Scott

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.

Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”

Think about what property tax actually means.

You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.

Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.

You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.

Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.

The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.

That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.

Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.

Now stack all three.

Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.

At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.

Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.

Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.

The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.

And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.

The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.

SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.

The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.

The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.

The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.

The future belongs to the people who build it.

[Scott @Northy1975]

@3YearLetterman @elonmusk Remember when Buzz and Neal built a dune buggy and played golf on the moon, it was like an episode of Gilligan's Island.

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

Every SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

December 30, 1984
° 1984 NFC DIVISIONAL °

The nine-point underdog #Bears — fueled by a Walter Payton touchdown PASS, a long catch-and-carry Willie Gault score, savage hits and seven sacks of Joe Theismann — shock two-time defending NFC champion "Redskins" at RFK, 23-19.

#Chicago's first postseason victory in 21 years

[Sean O'Neill @SeanOhhhh]

Can you play Carol of zee Bells?

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The way snow is removed in Montreal

[Concerned Canadian @Concern70732755]

Send this to every Liberal & ask yet again how do they continue to refute this ??
It is unconscionable what they have done !!
It will take decades &generations that are now saddled with this punitive debt to repay it

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Macaulay Culkin returns 30 years later as Kevin McCallister from 'Home Alone' in Google ad

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

Gilmore could never do this

[Baseball Quotes @BaseballQuotes1]

Is Bo Jackson the best athlete ever?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This website calculates the effects of an asteroid impact anywhere on Earth, with a customization of the size, composition, speed and angle of impact.

https://t.co/P3i1ck3h1I

[MLB @MLB]

OTD 30 years ago, Joe Carter touched ‘em all, and the @BlueJays won their second consecutive #WorldSeries.

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

RIP Dick Butkus
Middle Linebacker, #Bears 1965-73

• PFHOF Class of 1979
• NFL100 All-Time Team
• NFL 75th Anniversary Team
• 2x All-Decade - 1960s & 1970s
• 8 Pro Bowls
• 8x All-Pro (6x First-Team)
• 5x PFWA All-NFL (4x First-Team)
• 1974 PFWA Halas Award

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

Without question, this is my favorite NFL Films Dick Butkus segment of them all

The best testimonials, the one I feel best captures the essence of the iconic #Bears middle linebacker

Worth your time

RIP🙏

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

RIP Dick Butkus, #Bears legend

One of the most feared players in NFL history

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

Favorite party movie scene?

I’ll start:

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

NFL Films' Steve Sabol reflects on Chicago #Bears legend Dick Butkus

"More Than a Game" overdub

RIP gentlemen🙏

[ESPN @espn]

The ManningCast third host auditions were star-studded 🤩

(via @OmahaProd)

[jamie @gnuman1979]

Outstanding.