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@Lina_rays1ya The primary value in this is the message it sends to thousands of other soldiers. You won’t be left behind. So, they can do their jobs with confidence in their comrades. That, and the closely related morale boost, are well worth every penny.

JUST IN 🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷⚔️ Rescuing one pilot from Iran cost the US nearly $500M — two C-130s and two helicopters destroyed to prevent capture 🔥✈️💸 Was one life worth half a billion dollars? A) YES 🙋 B) NO 🙅

@DavidSamuelMay That kind of willful ignorance does not suggest an information problem. It is a philosophy/morality problem. This can only be addressed through a fundamental reexamination of the culture. And you need to walk away from those that are not able to reexamine their assumptions.

At a bar this weekend, I spoke with a random person in their young 30s. She mentioned that she and her sister-in-law have political disagreements. I asked her which subject in particular. She said: Israel-Palestine. So, I asked which side she stands on. She said she was opposed to Israel genociding Palestinians. Trying not to give away my position, I asked: What makes you say that? She said it was Israel killing 200,000 Palestinian children. I told her that was interesting because Hamas's death toll, which includes fighters, sits at around 70,000. At that point, she made it clear that she wasn't interested in changing her opinion. We have a propaganda and misinformation problem. It seems that many people have developed strong opinions based on lies. But perhaps correct information could help dispel the lies. Though, I suspect the truth doesn't matter as much as the narrative.

@daveweigel Do you object to free speech, in principle, or only when you disagree?

The top three most expensive House primaries in history have all involved pro-Israel groups spending to get rid of an Israel critic. 1) Massie 2026, 2) Bowman 2024, 3) Bush 2024

@LibertarianLars Not fair, but I’ll play: Government defends rights. Each word needs lots of exegesis, but that’s the concise (ok unfairly restricted) version.

Define Capitalism in 3 words.

@cessonmute Logical (and mathematical) fallacies for $800, please, Alex.

Being m*rdered by a man is the leading cause of death in 18-44 year-old women globally but were concerned about male loneliness epidemic.

@OrevaZSN You forgot about investment, growth…and inflation!

Even if you had worked every single day, earning $5,000 a day, from the time Magellan set sail around the globe until now, you still wouldn't be a billionaire. You'd still have less money than Jeff Bezos can make in a week. No one works their way to a billion dollars.

@ZainabSana2622 Not true. Start with facts.

At this point it’s obvious the billionaires are trying to kill us. What do you mean the new AI data center in Utah will raise the state’s nightly temperature by 20+ degrees???

@_InfoGram_ Ooh such hard questions. How did he possibly know the answers?

🇺🇸 NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani criticized Trump for spending billions on killing people in Iran. 👏 Reporter: "Do you oppose the war in Iran?" Mamdani: "This war killed thousands of civilians, so yes, I strongly oppose it."🔥 Reporter: "Are you frustrated by $900 million a day being wasted on these wars?" Mamdani: "We're spending tens of billions to kill people. That money could help our own people instead.🔥🔥 We always have money for war, but never to feed the poor." Finally, a voice of reason from the US. We need more leaders like this pushing for peace. Respect.

@Ruth11665247 @glenn_tunes Citizens United limited the power of the state to interfere with the speech of peaceful people who happened to be pooling their resources. This makes it possible to compete with e.g. large news orgs. Is that what you oppose?

@glenn_tunes End citizens united. The republican party is the party of corruption.

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@mattduss It wasn’t a news report. It was an OpEd. An opinion about what one individual believes happened because of what he was told by obviously biased sources, most of them unnamed, and with no cooberation. And filled with absurd assertions. So that’s what they’re protesting.

To be clear: they’re not protesting against the sexual torture of Palestinians by Israeli authorities. They’re protesting against the NYT for reporting it.

@DJtheDentist @RockChartrand “When they get a new job” is doing some seriously heavy lifting.

It's not meant to magically double productivity. It's meant to account for the rate of inflation that the employer has already benefit from. Yes, some people may lose jobs temporarily, but when they get a new job they'll be better off. I'm tired of coin clippers trying to convince people they just have to accept inflation is going to devalue their wages.

The uncomfortable reality is that for many workers the transition wouldn’t be from $7 an hour to $15 an hour. It would be from $7 an hour to unemployed. A wage law cannot magically double someone’s productivity or the value their labor creates. If a position only generates enough value to justify a lower wage, many employers respond by: • Cutting jobs • Reducing hours • Automating tasks • Refusing to hire inexperienced workers • Increasing workloads on remaining employees So the workers who keep their jobs often end up doing the work of the eliminated positions while entry level workers lose the opportunity entirely. Paying market wages is not disrespect. The disrespectful position is pretending politicians can override supply, demand, productivity, and business reality without consequences for the very people they claim to help.

@BraddrofliT @grok has NYC actually collected a penny from the proposed pied-a-terre tax?

The craziest part? The wealthy stayed wealthy. The middle class didn’t get hit. The sky didn’t fall. Almost like the panic was always propaganda.

@EmeraldRobinson Stop using the internet… and tell your friends (but don’t use a cellphone)!

Nobody in America voted for data centers. Nobody in America voted for AI. Nobody in America voted for surveillance capitalism. The entire fabric of our society is being changed without the will of the people. Without a vote.

@JamesTate121 What if “taxing that guy” doesn’t help “this guy” at all? What if it actually hurts him? Does that matter at all? Or, is it still OK because it’s just so much fun?

All day long.

@LailaPalestini1 Freedom in operation, on both sides. Both her and the former followers. I like it.

Jenna Ortega American actress who has lost millions of followers simply for supporting Palestine. She faced a massive backlash with calls to remove all her work from Netflix and cancel Wednesday Season 2, but she stood by her position

@RockChartrand Which is what they want

Socialists: “Rich people didn’t earn their wealth and don’t deserve it.” Ok, then by that standard, why would anyone else deserve that wealth instead? What did they do to earn it? If earning isn’t the basis of ownership, then “deserve” just becomes a synonym for political preference and envy. At that point, property rights disappear and whoever has power decides who keeps what by whim.

@OrevaZSN Logical fallacies for $400, please Alex.

“We can’t raise the minimum wage, because then the price of everything will go up.” *They didn’t raise the minimum wage.* *The price of everything still skyrocketed.*

@OrevaZSN I don’t think anyone should tell anyone else how to spend or not spend any of their money.

You ever noticed that it’s socially acceptable to tell poor people how to spend their money? But when we ask the rich to stop hoarding wealth, the response is always “it’s their money.”

@SolLunix If that were the rules for calculating AGI, the tax rates would by much higher. Also accounting creativity would be far more valuable, and the “rich” would likely excel at that.

Corporation: "We made $4B but spent $3.9B so we only owe taxes on $100M." Government: "Totally reasonable." You: "I made $60K but spent $58K on survival." Government: "You owe taxes on $60K." You: "That's not—" Government: "File by May 15."

@Zarish5062 @OrevaZSN What are those”systems”. Who creates them. Same questions about “leverage”. BTW, minds > muscles.

@OrevaZSN Billion-dollar wealth requires systems, leverage, and others' labor beyond individual effort.

No one “earns” a billion dollars. No one can work a billion times harder than anyone else. There is no good, ethical, or righteous billionaire. That kind of wealth can only be accumulated through the exploitation of the working class. No exceptions.