Milton Friedman

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

The underlying moral and practical rationale of socialism, Marx's labor theory of value (and the idea of "surplus value") is nonsense; thus nonsense too are any notions of entitlement or exploitation in a free society.
Marx would have us believe that wealth is created mostly by the physical or mental work of employees and that the employer exploits by taking the difference between the value of the labor and the wage paid for it - the idea of surplus value.
Rather, in a technical culture, it is management and science which allow for the creation of value. It is the creation and maintenance of a business, that is of an entity fulfilling an economic purpose (satisfying, in any way, the needs of people who, in their best interest, purchase goods or services freely from this business), which creates a state where labor has any value at all. The most highly trained technician, working outside of a business employing him (managed by people who understand the economic purpose of the enterprise) is of what economic value ?
It is scientists and engineers creating new products and the means to produce them which have allowed the relatively unskilled to be productive, and thus enjoy a high standard of living. The drill press operator in my client's factory punches holes in aluminum tubes, and creates value only because a scientist a hundred years ago had the wits and skill to discover processes needed to purify the metal, engineers perfected the processes, and a manager today acquires contracts, arranges for the movement of the tubes, designs the projects, trains the worker how and where to drill, and removes the tubes when he is done. The manager, the scientist, give more to the worker than they take; the owner of the plant could survive on his own wits, as may be seen in his ability to create the plant in the first place. Could the worker survive without the scientist and manager at anything like his current standard of living ? Unless we remember this we damn the creative energies that lead to wealth in the first place.
To play with Marx we could then say that "surplus value" is the wage paid by the employee to the business owner for the owners' creation and provision of a job.
The size of the company is of little issue here; value to the firm and thus wage is determined in the open and freely - by market forces.
Are you exploited or assisted by these people and the economy which has encouraged them to create jobs and goods ? And if you agree that employers gain their wealth legitimately, and you are not willing to argue that someone owes you a living, then what becomes of the ideas of entitlement and exploitation ?
Entitlement is revealed as theft. Are you entitled to food, medicine or education ? Who must produce these things before they are given to you as your due? You have no "economic rights", no right to food ,clothing or medical care - because someone else must be robbed of these things before they are given to you.
"Exploitation" without physical coercion is nonsense, because people take jobs in their own best interest and are free to leave their employment and offer their goods or services directly to you, to the economy at large. If they choose not to, or choose to and fail, do you owe them anything ? Is it the proper function of government to coerce you into providing for them ?
Management thus does not exploit. Those who can create a business and offer employment, do a good to those who work for them. Workers are free to go. The socialist rejoinder - "they are not free - they must eat", etc, is partly answered by asking: "Should the person who created the business work at a loss for his employee ?" Does the business owner, or you, owe this person anything ? This is another way of asking if one person has a moral claim to the property of another.
I observe the well-to-do in this society have made their wealth through hard work and wit. My clients, business owners, have worked long hours for decades, building schools, factories, and stores by offering you things you want. I say their wealth is legitimate, and thus you have no claim to it.
The destructive effects of saying you do have a claim to it are twofold - practical and moral. If you tax the productive and redistribute to the nonproductive you penalize the productive for being productive, and reward the nonproductive for not creating. The general result in the real world has been economies like Cuba, China circa 1970, post war eastern Europe, the USSR, New York City, etc. (To say that some nations survive well under near socialism is to admit that deeper cultural forces are significant variables. We observe a weakening in economies which have shifted from a free market to socialism - England is a good example, as is the general level of unemployment in Western Europe today. But we must note that European socialism takes place inside a much longer term historical advancement of freedom - a freedom which gave rise to a high technology and the great economic boom of the last three hundred years.)
The moral effects are more damaging. The social contract is in part a statement of fairness, accepted rules by which we agree to co-exist. The US, as an experiment in democracy, and as an extension and of growing Western concepts of personal freedom and individualism had in part a "contract" of self reliance and personal freedom. One took pride in one's productiveness and independence. This has been replaced by the tenets of socialism and entitlement (which are intrinsically unfair, as they involve making the government a coercive expropriator of private property - and how are your going to live freely if you have no control of your property ?). What are the effects of trying to build a social order on unfairness ? I suggest they are infinitely damaging and corrupting, perhaps worse in the US than elsewhere, as we had a culture based solidly on freedom and individualism.
What message is sent to the poor by socialism? That they have no obligation to help themselves and that the more successful people and groups around them have been successful through exploiting them - think of the confusion and damage this engenders. You are stopped by the police for absurd traffic violations , knowing the fine is a tax to support a bloated, inefficient and, to the extent it gives your money to welfare, corrupt government - and what will become of your respect for the police ? The federal government passes a huge tax increase, lying about "shrinking the deficit", and what happens to your sense of its fairness ? Do you expect the most productive and hard working among us to give their best to their economic creations when they know themselves to be cows of a welfare state ?
Rather than cruelty, a free market is the surest path to what socialists say they want- general material well being. The correlation, throughout history, between freedom and economic growth and control and economic failure is incontrovertible. So too is fact that everyone benefits from this freedom; having traveled widely through third-world and socialist countries I have seen the truth of this myself.
A socialist is one who wishes to consume more than they produce. Their psychology as I have observed it is motivated by a number of forces -1) an incapacity to create and a resentment of those who can, 2) a desire to be cared for (the state as parent), 3) a fear of freedom and a free society (around universities one sees totalitarian personalities denying that "the masses" have the wits to live freely, that their desire for material well being is the result of capitalistic propaganda instead of the sane wish of a material being to live comfortably. I suspect this approach is a chic cover for one sort or another of elitism.)
As a leftist, a liberal, you are likely to reject all this. I ask your forgiveness in this descent into the practical and the common-sensical, but ask yourself - how many people, what percent, do you know who can run a business? What would you expect from an economy if its culture was designed to get in the way of these people, if its entertainment degraded them (the film "Wall Street",ect.), if its government burdened them with paperwork, oversight and high taxes ? Ask yourself - have you any experience in economic creation? Have you ever managed, much less created a business? Have you any sense of the work, wit, creativity, risk, that goes into making something real and useful? I ask you to realize that you have been raised in an environment that accepted Marx as a cogent social theorist. Marx never ran a business, he sponged off others most of his life, and a major proposition of his, as I have shown here, is silly nonsense. I would ask you to re-evaluate your understanding of Marx and the tenets of socialism.
(1992, with some updates)

