I became a citizen just six years ago and I’m happy to lecture and educate you on what it means to be an American and why your party is undermining American values.
This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.
Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.
But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.
They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.
It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.
Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.
Let me tell you something, comrade.
No American thinks we are exceptional because we are richer, stronger and more powerful than everyone else.
We are exceptional because we are American. It is our value system that built wealth, strength, and power.
It was the American values etched into the souls of generations of people in this country that built what we have today.
Those values are something you clearly cannot understand, or you choose not to, because they would require you building something of your own.
Our nation was founded by people who simply wanted a chance to build something for themselves.
It wasn’t about being richer than others. It wasn’t about being more powerful than others. It wasn’t about being stronger than others.
It’s certainly wasn’t built on what you propose, this hideous belief that you or anyone is somehow entitled to what other people built.
That is the antithesis of America. Your ideas would have been laughed out of America 250 years ago. You ran an entire mayoral campaign on seizing assets from others.
The sheer concept of expecting the government to force hard-working people to feed, house, and fund other able-bodied men and women would have been roundly ridiculed.
In fact, that is why people migrated to America. It was about freedom.
They fled oppressive government, they fled the type of tyranny you are promoting. Where their work was not theirs, where the fruits of their labor were taken from them.
They fled here not expecting a handout, but simply hoping for a chance to build something on their own. A chance to bet on themselves.
That dream is still vibrantly alive today for the those that choose to work hard and pursue it.
You, of course, sell that it is not possible. That it is a zero sum game. That the success of one group must therefore be at the expense of another group, which is a disgusting lie disguised as “promoting fairness”.
That is the opposite of our American value system.
In America, we believe in abundance. We believe in hard work. We believe in merit. We believe in earning things. We believe if you learn, work hard, and do your best, doors will open. And they do. Every time.
Those beliefs are what made America exceptional, and that is why America continues to be the greatest country in the history of mankind.
All despite men like you.
Depuis 50 ans, la gauche a réussi le plus grand hold-up intellectuel de l'histoire moderne.
Pas avec des armes. Pas avec des lois. Avec des mots.
Et honnêtement ? Chapeau. C'est génial. C'est diabolique. C'est du grand art.
Ils ont compris une chose qu'Orwell avait écrite noir sur blanc dans 1984 : celui qui contrôle le langage contrôle la pensée. Change les mots, et tu changes ce que les gens sont capables de penser. Rétrécis le vocabulaire, et tu rétrécis le champ du possible.
Dans 1984, ce n'est pas un détail. C'est le cœur du réacteur. Le ministère de la Vérité fabrique les mensonges. Le ministère de l'Amour torture. Le ministère de la Paix fait la guerre. « La guerre c'est la paix, la liberté c'est l'esclavage. » La novlangue ne décrit pas le monde — elle le remplace.
Et c'est exactement ce qui s'est passé. Regardez la mécanique :
Le « progressisme » ? C'est l'anti-progrès. Ceux qui bloquent le nucléaire, qui freinent la tech, qui diabolisent la croissance, qui rêvent de décroissance et veulent punir ceux qui construisent. Le mot dit « avant ». Le projet dit « arrière ».
L'« antiracisme » ? Il a réinjecté la race partout. Il assigne les gens à leur couleur, les enferme dans des cases, dresse les groupes les uns contre les autres. Un mouvement censé effacer la race l'a remise au centre de tout. Il a fabriqué le racisme qu'il prétend combattre.
Les croisades « contre l'homophobie » ? Elles crispent, elles clivent, elles imposent — et fabriquent en retour une partie du rejet qu'elles disaient vouloir éteindre.
La « protection » façon Union européenne ? C'est du flicage. On te surveille « pour ton bien », on te censure « pour te protéger », on te contrôle « pour ta sécurité ». Chaque mot est une inversion. Le vocabulaire de la bienveillance au service d'un projet orwellien.
Et le plus beau dans l'arnaque, c'est le verrou. Le piège parfait.
Aujourd'hui, des millions de gens lucides, qui voient parfaitement le problème… se taisent. Pourquoi ? Parce qu'ils refusent d'être traités de « racistes ». Sauf qu'être « antiraciste » au sens où le mot a été retourné, c'est précisément devenir raciste. Ils ont piégé les gens avec leur propre morale. Échec et mat.
Voilà le chef-d'œuvre : ils n'ont pas eu besoin de vous convaincre. Ils ont juste rendu le désaccord impensable, en confisquant les mots pour le formuler.
Alors oui — respect. Bonne guerre. Ils ont joué une manche, et ils l'ont gagnée.
Mais il y a un truc que la novlangue n'avait pas prévu.
Tout le monde a compris.
Le voile est tombé. Les mots reprennent leur poids. Et une inversion sémantique ne survit pas à l'instant précis où les gens la voient à l'œil nu. Ça, c'est terminé.
On reprend les mots. On reprend le réel. On reprend la partie.
@jamesp_robinson@Noahpinion No, he didn’t. This is just plain ignorant. The US gives you a credit for taxes paid on income sourced from another country. You have no clue what you’re talking about. Did he have to file two returns? Sure. Double tax? You’re an idiot.
I want my neighbors to speak English. I want them not to litter, not commit crimes, and to return the shopping cart. I want them to be colorblind and not display ethnic bias on jury trials.
These are all completely separate from taxes.
@thejuliedaniel@ComfortablySmug It’s not usury. The interest rate is 6.5%. She just isn’t even paying enough monthly to cover the interest because she’s on a repayment plan meant for people under financial hardship.
🚨 BREAKING: A @FreeBeacon investigation reveals Rep. Ro Khanna—who rails against the ultra-rich who "hoard wealth"—lives in a $6M D.C. mansion with a four-story elevator while his family's $340M+ fortune sits in the exact trusts, hedge funds, and LLCs he condemns.
Those trusts made 4,100+ stock trades worth ~$53M in 2025—even as Khanna leads the push to BAN members of Congress from trading stocks—while he claims "zero knowledge" of the trades.
His kids (under 10) hold stakes in three private golf clubs, a $65B wealth firm, and a distressed-debt hedge fund—the same vehicles he attacks—while his wife drives a $190K Range Rover.
Bottom line: Khanna's fortune is built and shielded exactly the way he says the rich shouldn't do it.
https://t.co/zFjDVlKSSZ
@mhdksafa Because one is a forced allocation of resources likely not based on value creation or merit and one is an act of charity. But deep down you know the difference, you’re just being intentionally obtuse.
@JeremyKonyndyk We’re the most charitable nation in the world. If you wanna spend your money on worldwide healthcare, go for it. But u don’t get to unilaterally decide to spend everyone else’s money on it, along with the fraud & corruption of USAID soft power scheme to promote progressive ideals
@micyoung75 “Reform of international development” give me a fucking break. USAID was mostly fraud, corruption, and a slush fund to promote insane progressive beliefs worldwide.