Miss Competence

Engineer @ Tech Megacorp -
Praying for my visit from John Galt

[Miss Competence @Miss_Competence]

~ 16 signs of incompetence ~
Incompetent people:
1. Seek jobs in bureaucracies rather than free markets
2. Criticize without proposing solutions
3. Don’t take responsibility for their own faults/shortcomings
4. Attack people instead of ideas
5. Only present one side of an argument
6. Think in generalities/absolutes instead of specifics
7. Cannot distinguish between correlation and causation
8. Only see statistics that agree with them
9. Happily ignore logical contradictions in their beliefs
10. Repeatedly change topics while arguing to avoid losing on specifics
11. Often refuse debate/argument altogether
12. Dislike successful people
13. View money as detrimental to society
14. Don’t understand systems and use intentions as a substitute
15. Showcase virtue rather than achievement
16. Act as though competence does not exist, rebranding it “privilege” or “luck”

[Miss Competence @Miss_Competence]

@KonstantinKisin Successful athletes and singers make people feel less talented. They can accept that.

Successful businessmen and entrepreuners make people feel incompetent. This is not acceptable and triggers cognitive dissonance, where the "only" explanation is that the businessman is evil.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

I finally figured out what's wrong with "everything."

It's a system problem. The introduction of Trump into the system(s) broke almost everything, and in multiple ways.

The fake news created a White Supremacist hysteria, which led to the Fine People Hoax and the George Floyd Hoax, which led to massive DEI, which led to massive systemic incompetence in all of our systems at once.

Add wokeness and cancelation and we can't discuss the issue, much less fix it. That's a system problem. The corrective mechanism (free speech) has been removed.

On top of that, the Trump experience has made it clear all of our government systems are corrupt. They probably always were, but as long as we didn't notice, things limped along okay.

Now we notice.

Now we don't accept "the science" we know is corrupt. We don't accept the omnibus bills we know are corrupt. We don't accept the foreign wars that look sketchy. We don't accept elections we can't fully audit. We don't trust the news, for good reason. We don't trust our intel services to not be agents of one party. And we see the justice departments weaponized.

While all that happened Soros found a way to take control of all American systems via funding of non-government entities and integrating them into the American systems.

But at the head of the snake is the fake news and fake science. There is no correcting mechanism.

The X platform is the only counterforce, and that's why the crooks are trying to take it out, and Musk at the same time.

[Miss Competence @Miss_Competence]

@NYCMayor A true communist is only concerned with dividing what already exists, and shows no concern with how to produce more, for once he spends enough time understanding the systems that lead to greater production, he ceases to be a communist.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Did you know that The Lord of the Rings was about communism?

(Maybe when you come from Poland, every evil looks like communism to you…:)

1. The Ring is not a weapon. It is the totalitarian temptation itself – the promise that this time, the right person wielding absolute power will finally produce the good outcome. Even heroes in the book are tempted by this argument. Gandalf refuses it, Aragorn refuses it, but it is the most seductive argument in politics. It is always wrong.

2. The Shire is where the story begins and where it must return. Hobbits grow their own food, smoke their own pipe-weed, own their gardens, and nobody tells them what a second breakfast should look like. This is not naivety – it is civilization at its most honest. Which is precisely why the system cannot leave it alone.

3. The Eye sees everything – not because it is omnipotent, but because enough servants are watching on its behalf. The Nazgûl are the secret police: former kings, once free and powerful, who accepted rings of power and became hollow enforcers. They did not fall suddenly. Each one made a reasonable accommodation, then another, until nothing remained inside the armor. The surveillance state does not need cameras everywhere. It needs people who have already sold themselves, and have nothing left to lose by selling others.

4. Saruman is the most sinister villain in the book – the brilliant intellectual who studied power so long and so closely that he decided he might as well have some. The collaborator. The man who convinced himself that managing the evil was smarter than opposing it, and ended up running a small franchise of it in the Shire.

5. The Shire gets collectivized. This is the chapter Western readers most want to skip – because it means that ignoring the darkness while it was distant did not protect the things that were close and dear. It came home anyway, wearing the face of bureaucratic administration: no private gardens, no excess, enforced sharing, small men with clipboards and new rules. Sharkey — the defeated Saruman — cannot create anything anymore. He can only administrate, regulate, and ruin. This is what the system looks like when it has already lost everywhere else.

