Josef 'GM' Stalin, smiling politely

@chamath What about all the regular people who invested in your SPACs that went to 0?

California will be bankrupt by 2030. If you’re expecting a state pension, it is at risk. If you don’t believe it, check Grok or Gemini and explore how California politicians changed the reporting rules on your pension so they could hide how underwater it is. The middle class citizens of California will soon be asked to pay a huge price to bail out the state. Why them? Because that is where most of the wealth of California resides. It’s easy to single out “billionaires” but there aren’t many of them and they can and will all leave before the bottom falls out. They are leaving in droves already. The mismanagement in California is biblical - and the scale is huge because it’s the world’s 4th largest economy. California politicians and their henchmen are now entering the coverup phase where they can no longer hide their financial incompetence so they are taking from average California residents to try and hide what they’ve done: You will soon see ballot initiatives with fancy tiles like “billionaire tax”. But those are lies. They are mechanisms to tax everything, every way: Excise taxes Wealth taxes Private property confiscation It’s all happening now. If you want to preserve California, you will need to stand up because California has become a kleptocracy.

@Totinhiiio @premierleague @BrentfordFC Fuck off chatgpt

Jordan Henderson scoring his first Brentford goal in his 600th English game just proves clubs now chase big names for quick headlines over building real futures. At 35, one simple finish gets celebrated like a milestone when he's miles past his peak from Liverpool days. Spending heavy wages on veterans blocking youth paths shows panic buying instead of smart planning. True milestones belong to players growing with clubs, not late arrivals padding stats in quieter sides. Time to prioritize tomorrow's stars over yesterday's captains.

A first @BrentfordFC goal for Jordan Henderson, coming in his 600th match in English football 🌟

@MattMK45 @cobie @AzFlin @z0r0zzz interesting af, one of the ledges of this space

@cobie @AzFlin @z0r0zzz @JohnB1994

this is a very common and powerful tactic - underplay yourself even if you are giga rich, pretend you're middle class. Places less of a target on your back and makes you more relatable/likeable CT doesn't like rich people b/c there's natural envy

@MattMK45 @avgcryptoguy it's been way tooo long boss!

@avgcryptoguy @JohnB1994 we are so back

all of CT when the new UpOnly drops

@RichardfromSyd1 @johnkonrad @ssankar Only local. No global projection like US or Britain, France etc

@johnkonrad @ssankar When did Russia, which had a pretty impressive Empire and still considers itself an imperial power, when did it ever have a navy that did not suck ?

There’s a flood of posts quoting NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang call to lean into peace with China and Palantir’s @ssankar, an US Army reserve colonel, calling to prepare for war. Both miss the real fulcrum of global power: Seapower. No empire in history ever rose, or survived, without a great navy. And China now has the largest fleet on Earth. The mystery isn’t how big it is. It’s why they built it. Because so far, they don’t use it for anything but harassing poor Filipino fishermen. If Jensen’s right, if China truly wants peace and prosperity, then prove it. Use that massive navy to deliver humanitarian aid to nations in crisis. Use it to defend merchant ships through the Red Sea. Use it to pull stranded sailors from wrecks and protect global trade. Use some gunboat diplomacy to force North Korea to open up to your new vision of prosperity communism. Use it to pressure Russia into ending the war and then flood their nation with factories and infrastructure and all the things you make so well so they can prosper without expansion. Or, if you want to kick ass, China has made it clear they don’t like Muslims. Well go topple Iran. I really hate the last option BUT we absolutely must see your Navy doing something to promote world peace. That’s what we need to invest in Jensen’s vision of a prosperous China. Show us! The easiest way? Invite foreign officers aboard your warships. Train with other nations. Show the world your intentions aren’t conquest, but cooperation. That’s how America does it. You can’t walk across a U.S. Navy deck without bumping into a European or Pacific ally working inside the rails of our ships. We put friends inside our most guarded commands where they could easily sabotage our lethality not because we’re naïve but because that’s what real trust looks like. You can’t make promises that your Navy is a force for good. You have to bring foreigners from across the world aboard for long deployments and show them. And this can’t be tours at the dock. It has to be long deployments. Deployments long enough for barriers to fall so your officers tell with honesty their intentions and hopes for your grand fleet. Or, if what some claim is true, that the warships you built are really just a jobs program, then nerf them and donate the hulls to poor nations struggling to protect their fisheries andtrade. Don’t ask us to trust a nuclear power with the largest Navy this century is intended for peace. SHOW US. China could do this tomorrow. It has more ships than it needs to defend its coast. And everyone knows Americans don’t want another land war in Asia. So the question is simple: What did you build that navy for? If it’s peace, PROVE IT. If it’s power, then don’t be shocked when the world prepares accordingly. I greatly prefer Huang’s vision but until China shows us its true intent at sea, the only rational choice is to side with Sankar’s realism over Huang’s hope. Sailors can’t afford to set sail on a voyage of hope. The sea is too dangerous. Huang can not ask the US Navy to sail into unknown without preparing for storms, it’s not in their DNA as sailors.

