EngineDave

[EngineDave @engine_dave]

@MissyBBBobtail Me:
My cat @2:30 am : I'm going to open the hallway closet door again, just to make sure all that stuff is still there.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

I’ll take the trillionaire visionary who creates wealth for tens of millions of people, over the millionaire politicians who loot that wealth for themselves.

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

You mean, before inventing internet commerce, or creating the EV market, or making space flight affordable and abundant, or enabling global internet access, or developing technology that allows paralyzed people to interact with the world?

You ignorant, hateful shrew

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

"Could the far-right please stop weaponising the constant unrelenting stream of events that vindicate their worldview?"

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

@SenWarren 👇

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Midnight Rider 1776🇺🇸🦅🗽🇮🇱🇬🇧🇹🇼🇭🇰 @Midnightcause]

@DrunkRepub For some reason, watching grown men run around in shorts and knee socks kicking a ball around like American kindergartners isn't as thrilling a sport as you'd think. 🤔

[For the love of Missy. @MissyBBBobtail]

7 Things Cats Teach Us
1. Rest is not laziness.
2. Curiosity makes life worth living.
3. You don't need to explain yourself.
4. Small comforts matter more than big things.
5. Stretch every single day.
6. Trust takes time. Give it time.
7. Home is wherever the people you love are

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

On June 4, the world marks 37 years since the Chinese Communist Party ordered its troops to attack thousands of peaceful demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square. Those who sacrificed to uphold their unalienable rights of free expression and peaceful assembly will be vindicated someday.

[EngineDave @engine_dave]

@NobodymrRobert Eventual Darwin Award Winner.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“A worker is protected from his employer by the existence of other employers for whom he can go to work. An employer is protected from exploitation by his employees by the existence of other workers whom he can hire.”

— Milton Friedman

[EngineDave @engine_dave]

@wretchardthecat Minority Report was intended as a warning....

[EngineDave @engine_dave]

@SaveUSAKitty @RealJamesWoods Good question.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman:

“Thousands of people cooperated to make this pencil... There was no commissar sending out orders from some central office.”

“It was the magic of the price system, the impersonal operation of prices that brought them together... That is why the operation of the free market is so essential, not only to promote productive efficiency, but even more, to foster harmony and peace among the peoples of the world.”

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Weekly reminder: Decline is a choice.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman on his ideal society:

“I’d like to see a society in which individuals have the maximum freedom to pursue their own objectives in whichever direction they wish, so long as they don’t interfere with the rights of others to do the same thing.”

“In such a society, I believe you do need a government—but the government has a very limited role. Its role should be to provide the national defense, to protect individuals from coercion by others, and finally to provide a mechanism whereby we can formulate the rules that will govern us.”

[EngineDave @engine_dave]

@libsoftiktok NOTE: Due to inflation, $40 million in Gold bars in now just an old $20 Gold coin and 2 loose gold fillings.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

As a young socialist, Hayek read Ludwig von Mises’ 1920 paper “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.”

Mises showed that socialist central planning isn’t merely inefficient, it’s impossible.

Without private property and genuine market prices, planners lack any rational way to allocate scarce resources or determine real costs and needs.

Even Oskar Lange, a leading socialist in the calculation debate, effectively conceded the point.
While he promoted “market socialism” with trial-and-error pricing by a central board, real-world socialist planners in Eastern Europe quietly relied on world capitalist market prices as a guide.

Without external free-market price signals, pure socialism would be economically blind and coordination would collapse.

Mises went further, arguing that interventionism, the “middle way” of government meddling, is inherently unstable.
Each intervention creates problems that invite more interventions, eventually leading to full socialization.
Price controls cause shortages, subsidies distort production, and the cycle continues until the economy is fully planned.

The lesson is clear.
Rational economics requires genuine market prices emerging from voluntary exchange and private property.
Half-measures don’t stabilize the system. They accelerate the drift into central planning.

The Austrian School understood this decades before the collapse of the Soviet bloc proved it in practice.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

As the internet returns to Iran, we're about to find out how many of our mutuals and loved ones have been executed or jailed since this war began.

I wouldn't wish this feeling on anyone but my worst enemies.

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
– Thomas Jefferson