Robin Stuart

Living a 21st century life with a Paleolithic perspective.

[Robin Stuart @Sensible_Sapien]

How Meat Maketh Man (a brief history):

[Rob Moore @robprogressive]

Capital gains taxes make no sense & shouldn't exist

I invest my capital. I create the opportunity. I take the risk. I do the work. I take the chances. I accept the losses if things go wrong

So why should the government collect a slice when things go right?

They didn’t take the risk. They didn’t build the business. They just take

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

The highest June temperature ever they said.

Oh wait: 104°F is 40°C and that was way back in 1976!

[Wolf @wolfncrisis]

I’m never deleting this app 😂

[Robbie Hendricks @robbiehendricks]

Here’s what happens next:

1) Now that existing landlords can no longer can raise rents as costs inflate, they either let their apartments fall to ruin or quit entirely

2) New development ceases as investors avoid investing where revenue is fixed, expenses are not, and their work is vilified

3) The now state run, run down apartments are exploding in cost as housing units go offline and new development completely stops outside of wildly over budget, always delayed government housing

4) The communist response is to blame greedy landlords and developers for not being willing to go bankrupt to provide housing for others

5) As the productive flee the city, the communists have no choice but to increase taxes even more - on everyone, not just the few rich left in the city

6) The race to the bottom begins, as societal unrest grows, factions develop, and in-fighting reigns

7) The great hope - which is not a guarantee - is that reason eventually prevails and a reversion to common sense enables the slow, painful recovery of New York City

There is no path for this to go well, NYC.

It ends as it always has throughout history: Less housing, higher prices, and higher taxes for you.

[The Middle-earth Mixer @MiddleearthMixr]

i like how no matter how stupid a policy is with evidence going back to ancient times Leftists will go, “Let’s do it again.”

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

A rising tide does in fact lift all boats

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Thank you Germany 🇩🇪 and UK 🇬🇧 for heroically sacrificing your economy to save the planet 💪
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How a "Believe Science!" person looks at you when the science is economics

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

They spent $5.5M of your tax dollars on this. For 100 beds. That's $55K per bed. If you were to simply give somebody $55K, they could rent out a room in Van Nuys for 5 years. But then no contractor or NGO is getting their beak wet on the transaction. See the scam yet?

[Matthew Schmitz @matthewschmitz]

Mental health awareness is hurting mental health.
https://t.co/F7pBQzmV2A

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I'm relieved to see rape gang investigations being held in Oldham, London, Bradford and Keighley.

This is progress, and campaigners deserve huge credit.

Following our inquiry, there are now multiple police investigations underway - we will share more when it is safe to do so. Work on starting our own private prosecutions also continues...

I have made it clear from the beginning that we will do everything in our power to safely cooperate with the authorities where appropriate to ensure that justice is delivered.

Evidently, there is an awfully long way to go. But it does feel like progress is slowly being made...

Survivors, many of whom have been campaigning for years and decades, are among the bravest people I have ever met.

They have made this happen.

[Meghan Murphy @MeghanEMurphy]

Progressives aren't more empathetic than everyone else, they've decided to claim "empathy" as their own to make themselves feel superior. "Empathy" is not the problem. Self-righteousness and self-aggrandizement is the problem, as is the stubborn lack of curiousity progressives have in understanding anyone who isn't like them (again, really the opposite of empathy).

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

Poland's all-time heat record is still 40.2°C, set in July 1921.

Atmospheric CO₂ then: ~305 ppm. Atmospheric CO₂ today: ~430 ppm.

So despite a 40% increase in CO₂, Poland hasn't exceeded its 105-year-old national heat record.

According to climate doomers, every heatwave is "unprecedented."

According to actual records, Poland was hitting 40°C when people were still driving Model Ts.

[Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE]

@RoKhanna is always about partisan politics masquerading as analysis. Fortunately, facts prevail.

