Brian Gladish

Evolutionary liberal hoping that my fellow humans will wake up! Norman ancestry—proudly oppressing since 1066!

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@BowesChay Since Russia has no plans to attack Germany, no sweat.

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@TRHLofficial https://t.co/XvzMPZY7Gs

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@epicsp0ranIari Webber may be the only driver to have backflipped in both Formula 1 and Le Mans machines.

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@k_sonin Wow! An 0-10-0!

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@kathrin18843562 No mention of the free refills?

[Handre @Handre]

You know about Einstein and much of his work, yet you probably can't name a single thing Ludwig von Mises did, and that's a scandal.

In 1920 Mises published "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth." He proved, in a few dozen pages, that a socialist economy cannot allocate resources rationally. No private ownership of the means of production means no market for capital goods. No market means no prices. No prices means no way to compare the value of building a steel mill versus a rail line. The planners are flying blind. Seventy years later the Soviet Union collapsed under exactly the contradiction he described, and the men who run economics departments still pretend he was wrong on technical grounds. He called it in 1920. They called it bad luck in 1991.

Then there's "Human Action," 900 pages he wrote in his second language, building economics up from a single self-evident starting point: man acts. He acts to remove felt uneasiness. From that one axiom Mises derived the entire structure of prices, interest, money, and the business cycle without a single regression or pretend-physics equation. Einstein had the decency to work with constants that actually hold. You cannot run a controlled experiment on a human being who learns, anticipates, and changes his mind. Mises refused to fake one. The profession punished him for this honesty by handing Nobel prizes to people who model the economy like a billiard table.

Consider the man's life. He fled Vienna in 1934 as the Nazis closed in, then fled Geneva in 1940, landing in New York with no job and no English-language reputation. Harvard and Princeton, busy hiring central planners, never offered him a paid chair. He taught at NYU on a salary funded by private donors, including the William Volker Fund. Friedrich Hayek, his student, took the 1974 Nobel. Mises died in 1973, one year too early, never having received a dime of official recognition for being right about the largest economic question of the twentieth century.

You were taught to revere the man who explained the stars. The man who explained economic reality got erased.

In a just society, Mises would have received multiple Nobel prizes. Do you agree?

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@Handre Robert Heilbroner: "It turns out, of course, that Mises was right."

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@DavidDeutschOxf It always has been.

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@modernhistory Stunning beauty. I first saw her in The Darling Buds of May: https://t.co/lOvu38iHMI

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@Palsvig It's mind-boggling what this guy says out loud. He fits Hayek's idea of the arrogant intellectual who believes he can design the world.

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@AwakenWithJP Democracy is incompatible with freedom—just read the Federalist Papers.

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@Acyn It's also a problem that we're paying citizens taking welfare to be here, which is a cost to America. End the gravy train for everyone.

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@Rothmus An examination of the implications of Popper's philosophy that leads in a direction quite different from Soros's position: https://t.co/3bbamrv2mM

[Dr Robert Ian Holmes PhD @1000Frolly]

My Graduation Day Photo, 14/5/2019.
A PhD in Climate Change Science/Mitigation has been awarded to me.
This degree is useful because folk should actually listen to me now when I say that man-made climate change through our release of greenhouse gases is junk science.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

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@1Nicdar It's headed in the right direction!

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@SallyMayweather Perhaps you should show The Declaration going in and The Constitution coming out.

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@DA_Stockman Thank goodness he is making this deal, even if it exposes the complete pointlessness of the war.

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A celebration of my friend, @ChampionRafe : https://t.co/M8jpuawL0t

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

@SenWarren Remember last month when you bankrupted an entire airline with your economic illiteracy & 17k ppl lost their livelihoods?