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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” Chesterton

[C ◎ L Ξ @CLC0LE]

ID to buy groceries = just

ID to vote = racist

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

Turns out that they're going to impose an ID card system "library card-esque" for the government grocery stores in New York.

Just like when I had to use my national ID to buy food in Venezhela and they told me what I could buy and how much.

Thank you supreme leader Mamdani.

[C ◎ L Ξ @CLC0LE]

@spencerpratt I can’t believe the scorpion stung me!

[C ◎ L Ξ @CLC0LE]

“Baseless conspiracy theory”

[NPR @NPR]

A new poll finds 40% of respondents believe in a baseless conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was created in a lab in China.

There is zero evidence for this. Scientists say the virus was transmitted to humans from another species.
https://t.co/GDTo2geUng

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

My biggest takeaway from this Fauci stuff is that we aren't mad enough.

[C ◎ L Ξ @CLC0LE]

@MsMelChen Do much for German engineering. Their cars are out of control!

[C ◎ L Ξ @CLC0LE]

What is it that when there’s a debate it’s one side - always the same side - that needs to use caution? 🤔

[For The Win @ForTheWin]

Sophie Cunningham must use caution in trans sports debate | Opinion https://t.co/jiGICWsCpH

📸 Trevor Ruszkowski, IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

You can vote your way into communism.

But you can't vote your way out.

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

Read the article you referenced Congressman @RoKhanna. It refutes you.

Barzar earns $32.90 an hour, has over $1 million in his 401(k), $15 co-pays, a house with a pool, and had every one of his wife's three brain surgeries covered in full. Costco gave him this. Not Congress. Not a wealth tax. Not you. A private company, freely, because paying and keeping good workers is good business.

That's the whole point you keep missing. Costco proves the market rewards productive labor without a single mandate. Their stock is up 2,000% doing it. The "living wage" you want to force already exists where value is freely traded, and it was built by the very system you spend your days attacking.

So what's your actual purpose? Barzar isn't bitter. He's grateful, and proud, and he built a good life.

You'd rather teach the man with less to resent the man with more, when Costco shows there's nothing to resent, only something to aspire to.

The producer earns his reward. Envy earns nothing. Stop selling grievance and let the market you fear keep lifting men like Tony Barzar.

[C ◎ L Ξ @CLC0LE]

This is my shocked face 😑

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

His first moves were to ask the NY citizens to help shovel snow, tell them to set their AC to 78 in a heat wave, and then immediately give himself and others a raise?
NYC appears to have really stepped in it.

[C ◎ L Ξ @CLC0LE]

@MikePolicarNGP @dougboneparth Totally not cool

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

Balo don't lie. 🇺🇸

https://t.co/edhEy84MVw

[C ◎ L Ξ @CLC0LE]

@AutismCapital Please

[C ◎ L Ξ @CLC0LE]

Tweet of the day.

[🏈 emily🌲 @emilyofeasttx]

Texas is so big that somebody lost a whole ass giraffe and we still haven’t found it.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

How sweet of them! Was this before or after they started enslaving, raping and slaughtering the Christians?

[Boo @IzaBooboo]

Ok, but

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Babe, wake up…

Friedberg is destroying socialists again.

[C ◎ L Ξ @CLC0LE]

💯 required

[C ◎ L Ξ @CLC0LE]

@MacroTactical +1 you had me at must not be a shitlib

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

David Sacks just delivered an economics masterclass on Elon becoming the world’s first trillionaire.

@davidsacks: “People see the headline and imagine Elon suddenly has a trillion dollars in the bank. That’s not how it works. His balance sheet didn’t change overnight.”

Why?

The real point is deeper. Wealth isn’t in the “stuff” we consume. Food, shelter, clothes. Things that depreciate and disappear. It’s in the machines that create stuff for decades: tools, workflows, and corporations.
These are the true engines of human progress.

“If you create a machine that makes more stuff, then there’s a discounted present value for all the stuff in the future that machine might create. That’s where the wealth comes from.”

Elon started with nothing. An immigrant who slept on the floor building Zip2. He created these machines from vision and relentless effort. Thousands joined him, including a SpaceX welder who turned his labor into a million dollars in stock.

That’s the magic of tech and free markets: labor can become capital. It’s fluid.

The outrage misses this entirely. The people building machines that deliver medicines, energy, and abundance are creating lasting prosperity for everyone.

What do you think? Does viewing wealth as future productivity change how you see stories like this?

[C ◎ L Ξ @CLC0LE]

“They are fundamentally evil”

💯

[Arjun Khemani @arjunkhemani]

.@friedberg explains what the Politburo is:

“The Politburo is the leaders who elect themselves to dictate the flow of the economy, the allocation of capital, what work individuals are allowed to do, and what activities they’re allowed to do in an unfree society, which is what they’re creating.

They are the true oligarchs.

And this is Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna.

This is the group that is trying to coalesce power and create for themselves a system whereby they have greater influence, greater control over aspects of the economy.

They want to seize the means of production.

They want to control education.

They want to control media.

And anytime there’s an effort by an individual enterprise, or an individual themselves, to go out and build a business and succeed and do something that’s outside of their scope and their span of control, they lose their minds over it.

And that’s what we’re seeing.

So I react to their tweeting and their bullshit, where they��re basically trying to contort things about inequality and fairness and justice, when the truth is they are the rising empire, the evil empire in Star Wars.

They are the folks who want to take from all of us what we were endowed with when this nation was started, and what many people came to this country for, which is individual freedom and liberty, the ability to build a business in peace, the ability to make decisions, to do what you want with your own assets, and to have functionally private property.

And they’re taking it all away.

And they’re trying to take it all away.

And we’re watching, piece by piece, step by step.

So they are forming a politburo where they can effectively control the economy, control education, control the media, and tell us all what we can and can’t do and say.

And it’s frustrating to me to watch it because it’s masqueraded as bullshit virtue, as justice, as equity.

It’s a bunch of nonsense words that they use to try and make themselves seem virtuous when, at the end of the day, they are fundamentally evil.”