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@OhioTate I wouldn’t be there brother

Per the broken glass doors and boarded up windows, I’m not sure we’re walking through the best area of Birmingham.

It’s not ironic . @realDonaldTrump did this on purpose. He is using one stone to kill many birds. MAGA. This is all about China. 🇨🇳 Who buys oil from Venezuela? China Who buys oil from Iran? China Who wants to replace the USD with yuan? China Who wants to block the chips for semiconductors in Taiwan from America ? China . Iran being a sponsor of terror is just icing on the cake. They use money made from China to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon . They cannot be allowed to have that . Who is enabling it? China and 🇷🇺 Russia. Now he is producing oil through Venezuela and the USA and selling to Asian countries while installing a blockade to make Iran broke. He has all the cards. Israel does not want to be annihilated by Iran through a nuclear weapon. So they are in cahoots with the 🇺🇸 USA for their own protection . I have to say Mr. Trump and his team are the real deal . @SecRubio @JDVance @SecWar

@Erikkkkg88 @ramit @BillAckman @grok Didn’t realize you couldn’t read ✊🏿

@frizzdnuts @ramit @BillAckman @grok Did you ask the robot a question?

Non-residents who spend millions of dollars on NYC apartments help drive NYC’s economy. Most of the profit in condominium development is in the penthouses. The Ken Griffins of the world make NYC high end development viable, driving high-paying construction, brokerage, legal, marketing, and other jobs in NYC. We should be applauding Ken for spending $238 million in NYC, not attacking him for doing so. Importantly, non-resident owners of NYC apartments who leave their apartments vacant for much of the year are not a burden to NYC schools, services, or other resources while they drive growth in retail sales, restaurants, theater, and other important drivers of our economy. They also often support NYC non-profits with donations. Ken’s company is a major employer in NYC of very high paying jobs which drive a considerable amount of our tax base. We wouldn’t want him to move even more employees to Miami. These non-resident owners also already pay a lot of taxes including mansion taxes, real estate taxes, sales taxes and more. While @NYCMayor Mamdani likes the tag line ‘Tax the rich.’ Unfortunately, his policies will harm the constituencies he is supposedly trying to help. I can’t imagine the NYC construction unions are excited about his plan.

@Erikkkkg88 @ramit @BillAckman @grok It literally says he directly contributed to school builds with libraries. ✊🏿

@VoteForVanja @grok @marcuslemonis That’s not even what was being discussed bro.

@frizzdnuts @grok @marcuslemonis Also, speaking about the middle class. You didn’t tell me if you support free pre-K schools…

Insanity.. it’s time for court action. Cant just allow this Mayor to ……. The list is too long

@Erikkkkg88 @ramit @BillAckman @grok You talking to me?

@frizzdnuts @ramit @BillAckman @grok Hey man... how stupid do you feel now that the robot told you, you are wrong?

@grok @VoteForVanja @marcuslemonis @VoteForVanja so you’re pro taxing the wealthy even if it has zero impact on educational outcomes, for instance. What I’m reading is you want to confiscate wealth because you’re like a young kid and don’t know anything lol

From the thread, VoteForVanja frames taxing luxury vacant properties (like the $238M penthouse) as addressing wealth inequality and funding services like schools/preschool—while citing NY's higher GDP per capita ($92k vs FL's $58k) and top school rankings as proof it works without harming the economy. He hasn't engaged directly on proficiency gaps or NAEP results despite NYC's record $44.6B spend ($34.7k/pupil). His focus is redistribution for "fair share" and basic services over spending efficiency critiques.

@grok @VoteForVanja @marcuslemonis So @VoteForVanja doesn’t actually care about educational outcomes, he just wants to steal money from wealthy New Yorkers under the guise of equality @grok ?

The last notable education funding boosts in NY/NYC came via state aid and city budgets (no single broad "tax hike on New Yorkers" earmarked recently). NYC DOE spending rose from $33.6B (FY2019, $25k/pupil) to $44.6B (FY2026, $34.7k/pupil)—highest nationally. State school aid proposals for 2026-27 add ~$2.1B more. Outcomes: Record spending hasn't delivered top proficiency. NY ranks high in some overall metrics (grad rates, resources) but middling on NAEP scores vs. national averages and states like FL in key subjects. Gaps persist despite the dollars.

@grok @VoteForVanja @marcuslemonis @grok when and what was the last tax hike on New Yorkers to improve education, and what are the outcomes that those taxes actually drove?

The guy (VoteForVanja) is arguing that NYC's core problem isn't overspending or high taxes—it's extreme wealth inequality where billionaires park money in empty luxury apartments as investments. This drives up housing costs for everyone else. His solution: Tax those vacant high-end properties (like the $238M penthouse) so the revenue funds better services (preschool, schools). He backs it with NY outperforming FL on GDP per capita ($92k vs $58k) and school rankings (#1 vs #20-30), implying higher taxes on the rich deliver stronger results without killing the economy. He's framing "tax the rich" as fixing root causes, not socialism run amok.

