Joshbuckm

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[Joshbuckm @joshbuckm]

@gfrpaac Money is just a token used to buy someone else’s time. It’s crazy to think that some people have enough tokens to direct 250k people for life without having to worry about a single one of them making a penny. There were rarely kingdoms that large in history.

Giant plantations

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@mcuban If they take our jobs it’s only fair that they take our tax liability too.

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@Plinz I see church as a fourth layer of government. It taxes and spends within a community it knows on a first name basis. Powerful things could happen with this structure if it were aligned properly.

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Reid just said the government should buy AI agents for everybody so nobody gets left behind. (We are vastly unprofitable and need a government bailout).

https://t.co/CuL7peLA0u

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@NickNemo17 When you have a 5% cost of capital it is hard to compete against someone with a -5% cost of capital.

They get it with a “trust me bro, it will pay off in the long run”. It’s not going to pay off. It is going to be the write off that you have been talking about.

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@NickNemo17 Real estate is sky high because there are investors willing to subsidize money losing ventures on the promise that one day the properties will sell for more.

Tech companies pay part of their salaries with money raised from markets instead of relying on earnings.

Ponzi econ 🌎

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@RupertG87170562 Other protests have two sides to fight it out. There is no side willing to defend Epstein. There is a real possibility protests would lead to a regime change if they are not stopped before they form.

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The lack of protests over the Epstein coverup is interesting. It may be evidence that social media is more controlled than even I realized.

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@ProfSteveKeen If a country wanted to minimize the size of their money supply, what could they do to prevent deflation? If a country wanted to maximize the size of their money supply, what could they do to prevent inflation?

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

I am not the guy to tell you what Epstein was. Or whether he killed himself. Or what the "Clielnt list" was. Becaause, like you, I don't actually know about any of those things. And I have never claimed that I do.

I am going to tell you with 100% absolute certainty that Epstein is "Anti-Interesting" to our news desks. No one want to publish a story about how his multi-billion dollar currency trading hedge fund worked by interviewing a few of those many former eployees that it must have had.

Or by reviewing the fillings it must have made to the Government. Or its trading records. Or by talking to the sell-side coverage it must have had. Or by going through it's records.

Or that it didn't exist. And he wasn't a Multi-Billion financier. And that someone set him up as a construct at great expense.

The scandal is not investigating. Not publishing, Not doing journalism. Clearly the state has control of our news.

I don't care where this leads. I believe he was most likely constructed by a *tiny* number of tight lipped psychopaths who set him up to ruin the lives of children in the service of gathering information. And those people...whoever they are...would need to be brought to justice. Whatever the cost.

I would like to think there isn't a father alive (no matter how flawed) who disagrees with that. And that we need to put ourselves at risk as a group to protect our children from the State, The Press and The Evil co-conspirators. And I don't know who they are. It's terrifying.

I also thing that a number of people who had nothing to do with that but who had deaings with Epstein (e.g. scientists) need to be separated from that aspect of evil and fully exonerated. And those that participated in the Evil with Epstein need to face justice as well.

Pretending that there is nothing further to see here, and that no one wants this investigated remains preposterous.

This was over 5 years ago now. Where are the Dads?

https://t.co/Ff3q1MiqlS

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Could the algorithms be designed to all become boring at the same time to encourage socialization? I just got several text that make me wonder if this just happened.

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@WilliamJMcCart7 @JustJamieJoyce @SocietyLibrary @speakerjohnash @MuseOfTruth I am a fan of all the above. Sadly I offended John and got kicked out of his discord.

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I scrolled the comments on this thread for 15 minutes or so and did not see a single pro trump post. How does a thread get 100% anti trump?

AI posts? AI moderation? AI siloing of people into posts?

I would be grateful to anyone with insight on this.

https://t.co/IKE4abWmdA

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@WilliamJMcCart7 With ai I am worried we will see more polarization in the future. Mass produced echo chambers will make more people think everyone agrees with them. To build societal cohesion an ai could drop in moderate opposition posts. But this would make less effective propaganda.

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@WilliamJMcCart7 This is the conversation worth having. If done to reduce conflict it is good. If done for propaganda it is bad. I think the evidence shows that silos tend to escalate radical views. I hear it in family on both sides. “Everyone thinks x or everyone thinks y” They believe it.

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What I imagine Trump’s upbringing was like:

You’re grounded for a week. YOU’RE GROUNDED FOR A YEAR!

I’m not really going to ground you for a year. Let’s go get some ice cream.

We might be seeing Trump recreating his childhood on the world stage.

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@WilliamJMcCart7 I’m not judging the quality of the comments. I just thought it was worth noting that not a single pro trump comment was visible. I find pro trump threads with no anti trump posts just as curious. I wonder what mechanisms are being used to achieve these silos.

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Are we repeating the Coolidge/Hoover phase of history?

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@mattyglesias You know the answer to this question is never, but thanks for reminding us that the government is a big creepy club.

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Are both sides of the political divide larping civil war preparations, or are they both willing to set it off with a preemptive strike against the other side if they gain control?

Is this how American hegemony ends?

Cui bono?