Mark Lang

Legal Immigrant, Dittohead, DIY’er

[Mark Lang @MLDonk]

@USATODAY And a loss for Alberta

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@WSJ The microwave oven was NASA technology that eventually became available for the masses, same as the cell phone, computers, etc …

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@ElissaSlotkin 💯 Spook! John Brennan’s little puppet.

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@TheEuropeansHQ And you do all that while buying Russian energy and have your borders overrun by Sharia law aficionados! Congratulations!

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@SenatorSlotkin That’s exactly what you’re doing! WTH

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@jake_matsen @Rivals @cavemanfootball @BIGHUNS @Andy_Pham1 @CoachDanny10 @CraigHaubert @qbelite @DemetricDWarren @TomLuginbill @RockyMtnSlinger @QBHitList Congrats 🤙🏼

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@JoelVinette I can’t tell parody from reality anymore

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@LeslieMarshall Aw yes, and Joe Biden said the border was closed. Thankfully we @TousiTVOfficial

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@eric_hontz @elonmusk @SpaceX Maybe the EU needs to fix their dependency on Russian energy first. The amount of elitism rot that has blinded the EU leadership is astounding.

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@MaartenDik You don’t have time to worry about tech independence when you’re getting invaded by anti-western third world extremists.

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@marcosagusstinn Any yet you’re still dependent on Russian energy

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@MosiniElisa Europe is once again distracted by another nonissue while ignoring the bigger problems they face.

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@DurrantMark He was late

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Starlink slowed down for a couple days in Ukraine so a bunch of Europeans and a bunch of Democrats have declared that Elon Musk is the most evil person to ever live.

"Elon is the worst human being ever."

"As soon as our technology catches up to Elon's, we will boycott his products!"

"SpaceX and Starlink are dead!"

Look at you fools go. All because Elon allegedly didn't do everything in his power to help Ukraine.

Wait until you dumb f*cks hear about your hero, Barack Obama.

After Putin annexed Crimea and moved 30,000 troops to the Ukrainian border, Obama refused to give Ukraine weapons to defend itself. And he refused for years.

Surely you Ukraine fans remember that right?

Surely you remember the President of Ukraine standing before Congress, begging for weapons to defend Ukraine. You must because you all love Ukraine.

Surely you remember Obama's speech in 2014 at the NATO summit. If you don't, you should watch Fox News because they are currently playing my video of his speech.

During his speech Obama said that Russia was a regional power that posed no threat to America, even after Putin invaded part of Ukraine.

How could that be? We are told now that if Putin takes Ukraine, he could take the entire world. Was Obama lying back then? Impossible, Obama is incapable of that.

During that same speech Obama also said that Ukraine should work out its own future and that many Ukrainians in fact had allegiance to Russia. Obama said that countries regularly break international law and that it wasn't our problem. How could he say that?

Obama sounded like "Putin's Puppet" right? You fans of Ukraine must be so angry at Obama.

Here's a video of the Ukrainian President begging before Congress for weapons after Putin took Crimea.

Say it you Ukraine lovers. Say that Obama is worse than Elon Musk. Will you? Nah. You all are frauds.

Also included in the video is Biden in 2018 being asked about the fact that Trump gave Ukraine the weapons to defend itself that Obama would not. Biden said that he agreed with Trump and that he had spent years arguing to Obama to supply Ukraine those same weapons.

Come on Ukraine fans. Speak out about Obama like you do about Elon and Trump. 😜

[Mark Lang @MLDonk]

@aj4williams @XRPBYU You look great in blue!

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@KashPrime But the time you replace Starlink, Canada will only be Ontario.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

In 2021, the head of the UN World Food Programme said $6 billion from Elon Musk could solve world hunger.

Elon replied: publish the plan, right here, publicly, and I'll sell Tesla stock on the spot.

The plan came out. And when you read it, it wasn't a plan to solve hunger. It was one year of food for 42 million people. A twelve-month subscription. And the year after? Start over.

A few months later, Elon summed up his view: if you care about the reality of goodness rather than the perception of it, philanthropy is extremely difficult.

"Reality of goodness over perception of goodness."

That line stuck with me for weeks. Does philanthropy actually work?

Gates-style philanthropy is first and foremost institutional capture. Foundations funding NGOs, funding governments, funding programs, producing reports, producing photos. Everyone's happy, and the aid machine keeps itself alive. Sixty years and hundreds of billions later, much of Africa is still dependent on aid. Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo laid it out in Dead Aid: aid breeds dependency, feeds corruption, and short-circuits the only mechanism that has ever lifted a country out of poverty.

So what actually works?

It's been tested. In Kenya, Berkeley researchers working with GiveDirectly randomly selected villages and gave every poor household about $1,000 in cash. No program. No training. No conditions. Just cash.

The result: people bought metal roofs, livestock, started small businesses. Barely any inflation. And every dollar injected generated around $2.50 of economic activity locally, including for neighbors who received nothing.

Why? Because you didn't give them charity. You gave them capital. You primed the pump.

And that's where everything hinges: ownership. Hernando de Soto showed that the world's poor hold trillions of dollars in assets, but without recognized property titles, it's dead capital. You can't borrow against it, pass it on, or grow it. Where property rights are respected, the system starts running. Where they aren't, no amount of aid will ever be enough.

Now reread Elon's post.

"Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many."

That's not a meal. That's not a handout. That's a property title. A piece of the company building the infrastructure of a multiplanetary civilization, owned directly by millions of kids.

A kid who gets a handout depends on the state. A kid who owns a share of SpaceX owns a piece of the future. He learns what an asset is, he has a stake in the economy working, and one day he'll vote as an owner, not as a client of the state.

Gates buys perception. Musk distributes ownership.

The reality of goodness versus its perception. And it's absolutely brilliant.

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@SenatorSlotkin Because you’re using your CIA training to motivate and incite leftist radicals to violence against fellow Americans.

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@GrudlerCh @RenewEurope “Wake up Europe” now you sound like Trump!

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@Binder2019 Water girls don’t carry medical bags you moron.