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A Particular Love For Knowledge | Lemonade Stand - Ep. 44 Premium [VIDEO] (Patreon)

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Recorded on: February 17th, 2026

 0:00 - Intro

 2:00 - The Nordics immigration

 13:00 - Malta’s P2W immigration policy

 19:30 - Sweden is making it harder for Aiden to get in

 25:00 - When’s the last time you heard Good News from the UK?

 32:20 - Politicians and 2028

 44:05 - 2025 Job numbers are really low

 49:00 - Ray Dalio’s tweet

 1:01:20 - Not Financial Advice

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RitaK

Hello! Looking forward to hearing your latest thoughts! 🙂

Malcolm Delgado Monay

Finally, the long awaited Sweden talk by Aiden. The stance Europe is taking on immigration is interesting nonetheless, especially in combo with declining birth rates.

Real Lightfield

Small correction to Atrioc, assuming nothing crazy happens next German election is actually 2029

Badink

that bernie impression was funny as hell

Gönn_dier

Honestly I thought I missed something because I keep seeing people talk about the 10 Million initiative but for me it's one whole election away and here no one is really talking about it yet. They'll start polling after the vote in March finishes 😅 but to me it feels like the same thing our right wing party has tried to pass several times, this time with a different flavour and wording 😂

M C

My one complaint with Aiden wanting an older democratic socialist or even a left of AOC candidate… is just there aren’t really many that have that political experience - especially at the federal level. I think a left candidate could succeed with limited to no experience if they hired the correct people and stayed principled. We aren’t looking for one socialist hero with all the answers. We are looking for an idealist that knows they don’t have the answers but will make the team to get it done.

Abbas Jafari

I earn franc and I feel rich abroad, but at home I'm very poor

M C

Rubio’s blockade of Cuba is all his plan. The imperialist future of South America has openly been Rubio’s plans for years. This isn’t Trump strategy. You can tell when it’s a Trump strategy vs non-Trump strategy because Trump hasn’t changed main political talking points since the 90s.

IJWG

What Aiden described about the ideal digital euro is basically just the Brazilian Pix system.

exgota

yeah lol, he’s a bona fide cuban-american. ask any cuban here what they’d do in rubio’s position and 100% of the time it’d be more extreme.

Vincent Alvesteffer

This episode really making me think about asylum seeking and expatriates, and whether or not we want to live in a world where you have to violently overthrow local issues (otherwise flight would not be the easier solution) or would it be better to welcome people who are not welcome or able to survive in their homelands and maybe work towards getting things improved abroad else just assimilating driven individuals. My thoughts running back to the mass waves of immigration to America we've seen, where it was easier/safer/cheaper to go to the US than to resolve issues at home. Idk thanks for pushing my thoughts into a new area LS

M C

Yeah it’s so messed up. They are like “why just starve them to death when we could go there, shackle them down and eat a feast next to them, puking just so we can eat more?” Meanwhile Cuba is over there, despite the continued US war crimes, curing lung cancer and sending some of the best doctors on international aid missions. It’s so insane comparing resources knowing what the US could achieve if we weren’t all just greedy af.

nick hazard

Quick question, as a new patreon subscriber, are the numbers here (#44) the same as the podcast's number? If so, then this is 6 episodes behind?

Joyeuse

We need more AimenBerns

Bailey Yin

I am kind of sad about where crypto is right now. I think the block chain technology is good and the idea had merit but it turned into an investment vehicle or outright scams. The image in general for crypto is now very poor for very good reason.

Shiranka Miskin

Aidan’s Bernie is truly a thing of beauty

Nicko

It's because they released 6 main episodes before they started up the Patreon

ikioi no Rafa

Pretty sure it's because the patreon didn't start for a few episodes. So episode 50 and patreon 44 were made roughly at the same time.

Callum McNeill

Crypto has never worked as a real currency

Leondo Opster

Wait wtf, I've lived my entire life thinking I couldn't become president because I was born in Australia and you're telling me it was all a lie?

Aiden McCaig

It’s more about my ideal feelings this far out, if AOC is the best candidate for what I want (which she definitely could be) I’ll vote for her

M C

I agree. I, personally, am open for someone with less experience than AOC if I believe they are principled. My cope/analysis of the landscape is that my ideal candidate is out there, right now organizing and educating people, and hasn’t even considered running to be president.

unnamed

atroic please god stop saying swiss frUnc, it is pronounced how we would say frank in english. frAnk.

