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[James @James30348327]

@kaiviti_cam Ask for a breakdown of where the Melinda Gates 20million has gone

[James @James30348327]

@stewartbennet66 @NMowbray23 I would if I could 🙂

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@NMowbray23 Democracy is doomed, it requires a community with at least a little basic understanding of what works

[James @James30348327]

@jandalblowout @NMowbray23 Omg understand that we need to grow the damn economy...it will attract other players , keep our best and brightest and grow the tax receipts...

[James @James30348327]

@nzpoliticsgroup It’s bigger than 1 person, the business should sold - the Canadian pension fund always seems keen to buy our leftovers 😉

[James @James30348327]

@NMowbray23 Totally agree , the dumbing down of the media has spilled over to the 'masses' ...if you can't figure who to vote pick a party with a policy you agree and understand then vote !

[James @James30348327]

@elonmusk It's a bit sad we have to celebrate the 'normal'

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@BobbyDee @raelbrav As a 20 plus years subscriber, I have do agree , so disappointed in the interview, time to stop feeding the Economist Machine

[James @James30348327]

@GadSaad @zannymb @elonmusk @TheEconomist I am just pleased that he didn't waste productivity time traveling to her place for the interview!

[James @James30348327]

@EricLDaugh How many times did she say Europe, she's forgot that they England left the EU..such English arrogance, she at best speaks for England ..not even the UK 🙂

[Handre @Handre]

Envy needs an ideology, and socialism has always been happy to provide one. Mises wrote a whole book about this in 1956, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, and the diagnosis holds up: people who resent the outcomes of voluntary exchange will always search for a doctrine that transforms their resentment into virtue. The woke left found theirs.

Notice what wokeism and socialism share at the root. Both start from the premise that unequal outcomes prove injustice. You earned more than your neighbor? Exploitation. One group outperforms another in median income? Systemic oppression. Neither doctrine ever asks whether people made different choices, took different risks, or produced different value for others. Asking that question would ruin everything, because the entire project depends on assigning blame rather than understanding prices, profit, and loss.

Once you accept that unequal outcomes equal injustice, you need a corrector. Someone powerful. Someone with the authority to override contracts, seize property, and redistribute according to a moral hierarchy the planners themselves define. That job description has exactly one applicant: the state. This is why the woke activist and the socialist always arrive at the same policy desk, demanding rent control in New York, wealth taxes in Sacramento, hiring quotas in every HR department from Seattle to Brussels.

Marcuse and the Frankfurt School figured out decades ago that the Western worker refused to play his assigned role as revolutionary. He got rich instead. Capitalism handed him a car, a house, and air conditioning, and he stopped listening to men promising utopia through expropriation. The revolutionaries needed a new client base. Class became identity, but the machinery stayed identical: oppressor and oppressed, guilt and grievance, revolution and rule.

The love affair with socialism, then, follows logically. Wokeism supplies the moral demand for coercion; socialism supplies the economic apparatus of coercion. Neither can survive in a world of private property and voluntary exchange, because in that world you rise by serving customers, not by capturing committees. Venezuela ran this experiment from 1999 onward. The grocery shelves reported the results.

[FUBAR nz @NzFubar]

Love this

[James @James30348327]

@NZFreeSpeech @caffeineworship While the issue might be ‘why’ was the paper removed, the paper itself is an enlightened read.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

We Asked AI To Predict What Will Happen Now That Elon Musk Is A Trillionaire

Made with @grok

[James @James30348327]

@Suitandtie9999 Everytim6thay say free replace with tax payer funded

[James @James30348327]

@matt_horncastle You forgot to include sociallists

[James @James30348327]

@matt_horncastle As with all democracies we have to keep trying to improve and build on our the foundations of our liberal democracy, or we will loose them

[James @James30348327]

@ConserveHawk @TheRedbaiter Because we gave them free money

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

They don’t care for the poor.

They just envy the rich.