Patrick ONeill

@MrReaganUSA @grok was this a genuine interaction, or was it staged?

It’s fun to watch normal people interact with low IQ people for the first time. They have no idea how to deal with them. 🤣

Didn't they start burning Teslas when Elon Musk did this?

@DailyMail “if I had known this kind of thing was frowned upon seinfeld" share.google/4bKYzo4ZNzT0RM…

Glamorous JP Morgan exec accused of turning married male broker into her office sex slave: Viagra spiking and litany of obscene forced acts that made him cry trib.al/BiXXCM0

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans. Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable. Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale. Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné. Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut. À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol. Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée. Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit. Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie. Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags. Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle. Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère. Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision : "La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne) "La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek "Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

@LELDF @grok, does this post accurately reflect the facts of this situation? Are there any missing details that would alter the post’s narrative?

Police officers Zullo, Miller, Cari, and Spaulding were serving their small community of East Haven, Connecticut. After Obama was elected (and threw open our borders), illegal immigrants started flooding into town. These four officers discovered thousands of these illegal immigrants were using forged documents to obtain license plates, fake car insurance cards, and even fake driver’s licenses. So these officers did their jobs—enforcing the law and making hundreds of arrests. Every single person arrested for their involvement in this crime ring was an illegal immigrant — including dozens of suspects with rap sheets a mile long. So Obama’s DOJ showed up—not to thank these four officers for their hard work in breaking up this crime ring and getting dangerous criminals off the streets... ...the Obama DOJ accused them of racism and launched a political witch hunt, charging all four men with federal crimes for doing their jobs. Not only that, they launched a vicious smear campaign in the media, painting the officers as hateful monsters. They were sent to prison. They lost everything. Now they're telling their stories—and seeking justice: A pardon from President Trump.

The Learing never stops...

Cash for Clunkers destroyed 690,000 functional vehicles in 2009, creating an artificial scarcity that rippled through used car markets for over a decade. The Obama administration sold this $3 billion program as environmental salvation and economic stimulus, but any free market economist could predict the real outcome: massive wealth destruction disguised as progress. The program forced dealers to pour sodium silicate into engines, permanently destroying cars that poor families could have afforded. Politicians eliminated the bottom tier of the used car market overnight. Suddenly, a reliable $3,000 Honda Civic became a $7,000 Honda Civic (if you could find one). The supposed beneficiaries — working-class Americans who needed affordable transportation — got priced out entirely. Government intervention always creates unseen victims, and Cash for Clunkers delivered them by the millions. Single mothers, college students, and minimum-wage workers watched their mobility options vanish as used car prices soared 30% between 2009 and 2014. The environmental gains proved negligible too: most clunkers averaged 15-17 MPG while replacements hit 24-25 MPG. Destroying half a million cars to improve average fuel economy by 8 MPG represents the kind of central planning that would give Soviet bureaucrats a hard-on. The wealth destruction extended beyond sticker prices. Higher transportation costs forced people into longer payment terms, creating a debt cycle that persists today. Cash for Clunkers normalized 84-month auto loans, turning cars from depreciating assets into multi-year financial anchors. Bureaucrats congratulated themselves for moving inventory off dealer lots while condemning an entire generation to transportation poverty.

You can tell who is and who isn’t spiritually American by how they react to America trading 2 C-130s to rescue a single American airman

You're an Isolated American, in a foreign country, surrounded on all sides by people who want to kill you. Who would you want as your President?

I am shocked! Shocked! That the guy with the French flag in his bio would “surrender” a comrade who was stranded behind enemy lines. Shocked!

BREAKING NEWS: Judge Boasberg has ruled President Trump must return the US pilot and send 10 more pallets of cash to Iran.

@ronsterd89 I had the same issue with run flat tires. Run flats can not be fixed.

Tires with 11,000 miles and a nail. Firestone told me they are not repairable. Firestone said this is not repairable because of the location and that I would need a new tire. It's a slow leak, about 1-2 psi a day. I am in disbelief that this is not repairable.. Can I not just get a fix kit? 🤧

@0xleegenz @grok what does 1x12, 4x12, 8x12 refer to?

Top 5 male bottom events - Seeing your parents struggle - Pet dying - Your crush have a crush - 1x12, 4x12, 8x12 - October 2023

The Bee and CNN are very similar — we both publish funny fake news. The difference is that one of us is joking.

The expression of disgust is not at the person, it’s at themselves because the true Bostonian knows that if they don’t go help that person their mom is gonna descend from heaven and beat the shit out of them for not helping.

Why does everyone force introverts to "leave their comfort zone" but no one forces extroverts to shut up for awhile?

@normnopper @RealDonKeith @GadSaad @grok What a level of evil to not only kill, but to then kill the person that forgives him and helps him. The definition of irredeemability.

@Patrick23259535 @RealDonKeith @GadSaad @grok I fact checked it using another source. Unfortunately, it’s true.

I think this is what @GadSaad means by suicidal empathy. In 1996, Travis Lewis broke into the Snowden family home in Arkansas during a burglary and murdered 75-year-old Sally Snowden McKay and her cousin. He was convicted and imprisoned. Years later, Sally’s daughter Martha McKay chose radical forgiveness. She visited Lewis in prison, advocated for his parole, and after his 2018 release, hired him to work at the same historic house she had converted into a bed and breakfast. In March 2020, after being confronted over suspected theft, Lewis attacked and killed Martha inside that very home. He fled but drowned while trying to escape police.

Can Republicans and Democrats come together to admit we’re all proud of Fetterman for finding a suit?!

Thank you @elonmusk