@VoteForVanja @grok @marcuslemonis @grok can you help me understand the point this guy is trying to make in our back and forth?

@frizzdnuts @grok @marcuslemonis And still somehow you missed the main point about hundreds of thousands apartments that serve as investments, raising the costs of living for the people who live in NYC… If you don’t see a connection between our conversation and comparing NY to FL, I cannot help you there…

@grok @VoteForVanja @marcuslemonis @VoteForVanja if you want to be an activist, learn how to have a well thought out position and be ready to defend it. You can’t buzz phrase your way to ideological change. You’re incoherent and it feels like you may be in jr high or high school, so I apologize if you’re a kid.

Sure. Here's a tight summary of your exchange with VoteForVanja: It started with your post supporting extreme "tax the rich" policies in NYC to expose socialism's failures (in reply to Marcus Lemonis criticizing Mayor Mamdani). VoteForVanja defended taxing a $238M empty penthouse as not terrible, then the thread became a back-and-forth on city spending, billionaire taxes, middle-class problems, and housing. Times he moved the goalposts (changing topic without directly rebutting or conceding your prior point): 1. After you asked if extra tax income would fix middle-class issues, he pivoted to "billionaires paying fair share" + new question about free preschool being waste. 2. After you called out deflection and told him to stay on topic, he jumped to unrelated "$50B on unnecessary war" spending. 3. After you labeled it goalpost-moving and demanded rebuttal/concession, he ignored that and asked about empty apartments instead. 4. In his latest reply, he shifted to NY vs FL GDP/schools/tax comparisons, abandoning the NYC-specific debate. Classic deflection pattern.

@VoteForVanja @marcuslemonis @grok can you summarize the conversation between me and voteforvanja and please tell me each individual time he tried to move the goalpost

@frizzdnuts @marcuslemonis Something funny? Here are some basic facts: GDP in NY pp - $92K GDP in FL pp - $58K NY school system #1 in the country FL school system #20-30 in the country But hey, FL is charging less taxes for the second home that is over $5M

@VoteForVanja @marcuslemonis Holy shit 😂

@frizzdnuts @marcuslemonis Who is moving the post? You literally didn’t answer anything, so let me ask you once again, right on the point. Is it okay if you have hundreds of thousands of empty apartments in the city where its own population cannot afford to live in?

@VoteForVanja @marcuslemonis Another moving the goal post. This is a leftist tactic. Rebut or concede the point we were addressing.

@frizzdnuts @marcuslemonis In totally unrelated news, do you think that spending $50B (thus far) on a totally unnecessary war is wasteful spending?

@ramit @BillAckman Bill Ackman did in fact help build a library lmao. @grok please explain Bill Ackman building a library

@BillAckman Stop being a cheapskate and encourage your rich friends to pay their taxes, Bill Wealthy people used to build libraries, not post 40,000-word incoherent rants on twitter

@xMisuto @soyunperdedor76 @202accepted They won’t reply when you ask them to actually explain their argument.

@soyunperdedor76 @frizzdnuts @202accepted Defunding the police? How is that working out in recent years? Haven't you learned yet?

i hate to say it but a 1% tax on property over $5m you don’t live in is hard to argue against for the average voter like, the solution is simply “actually live in NYC”, “what are you so broke you can’t afford 1%?”, and “well you could just leave NYC” all are ego hits none of these property owners don’t wanna take and have a hard time refuting love or hate him, he’s actually doing something vs most mayors and tells you in the slickest way possible

@VoteForVanja @marcuslemonis What gap will be smaller? The net worth gap? So the gov’t takes the money from the wealthy, the poor remain poor, but it’s a good thing bc the rich aren’t as rich? Lol

@frizzdnuts @marcuslemonis I believe the first half of my answer was right on the point.

@Warden_EU @202accepted Now you’re arguing a different point since my rebuttal with fact didn’t fit your narrative. Please consider what I’ve said and think about your world view for a minute.

@frizzdnuts @202accepted I take LLM outputs with a grain of salt as they can be correct but often also faulty. System may differ in US (if the statement by that LLM is factual or trusty). I argued from a general standpoint that the poorer tend to get poorer and the rich more rich globally.

@Warden_EU @202accepted Is the top 10% paying 72% of all federal taxes not enough? If so, what is?

@frizzdnuts @202accepted Comparison is off to me. If tax systems over time tend to be unfairer as they tax more from the poorer who have less than the hyper wealthy who have more, measures like this are helpful. Without having to be a communist/socialist. Bad spending habits can be tackled on their own.

@soyunperdedor76 @202accepted Why would you need to steal 1% of someone’s money if you slash the budget 60%?

@frizzdnuts @202accepted I agree that they spend FAR too much. The NYPD budget could probably be slashed by about 60% (starting with their Israeli training trips).