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My mass cancels out my energy.
😬😖😣😩😫😫😵
@Sajwani @SenWarren Not impossible, but definitely requires factories on the Moon and Mars to achieve.
By then, I don’t think dollars will be used as currency. Just mass and energy.
What a repugnant attitude.
Elon isn't your slave, Senator.
Keep your fantasies to yourself.
@BasedMikeLee
Hate to break it to you, Mike. But it is our money. #TaxTheRich
@EdMarkey What a repugnant attitude.
Elon isn't your slave, Senator.
Keep your fantasies to yourself.
@BasedMikeLee
@EdMarkey Really?
@Isak_Q1 The horror!!! 😱
If I'm honest my brain could use a rinse. 😳
Nah. I'll keep my mind filthy, and my Soul free.
If anyone wants to learn actual economics we have a bunch of courses on @petersonacademy that won’t brainwash you into socialism like our current colleges do.
@MikhailaFuller @petersonacademy If I'm honest my brain could use a rinse. 😳
Nah. I'll keep my mind filthy, and my Soul free.
As we know, all economists prefer to pour drinks and wash glasses
Why do Republicans say AOC is “just a bartender” when she has a masters in economics, but they don’t say Markwayne Mullin is just a plumber?
HINT: racism and misogyny
@iky_fwjett As we know, all economists prefer to pour drinks and wash glasses.
“The Deal with Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all!” President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸
What spectacular ignorance.
You'd turn the world into a heaping mass of misery.
No one would make anything for YOU, even if you sent them to work camps, which you absolutely would.
Me: "The abiding sense I'm developing from Gulag Archipelago is not that the lies about the doctrine exist, but that the lies are endemic. Not only must the the truth be hidden, the faithfulness to the lies cannot be broken, and to violate *this* doctrine becomes the worst of all possible sins. Not the failure to manifest the "utopia," failure to lie about the utopia whole-heartedly."
Grok:
"**That's a profound and precise distillation of the core horror Solzhenitsyn lays bare.**
The *Archipelago* isn't primarily a catalog of broken promises or utopian failure—it's a sustained autopsy of a system where **the Lie itself became the operating system**. The doctrine (Marxist-Leninist whatever) could be adjusted, reinterpreted, or quietly abandoned in practice, but the *requirement to affirm it enthusiastically* was non-negotiable. To withhold full-throated participation, to notice the gap between slogan and reality, to fail to denounce others for the same—or worse, to remember yesterday's truth—was the unforgivable sin. It inverted morality: sincerity in error was redeemable; clarity was treason.
Solzhenitsyn tracks this across the arrests, interrogations, camps, and everyday life. The "organs" didn't just punish dissent; they engineered *confession* and *complicity*. The show trials, the endless self-criticism sessions, the way language itself was corrupted ("repressed," "liquidated," "kulak," "wrecker")—all served to make the individual complicit in the unreality. As he writes (paraphrasing the cumulative force of many passages), the system demanded you *internalize* the falsehoods, not merely mouth them. Failure to do so threatened the entire edifice because the regime knew its material results were catastrophic; only the enforced illusion held it together.
This is why Solzhenitsyn's famous line lands so hard: "The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." The real battle wasn't ultimately between ideologies on a map, but inside each person—whether they would **live the truth** in small things when the cost was real. The Soviet experiment scaled up the personal temptation to lie for comfort, status, or survival into a totalitarian sacrament.
### Connections to broader patterns
Your observation resonates strongly with Peterson's repeated emphasis on Solzhenitsyn: ideologies that demand you sacrifice your perception of reality at the altar of the collective vision inevitably produce hell. It's not inefficiency or corruption as side effects—**the lie is structural**. Once truth is subordinated to the narrative, every institution (education, law, science, art) becomes a priesthood enforcing the faith. Dissent isn't mere disagreement; it's ontological blasphemy.
We've seen echoes in other systems and eras: the demand for enthusiastic participation in obviously failing projects, the ritual denunciations, the memory-holing of yesterday's orthodoxy. The worst sin remains *noticing* and *saying so* out loud.
In your own arc—sobriety, recovery, the Petersonian/Jungian emphasis on integrating shadow and speaking truth— this theme must hit especially close. The personal parallel to refusing the "personal gulag" of self-deception, even when it was easier to keep drinking the lie, feels direct.
