David Prichard

e-commerce professional and classical liberal. Likes free markets, good books, classical music, travel, whisky, chocolate and old movies.

[David Prichard @davideprichard]

@SMTicketmaster your payment system failed on the EYEKONS presale for @katseyeworld . Pathetic.

[Mark Steyn @MarkSteynOnline]

The Ghosts of Charlie Hebdo
https://t.co/CnEB8yRlfV

[Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein]

'Net zero' is one of the worst ideas that humanity has ever come up with, and would ruin the lives of billions.

[David Prichard @davideprichard]

@franciszamora30 and @sanjuancityncr, is there a rational explanation why you are including private schools with airconditioning in your school suspension due to hot weather? Genuinely curious to understand...

[Benjamin Carlson @bfcarlson]

What can an unfree society teach you about freedom?

In 6+ years living in China as a journalist, I was informed on, spied on, tailed when traveling.

This is nothing compared to what Chinese go through if targeted.

Here are 14 lessons—and warnings—that many need to hear:

[Nikos Sotirakopoulos @Nikos_17]

United Nations: one of the most morally corrupt institutions in history.
By design.
It's the institution proclaiming that tyrannies & theocrasies that terrorise women & dissidents
shall have an equal stand with rule-of-law countries that respect people’s rights.
Abolish it.

[Ben Bayer @BenBayer]

Bet you’ve never seen this.

https://t.co/yKIBOc20C4

[David Prichard @davideprichard]

Robert Reich has a point here on the popular right and its meaningless pejorative buzzwords.

(Although I'm likely to take dramatic issue with his own definition of "economic looting", if he has one).

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The next time you hear conservatives use any of the following terms, ask for a definition. They won't have any.

"Woke."
"Critical race theory."
"Cancel culture."
"Socialism."

They just want to stoke culture wars to divert attention from economic looting and oligarchy.

[David Prichard @davideprichard]

My highlight of #OCON2023.

[David Prichard @davideprichard]

@mwickens That was a brilliant lecture.

[David Prichard @davideprichard]

@gcashofficial Still not working, 17 hours later?

[Don Watkins @donswriting]

Most moralists think free will undermines the possibility of an objective moral code.

But it's actually free will that necessitates a moral code. Other organisms pursue values automatically. We need guidance.

https://t.co/rANm5lnhHA

[Nikos Sotirakopoulos @Nikos_17]

A hard pill to swallow was that
many on the Left aren't motivated by sympathy for the poor, but envy & hatred for the well-off.
The tweet, the replies to it,
and a look at the hashtag 'submarine', reveal a lot.

[David Prichard @davideprichard]

What today is an indulgent folly of the mega rich will tomorrow be accessible to the masses.
I do hope however that taxpayers won’t ultimately be on the hook for the massive search and rescue operation now underway. They knew what they were getting into. 2/2

[David Prichard @davideprichard]

No issue with wealthy embarking on an “experimental” experience like this, in full knowledge of the risks.
While they require no justification in deciding what to do with their own money, it so happens that the rest of us may one day benefit from it. 1/2

https://t.co/JwtorG2MJV

[Ben Bayer @BenBayer]

An old trope circulating after Musk’s tweet is that narcissists like Ayn Rand because she affirms their greatness. But narcissists want to be thought great by others, and the whole point of The Fountainhead is that seeking others’ approval is a failure of self-esteem.

[David Prichard @davideprichard]

@CebuPacificAir where is our luggage?? It was left behind at the airport a whole day ago. MNL-CEB 5J 571. You told us it would be on the next flight. No update and you aren’t answering the phone!

[Ayn Rand Global @aynrand_global]

All property is fundamentally INTELLECTUAL in its source.
@AdamMossoff in #OCON2021

[David Prichard @davideprichard]

@PassportIRL Submitted my paper application (first time passport) to local consulate 7 wks ago & they are still holding it there, waiting for backlog to clear. When my application finally reaches Ireland, will it go to back of the queue or will you process in order of original date received?

[David Prichard @davideprichard]

@IloveTaguig1 my wife @jeannarnaiz’s COVID vaccine at Lakeshore on 6/17 was incorrectly cancelled. The Smart hotline say it was the error of the Cancellations person — And yet, they can’t reinstate or honor her slot. My wife has a comorbidity. PLEASE make this right @linocayetano