What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about Europe
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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26 dated positions, 2022 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what David Heinemeier Hansson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
The shading behind a date shows how recently it was said: full within a month, empty after three years.
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Their wordsThe constant decel messaging in Europe is insufferable as an adult, but its effect on kids is worse.
- 11 days earlier
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Their wordsIt's your moral duty to patronize the craftsman of Italy should you strike it big!
- 2 months earlier
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Our readingMass migration is harmful to Europe
Their wordsNo single issue has cost Europe more than mass immigration when you add up the political, social, and economic consequences
↗Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can liveworld.hey.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Our readingClimate austerity is unnecessary for Europe
Their wordsJust 6% of global emissions originate there. So even if the nirvana of net zero could be achieved, it would change nothing, yet cost the continent everything
↗Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can liveworld.hey.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsEurope needs to shamelessly copy this aspect of the American ethos
↗Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can liveworld.hey.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsAmerica is simply a vastly richer country, and that matters when it comes to everything from commercial dominance to military power
↗Europe is weak and delusional (but not doomed)world.hey.com
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsIt's a monument to good intentions leading straight to hell. And the Europe is actually world class in good intentions leading straight to hell.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 1st of 36 in this recording
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe continent is hopelessly dependent on American Big Tech for even the most basic of digital infrastructure
↗Denmark gets more serious about digital sovereigntyworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsOpposition to mass immigration and multi-culturalism in Europe isn't likely to go away
↗The New York Times gives liberals The Danish Permission to pivot on mass immigrationworld.hey.com
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsBecause Europe is weak, spiritually and militarily, in the face of Russia
↗Europe must become dangerous againworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 2 days earlier
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Their wordsEurope has become a third-rate power economically, politically, and militarily
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Their wordsFifty raids in a day! For wrong speech, spicy memes, online insults of politicians, and other utterances by German citizens critical of their government or policies!
↗Leave it to the Germansworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsDecades of underfunding the European military has lead us here
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Their wordsAlthough I've yet to see the kind of grotesque enforcement -- six armed officers at dawn coming to confiscate a laptop! -- but the trend is none the less worrying all across Europe, not just in Germany
↗Leave it to the Germansworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 days earlier
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Our readingMass immigration threatens Europe
Their wordsVance identified it as one of the key threats to Europe at the moment, and I have to agree
↗Europeans don't have or understand free speechworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 4 weeks earlier
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Their wordsmy hope is that Europe, like usual, is merely a few years behind the American revival in optimism
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Their wordsEurope also lacks the ability to change course quite like the Americans
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Their wordsthe compromise of multiculturalism has been an abject failure in Europe
↗Failed integration and the fall of multiculturalismworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 13 days earlier
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Their wordsFrom the UK to the EU to Brazil, China, Russia, and Iran, political censorship is very popular
↗The social media censorship era is over (for now)world.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsthe EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its legislative failures
↗Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EUworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsEurope is in desperate need for a radical rethink on how it legislates tech
↗Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EUworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsThe DMA is convoluted and complicated because the EU is trying to have its cake and eat it too
- 8 days earlier
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Our readingApple could quit Europe
Their wordsApple could quit Europe. Stop selling its products in the EU.
- 2 months earlier
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Our readingSweden's longer open-door immigration policy left it in a world of hurt compared to Denmark
Their wordsSweden, which otherwise shares a lot of similarities with the Danes in terms of welfare-state design. They went with an open-door policy on immigration for far longer, ended up taking many more (about 3x Denmark), and are now in a world of hurt with the highest gun-murder rate in all of Europe, along with an overall crime rate 50% greater than Denmark
- 13 months earlier
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Their wordsThe EU just might make Apple lovable again by outlawing their monopolistic excesses
↗Apple's big monopoly loss comes curtesy of the EUworld.hey.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 5 days earlier
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Our readingEurope needs to become independent
Their wordsTo me, it seems that the obvious consequence of globalism dying that we need to prepare for a far more independent Europe
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