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[enigma @enigma062150]

@RockChartrand She’s trying to fix a problem that doesn’t exist. Nobody is complaining that Toys R Us is gone. Businesses open and close every single day in this country. Is anybody really lamenting that they can’t go to Sears or Kmart anymore?!

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@theobjectivist Social Security—It’s such a good deal it’s compulsory!

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@SkineeNiggaDoe Ugh mine went out the other day too and AC is the WORST thing to have to get fixed on a car, it’s stupid expensive and takes them forever to diagnose and repair.

[enigma @enigma062150]

Liberal suburban white women are the best examples of ignorant gutter trash in our society. This cunt shouldn’t be allowed near children or a voting booth ever again.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

During her next media tour stop, juror Paula Devlin says the mostly female jury knew the Lindsay Clancy trial could create change to “make it better for other women.”

“We knew that this was a turning point, and this would be something that could change something to make it better for other women…”

[Handre @Handre]

Sixty-two years and $22 trillion later, the U.S. poverty rate sits at roughly 11 percent, almost identical to where Lyndon Johnson found it in 1964. The government ran the most expensive social experiment in human history and produced nothing measurable. Bureaucracies perpetuate themselves, and this policy worked exactly as designed.

When Washington transfers purchasing power to the poor through SNAP, Medicaid, housing vouchers, and 126 other overlapping programs, it doesn't eliminate scarcity; it relocates decision-making from individuals to administrators. Those administrators develop career interests in perpetuating dependency, because a solved problem eliminates their department.

Free market thinkers identified this perverse incentive structure before Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act. Every dollar taxed from productive activity carries a deadweight cost before it reaches anyone's dinner table.

Capital formation lifts people out of poverty. You build wealth through savings, property rights, and voluntary exchange, none of which $22 trillion in redistributed spending actually produced.

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@KeyonJunior Sexy af

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are. That was Ayn Rand's answer on Israel in 1974, and the map has not changed her math.

Inside the red dot: two million Arab citizens with the vote, Arab parties in the Knesset, and Arab justices who have sat on the Supreme Court. The one country in that picture where an Arab can denounce his government at breakfast and still be free for dinner. Rights there attach to the individual, not the tribe, which is the whole Western idea in one sentence.

Inside the green: regimes where the wrong prayer, the wrong opinion, or the wrong wife is a death sentence, for Arabs first and most.

That is why the dot is hated. Not for its size but for what it proves. Freedom works, in any soil, for anyone under its law. And that dot stands watch on civilization's border against an enemy we keep refusing to finish, absorbing blows meant for us. Israel does not need our apologies. It needs what the good deserves. Open, unashamed alliance.

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@AllieJade1 @KathleenWinche3 What kind of a person gets upset about children playing?

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

Contrast two kinds of men now arguing over America's future.

One looked at empty Texas scrubland and saw the largest building on Earth, then summoned $16.8 billion in capital, thousands of construction tradesmen, and 3,000 permanent minds to raise and run it. Before that he saw rockets landing upright when every expert called it fantasy, and electric cars people would line up to buy, and he materialized those too. His tools are reason, vision, and trade. Every dollar he commands was handed to him by a customer who got something better in return.

The other kind is the politician who could not pour one yard of that concrete. But he holds the one tool of his trade, the state's gun. He calls the building excess, drafts the wealth tax to seize its output, and names the seizure compassion and justice. Ask the senator demanding Musk's billions what he has ever built. His one skill is the forced transfer of what abler men have made.

When Terafab rises, understand what you are looking at. The unforced human mind, made visible at scale. The looters will still demand their cut, and the demand itself is the confession. Nobody loots an empty desert. Wealth must be created before it can be seized, and it is created by men like Musk.

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@atensnut Right?! I wasn’t sure if she just left the dentist or what.

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

Elizabeth Warren just endorsed Abdul El-Sayed for Senate in Michigan. Look closely at what she is endorsing.

His platform:

- Medicare for All, "cradle to grave," no premiums, no copays, no deductibles
- A 7% annual tax on billionaire wealth. Not income. Wealth. A yearly confiscation of property already earned
- Abolish ICE
- Cut off Israel

Start with the healthcare promise. Care without cost is a metaphysical fraud. The surgeon's decade of training, the drug's development, the hospital bed. All of it must be produced by someone. Abolishing the price does not abolish the cost. It only changes who is forced to pay it and removes their consent.

"Healthcare is a right" is false and immoral. A right is a freedom of action, not a claim on another man's life. You have the right to seek care, to buy it, to earn it. You do not have the right to conscript the man who provides it. A "right" to the product of others is a right to enslave.

The wealth tax is the morality underneath, stated openly. It does not tax what you make. It taxes what you are: a successful producer. An annual penalty for the crime of ability. That is Marx's formula seeking a Senate seat. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

He says he wants to get money out of politics. Reverse it. He wants to get politics into money. All of it. Every dollar you hold becomes a policy question awaiting his vote.

None of this is moderate and none of it is accidental. It is one consistent philosophy. Your need is his mandate. Your ability is his revenue. Your property is his to assign.

Michigan does not need a fighter. It needs a government that leaves men free to produce. The answer to this candidate is the principle he denies: your life belongs to you.

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@boricua313313 Far east side lol

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@Objectobot @RockChartrand It’s a flat out lie. Nobody is hungry in the United States. And if you are it’s your own fucking fault.

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@RBReich Health. Care. Is. Not. A. Right.

[Handre @Handre]

In 1945 Hayek published four pages in the American Economic Review that dismantled the entire socialist calculation project. "The Use of Knowledge in Society." Read it. He showed that the central planner faces a problem no supercomputer solves: the knowledge required to run an economy does not exist in any single place. It lives scattered across millions of minds, in the particular circumstances of time and place. The tin dealer in Kuala Lumpur who knows a mine flooded. The baker in Vienna who knows his regulars want more rye this week. That knowledge is fleeting, local, often unspoken.

Prices carry it. When tin gets scarce, the price rises, and a thousand people who have never heard of the flooded mine start economizing on tin. Nobody ordered them to. They saw a number and acted. Hayek called this a marvel, and he meant it literally: the price system communicates dispersed information faster and more honestly than any planning bureau ever could.

Now watch what happens when you destroy the signal. Gosplan in Moscow set 24 million prices by decree and produced shortages of bread alongside warehouses of unsold shoes nobody wanted. Venezuela froze the price of gasoline and got empty pumps in a country floating on oil. You cannot plan what you cannot know, and you cannot know what only the market reveals through free prices.

The economy is not an engineering problem with a solution waiting to be computed. It is a discovery process. Competition is a procedure for finding out things that would otherwise stay hidden. Kill competition and you kill the finding-out. The planners in 1920 thought Ludwig von Mises was being difficult when he told them socialism could not calculate. Hayek spent the next fifty years explaining why, and in 1974 the Nobel committee agreed.

Here is what should keep you up at night. Every central bank on earth sets the price of money by committee, twelve people around a table in Washington pretending they know the correct interest rate for 330 million strangers. Hayek showed you exactly why they cannot.

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@MallieBbs26 Far east!

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@RockChartrand @iam_biglad1 Par for the course. Lefties obsess over other people’s money. Busy bodies who poke their nose into other peoples business where it doesn’t belong, that’s all they are.

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@jrome2_0 Bring it