E122 - Paris Riots, Mass Migration, and The Victim Olympics (What Harvard Taught Me About the Left)

Book a call: https://remnantfinance.com/calendar Email us at info@remnantfinance.com or visit https://remnantfinance.com for more information FOLLOW REMNANT FINANCE Youtube: @RemnantFinance (https://www.youtube.com/@RemnantFinance) Facebook: @remnantfinance (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560694316588) Twitter: @remnantfinance (https://x.com/remnantfinance) TikTok: @RemnantFinance Don't forget to hit LIKE and SUBSCRIBEBrian joins from France, redeployed less than three weeks after coming home. In this episode, Hans argues that America hasn’t had a free market in decades. What we have instead is corporatism, where pharmaceutical and agricultural lobbies shape what we eat and what we’re prescribed. The second half turns to the riots in France and the mass migration behind them. Hans lays out the hierarchy of suffering, a framework he developed during two years at Harvard Kennedy School, to explain why the West’s leaders refuse to name what’s happening in their own streets. Chapters: 00:00 – Opening Segment 00:35 – Brian’s back in France 03:00 – Rushed out for a four-day weekend 05:00 – The military contracting grift 08:40 – What Europe does better 10:10 – Corporatism, not capitalism 18:00 – Pharma ads and vaccine schedules 21:50 – COVID as a marketing campaign 23:30 – 2008 and the uniparty 28:45 – Jalen Hurts 30:45 – The Paris shop owner meme 32:15 – Who’s funding the migration 36:15 – Afraid of being called racist 38:00 – Inside Harvard Kennedy School 43:15 – The victim Olympics 50:45 – The BIPOC caucus 53:15 – Mike the Oppressed 58:45 – Columbus, Cortés, and the Aztecs 1:03:20 – Keep your guns 1:06:30 – Closing segment Key Takeaways: **America doesn’t have a free market.** Capitalism means turning labor into productive value and being paid for it. What we have is corporatism: lobbyists writing protections into law, pharma advertising directly to patients, and losses socialized onto taxpayers while profits flow to the top.  **Better food in Europe is a regulation story, not a socialism story.** Europe bans ingredients and practices the FDA allows, and it bans pharmaceutical ads outright. Admiring what they do well doesn’t mean endorsing their tax rates.  **Victimhood is currency.** Hans’s hierarchy of suffering ranks people across four faces: gender, sexual identity, race, and miscellaneous categories like income and education. The higher you sit, the more you’re allowed to speak, interrupt, and shame.  **The label only works if you accept it.** A civilization that would rather watch its cities burn than be called a name has already lost. Pride in your nation and its laws isn’t hatred, and refusing to play the game is the first step out of it. **Take control of your own capital.** You can’t opt out of a system you depend on. Mutual companies and the infinite banking concept are tools Americans still have that Europeans don’t, so use them while you can.