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LLTF 🇺🇸@MG_Montella·
A pretty good program for America: 1) Deregulate 2) Cut spending on stupid stuff 3) Have a muscular military 4) Pursue industrial policies to protect US jobs + vital industries 5) Have people subscribe to values of hard work, family + patriotism It’s not that deep, seems like a no brainer
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Gabriel Zucman
Gabriel Zucman@gabriel_zucman·
Contrary to what you claim, working-class people contribute significantly to funding American society today. Payroll taxes and consumption taxes absorb a high fraction of their income. For the middle class, the income tax starts kicking in on top of these. And for the rich, the corporate tax becomes significant.
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Gabriel Zucman
Gabriel Zucman@gabriel_zucman·
Hello @JeffBezos, since you question the results of our studies on the unfairness of the US tax system, please allow me to remind you of the main conclusions of our work, the most comprehensive research to date on this issue.
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

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LLTF 🇺🇸@MG_Montella·
@phl43 @ZaidJilani I appreciate you presenting a good faith POV here. I still don’t agree at all. You naively support JCPOA over military force as the enforcement means, under weight the threat Iran posed (incl its proxy network), don’t mention Iran’s place in China-US positioning + more
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Philippe Lemoine
Philippe Lemoine@phl43·
People keep saying that it makes sense from Israel's perspective, but even from a purely cynical point of view, I'm not sure that it's true. I don't think Iran posed such a massive threat even to Israel, so the benefits of regime change or, short of that, seriously degrading Iran's capabilities don't seem that large. It also carries risks that seem underdiscussed to me. If the regime survives, the war may empower the most radical elements within the regime, who could decide to develop nuclear weapons. If they are really determined, I'm not sure that Israel and the US could prevent it. I don't just mean technically speaking, but also politically. Indeed, if the war leads to a significant disruption of the world economy or a serious destabilization of the region (which seems like a real possibility), it may also seriously damage Israel's standing in the US going forward, precisely because that is not in the US interest. I know pro-Israel advocates deny that and I'm sure most of them really believe it, but even if they were right, it would be irrelevant because in that scenario most people in the US are not going to agree and, no matter how much they try to deny it, unlike the Iraq War it will be widely seen as a war for Israel. If we take a broader view and factor in ethical considerations instead of looking at the issue from a purely cynical point of view, I think that even from Israel's perspective, it's completely psychotic to try to plunge a country of 90 million into civil war and immiserate tens of millions to contain a threat that again seemed eminently manageable without resorting to such extremities. Frankly I think such a policy can only be explained by the massive threat inflation about Iran that people in Israel have engaged in for more than 2 decades and their completely unhinged notion of deterrence.
Damir Marusic@dmarusic

From Israel's perspective, lighting the region on fire makes a lot of sense. I don't hold it against them at all. What I'd like to hear is how this is a good idea from the U.S. perspective.

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Kosher
Kosher@koshercockney·
Holy sh*t. Stop what you’re doing. Give yourself 3 minutes. Listen to this. Marco Rubio 2015. He called it. He called it word for word, like a play-by-play.
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The White House
The White House@WhiteHouse·
WATCH IN FULL: President Trump provides an update on Operation Epic Fury. "Today, the U.S. military continues to carry out large-scale combat operations in Iran to eliminate the grave threats posed to America by this terrible terrorist regime... The regime's conventional ballistic missile program was growing rapidly & dramatically, & this posed a very clear, colossal threat to America & our forces stationed overseas..."
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LLTF 🇺🇸@MG_Montella·
Chills.
DOW Rapid Response@DOWResponse

.@SECWAR Direct Message to the Joint Force: “This is your moment. This is the generational turning point America has waited for since 1979 — and since the rudderless wars of hubris my generation endured. Don’t listen to the noise; just stay focused. Our commander-in-chief is steady at the wheel. We face a determined enemy, but you are better. But we must prove it. History doesn’t care if you’re tired, if you’re scared, if the fight feels big. It demands warriors who rise anyway. Peace Through Strength. The Warrior Ethos. Lethality. Unity of Purpose. These aren’t slogans — they are the beating heart of what it means to wear this uniform. You think clearly under fire. You act decisively in chaos. You uphold the Constitution and you uphold your country without hesitation. We are not defenders anymore — we are warriors, trained to kill the enemy and break their will. History is watching. Be the force you swore to be: focused, disciplined, lethal, and unbreakable. We will finish this on America First conditions of President Trump’s choosing — nobody else’s. As it should be. And know this above all: President Trump and I have your back — always. Through fire, through criticism, through criticism, through fake news, through everything. We unleashed you because you are the best, most powerful, most lethal fighting force the world has ever seen. “May Almighty God watch over you, and may His providential arms of protection extend over you. GODSPEED WARRIORS—and keep going.”

