat plus sain o&#249; les id&#233;es sont au centre.</p><p>J'ai une v&#233;ritable aversion pour les m&#233;dias traditionnels biais&#233;s, plus po&#233;tiquement appel&#233;s &#8216;legacy media&#8217;. Par-l&#224;, je veux dire les institutions m&#233;diatiques qui dominaient avant l'&#232;re de l'information. On peut comparer cela &#224; prendre la pilule bleue ou la pilule rouge. Ou vous faites confiance aux m&#233;dias traditionnels et pensez qu'ils ont souvent raison et rapportent correctement les informations. Ou vous avez pris la pilule rouge, comme N&#233;o, et vous voyez qu'ils sont biais&#233;s et ont un agenda qui prime &#224; leur neutralit&#233;, vous voyez &#224; travers La Matrix. Comme la plupart des choses ne sont pas noir ou blanc, l'analogie de la pilule bleue ou rouge est un spectre. Ce qui signifie que vous prenez la pilule magenta, qui varie entre le bleu et le rouge. Mais en fin de compte, nous sommes surtout bleus ou surtout rouges. Je d&#233;velopperai cela dans un autre essai, une autre fois, mais je crois que l'on na&#238;t avec une tendance claire &#224; pencher &#224; gauche ou &#224; droite et cela a &#224; voir avec l'&#233;volution. J'y reviendrai.</p><p>En parlant de prendre la pilule rouge, si c&#8217;est celle que tu as prises, te souviens-tu du moment de prise de conscience o&#249; tu as ressenti une dissonance cognitive au contact des m&#233;dias traditionnels qui t&#8217;a fait remettre en question ta perception du monde ?</p><p>Les m&#233;dias traditionnels sont enti&#232;rement domin&#233;s par certaines id&#233;ologies et partis politiques et le rejet de ceux qui ne pensent pas comme eux. Cela se produit de mani&#232;re &#8216;soft&#8217; dans le monde occidental, si je me permets de g&#233;n&#233;raliser &#224; partir des actualit&#233;s et des m&#233;dias que je consomme en Su&#232;de, en Belgique, en France et aux &#201;tats-Unis. Et cela se produit &#233;videmment de mani&#232;re &#8216;hard&#8217; dans tous les &#201;tats totalitaires.</p><p>Donc, oui, je suis biais&#233; &#224; propos des m&#233;dias biais&#233;s !</p><p><strong><br>La diff&#233;rence entre les personnes et le syst&#232;me.</strong></p><p>On peut trouver Donald Trump et Kamala Harris, en tant qu'individus, attirants ou repoussants, mais ce n&#8217;est pas &#231;a qui devrait d&#233;cider d'une &#233;lection pr&#233;sidentielle. Des facteurs comme leurs accomplissements, leur entourage et leur parcours de vie sont plus importants car ils forment la base des d&#233;cisions qu'ils prendront en tant que dirigeant.</p><p>Kamala Harris a particip&#233; aux primaires d&#233;mocrates de 2020 et, parmi les quelque 20 candidats, elle a &#233;t&#233; la premi&#232;re &#224; abandonner la course. Elle a obtenu 844 votes sur 37 millions et malgr&#233; &#231;a elle a &#233;t&#233; choisie par Joe Biden comme candidate &#224; la vice-pr&#233;sidence. &#201;tant donn&#233; qu'elle est une femme de couleur, elle a &#233;t&#233; d&#233;sign&#233;e selon l'id&#233;ologie DEI (Diversit&#233;, &#201;quit&#233;, Inclusion) qui fait partie de l'ADN du parti D&#233;mocrate. L'id&#233;ologie DEI fonctionne aussi &#224; l'envers, quand &#224; l&#8217;&#233;lection pr&#233;sidentielle suivante, Kamala Harris a choisi un homme blanc comme vice-pr&#233;sident. C&#8217;est difficile &#224; croire que Tim Walz &#233;tait le meilleur choix pour ce poste !</p><p>Il est maintenant clair pour tout le monde, m&#234;me pour les m&#233;dias traditionnels, que Joe Biden souffre d&#8217;Alzheimer, ou en tout cas d'une diminution cognitive depuis des ann&#233;es. Malgr&#233; cela les d&#233;mocrates ont choisi d'attendre jusqu&#8217;apr&#232;s le premier d&#233;bat pr&#233;sidentiel avant de soudainement d&#233;cider qu'il n'&#233;tait plus apte &#224; la course &#224; la pr&#233;sidence. L&#8217;&#233;lection n&#8217;&#233;tant que trois mois plus tard, il n&#8217;y avait plus le temps d'organiser une primaire et donc la candidate d&#233;mocrate n'a pas &#233;t&#233; choisie d&#233;mocratiquement ! Elle a &#233;t&#233; d&#233;sign&#233;e en coulisse par les membres les plus influents du parti.