Brent Bitzan

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📌 Washington DC

[Brent Bitzan @brentbitzanon]

@Porkchop_EXP Maybe less on X, but living in EU many years it seemed like an obligatory start to a conversation when someone finds out you're American. In NY, DC, etc the self hating libs love to do as some sort of ritual self-flagellation to prove purity

[Brent Bitzan @brentbitzanon]

@Porkchop_EXP We constantly get euros & lib Americans acting elitist talking about how bad America is (politics, lack of culture, etc); saying Europe is so much better. it's exciting to see positive sentiment for once; especially about mundane & everyday things in places normal Americans live

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Matt Walsh directly addresses President Trump on his show, asks why it is "impractical" to deport millions of illegals but not impractical to launch a war thousands of miles from home.

"If we're gonna give a major prize to the donors and pundit class people..."

"Who have tried to undermine you every step of the way, people who oppose your domestic agenda, people who many of them want you to be impeached and imprisoned..."

"If we're going to reward them, then will we also reward your America First base?"

Video: @MattWalshShow

[Brent Bitzan @brentbitzanon]

@Porkchop_EXP Underrated tweet

[Brent Bitzan @brentbitzanon]

@Porkchop_EXP No, can confirm that is the bubble. Most of America isn't like that.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

i’d argue you’re too easily moved by the choice words. “privilege” and “equality” are selected because they confuse the notion of fairness. another way to frame his statement “if you’re accustomed to succeeding due to hard work, ingenuity, risk/sacrifice, and, sure, some amount of luck, having the outcomes reset so that everyone is rewarded more equally feels unfair.”

is succeeding after making good choices, sacrificing personally, and working hard really “privilege”?

is it oppressive that everyone doesn’t get to the same place?

perhaps the real oppression is the loss of individual liberties when naively egalitarian philosophies mutate into marxism, denying opportunities for individual sacrifice, effort, and achievement to be rewarded.

framed as privilege v equality misses the mark.. equality of opportunity and equality of outcome are v different things. silicon valley’s most successful are the immigrants who found america as one of the only places on earth where an individual with zero baseline privilege can struggle and sacrifice and effortfully succeed. calling them privileged after the fact seems hardly the point. but an easy one to make.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

American Dynamism.

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

My politics are:
-whatever helps us climb the Kardashev scale faster and further

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Brent Bitzan @brentbitzanon]

@Porkchop_EXP Careful out there. German government might come knocking on your door. Even Dostoevsky quotes might become pro-russian propaganda that they deem dangerous speech

[Brent Bitzan @brentbitzanon]

@Porkchop_EXP That's Tik tok isn't it?

[Brent Bitzan @brentbitzanon]

@beffjezos @Jason This is one of my favorite tweets of all time

[Brent Bitzan @brentbitzanon]

@Porkchop_EXP Elon

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

It’s increasingly obvious there are two groups of people in the world:

Accountables
People who believe their rewards should be coupled to their effort and outcome.

Unaccountables
Louses who think that their mediocrity should always be rewarded under all circumstances.

If the Unaccountables win, we will become a lost society.

How do you spot an Unaccountable?

Ask them “What did you get done this week?”

It’s a normal question to an Accountable. It’s an existential risk to an Unaccountable. Their reaction will tell you which one they are.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

My favorite part of the speech too.

[Brent Bitzan @brentbitzanon]

@isa2001m It's not you, it's them https://t.co/c5pQ0HUeWS

[9mmSMG @9mmsmg]

As of right now I'm making about 65% less per period with 2-3x better stats. Here's this pay period. The one before I had barely been posting. If I wanted to make money, I'd just post "tea or coffee?"or "walk or crawl?" Over and over.

These people are using X as an ATM machine and collapsing the system. Pity.

[Brent Bitzan @brentbitzanon]

@Porkchop_EXP Curious your take.Based on his works, I assume heroism = suffering/sacrifice for something greater than oneself. So heroism = transcending ones own happiness for a greater good, even if it results in personal misery.The mere existence of that possibility creates happiness itself?

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

uhh... based... Henry... Kissinger ?

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The accusation that people who are already very successful in business go into government to make more money is a lazy and stupid narrative. As I’ve learned, serving in government involves substantial disruption and divestiture of one’s business interests.

The real question is how lifelong “public servants” get so rich. For example, how did Nancy Pelosi become the greatest stock picker of our age? How did the former head of USAID become a deca-millionaire? Why are the zip codes surrounding Washington DC some of the most affluent in the country?

To a person, all the billionaires that I’ve met serving in government are doing it for one reason: they absolutely love the country and want to make it great again. To do that, we have to drain the Swamp and the massive government corruption that is in plain sight.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Consumption taxes incentivize you to work hard, gain success and consume only what you really need or truly want. It allows those that want to, to succeed and get ahead.

Income taxes, instead, arbitrarily take from your hard work irrespective of how hard you work or how you live your life. Are you a spender? Are you a saver? Are you burning the midnight oil to get ahead? It doesn’t matter. The government takes from you equally.

May sound ok to some but those are people without agency or desire to get ahead.

Income taxes incentivize mediocrity and is a headwind to getting ahead.

Separately, but this is for another post, in a post-AI world, the idea of taxing incomes makes no sense anyways and we will be forced to substitute income taxes for consumption taxes.

So, let’s get ahead of the curve and try taxing companies and outsiders who want access to the US market and substitute it for income taxes and slowly take them to zero.

This is, by the way, how it used to be for 126 years of our country (1776-1861, 1872-1913).

Who does this hurt?

1) Asset holders. If you own stocks, you dislike this. If you don’t own stocks or care about the S&P500, bottom line, you would be better off.

2) Globalism. If you like the idea of a gargantuan, worldwide free trade zone, this hurts you because the status quo today likes to take from citizens and reward companies and global free trade instead.

3) Muscular federal spending. If you believe that bureaucrats have the answer and can spend their way to solve problems on behalf of Americans, you want the status quo.