TomC retweeted
Exactly!
When I grew up in Communist China, I was surrounded by completely brainwashed people, including myself.
Now in the US, I’m surrounded by people even more brainwashed than the communists I grew up with in China.
Communism thrives on a dumbed-down population. And the dumbing down is systematically carried out through schools, the media, and Hollywood!
TomC retweeted
this is my favorite collectivist conciet:
"imagine if this <insert rich person> had used their <amount of money> on this issue we have spent billions and trillions on for decades with zero positive effect. they could have solved the whole thing!"
it's such a fetching confluence of delusion and a weird faith that if you take the money of effective people and give it to the same people who have squandered every cent they have seen for decades, the money itself will somehow remain impactful as though tripling public school spending has worked to improve education.
it seems to underpin a profound misunderstanding of how to usefully allocate capital combined with an essentially animistic belief that outcome is somehow a property of the money itself and not of the allocator, like somehow musk has some sort of magically effective cash to which NGO's and government agencies are not generally privy.
TomC retweeted
Socialism is the belief that Amazon workers would have spontaneously created Amazon if Jeff Bezos didn't exist.
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WARNING: You will lose IQ points if you watch this.
These are the economically illiterate rubes who Mamdani has hoodwinked and are pushing socialism. "I'm a Dior bag socialist" and she says there's enough wealth in this country where nobody should have to live in poverty, but it's being hoarded by 10 guys.
The combined wealth of the 10 richest guys in America is $3 trillion...now keep in mind, kids, they don't have that in cash. That's the combined value of all their businesses. If you were to seize 100% of all their assets, you'd have to compel the sale of all of their stock and their entire businesses. You wouldn't eve be able to get the full $3T because the forced sale of their stock and businesses would crash the entire market and you would only get pennies on the dollar. Not only that, by seizing the means of production, you've now decimated businesses that employ 2 million people...these are taxpayers. Those businesses generate wealth and tax revenue, every year, in perpetuity...if you wipe them out, you collapse the entire economy and all the tax revenue required to fund all your social services.
But even in this imaginary Mamdani world, if you were to somehow seize $3T, that might sound like a lot, but that would only fund government for 5 months. That's it. Then it's gone forever, and all the annual wealth and revenue that their businesses create would be gone, causing a cascading collapse of tax revenue that would make the entire government go belly up. Even if you were to distribute that $3T as direct cash payments to every American, you know how much that would give you? $8,900. That's it. 4 months rent, at the expense of wiping out the entire American economy.
When I tell you these communists are stupid...I mean, they are dangerously stupid. They are truly like children; they fundamentally lack any understanding of how things work, so they can LARP as adults in this fantasyland of free everything.
And listen to what she says at the end...it perfectly sums up everything wrong with these socialists: "I'm not a political scientist, so if that's wrong, I don't care"
I can't stand these people. They are going to destroy our civilization.
TomC retweeted
The whole “free Palestine” rubbish is a Trojan horse. It’s becoming increasingly obvious as time goes on.
It’s an Islamist, anti-West ideology distilled in one movement. One flag. One cause.
It’s sneaky. It convinces Westerners into believing they’re supporting humanitarianism. But it’s built on lies.
In reality, it’s a subversive black hole. A demoralising agent designed to poison our societies with self hatred.
But the horror of this movement is that it doesn’t just sit in the realm of geopolitics—In a war taking place in a region many couldn’t even point to on a map.
No, it attacks the very soul of Western civilisation.
TomC retweeted
Any transfer of wealth that bypasses government is a good thing.
No ability for them to leverage it up as debt, spend it on nonsense or channel it off to their mates.
More billionaires will be happy to transfer their wealth if it goes straight to the kids.
TomC retweeted
Now let's do Seattle when SF didn't miss a FG or turn it over:
Interception
Punt
Punt
FG
Fumble
FG
Fumble
Interception
FG
turnover on downs
SF still wins....
Keyshawn is a ball knower of ball knowers. Anybody with real ball knowing could see how different he was from the moment he stepped in vs Miami as a rookie.
TomC retweeted
😤 The top 10 NFL defensive tackles in Week 5, per PFN’s DT Impact metric:
1. Jalen Carter, PHI - 98.0
2. Devonte Wyatt, GB - 95.1
3. Gracen Halton, SF - 95.0
4. Byron Murphy II, SEA - 94.6
5. Jonathan Allen, CIN - 91.6
6. Maliek Collins, CLE - 88.2
7. Roy Lopez, ARI - 86.7
8. Darrell Jackson Jr., NYJ - 86.6
9. Daron Payne, WAS - 86.3
10. D.J. Jones, DEN - 84.5
*Grades are provisional
TomC retweeted
Please, Retweet this.
How Sunday Ticket Members don't have the opportunity to see the game they want in the afternoon slate just because a random,bad game from the noon slate goes all the way down to a tie is ridiculous and entirely unnecessary. Please fix @YouTube
TomC retweeted
Socialists discovered that corporations have too much power and proposed merging your employer, landlord and grocery store into one institution with a police force and military.
TomC retweeted
Olive oil prices spiked in 2023 amid heat and drought in Spain, prompting widespread claims that climate change was driving the industry into crisis.
Production has since rebounded and prices have fallen sharply, but no corrections have been issued.
humanprogress.org/olive-oil-…
There’s a lesson here for the USA too. We should dramatically curb federal power and return far more to states. Let the states compete for citizens!
Why is Switzerland 🇨🇭 so rich?
Its GDP per person was about 27% higher than America’s in 2025 (measured in US dollars).
Switzerland has a president, but the job comes with far less power than the title suggests.
Its national government is run by seven members of the Federal Council, each responsible for a department. One serves as president for a year, but does not become the boss of the other six.
And much of the power stays closer to home.
The country has 26 cantons (think of them as states), each with its own constitution, parliament and courts. Within the national constitution, they have substantial authority over things like schools and policing, and set their own tax rates.
So people and businesses can compare what different cantons offer. They can move to another canton without leaving Switzerland. That gives officials a reason to care about whether taxes and public services are worth what people pay.
It also lets cantons try different approaches and learn from each other, instead of making the whole country wait for one national plan.
Citizens can challenge federal laws through referendums, too. Winning an election does not give politicians the final word on everything.
Switzerland has ranked near the top for economic freedom year after year. It placed 4th worldwide in @FraserInstitute’s latest report (2025, using 2023 data), after placing 3rd in both the 2023 and 2024 editions.
There is a lesson here for Africa.
We spend so much time hoping the next leader will save us.
It would be far healthier to have systems where people have more choices, and fewer decisions about their future depend on whoever holds the highest office.
TomC retweeted
U & Bernie have never created a job, a product, or a company yet somehow you sit on hundreds of millions of your own money while overseeing massive govt waste & fraud telling us to trust the government. Socialism & govt dependency has never worked. No thanks.
TomC retweeted
Hey @grok does Gavin Newsom‘s family have any ties to slavery?
Gavin Newsom uses the open of his podcast to sign a bill forcing companies to dig for slavery ties -- and make them public.
"This is a bill that requires large companies that operated before 1965 to search their records for ties to slavery, going back to 1849."
"And then we make it public."
"Accountability starts with the truth."
He's announcing the launch of a corporate guilt record to set the stage for reparations, set to a cheesy soundtrack.
This guy wants to be president.