Rick Porter

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Every socialist policy boils down to taxing stuff and banning stuff.

That’s it.

That’s all they’ve got.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Whatever is going on in the world, Thomas Sowell always got there first and summed it up perfectly.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

When socialists mistake what politicians do for what the rich do, they don't just misdiagnose the problem, they prescribe more of what caused it.

They blame wealth for the sins of power, voluntary trade for the abuses of coercion, and entrepreneurs for the actions of politicians.

Then, in an attempt to solve the problem, they demand more authority, more central planning, more redistribution, and more political control.

The result is that the people they thought were the disease become stronger, while the people they blamed were never the cause in the first place.

[Steve Loftus @LoftusSteve]

These people, and he confirms in replies, really do think Musk has a Scrooge McDuck vault full of cash.

The biggest problem with X is is that it has exposed how much of the world are absolute morons.

[CatoTheYounger @catoletters]

Confiscate 100% of Elon's wealth and you don't have enough to cover one year's interest on the US debt. Congressional spending is killing the US, not the entrepreneurs who are keeping us on life support

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Communism is what happens when losers get tired of competing with winners.

The solution isn't to become less of a loser.

It's to declare winning unfair, success exploitative, achievement oppressive, and productivity suspicious.

Every loser gets a committee.

Every loser gets a grievance.

Every loser gets a claim on someone else's earnings.

The only thing the loser never gets is responsibility.

Which is why communism reliably produces more losers.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

The mix of economic illiteracy and primitive resentment on display by those criticising Elon Musk’s trillionaire success is staggering.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

That’s a fact. ⬇️

[Latimer Alder @latimeralder]

Temperatures

In the real world, people live anywhere from an average yearly temperature of -10C (Yakutsk, Siberia) to +30C (Khartoum, Sudan)

That's a range of 40C.

Please can somebody tell me why they think climate change at the rate of 1/20,000th of a degree per day is an 'existential threat to humanity'

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

You didn't create the trillionaire. If anything, you hindered him.

You did help create many of the conditions that keep people poor and homeless by restricting opportunity, raising barriers to work, inflating housing costs, licensing away jobs, regulating construction, and making dependency easier than self sufficiency.

Then you point to the results and call it a moral failure of everyone except yourselves.

By your own standard, the moral failure belongs to those whose policies consistently produce the outcomes they claim to oppose.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

It's wild that people view business as a zero sum game but not government assistance.

In business, both parties must agree to the exchange because both expect to benefit.

In redistribution, one party pays because they're compelled to and the other receives because they're politically favored.

Yet somehow the voluntary transaction is portrayed as exploitation while the coercive one is portrayed as compassion.

[Eli Steele @Hebro_Steele]

“This is the perversion of social virtue that gave us a multiculturalism that has nothing to do with culture. The goal of America’s highly politicized multiculturalism is to create an atavistic form of citizenship—a citizenship of preferential status in which race, ethnicity, and gender are linked to historic victimization to justify entitlements unavailable to other citizens. Culture is a pretext, a cover. The trick of this multiculturalism is to pass off atavisms as if they were culture. So people think they are being ‘tolerant’ of ‘cultural diversity’ when, in fact, they are supporting pure racial power.” — Shelby Steele

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

There's no such thing as a capitalist economic central planner.

Central planning is the replacement of voluntary choices with political choices. That's a feature of socialism, not capitalism.

When socialists condemn "capitalism" for subsidies, bailouts, industrial policy, tariffs, and government favoritism, they aren't condemning capitalism.

They're condemning a rival central planner with different priorities.

The argument is rarely "stop planning."

It's "let my side do the planning instead."

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

If CO₂ is the primary driver of heatwaves, why do many U.S. regions show more heatwave days during the Dust Bowl era than today?

Real climate science starts with observations... not narratives.

[PadSplit @PadSplit]

Weekly turnovers.
Regulatory bans.
Declining margins.

Or…

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See why hosts are switching to PadSplit.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Imperialism is not capitalism.

Capitalism is trade.

Imperialism is force.

When a business expands through voluntary exchange, that is capitalism.

When a state expands through coercion, conquest, or political domination, that is imperialism.

Criticizing capitalism for imperialism is like criticizing commerce for theft. The two operate on opposite principles.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

A woke word you need to learn:

“malinformation”

Information that is factually correct but politically damaging.

It perfectly sums up where we’re at.

[Javier Milei Quotes (Fan) @MileiSays]

“Socialists don’t like the invisible hand. They prefer the claws of the state, and they hide behind the discourse of social justice.”

— Javier Milei

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Socialists look at wealthy men buying politicians and conclude the problem is the market.

Then they propose giving politicians even more power over wealth.

It's a bit like noticing the bartender waters down the drinks and deciding the solution is to let him own the distillery.

If your complaint is that government can be captured by the rich, the obvious solution is to limit what government can hand out.

Instead, socialism hands the government a larger wallet, a bigger stick, and more authority over everyone else's lives, then acts surprised when people compete to capture it.

The diagnosis is often correct.

The prescription is more of the disease.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

The right to vote shouldn’t depend on sex, race, or even age.

Neither should it be a natural right extended to all citizens.

It should be limited to those to contribute and produce, to those who pay.

If it’s not your money, you don’t get a say.