Deskooled

Libertarian-Conservative. Traveler. Coffee Addict. Bald.

[Deskooled @Deskooled]

Check out this video of bald eagles fighting at sunrise!
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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The reason ID is banned in California (and New York) elections is to enable large-scale fraud.

When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized.

[Deskooled @Deskooled]

This is a huge point.

Police and corrections have had a horrible time finding staff throughout Washington State due to the horribly detrimental defund the police movement.

The only upside really is that they had to start paying current staff members more to keep them employed.

Otherwise, even more people would have left.

But I can tell you 100% that they are still having major staffing problems not just in Seattle but throughout Washington.

[Tintin @Tintin1781]

@Lauren_Southern @TRHLofficial Apparently you didn't google very well. The total budget was reduced in 2021 over 2020. There were reasons but the bottom line was reduced. that's not the important thing though. The number of officers on the street is down something like 600 officers since 2020.

[Deskooled @Deskooled]

@redeemed_zoomer @Ray437677951852 @ItsRobbAllen This guy is clearly spot on and realizes he needs to not follow the methodists.

Time to join Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, or maybe some older Protestant denomination.

[Deskooled @Deskooled]

@redeemed_zoomer @ItsRobbAllen What ignorance.

Become Catholic, and you don't have to deal with all that nonsense.

[Deskooled @Deskooled]

Unbelievable that there are even churches that support this sort of nonsense.

I can't believe anybody would waste their time going to something like this in any capacity.

[Robb Allen @ItsRobbAllen]

Today, I decided to leave my church.

I can't sit through another political sermon where the phrase "White Supremacy" is used again and again, and I'm told I'm not doing enough for the LGBTQ+++ crowd.

I want a church that has more crucifixes than rainbow flags and whose bishop doesn't send videos to play about how he protests at whatever the church's politics-du-jour is.

And thus, I am no longer a member of the United Methodist Church.

[Deskooled @Deskooled]

@Atos1933 @MiltonFriedmanW The middle class isn't over yet...

Many of them moved into the upper class.

The lower class has not grown since Milton Friedman made the statement you quoted.

[F. A. Hayek Quotes @FAHayekSays]

A year ago today, President Javier Milei gave Pope Leo XIV a copy of Hayek’s 1988 book

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
https://t.co/xP1EPOnFcw

[Deskooled @Deskooled]

*written by the Biden PR team

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[Off-Grid Tech @OffGridTech_net]

Marxists like to use the expression "Working People" to divide and control.

Marxists hate it when you remind them that Karl Marx was never a working person by their own definition.

Marxists also hate it when you remind them that plumbing contractors, electrical contractors, roofing contractors and other small businesses are workers. So are the accountants they hire to do ever-increasing mountains of government paperwork imposed on them. Some of this snowballing paperwork is productive. Some is not.

[Handre @Handre]

Marx lived his entire adult life as a dependent. The capitalist system funded his "research" through Engels, whose family wealth came from textile factories. The irony cuts deep: capitalism's profits subsidized its most famous critic.

Marx never held a real job. Never met payroll. Never risked capital or faced bankruptcy. He spent decades theorizing about labor value while avoiding actual labor. His insights into production came from library books, not factory floors.

The parasitic intellectual tradition he spawned continues today. Academic Marxists collect taxpayer-funded salaries while denouncing the market system that creates the wealth they consume.

It's time to get rid of these people.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Why is it only pushed in the West?

[Deskooled @Deskooled]

@anarchistLARPer @NewPerspectives This book would like a word.

What an insane opinion to believe the Soviet Union was better. The Soviets confiscated everyone's private property and embraced lysenkoism.

This caused the deaths of millions.

[Handre @Handre]

Mises called it in 1920 already: socialist economies can't calculate. Without market prices, central planners fly blind. They don't know what anything costs to produce or what people actually want.

You watched this play out in real time. Venezuela's government set bread prices below production costs. Bakers stopped making bread. Shelves emptied. Meanwhile, black markets flourished with accurate price signals.

The calculation problem reveals why Soviet citizens waited in bread lines while Americans worried about which cereal to buy. Markets aren't perfect, but they solve the one problem socialism never could: knowing what to produce and how much to charge.

[Kell Morr @KellMorrHK]

Socialists killing other socialists so common it’s a proverb. Unions also ended in the USSR.

Industrialists weren’t protected, like the unions, they were co-opted under the state.

Fascism was a Marxist movement, started by two Marxists, predicated on Sorel’s Marxist syndicalism.

[F. A. Hayek Quotes @FAHayekSays]

“There is basically no difference between socialism and fascism.”

— Friedrich Hayek

[Deskooled @Deskooled]

Serious question, why would you not want to work?

You're just going to never do anything and sit on the couch doom scrolling?

Work and being active is beneficial to human beings. It brings satisfaction in life.

Besides that, it's crazy to me that you actually think goods and services will be produced with no work whatsoever by human beings.

[Deskooled @Deskooled]

So, he really is a communist. Glad we figured that out.

Increasing overall wealth is the only way to help the poor through capitalistic efficiency.

Of course, even if everyone in the world had housing, food, household appliances, hobbies, and a job commies would just keep on complaining. It's their only skill.

[Thomas Piketty @PikettyWIL]

In order to raise the resources necessary to finance sustainable convergence, as well as improve the living standards of lower- and middle-income groups (both in the Global South and North), it is inevitable to drastically reduce wealth and income inequality:

⤴️World's poorest half to reach 30% in global wealth, up from 2%
⤵️Billionaires’ wealth share to drop from 6% to 0.05%

[Anti Kommunistic @antikommunistic]

The most successful thing communism ever produced wasn’t prosperity.

It wasn’t freedom.

It wasn’t equality.

It was excuses.

No matter how badly it fails, there’s always someone ready to explain why the next attempt will be different.

How many failures does it take before people question the ideology instead of the implementation? 🤷‍♂️

[Anti Kommunistic @antikommunistic]

Communism is supposedly for the workers.

Funny how the workers always seem to end up poor, hungry, monitored, and unable to leave.

Meanwhile the Party elites do just fine.

Almost like it was never about equality. 🤔