John Barton

@CryptoMikli “It sounds really good and really moral” if you have a child’s understanding a the world. A young and simple child.

Caleb Hammer explains why rent control doesn’t work “It’s one of those policies that sounds really good and really moral. You want to support it, landlords make less money and people pay less rent. But everywhere it’s been enacted, permitting has dropped significantly, and rents have gone up even faster for the average person, except for the few lucky ones in subsidized housing” “Units go untouched and aren’t maintained at all. I think something like 10-20% of rent controlled units in New York are empty because they can’t be brought up to standard, since it’s not worth investing in. In Massachusetts, rent control was a complete disaster and had to be repealed. In San Francisco, the moment they introduced it, permitting dropped. It just hasn’t worked”

@berkie1 The level of understanding for anyone who can think "past step one" of how rent control is destructive and self defeating would be described better as "the blindingly obvious relationship" than as "abstract economic theory."

"There is now unambiguous, solid economic evidence, not just abstract economic theory, that rent control would make the affordability problems facing [Massachusetts] worse, not better." - Jon Gruber, Chairman of the Economics Department at MIT

@JohnCleese Sure it does. But that’s not your problem. Your problem is that thinking and speaking this way causes offense to the political left in europe and they have enough power to enforce policies that assist in the conquering. Your resistance needs to focus on the enabling left.

I don't want to be conquered and have to bow down to Islam Does that cause offence to Muslims ?

@RasmusJarlov You could ignore Iran proxy armies: hamas, hezbollah, the houthis, others, and say that they can be accommodated even when their patron becomes a nuclear power. All these arguments would be, in my opinion, foolish. But you can’t say “random” without discrediting yourself. 2/2

@RasmusJarlov “Randomly.” You could argue that the wiser path would be continued appeasement in the hope that the inevitable nuclear Iran wouldn’t be a problem. That we could continue to ignore half a century of “death to america” as cartoonish & not serious despite Iran acting on it 1/2

Europe has to understand that NATO isnt a one way street. If Europe does not support the USA now, dont expect the Americans to help the next time Denmark or Canada randomly decide to invade other countries!

@jupes20 @EndWokeness grokipedia.com/page/anarcho-t… Worth reading...

@EndWokeness anarcho-tyranny

Nassadir Tate punched a 55 year old on the NYC subway 2 days ago. The man died. Nassadir got a misdemeanor ticket. He's already out of jail.

@Jkylebass @joekent16jan19 Thank God this guy's not in that post anymore. I'd like to think anyone in that job can write a more intelligent letter to argue a case.

@joekent16jan19 Iran enriched 400 kilos (approximately 900 lbs) of Highly-enriched uranium (HEU). The regime’s public intent (stated hundreds of times) is to bring ‘death to America’ 🇺🇸 and to ‘wipe Israel 🇮🇱 off the map. Thank God we have a President and a Sec War who protect us. 🇺🇸

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

@CliffordAsness The analogy that should work with those who’d seek revenue with wealth taxes, Mamdani estate taxes, or just high income taxes is that of a fishing ground. If you overfish the yield declines long term. It has to be explained ”as if they’re a 5 year old child or a golden retriever”

This paper is like a grown up debating slow children.

@nickshirleyy What’s alarming at how obvious these frauds are is that it shows worse than negligence in the govt officials that enable it. It suggests they’re receiving kickbacks, aware that some $ gets channeled to their favored groups or running #clowardpiven

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Paul Ehrlich has passed away, and I wanted to see whether he was as bad as his quotes and short clips suggest. Surely, there might be some nuance or careful thought in his worldview. Nobody is that purely evil. So I picked up The Population Bomb and started reading. It turns out, he's even worse than you think! I’m putting together a thread below. Quotes taken out of context don't get at the degree to which he is consistently evil and misanthropic. He had an entire system that he pursued in which human life was constantly denigrated and devalued, with an eye toward elimination. You’re left wondering what you’re even reducing human population for, since every form of life seems to be not worth living. Some people are racist and just hate poor and brown people. Some hate the rich. Paul Ehrlich doesn't discriminate. He wants you not to exist if he can get away with it. But if he can't stop you from living, he wants you to have a much worse quality of life. Ehrlich has a plan for both advanced and poor countries. He has blueprints for entire regions of the globe. Humans do not have agency in Ehrlich’s world. They’re simple consumers of resources, with no ability to create, better their circumstances, or exert individual agency to make the world a better place, except to the extent that they ensure fellow humans no longer exist. You might find all of this depressing. But I’ve found reading Ehrlich invigorating. It is a reminder of how much evil there is in the world. Recall that Ehrlich was not some guy in his room putting out diatribes. He was a professor at Stanford, a highly decorated scientist, and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of his generation. While reading Ehrlich today, know that he has intellectual descendants in the form of degrowthers and other environmental extremists, along with anti-capitalists who don’t understand the basis of prosperity and prioritize redistributing wealth over all else.

Iran has reportedly kidnapped the families of the Iranian women’s soccer team members who requested asylum & the women are now abandoning those claims and returning to the country to face torture or death. No prominent left wing American women’s soccer players have said a word.

@iowahawkblog @grok explain for those who care to know how the final result of the Julian Simon/Paul Ehrlich bet shown in the check above was calculated. cc:@CliffordAsness

The biggest bitch-making sick burn in the history of bitch-making sick burns

By "premature" we of course mean "embarrassingly retarded"

@CliffordAsness @nytimes It's not just that his predictions failed to come to pass. It's that in their complete failure, and over the many decades since The Bet, anyone paying attention could have learned from the error WHY his prediction was wrong. NYT refuses to take the opportunity.

Funny I didn’t know “premature” was a synonym of dead wrong about everything all the time. Thanks ⁦@nytimes⁩

@wil86841 @sentdefender Speed of sound. The gun you hear was fired well before you see the nose pointing up.

@sentdefender I don’t understand this. Its nose is pointed up, unless it’s pointed down before the video and the sound is delayed. My understanding is that it’s a fixed alignment gun. Otherwise, I would think it’s firing at an airborne target maybe a drone?

Video footage of a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9) onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), making low passes and strafing a target in or near the city of Chabahar in Southeastern Iran, near the border with Pakistan, using its M61A2 Vulcan Rotary Cannon.

@GAZAWOOD1 Sadly, he doesn't design Iranian missiles.

🌎Is the world spinning… or fixed forever? His answer will literally make your head spin😂

@GreaseGuts @libsoftiktok That I'd heard. But who was she? How'd she get in? If she in effect was a conduit for the relative of a Hezbollah commander to enter the US and become a citizen I'd like to know that she wasn't a tool for that purpose.

@bartjw @libsoftiktok Married a US citizen. Sorry I forgot the source, but it was an actual news article. No details on who the wife is.

My jaw is on the floor I cannot believe this is a real article from NPR Omg

@BretWeinstein Your premise, that having these things would prevent him from jeopardizing them is flawed. In tucker’s case, I can imagine ego, ignorance, & arrogance combining to blind him to the reality of his actions. There are endless cases of Wall St execs led to destroy careers by these.

Tucker has everything a reasonable man could want: A beautiful family, many good friends, he’s adored by millions, a warm and welcoming home, a staff that loves him, influence. He’s not egotistical, or driven by lust, or greed. Ask yourself: Would he risk it all for Iran? Why???

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