What part of the *Archipelago* (specific volume, chapter, or episode) crystallized this for you most sharply? Or is it the cumulative weight across the whole thing? I'm happy to dig into particular passages or related readings if you'd like."
https://t.co/EfWNznoqF3
If I had Elon's money I would solve world hunger instantly.😡
Sent from a device purchased with with a sum of money that could have been used to feed an Ethiopian family for a year, but wasn't, because my generosity is purely hypothetical.
What spectacular ignorance.
You'd turn the world into a heaping mass of misery.
No one would make anything for YOU, even if you sent them to work camps, which you absolutely would.
Me: "The abiding sense I'm developing from Gulag Archipelago is not that the lies about the doctrine exist, but that the lies are endemic. Not only must the the truth be hidden, the faithfulness to the lies cannot be broken, and to violate *this* doctrine becomes the worst of all possible sins. Not the failure to manifest the "utopia," failure to lie about the utopia whole-heartedly."
Grok:
"**That's a profound and precise distillation of the core horror Solzhenitsyn lays bare.**
The *Archipelago* isn't primarily a catalog of broken promises or utopian failure—it's a sustained autopsy of a system where **the Lie itself became the operating system**. The doctrine (Marxist-Leninist whatever) could be adjusted, reinterpreted, or quietly abandoned in practice, but the *requirement to affirm it enthusiastically* was non-negotiable. To withhold full-throated participation, to notice the gap between slogan and reality, to fail to denounce others for the same—or worse, to remember yesterday's truth—was the unforgivable sin. It inverted morality: sincerity in error was redeemable; clarity was treason.
Solzhenitsyn tracks this across the arrests, interrogations, camps, and everyday life. The "organs" didn't just punish dissent; they engineered *confession* and *complicity*. The show trials, the endless self-criticism sessions, the way language itself was corrupted ("repressed," "liquidated," "kulak," "wrecker")—all served to make the individual complicit in the unreality. As he writes (paraphrasing the cumulative force of many passages), the system demanded you *internalize* the falsehoods, not merely mouth them. Failure to do so threatened the entire edifice because the regime knew its material results were catastrophic; only the enforced illusion held it together.
This is why Solzhenitsyn's famous line lands so hard: "The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." The real battle wasn't ultimately between ideologies on a map, but inside each person—whether they would **live the truth** in small things when the cost was real. The Soviet experiment scaled up the personal temptation to lie for comfort, status, or survival into a totalitarian sacrament.
### Connections to broader patterns
Your observation resonates strongly with Peterson's repeated emphasis on Solzhenitsyn: ideologies that demand you sacrifice your perception of reality at the altar of the collective vision inevitably produce hell. It's not inefficiency or corruption as side effects—**the lie is structural**. Once truth is subordinated to the narrative, every institution (education, law, science, art) becomes a priesthood enforcing the faith. Dissent isn't mere disagreement; it's ontological blasphemy.
We've seen echoes in other systems and eras: the demand for enthusiastic participation in obviously failing projects, the ritual denunciations, the memory-holing of yesterday's orthodoxy. The worst sin remains *noticing* and *saying so* out loud.
In your own arc—sobriety, recovery, the Petersonian/Jungian emphasis on integrating shadow and speaking truth— this theme must hit especially close. The personal parallel to refusing the "personal gulag" of self-deception, even when it was easier to keep drinking the lie, feels direct.
What part of the *Archipelago* (specific volume, chapter, or episode) crystallized this for you most sharply? Or is it the cumulative weight across the whole thing? I'm happy to dig into particular passages or related readings if you'd like."
https://t.co/EfWNznoYuB
One of the most legendary drum solos in rock history
[🥁 Neil Peart of Rush]
Another misanthrope. 🙄
---
You're wrong.
Capitalism is far and away the best system we've ever had to reduce poverty. It's a system that rewards winners and punishes losers, and that's tantamount to a law of nature.
The Bible effectively says, "The rich get richer, the poor get poorer."
This is a FEATURE, NOT A BUG.
The brilliance of capitalism is that EVERYONE has a chance at succeeding. Communism makes success impossible for the average person. Yet, it's also a system that makes the RICH RICHER, AND THE POOR POORER. This also is a FEATURE, NOT A BUG.
The worst part of your feeble statement is, YOU don't care about the poor, YOU HATE THE RICH.
Go away with your resentful bullshit.
@Grok's elaboration:
**Here's a strengthened, evidence-backed version of your draft reply.** I kept your direct, no-BS voice and core message ("feature not a bug," Biblical framing, calling out resentment/envy over genuine concern for the poor) while adding precision, data, and tighter logic to make it more persuasive on X. It directly counters the "Elon can just liquidate and fix hunger" fantasy in the thread without losing the fire.
