@buttonslives Read Ayn Rand. You won't need church to understand evil.
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Rodney Schroeter
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Rodney Schroeter
@SchroeterRodney
Engineer of the English language. Writer. Editor. Publisher. Objectivist. Advocate of laissez-faire capitalism.
Reality Katılım Aralık 2022
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I think I’m going to give church another try. I need help understanding evil. Which kind of church talks about that?
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The guy in charge of Biden’s border security, while human trafficking, drug trafficking, and illegal immigration exploded, now says they should have done more to secure the border.
They knew exactly what was happening.
It was intentional.
POLITICO@politico
Mayorkas: Biden administration should have ramped up border controls sooner dlvr.it/TSVkF0
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Sweden is choosing capitalism.
Social spending as percentage of GDP is now 24%, lower than most of Northern Europe.
Sweden has surpassed the US in billionaires per capita.
School choice is universal, one in ten teens goes to a school operated by a company listed on the Stockholm stock exchange.
Taxes have been cut three years in a row.
Sweden has seen "more than 500 initial public offerings over the 10 years through 2024, more than Germany, France, the Netherlands and Spain combined"
Nearly half of primary healthcare clinics are now privately owned.
The result? Same as always. Sweden is projected to grow 2% a year through 2030, which is the same as the US and double France and Germany.
How many times does this have to keep happening across the world? How many times does free market capitalism have to prove itself superior to socialism before the world accepts the truth?
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That book you think everyone should read once in their lifetime: 🎤
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Sad when they turn out to be dopes
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Han Solo still fighting against the empire
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Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "Where did they get it?"
Activist: "What?"
Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."
Activist: "From... eating?"
Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."
Activist: "The soil?"
Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."
Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."
Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."
Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."
Activist: "It's not that simple."
Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."
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Day 3 update
My friend Ben and his co-workers are still tilling land in preparation for planting.
Nobody should live like this. Ben and his team work harder than Moron Husk for sure but he was born in an unjust part of the continent.
FossilFuelsForAfrica@FFuelsForAfrica
And yet some people think we should be worried about climate change. The US and Europe have over 90% of their farm operations mechanized and thus less than 2% in agriculture. I'm in Africa where mechanization is at 4%, 60-70% of the population farm. #JustStopToil
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The income tax is a punishment for being productive. It's time to end it.
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The Atlas Prize challenges exceptional young minds to engage deeply with the ideas of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and demonstrate the power of their reasoning before a global audience for the chance to win up to $100,000. Get the details at hubs.la/Q04gGCrh0.
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Ayn Rand: "Study economics. A free economy will not break down. All depressions are caused by government interference, and the cure is always offered so far to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not a result of a free economy."
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"There’s . . . cause for soul searching here even among those who think of themselves as critics of the Marxist posturing of the Pikers of the world. Why indeed has there been so little attention to and outrage about the terrorizing of corporate America?"
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Movie everyone considered a masterpiece, but you never understood why🤔
I’ll go first: Forrest Gump
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Get rid of all personal devices in schools.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Reading scores for students in grades 3 through 8 have fallen in 47 of 50 states since 2015.
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I will never stop using em dashes. When we dumb down our range of expression for fear of being seen as artificial intelligence, we become traitors to humanity.
Eric Jiang@veggie_eric
genuinely hate that I can no longer use "—" in anything I write anymore
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@OrevaZSN To the "guy who" girl: I don't subscribe to that religion. (Or any.)
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@OrevaZSN Because climate change is not a threat to human life.
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@ChrisMartzWX One reason (of several) why I support the Institute for Justice (ij. com).
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Eminent domain needs to end.
The government and billionaires should have no right to your property no matter how much money they offer.
Your land should be your land. Period. Eminent domain is a direct violation of your individual property rights.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
Big Tech companies are sprinting forward, building data centers as fast as they can, sometimes using eminent domain to seize the land by force, making their AI more and more powerful, expanding the technology at lightening speed with no guardrails of any kind at all. Yet none of these tech gurus or any of their apologists have even attempted to explain what exactly all of the millions of people who lose their jobs, and the increasing numbers who lose their homes, all sacrificed on the AI altar, are supposed to do. How does society support millions of unemployed and displaced people? What becomes of a society where algorithms and machines do everything, and a few people become trillionaires while millions more lose everything? There is no answer to any of this. They aren’t even attempting to answer it. Instead we’re simply told that China exists and we have to “beat them” in some unspecified way, in order to achieve some unspecified goal. We’re going to obliterate entire industries, entire categories of jobs all at once, and the only justification anyone can give is “China.” It’s madness.
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