Pius Heinz

Actual World Champ. Unlike @golferjosh

[Pius Heinz @MastaP89]

@robinalexander_ 2022 war "Spätausläufer der woke bewegung" sprich die Ideologie ist seitdem auf dem Rückzug und kaum mehr anzutreffen oder wie hat man das zu verstehen?

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@robinalexander_ Enttäuschend. Unseriös. Falsch. Aber gut "die Grünen sind ja auch eine Partei der Mitte", was soll man also erwarten.

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@dDeoxyribo Probably your 4th luckiest runout that session

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@prem_thakker @RnaudBertrand

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@BerlinReporter @DrEliDavid Also auf dem einen Bild ist das schonmal eine iranische Mig. Das lässt ziemlich sicher auf den Informationsgehalt der anderen Posts schließen, würde ich mal unterstellen

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@MikeMcDonald89 @strassa2

[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

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@MattGlantz Ok fine, but which reason will the market find to rip higher off of this? Lol

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@1sausage1 @MikeMcDonald89 No

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@PhilippHaas_ir Normalerweise bist Du differenzierter und besser informiert

[david friedberg @friedberg]

i’d argue you’re too easily moved by the choice words. “privilege” and “equality” are selected because they confuse the notion of fairness. another way to frame his statement “if you’re accustomed to succeeding due to hard work, ingenuity, risk/sacrifice, and, sure, some amount of luck, having the outcomes reset so that everyone is rewarded more equally feels unfair.”

is succeeding after making good choices, sacrificing personally, and working hard really “privilege”?

is it oppressive that everyone doesn’t get to the same place?

perhaps the real oppression is the loss of individual liberties when naively egalitarian philosophies mutate into marxism, denying opportunities for individual sacrifice, effort, and achievement to be rewarded.

framed as privilege v equality misses the mark.. equality of opportunity and equality of outcome are v different things. silicon valley’s most successful are the immigrants who found america as one of the only places on earth where an individual with zero baseline privilege can struggle and sacrifice and effortfully succeed. calling them privileged after the fact seems hardly the point. but an easy one to make.

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@pratyushbuddiga Why?

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@dDeoxyribo Some tweets rly deserve negative likes

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@dDeoxyribo @Gags30poker @BartHanson Relative to the field, it would not shock me. Still glad you did well kid ❤️

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@dDeoxyribo @Gags30poker @BartHanson But didnt you start tp be atleast reasonable at the game around that time?

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@Gags30poker @dDeoxyribo @BartHanson Hahaha, fair enough

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@dDeoxyribo @BartHanson Something like the deoxy 2009-2015 sunrun will never be seen again

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@ThibautPinot @laflammerouge16 @LeGruppetto Once a hero, always a hero ❤️

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@Tratnikstan Feel like Morkov is the obvious exception, made quite a name for himself as a leadout. Maybe Renshaw too.