MikeL

Walked away from tech. In the oilfield now

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.

Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”

Think about what property tax actually means.

You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.

Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.

You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.

Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.

The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.

That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.

Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.

Now stack all three.

Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.

At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.

Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.

Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.

The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.

And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.

The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.

SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.

The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.

The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.

The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.

The future belongs to the people who build it.

[Magnus Monad @MagnusMonad]

I used to believe in aliens.
Then the government said there were aliens.
Now I am pretty sure there are no aliens.

[MikeL @mluther24]

It’s the food, and the chemicals, and the pharmaceuticals

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Joe Rogan fell into stunned silence as Dr. Casey Means rattled off one disturbing health stat after another.

“We are getting destroyed, and it’s very recent, and it’s accelerating,” she warned.

• “74% of Americans are overweight or obese.”

• “Young adult cancers are going up 79% in the last 10 years.”

• “25% of men now under 40 have erectile dysfunction.”

• “50%, now, of American adults have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. These were diseases where there was 1% of Americans in 1950 had type 2 diabetes. Now it’s 50% of Americans have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.”

• “Alzheimer’s, dementia are going through the roof.”

• “Young adult dementias have increased, like, three times since 2012. So early onset dementias.”

• “One in two Americans are expected to have cancer in their lifetime now, one in two.”

• “One in [31] children has autism now, in the United States. That was one in 150 in the year 2000.”

• “In California, where I live, [Autism rates are] one in 22. One in 22 with a lifetime neurodevelopmental disorder.”

• “Infertility going up 1% per year.”

• “77% of young Americans can’t serve in the military because of obesity or drug abuse.”

• “Autoimmune diseases. Some studies are saying they’re going up 13% per year.”

• “Heart disease, which is almost totally preventable, is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing around 800,000 people per year.”

“It’s basically like all of us are a little bit dead while we’re alive,” Dr. Means said.

These aren’t unrelated crises. They share the same biological pattern — a body stuck in survival mode.

And once you understand what’s keeping your body there, the path to real healing finally makes sense. 🧵

[MikeL @mluther24]

@ShamashAran @OliBoFama 😂😂😂🤣🤣

[MikeL @mluther24]

@mattvanswol @LibertyforA11 I think that’s Burt & Ernie

[MikeL @mluther24]

@Bleszonkaku @iluminatibot Rumor has it that it that Over decades of mining, Russia has built a multi-billion-dollar stockpile of rough diamonds. If the government suddenly dumped these massive reserves onto the global market, the sudden oversupply would crash the market value of diamonds almost overnight.

[MikeL @mluther24]

@RealJamesWoods @Melissa03295697 If minors are able to consent to their own medical care. Then the patients should be expected to pay their own bill

[MikeL @mluther24]

@CAgovernor 🖕

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just put a price tag on obedience. It costs $200,000.

Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.”

Every lecture. Every textbook. Every framework ever written. Free on any screen in any country right now. The entire knowledge monopoly collapsed in a decade. Nobody updated the price tag.

Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.”

Strip the ivy and the branding. What’s underneath is a four-year obedience trial. Can this person follow instructions on a schedule without asking why.

Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.”

That is the entire six-figure value proposition. Not what you know. Not what you can build. Whether you can be managed. The establishment doesn’t need you educated. It needs you domesticated.

Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.”

The system doesn’t produce exceptional. It produces manageable. It takes the most creative years of your life and teaches you to wait for instructions. That is not education. That is containment.

Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.”

They didn’t leave because they couldn’t keep up. They left because the ceiling was underground.

8 billion people now carry the same library in their pocket. The one these institutions charged a lifetime of debt to access.

The only product the university still sells is the belief that you need one.

[MikeL @mluther24]

@WHLeavitt Wait, doesn’t the FBI still have Anthony Wiener’s laptop?

[MikeL @mluther24]

Happy Independence Day!

[MikeL @mluther24]

@AffordAnything I wouldn’t abolish landlords but there could be programs to ensure everyone gets to purchase their own home. Maybe similar to rent-to-own. If it’s a service of county governments, it could include both rural and municipal properties. May even drive mortgage & rental rates down.

[MikeL @mluther24]

@greta New shoes

[MikeL @mluther24]

@ananyashasau Imagine how over inflated airport movie theater pricing would be

[MikeL @mluther24]

@marycatedelvey I’m just going to agree. The genital inspection won’t be necessary

[MikeL @mluther24]

@PatsKam It sounds way too much like the king's English. We don’t use that word.

[MikeL @mluther24]

@MrSwaggles1984 @Satire_Maybe @Hitchslap1 Have you been on Facebook lately? I’m certain the bar is much lower than we’re told.

[𝐃𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐇 @pr0ud_americans]

The World Cup is exposing the gap between headlines and reality. 🇺🇸

Many foreign visitors came expecting the America their media—and even much of ours—portrays: chaos and division.

Instead, they're finding friendly people, freedom, and a country that's nothing like they were led to believe.

Has the media been selling the wrong image of America? 👇🔥

[MikeL @mluther24]

@tii_bag I would be getting that overtime

[MikeL @mluther24]

@mattdmacleod @itsrosesm If you’re that fkn stupid, you probably belong in jail anyway