Octavian Metropolis

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

@NoContextBrits Pretty cool history. That pub was around when the Brits tried and failed to hold on to their 13 colonies. Crazy!

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

@ArthurReyher @PhillipAKennedy Totally

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@reductionairy @OneRise1990 @bradenpace If you think that was in any way what I said, you may want to get your head checked 😂

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

@YouTubeNerdNick @altparadisus @RedEaglePatriot You’re probably very smart. It’s everyone else who just doesn’t get it!!! Ugh!

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

@itscelyunique Same with living there. You should go elsewhere, and fast, so that you’re not racist anymore

[Marcus Milam @mmilam75]

Milton Friedman understood something fundamental about human flourishing: people are generally better at deciding how to use their own resources than government is.

His economic philosophy wasn’t simply about lower taxes or smaller government. It was rooted in the belief that free people, making voluntary choices, create stronger families, stronger communities, and a more prosperous society.

When people keep more of what they earn:

• They can invest in their own education, businesses, and careers.
• Families can save for the future and build generational wealth.
• Entrepreneurs have greater incentive to innovate and create jobs.
• Consumers benefit from competition through better products and lower prices.
• Charities, churches, and civic organizations have greater capacity to serve their communities.
• Property ownership encourages long-term investment and stewardship.
• Economic independence reinforces personal liberty by reducing dependence on government.
• Millions of individual decisions allocate resources more effectively than centralized planning ever could.

The goal of a free-market economy is not simply to maximize GDP. It is to maximize human freedom, allowing individuals to pursue their own goals, support their families, build businesses, and contribute to their communities as they see fit.

Reasonable people can debate where the proper balance lies between markets and government. But Friedman consistently argued that human flourishing is most likely when individuals retain both the freedom and the responsibility to direct the fruits of their own labor rather than having those decisions made for them.

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

It seems like you really believe in what you’re saying. And that is sad, for you. Notice how you sink into attack mode at the end of your explanation, which just absolutely kills any credibility you might have had and shows how little confidence you have in the substance of those arguments.

Otherwise, this is just silly. Maybe you just don’t know how redactions work. But supporting coverup of a sex trafficking ring (or pretending it doesn’t exist?) and passionately supporting sending other peoples kids to die in a war (and dismissing dead Americans as “not that many”)… it’s just odd to see that from someone claiming to be a conservative. The supreme court decision was great though.

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

@Mimi41Patti @Cernovich What does he lie about?

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

Americans don’t advocate for imposing laissez faire markets on other countries around the globe that don’t want to have such a system. The rest of the globe can do whatever it wants.We just don’t want government involvement at all, within America’s economy but sadly have far too much of it already.

The right in America used to be the advocates for free markets. Apparently that’s not the case anymore, and the new leaders on the right are now just left wing Keynesians with different views on social issues from the left wing “Democrat” Keynesians

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

Kinda true, but mostly not. After lots of resistance and debate, agreement was reached to form a union of states into one nation, under a central government with limited powers. Forming “one nation” under a central government was the whole point. But that central government was supposed to be limited, which is not the case anymore. Still one nation though, as intended (and successfully fought for despite rebellion when half the states tried to succeed from that union).

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

@beinlibertarian This is really gay

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@1strulefightclb @RealCandaceO @AndrewKolvet Just checking in regarding missing commas. I’m here to learn. Please identify. Thanks!

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

@1strulefightclb @RealCandaceO @AndrewKolvet If you’re able to identify a place where commas were missing, feel free. When doing so, hopefully you’ll recognize that any additional punctuation would be inaccurate. Hope this helps. But please do keep studying!

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

Wild guess… you live nowhere close to any data center and no one is proposing to build a data center near where you live. You would be right in principle though, if it was the case that private companies were simply purchasing or renting land in business-use zoning areas and minding their own business in the ordinary course of “commerce.”

Instead, they’re seeking and obtaining public funds—subsidies for equipment and electricity, property tax abatements, and subsidized infrastructure. Corporate welfare at taxpayer expense isn’t free commerce, isn’t conservative, and certainly isn’t free market capitalism.

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

@Jaxm53 Why doesn’t Fishback belong up there? You don’t have to vote for him, but he’s running in the same race. He’ll probably lose, but shouldn’t everyone on the ballot be debating?

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

Genuinely, is it your perspective that everyone who doesn’t support Trump is a Democrat? Cause there’s a ton of 3x Trump voters who stopped supporting him primarily because he’s too far left and isn’t doing what they voted for. They view the “cult” as supporters who are happy to become leftists alongside him, abandoning conservative values because their dear leader told them what to think, and that’s what they do (even when it contradicts everything they’ve always believed in as conservatives).

Not attacking you. Just laying out what the actual contrast is. Pretty sure everyone’s still on the same side though, when it comes down to the issues that matter.

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@PiperJustPiper @Christo75057794 @JuiceTheGator @PowerOwn45 @GovRonDeSantis you know those pictures aren’t real, right? Or do you think they are lol

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

@Rich62062 @LibertarianLars Super against gov ownership of private companies, but if you’re actually asking no that is not at all what has or is happening. The highest percentage ownership acquired has been about 15%, and all of them consist of non-voting shares

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

@rjblacktx @PhillipAKennedy So…. Conservatives should be more like Democrats, especially the Democrats that abuse power and disregard the Constituion? Democrats were voted out of office and lost every branch of government after doing this, but Conservatives should be more like them

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

@ArthurReyher @PhillipAKennedy Doesn’t seem like that was the point. But rather, it was a gross abuse of power when the intelligence agencies were used to target Trump (the prior admin’s political opposition), and the same is true when the current admin uses intel agencies to target their political opposition

[Octavian Metropolis @OctavianMet]

@YouTubeNerdNick @altparadisus @RedEaglePatriot So it would be better to have someone openly pro-establishment and promises to continue protecting the swamp at all costs, over someone who the establishment hates… because his opposition to the establishment is likely motivated by trying to get elected, which isn’t authentic?