The Arbiter

@kencu_web @mario4thenorth Whats insane is the amount of tax we pay.

@mario4thenorth And nearly every other country does the exact same thing, including the US. And rightly so. Why should you expect to leave with a ton of untaxed accumulated wealth and give the taxes instead to the next country you move to? That’s insane policy.

Gad just learned about the Canadian “exit tax.” It’s very real. It’s one of the reasons our brain drain isn’t bigger than what it already is. It’s a form of entrapment. There are successful entrepreneurs who have highly profitable businesses, that do not leave because their business would be taxed as though it was sold, a deemed disposition, at fair market value, but they don’t have the money to pay the tax on it. Think of it as an acquisition happening, but with you getting no money, and instead a tax bill as though you made a captain gain (profit) on selling your business. It’s like the mafia. You can’t leave without paying a price.

@crysaliq @RealShahriqKhan You're seeing something from your own puny human perspective, and based on what you can know and understand, are applying your own rules to God, a being far outside your ability to comprehend. Go read Job 38 and consider humbling yourself.

@RealShahriqKhan No one is their own son, neither are they their own father, nor are they their own God. So God, having Jesus for His own Son, Christ, Lamb, Word, Heir, Image, Prophet, Priest, and Servant, is NOT Jesus, and Jesus, having God for BOTH His God, and His Father, is NOT God, Himself.

I used to think Jesus couldn't be God because He didn't fight back. Arrested. Mocked. Beaten. Crucified. And He just took it. I thought, "Where's the power in that?" Then I realized something that shattered me: Jesus wasn't refusing to fight because He was weak. He was refusing to fight because He was dying for us. It's like asking why a father doesn't strike back when his hurting child lashes out at him. Love doesn't always defend itself. Sometimes it absorbs the blow to heal the one causing it. Islam taught me that strength was domination. The cross taught me that strength is restraint. Real power is having the ability to destroy and choosing to forgive instead. Jesus wasn't a victim. He predicted His own death. Walked straight toward it. Held back legions of angels. And chose the cross anyway. "No one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord." (John 10:18) That's not weakness. That's a King so committed to saving His enemies that He willingly suffered for them. Jesus didn't fight for a crown. He took a cross to win the war forever. He wasn't proving He was God by destroying His enemies. He was proving how far God would go to save them. That's not weakness. That's how heaven wins.

@TheELongWave 100 percent this. Inflation is the most insidious tax.

The thing that lifted the Victorian worker was not capitalism’s kindness or union power alone. It was monetary. Honest money + rising productivity = falling prices = rising purchasing power. The factory became more efficient. The loaf became cheaper. The worker became richer even if the wage did not rise much. The gain reached him through lower prices, not always through a bigger paycheck. That mechanism was broken in 1971. Under fiat money, productivity gains no longer reliably flow to workers as falling prices. They are captured upstream through asset inflation, financial engineering, and credit expansion. Same capitalism. Different money. Opposite result. And this destroys the modern socialist dodge on “relative immiseration.” The wage-versus-asset divergence they point to labour falling behind while owners pull away does not map cleanly onto 1867. It maps onto 1971. The immiseration Marx predicted arrived nearly a century after his death, and it arrived through a monetary regime he never lived to see. That is what modern Marxists omit either by admission or by religion. They omit the monetary regime. They omit Schumpeter’s creative destruction. They omit Kondratieff’s long waves. They omit the fact that capitalism under honest money is not the same machine as capitalism under fiat credit. One system transmits productivity to workers through falling prices. The other inflates assets, concentrates wealth, and then blames “capitalism” for the disease created by money itself. Modern socialists are using a gold-standard-era diagnosis to explain a fiat-era disease. They are running 19th-century software on a machine whose operating system was replaced in 1971. And most of them never noticed.

@SerenityCH3 These "male weapons" to break through female resistance are actually traits that women have selected for, for millenia. Feminism taught women to hate the very things they desire, and men to suppress the parts of themselves that would win the competition. The mechanism - broken.

