MrWhiner
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I think if you calculate how much Wokeness has actually set this country back it is in the trillions…
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79
Another Berkeley professor told the author: “In my second-year engineering class, a student asked me to explain why 1/2 + 1/3 = 5/6…. The lecture had to stop while I explained fractions.”
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A 5% tax on Elon’s net worth would fund every community health center in America for the next 26 years.
I’ll say it again. Tax the rich.
toly 🇺🇸@toly
lol. Senator from Massachusetts who created a self inflicted housing shortage wants to tax the people of Texas, who build electric cars and rockets, to subsidize the self inflicted housing shortage
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Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, as data center companies around the world face growing scrutiny over the environmental impact of artificial intelligence on.wsj.com/4vKbIRH
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This the basic difference.
Republicans believe that that if you let the wealthy spend capital it will make Americans prosperous.
Democrats believe that the federal government investing in the healthcare & education of our people will make America prosperous & productive.
Don Wilson@drwconvexity
@RoKhanna I am highly confident society will derive greater benefit if that capital is in Elon’s hands than in the hands of the government.
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@RoKhanna @BernieSanders Populists on the left and right are the biggest problem we face.
That means you, Bernie, EWarren and Trump.
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Musk is worth more than South Africa’s GDP. @BernieSanders and I proposed a 5% tax on people like him.
In one year, it could fund:
- free public college & trade school
-$10/day childcare
- Special-needs education nationwide
Wealth inequality is the moral failure of our time.
Gabriel Zucman@gabriel_zucman
Those who celebrate @elonmusk's $1 trillion fortune need to be reminded of a simple and vital truth: That there is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy.
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@TheDemocrats I prefer to vote or Democrats.
But please do better v
Envy and hate won’t win an election.
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The same man who cut children’s cancer research is now a trillionaire.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Elon Musk has become the first trillionaire in history.
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@LinkofSunshine Agreed but also a reminder to fix your problems or some triggered jerk will do it for you.
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The USAID cuts are one of the worst things America has ever done in its history
It could have even been a slow phase out to let non profits take its place. But instead, it was purposely chaotic. They purposely made the state of it ambiguous before suddenly pulling all funding
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson
Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-…
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@SenWarren We need Senators who get things done.
Sh*tposting on X doesn’t count.
You and Bernie need to retire. Boomers had their turn, letyongef generations have a turn.
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Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.
We need a wealth tax.
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Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American.
And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars!
You don't think that's worth it?
Brad Gerstner@altcap
You are smarter than this Ro. Imagine if Bernie had taxed @elonmusk 100% on his PayPal capital gains. We would have no @Tesla or @SpaceX - none of those jobs or GDP. Who do you think allocated the capital better for society? He will already pay $100 B + in taxes - more than any human ever. I hope he donates some to kids via @TrumpAccounts to make every kid a shareholder in 🇺🇸 & continues investing all his heart, soul & money for the benefit of America & all humanity! 🇺🇸🚀🤍
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Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas while Elon Musk becomes a TRILLIONAIRE.
When the federal government is for sale, the rich get richer and everyone else gets shafted.
The system is rigged.
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@RichardHanania @dilanesper It is a pension program not a welfare program.
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@dilanesper It doesn’t force them to save. It’s not their money, it’s a transfer program. If the money runs out of the program, there are cuts across the board. If they die they don’t get to pass it on. It’s simply the stupidest possible kind of welfare program, giving to a rich demographic.
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Social Security does 2 things, not one:
1. It socially insures, by preventing old people from being impoverished.
2. It forces younger people who might undervalue their future need for money, to save.
Both are actually important governmental functions.
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania
Here's an incredible stat: you could pay to lift all seniors out of poverty with only 3% of the budget for Social Security. This program is going to destroy the prospects of future generations because we're shoveling endless amounts of money to old people who don't need it.
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@CAgovernor CA could fund so many more high speed rail projects if they stole Elons wealth. So many jobs with so little environmental impact because they wouldn’t actually build anything
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This is not sustainable.
Plutarch warned us 2,000 years ago that the imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
We have got to democratize our economy so that it works for all.
The New York Times@nytimes
Breaking News: Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX shares soared above $150 on its first day of trading. nyti.ms/4uvca5a
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🚨PLAID WANT TO GIVE ASYLUM SEEKERS THE VOTE🚨
Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood called for asylum seekers to get the vote, arguing "they too must be able to exercise our most fundamental democratic right". Wood said they have "an equal right to influence [politicians'] decisions".
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@SenSanders Then he will get the same when he retires.
It is a pension plan. Otherwise you broke many promises and raised my effective tax rate by more than 10%.
Well done comrade b
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Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.
If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
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@YosarianTwo @HistoryBoomer I agree.
And ballot harvesting on skid row in LA also undermines democracy.
Can we care about both?
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@HistoryBoomer The most legitimate concern about a few people having that much money is that kind of centralization of power can undermine the democracy and turn it into a corrupt oligarchy
I had thought that was mostly theoretical, but Elon seems determined to prove it's a real problem
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This kind of anti-rich thing appeals to some lefties, but it's not where the Democrats want to go if they want to win close elections.
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine
Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. Let’s make sure he’s also the last.
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This is embarassing for @NYMag -- these "gifted" children were about 30X more likely to acheive eminence than their peers. By any standard that is not a "mirage", but the embodiment of whatever metric identified them as gifted.
It's one thing if their writers don't understand baserates and probabilities, but this should have never gotten through editorial review.
New York Magazine@NYMag
Gifted and Talented, or G&T, programs have long been a perennial subject of debate, particularly in New York City, where it has bedeviled mayors for years. Some parents have already washed their hands of the whole G&T business, refusing to participate in what they view as a corrupt system of segregation. But countless others still place significant stock in the G&T designation and what it offers and are comfortable relying on cognitive testing, should it be required, to determine whether a child qualifies. “When your intelligence is the foundation of your self-perception, failing to achieve feels like soul death,” writes Katie Arnold-Ratliff. But if the limited amount of information we have about gifted kids long-term is any indication, most lead, at best, ordinary lives of modest accomplishment. A 35-year study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors … Fortune 500 executives … judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers.” This means 88 percent never did. Arnold-Ratliff digs into the myth of the gifted child, and how our notions of intelligence may be inherently flawed: nymag.visitlink.me/9mc2Wh
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"The Mirage of the Gifted Child"
>the stat used to attack the concept is that literally 1-in-8 go on to become eminent
So, not a mirage then.
New York Magazine@NYMag
Gifted and Talented, or G&T, programs have long been a perennial subject of debate, particularly in New York City, where it has bedeviled mayors for years. Some parents have already washed their hands of the whole G&T business, refusing to participate in what they view as a corrupt system of segregation. But countless others still place significant stock in the G&T designation and what it offers and are comfortable relying on cognitive testing, should it be required, to determine whether a child qualifies. “When your intelligence is the foundation of your self-perception, failing to achieve feels like soul death,” writes Katie Arnold-Ratliff. But if the limited amount of information we have about gifted kids long-term is any indication, most lead, at best, ordinary lives of modest accomplishment. A 35-year study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors … Fortune 500 executives … judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers.” This means 88 percent never did. Arnold-Ratliff digs into the myth of the gifted child, and how our notions of intelligence may be inherently flawed: nymag.visitlink.me/9mc2Wh
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