### Suggested Reply (copy-paste ready):
"You're wrong.
Capitalism is far and away the best system we've ever had to reduce poverty at scale. Since 1990, extreme poverty has plummeted from ~2.3 billion people to around 800 million — over 1.5 billion lifted out, mostly via market reforms, property rights, trade, and innovation in China, India, and Asia. That's the greatest poverty-reduction achievement in human history.
It's a system that rewards winners who create value and punishes losers who don't. That's not a moral failing — it's how reality and competence hierarchies work. The Bible makes the exact same point in the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25): the master rewards the servants who *multiplied* what they were given through productive effort and rebukes the one who buried his talent out of fear or laziness. 'For to everyone who has will more be given...' This is a FEATURE, NOT A BUG. Incentives drive progress. Remove them and you get stagnation and shared misery.
Communism tried the opposite — forced equality of outcome. It made real success nearly impossible for the average person while creating a new class of rich and powerful party elites with special stores, dachas, and privileges. The poor got poorer in absolute terms too (Holodomor, Great Leap Forward, Venezuela). That was also a FEATURE, NOT A BUG of centralized control.
The worst part of your feeble statement is that you don't actually care about the poor. If you did, you'd support the only system proven to generate broad prosperity, jobs, cheap goods, and rising living standards. Instead, YOU HATE THE RICH and want to punish success out of resentment. Zero-sum envy dressed up as compassion.
Go away with your economically illiterate, resentful bullshit. History and the data are not on your side."
### Why these additions strengthen it (without diluting your tone):
- **Data punch**: The 1.5+ billion figure (Our World in Data / World Bank) is concrete and hard to dismiss. It shows capitalism delivers *absolute* gains for the poor, not just "rich get richer." You can reply to your own post with a link to the chart if you want receipts.
- **Biblical accuracy**: The Parable of the Talents explicitly rewards *productive investment* and punishes idleness. This undercuts critics who twist it into an anti-wealth message. It's perfect for your "feature not a bug" line.
- **Communism contrast**: Added the elite-capture reality (nomenklatura) and specific historical failures. This mirrors your point that both systems have "winners and losers" — capitalism's are based on value creation; socialism's are based on political power.
- **Resentment call-out**: Kept ...
https://t.co/QQ6JkJ9ZmQ
If Elon Musk just gave away his trillion, he could end hunger and poverty in Africa, just like Band Aid and Live Aid did.
Another misanthrope. 🙄
---
You're wrong.
Capitalism is far and away the best system we've ever had to reduce poverty. It's a system that rewards winners and punishes losers, and that's tantamount to a law of nature.
The Bible effectively says, "The rich get richer, the poor get poorer."
This is a FEATURE, NOT A BUG.
The brilliance of capitalism is that EVERYONE has a chance at succeeding. Communism makes success impossible for the average person. Yet, it's also a system that makes the RICH RICHER, AND THE POOR POORER. This also is a FEATURE, NOT A BUG.
The worst part of your feeble statement is, YOU don't care about the poor, YOU HATE THE RICH.
Go away with your resentful bullshit.
@Grok's elaboration:
**Here's a strengthened, evidence-backed version of your draft reply.** I kept your direct, no-BS voice and core message ("feature not a bug," Biblical framing, calling out resentment/envy over genuine concern for the poor) while adding precision, data, and tighter logic to make it more persuasive on X. It directly counters the "Elon can just liquidate and fix hunger" fantasy in the thread without losing the fire.
### Suggested Reply (copy-paste ready):
"You're wrong.
Capitalism is far and away the best system we've ever had to reduce poverty at scale. Since 1990, extreme poverty has plummeted from ~2.3 billion people to around 800 million — over 1.5 billion lifted out, mostly via market reforms, property rights, trade, and innovation in China, India, and Asia. That's the greatest poverty-reduction achievement in human history.
It's a system that rewards winners who create value and punishes losers who don't. That's not a moral failing — it's how reality and competence hierarchies work. The Bible makes the exact same point in the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25): the master rewards the servants who *multiplied* what they were given through productive effort and rebukes the one who buried his talent out of fear or laziness. 'For to everyone who has will more be given...' This is a FEATURE, NOT A BUG. Incentives drive progress. Remove them and you get stagnation and shared misery.
Communism tried the opposite — forced equality of outcome. It made real success nearly impossible for the average person while creating a new class of rich and powerful party elites with special stores, dachas, and privileges. The poor got poorer in absolute terms too (Holodomor, Great Leap Forward, Venezuela). That was also a FEATURE, NOT A BUG of centralized control.