PythagoRascal

Swiss dude here, yeah that 10m initiative is the same bullshit the populist party has been pulling for at least the last decade. I don't think it will pass, but unfortunately, like everywhere else in Europe, Switzerland has also swung more right over the past few years. If you ever need local context or info/resources about Switzerland, hit me up. I have the same nickname on Discord.

Jesse

Curse strikes again. Mexico is now at war with CJNG

Eli Shriner

There has been some discussion I’ve been in recently of AI agents using crypto for exchanges because it’s so unregulated and easy

Eli Shriner

I’m gonna say it Marco Rubio feels like good old fashioned team America world police

Robert Quinn

If Aiden thought there was tangible value in Bitcoin, he's dumb. Yes, the value is in digital verification, but none of the tech is flashy or news worthy, as it should be.

Thomas Phillips

The UK has a similar Right to Roam law as well, couldnt imagine a countryside walk without it to be honest.

Thomas Phillips

Immediately got to the zero good news from here lmao, theres a general feeling that the people in charge have been, currently are, and will continue to be completely incompetent.

Richard

I kinda like it when Perry puts stuff up on the main screen related to what they’re talking about, but they don’t necessarily acknowledge it.

Suppy

Aiden’s Bernie killed me lol

Aiden McCaig

Tell me what you think I think

Spike Neye-Swift

as a britisher, id say things have a tendency to SOUND more doomer than they actually are? like, we all like to complain a lot and it seems that everyone else abroad likes to pile in on it. things aren't that great but they also aren't that bad. too expensive and nothing really works, but we're hanging in. the reason Starmer, more than anything, is unpopular is because just hasn't really DONE anything? won a huge landslide in 2024 after 14 years of conservative governance literally cooked the country so bad (like, the UK's structural problems predate the 2010 Conservatives, but the 2010 conservatives just systematically made it all worse for 14 fucking years lmao), and Starmer's Labour has just tinkered at the edges and it's annoying as hell. and also the British electorate is notoriously stroppy

justyannicc

Hi guys I am from Switzerland and want to give some context on the 10 million max population cap initiative. There is no way it passes. If you look at all of the initiatives proposed by the population, the vast majority do not get adopted, and do not pass, because usually they're more fringe ideas And the government tries to counteract those ideas by making a counter-proposal that gets accepted if the initiative is rejected. This isn't the case here. this idea is so frinch and so extreme that there is no counter-proposal. the Federal Council decided not to make one. Also if the federal council, so our 7 presidents, and parliament do not recommend the initiative to be accepted, it is historically even less likely it passes. Another thing is that Switzerland has historically always voted for closer relationship to the EU with the only notable exception being in the 1990s when we rejected joining the European economic area. This initiative would absolutely nuke our economy and our relationship with the EU, which is why it is incredibly unlikely it is accepted. That on top of the reasons I mentioned above. Generally, when we vote four times a year on issues, a few weeks before we actually vote, the surveys start and the arguments start. And usually initiatives start at a rather high number of approval, but drop quickly as the counter arguments start to get a foothold. This is the trend for basically every initiative. And for an initiative to have a chance, it needs to be in the 60s of approval in the beginning. This initiative is in the high 40s as it is starting, so it stands no chance. Additionally, the survey, usually cited outside of Switzerland, was done by 20 minutes, the newspaper. Which is, quite frankly, not a serious newspaper. There is one organization in Switzerland that basically everybody hires and everybody trusts to conduct these kind of surveys. They're called GFS Bern. If you want an actual survey and to know how likely it is to pass you hire them. Every news organization does that and any other surveys are kind of worth shit. Our public broadcaster SRF always hires them before votes to actually conduct surveys and discusses them. Any survey not conducted by GFS Bern isn't worth shit because GFS Bern has a history of being very close and they know how it works. Only one major party is for thism which is the right-wing SVP it's also the largest party but every other party is united against this proposal. If you look at the historical context, there's absolutely no way this passes, based on everything we know now. I generally take issue with so many people outside of the country taking this seriously in any form. It's not. We just have a system that allows for voices to be actually heard when enough signatures get collected and You can find a hundred thousand people for anything. it's the same thing as if I take Trump seriously when he says he is going to build something like the Golden Dome. Fringe Stupid Idea that isnt going to happen.

