Aiden Drake

Philosophy, Martial Arts, & Health 👁

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.”

— Milton Friedman

[Aiden Drake @AidenDrake111]

That being said, I do not think the universe is at its core mechanistic.

[Aiden Drake @AidenDrake111]

It seems to me, the concept of god can be interpreted as a tool for categorizing the forces of nature and the universe which we can’t comprehend, and all of the variables in life which we cannot factor in, which do not necessarily have to be the result of an omnipotent force.

Not saying that all that it is, but that framing is almost certainly a good part of it.

[Aiden Drake @AidenDrake111]

"When you make men slaves you deprive them of half their virtue”

Olaudah Equiano

[Aiden Drake @AidenDrake111]

@bri4nr33d @SchrodingrsBrat good insight 🙌🏼

[Aiden Drake @AidenDrake111]

@CollinRugg ❤️

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "The water usage for beef is obscene. Thousands of litres per kilogram."
Farmer: "That's rainfall."
Activist: "What?"
Farmer: "The figure includes all the rain that falls on the pasture. The cows drink from the stream. The rain falls whether there's a cow here or not."
Activist: "It's still water consumption."
Farmer: "Should I stop the rain falling on my field?"
Activist: "Grow crops instead. More efficient."
Farmer: "This is a 35-degree slope in the Welsh hills. Show me the crop."
Activist: "Technology..."
Farmer: "To make tractors climb mountains?"
Activist: "There must be a solution."
Farmer: "There is. It's called a cow."
Activist: [checks phone]

[Sarah Gallagher @sgallz_]

2026: the year of the patriot

[F. A. Hayek Quotes @FAHayekSays]

In honor of the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, here are six of Adam Smith’s most insightful quotes 🧵

1) “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

[F. A. Hayek Quotes @FAHayekSays]

“The modern specialist is very frequently not an educated person—he knows only his particular field.”

— Friedrich Hayek

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

"The countryside is not a slice of untilled nature. It is a human institution built over centuries in the image of the people who made it."

— Sir Roger Scruton

[Free Talk Live @FreeTalkLive]

You don’t hate capitalism. You hate crony state corporatism.

Ironically your anti-capitalist policies feed that machine by expanding the state leverage that corporations capture.

You are not fighting “the market,” you are strengthening the exact system that keeps you trapped.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“A world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth.”

— Friedrich Hayek

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Persians declare their allegiance lies with Western Nations and Western Values, not Islam

“As Persians, we're not here to take your benefits and your houses and your jobs and your women and still hate your flag and hate your country. We love the English flag. We love English people. We love your religion. I'm a Christian myself. Hallelujah.

We came here because we run from religious radicals who have held Iran hostage from more than half a century. But lemme tell you again, we are not them. We are not the IRGC. We are not Muslims. We are Persians. We are Persians.

We love your flag. We love your religion. Do not let no one take that away from you because they took that away from us. They are not us. As I told to you, we are Persians. We are son of Cyrus. The great our ancestors said no to slavery and freed many slaves because that's who we are”

[Aiden Drake @AidenDrake111]

@RobertWeidner11 @latinedisce Lol, this is a terrible take dude

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph from Carl Jung hits so hard.

“The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“Freedom is not the natural state of mankind. It is a rare and wonderful achievement.”

— Milton Friedman

[Margaret Thatcher @realmrsthatcher]

They're a weak lot some of them in Europe, you know. Weak. Feeble.