Clever Alias

Fully grown adult male. All original equipment.

[Clever Alias @CT0347635474175]

If you're voting for the Democrats, you're already on board with this progression, but if you're voting for the GOP, you are also onboard, and only pretending you're not. Think about whether or not that bothers you...

[Clever Alias @CT0347635474175]

@1Nicdar With luck, this trend will continue…and continue…and continue…for another decade or two…

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

For every problem, there’s a politician with a “solution.”

To boost homeownership, Presidents Clinton and Bush had the government subsidize mortgages.

The result? The Great Recession.

Politicians continue to make the same mistakes:

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

A reminder that the Constitution was not written to restrain the citizens' behavior.

It was written to restrain the government's behavior.

[Clever Alias @CT0347635474175]

@LibertyPositive Arithmetic wasn’t your best subject, was it…

[Clever Alias @CT0347635474175]

@ClaireFosterPHD Then, you should have taken “Economics 101.” You would have understood after your first lesson. I pity your students…

[Clever Alias @CT0347635474175]

@simonmaechling That “…viral trend…” would filter about 90% of posts on X, Simon. Or was that your plan?

[Ingeniero de Miller @ingdemiller]

EL GRÁFICO QUE EL KIRCHNERISMO NO QUIERE QUE VEAS:

A mayor libertad económica, mayor PBI per cápita. Sin excepción. En todos los países. En todos los continentes. En todos los contextos históricos.

No es ideología. Es correlación verificada por Heritage Foundation y el FMI.

Durante 20 años nos vendieron que el Estado era la solución. El gráfico dice exactamente lo contrario.

Milei no inventó nada. Solo leyó los datos. @JMilei

[Clever Alias @CT0347635474175]

You need to loosen your cultural-appropriation hat, Climate. The amount of misunderstanding of the world displayed in your post must be the result of too little oxygen to your brain. Or is your level of comprehension of market economics a result of some trauma during birth? If so, you have my sympathy. You still shouldn’t post such laughably infantile nonsense, but I’m sympathetic…really…

[Clever Alias @CT0347635474175]

The reactions to the initial success of the SpaceX I.P.O. is a fascinating circus. What shocks me is the amount of absolute idiocy displayed. It confirms to me that loud voices get attention, regardless of facts or logic, and that the amount of class envy, jealousy, resentment, and tribalism stoked by popular misconceptions knows no limit. What sort of absolute moron believes for one second that the government confiscating more of someone else's earnings will somehow benefit them? Our brilliant lawmakers have already collected north of $80 Trillion, and spent over $125 Trillion so far this century. You think another trillion or two taken by force from a few rich guys is going to make one iota of difference? No need to answer. Your foolish post says enough...

[Clever Alias @CT0347635474175]

You’ve worked 37 years and somehow concluded, like a third grader, that a stranger’s stock portfolio is the reason you have no savings. That’s not an economic argument. That’s infantile reasoning, and it’s the kind that typically gets corrected in middle school. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, since you must have been home sick that day:

Musk didn’t take your money. People freely chose to invest in his companies with their own capital. None of it was yours. His wealth didn’t come out of your paycheck, your retirement account, or your future. Wealth is not a finite pie where someone else’s slice shrinks yours. That’s a child’s understanding of economics.

Oh, and since you’re being educated, he also doesn’t “have” $1 trillion. He owns shares in companies with an estimated aggregate value. If he tried to liquidate them, the price would crater. It’s like someone appraising your tricycle at $1M. Until a buyer agrees and pays, you’re not a millionaire. You’re just bad at arithmetic.

37 years of work with nothing saved is a personal finance problem. It has a cause. That cause is not “someone else built successful companies.”

The jealousy is understandable. The logic is embarrassing. You’re envious, but the real culprit stares you in the mirror every morning, if you care to look.

Also: you’re complaining about Elon Musk on Elon Musk’s platform.

The irony apparently escaped you along with your retirement savings and economic literacy.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

@DogeMemery Socialism is the merger of envy and government.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

“No more data centers.”

To an audience served by one.
From a device connected to one.
Using an AI model running in one.

[Clever Alias @CT0347635474175]

@ProfCarlSagan Why do you care? You’re already dead! Give the rest of us a break from the guilt-trip shit, will you please now that you’re no longer exhaling CO2? We’d like to continue for while longer without hearing from guys who already stopped breathing!

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Printing money to fund government spending is a choice. Inflation is the consequence of that choice.

When inflation erodes the value of your paycheck and savings, the government is taking purchasing power from you.

It's theft.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

The conspiracy theory assumes health is the default and medicine is the business.

Reality is the opposite.

Disease, aging, and death are the defaults.

Medicine is humanity’s attempt to negotiate a better deal.

[Clever Alias @CT0347635474175]

When the 3rd place candidate, who already conceded, surges into relevance once the mail-in "votes" are slowly "counted," these quotes come to mind:

"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." - Joseph Stalin

..."(The Democrats)...share the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others." - Thomas Sowell

"One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue" - Saul Alinsky

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." - H.L. Mencken

Easier to understand now, isn't it...

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell: "I was just doing some research on Detroit and it's decline, as they kept raising the city income tax, the revenues kept falling.

Barack Obama was asked by Charles Gibson in 2008, why he wanted to raise the tax rate because he will raise more revenue if he does the opposite, and his response was that, 'it's a matter of social justice'. He didn't care about the consequences.

If he can get people to be mad at the rich and vote for him, it's a political success. He doesn't care whether the government collects more revenues or not."

[Clever Alias @CT0347635474175]

@FloraLuzz_ Need any help packing? I can give you a ride to the bus station, too…

[Milei in English - Official Account @jmilei_english]

It's not the State that creates wealth, but the market. When you get the parasitic State out of the way, wealth creators lift people out of poverty.

LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT...!!!

[Clever Alias @CT0347635474175]

@Smart_feelinX @MarkSheffieldWP @OrevaZSN Please name all the capitalist (not corporatist. Not sorta-capitalist. Not pretend-capitalist) countries that are on their knees. Can’t wait