Jonathan Friedman

I'm a father, husband, animal lover, science geek, poker player, classical liberal, baseball fan, and travel freak.

[Jonathan Friedman @Closetweeter]

@MosquitoCoasty Debasing the dollar is the only possible way we pay down the debt now. Get used to it. Inflation will stay higher than interest rates.

[Jonathan Friedman @Closetweeter]

You know what rich people (like all the insiders of Space X) have in common? They like to avoid paying capital gains taxes. They've all made so much money from this company that they WON'T sell it when the lockup period is over. They'll take loans out against their shares and pay 6% interest instead of 30% in taxes. That's how rich people get richer.

[Jonathan Friedman @Closetweeter]

This is a paid Meta ad running on Facebook right now to push “AI creation tools”

“El dios que adora Jerusalén” = “The god that Jerusalem worships”
That’s Anubis towering over Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. It’s the holiest city in Judaism. Jews do not worship Anubis. This is a blatantly false, antisemitic claim.

@Meta @MetaNewsroom @andymstone You approved this ad. It violates your own Hate Speech policy on “claims that Jews worship false gods.”

@ADL This is the kind of thing you track. Why is Meta running it?

Take it down and explain how it got through.

#Antisemitism #Meta #FacebookAds #StopAntisemitism

[Jonathan Friedman @Closetweeter]

Apparently #Meta thinks I'll enjoy using their AI to create #antisemitic propaganda. "The God who Jerusalem worships".
#markzuckerberg
#WTF

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@KonstantinKisin Mazel Tov!

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Bill gets it. It's not that tough to comprehend. #TDS is blinding not just half of the US, but Europe too.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Europe is on a path to destroying itself.

Unchecked immigration of millions of immigrants that burden their welfare states, bring violence and terrorism to their shores, and take over local governance, one city at a time.

Anti-capitalist policies that make it difficult for businesses to adapt their workforces to a rapidly changing competitive environment now accelerating due to AI.

A business environment and tax regime that is antithetical to startups.

The absence of any progress or innovation in AI and limited access to the compute necessary to compete.

Energy dependence due to the green movement at a moment when energy demands are rapidly increasing.

And now, the abandonment of the U.S. when we have asked for limited assistance — base access and flyover rights — in the midst of our efforts to eliminate Iran’s nuclear and ballistic threat which is already within striking range of Europe, after we have invested nearly $200 billion in helping Ukraine.

NATO is about to be toast. Europe’s defense burden is about to rise massively while their economies continue to fall further and further behind.

In short, Europe needs to wake up before it is too late, and it may very well be too late.

[Jonathan Friedman @Closetweeter]

This is important. Read the whole thread.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

🧵 THREAD: This was coordinated.

Joe Kent goes on Tucker Carlson. Within minutes, the exact same clip, same caption, same outrage floods the internet.

Not organic. Not coincidence.

https://t.co/JyoNJTTBSh Labs tracked it in real time.
What we found will shock you.

[Jonathan Friedman @Closetweeter]

Read this thread. It's important you know.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

🧵 THREAD: This was coordinated.

Joe Kent goes on Tucker Carlson. Within minutes, the exact same clip, same caption, same outrage floods the internet.

Not organic. Not coincidence.

https://t.co/JyoNJTTBSh Labs tracked it in real time.
What we found will shock you.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I am glad everyone is 100% sure that the war in Iran is the end of the world/a genius move/the end of the American Empire/the begining of a new age of American greatness/insert other opinion here.

But could you just acknowledge for a moment that you don't actually know how this is going to go because no one does? It's a gamble which could go either way. And all I see is people doing the usual "Here is my baseless opinion expressed with 100% metaphysical certitude followed by the typical "I hope I'm wrong" disclaimer which allows them to simultaneously harvest the clicks of people who wanted to have their retarded opinion reflected back at them while having plausible deniability for when that retarded opinion turns out to have been completely wrong.

The coin is in the air and we don't know how it's going to land, but the internet is full of people screaming "IT'S GOING TO BE HEADS" arguing with people screaming "IT'S GOING TO BE TAILS".

Stfu.

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@EWErickson @AbeGreenwald

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He actually says it. "The end goal is seizing the means of production".
🤦‍♂️

[Prof. Jeffrey Lax @CUNY_Prof]

Please please please make this video of Mamdani go viral. It is DEFCON 1 in NYC. And this is 3 minutes of video of Mamdani at his rawest, most honest, and most vile. It MUST BE SEEN BY EVERYONE ASAP.

[Jonathan Friedman @Closetweeter]

@sciencegirl Communism

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@DefiantLs Cringe political pandering aside, this is sincerely one of the worst songs I've ever heard.

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@adamcarolla That couldn't possibly make me cringe any harder. 🤮

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@sciencegirl I know for a fact that dogs can identify you from a lot further than 6 meters. I experience it nearly every day.

[Javier Milei @JMilei]

LA CONTRADICCIÓN DE LOS ZURDOS

Lo que está pasando en las redes sociales es un ejemplo perfecto de la hipocresía progresista.

Veo en todos lados a venezolanos festejando la caída del dictador narcoterrorista Maduro pero también veo a todos los comunistas que viven en democracias occidentales (que son cada vez menos) llorando por el innegable fracaso de su ideología, que derivó en una dictadura asesina.

Los progresistas dicen amar la democracia, pero lloran cuando cae un dictador. Eso los pinta de cuerpo entero. Dicen defender al pueblo, pero odian verlo festejar su libertad (o lo que a ellos no les gusta).

Además, el ex-dictador Maduro, que ahora pasará el resto de sus días en una cárcel norteamericana por haber sido el jefe de una organización narcoterrorista que dejó al 90% de los venezolanos en la pobreza, obligando a 8 millones de personas a escapar de su país para no morir de hambre y que para mantenerse en el poder se robó las elecciones, secuestró a Nahuel Gallo, un ciudadano argentino, y lo tiene desaparecido desde entonces.

Pero claro, los cipayos somos nosotros, los que defendemos a los argentinos, los que defendemos a la libertad y a la democracia.

Pero eso se acabó. Basta. No toleramos más las psicopateadas de los que arruinaron no sólo a nuestro país, sino a toda la región, con ideas socialistas y prácticas políticas dignas del fascismo más rancio.

Venezuela celebra.
Venezuela es Libre.
La izquierda llora.
La Libertad Avanza.

VIVA LA LIBERTAD CARAJO 🇦🇷🤝🇻🇪

[Jonathan Friedman @Closetweeter]

This should actually serve as a perfect litmus test to show who can criticize Trump for legitimate, sensible reasons and those who have deep TDS. Anyone who criticizes Trump over grabbing Maduro and freaks out can be safely dismissed as not in their right mind.

#TDS
#Trump
#Maduro
#Venezuela

[Jonathan Friedman @Closetweeter]

Our new #NYC mayor at the Paramount Theater last night, after declaring victory.

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@rkylesmith Bingo.

[Jonathan Friedman @Closetweeter]

#Yankees need to hire #DonMattingly as their next manager, stat. Then spend like George would have. #HalSteinbrenner, start thinking like your dad! Bring NY the championship we deserve! Let's make Donnie Baseball a part of it.