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

This: "the evidence we have shows the IDF killed at least as many innocent Israelis as Hamas did." is fiction.

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

All of the Mid-East was Christian. Islam is the largest colonial project in history; an aggressive, misogynistic, brutal, theocratic political entity with a “religion” taken from judeo-Christianity by a killer warlord – who used it to enhance his power. Most Muslims don’t act out on Islamic doctrine to subjugate or kill non believers, but Hamas and others train their children as murderous religious fanatics – as seen Oct 7.

Israelis aren’t colonialists but rather simply the grandchildren of neighbors who got tired of being killed by jihadists. All of Israel’s wars and the vast majority of battles have been defensive. The state was created as, and only exists as, a defensive reaction. Nothing like genocide is happening in Gaza - just the conclusion of another war in reaction to another attack.

Jihadists have been killing their Jewish neighbors since the 1920’s. No - Since Mohammed butchered the Banu Qurayza in 632.

Last month Islamists killed in the name of their religion in: India, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Uganda, Kenya. Oh, and also in Israel. So you see this has nothing to do, in particular, with Gaza.

This will end when jihadists either reform and give up violence, or take over the world. I, for one, don't like the idea of theocratic authoritarianism –

The left is being used – in the same way the mullhas of Iran used the communists in 1979 - to overthrow the govt. – only to kill them once in power. Leftist women, ask yourselves – do you want to be forced into a abaya - into a black sack? The reality of Islam is your fantasy of US Republicans.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

The Quran is nothing more than the work of a 7th-century Bedouin, a man whose idea of paradise was shaped by the material desires of a desert warrior, not by divine wisdom.

If the Quran were truly from God, it would reflect eternal, spiritual truths, not a Bedouin’s fantasy of luxury filled with couches, tents, and drinkware.

Look at the absurdly primitive rewards it promises in paradise:

•Cups to drink from – “Therein will be raised couches, and cups set at hand.” (Quran 88:13-14)

•Carpets and tents – “Chaste maidens restrained in pavilions.” (Quran 55:72)

•Beds and couches – “Reclining upon couches lined with brocade.” (Quran 55:54)

•Leaning on cushions – “Reclining therein upon adorned couches.” (Quran 36:56)

This is not a vision of heaven, it’s the dream of a man who spent his life sleeping in a tent on the desert floor, bribing his followers with fantasies of silk cushions, goblets of wine, and women hidden away in luxurious tents.

Muhammad’s idea of paradise is nothing but an upgraded desert campsite.

Muhammad was motivating his jihadists, promising them the very things they lacked in the harsh deserts of Arabia.

He wasn’t offering a path to enlightenment; he was selling paradise like a merchant pushing luxury goods in a marketplace.

And of course, he didn’t stop at furniture and drink, he added virgins, rivers of wine, and young boys to serve them (Quran 78:33, Quran 76:19).

What kind of God promises sex slaves and alcohol as a divine reward? The answer is simple: a false god, invented by a man who knew how to manipulate warriors into dying for him.

Islam’s paradise exposes the Quran for what it truly is, not divine revelation, but the materialistic fantasy of a 7th-century Bedouin warlord who bribed men with couches and cups of wine to send them to die in battle.

[Milton Friedman @Chicago_School2]

@GrillaDawg @JohnCleese He's doing that now, no?