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[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Atlas Shrugged made simple:

1. Society runs on a small number of highly capable producers – industrialists, inventors, engineers – whose work everyone depends on but takes for granted.

2. The system starts rewarding need over achievement: the more capable you are, the more you’re expected to sacrifice for those who aren’t.

3. Success gets treated like a debt – taxed, regulated, resented – until the most capable start asking why they bother trying at all.

4. One by one, led by a man named John Galt, they simply withdraw – walking away rather than keep propping up a system that punishes them for producing.

5. Without them, the whole structure collapses, revealing that the “automatic” prosperity everyone assumed was actually being generated by specific, irreplaceable people.

6. Atlas is the Titan from Greek myth, condemned to carry the sky on his shoulders forever – Rand’s stand-in for the producer class, holding up civilization while getting blamed for it.

7. “Shrugged” is the whole argument in one word: Atlas doesn’t fight, doesn’t protest – he just quietly sets the weight down. Nobody realized the sky was being held up by anyone in particular, until the day it isn’t.
You don’t want us? We just go…🤷🏻‍♂️

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

They're not freezing your rent, they're freezing your housing providers' income, while their expenses keep increasing.

The point isn't to make your housing affordable, it's to make providing housing financially inviable, so government(s) can seize the unmanageable properties.

Our lack of financial literacy is going to destroy us.
https://t.co/Eix9fVp1BK

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

What an odd thing to say.

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Cannot make this up, either.

@nytimes opinion has had four recent pieces about fatherhood and masculinity, with six authors:

Three women
A trans "man"
Two childless men

Not one father. The cultural elite contempt for dads runs so deep we don't even get to speak for ourselves.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

For the past 3 weeks, I have been trying to get an op-ed published at the ABC. The suspicion has long been that the ABC is ideologically captured but when the editorial director assured Senators during the recent Estimates that ABC does publish diverse views, I said let’s see…

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🚨Just a reminder that before Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry Report was released Piers Morgan said my claim of 250,000 girls being raped by Pakistani Muslim men in Britain was “utterly ridiculous.”

Cenk Uygur said that I was “making it up.”

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

Another Major Transgender Suicide Study Crumbles

A widely cited study published in the prestigious @NatureHumBehav claimed that “anti-transgender laws” encouraged teen suicide attempts.

A new methodological review dismantles that finding.

New from me in @cityjournal

[Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 @AvidCommentator]

Its crazy to me that:
- Australia has a major rental crisis
- Government agencies admit this
- They project the housing deficit will continue into the 2030s
- And that household formation rates are being crushed

Yet in some quarters this is ignored for being inconvenient.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.

SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.

Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.

SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.

Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.

The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.

Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.

Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.

Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.

Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.

We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

It’s called Suicidal Empathy.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Couldn’t fucking make it up

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

If women can’t even talk about women’s rights then we don’t have women’s rights or free speech.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Victorian government gave a “disability pride” award to a repeat child sex offender.

[Paul Joseph Watson @PrisonPlanet]

Fascinating how the George Floyd disorder ($2 billion damages, 19 dead) was described by the media as a 'mostly peaceful' righteous outcry, while a few men throwing bins in Southampton is a full on riot.

[Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO @nyunggai]

100% correct. Acknowledging the reality of biological sex is not a hate crime. I acknowledge the reality of biological sex. That does not mean I hate people.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

The DoJ announces that the SPLC paid klan members a monthly salary to stay in the KKK and recruit new members. That a non-profit would do this is sick and sad. Just what were they thinking?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

"It's very important not to politicise a personal tragedy."

[Ryan Dally @Ryandally08]

#BREAKING Jacob Hersant speaks to the waiting media after he was convicted and fined for booing a "welcome to country" on Anzac Day last year.

Anzac Day belongs to our veterans, not political activists pushing a "Welcome to Country”

Jacob Hersant is right to stand up against this.

Booing a political ritual on our most sacred day of remembrance shouldn't be a crime.

We must stop letting being politically correct overshadow the memory and sacrifice of the Anzacs.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yup