John Lee

super maxi

[John Lee @jl1042]

@japan_nobunaga How do you feel about high earning first worlders that love Japanese culture and that are willing to learn the language to assimilate to Japanese society?

[John Lee @jl1042]

@RepThomasMassie You are irrelevant. Not because people don’t agree with many of your policy stances and values, but because you are incredibly unlikable, and thus a very ineffective politician and policy maker. You turned into a tool after your second marriage.

[John Lee @jl1042]

@carney Untouchable aura.

[Handre @Handre]

England's insane window tax of 1696 gives us a preserved specimen of government logic: tax something visible, watch people wall it up, then call the resulting darkness a private choice.

William III needed money. His solution was a property levy scaled to the number of windows in your home. Fewer than ten windows meant a flat two shillings. More than twenty meant you paid serious money. Simple enough. Except that people responded rationally. They bricked up their windows. Landlords across England built housing with deliberately minimal openings to dodge the threshold counts. You got darker rooms, worse ventilation, and richer tax collectors.

The tax ran from 1696 to 1851. One hundred and fifty-five years of government successfully making buildings worse.

This as a textbook case of how taxation reshapes behavior rather than merely funding government. The tax did not collect a neutral slice of existing wealth. It changed the physical structure of buildings across an entire nation. Workers lived in dimmer, damper homes. Tuberculosis rates in urban areas were brutal throughout the 18th century, and poor ventilation was a documented contributor.

Parliament finally repealed it in 1851 after physicians publicly connected sunlight deprivation to disease. Economists, not physicians, should have made this case first, but the market already knew what people wanted. Glass. Light. Air. The state spent a century and a half taxing those things into scarcity. Daylight robbery.

[John Lee @jl1042]

@SnavelyCody6 Just like how there is no debating the CBA, socialism, communism, or anything involving money with people that don’t fundamentally understand money.

[Naval @naval]

The left is on a project to enforce equality, despite biology and markets.

The goal of equality gives claim to the moral high ground, but contradicting biology and markets requires censorship and violence, which makes the whole project immoral.

[John Lee @jl1042]

@japan_nobunaga What is japans equivalent? I bet there are incredible Japanese hardware stores..

[John Lee @jl1042]

@ChadMoriyama Imagine this demon coming out of the pen in October

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@DKNetwork Imagine Kyle Tucker on the jays too..

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@Dodgers @OrelHershiser I think the youth hear this friendly ball knowing uncle on TV and fail to realize how he was an absolute dawg

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@CallahanAuto210 @TalkinBaseball_ Pls get off the internet and fix your life

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@yr18qv I saw Yoshi warming with with long toss at Dodger stadium..he was consistently overthrowing it..his start did not go great

[John Lee @jl1042]

@AJontheguitar So many useful idiots

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@TalkinBaseball_ @ChrisRose You poor communist minded idiots should get an education..or just listen to Rosie.

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@LogicalLonnie @JeffPassan Why don’t we just have the communist central party control baseball to keep it fair idiot?

[John Lee @jl1042]

@glangley Does no one else recognize this physiognomy?

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

There are two types of people who love socialism.

1. Economic illiterates fueled by envy.
2. People who understand how easy it is to manipulate and control economic illiterates fueled by envy.

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Those of us bitterly opposed to communism fall into two different groups.

A) Those who argue that it must be abandoned because it has show us that it doesn’t work.

B) Those of us that are so bitterly opposed to collectivism applied to dissenting individuals that we are relieved that it *cannot* work. A happy accident. Those who don’t care if it *could* be made to work: we’d continue to fight it. Working or not working is irrelevant. It’s just bad. Period. The end.

If Communism could actually be shown to deliver stable high levels of growth and innovation, broadly distributed, with low inequality,
I believe I would still fight it to my dying breath.

My opposition to communism has little to nothing to do with the fact that it doesn’t work as an economic system. So, it’s merely a relief that it doesn’t work. A convenience for its opposition.

Communism and collectivism are intrinsically soul killing for people who are hyper-individualistic . So let’s stop hiding behind the fact that they don’t work as economic or governance systems.

Some of us who aren’t the biggest fans of naked capitalism red of tooth and claw, hate communism not because we think capitalism is intrinsically fair. It isn’t. We oppose it because communism hunts the individual.

For us, It’s not communism vs capitalism. That is a businessman’s argument. Instead, it’s communism vs individualism for me. Show me a system that fights harder to let a dissenting individual thrive more than brutal market capitalism (which also barely works), and I am all ears.

Not everything is a market after all.

[John Lee @jl1042]

@FreddyLA7 Favorite order from Taco Bell?