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When will people be better at understanding the ultimately selfish nature of apparently selfless fanaticism?

Everything is always in flux, so a flexible market is important. This is a huge topic. Many people moved from cities back to small towns and many are getting gentrified, which raises costs there as well. Well paying work from home IT jobs ect setting up camp in cheaper places can bring opportunities and raise prices

@SunnySideBot @politvidchannel Unless the poorest 50% are earning a living wage and not affected by regressive taxes like tariffs then small town America cannot survive

BREAKING: New study finds 50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down.

@BuenoForMiami Bandwagon Theory tryers. I get it. But until a protest aligns with the actual specific and complicated demands I have I won't be there. So probably will never be there.

Whats the purpose of a protest? Besides letting people know you’re upset, what do you expect to change?

The Republican Party needs free-market, pro-trade, anti-war voices. I’ll keep fighting for those principles no matter what.

@kurri_jari The morning beer let's me know you're serious about what you said 🤣 you're not wasting a nice relaxing Saturday.

Regarding the No Kings thing. Like or dislike Trump all you want. But you're wasting a fine Saturday morn/afternoon if you gather with fellow like minded people with silly signs. Just drove by a bunch of boomers with signs in an affluent suburb of Portland. Shaking their signs and hooting and hollering as I drove by. I gave them a Thumbs Down. Not because of their political opinions, but because they're wasting energy. Volunteer to walk a dog. Call a friend you haven't chatted to in ages. Scrub some graffiti. Be productive on a level that creates a real result. Gonna grab a morning beer and think on this a bit more. Thank you.

@KamenAmericaJPN YUM tis the season

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@W0t1nTarnation @9mmsmg There are MANY places in the states to watch bluegrass! Car music is up to individual 🤣

@9mmsmg I'm really happy to see this but also very angry that we can't have this in the states and instead need to have "gansta rap" blaring from every car.

Since everyone is talking about how awesome Japan is, here's reason 6577554 why it is.

It’s not a mystery why people are left wing. Being left wing is just easier. It’s much easier to be the “free healthcare for all!” person than the “who pays for it?” person

The President’s advisors have misled him. Today on Fox he said I didn’t vote for DHS or the SAVE Act. I voted for both, twice! The Senate is his problem. SAVE Act: clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll1… clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll0… DHS appropriation: clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll0… clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll1…

“Degrowth communism” may be the most spectacular case of sour-grapes reasoning in modern history: Stage 1: "Communism will unleash tremendous growth!" Stage 2: “OK, but real communism has never been tried” (rinse & repeat) Stage 3: "Hmm, well, even “real” communism doesn’t deliver growth after all." Stage 4: "Actually, growth is BAD!"

Pretty much the only time the two parties in Washington come together is to screw the American people.

Twitter right now

The best part is that the America that Japanese people adore the most… is the same one that coastal elites call “flyover trash” They’re not autistically LARPing NY cynicism or SF polycule / LA wellness culture. They’re drawn to the heartland of the American South and all its trappings - the jacked-up trucks, backyard BBQs, country radio, big skies and the friendly "yes ma'am" drawl.

To me this actually proves there is absolutely no reason NOT to cut taxes on the much larger percentage the wealthy pay. Employment didn't go down, and domestic output didn't go down. The wealthy become wealthy faster. So NO negatives and one positive lol. What's the problem?

George R.R. Martin on the brilliance of The Lord of the Rings: "As I read Return of the King, I didn’t want it to be over. That last book blew my mind, particularly the scouring of the Shire. I didn’t like that when I was in high school. The story’s over, and they destroyed the ring — but he didn’t write 'and now they lived happily ever after.' Instead, they went home and home was all [expletive] up. The evil guys had burned down some of the woods; a fascist-like tyranny had taken over. That seemed anticlimactic to me. Frodo didn’t live happily ever after or marry a nice girl hobbit. He was permanently wounded; he was damaged. As a 13 year old, I couldn’t grasp that. Now, every time I re-read The Lord of the Rings — which I do, every few years — I appreciate the brilliance of the scouring of the Shire. That’s part of what lifts the book from all its imitators. There was a real cost to Tolkien’s world. There’s a tremendous sadness at the end of Lord of the Rings, and it has a power. I think that’s partly why people are still reading and re-reading these books." Was it a mistake to not include the scouring in Peter Jackson's films?

Javier Milei is correct. If you want to be an artist, you should have voluntaryist support. Not government grants keeping you afloat by stealing from others.

@RepThomasMassie @Scott_Mueller Subsidized markets are not free markets.

If America would embrace capitalism and reject cronyism in health care, agriculture, military contracting, insurance, media, technology, and banking, we would experience a renaissance unprecedented in human history.