"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H. L. Mencken
"It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron." ~ H. L. Mencken
Socialists think that wealth is natural and scarcity is manufactured.
Capitalists think that scarcity is the default and wealth is created.
This is a fundamental difference between the two.
Has it ever occurred to people that the reason why we have too much corruption is that we have too many commissions, agencies, and departments? authorities, bureaus, boards and parastatals. We need to sell most of them and lose the rest. A lot of them are redundant and serve...
"Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to."
~Thomas Sowell
A curious definition of evil has emerged.
A man who creates companies, products, and wealth is evil because somewhere a child is hungry.
The politicians who spent trillions, the dictators who stole billions, the warlords, the corrupt officials, and the failed institutions are granted a curious exemption.
The hungry child is real enough.
The logic connecting him to a stranger's net worth is somewhat less substantial.
I do not believe Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish ethnostate. It was founded through displacement, violence, and Western-backed settler colonialism on land that was already inhabited. The ongoing expansion, erasure of Gaza and the West Bank on maps, settlement...
#TBT Zilivyokua China juzi kati zimechafua Tanzam Road uelekeo kwao Zambia ...kuhusu Ngao mchina angemwachia msauzi atie Ngao ya chrome basi.!!!
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@elonmusk “What multiculturalism boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture. And you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.”
— Thomas Sowell
Her rules are for men she doesn't love, because she has none for the man she does.
A woman's rules are self-protective roadblocks against men she does not respect or desire from making her do things she doesn't want to do.
For the man she loves, there are no such roadblocks.
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