Adam R. Carmack

Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Saints. Loves all things business, hates all things authoritarian.

[Adam R. Carmack @AdamRCarmack]

@_noscar @Pirat_Nation Ah yes, notoriously anti-consumer Valve really screwing over the masses

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@SenRandPaul The funniest part is that it's not even public ownership.

It's transferring it from one private actor to another.

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@terronk *Data centers from the AI region of France

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

CBS News said there was no evidence of fraud.

The NYT said the Somali community was being targeted

CNN said there was "little evidence."

Tim Walz said it was “white supremacy” to expose fraud

Today: $90M busted and 15 charged.

IT WAS ALL FRAUD AND THEY KNEW.

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@billybinion We invest in teachers unions, not education.

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@Optyu974254 @hoomansv The upside for Uber is an acquisition.

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@marcuslemonis @GavinNewsom NGO subsidies

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Yes.

[Balaji @balajis]

The US federal budget is $7 trillion.
There are 535 in the Senate and Congress.
They collectively allocate that money.
Specifically: 7000/535 = 13 billion per official.
Which means AOC is a political billionaire.
She allocates far more than any market billionaire.
Indeed she allocates ten billion liquid, per year.
A market billionaire has one billion, illiquid, per life.
So: AOC spends 10-100X what a market billionaire has.
It's not even close.
She's right about one thing, though.
AOC didn't earn the tens of billions she spends.
The state taxed that money, by force.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The DOJ has ONE WEEK left to charge Anthony Fauci for the worst cover-up in modern medical history.

He lied to Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Millions died. Trillions were spent. And Fauci walked away with book deals and fawning media coverage instead of handcuffs. I re-upped my criminal referral to the DOJ because the evidence is overwhelming, and justice has been delayed long enough.

RT if you’re ready to see Fauci behind bars.

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

Wow I guess Dallas landlords are way less greedy than landlords in other cities, or interest rates are dramatically lower, or there’s no demand because everyone is leaving. Supply can’t lower prices, so it must be those other things…

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

"Marc, why do you care about SPLC's crimes & other activists/companies/gov't agencies who may have done the same/complicit?"

I sat in so many meetings for a DECADE where these groups determined who got cancelled/debanked/censored. Wholly un-American. People need to go to jail.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

We’re learning in real time why the censorship-industrial complex was so certain that so much of what they hated was inauthentic misinformation. So much of what they liked was inauthentic misinformation. Incredible.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

I feel terrible for anyone who loses their job. I’m not trying to kick anyone while they’re down.

But these USAID and NGO workers are the least sympathetic unemployed people I’ve ever seen.

EVERY person in this story was making well into six figures:

USAID employee: $175,000
USAID contractor: $127,000
USAID-funded NGO employee: $272,000(!)
USAID advisor at the DOD: $195,000
USAID contractor: $200,000

There were 16,000 employees at USAID, and the New York Times was only able to interview one making less than $175k. Worldwide, there were an estimated 280,000 contractors.

ALL of these people were getting paid from our tax dollars. Many were making 2-4x the wage of the average American taxpayer ($65-70k per year).

Yes, USAID did some good work, especially during the Cold War. And, yes, many of the agency’s employees were hard-working Americans, with good intentions and love for their country. Again, we should take no joy in seeing thousands of people lose their livelihoods—this is not a case of justifiable schadenfreude.

But it’s not sustainable for an agency with so little accountability to manage tens of billions of dollars per year, enriching tens of thousands of NGO-industrial-complex managers living in the DC/Maryland/Virginia metroplex in the process. Even the NYT acknowledges that “there was bloat and waste in the agency and a need for reform. Much of the $35 billion [USAID] managed in 2024 went to Washington-based contractors, not directly to people in need overseas. The success of many projects was hard to measure.”

Every last dollar that went to these highly paid employees was funded by an American taxpayer, the vast majority of whom make far less money than the people laid off from USAID. We have the right to demand accountability, and we have the right to expect that these funds will be spent in our interest, not theirs.

USAID and its thousands of employees, contractors, and NGO beneficiaries ignored that principle, and they eventually paid the price with their careers. I wish them all nothing but the best, but I won’t mourn that they will no longer be making $200k per year on the backs of American workers.

[Adam R. Carmack @AdamRCarmack]

It's obviously the middle ground.

If we want people to recognize the good, we can't hide the ugly.

When the illusion of Superman is shattered, of course they will think "we are the bad guys" because reality is so far from the perfection they had been taught and envisioned.

Nuance is harder to teach and communicate and that's why both extremes will be taken by the majority of people until the end of time.

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@ramit @SaraEisen @NYCMayor Yeah, there's definitely been no flight of wealthy people because there's still wealthy people in NYC and CA.

It's not like you're talking about someone who has already left another city because of horrible governance.

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@ewarren So could all the money that goes to fraud.

I'd rather take money from corruption and criminals than anyone else.

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@NathanielGivens

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@NathanielGivens @BigD__Cougars @BlackBlessedLDS Broken for me :(

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@SenWarren