Developing Taste
Developing taste involves exposing oneself to great work, analyzing why it resonates, and practicing craft to improve judgment. Building good taste is a gradual process that requires deliberate learning and feedback. (emilkowal.ski)
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) used X in mid‑October 2026 to argue that mass immigration has been a catastrophe for Europe and must be corrected, presenting this as the continent’s most urgent problem. He amplified messages asserting that nations are defined by their people, promoted Poland as an example to emulate, and framed recent unrest in French cities as evidence of a breakdown caused by immigration policy. His tweets repeatedly linked videos and eyewitness clips of clashes in Paris and critical commentary from political accounts.
Substantively, the content pairs broad claims about demographic threat with specific, graphic references to street riots - describing scenes as apocalyptic, highlighting a reporter allegedly threatened by second‑ or third‑generation migrants, and sharing right‑leaning commentators’ takes. He engaged with accounts like Geiger_Capital and Visegrád 24 and reposted footage that emphasizes violent imagery. Those posts drew large engagement across X, amplifying a narrative that immigration is an unmitigated loss for Western Europe and positioning restrictive or nationalist alternatives as the solution.
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Developing taste involves exposing oneself to great work, analyzing why it resonates, and practicing craft to improve judgment. Building good taste is a gradual process that requires deliberate learning and feedback. (emilkowal.ski)
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