</p><p>De l'autre c&#244;t&#233;, Donald Trump, bien qu'il ne f&#238;t pas partie du Parti R&#233;publicain &#224; l'&#233;poque, a commenc&#233; son parcours politique en 2015 en d&#233;fiant les quelque 20 candidats des primaires r&#233;publicaines. Il a dans un premier temps re&#231;u le soutien du mouvement Tea Party avant de cr&#233;er son propre mouvement, MAGA (Make America Great Again). Ce mouvement populaire est la raison de son &#233;lection en 2016. Depuis cela MAGA &#224; grandi en 2020 et plus encore en 2024.</p><p>D'un c&#244;t&#233;, une candidate d&#233;mocrate sans l&#233;gitimit&#233; populaire et enti&#232;rement fa&#231;onn&#233;e par le parti. De l'autre, un candidat r&#233;publicain dont le parcours politique a d&#233;but&#233; par un mouvement populaire qui n&#8217;a fait que grandir ces dix derni&#232;res ann&#233;es. Ce mouvement a transform&#233; le Parti R&#233;publicain.</p><p>Donald Trump a cinq enfants et dix petits-enfants. Il travaille avec trois de ses enfants adultes. Kamala Harris n'a pas d'enfants. Elle s'est mari&#233;e en 2014 avec un homme qui avait d&#233;j&#224; deux enfants, alors &#226;g&#233;s de 15 et 20 ans. Je ne juge nullement le choix d'avoir ou non des enfants, sauf quand il s'agit de politiciens de haut niveau. Je trouve que cela devrait &#234;tre un crit&#232;re car ils vont prendre des d&#233;cisions qui affectent la vie de millions de personnes. Vous devez savoir ce que cela signifie vraiment d'&#233;lever des enfants et de s&#8217;inqui&#233;t&#233; de leur bien-&#234;tre, de leur avenir, de leur s&#233;curit&#233;.</p><p>Je consid&#232;re aussi qu'il devrait y avoir une sorte d&#8217;examen, de test de connaissances pour pouvoir pr&#233;tendre devenir un politicien &#224; l&#8217;&#233;chelle nationale. Si tu ne peux pas localiser un pays sur une carte, tu ne devrais pas pouvoir le bombarder ! Il faut passer des cours pour &#234;tre barman ou chauffeur de taxi, mais pas pour &#234;tre politicien. Ce n&#8217;est pas logique.</p><p>Trump et ses alli&#233;s politiques, Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, JD Vance et Robert Kennedy Jr ont fait campagne intensivement pendant de nombreux mois. Ils ont particip&#233; &#224; un nombre incroyable d&#8217;interviews, souvent longues et non &#233;dit&#233;es, des r&#233;unions publiques et des rallyes, pr&#233;cisant leurs id&#233;es, rencontrant les &#233;lecteurs et expliquant leurs parcours de vie et leurs objectifs communs.</p><p>Joe Biden a annonc&#233; son retrait de la course avec une courte annonce sur X et il a &#224; peine soutenu Kamala Harris lorsqu'elle a &#233;t&#233; d&#233;sign&#233;e comme candidate &#224; sa place. Kamala n'a donn&#233; aucune interview formelle ou fait de conf&#233;rence de presse pendant 75 jours d&#8217;affil&#233; apr&#232;s sa d&#233;signation comme candidate. Ce n&#8217;est pas &#231;a le processus d&#233;mocratique.</p><p><strong><br>La gauche crie au fascisme de mani&#232;re Pavlovienne tout en pr&#244;nant la censure, la cancel culture et la guerre judiciaire.