Mark Giffin

Emmett, Emmett, Emmett. I'm not "accusing you of socialism". I'm pointing out that you just articulated the single most Bolshevik idea ever suggested since an unemployed German intellectual, living off das kapital gains, wrote a book demanding that all investors should be murdered during a mass armed robbery. This your idea: Every family farm, seized by the state. Every family business, seized by the state. Every family home, seized by the state. Serving the greater XXXX County area since 19XX? Not anymore, seized by the state. Dad's rifle collection, seized by the state. Grandma's wedding ring, seized by the state. Every single person's life work and legacy, seized by the state. You just seriously suggested that all society's wealth, every last scrap of it, flow not from generation to generation, but to the almighty state. You have NO idea what would happen if this was tried or even suggested in the halls of legislature with any seriousness. Nah, you just said to yourself, "Hey, I built a video game streaming website, how difficult could restructuring of all human society to run counter to its most basic biological drives be?", and you actually opened your mouth and seriously suggested giving the state 100% of everything, and making it everyone's parent. Just another function for them to handle while they're not busy bombing the third world to pad Raytheon's bottom line, surreptitiously dosing Americans with LSD, or setting fire to churches full of children. What could possibly go wrong? Look, since those of us who didn't max out charisma and use wisdom as a dump stat are a little bit tired of playing Statist Whack-A-Mole, where you come with insane apocalyptic suggestions for implementing totalitarianism at a faster rate than we can point out their downside potential, I'm going to put the burden of proof where it belongs... on you. Prove this wouldn't end in disaster. Prove you can make this work as a voluntary program, before we allow you to even suggest it as the law of the land. The internet estimates your net worth at $100 million. That should be enough get started. Buy a huge chunk of land somewhere and build a city. Allow people to voluntarily come and live in it, and to voluntarily leave at any time, under the condition, that if they die there, you will inherit everything they own and redistribute it to a bunch of strangers' kids. Run this city for five generations, not only without going broke or turning into a bloodbath or a ghost town, but with a clear history of outperforming free markets in the arenas of wealth building and technological growth. Go for it. Put some skin in the game, instead of just sitting on the sidelines and using your wealth and fame to promote insane and terrifying ideas for destroying the lives of us ordinary people who are just trying to scrape together enough to play the bills and get by. I tried to tell myself to be nice. I really tried. But you are sitting there casually suggesting dystopian nightmare scenarios with the puppyish enthusiasm of an out-of-touch elitist who truly thinks he can move the peasants around like chess pieces and they won't, you know, get mad or anything. This is people's lives you are talking about. Their legacy. Their entire life's work. Literally. And you have just proposed taking it away from them at gunpoint, and are now wondering why the response was so mean. You are completely unprepared for the hell you would unleash if this idea were taken seriously by the political class. Does it seem to you like I am speaking dramatically? I hope so. Because I am trying to impress upon you that this is not a game. These people you are proposing to rob are actual people. They have hopes, dreams, ambitions, inner lives, friends, families. They are not here for your amusement. Or to run little experiments with. I hope you are just an autism-adjacent smart guy who lived in life in a wealth bubble and used wisdom as a dump stat, rather than an actual sociopath. But, for your own sake, I am asking you to try to imagine how you sound when you casually suggest destroying millions of people's lives, then play the victim when the response is a slightly mean tweet. If being called clueless and out of touch hurts your feelings, imagine how other people feel when they've worked all their lives to create something for their kids, and you propose to take that away from them, to take it away from their children? At gunpoint? What do you seriously think Middle America would DO if that actually happened?

Medical freedom just got our biggest win—EVER. Idaho’s Medical Freedom Act is the “first legislation of its kind in this nation.” Vaccine mandates? Banned. Mask mandates? Banned. No school can force a student to undergo a medical intervention. No business can force an employee to undergo a medical intervention. This is the biggest threat to Big Pharma in the country. In August, Leslie Manookian joined Nicole Shanahan to break down just how groundbreaking this bill was: “People thought that it was impossible.” “People said there’s no way you’re gonna get a state legislature to ban all mandates of medical interventions.” “And we basically did that with a very few exceptions.” “Think about it: if you can be forced to take a medical intervention for the greater good, why can’t they force you to get pregnant for the greater good if there’s too little population growth?” “Why can’t they force us to take benzos?” “Why can’t they force us to take ADD medication so … we can be more productive at work?” “Why can’t they make us take antidepressants so that we feel happy and cheery and it benefits society?”

Bienvenido, Aron Canet! The Spaniard signs a multi year contract with the ELF Marc VDS project starting from 2026 🤜🤛