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Be kind. Stay curious. Help others. We are a part of the rhythm nation
Katılım Ekim 2019
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@esaagar Naw it's MAGA, and podcasters. We had screens long before. They didn't have this problem.
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It's the screens
ban them. All of them. No smartphones, no chromebooks whatsoever. Paper homework only
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@krystalball In a Hasan or Trump choice. I think I'll try to move. Literally the worse timeline possible.
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Actually insane. Every candidate in the country gonna be trying to get Hasan to campaign for them.
Abdul El-Sayed HQ@AbdulElSayedHQ
Voters Age 18-44⤵️ El-Sayed: 80% Stevens: 4% McMorrow: 3%
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Prediction: Trump will allow some form of Chinese auto entrance into the US at the Xi Summit. There will be licensed Chinese tech on US roads w/in 5 years
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What would things be like today if Elon didn't buy Twitter?
Elonogy@ElonogyX
Elon Musk: “The reason I felt that it was important to acquire Twitter was because I could feel the walls closing in. It was outrageous that they suspended the account of a sitting president And I think it was only a matter of time before they suspended my account. Twitter and, well, pretty much all the social media companies, and Google and everyone, are controlled by far-left activists. That’s the truth of it. How do you know what’s real when it’s all filtered through a far-left San Francisco Berkeley lens? They just manipulate the truth constantly."
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@KonstantinKisin Ahh yes, the "don't expect so much from the kids because their parents were impressive" argument.
Brought to you by Eric Trump, and Don Jr.
Of course we should expect better.
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Utopia is not the standard. Reality is.
Every civilisation has sins if you judge it by today’s moral standards. You can build an entire career doing nothing but listing them. That is easy.
The harder question and the only one that matters is this: compared to actual, existing alternatives, who has done better?
I am not claiming the West is perfect. It is not. No society is. But if you are honest about measurable progress on rights, equality, and self-correction, it is still ahead of every other major system in the world today.
So stop asking "is it perfect?" That is a childish question.
Ask: "compared to what?"
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@RichardHanania High quality public services are more cost effective and grow the economy more. Always has been the case.
Which is why Sweden is falling behind Norway and Finland (who aren't taking this path).
They'll learn.
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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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@hutchinson General reminder that if Obama had passed single payor, Trump and RFK would now control all of your healthcare.
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@sircalebhammer So... Like all the things that Reagan put into place? Sure, those are all bad.
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This is the kind of slopulism that I hate.
Institutional investors are a MICRO slice of home purchases.
Actual affordable housing comes from letting developers build market demand, ending parking minimums, ending abuse of environmental laws via frivolous lawsuits, and more…
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter
BREAKING: President Trump asks US Congress to pass the "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act" which would "ensure that homes are for people, not corporations."
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@bumbadum14 Naw, people hate AI. This is something they have the ability to object to. If they could go after AI directly they would.
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It’s literally the anti nuclear movement all over again. Just massive fear mongering based on nothing.
The amount of heat generated on earth from the sun is 100 million atomic bombs. Totally useless metrics exclusively designed to scare people.
Pubity@pubity
Kevin O'Leary's proposed data center in Utah will require 9 Gigawatts of energy to function when fully built, double Utah's current energy usage for the entire state. It will dump around 23 atomic bombs worth of thermal load on the environment every day.
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Same move. Same hand on the heart, same wave to the crowd. Musk did it and gets called a Nazi to this day. Mamdani does it and those same people have not said a word.
Well, not exactly. Once the side by side clips went viral, some of them did speak up. Not to apologize to Musk. To defend Mamdani.
Suddenly the gesture is not the gesture. Suddenly we need to talk about arm speed. Whether the fingers wiggled at the end. Whether he was smiling. Whether his grandparents were in the right party. A year ago none of that mattered. The hand went up, the verdict came down. Now we get a forensic seminar on millimeters and microseconds to prove Mamdani's arm moved slower.
Mamdani's own press office said "in no way was this a Nazi salute." Funny. Musk said the same thing. His did not count. Mamdani's did, instantly.
That tells you everything. The "Nazi salute" thing was never about the gesture. If it were, they would be screaming right now. They are not. It was about Musk. They hate him because he is the richest man in the world and he was attacking their ideological piggy bank with DOGE, so they smeared him.
Mamdani is on their team, so he gets a pass, plus a defense team running stopwatch analysis. Same hand, opposite verdict.
A wave is a wave. The rule does not change based on who is waving. When it does, you are not watching principle. You are watching a hit job.
Dr. Eli David@DrEliDavid
Remember how they lost their sh*t when @elonmusk did this?
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19/20 highest crime districts are blue.
GOP Ls@GOP__Ls
🚨8/10 of the highest crime states are red.
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@ContraPoints I do think there was a missed moment to derail the Reagan project (privatization of the public goods, "greed is good", new-feudalism, etc). I think that's what we are all feeling now. Facebook is the ultimate expression of Reaganism.