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LLTF 🇺🇸@MG_Montella·
1) culture isn’t “thin,” it’s profound + sacred 2) culture doesn’t “change all the time” like some law of physics… the last ~50 yrs are the outlier, not the norm 3) class-based internationalism is a polite euphemism for Class Warfare Fwiw I also don’t think @AOC has a hint of sacred morality beneath her. She does not know wrong from right.
End Wokeness@EndWokeness

AOC slams Rubio's pro-West speech & calls for "class based internationalism" instead

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LLTF 🇺🇸@MG_Montella·
I appreciate what @Jason has said re startups data sharing with LLMs, tldr: Routing customer data via OpenAI/Anthropic APIs risks training your future competitors. My pov here: -> Not worthwhile to worry pre PMF -> Post PMF only pass thru limited context + derivations to deal with hard NLP edge cases… keep the real sauce in house so to speak
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LLTF 🇺🇸@MG_Montella·
“Most of [demoralization] is done to Americans by Americans due to lack of moral standards” -> Observation: We’ve killed moral standards of hard work, family + belief in America “A person who is demoralized is unable to accept true information” -> Observation: Killed moral standards = a discordant society lacks same ‘starting point’ for reason = inability to come together on truth + right Timeline: - demoralization takes 15-20 yrs - destabilization takes 2-5 yrs - crisis takes <6 weeks Mapped to contemporary US: - demoralization circa 2010-2025 - destabilization circa now - crisis not far off without corrected course
Stella Escobedo@StellaEscoTV

Former KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov warned decades ago that America wouldn’t be defeated with bombs, but through ideological subversion. Here we are. He said it takes 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. That’s one generation. Look around. We’ve already lost several. That’s why I fight. Not for clicks. Not for headlines. But to expose the next generation to truth while we still can.

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LLTF 🇺🇸@MG_Montella·
@AOC sounds about as competent as a college freshman who doesn’t do the readings
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Rep. AOC just SELF-DESTRUCTED while trying to represent America in Germany "Should the US commit troops to defend Taiwan?" AOC: "Um, you know, I think that, uhh, eh, this is such a, uh, you know, I th-I think that this is a, umm, this is of course a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy." WTF?! They're gonna run her for president? LMAO. Brutal.

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LLTF 🇺🇸@MG_Montella·
1) Great power is fleeting 2) Generations that inherit great power ought to know history + stay sober 3) Generations must make wise tactical decisions or risk peril. “How to counter China” is the defining question for this generation. We need to answer it wisely, decidedly + without bias
Ray Dalio@RayDalio

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LLTF 🇺🇸@MG_Montella·
@grok What US political party generally pursues the above?
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LLTF 🇺🇸@MG_Montella·
A pretty good program for America: 1) Deregulate 2) Cut spending on stupid stuff 3) Have a muscular military 4) Pursue industrial policies to protect US jobs + vital industries 5) Have people subscribe to values of hard work, family + patriotism It’s not that deep, seems like a no brainer
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LLTF 🇺🇸@MG_Montella·
1) real GDP growth - due to efficiency gain that better matches K + L 2) deflation - more pronounced in services, less pronounced in products Implications: High growth but low per unit returns = more power law distribution of returns in otherwise less skewed industries = bearish outlook for services long tail + bullish outlook for tippy top (especially those who stave off bloat)
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna@RepLuna·
There is a massive push by Pharma right now to kill peptide use and specifically go after compounding pharmacies. Based on some of the research I have seen, peptides have some pretty incredible medical properties and are doing wonders for people. At any rate, Pharma has a tendency to tip the scales on anything that could potentially cost them revenue. I want to raise this issue for everyone so that you can get involved.
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Big Brain AI
Big Brain AI@realBigBrainAI·
Jonathan Ross, Founder and CEO of AI chip company Groq, offers a contrarian view: AI won't destroy jobs, it will create a labour shortage. He outlines three things that will happen because of AI: First, massive deflationary pressure. "This cup of coffee is going to cost less. Your housing is going to cost less. Everything is going to cost less." He explains this will happen through robots farming coffee more efficiently and better supply chain management, meaning people will need less money. Second, people will opt out of the economy. "They're going to work fewer hours. They're going to work fewer days a week, and they're going to work fewer years. They're going to retire earlier because they're going to be able to support their lifestyle working less." Third, entirely new jobs and industries will emerge. Jonathan points to history as evidence: "Think about 100 years ago. 98% of the workforce in the United States was in agriculture. When we were able to reduce that to 2%, we found things for those other 98% of the population to do." He continues: "The jobs that are going to exist 100 years from now, we can't even contemplate." Software developers didn't exist a century ago. In another century, they won't exist either, "because everyone's going to be vibe coding." The same applies to influencers, a career that would have been unthinkable 100 years ago but now earns people millions. His conclusion: deflationary pressure, workforce opt-outs, and new industries we can't yet imagine will combine to create one outcome... "We're not going to have enough people."
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LLTF 🇺🇸@MG_Montella·
Yep.
Garry Tan@garrytan

Hire out of pain. Don't hire because you think you'll need someone soon or maybe sometime later. Wait until you or your team are actually hurting: working weekends, missing family dinners, dropping balls. That pain is the signal that the role is real. I learned this the hard way after watching founders (including myself) hire ahead of need and end up with people in roles that weren't fully formed yet. When you hire out of pain, you know exactly what the job is because you've been doing it yourself. You can evaluate performance because you know what good looks like. And the new hire knows you'll step back in if they fail, because you were just doing it last week.

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