Nick Arena

Steward of Capital - Joining the Circus

[Nick Arena @NickArena54]

For the Males: Go out and train.

That is all.

That is the post.

[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.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Socialism doesn't work and is immoral. Plus, this exact experiment has been done with a UBI, and it failed miserably. People came out poorer, less productive, and worse off while becoming dependent and entitled. This is not the way.

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

"While the world fixates on Donald Trump’s populist cocktail of reciprocal tariffs and big, beautiful deficits, @JMilei is delivering a man-made miracle that should gladden the heart of every classical economist and quicken the pulse of all political libertarians." 1/5

[Nick Arena @NickArena54]

Capitalism is neither bad nor good. It's a reflection of the human conscience.

Leftists have an inability to understand this concept.

This is the reason they see no issue in lambasting capitalism while having a porch full amazon packages.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Wow, libertarianism worked

[Nick Arena @NickArena54]

Taken on iPhone 16 Pro Max

[Treezy @SovietCuban]

We are Chairman Maos red guards

[Nick Arena @NickArena54]

@IsabellaMDeLuca 30 minutes

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Left-wing economists predicted disaster from Milei’s free market reforms. They were wrong.

From China to Vietnam, to India, to Poland, free markets work. What do left wingers have to point to? Constant failure and disappointment.

[Spencer ⭐️ @spencercamp]

He’s doing the same thing Dean Preston did in San Francisco. He’d call for more housing and then reject every housing project, unless it was 100% income restricted. So nothing got built.

Socialists are the worst NIMBYs. They reject anything that isn’t 100% income restricted or government owned. So nothing gets built.

[Dean Phillips @deanbphillips]

As the presumed next mayor has promised, New York City is about to become more affordable - but not because of socialism.

Because of capitalism.

Housing is a function of supply and demand, and demand is about to drop like a brick.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

It’s crazy how popular socialism is in some of the world’s richest places built by capitalism. Marxists have all these theories about class interests, what complete nonsense it all is. No ideology does a worse job defending itself than capitalism, even as it continues to work.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

It’s incredible how socialism’s reputation is so wildly at odds with its actual track record—somehow feeding the hungry is equated with socialism even though socialist regimes have done a terrible job of feeding people

[david friedberg @friedberg]

it is vitally important for america that mamdani get elected mayor of NYC. he can help maximally and swiftly tax the rich, stand up govt-run grocery stores, eliminate the police force, freeze rents, and make public transportation free..

it’s unlikely that taxing the rich will cause them to move to other cities (collapsing nyc tax revenue), or that city-run grocery stores will fail to increase fresh vegetable consumption in the inner city, or that elimination of the NYPD will cause a rise in crime and decline in quality of life, or that freezing rents will drive landlords to dump properties (collapsing prices and property tax revenue), or that free public transportation will result in union-led kleptocracy. no way. i’m sure this time socialism will be different…

if Americans don’t want to learn the lessons of socialism’s failures elsewhere, we should aim to learn them here as quickly as possible.

let’s make sure one or two cities and states fall apart fast so the rest don’t have to.. elect mamdani!

after accruing $2 trillion in student loan debt, that they will never be able to pay down, it’s no surprise “the college educated in nyc are supporting mamdani 61-39”. the current system has failed them.

but the truth is, more government may not be the answer when too much government (indiscriminate federal student loans regardless of cost or quality of degree or institution) may have gotten them to this moment.

a gentle reminder, though, that an articulate ignoramus isn’t more correct than his less charismatic/authentic political rival. facts, data, truth still stand above theory, innuendo, and bullshit. socialism won’t work. if we have to re-learn that lesson the hard way, let’s do it fast and elect mamdani.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

50 years of “weight training is bad for you” to land at “everyone should weight train”, 30 years of “creatine is bad for you” to land at “creatine good for your brain & body”… “the mouth vs nose breathing thing is silly…” to “mouth breathing is bad for teeth, brain, face ”…

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Today marks day 15 of President Trump’s 90-day reciprocal tariff pause.

This means the pause is now 17% complete without a single trade deal announced yet.

The market is still waiting for a deal.

[Nick Arena @NickArena54]

@Cernovich Covid has broken your brain. Being pro- free trade does not make you a “Covidian”.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

The Great Depression of the 1930s started with Hoover, but it was Roosevelt who made it great. This depression is starting with Trump, but once again it will be made much worse by the Democrats after they use it to take complete control of the White House and Congress in 2028.

[Nick Arena @NickArena54]

@JackPosobiec You will go down as one of the biggest idiots encouraging this moronic policy.

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Let’s not mince words: If Joe Biden had provoked a global stock market crash and risked a severe recession (at best) to push an insane economic policy with zero chance of working the entire Republican Party would be SCREAMING for his impeachment

And it would be right