Tyler Daughtry

The BBC uplifting news section is both hilarious and depressing.

jense

big L of aiden by moving to sweden since denmark is clearly superior

jense

i think the most annoying thing Americans have convinced themself is that you need to be 50 plus to have "experience" it reminds me of the rich people leave when taxed myth like we have had people like Biden that at the end barely could for a thought and things where fine. We are treating adults like kids and that they cant do something like being president meanwhile we have maybe the most incompetent person on the planet in the white house. just frustrating from a non American perspective there are tons of nations with "young" leaders who do great

Alexander

Good episode. Although, one topic discussed I would like to push back a bit on: Sweden changing the required years of residency to attain citizenship is a little more nuanced than simply xenophobia (although that is a factor). One of the other big factors is pertaining to the financial health of the welfare system.

popcornspoon

As a response to Aiden’s convo about digital currencies. The idea of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) has been floated quite a bit but it’s challenging to get working because of money laundering/funding of terrorist group fears. Currently there are very few CBDCs in circulation with the most notable one being the Sand Dollar in the Bahamas

Marc

I have always taken a very pro foreign aid/development stance toward the immigration/(refugee) problem. People are going to come. That's simple reality. It makes me uncomfortable that "immigration realists" won't say out loud and at least admit the fact that their stance involves shooting people at borders. Again, simple reality. It's insane to believe someone who crossed the Mediterranean on a 15 person boat with 100 people will just turn back. I understand that countries and system have their limits. And that it's essentially an impossible moral dilemma. Which we atm just try push away as far as possible (to Türkye be exact). But that's exactly why it's even more insane to me that throughout Europe, even from left leaning leaderships, we've seen a steady decline of foreign aid funding. If we helped making it so these people don't have to leave, we wouldn't even be in this situation.

Luke Anakar

Update, the irs rejected it because I need to use their 3rd party private ID verification system and send them all my information. Its so stupid I thought for sure it was a fishing scam, somehow its not. The people lobbying must have been working overtime last year

finn Stafford

I understand it's a bit and a joke but there's definitely some validity for European nations accepting racially homogeneous people at a higher rate. Culturally speaking it's a far higher likelihood a white person has a more similar culture and cultural values. I also think that the economics can't be ignored. I think any and all racism is bad to be clear but there are numerous studies (Germany, Netherlands, uk) that show that non-EU or often non white immigrants have a fiscal cost over their lifetime. It's also true of some eastern European immigrants who are white but generalizations exist for a reason. If a country wanted to bolster their economy through immigration to choose to discriminate based on race is effective in generally (not individually) picking groups that will be net contributers over their lifetime. I also understand that racist people use this info as an excuse to justify racism but for non racist people we can't just ignore this factor because there are bad actors using it. I see too many people on the left (or even just normal Democrats) "throw out the baby with the bath water" and completely ignore the economics of immigration because the data doesn't fit their talking points. Alternatively here in the states it's been shown that immigrants (especially asian or Mexican) contribute more than they cost in benefits. To me it makes sense European countries are pendulum swinging the other way and implementing harsher policies immigration in europe has had a drastic economic and cultural impact that while arguable for culture has been deleterious for their fiscal systems.

AkitoTheGambler

Im from Switzerland. Switzerland had several votes on controversial things but because of how the system works, almost everything is voted by the population. Even though the right wing party has a majority if they try to make things that are too far right, the population wont accept it and it wont pass. E.g. during lockdown we voted multiple times on removing restrictions (same as usa far right point saying its unconstitutional) but population always voted to keep them. Also now im not worried at all, its unlikely to pass as the population is usually very informed about the consequences with freedom of movement and contracts with EU.

Brad Padgett

chat gpt ahh response pogchampo

Pinwin

freedom to roam is also a thing in the UK

Luke Anakar

Update part 2 (WHY?!?) I have to wait 2-3 days for the 3rd party program to reach out to me.

zach mattia

Look into Kentucky govener Andy Beshear. He's a strong progressive voice and has been a warrior for marjonalized communities in a place where in is not elelctorally beneficial to do so. I think he is an interesting sleeper candidate for the dems primary.

Umbra Night

if you’re willing to sacrifice your country for your political career then fuck you with extra sauce

Eira

A another reason for being unpopular currently is his appointment of Peter Mendelson as the US ambassador who was involved in an Epstein scandal. He was dismissed by Starmer right away and later resigned from Labour but damage was done.

