Echo of Mars

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"I want this poor country, if necessary, but independent - and I don't want it colonized by American capital." — António de Oliveira Salazar.

@DVanLangenhove @StephenM @kenofintegrity Dries, you don’t have to answer, as I know you should avoid exposing yourself like that, but do you actually think this Tribe guy will actually do anything but tweet?

@StephenM @kenofintegrity Very true. Now let’s put this thinking into action, shall we? What are we waiting for? The time for this historic opportunity is running out.

A useful way to think about migration is to consider what kind of societies the migrants have built in their home countries and to what extent you would like those conditions replicated here.

@UBERSOY1 Seriously comparing non-PPP data?

This could be Russia if it were to properly Westernize instead of being a corrupt autocracy. The Russians have the same average IQ as Latvians and Lithuanians + oil that the Balts don’t.

@yaghsizian @WallStreetMav Arbitrary answer. No one knows where Rmax & Tmax are. Too complex to model. By definition it would be preferable to have lower taxes, unless it is proven that having lower taxes is prejudicial for growth (which I think is probably true - laffer curve is probably not accurate)

@WallStreetMav every major GOP tax cut has reduced revenue and increased deficits. The offset from growth has never made up for it

The leftists think they can just raise taxes and more money comes in for them to spend. Despite all of the evidence of wealth leaving when they raise taxes, they still do it. They simply lack the ability to change direction. The same thing is happening in Europe and Canada.

@jpjaramillo25 No olvidar tambien que el partido del gobierno utiliza los mismos símbolos que el British Union of Fascists de Oswald Mosley. Es un partido corporativista.

Haití tiene un gasto público menor al 8% del PIB, según Andrés debería de ser un “paraíso capitalista”. Noruega en cambio tiene un 49% debería de ser un “infierno socialista”. Ahora creer que el éxito de Singapur obedece a su Estado pequeño en lugar de a su modelo de industrialización de alta tecnología es DOGMA. Por cierto, Singapur tiene una particularidad el 90% de la tierra le pertenece al Estado que tiene un modelo desarrollista. Ah y por cierto el mismo partido político ha gobernado desde los 60s. Sin mencionar también que el Estado es el accionista de los sectores estratégicos (banca, telecomunicaciones, transporte, electricidad) y es el principal promotor de la infraestructura. Es así como Singapur es el país que menos encaja en la tesis de Andrés de minimizar el rol del Estado.

@Joe42773166 @SkinkkQ @ImmaGott @EdbieLigerSmith Cheap rage bait; additional spelling mistakes just prove my point

@EchoofMars1 @SkinkkQ @ImmaGott @EdbieLigerSmith Know, it’s because your incapable. Your just not intelligent enough. Keep working on you’re English third-worldist because your wrong even saying it is a spelling error. Half another go.

Funny story: Milton Friedman visited China a few times after reform & opening up to lecture on inflation. He ended up giving them one of his usual sermons about why they should privatize everything. A Communist Party Scholar told him that he might find China’s system turns out to be superior to one entirely based on Free Markets. A notion which Friedman dismissed as “political correctness.” Today, China’s system has in fact proven to be superior to one based on Friedmanite free markets, and yet here you have an American trying to claim that their system is Milton Friedman style capitalism. Where in Milton Friedman’s writings did he advocate for state ownership of banks & land? Or five year central economic plans created & enforced by the state? People will twist themselves into all sorts of pretzels to avoid admitting the obvious fact that China is a Socialist country with a Marxist Leninist understanding of economics.

@SkinkkQ @Joe42773166 @ImmaGott @EdbieLigerSmith A valid ad hominem in this instance, as I won’t spend time refuting arguments coming from people who do not have a command of what seems to be their mother tongue.

@EchoofMars1 @Joe42773166 @ImmaGott @EdbieLigerSmith Grammar policing is an ad hominem adjacent fallacy if his sentence is still coherent. Refute the arguement please or you’re just adding no value to anyone.

@Joe42773166 @ImmaGott @SkinkkQ @EdbieLigerSmith And you are not capable of spelling words properly.

@ImmaGott @SkinkkQ @EdbieLigerSmith Jargon maxing is wrong but it’s not slop, he has a very clear point, your just not capable of understanding it

@EdbieLigerSmith Liberals and libertarians are the most insufferable ideologues, given their relativist takes on everything. Nothing is objective, ever.

@DaleCloudman @pedrogabwriter @fawwazanvilen You live on another planet. Libertarians & liberals are the most insufferable people

@pedrogabwriter @fawwazanvilen if the healthcare market were really free it would be cheaper and better every year, just like it is with elective surgeries (see lasik costs , plastic surgery , etc over time)

The chart notably has no answer (ie. a loop) for those things that are important & no one would be willing to pay unforced

@thewspdpodcast @ericmmatheny Dumbest comment of the day and it’s not even rage bait

@ericmmatheny Not a flat % rate. A flat lump sum. Exempt incomes below a certain level. Then divide the federal spending by the number of taxpayers and each pays that same amount. (Of course, cut government by 80% first.) Percentages can be just as punitive as marginal rate brackets.