@SerenityCH3 When the right sperm meets the egg, the egg draws it in. When the right man meets the woman, he does not encounter any resistance. That's not resistance to reproduction, it's choosing who gets to reproduce.

Much of what she is said here is good, but what she's talking about is not resistance, it is selection. The obstinence she describes is the selection mechanism in a state of brokenness.

I mean if you examine this message even a little bit, it's quite problematic. Saying to someone "Give me things or I will do crime", is a crime.

@Devon_Eriksen_ @AnEriksenWife What company is that?

@AnEriksenWife Also had a chance to visit their labs.

Asteroid mining is not only going to make a lot more trillionaires, it's going to make us all rich. Just like the Industrial Revolution, the Space Revolution will greatly increase standards of living across humanity... yours, mine, everyone's. Electric light and indoor plumbing were once luxuries. Now they are so universal that we can have them and still think of ourselves as poor. But preindustrial folk would have thought us wealthy beyond measure. What's coming is another paradigm shift. You may think this is all theoretical. You may think asteroid mining is an unproven concept. You're wrong. Because you don't know one critical fact. We're already asteroid mining. And we've been doing it since the Bronze Age. All gold we mine on earth, all the copper for wires, the uranium for reactors, all the iron for nails, everything made of heavy metals that you own, or use, or have ever seen... it's all mined from ancient asteroid strikes. All the native Earth metals sunk to the core when the whole planet was molten. Past our reach. Do you think there are precious metals, like gold and silver and platinum? Do you think that even common metals, like iron and tin and copper, cost a lot to extract and refine? Artificial scarcity. Every piece of metal you have ever seen was sourced from the tiny percentage of asteroids that once hit Earth. Leave the gravity well, learn to sail the void, and we can loot all the asteroids that haven't. Imagine that we built all of civilization picking up our raw materials, grain by grain, with tweezers. Asteroid mining, true asteroid mining, is a shovel. And no, not a hand tool shovel, I mean the shovel attachment on the front of an industrial digger. That's why SpaceX has trillion dollar plus valuation. And unless we screw things up on Earth, and sabotage them somehow, that valuation is way too low. Below here, you'll see a different part of the plan. A little company, running out of a little industrial space in the San Fernando Valley, is building humanity the ultimate shopping bag. They think Mars is a sideshow, you see. They want to bag up asteroids, just scoop the little ones right up with a great big robot butterfly net, and bring back to high Earth orbit. Strip them down there, and build. If you thought data centers in space are wild, wait until you see factories in space. Wait until everything from toasters to CPUs to machine tools are made in high orbit, or on the moon, and the only bits that ever make it to Earth on the finished products. In space, minerals are cheap. And power is free. And it doesn't cost much of anything to move goods down a gravity well. You have no idea what's coming. Neither does SpaceX or Transastra, for that matter. They've got a hold of the tail of the elephant, and they think the Space Revolution is a rope. I'm a science fiction author. My job is to see the whole elephant. It's a big fucking elephant.

@elonmusk @Sajwani @SenWarren Probably just needs inflation

@Sajwani @SenWarren Not impossible, but definitely requires factories on the Moon and Mars to achieve. By then, I don’t think dollars will be used as currency. Just mass and energy.

cc @SenWarren 😂

The Canadian political establishment fears Alberta independence for one simple reason: Once someone fully understands the issue, the system never gets them back. Once you see that confederation is structurally unfair, that Alberta is exploited, and that our wealth is extracted to fund the rest of the system, it becomes painfully obvious. This cannot be fixed by electing a different federal government. The only real option left is independence.

@GalAtTheTheater Whats the marshmallow test?

I can tell which men would and would not pass the marshmallow test based on how they replied to this post.

