A guy was assassinated on video, in full view of everyone in the country, in the highest-profile political assassination in decades. Camera phones everywhere.
And the American media has spent 3 days telling you why he (and you by proxy) are the ones to blame for it. We have never seen this. Ever. And people are acting appropriately.
Or hear me out — we could invest our own money for our own retirements instead of being forced to dump a huge chunk of our paychecks into a precarious-but-mandatory government retirement scheme.
Given per capita is usually done per-100,000 people, this is actually very convenient framing.
729 homicides per 100,000 is absolutely insane. Our cities with the highest homicide rates are at like 50 or 60 per 100,000.
It's crazy CBS thought this was some kind of dunk.
This is the same news media that pushes to ban AR15s because of way, way less murders than this.
The most important civic lesson never taught: govt. has no resources of its own and everything it gives to one person must first be taken from another.
Remember that time Sam Bankman Fried stole billions from customers in a massive fraud and gave over $70 million to democrats (and $200k to republicans) including millions for people like Rep Maxine Waters (who blew him a kiss at the hearing he was invited to), Sen Maggie Hassan and over $20 million to Joe Biden himself (boss of SEC Chief Gary Gensler who gave Sam a special audience no one else in the industry got).
Then the Biden DOJ — as part of SBF’s extradition deal made sure that no campaign finance violations would or even *could* be charged so that not a single politician would be investigated or charged with a crime, have any depositions or discovery, have to reveal anything to the public or even have to return the stolen deca millions of dollars? Remember?
Zohran Mamdani pretends to speak for the oppressed—but he grew up in a $60k/year private school, went to an elite college, is the son of a Columbia professor and a famous film producer, and now lives in a $2 million Chelsea apartment. Spare us the act.
Trump talks about immigration without explicitly talking about brown people, and is called racist.
Zohran talks explicitly about taxing white people, and is celebrated for it.
total reindustrialization victory. pmarca just articulated the single most important mission of our generation in less than 3 minutes. he sees what we see. the future isn't another LLM. it's about intelligence for atoms and rebuilding the industrial world.