PaperbackWriter

Never forget that Donald Trump is the Music Man. youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-…

@Knorssman Dilan called my views on economics "silly" and then blocked me for daring to ask him what evidence he had to support his beliefs.

Milton Friedman discusses five enduring myths: 1) The Robber Baron myth 2) The Great Depression myth 3) The Big Government myth 4) The Free Lunch myth 5) The Robin Hood myth

@hasanthehun How or what can I donate to make sure Hasan stays in Cuba forever?

on our way to cuba 🇨🇺 delivering humanitarian aid, food, medicine and solar panels! cuba has always been there for others, now it’s our time to be there for cuba!

There is a narrative going around that the entire US government is run by a bunch of Satanic cannibal pedophiles blackmailed by Israel to do its bidding, all based on essentially no evidence. Just saying, if I were the CCP, that’s a narrative I’d be very happy with…

@GBNT1952 Just what a Jewish Nazi would say! /s

I’m confused guys… am I a Nazi or a Jew? It just seems impractical to be both…

@robsmithonline Is it in the interests of American safety, security, and prosperity that Iran's theocratic regime possess both nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles with which to deliver them?

As someone who actually wore the uniform and has wartime service, I believe a strong part of supporting the troops is keeping them out of wars that don’t explicitly serve the interests of American safety, security, or prosperity. But that’s just me.

Who makes me craziest over the Iran war? The people who say: Yes, Iran possessing nukes would be unacceptable. Yes, the regime is viciously inhumane and repressive and murderous. Yes, Iran is the world's largest sponsor of Islamic terror. Yes, Iran is building a massive conventional missile capability. Yes, Iran has enough fissile material and the capacity enrich it in about two weeks to begin deploying a weapon (unclear how long it takes to get to the first weapon, certainly doable within a year). Yes, Iran is building ICBMs with the intention of targeting the U.S. Yes, Iran has turned Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq into militant, divides messes. Yes, the Iranian Twelver Mullahs do have an apocalyptic vision for the world. Yes, Iran does see itself as the new Caliphate, seeking to overturn all infidel nations. But no, we can't go to war to eliminate this threat.

In the year 1800, something like 75% of all Americans worked on a farm. In 1900, it was already down to 35%. By the 1960s, it was less than 10% and today hovers around 1.5-2%. What's the argument for the union improving conditions as opposed to market forces? Farming jobs have always sucked, why didn't medieval peasants just form a union to make it not suck?

@PaperhackWriter In the case of the UFW, that's wrong and is basically libertarian claptrap.

To move this up into its own thread, we are starting to see the reflexive anti-unionism of some conservatives, and I will just tell you, LEARN something about the appalling conditions farmworkers were facing in the 1960's. This wasn't a Milton Friedman economics seminar.

@MarkChangizi You had me there for a moment. I thought "obviously, this is satire.....no, wait....he's serious.....or is he?"

I was against the war. And now that we’re in it, let me be crystal clear: I was against the war. That’s my contribution. No updated analysis. No recalibration to the fact that we’re already here. No attempt to be useful in the new reality. Just the steady, metronomic reminder: I said we shouldn’t go. We went to war. I was against it. We are at war. Still against it. The entire utility calculus flipped for the rest of the world — but not mine. Mine is elegantly simple: maximize the number of times I can remind you I was right beforehand. And so I will continue — heroically, tirelessly — to extract every last drop of status from the single stake I placed: that I was against the war.

There's a certain kind of self-described libertarian who is disinclined to believe anything the US, Israeli, or Ukrainian government says, but inclined to believe anything Iran or Russia says. These people are not actually libertarians, they just hate the US government and by extension its allies.

@GBNT1952 Watermelons

What do you call people who are vehemently against war no matter the threat or necessity, actively telling people to not vote for candidates on the right, pushing for fully government funded healthcare and other social programs, and fully backing Islamists tied to the Muslim Brotherhood to hinder our strategic alliances?