@BickerinBrattle @Joey66462887 @profplum99 Actually i am way way more important than you are and everyone knows that. i am one of the most important folks here.

@Joey66462887 @profplum99 i am way way more important than you are and everyone knows that. i am one of the most important folks here.

hmm suspect I had a wee role in all this bubble babble going on now. let me be clear think S&P 500 will start to fall towards 3000. and this will scare folks and then @profplum99 passive thesis kicks in and who knows where it ends.

@MattMK45 @collectingcars_ Japan's golden era af

@collectingcars_ @JohnB1994

This NSX is finished in the appealing hue of Midnight Purple Pearl over a black leather-trimmed interior.⁠ ⁠ 📍LIVE NOW - Hong Kong⁠ ⁠ collectingcars.com/for-sale/1997-… ⁠ #CollectingCars #JDM #NSX #Honda #VTEC #NSXT #MidnightPurple #HongKong

@MattMK45 @CryptoParadyme Lmao how could I forget

@CryptoParadyme @JohnB1994 remember Yats?

does this mean someone is going to buy my Yat for 10 eth?

@MattMK45 @Finumus1 @TheFCA Yet you can buy penny stocks no problem

@Finumus1 @TheFCA @JohnB1994 what a joke

Thanks again to @TheFCA for protecting us from holding this in our ISAs and SIPPs in ETF form.

@amenarh_c @FabrizioRomano fuck off AI

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 At this stage of the summer window, Andy Robertson has made no decisions on his future yet. He will take a break and discuss everything with Liverpool having great relations with the Club and full respect. No talks on the fee will happen until player decides on options.

@wallstengine looks more like a service to compete with coinbase based on the description

JPMorgan, the world’s largest bank, just filed a trademark for what looks like a crypto stablecoin called “JPMD.”

@MattMK45 @boldleonidas @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee absolutely insane

@boldleonidas @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee @JohnB1994 PS really wanting to die on this hill wtf

@catturd2 @BasedMikeLee FYI. Pedophiles are attracted to pre- pubescent girls and boys. I'm not defending Epstein. But he had sex with teenage girls, 14-17 that had physically developed sexually. They were underage, so criminal and immoral, but that does not make him a pedophile.

@MattMK45 @FlawlessSpec The colours definitely, not 100% on the look of it though

@FlawlessSpec @JohnB1994 I quite like this spec

Oro Chiaro Ferrari 12 Cilindri

@MattMK45 @oldstocky Oh good heavens

@oldstocky @JohnB1994

@Fullbeerbottle Surely money laundering

@MattMK45 @inversebrah Inspiring af

@inversebrah @JohnB1994

@MattMK45 @FlawlessSpec Thata exactly it, or with flames down the side

@JohnB1994 @FlawlessSpec Yeah like how you might tastefully spec this on NFSMW

Porsche Carrera GT by Zagato

@MattMK45 @FlawlessSpec Gosh there's something so 2000s about that colour haha

@FlawlessSpec @JohnB1994

@premierleague @Oracle And yet it was still a draw against some club in 14th

Here, there and everywhere 🌪️ Declan Rice ran the show in #MUNARS @Oracle

@missmetaverse @PalmerLuckey That was about WW2

@PalmerLuckey Call of Duty launched in 2003—right as the Iraq War kicked off. Just a coincidence, I’m sure. Nothing to see here, folks. /S 😎

The Call of Duty franchise has done more to engender support for UK/US military cohesion over the past two decades than just about anything else, especially with military-age males. Change my mind.