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What you’ll read here sounds insane. That’s because the West lost common sense and we’re here to bring it back.

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They said boycott, they said disaster, they said Trump would kill the World Cup meanwhile there were 504,000 fans in 8 matches. Record attendance incoming.

The media was wrong again.

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@avidseries China has more inequality than the US so it’s weird that socialists would take that as an example.

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@lisandroalm @JMilei Gracias ! VLC!

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@Rory_Talks_Ball Tell me you’ve never been to a college football game without telling me.

The atmosphere there is now better than in most Premier League stadiums, where loyal supporters have been priced out and replaced by tourists.

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Zohran, your city spent $72 million on homelessness in 2019. By 2025 it was $368 million. A 400% increase.

The cost per homeless person is $81,000 a year, more than the median New Yorker earns and the homeless population grew 26%.

If that tells us anything, it's that with Elon's $1 trillion, you wouldn't fix homelessness in NYC. You would create millions more.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

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Socialists keep saying "just take @elonmusk $1 trillion and fix everything" but this what that actually fixes:

Africa hunger? Already received $2.6 trillion in aid since 1960. Still hungry.

NYC homelessness? @NYCMayor is already spending $81,000 per homeless person per year. There are more homeless than ever.

Minnesota social programs? $1 trillion would fund their Medicaid fraud alone for 111 years.

@GavinNewsom's high-speed rail? Already $231 billion over budget. Not a single foot of track laid.

Public education? The US already spends $1.3 trillion a year on it. Test scores keep dropping.

The US Government? The US spends $7 trillion a year. $1 trillion funds the federal government for 57 days.

And here's the worse, confiscating Elon's wealth doesn't even give you $1 trillion.

His wealth is in stock so if you force him to sell, you crash the valuation, wipe out thousands of investors and employees, and end up with a fraction of what you thought you'd get.

So you don't fix hunger, you don't fix homelessness, you don't fix schools but you get a market crash and mass layoffs.

America doesn't have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem, created by the same politicians who think they know better than the market how to allocate capital.

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Isn’t it weird that for so many western feminists, activism stops when it’s time to criticize the men that actually imprison women?

The burqas. The child marriages. The honor killings.
Suddenly it’s about respecting different cultures.

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How can anyone hate @elonmusk?

Do they hate the fact that he created 150,000 high-paying jobs in clean energy and aerospace?

Or is it the fact that he kept Ukraine online when the country's infrastructure was collapsing?

Or the fact that he built a chip that lets paralyzed people control computers with their thoughts?

Or the fact that he paid $11 billion in taxes in a single year, more than any individual in U.S. history?

Or the fact that Starlink now connects hospitals and schools in places governments ignored for decades?

Or the fact that he restored free speech to the most important public square on the internet?

Or is it the fact that after the Space Shuttle retired, America had no way to send its own astronauts to space and he fixed it, faster and cheaper, with rockets that land themselves back on the pad?

Or the fact that he forced the entire auto industry to go electric, not with regulation, not with lobbying, just with a better product?

Or the fact that his self-driving technology already prevents thousands of crashes every year?

Or the fact that he doesn't own a superyacht, doesn't have a private island and every dollar goes straight back into rockets, batteries, and brain interfaces because he actually believes the future depends on it?

Or the fact that he built Gigafactories in America and Germany when everyone else was outsourcing to China?

He built rockets, electrified transport, kept a nation online during a war, and gave life back to the paralyzed. This is who they hate?

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Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain https://t.co/ArBReYYGsv

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They are not harming the economy to save the planet, they are harming the economy because like communism, it's the philosophy of envy.

They don't care about the planet, they all take planes, they all eat meat and they don't want solutions like nuclear.

This isn't about the planet, they just don't want other people to have more than what they have.

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@cosmorxn @ArtemisConsort Just look at the incentive. The left doesn't care about pension or humanitarian reasons, they want to stay in power and the migrants they welcome will vote for them for decades.

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@ArtemisConsort It's easier to import voters than to convince the ones who are already there. This is why.

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@oscar_puente_ @grok ¿Puedes comparar la tasa de violaciones y robos entre Madrid y Barcelona? Gracias.

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Update on my favourite map after Fujimori won the Peruvian presidential election.

How it started vs How it’s going:

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Since @JMilei’s victory in Argentina and the defunding of USAID, the left has lost almost every major election in Latin America.

🇩🇴 Dominican Republic, 2024
🇸🇻 El Salvador, 2024
🇵🇦 Panama, 2024
🇪🇨 Ecuador, 2025
🇧🇴 Bolivia, 2025
🇭🇳 Honduras, 2025
🇨🇱 Chile, 2025
🇨🇷 Costa Rica, 2026
🇵🇪 Peru, 2026

And Colombia is next.

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@translatisfy @AlexLacl It's less than that... With his new salary at Ferrari, he saves more every year in taxes by living in Monaco.

Also keep in mind that's the money he pledged over several years, so it's even less than that.

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They don’t reject capitalism, they just don’t want anyone to be richer than them.

As Thomas Sowell said: “Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, ‘social justice’.”

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@PekkaKnight2 @AlexLacl His sources are obviously wrong. Just look at Hamilton's salary, check how much he saves on taxes by living in Monaco and you can see how ridiculous is the amount he pledged (which is different from donated) to give to charity. Hypocrisy at its finest.

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@ThomBrady5 Unfortunately, the communist is currently projected to win.

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@EricLDaugh She hasn't won yet.

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You're not lucky to be born in the West.

On June 6, 1944, thousands of young men crossed the English Channel knowing most wouldn't make it back. Others spent their entire lives underground pulling coal out of the earth.

They did it for their country, their family. For a version of you they'd never live to meet.

The left looks at all of that and calls it privilege, they want you to feel ashamed of it. They want you to believe you don't deserve it. That you should open the gates to everyone because you just got lucky.

You didn't get lucky. You're here because someone decided their family deserved better and paid for it with their life.

Don't be ashamed of what they built, protect it.