John Alley

Together, we built this - out of dirt.

@DataRepublican ...SORRY, WHAT NOW?!!!!!! WE PAID EUROPE TO ACCEPT REFUGEES???????? WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW DEEP THIS FRAUD GOES AND HOW MUCH MONEY HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND SENT TO ANYONE BUT US! NO WONDER THE COUNTRY IS IN SHAMBLES, WE SEND ALL OUR MONEY TO DESTROY IT!!!!!

@SildidInfo @PalmerLuckey @jamesjansson @AOC fair point.

@PalmerLuckey @jamesjansson @AOC Walton family heirs did not create anything and do not do anything They earn $4 million per hour - 100 million every day x.com/profwolff/stat…

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.

AOC is the product of DEI. She’s unintelligent and uneducated. She operates with junior high school level of sophistication. Whatever potential she may have had was never expressed because she was pushed through the system and chosen as a puppet in Congress. She’s not the sophisticated criminal like Pelosi. Pelosi can say stupid shit like that and knows she’s lying. AOC actually believes the stupid shit she says.

I started Oculus while I was living in a trailer working a minimum wage job. I spent years developing the technology and sold it less than 18 months after hiring my first employees. Most of the $2.3B purchase went to them on account of our shared ownership structure. Wish all you want, but you just aren't correct on this. Individual people create billions of dollars in value all the time.

I missed the last train in Seoul once. Phone at 3%. Didn’t speak Korean. It was raining, freezing, and I had no idea where I was supposed to go. I tried calling an Uber but my card kept failing because of my bank fraud protection. Perfect timing. I was standing outside the station looking completely defeated when this older woman walked up to me and started speaking Korean. I told her I didn’t understand. She pulled out her phone translator and typed:“You are lost?” I nodded. She asked where I was staying, looked at the address, then motioned for me to follow her. This woman walked me almost 15 minutes through side streets, holding her umbrella over both of us while I apologized every thirty seconds. When we got to my hotel, I tried offering her cash for helping me. She looked genuinely offended. Typed into the translator again:“If my son was lost somewhere, I hope someone helps him too.” Then she bowed and walked away in the rain before I could even process what happened. Some places still treat strangers like human beings first.

JK Rowling, after the UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex, posted a photo of herself smoking a cigar and drinking a cocktail with the caption: "I love it when a plan comes together." She funded the legal challenge, won in the highest court in the UK, and celebrated with a cigar. Is Rowling the most consequential author alive right now?

Politicians are the bad guys, not billionaires. Thank you for attending my TED talk.

I genuinely don’t think you know what Jim Crow means. Jim Crow meant the state telling Black citizens they couldn’t vote. The Supreme Court ruled you can’t draw districts based on race. Treating people equally under the law IS NOT Jim Crow. It’s literally the ONLY cure for it.

It was an honor to be shown the awesome @Intel fab in Oregon this week. Looking forward to a great partnership with @SpaceX & @Tesla!

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@elonmusk @lina40863 @Elon is the master troller of smug libs. Don’t even get me started on his Reid Hoffman roast.

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@SGhasseminejad 🔈✌️ What terrifies the regime is not drones— it’s a people who are no longer afraid. 🔈✌️ آنچه رژیم را می‌ترساند پهپاد نیست؛ مردمی هستند که دیگر نمی‌ترسند. #KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran

Arming the Iranian people is a sound idea. It requires time, planning, and infrastructure. In the meantime, when protesters are in the streets, deploying 50–100 MQ-9 Reaper and MQ-1C Gray Eagle over Iran’s ten largest cities for persistent loitering, surveillance, and precision targeting of repression forces on the ground would be a game changer and could accelerate the regime’s collapse. If Washington decides to pursue such a strategy-plans for it seriously, does the preparatory work, and maintains consistent messaging-mobilizing people into the streets and triggering defections within the regime’s security apparatus becomes entirely feasible.