Nikos Sotirakopoulos (@Nikos

Nikos Sotirakopoulos

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Nikos Sotirakopoulos

@Nikos_17

-Academic/author. Intellectual diagnostician. -Our ideas are too good to be fringe.

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Joined September 2009

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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Jun 29
Why are the ideas that gave humanity its best days so fringe today? Why is every looney ideology, from Marxism to fascism, making a comeback, but classical liberalism remains fringe and uninspiring? I tried to diagnose our unbearable irrelevance:
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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Nov 16, 2024
Which way, Western man?
Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
Nov 15, 2024
🇦🇷MILEI IS SLASHING IMPORT TAXES In a push to open Argentina’s economy, @JMilei is cutting import taxes to give consumers access to more affordable goods. Starting in December, the tax-free limit on international purchases will rise from $1,000 to $3,000 per package, while
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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Apr 3, 2025
These lines from Atlas Shrugged go particularly hard these days.
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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Aug 1, 2025
Meanwhile in real life, Israel has returned territory to Egypt (1979) & Jordan (1994) when they made peace, which is vastly LARGER than Israel's current size.
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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Jan 25, 2025
‘Man, capitalism is so materialistic and, like, soulless’. Meanwhile for the first time in history you have access to every book, opera, or film ever made, one click away (and most of them for free); for the first time in history, you, a non-aristocrat, can have free time to
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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Aug 2, 2025
Worth remembering: the people behind the camera, the people forcing the hostage to dig his grave, are the main source of information for the majority of news we've been getting from Gaza, and for the view most people have for the conflict.
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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Oct 26, 2025
From whom did J.K. Rowling ‘extract wealth’? Her customers? They got so much value out of her books. Her editors/publisher/contractors? They made crazy money from their collaboration. Same applies to anyone who produces and creates lots of value.
Georgina Hollifield 💚
@sp4rkl3jumpr0p3
Oct 24, 2025
Billionaires do NOT create wealth, they extract it. Very important distinction to make
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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Jun 21, 2023
A hard pill to swallow was that many on the Left aren't motivated by sympathy for the poor, but envy & hatred for the well-off. The tweet, the replies to it, and a look at the hashtag 'submarine', reveal a lot.
Ash Sarkar
@AyoCaesar
Jun 21, 2023
If the super-rich can spend £250,000 on vanity jaunts 2.4 miles beneath the ocean then they're not being taxed enough.
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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Oct 27, 2025
Milei is the exception to a basic rule of history: that politics is downstream from culture. Yet he’s winning as a one-man-show revolution in a most hostile culture for liberty. In the country that for a century tried every bad idea. Charisma, will, and aura for the ages. 🇦🇷
agustina vergara cid
@agustinavcid
Oct 27, 2025
It’s official: With +90% of votes already counted, Milei’s party La Libertad Avanza has been the most voted party nationwide. Deputies: 40.84% of votes. LLA won 64 Deputies. (In the photo, LLA-s color is purple). MASSIVE win for Milei! 🇦🇷
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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Oct 10, 2025
"They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die" (Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged)
★☭MassStrikeNow☭★
@strike_dr
Oct 8, 2025
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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Oct 7, 2023
This has less Yom Kippur and more 9/11 vibes. In Yom Kippur Arabs had a goal: recapturing Sinai and Golan. Today is pure nihilism; Hamas knows there’s zero to be gained. This is about killing for the sake of it, towards no goal. See how gleefully they post the lynched bodies
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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Jan 18, 2024
Milei makes, clumsily, the MORAL case for freedom, and the world pays attention. Meanwhile all these years the freedom movement has mostly produced graphs, policy papers, utilitarian arguments, GDP projections... And no one cared. No one will go to the barricades for GDP.
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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Nov 21, 2023
Trump: economic nationalism Milei: free trade, slash tariffs Trump: You need a strongman like me to MAGA Milei: More power to politicians = less power on your life Trump: Whatever works Milei: Only classical liberal ideas can save 🇦🇷 Trump: I can make deals with anyone,
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Nikos Sotirakopoulos
@Nikos_17
Mar 2, 2025
The ‘every death in the war is on Zelensky’ is the MAGA equivalent of the leftist psychos who were posting paraglide memes after October 7.
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Feb 28, 2025
We don’t support you. Show some respect next time. You are an ungrateful petulant child who is responsible for 1 million dead.
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