6. Gollum is what the system produces when it finds someone useful. He serves the Ring completely, calls it his precious, and has long since forgotten what he was before it. He is not evil – he is consumed. The system doesn’t need to destroy you. It just needs you to need it more than you need yourself.

7. The Ring must be destroyed, not used. Not reformed, not redirected, not wielded by a better person for better ends. This is Tolkien’s most radical political statement: some instruments of total power cannot be turned to good purposes. They must be unmade. Every generation has to rediscover this, because the argument for just one more ring, in the right hands, for the right reasons, never stops sounding reasonable to some people…

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Who is John Galt?

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

Handouts destroy agency and foster dependence.

[Miss Competence @Miss_Competence]

@elonmusk @NickKristof @christopherrufo @NickKristof
You just made Elon waste 10 seconds writing this. During that time he would have made $473,937 of which $163,152 would be taxes, enabling the purchase of 25,173 mosquito nets. How does it feel to have killed 25,173 kids?

[Miss Competence @Miss_Competence]

@KonstantinKisin You could've just said he's a NY Times columnist, that would've been more devastating.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Bill Maher: “If you don’t know what’s going on in Nigeria, your media sources suck. You are in a bubble. And again I’m not a Christian, but they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria.”

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

The more value society creates, the more everyone can gain.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed that after he finalizes the new budget, the red state of Florida will have SLASHED SPENDING for 4 YEARS STRAIGHT…

…Florida will have a budget less than HALF the size of New York, despite being similar in population

…and the state rainy day fund WILL BE 100% FULL and more than 3X THE SIZE from 7 years ago

FLORIDA CRUSHES IT AGAIN! 🇺🇸 ☀️

All with NO INCOME TAX and impending slashing of property taxes. Imagine that.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Japan, a seven-year-old rides the train across the city. Alone.

No parent. No phone. No adult watching over her at all.

She bows to no one in particular, finds a seat,
sets her little backpack on her lap, and folds her hands.

She is going to school. By herself.
Across a city of fourteen million strangers.
And not one person in that car thinks anything is wrong.

A businessman glances up, then back to his paper.
An old woman smiles at her and looks away.
Nobody films her. Nobody calls anyone. Nobody is afraid.

Because here, a small child alone is not a victim waiting to happen.
She is just a kid going to school. Like every kid before her.

I was raised on the opposite. Lock the door. Watch your back.
Hold their hand. Never look away, not for one second,
or the world will reach out and take them.
And somewhere across the years, I let myself believe that was simply true.

Then I watched a seven-year-old ride home through a city of millions.
Step off at her stop. Walk the rest of the way. Safe.

We had this once, too. I am sure of it.
A street that kept an eye on your kids.
A town that walked them home.

Japan did not find a secret. They just never stopped
being decent to each other. Quietly. Every single day.
While the rest of us slowly forgot that we ever could.

That little girl will make it home tonight.
She always does. 🇯🇵

[Miss Competence @Miss_Competence]

@KatieMiller People who didn't earn their wealth don't understand how to spend it.

[Miss Competence @Miss_Competence]

@GadSaad The government already uses violence to steal what is ours. Just because they call it taxes doesn't make it less violent.

[@amuse @amuse]

https://t.co/p4NI8AjPLV

[Hunter Horsley @HHorsley]

This is a 2 minute video about taxing the wealthy.

There is no mention of programs it will fund. Or why the tax dollars are needed. Or what the money would be used for. Or how those less fortunate could be supported to themselves become wealthy.

The benefits are no longer the point.

The implicit message is about punishment. Punishing those doing well is now good politics.

Sign of the times —

[Miss Competence @Miss_Competence]

@GavinNewsom The incompetent man must steal from the competent to survive.

[Miss Competence @Miss_Competence]

@Georgesantos @RoKhanna He is pushing asset seizures. He thinks it is morally right to take away people's personal property by force. He calls it "tax".
And you are worried about smear attacks?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The Scottish government has finally been dragged, kicking and screaming, into compliance with the law.