Flat tax. Whether you make $1000 or $100 million. A fixed percentage for everybody. And that’s it. A one-page tax form. No bullshit. Everybody pays a reasonable and equitable amount. Everyone - from the wealthiest to the poorest - have skin in the game.

@DarkOg428186 @ericmmatheny Cheap rage bait

@ericmmatheny thats stupid, imagine a billionaire needing to pay 100k in taxes and someone who makes 80k a year needing to pay the same amount... tax rates would have to be crazy low for thsi to work

@MisterFinnian Difficult one. Life as such, in nature, would lead immediately to death. However, in a relatively advanced, civilized Christian society, through charity we are able to provide this person with sustenance, regardless of his productivity. That is Christian ethos… But is it right?

Anyone who looks at someone like this and says that death is better than life is 100% grass-fed goy cattle

@normal_dwarf @Handre The UK example you’ve offered goes to my point: higher baseline means slower growth, ceteris paribus…

@EchoofMars1 @Handre So in the UK in comparison, without the extensive need to rebuild, had a massive advantage. My point is, the different economic policies were the cause of the Wirtschaftswunder in one case and the slow growth in the UK in the other.

Ludwig Erhard abolished price controls and stabilized the German currency in one bold stroke on June 20, 1948. Ending the Marshall Plan and kicking off the Wirtschaftswunder. Arguably, the greatest economic miracle of the 20th century. The Deutsche Mark replaced the worthless Reichsmark at a 10:1 ratio, instantly creating sound money. Erhard simultaneously eliminated Nazi-era price controls on everything except rent, coal, and steel. The Allied authorities were furious. General Lucius Clay summoned Erhard and accused him of modifying the controlled economy. "I have not modified it," Erhard replied. "I have abolished it." The results were immediate and spectacular. Industrial production jumped 50% in the second half of 1948. By 1950, it had doubled from 1947 levels. Real wages rose 15% per year through the early 1950s while consumer prices actually fell. German workers could suddenly buy what they produced, and they produced more than ever before. Compare this to Britain, which maintained wartime controls, rationing, and a weak pound through the 1950s. British industrial production crawled upward while German factories hummed. The contrast couldn't be starker: free prices and sound money created abundance, while controls and currency debasement perpetuated scarcity. Modern economists credit everything except the obvious, that Erhard unleashed market forces and anchored them to stable money. They invoke multiplier effects, infrastructure investment, even "pent-up demand" (whatever that means). They refuse to admit that lifting the boot from the economy's throat works better than any stimulus package ever designed. Erhard is a legend. Your country needs an Erhard.

@Handre Even post war, Germany had the most advanced rail and road system on the planet. Plus, there was an economic interest on both Soviet & non-Soviet sides to get economies back up and running (as proven by Marshall plan). No miracles here…

@Handre Economic “miracles” built on the back of massive infrastructure left behind by previous regimes (Germany, Japan), aren’t really miracles.

@Carl_Dull_007 @Handre It’s very easy to rebuild infrastructure. That’s my whole point.

@EchoofMars1 @Handre Large parts of the infrastructure were destroyed. But what remained was an efficient administration and a well trained population providing a high trust society.

@normal_dwarf @Handre Proper economic planning means that places like Ludwigshafen could get back into production in less than a year. Blueprints, rail access, know-how, economic incentives, mines, energy sources etc. are all in place. It’s more difficult to innovate than rebuild.

@EchoofMars1 @Handre Sure. Which of those images show the massive infrastructure before and which after the war? PS These are photos of Ludwigshafen.

@enolebotti @Nomediocre_P @johannesmkx Deceased organ donation is what happens in 95% of cases. Staff will monitor for irreversible brain death, and then extract the organs. Blood & oxygen will keep flowing to avoid damage.

@EchoofMars1 @Nomediocre_P @johannesmkx Then they could not harvest the organs. These two cannot co-exist.

Just 4 countries around the world allow organ donation right after euthanasia (the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, and Spain). Here I explain the process. You are sedated at home and then transported to a hospital where your euthanasia is completed via 'circulatory death'.

@Nomediocre_P @johannesmkx That’s my whole point… please re-read what I wrote. Circulatory death is conducted wrong. If the person were to actually die in the hospital prior to organ extraction, I have no issue with receiving general anesthesia at home. That’s what I wrote.

@EchoofMars1 @johannesmkx The issue is not circulatory death, because after 2-5 min circulation arrest you are not dead. Then after that 2-5 min circulationarrest, they reanimate you in OR and restore circulation That's a bigger issue.