</strong></p><p>Diff&#233;rents mouvements, partis et organisations de gauche propagent l'id&#233;ologie DEI, le wokeism et la cancel culture. Ils divisent et fragmentent la soci&#233;t&#233; en groupes de victimes de plus en plus petits qui sont encourag&#233;s &#224; exiger leurs droits victimaires au d&#233;triment des autres groupes. Il y a de bonnes intentions en ce qui concerne la protection des minorit&#233;s et le soutien aux groupes les plus faibles, mais ils ont pouss&#233; le pendule id&#233;ologique si loin que &#231;a en est devenu insoutenable. Le r&#233;sultat des &#233;lections am&#233;ricaine et le verdict du peuple en est la preuve &#233;vidente. Donald Trump n&#8217;a pas seulement gagn&#233; l&#8217;&#233;lection, il a aussi gagn&#233; le vote populaire et son parti &#224; la majorit&#233; au S&#233;nat et la Chambre des repr&#233;sentants. Il a &#233;galement emport&#233; l&#8217;ensemble des sept &#8216;swing states&#8217;, les &#233;tats qui peuvent changer de majorit&#233; d&#8217;une &#233;lection &#224; l&#8217;autre.</p><p>L'&#233;volution id&#233;ologique de la gauche a ouvert la porte &#224; leurs m&#233;thodes de guerre judiciaire, de de censure cach&#233;e ou ouverte, de la suppression des libert&#233;s individuelles et de la r&#233;duction Ad Hitlerum de leurs opposants. Ils veulent une soci&#233;t&#233; bas&#233;e sur l&#8217;&#233;galit&#233; de r&#233;sultats pour tous, mais c&#8217;est l&#8217;&#233;galit&#233; d&#8217;opportunit&#233;s qui cr&#233;e la spirale positive du d&#233;veloppement des soci&#233;t&#233;s. Le capitalisme n'est pas parfait et, par le pass&#233;, le pendule capitaliste a oscill&#233; trop loin, mais c'est ainsi que se d&#233;veloppent nos soci&#233;t&#233;s: deux pas en avant, un pas en arri&#232;re.</p><p><strong><br>J'ai &#233;crit 'L&#8217;&#233;quipe Trump' car son team est la raison principale qui me donne un espoir de changements positifs durant ce mandat.</strong></p><p>Robert Kennedy Jr a une exp&#233;rience de vie id&#233;ale pour s'attaquer aux &#233;normes probl&#232;mes de sant&#233; qui affectent la population am&#233;ricaine.</p><p>Tulsi Gabbard a un long parcours militaire et veut mettre fin aux guerres inutiles aliment&#233;es par le complexe militaro-industriel.</p><p>Elon Musk, qu'on l'aime ou pas, est quelqu'un qui pense grand et c'est un plaisir de suivre le programme spatial Starship. Il n'a pas qu'une seule histoire de succ&#232;s de cr&#233;ation d'entreprise, mais au moins cinq. Son Asperger le rend, pour certains, difficile &#224; comprendre ou &#224; appr&#233;cier. La biographie &#233;crite par Walter Isaacson offre de nombreuses cl&#233;s pour le comprendre.</p><p>La sp&#233;cialit&#233; d'Elon Musk est d'optimiser la production, que ce soient des voitures, des fus&#233;es, des tunnels ou des robots. Il est le choix parfait pour diriger le nouveau d&#233;partement d'efficacit&#233; gouvernementale. La Su&#232;de, la Belgique et bien d'autres pays auraient vraiment besoin de suivre l'exemple. Cela semble fonctionner en Argentine avec Javier Milei qui est pr&#233;sident depuis un an et a commenc&#233; &#224; r&#233;duire la bureaucratie et les d&#233;penses gouvernementales inutiles. Et cela &#224; la tron&#231;onneuse! C&#8217;&#233;tait juste son slogan de campagne.</p><p>Le vice-pr&#233;sident JD Vance, avec son franc-parler et son naturel, a devant lui une grande carri&#232;re politique qui pourrait un jour le mener jusqu&#8217;au poste de pr&#233;sident des Etats-Unis. Il a quarante ans, est p&#232;re de trois enfants et a grandi dans une famille "white trash" &#233;clat&#233;e. Il y a huit ans, il a &#233;crit son autobiographie "Hillbilly Elegy" racontant son enfance et l&#8217;histoire de sa famille. Livre &#233;crit bien avant qu'il ne puisse m&#234;me r&#234;ver de devenir s&#233;nateur, encore moins vice-pr&#233;sident. C'est un livre puissant qui raconte une histoire touchante.</p><p>Kennedy, Gabbard et Musk ont &#233;t&#233; d&#233;mocrates jusqu'en 2024, Mais cette ann&#233;e, tous trois ont d&#233;cid&#233; qu'ils ne pouvaient plus soutenir ce parti qui s'est d&#233;plac&#233; vers l'extr&#234;me gauche, tandis que leur propre id&#233;ologie est rest&#233;e inchang&#233;e. La gauche d&#233;mocrate jadis lib&#233;rale s&#8217;est radicalis&#233;e. Ma sensibilit&#233; est un m&#233;lange de libertarianisme et de conservatisme avec certaines valeurs de solidarit&#233; &#233;tatique et, pour moi, le Parti D&#233;mocrate actuel et ses &#233;quivalents europ&#233;ens sont des forces destructrices.