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Maybe you could argue it’s good politics to pretend that that’s what happened. But that’s not what happened.
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It’s become a standard leftist view that Trumpism was a backlash to Obama not being socialist enough and I… don’t think that’s what happened lol
The Lever@LeverNews
How did America go from Obama to Trump? Maine Senate candidate @grahamformaine tells @davidsirota it wasn’t some great mystery: Democrats bailed out banks, abandoned working people, and let corporate power keep running the party. Go and listen to the full episode over on The Lever's Youtube channel.
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@Phatman67 @IamSean90 And that's why they are now falling behind (like almost at the point of collapse now). They got half of it right.
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@gaypulp @IamSean90 South Korea doesn't import the dregs of humanity and give them welfare, like the EU and Canada. They don't import anybody. They, like the Japanese, take care of themselves and ship the dregs back as soon as they show up.
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This is so weird. Canada flooded themselves with a bunch of 3rd worlders, & I was reliably told mass migration would lead to unparalleled growth. Why is New New Delhi not passing America's stock market?
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: South Korea officially surpasses Canada as the world's 7th largest stock market.
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@cafreiman Live nation. Merch created by slave labor. Theft of wages and IP.
You cannot go from millions to billions morally. Every example is a confession.
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Taylor Swift became a billionaire by selling a billion dollars’ worth of music to willing buyers. It’s true that, for instance, she used a microphone made by someone else, but that person got compensated as part of the process of her becoming a billionaire.
Matt Stoller@matthewstoller
What @AOC is saying is a classical Anglo-American variant of the labor theory of value. It's not resentment, it's a view that financial assets don't measure social utility. No individual can produce a billion dollars of value, doing so requires social effort from many others.
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@neoliberal_hack He only make billions by abusing workers and extracting wealth from partners. He's destroyed more economic opportunity than Walmart.
Go put on a diaper and go work for amazon.
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Not true and wage theft isn’t why bezos has so much money. He created a product that revolutionized an industry and provides incredible service to people.
I fucking love two hour shipping the man deserves every penny.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers. If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems. The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale. We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability. Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.
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@beffjezos @JTLonsdale Ya'll are the types that complained about the economic impact of ending slavery.
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@JTLonsdale They want to kill the American Dream and they hate that Capitalism erodes their power which relies on weaponizing envy and being the ones slicing the zero-sum pie
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What a naive and wrong point of view. So much of leftist politics and thinking these days is about justifying envy.
I’ve co-founded six different multi-billion dollar companies, with more on the way.
AOC perhaps isn’t bright enough to make a lot of money without massive grift - sure.
But 10000’s who worked with me are rich; some are also billionaires! Our innovation sector is the best in the world, solving problems and growing the pie with US talent for a brighter future for all.
I’m aligned against cronyism. But demonizing success is totally unAmerican.
Breitbart News@BreitbartNews
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: You can't earn a billion dollars. Ilana Glazer: That's right. AOC: You just can't earn that. Glazer: That's exactly correct. AOC: You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws. Glazer: Yup. AOC: You can pay people less than what they're worth. Glazer: Yup. AOC: But you can't earn that, right? Glazer: That's right. AOC: And so you have to create a myth that -- since you didn't earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it.
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@JTLonsdale You can't go from millions to billions morally. It's not possible. Every example is a confession.
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"Generative":
Makes people were diapers so they don't takes breaks.
Had to put up nets to prevent employee suicides.
H1B abuses, data abuses, anti-trust, environmental abuses, and more.
You can't go from millions to billions morally.
Every example is a confession.
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
Completely backwards. Most billionaires are generative: Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, and other companies employ millions of people, have minted tens of thousands of millionaires, and provide products and services that billions of people use around the world. This is good.
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@christopherrufo They abuse millions of people (Billions if you consider their customers) by unfair dealing and abusive practices. It's impossible to go from millions to billions without it.
It's just facts.
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Completely backwards. Most billionaires are generative: Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, and other companies employ millions of people, have minted tens of thousands of millionaires, and provide products and services that billions of people use around the world. This is good.
Matt Stoller@matthewstoller
The elite rage at @AOC for saying something obviously true - billionaires are inherently extractive - is amazing. It’s the Epstein class at work. Snowflakes all of them.
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@wokal_distance There are no moral billionaires. Just look at them, and how they went from Millions to Billions. None of their hands are clean.
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A huge portion of progressive political thought is based on leftist folk beliefs about how the economy works and a nagging suspicion that anyone who is doing better than them must have cheated.
Breitbart News@BreitbartNews
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: You can't earn a billion dollars. Ilana Glazer: That's right. AOC: You just can't earn that. Glazer: That's exactly correct. AOC: You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws. Glazer: Yup. AOC: You can pay people less than what they're worth. Glazer: Yup. AOC: But you can't earn that, right? Glazer: That's right. AOC: And so you have to create a myth that -- since you didn't earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it.
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