Eira

Atrioc saying Forth of Firth was fucking great

Spike Neye-Swift

i mean, his approval ratings actually jumped from - 57 to - 47 after that

Dubai Darryl

Also there's more to the productivity of people than net tax benefit. If that's what we were talking about, we'd be deporting the boomers instead.

Dubai Darryl

Net lifetime for that matter. Intergenerational is going to be better. Because you're not necessarily resetting your life from poverty up.

finn Stafford

Lol I hand wrote this at work brother "AI response" isn't an excuse for not agreeing with someone's points

finn Stafford

Unfortunately in Europe specifically even the next generation is a net fiscal negative for many regions. The reason we don't deport boomers is because "they did their time" while many immigrants from poorer regions need assistance immediately and so take more resources during their younger years when their supposed to be paying in. All that being said the system is pretty stupid when boomers live longer than expected and all of a sudden social security is absurdly expensive for the nation and boomers are already the richest generation. I honestly think that our entire fiscal systems is unsustainable due to the complete lack of economic knowledge or foresight in like 95%+ of out government. We've become a nation of vibes and ideologies over one of truth. I think we need more numbers based people in charge of the country rather than people pushing mostly agendas made up of social issues (both Dems and repubs). One example I forgot about is Alaska. I am from Alaska and we have a huge Pacific Islander/Asian population and they are a huge net positive to our economy, while also assimilating well, and also preserving important cultural values and practices. If you ever visit Anchorage there's dozens of thai restaurants and a large portion of both skilled and unskilled workers come from those people groups, while they also in general need far less fiscal support to get started than other groups. Plus we LOVE having access to good Asian and Pacific foods!

theo

Yet another month where the only economic growth is old folk services, surely its a good sign they're the only ones served by economic growth

FoolOfYore

It seems like you're substituting race for country of origin which doesn't really make sense. A white person from Europe and a white person from Africa would have far more in common with a black person from their respective nations than each other. You say you're generalizing non-white as non-EU, why frame it as a racial issue at all. I don't know the studies you're referencing so I could be wrong but it just feels weird.

Green0Photon

Yes give me AOC and Ro Khanna as presidential candidates on Lemonade Stand

finn Stafford

The reason I started with race is in the pod they clearly state that it's due to Aiden's whiteness that he would be more easily accepted and as a generalization you can talk about race and country as the same. It may be different for an individual by individual basis but if I say people from japan, while I could mean a white dude the overwhelming majority are Japanese and therefore when using countries as a whole and talking about ethnicities (again due to aiden being white) I can 100% infer and assume race.

Zach Izzard

genuinely i was laughing my ass off at aiden's bernie

Nick Morozov

I need more Aiden in my life.

Tempest Liu

It’s so funny to listen to Aiden right after finishing the Leonas racist episode 🤣🤣🤣

James

Aiden’s bernie impression is incredible 😂

James

for the UK perspective bit, there’s actually quite a lot of good news at the moment but the prevailing narrative of doom & gloom serving a far-right mandate for radical change is overbearing (our mainstream media outside of the BBC is super corrupt and always has been). It’s also the same in reverse here, we only see bad news out of the US. Last good news I think I saw, Biden was in office. The biggest seed funding round in European history happened in London this week, violent crime in London is at its lowest ever level by a long way, and neither even make the news bc it doesn’t serve ‘the narrative’. Don’t worry about us!

Warwickstrom

I did not pay attention to the end of the merger episode I would love to grab me one of the Bernie Madoff shirts/sweatshirts was that too late?

fazebill

Some good news from the UK, the far right Reform UK lost an important by-election to the Green Party this week. They appear strong in the polls but actual voter turnout is very low

Pax M

Would like to know why Statistika and Axios polls are so different, in Statistika he has more like 40 somethig approval rating.

Claiming Light

I'm not afraid of Harris running again... I'm afraid of the DNC again deciding that forced pokemon-style progress is more important than democracy.

Carter Call

Classic Aiden Ls in this one

Luca kun

the thing with the imigration stuff in germany is that it's not actually that easy to restrict it. the large talking point also isn't about permanent citizenship. so what the afd does is talk how they will do a lot of stuff which they can't actually legally do but then other parties like the cdu try to replicate the talking points, they get in power and then don't do anything bc they can't so the whole thing just looks as if they don't actually want to. in the end all of this then only increases hostilities against foreigners no matter if german citizen or not bc all the parties try to get on the wagon and the only ones profiting from it are the afd bc they never actually get any country wide power so they can continue to act as if they are the the ones that will expell all the foreigners