An American, one of the Roughs, a Kosmos
Philadelphia, USA
Joined July 2012
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100% of children want ice cream for dinner
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He’s in luck: The ratio of total millionaires to billionaires in America is roughly 23,600 to 1.
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Trump Pledges That If Voters Defeat Socialism In November, They Will Each Get An Equal Redistribution Of Wealth From The Government buff.ly/kRXF5x9
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The left will look you straight in the eyes and tell you this never happened.
Kentucky will record license plates of those who show up to any mass gatherings, such as church services, and will provide that info to local health departments, who will in turn order those individuals to be quarantined for 14 days, Gov. Andy Beshear says cnn.it/3ebJ7xv
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Recall where we were in 2020/2021: Graduations cancelled. Funerals capped at ten, then banned. A school year gone, then most of another. Weddings postponed twice & held in backyards. Parents who died alone because the guidance said no visitors to nursing homes. On & on & on it went.
What was Fauci doing during these years?
Dinner parties with the Tappers. A private concert with four ambassadors. Unimpeded travel. Champagne on the Kennedy Center deck. Pizza parties, standing ovations, groupies "mobbing" him. Bezos’s mansion, Aspen, José Andrés offering to cook for him privately ...
Fauci's diary shows us that the man most upstream of every restriction in American life spent the pandemic almost entirely unburdened by any one of them. Read my latest in the link below.
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The myth that greedy billionaires are the only barrier to 100% free health care, child care, & housing is the centerpiece of the DSA worldview.
They rely on this innumerate, low-information conspiracy theory because polls show even DSA'ers wont accept higher taxes for socialism.
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This is by far the most damning thing in Fauci’s diaries, or what I’ve read of them. People sometimes get stuck on whether Fauci was right or wrong about where the virus came from, how it spread, etc. But much of that was contested at the time and some of it continues to be. It would have been perfectly within the realm of decency for Fauci to have professional opinions about those matters which turned out to be wrong. I don’t even much mind him getting all bamboozled and doe-eyed about meeting celebrities, though it’s pretty hilarious and does speak to his character a bit.
But no, what’s inexcusable, what ruined lives and deformed entire childhoods, was the imperious dishonesty with which he shamed anyone who questioned him, the moral arrogance with which he feigned certainty on hugely contested questions and then did everything in his considerable power to tank the careers of people who dissented—people with credentials just as good as his, who were a damn sight more honest about how sure they could be and a damn sight more humble about how entitled they were to make life-changing decisions for the voiceless masses.
It’s one thing to have a wrong opinion—or a right opinion, for that matter—about a developing situation based on partial evidence. It’s another thing to know you’re unsure and still talk and act like you’ve descended from the chilly heights of the empyrean to issue cold commands. The man is one of the most odious characters in our public life, and emblematic of an attitude that needs naming and shaming, unpleasant as it is for us all to look back on that wretched time.
From the snippets of Fauci emails that I've seen, the thing that most infuriates me is that Fauci *knew* that "dissenters" like @DrJBhattacharya were honest actors making reasonable arguments but he coordinated attacks on them anyway.
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I’m a Rand Paul skeptic, but this is incredibly well put. While Congress did not get the answers it deserved today, it did a good job at one thing: putting that malignant narcissist who stole millions of man-years from the American public in his place. What a cowardly exercise of a constitutional right.
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Great news, he keeps around $30MM (0.003%) for himself each year and puts the rest (99.997%) into technology R&D--rockets, electric vehicles, underground transportation systems, treating paralysis, etc.
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In the ancient world, the way many people gained great wealth was by forming gangs of strong men, beating up their neighbors, and taking their stuff.
People still speak with admiration of men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, but they were little better than gangsters who enriched themselves through armed robbery.
This was a negative sum game, and assured that people remained poor and unhappy for thousands of years.
Eventually, however, we figured out that respecting each other’s rights, building things, and trading meant that we could play positive sum games instead. We could increase the amount of wealth, and all would benefit. As a result, we moved from living in unheated shacks to living in what our ancestors would’ve thought of as paradise in only a few hundred years.
However, there are still people out there who think that beating someone up and taking their stuff is a really great idea.
It is the great task of our civilization to shun such people, as they are not fit to be part of society.
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The USA and @elonmusk should be applauded for showing what can only be accomplished in a free market America. If your first reaction to all these world changing possibilities @elonmusk has created is to complain about wealth creation and demand higher taxes, you are a parasite who roots against entrepreneurship, hard work and success. Try replacing your envy with gratitude and your wrath with patience.
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No, you don't get it.
He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.
To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.
Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".
$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12
If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.
But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.
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What’s remarkable about this plan is how nakedly obvious it is:
1. Control rent so landlord would be financially suicidal to keep putting costs into buildings.
2. Create a suite of new costs, fees, and penalties under the guise of populist progress.
3. Blame LANDLORDS and not the LAWS for sensibly not incurring those costs.
4. Seize enormous real estate portfolios and give them to select NGOs with immense political power.
5. Use that enormous political power, now backed by an outlandish treasure trove, to further radical agenda.
6. Malign anyone who sees this for what it is (surreptitious, back door communism) as a paranoid, inflammatory reactionary.
And when the smoke settles, and the circus fed, clapping lemmings are still picking up the pieces and asking how this happened, the government would have just made entire swaths of private property in western civilization’s last remaining city, inescapably:
COMMUNAL.