A friend perfectly explains the Joe Kent phenomenon: Someone gets a government appointment. Has wacky ideas. The professionals freeze him out because he’s wasting their time. He then thinks it’s a coverup. And since he’s frozen out, all his information comes from outside the institution. In this case, from Tucker and Candace. Who he is leaking to the entire time. When he leaves, and he says the same thing they say, he now says it as an ex govt official

Agreed. It's one thing to be against the US starting or involving itself in this phase of the conflict; having done so, there is now nothing else but to finish the job. This is precisely *why* one must be so careful: it's always easier to start a war than to end one.

You don't love liberty, you just hate the ruling class, as evidenced by the fact that you oppose *volunteers* being sent to fight in Iran (the US military is all-volunteer) and have exhorted American military personnel to desert, like Tokyo Rose, but here you are gleeful at the prospect of sending the President's son to Iran, presumably against his will. What's the libertarian principle behind "sending people who volunteered to fight in a war to fight in a war is bad and I'm against it, but, oh, I positively want to send the President's son to a war involuntarily"? No kind of libertarian principle at stake here, this is just pure antipathy towards a class of person whom you regard as a class enemy.

@FoxNews Perfect! He’s old enough to send to Iran on the front lines…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Barron Trump, the son of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, turns 20 today.

@AncapAir Love of liberty > hate the state

GM!! Since I've triggered the anarcho-purists last night, I may as well double down. I'm an anarchist first, and a capitalist second. Meaning I hate the authoritarian state more than literally anything else. "BuT aNcOm CaNt eXiSt WiThOuT fOrCe!" Yes it can. You have either an inability or a stubborn refusal to separate the historic evils committed by statist communism and the idea of voluntary community sharing of resources. Just like how many ancoms conflate capitalism as corporate fascism, that's on you. You don't have to understand it's granular mechanisms, but you should acknowledge the possibility of voluntary communsim, even in theory. "BuT aNcOmZ wAnT tO MuRdEr uS!" Then they aren't anarchists the same way "ancaps" who want to throw ancoms from helicopters aren't. Stop dehumanizing your fellow human because they have a different economic philosophy than you do. Ancaps get fulfillment out of innovation, invention, and self-improvement. Ancoms get fulfillment out of community service, sharing, and selflessness. Neither is inherently evil. What is evil is using force to accomplish these things, as well as using these differences as a justification to commit murder against "the others." "cOaL!!" Lol! I don't fucking care. What I do care about is abolishing the state, and if you think any post-statist world is going to solely consist of your preferred version of anarchy, you're retarded. I've said it before, but I'll say it again: The post-statist world will be a beautiful tapestry of a million anarchies... Better start getting along with "the others" now, because it is all but a guarantee that Ancapistan and Ancompton will need to peacefully trade with one another, lest we prove the statist fuckwits correct in their claim that anarchy will form a state in order to make war with our neighbors... Now stop being a retarded anarcho-purist, realize other forms of anarchy are perfectly valid (even if you don't understand them), and let's all just get the fuck along. I shouldn't have to ask people to be cordial with others, but here we are...

@AGHamilton29 Is this "just asking questions" or "noticing"?

We have had 4 Islamist terror attacks in American cities in less than a month. Several of the perpetrators were on the radar of LE. Did the fact that we had a National Counterterrorism Center Director obsessed with dumb conspiracies play a role in the failure to prevent them?

Podcastistan is a real place😆

THEM: I don’t wanna die for Israel. THEM: America’s not Israel’s bitch. [Trump chooses to topple the Islamic Republic, the military intervention begins] THEM: Remember I said we shouldn’t have done this. THEM: This thing just happened and I think it’s bad and I told you so! THEM: I was against this war. THEM: We’re losing so bad! THEM: Did I mention that I had said No to this war? THEM: Wars cost money, and spending money is bad. …like I said. THEM: Remember before the war when I said I think we shouldn’t go to war against Iran? Well, that’s what I said before the war. THEM: OMG we’re now being brought to war by pedo child eaters to cover up pedo child-eating! THEM: I’m against this war. —— Now that the President actually chose the intervention, and it’s underway, they refuse to update a single judgment or adapt to the new reality. All they care about is protecting their own reputation by endlessly staking more and more claims on “I told you so” — while actively rooting for American failure so they can keep feeling and looking correct.