[DOGE State @DOGE_STATE]

Except that they didn’t and you know it. Those fake Soros-funded studies assumed USAID’s life-saving programs were totally defunded. That was a total and disgusting lie. As @SecRubio said, the foreign assistance review preserved life-saving work while cutting waste and realigning development and governance programs to America First interests.

Since then, the @StateDept has totally rebuilt our lifesaving aid portfolio, investing billions into more efficient and accountable aid that saves lives without the terrorist diversion and NGO theft Biden allowed:

- Launched the America First Global Health Strategy, bypassing the NGO industrial complex to sign 32 bilateral health compacts with largely African countries, representing more than $20 billion in U.S. and partner co-investment (largest ever mobilization of African domestic resources for health)
- Our work with UNOCHA has, by the UN’s own figures (not an org that loved us), supported lifesaving aid for nearly 40 million de-duplicated real people this year alone ($3.8 billion) and made humanitarian aid more than twice as efficient at saving lives per dollar
- We provided 3 million people with the two-dose regimen for U.S. company Gilead Sciences’ twice yearly HIV prevention drug Lenacapavir
- We provided 60 million people with protection from malaria via SC Johnson’s innovative Guardian spatial repellant product
- We recently provided $1 billion to support the World Food Programme and UNICEF’s lifesaving work, with new accountability reforms
- Provided $370 million and counting to combatting Ebola in the Congo (largest county by far, see recent G7 statement)
- Mounted a widely lauded response to category 5 Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean last year
- Pledged $4.6 billion to the global fund to fight HIV, partnering with them to lower PEPFAR’s supply chain overhead by 3x and drive country self reliance
… and so much more all publicly available …

Why post old fake studies and not have a real conversation? Because it doesn’t serve your redistributive aims?

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

You should have seen the European heat waves in the Medieval Warm Peroid... at preindustrial levels of CO2.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The open society and its enemy, Soros.

While he named his Open Society Foundations after Karl Popper’s “The Open Society and Its Enemies,” his project stands as a philosophical inversion of everything Popper defended.

Popper’s open society rested on critical rationalism, the recognition that no one possesses final truth, that institutions must remain open to criticism and piecemeal reform, and that democracy functions as a method for removing rulers without bloodshed.

He rejected historicism, the belief in iron laws of history that justify sacrificing present generations for a utopian future, and warned that such thinking inevitably produces closed, authoritarian societies.

Soros has repurposed the label to advance a grand project of engineered demographic transformation.

Through mass immigration, multiculturalism as official policy, and diversity mandates that prioritize group identity over individual merit and assimilation, his foundations actively dissolve the cultural continuity and social trust that make rational criticism and incremental change possible.

Popper understood that openness requires a stable framework, a shared language of reason, basic cohesion, and institutions citizens feel they collectively own.
Soros treats those foundations as obstacles to be overcome in the name of an abstract, borderless openness.

The concrete results are visible. Parallel societies that operate under different norms, public spaces where debate on the scale and selection of immigration is treated as illegitimate, and the rise of identity based hierarchies that close off dissent in the name of equity.

These are certainly not expansions of the open society, but new forms of closure, tribal in character, enforced through institutional capture rather than overt dictatorship, yet hostile to the very critical spirit Popper placed at the center of civilized life.

Philosophically, Soros replaces Popper’s falsification and humility before reality with a new historicism, the conviction that global multiculturalism and open borders represent inevitable moral progress, and that resistance from actual existing communities constitutes the new enemy.

The machinery funded in the name of openness does not test its own assumptions against evidence, it suppresses the questions.

Those who still value the ideal of an open society should read Popper on their own terms.
They will find that Soros has not extended the open society, but has supplied its most sophisticated contemporary enemies.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

Naming it USAID was brilliant honestly because most people are too dumb to even ask what it really does

It’s like naming something “Save the Orphan Puppies Org” - what do you mean Elon got rid of it, does he hate puppies?!

It’s like no, Save the Puppies was sending money to the literal taliban