Cillian M.

Hey, you're reading my bio!
Hope your day's going alright.
Apparently I'm fighting misinformation now.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@paulg No, the distinguishing feature is that the one proposing the deal is (by default) a private entity, as opposed to a public one.

You can have a capitalist command economy just as you can have a communist market economy.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@doulonkyriou @Brwneyedgrl4547 @jim_sinclairjr @snooze06155136 Depends on the prevalence. If the cost to enforce those rules exceeds the value recouped, it's a drain no matter what.

Personally, I'd prefer to spend that effort on the supply side—making healthy food cheap rather than policing spending.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@FootballCorner1 @lib_crusher I did make an error in swapping average and minimum, but you're off-base as well.

The top 0.1% is worth $22T, according to 2023 Federal Reserve data, and the cutoff for being in that group is a net worth of $46M.

The rest of the 1% is worth $27T, and their cutoff is $13.7M.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@SherKro @catturd2 This is about as meaningful as saying that Boeing owns the factory that was used to build the planes that were used on 9/11.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@Red___Poppy @Brwneyedgrl4547 @jim_sinclairjr @snooze06155136 https://t.co/q45OTK1FRP

https://t.co/ruCTpazoR3

Go nuts.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@FootballCorner1 @lib_crusher If everyone in the US were capped at a net worth of $30,000,000, the remainder would immediately pay off the ENTIRE national debt, in full.

This would also save nearly $1,000,000,000,000 per year in interest payments.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@randy_marsh97 @PowersFor @karlykingsley No, that one was in favor of slave states. The compromise gave slave states more power by bumping up their numbers in the calculation for representative apportionment; opponents of slavery wanted slaves to count as 0 people.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@F16RaiderF22 @karlykingsley You're not wrong, but that was 250 years ago, when the US was more like the EU today. It's changed a lot since then.

I mean, the contract also included provisions for protecting slavery in states that allowed it, but you wouldn't use that to argue for slavery to return, right?

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@LoreLodge @historyoarmani2

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@Brwneyedgrl4547 @jim_sinclairjr @snooze06155136 The US spends over $115 billion on SNAP.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@anticumunist420 @stoydawg_00 @MemeIndustrial They did not have a supermajority, they had a one-vote majority vulnerable to the personal whims of any single senator. Which is why the many bills codifying abortion failed.

The last Democrat supermajority lasted 72 working days, and used basically all of them on Obamacare.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@intalekshewal @HEXas_ranger @karlykingsley Do you think the US of today is similar to the way it was 250 years ago?

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@HEXas_ranger @karlykingsley Strictly speaking, I'm not refuting what you're saying. I'm asserting that it's irrelevant because the political reality of 1776 is largely divorced from that of today.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@DissidentSoaps I guess if you're forcing someone else underwater, you are technically the nearest person to them.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@kirovslaya69 @DissidentSoaps Well, according to the article, the answer is "because another healthy, able human is forcing them underwater". Hence the arrest and sentencing.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@_Kodacrome @Carrie686393574 @krassenstein @SharrellAnne2 No, that one's also an NGO, albeit with an understandably misleading label.

EIN 31-1580204, the Clinton Foundation, is officially named the "Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation". It's a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and it's directed by but doesn't pay salary to the Clintons.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@HEXas_ranger @karlykingsley The United States of today is pretty much unrecognizable from the United States of 1776. Back then it was more like the EU or the UN.

We've changed a LOT since then.

This sort of thing makes sense when your members are Spain and Ireland. Not North and South Dakota.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@Sandersd84 @LoadManager17 @spacersbackup @OW_Trillen @karlykingsley You're not wrong, it's certainly difficult to address inequality if the process involves asking the people with extra power to voluntarily give it up.

But the fact that it's likely practically infeasible right now doesn't make it wrong.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@Sandersd84 @LoadManager17 @spacersbackup @OW_Trillen @karlykingsley I'm inclined to agree. The US in 1776 was more like the EU or the UN, a union of disparate countries. And both of those have systems like the Senate.

We've become far more culturally homogenized since then. It's just not necessary anymore.

[Cillian M. @cillianmurph]

@Sandersd84 @LoadManager17 @spacersbackup @OW_Trillen @karlykingsley People aren't saying that it IS based on population, they're saying it SHOULD BE. Because they recognize that equality among states results in inequality among actual people.