The Operator

CEO, 11:59 Media

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[The Operator @OperatorIRL]

Let’s be real. This isn’t resistance because “Fatigua” and “DaCash” here believe that they are on the right side of the law, or that their rights are being violated. This isn’t resistance because they believe they are being racially profiled. This is becoming too common - these fools have been educated by the media to believe that if they resist “just right” and stretch this out, that the police will inevitably make a misstep in procedure… that the ACLU might come riding in and get them a lawyer who micr-analyzes the cop’s response and finds money lying somewhere in the incident. Plain and simple. And even if that falls flat, they’ll inevitably go before a judge who will hold the door for them back out onto the sidewalk with no consequences. But can you blame them in our current society? One that over-analyzes police interactions for the slightest misstep in a real-time situation involving true criminal behavior. One that glorifies law-breakers and mislabels them as cultural-martyrs. A society that has taught people that resistance, even when you’re clearly violating the law = cash. His eyes don’t say, “what is happening!?” His eyes say, “maybe this will cause a riot, and I’ll get a payout… and a mural”

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It gets worse!!! If you just type “made in USA” the response is ALWAYS instant. No thinking at all. The phrase “made in USA” triggers an immediate response! Every other “made in [country] query gets a “thinking” and then an actual response. @amazon @JeffBezos you’ve got some answering to do - to all of your USA-based merchants.

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Yikes, this isn’t fake! I immediately tried it. Not only is it not fake but when you try it, the response is almost instantaneous, whereas its response to find India tools “thinks” before responding. @amazon @JeffBezos really? This isn’t even intelligent. That USA response was chambered in the barrel!! Gross.

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TLDR; She’s an idiot trying to give more useful idiots a new clarion call… You CANNOT redistribute wealth you haven’t first created—and democratic socialism undermines the incentives that create it. 🤦‍♂️

FULL EXPLANATION THAT THE MOUTH-BREATHERS WON’T BOTHER READING:
Leigh McGowan is feeding more drivel to the useful idiots by presenting yet another seductive but deeply flawed trilemma that ignores how wealth is created, not just redistributed.
• Capitalism doesn’t limit riches to “only a few”: Market economies are not zero-sum. They have driven the greatest explosion of prosperity in human history. Global extreme poverty fell from ~42% in 1990 to under 9% by recent decades, largely through trade, innovation, and private enterprise in places like China, India, South Korea, and Eastern Europe post-communism. Mobility is real: millions rise from poverty to middle class or wealth via entrepreneurship. Billionaires (tech founders, etc.) often generate far more value for society than they capture—think jobs, consumer surplus, and tax revenue. Inequality exists because talent, risk, and timing differ, but absolute living standards rise for nearly everyone.
• Democratic socialism’s promise is illusory: It doesn’t magically let “anyone” get rich while ensuring “no one is poor.” Heavy redistribution, expansive welfare, high taxes, and regulations erode incentives for wealth creation. Productive people and capital flee (see France’s brain drain episodes or California’s outflows), innovation slows, and growth stagnates. “No one should be poor” becomes an unfunded mandate leading to debt, inflation, dependency, and rationed services (long NHS waits in the UK, housing shortages in Nordic experiments). Real-world democratic socialist-leaning policies often produce high youth unemployment, sluggish mobility, and middle-class squeeze—not universal riches. Nordic success stories are capitalist economies with cultural homogeneity, strong work ethics, and significant economic freedom—not pure redistribution machines. They tax heavily but rely on private markets for dynamism; attempts to go further (e.g., Venezuela-lite experiments) collapse.
Communism’s poverty trap is acknowledged, but democratic socialism is presented as the Goldilocks solution. In practice, it frequently converges toward slower growth and elite capture by bureaucrats/politicians, not broader riches. Wealth isn’t a fixed pie to slice “fairly”—it’s expanded by voluntary exchange and property rights. Interfering too much shrinks the pie. 🤦‍♂️

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@NVIDIAGeForce Mmm powerrrr #RTXPowersPlay

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If you hear of missiles still flying, remember US / Iran ceasefire is not the same as Israel / Hezbollah theater of war. Israel views Hezbollah as an existential border threat armed and directed by Iran, so it treats that theater as independent. And will probably use this opportunity to continue to hammer locations where Hezbollah are concentrating. Netanyahu has been clear: operations against Hezbollah continue "regardless" of the Iran pause.

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@andrewfarah *cancels Dewey. Appreciates the work of @andrewfarah

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@SearchForRyan @Anirudhgargi @SearchForRyan Did you dump your Claude Code convo into Grok > generate based on the context it gleaned? I use Grok a lot for massive text-reads, this makes sense. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't dumping in more than I need to. Is context on your repo part of your convo?

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This made me unexpectedly choke up a bit 🥹🥹

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

That kid doesn’t know it now but someday he’s gonna be all grown up, facing life and look back and realize that’s the happiest he ever was ❤️

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@AlinesAlone @Luca280 @unusual_whales I’d love that ❤️

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@Luca280 @unusual_whales Thanks sometimes headlines just aren’t enough.

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@unusual_whales Yes, stop lending money to people that can’t afford repayment. 🧠 Defaults are at an all-time high, Mike 🤦‍♂️

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@unusual_whales Technically, he “can.” There are many executive orders that have dependencies, so it may be a bold statement with not a lot of teeth. Also, congressimnal oversight plus judicial oversight would complicate things well beyond his presidential term. So… probably more bark than bite

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They rattled on during the entire shutdown about how Democrats were trying to add items to a “clean” CR. And then they do this at the last minute? Hubris to think that this doesn’t tarnish the trust of Americans in them. What in the world could have been so pivotal about adding it that it needed to be done so surreptitiously. That’s a crap move.

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@unusual_whales Please Lord, let them cut their 15,000 fake sales people masked as “tech support” people.

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@DennisKirk27 Very interesting, eh? Also interesting that these federal judges are willing to put their heads up and pull these stupid stunts, knowing that their ruling will be knocked down, and then they will be further labeled as a biased judge. We live in weird times.

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The ancient Roman "Eid Mar" denarius, a rare gold coin minted by Brutus in 42 B.C. to commemorate the assassination of Julius Caesar. The coin features Brutus's portrait on one side and, on the reverse, two downward-pointing daggers flanking a liberty cap with the inscription "EID MAR" (short for "Eidibus Martiis," or Ides of March), directly symbolizing the date (March 15, 44 B.C.) and stabbing method of Caesar's infamous murder by Brutus and his fellow senators.Only three such gold examples are known to exist today, with one recently valued at $4.2 million and returned to Greece after being identified as looted antiquities. 🤯

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@yeet_respecter 🎧