The worst part of your feeble statement is that you don't actually care about the poor. If you did, you'd support the only system proven to generate broad prosperity, jobs, cheap goods, and rising living standards. Instead, YOU HATE THE RICH and want to punish success out of resentment. Zero-sum envy dressed up as compassion.
Go away with your economically illiterate, resentful bullshit. History and the data are not on your side."
### Why these additions strengthen it (without diluting your tone):
- **Data punch**: The 1.5+ billion figure (Our World in Data / World Bank) is concrete and hard to dismiss. It shows capitalism delivers *absolute* gains for the poor, not just "rich get richer." You can reply to your own post with a link to the chart if you want receipts.
- **Biblical accuracy**: The Parable of the Talents explicitly rewards *productive investment* and punishes idleness. This undercuts critics who twist it into an anti-wealth message. It's perfect for your "feature not a bug" line.
- **Communism contrast**: Added the elite-capture reality (nomenklatura) and specific historical failures. This mirrors your point that both systems have "winners and losers" — capitalism's are based on value creation; socialism's are based on political power.
- **Resentment call-out**: Kept ...
https://t.co/QQ6JkJ9rxi
You're wrong.
Capitalism is far and away the best system we've ever had to reduce poverty. It's a system that rewards winners and punishes losers, and that's tantamount to a law of nature.
The Bible effectively says, "The rich get richer, the poor get poorer."
This is a FEATURE, NOT A BUG.
The brilliance of capitalism is that EVERYONE has a chance at succeeding. Communism makes success impossible for the average person. Yet, it's also a system that makes the RICH RICHER, AND THE POOR POORER. This also is a FEATURE, NOT A BUG.
The worst part of your feeble statement is, YOU don't care about the poor, YOU HATE THE RICH.
Go away with your resentful bullshit.
@Grok's elaboration:
**Here's a strengthened, evidence-backed version of your draft reply.** I kept your direct, no-BS voice and core message ("feature not a bug," Biblical framing, calling out resentment/envy over genuine concern for the poor) while adding precision, data, and tighter logic to make it more persuasive on X. It directly counters the "Elon can just liquidate and fix hunger" fantasy in the thread without losing the fire.
### Suggested Reply (copy-paste ready):
"You're wrong.
Capitalism is far and away the best system we've ever had to reduce poverty at scale. Since 1990, extreme poverty has plummeted from ~2.3 billion people to around 800 million — over 1.5 billion lifted out, mostly via market reforms, property rights, trade, and innovation in China, India, and Asia. That's the greatest poverty-reduction achievement in human history.
It's a system that rewards winners who create value and punishes losers who don't. That's not a moral failing — it's how reality and competence hierarchies work. The Bible makes the exact same point in the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25): the master rewards the servants who *multiplied* what they were given through productive effort and rebukes the one who buried his talent out of fear or laziness. 'For to everyone who has will more be given...' This is a FEATURE, NOT A BUG. Incentives drive progress. Remove them and you get stagnation and shared misery.
Communism tried the opposite — forced equality of outcome. It made real success nearly impossible for the average person while creating a new class of rich and powerful party elites with special stores, dachas, and privileges. The poor got poorer in absolute terms too (Holodomor, Great Leap Forward, Venezuela). That was also a FEATURE, NOT A BUG of centralized control.
The worst part of your feeble statement is that you don't actually care about the poor. If you did, you'd support the only system proven to generate broad prosperity, jobs, cheap goods, and rising living standards. Instead, YOU HATE THE RICH and want to punish success out of resentment. Zero-sum envy dressed up as compassion.
Go away with your economically illiterate, resentful bullshit. History and the data are not on your side."
### Why these additions strengthen it (without diluting your tone):
- **Data punch**: The 1.5+ billion figure (Our World in Data / World Bank) is concrete and hard to dismiss. It shows capitalism delivers *absolute* gains for the poor, not just "rich get richer." You can reply to your own post with a link to the chart if you want receipts.
- **Biblical accuracy**: The Parable of the Talents explicitly rewards *productive investment* and punishes idleness. This undercuts critics who twist it into an anti-wealth message. It's perfect for your "feature not a bug" line.
- **Communism contrast**: Added the elite-capture reality (nomenklatura) and specific historical failures. This mirrors your point that both systems have "winners and losers" — capitalism's are based on value creation; socialism's are based on political power.