</p><p><strong><br>Des tendances politiques importantes qui se propagent dans le monde entier.</strong></p><p>L'Europe importe depuis longtemps la culture am&#233;ricaine ainsi que ses choix sur les questions soci&#233;tales. La direction politique que va prendre les &#201;tats-Unis dans les ann&#233;es &#224; venir affectera sans aucun doute l&#8217;&#233;volution de l&#8217;europe.</p><p>Les r&#233;formes politiques am&#233;ricaines auxquelles nous pouvons nous attendre incluent des changements visant &#224; am&#233;liorer la sant&#233; publique et &#224; r&#233;duire l'influence des grandes industries alimentaires et pharmaceutiques, ainsi que des efforts significatifs contre l'addiction et les probl&#232;mes de drogue, avec un focus sur la pr&#233;vention et la r&#233;habilitation. Robert Kennedy Jr n&#8217;a pas connu que l&#8217;assassinat de son oncle JFK, mais aussi de son p&#232;re RFK lors de la primaire d&#233;mocrate de 1968. Kennedy Jr avait 14 ans et sombrera dans l&#8217;h&#233;ro&#239;ne &#224; 15 ans. Il sera toxicomane pendant 14 ans avant de trouver la sobri&#233;t&#233; et une riche carri&#232;re entre autres d&#233;di&#233;e &#224; la protection de l&#8217;environnement. &#192; maintenant 70 ans il a une condition physique impressionnante, d&#8217;autant plus en contraste avec un nombre certain de ses homologues ministre de la sant&#233; europ&#233;ens!</p><p>Les r&#233;gulations de plus en plus nombreuses qui &#233;touffent le d&#233;veloppement technologique et l'entrepreneuriat doivent &#234;tre minimis&#233;es. Les d&#233;penses publiques doivent &#234;tre largement r&#233;duites par une effectivisation de la bureaucratie, les fonctions gouvernementales non n&#233;cessaires doivent &#234;tre supprim&#233;es et les projets absurdes et inutiles doivent &#234;tre abandonn&#233;s.</p><p>L'&#233;quipe de Trump travaillera pour la pr&#233;servation des libert&#233; individuelles et une libert&#233; d'expression accrue, esp&#233;rons-le, en d&#233;mantelant l'appareil de censure qui s'est d&#233;velopp&#233; en secret ces derni&#232;res ann&#233;es.</p><p>Ils souhaitent r&#233;duire les directives f&#233;d&#233;rales sur les politiques de sant&#233; et donner plus d'autonomie aux &#233;tats. Ils veulent d&#233;manteler les projets activistes DEI au sein de l'&#201;tat et du syst&#232;me &#233;ducatif, soutenir et d&#233;velopper les politiques familiales ainsi que promouvoir le bon sens et les valeurs chr&#233;tiennes.</p><p>Ils ont l'intention de r&#233;former la politique migratoire intenable et incontr&#244;l&#233;e qui a d&#233;stabilis&#233; les &#201;tats-Unis et les pays europ&#233;ens. Ils essaieront de mettre fin aux guerres en cours et d'&#233;viter d'en commencer de nouvelles.</p><p><strong><br>Les ann&#233;es 1920 apr&#232;s la premi&#232;re guerre mondiale ont donn&#233; naissance &#224; un &#226;ge d'or de grand d&#233;veloppement &#233;conomique.</strong></p><p>Un si&#232;cle plus tard, il pourrait y avoir un nouveau &#8216;Roaring Twenties&#8217; dans cette seconde partie de la d&#233;cennie. Mais n'oublions pas comment cela s'est termin&#233; en 1929 ! D'un autre c&#244;t&#233;, il ne peut y avoir d'&#226;ge d'or sans temps difficiles avant et apr&#232;s...</p><p>&#192; ce propos&#8230; L'intelligence artificielle g&#233;n&#233;rale, AGI, devrait &#234;tre cr&#233;&#233;e avant la fin de la d&#233;cennie selon la plupart des chercheurs en IA. Cela cr&#233;era-t-il un &#226;ge d'or permanent ou la fin de l'humanit&#233; ? Cette question me passionne, j&#8217;y reviendrai dans un prochain essai!