@GetMeRoss Agreed. Most of the California people I know that moved here are decent people. It would be nice if they could go home though.
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Beau Knows
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One of the best things that could happen to Arizona is if California elects a Republican governor
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@davidmarcus One can hope, however the feel good vote is hell of a drug.
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This election cycle in California, watch for Californian moms. They’ve had enough of the nonsense, and they will be the driving force behind shifts that will surprise many.
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@mattvanswol Yep. We get what we deserve. If the dems take over it will be scorched Earth. Time to go into family protection mode.
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Just so we are clear, President Trump has:
>survived 3 assass*nation attempts
>been shot in the face on live television
>been indicted 4 times
>had his home raided by the FBI
>been called Hitler for 10 straight years
>watched his properties seized
...AND DESPITE ALL OF THIS, THE MAN STILL got back up and won the presidency
MEANWHILE the Republican Party controls the House, the Senate, and the White House... and WHAT EXACTLY HAVE THEY DONE FOR US????
Not the SAVE Act.
Not defunded the Taliban.
Not a single DOGE codified this year.
Not one corrupt judge impeached.
Not one Democrat held accountable.
Trump took bullets to drag this country forward and the GOP won't even crawl out of their holes to take a vote on something 80% OF ALL AMERICANS WANT.
It's an absurd betrayal by the GOP.
Kalshi@Kalshi
BREAKING: 80% chance the Democratic party wins the House this year
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@elonmusk This is the actual future of the humans species. Space faring colonies.
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🚨WHAT ON EARTH?!!!
The Democratic Party is running the man DEFENDING Iryna Zarutska's mu*rderer... for office in South Carolina.
Yes, you read that right.
The de*th penalty attorney representing Decarlos Brown Jr., the man who m*rdered Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte NC light rail...
...is running for South Carolina State Representative, as a Democrat
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Amazing graphic of US drought crisis, reaching beyond “extreme” into “exceptional.” New levels of extreme weather from fossil fuel pollution.
GIF
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@bfal08 @Bickley_Marotta Terrible take but it tracks perfectly.
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Are you in favor of using A.I.? Why? What are the best and worst things about it?
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@NicoleBehnam @RobertMSterling I say search for more moments of joy…”happiness “ feels like a goal that is always over the horizon.
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Naval says he used to be unhappy because he didn’t value happiness.
Of course these days, things are different.
Takeaways:
- If you want to be happy, you need to value it
-Desire will cloud your happiness. Most of us have many desires
- You shouldn’t give up on your desires, but you want to be very careful which ones you have
- If it seems dark and gloomy, it’s because you have too many desires running at once
- Remember that happiness is not a sustainable state
- Peace can be converted to happiness
- Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion
- If you are living a very peaceful and calm life and engage in activity, you will naturally find that that activity is happy, but if you set out to be happy, you won’t get there
- The most important thing in the pursuit of happiness is that you value happiness
- The two biggest clouds that cover happiness are survival (money) and replication (finding a mate)
- We are meant to be happy. You can see that little kids running around are naturally happy. If a child is not happy, you say “what’s wrong?”
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@charliebilello No nukes in the hands of religious zealots….$Priceless
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Since the start of the Iran war...
Jet Fuel: +80%
Sulfur: +68%
Heating Oil: +56%
WTI Crude Oil: +55%
Brent Crude Oil: +52%
Diesel: +48%
Gasoline: +47%
Urea: +47%
European Nat Gas: +44%
Fertilizer: +23%
Coal: +13%
Palm Oil: +13%
Iron Ore: +8%
Wheat: +6%
S&P 500: +5%
$VIX: -15%
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@MrAzSports Cardinals have proven they have difficulty developing young qb talent. The only success this franchise has had is with veteran signal callers. Warner/ Palmer
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@WallStreetMav Excited to see Bernie and Warren lead by example and donate 50% of their yearly income.
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I already donate way too much with my taxes.
The debt just keeps getting bigger.
Kalshi@Kalshi
JUST IN: US Government is accepting donations to pay off $39 trillion debt
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@profstonge @chamath @Adam_Daves Yes, just like back in the day I was sold a bill of goods that if I paid for cable tv I would never have ads again…😕
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@chamath @Adam_Daves “Tax the rich” is the cheese in the mousetrap 🙌
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On page twenty-six of “The Billionaire Tax” proposal in California, it explains how the state legislature can convert from a Billionaire Tax to an Everyone Tax without voter approval.
They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval.
Intelligence test for you: if this was meant to just target Billionaires, why did they write this in?
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath
The Billionaire Tax is actually an Everyone Tax. The Billionaire Tax is a new tax proposal written by four professors who don't believe in the American dream. Some of them aren’t even American…go figure. Despite its name, it applies to every California resident who currently has assets or ever will. The creators named it the Billionaire Tax so you would get into a froth andwouldn't look closely at what it actually does to you. On page twenty-six, it explains how the government can convert to an Everyone Tax without voter approval. They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval. Here's how the tax would work: As a voter, you're being asked to approve a tax that would require you to: 1. list all your assets and the value of each, then submit them to the California Franchise Tax Board. 2. authorize the tax board to appraise your assets and confirm the value of each. 3. pay a penalty of up to forty percent of your tax bill if the board determines your reported value was too low in their opinion. 4. allow the tax board to subpoena your financial records from every one of your financial institutions for auditing. This Everyone Tax runs 34 pages of shifty language describing how the government plans to take your assets. Read the fine print and decide for yourself. If this were truly a billionaire tax, it would be 3 pages. It’s 34 pages so that it can create the mechanisms to steal from all of you.
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@mattvanswol Good people need to have babies and bring them up to be good citizens. That’s the only long term solution.
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Went to bed angry.
Woke up angry.
There are a truly horrifying number of people in this country who believe m*rder and violence is an acceptable response to political disagreement.
I'm not sure how we climb out of this...
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@dmweisberger The only way we avoid our version of that is if the vision of Elon comes true in that unlimited, unearned abundance becomes a reality.
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One of the defining features of Socialism is the wealth STOLEN by its leaders.
Political power, always somewhat parasitic, metasticizes into an all out power and wealth grab..
NONE of that wealth was earned, ALL of it was stolen from those who created it.
The result, of course, is people STOP creating wealth and society suffers, but, when it happens, they BLAME everyone but themselves and steal even more.
The cycle of despair can only be broken by a return to free market incentives, as we've seen countless times...
Don Rubio@Rubioliber
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner tenía 111 inmuebles, Maduro $800 millones de dólares en un banco suizo, Chávez tenía 17 fincas y dejó 4 mil millones de dólares de herencia, Castro tenía $900 millones de dólares. Todos hablaban de "justicia social" y combatir el capital.
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Pray for our country. There is such evil in this world.
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What could go wrong?
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Germany says it plans to build Europe’s most powerful military by 2039.
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@elonmusk @mattvanswol Stop with the bullshit of the parties are the same….we are not the same.
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@mattvanswol They are willing die to kill the democratically elected president
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I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF PEOPLE TRYING TO KILL MY PRESIDENT!!!
THE LEFT IS EVIL AND VIOLENT AND THE PARTY OF MURDER!!!!!!!!
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