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Ben Chestnut

@benchestnut

Co-founder and former CEO of @Mailchimp. Father, husband, designerd, mountain biker and student of Objectivism 🇺🇸

Atlanta Katılım Aralık 2008
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Jamie Metzl
Jamie Metzl@JamieMetzl·
I am a Democrat. I served in the Clinton administration. I did not vote for Donald Trump and am highly unlikely to support him or his acolytes in the future. I also have serious disagreements with many of the Trump administration’s domestic and foreign policies. But it is profoundly disturbing that a growing segment of the far left appears to be almost rooting for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian regime, and other forces fundamentally opposed to the United States and our allies. This seems to reflects a corrosive strain of anti-Americanism, dressed up in postcolonial theory, that risks blinding us to the moral realities of our world and the nature of our adversaries.
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Jason Fried
Jason Fried@jasonfried·
Organize one level too deep and you're disorganized again. Just enough, even a little less than you may think is optimal, is usually the sweet spot.
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Stephen Fleming
Stephen Fleming@StephenFleming·
They could rename the seized grocery stores the “Rio Norte Line.”
Mike Netter@nettermike

Seattle’s socialist Mayor Katie Wilson has officially declared war on grocery chains. She claims she will unilaterally BAN grocery stores from closing down in her city, arguing that food access is a human right that overrides business decisions. She said : "We cannot allow big grocery chains to close stores at will!" The Plan: If a private business tries to leave due to theft, taxes, or safety concerns... the government will step in. Her allies in the state legislature have even introduced a bill (HB-2313) allowing the city to use Eminent Domain to SEIZE grocery store properties and turn them into government-run shops. Mayor Katie Wilson calls it "protecting the community." Critics call it "holding businesses hostage." Thoughts?

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Auron MacIntyre
Auron MacIntyre@AuronMacintyre·
There are of course several market interventions that make tvs cheaper but your point is directionally correct The problem is that the free market is a myth and that modern states will always manipulate trade if for no other reason that we have a system of fiat currency My point, again, is not that capitalism is bad but that cheap tvs have been used consistently to ignore sectors of real disfunction in our society Housing is too expensive due to regulation, but also due to mass immigration which is largely seen as beneficial to the GDP and the sale of cheap tvs Both are ultimately government interventions, but the question is what should our priorities be?
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Auron MacIntyre
Auron MacIntyre@AuronMacintyre·
Capitalism is the most generally beneficial economic system we know but this is the worst possible case for it Giant tvs are cheaper but housing, medical care, education, and everything people actually need to have a family has exploded in cost
Theo@theojaffee

God I love capitalism so much

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Alex Epstein
Alex Epstein@AlexEpstein·
It's hard to imagine a more dishonest graph than this one by the Guardian claiming China is bringing people out of poverty while the US is not. The US poverty rate has been so low for >30 years that it wouldn't even show up on the China graph if it had been plotted to scale!
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Magatte Wade
Magatte Wade@magattew·
Protectionism always gets sold as patriotic.  “We need to protect our workers from cheap foreign competition!” Here is what that really means: you pay more for everything so a few domestic producers can avoid improving their products. If shoes cost $100 instead of $50 because of tariffs, that extra $50 comes straight out of your pocket. It’s $50 that could have gone to food, education, healthcare, or savings.  Instead, it goes to keeping an inefficient shoe company alive. Now apply that logic across every protected industry.  Prices creep up everywhere, quietly, month after month. And it adds up. Poor families end up paying thousands more each year just to live. And while this gets sold as “caring about workers,” the people making that argument rarely feel the cost. The people they claim to care about do, because they’re the ones who can’t afford higher prices.
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Wilfred Reilly
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630·
Like and RT this status if you would genuinely like to see President @realDonaldTrump and VP @JDVance award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dr. Thomas Sowell.
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Hollywood Horror Museum
Hollywood Horror Museum@horrormuseum·
People who have a dark sense of humor, really do think differently, and grieve differently. Conan O'Brien lost his dad and his mom within 2 days of each other.
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Rock Chartrand🤑
Rock Chartrand🤑@RockChartrand·
The role of government isn’t to grant permission to earn a living. It’s to protect the right to do so and then get out of the way. You don’t “owe” the state for being productive. You already paid for any legitimate service through taxes agreed to under law. Beyond that, your success isn’t a debt to be collected. It’s the result of your effort, risk, and voluntary trade. This rhetoric exposes the real mindset: They don’t see government as a servant protecting rights. They see it as a master entitled to its subjects’ earnings. That isn’t gratitude they’re demanding. It’s submission.
Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd

🚨 Kara Swisher on California’s Wealth Tax “You made all your money in California, you ungrateful piece of sh*t. You could figure out a way to pay more taxes, and we deserve the taxes from you.”

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Ben Chestnut
Ben Chestnut@benchestnut·
Granted. I posted the link in haste, because this was mostly a "movie-about-politics" commentary than a direct "commentary about politics." The movie scene from the OP is prescient - we're now at a place where our president and VP do not have the courage to condemn the 'groyper movement' that is spreading the very dangerous and un-American idea of "heritage Americans." Thanks for the pushback. Here's a better link that expresses my POV - cato.org/blog/heritage-…
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Bojan Tunguz
Bojan Tunguz@tunguz·
LOL and you guys thought this was fiction.
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Ben Chestnut
Ben Chestnut@benchestnut·
@RaisaAreMeta @tunguz I know, right? If I answered "Georgia" and "born on a U.S. Military base to a war veteran" would that be enough? Or do I look too different?
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
Stephen R. C. Hicks@SRCHicks·
As reported by Associated Press, April 1953.
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