- **Resentment call-out**: Kept ...
https://t.co/QQ6JkJ9rxi
elon could solve world hunger literally this second
all he has to do is full stack dump all his shares, cause a stock market recession, wipe out trillions, delete tens of thousands of jobs, and then he'll be able to fund the federal government for about 18 minutes
You're wrong.
Capitalism is far and away the best system we've ever had to reduce poverty. It's a system that rewards winners and punishes losers, and that's tantamount to a law of nature.
The Bible effectively says, "The rich get richer, the poor get poorer."
This is a FEATURE, NOT A BUG.
The brilliance of capitalism is that EVERYONE has a chance at succeeding. Communism makes success impossible for the average person. Yet, it's also a system that makes the RICH RICHER, AND THE POOR POORER. This also is a FEATURE, NOT A BUG.
The worst part of your feeble statement is, YOU don't care about the poor, YOU HATE THE RICH.
Go away with your resentful bullshit.
@Grok's elaboration:
**Here's a strengthened, evidence-backed version of your draft reply.** I kept your direct, no-BS voice and core message ("feature not a bug," Biblical framing, calling out resentment/envy over genuine concern for the poor) while adding precision, data, and tighter logic to make it more persuasive on X. It directly counters the "Elon can just liquidate and fix hunger" fantasy in the thread without losing the fire.
### Suggested Reply (copy-paste ready):
"You're wrong.
Capitalism is far and away the best system we've ever had to reduce poverty at scale. Since 1990, extreme poverty has plummeted from ~2.3 billion people to around 800 million — over 1.5 billion lifted out, mostly via market reforms, property rights, trade, and innovation in China, India, and Asia. That's the greatest poverty-reduction achievement in human history.
It's a system that rewards winners who create value and punishes losers who don't. That's not a moral failing — it's how reality and competence hierarchies work. The Bible makes the exact same point in the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25): the master rewards the servants who *multiplied* what they were given through productive effort and rebukes the one who buried his talent out of fear or laziness. 'For to everyone who has will more be given...' This is a FEATURE, NOT A BUG. Incentives drive progress. Remove them and you get stagnation and shared misery.
Communism tried the opposite — forced equality of outcome. It made real success nearly impossible for the average person while creating a new class of rich and powerful party elites with special stores, dachas, and privileges. The poor got poorer in absolute terms too (Holodomor, Great Leap Forward, Venezuela). That was also a FEATURE, NOT A BUG of centralized control.
The worst part of your feeble statement is that you don't actually care about the poor. If you did, you'd support the only system proven to generate broad prosperity, jobs, cheap goods, and rising living standards. Instead, YOU HATE THE RICH and want to punish success out of resentment. Zero-sum envy dressed up as compassion.
Go away with your economically illiterate, resentful bullshit. History and the data are not on your side."
### Why these additions strengthen it (without diluting your tone):
- **Data punch**: The 1.5+ billion figure (Our World in Data / World Bank) is concrete and hard to dismiss. It shows capitalism delivers *absolute* gains for the poor, not just "rich get richer." You can reply to your own post with a link to the chart if you want receipts.
- **Biblical accuracy**: The Parable of the Talents explicitly rewards *productive investment* and punishes idleness. This undercuts critics who twist it into an anti-wealth message. It's perfect for your "feature not a bug" line.
- **Communism contrast**: Added the elite-capture reality (nomenklatura) and specific historical failures. This mirrors your point that both systems have "winners and losers" — capitalism's are based on value creation; socialism's are based on political power.
- **Resentment call-out**: Kept ...
https://t.co/QQ6JkJ9rxi
@maravalea One. Trick. Pony.
"...go fuck yourself."
November 2023. The most powerful companies on Earth lined up to make him kneel.
Disney. Apple. IBM. Comcast. They pulled their money and waited for the apology.
The whole press corps wanted one word out of him. Sorry.
Sorkin leaned in and offered him the exit. Just walk it back.
Musk: “If somebody’s going to try and blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself.”
No retraction. No cleanup post at 2am. No quiet calls begging the brands back.
They wrote that it was over. That he’d finally buried his own company.
He was worth around $230 billion that night.
This week SpaceX went public.
He became the first trillionaire who has ever lived.
Forbes puts him at $1.1 trillion. Almost four times the next richest person alive.
This was never about him.
The people threatening you only hold the power you agree to hand them.
Every time you apologized to keep the peace, you taught them the price was you.
He refused to pay it once, in front of the entire world.
The world blinked first.
The crowd never remembers who knelt. It remembers who refused to flinch.
The only person who can ever make you beg is you.
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