Rearden

The right to live by your own judgement

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

True

[AnarchistFrodo @anarchist_frodo]

Communist are truly dumb

[Handre @Handre]

The Bolivian Revolution of 1952 handed us a perfect laboratory for socialism's destructive power. The Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario seized the tin mines that generated 80% of Bolivia's export revenue and systematically destroyd them over twelve years.

Before nationalization, private mining companies like Patiño Mines employed 60,000 workers and produced 35,000 tons of tin annually. The MNR promised worker control and economic justice. Production collapsed to 16,000 tons by 1964 while employment bloated to 75,000. This is the predictable disaster that free market economists would have warned about.

The newly created COMIBOL (Bolivian Mining Corporation) eliminated profit incentives overnight. Mine managers became political appointees who knew nothing about extraction. Workers received guaranteed wages regardless of output, so productivity plummeted 40% within three years. The state couldn't fire anyone (votes matter more than efficiency), so they kept hiring. Mines that once generated foreign currency became permanent fiscal drains requiring subsidies that consumed 30% of government revenue.

You can observe the exact mechanism of destruction: remove private property rights, eliminate price signals, replace entrepreneurial decision-making with bureaucratic committees. The tin was still in the ground. The workers still had hands. But without market incentives coordinating production, the entire system collapsed into organized chaos.

By 1964, Bolivia went from South America's largest tin producer to an international beggar importing food while sitting on mineral wealth. The MNR redistributed poverty with revolutionary efficiency.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

I’m not saying China is deliberately pushing the West into these batshit net-zero leftist fantasies to gut their industry and make them totally dependent on Chinese manufacturing.

But if they were, what would they be doing differently?

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

If what you earn can be taken, how free are you really?

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Oil spills have collapsed.

Since the 1970s, large and medium tanker spills are down more than 90%.

In the mid-1970s, over 100 major spills per year were recorded. Today, the number is single digits.

Double-hulled ships are a key reason for the improvement, as are stricter navigation rules.

Meanwhile, a fact rarely mentioned, oil seeps naturally into the oceans, at about 600,000 tons per year, according to National Academy's estimates. That geological leakage has been going for millions of years.

By comparison, tanker spills average roughly 100,000 tons per year, meaning nature releases six times more into the oceans than tankers do.

This does not make oil spills harmless, but it does expose a scale problem in the narrative. The dominant source of marine oil pollution is natural, not industrial, and the human contribution from tankers has been shrinking for decades, not growing.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Why did human beings ever build things like this?

Because their minds were ordered toward objective Beauty and Truth.

We must order our minds as they did — that's why we started this book club.

Our group is studying the great texts and ideas upon which Western Civilization was built, in dialogue with each other. We're reading what our ancestors read.

We recognize that a true education forms a mind to contemplate ultimate Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

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[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

He is so right, only Capitalism can lift people from Despair! Socialism and Communism keeps people in Despair with no way out! The Rich Politicians live as kings.

[Doge Norway @DogecoinNorway]

Norway’s national team is ready to conquer the World Cup!

Lykke te Norge 🇳🇴

Dette føles spesielt og folk tror på dokke å ka dokke kan klara!! Ta hjem gullet 🥇

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[Roald Ribe @Kontrapolitiker]

Fredelige mennesker føler trakassering på kroppen og i livene sine hver eneste dag, som en følge av regulering og tvang initiert av partier og politikere, og utført av byråkrater og "institusjoner". Det politikere egentlig klager på er at indoktrineringen ikke fungerer godt nok.

[Texas AnCap @TexasAnCap]

How do you convince low IQ people, who believe the government is the answer, that everything they believe is a lie and their basic understanding of economics is flawed?

[Robert Sepehr @robertsepehr]

@AmericanMama Here is a great spot to boycott Whites, you won't find one within hundreds of miles. Of course, you also won't find running water, electricity, sewage systems, air conditioning, internet, or anyone to fund your EBT either, but at least you will be in your natural habitat.

[Burnie Senders @BurnieSendersX]

There are two types of people

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

The proper response to excellence is aspiration, not envy.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

The Guardian claims ocean warming is causing a staggering collapse in marine life, but the study it cites actually shows the opposite.

When a year is warmer, fish biomass is found to increase by as much as 24%. When years turn colder, biomass falls by around 15%.

That is the observed data.

To preserve the climate narrative, however, the authors then abandon real year-to-year results and switch to a modeled decadal trend.

The model assigns warming a negative effect and reports a decline. That decline is not observed, it is modeled.

The authors go on to admit they cannot separate temperature effects from overfishing, which is the primary, well-known driver of fish declines worldwide.

Since fishing pressure is not included, the model loads losses onto temperature by default. Even though, as per the study's own data, warmer years mean more fish.

The collapse exists only in the model.

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

22 yrs ago today, after a long zoning dispute with local officials that ruined his business, welder Marvin Heemeyer had enough & created the Killdozer.

He destroyed the mayor’s house, the judge’s house, town hall, the police station, & the bank - while avoiding hurting civilians or their property.

Happy Killdozer Day to those who celebrate 🎊

[Stephen R. C. Hicks @SRCHicks]

Mindset reaction difference when someone makes a billion dollars.
* Person 1: "I wonder how I could make a billion dollars."
* Person 2: "I wonder how I could steal some of that."
* Person 3: "I wonder how we could tax more of that."
Only one of these is morally healthy.