Almost all women do get insanely turned on by making out. That’s the point. We get insanely turned on in perpetuity, and exponentially in relation to what we’re given to work with. Most women are not just “turned on” by the sight of a man’s body in a vacuum. But in 20 years, she’ll initiate sex with you seemingly at random, and it will be because she was thinking about that one time you made out with her for 20 minutes on the couch. Why is this so hard for 99% of men to understand?

@GiffLasta Gynocentric. You take all agency away from women. You assign them no responsibility.

Yeah, you COULD resent your wife for being a woman... But you could also embrace that it's THE MAN'S JOB to apply cocky bravado to life's stupid little arbitrary decisions. "Woman: your big strong man wants spaghetti tonight!" Don't hate sexy fun, my men!

@aidannonx Men don't typically hate women, until they've been damaged by them beyond repair, in fact its far more common that men just keep getting treated like shit, and still love women and want women. Even the ones that don't, mostly aren't hating women. They just don't want any more bs.

I dont understand hating women I was walking in to the gym and saw this dad with his daughter and love they had for each other was so touching. Idk how anyone could be opposed to having a daughter I was slow dancing to this super old love song w a girl and it was so relaxing I think women hate is pretty forced unless you’re totally alone

@BrianAtlas It just makes me think of Norah Vincent.

Can anyone explain this female phenomenon where women think if they were men they’d be killing it? You put most women in a man’s body and they are basically screwed.

@buckeyebettie This is backwards. Feminism is the spawn of female intrasexual competition. Feminism, and all the other leftist ideologies, are intrasexual competition.

Feminism is divisive. It uses female intrasexual competition to ostracize women when they don’t conform. It doesn’t want equality, it wants female supremacy. It doesn’t care about healthy relationships or children.

@SqueePip You ever heard of magic dirt?

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@buckeyebettie Where did you get this

@asymtrades @ChrisLaubAI This is the most gynocentric take. Nothing is ever the womans responsibility, nothing is ever wrong with her. If she doesn't want you it's your fault. It's not possible for her to just see her man's needs and want to meet them without strings.

Wives don’t intentionally withhold sex to be cruel. I know men will refuse to believe this but if your wife is not jumping your bones every day the problem is more often than not, you. When she feels safe and cared for, and her physical and emotional needs are being met, the energy and libido will return. But it’s not a deliberate, conscious decision to not be in the mood. Men are horny 24/7, so you just don’t get it. And not understanding her is contributing to the problem. If the bedroom is dead, take some of the weight she’s carrying off her shoulders.

Dear men considering marriage: Unless you have a super low libido, you absolutely must talk to your GF about what will happen in the relationship if she stops providing sex. Make it dead clear you will work with her to resolve the issue. But if it's not fixable and she refuses to budge, make it clear you will NOT tolerate a no sex marriage. Divorce. Escorts. Whatever. Make sure she understands you're not just going to put up with it. This is also why both prenups and agreements that protect your post-marriage assets are critical. Imagine losing access to your kids and having to give up 50% of your shit because SHE stopped putting out LOL Extreme cuck behavior. Don't be an idiot.

@TheJKey @Baurakale7 @TRHLofficial That's rough.

@Arbiter_Apodict @Baurakale7 @TRHLofficial Me before graduation. "I have enough money to pay rent for a year or my first semester in college. Can I live here so I can afford to graduate?" Day after graduation. Stepdad- "I'm cheating on your mom, you're moving out tomorrow. Mom - " I already spent the money you saved ".

This has 30,000 likes.

@Baurakale7 @TheJKey @TRHLofficial You're an idiot.

@TheJKey @Arbiter_Apodict @TRHLofficial I was told to work as a farmhand at Grandpa's farm, the day after graduation.

@jaegermedia1 It would apply to a woman who has grown emotionally attached.

There’s a recent study that shows it takes an average of 8 years for the emotional attachment to dissolve after a breakup yet most women seem to move on within days if not hours. Does this only apply to men?