</p><p>Merci de m'avoir lu. Avec tout mon amour, que nous soyons d'accord ou non.</p><p><br>Nicolas Debot, le 6 d&#233;cembre 2024.<br></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.nicolasdebot.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">THE TURMOIL AND AGITATION ARE CONSIDERABLE</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Pour recevoir mes prochains textes , abonnez-vous &#224; la newsletter.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this place and why are the turmoil and agitation considerable?]]></title><description><![CDATA[How I Learned to Stop Procrastinating and Love The Thoughts Put in Words.]]></description><link>https://www.nicolasdebot.com/p/what-is-this-place-and-why-are-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.nicolasdebot.com/p/what-is-this-place-and-why-are-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicolas Debot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 20:16:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d4fda106-ea0a-4d24-984a-dcd35db9af9a_1456x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aka7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ec9577e-3537-44c6-ae47-eb8c49ded8de_1344x256.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I&#8217;ve been toying with the idea of putting words on my political, societal, philosophical and satirical thoughts as well as my indignations for a while and now I stopped procrastinating that and start this new chapter this end of 2024.</p><p>In my teenage and young adult life, I wrote script for short and feature films but them life came in the way and the writing stopped. Now having passed the half century mark, I decided to say what I think, whether it&#8217;s politically correct or not, part of the zeitgeist or not, and to be truer to my Asperger self!</p><p>I might also write about movies and the movie business from time to time as I&#8217;m an entrepreneur in the film industry juggling between my companies within film distribution, film festival, servicing &amp; theatre. Earlier on I had the pleasure to operate SubDVD, a video store both physical in Stockholm as well as a web shop, between 2002 and 2016.</p><p>Being born and raised in the French speaking part of Belgium but having lived my whole adult life in Sweden, I will publish my texts in English, in French and in Swedish.</p><p><strong><br>But why are the turmoil and agitation considerable you might ask?</strong></p><p>In the mid-nineties, I read the debut novel of French writer Michel Houellebecq which deeply marked me, as well as his masterpiece &#8216;The Elementary Particles&#8217; published a few years later. In &#8216;Whatever&#8217;, the author describes in the opening scene a home party composed of work colleagues with those words: &#8220;le trouble et l&#8217;agitation sont consid&#233;rable&#8220;, or in English: &#8220;The turmoil and agitation are considerable&#8220;. He means that there is in the air both hope, tension, despair and lust mixed together as the main character tries to approach a female colleague hoping to seduce her. He won&#8217;t succeed and from that rejection his life he will spiral into despair and darkness as the Houellebecqian archetype male character should. Hope, tension, despair and lust mixed together feels like a good description of the ideas I want to put into words.</p><p>Thanks for reading and much love whether we disagree or not.</p><p><br>Nicolas Debot, December 6<sup>th</sup>, 2024.<br><br><br></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.nicolasdebot.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">THE TURMOIL AND AGITATION ARE CONSIDERABLE</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><br>Subscribe to receive my essays and posts newsletter when I publish new material.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>