Matt Botke

Just a little stitious.

[Matt Botke @mbotke]

@JMilei My wife and I want to visit!

[Publius @OcrazioCornPop]

🚨 MILTON FRIEDMAN (1978): Young lawyer asked Milton about when it is okay for a Govt to force a free citizen to act.

Did you get the nuance in Milton's question about the difference between "society" and "govt"...

Do you think a man should be free to sin?

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Good to see Argentina’s President @JMilei in New York today.

Our bilateral relationship is strong, and our hemisphere is safer because of our close cooperation on energy, critical minerals, and agricultural issues.

[storme warren @stormewarren]

I wrote this about Dolly back in 2022, when nobody was asking for tributes. It's exactly how I'll remember her - generous to her core. Thank you for everything, Dolly. We'll take it from here. ❤️

https://t.co/OwMVBhMl9Q

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk described the mechanism that lets millions of intelligent people arrive at the same conclusion without a single independent input between them.

Musk: “If your entire exposure is to legacy mainstream media, so that all your information sources are that Trump is basically Hitler, and your friend group has that same information, you have no countervailing opinion.”

One source, repeated back by a friend group drawing on that same source, is a single input arriving twelve times.

Agreement gets counted as evidence.

A belief that has never met resistance feels, from the inside, identical to one that survived it. That is why almost nobody catches it in themselves.

Musk: “Then they actually just think Trump is Hitler, even though it’s a little strange he didn’t do Hitler things the last four years.”

The comparison had four years of executive power to prove itself and produced nothing.

The belief held anyway.

Any description of a person that survives the total absence of supporting events was never built on events.

Then the same apparatus turned on the man saying it.

He spent a decade celebrated as the builder of the electric car company and the rocket company that put American astronauts back in orbit from American soil.

The engineering never changed. His politics did, and the coverage inverted inside a single news cycle.

Output was never the variable being measured.

No conspiracy is required. Outrage outperforms accuracy on every number a newsroom is graded on.

Thousands of people chasing one incentive produce coordination nobody had to organize.

The arrangement collapsed when the layer between the source and the reader disappeared.

The person who was in the room posts it, and the correction comes from someone else who was in the room.

It is louder, uglier, and far more honest.

Contradiction now arrives whether you invite it or not. Even the owner of the platform gets corrected on his own posts by his own product.

For most of the last century a few dozen editors decided what an entire country believed had happened that day. People accepted it as the natural order because no alternative had ever existed to measure it against.

Every civilization inherits its picture of reality from whoever controls the distance between an event and the people who hear about it.

That distance is now close to zero for the first time in human history.

The filter is gone and it cannot be rebuilt. What you believe is finally yours.

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

Reading the comments of Fields Medalists makes me feel more bullish on the US.

In the West, glory belongs to individuals because they earn it. In the East, you must hand over the glory to the leaders and be thankful they let you stay.

Despite the talent density, people in my class who did not come to the US versus those who did had drastically different forks in their lives—even many who stayed did much better than me in the class.

Did I have better talent than my classmates? Probably not.

Did the US encourage me to solve harder problems so I had room to grow? That’s absolutely true.

If I send my kid back, my kid would likely learn how to do harder math questions, but curiosity will be deleted by the system.

Curiosity drives growth. Collectivism doesn’t allow questions, hence it kills curiosity and — implicitly — growth.

[Matt Botke @mbotke]

@elonmusk @brivael Agreed except AI or computer virus. There is no forewarning due to the time it’d take to transit from Earth to Mars.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Marco Rubio's State Department is taking on the International Criminal Court as they seek to become the unaccountable arbiter of a new global law.

"The American people never agreed to any of this, and they never will. Read the words of our Declaration of Independence. We fought a revolution against a foreign power transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses."

"Independence is our birthright. We will never let foreign bureaucrats take that away from us."

"This administration will not sit by as the ICC and its allies seek to threaten our people. If they believe they can deprive us of our sovereignty, we will teach them the full meaning of American resolve."

Americans are born free and will remain free from a unelected foreign court.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

How many people have left America to escape Capitalism?

VS

How many people have come to America while escaping socialism?

[Matt Botke @mbotke]

Yikes

[Matt Botke @mbotke]

@elonmusk We should use it to our advantage. That’s the surest way to re-establish integrity.

[Matt Botke @mbotke]

I wish

[Kelly Loeffler @SBA_Kelly]

.@POTUS is right.

Socialism punishes hard work, robs the productive, and rewards dependency.

It is the fastest way to end the American Dream, and remove every incentive to achieve it.

[Matt Botke @mbotke]

Well said.

[Javier Milei @JMilei]

HACER AMÉRICA GRANDE OTRA VEZ 🇺🇸 🇦🇷

Hace 250 años un grupo de hombres fundaba una república sobre una idea simple pero a la vez revolucionaria: que todos los hombres son iguales ante Dios, y que son poseedores de derechos naturales inalienables a la vida, la libertad y la propiedad.

Bajo esta premisa, ese país se convirtió rápidamente en el opuesto absoluto de los países que abrazaron las ideas contrarias: las del comunismo. La prosperidad de los EEUU es la envidia de todos los pueblos oprimidos, pero ella palidece frente a la libertad con la que cuentan sus ciudadanos y es, de hecho, una mera consecuencia de su preservación.

La Argentina fue un país fundado bajo este mismo anhelo. Una democracia liberal, cuyo deber es proteger la libertad de las personas y sus frutos. Por eso, quienes no están de acuerdo con este principio básico no pueden llamarse verdaderos patriotas. Dado que Argentina, como Estados Unidos, se fundó bajo ese principio, quien atente contra él no es más que un traidor a la patria.

Entendemos que estos valores son propios de ambos países y que ponerlos en el centro es la llave para hacer a toda América grande otra vez, desde Alaska a Tierra del Fuego. Felicito a todos los estadounidenses en este 4 de julio y cuento con que sigan siendo un faro de libertad en el Norte, mientras volvemos a hacer de la Argentina un faro de la libertad en el Sur.

Feliz 4 de Julio!

cc @realDonaldTrump

VIVA LA LIBERTAD CARAJO...!!!

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Update from the pub that forced Katie Hopkins out 👀

[Matt Botke @mbotke]

@KTHopkins @GBNEWS @GBNEWS tell the TRUTH!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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